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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW, N lie in the way of a bona-fid- e purchaser of mining ground who humbly makes petition to the Government for permission to buy a little piece of land and pay for it, recently occurred in Califorand Interests of nia, in the case of Messrs. McCamma Unvoted to the Mining Smelling West. the and O'Keefe of Grass Valley, who by C. T. H ARTE, lloou have been at last allowed final entry Published Weekly 223 Atlas Block. and a certificate of purchase from the local land office for the South Idaho . TERMS: Con. quartz mining claim. They have (Payable in Advance.) 82.00 been trying to get that for ten years, One Year 1.00 but rival Claimants, Six Months among whom was .50 ..... Three Months...... the railroad corporation, have been enTo foreign countries except Mexico and Canada, 83 per year, postage prepaid. deavoring to show that the claim was agricultural land." The miners were Entered at the Bolt Lake City Postoffice as too second-clamatter. poor to hire a squad of attorneys, but produced some clinching evidence. San Francisco Office : 64 and 65 Merchants' At one time, when their opponents proExchange, where this paper is kept on. file. Adbe E. C. with made can contracts duced sworn testimony that there was vertising no pay ore on the ground, the two men Chc ago Office : 761 Monadnock Building. INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW. Inter-Mounta- in ss Salt Lake City, August A 20, 1896. Change Needed. The mining journals of the country and some of the more progressive mining engineers have for some years been demanding some recognition of the interests of the mining industry at the hands of the Federal Government. It is gratifying to note that the Western press is now voicing the demand for reform, and if the themselves can be aroused to the desirability of adopting concerted action, in the place of misdirected individual effort, there might be hope for a beneficial change. Any change whatever in methods the of administrative the Government would be for the better, as conditions could not possibly be made worse. The American mining code is a hodgemine-owne- rs podge of impractical and ridiculous re- got the officials of the United States land office to personally visit the claim, and in their presence they drilled a hole in the quartz ledge, put in a blast and blew out quartz with gold in it that the officials could see for price at the mints of Europe than at the mints of the United States, and it was therefore shipped abroad. The statement was prepared and put forward at this time for the apparent purpose of supplying arguments in support of the gold standard, but it can be used to great advantage by the advocates of bimetalism. In reply to a circular letter sent out by a firm of Wall street brokers, to ascertain how the newspapers of the country stand upon the financial question, the publishers of the New York Daily Financial News and Financial Record say: Both the Daily Financial News and the Financial Record are Wall street papers. They have no politics and take no side, except in so far as politics directly affect finances, and particularly the value and safety of securities based upon debts of the country, public and private, incurred in developing our energies of production and exchange of commodities. For seven years past both of our papers have steadily advocated the full remonetization of silver by restoring it to free and unlimited coinage at the existing ratio with gold. Such a policy has seemed to us so clear and absolutely essential to a restoration of general prosperity, to a return to surplus earn-ing- s for production, upon which the safety of all our securities depends, that we have held to our course, though standing alone in this city, and though encountering opposition often unpleasant and always injurious to our bank account. Now that the cause of bimetalism is rapidly growing throughout the country, we, of course, feel hopeful and encouraged to persevere." them- There was no going behind that. Twenty perjurers might swear to lies, but there was the very claim, and there was the gold. No great lawyer ever made a more powerful point of proof than did these two miners in thus showing the justice of their claim. Such an experience would be an for the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office. selves. eye-open- er Silver Coinage. According to a statement issued by the Treasury Department, there was added to the silver coinage of the world during the year 1895 $100,069,000, which than $1.50 per capita for would be less the United States alone. 3 The recoinThe heaviest A wide field for the cyanide process $13,603,200. age aggregated to fit conditions quirements compiled is opened up by its successful applicawas $24,832,350, and Mexico, coinage by that seldom exist, and its administration to mill tailings. Everywhere came next with $23,833,500; next, tion by the General Land Office is a Japan throughout the West, where gold mills comes with $8,233,340; China, Spain, farce. It is well known that at preshave been operated, there are old Great $5,821,151; United Britain, ent all of the men in the Interior and dumps, containing millions of dollars, Land departments who attend to the States, $5,698,000; Austro-Hungarbut of such low grade that they have $3,554,-00$4,073,000; Peru, Russia, details and actually prepare its decisbeen regarded as of little value to the Ecuador, $2,500,000; Germany, ions and rulings are selected from the owners. In the early days of gold milllarge cities of the Eastern and central ing there was not so close a saving of of The for silver worlds the product values as modern machinery and methStates, and few, if any, of them have 1895 is estimated at $226,000,000, ods have made possible, and a conever seen a gold or silver mine. As a year natural result, nineteen out of twenty and it will therefore be seen that if the siderable percentage of the precious of the people who pass judgment in silver produced by the whole world metal escaped. Even with the superior mining matters are utterly ignorant of should come to the United States, mechanical appliances of the present the whole subject. Yet their rulings (which the gold fanatics predict, but day, there is considerable loss, varying have the force of law, unless they are which is an utter impossibility), it from 15 to 40 per cent, according to the revoked by the courts. Many out- would amount to but $3 per capita. The character of the ore and the state in rageously unjust rulings are made, and amount used in the industrial arts was which the gold occurs. Any method claim owners put to great annoyance $42,000,000, while $37,500,000 was used by that will profitably extract the values and expense through the stupidity or the East, leaving but $146,500,000 for from these tailings will therefore supignorance of the simplest matters con- coinage by the other nations of the ply an unexpected source of wealth, nected with mining. Many of these earth. In view of this statement it and the cyanide process is coming into rulings are of a character calculated cannot be perceived howT this country extensive use as an auxiliary to copper to provoke mirth, were their effect less can suffer from a deluge of silver or plate amalgamation, as well as in the of treatment of old dumps. serious. No relief can be hoped for be afflicted by an In this connection the results accomuntil men of practical experience and money. The Treasury Department injects into plished by the Harquahala Gold Mining knowledge concerning mining affairs are selected to handle this branch of this statement a reference to the fact company, in Yuma county, Arizona, are the land office work, and conditions that during the first six months of the of interest. The assistant managers cannot be made thoroughly satisfactory current year more silver was coined last report, on the operations for one without a thorough revision of the code than during the entire period from 1792 month, is as follows: Pulp treated, 3000 and the creation of a Department of to 1S73, but dishonestly omits the ex- tons; average assay of pulp, $4.43 per to assays, 59 Mining. planation that during the latter period ton; extracted according An illustration of the difficulties that silver bullion commanded a higher per cent; bullion realized, $6555; mis- y, $7,-969,0- 00; $5,-299,0- 00; 0; $1,-826,0- 00. over-abundan- ce 1 |