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Another design of furnace long found one of theSe is ignited and thrown before furnace, near Council Hill, Illinois. DurinI'
favor, in the upper Harz region; this the the tuyer. When the peat has thus become the summer of 1908 the furnace was used
so-called raschette furnace of rectangular fa:rly ignited, coke is thrown in; and as for the last time, since when it is being
build, with a row of tuyeres on either side. soon as th:13 appears <to be properly lighted, dismantle<l and remo'ved. At this place
It was a" furnace much Iike<l, .mention,ed grey slag, with some browse (partially re ended lead smelting in the district.
by Colrns as first used for smelting iron duced slag'S removed from the hearth at Beneath the arch and under the sprear)·
ores in the Urals, and then copied in the the termination of a previous operation) ing chimney stood the hearth before which
Harz region; it is no longer used in Ger and a little black slag are introduced. From tOiled the two workmen. The roof of th"
many. this time the hearth is suppJ:ed with alter buiMillg is torn away, thus allowing II
In 1854 appeared the second edition of nate charges of fuel and slag, and when ,glimpse of the rubbish where was once Ii,
Overman's "Metallurgie," a book coverIng a sufficient quantity of the latter has ,been hearth.
pretty much the whole field of the common .melted, which happens shortly after the Not at this furnace, but at other places,
metals. In this work no mention is made furnace has been set in operation, the the slag heal'th was used to work over the
of water-cooling of blast furnaces, either smelter, with an iron bar, makes a hole in grey slag whenever enough had accumu
for smelting iron, copper or lead; the fur the centre of the stopping between the bed .Iated to make it worth while.-We have
naces are described to considerable extent and the lower edge of the fore-stone. it on good authority from men now living
and illustrations are given, but the time Through this the melted slags make their that the are hearth could be torn out and
, is evidenly just before that most needed escape, and the furnace, being now in its the slag hearth built in its place within a
invention. He does mention water-cooling normal working condition, the several op day, Coke was the common fuel, lime
of refining furnaces. erations· are repeated thrDughout the shift, stone the usual flux; in granulating the
w:thout variation.
Slag furnaces,built after the exact pat
tern of thOSe used in England, were In
troduced into the great Missouri and Wis
consin lead mining sections for use with
the ore hearth. In the Missouri field the
simple slag furnace evidently ha<l a rather
brief career, for it receives little mention
in the literature. The WTa,ter jacketed fur
nace early found favor in Missouri and is
still largely used, as we shall speak of
later. Quite differently in the Wisconsin
field, slag furnaces came into use along
with the hearths, possibly during the lat
ter part of the 30's, and were used with
out any particular imprOVement as long as
lead was smelteli within the district.
Long before any white men had set foot
within the district the Indians had smelte<l
the rich galena ores of the Wisconsin area
in their fires over a hole in the ground,
With the advent of the whites, smelting
was transferred, to the log and ash fur
naces, which gave way, along in the 30's,
to the hearth ;:tnd slag furnace. The Drum
mond air furnace also had a place to slight
extent,but that is the whole story of lead
smelting in the Wisconsin district. Smelt
ing in the district ,became active in 1825,
Fig. 2-Remains of Burton Furnace·
in 1846 proouction amounted Ito some twen
Fig. 3 -Bawden's Furnace.
Overman supplies an illustration of the ty-five tons, since which time it has gradual
Scotch slag furnace as at that time used ly fallen off and is n"Gw extinct. slag one had to keep the mass broken up
for smelting leady material both in Eng Of the old furnaces, hardly more ruin and stirred, else explos:ons should occur.
land and in this c·ountry. This furnace than enough to .mark their former sites The total extraction of lead from the best
is mentioned by Percy, While the follow now remain, Our second illust'ration is all galena by b()th furnaces amounted to from
ing details are fI\)m Phillips: that remains of the Burton furnace. This 70 to 7(2% of the weight of the ore.
The furnace is commonly called the chimney still stands at Galena, Illinois, by The following' is a portion of an often
"slag hearth." From the front back to the some claimed to be the relic of the first quoted article article in an old copy of
tUYere it measures about thirty inches; furnace built in the district, and the date of Harper's Magazine. "The slag furnace is
width is twenty-two inches; height a little the building Is given as 1832. This is thus erected under the same roof with the
over three fee·t. Cast iron pJates form ~he four years earlier than the date previously Scotch Hearth, and has a c,himney of its
bed of the crucible an<l support the walls, given for the introouction of hearths Into 'Own a few feet from that of the hearth,
as well as from the front and the back this country. The (:himney is seven feet and the "blast" is secured from the same
below the tuyere. Coke is the usual fuel square at the base; the shaft inside is water-power by an addUional blast pipe
Two men operate the furnace, taking care about twenty-two inches in diameter, CIr driven by the same wheel. It consists of a
of the slag and putting in the charge. To cular and straight; it Is lined with brick much larger reservoir, built of limestone,
start a shift's run, "blocks of peat are first which have been weI! vitrified together. cemente<l and lined with clay, with a cast
piled upon the bottom of the furnace, and Our figure nnmber three is of Bawden's iron door in front, heavily barred with iron.
Bog·Head Coal. A very soft kind of bl· ous plant; will ignite, but gives off com tura creasoti, unguentum creasoti and va·
tuminous or semi-anthracite showing strong paratively little heat; very disagreeable por creasoti. Wood dipped into it, when
evidence of the wood having originally de 'Odor. The carboniferous plants are allied ex])cosed to tdle terrestrial and celestrlal
composed in an impervious sub-soil, having to Lepidodendron, have large macrosporea conditions will resist decomposition a great
a great excess of water. Highly decom at the base of cone ani microspores at the period of time. (Coal-tar-creasote.)
posed and compressed of dts hydrocrabons. apex; Sporangia FunIT·. Wood-tar creasote is distilled from
Probably of the Neozoic age. Semi·Bituminous-Coal. This is a coal beachwood, and is a mixture of pheno,
Caking- Coal. (Native coke.) A common sometimes called bitumen-coal, from tne guaiacol, and peracresol, etc.
variety of bituminous coal. Occurs in a fact that a cons:derabte liquid substance Crea£Ol- (C H 0) is a di'a-tomic pheonl
more compact form than artificia,l coke. may be shown in the fracture or cleavage, obtained by dry distillation of 8-10-2
Variety of "mother-coal," hydrocarbon, or but the name semi-bituminous-coal is im distilled from coaltar or wood-tar. It Is to
native charcoal of a slightly greater ex properly used in this manner, as the last co,lourless, oily, creasote, refractive, odor·
~ss of ,hydrocarbon than "charcoal;" alos named should suffice to cover its composi ous liquid, with a pungent taste (density
an excess of earthy impurities, as ash, tion. In fact, the name semi-bituminous 1.037 boils alt 203 0
'bufIm wIth. a dense
)
shale and' pyrites. should in all instances apply to such coals smoky flame.
Cherry-Coal. A common variety of bi as have a partial loss of hydrogen and car· Coal-Ammonia. By the distillation of
tuminous coal, s,o named from its red-brown bon by chemical change or alteration. coal-tar, often gas is given off, which also
colour of fracture caused by an execss or Steam-Coal. Generally used for locomo carries a certain amount 'Of ammonia;
sulphur. A variety of native charcoal tion steam production; sometimes classi water containing ammoniacal salts is nex..
layers (imother-coal) and ;hydrocaroon. fied as anthracite; hydrocarbon prac.ucally relieved, from this product, the greatest
Chemical alteration and decomposition act eliminated by change or alteration chemi amount of the ammonia used commercially
ing upon a vegetable variety of fern, un cally destroyed by compression. is secured; especially from coal containing
known to other coals, pO'Ssibly ehe phenop Coke. Nature.! coke is more solid, and approximately two per cent of nitrogen,
teris fern, not having been completely de compact than atrificial coke. An impure Ammonia is formed by the action of nas
stroyed by fructfication. variety of amorphous carbon containing cent hydrogen or dilute nitric acid. Am
Splint-Coal. A variety of bituminous; earthy materials, generally sulphur. A por monia gas may be prepared by heating to
splintery and non-caking coal, has a high ous l>UlOG.tance, will float on water, has a gether one part of ;'I<H.C1 with two parts
percentage of carbon and a minimum specific gravity, when saturated, of 1.65 ttl by weight of quicklime, and collected over
amount of bituminous substance as com 1.95. Natural coke, containing a greater mercury. Ammonia is variously used; ex·
pared with the common bituminous coals. quantity' of impurities is, by use, replaced tensively in chemicals, ore testing, com·
Sometimes classified as a semi·anthracite almost entirely by artific:al coke; being merciaU;V, and in medicine asstimulams,
owing to this stated cause; also c1ased as also an amorphous carbon. But by burn and antacid; externally as a rubefacient
a charcoal or mother-coal layer. ing to iltS afltificial state, from bituminous and vesicant. Has many substitution com·
Albertite. A variety of .bitum!nous coals, impurities and sulphur have been eli pounds.
(gas coal or Tock oil), containing a heavy minated. It is porous and will float on Dead-Oil. (Kreasote) (from coal-tar).
percentage of bituminous substance, com water until saturated, then it sinks; spe Same as kreasote being a heavy oU; ob
o morrly classified as a decarbonized as cifiC gravity about 1.8. In the creation of tained in the distillation of coal-tar; con·
phaltum variety. It fuses imperfectly when coal-gas dt is the residue after all gas has tains phenol, cresol, aniline, naphthalene
heated, throwing down a heavy sinter mat been distilled from the coal. As it produces and other hydro-carbons; used for the same
ter.. Contains also 'a slight percentage of an intense heat, by rapid ignition, when purposes for which kreasote is applied.
impurities, as ash, pyrites, etc. burnt, and gives off no smoke or gas. it !s Coal-Gum. A name commonly 'used in
Dysodll. (Gas coal). A variety of coal, much used in smelting of ores and in all referring to fine coal Ipowder or dust; un
which might be classified as a bituminous chemical laboratories, in analyzing by fire. derground it becomes sticky and gummy
coal composed of spores (tips of the th::eads Coal-Naphtha. Coal-naphtha is obtained with slight moisture.
of fungi-sporidium). While burning a very by the distillation of coal-tar. being an Coal·Dust. The fine scroon~ngs or sift
fetid smell eSCapes; found in masses of oily Liquid (commonly classified as ben ings of coal, commonly called sUme of coal.
thin layers of a light pale green or yellow- zole). It is purified by agitating with Coal·Smut. Obtained by the collective
ish-gray-colour. Decomposed from a caustic soda to extract the phenol and settling of the various oxides contained in
strickly fungi or sporium, compressed and cresols; than rectified, by which it is sep the fumes or smoke from burning coal.
