. The first one hundred years of McKeesport. An historical and statistical description of the city from its inception until its centennial in 1894. 4\. 48 History of McKeesport. Iron & Steel Works, in 1892-93. The Compan\- also owns theRepublic Iron Works in Pittsburgh. The tonnage is divided asfollows: pipe mills, 225,000; steel works, 145,000; Boston mill,175,000; furnaces, 160,000; the total tonnage including theRepublic iron works being 750,000 tons per annum, or tons,daily. The plant covers an acreage of sixty-six acres, aboutfifty acres of which are under roof. Eighteen miles of ra

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. The first one hundred years of McKeesport. An historical and statistical description of the city from its inception until its centennial in 1894. 4\. 48 History of McKeesport. Iron & Steel Works, in 1892-93. The Compan\- also owns theRepublic Iron Works in Pittsburgh. The tonnage is divided asfollows: pipe mills, 225,000; steel works, 145,000; Boston mill,175,000; furnaces, 160,000; the total tonnage including theRepublic iron works being 750,000 tons per annum, or tons,daily. The plant covers an acreage of sixty-six acres, aboutfifty acres of which are under roof. Eighteen miles of railway are necessary to distribute materialabout the works and to remove the output for shipment. TheCompan\- owns ten locomotives, which are necessar\- to move carsin the yards. The number of engines to drive the macliiner} inthe Tube Works proper is fort3-two. and about fift} stationarvengines are required in the various other mills. In the TubeW^orks are twentj-four steam pumps and twenty-two steamboilers. The annual output of this immense j^lant amounts to some-thing between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000: and in good times,the mills running

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