METALS AND THEIR ORES. II 



safely estimated at $19 per ton, if judgment is exercised in culling. The vein being 

 very wide — 18 feet — mining is cheap ; but we cull our ore about fifty per cent., making 

 the ore cost, for mining and culling, about $2 per ton. Add $1 for cartage, and $1.50 

 for milling, or work in mill in reducing ore to bullion, and you will find that the cost of 

 mining and milling is $4.50 per ton of 2,240 pounds. 



The director of the U. S. Mint reports the receipts of gold from New 

 Hampshire for the year ending June 30, 1875, to be ^5,200.92. For the 

 year following, the amount was ^2,731.74. A figure given in the direct- 

 or's report for the amount received from New Hampshire up to the last 

 mentioned date probably denotes the total received from the Electro-Gold 

 company: it is $10,233.68. If this sum be added to the total known to 

 have been extracted prior to 1873, viz., $36,570, we shall have $46,803.68 

 as the total amount of gold mined at Lyman prior to 1876. Mr. Willard 

 Parker, of Lisbon, who has been familiar with the whole history of the 

 extraction of the gold in Lyman, estimated the whole amount extracted 

 to the same date at $48,000. The close coincidence of our two indepen- 

 dent estimates leads to the belief in their essential correctness. There 

 has been some gold taken from the vein since 1876, so that it may be 

 proper to say, in round numbers, that $50,000 of the gold coin in circula- 

 tion in the United States has been derived from New Hampshire during 

 the past ten years. 



The tract of land occupied by the Dodge and Lisbon companies com- 

 prises about 170 acres in the east part of Lyman, and is defined upon 

 the map opposite page 296, Volume H. The companies are engaged in 

 litigation at the present time rather than in the development of their 

 mines. The land has been divided into sections of 500 feet each, that 

 at the southern end being owned by the Dodge company, and the second 

 by the Lisbon company ; the third by the Dodge, the fourth by the Lis- 

 bon, and so on. The improvements made are upon the first sections 

 respectively. 



The Dodge mine was leased for a time to J. H. Paddock & Co., from 

 about March i, 1874, who used the mill upon the east side of the river 

 at Lisbon village. I have no facts about the production of gold by this 

 firm, nor of that obtained by the Lisbon company after the Electro-Gold 

 company ceased to operate. 



The Dodge Vein. The formation carrying the auriferous veins of this 



