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A NEW SALT LAKE COMPANY.

The Nevada-Butte Copper Mining eDm­ pany has filed articles Df incDrpDratiDn, and will Dperate fifteen claims in ElkD cDunty, Nevada, in what is knDwn as the DDlly Var­ den and Mizpah districts. The prDperty is seventy-five miles from Ely, and within five­ miles Df the Nevada NDrthern railway. There are 1,000,000 shares Df a par value Df twenty­ five cents. Officers and directors are to, be: Martin. B:anSDn, president; A. B. DDnnelly, vice-president; Herman Barnett, sec I etary and tl'easurer and Henry JDnes, T. F. Bani­ gan, C. D. Hard and W. H. Bramel, additiDnal directDrs. On the same belt with the Nevada-Butte claims, Captain J. A. Hassell, of New YDrk, has drilled with the result that at 135 feet, a considerable amount Df ore containing 1.39 'Per cent CDpper was fDund, and at 196 feet, the ore ran 3.9 per cent. Besides these por­ phyry depDsits, which the neW CDmpany ex­ pects to, Dpen up, the property covers SDme

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\1 When the Overland stDPS at Jean, Ne­ vada, Dn the Salt Lake Route, the ordinary passenger will nDte a well-kept station, on Dne side Df the track, and a TDW Df tidy buildings Dn the ather; and he may wDnder why it is that even a -station was there. way out in the desert, Dr of what use the buildings could be put to; for who' would, Df chDice, want to, live there. But. thDse who' 'I>"Quld give passing thDUght to Jean, would never dream that this little statiDn was the starting pDint to a mineral em­ pire, Dnly a few miles away; or that, as a shipping point, it figured extensively in the business transacted by the railroad CDm­ pany. Jean may be little. but, it is the terminal Df the little railroad that runs dDwn from Good Springs, daily, with its load Df sev­

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eluding dynamite, caps and fuse,and a gen­ eral line Df mining supplies. Here, tDD, the hotel accDmmDdatiDns are mDre extensive, and, in additiDn to, the regular eating house, comfortable cottages have been constructed for regular boarders, as well as the trans­ ient trade. A feed stable and yard is also cDnducted in connectiDn with the com. pany's business. S. E. Yount. the senior member of the firm, is classed among Nevada's most en­ terprising business men, and he has the distinction of being secretary of, and a heavy shareholder in the Yellow Pine Min­ ing company. GeO'fge A ~ayle, the junior member, is one of thDse pushing, energetic and affable California boys whom it is always a pleas­ Ufe to meet. He is Dne Df the cDmmis-

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app·arent fissure and contact de·posits, which are expected to be pf higher grade. A limited amount of development has been done on the claims. There are several shallow shafts which show strong minerali­ zation. Operations will be continued in ear­ nest as soon as the weather conditions will permit. George of Providence, Rhode Island, president of the ,War Eagle Mining com'Pany, and Oscar A. Daube, curb broker of New York, have been inspecting the wmpany's mine at 2\fanhattan. Nevada.

'c. E. Rives, a former Salt Laker, is reported to have struck it rich in his prop· erty at Chloride, Arizona. The discovery was made on the surface and the vein has been opened up for a distance of 1,200 feet alDng its strike: The ore-body is from four to six feet in width. and will average $140 to the tDn, 'mostly in gold. The ore is a lead carbonate, and its gold content is some­ thing phenomenal. Mr. Rives is a brother of Benj. F. Rives, Df Salt Lake, formerly city recDrder.

enty tons of rich concentrate,s, and it is the distributing point for quite a wide scope of country. It is a little place, but, outside of the possession of the railroad company, is al­ most wholly owned by the firm of Yount & Fayle, wbose business runs up into the thousands, yearly. At Jean this company conducts a first­ class hotel and boarding house, a general merc.handising store, feed stable and camp yard; While the junior member of the firm is postmaster of the little burg At GoodSprings, across the valley. and in the mountain;:; eight miles away, the business Df the company is on a larger scale. Good Springs is the home of the Yel­ low Pine mine. a producer of zinc and lead ores, and which is the Dnly dividend-pay­ ing mrne in Clark county. In addition to) the YellDW Pine the camp boasts of numer­ ous Dther mines and prospects, some of which are producers, while others are in the devt~lopment stage. Here Yount & Fayle have a larger store with a more complete stock of goods, in­

sioners Df Clark cDunty. and a rising man. Both members of the firm are progres­ sive and public spirited. and enjoy the es­ teem and confidence of those with whom they come in contact. Both are heavily in­ terested in mmmg olJerat!ons III Good Springs district and join with many others in the belief that with more extensive de­ velopment, the camp will grow into, Dne of the greatest l}roducing and dividend paying portions Df the west. The report of Calumet & Hecla, of Mich­ igan, will show that costs for 1912 were nine and one-half cents per ~ound of cop­ per, again~t eIght and one·half in 1911, the increase being due to higher wages and ex­ tensive construction. The \Vestern ConsDlidated Mines CDm· pany, of Portland, Dperating in Del NDrte CDunty, California. near the Oregon line, about ten miles from WaldO, Oregon, is getting good reports fI om tbe property, con· sisting of six claims. A railroad to the dis­ trict is nDW assured.

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CALIFORNIA MINING AND OIL NEWS

By G. CHESTER BROWN, B. M.

San Francisco, Feb. ·8.-California is the largest producer of vetroleum in the world, having exceeded Russia by more than 2,000,000 !barrels, the production being 89,­ 601,565 bar.rels fo,r the year 1912. The Mid­ wily field ,produced a trifle over 25,000,000 barrels, while the Sunset had a record of 5,312,500.

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Foreign capital, it is said, has secured the holdings of the Pinal Dome, Rice Ranch and New Pennsylvania oil comDan­ ies. The Pinal Do,me company has land in the Santa Maria, and Midway fields, with an aggre'gate productlor. of 17,000 ,narrels a month. The Rice Ranch company, with holdings in the 'Santa Maria. field, has a prCi­ duction of some 20,000 barrels a month. The New Pennsylvania company, with prop­ erty in the Santa Mar:a fields, has a pro­ duction of 12,000 barrels a month. The Union Oil c'Ompany Is pushing its drilling in this field also and its No. 21 well has demonstrated the existence of ..a third oil sand. Cll:lifornia, with a production of $19,­ 988,486 in gold, leads all 'Other ,states, C'OI­ orado 'beillg second. This yield for the year 1912 i,s smaller than in 1911, and the gold production of the UnLted States is $5,000,­ 000 less .than the previous year. The Genesee mining district, in Plumas county, Is being considerably developed due

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It is rumored that the Eagle-Shawmut, near Chinese, 'On Wood's creek, is being examined by tlie Tonopah-Belmont people, of Nevada, who have been negoti:atIng for the Dutch and App mines, The prope-rty has been a steady producer for severnl years and has a most excellent 100-stamp mill. A new hoLstingplant and drills are being installed at the South Amador, in Amador county, where on the 500-foot level, con­ siderable ore has been ~eveloped .. The Yellow Astor is paying the usual dividends.

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An excellent example of the efficient adaptation of electricity to mine service Is illustmted in the acoompanying ,picture, which shows a two-speed, alternating cur­ rent, three phase, 60 cycle, 440-volt motor belted to a Guibal 12-foo,t fan installed in the Greensburg No. 1 mine of the Key­ stone Coal company, near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. The force of miners is oonsiderably less at night than during the daytime, and con­ sequently it is desired to run this fan at only about one-half the speed at night that is required during the day. For this serv­ ice there was selected a Westinghouse type 661 squirrel·cage I,ndooU.on motor with a rating of 7lJ.! horsepower at 600 R. P. M., 'and 15. :hQl"S€!power at 1,200 R. P. M.; the other characteristics being as mentioned above. The change in speed is accomplished by changing the number of poles. The stator

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to the excellent copper ledges; which also carry gold in paying quantities. This sec­ tion has been worked since the seventies, but capital 'has only ,been invested lin the last few years. The Gold Leaf mine, In the Argentine district, Plumas county, has recently been bonded t'O a Colorado company, and the five-stamp mill is being put in shape for 'Operati'On. There are three wall dedined ledges and also two porphyry diffe-s tra­ versing the group,so that a large tonnage can be developed. One shoot has a width of eight feet and value of $20 in gold at a depth of thirty feet. The Tanner pr'Operty, Calaveras c'Ounty, is being developed as rapidly as possible and a rich strike of splendid ,gold, quartz specimens has attracted attention. From this mine, near Murphy's, a number of ship­ ments of (lre assaying better than $300 to the ton have been nade. The vein varies in width fr.om eight inches to two feet, being 'Of the kidney type.

of the motor is provided with two windings; one of which gives six ,poles, resulting in a speed of 1,200 R. P. M., and tJhe other gives twelve poles, with a speed of 600 R. P. M. The connections are changed from one set of windings to the other by the controller. This is a most efficient form of control for an installation of this kind, as the motor can be operated at low· speeds at its highest efficiency; there 'being no losses jn the control resistance. The motor

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;self is particularly well adapted to this lass of service on account of its rugged haracteristics, which insure great reliabil­ ;y of service. Current ·for the operation of this motor ! furnished by the West Penn Electric ompany. In order to determine the re­ ults obtained from the installation. tests 'ere made by Mr. C. V. Elliott, electrical nglneer of the lighting company, which howed the following excellent results: . The fan is five feet, six inches wid&, nd the depth of iblades three feet, six lches. When running at 120 R_ P. M" wlt'·. .5 inches water gauge, or an equivalent ressure of .87 ounces per square inch, 6,200 cubic feet of air per minute were elivered. The motor in performing this 'ork took 9.6 k. w., giving an ef,ficiency or 3.D3 per cent for the outiit. When run· ing at half speed, or 60 R. P. M, with • inCih water gauge, or .29 ounce pres­ ure per square inch, 14,850 cublcreetDe~' linute were delivered, and an efficiency f 58.33 per cent was obtained. These resutus are particularly import­ nt as they show economy in the use of urchased power, which is .becoming tandard practice where alternating cur­ ent is available. ------0-----­

YANKEE CON DECLAF.lES DIVIDEND.

'Dhe dlreCltors of the Yankee Consolldated Tining company, of the Tintic district, of 'tah, whiCih 'Opened the year 1912 on an lsessment basis, declared a dividend of one ont a share, payable February 1. EJection r tJhe following year resulted as follows : E. Frick, presiuerut; B. N. Lehman, vice­ Bsident and general manager; A. E. Can­ Id, seoretary and treasurer, and H. P. Irk and H. C. Edwards, additional di­ tors. Mana.g;er Lehman presented the fol­ 'ing report: "'Dhe yea,r (JIpen€d with the mine in fair dition in severa.l re!SIPeots. The reve­ S oame from the low·gra.de mill dump from. royalrt:ies. The 'Prospect on the ) lewl, inherited from ,uhepre""ious year, lised soon to develop. into another ~e of revenue. Instead of uoing so, ,ver, during the y,ear, it develo.ped into ge mineralized zone carrying low values ad, silver, copper and gold in quartz, and manganese, and premisdng results rther 'Prospecting. .eantime, throug'h ex·haustien of the ump in !the early summer, the revenues I too pay the expenses of prospecting iter visits to the minle by al:l the resi­ lireotors, whiohoonvinood them that . expenditures were lllmply ,warranted, ren dicdated, by the ,prospects, the ,f Ili.recrors met and levied assessment ·f twe cents a share. With tJhe fund'.> bl'ed, the werk was pushed as ·here­ 10wn. To sup,plement this fUnd an

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unex-poo-red source of revenue be()lame avail· able during the latter part of the year in the beds of zinc ore in the mine, when that metal a'CqUlired an enhanced value in the market, which warranted its extraction. The results of this is that we end the year with an amount in the treasury approxLlIIIately the amount ef the assessment levied. "Zinc ore--T!his ore, whioh at fi,rst was not estimated at more than two carload.s, 'has ueveleped a large tonnage, whic.h, en the 31st of Decemiber, amounted to a shi.p<ment of thirty-one 50-ton cars, whioh assayed from thirty4ive ro forty per cen,t zinc and yiel4ed net SIlIlelter returns on an average of $20 per ton gross and about $23 ·per dry ton of ore, the only ooarge a.g>a.inst whic!h is the cost of IIDdning and loading on cars. "After the feregeing shipments, tJhe ore ,broken and in transit, together wlitb that in place in the mine, ghowed mUClh larger tonnage in sight ,than WI3.S dn sight in the earlier stages of devel(J!pment. This is due to the fact that what was suspected in the beg1nning, but not known, !has p-roved upon development to be true, viz., tha;t the zinc ore accompanies the lead-silver ore threugh­ out the eXitent' 'Of the mine, with the fur· theriact that, dn some places, it has been found in ·both hang:ing and footwalls. Alse, the sUPP'Osition was, tl)l8it it would be.found in practically uniform, shaHow beds under lead-silver, wlruClh is pa.rtly true, with the variation, as an agreeable sUl"P'lise, that it ,has been found lnp-Iaces to ·extend into the footwall, away from the lea.d·silver as much as fifty feet. As the Iatter ,has been pre­ vious;ly extracted, this left the ne'oossary .openings ·for low-oost mining of zinc ere, exoept where wlliS'te rock was formerly de­ posited. "1)he grade of the .ore seems to be as high in the upper as iin the lower levels, Where first opened. It is new safe too say that the deposit extends throug:h the entire 1ength of the old stop.es, varying in size at different points. Ne ~.ccurate estimate can be made of ·the amount 'Of this ere still in a)lace. WJth the foregoing oonditiens in mind, it is everybody's guess, but it is It safe guess that it wiH last as long as -the market 'price of the metal will warrant its extrac­ tion. "Our 'Ore contract is with the Kansas Zinc cOJnlpany, of Altoona, Kiansas, whiClh settles in full immediate,ly u!pon assay through the Utah Ore Sampling compauy, whicih -salIl!Ples in transit. Our reIations with the purchaser pave been uniformly satisfaotorY. "The car shortage was not .a serious troub
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"The mOBit interesting of the 1 cently has been the 1,800, where to the west and south enceunter, of quartz carrying one per oont IE to three ounces silver and 60 cell1 in gold. In the 8Outhextension of t: a drift from a !'Ialse is in a qual its whole widl:!h, carrying iron wi other metals as above. A crosscut north from the w'est drift some d west of the shaft is all in vein matt sdze of whiCih has net been deter 'Dhis carries about $5 in values. I -been .opened since Vhe first ef Januar ootproperly a 'Part of this report. "The appearance of this rock, brought to the surface, in the abseIl assay would cause it to be taken for ping ore. In fac-t, it much res,embles ores in the camp thllt bring rioh re-I Our workIing theory is thattJhese ( rences, together w'ith those en the described in the Iasrt; annual report, ar dications of shi.pping ore nearby. Our J !lem is to find it. "A dri,ft on the 2.,000 level, whicl headed for the guIch to the easl\: in a ultimately to cresscut wha.t is loeally kn­ as the Gl'ea;t Eastern vein, ihas been lcindly dolomi,te th,rough~ut, following a sure with numerous small caves, vugs : air rourses and obas encounl\;ered qua manganese and iron, wibh ·prospects in 1" silver and gold. 'rhe objective point is far away .from other 'prospects and ores the mine that, if ore is spoken ef above shall develop to the first 'One. "In ronclusion, I would say ·tJhat wI found the mine is ill a.n exoellent condit ror immedi!a-te mining of ore. The eql ment is o,f the best fer our 'purposes : the pO'\\o"8r is furnished ,at a reasonable c. ----'01-----;--­

The Mohawk Copper company, of Mi. gan, .produced 11,995,598 pounds of cop in 1912, from rock whicit yielded 15.23 pou: of copper per ton. Both operating cc iand grade of ere were .higher than in 1!

