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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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. Armour, Frederick - ,T-.i iTi/~iii rT>ii 1 Wheat, bushels 15,204,639 Layton, and Patrick and John Cudahy. The last named ^om bushels 1,396,790 are now completing a mammoth plant at the new suburb Oats, bushels 6,716,398 which they have laid out and named Cudahy. The Barley, bushels 11,778,298 product is sold in Canada, Europe and the Southern ^ — states. For the year ending February 28, 1893, the ^° ^h^^-- 36,683,849 receipts were, of hogs, 482,483; of cattle, 85,267, and of the e. p. allis company, sheep, 66,948. , . . .,.,,. „ , whose position as engine builders is too well known by THE ILLINOIS STEEL COMPANY Street railway men to need special mention, have in their has a branch at Bay View, a suburb of Milwaukee, Reliance works a floor space of seventeen acres. The located on the shores of Lake Michigan. The works grounds cover five city blocks, or 24 acres. Besides were founded in 1866 by Captain Ward, who was also the making steam engines they manufacture flour and band
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MILWAUKEE ILANT OF THE ILLINOIS bTEEL COMPANY. founder of Wards Rolling Mills, in Chicago, which laterformed the nucleus for the Illinois Steel Company. TheMilwaukee Works were built with the design of havinga convenient point at which the ore from the Michiganiron districts could be handled without the amount oftransportation necessary to carry it to Chicago, and wereknown as the Milwaukee Iron Works. These mills havesince turned their attention to other than crude ore smelt-ing, and now roll various finished iron and steel products.They were taken into the Illinois Steel Company consoli-dation in 1889. The finished product in 1892 amountedto 107,131 tons. The average number of men employedis 1,350, and the yearly product is $5,000,000. Themanager of these works is Francis Hinton. saw mill machinerj. Beginning thirty-four years ago,they were the introducer^ of high duty triple and quad-ruple expansion engines in America, and to-day when-ever Corliss engines of unusual size are talked

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