Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-16
MINERAL PRODUCTION IN
NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1914;

statistics relating to the production
of ali the minerals and ores Gnclud-
| ing building stones and clay products)
which were mined or quarried IN
North Carolina during 1914 have been
lcollected in cooperation with the y.
S. Geological Survey. These statistics.
with additional information in regard
to the various minerals which are
found in commercial quantity in
! North Carolina, will be published IN
an Economic Paper on the Mining
Industry; but this Press Circular has
been prepared in order to give these
figures immediate publicity.
The total value of the mineral pro-
duction of North Carolina for the fiscal
wear ending December 81, 1914, shows
decrease as compared with the value
of the production for 1913, but an in
crease over the value of any year pre-
yious to 1913. The total value of all
mineral products in North Carolina
in 1914 was $3,748,S24, as compared
with S3,877 ,240 in 1913-a decrease OF
S128,416. AS compared with the 1912
production, there is an increase OF
s233, 1892. The value of the 1913 pro-
duction is the highest yet recorded.
and the 1914 production would un-
doubtedly have shown an increase
over the 1913 but for the unsettled
conditions consequent upon the Euro
pean war.
AS noted before, clay products and
stone to be the two largest mineral
Industries of the State. In 1914 the
value of all clay products amounted
to $1,625,627, as compared with ST.
Isl, $50 in 1918, decrease of $126,323.
Under "Clay Products is included the
production of kaolin, which in 1914
was $164,837, an increase of $2o, 1913
over the production of $139,644. The
principal decrease in clay products in
1914 was due to the decrease in the
production of common brick
Under the heading of Stone is in
cluded granite, sandstone; marble and
limestone. The total value of their
production during 1914 amounted to
$1,452, 405, an increase of $192O66 as
compared with the 1913 production of
$1,26O,339. This increase is largely
due to the increase in the production
of granite. The 1914 production of
granite amounted to $1,286,345, as
compared with $1,116,475 in 1913, an
increase of $169,870. The demand for
North Carolina granite is constantly
increasing, and its reputation as a
building and monumental stone is be-
coming nationwide.
Mica holds third place in the value
of North Carolina mineral production,
and amounted during 1914 to $195,270.
This is a decrease of ST., 643 under the
1913 production, which is undoubtedly
due to the unsettled conditions Of
trade during the latter half of 1914.
There was slight increase in the
production of gold and silver during
1914, the entire production amount
ing to $131,984. There was slight
production of copper during 1914.
amounting to $2,718, but no reported
production of lead and zinc.
Through 1913 there was a steady
increase in the production of iron ore,
but 1914 saw a falling off in this pro-
duction of over fifty per cent. The
1914 production amounted to $100,917
This was a decrease of $110,874 under
the 1913 production of $211,791. All
of this production came from the fam
Gus Cranberry Mine in Avery county.
Other minerals produced in the
State during 1914, given in the order
of the value of their production, are:
Sand and Gravel; Feldspur; Barytes;
Tale and Soapstone; Mineral Waters;
Quartz; Millstones: and Precious
Stones.