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Another design of furnace long found favor, in the upper Harz region; this the so-called raschette furnace of rectangular build, with a row of tuyeres on either side. It was a" furnace much Iike
Fig. 2-Remains of Burton Furnace·
Overman supplies an illustration of the Scotch slag furnace as at that time used for smelting leady material both in Eng land and in this c·ountry. This furnace is mentioned by Percy, While the follow ing details are fI\)m Phillips: The furnace is commonly called the "slag hearth." From the front back to the tUYere it measures about thirty inches; width is twenty-two inches; height a little over three fee·t. Cast iron pJates form ~he bed of the crucible an
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one of theSe is ignited and thrown before furnace, near Council Hill, Illinois. DurinI' the tuyer. When the peat has thus become the summer of 1908 the furnace was used fa:rly ignited, coke is thrown in; and as for the last time, since when it is being soon as th:13 appears
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Ilrn out so as to require repairs \three montihs. apen aX ,the top, nd fuel are thrown in promiscuou1> ,r the iron door is an escape for and ''.black slag." In front of ~ and below it is the "slag l,>()t." )blong iron bas;n about a foot in :h one-third of Its length partition receivetihe lead, Wh!Ch sInks as 3, wbile the slag, being lighter, flame-colored stream forward, and a reservoir that is partly filled Jr, whkh cools the slag as it is herein. As the reservoir fills, a shovels the scoriae Into a hand ,d wheels it off." w come to water-cooled furnaces. H. B. PULSIFER, r Institqte of Technology, Chi (To Be Continued.) ---0
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izen, AmeriCan Fork, Utah.) J apparently an off year, as far 19 the mines are concerned, but 1 development work, and mine le ore shipments are telling their ~dnesday
of tID'S week the Guss Lease on Miller hill shipped a of high-grade or.e to the smelter. ,others to follow from that mine. still taking out ore, with pros 19ht for the shipments to continue t the season. !,CHic company sent out a 55-ton '. conSisting of the best ore taken canyon in recent years. . It is the car will net the company O. They are working a gooa force nave another big car load ready wo weeks. An officer of the com 'med the writer that the pre3ent "ould payoff all their obligations, a thousand dollars in the treas· . really looked as if dividends for olders would soon be a reality. ~others' Dutchman lease Is still ore, and will 'Soon be able to second shipment to the market. lkee is now producing ore and ams on the road to bring down ar load for this season. onaid is also one of our ship. lon, and several 10aiL3 of fine ore me down from the mine. er Flat has a small force of .
'H,kly mail route 'between New· and Ely, Nevada, has been re he contract having been Jet to lon, of Garrison, Utah.
CONDENSED ESSAY ON COAL
By ROLLA B. CLAPP, B. M., B. C.
(Continued from last issue.) The word anthracite de rived from the old Greek words anthrax (coal) and anthrakites (resembling coal.) A variety of mineral coal; someUmes called coalstone; and owing to its resemblance of, and sub-texture' of bitumen, is sometimes called limestone; and also called glance, owing to its splendid metallic lustre. Its hardness is 2 .to 2.5; Its speCific gravity, 1.32 to 1.70; lustre, sub-metallic; colour, iron. 'black, often irredescent. Contains eighty to ninety-six per cent of carbon and burns with a pale red, feeble flame; found in extensive deposits in the Appalachian range. Contains sometimes, slight partl· cles of ferricpyrites (a composition of suI· phur and iron.)' (Free·burning Anthracite.) A variety of • anthracite inteMllediate between anthra cite and bituminous coals; containing less ·carbon and a greater per cent of hydrogen, also crystals or nodules of pyrites and sllice-' OUS, or other earthy impurities; especially this variety consists of compressed and f::hemically ,\altered Vegetable matter, be· ing chieflY the extract of the lycopodiace ous species of tree or gmwth, togeth'er wLth several other known specie, among them being cons:derable decomposed pulp of peat. As the vegetable matter accumu· lated, hydrogen and oxygelf were evolved, together with some' of the carbon By the relative proportion of carbon, the vegetable fibre decreased to possibly one-sixteenth of the original bulk, the heaviest decrease of bulk, and increase of carbon, as one· sixteenth has created anthracite, be:ng the greatest percentage of carbon and the least percentage of oxygen. The carbonaceous strata, containing'less than eighty pel' cent car,bon, takes its place with the bituminous varieties of coal, and then generally a 'minimum percentage of eighty Mr cent is classed as bitumin· ous; and the higher per cent of carbon, as anthracite. By the operation of lateral pressur!l on coal measures more hydrogen has ·been driven off, and the coal metamor phosed into anthracite. Other coals origi nally contained such carbon, 'hence the fundamental conditions producing the many varieties of coals. Bituminous. A var;ety of sUjJmineral coal. ConSisting of many varieties, the various grades being designated according .to the constituents ()If the general colllJlound; carbon being the fundamental component part, hence classification ·being adjudged a.ccording to the percentage of carbon con tained in the aggregate; coals which burn with a yellow or pale Ted·blue sooty flame, and on distillation gives out a hydrocar Anthracite.
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bon tar (coal-tar). Fossil fuel is generally bituminous when 'burnt, condensed by the decomposition of vegetable matter and the resulting combinations of hydrogen and carbon. Bituminous coals classified and characterized by the excess of hydrocar bon in the compound. Sometimes sntcious and other metaH!c or sub·met generally cla:3Sed as bitum· inous (gas coal). It may ,be distingulshe
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Bog·Head Coal. A very soft kind of bl· tuminous or semi-anthracite showing strong evidence of the wood having originally de composed in an impervious sub-soil, having a great excess of water. Highly decom posed and compressed of dts hydrocrabons. Probably of the Neozoic age. Caking- Coal. (Native coke.) A common variety of bituminous coal. Occurs in a more compact form than artificia,l coke. Variety of "mother-coal," hydrocarbon, or native charcoal of a slightly greater ex ~ss of ,hydrocarbon than "charcoal;" alos an excess of earthy impurities, as ash, shale and' pyrites. Cherry-Coal. A common variety of bi tuminous coal, s,o named from its red-brown colour of fracture caused by an execss or sulphur. A variety of native charcoal layers (imother-coal) and ;hydrocaroon. Chemical alteration and decomposition act ing upon a vegetable variety of fern, un known to other coals, pO'Ssibly ehe phenop teris fern, not having been completely de stroyed by fructfication. Splint-Coal. A variety of bituminous; splintery and non-caking coal, has a high percentage of carbon and a minimum amount of bituminous substance as com pared with the common bituminous coals. Sometimes classified as a semi·anthracite owing to this stated cause; also c1ased as a charcoal or mother-coal layer. Albertite. A variety of .bitum!nous (gas coal or Tock oil), containing a heavy percentage of bituminous substance, com morrly classified as a decarbonized as phaltum variety. It fuses imperfectly when heated, throwing down a heavy sinter mat ter.. Contains also 'a slight percentage of impurities, as ash, pyrites, etc. Dysodll. (Gas coal). A variety of coal, which might be classified as a bituminous coal composed of spores (tips of the th::eads of fungi-sporidium). While burning a very fetid smell eSCapes; found in masses of thin layers of a light pale green or yellowDecomposed a ish-gray-colour. from strickly fungi or sporium, compressed and chemically altered, evolving hydrogen and oxygen; a small quantity of carbon, to gether with a slight quantity of pyrites. Tasminite. A variety of bitmu!nous coal, occurring in small discs or nodules in lami nated shale, sometimes called shale-coal; has a hardness of 2.0 and specific gravity 1.Ui; a resinous lustre, redish-brown colour. It is essentially a mineral, insoluble in alcohol, benzole, ethene, etc. Contains car bon, 71.8 to 7921; hydrogen, 10_23 ot 11.83, sulphur, 5.28 to 9.81; oxygen, 5.28 to 6.56. Bettre·Red-Coal. A. ,arlety -of common bituminous. Name commonly used to define a dysodil coal, of a spore of sporidum fungi growth. Containing an excess of carbon over dysodil coal. White-Coal. White-coal (Fleingites' coal) a 'variety of recent deco,mposed carbonifer
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ous plant; will ignite, but gives off com paratively little heat; very disagreeable 'Odor. The carboniferous plants are allied to Lepidodendron, have large macrosporea at the base of cone ani microspores at the apex; Sporangia FunIT·. Semi·Bituminous-Coal. This is a coal sometimes called bitumen-coal, from tne fact that a cons:derabte liquid substance may be shown in the fracture or cleavage, but the name semi-bituminous-coal is im properly used in this manner, as the last named should suffice to cover its composi tion. In fact, the name semi-bituminous should in all instances apply to such coals as have a partial loss of hydrogen and car· bon by chemical change or alteration. Steam-Coal. Generally used for locomo tion steam production; sometimes classi fied as anthracite; hydrocarbon prac.ucally eliminated by change or alteration chemi cally destroyed by compression. Coke. Nature.! coke is more solid, and compact than atrificial coke. An impure variety of amorphous carbon containing earthy materials, generally sulphur. A por ous l>UlOG.tance, will float on water, has a specific gravity, when saturated, of 1.65 ttl 1.95. Natural coke, containing a greater quantity' of impurities is, by use, replaced almost entirely by artific:al coke; being also an amorphous carbon. But by burn ing to iltS afltificial state, from bituminous coals, impurities and sulphur have been eli minated. It is porous and will float on water until saturated, then it sinks; spe cifiC gravity about 1.8. In the creation of coal-gas dt is the residue after all gas has been distilled from the coal. As it produces an intense heat, by rapid ignition, when burnt, and gives off no smoke or gas. it !s much used in smelting of ores and in all chemical laboratories, in analyzing by fire. Coal-Naphtha. Coal-naphtha is obtained by the distillation of coal-tar. being an oily Liquid (commonly classified as ben zole). It is purified by agitating with caustic soda to extract the phenol and cresols; than rectified, by which it is sep arated into a heavy ore, contain.ing much naphtholene. and a liquid which is purified by agitation with sulphuric acid and redi stilled; by fractional distillation it first yields a mixture of benzine and carbon disulphide and olefin.es, etc., at 80 0 chIefly benzine C"H., about 113° toluene, at 142 0 xylene, and at 170 0 impure cumene. Kreasote. (Creasote) obtained by the distillation of coal- tar or wood-tar (crea so.tum). It is a colourless liquid, with a strong empyreumatic odor, when distilled from wood-tar; but a dark sticky sub stance, with a fetid odor, when distilled from coal-tar. A powerful antiseptic sol uble in water, alcohol and glacial acetic acid, it coagulates albumen, and turns the plane of polarization of a ray of polarized light to the light. Is used to preparemis·
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tura creasoti, unguentum creasoti and va· por creasoti. Wood dipped into it, when ex])cosed to tdle terrestrial and celestrlal conditions will resist decomposition a great period of time. (Coal-tar-creasote.) Wood-tar creasote is distilled from beachwood, and is a mixture of pheno, guaiacol, and peracresol, etc. Crea£Ol- (C H 0) is a di'a-tomic pheonl obtained by dry distillation of 8-10-2 distilled from coaltar or wood-tar. It Is to co,lourless, oily, creasote, refractive, odor· ous liquid, with a pungent taste (density 1.037 boils alt 203 'bufIm wIth. a dense smoky flame. Coal-Ammonia. By the distillation of coal-tar, often gas is given off, which also carries a certain amount 'Of ammonia; water containing ammoniacal salts is nex.. relieved, from this product, the greatest amount of the ammonia used commercially is secured; especially from coal containing approximately two per cent of nitrogen, Ammonia is formed by the action of nas cent hydrogen or dilute nitric acid. Am monia gas may be prepared by heating to gether one part of ;'I
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n the air, (which should be 1920 duct of the destructive distillation of coal· r cent), a.nd a material increase tar after the residue pitch, has been ob
, acid (which should not exceed tained and the distillation continued, Yield ent); when marsh-gas is preva ing a yellow substance similar to butter; create fire-damp susceptable to a hydrocarbon isometric which requIres 300 0 to boil (also formed by passing l and explosion In a confined un stibium through a red hot tube). It crY3tal area, sometimes doing great in lizes in colourless plates, slightly soluble :ite. Obtained by the fractional in cold alcohol, soluble in hot alcohol, of coal-tar, boiling at 360'. It acetic acid, carbon disulphide and ether, melts at 100' and boils at 340°. Has sev 3 in monoclinic plates; is sl,ightiy alcohol and benzine, mell)3 at eral substitution pro:lucts, as phenanthrol, boils at 362'. It can be formed phenanthraguinone, and many other homo :h benzyl-toluene by heating in logues. Fluorene. The solid hydrocarbon which les to 180°, a mixture of benzyl Ind water. This is the direct re- distills between 300' and 310° in the dis (Also prepared by the destructive distillation or till;tion of coal-tar. fter naQ;lhtha, and pitch have been heating diphenyleneketone with zInc dust). Crystallizes from hot alcohol in colourless lcoxenite. A variety of ogygen· plates which have a faint blue flouresence, ro-car.bons. It is obtained from a consequently its name. Melts at 113' and boils at 294° (C 13H" or H20 (CoH,). Fluorene wder from a resinlike mineral be .yers of coal in certain localities. may be prepared in conjunction WIth va rious other compounds. re in North America but is ob Menthane. (Menthene)-A marsh-ga.s the 1 the British Isles and Austria . Composition is carbon 75.274, hy· formula being CH.~CH, menthane. A light 5.187 and oxygen 18.539. Soluble carburetted hydrogen, hydrate of menthyl, a hydrocrabon gas very abundant in na r. (Anthraguinone-oxyantracene.) ture.· It is evolved from stagnant water, ·anillc. A common and widely dIS and great quantities are given off in coal >d coal plant. From which is dis pits., where it is commonly known as fire abanillic acid. damp. It is one of the usual products of A chemical substance thalene. the destructive distillation of organic mat 3 sometimes designated annaph C,.Hs'CH,H, a frequent product ter (coal-tar, is the foundation of the greater supply of menthane). It may be e dry distillation of organiC sub formed in large quantities by the distilla ){)curring to a considerable extent tion af mixture of acetate with a hydrated >ortion of coal-tar distilling between alkali. Of all known compounds it iJ the 1 220°, from which it crystallizes ng. Forms colourless shiny, leafy richest in hydrogen, and with the exception of peculiar odor and bruning ta'ste; of the latter, is' the highest known gas; (has 216 0 to 222', and bruns, when in· a specific gravity of .5576-air-1). It is ·ith a highly illuminou;:; but smoky colourless; without taste or smell, and is nuetral to test paper. Slightly soluble in Has a specific gravity, at the fus et, .977; its vapor density is 4.53. water and alcohol. It is a type of a numer· ous cla93 of compounds having their ori l in water, but dissolves readily in carbon-diswlphide, l)Jen,zine, ethe:r ginal foundation within coal-tar and other hydrocarbon substances. 'roform., and fixed and volatile oils. Ethene. CzH, or H,C-CH" eth)yene, ole· lene unites readily with bromine ,rine, forming a great number of fine gas, elayle. bicarburetted hydrogen, heavy carburetted hydrocarbon. A fatty oily .on products, as naphthalene alco hthalene carboxylic-acid, and other hydrocarbon, belonging to the olefine series, ues of naphthalene. On pa3sing dry CnH,n. It is formed in the dry distillation gas into naphthalene, a heavy pale of organic bodies, as coal-tar, etc.; about five cents is contained in coal-gas. Ethene Jil is formed (naphthalene dichlor· (.CI.), and this, uniting with more is obtained and prepared by the action of nascent hydrogen, when cuprous acetylide , is converted Into a crystalline sub :naphthalene-tetrachloride C"HsCI,), i-3 gently warmed with a mixture of metallic zinc and dilute ammonia. Ethene is pre· neJts at 182°. Monochlor-naphtha ,H,CI, obtained by heating naphtha pared by heating on a sand bath 25 gram :ploride-with alcoholic potash, is a 'mes of alcohol wibh 150 gra.mmes of con· 5'S oil, boiling at 263'. Dichloride centrated sulphuric acid in a flask of the lene, C"H.CI,. is prepared by boil· capacity of three litres., and then gradualty lthalene·tetrachloride with alcoholic dropping into the mixture equal parts of It is a crystallene mas'3, melting at alcohol and sulphuric acid, and washing the 36' and boiling at 280'. Various gas in HdSO" then in KHO, then again in ompounds are prepared of which HzSO" etc. Ethen~ is a colourless gas, lene acts as a constituent. which at 1· and a pre3'Sure of forty-one ,anthrene. Phenanthrene is a pro and a half atmospheres becomes liquid,
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burns with a warm luminous flame, and explodes violently when mixed with oxy gen on the application of a light or the elec tric spark. Decomposes by passing through a tube heated to a redness, yielding CH,; and carbon is deposited at 170'. dissolves by 'sulphuric acid. Unites directly with chlorine, etc. Benzine. (C.H,) An aromatic hydrocar bon also called benzole or phenylhydride liquid condensed during the compression of oil gas, also recovered from coal-tar. Ani line Is produced from it which Is the source cf many modern dyes, as mauve, magneta, etc. It is obtained from the more volatile portion of coal-tar oil. It is also formed by distilling benzoic acid in lime. BenzIne is a thin cQlourless, 'strongly refractorY liquid Boils at 82°, has a specific gravity or 0.855, dissolv:es fats., resins, iodine, sulphur and phosphorous. Benzine is formed when acetyline is passed through a tube heated to redness. Many substitutions products of benzine have been formed. Benzine can. when two atoms of hydrogen are replaced by chlorine, etc., Or monotomic radicles, forrn three mod.ifications. Also unites with chlorine or bromine in direct sun light, forming additional compounds (Co' H.CI.). Benzole is commonly classified as a fluid mineral detected in both coal-tar and naphtha. Benzole group or series, 13 a group of minerals, which would aisobe clas sified as hydrocarbon; including benzole, xylole, cymole, toluole and comole. All are> fluid at ordinary temperatures. Benzine or benzole has many homologues. Benzoline is an amorine acid, has an or ganic base obtained trom hydro-benzamide made by .ooiling it with acquOO\lS products. Insoluble in water; soluble in alcohol C,H"N" commercially: Benzine or benzo line is a name given to any volatile in· flammable liquid hydrocarbon which burm with a luminous flame. chiefly coal-tar naphtha, consisting prinCipally of benzine and its homologues. It is also obtained from petroleuI):l spirits consisting of heptane C,H" and other parrafine. Tuluene. A chemical; occurs in coal-tar. Produced by action of sodium on a mIx ture of homobenzene acid and methyl iodide. This liquifies and smells like and has near ly the ;3ame solvent power as benezine. Specific gravity .882; at 0° and boils at 1110. Yields various comllounds by pasl?ing through a heated porcelain tube, such as benzine, naphthalene, anthracene and dibenzyL Various other compounds and chemicals are prepared from a part of coal·tar or other hydrocarbons. ---~-o'---~
A controlling interest in the Union Chief mine. in Santaquin district, Utah, has been }lurchased by L. A. Martin, of Salt Lake, and ~stern associates.
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The Times, of Hailey, Idaho, gives the following interesting description of the corn ing back of an old-time and famous mining camp: Vienna seems to promise an early re turn to great productiveness brought about as the revival of many other min'ing camp" has been, namely, ;by leasers. The Will iams Brothers, Wlho have been leasing on a group of claims there, owned by Leon Fuld of this city, have opened in the Web foot a vein of argentiferous galena from two to four feet in widt!h. They have a carload of ore at the railway de.pot ready to ship and have three teams hauling from Vienna, forty-five mCes, ,to Ketchum They also have several carloads on the dump and they expect to keep teams 'hauling ore until .:leep snow compels a suspens:on for the winter. Since last fall, when they took the lease, ~nd until this spring, the Williams Broth ers worked alone. They did not make much progress, as they had to remove the caves and clean out the 1200-foot tunnel in which they resumed work after the mines had been idle for a score of years. But when they cut into the ore, this spring, they. added another miner to the force and, a few weeks ago, another. There are, therefore, four men at work there now, besides the team sters; and it is the intention to employ other miners as soon as returns corne from the are. The mines are located in Smiley gulch, and about sixteen mfles northwesterly over the grade from Galena. The gulch was named by L. Smiley, an old 'prospector fron. Yankee Fork who discovered the Solace lode in 1880. This he sold to Haggin & Teyis of San Francisco that, next to the great bonanza firm on the Comstock lode, was then the leading mining firm of the world. The Solace and !twelve other ad· jacent claims were patented and operated at a p,!'ofit for some y·ears, during which Haggin & Tevis dissolved partnership, Mr. T'evis taking over Walls Fargo and the firm's banking interests, and Mr. Haggin and Goorge Hearst the Homesteak mines in the Black Hills, the Ontario mines in Mexico, the Jocuiseta mlnes in Mexico, and other mining interests in California, in Idaho and elsewhere. John BenaJi Haggin being una,ble to find successful managers for some of his prop erties concluded to discontinue operations in them. The Solace mines was one of these. After paying taxes for some years he allowed them to be sold for delinquency. Shortly after the discovery of the Sol ace, the Vienna, the Mountain King, ana .several other mines were located on eit.her side of Smiley gulch, and in 1882-3 C.
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INDEX TO A D V E R T I S E R S = lIUnlnllr Jlaehlne17 and
Rejuvenation of a Famous Old District in the Wilds of Idaho.
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Page. Bogue Supply Co. • ..•... ,.............. 9
Denver Fire Clay Ce>. ................. 39
General Electric Co. .................... 3
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. ••••••..••.•• \I
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. .•.••........ 4
Independent Powder Co. ...•............ 7
Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.. . . . . . . 6
Numa· Rock Drill Sharpener co. ........ 8
Portland Cement Co., of Utah ............ 43
Richmond, F. C.. Machinery Co. 2
Revere ,Rubber Co. •.•..•....••..•...•.. I)
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. .... 42
Silver Bros. Iron Works Co......... ".. 3
Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44
Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... 10
Union Portland Cement Co ..... ,........ 43
Utah Fuel Co........................... 41
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Utal;l. }"ire Clay Co. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. . 8
Z. C. M. I. ....................... .
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Merchants' Bank ......................• McCornick & Co. ....•....•..........•• National Copper Bank .................. Walker Bros.................... 22 and Utah State National Bank ............ :A....oyer. and IUetallurllrlat••
A. },'. Bardwell ......................... Bird-Cowan •..............••........... Crismon & Nichols .......••............ Currie, J. W. .... .....•.•............. OfficeI' & Co., R. R. . •. ,.................. Union Assay Office .................... Utah Department Denver Fire Clay Co... Westerald, F. H. ...................... Railroad...
Oregon Short Line ..•................. Salt Lake Route ..... ,................ Rio Grande Western .....••.... ...... Mlnlnllr Attorn"y...
Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewishon........ Bradley, Pischel & Harkness............ Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books.... Davis & Davis •.•...•..•.......... ,... Higgins, E. V. . .......•........• ,..... Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette ...........
1II1ae .ad Stock Dealera
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Civil and Mlnlnllr Engineer••
Adamson, W. G. ............•........•. 37
Arnold, Fisher & Calvert ......... .... 37
Burch, Caetanl & Hershey ............. 37
Brown, G. Chester •......•............. 37
Burke, James J. ••...••...............•. 37
Craig, \V. J. ., •..•....•..•.... ,........ 37
Deseret Construction Co. .•.........•... 37
Fiske, Winthrop \V. .................... 38
Galigher, T. W. ........................ 41
General Engineering Co. •••..........• 37
Green River Eng. & Construction Co... 9
Howell & Kingsbury ................•• 37
Ireland, T. W. .......................... 28
James, Geo. D. ................•....... 38
Jennings, E. P. .••....•.....•..•....... 37
Lee, Murray ........................... 37
Pack, Mosher F. ..........•••........... 37
Peet, IC. A. .......•..................... 38
Pulsifer. H. B. . ..........•.......... ,. 37
Roberts, J. C. ....•.....•...••.•....•.. 37
38 Safford, J. L. ........................... 37
38 Silver Bros. Engineers & Contractors... 37
38 Troxell, L. E. .......................... 39
23 Utah State Sc'hool of Mines .•.......... 37
38 Villadsen Bros. .......................• 27
\Viddlcombe & Palmer ......•......... 37
Walker, H. C. ......................... 38
39 Zalinski, Edward R. ................... 37
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39 Albany Hotel .......................... 7
39 Century Printing Go. .... ........ 4
39 De Bouzek Engraving Co. .............. 40
39 Hotel Stanford ..••..•...........••...• 38
39 Gardner & Adams •...... , •....... ,.... 42
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. ........ 41
Official Directory of Mines ......•..••.. 41
Nephi Plaster Co. ...................... 39
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40 New Era Motor Co. .................... Railroad Time Tables •......•..••..•..• 4S
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Salt Lake Stamp Co. •.•.••.••...•..•••• 41
Siegfried Pels, ore buyer ...... ,....... 7
Smith & Adams, Tents ................ 36
38 Shiplers, Commercial Photographers .. 37
38 Tooele Sme:ter ..••......•............. 44
38 Utah Junk Co. ...•......••.......•...•. 39
38 Utah Ore Sampling Co. ................. U
38 United States Smelting Co. ............ 1
38 Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars .............. 38
("Chris.") J. and James Johnston, experi enced mining men, with whom C. L. Cole man, the then lumber king of La Crosse, Wis., was associated, purchased the Vienna, the Mountain King, and other patented claims, and soon added others. In 1883 they began the building of a mill. It was only of twenty stamps but it had a daily capacity of fifty tons. The engine was the Corliss that had supplied power for the Centennial exposition. It was the finest engine in the world, and as everything else about the mill was of a like grade, it cost $140,000. It turned out $1,500,000 or thereabouts in silver bullion in the following year. But troubles soon fallowed close upon the heels of others. Mr. Coleman died and his interests were tied Ul) in litigation for years. Frank Johnston .:lied leaving no family.Mr. and Mrs. C. J. John ston, who had long desired to live in Cali .fornia, and had abundant means, retired to an estate on La Mesa, San Diego, intending to turn their mining interests over to their only son, then a mere lad, when he should lbe graduated as a mining engineer. The young man died a few months prior to his graduation at McGill university in Montreal, Canada, and the Johnstons thereupon lost interest ill mining and permitted the Vienna mines and mill to be sold for tax€ s . Years thereafter Leon Fuld bought them from the county.
Under Hagg:n & Tevis and the John· stons miles of tunnels, drifts, wtuzes a.nd raises were made in the mines In theIr respective ownership, and muoh low-grade silver and lead are was developed. All of it was left in place to await the advent of ,cheaper :methods of reduction, iOnly the high grade gold·silver are being extracted. The mill is gone, it having been' movea to the Stanley country by the late Judge Lyttieton Price. But the ore remains, also some 3,000 cords of firewood that has lain tlrere untouched all these years, as has the magnificent standing timber in the gulch, so that i.t is hardly doubtful 'but that the are will now yield ample reward. ~-~~-o----
The Grand Central ::\ilining company, of Provo, Utah, operating in Tintic district, has posted its regll'lar dividend of 5 cents a' share, or $25,000, 'Payable August 25 to ,3Jtockholders of record August 20. With the payment of this dividend !the company will have disbursed $1,607,000 in "velvet" money.
---0--- The Indian Queen Mining company, of Salt Lake, whose l)roperty is located near Newhouse, Utah, has given a working lease on the southern portion of its property to Henry W. Nichols and Henry Turner. It is stated that the leaseI1:> already have some shipping ore opened up near the surface.
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BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR OPHIR.
, a consequence of the completion of ,to John & Ophir railroad betw-een St. a station on the main line of the Lake Route," and the mining camp hir in Ophir canyon nearly nine miles its farmer ,:;;hipping point, there is no 11 why Ophir should not 1;ake rank, at lrry day, as being on-e of ,the largest nost profitable mining districts to be in the west. •hiT 'has been a ,history-IDIaker .in Utah *l.rly half a century. It was flourish nd produotive of llllrge quantities of ore long before prospecting in the ·became general. It amaz.ed the min 'GrId ,before Park City was found, be rintic was ever heard of. Hundreds n made fortune'3 'there whu have long p.!l.SS€d over the Great Div.ide, or who )W classed. among theea.rliest pioneers igreat and almost unknown west. It [ways been a great camp, and always >e, for its mineralization is extensive ,ll 'as marvelous.' And, yet, although t within a stone'·s throw from the city of the state, it has been almost Iy overlooked during the past twenty or more; and this seeming neglect ,o.t due to want of merit, nor because
the district lacked. splendid po:ssdbilities, prime and fairly saturated with enthusiasm but to one great obstacle, inaccessibility. and vigor, the hand drill was the .only in While ,much of the mine product of the strument emp,loyed in the driving of a tun district h exceedingly rich, sOl:IWtimes sen nel or the sinking of a shaft; that the crude sationally so, the immense tonnage of low bucket. wheelbarrow, or clumsy car was grade ,mdllin.g ores, the vast deposits of sec the only means for the handling of ore or ond-dass material. could not be moved, waste; ;that common black powder ,had not could not be .handled at a profit; and so the given v.:ay to the more powerrful giant or dy di'strict graduaJly sank into partial obseu namite, and that the only means of trans lI'ity, its only glimmer of. life being in the 'rloTtation was by meaoo (}f mule or burro operations of two or three producers which pack, or the great lumbering wag'Ons then •have ~iven notice to the world that the employed in the mining camps of the west. camp had not been wholly de3ertea, and For small mines the hand windlass was that. with proper faciHUes for successful op used to .the limit. ]1'or .greater depths the eration, it would not be long before the horse whip or whim was ·utilizeod, and in .mines of Lion hill. of Ophir hill, and of Dry stances were few and ffur between where 'panYlOn, would take rank as regular and I:>team hoisting works displaced other prim heavy producer·s of the precious metals. itive means of mine operations; this coh~ The district's greatest need ·has been dition, involving heavy expense and hard transportation facilities so that its ores, labor, of a necessity curtailing operations loaded directi3 with one blast, accomplishing two or three 'I'ealized. fiom the milHons of tons of min times as much, In effectiveness, as could be eral still untouched .in mine w.orkings or exacted from thec,ommon black powder; stored in IIllammo,th dumps, can now find large mines small locomotives handle trains ready and easy market with an addition to of mine cars loaded with ore or waste; al net earnings by the elimin.ation of the cost m0!3t every mine, where shaft-sinking is of freighting from Op'hir to St. John. employed in mine development, has its The future outlook for OJllhir,by long power hoists, whose motive power Is steam, odds, is brighter than ever before, and it electricity or ga'Soline, and almost every has every advantage, every facility for suc mine is connected with the metal markets cessful mining that any camp could wish of the west by stub raUroad, tramway or or desire; whill'l, in its mammoth depo:3its aerial tram; while, as to speed in mine op of ore, it has an asset· wterday, is pos~ible today. Take the old In every branch of mining and milling op
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ago, and conduct him through a big work ery, in one day, than could be performed ing mine of this day and age. and he will in a month, by hand, a quarter of a century express wonder and delight 'at the improve ago. ments in mining method·s as compared. to Another feature of the mining industry . those utilized when the mining industry of this western country was in its infancy; of today, as compared with conditions a and, if he win express an opinion he will short decalle a.go, is the fact that the public at large is being educated up to mining say that there is good reason for the al mOBt overw,helmln.g; interest that is now practices and method~. 'and mining is not 'being taken in mining affairs throughout now evolved by the cloak of mystery that the length and breadth of the land. so alarmed. intending investors of a now He will tell you that when he was active past generation. At the present time it is ly engaged in mining, when he was in his j)013Sible to int-elligently invest in mining
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shares whose market price are established by regular quotation'S on the boards of min ing exchanges, and, through the columns of reUable and reputable mining publica tions it is pos3ible to keep in touch with mine development and operation through out a wide expanse of mining country. A strike of importance cannot be made but that the news will 00 flashed from sea to sea and the intere-sted man can keep post ed as to events while readin,g the morning paper over his eup of coffee. Formerly an lnves.tor ·would 00 in ignorance for weeks as to conditio11!:> in properties in which he was inteJ'ested. Today he is close to the man behind the drill, even if he lives in New York or Boston, and a koon and mas ter' mind can often make a fortune In a day. Between the old and the new there is such a wide difference, with eVerything in, favor of the new, that it I'S no wonder that mining has taken such a firm hold on the investing and speculative publie, an,d condi tions have become 130 radically c!langed that it needs no argument to prove the statement that mining Is now as le.giUmate as, it is fascinating and profitable. ----
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It is extremely gratifying to note the greatly increased activity w'hich dooninates the mining indu'Stry of the west, and to ob· serve the almost feverish demand in al· most every walk of life for gilt..edged min· ing properties. Tb.e condlition. 313 to mining. h'as much improved during the past two or three y,ears, and investors and capitalists who, not so very long ago. looked upon min ing as a gamble and the mining operator as a shark, are now glad to become interested in the former and to become intimately as sociated with the latter. Thus it is that opinions will change, and that things to the iJtvestor which were black a few years ago are now white, for experience has shown that mining, as a whole, is legitimate; that fortunes are more easily made in mining en terprises than in any other commercial. manufacturing, agricultural or business oc cupation. Bitter prejudices against mining have been buried In oblivium, and because of t·he fact that their holders could not 13tand out against the 'Overwhelming evi· dence that mining was both profitable and legitimate. They could no longer arraign the mining industry as a fake. a gamble, when, on every hand, they hear.a oj' mil lions made from thousands invested, of in comes pouring steadily into the lap of friends w,hich would have boon fortunes for kings and rulers .in the olden times, and, as a oons-equence, have investigated into mining in all of ih3 branches to such an ex tent that they are now glad to become Iden tified with this fascinating Industry. Indeed, to such an extent has mining be come popular throughout the length and
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A Nelson, Nevada, correspondent of the Searchlight Bulletin, says: In reply to YOUr favor o,f recent date I can state that the outlook here in the canyon has improved remarkably In·the last week or so. Several properties are operat ing with' decided success, and their suc cess is stimulating all of us tQ more strenu· oue efforts, QUite a bit of interest attaches to the little cyanide plant on the Skylark. Thir> was built entirely by one prQspector, Clark Alvord, and has been so satisfactory in it3 operation that it is about to be increased to an estimated five-tQn capacity. Louis McCartney has ordered an experi· mental plant and hopes to jOin the march of success,as he has quite a little high· grade to run on his property near the Rand mine_ Tex Eavens is figuring on installing a cyanide plant similar to Clark Alvord's to treat a bunch of ore on his claims adjoin ing the WaH Street mine. By far the most important news which Ihas thrilled us for a long time is the phenomenal success which is attending Har ris and Howe in the ope.ration of their lease on
The Hiawatha Mining company, of Provo, Utah, whioh was organized for the purpose of conducting mining operations in the mountains just east of that place, re cently purohased the property of the J. C. S. Mining company in Rock canyon.
