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Sentences ending with ton

A week or two ago an assay of just such surface developments made returns of seven thousand dollars to the ton. [5]
I was at the Gould and Curry mine, the other day, and they had two or three tons of choice rock piled up, which was valued at $20,000 a ton. [5]
The conveyance from Star City (its locality) to Virginia City will cost seventy dollars per ton; from Virginia to San Francisco, forty dollars per ton; from thence to Liverpool, its destination, ten dollars per ton. [5]
As the fragment prospected weighed rather less than an ounce, this would give about $500 to the ton. [5]
In sixteen hundred pounds crude cotton four hundred are lint, worth, say, ten cents a pound; and twelve hundred pounds of seed, worth $12 or $13 per ton. [5]
On the authority of such assays its newspaper correspondents were frothing about rock worth four and seven thousand dollars a ton! [5]
I will remark here, in all seriousness, that the regular price of hay during that year and a part of the next was really two hundred and fifty dollars a ton. [5]
A very common calculation is that many of our mines will yield five hundred dollars to the ton. [5]
The other day an assay of mere croppings yielded exceeding four thousand dollars to the ton. [5]
And he was a skeleton no longer, but weighed part of a ton. [5]

Sentences containing ton two or more times

Very often, that piece, the size of a filbert, was the only fragment in a ton that had a particle of metal in it--and yet the assay made it pretend to represent the average value of the ton of rubbish it came from! [5]
During a part of the previous year it had sold at five hundred a ton, in gold, and during the winter before that there was such scarcity of the article that in several instances small quantities had brought eight hundred dollars a ton in coin! [5]
By these wagons, freights over that hundred and fifty miles were $200 a ton for small lots (same price for all express matter brought by stage), and $100 a ton for full loads. [5]

More example sentences with the word ton in them

Sometimes a man would gather up all the iron fragments and unbursted shells in his neighborhood, and pile them into a kind of monument in his front yard--a ton of it, sometimes. [5]
At $10 per ton, or $100 per car, which would be a fair price for the distance by rail, the freight bill would amount to $180,000, or $162,000 more by rail than by river. [5]
It were better to give five hundred pound a ton for those grosse Commodities in Denmarke, then send for them hither, till more necessary things be provided. [4]
Nobody knew what to do with it; so it was sold at 15 a ton, to light fires with. [5]
I can put the ore right there, I can send the coke back from here in cars which would otherwise be empty, and manufacture tubes at eight dollars a ton less than they are selling. [9]
I was told that this factory could retail its ice, by wagon, throughout New Orleans, in the humblest dwelling-house quantities, at six or seven dollars a ton, and make a sufficient profit. [5]
Their idea is that its conglomerate metals will reimburse them their cost of original extraction, the price of transportation, and the expense of reduction, and that then a ton of the raw ore will net them twelve hundred dollars. [5]
Rock which yields ten or twelve dollars a ton is considered plenty rich enough. [5]
Rock taken from ten feet below the surface on the other part of the discovery, has yielded $150.00 to the ton in the mill and we are at work 300 feet from their shaft. [5]
He drove a team, and owned a small ranch--a ranch that paid him a comfortable living, for although it yielded but little hay, what little it did yield was worth from $250 to $300 in gold per ton in the market. [5]
There were three stages a day, each way, and I have seen the out-going stages carry away a third of a ton of bullion each, and more than once I saw them divide a two-ton lot and take it off. [5]
The Genuine Mexican Plug had eaten a ton of the article, and the man said he would have eaten a hundred if he had let him. [5]
Among truly elegant people of the highest ton, you will find more real equality in social intercourse than in a country village. [6]
But if he offer to sell me a ton of this lunar cheese, I call on him to prove the truth of the Gaseous nature of our satellite, before I purchase. [6]
In the course of an hour the result came--whereby it appeared that a ton of that rock would yield $1,184.40 in silver and $366.36 in gold! [5]
In the course of a year half a ton of diamonds pass under the scales there and sleep on that counter; the resulting money is $18,000,000 or $20,000,000. [5]
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. [5]
I do not know that one ton of the ore has been converted into current metal. [5]
It sometimes came in sailing vessels from New England as ballast; and then, if there happened to be a man-of-war in port and balls and suppers raging by consequence, the ballast was worth six hundred dollars a ton, as is evidenced by reputable tradition. [5]
I wish now, however, to make an honest statement, which is that I do not believe, in all my checkered career, I stole a ton of peaches. [5]
Fool, I should have weighed a ton, and could not have budged from the floor; but instead, you are so cheerfully anxious to kill me that your conscience is as light as a feather; hence I am away up here out of your reach. [5]
The belated By-law has a sufficiently quiet look, but it has a ton of dynamite in it. [5]
The contractor's workmen had arrived in the early afternoon, he had seen the first ton of debris removed from the ruins of the historic mill, and it was crowned by the gold Cock of Beaugard, all grimy with the fire, but jaunty as of yore. [11]
Of course the fire-assay would demonstrate that a ton of such rock would yield hundreds of dollars--and on such assays many an utterly worthless mine was sold. [5]
An ounce of eyesight is worth a ton of print. [11]
These troublesome and expensive scientific methods achieve a yield of a ton and a half and from that to two tons, to the acre; which is three or four times what the yield of an acre was in my time. [5]
There must have been half a ton of it. [5]
You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther. [5]
We never found any ore that would yield more than fifty dollars a ton; and as the mills charged fifty dollars a ton for working ore and extracting the silver, our pocket-money melted steadily away and none returned to take its place. [5]
It is worth about $300 per ton, unassorted; assorted, the finest grades are worth about $1,000. [5]
General quantity at a meal--say about--" "Well, anywhere from a quarter to half a ton. [5]

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