Excerpt from Report on Mineral Industries in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890 Illustration - Side view of ore-shipping dock at Two Harbors, Minnesota, showing hinged chutes and a vessel in position to receive ore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Abstract of the Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900 Sib: The committee appointed by your order of June 13, 1902, to prepare the Abstract of the Twelfth Census have the honor herewith to submit their report. The Abstract is an epitome or digest of the contents of the ten volumes of the Twelfth Census, and is designed for the use of the general public who may not have access to the main volumes or may find this digest more convenient for ready refer ence. For this purpose the volume should be small; the information should be presented in tables because an item of information is found far more easily in a table than in text; and the tables should be arranged in a simple, orderly way so that any table wanted may be found without delay. We have endeavored to make the present volume fulfill these requirements. This Abstract conforms in the main to the one prepared for the Eleventh Census. The present volume, however, contains no sections upon fisheries, mineral industries, transportation, insurance, wealth, debt and taxation, real estate mortgages, educa tion, churches, insane, feeble-minded, deaf and dumb and blind, or crime, pauper ism and benevolence. Reports on these subjects are not yet available, because in accordance with the requirements of the act providing for the Twelfth Census all special inquiries were postponed until the main reports were completed. Future editions of the Abstract may incorporate their results. The Abstract is divided into four parts, Population, Mortality, Agriculture, and Manufactures, corresponding to the four main lines of inquiry ordered by the census act of March 3, 1899. In each part the first series of tables is for the largest area, the second series is for the states and territories, the third for the cities, the order being thus, as a rule, that from the greater to the less. For obvious reasons, in the part relating to agri culture, the series of tables for cities is lacking. The area, to which the first series of tables for population, agriculture, and manufactures relates, is continental United States, by which is meant that part of the United States lying on the continent of North America south of the Canadian boundary. It thus excludes Alaska and the recent insular accessions of Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, Guam, Samoa, and, if it be a part of the United States, the Isle of Pines. As all this territory except Alaska has been acquired since 1890, as the Twelfth Census covers no part of it except Alaska and Hawaii, and as it comprises populations living under peculiar conditions and having distinctive characteristics, it has been deemed best to confine the first series of tables, with one exception (table to the area comprised in continental United States, and not to attempt to cover either the entire United States, for which we have practically no statistical information, or the area covered by the Twelfth Census, which includes Alaska, Hawaii, and the military and naval stations outside continental United States. However, in the second series of tables, those for states and territories, the figures for Alaska, Hawaii, and the military and naval stations are given, but at the end of the table rather than in one alphabetical series with the states and territories of continental United States. The latter is divided geographically into five divi sions, which, with the states and territories included under them, are as follows: xii Letter of Transmittal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Excerpt from A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31, 1896 Comstock, theo. B. The Geological Survey of Texas. Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. XLIX, pp. 384-386, New York, Apr. 5, 1890. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Mineral Resources of the United States, 1923, Vol. 1: Metals All the main branches of the mineral industry in 1923 showed marked improvement over the preceding years of depression, and several established new high records of production. The several elements Of the industry were restored to or had gained over their pre-war vigor with probably only three notable exceptions - copper mining, through overdevelopment followed by curtailment of its market; precious-metal mining, by reason of depreciated purchasing power of its products; and bituminous-coal mining, from excessive capacity and overmanning. The year 1922 had on the whole been one of gradual betterment in tone of business despite the longest and most widespread strike in the annals of coal mining and a strike among the railroad shop crafts which for a few months seriously interfered with transportation. These difficulties had been over come before the beginning Of 1923, and throughout that year there was generally steady improvement in conditions affecting the mining industries. The total value of mineral products of the United States in 1923 was about an increase of 29 per cent over the value in 1922 and 45 per cent over that in 1921, but a decrease of 14 per cent from 1920, when prices were at the peak. Soft-coal mining shared with other industries a continued recovery from the depression of 1921 and the early part of 1922, but the domii nating influence in the market was the after effect of the great strike of the year before. Stocks of consumers at the beginning of the year were low - only tons on January 1. Though above the danger point, this was not enough to conduce to a feeling of safety, and in consequence prices were high. The average spot price in January, according to Coal Age, was a ton, against in the corresponding month of 1922. Congestion of the railroads pre vented rapid accumulation Oi reserves until the winter peak of con sumption was passed, and distribution continued under nominal supervision by the Federal Fuel Distributor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.