Show mining reduced to a certainty remarkable results from the journal of gl 1 to render mining a thoroughly legit imato business should be the aim 0 of r ev cv try ery man who loyes this ibis great country bec lue the life greatest source of I 1 bilth therein is undoubtedly ita minca whether of gold 01 ts ilver copp lion coal or petrol petroleum etim this has long g been our ambition and IN will ill continue so fo to be until tit lit tined lined how to reach it then men 7 we all know although too many feet ns is if they veto ignorant of tho the fact that ecob economy y of labor labo as well as or of capital I 1 in n the mine in t thy baili mili arc absolutely to that perfection per fiction in the acqui acqua of results which will res t s a kisded with itself but bilt mining economics do not appeal to be so well understood in this as in a other countries australia for instance vi where bere according to mr ft a distinguished mine mina eng engineer ineer tle black hill company on t tho he bank of the kandzie Yand zie with n jib a paid up lip pr say ebin with quartz aver averaging nging less than 3 dat say 2 23 25 col coin n per ton makes it pay 30 p per or cent per annum on that capital seem albort incredible but it appears that this sime same company have carn ob t lined a sit hf bictory profit from quartz giving the very verv low average of 2 dat apay pay coin of gold to tb the e ton and tho he new perseverance co operating corn com pany at work on white horse flat are stilted to be content with ii 1 dt sy siy 1 12 coin per tont font the giedt im por tanco of mr hills statement which bears bear 1 the imprint of truth upon its face indu inducts ces us its to give lih his ol of how bow things are arc managed at tha foot ol of t e blick black bl ick hill on the banks of the Vand Y andric ile he says R the visitor N will ill and there hero tho the most complete and no noel el plant in tho the colony tho the engine is a horizontal hori one of loo horse boro and is placed in in the centie of the stamp house bouso and drives ten bat terie ten st imps onea the weight or of stamps being seven hun lr frfd 4 pounds they are worked by wr ont iron disc with steel fazes and steel cams the lifters are turned and rel revolve olve in ili anti enli friction met metal I 1 guilles gui iles tho the quartz 1 ib applied to the batteries by a self 1 heed feed ing apparatus appi app ratus kratus requiring tle the a attention it antio of one mm min only to tile tho sixty stamps and is reduced sufficiently I 1 line to pas theoti through b wire gratings at the back and front of of ih be lamp s boxes 1111 ving one hundred and twenty holes to the square inch A quantity of quicksilver is put into eath each stamp box twice a day the Thi crushed ore is is carided can aed through jile the grat crating I 1 R by water into riffle boxes con merc mercury tiry extending widm both sides of the battery bit tery and then along four feet of blanketing these blankets are washed every ei eight ahl bout bom s in tanks which more on wheels and anal the collected by this process ce sis is conveyed into reio hiag ag barrels barrel with half its weight or of bercu mercury ry and wit ter sufficient for its perfect am amalgams amal gama tion lion tho the mine cons ats of the pal portion of the lilac black h hill and d con lains about fifty acres tuno tunnels aa a I 1 lave ave t been made into tile the bill at different avels amounting in length to about 2590 feet th these go tunnels are connect ed cd at several ath theolen the open work ings nl at th the 0 top of the bill by shafts down which the quarts and MIllo dc nr ar shot cliot abo quartz being conveyed to the mill in tanks by iron railway and the he m carried to hie file waste heap th the average width of the olit quartz ariz lode is about ninety feet wilb numerous leads lead running into it the quantity of quartz a amhed per week is about I 1 tons ons and the yield of gold for the t three monti montis S preceding roy ny visit was two dwi per ton for when the cinching cin ching finuff is is soft 0 ft ca tings however from 1500 1506 jb ib 1700 tons can begot be got through tho abo average 1500 tons cost for mining per ton as and for crosb edg 2 at s gol cd the number of men employed is ninety and of horses rt 3 four of firewood there is used per week one hundred and fifty tons the company compan y have erected a small iron foundry at which they cast the stamp heads and olner iron required and tho the average amount int of iron to be renewed is about one ton weekly we 0 kly the supply of water is the Yant 1 anusic ivic creek and is stored in reservoirs holding gallons A well supplied from the reservoir I 1 is s bunk in the stamp louse house and from thence the water is forced hy by two pumps thirteen inches in ter throwing rive live hundred gallons per mill minute te into a large tank on the side of the hill holding five thousand gallons and from that point distributed by pipes to all parte parta of the aliment what hs has been lone done here he adds can bo be dore done el elew hr now tb that a t it ha has r been shown how to do it 1 true but unfortunately it Is not no jone gone iaru elsewhere h ere on IV lwort it it g gold ad company in the united S te works oli quartz that holds less leas lhnn 6 or 8 Slot to abo boton ton and b e en then the roce roust must bo be decompo decomposed ved or it will not pay truly we base much mitch to learn from our austrian cousins if they can do these things and it is certainly im incumbent nu tip upon I 1 tho the government go eminent to tend send thither a competent person to ascertain the truth and rive give ili IH the ibo advantage adi ant age of c liis his knowledge for if this ibis E statement is true there will be scarcely one ot of the millions ot nui nari ferous i veins eins that traer erse the west ern cm states on and of territories that cannot be worked with an ab absolute certainty of ji pi ing n gamme immensely n tely nor ii H it franf t thu he mi minina ng and reduction of ores alone in foreign s that we ue learn if w take head ores of slight woith are arc made to pay in europe and in in in the littler latter country we wa well re saie heard ofa of df a silver mine in durango or chilina hurt hi lath ores of which paid lotmore not more than 17 per ton fan Machi machinery to ill the value of had bad been set bet lip ut at the mino mine by on an english company but bui owing W to extra thay y failed somo some other parties bought tamine and works for and hate ever since been making money out of it unless the war lias has stopped tho the ft 11 r KW ow what i ney lola equal this lodes lode that do not pay more than in dered aji by Most miners und buoyed ill up by the hope lip en t c jn an be e alone anywhere khy can not it bp be done in the united S st states ica are r aristr M I 1 and boiler balter situated ed with regard to freights art are not t the 11 c prices of tabor labor in an australi Austra aral lh i lintl oni oil western reining heary equal why then should thera be so io great a in mill aind miniie result 4 this is a momentous question and one that our government should tale lale up lip we com commend menil it to 0 o the secretary of the Trevi iry who has nl at Lise bis command n fund of with which t to gather statistics statistic s of tho the mineral resources of our pacific iacino states nud territories because puch statistics will be infinitely more valuable when comparative with such uch information the eyes of tile the president cra and congress will bo be opened t to 0 the ad is ability of sending to every foreign i dign mining country of cf note 10 lo ascertain and faithfully dc the methods of NN working the reports of nil all such inch commissions to bo be alters altern ards condensed by by ono one practical mind into a TO volume costs re resi stills illa I 1 etc I 1 in such doun countries tries with those these in our own such stich a work pregnant ft ith abets fi acts and figures igi irps would bo be apt to startle many in t the be united states slates i M ho be now turn lip their noses at v what bat thoy they C cill por ps orrock rock I 1 such stich a work would do more to bring brine jiuing operations do dofan a to a iggi legitimate dimate tani iness basis than ihan anything else of which we cin c in think |