The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-23
TINES AND MINING.

The Fortuna mine near Yuma is now 1 turning out an average of $50,000 per month, a clear profit of more than $4O,- 000
 The Humboldt. (Nev) sulphur mines run 70 per cent sulphur. The product in San Francisco is worth S21 per ton. About 1000 tons are annually shipped.
 Neither the high water nor the Va qui Indians have stopped several large outfits from starting from Casa Granda for the mining districts of Sonora dur ing the past few days.
 Work has been resumed in the Tran quility mine, Arizona, and the twenty five miners are again at their posts af- ter the temporary shutdown since the tragic accident at the mine which be- fell Richard Fisher.
 The mines of the United States in 1898 furnished 243,069 metric tons of copper, or 55.1 per cent of the worlds supply. Spain, the second in rank, reporting total of 54,O77 tons.
 The American Society of Mining En- gineers will assemble in convention at Oroville, Cal, next month, and the cit
  preparations to entertain the body. which it is estimated will number about 200 members.
 The surface ground on several of the largest mines of Butte, Mont. were worked in the early history of the camp for placer gold and proved very profitable. When the loose material had been removed the ore contained silver and further development was de layed for years.
 The Bonanza pocket mine at SOno- "a. Tuolumne county, Cal, is credited with production exceeding $2.OOO,O ,OOO A single pocket contained more than $500, ,000, and one mass weighed $40.- 900. Most of the gold was taken out with the use of hand mortars. The gold was usually found associated with tellurides, generally petzite.
 J. c. Prick of Bedding. who is largely interested iii the Hayden Hill C0nsoli- dated Mining company, LaSsen county. is now at the mine experimenting the work on a tunnel which is being driven on the property. It is to be a5cuL 700 feet long and 50 feet is already 
 will be accomplished about the latter part of November.
 The recent smelter combine that has effected an advance in smelting charges may prove retroactive. Already Colo rado producers threaten to build smelt- CTS, in which case they will handle GUS tom ores. In any event, owners of smelling propositions in Arizona see more than ever the necessity of home facilities. and one way to realize them is through the oppression of combines.
 The De Lamar mines in Idaho, dur ing the first eight years management of the new company, produced 292,591 tons Of ore, which yielded $6,323, ,000,of which $4,350.000 was paid in dividends, being IF per cent of the original capi- tai invested and leaving $170,0OO in the reserve fund. The expenses of oper- atiOn for the same period were $3,97O,- 900. New Granada is said to have pro- duced more than $500, 900, 900 in gold.
 At a meeting of the Copper Produc- CTS Association in New York City re- gently, the secretary reported that the production of copper for July was 21,- 300 tons less than for the month of June. The production for the first six months of the year showed an increase of only f per cent over the correspond ing period of the preceding year, and this in the face of a large increase in and sharp advance in price. It is believed the increase of production for the remainder of the year will not be approximately great ar than for the first six months The demand for copper for home consump- ton and for export is increasing.