History Of Kent Connecticut Including Biographical Sketches Of Many Of Its Present Or Former Inhabitants

Author : Francis Atwater
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230734255
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book History of Kent, Connecticut; Including Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Present Or Former Inhabitants written by Francis Atwater and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...in a huge frame of stone. The round top is perhaps three feet in diameter at the top, and about nine feet in the bosh or widest portion, the stack being built large in the middle, from which it gradually tapers smaller toward the top and to the bottom or hearth. The latter consists of from twenty to forty stones laid very compactly and symmetrically like the concave of a bowl. A new hearth has to be put in about once a year at a cost of $600, and it takes about a week to build it. When the fire in the stack is started it is called "blowing in," and when it is allowed to go out, it is called "blowing out." The stack can be blown out in about twenty-four hours. Only when a new hearth is put in or there is a shut down for some purpose, is the fire allowed to go out. For many months, perhaps, it is fed with fuel and ore, night and day, Sundays included. Several men are kept constantly at work wheeling barrows full of charcoal and of ore, to be cast into the insatiable maelstrom of flames. The stack is fed by what are called "charges." A charge consists of perhaps thirty bushels of charcoal and from 1,100 to 1,400 pounds of ore, and as these charges rapidly follow one another, in order to keep the stack full, many thousands of bushels of charcoal are being burned, and many tons of ore being melted at the same time. From 1,500 to 1,700 bushels of charcoal are burned in a day of twentyfour hours, and from thirty to thirty-five tons of ore are melted in the same time. This quantity of of ore furnishes from fourteen to fifteen tons of iron dally or about 100 tons in a week. The charcoal used is obtained from the woods of the surrounding region. Continually mixed with the ore and charcoal in the stack is a quantity of...