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Show UTAH'S METAL OUTPUT DROPS Decrease in 1921 of Gold, Silver, Lead and Copper 50 Per Cent. WASHINGTON. Jan 7. Showing decrease of mors than 50 per cent, tho v.-iine of gold, sliver, lead and copper produced In I'tah during 1921, according accord-ing to the report of Victor C Helkes of the United .St;it-M SeolOfleal Survey Is approximately $22,595,000 compared to $49. 544.334 in 1920. While the output out-put of all metals m decidedly less than In 1920 the output of oopper was less than one-third of what Is was In 1920. .Mine production of cold decreased from $2 014, 50; In 1910 to about $1.-794.000 $1.-794.000 In 1921 The I'nlted States Mining company at Bingham greatly Increased Its output of goirl from lend and copper ore, and Its mine produced more than twice as much gold as any other mine In I'tah Second In gold production was the Deer Trull mine at Marysvale, which also had a considerably consider-ably Increased output. Gold In Quantity, Quan-tity, was also produced ly the I'tah Copper. Chief Consolidated, Kagle and Blue Bell, and Tlnttc Standard mines I intm DISTRICT The mine output of silver decreased from 13.106.97H ounces In 1920 to about 12.S66.000 ounces In 1921. The output from the Tlnllc district, however, how-ever, was more ihnn uphold, principally princi-pally through the efforts of the Chief Consolidated and Tlntlc Standard companies. com-panies. The Chief Consolidated mine at Eureka continued to be the largest producer of sliver In the state and the Tlntlc Standard followed closely Other mines that produced more than 500,000 ounces of silver were tho United States Mining company Bit Bingham. Vlpont In Box Elder county, the Judge and 'ntarlo mines at Park City rind the Kagle and I'due Bell ut Eureka. One of the Interesting features of the jre it was the large production of silver ore from the Park I tah mine eatt of tho Ontario at Park city. The mine production of copper decreased de-creased from 116.931.238 pounds In 1920 to about 34 534,000 pounds In 1921, and the value decreased from $21,515.34$ to about $4,334,000. The Utah Copper company, which produces most of tho copper of the state, yvns closed In April, after producing about 25,000.000 pounds of copper during the first three months The i'tah Consolidated Con-solidated mine at Bingham was closed ' in March. The average price of cop-1 per was 21.61 cents a pound in 1911 and tho demand tor the metal was , small. The United States Mining company. com-pany. Montana Bingham and Tlntlc Standard produced considerable cop-per. cop-per. LEAD OUTPUT LOW The mine output of lead decreased from 140.SdS.lia pounds In 1920 to about 89.782.000 pounds in 1921. Tho j value of the output decreased from 111,267,049 to about $4,130,000. The j largest producer of lead was the Unit-, d States Mining company at Blng-I ham. The closing of the lead smelter at International in July seriously affected af-fected shipments from Ophlr, Parte City and Eureka. Tho mine output of recoverable zinc In 1920 was S, 157. 739 pounds but market conditions prevented shipments of lnc or or concentrates in l'J2l-TONN l'J2l-TONN . I I ( RJSASl 1) in 1921 the mines in Utah produced about 1,970,000 tons of ore, a decrease from 6.800. ISO tons in 1920. Of this total the Bingham district produced ubout 1.48F..000 tons as compared with 6.067.180 tons in 1920. The estimated production of the district was 47.032 ounces of gold. 1.059.700 ounces of silver, sil-ver, 28,349,000 pounds of copper, and 24.000.000 pounds of lead. Tho mines of the Tlntlc district produced pro-duced about 316,000 tons, exclusive of iron ore. as compared with 332,635 tons in 1920. The estimated production produc-tion of the district was 18.578 ounces of gold, 7,425.000 ounces of silver, 1.-672,000 1.-672,000 pounds of copper, and 32,-543,000 32,-543,000 pounds of lead. The shipments of ore and concentrate concen-trate from the Park City region decreased de-creased from 88.314 tons In 1920 to about 74.320 tons In 1921. A tabulation tabula-tion of figures furnished by tho principal prin-cipal shippers gave an estimated output out-put for the district of 3317 ounces of gold, 2.185.000 ounces of silver, 782.-000 782.-000 pounds of copper, and 16,426,000 pounds of lead. The lead smelters at Midvalo and Murray were operated at u reduced rale during the yenr. The copper plant at Garfield curtailed its output after the closing of Ihe Ptah Copper mine, but continued to receive much slli-clous slli-clous ore. Tho dividends paid by mining tympanies tym-panies in Utah in 1921 will amount to approximately $4,613,930. Dividend' amounting to $1,877,780 were also paid by tho United Slates Smelting & Refining Re-fining company, which controls mines at Kureka and Bingham well as mines In other stati-. The following companies contributed. L'tah 1 upper, Chief Consolidated, Grand Central. Silver Sil-ver King Coalition. Eaglo and Blue Bell, Tlntlc Standard. Gold Chain. Park Utah. Iron Blossom und Eureka Mill. : -Oo |