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VOL. 14. No. 19. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY 15. 1913.

Contents of this Issue:

Page

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* III ustrated.
10 THE SAL T
THE PRODUCTION OF LEAD IN 1912
FROM STATISTICS COMPILED BY THE U. S. G. S.
An estimate of the production of refined
lead in the United States in 1912 has been
compiled by C. E. Siebenthal, of the UniLod
States Geological Survey, from reports lJy
all lead refineries and sof>lead smelteries
in operation during the year. These re­
ports cover actual production for the 1irst
ten or eleven months of the year with an
estimate for the remainder of the year, and
from them the figures of produc~ion are
made up without change. The statistics
of imports, exports, and lead remaining in
warehouse have been taken from the roc­
ords of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce for eleven months, the figures
for December having been estimated_
The year was marked by ~he completioa
of the lead smeltery of the Internatlon::l.l
Smelting & Refining company, at Tooele,
Utah, and of the lead refinery of Its sub·
sidiary, the International Lead Refiniug
company, at East Chicago, Indiana. The
smeltery started in March with two fur­
naces of 250 tons each. Two more fur·
naces are under construction which will gi',e
the plant a capacity of 1,200 tons. The lead
refinery has a caj}llcity of 100 tons and
began operation in October. The actIve
competition or the new smel:ery In secur­
ing ore contracts has had a very beneficial
effect on the lead-mining industry of that
section.
Production.
The total production of refined lead, de­
silverized and soft, from domestic and for­
eign ores in 1912 was approximately 480;9G5
short tons, worth at the average New York
price $43,286,850, compared to 486,976 tons
in 1911 and 470,380 tons in 1910. Thebe
figures do not include an estimated output
of 13,384 tons of antimonial lead, agaill'!t
14,078 tons in 1911 and 14,069 tons in 1910.
LA K E MIN I N Q REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
Of the total production, desilverized lead of
domestic origin, exclusive of desilverized
soft lead, is estimated at 229,765 tOllS,
against 201,223 tons in 1911; and desilverizud
lead of foreign origin comprised 81,6411 tons,
compared to 94,143 tons in 1911. The pro­
duction of so!: lead, mainly from MississiplJi
valley ores, is estimated at 169,551 tons,
compared to 191,619 tons in 1911. Des;:>ite
the reduced output of soft lead there is no
doubt that Missouri retains flrs~ place among
the lead-producing states. The final flguf(,s
of production of soft lead are likely to show
an increase of a few thousand tons ovor
those given above, because the argentiferolis­
lead smelteries aud refiLeries undoubtedly
treated more or less soft-lead ore from the
Mississippi valley which is not taken intO
account In their preliminary estimates.
The imports of lead are estimated at·
Pioche Mountain Showlna: Famous Old Mines.
10,969 short tons of lead in ore, valued at
$452,650; 76,468 tons of lead in base bullion,
valued at $3,452,750; and 266 tons of refiul'd
lead, having a value of $20,000-a total of
87,703 tons, compared .to 89,952 tons in 1911.
Of the 1912 imports, 85,000 tons, or abo'lt
97 per cent, came from Mexico. The ex­
ports of foreign lead (lead of forei&n origin
smelted or refined in the United States)
show a decrease of more than a third, b~­
ing estimated at 65,253 tons, ,against 101,227
tons in 1911. The imports of type metal
(antimonial lead) were 757,375 pounds, '~un·
taining 485,596 pounds of lead and valuetl. at
$18,516, ~ompared w'lth 8,390,470 pounds in
1911, containing 6,936,711 pounds of lead and
worth $310,658. These imports of type
metal are withdrawn from bond and ,there­
fore should not be added to the general
imports of lead given above, as that wOllld
involve duplication.
The amount of lead available for eon-
15, 1913.
sumption during 1912 may be estimated by
adding to the stock of foreign lead in
bonded warehouses at the beginning of Hie
year (4,481 short tons) the imports (87,703
tons), and the domestic .production (399,316
tons), making an apparent supply of 491,50(l
tons. From this is to be subtracted tl!c
foreign lead exported from warehom;e
(65,253 tons), the forei'gn lead exported in
manufactures under drawback (estimated at
9,848 tons), the deduction by liquidation
(5,814 tons), and the stock in bonded wa,e·
houses at the close of the year (assum.o.a
to be the ·same as at the close of November,
9,497 tons), leaving as available for con­
sumption 401,088 tons, which by compari­
son wi~h 399,472 tons in 1911, 376,021 wns
in 1910, and 370,013 tons in 1909 seems to
be a normal figure.
The foreign leadi remaining in ware·
house at the close of November, 1912, was
distributed principally as follows: At Chi·
cago, 161 short tons, compared with 477
tons at the ~lose of 1911; at Newark, 5!11/
tons, against 1,389 tons at the end of 1911;
at Perth Amboy, 8,353 tons in 1912 aad
1,154 tons in 1911; and at El Paso, 343 tons,
compared with 1,278 tons at the close of the
preceding year.
Prices.
Lead began the year at New York with a
price of 4.475 cents a pound and held ~i1is
figure through January. A sharp declillo
brought the lowest price of the year by the
middle of February, with lead at 4.05 cents
a pound. A long rise, with one considerable
depreSSion in August, brought the price to
5,1 cents by the middle of September. Here
the price remained practically stationary
until the close of October, after which a
sharp decline carried the price down to 4.35
cents, at about which it closed the yea,!'.
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The average New York price for the year
was again 4.5 cents a pound, as it was in
1911.
The London price of lead started a: £ 15
12s. 6d. a long ton, (3.375 cents a pound) and
rose very little above that figure for the
first five months, after which a steady rise
culminated early in September in a prIce
of £23 a long ton (4.97 cents a pound), tbe
highest price reached in over thirty years.
At this time the New York price of lead
was 5.1 cents a pound. A sharp dec!ine
through two months was followed by 3ta·
tionary prices, the year closing with ledd
/<1'; about £ 18 2s. 6d a ton (3.92 cents a
pound). The average London price of lead
for 1912 was £ 17 18s. 10d. a long ton (3.88
cents a pound).
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BUTTE IN 1912.
The total output of the Anaconda Cop.
per Mining company, which is by far the
largest producer in the Butte, Montana, dis­
trict, is estimated as 322,000,000 pounds for
the year 1912, which is the largest pr£).
duction in the history of the camp. In
1911 the company produced 272,000,000
pounds. The production of the North Butte
and Tuolumne companies are included iiI
this estimate, inasmuch as their ores are
treated at the Anaconda plants. North
Butte may be credited wi'h about 26,000,000
pounds of this and Tuolumne with 8,000,000.
The East Butte company produced in the
neighborhood of 14,000,000 pounds. and over
360,000 ounces of silver and nearly 17,000
ounces of gold,
The Anaconda did considerable shaH
sinking dUring the year. The shafts on the
'Vest Colusa, Pennsylvania. Leonard.
Mountain Con. Moonlight and Stewart were
each deepened 200 feet, those on the Berke·
ley, Tramway and Belmont, 400 feet each,
and that on the West Gray Rock, 300 feet,
a total of 3,000 feet.
One hundred feet of the proposed 300
feet of additional depth at the St. Lawrence
has been ,accomplished. The total develoll'
ment work done by this one company for
the year is estimated to total about thirty
miles.
More of the shafts have been equipped
with air hoisting, from power generated
on the Missouri river, electrically. This
system of .hoisting was fully described in
the columns of the Review of September
15th. The shafts which were equipped dur­
in'g the year were the Mountain View, West
Gray Rock, Pennsylvania, Leonard. Tram·
way. High Ore and Diamond. The Gagnon
and Original are closed pending the com·
pletion of similar installations. Those re­
maining to be equipped are the Mountain
Con, Steward and West Colusa.
About 12.000 men are employed by the
company in its varied operations, and the
monthly payroll aggregates nearly a mU·
lion and a half.
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN, U A R Y
Much experimenting has been done at
th'l Washoe plant on the recovery from
slimes and tailings. The slimes have bee?:!
settled in ponds for some time. dredged and
'briquetted, and charged to the blast fur·
naces. The handlin'g is automatic through­
out.
One section of the concentrating plant
has been equipped with Hancock jigs. seven
of which replace forty of the old type.
The remaining seven sections will prob·
ably be remodeled during the year. We
have commented upon the large converters
in use at the Great Falls plant. The Ana·
conda will soon install these large con·
verters which have a capacity fourfold that
of the small barrel type now in use. Silic­
eous lining has been displaced by basi:c lin·
ing at 'both plants.
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ACTIVITIES NEAR NIPTON.
The little station of Nipton. on the Salt
Lake route, just over the line in Califor·
nia, is showing evidence of an awakening,
says the Las Vegas. Nevada, Age. Each
day marks the arrival of several parties
bound for this mining section.
It is reported that the D. J. Callahan
property, a short distance to the east of
Nipton, has been sold to Salt Lake parties.
This property is located at the western
base of McCullough mountain in the Cres·
cent district and attracted considerable at·
tention about a year ago because of an
important strike made there 'by Mr. CalJa·
han.
Within the past two months the Calla.·
han property received a very thorough ex·
amination at the hands of Mr. Jos. Bromley
and associates of the Nevada Eagle Min­
ing company, a Philadelphia company own·
ing property in Eldorado canyon. The reo
suit of this examination was very gratify.
ing, disclosing val ues in excess of any
assay returns se'cured by Mr. Callahan him·
self. But for the dissenting vote of one
man the property would have been taken
over by Mr. Bromley and associates.
Mr. Miller of the Miller Mining com·
pany, havin'g property at Crescent, has re­
turned from his home in Missouri. Just
what he intends to do is not known.
There is considerable activity over in
the Clark mountain district, some twenty­
one miles west of Nipton, In San Bernardino
county. The Colliseum is about to be equip·
ped with reducti.on machinery. On this prop·
erty there is a large amount of ore, but
the grade is such as to necessitate its
treatment on the ground.
T. J. Fitzpatrick has fine zinc ore in sev­
eral places on his Uncompahgre property,
and is :shipping steadily by the way of Ivan·
pah on the Santa Fe route.
John H. Williams. owning a tungsten
property in the same vicinity, is reported
to be preparing to ins~al1 machinery On his
property.
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DEVELOPMENTS AT THE DALY.
Active operations have been pursued at
the Daly mine. at Park City, Utah, since
last August.· Development work has been
pushed in the Back vein, which vein was
described in our last issue in an article
on Park City. The Daly has done litt:o
development on this vein, but some time
ago started a raise on the SOO-foot level,
about the middle of the claim. Fifteen feet
above the level, ore was struck, averag­
ing, for a width of one to three feet, forty
ounces in silver and forty per cent lead.
This ore continues to the top of the raise,
140 feet above the level. Stopes will be
opened on this vein Qn the 1,000-foot level.
and 'blanket deposits will be sought where
the vein cuts the Park City formation, Or
lime.
A raise has also been put up to explore
the contac: of the Ontario qUartzite and the
lime. This raise is following a small rich
streak, which is not commercial ore.
Even without the ore production which
seems destined to come, the Daly has a con­
siderable income from other sources. Tho
company has a large interest in the On·
tario or No. 2 drain tunnel, and three·sev­
enths of No. 1 transportation tunnel. Th3
Daly West and Daly Judge pay $21,000
yearly for the drainage, and the Daly West
pays toll for transportation. The company
also owns one·half of the Park City Light
& Power company, and with the Ontario anu
Daly West controls valuable sources of
water supply. It owns besides nearly a
half in'erest in the Webber Coal company,
owning 1,100 acres of coal land at Coal­
ville.
From these sources the Daly has a re'y­
enue of $30,000 a year, equivalent to seven
per cent on a share quotation of three dol­
lars.
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DALY WEST DIVIDEND.
The Daly 'Vest Mining company, of Park
City, Utah, has posted a dividend of fifteen
cents a share, payable on January 15th, to
stockholdel's of record on January 6th. The
paymen~ will amount to $27,000 and brings
the total dividend disburselll1ents of this
company to the handsome total of $6,606.000.
Dividend payments were begun in 1988, and
have continued each year with the excep­
tion of 1908. The largest disbursemed
was in 1903, when $1,332,000 was paid.
Most of the ore is of second class, being
mined between the 1,700 and 2.000 foot
levels.
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The plants of the American Smelting &
Refining com'Pany in Colorado treated, in
1912, 658,226 dry tons of ore of a total value
of $21.162,491, the values of gold, silver and
lead ran'ging between six and seven million
dollars each, while a little over a. miUlotl
dollars worth of copper was produced,
12 THE SAL T
THE PRODUCTION OF COPPER IN 1912
PROM STATISTICS COMLPIED BY THE U. S. G. S.
Statistics and estimates received by the
Uni:ed States Geological Survey from all
plants known to prodUce blister copper from
domestic ores and from all Lake mines indi,
cate that the copper output of the Uni:l3d
States in 1912 exceeds that of any previous
year in thehis:ory of the industry. Not
only is the total output the largest ever re­
corded, but six of the large copper-produc­
ing states-Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Ne·
vada, New Mexico, and Alaska-have each
exceeded all former records of productiool,
Panoramic View Showing the Holdings of the Ray Consolidated C'oppel" Company at Ray, Arizona.
while Montana and Tennessee have nearly
equaled their previous record productions.
The figures showing smelter production
from domestic ores, which have been col­
lected by B. S. Butler, of the geological
survey, represent the actual production of
most of the companies for eleven mon;;ils
and an estimate of the December output;
The Novem,ber figures for a few companies
were not available and these companies fur­
nished estimates for the last two months
of the year. According to the statistics and
estimates received, the outpu+. of blister :ll,d
lake copper was 1.249,000,000 pounds in 1912,
against 1.097,232.749 pounds in 1911.
At an average price of about 16 cents a
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y '1 5,
pound the 1912 output has a value of nearly
$200,000,000, against $137,154,092 for the
1911 output.
Preliminary statistics showing the out·
put of refined copper are not collected by
the geological survey. Figures published 0.1'
the Copper Producers' Association show an
output of 1,429,147,150 pounds for the fil'l1t
eleven months of 1911 and indicate that
the produC::ion of marketable copper by the
regular refinin'g plants from all sources,
domestic and foreign, will amount to about
1.560,0()0.000 pounds for' 1912, 'against 1,433,
875,026 pounds in 1911.
According to the Bureau of Statistics 1m·
ports of pigs. bars, ingots, plates, and old
copper for the first elev~m months amounted
to 276,508,505 pounds, and the copper C011­
tent of ore, matte, and. regulus import('d
amounted to 94,486,041 pounds. If the im·
ports for December were equal to the aver­
age monthly imports for the first eleven
months the amount of copper entering tj.e
United States for the year was about 40,1,
721,323 pounds, against 334,607,538 pouuds
for 1911. Considerable of the copper im­
ported as blister had been previously ex­
ported as ore.
1 9 1 3,
Estimates based on figures for the first
eleven months published by the Bureau of
Statistics and also by the Copper Producers'
Association indicate that the exports of cop­
per for 1912 will not equal those of 1911 but
may exceed 750,000,000 pounds.
Stocks of refined copper held in the
United States January 1, 1913, are probably
about the same as on January 1, 1912. For,
eign stocks show a considerable decrease.
Statistics published by the Copper PrJ­
ducers' Association show the domestic de-
Much of this has been Extensively Prosp.lcted. TI
llveries for the first eleven months of t!J.e
year as 761,174,225 pounds and indicate a
marked increase In domestic consumptioll,
which will probably reach .825,000,0(10
pounds for the year and may exceed that
amount.
The average quoted p-rice of electrolytic
copper for the year showed a marked in·
crease over that for 1911. The average for
1912 was about 16 cents a pound as com·
pared with 12.5 cents a pound for 1911,
The year opened with copper at about 14
cents a pound, but since June the monthly
average has not been below 17 cents,
Leading Copper-Producing States.
For 1912 Arizona again h{)lds first place
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:tny was blown in early in the year and
perated thereafter. The output of the dis­
'lct will probably reach nearly 15,000,000
ounds. The Ely district will show a slight
lcrease over the 64,900,000 pounds pr')­
uced in 1911, though produc:lon was in­
,rfered with by labor troubles in the latter
art of the year.
The production of copper in CaIiforn!a
1 1912 wilJ probably show little change from
~e 35,835,000 pounds produced in 1911. As
1 previous years the Shasta County district
las the largest producer, but notable COll·
ributions were made also by .the Foothills
istrict and other districts of the state.
The output of copper from New Me::tieo
n 1912 will show a large increase over t}:tat
'f 1911, owing to the beginning of note·
~orthy production by the Chino Copper
ompany, of the San:a Rita district. The
otal production of the state will -reach
learly 30,000,000 pounds, the larger pa..· t
oming from the Santa Rita district.
Alaska will show a large increase in +,he
,roductlon of copper in 1912 over the 2:<',­
14,000 pounds produced in 1911, the total
aving been estimated as 28,940,000 pounds.
'he output came largely from the Copper
liver and PrinCe William Sound districts,
bough southeastern Alaska also contrl·
outed.
Tennessee will show but little change
n copper production in 191Z from the
8,965,000 pounds produced in 1911. The
utput,as in previous years, came from the
luck town district.
The ou:'put of copper from Colorado is
ugely incidental to the production of other
letals and will probably show no great
hange in 1912 from the 9,791,000 pounds
roduced in 1911.
Idaho will show a considerable increase
1 copper output in 1912 over the 4,514,!.16
ounds produced in 1911.
Outlook for 1912.
There will be no new large producing
lines added during 1913. Several of those
lat began prodUction in 1911 and 1912 wili,
owever, turn out larger quantities than in
912. At the prices for copper prevalJin~
uring the latter part of 1912 the industry
; highly prOfitable, and if the output can
e marketed and the price maintained the
roducers wlIl be in a position to make a
till further large increase in 1913.
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Three shifts are being worked at the
'lint mines, at Flin~, Idaho, of which J. M.
[organ is general manager. Twenty-five
len are employed, in driving a tunnel to
mnect with the old shaft. The recentlY
Istalled machinery is 'giving satisfaction,
nd the old mill is being remodeled. During
Ie year there have been built a -transform'lr
uilding, compressor building, blacksmith
lOP, timber shed, change room, assay Gf.
ce, boarding and bunk house, and superin·
mdent's residence.
L A K E MIN rN G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COAL-1912
Returns of the production of coal fro~l
the Rocky Mountain districts to the Unit;l'd
States Geological Survey indicate that, takl'n
as a whole, the year 1912 may be classed us
fair. Cold weather in the first three mon:hs
of the year was of material benefit in ('x·
hausting winters~ocks, but with the advent
of warm weather the demand, not only for
domestic use, but for railroads and other
commercial purposes, fell off sharply. Dull­
ness was the chief feature until September,
when the bountiful crops and general pros·
perity created an improved condition in the
coal trade, although prices did not advance
as rapidly as operators desired nor reach~­
the level obtained in 1911. The states in
this region are not important factors in
the iron trade, and the revival in that in­
dustry was not so pronounced in its effect
upon coal mining in the western states as it
was east of the Mississippi river. The
same deficienCies in labor and car supply
that influenced production in the east were
.the cause of complaint !n Colorado. A tele­
graphic communication from Mr. G. F.
Bartlett, of Denver,states that reports to
the state mine inspector show 'a produc·
tion of 9,790,464 tons for 11 months. Es~l·
mating the output for December. at 1,152,680
tons, the total production for the year is
placed af 10,943,153 tons, or about 800,000
tons over 1911. In New Mexico the car
supply was generally good, but the labor
supply was possibly 15 to 20 per cent short,
many of the miners having left for the
Balkan war.
In Montana, on the contrary, the
high scale of wages appears to have
attracted labor to the coal mines, and there
was a plentiful supply. Nor were the Mon·
tana mines seriously hampered by protract·
ed car shortage. The constantly increasing
development of hydro-electric plants in Mon­
tana is curtailing steam consumption, 'but
the influx of settlers and general agricul­
tural prosperity in the states and in oth!;lr
states in the northwest to which Montana
coal is shipped have increased the consump­
tion of coal for domestic purposes. No com·
ments on the situation in Wyoming hav('
been received, but as that state has shared
in the prevailing improvement, the produc­
tion of coal in 1912 is expected to show RS
high a figure as that of the record made in
1910.
In Utah the revival of the iron trade
has not exerted any influence on coal pro­
duction. The metalliferous mines and in­
dustries generally throughout the sta.te,
have, however, been prOSperous, and not­
withstanding the increase of oil consump·
tion in some of the territory reached by
Utah coal-more particularly California and
1 5, 1 9 1 3.
western Nevada-the consumption of coal
from Utah mines has increased. The acteal
tonnage of some of the larger mines for 11
months and estimates for December imli·
cate that Utah's production will show un
increase of 15 to 20 per cent over 1911. The
1
car ,supply during the last half of the ye'lr
has not been all that could be desired, but
it was not worse than for several years
past. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
over which most of Utah's coal producr is ~
shipped, is making extensive improvements
and adding materially to its car -supply, so t
that It is believed that there will be no
complaint about shor~ge of car supply OT I
other Inadequate railway facilities in the
immediate futUre. The labor supply has
I
been reduced by the return of many min'3
workers to their European homes because of
I
the Balkan war, but even aside from that
the supply has been less than for the hst \
three or four years. The markets suppIi8d
from Utah coal mines during the past year
have been extended rather than restricted,
shipments of Utah coal to California and
the northwestern s~ates having had a
healthy increase. The demand for coke bas
been good throughout the year, owing to file
prosperity of the mining and smelting in­
dustries, especially copper During the lar3t
half of the year there was difftcul';y in
securing a sufficient supply of coke cars, :-Iud
the coke business has suffered more thSln
the coal, in consequence.
The dominating factor in the coat' pro­
duction of the Pacific coast states is still
the heavy production of California pe~rol­
eum which Is used for steam fuel to the
almost entire exclusion of coal. The pro·
duction of coal in Washington in 1912 will
possibly show a slight Increase for domes·
tic purposes over the output in 1911. In
California and Oregon the production of coal
is negligible. The consumption of Califor­
nia oil for fuel purposes in 1912 was 11j1­
proxima~ely 57,000,000 barrels, or more th<tn
four times the equivalent of the total produc­
tion of coal in the Pacific coast states.
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Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Feb­
ruary 19 to 21, inclusive, have been selected
as the dates for the second annual north·
west mining {!{)nvention, to l>e held in Spo­
kane, Washington. Invitations will be sent
to the American Institute of Mining Engi· '-1l
neers, the electrical and chemical engineers' •
organizations, the societies of civil and me­
chanical engineers and others. Negotia­
tions looking toward reduced railroad rates
will at onCe be taken up. The Pacific north·
western states and the western Canadian
provinces constitute the territory to be rep·
resented in the convention.
 THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, JAN·UARY 15, 1913. 15

