tering, but gained eminent success in their
method of treating the material. They put
THE MET ALLURGY
Roasting and Sintering Lead Ores. (Cont.)
Huntington and Heberlein found that by
mixing lime with rich galena o,re and first
partial.' y roasting in a mechanieal furnace
this intermediate product could be both
suitably roasted and agglomerated by blow-
ing the still hot mass in a convenient recep-
tacle; the original claim 'of their United
States patent is thus: (U. S. Patent 600,-
347, March 8, 1898.)
"1. The herein described method of oxi-
dizing sulfid ores of lead preparatory to re-
duction to metal, which consists in mixing
wHh the ore to be treated an oxid of an al-
kaline-earth metal, such as calcium oxid,
subjecting the mixture to heat in the pres-
ence of air,' then reducing the temperature
and finally passing air through the maS'S to
complete the oxidation of the lead, substan-
tially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. The he'rein-described method of oxi·
dizing sulfid ores of lead preparatory to reo
duction to metal, which consists in mixing
calcium oxid or other oxid of an alkaline-
earth metal with the ore to be treated, sub-
jecting the mixture in the presence of air
to a bright red heat (about 700 degrees cen-
tigrade), then cooling down the mixture to a
dull red heat (about 500 degrees centigrade),
and finally forcing air through the maS'S un-
til the lead ore, reduced to an oxtd, fuses,
[ubstantially as set ~orth.
3. The herein described method of ox-
i{Hzing lead sulfid in the pt'eparation of the
same for reduction to metal, which conststs
in subjecting the sulfid to a high tempera-
ture in the presence of an oxid of an alka-
line-earth metal, such as calcium oxid, and
oxygen, and then lowering the teffiperature,
sUbstantially as set forth,"
Seven years later they took out another
United States patent, 786,814, of April 11,
1905, after others had proved that good re-
sults could be gained without the use of
lime. They, of course, retained their pre-
liminary roasting and. final blowing. The
following quotation from the patent indi-
cates their change of mind regarding the
use of lime as well as their recognition of
the desirability of making a good sinter:
"To increase the fusibility of the ores
treated, limestone, silica, or oxid of iron
may be added; but this is not in all cases
necessary. Indeed, one of the advantages
OF LEAD
resulting from suddenly and greatly reduc-
ing the temperature with the aid of water
is that the add:tion of calcium oxid or other
suitable oxid, as described in the specifica-
tion of our aforesaid patent and as men-
tioned above, may in many instances be
dispensed with."
The fourth and final claim of their patent
is as follows:
"4. The herein described process of oxi-
dizing sulfid ores preparatory to their treat-
~I
ment for the reduction of the metal con-
tained therein, such process conststIng in
heating and working the ore until the pro·
portion of sulfur contained therein is re-
duced to 12 per cent or thereabout, rapidly
cooling the ore with water down to atmo-
spheric temperature or thereabout, restart-
big combustion in the mass and forcing air
there thI'ough for the purpose of further de-
sulfurizing and oxidizing the same, substan-
tiantially as set forth,"
1;f{
A Recently Patented Design of Huntington-Herberleln Pot
This work of Huntington and Heberlein
has not only been of enormous importance
because of the magnitude of the work car-
med out under these specific patents, but
because of the-incentive for the other devel-
opments which came directly in its wake.
Huntington and Heberlein were seriously
mistaken about the chemical reactions in-
volved in the operation of roasting and sin·
the mechanical roasting furnace to just
that limited use it is susceptible of in
roasting lead ores-a light preliminary
roasting, eliminating only part of the sul-
phur and avoiding all sintering. Later
practice with other meth10ds avoids pre-
roasting by diluting the orig:nal sulphides
with materials not containing sulphur; in
this way a charge can be prepared which
shall contain the right sulphur content, or
fuel value, for successful roasting. Prelim-
inary roasting will remain a standard
method for reducing the calorific value of
ores where diluting is not desirable, In
view of the fact that it not only wastes the
inherent fuel value of the ore, but requires
additional extraneous fuel to accomplish
this, it i.s very uneconomical. As we shall
discuss the process more at length some-
what later it is desirable to here empnasize
the significance of process in general-that
after a comparatively light treatment in a
mechanical roasting furnace the material is
blown in a converter and in one operation
both desulphurized and agglomerated, or
sintered. T.he success of the process
marked a great adv·ance in metallurgical
progress.
A fairly complete list of the papers de-
scriptive of the process will be found in an
article by the author in Metallurgical and
Chemical Engineering for March, this year.
Besides those relating to the practice as
carried out in the different smelteries, quite
a few of them relate to th chemical theory.
The most recent paper along this line is one
by C. O. Bannister, presented to the Instltu~
tion of Mining and Metallurgy, February
15th, 1912, entitled, "On the Theory of
Blast-Roasting of Galena.' It records some
of the, best laboratory experiments yet un-
dertaken and the conclusions are in line
 with our most recent conceptions of the re- furnace, with or withJout suitable chemical tions in the same journal in 1!10ll, Vol
actions involved. reagents, for the purpose of oxidizing or sul- LXXXI, p. 1136. Although used some year:
The Carmichael-Bradford process,' as fating the metallic sulfids. The charge has in this country ;lnd Europe it has never be
onCe carried out at Broken Hill, New South then been removed to a converter or other come as important as the Huntington-Heber
Wale,s, offel'S its chief interest in that it was suitable receptacle, where it has been sub- lein process, being already partly supplant
one step removed from the use of lime as a jected to a current of induced air for the ed by the Dwight-LloYd machines. A couplt
necessity in the Mast-roasting. Converters oompletion of the oxidation. of clippings from Savelsberg's United State!
similar to those used in the Huntington- "My invention consists, essentially, in patent No. 755,598, March 22, 1904, are in
Heberlein pl'ocess were employed and the dispensing with the preliminary roasting teresting. The charge is introduced in lay
gals was rich enough in sulphur dioxide for and in the complete desulfurization and cin- ers, at intervals, into the pot as the roasting
converting into sulphuric acid. In dispens- eration of the sulfids in the converter in pl10gresses and the final cake is discharged
ing with the preliminary roasting it ought one operation. I accomplish this by mixing by tilting the pot. The success of the pro
to be stated that the compositiorr of the with the raw sulfid ore or metallurgical pro- .cess has been most pronounced when treat
charge at Broken Hill was far from that rep- duct a Isuitable proportion of calcium sul- ing rich galena!? not containing pyrites.
resented by a rich galena, much rather ap- fate and by subjecting the mixture in a con- "My invention is based on the observa·
proaching that at present used in the latest verter to the action of an induced current tion which I have made that if the lead ores
to be desulfurized contain a sufficient quan·
tity of limestone it is possible by observIng
certain precautions, hereinafter set llorth, to
entirely dispense with the previous roasting
in a roasting furnace, hitherto necessary,
t and to desulfurize the ores in one operation
" ....
I
by blowing air through them.
I S......... "Liquefaction of the ores does not take
I
..•. place, for altliough a slag is formed it is at
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8
I once solidified by the blowing in of i:.he air,
I \, the passage's formed thereby in the harden-
I \,
\,
ing slag allowing of the continued passage
I
\, there through of the air. The final product
I
I \, is a silicate consisting of lead oxid, lime,
silicic acid, and other constituents of the
\,
I
\
ore, which now contains but little or no sul-
I \ fur and constitutes a coherent Siolid mass
I \ which when broken into pieces forms a ma-
I \ terial suitable to be smelted."
I \ H. B. PULSIFER,
I \ Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago. Ill.
I \ (To be Continued.)
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I THE GOLD HUNTER MINE.
;
I
I
I (Special Correspondence.)
Spokane, Wash., April 12.-Dennis Ryan,
manager of the Gold Hunter mine, near
Mullan, Idaho, which is shipping 1,000 tons
of ore a month, announced in Spokane, re-
cently, that additional equipment will be
provided with in ninety days to double the
Ipresent output. One hundred and twenty-
five men are 'at work in the mine and mill.
The mill capacity of 300 tons a day is to
be increased to 400 tons in May, and it is
purpnsed to add a 400-ton unit the coming
practice where sulphurless diluent Is added. of air, starting the reactions by means of summer. Other plans are to prospect and
The following paragraphs are from the Unit- heat, whereby sulfate of the metal and cal- open a body of high grade silver-lead ore
ed States patent No. 705,904, July 29, 1902. cium sufid are produced, and the calcium between the No.4 and No.6 tunnels. The
"This invenUon relates to the trea,tment sulfid in its oxidation produces sufficient company recently installed a large electric
of ,sulfid ores or met'allic sulfids, mattes, or heat to set up the necessary desulfurization hoist in the main shaft, and an auxi'iary
metallurgical products preparatory to reactions and to thoroughly oxidize and hoist in the winze, which is being dunk
smelting, and more particularly to the cinerate the ore without loss by volatiliza- from the No, 4 tunnel. The tunnel is in
treatment of lead sulfid ores and other me- Uon." 5,100 feet and is 1,400 feet below the sur-
tallic sulfids, such as sulfids of zinc, copper, 'Dhe Savelsberg process attained wider face. The winze, which now is 300 feet be-
or iron and mixtures of the same. Its ob- distribution than the Oarmichael-Bradford, low the tunnel, is to be continued 700
ject is to desulfurize and cinerate such ores which was limited to Australia, because it feet further, with stations established every
or products rand to change them into a con- used limestone in place of gypsum as di. 200 feet. The capacity of the winze hoist
dition more suitable for the Ismelting pro- luent. W. R. Ingalls had an article in tha is 500 tons in twenty-four hours. This
cess. In the processes hitherto employed Engineering and Mining Journal on this will be taxed to the limit on the deposit
such ores or products have first been sub- process; 1905, Vol. LXXX, p. 1067; also a now being blocked out. All the tunnels
jected to a preliminary roast ill a suitable short editorial with three excellent illustra- are connected by upraises.
 DESCRIPTION OF THE BY WALTER GREEN
HUMPHREY PUMP
As the importance of the invention Read before the Utah Society of En. tion chamber. However, this time the
of the Humphrey Pump has attracted valve,s V are submerged and a new charge
world-wide attention, doubtless many in
gineers, Jannary 25, 19 J 2.
of gas and air is drawn in through valve
..
this audience are famIlIar wIth the gen- A, being usual type of inlet valve, differ-
eral principles involved and the wide ap- made heretofore. The Humphrey cycle
ing only in the controlling mechanism
plication of these principles to industrial might be considered to have six periods
which will be submitted later. The sec-
in what is usually considered a four-cycle
uses.

qp
engine. At the end of impulse stroke, ond surge backward on the compreSSion

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-=- when not limited by the radius of an en- stroke completes the cycle and a simple
gine crank, exp,ansion may go on and par- pressure organ fires the charge at its max-
. £T

tial vacuum is formed in the combustion
chamber, before the outward moving col-
umn of water is arrested and scavenging
commenced by the surge of the water
imum pressure by closing electrical con-
tacts of the usual type of ignition system
for such purposes.
In ,the absence of a view showing a
card taken on a time basis of pressures

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Figure II
The first model built upon original de-
signs ran steadily from the intitial at-
tempt, which bespeaks both the great
simplicity of the mechanism and the high
achievement of its inventor.
A glance through the visitors book at
the experimental station of the English
company, Dudley Port, England, reveals
the names of investigators from all parts
of the world, who were quick to realize
the great part the new apparatus is cer·
tain to play in the development of coun·
tries where vast tracts of arid lands are
yet to be reclaimed by economical pump·
ing.
The pump may be operated on gas 01
any of the liquid fuels and has a record
of running five months without missing
fire. It was then closed down voluntarily
as this test sufficiently showed continuity
of operation and that impurities in the
fuel had no chance to cause trouble.
n.-That the pump stands in a class
to itself for simplicitY is seen by refer-
ence to the descriptive diagram to which
your attention is now directed. We have
in chamber C the combustion space usual
in explosive motors except a perfectly
tight and almost frictionless water piston
furnishing its own- lUbrication, formed by
the water.
Into this chamber a charge of gas and
air is introduced and ignited by tripping
the spark plug. The expanding gas ex-
erts a pressure on the surface of the
water, setting it in downward motion,
which raises the water in the column Of
discharge pipe.
The acceleration given the water col-
umn serves the same purpose of storing
energy that fly wheels do on the gas en-
ing difference between the present appa-
ratus and internal combustion engines as
gine for the three cycles or periods that
follow. However here is the distinguish-
backward again through the unrestricted
passages of the pump.
During the period of partial vacuum a
attained, figures taken from the test of a
forty-five water horse power four-stroke
small amount of air is drawn in through pump lifting forty feet, working on city
gas, will give yoU some idea of conditions
under which the low head type pumps op-
erate.
Compression pressure at ignition 56.5-
lbs. per sq. in. Explosion pressure 163
lbs., Cushion pressure 185 lbs, expasfOn
momentarily reached 4 lbs; time of this
cycle 4.9 seconds, which may be consider-
ably exceeded.
7.-The most remarkable feature of the
HumphreY pump in operation is the con·
spicuous absence of the moving parts: One
can only hear the dull thud of explosion,
see a slight weaving in the pipe, hear the
swish of the exhaust, and observe the
quiet positive seating of the valves. The
nice consent of all interchanges of opera-
tion seem to lend themselves to the ap-
paratus, so that there are no shocks. The
the scavenging valve, the exhaust valve :In
is opened, and, having a flooded suction
the water rises to the level of the out·
side in ,the chamber C, through the valve
V; on the backward surge, valves V check
in the usual manner and by impact
against the water piston valve E is closed,
thus entrapping some burnt products in
the cushion space F, creating a pressure
which will be shown later to be even
higher than the impulse pressure.
By the cushion pressure the water is
again thrust outward, repeating the first
cycle, and would reach the original high
level in the column if it were not for the
fricition and velocity head losses; as view shoVl'll is the ex terio,r appeaJ
these are not very great we once more ance of the pump with the suction tan
have a drop of pressure in the combus- omitted. The plaY pipe being part of tt
 discharge line cannot be properly consid-
ered part of the pump, which reduces the
equipment w ,simplify tWQ pieees of pipe;
an elbow and a few valves.
6.-The next view is illustrative of the
35 H. P. low-lift pump with drowned suc-
tion, which received the highest award
obtainable at the Brussels International
exhibition in 1910, both as a gas engine
and pump. The internal diameter of the
play pipe was made 25 inches and the
length 65 feet. Otherwise this pump was
built on the lines of the diagram first
shown.
9.-In this v;ew we have a general
arrangement of the Brussels display
plant, the play pipe being made U shape
to economise in floor space. This pump
was tested by several cO'mpetent German
and English authorities and the result ob-
tained after checking up, .for a full week
of testing, was less than one pound of coal
per water horse power; or, In terms more
convert able, 73 cu. ft. of 150 B. T. U. gas
per actual horse power hour. Since this
test other records have been established
and as low as %,-lb. was secured in a
pump of comparatively small capacIty, so
it is a matter of conjecture as. to what
may yet be developed. In the pumps thus
far built for low heads, low compression
prevailing, high efficiencies that may be
looked for in the apparatus could not be
expected as the usual form of explOSive
motors hilVe demonstrated highest effici-
encies at maximum compression, but' ow·
ing to excessive temperatures there is a
limit to which this may go on account of
burning the lubricants and effecting the
materials of which the engine is con-
structed. The Humphrey offex;s practi-
cally no difficulty in this alrection,which
is evident without further comment, and
the German licensees immediately com-
menced the devolpment .of the high com-
pression feature by constructing a 1,000
horsepower pump-engine to put 400 second
feet of water under an artificial head (us-
ing an air vessel) of 235 feet and passing
the water through a turbine for generat-
ing electric power. No material is avail-
able at the present time to offer any
of the results of designs involving large
layouts and expenditures, as for obvious
reasons these must be withheld for final
development, so that pumps will not be
thrown on the market in an unfinished
condition until all the past knowledge on been'done away with so far as the interior
the subject of explosive engines has been or' exposed parts of the pump engine is con-
exhausted and tested as far as possible. cerned.
The American licensees are following tbis 8.-This view shows the stand pipe at
policy and while it is not necessary to the Dudley Port experimental station. Wa-
guard the strong basic patent they have, ter being repumped continuously to this
some of the admirable deliberateness pipe.
characteristic of the inventor himself 18
apparent, who, the speaker was told, hav- --_._------
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ing perhaps no. more than hearsay knowl- c,;:)
edge that the object he attained had been
thought of previously, proceeded about
the accomplishment of his work with a
degree of certainty in each step as would
be usual in any of his other occupations.
In other words, it was a deliberate devel-
opment of a trained brain.
The Brussels pump on low' compres-
sion, or about one half the highest safe Figure 13
compression for operating conditions, au- 13.-The considerations thus far have
thorities give on the gas engine, .devel-
dealt with the working principles and ef-
ficienCies. Now we have a chance to
show some important commercial advanta-
ges, such as first costs, installation ex-
pense, repairs and maintenance, which of-
ten require the closest investigation of the
engineer in making his selections. This
view shows a cross-section of the new
p:ant being installed by the Pump and
Power 'Company, Ltd., for the Metropoli-
tan Water Board of London, England.
There are four units, each having a capac-
ity of 48,000,000 gallons in 48 hours and a
fifth pump of one-half capacity. The lift
is only 25 feet, eminently suited for cen-
trifugal pumps direct-connected to engines.
However, when offered the usual equip-
ment with alternatives on engmes, pumps,
boilers, producers, and the host of auxil-
iary apparatus, the Humphrey pumps
were furnished for 50 per cent less than
The HIIII/phrey PIIII/p-STF.CKE~.
oped an over-all thermal efficiency of 22
per cent, which includes the pumping of
water by direct application of the energy,
whereas the gas en'gine only, of the same
size, having in its favor double the com-
pression pressure, reaches its highest
thermal efficiency at about 20 per cent,
without considering ,pump losses. From
this rough comparison you will get an Idea
of the advance already made, and your
own imagination will supply what is logi-
cally possible when high compression Figure 5
pumps are built. We are generally justi- low bidder, and a guarantee which will
fied, and certainly so in this case, to look certainly be effected of a like saving in
for high efficiencies in large units, par- fuel consumption. In this case the first
ticularly now that high ignition tempera- cost was $100,000 less, and the mainte-
tures have no chance to distress the mech- nance will only be about 40 per cent fuel,
anisms since mechanis1ms have practically labor and supplies considered. The same
 THE SA L T LA K E M I N I N G REV
principles heretofore explained are em- under the action of its supporting spring
ployed and an English chemist reported
he circulated the water 100 times before
considering it objectional for drinkin'g
purposes. The Metropolitan Water Board .the plan view of the head, operates at the
are 'guaranteed 1.1 Ibs. of coal consump-
tion per water horsepower. Note-this
not the indicated horsepower, but actual
water h. p. measurement.
In the next view we have the pump only
of the same general proportions as used
in the London installation, but appilcable
to any trade requirement comIng w.ithin
the range for which it is designed.
5.-There are a few mechanical details
. the desired scavenging by the entrance of
at t h IS point which we can take up wifn
interest and advantage to show how the
inlet and exhayst valves are automatically
controlled, and not permitted to interfere
with each others functions. It will be
observed that lock bolt B, sliding horizon-
tally, must engage beneath eithe'r collar
A or E, which are fixed on the respective
valve ,stems. This bolt is thrown right or
left by the tension on either of the springs
8-, or So"~and these depend upon whether
link L, to which they are attached, has
been shifted to the left or right. Suppose
the exhaust valve opened last, then its
washer M, engaging against the cam arm
P, moved the connection P*L*Q, so that
they lean to the right, in which position
it is retained by the tension of spring SOB' Expansion below the bottom of the bell al-
With the tension thus put on S-, it pulls
the lock bolt to the right; So, having
, -PN6£1'IMJPVHP COHPREJJO" On the first instroke of the water the ex-
..,/ ' haust valve E is found open, as usual, and
. allows the burnt product to escape; but
been lossened, offers no resistance. How-
ever, until the exhaust valve shuts, the
lock bolt only presses against collar E.
When valve E is closed by the impact of
the water, as previously explained, the
bolt instantly engages under the collar E,
and the same motion which holds E shut
has released A, so that the next time suc-
tion occurs in the combustion chamber
the new charge can be drawn in. These
valves act alternately, reversing the move-
ment just explained, the difference be-
tween them being that whlle E remains
open untll shut by impact, A may shut
I E W, A P R I L 1 5, 1 91 2.
as soon as suction in the combustion
chamber permits the spring to seat.
4.-The scavenger valve V, shown in
end of each expansion stroke and in all
is respects simultaneously with the exhaust
valve, and is controlled by the lever K.
If the water could rush in fast enough
when the pressure falls to atmosphere,
there would be no scavengIng action in the
sense about to be explained; but the in-
coming water has to be accelerated, which
gives rise to sufficient suction to effect
fresh air. 'The burnt products that have
escaped through the exhaust is prevented
from, reentering by a simple non-return
valve';'which is more plainly shown on
the next view.
24.-Thls shows the use of an internal
bell for providing a separate cushion ot
the burnt products. Instead of a scaveng-
ing valve we have valve S, and on its
stem a loose non,return valve Q. The valve
S, and on its stem a loose non-return Q.
The valve S is released to fall at the
same time the admission valve opens, but
Q prevents any inlet into the top of the
bell. When explosion occurs the bell' is
full of water and all the valves are shut.
'lows the ~ater, to escape rrom the bell,
which becomes filled with burnt products.
valve S is shut at Q, so the burnt pro·
ducts imprisoned in the bell are com-
pressed while the rising water in the com-
bustion chamber clears away all the
burnt products on the outside ,of the bell.
Under cushion pressure valve S automati-
cally goes to its seat and when the second
out stroke occurs' valve A lets in the
fresh charge and simultaneously opens valve
S. The ,second outstroke being shorter
than the first does not lower the water to
the bottom of the bell and the pure com-
bustible outside the bell does not mix
with the burnt products. When the se'.:-
ond instroke occurs, the water, raising in
the bell, forces' the entrapped cushion
products of burnt gas past the valve Q un-
til valve S is seated by the water.
There is one further important con-
sideration in this connection; since the
volume of the bell is not limited, the wa-
ter column may attain higher velocity ana
give better compression.
(Continued Ne·xt Issue.)
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The Daly-West Mining company, of Park
City, Utah, has declared its regular quar-
terly dividend of 30 cents a share, or $54,-
000, payable April 20 to stockholders of
record April 10.
A Colton, Utah, correspondent of the
Price Advocate says:
The people here are watching 'with in-
terest the development of the ozokerite and
elate rite claims at Colton. The American
Ozokerite company has begun plans to Oper.
ate these mineral wax properties upon a
very large scale. In order to do this, the
National Ozokerite company, which formerly
owned the property, has given two deeds to
Leon V. Shearer for $75,000. Shearer has
since deeded the property to the American
Ozokerite company of Portland, Me., for
$1,075,000. The two deeds and mortgage
have been filed with the county recorder,
the mortgage being in favor of ~lliam E.
Lowther of Manhattan, N. Y., as secruity
for one hundred and fifty bonds draWlng 5
per cent and valued at five hundred dollars
each.
This money will be used in the develop-
ment of the ozokerite claims. This means
another industry for the country, as ozoker-
ite mineral wax, or oerasin, is a very valu·
able product. It is found in large deposits
in the state and one Austrian province
(Gelicia) alone. It is impossible to enum-
erate all the uses to which ozokerite may be
put. The Portland company' has raised a
large amount of money' for the development
work, and is very anxious to start immedi-
ate operations. As a rival to beeswax this
valuable product has cut the beeswax price
almost in two. It possesses many valuable
points not to be found in the other wax. Its
melting point is high, being from 155 to
190 degrees Fahrenheit. It is plastic with·
out being soft, and hard without brittleness.
This wax is. used for the insulation of
electric wires, ·also for all kinds of water
proofing and paper waxing. It is used in
wrapping soaps, steels, books and all kinds
of articles that require protection from
moisture. Boxes, tUbs, barrels and kegs
lined with it are perfectly tight and impart
no unpleasant flavor to the most delicate of
mineral waters.
Acoording to the best information ob-
tainable, thousands of dollars will be spent
during the coming Sllmmer in the develop-
ment of the Pleasant Valley pro.perties, as
the demand for ozokerite is increasing so
rapidly that there will be no trouble at all
in placing every carload of wax that the
company can produce f·or many years to
come.
The first shipment to be made over the
new branch rallroad from Moapa to St.
Thomas, Nevada, was a carload of copper
ore from the Grand. Gulch mine, which was
loaded on the car at St. Thomas only Ii
few .hours after the last rails were laid.
The ore was second-class and carried value Ii
of from 15 to 20 per cent Clopper.

