Show lager Ili fermo mso to i the cost of biller A communication from 1 resident J J flagerman o 0 of the mollie cilfton mining company coci pany WM was called forth by a statement made on the floor ot 0 the sen en ate recel aly by sanator mcl met henon hereon of new liew jeney jersey who said id that silver could be produced at t an average coet cost of from 85 35 to 37 cent cents an ounce the mollie altison mining company ot of alpen appen of 0 which I 1 am president preil dut ayi says mr blager nan man baa has been frequently referred to in newspapers newe magazines and p iello speeches pe eche flat being able to produce liver silver at a terr very low coat cost and ha has been the text tor for endless misstatements and wrong a conclusions as a to the general coit cost of producing sliver 11 it hai has been assumed that became because the mollie gibbon gibson can prod produce tico liver silver at a low coit cost it Is 1 fair to take it ai its an I 1 index of the general cost of liver nothing could be more un unfair fair and unreasonable the mollie bibs jibs on li Is sital imply kly a freak an exception and there ther 11 li Is no more I 1 of 0 a number am bet of luch such minei mines being found than there Is 1 of 0 moru more elamese twins coming into the tile world it Is so un inual usual IQ in lit its richness of ore otis that it is absurd to draw any general conclusions ironi from tt it tie the fact is 1 that although there are in aspen score of minei mines having good bodies of ore of moderate grade only seven or eight are making money enough to t pay dividend dividends it d vs x not follow that only seven or light are producing liver silver for the large ma bority of mine mines there ae as in every other mining region are being run at lit a loel loss the tile I llison i a ore probably average aw W ounces to the ton the average of all the other mines in alpen aspen which produce fully three fourth fourths of all the silver of the region doe does not amount to over forty aye ounce ounces to the ton mr mt lag ilat erman airman i a conclusion Is I 1 that 60 or of TO 70 cent elijer would close every mine in alpen aspen and when the aspen minei mines were obliged to stop every other mine la in tile tb state with the possible exception of 0 creede creeds would have to cloe close nevada montana and slid oil ell ei er region lea less favored than aspen ar it i almost going out of 0 the silver buil bus husk nea aspen timea times |