Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-22
BANNER YEAR FOR
MINERAL PRODUCT
Total Value Increased 1928
453 in Twelve Months and
Is Still Growing.

speefaA TO the Evening star.
TRENTON, Aug. 22.-According to
bulletin issued by Assistant State
Geologist George NJ. w. Twitchell, for
the State Geological Survey, New
jerseys mineral industry for 1913
had a total value of LIS, DOL.
This is an increase Of $s23, 453 over the
value of the industry in 1912 and
greater than any other year in the
history of the State. He says 1914 is
liable to exceed this.
While the entire industry showed
this increase, some of it's divisions
showed decreases. The total value of
the zinc mining for the year was
1922, 664, or a decrease Of $204, 527.
Iron mining showed a decrease of
s212,5 the value for 1913 being $780,
BOB.
Clay Output.
The most important division of the
mineral industry in the State is clay
and clay-working. In 1913 it had 205
producers, with a total value of $780,
475,067, a decrease from 1912 of $65, 494.
Mineral water production, with
fourteen producers at a value Of 1885,
546, decreased $21, 1SO, while fifteen
producers Of lime turned out prod
uet of s55,775, a decrease of 50, 466.
The other divisions of the industry all
showed increases.
Portland cement led all the other
divisions of the industry in its in
crease. The three producers in the
state turned out a product worth
1888, 755, an increase over 1912 of
$5S6.657. The figures of the other d.
visions are as follows:
Stone, SO producers; value of prod
uct. 81, 7e4, 6S4; increase, $685. Sand
and gravel, So producers; value ST.
1872, $50: increase, SIS, 410. Sand-Ilme
brick, producers; value, SIS. 757; in
crease. 1888. Mineral paints and
coke and by-products, producers;
value, s2,9S2,177; increase, $780,
Value by Counties.
The value of the industry in the
several counties of the State for the
year was as follows: Sussex, 50, 1884,
S9s; Middlesex, s9,361, 571; Mercer, S.
S43.606; Warren, $4,197,106; Camden,
s2.612. 706; Essex, 1851, ITO: Somerset,
$6s1,s72 Passaic. 1915, All; Burlington,
s5s0,6s1: Monmouth. s53S,127; Bergen,
1884 ISL; Union, $51e,013; Morris, $685.
965; Hunterdon, s499, 101; Hudson,
1891, $50; Cumberland, $22s. 045; Allan
tic, s147,390; Cape May, Ocean.
Gloucester and Salem counties com
bined. $151,s7S.
DIR. Twitchell says there was a
large increase in the zinc production
in the State in 1913, compared with
that of 1912, though "a fall in the
prices during the latter part of the
year brought the total value of the
product down to somewhat less than
1912. He points out that the decrease
in production m the iron industry
was chiefly due to the death of Jo-
seph Wharton, of the Wharton Steel
Company, and the consequent shut
ting down of all the lines of that inn
portant producing company.
The report says there was very
large increase in the total production
of clay and clay products in the State
in 1912, as compared with 1911, this
increase being $7oS,45s.
Middlesex Leads in Clay.
Middlesex led all the counties in
the production of clay mined and sold
raw. its production in 1918 being &c.,
800 short tons, valued at $664,025. The
other counties in the order of their
output of clay mined and sold raw
were: Mercer, Ocean. Burlington,
Camden, Cumberland and Union. The
total amount of clay produced and
sold raw was AS. 135 tons, valued at
$769, $50, an increase of $676S1.
The pottery production for the year
by counties was as follows: Mercer,
30 producers; value, $7,S9S.474I Mid
dlesex. producers; value, $370,026.
Hunterdon. producers; value, $217
452. Camden, 3 producers; value,
s215. 32S. All other counties, 10 pro-
ducers; value. $137. 265.
The production of brick and tile by
the three leading counties in 1918 in
the order OF their rank was: Middle
sex. $s,0S1 ,2O6; Mercer, $720, 022; Mon
mouth, s493 662. Following these were
Somerset, Bergen. Camden, HudSon.
Burlington, Atlantic and others.