Show IRON AND STEEL STATISTICS The Engineering and Mining Journal Jour-nal has some very interesting statistics on the iron and steel supply of last year ond before In 189S the United States producer 11967317 tons of pig Iron and in 1899 this was Increased to ISSSSiJOl tons For the same years the yield of Great Britain was 8769249 tons and 9434204 tons respectively and that of Germany was 102717 tons and 801 305 tons respectively The three countrios produced 25131283 tons in 189S and 31322143 tons in 1SS9 while Belgium France Austrollungary Italy Russia Spain Sweden and all other countries combined produced only Sr6SC74 tons In 1S98 and 92523G5 tons In 1S09 The total increase for the year over the previous year was 112 per cent I The production of steel was quite as Immense and remarkable The United States produced 9075183 tons In 1S9S and 10832765 tons In 1899 which was almost exactly what Great Britain and Germany both produced The annual gain In the production of steel for the year was 153 per cent Last year the United States made 341 per cent of the worlds supply of iron and produced JO per cent of the worlds total steel supply In 1899 about 75 per cent of the pig Iron produced was converted Into steel a gain of 3 per cent over 1898 Great Britain produced the most wrought iron J3ut the most interestIng Interest-ing figures after all arc those that I show what was required to produce this mass of pig Iron and steel Last year the pig Iron production In his I country required the mining and handling of approximately 90000000 tons of Iron ore The matter of Iron supply is I getting get-ting to be a serious one In some parts of Europe Great Britain has to draw extensively upon the mines of Spain Sweden Greece and Algeria The account ac-count says In the United State J we shall not need outside supplies of iron for many years We should rather think not There Is Iron ore enough In the State of Utah to keep nil the furnaces I fur-naces in the world in blast we were going to say for centuries but we will say for an Indefinite period Wyoming Is filled with Iron and Colorado has plenty Wyoming Utah and Colorado have the Iron and have the coal close at hand If some great capitalist like Senator Clark were to decide to connect con-nect our coal and iron mines with the const by n railroad to curry the coal there in its native form and to carry the iron manufactured into pig Iron structural iron and steel there would l be n business for nil his descendants to the fifteenth generation that would steadily Increase in volume and in profits during the whole 500 years |