The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-28
Mineral Production of the United
States In 1901.

esting and valuable summary of the |
mineral production of 1901 as COM
pared with the corrected statistics |
for other recent years.
In 1901, for the second time the
total value of our mineral production |
exceeded the enormous sum of ST.
000000,000, the exact figures being |
81 086, 529,521, as compared with ST.
063, 620,54S in 1900, and with 1872
152,208 in 1889, gain of 1901 over
1900 of $22,90S,973, or 215 per cent
and a gain of 1901 over 1899 of STA
377,313, or ILL per cent.
The notable gains and losses of the
last two decades are as follows:
The largest actual gain was that of
1899 over 1898, $273, 601,S $40 or 39.17
per cent; next that of 1900 over 1899,
$91, 468,340, or 9.41 per cent; then the
gain of 1895 over 1894, which was
$94,215,822, or 1888 per cent and the
gain Of 1887 over 1886, $74,927,8 $50, or
1851 per cent In other years than
those mentioned between 1880 and
1898 the gains were not noteworthy,
and in some of the years, notably in
1884 the production decreased $4O,-
45l 1868, or nearly 9 per cent. During
the industrial depression of 1892-1895
the production would have been ex-
pected to decline, as it did, going
from $64S, ,031 in 1892 to $574, 464,-
724 in 1885, to $527, 079,225 in 1894,
and then raising to 1921 ,295,O47 in
1895, and not reaching the output of
1892 until 1898.
AS heretofore, iron and coal are
the most important of our mineral
products. The value of iron in 1901
was $242,174,0 900, as compared with
$3.50, 944 900 in 1900, and the value of
coal was $34S,910, 469, as compared
with $306, 1911 1854 in 1900
1t is to be noted thate tn total
amount of time lost from strikes in
the coal industry, 1901, was only
733,S02 working days, as compared
with 1881 02 working days lost from
strikes in 1900, with 2,124,154 days
thus lost in 1899, and with something
like 20,000,000 working days thus far
All of the important metals de-
creased in both output and value
with the exception of the production
of pig iren and zinc, and among the
less important metals the most re
markable increase both in quantity
and value was made in platinum
,408 ounces valued at $27,526, as
i compared with 400 ounces valued a
$4,000 in 1900, a gain of 1.001 pei
+ cent in value. The fuels increased
/ from $406,359 ,351 in 1900 to SAP, 1895,
/ 304 in 1901, gain of $36,035,9 O.
e increased in value except petroleum
II which showed an increase in quantit
of 5,768,665 barrels, but decline o
II $9571 ,978, due largely to the less val
G liable character of the increased pro
u duct of the new petroleum fields a
II compared with the older fields. An
y thracite coal increased 9,021, 207 loni
II tons in output and $26,746,169 il
I. value. The average price of anthrs
81 cite coal per ton at the mine wa
= $2.05, the highest figure obtaine
III since 1888, as compared with $1.8
le in 1900 ard $3.50 in 1899; and tn
y average price per ton for bituminou
TO coal at the mine was $1.05, about on
cent more per ton than in 1900.
se The gain of 22,908,973 is due ell
N tirely to the increase in nonmetalli
d. products, since the metallic product
showed a decline from $550,425,2e
lie in 1900 to $51S,26S,377 in 1901, los
e. OF $32,15 800, whereas the nonmeta
u, lie products increased from 1872 1875
OF 262 in 1900 to 1857 ,261,1 in 1901,
Oh gain of $55,O65,SS2. To these pr
" ducts should be added estimated u,
specified products, incluing the raj
We minerals, lithium, tungsten, vanad
~ UNI, uranium, ETC., bismuth and cry
Vi talline quartz, valued at 100000
III making the total mineral productiC
10 for 1901, $1,0S6, 529, SCI.
he For the first time since 1885 tt
"S production of bismuth in the Unite
5. States is noted in this report. TT
~ manufacture or arsenious oxide w;
IL taken up for the first time in Il
VI United States, in 1901 by the Pug
ns Sound Reduction company at Seattl
Sc Wash, when an output of 800 sho
ne tons were placed on the market. F
gu the first time also, in 1901, the pr
y duction of rutile on a large scale w
Va realized by the American Rutile COZ
u" pany from deposits in Nelson count
ny Va, whose output amounted
about 10000 pounds,
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