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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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y in 1881 for one million five himdred thousand dollars.In 1884 its output was one million two hundred eighty-7iine thousandsix Jiundred eighty-five dollars and tJiirty-four cents ($1,289,685.34).Its monthly yield when the Washington mint director reported lastwas nearly one hundred thousand dollars. The Algonquin yields one hundred and fifty thousand dollars perannum. The Alta and the Comet mines together produced three Jnuidredforty-tJiree thousand four Jiundred forty-eight dollars ($343,448) in asingle year, over and above all expenses. The mines of the Helena Company yielded one million one JiundredtJiousand dollars ($i,ioo,ooo) in 1884. The Alice has produced $100,000 per month ; the Gloster, $50,000per month; the Cable has yielded $1,000,000. and has $1,500,000 insight. The Elkhorn produced in ten months, ending Dec. 31, 1884,one Jiundred seventy tJiousand six Jiundred ninety-six dollars. The Valdemere, which began work in 1883, \)^\^ five Jiundred fifty MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.
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MARVELS OF MINING. 499 thousand dollars in dividends in eighteen months, and has continuedto pay at this rate. The Moulton is capitalized at two million dollars (^2,000,000), andyielded, in 1883, tJirce hundred seventy-six thousand six hundredeighty-four dollars and twenty cents ($376,684.20) ; and in 1884 itsoutput was over seven Jiundred tJiousand dollars. The Bell mine yielded four Jiundred fifty thousand dollars in1884. The illustration of Red Mountain exhibits one of the most impor-tant undeveloped mining regions of the United States. A writersays : — This mineral field covers an area of about twelve miles square,and contains vast deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and tin. Thedistrict was discovered about twenty years ago, and there are nownearly three hundred mineral locations, and it may be truthfully saidthat it is the most important undeveloped mineral field in Montana,or even in the United States. Of course the scenery is surpassingly grand. The editor of theMontaiia

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