years for a return on their investment. All that time it was one steady bee-hive of industry for the employment of our iron workers. They, and through them, the town reaped the profits of the investment which the stockholders had had.69 Prices of Susquehanna Iron Company stock soared in 1883 to $206.50

compelled to blow out our furnaces in case of any reduction of the present duties on pig iron, old rails, and scrap iron, or a further loss by the incidental protection afforded by the premium on gold. We request that the present duties be raised one dollar per ton on rails, scrap, boiler iron, and all