Show VH T WE TURNED OUT I Mineral Product of United I States During Last Year 1 SHOWING A SPLENDID ONE Ii I i j Figures from the Annual Review of the Engineering and Mining Journal I Jour-nal Net Valuo of all Mineral Produced Pro-duced Reached a Total of 891 424082 n Increase Over 1898 of 151607332 Coal Production I was Largest Ever Knovra and I Places U S Ahead of Britain I I i New York Tan GThe Engineering I and MIning Journal In its annual statistical sta-tistical number published today says the preliminary statement of mineral production in the United Slates In 1899 shows that the total production was valued at the place of production at S11S73SI1I as compared with 5i425r 020 In 1SOS Of nonmetallic substances the total value of the output wan G01S7LG31 as compared with S3OSl970 In 1S9S Deducting De-ducting certain unavoidable duplications duplica-tions such as coal used In coke or Iron ore in pig iron and so on the net value of the mineral production reached a to lat of 891421082 showing an Increase of 1G1G07F332 over 1S9S The gold production was valued at S7LYIS305 and the silver was G11796SJ ounces The most Important Item was coal the total of which In 1609 was no less than 244581875 tons the largest quantity quan-tity ever mined in a year and putting I the United States for the first time ahead of Great Britain as a coal producer pro-ducer The pig Iron was 13649453 tons or 1878619 tons more than In 1S9S Copper Cop-per production amounted to 592C52637 pounds a gain o 1 pcr cent over the previous year Other Important items were 213003 tons of lead 13579G tons OL zinc 01 048100 barrels of petroleum 15194511 barrels of cement 10215794 barrels oc salt SS713 llaslcs of quicksilver besides be-sides I a very great variety of mineral products of Importance |