(By Will C. Higgins.) "The thermometer is hot at me," said the prospector tQ his burro. 'and SQ I have selected thIs CQol and shady spot where we can enjoy our evening meal segregated from its implacable and grizzling influence. As a matter of fact, I hardly dare to 10Qk it in the face, for the climbing mercury is a ,cQnstant reminder to me of my In consistency, as this is just the kind of weather I was praying for all winter, and which I am now trying to evade; which shows that mankind is mostly damphool a good deal of the time, and prac-tically irre sponsible and evasive for the rest of it; just as is the case with the burro tribe. Of cQurse, I know that you feel a little hurt over the reference I have made as to the general characterist:cs of a burro, but you will get over the smart the first time you meet with that outlaw donkey which hangs around our camp, fO.r, if there is any thing that does away with that tired feeling we have on these hQt days, it is when we thInk we are having a good 'time. "Another thing to make one forget the heat," continued the prospector, "is to mak.. a rich discovery unexpectediy, similar to the one I made in Hell Gap canyon a few years ago. It was jnst such another torrid day in August tl1at I was prospecting in the Gap. I had started 'Out early in the morning, with a full canteen on my back and a snack 'Of cold bacon aud the leavings of a flapjack in my pocket, intending to prospect during the cool of the day, and then resting, in the shade of a juniper bush, or an overhanging cliff, until well along in the evening. EverythIng went along well until about ten o'c1Qck, when I found a piece 'Of flQat that interested me greatly. It apparently came from a ledge up in a saddle between tWQ lofty peaks, and I fol· IQwed it up and was SQ fully absorbed ;r\ tracing the quartz blossoms th9.t I fa;leJ to notice that I had be:m eOilstanH~' PU'Pl!'; on my canteen while ci!lJ!',lnl!; up the hill, 'V'hen near the saddle I ;;i.oppeJ to rest and found that I was in a regul,tr sweat, and
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a grsa.ter he:1t than my thermometer, could ever stand, Jursting its head. I seemed to be all over, and had about concluded ip the search for the day w1.tn 1 'little bush, near the sa'ldle, which, t, would af[ord me a li.t:le shelter burning sun. I manage'.} to reach 'sank down exhausted. Fe;' ;)whlle but an absorbing thirst so purcilea t that I could not swallow my lunch. I)le were my suf[erings, an hour at I fairly went out of my head, in I came to a consciousness of was doing I was wandering aim· 'ound, imagining 4btat every little l.S running with water and that I lking like a whale a mile under Then I knew that I must find oon, or. I mig.ht forget, forever, was 'out in the hills 10r. And so I. to get over the divide, and was the saddle I was not so loony but that I noticed that the flo:tt 'eet was thicker and richer than had yet found; and, in a few : more I ran amuck of Ihe ledge, hich stood out of tha ground wa; IY head, and was about [,ur feet . And, you would never believe it, •,rgot the excessive heat, at once, er once thought of myoId friend, ·mometer. I broke off chunks of ·tz and found it to be lousy with IW metal, and, while the sun shown . my head with all of the intensity st furnace, I felt as immune from Its as a Gila monster out on the I was fortunate, however, for, in the ledge down the further side of jle, I found a little spring that out of the solid rock as sweetly otionately as a humming bird gath .ctar among the flowers. I believe, , that the spring saved my life, amped right there until morning, up under the shadow of the ledge ; of the afternoon. I afterwards a. g,roup of claims; taking in my y, which sold, later on, for a sum .de my bank account look. as if it lorbed a few pounds of dried ap com.panied by a hucke.t of water. mlplain of the heat, then? you ask. hatever; for, if Lt had been in the :ime I would never have made the Y. and the weather was alI that 1 n longing for during all of Decem I January. So I got what I wa::l I,ltwithstanding the fact that when lther was what I had long been for I was complaining about it like lm prospector Who could never get ) the hills because it was either or two cold for him. 'ant to tell you, Old Long Ears," ~ the prospector, summer is tht> Ie for the man in the hills and he
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UTAH'S PRODUCTION IN 1911.
The total value .of the mine output of go.Jd, silver, copper, lead and zinc in Utah in 1!~11. a:ccording to Victor C. H€ikes of the United States geological survey, wa,s $36837,457,
The total .gold production in Utah In 1911 W3l3 227,217.28 fine ounces, valued at $4, 696,998, against 195.052.11 ounces valued at $4,032,085, in 1910, an increase in value of $664,913 or over 16 per cent, The largest 'producer of gold wa.'l Salt Lal:e county which yi,elded '2,.~4,834, against $1,776.058 in 1910. The West Mountain or Bingham district produced $2,786.810 of the gold cred ited to Salt Lake county and over 7 per cent of ,the total Utah gold outl}ut. The Tintic district, Wlhich ilS par.t!y in Juab county and partly in Uta.h county, produced $1,592,052, or 33 per celllt of the total outprut. Silver Production Increased.
The silver production of Utah in 1911 showed an increase from 10,466.971 ounces, valued at $5,652,164, in 19<10, to 12,473,787 ounce,s., valued at $6,611107, in 1911. The 'Dintic district yield of silver increa.3ed from 5,222.742 ounces in 1910 ,to 5,514,702 ounces in 1911. Oil' the Salt Lake county yiel'll the West Mountain or Bingham district con tributed 1,800:HO ounces In 1910 and 2, 786.,810 ounces in 1911. The silver output of t,he Park City mining distriot in 1911 was 3,428,651 oUJlces, an increase of 856,880 ounces, or over 3 'Pe·r cent, from that of
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per cent of the total Utah output, against 30,271,016 pounds in 1910. The Tintic dis trict, which yielded 37,553.455 pounds of lead in 19'10, ,p.roduced only 23,572,966 poundl3 in 1911. Increase 1,000,000 Pounds Zinc.
The produC'tion of zinc in Utah in 1911 was 17.,840,261 pounds, valued at $1,016.89,5, against 16,367,104 pounds valued at $383824 in 1910. This show'S an increoase of 1,473, 157 !pOunds, or 9 per cent. The Park City mining district alone IH'X)d,uced 8,,596,564 pounds of zinc in 1911, and the Bingham district 41715,'121 poundl3. The mnc in concentrates, amounting to 13,156,682 pounds, all came from Salt Lake, Summit ruld Wasatah counties. T,here were 208 mines l}roducing goLd. silver, copper, lead or zinc in 1911, against 183 in 1910. The total quantity of ore 'SOld or treated in Utah in 1n1 was 7,268, 530 short tons, an increase of 879,132 tons. The average total reooverable valille l}er ton was $5.07 in 1911, against $5.04 in 1910. T.he average value per ton is J.ow on acoount of the .large tonnage of cop·per ores. of which 6..12-1,099 tom:> were sold or treated. Of the wtal ore of all classes, 267,111 went to gold andsdlver mills, 5,840,091 tons t() ooncen.trating mins and 1,103.,054 tons to 'Smelters. y
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The 'value of the mine output of gold" silver, copper, lead. and zinc in Nevada in 1911, acoording to V. C. HeikE'fl, of the United State geological 'SUTvey, m113 $33, 952,529, against $34i152,148 in 1910, a ,de crease of only $199,619, or le;;s than 1 per cent. Decrease in Gold Production.
The production of gol-d in 1911 was val· 1910. ued at $18,193,397, a decrease of $685,467. 12,000.;000 Pounds More Copper. There were increase in gold illi several dis Copper production increased, in Uta.h tricts., lnc1uding M'anhattan.,but large d.e from 127,597,072 pounds in 1910 to 146,960, creases in National and Goldfield. Of the 827 pOunds in 1911, an inCrea\3e of 19,363., gold output, 10,181.05 fine ounces c,ame 755 pounds. T·he Bingham dis-trict pro from l}lacers, lar.gely in ,the Round Moun duced 129,995,865 pounds of cap'Per in 1911, 1:a:in and Ma.nhattan distric1J3. in Nye coun against 113,725,280 pounds in 1910, 92,560. ty, 847,124.81 ounces from .siliceous ores! 340 IPQlUnds in 1909, 71,155,740 pounds in 21,,84127 ounces from cap·per ores. 895.66 1908 and 15,431,964 pounds in 1907. The ounces from lea.d ores, and small 'amounts Tinticdistrict yielded 10.,922,154 pound'S in from zinc copJ}er-l~ad, and lead-zinc ores. 1911, agaJinst 8,993,036 pounds in 1910, an Siliceous ores yielded over 96 per cent of incre'ase of 1,9290.118 pounds. The Park the entire gold J}roduction. From bullion City district in Summit and Wasatch coun in ,gOld and silver mills was reoovered 729, ti€l3, produced 1.,281,190 pounds in 1911, 252.33 fine ounce" concentra.tes produced against 1,423,629 ,pounds in 1910. ·81,097.61 fine ounce;;, and crud'e ore shipped The .p.roduction of lead in Utah in 1911 to smeltel'!S contained 59,.569.92 fine ounces. was valued at $6.142,354, a-gainst $5,426,284 The leading county in production of gol.d in 19>10. Of the 1911 output, nearly 35 per w.as Esmeral!la" which yielded $11,198,602, cent was derived f·rom mines in the Park mostly from the Goldfi€>ld district. NYe coun City district, which produced 47,637.642 ty ,produced $3,611,276, of which the Tonope.;h !pound,s, again'St 38.129.761 pounds in 1910. lIlIines yLelded $2,31j~ 495. The CO!l1JS.tJOck The Bingham or West Mountain district mines of Storey county produced $977,349 produced 46576,337 pounds in 1911, or 34 in gold against $502,843 in 1910. More than
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.ction of silver in Nevada in :>re than in any previous year, ,601 fine ounce"", valued at $6, .Inst 12,479.,871 fine ounces, val 739.130 In 1910. About 97 per from siliceous ores. NYe county 10.918,263 ounces of silver. Of L the Tonopah district yielded 10,· .nces, or 82.4 per cent of the en : production of the state. Storey )omstock) produced 618,006 ounces. :;opper Shows an Increase.
,r production increased in Nevada .359,298 pounds, valued at $8,173, 1910, to 67,377,518 pounds valued at 3(), in 1911. The increase was prac due to the mine at Ely, in the Roll district, Wlhite Pine county. 'wihich I 67,033,547 pounds. or 99.49 per cent entire state prod.uction. Lead Output Decreased,
Ie production of lead in Nevada in 1911 3,263,657 pounds, va.lued at $146,865, 1st 4,871,130 pound,>, valued at $214,329, 910, a decrease of about 33 per cent. :l decreased in all counties but Clark Douglas. The mines of Clark county largest producer yielded 1,629,571 mds, an increase of 3111,!l87 pounds over ~ production of 191(}. ·Crude ore shipped to smelters contained but 692,180 .pounds of the total lead out· t of Nevada in 1911. Increase in Zinc.
The zinc ·production of Nevada was 3" ~,032 pound!3, valued at $202,238, in 1911, ainst 2,707,071 pounds, valued at $146,182, 1910. This was almost equally divided tween a lead·zinc ore and a tr:ue zinc ~. Concentrates contained 210,257 pounds d crude ore 3,337,775 pounds. There were 661 mines producing gold, ver, -copper, lead, or zinc in Nevada in 11; compared wi.th 608 in 1910. Of these, were placer mines. The total quantity ore sold- or treated in Nevada in 1911 ,s 4,132,721 short tons.. an increal3e of 5,946 tons. --·-0,-- DUTCH FLAT PLACERS.
Considerable cPlacer mining. for gold, is ing carried on in different portions of ~vada, at tbe rH'esent time, with most sat 'actory results, more than us·ual activity lng wi,tnesse.d in the old digg;ing'3 of Itch Flat, in Humooldt county, according the VI'innemucca Star, which says: Dutch Flat, situated in the Sadorus min· g district, about twenty miles northeast Winnemucca, w,hich .has been In con tin· .(l 'activity for some yeal'S is the scene of tensive placer mining opemtions at the ""'lent time. • T>'O"Ar company, which has . r .. h has
installed a large placer machIne, which was started yesterday for the first run. The machine has extensive equipment and is day, which is supplied 'by ·the aid of horses and scrapers. The National company is operating on what is known as the Hillside ,group of claims wh!c,hhas produced ,thous· ands of dollars in placer gold. The ground is pretty well punctured with shafts and drifts on the bedrock, but former workers left numerous pillars and there i'3 much virgin ground yet {o .be worked. Water is piped from Mill canyon, aoout three miles distant from the diggings. Another placer machine is in operation .by W. T. Henley in the main gulch, where he has a number of claims. This machine has a capacity of forty oubic yards of gravel a day and is accomplishing good work in saving the goLd. The g.round which is being worked by Mr. Henley Wa(! originally located by Fred Wend,eH, who named t.he camp Dutch Flat, and has a1-£o produced thousands of dollars in .gold. AIOIl!g about the year 1895 the placer deposits of Dutch Flat were working quite ex·tensivelyboth .by 'Chinamen and white men and' the diggings are noted for the many large nuggets or chunks of virgin ,gold that were taken out with the aid of rockers, the most primitive way of work. ing gold gravel. The wate~ used was most· ly hauled ItO the working!3 in a wagon, nev· ertheless with ihis crude method of work. ing the camp produced considerable amount of gold. Fred Wendel and W. T. Henley;, operators at Dutch I<'lat, arrived in town yesterday and are ananging to take Qut supplies t .. the camp. They state that Charley Keller, who is opera:ting a quartz lProperty Just north of the placer gulch, is extracting very rich gold ore. He has just uncovered a ,streak on his property that Is fairly aJive with the precious yellow metal. Mr. Keller ha'S been working his property for some years and has accomp.JIshed a large amount of development work. 'I'he ore extracted is reduced at the property by the arrastra process and regular shipments of gold are made by Mr. Keller.
Mines of Newton District Proving Up Satisfactorily.
(News, Milford, Utah.)
The old Horn Silver at Frisco, this ty, appears to be decidedly prospera late. At this mine they are employinl enty-eight men, working for the COIl direct, and have about twenty di~ leases employing two or more on each This would figure out something ove men working in the mine altogether. The company has entered Into a tract with a smelter at Bartlessville, homa, for the handling of its zinc ore has already contracted to ship 1,000 within the next twenty days, for whicl receive $17.50 per ton net on boar cars at Frisco. This zinc ore is nc the dUmp and there is an immense to of It, running into hundreds of thot of tons, and there is also another 1m' body of the same kind of zinc ore s the ground ready for extraction. It i mated that it will cost less than $l.~ ton to put this ore now in the dump' cars, which would mean something cess of $15.0~ net profit to the comp~ Frisco. T'he smelter pays the freight company has also contracted to ship' slag dump, which covers almost a north end of Frisco, which will all bE ped to the smelters, commenCing. In ately. This company is in sbape to shi]: ten to twenty cars of ore every day mencing in jmta few days from no' In the mines on Indian Creek i' ton Mining district, this county, th some very encouraglng develop mel ing the last few weeks They art lng samples of ore running as high to the ton from the old Ro,b Roy, being worked by P. T. ~'arnsworth ciates. In the Beaver Butte they a fi.fteen foot ledge running $1' to the ton. The Beaver Gold lVI' pany has found in its property a foot wide, assaying all the wa to $24 per ton in gold. About a1l is a forty ton carload of ---0-- 'rhe Howell :Minillg company's property, from the Sheep Rock which ha located ill the South Fork of Big Cotton· ped by {he Robinson brother wood district, a few miles southeast of running all the way from $1f Salt Lake City, is rej}orted to be looking\ ton. The minimum expectat!c exceedingly well at its 'Present stage of de· turns is $6,000 for the cal'. Th velollment, and, when the work in hand is ore came out of a vein six the surface, from a 2% foc completed, it is believed that thi,3 will de. contains a little streak that velop into one of the big prodUCing mines sand dollars to the ton in g( of the Cottonwoods. itself is five feet wide carr; ~--o--It Is stated that Gecrge D. Phillil}S, the streak from six inches to a f "Corn King" of ·Chicago, recently made very high. an examination of the Buckskin mine near In the Beaver Gold, adje Kanab, Utah, with the intention of pur. Rock on the north, they h chase and the installation of reduction shaf·t. workG . In the Beaver Bntte, wh
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management of E. C. Mc proportion over the first half of 1910. The has been sunk thir,ty-five figures show also an increase in total de ~ vein w.hich outcrops on the liveries of over 35,000.000 pounds. So, if 500 feet. The Beaver Butte lies large supplies of hidden COpper are on this south of the Sheep Rock. Ac side of the country, it is hardly conceivable yMr. McGarry's statement this that the New Jersey copper refineries reasing in value all the time. would be working. to 'so large a capacity that the vein averages $15 to as they are reported to be working today. For instance, the Raritan Refinery of Perth (pIing to a depth of fifteen feet. lrted that a number of the peo- . Amboy, is said to be turning out 27,000,000 ld in these Newton district gold pounds of copper every month, and the mite in the purchase of a twen plant is being enlarged, so that the ulti· mate eapacity will be 32,000,000 pounds per ty ton stamp mill. ----<0)--- month. The American Smelting & Refining ~ SUPPLIES OF COPPER. plant, at Perth Amboy, is also running full, while !!t the United States 'Plant at Chrome, tble has been said, of late, there is no stoek of refined copper at hand. ien Supplies of ICopper," the There are, of course. sizable lots of copper 1tion of the authors and writers waiting to be refined, which is alway.s the :credit the stability of the cop- case at refineries. As to hidden supplies by giving out the impression on the other side, although the amount of luantities of eo])per have been copper there is said to be around 60,000 3creted in order to make it ap ton'S, it must be remembered that a good n 'I'eaI1ty, the demantI ror the deal of it is copper which has laid in stock Jly greater than the supply. In for years, and much of wihch cannot be " an effort has been made to used, owing to its poor condition commer e public that recent advanced cially. ----01--- !lUons were, in a manner, ficti that, as a matter of fact, NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Df copper on hand was larger Bulletin.
'maud, and that cop·per is not Bulletin 18. The transmission of heat figure it has been getting, of into steam 'boilers, by Henry :KJreisinger and ring an inquiry as to' "Hidden Copper" the United States In
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Technical Papers.
Toohnical Papel'\, 17. TJIe effect of stem ming on the efficiency of explOl3ives, by ~ little credence in the report W. O. Snelling and Clarence Hall. 1912. 1 supplies of copper, and as a 20pp. ct, such rumors have been con-. Teohnioal Paper 18. Magazines and thaw inlshlng lately, a'S authorities houses for explos,ives, by Claren,ce Hall and have never been influenced to S. P. Howell. 1912. 32 pp., 1 pI. ,y them. Copper metal has had Technical Paper 2S. Ignition of mine !ld consistent riae during the g.as by mini.ature electric lamp's, by H. H. ,even months, a rise whioh, in Clark. 1912. 5 pp. m, has been IDo;;tly on its mer Reprints. I of late perhaps the specula Bulletin 40. The 'SImokless combustion of lUces in London have affected coal in boiler furqaees, with a chapter' on less. Today, it is firm around ·central heating .])lants, by D. T. Randall and a point higher than which it H. W. Weeks. 188 pp. R6Iprint of United d policy to force it. States Geological Survey Bulletin 373, ra the rumors as to hidden sup v1sed by Henry Kreisingoer. er, are probably put out to dis Technical Paper 21. The p.revention of trket. For the price, as well mine exp.l0l3ions, report and recommenda I of copper, do not indicate that tions by Victor WaHeyne, Carl Meissner, l'Stantial. Of course, juat how and Arthur Desoorough. Rep·rint of United ,ment from 12 to 17%, cents was States Geological Survey BulLetin 369. ut by manipulation, is a very The Bureau of Mines has copies of these to decide, and aa in every other publication'S for froo distribu.tion, .but can :here was probably more or less not give moxe than one copy of the same ~ first six mon,t'hs ·of the pres bulletin to one ,person. Req'uests for aU )w that production has totaled papers can not be granted without satb pounds for the corresponding factory' reason. In asking for pU!blicatIons ar ago, while total deliveries pleaJ5e order them by number and title. Ap 80805,975 pounds, against 690, ])lications sho
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JARBIDGE SHOWING UP WELL.
Deve:opment Work Being Pushed on the Bluster, Alpha and Success.
(SpeCial Correspondence.) Jarbidge, Nev., July SO.-During the past few months the development of properties in this camp has been of the most encour aging nature. I am only going to speak of three .properties in this letter, but these are, by no means, all the good promising prospects we have. The Bluster, Alpha and Success are being worked with considerable energy, while the others which may prove equally as valuable are being developed in a slower manner. Later on the Flaxi~a, Buckeye, f'lorth Star group, Pavlak and oth ers will be in the list to ,be reckoned upon. The latest and deepest workings in the Sue. cess, Bluster and Alpha are 'proving that the ore values continue and improve with depth. No .discovery in the camp has been dug out. Everything has improved with depth. A ColoradO mining expert told your correspondent, some eight months ago, that if the ore values showed up as well at four to six hundred feet in depth, a great future for the district was assured. That depth has now been reached and the showings in value and quantity is up to all expectations. The Success.
The recent big strike made in the 400 foot level of the Success Consolidated not only confirms all early opinions that the Success ,was the making of a big mine, ,but is als() of the greatest importance to the Jarbidge district, as it proves that the values go down and that the ledges increase In size and richness with depth. Full faces of ore are now exposed in both the north and south drifts from the No. 4 tunnel, giving this property a vertical depth of 400 feet. The value of the ore at this depth is better than it is in the second level, and it was on the strength of the grand showing in this level that (}eQrge Wingfield took an optIon on the adjOining Bluster property, at a large figure; and later, failing to find the ore in the Bluster, and having trouble with the owners of the Success over an exten sion of t!me, he threw up everything and quit camp. He was then within ten feet of the ore recently struck by the owners of ,the Success, on the fourth level, and immense bodies have since been opened up in the Bluster property. Wingfield's en gineers paralleled the ore all the way in the Bluster development work, and failed to find the ore by not cross-cutting to the foot wall. The Sucess people are now within sIxty feet of the ledge in their 500-foot level and wilipush the work as fast as possible. After Wingfield's departure, Dicky Jones, his former manager, made every effort to se cure the Success, as he was confident that very little more work would prove it to !be
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will be started southeasterly to prospect the lead. Both sinking and drifting will be carried on as fast as possible. About 400 feet southeasterly from the tunnel another shaft is being started. So far throo feet of good ore has been cut, This shaft is being put down to find out, as nearly as possible, the extent of the lead. Work is now being carried on along the lead for a distance of nine hundred feet and good ore is found during all that space. The leal! will average around $30 in value, judging from assays andpannings made Iby the own ers. Fourteen men are now employed and this force win be increased to twenty-five A. W. BROUSE. in a few days.
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ORE IN THE CREOLE.
