Show We in the west a ai are e e a little proud of our mining We tell how much gold and silver and lead and copper copper copper cop cop- per we produce and it is altogether marvelous considering considering considering con con- that the whole business has developed since 1859 but when it comes to tonnage our showing is rather weak beside of the iron showing in the east It was i 1864 before the iron industry made a record of tons it was more than tons in 1898 1895 in 1905 it was tons And taking the figures of the last ten years of production England England England Eng Eng- land shows 10 per cent increase that of Germany about 53 per cent and that of the United States per cent The Thc American output for the last fifty years was tons |