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CALIFORNIA GOLD MINING IN 1849

By DON MAGUIRE

Ho:w frequently do we hear of the Days of '49. The expression is not used as frequently now as it was twenty-five to forty years ago.. The term conveys to the mind the simple palmy days of gold mining in California immediately after its first discovery in that country. When I use the expression, simpIe palmy days, I allude to the fact that gold was found everywhere in the California gravels and over an area about forty miles wide and about three hundred miles in length. The entire west watershed of the Sierra Nevada range pre: sented opportunities for placer mining. In some places gold was found in paying quantities where there lay gravel bars thirty to seventy feet in thickness. In other places the gold values were found in measures of gravel of from ten Inches to three feet, with an over burden of non­ pay gravel in thickness from three to fifty feet, but during the early years, from 1848 to 1855, a very large part of the gold was taken from the gravel bars along mountain streams, and from extensive flats where the gravel lay in. measures of from six inches to three feet in thickness and this gravel paying splendidly from surface to bedrock. Those years were one romantic period of American gold mining. Previous to 1847 money was scarce in the states of the American Union. True, in the cotton and sugar producing states of the old south there was a good deal of wealth; and money was quite- plentiful with the pros­ perous slaveholders, but gold and silver coin was not plentiful. Over our country at large people were generally poor and the average man never had at any tIme in his life a thousand dollars in coin, either gold or silver. Those were the days of the simple life in all our land. In ~orth Carolina and Georgia gold had been wash­ oed from the gravels for about thirty years and about 2,000 people made their liveli­ hood from the mining industry of that part of our country, yet only a small area of that region afforded what could be termed rich diggings and there was never a great stampede into this country. Quite a num­ ber of New Englanders went down there and took part in a small way in washln~ out the gravels, but most of those who were successful to any extent were the native Georgians and men of North -Carolina, and it was pretty well known that We country afforded opportunities for only a few men. The gold supply of the world at that time and for more than three centuries previous, came from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and the west coast of Africa, but every year

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saw the product from the mines of the to mine for gold. At first it was thought world growing less and less. that the area of gold-bearing gravel was Men were not anticipating any great dis­ small, that it was confined to that one coveries of gold anywhere when in 1848 mill stream, but within a few weeks it the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo threw was found that every mountain stream into the possession of the United States carried splendid pay values and that the 'a vast empire of new tcrritory, most ot red gravelly soil of the flats and slopes {which was mountainous and not unlikely was equally rich. As the discoveries spread to become productive in gold and silver, over greater area the wild stories of rich yet men, until the first great discovery discoveries flew down the California coast was made, did not seem to anticipate dis. to every little Spanish settlement and Into coveries of the precious metal in the new Mjexico. Where San 'I<'rancisco noW stands country. It was said by many that jf there was a little Spanish and Indian set­ gold existed in the Rocky mountains tho tlement known as Yerba Buena and adia­ trappers and traders who had covered the ccnt to that was the old Mission Dolores. region for more than a generation would The harbor was known as San Francisco long since have discovered it, and if gold harbor, and the river flowing into it from existed inC'alifornia the Spanish occupants the back country was long known as me would most certainly have known every Sacramento. The country, although owned spot containing it. Thus no hQpe of dis­ by Spain and M,exico for almost three covery existed, nor was there an anticl· hundred years, was still new, the valleys pation of such discovery, when suddenly covered with wild oats, wild wheat and across the entire civilized world flashed malver, with game in abundance; the foot­ the statement that gold had been discovcred hills and the mountains had never been in most liberal quantities at Suttefo's Fort, much frequented by the white man; but as a few miles south of the .sacramento river I have stated in the early part of this in California, and it was but a few weeks article, there lay there along the west slope later that other reports were given to the of the 8ierra Nevada mountain range, a world of still greater discoveries being belt of territory over three hundred miles made in the country adjacent to Sutter's long and from fifteen to sixty miles wide, the richest gold field that the world has Mill. ever known, and it was thrown open to Discovery of Gold in California. mankind in the year 1849. True, gold had As all the world now knows, the first been discovered at several points previous gold was found in the tail race of Sut­ to this time by the old Spanish Californians, ter's sawmill, near what was then known but either the irony of fate or providential as Colonia. A Mr. James Marshall is said arrangements prevented the world from to have been the man who found the first knowing of it until the discovery at Sut­ gold in the tail race one mornmg when ter's mill. the water had been turned off. It is now Formation of the Deposits. a question as to whether or not Mr. l';[arshall The rock formation of the vast Californht was really the man who found it. A Mr. Brown and a Mr. Evans, also a Mr. Bigler, region is made up of a variety of primitive who had come into California with the measures, granite, schist, porphyry, serpen­ Mormon battalion that had served through tine, slate, quartzite, and in places sheets ,the M'exican war' in the armies of the of Iim'ilstone. All the above measures in United States, we're then working with California contain gold-bearing quartz veins Marshall on the Sutter mill. The writer of save the limestone. Far back in the meas' this article knew these three men person­ ures of timc the Sierra Nevada range of ally and they claim that Mr. Brown and mountains did not exist; they lay far down Mr. Bigler were the men who found the beneath a vast plain with their golden gold but that Marshall took possession of treasures hidden thousands of feet below it and heralded the discovery to the world. the old surface. In the fullness of time Captain Sutter had built up quite a trade the earth's surface cracked from north to with the. Spanish Californians, also with south and upheaving thousands of feet into the Indians, and when the gold discovery the air, the Sierra Nevada range was born, was made he seemed to have a presenti­ exposing along the west face the thousandS ment that it would prove his undoing, and and thousands of gold-bearing quartz veins. right he was, for within a few weeks white The winds and the rains and the snowS men rushed in from every spot in Cali­ for countless years eroded and wore away fornia where Americans, Einglish and the west slope of the great uplift. Gradually French, or other nationalities dwelt, and the gold contained in the veins was released paying no respect to former ownership, and carried hither and thither far down they seized each a small area in which slopes into ancient river beds, carried and

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deposited in bars of gravel along the rIvers. carried far out on the old flats where gla· ciers used to move. until hundreds of feet in depth had been scoured away from the mountainside and the gold from ten thou· sand veins was thus deposited over an area of nineteen thousand five hundred square miles of the surface of the sub· mountain region of California. Forests sprang up, the most magnificent that tile world has ever known; plant life became luxurious; the myrtle, the laurel, the' man· zanita, the wistaria, the wild colombine, and the ubiquitous rose bloomed for ages over the soils and gravels that in their secret measures held for man's u),timate use billions of dollars in placer goIJl that for ages had been washed from the quartz measures farther up the mountain. Primitive Methods Used. Such were the physical conditions on the day when gold was discovered at Sutter's mill in the year 1848. Those who were first in the field knew scarcely anythin~ about mining, hence the methods used werEl of the most simple and crude kind. The nuggets first found at Sutter's mill were in size from two to five pennyweight and up to more than an ounce; the small par. ticles were not observed for some time and when they were they were not considered worth their time in saving. Spades, shovels, tin and iron pans, frying pans, came into use in the first month of gathering the gold from the gravel along the beds and banks of streams where the bed rock was slate. v,'here the bed rock was slate rock, rough and jagged, the gold frequently set· tled down into the cracks and seams, in such cases bowie knives, butcher knives, pieces of hoop iron or carpenter's chisels were made use of to gouge out the golden treasures. Men worked on their knees and with such tools as were at their command gouged out and washed out from the first diggings around Colma and Auburn, and other rich gulches of the locality from twenty-five to one hundred dollars per day to the man. A few weeks after the first discovery the place was visited by one or two men who had mined for gold in Georgia and who knew how to construct a rocker, This was the first skilled method and forth· with and at once these came into favor, although there was not more than fifty feet of lumber required in the making of one, along with one or two sheets of per· forated iron plate. They first sold for one hundred dollars each, and the saving of gold, as well as the rapidity of working was increased more than ten fold. The; field of discovery widened from Colma; men spread out mile after mile northward a.nd sO'Qthward; Dutch Flat, Gold Run, Little York, Shirttail 'Canyon, Iowa Hill, Michigan Bluff, Dandy Jim, Red Dog, Little York, Blue Tent, and scores of other fields, the names of which are now almost forgotten, became each a spot where hundreds of

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small fortunes were taken out during the

years 1849 and 1850.

It did not take long to carry news

of the first discovery of gold in th~ new and far-off land, around the civ· ilized world. So that when 1849 was ushered in, the United States, east of the Missouri river, went wild with excitement, the 'gold fever seized upon thousandS and thousands from Maine to Texas and from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to Saint Augus· tine, Florida; the stories that traveled on the wind lost nothing in the telling and the immensity and richness of the new field was magnified a hundred fold, when told as far away as New England, Georgia, or in the homes of Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, or Old Kentucky. Letters from the few Americans in California reaching relatives in different places told of the discovery, and generally such letters told of the gold being in abundance. Some letters made mention of the delightful climate, the ,beautiful country and the short time reo quired to gather a little fortune. We must bear in mind that in those days a thousand dollars was to the average American a very large sum of money, and ten thousand dol· lars was an enormous fortune to most men. Therefore, the prospect or promise of going into a country where they might and were almost certain within a few months to make 'more than they would make at home in torty years, spurred on thousands to make ,the attempt of reaching the New Eldorado. Routes of Travel. Those who started for California from the eastern and southeastern states and from along the lower Mississippi river and gulf states usually chose the over-sea route, l50ing from New York, Charleston and New Orleans, all of those going in 1849 taking the route around Cape Horn, the passage costing from $1,000 to $1,500, and go· ing from west and north of the Ohio river almost all of them took the overland route across the p'lains, using either mules or QXen, the journey occupying from six to nine months, The overland journey' was one of extreme slowness, from ten to fifteen miles per day was the limit of travel for ox teams. Usually there were from two to three yoke of oxen to each wagon. Early in the spring of 1849 great numbers of gold seekers started on the overland journey from Independence, Missouri, from St. Joe in the same state, and from Council Bluffs, Iowa, these being then the routing points on the borders of civilization. At that early day the settlement between the Missouri river and the Mississippi was very light but sufficient to furnish supplies and shelter to those who started during the early winter from Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, and when at either St. Joe, at Independence, or Council Bluffs, or \\Tinter lJuarten: near Nebraska City, the long trains of ox tell,nl;; were rested until the grass started up in the spring of 1849, permitting them to go

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forward in the great jO,urney of two thou· sand miles aeross wilderness. True, the road up the valley of the Platte had been broken westward by t~aders and trapping parties for more than a generation, extensive wagon parties had gone over it in 1846, American immigrants going from Indiaria, Missouri, and Kentucky, going to Oregoh, and the Mormons in 1847 began an emigra' tion over 1,000 miles of the route, going into their new country along and around the salt and fresh water lakes of what is now northern Utah. From Great Salt Lake to the summit of the Sierra Nevada range of mountains the route of travel was par· ticularly cheerless and difficult. No wonder that many a manly heart was tried in the first expedition with horse teams across 'that cheerless waste of the old days, and who were they who thus moved toward the setting sun in vast caravans, defying savage enemies, piercing winds, burning heat, and chilling cold, toiling long and wearily over the alkali deserts and up sharp ,mountain slopes and on through narrow rocky canyons to reach the land that rumor proclaimed the wonder of all time? And who were they who, over tile other route by sea, bore down far into the south through the blue Atlantic until their staunch old wooden vessels plunged into the antarctic storms, rounding Cape Horn and with spars and sheets and cordage cased In ice, shot northward into the Pacific and sailed and sailed until they reached the Golden Gate and into the harbor of San Francisco a hundred miles from the golden field of recent discovery!. Over both routes they were men tne most varied of any aggregation that ever marched forward for the betterment of fortune in any age, the young, the brave, the nervy, mostly those from every walk of life but who had met diffi· culty, and in many cases disaster in bUSI· ness. The lawyer, doctor, merchant, gen· eral trader, manufacturer, the college pro. fessor, who saw only a small stipend before through life, the blacksmith, carpenter, butcher, baker, painter, common laborer, the clerks and the men who toiled on the small farm by mountain, valley and plain. Added to these there went the gambler and general adventurer, men who, since the world began, have rushed forward to the excitement of discovery or war as long as there is prospect of plunder or easy money. And when all these men of '49 reached the promised land along t.he west base of the Sierra Nevada range, what a strange scene the field presented, There were the northern and southern and central parts ot the gold·bearing region and it was but a few months until the gold country three hundred miles in width was a scene of life and animation, men of every walk in life scrambling for small areas each in which to mine for gold, and up to that day in modern times no region ever turned out

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more favorably to the average man than course when a man worked out his own did California in 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1852. claim he was at liberty to go and prospect Within three years, from where Grass for new ground elsewhere, or buyout a Valley and Nevada City now stand, all neighbor w40 chose to sell. As in all lines the way south to the banks of Kern river, of industry and in every field there were many who never made a location, never ; 300 miles, a belt of country from fifteen to sixty miles in width became a scene of owned a foot of ground themselves, but §Old gathering such as mankind doubtless who from the start worked for others and never before saw. First with spade, shovel, these men received from six to twenty dol­ sheet iron pan, wooden bowl or simple lars per day and board for their services sheet of iron, men worked early and late, of ten hours. The quality of board furn­ along the mountain streams, out on the ished was as good as the .country could flats. In some places the gold was found afford; at first bread and beef, with coffee going down from the surface to bedrock and sugar made up the bill of fare, but in and it was worked accordingly; in others a few months Spanish beans, dried grapes, it occurred along the margin of streams; or raisins, jerked beef and California cured again in streaks from ten inches to three pork came up from the old mission settle­ or four feet above bedrock and with an ments in central and southern California, over burden of perhaps ten feet in thick­ at prices which were tremendously high, ness. Men learned wonderfully fast in flour selling for twenty-five to fifty cento those days. As before stated, for a time per pound, beans at the same price, and everything else accordingly. Those who it was with shovel, pan and hunting knife or bowie knife, then came into use the opened restaurants and boarding houses rocker and when the men of North Carolina during 1849 and in the winter of 1849 ana and Georgia appeared they at once intro. 1850 received two dollars per meal, and duced the long Tom, which was an immense if extras were furnished, as high as five stride over the simple but efficient rocker_ dollars; a bed brought, if at all clean and At first men saved only the coarse gold, decent, from two dollars to five dollars next they learned with the rocker to save per night; shovels, spades, picks and gold much of the fine gold_ A short time later pans as high as twenty-five dollars each; quicksilver was introduced into the rock .clothing for a time was equally high; rubber and the long Tom, and still more gold was boots sold for from forty to fifty dollars saved and all men were growing skillful per pair; tobacco was from four to ten in the gathering of the golden grains. dollars per pound; whiskey from ten to The climatic. conditions . of California, twenty-five dollars per gallon; native wine with its wet and dry season, left the sum­ from the old missions from five to eight mer of 1849 a time when those who were dollars per gallon. As might be expected, in the field were compelled to look for there were a few men who acted as physi­ the richest spots, carry the gravel to cians and surgeons and who received where there were small streams and pour tremendous fees for service, as also lawyers out the gold contained therein or spread the and men doing clerical work, such as draw­ pan of gravel over a square of canvas 'or ing up contracts, deeds, leases, transfers, bhnket, and kneeling down, pick out slow­ etc. ly the little points, particles and nuggets As gold mining took the attention of most . that appeared to the naked eye. In many persons there were few who gave atten­ cases when the wind was blowing a strong tion to hunting, but the native Indians breeze the miner would spread his sheet brought in fish and venison, elk, sheep and of canvas or blanket and holding his pan mountain grouse in abundance,' selling it of gravel aloft would gradually let it fall, at good prices wherever offered. Men at the wind carrying away the fine clay dust, the mines made their camps in central gravel and pebbles and precipitating the locations, some living in shelters made of gold onto the canvas or blanket. When pine, juniper or fir -boughs cast up against winter came and the rainy season left a central ridge pole, others used a lean­ abundant water in every mountain stream to against a large rock, still others would the harvest was tremendous and there were camp under trees, using canvas spreads few who labored that did not obtain prince­ over their belongings when it rained, and ly returns for the time put in. still others built cabins. All men were Necessities of Life Expensive. armed with Colt's pistols, derringers and Upon the discovery of gold at Sutter's bowie knives; all men were honest; gold mill, those who came together made regu­ was left exposed in almost every cabin or lations as to the amount of land each man snack, and woe betide the poor misguided could appropriate, and as the ground was devil who attempted to steal from his rich the area was small; in some localities neighbor. His reward, if caught, was be­ it was only fifteen by fifteen feet, and ing stripped to the skin, tied to a wagon in some places only one hundred square )Vheel and given from ten to fifty lashes feet, or ten feet each way. Few camps on the bare back and then ordered out allowed as much as 100 feet square. "With of camp, never to return. Law and order these limited areas men learned to work generally prevailed in all the camps, men the ground as thoroughly as possible. Of were given to know what their rights were

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and few were foolish enough to infringe on the rights of others. Civil law was soon established after the American plan, yet but few applied for legal help. The men of each camp were made up in most cases of men from many parts of the world and from most states of the union. In central California, and especially in Calaveras county, Missourians were said to predominate, but by 1850 to 1851, and even up to 1855, every civilized country under the heavens sent its contingent to the gold fields of California. Supplies to feed the multitude growing more and greater in demand, vessels loaded with pro­ visions and merchandise were sent in scores from the Atlantic and southern ports of the United States and from the port of Santiago in Chile. Tremendous quantities of beans, dried beef tallow, flour, sugar, wine and brandy were brought to the port of San Francisco and thence shipped to the mines. Beginning of California Commerce.

