. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . In the Centennial Year. 19d to a 60 feet hot straightening plate. The extent of the works is easily the foregoing description. The capacity of the works is 200 tons ingotseach twenty-four hours, and 225 tons of rails if rolled in double lengths, and200 tons if rolled in single lengths. The works have made 220 tons on a singleturn, and 4,000 to 4,500 tons in a month. The works employ 500 men, whosewages Mill average $400,000 a year, and will consume 50,000 tons pig metal ayear. The capital in the machinery, building and ground, is $1
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . In the Centennial Year. 19d to a 60 feet hot straightening plate. The extent of the works is easily the foregoing description. The capacity of the works is 200 tons ingotseach twenty-four hours, and 225 tons of rails if rolled in double lengths, and200 tons if rolled in single lengths. The works have made 220 tons on a singleturn, and 4,000 to 4,500 tons in a month. The works employ 500 men, whosewages Mill average $400,000 a year, and will consume 50,000 tons pig metal ayear. The capital in the machinery, building and ground, is $1,000,000. Elliptic Cast Steel Railway construction of this article is another of those specialities of which somany are among the manufactures of Pittsburgh. The works were established .in 1865 by six parties in Wisconsin, who selected Pittsburgh as the best site fortheir purposes, and employed then but six hands. In 1866, they were purchasedout by Calvin Wells and A. French, who form the present firm of A. French &Co., by whom the
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