Professional Documents
Culture Documents
VOL. 14. No. 11. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 15.1912. SINGLE COPY, 11
The marvelous development of the petro Two years and a half ago, with no im of the wells have been producing fo
leum industrY has been lost sight of in this mediate supply of crude oil, there were ty-two years. Forty-four are now f
age of aviation, yet the latter wonder owes men wHh faith enough in the growth of ation, and prospocts are excellent
its success to this very development. the industry,' and the feasibility of estab sti1l further increase in' production
In 1859, in Pennsylvania, ,some men were lishing a refinery in Salt Lake, to go ahead new areas are being steadily.de>
putting down a well for salt, and were and build a small plant, with a view of put Some of this crude oil comes from {
greatly chagrined when the tools came up ting out about th~rty barrels of petroleum pany',s wells and some from inde,
covered with a greasy, irridescent ilquid, a day This original plant covered one· operators. The production of these:
having a disagreeable odor, which would quarter of an acre. far in excess of the refinery's pres~
ruin any salt, which city and sit
might be found in that are being D;I
viCinity. o th eIr ' re,finer
There was one, how take u~ the,
ever, the first of the especially in '4
011 magnates, who per field.
soon found a way to Contents of th
put the newty discov Oil. ~
ered liquid to good The crude
use and to start a for tains the f
tune in oil. He put the percentages 0
sub.3tance up In small eum products
bottles and went up teen per cent
land down the coun three degree.
try, selling a wonder thirty-five pet
ful new patent medi water white 1
ten per cent
cine, "a sure cure for
oil, four pet'
lameness, rheumatism,
paraffine WJ
and kindred ailments."
the balance,
His venture was a suc ricating oils,
cess. spindle and ~
Somewhat later, it for high at:
was discovered that chinery, enf
the liniment would turbine oils, ~
burn. Then began the ;non-<earbon ~
era of sooty coal-{)il lValve oil, f<:
lamps. Progress in re Recelvinj( Yards and Stills of Utah 011 Refinlnj( Co. cylinder lub~
fining the crude oil was slow. For many The growth of the Utah Oil Refining The oil is brought to Salt La~
years, gasoline, a distillate driven off be company has been phenomenal since that tank acrs of 12,000 gallons capacil
fore the much desired kerosene, was con· time. Today, it has a plant covering five IMethod of Treatment. ~
sidered worthless, and either thrown away, acres, employs many men, and produces The oil is discharged from
or returned to the wells, to lighten the crude daily 153,000 pounds of finished oils. This Ing through a. pipe line to a
petroleum. Gasoline has now become the was demanded by the' extended use of pe tank of 292,000 gallons
most valuable constituent of petroleum, far troleum and its products.
otustrlpping Its earlier rival, IThe supply of crude oil' for the refinery
its utilization has made
of
14 T H ES A L T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
With a refinery already established at ident and general. manager; A. Hamilton, "The last annual report to the share·
Salt Lake, any new field coming in, tribu· vice-Pl'esiden~and .superintendent of the holders of the Iron-Silver mine, Leadville,
tary to this city, will be able to market its refinery; Wr B. Sage, of Cleveland, Ohio, which has been prodUcing ore since 1878,
oil immediately and convert its crude into secretary and treasurer; Earl Casey, as shows that the average value of the ore
cash, thus making It not only an interesting, sistant superintendent; Paul F. King and mined and sold for the preceding year was
but also a commercial pro'posiUon, without D. H. Sherman, lubricating engineers. $6.02 per ton, yielding a net profit of $2.47
per ton, although the ore had to be hand
sorted Into four grades.
"The Stratton-Independence mill at Crip
ple Creek, from its completion in 1908 up
to a recent dat~, had treated 90,000 tons of
dump 'material and low-grade ore from the
mine, averaging about $3 per ton, at an
average netproftt of over $1 per ton. This
mill opened the way for the profitable treat
ment of millions of tons of low-grade Crlp.
pie Creek ore previously worthless as un·
available. It marked the beginning of a
new epoch in Cripple Creek, and Is fully as
Important as the driving of the Roosevelt
drainage tunnel. The Portland and Golden
Cycle mines have since built similar . mills."
Expensive investigation is often essen·
tial in working out a process that will be
best suited to the ore to be treated. Before
undertaking the construction of the new
cyanide plant just coonpleted at the mine,
the Portland company had its metallurgists
at work for several years at a total ex·
pense of $75,000 In solving the problems
presented.
o
GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED REPORT.
I
are those economically and profitably min. has been great. Mining, including stoping and develop·
ing and treating big tonnages of medium "Several Colorado instances of up-to-date ment ............................ $3.18
"In 1878 the average value of the ore "The Tom Boy mine in San Miguel Milling , . ........................... 1.97
mined and treated in Colorado had to be county, remote fram railroad, pays steady Marketing . . . ...................... .05
about $100 per ton to leave a profit, as and liberal dividends on ore running less General expense ................•.... .40
against the ~verage value in 1899 of $25 than $10 per ton, by means of local treat Bullion tax .......................•.. .05
per ton, including concentrates. The avo ment, marketing the separated products, Marketing ore shipped ............... .66
erage value has since been much further (gold, silver, .lead, zinc iron) at best prices. Construction •..................•..... .07
decreased, by reason of improved mining The operations of this mine for the month
and metallurgical methods and reduction of of July last show an output of 10,500 tons Total cost of operation ............ $6.46
freight and treatment charges, bringing still of ore, yielding $65,500, or a little over $6 Miscellaneous earnings ............ .05
lower grade ore within the range of profit· per ton; expense, $40,500; profit, $25,000,
able treatment. or 38 per cent on the gross output. Net cOllt per ton .................. $6.41
j
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ii j £ 2 i 1 ;
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, SEPT E M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2. J
last ten years, we must allow
After the building of the present Murray and 16 to 17 feet of charge column. This is now made: Metal pipes E
smeltery months were consumed in experi, oorresponds closely to the Murray furnaces: bustle pipe to the tuyere boi
menting to determine the best details for the furnaces are, however, longer at the turn, can be bolted tight to the
car construction, spreaders, and furnace tuyeres with taller jackets, and would be 'packing in all the joints.
tops. As finally determined on the bottom rated for at least ,fifty tons more than the The paper plug apprises us
of the car consists of a fiI"m V,shaped longi. 140 to 150 which Ilea estimated for his fur rising slag while the peep ho
tudinal ridge. from eacvh edge of which the nace. valve and removable front. ~
two long hinged doors swing aW\ay. when The "hearth Inteu,3ity," a quotient ob· the Eilers' tuyere, meets ev
loosened to drop the charge. The charge tained by dividing the 24-hour neutral which can arise during blowil
drops quickly of its own weight, the attend· charge tonnage by the square feet cross ting off blast, or plugging or
ant swings the doors together with one lever section at tuyeres, was 'given for a variety slagged tuyeres. The present
and clamps the dogs which hold them with of furnaces in the table of the last issue. comparatively si'mple but ma,1i
another. As the tops of the Murray fur As both the blast pressure and character ment on the leaky and awkwai
naces are closed by almost level iron plates, of charge are independent of the furnace only a comparatively few yeat
leaving an opening 27 inches wide, the length size, the intensity of different fnrnaces Is In regard to the accompi
of the furnace, quite a lot of the charge pile3 not strictly comparable nor is that' of any the art of getting metal and f
up in ridges along each side of the mouth. ore furnace al ways the same. slag, it is to be questioned if c
These ridges of charge are then immediate The chemical. mineralogical and physi, have proven entirely satisfacto
ly pushed in by a Imln with a Shovel, and cal character of the furnace charge, together slag-pot forehearth or settler m
one or more pieces of thin sheet steel pull· with atm.ospheric conditions, constitute such ceded by the brick lined forehE!
ed over the mouth. The spreader consists tremeiHIDUi3I l'actors of £urnaee operation reverberatory settler; while'
of five 3-inch angle bars, each the length that our furnace rated at 200 tons does far less perfect work. t
of the furnace, and all so bound together might smelt less than 150 tons of charge not yet as commonly used. B
mth braces as to form a long. sharp root at one time. while under other circumstances far from perfect work, the t
with two slots, through which much. fine it might do better work with the tonnage tangular settler is a rather et
ore will sprinkle down onto the center of 'doubled. The maxi'mum that such a fur to keep in order. T,he slag •
the burden, while much, coarse will be de nace as sketched has smelted is probably be further cleaned in large t
flected to the sides of the shaft. The a little over seventy,five 4·ton charges dur are tapped so as to retain ti
spreader is suspended in the top of the ing 24 hours;' if, to this 300 tons of "neutral" large bottom button, which,
shatt by four hangers passing beneath the charge there be added 45 tons of foul through the furnace. ,
spreader, and fitting into'straps riveted to slag and 37 tons of coke, we have 382 tons The settler has to do for ~
the longitudinal plate supports. Three men for the total burden, If we have seen little j
can lift a spreader out, one end at a tIme, progress In blast furnace design during the "'Eng. & Min. Jour., May 2~
j
16 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G R E.v lEW, S E PTE M BE R 1 5, 1912.
actly what the thickener does for the sludge firebriCks only for the lower portion of the wells as large as 10 inches by 12 inches
in ordinary ore dressing. But the eompari the lining and the narrow zone between on top and 14 inches square at the bottom."
son is as to purpose only; there is no sIm the jackets and main girder Bupports. In Blast Furnace table the last "Murray"
ilarity in results_ The different conditions Small settlers or forehearths commonly lose furnace marked "Private" given as 1909,
are obvious. In particular, the thin, wide, their usefulness because of crusting, rather Murray; Steel Jackets; 48 inches by 164
superficial overflow, which is vital to the than because of burning through, even when inches; 20; 4-in.; 36 oz.; 16 ft.; 240; 4;
thickener, is apparently out of the question lined with common brick. At times one change to Private; 1909; Murray; Steel
with slag. A cursory observation on the will break out, but it is of advantage, even Jackets; 48 inch by 176 inches; 20; 4-in.;
now of material thro'ugh the ordinary fore· then, to have the more easily S'IlleJted com· 36 oz.; 16 ft.; 250; 4.
hearth indicates only a gross separation of mon brick. o
matte and metal from slag, a conclusion The curb of recent furnaces is made of FOR GREATER SAFETY.
. abundantly confirmed by the finding of rieh steel, say a half inch thick, heavily sup
skulls in the slag pots afterwards. When ported by clamped rails or massive strip] A world,wide movement for greater safe
we consider the amount of matte usually of even 3-inch square steel. The sides are ty among the several million men who work
carried in the settler, there is small actual joined to the base with an angle iron riv· in the mines, suggested by Dr. Joseph A.
settling capaeity; when badly crusted the eted to each, and every joint in the plates Holmes, the director of the United States
settler hardly more than merits the name covered with a strip and riveted. Bureau of Mines, was inaugurated at the
of a matte "trap." Iles states that for six A curious matter of opinion exists as Pittsburg experiment station of the bu·
years his slag averaged only 0.84 ounces to blast furnace foundations; some, with reau September 13, wlhen government offi
silver and 0.53 per cent lead, with the Hofman and 'Collins, considering a huge cials from the leading nations of the earth
bullion going 266 ounces in silver. There block of poured slag the best possible base convened to discuss the great problem be
is little reason to think that present reo against which we have the statement of foo-e them. Invitations to participate in
sults at most smelteries equal such clean no less an authority than lies, that such such a conference were extended by the
slags. It would be interesting to know the a block Is the worst possible. The Ameri. federal government through the state de
average results at the two largest smelteries can Smelting and Refining company has partment and the American ambassadors to
near Salt Lake, as well as specific data dismantled various fairly modern plants, the different foreign countries that have . ~
to
as to why they retain the small fore but we are not aware that any specific mining interests, including Great Britain,
hearths and usual slag pots. information on the lIubject has become Germany, France, Belgium, Austria-Hungary,
As to the application of modern refrac· available. Mexico and Canada.
tories to the lead blast furnace there Is The lead furnace we have arrived at The army of coal miners throughout
little to be said. Water jacketing pro after some fifty years practice in this coun the world numbers more than 3,000,000 men,
vides for the zone of most intense heat try, is a tight steel box, on the most sub and each year between 6,000 and 7,000 meet
and corrosion, leaving the crucible, stack stantial foundation possible, holding the death through accident. The death rate
and settler as the only parts needing pro bricked-in crucible, on which rests the zone among these men in 1910 was 2.11 in every
tection. The crucible shell, or curb, is of water jackets. On portions of the same 1,000 employe{!. In the United States alone,
usually lined with brasque and the interior foundation stand the four strong cast-iron in the same year, 2,834 men were ,killed in
finished with fire brick. The most desir· posts, which support the massive masonry the coal mines, or 3.91 In every 1,000 em·
able shape of the crucible is not fully rec shaft, joined to the jackets by a smaller, ployed. With conditions worse in the
tangular, but with a sloping fioor at the easily built in, zone of fire brick, and rest· United States than in any other country,
back. Both this and the level portion will ing on steel beams carried by the posts. it is expected that the conference of ex·
be built in the shape of an inverted arCh, No intentional opening exists in either curb perts will result in great good to this coun
the brick fitting perfectly after being dip or bricked-in portion of the -crucible below try, and perhaps a lessening of the death
ped in a fireclay wash. Such a lining will the level of Its top. The well, a cavity rate in the world.
