A further extension of our business was the establishing of the Hartman Steel Works at Beaver Falls, designed to work into a hundred various forms the product of the Homestead Mills.

So now we made almost everything in steel from a wire nail up to a twenty-inch steel girder, and it was then not thought probable that we should enter into any new field.
It may be interesting here to note the progress of our works during the decade 1888 to 1897.

In 1888 we had twenty millions of dollars invested; in 1897 more than double or over forty-five millions.

The 600,000 tons of pig iron we made per annum in 1888 was trebled; we made nearly 2,000,000.

Our product of iron and steel was in 1888, say, 2000 tons per day; it grew to exceed 6000 tons.