Show SMALL OUTPUT OF i TN TIN ORE YEAR YAR None of the United States Mines Have Been Doing Doing Doing Do Do- ing Much 1 uch ALASKA ONLY PRODUCER Insl Quantity From Prom Northern Is Only Slum SImon hug In for foP Y Year UI During the ho year car 1905 there thero was no actual production of metallic tin tn In Inthe Inthe inthe the United Uniel States Stales the only production I being eln an Insignificant quantity of ore Ol from Crom rein the placers of Buck Duck Creek Alas Ans- ka There Thero was as no mm output from Crom the lode claims of the hue tw You York region Alaska none from Crom room South Carolina although iho ugh eighteen tons tolls had hat been washed from fm the re residual placers at GaIne Gaffney In the tho northern part of that state in iii 1904 no nor I was production reported from rein the Black Hills Hils re region lon of South Dakota Da Da- kota and Wyoming In Alaska AlaRka the thc season was exceed excecil hat haul bad so o that sluicing on Buck Hucl Creek was carried on un under tinder el great cul culty and this together gethel with wih other otherl l' l reasons r resulted In a small mal showing for Cor the yea years year's work work However el the first really good realy prospects on Cape Prince of ofra ra Wales were found during ing the year yeam- year an and th the nn nos of ct r fu ru- ru Lure ture tUe production Is not nOt without hope le hO Prospecting In him II lilac lilac-k I Hills I s. s In the Black Hills His some prospecting was carried on in both South Dakota and Wyoming and anti a small experimental mental mill mi was erected at the Etta EUa mine minE It I Is hoped that there will wilh wi be some output luring during the present year ea In lii t the South North Carolina North Care Cam lina region although ugh there was no output much prospecting and ant development devel el de work voi-k has been heen carried on on especially rt at lings Kings s 's Mountain anti and ane Lincolnton At the former place a amill amill mill 01 with wih Iol rolls Jigs and antI tables table was erected En several everal shafts were ele sunk sUlk to toa toa toa a depth of oC forty to fC fifty f feet Thet et antI and prospecting pros pros- peeling is being carried on on the old Ledoux properties south of the town Some ome omne concentrates have ha b been en obtained At the time Jones mine seven s en and ant one- one half miles mies north of the town of Kings King's Mountain a small smal ro roll mill mi with two Bartlett tables was wa erected and a small smal quantity of or concentrates turned out ut 5 SOnic Some me very promising ore has b been en struck anti and nd prospecting is being being carried car car- ned ried on at the foot toot level level About one and amid one half ml miles s north of Lincolnton N. N C. C extensIve extensile prospecting pros pros- has been Leen carried on a large number of surface trenches have have been dug ug sonic some hundreds of feet o of drifts en and smith rich ore 00 has been uncovered unco red eyed at a number of places At the Ross floss Ro mine one and ant one-half one miles mies north of oC Gaffney GaIney S. S C. C and but buta a few tew miles mies below time the North Carolina state line lne good goot boler boilers a hol hoisting engine engine en en- gine and a pump have been Installed and amid Ind a shaft shaf fe feet t deep has been sunk sunk- Several hundred feet of drift have ha e been een run on the sixty five and ant of oC ninety foot foot lve levels lees A number numer tons of ore are upon the dump tump ready for Cor treatment and amid a small smal quantity has been washed In sluice boxes The rhe country rock and ant gangue here here is greatly decayed An estimate of or the tin tn output In foreign foreign foreign for for- eign countries for COl or 1905 Is at follows Malay States net tons Bolivia la Bol tons Banka 1156 tons Corn Corn- wall wal tons Australia tOI tons tomis 2715 tons tomis lota total tons This amount Is Js about the same famo as at of the 1904 production |