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Show MICA IN THE YEAR 1915 Tho quantity of sheet mica, rough trimmed nnd cut, produced In tho U. S. In 1915 Is smaller than that for any of tho twelvo prccodlng years but tho vol go of tho product is tho highest over rocprded. Statistics collected by tho United States Geological Geol-ogical Survoy, Department of tho Interior, In-terior, recently published, show that high prices have produced a prosperous prosper-ous condition in tho mica mining industry in-dustry in ccitnln parts of tho country, so that, as ono correspondent In t'O South wrltos: Everybody nnd tholr children aro digging for mica. Tho nvcrago price of sheet mlcn In 191C wns 08 cents a pound, compared with 60 cents a pound in 1914 and 21 cents n pound in 1913, Tho totnl valuo of all sheet nnd scrap nf.cu produced in 1915 was J428.7C9 a valuo val-uo oxecoded, though but slightly only by that for 19)3. Scrap mlcn did not chnngo much In vnluo. North Car-olina Car-olina produced moro than half tho output, New Hampshlro, Idaho nnd South Dakota being relatively the ucxt largest producers, Thure was a small production of lopldollto (a II-thin II-thin mica) In California of cllnochlor'o a chlorite relntcd to mica) In Georgia, nnd blotlto (n dark mica) in Colorn- do. Tho valuo of the mica Imported j in 1915 exceeded tho vnluo of tho j mica produced in tlmt year. f Tho report on mica in 1915, by W. i T. Schallcr, can bo had by applying 1 to tho Director of tho'U. S. Oeolog- leal Survoy, Washington D. C. J |