Show THE MINERAL OUTPUT The Foundation of Prosperity Is the Mining Industry THE US LEADS THE WORLD AND NEARLY EQUALS THE OUTPUT OUT-PUT OF ALL EUROPE The International Work Resumed In locking Out Ore For Shipment I Ship-ment In the Spring Bears I the Ascendancy Bruin Makes a don d-on AjaXj Northern Light and Chloride Point Activity at Clifton Clif-ton Heavy Developments Now the Order of the Day I Deep Creek Peculiarities of Tellurium Effects of Intense Heat In the Assaying of This Class of Ole Big Mining Deal Campbell Group Sold to Dan McLeod West Dip Property Butte Parties Secure i Bonds on Camp Ployd Ground I Ihe Hfald is under obligations to th New York Engineering and Mining Journal f r adance sheets showing the I irineral production of the United States for the year 1897 I In its cinnierts on the mineral industry in-dustry cf this country the Journal SES ssThe t iplcurcnt of the mineral industry in-dustry of th < United States makes constantly con-stantly r clear certain facts of the greaust r ih lt > interest to political tffntmiF T J ptatesnv a and to capitalists capit-alists m e > ry part of the world In ro ot1 > r i country are coal andiron and-iron th od foundations for great industrial 21 th and prosperity produced pro-duced at at low a cost a In the United Sttes I no otler country does labor earn a high t gs or produce as much to the man p r d j j In no other country Is the la i 1 item in the cost of produc tior to id I i s it is in the United States Was are = o high that economy must 1 e rrctcti d 2 their use by the adoption d adop-tion of 1 lanorsjumg appliances Wages art so hith that industrious and intelligent intel-ligent workman Ca accumulate a com Iftency < 1 < vt n wealth and appreciating appreciat-ing this 1 t and with this reward in view a suL irt number of them set the pace n work which others must fc How Hence this labor cost of production in nearly every department of industry ard especially in those departments using the highestpriced labor is less hire than in any country on the face of the globe and this we affirm with full iirovledge of the facts in most depart m nts of the mineral and mechanical industries and ir > face of a popular I ut altogether erroneous impression that because < > ur dy wage rates are higher than in Europe we cannot comp com-p tt ith her poorly paid labor The coutry that has the GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCES and in which the labor cost of produc tkn 1e tOY St is bound to become the i TkFhop f i r the world and to supply I ss favor c1 lands with its products and manufactu11 s These facts are especially espec-ially comrru nded to the thoughtful consideration con-sideration of capitalists and states jr r n I Continuing the Journal gives facts j i and flgun a < follows The vat of the mineral and metal production of the Unite t taU > in 1S97 n a hd a tota as given in our table S76rti105 From this hvtv there 1 i feM cl ilurtions to be made for uiavojdalV dunlieationc such as coal used in r j king coke iron ore in making j mak-ing pig ir n and the like but these i are not uri 1art On tlu other hand I the produ tin of alum amounting to j iuiiait i5 U0 and nickel a small item j hivr > not hp I ITI included n > h r > i tab1 Though the market prices of i mst subtint were jUI I II I i l6 > the jiimc prices for the year j trv belnv those now ruih1f It must j be ememfrcd also that t values j given are the products in tht crudest I frrms coal as I comes from the mine coke from the ovtn pig iron from the I furnace copper m ingots kail in pigs tcand ni account whatever is taken even in tbi met simple forrrn of labor and other f ts expended in putting I thif produi into stfd plates or othf merchantable forms I The < rtfate < value of the mineral I productio of the United States greatly exceeds ttt of anv other country in I fat nary iuals the value of the output out-put of all Trope And that rotuith starding th fact that the Imted ihates has oeen parsing through a period pe-riod of unexampled depression in business busi-ness and all Europe has had a year of almost unexampled prosperity J in rThe production of silver of domestic origin in the United States in js < 7 was 56117000 fine ounces again I Cs4SS810 fine ounces in 1895 In addition addi-tion to this there was a production of 39325000 fine ounces from foreign ores and bullion against 33133529 fine ounces in 1S96 The decrease in American Amer-ican production is accounted for by the HEAVY DECLINE IN THE VALUE OF SILVER which compelled a number of important producers to close down The falling off in production would undoubtedly have been greater had it not been forth for-th high prifi of lead during a considerable consid-erable part of the year A very large proportion baljly 80 per eent of the silver production of the Urit 1 Si lies is row derived from ores in which gold lii < l or copper is the most iJIn < ant ci mert of value In both British Columbia Co-lumbia art Mexico the was an in crase in the production of siver in tt < j former t corresponded more or less to the increase in the production of If ad and copper in the latter where business Is nducted on a silver basis th cost of jHbor falls proportionately wth the i alu1 of silver and silver min irg is not afftre 10 th sime extern as in countries which are on a solid gini basis Th rt was a < inpideriMe ii T nse in the lead production in Mex ic > in 1837 ird an incnas in the sH Yt r pro ucin was consequently to be exekd Gold The production of gold in 1S97 was 26SJ > C 1 ire i ounces value at 55 4jsf50 agLn 2338433 fine ounces valued at s IJU9 in 1896 The pro dUt tin in tue Transvaal was about the same as i the UnitJ States and j it will be d 1 htful which country will 4 hold fist I lace until revised figures are obtained There was a large increase in-crease in the gold production of Colorado Colo-rado which fctis now surpassed California fornia for tFe first time but the in cr iF3 in that state va off1 < by decreases de-creases in certain others The gold i k production of the Klondike which was r only 2OOI notwithstanding the exaggerated ex-aggerated newspaper reports has been credited t Canada aid the hitter country shows coiueoiueitly a Teat increase In output The irost important import-ant goldproducing district in thb United States was Cripple Creek which broke its best previous record Other impctant districts of the ytar were the Black Hills South Dakoia MERCUR UTAH ana the various camps ot the Mother Lode in California Lead The production oC lead in 1S97 was 194530 short tons valued at 13 931348 against 171722 short tons valued at 10383843 in 1S96 UesUes this there was a large amount of lead produced pro-duced In the United States from foreign for-eign ore and bullion a largo part of which was exported after dosilveriza tion The increase which was proper c r j tionately largest in Missouri is accounted ac-counted for by the hign price of the I metal during most of the yea The chief sources of domesrli lead supply continue to be the Coeur dAlene lie j I trict of Idaho Leadville Colo and I the vicinity of Bonne Terra Mo The exportation of foreign leal refined in I bond during the first ten months of I the year was 41910 short tons The I exportation of domestic lead during the same period was 5637 tons I Gllsonite The producAra was 3756 short tons which was a trifle more I than in the previous year I was made entirely by two companies m Utah |