The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-05-15
MINERAL OUTPUT
OVER S. MILLION
COPPER, OF COURSE, LEADS THE
TOTAL PRODUCTION WITH
100000
Silver Bow Also Produced 25,7S9
Ounces of Gold and 4 ,954,219
Ounces Of Silver; Cascade and
Deer Lodge Mining Iron.

Montana's total ore production
had a value of S55,333 ,259.66 for
the year ending May 81 last, ac-
cording to reports of operators
made to the state board of equah-
cation. Silver Bow county, as
usual, yielded the bulk of this.
In every instance for every metal
of which a record is kept by the
state board, Silver Bow had the
greatest production of the Mon
tana counties.
The records, however, show some
of the counties not considered gem
orally as mineral counties, to have
a mining production that is of great
value. Judith Basin county produc-
ed 1~,S2O,601 pounds of lead of a
value of $109,149. Beaverhead had
a yield of 1,114,614 pounds of lead
worth $67,290. Silver Bow county
produced 1~7,650,751 pounds of a
value of ~$968,204.
The principal gold producing coun-
ties of the state are: Silver Bow,
25,7S9 ounces, worth $3.50 Phil
lips, $245,719; Park, $178,160;
Lewis mad Clark, $141,656; Jeffer-
son, $123,240; Madison, ~$84,444;
Deer Lodge, $63,608.
Leading silver counties of the state
and the value of the product: Silver
Bow, 11,954,219 ounces, worth SILL
863,530, the government price of APP
proximately a dollar an ounce pre-
vailing for the period tabulated;
Cascade $413,438; Granite $455,293;
Deer Lodge $249,402; Jefferson
$18O,151; Judith Basin, s94,763;
Beaverhead, ~$61,906; Phillips,
$27,939.
Copper figures are: Silver Bow,
195,908,801 pounds, worth $685.
7S9; Cascade $22,179; Beayerhead
$500; Jefferson $1,214. No other
county reported a copper production
in excess of a thousand dollars.
Silver Bow is the only county for
which the board keeps zinc produc-
ton figures. Silver Bow reported
having produced 141,019,295 pounds
of zinc worth $9,426,S98 plus zinc
dross to the value of $34,483. This
county also yielded 6,807 pounds of
cadmium worth $6,807.
Two counties produce the arsenic
that comes from Montana; they are
Silver Bow, which yields ~4,436,926
pounds worth $373,766 and Park,
with a production of 50,709 pounds
$6,912.
An industry of Montana which
has grown steadily in recent years
and now has attained large proper
lions is shown by the boards fig
ures on the production of sapphires.
Judith Basin county ~unearthed
$102,467 worth of these gems while
Granite county brought out $37,284.
Two Montana counties, Cascade
and Deer Lodge, produce appreciate
Quantities of iron, the formers yield
asst year having a value of $4,692
and the latter's $68,961. Iron in
.esser quantities is reported from
counties.
Granite county in addition to its
lard stones reported manganese to
he extent of $466,213. Silver Bow
which in past years had, I'M
Ter more favorable wartime markets,
PRODUCED some manganese, failed to
eport any for last year.
The total value of the principal
metals produced in the state for the
ending May 81 last is: Gold,
1,421,140; silver $13,370,653; cop
'er 28,669,238; lead $~1,23S,061; /
inc $9,426,898; zinc dross s34,483; s
admium $6,694; white arsenic, +,
.380,678; crude arsenic $41,006 '
produced principally in Silver Bow j
ounty); sulphuric acid, $64,770 s,
Silver Bow county,; miscellaneous i
res, $679,634.
Of the more than 5,000,000 |
Jorth of metals produced in Montana
silver Bow county produced $751; :
1921. Some of the other produce !
1g totals are: Granite, $~1,006,733;
.ascade S490,3 Deer Lodge $751; E
70; Beaverhead $140,076; Phillips j
273, 658; Park $185,536; Jefferson '
331,353; Judith Basin $751; 12; Y
ewis and Clark, $151,120. !