with a newly-designed eleven-foot bosh.'" Pig iron prices dropped in the autumn of 1873, and a general depression in the trade was felt in Lancaster County. E. Haldeman and Company seized upon this occasion to increase the stack to fifty-seven feet, accomplishing the work between 1 November and 14

. cit., p. 54. 20. The Columbia Spy. 8 March 1856. 21. The Lancaster Intelligencer, 18 February 1855. 22. Lawrence Van Horn, "The Old Buck Cannon," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIV (Autumn, 1960), 219-220; United States Patent Office, Patent No. 13,984, 25 December 1855. �23