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Show COPPER PRODUCTION. Interesting Figures Are Given by ti Mining Reporter. A table giving an estimate of tfe production ot copper in the varioit sections of this country compared witl the Government report of 1905 has re cently been published. According tc these returns the production during the current year will show an increase of about 11 per cent over the 190o output, out-put, but the increase in production over the rate of output during the last tew months of 1905 is small, if any. The developments of the next rew months may change the estimate in the table which is as follows: United States Production. Pounds, Pounds, L 1906. 1905 Montana 3-10.000,000 314,750.612 Arixoaa 300.000.000 236,627 535 Lake fcuperior . ..230,000,000 230,287 92 Utah 65,000,000 63.047)261 California 30.000.000 15.367,106 Tennessee and the South 15.000.000 14.655.504 Colorado , 10.000,000 9..104.S30 wyoiqing, Idaho, tc- . 7.000,000 5.944.130 Ala" 5.000,000 5.000.556 Total 1.005,000.000 901.630,993 Copper Imports, 1906. ,r . Pounds. fesico 120,000.000 Canada . 40,000,000 Other countries 65.000.000 Total .' 225,000,000 Mexico output. 160.000.000 0. S. production 1906 1.005.000 000 Imports. 1906 225,000,000 Total supplies. 1906 .'..1.230.000.000 Domestic consumption consump-tion 720,000,000 Ex-ports 500,000.000 Total consumption . 1.220.000,000 Reserves. January 1, 1907 . . 10,000.000 To which mn6fc be added residual simply held on January 1. 1906. Mining Reporter. |