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The Cedar Lead Mining & Leasing c. pany, of Los Angeles, has been organi to take ever fifteen claims ene and one·! miles north of Barstow, California, form€ ewned 'by the Barstow Lode & ;\1ineral c. pany. - - -......0 - - - ­

T'he -Sanlinore Mines & Power comp: recently filed artides of incorporation, Vi pr.incipal effices at Por·tland, Oregon. side the incorperators, conSisting of Z. Greenough, Frank V. Healy, Jes. H. Jo stone and M. B. Bozorth, other Portland: Salem -business men, are interested. <:om,pany has a water right ~V~""hl0

'tAKE QUICKSILVER

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Largest Output in Past Six Years Reported by Geological Survey. Preliminary figures collected by H. D. McCaskey, of the United states Geolog­ ical Survey, from the Individu3.1 producers show that th~ domestic production of quicksilver in 1912 was 25,147 flasks of seventY-five pounds each, valued at the average San Francisco domestic price for the year, $42.04, at $1,057,180, A comparI­ son of these figures with the final publish­ ed survey figures for 1911 and 1910 shows a gain over the output of 1911 of 3,891 flasks and over that of 1910 of 4,546 flasks. Twenty mines were reported as pro~ucing In 1912, of which sixteen were in Califor­ nla, against twenty-two producers in' 1911, of which nineteen were in California. The production for 1912 showed a larg­ er increase than was generally expected. but it is not thought that a corresponding­ ly large increase can be looked for in 1913. Indeed, the reported gradual decline in out­ put from some of the larger ore bod'ies and possible unfavorable market conditions and prospects may result in a deereased output for 1913. The production of quicksilver in Cali­ fornia in 1912 was 20,613 flasks, valued at $866,571, against an output of 18,860 flasks, valued at $867,749, in 1911. It was the largest production since that of 24,635 flasks in 1905_ The increase was duo main­ ly to the yield of the New Guadalupe mine, in Santa Clara county, but also to increas­ ed output from several other mines. In San Benito county the New Idria mines yielded slightly less than In 1911 but remained the largest' producers in America and are to be credited with nearly half the entire out­ put of California. No production of quicksilver was re­ ported from Arizona, Oregon, Utah, or Washington in either 1912 or 1911. In Ne­ vada there was a largely increased output from the Mercury mines, near the old lone district, in Nye county, where a modern Scott furnace has been in operation, and a small production was reported from the Telluride prospect, near Beatty. Consider­ able prospect:ing and development of quick­ 'Silver deposits have been reported from Bare ,Mountain and other localities near Beatty, and in other districts in Nevada, and the production from this state may further increase in 1913. The Shoshone mines, near lone, were not producers in 1912. In Texas the Chisos mine at Terlin­ gua, Brewster county, oontlnued to make a considera'ble production. The combined out­ put of quicksilver in Nevada and Texas for 1912 was 4 i 534 flasks, valued at $190,609, against 2,396 flasks, valued at $110240, in 1911. The market was fairly good for quick­ silver in 1912. The imports were again in

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considerable excess over the exports and the demand was generally strong and ap­ parently somewhat larger than the domes­ tic supply. Prices began the year at $42.50 a flask for San Francisco domestic as the January average, rose to $44.40 for the March average, and thereafter gradually declined to the December average of $40.50 -the average San Francisco domestic price for the year being taken at $42.04_ The cor­ responding price in 1911 was $46.-aI. Exports -of qUIcksilver :from the United States in 1912 are estimated, from the re~ords of the Bureau of Foreign and Do­ mestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce and Labor, at 24,000 pounds, val­ ued at $14,000. In 1911 the exports were 21,841 pounds, valued at $13,995. According to figures of the bureau the imports for the first six months of 1912 were 82,616 pounds, valued at $39,884, while for the first six months of 1911 they were 361,t49 pounds, valued at $190,999. For the full cal­ endar year 1911 the imports amounted to 471,944 pounds valued at $251,386, against 667 pounds, valued at $381, in 1910. o~-,-

RECENT MINING .QECISIONS. (Prepared for The Mining Review.) Compensation from proceeds of Mine.­ A contract reciting an indebtedness to an attorney for services, and a promise to pay him out of the proceeds of any sale of a mine, and, if no sale should be made, out of the net profits of the mine, not exceed­ ing ten per cent. of such prOfits monthly, limits the sources from whi.ch the attor­ ney can compel payment to such proceeds or profit.-Lynch vs. Keystone Consol. Mining Co., Supreme Court of California, 126 Pacific 968. Possession Without Location.-Actual possession of mineral land of the United States without a location is valid as 'against a mere intruder, but is not available as against one peaceably entering >for explor­ ation or making a valid location, and an exclusive right to possession can be ac­ quired -only by a compliance wi,th the min­ eral laws of the United States and the local laws not inconsistent therewith, re­ quiring discovery and location,-Ferris v. McNallY, Supreme Court of Montana, 12 1, Pacific 889 Void Location of Claim by Land Office Employe.-The location of a placer mining claim, contrary to U. S. Rev. Stat. § 452, U. S. Compo Stat. 1901, p. 257, prohibiting officers, clerks, and employees in the Gen­ eral Land Office" under 'penalty of dis­ missal, from directly or indirec.tly purchas­ ing Or becoming interested In the purchase of public land, is void, and not merely void, able at the instance of the government.­ Frank H. Waskey, Petitioner, v. Joseph Hammer, Supreme Court of the United States, 32 Sup. 'Ct. Rep. 187.

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CHIEF CONSOLIDATED IN GOOD SHAPE. Annual Report of Tintie Property Mailed to Stockholders. The annual report -of the Ohlef Conso-li­ d'ated of .the Tlntic district, 'of Utah. has been mailed to stockholders. President Fitoh re'ports as f'O:lows: "The operation of the mine was -carried a}ong uninterruptedly throughout to be as good as many of the best mines ,heretofore Or now o,perating in the Tintic district, and if the same ,prog>ress in developing ore can be maintained in ,the future, as in the past few years; there is no reason Why 1,t may noli u!lJtimately elllal the best. "The most nOthe sto'pes worked in other ,portions of the mine, a .product has been made and earnings derived that have furnished the cash balance as shown in the treasurer's statement. "Dividends were inallbgurated only as soon ·as it was ,demonstrated that earnings could be seemed to maintain ,them with regularity and still be ab'e to' hold in the treasury an .ample reserve to provide' the necessary Working c,'l.pital. The ore now developed furnishe·s, ,al,so, a reserve which it is hoped to maintain and Incre,ase as the work proO€eds. "It is expected that the current year's O
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where the work has been suspended pend­ ing the completion of the drift connecting it with the 800 workings. The ore shows a continuance in good quality at the point where ,the work was discorutinued. At the 1.000 level a winze was put down to the 1,200, and the ore carried for the Whole of that distance. A winze has also followed the ore from the 1,200 level down seventy feet, the present bottom of the winze. This will be carried down to the 1,400, where a drift is being run to connect with it. Sink· ing will then be continued as long as the ore lasts. "This work has demonstrated a length to this ore body of over 500 feet. "Stoping is being done only above the 1,000 level; enough ore is thus gained to· gether with that coming from the older stopes, 1,200 feet distant, to keep the smel· tersupplied. These latter stopes are look· ing as well and as promising as at any previous time. It is v.ery probable the work will ultimately show that the channel, in which the ore in the old stopes occur, is connected with the new ore, and may af­ ford stoping fOr th.e Whole of the 1 200 feet separating theSe two points. Without reo gard to this, we estimate that there is suf· ficient ore now proved up to permit of the present product for several years. "Good progress has h\len made in ad­ v·ancing the main opening drifts, ,and these will be pushed actively until the property limits are reached. The advance already made has permitted the starting of several lateral drifts that are expected to show up much new ore. Ore has now been devel­ oped in the 1,000, 1,200, 1,400 and 1,600 levels. "Up to this time the operation of the mine has been at a disadvantage In hav­ ing no other outlet than tbrough its own shaft. To overcome this, a crosscut is be­ ing driven towards the Gemini mine, 2,OOG feet distant, and one has been started from the mine to connect with it. This work wiII be completed about May 1, and beside,s affording a very necessary addition­ al outlet for the employees in ca·se of acci· dent to our shaft, will also provide just as necessary ventilation and will add much to the comfort and health of the men and also increase the efficiency of the work. "This crosscut is to be regarded also as 'an opening avenue for possible produc­ tion in that direction, the ground there is an ore zone entirely distinct from the one in which we are now operating, and We expect this wiII in the future develop additional deposits or ore. "The sinking of the shaft has aga;n been started and will shortly reach the 1,800 level. Work also is being done in­ termittently in widening and retimbering the old or upper part of the shaft." ----Ot---­

John Daniell, of Calumet, Michigan, is in Bisbee. Arizona.

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Te:>eral Electric Co. . . ,................. F alrbanks-Morse & Co, .......... ,...... 8 Jeffrey !'.fanufacturing Co. .............. 5 Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4

Lane Mill & Machinery Co. •............. 4 Mine & Smelter Supply Co. .............. 1

:\Olinneapolis Steel & Machinery Co....... 43 Porter, Charles F., Building Mater!:tl... . 6 Revere Rubber Co. ................. ... 43 Richmond, F. C., :\olachinery Co. . . . . :... 1 Roessler & Hass' acher Chemical Co... ,. 35 talt Lake Hardware Co. ............ ... 44 utah Fire Clay Co, ........ ....... .. 3~ tah Fuel Co. . ............ , ..... ,.::.. 40 W.ay's Pocket Smelter .................. 35 ~"estern Heating & Sheet Metal Co .. , .. , . 6 . C. ·M. 1. ............. ,....... ,....... 6

Banking Houses. McCornick & Co............ . 35

Merchants' Bank ....... . . . . . . .. .. 35 Salt Lake Security Co. . . . ::::::::::::::: 35 Utal) Savings & Trust Co 35 Wah State National B':tnk :::::::::::::: 35 alker Bros. . ........................ . 35 ASllayers and Ohem·s"'. A. F. Bardwell ................. ,....... 38

~ifd-Cowan .................... ,....... 38

Cr sJ'!1on & N:chols ... : ................ , 38 o urtle, J. W ...................• ,. .... 3S

Ufi!cer & Co., R. R. .................... 38 nlOn Assay Office .................... 38

Railroad... Bingham & Garfield Ry................ . 41 ~rftgot ~hort Line ..................... . 39 a . . a e Route .... " .......... ,. ." 41 MIning Attorneys. Booth, Lee, Badger & Rich 37 Bradley, Pischel & Harkness':::::::::.: 37 Call~han, D. ~., Mining Law Books ... . 38 DaVIS & DaVIS .............. , ........ . 37 Dunn, Edward D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 37

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Superintendent J. A. Burgess has issued a s,ta,temerut of operations for the Nevada· Wlonde-r Mining compalty, located in Church. ill county, Nevada. The report follows: The construction work, which was be­ gun late in October, wa.s finis,hed early in December. T.he seventy-foot head frame and the double drum hoist w:th a double deck cage, are now in operation and are work· ing very satisfactorily. At present only one cage is being used, and it is counter· balanced with a Weight running in a box in the manway compartments. The he ad frame is built of timber, with steel girders an.d posts at the top to sup­ .port the sheave wheels, and it is well tied with iron bolts and rod,s, thug· fo-rming a very rigid structure, which has very little vibration when in use. The new 125·horsepower double drum Ihoist, made by il.he Jo()shua HendY Iron works, has a ,capac:ty for 1,500 feet of seven­ eights-inch rope. By :operatin.g two double­ deck cages in balance at a speed of' 400 feet p,er minute, this wI:) give all the hoist· ing capac:ity that the mine needs for the increased amount of work that is planned.

Directory of Engineer... Adamson\V G . Pa~·',. Arnold, Fish'er '&' '(~';'j~~;t " .......... '" ,,,

Boss M P ~ .............. ~~

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J8. Sllver Bros., Engineers & Cont~';"ci~;';'" ~i ;r:roxelJ, L. E. .................. . .. 37 utah State School of Mines . . . . . ... 3-, Va tinke, Paul ............ .

Vi ladsen Bros. . . ,.................... . 37

\Vu·te James \V·· ...................... 37

Walker H C ...... , . . . . .. . . . . .. .,.... ~~ Widdicombe &. Pa:l'~~;":::::""'" 37

~n~OS~i&EOdtt r·d·· .... · .... ·::::::::::::: 37 , wa R..................... 37

Miscellaneous. Century Printing Co. _................. 5 D!, Bouzek Engraving Co. ............ . 41 Dmwoodey ]<'urniture Co . ;; Gardner & A ............. .

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Harris, n, H~ar~~co''';~t,;tit':::::''''''''' 38 Hotel Stanford ........ . 33 International S~~itij.;g· &' .Re'ti~i'n'g' C''; .. 2 Mon tgomery Shoe Company ., .......... : 7

Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co . Nephi Plaster C • ' ...... , .. . 41 New Era Motor °Co: . : : : : : : . : ........... . 41 Official Directory of ?lrIines . ~ ......... . 404 Railroad Time Tables .... ::::::::::: .. . 39 Rocerts. J. C., Dealer in Rare Metals .. . 6 Salt Lake Photo Supply C o ' . . .. . Salt Lake Starn C . . .......... . 38

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. The hoist and compressor building has been moved into the excavat:on 'made for it, and has been enlarged sufficiently to contain another compressor. Five new mine cars have been added to the equipment. A comfortable cottage has been built for the su.perintendent's use, and a stable has been built near the mine. With these c.hanges an1 additions to tho plant, the property has a first-class equipIfJent. The work of enlarging the shatt by adding a second hoist compartment from the 700-foot level to the surface is now under way, and the work of sinking the shaft from the 700·foot level will be started in a shol"lt time. The general development work is decreased to some extent by the shaft work,but drifting is now in progress on the 200, 500 and 600·'0oot levels. During the month of November, 2,128 tons of ore were milled at a net profit of $19,465.85. Mining operations were stopped on Novemher 11 on account of ,theconstruc· tion work, and foor the remainder of the month the mill was rUIl on dump ore, which a.ccounts 'o'r the de<)reased earnings. 0----

Voi. H. "VClbberhas returned to Salt Lake

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spe-ctor failed to show any traces of the deleterious elements 0.1 smeltery smoke, but bhe animals are shown ,to have died of na­ tural caus€ s . The :mere claim of smoke damage has ,been enough, however, to rouse prejudice against a worthy enterprise.

