Franklin Furnace Under Blast
The large blast furnace of the Franklinite
Company, at Franklin, which has been building for some time past,
was started on Tuesday, the 3rd inst. All things having been made
ready, the wife of superintendent Platt applied the torch at 3:30
P.M. The first iron was run on Friday last, and the working of the
furnace proved satisfactory to all the parties interested. The Sussex
Road is transporting about 100 tons of coal daily to the furnace,
and have brought the locomotive "Franklin" from its winter quarters
at Branchville, and placed it in the machine shops for the purpose
of converting it into a coal burner, when it will be taken to Franklin
and kept there to 'drill' and transport the ore from the Pochuck and
Stockholm mines., and coal from Waterloo to the furnace. This is an
event which has been long and anxiously looked for, and we hope soon
to see the large number of men at Franklin who have been out of employment
for the past two months busy once more, and at such wages that they
will be able to keep the "wolf" from their doors.