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UNITED STATES
The value of output for 1909 and 1914 of the smelting and refining works for copper, lead, zinc, was: copper, 1909, 378,805,974 dollars; 1914, 444,021,958 dollars; lead, 1909, 167,405,650 dollars ; 1914, 171,578,587 dollars : zinc, 1909, 34,205,894 dollars ; 1914, 53,538,398 dollars.
The following are some statistics of cotton : —
Total
Tear ending June 80
Production
Imports
Domestic Exports
Home Consumption (Domestic and
Foreign Cotton)
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
1880
2,771,797,156
3,547,792
1,822,295,843
953,049,105
1900
4,757,062,942
67,398,521
3,100,583,188
1,722,496,812
1910
5,375,016,991
86,037,691
3,206,708.226
2,249,814,577
1915
7,814,933,689
1S5,204,579
4,403,578,499
3,582.989,407
1919
5,948,256,923
103.592,194
2,762,946,754
3.288,902,303
1920
6,349,529,693
345.314,126
3,543,743,437
3,151,100,332
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, 33,397,097 dollars in 1910, 71,973,497 dollars in 1915, 232,206,566 dollars in 1919, and 364,036,786 dollars in 1920.
The development of the iron and steel industries since 1875 is shown by the following figures, supplied by the American Iron and Steel Institute : —
l Furnaces in ' pj g j ron Tears i,I»st at close produced j of year
1875 1895 1905 1915 1917 1918 1919
Number 293 242 313 810 340 359 _2
Gross tons 2,023,733 9,446,308 22,992,380 29,916,213 38,621,216 39,054,644 31,015,367
Pig iron* consumed
Bails produced
Iron
Gross tons | Gross tons Gross tons
2,000,000 9,628,572 16,561,277 23,306,289 38,717,610 38,297,844 38,748,983
447,901
5,810
318
8teel
259,699 1,300,325 3,375,611 2,204,203 2,854,518 2,944,161 2,570,892
Steel ingots and castings
Gross tons 389,799 6,114,834 20,023,947 32,151,086 45,060,607 44,462,432
1 Figures compiled by Department of Commerce, as Iro:i and Steel Institute does not deal with figures for pig iro». 2 No data.
The production of metal of various descriptions for 4 years was as follows : —
1917
Foundry and forge . Bessemer
Malleable .
Tons
5.001,988
14,422,457
17,084^7
921,486
604,779
Tons
5,673.905
13,714,732
17,671,662
1,015,670
545,278
Tons
5,53!), 192 18,084,966 18,616,174
1,117,914 726,398
Tons 5,188,044 9,975,934 14,494,181 1,009,049 B48.206
Total .
39,434,797
88,621,818
39.u.-.4,644
31,015,864
The production of tin plates and terne plates was in 1904, 458,208 tons
