The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . none but the best-equippedmills could make rails without loss. Even at this price therewere few orders to be had; and six of the nine Western millswere shut down. At the beginning of December the Edgar Thomson had onlyenough work insight to last a fewdays and one con-tingent order of8,000 tons of rails,not to be rolled untilthe order had beenconfirmed. Thei Homestead works I had been put on bil- lets for the UnionIron Mills, and hadonly enough work insight to keep runningtill the middle of Janu-ary. Wilson, Walker &Co. s
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . none but the best-equippedmills could make rails without loss. Even at this price therewere few orders to be had; and six of the nine Western millswere shut down. At the beginning of December the Edgar Thomson had onlyenough work insight to last a fewdays and one con-tingent order of8,000 tons of rails,not to be rolled untilthe order had beenconfirmed. Thei Homestead works I had been put on bil- lets for the UnionIron Mills, and hadonly enough work insight to keep runningtill the middle of Janu-ary. Wilson, Walker &Co. stopped work on Decem-ber 5 th for lack of Joliet mill had just shutdown; and the old Chicago millhad long before stopped runningfor like the Carnegie partners had faith in the future, and stillgreater confidence in the genius of the men who had made theirother enterprises successful; and so, utilizing these dull timesfor repairs and changes, and profiting by low prices of labor andmaterial for extensions, they struggled through the period of. Went out of the enterprise withgrateful hearts.
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