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Show FIGURES AS TO GYPSUM GIVEN Ml til !( , ivi-KHifer lUU'U'hlt or iointt rorvTA rnviT. totorndo (oinpiii) citiln I urge' irtam nnd liuniin.,- I)(-h..h In t'nlnr Moiintnlii Section nml Novv Mhiiu It, ml) rr ,IX Mm In 1,lTlnn IimkIi lor Mnrkit. , '" ' nt 'he Interwt being shown in th development of large gvpmim deport throughout ItoMern Utah and eiUHTtally In the Cedar MounlHln m. tlon of Kmer) rtiuntv b K II 1'rlest ami the Colorado (Upmim roman anrthlng bmirlng on that Induntry Ix at thl time IntereMIng Arrordlng to O r tughlln. of the United Beaten Biological imrvo the production of grum In the t nlted mate In tat 4 Js marked )y M derrntee In tonnage but an Increase In value nn Inerenso due to n Mnnig ndvatiee In the prlei of ealrlned gvpetim which more than offset n decline In price of crude gp. sum The nuanlll) f crude gym mn. el in the United lRte In HI t whs t . 7t iH short lniw, romimrml with 2 99 tons reported mined In Ktl, a deirease of 113 ell tnns. The gp. sum sold without raHnlng and used piinrliwli nn bind plaster and as nn Ingredient In Portland cement nnd paint amounted to HaU" short tons, valued at 1047 9 a deerrase of 19 H9 tons In ilanllt and HO J7 In nlue In roniartiMin with lU when the pales for similar inrmM amounted amount-ed to I6 UH phort tons, vntued nt l7 0 The material marketeil ns calcined plaster was I 0(IA short tons valued at f 0 219 100 as compared com-pared with I 77J M9 tons vntued at $C 77 76 sold calelmd In 1913 The total value of all gnwim marketeil In 1914 was 9S9s us compared with M.774 1I! In 1913 an Increase of till IC7 Considerable iiuanlltlea of gtpsnni plaster, or 'staff, were psed In the l'anamal'ariric exHwlllon buildings at Han I'ranclsco nnd In the Panama-California Panama-California exposition buildings nt Han IHego but the) were not sufficient to offset the general decline In tonnage ebwwhcre Oyiwum was produced In eighteen states and In Alaska In 1914, the same states repirllng output In thlsearasln 19H The relative rank of the thr leading states has remained remain-ed unchanged for the last four )ers New York ranking first Iowa second and Mbhlgan third In the output of crude gviwnim The total itiantlt) of calcined khhmiii fold in 191 1 WMI 117 73 tons Iw than mild In n, but the total value was $171 131 greater great-er Vearl) 9t per cent of the domestic cabined g)psum marketed In the United Hlates, or I Slit 937 tons. Is used for use as wall plastir Kteue's cement plaster of Paris and othir uses. About I 3(0 000 tons of this 'liinntll) leproscntN mlicd wall plaster plas-ter There were vnt -eight gtpsum mines. Including iiuarrles nnd pits, reported re-ported active In the United Htatea In 1914, one of whlih la In Alaska These mines supplied slxt) -eight domestic mills, of which slxt) -one were calcining calcin-ing plants and seven produced ground g)psuiu onl) I'our new mills were reported In operation last )ear, thne In California nnd one In Ni w York One mill, located In Nevada, was re-IHirtrd re-IHirtrd under construction In 1914, AIhiui one-half of the active plants whbh niMirlcd on business conditions reiMirtnl IiusIiihsm practlcnll) the some In 1914 as In 1913 nnd the otlu.r h (If found trade xorer A fiw po.Imcis i maldered conditions better The average av-erage prbe of crude gjprum throughout through-out the countn decreased five cents In 1911 nscomiHired wllh thn price reported re-ported for 1913, and the avernge price of lahlneil g)Hoim ndvaiued thlrtj-four thlrtj-four cents. |