chemically altered, evolving hydrogen and arated into a heavy ore, contain.ing much Coal-Pitch. A variety of resinous sub
oxygen; a small quantity of carbon, to naphtholene. and a liquid which is purified stances of a very dark colour and a bril·
gether with a slight quantity of pyrites. by agitation with sulphuric acid and redi liant glistening lustre, obtained by the de
Tasminite. A variety of bitmu!nous coal, stilled; by fractional distillation it first structive dillation of coal.tar (general
occurring in small discs or nodules in lami yields a mixture of benzine and carbon classification-pitch obtained from' thede
nated shale, sometimes called shale-coal; disulphide and olefin.es, etc., at 80 0 chIefly structive distillation of varieties 1)f wood.
has a hardness of 2.0 and specific gravity benzine C"H., about 113° toluene, at 142 0 coal, -e~c.) Pitch is a component part of
1.Ui; a resinous lustre, redish-brown colour. xylene, and at 170 0 impure cumene. the synthesis of asphalt. A black va.rnish
It is essentially a mineral, insoluble in Kreasote. (Creasote) obtained by the used to protect iron from corrosion, Is also
alcohol, benzole, ethene, etc. Contains car distillation of coal- tar or wood-tar (crea prepared from pitch.
bon, 71.8 to 7921; hydrogen, 10_23 ot 11.83, so.tum). It is a colourless liquid, with a Choke-Damp. (Carbonic Acid.) Name
sulphur, 5.28 to 9.81; oxygen, 5.28 to 6.56. strong empyreumatic odor, when distilled given to the fire-damp resulting from an
Bettre·Red-Coal. A. ,arlety -of common from wood-tar; but a dark sticky sub explosion in coal mines. Choke-damp
bituminous. Name commonly used to define stance, with a fetid odor, when distilled (black-damp, after-damp) is a product of
a dysodil coal, of a spore of sporidum fungi from coal-tar. A powerful antiseptic sol combustion of fire-damp or carburetted hy
growth. Containing an excess of carbon uble in water, alcohol and glacial acetic drogen.
over dysodil coal. acid, it coagulates albumen, and turns the Fire.Damp. An explosive mixture of
White-Coal. White-coal (Fleingites' coal) plane of polarization of a ray of polarized marsh-gas (methane OH.) and air whIch
a 'variety of recent deco,mposed carbonifer light to the light. Is used to preparemis· accumulates in coal mines by a decrease
:THE; SALT LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 15, 1 912.
36' and boiling at 280'. Various gas in HdSO" then in KHO, then again in
A controlling interest in the Union Chief
ompounds are prepared of which HzSO" etc. Ethen~ is a colourless gas, mine. in Santaquin district, Utah, has been
lene acts as a constituent. which at 1· and a pre3'Sure of forty-one }lurchased by L. A. Martin, of Salt Lake,
,anthrene. Phenanthrene is a pro and a half atmospheres becomes liquid, and ~stern associates.
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV LEW, AUG U S T 1 5, 1 912.
The Times, of Hailey, Idaho, gives the Lane Mill & Machinery Co. .•.••........ 4
Arnold, Fisher & Calvert ......... .... 37
following interesting description of the corn Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4
Brown, G. Chester •......•............. 37
ing back of an old-time and famous mining Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.. . . . . . . 6
Burke, James J. ••...••...............•. 37
turn to great productiveness brought about Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. .... 42
General Engineering Co. •••..........• 37
as the revival of many other min'ing camp" Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44
Howell & Kingsbury ................•• 37
has been, namely, ;by leasers. The Will Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... 10
Ireland, T. W. .......................... 28
a group of claims there, owned by Leon Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. . 8
Pack, Mosher F. ..........•••........... 37
Pulsifer. H. B. . ..........•.......... ,. 37
carload of ore at the railway de.pot ready National Copper Bank .................. 38
Troxell, L. E. .......................... 39
to ship and have three teams hauling from Utah State National Bank ............ 38
Villadsen Bros. .......................• 27
Walker, H. C. ......................... 38
Bird-Cowan •..............••........... 39
and they expect to keep teams 'hauling ore Crismon & Nichols .......••............ 39
Mllle"nflneou••
Since last fall, when they took the lease, Utah Department Denver Fire Clay Co... 39
Hotel Stanford ..••..•...........••...• 38
Westerald, F. H. ...................... 39
Gardner & Adams •...... , •....... ,.... 42
~nd until this spring, the Williams Broth Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. ........ 41
ers worked alone. They did not make much Oregon Short Line ..•................. 39
Nephi Plaster Co. ...................... 39
progress, as they had to remove the caves Salt Lake Route ..... ,................ 40
New Era Motor Co. .................... 4
and clean out the 1200-foot tunnel in which Salt Lake Stamp Co. •.•.••.••...•..•••• 41
they resumed work after the mines had Mlnlnllr Attorn"y... Siegfried Pels, ore buyer ...... ,....... 7
been idle for a score of years. But when Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewishon........ 38
Shiplers, Commercial Photographers .. 37
they cut into the ore, this spring, they. added Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books.... 38
Utah Junk Co. ...•......••.......•...•. 39
another miner to the force and, a few weeks Higgins, E. V. . .......•........• ,..... 38
United States Smelting Co. ............ 1
ago, another. There are, therefore, four Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette ........... 38
Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars .............. 38
banking interests, and Mr. Haggin and Coleman died and his interests were tied Ul) The Grand Central ::\ilining company, of
Goorge Hearst the Homesteak mines in the in litigation for years. Frank Johnston .:lied Provo, Utah, operating in Tintic district,
Black Hills, the Ontario mines in Mexico, leaving no family.Mr. and Mrs. C. J. John has posted its regll'lar dividend of 5 cents
the Jocuiseta mlnes in Mexico, and other ston, who had long desired to live in Cali a' share, or $25,000, 'Payable August 25 to
mining interests in California, in Idaho and .fornia, and had abundant means, retired to ,3Jtockholders of record August 20. With
elsewhere. an estate on La Mesa, San Diego, intending the payment of this dividend !the company
John BenaJi Haggin being una,ble to find to turn their mining interests over to their will have disbursed $1,607,000 in "velvet"
successful managers for some of his prop only son, then a mere lad, when he should money.
erties concluded to discontinue operations lbe graduated as a mining engineer. The ---0---
in them. The Solace mines was one of young man died a few months prior to his The Indian Queen Mining company, of
these. After paying taxes for some years graduation at McGill university in Montreal, Salt Lake, whose l)roperty is located near
he allowed them to be sold for delinquency. Canada, and the Johnstons thereupon lost Newhouse, Utah, has given a working lease
Shortly after the discovery of the Sol interest ill mining and permitted the Vienna on the southern portion of its property to
ace, the Vienna, the Mountain King, ana mines and mill to be sold for tax€ s . Henry W. Nichols and Henry Turner. It is
.several other mines were located on eit.her Years thereafter Leon Fuld bought them stated that the leaseI1:> already have some
side of Smiley gulch, and in 1882-3 C. from the county. shipping ore opened up near the surface.
THE SAL T L A K E MIN.I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
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the district lacked. splendid po:ssdbilities, prime and fairly saturated with enthusiasm
but to one great obstacle, inaccessibility. and vigor, the hand drill was the .only in
While ,much of the mine product of the strument emp,loyed in the driving of a tun
district h exceedingly rich, sOl:IWtimes sen nel or the sinking of a shaft; that the crude
sationally so, the immense tonnage of low bucket. wheelbarrow, or clumsy car was
grade ,mdllin.g ores, the vast deposits of sec the only means for the handling of ore or
ond-dass material. could not be moved, waste; ;that common black powder ,had not
.hed Semi-Monthly by Will C. Higgins and could not be .handled at a profit; and so the given v.:ay to the more powerrful giant or dy
A. 13. Greeson. di'strict graduaJly sank into partial obseu namite, and that the only means of trans
Box 1137 Phone, Wasatch, 2902 lI'ity, its only glimmer of. life being in the 'rloTtation was by meaoo (}f mule or burro
, Rooms .34-435 Atlas Block, West Second operations of two or three producers which pack, or the great lumbering wag'Ons then
South Street. •have ~iven notice to the world that the employed in the mining camps of the west.
C, HIGGINS .................... Editor camp had not been wholly de3ertea, and For small mines the hand windlass was
GREESON _.•••••••.. Du.lne... lIIRDR~er
that. with proper faciHUes for successful op used to .the limit. ]1'or .greater depths the
Sub.erlptloD Rate•• eration, it would not be long before the horse whip or whim was ·utilizeod, and in
rear .................................. $2.50
{ontbs ................................ 1.50
.mines of Lion hill. of Ophir hill, and of Dry stances were few and ffur between where
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~ Countries In the Postal Union ... , •. 00 'panYlOn, would take rank as regular and I:>team hoisting works displaced other prim
, Subscription Payable In Advance. heavy producer·s of the precious metals. itive means of mine operations; this coh~
tered November 29, 1902, at Salt I,ake The district's greatest need ·has been dition, involving heavy expense and hard
Utah, as second-class matter, under Act transportation facilities so that its ores, labor, of a necessity curtailing operations
ngress of March 3,
loaded directi<y into waiting caT!:3, could be so that only the richest and best mines
vertlslng Rates: Advertising rates fur delivered to .the smelters without re-hand ·could be successfuHy and profitably worked,
l on application.
ling; without the heavy expen~e of a long and that in the slowest and most painful
CODtrlbDtor!!!.
ready and easy market with an addition to of mine cars loaded with ore or waste; al
net earnings by the elimin.ation of the cost m0!3t every mine, where shaft-sinking is
of freighting from Op'hir to St. John. employed in mine development, has its
The future outlook for OJllhir,by long power hoists, whose motive power Is steam,
BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR OPHIR. odds, is brighter than ever before, and it electricity or ga'Soline, and almost every
has every advantage, every facility for suc mine is connected with the metal markets
, a consequence of the completion of cessful mining that any camp could wish of the west by stub raUroad, tramway or
,to John & Ophir railroad betw-een St. or desire; whill'l, in its mammoth depo:3its aerial tram; while, as to speed in mine op
a station on the main line of the of ore, it has an asset· w<hkh, when drawn erations and development, what formerly
Lake Route," and the mining camp upon. will create more millioooires and required 'months or a year or more to per
hir in Ophir canyon nearly nine miles make the district more famous than it was form, in '-linking or drifting, is now accom
its farmer ,:;;hipping point, there is no during the ,regime of Marcus Daly; the plished within a comparatively short time.
