Mining Matters
Production of Gold.
Since 1493 the gold production of the
world has hecn $ll!,070,Hi'S,135. In 190(>
the production exceeded any other year,
with a world total of $403,909,335. The
Transvaal was the largest gold producing
country in 1*90(1, with $119,009,373; the
United States second, with $90,101,400,
and Australasia third, with $32,37)1,361.
The production of the United States,
by states and territories, in 1905 and
1900 was as follows:
Stute or Territory
1W 5
1906
A lahanm
California
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oregon
South Carolina
Smith Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Other states
$14,925,603
41,500
2,691,300
19.197.100
25.701.100
94. S'. 10
1,073,600
4.899,800
5.3*<9,H!0
265 800
125.900
1.244.9 <0
95.100
6.913,900
5.140.9 0
370,(KM
23,700
417.111
$21,251,100
35,900
3.223.800
18,053.909
22,771,200
64,200
1.093.700
4.585.800
9.815.800
255.9 U
122.0 K)
1.3(19,900
74.« 00
6.822.700
5,172,200
352.600
20,4*0
429,7' 0
Total
sss 1H '.711 590,1-1,400
About Copper.
In 1896 the copper production of the
world was 378,361 lung tens of fine
metal; in 1906 the l’nited Slates alone
produced 420,405 tons.
The largest copper producing state is
Montana, which in 1906 reported 187,924
long tons. In the last 24 years the state
has produced approximately 1,908,099
tons.
Michigan from 184.r> to 1906 produced
1,886,362 long tons of copper, of w hich
99,888 was reported by the Lake Superior
mines in 1906. 1 p to the end of 190*1
these mines have paid dividends to the
amount of $153,389,012.
Arizona has experienced unusual ac
tivity in recent years, especially in Bis
bee, (ilohe, .lerotne and < 'Iifton districts.
In 1906 the territory's output was 119,643
tons, the record.
Utah holds fourth place among the
copper producing states, and there is a
probability of an enormous increase. In
19tXi the production was 26,228 long
tons.
Of the smaller producing states, Ten
nessee, which treats exceptionally low
grade ore, is rapidly forging ahead, and
Ualifornia is reopening old mines and
developing new deposits in Shasta
county. Alaska. Colorado, Idaho and
New Mexico are among the promising
copper yielding fields.
Canada’s cop|M-r out put is principally
from the budbttry district in Ontario
and the Boundary district in British Co
lumbia. Other foreign countries that
contribute to the world's copjsT output
include Mexico. >pain, Portugal. Aus
tralasia, Japan and Oermany. Numer
ous other countries are posturing clip
per, and it is vt-rv likely that Peru will
he? lire for th steadily increase its output.
There is also a )» --fhility that the east
COp|ier dc|a*s,I * Is hcVrd to exist in
Africa and iii the West Indies (notably
in llayti may be developed on a large
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Mexico in 1900 produced if Hi,250,000
in gold and 54,500,000 tine ounces of
silver. The United States again ex
eeeded Mexico in silver, with 50,185,072
! line ounces.
At :i point on the boundary line be
tween California-and Nevada, about 25
miles south of Khyolite, the reported
j discovery of fabulously rich gold ledges
i has caused a big stampede. There is a
I prospect of establishing a large camp.
About hO per cent, of the world’s plat
inum supply for 1900 was produced in
the government of l’erm, Russia, be
tween 105,000 and 175,000 ounces troy.
Prices advanced from $24.20 to $57.40
per ounce from January to t tetober, 1900.
The total value of metals and minerals
produced in the I’nited States in 1906
reached $1 912,491,572, an increase of
17.7 per cent, over 1905, the next highest
year. This greatly exceeded the pro
duction of any other country in the
world.
Africa has the credit of being the sec
ond largest gold-producing continent in
the world. In 1900 the Transvaal pro
duced $119,609,272 and Rhodesia $10,
201 ,"27. In recent years there has also
been quite an increase in the output in
West Africa.
