The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-03

consumption Is $4,000 TONS The remainder
we buy from Russia and elsewhere. Man
ganese costs, according to quality. from
$14 TO SIS per ton. 1t lies here In q great
lump or deposit on the top OF mountain
and Is mined much like iron. Mr.. Hyatt
says II costs the company only about 81
per ton TO get out the ore and land It In
Baltimore, so that there Is a clear profit
OF 50 or $40 ton. or. at the present snip
ments. of from $4,000 to $4,000 a month.
Within the past year and a half ta.E COM
pany has shipped 2l.000 tons. and II is
now only two years since 1t got possession
OF the property. The company Is capital
ICED at 100000, and the chief STOCKHOLDERS
are John X. Cowan. OF the Baltimore s
Ohio railroad Mr.. Woods. the president OF
the Maryland Steel company and Henry
Parr. Of Baltimore.
How the Mine Was Found.
The story Of the mine. as told me today.
3 as follows:
II, was discovered" said Mr.. Hyatt,
by Spaniard, who showed specimens OF
the Gre TO man named Popham. who was
q United States inspector OF customs at
Colon. Popham went to see 1t. He did
not then know manganese from stove
backing. and had no idea whether the
stuff was worth anything or not He took
specimens. however. to New York, and
every one told him that = there was much
OF the stun II was better than a gold mine
He interested Baltimore parties. and they
sent experts down to examine the prop
erty Their report was that there was
several thousand tons IN sight. and a COM
pany was at once formed 10 buy ,he mine
and develop II. This was two years ago.
We now have nine miles of railroad run
ming from the port Nombre de Dios where
cur wharves are. TO the mines. We. have
put up works and are now employing
about 800 men. The superintendent of the
mine Ia Z. b. Williams. Of Connecticut.
He has charge Of the works and attend
70 the railroad and shipping"
How did Il come that the mine was
not discovered sooner?' asked.
II don't know was the reply There
were great bouiders OF manganese lying
on top OF the ground. but / suppose such
prespectors as saw them were looking for
gold and had no idea that the stuff was Of
value"
Something About the Works.
rs the mining very difficult
NO Was the reply. We blast dowr, the
ore with dynamite and load IL into buck
cts which run by gravity on an overhead
cable line down to the cars at the foot
Of the mountain. the loaded buckets car
rying back the empties as they go down.
The ore cells in the shape that we take
treatment
Are there other deposits In the same
region?''
II think there are said Sir. Hyatt
I'VE have bough, all the land In sight and
have prospsetors out All the time. We
have discovered some new deposits. bat
nothing Ike the first one. In this depos-
IL We have already gore down 40 feet and
are not yet at the bottom Al the top OF
the mountain The body OF ore is about 10
feet thick. but Il wtdens as II goes down
and we don't know how thick II Is"
The Highest Railroad Fares in the
World.
tock ride with the superintendent
over the Panama railroad yesterday.
This road In one Of the best paying pieces
OF property in the world. II has made
big fortunes nr LIS owners In the past
and today Its receipts ara far In excezs Of
its expenditures. What would you think
OF paying 500 10 ride from New York 10
Boston, or $40 for a sirss-ciass railroad
ticket from New York TO Chicago. 400
TO 20 frorn the Atlantic 10 Salt Lake CITY.
or 81 100 10 be carried over the ircn tracks
across the continent 10 San Francisco
Such q rate would he abou; 50 cents per
nile. ard tbs is just what the Panama
railroad received fer every passenger Ii
carried Tor more than thirty years cf it,