Published Seml·Monthly by Will C. Higgins and A. B. Greeson. Office, Room 1601 Walker Bank Building,

Top Floor. Phone, Wasatch, 2902.

WILL C. IUGGINS ................... Editor

L. O. HOWARD ............. Assoclate Editor

A. B. GREESON .......... Business Manager

SubscrIption Itates.

One year ............................... $2.50 Six Months ............................. 1.50 Single Copy ............................ ~ .15 Foreign Countries in Postal Union ...... '3.75 Subscription Payable in Advance. •







Entered November 29, 1902, at Salt Lake :City, Utah, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1899. Advertising Rates! Advertising rates fur­ :1ished on application. Contributors. H. B. Pulsifer. A. L. Sweetser. W. H. Calvert. H. W. McFarren. Leroy A. Palmer. Maynard Bixby. Alex McLaren. B. F. Tibby. Jay Eliot Johnson. Adverfis:ng Agencies. DENVER, Colorado.-The National A<1ver. :iSing Co., QUincy Building. NEW YORK.-lfrank Presby Co.• General A.dvertising Agents, 3-7 West 29th !:)treet. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Hamman's "'dvertising Agency, South Pasadena, Cal.

It is to be hoped' that the proposed Amer­ ,can Mine Safety ass.ociation will be able to nake its influence so felt that a noticeable Iecrease in the present disgraceful mineac­ :ldent rate will result. The plans of the Issociation are outlined elsewihe·re in these Xllumns.

----0--Speakins generally, the use' of jigs in :inc milling is universal, and where at­ empts are made to handle (!oarse z-inc min· lral on tables, the losses due t{) sliming are leavy. A preliminary separation 'Of the ;oarse free Zinc minerals on jigs is, in most ases, prefcrable. -~-~-o·----

The 'attempt to fasten the Salt Lake moke nuisance on the valley smelteries ,'Ould be humorous, WHe it not for tile tact hat !t gives further misinformation to many .lready grossly misled in regard to the meltery situation. If th{)se who are re­ ponsible for this latest fictictious line of eas.oning 'would arise early enough in bhe lOrning and take a cal' ride to the higher ~vels of too 'City, the reason for the smoke uisance would soon be .apparent.

-----0----­ Some of the farmers near the smeltery t Tooele, Utah, have alleged that they were )sing livestock becaUSe {)f the smOKe. Sam­ les recently taken :?rom diseased ,animals nd submitted to the state live stock in-

The treatment and ZlnC carbon­ ate ores has long been a bugbear. When the ore is ,high'grade, however, simple jig· ging and table methods are suooessful in re-covering both lead and zinc in ·a market­ able form. Where ore d,ressing can be ap­ plied, as distinguish,ed from concentration, these minerals give little trouble, inasmuch as no tailings are discarded, :to carry values to the waste dump. An example of this praotice is the YellOW Pine Mining com· pany's mill, described in this issue.

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certificate submitted by a promotor who promises great riches. Remember it is his most potent argument. Question him as to the amount of ore represented by the sample, and pin him down t) definite statements. Make him prove tha: the price at which uhe metal is quoted, can actually be ob· tained. --......-'-0---­

WHAT A MINING REPORT SHOULD

SHOW.

Just what a mininl,!' rep'Ort should sllow is a much discussed question. It has special siguificance at this ti1me, when the Nevada dai:1es are filled ",1th so-called reports {)f mining eomjJ
no information 'Of any value to the public. For instance, we see a report reading In promoting new mlllmg companies, it something like this, Name of eompany, Blank is unfortunately the case that much informa­ tion intended to m,islead is often given out Mining & Milling company, location of prop­ under startling headlineS. We 'must expect erties, Any County, Nevada, Receipts for that wildcats will always be with us. One the year $125,000, expenses, $120,000, balanCe of t'he strC}ngest arguments of the vtildcat on hand, $5,000. This may mean som-ething, promoter is the assay (!ertificate. If a nIce but just what, we can not determine. As a little piece of specimen rock can be secured, matter of fad, this c'Omp,any may have paid it is sent to bhe assayer, wh{) in many cases $60,000 in dividends, but these are included reports tha value without specifying that in expens'*i. Amount of work done is in bhe sample was a specimen. In addition, s,ome cases not given, and when given means not content with this, the promoter gets the nothing. The w'ork may have been done in assayer to figure the value of the metal, barren country rock for the sake of trying in dollars and cents. There is. no obJection out a .few machines, for all we know to the to this in the case of gold, and possibly contrary. silver. The base metals can ,be handled in We believe that quarterly reports should the same way in the case of d\.rload lots, be supplied to stockholders, stating in detail, but for small lots to be used in a promotion t'he result of operations and the details sense, it is better to leave the price 'Of the of costs, in addition to capita'ization, bal. ance sheet, etc" by all incorporated com­ metal out. We have a statement bef.ore us, published pany or companies in which stock is sold. At least once a year maps of the workings in a stock prormotion soheme, ,which pur­ ports t'O be' an assayer's (·ertificate. The with assay sheets, should ,be requil'ed, with analysis, as given, can represent no large a statement of the probaJble life of the mine amount of ore, and the prl=s put on the as 1'1ustrated by these maps, and other fac­ metals, or rather on the oxides of me metals, tors. 'Ilhese other factors should be stated, in whi0h form the determination is made, is however. In the qu rel="nofollow">arterly reports, devel{)p'ment several times too high. In fact the ·price qu'Oted might be the price 'of the finished should be stated in such terms that a refer· metaL Multiplying the assay value, in terms ence to the map would show just where the of oxide, by the 'price in terms of the metal development was undertaken, and w,hat .it gives a very alluring value to the ore. The meant. The statement that stope 150·BS certificate is duly signed. by the assayer, and was extended twenty-rye feet, 'conveys. some copies sent broadcast to show the great illuminating information to the man without ric'hes contro}!.ed byuhe promotor. Not only a map, or legend of coordinates, to guide does theadvertisemeut bear the earmarks him. of a wild cat, but to 'people who know, the The map and assay sheet deserve more assayer mak.ing that certificate is open to prominence in 'mining reports, and there the suspicion, that he also, is on 1he make, can be no r.easonable objection to their pub­ but not necessarily oil the square. At bhe lication. Any well regulated mine must keep very least, the ignorance shown ,by the as­ Us maps up-tO-date, and the expense and say,er in this case, would make everyone trouble of giving theIn out once a year, is skeptical as to the value of any assay he trifiing, compared with the great good they might make. would dQ. This 'One step alone would do W:e would caution the pu>blic to scrutinize much to 1ispel .the distrust of the public in with the most careful attention, any assay connection with mining properties.

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me of a prQs'pecting trip Qf mine several years ago., when you 10Qked mQre like a jack rabbit than YQU do nDW, and when YQur legs seemed to. be all that there was to YQu. At the time I speak Qf, I was Qut in the NestQr range € a rly in the spring, and had established my camp at the base Df a jagged and rugged clift. Your mother was with me at the time, and she had se:ected a little grassy patc,h below QUI' camp, near a purling, sparkling spring, which she claimed as her very Qwnest, ana where she hDped to. remain fQr the balance Qf the season. I was well satisfied, tQQ, for the regiQn seemed exceedingly favQr­ able fQr mineral depQsits, and I had noted quite a number Qf quartz croppings on an adjQining hill, which I prQPosed to. prospect as SQDn as ,possible. The ,first thing I did, (By Will C. Higgins.) hoWev€r, was to. get my camp in shape, so. "I have a hunch that we will have an that I could be comfy and llQmelike. early spring," said th€ prDspectDr to his managed to. fix up a nice cache ,for my pro­ :burrD. "Already the WDDd rat is piling up visions and supplies, and I 'fQund a small material for her nest and the WhD-whD bird cave, SQm-e little distance away, where I YQU is calling fDr her mate; and, even the bDYS stQred my PQwder; caps and fuse. dDwn in the Bucket Qf BlDQd saloon are be· want to. knQw if I was excited Qver the ginning to. get uneasy at the faro. table, and prDspects! no, none whatever,fDr I was the man who. is putting hls chips dQwn Qn then pretty well seasQned in the prDspect­ the 00, with the gre€ n to win. hesitates ing ,busin€ s s, and had long ago. ceased to. while his thoughts wander DUt into the hills go. up into the air upon the discQvery Qf in cDntemplatiQn Qf the fine-lQDking crDp­ cQPper 'pyrite 0.1' a small seam Qf rich Qre ping he bumped into. last fall just as the And so I tQok things leisurely and it was snawhegan to. fly and the wind howled three days after making campbefQre 1 down the canYQn. Even you, I see, fall crossed the little canYQn and :began exam­ into. deep medi,tJaHon as YDU munch away ining th€ veins and crDppings on the Qther Qn your harley; and YQU are evidently side. FrQm the very first I fQund gOQd­ thinking Qf that lop-eared Qutlaw burro. IQDking flQat, and this I f.allowed up the mQuntain-side fQr a cDnsiderable distance. whQm YQU have not seen for nearly a year; all Qf which is a harbinger Qf spring, and At last, way up, near the mQuth Df an indicates that the hills will be full Qf prQs­ almQst Qbscured box canyon, I fDund the p-ectQrs at an early day. cropping, which stQod SQrne two. 0.1' three "You. say that this sQunds very nice, 'feet above the level Qf the gI'ound. It was and that, as a matt€ r Qf fact, YQU have, at least two. feet wide, and gave eveTY evi­ dence Qf continuity and permanency; and, every now and then, a PQetical streak chas­ ing up and down your back bone and a frDm pieces I brQke Dff with my pick, and feeling in your breast that leads to. song; in which' I could see free gQld, I judged which you interpret as a sure sign that we it WQuld go at least $75 to. the tQn. UpQn will SOQn take to. the trail again and pro­ examining the ledge further I was sur­ ceed to. chase bonanzas frQm their lair and prised to find what appeared to be a shal­ lasso. them in the Qpen In all Df which lQW shaft which had ,been sunk uPQn it. you are wDnderfully cQrrect, and one would The little dump was Qvergrown with sage n{)t think, to. lQQk at YQU, that there was and mahogany. and an almQst obliterated any sentiment in your make-up, Qr that yQur trail seemed to lead Qff into. the :bQX can­ gray matter, without first being strained YDn. This I fQllowed, and was surprised thrQugh a cheese clQth. could reason Qut when I fQund that it led to. a little rock a mer€ l y a'bstract subject so. clearly. cabin built into a niche in the r!,ck so. snug ".But," cQntinued the prQspectQr, 'the that, even if one knew it was there, it wander-lust is getting its grip Qn us, and would take SQme time to find it. It must within a mQnth we will be out in the can· ' have be€ n built many years befQre, for its YQns as free as the birds Qf the air and walls were badly crumbled and the chim­ 10Qking for trQuble as industriously as a ney had fallen in. It was a. miner's cabin, Piute squaw when engaged in hunting fDl' all right, tnough, and a few Qld picks and livestDck Dn the head Qf her papQDSe; for, shovels were scattered around that were as YQU well knQw, we will have Qur up~ plainly marked with the ravages of time and dQwns Qut in the hills the same as we Just below the cabin a nice stream bubbled frDm a spring that gushed from Dne Qf the have when bucking the tiger in Qur win­ ter quarters, 0.1' when we keep Qur feet too. walls Df the canYQn, and, a short distance lQng Qn the rail at the bar. But we will further Qn were the remains Qf an old have Dur time, hQwever, and this reminds arrastra which gave evidence that, at one

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time, the Qwner Df the ledge had been en­ gaged in Qre-reductiDn. As a matter Qf fact, I proved this tQb€ true by the discQvery Qf an Qld tQmato can that was mQre than half full Qf gQld dust and amalgan. I can hardly explain my feelings. but I felt like an intruder into. an Qld cemetery. I SOQn gQt Qver my mQlly-grubs, hDwever, when I realized that I had stumbled upon Qne Qr the old IDst mines of traditiQn, and I be­ gan at Qnce to take advantage Qf my dis­ covery and soon had a grQup Qf claims lQcated, a water right and a mlll-site. All Qf that summer I wQrked like a beaver sinking shallQw shafts and driving short tunnels; and, 'by fall I had theprQperty Dpened up s9 that I knew it WQuld 10Qk gQQd to. the yellow-legged expert with a blazer Qn his shirt-frQnt as big as a baby walnut. So. I hiked to town and presented myself, like a lamb to. be slaughtered, to. the chair-warming sharks who infest the big chairs in the leading hotels. But, I was nDt as easy as I IDQked, and within two. weeks had interested the right party, who., when he made the trip with me to. my camp, went fairly wild Qver the shDwing I had, the result being that a deal was made Qn the spot whereby I gQt $150,000 in cash, and still retained a quarter interest in the prQperty, which is still making me gQocj money. "I want to. tell you, Old LQng Ears," CQn­ cluded the prQSpectDr, "I felt well repaid fQr my seasQn's work, that year, and YDur mDther gDt so fat and slick on that little grassy patch that she tried to. fight m-e Qff when I went to. take her away. It was a pretty gDQd clean-up fQr a lone prQspectQr, and heat holding fDur ac€ s in a whist game. I was surprised,hDwever, because of the fact that th€ lost mine had been QverlQQked, fDr years, by hundreds gf prospectDrs, who. had cQndemned that sectiQn; and my dis­ em'ery ,prDves to. me that Dne may wandel far and wide and then nQt find anythin~ nearly as good as he CQuld by staying within reaSQnable distance of hDme; and there YOL are, and then sQme," ·---o--~-

It is rumored that the camp Df Rochester Nevada, is Qn grQund granted to the Centra Pacific railrDad, years ago.. ----'0.---­

Through the QPeration Qf the "cDmpan ies' act," 2,000 coonpanies have been denie( the right to. transact 'business in Britisl CDlumbia and will hav€ ,to. reincQrporate a a cost {)f $5,000 1<:> each of the cQlllpanie: affected.

----0---­ The regular mQnthly dividend of $50,00. was declared by the d;reciQrs of the Stand ard Silver-Lead Mining company at th€ Qj fice of the Finch Investment company Sp<>kane, Washington, February 1. Th declaI'atiDn is at the rate of twO.' and QnE half per cent. Payment will be made Fet ruary 10.

