. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . iyolxJ/^-/^X^ ? BIRDS-EYE VIEW IX TWEXTY-FOURTH WARD. FROM BLUFF STREET. MONONGAHELA RIVER AND JONES & LAUGHLINS IRON .t,~„, .V„r/,../,. Ji, /,r/, INTERIOR VIEW OF A ROLLING MILL. In the Centennial Year. 169 the near future, compete with her old creditor, England, this stride of a Pitts-burgh manufactory toward freeing the country from a dependence on Russia forits planished iron, is important; especially in view of the facts previously setforth as to Pittsburghs ability and power in the production of iron and herfacility for reaching
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . iyolxJ/^-/^X^ ? BIRDS-EYE VIEW IX TWEXTY-FOURTH WARD. FROM BLUFF STREET. MONONGAHELA RIVER AND JONES & LAUGHLINS IRON .t,~„, .V„r/,../,. Ji, /,r/, INTERIOR VIEW OF A ROLLING MILL. In the Centennial Year. 169 the near future, compete with her old creditor, England, this stride of a Pitts-burgh manufactory toward freeing the country from a dependence on Russia forits planished iron, is important; especially in view of the facts previously setforth as to Pittsburghs ability and power in the production of iron and herfacility for reaching foreign markets. There is not a little grim humor in thetrade mark which the firm producing this iron has adopted, of an eagle throttling-a bear lying prostrate on its back. The establishment covers about five acres of ground, employs 300 hands,paying out 1170,000 a year of wages. There is consumed in the works 5,000 tonapig and scrap iron and 600,000 bushels of coal, and four large steam hammers,weighing about three tons each and striking three hundred blows a minute, witha force of about twenty tons are used. The blows of these hammers imparts thepeculiar gloss an
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