Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1889-01-05
OUR MINERAL WEALTH.
METALLIC AND NON.METALLIC PRO.
DUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES
IN 1883.
A Grand Total Of $542,2S4,225 Pro.
duced-An Increased Yield of Every.
thing on the List.
PHOSPHATE ROCK,

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+ PHOSPHATE ROCK.
South Carolina phosphate rock,
4S0,55S long tons, valued at 1885,
olS; an increase of $4,000 tons, but
Il decrease of 536,llS in value, due
10 greater competition, reducing the
price to 1915 per ton for land and
| 81 for river rock.
In New Jersey the production is
estimated at 100000 tons, worth
about 100000. While the New
Jersey mari is yielding slowly to CON-
mercial fertilizers, the Virginia marls,
as we'll as those in North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and
Florida, are finding increased local
use.
Production in 1887, 7,631,962 bar
rels (of $50 pounds), value $4,0s3,-
846. The annual production has in
creased each year since 1888, but the
total value has declined, being less in
1887 than in 1884, although only
6,514,937 barrels were made in that
year.
BRoMINE.
Stocks accumulated IN 1886 and
reduced the output of 1887 to 199,.
OS7 pounds, valued at $61,7l7. The
price was held at 81 cents per pound.
BoRAx.
Production, IL 100000 pounds, all
from California and Nevada. Total
value, s550,OOO, at 5 cents per pound
for the average grade. The price
was rising at the close of 1887.
SULPHUR.
Production about 5000 tons from
J Utah, worth 100000 Litigation
checked the use of an increased plant.
The imports of Sicilian sulphur, with
small shipments from Japan, were
96,SS2 long tons, valued at $685.
$50.
PYRITES.
Production $500 long tons, valued
at $4,000, at 81 per ton at the
mines.
The production increased to $4,000
long tons of crude barytes, valued At
SIS, OO0 at the mines.
GYPSUM.
The condition of the industry is
practically unchanged. The esti-
mated total product was $4,000 short
tons of crude gypsum, valued at
$425,O00. In addition, there were
imported 1852, l54 long tons of crude
gypsum, chiefly from Nova Scotia.
,, MICA.
, The production increased to 10000
t pounds, valued at s142,250. The in
crease was chiefly in North Carolina
e New Hampshire, Massachusetts,, and
Virginia also produced mica. Nc
e shipments were reported from the
r Black Hills or New Mexico. The
l use of mica waste is increasing; 20OC
tons, worth $4,000, were ground III
1887.
FELDSPAR.
!, The amount consumed, principally
by potters, was 10000 long tons
, valued at $4,000 before grinding
This includes freight to the principa
$ markets, Trenton or New York. The
= consumption in 1886 was about 5000
e tons less than the production returned
r by quarrymen.
t For pottery 1880 tons were used
G Including the use for sandpaper ane
S in glass manufacture, the total con
sumption was about $4,000 tons
worth, unground, S1S5,O0O.
- PoTrERs' CLAY.
t The consumption of kaolin ant
- ball clay by potters aggregated 2S,
UUu COIlS, Ndluou III OSCO,OcO. III
q dition the potters used $1,000 tons O
i. fire clay, worth 100000.
:, ASBESTUS.
s. The total product hardly exceeded
$50 tons, worth $4,000. In addition
several hundred tons of Gbrous &C
tinolite were used for weighing
, paper.
MINERAL PAINTS.
Including ochre, metallic paints
and small quantities of lumber an
> sienna, tie production amounted t
J. 10000 long tons, selling for $4,000
v at the mines.
~ GRAPHITE.
The production at Ticonderoga
reported unchanged. Small 10
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