The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-09
LIST OF WANING SUPPLIES
IN MINE RESOURCE STUDY
Figures of John Dalzs Show the Great Extent Of the Ma
tional Wealth Contributed by Mines aud tho Urgenf
Need for Preventing the Waste of These Natural
Resoutcss--Conservaton copgrsss Rteeives
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( Washington, Dec. 9.-The inven-
tory of the mineraI resources of the
un,ted oUates wnicn the Section OF
minerals oil the National Conservation
commission, under the Chairrhansnip
OF Representative John Dalzell of
pennsylvania, has made during the
summer and fall is long list of wan
ing supplies. This was shown by
tho report of the Section belore the
JOINT Conservation Conference, which
summarizes the figures of the coun-
trys mineral wealth. Some of the
main features OF This report were as
follows:
WHAT WE HAVE.
Tho mineral production Of the Unit
ed States, nolw exceeds $4,000 OOO,0OO
in value every year, and is second on
~ TO agriculture as contribution to
our National wealth 1t furnishes
pdr light, heat and power, and sup
plies G5 per csnt Of the freight traffic
Of the country. ", 'H''' "''
The waste in the mining and treat
rffent of mlheral substances during a.
year is equivalent to more than three
MILTON dollars. '"''h''- -''''
tsb'e1G 8hHE FttfIS.'H "1"' u''
'@0f all our minerals the fuels, which
stpply Heat, light and power for do
Ihcstic as we'll as Industrial purposes,
are the most fundamentally essential
to the Nation. The use of the fuels
involves their immediate and COM
| pleie destruction. The use OF large
supplies of other materials also in
creases the rate of consumption OF
the fuels for both metallurgical and
manufacturing purposes, for as the
Nation has now passed its early de-
velopment stage, manufacturing and
consequently, the use of the fuels
will increase much more rapidly than
population. 'n ~" ...,I
EXHAUSTION 0F coat. 29
The available and easily, accessible
! supplies OF coal in the United States
aggregate approximately 1,462;SO0.OOO,-
VVU Ioilo' NJ EhS piSPSlptt ~ u St'Sih q
rate of production this supply, will be
50 depleted as TO approach exhaustion
4 before the middle Of the next century.
From the Ibdginning, OF coal mining
in this country down to the, close, of
1907, there We're mined 6,S65 900, 900
tons, and it is estimated that for ev-
4 cry ton produced half a ton has been
/ lost or wasted, so that tne above pro-
duction REPRESENTS an exhaustion of
the coal supply 20 january 1, 1908,
aggregating 10200,OB0,000 tons The
rate of production has been steadily
increasing.
The first step in extending the life
of our fuel supply according to the
report, should be to lessen the waste
in mining, handling and transporta-
tion of coal. But there are equally
great possible savings, 1t says, In the
use of the coal, not ouly in the pre-
vention OF waste now recognized as
4 such, but also in discovering means
OF avoiding the losses involved in the
Transformation Of heat INT mechanical
andse.eGtrlcal energy t2e'@ "h
d nsL NJ 'a.IRoN. aii 20 o'E
' The known supplies of high grade
q Iron ores in the" United States ap.
proXimate 3,Sio, ,O6S 900 tons, which AZ
Il the present increasing rate OF con!
. sumption can not be expected 20 last
\ beyond 'theImiddle OF the present cen
u tury If the average increase hi thu
n fpfcduction OF coal (which has beet
i4 shoiwn in the past, should be contin
ued, 1t would require the production
during the noxt three decades of g.,
100000 tons. Il is evident, there
fore, that before 1910 either the pro
ductlon will have reached maximum
and begin to decline, or large us,
must be made of low grade ores no
now classed as available, or the i'm
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