Salt Lake Herald | 1900-01-02 | Page 6 | The Iron Industry

a mON IRON INDUSTRY Statistics Showing Its Ita Importance to This State Frank A A Vand P ant secre secretary oro tary of the t treasury in a recent rent con contribution ronI contribution trib to an eastern ern paper gave I some BODle data on OD the production tf vt iron in inthe inthe the United States The situation In the iron IroD trade he te say says is more ns e representative Ie of ot indus industrial i trial than thai anything else dIes and the statistics are 30 so s remarkable that they will wUl make the year of the century present a comparison of both relative and absolute e development such ao as has Ime not been seen en before The production of or pig iron will wUl reach gross lO tons tOilS and that if steel over As an evidence of the extension of tine the trade he says saye A decade ago we imported east and exported of iron ai aJ a I 1 I steel teel eel manufactures Since that t have nave steadily fallen and exports risen rt ri until for the fiscal year 1899 we im lm imported Imported ported but boot and exported nearly In spite q im of or thi th 8 un unparalleled paralleled production p the price of or o raw pig P C iron rose JO Ui lh months February to September from 11 to 4 a ton toni ton and at t thIs s advance advae adV nearly iry every very rain mm In the country IB Is so busy that tb tl practically practically practically ally no orders era can caD an be accepted ed for near neol nearly nearby ly Iy delivery d The above figures figure point out vit Jt to w some extent eXt the importance of the iron Ironto industry to this tt state Mate exit and seine S ne of ot the in store for the ta n mines now new being developed in Iron Il R county