Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-08-12
METAL MINING in
IDAHO In 1914

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Gerry, of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, was $24,645, 84S, against
s24, 1880 in 1918 and $21, 466,521 in
1912.
There was notable increase and
a record production Of silver, lead
and zinc, but decrease In that OF
gold and copper. The increase in
total value was $496, 799, due princi-
pally to larger output of mines In
the Occur d'Alene region of Sho-
shone County.
The production of gold decreased
from $1,344,559 in 1918 to 81, 1895
in 1914, or $192,244. The gold out
put from placers was valued at $780,
454; that from deep mines at $451,-
S61. OF the placer gold, s568,9S9 was
produced by dredging. Boise County
led in gold output with 1901 ,227, and
Lemhi County followed with $685.
| 991. These are the counties in which
most of the dredging is done. The
gold output from mill bullion by
amalgamation and cyanidation was
12,2S4O3 ounces, from concentrates
3,16S4S ounces, and from crude ore
smelted 6,4062S ounces. Siliceous
ores supplied 17,5S2.59 ounces of gold
copper ores 1,O76.56 ounces, lead
ores 2,46711 ounces, and lead-zinc
ores 725.7S ounces.
A record production of silver in
creased the figures from 1889, 1913
ounces, valued at s6,0S3,4 in 1918
to 12,479,516 ounces, valued at s6,901,
172 in 1914 This Increase of 24.93
per cent was credited almost entire
ly to the Occur d'Alene region. Con-
centrates supplied S,S45,3O9 ounces
of silver, crude ore 3,612,369 ounces,
and mill bullion only 14,767 ounces.
Most of the silver, or 8,697,580
ounces, came from lead ores, 3,491,-
469 ounces from lead-zinc ores, $780,,
355 ounces from copper ores, and
$4,000 ounces from siliceous ores.
Shoshone County produced $3.50 per
cent of the total, on 12,178,194
ounces. The Hunter district, at
Mullau, supplied 1,O57,347 ounces;
the Lelande district, at Burke and
Mace, 5,565,372 ounces; and the
Yreka district, at Wardner, 4,SS7 1926
ounces.
The copper output decreased from |
1892 ,966 pounds, valued at 81 500,
in 1913, to 6,445, 1877 pounds, valued
at $S57 ,21O, in 1914 Of the total, Sho
shone County produced 4,242,662 |
pounds and Custer County 2,110,909
pounds Copper ores were the source
of 4,9S6, 2O6 pounds and a small out
put came from lead ores and lead
zinc ores. Concentrates contained
3 PAP ,294 pounds and crude ore 3,202,-
1913 pounds
Records were again broken in the
production of lead, which increased
from 317 ,S71, 945 pounds, valued at
s13 1885, 1866, in 1918, to 34S,526,O69
valued at $13,592,517, in 1914
an increase of S0,654,124 pounds.
Mines in Shoshone County produced
97.47 per cent of the lead, those i'm
Fremont County, 1.25 per cent, and
those in Lemhi County less than l
per cent. Crude ore smelted sup
Piled S2,S16,132 pounds, and con-
centrates supplied 265, 7O9, 937 pounds.
Most of the lead, or 261 $780,
came from Lead ore, but
86 ,S22,925 pounds came from lead
zinc ore. Hunter district was credit
ed with S5,79S,211 pounds, Lelande
district with 121 ,6O3,2sO pounds, and
Yreka district with 162,471 ,2S5
pounds.
A greatly increased production OF
zinc ore and concentrate brought
he spelter output, from 23,173,953 s
pounds. valued at 81 TAI, In 1913,
@ 42,012,435 pounds, valued at ST.
L42. 634, in 1914. Nearly all the zinc
zane from Shoshone County, 5,459,-
.6S pounds coming from lead-zinc
IRE and 6,559,167 pounds from zinc .
IRE. \
Concentration and flotation ma n
hines made product supplying h
A 1926, 439 pounds and crude ore sup /,
lied 7,OS5,996 pounds.
There were 1856 producing mines
n Idaho in 1914, against 3S4 In 1913.
If these, ITS were deep mines and
10 were placers. Ore sold or treat p
d in 1914 aggregated 2,2S5,34s tons,
gainst 2,451,592 tons In 1913. OF
he total, 2,O66,361 tons were con-
entrated, making 309,046 tons OF
Only 34,S61 tons were
reated by gold and silver mills; 100, II
10 tons were crude ore smeited. n,
lost of the material was smelted
Inside the State, as but one smell n
ar was operated, that at Clayton, -,