11 why Ophir should not 1;ake rank, at
Walker 'BTOS., Col. Wall and "'Buckskin" The sam~ corresponding advance has
lrry day, as being on-e of ,the largest Clark.
nost profitable mining districts to be been made in metallurgy, in milling and
in the west. ----0--- smelting methods, and ore which, thirty
•hiT 'has been a ,history-IDIaker .in Utah THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. years ago, was too low .gr!\)de to handle pro
*l.rly half a century. It was flourish fitably, or for which there was no known
nd produotive of llllrge quantities of
ore long before prospecting in the
Conditions, as welF as methods, are in process for successful treatment. can ROW
continual evolutioIl;, and the impossible, of be mined and milled at 'a handsome profit. •
·became general. It amaz.ed the min y,€!:>terday, is pos~ible today. Take the old In every branch of mining and milling op
'GrId ,before Park City was found, be veteran, grey-haired miner. of thirty years erationcharges have been materially cheap
rintic was ever heard of. Hundreds ago, and conduct him through a big work ened and more h accomplis:hed by machin
n made fortune'3 'there whu have long ing mine of this day and age. and he will ery, in one day, than could be performed
p.!l.SS€d over the Great Div.ide, or who express wonder and delight 'at the improve in a month, by hand, a quarter of a century
ago.
)W classed. among theea.rliest pioneers ments in mining method·s as compared. to
igreat and almost unknown west. It . those utilized when the mining industry of Another feature of the mining industry
[ways been a great camp, and always this western country was in its infancy; of today, as compared with conditions a
>e, for its mineralization is extensive and, if he win express an opinion he will short decalle a.go, is the fact that the public
,ll 'as marvelous.' And, yet, although say that there is good reason for the al at large is being educated up to mining
t within a stone'·s throw from the mOBt overw,helmln.g; interest that is now practices and method~. 'and mining is not
city of the state, it has been almost 'being taken in mining affairs throughout now evolved by the cloak of mystery that
Iy overlooked during the past twenty the length and breadth of the land. so alarmed. intending investors of a now
or more; and this seeming neglect He will tell you that when he was active past generation. At the present time it is
,o.t due to want of merit, nor because ly engaged in mining, when he was in his j)013Sible to int-elligently invest in mining
tit
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N Q REV lEW, AUQ U ST 1 5, 1 9 1 2. 23
shares whose market price are established breadth of this fair land of ours, that the
by regular quotation'S on the boards of min
ing exchanges, and, through the columns
miner and investor are now brothers. the
natural sequence ooir.g that in almost every
The Prospector
of reUable and reputable mining publica
tions it is pos3ible to keep in touch with
mining camp in the west increas-ea aUlvlty
is noticable. New producers are being year
and His Burro
mine development and operation through ly added to the list of our dividend-payers;
out a wide expanse of mining country. A old bonanzM are being resurrected; innu
strike of importance cannot be made but merable hoisting works are going uP. reduc·
that the news will 00 flashed from sea to tion plants are being 1.>uilt, and there is
sea and the intere-sted man can keep post such a demand for mine and mdll equip
ed as to events while readin,g the morning ment that machinery house'S are oohind in
paper over his eup of coffee. Formerly an their orders.
lnves.tor ·would 00 in ignorance for weeks Such, then, is the healthy condition of
as to conditio11!:> in properties in which he the mining industry of today:, and this is
was inteJ'ested. Today he is close to the but a starter to what it will be a year
man behind the drill, even if he lives in from now.
New York or Boston, and a koon and mas ---0--
ter' mind can often make a fortune In a IN ELDORADO CANYON.
day.
Between the old and the new there is A Nelson, Nevada, correspondent of the
(By Will C. Higgins.)
such a wide difference, with eVerything in, Searchlight Bulletin, says:
favor of the new, that it I'S no wonder that In reply to YOUr favor o,f recent date I "The thermometer is hot at me," said
mining has taken such a firm hold on the can state that the outlook here in the the prospector tQ his burro. 'and SQ I have
investing and speculative publie, an,d condi canyon has improved remarkably In·the last selected thIs CQol and shady spot where
tions have become 130 radically c!langed week or so. Several properties are operat we can enjoy our evening meal segregated
that it needs no argument to prove the ing with' decided success, and their suc from its implacable and grizzling influence.
statement that mining Is now as le.giUmate cess is stimulating all of us tQ more strenu· As a matter of fact, I hardly dare to 10Qk
as, it is fascinating and profitable. oue efforts, it in the face, for the climbing mercury
----<o~-- QUite a bit of interest attaches to the is a ,cQnstant reminder to me of my In
INCREASED INTEREST INMININQ. little cyanide plant on the Skylark. Thir> consistency, as this is just the kind of
was built entirely by one prQspector, Clark weather I was praying for all winter, and
It is extremely gratifying to note the Alvord, and has been so satisfactory in it3 which I am now trying to evade; which
greatly increased activity w'hich dooninates operation that it is about to be increased to shows that mankind is mostly damphool a
the mining indu'Stry of the west, and to ob· an estimated five-tQn capacity. good deal of the time, and prac-tically irre
\ serve the almost feverish demand in al· Louis McCartney has ordered an experi· sponsible and evasive for the rest of it;
most every walk of life for gilt..edged min· mental plant and hopes to jOin the march just as is the case with the burro tribe.
ing properties. Tb.e condlition. 313 to mining. of success,as he has quite a little high· Of cQurse, I know that you feel a little
h'as much improved during the past two or grade to run on his property near the Rand hurt over the reference I have made as
three y,ears, and investors and capitalists mine_ to the general characterist:cs of a burro, but
who, not so very long ago. looked upon min Tex Eavens is figuring on installing a you will get over the smart the first time
ing as a gamble and the mining operator as cyanide plant similar to Clark Alvord's to you meet with that outlaw donkey which
a shark, are now glad to become interested treat a bunch of ore on his claims adjoin hangs around our camp, fO.r, if there is any
in the former and to become intimately as ing the WaH Street mine. thing that does away with that tired feeling
sociated with the latter. Thus it is that By far the most important news which we have on these hQt days, it is when we
opinions will change, and that things to the Ihas thrilled us for a long time is the thInk we are having a good 'time.
iJtvestor which were black a few years ago phenomenal success which is attending Har "Another thing to make one forget the
are now white, for experience has shown ris and Howe in the ope.ration of their lease heat," continued the prospector, "is to mak..
that mining, as a whole, is legitimate; that on <the Fortuna. They have drifted both a rich discovery unexpectediy, similar to
fortunes are more easily made in mining en east and west frQm the main shaft on the the one I made in Hell Gap canyon a few
terprises than in any other commercial. 150-level, and the ore bQdy is bigger and years ago. It was jnst such another torrid
manufacturing, agricultural or business oc richer than ever. They have nQW ready to day in August tl1at I was prospecting in
cupation. Bitter prejudices against mining ship .albout two car loa-ds of truly high·grade the Gap. I had started 'Out early in the
have been buried In oblivium, and because horn·sllver ore. Specimens are evident in morning, with a full canteen on my back
of t·he fact that their holders could not every bunch of ore that is being sorted and a snack 'Of cold bacon aud the leavings
13tand out against the 'Overwhelming evi· specimens wherein mQst of the mass is ~i\ of a flapjack in my pocket, intending to
dence that mining was both profitable and ver chlQrlde. These lucky partners can prospect during the cool of the day, and
legitimate. They could no longer arraign easily ship one, If not more; cars of high then resting, in the shade of a juniper
the mining industry as a fake. a gamble, grade every week. They are anxiously wait bush, or an overhanging cliff, until well along
when, on every hand, they hear.a oj' mil ing for the county commissioners to rebuild in the evening. EverythIng went along well
lions made from thousands invested, of in the road over the falls in EldQrado Can· until about ten o'c1Qck, when I found a
comes pouring steadily into the lap of yon, it having been completely washed away piece 'Of flQat that interested me greatly.
friends w,hich would have boon fortunes for at that point by a recent cloud·burst. It apparently came from a ledge up in a
kings and rulers .in the olden times, and, ----o---~
saddle between tWQ lofty peaks, and I fol·
as a oons-equence, have investigated into The Hiawatha Mining company, of IQwed it up and was SQ fully absorbed ;r\
mining in all of ih3 branches to such an ex Provo, Utah, whioh was organized for the tracing the quartz blossoms th9.t I fa;leJ
tent that they are now glad to become Iden purpose of conducting mining operations in to notice that I had be:m eOilstanH~' PU'Pl!';
tified with this fascinating Industry. the mountains just east of that place, re on my canteen while ci!lJ!',lnl!; up the hill,
Indeed, to such an extent has mining be cently purohased the property of the J. C. 'V'hen near the saddle I ;;i.oppeJ to rest and
come popular throughout the length and S. Mining company in Rock canyon. found that I was in a regul,tr sweat, and
Df copper on hand was larger to six hundred feet in depth, a great future
Bulletin.
'maud, and that cop·per is not for the district was assured. That depth
Bulletin 18. The transmission of heat has now been reached and the showings in
figure it has been getting, of into steam 'boilers, by Henry :KJreisinger and
value and quantity is up to all expectations.
W. T. Ray. 1912, 180 pp.
ring an inquiry as to' "Hidden The Success.
Technical Papers.
Copper" the United States In The recent big strike made in the 400
Toohnical Papel'\, 17. TJIe effect of stem
foot level of the Success Consolidated not
ming on the efficiency of explOl3ives, by
~ little credence in the report only confirms all early opinions that the
W. O. Snelling and Clarence Hall. 1912.
1 supplies of copper, and as a Success ,was the making of a big mine, ,but
20pp.
ct, such rumors have been con-. is als() of the greatest importance to the
Teohnioal Paper 18. Magazines and thaw
inlshlng lately, a'S authorities houses for explos,ives, by Claren,ce Hall and Jarbidge district, as it proves that the values
have never been influenced to S. P. Howell. 1912. 32 pp., 1 pI. go down and that the ledges increase In size
,y them. Copper metal has had and richness with depth. Full faces of ore
Technical Paper 2S. Ignition of mine
!ld consistent riae during the g.as by mini.ature electric lamp's, by H. H. are now exposed in both the north and
,even months, a rise whioh, in Clark. 1912. 5 pp. south drifts from the No. 4 tunnel, giving
m, has been IDo;;tly on its mer this property a vertical depth of 400 feet.
Reprints.