MINING IN IDAHO
*
IN By ROBERT N. BELL
19 12

The mining industry of Idaho has en­ history of lead-silver ore production. For nels during the past year; this is true of
joyed a very prosperous year, and has maue while two of its most famous old producers, the Wardner-Kellogg, Mullan, and the
a record breaking production of mineral, ,the Last Chance and the Standard Mam­ Canyon creek di,,:ricts, while the Nine Mile
section, an unimportant proaucer fOr a
number of years, has recently brought ill
two new mines, both of which are being
equipped with milling facilities with a max­
imum capacity of 800 tons per day, antI
before the close of another season, are
likely to be producing at that rate wi,h 1'e­
sources of rich concentrating ore to draw
upon that will last for years.
At the extreme norch end of the state,
within three miles of the British line, in
Bonner county, the Idaho-Continental mille
is now being equipped with a conc-entrating
mill of 300 tons daily capacity and has
been made accessible with a broad gauge
wagon road on a maximum grade of 4 pu
cent which can be readily transformed in:o
a light railroad grade and will afford an­
other important source of high ·grade lead
concentrates before the close of another
year, as this property is exceptionally well
developed and has a large r-eserve of high
concentrating and crude ore in sight.
Another important source of lead ore
may be an:icipated in the near future from
the Lawrence mine at Clarks Fork, in Bon­
The Morning Mill and Ooncentrator. Mullan, Ihaha ner county, a short distance north of the
outclassing that of any previous year in moth mines are nearing exhaustion, they ,Coeurd'Alenes. This property is being
the history of the state. are being replaced by new Ore channels equipped with a 50-ton mill now nearing
The gross me~al contents of all the min­ in other properties that will more than completion, It has a series of parallel fis-
erals shipped and of 'bulpon produced dur­
ing the past year, a-ggregate a grand totl1.1
value of $23,500,000 credited to the different
metals as follows: Lead, 323,877,400
pounds; silver, 8,576,620 ounces; gold, 75,0')0
ounces; copper, 7,784,000 pounds; zinc,
16,417,080 pounds.
These results demonstrate the wonder­
ful vitality of our ore deposits, whi<)h, under
the stlmula~ion of good market values, for
the metals are able to stand extra demand
on their resources.
This Is especially true of our lead ore
deposits and If the present market prices
for lead continues to prevail, the lead out­
put of Idaho will continue ,to increase in
the future, as the year just closed has seen
the discovery and development to a prod'!\!,
ing stage of a number of important new
sources of this useful metal, and as Idaho's
lead ores invariably carry important asso­
ciated silver values, our silver output will
increase in sympathy with the baser metal.
Production of Coeur d'Alene.
The Coeur d'Alene district in SJ1oshone
county continues to maintain its promi­
nence and has a brilliant future before it The Mammoth and Standard Mills, Wallace. Idaho
not excelled at any period of its remarkable make up for the deficiency thus creat-ed. sur,(J veins ranging from two feet to twenty
Each particular division of the Couer feet in thickness; one of which has been
"'State Mine Inspector of Idaho, in Boise
0' AlAllA rp!!'iOll haf< i!evAlonAo npW orA ~han- tannei! ani! i!rivAn uuon at. a deDth of 300
16 THE. SALT
feet, showing a fine reserve of clean min·
eral, while the most important resource of
the property still rema:ins to be developed.
Central Eastern Properties.
In the central eastern part of the state,
in Lemhi county, the mines of the Gilmor.e
district have made a splendid output of
lead silver mineral throughout the year,
with increased resources as development
progresses and continued evidence of th€
ultimate establishment of a very important
.1ead-silver producing district it this point:
The Wilbert mine, On Little Lost river,
in Blaine county, was equipped with a new
mill of 100 tons daily capacity, whic~ was
gotten into commission early last spring,
'but has not given the best satisfaction in
operating resuits so far by reason of the
rather difficult nature of the ore, which,
'while, very clean and free from other ob·
jectionable minerals, contains an extremely
fine-grained lead sulphide and carbonate
which is very hard to separate from the
gangue. Several important improvemellts
have recently been' made in the milling mao
chinery, and it is believed hy the manage­
ment that a much better saving will be
made from now on. The Wilbert mine has
continued under development throughout the
year with very satisfactory results, demon­
strating a much 'gl'eater lineal extent of the
ore deposit than was at first thought prob·
able; and _with the milling difficUlties
straightened out, the property should be­
come. a prOfitable producer in the 'future if
lead prices .are maintained.
Production of Zinc.
The .ziJ:lc" production in Idaho during the
past· year. was· largely -obtained from two
mines in the Coeur d'Alenes, the Succe::ls
mine -aCN.ine Mile di8~rict, whieh is chiefly
worked for zinc with a milling capacity of
300 tons per day on a large deposit with
a year's ore broken ahead, and from the
Morning mine as a 'by-product from slimcs
treated in a Macquisten tube plant of large
capaeity which is giving eminent satisfac­
tion and a clean product.
There are also several ,smaller producers
of zinc in the Coeur d'Alenes, especially
on the north side in the Prichard forma­
tion, where a separation is made by ordin­
ary concentration methods of lead zinc ores.
The output from this direction will be ma­
terially increased another year by some
new milling facilities now being installed.
At the opposite end of the Coeur d'Alene
district, on Pine creek, a. tributary of the
sC?uth fork of the Coeur d'Alene river,
the Surprise Highland Chief mine shipped
twelve cars of zinc ore, has a 100-ton miH
and has a large reserve of zinc lead ore in
sight and under development which should
make greatly increased yield another year_
Pine creek district has several o~her
promising sources of zinc mineral flhow­
ings with lead-silver values which are at­
tracting considerable attention at this time
and are likely to result in a. further in­
LAKE MININ'Q 'REVIEW, JA-N.UA-RY· 15,- 191'3.'
creased yield of this useful- mineral -in the
near future.
The Wood.riy,er district shipI?ed_a jew
cars of zinc ores from leasing proposi­
'~ions. The· Little 'Smoky section of the
Wood river country.has a number of attrae­
tive dep.osits .of zinc':-bearing silver lead ores,
which should attract attention from inves­
tors another year by ·reason of-the· fact that!
they carry high associated values in 'g.old,
silver and lead, and are of a desirable char­
acter for easy concentration and separa­
tion, and have been made much mote acces­
sible for transP.ortation during the past year
by the c,~npletion of the Camas Prairie
branch of the Oregon Short Line railroad
to Soldier, which cuts the wagon road haul
distance formerly involved to these prop-
Snake River. Idaho. near Bollard's Landin&,
erties in two, and will grea':ly reduce the
transportation cost on that account.
Idaho has several other imp.ortant zinc­
bearing districts, notably at Resort, in Idaho
county, and at South Moun'~ain, in Owyhee
county, which, however, will have to wait
for better railroad facilities to become
available.
Copper Output of the State.
The copper production of Idaho this year
is mostly derived from two mines, the
Snows:orm mine in the Coeur d'Alenes, and
the White Knob mine in Custer county,
The Snowstorm mine is an' interesting
deposit of disseminated carbonate and sul­
phide copper ores in hard quartzite, It
is situat~dat the east end of the most pro­
ductive of the lead silver-b€aring zones and
within three miles of it the Snowstorm ore
occurs in bodies up to fifty feet thick and
carries about three per cent copper and
five ounces silver per ton. The oxidized
ores have been shipped and used for
'convertor lining by reaSOn of,th€ir high
,silica contents.
,...The. s,!lphlde or!lS of this property are
now being ,treated by concentration, and
while ratherdiffic?~t of separaJion, owing
to the extrem€ly hard gangue and finely dis­
seminated soft 'minerals, considerable
progress has b€en made in their treatment
'and" a saving of sixty p'er ce'nt" of their
,values has been made, giving a product
that runs about 'twenty-five per cent coppel'
and twenty-seven ounces silver per ton.
The Snowstorm has paid over a million
dollars in dividends and has been the only
important copper producer in the Coeur 4,
d'Alene district to date.
A' recent discovery, however, on the '1
National mine, a mile and a half west cf
I
I
~
the Snowstorm, in the same formation,
which was made at a depth of 1,700 feet
through a crosscut tunnel nearly a mile
long, promises to equal and probably excel
the Snowstorm as a resource of copper­
silver ore when fUl"~her develop.ed. This
is a brand new strike, less than a month
old, and gives eminent evidence of per­
manency and opens up a flattering prospect
of the further development of the interven­
ing territory.
The White Knob mine at Mackay, owntd
by the Empire Copper company, has been
steadily operated throughout the year with.
a large force of men, divided into small
leaSing parties, who have made a splendid
output of mineral, amounting to a small
trainload per week of about six per cent
copper, which has important associated
values in gold and silver. This mineral ii!
shipped to the Salt Lake valley smelteries
under a favorable rate, and has made money
for bo~h the lessees and the owners of the
 THE SAL. T L. A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN, U A R Y 15, 1913.

this production being about four and one·

balf per cent greater than that of 1911. The
II
increase was probably due to increased
shipments of lead ores mined in the Tintic
ARIZONA I N 1 9 1 2
district and from lead concentrates pro-
duced in the Park City region.
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The copper production of 1912, amount­
ing to nearly 150,000,000 pounds, was an
increase of about two per cent over the out·
put of 1911. 'Ihe increase .is credited chiefly
to the Bingham district.
Tbe lead output, aggregating about 140, ('i'Hi. ,,1'0\'" rile \Jrod\~C't;()l!
OOO,OOD pounds in 1912, was two and one·half I" :il'.

'per cent greater than the output of 1911. (lH:r ~:,~.il"i.'."'i",

The increase is partly accounted fv, by the S~,IIi!i'
fact that more lead ore w,as shipped from T Ii.'
Tintic and more lead concentrates from
Park City than in the previous year.
The prodUction of zinc, figured as spel·
ter, amounted to about 15,500,000 pounds
and is about 13 per cent less than the fig· II,
ures report3d in 1911. This decrease is duo/) i iii i,'" t·' lll' ( \ if'
\\ I':!I t I ( l Jl j 1
I I ~,\ ,,) I J i ;; i j ;j ! I;; i;; ,

largely to !1, falling off in shipments or

blende concentrates from Park City. The
new producers of zinc ore in the Tintic
district were the May Dety, Uncle Sam, Go­
diva, Gemini, Lower Mammoth, Yankee,
Ridge and Valley, East Tintic Development,
and New Bullion.
Dividends amounting to nearly $9,500,OJO

were paid from Utah mine,s during 1912.

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PARK CITY SHIPMENT5-1912.

Tbe shipments from Park City, Utah,

mines for 1912, reached a to~al of 92,648

tons, according to estimates of the daily

papers. The details are ,shown in tbe table,

but no distinction is made between crude

ore and concentrates. Shipments follow:

Mine. Tons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lorre, C............................ . 20
'j,' :'()il l'! -' ,,';1

Little Bell Consolidated .. ' .......... . 406

]I.~oore, Charles 373

MeKenzie . . ....•..... "............. . 30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"f ;ii

Total. ........................ 92,648

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The Alto mine, in the Skull valley dis­
1 1"

trict of Arizona, is setting up a three-stamp

prospecting mill.

 THE SALT
NEVADA
ductiQn Qf bUster co.Pper will be built in
:he tDtal metal yield frDm ores mined
fevada during 1912, accDrding to. j}rellm­
Y figures by V. C. Heikes, Df the United
es GeDIDgical Survey, was valued at
'ly $36,5'00,000, which is a little over
n per cent -greater than the value fQr
'he gQld Qutput fQrms the largest part,
n~ per cent. Qf the tQtal value; cQllper
ly 34 ¥.! per cent, silver slightly in ex­
Qf twenty-three per cent, and lead and
each Qver two. per cent. The Goldfield
s prQduced mDre Dre but less gDld in
and this, with decreased Dutput frQm
NatiQnal and Seven TrQughs districts,
the principal cause Df a decrease in
gQld prDduction Df abDut twentY-five
~ent frDm the yield o.f $18,193,397 in
The mill at the NatiDnal mine was
m early in September, and wDrk was
ed at Seven TrDughs by damage fro.m
,udburst in July. The GQldfield Con­
Lted, accQrding to. published reports.
prDducing abDut 30,000 tQns Df Qre a
il, but the recovery fro.m Dre treated
ased frDm $25.08 a ton in January to.
: in September. The Manhattan and
:l MQuntain distdcts and mines in the
iew district Increased. their gQld yield
.2. 'The Aurora and Rexall districts and
ew district Df RDchester, in HumbDldt
y, are expected to. add to. the future
output_ The Nevada gDld Qutput fDr
is estima.ted .at abQut $13,500,000.
.eTe has been 'a steady increase in the
J silver Dutput Qf Nevada since 1901.
prDductiQn began at the TDnDpah
In 1912 the pro.ducers of TQnQpah
Ised the yield of Qre frDm abDut 8,000
to. nearly 12,()OO tDns weekly, but the
se silver content per tQll decreased.
new TDnDpah-BelmQnt mill at the
began <crushing Qre in July, and a new
11 <cyanide plant was erected fo.r the
LA K E MIN IN G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
I N 1 9 1 2
West End mine and Qperated the last half
Qf the year. A new 10-stamp mill at the
McNamara mine had its initial run in Janu­
ary. The estimated five per cent increase
in the silver output Df Nevada, frQm 13.­
184,601 Dunces in 1911 to. abQut 13,840,000
Qunces in 1912 was due to. lead Qre ship­
ments frDm Pio.che, in LincQln cDunty.
There was much activity in the CQmstQck
district Qf StQrey CDunty. The YellQw Jack­
et and Mexican mills were Dperated the en­
tire year, and a new <cyanide plant was CQm­
pleted fDr the Ophir mine and Qperated in
OctDber.
An increase estimated at seventeen per
cent in the prDductiDn Qf cQPper, frDm 67,­
The Steptoe Ooncentrator. Showing Orusher House and Steel Trestle. (Photo by Will C.
377,518 PQunds in 1911, to. abDut 79,000,000
PQunds in 1912, is due to. the new smelt­
ery which started Dperations early in 1912,
at ThQmpSDn Dn copp-ar Dres prQduced chiefly
frDm the MasQn Valley and Nevada DQug.
las prDperties, in the YeringtDn district.
High-grade copper matte was shipped frDm
16, 1913.
tb,is plant to. Garfield, Utah, for co.nversio.n.
It is reported that cQnverters fQr the pro.­
1913 at ThQmj}so.n. The Nevada CQnsQli­
1iated mines at Ely llrQduced daily frQm
10,1l00 to. 14,000 tQns of IQw-grade cQPper
ore, which was cQncentrated and then
smelted at the Steptoe smeltery at McGill.
One unit Qf the Nevada CQnSQlidated CQn­
centratQr was devQted to. the daily treat­
ment Qf abQut 1.000 tQns Qf Giroux copper
o.reS. The labQr strikes Qf twenty-six days
curtailed prQductiQn to. some extent at these
mines.
Mines in the Pioche district Qf LincQln
cQunty and the YellQw Pine district of
Clark cQunty furnished the largest part Qf
the lead pro.ductiQn which, is estimated to.
have Increased frQm 3,263,657 PQunds in
'ljlll to. nearly 19,000.000 PQunds In 1912.
The adjustment of IItigatiQn at PiDche re­
sulted in increased Dre prQduction in that
camp, along with the ,completiDn Df a rail­
road spur to. the BulIiDnville tailing dump,
which furnished frDm twelve to. fifteen cars
daily. About 300 tons Df iron-manganese
ore, containing small quantities Df lead and
silver, was shipped daily from the Prince
mines, and 100 tons frDm the flay-Bristol
mines. The mines of the YellQw Pine dis­
trict prQduced an increased quantity of
lead Dre and concentrates, the largest yield,
in the history of the district.
All records of zinc prDductiDn in Nevada
were brQken by the output of the Yellow
Pine district in 1912, when nearly 12,0()O,OOO
pDunds of zinc (figured as spelter) was pro.­
duced. This is an increase o.f abDut 233 per
cent Dver the production o.f 1911 when only
3,548,032 pDunds of spelter was reported.
The chief producer was +he YellDw Pine
mine, which is equipped with the only con-
I
1
i-i
l
s)
centratDr in the district. The PQtosi and
Qthers also. cQntributed.
Nevada mines prDduced a greater tQn­
nage Df gQld, silver,CDPper, lead, and zinc
J
ore in 1912, but it was prQbably nQt over
Qne per cent greater than the Dutput o.f
1911, which aggregated 4,132,721 to.ns. ,1
 T.HE .SALT. LAKE MINING REVIEW, JAN,UARY 15, 1913.

prOfitable. If these efforts meet with suc

cess still other old mines will be reopened
CALIFORNIA IN 19 12 A rather discouraging feature of thE

II year in this connection, however, is the fac

that injunction proceedings have been com
California shows an increase in output now hoped to make the channels pay by menced by farmers in the Sacramento val
of both gold and silver in 1912 compared the drifting methods where the laws will ley against all the prominent quar~z~minin!
with 1911, according to preliminary figures not permit hydraul1cing. companies in Amador county, to compel thE
by Charles G. Yale, of the United States In deep-mining operations between 2,­ quartz-mine owners to impound their tail
Geological Survey, The difference is not 700,000 and 2,800,000 tons of ore is annu­ ings by any suitable means, in the sam!
very marked but is sufficient to show that ally produced in California. By far the manner that the hydraulic miners must im
the precious-metal output of the state is larger proportion of this ore. is derived pound their debris or tailings_ The objecl
advandng somewhat. California retains from the deep gold mines, espeCially from is to keep the mountain and foothill stream,
first rank in gold output, regained from the extensive operations in the Mother clear and prevent the tailings from even
Colorado in 1911. The mine figures of the Lode region. The output of siliceous ore tually reaching streams and rivers lowel
survey for 1911 were gold valued, at $19,. in the state has inereased to some extent down in the valley. The main complaint
738,908 and 1,270,445 ounces of silver, while and this usually averages in value from at present appears to be against the "slaty'
estimates for 1912 indicate an output of $4.65 to $5.25 a ton in gold and silver. 80 material carried in suspension and the ac
gold valued at $19.950,000 and 1,270,000 far as Can be ascertained at this time cumUlation of slimes in the sluggish valle)
ounces of silver. Moreover, it is highly there were only thirteen new stamp mills watercourses. This movement has been im
probable that when complete detailed re­ added in California in 1912, all small ones, pending for Some years and especially sinCE
turns are available, the 1912 figures will be having a combined capacity of 163 stamps. the 6pNation of very large mills on lVlothel
somewhat enhanced.
The latest available complete statistics
show that there are 1,181 producing mines
in California, of which 596 are deep mines
and 585 placers, including dredge, hydraulic,
drift, and surface daims. Dredge mining
seems to be the only form of placer work
which is showing any marked advance, the
yield from the other placers being either
at a standstill or showing a decline. The
reasons fOr these conditions are that the or­
dinary surface and shallow claims are grad­
ually being exhausted; the laws are unfa­
vorable to the prosecution of large hydraulic
mining enterprises, except in a few coun­
ties; and abundant capital is necessary for
opening drift mines, and this is not readily
available where so long a time may elapse
before a profitable channel is reached.
Dredge-mining operations require even
larger ,initial investments than hydraulic
or drift mIllIng, but the profits
are likely to be larger and quicker, while
the advance borings in the shalJow ground
insure reasonable certainty in operations
and results. The dredges of the state are
now 'producing over eighty-five per cent of Underground Scene In The Champion Mine, Nevada Clty
the placer gold and about thirty-nine per
cent of the total gold yield from all sources. There were also a dozen or more new Hun­ Lode mines. Over 2,250,000 tons of ore is
A few new dredges were added in 1912 in tington and Graupner mills and half a dozen crushed in the mills of California annually.
the larger dredging fields and these are of cyanide plants. No new smelteries were Of this quantity the Mother Lode counties
the heaviest type and largest capa-city. erected. contribute about 1,40'0,000 tons. Considerably
Some of the smaller and older dredges Capitalists interested in some of the over 600,000 tons of this is derived from
ceased operations during the year, either larger quartz-mining operations in the Amador county, which is the first to be at­
through working ()ut their ground or being Mother Lode counties, encouraged by hav­ tacked_ As the material is generally heavy
unprofitable. 'By far the largest proportion ing found very profitable are at vertical most of it settles .dose to its source and
of the gold yield from this source continues depths ranging from 2,500 to 3,600 feet, can be readily impounded, but whatever
tc come from the extensive fields near Oro­ have during 1912 commenced work on a system is adopted entails an expepBe which
ville, Marysville, and Folsom. Several new few o.f the old properties which were aban­ the present free disposal of tailIngs does
dredges have recently been in operation in doned twenty or thirty years ago, when not require. The movement referr-ed to,
Calaveras ,county and at other isolated mining conditions were very different and therefore, has an important bearing on the
points. Toward the end of the year drift­ such depths as are now attained were con· prOfits of the quartz-mining industry of the
ing operations were commenced on some sidered impracticable. On at least two state, and the injunction suits indicate that
of the very large hydraulic mines near Re­ of these properties Immediate extension of the miners mllst consider additional work­
lief Hill, Nevada county, which have been 1.000 feet in depth is being carried on, with ing costs.
virtually abaudon€jd fcr many years. It is the intention of doubling that if thought Another important factor in connection
 THE SALT LAKE MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y 1 5, 1 9 1 S;

it the gold-mining industry of California,

pounds. The lead continues to come main­ per mine, the ore of which contains consid­
i one to be deplored, is the marked ces­
ly from Inyo, Mono; and San Bernardino erable gold ,was unproductive, and less gold
ion of prospecting operations and the re­
counties. came from the siliceous ores of Owyhee and
tant decline in discoverIes of new mines,
It is only within the last few years that Elmore countIes. Placers, particularly those
inly in the mountain and foothill regions
any zinc has been produced in California, worked by dredges, had a greatly increased
ere extensive national forests have been
'but in 1911 two mines, one in Inyo county gold output. Two boats in Boise county, two
ablished.
ad the other in San Bernardino county, pro­ in Lemhi, and two in Clearwater were
For several years there has been a grad­
duced about 2,800,000 pounds. Shipments of active.
decline in the copper output of Califor­ about the same quantity have been contin­ The silver output was nearly the same
owing to the closing down of large ued in 1912. There are in California ex­ as that of 1911, or approimately 8,196,000
elting plants by litigation over damages tensive deposits of ores carrying so large a ounces. Silver production is principally
'smelter fumes. In 1912, however, Il;n in­ percentage, of zinc sulphide as to be re­ from lead ore, 'but the amount of silver per
ase in output of copper is apparent over jected by custom smelters and they are ton is gradually decreasing in the older
yield of 1911, notwithstanding the per­ therefore unutilized at present. Experiments mines. Although shipments of lead ore in­
nent cessation of operations in 1911 of are now being conducted with these ores, creased, the total silver output slightly de­
l of the very large plants of the stat~. with a view of making them commercially creased. Many of the Coeur d'Alene mines
marketed more than the usual amount of
sUver, but others decreased their output.
An increase of over forty-six per cent
"was noted in the copper production, in spite
of the fact that the Lost Packer smeltery,
at Ivers, was idle in 1912. The estimated
production of about 7,500,000 pounds came
prindpally from the Empire Copper Com­
·pany, in Custer county, and the Snow­
stcl"m mine, in Sihoshone C<)unty, each pro­
perty sharing the increase. The 100-ton mill
at the Snowstorm concentra~ed part of
the ore the last half of the year.
Lead production increased about two per
cent, the total for 1912 being about 279,000­
000 pounds, From the activity toward the
end of the year, the price of the metal and
the improved production of some of the
large Coeur d'Alene mines, a greater in­
crease was expected, but shipments from
several mines at Mace and Wardner were
much less than in ,fOTmer years. The Her­
cules, He,cla, Morning, stewart, and Ontario
mines had better results, and the Bunker
Hill upheld its great record. Lemhi county
was the Source of about 18,00'0,000 pounds
of lead, largely from -the Latest Out and
Hydraullclng In California Against a Fifty-foot Bank Pittsburg Idaho mines at Gilmore. The
is increase is due to the materially en­ profitable. If this could be accomplished Blaine county production was small near
g-ed output from mines of two of the the zinc output of the state would be ma­ Hailey, but at Arco the Wilbert Mining
5e companies owning their own smelting terially inCTeased and an addition be made Coml?any operated a new concentration
nts, to larger shipments from other also to the gold and silver yield. plant and produced nearly 1,500,000 pounds.
les which were producers in 1911, and to '---0 The lead smelter at Hahn was burned in
.advent in the producing column of cer­ IDAHO METAL PRODUCTION IN 1912. September and a lead furnace at Clayton,
1 new or reopened mines which supplied in Custer county, was the only smeltery op­
h-grade ore to the custom smelters. The In 1912 the metal output of Idaho,ac­ erated in the State. The lead production of
tation on the 'part of-farming communi­ cording to preliminary estimates by C. N. Idaho represented sixtY-five per cent 'of the
! over alleged damage by smelter fumes Gerry, of the United 8tates Geological Sur­ value o·f the total metal output in 1912, or
; by no means ceased, and the operations vey, was valued at nearly $21,OQO,000, an in­ about ,$12,500,000.
:hree of the most extensive smelting com­ crease of about ten per cent over the value There was an increase of sixty-two per
lies of the state are seriously menaced. for 1911. Increases were made in the pro­ cent in the shipment of zinc 'concentrates
periments continue to be made-notably duction of copper, lead, and zinc, while the in 1912, the total spelter output being about
the Penn Mining company's plant at output of gold and silver slightly decreased. 13,500,000 pounds. The SUCcess mine had a
nPO Seeo-with a view to ,finding a rem­ The added value was due partly to the bet­ most productive year, h.aving shipped over
. for ,present troubles and these, thus far, ter prices of silver, copper, and zinc prevail­ 1,000 tons of concentrate a month. A second
y be said to be reasonably successful. ing in 1912. There was a slight decrease of set of Macquisten tubes were in operation
Lead mining in California shows little about four per cent in gold production, low­ at the Morning mine, thus doubling the zinc
Inge in 1912, although 'a lessened output ering the output for 1912 to about $1,300,­ output. The Surprise, at Pine Creek, the
compared with 1911 is apparent. In 1911
figures for mine production were 1,­
,111 pounds, but the :preliminary returns
000. This decrease is trillceable to lessened
production from siliceous ore and partly
from copper ore, as gold from placers and
Black Horse, near Murray, and mines near
Ketchum contributed, and the Amazon
Manhattan made shipments of zinc ore for
1
1912 indicate only a yield of 1,032,000 lead ore increased. The Lost Packer cop­ the first time.
 THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN, U A R Y 1 5, 1 9 1 3.

