Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time- being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the (14572838157)

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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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arge t;ie United States now stands second on the list of iron-producing countries, as will appear from the following table of the product ofpig-metal, compiled by the American Iron and Steel Association for 1877 fromthe latest accessible statistics : — COUNTRIES. YEAR. IRON, TONS. 1875 6,365,462 United States I876 1,868,960 1874 1,660,20S I876 1-449.537 1875 541,805 1875 455,227 1874 514,497 1875 350,525 1874 246,054 1872 26,000 1872 73,000 1870 3,975 I876 7,500 I876 7,500 I874 5,000
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IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURE. INDUSTRIAL HISTORY COUNTRIES. YEAR. IRON, TONS. » Turkey ........... Australasia All other countries Total I872 7,50040,00010,00050,000 13,682,750 The first discovery of iron in this country was in the South. Ore was found by Raleigh in Carolina; and, on his return to England, that eminent man reported that this metal formed one of the resources of the beau-Discovery 1 and early tiful region referred to. It did not prove a special attraction toof°irontl0n emigration at the time; for iron was not among the things inwhich the territory of England was deficient, and the world wasnot then using a hundredth part of the metal which it consumes now, andthere was no great demand for it. The steam-engine had not been invented,and very little machinery was in use. Even after the practical settlement ofthe country by the English race had begun, in 1607, in Virginia, it was a greatmany years before iron was thought to be of sufficient account to expend anytime on its