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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 

 Production of iron ore in New York State 





MAGNETITE 



HEMATITE 



LIMONITE 



CARBONATE 



TOTAL 





Value 



YEAR 













Total value 



per ton 



Long tons 



Long tons 



Long tons 



Long tons 



Long tons 



1895 



260 139 



6 769 



26 462 



13 886 



307 256 



$598 313 



$1 95 



1896 



346 ois 



10 789 



12 288 



16 385 



385 477 



780 932 



2 03 



1897 



296 722 



7 664 



20 059 



II 280 



335 72s 



642 838 



I 91 



1898 



155 551 



6 400 



14 000 



4 000 



179 951 



350 999 



^ P 



1899 



344 159 



45 503 



31 975 



22 153 



443 790 



I 241 985 



2 80 



1900 



345 714 



44 467 



44 891 



6 413 



441 48s 



I 103 817 



2 50 



I901 



329 467 



66 389 



23 362 



I 000 



420 218 



I 006 231 



2 39 



1902 



451 570 



91 07s 



12 676 



Nil 



555 321 



I 362 987 



2 45 



1903 



451 481 



83 820 



5 159 



Nil 



540 460 



I 209 899 



2 24 



1904 



559 575 



54 128 



5 000 



Nil 



619 103 



I 328 894 



2 15 



The statistics indicate a gradual though not a constant increase 

 for the period given. As might be expected, the increase has not 

 been manifest in the low grade limonite and carbonate ores, but 

 has been due almost entirely to the growth of magnetite mining. 

 No carbonate ore has been worked during the last three years, 

 and the production of limonite is not important. 



Developments at Mineville. The Mineville ore bodies have been 

 exploited actively by the two companies operating in that locality 

 Witherbee, Sherman & Co. and the Port Henry Iron Ore Co. The 

 total shipments for 1904 amounted to over 400,000 tons, all high 

 grade magnetite. The deposits worked by the former company 

 are known as the Old Bed, New Bed and Harmony. The first is 

 very phosphatic, while the New Bed runs quite low in phosphorus 

 and the Harmony averages between the two extremes. The prin- 

 cipal openings are the Joker, Bonanza and A and B shafts, of 

 which the last two were recently sunk on the Harmony. The 

 Cook shaft lies some distance from the others, and the relations of 

 this ore body have not been definitely established. The operations 

 of the Port Henry Iron Ore Co. were confined, as heretofore, to Mine 

 21 on the Old Bed. 



The progressive policy of improvement in both underground and 

 surface installations adopted by Witherbee, Sherman & Co. has 

 had a very beneficial effect on the mining industry which will con- 

 tinue to be felt for a long time in the future. During the past 

 year attention has been directed specially to increasing the efficiency 

 of the various plants, rather than to adding further equipment- 

 The most extensive changes have been undertaken in the old mill; 

 and when completed it is hoped that the milling capacity will be 

 sufficient to handle the full quota of ore. The new mill has worked 

 very successfully. An improved Ball-Norton separator of the 