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I have just returned from an investiga· m trip of some newly discovered miners'! ound bearing uranium and vanadium min­ als; I will speak of these rare minerals .d their mode of occurrence, etc. ,Carn():.ite, economically the most im­ ,rtant of these ores, was discovered and .med in 1899 by E. Cumenge and C. Friedel, 10 found it impr€ g nating a silice()us sand­ Jne in Montrose county; Colorado. The lneral carnotite is of use as a source of e rare elements uranium and vanadiuTll. )8t carnotite ores show radio-activity; fn me exceptional CaB€S as much as three lligrams of radiuIll\-bromide have beem tracted from one ton of high grade ores. rnoUte is a hydrous vanadate of uraniu;n j potassium and has the following em­ ical formula: 2U.O. V,O. K,O 3 H,Q. is formula cannot be regarded as con­ sive. however. Carnotit€ , a canary-yellow leral, sooms to be a surface or altera­ 1 product, representing in a secondary m some other original minerals froT:J. ich 1:5 substance has been derived. A3 las probably been deposited fromsol~­ IS in ground water 1t is very lik€ l y that source of the rare elements may have n at somle considerable distance and it Ilso possible that th€ primary mine,rals e widely disseminated in minu:e quanti­ , of which the present deposits are a Iuct of concentration. Tolborthite, (a vanadate of cOPP€r) can By be distinguished in the field from loUte, and if any analysis of a heavily led specimen shows only lit:l" more , a trace of ura,nium, the tested minerfjl be the former. The lower grade Ores r vanadium in two conditions, in entirely nct minerals. the greater part by far as avalent (having a valence, Or combining )r of five) like in the purest carnotite while it (vanadium) also exists in the lent (having a combining power of I) state asa constituent of a silicate from uranium. This explains the rela· richness in vanadium of the low grade as compared with the uranium contents. commercial assay of these ores has nted uifficulties tQ the chemist, the re· being sometimes very discordant. As 'anium, ;:his is not surprising. The )ds that are commonly used will give 19 results. according to the contents , ore in phosphorus and alkaline earths. ,ssay for vanadium pr€ s ents little diffi­ and should be correct, as the assay : affected by the uranium that may "sent. e mineral occurs heavily and thorough­ ;Jregnating th€ sandstone (rich ore); IStS and blotches or as a mere coat­ I silicified wood or between bedding.

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planes. shearing zones Or in the cracks re­ of handling the ore with shovel or eleva­ sulting from brecciation (medium ore); M tors. There is not an elevator in the build­ light impregnations of the sandstone in the ing. The ore is dUIDp€d direct from the neighborhood of richer seams in which case mine cars into the mill. passing over a I'. can only b~ seen with the aid of a lllJod grizzly to the !.ront of the crusher. From lens. (lean ore.) the crusher it passes into the storage, bim•• The shape and position of the deposits from there through tne automatic feeders indicate clearly that the ores have ,been to the stamps. After leaving the stamps

brought to th€ i r present pOSition by trans­ and over a sev~n-foot amalgamating plate•

portation. The recent formation of the de­ it goes to the classifier trom which the

posits and the fact that they 'are in several coarser or heavier mineral goes out through

cases connected with faults and dislocations one outlet to a Wilfley table, while the

in ~he sandstones show that the vanadium finer or li"ghter portion passes througJl

and uranium compounds could not have been another outlet to another table of the same

the original cementing material of the quartz kind.

grains, but in all probability they have lo­ \All residue from the ,first two tables

cally replaced the calcite that acts as ma:­ passes on down to the next fioor. and over

rix to the sandstones in which the. ore one more table, where -every thing of a

bodies occur. mineral nature that the two tables have

Vanadium-bearing sands, although their " failed to take up is caught by the third. contents of vanadium are low as expr€ s sed The entire 'finished product is finally landed in p€ r centages, have become of great com· on the lower floor ready to 'be wheeled into mlercial value owing to the scard:y t'f the cars, which are switched to the door £ources from which vanadium can be ob, of the mill. Another good feature of the tained at a cost which will allow its profit­ mil! is that each :part is run entirely sep­ able use in the arts, and to the greatly arate from the other; each ,portion being increased demand caused by ihe use of van­ run by its own motor, thereby allowing any adium in steel. The mineral roscoelite has one part of the mill to close down without probably replaced the calcite cemen,:ing TIle interfering with the rest. There are seven quartz grains together. Thes€ sandstones different motors in and about the mill, ag­ are in most cases of a dark pea or sage­ gregating 175 h. p., which guarantees amp!e green color. 'and should not be mistaken power for all purposes. The equipment of [or a lighter and brighter greenish colored the mill consists of one crusher, two five 'sandstone, which as analYSis shows has stamp batteries of 1,050 pound stamps. run­ either been colored by COpp<=r or chromium ning . at the rate of 90 drops per minute, compounds. one classifier and three Wilfley tables. Several pamphlets which came to my rio­ Another gOOd feature of the mill is that

tice figure the cos'. of mining of a shipping is not crowded full of ex;pensive and worth­

grade of carnotite ores somewhat around less machinery. and there IS plenty of room

to add any 'kind of appliances that may ,be

$3,00 to $3.50. This, in my opinion, is sim'­ ply impossible, as the necessary sorting will deemed necessary in the future. In addi­

at least cost all of this. Considering be­ tion to the mUI there has been place:i

sides the partial and unavoidable barreness a new Ingersoll-Rand lO-drill compressor.

of the operating ground in places I think W'Ork has 'been resumed in the shaft which

from nine to ten dollars per ton will be is also operated independently of any of the

nearer to the corr€ c t figure. As to the pos· rest of the workings, There are' few,

sible € x tension of the deposits I maintain if any, mines or mills in the country so

that there is no apparent reaSOn why a ffialS thoroughlY equipp€ d as th€ Hoosac. Man­

of sandstones, impregnated with roscoelite, ager E. D. Quigley has pinned his faith to

and expos€ d for a considerable dis:ance the Hoosac mine for years and the showing

along a cliff should not extend for a re;t· in the mine--of which W€ will have some­

sonable distance inward from the cliff faC0. thing to say later on-justifies his faith.

On the other hand, carnotite, and its COll­ The mill was built by that veteran mill

nection with the present surface of the builder, Peter McFarlane of Central City.

ground is not yet fully understood and only The new shaft house has been built ovel'

development will bring the answer. the RisingSun shaft of t::;e Hoosac ,prop­

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This shaft is 200 feet deep and has good

HOOSAC MILL STARTED. ore in both shaft and the two levels that

The following description of a new mill. were worked some years ago The water

just starting operation in the Idaho Springs is now being taken out and in a few days

work will be started in tne levels and ore

district of Colorado, appear€ d in the Idaho taken out from the start.

Springs Gazette for January 30th -----·--0----­ The new Hoosac mill was started last THE HIDER-NEVADA COMPANY. Tuesday and everything moved along with clock-like precision. This mill is one of Presidel1t S. G. Saville, S€ C retary J." J.

the best and neatest constructed mills ever erected in the county. It is built entirely Morris and Resident Agent J..J. Broecher,

on the gravity plan, thereby saving the cost ()f the Hider-Nevada Mining company. hav,e

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ed the 1912 statement of the company as lquired by the Nevada law. Among the Lets brought out by the statement are the )l1owing: The Hlder-Nevada owns the following laims, viz.: O. K., Bryan, Copper Point, Hneral Po.int, Badger, Hearst, May Flower, lDlden Rule, Hume, I<'arr, O:ive, located in Jand~r county, Nevada, twenty-1:hree miles 30uth of Battle Mountain. Tlhe O. K., Bryan, Badger, Mineral Point, Hearst, GoMen Rule, May Flower claims were purchased in June, 1907, from John D. I:-Hder. The Farr, CIive and Hume claims were located in th,e year 1907. A'l of these claims are unpatented and ,held by per­ f,ormance of annual assessment work re­ qu~r>ed by law, All these claims, with the exception of O. K., Bryan and Badger, were relocated J'anuary 1, 1913. The surface improvements and machin­ ery consist of two houses upon the Hearst claim, one ""him, 1,500 feet of T rail, one blower, 700 feet of aLe pipe, mine car, skip, drill steel, stable, etc., the estimated value of whieh is $1,000, Total feet oJ development equals 489 feet, 18 feet of tunneling work done on Hryan claim, 30 feet of surface cuts on O. K. The total number of shares in the cor­ poration is 1,000,000, divided as follows: 800,000 capital stock, 200,000 tre3isury stock, par value 10 cents. The total number of shares set aside flOr the development work, 200,000. The following amounts were spent dur­ ing the twelve months preceding: Ex:pen­ ses, $396.03; hauling, $15; wa.ges, $129; malt­ ing a total of $540.03. No ore orbullio'n was shipped durin~ the twelve months preceding, One hundred shares of treasury stock was sold at 10 cents per share.

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The report of the Jumbo Extension Min­ ing comp'any, of Goldfield, Nevada, for the year just dosed, is out. Of especial inter­ est is the comment on the new mill. which answers uhe questions that some stockhold­ ers bJave been asking of late. Part of the report follows: "During the vast year there have been 281.77 tons of ore shipped to smelteries of the gross va~ue of $S.156.11, or $28,94 per ton. Of this, 194 tons was comparatively low-grade material. running less than $30 per ton, shipp~1 before the mill was in complete operation, But eIghty-seven tons of the class of ore w!lich it is now intended to ship direcIt to smelteries has been ex­ tracted and Shipped. The companr received $5,049.76 for this ore. showing a marketing expense of $11 per ton. It was bhis ex­ cessive expense. added to the fact that the main tonnage in the mine was composed ,of ore averaging about :j)qper ton, that forced the company to secure milling facilities.

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Repeated attempts have been made io se­ cure better rates, but th's far without suc­ cess. In the meantime no effort has been made to mine the higher grade material. Only such .as has bE'en encountered and must ,be removed in o'rder to continue the other work has been extracted. Ore of s,hipping grade is now exposed at three 'points, but its extenth.as not been deter­ mined, nor ,has any of it been mined, for the reason that much better rates ,are look­ ed for, and for the further reas>on that to mine it at tl1is time would greatly inter­ fere with the development work and mIning of mill ore now under way. "The ore mined and milIed u:pto Janu­ ary 1, 1913, 'amounts to 3,239 tons and aver­ ages practically $8 per ton. according to mill h~ads. The mining cost is $2,84 per ton for both milling and s.hipping ore, There ds ap,proximately 1,000 tons of broken ore which has not been shipped at the present time, so that the cos-t of mining ore of milling grade will n(}1: exceed $2 per ton. "The lowc,grade stopes above the sec­ ond level have produced about seventy-five percent of the milling ore, it having been found impracticable to mix any consider­ .able quanUty of the higher grade ore with the low grade in order to increase the val­ ues, since ,by so doing the extraction of v'al­ ues at the 'mill was seJ'liously hampereQ, "From c
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"As a 'matter of convenience and eeo my, a separate corporation. known as Jumbo Reduction comllany, was formed mill the Jumbo Extension ores. The red lion COml}any is capitalized at $10,000 1 its stock is all owned Ill' the Jumbo Ext sion company, The officers of both c/ llanies are the same, The mill is held del' Jease for one year from September 1912, hy the Jllmho Reduetion comran", rental being fifty cellts per ton milled, ~ plant is located at BOBll'e Clare, thi' eight miles south of Go!dfield, and ore transported from the mine to the mill the Las Yeg3.s & Tonol'ah rai'road (,Ollll};) at a cost of eight cents per tOll. The ductioIl coml'any jlay~ fill "xpense or' tn, }1ol'tation, rental and millille: and (:ilar tile Extension company a ilat ratt' of pel' ton, The lll'ofil~ of tile mill '\:11 f be devoted to the liquidation of t1w R!nO ad,'anced to the reduction C:OlllIHn,'- "~­ Extension <'olllpany, Tlw advanees Hi' Januan- 1, 1~1:~, amouilied to $10,1:;4 The earnings of the lllin have l)(cPll $ 134,64, leaving a lJalance of $T,02n,~0, T balance will undouhtedly 1)p paid \\'ilhiI month from date, and t l ] •.",(, l:'j"j' ih' pro accumulated hy the rcduf':iull ,'om !lany lle declared as dil'idel1'1s ,,,1\1 I,aid to Extension compau)', -------0----,-' ,

RECENT MINING DECISIONS.

(Pr€pHred for The "fining' H",-i,,\\ ,) Surveyor's Fees.-Fnd<er ~'('v, St. U 2234 (C S, Comp, St. J 9(11, i' ! H,-'). a

orizing the snr\~eyors

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viding that the expenses of ,111'\-<'."5 , be paid by the applkants, a:1(l ,In: horl the Comll1iss~onel' of the Gel""':!! LellU' fice to establ:sll maximum (']lill',,"" 1'01' veys. and the rilles of th" JL" 1"0]' De mem, the elll[Jloymellt. 11l:l1llJ':I, alld ill! of payment [or the survey of mining ('I are subjects o[ pri va I e coni ,'a"! bel we. ilpp'icant an!! a deputy sUt'vpyor, an, surveyor's fees rn"y be paid in any lUodit}" agreed on; buL, w'lere :1n aPlJ and ,t depllt~; surveyor 11:'vp mad" a l'angement

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must makp the sUl'I'ey and !'£'turn c field Hotes without del[l)', 1I 1•d with,i: any dispute O\'P1' the p:lyn:8llf of Fish & HunteI' Co, y, :'\e\\' Enginlld stak" "fining' Co" Supreme Co:n-- llt Dakota, 1:H :'\orthwestprn 7:'~_ Conflicting

Locations,-Tlle

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extension of a mining claim upon "!thin the marked boundaries of '-alid and ;;uhsisting !ocat'oll "I, '-oid for rh(> [J1ll'pose of foundill'2 :t dietory right. and it i::i immaterLI,! l o'~erlappinr; locator was t.lle Ii I a disco\'ery either within or," iU] ol'erlap]Jinp: area,---]lecker ,', Lv".' Circuit Court of A]lpeals, 1~6 FHj"ra

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New crushers will be install~ in the mill the Sn~w.storm Mining company, at Lar­ 0., Idaho. A ten-stamp mill will be erected at the [max mine, at Yellow Jaeket, near Salmon ty, Idaho. A ten-stamp mlll wilI be installed at the tole property, Grant!:; Pass, Oregon, of dch J. C. Mattison is manager. The Mendha Mining compa.ny, of Pioche, !vada, J. R. Cook, general managE'f, may ect a 100 to 150-ton mill nea,r there. The Goldfield-Oro company, of Goldfield, lvada, is contemplating the installation,()f ~ctrically operated compressors and dril~.s. T.he Capital Mining & Tunnel company, Georgetown, COlorado, is planning to uip its tunnel with an electric trot:ey stem. Joe Smith, of Dawson, New Mexico, will en up a new ooal prospect tWIQ miles north Trinidad, Colorado,and will install mod· 1 equipment. A small mill is to be pta.ceG on the .oper mine, on Ash creek, near Prescott, iZQna, by Pike and Nelson, who have :ently optioned the property. H. H. Roberts, manager of the Montana ning syndicate, operating at Hughesville, ntana, ooys that plans will be immediately own for a fifty-ton zinc mill. The Home Run Cop,per company, of the y-Bristol section of Nevada, will soon ce an order for a fflrty-horsepower gaso­ 3 hoist and compressor phnt. The Triangle Mining & Development l.pany, of Missoula, Montana, proposes to ot a concentrating plant. J. Laurence 'guson, .of Denver, 'has been appointed suIting enginer. S. Herbert Williams, manager of the Jkey Development company, of the Ely :ion of Nevada, announces that ,an air lpressor and drilling plant will be in­ led by the company. rhe Phelps-Dodge interests are driving mnel into the Burro mountain, for which trical equipment will be used. The .con­ etion ,of the 1,000·ton mill at Tyrone, ;ona, wHl soon begin.

