San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-28
MINES AND MINING.

The most important lead regions
of the United States are in the
Mississippi valley, one being dis
trict in Wisconsin, Illinois and
Iowa; the other in Missouri.
The Famous Rammelsberg cop
per mine, in the Hartz Mountains,
was discovered by the paving of a
horse named Rammel. 1t has been
worked since the ninth century.
The Montana mines, including
Granite Mountain, assumed i'm
mense Importance about 1887. In
that year the output of gold, silver,
copper and lead was $26,OOO,OOO.
The Dutch opened copper mines
in New Jersey in 1860, about the
date that the French Jesuits began
operations of the same kind on the
shores of Lake Superior.
The value of the live stock in the
Western States is estimated at ST.
695, 100000 and the annual product
exceeds in value that of the gold
and silver mines combined.
Several masses of native silver
exceeding 500 pounds in weight,
have been found in the mines of
Norway, Frieburg, SaXony, Bohe-
mia, Peru and Mexico.
The Austrian gold mines in Ty-
rol and Hungary are worked with
profit, although the ore is so poor
that there are only four parts of
gold to 100000 of ore.
The greatest record ever made
by any mine was that of the Com
stock in 1874, when $23,000,000 of
gold and silver were taken out.
The annual value of the: miner
al products of the United States is
$685., 100000; of Great Britain, 3d.
100000 pounds of Germany, 25,0OO,-
600 pounds.
Until the discovery Of the gold
mines of California, Russia was the
greatest gold producing country,
mining about $l3,OOO,O0O a year.
The total product Of the Next
can silver mines, from their open
ing by the Spaniards, to the indie
pendence of the country, in 1921,
was $2,36S, $4,000.
The largest gold nuggets found
in Australia were the "WelcOme,"
2020 ounces, and the stranger"
$3.50, valued respectively at GS3SO
and f9400.
The oil deposits of Pennsylvania
were discovered in 40 by two men
boring for salt. They struck an
oil spring which yielded 40 gallons
a day.
In1SOO the yield of the worlds
mines was barely 100000 tons
daily :, for the last thirteen years it
has averaged over 100000 tons
daily.
The finest specimen of native
gold ever found was in Ural
nugget, which gave nearly 80 per
cent of gold, the balance being sill
yer and copper.
The Lehigh (Pa.) Zinc company
has pumping engine with a 10
inch cylinder and 1O-fOot stroke,
capable of lifting 1900 gallons of
water a minute from a depth of 300
feet.
Gold is found in every country
of South America, and there are
known to be large district yet I'M
worked, and which will probably
never be, on account of their dead
ly climate.
The quartz extracted from the
gold mines of California and Aus
tralia would build $50 pyramids
the size of that of Cheops; the gold
would only fill room 40 feet by 20
and 10 feet high.
By the Austrian processes of
working, the failings of Nevada
and California mills would pro-
duce more gold than is found in
the richest Australian mines.
Some of the richest mines in the
world are in Japan. The value of
the japanese exports of gold and
silver during 200 years has exceed
ed $250O00,00O.
The copper smelling works of
Great Britain are so complete that
ores from all parts of the world
are sent thither for reduction.
The United States have produced
in the forty years ending with 1888,
100000 ounces of gold and 7OO,-
100000 of silver.
The mines of the world produce
every year 54O,O00,O00 tons of ore,
coal, etc., of which the United
States produces 100000.