The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-21

official ascertainment the net cost
per pound Of lead produced in that
State Is a trife over 4 cents-approA
imately 4 cents-per pound.
That cost Is made up in this way:
First, the wages Of men and salaries
Of superintendent, foremen, ard SO
forth, at mines and mills aggregate,
per pound Of lead produced &c cents;
taxes and miscellaneous expenses o 3
Of cent; fuel, timber, supplies, and
SO forth, 0.S Of I cent; freight and
sampling ores and concentrates, o.
OF 1 cent; smelling, 81 cents; freight
on bullion and refining, cent; re-
demption Of original investmet for
development and equipment, O.5 Of
cent. The total of these percent
ages Is SO per cent. So that, IL we
had to consider the lead alone, every
pound Of lead produced IN the State
Of Utah would cost, to produce 1t, SO
cents per pound.
AS I have already stated, however,
all of the lead-bearing ores in that
State carry associated with them
silver and gold and when we cred
the amount Of gold and silver which
runs with each pound OF lead It
amounts to 40 cents. Without al.
lowing any part Of the cost to the
production of the gold and silver,
that brings down the cost Of the lead,
as ! stated, to 4 cents per pound.
I think It is utterly impossible in
that State to produce lead at less
price per pound than that; and
think what is true of that State is
true OF the other States of the Rocky
Mountain region. | am speaking of
the producing mines. There are more
non-producing mines in every State
than there are those which produce.
/ suppose that of the mines which
ere in actual operation in every one
OF the Rocky Mountain States today
three Of them are beng worked at
loss where one of them is being
worked at profit. This computation
includes only those which are being
worked at profit, and leaves en-
tirely out of consideration the non.
producing properties.
! have a statement here with ref
erence to that subject:
AN analysis of the reports made
to the State Board of Equal cation of
Utah shows that out OF 141 goldfish
YER mines IL of them realized net
proceeds, because their output was
essential precious metals; IS mines
mad net proceeds derived from the
combination of gold, silver, and lead
and the remaining III mines had no
net proceeds at all.
when We come to the countr es
which are producing lead in competi.
ton with us, the situation is altogeth-
er different. Our greatest compel
tor has been Mexico. | think It s
quite true that for little while dur.
ing the disturbed conditions in Mexi.
co our mines may be able to run
along, because, while the cond lions
In Mexico continue as they are now,
the production of lead in Mexico will
be very much curtailed. But the
moment peace is restored, the mo-
ment normal conditions return to the
Republic of Mexico and the m mes
resume their normal operations, then
at once Mexico becomes an import
ant competitor, and the most import
ant competitor, as 1t has been In the
past. 49, .,,t.A.,,,,
Now, wish to call attention to the
condit ons under which lead is pro
duced in that Republic. In centra
Mexico an ordinary miner gets 37h
cents to 80 cents per day, except II
some or the larger camps. Tha
statement Is taken from an article en-
titled Efficiency Of Mexican labor.
printed in the Eng neering and Min
ing Journal for October, 1908. Tha
means 37h to so cents in gold, no
in Mexican money.
| From the report of Vice Consul C.
NJ Leonard, Of Chihuahua, OF dat
February 3, 1911, on Mexican minin
labor, take this statement:
THE following wages per day @
10 hours are paid IN one of the lari
est mining camps in Mexico, 20 mile
from Chihuahua, the wages being II
duced TO United States currency Nil
ers, 81; carmen, rs cents to 81; ."
timbermen, $3.50; - top laborer
Is cents; : The above wages appl
practically to all mines in the norti
ern tier of States, but decrease som,
what as one goes south.
From another art Gle appearing /
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