The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-08-03
The Y.lus Of Ore shinman,s


since May last nearly 700 tons per month
OF SILVER, copper and gold ores have arrived in
San francisco, and this amount is increasing
every month. Last year only about 500 tons
per month were received. Next Year there n
every teason to believe that the amount viii
reach 500 to 1000 tons per month This
! ore, we are assured. is worth, on an average,
say, 5000 per ton in the crude state, or "a pres
ent total % about Sl40, 600 per month What
1t VIII amount to five years hence no one can
certainly. say, but it is well known we have
yet hardly cut through the rind Of this rich
pecuniary fruit. 7.
The most of the ore received here comes
from Nevada, but now II is definitely decided
That we will get all the ore of Utah as wen
In May last, 20 tons of ore from tho Cotton
wood mines were shipped to tl,is city, and a
Ike amount TO the smelling works of Newark
New Jersey. Tbeso shipments were made as
experiments. The result from the Atlantic
shipments was direct loss; that from the
shipment here handsome gain. In fact, a
deduction from the profit made here has TO be
made to cover the loss on the shipment made
to New Jersey. Sixty TO ninety days elapse
before the returns from ore are received from
Newark, while returns are made from this
city IN 10 to 20 days from the departure Of the
ores in the cars from Utah. The cost of ship
ping tenatCr car load Of ore TO this city is
500, while it Is S2e0 20 1925 IL sent TO New
ark. The saving on freight coming this way
Is therefore so to Sll5 per car load.
OF the 200 tons now received by Us month
ly, about 200 tons uIe reduced at Mayor Sell
hy's smelling works here. This is very cred
Itable 10 US, considering that We are yet but
beginning. The remaining 500 tons are SAM
nlrd acd paid for here 10y Mcssrs. Hovlpnd s.
Co., and are shipped b Swansea. The cost
oi shipment thence, per sailing vessel, 10 only
SlU To Sl5 per ton. II sample ASSAY here
shows that the ore contains 500 III silver to
the ton, the owner receives sos for it; if in
addition it contains SO in gold. he is paid
SOS TO SIC per ton; and If IL likewise con
talnS 20 per cent. Of copper, lac receives $50
per ton. The ore contains "A variety of met
ais OF which the smelling works on this coast
can save only the silver the gold and the
lead the copper is lost. The English slnelt-
Crs have great advantage over as ia the ar
lcle Of copper. They can save ali this me tai.
To enable us TO jC likewise, an expenditure OF
millions would be necessary for the erection
OF vast buildings and machinery, of which, in
perfection. there exists but one establishment
even IN Wales. Then, the cost Of coal and
labor are greatly against us. In Wales coal
Is worth only about - so per ton here il
costs from sl2 TO SIS labor there is worth
from To cents to 81 30 per day here IL is
worth - 30 to 81 per day. OF course the
time will come when We will reduce our own
ores, and when the largest smelling works in
the world will be here, but many years will
eiapsc Before ihbt takes place. And III the
meantime, the business of sending ore here
for shipment abroad is n most profitable one
both to the miners. the railroad company, cur
trNmsters sailing Vessels, aud to the general
buSiuess Of the coast.
The fact that We will in future receive all
the ores from Utah, Is most gratifying. Since
July lst, 10 tons have Been received from
that Territory, and heavy shipments are now
on the way thence 10 this market. Previous
=" the building of tho Pacific Railroad none
OF all this ore conId be shipped. Tho expense
- s"Huing o. her" WAS then prOhiDitOry, and
u ~ only within q few months that the busi-
ness has become profitable and extensive
one. What 1t will amount to when branch
railroads arG built north and south from the
n'nin Pacific line, when the Southern Pacific
road rs built, aud when the California and
Oregon road is completed. allowing of ship.
mcnts '.Om tho now unworked mines Of the
Sierre Nevada. In Northern California the
TiBcH. and most sanguno of us cannot pre-
tend to guess. Already, however. it has been
abundantly demonstrated that President
Grants bOast-that the county vest Of the
Hocky mountains contained the treasure-bOI
of the vCrld--was not figure Of fancy, but
u glittering fact. Our back" country may
not bo oil grain-prairies, like that around Chi
cngo, but its products are no less profitable,
and are much more literally golden. With
the expansive grain, vino and fruit lands OF
California, and with the incxhaustible mines
If cur own State Nevada. Utah, Arizona and
Idaho, wo have the elements of a material
prosperity which the world can hardly sur
ims7, and few regions can cqual.--Sm Fran.