Average price of lead in New York for the year 1907, $106.50 per short ton, 5.325 cents per pound.

Average price in London for the year 1907, £19.034 per long ton, on basis exchange, $4.84; $82.26 per short ton, 4.113 cents per pound. Average price of lead in New York for first nine months of 1908, $83.35 per short ton, 4.167.cents per pound.

Average price in London for the same period was £13.467 per long ton, $58.20 per short ton, 2.91 cents per pound.

Present price lead, New York, 4.3 cents per pound; present price lead, London, equals 2.9 cents per pound (£13 8s. 9d.=£13.437 at $1.84).

Average price lead, 1890-1892, in New York, 4.252 cents per pound; average price lead, 1891-1897, in New York, 3.207 cents per pound (1893 abnormal year, due to panic); average price lead, 1898-1907, in New York, 4.595 cents per pound.

Lead imports into United States, years 1890-1892, inclusive.

$509, 292 None.

Lead exports from the United States, years 1890-1892, inclusive.

Manufactures of lead...

Pigs, bars, and old lead..

Lead imports into the United States, years 1894-1897, inclusive.

Lead exports from the United States, years 1894-1897, inclusive.

Manufactures of lead...

Pigs, bars, and old lead..

Total_____

$995, 995 757, 546

1,753, 541

Lead imports into United States, years 1898-1906, inclusive.
[1907 statistics not available.]

Lead exports from the United States, years 1898-1906, inclusive.

Manufactures of lead___

Pigs, bars, and old lead____

Total_____

Sources and quantities of imports of lead, year 1906.

$4, 197, 223 623, 166

4,820, 389

Of the above 69,789,418 pounds (34,895 tons) was imported and entered for consumption, valued at $1,738,296.

Summary of gencral statistics, lead industry, year 1906.

The United States ranks first in the production and first in the consumption of lead, producing 35.3 per cent of the world's production and consuming 37 per cent of the world's production.

The mines of Spain, England, and Germany furnish the bulk of European product of lead.

Utah's lead production, 1907, 59,157 tons; Utah's silver production, 1907, 11,925,480 ounces.

Repeal of tariff coupled with present low price of silver will mean loss to the State of

Lead, 60,000 tons yearly, at $30 per ton____

Silver, 12,000,000 ounces, at 14 cents per ounce__

Total___.

$1,800, 000

1,680, 000

3, 480,000

A complete shut down would mean a loss to the State of

60,000 tons lead yearly, at $86 per ton__.

12,000,000 ounces silver, at 50 cents per ounce 100,000 ounces gold, at $20 per ounce__

12,000,000 pounds copper, at 13 cents per pound

Total

$5, 160, 000

6, 000, 000

2, 000, 000

1, 560, 000

14, 720, 000

and would throw out of employment 10,000 men directly engaged in the lead mining, milling, and smelting industry, earning an average yearly wage of $1,000 each, or $10,000,000, and men in allied employments, such as railroads, agriculture, merchandise, assaying, sampling, and coal mining, earning an average yearly wage of $1,200 each, or $12,000,000.

Mexico produces yearly base bullion amounting in 1906 to 89,497 metric tons, 80,000 short tons, and annually exports to El Paso, Tex., smelter about 150,000 tons of ore, averaging 15 per cent lead, producing 22,500 short tons of lead metal.

Mexican investments in mines by American capital is upward of $100,000,000.

The following statement of wages of mine workers in Mexico is taken from House document, volume 66, Tariff Hearings, volume 1, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, 1896–97.

Wages have not increased, upon the whole, in the Republic of Mexico during the past ten years. The following statement is made on page 404 of Document 145, part 5, issued by the International Bureau of American Republics in 1904:

But it is true that with the great mass of Mexican laborers there has been but little, if any, change in the amount of wages paid.

The following is the statement of wages paid mine labor in the intermountain States of the United States: Shaft men, $4 to $5 per day; blacksmiths and carpenters, $4 to $5 per day; engineers, $3.50 to $5 per day; miners, $2.75 to $4 per day; laborers, $2.50 to $3 per day.

Mine labor in Spain is about 25 per cent less than similar labor in Mexico.

Many lead mines in Mexico now closed could be reopened with a market for base bullion.

Mexican lead can be put into the United States for 2 cents per pound, which price would be prohibitive with the American miner having the present low price of silver (about 50 cents) to contend with.

Where formerly lead was considered a by-product, it is now the primary metal mined for in Utah, with silver as the by-product. Respectfully submitted.

