The Menominee Iron Range : its cities, their industries and resources, being a sketch of the discovery and development of the great iron ore beds of the North, situated within portions of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin south of Lake Superior : submitted as a hand-book for the information of those seeking a profitable field for labor and investment . emand of1889 was in ratio to that of 1878? In such event the supply for the year 1900 must be 44,000,000 gross even this base of computation is not regarded by Mr. Atkinson as a completeone, for he justly adds, in order to establish
The Menominee Iron Range : its cities, their industries and resources, being a sketch of the discovery and development of the great iron ore beds of the North, situated within portions of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin south of Lake Superior : submitted as a hand-book for the information of those seeking a profitable field for labor and investment . emand of1889 was in ratio to that of 1878? In such event the supply for the year 1900 must be 44,000,000 gross even this base of computation is not regarded by Mr. Atkinson as a completeone, for he justly adds, in order to establish a fair method of forecasting future demand:We must compare as many periods of eleven years each with the other as the statistical data will coverin order to develop the apparent law of accelerating demand. * * * If then one may predicate a continu-ance of this law for the next eleven years, neither forty or forty-four million gross tons will suffice in theyear 1900. If this increasing demand continues, the supply must be 100 per cent in excess of that whichnow prevails—the supply in 1900 must be 50,000,000 gross or 56,000,000 net tons. Who will supply it ?Yes, who will supply it? I make bold to answer Mr. Atkinsons most pertinentquery by propounding anyway a partial solution of the difficulty when I submit in replyThe Great Menominee Iron Range!. The Menominee Iron Range. 55 I have referred elsewhere to the railway system of transporting ore. A word as tothe iron ore marine. From the six iron ore ports of Michigan and Superior in 1890, viz.:Escanaba, Marquette, St. Ignace, Gladstone, Ashland and Two Harbors, was shippedrespectively, 3,792,006; 1,267,777; 2Ii501; 82,902; 1,618,206; and 880,014 l°ng tons ofiron ore. To convey these 7,662,499 tons of compact freight it necessitated nearly 3,000cargos. To enable you to grasp the immensity of this trade, I might add that it wouldhave taken the combined carrying capacity of the whole of Americas merchant marinetwice over to transp
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