The San Francisco call., 1905-01-07
GREAT DREDGE MINING BOOM
Is COMING TO THE YUBA.
Immense Electric Power
Will Be Made Available.
Shasta County Soon to Have Third Snelter

municated by the American Consul at
Dawson to the Department of Com
merce and Labor of the United States.
He finds that since the opening up of
the district the gold product has
amounted to more than $97, ,000,0 in
period of about eighteen years. He
says:
the Saskatchewan district was valued at $292.-
946; in the province of Ontario, So. os6. 393; in
province of British Columbia $40 545. .39s, and
in Nova Scotia $9.3lS, 9S4: a total OF $52,-
persons, the Americans. with $50 greatly pre-.
dominating and forming 20 per cent Of the
total
declared by the Boston and Montana
Copper Mining Company. AS the COM
pany has 10000 shares. the dividend
will amount to $7,500,000, the most of
which will go into the Golfers of the
Amalgamated
A slate quarry has been developed
in Maricopa County, Arizona, twelve
miles north of Phoenix. The slate
bed, like the beds found in Ell Dorado
County in this State, is described as
being of great extent. The stone lies
on or close to the surface. The stratifi-
cation is unbroken and the lines of
cleavage are regular-a prime consid-
Grafton. The organization Of a COM
pany to market the produce is pro-
posed.
A group of claims near Bisbee, Ari-
zona, has been bonded by w. G. Rice
Of Houghton, Michigan, the price be-
ing $4,000. Some work has been per-
formed on the property.
UTAH'S BANNER YEAR.
The Salt Lake Tribune, in a special
number, sums up the result of mining
operations in Utah during the past
year The output of gold is estimated
at $6,51S,O36 The silver is valued at
$7,774,979; the copper at s7,221, ,756; the
lead at s5.020,55O; the quicksilver,
amounting to 700 TASKS. at $31, 500. The
total as summed up in round figures Is
$26,537. 900. The apparent gain as COM
pared with 1908, as figured out by the
Tribune, is $4.522, ,264. Dividents to the
amount of $4156, 900 were declared. The
DAILY West paid $1,034, 900 and the Sill
yer King $1,300,O00. Thus one-half of
the entire sum paid in dividends must
be credited to two properties. The rec
ord for the year both for the mines and
the furnaces shows an increase In out
put.
The Tribune naturally puts It's best
foot forward in it's comments on the
mining statistics of the State. In part
it says:
An analysis of the exhibit reveals an in
crease in the production of each of the metals
excepting that of silver. and in this the dim
mutton Is confined to less than half million
dollars The most striking feature of the con-
trast is that which tells of the astounding
increase in the production of copper. nor was
II until the last quarter of the year that the
copper producers were permitted to assert the
tonnages of which their mines are capable.
The increase in the crop of gold, notwith-
that were formerly most productive Of that
metal is a well-deflned one, while the output
of lead overwhelmed the most liberal predic-
tion and exceeded all previous records.
The story of the present year Is easily fore
told. Not record established in 1904 but will
succumb to that which shall follow It's close.
The most conspicuous gain will undoubtedly
be in the output of copper, and copper Is king
the mills and furnaces nature has supplied the
balance. That the American has ordered an
enlargement of its plant in the valley and
that the United States Smelling Company has
consecrated new one to the lead producer
anticipates an increase in the output of that
metal, while that silver and gold will reveal
old camps in which those metals have always
been most prominent Never. indeed, has
year of greater promise dawned upon the
camps of a commonwealth
and the mills unprecedented volume of
employment has been afforded the wage
Garner, with sources being hourly added
to those already opened to him, while the
interest Is permitted to exult as never before
in the industrial history OF the State.