C. E. ALLEN, Representing Lead Mine Operators' Association of Utah.

STATEMENT OF EDWARD A. ROZIER, OF FARMINGTON, MO., REPRESENTING THE LEAD PRODUCERS OF SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI, WHO TREATS OF LEAD ORE AND PIG LEAD.

FRIDAY, November 27, 1908.

Mr. ROZIER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I appear under this paragraph 181 in behalf of the lead producers of southeastern Missouri. That industry is at least the second largest natural resource within the State of Missouri. Now this committee, I see, is undertaking to get at some of the facts of the lead-mining business.

The CHAIRMAN. We would like to get at all of them.

Mr. ROZIER. I will try to give all of them within my power. We will start out with this proposition: That the entire production of the world in lead in metric tons is 950,000 metric tons.

The CHAIRMAN. Can you not reduce that to United States?

Mr. ROZIER. I can do it roughly. That would amount to 1,045,000 short tons. The production of the United States in 1907-and this production that I refer to is of 1907-was a little over 350,000, perhaps 356,000, short tons, some of the statistics differing a little as to the amounts.

Now, southeast Missouri in 1907 produced 108,500 tons. In other words, the United States produced 32 per cent of the entire production of the world in the past year; and that is substantially the percentage produced by the United States in the ten previous years. Southeast Missouri produced 30 per cent of the production of the United States. So I feel that the people of my section of the State are entitled to at least reasonable consideration of their interests in this matter.

To begin with, the ore in southeast Missouri is solely a lead proposition. We have no by-products in the manufacture and mining of lead. It is simply lead and nothing else. The lead in that section is found originally in the form of galena, near the surface. That has

existed in perhaps five or six of the counties adjoining St. Francois County, which is now the center of the lead-mining district in southeast Missouri. But these surface minings have always amounted to only a very small portion, and during the last few years surface mining in galena ore has not exceeded 4,000 or 5,000 tons. Substantially the product of my section of the State is what is called disseminated lead ore. It is not found on the surface, but is found invariably in deep mining. The shafts average from 325 to 575 feet.

To start with, that disseminated ore is found associated with lime rock, and the percentage has uniformly been from 4 to 10 per cent of lead product out of that disseminated rock. I may say, taking the general average of the district for many years, that not exceeding 5 per cent of metallic contents have ever been mined and smelted from the ore that was handled. In other words, we start out with this proposition, that for every ton of ore that is mined from 300 to 575 feet in the bowels of the earth we have extracted about 100 pounds of lead.

I beg to call the chairman's attention particularly, because I am afraid that he is laboring under some misunderstanding as to the duty upon lead and lead ore, to this fact. I appear here on behalf of lead ore and pig lead. The duty, as provided by the Dingley bill, is not $30 a ton on lead ore. It is 13 cents a pound upon the lead contents in the ore. Now, Mr. Chairman

The CHAIRMAN. I agree with you on that.

Mr. ROZIER. But not in the figures that you gave.

The CHAIRMAN. I said $30 a ton on the lead in the ore.

Mr. ROZIER. You had a figure here of $69 duty on a ton of oreThe CHAIRMAN. There is no mistake about what the duties are. Mr. ROZIER. In the ore we handle (our 5 per cent ore), if we are meeting competition from Mexico, it would mean that the Mexican ore would pay $1.50 duty-not $30. The ore we produce would simply be protected by $1.50 a ton.

Now, let us consider for a moment this matter of ore that is dis seminated. It must be first mined by expensive shafts. Most of the mines there are accompanied by large amounts of water, requiring the installation of quite expensive pumping machinery. In some cases 6,000 gallons a minute are required to be pumped out of one shaft in order to keep the mine unwatered.

That con

The ore is first mined and broken out of a drift, and thereafter hauled by approved machinery to a hoisting apparatus. It is hoisted, and there put into a concentrating mill built upon the grounds. The ore first passes through crushers, where it is crushed or broken. It thereafter passes into steel rolls, where it is broken up into smaller particles. Following that it passes over jigs and over tables, and with the aid of water, by the process of gravity, the lead contents are separated from the lime rock. Following that process this concentrate must be either calcined or roasted by a separate process. centrating process makes the ore about 40 per cent of metallic contents. The calcining or roasting of it makes about a 60 per cent mass. Then this must be smelted by either the reverberatory or some form of openhearth furnace. The committee will see that with the number of processes I have indicated, and with the table of wages paid in St. Francois County and the adjoining counties, the labor cost of wages paid by the United States, as compared with the labor cost in Mexico, would more than equal a difference of $1.50 against the United States.