The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . f iron rails,* visited the various steel works throughout the * The first steel rails used in the United States were imported from Englandin 1862 by the firm of Philip S. Justice & Co. of Philadelphia and J. Howard Mitchell of that firm reported the transaction to the editor of IronAge 1882. Steel rails were then used to a limited extent in England; and soenthusiastic in their praises of these rails were the managers of the lines on whichthey were used that the firm in question endeavored to have American rail
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . f iron rails,* visited the various steel works throughout the * The first steel rails used in the United States were imported from Englandin 1862 by the firm of Philip S. Justice & Co. of Philadelphia and J. Howard Mitchell of that firm reported the transaction to the editor of IronAge 1882. Steel rails were then used to a limited extent in England; and soenthusiastic in their praises of these rails were the managers of the lines on whichthey were used that the firm in question endeavored to have American railroadsmake some experiments with steel. But the Philadelphia firm were looked uponas fanatics, if not swindlers, when they talked about steel rails to American rail-road managers ; and it was seldom that they could obtain the earnest attention ofthe proper officers. The rule was, Mr. Mitchell says, to bow us out of theoffice and end the annoyance of being talked to by a dreamer. In 1S62, however, after many efforts in this and other directions, J. Edgar Plate IV,. V. THOMAS M. CARNEGIE AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN COLEMAN THE EO UNDER 73 country—at Johnstown, Cleveland, Harrisburg, Spuyten Duy-vil and Troy—in order to observe the operation of the Bes-semer converters which had been installed at these places dur-ing the preceding four years. He was then sixty-five yearsold, but full of energy, and enterprising and far-sighted beyondmost of his contemporaries. The first result of his observations was to secure a site fora steel works. In this he got his son-in-law, Thomas M. Car-negie, to join him ; and together they obtained the option ofpurchasing a tract of one hundred and seven acres of farm landcalled Rraddocks Field, being the identical site of the defeatof General Braddock in 1755, ^ the Monongahela River, adozen miles above Pittsburg. Bounded on the north by thePennsylvania Railroad, traversed through its centre by the Bal-timore and Ohio, with the Monongahela affording wate
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