Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1887 — Cornwall Tin. [ARTICLE]

Cornwall Tin.

Dolcoath is the name by which the oldest and the deepest tin mine in the world is known. It is situated at Camborne, in the west of Cornwall. In the early part of the present century it was noted for its enormous production of copper ore, the sales of this mineral having amounted to about £5,000,000. It now produces tin only. In the interval between copper and tin, about the years a period in the sinking when the two minerals were so blended that they could not be separated so as to make them marketable, the whole mine could have been purchased for £3.000. The market value of the same to-day is £470,000 (4,700 shares at £IOO each); set that each sum of £SO invested in it thirty years ago is now worth £7,000, and receives dividends amounting to about £SOO a year! The produce for some two or three years past has been forty to fifty tons of tin per week, obtained chiefly from one of the eight-or ten lodes in the mine. Many persons fancy themselves friendly when they are on y officious. They counsel not so much that you should become wise as that they should be recognized as teachers of wisdom.