Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-23
PRODUCTION OF MINERAL.
Estimates Greater Than in Any Pre-.
ceeding Year.
LEAD IN MINERALS.

Estimates Of the mineral products
of the United States, which have just
reached the treasury bureau Of Stats
tics, indicate that they will exceed in
nearly every particular those Of any
preceding year. Not only will they
exceed those of any preceding year,
but exceed in nearly every case those
of every other country. In gold, in sill
yer, in iron, in steel, in copper, in
coal and in mineral oil the products of
the United States in 1901 exceed those
of any other country, and in every in
stance, except possibly copper, surpass
her own record in any preceding year.
The estimates Of gold and silver pro-
duction are from the mint bureau, and
mineral oil from the Engineering and
Mining Journal. These estimates put
the gold production Of 1901 at $780,
21S, 800, against 79,171,000 in 1900,
which was the highest record in gold
production that the United States had
ever made. They put the silver pro-
duction of 1901 at $685. SS ounces
against 57,647, 900 ounces in 1900. The
pig production is estimated at Is. 800.
900 long tons, against 13,7S9.242 long
tons in 1900, in which year the figures
exceeded those of any preceding year.
The coal production is estimated at
267 $50 1000 long tons, against 240, $685..
917 long tons in 1900, the year of high.
est production heretofore. or petrol.
cum the production is estimated at
&c, 200, 900 barrels, or 2,772, 900 900 gal
Ions, against 2,661, 233, 56S gallons in
1900. the year of largest production
heretofore.
OF copper the production is esti.
mated at sos, 900 900 pounds, or 265 CPS
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 a smaller figure of pro
duction than hat Of last year.
That these figures clearly put the
United States in the lead in the pro
duction of all these articles is shown
by a comparison 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, 1879, 242 tons; United King
dom, S,90S, $40; Germany, S,494,S52;
Russia, 1921, 900; France, 2,699,494
With the 1901 figures for the United
States, $500, 900 tons, there can be
NJ question that the United States
maintains the lead in iron production
That the coal output of the United
States for 1901 will surpass that OF
any other country is evident from g
statement Of the above authority, the
London Daily Mail Year Book, which
states that the United States has fol
the last two years outstripped us as
a coal-producing country. In 1900 the
United States total output was 245,
1922, metric, tons; that Of the United
Kingdom, 225, 1S1 900; Germany, 100,
225 5000; France, 32,577, 900; Belgium
with the fact that the figures of thu
United States production in 1901 ex
coed by 1000, 900 IONS those of 1900
make it apparent that the United
States was in 1901 clearly in the lea,
in the worlds coal production.
AS to the precious metals, the esti
mate of the mint bureau is that thu
United States product Of both golC
and silver exceeds in 1901 that of an.
other country.
AS to petroleum, while the Russian
figures of last year slightly exceeded
those of the United States, it is prob
able that the enormous total of &C, 900
900 barrels, or 2,l72, 900, 900 gallons, es
timated for the year 1907, places tn
United States again in the lead in tn
production of that article, these fg
ures showing an increase of 10000
900 gallons, as compared with 1900.