324 Notice of Steel Mine mid Iron Works. 



per ton was required, then forty-two cents, fifty cents, sixty-seven 

 cents, one dollar, and for the last ten or twelve years, the duty has 

 been one dollar twenty-five cents the ton. One half of the ore 

 bed is owned by the Livingston family of Columbia county, N. Y., 

 one quarter by Wm, Ashley, of Sheffield, Mass., and the remain- 

 der is held by a number of individuals in small shares. 



The expense of raising the ore is one dollar seventy-five cents per 

 ton. This business is carried on by small independent parties, who, 

 to the number of six or eight, work together in a pit or excavation 

 by themselves, blasting, picking and throwing the ore into heaps, in 

 readiness for transportation to the furnaces. One general agent on 

 the part of the proprietors of the mine, superintends the weighing in 

 all the excavations. Another class of men undertake the transporta- 

 tion of the ore ; for which they are allowed sixteen cents per mile 

 for every ton's weight. 



The principal furnaces to which it is carried, are as follows ; viz. 

 1. Chapin, Sterling & Co.'s furnace, situated in the north part of 

 Salisbury, seven miles from the ore bed, upon the outlet of Cha- 

 pin's pond, which empties into the Housatonic river in Sheffield, 

 Mass. ; 2, the Salisbury Iron Company's furnace at Mount Riga, in 

 the north-west corner of Salisbury, at the outlet of two ponds, four 

 miles from the ore bed ; 3, Holley h, Coffing's furnace, in the west 

 part of Salisbury, upon the outlet of Wanscopomic pond, two miles 

 east of the Ore hill ;* 4, Canfield, Sterling & Co.'s furnace, on the 

 Housatonic river, just below Canaan falls, between six and seven 

 miles from the ore hill. To this list, must also be added, the new 

 furnace at Limerock, in the south-west part of the town, now in con- 

 struction ; and which is to be supplied with ore from the ore hill. 

 The first forge built in this part of the country, was erected on this 

 site, more than one hundred years ago. Its distance from the ore 

 hill is nearly five miles. In all these places, the ore is reduced in high 

 charcoal furnaces, and yields upon an average fifty per cent, of Pig- 

 iron, j- 



* This is the oldest furnace in the vicinity, and was built nearly seventy years 

 ago. 



t In the Messrs. Hunt's establishment in South Canaan, which is also supplied 

 with ore from ore hill, and where large anchors for the United States' navy are 

 made, the hiprh furnace is not employed; but the tough iron is obtained directly 

 from the ore by means of the Catalan forge. 



