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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, March 1,1905:
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ANOTHER PIC1URE
OF PROSPECTOR
Here he comes, with his overalls
or oorduroyH well marked with gouge
or greate, usually both. Hii whls
item are ragged and be baH it hungry
physiognomy. Linton to hie tale of
Hones to bu acquired If only tbe bolo
oould ba sunk deeper. Who is tbe
cuss? .Sometimes be la an individual
who oould resurroet a HheepHkiu Is
sued by Mr. 101 lot of Harvard.
Ofteuer he Ih a plain Amorluari citi
zen with little schooling, but verHcd
in tbe lore of individuiJ oontniot and
being up against it.
Nutty? Not much only horn
with the pointier instiuot the wan
during foot the ear whlob hoars only
the call uf the wild. Many of them?
Hi, Honor ; many. lOvury boy who
hacks IiIh naiiie on a fence with a
jiiok-knlfo Ik a relative of Untile!
lioouo, the himiio who in hiu Kentucky
but this la due to abundance of
water, and not to scaroit of ore.
There la in immense amount of Reed
ore above the preuent water level,
sufficient to last for many yeara,
and it would have been manifest
foolhbueatJ to continue costly opera
tloufl at depth when there was plenty
to be done with much larger margin
of profit. The men who are moBt
familiar with the distriut are ho con
fident in tbe ooutinuauce of the ore
bodies that they are planning to cut
them at dopths of 1,500 to 2,000
feet. Thla work Ih being planned
and undertaken, not by viBiotiariea,
but by men of practical mining
experience, who are using tbeir own
resource to back their convictions.
Mining Investor.
$49,000,000
GUGGENHEIM CO.
MINERAL PRODUCTS
IN UNITED STATES
cave out "I). II. " on the rook wall
of his refuge from HavageH, thero to
be read with wistful focllugH by Mioho
who now dwell in fair Kentucky.
The proHpector Ih alwaya a liar.
He cannot help it. The bright hiiii
Hhlue refleolH from the Htiow uiiishch
which cover IiIh beloved rockH, the
viihI HtrechcH of mountain ranges,
looking like a froen ocean spread
before him iih he gazes from a star
striking peak, the vivid sunaetH which
hoadmlruHalmoHt daily, theoxnggora
tiotiH of the atmoHphere, IiIh natural
Hxhuborauce and abnormal hump of
hope all the.se make him a liar even
with hliiiMelf.
Hlt'MHiul be the proHpector; and may
he, when IiIh dava are numbered, do
part to a realm where every rift In
the clouds discloses to his fiiHoiuated
eye a pay streak of gold, and may he
at least depart to a place wheie there
are plenty of canned HoHtou baked
beaiiH, and a HUlllcleuoy of baking
powder, how bosom and flour, for the
proHpector Ih the man who IIikIh the
miiieH that furulHli the gold for the
world to do business on. Curse him
not, ye lulldolH. (Juuter, Colorado,
(luidnii.
Deep Mining in Cripple Creek.
To predict the future yield of any
mining district Ih h dllllcult tusk
becaiiHe the conditions under which
incut ores are deposited are aa yet
too imperfectly understood, and the
deponlHt theuiHolveH are usully too
erratic in form and diHtri button to
give ceortltudo to aiich predictioiiH,
itveu when they are baHed upon a
careful study of the history and
present condition of the district.
It Ih agreed by practical mining men
that only actual work underground
cau definitely determine what there
la in the way ol mineral bodies. In
Cllr.lu county, Colorado, it wIih de
clared at one time that 1,00(1 feet
from the hii rf ace wiih the limit of the
paying ones, yet in tbe C'ullfnlinlu
mine, the shaft wiih sunk more t tin n
twice that depth without (Uncovering
any materiel diminution, either in
quantity or Uiilily of the mineral.
At Cripple Creek, the docpont tdnift Ih
on the Aiiieiicun Niiglo nt l.fiOO feet.
The Mliielienrd Ih almont that deep
and the Last Dollar over 1,'J00 feet
deep, all without essential change
of ore. At 1,100 feet in the Cold
Coin the oie Ih stronger mil better
thau It win above. It la true that
opetatoi-H have thus far coiiliued their
work to the onus above 1,000 feet,
The United States geological uurvoy
divlelon of tho department of the
Interior, Iiiih, under the direction of
David T. Daly, chief of the division,
and by authority of Hon. Charles D.
