Stibnite...... "Antimony," sulphide Mined for antimony. Often associated with galena. Tetrahedrite... Fahlerz, gray copper.. Wulfenite Mined for silver. Ores, minerals, and mineral substances of industrial importance and known occurrence, but which are not at present mined. (a) a The names duplicated in this list from the foregoing list refer to important occurrences of the same mineral not mined. Ores, minerals, and mineral substances of industrial importance, which are at present mined. [Reported by JOSEPH PERKINS.] Lignite Coal King county, and neighborhood of Puget sound. Ores, minerals, and mineral substances of industrial importance and known occurrence, but APPENDIX. THE NEW TARIFF. At the close of the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress the tariff bill entitled "An act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes," was passed. It was approved by the President March 3, 1883, and is now in force. The following extracts show the present rates of import duties upon chemical products, metals, mineral products, etc., and substances having a more or less direct bearing upon the mineral industries of the country, together with the free list abridged on the same plan. SEC. 2502. There shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates of duty which are, by the schedules, respectively prescribed, namely: SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICAL PRODUCTS. Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, sixty cents per hundred pounds. Ammonia, anhydrous, liquefied by pressure, twenty per centum ad valorem. Ammonia aqua, or water of ammonia, twenty per centum ad valorem. Ammonia, muriate of, or sal-ammoniac, ten per centum ad valorem. Ammonia, carbonate of, twenty per centum ad valorem. Ammonia, sulphate of, twenty per cent. ad valorem. All imitations of natural mineral waters, and all artificial mineral waters, thirty per centum ad valorem. Asbestus, manufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, unmanufactured, ten per centum ad valorem. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, manufactured, one-fourth of one cent per pound. Refined borax, five cents per pound. Pure boracic acid, five cents per pound; commercial boracic acid, four cents per pound; borate of lime, three cents per pound; crude borax, three cents per pound. Cement, Roman, Portland, and all others, twenty per centum ad valorem. Whiting and Paris white, dry, one-half cent per pound; ground in oil, or putty, one cent per pound. Prepared chalk, precipitated chalk, French chalk, red chalk, and all other chalk preparations which are not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. Chromic acid, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Cobalt, oxide of, twenty per centum ad valorem. Copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol, three cents per pound. Iron, sulphate of, or copperas, three-tenths of one cent per pound. Acetate of lead, brown, four cents per pound. Acetate of lead, white, six cents per pound. White lead, when dry or in pulp, three cents per pound; when ground or mixed in oil, three cents per pound. Magnesia, sulphate of, or Epsom salts, one-half of one cent per pound. Potash: Crude, carbonate of, or fused, and caustic potash, twenty per centum ad valorem. Chlorate of, three cents per pound. Hydriodate, iodide, and iodate of, fifty cents per pound. Prussiate of, yellow, five cents per pound. Nitrate of, or saltpeter, crude, one cent per pound. Nitrate of, or refined saltpeter, one and one-half cents per pound. Soda: Soda-ash, one-quarter of one cent per pound. Soda, sal, or soda crystals, one-quarter of one cent per pound. Bi-carbonate of, or super-carbonate of, and saleratus, calcined or pearl ash, one and one-half cents per pound. Hydrate or caustic, one cent per pound. Sulphate, known as salt cake, crude or refined, or niter cake, crude or refined, and Glauber's salt, twenty per centum ad valorem. Soda, silicate of, or other alkaline silicate, one-half of one cent per pound. Sulphur: Refined, in rolls, ten dollars per ton. Sublimed, or flowers of, twenty dollars per ton. Wood-tar, ten per centum ad valorem. Coal-tar, crude, ten per centum ad valorem. Coal-tar, products of, such as naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil, and pitch, twenty per centum að valorem. All coal-tar colors or dyes by whatever name known and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. All preparations of coal-tar, not colors or dye, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. Colors and paints, including lakes, whether dry or mixed, or ground with water or oil, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Ocher, and ochery earths, umber and umber earths, and sienna and sienna earths, when dry, onehalf of one cent per pound; when ground in oil, one and one-half cents per pound. Zinc, oxide of, when dry, one and one-fourth cent per pound. Zinc, oxide of, when ground in oil, one and three-fourths cent per pound. All preparations known as essential oils, expressed oils, distilled oils, rendered oils, alkalies, alkaloids, and all combinations of any of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds and salts, by whatever name known, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. All non-dutiable crude minerals, but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem. All earths or clays, unwrought or unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one dollar and fifty cents per ton. All earths or clays, wrought or manufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, three dollars per ton; china clay, or kaolin three dollars per ton. Brown earthenware, common stoneware, gas-retorts, and stoneware not ornamented, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. China, porcelain, parian, and bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, including plaques, ornaments, charms, vases, and statuettes, painted, printed, or gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented in any manner, sixty per centum ad valorem. China, porcelain, parian, and bisque ware, plain white, and not ornamented or decorated in any manner, fifty-five per centum ad valorem. All other earthen, stone, and crockery ware, white, glazed, or edged, composed of earthy or mineral substances, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifty-five per centum ad valorem. Stoneware, above the capacity of ten gallons, twenty per centum ad valorem. Encaustic tiles, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Brick, firebrick, and roofing and paving tile, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. |