last indefinitely if the furnace is kept In thinly separated from the main portion of The prevention of coal dust and gas ex
blast. the crucible, is not far from the top end, plOSions in the mines will be the general
The whole crucible gradually becomes so that a channel can always be cleared, theme of the conference officials, who will
saturated with sulphides and infiltrated downward, to connect well and breast. Each continue in .session at PittsbUrg for ten days.
with lead, and the space originally filled jacket is individually held in place by The United States has the only experimen
with molten' lead becomes ever S'Illaller braces to the girders supporting the shaft, tal mine is the world and the visitors, who
and smaller during a run, through accumu and to change anyone, the onl:y interrup are anxious to see it, will witness actual
lation of infusible compounds, in particular tion is in shutting off the blast long enough coal·dust explosions in the mine. Nearly all
zinc sulphide. After a campaign, the cru to pull out one and set the other in. Verti of the visitors are the heads of explosives,
cible may be dug out, and, if the furnace cal fiues are a thing of the past. The whole testing stations in their respective coun
is not dOWn too long, the crucible may be top of the furnace is free for poking, bar tries and the conference will endeavor to
used again. On long standing, a saturated ring and the passage of cars which can develop more uniform, and if possible, new
crucible swells and breaks up. dump the charge in quickly. In short, fur methods of testing explosives. It is be
In a lead blast furnace there is no naces are built to run continuously, and to lieved that such a conference will contrib·
severe abrasive action of the 'settling charge capacity. Aside from such exigencies as ute largely to the initiation of Improve.
on the Inside of the shaft. In the first In· strikes and ore shortages, they do run for mentSJ ill- mining and will be helpful in
stance, the charge column is low and the months, and even years, with only trifiing the adoption of safer mining equipment
pressure not great; in the second place, deductions from full elapsed ti'Dle. and methods.
sublimation of galena quickly coats the o
walls, the bricks become impregnated and CORRECTION TO LAST INSTALLMENT. It is proposed to increase the capItal
a shaft tends to get smaller instead of Near Clove, when speaking of the lead stock of the Butte & Superior Mining com
wearing larger. At times blowholes may well it says, some furnaces now have pany of Butte, Montana, from 250,000 to
eat into the 'Dlasonry, but It the furnace is the wells as large as 10 inches by 12 inches 350,000 shares, the proeeeds from the sale
properly managed, that will occur seldom. on top and 14 inches square at the bot· of this stock, at $37.50 per share, to be used
Good practice is to build the shaft of com tom." for further exploration and the purchase
mon brick, firmly ·bound with iron, using Change this to, "some furnaces now have of adjoining properties.
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV I E W, S E PTE M B E R 16, 1912.
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18 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV I E W, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
its immediate yicinity_ The balance is used the engineers of the mining company. For on the Missouri river by the Great Falls
to operate the pneumatic drills used under a long time there was considerable doubt as Power company, and transmitted approxi
ground. to whether synchronous motors of this size mawly 100 miles, under a pressure or 110,
The hoisting engines now pneumatically could be made 303 reliable as induction mo 000 volts, to the point at which these mo
operated, were formerly operated by steam. tors. It was thought that if there were any tors are installed_
To adapt them for air operation, only a few very large variations in load, or If unfor ---0'--
()Ihanges were required. It has 'been fIg seen circumstances distu:rbed the normal SELLING WAY'S POCKET SMELTER.
·ured that the economy in hoisting, secured condition of the electric power supply, the
by the use of compressed air in the man motors might fall out of step. So when The prospector and small operator is
ner here described, will reduce the cost of synchronous motors were finally decided up.. coming into his own again. There is a
copper approximately one-half a cent per on, very rigid guarantees, regarding suc strong demand for new properties, the gov·
pound which, considering the tremendous cessful and continuous operation, were re ernment of.ficials are showing a disposition
output of the Butte mines, means an im· quired from the manufacturers, but the to co·operate, and everything points to a
mense annual saving. machines have more than lived up to their big resulIllption of prospecting and develop
Calculations of the cost of hoisting by elec guarantees. Since the early part of 1910, ment this fall and early winter. A reflec
tricity direct, indicate that the economy of when the first synchronous motor was put tion of these conditions is .shO'Wn In an al
electric hoists would be even greater than into .operation, not a single failure ot any liance recently completed by the Way's
that secured by the use of compressed air; soril: has occurred, and although the power Pocket Smelter company.
but, on the other hand, the installation of supply during this time has often been un· The sales of this company have reached
electric hoists would have meant the entire steady, and despite the fact that there have such a point that it has become advisable
discarding of the present equipment, the been large variations in both voltage and to separate the manufacturing and sell·
ing organizations. In the future, Way's
Pocket Smelter company will devote its
entire time to making smelters and in ex·
perlmental work along new lines_ The sell·
Ing organization will be J. W. Swaren &
Company, 112 Market St., San FranciSCO,
Cal. In the future all orders for Way's
smelters and supplies should be sent direct
to J. W. Swaren & Company.
In addition to the Way Procesll this new
company will handle a complete line of ma
chinery and supplies ordinarily used by
prospectors and new properties. Mr. Swa
ren has been a prospector hllll3elf, and he
fully appreciates the difficulties met in get· - .
ting equipment and supplies while out in
the hills or on the desert. His personal
attention will be given to securing for the
customers of this new firm the best mate
rials on the market.
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A GOOD SPECIAL ISSUE.
TRUE CONSERVATION. our present knowledge, this one supply must tending back over three years, Il
serve as a basis both for the needs of the made a satisfactory ag'reement
In the preface to Bulletin 47, Note3 on present and the tar greater needs of the fu owners of the North Moccasin fe
Mineral Waste, written by Charles L. Par ture. chase of that .property.. It co,
sons, chief mineral chemist of the Bureau "In a higher way our mineral resources 2,000 feet in length along the i
of Mines, which has Just ·been issued, Dr. should 'be regarded as property to be '<Ised formation between the Barnes-Ki
Joseph A. Holmes, the director, givb .. his and to ·be beld in tru3t, with regard to both north and the Kendall on the SQ!
v:ews upon what he terms real or true con the present and the future needs of the "The Kendall - mine has pro'
servation. country. It should :be remembered that than 700,000 tons of ore, and ha
Dr. Holmes say.3: "During the past year, neither human labor, nor any human agency, 450,000 in dividends.
in producing 500,000,000 tons of coal we has contributed to their origin or to their "The Barnes-King under tl
wasted or left un~erground, in such condi intrinsic value, and that whatever rights ownership, produced about 300,0
tion that it probably will not be recovered the individual may possess have been de ore, and paid dividends amountin
in the future, 250,000,000 tons of coal; we rived from the general government and 000. The new company, beglnll
turned loose into the atmosphere a quantity ftom the state as the original owner. The tions in January, 1907, mined 23
of natural gas larger tlian the total output state does not Surrender its right, and which produced $828,110 in 'bullib
of artificial gas during the same period in should not neglect its duty, to safeguard mine was closed down in June
all the towns and cities of the United States; the welfare of it3 future citizens, by pre no more pay ore in sight. Wit:
we also wasted or lost, in the mining, pre venting the wasteful use of these resources. age yield in bullion of about $3.1
paration, and treatment of other important Though the individual may claim the right the present company made very I
metalliferous and non'metalliferous miner to use the resources in proportion to his ·but the best ore extracted cam
a13, from 10 to 15 per cent of the year's pro needs and the needs of the community, he ore body extending from B
duction of such minerals. These losses certainly has no right to waste that which ground into the North MoccasiI
serve to indicate the importance of inquir is not needed for present use, 'but is certain owners of that property took oli
ies and investigations by the federal gov to be needed hereafter. same ore body 25,000 tons of,
ernment for the purpose of lessening the "Those in charge of the investigation3 of produced $127,000 In bullion, or a
waste of essential resources; investigation3 the Bureau of Mines recognize the rights $5 per ton. With the C03t of I
on the same general lines as those looking and duties of the federal government as be milling deducted, and the expenJi
to a reduction in the loss of life in the min ing .limited to the carrying on of inquiries in constructing a tramway to tl
ing operations of the country, 'and the far and investigations, with a view to deter mill, the ·profits were not large,
more extensive investigations looking to the mining the nature and extent of this waste a cave occurred in the workingl
more efficient production and use of agri of resources, the means by which it may ers stopped mining.
cultural products, both of wh:ch are being be diminished, and the setting forth of the "The Barnes-King Developmeli
conducted by the federal government. facts in the case. has undertaken to purchase the I
"In a consideration of the possible activ "The present report embodie3 the results casin on the following terms: P
ities of the individual, the state, and the of certain preliminary inquiries as to the property, $150,000; $5,000 to b
federal government in ·behalf of a less waste nature and extent of- this waste. It will cash, and the balance out of nel
ful use of our mineral resources certain be followed by a more detailed report on the mining operations, and within
facts' and principles should be kept clearly subject, as soon as the necessary inquiries time. From the bullion returns E
in mind, namely: and investigations have ·been conducted and the Barnes-King is to retain $3,
"That the present generation 'has the the results put in shape for publication. for mining and milling, and tUI
power, and it will exercise the right, to use "In the preliminary work along these per cent of the balance to the ?
as 'much of the country's resource3 at it lines, the repre3entatives of the bureau have casin until the purch3l3e price a
actually needs; there can and there will be received the cordial co-operation of the en tioned has been paid.
no such, thing as stinting the present gen gineers and chemists associated with the "We propose to repair the B
eration by bottling. up resources for the use varied mineral Industries of ,this country, shaft, and then develop the NortJI
of the the future. and also of the owners and the operators of ground by means of an incline
"That the nation's needs are not ..likely tothe mines and the metallurgical ·plants." be run under the ore body frO)
be curtailed; these needs will increasl1 with Copies of this bulletin may be had by level of the Barnes-King mine.
the extent and diversity of tile nation's in addressing the Director of the Bureau of will require a considerable ini'
dustrie·3, and they will increase more rapid Mines, Washington, D. C. we believe that our costs of ]I
ly than popula.tidn increases, for the reason ----0'--- milling when we begin to extra,
that the per-capita consumption of mineral not exceed $3.50 per ton, and th#
THE BARNES KING DEVELOPMENT CO. be a:ble to make some profit ~
products is rapidly increasing; and_
"That the men of this generation will for the North ;Moccasin propeJ
not mine, extract, or use these resources, New developments in Barnes-King Devel terms outlined above. ' ..
at continuous financial loss to themselves, opment company's affairs have been an "About two years ago the Piij
in order that something may be left for the nounced by C. W. Goodale, general man property was offered to the E
U3e of future generations; there can 'be no ager. The properties are outside of Butte, Development company, but under
such thing as a mineral industry without Montana. The Piegan-Gloster mine near conditions which were not satisit
profits. Mary.>3ville, has been purchased, C. C. Swin have just executed an agreeme.
"Furthermore, it should be clearly under :burne, treasurer, states that, after paying owners, by which we may P~
stood that - the mineral resources of this the options of $5;000 each on the. North property under the following teq
country have required long ages for their Moccasin and Piegan,Glofiter mines, the down; $20,000 Sept. 20, 1912; ,
accumulation and that, of· these r~sources, first of which was mentioned in our last 20, i1913;$2£,OOO Jan.. 20, 19j
the nation has but the one supply. There issue, there remains on band, $288,153.81. July 20, 1914. Total, $125,000. f
are no known substitutes available to meet The circuiar letter, issued to stockholders, "After the second payment .t
the nation's further need3 when that sup - by Mr. Goodale follow3: deveiopment, which will be aCl
ply will be exhausted and, to the best of "Your directors after negotiations ex taken, should ·be sufficiently
20 THE SAL T L A'K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 15, 1912.'
about $90,000. In the gold-sllver-lead-zinc class 135 com Amparo, Mex. • 10 .03
••••• 60,.000
# ~
"Besides these known ore bodies, there panies contributed to the 1912 total to. the Buffalo, Ont. ......... 5 ..02% 15MO
are possibilities of finding others in such extent of $24,219,987, and to date have to Bunker Hill & Sull .... 3 .20 65,400
an extent of mining ground, and your diree the:r credit $267,585,515, a 102 per cent Butte-Alex·Scott, Mont. 15 .50 37,500
ton decided that the company was justi return on the $261,871,997 issued capitaL Champion, Mich. ..... 1 1.00 100,0.00
fied in making the cash payment ana un Of the above 135 companies, 68 operate Cliff, Alaska ......... 1
~ .05 5,000
dertaking further development. properties in the United States, and they Colo. Gold Dredging ... 10 .25 25,00.0
"There is no mining equipment at the paid dividends during the year totaling Coniagas, Ont. ........ 1 .45 360,000
mine, but in the old Gloster mill building $14,213,525, and to date $172,973,36.0. Crown Reserve, Ont. .. 15 .05 85',442
there is ample room for any mill machin Far in the lead for the year is Goldfield Elkton Con., Colo ...... 24 .01 25,00.0
ery which may be required. Con. of Nevada, which has enriched share Fremont, Cal. · ...... 28 . .02
~
4,000
"George T. Mct}ee, formerly manager holders to the extent of $4,626,877. This Frontier, Wis. ... , ... 9 2..0.0 2,478
at the Barnes-King mine, has been again company also leads among the 1912 divi Golden Cyde, Colo, ... 1 ..02 30,000
engaged as manager, and will have full dend payers in total disbursements, having Grand Central, Utah .. 25 .05 25.0.00
charge of the company's new ventures. divided among shareholders during the few Greene Cananea, Mex. 31 .25 606..0.00
"The directors have had under consid years of its life $22,773:.060. Tonopah and Greene Con., Mex. . ' 3.0 .4.0 ..
