The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-02
PROSPEROUS Year for Miners.

The INNING c0ndt10nS reported tne
secretary of the interior July by the director of the United
States Geological Survey well supported by the preliminary
reports for the just submitted The geological survey
making public its usual estimate of mineral production for ll5
in the form Of separate statement for each OF the more import
ant mineral products totG.
review Of these statements confirms Secretary Lanes
ment of last July to the effect that the mining revival is in full
swing In the western states alone the metal production shows
IN sue more an e IN for
the principal metals measured in value is more than
Moreover is not unreasonable to expect that when the u re-
turns for all products compiled they will show that
1915 the countrys most productive in the mining IN
dustry The total may reach two and oneha billion dol
In the response to beered conditions the production figures
for copper iron and zinc show the largest increase
output having value 236OOO00O $sOO00OO more
than the value of the production for 1914 The statistics and es
s655ooOo pounds than 120oooooo pounds excess
Of the largest previous production and eighteen cent above
years figures Only twice in the history Of copper mining
has there larger quantity of metal produced
The total shipments of iron ore from the mines in the United
States in 1915 estimated to have exceeded gross
Based on the same price as received in 1914 this represents
increase in total value Of about 645ooo The increase pig
iron estimated TONS with total increase in value
of pig iron production Of more than $120OO0,OOO a4
The output of zinc peter made from domestic ores
600 as Wb tons in s4 an Of about
$4,000 tons nearly twenty-five per cent in quantity and OF
100000 in value Production was during the asr
rate of 4O00 tons annually and at the rate OF tons dur
ing the last half.
$4,000 tons worth about $485000OO compared with 51294
tons in 1914 increase of only $4,000 tons quantity but Of
mona lead 2O55O tons compared with 1868 tons I'M
1914 increase of 1882 tons cent in guam
tty and an increase in value of nearly $2,000,000
The annual preliminary estimates the production of gold
and silver in the United States made jointly by the United States
Geological Survey and the bureau of mint not yet complete
but early figures based reports from the mines indicate
mine production that of 1914 of over $OOO0
gold principally from Colorado California Alaska Montana and
Idaho and increase in mine production of silver of fully a.
100000 ounces chiefly Montana Utah Arizona This
gold production bring 1915 the record year
1909 when the gold output of this country nearly $780,
100000.
Quicksilver also has had its best year 1915 The quantity
increased twenty-five cent 1914 but the value Of the
aed production 2O68l TASKS of seventyve pounds EACH
valued at the average price for the highest in the
forty $768225 In value this domestic production
the highest since 1881 and quantity the largest 1912
The production of buminous coal and anthracite in 1915 is
estimated to have increased between four and five million short
mined increased about and onehaf million tons and that Of
anthracite decreased two million short TONS Owing mainly
steady demands for export coal and for coke for steel making
output Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky and Alabama
last year, but little change recorded in other east
states The region of Ohio including the Mississippi
valley shows general decrease Colorado being the only western
state to show betterment
Connected with the coke industry the completion during
summer of number of large plants for the of
benzo from yprouct coke gas This gives the United
States first output of this material important
and the amount of this product will be reported later
Preliminary estimates Of the total output of petroleum in
responding output 1914 1t believed that the total petroleum
yield Of the United States in 1915 TO s
res which quantity it is also estimated that 267 4000 bar
res was marketed 100000 barrels placed in producers
field tankage during the year. s5.-a /
The suphurc acid industry in 1915 presented Interesting de-
velopmen In spite of the abnormal demand and higher prices
the latter half of the year. much of the uphc acid had been
contracted for or was in the factories where made The
estimated production indicates increase of six and onehaf
cent in the three grades but more than 100 per cent In
The estimates of Portland cement output in 1915 indicates
shipments from the mills 500 barrels increase Of one
tenth Of one per 1914 There slight decrease in
production and this with the apprecabe decrease in stock IN
dicaes more conservative trend in the industry which IN the
preceding few years showed tendency Prices
generally averaged few cents lower barrel 1915 than IN
1914 although toward the end Of the prices were substan
tally increased and the outlook for 1916 is brighter than for
eral seasons ~ 800, H.. |
Perhaps the most notable item in the years record slim
ulato metal mining the western states Almost without ex
cepon the increases production large and in several
states the best year record In Arizona which leads
in copper the output of that metal exceeded the
production of 1918 California continues lead gold and had
the largest yield thrtwo years. and with one exception IN
half century In Montana and Arizona record outputs Of silver
are reported in Alaska the increased production Of gold
especially copper made 1915 much year than
even 1906 when Fairbanks and Nome their greatest