My Present Past |
A genealogical experience |
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Argentine, Kansas |
Here is what the ingots looked like while waiting on a cart after they were shipped by Wells Fargo wagon from the Argentine Smelter to the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe depot in Argentine, Kansas. In the Argentine Kansas home page is an image of the depot that includes one of the Wells Fargo Express drivers, Lot Kirtley. Notice the smelter stamping on each ingot indicating the origin of the material. Standing in the background to the far right is Edward J. Engel. Photo taken in 1889 |
Left: Delegates of the 1889 Pan American Conference visit the Consolidated Kansas City Smelter and Refining Company |
Right: A 1900 photo of the main office of the smelter. This would later become the site of the Kansas City Structural Steel Company in 1912 |
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