. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . side of theriver. We believe he has partially retired from the more active pur-suits of the trade—merely keeping as many irons in the fire as isconsistent with his old-fashioned notions of leisure. He has someworks, of small extent, in view of his residence, and a furnace or twonear Easton; while two of his sons have an establishment at Havre-de-Grace, Md. The Phoenix Company (Reeves, Buck & Co.) ownthe iron establishments at Bridgeton, and the nail-works at Cumber-6* I 66
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . side of theriver. We believe he has partially retired from the more active pur-suits of the trade—merely keeping as many irons in the fire as isconsistent with his old-fashioned notions of leisure. He has someworks, of small extent, in view of his residence, and a furnace or twonear Easton; while two of his sons have an establishment at Havre-de-Grace, Md. The Phoenix Company (Reeves, Buck & Co.) ownthe iron establishments at Bridgeton, and the nail-works at Cumber-6* I 66 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. land, N. J., besides those at Phoenixville ;—while Mr. Reeves is thosenior partner of the firm of Eeeves, Abbot & Co., proprietors of thesplendid railroad mill and iron works at Safe Harbor, in Lancastercounty. The mill at that place, in connection with the one locatedhere, produced all the iron used in constructing the Central Railroad;and it is not the least interesting feature of that road, that its railsare the most substantial and reliable of any similar route in theUnited PHCENIXTILLE IRON WORKS. The works at Phoenixville embrace several extensive anthracitefurnaces, machine-shops, rolling-mills, nail and cotton factories, etc.,among which is the splendid establishment for the production of rail-road iron. A visit to these extensive iron-works cannot fail to provehighly interesting — especially the railroad mill, where some twohundred men are employed. We shall describe the whole process ofiron manufacture in connection with the trade of the Juniata, andbeg leave to refer the reader to our book on the Central Railroadroute for information on this subject. A railroad from this place to Harrisburg, via Ephrata and Cornwall,and traversing the valley of French creek, is now being surveyed. Theroad will connect with the Reading railroad, and the Norristown Rail-road below. That the enterprise will prove successful, there can be little PHCENIXV
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