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JACKSON IRON AND STEEL COMPANY MODERNI Tine of the modernized and extended blast Jurnaee and stoves of the Jaeksan Iran atal Steel Comjmny, at Jackson, Ohio. This old charcoal danfurnace may he seen today near Jackson, Ohio. 4 IMWKHKAX. At Tt'AtX I'ISI HE story of the iron ind TAmerica is the story of itself, for it was in Massa about 1644 that the first it cast into useful articles. Asf pushed westward, iron ft producing the great iron pla of Pennsylvania where a blast in the mid-eighteenth centur consume in one day the wooc full acre of timberland. Further west, the Ohio offered river transportatio plenty of wood fuel and some i Famed around the world for coal iron furnaces was the I Rock iron region of Ohio from came much of the iron use< manufacture of ordnance du Civil War. Today in Jackson Ohio, which is the very cenct region, can be seen remains crude furnaces and, standim the very modern facilities of Iron and Steel Company, orn strange conformations of i rounding hills--results of mining in years gone by. -- Times have changed and Iron and Steel Company failed to keep pace. This plant, the youngest of s furnaces built in Jackson dates back almost 50 years JISCO specializes in furn special high-silicon iron to dustry and has just recent pleted one more step in its ization program. The original furnace w< fired and had a capacity of 4 iron per day, all of which w; sand beds. Today's capacit tons of high-silicon iron after this, the sixth revamj modernizing step in its hist' to the longer soaking time at