4.0.0,000
eration more than 100 mining propositions Tonopah Belmont, two' other companies Hecla, Idaho ." ....... 20 .02 2.0,000
during the last three years, and the North operating in Nevada, rank second and Homestake, S. D. ..... 25 .50 109,000
Moccasin and the Piegan-Gloster are the third, the former having paid out $1,200,.000 Int'l Nickel, pfd ...... 1 1.50 133,689
only ones within our financial means which and the latter $1,125,000. Int'! Sm. & Ref....... 31 2.00 200,000
we have been jU3tified in accepting. Seventeen ,Canadian companies disburs· Jerry Johnson, Colo ... 10 .01 25,000
----0.--- ed dividends during the year amounting to Lucky Tiger, Mex...... 20 .05 35,767
RESULT OF HIGH METAL PRICES. $6,381,987. Nipissing leads for the year .
Miami, Ariz. ......... 1 :50 371,288
with $1,350,0.00, and in total disbursements Mohawk, Mich. ..... " 1 2.50 250.000
As compared with the same period of with $8,640,000. Coniagas ranks second for Parrot, Mont. 26
0 •••
.15 34,478
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1910 and 1911, says the EngineeriIig and the year with $960,000, and to date has paid Pittsburgh-Idaho ...... ..04 32,120
Mining World, American mines and met out $3,800,000. Crown Reserve is third for South Eureka, Cal. ... 1 .07 20.999
allurgical works show increased dividend the year with $707,531, and to da.te is cred IStandard, B. C. ..... 10 .02% 50,0.00
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disbursements during the first 8 months ited with $4,323,598. Tennessee Copper .... 1.0 1.00 200,000
of the present year. Fifteen Mexican companies, handicapped Tuolumne, Mont. 0" •• 15 .15 120,0.0.0
By reason of I\igh metal prices, 135 by the continued turmoil in the republiC, United Copper, Wash .. 1 .01 10,000
,American properties have yielded profits have been able to declare dividends du'rlng United Verde, Ariz..... 3 .75 225,000
in the shape 'of dividends so far this year the year totaling $3,594,475. Since incor Wasp No.2, S. D ....; .. 15 .02 10,000
totaling $57,356,881. This compares' with poration these fifteen ~ompanies have divhl Yosemite Dredging, CaL 15 .01 2,400
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$54,865,316 in 1911 and $48,301,333 in 1910. ed among shareholders $52,901,941. Santa
Since incorporation these 135 companies Gertrudi!! leads for the year with $997,632, It is reported that the Utah Copper com
have operated their properties so success with Dos Estrellas second with $75.0,000, pany is to electrify its shovels and railroad
fully that holders of their stock have been and to date, $11,505,.000. Medco Mines of at Bingham, Utah, u3IIig motors in place' of
enriched to the extent of no less than El Ore ranks third with $36.0,000. the present locomotives. The' company has
$758,324,170, a return of 1.07 per cent on Six metallurgical companies show a begun the use of power of the Teilurlde
the combined capital of $703,642,.029. Slight increase in disbursements as com Power company for its compresSQrs and un'
This is, indeed, a remarkable accom pared with, 1911. During the present year derifrouftd' haulage arid lighting.
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land for such machines, and many have Utah State School of Mines .....•
A ....7e... ....d Met..lIur....... Vl11adsen Bros. . .........•. _.....
bee patented since, but these proved im· Widdicombe & Palmer .•........
tary motion through a rifled nut. The lat Railroad Time Tables ••••••.•••• ~
Mlal..&, Attorne7•. Salt Lake Stamp Co............ ..
ter motion is intermittent, the nut being Smith & Adams, Tents •....•...•
Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewlshon........ 38
provided with dogs, and the head is rotated Bradley. Pischel & Harkness .. _... __ .... 38 Shlplers, Commercial Photograptt;f
TOOele Smeaer •••••••••.•••.••••
a few degrees on each back stroke of the ca1lahan, D. A., Mining Law Books.... 38 Utah Junk Co. • ••...••.••..••••• ~
shaft~ which carries it, so that the cutters Davis & Davis ........... _. .. . • • .. . • • .• 38 Utah Ore Sampling Co•.•.••••••••
Higgins, E. V. ••.•..• .••........... .•• 31 United States Smelting Co. . .•••.
strike in a different place at each stroke. Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette .. _. . . . •. . . 38 Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars " _... __
The shaft is sixteen inches in diameter and
about twenty feet long, and substantially total per day for interest, depre menst for- the convention.
made. Reamers are provided for maintain ciat:on and operation, $180. At a rate of Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, direct
ing the gauge of the tunnel. All moving drilling of eighteen inches per hour, the bureau of mines, will be on tl
parts are carried on roller bearings. cost of excavation is about $5 per cubic speakers, which wlll include sor
The committee watched the operation of yard. Taking the average figure for driving national authorities on mining.
a machine at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, driv an 'eight-foot tunnel at $10 per cubic yard, t!on, treated in its true .3ense, an.
ing a tunnel through horizontal strata of this means a saving of one-half in operat· the greatest possible use with the
coal and a hard, close-grained rock. The Ing cost. The initial cost of the machine sible waste, will be one of the
tunnel had been driven ·150 feet. The rate would be greater than in the ordinary topic~ to be dis·cussed.
of driving was one and two feet per hour method, but the compressor plant would o
at eighty and 160 strokes per minute, re be about the same. THE GRANBY SMELTE
spectively. It was driven from a eompres o (Special Correspondenc&
sor of a capacity of 2,500 cubic feet of air AMERICAN MIINING CONGRESS. Grand Forks, British Columbi,;
per minute, compressing to 100 pounds per ber 10.-The Granby smelter
square inch. The weight of the recipro (Special Correspondence.) Forks, B. C" broke its year's
cating parts of the machine was about seven Spokane, Wash., Sept. 23.-With the ex 'cenUy, treating in one week 25,1
and a quarter tons, and the stroke, seven pected arrival in Spokane in a. few days of ore, bringing the year's total thus,
inches. The tunnel surface was smooth and Secretary James F. Callbreath and Assist 252 tons. The high price of coit
the gauge well maintained. The chips re ant Secretary Walcott, of Denver, active 13 inducing the company to PI
moved ranged from one-eighth Inch to one preparations for the annual convention of greatest possible tonnage of oil!
inch. The temper of the cutters is varied the American Mining Congress will be put provements at the smelter are;
for different parts of the face, to maintain under way. The convention will be held reasons for the increase. To,!
an even wearing surface. The chips were November 25 to 30. year the company has ,produce~
removed by :flUShing through an eight-inch En route from W:ashington, D. C., to Spo· pounds of blister copper, 395,Q
pipe. kane, Secretary Callbreath is making stops being sent to the refineries last l
The inventor claims that the cost of in Pittsburg, Chicago and other eastern production in the Kootenayanll
drilling can be cut eighty per cent with his cities, arousing intere3t in the congress. distrl-ct3 was again well above ti
machine. The complete cost of installa· Local offices in charge of Syuney Nor and totaled 52,441 tons and t~
tion is estimated ro be about $30,000. Op man have ,been opened in Spokane at 701 the year jumped above the miW
erating cost per twenty-four hours is es Paulsen bulldlng, and interest among min. half ton mark, the output tiO
timated at $160, with coal at $3 per short
1,'524'600~ tons.~ S,m~e~l~~ter,~,~r~ec~e~iP~ ~, ~
ing men of this section 'is running high. On
ton, and labor at $3 per twelve-hour day. the arrival of Mr. Callbreath a large gath· were 47,161 tons; for the ye ~
Interest and'" depreCiation are figured at ering of mining men will be held ro wei· 1,372,733 tons. .!r1~t~}~sbiJt
twenty per cent or $20 per day, making the come him and to take up further arrange· Trail were 64 ton~, ~aru~a at $
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thousands upon thousands of tons of ore well to silver. Zinc, likewise, has shared
which could be handled at a handsome prof in the general advance.
It if cheap power could be secured. There It is clearly evident that mining In the
are many mines in the,3e district" with a west is due for a great impetus. New pro·
quarter of a million blocked out in their motions are daily reported, and capital
workings which are noW idle, but which seems eager to acquire good mines and
could be operated successfully by the in prospects; in fact, the supply of good prop·
Published Seml-Mopthly by Will C. Higgins and
stallation of an electric power plant at a erties held at reasonable prices is much I
A. B. Greeson.
cost of from $35,000 to $40,000. less than the demand. All this indicates a
P. O. Box 1137 Phone, Wasatch, 2902
It seems strange that opportunities of healthy future.
Office, Rooms 434-435 Atlas Block, West Second
South Street.
this character are not more quickly rec ----o'-~~-
ognized and seized upon by capitalists and WILL MAKE GREATER SAVING.
A.. 8. GREESON ••......... 8u.lu.... Ma'''''IU'r
investors. A $40,000-plant would not only
SUbllCrlptloll Rate••
supply electric energy for one mine, but (Record, Ely, Nev.)
One Year .................................. $2.50
three or four, and the industrial feature
Six Months .................... _........... 1.50
While the great plant of the Steptoe
Single Copy .......... _.......................15
of such an enterprise is considerable, as Valley Smelting & Mln!ng company at
Foreign Countries In the Postal Union .• __ '.(10
gods. But, in prospecting, you must take back with 'them looked good, ev
conditions as you find them. A prospector But, I knew that gold could nc
The Prospector should not slight a new section because the those chalk cliffs, and so gave ~
and His Burro lime does not just .3uit him, because the no serious thought. The next m
quartz and the porphyry do not correspond boys went out with some rcipe~
to his ideas of what forms a desirable com 'their equipment. They did not
bination, or because the granrte is lacking that night, and I began to feel:.
in feldspar. He must remember that he is worried. Along during the altern
not making 'the Jormation, and that he must second day, however, they broke
take it as he finds it, with a chance of on a run. I think they must haVE
finding something big with geological condi powder rags and corsets, for Ui
tions different from that in which great divi more like a remnant of the lost
dend-payers have been found in before; for, even the raggedest of present-da
'gold is where you find it,' and not where tors. But they were happy, all
you believe It ought to be. and the samples of gold-bearing II
"You say that you don't see how a man had in their sample sacks set·
can ,find anything unless so.me wise guy had wild. After they had rested a~
previously furnished him with a chart and told me of their adventures. It
detailed map of the country, like those pro until nearly noon, the first day 01
vided by the U. S. Theological survey, the top of the cliffs, by a roundal
"A bobtail flush is nothing to what the which are so pretty.and nice to look at, a.nd, After eating lunCh one of the bo)
tenderfoot prospector will :put over on the that as far as you are concerned, you do not the other to the mouth of the ell.
veteran miner,once in a while," said the see how the tenderfoot could have the heart rope they 'had taken with them.
prospector to his burro. "The old·timer who to dig in barren ground when he could not other tied his end to the trunk 7
is long on information, even if he thinks he tell a piece of pyrite from rock fiecked with and slid down. The cave was 1
has four aces in his hand, is often beaten gold, if he should find either; which goes ger than it looked, from my car
to a finish by the young fellow who drifts to show that you would not make a good, little spring broke out of acre"
into camp with a mine sam,ple bag in one enthusiastic tenderfoot, or an old, dyed-in feet in. The boys had candles v
hand, a mandolin in the other, while a crop the-wool prospector, ndtwithstandlng· the and soon began making an exp1
tailed dog follows in his rear. The old fel fact that you have traveled with me, in the the cavern. After going in a d
lows in the camp wag their heads when they hills, many years, and should have absorbed 100 feet the chalky fOl'Illation gay,
see him, and those of tender heart begin to some mining lore, along with your daily ra a fissure in rhyolite took its pIa"
worry about his future, for they do not see tions, without being conscious of the fact. olite not being visible from the (
how he can make good when they know they Why, you haven't brains enough to make low. After following the cave f(
have spotted every good thing in the dis even a green tenderfoot, two of the green 100 feet they bumped up against
trict. Still they extend the glad hand, for est of which stumbled into my camp three of the fissure, a body of quart:!
