; stoves of greatly increased efficiency; and mechanized materials and stock handling." The use of Connellsville coke about 1865 in western Pennsylvania promoted the growth of the coke pig iron industry in that region after many years of latency, owing to the inferior quality of iron produced in furnaces

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were

. George Staler, now 76, who has lived his life against the northern base of Cannon Hill and who furnished many of the local names for this record, is the son of a charcoal burner. George's father was one of the last of the many who had worked at this important side line of the iron industry in the Furnace

. Haldeman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chickies Furnace (Lancaster County, Pa.) Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --History. Iron foundries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [14]-23 p

congress in 1846 was the death blow to the iron industry of Clarion county. One of the Clarion newspapers, in printing the announcement of the catastrophe, framed its columns in mourn- ing. Prices dropped from $28 per ton to $20 which figure hardly covered the cost of production. But enterprises in which