PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
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The values are : for iron, at point of production ; for nickel and platinum, the values at New York City ; for copper, lead and zinc, the values are those of sales ; for quicksilver, the value at San Francisco.
Metallic Products
Pig-iron .... long tons Silver (commercial value) trov oz. Gold (value) ... „ Copper .... pounds Refined Lead . . . short tons Zinc .... „ Quicksilver flasks 1 Aluminium pounds Tin (metallic equivalent) snort tons Platinum troy oz. Antimonial lead . short ton* Nickel
Total value (including all others)
Quantity (1918)
Value (1918) ^n^,^ (Value 1919
Dollars 38,230,4*1 1,180,759,565 87,810,139 66,485,159
8,3.
'1,908,588,595
MM09
49?,40.i!
SS,88S[
59,758!
19,518
441
68,648,700 471,4' -
89,618,000=
8,8'"'
41.159,4108*
118,500
6,417,980
-.-.-,:.-• 401,000,
99^19,090
8,999,991
,810,541,529
424,433
452,272
21,348
60 45,109
13,874 511
nnii i
999,9*9^91 83,996,411 ■9,499,900
243,761,000 44,990,000 98,081000
1,927,511
3*. 5'*. °""
7s,..>.
5,814,335
ijnijm
t»M9S
2,152,919,'W
—
1 Of 75 avoirdupois pounds net.
The following are statistics of the principal non-metallic minerals for two years : —
Non-Metallic Products
Quantity (1918)
Bituminous coal . short tons Pennsylvania anthracite . Ions tons Stone
Petroleum
Natural Gas
Cement
Salt
Phosphate rock
Coke
Mineral waters
Borates
Arsenious oxide
bnroW
barrels* short ton? . long tons short tons gallons sold .short tons pounds |
n*,S8i S3 98,987,571
oVt3.3t>
721,030,959 71,348,474
2,490,760 56.47S.3T2 40,709,722
6,328
Value (1918)
Dollars
1,491,999,940
336,4S0,347
. "0.130
703,943,961
153,553^60
113,554,854
40.361
t.463
4,533,001 J,179,S30 1,213,000
Total minerals (including all others) ....
— 5,53S,699,000
Quantity (1919)
Value (1919)
Dollars 458,088,000 —
77,000,000 —
71,380,000 115,000,000 ",00n
-.5. •;-.--
86,013,000 7,064,500
44,991,909
43,718,153
66,146
9,999
199,960,099
145,058,000
10,335,000
4,384,657 1,380,000
— 4,653,700,000
Of 42 gal.
' Of3761bs.net.
The total value of the mineral products in 1916 was 3,513,972,000 dollars; in 1917, 5,007,937,000 dollars.
The total production of coal from 1807, the date of the earliest record, to the close of 1919 was 13,539,214,655 short tons.
