Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-10
Produce Four Kinds of Ore.

| New York and PENNSYLVANIA are the
only States reported as producing the foul
| kinds of ore. Colorado Michigan and Vir
| ginia produced three kinds of ore. Compar
ing the relative rank of the States as pro
ducers of the various characters of ore with
their positions decade before, it is found
that Michigan, with a largely increased out
put, still heads the list of red hematite pro
| ducers. Alabama has risen from sixth place
in 1850 to second place in 1889. Pennsylvania
| and New York, which occupied third and
| fourth places, respectively, in the tenth
| census, have fallen to eighth and seventh
| places, respectively, while Minnesota, wh; cll
did not produce ore III, 1880, has taken third
| place, and Wisconsin fourth place in 1889 as
producers of red hematite iron ore.
| an the brown hematite class Pennsylva.
MIA still occupies first place. Virginia and
| West Virginia combined have risen from
fourth place in 1880 to second place in 1885,
| Alabama, which was fifth in 1880, takes third
| place, and Michigan has fallen from second
| to fourth place. The relative rank of the
| first four States producing magnetic in the
year 1889 remains the same, with the excep-
tion that Pennsylvania and New JERSEY
have changed places the former now taking
precedence of the latter, New York heading
and Michigan closing the list. Ohio still con-
tributes more than one-half of the output of
carbonate ores, outranking other States in
this particular. 1t is followed by New York
which is reported as not producing any car
DOntIC OICS III 1CoJ. h0HIucky ana TenDSVl
vania, which held, respectively, fifth and
second places in 1880, take third and fourth
places in 1889.
"While the total amount of iron ore pro-
duced in 1889, H,5lS,04l long tons, is more
than double ian increase of 103.S9 per cent?
that given in the census of 1880, viz, 7l2O 362
long tons, the increase has been most mar ked
in the amount of red hematite, the product
of which in 1899 was 9056 2SS long tons. or
over four times that of 1880, when the output
amounted to 2,243, 4s3 long tons. The amount
of magnetic increased from 2l34 276 long
tons i'll 1880 to 1906. .4l5 long tons in 1889 ~ Il
per cent?, and the brown hematite class was
augmented in production nearly one-third
(3l.47 per cent?, from 1918, 100 long tons in
1850 to 2, ,523, ,GS7 long tons in 1889 The produc-
tion of carbon ore, however, showed a de-
cline of about one-half (47.5l per cent) the
production of the Tenth Census, viz, S53,47
long tons, to 49,, Isl long TONS
Comparisons With the Tenth Census.
-"Comparing the figures for the census
year ended December 81. 1889, with the census
year 1880, it is found that a total of 7I2O. 1852
long tons of ore were mined in $780, valued
at $23, l56,957, while the production of the
census year 1889 shows total output of IA
5lsOil long tons, valued at $SS. .35I, ,97s, al in
crease of 1881, ,679 long tons or los. SO per cent
over the production of 1880 and an ,,,Ip-'
mented value of Sl0 1876, ,02l or AO3 per cent.
"The average value per ton of iron ore at
the mines mas been reduced from So % per
long ton i'll 1880 to 81 30 per ton in 1859. This
is due to the consideration of n number of
mines which have been grouped under one
management reducing the cost of superin-
tendence, once force, administra-
tlon, eec5 encouraging the use
of improved machinery and permitting
systematic ana advanced methods of mining.
greatly increasing the. output of the mines.
The reduced freight rates, due to improved