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NOTE.—Detailed tables covering all items are<br />
given in this number. Consult index at end<br />
oS bulletin.<br />
In many cases April figures are now<br />
asailable and may be found in the special<br />
table on page 30*<br />
METALS<br />
Iron Ore and Fig Iron<br />
Iron ore:<br />
Stocks-<br />
Total thous. <strong>of</strong> tons.<br />
At furnaces thous. <strong>of</strong> tons.<br />
On Lake Erie docks...thous. <strong>of</strong> tons.<br />
Consumption... thous. <strong>of</strong> tons.<br />
Pig iron, production thous. <strong>of</strong> long tons.<br />
Furnaces in blast:<br />
Furnace number.<br />
Capacity long tons per day.<br />
Merchant pig iron:<br />
Production thous. <strong>of</strong> long tons.<br />
Sates. _ thous. <strong>of</strong> long tons.<br />
Shipments. thous. <strong>of</strong> long tons.<br />
Unfilled orders thous. <strong>of</strong>long tons.<br />
Stock, merchant<br />
furnaces thous. <strong>of</strong>long tons.<br />
Stocks, steel plants...thous. <strong>of</strong>long tons.<br />
Ohio gray-iron foundries:<br />
Meltings _ _.. long tons.<br />
Meltings.. per cent <strong>of</strong> normal.<br />
Kcceipts <strong>of</strong> iron ...long tons.<br />
Stocks long tons.<br />
"Wholesale prices:<br />
Foundry No, 2,<br />
Northern dolls, per long ton.<br />
Bnsic Valley furnace.-dolls, per long ton.<br />
Composite pig iron dolls, per long ton.<br />
Malleable castings:<br />
Production.. _- tons.<br />
Shipments tons.<br />
Orders booked. tons.<br />
Operating activity per et. <strong>of</strong> capacity.<br />
Crude Steel<br />
Steel ingots, production...thous. <strong>of</strong>long tons..<br />
Steel castings:<br />
Total bookings... short tons..<br />
-uailroad e^ccialti^, short tons..<br />
Miscellaneous bookings._ short tons..<br />
Unfilled orders, U. S. Steel Corp.,<br />
end <strong>of</strong> month thous. <strong>of</strong>long tons-.<br />
Finished Iron and Steel<br />
Sheets, blue, black, and galvanized:<br />
Production (actual) ...short tons..<br />
Production per ct. <strong>of</strong> capacity..<br />
Shipments short tons..<br />
Sales ., short tons..<br />
Unfilled orders short tons..<br />
Stocks-<br />
Total. short tons..<br />
tJnsold.. short tons..<br />
Wholesale prices:<br />
Steel billets, Bessemer.dolls, per long ton-.<br />
Iron and steel dolls, per long ton..<br />
Composite steel ...dolls, per 100 lbs..<br />
Composite finished steel-dolls, per 100 lbs..<br />
Structural steel beams..dolls, per 100lbs_.<br />
Iron and Steel Products<br />
Locomotives;<br />
Shipments—<br />
Total... number..<br />
Domestic number..<br />
Foreign numbers-<br />
Unfilled orders-<br />
Total... - number..<br />
Domestic number..<br />
Foreign _ _ number..<br />
Freight cars: Orders, domestic number..<br />
loundry equipment:<br />
SMes dollars..<br />
Shipments dollars..<br />
Unfilled orders dollars..<br />
Vessel construction:<br />
Completed during month-<br />
Total gross tons. .<br />
Steel seagoing gross tons..<br />
Building or under contract, end <strong>of</strong> mo.—<br />
Merchant vessels.thous. <strong>of</strong> gross tons..<br />
Structural steel, fabricated:<br />
Sales (prorated) short tons..<br />
Sales perct. <strong>of</strong> capacity..<br />
Shipments short tons..<br />
Shipments ".. _"per ct. <strong>of</strong> capacity,.<br />
