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hitherto used, with the ability of bringing the product into market at 

 greatly reduced rates. 



He then showed a roll of remaricaoiy nne ana beautiful wire, made 

 at the works of Mr. Peter Cooper, of Trenton, from blooms pud- 

 dled with anthracite coal, expressly for railroad iron, and remarkable 

 for the toughness of its material and strength of its size. The speaker 

 continued that he was instructed to say, that railroad iron was made 

 at the same factory, claimed to be of a superior quality, intrinsically 

 worth from fifteen to twenty dollars per ton more than the ordmary 

 English railroad bar; a circumstance which he considered ought to 

 attract attention throughout the country. 



The orders and recipts of Railroad bars from England in the year 

 1849, are believed to amount to Fifteen Millions of Dollars — a sum 

 exceeding the amount of BreadstufFs shipped to England in the year 

 of the Faminein Ireland,— showing the greatimportance of any improve- 

 ment in the manufacture of Iron in our own country. 



The speaker then referred to the improved machine for Planing 

 Iron, then on exhibition — alleged to cause an annual saving of two 

 millions of dollars, on the article of Files alone, which before were 

 necessarily used for smoothing the surfaces, which this planing-machine 

 claims to be ready to aecomplish. 



He pointed to the Iron- tub Casting, at the entrance of the Garden, 

 made at the " Novelty Works," for the Paper business. It is said to 

 be one of the largest castings of the kind in this country ; and, (Gen. 

 T. added,) without giving the details, he was authorized to say that 

 the very modern improvements in the process of Paper making were 

 such, by means of labor-saving machinery, that we may now produce 

 a line of twenty-four miles of ordimary newspaper width in one day, 

 where formerly the corresponding labor would only produce an extent 

 of one mile.* 



* We have been furnished with the followiiig gtatement, relative to the processes 

 and results of the Paper Manufacture, under the old and the new systems of opera- 

 tioa: 



Formerly, the process was slow and laborious. Each sheet was made separatelji^ 



