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Contents of this Issue:

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The Production of Lead in 1912*................................................. 10

Butte in 1912................................................................... 11

The Production of Copper in 1912* ................................. , ... , ..... ".. 12

Rocky Mountain Coal in 1912 .................................... ,.............. 14

Mining in Idaho in 1912'!, by Robert N. Bell...................................... 15

South Dakota in 1912............................................................ 17

Utah Metal Production-1912~................................................... 18

Arizona in 1912* ............................. , ......... , .......... , ... ,......... 19

Park City Shipments-1912 ..................................... ,.,............... 19

Nevada in 1912* .. " ... , .. " .... , ................... , ... , .............. , .... , ... , 20

California in 1912* ............. , ........... " . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 21

Idaho Metal Production in 1912 .................................................. , 22

The Lead and Zinc Industry........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23

Washington Production in 1912.................................................. 24

Tintic Production for 1912.......................... , .. , " ....... , ...... , . . . . . . . . 24

The Mills of Tonopah, .... ,...................................................... 25

Colorado Metal Production-1912 ..................,..... ......................... 26

Zinc Production in 1912.......................................................... 27

New Mexico Production in 1912 .............................. ,.................. 28

Oregon Metal Production in 1912................................................. 28

Montana Metal Production in 1912 ........... , ........ ,............... ............ 28

Tungsten Ore in 1912 ... ,....................................................... 29

Editorials ............................................ .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 30

The Prospector and His Burro, by Will C. Higgins ......... " ..... , " .. . . . . . . . ... 31

Bureau of Mines Report......................................................... 33

Gold and Sliver Mining in 1912.................................................. 34

Mine and Smelter Building .............................................. ,.......... 35

Construction Notes ............................................................. 35

With Engineers and Millmen.................................................... 36

Personal Mention ................ ··............... . .......... ,................... 36

Dips, Spurs and Angles .... ,., .. , ........ ,.,.""................................ 38

Uranium and Vanadium in 1912....... ............................................ 42

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THE PRODUCTION OF LEAD IN 1912

FROM STATISTICS COMPILED BY THE U. S. G. S.

An estimate of the production of refined lead in the United States in 1912 has been compiled by C. E. Siebenthal, of the UniLod States Geological Survey, from reports lJy all lead refineries and sof>lead smelteries in operation during the year. These re­ ports cover actual production for the 1irst ten or eleven months of the year with an estimate for the remainder of the year, and from them the figures of produc~ion are made up without change. The statistics of imports, exports, and lead remaining in warehouse have been taken from the roc­ ords of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce for eleven months, the figures for December having been estimated_ The year was marked by ~he completioa of the lead smeltery of the Internatlon::l.l Smelting & Refining company, at Tooele, Utah, and of the lead refinery of Its sub·

Of the total production, desilverized lead of domestic origin, exclusive of desilverized soft lead, is estimated at 229,765 tOllS, against 201,223 tons in 1911; and desilverizud lead of foreign origin comprised 81,6411 tons, compared to 94,143 tons in 1911. The pro­ duction of so!: lead, mainly from MississiplJi valley ores, is estimated at 169,551 tons, compared to 191,619 tons in 1911. Des;:>ite the reduced output of soft lead there is no doubt that Missouri retains flrs~ place among the lead-producing states. The final flguf(,s of production of soft lead are likely to show an increase of a few thousand tons ovor those given above, because the argentiferolis­ lead smelteries aud refiLeries undoubtedly treated more or less soft-lead ore from the Mississippi valley which is not taken intO account In their preliminary estimates. The imports of lead are estimated at·

sidiary, the International Lead Refiniug company, at East Chicago, Indiana. The smeltery started in March with two fur­ naces of 250 tons each. Two more fur· naces are under construction which will gi',e the plant a capacity of 1,200 tons. The lead refinery has a caj}llcity of 100 tons and began operation in October. The actIve competition or the new smel:ery In secur­ ing ore contracts has had a very beneficial effect on the lead-mining industry of that section. Production. The total production of refined lead, de­ silverized and soft, from domestic and for­ eign ores in 1912 was approximately 480;9G5 short tons, worth at the average New York price $43,286,850, compared to 486,976 tons in 1911 and 470,380 tons in 1910. Thebe figures do not include an estimated output of 13,384 tons of antimonial lead, agaill'!t 14,078 tons in 1911 and 14,069 tons in 1910.

10,969 short tons of lead in ore, valued at $452,650; 76,468 tons of lead in base bullion, valued at $3,452,750; and 266 tons of refiul'd lead, having a value of $20,000-a total of 87,703 tons, compared .to 89,952 tons in 1911. Of the 1912 imports, 85,000 tons, or abo'lt 97 per cent, came from Mexico. The ex­ ports of foreign lead (lead of forei&n origin smelted or refined in the United States) show a decrease of more than a third, b~­ ing estimated at 65,253 tons, ,against 101,227 tons in 1911. The imports of type metal (antimonial lead) were 757,375 pounds, '~un· taining 485,596 pounds of lead and valuetl. at $18,516, ~ompared w'lth 8,390,470 pounds in 1911, containing 6,936,711 pounds of lead and worth $310,658. These imports of type metal are withdrawn from bond and ,there­ fore should not be added to the general imports of lead given above, as that wOllld involve duplication. The amount of lead available for eon-

sumption during 1912 may be estimated by adding to the stock of foreign lead in bonded warehouses at the beginning of Hie year (4,481 short tons) the imports (87,703 tons), and the domestic .production (399,316 tons), making an apparent supply of 491,50(l tons. From this is to be subtracted tl!c foreign lead exported from warehom;e (65,253 tons), the forei'gn lead exported in manufactures under drawback (estimated at 9,848 tons), the deduction by liquidation (5,814 tons), and the stock in bonded wa,e· houses at the close of the year (assum.o.a to be the ·same as at the close of November, 9,497 tons), leaving as available for con­ sumption 401,088 tons, which by compari­ son wi~h 399,472 tons in 1911, 376,021 wns in 1910, and 370,013 tons in 1909 seems to be a normal figure. The foreign leadi remaining in ware·

Pioche Mountain Showlna: Famous Old Mines.

house at the close of November, 1912, was distributed principally as follows: At Chi· cago, 161 short tons, compared with 477 tons at the ~lose of 1911; at Newark, 5!11/ tons, against 1,389 tons at the end of 1911; at Perth Amboy, 8,353 tons in 1912 aad 1,154 tons in 1911; and at El Paso, 343 tons, compared with 1,278 tons at the close of the preceding year. Prices. Lead began the year at New York with a price of 4.475 cents a pound and held ~i1is figure through January. A sharp declillo brought the lowest price of the year by the middle of February, with lead at 4.05 cents a pound. A long rise, with one considerable depreSSion in August, brought the price to 5,1 cents by the middle of September. Here the price remained practically stationary until the close of October, after which a sharp decline carried the price down to 4.35 cents, at about which it closed the yea,!'.

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The average New York price for the year was again 4.5 cents a pound, as it was in 1911. The London price of lead started a: £ 15 12s. 6d. a long ton, (3.375 cents a pound) and rose very little above that figure for the first five months, after which a steady rise culminated early in September in a prIce of £23 a long ton (4.97 cents a pound), tbe highest price reached in over thirty years. At this time the New York price of lead was 5.1 cents a pound. A sharp dec!ine through two months was followed by 3ta· tionary prices, the year closing with ledd /<1'; about £ 18 2s. 6d a ton (3.92 cents a pound). The average London price of lead for 1912 was £ 17 18s. 10d. a long ton (3.88 cents a pound).

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Much experimenting has been done at th'l Washoe plant on the recovery from slimes and tailings. The slimes have bee?:! settled in ponds for some time. dredged and 'briquetted, and charged to the blast fur· naces. The handlin'g is automatic through­ out. One section of the concentrating plant has been equipped with Hancock jigs. seven of which replace forty of the old type. The remaining seven sections will prob· ably be remodeled during the year. We have commented upon the large converters in use at the Great Falls plant. The Ana· conda will soon install these large con· verters which have a capacity fourfold that of the small barrel type now in use. Silic­ eous lining has been displaced by basi:c lin· ing at 'both plants. --~-o----

ACTIVITIES NEAR NIPTON.

The total output of the Anaconda Cop. per Mining company, which is by far the largest producer in the Butte, Montana, dis­ trict, is estimated as 322,000,000 pounds for the year 1912, which is the largest pr£). duction in the history of the camp. In 1911 the company produced 272,000,000 pounds. The production of the North Butte and Tuolumne companies are included iiI this estimate, inasmuch as their ores are treated at the Anaconda plants. North Butte may be credited wi'h about 26,000,000 pounds of this and Tuolumne with 8,000,000. The East Butte company produced in the neighborhood of 14,000,000 pounds. and over 360,000 ounces of silver and nearly 17,000 ounces of gold, The Anaconda did considerable shaH sinking dUring the year. The shafts on the 'Vest Colusa, Pennsylvania. Leonard. Mountain Con. Moonlight and Stewart were each deepened 200 feet, those on the Berke· ley, Tramway and Belmont, 400 feet each, and that on the West Gray Rock, 300 feet, a total of 3,000 feet. One hundred feet of the proposed 300 feet of additional depth at the St. Lawrence has been ,accomplished. The total develoll' ment work done by this one company for the year is estimated to total about thirty miles. More of the shafts have been equipped with air hoisting, from power generated on the Missouri river, electrically. This system of .hoisting was fully described in the columns of the Review of September 15th. The shafts which were equipped dur­ in'g the year were the Mountain View, West Gray Rock, Pennsylvania, Leonard. Tram· way. High Ore and Diamond. The Gagnon and Original are closed pending the com· pletion of similar installations. Those re­ maining to be equipped are the Mountain Con, Steward and West Colusa. About 12.000 men are employed by the company in its varied operations, and the monthly payroll aggregates nearly a mU· lion and a half.

The little station of Nipton. on the Salt Lake route, just over the line in Califor· nia, is showing evidence of an awakening, says the Las Vegas. Nevada, Age. Each day marks the arrival of several parties bound for this mining section. It is reported that the D. J. Callahan property, a short distance to the east of Nipton, has been sold to Salt Lake parties. This property is located at the western base of McCullough mountain in the Cres· cent district and attracted considerable at· tention about a year ago because of an important strike made there 'by Mr. CalJa· han. Within the past two months the Calla.· han property received a very thorough ex· amination at the hands of Mr. Jos. Bromley and associates of the Nevada Eagle Min­ ing company, a Philadelphia company own· ing property in Eldorado canyon. The reo suit of this examination was very gratify. ing, disclosing val ues in excess of any assay returns se'cured by Mr. Callahan him· self. But for the dissenting vote of one man the property would have been taken over by Mr. Bromley and associates. Mr. Miller of the Miller Mining com· pany, havin'g property at Crescent, has re­ turned from his home in Missouri. Just what he intends to do is not known. There is considerable activity over in the Clark mountain district, some twenty­ one miles west of Nipton, In San Bernardino county. The Colliseum is about to be equip· ped with reducti.on machinery. On this prop· erty there is a large amount of ore, but the grade is such as to necessitate its treatment on the ground. T. J. Fitzpatrick has fine zinc ore in sev­ eral places on his Uncompahgre property, and is :shipping steadily by the way of Ivan· pah on the Santa Fe route. John H. Williams. owning a tungsten property in the same vicinity, is reported to be preparing to ins~al1 machinery On his property.

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DEVELOPMENTS AT THE DALY.

Active operations have been pursued at the Daly mine. at Park City, Utah, since last August.· Development work has been pushed in the Back vein, which vein was described in our last issue in an article on Park City. The Daly has done litt:o development on this vein, but some time ago started a raise on the SOO-foot level, about the middle of the claim. Fifteen feet above the level, ore was struck, averag­ ing, for a width of one to three feet, forty ounces in silver and forty per cent lead. This ore continues to the top of the raise, 140 feet above the level. Stopes will be opened on this vein Qn the 1,000-foot level. and 'blanket deposits will be sought where the vein cuts the Park City formation, Or lime. A raise has also been put up to explore the contac: of the Ontario qUartzite and the lime. This raise is following a small rich streak, which is not commercial ore. Even without the ore production which seems destined to come, the Daly has a con­ siderable income from other sources. Tho company has a large interest in the On· tario or No. 2 drain tunnel, and three·sev­ enths of No. 1 transportation tunnel. Th3 Daly West and Daly Judge pay $21,000 yearly for the drainage, and the Daly West pays toll for transportation. The company also owns one·half of the Park City Light & Power company, and with the Ontario anu Daly West controls valuable sources of water supply. It owns besides nearly a half in'erest in the Webber Coal company, owning 1,100 acres of coal land at Coal­ ville. From these sources the Daly has a re'y­ enue of $30,000 a year, equivalent to seven per cent on a share quotation of three dol­ lars. ---~o----

DALY WEST DIVIDEND.

The Daly 'Vest Mining company, of Park City, Utah, has posted a dividend of fifteen cents a share, payable on January 15th, to stockholdel's of record on January 6th. The paymen~ will amount to $27,000 and brings the total dividend disburselll1ents of this company to the handsome total of $6,606.000. Dividend payments were begun in 1988, and have continued each year with the excep­ tion of 1908. The largest disbursemed was in 1903, when $1,332,000 was paid. Most of the ore is of second class, being mined between the 1,700 and 2.000 foot levels. -------o------~

The plants of the American Smelting & Refining com'Pany in Colorado treated, in 1912, 658,226 dry tons of ore of a total value of $21.162,491, the values of gold, silver and lead ran'ging between six and seven million dollars each, while a little over a. miUlotl dollars worth of copper was produced,

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PROM STATISTICS COMLPIED BY THE U. S. G. S.

Statistics and estimates received by the Uni:ed States Geological Survey from all plants known to prodUce blister copper from domestic ores and from all Lake mines indi, cate that the copper output of the Uni:l3d States in 1912 exceeds that of any previous year in thehis:ory of the industry. Not only is the total output the largest ever re­ corded, but six of the large copper-produc­ ing states-Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Ne· vada, New Mexico, and Alaska-have each exceeded all former records of productiool,

pound the 1912 output has a value of nearly $200,000,000, against $137,154,092 for the 1911 output. Preliminary statistics showing the out· put of refined copper are not collected by the geological survey. Figures published 0.1' the Copper Producers' Association show an output of 1,429,147,150 pounds for the fil'l1t eleven months of 1911 and indicate that the produC::ion of marketable copper by the regular refinin'g plants from all sources, domestic and foreign, will amount to about

Estimates based on figures for the first eleven months published by the Bureau of Statistics and also by the Copper Producers' Association indicate that the exports of cop­ per for 1912 will not equal those of 1911 but may exceed 750,000,000 pounds. Stocks of refined copper held in the United States January 1, 1913, are probably about the same as on January 1, 1912. For, eign stocks show a considerable decrease. Statistics published by the Copper PrJ­ ducers' Association show the domestic de-

Panoramic View Showing the Holdings of the Ray Consolidated C'oppel" Company at Ray, Arizona.

while Montana and Tennessee have nearly equaled their previous record productions. The figures showing smelter production from domestic ores, which have been col­ lected by B. S. Butler, of the geological survey, represent the actual production of most of the companies for eleven mon;;ils and an estimate of the December output; The Novem,ber figures for a few companies were not available and these companies fur­ nished estimates for the last two months of the year. According to the statistics and estimates received, the outpu+. of blister :ll,d lake copper was 1.249,000,000 pounds in 1912, against 1.097,232.749 pounds in 1911. At an average price of about 16 cents a

1.560,0()0.000 pounds for' 1912, 'against 1,433, 875,026 pounds in 1911. According to the Bureau of Statistics 1m· ports of pigs. bars, ingots, plates, and old copper for the first elev~m months amounted to 276,508,505 pounds, and the copper C011­ tent of ore, matte, and. regulus import('d amounted to 94,486,041 pounds. If the im· ports for December were equal to the aver­ age monthly imports for the first eleven months the amount of copper entering tj.e United States for the year was about 40,1, 721,323 pounds, against 334,607,538 pouuds for 1911. Considerable of the copper im­ ported as blister had been previously ex­ ported as ore.

Much of this has been Extensively Prosp.lcted.

llveries for the first eleven months of t!J.e year as 761,174,225 pounds and indicate a marked increase In domestic consumptioll, which will probably reach .825,000,0(10 pounds for the year and may exceed that amount. The average quoted p-rice of electrolytic copper for the year showed a marked in· crease over that for 1911. The average for 1912 was about 16 cents a pound as com· pared with 12.5 cents a pound for 1911, The year opened with copper at about 14 cents a pound, but since June the monthly average has not been below 17 cents, Leading Copper-Producing States. For 1912 Arizona again h{)lds first place

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:tny was blown in early in the year and perated thereafter. The output of the dis­ 'lct will probably reach nearly 15,000,000 ounds. The Ely district will show a slight lcrease over the 64,900,000 pounds pr')­ uced in 1911, though produc:lon was in­ ,rfered with by labor troubles in the latter art of the year. The production of copper in CaIiforn!a 1 1912 wilJ probably show little change from ~e 35,835,000 pounds produced in 1911. As 1 previous years the Shasta County district las the largest producer, but notable COll· ributions were made also by .the Foothills istrict and other districts of the state. The output of copper from New Me::tieo n 1912 will show a large increase over t}:tat 'f 1911, owing to the beginning of note· ~orthy production by the Chino Copper ompany, of the San:a Rita district. The otal production of the state will -reach learly 30,000,000 pounds, the larger pa..· t oming from the Santa Rita district. Alaska will show a large increase in +,he ,roductlon of copper in 1912 over the 2:<',­ 14,000 pounds produced in 1911, the total aving been estimated as 28,940,000 pounds. 'he output came largely from the Copper liver and PrinCe William Sound districts, bough southeastern Alaska also contrl· outed. Tennessee will show but little change n copper production in 191Z from the 8,965,000 pounds produced in 1911. The utput,as in previous years, came from the luck town district. The ou:'put of copper from Colorado is ugely incidental to the production of other letals and will probably show no great hange in 1912 from the 9,791,000 pounds roduced in 1911. Idaho will show a considerable increase 1 copper output in 1912 over the 4,514,!.16 ounds produced in 1911. Outlook for 1912.

There will be no new large producing lines added during 1913. Several of those lat began prodUction in 1911 and 1912 wili, owever, turn out larger quantities than in 912. At the prices for copper prevalJin~ uring the latter part of 1912 the industry ; highly prOfitable, and if the output can e marketed and the price maintained the roducers wlIl be in a position to make a till further large increase in 1913. -~---o--­

Three shifts are being worked at the 'lint mines, at Flin~, Idaho, of which J. M. [organ is general manager. Twenty-five len are employed, in driving a tunnel to mnect with the old shaft. The recentlY Istalled machinery is 'giving satisfaction, nd the old mill is being remodeled. During Ie year there have been built a -transform'lr uilding, compressor building, blacksmith lOP, timber shed, change room, assay Gf. ce, boarding and bunk house, and superin· mdent's residence.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN COAL-1912

Returns of the production of coal fro~l the Rocky Mountain districts to the Unit;l'd States Geological Survey indicate that, takl'n as a whole, the year 1912 may be classed us fair. Cold weather in the first three mon:hs of the year was of material benefit in ('x· hausting winters~ocks, but with the advent of warm weather the demand, not only for domestic use, but for railroads and other commercial purposes, fell off sharply. Dull­ ness was the chief feature until September, when the bountiful crops and general pros· perity created an improved condition in the coal trade, although prices did not advance as rapidly as operators desired nor reach~­ the level obtained in 1911. The states in this region are not important factors in the iron trade, and the revival in that in­ dustry was not so pronounced in its effect upon coal mining in the western states as it was east of the Mississippi river. The same deficienCies in labor and car supply that influenced production in the east were .the cause of complaint !n Colorado. A tele­ graphic communication from Mr. G. F. Bartlett, of Denver,states that reports to the state mine inspector show 'a produc· tion of 9,790,464 tons for 11 months. Es~l· mating the output for December. at 1,152,680 tons, the total production for the year is placed af 10,943,153 tons, or about 800,000 tons over 1911. In New Mexico the car supply was generally good, but the labor supply was possibly 15 to 20 per cent short, many of the miners having left for the Balkan war. In Montana, on the contrary, the high scale of wages appears to have attracted labor to the coal mines, and there was a plentiful supply. Nor were the Mon· tana mines seriously hampered by protract· ed car shortage. The constantly increasing development of hydro-electric plants in Mon­ tana is curtailing steam consumption, 'but the influx of settlers and general agricul­ tural prosperity in the states and in oth!;lr states in the northwest to which Montana coal is shipped have increased the consump­ tion of coal for domestic purposes. No com· ments on the situation in Wyoming hav(' been received, but as that state has shared in the prevailing improvement, the produc­ tion of coal in 1912 is expected to show RS high a figure as that of the record made in 1910. In Utah the revival of the iron trade has not exerted any influence on coal pro­ duction. The metalliferous mines and in­ dustries generally throughout the sta.te, have, however, been prOSperous, and not­ withstanding the increase of oil consump· tion in some of the territory reached by Utah coal-more particularly California and

western Nevada-the consumption of coal from Utah mines has increased. The acteal tonnage of some of the larger mines for 11 months and estimates for December imli· cate that Utah's production will show un increase of 15 to 20 per cent over 1911. The car ,supply during the last half of the ye'lr has not been all that could be desired, but it was not worse than for several years past. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad, over which most of Utah's coal producr is shipped, is making extensive improvements and adding materially to its car -supply, so that It is believed that there will be no complaint about shor~ge of car supply OT other Inadequate railway facilities in the immediate futUre. The labor supply has been reduced by the return of many min'3 workers to their European homes because of the Balkan war, but even aside from that the supply has been less than for the hst three or four years. The markets suppIi8d from Utah coal mines during the past year have been extended rather than restricted, shipments of Utah coal to California and the northwestern s~ates having had a healthy increase. The demand for coke bas been good throughout the year, owing to file prosperity of the mining and smelting in­ dustries, especially copper During the lar3t half of the year there was difftcul';y in securing a sufficient supply of coke cars, :-Iud the coke business has suffered more thSln the coal, in consequence. The dominating factor in the coat' pro­ duction of the Pacific coast states is still the heavy production of California pe~rol­ eum which Is used for steam fuel to the almost entire exclusion of coal. The pro· duction of coal in Washington in 1912 will possibly show a slight Increase for domes· tic purposes over the output in 1911. In California and Oregon the production of coal is negligible. The consumption of Califor­ nia oil for fuel purposes in 1912 was 11j1­ proxima~ely 57,000,000 barrels, or more th
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Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Feb­ ruary 19 to 21, inclusive, have been selected as the dates for the second annual north· west mining {!{)nvention, to l>e held in Spo­ kane, Washington. Invitations will be sent to the American Institute of Mining Engi· neers, the electrical and chemical engineers' organizations, the societies of civil and me­ chanical engineers and others. Negotia­ tions looking toward reduced railroad rates will at onCe be taken up. The Pacific north· western states and the western Canadian provinces constitute the territory to be rep· resented in the convention.

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By ROBERT N. BELL

The mining industry of Idaho has en­ joyed a very prosperous year, and has maue a record breaking production of mineral,

history of lead-silver ore production. For while two of its most famous old producers, ,the Last Chance and the Standard Mam­

nels during the past year; this is true of the Wardner-Kellogg, Mullan, and the Canyon creek di,,:ricts, while the Nine Mile section, an unimportant proaucer fOr a number of years, has recently brought ill two new mines, both of which are being equipped with milling facilities with a max­ imum capacity of 800 tons per day, antI before the close of another season, are likely to be producing at that rate wi,h 1'e­ sources of rich concentrating ore to draw upon that will last for years. At the extreme norch end of the state, within three miles of the British line, in Bonner county, the Idaho-Continental mille is now being equipped with a conc-entrating mill of 300 tons daily capacity and has been made accessible with a broad gauge wagon road on a maximum grade of 4 pu cent which can be readily transformed in:o a light railroad grade and will afford an­ other important source of high ·grade lead concentrates before the close of another year, as this property is exceptionally well developed and has a large r-eserve of high concentrating and crude ore in sight.