The Consolidat 1 Companv’s great
Twelvemilc ditch w ill not put water on
Hunker and Bonanza creeks, Klondike,
until 1 SttS, but the Twelvemilc electrical
power for the Consolidated dredges on
lower Bonanza w ill be available for use
early this season.
Brazil is the principal source of sup
ply of tlie black diamonds (carbons) used
in drilling mineral land. Carbons as a
rule weigh from 1 to 2 carats, and occa
sionally a 10-carat stone is used. Their
wear in drilling rock of a hardness of 7
w ill average about one carat for every 25
feet bored. Three settings are necessa
ry iii a metal bit which will last for an
average distance of SO to Bit) feet. Car
bons sold at $45 to $75 per carat in 1900.
The coal deposits at Coal Creek, a few
miles below Forty mile, lie in two vast
sheets, dipping at an angle of 38 degrees.
They may be likened unto two colossal
plates of coal thrust at a slant into the
bowels of the earth and extending per
haps for miles. The workings are now
in 200 feet. The coal is worked from
beneath, so that w hen it is loosened it
falls into gravity cars that automatically
dump it into bins, whence it hauled
into cars and taken 12 miles to bunkers
on the Yukon river, it is proponed to
transport 5,000 to S.ooo tons to Dawson
the coming season. It is also proposed
to build an imuu n.-e plant at the n ’lies
to supply the 1 >aw son country w iti. elec
tric power, but that will not be accom
plished this year.
WINGED PESTS OF THE URALS
WORiE T«AN OUR MOSQUITOES
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will |*nff it|* tin- aflu'tnl |«»rt to a di*
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mu iht* eyelid*, and tin* iv*nIt in,d«*»|*it*>
all in*tantly available and applied re*
lief*. a tw*>-«lu\ laming, floecd, puffed*
♦ »nt. blue l>inck » ve a* if you had )n*Mn*d
Ihroii^h a tvrUm* pn^di-m null. Then
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bore into till? cartilages anil cause excru
ciating suffering and delirium. Recov
ery is rare. The native remedy is to
snuff red pepper into the nostrils, which
the Russians aptly call “cheating hell
by applying hell.”
R. Lodian, in the Electrical Review,
says the miners in this pestiferous re
gion receive 50 cents per day of 1” hours.
ONE MAN’S OPINION
OF THE TENDERFOOT
In a letter dated Richardson, Feb. 20,
to O. A. Carruthers at Rampart, George
(>1 mated said :
“This Tenderfoot proposition does not
amount to much as yet—deep diggings,
dirtv gold and pretty well monopolized.
The creek is wide, two tiers on either
limit beside the creek claims, and about
seven miles long. One hundred and
lilty feet to bedrock at 10 below.”
Mr. Olmsted expected to leave for
Fairbanks and later for Chandlar or
some other new field.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Date Max. Min. Date Max. Min.
March lb 2S — !» March 23 — 1 —42
March 20 10 - 15 March 24 — 4 —23 i
March 21 10—40 March 25 13 — 0,
March 22 5 —40
Number of days: Clear, 3: partly!
cloudy, 0; cloudy, 4,
Snowfall, 3.5 inches.
Fkkiikrkk F. Ruikk,
Voluntary < Ibserver.
In 1000 313 men and 112 women com
mitted suicide in Vienna.
Rampart Miners’
Association.
THK next regular meeting of the RAM*
1 PART MIN KK"' ASSOCIATION will he
held at J. C. IIAI.I. (Rampart , Suml »y. April
I. at 2 |». in., and at (JII.I.’S (Cilen/, Sunday,
A |»rII 14, at - p. in.
All miners ami pmsitectors who are not
meinheri* arc cordially invited to attend, or
►end in w ritten application for niemh'-r'.hip.
A full attendance i*» re«|noted, mm there i>
business of importance to he submitted.
K. J. KAI.NINC*. Secretary.
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