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	==References==		==References==
	*Lesley, Peter. 1866. ''The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States; with Discussions of Iron, Etc. New York,'': John Wiley [https://books.google.com/books?id=eCdWAAAAcAAJ&vq=lehigh&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=balliet&f=false].
	* Mathews, Alfred, and Austin N Hungerford. 1884. ''History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.'' Philadelphia: Everts & Richards.
	* Pittsburgh Daily Post. 1898. ''Coplay Iron Company Foreclosed,'' March 24, 1898. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/86403778/?terms=Coplay%2BIron%2BCompany]
	*Pumpelly, Raphael. 1886. ''Report on the Mining Industries of the United States (Exclusive of the Precious Metals), With Special Investigations into the Iron Resources of the Republic and into the Cretaceous Coals of the Northwest.'' Washington: Government Printing Office. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XcNNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA967&lpg=PA967&dq=east+penn+furnace+balliet&source=bl&ots=wnjkJbhWBM&sig=ACfU3U1h6K39hiii8Dy6Jlw2Kx4QV9Yu2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNyMCj_PnpAhUGQTABHYspB_AQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=east%20penn%20furnace%20balliet&f=false]
	*Reading Times. 1875. ''East Pennsylvania Industrial Notes,'' December 7, 1875.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/46329274/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*Roberts, Charles Rhoads, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas H. Krick, and William J. Dietrich. 1914. ''History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families.'' Vol. I, Allentown, PA: Lehigh Valley publishing Company, Limited.
	*The Allentown Democrat. 1879. ''Lehigh Valley Iron Company,'' April 30, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/74764975/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Allentown Democrat. 1879. ''Lehigh Valley Iron Company,'' April 30, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/74764975/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Allentown Democrat. 1879. ''Column Three,'' October 1, 1879, pg. 3. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/74765054/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Allentown Democrat. 1879. ''Column Three,'' October 1, 1879, pg. 3. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/74765054/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]
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	*The Carbon Advocate. ''The Lehigh Valley Iron Company Re-organized,'' June 28, 1879. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/75666840/?terms=%22aaron%2Bballiet%22]		*The Carbon Advocate. ''The Lehigh Valley Iron Company Re-organized,'' June 28, 1879. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/75666840/?terms=%22aaron%2Bballiet%22]
	*The Carbon Advocate. ''Current Events Epitomized,'' February 26, 1887. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/61322581/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Carbon Advocate. ''Current Events Epitomized,'' February 26, 1887. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/61322581/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]
			*Lesley, Peter. 1866. ''The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States; with Discussions of Iron, Etc. New York,'': John Wiley [https://books.google.com/books?id=eCdWAAAAcAAJ&vq=lehigh&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=balliet&f=false].
			* Mathews, Alfred, and Austin N Hungerford. 1884. ''History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.'' Philadelphia: Everts & Richards.
	*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. 1868. ''State Items,'' February 15, 1868.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. 1868. ''State Items,'' February 15, 1868.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
			* Pittsburgh Daily Post. 1898. ''Coplay Iron Company Foreclosed,'' March 24, 1898. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/86403778/?terms=Coplay%2BIron%2BCompany]
			*Pumpelly, Raphael. 1886. ''Report on the Mining Industries of the United States (Exclusive of the Precious Metals), With Special Investigations into the Iron Resources of the Republic and into the Cretaceous Coals of the Northwest.'' Washington: Government Printing Office. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XcNNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA967&lpg=PA967&dq=east+penn+furnace+balliet&source=bl&ots=wnjkJbhWBM&sig=ACfU3U1h6K39hiii8Dy6Jlw2Kx4QV9Yu2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNyMCj_PnpAhUGQTABHYspB_AQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=east%20penn%20furnace%20balliet&f=false]
			*Reading Times. 1875. ''East Pennsylvania Industrial Notes,'' December 7, 1875.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/46329274/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
			*Roberts, Charles Rhoads, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas H. Krick, and William J. Dietrich. 1914. ''History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families.'' Vol. I, Allentown, PA: Lehigh Valley publishing Company, Limited.

