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Show without TesuIL The greatest caution waa exercised to prevent the publication of the figures, but the cost of making a ton of basic open heartti and and acid open hearth was secured. The official figures"were taken right from the books of Carnegie, Phlppa fe Co., December 28, 18S9. There follows a lengthy itemized statement which shows the total cost of acid open hearth per ton to be $26.84, and. the total cost per ton of basic open hearth, $24.41. The paper analyzing the statement says that acid open hearth steel is selling at $55 per ton. The cost of reduction to be $26.9$. But to be just it is necessary to enumerate the expense ex-pense attached to rolling & ton of acid open hearth into plate and also the cost in the slabbing mill, and the total cost of one ton is reached at $41, giving Carnegie a profit per ton of $14 exactly. The figures of the tasic open hearth show that a ton would net profit something like $16. Since December. 1889, the minimum basis has been dropped from $30 per ton to $25. The reduction in all departments was accepted and the cost of labor made much lower. President Wcihe of the Amalgamated association, as-sociation, being shown the figures, said they were certainly strong evidence, and had they been m possession of the men at Homestead Home-stead while the investigating committee was here they would have made strong arguments. ' PROFITS OF CARNEGIE ft CO. Figures Showing What It Costs to Make Steel. Pittsbcrg, July 18. A Sunday paper says that when the congressional committee held its investigation its chief object was to discover dis-cover the exact amount expended in the manufacture of a ton of steel. Frick refused re-fused to answer. -The Homestead workmen did all possible to obtain the figure, bat v. r vv;-' v |