(Record, Park City, Utah.) ~ The Bluster. For two weeks past big ore bodies have This property is situated on Gorge Gulch boon encountered in the old Creole work north of Jarbidge river, It is about 3000 ings on Treasure Hill, the r~ent acquisi feet up the hill from the river and is on tion to the Silver King Coalition holdings. the same lead as the Success Consolidated. From those who -have seen the strike The There are three cross-cut tunnels run on the Record learns that it is of !big proportions property. In adit No.1 the lead is tapped as regards quantity. and rich in quality, after driv:ng 175 feet. The lead to the south, and is making the property of the King show€d eight foot of ore to the value of $27. more' valuable as development progresses. The walls were not reached. In No.2 adit, The new find is in 'the Creole ground prrOp€f, 275 feet of ~ross-cut found the lead. Con and had it been found when Jessie Knight s:derab!e work was done and in one place was in possession of the ground, those who the ore was forty f€et wide which showed are versed in mining say the stock of thc an average value of $12. There was six then Uintah·Treasure Hill would have pass foot of ore which showed a value of $40. RICH DISCOVERY NEAR RYE PATCH. ed the $5 mark, and caused great excite In the extreme south face, which is all in ment and speculation in mining circles. ore, the assays were from $12 to $50. The A thousand years from now, if this old lower tunnel is where the largest and best globe is then still in existence, rich ore Under existing condUions the big new find results arebe:ng obtained. This is 300 feet discoveries be made in the mining of rich ore neither advances the price of in d€pth, The Wingfi€ld 'people missed the states of this intermountain region. A the King stock nor causes the least stir ore on this level or did not exert themselves great many labor under the impreSSIOn that in Park City or elsewhere. This is per to find it. When the present manager start· all of ,the bonanza propositions in the moun haps partly because the facts are not noised ed work, when 'Wingfield quit, they started· tains and canyons have already been found. about by the company, but principally qe cutting from the hanging wall to the foot This is but a theory, however, and is con cause the uncovering of big ore. b::>dies tn wall and cut through seven feet of ore that tinually being shattered by discoveries made the many different sections of the vast hold gave $40 in gold and six ounces of silver. in territory that was believed to have ,been ings of the King Coalition are of too com Since the lead w.as first cut openings have thoroughly prospected years ago. From the mon occurrence to receive more than pass· been made that shows the seven-foot streak min:ng field rich finds are {:ontinually be ing notice or comment. These strikes are runs as high as $72. Assays from $40 up-. ing made, one of these, by a veteran pros nevertheless important to the camp and wards have been obtained. The seven·foot pector who, contrary to the usual custom, demonstrate that the country is but scratch does not ~nclude all the leads. It is over realized upon his discovery almost as s,oon ed-minerally speaking. twenty feet wide in .places, the value of the as it was found. The Star, of Winnemucca, --~-(o>--- whole ~eing $20. So far the ore has been Nevada, in telling the find, says: GYPSUM NEAR VERNAL. opened up on the 300·foot level, about 400 News has been r~eived here of a very foot in length. It has also been found in important gold strike which was made (Express, Vernal, Utah.) the north drift, and is of equally good value. about three weeks ago in' the Humboldt Prospecting over Ashley valley in the Every day's work and every foot driven is range, about eight miles from Ry'e Patch. last few days has brought to light the fact exposing to view more ore. One of the The discovery was made by a Swede pros that in and around Vernal are numerous owners estimates that by the fore part of pector, who sold out to Judge Curler of and ex'tensive beds of gypsum equal in August there will be a gross tonnage in this place and George H. Copley and Harry quality, it is thought, with that found nea, sight to a value of a miUion and a half dol· Hunter of Imlay. Roosevelt, Utah, The only tests that have lars. In a short time a winze will be sunk The ledge is about two feet wide and been made were from samples taken at the on the rich streak, and still later a work marvelously rich ore is being taken from foot of the yellow dugway half way between ing tunn~l lower down the hill will be the 'prospect shaft which is being sunk. Vernal and Jensen. This raw gypsum, taken driven. The erection of a mill will be in At seven feet depth a sample was taken, from the road surface, was roasted and When order very soon.", the assays across the ledge ranging from mixed with water immediately set into a The Alpha. $62 to $1,200. The values are principally solid mass, showing ~onclusively that a high This property is under option to Chicago in gold, though the ore ~arries some silver. quality Ibuilding material has been lying un· ,people, and is under the immediate super Pieces of the quartz from the richest streak touched for ages awaiting the discovery vision of John A. Jess. The property is in the vein are fairly alive with gold. The of its usefulness. Beds of gypsum were also found north situated northeast of town, up Bourne gulch. vein lies in porphyry and it stuck out two ~ The lead has been opened up 900 foot in feet out of the ground. A piece of rock of Vernal, west and almost in town. In a length and shows values at every opening. broken from the croppings showed a seam few days samples will be collected from a dozen sources for roasting into the plaste~ The work being carried on at present con of almost solid gold. The owners have a group of eight claims of paris state and then thcy will be put sists of a drift tunnel on the lead, being now in about 300 feet, and will be driven and .they are of course enthusiastic over through the setting process to test the tex about 100 feet farther to tap the shaft that the strike, which gives extraordinary sur tile strength after being moulded into blocks. is being sunk on the lead. The face of face promise, They will prosecute vigor· If the gypsum-plastcr of paris product In the drift is all in ore of at least a $15 value. ous develoment to fully ascertain the value Ashley valley proves out, as expected, a company may be organiZed to put the pro A gasoline driven fan kee'ps the air in of the find, Harry Hunter was in town Saturday ~on· duct upon the market. good shape. The shaft is now down 110 0-- The motivc power consists of a six-horse ferring with Judge Curler in regard to their The Jamison lea.3e on the Pacific dump, power engine handling two buckets. The property. The latter, accompanied by his lead here is about three fect in width and son, Ben Vogel Curler; left that evening in American Fork district, Utah, made a shows an assay value of from $40 to $75. Iby auto for the scene of the strike. where shipment of thirty tons of fine lead ore, the fif'St of the week, From the 90-foot level in the shaft, a drift they will remain about a week. ----o---~
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T.H ESA L T iVITY IN GOLDFIELD MINES. I Consolidated Makes a Good Show· Ig.-Great Western Resumes. (Special Correspondence. rding to the June report of General :endent Thorn, just made public, the oduction of the Goldfield Con~oli· lines company for that month was ons of a total value of $573,658.31 verage of $17.72 per ton, of which ons were milled with an' average ) l l of 92.63 per cent, and 3,325 tons ipped of an average value of $23.91 the net recovery from all ore be· 60 per ton. The total net real.iza· ounted to $325475.52 or $10.06 per 1e development work accomplished d 3,034 feet. )ination-The stope in the Rellly Itheast of the shaft produced 1341 '22.00 ore. The 402·G stope 300 feet • the shaft between the 5th and 6th roduced 353 tons of $18.00 ore~ This leepest point in the mine at which b"een found. ~ new stope which duce a large tonnage is being open· 1e second level 200 feet east of the 'e, under the old January workings. ad 103·X drifts driven through the .roduced 117 tons of $15.00 ore. Iwk-The work being prosecuted [ the 3 stope on the 150·foot level the old Sheets·lsh country is provo a large tonnage of good grade ore. sill, 50 feet north of the 3·E stope, j 43 tons of average $37.60 ore. The being advanced north in the foot· the Sheets·I,~h sto.pe produced 38 $31.00 ore. The 170·L stope on the level stripping the lower end of ets·lsh stope produced 105 tons of reo The l11·N on the 250·foot level .he Hayes·Monette stope produced j 1389 tons of $43.20 ore. nont-The 426·X intermediate be· he 750·foot and 600·foot levels and s of $40.00 ore. The 3M·Q drift Dotwall section of the big 354 stope • the old 401 stope produced 108 $28.00 ore. During the pa,~t month elopment on the 1300·foot level of zJy Bear has been very satisfactory. drift in the orebody has been ship· broken, the last round of much broken, . the last round of muck Impartment of the shaft from the the 1600 was completed, and pipes, and eleCtrical equipment moved I-uides were put down the fDrmer from the surface to. the 1300, and e drum electric hoist installed on [ace. Sinking the next lift of 140 now in progress. The Lone Star. u; been definit£)ly decided by the nent of the Lone Star Consolidated company to prosecute an extensive
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campaign of lateral work at a depth of 300 feet. That point will be reached by the shaft within the next two or three days. After a 30·f90t sump is sunk below the level, crosscutting will be inaugurated. Two rna· chine drills will be installed to facilitate the lateral work. The bottom of the shaft is now in an altered latite formation and Superintendent Healy is firm in the belief that the lateral work on the 300·foot level will result in the interception of large ore bodies and determine ,the extent of the fault of the formatioIlt3 through the Lone Star ground at an early date. Th\l re organization of the old corporation, the Goldfield Lone Star Mining company, as the Lolle Star Consolidated Mining company has been entirely completed. A large majority of the stockholders of the. old company availed themselves of the privilege of ex· changing their shares for those of the new company upon a basis of share for share, plus two cents a share. The new corpora· tion is in excellent shape financially. The perio.d for the exchange of shares expired J:uly 20th. Great Western. Upon his return from -the east within the next few wee,ks, S. H. Brady, of Tonopah, will resume op.erations on the Great West· ern mine, in the Ho.rnsilver distrIct" south of Goldfield, the control of which he and his associates recently acquired. The Great Western ha.~ been extensively developed and has already to its credit shipments of· ore ~xceeding $125,000 in value. There is at present a great tonnage of pay ore in sight on the various levels, which warrant the prediction that the resumption of oper· ations will be followed by a steady pro· ducLion of ore that will not only add to the laurels of the property but give a (!eclded impetus to operations throughout the Horn· silver district and C{)ntiguo\li~ country. Mr. Brady has purchased a mill in the Bullfrog district and workmen are at present en· gaged in dismantling (t for removal to. the Hornsilver district. He has also purchased water rights, located about twelve miles distant from the Great Western, and the laying of a pipe·line to '3upply water to the mill will probablY be started within the next few weeks. Hornsilver Mining. Under the supervision of Superintendent Howard Russell, an average of three feet a day is being made tn the sinking of the shaft on the property of the Hornsilver dis· trict from the 300 to the 500·foot level. '('he bore has been sent down more than 50 feet since sinking operations were resumed about two wee~~ ago. following the exposure of the Hornsilver ledge eighty feet south of the shaft on the 300·ft. level, where drift· ing fora distance of fifty feet east and west showed the ore to. average $22 a ton and better ~han eight feet in width. The management is confident that the shaft will reveal the converging point or the
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Hornsilver and Great Western ledges before the present objective depth is gaIned. It is the inltention of the manag'ement to run a cro813·cut from the 500-foot point to pick Ulp wlhat is known as tille' "norrth" ledge, which on the surface ,parallels the other two ledges and lays wbout 100 feet north of t he shaft. The Florence. After a sUSIPens.ion of sinking opera· ltions for several days, occasioned by the necessity of repairin,g and relieving weak· ened timbe!1~ at several po.in;.s, work Is in pro'g,ress in the main ,s,ha[ot of r!Je Florence mine, which has passed the 118()foot point. It wm be completed to the 1200·foot point within the next few days. A 6t).foQt SUIIllP will be sunk, and a huge StaT!on cut, all of which work is e"pected to be finished w~thill ninety days. Upon its completion. ~ateml worl: upon an _ex:tensive scale will be inaugurateid. The shaf~ has recen,ly cut 13everal quartz s'tringers that return Eomall values. The new cross·cut Oll the :350·foot level has just encountered the bi~ ledge opened upsev€·ral months ago on the 250 foot J,evel in virgin 'ground. Cross-cutting and d.rifting on the ledge to intercept the downwa.rd extension of -the rich ore shoot exposed on the 250·foot level are now being proseou.ted on the 350·foot level. Vernal On the 200-foot level of the Vernal, drift· ing is in progress on a. big ledge, encount· ered s~xty feet west of the ,;:;haft. The rock being extracted assays around $9 a ton. 'l'he size (,f the ledge hag not !.,(len ueter· minE,lI. a c.;OSS-Cilt 'not ha.ving t:ll.S far been run from wall to wall. The volume 0: water is slowly increasing and the man· ag,ement 'has found it necessary to install a ,pump to handle it. Silver Pick Consolidated. More >than fifty feet of work ha'3 been accompJished since drHting was beg,un two weeks ago on the 10·foot ledge rethe management of the Jumbo Ex'tension Mining company has everything in readines,s for the inaugura· tion of ore,shipments to its recently leased mill at Bonnie Claire, 38 miles south of Goldfie1d which will be placed in commis·' sion August 10th, by which date all neces 13 ary rep'airs wi! have 'been made. Within the next few days 300 >tons of ore wlll be shiipped to the mill to fill the ore bins. 1
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Kingman Miner: This,norning E. H. Barton, general manager of the Frisco Mines and Power company, brought in the bi-weeklY bar of bullion from the mill. The bar will weigh a.bout $7,000. The mill is now doing nice work and the result is proving the mine to be a winner. Clifton Copper Era: A. B. Harris, of Safford, arrived in Globe last week wlth several samples of gold-bearing black sand. Mr. Harris said that he had discovered this sand about fourteen miles northeast of Sol omonville and that the assays received from the samples, showed that it was rich in gold. Florence Blade-Tribune: M. H. Harri son brought the Blade-Tribune cabinet Sat· urday, a lot of fine ore specimens from the bottom of the 70-foot shaft on the Caledonia vein, situated twelve miles northeast :of town. The pay-streak from which the speci mens came in almost as wide as the shaft and every round of holes fired breaks bet ter or", Clifton Copper Era: The Calumet and Arizona is hustling work on its new smeltet at Douglas The material is nearly all on th(~ ground and construction goes on fast. At tile mines the developments prove that the new smelting plant will have work to do for some time to come. Ore is being opened up at all the prinCipal shafts, and it is of exceptionally high grade. Florence Blade-Tribune: Superintendent McMillan reports the discovery of a 4-foot vein of very rich copper ore in their cross· cute from the McMillan shaft on the Sul tana group, situated on the south side of the river at Kelvin. The ore is said to be the richest copper ore ever discovered, be ing- almost pure bullion. The Sultana is l:>ecoming noted for phenomenally riCh 'pay streaks." Kiqgman Miner: The Swansea smelt er has been blOwn in and is said to be doing good work. The plant is under new management and is reported to have plenty of capital back of it. The ore buyers are searching for silicious ores that will stand the freieght to that place, and a good smelting rate will be accorded this class of Qrc. Ore carrying fome cQPper, iron and silica is what is needed. Florence Blade-Tribune: The Magma Copper company's new air compressor ar· rived at the Florence depot Saturday, was loaded on to an iron truck, capable of car· rying 30,000 pounds, and started for the mines, at Superior, Wednesday. It Is one of the largest compressors in the state. With this machine added to the oed com pressor equipment at the mine the air sup ply ',vil! be ample for all purposes. The
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foundation for this new compressor has been completed, hence upon its arrival at the mine it will not take long to get it ready for operation. When all of the new equipment at the mine is ready to go into commission, Superintendent Neary will be gin sinking the shaft to the 1,500 foot level and ,puGh this work as fast as possible. ~---o----
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Georgetown Gazette: A five-stamp mill is being erected on the Big Buzzard mine on the Darrington place at Negro. Hill. This mine is owned by Levi, George and Bert Darrington, F. N. Major and Joe Foster. A new mill has also been built on the old Z€'ntgraf mine, three miles from the Big Buzzard, and preparations are 'being made to work this property on a large scale. The Zentgraf is now known as the Home mine, and Sacramento capitalists are developing it. -.-.---o~--~
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Georgetown Courier: Supplies and two men left town last Thursday for the Merri mac mining property on Kelso mountain and work will be prosecuted vigorously from now on. The property belongs to J. P. Johnson and was a producer of high grade ore in the early days. It is stated that a fine showing is in evidence on this property and good indications of ore ahea(1 of the breast of the tunnel as surface ore shows strong in mineral values. Telluride Examiner: Manager T. E. Thomas, of the Junta Mining & Milling company, and tbe Jim Crow M~ning com pany, has recently arranged for a meeting of his companies on August 20 for the pur pose of merging both into one, the name proposed for the consolidated companies to be the Junta Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling company. While this mergement is going on, work at the mines is being pushed and everything is looking good, A very large vein of free milling ore is opened on the Jim Crow group and the Junta prop erties are all showing good milling ore. Dr. Charles E. Georgetown Courier: Rowland, of Syracuse, N. y" who for anum· ber of years has been associated witJi Nel son Williams in the development of the Ruler lode, on Griffith mountain, spent sev· eral days here this week. The doctor is so well pleased with the Ruler property that he has bought the extension of the vein, the CQmet mine, which is one of the oldest discoveries in the district, and has a large production to its credit. The Comet, Ruler and Eetna are on the same vein, which is one of tbe largest in the district, and which is now producing so largely in thfl workings of the Capital company. Boulder Miner: The Lincoln-American Mining company has opened the rich ore body in the American mine at Magnolia
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and are extracting about ten tons of ore daily from the second level. The pay streak is from two to three feet iII width and car ries excellent values in the main body, while there are occurrences of the exceedingly rich material that has distinguished the mine. Cross-cutting is in progress on lev. els three and four for the purpose of reach ing the ore which was found in the 'second level by a cross-cut to the footwall. The mine is under the management of Col. W. H. Moore, one of the best miners in the state. With him are associated a number of substantial Denver business men. Telluride ];Jxaminer: W, R. Vanderveer, who accepted the management of the Morn ing Star group of mines for an eastern syndicate some months ago, has b€en dOing preparatory work out there, getting ready to open up a body of ore on the Sunshine vein which extends through the mountain, To do this it neceSSitated extending a pipe line to get water for power for a compres sor he uses and this line was extended 1,800 feet and is now in working order. He will build a small boarding house at the mouth of the Sunshine tunnel for the accommo dation of. his men and will then run a tun nel in about 800 feet. to tap the Magpie vein, a body of ore that he feels is good enough for shipment. A recent bond taken on the Magpie gives him the ground he wants, - - - - O h_ __
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Hailey Times: William Schultz, WI;1O Was dOwn from Boulder today, says that the workings in the lower tunnel have just £ut a vein of concentrating ore three feet wide, carrying 15 inches of 50 or 55 per cent zinc. Elk City Mining News: W. F. Johnson and Bob Hiland have made a new discovery on Galena creek. The vein uncovered car ries good values, but not enough work has been done to determine to what extent the ore shoot will go. The claims are well sit uated, and a road runs nearly to the prop erty. More work will be done. and the vein uncovered for some distance, \Vallace Miner: Some fine specimens of copper ore were brought to town this week from the Bullion property. The recent strike that was made in the raise being driven from the west drift, has widened un til tbere is now fully eighteen inches of solid ore, The management expects to have a car ready for shipment to the smelter within the next few days and if the present ore body continues as expected, and the in· dications are it will, mo~e men will be put to work on stoping and shipments will be made regularly. The ore now' being taken out will assay from 15 to 20 per cent cop per and runs high in silver values. The pmperty is located near the IdahoJ~fontaIla divide and is one of the oldest and best equipped in the district,
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Austin Reveille: A ten ton shipment of ore from the Peterson mine to the Salt Lake smelter by J. C. Sammons, lessee, re turns from which were received this week, hrought $450 per ton, This ore came from the I25-foot level. The ledge is two feet wide with ten i.nchs3 of high grade. Mr. Peterson and Mr. Sammons were in town today for men to work in the mine. Picche Record: William H. Pitts, man ager of the Home Run Copper company, spent a day or two at the properties of that corporation this week and returned to Pioche well pleased wJth the progress being made with development there., Mr, Pitts reports that connection has been made with the rich Qre shoot on the 90-foot level and that ore is heing sacked for shipme~t that contains average values of about $100 per ton in gold, silver, lead and copper, Ely Record: The Coppermines company has purchased a 25-horsepower gasoline en gine from the Ely Consolidated company, and is now putting in an incline tramway from its Minnesota shaft to the top of the railroad grade immediately above the mine, where ore bins will be erected. As soon as the ore bins are completed and the engine installed, the companY will be in a situation to largely increase its output from the mine, which has been a steady producer for some months past. Developments in the mine are of a very satisfactory nature, showing a large tonnage of ore of a splen did milling 'grade. Austin Reveille: J. M, Pine, of Denver, who has been interested in the develop ment of mines at Ravenswood, some thirty miles north of Austin for the past year, has been in Austin the past several days. Mr. Pine states that he will put in a small, hut complete mining plant and sink to the 400 or 4S0 level and explore the ore bodies at that depth. The plant has alreadY heen shipped from Salt Lake City and includes a gasoline hOist, air compressor and machine drills. Mr. Pine has been interested in min ing properties in and around Austin for a number of years and has impliCit faith in the uiti'mate outcome of this region of the state. Winnemucca Star: This office has ret ceived a lot Df samples of are from the strike made a few days ago in the 200·foot tunnel on the Yellow Dog property at the camp of Dyke, in the Pine Forest range. The ore Is heavily impregnated with gold and extremely rich. A sample taken from fifteen inches of the vein and assayed at the Winnemucca assay office yesterday gave the gratifying results or $666 to the ton in gold and only a trace in silver. This 'ore was sent in by S. L. Baker, who IS man· aging the development work on the prop. erty, and who stated that all the high-grade noticeable was eliminated from the sample,
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Milford News: We are advised that John Kelley and his associates in the ,Lue group of claims in Pine Grove district, Scientists and capitalists of Europe who are working along very satisfactorilY and are interested in the development of rad expect to ship a car of ore soon, which run ium, says the Denver Times, are planning very high in gold. to estahlish in Denver an elahorate plant Milford News: Word reaches us that
for the extraction of radium and other rare the Sheep Rock is ahout to commence ship mi"nerals from ores found in this region. ping are again, and that Wilford Robinson
It has become known that four scientific is busy looking for teams to haul the same men from France and England have made to Milford. The Sheep Rock Is located in a tour of 'various depOSits in this and near the Newton Mining district on Indian
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Milford News: The Oak Leaf property case the plant is erected. The larger por on the east side of the Mineral range, being tion of the' present radium and vanadium the range between Milford and Beaver, is supply of the world has come from Colo installing an air compressor and steam rado. SpeCial efforts have been made by hoist. We understand they will soon be mining men In this region to d:scover and ready for business, when active develop develop such depos-its. The Colorado ment and also shipping will be proceeded School of Mines has paid especlalatten with rapidity. tion to this field. Milford News: George Algood, one ot The output heretofore has been sent to the leasers of the property of the Ready Llverpoo! to be treated, Ibut those inter ested in that plant have thought that ship. Pay Mining company, in the vicinity of ping the are across the ocean was too ex· Newhouse, has opened up a fine body of pensive. They propose to erect a plant ore which is improving every day. In the here at an expense of $50,000. It will cost opinion of Mr. Algood this property will soon be numbered with the producers and $100,OQO a year to conduct it. The scien tific men who made a recent visit came in a very short time wm be shipping or& to see if there was sufficient quantities of to the smelters. Beaver Press: The engine anI.'! 'boiler ore in sight to make such a plant pay.
Fred T. Smith and J. R. Perry, !Vho for the steam holst at the Oak Leaf was delivered at the min,e this week. The air represent European radium hunters, con ducted them to the mines. Mr. Smith de .compressor and other machinery has been clared that one of them estimate'll the value on the ground for some time, and th~ in of one deposit at $2,500,000 and asserting stallation has heen going right ahead. It that the ore could he treated for $1S0 a is a matter of only a short time until the plant will go into commission and the ton and would yield $140 worth of vana extraction of are will be commenced. dium alloy and $200 worth of radium. ---0-- Eureka Reporter: The electric hoist at WILL PRODUCE PURE COPPER. the May Day mine went Into commission on Monday of this week and since that time (Silver State, Winnemucca, 'Nev.) the new machinery has 'been doing splen· J. C. Weir of the Humboldt PiQneer Min did work. The switch from the steam plant ing and Reduction cOmpany is in town su perintending the shipment of material to to the electrical equipment was made with· Cllt delay and the change will mean a sub· the copper mines of the company to erect a re'duction plant. The are will be stalltial redUction in the operating 'expenses at this property. The May Day company handled by a process of their own inven will secure power from the Knight people. tion, something after the order of cyanid Green River Dispatch: It is said that Ing. The tanks and a portion of the other a foot lead genuine pure pitchblende has equipment are already on the ground. Mr. Weir located the property, situated been struck _in the Cameron group that is twelve miles this side of Denio, in 1863, being worked near this city. If this is true, and has hung on since that time, never the output will be worth many millions. losing faith in the proposition. In ~he early The company has all their ore bins here days the ground was abandoned for a time, filled, probably SOO tons of ore are ready on account or Indians, but as soon as they, for shipment. Ahout half a dozen miners had been subdued work was again. startea. ' are employed through the 'hot weather, but as soon as cooler weather begins the. force Mr. Weir, who hears a striking resem will be greatly increased again. blance to James J. Hill, the railroad mag nate, states that he expects to see h's teams Beaver Press: R. H. Burke and Robert driving up Bridge street within the next Finley were in town for several days from ninety days, with wagons loaded with pure . the Woodhouse property in 'Star district. copper. They were exhibiting some handsom~ speci ---0--
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A ten ton shipment of (Ie Peterson mine to the Salt ir by J. C. Sammons, lessee, re w'hich were received this week, \I per ton. This ore came from level. The ledge is two feet len l,nchel of high grade. Mr. !d Mr. Sammons were in town ~en to work in the mine. ~cord: 'W'illiam H. Pitts, man ~ Home Run Copper cO'IIlpany, " or two at the properties of IUon this week and returned to pleased wjth the progress being development there. Mr. Pitts ; connection has been made h ore shoot on the 90-foot levfll e is being sacked for shipment .s average values of about $100 gold, silver, lead and copper. ·rd: The Coppermines company ed a 25-horsepower gasoline en· the Ely, Consolidated company, putting in an incline tramway nnesota shaft to the top of the de immediately above the mine, ins will be erected. As soon as ~ ate completed and the engine e company will be in a situation increase its output from the I has beeu a steady producer Jonths past. Developments in e of a very satisfactory nature, arge tonnage of ore of a spleu ·grade. eveille: J. M. Pine, of Denver, ~en interested in the develop· ies at Ravenswood, some thirty of Austin for the past year, has Itin the past several days. Mr. that he will put.in a small, but ning plant and sink to the 400 and explore the ore bodies at The plant has already been 1 Salt Lake City and includes a 3t, air compressor and machine "ine has been interested in min· es in and around Austin for a rears and has implicit faith in outcome of this region of the cca Star:' This office has re the a few days ago in the 200-foot Ie Yellow Dog property at the ke, in the Pine Forest range. \'leavily impregnated with gold fy rich. A sample taken from os of the vein and assayed at mcca assay office yesterday atifying results oC $666 to the md only a trace in silver. This , in by S. L. Baker, who ls man evelopment work on the prop· ,0 stated that all the high·grade as eliminated from the samIJle,
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Scientists and capitalists of Europe who are interested in the development of rad ium, SayS the Denver Times, are planning to establish in Denver an elaborate plant for the extraction of radium and other rare miilerals from ores found in this region. It has become known that four scientific men from France and England have made a tour of various deposits in this and near by states and have undertaken to arrange with O'Wners for control of the output in case the plant is erected. The larger por tion of the' present radium and vanadium supply of the world has come from Colo rarlo. Special efforts have been made by mining men in this region to d:scover and develop such depOSits. The Colorado School of Mines has paid especial atten tion to this field. . The output heretofore has been sent to Liverpool to be treated, Ibut those inter ested in that plant have thought that ship ping the ore across the ocean was too ex· pensive. They propose to erect a plant here at an expense of $50,000. It will cost $100,000 a year to conduct It. The scien· tific men who made a recent visit came to see if there was sufficient quantities of ore in sight to make such a plant pay. Fred T. Smith aOO J. R. Perry, Who represent European radium hunters, con ducted them to the mines. Mr. Smith de clared that one of them estimate
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Around the State Milford News: We are advised that John Kelley and his aasociates in the ,Lue group of claims in Pine Grove district. are working along very satisfactorily and expect to ship a car of ore soon, which run very high in gold. Milford News: Word reaches us that the Sheep Rock is about to commence ship ping ore again, and that Wilford Robinson is busy looking for teams to haul the same to Milford. The Sheep Rock is located in the Newton Mining district on Indian Creek, north of Beaver. Milford News: The Oak Leaf property on the east side of the Mineral range, being the range- between MHford and Beaver, is installing an air compressor and steam hoist. We understand they will soon be ready for business, when active develop ment and also shipping will be proceeded with rapidity. Milford News: George Algood, one of the leasers of the property of the Ready Pay Mining company, in the vicinity of Newhouse, has opened up a fine body of ore which is improving every day. In the opinion of Mr. Algood this property soon be numbered with the producers and in a very short time "'till be shipping ore to the smelters. Beaver Press: The engine ana boiler for the steam hoist at the Oak Leaf was delivered at the mine' this week. The air ,compressor and other machinery has been on the ground for some time, and th~ in· stallation has been going right ahead. It is a matter of only a short time until the plant will go into commission and the extraction of ore will be commenced.
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Eureka Reporter: The electric hoist at the May Day mine went Into commission on Monday of this week and since that time the new .machinery has 'been doing splen did work. The switch from the steam plant to the electrical equipment was maae with cut delay and the change will mean a sub st'lilUal reduction in the operating expenses at this property. The May Day company will secure power from the Knight people_
(Silver State, Winnemucca, Nev.) J. C. Weir of the Humboldt Pioneer Min ing and Reduction com,pany is in town suo perintending the shipment of material to the copper mines of the company to erect a reduction plant. The ore will be handled by a process of their own inven· tion, something after the order of cyanid· Green River Dispatch: It is said that ing. The tanks and a portion of the other a foot lead genuine pure pitchblende has equipment are already on the ground. Mr. Weir located the property, situated been struck _in the Cameron group that is twelve miles this side of Denio, in 1863, being worked near this city. If this is true, and has hung on since that time, never the output will be worth many millions. losing faith in the proppsition. In the early The company has all their ore bins here days the ground was abandoned for a time, filled, probably 500 tons of ore are ready on account of Indians, but as soon as they for shipment. About half a dozen miners are employed through the 'hot weather, but had been subdued work was agaIn startea. Mr. Weir, who bears a striking resem as soon as cooler weather begins the force blance to James J. Hill, the railroad mag will be greatly increased again. nate, states that he expects' to see h:s teams Beaver Press: R. H. Burke and Robert driving up Bridge street within the next Finley were in town for -several days from ninety days, with wagons loaded with pure . the Woodhouse property in Star district. copper. They were exhibiting some handsome speci.
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mens of rock showing free gold.' A small streak of ore gives values of nearly sIx thousand dollars in gold and about one hun dred fifty ounces in silver. A forty ton car was shipped to the Salt Lake market last week, which ought to net in the neighborhood of two hundred dollars a ton. Richfield Sun: L. H. Outzen and his' son, Henry, ca'me down from the Outzen properties in Bullion canyon last Thursday, bringing very encouraging reports. De velopment work is moving along steadily and every day.sees results. The tunnel is is now in five hundred feet. The face is in very obstinate trachite and the work is necessarily slow. It is confidently ex pected that the main ore body will be en countered within the next fortnight. J. S. McCullough, whose property adjoins the Outzen group, has just opened up a vein of $40 ore, and he is feeling elated over the strike. E.'ureka Reporter: During the month of July the Chief Consolidated mine broke ali previous records in the matter of ore pro duction, the saipments for that period ago gregating fifty·two carloaas. Notwithstand· ing the fact tbat this is an exceptionally heavy output tor one month, there is a possibility that the output of this mine for August wilI be even greater. The Chief Cor.solidated officials are not doing mucb talking,but )J1ere is no getting away from the het that the conditions underground are excellent and that it is a comparatively easy task to take out a couple of cars of ore each day. Green River Dispatch: Alfred Forsman of tlils city recently sent the government director of physical and chemical investi gations at Washington an average sample of carnotite from the Tom Boy group near here, and he has been apprised that it runs 3.5 milligrams radium, as metal, per short ton (2,000 pounds), which is the equivalent or 6 milligrams radium bromide, worth at retail about $80 per milligram, or $480 per ton. The 'Uranium and vanadium, figured at the lowest grade that has ever been shipped from here (4 per cent) will bring at least $136 per ton, thus making the ag gregate value per ton $616.
----0---- . The Cardiff mine, in the South Fork of Big Cottonwood, just over the divide from Alta, Utah, has been shipping about forty tons of ore, weekly, and it i8 stated that Ore is now being taken from a four-foot face that will average about $100 ,to the ton. The new working tunnel, being driven below the up·per workings, is now in about ;;00 feet, and it is believed the lime-quart zite contact will soon be reached. Ex-Mayor Ezra Thompson, managing director of the Cardiff company, recently vhited the mine and is well pleased with its physical ap. pearance.
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CAMP·FIRE CHATS By PAUL VALTlNKR
Colhalt·orE'S, attractive to the miner on account of their association with nickel and sHver-ores. are practically 'worth less if the latter-mentioned elements are absent. Only a comparatively small amount of the oxide is used for the co:oring of glaJ3s and china-ware. The 'Word colbalt means goblin. The old German miners called the ore Ko bold (goblin). As the ores 'Show a decided metallic lus.ter the old miners tried to re duce the same, but as they never succeeded to obtain from them any metal ,they gave .to the ores the characteristic name of Ko ,bold. Since then the metal has been ob tained. It is a silver-white, malleable, tena ciou,. metal of specific gravity 8..5. The min erals Srn.a,ltilte (CoAs,.), CobaUite (CoAsS) and the rarer ,Cobalt-Bloom (of peach blo\3 som color) are found and mined in Cana.da f
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iron-oxides, is handled under the name of emery as an abrasive. Among the nickel-ores proper, garule rite is the least knQiwn by the American prospector. As it has been found here in different localities a di<3cription of It may .be of value to the man in the field. Garule rite Is a hydrous silicate of nickel and mak nesium. It is mO'Stly found in loosely com 'Pacted masses of a brilliant dark-green to a pale apple-green eolor. It adheres to the
----0.--- The Spring 'Canyon Coal Mining COIl pany, of Provo, UtlUh, ,has been incorporate with a capitalization of $100,000 dividen into 10-cent shares. The officere and <' rectors are Jesse Kinght, president; J. W liam Knight, vice-president; A. M. Knigl secretary and ·treasurer" R. E. Allen a' G. A. StorE'3, The company holds 800 acr
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Stan':ey c. Sears, of Boston, is now gen· eral manager of the Utah-Apex, at Bingham, Utah. B. L Hoxie 1'8 now superintendent of the Manhattan.-Earl mine. at Manhattan, Nevada. Walter Virdon has taken a lease on the Black Eagle mine and mill near Yellow Jacket, Idaho. E. W. Ralph. of Ely, Nevada.superin tendent of the Boston·Eiy mines, was are· cent Salt Lake visitor. E. E. Price has succeeded E. G. Coffin as superintendent of the Lower Mammoth mine at Mammoth. Utah. Charieos Forberg, of Salt Lake, who is working the S,pread Eagle mine near Iron ton, Colorado, has uncovered some good, pay ore. H. W. Loman, of Breckenridge, Colo· rado, superintendent for the Gold Dredging company, has been taking a vacation In the east. J. B. Hastings, of Yellow Jacket, Idaho, manager for the Yellow Jacket Mining com pany, has returned home from a visit to New York. R. C. Vanderford, of Eureka, Nevada, superintendent for the Cedro-Eureka Min ing company, recently transacted business in Spokane. W. C. Prickett and C. S. Peterson, of Birmingham. Alabama, recently Inspected mining camps in the near vicinity of WIn nemucca, Nevada. Jack Kirwin and Alex Hall, operating in Camp Tobin, near Winnemucca, Nevada, have exposed twenty inches of ore going $116 in gold to the ton. Paul Klopstock, of Kennedy, Nevada, su perintendent for the Go'ld Note Mining & Milling com!}any, was in Chicago, recently, on bUsines.3 for his company. L. E. lves ha'8 resIgned as associate edi tor of the Engineering and Mining Journal to ,become mining and assistant enginee,r Ing editor of the Iron Trade Review. L. C. Wilson, of Salt Lake, who is In terested in the Rico-Argentine mine a.t Rico, Colorado. recently made an exhaustive ex amination of the company's property. Harry Earle, of Salt Lake, one of the officials of the Home Run Mining company, recently visited the company's property in the Bristol district, near Pioche, Nevada. J. C. Martin, of Marion, Illinois, who is interested in the Southern Illinois Min ing company. operating near Boulder, Col orado, recently viSited the company'sprop erty. Joseph Whitlln, of Eureka, Utah, presi dent of the Crown Point Mining com,pany. who was a. recent Salt Lake vIsitor, Is en
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thusiastic over the future outlook for Tin tic district. Lucin Merritt, who is temJ}Orarily in charge of the Red Warrior mine in Star district, Beaver county. Utah, was a recent Salt Lake visitor. Mr. Merritt states that the mine i'3 shipping regularly, and that it i'8 in excellent phYSical condition. Col. John E. Pelton, formerly of the Na tional Mining company, of National, Nevada, and who was instrumental in developing that property trom a prospect into a bon· anza, is now interested in the Eastern Star mi'ne in Gold Circle district, Nevada. George SL Clair, of Ophir, Utah, mine manager for the Lion Hill Consolidated com· pany, was in Salt Lake, laGt week, looking after a 50-ton shipment of first-clas'" ore. Mr. St. Clair is greatly elated over the s!}len did showing in the company's property, and predicts a great future for the cam!} in general, now that it has railroad connection with the outside world. -'~--'{)c-----
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The town of Murray, Utah, has voted a $60.,000-bond issue for the installation of a municipal ,power plant. Hatley, Idaho. has made provision for a bond issue of $40,000 with which to in stall municipal water 'works. The TwIn Falls, Railroad com!}any. of Twin Falls, Idaho, I. B. Perrine, manager, has prepared plans for the building of a bridge over the Snake river. 'rhe bridge lWiH be 1,180 feet long and 540 feet in heighth above the river. ---Q--- THE REEDS PEAK.
