The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . tween the head of which and the beautiful HendersonLake Avas the iron dam. There a settlement was commenced in timber dam was constructed upon the iron one, to increase the fall ofwater, and an experimental furnace was built. Rare and most valuable E THE HUDSON. iron was produced, equal to any from the best Swedish furnaces; and itwas afterward found to be capable of being wrought into steel equal tothe best imported from England. The proprietors procured an act of incorporation, under the title of theAdirondack Iron and Steel Company, with a
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . tween the head of which and the beautiful HendersonLake Avas the iron dam. There a settlement was commenced in timber dam was constructed upon the iron one, to increase the fall ofwater, and an experimental furnace was built. Rare and most valuable E THE HUDSON. iron was produced, equal to any from the best Swedish furnaces; and itwas afterward found to be capable of being wrought into steel equal tothe best imported from England. The proprietors procured an act of incorporation, under the title of theAdirondack Iron and Steel Company, with a capital, at first, of$1,000,000 (£200,000), afterward increased to !il;3,000,000 (£600,000),and constructed another furnace, a forge, stamping-mill, saw and gristmill, machine-shops, powder-house, dwellings, boarding-house, school-house, barns, sheds, and kilns for the manufacture of charcoal. At thefoot of Sandford Lake, eleven miles south from Adirondack village, theyalso commenced a settlement, and named it Tahawus, where thev erected. AniROHnACK MLLACtF a dam seventeen hundred feet in length, a saw-mill, >\arehouses, dwell-ings for workmen, &c. And in 1854 they completed a blast furnace nearthe upper village, at the head of Sandford Lake, at an expense of$43,000 (£8,GOO), capable of producing fourteen tons of iron also built six heavy boats upon Sandford Lake, for the transportationof freight, and roads at an expense of §10,000 (£2,000). Altogetherthe proprietors spent nearly half a million of dollars, or £100,000, Meanwhile the project of a railway from Saratoga to Sacketts Harbour,on Lake\ Ontario, to bisect the great wilderness, was conceived. Acompany was formed, and forty miles of the road were put under contract,and actually graded. It would pass within a few miles of the Adirondack THE HUDSON. Works, aucl it was estimated that, with a connecting branch road, theiron might be conveyed to Albany for two dollars a ton, and competeprofitably witli ot
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