the fresh, spicy air of the newcomer catches years ago. These boy.;; are big guns, now, in width, and which was fairly
their fancy, and he is a good fellow to have and look more like steel trust magnates than gather with wire gold. They knE
around. If he wants to know where there is men w·Jtb have made fOl1tunes in the hills; about metals to know nothing bt
a good place to prospect they will tell him and, as we have run out the chuck-a-wallas silver, in that region, could ex
to go anywhere, as the country is all good. and looked into the bedding for snakes, I condl'tion, and, although overjo:
He takes them at their word and goes out will tell you how 'these youngsters came not surprised at their discovery
and locates a bonanza in the serpentine, into our district and found a· whaling big was What they were outprOo3pecU
which, the old·timer had often maintained, mine that we had been looking at for they worked for an hour or two
could not be mineral-bearing. Or, his dog months without having any idea of its exist. decided to return to camp with !
chases a chipmunk into the underbrush, the ence. At the Ume I mention two boy·" from pIes. When ,they got back to the
tenderfoot follows, and finds a strong ledge St. Louis bumped hito camp one· day, as real troubles began. Not being ai
of $150~re within a hundred yards of where full of push as a bottle of pop, and "know steeple-chasers, they had difficulty
the veteran prospector has been camped ing so little that even my burro felt asham ing uP. First one would slip a
for six months. The tenderfoot does things ed for them. One of the boys had a powder then the other. Finally onegav
the old-timer would not think of doing, and rag in his kit, and I believe the other wore tirely, but the fellow with the t
prospects a stre'tch of country that has been corsets. All that I could say of them was managed to get up ten or twelve I
condemned for many years by the veteran that 'they were alive,' and nothing more. by grabbing at the few scattEl~
miner, just because he doesn't know any They made the camp hilarious, however, and growing in the ·crevlces in the fa
better, as· everything looks alike to him; took a great deal of interest in the pros cliff, he managed, finally, to re~
with the re3ult that he finds more good veins pect hole I was tlinking. One day they. where he collapsed from ov'er:.e:xt
and ledges than the average prospector asked me to direct them to good pr03pect ter an hour or two he succeeded .~
would find in ten years; ·and, all of the old Ing ground. I pointed to some over·hang up his partner and they ca.mped~
grizzlies wonder and shake their heads, and ing cliffs, on the bare face of one of which the night. The next morning thej
eventually accredit the SUCCe£B of the new there appeared 'to be the opening to a cave, ing but re;t, and Ilhey were a to"
comer to nothing but sheer luck. and told them that was likely ground. As lot when they finally got into
"You cannot confine mining to a mere a matter 1)f fact, however,. noth!ng but an up with them, the next day
system," contJnued the ·prospector," none eagle could get to it, and the boys were a rope ladder,a.nd(was
whatever. Wheat stacks, to be goo'd, must short of eagles. They started out, however, I saw their discovery. Back of
be made with just sO much flour in them, as' joyous and as confiden't as a baby with
a ·proper amount of baking powder, a few 'a full nursing bottle. That night they came
teaspoonfuls of bacon grease and a pinch in leg-weary but enthUsiastic. They had
of salt. \\'ben all is ready a skillful hand made their way to the base
at the skillett turns out a dish fit for the
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24 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
was amazed at the showing. A company was are good illustrations of the· chamber-de
formed, an aerial tramway installed, and posit class. Gash-veins are the most dis
the fir3t few carloads that went out con CAMP·FIRE CliATS
By PAUL VALTINKE
appointing of all veins to tile miner. They
tained the ramson of a Caesar. The boys are nothing else but small cracks which
helped in development and eqUipment, and, derived their mineral values. either frQ'm
before two years were rolling in wealth and The mere fact that you have a "true the surrounding rocks, or, what seems more
the whole country looked upon them as be fissure" does not in the least add any addi probable, by infiltation from the surface. I
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ing expert mining men who had style and tional value to your prospect. There have They seldom attain a depth of more than
system in their prospecting. been thousands of fissures discovered and a hundred feet, gradually pinching out with
"1 want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con· worked which never produced better depth. They will very seldom show tal.C
cluded the prospector, "I never pass up than Irish dividends. Although a true fiSt lining. As c~acks may Tesult by either con
anything after that experience, and would sure is a very desirable find in a mineral· traction, by folding or the cooling of igneous
as soon prospect around a badger hole on a ized district, it would be utter folly to dis· rocks, the number and variety of said
sandhill as in a lime-belt cut by a porphyry card any other mineral deposit simply be cracks is easily explained; but the gen~sis
dyke. I .no longer look for gold where it cause it does not show the earmarks of a of their ore bodies is still open to dispute
oul¢:tt to be, but am always expecting to fissure. As some of the richest mines de· and varied theories have been advanced on
find it where it really is; and there you are, rive their wealth from other than fissure de. this subject. 1mpregnatiQn veins and s~ock
and then some." posits, it will be of great use to the prospeCt works are rather related to the fissure vein,
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tor to familiarize hhmelf with all clasess class. The ore bodies consist of slilall
LOW GRADE GOLD ORES. of ore deposits found and recognized so seams all through the vein·filling, some
far. Different classifications exist, but times branching out for great distances into
(Colorado Springs Telegraph.) the field man cannot err, consid· the walls of the deposit. They are mostly
The work of the Portland Gold Mining ering only the following: }<'issure veins, found in igneous rocks. Fahlband depo.3its
company's mill at Victor, Colo., in the treat contact veins, segregation veins, bedded never ca'me under the writer's observation
ing of low grade ore, is an object lesson to veins, chamber deposits, gash veins, impreg. in this country, and he has never heaTd of
the mine operators of the entire Cripple nation veins, and stockworks. Fahlband de· any being reported. If fissures cut or cross
Creek district, in the opinion of George M. posits are not met with in this country. through different formations, and the ore·
Taylor, general mill superintendent of the Fissure veins are best recogniz>ed by bodies only appear when a certain forma·
company, who gave· out some interesting fig their regular strike, and if several veins tion (in most cases shale or shiet) makes
ures on the operation of the mill today. A are found in the district they will generally the walls, while the rest Is barren, the de
few days ago, for the first time .since the run parallel to each other_ They will ex· posit will belong to the Fahlband class.
mill opened, the amount of ore treated hibit a more or less banded structure of o
passed the 6Oo-ton mark, 625 tons of rock often different minerals. They mostly SMELTERY SUPERINTENDENT KILLED.
being run through in twentY-four hours. show the well-known talc selvage; but, if
This ore had an average value of $3.20 a there has been little dip or plane faulting, S:meon C. Hazelton, superintendent of
ton and the net profit to the company is they may, as the 'miner says, "be frozen the United States smeltery at Midvale,
$1 a ton. The net profit of the mill for to the wall and still be fissures." They Utah, was killed in an automobile accident
the month of July is close to $18,000, al· strike for long distances and extend to great on the evening of September 6th. With
though the actual figures have been made depths. Contact veins should, as the name three companions, bound for Salt Lake City,
out. implies, lay between to or more dissimilar he was struck by a street car, while at
"Every day in the Cripple Creek dis formations; but, if they cut ,across the tempting to avoid collision with a carriage
trict," said Mr. Taylor, "there are from five formations, as they often do, they should A gasoline explos:on added to the horror
to fifty tons of rock of just as good or bet· be rather termed fissure veins. Segrega· of the occurrence. Mr. Hazelton and one
ter grade thrown on the dumps at every tion veins will also sometimes show the cOlmpanion died before reaching the host
property that is being worked at all. This banded structure of fissure veins. Their pital.
rock ·can all be worked at a profit of $1 a veinstone will .3how more or It~ss crystali· Mr. Hazelton was unmarried and about
ton jU3t as we are dOing, and when one zation. The ore-bodies will be Irregularly thirty·five years of age. He came to Salt
stops to consider the unlimited quantities distri\>uted; the. veins will follow the stra Lake a few years ago from Philadelphia,
on the dumps of the district, we can con· tification of the surrounding rocks closely, Pennsylvania, to take charge of the Ameri
ceive what the net results would be." exhibiting thereby a more irregular strike can Smelting & Refining company's plant
Ten and fifteen years ago-yes, five than fissure veins in general. Signs of fault at Murray, and later assumed the super
years ago-ore was discarded as worthless ing are seldom observed. Bedded veins or intendency of the United States smeltery.
that ran $5, $6 or $8 a ton in gold. Today, blanket veins will only be found between Mr. Hazelton was well liked by all witll
handsome profits are being made on rock sed'mentary rocks. .They lie ,l}aTalle\ to whom he came in contact, and his loss will
that average.;; only $3.20. And when It Is the stratification and will follow all con be keenly felt.
considered that, during the days when tortions Qf .the enclosing beds. If found ----0'---
science played less a part in the general at the top of a former anticline they will 'Valter Hal'vey 'Veed, .manager of the
scheme of extracting the ore from thh hll1s necessarily crop in two places; one outcrop Calumet & Sonora Mining company, oper
and the gold from the ore, there were tens dipping away frOlm the other. These de· ating in Sonora, Mexico, announces further
of millions of "pay stuff" thrown. over the posits were laid down, originally, horizon improvements' at the property. The shaft
dumps, the possibilities of the mining alone tally. Our Mercur mines are an illustration will be enlarged to a size permitting two
almost surpass comprehen3ion. of this class of deposits. Chamber depos· hoisting compartments. The shaft was reo'
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its are always found in limestone or other cently deepened by raising from the 525.
The Chief Consolidated of Eureka, Utah, soluble rocks. Ore bodies of varying ex foot level, and a new drift hll.3 been com'
has over $200,000 i.n its treasury, and is tent and purity, of mostly lenticular shape, menced. The dry mill Is operating one shift
shipping regularly. It is expected a divi without any connection or connected only a day. A recent shipment of copper con·
dend will' be paid when the net earnings by small seams, make up their mineral centrates to the Cananea Consolidated smelt
Teach $250,000, which should be at an early wealth. The United Verde Copper mine and tery at Cananea, contained fifteen per cent
<l{lte. the lead-silver mines of Eurek;a, Nflyada. q°l>Wr ,
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MASON VALLEY DEVELOPMENTS. and netting about $5 per ton. Messrs. THE WILBERT MINI
Sonne and Alberts have a lease and bond
(Standard,Leadore, I"dat
In an interview in The' Salt Lake Trib· on this property for $20,000, which they
The 'Wilbert" Mining- & ~
une, A. L. Jacobs of Salt Lake, makes some would not sell now for four times that
pany with field of operation hi
interesting comments on the Mason Valley amount. They are experienced mining men
district, is pushing ahead wltl1
district of Nevada, as follows: and they have developed large bodies of
energy, .aince the necessary rel'!
"The Mason Valley property has been shipping grade ore.
mill have been completed, all~
opened by means of a series of tunnels, "About a year or two ago the McCon
for the enterprise now forecastlil
the lowest of which, the No.4, is about nell property was leased by Goldfield peo·
succe£s. The equipment of the
550 feet from the surface," said Mr. Ja· pIe In behalf of a French syndicate, upon
at its maximum is of 150-ton3 ca
cobs. a report 'made by Engineer O. A. Palmer
prises a Blake crusher, rolls, C1
"The mine is connected with the tracks of Salt Lake City. Thep .spent about $70.
