Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-02-04

Imports of Iron into Meport Of Ner Yors-Ions.

The rails imported by railroad companies all ovor tho
country In every State these works are projected and SUBJ
scrbed by farmers and Others who seek by improved
communication TO enhance the value OF their property and
make their labor valuable by exchanging its products
ira for ponderous machinery, with but little labor Capital
therefore, continually seeking for government aid TO enable
TO lay all the railroads in the country under contribution
10 it, In 1892 however, Congress impressed with
the importance OF encouraging railroads. for the purpose
creating demand for home produce particularly iron that
placed railroad iron the list of free articles and con-
nued free down lS40 In all that time ESQ Ais cwt
rails were imported and So o97 4ioducs RENTED The e.
feet OF that encourage railroads and every ton OF rails
imported caused demund for home iron for locomotives
cars wheels &c. equal To five of American iron; which
demand would have existed but for the importation o!
the rails
will cause demand for $4,000 Of American iron, be-
sides all the coach building and collateral industry upon the
roads, II requires 80 OF bars for mile OF Toad and IN
the United States there several thousand miles OF road
projected The present duty rail bars 50 per cent on
the actual COST which is now low because the great railroad
specuaons few years since carried the price OF bars very
high induced extraordinary production and consequently
fall price, All States are now deriving the oeneht OIL
that fall in being able to get iron for roads cheap More
over all the western roads are enabled to send their bonds
10 England and buy iron for them The rumored PROPOSE
ton raise the duty TO 40 cent and charge 1t upon
average of the last ten years-ha TO say upon
the speculative prices during the railroad mania The ek-
penses of importing iron q per cent for bar and BIN
Tor pig, actually by the books OF our leading importers
The duty 80 per cent? makes the iron delivered here DIX
advance on bar and 67 per cent pig The average cost
Of iron rails has heen this and last year. IS las 3d. which
at present rates (57X per cent? $40 II per The
average cost of the last years s39 20 which 2H
per cent expenses and 40 cent duty will amount to sb
46 per tom making the iron cost 300 Do per on instead OF
$40 IT. present at 81 per cent advance The pro-
position therefore, compel railroads TO pay 800 Do per
ion for what actual in England S29 ton; or In
other words under the tariff In operation from 1852 10 lo4O
this iron would s37 import IT. and they propose
20 add 100 per that cost In Indiana, Illinois, and
Ohio there are 1000 miles Of railroad 10 be roned At W
tons the me these will require 10000 tons; and the popo
son is 10 tax all those farmers and others who stock
in thYppS
the benefit Of whoml Not surely for the ironmasters OF
those States do make rails but who find large bu
supplying the roads with locomotives boiler iron,
&cbv means; but for such ovcrgrown nionhires as
General Irwin the woahest ronmuser in The country and
the whg candidate for governor in Pennsylvania. few
such firms who have made immense wealth by the labor OF
poor miners want government 10 give them large
bounty making rails by machinery al the expense
of all the railroad and iron interests That the iron
have been somewhat overdone is true but e US
see why-and for this purpose will make table OF iur-
in Pennsylvania In 1910 MI Galaiin made spori
showing that there then 50 furnaces making 2ooIS
tons per annum In 1880 tho manufacturers convention
committee reported l00 In 1870 the census gave 23
In 1912 the ronmasters convention at Harrisburg gave
them at 23 and 1856 In 1896 the iron and coal
association al Philadelphia gave the number at Slb and this
week the New York Tribune said edltoraly as follows
AMERICAN IRoS-A friend who has been for some time
collecting statistics Of the state of tine iron business
throughout Penny vana has asceraned that OF SIX nun
now in the hands OF the sheriff. and Of three hundred and
twenty forees hundred and ikev sc in the
sheris hands. great ironmaser the sheriff would seem
10 be- Now 10 II possible that fools such fools that
body believes all these failures and soppages conrred
by the in order aise clamor for the revision OF
tho tariff !"
Now Mr. Greeley really tells the TRUTH unless the by
the opposite s too papablo. But his respectable
partner Mr.. McEoth Is an ironmaser Of Pennsylvania,
and the figures may be his end therefore reliable The fol
lowing table then results: