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Show THE ARGUS. ORE AND BULLION RATES. California produced in gold alone and men of wealth and influence average banking dividends seldom from 1848 to this date, the stupen- - eagerly catch at any hint which he exceed 8 per cent, a year., The railways for the year ending dous sum of $1,310,240,000 most of may let drop, and his opinions are with June, 1892, on their stupendous which can yet be found in coins or sought for far and wide. Although capitalization of $10,226,784,134 pro- - arts throughout the entire world. The there are hundreds of poor prospecwho are duced a net earning of $397,403,377, Colorado mines produced in the last tors in Cripple Creek or about 3per cent., a very small sixteen years over $450,000,000 in better posted than Stratton, they are portion of which was distributed gold, Rilver, lead and copper. Arizona pushed aside and the accidental rich in the same period produced over man is sought out. among shareholders. That the number of dividend pay- - $100,000,000. The Michigan copper MINING MACHINEBY, Etc. ing mining companies are larger than mines produced in the last ten years all other combined industries, is fully $124,434,440. Tremendous fortunes substantiated by statistics. That have been realized from mining in mining produces quicker and greater those four states. The St. John del profits than any other industrial pur- - Key distributed an average profit of suit is evidenced by the scores of the 47 .8 per cent during fifty years of niners and That there are continuous prosperity. From 1876 to Prospectors risks in mining as well as other pur- - 1879 the profits in these mines ran suits, is well known to all reasonable from 88.10 per cent, to 194.13 per minds, but that the immense fortunes cent. The Proprietary Mining com-o- f THE BOISE IfiOJI BID BEilCTIOI WOOES the Mackeys, the Fairs, the Floods, panics distributed in the last six Are building one and the Sharons, the Stanfords, the Jones, years in dividends and bonses the quartz mills, stamps weighing either the Stewarts, the Baldwins, and hun- - handsome sum of $18,943,860. It 200 or 500 pounds each, to crush guaranteed dreds of others, are due to mining, will be seen, however, that California screen through a 100 to 125 pounds of ore cannot be denied. According to the beats the worlds record for gold proper hour. Can be packed h on horses into the most census there is less than duetions, averaging for the past inaccessible localities. part of our industrial popula- - five years about $30,000,000 per year, Price for i Stamp Mill, $ioo. tion engaged in mining, producing Surely there is money in mining. Price for a Stamp Mill, $180. for the year 1892 a mineral output of Mill and Mining Ma- ri money makes a difference. all sorts valued at $679,597,876. If chinery and Castings fur-every description other industries were as productive of Strange what force wealth lends to nished on short All work guaranteed atewtir wealth as mining, we would have, ac- - ones opinions. While yet a beggarly Chicago or Denver prices with freight added. cording to the above ratio, a yearly carpenter out of a job, with no com.. of a hired that o but burro, productof $67,959,787,600 ortwenty-tw- panionship JAMES BAXTER & no the and but times as much as the total estiearthly possession mated circulation of gold and silver scanty outfit of a prospector, the now BOISE, IDAHO money of the entire world. The year- famous millionaire Stratton wended ly product of gold, silver, lead and his way into the Cripple Creek gold BLUE WELSH SILICA copper alone, if distributed amongst camp, a tramp would have laughed the miners engaged in the different at his opinion on mining, and it was COPPER SMELTING not he until stumbled states these accidentally metals, mining producing to from $1,000 $3,000 per onto the Independence, which has averaging that any man, or twenty times as much as the made him a per capita of. products of all other prospector would have given him a combined industries, including agri- penny for his thought. But now culture. What a contrast with the things have changed, says the Pueblo Trade Mark, Abernant. ratio of productions of our suffering Indicator. It matters not that Stratagriculturists. Mining products, with ton is an accident ; it matters not that, and unschooled in the minthe exception of coal, which is con- heart-sicImported and for Sale by sumed, are increasing our solid ers craft, he was on several occasions national wealth without being des- about to give up in despair ; his acci A. T. CHUR, Sole Agent, troyed or consumed like the vegetable dental fortune has made him a new 19 Barclay St., New York. or animal products. man, and large mining syndicates I The following list of transportation rates on ore, bullion and concentrates from all important shipping points in Idaho and Utah to all western smelters is officially and absolutely correct, and is published for the convenience of ore shippers : Nampa and Boise to Salt Lake Valuation not exceeding $50 per ton, $6 ; valuation over $50 and not exceeding $100, $8.60. To Denver, under 40 per cent, lead and not exceeding $100 valuation, $10 ; over 40 per cent, lead $14. To Pueblo, same classification, $11.25 and $15.21. To Kansas City, same classification, $14 and $17. To Omaha, $13 and $17. From Hailey, Ketchum and Bellevue to Salt Lake Valuation not exceeding $50, $8 ; over $50 and not exceeding $100, $8. To Denver, not exceeding $100 valuation, $11. To Pueblo, $12.25. To Omaha, $13. To Kansas City, $14. From Bed Bock, Mont., (shipping point for Salmon City) On ores not exceeding $100 valuation To Salt Lake, $6; to Denver, $8; to Pueblo, $8 ; to Omaha and Kansas City, $8. Coeur dAlene To Salt Lake, valuation not exceeding $50, $10; not exceeding $65, $12; exceeding $65, $14. To Denver same rates. To Pueblo, same classification, $11.25, $13.25, $15.25. To Omaha and Kansas City, $12, $14 and $16. Park City On all ores not exceeding $100 in valuation To Salt Lake $2; to Denver and Pueblo, $7 ; to Omaha and Kansas City, $9. Frisco or Milford To Salt Lake, ore not ex ceeding $100 in valuation, $3.50; concentrates, $4.50; to Denver, ore and concentrates, $12.50; to Pueblo, $13.75 ; to Missouri Biver points, $14.50. Eureka On ores not exceeding $100 valuation To Salt Lake, $2.50 ; to Denver and Pueblo, $8 ; to Missouri Biver points, $10. ($100 valuation) To Salt Lake, Bingham $1.25; to Denver and Pueblo, $9.50; to Missour. Biver, $11.50. Bates on bullion From Salt Lake to Denver, $10 ; to Missouri Biver, $10. (These rates include switching charges at samplers.) Utah common points, including Salt Lake smelters To Denver and Pueblo, $8 to Missouri Biver, 15 $10. illNlNG A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. The prejudice against mining, like a hereditary taint, still clings to the ultra conservative, the timid and the less ambitious, says the Denver Mining World. Such notions and ideas on mining, though well intentioned, are based upon the theory that some one lost money either in mining pro per, or mining stock speculation Millions are sunk yearly in corn, wheat or pork speculation, and yet no one condemns such anomalism except, perhaps, the agriculturist or the suffering poor. The estimated average dividends I on the nominal capitalization of al 1 mining companies exceed 13 per cent j being equal to about 40 per cent a year, on the actual capital invested I There is yearly as much money in vested in mining as there is in bank jing, but, judging from the presen (financial depression, due to the con traction of currency (speculation) anc tthe periodical panics, banking does not prove as safe or as profitable as i mining. 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