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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1890)
WEST SHORE. 10; , SAN flANCUCO I COAL SUrPLY. One of the principal article! which we consume and do not produce in thia state, says the Han Francisco Call, ia coal. Cal ifornia's annual roniumption of coal areragee a trifle over 1 ,300,000 tona. If we aasame that thia coats an average of $7.&0 a ton, we may act down our yearly expenditure for coal at nearly ten million dollars aaj one-third aa much aa we get for our wheat export, and three times aa much aa we get for our total export of wine and brandy. If we assume the population of the state to be 150,000, it costs us (.4.00 per head to procure coal for steam, heating and lighting purposes. Of this coal nearly two-thirds cornea from (ireat Britain and her colonics. The proportion received from Kngland, Scotland and Australia varies with the price of freights and the price of breadatufla here. When there ia an etceaa of disengaged shipping in Great Britain ships load up with coal for Han Fran ciaro, and take back cargoes of wheat ; when the supply of ton nage in Australia ia in excess of the demand the same opera tion la related there. But nearly a quarter or the foreign coal which cornea here cornea from Vancouver Island, and the sup ply is not subject to fluctuations. It increases steadily as new mines are opened and old onee developed. Two years ago our receipte of ancouver coal were only 200,000 tona ; last year they were 317,004 tona. The railroad haa bought jointly with the Dunsmuirs, a mine on the island, and expecte to draw ita whole coal supply from that source. Tin future of the coal trade will depend on the course of discovery in Oregon and Washington. There la some news paper talk of discoveries of cannel coal in Alaska, and it may turn out to have a foundation In fact But our hopea of eman cipation from Great Britain for our coal supply must mainly rest on the prospect that good steam coal or household coal wtll some day be found in the states north of us. There is every reason to believe that such will be the case. It ia hardly to be believed that on one side of the Ftralta of Fuca, rarbonliation went on for thousands of years before it began on the other side. If it did not, prospectors will some day discover that In the vicinity of the light tertiary coala of Oregon and Welling ton, there are reams of the lignite, or even possibly bitumlnoua coal. It ia a comfort to householders to perceive that their cl bills are very much lew than they were at this season last year, with the prospect of becoming leas. KetAch coal ia srlllng at wholesale at (4.50 and the retailers are delivering Washington at (10 M. A discovery of hard lignite in Washington would very quickly knock the price down to 14.00 or lra. NEVADA If ININO INTKLLIOKNCE. It la reported that the Holmes and Northern Belle mines at Candtlaria have been sold and that they will be aytmallrally developed Over 100 handa are employed at the borax works at Columbus, and some 1,VW tons of borax are shipped month ly. The mill at Hodevllle la kept running continually on good ore from the Columbus consolidated mine. A good chloridlng is being dune on the Poot and other claims at Can delaria, There are fourteen men at work on the Oarfctld, and it ia exported a large force will soon be engaged. TwoUatJvnj at Fish take were recently sold by the toprirfof for The ore la silver and lead and la said to be very rich. The pur chaser la an old mining man and evidently knows what he la about The Eureka Sntintl learns Hat Mr. Clark haa ma!e another rich strike la Beveliie district, Nye county. The m find le supposed to be a continuation of the til Gila Wgw, t.Uta proved so rich la early daye. There were at Wt U.re gl f jrtanes made out of the Ola. Mr. Claik, Harry Bne a4 John B. Mag realised each about ir-O.OX) (rum the working of the high grade orre. Kx -Governor Adams la now the owner of the Gila mine and mill. Good reports still come from the Joanna mine, In Kohl nam district. Bad weather haa hindered the development of the dietrlct, but everything sustains the belief that the district till prove a very rich one. At preeent the dlitrWl offers a rl op portunity for the Investment of capital In mills and the owning of mines that are known to be rich. A company has Un In corporated with $120,000 capital to wurk the placer deposits In Koblnion canyon. A alxty days' bond for PJ.OU) has bn died upon the Joanna, No. 2, mine, which la an extension of the original Joanna which brought the dUtrld Into prowl nence at first minimal moDucr or its The product of gold, silver, copper and lead f I mo, In Ihe western states and territories, la thus estimated by J. J. Valen tine, vice-president of Wells, Fargo A Co. Express Co , In hie annual report : (llfurcla , ll.Ml,ni NtU Il.es.tsi OrTt , , lift! WtAisftua Ill 'io AUk HVJO iiUho rMiito Umum inji ra I'Ufc S.MI.0II (Vlutailo vyALm Xtw kUiieo,... , ,. t,wn.n Arisotta ... lea art IWXoU nun Wt of Mll Iff tUtUMT H fctiW. rlatktita MW4 Tul jTrTriwe Of the amount credited to California l0,3.-),0 ) Is r 1 1 dwl and bullion, Uie remalndrr being silver bullion, ores and U bullion. Of the amount credited to Nevada only I.1.M3AI la gold, the remainder being silver and be bullion. TU gfe yield of the varioua nwtala prudocvl In lw), when sgrvol la approximately aa follows : (lHsa ..... rj.r.il Mm. 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