Show Iron Production Philadelphia 17The annual repot t of the American Iron aud Steel association associa-tion shows a large decrease the nrodue tion of iron rails in 1882 over 1881 and a email decrease in the production of open hearth steel rails and crucible steel ingots In all other articles there was an increase in 1882 over 1881 with the single exception of pig iron However the increase was in no instance large and even pig iron only 11 per cent The iron and steel imnorts of 1882 made a total to-tal of 1335371 tons The Value of our iron and steel exports that year was 18029755 Our pig iron production of 1832 was obtained in twentysix states and Utah territory and of the total of 51703122 tons Pennsylvania produced 2449255 The tonnage of iron vessels built during the year w 40007 tons the largest in our history |