~olJ('entrates, with zinc silira~e and 1(',

('OIl('I,'n; rat!:'" abollt the same as th" 1I1'<::V;0
LEAD AND ZINC INDUSTRY Til" total sales of ZilHo·hlelJd(, C"

II
A preliminary statement of the lead an.d line with the trend of the developed prop·
zinc mining industry in 1911 has been com· erties, is under option at a high figure to a ill P 'Jr IHnH as t'Ppor!(·d ~1l :ljl~ Ju<
piled from the most reliable sources avail· prominent zinc-smelting company. iia])j:))'s. Tn lotal YGlue uf n;l'pllt 11;)I,t"(>t"

able at this time. It appears probable tha.t In Tennessee the output of Zinc ore IVai; 1])\' ('UtT\~!11 y+~at' ('X(,Ped~ ;I~l,\ ~)j'j'\";")

the mine production of domestic lead in ore not increased In 1912 owing to the fact :hut ~Jy" J}f't!rl,\' tlirf:'p 111ill1un d()il,'!'~
in 1912 made a gain of a little less thal, the American Zinc company prosecuted de­ ]{''S :}i' load (;OlH·pntl'a~(· ... \\" __ '1'" ,l,l)

20,000 short tons over the 441,187 tons mined velopment work only. The Holston shaft In~ll (..\b' 4:,.!'tOIj g~ort tOlI;:3,
in 1911. This again, compared with the has reached a depth of 380 feet and the 1"1'01'(0(\ locally 11;",
estimated increase in the smeltery produc­ foundations are completed for a 1,000-ton dlWli\t~ ""I tory in thp ~li~-djji
tion of domestic lead, 6,474 tons, indicates mill which is under construction. Anoth0f H()tlla f:'",n-'V1 OHf' tra("t: lLI'-.. ht-'(--:l ;·Lt

that stocks of dOmiestic lead ore at the smel­ shaft will be sunk to a depth of 800 fect.
teries were slightly increased during the A third zinc·smelting company has become
year. interested In the district and is engaged in
Zinc mining, stimulated by ,the high prosecuting the old Edes, Mixter & Heald un ~ t!:i: u;

prices for spelter which prevailed during property at Jefferson City. It is reported II !'11 \\ il11'rPH;-';IC_'II ~on~ 1J~'l' ,:\'

the year, was exceedingly active through­ 'in the mining press that development work
out the country, resulting in a large gain in the Tennessee district has demonstrated
in recoverable zinc in ore, estimated to be the existence of several million tons of (\" I ,~" Tilt' Id'itl"ljH:ll :f':" ,Ii t·;',. d

approximately 55,000 short tons abOve the workable zinc ore. " <';1]' I,' rJ . :,,' (h:vidlopnH.lnt ('1 1'.:']( c~~t>

345,260 tons produced by the mines in 1911. In the western Kentucky and southern ;ltl' lilinitl.s? lit t\)f' vicin.ity of %:01' :Illd

The increase in mine production check~ Illinois dis:rict ,the lead production w~s l'lJ,'r :Jl' a 2iJ(l-l01J 111'1' 11

very closely with the 52,104 tons estimated practicully doubled in 1912, chiefly owing :".1...11 :1;;'; :>Ul1 ttIiUt-" 1011;'!' d !~lf)d'.!

gain in smeltery output. When allowance is to the operation of the large new mill at !Hllla!.'

made for some increase in the production Rosiclaire, Illinois. The output of zinc -.vas '\1'\\' :\h>Xl("O !H:I(1E' a :.:.t)1;l

of zinc oxide it will be Seen that there h:::,a probably not more than in 1911. ;Jl'ndUI'lifnl or 'l,inf', on"·, :1: ;~ )',

been no increase in stocks of zinc Ore 'It The upper Mississippi valley region, ir.­ : lJ,' !:l'I->\"]On;-: ypar, hut in l(~tld '.:'1'

smelteries, but rather depletion. i; ;1 il:J1!!";q1, of lq It 1;.

eluding Wisconsin and Illinois, according
Production by Districts. to the weekly reports of J. E. Kennedy, l~'ulljrHdo rn:nps pl'odn('v~l ~i:,'O~ I \\ t',t

In the Edwards district, of St. Law­ continued ,to gain in production of zinc in h\t' IJ~'t' ('!'Ilt IUOl'€ ZiHC in 1~11~ lh,~, .ii L~-l

rence county, New York, operations were 1912, bettering the output of the previolls
continued on the zinc property opened i~l year by nearly a third, though the lead li(,;tJ:~ ell) fl'1I1U LefLdYUI~", iUil~ 'Ii

1911. A 50-ton mill, finished early in the production showed a loss of nearly 10 per l,llil\!' I)i'i-':j frotllJ L('>,lliYlJie ~Ul;~ J~~';' (1
year, has not completely solved the con­ cent. The shipments of zinc concentrates 11'11'1'" Th(l (J\jl}Jllt (Jr' 'Hr!I(;:I:' il""

centration problem and experiments are to smelteries approximated 100,000 short

In progress which promise a better recov­ tons, and the output of lead concentratC';:; tllil r' ~~t'l '!'ltt zinl..', {is ('O::ljJ.t!'t:J \\;';j

ery. The ore body has been developed to amounted to a little over 4,000 tons. Th€) lltrlt." jf'!",-- I IWIl :.q:,!f(HI tOH:- "t'~-!·;

a depth of more than 100 feet, with a re­ electrosta:ic zinc separator at Platteville, \ f'::';tl' T~jl} pt'O(iu~'1inll Ol jp;ld "ll I ! ',\ j'

ported width of four to seven feet of blende Wisconsin, destroyed by fire la:e in 1911, ;1 <\1 :-dlt)lIt ;C;P\"('iI

and pyrite. has not been rebuilt, but the magnetic se1':1.­
In New Jersey energetic operations at rating plant at Galena, Illinois, burned a.t
the Franklin FurnacE; mines of the New the same time, ,has ,been reconstructed with
Jersey Zinc company, resulted in a consid­ increased capacity. The concen::ration of 111;lll:~ (i~ i~n-,("kt-;I1rith.(~. I\.\lh(Jj!.'j

erably larger output of zinc ore than usual, the mining properties of the district into the ! II";,' alld jtl En~:,' ,\1';,1

the increase from 1911 being approximately hands of fewer interests continued during I.it' f'!j·('ll'osta! 1(' s'-'parH ,11:\ :1 1 I

20 per cent. WiJlemite concentrates from the year. \l'l'I(1)1, Tilt"' 11l:lgnl'tic (,OUC('l\;!',\
these mines to the aggregate of 19,953 short In the southeast Missouri disseminated­ !1~'tl ,Il" lilUlli lJ pI tilt' Yak Ii,'

tons were expor;:ed abroad, the remainder lead district, the output of lead concell'
of the production of the mines being made trates in 1912 made a gain of about Z pel'
into zinc oxide and spelter. cent over that of the previous year, the j;I;J \\<1-" :-..l!:..:!:h'l~ lan!er thHn
The output of lead and zinc by Virginia lead content being approximately 150,0')0 ':)11:-. nl;ll:l·:liniJP:~- rhfo jIH'r(·a~j".j
mines in 1912 was about the same as in the short tons, as compared with 147,754 tons i:;li !~':!r Ttl;:" I-irw prO(J I('i

year before, but there was considerable aC'ti· in 1911. The Phoenix-Fleming property, n:IH'I' llilj;d, fell away 01'('1' flY',>

vity in prosj}ecting and development wor;t formerly worked by the Madison Lead & ~'l'i);U liJ(' ~;!I't;p prOdll(·tion o( 11>'

in Louisa coun::y in the latter part of the Land company, was put into operating condi­ "(It Thj~ \q-ts nO uf·t'OtlU' \J, '!~t·

year. Lead and zinc sulphides have betn tion by the Federal Lead company and was ,.! i 1'=~;1j ~jr1\l 11l:llf", \\'hiclJ -,\"d <1:."

encountered in the pyrite ore of that dis­ active during the greater part of the year.
trict for several years and have ooen Ie­ The North American Lead company and the
covered in a small way as by-products of Eastern Lead company continued Idle, hut ('Ul[\'VI1\ or "r the llntt" &. SIl" : "
pyrite mining. Recently, it is reported, a all other companies were steadily active. i." .\ ,I ." ' 'l j' \ • '~i II l Jill .J l111 ( , _
new and parallel ore body has ooen devel­ The Joplin district, as estimated from (Jilq \)It\~ Lilt'! ill ~:lt' ,\'PdL .t'

oped at the 1,000·foot level which carries the weekly sales reported in the local 1m· l)I'I}L~r~';.;:~ ,I: . il!" ( los4----' of ltil' \ t'd

lead and zinc sulphides with considerable pers, made a gain of about 32,000 tons in i:~' !t) I ;1I1d 1ilp tlol<iLioti pi<-l'"
silver. It is said that a large acreage, in 1912 over the output e'f 1911 in zinc blende
 THE SAL T L A K E M' I N I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y 1 6, 1 9 1 3.

:ompletion of the new mill the trates a month. The Potosi mine also hud copper production up to about 1,250,000
l Butte & Superior mine were a large output. lJQunds j,u 1912. The United Cop·per com·
Ie Basin concentrator. Large The producf4Qn of lead in California in pany shipped five times as much ore as in
he zinc output of the Butte dis­ 1912, which was less than half that in 1911, 1911, and there was much activity in de­
t>e expected. was derived fromi Inyo, Mono, and San Bern­ velopment in the Chewelah district. Lead
ardino counties. The production of Zl:J,C ore came from mines near Bossburg and
de a gain of two per cent :n
made a large increase, being about douole Turk. The lead plant at Tacoma was closed
ion in 1912 over that of 1911,
that of the previous year. There are but in July and improvements were made for
the largeSct for several years.
two producers, the Cerro Gordo mine, in copper smelting, including blast furnace.
of lead was made by the mbes
Inyo county, and the Uncompagre, in San basic converter, and electrolytic refinery.
Ir d'Alene region and by two
Bernardino county. The Cerro mine, form­
mhi county. The lead smeltery o
erly operated as a lead mine, shipped zinc
s burned in Septemberant1 the
carbonate ore at the rate of 900 tons montuly TINTIC PRODUCTION FOR YEAR.
'y operated in the state in 1912
during the greater part of the year.
lead s:ack at Clayton, in CUil~er
zinc production of Idaho gained The output of lead in Washington ill All records were broken by the producers
sixty per cent over the record 1912 was only a little over one-hal{ that of
'C
in the Tintlc district of Utah in the matter
HI. The Success mine was the
.,the previous year, there being only a few of ore tonnage shipped in the year 1912,
)ducer, shipping approximately shipments from Stevens county. No zinc when 9,620 cars were sent out. The fol­
f zinc concentrates a month. The ore was marketed. The Tacoma smellery lowing table shOWS what each mine con­
ine, at Mullan, was also an im­ was remodeled to treat copper ores. tributed:
Iducer and there were shipment3 ---o--~-
Centennial-Eureka 2,299

al other districts. WASHINGTON PRODUCTION IN 1912. Iron Blossom .... , ................ . 1,679

)duction of lead in Utah in 1912,

'Chief Cons. . .. , .. , ........... , .,... . 812

I Increased about 2lh per 'Jeut

Although the output of gold, which is Grand Central. _....... , ........... . 587

;)f 1911, was derived chiefly from

the principal metal produced in Washing­ Gold Ch'ain ........................ . 513

City and Bingham districts,

ton, decreased to about $679,000 in 1912, ac­ Mammoth, ........ '" ............ . 543

, Tintic distric.t and Beaver county

cording to preliminary figures by C. N. Eagle & BIue Bell ............... . 420

usual output. The production of Gerry, of the United $tates Geological Sur­ Swansea. 353

he year showed a loss of twenty vey, the total value of all metals produced Gemini . 289

from ·that of the previous year. in the state was greater by nearly seven Colorado, . 274

,rable production from the Tintic per cent than that of 1911. This was due to Dragon ., ..'........................ 237

egan to come in late in the yea.r, the increased production and better market Yankee .................. ,........ %30

district will figure largely in the price of both silver and copper. There were Bullion-Beck . . .................... 209

. the coming year. The o~her prin­ no shipments of zinc ore, and only a few May Day................. ......... 178

ducers were the Park City and cars of lead ore were marketed, against a Opohongo .•......,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

districts and Beaver county. nominal output of ziuc and a production of

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

848,584 pounds of lead in 1911. Interest cen­

lltPUt of lead in' Arizona in 1912 Beck Tunnel . . .................. 158

tered aroilnd the new cyanide mills at Re­

ver thirty per cent from that vf publiC, in Ferry county, and the copper Carisa ....................... , .,. .. . 110

Igh it was still considerably above mines at Chewelah, in Stevens county. The scranton . . . ...... ,................ 90

.ge for the last few years. The decrease in gold output of about twenty Eureka Hill ....................... 69

l from the Warren district, of per cent, or nearly $163,000, was the result McIntyre, lease .. _.. , ....'. . . . . .. . . . . 58

:ounty, and from Mohave COUll :y. of fewer shipments from Republic, where Sioux Cons. . ......... ,............. 30

uction of zinc in Arizona, which much ore was accumulated for the two Ridge & Valley ................... 15

gain of elghtY'nine per cent, W:J.S cyanide plaltts which were operated during Victor Cons. ....................... 14

rom Mohave county. The larger the latter part of the year. After changes Uncle Sam ..................,. . . . . . 13

l from the Golconda mine, whIch Lower M.ammoth ............... ,.. 12

made in the crushing department, the North

llber was shipping at the rate of 'Washington mill WillS treating 125 tons of East Tintic Dev. ................... 10

Qf ore and concentrates a month. ore per day in September. The ore averaged Black Jack .......... , .. _. . . . . . . . • . 10

rom the other producing mine was $7.75 a ton and the extraction was said to be Godiva, lease ......... ,........... 5

ted in the electrostatic separator 95 per cent. The San Poil mill, also rated New BUllion, lease ................ 3

lS, California.
at 125 tons, made its first bullion clean·up Sunbeam, lease ........... ,........ 2

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

a produced nearly six times as in september from $12 ore. During the year
din 1912 as in 1911, ·surpassing shIpments were continued fr·om the Sur­ Crown Point, lease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

llction in the last ten years. The prise, Knob Hill, San Poil, Insurgent, and Brooklyn, lease .................. ,. 2

is due principally to adjustments Quilp mines at the rate of 3,000 tons a Tintic Smeltery, slag ... ,.......... 2

.on and to the completion of the month during the first half of the year, and Dodge & Bates, lease ............ 1

purs to Bullionville and at Pioche, at a somewhat decreased rate thereafter. Sioux Mill dump, lease ............ 1

ounty, in 1912. Regular shipments Besides that from the Republic plants,bul­ Star Cons., lease •................. 1

're were made through the latter lion was sold from mills operated in Che­ Undine, lease .......... _... _..... , . 1

Ie year. Clark county also hali a lan, Kittitas, and Okanogan counties. Utah Cons. .., .....,...... , . . . . . . . . 1

d output. The Yellow Pine mill The estimated increase in silver produc­ Governor, lease .................... 1

the entire year, prodUCing lead as tion of sixty-three per cent made the total Plu:us, lease ................. , . . . . . 1

inc concentrates. The zinc produc­ output for the year close to 398,000 ounces. Showers, lease .................... 1

e state was between three and four Copper ore produoed in Stevens county Is Shoebridge, lease ..............'. . . . 1

large as in the preceding year. The to be credited with this increase, as well as LaClede, lease .................... 1

ine mine was the largest produc3r, with the increase of 295 per cent in the
Tn,,"" than 1.000 tons of conceu­ state copper output, which brought the total Total ................... , ..... ·9,620

 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y 15, 1913. 25

same mill which account mainly for the

THE MILLS OF TONOPAH
II
ferent mills by the Miner.
In the accompanying table which was
furnished the Miner of Tonopah, Nevada, by
Jay A. Carpenter, superintendent of t1:.e
West End Consolidated company's mill,
much information is given in a condensed
form. The explanation of the references
shows why the variations in output are so
great.
(a) The two miills at Millers treat two
products, the coarse material or sands,
and the fine material or slimes. This
system requires less grinding but a larger
plant and a slower and more complica:ed
treatment. In both of these mills Hunting­
ton mills were discarded as regrinders.
(b) The data for this mill is based Oil
operations prior to the starting of the new
Belmont milL This mill is now treating a
small tonnage from the Jim Butler, Tono­
pah :l-ferger and Midway mines.
(c) In this mm the grinding units were
so much in excess of the settling and agio
notices in the tonnages credited to the dif­
II
2 and No.3, where but a part of the origI­
nal concentra~ors are operated.
(e) This mill, the old Midway milI, w?s
erected in 1904 as a 10-stamp amalgamating
mill, reconstructed in 1906 as a 20-stamp
mill by the Tonopah Mining company along
the design of the Millers mills, and re­
modeled in 1911 by the West End as an
all-sliming mill, thus marking the progre;;s
of silver metallurgy since Tonopah became
a producer.
(0 The figures for these colnmns are
based on recent issues of the Miner except
those of the Belmont mills. The data for
the Mlllers mill is taken from the la:lt
anilUal report. The new mill is credited
with a tonnage which the mill will soon
reach when the mine and mill have found
their pace.
The MacNamara and new Belmont mills
hav~ the latest tYPe of rapid discharge
mortars as favorable to high tonnage. The
apparent discrepancies that a layman
The nature of the ore, whether oxidiz;:d
or sulphide, and the composition o[ the sul­
phides, has much to do with the small dif­
ferences in extraction reported from the
differen t mills.
The Tonopah Extension mill probably
holds the present record for consistent high
extraction.
With the exception of the Millers mill,
each mill was designed by a separate set
of men, so that while the general treat­
ment of the ore in the mills is similar, yet
there is a wide divergence in details ·:)f
treatment and in the mechanical applianc<}s
used. There is something of peculiar inter­
est to the visiting millman in each mill,
from the low strength cyanide solutions
used at the MacNamara mill to the largest
and most economical silver mill refinery in
the world at the new Belmont mill. The
new Belmont mill is a more modern mill
in mechanical details Qf grinding and treat­
ment of ore than the world famous Gold-

DATA ON THE MILLS OF TONOPAH, NEVADA.

Name of Date Con- No. Wt. of No. and S;ze of Ft. of 15 ft. Mill Type Grade Tons Tons
Mill struction Stamps Stamps Tube Mills for ea. 10 stps_ . of Mill of Ore per Day Stamp
....... ---~~

Tonopah Mining No. Tubes (a) Concentrating

(Desert Mill).. 1906 100 1050lbs 3-1t. Chilean Mills None leaching, sliming $19.00 500 5
Tonopah Belmont 1 Mill (a) Concentrating
(Millers Mill) __ 1906 60 I05Ulbs 5 it. x 18 ft. 3 ft. leaching, sliming 23.00 240(b) 4
2 Mills, 5 ft.x22 ft. 11 ft. All sliming,
Montana Tonopah 1907 40 1050lbs 1 operating 5% ft. concentrating 20.00 145(c) 3%
Tonopah 2 Mills (d) All sliming
Extension ..... 1909 30 1050lbs 5 ft. x 18 ft. 12 ft. non·concentrating 14.00 150 ;:)

West End 2 Mills All sliming,

Consolidated .. 1911(e) 20 1250lbs 5 ft. x 18 ft. 18 ft. concen trating 20.00 145 7%.
1 Mill All sliming,
MacNamara ..... 1911 10 15001bs 5 ft. x 16 ft. 16 ft. non-concentrating 12.00 70 7
Tonopah Belmont 8 Mills All sliming, (f) (f) (0
New Mill ...... 1912 60 1250lbs 5 ft. x 18 ft. 24 ft. concentrating 21.00 480 8
..... ­ .. ---~~~ ....... ~~.-~~

tator units that one tube mill handles the
maximum tonnage of the mill, leaving a
spare unit that insures against a drop III
tonnage due to lining tube mills.
(d) This mill was built with concen­
tration departments as all the preceding
mills had laid stress on concentrating as
thoroughly as possible. This mill did pion­
eer work in demonstrating that with medium
grade ores concentration is not necessary.
Mills No.5 and No.6 followed this example
with success, but mill No. 5 was forced by
the increased value of its ore to add con­
centration. In all the mills with concentra­
tion at the present time the aim is to make
as small an amount of concentrate as pos­
sible and yet obtain a high ex:raction, the
reason being that it costs a great deal more
to market the concentrate than the bullion.
This tendency is noted in mills No. I, No.
hardness of the ore and the fineness of
the .grinding directlyaffeds the tonnage
that can be handled by the grinding units.
The MacNamara undoubtedly has the hard­
est ore.
The fineness of the grinding necessary
to free the mineral content of the ore for
trea:ment varies from eighty-eight per cent
through 200 mesh at the West End mill to
less than seventy-eight per cent at the
Extension. The fineness of grinding, the
grade of ore, and the temperature of agita­
tion are all important factors in the length
of treatment and size of cyanide plant neces­
sary to treat a given daily tonnage. The
amount of clayey and oxidized material in
the ore, while favoring the crushing depart­
ment, will overcrowd the settling and filter­
ing departments. These factors vary
greatly between the various mills and in the
field Consolidated, and from now on it::
size, its enormous production and its chear:
operating costs will command the attention
and study of the millmen of the world.
The cost of milling ore at the Tonopah
mills varies so much with the grade of thr
ore, the situation of the mill with re'speci
to the mine, and the size of the mill, thai
no short comparison can be made. Annua'
reports cannot be directly compared, u,
the companies have different methods 01
distributing costs between the ~ining
development, milling and general accounts
However, the total cost of milling can bE
said to range between $2.75 and $3,75 a ton
The cost of construction of the varioJ~
mills, based on the present tonnage treatc'l
per day, varies from $1,600 to $2.000 a tor
daily capacity for the Millers and the Man
tana mill to $900, $800, $1,200 and $1,OO(
 THE sALT LAKE MINING REVIE'W, JAN,UARY"15, 1913.

ectively for the Extension, West End, the drainage by the Roosevelt tunnel had of the Camp Bird mine, which was to be
Namara and new Belmont mills. lowered the water in many of the large closed July, 1912, but which, owing to the
t is a tribute to the mining fraternity properties (except the Golden Cycle and discovery of some new ore bodies, is still
'onopah that there is not a dismantled Vindicator mines), so that an additional being operated.
nor a freak design of a mill as an eye­ '100 .feet in depth could be worked, and an The decrease in gold production from
to the camp, or not an idle mill built increased tonnage was mined during the Omay county was $800,000 in mi1l bullion,
L mine without ore. Furthermore, theN) year. and $120,000 in contents of ore and concen­
~t a mill in Tonopah that has not or Despite the closing of the Standard cus­ trates shipped, a total of $920,000. San Mi­
not pay for itself out of profits earned tom chlorination plant at the end of the guel county's gold output from both bullion
,ore from its own company's 'bod1es. year 1911, leaving in the custom-milling and smelting material showed a decrease
greatest record was probably that of field at colorado Springs only the Golden of $120,000 for the year. San Juan county
West End mill, whose company paid Cycle and Portland mills, the total yield showed an increase in output of all metals,
the mill with profits earned by the from the ·gold mills showed an increase for including one of $175,000 in gold. Ouray
in less than seven months. This record the year. The Portland plant during 1911-12 county showed an increase for silver but
be exceeded by the new Belmont mill. had been graduaUy transformed to a cyan­ a decrease for lead and copper. La Plata
!-ith the beginning of the new year every ~ ide mill; thus cyanidation in 1912 had com­ county's gold yield fell off $160,000. San
ng company in Tonopah with a mill will. pletely superseded the use of chlorination Miguel county showed considerable increas­
paid for its mill out of its net earn­ in the treatment of Cripple Creek ores. The es for silver and lead but small decreases
and the mills will be grinding out
Colorado cyanide plant, at Colorado Springs for copper and zinc_ Dolores county showed
lends.
and the Union plant, at Florence, continued rrotable increases in all the metals, owing to
rom the abOve it will be 'seen that the
operations On old tailings. The Stratton's the reopening of mines at Rico.
age capacity per stamp of the Tonopah
Independenee cyanide-concentration mill The yield of gold bullion from Boulder

i is dependent upon several factors,

and the portland oyanide-concentration county decreased appreciably, as did the

plant, both a.t Victor, continued to treat shipments of O'l'e, there being a decrease

he character, hardness and grade f;f from 10,1>00 to 11,000 tons a month each of for all the metals except lead. Clear Creek

weight of stamps and size to which ore dump and low-grade mine ore. The Ajax county's output showed a small decrease for

rushed; capacity of tube mills and cyanide, using the Clancy process, was Op­ all the metals. In Gilpin county not only

ee of fineness to which ore is reground; erated part of the year. Several of the was there an increase of gold bullion pro­

lation or otherwise of concentrators; smaller cyanide plants in the Cripple Creek duced, but the contents of all the metals in

city of se';tling and agitation tanks and district were operated with an increased ore and concentrates showed appreciable

: presses in the cyanide department, tonnage of the higher-grade ores was ship­ gains.

length of treatment and strength alld ped direct to smelters.

The tonnage shipped from Lake county
The Pitkin county (Aspen) yield showed •
Jerature of solutions employed in this an appreciable increase in silver output but
.on of the mill. (chiefly Le.adville) showed an increase, a decrease in lead. Several cars of zill'c car­
----'0-,,--­ with gains in output of all the metals ex­ bonate (the first ore of this class from this
ORADO METAL PRODUCTION, 1912. cept copper. The output of zinc was approx­ camp) and several cars of zinc sulphide
imately 99,000,000 pounds, representing an concentrates were shipped_ The shipment of
'he output of Colorado mines for eleven increase of 27,000,000 pounds in quantity and ore and concentrates from Creede showed a
ths of 1912 and an estimate for Decem· $2,600,'000 in value. The output of zinc car­ decrease for all the metals except silver,
according to preliminary figures by bonate was 137,000 tons of approximately which increased about 200,000 ounces. A
'lea W. Henderson, of the United States thirty per cent zinc, against 83,905 tons of larger tonnage of ore was shipped from
ogiocal Survey, shows a decrease of thirty-one per cent zinc in 1911. The zinc ·Hinsdale county. The dredge output of gold
.000 for gold, an increase of 750,000 sulphide shipped decreased somewhat from in Summit county increased $150,000; the
es for silver, a decrease of 1,000,000 ,the 79,376 tons of 23.3 per cent ore shipped zinc yield from Breckenridge equaled that
,ds for copper, an increase" of 5,000,000 in -911. However, the Empire Zinc com­ of 1911, but smaller shipments of zinc con­
"ds for lead, and an increase of 27,000,­ pany's magnetic-separation plant (with an centrates from Kokomo resulted in a de­
~ounds fO'!' zinc. With increased market increased.capacity), at Canon City, and the creased yield of zinc for the county. Eagle
~s for silver, copper, and zinc, the value United States Zinc company's magnetic­ county's output of zinc showed very little
Ie output in 1912 was over $4,000.000 separation plant, at Pueblo, operating chief­ change. Park county's placer output of gold
ter than in 1911-$3,000,O()0 in zinc and lyon Leadville ores, both treated increased showed a small decrease, but there was a
0,000 in silver, the increased value for quantities of stock ore. The Western Chem· considerable increase in the gold contents
and copper about balancing the de· ical company's wet-co!1centration and mag­ of crude ore shipped, while the contents of
le for gold_ The output for 1912 is there· netic-separation plant, at Denver, treate·d lead and silver decreased appreciably. The
estimated at approximately $18,7'00,000
an increased tonnage of· zinc·lead sulphide dredge in Costilla county was not operated.
old, 8,080,000 fine ounces of silver, 7,­ ore. The buildings of the Rho magnetic­ ----o-~~-

00 pounds of copper, 74,680,000 pounds

separation plant, at Leadville (closed in The Prince Consolidated Mining com­

ad, and 121,600,000 pounds of zinc, val­

July, 1911), were purchased late in 1912 by p.any, of the Pioche district of Nevada, ship­

in all at nearly $36,500,000.

the Sutton, Steele & Steele company for ped 202 cars in December, aside from sand

he tonnage treated by the Globe, Lead·

the treatment of sulphide and siliceous ores and tailings, according to a. wire received

Pueblo,Durango, and Salida smelters of Leadville. from B. L. Smith, manager. On January

'ed an increase for the year. Ore was The San Juan region, of Dolores, La
shipped to the Murray, Garfield, and Plata, Ouray, San Juan, and San Miguel
first, there were 20,000 tons of ore bT<lken

in the stopes, with fissures widening. From

1
ale plants in Utah. An increased ton­ counties, showed a decrease of $1,000.000 in the first to fourth of January forty-one cars
\
of complex zinc ore and concentrates . output of gold, but an increase of 500.0'00 were shipped. No. 6 stope west averages

Colorado and other western states ounces of silver, 3,500,000 pounds of lead, better than thirty excess i'l'on, and indica­

treated at the United States Zinc com­ and 700,000 pounds of copper. The yield of tions on the fourth level south are that the

,s plant at Pueblo. zinc was 300,'000 pounds less than in 1911. big bed of ore will be struck in a few shift·g.

he output of Cripple Creek showed an The decrease in the yield of gold was The diamond drill hole is down 200 feet be­

lase of $500,000 in gold. Early in 1912 caused chiefly by the decline in operations low the sixth level.

