Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-30 | Page 7 | Production of Borax

PRODUCTION OF BORAX. Slight Decrease Last Yeir as Com paied With the Ono Freceedlng Is Shovn In Report. Washington. D C, Sept. 27. Tho in-port in-port on the ' Production of Hornx In the I'nlted States," by Hr Joseph btruth-ets btruth-ets In "Mineral Htbourrts of the I'nlted States, liOl," now In press, I'nlted Slates geological survey, shows that H-'ie was a slight decrease In U01, the output being 17 SS7 short tons of crude borax and 63H short Inns of te-tlned te-tlned boiax, valued at tl 012,118, as com pared with the production of .' 235 short Ions of (rude borax und 1602 shot I tons of teflned borax In 1000 Of the output In lnol California pioduced the wholo of the rellned borax und 10 Ko7 tons of the 1 rude borax The production of botux In the United States continues lo bo derived mainly fiiim Ihe coleinanlle deposits of California Cali-fornia although a small quantity Is produced fiom the marsh deposits of California. Nevada and Oregon. Tho Imports of borax borates and botle acid In tho United Slates amounted amount-ed to J50683, as compiled with 132 819 In 1500 ond with J27 017 In 1890 Tho Horax Consolidated, Limited (the Internatlonil borax combination), now operating In Ihe United Htatcn. England, Eng-land, Trance and South merlca re. tails a very favorable 'niss for the lscal "ear ending S3p er 30 1901. "hlscompans Is capltallz at f M00 000. The net profits for the sear wcro IlThVro has been but little nuctuatloii In the price of borax during 1001, which remains nt 7 lo 7 25 cents for tho re-(fn.1l re-(fn.1l and 6 75 to 7 cents for the con-centrated con-centrated product.