The Morning Mill and Ooncentrator. Mullan, Ihaha

outclassing that of any previous year in the history of the state. The gross me~al contents of all the min­ erals shipped and of 'bulpon produced dur­ ing the past year, a-ggregate a grand totl1.1 value of $23,500,000 credited to the different metals as follows: Lead, 323,877,400 pounds; silver, 8,576,620 ounces; gold, 75,0')0 ounces; copper, 7,784,000 pounds; zinc, 16,417,080 pounds. These results demonstrate the wonder­ ful vitality of our ore deposits, whi<)h, under the stlmula~ion of good market values, for the metals are able to stand extra demand on their resources. This Is especially true of our lead ore deposits and If the present market prices for lead continues to prevail, the lead out­ put of Idaho will continue ,to increase in the future, as the year just closed has seen the discovery and development to a prod'!\!, ing stage of a number of important new sources of this useful metal, and as Idaho's lead ores invariably carry important asso­ ciated silver values, our silver output will increase in sympathy with the baser metal. Production of Coeur d'Alene. The Coeur d'Alene district in SJ1oshone county continues to maintain its promi­ nence and has a brilliant future before it not excelled at any period of its remarkable "'State Mine Inspector of Idaho, in Boise

moth mines are nearing exhaustion, they are being replaced by new Ore channels in other properties that will more than

Another important source of lead ore may be an:icipated in the near future from the Lawrence mine at Clarks Fork, in Bon­ ner county, a short distance north of the ,Coeurd'Alenes. This property is being equipped with a 50-ton mill now nearing completion, It has a series of parallel fis-

The Mammoth and Standard Mills, Wallace. Idaho

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feet, showing a fine reserve of clean min· eral, while the most important resource of the property still rema:ins to be developed. Central Eastern Properties. In the central eastern part of the state, in Lemhi county, the mines of the Gilmor.e district have made a splendid output of lead silver mineral throughout the year, with increased resources as development progresses and continued evidence of th€ ultimate establishment of a very important .1ead-silver producing district it this point: The Wilbert mine, On Little Lost river, in Blaine county, was equipped with a new mill of 100 tons daily capacity, whic~ was gotten into commission early last spring, 'but has not given the best satisfaction in operating resuits so far by reason of the rather difficult nature of the ore, which, 'while, very clean and free from other ob· jectionable minerals, contains an extremely fine-grained lead sulphide and carbonate which is very hard to separate from the gangue. Several important improvemellts have recently been' made in the milling mao chinery, and it is believed hy the manage­ ment that a much better saving will be made from now on. The Wilbert mine has continued under development throughout the year with very satisfactory results, demon­ strating a much 'gl'eater lineal extent of the ore deposit than was at first thought prob· able; and _with the milling difficUlties straightened out, the property should be­ come. a prOfitable producer in the 'future if lead prices .are maintained. Production of Zinc. The .ziJ:lc" production in Idaho during the past· year. was· largely -obtained from two mines in the Coeur d'Alenes, the Succe::ls mine -aCN.ine Mile di8~rict, whieh is chiefly worked for zinc with a milling capacity of 300 tons per day on a large deposit with a year's ore broken ahead, and from the Morning mine as a 'by-product from slimcs treated in a Macquisten tube plant of large capaeity which is giving eminent satisfac­ tion and a clean product. There are also several ,smaller producers of zinc in the Coeur d'Alenes, especially on the north side in the Prichard forma­ tion, where a separation is made by ordin­ ary concentration methods of lead zinc ores. The output from this direction will be ma­ terially increased another year by some new milling facilities now being installed. At the opposite end of the Coeur d'Alene district, on Pine creek, a. tributary of the sC?uth fork of the Coeur d'Alene river, the Surprise Highland Chief mine shipped twelve cars of zinc ore, has a 100-ton miH and has a large reserve of zinc lead ore in sight and under development which should make greatly increased yield another year_ Pine creek district has several o~her promising sources of zinc mineral flhow­ ings with lead-silver values which are at­ tracting considerable attention at this time and are likely to result in a. further in­

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creased yield of this useful- mineral -in the near future. The Wood.riy,er district shipI?ed_a jew cars of zinc ores from leasing proposi­ '~ions. The· Little 'Smoky section of the Wood river country.has a number of attrae­ tive dep.osits .of zinc':-bearing silver lead ores, which should attract attention from inves­ tors another year by ·reason of-the· fact that! they carry high associated values in 'g.old, silver and lead, and are of a desirable char­ acter for easy concentration and separa­ tion, and have been made much mote acces­ sible for transP.ortation during the past year by the c,~npletion of the Camas Prairie branch of the Oregon Short Line railroad to Soldier, which cuts the wagon road haul distance formerly involved to these prop-

'convertor lining by reaSOn of,th€ir high ,silica contents. ,...The. s,!lphlde or!lS of this property are now being ,treated by concentration, and while ratherdiffic?~t of separaJion, owing to the extrem€ly hard gangue and finely dis­ seminated soft 'minerals, considerable progress has b€en made in their treatment 'and" a saving of sixty p'er ce'nt" of their ,values has been made, giving a product that runs about 'twenty-five per cent coppel' and twenty-seven ounces silver per ton. The Snowstorm has paid over a million dollars in dividends and has been the only important copper producer in the Coeur d'Alene district to date. A' recent discovery, however, on the National mine, a mile and a half west cf

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erties in two, and will grea':ly reduce the transportation cost on that account. Idaho has several other imp.ortant zinc­ bearing districts, notably at Resort, in Idaho county, and at South Moun'~ain, in Owyhee county, which, however, will have to wait for better railroad facilities to become available. Copper Output of the State. The copper production of Idaho this year is mostly derived from two mines, the Snows:orm mine in the Coeur d'Alenes, and the White Knob mine in Custer county, The Snowstorm mine is an' interesting deposit of disseminated carbonate and sul­ phide copper ores in hard quartzite, It is situat~dat the east end of the most pro­ ductive of the lead silver-b€aring zones and within three miles of it the Snowstorm ore occurs in bodies up to fifty feet thick and carries about three per cent copper and five ounces silver per ton. The oxidized ores have been shipped and used for

the Snowstorm, in the same formation, which was made at a depth of 1,700 feet through a crosscut tunnel nearly a mile long, promises to equal and probably excel the Snowstorm as a resource of copper­ silver ore when fUl"~her develop.ed. This is a brand new strike, less than a month old, and gives eminent evidence of per­ manency and opens up a flattering prospect of the further development of the interven­ ing territory. The White Knob mine at Mackay, owntd by the Empire Copper company, has been steadily operated throughout the year with. a large force of men, divided into small leaSing parties, who have made a splendid output of mineral, amounting to a small trainload per week of about six per cent copper, which has important associated values in gold and silver. This mineral ii! shipped to the Salt Lake valley smelteries under a favorable rate, and has made money for bo~h the lessees and the owners of the

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this production being about four and one· balf per cent greater than that of 1911. The increase was probably due to increased shipments of lead ores mined in the Tintic district and from lead concentrates produced in the Park City region. The copper production of 1912, amount­ ing to nearly 150,000,000 pounds, was an increase of about two per cent over the out· put of 1911. 'Ihe increase .is credited chiefly to the Bingham district. Tbe lead output, aggregating about 140, ('i'Hi. ,,1'0\'" rile \Jrod\~C't;()l! OOO,OOD pounds in 1912, was two and one·half I" :il'. 'per cent greater than the output of 1911. (lH:r ~:,~.il"i.'."'i", The increase is partly accounted fv, by the S~,IIi!i' fact that more lead ore w,as shipped from T Ii.' Tintic and more lead concentrates from Park City than in the previous year. The prodUction of zinc, figured as spel· ter, amounted to about 15,500,000 pounds and is about 13 per cent less than the fig· II, t·' lll' ( \ if' !I t I ( l Jl j 1 ures report3d in 1911. This decrease is duo/) i iii i,'" largely to !1, falling off in shipments or blende concentrates from Park City. The new producers of zinc ore in the Tintic district were the May Dety, Uncle Sam, Go­ diva, Gemini, Lower Mammoth, Yankee, Ridge and Valley, East Tintic Development, and New Bullion. Dividends amounting to nearly $9,500,OJO

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American Flag ..................... 49

Anderson, Chris .................... 64

Barry-Coxie. . ..'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Beggs, E. J ................. " .. ',.. 403

Daley, Frank .. ', .. '................. 289

Daly •.............................,.. 22

Daly.Judge . . ...................... 24,316

Daly-West , . . ...... ,., ............. 27,481

Gebhart . . .....,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Grasselli Chemical Co. . ............ . 3,694

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Lorre, C............................ . Little Bell Consolidated .. ' .......... . 406

373

]I.~oore, Charles MeKenzie . . ....•..... "............. . 30

New York Bonanza ................ 870

Ontario Silver ...................... 72

Ontario leasers .................... 1,518

Park City sampler .................. 42

Silver King Coalition ............... 32,726

Silver King Consolidated ............ 32

Thompson-Quincy • ................. 23

Utah Ore company ......'. . . . . . . . . . 26

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NEVADA :he tDtal metal yield frDm ores mined fevada during 1912, accDrding to. j}rellm­ Y figures by V. C. Heikes, Df the United es GeDIDgical Survey, was valued at 'ly $36,5'00,000, which is a little over n per cent -greater than the value fQr 'he gQld Qutput fQrms the largest part, n~ per cent. Qf the tQtal value; cQllper

ly 34 ¥.! per cent, silver slightly in ex­ Qf twenty-three per cent, and lead and each Qver two. per cent. The Goldfield s prQduced mDre Dre but less gDld in and this, with decreased Dutput frQm NatiQnal and Seven TrQughs districts, the principal cause Df a decrease in gQld prDduction Df abDut twentY-five ~ent frDm the yield o.f $18,193,397 in The mill at the NatiDnal mine was m early in September, and wDrk was ed at Seven TrDughs by damage fro.m ,udburst in July. The GQldfield Con­ Lted, accQrding to. published reports. prDducing abDut 30,000 tQns Df Qre a il, but the recovery fro.m Dre treated ased frDm $25.08 a ton in January to. : in September. The Manhattan and :l MQuntain distdcts and mines in the iew district Increased. their gQld yield .2. 'The Aurora and Rexall districts and ew district Df RDchester, in HumbDldt y, are expected to. add to. the future output_ The Nevada gDld Qutput fDr is estima.ted .at abQut $13,500,000. .eTe has been 'a steady increase in the J silver Dutput Qf Nevada since 1901. prDductiQn began at the TDnDpah In 1912 the pro.ducers of TQnQpah Ised the yield of Qre frDm abDut 8,000 to. nearly 12,()OO tDns weekly, but the se silver content per tQll decreased. new TDnDpah-BelmQnt mill at the began
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West End mine and Qperated the last half Qf the year. A new 10-stamp mill at the McNamara mine had its initial run in Janu­ ary. The estimated five per cent increase in the silver output Df Nevada, frQm 13.­ 184,601 Dunces in 1911 to. abQut 13,840,000 Qunces in 1912 was due to. lead Qre ship­ ments frDm Pio.che, in LincQln cDunty. There was much activity in the CQmstQck

district Qf StQrey CDunty. The YellQw Jack­ et and Mexican mills were Dperated the en­ tire year, and a new
It is reported that cQnverters fQr the pro.­

ductiQn Qf bUster co.Pper will be built in 1913 at ThQmj}so.n. The Nevada CQnsQli­ 1iated mines at Ely llrQduced daily frQm 10,1l00 to. 14,000 tQns of IQw-grade cQPper ore, which was cQncentrated and then smelted at the Steptoe smeltery at McGill. One unit Qf the Nevada CQnSQlidated CQn­ centratQr was devQted to. the daily treat­ ment Qf abQut 1.000 tQns Qf Giroux copper o.reS. The labQr strikes Qf twenty-six days curtailed prQductiQn to. some extent at these mines. Mines in the Pioche district Qf LincQln cQunty and the YellQw Pine district of Clark cQunty furnished the largest part Qf the lead pro.ductiQn which, is estimated to. have Increased frQm 3,263,657 PQunds in 'ljlll to. nearly 19,000.000 PQunds In 1912. The adjustment of IItigatiQn at PiDche re­ sulted in increased Dre prQduction in that camp, along with the ,completiDn Df a rail­ road spur to. the BulIiDnville tailing dump, which furnished frDm twelve to. fifteen cars daily. About 300 tons Df iron-manganese ore, containing small quantities Df lead and silver, was shipped daily from the Prince mines, and 100 tons frDm the flay-Bristol mines. The mines of the YellQw Pine dis­ trict prQduced an increased quantity of lead Dre and concentrates, the largest yield, in the history of the district. All records of zinc prDductiDn in Nevada were brQken by the output of the Yellow Pine district in 1912, when nearly 12,0()O,OOO pDunds of zinc (figured as spelter) was pro.­ duced. This is an increase o.f abDut 233 per cent Dver the production o.f 1911 when only 3,548,032 pDunds of spelter was reported. The chief producer was +he YellDw Pine mine, which is equipped with the only con-

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377,518 PQunds in 1911, to. abDut 79,000,000 PQunds in 1912, is due to. the new smelt­ ery which started Dperations early in 1912, at ThQmpSDn Dn copp-ar Dres prQduced chiefly frDm the MasQn Valley and Nevada DQug. las prDperties, in the YeringtDn district. High-grade copper matte was shipped frDm

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centratDr in the district. The PQtosi and Qthers also. cQntributed. Nevada mines prDduced a greater tQn­ nage Df gQld, silver,CDPper, lead, and zinc ore in 1912, but it was prQbably nQt over Qne per cent greater than the Dutput o.f 1911, which aggregated 4,132,721 to.ns.

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CALIFORNIA California shows an increase in output of both gold and silver in 1912 compared with 1911, according to preliminary figures by Charles G. Yale, of the United States Geological Survey, The difference is not very marked but is sufficient to show that the precious-metal output of the state is advandng somewhat. California retains first rank in gold output, regained from Colorado in 1911. The mine figures of the survey for 1911 were gold valued, at $19,. 738,908 and 1,270,445 ounces of silver, while estimates for 1912 indicate an output of gold valued at $19.950,000 and 1,270,000 ounces of silver. Moreover, it is highly probable that when complete detailed re­ turns are available, the 1912 figures will be somewhat enhanced. The latest available complete statistics show that there are 1,181 producing mines in California, of which 596 are deep mines and 585 placers, including dredge, hydraulic, drift, and surface daims. Dredge mining seems to be the only form of placer work which is showing any marked advance, the yield from the other placers being either at a standstill or showing a decline. The reasons fOr these conditions are that the or­ dinary surface and shallow claims are grad­ ually being exhausted; the laws are unfa­ vorable to the prosecution of large hydraulic mining enterprises, except in a few coun­ ties; and abundant capital is necessary for opening drift mines, and this is not readily available where so long a time may elapse before a profitable channel is reached. Dredge-mining operations require even larger ,initial investments than hydraulic or drift mIllIng, but the profits are likely to be larger and quicker, while the advance borings in the shalJow ground insure reasonable certainty in operations and results. The dredges of the state are now 'producing over eighty-five per cent of the placer gold and about thirty-nine per cent of the total gold yield from all sources. A few new dredges were added in 1912 in the larger dredging fields and these are of the heaviest type and largest capa-city. Some of the smaller and older dredges ceased operations during the year, either through working ()ut their ground or being unprofitable. 'By far the largest proportion of the gold yield from this source continues tc come from the extensive fields near Oro­ ville, Marysville, and Folsom. Several new dredges have recently been in operation in Calaveras ,county and at other isolated points. Toward the end of the year drift­ ing operations were commenced on some of the very large hydraulic mines near Re­ lief Hill, Nevada county, which have been virtually abaudon€jd fcr many years. It is

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now hoped to make the channels pay by the drifting methods where the laws will not permit hydraul1cing. In deep-mining operations between 2,­ 700,000 and 2,800,000 tons of ore is annu­ ally produced in California. By far the larger proportion of this ore. is derived from the deep gold mines, espeCially from the extensive operations in the Mother Lode region. The output of siliceous ore in the state has inereased to some extent and this usually averages in value from $4.65 to $5.25 a ton in gold and silver. 80 far as Can be ascertained at this time there were only thirteen new stamp mills added in California in 1912, all small ones, having a combined capacity of 163 stamps.

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prOfitable. If these efforts meet with suc cess still other old mines will be reopened A rather discouraging feature of thE year in this connection, however, is the fac that injunction proceedings have been com menced by farmers in the Sacramento val ley against all the prominent quar~z~minin! companies in Amador county, to compel thE quartz-mine owners to impound their tail ings by any suitable means, in the sam! manner that the hydraulic miners must im pound their debris or tailings_ The objecl is to keep the mountain and foothill stream, clear and prevent the tailings from even tually reaching streams and rivers lowel down in the valley. The main complaint at present appears to be against the "slaty' material carried in suspension and the ac cumUlation of slimes in the sluggish valle) watercourses. This movement has been im pending for Some years and especially sinCE the 6pNation of very large mills on lVlothel

Underground Scene In The Champion Mine, Nevada Clty

There were also a dozen or more new Hun­ tington and Graupner mills and half a dozen cyanide plants. No new smelteries were erected. Capitalists interested in some of the larger quartz-mining operations in the Mother Lode counties, encouraged by hav­ ing found very profitable are at vertical depths ranging from 2,500 to 3,600 feet, have during 1912 commenced work on a few o.f the old properties which were aban­ doned twenty or thirty years ago, when mining conditions were very different and such depths as are now attained were con· sidered impracticable. On at least two of these properties Immediate extension of 1.000 feet in depth is being carried on, with the intention of doubling that if thought

Lode mines. Over 2,250,000 tons of ore is crushed in the mills of California annually. Of this quantity the Mother Lode counties contribute about 1,40'0,000 tons. Considerably over 600,000 tons of this is derived from Amador county, which is the first to be at­ tacked_ As the material is generally heavy most of it settles .dose to its source and can be readily impounded, but whatever system is adopted entails an expepBe which the present free disposal of tailIngs does not require. The movement referr-ed to, therefore, has an important bearing on the prOfits of the quartz-mining industry of the state, and the injunction suits indicate that the miners mllst consider additional work­ ing costs. Another important factor in connection

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ly from Inyo, Mono; and San Bernardino ion of prospecting operations and the re­ counties. tant decline in discoverIes of new mines,

It is only within the last few years that inly in the mountain and foothill regions any zinc has been produced in California, ere extensive national forests have been 'but in 1911 two mines, one in Inyo county ablished.

ad the other in San Bernardino county, pro­ For several years there has been a grad­ duced about 2,800,000 pounds. Shipments of about the same quantity have been contin­ decline in the copper output of Califor­ owing to the closing down of large ued in 1912. There are in California ex­ elting plants by litigation over damages tensive deposits of ores carrying so large a 'smelter fumes. In 1912, however, Il;n in­ percentage, of zinc sulphide as to be re­ ase in output of copper is apparent over jected by custom smelters and they are yield of 1911, notwithstanding the per­ therefore unutilized at present. Experiments nent cessation of operations in 1911 of are now being conducted with these ores, with a view of making them commercially l of the very large plants of the stat~.

Hydraullclng In California Against a Fifty-foot Bank

is increase is due to the materially en­ g-ed output from mines of two of the 5e companies owning their own smelting nts, to larger shipments from other les which were producers in 1911, and to .advent in the producing column of cer­ 1 new or reopened mines which supplied h-grade ore to the custom smelters. The tation on the 'part of-farming communi­ ! over alleged damage by smelter fumes ; by no means ceased, and the operations :hree of the most extensive smelting com­ lies of the state are seriously menaced. periments continue to be made-notably the Penn Mining company's plant at nPO Seeo-with a view to ,finding a rem­ . for ,present troubles and these, thus far, y be said to be reasonably successful. Lead mining in California shows little Inge in 1912, although 'a lessened output compared with 1911 is apparent. In 1911 figures for mine production were 1,­ ,111 pounds, but the :preliminary returns 1912 indicate only a yield of 1,032,000

profitable. If this could be accomplished the zinc output of the state would be ma­ terially inCTeased and an addition be made also to the gold and silver yield. '---0

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In 1912 the metal output of Idaho,ac­ cording to preliminary estimates by C. N. Gerry, of the United 8tates Geological Sur­ vey, was valued at nearly $21,OQO,000, an in­ crease of about ten per cent over the value for 1911. Increases were made in the pro­ duction of copper, lead, and zinc, while the output of gold and silver slightly decreased. The added value was due partly to the bet­ ter prices of silver, copper, and zinc prevail­ ing in 1912. There was a slight decrease of about four per cent in gold production, low­ ering the output for 1912 to about $1,300,­ 000. This decrease is trillceable to lessened production from siliceous ore and partly from copper ore, as gold from placers and lead ore increased. The Lost Packer cop­

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per mine, the ore of which contains consid­ erable gold ,was unproductive, and less gold came from the siliceous ores of Owyhee and Elmore countIes. Placers, particularly those worked by dredges, had a greatly increased gold output. Two boats in Boise county, two in Lemhi, and two in Clearwater were active. The silver output was nearly the same as that of 1911, or approimately 8,196,000 ounces. Silver production is principally from lead ore, 'but the amount of silver per ton is gradually decreasing in the older mines. Although shipments of lead ore in­ creased, the total silver output slightly de­ creased. Many of the Coeur d'Alene mines marketed more than the usual amount of sUver, but others decreased their output. An increase of over forty-six per cent "was noted in the copper production, in spite of the fact that the Lost Packer smeltery, at Ivers, was idle in 1912. The estimated production of about 7,500,000 pounds came prindpally from the Empire Copper Com­ ·pany, in Custer county, and the Snow­ stcl"m mine, in Sihoshone C<)unty, each pro­ perty sharing the increase. The 100-ton mill at the Snowstorm concentra~ed part of the ore the last half of the year. Lead production increased about two per cent, the total for 1912 being about 279,000­ 000 pounds, From the activity toward the end of the year, the price of the metal and the improved production of some of the large Coeur d'Alene mines, a greater in­ crease was expected, but shipments from several mines at Mace and Wardner were much less than in ,fOTmer years. The Her­ cules, He,cla, Morning, stewart, and Ontario mines had better results, and the Bunker Hill upheld its great record. Lemhi county was the Source of about 18,00'0,000 pounds of lead, largely from -the Latest Out and Pittsburg Idaho mines at Gilmore. The Blaine county production was small near Hailey, but at Arco the Wilbert Mining Coml?any operated a new concentration plant and produced nearly 1,500,000 pounds. The lead smelter at Hahn was burned in September and a lead furnace at Clayton, in Custer county, was the only smeltery op­ erated in the State. The lead production of Idaho represented sixtY-five per cent 'of the value o·f the total metal output in 1912, or about ,$12,500,000. There was an increase of sixty-two per cent in the shipment of zinc 'concentrates in 1912, the total spelter output being about 13,500,000 pounds. The SUCcess mine had a most productive year, h.aving shipped over 1,000 tons of concentrate a month. A second set of Macquisten tubes were in operation at the Morning mine, thus doubling the zinc output. The Surprise, at Pine Creek, the Black Horse, near Murray, and mines near Ketchum contributed, and the Amazon Manhattan made shipments of zinc ore for the first time.

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LEAD AND ZINC INDUSTRY A preliminary statement of the lead an.d zinc mining industry in 1911 has been com· piled from the most reliable sources avail· able at this time. It appears probable tha.t the mine production of domestic lead in ore in 1912 made a gain of a little less thal, 20,000 short tons over the 441,187 tons mined in 1911. This again, compared with the estimated increase in the smeltery produc­ tion of domestic lead, 6,474 tons, indicates that stocks of dOmiestic lead ore at the smel­ teries were slightly increased during the year. Zinc mining, stimulated by ,the high prices for spelter which prevailed during the year, was exceedingly active through­ out the country, resulting in a large gain in recoverable zinc in ore, estimated to be approximately 55,000 short tons abOve the 345,260 tons produced by the mines in 1911. The increase in mine production check~ very closely with the 52,104 tons estimated gain in smeltery output. When allowance is made for some increase in the production of zinc oxide it will be Seen that there h:::,a been no increase in stocks of zinc Ore 'It smelteries, but rather depletion. Production by Districts.