In the meantime the commercial life of California grew apace. In each camp ot the three hundred that dotted the vast gold field, trading establishments grew up and society organized itself more and more after the first few months. In every little town the trades were soon represented, with great returns for all labor. Of course the harpies and vultures of society, as in every new country where great and much wealth is in evidence, soon made appearance. So in the California gold field the gambler and sporting man found a paradise and great were the numbers of those who spent their good luck in that way. For the first six months after the discovery, women, good or bad, were not there, but in time they put in an appearance. The first to come were those who came from the ranks ot the fallen, from New York, New Orleans, .Boston, Philadelphia, and from parts of Peru,Chile, Central America and Mexico. The saloon, the gambling house, the dance house ran wide open night and day, yet there were thousands to whom these haunts were no temptation They came from well ordered homes far away in New England and the middle states or from the mountains of the southwest. They came to secure sufficient to buy some certain farm or town land or cottage, to pay old debts, or 11ft the mortgage from the dearly loved farm and such people were usually of strong character, sufficiently so to work hard and hold all they secured. For a short time the medium of exchange was simply gold dust, sold by the pinch or weighed, but even in 1849 several assay offices were established at San Francisco and the gold so assayed was in a large 'part coined into round and octagonal fifty dollar pieces, Many parties in San Fran­ cisco coined such money. Wass MollJter and Company, Baldwin and Company, the Ohio Trading company, the California

company, also Kellogg and Com· assayed and refined gold and _he same make as well as fifty .lugs, coins of the value of two ,·half dollars, five. ten, and twenty ~ieces. which passed current until ited ·States government erected the )ffice and mint at :San Francisco. ;ated above, among those who shared first discovery of gold in California were quite a number of men in the ,y who had been soldiers in the ,on batallion. enlisted at Winter ;ers, in Nebraska Territory in the WIn· ,f 1846 for the Mex.ican war. These marched overland to Santa Fe and Jon and later were discharged at San ~o, and when the gold excitement was [ on they scattered into the mines. Oil rmon Island they took out tremendous. mtities of gold. The immortal Sam ,mnan was at that date a sort of offi· ,1 guardian for the Church interests .long the Mormons along the sea coast­ ;om the faithful he collected a large tith­ .g. which for a short time he sent to the hurch authorities at Salt Lake City. This, .long with other sums of gold, was coined lY Brigham Young at Salt Lake City. He had it made into pieces of two and one· half dollars, five, ten and twenty dollar pieces They were coined in 1849 and also in 1850 and some of better make in 1860. The Utah coins were minted from unre· fined gold for these first two years as there was no assay or refining plant in Utah and as seldom were there two mining camps in California in which the gold was of the same value. so these Utah coins were of the same weight but differed in standard valuation_ There was also made in Oregon a five dollar piece known as beaver money. also a ten dollar piece, by the Oregon Trading company. a party or Oregonians who went down into the Cali· fornia gold fields and, returning with large quantities of treasure. coined it for the greater convenience of trade. The coins of all these mintings, whether of California, Oregon or Utah. in a few years passed out of circulation, and where any of them are now found they command a high premium as numismatic treasures. California as a region of gold discovery proved a tremendous success. It increased the volume of gold throughout the entire civilized world. and since the days when Pizarro and his rough riders conquered the .peruvian empire and gathered gold by the ton froro a hundred Peruvian temples, palaces and time honored tombs of the :old kings, no such treasures were ever gath. ered by men as the first arrivals from over plains and over seas gathered from the mighty gold areas of California. What suc· cess, what thrills of Victory gladdened men's hearts as they took, from the gravel and red' soil of the footbills. from twenty·five '-~'" tlollars per day, with the

most simple and primitive methods. No wonder all strong and nervy men who heard the story in the Mississippi valley. or by the Ohio or the eastern seashore. resolved on leaving all behind and going afar into that Eldorado where poverty was unknown. and where hope and realization was the rule and great fortune the reward. The Eldorado a Paradise.

In no part of the world was the discovery of golden fortune found in a more delight­ ful region. The west slope of the Sierra Nevadas was a paradise in those days, the high crests were clothed with snow; lower down. majestic forests of pine. fir, balsam, cedar. and juniper spread over the land; still farther down grassy valleys lay in per· petual spring, and to all men who came th is gold·sown field was theirs for the taking. The way into that golden land, no matter whether by land or sea, was forbidden and bitter; by sea, long, torrid, frigid. tempestous and clothed with drear monotony; by land, long, rocky, dreary, and a thousand times more bitter than the trail the Children of Israel trod in the wilderness of old, but the golden region once gained under the opal skies of California the aver· age man was a hundred·fold rewarded. Where in 1848 and the early days 01 1849 there was nothing but the rough but inviting face of nature, how quickly thrifty towns sprang up and three hundred camps are said to have in time appeared, the queens among which were Grass Valley, Nevada City, Dutch Flat, Auburn, Coloma, Forest Hill, Michigan Bluff, Iowa Hill, 'Georgetown. Amador, Jackson, Placerville or Hangtown. Jimtown, Volcano. Chinese Camp, Angels Camp. MQkalumne Hill, Sonora. Columbia, San Andreas. lone, Villa· c'ta, Murphy's Gamp, Esmeralda, Carson Hill, Sutterville, Big Oak Flat, Hornitos. ,Diamond Springs, Eldorado. Indian Diggings. Mud Springs, :Mlariposa, and on southward, until from the highland at Fort Tejon one could look afar to the southward and out on to the grey wastes of the Mojave Desert. On either bank of the rivers of California, flowing from out of the SIerra Nevadas to the ocean, work of mining was profitably pursued.-on the Sacramento, American, Stanislaus, Cosumnes, 1\1erced. Tuolumne, Kings river, and more than two hundred small tributaries of these mountain rivers,-and there was placer gold every· where along the banks of each stream. or course the richness of these bars and river flats varied. but they were all rich enough to give excellent returns for the lab()r given to them.. From 1848 to 1855 what a won­ derful history making. fortune making six years they were. Summing up the assets of the fortunate and wise·headed who reached :California from 1849 to 1855. about sixty· five per cent returned· to their old homes, with from fifteen hundred to five thousand dollars, over and above the cost of going and coming. About ten per cent returned

with net profits UL . . __ sand dollars; ten per cent with fl to twenty thousand dollars; nine I with from twenty to twenty·five t dollars; five per cent with from tW! to fifty thousand dollars. and one I with from fifty to one hundred t dollars, and each had the experi fortune in itself. The treasures, la small, taken from california in tho laid the foundation of some of the greatest fortunes. and the gold broadcast stimulated trade in all the world. A Romantic Period.

The most romantic and we may most heroic days of California histe those in which placer mining in its form was carried on in the Califor fields from 1849 to 18';5. It was dUl period that cholera and Indian warfl at their worst on the plains and during that time that the wood ships took the pioneers around Cal It was during that time that strem was seen and wherein the easy mo made. It is true that for long aft~ fortunes were taken from the ea much of the field gave up its gold al sought for new fields in Australia, or elsewhere. A few, despairing , discoveries being made under their c joined Crabbe in his war of advent lower California or went with the reckless men who joined Walker to Nicaragua In 1855. They saw tho ning of the end of one of the gold·gathering epochs of all time. The Inhabifants Law Abidin It has been supposed by some t'

old early days in California werf lawlessness and wickedness. By was this the case. Many reckless were, but compared to the bulk 0' numbers present, the real bad few. Thousands of men served th, ular life in the California gold they observed in their old homes MissiSSippI. By such the S: observed, the scriptures werE more attention given to relig' ists now among the same nUl pIe in the heart of our grea men were armed, the Kentl double barreled shot gun 'i cabin or in every shack, n them the old large sized C baJJ revolvers, some had hor many kept near them each smooth bore holster pistols, . wire twist barrels. These Belgium and sold in San Fr knives of good make and 101 knives made from files ... others. Men dressed plainl white or black hats, rec woolen shirts. dark trous which were thrust into Such was the plain dress

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and if the character of the rock causes the footage to vary it varies the price per foot. For example; 60 feet at a cost of $1,800 means $30 per foot, while 90 feet at the same cost would mean $20 per foot, while surface improvements, insurance, legal and title etc., would not be computed in the "footage average," T.hese averages are not apl'licable to lateral work such as drifting and crosscut­ ting, nor to stoping. We will begin -crosscutting by the end of January. It will take practically all of F€b­ ruary to cut the station and sump below the station to catch dripping water and get back ten or tWenty feet away from the shaft. From Maroh 1st we expect to make 200 feet of crosscut a month. As soon as a vein is cut we will start a crew of men drifting both ways on the vein, and they will make about the same footage in each direction. This will reduce the overhead expense, as the sam€ engineers and mechanks handle the top work without increased expense there, and greater footage is made. The efficiency of mine work consists of making the greatest footage or tonnage with the least "overhead expense." This can best be done with good tooh; and machinery (such as we have) that makes the brutal heavy labor of hand work obsolete and makes work easier. Then, by hiring good intelligent men to direct the work of the machine tools at better wages than before more progress is made, and tilOugh the labor costs mor~, the price per foot is reduced, and the overhead costs are lowered. Stockholders and the company look to hut one man~th-e man in -charge-for re­ sults, and he hires his "assistants" or "slaves" as heehooses. My workmen are not "slaves" but are .my "assistants;' who are trying to help me deliver the goods. Success is no trifle, but trifles make suc­ cess. Of course the big things at a mine must be right, but it i" getting the multitude of little things right about a mine that makes it successful. That is the reason we report the little things as well as the big ones, that stock­ holders may judge whether their manager and his assistants
Stockholders of the Palisade Mining and Smelting company, owning sixteen claims and a compressor plant in the Pine· Creek district of the Idaho Coeur d' Alenes, electej these directors at the annual meeting in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: J. W. 'Schmidt of Cat­ aldo, Idaho, president: Dr. E. von Gundlach, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, vice president, and A. KRogers of Spokane, 'Washington, sec­ retary-treasurer. The officers and J. A. Bigbee compose the board of directors of the company.

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II UNITED VERDE MINE AND The News of Jerome, Arizona, thus de­ scribe,s the new smelting plant now being constructed by ex-Senator W. A. ClarK fo:' the o,res of the United Verde mine: In the Verde vaHey, at Clarkdale, ap­ proximately six miles from the present site, and connected with the mine at the 100-foot tunnel level 'by the Verde Tunnel and Smelter railroad, a new smeltery of approximately 3,000 tons daily capacity is in course ·of erection. It is the intention to make the new smeltery tha'roughly mod­ ern in every detail. In general the €quip­ ment will consist of: Four 48x26 foot blast furnaces .. Three 19x100 foot reverberatory fur­ naces. Five 12,foot converters_ Large receiving and ·storage bins for ore and coke, Sampling mill, ·thoflOughly equip·ped with the latest machinery for this class of work. Dust chambers, stacJi;s and ore hand­ ling system, etc., designed according to the latest engineering practioo. The shop.s will be equipped with mod­ ern machinery. The warehouse and main hulldings will be of st€el designed with a libera,l allowance of operating space. Ap­ proximately 10,000,000 'brick and 8000 tons of steel will be used in the construction of this plant. A modern brick plant to make the brick ·is in COUfise of construction. The material will be handled in and around the plant by a modern industrial system, including the latest design of electric loco­ motives, conveyors, tmms, etc-. The townsite of Clarkdale will be con­ tJrolledby the company. H has been laid out on strictly modern and sanita,ry lines. The buildings have been carefully designed with due regard to clillllatic conditions, etc. The fire and water supply system has re­ ceived careful attention. A 40,000 volt transmission line, 00nnected with 'the Ari­ zona Power eomuany'·s mains supplies the necessary power for construction require­ ments. The bulk of the J,)owe.t for operating the smeltery will be supplied from waste heat ,boilers, connected with the reverbera­ tory fur!laces. The main power plant will be equipped with: One Southwick compound blowing en­ gine. One Rateau-Smaotsteam turbo-blower. One Diesel double-unit six-cylinder oil €ngine, driving throug.h rope transmission. One No. 11 Root blower, 300 cubk feet per revolution. One No_ 11 Root blower, 300 cubic feet per revolution, motor driven. One No. 11 Root blower 400 cubic feet per revolution, motor driven.

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One 300 cubic foot blower, driven by one reciprocating engine. One WestinghOUse Parsons steam tm· bine generating unit, 500 kva. One 1500 kva unit. Two IVeise condensors, capac:ty each, 41,000 pounds steam per hour, with auxili­ ary apparatus. The new smeltery and townsite are con­ nected with the standard gauge V€rde Val. ley milway, running up the Verde Valley a distance of 40 miles and connecting with the Santa .Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail­ road at Cedar Glade. This gives the new townsHe and smeltery a decided advantage in transportation facilitie·s over the 0111 smelterry and Jerome narrow gauge con­ nection. It ·has been estim2ted that it will take approximately two years to complete the new plant. The United Verde Copper company ilas paid more than $32,000,000 dHring twenty­ ei.gh t years. The main offices of the company are lo­ cated at 20 Exchange place, New York, with the following officers: William A. Clark, president; .James A. MacDonald, vice-president; Charles IV. Clark, general manager, and Will L. Clark, manager of all comp:my interests in Ari­ zona. The mine and worl,s, where 1,000 men are employed, are lo-cated at Jerome, with the fol:owing superi:ltendents of depart­ ments: Robert E. Tally, sUjJerlntendent of mine department; Thomas Taylor, superintendent of smertery dep·artment. and T. C. Roberts, chief engineer and superintendpnt of me' chanical department. The United Verde mine is located on the hillside, about l'_ quarter of a mile above the town of Jerome. It is at the terminal of the United Verde & Pacific railway, and in fart mallY of its underground workings are un­ dernea.th the railroa
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rite in pyrite and in schist and quartz por­ Various degrees of oxida­ p'hyry gangue. tion QCcur near the surface. The ore bodies are in the form 'of lenticular lenses of vari· ous sizes and values. They are worked by the bottom slicing method, without timbers, and by the square set method, and all stope.s are filled to within seven feet of the roof, There are about fifteen miles of work­ ings open' at the present time. There are about 550 men ,employed, and the tonnage is about 1,000 tons per day. The smeltery building is 80 feet by 400 feet, and contains one blast furnace .58x180, with :!iourteen·foot settler, and three blast furnaces 48x240, with sixteen-foot settl,ers; all fitted with hot blast pipes. In the 'pon­ verter line there are four stands 93x138, barrel type sheHs, electrically operated, There is also, one Knudsen furnace. In this building there are also two 40· ton electric traveling cranes, and two 50· ton electric traveling cranes, that traverse the full length of the building, and are used for handling the converters, matte and slag ladlies. This smeltery turned out about·33,500,000 pounds of copper in 1912. A large portion of the power is purchased from the Arizona Power com]}any, and transmitted a distance of thirty-eight miles, under a pressure of 40,000 volts, 3 phase, 60 cycle, stepped down and converted In the PQw'er company's sub-station, and delivered on the copper company's switchboard at 2,300 volts A. C., and 250 volts, D. C. The water supply is piped from various springs south of Jerome, the farthest being some sixteen miles, which flows by .gravity and is distri'buted along the various tanks aboUJt the plant, ag>gregating a storage capa­ 'City of 435,000 gallons. o-~,,,-~

ASSESSMENTS ON UTAH MINES.

