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DECEMBER—1950 LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE REPORT ON CONSUMPTION, STOCKS ON HAND, AND BLAST FURNACE OPERATION GROSS TONS OF IRON ORE CONSUMED BY FURNACES (1) (2) Month U.S. Canada Total December 1950 7,035,541 November 1950 6,584,903 December 1949 6,551,638* YEAR—CUMULATIVE Year 1950 80,510,696 Year 1949 68,195,255* 253,597 275,920 236,767 3,025,982 2,803,165 7,289,138 6,860,823 8,788,405* 83,536,678 70,998,420' GROSS TONS OF IRON ORE ON HAM) -------------------At Furnaces U.S. (2) Canada l,ake )ocks Only Total Erie (2) U. S. Total Stocks January 1, 1951 30,459,727 1,310,848 31,770,575 5,398,298 37,168,873 Month Ago 35,414,152 1,504,889 36,919,041 4,623,561 41,542,602 Year Ago 31,270,534 1,273,371 32,543,905 6,084,605 38,628,510 SHIP 77,789,288 GROSS TONS L. S. IRON ORE TO DEC. 4 Shipments of Lake Superior iron ore by Great Lakes vessels during the week ending Dec. 4, 1950, amounted to 1,125,973 gross tons, according to the 32nd weekly report for the 1950 season of the Lake Superior Iron Ore Association. Shipments in the corresponding week of last year amounted to 359,670 gross tons. Daily average loading for U. S. ports in the week ending Dec. 4 amounted to 160,020 gross tons, as compared with the 50,131 tons daily average loading in the comparable week of last year. For the current season to Dec. 4 a total of 77,789,288 gross tons of iron ore have been forwarded from upper lake ports, an increase of 8,299,508 gross tons over the 69,439,780 gross tons shipped to the corresponding date of last year. Pickands Mather & Co. shipped a total of 12,775,099 gross tons of iron ore during the 1950 iron ore shipping season, as compared with the 12,054,578 gross tons shipped during the 1949 season and with the 15,241,786 gross tons shipped in 1948. BLAST FURNACES DEPENDING PRINCIPALLY ON LAKE SUPERIOR ORE Number in Blast Number Idle Total U.S. Canada Total U.S. Canada Total Furnaces January 1, 1951 175 9 184 9 1 10 194 Month Ago 172 10 182(a) 12 0 12(a) 194 Year Ago 163 8 171 22 2 24 195 * Corrected to include figures not previously reported. (a) Number in Blast and Idle corrected, by one furnace, December 1, 1950 report. (1) Includes Open Hearth Ore, s heretofore. (2) Includes Lake Superior Ore at plants which also consume other ores, as heretofore. The Lake Superior Iron Ore Association 1170 Hanna Building, Cleveland 15, Ohio January 18, 1951 LOWER LAKE COAL LOADINGS Loadings of bituminous coal into vessels at lower lake ports during the week ending Nov. 27, 1950, amounted to 900,294 net tons, as compared with the 1,397,987 net tons loaded in the corresponding week of last year. For the 1950 season through Nov. 26, inclusive, a total of 50,134,123 net tons of bituminous coal has been loaded for delivery at upper lake ports, an increase of 15,599,553 net tons over the 34,534,570 net tons shipped to the corresponding date of last year. OGLEBAY, NORTON SHIPPED 1,535,732 TONS IRON ORE IN 1950 During the iron ore shipping season of 1950, Oglebay Norton & Co. forwarded a total of 1,535,732 tons of iron ore from its mines on the Gogebic iron range of Michigan and Wisconsin. The shipments of Oglebay Norton & Co. in the 1949 ore shipping season from two mines totaled 1,287,717 gross tons and in 1948 the company shipped 1,534,574 gross tons. 488