THE ADAMSON-TURNER
Superinten,dentTurner of the Adamson·
Turner mine at Rexall came to town yester-
day with the usual 'Semi·monthly clean-up.
This was a bar of no mean proportions, be-
ing the contents of less than a half ton of
the .famous highgrade ore of this section.
The mine is developing well on all levelas
and the great dumps of milling ore are con-
stantly increasing in size. It is probab'e
that no such dumps of milling ore are to
be 'Seen outsMe of Tonopah, yet very few
people are aware that the Rexall property
is developing a great tonnage of fair grade
mill dirt. If this mine were in Manhattan
or Goldfield, its weekly reports would be
sent broadcast in the Associated Press. The
Adamson-Turner is O,Ileof the four mines of
Colorado Carnotite Possesses Radium in
Appreciable Quantity.
(Examiner, Telluride, Colo.)
In the window of the Examiner office
there are on exhibition some remarkable
photographs produced exclusively by the
light from carnotite ore, belonging to the
Colorado Carnotite company, and the most
remarkable photo·graph of which is the one
produced from such radIo-active rays ema-
nating from a small cake of chemically con-
centrated carnotite, and which concentrate
consists of the uranium element of the car-
notite ore.
The important feature in connection with
this new method of concentration is the
fact that the radio-activity of the uranium
is not destroyed and is apparently not af-
fected by such concentration formula, as
.this concentrate was from a low grade of
carnotite ore, the barrier to such concen-
tration having previously been that ore
buyers claimed as a reason for refusing to
MINE
Nevada which have paid their own way
"from the grass roots," the other three be-
ing the Mizpah at Tonopah, the Combination
at Goldfield and the Nevada Hills at Fair-
view.
G. W. McCook, who is developing the
"Bobs," half way between Rexall and the
Shively property, i'S in forty feet with a
crosscut tunnel which cuts the big vein at
a depth of thirty feet. He has just encount·
ered· very good values and is just entering
the foot-wall of the ore.
At the Shively property the new shaft
has passed the fortY-five foot mark and
crosscutting will be under way by the end
of the week. Six miners. are employed on
two shifts. A well-equipped boarding house
consider a chemically concentrated ura-
nium product that the radio-activity of the
ore was thereby destroyed.
When it is taken into consideration that
the present shipment of crude or,e involves
paying the freight on in the neighborhood
of ninety per cent waste, the value of a
satisfactory concentration process will be
better appreciated.
Therefore the 'CoIoradoCarnotite com-
panY,of which O. Barlow Willmarth is gen-
eral manager, feels that it has occasion
to feel justified in considering the matter
of installing the necessary equipment to
make a commercial reality of the ,concen-
tration process above mentioned.
Mr. Willmarth states that upon his re-
turn from Europe he expects to have nec-
essary data,etc" to warrant final oonsid-
.eration of furthering plans for concentrat-
ing carnotite and other uranium and vana-
dium ores.
There is a vast amount of low grade car·
notite ore in San Miguel and Montrose
counties on the borders of the Dolores river
and any satisfactory method of concentra-
and quarters for the men are completed.
Important developments from this property
may be expected any day as the porphyry
coming from the bottom of the shaft is
highly mineralized and shows that the vein
is not far away.
Jack Davis has started a tunnel to cut
the big contact vein fully a mile southeast'
of the Shively workings. He has encount-
ered good values in surface workings and
will try for better values at depth.
Messrs. Ryan, Roache and Maasen have
commenced sinking a 50-foot shaft south of
the Shively strike, but higher up the hill,
joining Jack Davis on the west. It is said
they have a vein fi,fteen feet wide and get
assays as high as $8.
There is considerable activity in the
Shively section, where a large number of
'claim owners are doing their "cinch" work.
Hon, which means that it must be c'ommer-
cially feasible, will mean added life to the
rapidly developing industry of that portion
of this southwestern part of Colorado.
The photograph marked No. 1 in the Ex-
aminer wind·ow'was taken by the rays from
a specimen of high grade carnotite ore
which assayed 49.60 per cent uranium ox-
ide and 19.39 per cent vanadium oxide in
the crude state as it is taken from the
ground, and as such rays' had penetrated a
light proof (so far as sunlight is concerned)
black hard rubber photographic plate hold-
er slide, the plate having been steadily ex-
posed in a dark room for about ten hours,
it shows the remarkable penetrating pDwer
of the radio activity contained in this ore
The photograph marked No. 2 is the re-
sult of ,a twelve-hour exposure without the
obstructIon of the hard rubber slide or
other resistance, the Yale key having been
placed directly on the photographic plate
and the carnotite ore specimen having been
placed. directly on top of the key for the
twelve hours mentioned, and the photograph
marked No.3 is the one taken by the rays
from the concentrated product exposed in
the same manner and for the same length
Mlnlnc Machlnel'7 and Supplle •.
of time as the photograph marked NO.2. Page. Page
Bogue Supply Co..•.•••••••••••• : •••••• 43 Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewishon........ 38
All of the above mentioned photographic Bradley, Pischel & Harkness o. . 38
ljenver Fire Clay Co. 39
work was done at the studio of Joseph E. eneral Electric Co. 3 Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books.... 38
~ndepenldent Powder Co.• of Mo. 9 Davis & Davis o 38 0 •• 0 • 0 • • • • • •

Byers here in Telluride and he, frankly ex- ngerso I Machinery Co. ..........••.•••• 4 Henderson, Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette 38
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. II Higgins, E. V. 38
presses his intense interest in the above 0 ••••••••••••••••• 0 ••••• '

Lane Mill & Machinery Co Of''' • • • •• 10 Civil and Mining Engineers;

mentioned new line of photographic work. Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders 4
Miller-Cahoon Co. 10 Adamson, W. G 0 •••• 0 •••••••••• 0" 37
As a result of a recent brief mention Minneapolls Steel & 'Machinery Co.o.. 0 0 • • •
burch, Caetani & Hershey :............ 37
in the columns of Examiner of the first Numa Rock Drill Sharpener 10 Brown, G. Chester 0 ••••••••• 0 • 37
Richmond, F. C.• Machinery Co. 2 Burke, James J. . o' 0 •• 0 • 37
of such photographs which Mr. Willmarth Revere Rubber Co. 5 Craig, W.J. . 0........ 37
Roberts & KaUfman 9 Deseret Construction Co. 37
had made, he is being communicated WLt.\l Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co.
..00 •••••••••• 0

o. 42 0 0 Fiske, Winthrop W. 38
by various parties interested, includi~g sd- Salt Lake Bolier & Sheet Iron Works.... 38 Galigher, T. W.o .. 0 •••••••••••••••• 0 • •• 41
Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44 General Engineering Co. " 0 •• 0 • • • • 37
entific societies, both domestic anq foreign, H. A. Silver Foundry & Machine Co..... 40 Howell & Kingsbury .' 00........ 37
Union Portland Cement Co.............. 43 James, .Geo. D.o 38
and also the United States Geological Sur- Utah
0 • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Fuel Co.................•....... 41 0 •
Jennings, E. P. . o 0 • • • • • • • • • • • •• 37
vey at Washington, all \:if which shows the Utah Fire Clay Co. 43 Pack, Mosher F _ 0. ••••• 37
Utah Welding Co. . , 40 0 Peet, C. A. ' " " ,......... 3R
acute interest being' taken in the matter of Way's Pocket Smelter Co ;. 41 Pulsifer, H. B. . '............. 37
the developm..ent of the ore that is the Westinghouse Machine Co. '" 8 0 • • • • • • • • •
Roberts, .T. C. . _. . . . . . . . . . 37
Z. C. M. I. . 4 0 ••••• 0
Safford, .T. L. . o. . . . . . 37
source of the production of radium, which Silver Bros. Engineers & Contractors... 37
Bauklne Hou.e •. Utah State School of Mines 37
mineral is the most valuable in existence. Merchants' Bank ..... 0... 0............. 38 Willadsen Bros. 27
The following item concerning it was re- McCornick & Co. . .. 38 Widdicombe & Palmer 0 • •• 37
Walker, H. C. 37
0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••

National Copper Bank .. 38

Zallnski, Edward R. . , .. 37
0 •••• 0 • • • • • • • • • •

Walker Bros. .. 0 •••••••••••••••• 22 and 23 0 0 • • • • • •

Utah National Bank 0 •••••••••• 0 0 • • • • • 38 Mlscellaneou.w

A•• a7er. and Metallurcl.t •. Bingham Mines Co., For Sa' e 0 38
Century Printing Co. . , ,... 8
A. F. Bardwell 0 ••••• 0 39 De Bouzek Engraving Co. 41
Bird-Cowan ................•.. o. 0 • 0 •••• 39 Hotel Stanford o 38
Crismon & Nichols 39
0

0 ••

Gardner & Adams 42

Currie, J. W. 39 .Tensen Creamery Co. 7
Officer & Co., R. R 0............ 39 Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. 4
Tyler, Lu C. 39 Official Directory of Mines 41
Union Assay Office 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 39 Nephi Plaster Co. 40
Utah Department Denver Fire C:ay Co... 39 Rallroad Time Tables ..............•..• 48
Salt Lake Stamp Co. ..................• 41
Railroad •. Smith.& Adams, Tents 41
Oregon Short Line 0... 39 Shlplers, Commercial Photographers.... 36
Salt Lake Route 0 • • • • • • • • • • •• 40 Tooele Smelter 7
Rio Grande Western 0........... 40 Utah .Tunk Co. . o 0 • • • • • • 39
Utah Ore Sampllng Co..............•..• 43
Mine and Stock Dealer. Western Press Clipping Service 0....... 40
Orem & Co 0 ••••••••••• •••• 38 Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars '. 38

bic feet. Hence, by a proper preservative

treatment of all mine timbers which can be
Mine operators of the country can save treated advantageously, an annual saving
,fully $12,000,000 a year by treating the would result of approximately 51,700,000
timber used underground for props and de- cubic feet, equivalent to 310,200,000 feet,
creasing the annual replacement necessary board measure, or more than half of the
by decay from one-third of the total amount present annual cut."
in use to one-thirteenth of the same amount. Editorial Note:-In this connection We
In speaking of the saving in mine timber desire to call attention to "Avenarious Car-
through preservative treatment, W. F. Sher· bolineum" as a mine timber preservative.
cently published in the Mining Investor: fesee, in a new bulle Un issued by the This not only preserves wood from decay.
"A recent report from Consul-General Gaff- United States forest service, say's: but will -double the durability and increase
ney, of Dre'sden, Germany, is of interest. "T~e estimated life of an untreated the tensile st~ength of the wood. Avena-
Mr. Gaffney says that since the dIscovery mine prop is approximately three years. rious Carbolineum is now being successfully
of radium and the powerful action of its With a proper preservative treatment this and profitably used by'- a number of the
rays, governments as well as numerous life may be increased by approximately ten big mining dompanies of this intermountain
private enterprises have endeavored to dis- years, giving a total life for the treated region. The Capital Electric company, of
cover or acquire suitable S<l;urces,of. this props of thirteen years. All of the mine Salt Lake, is the western representative of
valuable product. While governments are props, both round and square, in use in the Carbolineum company.
prompted. exclusively by scientific motives, the United States, contain approximately
private individuals, to a very great extent, 500 million cubic feet. About forty per
are attracted by the high price--$80,000 cent of this quantitY', or 200 million cubic
per gram (0.03527 avoirdupois ounce). The feet, can be advantageously treated. If no
cost of producin'g a. gram of radium is preservative methods were used the annual (Post, Centennial, Wyo.)
$2,000, which is low considering the value -replacement of this forty per cent- would Just to show that Wyoming's resources
of the substance. A radium bank was es- amount to one-third of 200 million, or ap- are varied, it may be cited that Toney
tablished in Parish, which in 1910 di,sposed proximately sixty-seven million cubic feet Wilde and Frank Dearcorn of Guernsey,
of 1.92 grams of radium of high activity at of timber. are preparing to ship a carload of moss
$80,000 per gram. Of that quantity, $15,000 "If theY' were all given a proper preser- agate to Germany. They get five. cents
worth has, been acquirea for individual pur- vative treatment the annual replacement per pound, f. o. b. Guernsey, but will sell
poses and $139,000 worth is used in state would be reduced to one-thirteenth of 200 no more at that price. Their mine is one
therapeutics." JL.illion, or approximately 15,300,000 cu- and a half miles north of that town.

