The furnaces at the Mt. Savage establish ment, Md., are now in blast, and the rolling mill continues, as it has done for some time, to turn out daily a large amount of superior rails. Over nine hundred hands are now kept busily employed, and the population of the place is not far from five thousand.
This article was originally published with the title "New Iron Works" in Scientific American 8, 29, 230 (April 1853)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican04021853-230h
