Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-01
REVIVAL Of
MINING SEEN
IN SURVEY
Preliminary Estimates Of 1915
Production Show Big Increase
Over Last Year.
COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIES
ALL REPORT GOOD YEAR
Reports Collected From Various
Parts of Country Are Most
Gratifying.

Washington, Dec. 3l.-Mining in
tle united States is in the midst OF
great revival. Preliminary esti-
mates of the 1915 production made
public today by the Geological Sur
vey show large increases over last
years output in nearly all classes Of
minerals Copper mined during the
year was valued at So, 100000 more
than the 1914 total; iron production
increased 80 per cent; speiter increas-
ed % per cent in quantity, and $780,
100000 in value, and gold production
increased $7000,000
Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 31.-Milwau-
KEGS industrial and commercial act
ivity for 1915 exceeded that of 1914
by millions of dollars according to
figures collected by the Milwaukee
Sentinel and which will be made pub
lie tomorrow A resume Of the years
activities was announced as follows:
Total of all manufacturers. for 1910
$4O1 1,A40,5l3; for 1914, $3S4O66 ,525.
Total capital invested, for 1918,
$2GgO45, GG5; for 1914, $2GLl40,9S3.
Wages paid by manufacturers, for
1915, $S0,GS6,1SO; for 1914, $77"92'54l
Total number of employees. Tor
1915, $122,49O; for 1914, sl1S,O99.
Another table giving statistics for
IS lines Of commerce and industry
showed that there were 81 less firms
engaged in them than in 1914 but
that the number OF employees IN
creased 4,4Sl, the amount OF wages
$3,293,G;3;9; the capital employed was
$1,9o4,,1..T greater and the products
we're worth s7,%1S,s3S more than la
the 1914 products.
Approximate increases for leading
manufacturers in 1915 were given as
$6.773,039 for iron steel and heavy
machinery; $4,000, coo for packed
meats; $1,T0l.5O0 for leather; $3.972,-
900 for electric and telephone sup
plies; $1.2Co,0UO for paints and var
nishes; $1,9l0.tVU for automobile ac-
cessuriey and trucks and $751,5OO for
sausage.
Two of the principal lines of man-
ufacture showed decreases. Malt pro
ducts declined in value $415,0oO and
beer. malt tonics and liquors were
g9.674,77O less in 1916 and in 1914.
Assaults of pruhibitionists, increased
rail rates, the federal emergency war
TAX, All unusually cool summer anu
business depression in The first part
of 1915 we're given as causes OF these
decreases by Gustav Becherer, prcsi-
dent of the Milwaukee Brewers asso'
citation.
Fred W. Rogers, president of the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation, said that the Improvement
that came during the year to all
lines of business was gradual, steady
and gratifying" He predicts even
better things for 1916.
w, Packing Industry.
Omaha, Nsb,, Dec. 31.-lncreased
production In 1915 as compared with
the preceding year was noted in
statements issued today by many OF
the leading industries of this city.
The gains were especially marked in
the livestock and smelling plants.
The four big meat packing plants
at South Omaha had a combined out
put valued at $l18,054,S50 in 1915
which exceeds that of 1914 by $4,000
OOO according to statement issued
by the Omaha Commercial club.
The Omaha plant of the American
Smelling and Refining company, in
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