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bar, hoop, sheet, boiler, and other wrought iron, 30,- 

 000 tons of blooms, and 122,000 tons of castings ; 

 the whole valued at $42,000,000. Pennsylvania 

 alone is said to produce 250,000 tons of iroji au^ 

 nually. 



Some idea of the extent of the iron trade inland 

 may be formed from the quantities carried on the 

 canals. In 1847, there came to the Hudson, on the 

 New York canals. Pig Iron 21,608,000 pounds ; 

 bloom and bar, 26,348,000 pounds ; Iron-ware 3,014,- 

 000 pounds ; 340 tons Iron and Iron-ware cleared 

 on the canals at Buffalo and Oswego ; St. Lawrence 

 Co., N. Y., shipped 515 tons of pig, a surplus made 

 there ; 7,716 tons of pig Iron reached Buffalo, via 

 Lake Erie, and 1,256 kegs of nails; 15,103,565 

 pounds of Iron and nails arrived at Cleveland, via the 

 Ohio Canal, and 4,085 tons of Iron and 12,537 kegs 

 of nails were shipped from Cleveland coastwise. 

 There cleared at Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Massillon^ 

 and Akron, in 1847, about 5,713 tons of Iron ; 

 5,269,055 pounds of nails were shipped at Akron. 

 The trade in Coal and Iron on the Western rivers and 

 lakes is very large. 



The Coal trade of Pennsylvania is now probably 

 greater than the Iron ; both employ the canals and 

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