I of late perhaps the specula The value of the ore at this depth is better
Bulletin 40. The 'SImokless combustion of
lUces in London have affected coal in boiler furqaees, with a chapter' on than it is in the second level, and it was on
less. Today, it is firm around ·central heating .])lants, by D. T. Randall and the strength of the grand showing in this
a point higher than which it H. W. Weeks. 188 pp. R6Iprint of United level that (}eQrge Wingfield took an optIon
d policy to force it. on the adjOining Bluster property, at a
States Geological Survey Bulletin 373, ra
the rumors as to hidden sup v1sed by Henry Kreisingoer. large figure; and later, failing to find the
er, are probably put out to dis ore in the Bluster, and having trouble with
Technical Paper 21. The p.revention of
trket. For the price, as well mine exp.l0l3ions, report and recommenda the owners of the Success over an exten
I of copper, do not indicate that sion of t!me, he threw up everything and
tions by Victor WaHeyne, Carl Meissner,
l'Stantial. Of course, juat how and Arthur Desoorough. Rep·rint of United quit camp. He was then within ten feet
,ment from 12 to 17%, cents was States Geological Survey BulLetin 369. of the ore recently struck by the owners
ut by manipulation, is a very The Bureau of Mines has copies of these of ,the Success, on the fourth level, and
to decide, and aa in every other publication'S for froo distribu.tion, .but can immense bodies have since been opened up
:here was probably more or less not give moxe than one copy of the same in the Bluster property. Wingfield's en
~ first six mon,t'hs ·of the pres bulletin to one ,person. Req'uests for aU gineers paralleled the ore all the way in the
)w that production has totaled papers can not be granted without satb Bluster development work, and failed to find
pounds for the corresponding factory' reason. In asking for pU!blicatIons the ore by not cross-cutting to the foot wall.
ar ago, while total deliveries pleaJ5e order them by number and title. Ap The Sucess people are now within sIxty feet
80805,975 pounds, against 690, ])lications sho<uld be addressed to the Direc of the ledge in their 500-foot level and
Ids for the same period last tor o·f the Bureau of Mines, Wlashin,gton wilipush the work as fast as possible. After
I be seen, therefore. that total D. C. Wingfield's departure, Dicky Jones, his \
lave been 90,057,497 pounds former manager, made every effort to se w
---0·--
for the first half year of 1911, As an advertising medium The Mining Re· cure the Success, as he was confident that
increase of about the same view is unexcelled. very little more work would prove it to !be
THE SA L. T L. A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUGUST 15, 1912. 27
a big mine. Dicky was right, but he could will be started southeasterly to prospect the ORE IN THE CREOLE.
not reach the money. lead. Both sinking and drifting will be
~ The Bluster. carried on as fast as possible. About 400 (Record, Park City, Utah.)
This property is situated on Gorge Gulch feet southeasterly from the tunnel another For two weeks past big ore bodies have
north of Jarbidge river, It is about 3000 shaft is being started. So far throo feet boon encountered in the old Creole work
feet up the hill from the river and is on of good ore has been cut, This shaft is ings on Treasure Hill, the r~ent acquisi
the same lead as the Success Consolidated. being put down to find out, as nearly as tion to the Silver King Coalition holdings.
There are three cross-cut tunnels run on the possible, the extent of the lead. Work is From those who -have seen the strike The
property. In adit No.1 the lead is tapped now being carried on along the lead for a Record learns that it is of !big proportions
after driv:ng 175 feet. The lead to the south, distance of nine hundred feet and good ore as regards quantity. and rich in quality,
show€d eight foot of ore to the value of $27. is found during all that space. The leal! and is making the property of the King
The walls were not reached. In No.2 adit, will average around $30 in value, judging more' valuable as development progresses.
275 feet of ~ross-cut found the lead. Con from assays andpannings made Iby the own The new find is in 'the Creole ground prrOp€f,
s:derab!e work was done and in one place ers. Fourteen men are now employed and and had it been found when Jessie Knight
the ore was forty f€et wide which showed this force win be increased to twenty-five was in possession of the ground, those who
an average value of $12. There was six in a few days. A. W. BROUSE. are versed in mining say the stock of thc
----o---~
foot of ore which showed a value of $40. then Uintah·Treasure Hill would have pass
RICH DISCOVERY NEAR RYE PATCH.
In the extreme south face, which is all in ed the $5 mark, and caused great excite
ore, the assays were from $12 to $50. The A thousand years from now, if this old ment and speculation in mining circles.
lower tunnel is where the largest and best globe is then still in existence, rich ore Under existing condUions the big new find
results arebe:ng obtained. This is 300 feet discoveries will be made in the mining of rich ore neither advances the price of
in d€pth, The Wingfi€ld 'people missed the states of this intermountain region. A the King stock nor causes the least stir
ore on this level or did not exert themselves great many labor under the impreSSIOn that in Park City or elsewhere. This is per
to find it. When the present manager start· all of ,the bonanza propositions in the moun haps partly because the facts are not noised
ed work, when 'Wingfield quit, they started· tains and canyons have already been found. about by the company, but principally qe
cutting from the hanging wall to the foot This is but a theory, however, and is con cause the uncovering of big ore. b::>dies tn
wall and cut through seven feet of ore that tinually being shattered by discoveries made the many different sections of the vast hold
gave $40 in gold and six ounces of silver. in territory that was believed to have ,been ings of the King Coalition are of too com
Since the lead w.as first cut openings have thoroughly prospected years ago. From the mon occurrence to receive more than pass·
been made that shows the seven-foot streak min:ng field rich finds are {:ontinually be ing notice or comment. These strikes are
runs as high as $72. Assays from $40 up-. ing made, one of these, by a veteran pros nevertheless important to the camp and
wards have been obtained. The seven·foot pector who, contrary to the usual custom, demonstrate that the country is but scratch
does not ~nclude all the leads. It is over realized upon his discovery almost as s,oon ed-minerally speaking.
twenty feet wide in .places, the value of the as it was found. The Star, of Winnemucca, --~-(o>---
whole ~eing $20. So far the ore has been Nevada, in telling the find, says: GYPSUM NEAR VERNAL.
opened up on the 300·foot level, about 400 News has been r~eived here of a very
foot in length. It has also been found in important gold strike which was made (Express, Vernal, Utah.)
the north drift, and is of equally good value. about three weeks ago in' the Humboldt Prospecting over Ashley valley in the
Every day's work and every foot driven is range, about eight miles from Ry'e Patch. last few days has brought to light the fact
exposing to view more ore. One of the The discovery was made by a Swede pros that in and around Vernal are numerous
owners estimates that by the fore part of pector, who sold out to Judge Curler of and ex'tensive beds of gypsum equal in
August there will be a gross tonnage in this place and George H. Copley and Harry quality, it is thought, with that found nea,
sight to a value of a miUion and a half dol· Hunter of Imlay. Roosevelt, Utah, The only tests that have
lars. In a short time a winze will be sunk The ledge is about two feet wide and been made were from samples taken at the
on the rich streak, and still later a work marvelously rich ore is being taken from foot of the yellow dugway half way between
ing tunn~l lower down the hill will be the 'prospect shaft which is being sunk. Vernal and Jensen. This raw gypsum, taken
driven. The erection of a mill will be in At seven feet depth a sample was taken, from the road surface, was roasted and When
order very soon.", the assays across the ledge ranging from mixed with water immediately set into a
The Alpha. $62 to $1,200. The values are principally solid mass, showing ~onclusively that a high
This property is under option to Chicago in gold, though the ore ~arries some silver. quality Ibuilding material has been lying un·
,people, and is under the immediate super Pieces of the quartz from the richest streak touched for ages awaiting the discovery
vision of John A. Jess. The property is in the vein are fairly alive with gold. The of its usefulness.
situated northeast of town, up Bourne gulch. vein lies in porphyry and it stuck out two ~ Beds of gypsum were also found north
The lead has been opened up 900 foot in feet out of the ground. A piece of rock of Vernal, west and almost in town. In a
length and shows values at every opening. broken from the croppings showed a seam few days samples will be collected from a
The work being carried on at present con of almost solid gold. dozen sources for roasting into the plaste~
sists of a drift tunnel on the lead, being The owners have a group of eight claims of paris state and then thcy will be put
now in about 300 feet, and will be driven and .they are of course enthusiastic over through the setting process to test the tex
about 100 feet farther to tap the shaft that the strike, which gives extraordinary sur tile strength after being moulded into blocks.
is being sunk on the lead. The face of face promise, They will prosecute vigor· If the gypsum-plastcr of paris product In
the drift is all in ore of at least a $15 value. ous develoment to fully ascertain the value Ashley valley proves out, as expected, a
A gasoline driven fan kee'ps the air in of the find, company may be organiZed to put the pro
good shape. The shaft is now down 110 Harry Hunter was in town Saturday ~on· duct upon the market.
The motivc power consists of a six-horse ferring with Judge Curler in regard to their 0--
power engine handling two buckets. The property. The latter, accompanied by his The Jamison lea.3e on the Pacific dump,
lead here is about three fect in width and son, Ben Vogel Curler; left that evening in American Fork district, Utah, made a
shows an assay value of from $40 to $75. Iby auto for the scene of the strike. where shipment of thirty tons of fine lead ore, the
From the 90-foot level in the shaft, a drift they will remain about a week. fif'St of the week,
T.H ESA L T L AK'EMiNI N G REV I E W, AUG U ST. 15, 1912.
iVITY IN GOLDFIELD MINES. campaign of lateral work at a depth of 300 Hornsilver and Great Western ledges before
feet. That point will be reached by the the present objective depth is gaIned. It
I Consolidated Makes a Good Show· shaft within the next two or three days. is the inltention of the manag'ement to run
Ig.-Great Western Resumes. After a 30·f90t sump is sunk below the level, a cro813·cut from the 500-foot point to pick
crosscutting will be inaugurated. Two rna· Ulp wlhat is known as tille' "norrth" ledge,
(Special Correspondence. chine drills will be installed to facilitate which on the surface ,parallels the other
rding to the June report of General the lateral work. The bottom of the shaft two ledges and lays wbout 100 feet north
:endent Thorn, just made public, the is now in an altered latite formation and of t he shaft.
oduction of the Goldfield Con~oli· Superintendent Healy is firm in the belief The Florence.
lines company for that month was that the lateral work on the 300·foot level After a sUSIPens.ion of sinking opera·
ons of a total value of $573,658.31 will result in the interception of large ore ltions for several days, occasioned by the
verage of $17.72 per ton, of which bodies and determine ,the extent of the necessity of repairin,g and relieving weak·
ons were milled with an' average fault of the formatioIlt3 through the Lone ened timbe!1~ at several po.in;.s, work Is in
) l l of 92.63 per cent, and 3,325 tons Star ground at an early date. Th\l re pro'g,ress in the main ,s,ha[ot of r!Je Florence
ipped of an average value of $23.91 organization of the old corporation, the mine, which has passed the 118()foot point.
the net recovery from all ore be· Goldfield Lone Star Mining company, as the It wm be completed to the 1200·foot point
60 per ton. The total net real.iza· Lolle Star Consolidated Mining company has within the next few days. A 6t).foQt SUIIllP
ounted to $325475.52 or $10.06 per been entirely completed. A large majority will be sunk, and a huge StaT!on cut, all
1e development work accomplished of the stockholders of the. old company of which work is e"pected to be finished
d 3,034 feet. availed themselves of the privilege of ex· w~thill ninety days. Upon its completion.
