TABLE OF CONTENTS. xvil 



INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS Continued. 



Production of Iron Rails (Bessemer excluded) Page 607 



Rail Production in 1877 (Bessemer included) G07 



The Bessemer-steel Industry C08 



Steel other than Bessemer G09 



Steel other than Bessemer since 18G6 GOO 



All Kinds of Steel since 1872 in Net Tons GOO 



Product of Forges and Bloomeries 600 



General Analysis of Total Iron and Steel Production 610 



The American Iron Trade in 1878 611 



Pig-iron Gil 



Manufactured Iron and Steel 612 



Coal Production of 1878 613 



( )ur Supply of Anthracite and its Duration 614 



Precious Metals 615 



Number and Capacity ok the Iron and Steel Works of the 



United States 616 



The World's Production of Iron and Coai 617 



Silk Manufacture 018 



Manufacture of Cotton 618 



NECROLOGY 020 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 627 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX 691 



