Show WEST POINT IRON IBON WORKS KS they are a gigantic blacksmith lis shop where single masses of iron iroll weighing sometimes twenty turm tune are taken up in a moment plunged into a furnace heated and drawn out and put on to an anvil and there beaten and fashioned into any desired shape by hammers hammert weighing not riot less than nine tuna tile the facility with which this almot almost superhuman labor is accomplished is wonderful the castings of iron though amazing i dough are yet not so truly astonishing as the working of the wrought metal tile the shaft shafts and alid cross bars for the engines of the g gigantic r steamships of new york are forged here one was unde under r the hammer during our visit that thelt weighed about pounds it 1 t was handled as easily as an gordn ordinary bar of iron on a common bla blacksmith c k anvil this is equal tt to forging thunderbolts |