)ination-The stope in the Rellly changing their shares for those of the new ~ateml worl: upon an _ex:tensive scale will
Itheast of the shaft produced 1341 company upon a basis of share for share, be inaugurateid. The shaf~ has recen,ly cut
'22.00 ore. The 402·G stope 300 feet plus two cents a share. The new corpora· 13everal quartz s'tringers that return Eomall
• the shaft between the 5th and 6th tion is in excellent shape financially. The values. The new cross·cut Oll the :350·foot
roduced 353 tons of $18.00 ore~ This perio.d for the exchange of shares expired level has just encountered the bi~ ledge
leepest point in the mine at which J:uly 20th. opened upsev€·ral months ago on the 250
b"een found. ~ new stope which Great Western. foot J,evel in virgin 'ground. Cross-cutting
duce a large tonnage is being open· Upon his return from -the east within and d.rifting on the ledge to intercept the
1e second level 200 feet east of the the next few wee,ks, S. H. Brady, of Tonopah, downwa.rd extension of -the rich ore shoot
'e, under the old January workings. will resume op.erations on the Great West· exposed on the 250·foot level are now being
ad 103·X drifts driven through the ern mine, in the Ho.rnsilver distrIct" south proseou.ted on the 350·foot level.
.roduced 117 tons of $15.00 ore. of Goldfield, the control of which he and Vernal
Iwk-The work being prosecuted his associates recently acquired. The Great On the 200-foot level of the Vernal, drift·
[ the 3 stope on the 150·foot level Western ha.~ been extensively developed ing is in progress on a. big ledge, encount·
the old Sheets·lsh country is provo and has already to its credit shipments of· ered s~xty feet west of the ,;:;haft. The rock
a large tonnage of good grade ore. ore ~xceeding $125,000 in value. There is being extracted assays around $9 a ton.
sill, 50 feet north of the 3·E stope, at present a great tonnage of pay ore in 'l'he size (,f the ledge hag not !.,(len ueter·
j 43 tons of average $37.60 ore. The sight on the various levels, which warrant minE,lI. a c.;OSS-Cilt 'not ha.ving t:ll.S far been
being advanced north in the foot· the prediction that the resumption of oper· run from wall to wall. The volume 0:
the Sheets·I,~h sto.pe produced 38 ations will be followed by a steady pro· water is slowly increasing and the man·
$31.00 ore. The 170·L stope on the ducLion of ore that will not only add to the ag,ement 'has found it necessary to install
level stripping the lower end of laurels of the property but give a (!eclded a ,pump to handle it.
ets·lsh stope produced 105 tons of impetus to operations throughout the Horn· Silver Pick Consolidated.
reo The l11·N on the 250·foot level silver district and C{)ntiguo\li~ country. Mr. More >than fifty feet of work ha'3 been
.he Hayes·Monette stope produced Brady has purchased a mill in the Bullfrog accompJished since drHting was beg,un two
j 1389 tons of $43.20 ore. district and workmen are at present en· weeks ago on the 10·foot ledge re<lently
nont-The 426·X intermediate be· gaged in dismantling (t for removal to. the cut on the 260,foot level on the Silver Pick
he 750·foot and 600·foot levels and Hornsilver district. He has also purchased Consolidated 100 feet so,uth of the shaft.
s of $40.00 ore. The 3M·Q drift water rights, located about twelve miles The drift is being advanced toward the
Dotwall section of the big 354 stope distant from the Great Western, and the Mohawk claim of the GDldfield Oonsolida,ted
• the old 401 stope produced 108 laying of a pipe·line to '3upply water to the upon ore that at present assays around
$28.00 ore. During the pa,~t month mill will probablY be started within the $7.50 a ,ton. The,re has been an encourag·
elopment on the 1300·foot level of next few weeks. ing increase in the values obtained In the
zJy Bear has been very satisfactory. Hornsilver Mining. drift during the }ast few days and Manager
drift in the orebody has been ship· Under the supervision of Superintendent Van Duck i,;:; confident that rock of a highe,r
broken, the last round of much Howard Russell, an average of three feet a grade will be encountered in the near fu·
broken, . the last round of muck day is being made tn the sinking of the ture. The Jumbo Extension.
Impartment of the shaft from the shaft on the property of the Hornsilver dis· The spur f.rom the main line of the Las
the 1600 was completed, and pipes, trict from the 300 to the 500·foot level. '('he Vegas and Tonopah railroad to the mine
and eleCtrical equipment moved bore has been sent down more than 50 feet ihaving been completed, >the management of
I-uides were put down the fDrmer since sinking operations were resumed the Jumbo Ex'tension Mining company has
from the surface to. the 1300, and about two wee~~ ago. following the exposure everything in readines,s for the inaugura·
e drum electric hoist installed on of the Hornsilver ledge eighty feet south tion of ore,shipments to its recently leased
[ace. Sinking the next lift of 140 of the shaft on the 300·ft. level, where drift· mill at Bonnie Claire, 38 miles south of
now in progress. ing fora distance of fifty feet east and Goldfie1d which will be placed in commis·'
The Lone Star. west showed the ore to. average $22 a ton sion August 10th, by which date all neces
u; been definit£)ly decided by the and better ~han eight feet in width. The 13 ary rep'airs wi! have 'been made.
1 Within .J
nent of the Lone Star Consolidated management is confident that the shaft the next few days 300 >tons of ore wlll be
company to prosecute an extensive will reveal the converging point or the shiipped to the mill to fill the ore bins.
TPWW
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 1 5, 1 9 1 2. 29
bottom of the 70-foot shaft on the Caledonia sor he uses and this line was extended 1,800
COLORADO.
vein, situated twelve miles northeast :of feet and is now in working order. He will
town. The pay-streak from which the speci build a small boarding house at the mouth
Georgetown Courier: Supplies and two
mens came in almost as wide as the shaft of the Sunshine tunnel for the accommo
men left town last Thursday for the Merri
and every round of holes fired breaks bet dation of. his men and will then run a tun
mac mining property on Kelso mountain
ter or", nel in about 800 feet. to tap the Magpie
and work will be prosecuted vigorously
vein, a body of ore that he feels is good
Clifton Copper Era: The Calumet and from now on. The property belongs to J.
enough for shipment. A recent bond taken
Arizona is hustling work on its new smeltet P. Johnson and was a producer of high
on the Magpie gives him the ground he
at Douglas The material is nearly all on grade ore in the early days. It is stated
wants,
th(~ ground and construction goes on fast. that a fine showing is in evidence on this - - - - O h_ __
At tile mines the developments prove that property and good indications of ore ahea(1 IDAHO.
the new smelting plant will have work to of the breast of the tunnel as surface ore
do for some time to come. Ore is being shows strong in mineral values. Hailey Times: William Schultz, WI;1O
opened up at all the prinCipal shafts, and Telluride Examiner: Manager T. E. Was dOwn from Boulder today, says that
it is of exceptionally high grade. Thomas, of the Junta Mining & Milling the workings in the lower tunnel have just
Florence Blade-Tribune: Superintendent company, and tbe Jim Crow M~ning com £ut a vein of concentrating ore three feet
McMillan reports the discovery of a 4-foot pany, has recently arranged for a meeting wide, carrying 15 inches of 50 or 55 per
vein of very rich copper ore in their cross· of his companies on August 20 for the pur cent zinc.
cute from the McMillan shaft on the Sul pose of merging both into one, the name Elk City Mining News: W. F. Johnson
tana group, situated on the south side of proposed for the consolidated companies to and Bob Hiland have made a new discovery
the river at Kelvin. The ore is said to be be the Junta Consolidated Gold Mining & on Galena creek. The vein uncovered car
the richest copper ore ever discovered, be Milling company. While this mergement is ries good values, but not enough work has
ing- almost pure bullion. The Sultana is going on, work at the mines is being pushed been done to determine to what extent the
l:>ecoming noted for phenomenally riCh 'pay and everything is looking good, A very ore shoot will go. The claims are well sit
streaks." large vein of free milling ore is opened on uated, and a road runs nearly to the prop
Kiqgman Miner: The Swansea smelt the Jim Crow group and the Junta prop erty. More work will be done. and the vein
er has been blOwn in and is said to be erties are all showing good milling ore. uncovered for some distance,
doing good work. The plant is under new Georgetown Courier: Dr. Charles E. \Vallace Miner: Some fine specimens
management and is reported to have plenty Rowland, of Syracuse, N. y" who for anum· of copper ore were brought to town this
of capital back of it. The ore buyers are ber of years has been associated witJi Nel week from the Bullion property. The recent
searching for silicious ores that will stand son Williams in the development of the strike that was made in the raise being
the freieght to that place, and a good Ruler lode, on Griffith mountain, spent sev· driven from the west drift, has widened un
smelting rate will be accorded this class of eral days here this week. The doctor is so til tbere is now fully eighteen inches of
Qrc. Ore carrying fome cQPper, iron and well pleased with the Ruler property that solid ore, The management expects to have
silica is what is needed. he has bought the extension of the vein, a car ready for shipment to the smelter
Florence Blade-Tribune: The Magma the CQmet mine, which is one of the oldest within the next few days and if the present
Copper company's new air compressor ar· discoveries in the district, and has a large ore body continues as expected, and the in·
rived at the Florence depot Saturday, was production to its credit. The Comet, Ruler dications are it will, mo~e men will be put
loaded on to an iron truck, capable of car· and Eetna are on the same vein, which to work on stoping and shipments will be
rying 30,000 pounds, and started for the is one of tbe largest in the district, and made regularly. The ore now' being taken
mines, at Superior, Wednesday. It Is one which is now producing so largely in thfl out will assay from 15 to 20 per cent cop
of the largest compressors in the state. workings of the Capital company. per and runs high in silver values. The
With this machine added to the oed com Boulder Miner: The Lincoln-American pmperty is located near the IdahoJ~fontaIla
pressor equipment at the mine the air sup Mining company has opened the rich ore divide and is one of the oldest and best
ply ',vil! be ample for all purposes. The body in the American mine at Magnolia equipped in the district,
30 THE 5 A L T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U 5 T 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
today for men to work in the mine. for the extraction of radium and other rare
the Sheep Rock is ahout to commence ship
Picche Record: William H. Pitts, man mi"nerals from ores found in this region. ping are again, and that Wilford Robinson
ager of the Home Run Copper company, It has become known that four scientific
is busy looking for teams to haul the same
spent a day or two at the properties of men from France and England have made to Milford. The Sheep Rock Is located in
that corporation this week and returned to a tour of 'various depOSits in this and near the Newton Mining district on Indian
Pioche well pleased wJth the progress being by states and have undertaken to arrange
Creek, north of Beaver.
