History of the Rise and Progress of the Iron Trade of the United States, Form 1621 to 1857Wiley & Halsted, 1858 - 179 Seiten |
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American colonies amount annum anthracite coal April average bar iron blast furnaces blister steel bloomeries bolt iron Britain capital cast steel cent cheap competition Congress consumer consumption of iron cost cotton dollars duty England expenses Export value facturer farmer fluctuations foreign iron foreign market forges free trade furnish hammered iron hematite home market hot-blast increased industry interest iron and steel IRON IMPORTED iron manufactures iron trade January July labor limestone manu manufac manufacture iron manufacture of iron Manufactures of Pig Maryland merchants operation Pennsylvania Philadelphia pig iron pig metal ports price of iron production of iron profits protection quantity rails rates reduced revenue rolling mills sold South Carolina STATEMENT OF IRON supply T. C. Qr tariff tariff of 1828 tilt hammer tion tons of bar tons of iron tons of pig United Virg'a and Mary'd wages wrought iron York
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Seite 24 - The laboring classes generally, in the manufacturing districts of this country, and especially in the iron and coal districts, are very little aware of the extent to which they are often indebted for their being employed at all to the immense losses which their employers voluntarily incur in bad times, in order to destroy foreign competition, and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets. Authentic instances are well known of employers having in such times carried on their works at a loss amounting...
Seite 24 - ... years. If the efforts of those who encourage the combinations to restrict the amount of labor and to produce strikes were to be successful for any length of time, the great accumulations of capital could no longer be made which enable a few of the most wealthy capitalists to overwhelm ail foreign competition in times of great depression...
Seite 24 - ... being employed at all to the immense losses which their employers voluntarily incur in bad times, in order to destroy foreign competition, and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets. Authentic instances are well known...
Seite 66 - ... so that it may rise up amongst, and completely penetrate and search every part of the metal previous to congelation, and prior to its being run into a reverberatory-furnace for puddling.
Seite 80 - Britain in one year, additionally, half the quantity of iron we now manufacture, prices would go higher than they have been for a century, in England or America. The British iron market is cheap when you refrain from it, not when you press upon it. The cost of manufacturing iron is far from being the only, or even the chief controlling element of the price. The...
Seite 24 - Viet., c. 99, to inquire into the operation of that Act .... and into the state of the population in the mining districts, 1844.
Seite 88 - ... paid he will consume freely. The mass of the consumers in a country must be the laborers ; and, when these are able to exact a fair compensation for their toil, all prices must soon be adjusted upon the same scale. The manufacturer will demand for his product a price proportioned to the cost of labor ; the farmer must do the same, and so on through the whole circle of industry.
Seite 45 - Committee, as within their duty to notice, is the capability of the United States to furnish a supply of iron equal to their own wants. Of this the Committee cannot entertain the smallest doubt. The tabular statements, heretofore referred to, show, that in two years, from 1828 to 1830, the supply has increased very nearly twenty-five per cent.
Seite 135 - Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin — Geological Survey, Room 11, Post Office Building, Knoxvllle 2, Tennessee.
Seite 11 - Flower contract with the said person for such quantity of iron as he shall think the service requires. Resolved, That a letter be written by the Board of War to the governor and council of the State of New Jersey, setting forth the peculiarity of the demand for these works, being the only proper means...