MINES AND MINING OUTPUT. 



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LIVINGSTON, Mont. , wants a smelter. 

 THERE was no smelter in the Black 

 Hills from 1876 to 1882. 



AN appropriation has been made to run 



the mint at Carson, Nevada, another year. 



THERE is a Held for the development of 



copper properties in the Yellow Jacket 



District, Idaho. 



THE waterpower plant at the mine of 

 the Boston and Montana Company in 

 Montana has a capacity of 7,500 horse 

 power. 



THERE are two feet of solid copper ore and 

 twelve feet of free milling gold ore on the 

 Indian Claim in the Yellow Jacket Dis- 

 trict, Idaho. 



IT is claimed that there are deposits of 

 very rich gold quartz in Southern Oregon, 

 although placer mining has attracted most 

 of the attention heretofore. 



THE Western Mining World says it is 

 scarcely possible to glance through a 

 paper published anywhere in Idaho with- 

 out reading of new mine discoveries or 

 increased prosperity in the mining in- 

 dustry. 



THE report of the Minister of Mines of 

 British Columbia shows the output of 

 gold by districts as follows: Gold min- 

 ing engaged the attention of, on the 

 average, 1,050 white men and 979 

 Chinese and Japanese, besides those en- 

 gaged in Trail Creek division, the newest 

 as well as the richest in the province, but 

 for which unfortunately no gold returns 

 were sent in. The output of the others 

 was, by districts, as follows: Cariboo, 

 $282,400; Cassiar, $22,575; East Koote- 

 nay, $17,575; West Kootenay, $10,520; 

 Lillooet, $40,663; Yale, $237,311, a total 

 of $636,544 of the yellow metal, exclusive 

 of the Trail Creek division, as previously 

 mentioned. Of this total all came from 

 placers except $135,000 from the quartz 

 mines at Fairview and Camp McKinney. 

 Even without Trail Creek the returns for 

 1895 are the largest since 1878, new 

 methods having brought about a revival 

 of the industry in temporarily abandoned 

 fields. Since the beginning, in 1858, 

 $55.000,000 in gold has been taken from 

 the fields of this province. Appended to 

 the gold statistics is the statement that in 

 1895 the gold, silver and lead in the ore 

 from Kootenay was estimated at $2,176,- 

 000. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA also claims to have 

 oil fields. 



ALASKA'S output of gold last year is 

 estimated at $3,000,000. Of this $800,000 

 came from the Yukon placer mines. 



COAL mining made no progress in 

 British Columbia during 1895. There 

 are immense quantities of coal, but it can 

 not be mined to advantage until the fields 

 are reached by the railroads. 



THE production of the oil field for the 

 past year was nearly three times as great 

 as that of the previous year, amounting 

 altogether to 1,368,750 barrels. The 

 average price received was 50 cents per 

 barrel, or $684,375 for the entire output. 

 According to the estimate of the oil ex- 

 change, there are 250 wells which have 

 been operated during the year, the mean 

 product of each being about fifteen barrels 

 daily. 



The mineral bearing portion of the 

 Belknap Indian reservation in Montana 

 that Will probably be declared open for 

 entry within the next six months, is lo- 

 cated on the north slope of the Little 

 Rocky Mountains, covering an area of 

 nearly thirty-five square miles. This area 

 is almost wholly made up of abrupt por- 

 phyry buttes and steep, broken mountains. 

 The drainage of the district is by tribu- 

 taries of Milk river; three large creeks 

 issue from this district out onto the vast 

 plateau lying between the Milk river and 

 the Little Rockies. 



SINCE 1890 the gold in European banks 

 has increased by $623,200,000. Of this 

 the Imperial Bank of Russia has gained 

 $185,800,000, the Bank of France $167,- 

 400,000, the Bank of England $111,000,- 

 000, the Austro-Hungarian Bank $79,800,- 

 000 and the Imperial Bank of Germany 

 $39,000,000.' The gold comes from the 

 American monetary circulation and from 

 the production of the gold mines. At the 

 end of 1895 the Bank of France and the 

 Imperial Bank of Russia between them 

 held $776,600,000 in gold, a little more 

 than half the stock of gold in the Euro- 

 pean banks, and this does not include the 

 gold in the Russian treasury, which is 

 estimated at $510,400,000. The gold in 

 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy 

 amounts to $336, 000,000 and that in the 

 Bank of England to $580,800,000. 



