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The annual yield of these furnaces, in Pig-iron, may be stated as 

 follows. 



No. 1. from 400 to 600 tons. 



2. 400 tons. 



3. from 500 to 600 tons. 



4. from 500 to 800 tons. 



The new furnace at Limerock will make from three to four hun- 

 dred tons. Formerly, a great proportion of this iron was sold in 

 pigs ; but for the last few years it has principally been converted in- 

 to bar iron at the furnaces where produced, or at Winsted, in the 

 forges of S. Rockwell, James Boyd & Son, and Reuben Cook. At 

 the works, it formerly commanded thirty-five or forty dollars the 

 ton ; but at present it sells at thirty or thirty-two. The Salis- 

 bury Iron Company have two forges at Riga, containing seven fires, 

 an anchor and screw shop with two fires, a lathe for turning iron, and 

 a trip-hammer shop. They have also at Limerock a forge with six 

 fires. This company makes about four hundred and fifty tons of 

 wrought iron annually, which is made into the following articles ; 

 viz. bar iron for musket and rifle barrels, and for common uses for 

 the country blacksmiths ; axletrees, crow-bars and tires for wheels ; 

 irons for grist and saw mills ; anchors, large and small ; shafts for 

 steaju engines, and manufactories of all kinds ; large screws for 

 clothiers, paper-makers, and for pressing bales of cotton and hay. 

 Canfield, Sterling h, Co. have one forge with six fires ; and another 

 with two, and an anchor shop. They make from two hundred and 

 fifty to three hundred tons of tough iron annually ; and furnish most 

 of the articles mentioned above, except screws. 



The best Salisbury iron has obtained a decided preference over 

 all other iron, either foreign or domestic, for the construction of 

 musket and rifle barrels ; and is extensively employed for these pur- 

 poses at all our principal gun-factories, both public and private. The 

 annual consumption at the following manufactories is as follows. 



Public armory at Springfield, Mass. from 100 to 125 tons. 

 " Harper's Ferry, Va. 100 tons. 



Gun-factory at Whitneyville, Conn, from 40 to 50 tons. 

 " " Middletown, 40 to 50 " 



" " Pittsfield, Mass. 40 to 50 " 



The expense of transportation from Salisbury to the Hudson river 

 is five dollars per ton. That portion of iron destined for the New 

 York market, and for the south and east, goes to Poughkeepsie ; 



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