In the Edwards district, of St. Law­ rence county, New York, operations were continued on the zinc property opened i~l 1911. A 50-ton mill, finished early in the year, has not completely solved the con­ centration problem and experiments are In progress which promise a better recov­ ery. The ore body has been developed to a depth of more than 100 feet, with a re­ ported width of four to seven feet of blende and pyrite. In New Jersey energetic operations at the Franklin FurnacE; mines of the New Jersey Zinc company, resulted in a consid­ erably larger output of zinc ore than usual, the increase from 1911 being approximately 20 per cent. WiJlemite concentrates from these mines to the aggregate of 19,953 short tons were expor;:ed abroad, the remainder of the production of the mines being made into zinc oxide and spelter. The output of lead and zinc by Virginia mines in 1912 was about the same as in the year before, but there was considerable aC'ti· vity in prosj}ecting and development wor;t in Louisa coun::y in the latter part of the year. Lead and zinc sulphides have betn encountered in the pyrite ore of that dis­ trict for several years and have ooen Ie­ covered in a small way as by-products of pyrite mining. Recently, it is reported, a new and parallel ore body has ooen devel­ oped at the 1,000·foot level which carries lead and zinc sulphides with considerable silver. It is said that a large acreage, in

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line with the trend of the developed prop· erties, is under option at a high figure to a prominent zinc-smelting company. In Tennessee the output of Zinc ore IVai; not increased In 1912 owing to the fact :hut the American Zinc company prosecuted de­ velopment work only. The Holston shaft has reached a depth of 380 feet and the foundations are completed for a 1,000-ton mill which is under construction. Anoth0f shaft will be sunk to a depth of 800 fect. A third zinc·smelting company has become interested In the district and is engaged in prosecuting the old Edes, Mixter & Heald property at Jefferson City. It is reported 'in the mining press that development work in the Tennessee district has demonstrated the existence of several million tons of workable zinc ore. In the western Kentucky and southern Illinois dis:rict ,the lead production w~s practicully doubled in 1912, chiefly owing to the operation of the large new mill at Rosiclaire, Illinois. The output of zinc -.vas probably not more than in 1911. The upper Mississippi valley region, ir.­ eluding Wisconsin and Illinois, according to the weekly reports of J. E. Kennedy, continued ,to gain in production of zinc in 1912, bettering the output of the previolls year by nearly a third, though the lead production showed a loss of nearly 10 per cent. The shipments of zinc concentrates to smelteries approximated 100,000 short tons, and the output of lead concentratC';:; amounted to a little over 4,000 tons. Th€) electrosta:ic zinc separator at Platteville, Wisconsin, destroyed by fire la:e in 1911, has not been rebuilt, but the magnetic se1':1.­ rating plant at Galena, Illinois, burned a.t the same time, ,has ,been reconstructed with increased capacity. The concen::ration of the mining properties of the district into the hands of fewer interests continued during the year. In the southeast Missouri disseminated­ lead district, the output of lead concell' trates in 1912 made a gain of about Z pel' cent over that of the previous year, the lead content being approximately 150,0')0 short tons, as compared with 147,754 tons in 1911. The Phoenix-Fleming property, formerly worked by the Madison Lead & Land company, was put into operating condi­ tion by the Federal Lead company and was active during the greater part of the year. The North American Lead company and the Eastern Lead company continued Idle, hut all other companies were steadily active. The Joplin district, as estimated from the weekly sales reported in the local 1m· pers, made a gain of about 32,000 tons in 1912 over the output e'f 1911 in zinc blende

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trates a month. The Potosi mine also hud a large output. The producf4Qn of lead in California in 1912, which was less than half that in 1911, was derived fromi Inyo, Mono, and San Bern­ ardino counties. The production of Zl:J,C de a gain of two per cent :n made a large increase, being about douole ion in 1912 over that of 1911, that of the previous year. There are but the largeSct for several years. two producers, the Cerro Gordo mine, in of lead was made by the mbes Inyo county, and the Uncompagre, in San Ir d'Alene region and by two Bernardino county. The Cerro mine, form­ mhi county. The lead smeltery erly operated as a lead mine, shipped zinc s burned in Septemberant1 the carbonate ore at the rate of 900 tons montuly 'y operated in the state in 1912 during the greater part of the year. lead s:ack at Clayton, in CUil~er The output of lead in Washington ill zinc production of Idaho gained sixty per cent over the record 1912 was only a little over one-hal{ that of .,the previous year, there being only a few HI. The Success mine was the )ducer, shipping approximately shipments from Stevens county. No zinc f zinc concentrates a month. The ore was marketed. The Tacoma smellery was remodeled to treat copper ores. ine, at Mullan, was also an im­ ---o--~Iducer and there were shipment3 al other districts. WASHINGTON PRODUCTION IN 1912. )duction of lead in Utah in 1912,

Although the output of gold, which is I Increased about 2lh per 'Jeut

;)f 1911, was derived chiefly from the principal metal produced in Washing­ City and Bingham districts, ton, decreased to about $679,000 in 1912, ac­ , Tintic distric.t and Beaver county cording to preliminary figures by C. N. usual output. The production of Gerry, of the United $tates Geological Sur­ he year showed a loss of twenty vey, the total value of all metals produced from ·that of the previous year. in the state was greater by nearly seven ,rable production from the Tintic per cent than that of 1911. This was due to egan to come in late in the yea.r, the increased production and better market district will figure largely in the price of both silver and copper. There were no shipments of zinc ore, and only a few . the coming year. The o~her prin­ ducers were the Park City and cars of lead ore were marketed, against a nominal output of ziuc and a production of districts and Beaver county. 848,584 pounds of lead in 1911. Interest cen­ lltPUt of lead in' Arizona in 1912 tered aroilnd the new cyanide mills at Re­ ver thirty per cent from that vf publiC, in Ferry county, and the copper Igh it was still considerably above mines at Chewelah, in Stevens county. The .ge for the last few years. The decrease in gold output of about twenty l from the Warren district, of per cent, or nearly $163,000, was the result :ounty, and from Mohave COUll :y. of fewer shipments from Republic, where uction of zinc in Arizona, which much ore was accumulated for the two gain of elghtY'nine per cent, W:J.S cyanide plaltts which were operated during rom Mohave county. The larger the latter part of the year. After changes l from the Golconda mine, whIch made in the crushing department, the North llber was shipping at the rate of 'Washington mill WillS treating 125 tons of Qf ore and concentrates a month. ore per day in September. The ore averaged rom the other producing mine was $7.75 a ton and the extraction was said to be ted in the electrostatic separator 95 per cent. The San Poil mill, also rated lS, California. at 125 tons, made its first bullion clean·up a produced nearly six times as in september from $12 ore. During the year din 1912 as in 1911, ·surpassing shIpments were continued fr·om the Sur­ llction in the last ten years. The prise, Knob Hill, San Poil, Insurgent, and is due principally to adjustments Quilp mines at the rate of 3,000 tons a .on and to the completion of the month during the first half of the year, and purs to Bullionville and at Pioche, at a somewhat decreased rate thereafter. ounty, in 1912. Regular shipments Besides that from the Republic plants,bul­ 're were made through the latter lion was sold from mills operated in Che­ Ie year. Clark county also hali a lan, Kittitas, and Okanogan counties. d output. The Yellow Pine mill The estimated increase in silver produc­ the entire year, prodUCing lead as tion of sixty-three per cent made the total inc concentrates. The zinc produc­ output for the year close to 398,000 ounces. e state was between three and four Copper ore produoed in Stevens county Is large as in the preceding year. The to be credited with this increase, as well as ine mine was the largest produc3r, with the increase of 295 per cent in the Tn,,"" than 1.000 tons of conceu­ state copper output, which brought the total :ompletion of the new mill the Butte & Superior mine were Ie Basin concentrator. Large he zinc output of the Butte dis­ t>e expected. l

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copper production up to about 1,250,000 lJQunds j,u 1912. The United Cop·per com· pany shipped five times as much ore as in 1911, and there was much activity in de­ velopment in the Chewelah district. Lead ore came from mines near Bossburg and Turk. The lead plant at Tacoma was closed in July and improvements were made for copper smelting, including blast furnace. basic converter, and electrolytic refinery. o TINTIC PRODUCTION FOR YEAR.

All records were broken by the producers in the Tintlc district of Utah in the matter of ore tonnage shipped in the year 1912, when 9,620 cars were sent out. The fol­ lowing table shOWS what each mine con­ tributed: 2,299

Centennial-Eureka Iron Blossom .... , ................ . 1,679

812

'Chief Cons. . .. , .. , ........... , .,... . 587

Grand Central. _....... , ........... . 513

Gold Ch'ain ........................ . 543

Mammoth, ........ '" ............ . 420

Eagle & BIue Bell ............... . 353

Swansea. 289

Gemini . 274

Colorado, . Dragon ., ..'........................ 237

Yankee .................. ,........ %30

Bullion-Beck . . .................... 209

May Day................. ......... 178

Opohongo .•......,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Victoria . . ......................... 166

Beck Tunnel . . .................. 158

Carisa ....................... , .,. .. . 110

scranton . . . ...... ,................ 90

Eureka Hill ....................... 69

McIntyre, lease .. _.. , ....'. . . . . .. . . . . 58

Sioux Cons. . ......... ,............. 30

Ridge & Valley ................... 15

Victor Cons. ....................... 14

Uncle Sam ..................,. . . . . . 13

Lower M.ammoth ............... ,.. 12

East Tintic Dev. ................... 10

Black Jack .......... , .. _. . . . . . . . • . 10

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Godiva, lease ......... ,........... 3

New BUllion, lease ................ Sunbeam, lease ........... ,........ 2

Butcher Boy, lease .. , ... , . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Crown Point, lease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Brooklyn, lease .................. ,. Tintic Smeltery, slag ... ,.......... 2

1

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Star Cons., lease •................. 1

Undine, lease .......... _... _..... , . 1

Utah Cons. .., .....,...... , . . . . . . . . 1

Governor, lease .................... 1

Plu:us, lease ................. , . . . . . 1

Showers, lease .................... 1

1

Shoebridge, lease ..............'. . . . 1

LaClede, lease ....................

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THE MILLS OF TONOPAH

In the accompanying table which was furnished the Miner of Tonopah, Nevada, by Jay A. Carpenter, superintendent of t1:.e West End Consolidated company's mill, much information is given in a condensed form. The explanation of the references shows why the variations in output are so great. (a) The two miills at Millers treat two products, the coarse material or sands, and the fine material or slimes. This system requires less grinding but a larger plant and a slower and more complica:ed treatment. In both of these mills Hunting­ ton mills were discarded as regrinders. (b) The data for this mill is based Oil operations prior to the starting of the new Belmont milL This mill is now treating a small tonnage from the Jim Butler, Tono­ pah :l-ferger and Midway mines. (c) In this mm the grinding units were so much in excess of the settling and agio

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2 and No.3, where but a part of the origI­ nal concentra~ors are operated. (e) This mill, the old Midway milI, w?s erected in 1904 as a 10-stamp amalgamating mill, reconstructed in 1906 as a 20-stamp mill by the Tonopah Mining company along the design of the Millers mills, and re­ modeled in 1911 by the West End as an all-sliming mill, thus marking the progre;;s of silver metallurgy since Tonopah became a producer. (0 The figures for these colnmns are based on recent issues of the Miner except those of the Belmont mills. The data for the Mlllers mill is taken from the la:lt anilUal report. The new mill is credited with a tonnage which the mill will soon reach when the mine and mill have found their pace. The MacNamara and new Belmont mills hav~ the latest tYPe of rapid discharge mortars as favorable to high tonnage. The

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same mill which account mainly for the apparent discrepancies that a layman notices in the tonnages credited to the dif­ ferent mills by the Miner. The nature of the ore, whether oxidiz;:d or sulphide, and the composition o[ the sul­ phides, has much to do with the small dif­ ferences in extraction reported from the differen t mills. The Tonopah Extension mill probably holds the present record for consistent high extraction. With the exception of the Millers mill, each mill was designed by a separate set of men, so that while the general treat­ ment of the ore in the mills is similar, yet there is a wide divergence in details ·:)f treatment and in the mechanical applianc<}s used. There is something of peculiar inter­ est to the visiting millman in each mill, from the low strength cyanide solutions used at the MacNamara mill to the largest and most economical silver mill refinery in the world at the new Belmont mill. The new Belmont mill is a more modern mill in mechanical details Qf grinding and treat­ ment of ore than the world famous Gold-

DATA ON THE MILLS OF TONOPAH, NEVADA.

Name of Mill

Date Con- No. Wt. of struction Stamps Stamps

No. and S;ze of Tube Mills

Type of Mill

Ft. of 15 ft. Mill for ea. 10 stps_ .

Grade Tons Tons of Ore per Day Stamp .......

Tonopah Mining (Desert Mill).. 1906 Tonopah Belmont (Millers Mill) __ 1906 Montana Tonopah Tonopah Extension ..... West End Consolidated .. MacNamara ..... Tonopah Belmont New Mill ......

100

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60

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1907

40

1050lbs

1909

30

1050lbs

1911(e)

20

1250lbs

1911

10

15001bs

1912

60

1250lbs

No. Tubes 3-1t. Chilean Mills 1 Mill 5 it. x 18 ft. 2 Mills, 5 ft.x22 ft. 1 operating 2 Mills 5 ft. x 18 ft. 2 Mills 5 ft. x 18 ft. 1 Mill 5 ft. x 16 ft. 8 Mills 5 ft. x 18 ft.

None 3 ft. 11 ft. 5% ft. 12 ft. 18 ft. 16 ft. 24 ft.

(a) Concentrating leaching, sliming (a) Concentrating leaching, sliming All sliming, concentrating (d) All sliming non·concentrating All sliming, concen trating All sliming, non-concentrating All sliming, concentrating

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tator units that one tube mill handles the maximum tonnage of the mill, leaving a spare unit that insures against a drop III tonnage due to lining tube mills. (d) This mill was built with concen­ tration departments as all the preceding mills had laid stress on concentrating as thoroughly as possible. This mill did pion­ eer work in demonstrating that with medium grade ores concentration is not necessary. Mills No.5 and No.6 followed this example with success, but mill No. 5 was forced by the increased value of its ore to add con­ centration. In all the mills with concentra­ tion at the present time the aim is to make as small an amount of concentrate as pos­ sible and yet obtain a high ex:raction, the reason being that it costs a great deal more to market the concentrate than the bullion. This tendency is noted in mills No. I, No.

hardness of the ore and the fineness of the .grinding directlyaffeds the tonnage that can be handled by the grinding units. The MacNamara undoubtedly has the hard­ est ore. The fineness of the grinding necessary to free the mineral content of the ore for trea:ment varies from eighty-eight per cent through 200 mesh at the West End mill to less than seventy-eight per cent at the Extension. The fineness of grinding, the grade of ore, and the temperature of agita­ tion are all important factors in the length of treatment and size of cyanide plant neces­ sary to treat a given daily tonnage. The amount of clayey and oxidized material in the ore, while favoring the crushing depart­ ment, will overcrowd the settling and filter­ ing departments. These factors vary greatly between the various mills and in the

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field Consolidated, and from now on it:: size, its enormous production and its chear: operating costs will command the attention and study of the millmen of the world. The cost of milling ore at the Tonopah mills varies so much with the grade of thr ore, the situation of the mill with re'speci to the mine, and the size of the mill, thai no short comparison can be made. Annua' reports cannot be directly compared, the companies have different methods 01 distributing costs between the ~ining development, milling and general accounts However, the total cost of milling can bE said to range between $2.75 and $3,75 a ton The cost of construction of the varioJ~ mills, based on the present tonnage treatc'l per day, varies from $1,600 to $2.000 a tor daily capacity for the Millers and the Man tana mill to $900, $800, $1,200 and $1,OO(

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the drainage by the Roosevelt tunnel had lowered the water in many of the large properties (except the Golden Cycle and Vindicator mines), so that an additional '100 .feet in depth could be worked, and an increased tonnage was mined during the year. Despite the closing of the Standard cus­ tom chlorination plant at the end of the year 1911, leaving in the custom-milling field at colorado Springs only the Golden Cycle and Portland mills, the total yield from the ·gold mills showed an increase for the year. The Portland plant during 1911-12 had been graduaUy transformed to a cyan­ ide mill; thus cyanidation in 1912 had com­ pletely superseded the use of chlorination in the treatment of Cripple Creek ores. The Colorado cyanide plant, at Colorado Springs and the Union plant, at Florence, continued operations On old tailings. The Stratton's Independenee cyanide-concentration mill and the portland oyanide-concentration plant, both a.t Victor, continued to treat he character, hardness and grade f;f from 10,1>00 to 11,000 tons a month each of weight of stamps and size to which ore dump and low-grade mine ore. The Ajax rushed; capacity of tube mills and cyanide, using the Clancy process, was Op­ erated part of the year. Several of the ee of fineness to which ore is reground; smaller cyanide plants in the Cripple Creek lation or otherwise of concentrators; city of se';tling and agitation tanks and district were operated with an increased : presses in the cyanide department, tonnage of the higher-grade ores was ship­ length of treatment and strength alld ped direct to smelters. The tonnage shipped from Lake county Jerature of solutions employed in this (chiefly Le.adville) showed an increase, .on of the mill. with gains in output of all the metals ex­ ----'0-,,--­ cept copper. The output of zinc was approx­ ORADO METAL PRODUCTION, 1912. imately 99,000,000 pounds, representing an 'he output of Colorado mines for eleven increase of 27,000,000 pounds in quantity and ths of 1912 and an estimate for Decem· $2,600,'000 in value. The output of zinc car­ according to preliminary figures by bonate was 137,000 tons of approximately 'lea W. Henderson, of the United States thirty per cent zinc, against 83,905 tons of ogiocal Survey, shows a decrease of thirty-one per cent zinc in 1911. The zinc sulphide shipped decreased somewhat from .000 for gold, an increase of 750,000 es for silver, a decrease of 1,000,000 ,the 79,376 tons of 23.3 per cent ore shipped ,ds for copper, an increase" of 5,000,000 in -911. However, the Empire Zinc com­ pany's magnetic-separation plant (with an "ds for lead, and an increase of 27,000,­ increased.capacity), at Canon City, and the ~ounds fO'!' zinc. With increased market United States Zinc company's magnetic­ ~s for silver, copper, and zinc, the value Ie output in 1912 was over $4,000.000 separation plant, at Pueblo, operating chief­ ter than in 1911-$3,000,O()0 in zinc and lyon Leadville ores, both treated increased quantities of stock ore. The Western Chem· 0,000 in silver, the increased value for and copper about balancing the de· ical company's wet-co!1centration and mag­ le for gold_ The output for 1912 is there· netic-separation plant, at Denver, treate·d estimated at approximately $18,7'00,000 an increased tonnage of· zinc·lead sulphide ore. The buildings of the Rho magnetic­ old, 8,080,000 fine ounces of silver, 7,­ 00 pounds of copper, 74,680,000 pounds separation plant, at Leadville (closed in ad, and 121,600,000 pounds of zinc, val­ July, 1911), were purchased late in 1912 by the Sutton, Steele & Steele company for in all at nearly $36,500,000.

he tonnage treated by the Globe, Lead· the treatment of sulphide and siliceous ores Pueblo,Durango, and Salida smelters of Leadville. 'ed an increase for the year. Ore was The San Juan region, of Dolores, La shipped to the Murray, Garfield, and Plata, Ouray, San Juan, and San Miguel ale plants in Utah. An increased ton­ counties, showed a decrease of $1,000.000 in of complex zinc ore and concentrates . output of gold, but an increase of 500.0'00 Colorado and other western states ounces of silver, 3,500,000 pounds of lead, treated at the United States Zinc com­ and 700,000 pounds of copper. The yield of ,s plant at Pueblo. zinc was 300,'000 pounds less than in 1911. he output of Cripple Creek showed an The decrease in the yield of gold was lase of $500,000 in gold. Early in 1912 caused chiefly by the decline in operations

ectively for the Extension, West End, Namara and new Belmont mills. t is a tribute to the mining fraternity 'onopah that there is not a dismantled nor a freak design of a mill as an eye­ to the camp, or not an idle mill built L mine without ore. Furthermore, theN) ~t a mill in Tonopah that has not or not pay for itself out of profits earned ,ore from its own company's 'bod1es. greatest record was probably that of West End mill, whose company paid the mill with profits earned by the in less than seven months. This record be exceeded by the new Belmont mill. !-ith the beginning of the new year every ~ ng company in Tonopah with a mill will. paid for its mill out of its net earn­ and the mills will be grinding out

lends.

rom the abOve it will be 'seen that the

age capacity per stamp of the Tonopah

i is dependent upon several factors,

1913.

of the Camp Bird mine, which was to be closed July, 1912, but which, owing to the discovery of some new ore bodies, is still being operated. The decrease in gold production from Omay county was $800,000 in mi1l bullion, and $120,000 in contents of ore and concen­ trates shipped, a total of $920,000. San Mi­ guel county's gold output from both bullion and smelting material showed a decrease of $120,000 for the year. San Juan county showed an increase in output of all metals, including one of $175,000 in gold. Ouray county showed an increase for silver but a decrease for lead and copper. La Plata county's gold yield fell off $160,000. San Miguel county showed considerable increas­ es for silver and lead but small decreases for copper and zinc_ Dolores county showed rrotable increases in all the metals, owing to the reopening of mines at Rico. The yield of gold bullion from Boulder

county decreased appreciably, as did the

shipments of O'l'e, there being a decrease

for all the metals except lead. Clear Creek

county's output showed a small decrease for

all the metals. In Gilpin county not only

was there an increase of gold bullion pro­

duced, but the contents of all the metals in

ore and concentrates showed appreciable

gains.

The Pitkin county (Aspen) yield showed an appreciable increase in silver output but a decrease in lead. Several cars of zill'c car­ bonate (the first ore of this class from this camp) and several cars of zinc sulphide concentrates were shipped_ The shipment of ore and concentrates from Creede showed a decrease for all the metals except silver, which increased about 200,000 ounces. A larger tonnage of ore was shipped from ·Hinsdale county. The dredge output of gold in Summit county increased $150,000; the zinc yield from Breckenridge equaled that of 1911, but smaller shipments of zinc con­ centrates from Kokomo resulted in a de­ creased yield of zinc for the county. Eagle county's output of zinc showed very little change. Park county's placer output of gold showed a small decrease, but there was a considerable increase in the gold contents of crude ore shipped, while the contents of lead and silver decreased appreciably. The dredge in Costilla county was not operated.

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The Prince Consolidated Mining com­

p.any, of the Pioche district of Nevada, ship­

ped 202 cars in December, aside from sand

and tailings, according to a. wire received

from B. L. Smith, manager. On January

first, there were 20,000 tons of ore bT
in the stopes, with fissures widening. From

the first to fourth of January forty-one cars

were shipped. No. 6 stope west averages

better than thirty excess i'l'on, and indica­

tions on the fourth level south are that the

big bed of ore will be struck in a few shift·g.

The diamond drill hole is down 200 feet be­

low the sixth level.