James and Wilfley tables, two I
of the Nevada Copper Belt railroad by 000 in development and then threw up their
and a "return" through which t
means of an aerial tram, the capacity of lease. It seems, however, that they did not
crushed tine enough are conve~
which is about 2000 tons dailY. The man fol:ow the advice given by Mr. Palmer, but
be ground over again. Ore b
agement has opened the vein along its Mr. Sonne proceeded to follow his recom
at the mill is 200 tons. Just at
strike for 1200 feet, the ore shoot being mendations, meeting with the results al mill is treating a'bout 85 tons i
anywhere from twenty to one hundred feet ready stated. This illustrates some of the per day, which quantity will :
in width throughout this distance. uncertainties of mining."
creased to 125 tons. Concentrati·
"As the management widens its surface When asked in regard to the Mason
Tatio of 4 to 1. F'rom the crude
explorat:on, new surprises are being brought Valley smelting plant, Mr. Jacobs said it
ters the crusher, to the fin13b
to view continually, and I spent a consid was operating with all the smoothness of a a saving of seventy·five· per (
erable time In going over the surface, see watch. The .one furnace is treating about ues is effected. The mm is ,
ing enough to convince me that new bodies SOO tons daily on an average. The perfec
steam power, which, although ..
of ore will be disoovered, when the com· tion with which smelting operations have attendant on freighting the he,
pany gets ready to prospect untouched been carried on from ·the first hour of work ery over wagon road from the
ground. In sending several surface cuts in· reflects great medit upon General Man· road point, Is great, will pro,
to the mountain, the management has op· ager Jules Labarthe. The capacity of the in the long run against water I
ened Its lime flux!ng rock, and in so doing plant is now being increased to 1900 to 2000 tions via a long flume, usually
a fine body of red oxide was developed, tons daily. The sintering plant is to be ice in the winter.
which averages two per cent copper, con enlarged at an early date. As soon as the The mines of <the company
stituting a splendid..fiux. plant reaches its logical capacity Mr. Ja· north ·by south in a big contil
"All the lime rock and red oxide ore is cobs expects to see the company's own re zite, limestone 'and granite, the
handled by contract at an extremely low fln:ng plant installed. mation being the hanging walt
figure per ton. It is conveyed through Conditions throughout the entire district which is on a contact fi3sure.
chutes from the surface to the No. 4 tun· are extremely gratifying, says Mr. Jacobs, working re.presents a vertieaJ!
nel level, where the loading station is 10' and numerous properties are being added outcrop of only. 250 feet. 'l'hrQ
cated. The several levels have been con· to the active list right along. of openings,good miIl dirt lJ
nected with raise to the surface, and in do· ----<0'--- posed on the vein fur the disU
ing this work the management has driven NOVEL METHOD OF GRADING. feet, and, it is estimated that.
into good ore bodies where they were not al prominent workings of the "W
together expected. Concerning the excavation being made are from 40,000 to 60,000 tons (
"It had been a year since I saw the for the new hoisting 'plant for the Nevada ered, ready for 'breaking down
property, and I am satisfied that if the Wonder mine, the Mining News of Wonder, through the milL Exclusive 0
mine were to be sampled and its resources Nevada, makes the following comment: on ore, a systematic course of
measured today, a larger tonnage of 4 per The excavating is being done just back is being pUI'3ued.
cent copper ore would be shown. than then of the present hOist building, and to avoid The Holman air drills, whi(
existed. It is my opinion that there nre danger to the building and to the men in use since the placement .
more than 1,000,000 tons of 4 per cent cop employed on the surface from the heavy compressor and 150 h.p. englii
per ore now blocked out. blasting, a tunnel was run in at a.n: angle excellent satisfaction. Total i
"The tram at the present time handles from behind the blacksmith shop, and when which is divided into two shift:
about 150 tons of lime rock, and between this tunnel was in far enough a raise was forty men.
250 and 400 tons of oxide and sulphide made to the surface. A chute has been A. S. 'Ross, president and1l
ores daily, just as required for fluxing the built at the bottom of this raise and a ager, H. S. Knight, of Salt Ld
custom ores at the smelters and to af track laid through the tunnel to the dump. and treasurer and M. M. Joh4
ford the food for the one furnace now As the rock is blasted down from the sides engineer of the company, art
in service. Outside of the 300 to 400 tons of the raise it falls into the chute, is the magnificent showing of"
of Nevada Douglas copper ores received drawn off into cars, rolled out and dumped, Which has crossed the boundal
dailY, there are about 125 tons delivered without· shoveling at all. Shooting from prospective stage to that •
by small mines to the smelter each day. inside this glory hole eliminates danger And to Mr. Johnson must !
The custom ores are carrying a consid of flying rocks to those working about the credit for the adequate mill
erable excess of silica, the Mason Valley collar of the shaft. its adjustment, thereby
ores contain a fair excess of iron, hence ----0---- of the plant.
it is better business to conserve the Ma The August production of the Miami Although' it Is
son Valley ores for fluxing purposes than Copper company, near Globe, Arizona, was the hlll to Arcb and
UTAH COAL MINES. It is probably more than they will earn THE BEAVER·UTAH.
until the new railroad line is fin!~hed and
(Price Advocate.) in operation, but it is perhaps conservative (Press, Beaver, Utah.)
Without discrediting the future possibil· to estimate that United States Smelting One more evidence of the permanency
ities of the precious metal mines of Utah, is today meeting less than 5 per cent of of the Newton district comes to hand in
it is becoming more evident each day that this interest charge out of its own earnings. the form of the assayer's certificate from
the fuel industry is one of the most prom· This percentage will steadily decline as the the Crismon and Nichols office in Salt
ising in the state. 'Close observers have coal output is increased up to and beyond Lake, on a sample taken across the bot·
attached more importance to coal mining a million tons." tom of the fifty· foot shaft on the Beaver·
here than the average person, and the en· ---~o-· Butte property. The assay 'shows 0.60
trance of the United States Smelting, Min· STRIKE IN YELLOW DOG. ounces silver and 6.90 ounces gold, valued
ing and Refining company into the coal at $138 per ton. The bottom of the shaft
business is considered of greater import· (Star, Winnemucca, Nev.) is about4x6 feet and is being sunk on the
ance among eastern financial interest3 than S. L. Baker and John Yates are in town vein. The Butte has steadily increased in
most western ,people realize. from Dyke, in the Pine Forest range. The value from $8 at the surface to the present
But we are just entering upon the pos· former is superintendent of the Yellow Dog fancy figures.
SIbilities of the coal industry in Utah. The property, on which a phenomenal strike of This in itself is very gratifying to the
Knights have acquired some good coal prop· gold ore was 'made a short time ago. owners, but it is not all by any means.
erties near the properties recently taken The latter is a pioneer of the camp and Recently the vein has been prospected on
over by the United States Smelting como. with his associates owns the adjoining the surface for a distance of six hundred
pany. Some other big mine and smelter ground to the Yellow Dog, on which there feet by numerous cross·cuts, and for the
people have been quietly taking up coal are excellent exposures of ore. Their ar entire distance on a four to four and one
lands, as a result of their location near rival in town corroborates what has been half foot vein values of $10 a ton have been
a railroad where either a fair haulage rate said about the rich discoveries in the camp obtained.
is assured, or their close proximity to a of Dyke and as a proof of the assertion It is fair to assume that the values will
market makes it possible for coal roads to Messrs. Baker and Yates brought in a large hold to a fair average in the prospected
be built. Of the coal lands here acquired number of samples of ore that are ex· territory and allowing that the average is
by the United States Smelting company the tremely rich in gold. In fact, the ore will only $25 a ton it would give a total valua
Wall Street Journal has the following to compare favorably in richness with that of tion of $200,000 above the 50·foot level in
say: National, Rexall and even the great Gold· the six hundred feet of known gold·bearing
"Directors of United States Smelting field camp. Samples brought in from the ground.
company who have 'within the last few Yellow Dog claim were taken from the face Work will be prosecuted on this proper·
weeks examined the company's coal lands of a 200·foot tunnel that encountered the ty as rapidly as possible. The shaft will
speak with great optimi3m of the outlook ore body at a perpendicular depth of 120 be sent 'down another fifty feet before mak
for earnings in this direction within a rea· feet and are exceptionally rich In gold. ing any attempt to follow the vein, as it
sonable length of time. It will at the out· Some of the pieces aTe covered with small is a moral certainty that the gold is there
side be but two years from date before the nuggets and particles of gold are scattered the entire length of the outcrop, With
Utah company, the coal subsidiary holding in profusion over the rock. One piece has the installation of the quartz mill on North
title to these twelve thousand acres of coal so much of that yellow metal that it Jooks Creek and the completion of the tramway
lands, finishes the construction of its eighty· as If it was poured into the oxidized por· across the foot hills, this property will have
mile road to connect with Union Pacinc and tion of the ore. at least 50,000 tons blocked out and ready
give it an additional outlet for its coal. Sev Messrs. Baker and Yates are very enthu to break down for the crusher.
en surveying parties are now in the field, and sIastic over the prospects of the camp and o
a few week3 will see this portion of the believe that it is in the making one of the NEW MILL AT MANHATTAN.
work finished. The general location of the richest sections in the state. There is
line is definitely established and rights of ledge after ledge outcropping throughout The camp of Manhattan, Nevada, is to
way are secured. th whole district covering many miles and have a new 150·ton mill, which is to be
"The present facilities of the coal 1>rop nearly all of them .are gold·bearing. erected by the Manhattan-Big Four MJining
erties are confined to a connection with the Charles Everson is another prospector company. The mill will be gravity type, de·
Denver and Rlo Grande, by a twenty·three· who is in town from the camp and he has pending on amalgamation as the main
mile branch owned by the Utah company. fine showings on his claims. He is also means of recovery. It is planned to tram
The Gould road is giving excellent service one of the pioneers of the district and has the ore from the shaft to a Blake crusher,
and is doing its part in helping get a larger accomplished considerable development work whence it will go by gravity to ten 1.050.
production of coal to market. 'When the on his claims. He states that in all his pounp stamps, crushing through four mesh;
coal properties were acquired it was stated workings he has uncovered nice bodies of there to two 85-ton tube mills, which will
that production was at the rate of five hun· free·milling gold ore. grind the ore to 150 me.h. After this sec·
dred thousand tons yearly. The curt'"ent Other claim owners in the camp are Al ondary grinding, the pulp will pass over
output 13 about seven hundred and fifty Gay, D. A. Johnson, J. E. Hawley, J. G. Fos thirty·six feet of stationary amalgamated
thousand tons and this rate will gradually ter, Mr. Alley, James Robins and as.sociates, plates. It is expected that the pulp from
increase, so that by the tlrst of Janu!l.!'",7 It and all have good showings of ore. the plates will be of sufficiently lowl grade
is likely the mines 'will be outputting the o to discard for the present.
equivalent of a million tons yearly. The Day·Bristol Consolidated Mines 0---
"W,hen the United States Smelting went company, of Pioche, Nevada, is shipping fifty The Michigan·Utah Consolidated Mining
into the coal bus~ness last spring, it financ· tons of highgrade ore, daily, from Its company has been erecting an aerial tram
ed the purchase of these eoal properties Gypsey mine, and will soon be shipping way up Little Cottonwood canyon near
through sale of $10,000,000 6 per cent note3. forty tons a day from its May Day mine, Salt Lake. The route is a diftlcult one and
This calls for an annual interest charge of and twenty tons from its Iron mine. H. F. the completion of the tramway will mean an
$900,000. This is considerably more than .Widdecombe is mine manager for the com· . increase in shipments. Smeltery settlements
the coal properties are today earning net. pany. have been on the basis of $30 per ton net.
m b U
com;pany and the Free Gold group, near of which will be announced later if it goes It is reported that oil has i
through successfuHy. In the W.I", "U,•• In Id
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Centennial, Wyoming.
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THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M BE R 15, 19 1 2.
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COLORADO. ::: tons of 350-ounce ore. McGuire & Co.
shipped 3 tons of :lOO-ounce ore. Ramonds
Adjoining Slales Georgetowll Courier: The Capital mill & Co. opened up a streak of ore this week
is running steadily on ore from the com in their lease which gives values of 250
ARIZONA. [lllny ground in the Cap;tal mine, and a ounces in silver with high lead values.
Range News: The Standard steady and heavy production of concen These le3sees expect to commenCe ship
company, whose property is located ments of ore in the near future.
trlltes and large retorts of gold are being
between Dragoon and Johnson, owned by sent out regularly. The mill is running o
Owen T. Smith, has begun fUrther develop IDAHO.
on about 100 tons of ore a day and it now
ment on its property. Mr. Smith has just
looks as thought the ore bodies in the com
returned from a successful bUSiness trip.
pany ground would keep it running indefin Wallace Press·Times: It is reported that
and ample funds have beeu supplied lO
itely. a strike of considerable importance has
finance the property for the next two years.
