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272: 24: 544: 475: 263:, among the six trustees. The company acquired 120 acres of land at Forbes Lake, subsequently transferred to Great Western. Moss Bay Iron and Steel prepared for construction and placed orders for machines and materials, but ran short of funds by late 1889. In June 1890, a new company, Great Western Iron and Steel, was formed with $ 1 million in capital. Kirk, Hunt and Denny were retained as trustees from the original company, and several new trustees were brought in. 253:, but in late May, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported it was going to be done "between Houghton and Juanita" (now neighborhoods of Kirkland, then independent towns, and Kirkland was yet to receive its name). By June 1888, news had spread to national newspapers and the city of Kirkland was being mentioned by name. In August, 1888, incorporation papers were filed for the Moss Bay Iron and Steel Company of America, with Denny, Kirk, and 532:
event, the Panic of 1893 resulted in investors defaulting on their stock subscriptions, resulting in insufficient liquidity for the company to complete construction and begin operations. A June, 1895 court judgment transferring all the company's assets to the land company from which all the steel mill property had been bought signaled the company's effective bankruptcy.
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article shows photographs of completed depot, coal bunker, and iron works buildings. An 1892 American steel industry directory noted that a foundry, machine and pattern shops, and ore bunkers had been completed but no coke stack; in 1894 the same directory repeated that the coke stack had not been
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Stein (1998) states: "he Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad refused to bring a rail line down to the waterline. The Northern Pacific, based in Tacoma had just bought the railroad, and Tacoma was in direct competition with Seattle as the predominant seaport on Puget Sound. A rail spur to
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of 1889, after which the canal was derided by some as the "Kirkland ditch"), failure to completely analyze demand and properly lay the foundations for the business, and competition between Tacoma and Seattle, have all been listed as reasons why Great Western never began to produce steel. In any
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Kirk and the others who came to King County to create a steel mill are regarded as founders of the City of Kirkland. Although the steel mill no longer stands, the city retains historic homes and commercial buildings associated with it, including Peter Kirk's own 1891 brick office building, the
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From historical photographs and descriptions, the mill was built on the east side of Forbes Lake, between the lake and present-day 124th Avenue Northeast in Kirkland. Historical society documents state that foundations and other remnants of the mill are reported to exist in the vicinity of the
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Other works associated with the mill included lakefront warehouses built in 1890 for equipment and raw materials to construct the mill, a sawmill producing approximately 3,000,000 board feet of lumber by early 1891, miles of water pipeline from Lake Washington and Forbes Lake, and a
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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
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in America. The city's downtown area bears dual-named street signs, with both the modern names and the original names referring to 19th century American presidents (e.g. Monroe) and English culture and steel industry (e.g. Piccadilly, Victoria and Sheffield).
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Sherrard (1958), p. 74–75 states: "There is every reason to believe that had the industrial activity on the east shore of Lake Washington continued after 1892 a Lake Washington Canal would have been built, enabling oceangoing steamships to enter Lake
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and toured potential canal sites. The ship canal would have been used to deliver finished goods to Pacific markets in America and China; the canal was actually built well after the start of the 20th century.
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article on Kirkland's centennial in 2005. The property owned by Great Western is shown in the map to the right, roughly bounded on the south by NE 85th Street, on the north by modern day
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with 18,000 ton capacity, one half of the entire bunker complex, were already up by March 1891. Rail tracks were laid above and below the bunkers. Another trestle over ore and
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Engines 84 feet (26 m) long, the pistons 42 inches (1,100 mm) in diameter with a stroke of 6 feet (1.8 m). Hundreds of tons of machinery were sent from England.
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Kirk became aware of the mineral resources and local demand on a trip to the area in 1886, during which year his British company supplied rails for the construction of the
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Forbes Lake has been known by several names found in historical sources, including Little Lake, Lake Kirkland and Steel Works Lake. The official name is now Forbes Lake.
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After bankruptcy, British-owned Durham Coal Mine (38% ownership by Balfour, Guthrie) coal-mining operations continued, but results were "far from satisfactory".
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Capacity of 1,500 tons of pig iron per week per furnace. Thousands of tons of firebrick for the furnaces were sent by ship from England.
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History of Seattle, Washington: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
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warehouse (or the nearby Rose Hill Presbyterian Church), but could not be found. The same location was noted in a
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The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914 (Issue 41 of Harvard studies in business history)
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Kirk was a steel industry veteran from England. He and his business partners (including Member of Parliament
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Sweetser (1892): "The Northern Pacific Railroad is now being built to Kirkland and to the iron mines..."
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Panic of 1893 sends King County and the Puget Sound region into a four-year depression on May 5, 1893
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Kirkland Takes Stock Of Historic Landmarks -- Planning Board Will Study Inventory For Preservation
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Sherrard, William R. (October 1962), "The Kirkland Steel Mill: Adventure in Western Enterprise",
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Machinery and equipment was purchased in Glasgow, Scotland and shipped in the fall 1890 around
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was planned behind the ore bunkers. There was to be another trestle over ore and coal bins.
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Moss Bay Hematite Iron Company: A look at the early history of the Moss Bay Iron works
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Kirkland would have helped Seattle, which was not in the railroad's best interest."
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at Piccadilly Street (today Slater and 7th Avenue/NE 87th Street) for the expected
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by the founders, with 20–30-foot (6.1–9.1 m) plots on the 1880 plan of the
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Kirkland street sign showing 19th century street names underneath modern names
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History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2
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Transportation issues with railroads, the delay in building the planned
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Forbes Lake
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Un-numbered pictures section between page 64 and 65 of main citation.
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Directory of the Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada
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Contained a small blast furnace, capable of handling 30-ton castings
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used on the West Coast in the 1880s was imported from Australia.
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and elsewhere in the King County Cascades foothills, although
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94 by 40 feet (29 m × 12 m) each (2x engines)
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Seattle, Washington, United States (August 18, 1888
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In Washington Territory, iron ore had been discovered near
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Sherrard, William R. (1958), "The Kirkland Steel Mill",
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Why Peter Kirk's steel mill failed to open in Kirkland
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Index


Peter Kirk
Arthur A. Denny
Leigh S. J. Hunt
Kirkland
Washington Territory
47°41′02″N 122°10′41″W / 47.684°N 122.178°W / 47.684; -122.178
Kirkland
Washington Territory
Peter Kirk
smelter
steel mill
Panic of 1893
Charles James Valentine
Workington
Snoqualmie Pass
Arthur A. Denny
Issaquah Alps
metallurgical coal
Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway
Northern Pacific Railway
Cle Elum, Washington
Leigh S. J. Hunt
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Forbes Lake
Benjamin Harrison
Lake Washington Ship Canal
Kirkland
Blast furnaces

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