The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-06

gain of 13.4 per cent. and $122.4s1,9sS, a gain of 19.8 per cent. The cost of materials usdd was 3441, 1,204,4 and the value of products, s673.s65,026; the gain was IS per cent in both. The to- tai tonnage of products was 1s.21s,e3s. an increase of 21.1 per cent, compared with an increase in the decade preced- ing of 103.6 per cent.
 Pennsylvania continues to produce more than one-holf of the cast steel and rolled iron and steel products, its output constituting 54 per cent of the total value, comparec with 55.7 per cent in 1900. This State reports one half of all employees and expenses per- taining to the industry and over one- half of the capital Its present share of the steel making and rolling mill industry is even greater than it's share of the blast furnace branch, and ex- cceds by over $30.000.O0o the total pro- duct of steel works and rolling mills for the entire country in 1890. Ohio ranks second. Illinois third and New York fourth.
 The principal kinds and quantities of products were as follows: Iron and steel rails. not including rails renewed or rerolled. 2.194.605 tons; splice bars, including all patent splices and rail joints, 174,055 tons; iron and steel bars and rods, not including sheet or tin plate or wire rods. 2,442.S10 tons; iron and steel wire rods, 1,792,7O4 tons: structural shapes. 054,537 tons; hoops, bands. cotton ties and skelp, 1,S94.913 tons; rolled car axles, 631 tons; muck or scrap bar, to be marketed as such 15o,s26 tons; iron and steel boiler and other plates and sheets (except nail and tack plate. black plates ore sheets for timing and armor plate), 1,S56,46S tons nail plate, 67,S57 tons; tack plate, 18,744 tons; black plates or sheets for timing, 504,o25 tons; armor plate and gun forg- ings, 22,S39 tons; rolled blooms, slabs, btllets, tin plate bars and sheet bars produced for sale, 4,S23,5S5 tons; steel ingots, 13,379,083 tons; steel castings, 2s7,325 tons; miscellaneous and rolled products. comprising locomotive and car wheel tires. rolled blanks for drawing into seamless tubes. flats, socket iron and steel, 377,665 tons; and forged, cast or other miscellaneous iron and steel products not otherwise specifically classified, 274,061 tons. Pennsylvania made more than one- half the total tonnage of classified pro- ducts in 1905 as well as in 1900 and 1890. Ohio, next in rank, made nearly one-fifth of the production in 1905 and its proportion of the total has shown steady increase from 11.2 per cent in 1880. The heaviest growth was in New York and Alabama, the increase in pro- ducts being 312.6 per cent and 164 4 per cent, respectively.
 The growth of steel production has been the heaviest of any portion of the | iron and steel industry. The quantity increased from 10,S65,0 ,000 tons in 1900 to | 13.670.592 tons in 1905. Nearly 67 per cent of the total was Bessemer and S71 per cent basic open-hearth: only 5.5 1 per cent of the total was acid open l hearth and less than l per cent. cruc- ible and miscellaneous steel. The in- crease in Bessemer steel since 1900 has been relatively small~-3.1 per cent: whereas open hearth steel has increas- ed SIP per cent. The quantity of steel ingots produced by steel works was 13,- 379,oS3 tons and the aggregate value | 24O,2S4,576. Fifty-eight per cent of | this was Bessemer, 41.5 per cent, open hearth; and six-tenths of 1 per cent, crucible. The quantity and value of I direct castings made. 291,509s tons and S20,S47,4o0, respectively, were distrib- uted as follows: Bessemer. 14,427 tons, $1,690,629; open-hearth, 272,001 tons $1S,7S9,813; crucible and miscel- laneous, 5,0S1 tons. $516,95s.
 The states of Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois, and New York made 90.S per cent of all Bessemer steel ingots and castings in 1905; no other state pro- duced over per cent. Over 60 per cent of the Bessemer steel castings was made in New York. Pennsylvania made 72.7 per cent of all open-hearth steel; Ohio, the second In rank, made only S.8 per cent About three-fourths of all the crucible steel was made in Pennsylvania; and New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts were next, in the order named.
 In 1905 there were only 6 forges and bloomeries which manufactured for sale hammered charcoal blooms, billets iron, scrap iron and steel. The capital invested in these was $222,112. The l average number of wage-earners was 68 and the total wages only $SS,335. Materials used cose $100,2S3 and com prised 50 tons of pig iron, 5,544 tons of old or scrap iron and steel, 164,749 bushels charcoal, 994 tons of bitum- inous coal and slack. and 29 short tons of coke; and the products were 5,626 tons of blooms, billets, etc. val- ued at $157,505 and other products val ued at s1.1o7.
 Tin and Terne Plate.
 Since 1890 the tin and terne plate in dustry has grown rapidly. The dip ping of black plates to coat them with tin or terne metal Is, as a rule, done | in the establishment manufacturing the plates. Separate reports. however. have been secured for black plate | manufacture and for the tin and terne dipping industry.
 Of the 36 active tin and terne tipping establishments in 1905, three-fourths were equipped for the manufacture of black plates. The leading items re- garding the active establishments which buy black plates and coat them and the active dipping departments of plants which both manufacture and dip black plates are as follows: Capi- ital, $10,S91,239; average number of wage-earners. 4.S47; wages. $2.3S3.070: cost of materials used, S31,375,714; and value of products, $35,2S3. 360. A con- centration of the industry is noticeable. Coincident with a decrease of 36.S per cent in number of establishments there has been an increase of 60.4 per cent in capital and 106 per cent in value of products. Pennsylvania advanced con | siderably in importance in the indus try manufacturing 54.S per cent of the | total value of products, as compared with 39.3 per cent In 1900 About one half of all the wage earners in the in- dustry in the United States were em- ployed in the tin and terne plate mills of Pennsylvania.
 The cost of 1,019,60S,657 pounds of black plates consumed, both domestic and foreign, in 1905. formed 73.3 per cent of the cost of all materials in