. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . s of electricallywelded wire fencing, 200 tons of barbedwire, and 8,000 kegs of wire nails. Chain iron, special bar iron, iron roofingsheets, Carter special and Carter stay boltiron were supplied the canal workers bythe Carter Iron Company, of Pittsburgh,Pa., one of the largest concerns in this line.The company has furnaces at Ivanhoe,Va., and rolling mills at Paden City, WestVirginia. A firm located at the seat of governmentin Washington, and which furnished agreat variety of iron and steel appliancesfor the canal, was the J. B. K
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. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . s of electricallywelded wire fencing, 200 tons of barbedwire, and 8, 000 kegs of wire nails. Chain iron, special bar iron, iron roofingsheets, Carter special and Carter stay boltiron were supplied the canal workers bythe Carter Iron Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., one of the largest concerns in this line.The company has furnaces at Ivanhoe, Va., and rolling mills at Paden City, WestVirginia. A firm located at the seat of governmentin Washington, and which furnished agreat variety of iron and steel appliancesfor the canal, was the J. B. Kendall Com-pany. This firm supplied thousands oftons of steel bars for concrete reinforce-ment, several thousand tons of steel bars, plates, channels and beams, railroad spikes, wire nails, and rivets, mostly manufacturedby the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The Kendall Companyalso furnished a large number of twistdrills for use in canal construction, thedrills being those manufactured by theCleveland Twist Drill Company, of Cleve-land, O.. i. Artificial limb furnished by A. A. Marks, New York, to a canal workman. 2. Automatic repeater. (Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Co., New York.) 3. Standard fire alarm box, Gamewell system, used in Canal Zone. 4. Duxbak waterproof leather belting, woodworkers shop. Gorgona. 5. Schieren leather belting, in Gorgona machine shops.