Colorado Fuel and Iron
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The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was an American steel conglomerate founded by the merger of previous business interests in 1892. By 1903 it was mainly owned and controlled by John D. Rockefeller an
View of the Pueblo, Colorado mill in 1943
Main office at the Minnequa Steel Works
Coal coking ovens at Cokedale, west of Trinidad, Colorado, supplied the steel mills of CF&I.
Jesse F. Welborn, president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Jay Gould
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Jay Gould was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and ofte
Colorado Fuel and Iron
…steel conglomerate founded by the merger of previous business interests in 1892. By 1903 it was mainly owned and controlled by John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould's financial heirs. While it came to control many plants throughout the country, its main plant was a steel mill on the south side of Pueblo, Colorado…
Jay Gould Bain News Service
Jay Gould (right) in 1855
"History of Jay Gould," part of promotional booklet series "Histories of Poor Boys Who Became Rich and Other Famous People," published by W. Duke, Sons & Co. in 1888
First Mortgage Bond of the Troy, Salem and Rutland Rail Road Company, issued 1 July 1865, signed by Jay Gould