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With this issue The Salt Lake Mining
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istence.
For a period of thirteen years, this paper
has held to the thought that it occupied one
of. the greatest mining fields in the world.
For thirteen years, during times of prosper·
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its aim has been to upbuild the mining in-
dustry along every line that seemed legiti-
mate, and to defend its best interests when-
ever necessary.
The Mining Review, during the long
years that it has been established, has be-
come well and favorably known in ·every
mining camp in the we'St, and is read with
interest by subscribers in commercial cen-
ters as well as in the many isolated districts
scattered throughout the mountatn ranges
and canyons of a vast extent of mining
country; and, wherever it goes, it is cor-
dially received because of its high standard
of excellence, it'S adherence to the truth, and
the work it has done to advance tne inter-
ests of an industry that is the backbone of
the financial and industrial world.
During the past four or five years, un-
settled conditions have been detrimental to
the financial interests of the proprietors of
this publication, and yet, through it all, there
has never been a time when the paper has
not been kept up to "high water mark" in
Its make-up and contents. We feel now,
however, that the "worst 1'Sover" and that
mining conditions are improving tp such a
degree that no diffIculty will be encountered
in the future, in our efforts to make The
Mining Review better and greater than ever
before.
As is customary, in anniversary notices,
we desire to thank our patrons ana frtends
for their sincere and substantial support
during the past year, with the hope that we
may merit the same recognition !hroughout
volume fourteen.
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MINE PATENT RULING.
The application of the East Tintic Con-
'Soli-dated Mining company, of Utah, for
patent to its mining claims, has been denied
by the land department of the U. S. govern-
ment on the grounds that the property of
the company has not been developed to such
an extent that it is a producing and paying
mine. This decision simply means . that,
hereafter, no titles will pass from the gov-
ernment to the claim holder, unless it can
be shown that the property in question is
on a producing and profit-making ba'Sis; a
condition only attained after years of devel·
opment and the expenditure of a large
amount of money.
This kindergarten and idiotic decision by
the land department has stirred mIning
circles from center to circumference. In our
opinion it is idiocy uncomparable and could
only emenate from government official'Sunex;poseddeposits supposed to exist at con_
whose state of mentality should be investi·
gated by a board of lunacy, and who have
progressed so far in senile decay as to
make them objects of sympathy, if not of
ridicule, of the country at large.
The mineral·bearing land'S of any coun-
try are almost universally located in a.rid
and inhospitable regions, and are value:ess
for any purpose except for the precious and
baser metals they contain. Before present
day crazy conservation ideas obtained, the
government was anxious that these mineral
fields should be developed so that the whole
country might be benefitted by the new and
la'Sting wealth to be obtained from this
source. Liberal laws were in force for' the
acquirement of these lands, and the claim-
holder was encouraged to develop his hold-
ings in the hope that a producing mine
might be added to the country's list of bon.
anzas; and, when a certain amount of work
and money had been expended in mine de-
velopment and equipment, the claim-owner
was entitled to vested right in his holdings
after making the proper showings. This law
as far as we know, has never been revoked
or changed. There is no valid reason why
it should be, no occasion for a deviation
from regular practice in passing upon appH-
cation for U. S. patents; and yet, because
the present administration is content to fill way of successful mining is the almost abso.
its various departments with boobs and in- lute ignorance of mining affairs exhibited
competents, the mining men of the country
are to be harraS'Sed and embarrassed by de· comes to mine development and equipment.
cisions which will not stand the test of law
if the cases were carried to the courts.
If this decision is allowed to stand, it will
be a constant menace to the mining indus-
try; it wit! discourage prospecting and claim
location; for, if this is the real attitude of
the government, the prospector may hesi·
tate to stake a claim for fear that some
wild-eyed and presumptive department .of-
ficial will declare the location invalid be-
-cause the croppings do not carry $20-g01d
pieces already coined; and the claim-owner
will be loth to carryon development when
the wise ones in Washington are to be the
judges of what constitutes a promising
piece of mining ground, and whether or not
it is good judgment to go further in the
search for payable' ore-bodies, the existence
of which are indicated by the presence of
'Seams and stringers, small surface values
and hungry croppings.
The remarkable ruling of the land de-
partment follows, and if it is logical and
sound, the majority of the mining men of
the mining regions are merely fools and
lacking in the upper story. The decision,
according to press dispatches, is as follows:
"It is evident from the record before the
deI)artment that the deposits alleged to have
been exposed on these claims are regarded
by the applicant as possessing practically no
economic value, but that, on the other hand,
title to the claims is sought essentially on
account of their possible value for certain
siderable depth beneath the surface, and hav-
ing no connection, so far as shown, with
any deposits appearing on the surface.
"The exposure, however, of substantiaHy
worthless deposits on the surface of a claim;
the finding of mere surface indications of
mineral within its limits; the discovery of
valuable mineral depo'Sits outside the claim,
or reductions from established geological
facts relating to it; one or all of which
matters may reasonably give rise to a hope
or belief, however strong it may be, that
a valuable mineral deposit exists within the
claim, will neither suffice as a discovery
thereon, nor be entitled to be accepted as
the equivalent thereof.
"To constittue a valid discovery upon a
claim for which patent is sought, there mu'St
be actually and physically exposed within
the limits thereof a vein or lode of mineral-
bearing rock in place, possessing in and of
itself a present or prospective value for
mining purposes; and before patent can
properly be issued or entry allowed thereon,
that fact must be shown in the manner
above stated."
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A "SECOND-HAND SHAFT."
One of the greate'St obstacles in the
by men '~higher up" who dominate when it
The average farmer would make a; poor
banker; the average banker would not prove
 much of a success in cultivating the soil;
the average miner would soon wreck a mer-
cantile business, and the public; generally,
would not me€t with much success in min-
ing operations. Every business occupation
requires a peculiar talent, a certain knowl-
edge and a great deal of experience to sus-
tain it on a paying basis, and none more
so than mining; for mining, after all, is a
business proposition, and must be conducted
as such if success is to crown the efforts of
those who pursue this fascinating industry.
And yet, sad to relate, more rankig-
norance is displayed by many who follow
mining as a business than is to lie found in
almost any other industrial pursuit, and the
result of this lack of knowledge, of experi.
ence, is clearly shown in the disastrous fail·
ures recorded in mining affairs throughout
this intermountain region.
We say in this intermountain region for
the reason that it is in this section that
the majority of producing and paying mines
are to be found. But, the blame for these
failures does not apply to the real mining
men of the west, but to the ignorance and
incompetency of eastern investors who con-
trol certain enterprises in this western cour.
try. For instance, the directorate of many
mining companies is composed of eastern
men who have not the least real concep·
tion of mining affairs. The president of a
company may be a first-class easternbusi-
ness man, but he has but a very vague Idea
of how a mine should be developed and
equipped. His superintendent may be a man
of exceptionable ability and experIence, one
who, had he but his way, and ample funds
at his command, would soon prove to the
satisfaction of all the real value of the prop-
erty under his management and direction.
Generally, however, he is handicapped by
the eastern management, which quibbles at
his requests, ignores his recommendations,
and fails utterly at the critical wint when
intelligent and concerted action would soon
place the property of the company upon a
producing and paying basis; and all be·
cause the president and his board or dlrec·
tors know nothing at all about mining and
because they are ignorant of the require-
ments necessary in the oeration of a mining
, prowsition.
Many eastern men, interested in mining
affairs, have ideas about mining that would
be funny but for the fact that their appli.
cation are so disastrous to their Intere6ts.
Their intentions are good, but their judg-
ment is faulty, For instance, a story is go-
ing the rounds of the press about a. mine
. superintendent who cabled his English com·
pany that the "shaft had caved in and that
a new one would have to be made," The
English president of the company cabled
back, "Can't you buy a second-hand shaft?"
This is equal to the Kansas method of
cutting a dry well in sections and selling
them to settlers for postholes. This, is an .
old gag, but it is as good as the buying
of a "second-hand shaft," and illustrates and
corroborates the statement so often made
regarding the ignorance of eastern capi.
The Prospector
talists regarding mining affairs. In the ca~e
of the "second-hand shaft," the affair is
and His Burro
laughable and not at all serious; b~t, sup-
wsing that an emergency of great import-
ance was at stake; a question involved
where life or fortune trembled in the bal·
ance, then such ignorance as that displayed
by the English mine president would have
been disastrous to the best interests of the
,company.
As a matter of fact, too many "seoond-
hand shaft" men have the management of
mining affairs; too many of such men have
the handling of company money, and too
many of them are clamoring for dividends
and profit'll before work has hardly com-
menced in mine development and operation,
in mine and mill equipment.
The moral is that none but men of ex-
"You seem to be run down at the heel
perience in mining should be entrusted
and baggy in the knees, today," said the
with the affairs of a mining 'company, and
prospector to his' burro, "and all because
that ali other methods of mine management
we had a hard tramp, yesterday, in get-
and operation are hazardous and dangerous
ting into this wild and desolate country
-to the investing public.
where our old hermit lives, of whom I made
o'~----
mention in our last conversation; and
CALLED TO REST,
I can see that y·ou would much preferred
to have remained down near the mouth of
Mrs. Belle A. Higgins, of Salt Lake, the
the canyon where you could hear the rou-
beloved wife of Will C. Higgins, editor of
lette wheel buzzing, and watch the mine
The Mining RevieW, was called to her rest
promoter from New York flash his dia-
on Maroh 28th, at Ocean Park, California,
monds. Of course, as you have said, all
where she had been with the hope that a
men, and all burros are not cut out for
change of altitude would be beneficial for
hermits; and I, myself, get to feeling
her health. Interment was at Mt. Olivet,
mighty queer if I am obfiged to stay out in
April 1.
the hills, all by my lonesome, for more than
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a month at a time; while a burro, whom
TI;IE UNITED COPPER. nature has seemingly fitted for isolation,
will make a terrible rumpus if left alone,
(Special Correspondence.) without man' OTone of its kind to associate
Chewelah, Wash., April n.-Conrad with, and will hit the high places in the
WaHle, president and manager of the United endeavor to flock with the long ears with
Copper mine at Chewelah, reports that pro· which the cany,ons and valleys abound; all
gress is being made at the station that is of whiCih goes to snow that 'it is not good
being cut on the 600-foot level. The mine
for 'man to be alone;' or burros, either, for
is shipping steadily and concentrates from that matter. And yet we must have her-
the mill are being sent to Tacoma. Six
mits in the mining game, f'GTthey are a
four-horse trams are constantly employed part of thecRst in the play; and, if a re-
hauling the output from the mine to the
mote district is minus this attractive char-
railroad, five and a half miles. Mr. Wolfle acter it is a foregone conclusion that it is
recently said: "The mine ha's not been
no good; for a hermit in a mining camp or
closed a single day in the last five years, district must liv-e as well as other people,
and We now have more than 7,000 feet of
and, because of his disinclination to hard
underground workingS' completed. There and steady work, he must necessarily have
are already two raises from the 600-foot
a regular bank to draw from! a vein of ex·
level to the surface and we are in seventy· ceedingly hi'ghgrade to work in as the fancy
five 'feeton the third;'which is being op- strikes him, or his occupation of posIng
ened from both ends. There are' sixty men as a hermit woulq languish for lack of sus-
at work on 'the property and I intend to tenance. In other words, he must make
increase to at least 100 in a few weeks." good to supply his daily wants, .and to do
o this he must have a little bonanza near his
Word has been received from Bingham, cabin and a sparkling spring at his back
Utah, that an important strike. has been door. All hermits in these mountains
made in the Montana-Bingham mine, in the must have these necessary surroundings.
deep tunnel being driven into ,Bingham Without them they would not command
Amalgamated ground. the attention accorded by regu·
lar line of prospectors and miners, and
the mine promoter would think his pros-
pectus a failure if he could not work a her-
mit or two into its most thrilling passa:ges;
while the optimistic eastern buyer of wild-
cat stock would SCJrn any proposition in
which a hermit was omitted, or if his two
feet of whiskers had been shortened by an
inch. In ghort, in wildcat mine promo-
tion, it is as necessary to have a hermit
connected with the history of the company's
operations as it is to guarantee dividends
within thirty days.
"You want to know," oontinued the pros'-
pector, "if the herm:t was born with the
longing in his heart for the wild and deso-
late porUons of the earth, and if he dis-
aained, in his early youth, all c01mpanion-
ship, and even shunned his mother; which
shows your ignorance of mankind in general
and of kds illl particular. In answer I will
state that you are mistaken in your. sur-
mises, and that hermits are made and not
born. In early youth oui-hermit was a
bright-eyed boy with curly hair and a sunny
disposition. These characteristics he
maintained until his knee pants reached
only a few inches below his hips, when
his hair was cut short and his trousers
lengthened to his shoe-tops. Then he felt
himself to be a man, and began to harbor
thoughts of house-keeping on his own ac-
count, and, in his mind, imagined how well
Mary Ann Golightly would look pouring
coffee at his breakfast table. For awhile
Mary Ann seemed to reciprocate, and all
was giing smoothly until she cut him cold
for Hiram Tumbledown. It was then that
our hermit flew the coop and -made direct
for the mining camps of the west. .In time
the sore place in his heart healed over and
he was considered quite- a decent fellow un-
til, one night, he coppered the wrong ace
and bos his entire pile. Thi,s event settled
the matter with him, for, with Mary Ann
and his money both hitting the pike in the
wron'g direction there was nothing for him
to do but to play hermit and set up a king-
dom of his own where no skirts would both-
er him, and where poker games were out-
lawed. , ,ability, would have long ago been famous as
"And so, our hermit ·came up into these
mountains. That was twenty years ago. At
flrst it was rather hard on his constitution
and severe on his temper; but he got used
to it in time, and the longer his whiskers
grew the more adverse he became to so-
ciety; until now he is the most renowned
of all the hermits in these hills. 'Did he
live on his grief? You ask. None what-
eV'er, although it has been a great solace
to him all of these years, for he has culti-
vated it and petted it until now it is his
most intimate and constant companion. Al-
most upon the day of his arrival here he
was fortunate in making a gold discovery
that has been his s'ole support· ever since.
This consisted of a vein of two feet of ore
that goes over $200 to the ton, while a
three-inch streak, on the hanging wall, is
nearly the pure quill, according to all ac-
counts,although I have never seen it, as
the entrance to the tunnel is guarded by
a strong door and heavy lock. But, when·
ever Mil'. Hermit runs short of SOW-belly,
flour, coal oil and smoking tobacco, he hikes
to th.e nearest mining camp store with a
small sack on his back, and on his return
has a pack between his shoulders that
would make a burro shudder to look at;
which goes to show that he had the gold
to hand over to the store-keeper, and, also,
that his little mine is a bank that can be
drawn Upon at ·any time, and which cannot
go broke because of the speculations of a
cashier. Under these conditions the hermit
seems to be contented, and absolutely hap-
py, if such were possible with a man who
had been jilted by .a girl with two long
braids of hair down her' back, or who had
coppered the ace once too often; and, the
nearer his whiskers get to his waist-line,
the less. inclination he has to mingle with
the outside world; ana it is 'more than
likely, in the not distant future, that some
rambling prospector, calling at his cabin,
may find that he has paid his debt to na-
ture and has set up another hermitage in
the spirit world.
"I want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con·
cluded the prospector, "it would take more
than a jolt from a half"grown girl or a
loss at the poker table to send me out into
the wilds as a hermit. Our old hermit
might have made his mark in society, in
the business and financial world, if he had
not g;ven way to his real or imaginary
griefs. W,e might allow him a year or so
to play the hermit act. But, when he had
found his gold mine he should have acc.ept-
ed one of the many' offers to buy it that he
received, when, going back to the home of
his boyhood days, M:ary Ann, with her hair
done up 'on the top of her head, w'Ould, in
all likelihood, have extended the glad hand,
and for years past could have poured his
,coffee for him; while his mine, under care-
ful development and equipment, in all prob-
a dividend payer. As it IS, our hermit
guards his treasure as a setting hen would
her nest from a tom-cat; and he will do this
until the last call, when the promoter will
get it at last and write up a story about
its former owner that will be the undoing of
all of the old maids and widows east of
the Mississippi river; and there you are,
and then some."
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Word comes from Milford, Utah, that an
important strike had been made on the
property of the Baby Jack Mining company,
nine miles northwest of that place. It is
al'So stated that the company has had an
offer of $75,000 for its holdings from a Los
Angeles syndicate.
Galconda Gold Ledge Mining Company Turn.
ing Out Bars of Gold.
(Star, Winnemucca, Nev.)
A mining property that is regularly pro-
ducing bars of gold is that owned by the
Golconda Gold Ledge Mining company and
situated on what is known as Kramer hill
just on the out'Skirts of the town of Gol-
conda. This property has been und~r opera.
tion for some time and while the manage-
ment is reticent in regard to the operations,
nevertheless the mine is being extensively
developed and there is a mill on the prop-
erty that is daily grinding out bullion and
paying for its own development. A Clean-up
of the mill was made last Wednesday and
the ·product was a gold bar valued at about
$1,400 and was the result of only three daY'S'
grinding. This production is not intermit-
tent or something extraordinary, but a regu·
lar thing, and it is expected that the next
clean-up will be even greater than the one
mentioned, for recent developments in the
mine show richer ore than has heretofore
been mined.
The reduction plant is composed of a
Lane slow speed mill, fed from a rock-
breaker and about thirty-flve tons of ore is
reduced daily. The ore is very free for 86.4
per cent of the gold content is saved in the
mill and 13.4 per cent is caught on the
plate'S, almost a complete extraction.
The property, which was discovered
some years ago by L. K. Kramer, has un-
dergone considerable development work,
which has proved it to be one of the big
mines of the state. In places the ledge
shows a width of twenty feet or ore that
will pay to mill and recent development
work is proving that another and distinct
vein exists farther east of the one which
was followed by the principai development
work and was thought to ·be the main ore
body of the property. A small 'Stringer that
appeared in one of the workings led to the
new ore body and the work being done on
this vein is proving it to be even richer in
value and as large as the one that was exten-
sively opened by the original workings.
The ore that is being milled at the pres-
ent time is coming from the block of ground.
between the 118 and 218-foot level, which
are tapped by long tunnels. The new discov·
ery was made on the 118-foot level and the
vein which is being followed shows ore that.
is literally covered with particles of gold,
some of it as big as grains of wheat.
Another striking feature of the Kramer
Hill property is that the gold is of unusual
fineness, being worth $19.14 per ounce. The
present milling plant, which was installed
for prospecting purposes, is entirely too
small, co~'Sidering that the mine is capable
of a much greater production of ore. The
mill Is located at the portal of the main
working tunnel, the ore being dumped from
the cars as it is taken from the mine. The
water used in the mill is pumped from a
well owned by the company on the fiat be·
low Pole Creek canyon, about half a mile
away.
The property is under the efficient man·
agement of C. V. Fike, with L. K. Kramer,
the original discoverer, in charge of the
mining development, and A. C. Sweet, metal·
lurgist, operating the mill.
o lease on what is commonly known as the
JOE FAYANT HAS BIG MINE.
(Star, Winnemucca, Nev.)
What has every appearance of making
one of the biggest gold mines in the state
is now under development, a few miles
south of Golconda. The property is not a
new find, but was discoverel1 about two
years ago and since its location has been
under a~most constant development. The
workings consist of a crosscut tunnel and
drifts. The work accomplishea has shown
the vein or ore deposit to be of great mag·
nitude, the crosscut tunnel proving it to be
102 feet wide and all a milling grade of
gold are. Experts who have lnspected the
. ore body to be a mineralized iron stained
fracture zone in a highly altered soft por·
phyry. As an example of its great size
and richness the following values are check
assays which were made for Mr. Fayant
from a sampling of the big ledge some time
ago. The first ten feet gave values of $4.80
and the second ten feet $5.42; five feet as·
sayed $40.43 and the next five feet gave
values of $6. There is a five·foot streak
that goes $23.75 and another live feet that
runs $6.75, with the values all in gold. This
sampling was made in the tunnel that cross·
cuts the ledge or dyke, in all 102 feet wide.
The present work on the pt'operty is the
running of a drift that on the. five-foot
streak, which assayed $40.43 and this bore
is in about eighty-seven feet, with aver·
tical depth of fifty feet from the surface.
So far there has been no deterioration in
the values and seemingly the are is free
milling and the same thing can be said of
all the big ledge for its pans gold from
one side to the other.
The property is known as the Honey.
combe group and is located in what is
known as Mill canyon, in Stone House val·
ley, sixteen miles south of Valmy, on the
'Southern Pacific, and only thirty-five miles
from Golconda. It is easily reached over
good roads from both places. There is
plenty of water for all purposes and the
mountains are fairly well covered with
pinon pine for fuel, making the camp an
ideal one for mining purposes.
o ciated mill over the tracks from the Steff·
The branch line of the Salt Lake Route
has been completed from Moapa, Nevada,
to St. Thomas. Railroad Day will be cele-
brated, in the latter place, at:.an 'early date.
driving of the shaft is the most important·
mineralized zone in the district, and it is
Ogden People Purchase Valuable Property the belief of Mr.. Clapp that it will soon
in Bullion District. develop into a copper mine of some note.
o
(News, Ely, Nev.) THE MUSHETT·WITTENBERG LEASE.
The success of William Roberts of Ely
in the once famous mining camp of Bullion (Post, Manhattan, Nev.)
in Elko county will no doubt prove quite a One of the most important 'Strikes record·
magnet in attracting mining men. Within ed in the Manhattan district since the dis·
four months after he had taken a bond and covery of the immense are body below the
300·foot level of the Poak·Steen·Cicala lease
Anderson property, Roberts and his asso· on the Big' Four was made this week on the
ciate, C. J. Harvey of Elko, disposed of their 130-foot level of the Mushett·Wittenberg
mineral holdings in that di'Strict to William lease on the Manhattan Consolidated. The
Glassman and a coterie of wealthy capital·
ore was broken into, Tuesday and h~s
tsts in Ogden and Salt Lake.
spread until there is now three feet of ore
Although the amount of money involved
exposed across the face of the drift that
in the purchase is veiled in mystery, it is
will return on the entire break of the drift
positively known that the transaction will
at least $100 per ton, and selected are could
place the fortunate claim owners in affluent
be made to millrun from $200 to $400. The
circumstances so that they will never be
ore is a hard, blackish lime-quartz, showing
compelled to swin'g a pick again;
much thermal action and carrying crystal·
The Snow Storm Consolidated Copper ized gold on the faces and in vugcholes
company has been organized by the pur· through the general mass. No magnifying
chasel'S with the expectation of instituting
glass or close inspection is needed to see
work on the recent acquisition on an ex·
this gold, for it gIitt~rs in a most enchant·'
tensive scale as soon as weather conditions
ing way in the candle light under ground,
will permit. A mild rush to Bullion is an·
giving most convincing evidence of its pres .
ticipated as soon as the merits of the camp
ence in liberal quantities.
shall have heen thoroughly exploited.
One assay secured by Mr. Wittenberg
The property discloses considerable
ran $386 and an assay of the muck in the
highgrade copper ore on the dumps and
drift ran $71 per ton.
stopes, carrying in excess of 26 per cent,
This ore shoot is apparently the source
which will net a handsome profit to the
of most of the values heretofore found in
owners, on being shipped to the Salt Lake
this lease as deposits in various breaks in
smelters. The ore contains sufficient iron
the lime. It is undoubtedly a big quartz
to insure an extremely low smelting charge. body in place, and has every appearance Of
The ground was operated in a desultory
Increasing in size with development. It was
manner during the early days of the state,
discovered by following a fault plane closeiy
but no dev'elopments have been accomp·
connected w~th the contact of lime and lime·
lished in recent years. Years of disuse have
schist, and was encountered about twenty·
put the buildings in a ,bad .state of repair,
five feet earlier than any values had been
but the dominant factors in the new com· anticipated, judging from the rake of a
pa~y will ship in the necessary machinery
small shoot of oxidized are found in an in·
and supplies at once, besides providing prop. termediate level above. The drift is mak·
eraccommodation for the miners and other
ing tonnage very fast and a large produc·
employes about the grounds. tion should be made from the virgin ground
The claims taken up by Roberts and
above this level.
Harvey were subjected to a thorough ex·
The leasers have decided to very soon
amination by Rolla E. Clapp, an eminent
begin sinking the shaft an additional 125'
geologist and mining engineer. He sub·
feet, and they anticipate even more sensa·
mitted an extensive microscopic and analy.
tional results at that depth, feeling confi·
tical report on the property, to the pros·
. dent that they have found the main chan·
pective buyers, after paying two visits to
nel of the rich ore.
Bullion. Mr. Clapp did not hesitate to state
The are from this lease will be treated
that the old time district would again prove
at the Associated mill, in which Mr. Wit·
a rich producer, and predicted one of the
tenberg is one of the largest stockholders.
biggest little excitements at Bullion that has
There is now a large quantity of lower
stirred the state in recent years.
grade ore from other workings on the
The new owners will soon have a crew
dumps, and bins will soon be constructed
at work sinking a shaft for 500 feet to de·
at a convenient point so the output of the
termine at what point the formation shows
lease can be trammed direct to the Asso·
a marked change, which Mr. Clapp believes
will be reached at 300 feet. Crosscuts will
ner lease,adjoining the Mushett·Wittenberg
be driven to intersect the fissures at every
shaft.
hundred feet, and drifts run along the
mineralized zone to systematically block out
the ore 1'6serves. The pointiselected for. the