(Record. Park City, Utah.) Recent important discoveries in the Cardifl' property over in Big Cottonwood district brings the adjoining' property. the Reeds Peak, into prominence. The latter property is owned principally by Park City people, who are working it to the limit of their means. It is a most promising pros pect and were it possible to raise a few thousand dollars to equip it with machln· ery so as to facilitate work, a mine .would soon be uncovered. Frdm the Cardiff about $8 000 of ore is being marketed every ,month, and the ledge from which this ore is mined runs through the Reeds Peak, to eut which the tunnel is now in some 45(1 feet with perhaps another 100 feet to go. The Cardiff is owned principally by Ezra Thompson and J. D Murdock, two form er Parkites who made big ,fortunes in Park City mines, with promising prospects ot making still larger ones from the property above mentioned.
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The Marion Mining company, of Ely, Ne vada, has placed an order with the F. C. Richmond Machinery company, of Salt Lake, for a 10·&tamp mill for its mine at CharlO'S· ton, Nevada. G. A. Heman. who has the contract for ,sidewalk extensions in Salt Lake, 'has placed a $40,000·order with the Portland Cement company of Ogden. for "Red Devil" cement with which to perform this work. The F. C. Richmond Machinery company, of Salt Lake, boas an order from the Model Laundry company for eighteen 'Vesting 'house motors. The laundry is equipping its machines wiIth individual motol"s. The Silver Bros. Iron Works company, of Salt Lake, has r~ived telegraphic or der,:; for thirty-six more mine oars from the -Goldfield Consoltidated Mines company, of Goldfield, Nevada. The company nad pre· viously ordered 17 cars, making a total of 207 of the Silver Bros. cars now in use in the operation of this great mine. The Salt Lake branch of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. reJ}Orts ,recent machinery sales a.3 follows: S4xty-horseJ}Ower engine to op· erate on three-cent California oil, for the New Yerington CopJ}Elr company, of Yering ton, Nevada. Five 25-horsepower oil engines to the W. O. Kay Elevators, o,perating in Utah and Idaho. Gas~ine hoist for the Latest Out Mining company, of Salmon, Idaho. Gasoline hoist, to J. A. Jess., of Jar blidge, Nevada. TheJeffrey Manufacturing company, of Columbus, Ohiio, has moved its Chicago of fice and headquarters from the Fisher build ing to the McCormick building, recently completed, with S. S, Shive, sal€>3 engi neer, In charge. The office is located on the 17th fioor of this magnificent structure, where customers and friends wHl receivp. a hearty welcome. The Jeffrey company main-ia.ins fourteen branch offices in the United States, and over 100 agents in the lead.!ng commel"Cial centers a.:l over the world. The Colorado Iron Works, of Denver, bR.S as'Sued Catalogue No. 10 C, entitled "Advanc ed Cyanide Practice and Equipment." This is a most interesting publication, in which two methods of operation of the company's Counter-Current Treatment by washing in continuous dllutJion are fully described. while the ,work contains much that is new in cy anide practice; v:hile facts and figuoos are giVen wMch are of vital interNt io mill men. The catalogue is handsomely mus trated, 'and the text is an education, in itself, for those' who WlOul
The Utah-Apex" of Bingham, Utah, has redueed its bonded indebtedne3S to $240,000.
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(Mine 6- SmellerBuilding I The Boston-ElY company, of Ely, Ne· vada, has decided to equip its property with a big pumping ,plant. Patrick Marley, of Salt Lake, has mill building in contemplation for his property near Farmington, Utah_ Two more lead furnaces will. in all ,prob abi;lty. be added to the plant of the Inter national smelter at Tooele, Utah_ The Rico-Wellington Mining company. of Provo, Utah, may equip its mine, at Rico, Colorado, with a milling plant in the near future. The AlaskaConsoGldated Copper com· pany, of Valdez, Ala'Ska, has in contempla tion the buildIng of a 500-ton concentrat ing plant. 'I1he Conqueror M. & M. company, of Silver Plume, Colorado, is preparing plans and specifications for the construction of a 100-ton mill. The Cortez Mining & Reduotion com pany, of Cortez, Nevada, Capt. J. M. Bern ardi, manager, will soon put in a custom milling plant. o.lson & Company, of Telluride, Colo· rado, who have a lease on the old Bernardo mine, near that place, have mill building in contemplation. Edward Bdpane and Thos. Beadall, of Jarbidge, Nevada, owners in the Bluster mine at that place, have mill building in contemplation. The Lawrence Mining & Milling com pany, of Sand Poin,t, Idaho, Josel!h Reed, manager, is arranging to erect a 50-ton con centrating plant. .
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equipment for the purpose of driving a long drain and working tunnel in West Mountain distri~t_ The Press, of Beaver, Utah, states that the mining interests of Newton district, near that p:ace, have combdned for the pur pose of installing a 25-stamp mill for the treMment of ores from the several proper· tie<3 in the district. The Detro:t Copper eompany, of Mor enci, Arizona, has decided to make altera tions and imp,ro'Vements in its smelting plant_ The company will replaee its gas engines with a steam plant, and electric power will be applied in the operation of the concentrator. The office of the company i,3 at 99 John street, New York, N. Y. T,he Spring Canyon Coal company, of Provo, Utah, Jesse Knight, president, whleh Is now actively engaged in opening up large coal areas in Carbon county, Utah, will soon install the iargest eapacity aerial tramway in the world, the tramway to connect its mines with the railroad. The tram will be 3.200 feet in length, and will have a ,carrying eapacity of 250 tonl3 "per hour. --~,~o-~-
CAPE HORN LOOKING UP.
(SpeCial Correspondenee.) Cape Horn, Idaho, Aug. 10.-Martin J. Heller, eon suiting engineer for Capt. J. R. DeLamar, has reeently examined the prop erty of the Burns id- & M. company, of Custer county, this state, in the interests of the Internationa.I Nickle company, In wh!eh Capt. DeLamar is a heavy holder. Mr. Brose, of Sheep mountain, is ship ping twenty-five tons of high-g,rade galena to the Salt Lake smelters. Mr. J. Pfost is taking out another shipment from Sea Foam_ The Greyhound is working a full The Santa Ana-Rawhide Gold M,ining erew, and Is steadily developing its mines_ The sale of the Clayton mines and smel company, of Yerington, Nevada, C. A. Ter williger, manager, has decided to equip its ter, and the e'mphatie manner in whleh the purchasers have started development property with a 'Stamp mill. The- Mary McKinney Mining company, work and improvements. is stimulating the of Cri~ple C.reek, Colorada, will add to its prospeetors of Custer county; so look out mine equiPlllent, and may put in a large for old-tife strikes. Supplementing the information furnish electrically operated hO}3ting ,plant. ed by our Cape' Horn correspondent Is the The Day·Bristol Consolidated Mines com
following taken from the Stanley Items in pany, of Pioche, Nevada, George E. Bent.,
the Messenger, Challis, Idaho: general manager, is making arrangements
Pat Rasche is out from Sea Foam, and for the installation of an aerial tramway. reports great activity in that district. Mr. The Bank Mining & Promotion com Brose Is getting out a shipment of fifty ton'3 pany, of Buffalo, New York, has decided to of ore from the Joe Singer property at put in a 5-stamp mill, concentrator and sand Sheep mountain. the ore being brought to plant for its .property near Forest, Calif the wagon road by the Greyhound paek ornia. tra:n, and will be hauled to Ketchum by The Shattuck-Arizona CoP'per company, team. It is estimated this ore will average of Bisbee, Arizona, is preparing plans and $200 per ton, being high-grade sliver-lead. specification for smelter building, to cost in Isaae Pfost also anticipates making a the neighborhood of $500,000. Main offiee, shipment of ore from his property. We First Na.tional Bank ,Building, Duluth, Mln learn the ore shipped ,by him last year nesota. ::.ampled 427.5 ozs. silver, $11.50 gold and The Bingham Copper Tunnel company, 18.75 per cent lead. of Salt Lake, Utah Milando Pratt, secre Pat Rasche also made a trip to Middle tary, is getting ready to put in extensive Fork to investigate a gold strike made
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by Charley Smith. He says the showing is fine--14 samples made from one claim showed an average of $44 in gold. Seven samples from claim No.2, gave an aver age of $18 in gold. The veins are five and three feet, and ean be, traced for several hundred feet on the surface_ -,------0
RICH STRIKE IN FORTUNA.
(Bulletin, Searehlight, Nev.) The talk of the week has been the great strike by Howe and Harris in th€ Fortuna, in Eldorado canyon, of which de tails were given in last week-s Bulletin. The are that is now being hauled to the Santa Fe station here, for shipment to the International smelter, Utah, is a sH vel' ehloride running into the hundreds in value. Visitors are n'Ot permitted to enter the underground workings, but the size of the dump and the daily additions to it are the basis of the keen general interest and the oft-repeated statement that these lucky leasers in the past fortnight have taken out more strietly high-grade ore than hereto fore known elsewhere in th!s section. The force consists of six men and the extract:on is e·stimated at three and one half tons and upward per day. Reeently development has been started 30!) feet east of the shaft, in a small gulch, where a crop ping of the ore from the main drift was found. Th€ work here not only represents a gain In depth of about 100 feet, but gives well-night positive assuranee of the con tinuaUon of the rich are shoot to that point. A sample of the are in question ii! in the ore cabinet at the post offiee. ---o~---,-
STRIKE IN THE CONGRESS.
(Herald, Ouray, Colo.) The news of the opening of an immense body of rieh enargite in the old Congress mine at Red Mountain, twelve miles south of Ouray, is caus:ng considerable rejoic ing, as it means the revival of good times in that famous old district. The vein was opened in the breast of the sixth level ninety feet below the old workings, and is a downward extension ot the great vein from whieh the late Thomlls F. Walsh shipped millions of dollars worth of are of the same eharacter. The find was made by Frank B. Goudy of Denver, who with H. H. Marris has a long time lease on the property. The ore body is over six feet deep of solid enargite, whose average value i,3 over thirty per eent eopper and thirty to fifty ouneeS: silver, being worth from $75 to $125 per ton. It is one of the most sub stantia] strikes made heTe. The Milkmaid M~ning company, of Amer ican Fork, Utah, recently shipped another carload of fine carbonate ore.
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Verdin Alexander is now with the Utah Copper company at Garfield, Utah. G. A. Collins, of Spokane, Washington, is now in charge of the Idora Hill mine in Idaho. The International Smelting & Refining company has posted its regular quarterly dividend. The Comet mine, near Georgetown, Col orado, ,has been oold to Dr. Charles Row lands, of Syracuse, New York. The leasers of ,the New Stockton mine, near Stockton, Utah, recently shipped five cars of firSJt and second-class ore. The South Utah, of Newhouse, Utah, it is stated, has uncovered a fine body of cop per ore on the 600 level, in virgin ground. The Adamoon-Turner mine, near Winne mucca, Nevada., recently consigned another car of high-grade ore {o the Salt Lake mar ket. The Copper Reserve Mining & Reduc tion company, of Salt Lake, has been Incor porated with a capitalization of 300,000 shares of $1 each. The officers and direc tors are A. H. Tarbet, president; S. M. Levy, vice-president; Henry T. McEwen, secretary; C. S. Burton, treasur~r, and Ray S. Bowman. It is stated that that the Bingham-New Haven Mining company, of Bingham, Utah, has contracted its oreos and concentrates to ,the International smelter at Tooele, Utah, and that the mine and mill prodU(;,t of the company will be transported to the smelter over the aerial tramway of the Utah Con· solidated company. The Nevada Hills Mining company, of Fairview, Nev., during the month of June, milled 3,450 ton,3, which averaged in value $34.48 to the ton, making a total of $115. 935.76. The net recovery was $104,551.55 and the net cost was $33,459.56, making the net profit for the month $71,102.12, or at the rate of $20.61 or each ton mllled. The Eva Mining company, of Spring ville, Utah, has been incorporated with a capiltaizrution of 1,000,000 share3 of a par value of ten cents each. Tbe officers and directors are George L. Hyde, preosident; C. A. Hyde, vice-president; John L. Whit ing, secretary and treasurer, Thomas West, M. W. Bird and Lyman Hyde. The com'Pany owns a large group of mining claims in Nebo district, Utah.
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$7,819.40. Total cost'S: $9,218.40. Net pro· fit for month, $7,734.24. Time lost, ten days. The Home Run Mining company, of Salt Lake., whose property is located in Bti'Stol district out of Pioche, Nevada, and whose sensational copper discoveries, of late, have set company stockholders wild with delight, has struck a third cave in it.:; mine work ings, concerning which Superintendent \V. H. Pitts writes as follow'S: "Have opened an immense cave branching in aa directions. It is filled to the .top with loose ore. Have hoisted twenty tons good ore today, all shoveling. We are now thirty feet below lowest 'Workings with plenty of soft ore be low 'us." The company ha.3 four teams haul· ing ore to the railroad shipping point, and has ordered 500 more ore 'Sacks. The last two shipments netted the company $50 a ton. T,hat the gold and silver camp of State line, in Iron county, Utah, has not been entirely forgot ton is evidenced by the fact that Robert Weisl3. an eXperienced Califor· nia mining man, has secured a lease and bond on the property of the Johnnie Min· ing company, at that place. Mr. \Vei'Ss was iI;! Salt Lake, last week, (Closing up the deal and making arrangements to resume work in the operation and development of the Johnnie mine, which has a production record of approximately $100,000. The high. grade in Ithe Johnnie Is of the sensational order, and furnished the material for the shipping ore .sent out by the company in the early history of the mine. The real value of the property, however, exists in its milling iJre, large volumes of which are blocked out, and in sight, gQlng rrom $10 to' $20 ,to the ton, and even higher, while the high·grade halS 'been known Ito run as high as $10,000 in gold to the ton, with silver assaying up to 2,000 ounces. The Johnnie mill is to be overhauled and, as soon :IJ3 possible, work will be inaugurated. Mr. Weiss is also interested in the Big Fourteen, now ,being worked' by R. J. Bry ant, Fred Snow, James McDonald and an other, a'Ssociate. The Big Four is equipped with a Tremaine ,mill, and occasioned runs are being made with it. Stateline is a .gold and silver Clllmp of splendid possibilitieG. It is admirably located for successful min ing and should receive more attention at the ,hands of capitalists and invesoors.
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We have cash buyers for uranium-vana· dium properties. Give location, diagram of For the month of June the Skidoo Mines claim!:!, amount of development work or op company, of Skidoo" CaLifornia, milled enings on each claim. g.tate, as near as pos· 1,186 tons of ore. Value of bullion pro Eible, the amount of ore in sight. It tests duced, $11,348.95; value of cy,ant~es pro . 'have been made give per oent of uranium duced fiNt half of June, $2,694.14; value of and vanadium oxides. Also, send four cyanides produced second half June, (est!· pound average sample. AddreSl3. J. C. Rob llUlited) $2,909.55. Total receipts, $16,952.64. erts, Kearns building, Salt Lake City, or Costs: developmeI1lt, $1,399: operation, Frank Cook, Green River, Vtah.
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E. S. Sheffield has succeeded F. R. HuH as ,guperintendent of the Empire mine at Grass Valley, California. N. L. Stewart has accepted a position with the Tacoma Smelting company at Ta coma, Washington. C. E. Green, of Tooele, Utah, one of the best electrical engineers in the west, was a recent Salt Lake visitor. Harry T. Curran now has charge of the milling plant of the Hudson Reduction com· pany at Idaho Springs, Colorado. R. W. Sampson, the well known minIng man and engineer, has returned to Salt Lake from a vi'3it to southern California. H. D. Bowman and L. D. Farnsworth, of Salt Lake City, nave formed a partnership, and wEI engage in construction engineering. Thos. L. Leggett has been appointed con· sulting engineer of the mining department of the American Smelting & Refining com pany. Charles Patrick, of Flagstaff, Arizona, re cently made an examination and report on the property of the Montezuma Mining com pany, east of F'10renoe, same state. R. C. Dugdale, of the Ft. Way.ne works. of the General Electric com;pany, is making headquarters in Salt Lake for the purpose of introducing the electric rock drill manu· factured by the Ft. WaYne company. W. R. Calvert, of Salt Lake, of the firm of Arnold, Fisher & CaJlvert, consultin~ geologi:;ts and engineers, has returned form middle and 'Southwestern \Vyoming, where he made an examination of oil lands. A. C. Campbell, of Butte, Montana, un ti! recently connected with the Anaconda Copper company, has accepted a position a!:! mechanical engineer for the Fatima Copper company, operating near 'ChilcHo, Argentina, South America. H. F. Widdecombe,so well known in Salt Lake, but who i'S nOiW general superintend· ent of the Day·Bristol Consolidated, near Pioche, Nevada, was married on the 29th ult., to the lady of his choice. The Mining Review joins with many friends in extending congratulations.
,T. W. Blankenship, Ph. D., of Berkeley, CaiIfornla, has been in Utah, of late, mak· ing a study of injury to plant life by smel ter smoke and fumes, having devised a method by w,hich it can be determined, ac curately. what the effec,ts of smoke and fume are on vegetation. Prof. Blankenship is a consulting botanist, and an expert on the subject of .smoke injury to vegetation. He has been in the employ of most of the leading smelting companies in the west, and, while here, visited the leading smelters of the state.
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Colorado. 2.400 at 21'hc, Iron Blossom, 500 at $1.25. Gold Chain, 500 at 32'hc. LiOn Hill. 2,000 at 4e. Mineral Flat, 1.000 at 1 ~c. New York, 1,500 at 'he. Opdhongo, 700 at 12('; 1,000 at 12%c. Silver King Coalition. 200 at $2.90. Silver King ConSOlidated. 200 at $1. O~ 'h. Uncle Sam. 200 at 17e. Victoria Consolidated, 10~ at 56e. Wilbert, 300 at 22('. Shares sold. 10.600. Selling value. $2.553.50. Open Bo"r,l.
Lion Hili, 1.000 at 4c. May Day. 3,000 at 15e. New York, 6.500 at 'he. Ohio Copper, 50 at 87e. Prince Consolidated. 500 at $1.52'h. Vktoria Consolidated. 100 at 57c. sixty days. Colorado. 1.200 at 21c. Shares sold. 13,850, Selling value. $1,880.
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41:\ "hart tons, valued at $43,776,715, indi catinga decrease in 1911 of 2,813,026 shnrt tons, or 9.7 per cent in quantity, and of '3,. Chino Copper , .. : .. 1 3,100' 34%i 33%134% Goldfield Con sol. ... 1 100i 3 % 3% 3% 677.968, or 8.4 per cent in value. This de Nevada Conso!. ... ' I 100\' 21 % 21 %21 % Ray Consolidated \ 1.500 20% 20%1 20%. crease was due to the resumption of mining Tennessee Copper .. , 100'\41% 41%: 41% in the Mississippi valley states, the idle Miami Copper .. " .. j 1.600 29 % 29% 29 % Utah Copper ... , .... : 700 6~ 60 % 62 Inspiration Con. ,_.,_._1~~ 9001 19~L18% , ness in which, caused by the strike in 1910, resulted In extraordinary demand on the NE'W YORK C(;RB RANGE. mine.] of most of the Rocky Mountain I S3.les. I H. I L. IClose states. Firs!: Nat'l Copper~,~I-:-:~:~-l % 1-·'1 % 110/; Giroux Consolidated.1 3001 5 1kl 51", 51,\, In Montana and North Dakota the pro· Nevada Utah ., ..... 1, ...... / ?C 2c I ?c duction in 1911 exceeded that 'Of 1910, in Ray Central ........ 1"......3 2 I 3 Yukon Gold .. · .. · .. 1 200 3%, 3%1 3%. the former by 55,3&8 short tons and in the Ohio Copper .. ,.·.,.1 200 %1 % % latter (which produced lignite exclusivelyl New Keystone ..... 'I'.' .. ·.·. 2'h1 2% 2% South Utah ...... " .... ,,·1 %, 'h % by 103,587 short tons. Both of these states Mason Valley ....... 1 3001 13%1 13%1 13~ Braden Copper ., . j 1001 6 % j 6 % I 6'% attained their maximum record of produc. Ely Consolidated .. , i 9001 7-321 7-321 7-32 tion in 1911. La Rose ... · ...... 1 1751 3%1 31141 3 1,{ Belmont . . . . " ..... I... ".. 9'hi 9% 9% In importance of produotion Colorado ,£<>nopah :,,_.~,.~:,L...J.()(l_2.'~~7'h ranked first in 1911 with an output of 10, LOCAl, METAL MARKE..'. 157,393 short tons; Wyoming second, wHh July SO. 6,744,864 short tons; and New Mexico third, $4,75; copper Silver. 60 cents; lead, with 3,148)58 short tOM. cathode, 17.40 cents. July:n. Coke is made in Colorado, New MeXico Silver. 60~ cents; lead. H.75; copper and Utah. Colorado's coal made into coke eathode. 17,40 cents. in 1911 amounted to 1,424,251 short tons, or August 1. Sllver, 59% cents; lead. $4.75; copper 14 per cent of the total output of the state, cathode. 17,40 cents. New MeXico consumed 767,108 short tons, August Z. or 25 per cent of the total production of the Silver, 60 cents; lead, $4,75; copper cathode, 17.40 cents. state, in the manufacture of coke, and Utah August 3. 381,6~6 short tons, or 15 per cent of the Sil ver. 59% cents; lead, $4. 75; copper cathode, 17.40 cents. total output. The total quantity of coal August :>. consumed in the manufacture of coke at Silver, 59% cents; lead. $4.75; copper the mines of the Rocky Mountain states cathode. 17.375 cents. Augu..t 6. ",'as 2.573,055 short ton", a little less than Silver, 60 cents~ lead, $4.75; copper 10 per cent of the total production. cathode. 17.375 C'ents. The total number of men employed in Aug.."t 7. Silver, 60 '4 cents; lend, $4.75; cop pel' -the eoal mines of the Rocky Mountain ea thode. 17.375 cents. 'States was 33.783, who worked an average August 8. of 219 days, against 34,652 men for an aver Silver. 61 cents; lead, $4.75; copper ('athode, 17.375 cents. age of 245 days in 1910. Aug..st 9. Production of coal in the Rocky Mountain Silver, 61 cents; lead. $4,;5; eopper States in 19JO and 1911, in short tons. ('athode, 17.375 cents. NEW YORK LIS'l'ED STOCKS.
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The Peerlesl3 Consolidated Mining com pany, of Spanish Fork, Utah, ,has been in ,corP'Qrated with a capitalization of UO,OOO dividend into one-cent shares, The officers and directonJ are J. M. Calderwood, p-resi dent; Silas E. Brimhall, vice-president; G. T. Judd, secretary and treasurer, John T. Seat and Peter Brems. The property of the company is located in Utah county, Utah, near the Ne.bo-Highland mine. -,--0,--
WESTERN COAL PRODUCTION,
State Quantity Value Colorado .......... 11,973,736 U7,026,934 Idaho . . ............ 4.448 17,426 Montana . . . 2 920,970 5.329,322 ~evada . . . . , .... New Mexico ...... . 3,508,321 4,877 151 399,()41 North Dakota . . .. . 595,139 Utah ............. . 2,517,809 4,224,556 Wyoming .. 7,533,088 11,706 187 28857,413
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The complete returns of the coal produc tion in the states of the Rocky Mountain region in 1911 have been received by E. \V. Parker, of the United States Geological Survey. The eight states included. namely, C(){)lrado, Idaho. Montana, Nevada, New Mexico. North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, produced in 1911 a total of 26,044,387 short tons, valued at $40,098,747. Altliough no coal was produced in Nevada in 1910, the output of the seven other states was 28857,
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Value State Quantity IColorad,o .. , ... 10,157,383 $14,747,764 4808 Idaho . . ........... 1,805 5,342,168 Montana , . . ...... 2,976,358 64 Nevada . . . • 16 4525,925 3,148,158 New Mexico 720,489 502,628 Notrh Dakota 4248.666 Utah . . , .......... . 2,513,175 10,508,863 6,744,864 Wyoming. < 26,044387
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DEPART. No.7-Los Angeles Lim'ted, to Los Angeles ............. 5 :00 P.M. ~o. I-The Over:and, to Los An geles .................... 11 :50 P.M. No. 51-Miner's Local, to Tooele and Eureka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30 A.M. NO.53-Garfield Local, to Garfield and Smelter ... , ... , .... 6:50 A.M. No. 55-Tooele Special, to Garfield and Smelter. and Tooele .. 2:40 P.M. No. 57---Garfield Owl. to Garfield and Smelter ... , ........... , .11 :00 P.M. No. SI-Lynndyl Special, to Lehi. American Fork. Provo. Payson, N"phi. Lynndyl .. 4 :50 P.M. No. S3·-ValleyMail. to Provo, Ne phi. San Pete Valley and Mercur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 A.M. ARRIVE. No.8-Los Angeles Limited, from Angeles . . . . . , ......... 11;40 A.M. ~o. 2-The Overland, from Los An geles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 A.M. ~o. 52-Miner's Local, from Eureka, Silver City. Stockton, Tooele. . .......... . .. 4:50 P.M. NO.54-Garfield Local. from Gar field. Smelter ............ 8:50A.M. NO.56-Garfield Local. from Smelt er. Garfield ... . ........ 6 :00 P.1v1. No. 58-Garfield Owl. from Garfield, Smelter. Riter .......... 12:55 A.M. No. 62-Lynndyl Specia'. f.rom Lynndyl. Nephi. Provo and Intermediate Points ..... 10:05 A.M. No.64-Vailey Mail, from Nephi. Provo, Mercur .......... 6:05 P.M.
(Gazette, Reno, Nev.) Development work on the estate of the Nevad'a United Mine3 company at 'Wede kind is being carr:ed steadily forward with most encouraging re'Sults. In the company workings, the Arkell shaft, the lowest drift is in ore of shipping grade. It is a talc that carries a consider able amount of lead and zinc, as well as black silver sulphides, which ,3eem to have replaced the chlorides that were developed in the Wedekind mine to the eastward, al. though in what seems to be the same vein. It is now the intention to sink the shaft to another level and further explore the ground before doing any extensive stoping. The owners of the Shovel King, a lease on this estate, are also making ·,;ubstanlial headway. They are ~nlarging the shaft and have already timbered it to a depth of 125 feet. They have shot down a large amount of muck in doing this work and it will be about ten days before the shafl, i'S retim bered to the 200-foot mark and sinking is continued. The Shovel King people feel greatly en couraged, because the rich ore on the lowest level from the Arkell shaft is making into their block. The Bi-Metallic, better known as the Price lease, is Ghowing fine values in the talc vein, which was recently encountered. Ore in metallic form is frequently taken out. This shaft is now down 235 feet. There are several other leasers at work on tbe estate and all are getting favorable indications, which improve as depth is at· tained. ~---o--
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An engineer's office outfit as follows: One roll top desk and swivel chair; one 4x7 drawing board and draftman's stool; one Universal drafting machine, with straight edge and squares; one Gurley Light Mountain transit with extension tri pod and transit and level rods; one 300· foot Lal1le mining tape line; one five-sec tional bookcase and one office chair. Outfit has been slightly used, and the transit is a new one in perfect condition. Will be sold at a bargain on account of removal. Inquiries to Engineer, care Salt Lake Mining Review.
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i:FFECTIVE JUNE 16, 1912. . Daily. Arl'lve, 1... Ogden. Malad, Den ver, Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, San Francisco, Ely and intermediate pOints beyond Ogden. (Og den and intermediate points only arriving) .. 8 :15 A.M. 6 ... Ogden, Logan, Poca tello, Boise, Marys ville. In termediateMontpeller. GOing .. 10:10 P.M. VI... Ogden and 'Interme diate Points ......... 6 :55 P.M.
M'... Overland LlmitedOmaha, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis .... 3:20 P.M. M.... Los Angeles Limited --Omaha, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis .... 4:45 P.M. M... Over:and Limited Ogden, Reno, Sacra mento, San Francisco .. 2 :05 P.M. M... Ogden, Boise, Port land, Butte ., ........ 4 :50 P.M.
M... Ogden, San Francisco .. 6:55 P.M. M... Ogden, Brigham, Cache Valley, Malad and Intermediate ...• 11 :35 A.M. M... Ogden, Denver, Oma ha, Chicago, Park City, Green River and West, only, re turning) . , . . . . . . . . . 12:40 P.M. . M ... Motor Flyer--Ogden and Intermediate .... 9 :35 A.M. .1'.1.•. Yellowstone Special --Ogden, Pocatello, Idaho Falls and Yel lowstone Park (Chi cago and East and San Francisco and West, also arriving)., 7 :40 A.M. '.M.•. Ogden, Boise, Port land Butte .......•..•.10:30 A.M. Office, Hotel Utah. Tel. Ex. HI.
