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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of the basket; and the iron falls to the ground, ready for piling forthe various furnaces. The striking of the object which opens the bottom of theiron basket reverses its direction, and sends it back on the now falling beam tothe pit, with the bottom again secure for reloading. With this mechanism thepuddle-iron is dragged from the rolls, weighed, cut, and laid aside by one man,who handles the product of sixteen furnaces. statistics of In 1873 the rolling-mills of the United States numbered 310, numbers. as follows ) — Maine . . • . . . ... *, jfc Vermont . . . . . . 1 Massachusetts 21 Rhode Island . « . . . . 4 Connecticut .5 New York . . ., . . . * 21 New Jersey .12 Pennsylvania 118 Delaware 10 Maryland . . . . . . 8 Virginia . . . . . . 3 West Virginia 7 Ohio 49 Kentucky . . 10 Tennessee 5 Indiana . . . . . 9 Illinois 8 Michigan 4 Missouri 6 Wisconsin I Georgia . . ; . -i . V \ . . . V < *f Alabama 2 California . . .... . . . . . . . I Total 310 OF THE UNITED STATES. 2 I I
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CAMBRIA IRON-WORKS, JOHNSTOWN, PENN. 212 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY The total of rolled iron capacity was 2,833,000 tons. In 1876 the nunvber of mills was 338. The capacity was something over 3,000,000 tons ; butthe actual production was 1,021,730 net tons, worth about $ioo,- Production. .... 000,000. The product was m sheet-iron, boiler-iron, plates foriron ships, bars, rods, hoops, rails, bridge-iron, &c. INFLUENCE OF PARIS EXPOSITION ON AMERICAN IRON-MANUFACTURE. Before passing on to speak of the steel-works of the United States, allusionmay be made to an event occurring in 1867, which had an important influenceParis Expo- on the whole iron-industry of this country : that was the Parissition. Exposition. The war was over in America. The people were settling down to the developments of the arts which promote peace, and makea nation united and great. New life was felt throbbing in every department ofindustry. A keen interest was felt here in the Exposition of 1867 ; and Mr.Abram S. Hewit

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