Overview

According to a Los Angeles Times article reviewing new industries settling in Southern California in about 1915, the Southern California Iron and Steel Company's blast furnaces were the first built in the region during the 1914-1915 period. (See "Los Angeles Manufactures in Year Hundred and Fifty-Seven Millions," Los Angeles Times, 10/03/1915, part II, p. 1.)

PCAD id: 22803