The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-03
Their Products Amounted to
100000 In '9s.
Lead and Zinc the Highest
Values In History.
OUR OTHER MINERALS.
Coal Productions Reached Over
100000.
Prof. HawOrth Discusses Ellis
TregO "GoId Fields"

The products of the mineral INDUS
tries of Kansas for 1898 amounted 10
more than seven millions of dollars Inc
figures making this wonderful exhibit
viii soon be made public in the annual
report Of Prof. E. Haworth of the KAN
sas university who has charge Of the
geological work of the state.
The year 1885, says Prof. Haworth'
was unusually prosperous for all Of
the mining enterprises in the state The
output of zinc ore was of the greatest
value ever known in the state; the out
put of lead ore fell short of preceding
years. But, the combined value OF the
two was greater than that OF any otner
year in the history of lead ana ENC
mining in the state. The zinc smelling
business was unusually successful, due
principally to the extended use or nat
ural gas as a fuel in smelling; but the
amount of Spelter produced IN 1885,
great as it was, will be much smaller
than that which will be produced dur
ing 1899. as a number of new smelling
establishments began operations early
in this year"
The production Of coal in the state for
1888 was valued at S4,0000 600; the salt
production was valued at more than
half million OF dollars aa ceIll l'.LS
amounted to almost 800, 600; brick and
clay products, 100000, which added to
the lead and zinc make the total more
than seven million dollars
that the Kansas lead ore has been
smelted principally at home by the es-
adjustments located in the mining dis
trict. This is the first year we have
been able to accomplish this he ADDS.
The business transacted by the Ar
gentine smelter, in the gold refining de-
partment amounted to more than five
million dollars. There was a decrease in
the amount of silver refined but the
copper and zinc produced were changed
into blue and white VitTiOl instead OF
being marketed in the metallic form
The coal output of the state for 1898
aggregated $3.50, 405 tons This was
over half a million increase compared
with the preceding years, especially
compared with 1894, is this fact true,
that year having had the heaviest pro-
ductiOn on record. The average price
for coal over the entire state was $10812
per ton, making the total value of the
output exceed four million dollars This
is the largest value of any preceding
year except 1894 which had a value of
81 35 per ton. An interesting feature of
the coal production is the fact that
there was a general decrease in all
counties except Cherokee and Crawford
which made up the deficiency and ad-
ded to the general production sufficient
to break all records save that of 1894.
The production of oil and natural gas
for the year 1898 was greater than dur
ing any preceding year. Professor Ha-
worth says it is difficult to obtain fig
ures concerning the consumption of
natural gas because the companies
which use it make no measurements Of
the amount consumed.
The Neodesha oil district produced
so 600 barrels of oil which were sold to
the refinery at NeOdesha. This was
worth 81 per barrel. This is twice the
amount produced in any previous year
The gas production so far as it can
be estimated amounted to more than
$1s8, OOO The values credited, in pro-
ductiOn, to the various fields follow: