During the present summer the Union Iron Works, long unused, are being
rebuilt in the southern part of the city, the plans calling for one of
the finest plants of the kind in the United States. Part of the plant
will be used for the manufacture of steel, and at the beginning a force
of about 1,200 men will be employed in this part of the works alone, in
three shifts of eight hours each, work being constant night and day all
the year ’round.
What stimulus is it that brings this industry into life? Why was it not
located at any one of a dozen other points that might be named? Why
wasn’t it located close to the iron mines? These and all other
collateral questions have already been answered in this volume. We have
power cheaper than the cheapest anywhere else, joined with
transportation facilities that are unexcelled--the two great industrial
economies again, cheap power, cheap freights.