son, and David Henderson, all related by marriage ; and^Avith slight aid from the State, they constructed a road through the wilderness, from the Siarron [Schroon] Yalley, near Lake Champlain, to the foot of Sandford Lake, halfway between the head of which and the beautiful Henderson Lake Avas the " iron dam." There a settlement was commenced in 1834. A timber dam was constructed upon the iron one, to increase the fall of water, and an experimental furnace was built. Rare and most valuable

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iron was produced, equal to any from the best Swedish furnaces ; and it was afterward found to be capable of being wrought into steel equal to the best imported from England.

The proprietors procured an act of incorporation, under the title of the ''Adirondack Iron and Steel Company," with a capital, at first, of $1,000,000 (£200,000), afterward increased to !il;3,000,000 (£600,000), and constructed another furnace, a forge, stamping-mill, saw and grist mill, machine-shops, powder-house, dwellings, boarding-house, schoolhouse, barns, sheds, and kilns for the manufacture of charcoal. At the foot of Sandford Lake, eleven miles south from Adirondack village, they also commenced a settlement, and named it Tahawus, where thev erected

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a dam seventeen hundred feet in length, a saw-mill, >\arehouses, dwellings for workmen, &c. And in 1854 they completed a blast furnace near the upper village, at the head of Sandford Lake, at an expense of $43,000 (£8, GOO), capable of producing fourteen tons of iron a-day. They also built six heavy boats upon Sandford Lake, for the transportation of freight, and roads at an expense of §10,000 (£2,000). Altogether the proprietors spent nearly half a million of dollars, or £100,000,