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Show OGDEN IRON. A quantity of iron from the Ogden iron works has lately been received and tested at the U. O. Foundry in this city. Mr. Wilson, business manager of the foundry, and Mr. Affleck, foreman of the machine shop, pronounce the iron to be far superior to most that is made in the United States. The pigs contain a smaller percentage of dross than any iron received from the East by the foundry. It makes a tough casting, but is soft and easily worked. Thin castings made of common iron often chill and become so hard that a file will scarcely touch them, but such is not the case with the Ogden iron. The foundry people are enthusiastic in praise of this iron, and think it the greatest bonanza ever developed in Utah. Mr. W. H. Rowe, of the Shoe Department of Z. C. M. I., Salt Lake City, came to Logan a few days ago, and has given the foundry an order for some 300 pairs of lasts, to be made of Ogden iron. The sand used by the foundry here is fine in grain, and enables that institution to turn out castings that are very smooth, much smoother than can be made with coarser sand. |