Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-05-09
NUGGETS.
Some Very Interesting Items Not Generally
Known

The Ontario Of Park city, Utah, paid
$1,000 in dividends.
The Calumet copper mine of Michigan has
paid S3l $50, 900 in dividends.
The Con. California and Virginia at
Virginia city has paid 500. 900. ooo in divi.
dends.
Butte is now the biggest mining camp
on earth, supporting over twenty thensand
people.
The most important improvements in
mining machinery have been made by Cali
fornians.
The output ef the Anaconda properties
annually.
Common miners wages are 81 IA day in
Virginia city, $3.50 in Butte aud 81 in
Iead,ille.
The ores Of New Mexico aud Arizona as
say big, bat The veins are narrow aud do
not go to any depth.
The greatest specimen" gold mine ia he
United States is the Atlantic Gable Deer
Lodge county, Montana.
The Eureka New. mines. now absud-
oned, produced S1o,o,U. ooo in gold aud
silver and 3oo,o 600 tons of lead.
The cost Of mining and milling an ounce
of silver at the Granite mine j. between
twelve and thirteen cents
The largest gold mine in the United
= t.s. a.. II.,l., At a I'll ~
1t has paid -, 600 600 ia dividends.
The largest smeltcr in tk world is at
Swansea, Wales. The next largest before
the recent fire, Was at Anaconda, Mont.
The Granite Mountain mine near Phillips
burg Mont. pays more dividends than all
of the mines Of Idaho, Arizona aud New
Mexico combined.
The largest number Of stamps operated
by any one conpany is by the IIomestake
Lead city, Black Hills. Their various
properties operate 600 stamps.
Phillip peidesheimer, when superintcnd-
ent ri the Hale ~ Novcross mine ON the
Comstock lode. invented the system OF uu-
derground timbering now in general use.
Figuring roughly the present cost Of con
structins u gold mill is placed ut 81 900 n
stamp; wet crushing silver mill. s.. 900 a
stamp, and chlordizing silver mill S3uuo
a stamp.
The Gallo gold mime in Venezuela l.
stocked for one hundred shares The mar
ket value Of single sha re il S2ooo 600. The
output H. between Slo. 600 600 aud Sl2-
Wo, 600 year.
ILe Lraniie
creased stamps will produce %. 600 ounce.
Of silver per week. This makes it the larg
est of the worlds silver mines. 1t il, figured
that il will take fifty years Ia exhaust the
mine.
I.eadville is producing more than ever.
but on account Of the low price OF silver Il he
value of the output is less than that of for
mer years. The flush days OF Leadville are
over. Property has deprecated two.thirds
in value.
The richest placer eulch probably in the
world was Alder gulel, Virginia City. Mont.
II is estimated that between $50, 600 900
and sra, 900. 900 was taken from strip of
ground nine miles long and averaging 800
feet wide.
The largest salary paid to mine super
intendent is $50, 900 year. given to the
superintendent Of the Broker Hill proper
ties in Australia, who was formerly con
nect-d with the Con. California x Virginia
AT Virginia city.
A true issure VEIN is "a vein or fissure
that is not confined To any particular rock
ar bed. and which extends or may extend
into adjoining rocks. II is usually marked
by its ore being deposited in u ribbon-like
or banded structure.
The output at Tombstone amounted to
several millions. They were worked to the
point where the expenses ri pumping water
exceeded the value Of the ores. only "a lew
mines are being worked, aud Tombstone is
practically dead.
The largest gold nugget we have a record
eras county. Cal. II weighed -, IN ounces
and was valued at Si3, 53l. The next
largest was the celebrated Welcome nugget
of Australia which weighed 2.195 ounces
The greatest gold mine in the world IL
owned by the Juachoea Co., in Chill. ID
pays annually S6.00o. 600 in dividend.
The mine is 800 miles from the coast, and
| o. oo feet above water level. Coal at the
mine costs Sloo IA ton, being packer 100
miles ON mules. Twenty -ive hundred men
are employed at 81 to $3.50 "a day. The
feet. The daily product is eighty tens,
Il averaging 81, 100 per ton. Ore OF less value
goes into the dump.