(Effective May 19, 1912.) Depart Dally, Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 8:00 Midvale and Bingham •..•....... 7:~5 Denver, Chicago and East ....... , 8:35 Park City .....•.................. 8:20 Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 10:35 Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 12 :40 Ogden, San Fra"cisco, Portland .. 2:45 M;dvale and Bingham ............ 2:45 Denver, Chicago and East ..•..... 5:20 Provo, Springville, Tin tic ...•.... 4 :50 Denver, Chicago and East ........ 7:00 Ogden, Portland and Seattle .....• 11:10 Arrive Dal:y. Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles 8:15 Tifitlc. Sprlngvllle, Provo ........ 10:20 1:Hngham and Midvale ............ 10:30 Denver, Chicago and East ....•... 12:25 Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 2:10 Denver, Chicago and East ........ 2 :35 Ogden, San Francisco and West .. 4 :55 Park CitY.and Intermediate Points' 5:00 Bingham and MIdvale ............ 5:30 Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 6 :30 Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 6 :;;0 Denver, Chicago and East ........ 10:55 Phone, Wasatch, 2520. Ticket office, 001 MaIn Street.
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(Gazette, Reno, Nev.) Development work on the estate of the Nevada United Min€>3 company at Wede kind is being carr:ed steadily forward with most encouraging results. In the company workings, the Arkell shaft, the lowest drift is in ore of shipping grade. It is a talc that carries a consider able amount of lead and zinc, as well as black silver sulphides, which (Seem to have EDRO, LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY. replaced the chlorides that were developed in the Wedekind mine to the eastward, al· (Effective June 16, 1912.) though in what seems to be the same vein. It is now the intention to sink the shaft ,Ion Station, Salt Lake City, Utab. to another level and further explore th", DEPART. ground before doing any extensive stoping. -Los Angeles Lim'ted, to The owners of the Shovel King, a lease Los Angeles ............. 5:00 P.M. -The Over:and, to Los An on this estate, are also making ·,;ubstanlial geles .................... 11 :50 P.M. -Miner's Local, to Tooele and headway. They are enlarging the sbaft and FJureka . . . ............. 7 :30 A.M. have already timbered it to a depth of 125 -Garfield Local, to Garfield and Smelter .... ; ....... 6:50 A.M. feet. They have shot down a large amount -Tooele Special, to Garfield and Smelter, and Tooele .. 2 :40 P.M. of muck in doing this work and it will be -Garfield Owl, to Garfield and about ten days before the shaft i'S retim· Smelter ................. 11:00 P.M. -Lynndyl Special, to Lehi, bered to the 200-foot mark and sinking is American Fork, Provo, continued. Payson. Nephi, LynndyL. 4:50 P.M. -ValleyMail, to Provo, NeThe Shovel King people feel greatly en· phi, San Pete Valley and Mercur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00A.M. couraged, because the rich ore on the lowest ARRIVE. level from the Arkell shaft Is making into -Los Angeles Limited, from their block. Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:40A.M. -The Overland, from Los An The Bi·Metallic, better known as the geles . , ................. 6:30 A.M. Price lease, is ,;;howing fine values in the -Miner's Local, from Eureka, Silver City, Stockton, talc vein, which was recently encountered. Tooele· .................. 4 :50 P.M. ,-Garfield Local. from Gar Ore in metallic form is frequently taken field, Smelter ............ 8 :50A.M. out. This shaft is now down 235 feet. -Garfield Local, from Smelt er, Garfield ............. 6:00 P.M. Thef€ are 'Several other leasers at work I-Garfield Owl, from Garfield, Smelter, Riter .•........ 12 :55 A.M. on the estate and all are getting favorable 2-Lynndyl Special, from indications, which improve as depth is at· Lynndyl, Nephi, Provo and Intermedia,te Points ..... 10:05 A.M. tained. i-Valley Mail, from Nephi, Provo, Mereur .......... 6:05 P.M. Blngbam & Garfield R. R. Co. DEPART. 09-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 7:45 A.M. .l-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 3:15 P.M. ARRIVE. ;to-Bingham to Salt Lake .... 10:40 A.M. 42-Blngham to Salt Lake .... 6:10 P.M.
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Another design of furnace long found favor, in the upper Harz region; this the so-called raschette furnace of rectangular build, with a row of tuyeres on either side. It was a" furnace much Iike
Fig. 2-Remains of Burton Furnace·
Overman supplies an illustration of the Scotch slag furnace as at that time used for smelting leady material both in Eng land and in this c·ountry. This furnace is mentioned by Percy, While the follow ing details are fI\)m Phillips: The furnace is commonly called the "slag hearth." From the front back to the tUYere it measures about thirty inches; width is twenty-two inches; height a little over three fee·t. Cast iron pJates form ~he bed of the crucible an
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one of theSe is ignited and thrown before furnace, near Council Hill, Illinois. DurinI' the tuyer. When the peat has thus become the summer of 1908 the furnace was used fa:rly ignited, coke is thrown in; and as for the last time, since when it is being soon as th:13 appears
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izen, AmeriCan Fork, Utah.) J apparently an off year, as far 19 the mines are concerned, but 1 development work, and mine le ore shipments are telling their ~dnesday
of tID'S week the Guss Lease on Miller hill shipped a of high-grade or.e to the smelter. ,others to follow from that mine. still taking out ore, with pros 19ht for the shipments to continue t the season. !,CHic company sent out a 55-ton '. conSisting of the best ore taken canyon in recent years. . It is the car will net the company O. They are working a gooa force nave another big car load ready wo weeks. An officer of the com 'med the writer that the pre3ent "ould payoff all their obligations, a thousand dollars in the treas· . really looked as if dividends for olders would soon be a reality. ~others' Dutchman lease Is still ore, and will 'Soon be able to second shipment to the market. lkee is now producing ore and ams on the road to bring down ar load for this season. onaid is also one of our ship. lon, and several 10aiL3 of fine ore me down from the mine. er Flat has a small force of .
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CONDENSED ESSAY ON COAL
By ROLLA B. CLAPP, B. M., B. C.
(Continued from last issue.) The word anthracite de rived from the old Greek words anthrax (coal) and anthrakites (resembling coal.) A variety of mineral coal; someUmes called coalstone; and owing to its resemblance of, and sub-texture' of bitumen, is sometimes called limestone; and also called glance, owing to its splendid metallic lustre. Its hardness is 2 .to 2.5; Its speCific gravity, 1.32 to 1.70; lustre, sub-metallic; colour, iron. 'black, often irredescent. Contains eighty to ninety-six per cent of carbon and burns with a pale red, feeble flame; found in extensive deposits in the Appalachian range. Contains sometimes, slight partl· cles of ferricpyrites (a composition of suI· phur and iron.)' (Free·burning Anthracite.) A variety of • anthracite inteMllediate between anthra cite and bituminous coals; containing less ·carbon and a greater per cent of hydrogen, also crystals or nodules of pyrites and sllice-' OUS, or other earthy impurities; especially this variety consists of compressed and f::hemically ,\altered Vegetable matter, be· ing chieflY the extract of the lycopodiace ous species of tree or gmwth, togeth'er wLth several other known specie, among them being cons:derable decomposed pulp of peat. As the vegetable matter accumu· lated, hydrogen and oxygelf were evolved, together with some' of the carbon By the relative proportion of carbon, the vegetable fibre decreased to possibly one-sixteenth of the original bulk, the heaviest decrease of bulk, and increase of carbon, as one· sixteenth has created anthracite, be:ng the greatest percentage of carbon and the least percentage of oxygen. The carbonaceous strata, containing'less than eighty pel' cent car,bon, takes its place with the bituminous varieties of coal, and then generally a 'minimum percentage of eighty Mr cent is classed as bitumin· ous; and the higher per cent of carbon, as anthracite. By the operation of lateral pressur!l on coal measures more hydrogen has ·been driven off, and the coal metamor phosed into anthracite. Other coals origi nally contained such carbon, 'hence the fundamental conditions producing the many varieties of coals. Bituminous. A var;ety of sUjJmineral coal. ConSisting of many varieties, the various grades being designated according .to the constituents ()If the general colllJlound; carbon being the fundamental component part, hence classification ·being adjudged a.ccording to the percentage of carbon con tained in the aggregate; coals which burn with a yellow or pale Ted·blue sooty flame, and on distillation gives out a hydrocar Anthracite.
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Bog·Head Coal. A very soft kind of bl· tuminous or semi-anthracite showing strong evidence of the wood having originally de composed in an impervious sub-soil, having a great excess of water. Highly decom posed and compressed of dts hydrocrabons. Probably of the Neozoic age. Caking- Coal. (Native coke.) A common variety of bituminous coal. Occurs in a more compact form than artificia,l coke. Variety of "mother-coal," hydrocarbon, or native charcoal of a slightly greater ex ~ss of ,hydrocarbon than "charcoal;" alos an excess of earthy impurities, as ash, shale and' pyrites. Cherry-Coal. A common variety of bi tuminous coal, s,o named from its red-brown colour of fracture caused by an execss or sulphur. A variety of native charcoal layers (imother-coal) and ;hydrocaroon. Chemical alteration and decomposition act ing upon a vegetable variety of fern, un known to other coals, pO'Ssibly ehe phenop teris fern, not having been completely de stroyed by fructfication. Splint-Coal. A variety of bituminous; splintery and non-caking coal, has a high percentage of carbon and a minimum amount of bituminous substance as com pared with the common bituminous coals. Sometimes classified as a semi·anthracite owing to this stated cause; also c1ased as a charcoal or mother-coal layer. Albertite. A variety of .bitum!nous (gas coal or Tock oil), containing a heavy percentage of bituminous substance, com morrly classified as a decarbonized as phaltum variety. It fuses imperfectly when heated, throwing down a heavy sinter mat ter.. Contains also 'a slight percentage of impurities, as ash, pyrites, etc. Dysodll. (Gas coal). A variety of coal, which might be classified as a bituminous coal composed of spores (tips of the th::eads of fungi-sporidium). While burning a very fetid smell eSCapes; found in masses of thin layers of a light pale green or yellowDecomposed a ish-gray-colour. from strickly fungi or sporium, compressed and chemically altered, evolving hydrogen and oxygen; a small quantity of carbon, to gether with a slight quantity of pyrites. Tasminite. A variety of bitmu!nous coal, occurring in small discs or nodules in lami nated shale, sometimes called shale-coal; has a hardness of 2.0 and specific gravity 1.Ui; a resinous lustre, redish-brown colour. It is essentially a mineral, insoluble in alcohol, benzole, ethene, etc. Contains car bon, 71.8 to 7921; hydrogen, 10_23 ot 11.83, sulphur, 5.28 to 9.81; oxygen, 5.28 to 6.56. Bettre·Red-Coal. A. ,arlety -of common bituminous. Name commonly used to define a dysodil coal, of a spore of sporidum fungi growth. Containing an excess of carbon over dysodil coal. White-Coal. White-coal (Fleingites' coal) a 'variety of recent deco,mposed carbonifer
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, acid (which should not exceed tained and the distillation continued, Yield ent); when marsh-gas is preva ing a yellow substance similar to butter; create fire-damp susceptable to a hydrocarbon isometric which requIres 300 0 to boil (also formed by passing l and explosion In a confined un stibium through a red hot tube). It crY3tal area, sometimes doing great in lizes in colourless plates, slightly soluble :ite. Obtained by the fractional in cold alcohol, soluble in hot alcohol, of coal-tar, boiling at 360'. It acetic acid, carbon disulphide and ether, melts at 100' and boils at 340°. Has sev 3 in monoclinic plates; is sl,ightiy alcohol and benzine, mell)3 at eral substitution pro:lucts, as phenanthrol, boils at 362'. It can be formed phenanthraguinone, and many other homo :h benzyl-toluene by heating in logues. Fluorene. The solid hydrocarbon which les to 180°, a mixture of benzyl Ind water. This is the direct re- distills between 300' and 310° in the dis (Also prepared by the destructive distillation or till;tion of coal-tar. fter naQ;lhtha, and pitch have been heating diphenyleneketone with zInc dust). Crystallizes from hot alcohol in colourless lcoxenite. A variety of ogygen· plates which have a faint blue flouresence, ro-car.bons. It is obtained from a consequently its name. Melts at 113' and boils at 294° (C 13H" or H20 (CoH,). Fluorene wder from a resinlike mineral be .yers of coal in certain localities. may be prepared in conjunction WIth va rious other compounds. re in North America but is ob Menthane. (Menthene)-A marsh-ga.s the 1 the British Isles and Austria . Composition is carbon 75.274, hy· formula being CH.~CH, menthane. A light 5.187 and oxygen 18.539. Soluble carburetted hydrogen, hydrate of menthyl, a hydrocrabon gas very abundant in na r. (Anthraguinone-oxyantracene.) ture.· It is evolved from stagnant water, ·anillc. A common and widely dIS and great quantities are given off in coal >d coal plant. From which is dis pits., where it is commonly known as fire abanillic acid. damp. It is one of the usual products of A chemical substance thalene. the destructive distillation of organic mat 3 sometimes designated annaph C,.Hs'CH,H, a frequent product ter (coal-tar, is the foundation of the greater supply of menthane). It may be e dry distillation of organiC sub formed in large quantities by the distilla ){)curring to a considerable extent tion af mixture of acetate with a hydrated >ortion of coal-tar distilling between alkali. Of all known compounds it iJ the 1 220°, from which it crystallizes ng. Forms colourless shiny, leafy richest in hydrogen, and with the exception of peculiar odor and bruning ta'ste; of the latter, is' the highest known gas; (has 216 0 to 222', and bruns, when in· a specific gravity of .5576-air-1). It is ·ith a highly illuminou;:; but smoky colourless; without taste or smell, and is nuetral to test paper. Slightly soluble in Has a specific gravity, at the fus et, .977; its vapor density is 4.53. water and alcohol. It is a type of a numer· ous cla93 of compounds having their ori l in water, but dissolves readily in carbon-diswlphide, l)Jen,zine, ethe:r ginal foundation within coal-tar and other hydrocarbon substances. 'roform., and fixed and volatile oils. Ethene. CzH, or H,C-CH" eth)yene, ole· lene unites readily with bromine ,rine, forming a great number of fine gas, elayle. bicarburetted hydrogen, heavy carburetted hydrocarbon. A fatty oily .on products, as naphthalene alco hthalene carboxylic-acid, and other hydrocarbon, belonging to the olefine series, ues of naphthalene. On pa3sing dry CnH,n. It is formed in the dry distillation gas into naphthalene, a heavy pale of organic bodies, as coal-tar, etc.; about five cents is contained in coal-gas. Ethene Jil is formed (naphthalene dichlor· (.CI.), and this, uniting with more is obtained and prepared by the action of nascent hydrogen, when cuprous acetylide , is converted Into a crystalline sub :naphthalene-tetrachloride C"HsCI,), i-3 gently warmed with a mixture of metallic zinc and dilute ammonia. Ethene is pre· neJts at 182°. Monochlor-naphtha ,H,CI, obtained by heating naphtha pared by heating on a sand bath 25 gram :ploride-with alcoholic potash, is a 'mes of alcohol wibh 150 gra.mmes of con· 5'S oil, boiling at 263'. Dichloride centrated sulphuric acid in a flask of the lene, C"H.CI,. is prepared by boil· capacity of three litres., and then gradualty lthalene·tetrachloride with alcoholic dropping into the mixture equal parts of It is a crystallene mas'3, melting at alcohol and sulphuric acid, and washing the 36' and boiling at 280'. Various gas in HdSO" then in KHO, then again in ompounds are prepared of which HzSO" etc. Ethen~ is a colourless gas, lene acts as a constituent. which at 1· and a pre3'Sure of forty-one ,anthrene. Phenanthrene is a pro and a half atmospheres becomes liquid,
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burns with a warm luminous flame, and explodes violently when mixed with oxy gen on the application of a light or the elec tric spark. Decomposes by passing through a tube heated to a redness, yielding CH,; and carbon is deposited at 170'. dissolves by 'sulphuric acid. Unites directly with chlorine, etc. Benzine. (C.H,) An aromatic hydrocar bon also called benzole or phenylhydride liquid condensed during the compression of oil gas, also recovered from coal-tar. Ani line Is produced from it which Is the source cf many modern dyes, as mauve, magneta, etc. It is obtained from the more volatile portion of coal-tar oil. It is also formed by distilling benzoic acid in lime. BenzIne is a thin cQlourless, 'strongly refractorY liquid Boils at 82°, has a specific gravity or 0.855, dissolv:es fats., resins, iodine, sulphur and phosphorous. Benzine is formed when acetyline is passed through a tube heated to redness. Many substitutions products of benzine have been formed. Benzine can. when two atoms of hydrogen are replaced by chlorine, etc., Or monotomic radicles, forrn three mod.ifications. Also unites with chlorine or bromine in direct sun light, forming additional compounds (Co' H.CI.). Benzole is commonly classified as a fluid mineral detected in both coal-tar and naphtha. Benzole group or series, 13 a group of minerals, which would aisobe clas sified as hydrocarbon; including benzole, xylole, cymole, toluole and comole. All are> fluid at ordinary temperatures. Benzine or benzole has many homologues. Benzoline is an amorine acid, has an or ganic base obtained trom hydro-benzamide made by .ooiling it with acquOO\lS products. Insoluble in water; soluble in alcohol C,H"N" commercially: Benzine or benzo line is a name given to any volatile in· flammable liquid hydrocarbon which burm with a luminous flame. chiefly coal-tar naphtha, consisting prinCipally of benzine and its homologues. It is also obtained from petroleuI):l spirits consisting of heptane C,H" and other parrafine. Tuluene. A chemical; occurs in coal-tar. Produced by action of sodium on a mIx ture of homobenzene acid and methyl iodide. This liquifies and smells like and has near ly the ;3ame solvent power as benezine. Specific gravity .882; at 0° and boils at 1110. Yields various comllounds by pasl?ing through a heated porcelain tube, such as benzine, naphthalene, anthracene and dibenzyL Various other compounds and chemicals are prepared from a part of coal·tar or other hydrocarbons. ---~-o'---~
A controlling interest in the Union Chief mine. in Santaquin district, Utah, has been }lurchased by L. A. Martin, of Salt Lake, and ~stern associates.
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The Times, of Hailey, Idaho, gives the following interesting description of the corn ing back of an old-time and famous mining camp: Vienna seems to promise an early re turn to great productiveness brought about as the revival of many other min'ing camp" has been, namely, ;by leasers. The Will iams Brothers, Wlho have been leasing on a group of claims there, owned by Leon Fuld of this city, have opened in the Web foot a vein of argentiferous galena from two to four feet in widt!h. They have a carload of ore at the railway de.pot ready to ship and have three teams hauling from Vienna, forty-five mCes, ,to Ketchum They also have several carloads on the dump and they expect to keep teams 'hauling ore until .:leep snow compels a suspens:on for the winter. Since last fall, when they took the lease, ~nd until this spring, the Williams Broth ers worked alone. They did not make much progress, as they had to remove the caves and clean out the 1200-foot tunnel in which they resumed work after the mines had been idle for a score of years. But when they cut into the ore, this spring, they. added another miner to the force and, a few weeks ago, another. There are, therefore, four men at work there now, besides the team sters; and it is the intention to employ other miners as soon as returns corne from the are. The mines are located in Smiley gulch, and about sixteen mfles northwesterly over the grade from Galena. The gulch was named by L. Smiley, an old 'prospector fron. Yankee Fork who discovered the Solace lode in 1880. This he sold to Haggin & Teyis of San Francisco that, next to the great bonanza firm on the Comstock lode, was then the leading mining firm of the world. The Solace and !twelve other ad· jacent claims were patented and operated at a p,!'ofit for some y·ears, during which Haggin & Tevis dissolved partnership, Mr. T'evis taking over Walls Fargo and the firm's banking interests, and Mr. Haggin and Goorge Hearst the Homesteak mines in the Black Hills, the Ontario mines in Mexico, the Jocuiseta mlnes in Mexico, and other mining interests in California, in Idaho and elsewhere. John BenaJi Haggin being una,ble to find successful managers for some of his prop erties concluded to discontinue operations in them. The Solace mines was one of these. After paying taxes for some years he allowed them to be sold for delinquency. Shortly after the discovery of the Sol ace, the Vienna, the Mountain King, ana .several other mines were located on eit.her side of Smiley gulch, and in 1882-3 C.
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Page. Bogue Supply Co. • ..•... ,.............. 9
Denver Fire Clay Ce>. ................. 39
General Electric Co. .................... 3
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. ••••••..••.•• \I
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. .•.••........ 4
Independent Powder Co. ...•............ 7
Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.. . . . . . . 6
Numa· Rock Drill Sharpener co. ........ 8
Portland Cement Co., of Utah ............ 43
Richmond, F. C.. Machinery Co. 2
Revere ,Rubber Co. •.•..•....••..•...•.. I)
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. .... 42
Silver Bros. Iron Works Co......... ".. 3
Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44
Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... 10
Union Portland Cement Co ..... ,........ 43
Utah Fuel Co........................... 41
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Utal;l. }"ire Clay Co. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. . 8
Z. C. M. I. ....................... .
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Merchants' Bank ......................• McCornick & Co. ....•....•..........•• National Copper Bank .................. Walker Bros.................... 22 and Utah State National Bank ............ :A....oyer. and IUetallurllrlat••
A. },'. Bardwell ......................... Bird-Cowan •..............••........... Crismon & Nichols .......••............ Currie, J. W. .... .....•.•............. OfficeI' & Co., R. R. . •. ,.................. Union Assay Office .................... Utah Department Denver Fire Clay Co... Westerald, F. H. ...................... Railroad...
Oregon Short Line ..•................. Salt Lake Route ..... ,................ Rio Grande Western .....••.... ...... Mlnlnllr Attorn"y...
Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewishon........ Bradley, Pischel & Harkness............ Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books.... Davis & Davis •.•...•..•.......... ,... Higgins, E. V. . .......•........• ,..... Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette ...........
1II1ae .ad Stock Dealera
Orem &
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Civil and Mlnlnllr Engineer••
Adamson, W. G. ............•........•. 37
Arnold, Fisher & Calvert ......... .... 37
Burch, Caetanl & Hershey ............. 37
Brown, G. Chester •......•............. 37
Burke, James J. ••...••...............•. 37
Craig, \V. J. ., •..•....•..•.... ,........ 37
Deseret Construction Co. .•.........•... 37
Fiske, Winthrop \V. .................... 38
Galigher, T. W. ........................ 41
General Engineering Co. •••..........• 37
Green River Eng. & Construction Co... 9
Howell & Kingsbury ................•• 37
Ireland, T. W. .......................... 28
James, Geo. D. ................•....... 38
Jennings, E. P. .••....•.....•..•....... 37
Lee, Murray ........................... 37
Pack, Mosher F. ..........•••........... 37
Peet, IC. A. .......•..................... 38
Pulsifer. H. B. . ..........•.......... ,. 37
Roberts, J. C. ....•.....•...••.•....•.. 37
38 Safford, J. L. ........................... 37
38 Silver Bros. Engineers & Contractors... 37
38 Troxell, L. E. .......................... 39
23 Utah State Sc'hool of Mines .•.......... 37
38 Villadsen Bros. .......................• 27
\Viddlcombe & Palmer ......•......... 37
Walker, H. C. ......................... 38
39 Zalinski, Edward R. ................... 37
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39 Albany Hotel .......................... 7
39 Century Printing Go. .... ........ 4
39 De Bouzek Engraving Co. .............. 40
39 Hotel Stanford ..••..•...........••...• 38
39 Gardner & Adams •...... , •....... ,.... 42
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. ........ 41
Official Directory of Mines ......•..••.. 41
Nephi Plaster Co. ...................... 39
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40 New Era Motor Co. .................... Railroad Time Tables •......•..••..•..• 4S
40
Salt Lake Stamp Co. •.•.••.••...•..•••• 41
Siegfried Pels, ore buyer ...... ,....... 7
Smith & Adams, Tents ................ 36
38 Shiplers, Commercial Photographers .. 37
38 Tooele Sme:ter ..••......•............. 44
38 Utah Junk Co. ...•......••.......•...•. 39
38 Utah Ore Sampling Co. ................. U
38 United States Smelting Co. ............ 1
38 Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars .............. 38
("Chris.") J. and James Johnston, experi enced mining men, with whom C. L. Cole man, the then lumber king of La Crosse, Wis., was associated, purchased the Vienna, the Mountain King, and other patented claims, and soon added others. In 1883 they began the building of a mill. It was only of twenty stamps but it had a daily capacity of fifty tons. The engine was the Corliss that had supplied power for the Centennial exposition. It was the finest engine in the world, and as everything else about the mill was of a like grade, it cost $140,000. It turned out $1,500,000 or thereabouts in silver bullion in the following year. But troubles soon fallowed close upon the heels of others. Mr. Coleman died and his interests were tied Ul) in litigation for years. Frank Johnston .:lied leaving no family.Mr. and Mrs. C. J. John ston, who had long desired to live in Cali .fornia, and had abundant means, retired to an estate on La Mesa, San Diego, intending to turn their mining interests over to their only son, then a mere lad, when he should lbe graduated as a mining engineer. The young man died a few months prior to his graduation at McGill university in Montreal, Canada, and the Johnstons thereupon lost interest ill mining and permitted the Vienna mines and mill to be sold for tax€ s . Years thereafter Leon Fuld bought them from the county.
Under Hagg:n & Tevis and the John· stons miles of tunnels, drifts, wtuzes a.nd raises were made in the mines In theIr respective ownership, and muoh low-grade silver and lead are was developed. All of it was left in place to await the advent of ,cheaper :methods of reduction, iOnly the high grade gold·silver are being extracted. The mill is gone, it having been' movea to the Stanley country by the late Judge Lyttieton Price. But the ore remains, also some 3,000 cords of firewood that has lain tlrere untouched all these years, as has the magnificent standing timber in the gulch, so that i.t is hardly doubtful 'but that the are will now yield ample reward. ~-~~-o----
The Grand Central ::\ilining company, of Provo, Utah, operating in Tintic district, has posted its regll'lar dividend of 5 cents a' share, or $25,000, 'Payable August 25 to ,3Jtockholders of record August 20. With the payment of this dividend !the company will have disbursed $1,607,000 in "velvet" money.
---0--- The Indian Queen Mining company, of Salt Lake, whose l)roperty is located near Newhouse, Utah, has given a working lease on the southern portion of its property to Henry W. Nichols and Henry Turner. It is stated that the leaseI1:> already have some shipping ore opened up near the surface.
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BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR OPHIR.
, a consequence of the completion of ,to John & Ophir railroad betw-een St. a station on the main line of the Lake Route," and the mining camp hir in Ophir canyon nearly nine miles its farmer ,:;;hipping point, there is no 11 why Ophir should not 1;ake rank, at lrry day, as being on-e of ,the largest nost profitable mining districts to be in the west. •hiT 'has been a ,history-IDIaker .in Utah *l.rly half a century. It was flourish nd produotive of llllrge quantities of ore long before prospecting in the ·became general. It amaz.ed the min 'GrId ,before Park City was found, be rintic was ever heard of. Hundreds n made fortune'3 'there whu have long p.!l.SS€d over the Great Div.ide, or who )W classed. among theea.rliest pioneers igreat and almost unknown west. It [ways been a great camp, and always >e, for its mineralization is extensive ,ll 'as marvelous.' And, yet, although t within a stone'·s throw from the city of the state, it has been almost Iy overlooked during the past twenty or more; and this seeming neglect ,o.t due to want of merit, nor because
the district lacked. splendid po:ssdbilities, prime and fairly saturated with enthusiasm but to one great obstacle, inaccessibility. and vigor, the hand drill was the .only in While ,much of the mine product of the strument emp,loyed in the driving of a tun district h exceedingly rich, sOl:IWtimes sen nel or the sinking of a shaft; that the crude sationally so, the immense tonnage of low bucket. wheelbarrow, or clumsy car was grade ,mdllin.g ores, the vast deposits of sec the only means for the handling of ore or ond-dass material. could not be moved, waste; ;that common black powder ,had not could not be .handled at a profit; and so the given v.:ay to the more powerrful giant or dy di'strict graduaJly sank into partial obseu namite, and that the only means of trans lI'ity, its only glimmer of. life being in the 'rloTtation was by meaoo (}f mule or burro operations of two or three producers which pack, or the great lumbering wag'Ons then •have ~iven notice to the world that the employed in the mining camps of the west. camp had not been wholly de3ertea, and For small mines the hand windlass was that. with proper faciHUes for successful op used to .the limit. ]1'or .greater depths the eration, it would not be long before the horse whip or whim was ·utilizeod, and in .mines of Lion hill. of Ophir hill, and of Dry stances were few and ffur between where 'panYlOn, would take rank as regular and I:>team hoisting works displaced other prim heavy producer·s of the precious metals. itive means of mine operations; this coh~ The district's greatest need ·has been dition, involving heavy expense and hard transportation facilities so that its ores, labor, of a necessity curtailing operations loaded directi
veteran, grey-haired miner. of thirty years erationcharges have been materially cheap
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ago, and conduct him through a big work ery, in one day, than could be performed ing mine of this day and age. and he will in a month, by hand, a quarter of a century express wonder and delight 'at the improve ago. ments in mining method·s as compared. to Another feature of the mining industry . those utilized when the mining industry of this western country was in its infancy; of today, as compared with conditions a and, if he win express an opinion he will short decalle a.go, is the fact that the public at large is being educated up to mining say that there is good reason for the al mOBt overw,helmln.g; interest that is now practices and method~. 'and mining is not 'being taken in mining affairs throughout now evolved by the cloak of mystery that the length and breadth of the land. so alarmed. intending investors of a now He will tell you that when he was active past generation. At the present time it is ly engaged in mining, when he was in his j)013Sible to int-elligently invest in mining
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shares whose market price are established by regular quotation'S on the boards of min ing exchanges, and, through the columns of reUable and reputable mining publica tions it is pos3ible to keep in touch with mine development and operation through out a wide expanse of mining country. A strike of importance cannot be made but that the news will 00 flashed from sea to sea and the intere-sted man can keep post ed as to events while readin,g the morning paper over his eup of coffee. Formerly an lnves.tor ·would 00 in ignorance for weeks as to conditio11!:> in properties in which he was inteJ'ested. Today he is close to the man behind the drill, even if he lives in New York or Boston, and a koon and mas ter' mind can often make a fortune In a day. Between the old and the new there is such a wide difference, with eVerything in, favor of the new, that it I'S no wonder that mining has taken such a firm hold on the investing and speculative publie, an,d condi tions have become 130 radically c!langed that it needs no argument to prove the statement that mining Is now as le.giUmate as, it is fascinating and profitable. ----
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It is extremely gratifying to note the greatly increased activity w'hich dooninates the mining indu'Stry of the west, and to ob· serve the almost feverish demand in al· most every walk of life for gilt..edged min· ing properties. Tb.e condlition. 313 to mining. h'as much improved during the past two or three y,ears, and investors and capitalists who, not so very long ago. looked upon min ing as a gamble and the mining operator as a shark, are now glad to become interested in the former and to become intimately as sociated with the latter. Thus it is that opinions will change, and that things to the iJtvestor which were black a few years ago are now white, for experience has shown that mining, as a whole, is legitimate; that fortunes are more easily made in mining en terprises than in any other commercial. manufacturing, agricultural or business oc cupation. Bitter prejudices against mining have been buried In oblivium, and because of t·he fact that their holders could not 13tand out against the 'Overwhelming evi· dence that mining was both profitable and legitimate. They could no longer arraign the mining industry as a fake. a gamble, when, on every hand, they hear.a oj' mil lions made from thousands invested, of in comes pouring steadily into the lap of friends w,hich would have boon fortunes for kings and rulers .in the olden times, and, as a oons-equence, have investigated into mining in all of ih3 branches to such an ex tent that they are now glad to become Iden tified with this fascinating Industry. Indeed, to such an extent has mining be come popular throughout the length and
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A Nelson, Nevada, correspondent of the Searchlight Bulletin, says: In reply to YOUr favor o,f recent date I can state that the outlook here in the canyon has improved remarkably In·the last week or so. Several properties are operat ing with' decided success, and their suc cess is stimulating all of us tQ more strenu· oue efforts, QUite a bit of interest attaches to the little cyanide plant on the Skylark. Thir> was built entirely by one prQspector, Clark Alvord, and has been so satisfactory in it3 operation that it is about to be increased to an estimated five-tQn capacity. Louis McCartney has ordered an experi· mental plant and hopes to jOin the march of success,as he has quite a little high· grade to run on his property near the Rand mine_ Tex Eavens is figuring on installing a cyanide plant similar to Clark Alvord's to treat a bunch of ore on his claims adjoin ing the WaH Street mine. By far the most important news which Ihas thrilled us for a long time is the phenomenal success which is attending Har ris and Howe in the ope.ration of their lease on
The Hiawatha Mining company, of Provo, Utah, whioh was organized for the purpose of conducting mining operations in the mountains just east of that place, re cently purohased the property of the J. C. S. Mining company in Rock canyon.
