secretary-treasurer, with Denney as president. By 1894, the mill was equipped with four trains of rolls, and produced 13,500 tons of skelp annually when in full operation.' In 1898, the Susquehanna Iron and Steel Company was formed for the purpose of buying and integrating all iron-producing facilities in

Shawnee Furnaces had become a large rambling col- lection of stacks and buildings clustered at the base of the Union Street hill. The Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company acquired most of the land bordered by Union, Fifth, Mill, and Shawnee streets—the site of the furnaces—as well as extensive holdings south of