Alabama ore assayed 54 per cent, and I ob- times in the puddling furnaces, to adapt them to this pro ducing furnace. tained 47 per cent muck bar. Seven tuns of ore sent me This reducing furnuce contains sixteen of these retorts, cess; several hundred tuns of iron have been made by this twelve feet… … showed a uniform in consequencc of the panic. Du fracture bothincolor ring this time I weighed nearly all the ore and coal used in ber, E; the tiles forming the retorts are. two inches thick and and texture, and there is no question about this process pro- the furnace, and kept complete records of…
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