:'he Roc-hester Hill Mines company, A. A.

d, president, will order maohinery for

amway. A gasoline hoist and five-drill

pressor will also be installed on the

'erty at Rochester, Nevada.

'he Elk Gold Mining .company, operat· at Elk City, Idaho, may install a mill, )Ugh no definite decision has yet been hed. Harry W. Jewell is president of ~ompany and John Hammer, secretary. 'he Aurora Mdnes company, of Los lIes, owning properties at Aurora, Ne·

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vada, will rut in a mill this season; employ­ ing stamps, and cyanide equipment. E. N. Magner, 300 .Severance building, Los An· geles, is general manager.



W. H. Webber, of Salt Lake, is quoted as saying that the Raund Mountain MIning company, of whioh he,. with M. R. Evans, has recently secured control. will soon re­ quire additional milling ifadili:ties if the present development continues. The East Comstocl( Reduction comDany :has been formed to conduct a general mill­ ing h'USiness at Vir~nia City, Nev3Jda, Ge'orge D. Drysdale, of the C,omstock­ Phoenix ~ining company, announces that the five-stamp Fischer mill, -recently pur­ chased, will be enlarged to fifty tons, The Hastings Mining company has been incorporated to lease a portion of the Comet Placer ground, eighteen miles from Sulphur. Nevada. It is intended to put in a steam scraper and placer maohine. Williwm S. Burton will secure the equipment. The Comet will also put in a larger scraper equipment soon. CONSTRUCTION NOTES.

The Union Pacific will expend $250.000 in ~nlarging its shops at Cheyenne, Wyo· mingo The Portland, Eugene & Eastern railway will e!'ectrify its rail way to Molalla. Oregon, at an estimated of $100,000. All bids submitted for the construction of the electric light plant at .-!oulder, Colo­ rado, have been rejected and new bids wil' be called for. The Home Gas & Electri.c company ap­ plied to the city council for a franchise to ]}uild and operate a sysbem of electri:: light and 'power for La ,Salle, C'Olorado. Thatch"r Bros. Banking company, of Lo· gan, Utah, contemplate bUJilding a large of. fiee building in that city. Plans and specifi· cations will soon }}e ready The Last Chance Canal company, of Grace, Idaho, is consid8ring the erection of a large hydro-electric plant to furnish light and heat fora half dozen nearby towns. The G:-eeley Hydro-Electric company, of Fort Collins, Colorado, has filed on two new reservoir sites. The company propeses to build reservoirs costing $110,000 and $80,000. T'he Walla Walla River Power company, }}acked by twelve Milten business men. will erect a hydro-electric:; p!ant on the Walla Walla river seven miles above Milton, Ore­ gon. r The Soo line, in the biggest constructive plan developed so far this year in the west, will put $25.000,000 into the building of 725 miles of new road across the state of Mon­ tana. The Home Plot company will install 100 electrically operated pumping plants on a

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tract of 2.000 acres Deming. New Mexico. Ea.ch plant will be capable of irrigating 20 acres. Louis C. Kelsey, engineer of Portland, Oregon, has been retained by the city coun­ cil of Albany, Oregon, to prepare plans and specifi.cations for a' municipal street lighting pl,ant to be erected at that place. The Oregon Electric Railway company, is planning the development of the Clear la,ke project in the Cascade mountains east of Eugene, Oregon. The plant, when com­ pleted, will develop :)0,000 horsepower. The successors to the Ramona Power company will soon begin the construction of ,a large clam and reservoir at the foot 'Of Strawberry valley. two miles below Idyll. wild, California, in the San Ja.cinto moun· tains. The American !<'alls Power ,company has just r"ompleted construc:;ti,on of a dam aeross Snake river at American Falls, Idaho, and of a hydro-e!ectric power plant to -develop 4,000 horsepower. A. S. Wiley is chief en­ gineer. 'The Utah Power & Lig,ht .company, prin­ cipal office, Salt Lake City, has purchased the ,plant and holdings of the Gem ,State Light and Power compn.ny, at Shelley, Idaho, and will increase the outPut of the plant to 10,000 horsepower. The Great Western Power company has ap.pUed to the state railroad commiSSion for permission to issue a],}proximately $4.000,000 inoonds for the purpose of completing the large dam and reservoir at Big Meadows 'On Feather river, California. The Tacoma Railwa.y & Power companY, of Tacoml., Washingten, contemplates the expenditure of about $500,000 on the Elec tron project, the work including the con­ struetion of a ten-mile flume and tunnel. John A. Shackelford is president of the company. The Northwestern Eleotric co'mpany Is negotiating for a site in Portland, Oregon, for an auxiliary steam plant in conn' ctlon with Its hydro-electric plant on the White Salmon river in Washington. W. E. Coman is vice president and general manager of the company. Engineers of the :Mono Valley Power & Light company have been instructed to come to Reno, Nevada; within thirty days and begin work for the Nevada Valley Power company on a proposed power plant. A large dam u,cross the Truckee river will di· vert the necessary water. The California, Shasta & Eastern Rail­ way company has aJlplied to the railroad commission of California for authority to Issul') bonds to acquire the railroad from Anderson to Bella Vista, sixteen miles, and for its repair and for the repair and con· struction of a thirteflll mne extension to Ingot.

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An issue of $15,000 in warrants has been ordered .by the trustee3 of the town o!' Gun, nison, Colorado, for the building of astor, age reservoir and enlarging !!'Ie cIty power and lighting plant. C. B. i<]isenberg, of Ogden, is prineipal promoter of the Corlew Mming & Elevator company, which willereot a mill, elevator and electric light plaut at Snowville, Utah. Officers of the company are J. J. Lakin. president; C. E. Eisenberg, vice-president; Thomas Roe, ,secretary, and J. C. Cutler, treasurer. Electric power will ,be used in the oper­ ation of the large plant of the ~lacer Gold Mining company, which owns extensive placer ground in the Rand district, one mUe and a 'half south of Randsburg, California. Col. E. Dunham, of I.os Angeles, is preSi­ dent of tille Placer GoOld c.ompany, and E. Coppock, seeretary. Prol!oEals will be received at the office of the supervising arohitect, treasury depart­ ment, 'Washington, D. C., uMil March 5 for the eonstruction" heating apparatus, elec­ tric conduits and wiring, interior ilghting fixtures and approaches, of the U. S. post­ O. oftiee at Grand Junction, Colorado. Wanderoth is sup'ervising architect. The Stone & \Ve!}ster corporation, of Bos­ ton, owners of street railway lines and in­ terurbans In seventeen states, has acquired the holdings of the Skagit Power company near Rookport, Washington. Plans of the big corporation are said to include the de­ veloping of the power sHe into the largest hydro-electric generating plant on the Paci­ fic coast with horsepower sufficient to elec, trify all the interurban lines of the com­ pany in western Washington. To put the plant in operation an expenditure of $6,000,­ 000 will be required. --{)-~'-

AMERICAN MINE SAFETY

ASSOCIATION.

There were 2,719 persons killed in the coal mines only of the United States dur­ ing the year 1911, and there were 9,106 seriously and 22,228 slightly injured; in all, 34,053 mine workers incapacitated for one day or over. Nearly an equal number of men were injured in metal mines and quar­ ries. In the hope of reducing the number of these accidents and of shortening the period of disability of the injured, it was felt that there should be g.reater unl10rmity in meth­ ods of conducting rescue operations in mines after explosions, ,fires, or other dis­ asters, and of giving first aid to the in­ jured. The director of the United States Bur­ eau of Mines therefore called in Pittsburgh, SePtember 23, 1912, a national mine rescue and first aid conference. A·bout half a hUIl­ dred men concerned in safety in mines

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attended. There were nearly an equal num­ ber of mine operators, mine surgeons and mine safety inspectors and rescue men; and they represented geographically all of the principal mining regions from Pennsyl­ vania to Colorado, and from Alabama to Michigan This conference adopted thirty­ seven separate resolutions concerning de­ tails of administering first aid to the ,n­ jured, the conduct of rescue .operations, the wearing of artificial ,breathing apparatus, and instruction and trainiug in these sub· jects. Before adjourning, the conference elbC> • ed a chairman, a vice-chairman, and a secretary, and authorized the chairman to appoint seven additional members as an execu'tive committee, to perfect a perman­ ent organization, .prepare a tentative draft of constituCon, secure members and hold a first annual mooting of a national asso­ ciation in the fall of 1913. The object of the American' Mine SatelY association is to promote the science of safety in mines and mining by the adop­ tion of improved first aid methods, and of logical methods of procedure in rescue and recovery work; to recommend the adoption of approved types of first aid and mine rescUe and recovery appliances; to obtain and circulate information on those sub· jects; and to secure the co-operation of its members in establishing proper safeguards agamst loss of life and property ~y explosions, fires, and from other causes. Workmen's compensation acts have in recent years been passed in fifteen states, of which ten were enacted in the year 1911 alone. The rap'id ,spread of legislation com­ pelling ,employers to ~are f'Or injured work­ men clearly shows the importance to the employer of reducing his liabilities by every means at his disposal. These are of two kinds, namely, safety or preventive meas­ ures and protective or rescue and first aid methods. Mine operators now realize that it is more expensive to restore wrecked mines, more costly to fight damage suits through the courts and less profitable to pay regu­ lated liability charges or even workmen's compensation, than it is to bear the cost involved in reducing these charges by means of diminishing the number of acci· dents and the duration of the resulting dis­ ability by the adoption of improved safety, rescue and first aid methods. Since flfty-eight per cent of all industrial accidents are shown by statistics to!}e due to negligence, carelessness or lack of knowledge of employers or emplOYees, the vital necessity of learning everything pos­ sible _about the causes and. means of pre­ venting these accidents must be evident to every man concerned in mining. To the operators it spells 'business success or fail­ ure; to the miner, life or the physical abil­ ity to work and support a family.

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J. U. Eldredge, Jr., has entered upon Ws second ,four-year term in ~harge of the Uni­ ted States assay office at Salt Lake. Herbert W. Lawrence, of Salt Lake, nas established an assay office in the new camp of Rochester, Humboldt county, Nevada.' J. Laurence Ferguson, of Denver, is con­ sulting engineer for the Triangle Mining & Development company, of Missoula, Mon­ tana. W. C. Browning, of Salt Lake, field en­ gineer for the Gunn-Thompson ~{)Impany, has returned to the city from a professional trip to Montana. Sidney U. Jennings. of the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining company, was recently in Salt Lake. Mr. Jennings' head­ quarter.s are ,at Boston. William Wraith, of Salt Lake, g;:meral manager of the International Smelting & Refining company, is on a visit of inspec­ tion to the new lead refinery of the company in Indiana. -i Whitman Symmes is no longer super­ intendent of the United Comstock Pumping association, operating on :the Comstock lode, in Nevada, having been succeeded by A. M. Walsh, of S'an Francisco. R. Chester Turner, who is engaged as manager of the Hidden Treasure mil1. at Black Hawk, Colorado, has g'One to his home at Berkeley, California, and will return to the property aoout the first of April, to superintend the installation of new equip· ment. Sam H. Treloar, until recently in char.ge of the Utah Metals tunnel at Bingham, Utah, has gene to Butte, M'Ontana, to make an extended examination of the Ophir mine of the Butte Central company. MJr. Treloar has thad a. wide experience in the Butte camp, of long standing. The Utah Society of Engineers has moved its headquarters from the Newhouse building to room 21, jn the local stock ex· change building, and will hold its regular monthly meetings, at which there is always a large attendance, in the large ex~hange room. At the next meeting on February 2r~ R. A. Hart, UnitedSta:tes drainage engineer, will speak on the "Reclamation and Drainageoi Waler-logged and Alkali Lands"; C. H. Mills will discuss "Pumping for Irrigation," and J. T. Lytle will speak on the "Strawberry Tunnel Project... 0----­

Idaho legislators are making ,efrorts to enact a "blue sky" la,'/ similar to the Kan­ sas law, to curb the l'Cctivities of wild cats. -------0-----­

The Crown Point, of TinUc district, Utah, has levied an assessment of ~ cent a share, delinquent l\larch 20th, sales day April 15th.

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Personal Mention] T. L. Walden, of the Mason Valley sec­ tion of Nevada, was a recent visitor in Salt Lake. O. Buckbee, of ,Salt Lake, is looking over his property on Indian creek, in Le<mhi coun­ ty, Idaho. F. Augustus Heinze, qf the Ohio Copper company, operating at Bingham, Utah, is in Salt Lake City. R. J. Highland and A. W. Conlisk, of the New ('l'Old~n Crown mine, at 'ionop8itl, Nev~da, were recently in Salt Lak>e. Martin Effinger, formerly manager of the Plttshurglh-Silv~r J'eak Mining company, was a recent visitor to Tonopah, Nevada. George Hemick, owner of the Hasbrouck propoerty at Gold 11l10'l1ntain, was recently at Tonopah, Nevada, from Oakland, California. &. W. Renton, of Boston, has becn in­ specting mines in tfue Clear Creek secUon of Colorado, as the guest of Forbes Rick· ard. R. J. Evans, president O'f the Salt Lake Stock and Mining exchange, has been mak· ing a trip of investigation to sevenal Ne­ vada mining camps. Murray C. GO'dbe, president of the Home Run Copper company, operating in the Day­ BI'istol district of Nevada, has gQne' to Bos­ ton on mining business. W. S. YeOlIDWls, of New York, and Ed­ ward Melter, of Chicago, are at Prescott, Arizona, in connection with their mining In­ terests In that vicinity. Jack Cudahy, of Kansas City, MIssouri, interested in the Bland MIning company, was recently in the camp of that company, llJoor Patagonia, Arizona. George Me.Carn, of Denver, a director in the Rainbow Mountain Mdning company, has been in Chloride, Arlzona,making an eXQrninaUon of the property. 'l1homas K€ams and David Keith, of Salt Lake, ,have been .inspecting the workings of the Halifax property at TonOl}ah, Nevada, In whkh they have heavy 'holdtngll. l'iIofman E. Smith. of Los Angeles, has :been in Tonopah, Nevada, ana has been taking options in t'h~ Belmont section, and investigating mining conditions there. Norman W. Haire, g.en.eral manager of the Mi:ohigan-Utah Mining company, of the Alta district, of Utah,has returned to Salt Lak'e froni a three months' tTlp in the east. George W. Heintz, general manager of the United States Smelting company, has returned to Salt Lake from a visit to. the Needles, Ca.lifornia, plant of the company. W. W. Bellows, of Springfield, Massa­ chusetts, is at Bingham, Utah, looking after the 'WOrk at thl'l old Utah-Bingham prop. erty, where operations are to be resumed.

