El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-14

All the quicksilver produced in the
United States in 1896 came from Cali
fornia mines, the production being SO,
OH TASKS, weighing IS! pounds each
and valued at 81 800, 900.
Utah's new mining law passed over the
governors veto, went into effect May
10 after which date all locations must
be filed with the county recorder and
within ninety days $50 worth of work
must be done on each claim.
The cyanide COLONIZATION plants
treating Cripple Creek, Colorado, ores
are handling 800 to 600 tons daily and
when the new mills being built are
completed their capacity will be about
1000 tons to hanale low grade ores.
The Montezuma Mining and Milling
company, CAPT allied at 81 600, 900, has
lately been incorporated under the
laws of Arizona. The company has
taken hold of the Henry Forest group
Of mines in the Huachucas. said to be
the most promising group of mines in
Arizona.
There is said to be little war brew
ing in which the mining and mineral
assayers of Arizona are said to be
allowing or directing the school of
mines to assay ores for price less
than that fixed by the assayer5 of the
territory.
1t seems that there is a little gold
left IN California. The state produced
last year ST., Isl, 562 in gold and S422,-
463 in silver; an increase over 1895 of
nearly $4,000, 600 in gold, and de-
crease of S177, 1853 in silver. The
greatest amount was produced by Ne
vada county 81, 309, $40.
The Mining and Industry Review
says: The National Ore and Reduc-
ton company of ST. Louis, which pro-
fesses TO furnish a cheap and success
full smelling furnace, is a irst-class
fraud. 1t is simply that chief of swind-
lers, one G. L. Har tZfeld, under new
name. 1t is the duty of the Western
press to expose the concern"
In a cross-cut on the Gold Standar
mine, near CerrillOs, about II feet
from the surface, piece of ore
14XllX6 inches, was recently taken out
which surpasses in richness anything
before encountered, even in thai won
derful niue. The ore weighs about IS
pounds and is literally filled with gold.
The estimated value is about $1,000
The ore from the rich vein in this
mine has all been sacked and stored,
and the owners estimate the value of
ore stored to be from 81, 200 to 81, 100 a
sack.
DR.. Emmons, who discovered, or who
thought he did, how to make gold out
OF silver. naturally anticipates no diff
ticulty in getting a verdict for heavy
damages from those book reviewers
whom he has sued because they made
fun of his book, Some Thoughts on
Gravitation, " in which the good doc
tor undertakes TO prove that Sir Isaac
New ton was all wrong. 1t will no
doubt be easy for him to prove that
there was at any rate no gravity in the
countenances of the critics when they
read the book.
The following is the tariff rate on
mining products in the new Mckinley
bill. Lead bearing ores, ] cent per
pound on the lead contained. Lsad
duties are to be estimated at port of
entry, bonds given in double the
amount and the duties liquidated in
the end after government assay. Lead
dross and refuse lead, cents per pound,
sheet, pipe, shot, &C, p cents; metallic
minerals, crude, including monazite
sand, 20 per cent; mica, cents per
pound and 10 per cent; nickel, 6 cents
per pound; quicksilver, 10 cents per
pound.
The output of coal, or rather Ignite,
in Italy, does not increase, it varies be-
tween $50 900 and 300, OOO metric tons
yearly. The centre of the industry is
the San Giovanni Valdarno basin,
where seven mines produce brown coal.
The mines ranking next in Importance
are those of SpOIeIO. The remainder
of the supply is obtained from the Tus
can-Marem ma, from the GOnnesa basin
in Sai dluia, and from the Pull mine
at Voldegno. A large part of the out
put is made into briquettes. and
abol 500 men are employed in that in
dustry.
The government of British Columbia
is getting the worst of its attempt to
retaliate against the United States.
here is vigorous protest being made
by Canadians as well as Americans now
in he mining districts against the
drastic measures of the Britt, b Column
bia legislature in shutting out Amer
leans from taking up mine claims. All
the vast mining territory in Kootenay;