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course, were used on low-grade ores, les" sening their capacity. To these were adl!ed during the ye.ar 19,848 retorts, of which The annual preliminary statement jnst issued by the United States Geological S'lr. 2,880 were in Pennsylvania, 3,456 in West Virginia, 2,476 in Illinois, 10,796 in Okla­ vey shows that the zinc industry in 1912, homa, and 240 in Colorado. Meanwhile stimula:ed by the prevailing hi'gh price of there were slight reductions in capacity J,t spelter, went far heyond all records in pro­ certain plants, so that the total number of duction and even exceeded the figures for retorts at the close of 1912 was 99,400. In the year indicated in .the survey's midyear Illinois there are now nearing completion statement for the first half of ,the year. 2,4.00 retorts at the new Hillsboro smeltery The increased production was altogethtlr of the American Zinc Com.pany of Illinois, from domes:ic sources, as the production from foreign ore was slightly less than iil which started with 1,600 retorts in Novem­ ber; 1,600 retorts at the plant of the R. H. 1911. Coupled with this increase in pro­ Lanyon Zinc & Acid company, also at Hills· duction was a great Increase in imports 'horo, which will a:art early in 1913; 1,800 of spelter, which exceeded the large im­ retorts at the plant of Hegeler Bros., at ports in 1909, and at the same time the exports of foreign zinc were cut in naIf, Danville; and 4,560 retorts at the Minerai Point Zinc company's smeltery, at Depue. In indicating a large consump:ion of foreIgn zinc; all of which goes to show that the Ka~sas 576 retorts will be added to the La active smelting capacity during the year Harpe plant of the Kansas Zinc company. Oklahoma. now holds first place in active was inadequate to the demands of a pheno­ smelting capacity, with 27,416 retorts; Kan­ menal apparent consumption. sas is second, with 27,092 retorts; and 1111­ The following figures have been CO!ll­ nois ,third, with 25,148 retorts. The largest piled without change by C. E. Siebenthal, smeltery is the Collinsville, Oklahoma, plant from repor:s furnished by all operating of the Bartlesville Zinc company, with smelters of zinc ores, showing their output 8,064 retorts; the next largest is the Mea­ for the first eleven months of the year and dowbrook, (West Virginia) plant or the their estimated production for December. GrasselIi Chemical company, with 6,192 re­ Figures showing the Imports and exports torts; and the third is the Collinsville (Okla­ for eleven months were obtained from the homa) plant of the Tulsa Fuel & Manufac­ Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce turing company, with 6,232 re~orts. The and to .these figures estimates for December Mineral Point Zinc company's plant at De­ have been added. pue, Illinois, will have 9,080 retorts whE,n Production, completed in 1913. The production of primary spelter from At the close of the year the Nattona! domestic ore in 1912 is estimated at 323,961 Zinc company took over the United Zinc &. ·short tons and from foreign ore at 14,669 Chemical company's plants, consisting of a tons, a total of 338,630 tons, worth, at the zinc smeltery wi~h 3,680 retorts and an acid average st. Louis price, $46,731,000, com­ plant at Springfield, IllinQis, and roasting pared to a total of 286,526 tons in 1911, wor,th furnaces and an acid plant at Argentine, $32,663,964 and made up of 271,621 tons of Kansas. domestic origin and 14,905 tons of forei;n Imports of zinc ore were approximately origin. The production of spelter from boch 78,000 short tons, containing about 3J ,r,00 domestic and foreign ores, apportioned ac­ tons of zinc, compared wi,th 78,341 tong cording to the states In which it v,as of ore, containing 31,640 tons of zinc, im­ smelted, by six-month periods, was as fol­

ported in 1911. The figures for 1912 ar;:, lows;

exclusive of 18,245 short tons of lead ore Spelter Production, 1911-1912, by States In from South America, containing 2,431 to:'1S Six-month Periods. of zinc, an average of a little more than --1911-- ~-1912-13 per cent, all of which was lost in smelting State. First Second First Second the lead and thus does not properly enter half. half. half. half. into the figures of iIn\POrts of zinc. Of the Illinois ...... 41,255 41,875 44,224 44,065 zinc ore imported, 72,000 tons, about 92 Kansas ...... 50,574 47,839 52,485 48,376 per cent, came from Mexico, compared with Oklahoma .. 19,997 26,318 36,010 41,584 75,982 tons imported from Mexico in 1911. Other S:ates. 28,370 30,298 33,777 38,109 The exports of domestic zinc ore were 1£,,­ 953 short tons, valUed at $704,207, compared Total .... 140,196 146,330 166,496 172,134 with 18,281 tons in 1911. Yearly total 286,526 338,630 The imports of spelter were the large.st for many years, being estimated at 10,700 The total production of spelter is equtv­ alent to the output of 79,678 average retorts short tons, valued at about $1,202,000, com· operating continuously through the year on pared with 609 tons in 1911. The imports 60 per cent zinc concentrates. The retort of zinc dust were 2,350 short tons, valued capacity, available for ore, of the plants at $262,700, against 1,713 tons in 1911. J~x· active in 1912 was, at the beginning of t!1e ports of domestic spelter are estimated at year, 80,200 retorts. Many of them, o~ 6,673 short tons, worth $871,479, compared ZINC PRODUCTION

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6,872 tons in 1911. 'l'he exports of foreign zinc increased from 4,758 short toolS in 1910 to 11,276 tons in 1911 and to appl'OX­ illllately 6,779 short tons in 1912. During the first nine months of the year there were a1!!r) exported under d~awback articles manu­ factured from 938 tons of foreign zinc ou which duty had been paid, compared to 3,079 tons in 1911. The exports of zinc dross amounted to 203 short tons, valued at $17,803, compared with 4,246 tons in 1911. Consumption.

'l'he apparent domestic consumption of spelter in 1912 may be computed as fol­ lows; 'l'he sum of stock on hand at smel:­ eries at the beginning .of the year, 9,081 tons, plus the imports, 10,700 tons, and the pro­ duction, 338,630 tons, gives the total avail­ able supply, 358,411 tOns. From this there is to be subtracted the exports of domecltlc spelter, 6,673 tons, the exports of foreign spelter, 6,799 tons, the exports under drrdv­ back, 938 tons, and ·the stock on hand at smelteries at the close of the year (to be exact, on Thlcem)ber 15), 4,208 tons, a wtal of 18,618 tons, leaving a balance of 339,793 tons as the apparent domestic consump­ tion. This calculation takes no account of the stocks of spelter held by dealers or consumers. On comparing the consumption in 1912 with the 280,059 tons consumed ill 1911, the 245,884 tons in 1910; the 270,730 tons in 1909, the 214,167 tons in 1908, alld the 226,969 .tons in 1907, it is seen that the consumption is phenomenally large. Prices.

Spelter opened at St. Louis in January at 6.25 cents a pound, which was the mini­ mum price of the year. A gradual rise broken by a sharp decline in March Bnd another in July and August, carried the price to 7.5 cents, the highest price of the year in ·the latter part of september. The year closed with spelter at about 7.0 cents. The average St. Louis price of prime western spelter was 6.9 cents a pound, compared to 5.7 cents a pound in 1911. In London spelter opened at £ 26 15s. a long ton (5.78 cents a pound), less tha,! half a cent below the St. Louis price. It reac!:J.crl the minimum of the year late in March, at £25 a long ton (5.4 cents a pound), and gradually rose to the highest point of the year in October, at £27 12s. 6d. a long t0n (5.98 cents a pound). After a gradual do­ cline, spelter closed a!: about £26 Ifs. a long ton (5.73 cents a pound). The average price for the year was £26 8s. 7d. a fong ton (5.7 cents a pound). For the last four m(onths of the year the ,average St. Louis price of spelter WilS more than 1% cents above the London price. It was during this period that the larger part of the 10,700 tons of foreign spelter was Imported.

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f MEXICO PRODUCTION IN 1912.

led Mine Output of Gold, Silver, Cop­ per, Lead, and Zinc.

mine production of gold in New ) in 1912, according to preliminary tes by Charles W. Henderson, of the States Geological Survey, showed a increase over the output of $762,808 L; the output of silver an increase of 150,000 ounces over the production of 40 ounces in 1911; lead an increase ut 1,700,000 pounds .from the yield of 3,000,000 pounds in 1911; and copper rease from 4,057,040 pounds in 1911 t~ 28,000,000 pounds in 1912. The output. ~ made little change in 1912 from the of 10,237,176 pounds in 1911. The in­ in the value of copper alone adds 4,000,000 to the value of the output of >1exico. e output of gold and silver from the !e plants at Mogollon, Socorro county, d a small increase, and a slightly in­ :d output of the precious metals was erived from the gold and silver,bear­ Iiceous and copper ores of the Lords­ ~nd Central distrIcts, Grant county, eopened copper mines at San Pedro, Fe county, added to the output of .nd silver. e increase in the copper output came f from the operations of the Chino r company, which is mining a low­ copper deposit at Santa Rita by steam s. This ore is concentrated at Hurley, a 5,000-ton plan·: has been completed sections, two sections being in opera­ . the beginning of the year 1912 and ler three being successively placed in on during the year, the last being ted in December. The public report company for nine months of the year an output of 17,902,587 pounds of and the output for the last three was approximately 11,000,000 pounds. !ond copper district in importance ~ Lordsburg district, with an inoutput for 1912. The Burro Moun­ trict, where much development ·work n· done during the last six years, small output. The eopper mines and r at San Pedro. Santa Fe county, lpened in August, and operated mt the rest of the year. lead output of New Mexico comes rom the shipments of lead ore and atesfrom the lead-zinc deposits at )corro county, but there were also I shipments of lead ore from the strict, 'Luna county. lents of zinc sulphide ore and con· from Kelly were about the same ty as in 1911, but those of zine car­ ~creased. This district yields the art of the zinc output of New Mex­ fanuary, 1ll12, the zinc deposits at

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Hanover, Grant county, were re.opened, after being idle for a year, and zinc concentrates and ore were shipped from Pinos Altos, Grant county. ---~o----

OREGON METAL PRODUCTION IN 1912.

For several years there has been a de· cline in the metallic output of the state of Oregon, more especially in its gold and sil­ ver, but 'preliminary returns for 1912 show that this has now been checked, according to Charles G. Yale, of the United Statel!l Geol.ogical Survey. The mine report .of the survey for 1911 showed an output of gold valued at $633,407 and 45,221 ounces of silo ver. The preliminary returns for 1912 in­ dicate that the Oregon yield was about $657,000 in gold and 86,951 ounces of silver, a marked advan-ce in the silver output. Moreover, the smelters received about 100,­ 000 pDunds of copper, eompared with 93,196 pounds in 1911, and 38,00'0 pounds .of lead, whereas there was no yield of lead in 1911. More placers are being worked than for­ merly in Oregon, mainly by hydraulic meth­ ods. The grade of ore in the deep mines has been much IDwer than formerly, al­ though more of it is treated. The lowering of the average tonnage value is due to the large .quantities of old tailings handled, their average yield being taken with that of the new ore in making up the totals and average values. The largest producer of gold in Oregon is Baker county, as has been the case for some years. Following in order of rank are Josephine, Jackson, Grant, Lane, and Malheur counties. Eleven counties of the state are now producing gold, Josephine leading in the production of placer gold, and Baker in that from deep mines. In silver yield Baker county holds first rank. Most of the ore in Oregon is milled, very little of it being shipped to smelters for reduction. Neither the southwestern nor the nDrtheastern counties of Oregon are pro: ducing as much gold as a few years ago, al­ though the estimated figures for 1912 show that some little advancement is in progress. The state badly needs the advent of capital t.o open and develop its deep-mining prop­ erties, many of which are lying idle for want of means to place them on a produc­ tive standing.

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The May Day Mining company, operat­ ing in the Tintic district of Utah, will pay a dividend .of three cents a share on Feb­ ruary 10th, to stockholders of record on February 1st. There will be paid $24,000 making a total of $132,000, the last payment having been made in September, 1908. The present dividend is made possible by the high price of silver and the utilization of the old reserve of zinc ore, the May Day being one of the first to realize the asset it had in the zinc, which was formerly pen­ alized, when the lead-silver ore was shipped.

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MONTANA METAL PRODUCTION IN 1912

As a result of the increased prices of metals and the greater production of copper particularly, the total value of the metal output of Montana in 1912 was close to $64,­ 000,000, accDrding to preliminary estimates by V. C. Heikes, of the United States Geo­ logical Survey. This represents an increase .of nearly thirty-six per cent in value over the 1911 out.put and is the most valuable .production since that of 1906. About seventy nine per cent of this value came from cop­ per alone, about twelve per cent from sil­ ver, nearly six per cent from gold, and near­ ly three per cen t from zinc_ An estimated decrease of over five per cent in gold production brought the output .of 1912 down to about $3,500,000. This was :probably due to a diminished yield of mill bullion, especially in the Little Rockies district, formerly in Chouteau county but now in Blaine county. The gold output from placer bullion slightly increased, being sus­ tained by six operating dredges. The four boats at Ruby had a successful season, and the Kansas City plant, in Missoula county, and the Magpie, in Lewis and Clark county. were active. There was also an increase of about five per cent in silver, trom nearly 12,0(f0,00:) ounces in 1911 to about 12,500,000 ounces in 1912. This was to be credited to Butte cop­ per ore, The increase of 7.5 cents a fine ounce in the average .price of silver meant a difference of n-early a million dollars in the value of the production. Instead of curtailing the output of cop­ per, as in 1911, when nearly 273,000,000 pounds were marketed, the production of 1912 was brought up to about 310,000,000 pounds, or nearly that of the year 1909. This is an increase of about fourteen per cent, due partly to the rise in price of the metal, which averaged somewhat over sixteen cents a pound, against 12,5 eents in 1911. Although Montana recorded a larger CDP­ .per output, it retained second place among the states in 1912, as Arizona had a much greater increase_ The copper mines at Butte especially the Anaconda, East Butte, and Tuolumne mines, made 'better sh'Dwings. The smelting plants at Anaconda and Great FalIs were not only more active than in re­ cent years, but plans were ma-de and wDrk started to entirely reconstruct the Great Falls .plant. The Anaconda mines were ,pro­ ducing at the rate of 26,001),000 pounds of copper a month, and the East Butte at somewhat over 1,000,000 pounds. At the latter plant capacity ,was increased by lengthening the furnaees. The cost of min­ ing at Butte was lessened by the use of electric .power. There was no important change in lead production in 1912 from the output of near­ ly 6.500,000 pounds in 1911. The East Helena lead .plant was active but worked largely on lead ore from other states.

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A decrease of about forty-one per cent, to an estimated production of 25,520.000 pounds for 1912, was shown in the spelter output in metallurgical treatment and con­ struction, The Elm Orlu mine, the concen­ trator of which was lost by fire in 1911, pro­ duced no zinc, although experiments were made in direct smelting of the ore, both at Butte and in ~rmany. Improvements were made at the Butte & Superior mine, which somewhat retarded shipmen:'S, A new sur­ face plant and a 50o-ton unit of a concentra­ tion mill were constructed. The latter began operations in June, using an oil flotation pro· cess in connection with concentration. Small shipments of zinc concentra:es were made from Basin, in Jefferson cotinty, and of zinc ore from Troy, in Lincoln county. Work at Georgetown, in Deer Lodge county, was stimulated by the building of the railroad into the district, and construction was con­ tinued on the road to Radersburg, in Bwad­ water county. ----0,---­

TUNGSTEN ORE IN 1912.

The quantity of tungsten ore mined and marketed in the United States during 1912, according to preliminary figures collected by Frank L. Hess, of the United States Geo· logical Survey, was equivalent to about 1,290 tons carrying 60 per cent of tungsten triox­ ide and was valued at $492.000, besides which a smaller quantity was mined but not marketed. This is an increase over the out­ put of 1911, which was equivalent to 1,139 tons of sixty per cent ore and was valued at $407.985. The average price paid per unit (the unit is one per cent of a short ton, or twenty pounds. of tungsten trioxide) was about $6.35 in 1912. compared with $4.89 in 1911, but the extreme variation seems to have been less in 1912 than in the previous year. Although higher than in 1911, the price paid was unsatisfactory to the miner. It ranged from $5.80 to $7.25 per unit for ore running sixty per cent or more of tungsten trioxide. and $8 was being quoted at the close of the year. Probably more concen­ trates were sold at $6 than at any other figure. The price seems rather anomalous. for ordinarily the price of tungsten ores varies with the fluctuations of the steel trade. ris­ ing and falling as the demand for steel in­ creases or decreases. During 1912 the steel trade has been remarkably brisk and the trade in tool steel seems to have been espe· cially good, following a reported large sale for automobiles and other articles in which much tool steel is used, but the price for tungsten has not risen as much as might have been ex.pected.'l'here do not seem to have been sufficient new discoveries or de­ velopmen:s of old deposits to have oversup­ plied the market, but it is known that a con· slderable quantity of concentrates has been

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ADVERTISERS

:Hlnlng Mnclt[nery nnd Supplies. Pc..ge Allis-Cha:mers Co. ........•............ 8 Central Coal & Coke Co. .............. 46 Denver J!'ire Clay Co. .................. 4 Diamond Drilling Co. .................. 43 Fairbanks. Morse & Co. ............... 8 General Electric Co. . ............. 6 and '1 Independent Powder Co. ................ 1 Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. .............. 6 Jones & JacobS, Mill Builders .......... 4 Lane Mill & Machinery Co. .............. 4 Minneapolls Steel & Machinery Co. .... 51 Porter. Charles F., Building Material.... 3 Revere Rubber Co. .................... 51 Richmond, F. C., Machinery Co. .......... 2 Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co..... 43 Salt Lake Hardware Co. .. ............. 52 Sil vel' Eros. Iron Works ................ 3 tItah Fire Clay Co. .................. . 43 Utah Fuel Co. ......................... 46 'Nay's Pocket Smelter .............. ... 43 "'"estern Heating & Sheet Metal Co. .... 3 Z. C. l\f. 1. .......................... 3 Bnnklng H ouses. McCornick & Co. ....................... Merchants' Bank

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Salt Lake Security Co, .......... ,.,... Utah Savings & Trust Co. ...... ....... Utah State National Bank .............. Walker Bros. ........... .............. ASliayers and ChemIsts. A. F. EardweJJ ....................... . Bird-Cowan ........................... . 'Crismon & Nichols •.................... Currie, J. W. . ........................ . Officer & Co., R. R. ................... . UniOn Assay Office ................... . Rallronds. Bingham & Garfield Ry. .. . ........ . Oregon Short Line .................... . Sal t Lake Rou te ...................... . MIning Attorneys. Booth, Lee, Badger & Rich ........... . Brad.ey, Pischel & Harkness ......... . Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books . . . . . Davis & Davis ........................ . Higgins, E. V. . ....................... . Hutchinson, W. R. . ................... . Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette .......... . Sanford, Allen T. ........... . ........ .

Directory of Engineers. Page.

Adamson, W. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,........ 44

Arnold, Fisher & Calvert .............. 44

Boss, M. P. ............................ 44

Brooks, Chas. P. ...................... 4-l

Brown, G. Chester ....... ,............. H

F,urch, Caetani & Hershey .............. 44

Burke, James J. ....................... H

COllnor, P. E. .......................... H

Craig, W. J . . . . . . . . . . . . ,................ H

Dunyon, N. A. .......................... 44

Fiske, 'Winthrop \V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H

General Engineering Co. ............... H

Ireland, T. W. ......................... 44

Jennings, E. P. ........................ H

Johnson, Jay Eliot .. .................. 44

Knowlton, A. D. ....................... H

Lee, Murray ........................... H

Pack, Mosher F. ....................... 44

Peet, C. A. . ................ ,.......... 44

Pulsifer, H. B. ......................... H

Safford, J. L. . ..... ,................... H

Sherrill, S. C. ......................... { j Silver Bros., Engineers & Contractors.. fO TroxeJl. L. E. .................. ....... 49

Utah State S('.hool of Mines ............ 45

47 V iii adsen Bros. . ...................... , 45

47 W.alker, H. C. .......................... 45

47 \Viddicombe & Palmer .................

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43 Zalinski. Edward R. .......•... ,.... 45

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stored and it is possible that the use of this stored stock may have prevented an other­ wise natural rise. The present outlook· is for higher prices during 1913. As usual, the largest production from any single district was made from the uni· que ferberite deposits of Boulder county, Colorado. About 1,200 tons of ore of various grades were shipped out, equivalent to 775 tons of Sixty per cent ore. The Primos Min· ing & Miling eompany, and the Wolf Tongue Mining company, which works its proper­ ties by a leasing system, introduced an im­ portant new feature during the year by fur· nishing electric hoists free to its lessees and the company also pays a portion of the cost for sinking each shaft. The lessee pays for the cost of electric current used. It seems probable that this innovation will lead to an increase in production from the properties during 1912, unless the price should drop seriouslY, In California the Atolia Mining com­ pany, which controls the Atolia field, at the north edge of San Bernardino county, in· creased the production of its remarkably pure scheelite over that of 1911 and was the largest individual producer in the United states. A small quantity of scheelite was also taken out in the Stringer district, a few

Miscellaneous. Bradford, A. .. . ...................... .

Century Printing Co. . ................ . De Bouzek Engraving Co. . ............ . Gardner & Adams .................... . Harris, H. H., Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . Hotel Stanford ....................... . International Smelting & Refining Co.. . Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. . . . . . . . . Nephi Plaster Co. . .................... . New Era Motor Co. . .................. . Oftlc:al Directory of Mines ...... 48 and Railroad Time Tables ................ . Roberts, J. C .. Dealer in Rare Metals .. Salt Lake Photo Supply Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . Sail Lake Stamp Co. . .................. . Shiplers, Commercial Photographers ... . Steffen, H. W., Buyer of Old Dumps ... . Utah Ore Sampling Co. . .............. . Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars .. , .. Mine and Stock DeAler... Orcm & Co............................ .

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miles north and west of Atolia, A discovery of scheelite was reported from the west side of the Rand mountains, but no ore was sold. A few tons of mixed wolframite and schee­ lite were shipped from the vicinity of Nip­ ton, in the east end of San Bernar-dino coun­ ty. In Arizona a few tons of hu'bnerite eon· centrates were shipped from the dry placers and some ore from the veins near Dragoon; hubnerite ore was shipped from Arivaca to Denver, for concentration; and some schee­ lite concentrates were shipped from Oracle. where scheelite is associated with gold and silver ores. Small shipments of hubnerite were made from 013ceola and Round moun· tain, ~evada, and Paeerson creek, Idaho. A small quantity of hubp.erite was concen­ trated at Loon Lake, 'Washington, but none was shipped. One small shipment or wolr­ ramite was made from Lordsburg, 'New Mexico.

- - - - - 0 - -......-­ The use of vanadium steel in locomo· tive, automobile. and similar machinery seems to be growing rapidly. No extensive uses for uranium are known to have been developed, but the glass, pottery, and chemical trades use small quantities.

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Nevada was due to lead ore shipments from Pioche and that together with Yellow Pine the district increased the lead production of Nevada from 3,263,657 pounds in 1911 to nearly 19,000,000 pounds in 1912.

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Contributorll.

A. L. Sweetser. H. W. McFarren. Maynard Bixby. McLaren. B. F. Tibby.

Jay Eliot Johnson.

· Pulsifer.

I. Calvert. y A. Palmer.

Advertll!llng Acencics.

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The porphyry coppers are responsible for large increases in copper production Largely due to increased prodUction from new mines of this class, New Mexico in­ creased its copper output last year from four million to twenty-eight million pounds, and the value of Arizona's metal production was increased forty-nine per cent, from $45,000,000 to $65,000,000. ----'0---­

The history of zinc production in the past year is Interesting. In Nevada opera­ tions in the Yellow Pine district caused the production to leap rrom three and a half mlllion to twelve million pounds, over 200 per cent increase. In Utah the in­ crease.d shipments of ores formerly value­ ness from Tintic could not prevent a decline of thirteen per cent in the production, a falling off due to decreased shipments from Park City. Of the $4,000,000 increase in value of Colorado's metal prodUction, $3" O(){l,OOO came in value of spelter, $2,600,000 of which came from Leadville ores, over· looked for many years as a source of profit.

o DIVIDEN.DS AND THE MARKET.

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spite of Idaho's large lead production, is 'but one smeltery in the state and has but one furnace.

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he higher price of silver in 1912 ac­ ted for a million dollars increase in Talue of Montana's metal output.

----01---­ onopah, Nevada, is to De congratu· on having no dismantled or freak , and no idle mills built for mines with­ ,re, features that few camps can boast. ----0

Ie operation of a smeltery In the YeT' n district of Nevada is said by the Geological Survey to have increased opper output of Nevada seventeen per from a little over 67,000,000 ,pounds 11 to 79,000,000 in 1912.

