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Show SB ' bbsf ( stone breaks record BbWI SB1'; Production Valued At Nearly Hi $80,000,000 For 1912 i SB! j) Tlio va'ue of tho Htonu produced H: In the United States in 1912 reached B the largo total of $7S,28 l.r.72 an In- M crease of 1.170,005 over 1911, thus B I breaking nil previous records. Al- BBS J though tho percentago of Increase for BBS 1912 over 1911 was not huge, acroid- BBS Ing to E. F. Hurchard, of tho Unl- BBS ted States (leologlcal Survey, and SB although bomo of the varieties uf SB stono showed a decrease, the total BBB Increase was considerably larger Bj than tho Increase of 1911 over 1910, B when tho total value was $7G,fi20,GS t, P' i thu Increaso then being but $5S7,9S3. SB n I'cnnsylvanla has always held first B J rank among tho stono producing B ' states except In 190S, when Vermont |