VERMONT NORTH SOUTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA SOTA IOWA KANSAS OKLAHOMA TERR WESTERN COAL FIELDS) E LIGNITE NDIAN TERRA MISSOURI ARKANSAS 14 6 TEN OHIO NORTHERN APPALACHIAN FIELDS Murshall Shreveport SIANA MISSISSIPPI eans Nobile Atlanta e 98 NORTH CAROLINA Macon SOUTH Charleston A Brunswick 7 Hampt American industrial conditions and competition British Iron Trade Association, GENERAL REPORT ican Industrial Conditions IN RELATION TO RON AND STEEL MANUFACTURES. J. STEPHEN JEANS, Secretary of the British Iron Trade Association. ON I.-GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND OUTLINE. CHAPTER I. Recent Progress. Management of the British Iron Trade Association Time did not allow me to visit Chicago. I had Chicago and Birmingham (Ala.), and I deemed important centre from the point of view of future purposes, we should probably not greatly err in modern history of the American iron industry, in erest to other countries, and is calculated to affect he United States in the markets of the world, did the year 1887. It is true that previous to that progress had been made in certain individual ome remarkable outputs had been obtained alike ail-mills, but the production of pig-iron had never hed six million tons, nor had the output of fourth of what it was in the year 1900. |