American Pig-Iron in 1888. [Volume: 8, Issue: 3, 1889, pp. 170-180]

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[VOL. 8,

PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL
NET TONS OF 2,000 POUNDS.PECENT OF TOTAL
MAKE.
YEAR. 8 '
V-IPR — 1 — -I.E 1
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1880.... 1,807,651 537,558 1,950,205 4,295,414 42.09 12.51 45.40
1881.... 1,734,462 638,838 2,268,264 4,641,564 37.37 13.76 48.87
1882....,02,138 697,906 2,438,078 5,178,122 39.44 13.48 47.08
1883. S. 1,885,596 571,726 2,689,650 5,146,972 36.64 11.11 52.25
1884.... 1,586,453 458,418 2,544,742 4,589,613 34.57 9.99 44.56
1885... 1,454,390 399,844 2,675,635 4,529,869 32.11 8.83 59.06
1886... 2.099,597 459,557 3,806,174 6,365,328 32.99 7.22 59.79
1887... 2,338,389 578,182 4,270,635 7.187,206 32.53 8.05 59.42
1888.... 1,925,729 598,789 4,743,989 *7,268,507 26.49 8.24 65.26
giFull-faced figures indicate the maxima.

Dividing the charcoal blast furnaces into districts as detailed in
our various annual resumes of statistical data, we have the followstatement:

000.
DISTRICTS.,,;,.p.
r'n0O 0 oP
Northern,............. 13,256 2.2 1 6 6.
Salisbury*,............. 47,169 7.9
Pennsylvania,.......... 15,139 2.5 7,904 52.2
Baltimore t, 23,137 3.9 2,875. 12.4
Southern,........... 149,026 24.9 16,289 10.9
Hanging Rock 11,....... 26,568 4.4 7,289 27.5
Lake Superior,........... 283,008 47.3 44,349 15.6
Western ~,. 41,486 6.9 16,749 40.4
Totals,............... 598,789 100.0 111,371 18.6
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*The Salisbury district embraces the furnaces in Connecticut, Massachusetts and south-eastern New York.
t The Baltimore district comprises the furnaces in Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia.
OF The Southern district embraces the furnaces of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and part of Kentucky.
11 The Hanging Rock district, of Ohio and Kentucky.
~ The Western district, all charcoal furnaces west of the Mississippi river.