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The IRON INTEREST AND THE TARTr.-
A very intelligent correspondent sends us
the following in regard to the probable
condition OF the iron interest under the
new tariff. II speaks for ITSELF and shows
with how little justice the manufactures of
iron complain OF that law. 1t is a fact that
the experience of every worker in iron will
confirm, that while under the tariff of 1912,
the manufacturer of iron was realizing tho
most enormous profits, the price of iron was
exorbitantly high, and The blacksmith, and
all other trades using iron, were compel
led TO makeup this advance in the cost by
reducing the wages Of their hands, or by
making the farmer bear the additional
price. II, under the new law, therefore,
the price Of iron decreases far enough to
be saving to the workers in iron, and
consequently to their purchasers, and not
too far to ruin the manufacturer to an extent
even approaching the estimate Of our cor
respondent, great good will have been
accomplished:


Scotch pig, last accounts, was


worth Ca Is. Cd. per ton, at


As. Cd. to the dollar, $40 so
30 per cent, even it the yau-


alton be taken at Glasgow,


per ton, So
Freight, insurance. and all charg-


cs, at least 5 25



$50 60
Our anthracite furnace.owners boast
they can make ton of pig metal certain
ly for $l5 per ton--somo say as low as
Sl3 per ton.


One ton American anthracite, at


the highest, SIS 90
Freight TO market, 90
Commissioners and guarantee


per cent. on sale, say al $50
per ton, 2 10



1872 10
Leaving, at least $s so cents profit on
a ton of iron, costing, according to the ma
ker's assertion, Sl5 to make it,


Anthracite furnaces (seo the various
accounts) make from 80 to 100 tons per
week


Pretty good business for weeks work,
S7G5 or $3.50 profits. And very liberal
estimate is the above, from


CHARCOAL.