Report on Blocking Off Land Along the Railway Line: Also Mineral Statistics for Current Year; For the Year 1898 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James P. Howley

9780365560784: Report on Blocking Off Land Along the Railway Line: Also Mineral Statistics for Current Year; For the Year 1898 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report on Blocking Off Land Along the Railway Line: Also Mineral Statistics for Current Year; For the Year 1898

Antimony. A visit to the antimony mine at Moreton's Harbor last spring, and a close examination of the property convinced me that it was a valuable deposit. The census returns for-1891 give 80 tons of ore valued at whereas the Customs returns only show a value of fer the same year and for the year previous or a total of These are the only figures I could procure, and they are evidently not much to be relied upon. While at the mine last year I was informed that about 150 tons of ore had been shipped therefrom altogether, and some eight or ten tons were then on the ground in a dump near the entrance to the main drift and at the inner end of the same drift.

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