The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-08

The second and more important branch of man.
uactures referred to in our issue of Yesterday for
the support of which it can in any wav he con-
'nat protection Is necessary is that of iron.
Ai'er carefully examining the peculiar facilities
possessed by Maryland for the prosecution of this
oranch OF industry, We think it evident.
tnat Tor TINS, as for every other manufacture.
moderate discrimination is all that can he
CLAIMED as desirable or necessary for it's healthy
development. The production of iron in this
state, Is, after forty years of protection rednced
10 mere trfe. Unable to compete with tbe sr-
perior advantages possessed by Pennsylvania for
the manufacture of cheap article the ual,tv
mat enters by far the most largely into copsump-
ton, about three-fourhs of the furnaces in Mary
land have been finally abandoned The demand
for superior metal, for the production of which
our State offers decided advantages is. comnara-
lively speaking, very limited; an inferior article
having, during the past few years been, to great
extent substituted for the more costly one. and
she has no facilities which enable her to SUNNY at
anything like reasonable rates, any very LARGE
general demand. 1t would be Jolly, then. to
urge-and the point would hardly be maintained
by the most ultra protectionist-,hat f.,
the benefit of small portion of COM
munity, consumers should he forced TO nsp
superior article when poorer one wonld
answer every purpose-or that they should nav
S28 per ton for iron when a sufficiently good DUAL
ity could be had for Sl8. But not only is it trne
that Maryland cannot supply any general demand
under any system OF protection, unless it were one
that would entirely exclude PENNSYLVANIA iron
and admit Pennsylvania coal free, but also that
Pennsylvania herself cannot compete with Creo+
Britain in the production Of cheap foundry natal
under a duty of 25 to 80 per cent, which is in
Iact, aprohioltory one The total production of
pig iron In the United States, in the year 1876
under the high tariff of 1916, was only s12 or
tons, while in Great Britain, in the same year
the product reached the enormous amount ~
a, 1893, 636 tons an increase of over ooo ooo too.
In less than forty years, the yield having baor
300, 900 tons in 1878. A large portion of tbis -
crease was owing to the discovery of the famous
black band iron stone in the coal measures &c
Scotland. Furnaces were erected directly at the
mouth of pits which produced both fuel and ore.
All cost of transportation of raw material, usually
most important item, was saved, and iron was
produced at ridiculously cheap rate, at point
pat few miles distant from large harbor.
, snere 1t could be shipped for Transports
aon a very small expense. It has been
willie panu pig metal has been produced in Dam
eonsiderah,s 'san'a at Sll per ton; but even this
and hi. ,oo :; Aoeeas the cost of the Scotch nio
t,on T. 49, 'De estimate at the rlscs of rrodno
wv ,n'eaior OF the country a..
Wv % great is the difFa.a, - ""
COST Vi manufacture that even in o. e'oe III the
imnnu,", .oto ,. oo4oo IONS Scotch pig iron wsr
imported which came directly into com um were
with Pennsylvania iron in Pennsylvania ms sauoh
The total yield of anthracite furnaces in tbat es
was $4,000 tons, Of which 1856, 972 tons wers
made in Pennsylvania, not one third as much as