PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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New South Wales has a well, 1,729 feet 

 deep, flowing 4,000,000 gallons daily, and 

 another 1,638 feet deep with a flow of 

 2,000,000 gallons. 



With the exception of the Dakota basin 

 the artesian basin of Queensland, embrac- 

 ing an area of 376,832 square miles is the 

 largest yet discovered in the world. 



At Burrandilla, Queensland, two start- 

 ling overflows were secured, one of 4,000, - 

 000 and the other of 2,500,000 gallons 

 daily. No. 2 bore at Charlotte Plains, 

 depth 1,848 feet, 4,000,000. Coreena 

 bores, No. 2 and No. 5 respectively 1,500, - 

 000 and 1,000,000. Tinnenburra, seven 

 bores, threw out 8,000,000 gallons of fine 

 water daily. Boatman bore No. 1 discharges 

 4,200,000. It is estimated that at the 

 present time 350 private bores in the col- 

 ony of Queensland are flowing over one 

 thousand million gallons of water daily. 



FRESH MINING NEWS. 



It is predicted that the production of 

 gold this year in California, Washington, 

 Oregon and Alaska will be a considerable 

 increase over that of 1895 which was 

 $2,384,560 greater than in 1894. 



Copper mining seems to be especially 

 prosperous. Extensive additions are being 

 made to the smelting plant of the United 

 Verde Copper Company, at Jerome, Ari- 

 zona, which is already one of the largest 

 smelting plants in the country. 



The Rothschilds have bought the re- 

 mainder of the interest of the Hearst 

 estate in the Anaconda mines of Montana. 

 They bought 270,000 shares in the last pur- 

 chase on a basis of $45,000,000 for the 

 property, yielding about $7,000,000 to the 

 estate. 



The Engineering and Mining Journal 

 has twice recently made reference to the 

 extraordinary activity in the development 

 of Utah mines. From all over the Terri- 

 tory old mines are being more extensively 

 worked and new ones of great promise are 

 being opened. 



The Bennett placer machine is in suc- 

 cessful operation on Green Kiver, Utah, 

 by the South Park Mining Company. The 

 machine is run by electricity, and performs 

 every detail of placer mining automatically, 



from shoveling up the gravel to saving the 

 gold on the plates. 



The new furnace of the United Verde 

 Copper Company, at Jerome, Arizona, the 

 largest in the world has been put in blast. 

 By a new process, originating with local 

 parties, the ore is roasted and treated with 

 the same facility and in the same time as 

 is required for unroasted ore. 



The general deficiency bill which was 

 passed in the last days of the recent Con- 

 gress makes provision for the assaying and 

 sampling of lead and silver ores that are 

 imported into this country, principally 

 from Mexico and British Columbia. Sam- 

 pling works are to be erected at El Paso, 

 Texas, Northport, Washington, and Bon- 

 ner's Ferry, Idaho. 



A company is being formed to construct 

 a cyanide process plant at Atlantic City to 

 treat the ores of South Pass in Fremont 

 county, Wyoming. It will have a capacity 

 for the treatment of several hundred tons 

 a day, of which there are large dumps to 

 be worked at that place. They are obtain- 

 ing as much now from the tailings as was 

 obtained from the first working of the ore. 



The Engineering and Mining Journal 

 in a recent issue speaks of the mining 

 activity in Utah, which has come about 

 through a change from the old-time condi- 

 tions, and the substitution of foresight for 

 hindsight. The introduction of new pro- 

 cesses of treatment and more careful pros- 

 pecting, especially directed to the discov- 

 ery of gold isleading to wonderful changes. 

 The Park City, Tintic and Bingham dis- 

 tricts go steadily on producing and paying 

 dividends, but with very little excitement. 

 New discoveries of low grade gold ores are 

 reported from the Camp Floyd district, 

 and it is being demonstrated that ore of 

 very low average grade can be profitably 

 worked. The Geyser mill report for April 

 shows the average value of the ore milled 

 was only $3.92 per ton. The entire cost 

 of mining and milling was but $1.97 a ton, 

 and the profit on this low grade rock was 

 therefore $1.95 a ton. A fifty-ton cyanide 

 plant, therefore, yields the handsome re- 

 turn of about $100 a day on less than $4 

 ore, and it is not truly free milling. 

 There is a good deal of ore in the district 

 that is of much higher grade and pays well 

 when shipped to the smelters. 



