The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-11-27
MINES and MINING
What Mining Men Are Doing
Throughout the World.
DISCOVERIES AND ENTERPRISES
Considerable Activity Displayed in
Gold, Silver and Other
Properties.

Properties.
Ten stamps will soon be added to the
mill 1T the BiCelow mine at Sierra
City, Cal.
Captain T. II. ferry, of Hueneme,
Cal, recently discovered a gas well off
ashore in that vicinity.
The Denver Mining Industry and
Review reports an exodus from Col.
orado to Mexico siuco the election.
During October Cripple Creek (Col-
orado) incorporated mining companies
paid dividends aggregating $l6S, ,000
M. McVeigh. owner of the Live Oak
mine in Clapboard gulch, Amador
county, CAL, is arranging to erect a
mill.
Considerable success in working the
mines Oh the Collar gold fields has at
tracted attention to India as field
for exploration.
But thirty four days remain in
which to do the required 800 worth
of work or improvements on unpat-
ented mining claims for 1895.
The director Of the United States
mint estimates that the worlds output
of gold for 1896 will be 1920. 900, 600
an Increase over last year of Sl7 000, :
900
There are 43S stamps in present oper-
alton in Alaska. The 1895 gold out
pnt Of the territory was $3 900, 900
The estimated output Of 1896 IS 81 500, =
COZ
A dispatch from Houghton, Mich.
AYERS that mass of copper weighing
nearly forty tons has been found in
the Central mine OH the twenty first
level.
If the Rothschilds get all the prop
erty of the Anaconda Mining company
on the basis of which they have pur-
chased part Of it, the total price paid
will be %34, 800, 900.
; 1t is generally Of much more interest
to mining man to read OF the discov-
cry of a 10 Or 20-foot ledge of $40 ore
than the reports of small lodges that
go away up in the thousands.
. On the Rand, in South Africa, the
natives are rebelling against the reduc-
tion in wages decided Oh by the mine
) owners and many are asking for passes
in order to leave the districts.
} A company with capital stock Of
800. GOO has been formed to wtfk 4
, gold mine discovered near Paris,
Texas. There is considerable prospect
ing going Oh in the neighborhood.
Experts have been making examina-
! tion of W. E. Chapman's Taylor mine
! in Ell Dorado county, Cal, for English
capitalists. 1t is reported that the
mine has been offered for $500, 600.
Coloma, Ell Dorado county, where
Marshall made the discovery of gold il
i, California, is now noted as the center
/ of a small district from which come
! the best peaches shipped to eastern
markets.
/ An order has been issued in the dis
trict court of Arizona permitting the
sale of the Vulture mine under the
} terms of a trust deed given by Senator
Tabor, of Denver, for security on loans
J of 1913, ,00O
} 1t is expected that the Colorado East
ern railway will soon run into Yellow
} Pine mining district in Lincoln
} coul ty, Nevada, where. it is said. il
l may obtain nearly 1000 tons of ore
daily for freight.
The estimated copper output of Mon
\ tana for October is between 20, 900, 0O(
and $4,000, 900 pounds. OF this the
: Anaconda is credited with 10, 900, O0(
pounds and the Boston & Montana
! with 5,000,0 900 pounds.
Coal is being mined IN Belgium at {
depth Of half a mile. Profits in Bel
! GUM mining, s cents ton; wages o
men, 62 cents day. Girls under It
, years are not allowed to work, but ovel
16 they can and do work. =
Cripple Creek, Colo. is expecting
of ,%.,I IL
1t is claimed that brokersrare besiegeC
in the east. and that there are a nun
, ber of English, French and German in
vestors now in the camp.
The Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany paid a dividend of 81. 500. 900 last
! month to it's English shareholders,
who purchased it for $34, 800, 900.
Now it is reported that before the enc
OF the year a dividend of $3, 900, 00(
will be declared by the company.
On the last pay day the forces OF
miners i'll the principal Gold Hill, Ne
vada. mines were reduced as follows
Grown Point, from ~ miners to none,
only watchmen are now in charge
Belcher, from 33 to 16; Confidence,
from 8 to 8; Challenge, from 5 to 4,
and Imperial, from s to T. "a v
The Anaconda company is announced
to overtop all previous records in mine
dividends by declaring this month a
dividend of 1900, 0OO,, recalling the
days when in San Francisco Con. Cal.
& Va. (Comstock) declared a monthly
dividend Of $2 on each of the $40, OOC
shares. M. &. S. Press
According to, the annual Blue Book
on the mineral statistics of Great Brit
ain the value of all the lead, zinc, cop
per, tin and other metallic ores except
iron did not exceed ESQ, 600, and the
Mining Journal says il this connection
that British metal mining is, there
fore, in dying condition
La Madrugada, in the Topia district,