 T'HE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, JAN·UARY 15, 1913. 27

ZINC PRODUCTION IN 1912. course, were used on low-grade ores, les" wi~h 6,872 tons in 1911. 'l'he exports of
sening their capacity. To these were adl!ed foreign zinc increased from 4,758 short toolS
during the ye.ar 19,848 retorts, of which in 1910 to 11,276 tons in 1911 and to appl'OX­
The annual preliminary statement jnst
issued by the United States Geological S'lr. 2,880 were in Pennsylvania, 3,456 in West illllately 6,779 short tons in 1912. During the
Virginia, 2,476 in Illinois, 10,796 in Okla­ first nine months of the year there were a1!!r)
vey shows that the zinc industry in 1912,
homa, and 240 in Colorado. Meanwhile exported under d~awback articles manu­
stimula:ed by the prevailing hi'gh price of
there were slight reductions in capacity J,t factured from 938 tons of foreign zinc ou
spelter, went far heyond all records in pro­
certain plants, so that the total number of which duty had been paid, compared to
duction and even exceeded the figures for
retorts at the close of 1912 was 99,400. In 3,079 tons in 1911. The exports of zinc
the year indicated in .the survey's midyear
Illinois there are now nearing completion dross amounted to 203 short tons, valued
statement for the first half of ,the year.
2,4.00 retorts at the new Hillsboro smeltery at $17,803, compared with 4,246 tons in 1911.
The increased production was altogethtlr
of the American Zinc Com.pany of Illinois,
from domes:ic sources, as the production Consumption.
from foreign ore was slightly less than iil which started with 1,600 retorts in Novem­
ber; 1,600 retorts at the plant of the R. H. 'l'he apparent domestic consumption of
1911. Coupled with this increase in pro­
Lanyon Zinc & Acid company, also at Hills· spelter in 1912 may be computed as fol­
duction was a great Increase in imports
'horo, which will a:art early in 1913; 1,800 lows; 'l'he sum of stock on hand at smel:­
of spelter, which exceeded the large im­
retorts at the plant of Hegeler Bros., at eries at the beginning .of the year, 9,081 tons,
ports in 1909, and at the same time the
exports of foreign zinc were cut in naIf, Danville; and 4,560 retorts at the Minerai plus the imports, 10,700 tons, and the pro­
Point Zinc company's smeltery, at Depue. In duction, 338,630 tons, gives the total avail­
indicating a large consump:ion of foreIgn
zinc; all of which goes to show that the Ka~sas 576 retorts will be added to the La able supply, 358,411 tOns. From this there
active smelting capacity during the year Harpe plant of the Kansas Zinc company. is to be subtracted the exports of domecltlc
Oklahoma. now holds first place in active spelter, 6,673 tons, the exports of foreign
was inadequate to the demands of a pheno­
menal apparent consumption. smelting capacity, with 27,416 retorts; Kan­ spelter, 6,799 tons, the exports under drrdv­
sas is second, with 27,092 retorts; and 1111­ back, 938 tons, and ·the stock on hand at
The following figures have been CO!ll­
nois ,third, with 25,148 retorts. The largest smelteries at the close of the year (to be
piled without change by C. E. Siebenthal, smeltery is the Collinsville, Oklahoma, plant
exact, on Thlcem)ber 15), 4,208 tons, a wtal
from repor:s furnished by all operating of the Bartlesville Zinc company, with
of 18,618 tons, leaving a balance of 339,793
smelters of zinc ores, showing their output
8,064 retorts; the next largest is the Mea­ tons as the apparent domestic consump­
for the first eleven months of the year and dowbrook, (West Virginia) plant or the
tion. This calculation takes no account of
their estimated production for December.
GrasselIi Chemical company, with 6,192 re­ the stocks of spelter held by dealers or
Figures showing the Imports and exports
torts; and the third is the Collinsville (Okla­ consumers. On comparing the consumption
for eleven months were obtained from the homa) plant of the Tulsa Fuel & Manufac­
in 1912 with the 280,059 tons consumed ill
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
turing company, with 6,232 re~orts. The 1911, the 245,884 tons in 1910; the 270,730
and to .these figures estimates for December
Mineral Point Zinc company's plant at De­ tons in 1909, the 214,167 tons in 1908, alld
have been added.
pue, Illinois, will have 9,080 retorts whE,n the 226,969 .tons in 1907, it is seen that the
Production, completed in 1913. consumption is phenomenally large.
The production of primary spelter from At the close of the year the Nattona!
domestic ore in 1912 is estimated at 323,961 Zinc company took over the United Zinc &. Prices.
·short tons and from foreign ore at 14,669 Chemical company's plants, consisting of a Spelter opened at St. Louis in January
tons, a total of 338,630 tons, worth, at the zinc smeltery wi~h 3,680 retorts and an acid at 6.25 cents a pound, which was the mini­
average st. Louis price, $46,731,000, com­ plant at Springfield, IllinQis, and roasting mum price of the year. A gradual rise
pared to a total of 286,526 tons in 1911, wor,th furnaces and an acid plant at Argentine, broken by a sharp decline in March Bnd
$32,663,964 and made up of 271,621 tons of Kansas. another in July and August, carried the
domestic origin and 14,905 tons of forei;n price to 7.5 cents, the highest price of
Imports of zinc ore were approximately
origin. The production of spelter from boch the year in ·the latter part of september.
78,000 short tons, containing about 3J ,r,00
domestic and foreign ores, apportioned ac­ The year closed with spelter at about 7.0
tons of zinc, compared wi,th 78,341 tong
cording to the states In which it v,as cents. The average St. Louis price of
of ore, containing 31,640 tons of zinc, im­
smelted, by six-month periods, was as fol­
prime western spelter was 6.9 cents a
ported in 1911. The figures for 1912 ar;:,
lows;
pound, compared to 5.7 cents a pound in
exclusive of 18,245 short tons of lead ore
Spelter Production, 1911-1912, by States In
from South America, containing 2,431 to:'1S 1911.
Six-month Periods. of zinc, an average of a little more than In London spelter opened at £ 26 15s. a
--1911-- ~-1912-- 13 per cent, all of which was lost in smelting long ton (5.78 cents a pound), less tha,! half
State. First Second First Second the lead and thus does not properly enter a cent below the St. Louis price. It reac!:J.crl
half. half. half. half. into the figures of iIn\POrts of zinc. Of the the minimum of the year late in March, at
Illinois ...... 41,255 41,875 44,224 44,065 zinc ore imported, 72,000 tons, about 92 £25 a long ton (5.4 cents a pound), and
Kansas ...... 50,574 47,839 52,485 48,376 per cent, came from Mexico, compared with gradually rose to the highest point of the
Oklahoma .. 19,997 26,318 36,010 41,584 75,982 tons imported from Mexico in 1911. year in October, at £27 12s. 6d. a long t0n
Other S:ates. 28,370 30,298 33,777 38,109 The exports of domestic zinc ore were 1£,,­ (5.98 cents a pound). After a gradual do­
953 short tons, valUed at $704,207, compared cline, spelter closed a!: about £26 Ifs. a
Total .... 140,196 146,330 166,496 172,134 with 18,281 tons in 1911. long ton (5.73 cents a pound). The average
Yearly total 286,526 338,630 The imports of spelter were the large.st price for the year was £26 8s. 7d. a fong
The total production of spelter is equtv­ for many years, being estimated at 10,700 ton (5.7 cents a pound).
alent to the output of 79,678 average retorts short tons, valued at about $1,202,000, com· For the last four m(onths of the year the
operating continuously through the year on pared with 609 tons in 1911. The imports ,average St. Louis price of spelter WilS
60 per cent zinc concentrates. The retort of zinc dust were 2,350 short tons, valued more than 1% cents above the London price.
capacity, available for ore, of the plants at $262,700, against 1,713 tons in 1911. J~x· It was during this period that the larger
active in 1912 was, at the beginning of t!1e ports of domestic spelter are estimated at part of the 10,700 tons of foreign spelter
year, 80,200 retorts. Many of them, o~ 6,673 short tons, worth $871,479, compared was Imported.
 "r H E SAL 't LA K E
f MEXICO PRODUCTION IN 1912.
led Mine Output of Gold, Silver, Cop­
per, Lead, and Zinc.
mine production of gold in New
) in 1912, according to preliminary
tes by Charles W. Henderson, of the
States Geological Survey, showed a
increase over the output of $762,808
L; the output of silver an increase of
150,000 ounces over the production of
40 ounces in 1911; lead an increase
ut 1,700,000 pounds .from the yield of
3,000,000 pounds in 1911; and copper
rease from 4,057,040 pounds in 1911 t~
28,000,000 pounds in 1912. The output.
~ made little change in 1912 from the
of 10,237,176 pounds in 1911. The in­
in the value of copper alone adds
4,000,000 to the value of the output of
>1exico.
e output of gold and silver from the
!e plants at Mogollon, Socorro county,
d a small increase, and a slightly in­
:d output of the precious metals was
erived from the gold and silver,bear­
Iiceous and copper ores of the Lords­
~nd Central distrIcts, Grant county,
eopened copper mines at San Pedro,
Fe county, added to the output of
.nd silver.
e increase in the copper output came
f from the operations of the Chino
r company, which is mining a low­
copper deposit at Santa Rita by steam
s. This ore is concentrated at Hurley,
a 5,000-ton plan·: has been completed
sections, two sections being in opera­
. the beginning of the year 1912 and
ler three being successively placed in
on during the year, the last being
ted in December. The public report
company for nine months of the year
an output of 17,902,587 pounds of
and the output for the last three
was approximately 11,000,000 pounds.
!ond copper district in importance
~ Lordsburg district, with an in-
output for 1912. The Burro Moun­
trict, where much development ·work
n· done during the last six years,
small output. The eopper mines and
r at San Pedro. Santa Fe county,
lpened in August, and operated
mt the rest of the year.
lead output of New Mexico comes
rom the shipments of lead ore and
atesfrom the lead-zinc deposits at
)corro county, but there were also
I shipments of lead ore from the
strict, 'Luna county.
lents of zinc sulphide ore and con·
from Kelly were about the same
ty as in 1911, but those of zine car­
~creased. This district yields the
art of the zinc output of New Mex­
fanuary, 1ll12, the zinc deposits at
MIN I N G REV i E w, JAN. U A R V
Hanover, Grant county, were re.opened, after
being idle for a year, and zinc concentrates
and ore were shipped from Pinos Altos,
Grant county.
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OREGON METAL PRODUCTION IN 1912.
For several years there has been a de·
cline in the metallic output of the state of
Oregon, more especially in its gold and sil­
ver, but 'preliminary returns for 1912 show
that this has now been checked, according
to Charles G. Yale, of the United Statel!l
Geol.ogical Survey. The mine report .of the
survey for 1911 showed an output of gold
valued at $633,407 and 45,221 ounces of silo
ver. The preliminary returns for 1912 in­
dicate that the Oregon yield was about
$657,000 in gold and 86,951 ounces of silver,
a marked advan-ce in the silver output.
Moreover, the smelters received about 100,­
000 pDunds of copper, eompared with 93,196
pounds in 1911, and 38,00'0 pounds .of lead,
whereas there was no yield of lead in 1911.
More placers are being worked than for­
merly in Oregon, mainly by hydraulic meth­
ods. The grade of ore in the deep mines
has been much IDwer than formerly, al­
though more of it is treated. The lowering
of the average tonnage value is due to the
large .quantities of old tailings handled,
their average yield being taken with that
of the new ore in making up the totals and
average values.
The largest producer of gold in Oregon
is Baker county, as has been the case for
some years. Following in order of rank
are Josephine, Jackson, Grant, Lane, and
Malheur counties. Eleven counties of the
state are now producing gold, Josephine
leading in the production of placer gold,
and Baker in that from deep mines. In
silver yield Baker county holds first rank.
Most of the ore in Oregon is milled, very
little of it being shipped to smelters for
reduction. Neither the southwestern nor
the nDrtheastern counties of Oregon are pro:
ducing as much gold as a few years ago, al­
though the estimated figures for 1912 show
that some little advancement is in progress.
The state badly needs the advent of capital
t.o open and develop its deep-mining prop­
erties, many of which are lying idle for
want of means to place them on a produc­
tive standing.
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The May Day Mining company, operat­
ing in the Tintic district of Utah, will pay
a dividend .of three cents a share on Feb­
ruary 10th, to stockholders of record on
February 1st. There will be paid $24,000
making a total of $132,000, the last payment
having been made in September, 1908.
The present dividend is made possible by
the high price of silver and the utilization
of the old reserve of zinc ore, the May Day
being one of the first to realize the asset
it had in the zinc, which was formerly pen­
alized, when the lead-silver ore was shipped.
15, 1!H 3.
MONTANA METAL PRODUCTION IN 1912
As a result of the increased prices of
metals and the greater production of copper
particularly, the total value of the metal
output of Montana in 1912 was close to $64,­
000,000, accDrding to preliminary estimates
by V. C. Heikes, of the United States Geo­
logical Survey. This represents an increase
.of nearly thirty-six per cent in value over
the 1911 out.put and is the most valuable
.production since that of 1906. About seventy
nine per cent of this value came from cop­
per alone, about twelve per cent from sil­
ver, nearly six per cent from gold, and near­
ly three per cen t from zinc_
An estimated decrease of over five per
cent in gold production brought the output
.of 1912 down to about $3,500,000. This was
:probably due to a diminished yield of mill
bullion, especially in the Little Rockies
district, formerly in Chouteau county but
now in Blaine county. The gold output from
placer bullion slightly increased, being sus­
tained by six operating dredges. The four
boats at Ruby had a successful season, and
the Kansas City plant, in Missoula county,
and the Magpie, in Lewis and Clark county.
were active.
There was also an increase of about five
per cent in silver, trom nearly 12,0(f0,00:)
ounces in 1911 to about 12,500,000 ounces in
1912. This was to be credited to Butte cop­
per ore, The increase of 7.5 cents a fine
ounce in the average .price of silver meant
a difference of n-early a million dollars in
the value of the production.
Instead of curtailing the output of cop­
per, as in 1911, when nearly 273,000,000
pounds were marketed, the production of
1912 was brought up to about 310,000,000
pounds, or nearly that of the year 1909. This
is an increase of about fourteen per cent,
due partly to the rise in price of the metal,
which averaged somewhat over sixteen
cents a pound, against 12,5 eents in 1911.
Although Montana recorded a larger CDP­
.per output, it retained second place among
the states in 1912, as Arizona had a much
greater increase_ The copper mines at Butte
especially the Anaconda, East Butte, and
Tuolumne mines, made 'better sh'Dwings.
The smelting plants at Anaconda and Great
FalIs were not only more active than in re­
cent years, but plans were ma-de and wDrk
started to entirely reconstruct the Great
Falls .plant. The Anaconda mines were ,pro­
ducing at the rate of 26,001),000 pounds of
copper a month, and the East Butte at
somewhat over 1,000,000 pounds. At the
latter plant capacity ,was increased by
lengthening the furnaees. The cost of min­
ing at Butte was lessened by the use of
electric .power.
There was no important change in lead
production in 1912 from the output of near­
ly 6.500,000 pounds in 1911. The East Helena
lead .plant was active but worked largely on
lead ore from other states.
 THE SAL T
A decrease of about forty-one per cent,
to an estimated production of 25,520.000
pounds for 1912, was shown in the spelter
output in metallurgical treatment and con­
struction, The Elm Orlu mine, the concen­
trator of which was lost by fire in 1911, pro­
duced no zinc, although experiments were
made in direct smelting of the ore, both at
Butte and in ~rmany. Improvements were
made at the Butte & Superior mine, which
somewhat retarded shipmen:'S, A new sur­
face plant and a 50o-ton unit of a concentra­
tion mill were constructed. The latter began
operations in June, using an oil flotation pro·
cess in connection with concentration.
Small shipments of zinc concentra:es were
made from Basin, in Jefferson cotinty, and of
zinc ore from Troy, in Lincoln county. Work
V iii adsen Bros. . ...................... ,
at Georgetown, in Deer Lodge county, was
W.alker, H. C. ..........................
stimulated by the building of the railroad
\Viddicombe & Palmer .................
'Wilson & Ott .............. ...........
into the district, and construction was con­
Zalinski. Edward R. .......•... ,....
tinued on the road to Radersburg, in Bwad­
water county.
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TUNGSTEN ORE IN 1912.
The quantity of tungsten ore mined and
Nephi Plaster Co. . .................... .
marketed in the United States during 1912,
New Era Motor Co. . .................. .
Oftlc:al Directory of Mines ...... 48 and
according to preliminary figures collected
by Frank L. Hess, of the United States Geo·
logical Survey, was equivalent to about 1,290
tons carrying 60 per cent of tungsten triox­
ide and was valued at $492.000, besides
which a smaller quantity was mined but not
Mine and Stock DeAler...
marketed. This is an increase over the out­
put of 1911, which was equivalent to 1,139
tons of sixty per cent ore and was valued at
$407.985. The average price paid per unit
(the unit is one per cent of a short ton, or
twenty pounds. of tungsten trioxide) was
about $6.35 in 1912. compared with $4.89 in
1911, but the extreme variation seems to
have been less in 1912 than in the previous
year. Although higher than in 1911, the price
paid was unsatisfactory to the miner. It
ranged from $5.80 to $7.25 per unit for ore
running sixty per cent or more of tungsten
trioxide. and $8 was being quoted at the
close of the year. Probably more concen­
trates were sold at $6 than at any other
figure.
The price seems rather anomalous. for
ordinarily the price of tungsten ores varies
with the fluctuations of the steel trade. ris­
ing and falling as the demand for steel in­
creases or decreases. During 1912 the steel
trade has been remarkably brisk and the
trade in tool steel seems to have been espe·
cially good, following a reported large sale
for automobiles and other articles in which
much tool steel is used, but the price for
tungsten has not risen as much as might
have been ex.pected.'l'here do not seem to
have been sufficient new discoveries or de­
velopmen:s of old deposits to have oversup­
plied the market, but it is known that a con·
slderable quantity of concentrates has been
L A K E MIN I N Q REV lEW,
INDEX rro
:Hlnlng Mnclt[nery nnd Supplies. Directory of Engineers.
Pc..ge
Allis-Cha:mers Co. ........•............
Central Coal & Coke Co. .............. 46
Denver J!'ire Clay Co. ..................
Diamond Drilling Co. .................. 43
Fairbanks. Morse & Co. ...............
General Electric Co. . ............. 6 and
Independent Powder Co. ................
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. ..............
Jones & JacobS, Mill Builders ..........
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. ..............
Minneapolls Steel & Machinery Co. .... 51
Porter. Charles F., Building Material....
Revere Rubber Co. .................... 51
Richmond, F. C., Machinery Co. ..........
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co..... 43
Salt Lake Hardware Co. .. ............. 52
Sil vel' Eros. Iron Works ................
tItah Fire Clay Co. .................. . 43
Utah Fuel Co. ......................... 46
'Nay's Pocket Smelter .............. ... 43
"'"estern Heating & Sheet Metal Co. ....
Z. C. l\f. 1. ..........................
Bnnklng H ouses.
McCornick & Co. .......................
45
Merchants' Bank ..... ~ .......... , . ' . . ..
45
Salt Lake Security Co, .......... ,.,...
Utah Savings & Trust Co. ...... .......
Utah State National Bank ..............
45
Walker Bros. ........... ..............
ASliayers and ChemIsts.
A. F. EardweJJ ....................... .
Bird-Cowan ........................... .
'Crismon & Nichols •....................
Currie, J. W. . ........................ .
Officer & Co., R. R. ................... .
UniOn Assay Office ................... .
Rallronds. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. . . . . . . . .
Bingham & Garfield Ry. .. . ........ .
n
Oregon Short Line .................... .
4
Sal t Lake Rou te ...................... .
4!l
MIning Attorneys.
Booth, Lee, Badger & Rich ........... .
Brad.ey, Pischel & Harkness ......... .
Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books . . . . .
Davis & Davis ........................ .
Higgins, E. V. . ....................... .
Hutchinson, W. R. . ................... .
Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette .......... .
Sanford, Allen T. ........... . ........ .
stored and it is possible that the use of this
stored stock may have prevented an other­
wise natural rise. The present outlook· is
for higher prices during 1913.
As usual, the largest production from
any single district was made from the uni·
que ferberite deposits of Boulder county,
Colorado. About 1,200 tons of ore of various
grades were shipped out, equivalent to 775
tons of Sixty per cent ore. The Primos Min·
ing & Miling eompany, and the Wolf Tongue
Mining company, which works its proper­
ties by a leasing system, introduced an im­
portant new feature during the year by fur·
nishing electric hoists free to its lessees
and the company also pays a portion of the
cost for sinking each shaft. The lessee pays
for the cost of electric current used. It
seems probable that this innovation will
lead to an increase in production from the
properties during 1912, unless the price
should drop seriouslY,
In California the Atolia Mining com­
pany, which controls the Atolia field, at the
north edge of San Bernardino county, in·
creased the production of its remarkably
pure scheelite over that of 1911 and was the
largest individual producer in the United
states. A small quantity of scheelite was
also taken out in the Stringer district, a few
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miles north and west of Atolia, A discovery
of scheelite was reported from the west side
of the Rand mountains, but no ore was sold.
A few tons of mixed wolframite and schee­
lite were shipped from the vicinity of Nip­
ton, in the east end of San Bernar-dino coun­
ty.
In Arizona a few tons of hu'bnerite eon·
centrates were shipped from the dry placers
and some ore from the veins near Dragoon;
hubnerite ore was shipped from Arivaca to
Denver, for concentration; and some schee­
lite concentrates were shipped from Oracle.
where scheelite is associated with gold and
silver ores. Small shipments of hubnerite
were made from 013ceola and Round moun·
tain, ~evada, and Paeerson creek, Idaho. A
small quantity of hubp.erite was concen­
trated at Loon Lake, 'Washington, but none
was shipped. One small shipment or wolr­
ramite was made from Lordsburg, 'New
Mexico.
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The use of vanadium steel in locomo·
tive, automobile. and similar machinery
seems to be growing rapidly. No extensive
uses for uranium are known to have been
developed, but the glass, pottery, and
chemical trades use small quantities.
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Contributorll.
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y A. Palmer. Maynard Bixby.
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falling off due to decreased shipments from
Advertll!llng Acencics.
Ii:NYER, Colorado.-The National Adver­
• Co" Quincy Building.
Ii:W YORK.-Frank Presby Co., General
rtising Agents, 3-7 West 29th street.
lUTHERN CALIFORNIA. - Hamman's
rtlslng Agency, South Pasadena, Cal.
l spite of Idaho's large lead production,
! is 'but one smeltery in the state and
has but one furnace.
00----­
he higher price of silver in 1912 ac­
ted for a million dollars increase in
Talue of Montana's metal output.
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onopah, Nevada, is to De congratu·
on having no dismantled or freak
, and no idle mills built for mines with­
,re, features that few camps can boast.
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Ie operation of a smeltery In the YeT'
n district of Nevada is said by the
Geological Survey to have increased
opper output of Nevada seventeen per
from a little over 67,000,000 ,pounds
11 to 79,000,000 in 1912.
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leap mIllIng and milling of gold ores
uacteristic of the Black Hills of South
tao The Wasp No.2 mine is mining
len cut,with steam shovel stripping
cyaniding its ores at a cost of one
. to one dollar ar;,d a quarter per ton.
external and internal factors are fav­
e.
o volume of sales?
Ie effect of the activity in the Pioche
ct in Nevada is shown most empha·
V by the statement that the increase
e per cent In the silver production of
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
Nevada was due to lead ore shipments from
Pioche and that together with Yellow Pine
the district increased the lead production of
Nevada from 3,263,657 pounds in 1911 to
nearly 19,000,000 pounds in 1912.
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The porphyry coppers are responsible
for large increases in copper production
Largely due to increased prodUction from
new mines of this class, New Mexico in­
creased its copper output last year from
four million to twenty-eight million pounds,
and the value of Arizona's metal production
was increased forty-nine per cent, from
$45,000,000 to $65,000,000.
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The history of zinc production in the
past year is Interesting. In Nevada opera­
tions in the Yellow Pine district caused
the production to leap rrom three and a
half mlllion to twelve million pounds, over
200 per cent increase. In Utah the in­
crease.d shipments of ores formerly value­
ness from Tintic could not prevent a decline
of thirteen per cent in the production, a
ments as to the conditions in mines whose
stocks they handle, the public is likely to
Park City. Of the $4,000,000 increase in
value of Colorado's metal prodUction, $3"
O(){l,OOO came in value of spelter, $2,600,000
of which came from Leadville ores, over·
looked for many years as a source of profit.
o money will be found more readily for legi·
DIVIDEN.DS AND THE MARKET.
All estimates for dividends of the mines
of Utah agree that the year iust· closed has
been very satisfactory, and that the min­
ing industry is looking up. The recOO'd of
sales on the local exchange shows tran­
sactions aggregating between two and three
million dollars against seventeen to nine­
teen nImions in 1909. Dividends in 1909
for the same producers were about $6,000,­
000 against $7,726,989 in 1912. For the pur­
pose of this discussion some of' these
amounts should be disregarded. Eliminat·
ing Utah Copper, which is not traded in
on the local exchange, and the United
States and American Smelting & Refining
companies, much of 'whose income comes
j\rom other states, and whose prices are
made largely on other boardS, the figures
stand at $4,500,000 a'gainst $2,500,000 for the
respective years. This indicates that stock
activities are in no wise proportional to
dividend payments.
The average selling price of thirty-one
stocks listed on the local exchange was
about thirty-nine cents at the end of 1912
against sixty-five cents in 1909, which is in
about the same ratio as the dividend pay­
ments. This is a sa:'isfactory condition in
itself. How shall we account for the small
DU'ring the .past few years it has been
brought to the attention of the public,
through engineers' reports to tax commis­
sions, congressional investigations and mag­
1 5, 1913.
azine articles, that the quotations on stocks,
in general, bea~ little relation to the in­
trinsic value of the properties which the
stocks represent, but are made largely by
manipulation. The pl:blic has ben so im­
pressed that it will no longer meekly stand,
while being sheared, and insists, now, on
being shown. It has decided to keep out
of danger. This attitude is reflected on all
the exchanges, both i!l industrial and min­
ing stocks, so that business on the ex­
changes has fallen off.
We have been fed on statements that
active stock exchangeS! indicate prosper­
ity, and listless ones the opposite, They
do in the sense that inflated .prosperity
induces people to take chances with their
money, on the wheel of fortune, that solid
I!rosperity would not induce them to take.
They are prosperous now but insist on get­
ting a decent run for theiT money. Until
such time as those dependent directly on
stock activity for a living see fit to deal
less in general, and more in speclnc, state­
stay out.
More money is now being made in legi­
timate mining and less in mining stocks,
which, to our mind, is eminently desirable
and right. 'When sucll a condition exists,
timate development of mines, and much of
the stigma unjustly attached to mining wilI
be removed.
Mining has lent itself readily to fictitious
stock distribution, and some of this has
been given a color of rt!spectability through
notorious transactions that have been car·
ried out by otherwise respectable men,
whose operations are in many cases just
coming in view. The tendency to ,place
mining on a more solid basis should be
encouraged, then, rather than bewailed.
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MINING AND THE WEST.
In financial and <commercial centers,
throughout the eastern states, all eyes are
turned to the west. A great many there
are who are particularly interested in com­
mercial pursuits, in .agriculture, and in
stock raising; but the greatest interest, by
all odds, is being taken in our wQnderful
mining industry.
In reviewing the history of the west, in
noting its almost marvelous growth, the
dose observer cannot but be impressed by
the significallt fact that it was mining that
led to the reclaiming of the deserts, the
valleys and the table lan~s, and that had it
not been for the adventurous spirit of the
pioneer miner the Pacific slope and this
intermountain region would, today, be what
it was flfty or sixty years ago-an unknown
<country, a practically barren waste, and a
region beyond tile confines of civilization.
To the mining industry the west owes a
 THE SAL T L AK E
debt that can never be fully repaid, and the
recLamation of this vast region is unques­
tionably due to the constant stream of im­
perishable wealth that has come from our
mines, in almost a constant stream, from
the day that gold was first discovered in
california. As a matter of fact, California,
with its genial clime, its orehards and its
groves, oweS its very life to the boom that
was started when it was discovered that in
the hills, back from the coast, there existed
great and almost inexhaustible deposits of
the precious metals; and the same can 'be
said of the interior states west of the
Rocky Mountains.
Gold w,as the lodestone that first led to
the settlement of California by the Ameri­
ean people; and, the spirit of unrest, of en­
terpriSe and progressiveness, so common in
a newly settled country, caused the early
pioneers to branch out and seek bonanzas
in unknown fields, the result being that
there is hardly a western state, today, but
that boasts of its mining camps, its busi­
ness centers, and a wide area that is set­
tled by the farmer, the rancher, and the
fruit and cattle grower.
When the disgruntled but unreasoning
individual daims that mining is not legiti­
mate, he should pause before expressing
himself too radically while the net results,
the benefits of mining, are 'being enumer­
ated. Nothing that was ever great was
founded upon a falsehood or a lie. Upon an
insecure or rotten foundation; and yet the
splendid empire of the west was built upon
nothing less than the mining industry; and,
were this to fail, it would not be long be­
fore the material interests of this region
would become so demoralized that In course
of time the whole country would be on the
retrograde and gradually seek a level
whose maintenance would depend, entirely,
on an income dependent upon the product
of the ranch and farm.
Money, to a certain extent, is civiliza­
tion. Take money and real values away
from a country or a nation. and in time it
will return to its former primitive state;
and, as real values are based upon ~he pre­
cious metals, the industry that produces
gold and silver cannot be otherwise than
legitimate, and the regions prodUCing these
metals must, of necessity, open the way to
a growth in population, to improvement
and advancement on every hand.
Without its mining industry there would
be no west, today; the east would be much
poorer, and opportuniti~s for safe and prof­
itable investments would not be knocking
at the door of almost every American citi­
zen.
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The decrease in the production of gold
by the Goldfield Cons. Mines campany of
Goldfield, Nevada, was about equal to the
dim.inution in the output of the United
States in 1912.
MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
The Prospector
and His Burro
(By Will C. Higgins.)
"You have always been a fluent li~ten­
er," said the 'prospe.ctor to his burro, "and
this is one reason why I often take pleas­
sure in increasing your store of knowledge
by the dropping of a few gems of wisdom
along our trail now and then; for, no m:\t­
ter whether our conversation relates to a
little old last year's boom or the discovery
of an ancient mine, you are all at­
tention, and what I have to say seems to
sink deep into whatever grey matter you
may possess. I find,however, that you
seem to take the most interest in recitals
of adventure, although one would never
think so to look at you, for your make-up
would indicate a retiring disposition and a
propenSity to seek seclusion in some well­
stocked corral instead of a hankering de­
sire to mingle with hazardous undertak­
ings in distant mining fields where moun­
tain lions esteem burro tee:bones as a
choice bill of fare, or where the assimila­
tion of the loco weed is sure to bring on
insanity and ultimate death_ Still, there
is no use in judging 'by appearances, as
no one would guess that I had a 'big bank
account by looking at my clothes; and it
is often that a burro, meek and lowly look.
ing as he may appear, has a stout heart
which is backed up by nimble heels and
teeth as sharp as razors.
"You want to know what I am trying
to get at, and why this long preamble;
and if I want to get you all muddled up
before easing my mind of its present bur­
den; which break, on your part, to say the
least, robs the compliment I have just 'Paid
you of half its value, for I was just get­
ting down to the first outline of my story,
the telling of which has almost been
spoiled by your untimely interruption. But,
to go .back to the remark I made about you
being interested in adventure, I don't mind
telling you that I arrived at this conclu­
sion by noticing the great interest you took
in our last bed-time talk when I told you
about that claim-jumping episode in the
Fumed Egg range; for, when I spoke of the
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white-rQbed figure in the face of the tunnel,
and the unearthly groans coming from the
same quarter, your eyes bulged out like
door-knobs, and the hair on your back
bristled up so that you had an old tom-oat
'beat to a frazzle; whkh all goes to show
that yoU are not really so dumb and in­
sensible to exciting things as your appear­
ance would indicate.
"Some few years ago," -continued the
prospector, "I was prospecting in tIle Bean­
Pot range on the edge of Death Val by.
Your mother was with me at the time
and we pitched our camp near the head
of a gulch where the presence of willows
indicated the existence of water at shallow
depth. We had .been without liquid refresh­
ment for at least twelve hours, and I was
digging in the sand and gravel like a sea
crab, while your mother loo,ked on, with
her ears hUng over and an eagerness in
her eyes that was really picturesque, if
not appealing; when, all of a sudden she
heard a rustling in the grease-wood behind
her, which diverted her attention from the
work I had In hand. I guess I must have
sensed something out of the ordinary, a130,
for I raised from a stooping position to ;lee
your mother heading for a nearby cliff, like
greased lightning with a big mOUntaIn lion
close at her heels. Your mother gained
the cliff none too soon, and a moment lost
would have been fatal to he'r. As it was,
however, the instant the lion sprung at her
she was ready for him, and' the beast re­
ceived as pretty a blow under his chin,
from her lighting-like hoofs, as the shift·
iest pugilist could give an opponent. The
lion ~keeled over backwards as if he had
been struck with a ten-pound hammer, :md
in a second your mother was onto him
like a flash. The stunned animal was un­
able to offer much resistance, and tbe way
the sharp fore-feet of the burro gouged into
his ribs and the Savage way with which
she tore off patches of the lion's hide with
her teeth, was a caution to tenderfeet. I
think your mother would have eventually
finished the career of the ,animal, Ibut I ar­
rived at the scene of battle in time to save
her the trOUble, for I struck my pick
through his brain and so saved her the
trouble of ending the unequal fight. I was
amazed at her audacity and courage, for it
was almost as foolhardy as would be the
'action of a jackrabbit in spitting in a bull
dog's face. But, what astonished me more
was the fact that your mother, from a verit­
able tiger, immediately calmed down into
a meek-looking, timorous-looking bw:ro,
and began nibbling the sage-brush as un·
concernedly as if she had not just had the
greatest struggle of her life. She didn't
even lift her voice in a song of triumph,
or swagger around like a mining camp
bully. Which all goes to show that she
wasn't a bit proud or concel~ed; none what­
ever. I was greatly elated, however, and
glorified over the fact that I could boast
 TH E SAL T ~ LA K E
the possession of the greatest fighting
'ro in the hills. But I was more elated
I .surprised, when I began to look over
, 'field of battle, to find that the scrim·
.ge had resulted in the breakin:g off of
.eral quartz croppings which, upon close
lmination, proyed to be lousy with free
,d. I was so elated that I shouted and
nped around like an escaped maniac, and
m shocked the quiet dignity and .e·
lctability of your mother by throwing my
ns around her neck and giving her a
rm hug; for which she looked at m€ reo
lachfully. After putting up my discovery
'nument I resumed my search for water,
which I was successful after sinking to
.lepth' of about four feet, Then I esta~·
led a perman€ n t camp, after which I
de a thorough prospecting of the new
covery, tracing th€ vein, through its fre·
mt outcrops, for a distance of a quar­
of a mile, or more. On this I located
group of eight claims. With a little
rk I found that the pay shoot was about
ee feet in width, and judged that it would
!rage from $80 to $100 to the ton, a.l·
ugh portions of the ore·body would run
into the thousands. I will not attempt
tell you, at this talkfest, of how I took
'ortune from the mine and afterwarls
1 it to an English syndicate for another
But. at another time I will tell you
{ your mother perished in a blizzard the
r after we had made the wonderful dis·
ery.
frantically to get him out. Another cave
"I want to tel! you, Old Long Ears,"
was heard, which cut off all communication_
cluded the prospector, "one cannot al·
On the morning of the eighth his body was
rs tell, by the appearance of a man, just
recovered.
I much courage he has hidden away in
Mr. Squire came to the west upon his
corporosity; for, in my time, I have
n little, meek·looking men, who bad
n imposed upon for months by their
Ipanions, suddenly turn and clean up t:lfl
lie bunch. And it is oft€ n that a bully
I swagger around until he looks fi.,.·
'in and flea-bitten, only to be soundly
mced, in the end, by the most· timid·
cing man in camp; and there you are,
then some."
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IRON BLOSSOM PAYS DIVIDEND.
rhe Iron BlOSsom Mining company. op'
His nature was such that he was 'bound
ing in th€ Tintic district of Utah, will
to go high in the operating end of mining,
its regular quarterly dividend of ten
and his untimely death cut short a most
s a share on January 25th, to stockhold·
promising career. The writer had watched
of record on January 18th. The tota~
his evolution as a 'student and had fol·
lend disbursements of the company are
lowed his subsequent progress with great
$1,470,000. Divid€ n ds declared for 1913,
ve go to press, aggregate nearly $250,­
for Utah mines.
'he ore now being hoisted at the Iron
som is said to run higher in silver than
for some time past. There is at least
ner years supply of shipping ore in
~, besides the lower grade which the
....
lany intends to mill. The company will
$300,000 in the treasury after paying
o.ext dividend.
M JN JN G REV JEW, JAN, U A RY
OBITUARY.
Walter M. Young, of Salt Lake City, met
death on the 8th, by the bursting ofa tIy­
wheel at th€ c oncentrator of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company, at Ana-conda, Mon­
tana, at which he was the superintendent
of the installation of equipment for hand­
ling the slimes. Details of the accident
have not be€ n received. Mr. Young had
been a resident of Salt Lak€ for twelve
years, and had been in the west twenty·
,four years. He has 'been employed by the
O. B. Peck company in installing slime
plants. Among th€ installations he made
are the plant at the Stanley mine, Cripple
Creek, Colorado, and one at Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Mr. Young was born in Harrison county,
West Virginia, October 31, 1854. He was '. ing, development, transportation, m!llIng,
married in Minnesota in 1854, and leaves
a widow and one son and one daughter.
After his marriage he went to Montana,
since which time he has been identified
with mining interests in the west.
In a cave-in at the Old Jordan mine at
Bingham, Utah, on the 7th of January,
Eveleth A. Squire, shift boss, was buried
with two miners. There seems to have
been a series of <laves. In the first the
men with Squire are supposed to have per­
ished. Rescuers got into communication
with Squire through air pipe, and worked
Net cost per ton ................. $6.11
Combination-Con.~iderable new OTe was
developed in this mine during the month,
especially on the second level about 300
graduation from the Case School of Applied
Science, at Cleveland, Ohio, in th€ spring
of 1911. He went to work in the Centeno
nial·Eureka, at Eureka, Utah, and was later
transferred to Hingham, where he had
worked up to shift boss. He leaves a wid­
ow, whom he married aft€ r comin'g west.
Mr. Squire was twenty-s€ v en years old
and a type of man whose loss will be se·
verely felt. Compelled by circumstances
to work his way through college, h€ had
a serious viewpoint, and always, while at
school, was industrious and practical.
tended and produced 170 tons averaging
$20 per ton. The 3·P sill being cut on the
ore body in forty drift produced 243 tons
of an average value of $16 per ton. The
170-T stope being extended in the ore body
cut by the 107-X drift on the 250-foot level,
interest; and joins his' former classmates
and instructors, in expression of heart·felt
sympathy for his bereaved family.
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GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED REPORTS.
The management of the Goldfield Con­
solidated Mines company, of Goldfield, Ne·
vada, € s timates a profit of $253,000 from
Decemb€ r operations, from the treatment
'~1 5, 1913.
of 27,946 tons of an u;timated gross value
of $423,000,
The revised statement for November
has also been given out by Superintendent
Thorne, as follows:
During the month of Nov€ m ber, 1912,
the total production of your company was
27,775 tons, containing $451,986.68, or an
average of $16,27 per ton, of which 27,402
tons were milled wi:h an average extrac­
tion of 92.80 per cent, and 373 tons were
shipped of an average value of $19.78 per
ton, the net recovery from all ore being
$15.12 per ton. The net r~alization to your
company was $250,370.79, or $9.01 per ton.
Development work-3,528 f€ e t of devel·
opment work was performed durIng the .;,
month of November, 1912.
Operating costs-The total cost of min­
office and general € x pense was $6.11 p€ r
ton, distributed as follows:
Mining, including stoping and devel·
opment....................... _... III3A1
Transportation . . . .......;....... " . . .07
Milling . . .......................... 2.06
Marketing . . .................. _. . . . .06
General expense ..... ~ .......... _.. _ .49
Bullion tax • . . .................".... 106
Construction . •
Marketing ore . .., ," ............... " .03
Total cost of operation ............ $6 13
•
Miscellanoous earnings ............ _. .07
feet northwest of the shaft. The 136·BX
sill was extended and produced 203 tons
of ore averaging $49.20 per ton. The 112-X
drift being driven in the territory north­
west of the 13S·EX stope on the same levei
has cut a new ore body, and produced 101
tons averaging $36.40 per ton. This new
ore body should produce a large tonnage
of excellent grade ore. The 210·X drift on
the third level is being extended to find the
downward extension of the 112·X ore.
Mohawk-The 3-J sill, on the 150-foot
level in the old Sheets·lsh country, was ex·
under the old Sheets·Ish workings, pro­
duced 170 tons averaging $21.20 per ton.
The 490·R sill on the intermediat€ between
the third and fourth levelS, was extended
and produced. thirty-one tons averaging $11
per ton. The 490-E sill on the same Inter·
mediate, just north of the 490·R, was ex·
tended and produced 574 tons of an average
value of $18 per ton.
Clermont-The 408-1 stope has be€ n
brought up above the GOO· foot level and the

