The Story of Pittsburgh
Iron and Steel

HE interest in the publication of the recent
booklet on Iron and Steel has been so widespread,
 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 industrially
 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 district
 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 prewar
 period. The district’s production of finished rolled