----0---­ leap mIllIng and milling of gold ores uacteristic of the Black Hills of South tao The Wasp No.2 mine is mining len cut,with steam shovel stripping cyaniding its ores at a cost of one . to one dollar ar;,d a quarter per ton. external and internal factors are fav­

e. o Ie effect of the activity in the Pioche ct in Nevada is shown most empha· V by the statement that the increase e per cent In the silver production of

All estimates for dividends of the mines of Utah agree that the year iust· closed has been very satisfactory, and that the min­ ing industry is looking up. The recOO'd of sales on the local exchange shows tran­ sactions aggregating between two and three million dollars against seventeen to nine­ teen nImions in 1909. Dividends in 1909 for the same producers were about $6,000,­ 000 against $7,726,989 in 1912. For the pur­ pose of this discussion some of' these amounts should be disregarded. Eliminat· ing Utah Copper, which is not traded in on the local exchange, and the United States and American Smelting & Refining companies, much of 'whose income comes j\rom other states, and whose prices are made largely on other boardS, the figures stand at $4,500,000 a'gainst $2,500,000 for the respective years. This indicates that stock activities are in no wise proportional to dividend payments. The average selling price of thirty-one stocks listed on the local exchange was about thirty-nine cents at the end of 1912 against sixty-five cents in 1909, which is in about the same ratio as the dividend pay­ ments. This is a sa:'isfactory condition in itself. How shall we account for the small volume of sales? DU'ring the .past few years it has been brought to the attention of the public, through engineers' reports to tax commis­ sions, congressional investigations and mag­

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azine articles, that the quotations on stocks, in general, bea~ little relation to the in­ trinsic value of the properties which the stocks represent, but are made largely by manipulation. The pl:blic has ben so im­ pressed that it will no longer meekly stand, while being sheared, and insists, now, on being shown. It has decided to keep out of danger. This attitude is reflected on all the exchanges, both i!l industrial and min­ ing stocks, so that business on the ex­ changes has fallen off. We have been fed on statements that active stock exchangeS! indicate prosper­ ity, and listless ones the opposite, They do in the sense that inflated .prosperity induces people to take chances with their money, on the wheel of fortune, that solid I!rosperity would not induce them to take. They are prosperous now but insist on get­ ting a decent run for theiT money. Until such time as those dependent directly on stock activity for a living see fit to deal less in general, and more in speclnc, state­ ments as to the conditions in mines whose stocks they handle, the public is likely to stay out. More money is now being made in legi­ timate mining and less in mining stocks, which, to our mind, is eminently desirable and right. 'When sucll a condition exists, money will be found more readily for legi· timate development of mines, and much of the stigma unjustly attached to mining wilI be removed. Mining has lent itself readily to fictitious stock distribution, and some of this has been given a color of rt!spectability through notorious transactions that have been car· ried out by otherwise respectable men, whose operations are in many cases just coming in view. The tendency to ,place mining on a more solid basis should be encouraged, then, rather than bewailed.

---..,0----­ MINING AND THE WEST.

In financial and
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debt that can never be fully repaid, and the recLamation of this vast region is unques­ tionably due to the constant stream of im­ perishable wealth that has come from our mines, in almost a constant stream, from the day that gold was first discovered in california. As a matter of fact, California, with its genial clime, its orehards and its groves, oweS its very life to the boom that was started when it was discovered that in the hills, back from the coast, there existed great and almost inexhaustible deposits of the precious metals; and the same can 'be said of the interior states west of the Rocky Mountains. Gold w,as the lodestone that first led to the settlement of California by the Ameri­ ean people; and, the spirit of unrest, of en­ terpriSe and progressiveness, so common in a newly settled country, caused the early pioneers to branch out and seek bonanzas in unknown fields, the result being that there is hardly a western state, today, but that boasts of its mining camps, its busi­ ness centers, and a wide area that is set­ tled by the farmer, the rancher, and the fruit and cattle grower. When the disgruntled but unreasoning individual daims that mining is not legiti­ mate, he should pause before expressing himself too radically while the net results, the benefits of mining, are 'being enumer­ ated. Nothing that was ever great was founded upon a falsehood or a lie. Upon an insecure or rotten foundation; and yet the splendid empire of the west was built upon nothing less than the mining industry; and, were this to fail, it would not be long be­ fore the material interests of this region would become so demoralized that In course of time the whole country would be on the retrograde and gradually seek a level whose maintenance would depend, entirely, on an income dependent upon the product of the ranch and farm. Money, to a certain extent, is civiliza­ tion. Take money and real values away from a country or a nation. and in time it will return to its former primitive state; and, as real values are based upon ~he pre­ cious metals, the industry that produces gold and silver cannot be otherwise than legitimate, and the regions prodUCing these metals must, of necessity, open the way to a growth in population, to improvement and advancement on every hand. Without its mining industry there would be no west, today; the east would be much poorer, and opportuniti~s for safe and prof­ itable investments would not be knocking at the door of almost every American citi­ zen. ---~o---­

The decrease in the production of gold by the Goldfield Cons. Mines campany of Goldfield, Nevada, was about equal to the dim.inution in the output of the United States in 1912.

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The Prospector and His Burro

(By Will C. Higgins.) "You have always been a fluent li~ten­ er," said the 'prospe.ctor to his burro, "and this is one reason why I often take pleas­ sure in increasing your store of knowledge by the dropping of a few gems of wisdom along our trail now and then; for, no m:\t­ ter whether our conversation relates to a little old last year's boom or the discovery of an ancient mine, you are all at­ tention, and what I have to say seems to sink deep into whatever grey matter you may possess. I find,however, that you seem to take the most interest in recitals of adventure, although one would never think so to look at you, for your make-up would indicate a retiring disposition and a propenSity to seek seclusion in some well­ stocked corral instead of a hankering de­ sire to mingle with hazardous undertak­ ings in distant mining fields where moun­ tain lions esteem burro tee:bones as a choice bill of fare, or where the assimila­ tion of the loco weed is sure to bring on insanity and ultimate death_ Still, there is no use in judging 'by appearances, as no one would guess that I had a 'big bank account by looking at my clothes; and it is often that a burro, meek and lowly look. ing as he may appear, has a stout heart which is backed up by nimble heels and teeth as sharp as razors. "You want to know what I am trying to get at, and why this long preamble; and if I want to get you all muddled up before easing my mind of its present bur­ den; which break, on your part, to say the least, robs the compliment I have just 'Paid you of half its value, for I was just get­ ting down to the first outline of my story, the telling of which has almost been spoiled by your untimely interruption. But, to go .back to the remark I made about you being interested in adventure, I don't mind telling you that I arrived at this conclu­ sion by noticing the great interest you took in our last bed-time talk when I told you about that claim-jumping episode in the Fumed Egg range; for, when I spoke of the

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white-rQbed figure in the face of the tunnel, and the unearthly groans coming from the same quarter, your eyes bulged out like door-knobs, and the hair on your back bristled up so that you had an old tom-oat 'beat to a frazzle; whkh all goes to show that yoU are not really so dumb and in­ sensible to exciting things as your appear­ ance would indicate. "Some few years ago," -continued the prospector, "I was prospecting in tIle Bean­ Pot range on the edge of Death Val by. Your mother was with me at the time and we pitched our camp near the head of a gulch where the presence of willows indicated the existence of water at shallow depth. We had .been without liquid refresh­ ment for at least twelve hours, and I was digging in the sand and gravel like a sea crab, while your mother loo,ked on, with her ears hUng over and an eagerness in her eyes that was really picturesque, if not appealing; when, all of a sudden she heard a rustling in the grease-wood behind her, which diverted her attention from the work I had In hand. I guess I must have sensed something out of the ordinary, a130, for I raised from a stooping position to ;lee your mother heading for a nearby cliff, like greased lightning with a big mOUntaIn lion close at her heels. Your mother gained the cliff none too soon, and a moment lost would have been fatal to he'r. As it was, however, the instant the lion sprung at her she was ready for him, and' the beast re­ ceived as pretty a blow under his chin, from her lighting-like hoofs, as the shift· iest pugilist could give an opponent. The lion ~keeled over backwards as if he had been struck with a ten-pound hammer, :md in a second your mother was onto him like a flash. The stunned animal was un­ able to offer much resistance, and tbe way the sharp fore-feet of the burro gouged into his ribs and the Savage way with which she tore off patches of the lion's hide with her teeth, was a caution to tenderfeet. I think your mother would have eventually finished the career of the ,animal, Ibut I ar­ rived at the scene of battle in time to save her the trOUble, for I struck my pick through his brain and so saved her the trouble of ending the unequal fight. I was amazed at her audacity and courage, for it was almost as foolhardy as would be the 'action of a jackrabbit in spitting in a bull dog's face. But, what astonished me more was the fact that your mother, from a verit­ able tiger, immediately calmed down into a meek-looking, timorous-looking bw:ro, and began nibbling the sage-brush as un· concernedly as if she had not just had the greatest struggle of her life. She didn't even lift her voice in a song of triumph, or swagger around like a mining camp bully. Which all goes to show that she wasn't a bit proud or concel~ed; none what­ ever. I was greatly elated, however, and glorified over the fact that I could boast

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the possession of the greatest fighting 'ro in the hills. But I was more elated I .surprised, when I began to look over , 'field of battle, to find that the scrim· .ge had resulted in the breakin:g off of .eral quartz croppings which, upon close lmination, proyed to be lousy with free ,d. I was so elated that I shouted and nped around like an escaped maniac, and m shocked the quiet dignity and .e· lctability of your mother by throwing my ns around her neck and giving her a rm hug; for which she looked at m€ reo lachfully. After putting up my discovery 'nument I resumed my search for water, which I was successful after sinking to .lepth' of about four feet, Then I esta~· led a perman€ n t camp, after which I de a thorough prospecting of the new covery, tracing th€ vein, through its fre· mt outcrops, for a distance of a quar­ of a mile, or more. On this I located group of eight claims. With a little rk I found that the pay shoot was about ee feet in width, and judged that it would !rage from $80 to $100 to the ton, a.l· ugh portions of the ore·body would run into the thousands. I will not attempt tell you, at this talkfest, of how I took 'ortune from the mine and afterwarls 1 it to an English syndicate for another But. at another time I will tell you { your mother perished in a blizzard the r after we had made the wonderful dis· ery.

"I want to tel! you, Old Long Ears,"

cluded the prospector, "one cannot al·

rs tell, by the appearance of a man, just

I much courage he has hidden away in

corporosity; for, in my time, I have n little, meek·looking men, who bad n imposed upon for months by their Ipanions, suddenly turn and clean up t:lfl lie bunch. And it is oft€ n that a bully I swagger around until he looks fi.,.· 'in and flea-bitten, only to be soundly mced, in the end, by the most· timid· cing man in camp; and there you are, then some." -~'-:J-~-

IRON BLOSSOM PAYS DIVIDEND.

rhe Iron BlOSsom Mining company. op'

ing in th€ Tintic district of Utah, will

its regular quarterly dividend of ten

s a share on January 25th, to stockhold·

of record on January 18th. The tota~

lend disbursements of the company are

$1,470,000. Divid€ n ds declared for 1913, ve go to press, aggregate nearly $250,­ for Utah mines. 'he ore now being hoisted at the Iron som is said to run higher in silver than for some time past. There is at least ner years supply of shipping ore in ~, besides the lower grade which the lany intends to mill. The company will $300,000 in the treasury after paying o.ext dividend.

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OBITUARY.

Walter M. Young, of Salt Lake City, met death on the 8th, by the bursting ofa tIy­ wheel at th€ c oncentrator of the Anaconda Copper Mining company, at Ana-conda, Mon­ tana, at which he was the superintendent of the installation of equipment for hand­ ling the slimes. Details of the accident have not be€ n received. Mr. Young had been a resident of Salt Lak€ for twelve years, and had been in the west twenty· ,four years. He has 'been employed by the O. B. Peck company in installing slime plants. Among th€ installations he made are the plant at the Stanley mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, and one at Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Young was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, October 31, 1854. He was married in Minnesota in 1854, and leaves a widow and one son and one daughter. After his marriage he went to Montana, since which time he has been identified with mining interests in the west. In a cave-in at the Old Jordan mine at Bingham, Utah, on the 7th of January, Eveleth A. Squire, shift boss, was buried with two miners. There seems to have been a series of
GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED

REPORTS.

The management of the Goldfield Con­ solidated Mines company, of Goldfield, Ne· vada, € s timates a profit of $253,000 from Decemb€ r operations, from the treatment

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of 27,946 tons of an u;timated gross value of $423,000, The revised statement for November has also been given out by Superintendent Thorne, as follows: During the month of Nov€ m ber, 1912, the total production of your company was 27,775 tons, containing $451,986.68, or an average of $16,27 per ton, of which 27,402 tons were milled wi:h an average extrac­ tion of 92.80 per cent, and 373 tons were shipped of an average value of $19.78 per ton, the net recovery from all ore being $15.12 per ton. The net r~alization to your company was $250,370.79, or $9.01 per ton. Development work-3,528 f€ e t of devel· opment work was performed durIng the month of November, 1912. Operating costs-The total cost of min­ '. ing, development, transportation, m!llIng, office and general € x pense was $6.11 p€ r ton, distributed as follows: Mining, including stoping and devel· opment....................... _... III3A1

Transportation . . . .......;....... " . . .07

Milling . . .......................... 2.06

Marketing . . .................. _. . . . .06

General expense ..... ~ .......... _.. _ .49

Bullion tax • . . .................".... 106

Construction . • Marketing ore . .., ," ............... " .03

Total cost of operation ............ $6 13

Miscellanoous earnings ............ _. .07

Net cost per ton ................. $6.11

Combination-Con.~iderable new OTe was

developed in this mine during the month,

especially on the second level about 300

feet northwest of the shaft. The 136·BX

sill was extended and produced 203 tons

of ore averaging $49.20 per ton. The 112-X

drift being driven in the territory north­

west of the 13S·EX stope on the same levei

has cut a new ore body, and produced 101

tons averaging $36.40 per ton. This new

ore body should produce a large tonnage

of excellent grade ore. The 210·X drift on

the third level is being extended to find the

downward extension of the 112·X ore.

Mohawk-The 3-J sill, on the 150-foot

level in the old Sheets·lsh country, was ex·

tended and produced 170 tons averaging

$20 per ton. The 3·P sill being cut on the

ore body in forty drift produced 243 tons

of an average value of $16 per ton. The

170-T stope being extended in the ore body

cut by the 107-X drift on the 250-foot level,

under the old Sheets·Ish workings, pro­

duced 170 tons averaging $21.20 per ton.

The 490·R sill on the intermediat€ between

the third and fourth levelS, was extended

and produced. thirty-one tons averaging $11

per ton. The 490-E sill on the same Inter·

mediate, just north of the 490·R, was ex·

tended and produced 574 tons of an average

value of $18 per ton.

Clermont-The 408-1 stope has be€ n

brought up above the GOO· foot level and the

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sill of the 600 produced 805 tons averag· ing $21.40 per ton. The development work in' this mine during the past month has been confined principally to tHe 1300 and HOO-foot levels, where "ome very promis­ ing discoveries have been made. On the HOO·foot level about 450 feet south of the shaft the shale and latite contact was en· countered on the seventh of the month, and since that date the crosscut has been en· tirely in latite, well silicified and mIner­ alized and carrying small values in gold, silver and copper; and there is every rea· son to believe that the downward exten­ sion of the 1300 ore bodies will be found on this level. ---~o,----

NOVEL DAM CONSTRUCTION.

Four companies, the ,Sevier River Land & water company, the Delta Land & Water

company, Oasis Irrigation company and Melville Irrigation company, are jointly in­ terested In an irrigation project at Sevier Bridge, twelve miles south of Juab, Utah. The Sevier river is at present restrained by an earthern dam, sixty feet high and 500 feet long. To increase the storage capadty to about 250,000 acre-feet, it was decided to add twenty feet to the height of the dam. Investigation showed that the present dam rests On a bed of quicksand, which would make it unsafe to increase the head of water. It was decided to put In a concrete core to 'bed rock. The horizontal se-ction of the dam is trapezoidal. with the short base upstream. tt was decided tG face the upstream side ,,!th a three.foot wall of concrete to such ~ height that the water could not carry it ut. The depth of bedrock from the bottom f the dam varies from twenty to thirty­ "0 feet. Work was started on the legs , the trapezoid, where trenches were cut td filled with concrete, for a length of 192 et on the south wing and 142 feet on the rth wing. The details of the work are interesting. was found impossible to excavate by ans of an open cut, on account of the cksand, so that all work had to be tlmb­ ::I. Work was begun, in the middle of tember, just above the water line. The ch was excavated by shoveling to a h of fifteen feet, after which 'buckets ) used to hoist the dirt. Timbering wed excavation closely. Sheet piling, Ie feet long and two in-ches thick was driven by a steam pile driver, a sec­ let of piles was driven inside the first in the second twelve feet, and so on. ,idth of the trench diminishing one ,ith each successive set of piling. The >iles were so driven that when bed­ ,as reached, the treneh would be three ide. Excavation proceeded with the " and struts were at once placed the trench at six-foot intervals hori·

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skin vertically, so that there was virtually a series of tightly timbered rectangular shafts, six feet by three in section. Concrete, with a one to four matrix, was mixed In two Smith mixers and run by gravity into the trenches. Rock was blasted from the side hills, hauled ,to the work and dumped by hand into the concrete in the trenCh, boulders up to three or four hundred pounds being used. The cross­ timbers or struts were allowed to remain in, as it was felt by the engineer In charge that these would be amply protected from deterioation by being imbedded in the con­ crete. They will always be watersoaked. In addition to this vertkal wall which will go all about the upstream side of the dam, the upstream slope will be faced with con· crete to such a height that the normal to the, slope will not be less than thirty feet long to the bottom of the stream bed, which is practically the 'bottom of the present dam. The difficulties encountered in holding the ground were many. A five·inch pump was constantly at work removing water and quicksand, and timbering had to be careful­ ly placed. It is believed by the engineer in charge, Mosher F. Pack, of Salt Lake, that the dam when completed will be per­ fectly safe, and in no danger of going out under the increased head. A lower earth dam, resting on quick­ sand, went out some time ago with disas· trous results, and it was to avoid a repe­ tition of this that the new work was under­ taken. A second dam will not be necessary, the increased height of the present dam in· creasing the storage capacity sufficiently for some time to come. 0-----­

BUREAU OF MINES REPORT.

The second annual report of the direc­ tor of the United States Bureau of Mines has been presented to the secretary of the interior. It makes a book of some eighty­ seven pages. After reCiting the purposes of the Bur­ eau of Mines. which have appeared in print many times, the report mentions the bene­ fits derived from its organization. There has been great improvement in mine safety and in mining conditions. especially in con­ nection with the handling of explosives, mine fires and explosio:ls, and accidents from falls of roo.f. First-aid work and mine rescue cars and stations have done much in this connection. Certain miners dis­ eases have also been investigated in con­ nection with the public health service. Much time has been devoted to the study of fuels, in testing coals, in order to get greater efficiency in burning. These have resulted in the use of former waste pro­ ducts and the wider use of brlqueting. The organization of the 'burp~n ,~ -­

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mining, mechanical and chemica tions. Provision was made for investigation of mining conditiom by a territorial mine Inspector, port will be submitted later. Six mine rescue stations al mine res-cue cars are maintained, estimated that more than 65,00 visited them, that more than 36,0( ed the lectures, more than 10,000 tial training in first aid work, 1,000 certificates of proficiency sued. ,Among the needs of the 'burt buildings, grounds 'and equipment experiment station at Pittsburg, J vania; funds for extending mine re£ first-aid work and of extending a investigations to all phases of the industry; funds for extending invest! with a view to prevention of r wastes and for extending Investigat! the western metal mines. A description in some detail of t vestigations that have been undertake ing the year is then included. most of has been brought to the attention 0 public, in the lists of publications 0 bureau. Smeltery furna-ce problems have studied, with regard to smoke and fume utilization of sulphur and arsenic, the of oil for reducing iron ores, treatmel complex sulphide ores, and the extra· of rare metals of especial interest, in making. Losses in the lead and zinc industry the utilization of titaniferous iron ores been studied on a small s-cale. Mii slimes treatment, placer washings, b alloys, electric furnaces and many I techni-cal matters have also been in' gated. Of interest to Utah is the followir "Another series of investigations \' have been arranged for and are to bl dertaken under the direction of the mineral chemist relate to the minin certain rare minerals, the extraction 0 rare metals they contain. and the ex: ation of possible sources of radium. "The work already outlined includE investigation of the productj.on of carr and pitchblende in the United States present status of the mining and treat of these ores. and a study of the methods of handling and treating 1 especially those of low grade. It alE eludes an examination into the possi of finding ores containing these rare e about the waste piles of a number of n "Other proposed investigations reI to radium comprise methods of separ and fractionation of radium salts, me of estimating radium in rocks and n als, the radil1n"l ... A~''"

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of native carnotites for their helium ent. The production and treatment of vana· 1, tungsten, and other rar€ metals are e studied. The investigation outlined abov€ are to :ondueted by R. B. ,Moore, physical aist, and associates, who will have a ratory in Denver, Colorado." ----,0

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MINING

IN

1912.

he gold-mining industry of theUnit€ d was generally normal in 1912, accordo H. D. McCaskey, of the U; S. Geologic­ urvey, but early figures indicate the lest production since 1907, when the­ ut was $90,435,70{). In 1908 the output' ,aS€d to $94,560,(}00, in 1909 to $99,673,­ in 1910 it dropped to $96,269,100; in it increased slightly to $96,890,000, but 12 it d€ c reased to $91,685,168, according 'eliminary estimat€ s of the 'Bureau of \fint and the Geological Survey. he decr€aS€ is to be ascribed mainly to ,da, where th€ r e was a falling off of t $4,500,000, chiefiyfrom Goldfield and 3mall€ r degree from National and Seven ghs. The great Goldfield min€ s produc­ .ore ore than in 1911, but the av€ r age ~ treated was considerably lower; the at National was burned in September, production was d€ l ayed at Seven ~hs by a cloudburst in July. On the hand, th€ Manhattan, Round Moun­ and Fairview districts somewhat in­ ed their yields. A decrease of $300,000 ·00,000 is also indicated for Colorado, e, although there was an increased pro· :m from Crippl€ Creek of about $500,­ )wing partly to succ€ s sful drainage by toosevelt tunnel, and an increase in output also from Gilpin county, ther€ III estimated decreaS€ in production of $1,000,000 from the San Juan region, Hng th€ counties of Dolor€ s , La Plata, r, San Juan, and San Miguel. Th€ bulk ~ decrease, however, was from the . ,Bird mine, in Ouray county, as the t of San Juan and Dolores counties in­ ~d. In Utah and Washington decreases d output of $HlO,OO() to $200,000 are in­ !d. In Montana th€ r e was probably a 9r ·decrease. e production of gold was smaller in a, Arizona, Idaho, and New MexIco, lere was a somewhat increased output ifornia and Oregon. The year 1912 was prosperous in South Dakota, where th€ t increased about $400,000 and was the ;t in the history of the state. The great stake mines, as usual, made the bulk output. The hydro€ l € c tric plant of the my owning these mines, which has under construction for several years, ompleted and in operation in 1912. lifornia retains first place in gold out­ egained from Colorado in 1911. Id dr€ d ging continu€ d generally active

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in 1912, especially in California and Alaska, where iner€ a sed dredging capacity was add­ ed. The output from 120 dredges in ten states (including Alaska) in 1911 was $10,­ 311,589. In the Geological Survey's r€ p ort on gold and silver for 1911 it was shown that of th€ total production tw€ n ty-four per cent was derived from placers, dredging alone proouc· ing 10.9 per cent; 53.8 per cent was from gold and silver mills (23.9 per c€ n t by amal­ gamation, 26.1 per cent by cyanidation, and 3.8 per oont by chlorination), and 22 per cent from smelting. These proportions will probably not greatly chang€ for 1912, except that dredging may be expected to increas€ som€ w hat and the output from chlorination will continue to decline. A declin€ in prospecting has been noted in S€ v eral of the west€ r n states and in 1911 and 1912 th€ r e was no notable discov€ r y of n€w ore .bodies Or deposits that seem likely to promise imm€ d iate material increases in the domestic gold output. Th€ largest pro­ ducers are op€ r ating at probably near their maximum capacity and though steady output from them is assur€ d , in som€ plac€ s , as at Goldfield, the grade of ore has begun to de­ cline. N€w development and discovery of gold d€ p osits will in all likelihood not much more than offset such decline in grade, or the exhaustion of old€ r mines. From present knowledge there is no great prosp€ c t of an increase in gold production of the Unit€ d States in 1913. According to estimates mad€ for the sur­ vey by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce the imports in 1912 comprised gold valued at $61,400,000. The gold uport­ ed in 1912 was valued at $48,600,000. The ex­ c€SS of imports over exports was about $12,­ 800,1)00, against $20,262,110 in 1911 and $447,­ S96 in 1910. This Is a marked change from the condition In 1909, wh€ n the excess of ex· ports over imports was $88,793,855. The gold import€ d in 1912 was maInly in the form of ore and bullion, and a large amount came from Mexico, with Canada a cloS€ second. England, France and Qentral and South American countries supplied the bulk of the remaind€ r . 'l'he exports consisted of refined bullion and coin. The largest amounts went to France, South America, Canada, and Japan, and smaller shipments were sent to th€ West Indi€ s and other North American countri€ s . L.argest Output of Silver in Past 20 Years. Preliminary estimat€ s of the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of the Mint indicate a domestic silver produc­ tion In 1912 of 62,369,974 fin€ ounc€ s , valued at $37,982,414, the greatest output (though not the greatest value) since 1892, wh€ n the production was estimated at 63,500,000 ounces. In 1893 it was given as 60,000,000 ounces, and not since then until 1911, when the production was 60,399,400 ounces, has the figures been above 6{),OOO,000. Final fig­ ures may show an even greater output for

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1912, as early estimates from the mines made by the western offices of the Geo­ logical Survey indicate a total silver pro­ duction of approximately 64,000,000 ounces, or the largest output in the history of th€ country. This incr€ a se in production may b€ at­ trlbut€ d chiefly to the notable increase in the output of copper ores, espeCially those of Butte, Montana, which contain consid€ r · able silver, and of argentiferous l€ a d ores, notably of the TinUc and Park City districts, Utah; the Pioche distrkt, Nevada; and the San Juan region and the Leadville and As­ pen districts, Colorado. There was apparent­ ly a small decr€ a se In silYer produced from the great Couer d'Alene I€ a d mines of Idaho, whose ores 'have a low€ r average silver con­ tent than formerly. '. High prices generally for silver, copper, and lead in 1912 materially added to the pro­ fits of production. The average New Y0I:k price for silver in January, 1912, was 56.3 cents a fine ounce; by May it had risen with various fluctuations to 60.9 cents, by October to 63.5 cents, and the December average price was about 63.6 cents. The average price for the year may be taken at 60.9 cents a fine ounce, against 53 cents in 1911 and 1908, 54 cents in 1910, and 52 cents in 1909. It was the high~st therefore since 1907, when th€ average price was 66 cents. The year 1912 was one of general business prosp€ r !ty and buying was liberal in all metals. For shipment to the far east, espe­ cially to India, larg€ purchases of silve,r were recorded. According to estimates made liy the Bur· eau of Foreign and Domestic Commer('€ , the imports Qf silver in 1912 were valued at $47,800,000. The exports of silv€ r during the same year were valued at $70,272,0()O, or $22,472,000 in excess of the value of the im­ ports. In 1911 the value of the excess of ex­ ports ov€ r imports of silver was $21,918,075. The imports of silver in 1911 wer€ , as usual, chiefly in ore and bullion and came mainly from Mexico and 'Canada. The exports were almost wholly in refined bullion and coin, and went, as usual, chiefly to the United Kingdom, although larg€ amounts were also sent to France and Hongkong and smaller shipments to China and British In­ dia.

