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Show m ini fir Steam Shovels Weighing 110 Tons to Handlo tho Copper Cop-per Ores. SOME DATA ON THE COST OF MOVING THE OUTPUT Man From Iron Regions Tells of tho Minimum Achieved Tiiore. Thft management of at least ono of the big companies operating In tho copper, gold and silver-bearing porphyries at Bingham has decided, aftor Investigation, that tho pattern of steam-shovel weighing weigh-ing 110 tons ia tho better adaptod to requirements re-quirements in that camp, and will placo an order for two machines of that welghL With theso in operation It will be posslblo to load as much as 000 tons of ore dally, whllo it Is expected that ono volley of ehot3 will looBon up enough njlncral-bearlng earth to keep tho machines ma-chines supplied for day3, If not for weeks. Jimmlo James, who has served an apprenticeship ap-prenticeship spanning almost a Ufetlmo In the Iron mines whero mo steam-shovel Is In extenslvo use, says ho cannot concur con-cur in the estimates of tho Boston Con. management on tho cost of- extraction by this machine. At 40 cents, said ho, tho estlmato Is grossly excessive. Ho has performed a similar class of work at a cost of 17 cents a ton, and says a contractor con-tractor would soon get rich under an agreement to do the work at 27 cents, or 13 cents less than tho amount apcel-fled apcel-fled In tho Boston Con.'s schedule of costs. Going further Into deductions submitted sub-mitted by that company's president In a recent statement to tho directors and shareholders, Mr. James says he sees how the not profit, with equipment for tho reduction of a largo volumo of ore, can bo made to reach $L50 per ton rather than 9-1 cents, at which tho management has drawn tho line. At all events, he expresses ex-presses a willingness to supply tho ores under contract at 30 per cent less than tho deduction at which tho Boston Con.'s management has arrived. And ho is ready to undertake equally as much In tho extraction of ores from tho measureless measure-less deposits of tho Utah Coppor company. com-pany. Perhaps tho . management of the Boston Bos-ton Con., first to submit Its estimates, has been unnecessarily cautious In arriving arriv-ing at its deductions. Certainly the reach from 94 cents to $1.50 Is a far one, but It puts tho maragement on safe ground and far within any possible contingency. Tonopah-Goldiield Stocks. Tho afternoon's report over tho prlvato wire of James A. Pollock & Co. indicates tho following market at tho closo of tho day In San Francisco; Bid. Asked. Montana-Tonopah $ 3.12 $ 3.15 Tonopah Midway 1.77 l.'SO MacNamara S9 .40 Tonopah Belmont 1.C0 1.02 North Star 5S .59 Rescue 10 .11 Gold Mountain 12 .13 Jim Butler SO .00 Tonopah Com 13.75 14. 25 Tonopah Extension (3.12 0.37 Redtop 31 .39 Goldlleld 55 .56 Sandstorm CO .01 Sandstorm Extension 07 .03 Adams 01 .05 Mohawk 16. .IS Dixie 11 .15 Kendall U .15 Columbia Mountain 17 .IS Jumbo .75 .77 Jumbo Extension 15 .16 Black Butte 21 .25 Silver Pick 11 .12 Golden Anchor 00 .14 Ray & O'Brien 0G Ohlo-Tonopah .34 .35 Original Bullfrog 23 .21 Dlamondlleld 41 .43 Lono Star 00 .10 Home-Tonopah OS .00 Cosh Boy 22 .21 San ITrancisco Mining1 Stocks. . SAN FRANCISCO, Auir. 13. The official closing quotations for mining stocl:a today wore as follows: Alta $ .03 Justlco 01 'Alpha Con -03 Kcntuck Con 02 Andes .11 Lady Wash Con.. .02 Belcher 12 Mexican 1.20 Host & Boleher... 1.20 Occidental Con ... .S" Bullion 32 Ophlr C.C0 CnKslonla 3D Overman .. 13 Chnllengo Con ... .IS Potosl 07 Chollar Savago 55 Contldcnco S- fcorplon 13 Con Cal & Va.... 1.10 Sag Bolchor 03 Crown Point fS tilen-a Nevada zt Exchequer -IS Sliver Hill S5 Gould & Currlo 12 union Con .17 Halo & Norcroofl.. 1.4 Utah Con 0j julla 03 Tellow Jacket 11 NEW YORK MINING STOCKS. Adant3 Con 5 .?5 Llttlo Chief 03 Allco 53 Ontario 2.00 Brccco 45 Onhlr c.75 Brunswick Con ... .17 Phoenix .02 Comstock Tunnel.. .07 Potosl Con Cal & Va.... 1.15 Savngo 57 Horn Sliver 1.7." Sierra Nevada 34 Iron Silver 3.E0 Small Hopes 2S Leadvlllo Con 00 Standard 1.35 |