Show TEXAS METAL MINING IN 1917 the output of texas mines for eleven months of 1917 and the estimated output for december as shown by preliminary figures reported by charles W henderson of the united states geological survey department of the interior amounted to 1000 in gold ounces of silver pounds of lead and pounds of copper as compared with in gold ounces of silver pounds of lead pounds of copper and pounds of zinc in 1916 the presidio silver mine and mill in the shatter shafter district presidio county continues to be the principal producing property in the state small shipments of silver copper ore were made from the allamoore van horn district culberson bounty and from the sierra blanca district el paso county several small shipments of copper ore from the deposits in the red beds were made from crowell foard county and from chillicothe Chilli hardeman county |