Steel furniture, shipments . thous. <strong>of</strong> dolls..<br />
4,1<br />
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued<br />
Feb.<br />
29, 258<br />
22,232<br />
7,020<br />
4,783<br />
3,075<br />
264<br />
108,100<br />
422<br />
355<br />
448<br />
1,242<br />
147<br />
23,137<br />
74.10<br />
18,578<br />
24,413<br />
24.76<br />
22.00<br />
24.13<br />
58, 793<br />
52, 9] 8<br />
56,828<br />
t>2.0<br />
3,781<br />
70,829<br />
34,901<br />
35,928<br />
4,913<br />
275,118<br />
96.5<br />
249,859<br />
189,081<br />
434,145<br />
113,020<br />
30,658<br />
40.00<br />
43.49<br />
3.03<br />
2.78<br />
2.50<br />
99<br />
927<br />
499<br />
400<br />
33<br />
41,346<br />
378,265<br />
348,641<br />
614,579<br />
3,950<br />
1,849<br />
190<br />
180, SOO<br />
73<br />
153,400<br />
59<br />
1,005<br />
1024<br />
NUMERICAL DATA<br />
Alar.<br />
24,017<br />
17,984<br />
6,003<br />
5,308<br />
3,436<br />
270<br />
112,240<br />
467<br />
173<br />
472<br />
977<br />
883<br />
133<br />
23,331<br />
79.90<br />
17,425<br />
25,626<br />
24.76<br />
2L94<br />
23.83<br />
62,055<br />
55, 751<br />
53,581<br />
60.2<br />
4,146<br />
97,962<br />
59, 141<br />
38,821<br />
4,783<br />
278,767<br />
96.5<br />
262,497<br />
251,411<br />
422, 889<br />
126, 437<br />
43,888<br />
40.00<br />
> 43.24<br />
3.00<br />
a. 73<br />
2.50<br />
132<br />
128 4<br />
534<br />
494<br />
40<br />
13,145<br />
387,379<br />
389,800<br />
600,251<br />
21,782<br />
17,761<br />
119<br />
184,600<br />
71<br />
169, 000<br />
65<br />
1,661<br />
: Twelve months' average, June, 1910, to <strong>May</strong>, 1920.<br />
* Eleven months' average, February to December, inclusive.<br />
Corresponding<br />
month,<br />
February<br />
or March.<br />
1923<br />
25,121<br />
18,496<br />
6,625<br />
5,474<br />
3,52t<br />
296<br />
116,100<br />
503<br />
920<br />
530<br />
1,918<br />
246<br />
65<br />
22,602<br />
83.20<br />
19, 400<br />
25,617<br />
32.27<br />
30.13<br />
30.36<br />
4,047<br />
143,564<br />
76,409<br />
67,155<br />
7,403<br />
279,475<br />
92.7<br />
287,203<br />
325, 526<br />
619,823<br />
136,347<br />
29,084<br />
44.38<br />
45.31<br />
2.83<br />
2.72<br />
2.20<br />
2S2<br />
269<br />
13<br />
2,316<br />
2,214<br />
102<br />
42,500<br />
464,100<br />
482,351<br />
572,995<br />
24,978<br />
7,886<br />
270<br />
211,800<br />
93<br />
1,709<br />
CT71IULATIVE TOTAL<br />
FROM JANUARY 1<br />
THROUGn LATEST<br />
MONTH<br />
1923<br />
15,144<br />
9,745<br />
1,399<br />
2,112<br />
1,387<br />
55,812<br />
59, 278<br />
11,324<br />
334,321<br />
164,133<br />
170,188<br />
777,914<br />
753,348<br />
831,212<br />
718<br />
682<br />
36<br />
63,690<br />
1,325,481<br />
1,140,745<br />
60,062<br />
28,007<br />
<strong>1924</strong><br />
14,779<br />
9,529<br />
1,318<br />
1,141<br />
1,353<br />
00,988<br />
51,783<br />
11,520<br />
217,837<br />
113,012<br />
104,825<br />
827,9S2<br />
741,0)0<br />
675,350<br />
382<br />
367<br />
15<br />
63,661<br />
1,185,008<br />
1,056,372<br />
36,512<br />
23,329<br />
634,400 559,000<br />
4,379 j<br />
Per et.<br />
increjiso 1<br />
or decrease<br />
(-)<br />
cumulative<br />
1921<br />
from<br />
1923<br />
-2.4<br />
-2.2<br />
-5.8<br />
-46.0<br />
-2.5<br />
+20.0<br />
-12.6<br />
+1.8<br />
-34.8<br />
-31.1<br />
-38.4<br />
+6.4<br />
-1.6<br />
-18.8<br />
-40.8<br />
