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Show ORES AND BULLION. Settlements for Week Reflect Condition Condi-tion of the Roads. Tho settlements In the ore and bullion markets during tho week were reduced to $4SS.C00. this compared with $500, 00 for tho previous one. Notwithstanding the r.pen weather of the last few days, the roads extending from the producers to the various loading stations along the railways rail-ways are yet in a condition which renders ren-ders It very difficult traveling for the wagon, and makes It Impossible for the hauler to handle more than u fraction of a load. It Is to this condition that tho apparent shrlnkngo is attributable, while in reality there has never been a period In the history of the State when the mines were capable of a larger tonnage. The d!.y's settlements wore kept down to $53,C00, McCornlck & Co. reporting them as they follow: Bullion. $23.7(0; gold, silver, sil-ver, lead and copper ores. $25,900. In the metal market sliver ruled at CL cents an ounce, lead at $3.50 and $4.45 per hundred pounds, nnd casting copper at lV.-t cents a pound. |