Hinton Arizona Ghost Trails

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-98826-081-9
Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 90 Seiten

Reihe: Classics To Go

From Handbook to Arizona 1877- Info about mining, trails, advice to emigrants, Guide to trails and available water. (Amazon)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinton, Richard J.

Leseproben

APPENDIX
Table Showing the Value of any Amount of Gold Dust, from 1 grain to 10 ounces, at $16 to $23 per ounce.
OUNCES. No. $16.00
per oz. $17.00
per oz. $18.00
per oz. $19.00
per oz. $20.00
per oz. $21.00
per oz. $22.00
per oz. $23.00
per oz. 1 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 3 48 51 54 57 60 63 66 69 4 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 5 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 6 96 102 108 114 120 126 132 138 7 112 119 126 133 140 147 154 161 8 128 136 144 152 160 168 176 184 9 144 153 162 171 180 189 198 207 10 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 PENNYWEIGHTS. 1 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 2 160 175 180 190 200 210 220 230 3 240 255 270 285 300 315 330 345 4 320 340 360 380 400 420 440 460 5 400 425 450 475 500 525 550 575 6 480 510 540 570 600 630 660 690 7 560 595 630 665 700 735 770 805 8 640 680 720 760 800 840 880 920 9 720 765 810 855 900 945 990 1035 10 800 850 900 950 1000 1050 1100 1150 GRAINS. 1 3? 3½ 3¾ 4 4? 4? 4½ 4¾ 2 6? 7 7½ 8 8? 8? 9 9½ 3 10 10½ 11¼ 12 12½ 13 13½ 14¼ 4 13? 14 15 16 16? 17? 18 19 5 16? 17½ 18¾ 20 20? 21? 22½ 23¾ 6 20 21 22½ 24 25 26 27 28½ 7 23? 24½ 26¼ 28 29? 30? 31½ 33¼ 8 26? 28 30 32 33? 34? 36 38 9 30 31½ 33¾ 36 37½ 39 40½ 42¾ 10 33? 35 37½ 40 41? 43? 45 47½ Out of a ton of ore from the Stonewall Jackson Mine, adjoining the General Lee, in the Globe District, (Arizona) there was extracted October 25th, by the Pacific Refinery, San Francisco, ten bars of silver valued at $3,800, which is over 36 per cent. metallic copper. At Clinton, Arizona, the great copper mining center, the Longfellow Company have two furnaces running, and turn out as high as 10,000 pounds of pig copper daily. The furnaces used are Bennett’s patent. Arizona has, without doubt, the richest and most extensive copper mines in the world. This metal is all shipped east by way of El Moro. The Ores of Gold and Silver.
NAME. COMPOSITION. Native gold Gold; silver up to 40 per cent.; copper and iron. Quicksilver Mercury, with sometimes a little silver. Amalgam Silver, 26 to 35; mercury, 74 to 65. Arquerite Silver, 87; mercury, 13. Gold Amalgam Mercury, 58 to 61; silver, 0 to 5; gold, 38 to 42. Native silver Silver, alloyed with other metals. Bismuth Bismuth, 27; lead, 33; silver, 15; iron, 4; copper, 1; sulphur, 16. Native copper Pure copper, with small quantity of silver through it. Tellurium Tellurium, with gold and iron, varying quantities. Antimony Antimony, containing at times silver, iron, or arsenic. Discrasite Antimony, 23; silver, 77. Silver glance Sulphur, 13; silver, 87. Naumannite Selenium, 27; silver, 73. Eucairite Selenium, 32; copper, 25; silver, 43. Hessite Tellurium, 37; silver, 63. Stromeyrite Sulphur, 16; silver, 53; copper, 31. Sylvanite Tellurium, 56; gold, 28; silver, 16. Nagyagite Tellurium, 13 to 32; lead, 51 to 61; gold, 6 to 9. Sternbergite Sulphur, 34; silver, 32; iron, 34. Miargyrite Sulphur, 21; antimony, 43; silver, 36. Pyrargyrite, or ruby silver Sulphur, 18; antimony, 23; silver, 59. Proustite, or ruby silver Sulphur, 20; arsenic, 15; silver, 65. Freieslebenite Sulphur, 19; antimony, 27; lead, 30; silver, 24 Tetrahedrite, or gray copper Sulphur, arsenic, antimony, silver, copper, iron, zinc, and mercury, in most varying proportions. Polybasite Sulphur, 16; antimony, 13; silver, 71. Stephanite Sulphur, 16; antimony, 14; silver, 70. Xanthocone Sulphur, 21; arsenic, 15; silver, 64. Fireblende Sulphur, antimony, with silver, up to 62 per cent. Cerargyrite, or horn silver Chlorine, 25; silver, 75. Embolite Chlorine, 13; bromine, 20; silver, 67. Megabromite Chlorine, 9; bromine, 27; silver, 64. Mikrobromite Chlorine, 18; bromine, 12; silver, 70. Bromyrite, or bromic silver Bromine, 43: silver, 57. Iodyrite, or iodic sliver Iodine, 54; silver, 46. Jalpaite Copper and silver glance. Acanthite Sulphuret of silver. Crookesite Copper, thallium, silver, and selenium. Charles P. Stanton, geologist, writes to the Prescott “Miner,” under date of Nov. 9th, 1877, as follows: The great carboniferous basin of Arizona—and in all probability of the world—exists within 140 miles of Prescott. This immense coal deposit makes its first appearance in Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico; but its great nucleus extends from Tierra Ausarilla, in Rio Arriba, New Mexico, to the Colorado River, a distance of 276 miles, and from the San Juan River, a distance of...