The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-05-16
MINERAL OUTPUT
OVER S. MILLION
COPPER, OF COURSE, LEADS THE
TOTAL PRODUCTION WITH
$2S, 100000
Silver Bow Also Produced 5,7S9
Ounces of Gold and 11,954,21e
Ounces of Silver; Cascade and
Deer Lodge Mining Iron.

Montana's total ore production
had value of S55, 1888, 259.66 for
the year ending May 81 last, ac-
cording to reports of operators
made to the state board of equaE-
cation. Silver Bow county, as
usual, yielded the bulk of this.
In every instance for every metal
of which 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 gen.
orally as mineral counties, to have
mining production that is of great
value. Judith Basin county produc-
ed 1,820,601 pounds of lead of a
value of $109,149. Beaverhead had
yield of 1,114,614 pounds of lead
worth $67,290. Silver Bow county
produced 17,650,751 pounds of a
value of $968,204.
The principal gold producing coun-
ties of the state are: Silver Bow,
25,789 ounces, worth $525,O68; Phil
lips, $245,719; Park, $178,160;
Lewis mad Clark, $141,656; Jeffer-
son, $123,240 Madison, S84, 444;
Deer Lodge, $63,6OS.
Leading silver counties of the state
and the value of the product: Silver
Bow, 11,954,219 ounces, worth $11,-
863, 53e, the government price of ap-
proximately dollar an ounce pre-
vailing for the period tabulated;
Cascade $413,438; Granite s455, 293;
Deer Lodge $249,4O2; Jefferson
$18O,151; Judith Basin, $94,763;
Beaverhead, s61,9O6; Phillips,
$27,939.
Copper figures are: Silver Bow,
195,9OS,8O1 pounds, worth s2S,6SS,-
789; Cascade $22,179; Beaverhead
$500; Jefferson s1,214. No other
county reported 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 $9,426,898 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 production of 50,709 pounds
worth $6,912.
An industry of Montana which
has grown steadily in recent years
and now has attained large proper
tions is shown by the boards fig
ures on the production of sapphires. |
Judith Basin county unearthed |
s102,467 worth of these gems while
Granite county brought out $37,284.
Two Montana counties, Cascade
and Deer Lodge, produce appreciable
quantities of iron, the formers yield |
last year having value of $4,692
and the 1atter's $68,961. Iron in
lesser quantities is reported from
other counties.
Granite county in addition to its
hard stones reported manganese to
he extent of $466,213. Silver Bow
county 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
year ending May 81 last is: Gold,
s1,421,140; silver $13,37O,653; cop
per s2S,669, 238; lead $1,238,O61;
inc $9,426,S98; zinc dross $34,483;
cadmium $6,694; white arsenic,
S380,678; crude arsenic $41,OO6
produced principally in Silver Bow
,ounty); sulphuric acid, $64,770
Silver Bow county,; miscellaneous
,res, $679,634.
OF the more than SIS, 100000
worth of metals produced in Montana
Silver Bow county produced $51,-
l43,211. Some of the other produc-
ng totals are: Granite, $1,006,733;
cascade S49O,368; Deer Lodge $751;
~; Beaverhead $140,076; Phillips
'273,658; Park S185,536; Jefferson
i331,353; Judith Basin 1911, 012; ,
lewis and Clark, $151,120.