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' an: or 'In; -.l.'er nil:i s ' t' Mcik') and S.iUlh Ani'T: t to p'-r.-. i - o i-s in, pnrtan :e. Til t MI.VEK .MINKS Of MKXK o. "'l'he total rn.'i-tiT.' 1 yield nfthe -ikvr iniu'-s of M.-x:e ), I'mui l .'Jl to l-oO. is repnrtid l.y liu'i.boidt at i l,7'7,lj jj,in"i, and ho ihmks an allowance al-lowance ut une-scvLiith ,-hould !,e made fur tin: uiir.-ni-ter.-.l yield, giving a M'al of f J. ii-T. '.'"J. '.i). According to Whiuiry, uf California, the yield of i M,:xieo, pievious to lv4 i, was 'J.Thii.-i)')' 'J.Thii.-i)')' i,i H " i, and if we allow J iI'J,'k dj.kh i t r tiii h uf the twi niy-scven years since, we have a total yield of jf i, l ln,-iK)'i,iK.'0 ln,-iK)'i,iK.'0 from l.yjl tu Iv).;. All the pa.-l and pre-ont imporiance of Mexico Mex-ico in tho eouiu.ereial world is duo to 1 1 ho silver which attracted the Spaniard-, to tho country and fixed them there and determined tho location of their towns. Willi the exception of their capital, to which tho wealthy men resorted to spend their money, and two manufacturing towns and two seaport.-), all the largest towns were built iu the unmediato vicinity of the mines, or in the agricultural districts ueare.-t to the . mj'uils. lluanajuato was a place ol minor note till us great min 'ral wealth was discovered in the middle of the ' la-t century, and then it suddenly rose to be tho second city of tho country, and tho adjacent plains of B.Mio grew rich by agriculture; and in the same ' way Z icatecas and the agricultural C.is-ilnetof C.is-ilnetof aVguas Catiutes grew up side by side. lHirango, Chihuahua, San Luis l'otosi, Alamos, and hundreds of others of le.-s note, are strictly mining I towns. (Mineral -Resources of the j United States, by J. Kjss Brown, paee 639.)" , ! In Chili the Balados mine yielded ' f n.uVO.Oiin. In one year, 1jU, the , Chanarcollo district produced $2.7ut),-iH'U. $2.7ut),-iH'U. The total product of this district from to ljf.O was $au,l)UU.0iK. In 1'eru tho Cerro l'asc i mi'ie yielded '$2,000,000 annually. The celebrated ' l'otosi mines, now in Bolivia, were dis- covered in ISoj. Ttiey were situated I lo,-00 feet above tide. The total production pro-duction of the mines on the Potosi : Mountain, from 154j to 1uJ, is stated by Humboldt at s?l, 150,000,000. This ' silver product built up a city which, in the last part of the fifteenth century, ' had a population of 1J0.000. (Ross Brown, page lUt. IN THE UNITED STATES I We have had nothing to compare to , these mines except the Comstock Lode of .Nevada, whieh has been explored and weirked T.',0o0 leet in length by the various com panics whieh are work- ing it. It yields from twelve to seven-I seven-I teen millions annually. Colorado has J many rich silver urines, some of which i are very valuable. The "Terrible' ' mine j was sold last year to an English company com-pany fot $.1)00.000, aud it is said to be 'yielding at the rate of $300,000 per year. Th- Brown, Coin, (errilhth, tliuator, Gift and Astor are rich paying pay-ing mines in the older silver district of ' Colorado. The Cariboo district, discovered dis-covered last season, promises to be richer than any other silver district in . that Territory. The White Pine region ' iu .Nevada, which yields mostly chloride , ores, and where the "Country Hock'' is the same as in Utah, and which is looked upon as a partial failure by the public, yielded! the first year nearly $3,000,000, and the second" year 4-'AV.oOO 4-'AV.oOO worth