410
UNITKD STATES
Products
1900
1904
Dollars
Dollars
Chemicals (acids, &c.)
137,309,942
92,088,378
Cotton seed products ....
107,528,204
69,310,624
Dye-stuffs and extracts
15,954,574
10,893,113
Explosives.
40,139,661
29,602,884
Fertilisers ......
10.3,960,213
56,632,853
Gas
166,814,371
125,144,945
Paints and varnishes ....
124,889,422
90,839,609
Petroleum refining ....
236,997,659
175,005,320
The value of output for 1904 and 1909 of the smelting and refining works for copper, lead, zinc, was : copper, 1904, 240,780,216 dollars ; 1909, 378,805,974 dollars ;• lead, 1904, 185,826,839 dollars; 1909, 167,405,650 dollars; zinc, 1904, 24,791,299 dollars ; 1909, 34,205,894 dollars.
The following are some statistics of cotton : —
Total
Year ending
imports
Domestic
Home Consumption
June 30
Exports
(Domestic and
lbs.
lbs.
Foreign Cotton).
lbs.
lbs.
1880
2,771,797,156
3,547,792
1,822,205,843
053,049,105
1000
4,757,062,942
67,308,521
3,100,583,188
1,722,496,812
1900
7,096,575,345
86,518,024
4,447,985,202
2,733.592,296
1010
5,375,016,901
80,037,601
3,206,70S.226
2,240,814,577
1911
6,210,110,606 ■
113,708,313
4,033.940,015
2,206,614,325
1912
8,200,577,645
109,780,071
5,535,125,429
2,864,055,438
The foreign cotton exports in 1912 amounted to 1,176,849 lbs.
The values of cottons of domestic manufacture exported from the United States were 4,071,882 dollars in 1875, 13,789,810 dollars in 1895, 49,666,080 dollars in 1905, 31,878,566 dollars in 1909, 33,397,097 dollars in 1910, 40,851,918 dollars in 1911, and 50,769,511 dollars in 1912.
The development of the iron and steel industries since 1875 is shown by the following figiTres, supplied by the American Iron and Steel Association
Furnaces in
blast at close
of year
Pig iron
Pig iron
Rails produced
Steel ingots
produced
consumed
Iron
Steel
and castings
Number
Gross tons
Gross tons
Gross tons
Gross tons
Gross tons
1875
293
2,023,733
2,000,000
447,901
259,699
389,799
1895
242
9,446,308
9,628,572
5,810
1,300,325
6,114,834
1905
313
22,902,380
—
318
3.375,611
20,023,047
1908
236
15,936,018
—
71
1,021,015
14,023,247
1909
338
25,705,471
—
—
3,023,845
23,955,021
1910
206
27,208,545
—
230
3,635,801
20,004,010
1911
231
23,640,547
—
234
2.822,556
28,676,106
The production of metal of various descriptions was as follows :
—
1010
1011
Foundry and forge . Bessemer ....
Basic
Charcoal iron .... Spiegeleisen and fe no-manganese
Tons
6,352,370
11,245,642
9,084,608
396,507
224,431
Tons
5,256,830
0,409,303
8,520,020
278,676
184,718
Total .
27,303,567
23,649,547
