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Show Miscellany In Wealthy Alaska. Tho. value of Alaska's mineral output for 1915 is estimated at ?3:. 000,000. compared com-pared with $19,064.9(53 for 1914. The highest high-est value for any previous year was in 1906, when Alaska produced K'S.TS.IS worth of minerals, but this was at a time when tho bonan7.a placers of Fairbanks and Nome were yielding their greatest return. , .... The hieh value of the nuiKTal output in 1915 was due in lar.ue measure lo the extraordinary amount of .-oprtr thai was mined. preliminary cmlnmiea indicate this to he j-.S.S-a'.OvO pounds, valued ai $14,400,00. In 19H, 21.400.$ p'-unds of copper were mined, valued at .-.'$';. The gold produetlon algo increased in !Mo, who'll Hip value was a hoi it il .'.'.'O.'tO. ! ' r.V.Mi.Pt ?15.ti--ii.Sl'J for t lie output oi K14. ; This i? the largest sold production sinve ; 111"' when the output Tvas valued at $17,-VI $17,-VI "'.-"'l A3 the- product km of silver if : ! incidental to sold and copper mining, this llso increased. i-J estimated that $Kmi,- . ijmO w'jrUi of silver was mined in lOio. a? compared with ?2ls.:."Ji woith in U14. The output of other mineral?, imiudins: tin. antimony. marhl", .q-;-psum, coa 1 and n,.trolpnn. in ISIS had a v.-Mne of about V.0i 0iK. compar.d with S-J-'.S'VJ ill The developments made during 'lie year -Ivc as-sutan'"c of .-mi. tinned larce operations op-erations In hoih eopper and cold lode minimi. rla'-er mininc has been ss I , n-o.. r.prou p. f"r this industry has not et i-fvi.-ird to l he st iniulufs uf lie povr-rn-inent r.'iil" " hn h will ninkc ava ha nle ;oi- piofi'hlc exploitation lair: bodies uf low-grade gravels. The same Is trtie of the coal mining industry, which also must await railway transportation. The first gold mining in Alaska was done in 1SS9, and fine that time gold to the value of about $261,050,000 has been produced. Of this about $186,200,000 has been-won from the gold placers. Copper mining began in 1901. and the total copper cop-per output of Alaska is now about 217,-260,000 217,-260,000 pounds, valued at $34,150,000. The value of the lotal silver production to date J is about 650.000. Coal, petroleum, tin, 'lead, Quicksilver, antimony, marble, gyp.-sum gyp.-sum and other minerals have been produced pro-duced to the value of about $2, ISO. 000. Therefore, the value of the total mineral production during thirty-six years of mining In Alaska has been $300,000,000. Indianapolis News. |