MINES AND MINING OUTPUT 





ANACONDA, Mont., is to have a smelting 

 plant. 



THE Salt Lake Mining Exchange is a 

 success. 



SHERIDAN, Wyo., is to have a mining 

 exchange. 



NEBRASKA has an acute attack of the 

 gold fever. 



CRIPPLE CREEK now has a population of 

 60,000. In 1892 it had 1,500. 



IT is estimated that this year's output at 

 Cripple Creek will reach 20,000,000 tons 

 of ore. 



THE annual capacity of the three 

 smelters already erected in West Kootenay 

 is given as 164,250 tons. 



EXTENSIVE deposits of onyx have been dis- 

 covered on the Big Laramie river within 

 eight miles of the Cheyenne & Northern 

 railway. 



THE mining fever has struck Wheatland, 

 Wyo. Several discoveries are reported 

 from the country surrounding the busy 

 little town. 



IT is estimated that 500 claims in the 

 Cripple Creek district on which the owners 

 failed to do full assessment work in 1895 

 have been jumped. 



THE West has not a monopoly of the 

 gold supply, although it has little to fear 

 from competition elsewhere. The follow- 

 ing is the gold output of Southern mines 

 up to December 31, 1893: North Carolina, 

 $11,726,629.90; South Carolina, $2,221,- 

 590.90; Georgia, $9,112,328.05; Alabama, 

 $242.994.19, and of Virginia, $1,754,- 

 785.02. 



THE mineral output of Idaho in 1895 

 was as follows: 



Quantity. Value. 



Gold, fine ounces 125,517 $ 2,594,660 



Silver, fine ounces 4,030,180 5,214,498 



Lead, pounds 65,752,037 2,301,321 



SHOSHONE county, Idaho, produced 

 63,861,660 pounds of lead in 1895. 



THERE is $96,325,122 of capital invested 

 in the Lake Superior iron mines and their 

 equipment; and in docks and railways and 

 vessels for the exclusive transportation of 

 ore, from the upper lakes to Lake Erie 

 ports, etc., $136,916, 963, making a total of 

 $233,242,085. 



THE largest gold brick ever cast in the 

 Black Hills was recently deposited in the 

 First National Bank of Deadwood. It 

 came from the Cyanide Works, weighed a 

 trifle less than 125 pounds, and was worth 

 about $30,000. It was the result of a 

 fifteen days' run. 



THE Golden Fleece Mining and Milling 

 Company of Lake City, Colorado, reports: 



Production of mine from Sept., 



1892, to Jan.. 1896 $729,252.19 



Less expenditure. Sept., 1892, to 



Jan. l, 1896 $209.149.8* 



Less Insurance and Construction 



accounts 4,6*0.76 213.8S0.64 



Total $10,110,485 



This is an increase of $316,405 over the 

 previous year. 



Balance profit $515,421 .55 



Dividends paid 401,979.85 



Surplus on hand Jan. 1, 1896 $113,441.70 



THE Chicago Mining and Mineral Board 

 have adopted the following rates: 



Per 100 Shares. 



Stock selling at 25c and under $ 25 



Stock selling at over i>5c and under 50c 50 



Stock selling at over 50c and under $1 l 00 



Stock selling at over $1 and under $2 2 00 



Stock selling at over $2 and under So 3 00 



Stock selling at over $5 and under $10 5 00 



Stock selling at over $10 and under $20 6 25 



Stock selling at $20 or over 12 50 



FOR the first time in the history of 

 Colorado, the gold output for the year just 

 closing exceeded in value that of silver. 

 A careful computation of the mineral out- 

 put for the year from the statistics attain- 

 able shows the following: Gold, $17.- 

 340,495; silver, $14.259,049; lead, $2J- 

 955,114; copper, $877,492; total, $35,432,- 

 150. For 1894 the output was: Gold, 

 $11.235,506; silver, $14,721,750; lead. 

 $3,268,613; copper, $767,420; total, $29,- 

 993,290. The increase in gold production 

 is almost wholly from the Cripple Creek 

 district. 



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