Interesting Paper on Liquefied Products
From Gaseous Material.
The Bureau of Mines has Just issued
Technical Paper No. 10, "Liquefied Pro-
ducts from Natural Gas; Their Propert1e~
and UEes," by Irving C. Allen, and George
A. Burrell, in an effort to show how nat·
ural gas, which is being allowed to escape
almost without restraint in almost all of
the petroleum fields of the country, may b~
conserved.
'The authors of the technical paper, In
outlinIng their investigations, say:
"BY fractionating natural gas, eIther
during or after liquefaction, four products
can be commercIally obtained. Roughly,
these four products may be described as
foHows: (1) The gaseous product, the com-
mon natural gas of commerce; (2) the
semi-liquid product, known as the new
'wild' product, which should be used only
as a liquefied gas and should be held in
high-pressure steel container!! only; (3) the
light liquid product, or light gasoline
used for blendIng with heavy napthas; and
(4) the heavy liquid product, or ordinary
high-grade gasoline.
"The possibility of handling the 'second
product in the way that Pintsch and Elau
gases' are handled, enabling small towns,
hotels and country estates to have the ad-
vantage of gas illumination, manifestly
opens a new field of comparatively great
importance in the natural gas industry and
should add materially to the investments
made in the so-called 'natural gasollne' in-
dustry.
"The liquefaction of gases by pressure
is not a new industry, but only recently
has its application to natural gas been rec-
ognized as practicable.
"Up to the last two years the general
practice in the manufacture of liquid nat·
ural gas was to make the product by com-
pression of the gas in single-stage com-
pressors operated at a pressure of 150 to
300 pounds per square inch. The one pro-
duct obtained, so-called 'natural gasoline,'
was run into a tank and 'weathered.' The
weathering consisted in allowing the lighter
portions to volatilize spontaneously and es-
cape into the open air until such time as
the boiling away of the liquid had practi·
cally ceased. Thus the process involved a
loss of 25 to 50 per cent, or even morl:l.
This loss was an absolute waste, not only
of power and of cost of operating the en-
gines and compressors, but of the product
itself.
"The next step in the industry was to
pass the waste gases (of which only the
small quantity used for power had been
utilized) from the single-stage comperssor
through a higher-stage compres,sor, there-
by getting a second and more volatUe pro-
duct-a'wilder' liquid-which was run
back into the first and mixed with the first
or heavier condensate. This mixture was
then again weathered to a safe degre.e,
whereby it lost the greater part of the
more volatile . product that had been con·
densed in the second stagE>.
"Recently the process had been improv-
ed lI-nother step, in that the first stage
compressor product. should receive wide
recognition, and a market for the product
should deevlop that would be no mean
factor in the industry. Blending in the pro-
portions of, say (one part of the product to
four or five parts of the refinery naptha",
makes these heavy napthas more volatile
and of greater value as fuel for automo-
biles; it also greatly increases their gen-
eral usefulness. The proportions to btl
used in blending, however, must be deter-
mined more definitely by test.
"The natural gas of this country. fre-
quently contains light products that do not
condense in the second-stage compressor,
and for which it is practicable and neces-
sary to install three, four, ana even higher
stage compressors. These light products-
true gases at ordinary temperatures and
pressures-can be compressed and lique-
fied, but the liquid gases so obtained must
be handled as gases and not as OIlS.
"The mistake heretofore made in the
'natural gas gasoline' industry, as some
have recognized, has been the attempt to
handle the light gaseous products as oils
and not as gases. Until the manufacturers
of this lightest third or fourth stage com-
pressor product recognize its gaseous na·
ture, the absolute necessity for insuring
the safety of the public involve certain re-
strictions in its transportation, and not un-
til the realization that this extremely vol-
atile liquid should be handled only in
strong steel containers capable of with-
standing high pressures will it be trans-
ported with safety."
Copies of this technical paper may be
obtained by writing to the Director, Bureau
of Mines, Washington, D. C.
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INJURY TO MINING INDUSTRY,
(Reporter, Eureka, Utah.)
Claim owners and mining men through.
out Tintic are greatly incensed over the
decision of the authorities at Washington in
regard to the patenting of mining claIms,
and declare that the ruling Is one of the
most severe blows that has been delivered
against the great mIning industry in recent
years. It is quite evident that these offic:al'S
are trying to follow a literal meanIng of the
mining laws with no intention or desire to
temper their rulings with common sense.
For years it has been the custom or claIm
owners to perform the required amount of
assessment work each year and after the
legal amount of Improvements had been in-
stalled upon the ground It was only neces·
'Sary to demonstrate. to the satisfaction of
the government authorities that the claIms
were mIneral bearing and that the applica-
tion for patent was not contested, where-
upon the patent would be carried along to
successful conclusIon. The new ruling ex-
pressly states that In order to secure a
patent the existence of valuable mineral de·
posits must be more clearly demonstrated;
in other word'S, the claim owner must ex-
pOse within the limits of his claim a veIn
or lode of mineral-bearing rock possessing a
present or prospective value for mining.
The Tlntic district embraces an area of
perhap.s ten square miles and now contains
In the neighborhood of 3000 patented claims
but only in isolated spots does the mIneral
,crop to the 'Surface. Perhaps less than
twenty of these claIms could have been
patented under the new interpretatr-on of
the mineral laws. Tlntic has produced ap-
proximately $50,000,000during the past forty
years, and whIle the ground Is absolute:y
valueless for anythIng except mInIng, the
enforcement of the new ruling from the in·
terior department would make it impossible
for a claIm owner to secure a government
patent. The first thing that the man with
capital for investment In mining property
demands is a clear title and only by govern-
ment patent can he be given this assurance.
In most of the' mines of this section, ore of
a commercial grade was found only after
the expenditure of large sums of money, and
it is not reasonable to suppose that mining
companies are going to spend thousands of
dollars in development work and then after
opening ore, hundreds of feet below the sur-
face, take a chance of having expensive liti-
gation to prove a title to their claims. The
day when the prospector searched the hills
for croppings of pay ore is past. He now
locates his claims where geological condi-
tions are favorable, and only by patent can
he be sure that the results of his labor can
be secured to himself and associates.
In mining sections like the Tintic dis-
trict, where the ground is of no value for
agricultural purposes, where there i'S no
timber nor water, the best way out of the
difficulty would be to make everything with-
in a certain area subject to patent.
The mining men of the west will hardly
be expected to stand for such radical legis-
lation. as that which is now being passed
out to them.
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The Murbrook mine, near Stockton,
Utah, was in the market, last week, with a
shipment of first-class ore from the new
strike re,cently made in that property, which
is being developed under the direction of
H. B. Westover. The strike was made in a
winze sunk a few feet from the level
driven from the bottom of the 65-foot shaft,
about 265 feet from the shaft. It is the
intention to ship frefm two to three car-
loads of .ore, weekly, from the new discov-
ery. The property Is owned by Mrs. Lena
Larson. of Salt Lake.

