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Show AN IDAHO DISTRICT Wh Gold Or I Mlat nd Milled fi Herbert Herslsy, of Soda Springs whose company owns a 40-starap got mill, says the Wood RlrerTimos, whirl crushes from 180 to 180 tons per day, which yields IS per ton, says that II costs about OM-kalf of this, or $3.61 prr ton, to mine aid mill. The rein is quite large and the ore soft. Instances where It costs less than SI to mine and mill abound in California; and at the Spanish mine, in that state, the cost of mining and milling is only 55 cents, and tie company is thus enabled en-abled to pay dividends on ore carrying less than a dollar's worth of gold ore per ton. With this knowledge of the cost of operations elsewhere it seems to ns that the parties Interested in eur gold belt shtitld be able to avvrorlntate it. To be sure ther are not supplies! with the proper appliances to wort st as lew cost as in California or even in Carri-boo, Carri-boo, but the grade of ore is much higher high-er here than it is there, and this should more than offset the advantage derived from the use ef water power, for WliieU a heavy rental has to be paid. With proper economy there is not a claim on our gold belt but what would pay enormously. |