made with development there., Mr, Pitts with owners for control of the output in
mens of rock showing free gold.' A small iron-oxides, is handled under the name of
streak of ore gives values of nearly sIx emery as an abrasive.
thousand dollars in gold and about one hun CAMP·FIRE CHATS
By PAUL VALTlNKR
Among the nickel-ores proper, garule
dred fifty ounces in silver. A forty ton rite is the least knQiwn by the American
car was shipped to the Salt Lake market prospector. As it has been found here in
last week, which ought to net in the Colhalt·orE'S, attractive to the miner on different localities a di<3cription of It may
neighborhood of two hundred dollars a account of their association with nickel and .be of value to the man in the field. Garule
ton. sHver-ores. are practically 'worth less if rite Is a hydrous silicate of nickel and mak
the latter-mentioned elements are absent. nesium. It is mO'Stly found in loosely com
Richfield Sun: L. H. Outzen and his'
Only a comparatively small amount of the 'Pacted masses of a brilliant dark-green to
son, Henry, ca'me down from the Outzen
oxide is used for the co:oring of glaJ3s and a pale apple-green eolor. It adheres to the
properties in Bullion canyon last Thursday,
china-ware. The 'Word colbalt means goblin. <tongue, whereby it differs from the carbon
bringing very encouraging reports. De
The old German miners called the ore Ko ate and silicate of copper. It colors the
velopment work is moving along steadily
bold (goblin). As the ores 'Show a decided 'borax bead red and is only partly soluble
and every day.sees results. The tunnel is
metallic lus.ter the old miners tried to re in chY'lirochloric or nitric acid. It is exten
is now in five hundred feet. The face is
duce the same, but as they never succeeded ,3tively mined ·in New Caledonia and is now
in very obstinate trachite and the work
to obtain from them any metal ,they gave the chief source of nickel.
is necessarily slow. It is confidently ex
.to the ores the characteristic name of Ko The time is very ne·ar that eastern zinc
pected that the main ore body will be en
,bold. Since then the metal has been ob sme-Hers will have to look towards the west
countered within the next fortnight. J. S.
tained. It is a silver-white, malleable, tena for their ore supplies. Zlnc-cal'bonates and
McCullough, whose property adjoins the
ciou,. metal of specific gravity 8..5. The min <silicates will be the first to SUPPlY the
Outzen group, has just opened up a vein of
erals Srn.a,ltilte (CoAs,.), CobaUite (CoAsS) market. They are more desirable at the
$40 ore, and he is feeling elated over the
and the rarer ,Cobalt-Bloom (of peach blo\3 IPresent time as (hey do not require pre
strike.
som color) are found and mined in Cana.da limlnary roasting. 1\.3 these ores have .been
E.'ureka Reporter: During the month of f<iil' their nickel and silver contents. Of
July the Chief Consolidated mine broke ali repeatedly overlooked, a short discription
late investigations are going on to use eo of the two will perhaps help 'Somebody to
previous records in the matter of ore pro balt, the same as nickel is used already,
duction, the saipments for that period ago find them on some old dump or In his own
to be alloyed with steel and it is claimed workings. Smith..sonite, the carbonate, Is a
gregating fifty·two carloaas. Notwithstand· that so treMed '3teel will not rust as easily.
ing the fact tbat this is an exceptionally white vitrous mineral, but often colored
Thou'Sands of tons of practicaIly pure co yellowish or brownish by iron; more rarely
heavy output tor one month, there is a balt are awaiting their use .in the arts. it is of a green or blue color. Its hardness
possibility that the output of this mine for
Tellurium, which in the form of tellurides is 5 and ib3 specifiC gravity 4.3 to 4.5. It is
August wilI be even greater. The Chief
of gold and silver had made Bouler and soluble in acid'S ;with efl'erescence. With a
Cor.solidated officials are not doing mucb
Cril}ple Creek famous, is bY itself also .prac litUe soda it will yield a white su'blimate on
talking,but )J1ere is no getting away from
tica.11y worthless. It is a brittle, silvery cobalt solution and reheated becomes bright
the het that the conditions underground
white sul:ntance 'With metallic luster. Be g!'een. Calamine, the silicate, resembles the
are excellent and that it is a comparatively
sides the alI'eady mentioned tellurid€'S of former as to color and structure. Its hard
easy task to take out a couple of cars of
gold and silver, the rarer oneil of lead and TIf'SS is also clo3e to 5, while it is lighter
ore each day.
bismuth have also been found occurring in in weight, only 3.4 to 3.5. It 'will not effer
Green River Dispatch: Alfred Forsman nature. ...esce with acids, but it leaves, after dis
of tlils city recently sent the government
Only one of its compounds is used in mlution, a gelatinous redidue. The other
director of physical and chemical investi
medicine and its employment is so odd, that Fmithsonite mentioned cobalt test ap'plies
gations at Washington an average sample
hardly ever the pros'pector wHl have use <llso to Calamine. If pure, both contain ill
of carnotite from the Tom Boy group near
for it. If a lady of high society haG be the neighborhood of 60 ,per cent zinc-oxide
here, and he has been apprised that it runs
come a mere nervous wreck as a result of A 40 percent ore will stand shipment t(
3.5 milligrams radium, as metal, per short
a prolonged chain of calls, bridge parties, the Kan,3as smelters.
ton (2,000 pounds), which is the equivalent
or 6 milligrams radium bromide, worth at
balle, etc., her .physician will force her to ----0.---
take a rest by giving her some pills con The Spring 'Canyon Coal Mining COIl
retail about $80 per milligram, or $480 per
taining the tellurium compound in ques pany, of Provo, UtlUh, ,has been incorporate
ton. The 'Uranium and vanadium, figured
tion. The compound, diSSOlved by tne with a capitalization of $100,000 dividen
at the lowest grade that has ever been
gastric juices of the stomach, will impart into 10-cent shares. The officere and <'
shipped from here (4 per cent) will bring
such an abomniable smell to the breath of rectors are Jesse Kinght, president; J. W
at least $136 per ton, thus making the ag
the patient tbat she will not be able to liam Knight, vice-president; A. M. Knigl
gregate value per ton $616.
leave her room for several days. secretary and ·treasurer" R. E. Allen a'
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Diabase is a dolerite which has under G. A. StorE'3, The company holds 800 acr
ton. The new working tunnel, being driven chrystalliz€ s in hexagonal forms. (Known of Lehi, Utah, has been incorporated wi!.
below the up·per workings, is now in about amongst .prospectors as the rifle-barrel car;italization of $100.000 in ten-cent sba
;;00 feet, and it is believed the lime-quart form,) It is, the diamond excepted. the hard· The officers and directors are ,J, N. E
zite contact will soon be reached. Ex-Mayor est mineral known, as it easily will scratch president; Charles Anderson. vice-pl
Ezra Thompson, managing director of the quartz and even topaz. Larger chrystals dent; A. O. Slade, treasurer, Howard 1
Cardiff company, recently vhited the mine are usually rough. Purer form.3 of fine dock and Charles Herron. The prop
and is well pleased with its physical ap. colors are sapphires, the red variety is ruby, of tbe company is located in Tooele COt
Stan':ey c. Sears, of Boston, is now gen· charge of the Red Warrior mine in Star The Marion Mining company, of Ely, Ne
eral manager of the Utah-Apex, at Bingham, district, Beaver county. Utah, was a recent vada, has placed an order with the F. C.
Utah. Salt Lake visitor. Mr. Merritt states that Richmond Machinery company, of Salt Lake,
B. L Hoxie 1'8 now superintendent of the mine i'3 shipping regularly, and that it for a 10·&tamp mill for its mine at CharlO'S·
the Manhattan.-Earl mine. at Manhattan, i'8 in excellent phYSical condition. ton, Nevada.
Nevada. Col. John E. Pelton, formerly of the Na G. A. Heman. who has the contract for
Walter Virdon has taken a lease on the tional Mining company, of National, Nevada, ,sidewalk extensions in Salt Lake, 'has placed
Black Eagle mine and mill near Yellow and who was instrumental in developing a $40,000·order with the Portland Cement
Jacket, Idaho. that property trom a prospect into a bon· company of Ogden. for "Red Devil" cement
anza, is now interested in the Eastern Star with which to perform this work.
E. W. Ralph. of Ely, Nevada.superin
mi'ne in Gold Circle district, Nevada. The F. C. Richmond Machinery company,
tendent of the Boston·Eiy mines, was are·
cent Salt Lake visitor. George SL Clair, of Ophir, Utah, mine of Salt Lake, boas an order from the Model
manager for the Lion Hill Consolidated com· Laundry company for eighteen 'Vesting
E. E. Price has succeeded E. G. Coffin pany, was in Salt Lake, laGt week, looking 'house motors. The laundry is equipping its
as superintendent of the Lower Mammoth
after a 50-ton shipment of first-clas'" ore. machines wiIth individual motol"s.
mine at Mammoth. Utah. Mr. St. Clair is greatly elated over the s!}len
Charieos Forberg, of Salt Lake, who is The Silver Bros. Iron Works company,
did showing in the company's property, and of Salt Lake, has r~ived telegraphic or
working the S,pread Eagle mine near Iron predicts a great future for the cam!} in
ton, Colorado, has uncovered some good, pay der,:; for thirty-six more mine oars from the
general, now that it has railroad connection -Goldfield Consoltidated Mines company, of
ore. with the outside world. Goldfield, Nevada. The company nad pre·
H. W. Loman, of Breckenridge, Colo· -'~--'{)c-----
viously ordered 17 cars, making a total
rado, superintendent for the Gold Dredging CONSTRUCTION NOTES. of 207 of the Silver Bros. cars now in use
company, has been taking a vacation In in the operation of this great mine.
the east. The town of Murray, Utah, has voted a
The Salt Lake branch of Fairbanks,
J. B. Hastings, of Yellow Jacket, Idaho, $60.,000-bond issue for the installation of
Morse & Co. reJ}Orts ,recent machinery sales
manager for the Yellow Jacket Mining com a municipal ,power plant.
