92 GEOLOGICAL REPORT. 



(B.) 



GRANBY LEAD MINES. 



It has been somewhat difficult to get a reliable statement of 

 the amount of lead made from the Granby Mines ; but from 

 the best information derived from the miners, the smelters, and 

 the present proprietors, Messrs. Blow & Kennett, the amount 

 of lead made can not be less than seven million or eight mil- 

 lion pounds. I am indebted to Mr. Blow for the following 

 statement of the operations of the company : 



"From the 1st February to 1st September, 20,000 pigs, aver- 

 aging 80 J Ibs., have been smelted at Blow & Kennett's furnace 

 at Granby ; the transportation of which by wagons, railroads, 

 and steamboats to St. Louis, has amounted to nearly twenty 

 thousand dollars. 



"Five steam engines and over two hundred men are em- 

 ployed by this firm in mining and smelting, while a much lar- 

 ger number are engaged in mining other shafts on the Granby 

 section, all belonging to the Pacific Railroad, but under lease 

 to Blow & Kennett. 



"The usual cost of lead per 100 Ibs., from the furnace to St. 

 Louis, is fl.25. The visual price of mineral is $16 free of rent, 

 or $14 and rent." 



