The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-08
MINING FACTS.
industry,


ment to 3O,373 persons in 1908.
The total value of the metsllic pro
duet Of the Occur d'Alene district,
Idaho, ID TO the end of 1901 is over
$780, o0, 900, chiefly in silver and lead.
The deepest shaft on the Rand is
the Catlin shaft, on the Jupiter mine,
which is now down 4091 feet, and the
Angelo Deep's east shaft is the sec
ond deepest.
There ere over 200 stamps in opera
ton in the gold mining districts of
Korea, and twenty more in course of
construction. Others will be added
later in the season.
The largest white sapphire in the
world is supposed to be now at Der
lin, having been taken there from Bra
iii q short time ago by a mine owner
1t weighs AS karats.
A meteorite found in the Canyon
Diablo, Arizona, and exhibited in the
American Museum of Natural History
of New York, contains q small dia-
mond and is the only known occur
renee of a diamond in a meteorite.
Misplaced shafts and tunnels have
caused the failure of many a mining
company which had otherwise good
prospects. As a rule this form of mis-
management has been found due not so
much to a deficiency of technical
knowledge as to a lack of common
sense.
1t costs ~ cents for each 1000 gal
Ions of water raised 1000 feet by the
more modern large station pumps in
the Leadville district, Colorado. Some
time ago it was shown that for every
ton of ore mined about 30 tons of wa
ter were pumped from an average
depth Of 800 feet.
On reference to the accident tables
of the T%ransvaal government engi-
neer's report it will be seen that the
majority of serious mining accidents
are due to "falls of ground" Moth
ing but increased vigilance on the part
of intelligent men will reduce the ia
~talities due to this cause.
An exchange says that a miner
"desI broke" e into the Nome
country last fall and returned to Sc
attic a few days & with more thai
a million dollars worth of gold dust.
The net earnings of his winters opera
tions amount to about one-seventh the
sum paid by the United States for
the whole of Alaska.
The postoffice at Candelaria has
been discontinued. This camp has a
bullion record of $1S,0 00, 900, and at
one time boosted of 1000 population.
Now the site of the town is marked
by a few scattered buildings and only
n handful of people remain. The ore
is still there, but the low prices of
silver will not permit of the mines be-
ing worked.
The Republic of Panama retains the
right to all mines, of any kind what
soever, within it's limits, ever should
the vein or drift lie below the surface
of private property. The owner of
such property has a right only to the
surface and the subsoil belongs to the
nation. However, the owners of land
everything mines which are ceded or
LEASED by the government have q right
to remuneration for use of the surface
of the and by the concessionaire or
~prospector, as provided by law.
Copper manufactures, consisting
largely of pigs and bars, form the item
of second importance in our exports
of manufactures, the total being $780,
225,29l in 1905, as compared with $751;
l42,Os1 in the preceding year. This
growth of practically $30,000,000 in a
single year is accounted for by an in
crease of nearly $1~O,000,000 in exports
to China, 100000 to the United
Kingdom, 81, 800, 900 to France, $3,OOO,-
900 to Germany, $4,500,000 to Neither
idhus, Ti,-oo,Voo W eunSid, duu Hcaiiy
So, 900 900 to other countries.
As depth was gained in the great
! Comstock mines the heat increased
rapidly in the workings, and after 60
lirg below the 300-foot level the waters,
that always were abundant, grew
warm, and at the 1000-foot level the
Temperature became 50 Oppressive that
the miners invariably wore simply a
loin cloth while at work. When 1900
feet was reached each man worked
just fifteen minutes with a pick when
he handed it to another and then took
his place almost naked under a shower
bath for 80 minutes, after which he