of silver bullion, i THE SILVER 51LNES OF CTAH Were discovered some years since, but ; owing to various causes, alter being 1 worked a short time were abandoned, h was not till the ear'y spring and summer of lg-70 that they begnn to attract at-tract general attention again. Through (he whole of that season the Wasatch mountains, from the railroad south eue tiuudred miles were prospected, and so were the mountains and hills which form the western elevation and rim ot '. the I tah Basin. AU these regions were found to contain rich deposits ot galena, with silver, chlorides of si.ver. carbonates of silver aud ruby, and r.a-tive r.a-tive stiver. These deposits were found ia the limestones of te.ese targes, and are much more easily worked the. a aiiaes where the me-toi Oevars in grac-, grac-, . to. gneiss, porphyry, or ifaartose reeks. as it does in a.i stiver regions, except ia the great b.:.s:ns ef eastern Nevaaa , and I tah. The result cf last year s j pros-eeeting h.is been to rreve that i these deposits exist ia vv-t netiorks ! over a section ef country c.-mprlsicg 1 xany millions ef s.res iai in such paaniittes as have r.ever i-een rbani laywhere ia the world, except ia the Potosi mou-iairi iu So'iih Amcrtoa and Gold Hill. Nevaela. ia whih the Comstock L ie is s::uati. This whole rcgiea hos Ueii orgam-gi .-.;. States Mioitti l.a"vs. 1 c-o.nno: uaier tale to si v.il e : tt.e mines cperrei mi heiag varied, and -kli promise large retuxes to their owners. I knew, from omeiai assays e-i miceral and sar-. sar-. veys ot miaes. ta; te.ere are more than ve huiiHoed mines new cr-eaed with appareniiy large eserosits whose ores yie.i more tnaa v-. .'j ia si,ver per ages ot .eao. Ia tae 111X12 cc-noywoen .axc-x i-iiiaicr, i There are the Emma, tie Kagstaz. IcwTSc-atli" S S avae, IfeVi . ei EiSion, Mog-mr g Suit. Crowrj Pilnee, azi Scores ot cinegs th.: ray net more tha 1C0 per ten. Ih'e F3 is the Pc.-si mize or' Umh. Since last Jiay this miae has cetted to its owners $551. 000. and for three i months last fall was prcdrcing at the ' rate of $3,000,000 per arinmn, There lr n j-- rh . i-a: 1 i f- -lo:-'. 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Lali-t if the ."'a, c a. a..s- :.i.:h Iira::h .,..:ai. o 'ili:l f.r sia-.i.i.g p ar- A.il.'ju.h the las aro hleh np in t'.-.- n..ai'iia.:a-. tUru ha.- he. a an im-aa. im-aa. 'ifit of w rk d no tl.i, w.u t-r. 11 Ji.drcd. uf I ..-"i lo are arriving da y by ra.lruad. at r-a.t Take City, and ih'-Lc.- to ti.e n.l:,..--. by sis Lur-v .'..a'-bi-s. '1 Hero may Le n.uca txag-e',-ra:i,in a'f"Ut th..--.- n.ifi..--, still tae aai'i'itr. ef ..re already U'lc ivered is o '.mi .rrnuus. and pays so rieh'y p.-r tun, a- to n.ak.; it sure that Utah wi.l ship several Ui.uluu d".ials' Wurtil e'f t,u! i'.'tl ii'id ore the pp'-ent se-a- n. and ii wi.l eV'-utUiilly place h-.-r in tLe t'r .tu rank ct tl." in nil:.' c'lintii-s uf the World. Wliat is e-peciiliy needed to pru iu e this re-u't is increased iaei'i-ti'-s tur the redui.'ti'.n uf ore. There are in the United States hve reduction works fur silver ores one 'a Newari, N. J., one in Chicago, one in ( Imaha, one in Keno, and one in San P.aneisu'O. All the-e works ate uue-ipi uue-ipi d to the reduction of the ore that will be dug from the Kmma mine the euming season. 1 believe that all our mater.al interests in the Kocky Mountain Moun-tain country are to he advanced lovond calculation by the silver developments now beiug made in Utah. II. Latuam. Salt Liike, April 8, 171. |