The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-10

Mississippi valley puts out 99.553, 0SS
pounds of lead ore every year, value
2643,459.90, and 315.0S5,y75 pounds of
zinc ore, value $2,723, ,S1S05. The aggre-
gate value OF the lead and zinc product
for both sections is $40, ,0S0. .035.21, to
which must be added $3.50, 1852 for Ar
kansas, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania. New Mexico and the
southern states, making the value for
the aggregate annual product $1O,430,-
3SI21. This lead and zinc industry en-
plays 6,1S1 persons, who receive $4,22s,-
634 in wages.
The value of the United States man
ganese product was S23g,129 in 1891
nickel and cobalt yielded S134,0 anti
mony, $47,0OO aluminium, $6,S71 $50, and
chromatic iron ore. 100000 California
is large quicksilver producer. In 1890
there were 95,714 tons of cinnabar ore.
Of which 92.96i tons were roasted. and
furnished 26,464 TASKS of quicksilver,
valued at $1,190,5OO The total quick
silver lead from 1850 to 1890 was 1,5i4,-
S44 TASKS, valued at 500, ,25O,0O0 and is
nearly equal to one-third of the entire
product of the world.
Tin is found in the Black Hills, South
Dakota, California and Virginia, the
yield for 1892 having a value of $32,-
400. Florida, Georgia and North and
south Carolina produce in phosphates
an annual average of 1921 1903 tons,
valued at $I153,141. In this connection
1t should be remembered that there are
l43,2OO.O0O acres devoted i'm the United
States to the growth of wheat, maize,
oats, barley, rye and buckwheat, and
scientists estimate that these grains
take from the soil 2,714, 5S5472 pounds
OF phosphoric acid every year. and if
we add the large product the total Is
6,2Ol, 100000 pounds. So all of this phos-
phate production is needed for home
consumption. The total capital invest
ed in phosphate mines is $14,366.O for
land, and $4,7O5,7S2 for plants, the av-
erage number Of employees being 10000.
THE COAL REGIONS.
The United States coal deposits are
both anthracite and bituminous in
character. The anthracite region en-
braces Rhode Island, Massachusetts,.
pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado and
New Mexico, covering 9S5 square miles.
The average production of anthracite
coal is 45,6O0,4S7 short tons per annum,
on an investment of capital amounting
to $l62,035,6 ,610, and it requires the labor
of 124,3l0 persons, who receive $39, $685.
217. Adding $21, S57 $50 for other expen-
ses, the cost of production is SCI, ,212, ,5S7,
Estimating the coal at $3.50 per ton il
would yield $114001, ,21S, showing a year.
ly profit of $50, 1891 The biturninous
region is divided into seven separate
groups, the Triassic, Appalachian,
Northern, Central, Western, Rocky
Mountain and Pacific coast. The Tri-
assic group includes Virginia and
North Carolina, with an area of 2,SS5
square miles. The Appalachian group
consists of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia, Eastern
kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and AL
ALBANIA, covering an area of 61 $40
square miles. The western group COW
ers Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas,
Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Terri
tory, with an area of 9S,700 square
miles. The Rocky Mountain group in
cludes North and South Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Utah. Colorado and
New Mexico, area underlined. The Pac-
ific grol,p embraces Washington, Ore
gon and California, area as yet unde-
annually produce an average of 81, ,629,-
O26 short tons, which, at so per ton,
gives value of $191, ,25S, ,O52. The aver
age amount of wages is $69, 1851 per
annum, to 175,242 employees, with SIS
55S,4S2 for other expenses, a total of
$S5, 1873, showing a profit of $1O5, $685.
$50. The capital invested in the entire
bituminous region is $3.50, ,722, ,319, and
the annual mining value of the entire
anthracite and bituminous yield is
1905, ,259, ,270.
In 1892 the aggregate capital invest
ed in coal mining throughout the Uni
ted States was $343 757, ,929; wages paid,
$109, 130, 92S; total expenses, $146, ,536, ,2SO.
The aggregate production was 141 ,229,-
513 tons, from 1883 regular and 1859 To-
cal mines, covering an area Of 124S, 1873
acres of land, valued at 1884, 1854, 793.
The total number of employees in all the
fields was 299,552.
PETROLEUM.
The production of petroleum has a
yearly average of 81, 291, 1870 barrels, with
a marketable value at tidewater of $32,-
5751SS This gives the annual coal de-
posits a value of $33S, 900, 900. The pet
roleum flow began in 1859, and since
then there have been produced over
620 O00,O 900 barrels, the increase to the
wealth OF the country from this single
item being over $4,000, ,000,O in thirty
four years.
The mining industry Of the United
States also includes building stone,
lime, natural gas, cement, salt, miner
al waters, potterS' clay, mineral paint
boraX, gypsum, grindstones, fibrous
tale, pyrites, soapstone, asphaltum,
precious stones, bromine, corrundum,
baryites, graphites, millstones, nova
culite, marls. flint tiourspar, infusor-
ial earth, feldspar. mica, ozocintee,
asbestos and nitrite. The ag-
gregate value of all these products is
1885, ,O43, 139.
1t will thus be seen that these mining
industries annually produce about $780,
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