The Story of Pittsburgh 
Iron and Steel 
HE interest in the publication of the recent 
booklet on Iron and Steel has been so wide- 
spread, and the demand for further information 
has been so general that the First National Bank 
at Pittsburgh feels obliged to continue its 
discussion of this subject, in its recital of the 
“Story of Pittsburgh,” before proceeding with other 
diversified products of this city and the community indus- 
trially and financially dependent upon this metropolis. 
It is estimated that the normal annual value of the 
manufactured product of the Pittsburgh district reaches 
the large total of $1,250,000,000. During the period in 
which the United States took part in the great world war, 
this was largely increased. This community in normal 
times gives employment to more than 110,000 men in its 
steel works and blast furnaces, and to probably 80,000 more 
in other industries enumerated under the head of “Iron 
and Steel.” For the handling of materials—coke, iron 
ore and limestone—entering into the production of pig 
iron in the Pittsburgh district, 88,000 freight trains, with 
an average load of 3,400 gross tons apiece, are required 
every 12 months. 
From statistics collected by the Pittsburgh Chamber 
of Commerce and the American Iron and Steel Institute 
these figures have been compiled: In the Pittsburgh dis- 
trict the output of pig iron in 1918 exceeded 11,000,000 
tons, more than 809, of the entire production of the 
United States, and 1,000,000 tons more than the combined 
product of Canada, France, Sweden and Spain in the pre- 
war period. The district’s production of finished rolled