Show I 1 I LEAR PRODUCTION IN Ii 1917 lARGER LAER The high price of ot lead In 1916 stimulated stimulated I activity In lea lead prospecting and lea lead mining ruining Further activity was stimulated b by tho the extraordinarily high price of ot lead In June 1917 In i and b by the gradual Increase In the lie price of or silver siver which led to tho re opening of silver silver- lead mines that ba had been abandoned years ago aGO on account of oC the low price of ot 51 silver During the first t half haJ of or 1917 In 7 tho the lead industry was syria therefore vo very prosperous although there was a general gen en- en eral oral Increase ase In the cost of or both labor laboranti and anti supple supplies The great gret decline In price that set in just before tho ho middle of 1917 continued until tho the end of or the tIme year cari when the thc price was lower thant than at t the IC beginning of the te year but the tho was accompanied b by oy no corre corre- decrease In tho time cost of ot production production pro pro- ducton so that the producers complained com corn that lead was selin selling below its is actual cost The lead content of ot oro ore mined in the time United States in 1917 17 was about OOOO C-OOOO tons as compared with wih tons in 1916 lG a n gamin gain of tons Tho The Joplin district gained d tons California over tons Idaho tons an and Washington ton and Montana 2000 WOO tons each ech enne Tennessee which made an an annual annual an- an al nual output of oC only a few fow to In previous pro pro- Ious years reported a production of ot nearly tons Arizona and Utah lost about tons each and Colorado about 2000 tons as compared with wih 1916 The disseminated lead district of ot southern southern south south- em ern Missouri remains tho the largest larrest producer producer pro pro- ducer of ot lead the output for tor 1917 being practically the tho same as In 1916 J SA SAN QUOTATIONS The following quotations were received ter over the Bros private print wIre I hid Dd I tat I I Bid Dd I Alk thefts 05 10 C. C a. n ii Booth Both 03 05 0 OJ 03 10 1 a. a Buil 01 02 II I. I or 01 C. C O. O D 1 01 O 02 5 i. i 02 03 3 03 01 OaLy Dal cv ev 16 0 18 O. O 5 l. l D 03 OnIon 93 1 9 g Florence 11 12 1 3 J. J CD 4 CS C ot 01 St St. Bend 04 0 O 06 n. n QU Queen bb D 0 01 01 0 1 1 87 n 89 0 Iamb Ex EL 17 1 19 1 y md 05 0 06 er 03 0 OC 04 M. M 1 1 Ex 03 O 10 02 03 Montena 05 OG Oi 04 r 06 liz lz I. I 0 10 12 0 5 r. r f. f 01 01 elm DC 01 Sud 01 01 N. N 07 01 6 cs 13 Foor Four 03 0 04 6 1 W. W En n 67 iO 70 D. D Union 01 02 0 N S. S Thus U. U Wedge Wede 01 n. n In U. U Cm 10 12 01 it M. M Vex Dez 01 O 02 NellIe le cs 0 6 at 11 Glory 10 I 1 B 2 3 16 6 50 S li |