The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-09-29
issued: 1909-05-22
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note: 8Psges—Subscribe for fcjA^ The News. Per Month J^G PROVINCIAL LIBRARY iaila w The Dally News Classified Ads. I are Winners. Try One, per word |(J .m VOL.8 NELSON a. C, S.VTURDAV MORNING. MAY 22, l9» NO. 27 HALF JVHLLION Value of Trail Smelter's Product for April LEAD REFINERY OUTPUT ALMOST QUARTER OF MILLION DOLLAR8 IS VALUE OF GOLD, SILVER AND LEAD RECOVER ED FROM BULLION DURING LAST MONTH. Further evidence of the mineral resources of the Kootenays and the Boundary, but particularly the former, Is afforded by the returns sot the Consolidate Mining and Smelting com- ' svny'e smelter at Trail for April. Daring the month of production of the smelter from the ores treated was $507,068, going close io, If not estab- Usblng a record for the plant Nearly Half of this represents the.output of the company's lead refinery, wher pure lead and gold and silver 999 fine are turned out from bullion produced by the sliver lead furnaces of the smelter. The returns for April bring the smelter's production for the first four months of the current year up to $1,675,000 adn for the ten month's of the company's year, which ends June 30. to $4,088,940. More than half of this represents the value of the output of the refinary during the ten months During April the number of tons of ore received at the smelter was 35,* 490 while the .number of tons treated was 35,496, or six tons more than the receipts. The ore treated yielded 410 tons of copper matte and 2264 tons of lead bullion. The gross value of the smelter's production for the month was as follows: (Sold $214,836 Silver 101,891 Copper .., 44,232 £ead 146,110 Total $507,068 This represents the total value of the copper matte and the lead bullion. tho copper matte which contains copper, gold, some silver as well as other betalss, Is sent elsewhere for further treatment but the lead bullion output ot the smelter is treated at the company's electrolytic refinery at Trail, tbe only plant of its kind ln Canada. From bullion treated by the …
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384025
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text