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Show STEEL MILEPOST8. Here are a few steel mileposts: In 1880 wc were consuming a million tons of steel, and thought we wore doing big 'Ihings. Twenty years later tho needs of the country required re-quired 14,000,000 tons, and this year will call for ,25,000,000 tons. In 27 Jpflrjthe oountry'gjtecl demands lm'o increased 25 tnnoY. ' The railway rail-way mileage of the country alone now oats up 2,000,000 tons a year, whereas a quarter of n century ngo the nnnunl seel consumption of the United States for nil uses was only half thnt amount. AVnll Street Journal. |