| Show II I Ilr jii I OUR MINERAL PRODUCTo It s Annual Summary J of Output for Ten Years J as Compiled by the United States I v IItt t C P I I t Geological Survey > iy xcz Total Production of Last Year Exceeded That of 1898 Almost 40 I Per CentFrom 1890 to 1899 the Production in Every Year Save Two the Panic Years of 18934 Has Exceeded Six Hundred Million Dollars < > t I Il Washington Nov 5Davld T Day 1 chlcf of the division of mining and I mineral resources of the United States geological survey has completed the i annual summary of the mineral production pro-duction of the United States from 1890 to JS99 inclusive The total value of all the minerals I 4 produced during the last calendar year I r amounted to 5S7COOSOI6 against 097 I iLIv S 0790 in JRDS an Increasc of 278185 liG or practically 10 per t cent This Increase I j In-crease was the t most notable in the history his-tory of the mineral Industry The previous I L pre-vious largest Increase J being from 1891 to 1895 when the value advanced about S 3S per cent TrcO The production from 1S90 to 1S98 has L exceeded 4600000000 In every year except 5I I ex-cept two the panic years of 1S93 and 5 3S9J The average yearly production I from 1S90 to JS Inclusive was 1618 2 6510 making the production in 1899 30772236 or 58 per cent in excess of r the average for that period y The greatest Increase In 1309 > was In hU the value of the pig lion product which I LiI Increased I to 215172051 or about 110 u per cent oer ISDS The enormous Increase I In-crease was due to the phenomenal fl demand and high prices The increase U in-crease In coal production added over I l SGOOWO or 23 per cent to the 189S M value I Z c Copper increased nearly CO000000 I pounds In quantltyand over 42000000 S in value the ruling prices being higher than for a number of years past Crude petroleum advanced nearly 20COOCOO or about 15 per cent due I principally to advanced prices the product S pro-duct lou Increasing less than 4 I per cent czt1y thq The value of the natural gas consumed UT con-sumed In 1S9D Is placed at a little over I i S20000CCO against 1G300OCO due entirely en-tirely lo the higher prices charged 5 An Increase of about 10 per cent or S from Gidp OOPJn 1SOS to 71Q5300 n5 i1r1fl 1SU Is shown In goldproductionThe iZ production of silver showed a very Ip L small Increase Lead production decreased 6 per c2nt L hut Increased over 2000000 in value 11 t Spelter increased to 119403 short tons I At1j valued at 13731020 The bulldlng I I lone industry Increased nearly S000 000 000The total value of the metallic product pro-duct in 1SD9 I wes 52721SOS1 an Increase 5 of 51 l per cent Nonmetallic product increased In-creased 27 per cent to 117700S < Kv cry year since ISS to 1808 Inclusive the value of the nonmetallic production 5 S produc-tion has exceeded the metallic but In uI aS90 the metallic exceeded by 50500010 S A change of nearly 590000000 occurred I in the relative values between 1898 and i 3M < 9 > I nprccedentcd activity and advanced S values the report says were shown InS In-S rcl nearly every branch of the mining Industry 1 In-dustry during 1890 nent force of 60000 men or over and It is not thought likely that It will fall below this llhurc there will be 33000 men to enlist between the date of the passage of the bill and the discharge of the present regulars on the 30th of Tune The chief recruiting officer of 1 the department MaJ Johnson says It is Impossible to make any predictions as to the speed with which the recruiting recruit-Ing can bo carried on but that it will I depend largely upon the number of ofll cers that the department can detail for I recruiting service i When the SpanishAmerican war was I I ofllchilly declared to be ended and the discharge of the volunteers rendered the I recruiting of fresh regiments Imperative Impera-tive there were 25000 new men added to the regular establishment in the space of about six weeks In spite of the fact that the volunteer olllccrs at I that time were recruiting all over the I country to 1111 up the volunteer regiments regi-ments The first regiments enlisted for the regular service were recruited equipped drilled and ready for transportation trans-portation on an average of fortyfour days each more than ten days quicker than the average for the regiments enlisted en-listed at the beginning of the Spanish war |
