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The L'Anse Sentinel
Saturday, October 21, 1899


                           CARP RIVER FURNACE
                           
                        Once More Becomes Active,
                            After Being Idle
                            for Eight Years.
                            
                           FIFTY TONS PER DAY
                           
                      Will Be the Capacity of the
                      Furnace - Valuable Insdustry
                             to Marquette.
                             
              After eight years of idleness the Carp River furnace at
            Marquette went in blast Wednesday afternoon, says the
            Mining Journal.
              Late in the spring the property passed into the hands
            of Schaffer & Grey, partners in the firm which has again
            placed the furnace in the ranks of the active producers.
            Mr. Schaffer, while a resident of Marquette, has for a
            number of years operated the Excelsior furnace in Ishpem-
            ing, which he was compelled to shut down at the end of
            last season for lack of water. Mr. Grey is a gentleman
            well known in iron manufacturing circles, and for a number
            of years had the control and management of the furnace at
            Ashland, Wis.
              They took hold of the Carp River furnace last June, since
            which time they have had a force of men busily engaged in
            cleaning up the property and remodeling it to bring it in
            line with up to date furnaces with which it must compete.
            This was quite a task and it is only by hard work since
            that time they have brought the furnace to a point where
            it can begin active operations.
              The cupola was filled with ore Tuesday, and Wednesday
            afternoon the fires were started, Mrs. Schaffer having
            the honor of igniting them. There was some talk that the
            new furnace would use ores from the Marquette range, but
            the management was unable to secure ore of the grade need-
            ed from the up the road mines, all the regular producers
            being under contract, so they are bringing their ore from
            the Gogebic.
              The capacity of the furnace will be fifty tons of pig
            iron per day. Its product will be high-grade charcoal
            iron of the same quality as was manufactured by Mr.
            Schaffer at Ishpeming. Being familiar to the trade under
            the name of Excelsior iron, it will continue to be sold
            as such.
              The re-opening of this furnace means quite a good deal
            to Marquette from a business point of view. It will be
            a summer and winter industry and from the very outset
            will give employement to fifty men at good wages. Should
            the present managers or other capitalists place associate
            industries with it a much larger force of men will be re-
            quired and the benefit to the community will be corres-
            pondingly greater. Even as it is, it constitutes an in-
            dustry of considerable importance and one which every
            citizen will hope to see meet with continued success.
            
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