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From: George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Apr 26, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Adirondac
To: James Brothers <[log in to unmask]>


I was doing some work at the West Point Foundry which used pigs to
found cannons I guess, one pig we found unfortunately got left behind.
It also had a large blast furnace on the Hudson River at the north
side of Cold Spring, NY which you can't tell today, leveled off and a
restaurant and some homes there. The foundry was further back in
Foundry Cove, fed by the Margaret Brook which had a large wheel from
the fall of water and underground raceways of water. Some of the
wooden molds were made on the Hudson River next to the Hudson House
hotel, a lumberyard there in the 20th century. It is thought that an
iron mine was there in the 18th century from one arcane map reference.

It's said the taconic ores came from the area in NJ and NY (nearby
scenic Taconic Parkway on the Taconic orogeny, which taconite the iron
ore comes from I think) but I've not made a study of it. It's also
said Edison lost his shirt nearby trying to extract iron ore with
electromagnets.

I haven't seen any info on the network of iron that must have been in
place before the Bessemer process, its said, put the West Point
Foundry and its NYC offices out of business. Perhaps to the
Adirondacks, the records of the foundry I was told still classified
and unindexed (more likely the latter). It went on though as other
ironworks ("japanning") and was used for 15 years or so until 1914
when the fire burned down (or twisted up) the assembly line "Bridge
Shop" of the Chicago Bridge and Steel Company then there, still in
business today I read, having recently built a large "Michelson
Morley" like interstellar particle detector of two long steel tubes at
right angles out in the Midwest.

One of the reports edited by Edward Rutsch is in the West Point
Foundry Schoolhouse Museum in Cold Spring, NY (named by Washington its
said for the cold spring no-one knows where it was, perhaps by the
river until the railroad did it in) had some of the language you
referred to, that is sounds like English but used in another sense, a
dialect of manufacturing, but I could not swear by the comparison, He
placed the vocabulary in the report which I don't have a copy of (the
Brill Associates of Cold Spring contracted the study, Joel W,
Grossman, Ph.D. the P.I. for the EPA phase we worked on, the "Marathon
Battery Superfund National Priority Site" in the marsh mostly where we
recovered R. P. Parrott' s gun platform used as the "Swamp Angel" in
the bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, on top of
wooden grillage with a section of train track left to it. In the
report it stated the technicians were smuggled i under alias
identities from Great Britain, they not permitted by law to work for
another country. A mixture perhaps of Scottish, Welsh and English iron
making terms was used in the first labor action against a Federal
facility in history it's sometimes referred to. Sometimes also
referred to as industrial servitude, from the surviving signed
records.

Sincerely,
George J. Myers, Jr.


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