Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . 56 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS. ^5; ?^i^^i^s^^^^i^f^ic^^^-^^ —?jr Watch Factory. Massjchust-tts Highlands, and western Connecticut, where excellent ore was found, and forestsin abundance for making charcoal. Great Britain produced in 1899, 9,393,018tons of iron; the production in the United States in the same time was 13,620,-703 tons. The first use of anthracite coal for smelting iron was in the ContinentalArmory at Carlisle in Pennsylvania in 1775. But charcoal was universally used until 1840, fo
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . 56 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS. ^5; ?^i^^i^s^^^^i^f^ic^^^-^^ —?jr Watch Factory. Massjchust-tts Highlands, and western Connecticut, where excellent ore was found, and forestsin abundance for making charcoal. Great Britain produced in 1899, 9,393,018tons of iron; the production in the United States in the same time was 13,620,-703 tons. The first use of anthracite coal for smelting iron was in the ContinentalArmory at Carlisle in Pennsylvania in 1775. But charcoal was universally used until 1840, for smeltingores. Now iron is manu-factured in our country inevery form from a nail to alocomotive. A vast numberof machines have been in-vented for carrying on thesemanufactures; and the prod-ucts in cutlery, fire-arms,railway materials, and ma-chinery of every kind employvast numbers of men and agreat amount of locomotive builders areregarded as the best in theworld; and no nation on theglobe can compete with usClass Works in the construction of steam- boats of every kind, from the iron-clad war steamer t
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