technology continued to haunt the pioneers of anthracite iron furnace development until the conclusion of the Civil War when demand for more and better iron, and eventual competition from steel, required more courageous action on the part of the entrepreneurs.19 Technical Era (1865-1900) Aside from the non

"The Columbia Spy," March 7, 1885. �Four trains of rolls. Sixteen puddling furnaces (nine added during Civil War). Four heating furnaces. The products were rails, bars and rods. Much of the rail was sold to the Northern Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, now part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1880