(Mining News, Elk City, Idaho.)
The Mineral Zone strike still continues
to hold the first plaCe in richness and im-
portance in this section. At the present time
the vein has widened, and the values seem
to increase in a corresponding manner.
The ore is all taken from the vein and
'Sent to the reduction plant for treatment.
For the last two weeks the ore has plated
nearly three ounces to the ton in gold and
there is no telling what is left in the bat-
teries, as they have not been touched, but
it is generally conceded that at least 40 per
cent of the free gold will stay in the mor·
tars.
Aside from the fact that the ore is plat-
ing So heavy, the concentrate made is very
highgrade and there is quite a large per
centage of them. The owner, Mrs. M. A.
Parr, is now busy getting out all the are
possible before the snow road breaks up.
A shipment of gold th:s week totaled
nearly $1,000, and this is only a part of whs.t
has been taken out. The mill is running
only one shift at present and it is not likely
that any change will be made until after
the clean-up.
That this is by far the best ore shoot
ever uncovered in this part of Idaho, or any
other part for that matter, goes without
saying, for when it is taken into considera-
tion that the vein is better than seven feet
and all the ore ootween walls is taken and
that it is plating under the stamps better
than $50, the magnitude of the strike can
be determined.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Samson Manufacturing company, of
Denve,r, CoIorado, wishes to a~nounce that
it has sold to P. E. Garretson and asso-
ciates, the Sam-sem Manufacturing CQm-
pany, together with the good will, all rights,
title, intere,st, patents, etc., in the Samson
Rock Crusher.
The business under the new management
will be carried on under the same name,
and we heartily recommend the new firm
to our many satisfied users.
We also wish to extend our thanks and
apprec:ation to our mamy customers fo'r
their liberal patronage in the pa;st, and sin-
cerely trust that the same will be extended
to the new ma;nagement, wlm, we assure
you, will continue to exercise the great-
est care and diligence in conducting all
future business.
THE SAMSON MANFUFACTURING CO.,
(Signed) J. H ELSPASS, Pres.
Mr. P. E. Garretson and associates, who
have successfullY pla.ced uI}on the market
an ore-reducing machine, known as the Na-
tional Pulver:zer, and having full confidence
in the revival of the mining industry, now
so apparent everywhere, have decided to
extend their business to more fully CQver
the field of ore and rock reducing machin-
ery. They have therefore, purchased from
the Samson Manufacturing company, all
rights, title, inte,rest, good will, etc., for
the mamufacture of the well-known and
popUlar Samson 'w·ck crusher.
This crusher has very rapidly come into
favor with the mining public, because of its
large capacity and wnHorm product, and it
wili add very much to the volume of busi- hons have been retarded lately by the wa-
ness already enjoyed by this firm.
The company will not confine its busi- the tunnel, but as soon as the workings are
ness to the mining industry alone, as this
crushe'r is especially adapted for all kinds
of rock breaking, such as ro·ck for concrete,
roadwork, e,tc., lime, cement, coal and other
products where a uniform product is de- complete the work now under way. A state-
sired.
The business will be continued under
the name of the Samson Manufacturing
company, with main offices at 1738 Broad-
way, Denver, Golorado. Branch agencies
w.ll be established in different parts of
the United State,s, Canada and Mexico. An
extensive campaign of advertising will be
inaugurated to bring 'more prominently be-
fore the public, the superior points of this
crusher.
Facilities will be largely increased to
take care of the 'growing demand and en-
able the comp,any to fill all orders promptly,
and the present management wili spare no
expense to keep up the high excellency of
construotion that has, in the past, made
this machine so popular.
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CLARK MAY RE-ENTER FIELD.
(Special Correspondence.)
Spokane, Wash, April 10.-Persistent
rumors are that Patrick Clark, a millionaire
mine operator of Spokane, will soon re-enter
the Republic (Wash.), district. He, how-
ever, will neither affirm nor deny the re-
ports that have come from various sources.
L.. W. Anderson, president of the Republic
Mines Corporation, has resigned, and been
pending the election of his successor A. B. tions to start drilling with a couple of stand-
W;llard, a banker at Tekoa, Wash., will
act in that capaCity. Mr. Willard is vice- interesting foreign capitalists in the local
president of the organization. J. L. Harper,
chairman of the executive board of the
corporation, is in New York in the inter-
est of the companies, which are shipping
ore from several properties. The mines
in Republic camp shipped 7,222 tons of ore
in January and February; 'Surprise and
Lone Pine mines leading with 5,195 tons.
Other properties shipped as follows:' Knob
Hill, 1,080 tons; San Poil, 604 tons; Insur-
gent, 252 tons, and Equ'lp, 91 tons.
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The Iron Blossom Mining company, of
Provo, Utah, opera;ting in Tintic distrIct,
has declared a dividend of 10 cents a
share, or $100,000,payable April 25 to stock-
holders of record April 18.
(Special Correspondence.)
Wallace, Idaho, April 10.-The Deep
Wonder Mining company, which took over
the Wonder mine, between Mullan and
Wallace, several months ago, has a crew at
work running a new tunnel, which is now
in nearly 900 feet, about 250 feet having,
been run in the last four months. Opera-
ter lrom -the melting snows running mto
clear again activity will be redoubled. The
formation through which the tunnel is be-
ing cut is hard, but indications are prom-
ising. It will require at least a year to
ment issued by' D. L. Filer, secretary-treas-
urer of the company. shows that $11,000 in
assessments was collected in 1911, the op-
erating expenses being $11,500to March 1.
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REPUBLIC MINES CORPORATION.
(Special Correspondence.)
Tekca, Wash., April 11.-0fficial an-
nouncement is made by A. B. Willard of
Tekoa, president of the Republic Mines
eorporation, that the new 250-ton steam
plant will be ready for operation early in
May; "but;' he added, "we will not outline
any definite plans until the regular annual
stockholders' meeting in June. We are now
operating the Lone Pine, Surprise and Pearl
properties. employing fifty men, and are
shipp:ng a car and a half a day from the
Surprise, and a car of ore every two days
from the two others. Republic camp will
develop valuable mines within the next few
months."
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FRANCO BELGIUM PETROLEUM CO.
(Dispatch, Green River, Utah.)
Col. J. C. Roberts, of Salt Lake City, has
here the past week making prepara-
ard rigs by May 15. He has '$ucceeded in
field, as a result of which the Franco-Bel-
gium Petroleum Co. has been organized in
Paris and another company has been or-
ganized in London. These companies are
acquiring the 10,000 acre tract of oil lands
adjoining the British-American properties,
and lying close to this city, that were 10.
cated by Col. Roberts and associates. The
latter gentleman informs The Dispatch that
these two companies have decided to spend
$100,000in developing the Green River field.
Col. Roberts visited well No. 2 of the
British-American Co. the other day 'and says
the indications are far better than he ex-
pected. In his opinion they have at least a
fifteen-barrel well right now, without
"shooting" it.
 It was dug through hard formation at the
In Adjoining States rate of ten feet a day, and Superintendent
Robert" E. Hanley is prOUd of the record.
Bridgeport Chronicle-Union: The discov·
ery of potash deposits in California by the
Wilcox Range News: General M.anager federal prospectors will undoubtedly be
T. N. McCauley of Mascot Copper company hailed with great satisfaction by the coun-
returned to San Francisco Monday after a try because of the fact that we ~lave been
week's visit at the property. Mr. McCauley confronted with the necessity of paying
was much pleased with t.he progress of the tribute to Germany for potash supplies and
work at the camp and while there outlined the discovery promises to be a way out. It
much new work that will be prosecuted in is estimated that enough potash is in sight
the near ·future. in the old lake bed of San Bernardino county
to supply the nation for from ten to thirty
Florence Blade-Tribune: As the Ameri·
can Smelting & Refining company will add years, and save the country near $45,000,·
000 annually.
a lead jack to its smelter equipment, at
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Hayden, the claim owners in the Mineral
COLORADO.
Hill district, sixteen miles east of Florence,
should get busy extracting lead. A great
Telluride Examiner: The Colorado Car·
majority of the claims in that district are
notite company has three cars of ore out at
lead-bearing as far down as they have been
the mines in Paradox valley and a part of
developed, and there is no doubt that the
a car at Placerville now, and as soon as the
district is capable of a large lead production.
wagon road dries up so that transportation
Clifton Copper Era: The ealumet Cop-
is possible for heavy teams over it, this ore
. per Creek Mining company, located twenty
and all the rest taken out in the interim will
miles from this place, has shipped its first
be shipped. W~ile Manager Willmarth is
car of concentrate copper ore from its prop-
in Europe, work will be continued at the
erty this week. Two 8-horse teams are be-
company mines under the direction of Super-
ing used to haul the ore from the mIne to
intendent Snyder.
this place, where it is loaded on cars and
shipped to the smelter at El Paso. Ship· Lake City Phonograph: Theo. Watson
ments will continue to El Paso until the ,and F. A. Ralph have obtained a lease on
smelter at Hayden is completed, which is the Pelican mine and moved tools and sup-
understood to be 'a very short while. The plies up to the mine camp yesterday to be-
concentrates that are being shipped by this gin work. They win confine themselves for
company are considered very high grade awhile to a thorough investigation of all the
copper ooncentrates, as it runs better than workings before deciding on the character
25 per cent copper and carrying gold values, of the work to be done. Both men are prac-
together with a high percentage of iron, tical miners and good judges of ore and
thus making it a very desirable smelting ore. we are satisfied will make a success of
their venture on this highgrade property.
Clifton Copper Era. Consulting En-
gineer Flint of the Magna Copper company, Georgetown Courier: Dennis Shea., who
was. at Superior last week inspecting devel· ·brought over a quantity of ore from Mr.
opment work and planning for a duplicat:on King's property in Hall Valley, found, upon
of the present mine equipment. It is pr-ob. examining the ore, that the galena was lit·
able that the present Magna shaft will be erally intermixed with silver glance, making
continued down from the 700 to the 1,000· the ore even more valuable than it was be-
foot level and the vein prospected to con- lieved to be. Mr. King has on display a
number of samples of silver glance from this
siderable extent at that point, and if the
rich ore body developed 'at the 800 level be mine, weighing from a pound or more to
found on the 1,000-foot level, then a new twelve pounds, that carryover 20,000 ounces
triple-compartment shaft will be sunk to in silver to the ton. The ore is quite as
tap the vein at the 1,200 or 1,400-foot level. rich as that found in the famous Anglo-
One of the problems now confronting the Saxon mine in early days.
company is that of transportation. One so- Silverton Standard: The new zinc plant
lution of it is now under consideration, and at the Sunnyside is doing splendid work, in
that is the building of a road over which fact, it exceeds the most sanguine expecta-
heavy auto trucks can be operated. tions of the management in its clean separ-
o ation of the zinc from the mill concentrates.
CALIFORNIA. So nearly perfect is its work that we are
reliably informed that it is the intention of
Redding Free Press. The long tunnel the pushing manager, Joe T. Terry, to double
driven at the Mammoth mine to cut the its capacity in the near future. This addi-
.ore bodies 170 feet. below the prestJnt work- tion to the splendid mill at Eureka marks
ing was completed on "St. Patrick's day in a great advance in modern milling prac-
the morning"-l;,.st Sunday. The ~u1\nel is tices of San Juan county and will add ma-
2,640 feet in length, nine feet high and ten terially to the annual output of the famous
feet wide, with a crosscut 800 feet. in length. mine.
Idaho Springs Mining Gazette: Manager
H. B. Baker has received orders to start up
the P. T. mines and complete repairs of the
shaft, etc., in preparation for a busy season.
The company will operate under the leasing
system and will give such advantageous
terms to miners as to quickly fill the work-
ings with men. The mine is an old and
tried property. The ores are of excellent
grade and occur in considerable deposits.
Many leasers in the past have made good
money from the mine, and in its present
condition there is better opportunity for
good results than heretofore.
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IDAHO.
Elk City Mining News: From Charles
Tiedeman, who has been at work on the
Center Star for the past month, it is learned
that he has broken into a body of ore that
at present is fourteen feet wide. The ore
is of a good milling grade and pans well.
Mackay Miner: T. C. Woodbridge, one
of the persistent prospectors of Arco, who
has been working on a group of claims in
the old Erie district for the past fifteen
years, has cut a six foot vein of lead-silver-
copper ore on his ground that looks mighty
promising.
Leadore Standard: Thirteen thousand
five hundred dollars was the clean-up for
this month by the Kittie Burton Mining com-
pany at Ulysses. It is the banner month
of the year and the further oullook for
continuous dividends is very roseate. The
cyanide installation will increase the output
and profits in gold bullion.
Mackay Miner. Dave and Thomas Wil-
liams, who are working an old mine in the
Pearson district, under a lease, send
samples of ore to friends here, taken from
a six-foot vein that certainly looks good for
a pay streak for the boys. A letter received
from them states that they have followed
the vein, which is in place, for a distance
or-about one hundred feet. Other portions
of the property have responded nicely to
their efforts and shipments will be made
from the property as soon as the roads in
that section can be traveled.
Salmon Herald: J. O. Swift was in
town a short time ago from his prospect on
Kinney creek, three miles northeast of the
Caperon ranch and stated "that he is well
pleased with the outloQk. He has been
working -on this property for the last five
or six years and the copper and gold show·
ings now are of such a nature as to indi-
cate that wit hproper development it will
make one of the best paying mines in the
county. The shaft is fifty feet in depth, and
he has driven a tunnel 200 feet in length.
At a distance of 100 feet from the shaft he
ran into the main lead which on the sur-
face, measures 110 feet. He has already
run through four feet of fine looking ore
 THE SA L T L 'A K E M I N I N G REV
and is now satisfied that this property is
destined some day to be a big producer.
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MONTANA.
Butte Intermountain: Reports from Rad-
ersburg are to the effect that good progress
is being made with the opening up of the
Butte-Radersburg property. The shaft is
down nearly 200 feet, and in the last three
sets the lead has widened out to a little
over three feet, but the streaks of sulphide
have scattered into the lead. It is, stated
that the lead is good and strong, and very
healthy looking. The new equipment re-
cently installed is giving every satisfaction,
and the owners of the property are very
sangu'ine as to the future.
Butte Intermountain: A meeting of the
Ida-Montana company will be held on April
24, at which a resolution will be offered
looking to the sale of the property to a new
company with a capitalization of 200,000 accumulated in the shaft will be baled out.
shares at the par value of $10 each. Ac- The ore house is also being repaired
cording to the arrangement, the stockhold-
ers of the Ida-Montana 'lire to receive one convenient site and a new and more sub-
share of stock of the new company paid in
to the amount of $2.50 in exchange for each
five shares of the Ida, the remaining 150,000 impossible to commence underground min-
shares of the stock of the new company to ing operations.
remain in the treasury. The Ida-Montana is
located in the Columbia Gardens district.
Boulder Monitoi': Tne Prickly Pear
Mining company of Corbin held a meeting
-at Corbin March 27, and elected officers as
follows: President, William Gill of Great
Falls; vice president, Lee Dever of Corbin;
secretary and treasurer, H. M. Brook of
Corbin. The property of the company lies
a mile from Jefferson and arrangements
were made at the meeting to immediately
put three shifts at work and to expend $50,-
000 crosscutting and developing. The main
shaft is down 125 feet and has been in pay-
ing ore for the last 75 feet. It carries values
in copper and gold and is said to exceed
, $85 a ton.
Boulder Monitor: The Baltimore, near
, Boulder, is one of the properties idle for
some time that Is being opened up. Charles
Whitcomb of this city, part owner in the
Ruby gulch and Augusta mines in the Little
Rockies, Chouteau county, has secured a
lease and option on the Baltimore and is
doing extensive work. A crew of fifty men
is at work, and regular shipments of fifty
tons a da y'are being made to the East
Helena and Butte smelters. Mr. Whitcomb
is desirous of making a thorugh examina'
tion of the property before his option ex-
pires so that he can determine whether the
property is one t~at he wishes to purchase
or not.
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NEVADA.
Austin Reveille: J. A. Carmichael,
Salt Lake City, with associates, arrived paid by the company during a comparative-
early this week on their way to Carroll. Mr. ly short time.
IE W, A P R I L 15, 1912.
Carmichal is extensively interested in the
Gold Basin Gold Mining company ~nd has
taken a contract to sink the main shaft to
the 300-foot level. Accompanied by J. E.
Bergh, also a mining man from Salt Lake,
Carmichael left for the new camp Thursday.
Ely Record. F. O. Morse, who is now
in Denver, Colorado, writes friends that he
will arrive in Ely during the present month
with the intention of resuming work on the
Pony Express group near Osceola, purchased
last summer by New York capitalists, who
had surveys made and applied for patents
on the property. The company is well
financed and expects to do a large amount
of development work during the coming
summer.
Tonopah Miner: The work of repairing,
retimbering and putting in order the Wan·
dering Boy shaft of the Jim Butler mine
is making good progress and when this is
completed, some surface water which has
and
the blacksmith's shop removed to a more
stantial gallows frame will be installed.
Until this work is completed, it will be
Manhattan Post: A nice body of high
grade ore has been opened in the Green &
Meyers lease on Union No. 2 claim of Liti-
gation Hill Merger company, and several
tons of ore that will range around $100 per
ton have been sacked, in addition to a large
amount of lower grade material that is be·
ing hoisted and placed in dump for ship-
ment. They have been extracting more or
less ore from small streaks they have been
following in the lime, but during the last
ten days they have broken into a much
stronger ore body and are getting a good
production therefrom.
Ely Mining' Expositor: At Sacramento
Pas~ the Ohana Mining company has been
sinking'll deep shaft for several months and
has reached a depth of 350 feet. The shaft
is double compartment and _well timbered,
it being the intention of the company to
make it the main working shaft through
which the holdings of the company will be
developed by crosscuts and drills. The shaft
is reported to be bottomed in a f-our-foot
vein of good ,ore,some samples from which
will run several hundred 40llars a ton. The
company has suspended operations for a
short time, but it is expected the work will
be resumed soon and the shaft be deepened
to 500 feet unless a flow of water is en·
countered.
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The Pittsburg-Idaho Mining company, of
Gilmore, Idaho, has declared a dividend of
four cents a share on outstanding stock, or
of $32,120. This is the fifth dividend to be
A round the Slale
Milford News: For some time past the
Red Warrior has been working on the new
ore which they exposed on the 500 level
and below. This week they have been load-
ing a car of ore here in Milford for ship-
ment to the smelter, which has aroused
the interest of everybody who saw it or
heard of it. It is certainly very fine ore
and is the best ore that the Red Warrior
has ever had.
Burek'll Reporter: The Tintic mines
broke all previous records during the month
of March when a total of 920 carloads of
ore left this district for the valley smelters.
Twenty-seven mines were in the shIpping
list and assisted in bringing the output of
the district up to such a splendid figure.
Tintic is certainly a wonderful mining dis-
trict and in the matter of production of
high grade ore is in a class by itself. We
know of no other mining district in the west
that can equal the remarkable record made
by our mines.
Burek'll Reporter: Encouraging reports
are still being sent out from the Gold Chain
mine at Mammoth, and the management be·
lieves that it will be possible to almost
double the present tonnage within the next
thirty or forty days. In this property the
ore has been opened up almO'St the entire
distance between the 200 and 700 levels, in
fact a winze has followed a shipping grade
of rock for nearly fifty feet below the latter
level. With excellent facilities for handling
the ore, there is no reason why the mine
cannot become one 0 fthe heaviest pro.
ducers in Tintic.
Milford News. Hansen Evsmith of Du-
luth, Minneapolis, president of the St.
Marys Mining company, who arrived in Mil-
ford last week, advises us that he is going
to be here for a month or more. He states
the St. Marys company are going to get
things in better shape at the mining prop-
erty in Star Mining district, and expect to
shi'p a good deal of good ore this coming
season. They have two cars ready for ship.
ment now and commenced hauling same to
the railroad On Monday of this week. Fur-
ther details as to their plans for the future
will be forthcoming very soon.
Green River Dispatch: Walter Lohman,
an energetic young man who is secretary
of the Utah Exploration Co.. and also rep-
resents the Mexican Commercial Co., both
New York companies, returned to this city
last week from Wayne county, where he
has located 41,000 acres of oil and irriga-
tion lands. He left for New York Saturday
night and expects to return in four weeks
with a standard rig to begin actual devel-
opment work. Lohman was in Wayne
-county three months, and the lands he lo-
cated are believed to contain great
ground
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(Personal Mention
J. A. Cunningham, of Salt Lake, is in
Mexico.
C. C. Griggs, of Eureka, Utah, superin·
tendent of the May Day mine, was in Salt
Lake, last week.
W. C. Orem, of Salt Lake, manager of the
Nevada Douglas Copper c::;lmpany, recently
visited Keeler, California.
Joseph S. Berry, of Provo, Utah, a well-
known mining operator, was in Salt Lake
last week on mining business.
C. S. Floyd, of Gerlach, Nevada, has ob-
tained a five-year extension on his lease on
the Leadville mine ,at that place.
J. T. Openshaw and Gus Wichman, min-
ing men of Santaquin, Utah, transacted
,business in salt Lake a few days ago.
Ralph Kellogg, of Eureka, Utah, has ac-
cepted a position at Ely, Nevada, as super.
intendent of the Ely Consolidated mine.
W. H. Clark, of Salt Lake City, the
well-known mining man, is back home after
a long absence in Arizona and California.
Louis D. Gordon, of Salt Lake, is' ship.
ping forty tons of zinc ore daily from the
Cerro Gordo mine near Keeler, California.
L. Merriman, of Eureka, Utah, superin-
tendent of the Yankee Consolidated mine,
transacted business in Salt Lake a few days
ago.
W. J. Douglas, of Tonopah, Nevada,
superintendent for the Midway Mining com-
pany of that place, was a recent Salt Lake
visitor.
George St. Clair, the vetecr-an mining
operator of Ophir, Utah, and mine manager
of the Lion Hill Consolidated, was in Salt
Lake last week.
'Col. E. A. Wall, of Salt Lake, who has
been confined to his home for some time
on account of trouble with his eyes, is able
to be out and around again.
W. D. Loose, of Mammoth, Utah, has
succeeded August Wetterstrom as superin-
tendent of the Grand Central and Goid
Chain mines, near that place.
O. Barlow Willmarth, of Telluride, Colo-
rado, manager f,or the Colorado Carnotite
company, is on his way to Europe, taking
a carload of carnotite ore with him.
George Coleman and associates, of
Hailey, Idaho, have found a six-inch streak
of galena ore in their Blue Rock claim in
Elkhorn gulch, in the near vicinity of
Hailey.
Judge Edwin R. Cochran, of Wilmington,
Deleware, president of the Mizpah Con.
Copper & Gold Mining company, recently
visited the company's property at Mizpah,
Nevada.
Frank Birch, formerly superintendent of
the Iron Blossom mine in Tintic district,
Utah, has been selected for the position of
assistant to Jesse Knight in the manage-
ment of the Tintic mines of the Knight In-
vestment company. Mr. Birch assumed his
duties April 1, and will probably make Sil-
ver City, Utah, his headquarters.
Hansen Evsmith, of Duluth, Minnesota,
president of the S1, Marys Mining company,
is spending some time at the company's
property in Beaver county, Utah. The man·
agement is making a shipment of two cars
of good ore to the Salt Lake smelters.
I Engineers and Mil/men I.
,
M. Larsen, of SaIt Lake, has accepted a
I:osition as assayer at the Cerro Gordo mine
ne'ar Keeler, Califo·rnia.
C. B. Lakeman, of Ely, Nevada, .general
manager of the Nevada Consolidated, is in
New York on company business.
R. E. Tilaen, of Winnemucca, Nevada,
has been engaged of late in professional
work in Lander county, same state.
Walter Fitch, of Eureka, Utah, general
manager of the Chief Consolldated, has i-e-
turned home from an extended visit east.
B. O. Pickard, of Phoenix, Arizona, reo
cently made an examination of the Oro
Grande mine in Grant county, New Mexico.
George W. McDaniels, of Ogden, Utah,
has been engaged of late in making mine
examinations in Taylor district, White Pine
county, Nevada.
John Cross, manager for the syndicate
owning properties at Tuscarora, Nevada, re-
cently made an inspection of the milling
pIant of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines
company, at Goldfield, Nevada.
W. L. Walker, of Balt Lake, has re-
signed h:s office as mineral inspector of
the local land office to accept a position as
geologist for the United Oil oompany, with
headquarters in San Francisco.
H. F. Widdeoombe, of Pioche, Nevada,
mine manager for the Day-Bristol Consoli·
dated Mines company, was in Salt Lake last
week. Mir.w:iddecombe states that the mine
is looking well and shipping regularly.
A. Chester Beatty, of New York, one of
the directors of the Utah Copper company,
was a recent Salt Lake visitor, making a
visit of inspection to the company's Bing-
ham and Garfield mines and mills, while
here.
George E. Bent, of New York, consult-
ing engineer for the Day-Bristol Consoli-
dated Mines company, and associated com-
panie,s, of Pioche and Jackrabbit, Nevada,
arrived in Salt Lake, Saturday, on his
way to the mines.
Wm. C. J. Rambo and L. G. E. Bignell,
of Denver, have formed a partnership under
the firm name of the Rambo-Bignell Engin-
eering company, With office at 923 First
National Bank building,' Denver. The com-
pany will engage in mining and metal-
lurgical engineering, and the examination
and equipment of mines.
Lawrence N. Wagner, of Nevada City,
California, is making an inspection or the
Panama canal. After completing this work
he will leave for New York, from which
place he will sail for London. While in
Europe he will make an extended trip
through Russia, Germany, Spain and France,
visiting some of the largest mines in
Spain and Germany.
The College of Mines of the Univers:ty
of Washington made its spring excurs~on
for the mine inspection to Texada Island,
British 'Columbia, from March 28th to April
6th. The party consisted of twenty senior
and junior students, accompanied by Dean
Milnor Roberts and Prof. Joseph Daniels.'
The objects of the trip were to study the
deposits of iron, copper, gold and lime-
stone, and to inspect the lime kilns', oil-
burning smelter and mining equipment of
the region. Headquarters camp was es-
tablis'hed at Van Anda, near the north end
·of the Island.
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THE CHEROKEE-NEVADA.
(Reporter, Eureka, Utah.)
P. J. Fennell returned early in the week.
after a trip to the Cherokee-Nevada prop-
erty, going there to look things over in the
interest of the local shareholders. He states
that Fred L. Schrott, who is operating the
property under a lease agreement, is now
taking out some exceptionally fine ore
which carries sufficient values in copper,
gold and silver to make it worth $300 per
ton. Mr. Fennell believes that the ore
would be good for' $150 per ton just as it is
broken down and is of the opinion that the
drift is cutting through the top of the ore
body and that it will be necessary to sink
the shaft in order to handle the ore to good
advantage. About $3,000 wo~th of ore is now
sacked and ready for shipment, a wagon
haul of six miles being necessary in order
to put it upon the cars at Leith, Nev.
From ore shipped by the lessee the
Cherokee-Nevada company will receive a
royalty of 15 per cent.
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Benjamin Harmon, manager of the Bear
Top-Orifino mine, near Wardner, Idaho, has
advised Fritz Marschante, of Spokane,
treasurer of the company, of another im-
portant strike of ore on the property. It
was made in the face of the drift in the old
Simmons stope, 3,000 feet in from the por-
tals of the lower tunnel, at a vertical depth
of 630 feet. The vein of eight feet is re-
ported to be running 82 per cent lead and
several ounces in silver. The ore body was
lost by a fault two years ago and since then
the company has expended $25,000 In re-
locating the lead.

