The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

Taken from Mining and Scientific Prsss.l
Mexico is about to impose an export
duty On gold.
The increased price of lead is the only
present lining to the cloud oye the sill
yer camps OF the coast.
The gold dollar of 1872 had Pa grains
of pure gold. In 1884 it was reduced to
% l-5 grains OF pure gold.
The Bedrock Orr Democrat esti-
mates The output of the Baker City dis
tris.t sill exceed =, coo. coo this year.
The Florence. Colorado. cyanide
works now have 4 daily capacity of 400
toas-the largest works of the kind in
the country.
The law allows eight men to hold 100
acres placer claims and considers 800
worth Of annual work or improvement
sufficient to hold the track.
The Los Angles Mining and stock
Exchange is about to occupy larger
quarters. 1t has loo members. and
over 800, 900 shares OF stock were sold
in Augtst.
So Long as present conditions pervail.
the Horn Silver mine at Frisco. Utah,
will continue to mark its h~igh-grade
lead ores and maintain the present pay
roll.
The British Yukon Company of Mon
treal that they will start the
building Of a railway from Skagawayto
the headquarters of the Yukon this fall
and finish it by the fail of 1899.
Ctah declares that explosives have
lowered prices II cent per pound in the
general movement there to give the
silver miners a chance to continue. Giant
powder is now quoted in Salt Lake City
at 10 cents,
Moscow, Idaho, papers make the I'M
usal statement that the big wheat har-
vest there has made such high wages
that the mining companies have had to
stop on account of scarcity of labor, as
AL Glasses are taking to the harvest
fields"
Large quantities of gold are coming
to San Francisco from Australia. The
Mariposa last week brought nearly g.
500. 900. Last Sunday the steamship
Moana sailed from sydney, N. S. w.
with 600, 600 sovereigns for this city
nearly 50. 1000. 900 more,
The gold output at Witwatersrand,
South Africa. according to a cable, in
July was 252, 479 ounces. a decrease of
$3.50 ounces as compared with the pre-
vious months total, and an Increase of
30, COG ounces as compared with the cor
responding month of last year.
Last week, in letters threee inches
long, the dailies announced that the
steamer Portlond was hourly expected
from St. Michaels, Alaska, with several
tons of Klondyke gold-three million
dollars at least. When the portland
did arrive twas with about 800, 600
about the average monthly cleanup of
one California mine,
Klondyke investment companies have
organized in several large cities, and
in San Francisco those fake schemes are
beings advertised. 1t is hardly necessary
to say that any well regulated faro game
or lottery affords better inducement for
investment than those games, wherein
the gudgeon is expected to bite at a
bare hook,
Some of the letters received in town
inquiring as to the overland route to
the Yukon are unconsciously humorous
and display a startling state of ignor-
ance of our great north land, says the
Edmonton Bulletin. One inquirer asks
il he could get through on his bicycle
and another inquiries if there are GOOD
boarding houses on the way and if the
Indians are troublesome.
Two Lots of gold from Klondvke.
the first ever receiver there We're assay
ed at the New York Assay Office in
Wall street last Wednesday. One lot.
weighing 44.45 ounces, assayed .749 per
cent fine gold and .246 per cent silver,
which made the value $15.4S an ounce.
The other lot, which weighed 1915 oun-
ces, assayed .S209 fine gold and ia sill
yer, making the value SIG. 90 an ounce.