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(Prepared for The Mining Review.)

Priority.-Where prior to the patent sur·

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the patent survey for that claim, moved so

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of native carnotites for their helium ent. The production and treatment of vana· 1, tungsten, and other rare metals are e studied. The investigation outlined above are to :ondu'Cied by R. B. '};'[oore, physical aist, and associates, who will have a ratory in Denver,Colorado." ---0----­ D

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he gold-mining industry of the United was .generally normal in 1912, accordo H. D. McCaskey, of the U; S. Geologic­ urvey, but early figures indicate the lest production since 1907, when the~ at was $90,43a,700. In 1908 the output' ,ased to $94,a60,OOO, in 1909 to $99,673,­ in 1910 it dropped to $96,269,100; in it increased slightly to $96,890,000, but 12 it decreased to $91,685,168, aC(lording 'eliminary estimates of the ,Bureau of \oIint and the Geological Survey. he decrease is to be ascribed mainly to .da, where there was a falling off of t $4,aOO,000, chiefly from Goldfield and 3maller degree from National and Seven ghs. The great Goldfield mines produc­ ore ore than in 1911, but the average l treated was considerably lower; the at National was burned in September, production was delayed at Seven ghs by a doudburst in July. On the hand, the Manhattan, Round Moun­ and Fairview districts somewhat in­ ed their yields. A decrease of $300,000 00,000 is also indicated for Colorado, e, although there was an increased pro· :)n from Cripple Creek of about $500" )wlng partly to successful drainage by ~oosevelt tunnel, and an increase in output also from Gilpin county, there m estimated decrease In production of $1,000,000 from the San Juan region, ling the counties of Dolores, La Plata, t, San Juan, and San Miguel. The bulk ~ decrease, however, was from the '.Bird mine, in Ouray county, as the t of San Juan and Dolores counties ine-d. In Utah and Washington decreas~s d output of $HlO,OO() to $200,000 are in· ~d. In Montana there was probably a ~r ,decrease. .e production of gold was smaller in a, Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico, lere was a somewhat increased output jfornia and Oregon. The year 1912 was prosperous in South Dakota, where the t in.creased about $400,000 and was the t in the history of the state. The great stake mines, as usual, made the bulk output. The hydroele-ctric plant of the my owning these mInes, Which has under .construction for several years, ompleted and in operation in 1912. lifornla retains first place in gold out­ egained from Colorado in 1911. hi dredging continued generally active

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in 1912, especially in California and Alaska, 1912, as early estimates from the mines where increased dredging capacity was add· made by the western offtces of the Geo­ ed. The output from 120 dredges in ten logical Survey indicate a total silver pro­ states (including Alaska) in 1911 was $10,­ duction of approximately 64,000,000 ounces, 311,a89. or the largest output in the history of the In the Geological Survey's report on gold <:ountry. and silver for 1911 it was shown that of the This incr~ase in production may be at­ total production twenty-four per (lent was tributed chiefly to the notable increase in derived from placers, dredging alone produc­ the output of copper ores, especially those ing 10.9 per cent; a3.8 per cent was from of Butte, Montana, which contain consider­ gold and silver mills (23.9 per cent by amal­ able silver, and of argentiferous lead ores, gamation, 26.1 per cent by cyanidation, and notably of the Tintic and Park CIty districts, 3.8 percent by chlorination), and 22 per Utah; the Pioche district, Nevada; and the cent from smelting. These proportions will San Juan region and the Leadville and As­ probably not greatly change for 1912, except pen districts, Colorado. There was apparent­ that dredging may be expected to in-crease ly a small decrease in siJ.ver produced from somewhat and the output from chlorination the great Couer d'Alene lead mines of Idaho, whose ores 'have a lower average silver con­ will continue to decline. A decline in prospecting has been noted tent than formerly. " High prices generally for silver, copper, in several of the western states and in 1911 and 1912 there was no notable discovery of and lead in 1912 materially added to the pro­ new ore bodies or deposits that seem likely ftts of production, The average New Y0I:k to promise immediate material increases in price for silver in January, 1912, was 56.3 the domestic gold output. The largest pro­ cents a fine ounce; by May it had risen with ducers are operating at probably near their various flu'Ciuations to 60.9 cents, by October maximum capacity and though steady output to 63.5 cents, and the December average from them is assured, in some places, as at price was about 63.6 cents. The average price for the year may be taken at 60,9 Goldfield, the grade of ore has begUn to de­ cline. New development and discovery of cents a fine ounce, against 53 cents in 1911 gold deposits will in all likelihood not much and 1908, a4cents in 1910, and a2 cents in more than offset such decline in grade, or 1909. It was the high~st therefore since the ex,haustion of older mines. From present 1907, when the average price was 66 cents. knowledge there is no great prospect of an The year 1912 was one of general business increase in gold production of the United prosperity and buying was liberal in all metals. For shipment to the far east, espe­ states in 1913. According to estimates made for the sur· cially to India, large purchases of silve,r were vey by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic recorded. Commerce the imports in 1912 comprised Aocording to estimates made oy the Bur­ gold valued at $61,400,000. The gold export­ eau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. ed in 1912 was valued at $48,600,000. The ex· the imports of silver in 1912 were valu~d at c~ss of imports over exports was about $12,­ $47,800,000. The exports of silver during the 800;000, against $20,262,110 in 1911 and $447,­ same year were valued at $70,272,O()O, or 696 in 1910. This is a marked change from $22,472,000 in excess of the value of the im­ the condition in 1909, when the ex.cess of ex­ ports. In 1911 the value of the excess of ex­ ports over imports was $88,793,855. ports over imports of silver was $21,918,075. The gold imported in 1912 was maInly in The imports of silver in 1911 were, as the form of ore and bullion, and a large usual, chiefly in ore and bullion and came amount came from Mexico, with Canada a mainly from Mexico and 'Canada. The exports close second. England, Fran'ce and Central were almost wholly in refined bullion and and South American countries supplied the coin, and went, as usual, chiefly to the bulk of the remainder. The exports .consisted United Kingdom, although large amounts of refined bullion and coin. The largest were also sent to France and Hongkong and amounts went to France, South America, smaller shipments to China and British In· Canada, and Japan, and smaller shipments dia. were sent to the West Indies and other ----0---­ North American countries. RECENT MINING DECISIONS. Largest Output of Silver in Past 20 Years. iPreliminary estimates of the United (Prepared for The Mining Review.) States Geological Survey and the Bureau of the Mint indicate a domestic silver produc­ Priority.-Where prior to the patent sur· tion in 1912 of 62,369,974 fine ounces, valued vey of a second mining claim and the at $37,982,414, the greatest output (though moving of its line. the end of the line of not the greatest value) since 1892, when the the original claim was, on the making of production was estimated at 63,500,000 the patent survey for that claim, moved so ounces. In 1893 it was given as 60,000,000 as to correspond with the cal! in the loca­ ounces, and not since then until 1911, when tion notice and certificate, the owners of the production was 60,399,400 ounces, has that claim have priority.-Indiana Nevada the figures been above 60,000,000. Final fig­ Mining Co. vs. Gold Hills Min. & Mill. Co., ures may show an even greater output for Supreme Court of Nevada, 126 Pacific 965.

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pany, composed of E. S. Van Dyck of the Jumbo Extension Mining company, of Gold­ field, Nevad:P, and associates. ill operating the Oro Fino property, near Rochester can­ yon. Nevada, where it is the intention to appropriate water and erect a mill.

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The Home Run Copper company, of Pio­ che, Nevada, will install a compressor soon. A mill is to be installed at the Hidden Hand mine at Lewiston. Wyoming, when tests now under way are completed. The Snake River Consolidated Mining company, L. A. Pease, president, is plan­ ning the erection of a $100,000 mill at En­ campment. Wyoming. It is reported that a syndicate is being formed at Butte, Montana, to erect a 100­ stamp mill at Virginia City, and that con­ struction work will begin e3.rly in the spring. The Santa Ana Rawhide Gold Mining & Milling company expects to erect a new stamp mill with concentrating tables at the Crab mine in the Yeringto·n district of Ne­ vada. The Gethin-Le Roy United Mines com­ pany. 417-19 Atlas Block, Salt Lake, have in contemplation the building of a 2.50Q-foot aerial tramway in the Silver Island district, western Utah. F. R. Clark, of Seattle, Washington, president of the Arcade Mining company, operating near Chewelah, Washipgton, states that machinery is to be installed on the property at once. The Bamberger interests of Salt Lake, which control the Daly West mine at Park City, Utah, may erect a 100-ton mill on the recently acquired Kramer Hill gold prop­ erty at Golconda, Nevada. The Selma Mines company, of Salt Lake. which is operating in the North Tintic dis­ trict of Utah,has authorized L. C. Peterson to receive bids on an electric hoist and other machinery for the mine. Manager W. R. Vanderveer of the Morn­ ing Star Mining company, operating on Bilk creek, in the San Miguel section of Colo­ rado, is figuring on the erection of a mill for the company during the present year. Robert C. Dunbar, of the Rand Mining company, operating near Searchlight, Ne­ vada, is authority for the statement that the company will install an electric pumping plant and new tables in its ten-stamp mil1. George Edwards, manager of the North Star Mining company, of Butte. Montana, which is operating mines at Stemple, Mont· ana. states that there is enough ore in sight to warrant mill construction, and that a fifty·ton mill will probably be put up in April. The Deer Creek Mining company, of Deer Creek, Idaho, has completed a flume to supply water to ·be used in generating power for a compressor. and for a mill, if the latter shOUld be built, the matter now being considered by the directors of the company. The Sunset "lining & Development com­

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George Jacobs, of Portland, Oregon. Vi ill erect a hydroelectric power plant at Cline Falls, Oregon. The Colorado Midland railroad will ex­ pend at least $1,000,000 on improvements on its lines in Colorado. The Twin City Electric company will reo build its entire lighting system at Ray­ mond, ·Washlngton. The Great Northern Railway will build the Bainville·Northwest line, some sixty miles long, In Montana, in the near future. It is reported that the Nevada Copper Belt railroad w!1l be extended from Ludwig to the Kennedy Consolidated mine at Buck· skin, Nevada. The Naches line of the North Yakima & Valley railroad will be extended ten miles to Telton, \Vashington, according to J. C. Roth of the Northern Pacific. H. H. Cazier and Jno. H. Cazier have reo ceived permission to appropriate the waters of Trout creek, to furnish light and power to the city of Wells, Nevada. n is reported that the old line of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad to Wasatch, up Little Cottonwood canyon, near Salt Lake, will be rebuilt. The Pacific Light & Power company plans to build a 5,000-horsepower plant to add to the capacity of its equipment In the Naches. D. F. McGee is chief engineer at Wapata, Washington. The Sacramento Valley electric railway plans to build additional lines in California, one from Davis to Winters, to be fourteen miles long, and one from Corning to Pasa­ kenta, twenty-four miles in length. The Soo line will build two lines into Montana, one, the Ambrose line, will be ex­ tended fifty mi'es into Valley county. and the other will be extended from Plaza, North Dakota, to Goodall, Montana. J. C. Eiseman, manager of the Thompson Falls Mercantile company, reports that the main power plant of 15,O\)0 horsepower will be built as rapidly as possible. The plant will be near Thompson Falls, Montana. The Pacific Interior company has filed articles of incorporation to ,build a railroad from Grants Pass, Oregon, to Crescent City, California. E. T. McKinstrY,George Colvig and W. P. Quinton are the incorporators. Articles of incorporation of the Chicago, Siouz Falls & Pacific railroad have been filed at Pierre. South Dakota, which provide for the building of a railroad from Chicago

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to Seattle, Washington, through the states of Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington. The Lincoln County Ice & Electric com­ pany will begin work on the construction of a plant at Limon, Colorado. The first installa­ tion will consist of two 100-kilowatt electric generating units and a ten-ton ice plant. AI· bert C. Jahl, 609 Colorado building, Denver, is general manager of the company. Sealed bids will be received at the office of the United States Reclamation service, Los Angeles, California, until January 22, for furnishing hydraulic and electrical ap­ paratus for St. Mary's storage unit, Milk RiYer project, Montana. For particulars ad­ dress United States Reclamation Service, 605 Federal building, Los Angeles, Califor· nia, Or Washington, D. C., A. P. Davis, acting director. The Idaho Northern railroad at present in operation between Nampa and Murphy and Emmett, an extension to which is being built to the Payette lakes, has been pur­ chased by the Oregon Short Line, according to recent advices received at Boise. It is claimed Short Line money will complete the extension of the road to the lakes, a dis· tance of 100 miles, and then proceed to build north to the Salmon river. taking ad· vantage of a water grade down that stream to the Snake river, on west to Lewiston, giving Idaho its first north and south Tail· road. The southern extension to the Idaho Northern will result in the railway being built to Homedale and on to Winnemucca, Nevada, ma)!:ing direct connections with the Sout,hern PaCific, giving Idaho an outlet to california and the south Pacific points.

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The Nevada-Cinnabar company has be8!1 organized by F. A. Swee', L, H. Curtis, L. L. Legg, R. J. Evans, F. J. Curtis, C. H. Rid­ dle, and G. 1. Payne, of Salt Lake. Capital­ ization is $1,000,000. No ~rther detail~ have been given out at this time, although it is known that the Davis properties an,l others have been acquired in western Ne­ vada. -----0---­

The Grand Gulch Mining company, of Salt Lake, W. P. Jennings, manager, has purchased, through P. J. Moran, a Mack­ Saurer-Hewett auto trUCk, of six and a half tons capacity. for its mining property in Mohave county, Arizona. The truck is to be delivered in February and, if it is satis­ factory, the company will order four or five more.

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time, as consulting metallurgist, was in Salt Lake on the 6th inst. en route to Butte, where he will remain for sevt!tal months in Jhn H. McChrystal, of Salt Lake, is in the employ of D. C. Jackling. Capt. Benj. W. Tibby, the well known Angeles.

copper expert, and consulting metallurgist uncan MacVichie, of Salt Lake, is in

for the Mascot Copper company at Dos last on mining and other business.

Cabezas, Arizona, has been spending the 0110 Clapp is in southern California on

holidays in Salt Lake visiting his family ,rtant railroad construction business.

and renewing acquaintance with his many I. F. Riedel, of Spokane, Washington, friends. been examining mines at Manhattan, S. M. Levy, of Salt Lake, manager for ida. the Ely Consolidated Copper company> op­ .' H. Godbe, of Salt Lake, recently erating near Ely, Nevada, has returned sacted important mining business in from a regular inspection of the company'/! Francisco. ~ property. In commenting upon the physical _. D. Knowlton, of Salt Lake, has moved' condition of the Ely Consolidated Mr. Levy )ffice from the D. F. Walker Building to stated the mine is in first class physical fudge Building.

condition. On the 700-foot level, from the '. P. Strange, of Salt Lake City, was shaft, the cross-cut has been run a distance -ied to Margaret McCarthy, of Denver, of 330 feet, and the face is under the he ninth of January.

point, vertically, where an ore body is show­ 'aul Valtinke, of Salt Lake, has been ing on the 600. It is believed that the e1l.­ tension of this drift another 200 feet will !lining properties in the Green River encounter this ore zone on its dip and Moab sections of Utah. rake. The volume of water in the lower :. P. Jennings and Edward R. Zalinsky level is slightly increasing but is easily ! moved their offices from 607 to 819 being handled by the pumps. Current ex­ house Building, Salt Lake City. penses are running under normal because oe S. Free, of Salt Lake, of Free & of the excellent condition of the company's lor, has returned from Nevada where plant. ,ttended to professional business. -=----0'---­

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~enj. F. Tibby, of Salt Lake, of the firm (owell & Tibby, left, a few days ago, for :ago and St. Louis on business for his

toy King, of the Tonopah Development pany, of Tonopah, Nevada, was at Grass ey, California, for the Christmas holi­

The Boyle interests, owning conces­ sions in the Klondike river vaHey of Yu­ kon Territory, are now building two addi­ tional dredges at a cost of $400,00:) earh, which will give them a fleet of four hoats. The new dredges will have a dai:y capa-' city of 14,000 cubic yards of gravel each. ----,0---­

,fosher F. Pack, of Salt Lake, is in 'ge of new construction work on the er Bridge irrigation project in southern 1.

lam LeVY, of Salt Lake, manager for Ely -Consolidated Copper company, has rned from a visit to the company's Ne­ i property. Carl Bernson, engineer for the General ineering company, of Salt Lake, who is harge of the construction of the mlII or Rico-Wellington Mining company, at ), Colorado, spent the holidays in Salt e. )scar Lachmund, of Salt Lake City, has 1 appointed general manager of the ish Columbia Copper company, and will ove his family to Greenwood, British 1mbia, immediately, to take up his new es. IV. R. Calvert, of Salt Lake, of the firm \.rnold, Fisher & Calvert, consulting en­ lers and geologists, left last week for :hern California to investigate the subof conservation of gas, in behalf of the 3. Bureau of Mines. ). Wiser, who has been connected with Ray Consolidated and Chino, for some

The Royal Gold & Copper Mining com­ pany, of Salt Lake City, operating in Para­ dise district, in the northeastern portion of Utah, made most satisfactory J;lrogress in mine development during the past year, and is now getting ready for active opera­ tion as soon as the season opens in the spring. Last year the company constructed three miles of wagon road, and built a for­ ty by sixty-foot log bunk house, and a blacksmith shop thirteen by sixteen feet. The upper tunnel has been driven into tile mountain a distance of sixty feet, all in ore, while the lower tunnel and incline is in a distance of 160 feet, also in ore, that averages 3 per cent copper and $1 in .:;iI­ ver to the ton, and it is estimated that all of 50,000 tons of this qUality of mineral is now in sight in the mine workings. The ore is a sulphide and can be easily COll­ centrated, and the company hopes to be able to put in a 30-ton plant in the spring. The locality abounds in fine timber :lnd plenty of water, and the company is very sanguine that the enterprise can soon be placed upon a producing and profitable base. John Geise, of Salt Lake, is presi­ dent of the company.

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A. L. Jacobs, mining broker of Salt Lake, has returned from the coast. E. Caddell has returned to Nogales, Ariz­ ona, from a trip to Colorado. David Taylor, ore buyer of Salt Lake, is on a business trip to Europe. A. H. Crampton, of Manhattan, Nevad~l., spent the holidays in Colorado. Hon. John Dern, of Salt Lake, has re­ turned from a visit to Nebraska.

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John Stowe has become foreman of the Daly West mine at Park City, Utah. Charles R. Crowe, of Philadelphia, has been visiting Nevada mining camps. -_ Gordon Campbell, of National, Nevada, 'has returned from ·a trip to San Francis·co. J. B. Larrgly, of Los Angeles, has been visiting mines in Arizona and New Mexico. George V. Frazier has returned to the Bradshaw mountain district of Arizona, from a visit in Xenia, Ohio. R. S. Sutton, superintendent of the Utah mine at Fish Springs, Utah, was in Salt Lake for the holidays. Imer Pet:, general manager of the Bin,;­ ham Mines company, of Salt Lake, left for Boston, December 28tb. Robert M. Betts, manago, of the Corn ucopia mines, has returned to Baker City, Oregon ,from Los Angeles. Michael Seltzer, of Nebraska City, Ne­ braska, is in Georgetown, Colorado, looking after his mining in 'erests. Rene Engel, assayer and chemist at Liberty Trust mines at Rico, Colorado, has been in Salt Lake recently. James Uncapher and S. D. Skivart, of Kingman, Arizona, have been in Los Angeles on mining busir.ess. W. B. Alexander, of the Montana-Tono­

pah Mining company, of Tonopah, Nevada,

has returned from the coast.

S. G. Murray, of Seattle, Washington, rep­

resenting the Irrgersoll-Rand Drill company,

was a recent S.alt Lake visitor.

A. H. Cowie, vice president of the Utah

Fuel company, is in the east conferring

with the officials of his company.

A. B. Kelly, of Kansas City, Missouri,

is at Prescot,:, Arizona, on business con­

nected with the Pacific Copper company.

W. H. Beeler and W. E. Gunning, of

San Diego, California, are visiting proper­

ties in the neighborhood of Parker, Arizonrl..

Louis Clemmons, assayer for the Rico­

Wellington Mining company, of Rico. Colo­

rado, was in Salt Lake City for the holi

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D. C. Jackling has returned to Salt Lake

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head, and expec~s to go east in a few days. He reports conditions satisfactory at th3 mines of the Alaska Gold Mines company. Cash Cook, superintendent of the Silver City Mining company's properties at Silver City, Idaho, spent Christmas in BOise, same state. J. T. Burns of the Coalition Mining company, of Rico, Colorado, was in Den­ ver and Colorado Springs, early in the month. L. A. Copeland, so well known in Utah ore sampling circles, was in Salt Lake from Colorado, last week, vi1'iting his family and friends. William Carson has resigned as f(,re­ man of the Daly West mine at Park City, Utah, and will go to Phoenix, to engage in ranching. A. M. Boyd, superintendent of the Ameri­ can Eagle mine, at Elk City, Idaho, spent the holidays with his family at Spokane, Washington. C. H. Doolittle, manager of the Bingham­ New Haven Mines company, of BIngham, Utah, has left with Mrs. Doolittle fOr a trip to Honolulu. James Wall, of Los Angeles, has gone to Blind Mountain, near Caliente, Nevada, to put in operation the new mill recently erected there. D. W. King, formerly at the Golden Gate mill at Mercur, Utah, has been placed in charge of the mill of the Mines Operating company, of Park City, Utah. J. H. Lanyon, manager of the Idaho Copper company, operating on the Idaho­ Montana line, ,has gone to Duluth, Minne­ sota, to confer with company officials. F. O. Wilkinson has gone to Ripley, Ne­ vada, from Los Angeles, to commence op­ erations at the Gila Monster mine. where there is a good showing of the base metals. Harry S. Knight, of Salt Lake, 'general manager of the Wilbert Mining company, has gone to the property in the Dome dis­ trict of Idaho, to inspect the condition of the mine and operation of the mill.