 THE SAL T
sill of the 600 produced 805 tons averag·
ing $21.40 per ton. The development work
in' this mine during the past month has
been confined principally to tHe 1300 and
HOO-foot levels, where "ome very promis­
ing discoveries have been made. On the
HOO·foot level about 450 feet south of the
shaft the shale and latite contact was en·
countered on the seventh of the month, and
since that date the crosscut has been en·
tirely in latite, well silicified and mIner­
alized and carrying small values in gold,
silver and copper; and there is every rea·
son to believe that the downward exten­
sion of the 1300 ore bodies will be found
on this level.
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NOVEL DAM CONSTRUCTION.
Four companies, the ,Sevier River Land
& water company, the Delta Land & Water
company, Oasis Irrigation company and
Melville Irrigation company, are jointly in­
terested In an irrigation project at Sevier
Bridge, twelve miles south of Juab, Utah.
The Sevier river is at present restrained
by an earthern dam, sixty feet high and
500 feet long. To increase the storage
capadty to about 250,000 acre-feet, it was
decided to add twenty feet to the height
of the dam. Investigation showed that the
present dam rests On a bed of quicksand,
which would make it unsafe to increase the
head of water. It was decided to put In a
concrete core to 'bed rock.
The horizontal se-ction of the dam is
trapezoidal. with the short base upstream.
tt was decided tG face the upstream side
,,!th a three.foot wall of concrete to such
~ height that the water could not carry it
ut. The depth of bedrock from the bottom
f the dam varies from twenty to thirty­
"0 feet. Work was started on the legs
, the trapezoid, where trenches were cut
td filled with concrete, for a length of 192
et on the south wing and 142 feet on the
rth wing.
The details of the work are interesting.
was found impossible to excavate by
ans of an open cut, on account of the
cksand, so that all work had to be tlmb­
::I. Work was begun, in the middle of
tember, just above the water line. The
ch was excavated by shoveling to a
h of fifteen feet, after which 'buckets
) used to hoist the dirt. Timbering
wed excavation closely. Sheet piling,
Ie feet long and two in-ches thick was
driven by a steam pile driver, a sec­
let of piles was driven inside the first
in the second twelve feet, and so on.
,idth of the trench diminishing one
,ith each successive set of piling. The
>iles were so driven that when bed­
,as reached, the treneh would be three
ide. Excavation proceeded with the
" and struts were at once placed
the trench at six-foot intervals hori·
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN, U A R Y
skin vertically, so that there was virtually
a series of tightly timbered rectangular
shafts, six feet by three in section.
Concrete, with a one to four matrix, was
mixed In two Smith mixers and run by
gravity into the trenches. Rock was
blasted from the side hills, hauled ,to the
work and dumped by hand into the concrete
in the trenCh, boulders up to three or four
hundred pounds being used. The cross­
timbers or struts were allowed to remain
in, as it was felt by the engineer In charge
that these would be amply protected from
deterioation by being imbedded in the con­
crete. They will always be watersoaked.
In addition to this vertkal wall which will
go all about the upstream side of the dam,
the upstream slope will be faced with con·
crete to such a height that the normal to
the, slope will not be less than thirty feet
long to the bottom of the stream bed, which
is practically the 'bottom of the present
dam.
The difficulties encountered in holding
the ground were many. A five·inch pump
was constantly at work removing water and
quicksand, and timbering had to be careful­
ly placed. It is believed by the engineer
in charge, Mosher F. Pack, of Salt Lake,
that the dam when completed will be per­
fectly safe, and in no danger of going out
under the increased head.
A lower earth dam, resting on quick­
sand, went out some time ago with disas·
trous results, and it was to avoid a repe­
tition of this that the new work was under­
taken. A second dam will not be necessary,
the increased height of the present dam in·
creasing the storage capacity sufficiently
for some time to come.
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BUREAU OF MINES REPORT.
The second annual report of the direc­
tor of the United States Bureau of Mines
has been presented to the secretary of the
interior. It makes a book of some eighty­
seven pages.
After reCiting the purposes of the Bur­
eau of Mines. which have appeared in print
many times, the report mentions the bene­
fits derived from its organization. There
has been great improvement in mine safety
and in mining conditions. especially in con­
nection with the handling of explosives,
mine fires and explosio:ls, and accidents
from falls of roo.f. First-aid work and mine
rescue cars and stations have done much
in this connection. Certain miners dis­
eases have also been investigated in con­
nection with the public health service.
Much time has been devoted to the study
of fuels, in testing coals, in order to get
greater efficiency in burning. These have
resulted in the use of former waste pro­
ducts and the wider use of brlqueting.
The organization of the 'burp~n ,~ -­
1 5, 1 9 1 3.
mining, mechanical and chemica
tions. Provision was made for
investigation of mining conditiom
by a territorial mine Inspector,
port will be submitted later.
Six mine rescue stations al
mine res-cue cars are maintained,
estimated that more than 65,00
visited them, that more than 36,0(
ed the lectures, more than 10,000
tial training in first aid work,
1,000 certificates of proficiency
sued.
,Among the needs of the 'burt
buildings, grounds 'and equipment
experiment station at Pittsburg, J
vania; funds for extending mine re£
first-aid work and of extending a
investigations to all phases of the
industry; funds for extending invest!
with a view to prevention of r
wastes and for extending Investigat!
the western metal mines.
A description in some detail of t
vestigations that have been undertake
ing the year is then included. most of
has been brought to the attention 0
public, in the lists of publications 0
bureau.
Smeltery furna-ce problems have
studied, with regard to smoke and fume
utilization of sulphur and arsenic, the
of oil for reducing iron ores, treatmel
complex sulphide ores, and the extra·
of rare metals of especial interest, in
making.
Losses in the lead and zinc industry
the utilization of titaniferous iron ores
been studied on a small s-cale. Mii
slimes treatment, placer washings, b
alloys, electric furnaces and many I
techni-cal matters have also been in'
gated.
Of interest to Utah is the followir
"Another series of investigations \'
have been arranged for and are to bl
dertaken under the direction of the
mineral chemist relate to the minin
certain rare minerals, the extraction 0
rare metals they contain. and the ex:
ation of possible sources of radium.
"The work already outlined includE
investigation of the productj.on of carr
and pitchblende in the United States
present status of the mining and treat
of these ores. and a study of the
methods of handling and treating 1
especially those of low grade. It alE
eludes an examination into the possi
of finding ores containing these rare e
about the waste piles of a number of n
"Other proposed investigations reI
to radium comprise methods of separ
and fractionation of radium salts, me
of estimating radium in rocks and n
als, the radil1n"l ... A~''"
 THE SAL T LA K E
of native carnotites for their helium
ent.
The production and treatment of vana·
1, tungsten, and other rar€ metals are
e studied.
The investigation outlined abov€ are to
:ondueted by R. B. ,Moore, physical
aist, and associates, who will have a
ratory in Denver, Colorado."
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ing 10.9 per cent; 53.8 per cent was from
D AND SILVER MINING IN 1912.
gold and silver mills (23.9 per c€ n t by amal­
he gold-mining industry of theUnit€ d
~s was generally normal in 1912, accord-
o H. D. McCaskey, of the U; S. Geologic­
urvey, but early figures indicate the
lest production since 1907, when the­
ut was $90,435,70{). In 1908 the output'
,aS€d to $94,560,(}00, in 1909 to $99,673,­
in 1910 it dropped to $96,269,100; in
it increased slightly to $96,890,000, but
12 it d€ c reased to $91,685,168, according
'eliminary estimat€ s of the 'Bureau of
\fint and the Geological Survey.
he decr€aS€ is to be ascribed mainly to
,da, where th€ r e was a falling off of
t $4,500,000, chiefiyfrom Goldfield and
3mall€ r degree from National and Seven
ghs. The great Goldfield min€ s produc­
.ore ore than in 1911, but the av€ r age
~ treated was considerably lower; the
at National was burned in September,
production was d€ l ayed at Seven
~hs by a cloudburst in July. On the
hand, th€ Manhattan, Round Moun­
and Fairview districts somewhat in­
ed their yields. A decrease of $300,000
·00,000 is also indicated for Colorado,
e, although there was an increased pro·
:m from Crippl€ Creek of about $500,­
)wing partly to succ€ s sful drainage by
toosevelt tunnel, and an increase in
output also from Gilpin county, ther€
III estimated decreaS€ in production of
$1,000,000 from the San Juan region,
Hng th€ counties of Dolor€ s , La Plata,
r, San Juan, and San Miguel. Th€ bulk
~ decrease, however, was from the
. ,Bird mine, in Ouray county, as the
t of San Juan and Dolores counties in­
~d. In Utah and Washington decreases
d output of $HlO,OO() to $200,000 are in­
!d. In Montana th€ r e was probably a
9r ·decrease.
e production of gold was smaller in
a, Arizona, Idaho, and New MexIco,
lere was a somewhat increased output
ifornia and Oregon. The year 1912 was
prosperous in South Dakota, where th€
t increased about $400,000 and was the
;t in the history of the state. The great
stake mines, as usual, made the bulk
output. The hydro€ l € c tric plant of the
my owning these mines, which has
under construction for several years,
ompleted and in operation in 1912.
lifornia retains first place in gold out­
egained from Colorado in 1911.
Id dr€ d ging continu€ d generally active
MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
in 1912, especially in California and Alaska,
where iner€ a sed dredging capacity was add­
ed. The output from 120 dredges in ten
states (including Alaska) in 1911 was $10,­
311,589.
In the Geological Survey's r€ p ort on gold
and silver for 1911 it was shown that of th€
total production tw€ n ty-four per cent was
derived from placers, dredging alone proouc·
of Butte, Montana, which contain consid€ r ·
able silver, and of argentiferous l€ a d ores,
gamation, 26.1 per cent by cyanidation, and
3.8 per oont by chlorination), and 22 per
cent from smelting. These proportions will
probably not greatly chang€ for 1912, except
that dredging may be expected to increas€
som€ w hat and the output from chlorination
will continue to decline.
A declin€ in prospecting has been noted
in S€ v eral of the west€ r n states and in 1911
and 1912 th€ r e was no notable discov€ r y of
n€w ore .bodies Or deposits that seem likely
to promise imm€ d iate material increases in
the domestic gold output. Th€ largest pro­
ducers are op€ r ating at probably near their
maximum capacity and though steady output
from them is assur€ d , in som€ plac€ s , as at
Goldfield, the grade of ore has begun to de­
cline. N€w development and discovery of
gold d€ p osits will in all likelihood not much
more than offset such decline in grade, or
the exhaustion of old€ r mines. From present
knowledge there is no great prosp€ c t of an
increase in gold production of the Unit€ d
States in 1913.
According to estimates mad€ for the sur­
vey by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce the imports in 1912 comprised
gold valued at $61,400,000. The gold uport­
ed in 1912 was valued at $48,600,000. The ex­
c€SS of imports over exports was about $12,­
800,1)00, against $20,262,110 in 1911 and $447,­
S96 in 1910. This Is a marked change from
the condition In 1909, wh€ n the excess of ex·
ports over imports was $88,793,855.
The gold import€ d in 1912 was maInly in
the form of ore and bullion, and a large
amount came from Mexico, with Canada a
cloS€ second. England, France and Qentral
and South American countries supplied the
bulk of the remaind€ r . 'l'he exports consisted
of refined bullion and coin. The largest
amounts went to France, South America,
Canada, and Japan, and smaller shipments
were sent to th€ West Indi€ s and other
North American countri€ s .
L.argest Output of Silver in Past 20 Years.
Preliminary estimat€ s of the United
States Geological Survey and the Bureau of
the Mint indicate a domestic silver produc­
tion In 1912 of 62,369,974 fin€ ounc€ s , valued
at $37,982,414, the greatest output (though
not the greatest value) since 1892, wh€ n the
production was estimated at 63,500,000
ounces. In 1893 it was given as 60,000,000
ounces, and not since then until 1911, when
the production was 60,399,400 ounces, has
the figures been above 6{),OOO,000. Final fig­
ures may show an even greater output for
1 5, 1 9 1 3.
1912, as early estimates from the mines
made by the western offices of the Geo­
logical Survey indicate a total silver pro­
duction of approximately 64,000,000 ounces,
or the largest output in the history of th€
country.
This incr€ a se in production may b€ at­
trlbut€ d chiefly to the notable increase in
the output of copper ores, espeCially those
notably of the TinUc and Park City districts,
Utah; the Pioche distrkt, Nevada; and the
San Juan region and the Leadville and As­
pen districts, Colorado. There was apparent­
ly a small decr€ a se In silYer produced from
the great Couer d'Alene I€ a d mines of Idaho,
whose ores 'have a low€ r average silver con­
tent than formerly.
'. High prices generally for silver, copper,
and lead in 1912 materially added to the pro­
fits of production. The average New Y0I:k
price for silver in January, 1912, was 56.3
cents a fine ounce; by May it had risen with
various fluctuations to 60.9 cents, by October
to 63.5 cents, and the December average
price was about 63.6 cents. The average
price for the year may be taken at 60.9
cents a fine ounce, against 53 cents in 1911
and 1908, 54 cents in 1910, and 52 cents in
1909. It was the high~st therefore since
1907, when th€ average price was 66 cents.
The year 1912 was one of general business
prosp€ r !ty and buying was liberal in all
metals. For shipment to the far east, espe­
cially to India, larg€ purchases of silve,r were
recorded.
According to estimates made liy the Bur·
eau of Foreign and Domestic Commer('€ ,
the imports Qf silver in 1912 were valued at
$47,800,000. The exports of silv€ r during the
same year were valued at $70,272,0()O, or
$22,472,000 in excess of the value of the im­
ports. In 1911 the value of the excess of ex­
ports ov€ r imports of silver was $21,918,075.
The imports of silver in 1911 wer€ , as
usual, chiefly in ore and bullion and came
mainly from Mexico and 'Canada. The exports
were almost wholly in refined bullion and ,
coin, and went, as usual, chiefly to the j
United Kingdom, although larg€ amounts
were also sent to France and Hongkong and
smaller shipments to China and British In­
dia.
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RECENT MINING DECISIONS.
(Prepared for The Mining Review.)
Priority.-Where prior to the patent sur·
vey of a second mining claim and the
moving of its line, the end of the lin€ of
the original claim was, on th€ making of
the patent survey for that claim, moved so
as to correspond with the call in the loca­
tion notice and certifi-cate, the owners of
that claim have priority.-Indiana Nevada
Mining CO. VB. Gold Hills Min. & Mill. Co.,
Supr€ m e ·Court of Nevada, 126 Pacific 965.

