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UNITED STATES

The value of output for 1909 and 1914 of the smelting and refining works for copper, lead, zinc, was: copper, 1909, 378,805,974 dollars; 1914, 444,021,958 dollars; lead, 1909, 167,405,650 dollars ; 1914, 171,578,587 dollars : zinc, 1909, 34,205,894 dollars ; 1914, 53,538,398 dollars.

The following are some statistics of cotton : —

Total

Tear ending June 80

Production

Imports

Domestic Exports

Home Consumption (Domestic and

Foreign Cotton)

lbs.

lbs.

lbs.

lbs.

1880

2,771,797,156

3,547,792

1,822,295,843

953,049,105

1900

4,757,062,942

67,398,521

3,100,583,188

1,722,496,812

1910

5,375,016,991

86,037,691

3,206,708.226

2,249,814,577

1915

7,814,933,689

1S5,204,579

4,403,578,499

3,582.989,407

1919

5,948,256,923

103.592,194

2,762,946,754

3.288,902,303

1920

6,349,529,693

345.314,126

3,543,743,437

3,151,100,332

The values of cottons of domestic manufacture exported from the United States were 4,071,882 dollars in 1875, 13,789,810 dollars in 1895, 49,666,080 dollars in 1905, 33,397,097 dollars in 1910, 71,973,497 dollars in 1915, 232,206,566 dollars in 1919, and 364,036,786 dollars in 1920.

The development of the iron and steel industries since 1875 is shown by the following figures, supplied by the American Iron and Steel Institute : —

l Furnaces in ' pj g j ron Tears i,I»st at close produced j of year

1875 1895 1905 1915 1917 1918 1919

Number 293 242 313 810 340 359 _2

Gross tons 2,023,733 9,446,308 22,992,380 29,916,213 38,621,216 39,054,644 31,015,367

Pig iron* consumed

Bails produced

Iron

Gross tons | Gross tons Gross tons

2,000,000 9,628,572 16,561,277 23,306,289 38,717,610 38,297,844 38,748,983

447,901

5,810

318

8teel

259,699 1,300,325 3,375,611 2,204,203 2,854,518 2,944,161 2,570,892

Steel ingots and castings

Gross tons 389,799 6,114,834 20,023,947 32,151,086 45,060,607 44,462,432

1 Figures compiled by Department of Commerce, as Iro:i and Steel Institute does not deal with figures for pig iro». 2 No data.

The production of metal of various descriptions for 4 years was as follows : —

1917

Foundry and forge. Bessemer

Malleable.

Tons

5.001,988

14,422,457

17,084^7

921,486

604,779

Tons

5,673.905

13,714,732

17,671,662

1,015,670

545,278

Tons

5,53!), 192 18,084,966 18,616,174

1,117,914 726,398

Tons 5,188,044 9,975,934 14,494,181 1,009,049 B48.206

Total.

39,434,797

88,621,818

39.u.-.4,644

31,015,864

The production of tin plates and terne plates was in 1904, 458,208 tons