New-York tribune., 1899-07-23
EDGAR THOMSON STEEL WORKS AND FURNACES

Bessemer has given the world steel rails for rail-
ways. buildings riveted to iron shapes and count
less other improvements which might never have
come but for the change.
That is a sketch in merest outline OF the two
men and their work The recent announcement
that the Carnegie Steel Company would be merged
into great corporation with ten times It's pres
ent capital. Is another natural development which
was bound TO come sooner or later In the prose-
cution Of their colossal work Messrs Carnegie
and Frick have built up organization for the
production Of steel which IS without rival in the
wide world The Carnegie Steel Company to-day
controls and owns its ore mines In the lake re-
gons. its lines Of carry the ore across
the lakes, It's docks where the IS stored its
railroad line from the lakes 10 Pittsburg terminal
railway lines 10 carry the 20 the blast furnaces
and q network Of railways connecting its estab-
lishments In the Allegheny and Monongahela val
leys From the ore I'm the ground 10 the finished
product, the company controls It's output abso-
lutey. Herein lies It's strength and It's ability 30
Sc. steel in all parts Of the world in open com
petition with the manufacturers Of the world. The
Carnegie company has every advantage that il IS
possible for It to secure Coincidenty with the far
sightedness of the heads Of the concern in getting
on this unassailable business ground the com
pany has been a pioneer In the Introduction Of all
sorts Of mechanical improvements doing away
with labor in all directions and substituting ma
chinery
ne company operates seventeen modern blast
furnaces. nine at the Braddock works two az the
Lucy plant two at the Carrie plant and four at
Duquesne. The last named are the latest and
We're built at a cost OF 100000 each. and every
turns out COO tons OF pig iron every twenty four
hours.
At its mills and furnaces the company employs
1900 men. and the payroll for these every month
amounts 10 81 100000; at its Connellsve coke works
the Frick Company employs another 1900 men:
on the Carnegie ore ranges another 300 find
employment, while the Pittsburg Bessemer and
Lake Erie Railroad Che line) employs 5000 men.
The company has six ore steamers. which bring
the product of the ranges across the lakes and in
addition 1t has permanent arrangement with the
----r line Of steamships thus securing 10
itself complete transportation the lakes for
the entire ore supply. 1t owns in addition inde-
pendent coke plants. operated under separate cor
Dorate names, water plants and several natural
gas corporations. The latter draw their gas from
some of the richest fields in Southwestern Pennsy-
vana. and give a full supply to all the mills
Multifarious interests such these are neces-
sariy at disadvantage when operated separate
corporations and for this reason the plan OF
organization was decided upon. BY this plan every
Carnegie interest will come in under the corporate
wings Of the Carnegie Steel Company. 1t will be
the greatest combination Of the kind in the world
H. c. Frick will be at tho head.
The ore docks at Conneaut Harbor, which have
been built for the company within the last
years the finest the lakes. being specially
arranged TO cheaper the cost Of transshipment
Aside from the supply of derived by the COM
pany from the lake ranges Il purchases manga
nese, which comes from the Caucasus region in
Russia from Cuba and from Chill Owing 10 the
irregular nature OF manganese deposits. the COM
pany has never sought TO buy the mines outright.
but simply purchases the product from year to