The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-27 00:00:00

American Iron and Steel Manufactures,

At the recent meeting of the iron and steel manufactu-
rers of America, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the following
statistics were submitted of tho production of charcoal pig
iron in the country in 1865, and a comparison with that of
1864, by which it will be seen there has been a slight in-
crease during the past year :
States in which
produced.
Now England
New York...
New Jersey ...
Eastern Pennsylvania ...
Western Pennsylvania
Maryland... ...
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan ...
Missouri ...
Wisconsin ..

Production. Production.
in 1864. in 1865.

... ... 23,750 27,590
... ... ... 25,111 24,435
... ... 2,131 2,686
...43,806 50,746
... 2,862 7,222
... 19,604 19,447
... 70,080 71,490
...11,942 9,297
... 19,405 22,224
... 16,544 14.511
... 1,927 2,262

Total ... ...244,091 252,390
Increase in 1865 8,299
The total production of pig iron in the United States, as
shown in the foregoing statements, is as follows :
Anthracite 479,558 tons.
Raw bituminous coal and coke ... 178,607 „
Charcoal ... ... 252,390 „

Total ... ... ... ... 910,555 „
The products of the rolling mills of the country in 1865,
are as follows:

Tons.
Missouri
Michigan
Illinois 82,120
Indiana 18,748

Tons-
New England 102,802
New York ..102,177
New Jersey .. 41,014
Pennsylvania 388,436
Delaware 4,334
Maryland 21,835
West Virginia 19,721
Ohio 61,819
Kentucky 14,551
Tennessee
Of the total production in 1865, 353,017 tons sue rails,
as follows :

Total in 1865 833,079
Total in 1864 852,388

Decrease in 1865... 19,320

Tons.
Massachusetts, two mills .• 30,442
New York, five mills
New Jersey, one mill
Pennsylvania, 14 mills 163,891
Maryland, two mills .. 5500
West Virginia, two mills ..
Ohio, three mills . 22,042
Kentucky, two miles
Indiana, one mill
Illinois, three mills
Michigan, one mile 0 8,784
Tennessee, one mill 6,522

Total of rails, new and re-rolled 353,017

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

PETROLEUM —ITS PURCHASING POWER IN EUROPEAN
MARRETs.--The wholo export for the last three years
from the U.S. was 10,887,601 gallons in 1862; 28,252,721
gallons in 1863 ; and 31,745,687 in 1864. Of the exports
for 1864, 24,000,000 gallons were refined, and 8,000,000
crude, representing a money value abroad, at the price of
two shillings a gallon for refined oil, of about £3,250,000
in gold, giving the United States, at the current rate of
exchange during the past year, a purchasing power in
European markets amounting to $45,000,000 in U.S. cur-
rency.

IRON IN DIFFERENT Courrruns.—lron county, Missouri,
is tempting to capitalists. It contains more iron than any
other equal area in the country, and also abounds in copper
and lead ores, accessible by rail from all points north and
east via St. Louis. The annual make of iron in Spain is
estimated at 8,000 tons, a contemptible quantity for a
country rich in minerals, and having a population of some
15,000,000. Sweden and Norway have long been cele-
brated for their iron mines.

France produces a most inconsiderable quantity of iron
in proportion to her population. It is not equal to the pro-
duce of South Staffordshire, England, being only about
800,000 tons.

Scotland produced 850,000 tons of manufactured iron
last year. The total production of the blast furnaces in
Great Britain and Wales was 5,600,000 tons.
The shipments of copper ore from San Francisco to Bos-
ton during 1865 wore 10,644 tons ; to New York, 7,528
tons ; to Groat Britain, 10,762 tons. Total shipments,
28,934 tons.

The production of coal in Pennsylvania, in the last six
months of 1865, is estimated to have been worth
$98,019,161, and the production of pig-iron for the same
time $27,893,500.

The amount of oil transported over the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad in 1865 was 382,022 barrels, of which the
largest portion was taken from Corry to Erie.
Pittsburg petroleum refining amounts to 57,000,000
per year.

The total amount of gold and silver ore extracted from
the earth up to the present time, as far as can be ascer-
tained, amounts to about $22,000,000,000, of which only
about one-half at present remains in existence.