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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1902)
ir- m vuttm imi'fitfi WUBMMtfWftf 3 10 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday June 18, 1902 VH '- ', tk IRON ORE PRODUCTION Report of the Geological Sur vey For Last Year. Tlio production of iron ores in ilio United Slates during the year IIHII, us gken by Mr. .IoIiii Itirkliililiiu in Min er a I llt'HOlirei'H of till! United Sillies, 11101, now In press, United States !eo- logical Hiircy, Dnviil T. Day, chief of til UllllCll StltCS COHtlHUCS t 1)0 Hllppllcd by tin Lit ku Superior region, which pro duced lis maximum output of 1!1 ,445,(KKt lout; toiiH in 11)01, being seventy-four per cent of the total quantity reported and an increase of four per cent over the totii for HMKI. 'I'lio Maripicttc range, in tlie statu of Michigan, from which ore was HM)0. Virginia and West Virginia, coin hined, ranked llftli, mining ItL'o.IIIM tons, an increase of nearly four per cent over their total for 1IMX). Tennec-ee increas ed her output thirty-three percent over the total of l!KM. and ranked sixth with 781I.41II tons. Wisconsin eiwnu seventh, with 7:18,8118 tons. New York wax eighth, llrst taken in 1850, Iiuh contrihiitud up witli 4L'0,L'18 tonn, a decrease of live per to date ttL',817, I7.'l long toii. Mostof IiIh ore Ih shipped from the portH of Mar iiiettuaud Ihci))iii1):i. The Menotuliiee, in the stale of Michigan and Wisconsin, was the second range to be opened, in 1877, and it Iiuh contributed to date 117,- ..I-! 1 (.. U UU7 ITO I I """ ,v "n niniiiiHuu. ascon.parcd with L'7,55:Uol long tonsil. .- I"" ...ih, he greater portion be 11100, a gain of l.:m,IH long tons, or Ing Hh.MMl fnm, l.nalM and a nnia I live per ccnlj the gain of 11HI1 over I8'..K '"iil from Uadstone. he t.ogcbie .. .r., -,... . 1 . 1 . 1 range. 11 the states of M Icli Igim and was lU5:i,ii:i Ions, or fortv-iiinu percent, ""' ' , ,..,,,, . .. ..1 1 .... 1. ' 1 ' WiHO.iiiHlii, and the ermilion range, in H 'lll ll'.llll IMII l.l.ltll. Mill I'MUI ...IKM at the mines of the ore mined in IIHII, dm reported to IIiIhoIIIcc, w iih $ Hl,t?."H,'J15, or 11 menu value of f 1.71 per Ion, an ap parent decrease of 71 ceutH, or twenty nine per cent, from the HKMI llguri'H of $1 !'' per ton. The value of the Iron nrcH mined in I1HK) was fiMI,5!H),50. The largest iimountH of iron ores olllciiilly re ported to date, from iiuyothurcouutricH, arc 18,11(17,1150 long tons, mined in tier ninny mid Luxemburg in HKK), anil 18, 0111,057 long Ioiim mined in (irciit llritiiin in I88L. Twenty-live states and one territory mined iron ore in the year IIHII, the number of producing states remaining the same as In 1IMHI, Utah dropping out and South Carolina taking Its place. Ah in the year I1K)0, Minnesota contributed the greater portion of the Increase for HUM, and advanced to first place iih 11 producer, Michigan, which Iiuh uninter ruptedly occupied thin position since the year 1881, now being second. New exploitations for standard ores In the Lake Superior district are being ac tively carried oil, and In addition, hoiiiu siliceous and lower grade ores, of which large quantities exist, are liWally ex ploited, In the central west, valuable deposits of iron ore in Wyoming, Colo, radoauil New Mexico are being winked extensively to supply the Coloiado fur naces. On the I'acllle coast, the Iron dale furnace in Washington ban resumed operations, but lie principal reliance so far has been oil the ui.iguctlto deposits of Texmlii island, In llrltish Columbia. In UMI the ted hematite mines con tributed '.M,(Hlil,0'.'o long tons, or 8:1.10 per cent of tin1 total for the I'niled Stales, an lucie.i-e of six per cent over I lie ItKKl total. .Minnesota wiih the hug est pioducer of this class of on1, followed by Michigan and Aluhiiua. The total brown hematite mined was :i,lllil,7l5 long tons, or 10. 1 1 per cent of the output of the country, a decrease of seven per cent from the ItHlll recoid. Virginia and West Viigluia, combined, lead iih a brown hematite pioducer, followed by Alabama ami Tennessee. Of magnetic 01c, l,Si:i,0"0 long ton-', or II. '.N percent of the I'ulted State total, were mined II in the year UMI, an incie.ise of eighteen per cent over the total for IIUH). Penn sylvania was the piiucipal producer, fol lowed by New Jersey and Now York. Only I),i'ihl long tons of carbonate Iron ore was mined in IIHII, being 0.18 per cent ol the total lion oie output for the year. 1'iactically all of this came from Ohio, although Maiylaud, New York mid Pennsylvania contributed small amounts. In the thirteen jeurs since the year I8S0, when the United Stales Geological Survey began collecting the statistics of the amounts of (he diffcient classes of iron ore mined, the red hematites have contributed 180,55 1,0011 long tone, or 70.85 er cent of the total; the brown hema tite mines, :I0,0I5,V)I long tonn, or 1!U7 lr wnt ; the nngiictie dcKsits, L'1,")UI, MM long tons, or 0.10 kt cent, and the I'lirUiiuitu oren, only l.lW.tHW long tons, or 0.8'J Kr cent of the total. The ki cuter part of the iron ore in the Minnesota, began shipping in 1881, ho (iogehic range having shipped to datu III, I o 1,7110 long tons from the sirts of