Fetzer, William B. - 1842

Chapter XI
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces

8.  Elk (“Smeakase”) Furnace, 1842, a small stack on Deer Creek one mile above Deer Creek furnace.  First operator, William B. Fetzer, later, Kahland Call; bosh, seven feet, height, twenty-two feet; production 1845, about 700 tons; 1854, 400 tons; abandoned in the fall of 1855.  At the time of of its abandonment its timber was exhausted.
~ History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 117