[Magdalen] Plain Speech.--cat-tails

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jim G>It's the blast furnace that actually make steel out of iron ore is 
what has
mainly gone away.

Now... those were something
Lynn, who went on several tours of the auto plants in Detroit in the '50s 
and early '60s... AMAZING

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single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 7:21 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Plain Speech.--cat-tails

> From: Sibyl Smirl
>
>>Cat-tails are very valuable plants, for quite a number of reasons.  I 
>>"have" some that I value as individuals, in a small "creek" (I think it 
>>was once one, by the lay of the land) that became a drainage ditch for
>
> My mother took some cattails from the lake in Mine and planted them at the 
> bottom of our fishpond in the side yard in Lynbrook. The Cattails thrived 
> fro awhile, but more interesting was that there apparently were frog eggs 
> attached --  so we had lots of tadpoles and then lots of frogs in and 
> around the fishpond, which also sported some huge goldfish.
>
>>years ago: I would assume that the rails were sold as recycling for steel, 
>>though I don't know--our steel industry is so far gone, maybe
>
> If the rails were in good shape, they were likely used as relay rail or 
> even welded together as ribbon rail for use elsewhere.
>
> But I don’t think you need fret about scrap metal not being reprocessed 
> here in the U.S. Recycling scrap metal into new steel product is thriving 
> in the U.S. It's the blast furnace that actually make steel out of iron 
> ore is what has mainly gone away.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>