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Lum Wagoner, a stockholder in the Southern Illinois Gold Mining company, operating the Addison mine, at Sugar Loaf, Colorado, has gone to his home at Marion, Illinois. Cornelius B. Lakenan, manager of the Nevada Consolidated Mining company, of Ely~ Nevada, was married on December 17th, to Mrs. Bonibel M. White, at McGill, Nevada. Ed Reynolds, William Hamilton and William Ahlstrom, of Cedar City, Utah, called at the office of the Mining Review recently, and informed the editors of their intention of going into the new camp at Rochester canyon, Nevada.

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T. R. Garnier is in the Cerbat and Wall­ apai mountain section of Arizona, doing assessm.ent work. He has been in the Allegheny City section of California, in­ stalling a mill. James J. McQuillan, general manager cf the Rescue-Eula Mining company, is to SUC1­ ceed S, H. Brady as general m.anager 01 the North Star Tunnel & Development com· pany, at Manhat~an, Nevada. J. F. Inglis and N. Nelson, of Salt Lake, officials of the Hope Mine & DevelOpment company, expe>Ct to leave, today, for Tuo­ lumne county, California, to resume work in the development of thf:l company's promising proj;erty. A Bodelson, manager of the Mammoth mine, near Sumpter, Oregon, has returned from Chicago, and, after a few days at the r:n:ine expects to again go to Chicago to remain until spring, when the mine will be reopened. George W. Riter, of the Tintic district, and Judge William H. King of Salt Lake, represented the mining men of Utah, at the hearing of the congressional committee on the lead tariff. Their efforts were directed against the proposed reduction as 'being ini­ micable to the best interests of the lead in­ dustry in Utah. Grant Snyder, of Salt Lake, manager for the Yerington Malachite IMining company. operating at Mason. Nevada, in the Yering­ ton district, left for the company's val­ uable holdings, last week, on his regular trip of inspection. The mine is showing up better and better with deve:opment and is a regular shipper to the smeltery at Thompson. George B. Upton, of Wickenburg, Ariz­ ona, has returned from an eastern trip and reports that the Mountainside Gold com­ pany will start operations in the Rich Hill district. The property has two 100-foot shafts and a considerable
Wm. Burridge, of Salt Lake, superintend­ ent for the Eva Mining company, operat­ ing in Mt. Nebo district, Utah, h'is return­ ed to the mine after spending the holidays with ;his family. Mr. Burridge states that he is shipping from five to six cars of sil­ ver-lead and lead-zinc ores monthly, and that the mine is in splendid condition and with more good ore in sight than ever be­

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fore in its history. The ore, after being de· livered to the lower terminal of the aerial tram way, is freighted down the canyon on sleds. L. D. Gordon, formerly of Salt !.'1k0, but now residing at Keeler, California ,'. heft he is manager of the Cerro-Gordo r~'ll(' was in Salt Lake during the holid,,;,'..;, ftC companied by Mrs. Gordon. Mr. GorllCL i, giving employment to a force of ,1>0'.11 seventy-five men, and is shipping fr,11:1 ;}(jl to 600 tons of zinc and lead ores. monrhIy 1\11'. Gordon still maintains an office in Sa,; Lake, and his many friends hE'r;> pleased to see him in his uSlIaI haull again. ---·-~o---~

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(Special Correspondence.) }1idas Nev, Jan. 6.-Gold Circle is look ing very promising. It is the opinion of min ing men here, that this year will be til< banner year for the camp. Properties lik. the El:w Prince, Rex, Esmeralda. Easten Star, Sieepin:;; Reauty, Belvoir, :'Ifidas, Hill side. St. Paul, Gold Crown. Ja,ckson, QueE'll Hard Scrabbles, E3meralda,}<'raC'tioll, Judg" and many others as development proceeds are proYing up wonderfully. It is only question of time until Gold Circle will ranl with the best camps in the state. The IDlko Priuce is nearing t]]e Goo·foo level. The vein is two and a h3.![ feet wille the last 1CO feet will average hetter (hill $lno per ton. The lease on the Midas, which is beill1 operated by C. J. Charters, is Openill,2," up : fine body of milling ore on the 101)-foot level On the 200 level the Esmeraldas al e tak iag out eighteen inches of ore that will nn into the hundreds. The mill is cloSE'll dOWI en account of the water suppy twing froze] up. A pump is being installed and lh" mil will be in operation in a few day~. Robt. Boland, John ]<]. and George 1'"lto)) former owners of the ~ational min". hay, purchased the control of the Easterll 8ta from A. J. Stinson and George B3.rtl8tt. Th property will start operations Jam13ry J ~;l' The Rex llline has bE'en increaSing it output for t.he past several months. TJec',':l: her behg the largest sinC'e the mill h'lS lJPP' in operation. / The cross·-cut tunnel on the SIN'l);n. Beauty is in 800 feel. It is expe2led to eu the vein within 101} feet.. This will give ove 400 feet in depth. Lessees ha;-e taken on considerable ore from shallow workings o' this vein It is very similar to the l';,k Prince vein. --~--o----

A. IV. Hartmeyer, manager ol th Bland :'Inning Comp3.ny, of Patagonia. At'i, ona, which is owned by Jack Cudahy .1.)\ associates of Kansas City, Missouri, r: ports the finding of sc.me stringers of ric silver om in the fift~'-fotJ; shatto

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Fanny Rawlins mine, at Leadville, is shipping three to four cars o[ . each week. Salt Lake office of the Utah mine n moved from the McCorn!ck build­ 06 Hooper block. output of the Cripple Creek district 'ado for the year 1912; was 897,551 1 value of $14,356,471. reported that the Lewisohn inter­ -l'ew York have bonded several prop· . the Contact camp, Nevada. -five men are employed at the Rain­ sonite property at Dragon, Utah. seven cars a day are being taken

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ocomuga district.

,ucania tunnel in the Idaho Springs

of Colorado, is now in 6,038 feet.

11ree veins have been cut, none c1

lve been explored.

)robable that the Bachelor mill, at

olorado, will again be put in opera·

ore from the Bachelor mine, ·:m

,hn Kelleher has a lease.

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l of the Mustang property at Man­

fevada, where high grade gold O:'(l encountered in the blue quar:z. :olumbus Extension Mining com­ :he Alta district of Utah has levied ,ment of one cen': a share, payable bruary 15th, sales day on March 13. ;enith Mining company, operating rne, Oregon, has started work lin· direction of D. D. Willard, man­ e property is controlled in Tampa, e Mt. Champion group of claIms, wanna gulch, Leadville, Colorado, of excellent ore has been found ne, with six feet of milling ore

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The Manhattan·Earl, at Manhattan, Ne­ vada, has opened twelve feet of $20-ore :n the east drift, 120 feet from the shaft, an1 six feet of $35-ore in a raise, seventy fect from the shaft. The Utah mine, of Fish Springs district, Utah, settled for a carload of ore, on the second, which brought the company $4,­ 100.95. The mine, it is reported, is look· ing exceedingly well. The Diadem Mining company has be~n incorporated by Arthur W. Cobb, Albert 1\1. Bristor and C. B. Stevenson of Indianapolis, Indiana, to operate mines in the Cheri'Y Creek district of Arizona. The Highland mine, on Rock creek, n~ar SiImpter, Oregon, is producing 300 tons of concentrates monthly, which are hauled fourteen miles to the railroad. Sixty men are employed at the property. It is reported that the Mason Valley Mines company is preparing to work its properties by steam shovel me~hods. The capping on this property, near Yeringtoll, Nevada, is now being blasted off The Copper Queen minin'g company '8 ,sending seventy cars of ore a day to its smeltery at Bisbee, Arizona, and the Calu' met & Arizona, thirty-five cars to its ,smel­ tery and to the EI Paso smeltery. J. B. Ross, of Denver, has taken a lea::;e on the Big Four property on Breece Hill, at Leadville, Colorado, and will sink the 770-foot shaft another 300 feet, developing a new level systematically each year. The Kramer Hill gold property at Gol· conda, Nevada, has been sold to the inter· ests whIch control the Daly West at Park City, Utah. Extensive development and a l(}O·ton mill are tentatively propm;ed. The new mill of the U. S. Treasury mbe at Chloride, New Mexico, is ready to start. The capacity is fifty tons a day. T!Ie om is smceous, wIth silver 1n the form' of chlorides and bromides, and some sulphides. The old U. S. mine in Copper Basil! did· '~rict of Arizona, is shipping zinc-lead orc. Twenty-five years ago this mine was produc· ir;g sixty per cent lead ores, and the zinc, then unmarketable, has now become an as· set. The Natchez tunnel of the Yerington Malachite Company, operating in the Y~r' ington district of Nevada, is now in a full face of ore, according to a message r8­ celved by Manager Grant Snyder, 0: Sa.lt Lake. Since 1880 the total value of the min· eralproduction of Alaska has been $207,­ 000,000, of which over 90 per cent, Or $195,· 619,776, has been in gold, according to .\. H. Brooks, of the United States Geological Survey. The report of the Nevada Hills Mining company, of Fairview, Nevada, for Novem· bel", shows that 3,180 tons were milled of a per ton Vlllue of $21.84, from whiCh the

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net recovery was $19.77 per ton. Expen­ ses were $9.25 a ton, leaving, as net profit~, $10.52 per ton. This Is a drop of consider­ able tonnage as compared with past mon~h;:l, and the profit is several thousands less. . The shaft of the Gem mine, near Sparta, Oregon, has been unwatered to the 600-foot level, and preparations are under way to sink another hundred fee:. Ore is beia~ blocked out for m:illing on the several ex· posures. B. H. Bullock, president of the Syndi· cate Mining company, operating in the San· taquin district of Utah, reports that the tunnel of the company is nearing the ore zone. The vein will be ~cut at about 29) feet depth. The Viceroy Mining Company has been inco1'~porated in Arizona to work the Vice­ roy properties in the Santa Rita mouu­ tains. F. H. Baack, M. G. Jeffris, and M. O. Mouat, all of Janesville, Wisconsin, :lre the directors. Th.e Ima mine owned by the Idaho Tun;;· sten company, in the Patterson Creek sec· tion of Idaho, has a year's reserve of tung­ sten ore in sight, and i: is expected that the district will see two or three producers the coming year. Fred Hersinger has received favorable returns on the car of Qre recently shippeu from the Black Girl property at Ouray, Colorado, and believes that the present metal prices will allow him to ship five or six cars a month. McEntree Brothers have made a rich strike of silver ore near Salome, Arizona, Twenty inches of 200-ounces silver ore was encountered ata depth of 175 feet. Th'l brothers have also a large low grade bony exposed in the shaft. The shipments from Park City, Utah, for December totaled 6,456 tons, of which the King Coalition furnished 2,823 tons, Daly Judge, .1,626 tons, Daly West, 1,588 ton'l, GrasseJi Chemical Company. 141 tons, and the remainder scattering. S. C. Root has a car of ore ready 101'

shipment at the Bonanza Hill mir.e at

Ripley, Nevada, which he expects will show

a content of forty-three per cent zinc and

eight per eent lead. This ore was at onf'

time supposed to be without value.

The PrInce Arthur mine, at Left Hand.

in Boulder county, Colorado, is to have ~t

250·horsepower electrical installa:ion. Po',,·

er will be furnished for the mining ma­

chinery and the mill. The mill is 'I':orke.l

through a 2,000-foot adit, which reaches a

depth of 1,200 feet below the surface.

George Wingfield, of Goldfield, Nevada,

has taken an option on the Montezuma

group of mines, owrced by Perry S. '\Vi11iam!l

of Maricopa and the Greene and San:a ROila

groups, owned by T. J. Meehan and Lie'l'

tenant Janz, in the Saltwell district of Ari­

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Phelps-Dodge & Company, operating in per cent copper ore daily to the nearby Cochise county, Arizona, recently 'declare-l Pioneer smeltery; the Olive Camp Mining a dividend of two and one-half per cent and company has equipped its group with m.l­ an extra of three dollars per share, making chinery and a mill, and is turning out silver­ a 4:otal of $15 per share for 1912. The lead concentrates worth about $100 a ton; mines have produced 146,000,000 pounds nf the Twin But~es copper mines are shipping copper. 100 tons daily to the smeltery, and employing The Knob Hill mine at Orogrand, Idaho. fifty men; and much assessment and de­ is the scene of a recent strike of ore in a velopment work is being done -,by others in crosscut tunnel which cuts the ore at a the camp. depth of 130 feet on the dip. This ore 15 It is reported that a find of vanadium worth about $100 a ton, and is found on a has been made on the 150-foot level or the granite-ryholite contact_ Frank M. Peck Humboldt Consolidated mines, in the Mc­ owns the property. Cabe section of Arizona. James O'Brien i!l The upper Clear Creek section in Colo­ in charge of operations at .the property, and rado, produced ore worth about one-half reports that the ore is found in a rich million dollars, for the year just endill!;, three-inch streak, the extent of which is an increase of fifty per cent OVer last year. problematical. There were shipped 6,640 tons of ore. The M. M. Johnson, of Salt Lake, consulting Capital and Santiago mines are the biggest engineer for the Gilmore and Pittsburg­ producers in this section. Idaho properties in the Gilmore district of The November s~ateID1ent of the Tono­ Idaho, reports that the new transportation pah Belmont company's operations shows tunnel has cut two feet of high grade lead silver ore and a five-foot vein of gold ore. that 12,426 dry tons of ore were milled of a net value of $293,326, and that 3,561,336 The Pittsburg-Idaho, shipped 2,000 tons vf ounces of gold bullion were produced, and ore in December. 365,861 ounces of silver bullion. The net The Silver Pick Consolidated Mining com­ profit for the month was $195,265.73. pany, of Goldfield, Nevada, is exploring its The report of the Skidoo Mines company, ground towards the workings of the Gold of Skidoo, California, shows that 1,096 tOllS field Consolidated. Two raises are being of ore were milled during November, for a put up near the Mohawk and Combina:lon recovery of $8,936.03 in bullion and $4,626.14 boundaries, one on the 260 and one on tne in cyanide precipitates. Development CoS[S J 20 and it is reported that good assays have were $1,747.98 and mining costs, $5,042.16, been obtained in both. leaving a net for the month of $6,772.03. The New Jersey Zinc company has i3e­ Conditions at Leadville, Colorado, at the cured the San Xavier mine, north of Til'> end of the year are promising. The large son, Arizona, and has put twenty-five men producers are hoisting more ore than befo!'tl at work under the direction of Cony T. and lessees are making good. Plans are Brown, of Socorro, New Mexico. There under way for the revival of milling, and are several shafts on the property, one of the Arkansas Valley smeltery is receiving which is 450 feet deep, two, 200 feet deep, and other shallower ones. more ore daily than for some time past. The Greenhorn Mining district, near It is stated that a deal is on for the sale of the Elko Prince mine in Gold Cir­ Sumpter, Oregon, is reported to be showing cle district, Elko county, Nevada. The mine signs of revival. Fred D. Smith is prepar' ing to unwater the Snow Creek mine and is developed to a depth of 500 feet, the sink another hundred feet; lum:ber and ma­ bottom showing thirty inches of high grade gold ore. The Elko promises to develop chiI;ery is being hauled to the Golden Gate, into one of the big gold producers of Ne­ formerly the Belcher; the Amazon has let a contract for 300 feet of tunnel. vada. The Tonopah Mining company, of Tono­ Crayton Johnson and James McQuaill have made a strike of high grade silver ore pah, Nevada, milled 13,953 dry tons of ore in about thirty-five miles nor~heast of Las . Nov€mber, of an average value of $17.47, Vegas, Nevada. Assays higher than 1,000 from which 224,540 ounces of gold and sil­ ounces to the ton are said to have besn ver bullion were shipped, of a total value made on a foot vein. W'hether any quantity of $185,920 Eighty'six tons of concen:rates of high gr·ade is in sight has not yet been of a value of $28,975 were shipped, The net profit for the month was $108,355. ascertained. The Olive district about twenty miles from Presco:t, Arizona, is the scene of ac­ tive operations. The< Plumed Knight is shipping about forty tons of ore daily and employs forty .men; the San Xavier has been taken over by a New Jersey com'Pany, and is employing thirty men in getting- ready for production; the South San Xavier, under lease to Louis E. Zekels, is shipping fifteen

The production of ore for the Leadville, Colorado district is given as 465,454 tOLS for the year 1912. This ore was of the {ollowing classes,-carbonate, 18,194 tons; oxidized iron, 94,979 tons; sulphide, 127,834 tons; zinc sulphide, 38,619 tons; zinc car­ bonate, 160,779 tons; slliceous, 25,049 tons. The metal prodUction was, gold 55,492 ounces of a value of $1,147,019.64; silvel',

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3,048,900 ounces, worth $1,856,170.92; lead, 23,821,375 pounds of a value of $1,065,768.3J ; copper, 2,710,186 pounds, value $440,405.22; and spelter, 98,136,060 pounds, value $6,­ 673,252.08, a total value of $11,182,616.17, an increase of $2,955,599.50 over 1911. Copper deposits near Lyons, Colorad'J, are being worked by William Bell and as­ sociates. A shaft is being sunk, which is well equipped with machinery and pump". Ore bodies rarrging from three to five feet wide have been found, and assays have shown as high as twenty per cent copper. Development will be actively pushed. It is expected that the Argo mill, at the mouth of t,he Argo tunnel, at Idaho Springs, Colorado, wil] be ready for operation ill February. The capacity will be 125 tOllS, and amalgamation, concentration antI cyanidation will be employed. A sampling plant will be operated in connection wan the mill. A. H. Roller, of the Hudson mill, will ·be in charge. Mining at Manha~tan, Nevada, is being stimulated by the low rates now quoted for custom milling. Three fifty-ton m~lls are in the market for ore, and are making rates of about $4 a ton, whereas two or three years ago, $10 to $12 was charged. The mills now seeking custom ores are the As· sociated, War Eagle, and Manhattan Mlllinf;; and Ore company, The property of the McConnell Mines company, near Yerington, Nevada, which has been controlled by E. W. Clark, Frank Pierce and E. B. Critchlow, of Salt Lake, has been sold to San Francisco interests, representea by R. H. Miller. The proper:Y lies south of the Mason Valley, Yeringto,l Con. and 11alachite. The consideration i..; said to have been $175,000. The Pilot Butte Mining company, oper­ ating at But:e, Montana, has encountered four feet of ore averaging twenty-five per cent copper and sixty ounces of silver, at a depth of 1,600 feet in the Pilot shaft. Th() shaft will 'be sunk 300 feet further, before production is undertuken. This vein is though~ to be the continuation of the Berlin vein of the North Butte company. The South Hecla Mining Company, op­ erating at Alta, Utah, Geo. H. Watson, of Salt Lake, manager, is shipping about a carload of good ore, w~eklY, from develop­ ment work only. The property is in excel­ lent physical condition, and the camp is well supplied with provisions, etc., for the winter. The management expects to in­ crease ore shipments in the spring. The Alaska Gold Mines property, of which D. C. Jackling of Salt Lake, is the managin~ director, is pushing its develOpment work. The main tr.ansportation tunnel is going ahead at the rate of 500 feet a month. A 5,000 horsepower hydroelectric plant has been installed. The new mill site on Gastin­ eau sound, near Juneau, is cleared and foun­

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will be put in soon. The season has >pen allowing the work to be done later. The Perseverance mill, used its, has been burned, and the Sheep will now be utilized for the purpose. l Dragon Consolidated Mining com­ of the Tintic district of Utah, will ct the gronnd on the James and l. Washington claims by sending a ,0 the south from its 800-foot level. orooklyn ground, owned by Jesse :, will also be developed. This drift LP the workings of the former \!lome et below their lowest workings.

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rk is to be resumed on the Toledo ty at Brandon, Montana. An engine Jmp will be installed for dewatering dne. The mine was dIscovered by. te T. L. Atkins in the seventies. In ghties and early nineties a mill was ed and good profits made until the etization of silver. The report <.>f opening has been received with great

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Goldfield Merger Mines company, .J! lId, Nevada, has connec~ed its crossthe 1,300-foot level with the Grizzly lor kings of the Goldfield Consolidated. b.aft is down 1,400 feet. Raises are put up in Velvet gronnd to connect umbo Extension workings. Develop· s just beginning On this property, and of $250,000 is availabl~ for the work. R. Smith, N. R.Waterman and W. J. of Salt Lake have been insp~cting the Ire property near Mina, N~vada, which 'ecently purchased. Lumber is ar­ for the necessary buildings an
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War Eagle mill treated 10,800 tons of a The Pittsburgh-Idaho Mining company, value of $196,109; the Associated, 9,835 operating in the Gilmore district Qf Idaho, tons of a value of $158,000; the Poak will pay a dividend of four cents a share Lease, 4,500 tons worth $55,000 and the January 15th, to stockholders of record Jan­ Mlanhattan M. & O. company, 2,140 tons uary 10th. The dividend is for the regular worth $19,122. quarterly amount of $32,000. The new tun­ Golden, near the Klondyke siding on tlie nel is being driven ahead rapidly. When Tonopah & Goldfield railroad, in Nevada, is finished it will cut the veins at depth and ease the transportation problem. A. S. Ross, the scene of much activity. Over one hun­ dred mines are working Qn leases in tl\() of Salt Lake, is president of the company. camp. Mannin'g & Tyler are shipping regu­ The Wasatch-Utah Mining Company larly and getting net returns of $60 a ton. will SOOn start its 200-ton mill at. the Among those actively developing are Reilly mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon. near & Quinn, Tompson & Woodward, Fox & Salt Lake City. The company has about Belcher, McLoud, Swllln & Stotesbury, Lee two miles of underground working", and & Toner,and James Golden. has been experimenting with a fiv!'! stamp mill, by which recoveries of $2 to $3.50 The first ore from the 'Tamarack & Cus­ 'ter consolidated mines, near Wallace, Idaho, have been made. Fourteen men are em­ ployed, and the main tunnel, now ln 500 since the properties passed into the con­ trol of the new corpora.tion, was delivered feet, is being pushed to get under the main ore body. at the storage bins at the head of the tram­ way recently. The tram\way, which was re­ Word was received in Salt L:l.ke. on

cently complet~d, was given a thorough test­ the 8th, that lease No.2, on the Crown

ing and proved to be ready for operation;;, Point group at Rochester canyon, Nevada,

an'd the mill, the old Rex plant, repaired had just been sold for $30,000, with a pay­

and renovated is ready to start. ment of $10,000 down. ThIs lease covers

3(W feet on the vein, and an open C,lt has

An association to be known as "Old exposed over ten feet of payable ore. John

Freibergers in America" was formed at a dinner and meeting in New York of grad· F. Cowan, of Salt Lake, who is qnite heav­

ull'~es of the Freiberg Bergakademie. The ily interested in this newest of Nevada'"

gold camps, left for this infant Eldorado

list of eligibles includes many noted Ameri­ cans. R. W. Raymond, secretarY emeritus last week.

