Show washington METAL YIELD the value of the mine output of gold sil gai ver copper and lead in washington in 1914 was less than a decrease of over 24 per cent according to 0 a preliminary esti mate by C N gerry of the TJ S geological survey this decrease was general at chewelah Chew elah the main property was closed part 1 of the year on account of the condition of 1 the copper market and mining at republic was rather quiet most of the year the mine yield of gold the principal j metal decreased from in 1913 to J Z in 1914 or nearly 20 per cent about 1 60 per cent came from ore and concentrates I 1 shipped to various smelters shelters sm elters and the re 1 bainder came from mill bullion and placers there was some activity at liberty in kitti kittic tas county and at the owasco ewasco baaba reco ta golden chariot and okanogan Oka nogan free gold gol property in okanogan Oka nogan county the silver output decreased from ounces in 1913 to ounces in 1914 or over 23 per cent nearly a third of this total had its source in copper ore and most or of the remainder came from siliceous ores the copper output of the state decreased from pounds in 1913 to pounds in 1914 or nearly 23 per cent the united copper mine was closed during two months of the year and two of the british columbia smelters shelters sm elters treating the ore were idle the latter part of the year only a few tons of lead ore was shipped from the state in 1914 the output decreased from pounds in 1913 to about abou t pounds in 1914 no zinc ore was ship 4 ped during the year the chewelah Chew elah district produced over 77 J per cent of the total copper and 36 per cent J of the total silver yield the united copper the main producer after being idle in au 1 l gust and september continued work in opening the property and shipping ore and con cen to trail british columbia the ca lacity of the mill was increased to tons a day and a large notation flotation plant may be added A small matting plant was erected at the copper king property during the year but seems to have done little smelting smelling sm elting the republic district decreased its output considerably as one mill and several of the mines were hampered by litigation the ben hur was probably the largest producer shipping about tons of ore to canadian points the san poll poil mill was the only active plant treating about 80 tons a day the greater part of the year other producers were the republic mines corporation knob hill hope quila rathfon on and anda phil sheridan mines in october the west J ern union mines co took over the surprise lone pine pearl san poll poil last chance and quila mines |