Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Disadvantage of Richness. [ARTICLE]

Disadvantage of Richness.

A specially rich strike of silver ore in the west is not so profitable to the owner of the mines as an outsider might suppose, partly because it costs more weight for weight to transport rich ore than poor ore from the mine to the smelting furnace. When a mine owner asks a railway company to run in a spur to his mine and seeks to make terms for transportation the first question in reply is: “How much does your ore assay?” The railway’s charge per ton is in proportion to the value of the ore.