. Transactions . ed and No. 21 mines at Port Henry, N. Y.,suffice to explain the comparatively high labor-cost of our best NewJersey mines. In no district does so large a proportion of the ore-cost go directlyto mine-labor; and no portion of our mining territory is exposed sorudely to the competition of foreign ores, which are landed at Hobo-ken, Elizabethport, and the Am boys, and thence hauled by competi-tive railways directly across the ore-beds at special mileage rates,unattainable by New Jersey operators from the Morris county ship-ping points. The development of both the New York and the
. Transactions . ed and No. 21 mines at Port Henry, N. Y.,suffice to explain the comparatively high labor-cost of our best NewJersey mines. In no district does so large a proportion of the ore-cost go directlyto mine-labor; and no portion of our mining territory is exposed sorudely to the competition of foreign ores, which are landed at Hobo-ken, Elizabethport, and the Am boys, and thence hauled by competi-tive railways directly across the ore-beds at special mileage rates,unattainable by New Jersey operators from the Morris county ship-ping points. The development of both the New York and the New Jersey minesis seriously retarded by the influx of foreign ores at a comparativelylow duty, and any temporary scarcity of Eastern acid Bessemer oresis due to the same cause. Intelligent iron-masters, the purchasersand consumers of ore, are beginning to appreciate the vital fact thathome mines are the only safe and stable source of supply, even intime of general peace here and abroad. When a quick demand sets. 912 THE PRODUCT OF THE HIBERNIA IRON-MINE, N. J. in, sending the import of foreign ore materially above half a milliontons, Spanish, Italian, and African ores are promptly advanced inprice by the London owners or agents; freights go up, from ballastand usual return-cargo rates, to 15s. and 20s. per ton; and theAmerican consumer remits enormous sums to our British brethren,one-half of which, judiciously expended upon the opening and devel-opment of home mines, stretching in an almost unbroken line fromthe Delaware to the St. Lawrence, would soon render us independentof any foreign supply. As stated by Professor Pumpelly, the output of both the NewYork and the New Jersey mines during the census year, one ofgreat activity in the iron and steel trades, scarcely reached one-halfof the actual developed capacity. 1880, New Jersey: maximumyearly capacity of production, 1,487,829 tons; actual product,754,872 tons. New York: maximum capacity, 2,149,129 tons;actual product, 1,23
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