Thi3 property has all the earmarks of mak Idaho Springs "'fining Gazette: Schrieber, been made on the property of the United
ing a mine and is situated between the Cen Schoffer and Roller, leasing on the Treas· Lead company a short distance below Os·
turion and Republic. Mr. Smith is an able ure, have opened a streak of rich ore, for burn. The strike is represented as being
mining man of experience and has con which this old mine i3 noted. Two months in a drift on the ledge from the long cross·
fidence in the .property. ago these parties secured a lease on a cut. The property lies on the south side
block of ground and proceeded to work of the valley. Formerly it wa3 known as
Prescott Courier: It is reported that the
without any blow or bluster and the result the German-American. Dr. W. G. Pickerell,
Emporia mine3, one of the best gold prop
is that after a few weeks development, of Spokane, is manager.
erties close to Prescott, will shortly be
they have at the sampler a shipment of .:Mackay Miner: J. A. Phegley of Arco,
un"l',ratered and that the development of
twelve tons of ore that wiIl run over ten in company with John Walsh and George
the property on a large scale will be re
ounces per ton. There are now six men Serfe!t, visited the Columbia Standard
sumed. In a recent issue of the Courier
employed at the works. group of claims, In which Mr. Phegley is
a quite extended descript'on of the Emporia
Telluride Examiner: The Primos Chemi largely interested, the fore part of the week.
properties was printed, and it now appears
that the m,ines are about to make good. cal company is working a force of men This property has a fine, 'strong six-foot vein
The first work to be done, after unwater on a large deposit of vanadium ore, which of "good copper ore exposed in several
ing, will be the driving of a level to con Ees in contact formation between Bear and places, and is considered to have some of
nect the two shafts, thus affording stoping Fall. creeks, on the south side of the San the best ground in this section. The gentle
ground while additional sinking i3 being Miguel river. Recently th13 company tried men in control of the property are planning
done. out an auto 'truck, guaranteed to haul six some extensive develQpment Work.
J!'lorenee Blade·Tribune: J!'rank Vincent or seven tons of ore from their property Wallace press·Times: Henry Leeper, of
is assorting a carload of copper OTe at his to the mill, but it is understood the truck Coeur d'Alene, who has charge of the work
Butte mining claims, situated fourteen miles did not make good, and will be shipped on the Pennsylvania Mining company's
east of Florence, and will ship it to Doug back to the selling cOmpany and teams will property, formerly known as the Mastadon,
las. The ore runs over 17 per cent copper be put back to do the hauling. about fifteen miles southeast of Wallace,
and about $10 gold per ton. It also car Ouray Herald: The grand news reached in the St. Joe district, was in the city yes·
ries som!;l silver. The combined value of Ouray last Sunday that the Camp Bird had terday preparing to take over a second load
the three ·metals runs the ore up to about cut the vein again, this time on the 500 of supplies. He has been employing four
$60 per ton, a very nice shipping product. foot level after crosscutting about sixty feet men in development. He reports an en
Frank ha3 been prospecting in that district from the shaft. The strike was not con couraging showing on the property. The
for a·bout two years past, and he and Henry firmed until Tuesday, when Manager Cox forest fire two years ago wiped out all
Zeuner, postmaster at Price station, are stated to the Herald, that "it would add surface improvements on the property, and
partners in some gold claims, in that 10 materially to the prosperity of the Camp destroyed a vast amount of good timber.
cality, that carry high·grade free gold ore. Bird." On the 400 foot level, the vein is Mullan Progress: The Snowshoe com·
Frank is a sober, industrious miner and nine feet wide, and at the new di~covery pany is still drifting east on the ore 'body
prospector and will make a "stake" in the it has proven to be two feet better. Sample in the lower tunnel. One crosscut has been
Butte district if he keeps his strength and and specimen assay,> run five ounCes in run to the footwall and shows a body of
health. gold. The ore is a lead-sulphide product. sulphide ore 25 feet wide, ·similar in ·char
Prescott Courier: Development of the .By Wednesday night, they had drifted thirty aeter and mineral contents to the ore being
properties of the Arizona-Portland Mines feet both ways on the vein. No one knows, milled by the Snowstorm. Assays across 25
company, whose large group of claims are for certain, the exact length of the shoot. feet show from 2% to 9 per cent copper.
situated close to the rich strike of the Georgetown Courier: The past two The average will be about :I per cent. The
Commercial Mining company in Copper weeks have witnessed some exceptionally
drift is being continued east on the hang.
Basin, continues steadily and with good re . fine 'shipments of ore from the various
ing wall, and a'bout the first of the com
sults. A small force of men is engaged in leases on the Seven-Thirty and Dives-Peli
ing week another crosscut will be run to
running a tunnel upon a claim of the group, can property. Paracchini & Co. shipped
the foot wall. So far all of the ore is
which i3 about three-fourths of a mile from 24 tons of ore which gave returns of $150
good mill feed.
Copper Bas!n, and the tunnel has reached a ton. These lessees are operating in a
Mullan Progress: The Carbonate Center
a length of over 100 feet. O. W. Blicken winze below the Hercules level and have
Maning company has [been organized !to
staff, of this city, who is one of the prin a streak of ore running from one to four take over the property formerly owned by
cipal stockholders of the company, recently feet in width. They expect to have about the Tombstone Mining company, east of
returned from a trip east, where he suc 40 tons of this ore and 40 tons of con Mullan. The incorporators of the new com
ceeded in obtaining needed finances for centrating ore ready for shipment early pany are John Foss, Archie Gillis, John
future development work. He reports that. next month. Oscar Johnson & Co. made Erickson, Thomas G. Kennedy and O. A.
while money is by no means easy, there a shipment of 4% tons of ore which re Larson. The old stockholders in the 'fomb
is money to be had for legitimate mining turned values of 300 ounces in slIver with stone coIniPany will be given the opportun
enterprises. high lead values. Randahl & Co. shipped ity to secure the same number of shares
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THE SAL T LA K EM' N , N G REV' E W, S E PTE M BE R 15. 1912. ~
L. F. Miller, in charge of the physics and j
{: Personal Mention electro·metallurgical department of the Col.
orado School of Mines, has been inspecting
I. Engineers and Mil/men I
the mines and smelteries in the principal F. Augustus Heinze is ill Salt Lake City.
A. Y. Smith of Los Angeles, California,
districts of Colorado.
was a recent visitor in Salt Lake. Frank H. Probert has returned to Call·
C. J. McGlynn, president of the Alta· fornia after an extended trip in Europe,
Grant Snyder, of Salt Lake City, has
Emerald Mining company,. will reside in
been visiting the mining camps of Colorado. H. C. Hoover, a mining engineer of Lon
Salt Lake City. The mI'ne i.n Little Cot·
C. W. Gaby, of Ely, Nevada, is noW in don, England, and author of "PrinCiples of
tonwood canyon, near Salt Lake City, is to
charge of the ·tireat Valley mine at Hamil Mining" is in New York.
be opened up on a large scale.
ton, same state. Albert Frank, general manager of the
J. O. Gilchrist has returned to Pittsburg.
G. D. 'Wilkin, superintendent of the Mos· Ohio Copper company, has returned to Salt
PennsylVania, after spending two months at
cow mine near Milford, Utah, is visiting Lake City from the east.
the property of the Eureka·Ophir Mining
relatives in Ohlo~ cO'mpany in the Stockton district of Utah, Sydney II. Ball has returned to New
A. W. Brantlund has accepted a position in Which he is interested. D. F. Clinton is York, after examining some properties in
as superintendent of the Ruth mine, near manager of the mine. the Ural mountains, in -Russia.
Kingman, Arizona. Hansen E'vs'mith, of Duluth, Minnesota, William w;.rd, who has been in CoIOln·
R. R. Clark, of Muskogee, and 13. F. Hil who has been making such a success of bia, South America, investigating placer
liard, of Porum, Oklahoma, are visitiug the theSt. Marys mine near ,Milford, Utah, dur ground, has returned to Denver, ·Colorado.
Zero mine near Prescott Arizona. ing the past summer, has returned home Robert S. Lewis, a graduate of Leland
W. E. Young, of Chicago, Illinois, reo with the intention of returning to Star dis Stanford university, has begun his duties
cently visited the Rich Gulch mine, near trict at an early day. at the University of Utah, as associate pro·
Silver City, Idaho, where he holds an in R. C. Breemer, sales maI:\ager for the fe3sor of mining.
terest. Wm. Jes,30p & Sons. Inc., importers of high· Jules Labarthe, general manager of the
W. H. Smith of Shell Rock, Iowa, a grade tool and drill steel, was in Salt Lake Mason Valley Mines company, with proper·
stockholder in the Big Five Mine, at Idaho the first of the month. While here he com ties in the Yerington district of Nevada, is
Springs, Colorado, recently visited that pleted arrangements with Delos Irish to in Salt Lake City on professional business.
property. represent his company in this territory. D. C. Jackllng, president and general
W. C. Hunter, assistant superintendent H. B. PauUm, of Duluth, Minnesota and manager of the Utah Copper company, has
of the Montana-Tonopah 'Min!ng company, J. E. Curry, of Warren, Arizona, who are returned to Salt Lake City, from Butte,
of Tonopah, Nevada, has been in Oakland, connected with the accounting department Montana, where he has been examining the
California. of the Amalgamated Copper company, are Butte & Superior mine.s.
R. C. Kerens, vice-president of the San making an examination of the affairs of the F.' F. Hintze Jr., of Salt Lake has re
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Route, Giroux Consolidated cO'mpany at Ely, Ne turned to Columbia university where he will
with associates, was a recent visitor at vada. finish his course in geology. He wiH grad
Tonopah, Nevada. J. L. Craig, J. V. Lyle and C. H. Jenkin· uate in 1913. Mr. Hintze devoted his .. um·
William J. Priestly, Jr., is in Brigham son, of Salt Lake, who are with the Ore· mer vacation to the study of the geology of
City, Utah, having resigned his position as gon Short Line railroad, recently visited the Cottonwood districts.
superintendent of the Rhodes-Hall mine, Milford, Utah, and, while there, made an o
}I'airbanks, Alaska. inspection of the property of the Mining POTASH PROPERTY WANTED.
Range Gold MIning company, in which they
O. Barlow Wilmarth, of Telluride, Colo I have a ready customer for a large pot·
are interested.
rado, general manager of the Colorado Car t,oh property. Would appreciate any infor
notite company, has moved his residenoo to J. W. Power, of Twin Falls, Idaho, who
is largely interested in Jarbidge district, mation relative to a property of this kind.
Montrose, same state. Give all the details yoU possibly can and
Nevada, was a recent Salt Lake visitor, com
Walter Wilson, who is' president of the ing here on important mining business. Mr. address ·same to C. A. W1" care of Salt Lake
Manhattan Amalgamated Mining company, Mining Review. Sept. 15, 2t
POWer is much pleased with conditions at
at Manhattan, Nevada, has returned from a 0>----
Jarbidge and stated that the camp was im
trip to Los Angeles, California. WILL SELL OR LEASE.
proving rapidly.
F. M. Bender, of Marion, Ohio, president
George St. Clair, of Ophir, Utah, mine OWner will sell, lease, or stock propo
of the Golden Gate Mining company, has
manager for the Lion Hill Consolidated sition. A splendid copper, sllver·gold propo
taken charge of the company's operatioIL3 in
Mines company, was in 'Salt Lake, last sition in Nevada. Six miles from Central
the Greenhorn district of Oregon.
week, with another 50-ton shipment of high· Pacific ~ailroad. Have shipped several cars
S. H: Douglas, of Salt Lake, has returned grade ore. Mr. St. Clair states that the of flne ore from upper workings. Owner
from Hazelton, B. C., where he made an in· mine is looking fine, and that development wants funds to complete lower tunnel.
spection of the Rocher de Boule mine which work is being kept well ahead of ore ex Property well equipped. Complete descrip
he states, is in a flourishing condition. ' traction. tion to interested parties. Box 7615, Salt
W. H. Tangye is the new superintendent The Co;pper Era, of Clifton, Arizona, Lake, Utah. Sept. 15·2t,
of the Calumet and Sonora Mining corn. states that A. Lafave and wife recently ----40)---
pany, operating near Cananea, Sonora, Mex. celebrated Hie 49th anniversary of their The Yukon Gold company, operating In
ico, and succeeds Charles Strachan in that wedding, For a number of years Mr. La· the Klondike district of Yuk(ln TerritorY.
position. fave resided in Salt Lake, and was quite Canada, handled in July, by dredging, 1,020,
I. P. Allen, president of the Nonpareil ,heavily interested in mining in this section, 700 cubic yards of gravel, yielding $644,000
Mining company, and J. P. Burke and E. H, where he made many friends because of in bullion. The production for the season
Callahan, of San FranCisco, have been in his many sterling qualities. He is now eu up ·to July 30th, was $2,760,700 from 2,481"
specting the company's property at Vlrner, gaged in mining in the near vicinity of 100 cubic yards of gravel. These results
California, Clifton, are better than those of 1911.
:;
[ Dips, Spurs and Angles l the properties ~f the Anaconda Copper Min. The plant was blown in May 29th,
ing company. should begin to show earnings during'
The Brown Mountain pyritic smeltery second half of the year.
The mines of Park City, Utah, produced at Ouray, Colorado, wi1l be blown in at The Chino Copper company, operatin
7,020 tons of ore during the month of Au an 'early date. The capacity will be 125 Grant county, New Mexico, made a pr9
gust. tons. tion of 3,618,226 pounds of copper in
The Lower Mammoth' company, of Mam A syndicate, headed by James .s. Doug gust. With the exhaustion of the OlfiJ
,moth, Utah, is shipping ore going from 35 las, of Douglas, Arizona, has taken over surface deposits, a better recovery is l!!
to 40 per cent zinc. the property of 1he Uniteq Verde Exten· made on the sulphide ores.
