The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-13
LARGEST OUTPUT
FROM OKLAHOMA
231 900 Short Tons Of Soft
Lead Out During
1921
IMPORTS DECREASE
Pigment Stock Below the To-
tai Of 1920, so Exports
Declare

WASHINGTON. -. g.. Aug a.
The output Of soft lend by mines 81
the Mississippi valley was about
$4,000 short tons. ana that OF ar-
gcntiferOus lead by mlucr OF the
western states was about 10000
tons, a total Of 100000 tons Tho
corresponding figures for 1920 are
251.SlG tons from tho Miss. a.pui
valley OucludiuE the small output of
the eastern stJtoa) and 25g,u7O toms
from The western states. total ot
5l2,SG5 tons, tn" spuiho1gtcrn Mis-
souri, district made Tho largest out
put ana was tho only district 20
make q gain. ITS output was 49,
600 tons. aR compared with 1870
tons In 1920. The Occur d'Alouo
district Of Idaho came next. with
about 10000 tons as against 11E.1O5
tons I'm 1920 Utah made an output
of about $4,000 tons decrease
from 70,4l9 tons iu 1920. The Inn
porta OF lcf I In ore wcrc about 1000
tons, furnished chiefly by Canada,
Mexico ana South America. ana
those OF lead I'm bullion were about
$1,000 tons almost wholly from
Mexico, as compared with total
OF G2,706 tons In 1890 Tho lead
content OF lead ore ln bonded ware
houses on November 80 was 76i8
tons and OF base bullion 16.2O7 tons.
as against l6,462 and 3i,75S re-
spcctiycly, I'm 1880 Part OF this
lead, however. may have been smelt-
ed or refined but not shipped ana
thus may be Included In smelter
stocks.
Tho recoverable zinc contont OF
ore mined In 1920 was about $50
600 tons, ms compared with Gsi,772
tons In 1920 and 540,242 tons I'm
1919. The output of the eastern
states was about 5000 tons, that OF
the central states about l3S UOn tons
and thai OF the western states about
$4,000 tons, as compared with lO2,.
2i2, 337.652, and lIi,S7S tons re-
spoctively. In 1920. The loss In out
put OF the eastern states was one
third that Of the central states one.
half and that OF the western states
over nlne-tenths. The upper Mis-
hssippi valley region IS credited
with an output OF about 1000 tons
and the Joplin district with an out
nut OF about 10000 tons. Okla
homa made tho largest OUTPUT,
about $4,000 tons. twice as large as
that OF any other state. In 1921
Montana (tho Butte district almost
wholly apparently produced about
IL 1000 tons, as compared with gl,-
sO6 tons In that district in 1920.
The imports of zinc in ore do
creased from 22,aS7 tons In 1920 to
about f,700 tons In 1921, most of
which was imported from Mexico.
The zinc content OF zinc ore In
bonded warehouses on November
30 was 15,292 tons, aa compared
with 25,66O tons at tho end OF 1920.
Some OF this ore may have been
smeltod but not shipped and thus
may be included In smelter stocks.
Early In January zinc concentrates
containing 60 per cent OF zinc were
selling In the Joplin district at t2S
ton, having dropped from 500 a
ton at the hep'rNlnh - 1920. The
price dropped to S4l Ny the begin
ming OF MarcD, rose e. S26 by the
beginning Of May, dropped to S2l by
the middle of June and remained at
that point until late in August. when
II reached bottom at $40 a ton.
Through the last quarter OF tho year
There was considerable Improve
ment In price and at the end of the
year concentrates were selling at
S2S 10 $40 Il ton.
II would be natural To suppose
that zine smelters, with Joplin COM
centrates selling for 500 a ton.
would stock up fully. However, it
the output of domestic primary zine
10000 tons, In subtracted from the
mine production OF recoverable zine.
25G,000 tons $4,000 tons is left to
furnish the zinc content or pigments.
But pigments made in 1920 con-
tained llO,695 tons of zinc, and the
output of pigments I'm 1891 waa
probably not greatly below that OF
1920. Apparently. therefore. smelter
stocks OF concentrates were depleted
rather than increased In 1874.
Tho lack OF demand led to consld
eruble storage OF concentrates at
mines, and the stocks OF concen-
trates in the Joplin district are osti-
mated at about 10000 tons and those
IN the Upper Mississippi valley re-
gion at about $4,000 tons, figured
as 90 per cent concentrates. stocks
I'm other districts would probably
bring up tho grand total for the
country to 10000 tons Even go.
this quantity r. small I'm comparison
with the stocks OF Australian zinc
concentrates. which were reported
little while ago as TOO. 600 tons.
containing about AZ per cent Zinc.
Tho Rhodesia Broken Hin district
OF Africa is credited with stocks OF
zinc ore amounting to nearly 5O,-
600 tons