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amounts are now treated by puddling; in 1899 there
were thirty iron-works belonging to six companies,
using 15,000 tons of pig-iron, which yielded 13,000
tons of mill-bars and smelted iron, this being double
the amount of 1877. Of this output 11,000 tons
were treated in nine rolling-mills and produced 9000
tons. Yet more is smelted at five iron-works in the
new Siemens-Martin furnaces; the amount of this in
1899 being 16,000 tons of pig-iron, which produced
an output of 15,000 tons against only 3000 six years
ago. Of this output 13,000 tons were rolled, but only
a small portion into plates. The total mass of iron
treated was 27,000 tons; the output of the
rolling-mills amounting in 1899 to 2½ million marks, and
of the smelting works to 3¾ million marks. Here,
too, the value is evidently fixed by the imports, which
in 1899 amounted to 13,500 tons of billets and bars
of the value of 2,300,000 marks; 7759 tons of plates
of the value of about 2½ million marks; 1600 tons of
tubes, and 632 tons of fine iron of the value of about
half a million marks. Both the bulk and the value
were a little higher in 1898. On most of this there
is an import duty of 6 marks 50 penni per 100 kilo;
and the consequent increase of price to the
detriment of the consumers, among these many of the
manufacturers, is probably not far short of 1½ million
marks, or a quarter of the whole value. Besides these
amounts, 27,000 tons of rails were imported duty-free
in 1898, and 24,000 tons in 1899. Some export of
iron goods took place into Russia, where, too, in 1885
and 1897, a duty was imposed and increased. In
1885 it was only 36 marks 60 penni per ton, after
1897 it was raised to 48 marks 75 penni per ton.
This high duty is, however, only about one-third of
that charged on imports from other countries. The
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