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Show THE EXPENSE OP SMELTING ; WORKS. The White Pine Daily Nucs gives i the foibwing estimate of the diily running run-ning expense of smelti'ig works of j forty tons capacity, which will require j Soil Lu-K-li cm!, .Uily, at CO eents jr ! l-u-hel .... ;j4".fi Tliret. urn, Iters M rl.SO par day - 13. mi Threfhrlre..-I.t"reriiav - - 1 (.'" ! Three fL-edrR,-1 in per duf - - - r.'."i ; Fuiir men tu handle ore, 'J.;.0 per diy II."1 ' One coal reffivi-r - - - -'.' One errand nisa - - - S. ' Two eDu.-.T. - l""" j Oe enr.l of J - - - -Tim, Ouk black tiiuili .... -"....I ; Coulmsca.i.-i - - !;'; T..1nl - . - - - jln ! A company owning the mine can : f. if "fly calculate the cost of mining and delivering the ore to the works at $12 per ton, daily, $4.80. Judging from j smelling, so f.ir in this district, ibrty i tuns of ore will produce not less than ; ten tuns of bullion, which, at $1j0 per tun, (he yield of silver would be $1.5t)0. The cost of shipping bullion to San j Prancifco, at fi'S.TO per tun, ten tuns, i $Js7.:"iO. Value of lead after deducting S percent, for dross, e.-timating lead at I 4i cent- per poind, $SG 40 per tun, value of tuns $7t34. Thus it can be seen that the entire expenses, cost of mining, and delivering ore, doesn't exceed ex-ceed S'JOS daily, while the bullion produced pro-duced daily would be worth in San Francisco $2,o(i4. Deduct freight, and there remains a net profit on ten tuns of 1,108.50. |