I Mine & Smeller Building I
The Blue Dick-Mark Twain mine, near
Prescott, 4-rizona, is to be equipped with a
concentrating plant.
The Histed Ore Mill company, of Kansas
City, Missouri, may install a custom mill
near Parker, Arizona.
The Liberty Copper M. & M. company,
of Chewelah, Washington, is planning a
100-ton concentrating plant.
The Bedford Mining company, of Roch-
ester, Montana, has decided to equip its
property with a 100-ton mill.
A cyanide plant will likely be added,
this season, to the milling plant at the Suf-
folk mine nea'r Ophir, Colorado,
W. E. Ewing, of Winnemucca, Nevada,
haB nUll building in contemplation for the
Oklahoma group in the' Pine Forest range.
The Arizona Alpha Mining company, of
Kingman, Arizona, O. F. BrintDu, manager,
will soon make arrangements for mill build-
ing.
Messrs. Murphy, Jarvis and Foreman, of
lone, Nevada, have decided to equip their
property, near that place, with a gasolene
hoist.
J. E. Campbell and associates, of Hailey,
idaho, leasers of the Red Cloud mine near
that place, have mill building in contem-
Illation.
The Antelope Mining company, of Ante·
lope, and Goldfield, Nevada, Michael J. Jor-
dan, president, is discussing the proposition
of mill building.
Captain J. B. Menardi, of Reno, Nevada,
will put in reduction works, at an early
date, for his property in Mill canyou, near
Austin, same state.
Messrs. Guy' and John Hibbs, who re-
cently purchased the old MacNamara mine
at LLda, Nevada, will equip the same with
a fifty-ton milling plant.
The Liberty Copper M. & M. company, of
Spokane, S. G. Neff, mine manager, operat-
ing at Chewelah, Washington, has decided
to put in a 100-ton concentrating mill.
The Creede Miines company, of Creede,
Colorado, W. H. Bryant, president, is figur-
ing on either a gasolene or electric haulage
system to convey are from mine to mill.
The Tamarack & Chesepeak Mining
company, of Wallace, Idaho, E. R. Day,
manager, has prepared plans for a 200-ton
milling plant, which is to be erected this
summer.
The VictoTia Mining companY,of Centen-
nial, Wyoming, A. T. Lindsley, presIdent
and manager, has announced its intention
of installing a stamp mill for its property
near that place.
The Majestic G. & S. M. company, of
Dixie, Idaho, A. H. McKni'ght, general man-
ager, is making exhaustive are tests With
the intention of installing a cyanide plant
for its property.
The Brown Miountain Smelting company,
of Ouray, Colorado, will soon take over the
Hill slmelter, near that place, when improve-
ments will be made and new equipment
added to the plant.
C. A. Lewis and associates, of Denver,
who have a lease on the Ten Broeck mine
in La Plata district, Colorado, are consIder-
ing ,the ~oposition of equipping the prop-
erty with a cyanide mill.
The Signal King Gold M. & M. com-
pany, of Cripple Creek, Colorado, William
Christen, president and general manager,
is planning a concentrating mill and cyan,
ide annex, for its property.
Henry B. Clifford & Company, of George-
town, Colorado, who have a bond and lease
on the Waldorf and the Colorado Central
mines, near that place, will equip the same
with milling facilities, this summer.
The Pacific Copper company, of Pres-
cott, Arizona, John Kelly, president, oper-
ating at Crown King, near that place, is
making pr.eliminary arrangements for the
installation of a 100-ton reduction plant.
o Trade Notes 0
The salt Lake office of Allis-Chalmers
company has been moved from the Dooly
block to 608,9-10 Kearns building. The re-
ceivership recently appointed for the com-
pany is preliminary to a re-organization,
when the company will be on a most solid
foundation. At the present time the busi-
ness of the company is better than ever be-
fore in its history.
The F. C. Richmond Machinery com-
pany, of Salt Lake, will move from its pres-
ent quarters, May 1st, to 117 to 119 Dooly
Block, on West Second South street, where
it will have three times the floor space
than at the present time. n is but a few
years ~gO that the F. C. Richmond Machin-
ery company began business with only desk
room in a business office. From the start
the sales'. of machinery exceeded all expec-
tations and it was not lon'g before larger
quarters were necessary, and soon after a
large office and display room was s·ecured
at the corner of West Second South and
West Temple streets. Fo·r a year or more
this location has been over-crowded, neces-
sitating a move to the Dooly block, where
better facilities are offered for the display
of machinery and supplies in stock. The
company is' doIng a splendid business, and
is now better able, than ever before, to take
care of the wants of its customers and
friends.
Advertise right. Try The Mining Re·
view.
Construction News I
The Oregon Short Line Railroad com-
pany will build a new depot at Pocatello,
Idaho, to cost $500,000.
A movement is under way at Green
River, Utah, for the installation of an elec-
tric lighting plant and water works system.
The town of HuntingtJon, Utah, may put
in a new watEr works system, and a spec-
ial election will be held. on the 22nd to
vote bonds.
The board of school trustees of district
No. 14, of Bonner, Missoula county, Mont.,
has sold $15,000 in bonds, the proceeds to be
used for school-building purposes.
The Utah Light & Railway company, of
Salt Lake, will expend from $350,000 to
$500,000 in increasing the capacity of its
steam power plant in the western portion
of the city.
n s stated that the Chicago, Milwaukee
& Puget Sound Railroad company is making
final plans to electrify its road from Har-
lowton, Montana, to Deer Lodge, same state,
a distance of 125 miles.
The high schOOl board of Carbon county,
Utah, is advertising for bids for the erection
of a high school building at Price, Utah, to
cost from $45,000 to $65,000. The board
has accepted the plans of Frank W. Moore,
architect, of Salt Lake City.
The Hastings Industrial company, at
Chicago, represented by J. A. Law, of Den-
ver, will !build a canning factory at Moab,
Utah, to cost $5,800. The plant will have
a 10,000 can 'Per day capacity, and is to be
ready to go into commission by July 1.
The town of "Milford, Utah, is advertis-
ing for -bids for the laying of a ten-inch
water pipe line. All bids must be filed with
R. H. Pitchforth, clerk of the board, by
April 19. Plans and specifications can be
seen at the office of E. F. Misch, president
of the town board, at Milford.
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At the meeting of the board of directors
of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi-
tion company, held a few days ago in San
Francisco, the present regular officers and
executive committee of the expooition were
re-elected for the ensuing year. The offi-
cer·s are: Charles C. Moore, president;
Wm. H. Crocker, first vice-president; R. B.
Hale, second vice-president; I. W. Hellman,
Jr., third vice-president; M. H. de Young,
fourth vice-president; Leon Sloss, fifth vice-
president; James Rolph, Jr., sixth vice-
president; Rudolph J. Taussig, secretary; A.
W. Foster, trea'!lurer.
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The Iron 'Canyon Mining company, of
Salt Lake, is equipping fts property, near
Galena, Nevada, with a milling plant, which
should be in commission the of
May.

