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Show lk.L,ll.ll- 1 l L I' A 11. .-.it. i' LmCr..-, Ma 1?T1. ;;.',. i H.r-.u. It.'.- re P..: .-in uf -ll'.'- r b anliL' ur---i.y -in.-ltii..' pp.-ei---. II a ll-:W t.-atllri- ,, it - i- -: : .,-ri.-r,.-.- uf eur miner.-; i.-, m t.i t, ai et chi'-tiy i X .:rimi:i.tal, and uij i:t to the -aui.:ri-ki towhi- h al. ii.w ci i .-i ilin-rits an: liable, It is un P a ..Hah!,: t' -XL-et, ev.-n t'lvuig an Pi.- ep:d. t Id the i.niverhial in-'enuiiy if tin: uii.M-r.-al Vank'-e rialmn. that niir .-uii-!t,-rs should attain cutnplete iii'-.-.- .i in lln-ir liiit nperatiiiin. It i.-ii'i i.-ii'i argumi-iit a.-aiu-t the practicability uf a pi'MJ.r.-.-i fir ridneiiiit -iiVer on-.-, that an ueea-iuiial la. lure uceurs in lir-t t.-iiim.' iti ctli'-i-.-.'iey. Tiie ditfiL-nlty i.-i iiiuiir iin.d-i of Uiiii the stii'-ltitiir pro-.,.:--, not in the proee-s ip-cif; fur we Lii.,w that tin: uie.-t refractory ure-are ridue.-d c-Kewhcre by oiueltlllit. IJui niir bilks are a i'a.-t people, and are pr , even compelled, to do every-. ihing m a wholesale style. The care-; lul manipulation and tedious, elaborate, and ji-i.iil syiteiu uf sui.-lting ores in v,,.-ue in Knr"ie and Mexico is too -lnw I'm in. We aim al itrand airere--cute re-ults want to realize by wholesale whole-sale and spend iu like manner. In a pic-aynni.ih pic-aynni.ih way we can smelt here as thoroughly a.s tln-y do in Kurope, but in this country where money, labor.and all sui ts uf supplies command exobitant prices, it will not pay. SVe rruik ex-i ex-i triivagantly, not eeonouiieally, and a niiniii.-! business to be profitable mu-t n ave a margin of profit above the cost of extravagant uianaitement. It is iu the endeavor to adapt the smelting process to our ideas of reducing ores quickly, roughly, and in large quantities, that we have met with oc-. i-.i-ionai mishaps. So it was in Virginia, Nevada, in fj'.K The miners of that place were then familiar Willi the manner man-ner of working silver ores in Kurope and Mexico, but it was too slow for |