 THE SAL T L A KE
of native carnotites for their helium
ent.
The production and treatment of vana·
1, tungsten, and other rare metals are
e studied.
The investigation outlined above are to
:ondu'Cied by R. B. '};'[oore, physical
aist, and associates, who will have a
ratory in Denver,Colorado."
---0----­
D AND SILVER MINING IN 1912.
gold and silver mills (23.9 per cent by amal­
he gold-mining industry of the United
~s was .generally normal in 1912, accord-
o H. D. McCaskey, of the U; S. Geologic­
urvey, but early figures indicate the
lest production since 1907, when the~
at was $90,43a,700. In 1908 the output'
,ased to $94,a60,OOO, in 1909 to $99,673,­
in 1910 it dropped to $96,269,100; in
it increased slightly to $96,890,000, but
12 it decreased to $91,685,168, aC(lording
'eliminary estimates of the ,Bureau of
\oIint and the Geological Survey.
he decrease is to be ascribed mainly to
.da, where there was a falling off of
t $4,aOO,000, chiefly from Goldfield and
3maller degree from National and Seven
ghs. The great Goldfield mines produc­
ore ore than in 1911, but the average
l treated was considerably lower; the
at National was burned in September,
production was delayed at Seven
ghs by a doudburst in July. On the
hand, the Manhattan, Round Moun­
and Fairview districts somewhat in­
ed their yields. A decrease of $300,000
00,000 is also indicated for Colorado,
e, although there was an increased pro·
:)n from Cripple Creek of about $500"
)wlng partly to successful drainage by
~oosevelt tunnel, and an increase in
output also from Gilpin county, there
m estimated decrease In production of
$1,000,000 from the San Juan region,
ling the counties of Dolores, La Plata,
t, San Juan, and San Miguel. The bulk
~ decrease, however, was from the
'.Bird mine, in Ouray county, as the
t of San Juan and Dolores counties in-
e-d. In Utah and Washington decreas~s
d output of $HlO,OO() to $200,000 are in·
~d. In Montana there was probably a amounts went to France, South America, smaller shipments to China and British In·
~r ,decrease.
.e production of gold was smaller in
a, Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico,
lere was a somewhat increased output
jfornia and Oregon. The year 1912 was
prosperous in South Dakota, where the
t in.creased about $400,000 and was the
t in the history of the state. The great
stake mines, as usual, made the bulk
output. The hydroele-ctric plant of the
my owning these mInes, Which has
under .construction for several years,
ompleted and in operation in 1912.
lifornla retains first place in gold out­
egained from Colorado in 1911.
hi dredging continued generally active
MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN, U A R Y 1 5, 1 9 1 S.
in 1912, especially in California and Alaska, 1912, as early estimates from the mines
where increased dredging capacity was add· made by the western offtces of the Geo­
ed. The output from 120 dredges in ten logical Survey indicate a total silver pro­
states (including Alaska) in 1911 was $10,­ duction of approximately 64,000,000 ounces,
311,a89. or the largest output in the history of the
In the Geological Survey's report on gold <:ountry.
and silver for 1911 it was shown that of the This incr~ase in production may be at­
total production twenty-four per (lent was tributed chiefly to the notable increase in
derived from placers, dredging alone produc­ the output of copper ores, especially those
ing 10.9 per cent; a3.8 per cent was from of Butte, Montana, which contain consider­
able silver, and of argentiferous lead ores,
gamation, 26.1 per cent by cyanidation, and notably of the Tintic and Park CIty districts,
3.8 percent by chlorination), and 22 per Utah; the Pioche district, Nevada; and the
cent from smelting. These proportions will San Juan region and the Leadville and As­
probably not greatly change for 1912, except pen districts, Colorado. There was apparent­
that dredging may be expected to in-crease ly a small decrease in siJ.ver produced from
somewhat and the output from chlorination the great Couer d'Alene lead mines of Idaho,
will continue to decline. whose ores 'have a lower average silver con­
A decline in prospecting has been noted tent than formerly.
in several of the western states and in 1911 " High prices generally for silver, copper,
and 1912 there was no notable discovery of and lead in 1912 materially added to the pro­
new ore bodies or deposits that seem likely ftts of production, The average New Y0I:k
to promise immediate material increases in price for silver in January, 1912, was 56.3
the domestic gold output. The largest pro­ cents a fine ounce; by May it had risen with
ducers are operating at probably near their various flu'Ciuations to 60.9 cents, by October
maximum capacity and though steady output to 63.5 cents, and the December average
from them is assured, in some places, as at price was about 63.6 cents. The average
Goldfield, the grade of ore has begUn to de­ price for the year may be taken at 60,9
cline. New development and discovery of cents a fine ounce, against 53 cents in 1911
gold deposits will in all likelihood not much and 1908, a4cents in 1910, and a2 cents in
more than offset such decline in grade, or 1909. It was the high~st therefore since
the ex,haustion of older mines. From present 1907, when the average price was 66 cents.
knowledge there is no great prospect of an The year 1912 was one of general business
increase in gold production of the United prosperity and buying was liberal in all
states in 1913. metals. For shipment to the far east, espe­
According to estimates made for the sur· cially to India, large purchases of silve,r were
vey by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic recorded.
Commerce the imports in 1912 comprised Aocording to estimates made oy the Bur­
gold valued at $61,400,000. The gold export­ eau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
ed in 1912 was valued at $48,600,000. The ex· the imports of silver in 1912 were valu~d at
c~ss of imports over exports was about $12,­ $47,800,000. The exports of silver during the
800;000, against $20,262,110 in 1911 and $447,­ same year were valued at $70,272,O()O, or
696 in 1910. This is a marked change from $22,472,000 in excess of the value of the im­
the condition in 1909, when the ex.cess of ex­ ports. In 1911 the value of the excess of ex­
ports over imports was $88,793,855. ports over imports of silver was $21,918,075.
The gold imported in 1912 was maInly in The imports of silver in 1911 were, as
the form of ore and bullion, and a large usual, chiefly in ore and bullion and came
amount came from Mexico, with Canada a mainly from Mexico and 'Canada. The exports
close second. England, Fran'ce and Central were almost wholly in refined bullion and
and South American countries supplied the coin, and went, as usual, chiefly to the
bulk of the remainder. The exports .consisted United Kingdom, although large amounts
of refined bullion and coin. The largest were also sent to France and Hongkong and
Canada, and Japan, and smaller shipments dia.
were sent to the West Indies and other ----0---­
North American countries.
Largest Output of Silver in Past 20 Years. RECENT MINING DECISIONS.
iPreliminary estimates of the United
(Prepared for The Mining Review.)
....
States Geological Survey and the Bureau of
the Mint indicate a domestic silver produc­ Priority.-Where prior to the patent sur·
tion in 1912 of 62,369,974 fine ounces, valued vey of a second mining claim and the
at $37,982,414, the greatest output (though moving of its line. the end of the line of
not the greatest value) since 1892, when the the original claim was, on the making of
production was estimated at 63,500,000 the patent survey for that claim, moved so
ounces. In 1893 it was given as 60,000,000 as to correspond with the cal! in the loca­
ounces, and not since then until 1911, when tion notice and certificate, the owners of
the production was 60,399,400 ounces, has that claim have priority.-Indiana Nevada
the figures been above 60,000,000. Final fig­ Mining Co. vs. Gold Hills Min. & Mill. Co.,
ures may show an even greater output for Supreme Court of Nevada, 126 Pacific 965.
 THE SAL T
I Mine 6- SmellerBuilding I
Jumbo Extension Mining company, of Gold­
The Home Run Copper company, of Pio­
che, Nevada, will install a compressor soon.
A mill is to be installed at the Hidden
Hand mine at Lewiston. Wyoming, when
tests now under way are completed.
The Snake River Consolidated Mining
company, L. A. Pease, president, is plan­
ning the erection of a $100,000 mill at En­
campment. Wyoming.
It is reported that a syndicate is being
formed at Butte, Montana, to erect a 100­
stamp mill at Virginia City, and that con­
struction work will begin e3.rly in the spring.
The Santa Ana Rawhide Gold Mining &
Milling company expects to erect a new
stamp mill with concentrating tables at the
Crab mine in the Yeringto·n district of Ne­
vada.
The Gethin-Le Roy United Mines com­
pany. 417-19 Atlas Block, Salt Lake, have in
contemplation the building of a 2.50Q-foot
aerial tramway in the Silver Island district,
western Utah.
F. R. Clark, of Seattle, Washington,
president of the Arcade Mining company,
operating near Chewelah, Washipgton,
states that machinery is to be installed on
the property at once.
The Bamberger interests of Salt Lake,
which control the Daly West mine at Park
City, Utah, may erect a 100-ton mill on the
recently acquired Kramer Hill gold prop­
erty at Golconda, Nevada.
The Selma Mines company, of Salt Lake.
which is operating in the North Tintic dis­
trict of Utah,has authorized L. C. Peterson
to receive bids on an electric hoist and
other machinery for the mine.
Manager W. R. Vanderveer of the Morn­
ing Star Mining company, operating on Bilk
creek, in the San Miguel section of Colo­
rado, is figuring on the erection of a mill
for the company during the present year.
Robert C. Dunbar, of the Rand Mining
company, operating near Searchlight, Ne­
vada, is authority for the statement that the
company will install an electric pumping
plant and new tables in its ten-stamp mil1.
George Edwards, manager of the North
Star Mining company, of Butte. Montana,
which is operating mines at Stemple, Mont·
ana. states that there is enough ore in sight
to warrant mill construction, and that a
fifty·ton mill will probably be put up in
April.
The Deer Creek Mining company, of
Deer Creek, Idaho, has completed a flume
to supply water to ·be used in generating
power for a compressor. and for a mill, if
the latter shOUld be built, the matter now
being considered by the directors of the
company.
The Sunset "lining & Development com­
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pany, composed of E. S. Van Dyck of the
field, Nevad:P, and associates. ill operating
the Oro Fino property, near Rochester can­
yon. Nevada, where it is the intention to
appropriate water and erect a mill.
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CONSTRUCTION NOTES.
George Jacobs, of Portland, Oregon. Vi ill
erect a hydroelectric power plant at Cline
Falls, Oregon.
The Colorado Midland railroad will ex­
pend at least $1,000,000 on improvements on
its lines in Colorado.
The Twin City Electric company will reo
build its entire lighting system at Ray­
mond, ·Washlngton.
The Great Northern Railway will build
the Bainville·Northwest line, some sixty
miles long, In Montana, in the near future.
It is reported that the Nevada Copper
Belt railroad w!1l be extended from Ludwig
to the Kennedy Consolidated mine at Buck·
skin, Nevada.
The Naches line of the North Yakima &
Valley railroad will be extended ten miles
to Telton, \Vashington, according to J. C.
Roth of the Northern Pacific.
H. H. Cazier and Jno. H. Cazier have reo
ceived permission to appropriate the waters
of Trout creek, to furnish light and power to
the city of Wells, Nevada.
n is reported that the old line of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad to Wasatch,
up Little Cottonwood canyon, near Salt
Lake, will be rebuilt.
The Pacific Light & Power company plans
to build a 5,000-horsepower plant to add to
the capacity of its equipment In the Naches.
D. F. McGee is chief engineer at Wapata,
Washington.
The Sacramento Valley electric railway
plans to build additional lines in California,
one from Davis to Winters, to be fourteen
miles long, and one from Corning to Pasa­
kenta, twenty-four miles in length.
The Soo line will build two lines into
Montana, one, the Ambrose line, will be ex­
tended fifty mi'es into Valley county. and
the other will be extended from Plaza,
North Dakota, to Goodall, Montana.
J. C. Eiseman, manager of the Thompson
Falls Mercantile company, reports that the
main power plant of 15,O\)0 horsepower will
be built as rapidly as possible. The plant
will be near Thompson Falls, Montana.
The Pacific Interior company has filed
articles of incorporation to ,build a railroad
from Grants Pass, Oregon, to Crescent City,
California. E. T. McKinstrY,George Colvig
and W. P. Quinton are the incorporators.
Articles of incorporation of the Chicago,
Siouz Falls & Pacific railroad have been
filed at Pierre. South Dakota, which provide
for the building of a railroad from Chicago
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to Seattle, Washington, through the states
of Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming,
Idaho and Washington.
The Lincoln County Ice & Electric com­
pany will begin work on the construction of
a plant at Limon, Colorado. The first installa­
tion will consist of two 100-kilowatt electric
generating units and a ten-ton ice plant. AI·
bert C. Jahl, 609 Colorado building, Denver,
is general manager of the company.
Sealed bids will be received at the office
of the United States Reclamation service,
Los Angeles, California, until January 22,
for furnishing hydraulic and electrical ap­
paratus for St. Mary's storage unit, Milk
RiYer project, Montana. For particulars ad­
dress United States Reclamation Service,
605 Federal building, Los Angeles, Califor·
nia, Or Washington, D. C., A. P. Davis, acting
director.
The Idaho Northern railroad at present
in operation between Nampa and Murphy
and Emmett, an extension to which is being
built to the Payette lakes, has been pur­
chased by the Oregon Short Line, according
to recent advices received at Boise. It is
claimed Short Line money will complete
the extension of the road to the lakes, a dis·
tance of 100 miles, and then proceed to
build north to the Salmon river. taking ad·
vantage of a water grade down that stream
to the Snake river, on west to Lewiston,
giving Idaho its first north and south Tail·
road. The southern extension to the Idaho
Northern will result in the railway being
built to Homedale and on to Winnemucca,
Nevada, ma)!:ing direct connections with the
Sout,hern PaCific, giving Idaho an outlet to
california and the south Pacific points.
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The Utah Power & Light company, the
recently organized electric power company,
has taken over another plant, ·:he Uta;l­
Idaho Sugar company's Bear river pJant,
near Collinston, which is ca,pable of ge'1­
e.rating 7,000 kilowatts. The Delta, Mont­
rose, Ridgway and Ouray plants in Colo·
rado are under option to the company also.
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The Nevada-Cinnabar company has be8!1
organized by F. A. Swee', L, H. Curtis, L. L.
Legg, R. J. Evans, F. J. Curtis, C. H. Rid­
dle, and G. 1. Payne, of Salt Lake. Capital­
ization is $1,000,000. No ~rther detail~
have been given out at this time, although
it is known that the Davis properties an,l
others have been acquired in western Ne­
vada.
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The Grand Gulch Mining company, of
Salt Lake, W. P. Jennings, manager, has
purchased, through P. J. Moran, a Mack­
Saurer-Hewett auto trUCk, of six and a half
tons capacity. for its mining property in
Mohave county, Arizona. The truck is to
be delivered in February and, if it is satis­
factory, the company will order four or five
more.
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~ngineers and Millmen
Jhn H. McChrystal, of Salt Lake, is in
the employ of D. C. Jackling.
Angeles.
Capt. Benj. W. Tibby, the well known
uncan MacVichie, of Salt Lake, is in
copper expert, and consulting metallurgist
last on mining and other business.
for the Mascot Copper company at Dos
0110 Clapp is in southern California on
,rtant railroad construction business.
I. F. Riedel, of Spokane, Washington, friends.
been examining mines at Manhattan,
ida.
.' H. Godbe, of Salt Lake, recently
erating near Ely, Nevada, has returned
sacted important mining business in
from a regular inspection of the company'/!
Francisco. ~
property. In commenting upon the physical
_. D. Knowlton, of Salt Lake, has moved'
condition of the Ely Consolidated Mr. Levy
)ffice from the D. F. Walker Building to
stated the mine is in first class physical
fudge Building.
condition. On the 700-foot level, from the
'. P. Strange, of Salt Lake City, was
shaft, the cross-cut has been run a distance
-ied to Margaret McCarthy, of Denver,
of 330 feet, and the face is under the
he ninth of January.
point, vertically, where an ore body is show­
'aul Valtinke, of Salt Lake, has been ing on the 600. It is believed that the e1l.­
!lining properties in the Green River
Moab sections of Utah.
:. P. Jennings and Edward R. Zalinsky
! moved their offices from 607 to 819
house Building, Salt Lake City.
oe S. Free, of Salt Lake, of Free &
lor, has returned from Nevada where plant.
,ttended to professional business.
~enj. F. Tibby, of Salt Lake, of the firm
(owell & Tibby, left, a few days ago, for
:ago and St. Louis on business for his
toy King, of the Tonopah Development
pany, of Tonopah, Nevada, was at Grass
ey, California, for the Christmas holi­
,fosher F. Pack, of Salt Lake, is in
'ge of new construction work on the
er Bridge irrigation project in southern
1.
lam LeVY, of Salt Lake, manager for
Ely -Consolidated Copper company, has
rned from a visit to the company's Ne­
i property.
Carl Bernson, engineer for the General
ineering company, of Salt Lake, who is
harge of the construction of the mlII or
Rico-Wellington Mining company, at
), Colorado, spent the holidays in Salt
e.
)scar Lachmund, of Salt Lake City, has
1 appointed general manager of the
ish Columbia Copper company, and will
ove his family to Greenwood, British
1mbia, immediately, to take up his new
es.
IV. R. Calvert, of Salt Lake, of the firm
\.rnold, Fisher & Calvert, consulting en­
lers and geologists, left last week for
:hern California to investigate the sub-
of conservation of gas, in behalf of the
3. Bureau of Mines.
). Wiser, who has been connected with
Ray Consolidated and Chino, for some
MIN I NG - REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
time, as consulting metallurgist, was in Salt
Lake on the 6th inst. en route to Butte,
where he will remain for sevt!tal months in
A. L. Jacobs, mining broker of Salt Lake,
has returned from the coast.
Cabezas, Arizona, has been spending the
David Taylor, ore buyer of Salt Lake,
holidays in Salt Lake visiting his family
is on a business trip to Europe.
and renewing acquaintance with his many
S. M. Levy, of Salt Lake, manager for
the Ely Consolidated Copper company> op­
turned from a visit to Nebraska.
John Stowe has become foreman of the
Daly West mine at Park City, Utah.
Charles R. Crowe, of Philadelphia, has
been visiting Nevada mining camps.
'has returned from ·a trip to San Francis·co.
J. B. Larrgly, of Los Angeles, has been
tension of this drift another 200 feet will
encounter this ore zone on its dip and
rake. The volume of water in the lower
level is slightly increasing but is easily
being handled by the pumps. Current ex­
penses are running under normal because
of the excellent condition of the company's
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The Boyle interests, owning conces­
sions in the Klondike river vaHey of Yu­
kon Territory, are now building two addi­
tional dredges at a cost of $400,00:) earh,
which will give them a fleet of four hoats.
The new dredges will have a dai:y capa-'
city of 14,000 cubic yards of gravel each.
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The Royal Gold & Copper Mining com­
pany, of Salt Lake City, operating in Para­
dise district, in the northeastern portion
of Utah, made most satisfactory J;lrogress
in mine development during the past year,
and is now getting ready for active opera­
tion as soon as the season opens in the
spring. Last year the company constructed
three miles of wagon road, and built a for­
ty by sixty-foot log bunk house, and a
blacksmith shop thirteen by sixteen feet.
The upper tunnel has been driven into tile
mountain a distance of sixty feet, all in
ore, while the lower tunnel and incline is
in a distance of 160 feet, also in ore, that
averages 3 per cent copper and $1 in .:;iI­
ver to the ton, and it is estimated that all
of 50,000 tons of this qUality of mineral is
now in sight in the mine workings. The
ore is a sulphide and can be easily COll­
centrated, and the company hopes to be
able to put in a 30-ton plant in the spring.
The locality abounds in fine timber :lnd
plenty of water, and the company is very
sanguine that the enterprise can soon be
placed upon a producing and profitable
base. John Geise, of Salt Lake, is presi­
dent of the company.
1 5, 1 913.
Personal Mention J
E. Caddell has returned to Nogales, Ariz­
ona, from a trip to Colorado.
A. H. Crampton, of Manhattan, Nevad~l.,
spent the holidays in Colorado.
Hon. John Dern, of Salt Lake, has re­
~o·
-_ Gordon Campbell, of National, Nevada,
visiting mines in Arizona and New Mexico.
George V. Frazier has returned to the
Bradshaw mountain district of Arizona, from
a visit in Xenia, Ohio.
R. S. Sutton, superintendent of the Utah
mine at Fish Springs, Utah, was in Salt
Lake for the holidays.
Imer Pet:, general manager of the Bin,;­
ham Mines company, of Salt Lake, left for
Boston, December 28tb.
Robert M. Betts, manago, of the Corn
ucopia mines, has returned to Baker City,
Oregon ,from Los Angeles.
Michael Seltzer, of Nebraska City, Ne­ ,
• J
braska, is in Georgetown, Colorado, looking i
after his mining in 'erests.
Rene Engel, assayer and chemist at
Liberty Trust mines at Rico, Colorado, has
been in Salt Lake recently.
James Uncapher and S. D. Skivart, of
Kingman, Arizona, have been in Los
Angeles on mining busir.ess.
W. B. Alexander, of the Montana-Tono­
pah Mining company, of Tonopah, Nevada,
has returned from the coast.
S. G. Murray, of Seattle, Washington, rep­
resenting the Irrgersoll-Rand Drill company,
was a recent S.alt Lake visitor.
A. H. Cowie, vice president of the Utah
Fuel company, is in the east conferring
with the officials of his company.
A. B. Kelly, of Kansas City, Missouri,
is at Prescot,:, Arizona, on business con­
nected with the Pacific Copper company.
W. H. Beeler and W. E. Gunning, of
San Diego, California, are visiting proper­
ties in the neighborhood of Parker, Arizonrl..
Louis Clemmons, assayer for the Rico­
Wellington Mining company, of Rico. Colo­
rado, was in Salt Lake City for the holi
days.
D. C. Jackling has returned to Salt Lake
City, from a visit of inspection to Montana
and Alaska properties of which he is the