Tintic Central Mining company. operat­ ing In the Tintic district,has levied an assessl!lent of Gne-half cent a share on its steck, w,hich is delinquent March 11, with sales day, March 29. The Spring Lake Mining company, with properties in the Santaquin district, has levIed an assessment of one dollar per thousand s'hares which was delinquent Feb­ ruary 24, and will be sold March 15. The Roy Mining & Milling company, of the Deep Creek section, will sell sharehoId­ eJ's stock, on March 8, which was delin· ,~ent February 20, the amount Qf the as­ "s(}sS'IDent 'being on&1haif cent a share. o R. R. Robinson, of San Francisco, has bonded the Atlanta, January, Midway ana Progressive claims at Masonic, CalifornIa, in which John Hayes owns a large interest, tll(;l price named being $22,500. Arrange­ ments are ·being made to start development work at once.

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ALASKA GOLD MINES COMPANY.

Possibilities of Large Low Grade. Proposition Analyzed.

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George L. Walker, in the Boston Corn· mercial, has wr~tten anal"ticle on the Alaska Geld Mines company, in whi'ch there is con· siderable local interest. He sayS: "T,hose traders and :investors in mining shares who habitually look with suspicion ulYon gold stocks, have been greatly sur­ prised :by the rapidity with which Alaska Gold Mines shares ,have advanced since they were placed on the market a few months ago. "There has been a ,dispostiion in some quarters to doubt the estimate of the com· pany's engineers that .gold ore carrying a~ a'Jerage of only about $1.80 in total values' v~ which ,1.50 is recover,able, can be made to yield a net pt'ofit of 75 cents a ton. ",\Vihai' are currently referred to as the engineers' estimates, however, are in real­ ity, based upon the results of operations cor;,ducted 'by the present management be­ (.re .the property was taken over and the AlaSka Gold Mines company organized. "At the time the option was secured the pmperty was equipped with a mill of 500 tons dailY
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"When the property ,was taken over it was estimated that it contained 50,000,000 tens of workable ore. More recent develop­ ments make it reasonably certain that the bIg vein, averaging 70 feet in width, ex­ tends for a distance of almost three miles tllrough the property and rise,s to an aver­ age height of 2,000 foot above sea level. "A body (l'f ore 15,000 feet long, 70 feet wide and 2,000 feet deep would contain ap­ pl'oximately 175,000000 tons. As it is quite probable,however, that this deposit can be 'mined to a still greater depth of 2,000 to 3,000 .feet ibelow water level, the :possibili­ t,es of tonnage run into figures whIch It Is di!,ficult for the average mind to compre­ hBnd. . "The vein dips at an angle of ,about 70 degrees away from the ocean. The mine Is an unusually dry one. The gold oocurs in a vein or fracture zone in the slate, where a comes in contact with gabbrQ, the latter forming the footwall. The vein itself con­ sists of slate w.hich at some time has ,been profoundly ahattered and the fracture planes filled with innU'merable small veinlets of' c-,uartz. "Mining practic.e wil1 consists of rais­ ir.g shafts (lr chutes in the footwall from the tunnel levels. Crosoouts will be driven through the vein at intervals of 200 feet from the surface down and the ore will be drilled and shot down in immense 'masses. As it falls and finds its way into branch raises from the main chutes it :breaks up into small pieces convenient to 'handle in ordinary mining cars. "Two men with on<J drill will stope from 7:; to 110 tons (If ore in the Alaska mine in a single day's work. No timbering is rE'quired. The walls 'are very firm and the Ofe breaks dean from them. "Of course as mining progresses to great depth the hanging wall will break away and ftil up the wide opening left; but such small portions of it as deave off and mix with the ore will carry about $1 per ton in gold and, there:!iore, will not tend greatly to reduce or dilute the average grade. "It has been stated that Alaska Tread­ "',;,U's ope'ra;ting
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Alaska mines engineers allow for a cost of al'out 20 cents. "The ore is free milling. aoout 65'};, of the values being recovered by amalgama­ tlon. The remainder of the values secur€ d are in -concentrates vlhich will either be tr€ a ted at the properly or shivped to custom smelters. "All of the company's overations will be cr,nducted with .hydro-electric power gener­ ated on streams near ~he vroperty and the cost of this power will ·be extremely low. The heavy rain and snow fall in Alaska and the melting of snow and ice in summer can be depended upon to provide an abund­ ant and continuous flow of water for power purvoses. "The first plan of the management, which is now ooing carried out, was to open the ploperty by a big extraction tunnel called theShe€ p Creek, build a mill of 6,000 tons du.ily clI!\)jacity and make the necessary dams and electric plants to supply the power required for this volU'me of OI}era­ tions. "The Sheep Creek tunnel has been driven at the rate of 500 feet a month and is now k the ore. The mill should be completed by July of next year. "R€ c ent developments in the company's own I}mperty and the determination by owners of adjoining -claims that the vein carries good values to depth of 1,000 feet below the Alaska Gold Mjines company's workin·gs have Jed the management to take Ul'der consideration the advisability of in­ CI easing the plant to 20,000 tons' dailY capac­ ity. "Of course this extension will not be mrt<1e until after the 6,000 ton installation is completed and in successful operation; Lut there is no reason to doubt that there is ore enough in the properly to peI'lnit the treatment of 20,000 tons daily or 7,000,000 tons annually for· a period of 25 to 40 years. "When the plant is increased to 20000

tuns daily capacity the money to pay for i\ undouhtedly will be raised by the sale of a further issue, of st;)ck. The company at pr-esent has 698,128 shares outstanding and a total of 750,000 shares authorized. This stock was issued at $10 a share, $5 being p>lid at the time and $5 per share more IJeing payable July 1. 1913. "The flotation and the coming :Payment of $5 a share will provide the company with .$4,500,000, which is eXI}ected to be sllfficient to do preliminary development wcrk. build the Jams, electric power p~ants and the mill, which will enahle the com· p~ny to treat 6,000 tons of ore daily and e[\rn $1,500,000 annually or $2 a share on the stock now authorized. "Considered as a 20,000-ton daily capac­ ity propOSition the remarkable possibilities of the Alaska Gold Mines company at once b('come apparent. A profit of 75 cents a ton on this amount of ore would yield net

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Pllge . Allis-Cha!mers Co. . . . _................. 8 Central Coal & Coke Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,. 40

Denver Fire Clay Co__ ........... ,..... 4

Diamond Drilling Co. _................. 38

Fulton Engine 'Works ....... " .... , .. ,. 38

Hendrie, The \'1. C,' Rubber Co. . , ...... " 35

Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. . . '........... 5

Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4

Lane Mill & Machinery Co. .............. 4

Landes & Co., Trucks " ... " ..... ".,.. 7

Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co, ..... .. 38

Mine & Smelter Supply Co. . . , ... , ..... ,' 1

Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co..... ,.. 43

Moyle. E. H .• Engg. & Equipment Co.,.. 7

Okell Drill & Supply Co. .., ........ ,., 38

Porter, Charles 1<'., Building Material. .. , 6

Revere Rubber Co............... , . , .. ' .. 43

Richmond, F. C., Machinery Co. . , ..... . Roessler & Hass··acher Chemical Co.,... 35

Salt Lake Hardware Co, .. ,....... 44

Silver Bros. Iron ·Works ..... ,' .... ,.... :l Utah i"ire Clay Co. ..,., ..... ,......... 3~

Utah Fuel Co. . . , ... ,., .............. ,.. 41

Way's Pocket Smelter Co, , .. , .... , .. ,.. 35

\Vestern Heating & Sheet Met,,) Co" ,. , . . 6

Z. C. ;-'L 1. .... , ..... , .......... ,... 41

Banking HOll"e... McCQrnick & Co. , ......... , ........ '... Merchants' Bank , ........ , .... '.'..... Salt Lake Security Co. . . . . . . , .. ,...... Utah Savings & Trust Co. . . , ....... ,... Utah State National Bank .... ,......... Walker Bros. .' .............. ,.,.......

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Attorney,,_ Booth, Lee, Badger & Rich ., .. ".,. Eradley, Pischel & Harkness ., ... ,.' Callahan, D. A" Mining Law Books Davis & Davis .................... Dunn. Edward D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '.' ... ' Higgins, E. V . . . . " ........ , ......... ,.. Hutchinson, Wl. R. '................... ,.. Pierce. Critchlow & R
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Directory of Engineers. Ad"mson, W. G . . , ...... ,., ........... '.

Arnold, I!'!sher & Calvert ,.,." .... , .. .

Balliet. Letson ... , ... , ............ , .... . 36

Brooks t ehas. P ................ , ... , .. ,. 36

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Burch, Caetan! & Hershey, ... , .. " .... . 31; Burket Janles J. . .................. , .. . 21)

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Craig, \'iF J, .,' ............... , ...... , .. 36

Dunyon, N. A. ., ...................... , 3H

Io'iske, \Vinthrop W. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " . , 3 1j

General Engineering Co. . . . . , .. ' .. , .... 3€Hale, Fred A., Jr. . " . , ... , .. , .. 36

Howard, L. O. . . , . " . , .. " ............ , 36

Ireland, T. W . . . . . , ' . ' , . " . , .. , .. ,., ... . 36

Jennings, E, p. . ............... ,., .... . 36

Johnson, Jay Eliot .,., ......... , ...... . ?G

Knowlton, A, D, ., ............... ' ..... . 36

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·Widdicombe & Palmer .... , .. , ..... Wilson & Ott .......... , .... ,., Zalinski, Edward R . . . ' ... ' IUI"cellaneou".

Century Printing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . De Bouzek Engraving Co. . . , ....... , .. , Dinwoodey Furniture Co, .. , ... " . , ... . Gardner & Adams ." ... , ... , ... ,., .... .

Harris, H. H., Accountant .. , .. , ... ,. Hotel Stanford ....... , ............... . International Smelting & R..~fining Co.. ,. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co, ........ . Nephi Plaster Co . . . . . . . . , .. , .. , ... ,., .. New Era Motor Co. . ......•..... , ... , .. Official Directory of Mines ..... . Railroad Time Tables .......... , ...... . Roberts, J. C,' Dealer in Rare :Vietals .,., Salt Lake Photo Supply Co. . . . . . . ,., .. , Salt Lake Stamp Co. . .......... ' .... ,. Shiplers, Commerc'al Photographers ... . Utah Ore Sampling Co, ........ ,., .... .

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earnings of $5,250 000 annually. Assume that the company's -capital stock will be increased to 900,000 shares to finance the eXitension of milling ca~acity and it appears tl:.at net earnings will amount to $5.80 per share annually. "Applying th~ prinCiple of amortization, it is figured that an income of $5.80 annu­ ally fOr 25 yeal's, amortized at 5%, has a present va'ue of $78. Amortized at 6% it would have a present v,alue of $69. If the 80 cents is eliminated for miscalculations, an income of $5 a :;hare annually for 25

years would give the stock present value (;f $59.50 a sha'-e. "There is every reason to expect that Alaska will make on.. of the largest and longest Jived go'd 'mines in the world. It VJilI be an immense manufacturing enter­ pr!se that can he depended upon for reg­ ular dividends for 35 to 50 years,"

----0---George T. Stenhouse, general manager, al,d George Z, Edwards, of Salt I"ake,have gnne to the property of the Hope Mines Development company in Madera county, C::.lifornia, In which M,r. Edwards has taken

a large interest. The mine is in the }lother Lode region and is said to have produced considerable ore in the past In outlining the plans for future work Mr. Stenhouse sla.ted that a deeper tunnel wili be run billow the 250-foot level, where the deep­ e~t workings now are. Fuel and water is cl:cap and plentiful.

RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR UNITED COPPER.

John S. Sheppard, of New York, and

Ac!dison F. Cudworth, of Vermont, have been

appointed receivers for the United Copper company, of willeh F. Augustus Heinze is pJ"{,sident, and which owns properties in :\10ntana, Utah and British Columbia. The ~()mpany has been involved in litigation since 1907, and Hs debts are said to amount to $4,500,000, although it is believed the assets are greater than the liabilities, but al (' not at present available. The company i., capitalized at $80,000,000, of which $50,­ 0(\0,000 is issue
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• Reminiscences of tlleold day·s of mining are always interesting. The DayS of '49 in California, as told 'by J)Qn Maguire, in this issue of the Mining Review, is no ex· ception to this rule. We feel especially fortunate in obtaining this little master· piece.

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That the simplest process of treatment lS many times the most renumerative, is well brought out in the mill practice at the Lucy Gray, in Nevada, where the use of straight percolation on .ore as coarse as one inch has solved a problem that more exten· s'\'e proceSses ouly complicated the more, ~-~·---o----

We look to see the flotation process make mark in the metallurgy of Butte's zinc Kes. It has long been a source of wonder :0 many, that, with the great development ,- the flotation jlrocesses on foreign mines hat there was 110 large plant in this coun· rY depend.ing 011 the process fOr the con· :fntration of its sulp,hide ores. In the old days forty-nine in CaJifor· la, the miner was accustomed to leave his .!'cumulation of gold lying about his cabin nguarded, but it would appear from press i.spatches that near the southern Califor· ia line in these enlightened days, it is ecessary for the miner to have a guardian lr his copper tl'anSimisgion lines.

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expect from the change in the government. There will be grave (!ause of dissatisfaction if a western man is not appointed secretary of the interior department. Eastern direc· tion has proved a fdlure, and the west j"'etly asks for the appointment of one fBmiliar with western problems. -----0---­

The Rand of South Africa has long been puinted out as .a shining example of the mining and treatment of gold ore ({n a large scal~, yet operations there have left room f(l'" much improvement. If predictions are berne out by results, it looks very muc'!! as nought the United States would soon have the credit for the greatest gold manufactur· iJ'r; enterprise in the world, as it now has the credit for the e-reatest copper indus· tn'

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THE SMOKE NUISANCE.

