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Show OUTPUT OF LEAD IS RECORD-BREAKER Gain of 10 Per Cent Over Yield of 1915 Is Noted. The "United States geological survey, department of the interior, has just published pub-lished the new year estimate of the production pro-duction of lead in 1916. In the production produc-tion of lead ore there was a gain of 10 per cent over the preceding year, the lead content of ore mined in 1916 being estimated at 622,000 short tons. Missouri had the largest production and also made a gain of over 25.000 tons. Good gains were made by California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. The production of refined lead, desilverized desilver-ized and soft, from domestic and foreign ores, was approximately 5 j 9. 600 tons, worth at the average New York price $78,R26,000. as against 550,055 tons, worth $51,705,000, in 1915. The output of anti-nionial anti-nionial lead was about 21.800 tons, worth about $4,283,000. The domestic production produc-tion was made up of 324.000 tons of desilverized de-silverized lead and 234,200 tons of soft lend, worth in all about $75,915,000, and the production from foreign ores Is estimated esti-mated at 21,400 tons. The Imports of lead in all forms were about 35.800 tons, and the exports were about 117.550 tons, of which 108,200 tons were derived from domestic ores. The total to-tal exports of lead were valued at about $15,832,000. The consumption of lead, as near as it can be calculated, disregarding stocks of domestic lead, was 471.200 tons, as against 426.751 tons in 1915. The price of lead was nearly 50 per cent higher in 1316 than during tho preceding year, the average of spot quotations at New York being 68 cents a pound, as compared with 4.7 cents In 1315. |