Box 10, Folder 7: Correspondence July to December 1869

[Letter from James John Hagerman to Increase Allen Lapham] [Letterhead] Office Of The Milwaukee Iron Company

Milwaukee June 16 1869

Dr. Lapham —

Dr Sir — Mr Bodin says the Kil. City ore contains Iron — 17.37} It was Manganese 0.35} analyzed for Phos. — — 0.16} nothing else If this pc was a fair specimen of the lot it is good for nothing —

Yours &c

Jas J Hagerman

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President. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents.

Massachusetts. Hon. George B. Upton, of Boston. Maine. Hon. Israel Washburn, Jr., Portland. New-Hampshire. Hon. Ira Perley, LL.D., of Concord. Vermont. Hon. Hampden Cutts, A.M., of Brattleboro'. Rhode-Island. Hon. John R. Bartlett, of Providence. Connecticut. Hon. William A. Buckingham, of Norwich.

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[Analysis of water of Pewaukee Lake by Dr. E. Garner of Milwaukee] [Letterhead affixed to page] [Handwritten on page] 1869 I. A. L.

Pewaukee [Letterhead] Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. General Office 416 Main Street.

Milwaukee _______ 1869

Analysis of water of Pewaukee Lake by Dr. E. Garner of Milw. In 1 gallon = 56,000 grains U S. standard there are 8.455 gr. soluble salts.

Chloride of Sodium	0.201
Sulphate of Soda	.218
Sulphate of Lime	112
Carbonate of Lime	3.668
Carbonate of Magnesia	3.718
Silica	1.031

The Pewaukee Lake water contains less lime than the Lake Michigan water more magnesia, which to some extent replaces the lime. Magnesia is less objectionable than lime and as the Michigan lLke water contains more lime, the Pewaukee Lake water would be superior to Mich. Lake water for general purposes.

Chloride Sodium _____ 0.442 in L. Mich. water Sulphate Soda _____ none Sulphate lime _____ .609 Carb. of lime _____ 4.348 Carb. " Magnesia _____ 1.934 Silica 1.031

[Analysis of Sphagnum Palustre from Germany] [moss forming peat] [1869 ?]

sphagnum palustre, from Germany yielded when consumed by fire a residuum of 3 3/4 per. cent. of ash; the plants having been previously dried.

Analyses of the ash by Wiegman a German chemist yielded Potash 3.78 pr ct. Soda 4.81 Lime 9.77 Sulphuric Acid 2.83 Sililca 61.76 Peroxide of iron 13.80