At the stockholders meeting of the Selma of the American Institute of Mining Enghl­ Mines company, operating in the North eers, was elected president of the associ'l­ tion. C. L. Bryden, 1,015 Myrtle street, Tintic district of Utah, it was decided to resume work, and sink the nw.in shaft to Scranton, Pennsylvania, is secretary. a depth of 400 feet, it now being down 200 The El Favor ,Mining Company, oj)(:ra!,­ feet. An electric hoist an,d machinery will ing in the Hostotipaquillo district, of Mex­ ico, is tQ pay a dividend of one cent a be secured. Officers elected are Berkley share January 30th. The amount of the Olsen, president; W. L. Pickard, vice-presi­ dent; O. W. Carlson. secretary-treasurer; disbursement will be $35,000. This prnp­ erty was opened up and financed by ,l\hke· L. C. Peterson, mine manager, and Charles ever Brothers of Boston, and Chicago. It is E. Beers, director. an antigua, which was reopened in 191)9. It The organization of the Alaska Gold

is equipped with stamp mill and cyanide Mines Company has been completed, with

;>l:tnt, operated by electrical power. Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Com­

M. R. Evans, J. 'r. Hodson ana W. H. pany, New York, president; D: C. Jack­

Webber have an option on a piece Qf ground, ling, manager of the Utah Copper Com·

pany, of Salt Lake. vice president and

100 feet south of No.1 lease on the Roches­ ter ]\Innes company's ground at Rochester managing director; and D. C. Jackling, C.

M. MacNeill, Sherwood Aldrich. Charles

canyon, Nev·ada. George 'Wingfield has pur­ chased the Borland lease on the Schick prop· Hayden, Albert F. Holden. William H.

erty, and will start a tunnel to cut the ore Coolidge. Edward A. Clark and J. T. Gil­

at fifty fee.!. Mr. Wingfield has aiso taken bert, directors.

an Qption on fonr adjoining claims, which Much work is being done on the pros­ it is his intention to develop at depth. pects of the Kellogg, Idalio, district, to wind The Burro Mountain Copper company, up assessment work on many properties. The Yankee Boy lease, owned by D. W. on'e of the Phelps-Dodge properties in Ari­ zona, is driving a 7,000·foot tunnel into Burro Price and W. R. Hughes, shipped another Mountain properties. The tunnel will be car of ore to the smeltery last week and seven by nine feet and will cut the veins it assayed 200 ounces of silver to the ton. of the company at considerable depth, thus Quart~rs are being provided at the property obviating hoisting and pumping as well a3 to accommodate fifteen men. The Amy. serving to explore the property at depth. Matchlessproper~y on Pine creek will oper­ A new mill is in contemplation to be ready ate within a short tim~. Gus Smith has when the tunnel is finished. The success taken charg~ as manager, and a crew will of these operations will mean much fol' ,beset to work developing the property. As· the district. sessment work on the Pat Howard claim,

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owned by Si Hill, has been completed. As· sessment work on the copper claims in Bailey gulch, owned by A. P. Hutton, Perry Shuck and D. M. Barnhart, is about com· pleted. The Whitman group on Pine creek will be extensively developed during the winter. The Utah Copper company, operating at Bingham, Utah, is ma.king alterations in its coarse crushing department, so tha.t the capacity of the mills at Garfield has been somewha: reduced, and the seventeen hun· dred and odd men employed at the mine in Bingham are able to keep the mills busy. There were 1,900 men at work in the Bing­ ham mines oofore the 'iecent strike, so that conditions as far as the strike are concerned are nearly normal. The mines of Gilpin county, Colorado, show an increase of production for the year 1912, over the preceding year. The shipments from Black Hawk for 1912 total 2,117 cars as compared wi·:h 2,050 cars ill 1911. The average tonnage per car was twenty-five tons, of an average value of $22.50 per ton, making the tonnage for the year 52,925 tons of a value of $1,190,812.50. This is exclusive of ore treated locally, which will probably account for $200,000 more. Due to a breakdown in the electric power service due to fire, the output of the Tonopah, Nevada, mines for Novemoor, wad 1,00a tons less than in October. The pro­ duction for each of the mines in tons w~.s as follows. Tonopah Mining co ffiJJ any, 13, 95a; Tonopah Belmont company, 12,426; Montana Tonopah, 3,997; Tonopah Exteu­ sion, 4,557; West End Con., 3,880, MacNa­ mara, 1,879; Jim Butler, 1,487; Tonopah Merger, 325; Midway, 100; North Star, 130; total, 42,7a4. The recent cold snap in the intermoun­ tain
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The American Flag Mining company, operating in the Park City district of Utah, is resuming ore shipments, after a lapse of two years. Two years ago F. V. Bodfish, of Salt Lake, took over the property, and found that it was saddled with an unfavor­ able smelting contract, so that energies were directed to active development, until more favorable terms could be secured. This development has resulted in opening up more ore, so that the company is now better able tosh!p at a profit. The annual report of the Iron Blossom Mining 'company, operating tn the Tintic district of Utah, has been SUbmitted. A complete new electric hoisting .plant has been installed at the No. 1 shaft. Develop. ment has been vigorously pursued. Over 31,000 tons of dry ore were shipped for the period, aver,aging a little over twenty-six ounces of silver and seven pe
Tun'gsten occurs in frequent deposits m veins and fissures in a territory of less than fifteen square miles in Boulder county, ColO­ rado EayS the Miner, of Boulder. The forma· tion is an intrusion in the ordinary forma­ tion of the mountains and is definitely de­ fined in its boundaries. In origin and char­ ac:er it resembles the Cripple Creek "blow out." Within this area all mining and pros· pecting is limited. Mining is in an ex· tremely crude stage and, with a single ex· ception, consists of surface digging and gougin'g for superficial deposits, from whkh almost entirely the production of the field has thus far come. The exception is the Conger mine pf the Primos Chemical com· pany, which is being explored perpendi· cularly to a depth of 1,000 feet, and from which levels and drifts will ,be driven ,0 open up many veins for systematic mining on a large scale. This property has a magnificent plant for mining and reduction of ores and is the heaviest single producer. The 'vVolf Tongue company, a subsidiary corporation of the Firth S:irling Steel cOm· pany, has extensive holdirrgs of tungsten territory. and is the largest buyer of tung·

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sten ore in the district. It has a well equip­ ped milling plant which is steadily oper'­ ated. Through a liberal leasing policy it has encouraged miners and has now over fifty lessees working. The Boulder Tungsten Production com­ pany is one of the most aggressive in de­ velopment. Other operators in the distrj"t are pursuing more liberal development by shafts and tunnels. The deep workings of the Conger ana all deeper explorations have demonstratl;'Q ~he continuity of the ore deposits to great depths with greater enrichment and con­ centration of the mineral at the great-H' depths. The topography of the country, the abundance of water, and many other conu!· tions, suggest that, before the 'best develo'l­ ment of production can be realized, the te;'­ ritory must be undercut by deep tunnel 'IS has been found necessary in Cripple Creek, Clear Creek, Leadville and San Juan. Such a tunnel is now projected by the Boulder Tt!ngsten Production company and the site held by this company commands the entire dis~rict in the best possible manner. From a point on Middle Boulder the tunnel is to be driven northwest through the holdings of the company, at right angles to the strike of the veins. It will undercut the productive terri:ory at depths rangins from 600 to 1,100 feet. The distance :lCrOS5 will be but little more than two miles, and the line of the tunnel is near the center of the formation, so that by la:eral drifts the entire territory will be accessible from the tunnel. The tunnel opens on the main stream where there is abundance of water for reduction and where transportation W market is provided. Automatic drainage and mine transportation will tend to largely reduce the cost of production, while su('h general exploration and development of the mineral ground will result in an increase of prodUction capacity that will meet any probable expansion of the use of tungsten. The s:ate of the tungsten market is such now that these suggestions and questions are no longer remote and contingent. Active promotion is occuring now and will take increasin'g force from day to day ',0 that within the coming year the magnitude of this resource will begin to be felt and appreciated.

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PATENTS RECENTLY ISSUED.

(Prepared for The Mining Review by Davis & Davis, patent attorneys, 'vVasnmg­ tClll.)

l,036,433-Gyratory ore-mill--G. H. Bradford, Berkeley, Calif. 1,040,235-Supporting and lifting and adjust­ ing device for stamps-mills-E. H. Moyle, Los Angeles Calif. 1,041,407-Art of ~xtracting meta.!s from orBs-J, B. De Alzugaray, New York, N. Y.

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January 2­ Silver, 63'M cents; lead, $4.35; copper cathode, $17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20. January S. Sliver. 63'h cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ Llst..d S:::.t:.:o:.:e=k:.:"=-.~~===== thode, $17.30; zinc (St. LouiS), $7.20. 'I Bid.' 1 Asked. January 4, Sliver, 63'h cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ thode, $17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20. : Jauuary 6. :k Jack ................ 1 .11'h\ .12

SHver, 63% cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ sa • . ...... ............ .. ...... . 10

thode, $17.35; zinc (St. I.ouis), $7.20. lr-Talisman . .......... . on" .02

Janua..y 7. tury . . ................ ........ .10

Sliver, 63%. cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ 'rado Mining .......... .20 1 .22

thode, $17 _35; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20. 'rado Consolidated .... .10 .23

January 8. solidated MereuI' ..... .11

Silver, 63o/~ cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ "n Point.............. .03'h1 .04

thode, $I 7.35; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20. r . • , ............ ,...... 1.20 1.60

January 9. r-Judge ................ 6.25 7.50

Silver. 63% cents; lead. H.35; copper ca­ gon . ' ....... , .......... \ .10 .40

thode, $17.35; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15. t Prince............... .01%. .02'4,

-----0---­ t Crown pOlnt·········1 .00 14 ' .OO%.

t Tlntic Consolidated... ........ .00%

NEW YORK LISTED STOC;:cK=S=:,=== t Tlntic Development... .00% 1 .02

1Sales. I H.' I L. IClose

,raid. . ............... .03! .10

Chitto . . ........ . .. 1 9.400146% I 45 46­ I Chain ............... / .41 .44

1d Central . ........... .75 . 77 ~ Goldfteld Con. . .... \.. .... . 2% 2 2

900 19% 19'M 19%

an Queen ............. 1. . . . . . . . 1 .01', Nevada Con. ....... Blossom ............. 1 1. 35 1 1. 40

Con. Copper " 3,500 T,ennessee 200 21'h 37%. 21 37% 121 37-i''' King ................. 1 .OO'hI .. · .... · Ray 200 26 25% 25%. Bowers ............... / .00% i ...... .. Miami Copper ...... Utah Copper........ 4,800 57%' 57%1 58',4 g William ......... .. .02 .03

Inspiration . . . . . . . . 1 200 18%.1181", 1S%. 'I King ................ 1 .00% .08

Studebaker Con. . •.. 1. . ... .. 34 33 1 34

i Tintic ............... \ .00 1", .01

Ontario Silver ...... !....... , 2%. 2'41 2',4

, Hill ................. .03 ',4 .05

.35

Ie Bell ................ ,'........ NEW YORK CURB RANGE. er Mammoth ..... ,.... .04 %. .05 %. on Valley ............. \ 10.00 I 12.00 I Sa' es.! H. 1 L. IClose

Day.................. .22%1 .23'h

eral Flat ............. 1 .00'h1 .01% First NationajCop:-:j ....... 1 2%1 2 1 2

Giroux Con. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3% 3%(' 3%

ntain .Lake ........... \ .03 I...... ..

Yukon Gold ....... I. . .. . . . 3'4, 3 3

3.da HII:s .............. 1.50 I 1.60

Ohio Copper ....... !.. ..... 1 %1 1'M 1%

, York ................ .01'h1 .02'h

New Keystone ...... 1 . . . . . . . / 2 1 %. 2

, Copper .............. 1 1.05 1 1.15

~ongo . . . ............. \ .06 1 .06 'h South Utah ......... 1,' ...... %1 %1 %

Mason Valley ...... 1 . . . . • . . [10'4 10 10

he Demijohn ......... .07 'h I .09

Braden Copper ..... : 3.000 10'/4 9%1 10%

he Metals ............ 1 .00 1", .02

Ely Con. . .......... 1 900 11c lOc I lOc

;burgh-Idaho . . . . . . . . . 1 .70 I 1. 25

us . . .......•......... 1 .06 1 .09

Belmont. .......... 400 1 8%1 8%

Tonopah . . . . . . . . . . :....... 6% 6 6

ce Consolidated ...... 1 1. 45 1. 47 %

Alaska. . ........... ! 1.2001 14 %. 14 14%

til . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .01'4,

.02% n Troughs ............ 1 .01 %. . c

3.15 ,r King Coall tlon ..... I 3.07 % URANIUM AND VANADIUM IN 1912.

•1' King Con. . . . . . . . . . . , .75 1.00

.03

'r Shield .............. 1 .Ol'hl .05%

~ Consolidated ........ 1 .04 % 1 The figures for the production of uran· .00 y.

h Iron Blossom ...... 1· ....... r lsea ConSOlidated ..... 1 .01 1

ium and vanadium ores during 1912 have .01 1 .01'4,

c Central ............ \ not been very satisfactorily reported to the ,d Tlntic ............. .OO%.! .01

e Sam ............... 1 .11 I .13

United .States Geological Survey, and the Consolidated ........ 1 .01 'h 1 .02

t1 Chief .............. .06%1 .10

output has therefore been partly estimated -r Consolidated ....... .03 i .03

by Frank L. Hess from various data in his -ria Consolidated ..... .61 I .62

ert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .09 1 .11

possession. ee Consolidated ...... 1 .12¥,,1 .14

THE S'I'OCK EXCHANGE.

!uotations on the local exchange Thurs­ morning, January 9:

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The shipment of uranium and vanadium ores during 1912 has been in the hands of about a dozen persons and firms, and as in previous years the ores have come mostly Consolidated ....... _ . pson-Quincy . . . .... . fr'om southwestern Colorado. with a· small­ ado Extension ...... . er production from southeastern Utah, be­ ,am Central-Standard. nald Ely ........•... tween the San Rafael Swell and the Colo· !'f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Run ............... . rado line. Sales. The production of uranium appears from dar-Talisman. 1,000 at l%c.

preliminary estimates to have 'been equiv­ 'n Blossom, 350 at $1.40. 1,100 at $1.37 'h.

.y Day, 500 at 23c.

alent to a little less than twenty-six short Ince Consolidated, 200 at $1. 37'h; 800

tons of uranium oxide, or approximately 42'h; 1,400 at $1.45.

len Troughs, 1,000 at 2c.

twenty-two tons of metallic uranium, a Lres so ld, 6.35 O.

slight increase over 1911, when the produc­ ling value, $5,597.50.

Open Boa..d.

tion was equal to about twenty-five tons of :>hongo, 9,000 at 6c.

•res sold, 13,600.

uranium oxide, or 21.2 tons of the metal. ling value, $976.50.

The vanadium output of 1912 seems to have been equivalent to a little less than THE LOCAl, METAL MARKET. 300 tons of metallic vanadium, a some· 'D..cembe.. 26. what larger quantity than that of 191L 'er, 62'h cents; lead. $4.35; copper ca­ , $17. 22'h; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15. The uranium-bearing ores were all car­ Deeemb.... 27. ·er. 62% cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ notite, a variable compound of uranium $17.22'h; zinc (St. I,ouis), $7.15. and vanadium with other elements, found Decembe.. 28.' er, 62'h cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ with several vanadium minerals in sand­ $17.23'h; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15. stones of Jurassic-Triassic age in the high Decembe.. 30. er. 62'h cents; lead. $4.35; copper ca­ plateau region of Utah and -Colorado. So $17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15. Deeembe.. Sl. far the richest and largest deposits found er, 62%. cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ are in Montrose county, Colorado. in Para· $17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15.

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dox Valley, Long Park, the McIntyre dis­ trict, and adjacent territory, extending in· to San Miguel, Dolores, and Mesa coun· ties. In Utah the deposits mined are in Emery and Grand counties. Deposits which were unproductive during the year occur in Rio Blaneo, Routt, and Moffat counties, Colorado, and in Uin:ta and San Juan coun­ ties, Utah. The percentage of uranium oxide (Us 0,) in the ore varied from 0.5 to 6.32. The percentage of vanadium oxide (V2 0.) in the same ores varied from 1.42 to 13.63. The relation between the uranium oxide and the vanadium oxide was lik~wise var· iable. At one extr~me was an ore that car­ ried 8.15 per cent V. 0, and 1.5 .per cent U,O,; at the other extreme was an ore that caTried 5.79 per cent Voo-, and 6.32 per cent U 30 S' Of the more widely known uranium mineral, pitchblende or uraninite, a few hundred pounds were mined near Central City, Gilpin county, Colorado. It was all sold as specimens and to laboratories, probably for ~xperimental work. A few pounds partly altered to gummlte and oth­ er secondary minerals were found in min­ ing mica near Penland. North Carolina.. The larger part of the vanadium ore produced was a sage·green sandstone col· ored by the vanadium-bearing mica, ros· coelite. It was mined near Newmire, San Miguel county, Colorado, and the vana­ dium was obtained In the form of iron van· adate at the local reduction plant of the Primos Chemical company. The iron vana­ date is shipped east to be smelted into fer­ rovanadium. Vanadium ores, probably volborthite and calclovoborthite, wer~ prospected on Pass Creek near Malachite, Huerfano county, and southeast of Silver Cliff, Cus­ ter county, Colorado, but no produetion was made. No vanadinlte Is known to have been mined for vanadium in this country during the year. :Prices varied much, but 25 to 30 -cents a pound for the contained vanadium oxide and $1.30 to $1.5-0 a pound for the contain­ ed uranium oxide, where it exceeds two and a half per cent, seem to have been :'he rule. The prices were considered too low by some producers a'l1d ,their ore 'W'lLS stored awaiting a rise. Most of the ore goes to England and Germany and is said to be wanted espe­ cially for the radium content. The price of metallic vanadium was much below former years and from $4 or $5 a pound it fell to $2.5(} and $2 for the contained vanadium in ferrovanadiuIn, un­ doubtedly owing to competition between Amerl-can firms. The imports of roasted sulphide ore from Peru were large and the prodUction of ferrovanadium was probably the largest to date.

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THE

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THERE MAY BE A FORTUNE FOR YOU IN THIS HAND Goldfield was discovered by a kicking mule, Cobalt by a campfire. You may be sitting, right now on the making of a great mine. This hand is holding out to you a test from

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Its grasp offers you opportunity, for by Way's Process, you can test,

right on the spot, any rock you

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Write today your name on the mar·

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Kodaks and Cameras Headquarters for Supplies. Kodak Finishing. 159 Main St.. Salt Lake City. Phone Wasatch 468.

W. SWAREN & COMPANY

Room 806, 112 Market St.

ONE OF TWO THINGS

Phones Wasatcb '9(1" Hyland 446w),

The district court of Esmeralda county, Nevada, has given judgment in favor uf the Goldfield Consolidated Mines company, in the sum of $24,000 against D. McKensie & Company, becaus"l of the unminerlike way in which the Hayes-Monette lease was worked. The lessees in a wild rush near the end of the lease, ex:racted ore withont properly timbering, leaving rubbish in the drifts, and in general paying no attention to anything but the rich ore. The Sunset Peak section of the Coeur d'Alenes,su'bjected to explorat'on f()f de­ cades and occasionally made to yield some ore, is rich today in blocked out and avail. able resources and will take a conspicuous position before many mon'hs in the volume of its response, in the opinion of Ed Lathl. superintendent of the Idora Hill. Included in the list of properties referred to by Mr. Latta are: the Intersta·:e, Callahan, Mau. hattan, Tuscumbia, Sunset, Nipsic. IdorJ., Parrot, Sunshine, Amy·Jefferson. TamaraCK and Puritan. Four to five feet of concen­ trating ore has been exposed in the upper level of the Tuscumbia and the ledge pierced recen:ly from the lower level of the Idora is full of promise. When the first small unit of a mill is erected the Idora Hill will market a carload of concentrates weekly. The resources are sufficient, without further development, to maintain this rate of pro· dlw~jon for more than two years. The Par­ rot, occupying a continuation of the Idora vein, has ore in bodies varying in width from one and one·half to fourteen feet. The Sunshine is undergoing development by D. L, McGrath and associates.

San Francisco, Cal.

Start a Savings

HARRIS, H. H. Accountant. Cost Accounting, Systemati:dng, and Auditing. Modern .Methods Installed. 1~14 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City.

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Either advertising has

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New Year.

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Walker Brothers Bankers "In 1he tall building"

Utah Savings &Trust Co. A Commercial and Savings Bank Nearly Z4 Years Old

235 Main Street

DIAMOND DRILLING CO, N. H. WRIGHT, M.nager

Diamond Drill Contractors.

SALT LAKE CITY

422 Newhouse Bldg.,

Phont" \\"'asatch

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DIRECTORY OF ENGINEERS

CRAIG, W. J.

ADAMSON, W. G.

P. O. Box 69.

LEE, MURRAY

Mining Engineer.

Consulting Mining Engineer and

Metallurgist.

Winnemucca, Nevada.

ARNOLD, FISHER & CALVERT

For Prospects or Developed Mines, write me. Third Ave. & P St., Salt Lake City.

Mining Engineer.

U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor. Stockton, Utah.

LEGGAT, J. BENTON

DUNYON, N. A.

Consulting Geologists and Engineers.

Mining Engineer.

Coal, Oil. Gas and Non·Metalllferous Deposits. 711 Kearns :Bldg., Salt Lake City.

Expert Examination and Develop­ ment a Specialty. 721·722 McIntyre Bldg., Salt Lake City.

224 Kearns Bldg.,'

Phone Was.tcb 4,']6

Phone Wasatch 5579

BOSS, M. P.

FISK, WINTHROP W., B. S.

Mechanical Engineer and Millman.

Mining Engineer.

Expert in Ore Crushing and Con­ centration. Salt Lake City. General Delivery,

Twenty·eight years Practice, Eight Years Experien~e in Mexico. Jarbidge, Nevada.

GENERAL ENGINEERING CO., THE

BROOKS, CHAS. P.

Consulting and Mining Engineer.

Salt Lake City.

PACK, MOSHER F. Consulting Engineer.

Economic and Structural Geologist. Salt Lake City. 1026 Kearns Bldg., Phon.. W ••atch60,6, Hyland 361.J

PEET, C. A.

Consulting ar:d Contracting Engineers

Civil and Mining Engineer.

U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor 228 Dooly Blk.. Salt Lake City. Phone Wasatcb Z9S'

Complete Ore Testing Plant. Engi­ neers or Contractors for all Classes of Redu()tion Plants. Salt Lake City.

Mining Engineer.

624 Judge Bldg.•

Salt Lake City.

PULSIFER, H. B. IRELAND, T. W.

BROWN, G. CHESTER Mining Engineer.

San Francisco.

609 Mills Bldg.•

Alben Burcb

O.ear H. He..hey

Cel..io Cactanl

BURCH, CAETANI & HERSHEY Mining, Metallurgy and Mining Geology.

Crocker Bldg., Cablc: 4 'BurchU or H Caetani·'

.

Years of Actual Experience in Mine Development and Operation, and in Milling Practice. Su~cess in Locat­ ing Faulted Veins. Placer Mining a Specialty. Correspondence Solicited.

Chicago, Ill.

SANFORD, ALLEN T. Lawyer.

Golden. Utah.

Bedfbrd McNelll Moreing & Nea l

BURKE, lAS. l. & CO.

Armour Institute of Technology.

Best of References.

San FrancIsco. Cod....

Mining and Metallurgy.

Mine Examinations and Reports.

JENNINGS, E. P.

420 Boston Bldg.,

Salt Lake City.

SHERRILL, S. C.

Consulting Mining Engineer General Contractor.

Engineer. and Contractors

819 Newhouse Bldg.,

Salt Lake City.

P. O. Box!4;.

Mining and Millin'g Machinery and Steel Construction. 705-706 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.

Coal Mine Work a. Specialty. Estimates Furnished on all Classes of Work.

JOHNSON, JAY ELIOT Mining Engineer.

223 Boston Bldg .•

Salt Lake City.

P hone Wasatch 761

CONNOR, P. E. Surveyor and Draftsman.

MaiChine Design, Patent Drawings, Art Designs. Map Work of All Kinds. l24 ,Kearns Bld'g.. Salt Lake City. Pbone W ...teh S579

KNOWLTON, A. D.

Salt La.ke City.

Phone W""atch 8,9

ENGINEERS

Mining and Hydraulic Engineer.

U. S. Minilral Surveyor. 326 Judge Bldg.,

801 Kearns Bldg.•

Salt Lake City.

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