Excerpt from Proceedings of the Convention of Iron and Steel Manufacturers and Iron Ore Producers, at Pittsburgh, Tuesday, May 6, 1879 The Association thus organized continued in active existence until 1859, having a life of four years, during which time much valuable work was done by it. The Iron Manufacturers' Guide to the Iron Works and Iron Ore Mines of the United States, com piled by the secretary, Professor J. P. Lesley, was a work of which the American iron trade stood in great need and of which it had and still has just reason to be proud. It contained about eight hundred printed pages, and was published in 1859, but the Ameri can Iron Association appears to have died in giving it birth, as I find no record of any work being done by it after the annual meeting held on March l6th of that year. Thenceforward, until 1864, the iron and steel manufacturers of the country appear to have been without a national organization for any purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.