(By Will C. Higgins.) "The thermometer is hot at me," said the prospector tQ his burro. 'and SQ I have selected thIs CQol and shady spot where we can enjoy our evening meal segregated from its implacable and grizzling influence. As a matter of fact, I hardly dare to 10Qk it in the face, for the climbing mercury is a ,cQnstant reminder to me of my In consistency, as this is just the kind of weather I was praying for all winter, and which I am now trying to evade; which shows that mankind is mostly damphool a good deal of the time, and prac-tically irre sponsible and evasive for the rest of it; just as is the case with the burro tribe. Of cQurse, I know that you feel a little hurt over the reference I have made as to the general characterist:cs of a burro, but you will get over the smart the first time you meet with that outlaw donkey which hangs around our camp, fO.r, if there is any thing that does away with that tired feeling we have on these hQt days, it is when we thInk we are having a good 'time. "Another thing to make one forget the heat," continued the prospector, "is to mak.. a rich discovery unexpectediy, similar to the one I made in Hell Gap canyon a few years ago. It was jnst such another torrid day in August tl1at I was prospecting in the Gap. I had started 'Out early in the morning, with a full canteen on my back and a snack 'Of cold bacon aud the leavings of a flapjack in my pocket, intending to prospect during the cool of the day, and then resting, in the shade of a juniper bush, or an overhanging cliff, until well along in the evening. EverythIng went along well until about ten o'c1Qck, when I found a piece 'Of flQat that interested me greatly. It apparently came from a ledge up in a saddle between tWQ lofty peaks, and I fol· IQwed it up and was SQ fully absorbed ;r\ tracing the quartz blossoms th9.t I fa;leJ to notice that I had be:m eOilstanH~' PU'Pl!'; on my canteen while ci!lJ!',lnl!; up the hill, 'V'hen near the saddle I ;;i.oppeJ to rest and found that I was in a regul,tr sweat, and
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UTAH'S PRODUCTION IN 1911.
The total value .of the mine output of go.Jd, silver, copper, lead and zinc in Utah in 1!~11. a:ccording to Victor C. H€ikes of the United States geological survey, wa,s $36837,457,
The total .gold production in Utah In 1911 W3l3 227,217.28 fine ounces, valued at $4, 696,998, against 195.052.11 ounces valued at $4,032,085, in 1910, an increase in value of $664,913 or over 16 per cent, The largest 'producer of gold wa.'l Salt Lal:e county which yi,elded '2,.~4,834, against $1,776.058 in 1910. The West Mountain or Bingham district produced $2,786.810 of the gold cred ited to Salt Lake county and over 7 per cent of ,the total Utah gold outl}ut. The Tintic district, Wlhich ilS par.t!y in Juab county and partly in Uta.h county, produced $1,592,052, or 33 per celllt of the total outprut. Silver Production Increased.
The silver production of Utah in 1911 showed an increase from 10,466.971 ounces, valued at $5,652,164, in 19<10, to 12,473,787 ounce,s., valued at $6,611107, in 1911. The 'Dintic district yield of silver increa.3ed from 5,222.742 ounces in 1910 ,to 5,514,702 ounces in 1911. Oil' the Salt Lake county yiel'll the West Mountain or Bingham district con tributed 1,800:HO ounces In 1910 and 2, 786.,810 ounces in 1911. The silver output of t,he Park City mining distriot in 1911 was 3,428,651 oUJlces, an increase of 856,880 ounces, or over 3 'Pe·r cent, from that of
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per cent of the total Utah output, against 30,271,016 pounds in 1910. The Tintic dis trict, which yielded 37,553.455 pounds of lead in 19'10, ,p.roduced only 23,572,966 poundl3 in 1911. Increase 1,000,000 Pounds Zinc.
The produC'tion of zinc in Utah in 1911 was 17.,840,261 pounds, valued at $1,016.89,5, against 16,367,104 pounds valued at $383824 in 1910. This show'S an increoase of 1,473, 157 !pOunds, or 9 per cent. The Park City mining district alone IH'X)d,uced 8,,596,564 pounds of zinc in 1911, and the Bingham district 41715,'121 poundl3. The mnc in concentrates, amounting to 13,156,682 pounds, all came from Salt Lake, Summit ruld Wasatah counties. T,here were 208 mines l}roducing goLd. silver, copper, lead or zinc in 1911, against 183 in 1910. The total quantity of ore 'SOld or treated in Utah in 1n1 was 7,268, 530 short tons, an increase of 879,132 tons. The average total reooverable valille l}er ton was $5.07 in 1911, against $5.04 in 1910. T.he average value per ton is J.ow on acoount of the .large tonnage of cop·per ores. of which 6..12-1,099 tom:> were sold or treated. Of the wtal ore of all classes, 267,111 went to gold andsdlver mills, 5,840,091 tons t() ooncen.trating mins and 1,103.,054 tons to 'Smelters. y
METAL PRODUCTION IN NEVADA.
The 'value of the mine output of gold" silver, copper, lead. and zinc in Nevada in 1911, acoording to V. C. HeikE'fl, of the United State geological 'SUTvey, m113 $33, 952,529, against $34i152,148 in 1910, a ,de crease of only $199,619, or le;;s than 1 per cent. Decrease in Gold Production.
The production of gol-d in 1911 was val· 1910. ued at $18,193,397, a decrease of $685,467. 12,000.;000 Pounds More Copper. There were increase in gold illi several dis Copper production increased, in Uta.h tricts., lnc1uding M'anhattan.,but large d.e from 127,597,072 pounds in 1910 to 146,960, creases in National and Goldfield. Of the 827 pOunds in 1911, an inCrea\3e of 19,363., gold output, 10,181.05 fine ounces c,ame 755 pounds. T·he Bingham dis-trict pro from l}lacers, lar.gely in ,the Round Moun duced 129,995,865 pounds of cap'Per in 1911, 1:a:in and Ma.nhattan distric1J3. in Nye coun against 113,725,280 pounds in 1910, 92,560. ty, 847,124.81 ounces from .siliceous ores! 340 IPQlUnds in 1909, 71,155,740 pounds in 21,,84127 ounces from cap·per ores. 895.66 1908 and 15,431,964 pounds in 1907. The ounces from lea.d ores, and small 'amounts Tinticdistrict yielded 10.,922,154 pound'S in from zinc copJ}er-l~ad, and lead-zinc ores. 1911, agaJinst 8,993,036 pounds in 1910, an Siliceous ores yielded over 96 per cent of incre'ase of 1,9290.118 pounds. The Park the entire gold J}roduction. From bullion City district in Summit and Wasatch coun in ,gOld and silver mills was reoovered 729, ti€l3, produced 1.,281,190 pounds in 1911, 252.33 fine ounce" concentra.tes produced against 1,423,629 ,pounds in 1910. ·81,097.61 fine ounce;;, and crud'e ore shipped The .p.roduction of lead in Utah in 1911 to smeltel'!S contained 59,.569.92 fine ounces. was valued at $6.142,354, a-gainst $5,426,284 The leading county in production of gol.d in 19>10. Of the 1911 output, nearly 35 per w.as Esmeral!la" which yielded $11,198,602, cent was derived f·rom mines in the Park mostly from the Goldfi€>ld district. NYe coun City district, which produced 47,637.642 ty ,produced $3,611,276, of which the Tonope.;h !pound,s, again'St 38.129.761 pounds in 1910. lIlIines yLelded $2,31j~ 495. The CO!l1JS.tJOck The Bingham or West Mountain district mines of Storey county produced $977,349 produced 46576,337 pounds in 1911, or 34 in gold against $502,843 in 1910. More than
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.ction of silver in Nevada in :>re than in any previous year, ,601 fine ounce"", valued at $6, .Inst 12,479.,871 fine ounces, val 739.130 In 1910. About 97 per from siliceous ores. NYe county 10.918,263 ounces of silver. Of L the Tonopah district yielded 10,· .nces, or 82.4 per cent of the en : production of the state. Storey )omstock) produced 618,006 ounces. :;opper Shows an Increase.
,r production increased in Nevada .359,298 pounds, valued at $8,173, 1910, to 67,377,518 pounds valued at 3(), in 1911. The increase was prac due to the mine at Ely, in the Roll district, Wlhite Pine county. 'wihich I 67,033,547 pounds. or 99.49 per cent entire state prod.uction. Lead Output Decreased,
Ie production of lead in Nevada in 1911 3,263,657 pounds, va.lued at $146,865, 1st 4,871,130 pound,>, valued at $214,329, 910, a decrease of about 33 per cent. :l decreased in all counties but Clark Douglas. The mines of Clark county largest producer yielded 1,629,571 mds, an increase of 3111,!l87 pounds over ~ production of 191(}. ·Crude ore shipped to smelters contained but 692,180 .pounds of the total lead out· t of Nevada in 1911. Increase in Zinc.
The zinc ·production of Nevada was 3" ~,032 pound!3, valued at $202,238, in 1911, ainst 2,707,071 pounds, valued at $146,182, 1910. This was almost equally divided tween a lead·zinc ore and a tr:ue zinc ~. Concentrates contained 210,257 pounds d crude ore 3,337,775 pounds. There were 661 mines producing gold, ver, -copper, lead, or zinc in Nevada in 11; compared wi.th 608 in 1910. Of these, were placer mines. The total quantity ore sold- or treated in Nevada in 1911 ,s 4,132,721 short tons.. an increal3e of 5,946 tons. --·-0,-- DUTCH FLAT PLACERS.
Considerable cPlacer mining. for gold, is ing carried on in different portions of ~vada, at tbe rH'esent time, with most sat 'actory results, more than us·ual activity lng wi,tnesse.d in the old digg;ing'3 of Itch Flat, in Humooldt county, according the VI'innemucca Star, which says: Dutch Flat, situated in the Sadorus min· g district, about twenty miles northeast Winnemucca, w,hich .has been In con tin· .(l 'activity for some yeal'S is the scene of tensive placer mining opemtions at the ""'lent time. • T>'O"Ar company, which has . r .. h has
installed a large placer machIne, which was started yesterday for the first run. The machine has extensive equipment and is day, which is supplied 'by ·the aid of horses and scrapers. The National company is operating on what is known as the Hillside ,group of claims wh!c,hhas produced ,thous· ands of dollars in placer gold. The ground is pretty well punctured with shafts and drifts on the bedrock, but former workers left numerous pillars and there i'3 much virgin ground yet {o .be worked. Water is piped from Mill canyon, aoout three miles distant from the diggings. Another placer machine is in operation .by W. T. Henley in the main gulch, where he has a number of claims. This machine has a capacity of forty oubic yards of gravel a day and is accomplishing good work in saving the goLd. The g.round which is being worked by Mr. Henley Wa(! originally located by Fred Wend,eH, who named t.he camp Dutch Flat, and has a1-£o produced thousands of dollars in .gold. AIOIl!g about the year 1895 the placer deposits of Dutch Flat were working quite ex·tensivelyboth .by 'Chinamen and white men and' the diggings are noted for the many large nuggets or chunks of virgin ,gold that were taken out with the aid of rockers, the most primitive way of work. ing gold gravel. The wate~ used was most· ly hauled ItO the working!3 in a wagon, nev· ertheless with ihis crude method of work. ing the camp produced considerable amount of gold. Fred Wendel and W. T. Henley;, operators at Dutch I<'lat, arrived in town yesterday and are ananging to take Qut supplies t .. the camp. They state that Charley Keller, who is opera:ting a quartz lProperty Just north of the placer gulch, is extracting very rich gold ore. He has just uncovered a ,streak on his property that Is fairly aJive with the precious yellow metal. Mr. Keller ha'S been working his property for some years and has accomp.JIshed a large amount of development work. 'I'he ore extracted is reduced at the property by the arrastra process and regular shipments of gold are made by Mr. Keller.
Mines of Newton District Proving Up Satisfactorily.
(News, Milford, Utah.)
The old Horn Silver at Frisco, this ty, appears to be decidedly prospera late. At this mine they are employinl enty-eight men, working for the COIl direct, and have about twenty di~ leases employing two or more on each This would figure out something ove men working in the mine altogether. The company has entered Into a tract with a smelter at Bartlessville, homa, for the handling of its zinc ore has already contracted to ship 1,000 within the next twenty days, for whicl receive $17.50 per ton net on boar cars at Frisco. This zinc ore is nc the dUmp and there is an immense to of It, running into hundreds of thot of tons, and there is also another 1m' body of the same kind of zinc ore s the ground ready for extraction. It i mated that it will cost less than $l.~ ton to put this ore now in the dump' cars, which would mean something cess of $15.0~ net profit to the comp~ Frisco. T'he smelter pays the freight company has also contracted to ship' slag dump, which covers almost a north end of Frisco, which will all bE ped to the smelters, commenCing. In ately. This company is in sbape to shi]: ten to twenty cars of ore every day mencing in jmta few days from no' In the mines on Indian Creek i' ton Mining district, this county, th some very encouraglng develop mel ing the last few weeks They art lng samples of ore running as high to the ton from the old Ro,b Roy, being worked by P. T. ~'arnsworth ciates. In the Beaver Butte they a fi.fteen foot ledge running $1' to the ton. The Beaver Gold lVI' pany has found in its property a foot wide, assaying all the wa to $24 per ton in gold. About a1l is a forty ton carload of ---0-- 'rhe Howell :Minillg company's property, from the Sheep Rock which ha located ill the South Fork of Big Cotton· ped by {he Robinson brother wood district, a few miles southeast of running all the way from $1f Salt Lake City, is rej}orted to be looking\ ton. The minimum expectat!c exceedingly well at its 'Present stage of de· turns is $6,000 for the cal'. Th velollment, and, when the work in hand is ore came out of a vein six the surface, from a 2% foc completed, it is believed that thi,3 will de. contains a little streak that velop into one of the big prodUCing mines sand dollars to the ton in g( of the Cottonwoods. itself is five feet wide carr; ~--o--It Is stated that Gecrge D. Phillil}S, the streak from six inches to a f "Corn King" of ·Chicago, recently made very high. an examination of the Buckskin mine near In the Beaver Gold, adje Kanab, Utah, with the intention of pur. Rock on the north, they h chase and the installation of reduction shaf·t. workG . In the Beaver Bntte, wh
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management of E. C. Mc proportion over the first half of 1910. The has been sunk thir,ty-five figures show also an increase in total de ~ vein w.hich outcrops on the liveries of over 35,000.000 pounds. So, if 500 feet. The Beaver Butte lies large supplies of hidden COpper are on this south of the Sheep Rock. Ac side of the country, it is hardly conceivable yMr. McGarry's statement this that the New Jersey copper refineries reasing in value all the time. would be working. to 'so large a capacity that the vein averages $15 to as they are reported to be working today. For instance, the Raritan Refinery of Perth (pIing to a depth of fifteen feet. lrted that a number of the peo- . Amboy, is said to be turning out 27,000,000 ld in these Newton district gold pounds of copper every month, and the mite in the purchase of a twen plant is being enlarged, so that the ulti· mate eapacity will be 32,000,000 pounds per ty ton stamp mill. ----<0)--- month. The American Smelting & Refining ~ SUPPLIES OF COPPER. plant, at Perth Amboy, is also running full, while !!t the United States 'Plant at Chrome, tble has been said, of late, there is no stoek of refined copper at hand. ien Supplies of ICopper," the There are, of course. sizable lots of copper 1tion of the authors and writers waiting to be refined, which is alway.s the :credit the stability of the cop- case at refineries. As to hidden supplies by giving out the impression on the other side, although the amount of luantities of eo])per have been copper there is said to be around 60,000 3creted in order to make it ap ton'S, it must be remembered that a good n 'I'eaI1ty, the demantI ror the deal of it is copper which has laid in stock Jly greater than the supply. In for years, and much of wihch cannot be " an effort has been made to used, owing to its poor condition commer e public that recent advanced cially. ----01--- !lUons were, in a manner, ficti that, as a matter of fact, NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Df copper on hand was larger Bulletin.
'maud, and that cop·per is not Bulletin 18. The transmission of heat figure it has been getting, of into steam 'boilers, by Henry :KJreisinger and ring an inquiry as to' "Hidden Copper" the United States In
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Technical Papers.
Toohnical Papel'\, 17. TJIe effect of stem ming on the efficiency of explOl3ives, by ~ little credence in the report W. O. Snelling and Clarence Hall. 1912. 1 supplies of copper, and as a 20pp. ct, such rumors have been con-. Teohnioal Paper 18. Magazines and thaw inlshlng lately, a'S authorities houses for explos,ives, by Claren,ce Hall and have never been influenced to S. P. Howell. 1912. 32 pp., 1 pI. ,y them. Copper metal has had Technical Paper 2S. Ignition of mine !ld consistent riae during the g.as by mini.ature electric lamp's, by H. H. ,even months, a rise whioh, in Clark. 1912. 5 pp. m, has been IDo;;tly on its mer Reprints. I of late perhaps the specula Bulletin 40. The 'SImokless combustion of lUces in London have affected coal in boiler furqaees, with a chapter' on less. Today, it is firm around ·central heating .])lants, by D. T. Randall and a point higher than which it H. W. Weeks. 188 pp. R6Iprint of United d policy to force it. States Geological Survey Bulletin 373, ra the rumors as to hidden sup v1sed by Henry Kreisingoer. er, are probably put out to dis Technical Paper 21. The p.revention of trket. For the price, as well mine exp.l0l3ions, report and recommenda I of copper, do not indicate that tions by Victor WaHeyne, Carl Meissner, l'Stantial. Of course, juat how and Arthur Desoorough. Rep·rint of United ,ment from 12 to 17%, cents was States Geological Survey BulLetin 369. ut by manipulation, is a very The Bureau of Mines has copies of these to decide, and aa in every other publication'S for froo distribu.tion, .but can :here was probably more or less not give moxe than one copy of the same ~ first six mon,t'hs ·of the pres bulletin to one ,person. Req'uests for aU )w that production has totaled papers can not be granted without satb pounds for the corresponding factory' reason. In asking for pU!blicatIons ar ago, while total deliveries pleaJ5e order them by number and title. Ap 80805,975 pounds, against 690, ])lications sho
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JARBIDGE SHOWING UP WELL.
Deve:opment Work Being Pushed on the Bluster, Alpha and Success.
(SpeCial Correspondence.) Jarbidge, Nev., July SO.-During the past few months the development of properties in this camp has been of the most encour aging nature. I am only going to speak of three .properties in this letter, but these are, by no means, all the good promising prospects we have. The Bluster, Alpha and Success are being worked with considerable energy, while the others which may prove equally as valuable are being developed in a slower manner. Later on the Flaxi~a, Buckeye, f'lorth Star group, Pavlak and oth ers will be in the list to ,be reckoned upon. The latest and deepest workings in the Sue. cess, Bluster and Alpha are 'proving that the ore values continue and improve with depth. No .discovery in the camp has been dug out. Everything has improved with depth. A ColoradO mining expert told your correspondent, some eight months ago, that if the ore values showed up as well at four to six hundred feet in depth, a great future for the district was assured. That depth has now been reached and the showings in value and quantity is up to all expectations. The Success.
The recent big strike made in the 400 foot level of the Success Consolidated not only confirms all early opinions that the Success ,was the making of a big mine, ,but is als() of the greatest importance to the Jarbidge district, as it proves that the values go down and that the ledges increase In size and richness with depth. Full faces of ore are now exposed in both the north and south drifts from the No. 4 tunnel, giving this property a vertical depth of 400 feet. The value of the ore at this depth is better than it is in the second level, and it was on the strength of the grand showing in this level that (}eQrge Wingfield took an optIon on the adjOining Bluster property, at a large figure; and later, failing to find the ore in the Bluster, and having trouble with the owners of the Success over an exten sion of t!me, he threw up everything and quit camp. He was then within ten feet of the ore recently struck by the owners of ,the Success, on the fourth level, and immense bodies have since been opened up in the Bluster property. Wingfield's en gineers paralleled the ore all the way in the Bluster development work, and failed to find the ore by not cross-cutting to the foot wall. The Sucess people are now within sIxty feet of the ledge in their 500-foot level and wilipush the work as fast as possible. After Wingfield's departure, Dicky Jones, his former manager, made every effort to se cure the Success, as he was confident that very little more work would prove it to !be
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will be started southeasterly to prospect the lead. Both sinking and drifting will be carried on as fast as possible. About 400 feet southeasterly from the tunnel another shaft is being started. So far throo feet of good ore has been cut, This shaft is being put down to find out, as nearly as possible, the extent of the lead. Work is now being carried on along the lead for a distance of nine hundred feet and good ore is found during all that space. The leal! will average around $30 in value, judging from assays andpannings made Iby the own ers. Fourteen men are now employed and this force win be increased to twenty-five A. W. BROUSE. in a few days.
