Note 21 — Chapter XIV
Reading edition
The principal items of production of the steel works for the year 1910 are as follows:—
Tons
Coke 410,000
Pig-iron 255,000
Steel ingots 304,000
Steel blooms 268,000
Steel billets 88,000
Steel rails 140,000
Steel wire rods 79,000
Sulphate of ammonia 3,100
Tar 3,900,000 gallons.
All the coke made is used in the works for smelting purposes. Only a small proportion of the production of pig is sold as such, the greater part being made into steel ingots which are all rolled into blooms. A considerable tonnage is marketed in this form, but about eighty-five per cent. is advanced a further stage, and is sold in the form of rails and wire rods.]