The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-07-30
ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION IN
 1914

The Arizona mines in 1914 yielded
 gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc val
 ued at $59 ,956 ,029, against $70,S75,O27
 in 1913, a decrease of $1O,91S,99S, as
 reported by Victor c. Heikes, of the
 United States Geological Survey. ! The gold produced in Arizona in
 1914 amounted to 202, ,16662 ounces,
 valued at $4,179,155, an increase of
 $155,244 Of this output, $30,14O came
 from placers, $3,051,7O2 from dry or
 siliceous ore, and $1 ,051 ,014 from cop lper ore. The largest production of
 golo was from Mohave county, S1,S91,-
 214 in 1914, against $1,S74,547 in 1913. Gold production from ores amalga-
 mated amounted to $259,063 and from
 ores cyanided $2,157 ,0S0. Concentrates ] contained $31S, ,166 and ores shipped to smelters $1, 410,606.
 Silver production from Arizona ores
 and placers increased from 3,94S,O91
 ounces, valued at $2,3S4,647, in 1913
 to 4,377 ,994 ounces, valued at $2, ,421 ,O31
 in 1914. Of this output, 2,604,371 ozs.
 came from copper ore, 1,133,976 ozs.
 from dry or siliceous ore, and 49S,226
 ounces from lead ore. Bullion recOv- cred from gold and silver ores, princi- pally by cyanidation, yielded 617,O49
 ounces of silver in 1914; concentrates produced 423,9S2 ounces; and crude
 ore shipped to smelters contained 3,2S0,66 ounces. Oochise county mines produced 2,753,953 ounces of silver in 1914, against 2, 2,127,191 ounces in 1913, and Yavapai county 7S6,917 ounces in 1914, against S54,049 ounces in 1913. The copper output from Arizona
 ores, principally from crude ores and concentrates, decEeased from 4O7,-
 923, ,402 pounds, valued at $63, ,22S,127,
 in 1913, to 393, ,017 400 pounds, valued at $52 ,271, ,314, in 1914, but Arizona
 continues at the head of the list of copper producing states. The concen-
 trateS produced contained 15S,9S5,3O6
 pounds of the output in 1914, and the crude ore shipped to smelters amount ed to 733 ,047 ,975 poHnds. Cochise coun- ty, Warren or Bisbee district, being credited with the principal part, pro- duced 155, ,42O,SS7 pounds of copper against 165, ,103,S ,S54 pounds in 1915. Greenlee County, with Copper Noun tain and Greenlee districts of the Cliff ton-Morenci region the principal pro ducers, yielded 65,55S,5 ,5O1 pounds of copper, against 69,466,560 pounds in 1913. Yavapai county, including the Verde district, produced 34,057,952 pounds of copper, against 3S,719,973 pounds in 1913 and 34,043,0G5 pounds in 1912. Gila county, including Globe and Miami districts, produced 73,- 4SS, ,162 pounds of copper in 1914, against 1,609,S ,S47 pounds in 1913 and 63,969,423 pounds in 1912. The sO- called low-grade schist and porphyry ores found in; Pinal and Gila counties yielded 95,4S5, ,293 pounds of copper, against S7,073.406 rounds of copper in 1918 and 6S,753,553 pounds in 1912. The copper output of Greenlee county came largely from the same class of deposits.
 The lead in Arizona ores in 1914, which were shipped to smelters out side the State, amounted to- 15,OO3 ,06S pounds, valued at $5S5,120, against 15,144,772 pounds in 1913, valued at S710,3T0, and 6,S06.443 pounds in 1912. Most of the lead ore is produced from the vicinity of the copper mines iii the . Warren or Bisbee district in Cochise | county, which yielded ores containing [ lowed with 3,71S,O57 pounds, Pima i county with 769, ,145 pounds, and Santa | Cruz county with 4O3,272 pounds. 1 yielded 4,3O6,977 pounds of lead and 1O,696,O91 pounds of lead . were contained in crude ore shipped to smelters.
 The spelter recovered from Arizona zinc ores in 1914 amounted to g. 792, ,337 pounds, valued at S499 9,409, F against an output of 9,42S,O67 pounds, valued at $527, ,972, in 1913. Mines producing most of the zinc ore are situated at Union Pass and Chloride in Mohave county, and the ores produced Ire estimated to have contained ,553,0 ,050 pounds of spelter in 1914, against 7,031 400 pounds in 1913 and ,304, ,462 pounds in 1912. Production If zinc was also recorded in Cochise md Santa Cruz counties.
 There were 395 producers reporting production of gold, silver, copper, lead ( md zinc in Arizona in 1914, against { 3S in 1913, and the total quantity of re sold and treated was S,OO9,927 z hort tons, an increase of 7S,065 tons. {