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Show I Last Year Was Prosperous for I Industry Throughout the United States, i STOCKTON, PARK CITY. TINTIC AND BINGHAM Statistics Show Large Increase : in the Zinc Production for 1904. i t Utah's lead production Is bolng rapidly 1 Increased, tho new dovclopmcnt of ground In Park City, Bingham and Stockton assuring as-suring come surprising revelations for the mlnlnsr world within tho next flvo yours. , Stockton district Is especially promising, J and It Is certain that as soon as tho groat .drain tunnel of tho Hbnerlno Is complet-' complet-' j , cd tho property, will .steadily produco a 1 ; largo and Increasing output of high-grade lead-silver ore. ' ! Statistics at Hand. The figures for the production of lead and Iho production of zinc In l&Ol woro given out, somo tlmo ago, by tho United States geological survey, but the detailed 1 reports of tho lead and zinc Industries In .lWl. written by Charles Klrchhoff, havo 'only just been published. Many Intorcst-I Intorcst-I .lug facts concerning the growth and ! prosperity of these Industries are given i ' or suggested In theso reports. They nro published now as oxtrncLs from tho survey's sur-vey's forthcoming volume, "Tho Mineral , Resources of the United Statea." and may be obtained, free of charge, on applfcn- tlon to the Director of the Geological Survey, Washington. D. C. Lead Mining' Industry. The year 1IK)1 was a prosperous ono for the lead mining and smelting Industry of the United States and a year of extraordinary extraor-dinary expansion in the production of H production of lead, and an even larger In- M crease In the consumption of that metal, f The total Kroev production of lead In tho H country is given as 307.C00 short tons, valued at J2iI.I02 000. HI Beaching- High Record. H In tho Mississippi alley the production H of lead Increased considerably during 1001 j and this Increase Is still going on. In the H ' lead-zinc regions of couth west Missouri H and southeast Kansas tho production of 1 jlead approached the record of 1901. Tho f iprlnclpal producing camps were Webb j .CIty-Cartervllle, .Toplln, Galena, Duonweg H and Granby. Tho greater part of this oro H Is smelted by local smelters. A certain H quantity of the' lead oro of the district H Is converted directly Into pigment. Hn Old Mines Awaken. Htt In southeast Missouri further progress K j has 'been made by an Increased actlvltv B ( among tho older mines. Tho St Joseph B Lead company, tho largest Individual pro- H ducer of lead in the country, has gained j j ,Jn ' output by enlarging the old Bonne H Terro mill, by putting Into operation a 1 new mill at the Hoffmann shaft which H will bo capablo of handling 1000 short tons H I of ore per day, and by adding to tho smelting facilities at the Ilcrculancum M r i -works. Tho Doe Run company, which Is I I clcaely allied with the St. Joseph Lead company, has operated to full capacity, t Tho Dcslogo Lend company has sunk a ) new shaft and has Increased Us mill cn- B paclty CO per cent. Strike Interferes. The Central Leod company produced r on)y &S12 short tons of lead In 1904. as compared with 635 tons in lM, the fall- l Ing off being duo to tho fact that tho !mlnc3 and works woro 11 le for three I months as the result of a sliilco lnaugu- T i rated In order to force a recognition of B , the-, first Miners' union organized In tho district. The effort failed. The Central 'Lead company has been sold to tho Amer- l ;ican Smelters' Securities company. The f National Lead company now ships the B product of the Derby mines to the new BW j smelter at Collinsvlllc, 111., which went ML Into operation during 10OI. Tho Federal Ht Lead company produces considerable i quantities of oro and