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Show : 10 7 lESliiiir II MIH. OUTPUT Production of State During 1913 Valued at More Than $30,000,000. i SECOND IN ASPHALT Ranks Fourth in Quantity of Petroleum and Seventh Sev-enth in Value. Texas, the largest of all the states in area and fifth in the number of inhabitants, in-habitants, ranks nineteeuth in the value of its mineral production, according to the United States geological survey. In each of the last two years Texas : advanced two numbers in the rank of i mineral-producing states. In the per- j ' centage of its increase in 1913 over 1912 Texas was exceeded by only one other , state itd northern neighbor, Oklahoma l which, on account of the sharp ad- , i vanco iu the price of petroleum, showed ! I a gain in value, of mineral products 1 of nearly 50 per cent, while Texas i showed an increase in value of 3S.9 per went from $22,797,015 in 1912 to $31,-! $31,-! 066.910 iu 1913. In Oklahoma the in crease :.n J913 was due to the advance , in the price of one substance; in Texas j increases were made in the output of all the products which contributed materially mate-rially to the total value, but especially, j j as in Oklahoma, in the production of j i petroleum. I Second in Asphalt. I Texas ranks second in the production i of asphalt and third in the production ; of quicksilver. Since the sensational strike at Beaumont in 1901, petroleum i has had first place in the mineral prod- :; ucts of the state and Texas now ranks fourth among all the states in the quan-; quan-; tity of petroleum produced and seventh I with respect to the value of the product. ; 1 The production increased from 11,735,- ! 057 barrels, valued at $8,852,713, in ! 1912, to lo,099,47S barrels, valued at : ' $14,675,593, in 1913. The possibilities for oil development are widely scat-i scat-i tered over Texas, and the chances for further extension are therefore excellent. excel-lent. Second in importance among the mineral min-eral products ot Texas, reckoned by the value of output, is coal, including lignite or brown coal, the combined production of which amounted in 1913 to 2,129.144 short tons, valued at $4.28S.920, against 2.IbS.t12 short tons, valued at $3,655,-i $3,655,-i 714 in 1912. Texas is the only state iu the union that produces considerable quantities of both bituminous coal and true lignite, or brown coal. Other Minerals. 1 The only other mineral products of 1 Texa whii-h contribute as much as $1.- UU0.UUU to the total value are asphalt, cement, clay and natural gas. The manufacture of Portland cement in Tex-1 Tex-1 as is an industrv barelv five vears old at the end of 1913. "flie value of the rnmeut produced in Texas in 1913 was .t2,663.05:-i. an increase of over $6"0,000 from $2,9tf2.124 in 1912. 7iaw materials; for the manufacture of cement are abundantly distributed throughout the siat. The present operations are confined con-fined tn four plants, two near DhUhh and one ca:-h at San Antonio and Kl J 'a -;o. The viiluc of the natural ga produced pro-duced ;i!?n snowed a substantial increase, in-crease, amounting to $2,073, S23 in 1913 against $1,405,077 in 1112. The an-phalt an-phalt produced in Trxas, which is principally residun obtained from the heavy asphaitic oils, amounted to 122,-02'i 122,-02'i fhort tons in 1913. valued at $1.-970.354. $1.-970.354. In addition to this a small u nan tity of natural asphalt was pro-i pro-i uii'-ed. The only mineral products of anv importance im-portance which did not show an increase in value in J 013 over 1912 were gvpsum and salt. The decrease in the salt production pro-duction was due to the destruction by f i re of one of the salt -making establish estab-lish men ts at (,'nloradn. Other mineral products of the state are limestone, granite, copper, geriiK, a small amount of gold, iron ore. lead, Jinn-, mineral varors, quicksilver, &nd and graved, sand lime hriek, silver, sulphur sul-phur and zinc. Sulphur operations with methods similar to those employed rir Sulphur 'My, Lh.. were begun" at. I'.rvnn Heights, in Brazoria count v in 1JM3. |