I Dips, Spurs and Angles
The Utah Consolidated, of Bingham,
Utah, has declared a dividend of 50 cents
a share.
The New York Bonanza Mining company,
of Park City, Utah, has levied a two-cent
assessment.
The Nevada Hills, of Fairview, Nevada,
expects to have its mill in full commission
after the 15th.
Work is progressing favorably in the
driving of the Snake Creek tunnel, near
Park City, Utah.
The Dragon Consolidated, in Tintic dis-
trict, Utah, was in the market, last week,
with a carload of $140 ore.
The Durango are Sampling company, of
Durango, Colorado, will hold a special stock·
holders' meeting April 23.
The Utah Apex Mining company, of
Bingham, Utah, is equipping its Parvenue
tunnel with electric haulage:
R. M. Jones has taken an option on the
Jarbidge, Nevada, properties on which
George Wingfield recently had a bond.
The Utah Antimony company, of Salt
Lake, has levied an assessment of 3 cents
a share, which will be delinquent June 1.
The Jesse mine, near .Encampment, Wyo.
ming, has been closed down, temporarily,
on account of heavy snows and fuel scar·
city.
H. F. Gear, of Eureka, Utah, has se-
cured a lease on the old ShoelJridge mill
dump, and is shipping the same to the A. S.
&. R. smelter. . its operations in the event Mr. Howarth's
The Centennial-Eureka Mining com-
pany, operating at Eureka, Uthh, has posted
a dividend of $1.50 a share, or $150,000,
payable April 30th.
The Star Gold Mining company, operat-
ing at Nob Hill, Clark county, Nevada, has
resumed work with John S. Sartain in
charge as superintendent.
The Mines and Mining committee of the
Salt Lake Commercial club will recommend
the organization of a Bureau of Mines in
connection with the club.
It is reported that an important copper
strike has been made in the property of
the Antelope Park Mining company, five
miles from Winkleman, Arizona.
The Eagle Mining company, operating
in Santaquin district, Utah county, Utah,
will soon resume development under the
management of J. T. Openshaw.
The apex Mining company, operating
near Mammoth, Utah, has discontinued op-
erations, and has leased its shaft andma-
chinery to the Emerald Mining company.
Jesse Knight, of Provo, Utah, has 6e·
cured an interest in the Utah-United Min-
ing company, operating in Beaver Lake dis-
trict, Beaver county, Utah, of which A. J.
1 McMullen is manager. This is a most
promising property which is to be actively
developed, this season, with Mr. McMullen
in charge.
The Alta Consolidated, Utah Mines
Coalition, and other properties in Big and
Little Cottonwood canyons, in Salt Lake
county, Utah, have resumed ore shipments.
The Miami Copper company has pooted
its initial dividend of 50 cents a share,
payable May 15 to stockholders of record
May 1. This is a quarterly dividend, which
will make the Miami disbursements $2 a
share per year.
L.. Heath and W. Worthing, leasing on
the Kennebec in Big Oottonwood district, a
few miles northeast of Salt Lake City, reo
port a new strike of ore which exists in
commercial quantity, with values goIng
about $200 to the ton.
Park City, Utah, mines shipped ore as
follows during the month of March: Sil·.
ver King Coalition, 3,229 tons; Daly·West,
2,919 tons; Daly-Judge, 2,662 tons; Gras-
selli Chemical company, 223 tons; Frank
Daly, 194 tons;· New York Bonanza, 94 tons;
Ontario leasers, 189 tons; Little Bell, 64
tons; and Charles Moore, 31 tons.
The Liberty Copper Mining & Milling
company is planning to install a 100-ton
concentrator on its property at Blue Creek,
north of Chewelah, Wash. S. G. Neff, man-
ager of the mine, announces that the com·
pany plans to sink from the 270-foot level
a depth of 50 feet, and to stope from that
level. The ore vein is more than 10 feet
in width, and contains good values in gold,
silver and copper.
The directors of the Gold Leaf Consoli-
dated Mines, controlling the Wisconsin,
Gold Leaf, Copper Belt and Washington
properties, near Wallace, Idaho, has ar-
ranged to clear the claims of incumbrance
and liquidate all debts. At a recent meet·
ing these officers were elected: President,
Fred N. Davis; vice-president, W. J. Parks;
secretary-treasurer, Vince A. Day. Louis
Bolduc, of Kellogg, Idaho, is manager.
The Black Horse mine, near Murray,
Idaho, recently shipped a car of zinc con-
centrates that ran 51 per cent, the highest
grade zinc y-et forwarded from the Coeur
d'Alene district. W. M. Myers, a mining
engineer, says the mine is the best equipped
property .in the district. It has a 120·ton
modern mill, driven by a 100 horsepower
gasoline engine, but recently installed, which
also provides power for a four-drill com·
pressor.
Frank Ansley, manager of the White
Elephant property in the Orient, Wash., dis.
trict, states that the crosscut run on the
102-foot level has been continued until the
hanging wall has been enoountered. The
total width of the ore-body between the
walls is sixty feet. The vein is mineralized
throughout and appears to be of millin,
grade to the walls on each side. The crew
is drifting into the hill and making six feet
a day. This will be continued to a distance
of 490 feet. As soon as this work is com-
pleted a drift will be run the other direc·
tion for 216 feet.
The Factor Mining company, operating
a property at Orient, Wash., elected these
officers at the annual meeting in Spokane:
President, G. R. Horley; vice' president, J.
M. Gunning; secretary and treasurer, J. E.
Pickrell; general manager, A. O. Evans.
A. J. Bell was elected to the board of direc·
tors. The secretary's report shows the
company and property to be in good condi·
tion. D~velopmentwork will be continued
throughout the year.
Sprinkled with free gold which assays
$150 the ton, an 18-inch ore shoot was re-
cently broken into on the Knob Hill mine
at Republic, Wash. The strike was made
in intermediate work between the one and
two levels. The shipments from the Knob
Hill are being curtailed to the amount reo
quired to pay operating expenses, while the
development work is being pushed ahead.
The company has made a contract with the
San Poil company for treating its ore in
the new mill.
James F. Howarth of Wallace, Idaho, has
taken an option for thirty days at $225,000
on the Idora Hill mine, near Wallace. The
first payment of $56,250 is due April 21. H.
E. Winders, secretary of the company, says
the second payment of a similar amount is
due September 21 and the third and final in.
stalment of $112,500 is payable March 21,
1913, ad ping that the company will continue
principals, said to be eastern investors, per-
mit the option to lapse.
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NEW DISCOVERY IN MONTANA.
(Silver State, Deer Lodge, Mont.)
A company of local men hl\s been organ·
ized to develop the Elk and Antelope min-
ing claims located at the head of Caribou
and Boomerang gulches. Th€'Se claims were
discovered late last fall and only a little
work has been done so far, but the showing
is sufficient to justify considerable work.
There is a shaft on the Elk claim down
thirty feet. The vein, which is five feet
wide, carries on an average, 'as per the last
assays, gold $40, 10 to 15 per cent in cop-
per, and 10 to 15 ounces in silver. These
values are sufficient so that the ore can be
shipped to the smelter and leave a good
profit after paying treatment, hauling and
mining charges. The discovery shaft is
sunk right in the center of the old Champ-
ion road. In fact there was no showing on
the surface, but the elements aided in the
discovery: It seems that water from the
fall rains _ran down the rut in the road,
cutting a narrow trench to the depth of
four feet, or more, and thus expoosea a vein
not more than two inches wide. It was
noticed by one of the local prospectors in
passing, who thought that the eroded sand
looked favorable for gold, and taking some
of it in a pan to the creek, panned it, and
was delighted to find free gold. He at once
staked out the claim and sunk a shaft thirty
feet, with the result that in going this dis-
tance the vein widened from two inches to
five feet, and that the values {X)ntinued and
a stronger showing for copper.
The following are the men who are In-
terested in the development and promotion
of these claims: Fred Tamke, president
and manager; William Miller, Lou Turner,
J. C. Conlin, R. Lee Kelley, J. C. Shaubut,
Frank Smelser, S. P. Wilson and I. S. Eldred.
Should this claim fulfill its promises it
will mean much to Deer Lodge. It will give
employment to more men -and make busi-
ness for the merchants and railroads.
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ELECTRIC SMELTER A SUCCESS.
(View, Kennett, Calif.)
The new electric smelter of the Noble
company, eight miles from here on Pit river,
after a ,period. of four or five years' experi-
ment has now proven beyond doubt a suc-
cess. Herault, the seat of this new industry,
is now the most promising town in northern
CalifornIa. One furnace is now in full op-
eration, and after a little further test the
company will immediately proceed to in-
stall three more furnaces and prepare to
enlarge in smelting on a: big scale. Ac-
cording to Mr. Noble, the samples of pig
iron which he has received from the smelter
in the last few days 'are the finest ever
turned out by any smelter in America, and
he is enthusiastic about the future of the
iron industry on the· Pacific coast.
"There is no limit to the extent of the
industrial activity which the successful op-
eration of our smelter will create in this
state' and all over the coast," he said, "and
'I believe that we are now in a position ta
say that the furnace is a success. We
have had a long, hard struggle, because we
have been experimenting with the on~y
electric smelter in the country and we
have had to learn our own lessons, for there
has been no one who {X)uld give us the
benefit of experience in this line."
a The owners of this property at the present
IN THE SAN JUAN FIELD.
(Item, Rico, Colo.)
A. E. Arms and Harry V. Pyle returned
Monday from Bluff, Utah, and the oil fields
west of Bluff. They went as far as the
Galloway property at John's canyon and they
state from the way conditions are shaping
the future looks better than it has for the
past year.
The Chicago people have let a contract
for a 2,500-foot hole to be put down at, once,
and these people are among the strongest
in the field, and the future looks good to
them.
The London-San Juan are also starting
wmk to go down from 1,500 to 2,500 feet
deep, this company being under control of
Arthur Spencer, and under his capable IJlan·
agement will soon be among the lowest oil
sands.
There are two other companies going
to do deep, and it is generally understood
that all work of a substantial nature only
will be undertaken from this time on, as
the field is proven and only needs compan·
ies with money and the very best manage·
ment to get commercial wells.
The Galloway company have so far been
the best managed company, and gone the
deepest, being down 1,950 feet, have plenty
of oil in the well, and as their tools are
stuck about 1,300 feet down, they consider
that there must be great quantities of oil
below to force it through the cavein where
the tools are fast.
The expenditure of the company will
reach close to $40,000, and they have more
than any company in the field to show
for their work.
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MINES OF GOLD CIRCLE.
(Star, Winnemucca, Nev.)
Gold Circle has long passed from the
prospect stage and is now looked upon as
one of the most substantial camps in the
state, with many mines that have been de-
veloped into producers of the precious yel-
low metal. Perhaps the most interesting
property in the district at the present time
is what is known as the Elko Prince. This
estate is opened for over 600 feet along
the strike of the vein and at a depth of 340
feet by tunnels, and there is a winze down
ninety feet from the lowest level. The vein,
which is about eighteen inches wide, shows
great permanency ,and regularity of values.
At the bottOm of the winze ore is being
hoisted that assa.ys $430 to the ton and in
all the other levels the ore shows good
values. A 25-ton carload shipment is to be
sent out right away from this property and
the ,sampling shows that the lot will aver·
age $620 to the ton.
The Esmeralda is another property in
the camp that is producing bonanza ore.
time are extracting ore that runs from $500
to $1,000 to the ton in gold and this rich
ore is being worked in an arrastra. In
what is, known as the reserve block of
~round on 'the Esmeralda, which is under
operation by the owners, very rich ore is
being extmcted.
The Oolorado Grandees property has
been taken ov'er under option by Messrs.
MJoore and Howell and the shaft which is
being s'ent down on the estate is opening a
large body of milling ore. Mr. Moore, {)f
the new management, is expected to arrive
from New Jersey about April 1, when ex·
tensive operations will be started.
The lower tunnel on the Rex property
tapped the ledl;'e at 125 feet below the old
workings, exposing a big body of milling
ore. The ore at this point is so soft that
the greater part or the vein matter is
,picked down with very little pOWder being
used. Mill operations on the Rex are to
resume shortly after the 1st of April.
Richard Bamberger is working a lease
on the Midas property at a point where
the original discovery of the caJmp was made
and is extracting rich ore which is being
worked in what is known as the Small mill.
High-grade ore is being extracted from a
f,raction located between the Hardscrabble
and Esmeralda properties. The' ore is be-
ing taken from a shaft that is being sent
down on a good sized vein.
Oonsiderable activity is shown on the
Eastern Star property, situated on Fraser
creek. The management has a gasoline
hoist on the road Which is expected in
camp any day. When this equipment is
installed a deep shaft is to be sent down.
There are good showing of high-grade
gold ore in all the workings on this prop-
erty and the company that purchased the
estate is so well satisfied that the paymen.ts
for the same are made ahead of time.
A g'reat deal of development work was
accomplished this win.ter on the Three
Fishes estate with the ,result that good
bodies of ore are -exposed.
There are many other properties in the
Gold Circle camp that have fine disclosures
of ore and regardless of the stringent times
the district is slowlY forging ahead.
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BECK TUNNEL MAKING MONEY.
(Reporter, Eureka, Nev.)
The overdraft of the Beck' Tunnel Min-
ing company is gradually melting away be-
fore the heavy tonnage of ore which is be-
ing placed upon the market, and if the
mine maintains its present output, it will
be but a few months until there are a few
big shining bucks in the treasury. The
overdraft at the present time' should not be
far in excess of $8,000, a pretty small sum
when compared with what the mine owed
about a year 'ago; and with an output of
eighteen or twenty cars a month and a light
expense account, the future is by no means
dark. The ore which was encountered in
the raise from the 175 level of the No. 2
shaft is very apt to be an off-shoot from the
ore body which is being developed by the
incline drift and which made over into the
Beck Tunnel property after it had been
opened so extensively in the Humbug
ground. If this is the CRse, there is 250
feet of virgin ground in which the Beck
Tunnel people can
the two
 gions of the west. It lies between the great purity. At other places there is
Argus and Slate ranges, in the Mohave des· twenty-five feet of solid mixed sulphate
Ancient Lake Bed in Mohave Desert in ert of southern California. Borax lake was and carbonate of soda, with smalIer quan·
California May Furnish Millions of Tons. the original scene of the famous twenty- tities of other salts. Although the lake
mule team borax mine, the borax being bed is dry most of the time, a few inches
The two federal bureaus engaged in the hauled in grea,t wagons drawn by twenty under the water crust thete IS always
search for potash-the Bureau of Soils of to twenty-eight big mules to the Southem water--a bittern heavily impregnated with
the department of agriculture, and the Geo- Pacific railroad at Mohave, a distance of salts.
logical Survey of the department of the in- eighty miles. The lake or fiat is about ten Several years ago an English company
terior-are in re~eiptof promising tele- miles long and five miles wide and has reo attempted to work the soda deposits on an
graphic news from their field representa- ceived the drainage from the surrounding extensive scale, but for some reason the
tievs. A potash deposit of apparently great bilIs for many thousands of years, vast work has not been pushed. This company
importance has, been discovered at B.orax, quantities of dissolved minerals being thus sunk a number of wells, casing them
or Searles lake, in the northwestern corner concentrated in it. The water has been through the soda. deposits. It was found
of San Bernardino county, California. This evaporated under the intense heat of the that a heavy stream of water could be
lake or playa is the last remaining pocket long, hot 'Seasons, but the salts have re- pumped continuouslY without perceptibly
of a once greater lake which has almost mained, so that for most of the year, in lowering the water level. PotassIum chlo-
dried up and its central depression con- fact often throughout the year, the bed is ride and sulphate, the forms In WhIch pot-
tains a large body of crystalline salts a glistening plain of white salts, in at· ash salts are most likely to be found in
known to consist of common salt and sul- tempting to cross which under a, brazen such' deposits, are among the most soluble
phate and carbonate of soda, with smaller sun men have lost their lives. of salts and are likelY to be much more'
quantities of borax. This salt body is sat· The mirage plays its strange tricks generally diffused than salts less easily sol-
urated with brine, and interested persons here, and at the dryest places the traveler uble. That the entire body of water and
stimulated by the governmental ,search for can generalIysee what appears to be a mud in the lake contains potash in a more
potash, recently secured a,n analysis of old broa,d expanse of water covering the bed a or less uniform degree, is indicated by the
sample material from this brine. The re- little way ahead-always a little distance results thus far attained. However, there
sult being significant, the lake was vIsitel1 off, until he approaches the shore of Borax are modifying agencies, such as springs
jointlY by representatives of the Geologi· lake. Then, when he looks behind him, he 'and streams, that bring in fresh water, for
cal Survey and of the Bureau of Soils, who sees the water apparently covering the the movement of water through the lake
took brine samples from six wells distrib· ground over which he has just come. The will be slow, owing to the presence of the
uted over the salt fiat. Analyses of these lake occupies a valley made by faults- sand and salts that fill the basin.
samples have been made by the co-oper- breaks and slips in the earth's crust- o
ative laboratory at the Mackay School of where a great area ,has been dropped dowh. UTAH RARE METALS.
Mines, at Reno, Nevada, and snow an avel'- Borings have been made through the mud
age of 6.78 per cent of potassium oxide and water underlying the lake to a depth (Times, Moab, Utah.)
(K20) in solution. The 'average salinity of some hundreds of feet, the deepest bor- The Utah Rare Metals Mining company
of the brine is 43.82 grams of 'solids per ings made bringing up hot mud. Saturday shipped to Cisco a carload of min-
one hundred cubic centimeters. Compari- A, reconnaissance of the general region ing material for the uranium and vanadiu'm
son of the results indicates' that the brines was made by one of the geologists of the claims at Richardson. A fo·rce of ten men
are nearly uniform throughout the fiat. United States Geological Survey in 1900 will start work, getting out three carloads
The probable importance of the deposIt is and is described in the Survey's Bulletin of high grade uranium ore for the eastern
due to the occurrence of the potassium 200, now out of print. B.orax, lake ItseIr, and European markets. The company also
salts in soluble form in a natural saturated however, was not visited. The lake is has a large order for vanadium ore to be
brine, and under climatic and other condi- a~soshown on a map in Water-Supply Pa- taken out by Ma.y'15.
tions especially favorable to Its separation per 224 of the Survey, "Some Desert Wat- E. H. Roberts, selling agent, has just re-
and recovery by solar evaporation. Exist- ering places in southeastern California and turned to Salt Lake from a trip over the
ing data give reasonable assurance that 'Southwestern Nevada." Its nearest rail- property and reports everything in fine
the brine-saturated salt body is at least road is the Owenyo branch of the Southern .\Shape, with an indication-, of prosperous
sixty feet thick and covers an area of at Pacific, running from Mohave past Owens times in southeastern Utah this summer.
least eleven square miles. Assuming the lake. Borax lake is situated about twenty ----0----
salt body to contain twenty-nve per cent miles from the station of Searles, on this PATENTS RECENTLY ISSUED.
by volume of the brine, the total amount railroad.
of potassium oxide is estimated at over Many useful and curious minerals are (Prepared for The Mining Review by
four million short tons. ThIS estimate ill found in the muds and other deposits of Davis & DaVis, patent attorneys, Washing·
believed to be very conservative, and the Borax lake, including, of course, borax. ton.)
available tonnage may well be expected to Among them are gypsum, glauberHe, car- 1,020,398-Pulverizing-mill-B. C. Bradley,
exceed ten million tons, which would sup- bonate and sulphate of soda, salt, thenar- Canton, Ohio.
ply the country, at the present rate of con- dite, and hanskite. The last carrIes ail 1,020,531-Furnace for obtaining metal fro,m
sumption of potash, for thIrty years. :At much as 2.33 per cent of potassium, equiv- ore or matte-J. J. Anderson,
any rate it appears that this locality con- alent to 4.44 per cent of potassium chlo· Vancouver, British Columbia,
stitutes a very important source of potash ride. Canada.
in probably readily available commercial The salts are not evenly distributed 1,020,649-<Mining apparatus-E. F. Kellum,
form. over the 'surface of the lake. Borax was Don Luis, Ariz.
Methods of separating potash from found plentifully over about three square 1,020,694-Pulp-agitator-C. C. Hafer, Phoe-
brines are now under investigation by the miles, common saIt is everywhere, and so- nix, Ariz.
B!lrea u of Soils. dium carbonate and sodium sulphate are 1,020,762-Machine for picking, breaking,
Borax lake or Searles lake is one or widely distributed. One boring is said to and operating on ice, coal, ores,
the many playas or intermittently wet and have passed through twenty-eight feet of and other substances-A. B. Jud-
dry lakes common throughout the arid reo solid trona (hydrous carbonate of soda) of Bon, New York, N. Y.
 Buy your technical books from Transactions on the Salt Lake Exchange 1Sales. I H. L. I Close.
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The Salt Lake Mining Review. Goldfield CO,n. . .. 1 1,200 414 4% 414
Liste,l Stock". Nevada Con. . 1 1,2001 20% 2014 2014
We carry in sto~k for immediate delivery
Ray Con 1 4,600120 19* 20
Principles of .Mining, by Herbert C. Hoo- ! Bid. I' Asked: Tenn. Copper l,OOO[41* 41%
1 41%
Beck Tunnel 1$ .16¥"!$ .17 Miami Copper .. 1 2,000\ 26'1.0 26 % 2614
ver, price $2. Bingham Amalgamated .. I .06 '1'41 .07 %, Utah Copper .... 1 10,100 65 63% 65
Timber & Mining, by Wm. H. Storms, :Dlack Jack 1 .ZI¥.,1 .22¥.,
Cedar-Talisman .., .<J2 1 .02¥., NEW YORK CURB RANGE.
E. M., price $2.50. Central Mammoth ! I .10
'Century .. 00 .04 I .06 I Sales. I H. L. I clOSe.
Timbering and Mining, by Robert Bruce
Brinsmade, B. S., E. M., $3.
Colorado Mining ··········1
Colorado Conso.idated "1
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.30I
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.30
First Nat. Copper. 1
Giroux Con. . .... 1 3,500 6%
600/ 4% I
4
614
4
614
Crown Point 1 .04 %,1 . Oil InspIration Con.. 1 1,8001 20% 2014 1 2014
Practical Shaft Sinking, by Francis Don-
aldson, M. E., price $2.
Daly-Judge
Dragon . .
. . 1 5.95 i
1 .25 I. .3u
· . Nevada Utah
Ray Central
.. ·1··· .. ··1
1 ..•.•.•
% 1 1-16I
1 2'1.0I 2'1.0 2'1.0
%
East Prince r .02 1 .05
Cost of Mining, by James Ralph F:n1:ly, East Crown Point 1 .00141 .00'Al 'Yukon
Ohio Copper
God 1 4,000., 3%, III 3% II 3%,
300 1% 1% 1%
East Tintic Consolidated I .00141 .01¥., New Keystone .. 1 ••••••• 1 2'1.0 2% 2%
price $5. East Tintic Development .. !.•...... I .0074 South Utah / 1,0001 114 114 114
Rock Drills, by Eustace M. Weston, price Gold Chain 1 .43 I .46 Mason Valley 1 113 12%, /13
Grand Central 'j .05 I . Braden Copper .. , 1,000, 5% 5'1.0 5%
$4. Grutli .. , 1 'OO¥.,I .01 Ely Con. . I ·1 % 14 %
InQian Queen 1 .01 %, .0214 La Rose 1 8001 3%, 1 3%, 3%,
Simple Mine Accounting, by David Wal- Inyo Gold ! .02 1 .0214 Nevada Hills 1 1,400/ 2% I 2'1.0' 2'1.0
lace, price $1. Iron Blossom 1 1. 27¥"I 1. 30
Iron King \ . Ol'l!.I . Kerr Lake / 100/2%12%12%
Ricketts on Mines, price $4.25. Belmont / 50<1 1014 10 10%
Joe Bowers . . 1 .00 ¥"I . 02 Tonopah . . . 1 8 7% 8
Benson's Compendium, I:rice $3. Xeyston e 1 .08 [ .
King David I , .05
Wilson's Min:ng Law, price 50 cents. King William 1 .03 .03¥.,
Lehi Tintic 1 .01 .0114
From Prospect to Mine, by Ettinne A. Little Bell 1 .39 I . New York, April 9.-Standard copper
Lion Hil ·1 .03141 · . quiet, spot $15.50@15.87'h; April, May, June,
Ritter, price $1.50.
Lower Mammoth 1 .04'1.01 .04 %, July, $15.50@15.75. London steady, spot
Mining Law for the Prospector, Miner Mason Valley 112.50 /13.50 £70, 10s; futures, £71" 7s, 6d. Customhouse
Miay Day 1 .15 .16 returns show exports of 7,039. tons so far
and E'ilgineer, by McFarren, pricb $2. Mineral Flat 1 .01 1 .01 %, this month. Lake copper 16@1614,c; electro-
lytic, 16c; casting, 15'h.@ 15*c.
Secret of the Rocks, by F. M. Frasier, Mountain Lake ·····1 .03'1.01 .04 Tin strong; spot, $43. 50@43.75: April,
Nevada British I.. .. .40
$43.37'1.01443.75; MaY, $43.25@43.75; June,
price $2. Nevada Hills 1 2.40 I 2.65
Mine Examiner and Prospector's Com- Newhouse
New York
.. · .. · 1 1,.00
1 .0514
I ·.
.05¥.,
$42.97'h@43.12'hc;
gust, $41.75@42.25.
July, $42.62'h;@42.75. AlJ-

