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Montana's Contribution to World's Mineral Wealth 



Mining was Montana's first industry and the taking of precious and semi-precious 

 metals from the bowels of the earth is even yet in its infancy. In 1915 the mineral 

 production of the state reached a new high water mark when the total value of the 

 gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc taken from Montana mines reached the stupendous 

 sum of $87,000,000. That this record will be greatly exceeded in 1916 is apparent and 

 it is conservatively estimated that this year's mineral output will be in excess of 

 $140,000,000. 



The following table shows the mineral production of Montana by years: 



Year 



1862 



1882 



1883 



1884 



1885 



1886 



1887 



1888 



1889 



1890 



1891 



1892 



1893 



1894 



1895 



1896 



1897 



189S 



1899 



1900 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



to 1881. 



Gold 

 .$200,000,000 

 2,550,000 

 1,800,000 

 2,170 000 

 3,400,000 

 4,402,000 

 . 5,978.536 

 4,200,253 

 3,500,000 

 3,300,000 

 2,890,000 

 2,891,386 

 3,576,000 

 3,651410 

 4,327,040 

 4,380,671 

 4,496,431 

 5,247.913 

 4,819,157 

 4,736,225 

 4,802,717 

 4,400.095 

 4,590,516 

 5,097,786 



1905 4,889,234 



1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 

 1914 

 1915 



4,469,014 

 3,286,212 

 3,057,640 

 3,791,510 

 3,730,486 

 3,710,571 

 3,625,235 

 3,493,432 

 4,117,911 

 4,978,300 



Silver 



11,000 000 



4,370,000 



6,000,000 



7,000,000 



11,500,000 



13,849,000 



17,817,548 



15,790,736 



19,393,939 



20,363,636 



20,139,394 



22,432,323 



21,858,780 



16,575,458 



22,886,992 



20,324,877 



21,730,710 



19,159,482 



21,786,835 



18,482,211 



18,334.443 



17,662,285 



17,097,702 



18,887,227 



17,359,912 



8,027,072 



6,149,619 



5,488,785 



6,436,931 



6,567,942 



6,351,794 



7,829.597 



8,346,797 



6,645,102 



7,195,600 



Copper 



1,539,860 

 3,452.960 

 5,386,500 

 6,779.800 

 5,761.200 

 8,853,750 

 15,103,946 

 13.334,970 

 16,630,958 

 14,377.336 

 19,105,464 

 16,630,958 

 17,233,718 

 21,114,869 

 25,356,541 

 26,798,915 

 26,102,616 

 40,941,906 

 39,827,135 

 36,751,837 

 24,606,038 

 28,200,695 

 36,410,310 

 48,165,277 

 56,105 288 

 44,021,758 

 33,220,149 

 40,567,541 

 36,170,686 

 34,105,963 

 51,106,914 

 44,613,448 

 31,019,542 

 60,000,000 



Lead 



226,424 

 246,326 

 274,350 

 491,132 

 607,662 

 569,160 

 456,975 

 964,089 

 1,229,027 

 990,035 

 946,089 

 730,551 

 754,360 

 670,010 

 928,619 

 809,056 

 909,410 

 701,156 

 498,622 

 332,749 

 387,445 

 195,525 

 227,160 

 254,390 

 198,660 

 193,056 

 128,287 

 180,677. 

 289,421 

 335,104 

 481,176 

 376,584 

 550,000 



Zinc 



77,080 

 505,425 

 1,708,462 

 2.497,178 

 1,857,403 

 4,965,693 

 5,690,608 

 14,500,000 



Totals 



211,000,000 

 8,459 860 

 11,479,384 

 14,802,826 

 21,954,150 

 24,526,332 

 33,257,496 

 35,664,095 

 36,685,884 

 43,029,827 

 38,635,757 

 45,419.208 

 43,029,827 

 38,191,137 

 49,083,261 

 50,732,099 

 53,954,675 

 51,319,067 

 68,457,308 

 63,746,727 

 60,387,619 

 46,961,167 

 50.276,355 

 60,590,848 

 70,677,583 

 68,855,764 

 53,656 249 

 42,036,710 

 51,429,694 

 48,358,253 

 46,955,287 

 64,754,613 

 61,900,546 

 7,849.747 

 87,000,000 



$334,259,870 $491,393,627 $929,704,782 $17,138,558 $32,311,241 $1,804,585,246 



The following shows the number of tons of coal produced in Montana by years: 



Production 

 Years (Tons) 



1901 - 1,442,569 



1902 1,502,115 



1903 1,514,538 



1904 i 471,504 



1905 1,743,771 



1906 1,502,200 



1907 2,030,564 



1908 ■ 1,978,347 



1909 2,541,679 



1910 2,970,246 



1911 2,913,406 



1912 3,143,799 



1913 3,365.712 



1914 2,938,671 



1915 2,789,755 