The Victoria mine, of Eureka, Utah, re sion Copper company In the Jerome dis· The improvement in the metal rna
cently shi:pped three cars of ore which trict of Arizona. and favorable smelting contracts have
brought the company over $6,000. The Rico-Well1ngt;on Mining companYi abled the Carisa Mining company of
A ten-stamp mill has. been erected by of Provo, Utah, recently paid $50,000 on the tic, Utah, to ship fifty or sixty 'ca;s of
C. E. Warren, superintendent, at the Juanita bond on its property, the money coming from its old waste dumps, formed "
mine, near Prescott, Arizona. from are shipments from the companys mine the mine was a producer of rich ores.
at Rico, Colorado. The deep shaft of the Goldfield Me
The new boiler and compressor plant of
the Boston.Ely, at Ely, Nevada, is about The mall routing for Jarbidge, Nevada, Mining. company has passed the 1300·
ready to be put in commission. from Salt Lake, has been changed from level and it is planned to connect the 1
via Three Creeks, Idaho, to via Deeth, Ne foot level with the same level of the (;
The mill of the Maricopa Mines company,
vada, making a much shorter route to this field Consolidated. This' wlll assist the
in Lander county, Nevada, has been started. 'Velopment of both of these Nevada III
promising gold camp.
The company employl.3· thirty·five men. at depth.
The July operations of the Nevada Hills
The Iron Blossom mine, of Tintic dis· Mining company, netted over $64,000. The The Mushett & Wittenburg lease on
trict, Utah, has been mining about 100 tons average value of ore treated was $28.44 per Manhattan Consolidated, at Manhattan~
of fine copper ore, weekly, for sO'llletime ton, with a total production of 3,550 tons vada, Is preparing for a production of
past. and a recovery of 91.2 per cent. tons per day. Some very rich ore is
The Miami Copper company, of Arizona, Carl M, Owen, president,' and Martin to have been uncovered on the 130·
produced in July, a little over 3,000,000 level, and the same shoot is being SOl
Schwerin, general manager, of the Rico
pounds of copper, which breaks its former on the 250·foot level.
Mining company, have returned to New
record. York after spending a week at the com· Harvey M. Ross, manager of the N~
John Price, who is leasing on the Buck· pany's :property at Rico, Colorado. Mining company, operating near Kell
wheat mine, near La Plata, Colorado, is The Alta Consolidated Mining company, Idaho; has arranged for a power line J
preparing to ship a carland of high grade ,,·ith mines at the head of Little Cottonwood the Bunker Hill & Sullivan power hous
silver are. its property on Pine Creek. A seventy
canyon, near Salt Lake City, is shipping fifo
horsepower motor will drive a compre
The Colorado Mining company, of Tintic teen to twenty tons of lead·silver ore dally.
O. A. Jacobson is superintendent. of 427 cubic feet capacity.
Utah, has passed its dividend, in order to
The Silver King Consolidated Mining The placer property of the Dutch
keep its surplus unimpaired by the exten..3ive
development work to be undertaken. company, of Park City, Utah, has increased Mining company, in Humboldt county."
vada, has been bought by T. F. Brot:/;
An explooion of firedamp in the Clarence Its capital stock to 700,000 shares of $1 each,
of Salt Lake City. The property has I
pit, near Lens, France, on September 3rd, for the purpose of sinking Its shaft deeper
worked but little although about $tO!
resulted in the death of forty miners. The and acquiring adjacent claims.
in gold has been taken out. A large fore
mine is on fire and. w1Il have to be sealed The Gold Roads Mines company, a sub men will be put at work at once.
off. sidiary of the United States Smelting, Re
fining & Mining company, has ordered twu The Goldfield Consolidated Mining •
Construction work commenced, recently
on the new mill of the Idaho Continental,' gasoline trucks, for service from its mine.. pany, of Goldfield, Nevada, has declarej
at Gold Roads, to Kingman, Arizona. regular quarterly dividend of thirty ~
near Porthill, Idaho. The mine, owned by a share, payable October 31st, to stocjQ
Spokane people, was financed by John D. The new Calumet and Arizona smeltery,
ers of record September nth. Tp,eam
Ryan. which It was orl~nally planned to blow,
to be distributed is $1,067,729, bringing
in August 13th, will probably not be blown
A. M. 'Wilson, who has made several total payments to date to $22,840,789
in before the first of 1913. The company
shipments, now has three carloads of car The Hecla Mining company, of Wal:
is now earning about $7.70 per share.
notite ore ready for shipment at his mines Idaho, paid dividend No. 110, amounti~
in the Paradox country, San Miguel county, Charles Cox, superintendent of the P. $20,000, August 20. This was the rei
Colorado. P. R. mill in Gilpin county, Colorado, reo monthly dividend, based on two ce~
The plant of the. Primos Chemical com· cently deposited in a Central CUy bank a share on an issued capitalization of $1,
pany, at CIIfton Station, Pennsylvania, has gold retort, weighing 657:. ounces and worth 000. The total amount of dividends in,
been destroyed by fire.. The company has $1,117, which was the result of one month's is $160,000, and the total to date ii"
extensive vanadium properties in western cleanup at the mill. 510,000.
Colorado. The Ely Copper company is planning to The iShannon Copper company, oJ.
The LOwer Mammoth Mining company resume operations near Ely, Nevada, by lng nea,r Metcalf, Arizona, has
of Tintic, Utah, expects to ship some of its sinking a shaft near the east boundary of dividend of fifty cents a share,
zinc ore this month. The deposit Is on its properties, to seek an ore body, bellev Qetoben 1st. This means a
the 1,500-foot level, and the showing is said ed to underly this location. The mine has $150,000, and II. total ()f $609,000. ~~._j_
to be good. been Idle since 1907. statement of the company" ~
The copper production of the
Montll,na, dlstri!)t for AUlPlst, wall ;:1S."bJ~.UU'U
p.;rl!!!ds, thll wb!\l)l
32 THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
Arizona Railroad's six per c~nt bonds bav The American B03ton Mining compl!.'l'y. National Reserve Bank of New York; Wil
ing been retired. N. 1.. Amster, president, Diorite, Michigan, will install in its power liam A. Beaudry, superintendent of the min~;
of Boston, Massachusetts, says that the net plant a 500-kllowatt, 2300-volt Curtis turbo and Allen P. Bowie, assistant cashier of
profits for the fiscal year will be $600,000. generator. The order for this unit has !leell the State Savings Bank of Butte. It is ex
During August. the Eva Mining company, p'llced with the General Electric company, pected that Allison will become president
<,perating in the Mount Nebo district of ·The International Smelting & Refining of the company and Cullen, secretary. The
Ftah, shipped about 200 tons of ore, of a company has spent about $6,01)11,1)00 in new finanCial state'Il1ent -shoWS $270,000 on hand.
g:-oss value of $6,000. George L. Hyde iB rjants and equipment, of which $4,000.ilOO There are 1,238,262 shares of a par value
president l!nd geenral manager; C. A. Hyde, was expended on th~ Tooele plant, in Utah. of $1 each, and the mines and mining prop
,l{'e president; John L. Whiting. secretary About $3,000.00(1 came from earnings. erty are carried at a valuation of $1,378,363.
and treasurer, and Thomas West and M, W. The McKinley-Darragh-Savage mining The net profit for the year ending June
Bird, additi?nal directors. company of Cobalt, Ontario. recently 30, was $276,181. F. Augustus Heinze still
Work has been begun on the spur con shipped thirty-eight tons of ore, valued at retains the control.
necting th~ property of the Inspiration Cop $142,231. or a little better than $4,000 per Gr~en River Dispatch: Colonel C. E.
per company to the Arizona Eastern rail ton in silVer. which makes a new record for Loose of Provo was an arrival Sunday even
way, and on the extension of the line from the district. The previous recorn were ing, accompanied by his ,son-In-law, Preston
Miami, Arizona, to the Inspiration Tunnel made by the Temiskaming Mining campany Peterson. They visited the Wimmers and
Site and the Live Oak mine. A number with cars containing $144,000 and $127,000 In drove out to the coal mines that they are
of new dwellings have been built near the silver, respectively, and the Casey Cobalt. preparing to open up and which are com·
portal of the Inspiration tunnel. with one shipment, whiCh returned $132,000. manly known as the old Farrer mines. They
The Arizona Copper, operating at CIif· The Calumet & Arizona and the Copper already have two men at work and by the
ton, Arizona, had a gross profit of $850,215 Queen Consolidated Mining companies of time snow fiies w!1l prObably be getting out
for the half year ending March 31st. Pro· Bisooe, Arizona, increased miners' wages fuel of very fine quality. A pipe line two
duction was 9073 tons of Bes~mer copper. tw~nty-five cents a day, beginning Septem miles in length is being construct~d to
Superintendent George Frazer of the smel ber 1st. The operators decided to share supply water for camp use at the Collins
tery will make a trial of basic converter some of the profits of the lat~ copper mar oil well. Contractor H. H. McFann and
lining, which has displaced the acid lining ket with their employees. This wage seal.. his crew have everything In readiness to
at many smelteries, during the past two is the same as that of Butte, Montana, begin drilling as '300n as th~ piping ar
years. when considered on the day bas:s At rives to complete the water supply sys
Butte, however, the miners must put in a tem. This well, being soclos~ to this
The Calumet & Arizona Mining company city, will soon be a pOint of interest to
with smeltery at Douglas, Arizona, has de full eight-hour shift, while in Bisbee. they
are only required to work. ·on an average, Sunday visitors, who will go out there in
clared a quarterly dividend of $1 per share, great numbers.
payable September 23rd. Sixty-five dol seven and one-half hours.
lars a share have been pa!d to date, or a At the recent stockholders meeting of o
total of $15,500,000. The Superior & Pitts· the Black Jaek and Plutus i'vllning com AMERICAN GEM OUTPUT.
burg, own~d by the Calumet and Arizona panies, operating in th~ Tintic district,
company, will pay thirty cents a share on Utah, the following officers were elected: American mines in 1911 yielded $2,700
the same date. Plutus Mining company, Jesse Knight, presi worth of diamonds, $9,500 worth of emer
dent; Jacob Evans, vice-president; David alds, $215,313 worth of sapphires, and $44,
The Braden Copper Mines company, Evans, dir~ctor and general manager; W.
operating in Chili, South America, is ex· 751 worth of turqUOise, according to figures
Lester Mangum, secretary and treasurer;
perimenting with fill~r grinding, for which just compiled by the United States Geologi
J. William :Knight and George Havercamp,
purpose it will install a Hardinge mill and cal Survey. The total output of precIous
additional directors. Black Jack Mining
a twenty-two foot tube mill. It i3 hoped to stones in the United States last y~ar was
company. Jesse Knight, president; H. G.
increase th~ extraction above th~ present valued at $343,692; the production in ·1910
McMillan, vice-president; W. Lester Man
figure of eighty per cent, If results are ;was valued at $295,380.
gum, secr~tary and treasurer; F. D. Kim
satisfactory, the Minerals Separation com An important feature of the gem-mining
ball and Mr. Mangum, addition directors.
pany:s flotation process will be installed. industry in the Unit~d States during 1911
Harry Gestry and Levi Syphus, of St. was the result of prospecting at the Turner
During the month of July, the Tonopah Thomas, Nevada, recently made a most im emerald mine near Shelby, N. C. The qual·
Belmont Developm~nt company of Tonopah, portant strike in the old Savanic mine near ity of some of the gems and the value of
Nevada, treated 10,415 tons of ore, with a the Grand Gulch, just over the 'N~vada the gem material found in this deposit with
net profit of $114,081. The new mill at line, In AriZona. According to reports they a small amount of d~velopment work are.
Tonopah is giving very satisfactory results, put in one round of holes Is the old work promising, for the output included gems val
and underground conditions at the mine are IngB, and broke into a body of solid, high. ued at $100 to $200 per carat and equal In
favorabl~. The next dividend will be paid grade copper ore. The lucky owners of this quality to the average rnn of the meraids
October· 1st, to stockholders of record on property, .at one time controlled by Col. H. from South America During the last three
September 14th. Twenty-fiv~ cents a share L. Pickett, of Salt Lake, but now of Tomb years this one locality in North Carolina has
will be paid. stone, Arizona, took out about $4,000 in ore yielded gems worth $10,500.