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T. H. Hardy, mine manager for the Geth­ in-LeRoy United Mines cOIIll]Ji3.ny, which is operamng an the Silver Island district, firteen mDes north of W<endover, Utah, has just returned Lrom the property. H~ says that the four crura of ore w.hiob htave been ship: 'Ped recently, and which carried values of $117 to $175. a. ton, all came from about 250 fuet of drifting and a small am01l1llt of ra.is­ ing, and tfuat ilie company is in shape to 'mallie \SlmHar shi'pments at the rate of two oars a tllllOnth. The company controls 460 aoces of well mineraldzed ground bUtt has done latUe W'Ork on it, A ,tunnel bei,ng run to tap 'ilie malin vein is now In seventy-five liee4;. This ledge is between twenty and sixty feet wide, betw&n the lime and por­ phyry. The returns on th9 .four Slhi]}ments men­ tioned ISlhow a,s {bI!lows: Lot I, 0.53 ounce gold, 152.4 ounces -I1ilv;er. 30.3 per
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Secretary A. Reeves, of the Musgrove company, .operating a mine and mill in Idaho, has issued a report to stockholders, most of whom are Salt Lakers. He says: "Affairs hav~ been shaping themselves in your. oompany S.o tha.t we are encouraged t.o advise you .of their import. "Last summer work was commenced on th.e construction of a mill, the funds for which were to ,be borrowed, as authorized

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at a directors' mooting held April 2, 1912. The mill is now completed and hag. a capac­ ity of twenty-five tons per day. That it is well adapted to the ores is shown by the accompanying letter from your general manager. At first a was expected that during the severe winter months we would have to close down, but we are g,olng to make a strong effort tD keep going. "We have received receiver's receipts frO'm the land Office' on our application for patent on the two principal mining claims. Patent ,should be Issued s'hortly. Titles on unpateruted gr.ound held by your company are being protected. "The first shipment of gold will ,be re­ ceived at Salt Lake City on the 27th or 28th instant. While the value of this shipment is smaH, it is encouraging because it marks the beginning of, productIon." Gooeral Manager R. L. Edw'ards re'})(trts as foI.lows: "1 returned last night f\rom a trip to the Musgrove mine. The mill Is a perfect success in everyy way but the power end. This we
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and assayed fr.om $3.20 t.o $12. Nat kn.ow­ ing just what the -mill was g.oing t.o d.o in starting, and this being too goad t.o thr.ow away, and n.ot wanting t.o waste any .of the good .ore, we started up .on this. \Vhen .oper­ ating with water p.ower in the summer I feel very c.onfident .of being able t.o pay a pr.ofit .out .of are tha.t will assay $3.20."

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The Uncle Sam, at Tinrtic, will soon be in ,the market with three can:; of zine .ore. W . .T. Merritt boas just shijJjped twa cars .of are fI"O!lll the Red Wru-ri.or mine, in Beaver county and rep.ol'lts developmen.t sat· isfactory. Fred Jefferson and Ross Baxlter have taken a lease .on the C.o:pper Ranch mine, about six miles northwest .of Milford. They wm start work on $2().Qre. It is '1'eponed that excavati.on will so>on be under way f.o,r the new Knigil:t mill in t'he Tintic !district, aoo that the ueeded ma.c-hinary has been urdered. The May Day, in Tintic district, shipped twenty-six ea.rs: Ql ore, tw~ thirdS of Wlhich cam,e from the new stapes of lead ore on the 1,000,foort leve1. The average value per car for ,the m.ontl. was $800. Some Jru)OO very riM ore has been f.ound by Bert Nich.ols at the Baby Jack ,mine, in Beaver eounty, and he is plealSed over the d'mpr.oved sh.o,wing at the pro,l>ell"ty. It Is reported tihat the sha.ft fr.om the Alti:ance ,tunnel .of the Silver King C6a1i· ti.on, at Plark City, will be stal'ted at .once. A station is just being ooIlJill,leted for th,e installati.on of the sinking equipment.

Some excellent COlIJiPel' .ore is now beIng .shi])ped from the ~rkings .of the DragQn Oon, whioh are opel"ll.ted thrt>uglh the Black Jack, at Tintic. SamDles show a copper content ranging fr.om three to twen.ty per cent. . The Miohigan-Utah, at Alta, rooently marketed f.ol'ty tans of ore arualyzing as fol· laws: g.old, $1.15; lead, fifteen per cen,t; copper, 5.73 ,per on the old dump .of ,the Horn Sil­ ver at Frisc.o. S. M. Levy, manager ()of the Lady Bryan :property in Beav,er county, 9ays that de­ vel.opment 'at the mine is givin.g g.ood reo suits. The. ma.in shaft is 600 feet deep. From the surface t.o 1Jhe 200, and .on the 300 and 400 some ore has been found. An asses;;ment .of a quart~r of a' cent a share 'hias been leV'ied .on the stock of

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the Tar Baby Mining company, delinquent March l~th, and sales day April 7th. C. R. Greene, president of the co!llipany, states that $2,800 wmth .of wlOrk ml.S d.one in the past Yeiar, development Itotaling 406 ,feet. The Sheep Rock mill, in Beaver county, has started up and is running sm.oothly. The Beaver River P.ower com[))aIly furnishes· elec­ triCity for .opera.tin.g the maH, which has five srtam'PS, hand'ling ab.out twelve tons a day. T,he mm [IS arranged to be increased to twenty stamps at a minimum expense. Nine hUndred feet from the portal of the tunnel on the Alta Consolidated, at Alta, the winze Is now down thirty-five feet. At the ,bottom the .o~ has v.1dened to two feet and is estimated to run $65 a ton. The gr.ound bel.ow is drained fur 500 feet and should the expected orebody be reached, mining costs should be low. Stockholders in the Cedar-Talisman c.om­ pany, ""hlob o,perates in the Star district .of Beaver eounty, recently elected the f.oH.ow­ ing as .officers 'and direciors f.or the com· ing year: J. C. DiClk, president and gene,ml manager; H. S. P.ond, vice-president; A. Re"eves, ~etary and treasurer, and A. Thomas and P. B: McKeon, additi.onal direc­ tar. Park City mines shipped 6,672 ,tans In January, ()f an esUmated value of $265,000. Hilver King CoalitdoiJ shipped 5,394,200 pounds value .of aoout $135,000; Daly West 'shtpped 3,814.700 ,pounds .o:f an estimated value .of $50,000; Daly Judge sent .out 3,274,­ 000, estima.ted value, $45,000; Ontari.o Leas­ ing, 95,OOOpounJds; Ontari.o Mining, 314,000 pounds; American Flag, 101,000 pounds and the Silver King Consolida.ted, 62,000 p.ounds . One .of the new, sections of the c.oarse crushing department of the Utah Copper company's Magna ,mill, "a.t Garfield, will be started u,p soon. Both plants wiH be ra­ equip,ped in this department during the c.ol1lling' year, in .order that the difficultIes of thils win.ter may be overcome. The c.om­ p;any is e~pected to gradually reach its farmer proouction, w'hich hlas been cur­ ,tailed tor one reason .or an.ocher, ever since the &trike. The Eva Mining company, of the Mt. Nebo district, shipped ab.out 1,600 tans of are in ] 912, of a gr.oss value .of about $56.000. The Ev'a first class has about 45 per cent lead and six.teen ounces .of s.i1ver and is ",".orih about $45 t.o $48 a ton. The second class has ab.out 32 per cent zinc and fourteen to fifteen :per cent loo.d and is v,"Orth ab.out $21.50 a tan. A cmll!l'lete descripti.on .of the w.ork at this property a,ppeared in these columns s.ome time ag.o. The Daly-Judge company, of Park City, figures that its lead has cost it for the past nine years, about 4,13 cents a pound, leav­

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lng a very narrow margin of profit. Without crediting ,precious metals, th'll cost figures out in the nelghhorhood of eight cents. It is nm olear whethepears to be in danger of failur8. All the com­ panies, exc~t the Columbus Extension, rati·, tied -the plans. The reason is said to be dis­ srutisfaC'tion with the proposed distribution of the stock in the Wasatch Mines company, which was to take over the merge.r com­ panies. 1t is stated also that the prop{lsed drain tunnel would not come "W\ithin three or four thousand feet of the Oolumbus Ex­ tension ground. One.l}f the prominent stook­ holders in Exitensi01l g:ves I!Ul his reason for OIPPosing the merger, the objection to being saddled with the $1\)0,000 indebtedness of the 'Other companies. ----0--'-­

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L,040,876-:-Gold,ore.grinding mill-J. H. Bux· ton, Baitimore, Md. t,041,060-Process for the treatment of rIO' fractory zinc-lead oreg.-A. G. FrenCh, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. t,041,486-Gold-saving table-C. B. King and J. W. Fellineth, Marion, Ohio.

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The sha.ft .on the }1innesota-Connor prop­ erty at Chl.oride, will be sunk to the 750· foot level. T·he new shaft is being linoo with steel. L. A. Dockery is in charge of dev,elo]!­ mellJt at the Pinkham &hat1t, in Mohave coun­ ty, and it is his inten,tion to sink bel.ow the 500·f{)ot level. The Calumet & Arizona Copper company, of Bisbee, reports tha.t a body 'Of sulphide ore has been encountered on the 1,200·foot level of the Hoatson, and that is has cut it for a width of twenty fecl and is still in ore. The Inspiration Consolidated, at Miama, is now empl.oying 270 men underground and forty on the surfac.e. The incline shaft has reached Ithe 3,480 level. The shaH will be oontinued another 100 feet and a waste pocket cut out. The ArizoIl'3.·Empire Ihas made a strike of ,golid ore on its Gold Hill claim, near Park€ ; r. About eig;bteen men aTe at work. T,he g.old ore is being sacked separately from the gold-cO!J)pel.', wjhioh is the main resolliI'ce Qf the company. From the Roberts & Evans lease on tiLe Mavis, near Parker, four tons .of hdgh grade oopper ore wererocenUy shipped. Ore ex­ tracted in sinking the IS haft , Which is now down thirty-five feet, is paying 'p>I1actJicaily a1l
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Richardson & Crepin, of Patagonia, have sold the Little Boy Oopper mine in the Silver Bell district, it is said, to Boston interests, who wiH start a ·force of men lat work at once and ,pu~h development. COLORADO.

Ninety-nine cars of concentrates were sh.ippe.d from Telluride Is,tation in January, a slight increase over the same month in 1912. The Tomboy mine, in the Telluride dis· tri·ct, has received a rsMpment of new tables for its mill, whleh is to be consider­ ably enlarged. McKinsie Brothers, owners of the Poor­ man mine at }''r'eeland, have opened up some good ore, from which tests have &hoWn 500 ounces in silver. The Rico-Argentine cQlmr>any, operating at Rioo, has 'oo,e;ure\l the aerial tram form­ erly used he tota~ ineo'me, $48,232.09, of wh-icll sum, $24,001.52 was operating ·profit. Develop· ment to the amount .of 707 f.eet was done during the period. Joseph Walker, of New York, and asso­

ciates, has taken over th.:; propeniies of the Golden Cycle Mining company. II!. is said th.at five million dolliars represents the value of the lmines, and $1,;;00,000, the value of the mill at Colorado Springs. No change is expected in the peTISOnnel o·f the man­

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aoout 1,000 to.ns of ore a day. The mines at Cripple Creek are pro.ducing abQut 6,000 to.ns a month Qf $25·Qre. At the Highland M·ary mine, at Silverton. John McLean and George Hill are keeping a p>ack train busy packing Qre from the mine. Thirty·two 'men are wQrking o.n the property. and as many more wUl he added when t·he seaJSon op€'llS up, The German mine. on Quartz hill. near Central City. ha.'! been cQnnected with the Belcher WIOrkings. on the 130-foot level" as a m<eans of better v€'ntilation, Diamond drilling is
Harry L. Day,pres':dent of the Federal Mining company. recently took o.ver a half interest in the Maher-O'Hearn gro.up. The property lies near the Tiger-Po.Qrman group. Manager Fishe.r. Qf the Lead Crystal mioo on 'Vest Eagtl' mountain, recently brought to Mu~ray, news o.f a rich strike at the property. The ore was :pene,trated to a slight extent, '\\
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paid for at 95 percent of $20, prQvided there Is mQre than 0.05 ounc€<S per tQn. All zinc above ten per cent Is penalized at fifty cents a uni,t. Thel'a is an $8 treatment charge and $7,17 freight rate. The o.fficlals of the company are r,ot inclined to inter­ fere with the exiSlting arrangement. Machinery is now being assembled at the Idaho-Continental mine, near Porthill, ready fQr installation as SQQn as the concentrator bllildlng and '{lower house is completed. A car of crusher equipment. Deister tables ,and otl.er parts 'of the concentrrutor meohanlsm arrI\'ed M PQrthill several days ago. The {fnion Iroil. Works of Spo.kane, WashingtQn, 'has been commissioned to. furnish three sets 'Of r0118 a1lid some other machinery and wlll have the cQnsignment ready ,in a few days. This also will be taken at .once from Porthdll to the Id,aho-CQntinental >!lJ.S S{)on as possible. and, as quickly as the snOW melits, the force of wQrkmen at the mine will be Inoreased and the maohlnery placed with all possible speed. Two. hundred and fifty thousand dQl'ars is the sum p.a;id by the Fed-eral Mining com­ pany for the Fris(l() mine. at Gem, one of bhe oldest developed p,roperties in the Coeur d'Alenes, which 'ha($ been operate.d sinoo 11;89, Included in the sale is the Frisco mill of 500 tons daily oapao:e prope.rties, the Esler, Broad. Guage and NarrQw Guage millsites. Badger, Hardy FraotiQn, Black Belar. Yankee Do.odle, Cape Horn. Idaho Fraotion, Apex Fraction, Akron, Grover Cleveland, Gem. Josie. San FranCis'oo and Chief. The Frisoo Is 600 feet west of vhe Morning mine, one Qf the prin· cipal revenue p,rQdu'Cers o.f the }'ederal com­ pany, and in the same mlineral ZQne. It is developed tQa depth .of 2.(\00 feel, ,and has over 20,000 feet of underground wQrkings, Originall}' it was operated as a lead-silver T'l~ne, but the increasing pe,rcentage of zinc Iconten.t 'wi,hh 'depth oo115e(1 its IJ.fflctioal abandonment. Th,e zinc4sav'ing prDcess, re, .cently inangurated by the Federal company at the Morning mLll at Mullan. hag solved the prDblem of extnacting zinc from lead-sil­ verore success.fully. The empl.oyment Qf a fo.rce Df men a few d'!lYs ago. to remQve the old maeohlnery frDm the Frisco mill. ieads to. the belief that the new p.rocess viU be installed there' and the output Df ,he minI} treated by its own plant. MONTANA.

