The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-07

years, so that our, column would proba- ply be made up of two parts bituminous to one anthracite coal Their combined bulk would form a column two hundred feet square by thirteen hundred feet high-a midget in comparison with the coke column. but not so small after all when compared with the Park Row building.
 Charcoal, which is the smallest item in the fuel statistics for 1902, or about oDe-fifth of the number of tons of coal, yet forms column nearly two-thirds { the height of the coal column. or twice that of the Park Row building.
 The amount of limestone used for fluxing purposes last year amounted to 9,4SO,O 900 tons. This would make a col umn fifty-five hundred feet high, with a cross section two hundred feet square It may be interesting to note here that oyster shells are used in enc of the fur naces in Maryland in place of limestone.
 The next column, which is of a height equal to that of the coke column, is com posed of 54,636.121 tons of iron ore. However this represents in bulk only one-quarter that of the coke.
 All the above mentioned materials were used last year to produce +, ,s21, ,S0l tons of pig iron. This makes a column twice the height of the Eifel Tower. the tallest monument to human skill in the world.
 The largest part of the pig iron pro- duction of this country is converted into steel: 14.947. .25O tons represent the total output for last year. Of this, g. 13S,S6S tons was made by the Bessemel process, 5,6S7 ,I29 by the open hearth pro- cess and 121, ,15S tons was crucible steel Of the finished products for the year 2,947,933 tons represent the amount oi iron and steel formed into rails. If al this metal were rolled into single raj of standard proportions, 1t would meas. ure approximately eighty-one feet high and would be about a mile and one. fifth long. The base would, of course equal the height. and the tread would have width of forty-three feet. II our illustration we have shown the re, lative proportions of locomotive of av craze size, placed on this rail.
 Next in quantity to the iron and stee rail production is last years output 0 plates and sheets; 2,665, ,409 tons of meta were thus converted. This amount, i rolled into a single sheet of No 30 stan dard gauge, which is the thinnest shoe steel commercially used, would coveI four hundred an twenty square miles. ol nearly twenty times the area of the is land of Manhattan. The extent of thi. area is illustrated in the accompanying map of New York city and it's vicinity
 The production of nails forms no snal part of the finished products for thu year. Wire nails represent, of course, {; much larger part of the output Tn totals are 10,9S2.246 one hundred -pount kegs of wire nails and 1,633,762 one hundred-pound kegs of cut nails. Fol lowing the method in our two previous comparisons, we have represented eacl amount by a single nail of standard proportions. The cut nail would towe far above the Park Row building, meas uring almost exactly the height of tn, Washington monument. while the wir, nail would rise to nearly double thi height, overlapping the Eiffel Tower and forming a solid column of metal 0 fifty-four feet in diameter and one thou sand feet high.-Scientific American