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Show iiis rnooucTioN MM IN 1817! Spelter Industry Suffers During Last Six Months of Year. SMELTERS ARE CLOSED Utah Output Lowered Approximately Ap-proximately Five Thousand Thou-sand Tons. Tlio .-ir.i'-n'.iiiin an.l : no-snu'U iu ,::lrii's s:: rt o,l tlio year with ovovy I'rosivot of iro:-i-ity, although l!u jri.v of sooUer bolow tho :vor:i:;o ot' tho prooiviiii;; yoav. Puriiis; tho last of ''.!0 your both tho .-.:no smelters a:--1 itu ir.iiiors wore elaiiiUUi: that v- . ;fo:vnit;.oas wero ut'.prof itablo be-e.v.ise be-e.v.ise of tho hich j;ino::il ri.-es and tho low priee of spelter. In eonso-.r-.eiuv . !aro part of tho sre.eltii'.i: i-a'iv'tty of ti.e countrv i:is ie.lo at tho elese of tho voar thoro was a uotaMo oartail'.'aont ot output liuriu.; U:e last o,'.;arter. Aovoro.t!!;; to tho bost uiiovniaf.oii now avsii.iMe. tho ro.-overable yino oor.to'o.t of oro unnoo. ia tho I'nito.i States iu I'-'l" w;,s abov.t ih'.'a'OO short tov.s. oo".r.'oar; with 70C.O1'"1 tons in i hi o sn t i o.i'lo tons in 101.". '"tho Jop'.m at: riot gaine.i iiea-!y -;-O1'! tons in output. Th.s jain was ira.to .i'uriu.j tho o'ariy part of tho voar. fcowever. tor tho inereassr-j: oost of op-orstii'--- ''''' shoot-.ror.'.ul districts s-.i tho J.ool'.'.ri:. prroo of oouoontratos cs.'.so.i praot'.oa.iy all thoso trine to dose au.i ro-iuoo.l the output of slioot-orouad slioot-orouad eotu-ou: rates trov.i a woolly av-orsco av-orsco of o '-00 tons in lilii to an av-eraio av-eraio of about ono-thir.l of that quantity quan-tity in re. out weeks. This loss, whieh vrir.au.erit. involves a not reduction or the :'H'.o rosouroo of tho country o: over ."O.ov.i tor. of recoverable line a voar. as well a of lea 1 concentrates .ontoiuiu- l-V ' tons c: load. Some Increase Noted. New .lersev increase.! its output over 1' ." tons, the r.v.o: Missi.s.-ivi-i val-!?v val-!?v district uaruo i' .' tons, and Ar-K-i-is ;.e n oror.'.-ab'.e increase. Montana foil off nearly il-v1"-1 tons, the loss Wivg Utie largely to the stride in '-e Butte i: : let . t o.ora.to iosi i 1...C tons. Utah ?..; tons. New Mexico Mex-ico 4 0 tons. Idaho and Caltfonr.a ?..v. tor.s each, and Nevada tons.; j;ai production, the eastern 1 v;.'or'':er cent, and the western i -es i4?.'. '' tors, or 3 per cent, la ' iSc-h 'oorrei-oudict' quotas were: . ea-.trState. C 1 per cent: centra, s-a-es. o -oor cent, an: western states.. 4-' ror cent. I The foliov.-iuj ft cures have been com-c'-d without rhaiiso bv E. Ziehen- , -ii:. of the United State oeoioitu al ; -jrev .'.evartment of the interior, troni rero-i furnished bv all active smelters , c:' ;;nc ores, show ins their output tor he first eleven months of the year j sn ; their estimated outrun for Feeem- her', idn.ires show in 2' the imports and ; ejrorts for ten months were obtained , t'-,v.. the bureau of foreign and o.omes- 1 re eorriterce. and to these ft cures have j been add-- i estimates for the rexain.ier j of the year. j Production Curtailed. j O.vin.1 to the depiessiou in the spel-1 or industry ami the necessity ot cur-( tailing prouu.'-ion. two plants in Kan- , s-xs r.ne in "'hanute. and the otner at La Harre. have been dismantled, and , r;ne m.."-e piatits in Kansas and Mis- i souri will be dismantled. Twenty zinc ipi-e-s were not in operation. . : T'"" aru a-ert domestic consumption ; rf r.elter'in U'l" tr.av be computed as i '.d o-.vs- The sum of the stock on j rand at smelters at the besmninj of , the vear. 17.ii' tons, plus the imports, j e-timated at fJ70 tons, and tne prouuc- , tion. (507.751 tons, eives the total avail- able s.i-.p'v rt.".6n tons. From thisj are to h'e subtracted the exports of domestic do-mestic st-elt-rr and sheets. 144."u0 tons, the extern of sfcltor made from lor-ei-n o'ro '"''' tons, and the stock on hand at smelters at the end ot the voars ito be exa-t. on Pecember o). 1m7 tons, or a total of 2 .5 4.1 u. tons, leaving a balance of 431.500 tons as the atr-arent domestic consumption. fcThi calculation takes no account ot tbe yks of spelter held by dealers or coN-or-, This shows a decrease of s i.nTT.ns when compared with the I-.i4-ii ron- apparently eonsumC'l in 10's'This decrease is parlv accounted tn- bv the increase of 15.O0U tons in tV zin" content of exports of brass. ri t're other hand, the exports of mau-u-s.-turs of brass decreased nearly one-'n-'f The no-mai antewar consumption of spelter in the United States was about .".onO.1.1 tons. Comparative Figures. The stock of spelter on hand at smelters. smelt-ers. iu transit, or in the hands or 2.nts December 15. 1? 1 '. . ' 'ons, as compared with 1 . .o'. tons 11 hand or transit Januarv 1. 101,. s::.!4T tons .rune 3". and wtth 4,.l- tember 30. ... The price of spel'er at r-tS Lou Marte.t at cents a pound and atter rP.,:n t0 p cents at the middle 01 .lan-.arv" roc craduallv to 1 ... cents ':.rlv "in March. The price dropped to cents late in AiTtl. rose ?radu-aliv ?radu-aliv to 9.4 cents bv the end ot May, bur in a series of declines, with short n.-ovene". reached 7.75. near which it ,-lo.ed' the vear. The avera.-e quoted pric. for the" vear for prime western s;e!tor at St. Louis "as .! cents a pound, as compared with an avera Fale, price for all Trades ot 13.4 cents a pound in 1015. and an avera-e saks Trie of 12.4 cents in 191-. |