Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-03
YEARS MrNERAL PRODUCTION.
Utah Figures Prominently In n Report on
the United states Output.

YEARS MINERAL PRODUCTION.
Utah Figures Prominently In n Report on |
the United States output.
The Mineral Industry and Review
has prepared an exhaustive report on
the mineral and metal production OF
the United States for the year 1897. 1t
says In part:
The total value OF the mineral pro-
duction Of the United States in 1897
was, therefore, S7i6, 2309s2 against
1881, 95S, 16l In 1896. The values given
are generally at the mine or works.
but with a few of the principal metals
such as lead, copper or zinc-thls Is
not possible and their values are taken
at the leading markets.
The total value of the output In 1896
exceeded that of the mineral and metal
production of all continental Europe.
and nearly doubled that of the United
Kingdom, the value of whose mineral
output in 1896 was. in round figures
about $3iO,0OO 600, while that Of Ger
many was about $3OO,OOO,OOO, that of
France about $40. 900, and that of
| Belgium 100000, 900.
Deductlng these necessary duplica-
tons, we find that the total value of
our production in 1897 reached the sum
of S67S, g666ii.
This output is limited entirely to ores
and other substances mined In the
| United States and to metals reduced
| from those ores. In addition there was
also large quantity of metals reduced
/ or refined In this country from Import
! ed ores or base bullion. These are
| chiefly sent here for treatment from
/ Canada and Mexico. The total pro-
| duction OF this class reported was 5S4.-
9s3 ounces gold; 4O.21s.776 ounces sill
yer; 269Ss,2bi pounds copper; 4.O99,39O
| pounds nickel: 921l7 short tons lead;
the total value of these metals being
A,127174. This output Of our metal
lurglcal works is altogether additional
to that recorded in the table.
These metals We're obtained chiefly
from re,bullion, furnace products and
| sllver-lead imported from Mexico,
Newfoundland and Canada. A com
| paratlVely small amount of gold and
silver ore and bullion comes from
Central and South America, as we re-
ceive large amount of pyrites from
Spain and Portugal all Of which con-
tnins a little copper From British
Columbia and Mexico we receive chief
ly lead-bearlng ore and silver-lea
from which a large part of our lead
supply Is obtained. The nickel is all
from ores or matter produced by the
mines at sudbury, Ont We have not
included In the above quantities the
Iron smelted from foreign ores, which
is small in actual amount and insig-
nifcant In comparison with the total
output; nor have we included tina
manganese In foreign ores which en-
tiers into the composition of the
spiegeleisen and ferro- manganese that
1t made here. The lead industry ia
the one most affected by the foreign
material that is imported. the guam
tity of copper being comparatively
small.
Coppcr--The Increase in production
from 479,sOGlS3 pounds In 1896, to 510,-
l9O,1l9 pounds in 1887, came chiefly
from the mines of Arizona and Mon
tana.
Gold-The production In the United
States increased from 2 55S. 1873 troy ozs
(sb2, SS6, 209) in 1896 to 2,S6i SIC (S592l0,-
; 1900 In 1897. The greater part of the
Increase was due to Colorado which
state is credited with an output Of $40.
579.6S7 and now leads all the others in
point Of gold production. The Cripple
! Creek mines furnished upward of so pei
l cent of the total yield of the state
; South Dakota and Alaska made in.
. creased outputs owing to the extern
sion of operations at the huge mines al
. Deadwood and on Treadwell Island
D and the outlook is for sim further
! large Increase In the yield of gold from
4 these sources. The large production OF
the De Lamar mine caused a consider.
, able Increase in the figures for Neva,
da. There was small increase In tn,
output of Arizona and Montana. Con.
Is
of the year there was a falling off II
production both in California and II
Utah. In the former state the camps
of Nevada County fell far below thei
+, record of the previous year, while IL
Utah the production of the Mercur dis
trlct was only triile more than II
r 1886. the new large mills not havinJ
@ been completed in time to add any
a thing of consequence to the total. Al
r though the increase in the gold produc
d. TU.1N
= very large there Is much probabilit,
v that there viii be a further increase Ii
: 1898. American refiuers turned gu
5Si,9SS troy ounces ($l2 ,09l $500 of nm
gold from ores and bullion Imported
n chiefly from Canada and Mexico, max
(, ing n total addition Of s7l ,302. 1894 to tn
: domestic supply of gold during TIL
: year.
a Lead-The production of lead iron
: ores mined in the United States in
u creased from 174.69 short tons ($10, ~,
q 6i3) to 1878 ISL, 7Si 093). Beside thi
q there was a large amount of lead or
!. and sllver-lead imported from Births
- Columbia and Mexico and smelted an
q refined in the United States part of
% being re-exported. The increase in tn
:. domestic production in 1897 was du
: chiefly to southeast and southwest Mis-
sour and the Occur d'Alene dlstric
a of Idaho. The production of lead 1
" Colorado was 10000 tons, against IL ,00
~ in the previous year. The productio
:, OF the Occur d'Alene mines Increase
W from 37.250 short tons to 65.I50. TIL
production in southwest and southeas
Missouri was 1910 short tons in 1S9
=. Sllver-The domestic production dc
p creased from Gs,4SS,SiO troy ounces !
~ 1896 to 56,451,292 troy ounces in 1889
:, :, This large decrease is attributable
"a the heavy decline in the value of silve
~ which compelled good many mine
~ (whose ores contained their chief valu
~ in silver to close down, especially sue
p mines as the ontario and DAILY, OF Par
M city, Utah. The falling OF In produ'
~ tlon would have been much greater ma
It, 1t not been for the comparatively ing
prices for copper and lead which stln
ulnted the production of those metal
n, and, consequently, the silver carrie
err with them, There was, therefore,
ne large Increase In silver production irol
IN Butte, Mont, and the Occur d'Alen
u Colorado and Utah showed large fal
t. ing off in production. while there wa
At an increase from Montana and idnh
On Besides the silver produced from ore