Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-12
CENSUS DATA
ON smelling
MANY CONCERNS ENGAGED IN
COPPER, LEAD AND ZINC
SMELLING.

The bureau of the census has just
issued bulletin No. sc. which con-
tains special reports on copper. lead
and zinc smelling and refining. These
reports which form part of the cen
sus of manufactures of 1905, were
prepared by Story B. Ladd, under the
supervision of William NJ. Steuart,
chief statistician for manufactures.
The statistics included in the bulle-
/ tin are for the calendar year 1904,
with the exception of those for Mich
igan. which cover the year ending
June 80, 1904
THE COMBINED INDUSTRY.
According to these statistics, 1913
establishments were reported as en-
gagged in the combined industry of
copper, lead and zinc smelling and
refining Their combined capital was
! 4,349,036. They employed &c.
| $50 wage earners, paid $2O,05S,2O0
in wages, consumed materials costing
/ $3S2. 723,4S0, and manufactured
products to the value of $451,39S,-
1854.
COPPER THE MOST IMPORTANT.
AT the census of 1900 the lead
smelling refining industry was. the
most important of the three Branch
es, and copper was second; but at the
census of 1905 the positions were re-
versed. AT the latter census the
copper industry supplied 46.S per
cent of the capital, 47.5 per cent of
the wage earIers, and 1913 per cent
of the value OF the products. while
the lead industry furnished 1878 per
cent of the capital, 1872 per cent OF
the wage earners and Alp per cent
of the value of the products. That
the growth of the copper industry has
been greater than the growth of the
lead is partially due to an increase in
the practice of smelling the dry ores
of the precious metals with copper in
stead of lead ores.
COPPER SMELLING AND RE-
FINING.
Copper smelling and refining was
the principal industry of forty estab-
lishments, the combined capital of
which was $76,S24.64O. These es-
Establishments furnished employment
to 1852 wage earners, paid $1O,-
S27,O49 in wages, consumed mater
ials costing $196.736,9 $50 and manu-
featured products to the value Of
S240,7S0,216.
/ When compared with the figures
or the census of 1900 those of 1905
show decrease of 14.9 per cent in
the number of establishments, but an
increase of AS per cent in capital,
or 12.6 per cent in wage earners, OF
! 26.9 per cent in wages, of 81 per cent
in cost of materials, and of ass per
cent in the value of products,
COPPER REFINED IN THE EAST.
| The growth of the industry. how
ever, has not been uniform in the
| sections east and west of the Missis-
/ sippi The figures reveal a tendency
4 toward the growth and concentration
| of the refining industry in the eastern
!. territory. In 1900 this territory re-
/ ported only 86.S per cent of the re-
4 fining, while in 1905 it reported 98.S
i no 40
4 western establishments are now CON
H fined almost entirely to smelling.
with, in majority eff cases, the con-
i version 'of the matte into blister cop-
per. which is electrolytically refined
in the east
GOLD AND SILVER BY-PRODUCTS.
At the census of / 9O5 the product
of smelling was valued at $SS,374,-
$50 and that of refining at $149.711,.
PA. The products of smelling con
sisted roughly of 539,0O0.0O pounds
of fine copper contents of blister or
anodes, valued at $50, 900; So
i 100000 pounds of fine copper con
tents of matte, valued at $4,000, 900;
22,00O,OO0 ounces of silver, valued at
$l2,000,000; and $4,000 ounces Of
gold, valued at $4,000, 600. The pro-
ducts of refining consisted roughly of
954, 100000 pounds of ingots. wire.
bars, etc, valued at $4,000, 900:
2S,O00.0O0 pounds of blue vitriol,
valued at $1,000, 900; $4,000, 600
ounces of silver, valued at 5000,
900; and $4,000 ounces of gold, val
ucd at $13,000,000. Thus it appears
that the product of the precious met
ais resulting from smelling and re-
filming copper is valued at about $29,-
100000. In 1900 the product of the
precious metals>resulting from smelt-
ing and refining copper was a little
more than $4,000. 900.
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