Early 20th Century
By 1911, Pittsburgh had grown into an industrial and commercial powerhouse:
- Nexus of a vast railway system, with freight yards capable of handling 60K cars
- 27.2 miles (43.8 km) of harbor
- Yearly river traffic in excess of 9M tons
- Value of factory products more than $211M (with Allegheny City)
- Allegheny county produced, as percentage of national output, about:
- 24% of the pig iron
- 34% of the Bessemer steel
- 44% of the open hearth steel
- 53% of the crucible steel
- 24% of the steel rails
- 59% of the structural shapes
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