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Show IDAHO METAL ; OUTPUT IN 19141 Tho depression of tho metal mar-1 ket that followed tho declaration of ' i wnr abroad did not prevent Idaho, mines from ngnin making a record I I production of silver, lend, and zinc according to preliminary estimates by ' C. N. Gory, of tho United Stntds I Geological Survey. Tho aluo of I the gold, hilvor, copper, lead, and zinc produced at theso mines In I'M I i wus $21,141,000, against $21, 1-19,019 In I 191.1. Tho go'd output decreased from ' $1,34 1.C59' In 1913 to $1,115,000 In 1911, about 17 per cent, owing main i ly to heavy falling off In yiold from tho Do Lamar tnlno, in Owyhoi conn ty. Thu Lost Pnclter lu Custor conn-1 ty, wns nlso unproductive Although gold production from slllcoonu o o decreased that from placors oporated by dredges Increased considerably In Lemhi and Bolso counties, The dred eca on Bohnnnon Bar and Klrtloy Creek wero oporated and tho Boston-Idaho Boston-Idaho boat handled 400,000 cubic yards a month. A nqteworthy production pro-duction of gold camo from the Gil-moro Gil-moro nnd Alllo mines, In Lemhi county. Tho Musgrovo, In tho same county, rando a good output of cy ' anldo bullion. , , Tho production of silver Increased from 9, 889,193 ounces In 1913 to 13,-000,000 13,-000,000 ounces In 1914, or 30 per ',,t, and Idaho was probably tho f-dnd sliver producer of tho United States in 1914. Novnda bolng first. Though tho prlco per ounce wnB low-or, low-or, tho value of tho total sliver Increased In-creased from $6,033,473 to $7,115,000. Nearly nil this output came from lead oro and concentrate, most of which is mined In tho Cocur d'Alcno dls trlct of Shoshone county. Tho largest larg-est Increases in sllvor wero from tho Bunker H1IJ, Stewart, Caledonia, Sl I crra Novada, Grecnhlll, Hercules and Tamarack & Custor mines. Tho copper production of Idaho was greatly affectod by market conditions con-ditions and decreased from 9,5?2,9f6 pounda In .1913 to 5,500,000 pouncta in 1914. Thlg decrease was, shared by the Empire Copper .Co., , ,n v Custer county, and tho Snow StormCo., (ln Shoshone county. .Tho 'Lost- Packer mlno did not contribute. At tho No. tlonnl mlno tho 500 ton mill wns completed but operatod only a Bhort, tlmo. Tho value of thq total copper cop-per yield decreased from $J,48G,910 tq $724,000. Tho mlno production of lead increased in-creased from 317,871,945 pounds in 1913 to 345,000,000 pounds In 1914, or nearly 9 por cent moro than the record production of tho preceding year. Tho total valuo of tho output, howovcr, decreased from $13,98C,3CC In 1913 to $13,198,000 in 1914. All tho Importnnt mines continued operations with the oxcoptlon of tho Morning, which was active about half tho year, .Lemhi county decreased , Its output 05 porr cent, and .the, Wllbcrt mlnq In Fremont county, was far bo'ow tho total of ,tho previous .year. But In Shoshone county notable Increases Increas-es were made, j, , |