Since the suggestion has been made that th8 smoke cloud Which hangs over Salt Lr.ke City, in the winter, is due to the smelteries, the question becomes a proper one for the consideration. of mining men. While it Is possible that, occasionally, some of the smoke from .the valley plants reaches the city, there are other conditions which remst ,be remedied before the city will be pl,"asant in winter. The smeltery smoke is a very small factor in the trouble. As long as the smoky grades of soft coal an consumed in great quantities in the city, tht' smoke will be with us. There are two main sources of this smoke, the first, the large heating and power plants, such as bilsiness plants, office 'building plants, apart­ mc,nts, hotels, etc., and the second, and hy ftlr the most important source, the small h<,a.iing plants of our residences. The first source is readily controJled and is not, at U~(· present time, a producer of more than a small part of the clOUd. Early in the morning the sky is fairly dear. An observer in ·the ,higher parts of the dty will note the thousands of col· UJllllS of black smoke which arise from the breakfast fires. They appear as threadS, but soon the various threads are 'seen to coalesce, until the lower p·art of the city is entirely obscured. One has only to watch tlle fOI'mation of thecjoud a few times ·be· fore he is satisfied that the prime cause of the cloud is the residence smoke, for which the remedy is difficult, and tilat the smeltery has llracticalJy nothing to do with it. For, before, the cloud has formed, the smoke can be plainly seen coming from the Murray sluek, and blowing, not towards the city, but towards the ,hills to the west. A south wlnd is rare. The prevailing wind carries the smeltery smoke tv one side of the city in the morning and entirely away from it in the afternoon, when the north west wind rises. The cause of the smoke itself is per. fectly definite; and a little further consider·

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ation shows why it remains during the gl€ a ter part of the ·morning. The city lielt in a natural pocket, or eddy, in which, in t;j(~ winter, there is Gnly occasionally any air stirring. The d:md, once formed, re· ma.ins. But each afternoon, a wind springs up from the open space to the northwest, al~d, immediately thereafter,a greater pOr­ tion of the city, with the possible exception of the northeast corner, is cleared. The remedy for this condition is dif­ ficult. The small amount of smoke from the large plants can be consumed by proper firing, but the residence smoke is another ma.tter, which, !Vs said 'before, can not be cured while soft coal is burned. Coke fs not an entirely satisfactory fuel. Gas would replace a few of the ranges now used, for cooking, but for heating, control or block heating plants, which would distribute heat to the residence section, as is done success· fully in certain eastern cities, would appear to 'be the only solution. MORE ON MINE REPORTS,

Lack of detail in reports to stockholders is one of the great causes of dissatisfaction of investors with mining securities. Elimi­ nating for, the l'urposes of this discussion, the operations of the largest companies, whose a-ccounting methods are necessarily \mricate, and where it is doubtless impos· siLle to furnish all details, and confining attention to the smaller operations, in which, III the end, more of the public are directly interested, surely there is little excuse for 1,0( giving, in frequent reports, the details of alJ the minor work, in ·simple terms, sa that any of the stockholderli\ may be in a position to judge of the efficiency of the m.anagement, and see clearly what his in· vf:stment is being used for. The operations are seldom so compre­ her:sive that details cannot ,be supplied. In at'dition to saying that so many feet of dmelopment was done, the exact nature of the work, with detail costs, can be given, with real explanations for iiifl'eren-ces from similar work in the past. The average stockholder is fulJy able to aigest such reports, and will stay with an <,therwise discouraging proposition much longer, when he is taken more into con­ sideration in this respect. He can form a Fetty accurate opinion of the possibilities for his investment. Unfortunately small companies in many cases are inclined to folJow the example of H,eir big brothers, and give their stockhold· ns no information which it is not abso· lutely necessary to give. A pleasing excep· tion is noted in an article in this issue giv· ing the details vf Shaft sinking costs at a Kevada mine. .~n this case the stockholder can gain a c!ear insight into the operation cf his company, and the attitude of the r.lanagement is to be commended. ,Ve are

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(Special Correspondence.) Midas, Nev., Feb. 20.-The crosscut tun· n el on the Gold Dollar group is in 400 feet. Pa vid Kuntz, who is superintending the work, says he expects to cut the Rex vein ill 75 feet, at a depth of about 300 feet. Thh l.roperty joins the ReX on the south. B. P. Howell and Parker Liddell, owners of the Judge mine, have completed surveys for a mill site and water rights. They expect to 'build a tenor-tamp mill this spring. They will handle some custom ore. A bond was taken last week on the Queen group by Robert Bolam, representing John 1:. and George Pelion, of National. They ~re to commence 'Work March 1st. The first cash payment was made today. Ruben Brown, one of the owners of the Hardscrabble, is takin;5 out some fine ore for a mill run. Luke Kearney, manager of the Sleeping Beauty mine, is expected in camp soon. It !f: reported the -company will install its mill this spring. Herman Mattern and associates have taken an option en the Golden Fisher group, which joins ·the Belvoir, where he is doing considerable development work. John Kootshas 100 tons of ore on the dpmp that will average $75, and says he still has $25,000 in sight, ready to take out above the 125-foot level. -~~-~o-~--

Another Monel! slimer will be installej at the Eureka mill, at the mouth of Boulder canyon. Boulder, Colorado. R. A. Mann is Itl!lllager of the property. ---·~o---~

John F. ·Cowan, of Salt Lake and Barn­ ard Binnard have taken an option on the ground owned by the Original Rochester Mines company, at Rochester, Nevada, from Robert McIntosh, who f€Cently secured con­ trol of the company. ---~··o--·-

An important strike has been made on the 450-foot level of the Day-Bristol min,,", near Pioche, Nevada, according to E. F. Fruedenthal, vice-president of the operat­ ing company. There is shown about six feet of $35 silver-lead ore. --------0

The contract has been let for the buUd­ ing of the Buckhorn mill in Eureka county, N€vada. The mill foundations are about completed. The plant will have a capacity of 3.50 tons. This is a property controIled by George Wingfield, of Goldfield.

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(By Will G. Higgins.) "You look this morning," said the pros­ pector to his burro, "as if you had been playing Juliet to a long-eared Romeo, and are as hysterical andfidgity as a hen who had hatched out· a setting of duck eggs, or as a mine manager who has put in an amalgamation plant fOr the treatment of his ores, and who had made the truly im· portant discovery that only 15 per cent of his gold would amalgamate. "You seem a little peevish, and want to know what a hen hatching ducks, or a man putting in a free milling plant for the treatment of refractory ores has to do with you and your Romeo; which shows that your mind is illogical and that you cannot reason from cause to €ffect. The only con­ nection, in fact, is that you look flighty, the hen nearly had a fit, and the mining man very nearly lost his head; three con­ ditions that almost paralleL and which are as entirely foreign to each othel< as you are to the hen, the hen is to you, and the mining man is to you and the hen You say that I am making you so dizzy that yoU feel sea sick, and that you wish I would go on with my story before you begin to doubt your own identity anj come to be­ lieve that yOU are either a hen Or a man, or 'both; and so, if you will not interrupt me ag,tin I will tell you about the mining man who put in a milling plant for the treatment of ore that was only 15 per cent free, and bow he finally pulled himself out of the hOle by the simplest and cheap­ est of all methods. "This man," continued the prospector, "mad€ a discovery of. an immense body of ore out in the Peavine range, The ,blos­ som showed tree gold and lots of it, but, when some depth had been attained and the ledge. cross-cut in several places, the mine "resolved itself into a milling propo­ sition going about $25 or $30 in gold to the ton. In some portions of the vein the ore was qulte rich; but, on the whole, the conditions satisfied almost everyone that treatment on the ground would be neces­ sary, and so a metallurgist in a coast town

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was consulted. Tests were made and fin­ ally an amalgamation plant, with a capa· city of about ten tons per day, was in­ stalled. Th€re was joy in the camp When the wheels began to go 'ronnd, and, when the pulp spread out on the COpper plates the mine·owner stood ready, with scraper in hand, to clean off the great gobs of the yellow metal which were soon to accumu­ late on the quick. But, the gobs refused to accumulate, to amalgamate or, to reeipro­ cate, and danced down the tables, as if, .to keep on Circulating was the only ob­ ject of their bright and glittering lives. Thusly, when the mine owner saw his val­ lles heading for the dump without paying any attention to. speed limitations, he nearly lost his head, as I have previously stated, and had he not been a wo:'ker who never got discouraged he would have given up the whole cheese and gone back hOrn€ to Mary. But, he did not despair and so set about to find a process that would save the ore values. Another metallurg;sc. came fer a look-in, and he said that the ore was not free-milling at all; as if the mine-owner did not know it ,by that time; and ajvised a very complex system of leaching which called for the installation of costly machinery. This advice was adopted and, alter a period of several months a trial run was made, and a lot of $50·ore was put through. Here, again, the gobs would not accumulate, amalga­ mate or reciprocate. In fact, they cried OLt, 'nothing daing,' 'l.S they glided by and sought seclusion and their soul mates in the tailings pit; and again the mine·owner raved and all .but tore his hair; and he would haVe done this ,but for the fact that he was bald. But, and it is a wonder, the miu€-owner would not give up. The gold WaS in the ore, and he wanted to get it out, tor he had never given :\iary a dia­ mond ring, and all of his life he had longed for a spike-tailed coat. And so he went at it again. By some good chance some very foolish and simpl€-]ooking per­ son suggested straight cyaniding. Simpli­ city, you know, is a twin·slster to success, bnt is lacking in the frills and back-hair curls that attract so many; and this is the reason why there are so many milling fail­ ures throughout the mining camps of the west. The mining man had had eXl:€rl­ ence with the frills and the back-hair CHrIs, and this was the reason for his be­ ing willing to listen to the simple talk and, finally, to adopt the most simple and in­ expensiye milling process ever invented since gold-bearing gravel was put through a sluke box. And, the process was a suc­ C€SS, b<>ing nothing more than taking the ore, as it came from the mine, putting it through a one-inch mesh screen, and then dnmpiJlg It Into tanks into which a cyanide solution was later introduced Like a gas meter, the solution worked while its owner slept, taking up th€ gold in the ore, anll

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later gently depositing it on a mass of zin<; shavings, which. in due time, found their way to the melting pot, to come out bright and yellow and suggestive, all' over, of dia­ mond rings and spiked-tailed coats. "I want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con;,: cluded the prospector, "many a good mine has been condemned and abandoned ,be­ cause the milling 'process employed was not adapted to it; ,because complex and ex­ pensive systems of treatment have been elIl(lJloyed when the ore, if left alone, 'would almost reduce itself. Some folks want the frms and the 'back-hair curls; hut, as for me, give me the simple life, the simple,pro­ cess; and there you are, and then some." --,--0------­ A DEFlclT.

NEVADA CON. SHOWS

The operations of the Nevada Consoli­ date of Ely, Nevada, for the last quarter of 1912 shows a deficit of $42,450 after payIng the extra dividend of about $1,000,000. Net earnings were about $300,000 less than for the same quarter in the two preceding years. The producUon was 8,986,905 pounds of copper, against an average of about 18,000,000 for the other three quart­ ers. The reduction was due to nearly a months idleness during the strike and the milling of lower grade ores. President Eccles, in his reports, says "There was milled during the quarter 512,988 tons of Nevada Consolidated ore, averaging 1.44 per cent copper, of which 477,948 were from pits and 35,040 from Veteran mine. Grade was below mine's average as a large low grade tonnage was mined from east side of Eureka pit, where material was of softer character and con­ ditions better adapted for breaking for sh,am shovels. "Due largely to disturbed foreign poli­ tical situation, reduced sales of coppel' metal left us with abnormally large stock on hand unsold December 31, 1912. In determining earnings for the quarter, said untold excess was valued at fifteen cents and normal tonnage on hand and unsold at 12 1-4 cents as heretofore. Since Decem­ ber 31 a portion of the copper has been sold _at prices in excess of valuation at which it was taken into accounts in de­ termining earnings for the quarter." ----
It is expected that an amendment will be introduced Into the ,parliament of Brit­ ish Columbia, to enable the mining com­ panies, which were stricken from the l:st of joint stock companies, to comply· wlb the regulations, and regain their standing,

----0---­ Manager A. B. 'Cramer, of the Flora' Mining- company, operating the Wild Bill group in Beaver county, Utah, states that It fourth lot of ore has been delivered to the International smeltery, which should run about twenty-five per cent lead and thirty iron.

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The Anaconda in making a connection from the High Ore mine on the 2,200-foot level, encountered a large new vein in the Modoc ground and the same vein, a re­ markably rich orebCJdy, ,has been cut on the 2,800-foot level, says the Boston Commerc­ ial. It is, one of the biggest strikes in Butte in recent years. Within a week the Modoc shaft will be completed to the connection from the 2,800 level of the High Ore mine, the new hoist­ ing engine will be ready and one of the largest pieces of underground work under­ taken by the Anaconda company during t1'\e past year will have ,been completed. ' With the Modoc shaft in operation to the 2,800-foot level some of the work will be taken from the High Ore in the way of handling waste and timbers, and the several large leads in the Modoc district will be iWorked with an increased force, the ore all to be hoisted at the High Ore. As the Modoc is about 200 feet lower than the High Ore the bottom of the form­ er shaft connecting with the 2,800 of the High Ore will be 2,600 feet deep. Sinking at the Modoc, which has been in operation for about six months was one of the fastest and most economical pieces of shaft sinking ever done in Butte. A drift was run northeast on the 2,800 level of the High Ore and when directly under the M:Odoc shaft a raise was started. The surveyors' work was perfect and with the Modoc sinking and the High Ore rais­ in5, the shaft and raise met to a fooL \Vhen the junction was made, a waste chute was installed from that point to the bottom of the raise which saved shovel­ ing the rock which was dumped into the chute and trammed to the 2,800 foot sta­ tion of the Hig\! Ore, The Modoc shaft from the 1,600 to the 2,600 was made in record time. The gallows frame which will be used with the new engine was the one formerly at the E'ast Gray Rock. When the new plant gets in operation, practically all the High Ore timber will be lowered through the Modoc, besides all the waste will be handled by the new plant, Within the past year the discovery of several big ledges in Modoc territory neces­ sitated the connection with the bottom level of the High Ore. In the early days of the Anaconda com­ pany, the Modoc was a fair sized producer.. About seventeen years ago, the 'mine was closed down as the ore bodies seemed to pinch to a small size. During the past five years the mine

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has been worked through the High Ore and about a year ago, the mother lead of the Sunny Side claim was found to be large and of good values in the lower levels of the once abandoned mine. The milling troubles of Butte & Super­ ior have been very largely discussed and are generally blamed for the decline of $20 a share in the price of the company's stock. These milling troubles are not generally understood. If they were they would not cause anyone to entertain doubt as to the company's future operating results and profits. Briefly, the Butte & Superior mill was designed to treat only 500 tons of ore, con­ sisting of two sections, each having .a capacity of 250 tons daily. The flotation system connected with each unit was built to handle thIS 250 tons and the crushing machinery instaHed in each unit was designed to crush the same amount of ore, More recent developments have demon­ strated that each section can be made to handle 650 to 700 tons of ore daily. Con­ centrating equipment has bei\n installed in one section that will readily take care of this greatly increased tonnage and recover by simple concentratioll about 65 per cent of all the values in the ore, comparing with a recovery of about 50 per cent in this department by the jigs and tables originally provided. As a result both the crushing and the flotaUon departments are of course inade· quate to handle this larger tonnage and consequently the first is being strength­ ened and the capacity of the second largely increased. Nearly 600 tons a day is now going through the mill, the crushing department being forced up to this limit; but only about 250 tons of the jig and table tailings can be p,ut through the flotation system until after it is enlarged to 500 or 600 tons daily capacity. As a result there is a sav­ ing of about 65% by direct concentration and of 20% more from less than half the tailings, making a total of around 70 to 75% recovered altogether. It will be seen, therefore, that there is nothing fundam'entally wrong with the mill· ing practice or results, low recoveries be­ ing due wholly to lack of sufficient present flotation capacity. The flotation department is being ex­ tended and more fine grinding and crush­ ing equipment is being installed, thus bring­ ing the different departments of the mill i1'to harmony in the matter of capacity. The widely discussed milling troubles of Butte & 'Superior, therefore, are not troubles at alL One half the mill is now treating more ore than the whole plant wa~ designed to handle. The ultimate results will tremendously exceed expectations; but

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to arrive at these more and different equip· ment had to be provided and its installa· tion naturally will require a little time. The Butte & Superior mine is bigger today than it ever was before. The long crosscut to the north into recently acquired territory has opened up four additional zinc veins, Compared w'ith the big Black Rock vein in the Butte & Superior these new veins are small; but compared with any other high grade zinc deposits in the world they are very large, Their development will go ahead in the regular courSe of busi­ ness; but as the company has 10 to 12 years' are supply in its mine already then, is no occasion to hurry about opening up other deposits. Figures have been made recently which' indicate that Butte & Superior will make a net profit of approximately $5 a ton on Its ore with spelter selling at six cents a pound. (It is now selling at 6.55 cents.) Wi~hin three to six months, or possibly a little longer, all of the company's con· struction work should be completed and dividend payments ought to begin before the end of this year. Ahead of Butte & Supertor there are im· portant possibilities of greatly Increased profits, beyond those suggested In the fore­ going paragraphs. The gross value of its ore is $28 to $30 a ton and a consideraille portion of this, nearly half, is wasted by present-day smelting 'practice and paid out in freight on concentrates, Different meth­ ods are being considered and investigated which may make it possible for the com· pany to increase its profit per ton 50 to 100% in the future. The organization of the new board of the Butte & Superior Copper company, has b€en effe.cted, with N. Bruce MacKelvie as president; K. R. Babbitt, vice-president; and C, \V. Peters, treasurer. The number of directors was reduced fr,om nine to five, with the election of N. B, MacKelvie, K. R. Babbitt, D. C. Jackling, A. B. Wolvin and C. W. Peters. --+--0---­

The report of the Ray Consolidated Copper company, of Ray, Arizona, for the last ,quarter, shows operating profits of $578,621, and total for the year of $2,069,­ .093. The production for the quarter was .10.496,661 pounds, costing 9,3754 cents a pound, the total for the year being 35,861.­ 496 pounds at an average cost of 9.828 cents, - - - - c - , o~--

1:wenty·three tons of ore containing 69,55 per cent lead and three ounces of silver was recently received at a 'Salt Lake smeltery from the property of the Lead King Mining company, in \'{hite Pine coun­ ty, Nevada. A. B. Colwell, superintendent, has informed the Salt Lake owners that he has six to seven feet of this rich ma­ terial.

