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The steel mill that was going to give the West Coast to Kirkland
Kirkland, Washington
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Peter Kirk founded the Great Western Iron and Steel Company in the 1890s to smelt local ore into rails, and his investors expected it to hold a practical monopoly on Pacific Coast steel production. The Panic of 1893 bankrupted the company with the mill all but finished, and it never made a single ton. A scholar writing in 1962 called it the last serious attempt by private capital to put an integrated steel mill on the West Coast.
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