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Show AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL. We sr now nuking mors pig Iron then Greet Britain and Germany combined, which re enr nearest eompetitors. Our eatjrat was 93,000,000 tons for 1905, as compared with 16.S00.OOO tons la 190. The gsin this rear will be eomperstively smell over last veer's big ontpat, bat there will be gs'in. Probably th 25,000,000 mark will be passed. We ere now far ahead of Great Britain in coal production, and have been ahead since 1900, and onr lead is lengthening. lengthen-ing. The extent of onr eoal and or deposits makes onr continued supremacy in iron and steel production safe. England's growth in thee fields is now slow sad is likely to remain re-main so. Germany is tasking a rapid increase, in-crease, bat she lseks th raw material to permit per-mit her ever to become a elose rival of tha United 8tats in any field of iron er steel production. ( Although the output of th country's furnaces fur-naces and mills is at th highest figures ever touched, th orders which ere ahead of all of them -keep on increasing;. Demand outruns supply, large ss ths latter element is. This is the principal reason why onr imports of iron and teel are at larg figures. We make tnor of these artioles than any other tw conn tries in th world, but we cannot make enough to meet th demand of onr own people. peo-ple. For rsllwsy building sad Improvement and for ths strsetursl work in th big cities th demand for iron and steel is larger now than it aver was before. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. |