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At 1,170 feet, which the shaft has now reached, a statiC!n will be cut and drift run to the "are, which is expected to be even better than on the 980 and 1,700. pevelopment on a new vein on the 1,070 is bc;ing carried ahead. About tWenty·five tons a day is being shipped, A raise fif­ teen feet above this level recently ,broke into six feet of are running about $150. The MacNamara is raising on the are at the 550, much $30 are being opened up by this work. This is in the Lower Can· tact vein. On the 300, there is a large tonnage of mill are. The mill at the pres­ ent time is treating seventy-five tons a day, which is taken from four to six feet on the 30D. This means about 7,5 tons per day per stamp. The main working shaft of the Midway is down 455 feet, and about 100 tons of are was shipped in the second week in Feb­ ruary from the 535-foot level, where there is two and one-half feet of good are, The work of retimbering the Bonanza shaft is proceeding steadily. Excellent progress is ,being made in the trachyte in the north crosscut of the Hal­ fax, near the Belmont line, where develop· ment is concentrated, the work on the 1,OOD having ,been stopped temporarily. The shaft has now reached 1,530 feet. Shaft sinking is being continued on the ~orth Star, Umatifla-Tonopah, New Gold­ en Crown, Tonopah Victor, where new equipment is being installed, the Rescue­ Eula, Great Western Con, 'Tonopah Min­ ing & Leasing.

During January the operations of the Tonopah-Belmont Development company resulted as follows: number dry tons mill­ eel, 12,517; net value of ore, $244,124.69; number ounces gold bullion produced, 2,­ 998,177; number ounees silver ,bullion pro­ duced, 301,736.20; net profit for January, $150,484,61. Development for the month is satisfactory, the big Belmont vein show­ ing good results in the' east drif~ on the 1,300. Tonopah Mining made net profits of over $130,0()0 for January, their report showing as fdllows: number dry tons mill· ed, +4,720; average value per ton, $1803; onnces gold and silVer bullion shipped, 241,435; total value of bullion, $197,700; nu:mber tons concentT-ates shipped, 110; tctal value of concentrates, $41,850; net profit for January, $130,143. Development on the Mizpah has been discontinued, all . attention now being devoted to stoping. On the ,Sand Grass claim a station will ibe cut at the 600. A,bout 300 feet of develop· ment work is being done' each week. Important developments are reported on tDe 515 level of the Montana', and also on the 615, where new work is being done. Three to four feet of good mililng are is found on the former and about a foot, on which no work has been done, on the lat­ ter. On another portion of this same level ····----o~-·-fifteen to sixteen feet of excellent milling FIRST MEETING OF NEW ELY CENTRAL. are is opening up, The company will soon At Wilmington, Dejaware, re,cently, the sink a deep working shaft in the north­ fo)lowing were elected officers of the Ne,y ern section of its territory. The Jim Butler made profits for Janu­ Ely Central Copper com.pany, which i,s the ary of $20,612 from 1,684 tons, or a net 'rEorganization of the old Ely Central, which. profit of $12.2,5 per ton, which is an in­ met disaster at the hands of the no-torious crease in both tonnage and profits over E. H. Scheftels & CompanY,-James Milne, Decemb-er operations. The development Is ot Boston, president; John G. Gray, of Wil· very satisfactory on both the fifth and mington, vice-president; E. Ellerton Lodge, sixth levels and work has ,been ,begun or... (I( Boston, treasurer; Jonathan BroWn. of the seventh. On the sixth the are is four­ WHmington, secretary, and J. Pier.ce Cann, teen feet wide and still widening in gOOf! (If \Vilmington, lldditional director. Surface rights to over 37,000 acres have been sold milling ore. The Tonopah Extension continues to to the Nevada Consolidated, whose ground open up good milling are on the 400, 50D adjOins, at Ely, Nevada, with the provision and (rOO-foot levels, which is being milled trat the latter drill 1,500 feet, and deed back any Pit ore of commercial grade, which may at the rate of 160 tons a day . The main shaft of the West End is now be found. Drill hole's will be put down to ascer­ down something over 800 feet. At 836 feet a drift will be run to connect with tain the extent of are, on which an estimate the }lcNamara. When the new compr-es­ a' 20,000,000 tons of a net value of $1 per ton sor plant is installed worK will be resum­ [,ad been made, The Clipper shaft will be edon the old Ohio shaft, at the 700. Most extended and will be the main working of the new work is ,being done on the 600, shaft. if developments are favorable, In thE' vein having flatt.ened below the 500, the Josie claim there is at present two and so that raises will be put up to reach it or.e-half feet of ere at a depth of eighty-six from below. feel. The Merger is mining only sufficient The directors may exercise an option on .ore to cover operating expenses, but is do­ a deyeloped Californi'~ property, with mill· ing a great deal of deep development work. illg equipment.

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It is reported that a large compressor . a locomotive, will be installed at the old Daly mine, at CaPtain James Alexander is making Park City, Utah. arrangements for the installation of a A new high power engine is to be in­ forty-stamp mill, concentrating and cyanid­ stalled on the ,Southern Cross mine at ing apparatus for the Engineer mine at Georgetown, Montana. AWn, British Columbia. A hydro'electric Plans for a new mill at the Lamartine plant is included in the plans. Intention to install a stamp and cyan­ mine, in Clear Creek county, Colorado, are ide mill on the Diamond Hitch, a widelY said to ,be under consideration. known property of the Oro Grande dis­ A fifty-ton cyanide plant is contem­ plated for the Hidden Lake property at trict of Idaho, was announced by Orrin Georgctown, Montana, to be erected this Lamb, sole owner, while in 'Spokane, Washington The Majestic construction spring, will not begin until snow leaves, New machinery will be installed at, the Engineers will submit the plans for the Crown Point and Yellow Jacket mines, near Drytown, is the report from Jackson, mechall;ical part of the 500-ton mill of th!:) Aurora Consolidated Mines company, of California. William p, Jones and W. W. Curtis Aurora, Nevada, to the directors of the The Knight interests of have taken an option on the Josephine company soon, mine, near Jamestown, California, and will Provo, Utah, and the Knox interests, of Tonopah, Nevada, control this company, Install machinery.

The Kama mine in the Soledad moun· tains, six miles from Mohave, California, is to be equipped with a mill of at least 150 tons capacity. AI D, Myers, prinCipal owner of the Ely ,Calumet Copper company, at Ely, Ne· vada, will proba,bly staJ;t work at the prop· erty with the aid of new machinery. The Rochester Mines company, Roches· ter, Nevada, is reported as about to be equipped with an oil burning power plant to furnish power and light to Rochester and Oreana. The interests backing the ,Satula, Mary Ellen, and other mines at Atlantic City, Wyoming, are arranging to install an ele~· t'ric power plant for the properties and surrounding country. The capf\city of the Bullwhacker leach­ ing plant, east of Butte, Montana, is to be increased from fifty to 250 tons. Patrick Clark is president of the company, and M. S, Webster, superi!ltendent The directors of the Verde Mining com­ Jany, operating in Big Cottonwood canyon, :lear Salt Lake City, are reported to be :onsiderlng the advisabiiity of erecting a nm to treat its free milling gold ores, It is the intention of the management If the Reo Mining company, operating the {:eystone mines in Quartz Valley, near ;entral City, Colorado, to purchase or ,reet a mill, to treat the $8 ore of the ompany, Dennis Phelan, manager of the Sierra [ercantile, . Power & Mining company, Is lanning to erect an electric power plant ) operate the machinery of the Sacred [ound mine and mill, near Sierra City, alifornia, The Alaska Gastineau Mining company as accepted plans for one of the biggest

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Three new mills are contemplated in Colorado. At Cripple Creek, the Union Leasing company expects to put up a plant on the. ground of the Gold Sovereign Min­ ing & Tunnel company, and the owners of the Pride of Cripple Creek may also erect a plant. At Idaho Springs, twenty stamps will be added to the Mattie mill, to raise its capacity to l()iO tons, An option for $30,\'00 has ,been taken on the Mlldred group of free gold propertle.., on Ramey Ridge, oetween Elk City and Thunder mountain, Idaho, ,by Bob MabT) , and Edward A. Moye of 'Spokane, 'Vasa­ ington, The owners are August Herzog and T. G. Thomas, who located the ground 10 years ago l1rection of a five·stamp mill and the addition of stamps as reo sources are increased, is proposed. According to John S. Loder of the Reno Smelter company plans have been almost completed and detailed drawings for the proposed smeltery to be erected east of Reno, Nevada, just beyond the Gypsum works and bonds will ,be issued shortly to finance the work, The drawings call for II "OO·ton eapacity plant in two units of 350 tons each. The plant proposed includes two 250 ,horse-power water wheels; two 250­ ten furnaces, sampler, converter, gas neutralizer, stack, besides ore,bins, line sh.,,fting, pulleys, belts and conveyors. Directors of the ,Idora Hill Mining com­ pany, having a property near Wallace, Idaho, authorized immediate construction of a 50,ton daily capacity concentrator, and a 150·ton capacity aerial tramway, to cost approximately $25,000, The mm is to be designed espeCially for the treatment of Idora Hill ores, which are lead, silver and zinc. The tramway will be a Riblett type" 2,000 feet long, with a drop of 1,100 feet.

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George S Mills will erect a cement plant at Vale, Oregon. The Minden creamery will install a large motor truck at Garson ,City, Nevada, 'Walter J Farr has applied for a light, heat and power franchise at Ault, Colorado. George Carl has asked for a franchise to light the town of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Roland B. Barnett has applied for a franchise to erect an electric plant at Cortez, Colorado. George Jacobs, of Condon, Oregon, con­ templates the erection of a power plant on John Day ,river. W, D, Hill, of Tremonton. Box Elder, county, Utah, will purchase a gasoline or 011 traction engine. August Grimm has been -granted a fran· chise to ereet a power and light plant at Medicine Bow,·Wyoming. Thomas P. Patrick has been granted a franchise to build an eleetric light and power plant at Walden, ColoradO. The Oro Water, Light & Power company is planning to build an electrically oper· ated dredge to cost about $75,000. A bond issue of $50,000 will be submitted at the spring election at Havre, Montana, for providing a municipal light plant. C. H. Bristol of the Santa Fe railroad, announces that the company will spend a large sum in Pueblo, Colorado, terminals, The Arkansas Valley Railway, Light & Power company will apply for a light and power franchise fOr Cripple Creek, Qolo· rad'). The 'Southern Sierra Power company will construct several plants on the Owens river and enter the Randsburg, California, district. A mill site has been purchased by the Chancellor Flour Mills company, it ·being the purpose to erect a flour mill in Salt Lake City,

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The Home Water & Power company contemplates the installation of an elec­ trically driven pump 'at 'Mount Vernon, Washington. The Southern Pacific railroad is plan­ ning to extend the Visalia Electric com" pany's line through Dunnigan Gap to Fresno, 'California. Lewis Montgomery, of Portland, Oregon, has purchased the electric plant at Toledo, Oregon, and will ,build a power house and instail new machinery. The Oregon Short Line will extend its Twins Fails, Idaho, line to make a connec­ tion with Central Pacific. The line will probably run from Rogerson, Idaho, to Metropolis, Nevada. According to Henry Grler, general agent of the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad, the management of the road is seriously con­ templating the construction of the exten­ sion between Tonopah and GDldfield. Plans and speCifications have been pre­ pared by FrederickH. Meyer, Investment building, San Francisco, for a one-story re­ inforced concrete substation to be erected by the Pacific Gas and l'Jlectric company. Among improvements for the Albur­ querque Gas, Electric Light & Power com­ pany, at Albuquerque, New Mtexico, will be two 300-horse power water·tube boilers es­ pecially designed to burn wood pulp. A. F. Van Diense is manager. Judge R(}bert E. Lewis has issued an order in the federal court at Denver, autho,· izing the receivers of the Denver, North­ western & Pacific (Moffatt) road to sell $650.000 worth of receivers certificates, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of equipment. The Rogue cUiver Public ,Service corp­ oration, newly organized to take over the property of the Chicago'Rogue River com­ pany, is planning to erect two more power plants and construct five miles of irriga­ tion ditches. George E. ,Sanders is presi­ dent, George 'V. Soranson, secretary and Robert E. Gaut, consulting engineer. They can be reached at Grants Pass, Oregon. Plans are being completed for the erec­ tion of the hydroelectric power plant on the Portneuf river, at Lava, Idaho, in which L. R. Martineau, of 'Salt Lake, and J. D. Browning are interested. A head of 175 feet is available A dam will be construct· ed. as well as 1,000 fee: of canal, and ac­ cessories. Light and power will be furnish­ ed to Pocatello, Downey and McCammon. The W. C. Hendrie Rubber company. with offices at Denver and ,Sait Lake is to build a $100,000 rubber plant at the in­ dustrial City of Torrance,Caiifornia, work to begin within ninety days. The main Juilding will ,be 640 feet by sixty feet, and 'ive others will be fifty ,by lOG feet. There .viii be, also, an office, and power house. ~oUr hundred and eighty electrical horse· lower will be used.

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AN IMPORTANT OIL STRIKE.

In the northwest corner of New Mexico. near Farmington, a well has been brought in, which is 1.700 feet deep and has 1,200 feet of oil. The exact location of this well is about twelve miles west of Farmington and four miles northwest of Fruitland. It was drilled by the Little Standard Oil com· pany. About sixty barrels were baled out without lowering the well more than ten inches. A committee of men investigated the well and gave the following report: "In verification of the report Which reached Farmington that oil had been struck in the Mattox well, fifteen miles west of };'armington. we beg to report having vis· ited and inspected the well and find ail follows: Depth of the well. 1,700 feet. eight­ in,:h hole, finished after passIng ,through 1,000. feet of shale and 180 feet of caprock, thence into the, oil sand. It will probably be a fifty-barrel well of light paraffine quali­ ty. Several barrels already brought to the surface in testing oil within 500 feet of sl~l'face." "NED T. SKAGGS. "WILLIAM BUTLER, "ORVAL RICKETTS." Another forty· barrel well was brought in later at 900 feet about forty miles south· west of Farmington, which has a gravity of thirty-eight to forty·two degrees and paraf­ fine base. This result has stirred up the oil men of the country, and many believe that the field is part of the same anticline as the San Juan field, which is some seventy miles distant. Large eastern interests, we are informed, are, at the present time, ttg­ uring on going into both fields, as it is be· lieved that this New Mexico strike augurs well for the San Juan field, the formation being similar.

