HEWPOET IKON WOEKS, 



(OPPOSITE ClNCIXXATIj.O.,) 



Tliis Establishmeat is now maaufacturiag 



JLOCOMOTIVE TIKES, AiVD CAR? AXLES, 



] (Tjeir facilities aad experience inselectinij Materials enable tbeiii to offer a quality of work equal 

 teH"y in the country. They bare all the requisite Machinery for furnishiug; the Tires in the most 

 perfect manner. They desire the patronage of Western Curapanies and Builders, and believe they 

 can givL- .-atisfaetioa. Orders addressed to either of the Subscribers will be promptly answered. 



A. S. WINSLOW, &. 11 \V. .Second-street, Cincinnati, O. 



DAN'L. WOLFF, at Works, Newport, Ky. 



Figure 55. — Advertisement Appe.^ring in the Rail- 

 road Advocate throughout 1857. 



Although the exact date cannot be determined, the works closed 

 during the next few months, undoubtedly a victim of the hard 

 times. A brief note in the Covington Journal, April 14, 1855, com- 

 menting on the depressed business conditions, stated that negotia- 

 tions which might reopen the works were in progress. On May 19, 

 1855, the same paper announced the reopening of the plant by 

 Cowles, Sickles & Company. D. H. Feger had been retained as 

 superintendent. The new proprietors hoped to introduce 

 oscillating-cylinder steam engines for riverboats (a form of engine 

 popular in England but never favored in this country).'"" Intent 

 on this venture, Cowles, Sickles & Company was not interested in 

 further railroad work. The Railroad Advocate, October 20, 1855, 

 stated that the Cbvington Works "are not, we believe, building 

 locomotives at present." In fact, there is good reason to believe 

 that the plant was out of business altogether by October 1855. The 

 Cincinnati Gazette of December 28, 1855, announcing the sale of the 

 Covington Locomotive Works, mentioned the suit of Snead, CoUard, 

 and Hughes against the firm, dated October 1855. Assuming them 



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