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TABLE IV. 

 IMPORT OF MANUFACTURED AND ROUGH-STEEL, 

 CAST-AND WROUGHT-IRON, 

 1868—1878 INCL. 



Imports. 



Catties. 



Value in yen. 



Average price, 

 per catty. 



1 



127,917,345. 

 19,504,676. 



1,336,624. 



3,125,886. 

 20,096,465. 

 13,833,880. 

 16,412,040. 



3,629,827. 



1,097,000. 



5,021,578. 



314,941. 



18,558. 



257,803. 



4,019,293. 



1,383,388. 



3,282,408. 



272,886. 



76,790. 



yen. 



0.039. 

 0.016. 

 0.014. 

 0:032. 

 0.20. (*) 

 0.10. (*) 

 0.20. "(*) 

 0.075/ 

 0.070. ( * ) 



2. Cast iron 







5. Ammunition, cannon, rifles etc. 



6. Iron-ware 









Total 

 Annual average 



206,954,743. 



18,814,068. 



11,200. 



20,147,577.1 — 

 1,831,577. 0.0923. 





( * ) In the items marked ( * ) only the value of the imports is known, and 

 the quantity has been calculated therefrom. 



The blast-furnace in Iuaka-Kosaka has been constructed with a view to 

 a daily outturn of about 15 tons, while either of the two nearly completed 

 blast-furnaces at Kamaishi is intended to supply a quantum of about 20 tons a 

 day. The three blast-furnaces would consequently in 300 working daj's deliver 

 16,500 tons pig-iron. Supposing, that for the moment only the import-articles, 

 mentioned in the table sub 1 — 4, were to be replaced by national produce, then 

 a quantum of ca. 10,000 ton pig annually would be sufficient, because the sum 

 total of these articles during 11 years aggregated 151,884,531 catties, or on an 

 annual average about 8,220 tons. If, moreover, the hitherto existing private 

 national production should be supplanted by the new government works, then a 

 still further quantity of about 10,000,000 lbs. English (Tab. Ill), that is, in 

 round numbers 5,000 tons, would be required annually. Consequently about 

 15,000 tons pig-iron would be needed annually. 



The total weight of all the iron imported (both in pigs and manufactured) 

 amounts, according to table IV, to a round sum of 12,000 tons annually. If 

 then all the iron, that is consumed in the country, in whatever shape, should 

 be produced by the new works, and the iron, that was hitherto produced by the 



