300,000 98,000 31 May, 1898 The Yukon-Klondike Co-operative Mining Company of Ontario. 11 Jan., 1898 The Zenith Gold Mining Company of Ontario...... 9 March, 1898 .. has been 1,171, with an area of 81,618 acres, and the number leased has been 1,908 with an area of 196,453 acres,-being in all 3.079 locations with an area of 278,071 acres. The revenue derived from lands sold during the seven years has been $172,307, and from the first year's rent of lands leased $192,043.66. Adding rents paid subsequent to the first year of leases ($31,111.03), the total revenue from lands sold and leased has been $395,461.69, which together with miners' licenses, fees, etc., collected in the Michipicoton Mining Division in 1897 8 ($6,244.50) make an aggregate for the seven years of $401,706.06, or an annual average of $57,386 58. The following tables give details by districts of mining lands sold and leased in 1898. The number of workmen employed in brick and tile yards was 2,622, or nearly 800 more than in 1896. Separate statistics are given for pressed brick and terra cotta, and as will be seen by the following table for the eight years 1891-8 there is little sign of revival in the production of these materials. Two or three of the works had been closed down owing to lack of demand for pressed brick, but work has been resumed at one or two of these and it is likely that the output of this year will show an increase. The average rate of wages in natural rock cement works rose from $207 to $315 during the period. and in Portland cement works from $303 to $451, while for both classes of works the aggregate of wages paid for labor grew from $44,878 in the first year to $128,134 in the last, being an increase of 185 per cent. The product of all cement works has grown from 85,903 barrels in 1894, valued at $109,834, to 244.876 barrels in 1898, valued at $376,318, being an increase of 173 per cent. in quantity and of 243 per cent. in value. There has been a slight fall in values per barrel, the average of natu al rock being 88 cents in 1894 and 81 cen's in 1898, while the average of Portland in 1894 was $2 and in 1898 $1.96. The statistics of Portland cement for 1898, it should be stated, includes 18,400 barrels of Silica Portland, valued at $32,200 which accounts for the apparent fall in value per barrel of Portland. It will be noticed that the trade has undergone a marked change in this short period of four years, the imports from Great Britian having fallen off from 64 to 29 per cent. of the whole, whi e those from the United States have increased from 12 to 16 per cent. and from all other countries from 24 to 55 per cent. of the whole. Practically all imports; except those from Great Britain and the United States come from Belgium and Germany, the former having last year supplied cement to the value of about $150,000 and the latter to the value of about $50,000. The amount of duty paid was $124,868.65. being $121,968.58 on Portland and $2,900.07 on all other kinds. The total quantity im. ported last year, including what was not entered for consumption, was 1,153,640 cwt. of Portland and 11,713 cwt, of other kinds, In 1897 the total value of distilled products was $1,777,591, and in 1898 it was .statistics. $1,970,534. In 1896 the value of Comparative distilled products was $832,187 more than the value of crude, being an appreciation by treatment of 74 per cent. In 1897 the appreciation was $710,463, or 67 per cent.. and in 1898 it was $847,733, or 75 per cent. Last year it was supposed that the lower rate of appreciation in 1897 was a result of tariff changes, but this view is not supported by the statistics of 1898. The average rate of wages was lower last year than in either of the previous years, being $482.68 against $540.83 in 1897 and $541.33 in 1896; but no doubt this is a consequence of a closing down of three of the plants in the latter part of last year. The average number of workmen employed at the refineries was 546 and the amount paid for labor $263,5 6. In 1897 the number was 364 and the amount paid for wages $196,965.70. The proportion of refined products obtained from the crude is shown in the following table for the seven years 1892-98, and inof Products dicates in a general way the progress that has been made in the processes of distillation during that period : Percentages Refined. |