Lancaster Bank closed its doors, owing to the failure of the bank's Board of Directors to control the discounting of paper by the bank president and cashier. Large amounts of business done outside of the county contributed to the bank's failure. Among the worthless "assets" of the Lancaster Bank was

. Metzger, physician William B. Middleton, supt., Penn Iron Works John P. McCaskey, educator, secretary, Inquirer Printing Co. Dr. S.B. McCleary, physician, pharmacist �Joseph D. Pyott, printer George K. Reed, banker George N. Reynolds, insurance broker Augustus Rhoads, jeweler Joseph Schmid, printer A.W

the mill to the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad tracks along the east bank of the Conestoga River." From 1879, when it was re-opened, until 1883, the rolling mill produced thousands of tons of muck bar for the Phoenix Iron Company." The rolls turned out their last wrought iron during the first week

necessitated some means of elevating the charges mechanically. We must conclude the majority of Lancaster County furnaces were "exceptional cases," and were of ad- vanced design.' Records of local furnaces tend to confirm the statements of Birkinbine and Temin that the primary concern of ironmasters from 1835