A WONDERFUL TRUST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8298, 29 November 1906, Page 3

A WONDERFUL TRUST.

■ For the cranticai people who love facts and figures there is b feast of statistics ia this mouth's Munsey. In the long history ot commerce where has thexe beeu a corporation with possessions like these? The United States Steel Corporation owns as much land as is contained in the three States of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rbsde Island. It employs 180,000 workmenmote than the combined armies of Meade and Lee at Gettysburg. Mora than a million of the American people—ea many aa the population of Nebraska or Connecticut upon it for a livelihood. Last year it paid out in wages 128,000,000 dollars—more than the -United States pays for its army or •for its navy. "Our workmen have a first mortgage ou United States Steel," said Obarles M. Sabwafc. it owns and operates a railroad "trackage that would reach from ISew sToik co Galveston, or from jeans to Constantinople, it possesses 30,000 oars and 700 locomotives. , It has nineteen poits, and awus a fleet of 100 large ore ships. This is the most numerous of fill American .fleets under a single ownership. It is the sixth largest; commercial fleet in the world, and from the point of view of industrial efficiency it ia perhaps nnequulled in any country. It has 93 blast furnaces, neurly •all of thsm runniug day and night, -and ,it makes 44 per cent of the « pig-irua of the United States. From its 50 great mines it produces one-sixth of all the iron ore 4n the world. ia one year it heaps up a mountain of more than sixteen million tons of! red ore. It.makes three fifths of our Bessemer and open-hearth steel, twothirds of the steel rails, two thirds of the wire rods, three fifths of the steel beams, ten elevenths of the wire, and nearly all of the wire nails, wire fencing, steel tubing, tin plate, and steel bridges produced in the United States. It makes more steel that either Great Britain or Germany, and one--quarter of the total amount made ia all the countries of the world. To feed its ceaseless fires it burns in a single year ten million tons of coal, eleven million tons of coke, and fifteen billion cubic feet of natural gas. Its supply of fuel will Jast for sixty years. It oan make anything iu steel from a carpet tack to steel rails, from a tin can to armour plate, from a wire nail to an Eiffel Tower.

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