Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-19
rnEIRoM TRADE.


tory the Iron Trade from the n. y. Tribulie:
s. Jvd 6sys sgsn az Inc snntsI 3prodnct Of iron
n CSraat Britain has risen rom IL, $50 tnns N
I74o GB, 800 tuns in 17se and 25S, coo tnns N
1909 to 800, 600 TINS IN 1900 while the total
product throughout the world has increased
from 100 GOO tlins in I740 and 800 600 IN 1906
to I, 100000 TINS in 1865. The American pro-
duct 10 1929 Ets lowest point OF depression for
about halt ascsuttsty tglsi
while in IsS0it was 165, 900, in 1870 $4,000,
in 1860 SOC, 600 tuns, and IN 1850 ,00O, 600
tuns, though it had encountered during these
| last 35 years many stunning blows from the
caprices and reEefEes OF onr policy reeially rs
teIinced IN the tariffs of 1888 and 1S4 And
there IS no question among the practical men
as TO the fact that the demand for and the pro-
dhetion Of iron are destined stIl TO expand large
IL and rapidly If the ration of increase for the
next lilo years is to equal that of the last, the
production Of iron within 1870 have reached
Eur Hundred and Millions 9t ittlES-=an ag-
gregate transcending ordinary appreciation
Beginl1g with sos, the British Proetct dou-
bled in eighteen years, it had again doubled at
the close of'the next twelve years gam ae the
close, of IL years; and ithas since increasedin .
ratio that insures its doubling in the ten years
which will close with 1857. But, allowing the.
consumption Of the entire globe to double but
once in twenty years. very moderate estimate
when we consider that one-c eighth of lis peace
ful populous civilized or scnil-ciEiliaed surtace
| is vet covered with railroads. and that the de-
lrnand for them from every quarter is urgent and
hardly. resisted the to tai consumptl0 ton OF IRON
will be fourteen millions of tuns in j SO, TWEEN
| ty-eight millions in 1895, md one hundred and
ninety-two millions in q55, or just one century
hence.
Isit best for mankind that one little island
shall continue to produce one-half the aggregate
of this important mineral required to supply tina
ally fixing the price throughout the earth and
| therein determining whether the iron makers OF
other lands shall have work and bread, or be
doomed to ideness and faniine2 This question
VIC answer with most decided negative. We
believe the continuance of the present British
control over the iron-making and iron markets
of other nations is injurious to all, eyen.to Brit
ain herself She will be stimulated by it to draw
| deeply on her mines of coal and orc, which,
though vast, are not inexhnustible; she will doom
her laboring clnsses to constant dependence for
work and bread on the inevitable fluctuations of
remote foreign demand and unsympathislng, II
not hostile, foreign policy. British asccndancy
in iron-making is fact which we do not propose
to dispute. The markets of the non-prodncing
nations will continue to be mainly supplied from
British mines anddnillS; but let all tic padons
which possess in abundance the raw material
ore, coal and lime-resoiye to produce for them
selve- as speedily and extensively as possible
The policy VIC commend to our own people NC
are equally DESTROYS of seeing adopted or main-
tanned by other ntries-Italy, Should she ey-
| er againi become nation) Turkey, -PeRsiR, lii
4 IBERIA and the South American States Let each
resolve to open its ore-beds and begin or extend
/ the production of ironat tho earliest possible
day. Let each callto its aid the best talent and
the ripest experience it can allure to its shores,
resolved to commence, as nearly as may DC, at
the highest point which the best iron-Inakers
foutlay. Ifsiron costs more thus Mt the outset
it will cost immeasurably less in the long run.
Aud not this only: every people thus earnestly
engaged in this branch of industry will be con-
stantly developing new varities or new cornbin-
latons of ores, and making discoveries or iliycn-
tons iniron-mnking processes, which Will prove
linsetimably not to its only but to all other ma
tons. IfProyidence had mcantto have the Iron
of the world made in Great Britain, there would
not have been sixteen times us large an area OF
coal-viens in this country or in all the British
isles together, and nearly the same of orc-beds
lronschcap and abundant is essential to human
progress and tho way to secure il, We undoubt-
ingly believe, IS to open and prove as many beds
of orc and viens of coal as shall be found to ex-
ist within working distance of eaclt others-to
test their respective qualities and capacities
to incite to action the inventive faculty not of
one race or nation only, but of all.I1cOs and
Icountries-and to permit the obstacles which
will inevitably be encountered In establishing
new. iron-works in this or that locality TO sug-
gcstmOdes of overcoming thenl-and SO employ
the .neTfsction Of ,yor ssentiai to The eIsva.
: ton and bonniness of ali TboncL # sLonId
cost si6o ner Inn to make fair Rsr IRON in Liber.
/ in TODAY welno1Tn that Il the clements ofsuch
production are found there in reasonable proxi-
nity and abundance, the true way to cheap aud
abundant Iron in Liberia lies through the en-
cotiroScTneflt of Home Production
4 -Butwhat arc the obstacles which now pre-
vent the full and rapid development of Iron-ma-
king throughout the world?
Mr.. Hewitt regards these as the elements Of
cheap Iron in which Great Britain has the adyau-
tagc of us, namely: /. Abundant Capital and
low average rates of interest; q Labor; E. A.
dense population; 4. A circulating medium