The San Francisco call., 1906-06-18

panies is an interesting theme for
mining men, A large showing in this
direction was offered in the United
States in the month of May. The COM
plete figures of, earnings can never be
made as matter of course. Twenty
large properties, selected for the fig
ures that they report, paid S4,023.73S
in one month and since Incorporation
these properties have the record of
paying as dividends the total of $94,
613,344 Three American copper com
panies-the Amalgamated, the United
and Quincy Copper companieS-alone
paid out in May in dividends s3.420,03S
making a total of $54S46.434 to date.
Twelve gold. silver and lead COM
panies declared dividends amounting
to s2s2,700 in May, or s3o.477,110 in
total.
These figures have especial attrac-
tiveness in California, where copper
deposits are enormous and where gold
mining is destined to become much
greater than it is.
The coast is also interested in some
returns at hand regarding the rising
price of silver, metal that was once
vastly profitable and that exists in un-
told quantities. The price of silver is
higher now than 1t has been at any
time preceding in ten years. The top
price in 1895, when Russia coined silver
largely, was ot.VO cents per ounce III
New York. On May 3d. 1906, the ex-
treme price in New York was IS cents.
Between January 1 and May II. 1906,
the shipments of silver from London
to the east amounted in value to S32,-
921,403 which was equivalent to s.
342,115 ounces. The greater part of the
silver so shipped was produced in the
United States. and not from silver
mines, but as by-product in the re-
n gold This
circumstance is unique. No other coun-
try produces most of its silver as
by-produet-
LODES OF TUoLUMNE.
In a special number~the Tuolumne
Independent computes the values that
have been taken from Tuolumne mines.
According to the figures the Soulsby
Vile mine the east belt has paid
SIS, 100000: the Confidence mine, 49,
100000; ellison mine. s1.250.000; the
Draper mine. s2,500,000; the Grizzly
mine, $500. 900.
On what is known distinctively as
the mother lode two mines are cred
tied with an output ofs1.000,000 or more
each. These are the Golden Gate. with
record of s1,490.00O, and the Heslep,
with S1,00o00 The showing is so
good that the figures of the Independ-
ent are given in full as follows:
Mother Lode-Trio mine. s250,000;
s55o.ooS SSnsS Jumper $3.50 ,oeo Dutch. $500
900; Little Gem. 100000; Crystalline,
$4,000; Alabama, $4,000; Sweeney,
100000 Cardinelle, 100000; Paterson,
S340,0O0 Valparaiso group. s320,000;
Golden Rule CTuttletown(, $3.50. 900;
Golden oad Gate; $l4ooooS nna Hsslep sl'ee90
oOO: Clark. $50. 900; Clio. 100000. shaw
nut. s75 900; Eagle. $4,000 Stanley,
$4,000 IisSodS eF SfI90o and Hogmes
Rawhide and App mines. unable to Sc
cure figures.
East Belt-Dead Horse and Old Eu-
Feka ood Exfesi9r
soulsbyville, s5,5OO. 900: Confidence. s3.-
100000 ellison, 81, 900; Keltz, $780,
Sprhg pG Gueh consae $50
900: Rhode Island and Philadelphia,
100000; Belieview, 100000; Lamphier,
100000; Draper. $4,000, 900; Starr King,
$1,000 5000 BASIN i Slope. siSS ooo Mheei
Perran. 100000: Carlotta, $4,000; Wy
oming, $4,000; Stockton. $4,000; Lou
idence. $4,000; New albany. 5000, 900;
Grant. $4,000; Star. s225,ooo: Mount
Vernon, $4,000; Mississippi. 100000;
100000 Kanaka, .s45. 900; Longsellow,
$500. 900; Nonpareil, $4,000: Belcher
$4,000; Nichols, 100000; Black Oak,
HgureS not supplied
WEALTH IN THE POCKETS.
lode Roohss asd ta nss east ths @oteer
100000; Jackass Hill. 100000 Colby.
100000; Ford, $4,000; Garrett, s175,
900; Austrian. S160.000; Sell, S160,000;
Peterson sioo ooS Maarn9er
Fox, 100000. Bald Mountain 500. 900;
Sugarman, ss5o.ooe; Carpenter, $4,000;
and Grew. $4,000: Thebian' Twist, $50
300; Golden Era. $4,000: Brown, $50
900; Mandich, $4,000; Pedro, $4,000;
Blescock and Putnam, $4,000; Birney.
100000: Saratoga. $50. 900; Fair View,
$4,000; Tulloch. $4,000; Crystal Hill,
$4,000.
A multitude of mines in Tuolumne
County have paid $4,000 each or less.
Gold is the principal mineral product
Of the county, but there are also depos-
its of silver, copper, arsenic. antimony.
galena. graphite, zinc blende. iron, OBJ
sidian. asbestos manganese, corundum,
barite and tourmaline.
The record of the Mountain copper
mine at Keswick, Shasta County, for
production to date is $4,000 in prof
it's The authority for this statement
is w. Keswick. president of the corpo-
ration. The profits for the year 1905
are estimated by the same authority at
S790.000. A fund of S1.780.000 has been
accumulated. which is employed in the
business. Of the large sum of S910O-
800 in profits, $7,250,000 has been di-
vided among the owners of the mine
s2,500,000 in return of capital and S4,-
100000 in dividends and interest. The
remainder is retained in the business
According TO the San Bernardino Sun,
mining deal for properties that
brought 100000 has been effected in the
Sunrise mining district, where five sep
rate groups of mining claims were
sold to II. e. Woods of Los Angeles by
G. H. Mcclure and others. The Sun
rise district is reached from Needles
NEW DISTRICT IN NEVADA
Goldfield has new mining district,
according to the Goldfeld News. which
publishes the following statements re-
garding the matter:
Within the past four months not
fewer than eight new mining camps
have been. discovered, and some of
them equal anything heretofore known
in the States history. The more re-
cent discoveries have mainly been in
the belt running across the State, in
cluding Fafrview, Round Mountain and
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