a.3 follows: S4xty-horseJ}Ower engine to op·
pany, has returned home from a visit to Hatley, Idaho. has made provision for erate on three-cent California oil, for the
New York. a bond issue of $40,000 with which to in New Yerington CopJ}Elr company, of Yering
R. C. Vanderford, of Eureka, Nevada, stall municipal water 'works. ton, Nevada. Five 25-horsepower oil engines
superintendent for the Cedro-Eureka Min The TwIn Falls, Railroad com!}any. of to the W. O. Kay Elevators, o,perating in
ing company, recently transacted business Twin Falls, Idaho, I. B. Perrine, manager, Utah and Idaho. Gas~ine hoist for the
in Spokane. has prepared plans for the building of a Latest Out Mining company, of Salmon,
W. C. Prickett and C. S. Peterson, of bridge over the Snake river. 'rhe bridge Idaho. Gasoline hoist, to J. A. Jess., of Jar
Birmingham. Alabama, recently Inspected lWiH be 1,180 feet long and 540 feet in blidge, Nevada.
mining camps in the near vicinity of WIn heighth above the river. TheJeffrey Manufacturing company, of
nemucca, Nevada. ---Q---
Columbus, Ohiio, has moved its Chicago of
Jack Kirwin and Alex Hall, operating in THE REEDS PEAK. fice and headquarters from the Fisher build
Camp Tobin, near Winnemucca, Nevada, ing to the McCormick building, recently
have exposed twenty inches of ore going (Record. Park City, Utah.) completed, with S. S, Shive, sal€>3 engi
$116 in gold to the ton. Recent important discoveries in the neer, In charge. The office is located on
Cardifl' property over in Big Cottonwood the 17th fioor of this magnificent structure,
Paul Klopstock, of Kennedy, Nevada, su
perintendent for the Go'ld Note Mining & district brings the adjoining' property. the where customers and friends wHl receivp.
Milling com!}any, was in Chicago, recently, Reeds Peak, into prominence. The latter a hearty welcome. The Jeffrey company
property is owned principally by Park City main-ia.ins fourteen branch offices in the
on bUsines.3 for his company.
people, who are working it to the limit of United States, and over 100 agents in the
L. E. lves ha'8 resIgned as associate edi their means. It is a most promising pros
tor of the Engineering and Mining Journal lead.!ng commel"Cial centers a.:l over the
pect and were it possible to raise a few world.
to ,become mining and assistant enginee,r
thousand dollars to equip it with machln·
Ing editor of the Iron Trade Review. The Colorado Iron Works, of Denver, bR.S
ery so as to facilitate work, a mine .would
L. C. Wilson, of Salt Lake, who is In as'Sued Catalogue No. 10 C, entitled "Advanc
soon be uncovered. Frdm the Cardiff about
terested in the Rico-Argentine mine a.t Rico, ed Cyanide Practice and Equipment." This
$8 000 of ore is being marketed every
Colorado. recently made an exhaustive ex is a most interesting publication, in which
,month, and the ledge from which this ore
amination of the company's property. two methods of operation of the company's
is mined runs through the Reeds Peak, to
Counter-Current Treatment by washing in
Harry Earle, of Salt Lake, one of the eut which the tunnel is now in some 45(1
continuous dllutJion are fully described. while
officials of the Home Run Mining company, feet with perhaps another 100 feet to go.
the ,work contains much that is new in cy
recently visited the company's property in The Cardiff is owned principally by Ezra
anide practice; v:hile facts and figuoos are
the Bristol district, near Pioche, Nevada. Thompson and J. D Murdock, two form
giVen wMch are of vital interNt io mill
J. C. Martin, of Marion, Illinois, who er Parkites who made big ,fortunes in Park
men. The catalogue is handsomely mus
is interested in the Southern Illinois Min City mines, with promising prospects ot
trated, 'and the text is an education, in
ing company. operating near Boulder, Col making still larger ones from the property
itself, for those' who WlOul<d errn;ploy the
orado, recently viSited the company'sprop above mentioned.
cyanide process of ore reduction.
erty. ----0'---
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Joseph Whitlln, of Eureka, Utah, presi The ten·stamp mill of the Mazuma Hills
dent of the Crown Point Mining com,pany. M. & M. company, at Mazuma, Nevada. was The Utah-Apex" of Bingham, Utah, has
who was a. recent Salt Lake vIsitor, Is en recently destroyed by fire; redueed its bonded indebtedne3S to $240,000.
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 1 5, 1 9 1 2. 33
equipment for the purpose of driving a by Charley Smith. He says the showing
(Mine 6- SmellerBuilding I long drain and working tunnel in West
Mountain distri~t_
is fine--14 samples made from one claim
showed an average of $44 in gold. Seven
The Press, of Beaver, Utah, states that samples from claim No.2, gave an aver
The Boston-ElY company, of Ely, Ne·
the mining interests of Newton district, age of $18 in gold. The veins are five and
vada, has decided to equip its property with
a big pumping ,plant. near that p:ace, have combdned for the pur three feet, and ean be, traced for several
pose of installing a 25-stamp mill for the hundred feet on the surface_
Patrick Marley, of Salt Lake, has mill -,------0
treMment of ores from the several proper·
building in contemplation for his property RICH STRIKE IN FORTUNA.
tie<3 in the district.
near Farmington, Utah_
The Detro:t Copper eompany, of Mor (Bulletin, Searehlight, Nev.)
Two more lead furnaces will. in all ,prob
enci, Arizona, has decided to make altera The talk of the week has been the
abi;lty. be added to the plant of the Inter
tions and imp,ro'Vements in its smelting great strike by Howe and Harris in th€
national smelter at Tooele, Utah_
plant_ The company will replaee its gas Fortuna, in Eldorado canyon, of which de
The Rico-Wellington Mining company. of engines with a steam plant, and electric
Provo, Utah, may equip its mine, at Rico, tails were given in last week-s Bulletin.
power will be applied in the operation of the The are that is now being hauled to the
Colorado, with a milling plant in the near concentrator. The office of the company
future. Santa Fe station here, for shipment to
i,3 at 99 John street, New York, N. Y. the International smelter, Utah, is a sH
The AlaskaConsoGldated Copper com· T,he Spring Canyon Coal company, of vel' ehloride running into the hundreds in
pany, of Valdez, Ala'Ska, has in contempla Provo, Utah, Jesse Knight, president, whleh value.
tion the buildIng of a 500-ton concentrat Is now actively engaged in opening up large Visitors are n'Ot permitted to enter the
ing plant. coal areas in Carbon county, Utah, will soon underground workings, but the size of the
'I1he Conqueror M. & M. company, of install the iargest eapacity aerial tramway dump and the daily additions to it are the
Silver Plume, Colorado, is preparing plans in the world, the tramway to connect its basis of the keen general interest and the
and specifications for the construction of a mines with the railroad. The tram will oft-repeated statement that these lucky
100-ton mill. be 3.200 feet in length, and will have a leasers in the past fortnight have taken out
The Cortez Mining & Reduotion com ,carrying eapacity of 250 tonl3 "per hour. more strietly high-grade ore than hereto
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pany, of Cortez, Nevada, Capt. J. M. Bern fore known elsewhere in th!s section.
CAPE HORN LOOKING UP.
ardi, manager, will soon put in a custom The force consists of six men and the
milling plant. extract:on is e·stimated at three and one
(SpeCial Correspondenee.)
o.lson & Company, of Telluride, Colo· Cape Horn, Idaho, Aug. 10.-Martin J. half tons and upward per day. Reeently
rado, who have a lease on the old Bernardo Heller, eon suiting engineer for Capt. J. R. development has been started 30!) feet east
mine, near that place, have mill building in DeLamar, has reeently examined the prop of the shaft, in a small gulch, where a crop
contemplation. ping of the ore from the main drift was
erty of the Burns id- & M. company, of
Edward Bdpane and Thos. Beadall, of found. Th€ work here not only represents
Custer county, this state, in the interests
Jarbidge, Nevada, owners in the Bluster a gain In depth of about 100 feet, but gives
of the Internationa.I Nickle company, In
mine at that place, have mill building in well-night positive assuranee of the con
wh!eh Capt. DeLamar is a heavy holder.
contemplation. Mr. Brose, of Sheep mountain, is ship tinuaUon of the rich are shoot to that
point.
The Lawrence Mining & Milling com ping twenty-five tons of high-g,rade galena
A sample of the are in question ii! in
pany, of Sand Poin,t, Idaho, Josel!h Reed, to the Salt Lake smelters. Mr. J. Pfost is
the ore cabinet at the post offiee.
manager, is arranging to erect a 50-ton con taking out another shipment from Sea ---o~---,-
centrating plant. . Foam_ The Greyhound is working a full STRIKE IN THE CONGRESS.
The Santa Ana-Rawhide Gold M,ining erew, and Is steadily developing its mines_
company, of Yerington, Nevada, C. A. Ter The sale of the Clayton mines and smel (Herald, Ouray, Colo.)
williger, manager, has decided to equip its ter, and the e'mphatie manner in whleh The news of the opening of an immense
property with a 'Stamp mill. the purchasers have started development body of rieh enargite in the old Congress
The- Mary McKinney Mining company, work and improvements. is stimulating the mine at Red Mountain, twelve miles south
of Cri~ple C.reek, Colorada, will add to its prospeetors of Custer county; so look out of Ouray, is caus:ng considerable rejoic
mine equiPlllent, and may put in a large for old-tife strikes. ing, as it means the revival of good times
electrically operated hO}3ting ,plant. Supplementing the information furnish in that famous old district.
ed by our Cape' Horn correspondent Is the The vein was opened in the breast of
The Day·Bristol Consolidated Mines com
following taken from the Stanley Items in the sixth level ninety feet below the old
pany, of Pioche, Nevada, George E. Bent.,
Verdin Alexander is now with the Utah Lake., whose property is located in Bti'Stol E. S. Sheffield has succeeded F. R. HuH
Copper company at Garfield, Utah. district out of Pioche, Nevada, and whose as ,guperintendent of the Empire mine at
G. A. Collins, of Spokane, Washington, sensational copper discoveries, of late, have Grass Valley, California.
is now in charge of the Idora Hill mine in set company stockholders wild with delight,
N. L. Stewart has accepted a position
Idaho. has struck a third cave in it.:; mine work
with the Tacoma Smelting company at Ta
ings, concerning which Superintendent \V.
The International Smelting & Refining coma, Washington.
