The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-12
STATE MINERALS
MORE VALUABLE
Mining Industry Shows a Sub
StantiaI Increase
ZINC PRODUCTION is LARGE
August Mortality Highest of the Year
Utility Commission to Hold Hear
ing on Proposed Regulations for
Electrical SuppIy-Jersey News.
Especial Trenton Correspondence

Electrical SuppIy-Jersey News.
Especial Trenton Correspondence.)
Trenton.-The State Geological Sur
vey, in a forthcoming bulletin pre-
pared under the direction of State
Geologist Henry B. Kummel and AS
sistant State Geologist M. W. Twitch-
ell, shows that the value of the min
era industry of New Jersey for the
year that closed December 81 last was
S40,3 ,548, an increase of $2,675,137
over the previous year.
Few realize that New Jersey
stands first in the zinc production of
the Eastern States. That the State
stands high in clay products is known
to everybody, but the other mineral
products are not as well known. Mr..
Kummell shows in this report that
New Jersey last year produced $685.
191 in zinc, an increase of $797,410
over the previous year; $40, 540,561 of
clay and clay working products, an in
creas of l ,703, 456 over 1911; $1,192,-
S16 of iron, an increase Of $35,545;
$1,738,473 of stone, increase $114, $50;
$1,146,640 of sand and gravel, increase
$87,714; $3,052, 09S Portland cement,
decrease $48,543; $2O9,726 mineral
waters, decrease 1897; sand-lime brick
1924, decrease $10,786; $2,S12,424
mineral paints, >coke and by-products,
increase $205, 154; $454 miscellaneous.
The bulletin will go on to say that
the only operating zinc mines are near
Franklin Furnace, Sussex county, that
the active iron mines are in the High
lands and extend from near Ring
wood, Passaic county, by way of Hi
hernia and Dover, in Morris county, to
Oxford Furnace, neal Belvidere, in
Warren county; limestone is quarried
in Sussex, Warren, Morris and Hun
terdon counties; trap rock quarries
chiefly in the TriasSic area, and are
scattered all along the ridges includ-
ing the Palisades, Watching Noun
tains, Rocky Hill, etc.; slate at only
two points in Sussex county; granite
in the Highlands around Pompton-
rassaic county, Waterloo, in Sussex
county, and German Valley and Hi
hernia, in Morris county; sandstone
quarries are mostly near Stockton,
Byram, Princeton and Wilburthia, and
the only tale and soapstone quarry is
near Phillipsburg.
Most of the clay pipe and clay work
ing plants are located along the Gre
taceous belt extending from Wood
bridge, Middlesex county, to Salem, in
Salem county, although quite a num-
Der are scattered over the rest of the
State. All of the operating Portland
cement plants are in Warren county,
ear Phillipsburg; the only coke
works at Camden; sand-lime brick are
at West Palmyra, Burlington county,
Penhyrn and Haddonield, Camden
county, and Rockaway, Morris county.
The mineral plants are at Newark,
in Essex county, Lincoln, in Middlesex
county, and Graselli, in Union county.
Sand and gravel are found in sixteen
out of the twenty-one counties of the
State, with all of the southern counties
having these pits.
ZInCs
Going into the production of zinc,
Mr.. Kummell shows that for 1912 New
Jersey produced 139, 510,008 pounds, as
against 4,381,3O0 produced in Tennes-
see, the next highest zi~nc-producing
State in the Union, and that in tons
New Jersey produced last year 459,58
tons, to Tennessee's less than "a, 200
tons, the next largest zinc ore produc-
ing State. Five million one hundred
and sixteen thousand two hundred and
seventy-three tons of zinc have been
mined in this State since 1880.
Iron.
New Jersey sinks into insigni1-
canoe in iron production, but is still
ninth in that production with 364,637
tons last year, as against the 34,431,-
76S produced in Minnesota, the heav-
lest State producer.
The State Geologist goes on to say
that while there was a decrease OF
101, sol long,tons of iron produced last
year in this State there was an in
crease Of $34,545 in the value of the
amount marketed. Nineteen million
eight hundred and fourteen thousand
nine hundred and s~ixty-seven tons Of
iron have been produced in New Jer-
sey since 1870.
Pig Iron and Steel.
Thirty-six thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six long tons of pig iron
were produced in New Jersey for 1912,
and the decline of this once very i'm
portant production is shown as fol-
lows: 225.372 long tons produced in
1908; 294,474 produced in 1909; 1884,
ISL in 1870; 1868 in 1911; 38,S76 last