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Show O.I AHTZ MILLS OA' THE PACIFIC COAST. There are mora than seven hundred quartz mills in the ijtates and Territories Territor-ies usually designated as the Pacific Coast, LeirigUy s Directory enumerates enumer-ates the following as in operation Nov. 1st, 1S70. No. of Mills. Stamps. Ara-tra.. Arizona y 111 p.j Csililoruia - - - - 421 -l,j-io l:j2 loaho :J44 1 Montina ----- 4-', e?J ti .Nevada l.,'i 2.1: 37 OrefU 15 62 1'J Total, 074 . 7.7SS 'Jss The following is the report of the mills in operation in Montana Oct. 1st, 1S7U: Mill. Stumps Arastras. Reavrrhead - - - - 4 . 4" lice;lii'lr. t) . lsii - - J.'fl-r;.iu 4 41 1 L. w s i Clark - - 13 106 5 la-li on li lt5 - - M,-jife'l,er 1 5 6 Total, l 63ft 13 The Aiio Xorlh West says that the estimate lor Momaua is quite too large, and has evidently not been revised up to the latest date. But deducting 17 lioni the estimate, we still have tOU left; w hile there are some which probably prob-ably have not been enumerated. These 7HU mills pound out the larger pait of the sixty odd million dollars of bullion produced annually on this coast. It would be of interest, if the data were at hand, 10 show the cost of these mills, and the profits or losses which have accrued f oul this kind of investments. Uullt tin. |