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Great Western Iron and Steel Company

1888 establishments in Washington TerritoryAmerican companies disestablished in 1895American companies established in 1888Defunct manufacturing companies based in Washington (state)History of Kirkland, Washington
Kirkland Steel Mill in Kings Handbook
Kirkland Steel Mill in Kings Handbook

The Great Western Iron and Steel Company was a company founded in the 1890s in Kirkland, Washington Territory by the city's namesake Peter Kirk to build an integrated smelter and steel mill to refine local ore into steel for rails and other purposes. If the enterprise had proceeded as Kirk and other investors envisioned, it would have held a "practical monopoly of the entire Pacific Coast" steel production. But instead, the company went bankrupt in the Panic of 1893, and the mostly-completed mill never produced any steel. A scholar in 1962 called it "the last major effort of private capital to erect an integrated iron and steel mill on the West Coast".

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