Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1913 — Iron Ore Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Iron Ore Statistics.

Thd rank of the five states producing the largest amount of iron ore— Minnesota, Michigan, Alabama, New York and Wisconsin —remained unchanged in 1912. The Minnesota iron ranges are producing at present considerably more iron ore than is produced in all the rest of the states together, having furnished nearl 62.5 per cent, of the total for the United States* In 1912. The whole Lake Superior district, comprising all the mines in Minnesota and Michigan and part of those in Wisconsin, mined 46,368,878 tons in 1912, or nearly 84.08 per cent, of the total.