The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-19
LEAD And SILVER.
Secretary Window Issues Some
New Regulations.
REMEMBER HICKS AND GORDON
The Dervish Leaders Reply to Grenfel-The
Elcho Shield-The Educational AssOcI- e
ation-A New Atlantic Mail Service.

| Especial TO TIE HERALD Examiner Dispatch
WASHINGTON, July 1s.-Secretary Win
dom has taken middle course in the mat
ter Of imposing a duty on silver ore con-
tanning an admixture Of lead He has not
decided at all the question Of duty pre-
sented to him, but has issued a new set Of
regulations for the treatment of ores at the
frontier. A circularletter embodying
| these regulations was dispatched yesterday
to the collectors of customs at Ell Paso,
Eagle Pass and Laredo 1t stated that it is
not intended to PREJUDICE the main question,
which is still under examination by the law
officers of the government The regula-
tons set forth in the circular are as fol-
| lows:
''1-The sworn entry shall embrace in
addition to what is now required, state
ment of the estimated quantities and
values of the silver and lead contained in
the Importation, according to the best
knowledge and belief of the importer or
consignee.
"2-The entry shall further contain a
declaration that the Importation embraces
no mixture of ores or concentrates from
different mines.
"3-The entry shall also disclose the
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| the ore has been taken.
"4-Upon the arrival at the frontier of
cars and other vehicles laden with ores
containing an appreciate quantity of lead,
they shall be locked or otherwise secured
| until entry be made and a permit granted
to unload.
"5-Upon unloading and at the time Of
| unloading, the officer of the customs as
signed to that duty shall supervise the
work and obtain proper and adequate sam
| pies from those taken for commercial pur-
| poses by the importer or assignee; that is
to say, they shall be taken in the manner
| approved and practiced by miners in the
handling and reduction of ores by thor.
oughly mixing and quartering every tenth
shovel or more, repeating the operation
until the usual commercial sample be OBJ
tanned.
"To avoid the detention and expense in
cident to the unloading and sampling at the
frontier, in cases where the cars or other
vehicles are destined to an interior port or
place without so unloading, they shall be
adequately inspected, and If, in the judg-
ment of the collector, the ore is deemed to
contain lead in quantity sufficient to be
dutiable, or if the legal classification be
held doubtful, appraisement may be waived,
and entry made on an estimate of duties
and the goods permitted to proceed to their
destination under a warehouse and trans
portatiOn bond, the entry to be ultimately
iquidated under an appraisement based
upon tho; e selected in the manner above
described Ia paragraphs.
1T is suggested that in the execution of
these instructions care should be taken
equally not to unnecessarily detain ores
wherein silver so clearly predominates as
to fix their character commercially as sill
yer ores, nor to admit without assessment
of duty those ores wherein the value of
their components of leadsappears to exceed
that of the silver contained in such ores.
1T is further advised that in determin
ing the relative values of the silver and
lead contained in the ore the value of the
siver component, in the absence of more
accurate data in the invoice or otherwise,
shall be rated at % per cent. of the latest
known value of silver bullion in the New
York market, and that the value of the
lead component at the latest known price
Of bar lead in the same market, less one
cent per pound.
''From the information before the de
partment IL is believed that neither diff
Guilty nor hardship. will result from the
practical enforcement of these instructions,
but if any obstacle shall arise in their exc
cution, you will please report the exact ma
ture and ext MT of the obstruction, with
your suggestions for its removal"