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It has been stated*—on authority represented to be un- 
questionable—that during nine years past ‘ 
The dividends in Cornish mines have amounted to .... £1,379,936 
», calls % Ss 2,696,800 
3” 
The vicissitudes of mining, however, are proverbial.+ 
That the parties engaged in any branch of productive industry 
should know the proportions in which its proceeds are shared, 
can admit of no question. Some five years since my friends and 
acquaintances amongst the Lords, Adventurers, Managers and 
Pursers of the largest, deepest and most productive tin, copper 
and lead mines wrought in Cornwall, during the present century, 
_kindly furnished me (for another purpose) with accounts of the 
*« Years. Dividends paid. Calls made. 
1S 6 Dieter clasts rere atareiavs a EEONIE) Shan oacooc Mororete £370,020 
OP aclodbagouoounc aD TOM GS9) sekerdvelerstanta tooo 402,034 
Ar Oare aia telcuesereteeetele UTALO OT a cverose(olelatereieisreleuee 409,940 
LRG AIAG ce COROT UDB oocodoccoocaudcd 321,552 
Gare Siciaetetsisvetsce tone scare QOS 69 arwcererelele eis ee acer 431,881 
We vetetatave ej'sta acevele lore ace) PLUG’ 6 GS ariets eretemeote daooce AY) 
Sitrrerechersteverere anoq  ALIO.BEY) Goaduccngcdcococs USB Ney! 
DQivscicielets wlovsyers eiclereres! Wel OO ol Shunrepetetiere SoBGGd0000 181,960 
MST Oln ster cersiotstede ctereielerers) 1 uD OIG EY vereretcte sets seretetere vers 194,500 
Nine years ...... £1,379,936 £2,696,790 
West Briton, (Vol. ux1., No. 3157,) 12th January, 1871. 
+ ‘Huerie likelyhood doth [not] euer proue a certaintie: for diuers haue 
‘‘beene hindered, through bestowing charges in seeking, ana not finding, 
‘¢and many vndone in finding and not speeding, whiles a faire show, tempt- 
‘ing them to mvch cost, hath, in the end, fayled in substance, and made 
“the aduenturers Banckrupt of their hope and purse. . . . There are, 
“that leauing [the trade] of new searching doe take in hand such old 
“« Stream and Loadworks, as by the former aduenturers haue beene giuen 
“‘ouer, and oftentimes they find good store of Tynne, both in the rubble 
‘cast vp before, as also in veins which the first workmen followed not. 
‘““From hence there groweth a diuersitie in opinion, amongst such Gentle- 
‘¢men, as by iudgement and experience, can looke into these matters.” 
Carew, Survey of Cornwall, f. 9. 
‘“ A striking increase in the value of property occurred with respect to 
“ Downhill, a small coarse tenement in Saint Cleer, which had been pur- 
*‘ chased thirty years before for £200. . . By the discovery of mineral 
“odes, and the opening of West Caradon Copper Mine in this barren spot, 
“‘the proprietors have received for the last twelve years, without any risk, 
‘Can income of more than £2,000 a year, as dues on the ore. The land- 
“owner of South Caradon, an equally barren surface, has benefitted to a 
*« still greater extent.” ALuEeN, History of Liskeard, p. 397. 
‘« When the Colorada lode (Chili) was small its only ingredient was cal- 
‘‘eareous-spar, but during its enlargement this was mixed with the chloride 
‘of silver and vitreous silver-ore, and great part of it was so thickly inter- 
‘““twined with (bar-silver) native-silver that,—too tough for extraction with 
“the ordinary mining tools, and too porous to be blasted with gunpowder— 
‘it was cut out, bit by bit with chisels.” Hrnwoop, Cornwall Geol: Trans: 
viii., p. 91. 
