. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . w ^ D 9 w 03 & k; &J >* P4 ^ w 0 O W OQ < Ph w 0 ^ IS (4 O » s ^ ? ^ In the Centennial Year. 195 produced by the increased rates of gold during the war, the manufacturers ofedge-tool steel would have succeeded. Pittsburgh manufacturers—at much toilof mind and body, at heavy expense in experiments, and through a large invest-ment of capital—have established, under certain fortuitous circumstances, theindependence of the American over the foreign steel. The fact suggests thenatural inquiry: If the country aflfords material that produces s
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . w ^ D 9 w 03 & k; &J >* P4 ^ w 0 O W OQ < Ph w 0 ^ IS (4 O » s ^ ? ^ In the Centennial Year. 195 produced by the increased rates of gold during the war, the manufacturers ofedge-tool steel would have succeeded. Pittsburgh manufacturers—at much toilof mind and body, at heavy expense in experiments, and through a large invest-ment of capital—have established, under certain fortuitous circumstances, theindependence of the American over the foreign steel. The fact suggests thenatural inquiry: If the country aflfords material that produces steel that hasnothing to fear by comparison with the best sent from English works, and if, iaattaining that point, labor has also been educated to a degree of skill that insuressuch success, why not give American manufacturers the benefit of the Americanmarket, and the ores of the country the advantages of further experimentsamong the great variety existing? Is there any reason why the art of steel-making, having through numerous diffi
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