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Show MINING IN TEXAS ! SHOWS A DECREASE i The- output of Texas mines for eleven months of 1316. with the estimated out-. out-. put for December, as shown by preliminary prelimi-nary figures reported by Charles W. Hen-; Hen-; derson of the United States geological survey. department of the " interior. ' amounted to Sriijn in gold, fisn.nnn ounces of silver. Sfl.nnft pounds of lead and 00, orio Donne's of copper, a-s compHrrd with .iSK-oa jn gold. 67".473 ounces of silver, :j21J',2PS pounds of lend and 42.431 pounds of copper in 1315. The greater part of I i the output of silver came from the Pre-l Pre-l sidio silver mines and oyanldatlon mill in tihe Sha.fter district. Presidio county. Some silver and copper were prod need in the. llamoore-Van Horn district, Culberson Culber-son county, and some silver, lead and copper cop-per In the S-ierra Elanca district, FA Paso county. |