Show tintic gintic Is the greatest silver Pro producing ducin 9 mining district in the united states the greatest sliver silver prodoc ing camp in the united states how does that sound to the people ol 01 this district and to utah people in general 9 it may sound like an ex agger atlon but it Is the gospel truth during the past week 11 E havener havenor geologist at the standard mine wrote a letter to victor VIcto victorya halkes of the U S G 0 logical cal ur vey who has his hed aar a r rs a at salt lake and asked por or r figures showing the records in made d by th the various fiher camps of O 0 r country during the year 1920 v mr havenor who had been doing a little investigating suspected that for 1920 had outstripped all other silver producing camps the figures of mr halkes while they are estimated only as far as they ap ply to last year show that tintic gintic leads all other silver camps with 7 ounces of the white metal this being a substantial gain over 1919 and 1918 when the production of silver by our mines was slightly under 7 ounces tonopah nevada comes second with 4 ounces tintic gintic last year pro deuced within a few thousand ounces as much silver as the entire state of nevada mr air heikes says that the butte district of montana has for the past few years been leading other sec see eions of the united slates states in the pro of silver but in view of the tact fact that butte is primarily a cop per camp can make claim to being the greatest silver producing mining section in the united states butte s silver production for the past year Is expected to run close to 7 ounces park city comes second in silver production in utah with the follow ing record 1918 2 ounces 1919 1 ounces and tor for 1920 2 ounces utah s sil ver production tor for the past three years as follows 1918 13 ounces 1919 11 ounces and tor ar 1920 11 ounces N heyada aada produced oer oner 10 ounces in 1918 but dropped down to 6 ounces in 1919 and then increased its output to 7 in 1920 montana s output for 1918 waiver 16 ounces but it tell fell off to about luehe and a half million ounces tor for 1919 and the same for 1920 the mines which put in the lead among silver districts are the chief consolidated and the tintic gintic standard |