Show MINING BUSINESS E B 13 Braden ayer assayer aa in charge harge of the United State assay office at Butte has his annual report for 1898 1St to the director of o the mint and It Is I print printed ed d elsewhere where in this thie issue of The Her Herald Herald HerS S ald aid t in the of the year yer for Utah is In the heavy increase shown in inthe inthe Inthe the gold copper and lead product The gain in gold is le nearly all of which is credited cre to the Tooele county and Mercur camps camp Copper returns give a gain of representing re re an increase in tonnage of pounds The price on oJ which the statement te Is based shows that copper brought 1667 1 ente ent in iSa as compared with 1203 cents in 1118 TintIc an anti Bingham Ringham are credited with 7 pounds of copper with villi a total state output of 9 pounds Lead brought fJ more than in 1898 due to a little over oyer pounds increase in production B The average price was u 78 in Inand n nand and quoted at t present with sales lei below 4 Tintic End nd Park City pro produced produced produced over oer 0 er 90 per cent of the lead Mr slaver er estimates e are based on coinage prices probably for comparison with statistics of former fomer years but the effect is misleading Utah for instance produced ounces more silver In n 1899 1 than in 1898 1 8 I and the mint credits the of 7 1 ounces at t coinage rates with witha a 3 t value of In fact lie its i value is l 1 less ss than that SUIT UR and the proportionate increase for is fa about instead of as shown in inthe Inthe Inthe the mint table Juab county still leads in sliver silver pro production production I with Summit a close clo e second The two counties together gave ve the state tate 90 SO per cent of ot its lu total th silver sliver The transition of Bingham from fron silver Stiver to copper c is emphasised bId by ie fact I I that t salt alt Lake county which now leads in copper opper produced only ounces of if sliver silver in 1888 ISH per cent of Utah gold originated in cyanide mills and lid 70 per cent cen t of the sliver silver came froM lead ores The notable fact tact in the tile whole state statement meat ment is the gain in gold COld output which was vas 43 s per er er cent oer over 1888 1118 Taken as a whole the table evidences a most prosperous of in the he t producing prod mme mines of the state To operator and investor Jt k is Ja an n en encouraging encouraging ou ing report I |