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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Production of talc in New York 



SHORT 

 TONS 



1882 

 1883 

 1884 

 1885 

 1886 

 I887 

 1888 

 1889 

 I89O 

 189I 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 



1897 



6 000 

 6 000 

 10 000 

 10 000 

 12 000 

 15 000 

 20 000 

 23 476 

 4i 354 

 53 054 

 4i 925 

 36 500 



50 500 

 40 000 

 46 089 

 57 009 



VALUE 



$75 000 

 75 000 

 no 000 

 no 000 

 125 000 

 160 000 

 210 000 

 244 170 

 389 196 

 493 068 

 472 485 

 337 625 

 454 500 

 320 000 



399 443 

 396 936 



YEAR 



I898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 I904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 I908 

 1909 

 I9IO 

 I9II 

 1912 

 1913 



SHORT 



TONS 



54 356 



54 655 



63 500 



62 



200 



71 



100 



60 



230 



65 



000 



67 



000 



64 



200 



59 



000 



70 739 



50 



000 



65 



000 



65 



000 



61 



619 



63 



000 



VALUE 



$411 



430 



438 



150 



499 



500 



483 



600 



615 350 



421 



600 



455 



000 



519 



250 



54i 



600 



501 



500 



697 



390 



450 



000 



552 



500 



552 



500 



511 



437 



55i 



250 



ZINC 



There were no commercial shipments of zinc ore last year from 

 deposits within the State, although a quantity of blende was ex- 

 tracted in the course of underground development at Edwards. The 

 product was held for mill treatment. The results of recent activity 

 in the search for zinc ores in southern St Lawrence county have 

 been quite favorable, and there is good prospect that a stable 

 mining industry will be developed there in the near future. The 

 industry will be a small one, but with the exceptional conditions for 

 cheap mining and milling it should prove profitable. The main 

 obstacle that has presented itself thus far in the development of 

 the district is incident to the character of the ore which is usually 

 a fine-grained mixture of blende and pyrite in a limestone gangue. 

 The separation of the pyrite and blende has proved more difficult 

 than was anticipated and has necessitated a good deal of experi- 

 mental work at the expense of commercial operations. 



The developments so far have been carried on by the Northern 

 Ore Co., who some time ago acquired properties in the vicinity of 

 Edwards, the terminus of a branch railroad from Gouverneur that 

 serves the talc district. The company has concentrated attention 

 upon outcrops of blende on the Brown farm, but has other holdings 

 that show more or less ore. The progress of underground work 

 has been related in previous issues of this report, more particularly 