smelts larg J I amounts of ore on (oil. Tho Mine La) iMotto compnny did not produce as large-'ly large-'ly In 1901 as In previous years. The old Shibboleth Lend Mining company of V ! ' Cadet, Mo,, has passed Into (ho hands of 1 jt tho American Lead and Baryta company. Cocur d'Aleno Leads. , ,i! ; The Coour d'Aleno district of Idaho Is j I. II tho, most Important single lead producing ) l! j district In the United Stales. Tho lead ff. contents of the output of these Idaho 1 i I .mines Is given us 169.S5-1 short tons. Tho ' i Federal Mining and Smoltlng company .controls the Wardncr group of mines, I . . which formerly belonged to tho Empire 1 1 .State-Idaho company; the Mace group. (formerly owned In part by the Standard I- company and In part constituting tho BH Mammoth group; and the Burko group. (formerly tho Tlgcr-Poorman group. The lyea'r 1901 was characterized by a ten- idoricy toward consolidation of Interests inraong owners of lead mine:?. An estl- 1 I; troato made In the fall of 150-1 places the !' Iquantlly of oro In sight at tho "Wardnor Igroup nt 2X),000 tons, at the Burko mines ' I lnt lfcO.000 tons, and at the Maco mines n. . at J.SW.COO tons, Hf J In Colorado, Leadvlllo continues to bo f ,,' .tho principal lead-producing camp. Fresh j ,dIscovQrIe.s at Leadvlllo hold out the B I i, 1 '.promise of a considerable Increase In the J i j, ( production. ji Utah Output Grows. ji 'I - Utah has Increased Its output by cn- 1 ,, , ! v, larged operations In the Tlntlc district, i -where . the Centennlul-EUreka, Gemini, t ! Grand Central and Mammoth aro the I I principal shippers. At Park City tho K1 M Inly West and tho Sliver King" arc the jjK -lending producers. Tho United States Rr Smelting company hns comploted a new . I ' J , lcad-Hmelllng plant at Bingham Junction. ' ' Zinc Mining Industry. Hf ' I Thc ProdU(Jllon of spelter In the United States In JDOi amounted to 1SC.702 short fc .! tonp, valued at $1S,C70.C00, as compared H It w.'h - production of 159,219 tons In 1903. s j-J The principal Increase In tho production , of zinc has taken place In Kansas, where ; !( ;cw plants wdra started by the Canev f I . -h ;2'nc company at Cnney, by the Chanutc 3 ln? cpm)uny at Chanutc, and by tho "l Cockerlll Zlno company nt Altoona. The . y, I-a Harpe Smelting company at La I , fr JIarpc, which started In 1901, had a full , j' j; year's production. Tho plant of the Gran- , . d', b' JI,,n,ng,ad, Smelting company was en- j !,! lnrged. Tho large works of the Edgar i t & Zinc company, at Chorryvale. controlled h: by the United Slates Steel corporation i i reached their full product in 1801. 1 Plants Added To. 1 1 In Illinois the Illinois Zinc company 1 l.'jfg built an addition of 120 retorts; and tho (n Mineral Point Zinc company, controlled 3 iiffflS by the New Jersey Zinc company. J3 I 8 )nW; budding a larg6 new ' works at Depue ' , j ' During 1P0I tho now works of tho Gra- kll'iJS "d" Cheinlatl company of Cleveland '1 '!B -worn started at Clarkftvllle. V. Va. Tho H, ' jB United States Zinc company at Pueblo. i jvS: Colo., which Is owned by the American Hl -' d' Smelting and Refining company, has put I J JM up two additional furnaces, thus increas- till InP the capacity by 2.", per cent , J fjijU The production of Missouri was rostorcd l ' H m to Its former placo by the resumption L i- a f tho operations of the Nevada plant bv 1 j .,1'Tf . A- B- Cockerlll. The Sandoval work's 1 1 ! V :haye made a kirgcr product, whllo Iho 1 ,i ! Indiana plantB were Idle dltogother. ' .' ' The production of zinc ore was also l , ! stimulated by various causes In tho MIs- , yV, ' sourl-Kansas . district .In tho .Rocky Hi;:R '.l mountain rdglons. In Wisconsin, Ken- i ifi tuclcy, -Virginia--and 'Tennessee; If, l |