This section is from the book "Money And Investments", by Montgomery Rollins. Also available from Amazon: Money and Investments.
The Wall Street Journal gives the following statistics showing the tremendous strides which this country has made in the production of iron:
Year | Production | |
1860 | 821,000 | tons |
1865 | 831,000 | " |
1870 | 1,665,200 | " |
1875 | 2,023,700 | " |
1880 | 3,835,200 | " |
1885 | 4,044,500 | " |
1890 | 9,202,700 | " |
1895 | 9,446,300 | " |
Year | Production | |
1900 | 13,790,000 | tons |
1905 | 22,992,380 | " |
1908 | 15,936,018 | " |
1912 | 29,726.937 | " |
1916 | 39,434,797 | " |
1917 | 38.621,216 | " |
1918 | 39.054,644 | " |
1919. | 31.015.364 | " |
 
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