 These first pieces were sold to construct a steamer.However, in March, a wave of snowmelt carried away the dam on the river, and the forge remained idle until repairs were made in the summer.The Carp River forge proved to be financially unprofitable, due in large part to the difficulties of transporting both iron ore and forge supplies to the forge site, and, as "Mining Magazine" dryly put it, "both from the want and excess of water as a driving power."