---(r---­ The principles governing the origin and mode of occurrence of petroleum and nat­ ural gas are as yet but fragmentarily grasp­ ed by geologists. Every oil field examined in detail contributes its data for use in the eventual interpretation of the prob­ ·lems, and each pool is studied with keen .alertness for the discovery of some key that may aid in the coordination of the data which someUmcs, according of the region and conditions, seem, on account of our lack of knowledge, even to be in conflict The observations made by the geologists of the United States Geological ,Survey in the oil and 'gas tielas of Call· fornia and Kentucky promise to further the solution of some of the problems, and by pointing out the relations of oil and gas occurrence to the geologic structure of the regions examined they have rendered im­ portant scientific as well as economic aid in oil and gas development; but the basic principles controlling the widely variea modes of occurrence and accounting for the differences in kinds of the oils in widely separated regions are possibly still far from view.

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Frank Leland, of Mackay. Idaho, was a recent Salt Lake visitor. Fred C. Dern has returned to Salt Lake from a trip to Honolulu

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considerable development has been done on it 'during the past ten years:

Howard S :Stowe has returned to Salt Lake from a trip to California, 'Where he and associates are interested in a copper property. Peter ,Steele, general manager of the Banner Mining & Milling company, has re­ turned to ,Silver City, Idaho, fFom an east­ ern trip. W. G. Adamson, formerly of Salt Lake, manager of the Adamson-Turner property at Winnemucca, Nevada, was recently in Salt Lake. E. L. Ta1bot, of Park City, Utah, sup­ erintendent of the Daly West, has become superintendent of the Thompson-Quinc~ in the same camp.. H. P. Howe, of the E'rontenae and To­ peka mines, of 'Central City, 'Colorado, who has been in England, returned on the last trIp of the Mauretania. C. D. 'Porter, of San Francisco, who is interested in mining in Amador county, ,california, has been looking over the Yer­ ington district of Nevada. W. T. Chappell, of 'Saginaw, Mich:gan, owner Of the ,Standard mine on Fall creek, near Idaho :Springs, Colorado, has arrived in that city for a stay of a few weeks. ,Chester H. Proebstel, of Yreka, Cali­ fornia, was recently at Grants Pass, Ore­ gon, in connection with his recently ac­ quired copper properties in the Kerby sec­ tion. A. C. Massey, manager of'the Rico Min· ing company, and C. D. Smith, manager of the Rico-Argentine Mining company, both Jf Rico, Colorado, were recent arrivals at 3alt Lake. E. H. Mead, of Tonopah, Nevada, sec· 'etary of the Tonopah Leasing & Mining :ompany. which has a lease on the Cash :loy, at Tonopah, was in Salt Lake for a ew days recently. Harry J Murrish, ot Lovelock, Nevada, ecretary of the Rochester Mines company, .nd the ,Seven Troughs Coalition, has gone o Denver for a short visit and will return o Nevada, the first of March. I.J_ Luce, vice president of the South­ rn Oregon and Northern ·California Min­ Ig companies. was a recent visitor at ·rants Pass, Oregon. His home is at etna, Siskiyou county. California. John T. Hayes, who has been working is properties at Railroad pass, near Los egas, Nevada, will spend the summer in ~lt Lake He expects first to look at .me copper properties in which he is in­ rested near Caliente, Nevada. Walter Harvey Weed, of New York, rmerly with the United states Geological lrvey, has taken an option on the pub­ Ihing rights of the well known .stevens lpper Handbook.

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Changes in the staff at the Anaconda smeltery at Anaconda, Montana, have reo suited. in the following appointments, L. Y. Bender, assistant superintendent, Harry \\'ares, superintendent of blast furnaces, and 'Roy E. Howe, chief chemist. B. A_ Bosqui, mill superintendent of the :r.!Qntana-Tonopah Mining company, of Tonopah, Nevada, is in Salt Lake, in con­ sultation with Kirk and Leavell; in con· nEdion with the new mill for the Aurora Consolidated Mines company, at Aurora, Nevada. G. C. Webb, of the C. O. D. Consolidated property at Tonopah, Nevada, who has had a wide experience in 'California, Utah and rSouth Africa, has gone to New York and London, from where he will sail for Bahia, Brazil. and go to a point 355 miles inland to assume charge of a large diamond and' gold mining concession, held ,by a London company. Max Boehmer, who, during the life of the late David Moffatt, had charge of his ex­ tensive mining interests, died at 'his home in Denver, February 14. Death was the reo sult of a strain received two weeks pre­ viously, while he was examining the Bunker Hill mine in Idaho. 'Mr. Boehmer was long connected with large mining companies in Colorado, Nevada and Idaho, and at the time of his death, was consulting engineer

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J. V. N. Dorr,of Denver, is in Panama. W. \V. Breen is mill manager for the Bishop Creek Milling company, Sonora, California. J. Cleveland Haas, of Spokane, Wash· ington, has been examining mines near Elk City, Idaho. R. G. Thomas has gone from Miami, Arizona, to examine mines near Hillsaide, New Mexico. E. P. Jennings, of Salt Lake, has been elected president of the Utah Metals Min­ ing company, operating in the Bingham dis­ trict of Utah. Archie E. Palen, recently" from the Phil­ !plnes, is in charge of the mine oper"tion15. at the Richardson mine, in Russell gulch, near Central City, Colorado. M. W. Atwater, formerly connected with the Butte & Superior, at Butte, Montana, will succeed \Villiam B_ Fisher as manager oi the Davis-Daly Copper company. :Stanley Easton, of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining company, of the Coeur d'Alenes of Idaho, was recently in San Fran­ cisco. C. F. Buck, who ha;; been rebuilding the smeltery at Tacoma, \Vashington, will be­ come chief engineer and sUperintendent of construction with the Dominion Nickel company, Ltd., of Sudbury, Ontario.

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A silver strike is at present attracting ,the attention rrf Colorado miners to the Brush creek section near Eagle, Eagle county. We reprint the following statements from the Leadville Herald Democrat: "The absorbing topic of conversation on the streets yester{iay among mining men and laymen was the strike at Brush creek, and all sorts of .stories could be heard as to the immense deposit and the richness thereof and tbe prospective millionaires that were in sight. However, the truth of the rua.tter remains ,that the ore is there and 'p:enty of it and that the original claim is being worked steadily. "J. B. McDonald, who is on the ground ar..d has been there for the past four days, ir! a telephone conversation with a repre­ sentative of the Herald-Democrat, said: "'So far the strike is all that is claimed for it, the ore is ,here and :in sig'ht, with ageays running from lOB to 6,50 ounces silver per ton and it also carries 2 per -c'ent van­ adium. I am of the opinion that the forma­ tion in which the ora is found is Dakota sundstone with the <:ountry rock a shale. There is no blue lime nor gypsum :to be fcund on the hill ani! the sandstone caps the hill. The ore was found on Horse mountain, which stangs alone_ between west Brush creek and .salt creek and Is be­ tween 700 to BOO feet high, and through this hill runs a fault which is above the ore deposition. .. 'One can tell very little about the trend or the ore shoot on account of the coun­ try being covered by several feet of snow. All that Is so far known is that the tun­ nel driven on the ore is in fifteen feet with the extent of the ore deposit still un­ known. But there is ore to ,be seen every­ where in the cut and has been since the tunnel was faced up. The owners of the claim hae quit work on the discovery tun· nel and gone down, the hill twenty feet and have started a tunnel at this point to cut the ore deposit deeper. [ shOUld say that on the dump tuere Is a carload of ore ready to be sent to the smelter. "'1 never saw any deposit that resem­ . !bles it and the twenty strangers, all min­ ing men. who were here today, after visit· ing the claim, make the same remark that they never seen anything like it. \At the breast of the tunnel the ore does not run so high in silver, .but. to one side where crosscutting has :been done, the van­ adium is found and here the values are the highest. The deposit is on the south side of Horse mountain, but as I have al·

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tained in the mine, and treat the old dumps also for their radium content. Among those said to have reported favorably on the mine are Madame ,Curie and Professor Jean Danyzt of the Faculte des Science, of Paris and Professor Joly, of Dublin university, Seventeen thousand tons of ore are reported to be ready for shipment to a plant to be erected in France. The approximate value of the ore in sight is $8,500,000.'

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The Wasatch Mines company and the ·Wasatch Power have incorporated, the former to take over the Columbus Con, Saperim-Alta and Flagstaff companies at Alta, the Columbus ExtenSion, as noted be­ fere, having failed to agree to the merger. On February 28, the Columbus Con will hold· another meeting to ratify the merger on the new ·basis made necessary by the fa.i\ure of the first proposition.

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The third lead stack of the International smeltery ,at International was put in eom­ miesion on February fifth, and the fourth on February 20. These stacks are the dup­ licates of the two original furnaces des­ <:ribed in these columns some time ago. The capacity of the plant has been raised to 1,000 -tons a day. Fires have been lighted in the cupper furnaces, which should be in opera­ tlOn again in a few days, for the first time sillce the Bingham strike. The LoWer Mammcth Mining company. of Mammoth, recently elected officers· for tte -coming year. They are: John Dern, pres.ident; A. 'r. Moon, vice-president; A. Reeves,secretary; "V. S. McCornick, treas· urer. James C. Dick will again 'be general manager and E. E. Prir;e, superintendent. The company has broken into the Hungarian vein on the 1,800. It is twelve feet wide, and of low value, although it was a com· mercial {)rebody at the 700. Work: will be continued to find better values, Present production is coming from the 1,500. The C. C. Consolidated MIning company, whose property 'adjoins the Silver King at Park City, will sink its shaft from 450 teet, to 1,450. The steam 'hoist will be electri­ fied. Stations will be cut and drifts run every 250 {)r 300 feet. The company has serne ore in the hanging wall, and expects to find an orebody in the foot. One of the rich orebodies of the ,si1v~r King is ex­ pected to pass inbo C, C. C. ground. Of­ ficers of the company are W. L. Snyder, president; B. F. Bauer, vice-president; M. H.Sowles, secretary-treasurer, and Sher· man Fargo, J: A. Cunningham, E. J. Rad­ datzand Mismarck ISnyder, additional directors. An engine and large compressor has been ordered. The work done in the Utah Metal Min­ ing company·.s tunnel, at Bingham, is inter­ esting. The annual report gives the follow, 'ing figures: The length {)f the tunnel from th( portal on the Tooele 'Side of West moun­ tain on Jan. 11, 1913 was 8,616 feet; this is an advance Since JaIL 1 1912, of 2,072 feet; the length from the portal on the Bingham side on the 21st day of September, Hi12, was 1,970 feet; this is an advance since Jan. 1, 1912, of 1,585 feet; the -total amount of tunnel constructed since Jan. 1, 1912, is 3.£57 feet; the total length of the tunnel when finished will be 11,494 feet; the total amount of tunnel constructed from the be­ ginning to Jan. 11, 1913, is 1Q,586 feet; there remained to be constructed Jan. 11, 1913, 908 feet. There has been expended during the year 1912. $98,786.97, making the total amount expended by the present company during ,the past three years, to Jan. 1, 1913, $341,393.22. iThis is in addition to exr rel="nofollow">endi­ tare 'by previous owners.. The su'm of $58,­ 499.83 was expended during ,the past year for labor and supplies in boring and equip­ ping the tunnel, not including overhead charges, such as manager, consulting en­

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(Special Correspondence.) Good ore is being broken in the pro­ gress of the work the Velvet claIm O! the Goldfield Merger Mines company. The shaft has -passed the 1,450-foot level. and on the 1,330 considerable development is being done. The drifts on the 800 and 900 show a good quantity of excellent ore. No effort is made at stoplng, but development is steadily pushed and consider:3Jble ore has been taken out in these operations. The Jumbo Extension is making good profits at the present time, a great tonnage of milling ore now -being mined above the seo. A continuous orebody has been open­ ed on this -level for 110 feet, and the re­ serves have been greatly added to. Min­ ing on the deepest levels has been sus­ pended until connections can ,be made which will give -better ventilation. An electric hoist has -been installed 011 the main shaft of the Booth ,property and prepar(\tions are being made to sink the present 340-foot shaft to great depth. K­ M. Simpson is in charge of the work. The
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A STATE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT.

W_ Mont Ferry has introduced into the Utah legislature, a bill to provide a mining and metallurgical research department in connection with the state university. The school has done considerable research work, but has been handicapped by lack of funds and equipment. In spite of the difficulties the school claims credit for much beneficial work done in its laboratories. Among the results claimed by the school are the pro­ cess of treating the low grade silver ores by roasting and leaching with a salt solu· tion, which is now being employed by the Mines Operating company, at Park City; method of sinter roasting followed by leach­ ing with cyanide solution for refractory silver ores; making of low cost acid from smelter gas; determination of presence of graphite as the disturbing feature in the treatment of Mercur ores, causing a low ex­ traction, and the remedy therefor; devel· opment of the classification system used at Good Springs, Nevada, in which slimes are removed at the beginning; and others of a more general nature, -------0

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PUBLICATIONS.

Pahasapa Quarterly. South Dakota Scl:ool of Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota, Frbruary, 1913. 48 pp. Ill. American Mining Congress, January, 1913, Bulletin. Denver. 14 pp .. U, S. Bureau of Mines.

.S econd Annual Report of the Director of the 'Bureau of Mines. 1911-12 J. A. Holmes, Director_ 1912. 88 pp. Bulletin 45. 'Sand available for filling mine workings in tbe Northern Anthracite Coal Basin of Pennsylvania, .by N. H. Dar­ ton. 1912_ 33 pp. S pIs Technical Paper 32. The cement:ng process of excluding water from oil wells as practiced in California, by Ralph Arnold and V. R. Garfias. 1912 10 pp. Miners' Circular 11. Accidents from mine cars and locomotives, by L. M. Jones. 1912. 16 pP.

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A large force is at work on the prop­ erty of the German-American Mining com­ p·any at Vivian. The D. & W_ mine near Vidal will be equipped with a 100-ton Lane mill plant,. and it is expected that operation will be­ ·gin in March. The Mescal copper mine near Prescott will shortly resume operations, The shaft bas been retimbered and the machinery put in shape for rapid work. M, W. Musgrove, of Kingman, has, been instrumental in forming a corporation to dredge [or gold on the Colorado river, near the mouth of the Grand {)anyon. T. E. 'Campbell, general manager of the Haynes Copper company, of Jerome, states that thirty men have been put on develop­ ment work, part of which consists in shaft sinking_ The Humboldt Consoldiated Mines company, operating near Pre3cott, will sink the North :Star shaft another 100 feet making Its depth 250 feet. Milling ore is being stoped on the 150-foot level. In ·the eff-ort to cut the expense caused by maintenance of openings, the 'Copper Queen. at Bisbee, is introducing the top­ sliCing system of caving, where conditions are 'right fOr employing this method. A forty-foot shaft on the Effie claim of the New Mexico Lead and -Copper com· panYf near Senator, shows four feet of copper sulphide ore and galena, the full depth of the shaft. E. S. Osborn is gen­ eral manager. The milling plant 'of the Arizona,South­ western at Coprerville, will -soon be in com­ mission. Several crosscuts driven 'by the company have struck are recently, and great ore-bodies are said to be in the course of development. Linn & Stiner recently had two cars of ore milled from their lease on the Po­ land Uline, in the Prescott section, and Stukey brothers expect to make a shIp­ ment of concentrates and ores to the smeltery from the same locality. The Arizona-Empire continues -to sack rich ore, but ,hauling by auto truck has ceased, the roads -having been ruined by their use, and it is possible that some ower method of hauling may have to be intro­ duced. This -property is near Parker. C. N. Wilson, of Indianapolis, Indiana, has a force of twenty-five men at work at the C3Jbabai mine, whkh is said to have been worked in the seventeenth century. A large ·shipment of sUJl'plies has been sent out from Tucson by -S. G. McWade, general manager.

