The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . ovens in the Connellsville region, threewater plants with a pumping capacity of 5,000,000 gallons daily,thirty-five miles of railroad track, and 1,200 coke-cars. Thecompany employed 11,000 men. The volume of shipmentsamounted to 1,100 car-loads a day, or 330,000 cars a is equivalent to 10,000 train-loads, which, strung together,would extend from New York to San Francisco, or from Londonacross the continent of Europe, through Persia, and well on theroad to India. In 1895 the capital of the H. C. Frick Company wa
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . ovens in the Connellsville region, threewater plants with a pumping capacity of 5,000,000 gallons daily,thirty-five miles of railroad track, and 1,200 coke-cars. Thecompany employed 11,000 men. The volume of shipmentsamounted to 1,100 car-loads a day, or 330,000 cars a is equivalent to 10,000 train-loads, which, strung together,would extend from New York to San Francisco, or from Londonacross the continent of Europe, through Persia, and well on theroad to India. In 1895 the capital of the H. C. Frick Company was furtherincreased to 310,000,000. It now owned 11,786 ovens; 40,000acres ,of Connellsville coallands, out of a total of sixtyto sixty-five thousand acres,and its capacity was 25,000tons of coke a day, or eightyper cent, of the entire pro-duction of the Connellsvilleregion. A little later itsmonthly output amounted toan even million tons! Such, baldly stated, arethe achievements of the man who from now on becomes themost conspicuous and imposing figure in this Coke-ovens under construction. CHAPTER XII THE CAPTURE OF THE DUQUESNE STEEL WORKS MR. FRICKS first great achievementafter assuming the leadership of Car-negie Brothers & Co. was the captureof the rival steel works atDuquesne, on the Monon-gahela River, a short dis-tance above Homesteadand Braddock. This mas-terly move eliminated a. dangerous competitor fromthe rail market, and gavethe Carnegies one of themost modern and best-equipped steel works inthe country without theoutlay of a single the unparalleled rec-ord of Carnegie successes contains no greater industrial victorythan this; and business men in Pittsburg still regard it as thegreatest example of skilful financiering and management in thehistory of the American steel trade. The building and early history of the Duquesne steel worksrecall those of Homestead. In a sense, indeed, the former maybe considered a continuation of the latter; for they
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