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	The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.		The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.

	The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 11, 1894)</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post March 24, 1898</ref>.		The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 11, 1894</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post March 24, 1898</ref>.

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	The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.		The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.

	The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat, April 11, 1894)</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat, June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.		The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 11, 1894)</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post March 24, 1898</ref>.

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	*The Allentown Democrat. 1881. ''The Iron Business,'' June 22, 1881. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/74765400/?terms=Coplay%2BIron%2BCompany]		*The Allentown Democrat. 1881. ''The Iron Business,'' June 22, 1881. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/74765400/?terms=Coplay%2BIron%2BCompany]
	*The Allentown Democrat. 1893. ''Another Furnace Company in the Sherrif's Hands,'' January 4, 1893. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/70717598/?terms=Coplay%2BIron%2BCompany]		*The Allentown Democrat. 1893. ''Another Furnace Company in the Sherrif's Hands,'' January 4, 1893. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/70717598/?terms=Coplay%2BIron%2BCompany]
			*The Allentown Democrat. 1894. ''About Iron Ore – Increase of the Tariff Didn't Help Us,'' April 11, 1894.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/70723823/?terms=%22lehigh%2Bfurnace%22]
	*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1876. ''The Ironworks of the United States: A Directory of the Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges and Bloomeries in Every State.'' Philadelphia: James B. Chandler's Steam Printing Establishment.		*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1876. ''The Ironworks of the United States: A Directory of the Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges and Bloomeries in Every State.'' Philadelphia: James B. Chandler's Steam Printing Establishment.
	*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1880. ''The Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing the Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges, and Bloomeries in Every State and Territory.'' Philadelphia: The Chandler Printing House.		*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1880. ''The Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing the Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges, and Bloomeries in Every State and Territory.'' Philadelphia: The Chandler Printing House.

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	The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.		The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.

	The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 11, 1894)</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.		The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat, April 11, 1894)</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat, June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.

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	The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.		The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.

	The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat, June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.		The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The ores in New Jersey allegedly cost more initially but were more cost-effective overall considering that they had more iron in them<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 11, 1894)</ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.

	==Notes==		==Notes==

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	*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1884. ''Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing the Blast Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges, and Bloomeries in Every State and Territory.'' Philadelphia: Allen, Lane, and Scott.		*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1884. ''Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing the Blast Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges, and Bloomeries in Every State and Territory.'' Philadelphia: Allen, Lane, and Scott.
	*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1892. ''The Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing a Full List of the Blast Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Tinplate Works, and Forges and Bloomeries in the United States; Also all of the Cut-Nail Works, Rod Mills, Wire-Nail Works, Wire Mills, Car-Axle Works, Car-Wheel Works, Car-Builders, Locomotive Works, Cast-Iron Pipe Works, and Wrought-Iron Pipe Works.'' Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott.		*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1892. ''The Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing a Full List of the Blast Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Tinplate Works, and Forges and Bloomeries in the United States; Also all of the Cut-Nail Works, Rod Mills, Wire-Nail Works, Wire Mills, Car-Axle Works, Car-Wheel Works, Car-Builders, Locomotive Works, Cast-Iron Pipe Works, and Wrought-Iron Pipe Works.'' Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott.
			*The Carbon Advocate. ''The Lehigh Valley Iron Company Re-organized,'' June 28, 1879. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/75666840/?terms=%22aaron%2Bballiet%22]
	*The Carbon Advocate. ''Current Events Epitomized,'' February 26, 1887. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/61322581/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Carbon Advocate. ''Current Events Epitomized,'' February 26, 1887. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/61322581/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. 1868. ''State Items,'' February 15, 1868.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. 1868. ''State Items,'' February 15, 1868.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]

