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they had with the first blast furnaces in the Lehigh Valley — built a Wire Rope factory in Mauch Chunk (later renamed Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania), in 1848, which provided lift cables for the Ashley Planes project, then the back track planes of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad, improving its attractiveness as a premier tourism destination, and vastly improving the throughput of the coal

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