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The Sh~ttuck-Arizona has entered its new silver-lead orebody on the 400 and 600. The ore contains from ten to sev­ enty-five per cent lead. The company is developing at the rate of 900 feet a month. Arthur Houle is superintendent of the work of the company in the Bisbee district. The W. A, Clark interests have taken a tease and bond on the American Eagle' property, in the Whipple mountains, sixteell miles northwest of Parker. Fifteen men will be put at work, and two auto trucks used to haul the ore to Vi:1al, whence it will be shipped to the sm.eltery at Jerome. About $1,000 worth of supplies have ,been sent to the ,property. About eighteen miles of transmissioll line, belonging to the Victoria Gold Mines company, was taken down and preparations were being ma:1e to ship it to Los Ange!es, from near the California line. About five tons had been stolen and shipped, and not even the poles remained. The rest of the wire was recovered by Dan Richards, agent for A. L.W'hite, the owner. The fact that the tine was unguarded permitted the par­ tial robbery. It is rumored that the Saginaw prop­ erty in the Bisbee section is to be taken over by the Calumet & Arizona. The Calumet & Arizona is now using the so called shrinkage system of mining, which consists in mining ,on a temporary filling of ore, just enough of which is removed to allow working space below the back, This method does away with the expensive timbering, but is only suited to moderately hard ground, where the back will stand without support. The term shrinkage stoping is a misnomer, CALIFORNIA.

F. C. Semmek, formerly of Salt Lake, but now of Los Angeles, is managing the old Ratcliff mine near Ballarat, California, and is treating old dump material by the cyanide process. Mr. Semmek has es· t!!bIished headquarters at 318·20 Higgins bUilding, Los Angeles. The Lucy Gray Extension Mining owns a group of six claims adjoining the prop­ erty of the Lucy Gray Mining company, near Lyons, California. The cClmpany has developed by means of a 30·foot tun­ nel, and a 40-foot shaft, and has some good shipping ore in sight. Among the owners and heavy stockholders are W. H. Andrews, R. F, D No, 2, Los Angeles, and L. P. Kibler, and D. S. Binford, of River, side, California. COLORADO.

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The Liberty Bell, at Telluride, is treat· ing 500-tons (If ore daily. Bob Callow, Jr, has taken a lease 011 the Bald Eagle mine, at the mouth of Virginia Canyon, Idaho Springs. Lessees on the San Bernardo mine, at Matterhorn, are preparing to ~tart the tramway and mill connected with the property. The new electric pump has been in­ stalled at the Hubert mine, in Gilpin county, on the 450-foot level, and the dis­ charge columns are being placed. Claude Law is installing a fifteen·horse­ power electric hoist, back of No. 2 shaft of the Ibex at Leadville, and wiII sink in search of a sulphide body below. The Op,hir mill, described some time ago, in the Telluride section, is treating 125 to 150 tons a day, new driving equip­ ment having been recently added. The United states smeltery, at Canoh City, which formerly employed 300 men, Is preparing to resume operation. A new lighting system is being installed. F. A. Maxwell, of the East Griffith mine, at Georgetown, expects to start ship­ ping soon. A larger f()rce will be put on development. The ore is lead·zinc. The Santiago mine, at East Argentine. iJ ,shipping two cars of ore weekly to the

Salida smeltery. The ore averages one to four feet wide, through five levels The Smuggler mill, at Telluride, is treating 350 tons of ore daily, and the new plant is said to be giving excellent results, Some of the old stopes in the mine are being pulled. W. O. Robinson is reported to have secured control of the Lion mill, at George­ town, and will overhaul it for steady op­ eration on ores from the West Griffith, which contain lead and zinc values. O. N. l\farihaugh, manager of the Mar­ shall·Russell tunnel, at Empire, states that work will be started as soon as arrange­ ments can be made with the owners of the properties, und.er which the tunnel will pass. The Keystone mine, in Quartz Valley, Gilpin county, is worked through two shafts, by the Reo Mining company, and three feet of $8-ore has been encountered Plans for a mill are being in sinking. considered. The Tomboy tramway, in the Telluride section, is working smoothly, and the pack and wagon transportation wiII soon be l'>bandoned, thus cutting out an item of heavy expense, both for actual hauling and maintenance of roads, The new Rice-Wellington mill, at Rico, has started. The capacity is 100 tons. on the lead-zinc ores of this company, The Argentine is shipping thirty-five tons daily from a depth of 175 feet. Two classes

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ped. The winter season began early and has been severe, but work will be resumed as soon as possible. It is said that Idora stockholders are interested In the plant. Perry Brothers and M. F. Tytler have a lease on the Mother Lode mine, near Elk City, owned by George Brown. The custom mill is running on ore from an eight-foot vein. George Widmeyer has made a second shipment from the Little Butte mine, on Deadwood mountain, six miles southeast of Elk City. High grade is shipped .from a four-foot vein at the bottom of a winze sunk 600 feet from the portal of the main adit. Three distinct ore shoots are ex· posed by a 3,000-foot adit. Low grade- ore is treated in a one stamp mill. K. H. Kleinschmidt states that the win· ter's development at the property of the Blue Jacket Oopper company, near Home­ stead, from which point ore is shipped, has been satisfactory. Several cars were shipped last season at a profit to .the Tacoma smeltery, and more men will be put on this spring, in an endeavor to ship as much ore as possible during the short season. The Red Ledge group in the same section will be developed by Boise people. The Seven Devils district is promising, with these mines developing, and the Peacock, controlled by Messrs. Houlter and Houser, of Helena, Mlontana, about to be opened.

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The Butte & Duluth, at Butte, has start­ ed up its copper leaching plant at a capac· ity of 200 tons a day. It is expected that the cost of producing pure copper will be much less than smelting costs, although no costs are yet given out. Seven cars of ore have been shipped, since the middle of January, from the Florence mine at Neihart, owned by the Florence Mining and Milling company. The last two gave net returns of $600 each. Drifting is being pushed on the 500-foot level. W. I. Higgins, of Deer Lodge, has pur· chased, with 'N. J. Bielenberg, the Pritchett group near Twin Bridges. . A small con­ centrating plant was erected two years ago and several hundred tons of ore run through, yielding rich concentrates, with a ratio of concentration of seven tn one. Machinery has been purchased and a con­ tract let to drive a 1,000-foot crosscut. The Pilot Butta Mlining company, at Butte, is continuing the sinking of its shaft. At a depth of 1,600 feet, the shaft encoun­ tered a copper vein,· in which only zinc vll.lues were found at 'higher levels. At l,e80 feet, the shaft 'Was still in the vein, which averaged four feet wide. A station will be cut on the 2,000 level and the vein crosscut. The vein is believed to be the Berlin vein, which the North Butte is working. It is expected that ship­ ments will be made by August.

The output for the Butte mines in Jan­ With the new unit installed, the Snow­ uary is given as follows. in tons of ore, storm mill. at Mullan, is treating 150 tons pounds copper per ton and total pounds, per day. This is short of the mill ca­ Bos. & Mont.. 102,120, 65, pacity of 200 tons. which will be turned respectively; out soon. The delay is d~e to a lack ot 6,637,800; Anaconda, 160,000, 61, 9,760,000; crushers. These have been ordered and Butte & Bos., 13,720, 62, 850,640; Washoe. will be installed immediately on arrivaL 7,100, 61, 433,100; Parrot, 2,900, 60, 174,000; The ore runs from two to three per cent Trenton, 12,200, 61, 744,200; North Butte, copper, with small veins of silver. The 30,120, 70, 2,108.400; B,utte Coal., 34,000, improvements in the mill and the unit just 7(1, 2380,QOO; East Butte, 10,820, 110, 1,190,­ completed reduce this product to a grade . 200; Tuolumne, 4,600, 120, 552,000; Orig. of 20 per cent copper and 25 ounces or inal, 10,200, 60. 612,000; Alex Scott, 7,500, silver. . Last year the company paid Its 110, 82-5,000; DaviS-Daly, 2,400, 110, 264,00(1, stockholders $75,000 in dividends. With Totals, 397,680, 67, 26,531,340. the increased output and the decreased cost NEVADA. [)f handling this is expected to be surpass­ ed in 1913. The Nevada-Denver, of Yerington, re­ cently shipped its first car of ore to the MONTANA. The Ohio-Kentucky, Consolidated Mines The Butte & London at Butte will soon company and the Nevada-Utah holdings at Itart sinking its shaft from 1,130 feet to Pioche are to consolidate. The Amalga­ ,600 feet. and crosscut to the limits of the mated Pioche will be the operating com­ lroperty. pany. East Butte is making a net profit ot C. ~. McIntosh has purchased from John 120,000 a month. The second note 1'01' 'Cleghorn, of Salt Lake. the half interest in 100.000 was paid February 1, from earn­ th~ option given by F. M. Schick, of five 19S. There remains to be paid. $300,000. claims in the 'Rochester group, and con­ The Barnes·King company made $32,000 trolled by the Original Rochester Mines :;om the first five weeks operation of the company. forth .Mocassin mine, at Butte. Under­ Max Ziege, secretary of the Gold King round developments are favorable, :and Mining company, owning property in the 1e mill should soon be treating 200 tons northwestern portion of White Pine coun­ lily. ty, state,; that the company expects to ship

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two cars of ore soon. The property is owned I;y Ely and McGill people and is un· der the management of August Munter. The Charleston Hill Mining company has transferred the West Virginia No.1, and the Charleston Hill No. 2 properties to the National Miines company, of National, thus bringing tn an end the litigation which troubled the camp so long. From Carroll interesting reports are corning. Stall brothers are working below the 2'50-level in their mine and expect to strike a good orebody. Dan Craig has a good manganese property near the Stall shaft, and C. J. Pratt, of Denver, will start operations on his ground adjoining the Craig ciaim, in the spring. The tunnel on the Whitlatch property, near AUstin, has penetrated about six feet of good milling ore, and the tunnel will be extended in the expectation of cutting other veins. Charles F. Littrell is general manager for the company. which owns fif­ te€ n claims in this section. North Dakota interests control the company. An attempt is being mad.e by the rail­ road commission to have the rates from Ely to Salt Lake smelteries reduced. The commission points out that the rate Is nearly three times as great from Ely as from Goldfield and shows also that it is higher than for many other points in the state. Tables of distances are given, rates from various points and the difference be­ tween these and the Ely rates brought out. A. S. Ross and associates of Salt Lake City, has taken over the Cash Boy prop­ erty, which Hes west of the Tonopah Mer­ ger and the Tonopah: Mining propertdes and the company has now been reorganiZed with Mr. Ross, president and director. and Maurice M. Johnson, E. H. Mead and Harry S. Knight, of Salt Lake, and George H. Thatcher, attorney-general of Nevada. direc­ tors. The shaft is being sunk at the rate of three feet daily, now being below 640 feet. Steve Currie has penetrated a vein which is believed to be the famous old Wedekind vein. three miles from Reno. It is said that the work at this spot was abandoned twelve years ago, after 190 feet of shaft had been put down and no ship­ ping ore found. On the next round, Cur· rie struck the ore. The Raymond Develop­ ment company was organized to carryon the work. Drifting will be started at the 215·foot level. Five men are now at work on the property.

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The French Western Exploration 31:') Reduction company, composed of }<'rench capitalists, has taken over the old mill of the Nevada Goldfield Reduction oOmpaliY at Goldfield, the Tokop mine in Gold Moun­ tain district, the Orlean and the Silver King mines in Horn~;ilver district, and will clean out the shaft on the Orlean, sink it further and contin,ue the development on

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the other properties. A hoist is now being installed. E. Perrier de Ja Bathle is gen· eral manager for the company. The Seven Troughs Mining company, of Seven Troughs, has been reorganized with the following officers, residents of Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah': John Dern, president; R. J. Evans, vice-president; Geo. H. Dern, secretary and treasurer; L. A. Friedman and W. Lester Mangum, addi· tional directors. Mr. Friedman 'was reap· pointed general manager. The property is under lease until October, at which time the company plans to sink its winze deeper in search of ore. At National development is proceeding at a good rate. Walker brothers are taking out some high-grade silver ore from the Cheefoo mine and will soon ship. The Mayflower National Mines company has let a new lease to the Stall brothers, adjoin­ ing the Hatch lease on the Mayflower lode. The National Mines company has cut a station in the NO.5 tunnel and is installing a large plant for deep sinking. The Hatch lease and the V'.7heeler lease on the ,\Vhite lwcks, are pushing development. A new lease is to be let on the Radiator Hill prop. erty and the Dwy€ r tunnel is being cleaned out for the purpose, Development will be started on the National Extension lease of the Charleston Hill Gold Mining company's ground, and the same company is about to sink a shaft on its Swedes group. Among other companies which have started or are about to start development are the Medal· lion Gold MIning company, Kennedy-Mac· Donald Mining company, the Shiloh group, and the J ewsharp-Bell group. WASHINGTON.

The Security 'Copper company has been organized in Spokane with a capitalization of $1,000,000 ,to take over and develop prop­ erty in the Chewelah district. H. A. Sprague was elected president; D. T. Alex­ ander, vice'president; L. D. Geeslin, treas· urer; W. W. Gifford, secretary, and L. K. Armstrong, M. E., manager. The company has purchased for $30,000 the Matterhorn group, which adjoins the Standard Chewe­ lah, the scene of a recent strike of high. grade silver-copper ore, and the Juno-Echo, a shipper being prepared for continuous production. Composed of three claims hav· ing an area of 60 acres, the Security group is traversed by strong leads in which it is stated silver-copper values have been ex· posed. The company will engage in devel­ opment, with a view of placing the property on the shipping list in the shortest possible period. .Machinery will b€ installed, a shaft put down and crosscuts driven to the ledges 'Vork will be'gin as soon as snow leaves.

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TRADE NOTES.

F. H. Bostwick, western representative of Wellman-Seaver·M~rgan company, ot 'Cleveland, Ohio, has sold to the Silver King Coalition Mining company a large electrical hoist similar to the one installed at the Hecla mine, at Burke, Idaho. The hoist will be used in sinking the winze in the Alliance tunnel. Wilson & Ott, of Salt Lake, will make the installation. At the R. R. R. mine, in southern Arizo­ na, a 65·horsepower Fairbanks·Morse gaso­ line engine will furnish power for the new compresSOr.

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shells. All the converters are to be of the 'Great Falls vertical type, twelve feet in diameter. --,--01----­

CATALOGS RECEIVED.

