IRON MANUFACTURE. 455 
tabula, etc., whose good harborage on the lake and railroad communi- 
cation directly with the coal fields at the south, present most powerful 
inducement for successful iron establishments. 
The present state of the iron industry will be well shown by the 
followirg table, compiled as carefully as possible, and showing the 
character and location of the furnaces in the State, arranged by districts 
and counties. The table is complete up to 1882, though it includes 
some furnaces now abandoned, and many not in blast at present. The 
ores used are taken from the statements of the furnaces made to the 
Census Agent, when their production was taken for the Tenth Census. * 
Every care has been taken to secure a careful statement. Copies of 
this table were sent to parties interested in iron manufacture in the 
different regions, for correction up to date, and all omissions and mis- 
takes so discovered, corrected. | 
Following this table, a discussion of the principal features of each 
district will give a review of the present state of the iron industry 
of Ohio. 
