MINES AND QUARRIES IN THE UNITED STATES. Industry. Mines, 78 182,828 206,794 608 ments Monazite and zicron Oil, scythe and whet stones Phosphate rock Prec'us stones 27 195,908 315,464 145 In 1909 in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and other outlying noncontiguous territory, 23,682 operators conducted 27,240 mines and quarries and 166,448 petroleum and natural gas wells. Of the operators 3,749 were engaged solely in development work, upon which, in 1909, the sum of $31,548,736 was expended. In Alaska in 1909 there were 673 operators, who employed 8,025 persons, in the mining industry. The total expenses of these operators amounted to $13,220,200, while the capital invested was reported as $47,749,164. The total value of products was $16,933,427, of which amount $16.327.752 consisted of gold and silver. In Hawaii | Pyrite and Porto Rico the total value of product for the eighteen operators reported was only $26,414. The total number of persons engaged in connection with producing mines, quarries and wells, as reported on Dec. 15, 1909, or nearest representative day, was 1,139,332, of whom wage earners numbered 1,065,283, proprietors and firm members 29,922 and salaried employes 44,127. mines, quarries and wells for which development work only was carried on there was a total of 27,616 persons, of whom 21,499 were wage earners. Of the total number of persons, 1,166,948, employed in productive and nonproductive mines, 1,158,775 were men 16 years of age and over, and 8,173 were boys under 16 years of age. Distributed by sex, 1,162,840 were male and 4,108 female, the latter being employed in supervisory and clerical capacities. 1,042,642,693 1,238,410,322 1,139,332 *Includes enterprises as follows: Antimony, 1; bismuth, 1; borax, 2; chromite, 2; manganiferous iron, 2; nickel and cobalt, 1; tin, 1. SUMMARY BY STATES. Value 102 N. Hampshire 53 Massachusetts product. $1,876,341 $2,056,063 1,204,966 1,308,597 182 147 27 75 752 11,342 Ohio 964 35,067 Indiana 480 10,373 20,312,752 21,934,201 Illinois 759 10,918 Michigan Petrol'm and Wisconsin Minnesota 250 Peat Iowa Metals Missouri 1,224 6 570,140 564.812 134,616,987 55,258 South Dakota Nebraska 20 Precious metalsDeep mine..2,845 Placer mines 880 Delaware 9 Lead and zinc 1,142 5,006,157 5,782,045 Manganese 8 8,863,954 8,795,646 20,435 65 West Virginia 718 15,146 71,347,631 76,287,889 North Carolina Building stone South Carolina Limestone ..1,916 Granite 826 41,029 1,252.792 Georgia 109 2,064,236 2,874,595 Florida 96 11,025 5,909,532 8,846,665 6,649 Kentucky 11,721,722 12,100,075 Tennessee Slate Traprock Bluestone 219 5,831.256 6,054,174 10,121 Alabama 6,748 Arkansas Louisiana Miscellaneous Oklahoma 88 Texas 92 2,279 543 Bauxite 726 Colorado 1,575 Buhr and mill 4,351 Corundum and 19 Washington Feldspar 363 Oregon Fluorspar 376 California ... 1,279 Fuller's earth 380 Garnet Gypsum 222 4,905,662 Infusorial earth Magnesite 68,463 13,307 Geographic divisions Mid. Atlantic 3,903 71,122 Mississippi Missouri 38,839 Washington 1,283,319 80,319 Wisconsin. 6,329 587,576 Wyoming. 26,759,500 32,038 274 Total ...230,657,755 Montana.. 11,818,414 COLUMBIA EXCURSION STEAMER Eighty-seven lives were lost when the excursion steamer Columbia sank in the Illinois river at Wesley City, midway between Peoria and Pekin, Ill., at about midnight July 5-6, 1918. The boat had been engaged by the South Side Social club of Pekin for a trip to Al Fresco park on the outskirts of Peoria. About 450 members of the club and 100 excursionists picked up at Kingston Mines made the trip. On the way back from the park the boat encountered some fog and ran into the river bank near Wesley City. No severe jar was felt but a hole was stove in the hull and when the steamer backed out into the stream it filled and sank in five minutes. Many of those on board jumped into the water, but others were caught between decks and carried down to death. It was at first thought that between 150 and 200 lives had been lost, but after a careful checking up it was officially announced that the number of victims was eighty-seven. FRIENDS FOR A CENTURY. ARGENTINA AND THE UNITED STATES. On Feb. 28, 1918, the United States and the Argentine republic exchanged greetings upon the completion of a century of unbroken friendship between the two nations. On the date named F. J. Stimson, American ambassador at Buenos Aires, sent the following note to the Argentine minister for foreign affairs: "On the 28th of February, 1818, there arrived in the already free city of Buenos Aires the first mission from the United States of America, headed by Cæsar Rodney, our first representative in the United Provinces of the River Plate, and consisting of Messrs. Graham and Bland, which mission was received with great honor by his excellency the Supreme Director Don Juan Martin de Pueyrredon, your excellency's illustrious ancestor. As a pleasing remembrance of so auspicious an event, the secretary of state of my country, Lansing, instructs me to present to your excellency his personal greetings and to express to his excellency the president, in the name of the United States, his congratulations on the completion of an entire century of friendly ties between both countries, without the smallest shadow having darkened their sympathetic relations, which my government desires to maintain at all times." Mr. To this the minister of foreign affairs sent the following reply: "Mr. Ambassador: The happy inspiration of Year. 1905-1906.. your illustrious secretary of state, Mr. Lansing. which was duly conveyed to me by your excellency, and which has reminded us of the beginning of diplomatic relations between the two countries, awakens in our hearts the remembrance that when our life as an independent nation was but starting, the supreme congress appointed an envoy to the United States of America, and the then supreme director (mentioned in your telegram) by letter told the president of your great country: "When interests of one political entity are in accord with principles of justice, nothing is more easy or satisfactory than the maintenance of harmony and good faith with another closely allied power.' "Under these happy conditions we have lived for a century, and, indeed, our two nations are to-day enjoying a frank and open community of interest. We may well predict that the happy relations will continue for all time. "The president, in behalf of the people of Argentina, returns the congratulations which he has received from the United States of America, and I, for my part, desire to thank the secretary of state, Mr. Lansing, and you. Mr. Ambassador, for the personal reference with which you have honored me. "Accept, excellency, the assurances of my distinguished consideration. "H. PUEYRREDON." 1906-1907. Total tax. $63,760,450 *316,982,150 221,670.200 223,561,900 Year. 1913-1914.. Total tax. $236,205,000 1914-1915. 1915-1916.. 641,600,000 346,990,000 1916-1917...... 1,025,165,000 Country. NATIONAL RAILWAY, TELEGRAPH AND POSTAL STATISTICS. Val. money and postal 51,284 26,649,956 147,427 42,885,944 71,365,427 4,312,989 13,723,251 2,607,624 Hungary 1914 28,014 Bolivia . 1915 970 5,562 602,914 3,636 1,085 |