OFFICIAL RETURNS 45 



Nipissing 5,584,74202. 



Crown Reserve 3)i58,i56 „ 



Kerr Lake 2,877,299 „ 



Corriagas 2,621,681 „ 



Mackinley-Darragh-Savage ... 2,607,071 „ 



Temeskaming 1,887,127 „ 



Buffalo 1,514,895 „ 



In Cobalt and its vicinity the production of silver 

 in 1909 exceeded any previous year, the total being 

 26,000,000 oz. The towns of Elk and Smith on the 

 Montreal River form the distributing centre of this 

 area. There are nearly 150 mines in the district. 

 The Northern Customs Concentration Co. is situated 

 on the town site of Cobalt. It obtained the contract 

 in 1910 for concentrating the mining ore of La Rose 

 and City of Cobalt mines. The process carried on 

 here is both complicated and elaborate. The ore goes 

 through a crusher, and is reduced to a three-quarter 

 inch product. It is then subjected to several processes 

 of separation, and ultimately passed over canvas. 



Mr. T. W. Gibson sums up the industry in this 

 district in the following words : — 



"The seven years which have elapsed since the 

 opening of the mines of this remarkable camp have 

 been seven years of increasing plenty. The ratio of 

 increase is now lessening, and 1910 will not exhibit 

 as great an advance over 1909 as 1909 did over 1908. 

 Indeed, if no new and unexpected additions be made 

 to the known sources of production, it may well 



