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Show MAMMOTH DUMP ORES. Enough in Them to Pay for the Mines p.t Market "Value. The representative of a local smelter who has had occasion to investigate the subject, says that contained- in the dumps at the property o the Mammoth Mining company, Tintlc, Is wealth enough to pay for the entire 'property at the present market vulue of its shares. On this basla the authority for the statement sees in the dumps no less than $C40,000, and yet the efforts to mill the metals from them have been with results, so Indifferent that they have been abandoned. According to the same authority the contents of the dumps that were sampled by him with the representative rep-resentative of a Bouton combination will show a valuation of $7 per ton, and while the metallurgist Is seeking a method that will enable him to mill the oretf, all the while the supply of silicates is diminishing, and It lu not unlikely that the valley smelters will ultimately be required to make such concessions as shall enablo the company to send them to the furnace Instead of a mill. That the mill, who&a stamps were hung up on November 1, after an unsuccessful run. on ores, of this- class, will be put Into commission again, Is not llltely,. although new processes are being constantly developed, and one of these may be made to lit the needy. |