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Show IDAHO ENDS YEAR OF HEAVY OUTPUT Washington, Jan 13. A general Increase In-crease was shown in the production from Idaho mines In 1911, according to C. N. Gerry of the United Statc3 geological qurvey. This was attrlb-utab attrlb-utab leto tho Increased production of all ores except those carrying copper cop-per and sllecious ores, the production of which decreased In Shoshone and Owyhee counties The most notable increases were in zinc ores, silver-lead silver-lead ores and placer gold. A gain of nearly 13 per cent in tho gold output out-put places the production back at a normal figure after a strikingly low output In 1910 Gold and silver production pro-duction has gradually decreased In Owyhee count,y and Boise county took the lead In 1911 in gold production produc-tion with Elmore county probablv third. Seven dredges were active In Boise, Clearwater and Lemhi counties and good results were obtained Gold output out-put from copper ore decreased In Shoshone Sho-shone county owing to tho small production pro-duction from the Snow Storm mine, but this was offset by the gold production pro-duction from copper ore in Custer county Gold production from lead ores Increased matorlally In 1911, along with increased tonnage and lead ores mined, both In Shoshone and Lemhi counties Lead-Silver Ores. Owing to the Increased production of lead-silver ores from tho Coeur d'Alono and Gllmore mines, tho silver sil-ver output was considerably increased, increas-ed, although silver production from sllecious sl-lecious and copper oros showed a falling off The increase in silver production pro-duction was duo in part to the improvement im-provement of the ore in the Hunter district and the development of new producers at Wardner and near Murray. Mur-ray. The Seven Devils district marketed mar-keted a greater quantity of copper ore, but the lead ore output of Blaine county showed a decroase. In Boise county the Whitman, Golden Gold-en Age and Gold Hill &. Iowa deep mlnos waw nrnrinnlncr and the Molincv Boston & Idahb and White Quartz properties were the largest producers of placer gold. Custer county gold and silver production pro-duction came mainly from the lost Packer and Empire copper ore. The gold and silver output from Elmoro county showed a great increase A custom mill was erected at Elk City and bullion was produced from the South Fork, Idaho, Champion, Moscow Mos-cow and Eagle mines. Value of Output. Lemhi county nearlv tripled tbo output out-put of lead ores which contain pold and' silver In notable quantity. The KItiy Burton was the largest producer produc-er of gold. The DeLamar was tho v only largo producer of Owyhee counts'. coun-ts'. Tho Couer d'Alene district was ' unusually free from interruption of ' production. The old producers Increased In-creased their shipments and several new ' producers were added. According to preliminary figures compiled by the director of tho mint, Idaho produced In 1911 gold valued at ?1,1G9,2C1, and 7,507,802 fine ounces of silver, valued at 51.129,292, against $1,035,900 in gold, and 7,027000 ounces of silver, valued nt.$3t794,CQ0 in 1910. |