Our mineral reserves

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Identifikator:: 867029366

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93011

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Smith, George Otis http://d-nb.info/gnd/117634530

Title:: Our mineral reserves

Place of publication:: Washington, DC

Publisher:: Gov. Print. Off.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (48 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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46 OUR MINERAL RESERVES. century domestic production caught up with imports, and since that time it has greatly exceeded them, the production in 1913 being nearly four times as great in value as the imports. There was, how ever, last year a considerable decrease in exports of pottery, a change which should now be reversed by reason of the changes in the world’s commerce that have become inevitable. For the manufacture of pottery of the better grades considerable clay, mainly kaolin, is imported into this country from Europe and China, the value of these imports last year exceeding $2,250,000. It seems probable that under the necessity of finding a domestic supply these finer clays can be in large part replaced. Already a process of decoloring kaolin is reported as successful, and this may make large deposits of kaolin and ball clay available for the manu facture of white ware and pottery. Another minor product is mineral water, of which the annual imports are over 3,000,000 gallons, having a value of nearly a million dollars. Two-thirds of these imports came from Germany, France, and Austria-Hungary, and as soon as the stocks on hand are con sumed domestic waters should take the place of those derived from foreign springs. In this connection it is interesting to note that last year the reported sales from 838 commercial springs in the United States were more than 57,000,000 gallons, having a total value of $5,500,000. The recent activity of the New York State Reservation Commission in conserving the natural mineral waters at Saratoga Springs, as well as in improving local conditions, is of interest in calling attention to the many opportunities in this country for utilizing such waters and adopting modes of treatment similar to those which have made the bath resorts of Germany and Austria famous. There is a somewhat popular but fallacious impression that certain European waters have medicinal properties not possessed by any American waters, and many persons addicted to the Apol linaris, Clysmic, or Celestine-Vichy habit might be equally well satis fied by waters from American springs in bottles of American glass, bearing labels printed in the United States. Of the abrasives imported into this country last year to the amount of $917,000, all could be replaced with domestic products except the diamond dust and bort, the value of which was $100,000 in 1913. Already the domestic output of both natural and artificial abrasives is increasing faster than the imports, and the manufac turers need only to realize the abundance of tripoli, diatomaceous earth, pumice, garnet, corundum, and emery to reduce further their dependence on foreign supplies. Precious stones constitute one of the largest items in our imports, usually amounting to more than $40,000,000 a year. Inasmuch, how ever, as fully three-fourths of this value is represented by diamonds,

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