Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
MINES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES.
Items Cleaned From the Late Reports
All Districts Are Being DevelOped-A
Prosperous Year Is Notwithstanding
Notes and Personals.

Notes and Personals.
The relative dissolying powers of differ
ent gold solvent solutions is given by
some metallurgists as follows Chlorine,
/ per cent solution, II hours, 449 per
cent; bromine, ! per cent solution, II
hours, 6.46 per cent; cyanide, per cent
solution, Ii hours, 0.57 per cent-60 de-
gress c. in each case.
Value of Gold.
Gold $50 fine is worth SIS so per
ounce; 500 fine, SIG. SO per ounce; $50,
$l7.57; s75, SlS .0s; 300, SIS 60; 900,
$40 Of; $50, $40 %; $40, $40 AZ; $50,
$40 SO. The San Francisco mint charges
for reeoinage is 81 per 1000 ounces.
Montana Output,
The metal output of Montana shows an
increase of $3,076,000 for the year 1898.
In gold the output was $4,000 fine
ounces, silver 100000 fine ounces, cop.
per 24O,000,O00 pounds; lead 100000
pounds. All the metals show an increase
excepting lead, which fell of $4,000
Gold aud silver Output.
\ table showing the average yearly
output of gold and silver for Germany,
United States and the British colonies
and dependencies is analysed by Consul
Constable in single sentence in which
he says: Thus, the United States and
the British colonies, to gether, produce
somewhat more than one-half the annual
output of gold and nearly one-half the an
nual output OF silver throughout the
world" a further analysis of the table
indicates that the United States alone
produce about % per cent OF the gold OF
the world, and over 80 per cent OF the
silver.
Erie. IL. c., District.
The Arlington and Canadian King
mines are showing up well from the win
ters development. These properties are
located in the Erie, B. G., district. The
Arlington was sold to the Hastings, B. c.,
| Exploration Syndicate by the locators,
A. w. Boyd and partners, in March last,
for u good price. The Hastings people
!
and developed to the 300.foot level, where
they are stopping the ore and shipping to
the Northport smelter. The Canadian
King development consists of numerous
shafts and crOsscuts, from which assays
have been had running from $40 to $3.50
in gold, and few ounces in silver, picked
assays running as high as $2,047 per ton
Ymir District.
There has been rich strike at the
Athabasca mine
Development work is going steadily OF
at the Victor group.
The big chimney at the Trail slneltel
is almost completed.
On the Union Jack group steady devel
opment work is being carried on, and
shipping will be commenced as soon a.
! the snow melts.
At the Dundee mine the main shaft is
now down to the 263-foot level The
| drifting on ore is being carried on at the
| 200-foot level, where it is Is feet thick
| The Montana shaft is now down 50
| feet and splendid body of solid ore the
full width OF the shaft has been struck.
Development work is being vigorously
carried on
The shaft on the Evening Star Fair
mont Gold Mining company is now
down about - feet. Assays from the
recent strike were eminently satisfactory.
This company will be shipping as soon
as snow mclts.
The largest stamp mill in British Co
lumbia-40-is believed to be that at the
Ymir mine at Ymir.
H0om in Copper stocks.
Boston correspondent of the Hartford
Times writes: While the improvement in
the value Of shares in the western rail
roads has reflled many a depleted Boston
pocket it is the boom in copper stocks
which has drawn hundreds OF "outside"
investors into the State-street brokerage
offices during the past few months. 4
good many fortunes have been made bv
promoters of copper mines, and one bio
one-that of A. S Bgelow, who is now
rated to be worth $l0,000,000. He inher-
tied his copper interests from his father
and has greatly amplified them Thomas
w. Lawson is the broker whose name is
most frequently mentioned in the papers.
He advertises good deal, publishing
long statements on the first pages of Bos-
ton newspapers about the business he is
interested in. Latterly he has also gained
notoriety from the proprietorship of the
Mrs. Lawson Pink about which so much
has been printed. Mr.. Lawson is build
ing home on splendid estate in Win
chester, on which his investment is run
ming up into the hundreds of thousands
hear the names OF a good many new