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	== Coplay Iron Company ==		== Coplay Iron Company ==
	The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>.		The Lehigh Valley Iron Company continued its operation until 1878, when financial difficulties forced the company to cease working<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. Over the course of the company's history, its capital stock had risen from $100,000 to $600,00; but, because of the situation the company was in, it was faced with either having its property sold at a sheriff's sale<ref>The Allentown Democrat April 30, 1879</ref> or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors<ref>Philadelphia Inquirer January 11, 1879</ref>. The stacks were blown out at the end of the year and remained cold until later the following year, when the Coplay Iron Company (Limited), which had been incorporated earlier that year, resumed production<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new company had forty corporators, including E. P. Wilbur as the president; William H. Ainey as the treasurer and secretary; Valentine W. Weaver as the superintendent; and Wilbur, Ainey, Weaver, W. Dodson, Aaron Balliet, Joseph Laubach, R. M. Gummere, and Dr. John S. Wentz as directors of the company<ref>Mathews and Hungerford 1884, 504 </ref>. The new capital stock amounted to $200,000<ref>The Carbon Advocate June 28, 1879</ref>.

	The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat, June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.		The company continued to use the three stacks that had previously been built and bean to produce pig iron as the main product, with a total capacity of 30,000 net tons<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1880, 20</ref>. The third stack, which had been built in 1868, was rebuilt in 1889 with a 15-foot bosh and was 70-feet tall. The annual capacity was 55,000 net tons by this time<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1892, 10</ref>. In 1879 it was reported that one of the stacks had produced 254 tons of pig iron in a week<ref>The Allentown Democrat, October 1, 1879</ref>. The company utilized two types of ores: Lehigh County hematites and New Jersey magnetics<ref>The American Iron and Steel Association 1884, 12</ref>, and owned ore beds in Whitehall, Lehigh, and Longswamp Township, Berks County<ref>The Allentown Democrat, January 4, 1893 </ref>. The Balliet mine in Ironton, operated at this time by Horace Balliet and his son, provided the Coplay Iron Company with limonite to be used for foundry pig<ref>Pumpelly 1886, 967</ref>. In 1881 the iron industry had a lull, and one stack was blown out<ref>The Allentown Democrat, June 22, 1881 </ref>. The company reorganized under the name of Coplay Iron Company in 1885, continuing production until its liquidation in 1890<ref> Roberts et al. 1914, 633 </ref>. The wages of the employees of the furnace were increased by 10 percent in 1887<ref>The Carbon Advocate February 26, 1887</ref>. In late March of 1898, the properties owned by the company were sold for $55,000 to bondholders under foreclosure of mortgages<ref>Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 24, 1898</ref>.

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	*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. ~~1864~~. ''State Items,'' February 15, ~~1864~~.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. 1868. ''State Items,'' February 15, 1868.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]

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	*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1892. ''The Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing a Full List of the Blast Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Tinplate Works, and Forges and Bloomeries in the United States; Also all of the Cut-Nail Works, Rod Mills, Wire-Nail Works, Wire Mills, Car-Axle Works, Car-Wheel Works, Car-Builders, Locomotive Works, Cast-Iron Pipe Works, and Wrought-Iron Pipe Works.'' Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott.		*The American Iron and Steel Association. 1892. ''The Iron and Steel Works of the United States: Embracing a Full List of the Blast Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Tinplate Works, and Forges and Bloomeries in the United States; Also all of the Cut-Nail Works, Rod Mills, Wire-Nail Works, Wire Mills, Car-Axle Works, Car-Wheel Works, Car-Builders, Locomotive Works, Cast-Iron Pipe Works, and Wrought-Iron Pipe Works.'' Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott.
	*The Carbon Advocate. ''Current Events Epitomized,'' February 26, 1887. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/61322581/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Carbon Advocate. ''Current Events Epitomized,'' February 26, 1887. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/61322581/?terms=coplay%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1874. ''The Dominion,'' September 14, 1874.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167945230/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
	*Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]		*The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1879. ''Business Troubles: Report that the Lehigh Valley Iron Company will make an Assignment,'' January 11, 1879.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/167873809/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]
			*The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial. 1864. ''State Items,'' February 15, 1864.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85481531/?terms=lehigh%2Bvalley%2Biron%2Bcompany]