The Qre bQdy recently opened up Qn the 2,()00,foot level >of the TUDlumne propemy at Butte .is s!lid to be richer than at first sUPPDsed. the average now being eight per c",nt co.Pper, Shipments are eJi)pected to be increased some fifty tons a day. The sJJaft will be sunk to a depth of 2,800 feet.

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'I1he Mlanta. Mine company, Qf Dela­ \",;).re, has been formed to. take Qver the plo'perty of the La France COPper cQmpany, a,t Butte. Mining in the Anaconda mines at Butte is now being kept at as IDW a POlllL as is consistent with full operat'on. while sur­ p'us energy isdevQted to DPening nil' new ol"ebodies. January output is IQW but the mines are in excellent physical shape. The dc.cline in the cop'per market is said to be re"ponsibJe for th.e above po.licy. An assessment of one dollar 'a share has been levied on t'he sto.ck of the Corbin C01P'I)er company which Dwns fifty-seven claims in the OQrbin d·'strict Df Jefferson county, The amount Is payable in two equal amounts on February 11 and April 22. It js levied to. raise money for exploratiDn and development, and acqu~sition of prQper­ t!es. A shaft is now down 250 feet and will be deepened, T,here is a 100-ton concentrat­ ing plant, air compressor ,plant and mine building. The companY prOPQseS to take .over the Gambrinus, BelCher and W.alsh claims at Butte. NEVADA.

The stockholders of the White Caps :\' ining company have failed ,to ratify the merger with the Dexter·White Caps :lUning cumpany. at Manhattan, The M-cNama,ra mm has resumed opera­ tions at Tonopah, after a brief '8,hutdown, wh'le alterations were made to the tUbe mill. and a new boiler was installed. The Yerington-:Iolalach.lte, at YeringtQn. is shipping regularly. The r3.ise from the Katc:hez tunnel has proceeded fQr twenty ke,t in oopper ore running seven tD eight per cent, The Virginia-Louise company is to have a deeper shaft, in the plans nQW being made fQr extensive development, Results so far have been gratifying at this Pioche pro'perty, The Prince Con, at Pioche, has resumed the hoisting Qf 350 tons a d,ay from its Qre tody on the 400, and It is said that a new ftv'e,yea,r contract has been made with the International smeltery. ,J, V. :IoIarsha' l. :':ureka Mining company, Qf El',reka, has been merged in a $500.000 cor­ cOl'pora.ti.on known as the Adama Hill CQr­

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:poration, of whicH Edward A. Moye, of Spokane, W~s'hington, is president and gen­ eral manager. The Ton0P'alh Victor Mdning COD1~y will commence 'active "'1()rk by sinking ~ three compa,rtment shaft on the SagebruS'h claim. A depth of 1,000 will be attained before crosscuttlngbegins. P. D. Booth is in charge of the work at Tonopah. 'Dhe Lead Bullion Mining comll);my is tAking om some excellent ga,],ena ore from its property at Ely. TM looge is from foUl" to five feet Wlide. Provo, Utah, people con­ trol' the 'P'I'ooOd 'assays have been made of ore f:-om a .point 200 feet from
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fuot shaft will be retLmbe'red and machinery

T,he East Comstock Reducti'on COIllpany, ill!:.taJlled under tJhe direction of Jules Le­ rt'cently ineol:1p()rated, will o,perate' in the Bl.1.rthe. The lOO-foot level wlill be .reopenoo, Six-mJile canyon district, near Vil"gln~a City. and if ronditions wlal"rarut, new levels, wdll Geoorge Drysdaae, s.upetintendent of tbe be run at 100.ifoot intervals. Phoenix-Comstock, one of the incorporators, J. M. Lyons is in oharge of work on the announces tlwJt the Fisciher 'Illill has boon P()verty Peak {property, in Paradise valley. pllrClhased and will be enlarged from five Bll'i!ld:ings ,a;re hein,g erected and equipment stamps to fifty4.0ns =padty, Comstock· installed. 'J.'Ihere is a seventy·fivM'oot in­ Proenix ore will be the main resource of cline sha~t and a fifty.ifoot vertical shaft tho:; mill, and the company will do a geneI'l3.1 on the property. The incline has cut sev­ milling business besides. era;! ledges, varying in value 'from small WYOMING. a:ll!ounts up to thlousands of dolilars for se!eClted samples. 'I1he Warren Peak Mines oompany, oper­ W. H. Webber 'andM. R. Evans, of Salt Lake, with assoaiates, have taken over the ating in the Bear Lodg.e section, ds sinking stock of J. P. Loftus in ,the Round Mounta.in a winze in the east tunn'el on its !property l\oLining 'COD1~y, and M'r. Webber takes and good progress is reported from the deep s.haf.t of the Hutcihings (Jo.nsolidated ~'rr, Loftus' p'~aoo on the bOlai'd. It is prob­ able that opeI"llltions will be enlarged and " ground. The Retriever has a large force theoa.pacity of the mill increased. The at work. W. p. S,hafer, manager of the Bear Lodge mill now treats 180 tons a day art a cost Gold MIning oomopany, stated that the oom­ of $4 a property of ments art; the Home Run, in Adamantine Chrome Steel Forged Shells Pioche uistmot, are interesting. The shaft and Tires. Chrome 8teel Wo.rks, Chrome, now down 230 feet is to be deepened to N. J" 23 pp. Ill. 6uO !'eet. 11he ore on the 220-f\oot level rua,s • Njational Tube Co., Bulletin, September, resumoo its :natur.al (lip and seelms to. ,he 1912. Pittsburgh, Pa. List of bulletins pub­ of better grade. Shipments average about U:shedby oompany, and description of $t}O a ,ton ,from this secrtihrt group of twenty-two claims in log 1).218, Deane Stoom Pump 00., Holyoke. Indralll Canyon, Spring Creek, near Winne­ In'ucoa, whi-cih was owned by L. F. Dunn. Mass. 100 pp. Complete, Well Hlustra.ted The property is &urround,ed by I()ld ,producers descri,ption of pumps for mines, wtth much and is four miles f,rom the new camp of eng'in€'€ring data. Cata.log 12-9. Hunt Noiseless Bucket Rochester. Twelve velD'S are exposed on the 'ii!llrmce and ~t is !planned W run a long Conveyor, C. W. Hunt Co" \Vest New Brig.h­ tunnel to !\Ja;p them at a considerable depth. ton, N. Y. 64 VP. Ill. Describes number of F. B. Landess, of National, is to 'have oharge conveyor installilltions for handling coal, phosphate rock, cement, etc. of the "W1<>rk. Hydraulic Turbines BuHetin 1631 Allis DevellOpment w;ork on the Lamb & Brady lease OIl the Union No.9, laJt Manhattan, Is Chalmers Co" Milwa~ke~. Wis., J~nuary, opendng up mllClli 'good mdlling ore. Lessees 1913. 31 pp. Illustrated. COntalns excel­ on the· Gooscent have resumed the hoisting lent power and speed tables. Test at Knight of ore. A new station Is being cut on the plant, Heber City, Utau, on 1,650 horsepower 3M-foot level of the White Oa;ps. The Big machine shown.

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R. G, Snyder, of Snyder Brothers, Salt Lake, has taken over the Lincoln Hill group at Roohester, Nevada, from Forvilly & Camp­ bell, who controlled the property known as the Abe Lincoln No.2.

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Mining Engineer's Examina-tion and Re· port Book, by Charles Janin. Published by the Mining & ScienLific Press, San Fran­ cis()o, December, 1912, and for sale by the Salt Lake Mining Review, 79 pp., Ill. This book promises to be an excellent guide for investors Rnd owners, as show­ ing whrut a mining engineer's report should contain, and to 'be useful to engineers who may wish to compare their systems with the one used in this book. In the first part, the essentials of a report are discussed in a comprehensive way, wIth illustrations of assay plans, maps of mine workings, and compJ,ete tables, which will be useful to the engineer in .the field, who has not the more bulky tahles at hand. Details of costs of different operations in mining and milling are given,as well as tables for making ap­ proximate estimates of costs. A well ar­ ranged index accompanies the text. The main fault with the book, and -it is a small one, is >that aM the examples given apply mostly to mining and treatment of the precious metals, and information which might be useful in connection with other examinations, is for the most part, omitted. Part two of the 'book is in the form of a fi,eld notebook, whieh can be obtained separately. The report is arranged to cover the work of examination, .and blanks are left for inserting notes. It makes a con­ venient form for the engineer in taking field notes, and can be ,modified, of c'Ourse, t'O suit the individual style of the engineer. As a general plan for reports, it has much value. The price of the book complete is $2,50, and part two maybe obtained for fifty cents. Cyanide Practice in Mexico, by Ferdi­ nand McCann, Mining & Soientific Press, San Fr.ancisco, August, 1912. 199 pp., In­ dexed Ill., $2 postpaid. Distributed by the Salt Lake Mining Review. This book makes an excellent compan­ ion t'O Recent Cyanide Practice and More Recent Cyanide Practice. The Scope of the book is best illustrated by the list of chapters which incllldeSl,-Hisltorica,1 OUlt­ line of the Cyanide Process, Various Sys­ tems of Tre.aitment, Practice at the follow­ ing plants, Dos Estrellas, EI Oro, Mexico Miines of El Oro, Esperanza, Guanajuato Consolidated, Real del M'Onte y Paohu()a, Tailing Plant of Blaisdell CQs·cotitlan Syn­ dicate, San Francisco Mill No.1, San Raf­ ael y Anexas, Lucky Tiger C'Ombination, Veta Co.lomdo, S'mall Mills, COIlitinuous treatment in Connection with Pachuca Tank, Cyantdation in Pan Amalgamation Mills WHhout Change in the Machinery, Precipi­ trut;ion on Metanic Zinc and Treatment of Cyanide Precipitates. Full flowsheets and illustrations accompany the descriptions of the various mills, cost is inoluded in most cases. The book is very readable, and in

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---'oc-.--­ RECENT PUBLICATION.S.

The Resouroes of Tennessee, Tennessee State Geological Survey, V!OI 2, No. 12, De­ cember, 1912. Nashville, Tenn. Describes Iron Ore ReslOurces of Tuckahoe Dis,trict. 50 pp. Douglas Oil Field, Converse County, Wyoming, and Muddy Creek Oil Field, Car­ bon County, Wyoming. Bulletin 3 Se.ries B, G. E. Jamieson, Staoo Geologist. Chey­ enne, 1912. 50 pp., 8 pIs. Mineral Production for 1912. California Stllite MJining Bureau, Bul'etin 64, San Fran­ cisco, 'Nov'ember, 1912. 46 pp. Pahasapa Quarterly, South Dakota School IOf Mines, Rapid City, S. D., Decem­ ber, 1912. 61 pp. Ill. Bulletin Sc:hool of Mines and Metallurgy, Univers'ity of M.issouM, Rolla, Missouri. August, 1912. Friction in Air Pipes. 10 pp. The Resource,s 'Of Tennessee, Tennessee State GedllOgical Survey, Vol. 3 No. 1. Jan· uary, 1913, Nashville, T,enn. Northern and Southern Coalfields of Tennessee. 60pp. Ill. Mineral Resource,s of Missouri. Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Rolla, Mo. Condensed Stlvtemerrt. 22 pp. Ill. Minera1 Resources of the Philippine Is­ Lands 1911. Divis,ion of Mines, Bureau of Science, Philippine GoV1ernment. Manila, 1912. 99 .pp., 7 pIs. 'Salt Creek Oil Field. State Geo,klgist of Wyoming, Bulletin 4, Series B, Cheyenne. 75 ,pp., 17 phI. Mine and Quarry, January, 1913. Sulli­ van Maohinery Co. Chicago. Blue Bell Mine, Kiootenay Lake, B. C., Little River, Alabama, Hydro-Elec,tric Projeat, etc. 30 pp. Ill. Tungsten Mining in Nova Scotia, Victor G. Hills. Bl'ooeedings 'Of the Colorado Scientific S.ociety, Vol. 10. Denver, Decem­ ber, 1912. 7 pp., 2 pIs. Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in the Wjestern States and. Alaska dn 1911. Mine Produotion. Advance Chapter Min­ era Resources of the United States. Wash­ ington, 1912. 390pp. Measurement of Flowing Streams. Bull. 5, Utah Engineering Experiment Station, September, 1912. State School of Mines, Salt Lake ·Ci,ty. 18 pp. ill. Free copies dis­ tributed w' those interested, by the stlliHon.

----0---­ MANGANESE IN THE UNITED STATES.

The United States Geological Survey has published, as Bulletin 427, a report on the manganese deposits of the United States, by E. C. Harder. The bulletin contains ac­

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counts of the geology and chemistry of the ores, the methods of mining, the uses of the metal, and the nature and extent of the in· dustries to which it gives origin. Manganese is obtained commercially from manganese ores, manganiferous iron and silver ores, and manganiferous residum from zinc roasting. Manganese ores are found in many parts of the United States, but at only a few places do they occur in sufficient quantity to be of high commercial value. They have been mined in the New England, Appalachian, and Piedmont re­ gions in the eastern Uni:ed States, in northern Arkansas, and to a small extent in central-western California. Mang'aniferous iron and silver ores are also widely distri­ buted. The iron ores have been mined for their manganese content in the New Eng· land, Appalachian, and Piedmont regIons In the eastern United States, in northern Ar­ kansas, and in a few localities in the Lake Superior district, and the silver ores in s,ev­ eral western silver districts, principally Leadville. Manganese mining has never been aver, important industry in the United States, owing to the sman extent and the discontin­ uous and scattered nature of most of the de­ posits. Nearly all the ore mined must be either washed or sorted or both. Single pockets are of small extent and are soon exhausted, discouraging the erection of ex­ pensive concentrating plants. ,Most of the manganese ore consumed in this country is imported from Brazil, In­ dia, and Cuba, smaller amounts being ob­ tained from Russia, Germany, Gr~at Britain, Belgium, Japan, the East Indies, and other countries. It is used largely in the manu· facture of iron-manganese alloys, and these, together with the imported alloys, are con­ sumed in steel manufacture. A consider­ able quantity of high-grade foreign ore I~, used in the manufacture of dry cells for electric batteries. Most of the domestic manganese ore, with perhaps a small por­ tion of the imported ore, is used in the man­ ufacture of brick and pottery as a coloring material, or for other chemical purp'Oses. Only a smaH portion 9f the domestic ore is used in steel manufacture. Manganifer­ CUQ ores of iron and silver are used both in the manufacture of iron-manganese al­ loY'S and asa flux in smelting copper, lead, and silver ores. The USe of manganese in the arts is of great antiquity, having been known at least as long ago as the time of the ancient Egyptians. One of its first uses was in glass making. Egyptian and Roman glasswares have been shown by analyses to contain over two per cent o;f manganous oxide. Pliny men­ tions the use by the Romans of mangan­ eSe oxide, under the name "magnes," for decolorizing glass. He considered It a va­ riety of lodestone or magnetic iron ore.

