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1899.] MARINE REVIEW. GE se THE CARNEGIE STEEL co., LTD. A-BRIEF SUMMARY OF } THE WORKS OWNED AND OPERATED BY ONE OF THE 'GREATEST INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS OF THE WORLD. In the following short paragraphs a brief summary is made of the works owned and operated by the Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., which has an annual capacity of 2,300,000 gross tons of pig iron, spiegel eisen and ferro- manganese, 2,050,000 tons of Bessemer steel and 1,400,000 tons of open- hearth steel. No reference is made to the Oliver iron mining interests or the Frick coke interests which are very closely related to the Carnegie company: Edgar Thomson Furnaces at Bessemer, two miles from Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie, and the Union railroads, and the Monongahela river. Nine stacks. Product: Bessemer pig iron, spiegel- eisen and ferro-manganese. Annual capacity, 1,000,000 gross tons. Duquesne Furnaces at Duquesne, four miles from Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania and the Union railroads, and the Monongahela river. Four bridge work, angles, axles, links, pins and bar steel. 130,000 gross tons. fie amare ee Hao ag Keystone Bridge Works at Filty-first street, Pittsburg. on the Alle- gheny Valley railroad. Product: Steel bridges, especially for railroads, elevated railway structures and steel frames for modern office buildings. Annual capacity, 50,000 gross tons. iy a ; Xs _ The product of these works in pig iron and steel, the extent of which is referred to above, is manufactured into armor plate, billets (1% in. up), blooms and slabs; forgings, such as axles, arch bars, pins and other car forgings, connecting rods, crank shafts, locomotive frames, eye bars; plates for boilers, bridges, ships and tanks; steel rails of 16 to 100 pounds per yard; steel splice bars (plain and angle) for all sections of rails; rolled structural shapes, such as angles, rounds, flats, squares, ovals, I-beams, channels, bulb angles, deck beams, tees, zees, etc.; and structural work, such as bridges, buildings, elevated railroads, girders, columns, etc. The company maintains its own offices in the principal cities as fol- lows: Atlanta, Equitable building: Boston, Telephone building; Buffalo, German Insurance building; Chicago, Marquette building; Cincinnati, Neave building; Cleveland, Perry-Payne building; Denver, People's Bank building; Detroit, Hammond building; London (Eng.) 71 King William street; Minneapolis, Guaranty Loan building; Mexico City, Calle de San ~ Annual capacity, Open Pit Mining of Iron Ore on Mesaba Range, Minnesota. eral Pps stacks. Product: tons. é Carrie Furnaces at Rankin, one mile from Pittsburg, on the Baltimore | & Ohio and Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroads, and the Monongahela river. Two stacks. Product: Bessemer and Basic pig iron. Annual capacity, © 250,000 gross tons. : Lucy Furnaces at Fifty-first street, Pittsburg, on the Allegheny Val- ley railroad. Two stacks. Product: Bessemer, forge and foundry pig; iron. Annual capacity, 250,000 gross tons. Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Bessemer, two miles from Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie and the Union railroads, and the Monongahela river. Four 15-gross-ton Bessemer converters. Product:: Bessemer steel rails and billets and iron and brass castings. Annual capa- ' city, 1,000,000 gross tons of steel ingots and 50,000 tons castings. Duquesne Steel Works at Duquesne, four miles from Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania and the Union railroads, and the Monongahela river. Two-10-gross-ton Bessemer converters. Product: Rails, billets and splice bars. Annual capacity, 650,000 gross tons of steel ingots. Homestead Steel Works at Munhall, one mile from Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburg & Lake Erie andthe Union railroads, and - Monongahela river. Two 10-gross-ton Bessemer converters; forty open hearth furnaces. Product: Blooms, billets, structural shapes, bridge steel and armor plate, boiler, ship and tank plate, and steel castings. Annual capacity: 400,000 gross tons of Bessemer steel ingots and 1,400,000 tons of open-hearth steel ingots. Finishing capacity of armor plate department, 10,000 gross tons per annum. Upper Union Mills at Thirty-third street, Pittsburg, on the Allegheny Valley railroad. Product: Structural steel, steel bars and_ steel uni- versal mill plates. Annual capacity, 250,000 gross tons. Lower Union Mills at Twenty-ninth street, Pittsburg, on the Alle- gheny Valley railroad. Product: Universal mill plates, car forgings, Bessemer pig iron. Actual capacity, 800,000 gross Francisco, No. 8; Montreal, Bell Telephone building; New York, Empire building; Philadelphia, Harrison building; St. Louis, Chemical building; San Francisco, 258 Market street; Washington, National Safe Deposit building. General office and headquarters are in the Carnegie building, Pittsburg, with telegraph and telephone connections with all of its sales offices and works. RAINFALL ON THE GREAT LAKES. Alfred J. Henry, chief of division of the United States weather bureau, has prepared for the monthly bulletin of the bureau some com- » prehensive statistics of the rain fall in the great lakes region during the past six months. Less than the normal amount of rain and snow fell during this period at the great majority of stations on the great lakes. The fall was above normal at only two American stations, Detroit and Oswego, and at about 83 per cent. of the stations on the Canadian side. On the whole, less than the average amount of rain and snow fell on both sides of the boundary line, the deficiency being greatest in the Lake Michigan basin, where the accumulated departure amounted to as much as 7 inches in some cases. The normal annual precipitation of the several basins, giving equal weight to all the available records, is about as follows: Lake Superior, 28 inches; Lake Michigan,* 33 inches; Lake Huron, 32 inches; Lake St. Clair, 35 inches; Lake Erie, 36 inches; and Lake Ontario, 39 inches. In presenting this data the author says: "It is not expected, of course, that immediate practical results will follow from the records of precipita- tion here given, but we may anticipate in a measure, at least, one of the important needs of persons having to do with problems of interlake navi- gation and the improvement of existing waterways. The distribution of precipitation and its relation to the fluctuations of the suriace level of the lakes are subjects of much importance, yet it is not possible from the figures given alone to draw positive conclusions as :o the relations which exist between precipitation and lake levels."