panion, by Miller, price $3. Ohio Copper 1 1.85 I 1.90 London firm; spot, £198, 15s; futures, £194,
Opohongo · 1 .16 1 15s. Local sales 10 tons, June, at $43.00; five
.16'1.0 tons,
Origin of Ore Deposits, oy Ettinne A. Pioche Dem'john 1 .09%,1 .10'1.0 July, at $42.70. .
Ritter, price 5;) cents. Pioche Mining ············1
Plutus 1 ,.07%,
I
.01'1.0 .02 Lead easy, $4.20@4.27'h, New York; $4.12'1.0
.08'1.0 @4.17'h, East St. Louis.
Stevens' Copper Handbook, price $5. Prince Con. .. 1 1. 20 1 1. 25 . London, £16, 3s, 9d.
Spelter quiet, $6.60@6.80 New York; $.650
Clason's Maps in all sizes from 25c to
$3.50 each, all with 1910 census.
~r~t~~U~gh:ld·a:hO
Red marrior 1.00 I
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. : . : . : : : : : : II .. i: i 7%
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bid East St. Louis; London, £25, 10s.
Antimony quiet; cookso'ls $8.00.
Richmond and Anaconda .. .05 I . Iron, Cleveland warants 52s, l'hd In Lon-
Clason's road maps df the different west- :Rexall 1 .01'1.01 .02'1.0 don. Locally iron was steady; No.2 foundry
Sacramento . . .. 1 .01 %,I . northern, $15.25@15.75; No.2, $14.75@15.25:
ern states have no competition, price in
cloth $2, in paper $1.
Seven Troughs
SlIver King Coalition
.. · ·····1
1 1.70
I
.02 %, .03 '1.0 No.1
1.80 @t5.75.
southern and No. 1 southern soft, $15.25

Sioux Con. . 1 .03'1.0 1 .0414

Send today for book catalog if you do South Iron Blossom 1 .00141 .OO%,
not find what you are looking for in the Swansea Consolidated 1 .08 1 .08'1.0
Silver King Consolidated .. 1 1.00 [ 1.02'1.0 April 1.
above list. We will get What you want, Tintic Central 001 .03¥"1 . 04
United Tintic [ .01%'1 Silver, 58% cents:
.02'1.0 cathode, lead, $4.20; copper
promptly.. Our special clubbing offers are Unc'e Sam [ .20 1 .25 15. 21~ cents.
unequalled and will be mailed upcn request.
We can save you money on your periodicals.
Utah Consolidated
Union Ch. .
Victor Consolidated 1
1

.04 1
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.03'1.01 .03%,
1 .05'1.0I .06
.05
Silver, 5814 cents;
cathode, 15.2114 cents.
April 2.
lead, $4.20; copper
THE) SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW. Victoria Consolidated .·· .. 1 .63 I .65 April 3.
Wilbert [ .28'1.01 .35
0----- Yankee 'Consolidated [ 1 .15 '1.0 Silver, 58%, cents. lead, $4.20; copper
Yerington Copper 1 .07'1.01 .10 cathode, 15.2114 cents.
Miners on the Yankee Girlpr6perty at April 4.
Republic, Wash., are expected to break into Silver, 58% cents; lead, $4.20; copper
. high grade shipping ore within thirty days, cathode, 15.2114 cents .
. 1 Bid. IAsked. 1 Sold For. April :>,
Joseph M. Snow, superintendent, says: Alta C~.I$ .62 1$ .64 1$ .61 @$ .63
Thomp-Q ... 1 .48 I .50 1 .43 @ .51 Silver, 58%, cents; lead, $4.20; copper
Sixty feet more on the tunnel will bring its Bing Ct.-St .. \ .17'1.01 .19 1 .16 @ .
cathode, 15.2114 cents.
face directly below the capping of the high· Dragon Con. .38'1.01 .39 I .39 @ . AprU 8.

grade shoot. It is esti~ated the shoot dips

toward the workings. The present work is
Utah M.etals .\1.25
Bing. Metals.
Naiidriver··1 .05' I
1 1 ••..•••
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.
cathode, 15.21 *
Silver, 58%, cents;
cents.
April 8.
lead, $4.20; copper

McDon, Ely.1 .09 [ ·1 .

in good milling ore and the mineralization Silver, 58 %, cents; lead, $4.20; copper
cathode, 15.52 ¥., cents.
is getting stronger with distance. The ore April 9.
contains gold,. silver and iron. The prop. heck Tunnel, 1,000 at 16'hc. Silver, 58%, cents: lead, $4.20; copper
Black Jack, 1,000 at 22¥.,c: 700 at 22c. cathode, 15.52'1.0 cents.
erty is owned principallY by Spokane cap- Iron Blossom, 1,400 at $1.30.
ital. N. T. Johnson is manager. Iron King, 1,000 at 2¥.,c. ----0----
King WilHam, 500 at 314oc. Sixteen carloads of mining machinery
o Lehi Tintic, 1,000 at Ie.
A strike of $60-gold and silver ore is r~· New York, 1,000 at 5'hc; 1,000 at 514,c. have been received at Douglas, W,yoming,
Plutus, 2,000 at Sc.·
ported in the Nineteen-Ten mine at Bar- SlIver King Con.. 125 at $1. for the electric plant and power statton of
Union Chief, 1,000 at 6c. the North Platte Valley Irrigation company.
rett Springs, near Winnemucca, Nevada, Yerington Copper, 200 at 7'hc.
which is under lease to J. R. Wentworth Shares sold, 11.925. near that place.
Selling value, $2,882.75.
andF. J. Frey. Black Jack, 50 at 22c.
----0·---- Open Board.
Iron Blossom, 1,000 at $1.30.
The Rico-Wellington Mining company, of New York, 1,000 at 514oc.
Rico, Colorado, has $100,000 in ore broken Silver King Con., 400 at $1.
Swansea .con., 1,000 at 8c.
down and ready to ship to the Salt Lake Utah Con., 1,000 at 3%,c.
Shares sold, 10,750.
smelters. SeIling value, $5,022.
 OREGON SHORT LINE
EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 3, 1911.
TIME CARD. 400,000
PER CENT
The savings de-
Depart. Daily. Arrive.
7'.10 a.m. Ogden, Malad, Denver, partment of this
Omaha, Kansas City, Depart Dail7. bank was started
Chicago and Intermedl-' Provo. Manti. Marysvale 7,50 A.M. April 1, 1911. fif-
ate (From Ogden and Midvale and Bingham 8·.00 A.M. ty-two years af-
Inter. Pts. only arriv- Denver. Chicago and East. 8.35 A.M. ter the institution
Ing) .................•.• 8.15 a.m, Park City 8.20 A.M. begun to receive
8.00 a.m. Ogden, Logan, Pocatel- Ogden and Intermediate points 10.·25 A.M. commercial de-
lo, Boise, Marysville, Ogden. San Francisco. Portland 12.45 P.M. posits. At the
Interme'dlate- Montpel- Ogden, San Francisco, Portland 2.45 P.M. close of business
Ier. Going 10:10 p.m. Midvale and Bingham 2.50 P.M. March 9. 1912.
10:00 a.m. Ogden and Intermedi- Denver. Chicago and East 5.20 P.M. the savings ac-
ate points 7':05 p.m.. Provo, Springville. Tintlc 0.30 P.M. counts amounted
11.40 a.m. Overland Limited, Oma- Ogden and Intermediate pOints 6:10 P.M. to $401,495.74,
ha, Chicago, Denver, St. Denver. Chicago and East 7.10 P.M. bearing 4 PER
Louis 3.20 p.m. Ogden. Portland and Seattle 11.10 P.M, C EN T Interest.
11:55 a.m. Los Augeles Limited, compounded twice
Arrive Da117. a year.
Omaha, Chicago, Den- The money has come over
ver, St. Louis 4:45 p.m. Ogden, San Francisco. Los Angeles 8.15 A.M.
1.05 p.m. Overland Limited, . Og- Ogden and Intermediate points 10.00 A.M. Utah. from various states the
Tintic. Springville. Provo 10:20 A.M. union and from foreign lands. the
den, Reno. Sacramento: banklng-by-mail department having
San Francisco 2:05 p.m. Bingham and Midvale 10.45 A.M.
2:45 p.m. Ogden. Boise. Portland. Denver. Chicago and East 12.30 P.M. attracted business far and wide.
Ogden and Intermediate points 2.15 P.M. This evidence of popular esteem Is
Butte and Intermediate. 4:50 p.m. deeply appreciated by the directors.
2:45 p.m. Ogden, San Francisco Denver. Chicago and East 2.30 P.M.
and Intermediate Po;nts 7':05 p.m. Ogden. San Francisco and West .. 4.55 P.M. who regard the custoay of these funds
Park City and Intermediate points 5.00 P.M. as a public trust.
4.15 p.m. Ogden. Brigham, Cache YOU are invited to Identify yourself
Valley, Malad and Inter- Bingham and Midvale 5.45 P.M.
mediate ..........•...• 11:35 a.m. Provo, Manti, Marysvale 6.05 P.M. with this Institution by opening a
Ogden. San Francisco. Portland .. 7.00 P.M. savings account. $1.00 is enough to
5:20 p.m. Ogden. Denver, Omaha, begin. Start saving NOW.
Chicago. (Park City. Denver, Chicago and East 10.55 P.M.
Green River and. West
only Returning) 12:40 a.m.
Ticket office, 301 Main Street. WALKER BHOS. BANKERS
Salt Lake City, Utah
":T~~':~~H~,F
6:00 p.m. Motor-ogden - Brig-
ham ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9:35 p.m.
11:45 p.m. Ogden. Boise, Portland.
Butte City and San
Francisco Going.) ..... 10.30 a.m. A light mountain or mining transit, see- Expert Kodak Finishing
Salt Lake Ticket Otrlce, Utah Hotel, , MallOrders
8ollclted'-----
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13-21-5t. SHIPLERJlS
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Los Angeles • .
I-The Overland, to Los An-
geles •.....•..............
5:00 I'.:n.
11:50 p.m.
makes it a most valuable medium. .
The Johnny Mining & Milling company,
No. 51~Mlners· Local. to Tooele and o
Eureka. • ............•.. 7:4'0 a. m.
of Johnny, Nevada, will soon place its mill
WILL SELL OR BOND.
No. 53-Garfleld Local, to Garfield into commission again. The' mine is re-
and Smelter •............ 6:50 a.m.
No. 55-Tooele Special. to Garfield ported to be in excellent phY'Sical condition,
and Smelter, and Tooele .. 10:20 a. m. Good mining properties containing gold,
with an abundance of good ore in sight. C.
No. 57-Garfleld Local, to Garfield silver, copper, and lead vanadium. Addres,s,
and Smeter . 2.40 p. m. A. Roberts, an experienced mining man, has
No. '59-Garfleld Owl. to Garfield L. E. TROXEL, miner and prospector,
and Smelter . . . 11:00 P. m. been appointed superintendent of the prop-
No. 61-LynndYI Special, to Lehl, Florence, on Price. Arizona. 13-19-3m.
erty.
American Fork. Provo. o
Payson. Nephi. LynndyL .. 4:10 p. m. ----·0----
No. 63-Valley Mall, to Provo, .,e- The Success Mining company, of \Vaj·
phi, San Pete· Valley and .A very important strike was recently
Mercur • . ...•.........•.. 8:00 a. m. lace, Idaho, H. F. Samuels, manager. ba"
No. 65-Payson Local. to Payson, paid a dividend, for March, of one cent. :, made in the EI Paso mine at Cripple Creek,
Provo and Intermediate Colorado, in the lower tevels recently
points ••................ 8:uu p.m. share, or $15,000.
drained by the Roosevelt tunnel. The dis-
ArrIve.
covery is said to be the most significant and
No.8-Los Angeles Limited. from
Los Angeles .• · 11:40 a.m. valuable one to be made in the district for
No.2-The Overland, from Los years. The ore is extremely high grade. and
Angeles .•............... 6:30 a.m.
No. 52-Miners' Local, from Eu- Sporting goods catalogue. Address ""·S1 the dep'osit is large in volume.
reka. Silver City, Stockton, ern Arms & Sporting Goods Co., Salt Ll'.kp
Tooele . . •....•........... 6:00 p. m. ----,0
No. 54-Garfield Local, from Gar- City, Utah.
field, Smelter. 8:50 a. m. Eighteen feet is the width of the silver-
No. 56-Tooele Special. from
Tooele, Garfield. Smelter .. 1:30 p. m. lead ore body encountered on the Robert
No. 58-Garfleld Local. trom Smel- Emmet mine in the Amazon. Mont., district,
ter, Garfield .•..........• 4:50 p. m.
No. 60-Garfleld Owl, from Gar- recently. A crosscut was being run on the
field, Smelter. Riter 12:55 a. m.
No. 62-LynndYI Special. from The Salt Lake Photo Supply company, 500-foot level and at a distance of 150 feet
Lynndyl. Nephi. Provo and 159 Main, headquarters for Kodaks, Cam· the vein was struck. The mine was worked
Intermediate point!" 12:30 p. m.
No. 64-Valley Mall. from Nephi, eras, Supplies and Kodak Finishing. Mall twenty years ago and ore running as high
Provo, Mercur . . .•...... 5:40 p. m. us your orders. Come and see our new
No. 66-Shoppers' Special, from as $200 a ton was·.taken out and shipI>ed
Payson. Provo 10:20 a. m. store. to Swansea, Wale'S. for treatment. Since
o ----0·---- the demonetization of silver, little has been
The Galena King. of Stockton, Utah, is The Mining Review circulates among done on the property until the neW owners
shIpping about four cars monthly. of high· the masses, as well as the classes; in the took hold of the property a few months ago
grade silver-lead ore, from which smelter big mining camps as well as in the little and installed modern machinery. W. Q.
returns of from $800 to $1,200 a car are be- ones. It is unexcelled as an advertising Ranft, of Missoula. Mont., is manager ot
ing received. medium. the property.