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(Record, Park City, Utah.) ~ The Bluster. For two weeks past big ore bodies have This property is situated on Gorge Gulch boon encountered in the old Creole work north of Jarbidge river, It is about 3000 ings on Treasure Hill, the r~ent acquisi feet up the hill from the river and is on tion to the Silver King Coalition holdings. the same lead as the Success Consolidated. From those who -have seen the strike The There are three cross-cut tunnels run on the Record learns that it is of !big proportions property. In adit No.1 the lead is tapped as regards quantity. and rich in quality, after driv:ng 175 feet. The lead to the south, and is making the property of the King show€d eight foot of ore to the value of $27. more' valuable as development progresses. The walls were not reached. In No.2 adit, The new find is in 'the Creole ground prrOp€f, 275 feet of ~ross-cut found the lead. Con and had it been found when Jessie Knight s:derab!e work was done and in one place was in possession of the ground, those who the ore was forty f€et wide which showed are versed in mining say the stock of thc an average value of $12. There was six then Uintah·Treasure Hill would have pass foot of ore which showed a value of $40. RICH DISCOVERY NEAR RYE PATCH. ed the $5 mark, and caused great excite In the extreme south face, which is all in ment and speculation in mining circles. ore, the assays were from $12 to $50. The A thousand years from now, if this old lower tunnel is where the largest and best globe is then still in existence, rich ore Under existing condUions the big new find results arebe:ng obtained. This is 300 feet discoveries be made in the mining of rich ore neither advances the price of in d€pth, The Wingfi€ld 'people missed the states of this intermountain region. A the King stock nor causes the least stir ore on this level or did not exert themselves great many labor under the impreSSIOn that in Park City or elsewhere. This is per to find it. When the present manager start· all of ,the bonanza propositions in the moun haps partly because the facts are not noised ed work, when 'Wingfield quit, they started· tains and canyons have already been found. about by the company, but principally qe cutting from the hanging wall to the foot This is but a theory, however, and is con cause the uncovering of big ore. b::>dies tn wall and cut through seven feet of ore that tinually being shattered by discoveries made the many different sections of the vast hold gave $40 in gold and six ounces of silver. in territory that was believed to have ,been ings of the King Coalition are of too com Since the lead w.as first cut openings have thoroughly prospected years ago. From the mon occurrence to receive more than pass· been made that shows the seven-foot streak min:ng field rich finds are {:ontinually be ing notice or comment. These strikes are runs as high as $72. Assays from $40 up-. ing made, one of these, by a veteran pros nevertheless important to the camp and wards have been obtained. The seven·foot pector who, contrary to the usual custom, demonstrate that the country is but scratch does not ~nclude all the leads. It is over realized upon his discovery almost as s,oon ed-minerally speaking. twenty feet wide in .places, the value of the as it was found. The Star, of Winnemucca, --~-(o>--- whole ~eing $20. So far the ore has been Nevada, in telling the find, says: GYPSUM NEAR VERNAL. opened up on the 300·foot level, about 400 News has been r~eived here of a very foot in length. It has also been found in important gold strike which was made (Express, Vernal, Utah.) the north drift, and is of equally good value. about three weeks ago in' the Humboldt Prospecting over Ashley valley in the Every day's work and every foot driven is range, about eight miles from Ry'e Patch. last few days has brought to light the fact exposing to view more ore. One of the The discovery was made by a Swede pros that in and around Vernal are numerous owners estimates that by the fore part of pector, who sold out to Judge Curler of and ex'tensive beds of gypsum equal in August there will be a gross tonnage in this place and George H. Copley and Harry quality, it is thought, with that found nea, sight to a value of a miUion and a half dol· Hunter of Imlay. Roosevelt, Utah, The only tests that have lars. In a short time a winze will be sunk The ledge is about two feet wide and been made were from samples taken at the on the rich streak, and still later a work marvelously rich ore is being taken from foot of the yellow dugway half way between ing tunn~l lower down the hill will be the 'prospect shaft which is being sunk. Vernal and Jensen. This raw gypsum, taken driven. The erection of a mill will be in At seven feet depth a sample was taken, from the road surface, was roasted and When order very soon.", the assays across the ledge ranging from mixed with water immediately set into a The Alpha. $62 to $1,200. The values are principally solid mass, showing ~onclusively that a high This property is under option to Chicago in gold, though the ore ~arries some silver. quality Ibuilding material has been lying un· ,people, and is under the immediate super Pieces of the quartz from the richest streak touched for ages awaiting the discovery vision of John A. Jess. The property is in the vein are fairly alive with gold. The of its usefulness. Beds of gypsum were also found north situated northeast of town, up Bourne gulch. vein lies in porphyry and it stuck out two ~ The lead has been opened up 900 foot in feet out of the ground. A piece of rock of Vernal, west and almost in town. In a length and shows values at every opening. broken from the croppings showed a seam few days samples will be collected from a dozen sources for roasting into the plaste~ The work being carried on at present con of almost solid gold. The owners have a group of eight claims of paris state and then thcy will be put sists of a drift tunnel on the lead, being now in about 300 feet, and will be driven and .they are of course enthusiastic over through the setting process to test the tex about 100 feet farther to tap the shaft that the strike, which gives extraordinary sur tile strength after being moulded into blocks. is being sunk on the lead. The face of face promise, They will prosecute vigor· If the gypsum-plastcr of paris product In the drift is all in ore of at least a $15 value. ous develoment to fully ascertain the value Ashley valley proves out, as expected, a company may be organiZed to put the pro A gasoline driven fan kee'ps the air in of the find, Harry Hunter was in town Saturday ~on· duct upon the market. good shape. The shaft is now down 110 0-- The motivc power consists of a six-horse ferring with Judge Curler in regard to their The Jamison lea.3e on the Pacific dump, power engine handling two buckets. The property. The latter, accompanied by his lead here is about three fect in width and son, Ben Vogel Curler; left that evening in American Fork district, Utah, made a shows an assay value of from $40 to $75. Iby auto for the scene of the strike. where shipment of thirty tons of fine lead ore, the fif'St of the week, From the 90-foot level in the shaft, a drift they will remain about a week. ----o---~
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T.H ESA L T iVITY IN GOLDFIELD MINES. I Consolidated Makes a Good Show· Ig.-Great Western Resumes. (Special Correspondence. rding to the June report of General :endent Thorn, just made public, the oduction of the Goldfield Con~oli· lines company for that month was ons of a total value of $573,658.31 verage of $17.72 per ton, of which ons were milled with an' average ) l l of 92.63 per cent, and 3,325 tons ipped of an average value of $23.91 the net recovery from all ore be· 60 per ton. The total net real.iza· ounted to $325475.52 or $10.06 per 1e development work accomplished d 3,034 feet. )ination-The stope in the Rellly Itheast of the shaft produced 1341 '22.00 ore. The 402·G stope 300 feet • the shaft between the 5th and 6th roduced 353 tons of $18.00 ore~ This leepest point in the mine at which b"een found. ~ new stope which duce a large tonnage is being open· 1e second level 200 feet east of the 'e, under the old January workings. ad 103·X drifts driven through the .roduced 117 tons of $15.00 ore. Iwk-The work being prosecuted [ the 3 stope on the 150·foot level the old Sheets·lsh country is provo a large tonnage of good grade ore. sill, 50 feet north of the 3·E stope, j 43 tons of average $37.60 ore. The being advanced north in the foot· the Sheets·I,~h sto.pe produced 38 $31.00 ore. The 170·L stope on the level stripping the lower end of ets·lsh stope produced 105 tons of reo The l11·N on the 250·foot level .he Hayes·Monette stope produced j 1389 tons of $43.20 ore. nont-The 426·X intermediate be· he 750·foot and 600·foot levels and s of $40.00 ore. The 3M·Q drift Dotwall section of the big 354 stope • the old 401 stope produced 108 $28.00 ore. During the pa,~t month elopment on the 1300·foot level of zJy Bear has been very satisfactory. drift in the orebody has been ship· broken, the last round of much broken, . the last round of muck Impartment of the shaft from the the 1600 was completed, and pipes, and eleCtrical equipment moved I-uides were put down the fDrmer from the surface to. the 1300, and e drum electric hoist installed on [ace. Sinking the next lift of 140 now in progress. The Lone Star. u; been definit£)ly decided by the nent of the Lone Star Consolidated company to prosecute an extensive
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campaign of lateral work at a depth of 300 feet. That point will be reached by the shaft within the next two or three days. After a 30·f90t sump is sunk below the level, crosscutting will be inaugurated. Two rna· chine drills will be installed to facilitate the lateral work. The bottom of the shaft is now in an altered latite formation and Superintendent Healy is firm in the belief that the lateral work on the 300·foot level will result in the interception of large ore bodies and determine ,the extent of the fault of the formatioIlt3 through the Lone Star ground at an early date. Th\l re organization of the old corporation, the Goldfield Lone Star Mining company, as the Lolle Star Consolidated Mining company has been entirely completed. A large majority of the stockholders of the. old company availed themselves of the privilege of ex· changing their shares for those of the new company upon a basis of share for share, plus two cents a share. The new corpora· tion is in excellent shape financially. The perio.d for the exchange of shares expired J:uly 20th. Great Western. Upon his return from -the east within the next few wee,ks, S. H. Brady, of Tonopah, will resume op.erations on the Great West· ern mine, in the Ho.rnsilver distrIct" south of Goldfield, the control of which he and his associates recently acquired. The Great Western ha.~ been extensively developed and has already to its credit shipments of· ore ~xceeding $125,000 in value. There is at present a great tonnage of pay ore in sight on the various levels, which warrant the prediction that the resumption of oper· ations will be followed by a steady pro· ducLion of ore that will not only add to the laurels of the property but give a (!eclded impetus to operations throughout the Horn· silver district and C{)ntiguo\li~ country. Mr. Brady has purchased a mill in the Bullfrog district and workmen are at present en· gaged in dismantling (t for removal to. the Hornsilver district. He has also purchased water rights, located about twelve miles distant from the Great Western, and the laying of a pipe·line to '3upply water to the mill will probablY be started within the next few weeks. Hornsilver Mining. Under the supervision of Superintendent Howard Russell, an average of three feet a day is being made tn the sinking of the shaft on the property of the Hornsilver dis· trict from the 300 to the 500·foot level. '('he bore has been sent down more than 50 feet since sinking operations were resumed about two wee~~ ago. following the exposure of the Hornsilver ledge eighty feet south of the shaft on the 300·ft. level, where drift· ing fora distance of fifty feet east and west showed the ore to. average $22 a ton and better ~han eight feet in width. The management is confident that the shaft will reveal the converging point or the
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Hornsilver and Great Western ledges before the present objective depth is gaIned. It is the inltention of the manag'ement to run a cro813·cut from the 500-foot point to pick Ulp wlhat is known as tille' "norrth" ledge, which on the surface ,parallels the other two ledges and lays wbout 100 feet north of t he shaft. The Florence. After a sUSIPens.ion of sinking opera· ltions for several days, occasioned by the necessity of repairin,g and relieving weak· ened timbe!1~ at several po.in;.s, work Is in pro'g,ress in the main ,s,ha[ot of r!Je Florence mine, which has passed the 118()foot point. It wm be completed to the 1200·foot point within the next few days. A 6t).foQt SUIIllP will be sunk, and a huge StaT!on cut, all of which work is e"pected to be finished w~thill ninety days. Upon its completion. ~ateml worl: upon an _ex:tensive scale will be inaugurateid. The shaf~ has recen,ly cut 13everal quartz s'tringers that return Eomall values. The new cross·cut Oll the :350·foot level has just encountered the bi~ ledge opened upsev€·ral months ago on the 250 foot J,evel in virgin 'ground. Cross-cutting and d.rifting on the ledge to intercept the downwa.rd extension of -the rich ore shoot exposed on the 250·foot level are now being proseou.ted on the 350·foot level. Vernal On the 200-foot level of the Vernal, drift· ing is in progress on a. big ledge, encount· ered s~xty feet west of the ,;:;haft. The rock being extracted assays around $9 a ton. 'l'he size (,f the ledge hag not !.,(len ueter· minE,lI. a c.;OSS-Cilt 'not ha.ving t:ll.S far been run from wall to wall. The volume 0: water is slowly increasing and the man· ag,ement 'has found it necessary to install a ,pump to handle it. Silver Pick Consolidated. More >than fifty feet of work ha'3 been accompJished since drHting was beg,un two weeks ago on the 10·foot ledge re
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Kingman Miner: This,norning E. H. Barton, general manager of the Frisco Mines and Power company, brought in the bi-weeklY bar of bullion from the mill. The bar will weigh a.bout $7,000. The mill is now doing nice work and the result is proving the mine to be a winner. Clifton Copper Era: A. B. Harris, of Safford, arrived in Globe last week wlth several samples of gold-bearing black sand. Mr. Harris said that he had discovered this sand about fourteen miles northeast of Sol omonville and that the assays received from the samples, showed that it was rich in gold. Florence Blade-Tribune: M. H. Harri son brought the Blade-Tribune cabinet Sat· urday, a lot of fine ore specimens from the bottom of the 70-foot shaft on the Caledonia vein, situated twelve miles northeast :of town. The pay-streak from which the speci mens came in almost as wide as the shaft and every round of holes fired breaks bet ter or", Clifton Copper Era: The Calumet and Arizona is hustling work on its new smeltet at Douglas The material is nearly all on th(~ ground and construction goes on fast. At tile mines the developments prove that the new smelting plant will have work to do for some time to come. Ore is being opened up at all the prinCipal shafts, and it is of exceptionally high grade. Florence Blade-Tribune: Superintendent McMillan reports the discovery of a 4-foot vein of very rich copper ore in their cross· cute from the McMillan shaft on the Sul tana group, situated on the south side of the river at Kelvin. The ore is said to be the richest copper ore ever discovered, be ing- almost pure bullion. The Sultana is l:>ecoming noted for phenomenally riCh 'pay streaks." Kiqgman Miner: The Swansea smelt er has been blOwn in and is said to be doing good work. The plant is under new management and is reported to have plenty of capital back of it. The ore buyers are searching for silicious ores that will stand the freieght to that place, and a good smelting rate will be accorded this class of Qrc. Ore carrying fome cQPper, iron and silica is what is needed. Florence Blade-Tribune: The Magma Copper company's new air compressor ar· rived at the Florence depot Saturday, was loaded on to an iron truck, capable of car· rying 30,000 pounds, and started for the mines, at Superior, Wednesday. It Is one of the largest compressors in the state. With this machine added to the oed com pressor equipment at the mine the air sup ply ',vil! be ample for all purposes. The
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foundation for this new compressor has been completed, hence upon its arrival at the mine it will not take long to get it ready for operation. When all of the new equipment at the mine is ready to go into commission, Superintendent Neary will be gin sinking the shaft to the 1,500 foot level and ,puGh this work as fast as possible. ~---o----
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Georgetown Gazette: A five-stamp mill is being erected on the Big Buzzard mine on the Darrington place at Negro. Hill. This mine is owned by Levi, George and Bert Darrington, F. N. Major and Joe Foster. A new mill has also been built on the old Z€'ntgraf mine, three miles from the Big Buzzard, and preparations are 'being made to work this property on a large scale. The Zentgraf is now known as the Home mine, and Sacramento capitalists are developing it. -.-.---o~--~
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Georgetown Courier: Supplies and two men left town last Thursday for the Merri mac mining property on Kelso mountain and work will be prosecuted vigorously from now on. The property belongs to J. P. Johnson and was a producer of high grade ore in the early days. It is stated that a fine showing is in evidence on this property and good indications of ore ahea(1 of the breast of the tunnel as surface ore shows strong in mineral values. Telluride Examiner: Manager T. E. Thomas, of the Junta Mining & Milling company, and tbe Jim Crow M~ning com pany, has recently arranged for a meeting of his companies on August 20 for the pur pose of merging both into one, the name proposed for the consolidated companies to be the Junta Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling company. While this mergement is going on, work at the mines is being pushed and everything is looking good, A very large vein of free milling ore is opened on the Jim Crow group and the Junta prop erties are all showing good milling ore. Dr. Charles E. Georgetown Courier: Rowland, of Syracuse, N. y" who for anum· ber of years has been associated witJi Nel son Williams in the development of the Ruler lode, on Griffith mountain, spent sev· eral days here this week. The doctor is so well pleased with the Ruler property that he has bought the extension of the vein, the CQmet mine, which is one of the oldest discoveries in the district, and has a large production to its credit. The Comet, Ruler and Eetna are on the same vein, which is one of tbe largest in the district, and which is now producing so largely in thfl workings of the Capital company. Boulder Miner: The Lincoln-American Mining company has opened the rich ore body in the American mine at Magnolia
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and are extracting about ten tons of ore daily from the second level. The pay streak is from two to three feet iII width and car ries excellent values in the main body, while there are occurrences of the exceedingly rich material that has distinguished the mine. Cross-cutting is in progress on lev. els three and four for the purpose of reach ing the ore which was found in the 'second level by a cross-cut to the footwall. The mine is under the management of Col. W. H. Moore, one of the best miners in the state. With him are associated a number of substantial Denver business men. Telluride ];Jxaminer: W, R. Vanderveer, who accepted the management of the Morn ing Star group of mines for an eastern syndicate some months ago, has b€en dOing preparatory work out there, getting ready to open up a body of ore on the Sunshine vein which extends through the mountain, To do this it neceSSitated extending a pipe line to get water for power for a compres sor he uses and this line was extended 1,800 feet and is now in working order. He will build a small boarding house at the mouth of the Sunshine tunnel for the accommo dation of. his men and will then run a tun nel in about 800 feet. to tap the Magpie vein, a body of ore that he feels is good enough for shipment. A recent bond taken on the Magpie gives him the ground he wants, - - - - O h_ __
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Hailey Times: William Schultz, WI;1O Was dOwn from Boulder today, says that the workings in the lower tunnel have just £ut a vein of concentrating ore three feet wide, carrying 15 inches of 50 or 55 per cent zinc. Elk City Mining News: W. F. Johnson and Bob Hiland have made a new discovery on Galena creek. The vein uncovered car ries good values, but not enough work has been done to determine to what extent the ore shoot will go. The claims are well sit uated, and a road runs nearly to the prop erty. More work will be done. and the vein uncovered for some distance, \Vallace Miner: Some fine specimens of copper ore were brought to town this week from the Bullion property. The recent strike that was made in the raise being driven from the west drift, has widened un til tbere is now fully eighteen inches of solid ore, The management expects to have a car ready for shipment to the smelter within the next few days and if the present ore body continues as expected, and the in· dications are it will, mo~e men will be put to work on stoping and shipments will be made regularly. The ore now' being taken out will assay from 15 to 20 per cent cop per and runs high in silver values. The pmperty is located near the IdahoJ~fontaIla divide and is one of the oldest and best equipped in the district,
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Austin Reveille: A ten ton shipment of ore from the Peterson mine to the Salt Lake smelter by J. C. Sammons, lessee, re turns from which were received this week, hrought $450 per ton, This ore came from the I25-foot level. The ledge is two feet wide with ten i.nchs3 of high grade. Mr. Peterson and Mr. Sammons were in town today for men to work in the mine. Picche Record: William H. Pitts, man ager of the Home Run Copper company, spent a day or two at the properties of that corporation this week and returned to Pioche well pleased wJth the progress being made with development there., Mr, Pitts reports that connection has been made with the rich Qre shoot on the 90-foot level and that ore is heing sacked for shipme~t that contains average values of about $100 per ton in gold, silver, lead and copper, Ely Record: The Coppermines company has purchased a 25-horsepower gasoline en gine from the Ely Consolidated company, and is now putting in an incline tramway from its Minnesota shaft to the top of the railroad grade immediately above the mine, where ore bins will be erected. As soon as the ore bins are completed and the engine installed, the companY will be in a situation to largely increase its output from the mine, which has been a steady producer for some months past. Developments in the mine are of a very satisfactory nature, showing a large tonnage of ore of a splen did milling 'grade. Austin Reveille: J. M, Pine, of Denver, who has been interested in the develop ment of mines at Ravenswood, some thirty miles north of Austin for the past year, has been in Austin the past several days. Mr. Pine states that he will put in a small, hut complete mining plant and sink to the 400 or 4S0 level and explore the ore bodies at that depth. The plant has alreadY heen shipped from Salt Lake City and includes a gasoline hOist, air compressor and machine drills. Mr. Pine has been interested in min ing properties in and around Austin for a number of years and has impliCit faith in the uiti'mate outcome of this region of the state. Winnemucca Star: This office has ret ceived a lot Df samples of are from the strike made a few days ago in the 200·foot tunnel on the Yellow Dog property at the camp of Dyke, in the Pine Forest range. The ore Is heavily impregnated with gold and extremely rich. A sample taken from fifteen inches of the vein and assayed at the Winnemucca assay office yesterday gave the gratifying results or $666 to the ton in gold and only a trace in silver. This 'ore was sent in by S. L. Baker, who IS man· aging the development work on the prop. erty, and who stated that all the high-grade noticeable was eliminated from the sample,
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which might he called their second grade are. The extremely rich ore comes from the footwall next to the IS-inch streak, a sam ple of which was assayed here yesterday.
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Milford News: We are advised that John Kelley and his associates in the ,Lue group of claims in Pine Grove district, Scientists and capitalists of Europe who are working along very satisfactorilY and are interested in the development of rad expect to ship a car of ore soon, which run ium, says the Denver Times, are planning very high in gold. to estahlish in Denver an elahorate plant Milford News: Word reaches us that
for the extraction of radium and other rare the Sheep Rock is ahout to commence ship mi"nerals from ores found in this region. ping are again, and that Wilford Robinson
It has become known that four scientific is busy looking for teams to haul the same men from France and England have made to Milford. The Sheep Rock Is located in a tour of 'various depOSits in this and near the Newton Mining district on Indian
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Milford News: The Oak Leaf property case the plant is erected. The larger por on the east side of the Mineral range, being tion of the' present radium and vanadium the range between Milford and Beaver, is supply of the world has come from Colo installing an air compressor and steam rado. SpeCial efforts have been made by hoist. We understand they will soon be mining men In this region to d:scover and ready for business, when active develop develop such depos-its. The Colorado ment and also shipping will be proceeded School of Mines has paid especlalatten with rapidity. tion to this field. Milford News: George Algood, one ot The output heretofore has been sent to the leasers of the property of the Ready Llverpoo! to be treated, Ibut those inter ested in that plant have thought that ship. Pay Mining company, in the vicinity of ping the are across the ocean was too ex· Newhouse, has opened up a fine body of pensive. They propose to erect a plant ore which is improving every day. In the here at an expense of $50,000. It will cost opinion of Mr. Algood this property will soon be numbered with the producers and $100,OQO a year to conduct it. The scien tific men who made a recent visit came in a very short time wm be shipping or& to see if there was sufficient quantities of to the smelters. Beaver Press: The engine anI.'! 'boiler ore in sight to make such a plant pay.
Fred T. Smith and J. R. Perry, !Vho for the steam holst at the Oak Leaf was delivered at the min,e this week. The air represent European radium hunters, con ducted them to the mines. Mr. Smith de .compressor and other machinery has been clared that one of them estimate'll the value on the ground for some time, and th~ in of one deposit at $2,500,000 and asserting stallation has heen going right ahead. It that the ore could he treated for $1S0 a is a matter of only a short time until the plant will go into commission and the ton and would yield $140 worth of vana extraction of are will be commenced. dium alloy and $200 worth of radium. ---0-- Eureka Reporter: The electric hoist at WILL PRODUCE PURE COPPER. the May Day mine went Into commission on Monday of this week and since that time (Silver State, Winnemucca, 'Nev.) the new machinery has 'been doing splen· J. C. Weir of the Humboldt PiQneer Min did work. The switch from the steam plant ing and Reduction cOmpany is in town su perintending the shipment of material to to the electrical equipment was made with· Cllt delay and the change will mean a sub· the copper mines of the company to erect a re'duction plant. The are will be stalltial redUction in the operating 'expenses at this property. The May Day company handled by a process of their own inven will secure power from the Knight people. tion, something after the order of cyanid Green River Dispatch: It is said that Ing. The tanks and a portion of the other a foot lead genuine pure pitchblende has equipment are already on the ground. Mr. Weir located the property, situated been struck _in the Cameron group that is twelve miles this side of Denio, in 1863, being worked near this city. If this is true, and has hung on since that time, never the output will be worth many millions. losing faith in the proposition. In ~he early The company has all their ore bins here days the ground was abandoned for a time, filled, probably SOO tons of ore are ready on account or Indians, but as soon as they, for shipment. Ahout half a dozen miners had been subdued work was again. startea. ' are employed through the 'hot weather, but as soon as cooler weather begins the. force Mr. Weir, who hears a striking resem will be greatly increased again. blance to James J. Hill, the railroad mag nate, states that he expects to see h's teams Beaver Press: R. H. Burke and Robert driving up Bridge street within the next Finley were in town for several days from ninety days, with wagons loaded with pure . the Woodhouse property in 'Star district. copper. They were exhibiting some handsom~ speci ---0--
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A ten ton shipment of (Ie Peterson mine to the Salt ir by J. C. Sammons, lessee, re w'hich were received this week, \I per ton. This ore came from level. The ledge is two feet len l,nchel of high grade. Mr. !d Mr. Sammons were in town ~en to work in the mine. ~cord: 'W'illiam H. Pitts, man ~ Home Run Copper cO'IIlpany, " or two at the properties of IUon this week and returned to pleased wjth the progress being development there. Mr. Pitts ; connection has been made h ore shoot on the 90-foot levfll e is being sacked for shipment .s average values of about $100 gold, silver, lead and copper. ·rd: The Coppermines company ed a 25-horsepower gasoline en· the Ely, Consolidated company, putting in an incline tramway nnesota shaft to the top of the de immediately above the mine, ins will be erected. As soon as ~ ate completed and the engine e company will be in a situation increase its output from the I has beeu a steady producer Jonths past. Developments in e of a very satisfactory nature, arge tonnage of ore of a spleu ·grade. eveille: J. M. Pine, of Denver, ~en interested in the develop· ies at Ravenswood, some thirty of Austin for the past year, has Itin the past several days. Mr. that he will put.in a small, but ning plant and sink to the 400 and explore the ore bodies at The plant has already been 1 Salt Lake City and includes a 3t, air compressor and machine "ine has been interested in min· es in and around Austin for a rears and has implicit faith in outcome of this region of the cca Star:' This office has re the a few days ago in the 200-foot Ie Yellow Dog property at the ke, in the Pine Forest range. \'leavily impregnated with gold fy rich. A sample taken from os of the vein and assayed at mcca assay office yesterday atifying results oC $666 to the md only a trace in silver. This , in by S. L. Baker, who ls man evelopment work on the prop· ,0 stated that all the high·grade as eliminated from the samIJle,
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Scientists and capitalists of Europe who are interested in the development of rad ium, SayS the Denver Times, are planning to establish in Denver an elaborate plant for the extraction of radium and other rare miilerals from ores found in this region. It has become known that four scientific men from France and England have made a tour of various deposits in this and near by states and have undertaken to arrange with O'Wners for control of the output in case the plant is erected. The larger por tion of the' present radium and vanadium supply of the world has come from Colo rarlo. Special efforts have been made by mining men in this region to d:scover and develop such depOSits. The Colorado School of Mines has paid especial atten tion to this field. . The output heretofore has been sent to Liverpool to be treated, Ibut those inter ested in that plant have thought that ship ping the ore across the ocean was too ex· pensive. They propose to erect a plant here at an expense of $50,000. It will cost $100,000 a year to conduct It. The scien· tific men who made a recent visit came to see if there was sufficient quantities of ore in sight to make such a plant pay. Fred T. Smith aOO J. R. Perry, Who represent European radium hunters, con ducted them to the mines. Mr. Smith de clared that one of them estimate
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Around the State Milford News: We are advised that John Kelley and his aasociates in the ,Lue group of claims in Pine Grove district. are working along very satisfactorily and expect to ship a car of ore soon, which run very high in gold. Milford News: Word reaches us that the Sheep Rock is about to commence ship ping ore again, and that Wilford Robinson is busy looking for teams to haul the same to Milford. The Sheep Rock is located in the Newton Mining district on Indian Creek, north of Beaver. Milford News: The Oak Leaf property on the east side of the Mineral range, being the range- between MHford and Beaver, is installing an air compressor and steam hoist. We understand they will soon be ready for business, when active develop ment and also shipping will be proceeded with rapidity. Milford News: George Algood, one of the leasers of the property of the Ready Pay Mining company, in the vicinity of Newhouse, has opened up a fine body of ore which is improving every day. In the opinion of Mr. Algood this property soon be numbered with the producers and in a very short time "'till be shipping ore to the smelters. Beaver Press: The engine ana boiler for the steam hoist at the Oak Leaf was delivered at the mine' this week. The air ,compressor and other machinery has been on the ground for some time, and th~ in· stallation has been going right ahead. It is a matter of only a short time until the plant will go into commission and the extraction of ore will be commenced.
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Eureka Reporter: The electric hoist at the May Day mine went Into commission on Monday of this week and since that time the new .machinery has 'been doing splen did work. The switch from the steam plant to the electrical equipment was maae with cut delay and the change will mean a sub st'lilUal reduction in the operating expenses at this property. The May Day company will secure power from the Knight people_
(Silver State, Winnemucca, Nev.) J. C. Weir of the Humboldt Pioneer Min ing and Reduction com,pany is in town suo perintending the shipment of material to the copper mines of the company to erect a reduction plant. The ore will be handled by a process of their own inven· tion, something after the order of cyanid· Green River Dispatch: It is said that ing. The tanks and a portion of the other a foot lead genuine pure pitchblende has equipment are already on the ground. Mr. Weir located the property, situated been struck _in the Cameron group that is twelve miles this side of Denio, in 1863, being worked near this city. If this is true, and has hung on since that time, never the output will be worth many millions. losing faith in the proppsition. In the early The company has all their ore bins here days the ground was abandoned for a time, filled, probably 500 tons of ore are ready on account of Indians, but as soon as they for shipment. About half a dozen miners are employed through the 'hot weather, but had been subdued work was agaIn startea. Mr. Weir, who bears a striking resem as soon as cooler weather begins the force blance to James J. Hill, the railroad mag will be greatly increased again. nate, states that he expects' to see h:s teams Beaver Press: R. H. Burke and Robert driving up Bridge street within the next Finley were in town for -several days from ninety days, with wagons loaded with pure . the Woodhouse property in Star district. copper. They were exhibiting some handsome speci.
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mens of rock showing free gold.' A small streak of ore gives values of nearly sIx thousand dollars in gold and about one hun dred fifty ounces in silver. A forty ton car was shipped to the Salt Lake market last week, which ought to net in the neighborhood of two hundred dollars a ton. Richfield Sun: L. H. Outzen and his' son, Henry, ca'me down from the Outzen properties in Bullion canyon last Thursday, bringing very encouraging reports. De velopment work is moving along steadily and every day.sees results. The tunnel is is now in five hundred feet. The face is in very obstinate trachite and the work is necessarily slow. It is confidently ex pected that the main ore body will be en countered within the next fortnight. J. S. McCullough, whose property adjoins the Outzen group, has just opened up a vein of $40 ore, and he is feeling elated over the strike. E.'ureka Reporter: During the month of July the Chief Consolidated mine broke ali previous records in the matter of ore pro duction, the saipments for that period ago gregating fifty·two carloaas. Notwithstand· ing the fact tbat this is an exceptionally heavy output tor one month, there is a possibility that the output of this mine for August wilI be even greater. The Chief Cor.solidated officials are not doing mucb talking,but )J1ere is no getting away from the het that the conditions underground are excellent and that it is a comparatively easy task to take out a couple of cars of ore each day. Green River Dispatch: Alfred Forsman of tlils city recently sent the government director of physical and chemical investi gations at Washington an average sample of carnotite from the Tom Boy group near here, and he has been apprised that it runs 3.5 milligrams radium, as metal, per short ton (2,000 pounds), which is the equivalent or 6 milligrams radium bromide, worth at retail about $80 per milligram, or $480 per ton. The 'Uranium and vanadium, figured at the lowest grade that has ever been shipped from here (4 per cent) will bring at least $136 per ton, thus making the ag gregate value per ton $616.
----0---- . The Cardiff mine, in the South Fork of Big Cottonwood, just over the divide from Alta, Utah, has been shipping about forty tons of ore, weekly, and it i8 stated that Ore is now being taken from a four-foot face that will average about $100 ,to the ton. The new working tunnel, being driven below the up·per workings, is now in about ;;00 feet, and it is believed the lime-quart zite contact will soon be reached. Ex-Mayor Ezra Thompson, managing director of the Cardiff company, recently vhited the mine and is well pleased with its physical ap. pearance.
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CAMP·FIRE CHATS By PAUL VALTlNKR
Colhalt·orE'S, attractive to the miner on account of their association with nickel and sHver-ores. are practically 'worth less if the latter-mentioned elements are absent. Only a comparatively small amount of the oxide is used for the co:oring of glaJ3s and china-ware. The 'Word colbalt means goblin. The old German miners called the ore Ko bold (goblin). As the ores 'Show a decided metallic lus.ter the old miners tried to re duce the same, but as they never succeeded to obtain from them any metal ,they gave .to the ores the characteristic name of Ko ,bold. Since then the metal has been ob tained. It is a silver-white, malleable, tena ciou,. metal of specific gravity 8..5. The min erals Srn.a,ltilte (CoAs,.), CobaUite (CoAsS) and the rarer ,Cobalt-Bloom (of peach blo\3 som color) are found and mined in Cana.da f
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iron-oxides, is handled under the name of emery as an abrasive. Among the nickel-ores proper, garule rite is the least knQiwn by the American prospector. As it has been found here in different localities a di<3cription of It may .be of value to the man in the field. Garule rite Is a hydrous silicate of nickel and mak nesium. It is mO'Stly found in loosely com 'Pacted masses of a brilliant dark-green to a pale apple-green eolor. It adheres to the
----0.--- The Spring 'Canyon Coal Mining COIl pany, of Provo, UtlUh, ,has been incorporate with a capitalization of $100,000 dividen into 10-cent shares. The officere and <' rectors are Jesse Kinght, president; J. W liam Knight, vice-president; A. M. Knigl secretary and ·treasurer" R. E. Allen a' G. A. StorE'3, The company holds 800 acr
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Stan':ey c. Sears, of Boston, is now gen· eral manager of the Utah-Apex, at Bingham, Utah. B. L Hoxie 1'8 now superintendent of the Manhattan.-Earl mine. at Manhattan, Nevada. Walter Virdon has taken a lease on the Black Eagle mine and mill near Yellow Jacket, Idaho. E. W. Ralph. of Ely, Nevada.superin tendent of the Boston·Eiy mines, was are· cent Salt Lake visitor. E. E. Price has succeeded E. G. Coffin as superintendent of the Lower Mammoth mine at Mammoth. Utah. Charieos Forberg, of Salt Lake, who is working the S,pread Eagle mine near Iron ton, Colorado, has uncovered some good, pay ore. H. W. Loman, of Breckenridge, Colo· rado, superintendent for the Gold Dredging company, has been taking a vacation In the east. J. B. Hastings, of Yellow Jacket, Idaho, manager for the Yellow Jacket Mining com pany, has returned home from a visit to New York. R. C. Vanderford, of Eureka, Nevada, superintendent for the Cedro-Eureka Min ing company, recently transacted business in Spokane. W. C. Prickett and C. S. Peterson, of Birmingham. Alabama, recently Inspected mining camps in the near vicinity of WIn nemucca, Nevada. Jack Kirwin and Alex Hall, operating in Camp Tobin, near Winnemucca, Nevada, have exposed twenty inches of ore going $116 in gold to the ton. Paul Klopstock, of Kennedy, Nevada, su perintendent for the Go'ld Note Mining & Milling com!}any, was in Chicago, recently, on bUsines.3 for his company. L. E. lves ha'8 resIgned as associate edi tor of the Engineering and Mining Journal to ,become mining and assistant enginee,r Ing editor of the Iron Trade Review. L. C. Wilson, of Salt Lake, who is In terested in the Rico-Argentine mine a.t Rico, Colorado. recently made an exhaustive ex amination of the company's property. Harry Earle, of Salt Lake, one of the officials of the Home Run Mining company, recently visited the company's property in the Bristol district, near Pioche, Nevada. J. C. Martin, of Marion, Illinois, who is interested in the Southern Illinois Min ing company. operating near Boulder, Col orado, recently viSited the company'sprop erty. Joseph Whitlln, of Eureka, Utah, presi dent of the Crown Point Mining com,pany. who was a. recent Salt Lake vIsitor, Is en
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thusiastic over the future outlook for Tin tic district. Lucin Merritt, who is temJ}Orarily in charge of the Red Warrior mine in Star district, Beaver county. Utah, was a recent Salt Lake visitor. Mr. Merritt states that the mine i'3 shipping regularly, and that it i'8 in excellent phYSical condition. Col. John E. Pelton, formerly of the Na tional Mining company, of National, Nevada, and who was instrumental in developing that property trom a prospect into a bon· anza, is now interested in the Eastern Star mi'ne in Gold Circle district, Nevada. George SL Clair, of Ophir, Utah, mine manager for the Lion Hill Consolidated com· pany, was in Salt Lake, laGt week, looking after a 50-ton shipment of first-clas'" ore. Mr. St. Clair is greatly elated over the s!}len did showing in the company's property, and predicts a great future for the cam!} in general, now that it has railroad connection with the outside world. -'~--'{)c-----
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The town of Murray, Utah, has voted a $60.,000-bond issue for the installation of a municipal ,power plant. Hatley, Idaho. has made provision for a bond issue of $40,000 with which to in stall municipal water 'works. The TwIn Falls, Railroad com!}any. of Twin Falls, Idaho, I. B. Perrine, manager, has prepared plans for the building of a bridge over the Snake river. 'rhe bridge lWiH be 1,180 feet long and 540 feet in heighth above the river. ---Q--- THE REEDS PEAK.
(Record. Park City, Utah.) Recent important discoveries in the Cardifl' property over in Big Cottonwood district brings the adjoining' property. the Reeds Peak, into prominence. The latter property is owned principally by Park City people, who are working it to the limit of their means. It is a most promising pros pect and were it possible to raise a few thousand dollars to equip it with machln· ery so as to facilitate work, a mine .would soon be uncovered. Frdm the Cardiff about $8 000 of ore is being marketed every ,month, and the ledge from which this ore is mined runs through the Reeds Peak, to eut which the tunnel is now in some 45(1 feet with perhaps another 100 feet to go. The Cardiff is owned principally by Ezra Thompson and J. D Murdock, two form er Parkites who made big ,fortunes in Park City mines, with promising prospects ot making still larger ones from the property above mentioned.
----0'--- The ten·stamp mill of the Mazuma Hills M. & M. company, at Mazuma, Nevada. was recently destroyed by fire;
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The Marion Mining company, of Ely, Ne vada, has placed an order with the F. C. Richmond Machinery company, of Salt Lake, for a 10·&tamp mill for its mine at CharlO'S· ton, Nevada. G. A. Heman. who has the contract for ,sidewalk extensions in Salt Lake, 'has placed a $40,000·order with the Portland Cement company of Ogden. for "Red Devil" cement with which to perform this work. The F. C. Richmond Machinery company, of Salt Lake, boas an order from the Model Laundry company for eighteen 'Vesting 'house motors. The laundry is equipping its machines wiIth individual motol"s. The Silver Bros. Iron Works company, of Salt Lake, has r~ived telegraphic or der,:; for thirty-six more mine oars from the -Goldfield Consoltidated Mines company, of Goldfield, Nevada. The company nad pre· viously ordered 17 cars, making a total of 207 of the Silver Bros. cars now in use in the operation of this great mine. The Salt Lake branch of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. reJ}Orts ,recent machinery sales a.3 follows: S4xty-horseJ}Ower engine to op· erate on three-cent California oil, for the New Yerington CopJ}Elr company, of Yering ton, Nevada. Five 25-horsepower oil engines to the W. O. Kay Elevators, o,perating in Utah and Idaho. Gas~ine hoist for the Latest Out Mining company, of Salmon, Idaho. Gasoline hoist, to J. A. Jess., of Jar blidge, Nevada. TheJeffrey Manufacturing company, of Columbus, Ohiio, has moved its Chicago of fice and headquarters from the Fisher build ing to the McCormick building, recently completed, with S. S, Shive, sal€>3 engi neer, In charge. The office is located on the 17th fioor of this magnificent structure, where customers and friends wHl receivp. a hearty welcome. The Jeffrey company main-ia.ins fourteen branch offices in the United States, and over 100 agents in the lead.!ng commel"Cial centers a.:l over the world. The Colorado Iron Works, of Denver, bR.S as'Sued Catalogue No. 10 C, entitled "Advanc ed Cyanide Practice and Equipment." This is a most interesting publication, in which two methods of operation of the company's Counter-Current Treatment by washing in continuous dllutJion are fully described. while the ,work contains much that is new in cy anide practice; v:hile facts and figuoos are giVen wMch are of vital interNt io mill men. The catalogue is handsomely mus trated, 'and the text is an education, in itself, for those' who WlOul
The Utah-Apex" of Bingham, Utah, has redueed its bonded indebtedne3S to $240,000.
