Our coke works then embraced about 5000 ovens; they were trebled in number, and our capacity, then 6000 tons, became 18,000 tons per day.

Our Frick Coke Company in 1897 had 42,000 acres of coal land, more than two thirds of the true Connellsville vein.

Ten years hence increased production may be found to have been equally rapid.

It may be accepted as an axiom that a manufacturing concern in a growing country like ours begins to decay when it stops extending.
To make a ton of steel one and a half tons of iron stone has to be mined, transported by rail a hundred miles to the Lakes, carried by boat hundreds of miles, transferred to cars, transported by rail one hundred and fifty miles to Pittsburgh; one and a half tons of coal must be mined and manufactured into coke and carried fifty-odd miles by rail; and one ton of limestone mined and carried one hundred and fifty miles to Pittsburgh.

How then could steel be manufactured and sold without loss at three pounds for two cents?
This, I confess, seemed to me incredible, and little less than miraculous, but it was so.
America is soon to change from being the dearest steel manufacturing country to the cheapest.