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Show pi PRDDUGTfOW m SiXTVMILLfORIS Kert Camp Has Made Won-'RrH Won-'RrH Recor m Ttlir" m- teen Years. ;L MOVES FORWARD rjKtput Th's Year Exceeds Any Previous One by One Million. LoP" mlne" have Pr0l1uccd SS3.602,-'-'Hcj since the discovery of the enmp ''taj'and have paid $U',140.2oS In divi- BL nrwent year's nroduction of ore 'W1667 tons, yleldW f lO.OlG.OGS.m. JBjSb dividends paid were $2,053,462. 'R'paJTOll for the year 1013 totaled jKannual production has boon as , ; ; " ; y ; "'Ufiloioo W"a 67S.5Cl.58 '. '. V. ".. ". ' " - - 5' ocs',935! is .' 5,741,900.16 I." " 5,007.610.07 1: " 7,053,240.63 S.623,057.07 J 0.035,812.66 10.01 6.96S.10 production of Tono- udi's mines 63.602.132.85 Ke Tonopah Bonanza sayr. of the slt-'IKn slt-'IKn and the outlook: 'fteslnnlnp -with the Tonopah tlnlnp 'Knpnn:-'. the parent mine of the IKrp. there is not a. solitary excep- A TBato the progress of the past year. I'lptrv mine and prospect has made taliCfE and the forecasts of ex- gKJkrienccd iikh point to the coming of jEleast three new producers during-jHI, during-jHI, There Is no gain-savins the !BcL One might as well gild refined .is to dwell on t.ie material de-'.pfopment de-'.pfopment as shown by the accom-. accom-. pujlnp figures that appear for the 'Kt time in the history of Tonopah. Kb' tell the story that excels the Tgfitcst dreams of avarice and Ess the camp into a realization of wbllltiee that even now are only 1the making. From an annual production of $254,-J.in $254,-J.in 19P1, the output hm gro;ii by ps and bounds umll tliis year It ' attained a total of $31,576,062. Hi development was been" steadv, jUi the exception of 1903, when the eduction fell from J3.772.531 in 1002 '. the comparatively Insignificant kl of $162,650 This was due to t suspension of leasing;, the bulld-l bulld-l of the railroad and the holding tk of ores that the owners might re the difference between tho cost inlnial transportation and the rall-id rall-id ciarge. The ne.t year the mines n to show their contents, and lei this stage on there has been un-(T'in? un-(T'in? improvements. Tonopah was conceived during an t of high-grade excitement, when ('surface showltur drove men Into a tfzy with thoughts of picking up rlune3 from tiie forbidding looking ftcroppings that stampeded the unl-e unl-e and brought 10,000 men to the Eldorado Xfl Idea of the thrilling days of 1 and 10p2 can be gleaned by the to and women of today. Tonopau s, after a haul of sixty miles to idavillc, and a long, expensive haul ' rail to the smelters In California. iu N.iu to 5I0O a ton. Kvcrv miirn-ir! c"e V.f .lcrs bcod 'or a Fiir-ti, Fiir-ti, t, . con5,lnmeiils. For once In beKM Wi nr,d companies it Tnnnif Importuned the . leaders iLv ??&h t0 wltiiliold shipments t? could not treat. Or bv t !W2S?t (r0m Sin Frkco1 o i!.veiett. Wash., and -was there S.onPi?f 1110 dock lie for protect their content. The lattor neans of reducing or extracting and nS0rnm W3S boOtj At Jicoma a mountain of orr 125x150 eTJa.VS ,p,,cdJn thc smelter yards all Tm?nn Si. ordcred an embargo on Li nopH!l oro"' at a score of cw0!,?1?1,.1,110 Southern Pacific iCd ,wIl,i re from Tonopah oi1J.ev,-cl,,!,,,nct 10 0 tracka and the l0ckct Hnd bollci1 w' forged mvriSO lhRt l,ley not ho T?i .any ovrs,sh- of tminmcn. 11 re?y,li Was t,,at tensors 'ad to tnci I fnCi; ,ut,,ut ov;" lhc dump timi iSPP ,tlllncr,c "ntll the congca-. tion tas relieved. Then came the Tonopah atinlng mffi,y ;ro'ni(PlllalelplHa with Its El, Si0.1 P'lnl. to solve f.ie prob-leni. prob-leni. This Involved the construction iin"'..e . ! to connect with the lino at Podavllle. The lino was built ,nfrron',pa?o. which everybody thouglit would serve for rears to come. In one year this had to be cianged to standard gauge. The change wns effected In eight houru. During- the railroad construction Period tho Tonopah Mining company began t.ie erection of a mill, as It was seen that the epoch of high-grade cou Id not last orcver, and that, with inw ' 1110 ores would depreciate to a milling grade. In any ovont It -was an economical measure that vas rorcl on the management, as the j-allroad tollB were absorbing moro tlian 20 por cent of tho assay valuo of tho ore. Tills brought about tho milling period pe-riod of tho camp, whic.i has grown and 13 still growing at a pace that means the addition of a coupln mum new mills to care for the product of tne mines. At least two are projectedthose pro-jectedthose of the Halifax and Alcrgcr. Both mlnca have the ore blocked out and as soon as their plans are perfected the third stage of development will ensue. The I3el-mont I3el-mont mill, orccted a year ago, has proven a prreat success. The nominal capacity of 500 tons dallv has been exceeded -week after v.-eeli. and it Is now proposed to provide for enlargement enlarge-ment of the secondary equipment to raiser the tonnare. In tic meantime the old Belmont mill at Millers is operated on custom ores from the Merger. Jim Butler and Florence Goldfield. |