The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-17

Dc pIOuuCIlOu Vi iii LUG ullneb west
of the Rocky Mountains can hardly be less than
eco, ,000,000 per annum, and the statistics pub
lished from year TO year since the discovery of
gold in 1S4S-now about twenty-five years
prove that over 81 200 600, 900 of treasure has
been exported. If we deduct from this sum the
average of three years. so as to bring the returns
TO correspond with the returns of Australia
since gold was discovered there-say $l7l, 1885,
5S0-we shall have 81, ,02S, ,571, 400 to compare
with the results of the Australian and New Zea-
land mines-$937 062 255. This gives a differ
ence of so, ,539, 165 in favor of California and
the Pacific coast mines as the resalt OF eighteen
only approximate values, but they are rs nearly
correct as it is practicable to have them. They
show remarkable similarity in the grand
total of the mining interests of the two coun-
tries, so near of an age and so similar in their
rise and progress.
From 1855 TO 1868 the Government of Vic
toria paid $40 955 as rewards for the discovery
of paying gold fields. And from 1851 to 1868 it
received in revenue from the gold fields alone,
for miners licenses, miners rights, business
licenses, escort fees, export duty, leases of gold
and mineral lands, etc, the SUN of $26, 057, 325.
''Tbe quontity of gold obtained in Victoria
from 1864 TO 1868, five years, from quartz veins
and alluyial workings, was as folloxs:-
From qnarlz veins, ns,.,...........,2622 622 s56 ounces
From allnylai diggings 5O86Ols o9nce3 m ee5
Showing IN favor of alluvial diggings, =, 4l3 1852
ounces in five years.
I'm the seven leading mining districts of Vic
toria-namely, Ballarat, Beechworth, Sandhurst,
MaTyDOrOugD, CasLlemaln, Ararat, and GlppS-
land there are 243l miles of water races con-
structed at cost of 81, 55l, $50. The area of
land he'd as claims in the same districts is
1885, 5T5 acres. And the estimated value of the
claims in these seven districts il $44, 3t7 $50.
The number of machines employed in alluvial
mining are AL steam engines, 1887 pumping
machines, 29S whims 800 whips, 261 cradles,
1886 water-wheels, 643 stamps crushing cement.
And the number employed in quartz mining are
COZ steam engines, sc crushing machines, 5997
stamps, 5l2 whims 436 whips. And the value
of all the mining plant in Victoria is estimated
at $40 752 100.
'The number of men engaged in mining in
Victoria in 1851 was 19, 800. The largest num-
her in 1850, los, 562; and the number in 1868 was
Ga, ,65S
I'm 1857 there were SO 327 Cinnamon working
at the mines in Victoria. In 1868 the number
was reduced to -, 300. The remainder have
nearly all returned TO their native land. Only
So of the 1890 are working at the quartz
mines, the balance are working on the aluyial
miues
THE number of gold mining companies is
| 247l; the number of shares in these companies
is 7,421 ,492; and the nominal capital is S122,-
! 025 The average yield of quartz Is only
about IL dwts. ~ 81 grains to the ton. This Is
a small yield compared with California and the
| Pacific coast.
"In 1852 the average earnings of miners were
$13l0; in 1862 IL fell to 1885, in 1863 the average
rose 10 $500 per man per annum. This will give
our readers a bird's-eye view of the mining
| operations of the Australian colonies, with
which we are coming into such close com
mercial intercourse To- means of the line o.
mail steamers, and as soon as this line is pu
on permanent and satisfactory basis our in
timacy is likely TO grow still more rapidly anc
extensively"