The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-21
METAL OUTPUT Of
IDAHO INCREASED
Twenty-one Million Dollars
Worth of Metal Produced
Last Year.
BIG ZINC INCREASE
Good Metal Market Helped
the Miner of Copper and
Silver-Lead.

The value OF the mine output of gold.
silver, copper, lead and zinc in Idaho In
1912, according TO C. N. Gerry OF the
United States geological survey, was
S21.46s,52l, against S19,10O,s94 In 1911
There were increases I'm the prod Guction
OF all metals in 1912. The change was
only slight in gold and silver, but there
wero considerable increa ses In the out
put OF copper, lead and zinc Shoshone
county. or the Coeur d'Alene region.
yielded metals valued at s1s,313. .60l, an
increase OF over s2,0c0,O 600.
Tho production of gold was valued at
S,Ss1,214. only slightly more than that
of tho output OF 1911, The gold obtained
by dredging IS materially Increasing In
valued at SS32,o2s, or nearly half the
entire gold output against sz04. 327 in
1911 Boise county leads all others in
put. Deep mines produced gold valued
at s74e.1S5, against s96S. 06O in 1911. Crude
ore shipped TO smelters contained 81,
1887 ounces OF gold. concentrates 40o4 %
ounces and bullion from gold and sill
Yer mills 27,0159+ ounces. Sliceous ores
produced the bulk of the gold output,
or 2es5s,42 ounces; copper ore, 2oae.al
lead-zinc ore, 491.4S ounces.
Silver Output.
The silver output was s,2o4.745 ounces.
an increase of only eS,6o9 ounces. or less
@ pes Sss oWnr vane ,o tbs Ssttsr
price of the metal. Increases were made
In Custer and Shoshone counties. The
latter, comprising the Coeur d'Alene re-
Glon supplied over 90 per cent of the to-
tai, or I,55S,314 ounces. The main dis
tricts produced as follows: Hunter, l.
s1s;0S2 , ounces; GoI ILellaande Ella sos4.2S1 ounces,
and freka, 3.005, ounces The great
er part OF the Idaho silver yield, or H.
0S5,5s6 ounces. came from lead ore: 51s,-
oeI 2SS ounces S from lead-zinc ore. 45l.91s
ounces from from copper ore. and cS2,oS3
me production OF copper increased
slightly in quantity. but nearly doubled
n ss.I iare n fron1 Slss ssI p1gnds valued at
ued at S1,236,2o5, In 1912. Most OF the
copper came from crude ore shipped
from from mines In Custer and shoshone coun-
ments from the Empire property in Gus
ter county, but the Lost Packer smelter
was not operated. Both crude copper
ore and concentrates were shipped from
the Snowstorm mine at Larson.
Big Lead Increase.
The The production OF lead in Idaho in
sl2, ,7Ss, S65. against 2TS. S.55s5a5 pounds.
Of 11.e29,1Sa pounds. or over per cent
shoshone county supplied 2e4652, 0da
pounds from Occur d'Alene mines Mines
in the Hunter district produced 5l.703,-
451 pounds. the Summit district 1850, 357
pounds and the Yrella district 12S.57s, OIL
pounds LeRlhi county produced 1885,
sos pounds. only slightly more than in
1911, and Blaine county supplied only
1878. s3S pounds. Concentrates contained
most Of the lead. or 07.5S2, $50 pounds.
and crude ore shipped directly to smelt-
ers contained 6.593,6 $50 pounds.
Records were again broken by ship
ments OF zinc ore and concentrates IN
1912. These resulted IN an output OF 49,
905. .5o2 pounds of spelter. valued at $685.
4Te. With the exception Of a few ship
ments from Blaine county, the entire
output came from mines In Shoshone
county. The increase of 6.565, 253 pounds
is to be credited largely to the Success
anG Morning mines, Less than 5 per cent
of the output came from crude zinc ore
shipped TO smelters.
There were 40s producing mines in
Idaho in 1912, against S74 In 1911. OF
these, 17S were deep mines and 235 were
placers. The total ore shipped and treat
ed was 2.266,334 tons, against 2,170, 897
tons In 1911 OF this tonnage, 82,56S tons
were treated in gold and silver mills,
1885. .527 tons concentrated and 1S3,S2S
tons shipped In a crude state