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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