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THE SAL T LA K E
head, and expec~s to go east in a few days.
He reports conditions satisfactory at th3
mines of the Alaska Gold Mines company.
Cash Cook, superintendent of the Silver
City Mining company's properties at Silver
City, Idaho, spent Christmas in BOise, same
state.
J. T. Burns of the Coalition Mining
company, of Rico, Colorado, was in Den­
ver and Colorado Springs, early in the
month.
L. A. Copeland, so well known in Utah
ore sampling circles, was in Salt Lake from
Colorado, last week, vi1'iting his family and
friends.
William Carson has resigned as f(,re­
man of the Daly West mine at Park City,
Utah, and will go to Phoenix, to engage in
ranching.
A. M. Boyd, superintendent of the Ameri­
can Eagle mine, at Elk City, Idaho, spent
the holidays with his family at Spokane,
Washington.
C. H. Doolittle, manager of the Bingham­
New Haven Mines company, of BIngham,
Utah, has left with Mrs. Doolittle fOr a trip
to Honolulu.
James Wall, of Los Angeles, has gone
to Blind Mountain, near Caliente, Nevada,
to put in operation the new mill recently
erected there.
D. W. King, formerly at the Golden Gate
mill at Mercur, Utah, has been placed in
charge of the mill of the Mines Operating
company, of Park City, Utah.
J. H. Lanyon, manager of the Idaho
Copper company, operating on the Idaho­
Montana line, ,has gone to Duluth, Minne­
sota, to confer with company officials.
F. O. Wilkinson has gone to Ripley, Ne­
vada, from Los Angeles, to commence op­
erations at the Gila Monster mine. where
there is a good showing of the base
metals.
Harry S. Knight, of Salt Lake, 'general
manager of the Wilbert Mining company,
has gone to the property in the Dome dis­
trict of Idaho, to inspect the condition of
the mine and operation of the mill.
Lum Wagoner, a stockholder in the
Southern Illinois Gold Mining company,
operating the Addison mine, at Sugar Loaf,
Colorado, has gone to his home at Marion,
Illinois.
Cornelius B. Lakenan, manager of the
Nevada Consolidated Mining company, of
Ely~ Nevada, was married on December
17th, to Mrs. Bonibel M. White, at McGill,
Nevada.
Ed Reynolds, William Hamilton and
William Ahlstrom, of Cedar City, Utah,
called at the office of the Mining Review
recently, and informed the editors of their
intention of going into the new camp at
Rochester canyon, Nevada.
MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
T. R. Garnier is in the Cerbat and Wall­
apai mountain section of Arizona, doing
assessm.ent work. He has been in the
Allegheny City section of California, in­
stalling a mill.
James J. McQuillan, general manager cf
the Rescue-Eula Mining company, is to SUC1­
ceed S, H. Brady as general m.anager 01
the North Star Tunnel & Development com·
pany, at Manhat~an, Nevada.
J. F. Inglis and N. Nelson, of Salt Lake,
officials of the Hope Mine & DevelOpment
company, expe>Ct to leave, today, for Tuo­
lumne county, California, to resume work in
the development of thf:l company's promising
proj;erty.
A Bodelson, manager of the Mammoth
mine, near Sumpter, Oregon, has returned
from Chicago, and, after a few days at the
r:n:ine expects to again go to Chicago to
remain until spring, when the mine will be
reopened.
George W. Riter, of the Tintic district,
and Judge William H. King of Salt Lake,
represented the mining men of Utah, at the
hearing of the congressional committee on
the lead tariff. Their efforts were directed
against the proposed reduction as 'being ini­
micable to the best interests of the lead in­
dustry in Utah.
Grant Snyder, of Salt Lake, manager for
the Yerington Malachite IMining company.
operating at Mason. Nevada, in the Yering­
ton district, left for the company's val­
uable holdings, last week, on his regular
trip of inspection. The mine is showing
up better and better with deve:opment and
is a regular shipper to the smeltery at
Thompson.
George B. Upton, of Wickenburg, Ariz­
ona, has returned from an eastern trip and
reports that the Mountainside Gold com­
pany will start operations in the Rich Hill
district. The property has two 100-foot
shafts and a considerable <footage of tuu­
,!leIs. Some rich ore has been encountered
and a new compressor will be installed and
the mill started.
C. L. Davidson, George Theiss and
Walter Innis, of 'Wichita, Kansas, C. E.
Foote, of Topeka, Kansas, Fred Hessel, of
Kearney, New Mexico, president of the
Arizona-Southwestern Copper company, J.
H. Hoffman, secretary of the company, and
C. J. Price made up a party which recently
visited the properties of the above men­
tioned company at Copperville, Arizona.
Wm. Burridge, of Salt Lake, superintend­
ent for the Eva Mining company, operat­
ing in Mt. Nebo district, Utah, h'is return­
ed to the mine after spending the holidays
with ;his family. Mr. Burridge states that
he is shipping from five to six cars of sil­
ver-lead and lead-zinc ores monthly, and
that the mine is in splendid condition and
with more good ore in sight than ever be­
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fore in its history. The ore, after being de·
livered to the lower terminal of the aerial
tram way, is freighted down the canyon on
sleds.
L. D. Gordon, formerly of Salt !.'1k0, but
now residing at Keeler, California ,'. heft
he is manager of the Cerro-Gordo r~'ll('
was in Salt Lake during the holid,,;,'..;, ftC
companied by Mrs. Gordon. Mr. GorllCL i,
giving employment to a force of ,1>0'.11
seventy-five men, and is shipping fr,11:1 ;}(jl
to 600 tons of zinc and lead ores. monrhIy
1\11'. Gordon still maintains an office in Sa,;
Lake, and his many friends hE'r;>
pleased to see him in his uSlIaI haull
again.
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GOLD CIRCLE NOTES.
(Special Correspondence.)
}1idas Nev, Jan. 6.-Gold Circle is look
ing very promising. It is the opinion of min
ing men here, that this year will be til<
banner year for the camp. Properties lik.
the El:w Prince, Rex, Esmeralda. Easten
Star, Sieepin:;; Reauty, Belvoir, :'Ifidas, Hill
side. St. Paul, Gold Crown. Ja,ckson, QueE'll
Hard Scrabbles, E3meralda,}<'raC'tioll, Judg"
and many others as development proceeds
are proYing up wonderfully. It is only
question of time until Gold Circle will ranl
with the best camps in the state.
The IDlko Priuce is nearing t]]e Goo·foo
level. The vein is two and a h3.![ feet wille
the last 1CO feet will average hetter (hill
$lno per ton.
The lease on the Midas, which is beill1
operated by C. J. Charters, is Openill,2," up :
fine body of milling ore on the 101)-foot level
On the 200 level the Esmeraldas al e tak
iag out eighteen inches of ore that will nn
into the hundreds. The mill is cloSE'll dOWI
en account of the water suppy twing froze]
up. A pump is being installed and lh" mil
will be in operation in a few day~.
Robt. Boland, John ]<]. and George 1'"lto))
former owners of the ~ational min". hay,
purchased the control of the Easterll 8ta
from A. J. Stinson and George B3.rtl8tt. Th
property will start operations Jam13ry J ~;l'
The Rex llline has bE'en increaSing it
output for t.he past several months. TJec',':l:
her behg the largest sinC'e the mill h'lS lJPP'
in operation. /
The cross·-cut tunnel on the SIN'l);n.
Beauty is in 800 feel. It is expe2led to eu
the vein within 101} feet.. This will give ove
400 feet in depth. Lessees ha;-e taken on
considerable ore from shallow workings o'
this vein It is very similar to the l';,k
Prince vein.
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A. IV. Hartmeyer, manager ol th
Bland :'Inning Comp3.ny, of Patagonia. At'i,
ona, which is owned by Jack Cudahy .1.)\
associates of Kansas City, Missouri, r:
ports the finding of sc.me stringers of ric
silver om in the fift~'-fotJ; shatto
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os, Spurs and Angles 1
_ _ _ _ _ _~_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _~_ _ _ _ _d
Fanny Rawlins mine, at Leadville,
J, is shipping three to four cars o[
. each week.
Salt Lake office of the Utah mine
n moved from the McCorn!ck build­
06 Hooper block.
output of the Cripple Creek district
'ado for the year 1912; was 897,551
1 value of $14,356,471.
reported that the Lewisohn inter­
-l'ew York have bonded several prop·
. the Contact camp, Nevada.
-five men are employed at the Rain­
sonite property at Dragon, Utah.
seven cars a day are being taken
Santiago mine at Georgetown, Cob­
making regular shipments of tw·)
ead ore weekly,~o the Salida sm'!i­
,orge Arkoosh and D. B. Smith cr
, Idaho, have a three-foot vein uf
entiferous galena ore in the Belle­
leI.
Prince Consolidated Mining com­
the Day-Bri8~01 district of Nevada,
202 cars of iron ore to the smeltery
1ber.
:daho Copper Mining company has
lches of $100 ore on its property
continental divide between Mont·
Idaho.
Jlida Consolidlll~ed Copper company,
.ake organization, has taken over
tract of land near Lida, Nevad:l.
City, Utah. Extensive development and a
ocomuga district.
l(}O·ton mill are tentatively propm;ed.
,ucania tunnel in the Idaho Springs
The new mill of the U. S. Treasury mbe
of Colorado, is now in 6,038 feet.
at Chloride, New Mexico, is ready to start.
11ree veins have been cut, none c1
The capacity is fifty tons a day. T!Ie om
lve been explored.
is smceous, wIth silver 1n the form' of
)robable that the Bachelor mill, at
olorado, will again be put in opera·
The old U. S. mine in Copper Basil! did·
ore from the Bachelor mine, ·:m
'~rict of Arizona, is shipping zinc-lead orc.
,hn Kelleher has a lease.
Twenty-five years ago this mine was produc·
I strike has been made on the 20()·
l of the Mustang property at Man­
fevada, where high grade gold O:'(l
encountered in the blue quar:z.
:olumbus Extension Mining com­
:he Alta district of Utah has levied
,ment of one cen': a share, payable
bruary 15th, sales day on March 13.
;enith Mining company, operating
rne, Oregon, has started work lin·
direction of D. D. Willard, man­
e property is controlled in Tampa,
e Mt. Champion group of claIms,
wanna gulch, Leadville, Colorado,
of excellent ore has been found
ne, with six feet of milling ore
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y
The Manhattan·Earl, at Manhattan, Ne­
vada, has opened twelve feet of $20-ore :n
the east drift, 120 feet from the shaft, an1
six feet of $35-ore in a raise, seventy fect
from the shaft.
The Utah mine, of Fish Springs district,
Utah, settled for a carload of ore, on the
second, which brought the company $4,­
100.95. The mine, it is reported, is look·
ing exceedingly well.
The Diadem Mining company has be~n
incorporated by Arthur W. Cobb, Albert 1\1.
Bristor and C. B. Stevenson of Indianapolis,
Indiana, to operate mines in the Cheri'Y
Creek district of Arizona.
The Highland mine, on Rock creek, n~ar
SiImpter, Oregon, is producing 300 tons of
concentrates monthly, which are hauled
fourteen miles to the railroad. Sixty men
are employed at the property.
It is reported that the Mason Valley
Mines company is preparing to work its
properties by steam shovel me~hods. The
capping on this property, near Yeringtoll,
Nevada, is now being blasted off
The Copper Queen minin'g company '8
,sending seventy cars of ore a day to its
smeltery at Bisbee, Arizona, and the Calu'
met & Arizona, thirty-five cars to its ,smel­
tery and to the EI Paso smeltery.
J. B. Ross, of Denver, has taken a lea::;e
on the Big Four property on Breece Hill,
at Leadville, Colorado, and will sink the
770-foot shaft another 300 feet, developing a
new level systematically each year.
The Kramer Hill gold property at Gol·
conda, Nevada, has been sold to the inter·
ests whIch control the Daly West at Park
encountered ata depth of 175 feet. Th'l
brothers have also a large low grade bony
exposed in the shaft.
The shipments from Park City, Utah,
for December totaled 6,456 tons, of which
the King Coalition furnished 2,823 tons,
chlorides and bromides, and some sulphides.
S. C. Root has a car of ore ready 101'
ir;g sixty per cent lead ores, and the zinc,
then unmarketable, has now become an as·
set.
The Natchez tunnel of the Yerington
Malachite Company, operating in the Y~r'
ington district of Nevada, is now in a full
face of ore, according to a message r8­
celved by Manager Grant Snyder, 0: Sa.lt
Lake.
Since 1880 the total value of the min·
eralproduction of Alaska has been $207,­
000,000, of which over 90 per cent, Or $195,·
619,776, has been in gold, according to .\.
H. Brooks, of the United States Geological
Survey.
The report of the Nevada Hills Mining
company, of Fairview, Nevada, for Novem·
bel", shows that 3,180 tons were milled of
a per ton Vlllue of $21.84, from whiCh the
1 6, 1 9 1 3.
net recovery was $19.77 per ton. Expen­
ses were $9.25 a ton, leaving, as net profit~,
$10.52 per ton. This Is a drop of consider­
able tonnage as compared with past mon~h;:l,
and the profit is several thousands less.
. The shaft of the Gem mine, near Sparta,
Oregon, has been unwatered to the 600-foot
level, and preparations are under way to
sink another hundred fee:. Ore is beia~
blocked out for m:illing on the several ex·
posures.
B. H. Bullock, president of the Syndi·
cate Mining company, operating in the San·
taquin district of Utah, reports that the
tunnel of the company is nearing the ore
zone. The vein will be ~cut at about 29)
feet depth.
The Viceroy Mining Company has been
I
inco1'~porated in Arizona to work the Vice­
roy properties in the Santa Rita mouu­
tains. F. H. Baack, M. G. Jeffris, and M. O.
Mouat, all of Janesville, Wisconsin, :lre I
the directors.
Th.e Ima mine owned by the Idaho Tun;;·
sten company, in the Patterson Creek sec·
tion of Idaho, has a year's reserve of tung­
sten ore in sight, and i: is expected that the
district will see two or three producers the
coming year.
Fred Hersinger has received favorable
returns on the car of Qre recently shippeu
from the Black Girl property at Ouray,
Colorado, and believes that the present
metal prices will allow him to ship five or
six cars a month.
McEntree Brothers have made a rich
strike of silver ore near Salome, Arizona,
Twenty inches of 200-ounces silver ore was
Daly Judge, .1,626 tons, Daly West, 1,588
ton'l, GrasseJi Chemical Company. 141
tons, and the remainder scattering.
shipment at the Bonanza Hill mir.e at
Ripley, Nevada, which he expects will show
a content of forty-three per cent zinc and
eight per eent lead. This ore was at onf'
time supposed to be without value.
The PrInce Arthur mine, at Left Hand.
in Boulder county, Colorado, is to have ~t
250·horsepower electrical installa:ion. Po',,·
er will be furnished for the mining ma­
chinery and the mill. The mill is 'I':orke.l
through a 2,000-foot adit, which reaches a
depth of 1,200 feet below the surface.
George Wingfield, of Goldfield, Nevada,
has taken an option on the Montezuma
group of mines, owrced by Perry S. '\Vi11iam!l
of Maricopa and the Greene and San:a ROila
groups, owned by T. J. Meehan and Lie'l'
tenant Janz, in the Saltwell district of Ari­
zona.

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Phelps-Dodge & Company, operating in per cent copper ore daily to the nearby 3,048,900 ounces, worth $1,856,170.92; lead,
Cochise county, Arizona, recently 'declare-l Pioneer smeltery; the Olive Camp Mining 23,821,375 pounds of a value of $1,065,768.3J ;
a dividend of two and one-half per cent and company has equipped its group with m.l­ copper, 2,710,186 pounds, value $440,405.22;
an extra of three dollars per share, making chinery and a mill, and is turning out silver­ and spelter, 98,136,060 pounds, value $6,­
a 4:otal of $15 per share for 1912. The lead concentrates worth about $100 a ton; 673,252.08, a total value of $11,182,616.17, an
mines have produced 146,000,000 pounds nf the Twin But~es copper mines are shipping increase of $2,955,599.50 over 1911.
copper. 100 tons daily to the smeltery, and employing Copper deposits near Lyons, Colorad'J,
The Knob Hill mine at Orogrand, Idaho. fifty men; and much assessment and de­ are being worked by William Bell and as­
is the scene of a recent strike of ore in a velopment work is being done -,by others in sociates. A shaft is being sunk, which is
crosscut tunnel which cuts the ore at a the camp. well equipped with machinery and pump".
depth of 130 feet on the dip. This ore 15 It is reported that a find of vanadium Ore bodies rarrging from three to five feet
worth about $100 a ton, and is found on a has been made on the 150-foot level or the wide have been found, and assays have
granite-ryholite contact_ Frank M. Peck Humboldt Consolidated mines, in the Mc­ shown as high as twenty per cent copper.
owns the property. Cabe section of Arizona. James O'Brien i!l Development will be actively pushed.
The upper Clear Creek section in Colo­ in charge of operations at .the property, and It is expected that the Argo mill, at the
rado, produced ore worth about one-half reports that the ore is found in a rich mouth of t,he Argo tunnel, at Idaho Springs,
million dollars, for the year just endill!;, three-inch streak, the extent of which is Colorado, wil] be ready for operation ill
an increase of fifty per cent OVer last year. problematical. February. The capacity will be 125 tOllS,
There were shipped 6,640 tons of ore. The M. M. Johnson, of Salt Lake, consulting and amalgamation, concentration antI
Capital and Santiago mines are the biggest engineer for the Gilmore and Pittsburg­ cyanidation will be employed. A sampling
producers in this section. Idaho properties in the Gilmore district of plant will be operated in connection wan
The November s~ateID1ent of the Tono­ Idaho, reports that the new transportation the mill. A. H. Roller, of the Hudson mill,
pah Belmont company's operations shows tunnel has cut two feet of high grade lead will ·be in charge.
that 12,426 dry tons of ore were milled of a silver ore and a five-foot vein of gold ore. Mining at Manha~tan, Nevada, is being
net value of $293,326, and that 3,561,336 The Pittsburg-Idaho, shipped 2,000 tons vf stimulated by the low rates now quoted for
ounces of gold bullion were produced, and ore in December. custom milling. Three fifty-ton m~lls are
365,861 ounces of silver bullion. The net The Silver Pick Consolidated Mining com­ in the market for ore, and are making rates
profit for the month was $195,265.73. pany, of Goldfield, Nevada, is exploring its of about $4 a ton, whereas two or three
The report of the Skidoo Mines company, ground towards the workings of the Gold years ago, $10 to $12 was charged. The
of Skidoo, California, shows that 1,096 tOllS field Consolidated. Two raises are being mills now seeking custom ores are the As·
of ore were milled during November, for a put up near the Mohawk and Combina:lon sociated, War Eagle, and Manhattan Mlllinf;;
recovery of $8,936.03 in bullion and $4,626.14 boundaries, one on the 260 and one on tne and Ore company,
in cyanide precipitates. Development CoS[S J 20 and it is reported that good assays have The property of the McConnell Mines
were $1,747.98 and mining costs, $5,042.16, been obtained in both. company, near Yerington, Nevada, which
leaving a net for the month of $6,772.03. The New Jersey Zinc company has i3e­ has been controlled by E. W. Clark, Frank
Conditions at Leadville, Colorado, at the cured the San Xavier mine, north of Til'> Pierce and E. B. Critchlow, of Salt Lake,
end of the year are promising. The large son, Arizona, and has put twenty-five men has been sold to San Francisco interests,
producers are hoisting more ore than befo!'tl at work under the direction of Cony T. representea by R. H. Miller. The proper:Y
and lessees are making good. Plans are Brown, of Socorro, New Mexico. There lies south of the Mason Valley, Yeringto,l
under way for the revival of milling, and are several shafts on the property, one of Con. and 11alachite. The consideration i..;
the Arkansas Valley smeltery is receiving which is 450 feet deep, two, 200 feet deep, said to have been $175,000.
more ore daily than for some time past. and other shallower ones. The Pilot Butte Mining company, oper­
It is stated that a deal is on for the The Greenhorn Mining district, near ating at But:e, Montana, has encountered
sale of the Elko Prince mine in Gold Cir­ Sumpter, Oregon, is reported to be showing four feet of ore averaging twenty-five per
cle district, Elko county, Nevada. The mine signs of revival. Fred D. Smith is prepar' cent copper and sixty ounces of silver, at
is developed to a depth of 500 feet, the ing to unwater the Snow Creek mine and a depth of 1,600 feet in the Pilot shaft. Th()
bottom showing thirty inches of high grade sink another hundred feet; lum:ber and ma­ shaft will 'be sunk 300 feet further, before
gold ore. The Elko promises to develop chiI;ery is being hauled to the Golden Gate, production is undertuken. This vein is
into one of the big gold producers of Ne­ formerly the Belcher; the Amazon has let though~ to be the continuation of the Berlin

