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Whallon is the proprietor, is established on the same stream, at 

 Whallonsburgh, and a third in Elizabeth town, which is in the 

 occupation of Whallon & Judd. 



Other valuable works in which Mr. Whallon is also interested, 

 are situated in North Hudson, upon one of the remote tributa- 

 ries of the Hudson river. By a statement furnished me by Mr. 

 Whallon, it appears that in the year 1852, there was manufac- 

 tured 



Tons. 



At North Hudson, . . . 333 .09.2.21 bars and blooms. 

 Elizabethtown, ... G21.00.0.13 do do 



Whallonsburgh,... 519.10.0.01 bars. 



Of the latter lot, 187 tons was finished bar iron, nearly or. 

 quite equal in quality and finish to Swedes iron. 



In ' the town of Lewis, important works are situated upon 

 branches of the Boquet, and are owned by A. Wilder, W. L. 

 Merriam, and others. A furnace was erected a few years since 

 by Mr. F. H. Jackson, in Westport, at a disbursement exceeding 

 one hundred thousand dollars. One of the first furnaces erected 

 in the county of Essex, was built in 1824, at Port Henry, by 

 Maj. Dalliba, foi.-erly of the army. This was a cold blast fur- 

 nace, and in connection with the manufacture of pig metal, it 

 was appropriated to the casting of hollow ware, and agricultural 

 implements. After various mutations in its ownership, and the 

 erection of most spacious structures, these works, as well as 

 those at Westport, have for several years been unoccupied, pre- 

 senting a deplorable exhibition of the waste and decay of an 

 enormous investment. Under the new impulse, which animates 

 the iron interest, these furnaces are about resuming operations. 

 Tlie works at Port Henry, witli several pr(»jected furnace?, to be 

 immediately constructed upon the margin of the lake, are de- 

 signed for the use of mineral coal, which will be brought from 

 the mines of PeiUisylvania and Ohio. 



Just witliin tlic eastern bounds of Schroon, and in close prox- 

 imity to the ore l>eds wliich I have drscril)ed, Messrs. Hammond 

 k Co.; have erected a very capacious furnace, admirably arranged 



