Bisbee daily review., 1902-09-19

car load of machinery for the Calumet and Arizona company is ex- pcted in today. This car load will bring the remainder of the machinery for the completion of the shaft house at the c. & A. Plant.
 SAMPLINGS.
 About 70 per cent of the population of the Klondike is composed of Ameri- cans.
 The pigment zinc-lead is a mixture of the oxidized compounds of lead and zinc ores.
 The Copper World mine and smelter of San Bernardino county, Cal. is to be sold to satisfy judgement for $16,0O0.
 The Southwestern Miners Associa- tion is planning a big convention of the mining interests of the southwest at Los Angeles next year.
 The stones are found in pockets in veins formed in slate. The were formed by the crystallizing of silicious and aluminous solutions.
 The Los Angeles Chamber of Com merce has asked the county to appro Y the St. Louis Exposition.
 It is stated that Thomas Edison has aba 1doned his great plant erected in the Cerrillos district, N. M., for eX- tra ting the gold from cemented gravel by a new process. It is said that he has expended s300000 on the scheme.
 The Government of Canada pays a bounty of s2.70 per ton on iron ana steel manufactured in the Dominion from native ore and s1.S0 per ton from foreign ores. the bount:es lessenine each year. Last year these bounties rose to s351,259 in the aggregate The finest emeralds of the world have for centuries come from the Re, public of Colombia. The mines are owned by the government and are leased to companies for terms of years , The greatest and most famous mine is 1 the Muzo. which has been worked since 1855.
 Since the United Assay office at l Seattle was established in July, 1898 nearly s60,000.000 in gold has been deposited On July l last the deposits had numbered 21.092 and aggregate value was s57 ,53.O46 About s47 ,500. .000 came in from the Klondike and British columbia.
 The boiler of the locomotive of the Quartette company, in the Searchlight, Nev. district, recently gave trouble and finally a large quantity of fine mud was removed and proved rich in gold. The water is supplied from the pump at the 400-level of a mine. and carries much sediment
 A large plant for the smelting of glass by the electric current, the first in existence, is being installed at Deutsch Matrei, Tyrol This process for glassmaking has, in quite recent years, arrived at a stage of probable commercial success after many expert ments aud adaptations at different places.
 The California State Board of Ex. aminers has approved the plans of the Federal engineers composing the Cali fornia Debris Commission for the de bris restraining barriers and settling basin to be established in the Tuba river, and actual work in carrying out the $sOO,O00 project will now at last be begun.
 A late story" of prosepctor's luck of the sort that has always attended ! the mining industry is one-of an Ari zona miner who decided to rid his camp of the presence of certain pole cats that inhabited a rocky recess He threw in a large stick of dynamite and at a later date, when explorations were possible. found that he had ex posed rich ledge of gold ore. The platinum production of the Uni ted States for 1901 was the largest on record, 1.4O8 ounces, valued at <27 ,526 The imports, however, were valued al $1, ,695 1895. The world produces an nually between 160,O00 and 170.00C ounces, nearly all of which comes from ] Russia. Platinum has recently been l in such demand that it has risen to about the value of gold per Troy ounce The Chinese government has pro claimed new rules and regulations fol mining enterprises in the Empire
 which are calculated to repress instead of encourage mining development by foreigners. Permission must be grant ed by the Foreign Office and high tax