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::r, IRON ORE, COAL, PIG IRON, AND
These exports appear to have commenced in the fiscal year 1881-
82, when 19.856 tons were-exported. The quantities since annually
exported to "America " have been as follows, in metric tons.
Years.
1889-88.-
1884-85
1885-86
Metric tons.
50,751
147.936
121,612
145,016
Years.
1886-87
1887-88
1888-89
1889-90.
Metric tons. Years.
140.334 1891-92
61,875 | 1892-93
118,613 |; 1893-94
Metric tons.
136,021
171,066
19,836
2,239
GREECE.
The production of iron ore iu Greece, practically all that is
mined being exported, was as follows from 1888 to 1892. in metric
tons, according to a report by the Greek Ministry of Finance:
1888, 123,441 tous; 1889, 134,340 tons; 1890, 207,509 tons; 1891,
180,245 tons; 1892, 244,405 tons. Greece also produces annually
a few thousand tons of lignite. In 1890 it produced 3,500 tons.
DOMINION OF CANADA.
Statistical details of the coal and iron industries of the Dominion
of Canada are derived from the Statistical Year Book and
from other Canadian authorities.
Iron Ore.—The production of iron ore in Canada in 1890 was
76,511 net tons; in 1891 it was 68,979 tons; aud in 1892 it
was 103,248 tons. The production of iron ore in Nova Scotia
alone was 57,311 net tons in 1891,75,000 net tons in 1892, and
89,000 gross tons in 1893.
Coal.—The production of coal in Nova Scotia in 1892 was
1,942,780 gross tons, and in 1893 it was 2,223,033 tons. The
production of coal in British Columbia in 1891 was 1,152,588
net tons, in 1892 it was 925.495 net tons, and iu 1893 it was
1,095,689 net tons. In the Northwest Territories there were produced
213,015 net tons of coal in 1893, of which 65,000 tons
were classed as anthracite. New Brunswick produced 8,400 net
tons of coal in 1893. The total production of coal in the Dominion
of Canada in 1893 was 3,806.901 net tons.
Pig Iron.—The production of pig iron in Canada in 1890 was
21.772 net tons; in 1891, 23,891 net tons; in 1892, 42,443 net
tons; in 1893, 55,947 net tons; and in 1894. 50,166 net tons.
Steel.—Steel is produced in Canada by only one company, the
Nova Scotia Steel and Forge Company Limited, of New Glasgow,
Nova Scotia. In 1894 this company produced 25,685 gross
tons of open-hearth steel.