Heport on Bental Permissible Powder, Independent Powder Co., Joplin, Mo. 43 pp. III. Describes interesting tests made at Mine 7, Girard ,coal Co., Radley, Kansas. Rock Dril! Sharpeners. The Numa Rock Drill ,Sharpener Co., Salt Lake C;ty. Des· cription of machines, tempering steel, testi­ monials and illustrations of equipment and results. Luitweiler System Non Pu'sating Landes & Company, jobbers and dealers in contractor's machinery and motor trucks, Pumps, General Catalog No. 11, of the have taken office room in 1,505 Walker Bank Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co., Rochester, building, Salt L,ake, and are prepared to N. Y., Pacific Coast Branch, 707 North furnish the Avery steel tired motor trucks Main 'St., Los 'Angeles 47 pp. III. Com­ plete description of the Luitweiler system. to 'mining companies having haulage prob­ Hydro·pneumatic pressure systems. lems over desert roads. Irrigation and Pumping Methods in The 1<'. C. Richmond Machinery com­ Southern California. Booklet No. 61 of the p,my, of Salt Lake, has the agency for Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co., Rochester, the Little Giant commercial car, made by. N. Y_ 24 pp. III. the Chicago Pneumatic Tool company. About ----0---­ March 10th a shipment of these cars is ex· NEW BOOKS. pected, and several orders have already been placed. These trucks are especially Book of Standards, published by the Na­ adapted to light delivery work, and are tional Tube company, Pittsburgl), Pennsyl­ very efficient over rough country roads. vania, 1913, and furnished by the Salt Lake The Minneapolis Steel & Machinery com­ pany, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been Mining Review. 560 liP. Flexible leather awarded the contract for the steel for the cover, Canterbury Bible paper, pages 4-in. by 6~-in. Thickness of book, %-in. Price, new Davenport Hotel at Spokane, Wash­ ington. This.is the largest single order of $2.00. This book of standards has been com building steel ever received by the company, pletely revised, and thoroughly indexed, The order aggregates 2,100 tons and the price is about $150,000. Eight weeks will there being over t,OOO references in the in­ be required to place it in position, and 100 dex. The size is excellent for a pocket book. twenty·ton cars will be required to trans· Among the articles are descriptions of the port it from the factory, making a train manufacture of both welded and seamless 4,000 feet long. Delivery is to be made pipe, protective coatings, tubular electric line poles, strength of tubes and cylinders March 20th. The Brayton Et'ngineering com­ under internal liquid pressure, properties or pany will do the construction work. air gas, steam and water, etc. The tables The local office of the Allis-Chalmers are very complete, including the common company has secured the contract for the tables of general engineering value as well crushing and screening machinery for the as special tables of particular application new 350-ton mill of the Buckhorn Miue!; to tubular products. Of more than passing company, at Buckhorn, Nevada. The L. C. interest to miners are the various designs Trent Engineering company, of Reno, Ne­ for pipe ladders, which are illustrated. The vada, will furnish the entire equipment, ot book is completed with an exhaustive glos­ wooden tanks, Dorr classifiers, Perrin press· sary of terms used in the trade. For those es, etc., and will equip the crushing de­ using pipe material of any kind, this book partment with Allis·Chalmers equipment. should be an invaluable aid. The company has received direct the con· ----0---­ tract for the refinery equipment, including The Manhattan Whale Mining company, water jacketed melting furnace, English cu­ controlled by G. S. Johnson, of San Fran­ peling furnace and blower equipment. cisco, has resumed operations at :'lanhat· The Allis·Chalmers company, of Milwau· tan, ::--;evada. The mine has a shaft 115 feet kee, Wisconsin, has been awarded the con­ deep and has done a little underground tracts for seventeen converter shells and work, during which some specimen ore waE fourteen stands, from various Arizona com­ taken out. The recent finds on th" adjoin panies. The United Verde will have five ing Crescent seem to be going into tht stands and six shells; the Calumet and Ari· Whale, so that it has been decided to agair zona, six stands and seven shells; the Ari­ w(lrk the propertY. vlhich has been shut zona Copper company, three stands and four down since the panic.

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Quotations on the local exchange, Friday morning, February 21: ),18tell Stoeks. ~-=,.-_ _ _ . .

Bid. I Asked.

Beck Tunnel ............. 1$ .08%1$ .10

Bingham Amalgamated .04'1z .06

Black Jack ............... .08 I .11

',Cedar-Talisman . . . . . . . . . . \ .00%[ .Ul

Colorado Mining ......... .15 .16

Colorado Consolidated ..... .10 1 .14

Consolidated Mereur ..... ........ .10

Crown oint .............. . Q21,6 1 .03

Daly ...................... 1.00 1.30

Daly-Judge .............. 6.20 1 6.45

Dragon . ................. .15 .30

East Prince............... .01 .01%

East Crown Point ....... ........ .02

East Tmtic Consolidated . . . . . . . . . . 1 .01

East Tintic Development. .1.01

Emerald . .,............... .01 [ .10

Gold Chain .............. .39 .41

Grand Central ........ .. 75 .77

Indian Queen ... , ....... ,\ ...... ,.[ r.Ol

Iron Blossom ............. 1.32 % 1 1. 35

IrOn King ................ : ,01 .. ~ .... .

Joe Bowers ............... [ .00'lz1 ..... · ..

\Keystone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : ........ 1 .20

Kin!\' William ............. 1 .06 I .06 'Iz

Lehl Tmtlc ............... .OO~.' .01

Little Bell ....................... [ .35

Lower Mammot!). .,....... .04 I .05

Musgrove ........ ........ .08 1 .15

Mammoth ................. .. ..... 1 1. 00

Mason Va ley....... ...... 7.00 ~.50

May Day ................. .14 .16

Mineral Flat ... ......... .01 .02

Mountain Lake ........... .02 I .05

Nevada Hills . ........... 1.02¥.! 1.30 , New York ........................ 1 ,00%

Ohio C'OPper .............. .61 .67

Opohongo ............ .. .. I .05 .06

Pioche Demijohn.......... .02'41 .03%

Pioche Metals ............ .00'lz1 .01

P.tts}:mrgh-Idaho ......... '. . . . . . . . . [ 1. 25

Plutus .... , ... '.. :~,....... .06'hl .U7

Prince Consolidated . .... .64 .61

Richmond & Anaconda.... ........ .10

RexalJ .................... .01 I ...... ..

Seven Troughs ............ .01 '%, 1 .09

Silver King Coalition ... 2.70 [ ~.oo

Silver King Consolidated.. .75 I .. · .....

South Pacific ............. .01 % 1 .15

Sioux Consolidated ........ .03 .04 %

South Iron Blo~som . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) .00%

Swansea ConsolIdated .... .01. .03

United Tintlc .............. .OO%! .01

Uncle Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I .10

Utah Consolidated ........ .01'4! .01 %

Union Chief ................ .05 %1 .07

Victoria Consolidated ..... .55 .57

Wilbert . ...... .......... .07 .09

Yankee Consolidated ...... .13 .15

Yerington Copper ......... 1 .04 I .10

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February 15. Silver, 62\1; cents; lead, $4.35; copper thode, $15.77'1.0; zinc (St. Louis), $6.22%. February 17. Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4 .35; copper thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis). $6.22%. February 18.

Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4.35: copper thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. February 19. Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4.35; copper thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. February 20.

Silver, 61 % cents; lead, $4.35; copper thode, $15.30; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. February 21. Silver, 61% cents; lead. $4.35; copper thode, $15.30. zinc (St. Louis), $6.25.

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old Bullfrog Gold Bar company, and another property in the .Bullfrog district of Nevada. E. C. Watson, of Goldfield, is secretary of

the company.

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company, operating at Almeda, near Grants Pass, Oregon, states that as soon as the roads are in shape, a 16-table concentrating

plant of a capacity of 200 tons daily, Will be hauled in. Underground work is pro­

gressing favorably.

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The Wabash mine, at Park City, Utah, may resume operations soon. ,It was clos­ New York, Feb. 21.--Copper, firm; spot

ed down several years ago ,by water, hut

and February, $14,25 bid; March, April and May, $14.25@$14.75; electrolytic, $15.0U; the Snake .Creek drainage tunnel is ex­ lake, $15.25; casting, $14.75.

Tin, steady. spot, [email protected]%; Feb­ pected to unwater the mine. The company

ruary, [email protected]'1z; March, $47,[email protected]; has spent half a million in developmem:

April, $47,[email protected]. Lead, steady; [email protected].

:Sales day on assessment 46 has been post­ Spelter, quiet; [email protected].

Antimony, quiet; Cookson's, [email protected](). poned to April 10th.

Iron, steady and unchanged.

Copper arrivals, 445 tons. Exports thIs month, 23,068 tons. London copper, steady;

spot, £64 7s 6d; futures, £64 7s 6d. Local exchange sales of tin, 35 tons. Lon­ don tin, qUiet; spot, £218 lOs; futures, £214 15s.

JAndon lead, £16 12s 6d. London spelter, £25. Iron-Cleveland warrants, 60s 10'hd in London.

The Bullfrog Bar Consolidated Mines company has been organized to ac­ quire the property formerly owned by the

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LIST OF DIVIDEND·PAVING STOCKS.

D:vidends on Stock Issued NAME OF COMPANY

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Date

D a t e ! Amount _ . _ - - - - - - - - _ . _ ­ ~·-------!----·I--·--·-I------ - - - . - . - - ­ 439,561 April, '05 $ .50

500,000 Annie Laurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$25.00 I • • • • • • • • • $ 675,000 Oct. 20, '07 .02

Beck Tunnel Con........... . 1,000,000

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480,219 July 12, '12 .10

400,000 5.00 Bingham & New Haven ... "

27,261 Nov. 2, '11 .03%

250,000 Boston- Sunsh ine .......... .

1.00 July 11, '08 .10

. ....... . 2,768,400 Bul ion B. & Champion ..... . 1,000,000

10.00 .01

60,000 Dec. '06 · .. .... . Carisa ................ _ ... .

600,000 1. 00 1. 50

3,600,000 Oct. 16, '12 100,000 , " " .,. ,. 25.00 Centennial-Eureka. ... . ..

39,000 Feb. 15, '07 .02

150,000 Century ........ , ......... .

1.00 87,000 Feb. 3, '13 .10

1,000,000 Chief Consolidated ........ .

1. 00 ! 87,000 .03

2,600,000 Dec. 20, '12 .20

Colorado ................. . 1,000,000 212,623 Oct. 15, '07 .20

5,00 300,000 Columbus Con............. .

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5.00 Gons. Meteur .............. . 1,000,000 3,420,312 July 10, '12 .10

90,000 Jan. 13, '13 30,000 300,000 Cliff Mining Co........ , ... ,

1.00 350,000 July, '01 .1J%

1. 00 Dalton & Lark ............ . 2,500,000 .30

495,000 Dec. 20, '12 Daly Judge ........ , ...... .

300,000 1.00 .25

2,925,000 Mch., '97 , " 150,000 20.00 Daly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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6,606,000 Jan. 15, '13 27,000 Daly West. ................ .

180.000 20.00 44,457 J!'eb. 1. '10 .05

44,457 1.00 Eagle & Blue Bell. ....... . 1,000.000 6.00

, 2,060,000 Nov. 1, '12 5,000 100.00 Gemini Keystone .......... .

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100,000 Feb. 25, 13 30,000 Gold Chain ................ . 1,000,000 .(J~ 1,452,750 Oct. 25, 12 Grand Centra\. ........... .

1. 00 600.000 .05

Sept. 30, '07 5,662,O()0 Horn Si lver ............... ,

400,000 25.00 .10

1,470,000 Jan. 25, '13 .10

Iron Blossom ............. . 1,000,000 ,05

60,000 Sept. 22. '10 Little Bell ................ .

1.00 300,000 65,073 Dec. 29, '09 . On!!

I,ower Mammoth .......... .

250.000 1.00 .15

2,280,000 \ Oct. 10, '12 .25

Mammoth ........ , ....... .

400.000 .03

Feb. 10. '13 132,OOU .25 · .24,000' . May Day .................. .

800,000 .01

32,704 Feb. 15, '13 16,352 1.00 Moscow M. & M. Co........ . 1,000,000 .06

12,554 Aug., '06 1.00 Mountain View ............ .

150,000 .50

600,000 Nov. 20, '07 10.00 Newhouse ................ .

600.000 .05

20,000 Feb., '04 5.00 ~orthern L'ght. ........... . 400,000

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14,962,500 Dec., '02 100.00 Ontario .................•. '

150,000 .02

74,916 Jan. 30., '13 7,990 .25

Opohongo ................. ' 1,000,000 .04

65,000 Aug., '06 800,000 1.00 Petro ..................... .

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1,100,000 Mch., '02 .50

Quincy ................... .

150,000 .00'lz

308,000 Dec., '06 5.00 Sacramento ............... . 1,000,000 .01

6,500 Aug., '04 Salva tor ............... _.. .

1.00 200,000 .25

12,834,885 Dec. 24, '12 5.00 Silver King Coalition ...... . 1,250,000 4.50() Feb., '01

1.00 Silver Shield .............. .

300,000 .04 872,630 July 25, '11 1.00 Sioux Cons................ .

750.000 .02%

470,000 Apr" '04 1.00 300.000 .05

334,500 Mch., '07 ~~u;~s~:.a.~~:~:::::::::::: :1 100.000

5.00 .01

18,000 Dec., '04 1.00 Tetro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 300,000

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470,000 Sept. 20, '11 1.00 Uncle Sam Cons. . . . . . . . . . . , 750,000

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17,068,722 Dec. 30, '12 10.00 gta~ Copper. .. . .......... I 2,500.000

.02 281,860 Dec. 21, '10 10.00 100,000

1.00 7,500,000 Dec. 12, '12 6.00 700.000 .04 207,500 Meh. 25, '10 1.00 I,QOO.OOO .01 192500 Feb. 1 '13 1. 00 Yankee Cons..... , ........ . 1.000.000

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}!"orenoon Sales. Cedar Talisman, 7,300 at %c.

Iron Blossom, 450 at $1.35.

Sioux Con., 500 at 3%c.

Victoria Con., 400 at 55c.

Shares sold, 8,600.

Selling value, $899.75.

Open Board.

Beck Tunnel, 300 at 9%c.

Cedar Talisman, 1.700 at %c.

Colorado, 100 at 15c.

Prince Can., 300 at 65c.

Swansea, 7,000 at Ie.

Shares sold, 9,700.

Selling value, $390.25.

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February 10. . Silver, 61 % cents; lead, $4.25; copper thode, $15.77%; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. February 11. Srver, 61 % cents: lead, $4.35; copp<'r thode, $15.72 %; zinc (St. Louis), $6.25. February 12. Holiday. February 13­ Silver, 61 % cents; lead, $4.35; copper thode, $15.72%; zinc (St. Louis), $6 ~2%. F'ebl'tlary 14. Silver, 61% cents; lead, $4.35; copper thode, $15.77'1z. zinc (St. Louis), $6.22%.

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3% on Checking 4% on SavIngs

6% on Time Deposits

Capital and Surplus, $400,000

F. E. MeGURRIN. President

32 Main Street Salt Lake City

Utab Savings &Trust Co. A Commercial aud Savia,s Bank

Nearly 24 Years Old

HOTEL STANFORD

235 Main Street

HENDRIE RUBBER CO., THE W. C. Manufacturers.

Leather Beltin!!. Pioneer lUng Packing, Mechanical Rubber Goads. Automobile Tires Distributors of Anchor Packing. 210 S W. Temple St • Salt Lake ()ity. Denver. ' I , o s Angeles.

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THERE MAY BE A FORTUNE FOR YOU IN THIS HAND

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Goldfield was discovered by a kicking mule, Cobalt by a campfire. You may be sittin'g, right now on the making of a great mine. This hand Is holding out to you a test from

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Consulting Mining Engineer 819 Newhouse Bldg., P.

Phone Wasatch 5579

ARNOLD, FISHER & CALVERT

CRAIG, W. J.

Consulting Geologists and Engineers. Coal, Oil, Gas and Non·Metalliferous Deposits. 711 Kearns ·Bldg., Salt yake City.

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

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Mining Engineer. Twenty·eight years Practice, Eight Years Experience in Mexico.

Tonopah, Nevada.

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Civil and Mining Engineer. U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor 228 Do01y Elk., Salt Lake City.

Consulting .r.d Contracting Engineers Complete Ore Testing Plant. Engi­ neers or Contractors for all Cla.sses of Reduction Plants. Salt Lake City.

Phone W:asatch 1.9S:t

HALE, FRED A., JR.

BROWN, G. CHESTER

Gooq. Springs, Nevada.

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

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Geologist and Mineralogist. Mine examinations in any part of the world. 54!) 25th St., Ogden, Utah.

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Mining Engineer.

Mining Engineer.

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Associate Editor, Salt Lake Mining

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IRELAND, T. W. Mine Examinations and Reports.

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MAGUIRE, DON

Mining Engineer.

Mining Engineer.

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Salt Lake City.

Jarbidge, Nevada.

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Salt Lake City.

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

Efficiency Engineer on Mine Operating

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Surveyor and Draftsman. Mruchine DeSign, Patent Drawings, Art Designs. Map Work of All Kinds. 224 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.

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