The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-18
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

Those who are interested in mining
! matters in Pacific Coast States will
| find something of interest in the fol-
| lowing gleanings:
MINING OUTLOOK.
Winnemucca Silver State: The dis
turbance of mining operations and gen.
eral business which was predicted OF
account of the smelter difficulties has
not materialized, says the Denver
Mining Reporter The products Of
Cripple Creek district for June was over
a million dollars.
From every part of the West come
reports of new strikes in old mines, and
new discoveries in districts hitherto I'M
productive. Improvements in mining
machinery are continually making pos
sible the treatment of lower grade ores
In the process world a good deal of
progress has been made, but the great
est progress has been made in educa-
ting the public mind to the fact that the
secret process is a dangerous thing to
fool with.
There are a few people left-people
too wise to be able to gain any inStruc
ton from the technical mining press
who continue to be humbugged and to
humbug their friends by putting up
costly plants to operate a secret pro-
cess, usually designed to extract values
| from the pocket of the investors rather
than from ores.
| And even this costly experience is
adding to the general progress. The
srnelter trouble will soon be a thing of
the past The mineral production of
| the Rocky Mountain States will be
| much greater this year than ever be-
| fore. The development of new mining
| fields will be greater than ever before.
More progress will be made looking to
the production of metals heretofore
overlooked or neglected than ever be-
fore. More progress is now being made
in the application of old but scientific
principles to the economical extraction
and recovery of mineral values than
ever before. More progress is being
| made in the economic application of
mechanical means for crushing and
handling ore than ever befOre-im-
provement is the order of the day in
every line. The best brains, the most
exact skill, the most persistent effort
are now preparing the plans by which
| the commercial supremacy of the West
will be established
The brightest page in the history of
the mining States of the West is now
being written.
AN ARIZONA MINE.
Carson Appeal: The Journal Miner"
of Denver recently published an inter-
view with a mining man of Jerome.
| Ariz., who gave out data concerning the
great United Verde copper mine of
that place, owned by w. A. Clark of
Montana. The gentleman estimates
the output per year between $4,000
! 600 and $S000,000, and says at the
| present price of copper the copper pro-
duct alone is over $1,OOO,OOO a month,
to say nothing of the gold and silver
| the ore carries. The daily output of
copper he places at 100 tons, or 2OO,-
600 pounds, and the monthly output be-
ing 100000 pounds.
| The present price of copper being Is
cents per pound, it is an easy matter TO
| figure out the total value per month,
81 ,0S0,0 AS the ore carries large val
ues in gold and silver also, he says a
nearer estimate of the annual output,
taking the present price of copper as a
basis, would be from SIS GOO 600 to $1S.-
100000. The ore representing this en-