H. Pitts writes as follow'S: "Have opened
company has posted its regular quarterly
an immense cave branching in aa directions. C. E. Green, of Tooele, Utah, one of the
dividend. It is filled to the .top with loose ore. Have best electrical engineers in the west, was
The Comet mine, near Georgetown, Col hoisted twenty tons good ore today, all a recent Salt Lake visitor.
orado, ,has been oold to Dr. Charles Row shoveling. We are now thirty feet below Harry T. Curran now has charge of the
lands, of Syracuse, New York. lowest 'Workings with plenty of soft ore be milling plant of the Hudson Reduction com·
The leasers of ,the New Stockton mine, low 'us." The company ha.3 four teams haul· pany at Idaho Springs, Colorado.
near Stockton, Utah, recently shipped five ing ore to the railroad shipping point, and R. W. Sampson, the well known minIng
cars of firSJt and second-class ore. has ordered 500 more ore 'Sacks. The last man and engineer, has returned to Salt
The South Utah, of Newhouse, Utah, it two shipments netted the company $50 a Lake from a vi'3it to southern California.
is stated, has uncovered a fine body of cop ton.
H. D. Bowman and L. D. Farnsworth, of
per ore on the 600 level, in virgin ground. T,hat the gold and silver camp of State
Salt Lake City, nave formed a partnership,
The Adamoon-Turner mine, near Winne line, in Iron county, Utah, has not been
and wEI engage in construction engineering.
mucca, Nevada., recently consigned another entirely forgot ton is evidenced by the fact
car of high-grade ore {o the Salt Lake mar that Robert Weisl3. an eXperienced Califor· Thos. L. Leggett has been appointed con·
ket. nia mining man, has secured a lease and sulting engineer of the mining department
bond on the property of the Johnnie Min· of the American Smelting & Refining com
The Copper Reserve Mining & Reduc
ing company, at that place. Mr. \Vei'Ss was pany.
tion company, of Salt Lake, has been Incor
iI;! Salt Lake, last week, (Closing up the Charles Patrick, of Flagstaff, Arizona, re
porated with a capitalization of 300,000
deal and making arrangements to resume cently made an examination and report on
shares of $1 each. The officers and direc
work in the operation and development of the property of the Montezuma Mining com
tors are A. H. Tarbet, president; S. M.
the Johnnie mine, which has a production pany, east of F'10renoe, same state.
Levy, vice-president; Henry T. McEwen,
record of approximately $100,000. The high.
secretary; C. S. Burton, treasur~r, and Ray R. C. Dugdale, of the Ft. Way.ne works.
grade in Ithe Johnnie Is of the sensational
S. Bowman. of the General Electric com;pany, is making
order, and furnished the material for the
It is stated that that the Bingham-New shipping ore .sent out by the company in headquarters in Salt Lake for the purpose
Haven Mining company, of Bingham, Utah, the early history of the mine. The real of introducing the electric rock drill manu·
has contracted its oreos and concentrates to value of the property, however, exists in its factured by the Ft. WaYne company.
,the International smelter at Tooele, Utah, milling iJre, large volumes of which are W. R. Calvert, of Salt Lake, of the firm
and that the mine and mill prodU(;,t of the blocked out, and in sight, gQlng rrom $10 of Arnold, Fisher & CaJlvert, consultin~
company will be transported to the smelter to' $20 ,to the ton, and even higher, while geologi:;ts and engineers, has returned form
over the aerial tramway of the Utah Con·
solidated company.
the high·grade halS 'been known Ito run as
high as $10,000 in gold to the ton, with
middle and 'Southwestern \Vyoming, where
he made an examination of oil lands.
I
The Nevada Hills Mining company, of silver assaying up to 2,000 ounces. The A. C. Campbell, of Butte, Montana, un
Fairview, Nev., during the month of June, Johnnie mill is to be overhauled and, as ti! recently connected with the Anaconda
milled 3,450 ton,3, which averaged in value soon :IJ3 possible, work will be inaugurated. Copper company, has accepted a position a!:!
$34.48 to the ton, making a total of $115. Mr. Weiss is also interested in the Big mechanical engineer for the Fatima Copper
935.76. The net recovery was $104,551.55 Fourteen, now ,being worked' by R. J. Bry company, operating near 'ChilcHo, Argentina,
and the net cost was $33,459.56, making ant, Fred Snow, James McDonald and an South America.
the net profit for the month $71,102.12, or other, a'Ssociate. The Big Four is equipped
H. F. Widdecombe,so well known in Salt
at the rate of $20.61 or each ton mllled. with a Tremaine ,mill, and occasioned runs
Lake, but who i'S nOiW general superintend·
The Eva Mining company, of Spring are being made with it. Stateline is a .gold
ent of the Day·Bristol Consolidated, near
ville, Utah, has been incorporated with a and silver Clllmp of splendid possibilitieG.
Pioche, Nevada, was married on the 29th
capiltaizrution of 1,000,000 share3 of a par It is admirably located for successful min
ult., to the lady of his choice. The Mining
value of ten cents each. Tbe officers and ing and should receive more attention at
Review joins with many friends in extending
directors are George L. Hyde, preosident; the ,hands of capitalists and invesoors.
congratulations.
C. A. Hyde, vice-president; John L. Whit
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URANIUM·VANADIUM PROPERTIES ,T. W. Blankenship, Ph. D., of Berkeley,
ing, secretary and treasurer, Thomas West, WANTED. CaiIfornla, has been in Utah, of late, mak·
M. W. Bird and Lyman Hyde. The com'Pany
ing a study of injury to plant life by smel
owns a large group of mining claims in
We have cash buyers for uranium-vana· ter smoke and fumes, having devised a
Nebo district, Utah.
dium properties. Give location, diagram of method by w,hich it can be determined, ac
For the month of June the Skidoo Mines claim!:!, amount of development work or op curately. what the effec,ts of smoke and
company, of Skidoo" CaLifornia, milled enings on each claim. g.tate, as near as pos· fume are on vegetation. Prof. Blankenship
1,186 tons of ore. Value of bullion pro Eible, the amount of ore in sight. It tests is a consulting botanist, and an expert on
duced, $11,348.95; value of cy,ant~es pro . 'have been made give per oent of uranium the subject of .smoke injury to vegetation.
duced fiNt half of June, $2,694.14; value of and vanadium oxides. Also, send four He has been in the employ of most of the
cyanides produced second half June, (est!· pound average sample. AddreSl3. J. C. Rob leading smelting companies in the west, and,
llUlited) $2,909.55. Total receipts, $16,952.64. erts, Kearns building, Salt Lake City, or while here, visited the leading smelters of
Costs: developmeI1lt, $1,399: operation, Frank Cook, Green River, Vtah. the state.
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THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 15, 1912. 35
THE STOCK EXCH.>\.NGE. NEW YORK LIS'l'ED STOCKS. 41:\ "hart tons, valued at $43,776,715, indi
===--~-========---====~~~~ I ·'fi.~T~L~~·-IClosc
catinga decrease in 1911 of 2,813,026 shnrt
Transactions on the local hoard Satur
day morning, August 10: Chino Copper , .. : .. 1 3,100' 34%i 33%134% tons, or 9.7 per cent in quantity, and of '3,.
Goldfield Con sol. ... 1 100i 3 % 3% 3%
Nevada Conso!. ... ' I 100\' 21 % 21 %21 % 677.968, or 8.4 per cent in value. This de
Listed StCK'''''.
Ray Consolidated \ 1.500 20% 20%1 20%. crease was due to the resumption of mining
Tennessee Copper .. , 100'\41% 41%: 41%
_ _ _ _+.-_B-;Id: 'I Asked.
Miami Copper .. " .. j 1.600 29 % 29% 29 % I in the Mississippi valley states, the idle
Beck 'Tunnel ············,,1$ .09 1$ .11
Bingham Amalgamated ,.,
Black Jack ...............
.07
.14 I
.11
.17
I Utah Copper ... , .... : 700 6~ 60 % 62
Inspiration Con. ,_.,_._1~~ 9001 19~L18% , ness in which, caused by the strike in 1910,
resulted In extraordinary demand on the
g~~~:'T'alis'~;':;":':'::::::' :1'" :oi%1 :~~
NE'W YORK C(;RB RANGE.
mine.] of most of the Rocky Mountain
Central Mammoth ...... ,.,.' ..... 1
Colorado Mming ... ,'....
Columbus Consolidated....
.21
.26
.10
,21
.30
* Giroux Consolidated.1
I S3.les. I H. I L. IClose
Firs!: Nat'l Copper~,~I-:-:~:~-l % 1-·'1 % 110/;
3001 5 1kl 51", 51,\,
states.
In Montana and North Dakota the pro·
Consolidated Mereur ... ,.,' .02 .... ' Nevada Utah ., ..... 1, ...... / ?C 2c I ?c
Daly-Judge. , ............ 1 5.50 1 6,25 Ray Central ........ 1"......3
I.
7 " 'r PW!"; ·'rte 'flX' tHt"t t''dfr'K'lTir ttlZm ' '57
, 1 S? em
36 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 1 5, 1 912.
Cache Valley, Malad Ticket offiee. 301 Main Street. ")I Tower of Strength"
Cache Valley, Malad Ticket office, 001 MaIn Street. "A Tower of Strength"
I,
EDRO, LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE black silver sulphides, which (Seem to have
RAILROAD COMPANY. replaced the chlorides that were developed
in the Wedekind mine to the eastward, al·
(Effective June 16, 1912.)
though in what seems to be the same vein. SMITH & ADAMS
MANUFAOTURERS OF TENTS AND AWNINGS
,Ion Station, Salt Lake City, Utab. It is now the intention to sink the shaft Filter Cloths) Ore Bags, Campjng Outfits, Anything
to another level and further explore th", Made of Canvas# Get our prices. Send for Catalogue
DEPART.
-Los Angeles Lim'ted, to
Los Angeles ............. 5:00 P.M.
ground before doing any extensive stoping.
The owners of the Shovel King, a lease
a.---_-------=
225-227 Edison Street. Salt Lake Olty. Utah
.
-The Over:and, to Los An FREE.
geles .................... 11 :50 P.M. on this estate, are also making ·,;ubstanlial
-Miner's Local, to Tooele and headway. They are enlarging the sbaft and Sporting goods catalogue. Address ,,-,"'Sl
FJureka . . . ............. 7 :30 A.M.
-Garfield Local, to Garfield have already timbered it to a depth of 125 ern Arms &. Sporting Goods Co., Salt L?k!'
and Smelter .... ; ....... 6:50 A.M. feet. They have shot down a large amount City, Utah.
-Tooele Special, to Garfield
and Smelter, and Tooele .. 2 :40 P.M. of muck in doing this work and it will be ---~o-~~·-
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