Mineral Resources of the United States, 1914--Part I--Metals . ... 1914 VALUE. The value of the 343,418 short tons of primary spelter smelted inthe United States from domestic ores in 1914, as based on the averageSt. Louis price, was $35,028,636, compared with an output of 337,252tons valued at $37,722,224, in 1913, an increase of 6,166 tons, about2 per cent, in quantity and a decrease of $2,743,588, or 7 per cent,in value. The following table gives for comparison the quantity and value ofthe domestic production for the years 1909 to 1914: Production and value of domestic primary sp
Mineral Resources of the United States, 1914--Part I--Metals . ... 1914 VALUE. The value of the 343,418 short tons of primary spelter smelted inthe United States from domestic ores in 1914, as based on the averageSt. Louis price, was $35,028,636, compared with an output of 337,252tons valued at $37,722,224, in 1913, an increase of 6,166 tons, about2 per cent, in quantity and a decrease of $2,743,588, or 7 per cent,in value. The following table gives for comparison the quantity and value ofthe domestic production for the years 1909 to 1914: Production and value of domestic primary spelter, 1909-1914, in short tons. Year. Quantity. Average price at St. Louis. Value. 230,225252,479271,621323,907337,252343,418 $0, $24,864,30027,267,73230,964,79444,699,166 1910 1911 1912 1913 37,772,22435,028,636 1914 U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1913 JAN. FEB. MAR APR MAY ~JUNEJULY AUG. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. •»s3ia—ga-«saa-Baa°BB33-ssa°gaa-sa8»33R-SBa—saa-BSB-Bsss-ssB-agB-aaB* AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. ZINC. 915 PKICE CURVES, 1913-14. Plate I shows graphically for the years 1913 and 1914, the relationsof the weekly average St. Louis price of spelter, the weekly averageLondon price of spelter, the weekly average price of 60 per cent zincblende concentrates at Joplin, Mo., and the weekly production, or, tobe more exact, the weekly sales of concentrates in the Joplin regionas a whole. The price of spelter has been taken from market reports,and the price of zinc blende and the figures of weekly productionare those published in the Joplin daily papers. To eliminate thesharp weekly fluctuations and to obtain a curve more easily com-parable with the price curves, the weekly sales have been averagedby months, the result being shown by the broken The curve of the London prices of spelter from July, 1913, to July,1914, inclusive, shows a range of not over one-fourth cent, risingfrom a little more than cents at the begin
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