Minutes of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers. [Volume: 8, Issue: 2, 1888, pp. 69-75]

No. 2.]

CHARCOAL IRON WORKERS.

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was requested to act as chairma
choose his associates.
The committee as named is:
J. C. Fuller, Chairman,...
W. K. Muir,........
Henry Whiteley,......
George B. Wiestling,...
George G. Lobdell,...
Ward W. Jacobs,..
F P. Miles,........
Hugh A. Crawford,....
Gen'l Willard Warner,.
Irving M. Bean,......
H. R. Stoughton.....
John JBirkinbine,..

n of this committee with power to. Philadelphia, Pa... Detroit, Mich... Philadelphia, Pa... Mont Alto, Pa... Wilmington, Del.. Hartford, Conn..Copake Iron Works, N. Y.... St. Louis, Mo... Tecumseh, Ala.. Milwaukee, Wis.. Shelby Iron Works, Ala.. Philadelphia, Pa.

On motion of Mr. Stoughton, of Alabama, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested to present to the Association a revision of the constitution, and also to
consider and report upon any suggestions for reorganization.
On motion adjourned.
Attest: JOHN BIRKINBINE,
Secretary.
THE Iron Age has compiled an estimate of the production of
pig-iron in 1888, as follows: Anthracite pig iron, 1,784,429 gross
tons, coke pig-iron, 4,198,755 gross tons; the amount of mineral
fuel iron being, 5,983,184 gross tons, to which must be added at
least 530,000 gross tons of charcoal iron, making the unprecedented
total of over 6,500,000 gross tons as the product of the United
States for 1888.
THE Canadian Mining Review gives the total output of the
phosphate mines of Canada in 1888 as 23,290 tons. of which 75
per cent. was taken from the Du Lievre district, of this amount
2,814 tons were exported to the United States and 14,432 were
shipped to Europe, chiefly to Great Britain and Germany.