US Steel Duluth: History Ruins SUBSTREET
A merican Steel and Wire Company, a subsidiary of Steel, began leasing the plant''s two furnaces and built a nearby cement plant, UniversalAtlas Cement, to harvest the byproducts of the forging process. At its peak, the steel plant turned out more than 200,000 miles of barbed wire and 23,000 miles of woven fencing in a year—a period ...