The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19
LEAD PRODUCTION IN 1911.
Advance Publication Of the Final Fig
ures by the United States
Geological Survey.

1 AE 1u4LEu OLdlCH 1El4O6ALdA Jul
yey has just issued its annual advance
statement Of lead production for 1911.
This statement, prepared by c. Z.
Siebenthal, gives the final figures Of
output as made up directly from re-
ports from all lead smelters in opera
ton during the year. Preliminary es-
Inmates of the production in 1911 OF
lead, zinc, copper, and some other
metals were published by the survey
January 2, 1912 These preliminary
figures for lead are shown by com
parison with the final figures to have
been one-ninth OF 1 per cent, or 544
tons, in excess of the actual produc-
ton.
Missouri held first place in the pro
duction of lead, with an output of 1872
207 short tons, and also made the
greatest increase for the year, the
gain over 1910 being 20,54S tons. Idaho
ranking second in production, with
117,159 tons, made also the second
greatest gain, 1926 tons. Arizona
had an output of $3.50 tons, as com
pared with 858 tons in 1910 Utah
produced 55,l98 tors. a falling of OF
about 1000 tons Colorado, with an
output of 30,621 tons, lost over 5000
tons as compared with 1910 The pro
duction of lead from African ore fell
off, being 500 tons as against $500 in
1910 The lead of Mexican origin like
wise suffered a big reduction, chiefly
due to political conditions in that
country. The total production of lead
of foreign origin was 94,134 tons, as
compared to 10S,553 tons in 1910.
The total production of refined lead
in the United States from both domes-
tic and foreign ores was 4S6,975 tons
as compared with 470,38O tons in 1910,
gain of 1886 tons, or 3.5 per cent
The total production, including anti
monial lead, was, for the first time
more than half million tons, the ex
act figures being sol ,053 tons. OF the
refined lead produced, 295,375 tons
was desilversized lead. and 155,947
tons was soft lead, in addition to which
there was 1851 tons Of desilversized
soft lead. The gain in soft-lead pro
duction over 1910 was 22,374 tons
which compared with the total gain
for the year, 1886 tons, shows that
the output of desilyerized lead fell of
5,779 tons The antimonial lead pro
duction for the year was l4,07S tons
practically the same as in 1910.
One table in the statement shows
the recovery of secondary lead from
dresses, old metal, etc, both as pig
lead and rejuyenated lead alloys
Othe rtables give the exports of lead
as well as the imports by countries
and by classes.
There is also given a list of the lead
smelters and refineries, including
those idle in 1911 as well as those
operating or under construction. a
diagram covering the period from 1906
to 1911 inclusive shows by curves the
average weekly price of lead at New
York and at London. The average
New York price for the year was 4.5
cents per pound, and as shown by the
curve is was nearly stationary for the
year The London price gradually
rose during the later half of the year
and reached the highest level since
1907 The result is seen in the in
crease in the exports of foreign lead
from 1885 tons in 1910 to 119.907 tons
in 1911 This is correlated with re
duction of stocks of foreign lead in
bonded warehouse from 35.972 tons in
1910 to 4,481 tons at the close of 1911.
A copy of this statement may be
had without charge by addressing the
Director, United States Geological
Survey, Washington. D. c.