Colorado Fuel & Iron Company Antique primitive Hand forged Iron Open end wrench

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Colorado Fuel & Iron Company Antique primitive Hand forged Iron Open end wrench :
$19.99

Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp.List of Deals

1951Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation: $10,000,000 convertible debenture issue

Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (C.F. &I.) was founded in 1880 by John Osgood. The company was formed by the consolidation of Colorado Coal and Iron and the Colorado Fuel Company in 1892. By 1892 the company produced 75 percent of Colorado\'s coal. C. F. & I. was acquired by the Rockefeller family and Gould interests in 1903. In 1906 it was estimated that 10 percent of Colorado\'s population depended on the company for their employment. The company, along with other large fuel companies such as Victor-American Fuel Company, wielded formidable political clout in early twentieth-century Colorado.

The principal business of the corporation and its subsidiaries was the manufacture and sale of iron, steel, and certain steel products, including wire, rails and rail fastenings, steel, carbon steel plates, wire rope, and many other metal products; the mining or quarrying of iron ore, limestone, and dolomite, chiefly for use at the Pueblo Plant location; and the mining of coal both for use by the Pueblo Plant and for sale. The principal and largest plant was the Pueblo Plant located in Pueblo, Colorado. The other western operations served to supply or transport materials to Pueblo or to utilize or market the products of the plant.

A brief history of the company that produced and utilized this turn of the century hand forged iron open end wrench.

This wrench is forged in history and is a great example of turn of the century hand made tools. Made for the use in the mill, made by hand by a turn of the century blacksmith.

This wrench is a 5/8. Very wonderful antique hand forged iron hand tool with a very unique history.

This particular steel mill helped shape the west.

The blacksmiths touchmarkis a awesome example of the time and effort that was put into the creation of tools during the end of the 1800\'s. Notice the lettering in the picture of the men by the sign. The same lettering as the touchmark on the wrench.A touchmark is the mark that a blacksmith or other craftsman makes on his productto identify the origin of the tool.

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