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Show THE "SILVr.lt CR(l"Oir I TAII A.U .LVADA. Tho production of silver from the mines of Utah lor the year IsTl is roughly estimated at $"),0oo,0o0p and a writer in the Omaha Herald predicts that the total yield for the year 1S72 will reach doublo that amount. It is difficult, however, to arrive at an accurate ac-curate estimate of the production in this Territory, as the shipments are made, some of them in refined silver bullion, others in base bullion of varying vary-ing value, and others still in ores of widely different degrees of fineness. It is believed, thouiib, that the Little Cottonwood district alone has yielded more than Jti.OOO.OOU the present year. There arc seven mines there, besides the Emma, yielding moro than $000,000 each, eome reaching as high as $1,400,000. Professor Clayton of Nevada cnti-mates cnti-mates that the silver product of tbnt Stato for 1S7l will be from 30 to ;J3 per cent, greater than last year- He believes tho Comstock lode will this year yield notJlcss than $10,000,000. This include, of course, all the bullim from that lodo, a proportion, greater or less, being gold. The Raymond and Ely mino in tho Pioche district of Nevada is the most productive f-ilvcr mine known except tho Crown Point mine on tho Comstock lode. Its yiold this year is expected to exceed $1,000,-000. $1,000,-000. This mine was stocked and sold in San Erancisco for $3,00J,000, and has paid 7 per cent, per annum on its stock ever sinco the day of its sale. Ex. |