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(Mine 6- SmellerBuilding I The Boston-ElY company, of Ely, Ne· vada, has decided to equip its property with a big pumping ,plant. Patrick Marley, of Salt Lake, has mill building in contemplation for his property near Farmington, Utah_ Two more lead furnaces will. in all ,prob abi;lty. be added to the plant of the Inter national smelter at Tooele, Utah_ The Rico-Wellington Mining company. of Provo, Utah, may equip its mine, at Rico, Colorado, with a milling plant in the near future. The AlaskaConsoGldated Copper com· pany, of Valdez, Ala'Ska, has in contempla tion the buildIng of a 500-ton concentrat ing plant. 'I1he Conqueror M. & M. company, of Silver Plume, Colorado, is preparing plans and specifications for the construction of a 100-ton mill. The Cortez Mining & Reduotion com pany, of Cortez, Nevada, Capt. J. M. Bern ardi, manager, will soon put in a custom milling plant. o.lson & Company, of Telluride, Colo· rado, who have a lease on the old Bernardo mine, near that place, have mill building in contemplation. Edward Bdpane and Thos. Beadall, of Jarbidge, Nevada, owners in the Bluster mine at that place, have mill building in contemplation. The Lawrence Mining & Milling com pany, of Sand Poin,t, Idaho, Josel!h Reed, manager, is arranging to erect a 50-ton con centrating plant. .
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equipment for the purpose of driving a long drain and working tunnel in West Mountain distri~t_ The Press, of Beaver, Utah, states that the mining interests of Newton district, near that p:ace, have combdned for the pur pose of installing a 25-stamp mill for the treMment of ores from the several proper· tie<3 in the district. The Detro:t Copper eompany, of Mor enci, Arizona, has decided to make altera tions and imp,ro'Vements in its smelting plant_ The company will replaee its gas engines with a steam plant, and electric power will be applied in the operation of the concentrator. The office of the company i,3 at 99 John street, New York, N. Y. T,he Spring Canyon Coal company, of Provo, Utah, Jesse Knight, president, whleh Is now actively engaged in opening up large coal areas in Carbon county, Utah, will soon install the iargest eapacity aerial tramway in the world, the tramway to connect its mines with the railroad. The tram will be 3.200 feet in length, and will have a ,carrying eapacity of 250 tonl3 "per hour. --~,~o-~-
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(SpeCial Correspondenee.) Cape Horn, Idaho, Aug. 10.-Martin J. Heller, eon suiting engineer for Capt. J. R. DeLamar, has reeently examined the prop erty of the Burns id- & M. company, of Custer county, this state, in the interests of the Internationa.I Nickle company, In wh!eh Capt. DeLamar is a heavy holder. Mr. Brose, of Sheep mountain, is ship ping twenty-five tons of high-g,rade galena to the Salt Lake smelters. Mr. J. Pfost is taking out another shipment from Sea Foam_ The Greyhound is working a full The Santa Ana-Rawhide Gold M,ining erew, and Is steadily developing its mines_ The sale of the Clayton mines and smel company, of Yerington, Nevada, C. A. Ter williger, manager, has decided to equip its ter, and the e'mphatie manner in whleh the purchasers have started development property with a 'Stamp mill. The- Mary McKinney Mining company, work and improvements. is stimulating the of Cri~ple C.reek, Colorada, will add to its prospeetors of Custer county; so look out mine equiPlllent, and may put in a large for old-tife strikes. Supplementing the information furnish electrically operated hO}3ting ,plant. ed by our Cape' Horn correspondent Is the The Day·Bristol Consolidated Mines com
following taken from the Stanley Items in pany, of Pioche, Nevada, George E. Bent.,
the Messenger, Challis, Idaho: general manager, is making arrangements
Pat Rasche is out from Sea Foam, and for the installation of an aerial tramway. reports great activity in that district. Mr. The Bank Mining & Promotion com Brose Is getting out a shipment of fifty ton'3 pany, of Buffalo, New York, has decided to of ore from the Joe Singer property at put in a 5-stamp mill, concentrator and sand Sheep mountain. the ore being brought to plant for its .property near Forest, Calif the wagon road by the Greyhound paek ornia. tra:n, and will be hauled to Ketchum by The Shattuck-Arizona CoP'per company, team. It is estimated this ore will average of Bisbee, Arizona, is preparing plans and $200 per ton, being high-grade sliver-lead. specification for smelter building, to cost in Isaae Pfost also anticipates making a the neighborhood of $500,000. Main offiee, shipment of ore from his property. We First Na.tional Bank ,Building, Duluth, Mln learn the ore shipped ,by him last year nesota. ::.ampled 427.5 ozs. silver, $11.50 gold and The Bingham Copper Tunnel company, 18.75 per cent lead. of Salt Lake, Utah Milando Pratt, secre Pat Rasche also made a trip to Middle tary, is getting ready to put in extensive Fork to investigate a gold strike made
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RICH STRIKE IN FORTUNA.
(Bulletin, Searehlight, Nev.) The talk of the week has been the great strike by Howe and Harris in th€ Fortuna, in Eldorado canyon, of which de tails were given in last week-s Bulletin. The are that is now being hauled to the Santa Fe station here, for shipment to the International smelter, Utah, is a sH vel' ehloride running into the hundreds in value. Visitors are n'Ot permitted to enter the underground workings, but the size of the dump and the daily additions to it are the basis of the keen general interest and the oft-repeated statement that these lucky leasers in the past fortnight have taken out more strietly high-grade ore than hereto fore known elsewhere in th!s section. The force consists of six men and the extract:on is e·stimated at three and one half tons and upward per day. Reeently development has been started 30!) feet east of the shaft, in a small gulch, where a crop ping of the ore from the main drift was found. Th€ work here not only represents a gain In depth of about 100 feet, but gives well-night positive assuranee of the con tinuaUon of the rich are shoot to that point. A sample of the are in question ii! in the ore cabinet at the post offiee. ---o~---,-
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(Herald, Ouray, Colo.) The news of the opening of an immense body of rieh enargite in the old Congress mine at Red Mountain, twelve miles south of Ouray, is caus:ng considerable rejoic ing, as it means the revival of good times in that famous old district. The vein was opened in the breast of the sixth level ninety feet below the old workings, and is a downward extension ot the great vein from whieh the late Thomlls F. Walsh shipped millions of dollars worth of are of the same eharacter. The find was made by Frank B. Goudy of Denver, who with H. H. Marris has a long time lease on the property. The ore body is over six feet deep of solid enargite, whose average value i,3 over thirty per eent eopper and thirty to fifty ouneeS: silver, being worth from $75 to $125 per ton. It is one of the most sub stantia] strikes made heTe. The Milkmaid M~ning company, of Amer ican Fork, Utah, recently shipped another carload of fine carbonate ore.
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Verdin Alexander is now with the Utah Copper company at Garfield, Utah. G. A. Collins, of Spokane, Washington, is now in charge of the Idora Hill mine in Idaho. The International Smelting & Refining company has posted its regular quarterly dividend. The Comet mine, near Georgetown, Col orado, ,has been oold to Dr. Charles Row lands, of Syracuse, New York. The leasers of ,the New Stockton mine, near Stockton, Utah, recently shipped five cars of firSJt and second-class ore. The South Utah, of Newhouse, Utah, it is stated, has uncovered a fine body of cop per ore on the 600 level, in virgin ground. The Adamoon-Turner mine, near Winne mucca, Nevada., recently consigned another car of high-grade ore {o the Salt Lake mar ket. The Copper Reserve Mining & Reduc tion company, of Salt Lake, has been Incor porated with a capitalization of 300,000 shares of $1 each. The officers and direc tors are A. H. Tarbet, president; S. M. Levy, vice-president; Henry T. McEwen, secretary; C. S. Burton, treasur~r, and Ray S. Bowman. It is stated that that the Bingham-New Haven Mining company, of Bingham, Utah, has contracted its oreos and concentrates to ,the International smelter at Tooele, Utah, and that the mine and mill prodU(;,t of the company will be transported to the smelter over the aerial tramway of the Utah Con· solidated company. The Nevada Hills Mining company, of Fairview, Nev., during the month of June, milled 3,450 ton,3, which averaged in value $34.48 to the ton, making a total of $115. 935.76. The net recovery was $104,551.55 and the net cost was $33,459.56, making the net profit for the month $71,102.12, or at the rate of $20.61 or each ton mllled. The Eva Mining company, of Spring ville, Utah, has been incorporated with a capiltaizrution of 1,000,000 share3 of a par value of ten cents each. Tbe officers and directors are George L. Hyde, preosident; C. A. Hyde, vice-president; John L. Whit ing, secretary and treasurer, Thomas West, M. W. Bird and Lyman Hyde. The com'Pany owns a large group of mining claims in Nebo district, Utah.
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$7,819.40. Total cost'S: $9,218.40. Net pro· fit for month, $7,734.24. Time lost, ten days. The Home Run Mining company, of Salt Lake., whose property is located in Bti'Stol district out of Pioche, Nevada, and whose sensational copper discoveries, of late, have set company stockholders wild with delight, has struck a third cave in it.:; mine work ings, concerning which Superintendent \V. H. Pitts writes as follow'S: "Have opened an immense cave branching in aa directions. It is filled to the .top with loose ore. Have hoisted twenty tons good ore today, all shoveling. We are now thirty feet below lowest 'Workings with plenty of soft ore be low 'us." The company ha.3 four teams haul· ing ore to the railroad shipping point, and has ordered 500 more ore 'Sacks. The last two shipments netted the company $50 a ton. T,hat the gold and silver camp of State line, in Iron county, Utah, has not been entirely forgot ton is evidenced by the fact that Robert Weisl3. an eXperienced Califor· nia mining man, has secured a lease and bond on the property of the Johnnie Min· ing company, at that place. Mr. \Vei'Ss was iI;! Salt Lake, last week, (Closing up the deal and making arrangements to resume work in the operation and development of the Johnnie mine, which has a production record of approximately $100,000. The high. grade in Ithe Johnnie Is of the sensational order, and furnished the material for the shipping ore .sent out by the company in the early history of the mine. The real value of the property, however, exists in its milling iJre, large volumes of which are blocked out, and in sight, gQlng rrom $10 to' $20 ,to the ton, and even higher, while the high·grade halS 'been known Ito run as high as $10,000 in gold to the ton, with silver assaying up to 2,000 ounces. The Johnnie mill is to be overhauled and, as soon :IJ3 possible, work will be inaugurated. Mr. Weiss is also interested in the Big Fourteen, now ,being worked' by R. J. Bry ant, Fred Snow, James McDonald and an other, a'Ssociate. The Big Four is equipped with a Tremaine ,mill, and occasioned runs are being made with it. Stateline is a .gold and silver Clllmp of splendid possibilitieG. It is admirably located for successful min ing and should receive more attention at the ,hands of capitalists and invesoors.
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We have cash buyers for uranium-vana· dium properties. Give location, diagram of For the month of June the Skidoo Mines claim!:!, amount of development work or op company, of Skidoo" CaLifornia, milled enings on each claim. g.tate, as near as pos· 1,186 tons of ore. Value of bullion pro Eible, the amount of ore in sight. It tests duced, $11,348.95; value of cy,ant~es pro . 'have been made give per oent of uranium duced fiNt half of June, $2,694.14; value of and vanadium oxides. Also, send four cyanides produced second half June, (est!· pound average sample. AddreSl3. J. C. Rob llUlited) $2,909.55. Total receipts, $16,952.64. erts, Kearns building, Salt Lake City, or Costs: developmeI1lt, $1,399: operation, Frank Cook, Green River, Vtah.
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E. S. Sheffield has succeeded F. R. HuH as ,guperintendent of the Empire mine at Grass Valley, California. N. L. Stewart has accepted a position with the Tacoma Smelting company at Ta coma, Washington. C. E. Green, of Tooele, Utah, one of the best electrical engineers in the west, was a recent Salt Lake visitor. Harry T. Curran now has charge of the milling plant of the Hudson Reduction com· pany at Idaho Springs, Colorado. R. W. Sampson, the well known minIng man and engineer, has returned to Salt Lake from a vi'3it to southern California. H. D. Bowman and L. D. Farnsworth, of Salt Lake City, nave formed a partnership, and wEI engage in construction engineering. Thos. L. Leggett has been appointed con· sulting engineer of the mining department of the American Smelting & Refining com pany. Charles Patrick, of Flagstaff, Arizona, re cently made an examination and report on the property of the Montezuma Mining com pany, east of F'10renoe, same state. R. C. Dugdale, of the Ft. Way.ne works. of the General Electric com;pany, is making headquarters in Salt Lake for the purpose of introducing the electric rock drill manu· factured by the Ft. WaYne company. W. R. Calvert, of Salt Lake, of the firm of Arnold, Fisher & CaJlvert, consultin~ geologi:;ts and engineers, has returned form middle and 'Southwestern \Vyoming, where he made an examination of oil lands. A. C. Campbell, of Butte, Montana, un ti! recently connected with the Anaconda Copper company, has accepted a position a!:! mechanical engineer for the Fatima Copper company, operating near 'ChilcHo, Argentina, South America. H. F. Widdecombe,so well known in Salt Lake, but who i'S nOiW general superintend· ent of the Day·Bristol Consolidated, near Pioche, Nevada, was married on the 29th ult., to the lady of his choice. The Mining Review joins with many friends in extending congratulations.
,T. W. Blankenship, Ph. D., of Berkeley, CaiIfornla, has been in Utah, of late, mak· ing a study of injury to plant life by smel ter smoke and fumes, having devised a method by w,hich it can be determined, ac curately. what the effec,ts of smoke and fume are on vegetation. Prof. Blankenship is a consulting botanist, and an expert on the subject of .smoke injury to vegetation. He has been in the employ of most of the leading smelting companies in the west, and, while here, visited the leading smelters of the state.
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Colorado. 2.400 at 21'hc, Iron Blossom, 500 at $1.25. Gold Chain, 500 at 32'hc. LiOn Hill. 2,000 at 4e. Mineral Flat, 1.000 at 1 ~c. New York, 1,500 at 'he. Opdhongo, 700 at 12('; 1,000 at 12%c. Silver King Coalition. 200 at $2.90. Silver King ConSOlidated. 200 at $1. O~ 'h. Uncle Sam. 200 at 17e. Victoria Consolidated, 10~ at 56e. Wilbert, 300 at 22('. Shares sold. 10.600. Selling value. $2.553.50. Open Bo"r,l.
Lion Hili, 1.000 at 4c. May Day. 3,000 at 15e. New York, 6.500 at 'he. Ohio Copper, 50 at 87e. Prince Consolidated. 500 at $1.52'h. Vktoria Consolidated. 100 at 57c. sixty days. Colorado. 1.200 at 21c. Shares sold. 13,850, Selling value. $1,880.
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41:\ "hart tons, valued at $43,776,715, indi catinga decrease in 1911 of 2,813,026 shnrt tons, or 9.7 per cent in quantity, and of '3,. Chino Copper , .. : .. 1 3,100' 34%i 33%134% Goldfield Con sol. ... 1 100i 3 % 3% 3% 677.968, or 8.4 per cent in value. This de Nevada Conso!. ... ' I 100\' 21 % 21 %21 % Ray Consolidated \ 1.500 20% 20%1 20%. crease was due to the resumption of mining Tennessee Copper .. , 100'\41% 41%: 41% in the Mississippi valley states, the idle Miami Copper .. " .. j 1.600 29 % 29% 29 % Utah Copper ... , .... : 700 6~ 60 % 62 Inspiration Con. ,_.,_._1~~ 9001 19~L18% , ness in which, caused by the strike in 1910, resulted In extraordinary demand on the NE'W YORK C(;RB RANGE. mine.] of most of the Rocky Mountain I S3.les. I H. I L. IClose states. Firs!: Nat'l Copper~,~I-:-:~:~-l % 1-·'1 % 110/; Giroux Consolidated.1 3001 5 1kl 51", 51,\, In Montana and North Dakota the pro· Nevada Utah ., ..... 1, ...... / ?C 2c I ?c duction in 1911 exceeded that 'Of 1910, in Ray Central ........ 1"......3 2 I 3 Yukon Gold .. · .. · .. 1 200 3%, 3%1 3%. the former by 55,3&8 short tons and in the Ohio Copper .. ,.·.,.1 200 %1 % % latter (which produced lignite exclusivelyl New Keystone ..... 'I'.' .. ·.·. 2'h1 2% 2% South Utah ...... " .... ,,·1 %, 'h % by 103,587 short tons. Both of these states Mason Valley ....... 1 3001 13%1 13%1 13~ Braden Copper ., . j 1001 6 % j 6 % I 6'% attained their maximum record of produc. Ely Consolidated .. , i 9001 7-321 7-321 7-32 tion in 1911. La Rose ... · ...... 1 1751 3%1 31141 3 1,{ Belmont . . . . " ..... I... ".. 9'hi 9% 9% In importance of produotion Colorado ,£<>nopah :,,_.~,.~:,L...J.()(l_2.'~~7'h ranked first in 1911 with an output of 10, LOCAl, METAL MARKE..'. 157,393 short tons; Wyoming second, wHh July SO. 6,744,864 short tons; and New Mexico third, $4,75; copper Silver. 60 cents; lead, with 3,148)58 short tOM. cathode, 17.40 cents. July:n. Coke is made in Colorado, New MeXico Silver. 60~ cents; lead. H.75; copper and Utah. Colorado's coal made into coke eathode. 17,40 cents. in 1911 amounted to 1,424,251 short tons, or August 1. Sllver, 59% cents; lead. $4.75; copper 14 per cent of the total output of the state, cathode. 17,40 cents. New MeXico consumed 767,108 short tons, August Z. or 25 per cent of the total production of the Silver, 60 cents; lead, $4,75; copper cathode, 17.40 cents. state, in the manufacture of coke, and Utah August 3. 381,6~6 short tons, or 15 per cent of the Sil ver. 59% cents; lead, $4. 75; copper cathode, 17.40 cents. total output. The total quantity of coal August :>. consumed in the manufacture of coke at Silver, 59% cents; lead. $4.75; copper the mines of the Rocky Mountain states cathode. 17.375 cents. Augu..t 6. ",'as 2.573,055 short ton", a little less than Silver, 60 cents~ lead, $4.75; copper 10 per cent of the total production. cathode. 17.375 C'ents. The total number of men employed in Aug.."t 7. Silver, 60 '4 cents; lend, $4.75; cop pel' -the eoal mines of the Rocky Mountain ea thode. 17.375 cents. 'States was 33.783, who worked an average August 8. of 219 days, against 34,652 men for an aver Silver. 61 cents; lead, $4.75; copper ('athode, 17.375 cents. age of 245 days in 1910. Aug..st 9. Production of coal in the Rocky Mountain Silver, 61 cents; lead. $4,;5; eopper States in 19JO and 1911, in short tons. ('athode, 17.375 cents. NEW YORK LIS'l'ED STOCKS.
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The Peerlesl3 Consolidated Mining com pany, of Spanish Fork, Utah, ,has been in ,corP'Qrated with a capitalization of UO,OOO dividend into one-cent shares, The officers and directonJ are J. M. Calderwood, p-resi dent; Silas E. Brimhall, vice-president; G. T. Judd, secretary and treasurer, John T. Seat and Peter Brems. The property of the company is located in Utah county, Utah, near the Ne.bo-Highland mine. -,--0,--
WESTERN COAL PRODUCTION,
State Quantity Value Colorado .......... 11,973,736 U7,026,934 Idaho . . ............ 4.448 17,426 Montana . . . 2 920,970 5.329,322 ~evada . . . . , .... New Mexico ...... . 3,508,321 4,877 151 399,()41 North Dakota . . .. . 595,139 Utah ............. . 2,517,809 4,224,556 Wyoming .. 7,533,088 11,706 187 28857,413
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Production of coal in the Rocky Mountain States in 1910 and 1911, in short tons Continued. 1911
The complete returns of the coal produc tion in the states of the Rocky Mountain region in 1911 have been received by E. \V. Parker, of the United States Geological Survey. The eight states included. namely, C(){)lrado, Idaho. Montana, Nevada, New Mexico. North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, produced in 1911 a total of 26,044,387 short tons, valued at $40,098,747. Altliough no coal was produced in Nevada in 1910, the output of the seven other states was 28857,
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Value State Quantity IColorad,o .. , ... 10,157,383 $14,747,764 4808 Idaho . . ........... 1,805 5,342,168 Montana , . . ...... 2,976,358 64 Nevada . . . • 16 4525,925 3,148,158 New Mexico 720,489 502,628 Notrh Dakota 4248.666 Utah . . , .......... . 2,513,175 10,508,863 6,744,864 Wyoming. < 26,044387
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(Effective June 16, 1912.) Union Station, Salt Lake City, Ctal•.
DEPART. No.7-Los Angeles Lim'ted, to Los Angeles ............. 5 :00 P.M. ~o. I-The Over:and, to Los An geles .................... 11 :50 P.M. No. 51-Miner's Local, to Tooele and Eureka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30 A.M. NO.53-Garfield Local, to Garfield and Smelter ... , ... , .... 6:50 A.M. No. 55-Tooele Special, to Garfield and Smelter. and Tooele .. 2:40 P.M. No. 57---Garfield Owl. to Garfield and Smelter ... , ........... , .11 :00 P.M. No. SI-Lynndyl Special, to Lehi. American Fork. Provo. Payson, N"phi. Lynndyl .. 4 :50 P.M. No. S3·-ValleyMail. to Provo, Ne phi. San Pete Valley and Mercur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 A.M. ARRIVE. No.8-Los Angeles Limited, from Angeles . . . . . , ......... 11;40 A.M. ~o. 2-The Overland, from Los An geles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 A.M. ~o. 52-Miner's Local, from Eureka, Silver City. Stockton, Tooele. . .......... . .. 4:50 P.M. NO.54-Garfield Local. from Gar field. Smelter ............ 8:50A.M. NO.56-Garfield Local. from Smelt er. Garfield ... . ........ 6 :00 P.1v1. No. 58-Garfield Owl. from Garfield, Smelter. Riter .......... 12:55 A.M. No. 62-Lynndyl Specia'. f.rom Lynndyl. Nephi. Provo and Intermediate Points ..... 10:05 A.M. No.64-Vailey Mail, from Nephi. Provo, Mercur .......... 6:05 P.M.
(Gazette, Reno, Nev.) Development work on the estate of the Nevad'a United Mine3 company at 'Wede kind is being carr:ed steadily forward with most encouraging re'Sults. In the company workings, the Arkell shaft, the lowest drift is in ore of shipping grade. It is a talc that carries a consider able amount of lead and zinc, as well as black silver sulphides, which ,3eem to have replaced the chlorides that were developed in the Wedekind mine to the eastward, al. though in what seems to be the same vein. It is now the intention to sink the shaft to another level and further explore the ground before doing any extensive stoping. The owners of the Shovel King, a lease on this estate, are also making ·,;ubstanlial headway. They are ~nlarging the shaft and have already timbered it to a depth of 125 feet. They have shot down a large amount of muck in doing this work and it will be about ten days before the shafl, i'S retim bered to the 200-foot mark and sinking is continued. The Shovel King people feel greatly en couraged, because the rich ore on the lowest level from the Arkell shaft is making into their block. The Bi-Metallic, better known as the Price lease, is Ghowing fine values in the talc vein, which was recently encountered. Ore in metallic form is frequently taken out. This shaft is now down 235 feet. There are several other leasers at work on tbe estate and all are getting favorable indications, which improve as depth is at· tained. ~---o--
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Founded in 1859.
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The Salt Lake Photo Supply company. 159 Main, headquarters for Kodaks, Cam· eras, Supplies and Kodak Finishing. Mall us your orders. Come and see our. new store.
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An engineer's office outfit as follows: One roll top desk and swivel chair; one 4x7 drawing board and draftman's stool; one Universal drafting machine, with straight edge and squares; one Gurley Light Mountain transit with extension tri pod and transit and level rods; one 300· foot Lal1le mining tape line; one five-sec tional bookcase and one office chair. Outfit has been slightly used, and the transit is a new one in perfect condition. Will be sold at a bargain on account of removal. Inquiries to Engineer, care Salt Lake Mining Review.
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i:FFECTIVE JUNE 16, 1912. . Daily. Arl'lve, 1... Ogden. Malad, Den ver, Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, San Francisco, Ely and intermediate pOints beyond Ogden. (Og den and intermediate points only arriving) .. 8 :15 A.M. 6 ... Ogden, Logan, Poca tello, Boise, Marys ville. In termediateMontpeller. GOing .. 10:10 P.M. VI... Ogden and 'Interme diate Points ......... 6 :55 P.M.
M'... Overland LlmitedOmaha, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis .... 3:20 P.M. M.... Los Angeles Limited --Omaha, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis .... 4:45 P.M. M... Over:and Limited Ogden, Reno, Sacra mento, San Francisco .. 2 :05 P.M. M... Ogden, Boise, Port land, Butte ., ........ 4 :50 P.M.
M... Ogden, San Francisco .. 6:55 P.M. M... Ogden, Brigham, Cache Valley, Malad and Intermediate ...• 11 :35 A.M. M... Ogden, Denver, Oma ha, Chicago, Park City, Green River and West, only, re turning) . , . . . . . . . . . 12:40 P.M. . M ... Motor Flyer--Ogden and Intermediate .... 9 :35 A.M. .1'.1.•. Yellowstone Special --Ogden, Pocatello, Idaho Falls and Yel lowstone Park (Chi cago and East and San Francisco and West, also arriving)., 7 :40 A.M. '.M.•. Ogden, Boise, Port land Butte .......•..•.10:30 A.M. Office, Hotel Utah. Tel. Ex. HI.
(Effective May 19, 1912.) Depart Dally, Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 8:00 Midvale and Bingham •..•....... 7:~5 Denver, Chicago and East ....... , 8:35 Park City .....•.................. 8:20 Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 10:35 Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 12 :40 Ogden, San Fra"cisco, Portland .. 2:45 M;dvale and Bingham ............ 2:45 Denver, Chicago and East ..•..... 5:20 Provo, Springville, Tin tic ...•.... 4 :50 Denver, Chicago and East ........ 7:00 Ogden, Portland and Seattle .....• 11:10 Arrive Dal:y. Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles 8:15 Tifitlc. Sprlngvllle, Provo ........ 10:20 1:Hngham and Midvale ............ 10:30 Denver, Chicago and East ....•... 12:25 Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 2:10 Denver, Chicago and East ........ 2 :35 Ogden, San Francisco and West .. 4 :55 Park CitY.and Intermediate Points' 5:00 Bingham and MIdvale ............ 5:30 Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 6 :30 Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 6 :;;0 Denver, Chicago and East ........ 10:55 Phone, Wasatch, 2520. Ticket office, 001 MaIn Street.
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Why do so many thousands of peo ple do business with this bank, and why is it growing so steadily and sturdily? Courtesy, central location, facili ties for handling large accounts and fol' transacting every branch of bank ing-all of these are among the many factors, but one of the most important reasons undoubtedly is the confidence inspir ed by a record of 53 years adher ence to sonnd methods.
WALKER BROS. BANKERS
Founded in 1859.
"A Tower of Strength"
SALT LAKE CITY
ACTIVITY AT WEDIKIND.
(Gazette, Reno, Nev.) Development work on the estate of the Nevada United Min€>3 company at Wede kind is being carr:ed steadily forward with most encouraging results. In the company workings, the Arkell shaft, the lowest drift is in ore of shipping grade. It is a talc that carries a consider able amount of lead and zinc, as well as black silver sulphides, which (Seem to have EDRO, LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY. replaced the chlorides that were developed in the Wedekind mine to the eastward, al· (Effective June 16, 1912.) though in what seems to be the same vein. It is now the intention to sink the shaft ,Ion Station, Salt Lake City, Utab. to another level and further explore th", DEPART. ground before doing any extensive stoping. -Los Angeles Lim'ted, to The owners of the Shovel King, a lease Los Angeles ............. 5:00 P.M. -The Over:and, to Los An on this estate, are also making ·,;ubstanlial geles .................... 11 :50 P.M. -Miner's Local, to Tooele and headway. They are enlarging the sbaft and FJureka . . . ............. 7 :30 A.M. have already timbered it to a depth of 125 -Garfield Local, to Garfield and Smelter .... ; ....... 6:50 A.M. feet. They have shot down a large amount -Tooele Special, to Garfield and Smelter, and Tooele .. 2 :40 P.M. of muck in doing this work and it will be -Garfield Owl, to Garfield and about ten days before the shaft i'S retim· Smelter ................. 11:00 P.M. -Lynndyl Special, to Lehi, bered to the 200-foot mark and sinking is American Fork, Provo, continued. Payson. Nephi, LynndyL. 4:50 P.M. -ValleyMail, to Provo, NeThe Shovel King people feel greatly en· phi, San Pete Valley and Mercur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00A.M. couraged, because the rich ore on the lowest ARRIVE. level from the Arkell shaft Is making into -Los Angeles Limited, from their block. Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:40A.M. -The Overland, from Los An The Bi·Metallic, better known as the geles . , ................. 6:30 A.M. Price lease, is ,;;howing fine values in the -Miner's Local, from Eureka, Silver City, Stockton, talc vein, which was recently encountered. Tooele· .................. 4 :50 P.M. ,-Garfield Local. from Gar Ore in metallic form is frequently taken field, Smelter ............ 8 :50A.M. out. This shaft is now down 235 feet. -Garfield Local, from Smelt er, Garfield ............. 6:00 P.M. Thef€ are 'Several other leasers at work I-Garfield Owl, from Garfield, Smelter, Riter .•........ 12 :55 A.M. on the estate and all are getting favorable 2-Lynndyl Special, from indications, which improve as depth is at· Lynndyl, Nephi, Provo and Intermedia,te Points ..... 10:05 A.M. tained. i-Valley Mail, from Nephi, Provo, Mereur .......... 6:05 P.M. Blngbam & Garfield R. R. Co. DEPART. 09-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 7:45 A.M. .l-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 3:15 P.M. ARRIVE. ;to-Bingham to Salt Lake .... 10:40 A.M. 42-Blngham to Salt Lake .... 6:10 P.M.
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