The r~port of the Ray Consolidated Min in about three weeks. They will continue Much Interest has lat~ly ooen aroused in
ing company, of Ray, Arizona, for the sec work, and expect to begin ore shipments the moss agates found in Montana, some of·
ond quarter of 1912, shows a copper produc at an early date. which are remarkable for their resemblance
tion of 8,952,074 pounds, from 374,609 tons At the last meeting of ·the stockholders to landscapes. By taking advantage .of the
of ore. The ore averaged 1.72 per cent of of the Stewart Mining company, operating arrangement of the dark seams and den
copper. The recovery was 69.37 per cent near Wardner, Idaho, the following men dritic patches, patterns are obtained that
against 68.85 for the preceding quarter. The were elected directors to replace the old resemble· moss. sea growth, ferns, rushes,
cost per pound of copper was reduced from board: Edward J, Hickey, president of the trees, and landscapes with water and
10.19 cents to ·9.954 cents. The cost in State Savings Bank of Butte; W. E. Cullen: Islands. The cut gems consist of stones
June was 8.95 cents. Of Spokane; W. O. Allison, president of the suitable for use lubrooches, stick pins.
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T HE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 91 2. 33
watch fobs, belt buckles, and other orna stage of preparation to another; yet but to other houses to be compounded with puln'
ments. The gems cut from the Montana one teacupful of this harmless looking liquid and other substances into· divers kinds or
moss agate or mocha stone command good would be quite sufficient to destroy not powders and high explosives. By one prO:
prices, bringing anywhere from $1 to $200 only the factory but prety much everything cess it Is poured into a baSin filled witff
or $300 apieCe. Some Of the smaller stones else for a cons!derabledistance. There may pulp and by a hard rubber wheel is mlxeqi
suitable for stick pins, if the mossy or fern· be seen other work houses, separated by into a yellow porous substance. This Bub'·
like patterns are particularly delicate and uniform distan~es an.d connected. by nar stance is dynamite, ready to be loaded lnie!
beautiful. bring $25 each. row gauge tracks, wherein men work nitro· cllltridges, ThIs loading is accomplished ~
Most of Ameriacn diamonds come from glycerine and pulp cotton into dynamite machinery, the machine being ·fed great
Arkansas and California, although accounts and blasting gelatine. Under a nitrating basketfuls of the product at a time. A
have appeared in newspapers of the discov process the pulp becomes giant powder, Red dozen cartridges are thus made In a very
ery of theoo gems in Illinois and Texas_ The Cross, Hercules, Judson, ·carbonite, foreite, few seconds. The next step Is to pack the
most important find of the year in Arkan and other high explosives. For the perfec cartridges In cases to be removed to the
sas was an 8% carat white diamond-the tion of nitroglycerine the greatest .care must storage magazines. Giant gelatine Is ~
largest diamond so far found in the sta.te be exercised. During' the process of fusion substance almost thrice as powerful as dyna..
Another white diamond, of 322-64 carats, with nitric and SUlphuric acids in big Ca!' mite. It is made In the same way that
was also found. drons holding hundreds of gallons an ex·pert dynamite is made, although it Is handled
The largest emerald so far discovered in keeps sending a cooling stream through th~ in a separate house.
North Carolina. measured about 1 inch by coils in order to maintain the proper tern.
* of an inch by half an inch. It was about perature. It must also be kept constantly
half of a crystal split parallel with the agitated while it is undergoing this mixing
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stone," "wire agate," "fish egg," and "Jap
dynamite and powder mills are exceedingly
anese stone. One company in Avalon, Cal., infrequent. Indeed, they are out of all pro·
has been engaged in cutting these stones portion to the risk. Many safety appliances
big shipment of high grade is being gol
ready for the Salt Lake market,
Repotrs eoming in from the King of th.
for several years. The stone is obtained are employed safety walls and embank Hills property in the Granite district a.r~
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in all s'zea, from cobbles over 6 inches thick ments, hose houses, hasty exit doors; and to the effect that they have one of th,
to small pebbles, but good gem material is similar devices. The buildings are lighted biggest copper propositions in the country
not plentiful. Beach pebbles are collected electrically, There is no wIring at all In Recent operations there have developel! f
and cut for the tourist trade·along the coast the dangerous houses, which are lighted vein of high grade copper for a consider
of Oregon, as in southern California. The from the outside. Th~n. too, every article able distance with an average width 0:
tourists also collect these pebbles to carry used In and about the ma~hinery is made fourieen to eighteen feet, and an avetagi
off as souvenirs, ether polished or in the with peculiar care. Every person enter-. value of .more than 10 per cent copper, ant
rough. ing the grounds of a dynamite plant Is other values in gold and silver and somi
A copy of the surveys report on gems ., thoroughly searched-matches, ·knives, and streaks in the vein going as high as 2:
and precious stones, 1911, by Douglas B, all metalItc substances that could produce per cent copper. One of the most encour
Sterrett, may be obtained free on applica a spark being rigidly excluded. No danger aging things around the camp Is that out
tion to the director of the U. S. Geological whatever offers In the acid houses. Here side people have an envious eye on th.
the acids are. extracted from ores. In one property, and a number of overtures hav.
Survey, Washington, D. C.
house sulphuriC acid is mixed with .nltric, been made by different parties for a coli
- - - - - 0 ......- -
The ooids are then applied to glycerinll In trolling interest, but so far the ownem
DYNAMITE IN THE MAKING. the big vats In the mixing building already seem to be inclined to paddle their OWl
mentioned. In the mixing process the gly canoe.
(Internatio~al Investments.) cerine liberates the nitrogen from the acid, F. P. Kessler is in from the Old Cali!
To the casual visitor to a dynamite fac the sulphuric element taking up the water property, where he a.nd Will Hardy have I
tory there is little indication that tremen set free in the operation. The mixture, lease. He states that their tlrst car of or.
dous explosives are in ·course of manufac watched with the utmost care and care was shipped to the Salt Lake market oi
ture, for the general appearance of the place fully tested with the thermometer from time Monday and that they have plenty of shll
is peaceful enough. One sees in the mix· to time, In <the ·meantlme becomes nitro pi{lg ore in sight. The work is now bel,
ing building nitroglycerine being mixed in glycerine and is piped of Into another stage directed to the driving of a drift for a dij
thousands .of gallons and running down of perfection, being washed In warm water tance of sixty feet, for the purpose ~f gej
leaden gutters into great tanks. This pro and soda to free· it of any acid that might tlng under the ore so that it can be taki
duct Is driven by means of cold air through induce decomposition and explosion in late! out more advantageously. Mr. Kessler cau
a series of lead coils, is piped ~ff, drawn stages. The nitroglycerine is now drawn In not ·tell <the extent of the ore chute, b
off, poured off, and agitated tbrough one vessels and conveyed with the utmost carl' there Is sufficient high grade shipping ot
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THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M BE R 15, 1912.
The
Albany Hotel
!
The New Sparta Drilling Machines ver Hotel. Larger rooms with bath
Have recently won several competelive $2.50 and $3.00 per day. Try one
tests in drilling for mineral and water.
They are guaranteed to operate as suc~
of these moderate priced rooms with
cessfully by distillate as by steam. bath, and you will be pleased. New
These machines are built in either trac
tions or portables with capacities up to Fire Proof Annex, _every room with
2500 feet. bath, completed July 1st, 1912.
Cedar-Talisman . .........
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Central Mammoth ........
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No. 3A SPECIAL
Silver t 62 %, cents; lead, $4.50; copper
Colorado Mining .......... .17 'h 1 .19
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cathode. 17.51
September 5.
Dragon. .........•........ ........ .35
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.25
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Chino Copper ....... 1 4,2QOI 43 %! 42'h 1-42'h
44
3.00
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First Nat'l Copper •. )....... 1 2%
Giroux Con. ........
Nevada Utah .............. / 5c
3001 51!!
2
5'h
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Silver Shield .... " ..... " . . 01 ~ .03 Ray Central ...............
Yukon Gold ...............
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2 3 in .connection with the flexi
Sioux Consolidated ........ 1 .04'h .05". 3%. 3'h 3'h
South Iron Blossom .. " ... 1 .00'''- .00'h Ohio Copp~r •.............. 1 85e 75c 75c bility of Speed control in the
Swansea Consolidated ..... 1 .06'h1 .07 New Keystone ...... 100 2 2 2
Tintic Central ············1 .01 1 • 01 ~ South Utah ........ . ....... 1 % 'h % Compound shutter make snap
U. Tintic .................
Uncle Sam ................ 1.14
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Mason Valley ......
Eraden Copper ..... 1
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900 1% 7 7
shots possible on days where a
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Union Chief ...............
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---0--- ing ore produced in this country during Kodak Catalogue free lit tlte dealers Qr
LOCAL METAL M."-RKET. 1911 was in La Plata county, Colorado, by mail.
Au&,ullt 26.
Which carried 6 to 8 per cent of bismuth.
Silver, 62 cents; This ore, however, was sold for its gold and
Arrive Dat:y,
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Ogden, Reno, S"'lCl'fl
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Park City and Intermediate Points 5:00 P.M.
Bingham and Mldvale ............ 5:30 P.M.
BROTHERS
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1",:\[. Ogden, Denver. Oma~ banking by mail department, no matter
J"l, Chicago, Park
BIN6HAM «6ARFIELD
l--Tlie Oyor and, to Los An debris which has accumulated ar.ound the
geles ·· .................. 11 :50 P.M. .old W.o.odside shaft.
. ;:; l--:\Iiner's Loc-nl, 10 Tooele and
EUl'!'ka . . . . '" 7 :30 A.M. Excursions between
In early days,when the la·te William
:,;:~Gartiehl Local, to Garfield
and SmE'Iter ,... ():50 A.M.
Salt Lake Citp and Bingham
T. Gibbs was superintendent .of the W.o.od·
: -, - ~Tooeie SfjP{'ial, to Garfleld
nnd Smelter, illld Tooele,. 2:40 P.M.
Everp Sundap
side mine, the 'Shaft was 3unk toO a depth
; -Garfield Owl, to Garfiehl and .of 240 feet and s.ome very go.od .ore was
Smeltel' '"
\;l-··-Lynndyi Spt;(,jal, to Lehi,
..... 11 :00 P:M. $1.00 Round Trip enc.ountered but .owing t.o litigation which
Amerkan Pork, Provo, f.ollowed, the mine was cl.osed down.
Payson. "epili, Lynndyl.. 4:50 P.M.
i;:~~~ \Y;\llcy)C:t.iI, to 1'1'0\'0, Ne- The shaft at the Eureka mine is d.own
phi, San Pete Valley and
:'>[('n'll!' . . 8:00 A.M. For further Information aoply to anI) "Sail Lake .over 200 reet. Four years ago this mine
ARRIVE.
Route" or Bingham & Garfield Rat/wop Agent was unwatered down toO the 170-f.o.ot leveL
S-Los Ang'eles Lhnited. from
-or- At this point a highly mineralized ledge 23
~'-Tt~~~;~1t~n~l. 'fr'o'~l' i;o's' 'An: 11 :40 A.M. H. B, TOOKER, Oen" Pass. Agent feet in width between the 170 and 130 fo.ot
., gales . . . . . . . . , '" ....... 6:30 A.M. 617 MCCornlck 8uildlng SALT LAKE! CITY levels there are thousands .of t.ons .of .ore
.I::-:\fincr's Locill, fronl Eureka,
s:rver City. Stoc·kton. ready to be h.oisted t.o the surface.
t;t'~Ga'I~~'~j-~e i-,'o~[~l:' from
G";l'r"- 4:50 P.M. BURCH BUYS OLD EUREKA.
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field.
Smelter ............ 8 :50A.M. FREE.
"G~G"rfield Local, from Smelt
er. Garfield .. , .......... 6 :00 P.M. (Gazette, Ge.orgto wn, Calif.) Sp.orting goods catal.ogue. Address W'·~1
:is-Garfield Owl, from Garfield.
Smelter, Riter "'""'" .12:55 A,11:. A Burch of Berkeley, was herethb week ern Arms & Sporting G.o.ods Co., Salt L:>kP
6~--1.(Fnndyl Special. fro]'n
Lynndyl, Nephi, Provo Clnd l.o.oking after his mining Interests. It is City, Utah.
IntermC'dlate points ." ... 10:05 A.M.
L -.l--.Valley Mail, from Nephi,
reported that Mr. Burch has b.onded the ------0------
PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.
Provo, Mercur ....... 6:05 P.M, fam.ous .old Eureka and W.o.odside mines in
BlnghnlU &:: Gnrfte1.1 R. R,. Co~ this place, and that these mines will be
DEPART. The Salt Lake Ph.oto Supply c.ompany.
unwatered and th.oroughly proospected. 159 Main, headquarters f.or K.odaks, Cam
1 r,g..-Sitlt I~"ke, to Bingham .. 7 :45 A.M.
l11-,Salt Litke, to Bingham .. 3:15 P.M. The h.oisting machinery at the Eureka eras, Supplies and K.odak Finishing. Mall
ARRIVE. shaft has been .overhauled. and ye3terday us your orders. Coome and see our new
1l0-,Bingham to Salt Lake .... 10:40 A.M. a man was put toO w.ork clearing away the
112-Bingham to Salt Lake ..•. 6:10 P.M. store.