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The quantity of pig iron made in South Staffordshire for the last three years has been as follows:—

1856.	1857.	1858.
Tons.	Tons.	Tons.
777,171	657,295	597,809

The number of furnaces built and in blast is given in the first table; the number of mills and forges in the second.

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The Number of Iron Furnaces in Blast in South Staffordshire
and Worcestershire, 147.

No.	Names of Works.	Owners,	Furnaces built.	Furnaces in blast.	Furnaces in blast in District.
1	Bentley Heath	Riley and Co.	3	0
2	Birchills, New, Walsall	Henry Smith	5[1]	3
3	Birchills,„ Old Walsall„	F.C. Perry	2	2
4	Bloxwich, Green Lanes, Walsall.	T. and C. Highway	2	2
5	Bovereux, Bilston	Wm. Baldwin and Co.	2	1
6	Brettell Lane Bilston„	Hall, Holcroft, and Pearson	2	2
7	BroadwatersBilston„	S. Groucutt and Sons	3	3
8	Brook Bilston„	G. H. and A. Hickman	3	2
9	Caponfield Bilston„	John Bagnall and Sons	3	3
10	Chillington	Chillington Iron Company	4[2]	3
11	Coneygree,Tipton	Lord Ward	3	2
12	Corbyns Hall, Dudley	Wm. Matthews and Co.	4	3
13	Corbyns„ Hall„ New, Dudley„.	B. Gibbons	4	2
14	Coseley, Bilston	Jos. and Thomas Turley	2	2
15	Crook Hay	Geo. Thompson and Co.	4	2
16	Darlaston Green	Samuel Mills	3	3
17	Deepfields, Bilston	Benton and Pemberton	3	1
18	Dixon's Green, Dudley	W. Haden	1	1
19	Dudley Port	Hopkins and Son	2	2
20	Dudley Wood	New British Iron Co.	4	4
21	Ettingshall, Bilston	T. Banks and Son	2	1
22	Gold Hill, West Bromwich	John Bagnall and Sons	3	3
23	Hallfields	B. Gibbon, jun.	1	1
24	Hatherton	Highway, Brothers	2	2
25	Herbert's Park, Bilston	David Jones	1	1
26	Horseley, Tipton	Colburn and Sons	4	3
27	Ketley's, Dudley	B. Gibbons	3	3
28	Lays, Stourbridge	W. and G. Firmstone	3	3
29	Level, New, Brierley Hill	Lord Ward	3	3
30	Level„ Old, Brierley Hill„	Hall. Holcroft, and Pearson	2	1
31	Millfield. Bilston	B. Gibbon, jun., and Co.	3	3
32	Moseley Hall, Wolverhampton	Chillington Company	3	3
33	Netherton	N. Hingley and Sons	2	2
34	Netherton„	M. and W. Grazebrook	2[3]	2
	Carried forward		93	74

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1. 4 furnaces were in blast for a short time. The average of the year was 3 furnaces.
2. During a portion of the year the Chillington Company had 4 furnaces in blast.
3. These furnaces are entirely cold blast.