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Quotations On the local exchange, satur­ day morning, February 8: Listed Stocks. Bid, I Asked, Beck Tunnel . ' . ' , ' . , " , ' " $ .10 .11 Bingham Amalgamated .. " .04'1.. .06 Black Jack ..... " ... ,',., .11 .13 Carisa ..... , ........ , . , . . . ,03 \' ',' o· i Cedar-Talisman ,.......... . 01 ,~

Century ........................... .10

Colorado Mining..... ..... .16% .18

Columbus CIon. ............ .12'1.. .18

Crown Point .............. · .02'%. .03'1..

Daly . '.................. ( 1. 1 (i 1 1. 30

Daly Judge ............... 6.00 1 6.50

Eastern Frince ......... ·.1 .0114\ .02 '4

East Crown Point ................. .OO-%,

Emerald. ................ .00'/21 .10

Gold Chain ............... .38 1 .41

Grand Central ............ .74 J • ~O

Indian Queen ," . . . . . . . . . . . . . · ..... 1 .02

Iron B ossom ............. 1.27% 1.30

Joe Bowers ............... .00% ...... ..

Keystone . . ........ . ....... \ .4-0

King William ............. .06 '%. .07 '4

Lead King ..............•.. ·· .. .()!7'h

Lehi Tintic ............... .00'1.. .01';4,

Lion Hill ...... .......... .02'%.1 .05

LIttle Bell ............... , ........ 1 .25

Lower Mammoth .......... 1 .04'1.. .04'%.

Mason Valley.............. 7.50 9.00

May Day.................. .17%1 .18

Mineral Flat .......... .Ol';~ .02

'Mountain Lake ........... .03'1.. .05

Nevada Hills ,............. 1. 2;; I 1.40

New ,york .............. ·· .00'1..1 .03

Ohio Copper .............. .77 .80

Opohongo. ............... .040/.1 .05

Pioche Demijohn ......... .02 '%. 1 .06

Pioche Metals ............ 1........ \ .~1

Pittsburg Idaho ... ...... .50 . 1.25

Plutus • .................. .06'%.1 .07'1..

Prince Con. ............... .77 1 .80

Seven Troughs ........... 1 .01'1.. \ .02 '4

Silver King Coalition ..... 1 2.15 3.25 Silver King Con. ......... .75 1 1. 00

Southern Pacific ........... .01 '41 .15

Sioux Consolidated ........ .04' .05

South Iron Blossom ....... ........ .00'1..

Swansea Conso:,idated .... . .01 ....... .

Tintic Central ............ .00 '14 i .01

United Tintic ............ 1 .OO'%.I .01

Uncle Sam ................ I .11 1 .12'1.,

Utah Consolidated ........ 1 .01'4 .02

Union Chief ........ .. .. I .06 '41 .07 'I..

Victor Con. . .............. 1 .03 .05

Victoria Con. ............. .55 .60

Wilbert • . ............... .07 .09

Yankee Con . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ .1~ .15

Moscow • ................. .3n .50

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King William. 2,500 at 7c.

May Day. i,OOO 'at 18c.

Opohongo, 2,000 at 5c.

Prince Con .. 200 at 79c; 150 at n". Wilbert. 1,000 at 8'1.. c.

Open Board. Lower Mammoth, ~OO at 4'%.c. 'rotaIs.. Regular, 12,850 shares for $890.

Open, 1,272 shares for $301.68.

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THE LOCAL METAL MARKET.

January 27. Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4. 35; copper :hode, $15.975; zinc (St. Louis), $6.90. January 28. Silver, 61'1.. cents; lead. $4.35; copper !lode, $1;.975; zinc (St. Louis). $6.80. Jan·uary 29. Silver, 61"" cents; lead, $4. 35; copper hode, $15.975; zinc (St. Louis), $6.75. i. January ao, S'lver, 61'1.. cents; lead, $4.35; copper hode, $15.915; zinc. (St.. Louis), $6.60. January .31. Silver. 61 % cents; lead. $4.35; copper hode, $15.975; zinc (St. Louis), '$6.60. February 1. Silver. 61 % cents; lead. $4.35; copper hode, $15.975; zinc (St. Louis), $6.60. February 3. Silver, 62% cents; .lead, $4.35. copper hode, $15.775; zinc (St. Louis). $6.60. FebruarY 4. Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.35; copner thode, $15.775; zinc (St. Louis), $6.60.

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The Pittsburg Iron Ore company, Moun­ tain Iron, Minnesota. will equip its mines for driving the ma,chinery by electric power ca­ with twelve new motors, ranging from 15 to 50 horsepower. The General Elootric corn· pany will furnish the apparatus. NEW YORK I.ISTED STOCKS. 1Sa es.! H. 1 1.. IClose The Inter-Mountain Transportation com­ Chino""CQVper--.-.-.-.-.'-1 1.6001 4l'%.141'h-1411h pany held a spoo'al stockholders' meeting Goldfield Con. ...... 300! 2'4 2 '/. 2%

Nevada Con. ....... 800: 17% 17'%. 11* in the company's offices, 1001 Boston buEd·

Ray Consolidated .. 1" ..... 19 '4 19 19

ing, Salt Lake City, during the past week, Tennessee Clopper .. 800. 35 35 1 35 Miami Copper ...... 100\ 23 'I 23 1 23 and elected Mr. Julius Rosenberg a di­ Utah Copper ....... 1 800 54 53% 54

rector and general manager of the COncern.

Inspiration Con. . . . . 1 600116{411~'h 16 Studebaker Con. .. ........ 36)j, 30 36'1..

According to Geo. J. carr, superinten­

~_Silvcr ...... ! ...... :1 3 . 2% 2'h, NE\V YORK CURB RANGE. dent of dredging operations at Hammon­ ton, California, early in the ·spring the Yuba =--'-c:'~~-=_-_-+I",S.:.:a_c:,;s:c..+I· H.', L. ICiose First Nat'l Copper .. ;....... . 2 % 2 '\i.! 2'/8 \Consolidated Gold Fields wH! begin the Giroux Con. ········1 300 3'\i. 3 ' >' 1 3 'is Yukon Gold .:.. .. 3% : 3 3., '. construction of the largest gold dredge yet Ohio Copper ....... 4(10 0/.1 '%. ';l'4

built. The boat will have bucket capacity ~:~h~t~s~o~e,,:::.t::.::: 2'hi 1~1 ~'4 of 16 cubic feet. The cost of the new boat 1 Mason Val'ey ...... 1••••••• \ 8 1411 7%1 8 4 is estimated at $300,000.

Braden Copper . . . . 1 600 9% 9% 9'4 Ca­

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THE LUCY GRAY GOl,D MINING .CO. Location of mine, Sunset district, Clark Co., Nev. Capitalization, 1,500,000 shares. Par value, $1. Officers and directors: T. L. Bright. Pres.; W. C. Bright, Vice-Pres.: K. N. Bright, Sec.; John Bright, Treas., and C. 1". Flem'ng. Main office, Sunset, Nevada. P.O., Desert, Calif.

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The Greene Cananea Copper oomjYany. of

Cailanea, Sonora, Mexico, vvillpay its reg·

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DIVIDEND-PAVING STOCKS.

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Annie Laurie............... Beck Tunnel Con........... , Bingham & New Haven. . . . . Boston-Sunshine........... BuJ'ion B. & Champion. .. . .. Carisa ................. " .. Centennial-Eureka.. . .... . . Century................... Chief Consolidated. . ..... . . Colorado.................. Columbus Con.............. Cons. Mercur ............... Cliff Mining Co........... , . Dalton & Lark ....... , ..• , . Daly Judge................ Daly .... ,......... Daly West................. Eagle & Blue Bell......... Gemini Keystone........... Gold Chain............ ... .. Grand Central......... .... Horn Silver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iron Blossom.............. Little Bell............. .... Lower Mammoth.... . . ... . . Mammoth.................. May Day.. . .. .. .. .. . ... .. . . Moscow M. & M. Co.... ,..... Mountain View ......... ,... Newhouse................. Northern Vght....... .. ... . Ontario. . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Opohongo ........... " .. .. . Petro ................. "... Quincy. .... ... ........... Sacramento .............. ; Salvator.. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. Silver King Coalition. . . .. .. SJ:ver Shield............... Sioux Cons........ "....... South Swansea............ Swansea................. " Tetro., ....... ; ........... Uncle Sam Cons.. .. .. .. .. .. Utah Copper...............

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$25.00 ......... $ 439,561 . 1 0 . . . . . . . .. 675,000 5.00. . . . . . . . . 480.219 1 . 0 0 " .. "... 27,261 10,00,.. .. . . . .. 2,768,400 1. 00 .. .. .. .. . 60,000 25.00.. . . . . ... 3,600,000 1.00......... 39.000 1. 00 87.(lOO 87,000 .20......... 2:600,000 5.00 .. ,...... 212,623 5.00......... 3,420,312 1. 00 . ... . . .. . 60,000 1. 00 . . . . .... . 350,000' 1.00 . . . . . ,.. 495,000 20.00......... 2.925,000 20.00 27,000 6,606.000 1.00 44,457 44,457 100.00 ......... 2,060,000 . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 70,uOO 1.00 ...... '" 1,452,750 25.00. . . . . . . . . 5.662.000 .10 100,000 1,470,000 1.00......... 60,000 1.00 . . .. ... 65,073 .25......... 2,280,000 .25 24,000 132.00U 1.00 16,352 32,704 1.00......... 12,554 10.00......... 600,000 5.00. . ... . ... 20,000 100.00 . . . . . . . .. 14,962,500 .25 7,990 74,916 1.00"....... 65,000 1 . 5 0 . . . . .. .. 1.100,000' 5.00......... 308,000 1. 00 .. .. .. .. . 6,500 5.00 .. , . . .... 12.834,885 1.00......... 4.500 1. 00 ......... 872,630 1.00 I........ 470.000 5.00 1 334,500 1.00 ::::::::: 18,000 1. 00 .. .. .. .. . 47fl.OOO 10.00 ......... 17,068.722

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Nov. 2,'11

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Dec. 20. '12

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Jan. 2, '12

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Feb. 10, '13

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UTAH STATE NATIONAL BANK Capital, $600.000. Surplus and Undivided Profits. $297.687.86. Deposits $6,042.229 Cor. "fain and tat SO'lth St!.

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Cyanidt 98·99 % Cyanldt of

Sodium 128·180%

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GEO. A. WHITAKER

Moved to 62 West 2nd Soutb, Salt Lake

'rHE YELLOW PINE MINING CO. Location of n1ine, Good Springs

district, Clark Co., Nev. Capitalization, 1,000,000 shares. Par value, $1. Officers .and direc­ tors: J, F. Kent, Pres.; Frank A. Keith, Vice-Pres.; S. E. Yount, Sec. and Treas.; W. D. Longyear and C. W. Kent. Gen­ eral Manager, Chas. K. Barnes. Assist­ ant General Manager, Fred A. Hale, Jr. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, J. W. Keith. Mine Superintendent, J. G. Kem­ ple. Main office, Goad Springs, Nevada; Los Angeles office, 731 Central building.

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CRAIG, W. J.

ADAMSON, W. G. Consulting Mining Engineer and Metallurgist.

P. O. Box 69.

Winnemucca, Nevada.

ARNOLD, FISHER & CALVERT

JOHNSON, JAY ELIOT

Mining Engineer.

223 Boston f\ldg,,'

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KNOWLTON, A, D.

Mining Engineer.

Consulting Geologists and Engineer'S.

Coal, Oil, Gas and Non-Metalliferous Deposits. 711 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.

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

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FISK, WINTHROP W., B.S.

Phone Wasatch 4176

Mechanical Engineer and Millman.

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

Civil and Mining Engineer.

U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor 228 Dooly Blk., Salt Lake City. Phone Wasatch

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Twenty-eight years Practice, Eight Years Experience in Mexico. Jarbidge, Nevada.

Consulting al'd Contracting Engineers

Complete Ore Testing Plant. Engi­ neets or Contractors for all Classes of Reduction Plants. Salt Lake City.

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BURKE, JAS. J. & CO.

Good Springs, Nevada. Assistant General !vfanager, Yellow Pine M:ning Co.

Mining and Milling Machinery and Steel Construction.

Associate Editor, Salt Lake Mining Review. .

Years of Actual Experience in Mine Development and Operation, and in !\filling Practice. Success in Locat­ ing Faulted Veins. Placer Mining a Specialty. Correspondence Solicited.

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LEE, MURRAY Mining Engineer.

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

LEGGAT, J. BENTON Consulting and Mining Engineer.

224 Kearns Bldg.,

Salt Lake City.

Phone W3.S:ltchS'S'79

Mining Engineer.

503 Felt Bldg.,

Salt Lake City.

Phone Wasatch lIll,

Economic and Structural Geologist. Salt I,ake City. 1026 Kearns Bldg.,

Mining Engineer.

624 Judge Bldg.,

Salt Lake City.

PULSIFER, H. B. Mining and Metallurgy.

Armour Institute of Technology. Golden, Utah.

Phone Wasatch 761

Machine Design, Patent Drawings, Art Designs. Map Work of All Kinds. 224 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City.

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IRELAND, T. W.

705-706 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.

Surveyor and Draftsman.

326 Judge Bldg.,

Consulting Engineer.

Mining Engineer.

Best of References.

CONNOR, P. E.

Mining and Hydraulic Engineer.

U. S. Mintlral Surveyor.

PACK, MOSHER F.

HOWARD, L. O.

Mine Examinations and Reports. Engineers and Contractors

Salt Lake City.

McCASKELL, J. A.

Mining Engineer.

Mining Engineer.

Alben Burcb

Engi~eer.

GENERAL ENGINEERING CO., THE

BROOKS, CHAS. P.

Mining Engineer.

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

SAFFORD, J. L.

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819 Newhouse Bldg., P. O. Box 84'

Chicago, Ill.

Salt Lake City.

Mine Examinations and Reports.

Ores Sampled and Tests Made. Ref­ erence and Experience on Demand. Winnemucca, Nevada_

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