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Show Nine Hundred Ounces of Gold Retort. Yesterday, says the Helena Herald, the Merchants' National Bank received from tho Homestake mine, on Virginia creek, Montana, a $12,000 clean-up. The gold was in the form of four huge lumps of retort, sometimes called Montana turnips, and aro exposed before refinement refine-ment at the U. S. Assay Office in the window of the Bnk, where they are the observed of i !i observers who pass bv. " It is knrwn that the Homestake is i worked in a b.nall way by only a few men, not exceeding a half dozen persons in the five-stamp mill and mine. This output is almost $10,000 a month, and when the net proceeds are considered oyer and above the inexpensive workings ?l t? mme and the mill they show that the Homestake is probably the richest mine m America considering its original cost, expense of working and net proceeds. |