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22 STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE FOR 1894.
the number of passenger cars built in 1894 as 510, against 1,980
in 1893. Fifteen companies did not build a single car in 1894.
and three other companies have gone entirely out of business.
The production of iron aud steel structural shapes in the United
States in 1894, not including plate girders, was 505,901 gross
tons, against 387.307 tons in 1893 and 453,957 tons in 1892.
The production of wire rods in the United States in 1894 was
673.402 gross tons, against 537,272 tons in 1893 and 627,829 tons
iu 1892.
The production of wire nails in the United States in 1894 was
5,681,801 kegs of 100 pounds, against 5,095,945 kegs in 1893, an
increase of 585,856 kegs. The production of cut nails and cut
spikes in 1894 was 2,425,060 kegs, against 3,048,933 kegs in 1893,
a decrease of 623,873 kegs.
The foreign value of all the iron and steel and manufactures
thereof which were imported into the United States in 1894 was
820,843,576, against 829,656,539 in 1893, a decrease of $8,812,-
963. The foreign value of our imports of the above named articles
in 1887 was $56,420,607, since which year there has been
an almost steady decline in importations.
In the above figures for 1894 and preceding years are included
our imports of tinplates. In 1894 these imports amounted to
215,068 gross tous, against 253,155 tons in 1893, 268,472 tons
in 1892, 327,882 tons in 1891, 329,435 tons in 1890, and 331,-
311 tons in 1889, when the maximum of imports was reached.
The exports of iron and steel from the United States in 1894.
including all manufactures of iron and steel except agricultural
implements, amounted to $29,943,729, against S30.159,363 in
1893. a decrease of only $215,634. In both 1893 and 1894 our
exports of iron and steel exceeded our imports in value.
The number of iron and steel vessels built in the United States
in the fiscal year ended June 30. 1894, not including vessels for
the Navy, was 39, with a gross tonnage of 51,470 tons, against
65 vessels in the fiscal year 1893, with a gross tonnage of 94,-
532 tons, a decrease of 26 vessels and 43,062 gross tons.
The number of immigrants who arrived in the United States
in the calendar year 1894 was 250,313, agaiust 495,030 in 1893
a decrease of 244,717, or nearly 50 per cent.
AVERAGE MONTHLY PRICES OF IRON AND STEEL.
In the following table we give the average monthly prices of
various leading articles of iron and steel in Pennsylvania in 1892