Download or read book Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1897, Vol. 5 written by United States Department Of Th Interior and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1897, Vol. 5: Eighteenth Annual Report O the United States Totals. - Instead Of a normal increase or at least the mineral product of 1896 Showed only a slight increase in its total value, from in 1895 to in 1896. There were nine substances Of which the product was not only increased but for which the value was the greatest ever attained. Among these the important ones are gold, copper, aluminum, and petroleum. On the other hand, the product of many substances was increased in amount, but the value was less than that of the smaller product yielded the year before. This includes such important substances as lead, bitu minous coal, building stones, mineral waters, salt, and pyrites. The principal factors in this total are given In detail below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.