The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
GENERAL RESULTS. OF INDUSTRY CENSUS. IN 1914 PUBLISHED
Production Compared With That of 1909-Remark- able Recovery In
 the Market

Washington, April 7.-(Specia1)-A pre- liminary statement of the general results of the 1914 census of manufactures for the pig iron industry has been issued by Di- rector Sam l.. Rogers, of the bureau of the census department of commerce. It consists of a statement of the quantities and cost of the principal materials used by the blast furnaces and the quantities and values of the pig iron and ferro-alloy products manufactured, prepared under the direction of William M. Steuart, chief statstician for manufactures.
 The statement gives the production for consumption in the works of the company producing and that made for sale. and cassfies the product according to fuel used according to grade of iron, and &C., cording to method of delivering or east ing It also shows the number and daily capacity of the active pig iron blast fur naces by kind of fuel and the number and rated capacity of gas engines using blast furnace gas.
 OUTPUT IN 1914
 Reports were received from 160 esta b- lishments with 2S4 active blast furnace stalks during the year 1914 The pig iron products of these establishments aggre- gated g, ,2e9, 731 tons, valued at $312 639, 706, and the value of their other products amounted to $4.919,3F, making total of S317, ,559, ,053 At the census of 1909 there were POS establishments with 370 active stacks and product of 25,65l79S tons of pig iron valued at $3S7 S3O, AS, and with other products of the value of $3,59S,S4O, making a total of $391 429,2S3. In 1914, therefore, the number of active pig iron establishments was As, or 231 per cent, less than the number reporting in 1909, and the pig iron production decreased in amount by 23S2,067 tons, or 9.3 per cent, and in value by $75, ,190,737. or 14.2 per cent
 These statistics are for the calendar year 1914, which covered a period Of II arked depression. The production of pig iron as reported by the American Iron and Steel institute, dropped from 12,50o,OOO tons for the first half of the year to less than 10, S0O OOO tons for the second half. This was followed by a recovery in 1915, the production for the first half of that year being F, 233, ,791 tons, and for the sec ond half 176S2, 422 tons-a total for the year of 29,916213 tons, which production exceeds that of 1909 by 4,264, 415 tons, orl 166 per cent
 ORE AND FUEL USED
 The amount of iron used was 49,- 96a, ST tons in 1914, as compared with 4S,- 353 677 tons used in 1909 the decrease be- ing 4,990,S60 tons, or 10.3 uer cent The cost of the iron ore, as reported for l9l4 was $150, Al, decrease of $36, ,9SS S60, or 194 per cent, from 1909. The consump- ton of mill cinder scale scrap etc, by the blast furnaces, as reported for 1914, was 2.16S, ,092 tons. at a cost of $6,65l Ooo, as compared with 19S2,530 tons, at cost of $5 544, S59, in 1909, the increase being S.4 per cent in quantity and 199 per cent in cost The consumption of fluXing ma terial in 1914 was Il, ,499 6S5 tons, at a cost of $11, ,1S4,37S, as compared with 13570,S45 tons, at cost of SIP, 239 493, in 1909, the decrease being 15.3 per cent in quantity and S.6 per cent in cost. The cost of smelting fuels was SS5,4 ,436,5S0 in 1914, as compared with $105 ,112 in 1909, there be- ing a decrease of 19.4 per cent. The con sumption of coke, the chief fuel for smelt- ing, in 1914 was 26,SS3,3S2 net tons (2000 pounds), at a cost of s89, ,499, AS, com pared with 31, 436536 tons, at cost of $1O2, 134 423, in 1909, the decrease being 14.5 per cent in quantity and 1S.2 per cent in value. 1 The consumption of charcoal decreased from 3S,032 61S bushels, costing $2,787, 026, ill 1909 to 290S3,97S bushels, costing S1 ,6S3,- 075, in 1914, or 23.5 per cent in quantity