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STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE FOR 1894. 45
The Open-hearth steel rails were all made in Pennsylvania and
California. The iron rails were made in Pennsylvania, Alabama.
Illinois, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Of the total production of rails in 1894 Pennsylvania made
70 per cent., against over 64 per cent, in 1893, over 62 per cent.
in 1892, 69 per cent, in 1891 and 1890, 67 per ceut. in 1889,
59 per cent, in 1888. 54 per cent, in 1887, and over 62 per cent.
iu 1886. Illinois made over 22 per cent, in 1894, against over 20
per cent, in 1893, over 29 per cent, in 1892, 28 per cent, iu both
1891 and 1890, 30 per cent, in 1889, 31 per cent, in 1888, 30
per cent, in 1887, and 24 per cent, in 1886. These two .States
made over 92 per cent, of all the rails rolled in 1894, against
over 84 per cent, in 1893, over 91 per cent, in 1892, over 97
per cent, in 1891 and 1890, aud 97 per cent, in 1889.
The rails reported to us which are definitely known to have
been rolled for street and electric railways in 1894 amounted
to 157,457 gross tons, against 133,423 tons in 1893, 111,580 tons
in 1892, 81,302 tons in 1891, and 98,529 tons in 1890. The
increase in 1894 over 1893 was 24,034 tons. Virtually all our
street rails arc now rolled from Bessemer steel.
PRODUCTION OF IRON AND STEEL STRUCTURAL SHAPES.
Our statistics of iron and steel structural shapes embrace the
production of beams, beam girders, Z bars, lees, channels, and angles,
but do not include plates or plate girders. Plates are provided
for under other classifications, and under the general statistics
of plates are included all plates cut to S|>ecificatious. The
production of iron and steel structural sha|>es in 1893 ami 1894
was as follows, in gross tons, showing a large increase in 1894.
States—Gross tons.
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
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j 1,738
21,443
302,378
( 3,035
22,834
1 -
)S»I.
1,897
15,701
458,908
6,593
15,018
!
Slaics-Gron tons. 1893.
Minnesota
1891
j 10,377 ' 614
| 11,597 7,170
Total &5I.WI o«o,;k/i
Nearly all the structural shapes and plates used for structural
purposes in 1894 and recent years were made of steel, both Bessemer
and open-hearth steel being used.