Show The South is fast overhauling theN the-N rlh In the production of pig Iron According to the Engineering and Mining Mi-ning Journal IL last year made 167 per cent of the retail pig product Alabama Ala-bama produced about half of the whole Southern product Virginia shows a large gain Alabama and Tennessee exported to foreign countries 283615 tons of pig besides 9700 tons of cast Iron pipes Birmingham produced 817 I 972 tons of pig and supplied 30 per cent o the exports The freight last year from Birmingham to European centers I was about 440 The rail rate to New York was 5 I thus cost less to land Birmingham Iron in Europe by way of a nearby Southern port than It did to can It to Eastern centers in this country The total output of pig Iron in the United States was 13750212 tons |