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STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE FOR 1894. 31
SHIPMENTS OF IRON ORE FROM LEADING DISTRICTS.
We have regularly ascertained for a number of years the annual
shipments of iron ore from the leading iron-ore districts of
the country. These shipments in the last three years, including
the consumption by local furnaces, were as follows, in gross tons.
Shipment* o( Iron ore Qua leading districts,
1892.
Grow ion-.
18». 1681.
Gross Ions. Gross ions.
I-ake Superior mines of Michigan and Wis 7,907,239 4,621.987 .-..iNis.iM,;
Vermilion Lake ami Mcsulii mines of Minn.. 1,162,317 1,438,505 2.740,686
Missouri mine*
Cornwall mines, Pennsylvania
New Jersey mines
Chateaugay mines, on Lake Champlain
Crown Point mines. Xew York
Port Henry mines, New York
Other Lake Chumptain mines. New York
Hudson River Ore and Iron Company
Tilly Foster mines, Xew York
Forest of Dean mines, Xew York
Salisbury region, Connecticut
Alleghany county. Virginia
Cranberry mines, North Carolina
Tennessee Coal, Iran, and Railroad Company's
121,564
634,714
469,236
114,891
32,497
293,345
9,574
59,242
70,039
17,566
30,355
146,534
18,439
90,570
60.862
439,705
328,028
29,584
19,001
153,902
1,570
38,442
27,623
18,185
17,024
175,140
9,093
73,428
14,147
371,710
277,483
10,000
5.190
59,656
12,334
66,953
12,510
14,000
142,80S
300
26,477
Ininan mines in Tennessee
Tennessee Coal, Iron, aud Railroad Company's 1,010,077
mines in Alabama
248,631
722,976
200,370
313,587'
81,933
Calhoun, Etowah, and Shelby counties, Ala- 12,437,136 8,375,430
Total of the above districts
The Lake Superior mines which shipped the largest quantities
of iron ore in 1894 were the following: Norrie and East Norrie,
in the Gogebic range, 621,624 tons; Pcwabic, in the Menominee
range, 304,009 tons; in the Marquette range, Pittsburgh and Lake
Angeline, 355,453 tons, and Lake Superior, 343,783 tons; Chandler,
in the Vermilion range, 558,051 tons; in the Mesabi range,
Mountain Iron, 556,777 tons, and Missabe Mountain, 505,955 tons.
The following table gives the shipments of iron ore from the
various mines of the Lake Superior region in the last five years.
For the statistics for 1890 we are indebted to Mr. James Kussell,
the editor of the Marquette Mining Journal, and for the figures
for 1891, 1892, 1893, and 1894 we arc indebted to Mr. George
A. Newett, the editor of the Ishpeming Iran Ore. The figures
given in the table include shipments to local furnaces and all
shipments by rail as well as by water to other consumers.