Mohave County miner., 1899-10-07

dav, This matte carries from 50 to 60
per cent copper and the last man car
ried 73 per cent copper. In addition
to the copper, there are gold and silver
values. The Big Bug is an old smelter
which has been renovated by Mr.. jew
EFT, very expert smelter man. 1t Is
said that this smelter is without ma
chine to brick the matte as well as
without several other. up-to-date ap-
pliances which would render the sue
Cessful running of the smelter much
less difficult problem. However, not
withstanding all previous authorities
to the contrary, Mr.. Jewett has demon
strated that Yavapai ores can be
blended in manner to make their
smelling right here at home financial
success. This being the case, the
Courier believes that the day is near
at hand when every owner of a pros
pect or mine which produces ore can
haul ore to his home mill and return
with the money in his pocket, just as
the farmer hauls his wheat to mill and
returns with the -four. 1t means money
kept at home which has always gone
abroad and means a considerable in
crease in the volume of the cash which
circulates at home, and, under the
stimulus given by a home smelter,
mining will continue to expand and
the volume of money in local circula-
| ton keep step with the mining eXpan-
sion. The demand for copper and the
attention which that demand has di-
rected toward copper mining has
eau ed men who owned gold and sill
yer prospects for years to have assays
for the copper made, and the result
has been surprising in many cases, and
has demonstrated beyond question
that no mineral predominates more
largely in local ores than copper. Sat
urday last, gentleman who has owned
gold and silver claim in this county
since the early days, from which some
remarkable rich ore has been shipped,
had an assay made of the ore, for cop
per, and the assay gave return of 10
per cent copper. The owner never
dreamed that the ore contained copper
before this assay was made.-Courier.
The capacity of the great iron mines
of the Masahi Range in Minnesota has
often been referred to, but has never
been realized aS it has this season.
The most striking instance is shown
by the Mountain Iron mine of the
Oliver Iron Company which began the
season by shipping from 800 to 1000
tons of iron ore day; but even this
remarkable work has been surpassed
recently, and the shipments have run
from 5000 to 1900 tons a day. Moth
] ing like this, we believe, has ever been
done before, and the mine must GER
tainly be considered the greatest ship
per of Iron in the world. The Noun
tain Iron is "steam shovel mine;"
that ia, the workings are open and the
ore is taken out and loaded on the
railroad by steam shovels. The num-
Der of men employed is very small, the
total being less than 80 of all classes.
Another Masabi mine, the Fayal, prom
ises to reach a total shipment of 1000,-
900 tons this season, and will probably
take place not far behind the Mountain
Iron. With such records the Masabi
Range can claim to be the greatest iron
producer in the world.---Engineering
and Mining Journal.
The mint in Carson is being stripped
of the last evidence of the fact that it
was ever mint. During the past ten
days crew of men have been busy