Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-22

mine has $40 stamps, but all of these can only run for part cf the year. ow- ing to scarcity of water. We may place the average yearly output at COG, ,000 tons. This ore yields barely S2 ton, which shows Alaska Tread we'll to be the lowest grade of the worlds gold mines, trt owing to ex- ceptional facilities the total working costs are only s1.20 ton. As an ac- tual producer of gold. the Treadwell stands far down the list, but the mine is today in probably sounder conui- ton than ever before. It has paid s5.O00, 900 in dividends.
 Before leaving the states. we may note the other big god producers there. At Cripple Creek there is ;he Por.- land mine. turning out about s230, 900 a month. but imagine the lower work ings are not looking well. ana this yield will not be continued indsfLiteiy. Adjoining this is Stratton's lnfeper1- ence, also big producer. but a" this mine is practically worked oiiI. l need not take note of il. The other hig Col orado gold mine is Camp Bird. turn ing out about s17o.000 month. this mine has good ore reserves. In MeXlco there is no mine producing regularly so much as this. but next Fl OIo, with 200 stamps running. shou'a reach an output of nearly s200.000 monthly.
 In West Australia there are six mines with yield swhich bring them into the first rank of gold producers. These are Boulder Perseverance, Col den Horseshoe. Great Fingall, Great boulder, lvanhoe and Oroya-Brown- hill: and in each there are ore reserves which assure the present yield, or perhaps even a bigger one, for years to come. Of these. I consi Ter Great Fingall is intrinsically the best. a2I l look to this mine to be producing slO,000 a day in a year from now. Of course, Perseverance and Hoseshoe are doing thta already. but I harilv think these mines, good as they are. have the eventual staying powar Of Great Fingall. Great Boulder and lVan- hoe may each be able to slightly in crease their present outputs. and from this month Oroya-Brownhill shorli jump from S145.000 to well over $209.- 0OO-a figure which it can easily keep up for years. So far as can be seen at present. no other Westraiian mlne promises to reach these figures ia it's output.
 The Mount Morgan, in Queenslanf. have estimated as producing S250,OOO a month: as a matter of fact. it should do better thu this. But at present the output is much less. believe the reason for this is that the manager IS now working the mine as big quarry, using steam shovels and taking the fringe of poor ore. which had been left over from the old days. when it could te treated at a profit. The directors might have been clearer in their last report on this matter. but in respect of giving full information they have always been weak. However. expect to revisit thls mine in month or two, and shall be able to see things for my self.
 The Waihi. in New Zealand, with a monthly output of. say. s255.000. has a last reached the figure which l have always known wps its true ca pacity. and even on this great basis of operations the mines prospects are probably better than they have ever been. I believe in Waihi. but of course that is no reason for stopping active development work. There ought to be always standing reserve in this mine of million tons of ore
 The two big Indian mines. Cham pion Reef and Mysore. are now in the front rank of gold producers. The smaller mines adjoining them, Gore drydr o.y {, rival them, but two such great mines are of good average for one country. I should imagine that each mine has now reached its maximum production. or thereabout neither ta: got that amount of ore reserve, pro pcrtionate to its market value, whicf I consider a mine ought to have, but as against this. the developments ii depth continue to be good.
 In the Transvaal you have the cur icus feature of dozens Of great golt mines working at half their capacit! for want of labor. That is a temporary affair. which does not affect the req capacity Of these mines. so l nave assumed that they are producing or the basis Of the year 1899, when the! had a sufficient labor supply. On thi estimate there are IT Transvaal mine making the 30 biggest gold producer of the world, and the balance is mad up by six mines in West Australia three in the United States, two il India. one Tn Queensland. and one i New Zealand all these, let it be noted are in the territories of and are con trolIed hy English-speaking people. o the r Transvaal mines 10 are out crops, six are first-Tow deeps, and on is 9 second row deep. Most of unes mines. on their present basis-that i 10 say. on the yields of 1S99-ar working at or about fun pressure; bu three of them, Ferreira Deep, Robin son Deep and Gleen Deep. can increas their stamps and their yield materia
 ly. Ferreira Deep. now twenty-secon CT the list, should one day be the set ond or third biggest producer in tn
 world, ana the other two will be hig
 in the list. If this were not so Tn
 market values of these parucula mines would be absurd.
 Tn the world of gold mining, exaC knowledge is just as important, and
 just as difficult to acquire. as in any
 thing else. IL is astonishing. ever
 bor- fo-,, rarns7or Dprula know that fh