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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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pounds, value $2,169.14, 990 fine, was shown, whichwas run from 241 pounds of the ore. This ore is all from the minesof the Sierra Grande company. The output at present is at the rateof about $5,000,000 per annum. Percha district, where the recent new discovery was made, wasrepresented by one piece of ore weighing 150 pounds, value $1,800, 504 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST, laken from the Solitaire claim, bonded by H. A. W. Tabor for $ioo,-ooo. It is a sulphide of silver and native silver, running sixty-nine percent in the pure metal. This is probably the largest piece of sulphideof silver ever discovered. A smaller piece of equal richness was exhib-ited, in which the grass roots were seen. * The Organ district was represented by about thirty mines, ofwhich we can mention only a few. Copper Duke, eight feet wide,discovered in September, nine feet of development, runs forty to sixtyper cent in copper and as high as $150,000 gold. This was one ofthe most remarkable free gold specimens shown.
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LAKE VALLEY SMELTING WORKS. From Ritchs Illustrated New Mexico ^e extract the follow-ing :— There is, however, one young giant among the mining campswhich has so wonderfully and so recently come into existence, andthe fact with reference to which, read so much like a chapter fromthe Arabian Nights Entertainments, that we here transfer an extractfrom a paper prepared by an able pen, and in which statement thewriter hereof, who has personally visited and examined the camp inquestion, is prepared to verify. There are at Daly (now Lake Valley) not less than 7,000 tonsof ore on the dumps, running from $100 to $20,000 to the ton; and MARVELS OF MINING. 505 in the mines, already uncovered and exposed to view, there are cer-tainly not less than 20,000 tons more of the same kind and richerore. We believe we saw, in the two hours it took us to view themines, not less than ^15,000,000 worth of ore. That running from$200 to ^300 to the ton is classed as low grade in this camp. Thepay begins at

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