The farmer and mechanic., 1914-09-01

go north along the Pacific coast from |
the mines to the mills
Al present II costs about SEQ To get |
TN from these mines 70 Liverpool |
and. of this, Sis covers the freight To |
the Seacoast The other S4o Is taken
up Ia various charges including SIS
TOT carrying the ore from Antefa2aeta |
70 Liverpool. The distarce 10 San
FRANCISCO Los Angeles ot Puget
SOUND IS very much less and the
great saving in the charges Of the
so-betvcens who handl- the tin be
tween England and the United States
would make u fine profit for the
American factories. We are now
using almost $50. .00o 900 worth nf tin
bars and blocks every year. The ex-
port ot Bolivia IS worth much less
than this, and the United States could
take all of its product ANA stin not
nave enough to satisfy its demands
In the meantime tin prospecting is
| gong on in many parts OF this couu-
| Try, ana the new railroads, now
bulldinS, Will open up highly min
| erallZed territories that Will probably
increase the tin product. The old
mines are being re-equipped with
| modern machinery, and many think
that the future output will be such
| that 1t will drive the more expensive
| Malayslan tin out of the market At
present they are using i,2U0-pound
stamps to crush the hand-sorted ore
| Wnlch Is then run through screens of
from six to sixteen meshes per
| inch. After that the Tin is concen-
trated and shipped off to r.n gland. In
| the past the ore has been :al>en out of
the earth in the most waSteful ways.
Much of it was carried Out of the
mines III buckets of raw hide, up lad
derS, on the backs of Indians. Thou
|
crushed between stones and then
washed out in streams of water by the
Indian women. Much Of this ore so
treated carried from 40 to SO per cent
of metallic tin; the lower grades were
rejected because they would not pay
for the labor.
. Before leaving the subject Of BO-
, llvlan mining | would say that the
, future of the country depends largely
upon the passage of the laws advo
Gated by the president and congress
, Just now the protection Of mining in
, veStments in Bolivia is not SO goot
as in Peru. There is a regular busi
: ness in the cOntesting of titles by tn,
] | lawyers, and in fighting for mines tha
I other men own. | am told that ther,
| are many shyster lawyers and other
o who make a practice Of laying claim
+ to every mine supposed 10 be goot
and of contesting it's title as soon a
it is denounced. Said one of the lead
7 ing railroad men of Bolivia to me yes
I | terday:
: Il might go to the heart of tn
T. baCkwOOds in the eastern part of tn
country and lay claim to mine
hundred miles from where any whit
man ever trod. If l did so | ventur
that within two days after that min
- was a matter of record there Woul
| l., Il "a \
q putting my title and swearing that tn
q contestant had record proof that h
. owned it. This is especially SO Of an
\ mine, thought to be good, and tina
% even long after the mine has bee
# profitably worked. Not loEg ago tn
engineers of the largest America
20 copper syndicate came to La Paz an
- spent six months looking over tn
:. ground. They found plenty of goo
10 prospects, but refused to invest III
&c der the present laws and went owe
o the border to Chile, where they coul
be sure of their titles
10 "One has also to watch the papeI
le that his own lawyers prepare NAL
ps ing his claim, this man continue
n Il know Of one case in which a b
Ie | proposition was almost lost by q
I'd error in the description. The Law
" yer in giving the feet or meters fro
re a certain point used the word ''nortl
at east" where he should have used IL
a ! word north" When the error w;
L. called to his attention he said it w;
ct a Slip of the pen, but had it been
IS recorded it would have resulted
as vitiating the title to a property Wor
lie hundreds of thousands of dollars.
he have no doubt that that error was i
Sc territorial and that with view to
10 lawsuit in the future.
Moreover, any large property TAX
up by a GringO is sure to have 70
or FIVE contests filed against it by pc
O. pie who wish to embarraSS the own
n' and who expect to be bought off b
Is fore they will relinquish their su
er 7 know Of a case in which a Bolivia
lis who has been successfully operati
IT a mining property for years, went
OF London and sold his mine to Britt
rs syndicate on the basis that the I'll
III was clear. When he returned
g found that FIVE different suits h
an been filed, claiming the mine, and