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Our late exhibition waa remarkable for tte display which com- 

 petition in the perfection of various improvements recently intro- 

 duced, has brought from the works of Messrs. Lyman & Fenton, 

 Bennington, Vt., Messrs. Bennett & Brother, Pittsburgh, Pa., and 

 from Messrs. Woodworth, Blakely's & Co., East Liverpool, Ohio. 

 The Committee, in awarding the premium, could not overlook 

 the soundness which has always characterized the ware of the 

 Messrs. Bennett — they having taken the highest premiums here- 

 tofore given — nor could they withhold their admiration of the 

 beautiful coloring produced in the Bennington ware, yet, on find- 

 ing the specimens from Woodward & Blakely's & Co., combining 

 the quality of the one with the beauty of the other, coupled with 

 the most exquisite modeling, they could not but award them the 

 highest and best honor of the Institute — a Oold Medal. 



There are at present eight manufactories in full operation in 

 the town of East Liverpool, of which the largest and mcst impor- 

 tant is that of Messrs. Woodward, Blakely's & Co., their property 

 covering acres of clay which ages will not exhaust, and their 

 present works consisting of a range of brick buildings three hun- 

 dred and fifty feet in length, with sheds and out-houses covering 

 the square, and three mammoth ovens in constant blast, turning 

 out from ten to fifteen hundred dollars in value of merchantable 

 ware per week, and giving employment to nearly one hundred 

 hands. 



CLAI'S PATENT ROLLED TAPER IRON. 



Wrought iron in this form has heretofore been produced only 

 by the slow and expensive process of forging under hammer, and 

 it has been considered impracticable to roll it. We believe the 

 first attempt at rolling tapered iron, was by means of eccentric 

 rolls. But the length of the taper being always limited by the 

 circumference of the roll, and the pressure being unequal in the 

 difierent parts of its revolution, (the whole taper being necessarily 

 given in a single revolution) this plan was soon abandoned. The 

 next attempt was with bevel wheels placed on the heads of the 

 screws which holds down the top roll. This succeeded to a cer- 



