The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-16
UTAH WAS THIRD
IN LEAD OUTPUT
Missouri and Idaho Exceeded
Production of Utah During
Past Season.
LESS LEAD PRODUCED
THAN DURING 1907
Production by States Given by
Engineering and Min
ing Journal.


rchners show that the production OF
refined lead in the United States in
1908 was 4l3.S6S tons as compared
to 1916 tons in 1907. Details Of the
production are given IN the sub bloncd
table. which shows the production OF
Missouri and Kansas lead according to
groups Of smelterS. the siuge smclter
in Kansas being included in "South,
west Missouri, and the two smeltcrs
in Illinois, near St. Louis, III "Sonth-
east Missouri. The lead that is en-,
tered as 90 desilvcrized - is the produc,
tion of desiIverizing refuers other than
those included in the two groups above
mentioned. The present conditions of
lead smelling in the United States do
not permit of any accurate, and at the
same time rational, classification. SAYS
the Engineering and Mining Journal.
PRODUCTION OF REFINED LEAD.
1,os,,;5s-,., Class ,lsls. 1905 1905
Antimonal go. 49,. 49,. 96i4 a
Southeast Missouri -. .1oS,5l0 lis. los
Southwest Missouri ....... iIS%$ ls.ol4
Miscellaneous -. =. -, 100 49,.
Total domestic ~ 35o.lao 3ls.S7s
Dcsilverized. foreign 49,, 16,ol6 1892
(aJ The production OF antimoniai lead
IN 1905 was 1903 tons; in the above ta
BILE it is included with the lead entered as
reslverlzed.
The above statistics include consd
erabe quantity Of lead refined from
scrap and old metal which is reworked
by several of the rehncrS whose princi-
pal business is the refining of base
bullion OF virgin origin. There is.
moreover, a considerable production Of
lead by smelters who make a business
of reworking old metal only. To some
extent they market their product as pig
lead, and to some extent they refine
IL as an alloy, which is marketed 1t
is difficult TO draw the line where sta
tistical enumeration should cease in
this respect. In 1907 the production of
such reclaimed pig lead was 1890 tons,
while the production in the form of
allows was 15,50S tons. Iu 1908 the
production of pig lead from old ma
terial was 1923 tons. 1t is probable
that the reports OF this industry are
incomplete both for 1907 and 1905.
The statistics Of lead Of foreign
origin as reported by the refncrs do
not agree exactly with the reports of
imports by the bureau of statistics of
The department of commerce and labor,
which in 1907 entered the importation
OF lead in ore and base bullion AS TO-
'j33 tons; and in 1905 rs 109, ,2S6 tons.
The discrepancy in 1907 is partly ac-
counted FOR by the item of antimonial
lead. which is recorded IN the above
table as wholly of domestic origin,
whereas large part Of it was doubt
less of foreign origin. However, dis.
crepancies are explained anyway by
metal in transit, process Of refining,
and accumulated stocks
The distribution of the domestic pro
duction of virgin lead is given as near
ly as possible in the second table. The
total for this table does not agree with
that of the first table because % lead
derived from scrap is excluded, and
(2) the figures iii this table are based
10 Il large extent upon the reports of
the producers Of work lead. which obvi-
ously show the origin Of the metal
much better than the reports of the
rciincrs can do. Differences between
the reports of smeIters and refners
are. of course, explained by metal in
transit. treatment, etc