Waolott, director of the miut, com
pilod and iHUied an elaborate tabu
luted statement, Hhowiug the min
eral products of the United States for
the calendar yeara 1801 to 100.'), In
oIuhIvo, with a capitulation showing
the total value of mineral products
hIiico 1H80. Tho metallio products,
such iih iron, sliver, gold, copper,
lead., etc., for 180-1 were 218,:i82,
110. During tho succeeding seven
years the increase was gradual, until
the production in 10011 reached
121,:tlH,008. Oddly enough, there
was no metallic tin produced lu this
ci uutry during the period named,
except 20 short tons of coucoutrates
shipped from South Carolina in 15)011.
'eil.k flt-.. I. I I 1.1 VlM.t.l .l.tftu U.Wlll ..L
.in iiiiii-iiimiiiuu 1'iuiiuiivn, nuuu lin
coal, clay, nhraslvo materials, pig
monts, etc., amounted to $ni!7,007,
270 lu 1801, with it phenomenal rate
of iuoroiiHO until iu 100!), dii-lug
which year the total was $1,110,
7 'J I. Ti (III.
The gold production during this
period wiih 9:i0,r00,000 iu 1801 and
7:i, 00 1,700 in lOOil, the rate of
yearly increase being almost mathe
matically exact.
The total value of miueral pro
ducts, metallic uou-metallic and
uiiHpecilled, was in 1880, f.'IOO.IUO,
000. This increase was gradual uu-
til 1802, during which year produc
tion dropped nearly ninety millions
below the output of the previous
year.
The total product for the last
quarter of a century has been 10,.
00f), 180,278.
BLACK SUITE MILL
IS RUNNING AGAIN
M. Dexter, engineer of the lllack
Kutte company, received word Satur
day to report tor duty at once, as
milling Iiiih been resumed. The
cleanup was mid to have been tho
best yet madc.--Cirent County News.
( itinera! Manager O. C Wright,
who lecently returned to his head
quarters iu humpter from a visit to
the lilack llutte mine, confirms the
anove news. He says that cold
weather uecessitiated a short shut
down, during which time under
grouud work was kept up. He ex
pects a profitable spriug seasou of
operations at the lilack llutte
placers.
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A press dispatch from New Vork,
dated tbe 20th instant, says: The
terms under which control of the
Guggenheim Exploration company
will pass Into tbe hands of tbe Ameri
can Smelting fc Refining company
have practically been settled. It is
proposed to form a joint corporation
with a capital of 140,000,000, hair
of which is to be 0 per cent cumu
lative preferred aud half common
stock. Tho preferred shares are to
bo divided into two clases, series A
and H. Of "A," 817,000,000 will
be issued, and of "D," $7,000,000.
It ib proposed to increaeo the A
stocks by 85,500,000 at some future
day, making the entire hsue of pre
ferred uhare 8:10,000,000.
The exploration compauy will turn
over to the new corporation its major
ity holdings In the Wostoru Mining
company of Colorado, the Velardeua
Mining & Smelting company of'
Mexico, all tho stock of the- Federal
Lead company of Missouri, and the
shares of various othor properties,
located chiefly iu Mexiao.
After spreading out until it has
domiuated tho smelting industry of
two continents, the American Smelt
ing &. Refining company ia now
branching out to acquire the mining
properties owned by the Cuaggeubeim
Exploration compauy. It was tbe
Guggenheim family that created the
sraeltiug trust, aud at tbe same time
tbe (lUggeuheitiH formed their ex
ploration company, as a separate
concern to operate iu tuiuoe. Gold-silver-lead-oopper
mines in Mexico
aud Coloiado have been its Hold.
It was organized in June, 1800,
under the laws of New Jersey, with
a capital of 817,000,00, shares
810 par aud 810.500,000 issued. I
The American Smelting it Refining
compauy was organized iu April,
1800, with a capital of 8100,000,
000, half couimou aud half 7 per
cent preference cumulative shares.
It owns smelters ill ovor tho United
States. Mexico aud Cnile. It re
cently bought the Everett smelter
from Charles Sweeny's foderal com
pany. Tho smeltiug trust so thoroughly
domiuates tbe load industry that it
handles a big majority of the output
from tbe Coeur d'Alono miuea, and
has a close airaugemeut with the
Federal Miuiug A Smelting compauy.
Under Its influence tbe price of lead
has been held steady around 4 '
ceuts for mouths aud the public pays
a higher price for lead thau before
the combine became effective. It
was tbe desire of the smelting trust,
however, to securo control of tbe
mining situation more completely by
gettiug direct ownership of the mines
owned by the Guggenheim Explora
tion compauy.
There Iihh been some gossip lately
cuai me uuggonnoim compauy ex
pects to get control of the Mon
treal & llostoti Copper company's
properties near Phoenix and Houu
dary Falls, ilritish Columbia.
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