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Show Like Its Namesake. Mitldlesborongh, England, is well known as the great center of the iron trude a city of 00,000 inhabitants, with 130 blast furnaces, and an annual output out-put of nearly 2,000,000 tons of pifr-iron. But there has recently been founded an English Middlesborongh in America, which bids fair, if its present rate of development de-velopment continues, to represent in time as much wealth in gold and iron as tho older city of which it is the namesake. name-sake. Two years afro . had no existence save in the minds of its founders; today It is a city of several thousand inhabitants, inhab-itants, aspiring to become the principal seat of the iron and steel manufacture of the United States. -Harper's. |