The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-01-15
The RICHES or EARTH
Yield Of American Hines Passes the
Billion Dollar Mark.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF MINHRAL OUTPUT
Great Britain Falls Further Behind
In the Production OF Coal-IrOn,
Coke, Petroleum and Precious
Metals Eject OF Strikes.

Washington. Jan. 9.-The value OF
the mineral products OF the United
States in 1900 exceeds FOR the first
time the 81 1000, 0O0. 900 mark. accord
ing to the geological su. vey report on
mineral resources which has Just been
issued. The exact figures were a.
oS7.6OS.6O6. as compared with $751;
900, 1894 in 10, a gain OF $95, 702, 7I2
Iron and &C. alone yielded more than
half OF the s.and total. their combined
value beins over $500 .O0O,O 900. The
statistical .-1luary the production
of the various minerals has already
been published.
The total value at iron mines of the
27,553.161 Long tons produced in 1900
was sec, $50, 5O4. as compared with
S34 .999.077 in 1899. The average price
was $2-42 per long ton, as compared
with SLAP per ton in 1899, a gain OF
70.4 per cent The lowest price per
ton was 50 cents in Texas (where con-
vict labor is an element in mining).
The highest price was S3.T1 in Colora-
do. OF 19,059.393 long tons shipped
from the Lake Superior region in 1900
only 49S.0S7 tons went by rail Over
100000 long tens went to furnaces
at Chicago and in Michigan and Wis
consin; over 15,700,O0O tons went to
lower lake portg. OF which the three
ports of Ashtabula. Cleveland and
Conneaut, in Ohio, received more than
$4,000 tons.
The most important gains in gold
production were in the Seward penin-
sula of Alaska, the Cripple Creek dis
trict of Colorado, and IN Arizona The
yield for the year was valued at S79,-
$4,000, gain of $S.117.600 over 1899.
The silver output was of the COM
mercial value OF S35,741,1 4O. The re-
port notes great activity for the year
in old and new copper properties.
In 1899 the production of coal in the
United States exceeded for the first
time that of Great Britain; in 1900 the
lead over Great Britain was much in.
creased, thus fixing the United States
firmly in the first place among the
worlds producers. Next to this the
most interesting feature of the produc
ton of 1900 was the marked increase
in value compared with the increase
in tonnage. The production in 1900
was 1881 1927 short tons, valued a
$500, S91 1854, the increase over 1879.
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amount and r1ore than $50, OOO, 900 IL
value. The strike in the anthracit,
region cut short it's output by probably
100000 long tons, and cost the miners
something over SiO.00O,OOO in wages
and the strike in the Cumberland re
gion decreased Maryland's production
about 100000 long tons as compared
with 1899. The advance in value o
bituminous coal was unprecedented
The average price per ton has riser
from 81 cents in 1899 to $1.04 in 1900
The export of coal IN 1900 amounte,
to only a little over 3 per cent of tn
total product, imports still smaIIed.
Fully So per cent of the total cox
production in 1900 of 20,53S,34S shor
tons, an increase OF S64.779 tons owe
1899, was taken from the Appalachian
fields, which embrace the great colinl
regions of Pennsylvania, West VII
ginia, Alabama, Virginia and Tennes
see. The average value per short TOT
Of coke at the ovens in 1899 was $1.7e
in 1900 it was 1921.
The crude petroleum production Ell
ceeded all records, large increas
being specially noted in West Virgins
California. Ohio. Indiana and Texas
The Texas development was chiefly II
1901. Over 81 per cent of the tota
production came from the AppaIachial
and Ohio and Indiana fields. The In
dications for 1901 are for largely In
decreased output of petroleum over 1906