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Total appropriation $2,876,300 00 



Expenditures: 



On new Capitol $2,624,199 48 



Repairs on first foundation 



Lot and sewer 



Boiler-house 



Furniture 



For Twentieth General Assembly 



Adjutant-Generars office 



Capitol-grounds 



Street improvements 



Governor's settlement account.. . 



52,343 

 10,000 00 

 25,844 19 

 129,131 77 

 208 55 

 3,021 01 

 1,883 70 

 24,994 59 

 55 00 



2,871,682 05 



1,612 54 

 8,005 41 



2,676,543 24 



Cash unexpended and turned over to Gov. Lar- 



Paving and sidewalk appropriation in State 

 treasury underdrawn 



Cost of new Capitol to June 30, 18S6 : 



General construction $2,624,199 4S 



Repairs on foundation 52,343 76 



From which the following credits should 



be deducted : 

 Cash turned over to Gov. Larrabee $1,612 54 

 Tools and machinery sent to An- 



amosa Penitentiary 10,105 87 



Tools and machinery loaned to 



State Agricultural College 1,329 31 



Tools, machinery, and material on 



hand .. 5,480 14 



18,527 86 



Actual cost $2,658,015 38 



IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY IN 1886. The 

 United States produced more pig-iron, more 

 Bessemer steel, and more Bessemer steel rails 

 in 1886 than in any previous year in our his- 

 tory. Exact and complete statistics carefully 

 collected by the American Iron and Steel As- 

 sociation from the manufacturers throughout 

 the country cover for the purposes of present 

 publication only the first six months of 1886. 

 But it is known that in all branches of iron and 

 steel industries there was a greater activity in 

 the last half than in the first half of the year, 

 and that, generally speaking, the entire year 

 was the most productive ever known in the 

 United States. The latest statistical informa- 

 tion brought, down to July 1, 1886, may be 

 condensed as follows : The total production of 

 pig-iron for the first six months of the year 

 amounted to 2,954,200 tons of 2,000 pounds, 

 or 2,637,687 tons of 2,240 pounds. This is 

 more than the production of any entire year 

 prior to 1879. It is an increase of 717,316 

 gross tons (of 2,240 pounds) over the produc- 

 tion of the first half of 1885, and of 513,533 

 gross tons more than in the last half of that 

 year. The greatest absolute gain in produc- 

 tion in the specified period was in Pennsyl- 

 vania, notably in the Lehigh valley district, 

 which previously had been second to the Alle- 

 gheny County district, but now exceeded it 

 by making 320,568 net (2,000 pounds) tons 

 against 301,014 tons in Allegheny. It may be 

 said that each of these Pennsylvania districts 

 makes more pig-iron than any entire State in 

 the Union, excepting Ohio. In other parts of 

 the country the greatest relative gain was 

 made by Ohio and Alabama, both of which 

 materially increased their production. New 

 York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Tennessee, 

 Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin also show an 

 increase. The less important iron-producing 

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States, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Indi- 

 ana, and California, also indicate an increase, 

 while Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and Geor- 

 gia show a decrease. The total production of 

 pig-iron in all the States in the first half of the 

 year was 2,954,200 net tons. Of this total, 

 1,745,561 tons were made with bituminous 

 coal and coke; 1,011,757 tons with anthracite 

 coal and mixed anthracite and coke; and 196,- 

 891 tons with charcoal. The remarkable in- 

 crease of production in the first half of 1886 

 over the last half of 1885 was wholly in pig- 

 iron made with mineral fuel, while that made 

 with charcoal shows a decrease. The produc- 

 tion of pig-iron with anthracite coal alone, 

 unmixed with coke, is rapidly declining, as is 

 shown by the six months' production of last 

 year, when 809,200 net tons were made with 

 mixed anthracite and coke, and only 202,556 

 tons with anthracite alone. In the same period 

 the production of charcoal pig-iron in all the 

 States was 196,891 tons, Michigan making 89,- 

 105 tons; Alabama, 37,789 tons, and Connect- 

 icut, 10,245 tons, while Pennsylvania, in the 

 immense total product of 1,541,793 tons, or 

 more than one half of 'the entire production 

 of all the States combined, made but 7,407 tons 

 of charcoal pig-iron. The principal production 

 of mixed anthracite and coke pig-iron in the 

 first half of 1886 was as follows : Pennsylva- 

 nia, 820,818 tons; New York, 111,826; and 

 New Jersey, 79,113. Of bituminous coal and 

 coke pig-iron Pennsylvania made 713,568 tons; 

 Ohio, 427,149 ; Illinois, 195,630 ; Alabama, 

 108,491; Tennessee, 83,684; Virginia, 68,672, 

 and West Virginia, 49,952 tons, with a prod- 

 uct of from 7,000 to 23,000 tons in the differ- 

 ent States of Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, 

 Missouri, and Wisconsin. The total produc- 

 tion of all kinds of pig-iron in the United States 

 in the first half of 1886, by States, is as fol- 



The production of Bessemer steel rails in the 

 first half of 1886 was as follows : Pennsylva- 

 nia, 489,790 net tons ; Illinois, 163,978 tons ; 

 other States, 53,679 tons; total, 707,447 tons, 

 an increase of 85,286 tons over the last half of 

 1885. The production in the same period of 

 Bessemer steel ingots was, Pennsylvania, 656,- 

 342 net tons; Illinois, 211,413 tons; other 

 States, 181,098 tons, making, with 24,810 tons 

 of Clapp-Griffiths ingots, a total production of 

 1,073,663 net tons, an increase of 135,245 tons. 

 The production of open-hearth steel ingots 

 was: New England, New York, and New Jer- 

 sey, 9,261 net tons ; Pennsylvania, 61, 590 tons; 



