The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-07
JERSEY iron INDUSTRY
Census Figures Showing
the Men Employed and
Capital Invested.
Spectral 10 The JERSEY city ve,us.

-fO 1870 @fF1 -ftf1h$ ~
WASHINGTON. D. c., June Z. 1s93.-
Figures of vital interest to New Jersey
are contained IN a statement just issued
by the Superintendent Of the Census re-
garding the changes which lave taken
place in the condition of the iron and
steel industries of that State from 1870
to 1890. Summed up these figures show
| Number of es- 1890. 1880. 1870.
Establishments. 81 ~ %
Capital invest
ed......... s12.s $40, 1862 S9,Oaa.o5o !, s3s,o97
Average num-
Der of hands
employed. $3.50 4,79e a3s0
Wages paid ~. aSs,54 79l St,soS44s S1.474,621
Cost of ma
terialu 1855. s7.oai,o46 $3.50, ass s4,77o,ssS
Value Of pro-
ducts si1.ols.575 slo.s4I.sa 81, 5s5, s91
Tons OF pro-
ducts........ aoa, 4so 49, $50 1852
fhe lumber of hands excludes officers
or firm members, CLERKS or statesmen and
their salaries.
1t is pointed out, first of all, that the
values for 1870 are reported in a currency
that was at IA great discount in gold and
should be reduced at least one-ifth. In
1880 a large number of items, including
the ore mining, were included under the
heads OF capital invested and wages paid,
SO that the showing for 1890 is really a
great deal better than appears on the
face.
New Jersey ranks tenth among the
States III the number aud Importance OF
It's blast furnaces. There mas been nc
change in the number of establishments,
thirteen, in the past ten years, but the
blast furnace stacks have decreased in
number from 20 TO IS, 5 furnaces hav-
ing been abandoned during the period
aud 8 new brick stacks built. As in New
York, better furnace practice and equip
fnent have resulted In greatly increasing
he pig iron producing capacity of the
furnaces In New Jersey, Notwithstanding
the decrease in the number OF stacks.
The total daily capacity of the 20 furnaces
in 1880 was SOL net tons, while the Ii fur
nsces In 1890 showed d daily capacity Of
1926 net tons. The capital invested III
blast furnaces in New Jersey is So, 5S4, 668.
with au annual value of products OF
50, 22S. 724.
PRODUCTION OF PIG IRON.
The production OF pig lruu In New Jer-
sey has made no advance during the past
decade, although there Is u gratifying in
crease III the manufacture OF spiegelelsen,
all of which Is made from zinc resldum.
The quantity of spiegeleiseu made i'll this
State III 1890 was IL $50 net tons, against
1892 tons III 1886. The total quanJlty OF
Zig iron, including spiegeleiseu, made in
New Jersey In 1890 was 145,040 tons, val
ued at S2.22S, IA. against l57,414 tons in
1880, valued at S3,4l0, 663. and other pro-
ducts valued ut, Sic, 0S4. or these quanEi-
ties 29. 452 tons were produced in 1890 with
anthracite coal alone as fuel, against
116. 533 tons IN 1880, and 1l5,5SS tons We're
tnade i'll 1891 with u mixed fuel or anthrl-
cite coal aud coke. against 1851 tons
produced with a mixed fuel III 1880. 1t
will be seen that New Jersey has SHOWN
a large increase in the quantity of pig
irrrt ~ n6o yuifh a p1fva1 ft1ol n md "a rrauc
decrease in rne quantity made with an
thracite alone. The tonnage OF coke con-
sumed in New Jersey, however, does not
show a very large increase III the ten
years, for the reason that the furnaces i'll
this State which use Il mixed fuel gener-
ally employ only a small proportion of
coke la The mixture.
The census of 1880 credited New Jersey
with Il iron rolling mills, l open hearth
steel works and 5 crucibte steel works.
In 1890 the State contained IL iron and
steel rolling mills not connected with
steel producing work, 2 establishments
containing open hearth steel DlaDts, and Z
crucible steel works.
The decade from 1880 to 1890 has been
marked by considerable Developments in
New Jersey in the manufacture of finish
ed forms OF iron and steel. This State
rolled no Bessemer steel in 1880. aud only
u small quantity of opeu hearth steel. III
1891 there 10 to be noted not ouly an lu-
crease In the aggregate tonnage, but the
output of ali kinds of steel was over 40
per cent. of the total quantity aud nesriy
tirty per cent. OF the total value of ali
products.
MILLIONS USED IN MATERIALS.
The tutal costof all the materials con-
sunled III the New Jersey rolling mills
and steel WORKS in 1880 w $ S., 1926. 40l,
against SIS, 9l4. $40 in 1850. The prlncipal
materials consumed were pig iron and
spiegeleissn. 75.211 tons. costing Sl,054.-
III; IRON ore, 26,257 tons, costing Sac, 800:
scrap iron, rs. $50 tons. costing S4S9. $40;
scrap steel, IL. 7n2 tons, costing $347, 10l;
purchased Besemer and open-hearth
steel. 33,610 tons. costing $l,07B. 800; an
thracite coal. 81. 1863 tons. costing S228. 100,
and bituminous coal, 1926 tons, costing
S524,2 19.
The total product of rolling and steel
works in New Jersey during 1880 and 1890
were:-
1sSo-Iron, 8. 1859, SAG; Bessemer steel.
-; open hearth steel. 1854, 439; cruclbls
and miscellaneous steel. IL, 603. 359; all
other products. s21. 719: total, ST, 704, 054.
~1890-Iron. $t,334, O03: B~essenisr steel.
81 1886. 992: open hearth steel, $1,675, 600;
crucibie and miscellaneous steel. ISL 1893,