vada. a contract for 300 feet of tunnel. vein of the North Butte company.
Crayton Johnson and James McQuaill The Tonopah Mining company, of Tono­ The South Hecla Mining Company, op­
have made a strike of high grade silver ore pah, Nevada, milled 13,953 dry tons of ore in erating at Alta, Utah, Geo. H. Watson, of
about thirty-five miles nor~heast of Las . Nov€mber, of an average value of $17.47, Salt Lake, manager, is shipping about a
Vegas, Nevada. Assays higher than 1,000 from which 224,540 ounces of gold and sil­ carload of good ore, w~eklY, from develop­
ounces to the ton are said to have besn ver bullion were shipped, of a total value ment work only. The property is in excel­
made on a foot vein. W'hether any quantity of $185,920 Eighty'six tons of concen:rates lent physical condition, and the camp is
of high gr·ade is in sight has not yet been of a value of $28,975 were shipped, The well supplied with provisions, etc., for the
ascertained. net profit for the month was $108,355. winter. The management expects to in­
crease ore shipments in the spring.
The Olive district about twenty miles The production of ore for the Leadville,
from Presco:t, Arizona, is the scene of ac­ Colorado district is given as 465,454 The Alaska Gold Mines property, of which
tive operations. The< Plumed Knight is tOLS for the year 1912. This ore was of the D. C. Jackling of Salt Lake, is the managin~
shipping about forty tons of ore daily and {ollowing classes,-carbonate, 18,194 tons; director, is pushing its develOpment work.
employs forty .men; the San Xavier has oxidized iron, 94,979 tons; sulphide, 127,834 The main tr.ansportation tunnel is going
been taken over by a New Jersey com'Pany, tons; zinc sulphide, 38,619 tons; zinc car­ ahead at the rate of 500 feet a month. A
and is employing thirty men in getting- ready bonate, 160,779 tons; slliceous, 25,049 tons. 5,000 horsepower hydroelectric plant has
for production; the South San Xavier, under The metal prodUction was, gold 55,492 been installed. The new mill site on Gastin­
lease to Louis E. Zekels, is shipping fifteen ounces of a value of $1,147,019.64; silvel', eau sound, near Juneau, is cleared and foun­
 THE ' SA L T
! will be put in soon. The season has
>pen allowing the work to be done
later. The Perseverance mill, used
its, has been burned, and the Sheep
will now be utilized for the purpose.
l Dragon Consolidated Mining com­
of the Tintic district of Utah, will
ct the gronnd on the James and
l. Washington claims by sending a
,0 the south from its 800-foot level.
orooklyn ground, owned by Jesse
:, will also be developed. This drift
LP the workings of the former \!lome
et below their lowest workings.
rk is to be resumed on the Toledo
ty at Brandon, Montana. An engine
Jmp will be installed for dewatering
dne. The mine was dIscovered by.
te T. L. Atkins in the seventies. In
ghties and early nineties a mill was
ed and good profits made until the
etization of silver. The report <.>f
opening has been received with great
;t.
~ Goldfield Merger Mines company, .J!
lId, Nevada, has connec~ed its cross-
the 1,300-foot level with the Grizzly
lor kings of the Goldfield Consolidated.
b.aft is down 1,400 feet. Raises are
put up in Velvet gronnd to connect
umbo Extension workings. Develop·
s just beginning On this property, and
of $250,000 is availabl~ for the work.
R. Smith, N. R.Waterman and W. J.
of Salt Lake have been insp~cting the
Ire property near Mina, N~vada, which
'ecently purchased. Lumber is ar­
for the necessary buildings an<I a
f men has been put at work. A tUll­
I be driven to cut the several paral1el
at depth, and machinery will be in·
so that development may ,procet'd
Duluth & Empire Tunnel company,
has a tunnel 1,965 feet long cntting
ns of Empire mountain at Empir~,
(0, recently shipped two cars of Orf)
N~wton mill at Idaho Springs. The
is now in twenty-seven feet of min­
I material, running well in gold, lead
c. Fred Teapoortin of Superior, Whl­
is the leading promoter of the eli­
:; reported that the Rand Mining
y, operating the Blackhawk prop­
Eldorado canyon, near Searchlight.
. will resume operations. Robert
)ar is head of the company, whi-ch
equipped for the work, having a
rsepower hoist, compressor, ten­
nill, etc. N~w tables will be added
nill, and an electric pumping plant
1.
total gold output of Manhattan,
for 1912, is estimated at $628,231,
h about $200.000 is credited to
vorklngs. Of the rema.inder, the
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, , JAN. U A R Y 15, 1913.
War Eagle mill treated 10,800 tons of a The Pittsburgh-Idaho Mining company,
value of $196,109; the Associated, 9,835 operating in the Gilmore district Qf Idaho,
tons of a value of $158,000; the Poak will pay a dividend of four cents a share
Lease, 4,500 tons worth $55,000 and the January 15th, to stockholders of record Jan­
Mlanhattan M. & O. company, 2,140 tons uary 10th. The dividend is for the regular
worth $19,122. quarterly amount of $32,000. The new tun­
Golden, near the Klondyke siding on tlie nel is being driven ahead rapidly. When
Tonopah & Goldfield railroad, in Nevada, is finished it will cut the veins at depth and
the scene of much activity. Over one hun­ ease the transportation problem. A. S. Ross,
dred mines are working Qn leases in tl\() of Salt Lake, is president of the company.
camp. Mannin'g & Tyler are shipping regu­ The Wasatch-Utah Mining Company
larly and getting net returns of $60 a ton. will SOOn start its 200-ton mill at. the
Among those actively developing are Reilly mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon. near
& Quinn, Tompson & Woodward, Fox & Salt Lake City. The company has about
1,
Belcher, McLoud, Swllln & Stotesbury, Lee two miles of underground working", and
& Toner,and James Golden. has been experimenting with a fiv!'! stamp
The first ore from the 'Tamarack & Cus­ mill, by which recoveries of $2 to $3.50
'ter consolidated mines, near Wallace, Idaho, have been made. Fourteen men are em­
since the properties passed into the con­ ployed, and the main tunnel, now ln 500
trol of the new corpora.tion, was delivered feet, is being pushed to get under the main
at the storage bins at the head of the tram­ ore body.
way recently. The tram\way, which was re­ Word was received in Salt L:l.ke. on
cently complet~d, was given a thorough test­ the 8th, that lease No.2, on the Crown
ing and proved to be ready for operation;;, Point group at Rochester canyon, Nevada,
an'd the mill, the old Rex plant, repaired had just been sold for $30,000, with a pay­
and renovated is ready to start. ment of $10,000 down. ThIs lease covers
An association to be known as "Old 3(W feet on the vein, and an open C,lt has
Freibergers in America" was formed at a exposed over ten feet of payable ore. John
dinner and meeting in New York of grad· F. Cowan, of Salt Lake, who is qnite heav­
ull'~es of the Freiberg Bergakademie. The ily interested in this newest of Nevada'"
list of eligibles includes many noted Ameri­ gold camps, left for this infant Eldorado
cans. R. W. Raymond, secretarY emeritus last week.
of the American Institute of Mining Enghl­ At the stockholders meeting of the Selma
eers, was elected president of the associ'l­ Mines company, operating in the North
tion. C. L. Bryden, 1,015 Myrtle street, Tintic district of Utah, it was decided to
resume work, and sink the nw.in shaft to
Scranton, Pennsylvania, is secretary.
a depth of 400 feet, it now being down 200
The El Favor ,Mining Company, oj)(:ra!,­
ing in the Hostotipaquillo district, of Mex­ feet. An electric hoist an,d machinery will
ico, is tQ pay a dividend of one cent a be secured. Officers elected are Berkley
share January 30th. The amount of the Olsen, president; W. L. Pickard, vice-presi­
dent; O. W. Carlson. secretary-treasurer;
disbursement will be $35,000. This prnp­
erty was opened up and financed by ,l\hke· L. C. Peterson, mine manager, and Charles
ever Brothers of Boston, and Chicago. It is E. Beers, director.
an antigua, which was reopened in 191)9. It The organization of the Alaska Gold
is equipped with stamp mill and cyanide Mines Company has been completed, with
;>l:tnt, operated by electrical power. Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Com­
M. R. Evans, J. 'r. Hodson ana W. H. pany, New York, president; D: C. Jack­
Webber have an option on a piece Qf ground, ling, manager of the Utah Copper Com·
100 feet south of No.1 lease on the Roches­ pany, of Salt Lake. vice president and
ter ]\Innes company's ground at Rochester managing director; and D. C. Jackling, C.
canyon, Nev·ada. George 'Wingfield has pur­ M. MacNeill, Sherwood Aldrich. Charles
chased the Borland lease on the Schick prop· Hayden, Albert F. Holden. William H.
erty, and will start a tunnel to cut the ore Coolidge. Edward A. Clark and J. T. Gil­
at fifty fee.!. Mr. Wingfield has aiso taken bert, directors.
an Qption on fonr adjoining claims, which Much work is being done on the pros­
it is his intention to develop at depth. pects of the Kellogg, Idalio, district, to wind
The Burro Mountain Copper company, up assessment work on many properties.
on'e of the Phelps-Dodge properties in Ari­ The Yankee Boy lease, owned by D. W.
zona, is driving a 7,000·foot tunnel into Burro Price and W. R. Hughes, shipped another
Mountain properties. The tunnel will be car of ore to the smeltery last week and
seven by nine feet and will cut the veins it assayed 200 ounces of silver to the ton.
J ."
of the company at considerable depth, thus Quart~rs are being provided at the property
obviating hoisting and pumping as well a3 to accommodate fifteen men. The Amy.
serving to explore the property at depth. Matchlessproper~y on Pine creek will oper­
A new mill is in contemplation to be ready ate within a short tim~. Gus Smith has
when the tunnel is finished. The success taken charg~ as manager, and a crew will
of these operations will mean much fol' ,beset to work developing the property. As·
the district. sessment work on the Pat Howard claim,
 T.H E S kL T' LA K E
owned by Si Hill, has been completed. As·
sessment work on the copper claims in
Bailey gulch, owned by A. P. Hutton, Perry
Shuck and D. M. Barnhart, is about com·
pleted. The Whitman group on Pine creek
will be extensively developed during the
winter.
The Utah Copper company, operating at
Bingham, Utah, is ma.king alterations in its
coarse crushing department, so tha.t the
capacity of the mills at Garfield has been
somewha: reduced, and the seventeen hun·
dred and odd men employed at the mine in
Bingham are able to keep the mills busy.
There were 1,900 men at work in the Bing­
ham mines oofore the 'iecent strike, so that
conditions as far as the strike are concerned
are nearly normal.
The mines of Gilpin county, Colorado,
show an increase of production for the
year 1912, over the preceding year. The
shipments from Black Hawk for 1912 total
I
2,117 cars as compared wi·:h 2,050 cars ill
1911. The average tonnage per car was
twenty-five tons, of an average value of
$22.50 per ton, making the tonnage for the
year 52,925 tons of a value of $1,190,812.50.
This is exclusive of ore treated locally,
which will probably account for $200,000
more.
Due to a breakdown in the electric
power service due to fire, the output of the
Tonopah, Nevada, mines for Novemoor, wad
1,00a tons less than in October. The pro­
duction for each of the mines in tons w~.s
as follows. Tonopah Mining co ffiJJ any, 13,
95a; Tonopah Belmont company, 12,426;
Montana Tonopah, 3,997; Tonopah Exteu­
sion, 4,557; West End Con., 3,880, MacNa­
mara, 1,879; Jim Butler, 1,487; Tonopah
Merger, 325; Midway, 100; North Star, 130;
total, 42,7a4.
The recent cold snap in the intermoun­
tain <region has had a pronounced effect on
operations at mills and, smelters. Frozen
ore, low .steam pressure on locomotives
hauling ore, frozen pipes, broken flumes, etc.,
have caused endless trouble in Salt Lake
valley. Ore in stock piles became solidly
frozen and was only reclaimed with diffi­
culty. Frozen concentrates have also made
a very unsatisfac'ory feed to sintering mao
chines. Ore in bins has had to be blasted
loose at some of the pLmts.
Reports from the Standard mine in Brit­
ish Columbia, of whkh John A. Finch of
Spokane, Washington, is the principal owner,
are that the richest strike in the histOTY of
the mine has ooen made at the property.
The report says the m,w ore body has been
proved to be thirty feet wide and 140 feet
long. Five feet assays sevellty-five per cent
lead and the balance twenty-two per cent.
This is considered the main ore-shoo: of the
mine, the vein from which the big dividends
have been paid being a parallel one. The
big ore body has ooen uncovered in Xo. 6
level, which is 240 feet below No.5.
MIN rN G REV lEW, . JAN, U A R Y
The American Flag Mining company,
operating in the Park City district of Utah,
is resuming ore shipments, after a lapse of
two years. Two years ago F. V. Bodfish,
of Salt Lake, took over the property, and
found that it was saddled with an unfavor­
able smelting contract, so that energies
were directed to active development, until
more favorable terms could be secured.
This development has resulted in opening
up more ore, so that the company is now
better able tosh!p at a profit.
The annual report of the Iron Blossom
Mining 'company, operating tn the Tintic
district of Utah, has been SUbmitted. A
complete new electric hoisting .plant has
been installed at the No. 1 shaft. Develop.
ment has been vigorously pursued. Over
31,000 tons of dry ore were shipped for the
period, aver,aging a little over twenty-six
ounces of silver and seven pe<r cent lead,
from No. 1 workings. From No.2 workings
the tonnage was less, but the silver and lead
content higher. Dividends during the year
amounted to $400,000.
San Miguel county, Colorado, estimates
the following output for 1912: 1,196 cars of
concentrates shipped from Telluride, 100.
cars of vanadium ore and ferrovanadium
from Placerville station, and 500 cars from
Ophir. The Smuggler-Union has added much
to its mill equipment, the Tomboy has in­
creased its mill saving and has built a 'tram­
way, the Junta Consolidated has a fifty·ton
mill under construction,and the San Bern­
ardo is building a thirty·five-ton milL The
Ophir <klld Mining, Millin'g & Power com­
pany has renovated its mill.
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TUNGSTEN IN COLORADO.
Tun'gsten occurs in frequent deposits m
veins and fissures in a territory of less than
fifteen square miles in Boulder county, ColO­
rado EayS the Miner, of Boulder. The forma·
tion is an intrusion in the ordinary forma­
tion of the mountains and is definitely de­
fined in its boundaries. In origin and char­
ac:er it resembles the Cripple Creek "blow
out." Within this area all mining and pros·
pecting is limited. Mining is in an ex·
tremely crude stage and, with a single ex·
ception, consists of surface digging and
gougin'g for superficial deposits, from whkh
almost entirely the production of the field
has thus far come. The exception is the
Conger mine pf the Primos Chemical com·
pany, which is being explored perpendi·
cularly to a depth of 1,000 feet, and from
which levels and drifts will ,be driven ,0
open up many veins for systematic mining
on a large scale. This property has a
magnificent plant for mining and reduction
of ores and is the heaviest single producer.
The 'vVolf Tongue company, a subsidiary
corporation of the Firth S:irling Steel cOm·
pany, has extensive holdirrgs of tungsten
territory. and is the largest buyer of tung·
15, 1913. 41
sten ore in the district. It has a well equip­
ped milling plant which is steadily oper'­
ated. Through a liberal leasing policy it has
encouraged miners and has now over fifty
lessees working.
The Boulder Tungsten Production com­
pany is one of the most aggressive in de­
velopment. Other operators in the distrj"t
are pursuing more liberal development by
shafts and tunnels.
The deep workings of the Conger ana
all deeper explorations have demonstratl;'Q
~he continuity of the ore deposits to great
depths with greater enrichment and con­
centration of the mineral at the great-H'
depths.
The topography of the country, the
abundance of water, and many other conu!·
tions, suggest that, before the 'best develo'l­
ment of production can be realized, the te;'­
ritory must be undercut by deep tunnel 'IS
has been found necessary in Cripple Creek,
Clear Creek, Leadville and San Juan. Such
a tunnel is now projected by the Boulder
Tt!ngsten Production company and the site
held by this company commands the entire
dis~rict in the best possible manner.
From a point on Middle Boulder the
tunnel is to be driven northwest through
the holdings of the company, at right angles
to the strike of the veins. It will undercut
the productive terri:ory at depths rangins
from 600 to 1,100 feet. The distance :lCrOS5
will be but little more than two miles, and
the line of the tunnel is near the center
of the formation, so that by la:eral drifts
the entire territory will be accessible from
the tunnel. The tunnel opens on the main
stream where there is abundance of water
for reduction and where transportation W
market is provided. Automatic drainage
and mine transportation will tend to largely
reduce the cost of production, while su('h
general exploration and development of the
mineral ground will result in an increase
of prodUction capacity that will meet any
probable expansion of the use of tungsten.
The s:ate of the tungsten market is such
now that these suggestions and questions
are no longer remote and contingent.
Active promotion is occuring now and will
take increasin'g force from day to day ',0
that within the coming year the magnitude
of this resource will begin to be felt and
appreciated.
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PATENTS RECENTLY ISSUED.
(Prepared for The Mining Review by
Davis & Davis, patent attorneys, 'vVasnmg­
tClll.)
l,036,433-Gyratory ore-mill--G. H. Bradford,
Berkeley, Calif.
1,040,235-Supporting and lifting and adjust­
ing device for stamps-mills-E. H.
Moyle, Los Angeles Calif.
1,041,407-Art of ~xtracting meta.!s from
orBs-J, B. De Alzugaray, New
York, N. Y.
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JAN. U A R Y 1 5, 1913.

THE S'I'OCK EXCHANGE. January 2­ dox Valley, Long Park, the McIntyre dis­
Silver, 63'M cents; lead, $4.35; copper
!uotations on the local exchange Thurs­ cathode, $17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20. trict, and adjacent territory, extending in·
morning, January 9: January S. to San Miguel, Dolores, and Mesa coun·
Sliver. 63'h cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­
Llst..d S:::.t:.:o:.:e=k:.:"=-.~~===== thode, $17.30; zinc (St. LouiS), $7.20. ties. In Utah the deposits mined are in
'I Bid.' 1 Asked.
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January 4,
Sliver, 63'h cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­
thode, $17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20.
Jauuary 6.
SHver, 63% cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­
Emery and Grand counties. Deposits which
were unproductive during the year occur
in Rio Blaneo, Routt, and Moffat counties,
. 10

lr-Talisman . .......... . on" .02

thode, $17.35; zinc (St. I.ouis), $7.20. Colorado, and in Uin:ta and San Juan coun­
tury . . ................ ........ .10
Janua..y 7.
'rado Mining .......... .20 1 .22
Sliver, 63%. cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ ties, Utah.
'rado Consolidated .... .10 .23
thode, $17 _35; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20.
The percentage of uranium oxide (Us
solidated MereuI' .....
"n Point..............
'1' ... .. ..
.03'h1
.11

.04

January 8.
Silver, 63o/~ cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­ 0,) in the ore varied from 0.5 to 6.32. The
r . • , ............ ,...... 1.20 1.60
thode, $I 7.35; zinc (St. Louis), $7.20.
r-Judge ................
gon . ' ....... , .......... \
I
6.25
.10
7.50

.40

January 9.
Silver. 63% cents; lead. H.35; copper ca­
percentage of vanadium oxide (V2 0.) in
t Prince............... .01%. .02'4,
thode, $17.35; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15. the same ores varied from 1.42 to 13.63.
t Crown pOlnt·········1 .00 14 ' .OO%.
-----0---­ The relation between the uranium oxide
t Tlntic Consolidated... ........ .00%
NEW YORK LISTED STOC;:cK=S=:,=== and the vanadium oxide was lik~wise var·
t Tlntic Development... .00% 1 .02

1Sales. I H.' I L. IClose

,raid. . ...............
I Chain ............... /
1d Central . ...........
I
.03!
.41
.75
.10

.44
Chitto . . ........ . .. 1 9.400146% I 45
. 77 ~
Goldfteld Con. . .... \.. .... . I
2%
'hI
2
46­
2

iable. At one extr~me was an ore that car­

ried 8.15 per cent V. 0, and 1.5 .per cent
an Queen ............. 1. . . . . . . . 1
Blossom ............. 1 1. 35 1 1. 40

King ................. 1
Bowers ............... /
.OO'hI .. · .... ·
Ray
T,ennessee ··········1
.01',
Nevada Con. .......
Con. Copper "
.00% i ...... ..
Miami Copper ......
900 19% 19'M 19%

200 21'h
3,500
200 26
37%. 21
37% 12137-i'''
25% 25%.
U,O,; at the other extreme was an ore
that caTried 5.79 per cent Voo-, and 6.32
g William ......... .. .02 .03
Utah Copper........ 4,800 57%' 57%1 58',4 per cent U 30 S'
'I King ................ 1 .00% .08
Inspiration . . . . . . . . 1 200 18%.1181", 1S%.
i Tintic ............... \ .00 1", .01
Studebaker Con. . •.. 1. . ... .. 34 33 1 34
Of the more widely known uranium
, Hill ................. .03 ',4 .05
Ontario Silver ...... !....... , 2%. 2'41 2',4
mineral, pitchblende or uraninite, a few
Ie Bell ................ ,'........ .35

er Mammoth ..... ,.... .04 %. .05 %. NEW YORK CURB RANGE. hundred pounds were mined near Central
on Valley ............. \ 10.00 I 12.00 I Sa' es.! H. 1 L. IClose
City, Gilpin county, Colorado. It was all
Day.................. .22%1 .23'h

.01%
First NationajCop:-:j ....... 1 2%1 2 1 2
sold as specimens and to laboratories,
J
eral Flat ............. 1 .00'h1
ntain .Lake ........... \ .03 I...... ..
Giroux Con. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3% 3%(' 3%

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

Yukon Gold ....... I. . .. . . . 3'4, 3 3
probably for ~xperimental work. A few

-~
, York ................ .01'h1 .02'h
Ohio Copper ....... !.. ..... 1 %1 1'M 1%
pounds partly altered to gummlte and oth­
, Copper .............. 1 1.05 1 1.15
New Keystone ...... 1 . . . . . . . / 2 1 %. 2

~ongo . . . ............. \ .06 1 .06 'h

South Utah ......... 1,' ...... %1 %1 %
er secondary minerals were found in min­
he Demijohn ......... .07 'h I .09
Mason Valley ...... 1 . . . . • . . [10'4 10 10
\1
he Metals ............ 1
;burgh-Idaho . . . . . . . . . 1
I
.00 1",
.70 I 1. 25

.02
Braden Copper ..... : 3.000 10'/4
Ely Con. . .......... 1 900 11c
9%1 10%

lOc I lOc

ing mica near Penland. North Carolina.. j

The larger part of the vanadium ore
us . . .......•......... 1 .06 1 .09
Belmont. ..........
Tonopah . . . . . . . . . . :.......
8%1
400 1
6%
8%1 8%

6 6
produced was a sage·green sandstone col·
ce Consolidated ...... 1 1. 45 1. 47 %

til . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .01'4,
Alaska. . ........... ! 1.2001 14 %. 14 14%

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

ored by the vanadium-bearing mica, ros·

,r King Coall tlon ..... I 3.07 % 3.15 URANIUM AND VANADIUM IN 1912.
coelite. It was mined near Newmire, San
•1' King Con. . . . . . . . . . . , .75 1.00

'r Shield .............. 1 .Ol'hl .03

Miguel county, Colorado, and the vana­
~ Consolidated ........ 1 .04 % 1 .05%

h Iron Blossom ...... 1· ....... r .00 y.

The figures for the production of uran· dium was obtained In the form of iron van·
lsea ConSOlidated ..... 1 .01 1
ium and vanadium ores during 1912 have adate at the local reduction plant of the
c Central ............ \ .01 1 .01'4,

,d Tlntic ............. .OO%.! .01

not been very satisfactorily reported to the Primos Chemical company. The iron vana­
e Sam ............... 1 .11 I .13
United .States Geological Survey, and the date is shipped east to be smelted into fer­
Consolidated ........ 1 .01 'h 1 .02

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

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

-ria Consolidated ..... .61 I .62

by Frank L. Hess from various data in his Vanadium ores, probably volborthite
ert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .09 1 .11
possession. and calclovoborthite, wer~ prospected on
ee Consolidated ...... 1 .12¥,,1 .14

The shipment of uranium and vanadium

~g.ton.. ~;.~~~~~_:::: :~I :~b¥"l ... :~~ ..
ores during 1912 has been in the hands of
Pass Creek near Malachite, Huerfano
county, and southeast of Silver Cliff, Cus­
about a dozen persons and firms, and as in ter county, Colorado, but no produetion
Consolidated ....... _ . previous years the ores have come mostly was made.
pson-Quincy . .
. .... . fr'om southwestern Colorado. with a· small­ No vanadinlte Is known to have been
ado Extension
...... .
,am
Central-Standard. er production from southeastern Utah, be­ mined for vanadium in this country during
nald Ely
........•... tween the San Rafael Swell and the Colo· the year.
!'f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Run ............... . rado line. :Prices varied much, but 25 to 30 -cents

Sales. The production of uranium appears from a pound for the contained vanadium oxide
dar-Talisman. 1,000 at l%c.
preliminary estimates to have 'been equiv­ and $1.30 to $1.5-0 a pound for the contain­
'n Blossom, 350 at $1.40. 1,100 at $1.37 'h.

.y Day, 500 at 23c.

alent to a little less than twenty-six short ed uranium oxide, where it exceeds two
Ince Consolidated, 200 at $1. 37'h; 800

42'h; 1,400 at $1.45.

tons of uranium oxide, or approximately and a half per cent, seem to have been :'he
len Troughs, 1,000 at 2c.
twenty-two tons of metallic uranium, a rule. The prices were considered too low
Lres so ld, 6.35 O.

ling value, $5,597.50.

slight increase over 1911, when the produc­ by some producers a'l1d ,their ore 'W'lLS
Open Boa..d.

:>hongo, 9,000 at 6c.

tion was equal to about twenty-five tons of stored awaiting a rise.
•res sold, 13,600.
uranium oxide, or 21.2 tons of the metal. Most of the ore goes to England and
ling value, $976.50.

-~~·-o··~-·--
THE LOCAl, METAL MARKET.
'D..cembe.. 26.
'er, 62'h cents; lead. $4.35; copper ca­
, $17. 22'h; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15.
Deeemb.... 27.
·er. 62% cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­
$17.22'h; zinc (St. I,ouis), $7.15.
Decembe.. 28.'
er, 62'h cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­
$17.23'h; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15.
Decembe.. 30.
er. 62'h cents; lead. $4.35; copper ca­
$17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15.
Deeembe.. Sl.
er, 62%. cents; lead, $4.35; copper ca­
$17.30; zinc (St. Louis), $7.15.
The vanadium output of 1912 seems to Germany and is said to be wanted espe­ .r
have been equivalent to a little less than cially for the radium content.
300 tons of metallic vanadium, a some· The price of metallic vanadium was
what larger quantity than that of 191L much below former years and from $4 or
The uranium-bearing ores were all car­ $5 a pound it fell to $2.5(} and $2 for the
notite, a variable compound of uranium contained vanadium in ferrovanadiuIn, un­
and vanadium with other elements, found doubtedly owing to competition between
with several vanadium minerals in sand­ Amerl-can firms.
stones of Jurassic-Triassic age in the high The imports of roasted sulphide ore
plateau region of Utah and -Colorado. So from Peru were large and the prodUction
far the richest and largest deposits found of ferrovanadium was probably the largest
are in Montrose county, Colorado. in Para· to date.
 ...

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THE
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Goldfield was discovered by a kicking mule, Cobalt by a
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Write today your name on the mar·

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SALT ~AKE PHOTO SUPP~Y CO, Room 806, 112 Market St. San Francisco, Cal.
Kodaks and Cameras
Headquarters for Supplies. Kodak
Finishing.
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Phone Wasatch 468.
Salt Lake City. ONE OF
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HARRIS, H. H.
Accountant.
Account with the
Cost Accounting, Systemati:dng, and Has been made forcibly
Auditing. Modern .Methods Installed. New Year.
1~14 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City. appareut to us recently.

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

produced the most mar·

The district court of Esmeralda county,

Nevada, has given judgment in favor uf
velous results or-the peo­
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in the sum of $24,000 against D. McKensie ened to the realization of

& Company, becaus"l of the unminerlike our unsurpassed facilities

way in which the Hayes-Monette lease was for giving them just about

worked. The lessees in a wild rush near

the right thing in Bank·

the end of the lease, ex:racted ore withont

properly timbering, leaving rubbish in the ing Service. 'Both in the

drifts, and in general paying no attention

to anything but the rich ore.
city and outside
checking
new

accounts and

Walker Brothers
The Sunset Peak section of the Coeur
savings a('counts have

been -coming to us in large

Bankers
d'Alenes,su'bjected to explorat'on f()f de­
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ore, is rich today in blocked out and avail. "In 1he tall building"
able resources and will take a conspicuous
position before many mon'hs in the volume
of its response, in the opinion of Ed Lathl.
superintendent of the Idora Hill. Included Utah Savings &Trust Co.
in the list of properties referred to by Mr. A Commercial and Savings Bank
Latta are: the Intersta·:e, Callahan, Mau. Nearly Z4 Years Old
hattan, Tuscumbia, Sunset, Nipsic. IdorJ.,
235 Main Street
Parrot, Sunshine, Amy·Jefferson. TamaraCK
and Puritan. Four to five feet of concen­
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level of the Tuscumbia and the ledge pierced
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The resources are sufficient, without further
development, to maintain this rate of pro·
dlw~jon for more than two years. The Par­
SALT LAKE CITY
rot, occupying a continuation of the Idora 422 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City.
vein, has ore in bodies varying in width from Sewer Pipe, Drain Tile, Fire Brick,
one and one·half to fourteen feet. The Flower Pots, Hollow Tile, Fire
Sunshine is undergoing development by D. Phont" \\"'asatch Ina P. o. Box 1054 Clay, Wall Coping, Chimney Tops.
L, McGrath and associates.
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DIRECTORY OF ENGINEERS

ADAMSON, W. G. CRAIG, W. J. LEE, MURRAY

Consulting Mining Engineer and
Mining Engineer. Mining Engineer.
Metallurgist.
For Prospects or Developed Mines, U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor.
write me.
P. O. Box 69. Winnemucca, Nevada. Third Ave. & P St., Salt Lake City. Stockton, Utah.

ARNOLD, FISHER & CALVERT DUNYON, N. A. LEGGAT, J. BENTON

Consulting Geologists and Engineers. Mining Engineer. Consulting and Mining Engineer.
Coal, Oil. Gas and Non·Metalllferous Expert Examination and Develop­
Deposits. ment a Specialty. 224 Kearns Bldg.,' Salt Lake City.
721·722 McIntyre Bldg., Salt Lake City.
711 Kearns :Bldg., Salt Lake City. Phone Was.tcb 4,']6 Phone Wasatch 5579

BOSS, M. P. FISK, WINTHROP W., B. S. PACK, MOSHER F.

Mechanical Engineer and Millman. Consulting Engineer.
Mining Engineer.
Expert in Ore Crushing and Con­ Economic and Structural Geologist.
Twenty·eight years Practice, Eight
centration. Years Experien~e in Mexico. 1026 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City.
General Delivery, Salt Lake City.
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PULSIFER, H. B.
BROWN, G. CHESTER IRELAND, T. W. Mining and Metallurgy.
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609 Mills Bldg.• San Francisco. Years of Actual Experience in Mine Chicago, Ill.
Development and Operation, and in
Milling Practice. Su~cess in Locat­
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BURCH, CAETANI & HERSHEY Best of References.
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Geology.
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JENNINGS, E. P. SHERRILL, S. C.
BURKE, lAS. l. & CO. Consulting Mining Engineer
General Contractor.
819 Newhouse Bldg., Salt Lake City.
Engineer. and Contractors
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Estimates Furnished on all Classes
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Steel Construction. of Work.
JOHNSON, JAY ELIOT
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