-46.2<br />
-58.3<br />
ao<br />
-10.6<br />
-7.4<br />
-39.8<br />
-19.3<br />
-11.9<br />
4,859 i| +11.0<br />
BASE<br />
TEAR<br />
OR<br />
PERIOD<br />
: 1919<br />
M919<br />
11919<br />
*1919<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1914<br />
1914<br />
1914<br />
1914<br />
1914<br />
* 1921<br />
1922<br />
1922<br />
1922<br />
1022<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1020<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1920<br />
1913<br />
1922<br />
1922<br />
1922<br />
I9ir><br />
1916<br />
1916<br />
1913<br />
1913<br />
1919<br />
Feb.<br />
100<br />
101<br />
105<br />
110<br />
117<br />
103<br />
131<br />
115<br />
209<br />
130<br />
37<br />
38<br />
103<br />
131<br />
108<br />
353<br />
183<br />
179<br />
181<br />
137<br />
179<br />
168<br />
188<br />
123<br />
139<br />
122<br />
127<br />
180<br />
79<br />
132<br />
521<br />
154<br />
162<br />
158<br />
157<br />
139<br />
178<br />
12<br />
168<br />
239<br />
18<br />
74<br />
148<br />
146<br />
187<br />
23<br />
212<br />
156<br />
INDEX NUMBERS<br />
Mar<br />
82<br />
83<br />
88<br />
130<br />
138<br />
110<br />
138<br />
133<br />
279<br />
151)<br />
147<br />
32<br />
35<br />
101<br />
115<br />
230<br />
202<br />
205<br />
197<br />
160<br />
2H5<br />
322<br />
251<br />
125<br />
163<br />
128<br />
167<br />
231<br />
90<br />
122<br />
520<br />
172<br />
172<br />
165<br />
164<br />
146<br />
92<br />
245<br />
15<br />
175<br />
248<br />
24<br />
405<br />
108<br />
1S8<br />
155<br />
253<br />
Dee.<br />
91<br />
81<br />
no<br />
248<br />
05<br />
93<br />
790<br />
155<br />
163<br />
170<br />
167<br />
166<br />
108<br />
277<br />
27<br />
29<br />
41 5<br />
101<br />
152<br />
136<br />
139<br />
13<br />
218<br />
100<br />
144 1 1SS I 1C0<br />
Jan.<br />
160<br />
120<br />
133<br />
167<br />
03<br />
105<br />
672<br />
155<br />
164<br />
176<br />
1C8<br />
106<br />
28<br />
38 7<br />
87<br />
152<br />
121<br />
154<br />
12<br />
193 |<br />
142<br />
<strong>1924</strong><br />
Feb. Mnr.<br />
100<br />
93<br />
111)<br />
I2U<br />
98<br />
129<br />
111<br />
108<br />
135<br />
95<br />
117<br />
73<br />
190<br />
143<br />
110<br />
226<br />
150<br />
140<br />
147<br />
134<br />
83<br />
100<br />
133<br />
145<br />
134<br />
63<br />
101<br />
548<br />
155<br />
105<br />
170<br />
107<br />
160<br />
32<br />
84 8<br />
38<br />
52<br />
8<br />
394<br />
137<br />
130<br />
16G<br />
10<br />
199<br />
140<br />
43<br />
116 4<br />
40<br />
55 9<br />
125<br />
140<br />
152<br />
102<br />
Per ct.<br />
increase<br />
or do-<br />
Mnr.<br />
from<br />
Feb.<br />
-37.8<br />
-19.1<br />
-K*.7<br />
+ 11.0<br />
+21.7<br />
+2.3<br />
+3.8<br />
•HO. 7<br />
-51.3<br />
+5.4<br />
-21.3<br />
-0.0<br />
-9.5<br />
+0.8<br />
+7.8<br />
-0,2<br />
+5.0<br />
0.0<br />
-0.3<br />
-1.2<br />
+5.5<br />
+5.4<br />
-5.7<br />
+ 0.8<br />
+9.7<br />
+3«. 3<br />
+IW.5<br />
+S.1<br />
-2.6<br />
+1.3<br />
0.0<br />
+5.1<br />
+33.0<br />
-2.0<br />
+ 11.9<br />
+43.2<br />
0.0<br />
-0.8<br />
-1.0<br />
-1.8<br />
0.0<br />
+33.3<br />
+39.1<br />
-42.0<br />
+7.0<br />
+0. Q<br />
+21.2<br />
-08.2<br />
+2.5<br />
+ 11.8<br />
-2.3<br />
47 +451.4<br />
CO +860.6<br />
10<br />
-39.3<br />
193 . -2.7<br />
142 i -2.7<br />
+10.2<br />
+10.2<br />
+3.5
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