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Show tSl Immense Piece of Steel Work Is Started in Pittsburg Pittsburg, Oct 23. The manufacture manufac-ture of sixty thousand tons of structural struc-tural for the lock ga'ea of the Ian-suna'cannl Ian-suna'cannl at a eo A 5S,5l"'J'i'.,,l w ill be started In one of the Pittsburg mills tomorrow-. The first shipment 111 be mode in three weeks. The erection of the gates Is expected to be started about January 1. and 2M0 ex-I ex-I crts will be sent to the Isthmus for this work. It will require nearly three j ears to c omplete the Job. There will be c, sets of the structural struc-tural steel. Karh luck will have two of llie.-e gates, one leaf ot which will wej-h ,-lx hundred tons and will be 03 eel wide and 77 feet high. There will be twenty set; of those gates at :atuti, rwelve at Pedro Miguel ami the remaining fourteen at M Iraf lores. One- half of one of the biggest plants here will be given over to the fabrlca tlon of the btcel work for the canal. |