The age-herald., 1902-01-21
GREAT OUTPUT IF MINERAL PRODUCTS Estimates Show That All Pre- vious Years Are Exceeded AHEAD OF ALL COUNTRIES Great Britain Admits the United States Has outstrlpped Her In coal--Pig
 iron Production Is 15,5oo,.
 900 Long Tons.
AHEAD OF ALL COUNTRIES

Washington, January 20. - (Special) = Estimates of the mineral products of the United States which have just reached the treasury bureau of statistics indicate that they will exceed in nearly every par ticular those of any preceding year. Not only will they exceed those of any pre- cediug year. but exceed in nearly every case those of any other country
 In gold. in silver, in iron, in steel. in copper, in coal and in mineral oil the products of the United States in 1901 ex- ceed those of any other country and in every instance except possibly copper sur pass her own record in any preceding year The estimates of gold and silver production are from the mint bureau, and those of pig iron, copper coal and mineral oil from the Engineering and Mining Journal. These estimates put the gold production of 1901 at $S0. 21S 800, against S79.171, 900 in 1900, which was the highest record in gold production that the United States had ever had. They put the silver production of 1901 at 59, 653. 7sS ounces. against 57,647,000 ounces in 1900
 15,5oo,ooo Pig Iron.
 The pig iron production is estimated at 15.SO0,0 GOO long tons, against 13 37S9,242 long tons in 1900, in which year the figures ex- ceeded those of any preceding year. The coal production is estimated at 267 $50, GOO long tons, against 917 long tons in 1900. the year of highest production here tofore. Of petroleum the production is estimated at 66,000,00 barrels or 2,772 000,- 900 gallons, against 2,661 233, 56S gallons in 1900 the year of largest production here tofore. Of copper the production is esti- mated at 595, 900, 900 pounds or 265,625 long tons, or about 5000 tons below the figures of 1900, copper thus being the only item in the entire list which shows for 1901 smaller figures of production than that of last year.
 That these figures clearly put the Uni ted States in the lead in the production of all these articles is shown by com parison of the 1900 figures of production of the United States with those of other countries. The London Daily Mail Year Book puts the pig iron output of 1900 at; United States 13,7Ss,242 tons; United Kingdom, S9OS,570 tons; Germany, S,494- . 852 tons Russia, 2,S210OO tons; France 2,699, ,4e4 tons. With the 1901 figures for the United States 158O0,OO0 tons there can be no question that the United States maintains the lead in iron production.
 Enormous Coal Output.
 That the coal output of the United StateS Tor ly0l VIII SurpaSS that of any other country is evident from a state ment of the above authority the Lon don Daily Mail Year Book which states that 'the United States has for the last two years outstripped us as coal pro- ducing country. In 1900 the United States total output was 245, 422, GOO (metric) tons; that of the United Kingdom, 225, 1S1 ,OO0 tons; Germany, 109,225.0O0 tons; France 32,577 900 tons, and Belgium, 23, 1852, 900 tons." This statement, coupled with the fact that the figures of the United States production in 1901 exceed by 27 million tions those of 1900, make it apparent that the United States was in 1901 clearly in the lead in the worlds coal production.
 As to the precious metals, the estimate of the mint bureau Is that the United States product of both goId and silver exceeds in 1901 that of any other country.
 As to petroleum, while the Russian fig ures of last year slightly exceeded those of the United States, 1t is probable that the enormous total of 66 million barrels, or 2,772. 100000 gallons estimate for the year 1901 places the United States again in the lead in the production of that arti- cle, those figures showing an increase of 110 million gallons as compared with 1Q00