St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
MINERAL PAINT INDUSTRY.

Enormous Production of the Principal
! States, Value and Other
Particulars.
The United States geological survey
has recently issued report entitled
1.-THE Production of Mineral Paints in
1909 in which the statement is made
that the natural mineral paints pro-
duced last year amounted to 126,649
short tons, valued at $5,437,275. The
report covers the production of metal
lie paint Gncluding mortar colors),
ochre, lumber, sienna, venetian red,
zinc white, slate, graphite and car
| bonaceous shale and schists. AS
| compared with the production of 1885,
| 694 short tons, valued at $4,960,831
in 1902. the output of 1908 is an in
crease of 955 short tons in quantity
and of SAG, 444 in value. The increase
| in value is due to the increase in the
production of the higher priced pig
ments. @s 81
| During 1903 the production of ochre
in the United States amounted to
1854 short tons, valued at Sill ,625.
This was decrease of 4,O41 short tons
in quantity and of s34,0S3 in value.
| The seven states contributing to this
| output of ochre were Georgia, Penn
| sylvania, Arkansas, Iowa, California,
Vermont and Virginia. Missouri and
Illinois, which were numbered among
the producers of ochre in 1902, report
ed no production during 1909. In Iowa,
Arkansas and Virginia only one pro-
Queer reported any output. The
United States ranked third among the
worlds producers of ochre in 1902:
France is first and Great Britain sec
ond.
Pennsylvania was the only state
that reported any production of
lumber OF sienna during 1903. The
combined production of these two
mineral paints was 666 short tons, val
ued at $15,367, as compared with 669
short tons, valued at S15,546, in 1902, a
decrease of three tons in quantity and
of $179 in value. In 1902 Illinois, Geor-
gia and New York also reported
production of these mineral paints.
The minerals that are used in the
manufacture of metallic paint are
hematite and limonite two of the iron
ores. Although these two minerals
occur in a. great many places in tile
United States, and in enormous depos-
it's, the quantity of available ores that
are suitable for making good metallic
paint is very small, and such ores can
be procured at only a few localities.
The principal localities at which ores
are found that will make a good metal
lie paint are in Oneida, Rensselaer,,
Cattaraugus and Washington coun-
ties New York; Lehigh, Carbon and
Mercer counties, Pennsylvania; Wash
ington and James counties, Tennessee;
and Dodge county, Wisconsin. Suitable
ores have also been mined in small
quantities in Maryland, Arkansas,
California, Illinois, Iowa, Vermont,
Missouri, Ohio, Virginia and Wy
oning. The states that produced met
allie paints in 1903 were Pennsylvania,
New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Wiscon-
sin, Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey
and Virginia. The output amounted
to 1886 short tons, valued at $314,-
901; the production in 1902 was H.
375 short tons, valued at $412,119.
Some of the ore ground for paint is
used as coloring material in mortar
making.
Venetian red is not true mineral
int &c
iron sulphate, commonly called cop
peras," which is itself a manufactured
product, and not natural mineral
substance. During 1908 the produc-
ton of venetian red was 7,425 short
tons, valued at $134,635, as compared
with 11,75S short tons, valued at
$196,905 in 1902, a decrease Of 1888
tons in quantity and of $62, 720 in |
value.
Mineral black is the name applied |
to the product of the dark-colored |
states and shales that are ground for
paint. In 1903 the total quantity of |
these materials used for this purpose
amounted to 7,106 short tons, valued |
at $59,O29, an increase of 3,O35 tons in |
quantity, and of $19,628 in value. as
compared with the production of 4,071 |
short tons, valued at $39,4o1 in 1902.
The lead pigments covered by the |
report are white lead, sublimed lead,
zinc lead, red lead, litharge and
orange mineral. During 1903 the
aggregate production of all lead pig
ments, amounted to 141,4 86 short tons,
valued at S15,711,5 95, an increase of
1906 short tons in quantity. and Ct
$3,05S,S10 in value, as compared with |
the production Of 123,391 short tons,
valued at S12,652,7S5 in 1902. The
report gives interesting details con-
corning the production of these yari-
GUS lead pigments.
This report was prepared by DR..
Joseph Hyde Pratt, and is an extract
from the surveys forthcoming vol
ume, Mineral Resources of the United
States, 1903" 1t may be obtained,
free of charge, on application to the
director Of the United States geolog-
ical survey, Washington, y. C.
AS High as He Went.
Gov. Hayward, of South Carolina,
tells a joke about young Bostonian
who was visiting New York city and
had occasion to go into the Park Row
hui1dipo On roonhiDu tho 4uopty |