Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-17

lCOpo1OI1lbS any dLIO All OIICICCu DIA5.
TO CANCEL PATENTS.
The Secretary Of the Interior has re
quested the Acknowledgement to cause suit
to be instituted to secure the cancellation
OF patents issued on lumber-culture entries
in the Humboldt (Cal.) land district. 1t is
alleged that the entries to these lands were
procured through fraud for the purpose oil
obtaining the valuable redwood timber
growing thereon, and that the fraud was
perpetrated by the same parties who were
instrumental in obtaining patents to 151
entries in the same section in 1879. These
latter cases have since been known as the
California redwood timber al frauds.
The Parchment Position in the Worlds
Production the Mines of the Territory
Will Soon Assume.
A correspondent OF the Pioneer Press in
a recent issue has this to say OF the copper
output and prospects of Montana: The
West is being developed with such rapid
strides that the Eastern world is not
aware that in making comparison OF the
state OF trade there is any need of taking
statistics oftener than every decade. That
may do for the Eastern trade in making
comparisons of increase, but will not do for
! the West. Letters by Gath" nave ap.
peared in Eastern papers, giving US an in
sight into the copper trust OF the world,
and showing by dates obtained from the
census of 1880 the position Of the United
States in the matter. The
WORLDS SUPPLY
of copper is drawn principally from Chill,
Spain and the United States. The total
output OF the world in 1867 did not exceed
100 0OO, 900 pounds, against an output Of
the past year Of 424, 600, 900 pounds, o!
which amount the United States furnishes
over One-third. Forty per cent. OF the total
output is furnished by five corporations,
Rio Tinto, Tharsis, and Mason and Barry
on the other side; the Hecla and Calumet
and Quincy on this. 1t is seldom that sucn
immense Industries as these are settled in d
few hands, their total amount being 100,
OOO, 900 pounds. About three years ago
these same companies, who are now forming
the backbone OF the trust,
DECIDED TO CRUSH
the growing copper industry Of Montana,
then having al output of less than ten mil
ion pounds per annum. The price of COZ
per was placed at 10 cents per pound, and
finally at 8 cents. The Montana ores cal
rying enough gold and silver to pay the cost
OF smelling, no attention was paid to the
action OF the trust, and the works were e1-
tended, until the year just passed shows Is
an output OF copper from these same de-
spised mines OF ~One-quarter OF the total
output OF the world, with a prospect that
| tln total for f1,n VeDT tN 90 mo mill bn fin
one-third OF the worlds total. The fall IF
the year just passed the trust decided to
TRY ANOTHER PLAN,
and the price was run up from II cents to
II cents in a few weeks time, with offers to
all mines in operation to take their pro
ducts at a certain price and give them a
share OF the advance. The Montana pro
ducers OF to-day say, take our metal; we
want nothing further. to do with your bust
ness. Our industry is yet in it's infancy,
our mines can furnish US vast increase,
while the mines OF Spain, Chill and Germ
any have been worked to their full capacity.
The solution OF the copper problem is that
in less than ten years the price OF copper
will be
SETTLED HERE AT HOME
instead OF in London or Paris, as at pres
emit. The Anaconda Mining and Smelling
COmpanys output the past season was
over $4,000 600 pounds OF refined copper,
which exceeded the total production of the
United States for the year 1880. The other
Montana mines furnished an equal amount,
making a showing that the world cannot
| equal of an increased production OF over
100, 900 600 pounds in three years. With
the wealth Of mineral we have, we are as
eured Of a very bright future for our Terri
tory. All we ask of our Eastern friends is
to keep up with the times and
GIVE US II CREDIT
we deserve for turning our unknown Terri
tory into the first rank as a mineral pro-
! Queer as we did in 1887. We lave won the
banner Cor mineral products and intend to
keep it. Look at one Ct the instances where
pluck has been rewarded. In 1883, J. {.
Haggin of San Francisco purchased the Ana
condA copper property for $4,000. To
day it employs HOO men in its mills and
conCentratOrb 600 in their mines, and the
property is valued at SO, OOO, 900. When
copper was at its lowest he gave orders Tor
A
to cost 81 1000, OOO, which has already
started and will double the product for
this year. Two new smelling plants will be
erected in the Territory this season-at
Helena and Great ~Falls-both plants to be
as complete as money can make them.
These two works alone will mean an expen-
diture of over SO 100000 the present year,
largely OF Eastern and foreign capital,
showing the faith Of the outside world in
our mineral wealth, and yet the develop
ment has just begun. SMITH.
How the Center Of Sun River Was De-
stroyed by Flames.
Sun RIVER, NJ. T., March 12.-[Special to