- Author
- Loose, John Ward Willson.
- Date of Publication
- 1982
total of 12,000 tons of pig iron.' After enlargement
Furnace No. 2 produced 7,700 tons during a 150-day campaign in 1881."
The Shawnee Furnaces employed seventy-five men during most of the time
in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In 1881 the men received total wages
of $35,420 or approximately $472 per