| Show production OF LEAD preliminary STATEMENT ron FOR 1603 1698 OUTPUT IS ISSUED figures which uncle sam obtained show product for year to hato been not net tons TRIBUNE BUREAU I 1 post foot pennsylvania ave av washington D C may 4 Il ll 11 lIll 1 the government today Us its prep pre liml nary statement of the production of lead for ims as follows follone returns from tho the producers of pig piff lend lead in the iho united states slates show that the total pio of load lead from ill all sout coic during tho the year ISAR 1898 vas mits not net tonn a as compared mith ith tons ions during the year 1897 and tons in this 3 includes include soft lead hurd bard lead and tho the metal abla ined by st foreign base baio bullion and bond atai of let tons Is ie made up lip of tons lon of load anti and tons long of soft oft lend lead the latter being tho file metal obtained from non lien oves oies of missouri banza jona iona illinois and wisconsin by to 10 works by the tha tilt nu cinc companies or fr by cueroni i woisil woi ha it does doca not include the elio mad ld obtained from tho the oro ore of these ill als friets by the tons of sod lead included iona of 0 hard load lead during the lite year there mere do dc in bond net liet tons ton of foreign base bab bullion there wore were also uniel unbelted ted in bond band ores ore 8 containing 1301 1351 tons toil of lead during the th paine pi poi lovIs there mere avre exported 6 1 tuna tons of lead lad from rom foreign liuio base bullion refined in bond and 13 short abort tons tin of lead front from foreign oils orca smelted smelter in bond reports Kei orta front from neaily all the lh imports import ant a dec line arx 1 stocks stock from 1708 tons ions on january 1 to tons on january 1 1899 |
