Identifier: southernstatesof00kingrich (find matches)
Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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were399,360 barrels, and there are numerous oil refineries which prepare the crudepetroleum for export. The total exports of oil in 1873 were 3,470,995 gallons;and 66,415 bags of oil-cake were also sent abroad. Not so much progress has been made latterly in the iron trade as in otherbranches. In 1872 there were in the State twenty blast furnaces, producingupward of 54,000 tons, but the production in 1873 did not probably reach50,000 tons. The importations of English and Scotch iron to Baltimore areyearly decreasing. There are a number of bar and plate iron works in thecity which do a very heavy business. One company alone controls four plate-mills w^hich yield an annual product of a million dollars in value. The rolling-mills of the great railroad corporations are vast. A journey through the shopsof the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Mount Clare is the work of a day. Tworegiments of laborers are employed. It is not generally known that Maryland, MISCELLANEOUS TRADE OF P.ALTIMORE. 753
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particularly in the vicinit)^ of l^altiinorc, produces some of the best charcoalpig-iron in the country, and in such quantities that this city may be consideredthe principal market for that staple. Orders are constantly received, even fromSt. Louis, for charcoal pig. Thereare eleven charcoal furnaces in theState, which produced during 1873nearly 25,000 tons. The oldest nowin operation is the Catoctin furnace,quite recently built. Pig-iron wasexported from Maryland to Englandas early as 1717, but in 1737 thecolonists were graciously permittedto make bar iron,—the act, however,providing that they should build norolling-mills which should interferewith the manufactories of GreatBritain. Along the lines of thePhiladelphia, Wilmington and Balti-more railroad, and the Washingtonbranch of the Baltimore and Ohio,for a distance of fifty miles, there isa bed of ore six to eight miles wide, di rr. r , ^ The Peabody Institute—Baltimore, Maryland, in many places fifty feet deep. This is a carb

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