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MINING INDUSTEY. 



Tabular statement showing the operations of the Gotcld and Curry Mining Company from the date of their 



organization to November 30, i86g . 



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November 30, i860 

 November 30, 1861 

 November 30, 1862 

 November 30, 1863 

 November 30, 1864 

 November 30, 1865 

 November 30, 1866 

 November 30, 1867 

 November 30, 1868 

 November 30, 1869 













$22,004 82 



44,221 41 



858,819 32 

 3,887,755 09 

 4,921,516 19 



2,401,060 61 



1,675,505 38 



715, loi 47 



95, 284 92 



253, 666 03 



$166,068 00 



120,000 00 

 72,000 00 



$1, 468, 800 00 



1^440, cx)o 00 



618,000 00 



252,000 00 



37-77 

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25-74 

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8,442 

 48, 743 

 64, 433 

 47,217 

 62,425 

 24, 940 

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 '^15,879 



§12 54 



12 64 



12 00 



10 84 



8 78 



" 35 



dia 34 



d^ 29 



^$38 00 



12 93 



12 27 



13 00 



$38 55 



(5 22 30 



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20 36 



15 67 



14 34 



12 62 



13 08 



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 a 80 44 

 «73 48 

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 28 47 

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14,875,935 24 



358,068 00 



3, 778,800 00 



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Note a. During the three years of 1862, 1863, 1864, there were taken out 4oJ<S tons of first-class ore, averaging $2,516 

 per ton. In 1863 there were taken out 4,812 tons of second-class ore, averaging $309 23 per ton; and in 1864 there were 

 8,821 tons of second-class ore, averaging $141 75. Since that time the amount of high-grade ores produced has been very 

 small. 



b. The difference in these costs of milling, as stated in the table, is due to the difference in the character of the ore, the higher 

 grades requiring more e.xpensive methods of treatment. In the case above noted the company reduced at their own mill, in 

 1863 and 1864, a large amount of second-class ore, at a cost of $38 and $40, sending the third-class ore to the custom mills 

 to be treated by a less expensive process. In the following year the company's mill reduced 35,684 tons of third-class ore at a 

 cost of $12 93 per ton. 



c. Of the 12,153 tons, produced in 1868, only 1,229 t°°s were worked by the company, the yield of which was $18 14. The 

 yield of the remainder, sold to contractors, is unknown ; the average price paid to the company for a large portion of it was 

 $6 28 per ton. Of the 15, 879 tons produced in 1869, only 9, 729 tons were taken out by the company, the yield of ore worked by 

 the company being, as stated, $26 30. The 6,150 tons, taken out by contractors, yielded to the company only %\ per ton. 

 This will explain the discrepancy apparent between the quantity of ore produced, its average yield, and the total receipt of 

 bullion ; the last item simply shows all the company's receipts from ores worked or sold, and from the treatment of taihngs, 

 sluices, &c. 



d. The cost of $10 34 per ton in 1868 includes all dead work, prospecting, and incidental expenses, divided among the number 

 of tons of ore produced ; $7 29 per ton in 1869 is only the cost of extracting 9, 729 tons on company's account ; including nothing 

 for dead-work, improvements, &c. 



Savage. — This mine adjoins tlie Gould and Curry on the south. The 

 actual length of the claim is stated at 771 feet, although the company is organ- 

 ized on a basis of 800 feet, with a subdivision of 20 shares to each foot, mak- 

 ing a total of 16,000 shares. The earlier workings of the company were 

 confined to the northern portion of their ground, and was prosecuted by 

 means of a shaft, sunk on the croppings, about 200 feet south of their north- 

 em boundary. At a depth of 600 feet, to which this shaft was sunk, it had 

 already reached and passed considerably below the west wall. Following 

 the example of the Gould and Curry, the company located their new shaft 

 about 800 feet east of the old one, on the croppings, and about midway be- 