Ashland and Kseannlm, and the Vermil ion range having shipped to date 10,077, '.'III tons from the Mirt of Two Harbors. The Mesa bl range in Minnesota began ! shipping in the year 18111 and Iiuh ship ped thus far 11 total of 40,401,0117 long tons, and has now apparently greater re sources of ore than any of the older ranges. In IIHII tills range produced !l,:i(KI,ftll tons, or thirty-two percent of the total for the United States. A sixth range wiih okuicI in Camilla in the year 1IHH), thuore liclng slilpied principally to the United States from the jMirt of Michipicoten, In the I'rovinceof Ontario, and the total output to the close of 1001 amounting to '.'81,070 tons. From the above it appears that in the year IIHII the Mesabl range ranked llrst, prislucing its maximum output of0,:i0.'l,- 511 long tons, a total that Iiuh never been reached by any other iron ore region in the world, the Itlllboa district ill Spain being its closest eolilK)titor. Taking the states in the order of their production, we llud that Minnesota con trlb.itcd ll,l(K),5:i7 long tons, or thirty eight per cent of the total for the United States, anil Ih easily entitled to llrst place. In fact, with Mie exception of the (Sermaii Kuiplre and (ircal llritiiin, no country in the world Iiuh reached so great a total in any year iih the state of Minnesota in l!H)l, mid this phenomenal product exceeded by .'1,080,175 long tons the production of iron oro of all the mines combined, iih reported by the tenth census of the United States in IHSO. Michigan tanks next, with a total ol 0,051,007 long tons of iron ore, a de crease of three per cent from the total of I1MH). Alabama ranks third, with a pro duction lu 11)01 of '.',S0l,7:t'.' long tons, with nearly ten per cent of total. Penn sylvania legal ned fourth place, contrib uting I,0I0,)ISI tons, an increase of ill in -teen er cent over the state total for cent from the Htatu total of 1000. Colo rado ranked ninth, with a total of 404, 0117 tons, a decrease of nearly one per cent from the state production of 1000. Some of the Colorado oren carry enough Hilver to make them valuable on that ac count, and therefore they are notinulud ed in this report. New Jersey came tenth, 401,08!) tons, an advance of seven teen per cent upon the 1000 output, (ieorgia and tin two Carolina together contributed L'I5,"!!! long tons of iron ore, and 11 me of the remaining states, except Wyoming, produced over llMr.OOO tons of iron ore in 1000. The total itnortH into the United StatcH of Iron ore in 11)01 amount ed to Otiil.OoO long tons, valued at $1,05!), 2TA, or $1.7-' per ton, an increase of 7.7 per cent over the imports for 1IHH). Tim greater portion of this ore wiih received at the ports of llaltiniore and Philadel phia, the amount for the two being 782, L1K) ton-, or eighty-one per cent of the total. Nearly all of the iron ores exported from this county during the year 1001, (14,70:5 long tons, wiih t-ent to Canadian blurt furnaces, which used these ores as a portion of the mixture fed to the fur naces. Rates Again Reduced From All Points East. Ilefore you make delinato arrange ments for that trip east let us quote you rates via the Illinois Central railroad. Our rates are the lowest to lie had, and it will pay you to write us. If you haven't time to communicate with us, The highest average value reported lu ' ' ' '''"l Ir",,, """ "" Premise 1001 wan f'U8 per ton, In Colorado; t,u 1 your ticket that you want to travel by lowest average rate was in Alubiiiiiu U2 1 way of the Illinois Central, and you cents per ton. will never regret tint trip. If any of Tim total stock of Iron ore In the United , .v'J"r relatives or triends in the east are States, reported as on hand at the inincH coming west while the low rates are In on December III, 1IMII, was 4,'.:),8L':Mong -'f-i't, write us about them, anil wo will tons, an Incrcnso of fourteen per cent e that they get the lowest rates with over the 1000 total, and of this total I H' " nervice. Through tourist cars, Minnesota, Michigan mid Wisconsincar-' f"-'" reclining chair cars-in fact all the ried ninety-four per cent. I llct conveniences Known to modern The Cuban iron ore deMisltH occur in I railroading. For particulars regarding tlie HoutheiiHtern part of the island, along rates, time, service, stop-overs, different the Caribbean Sea, the principal oera- 'connection and routes, etc, call on or lions being in the province of Santiago hlresu, B. F. Tkumiium., C0111M. AgL de Cuba. All these properties are own ed and operated by United States com panies, and practically all of the ore is brought to this country. The imports for 11HI1 were ooL'.LMS long tons, as compared with 440,872 long tons 142 Third street, Portland, Oregon. Best brands of cigars at Hoffman's Bakery. Butter, eggs and milk at The Market. Use Giant powder, fuse and caps. f.RGBRODIE h Watches, Clocks -JEWELRY j u SPECTACLES j j OPPOSITE NEW HOUl, - - - GRANITE STREET. Sumpter, Oregon. Satisfaction Guaranteed. M KENTUCKY LIQUOR HOUSE AND SUMPTER BOTTLING WORKS. - - - JOHN GAGEN, PROPRIETOR. - - - Old Whiskies, Fine Wines, Imported and Domestic Cigars. Maniifactiiics of all Muds of CttihouaUd Drinks mid Ciders. 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