MINERAL PRODUCTS. 
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a capital of several million dollars, has, it is understood, been or 
ganized by an amalgamation of certain French and Swiss interests 
and of certain metal interests in the United States. The company 
contemplates erecting a plant where more than 100,000 horsepower 
will be developed. Whether the European war will interfere with 
the progress of this work can not be stated, but it is hoped that it 
will not. 
The mineral bauxite, the raw material from which metallic alu 
minum is made, comes from Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Ala 
bama. Arkansas furnishes the bulk of the ore used in the manu 
facture of the metal. The three southern Appalachian States named 
produce the greater part of the bauxite used in the manufacture of 
aluminum salts. 
In 1913 we produced 210,241 long tons of bauxite, a marked in 
crease, amounting to more than 30 per cent, over the production of 
the preceding year, and in fact a marked increase over the produc 
tion of any previous year in the history of bauxite production. This 
increase is attributable in large measure to the advance in the me 
tallic aluminum industry. The imports of bauxite in 1913 were 
21,456 long tons, valued at $85,746, or less than one-tenth of the 
domestic output. Most of this foreign ore came from France, which 
is to-day the leading bauxite-producing country of the world. With 
the interference with mining and shipping caused by the war it is 
a question whether this supply will not be greatly curtailed or com 
pletely cut off. This should greatly stimulate the search for new 
deposits and the working on a larger scale of the known deposits in 
the southern Appalachian States. 
Bauxite is not only used in the manufacture of metallic aluminum 
but is employed extensively in making alum and the aluminum salts 
in general, bauxite brick for furnace linings, and artificial abrasives. 
ANTIMONY. 
Antimony is ordinarily one of the cheaper metals, selling at one and 
a half times to twice the price of zinc; but after the outbreak of the 
European war it reached more than 20 cents a pound, a price higher 
than that of aluminum, though it is now lower. During the six years 
from 1908 to 1913, inclusive, the price of Cookson’s antimony ranged 
from 7.45 to 10.31 cents a pound, and the yearly averages ranged 
from 8.24 to 8.58 cents a pound. Much of the time during the present 
year the price has been still lower, and toward the end of July it 
Was quoted as 7 to 7.10 cents. Other brands have ranged from 0.25 
to 1.25 cents lower. As has been pointed out in the United States 
Geological Survey’s reports, at these prices antimony ores can not 
he worked profitably under the high labor costs prevailing in the 
mining regions of the United States unless the deposits are very