Show AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL WORKS In discussing the Iron and steel Interest In-terest In this country not many people understand Its full sltrnillcnnce All minors have seen gold mines which could not bo worked at a profit In a five or tenstamp mill but which with 200 stamps would yield a steady and munlllcent profit It is an with the steel and Iron business It required I years of toll to perfect l the manufacture manufac-ture In this country Then it could not compete In foreign countries with the product of foreIgn work done by labor which cost only half what it cost In the United Slates Then came the idea that if twice or three times the amount could be produced at the same cost except ex-cept in the matter of fuel It would be possible to supply a fair proportion of the outside worlds needs Then came the transformation The iron mines near the bead of Lake Superior are In such form that the ore can be scooped up Three scoops make a carload A railroad was built from the lake to ihv I e mines forty miles ships were l built to I receive the ore at the lake these ships are from 5GOO to 3000 tons burden there Is such an arrangement of ore bins and derricks that a 9000ton ship Is loaded In three hours these ores are delivered at trifling cost In the lower lake ports thence it Is transported to furnaces of unprecedented size and reduced topig Iron When It comes lo transposing the rough iron Into finer manufactured forms then the perfection of human labor and modern machinery combined can nowhere else be equaled In all the world Then In various lines Invention has been called III and the special necessities ne-cessities of this country have suggested I I Improvements that place lee completed I work in the worlds van For Instance the perfected American locomotive has no rival It has no more surplus weight than a blood horse but It carries more steam than two foreign locomotives It is adjusted so that It can surmount j heavy grades and round short curves better than any other henco it is at home In thefastnesses of e Africa or In I the wilderness of Siberia and thee iron and steel hl Industry of our country shows the culmination of a centurys cnllshl cited work to specially adopt means to the end desired and tho world has no I I rival to It |