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VOL. 14. No. 11. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 15. 1912. SINGLE COPY, 1&

THE UTAH OIL REFINING COMPANY

By L. O. HOWARD. M. £.

The marvelous development of the petro­ Two years and a half ago, with no im­ of the wells have been producing fa
leum industrY has been lost sight of in this mediate supply of crude 011. there were ty·two years. FortY-four are now i
age of aviation, yet the latter wonder owes men w,ith faith enough in the growth of ation, and prospe<:ts are excellent
its success to this very development. the industry,' and the feasibility of estab­ still 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 ;d~
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 ",Ith a greasy, irridescent ilquld, a day This original plant covered one· operators. Thll production of these ~
having a disagreeable odor, which would
ruin any salt, whiCh
might be found in that
quarter of an acre. far in excess of the refinery's presei
city and
are being m
s.
vicinity. othelr ; refiner
There was one, how­ take up the
ever, the first of the especially in "~
oil magnates, who per field.
soon found a way to Contents of ttl
put the newly discov­ 011••
ered liquid to good The crude
use and to start a for· tains the f
tune in oil. He put the percentages a
substance up in small eum products
bottles and went up teen per cent
and down the coun· three degree,
trY, selling a wonder­ thirty-five pet
water white l
ful new patent medi­
ten per cent
cine, "a sure cure for
oil, four per"
lameness, rheumatism,
paraffine WI
and kindred ailments." the balance,
His venture was a suc­ ricating oils,
cess. spindle and Ili
Somewhat later, it for high ilt
was discovered that chinery, en'
the liniment would turbine oils, ..
burn. Then began the ,non~arbon <.
era of sooty coal-oil waIve oil, f(
lamps. Progress in reo Receiving Yard. and Still. of Utah 011 Refining Co. cylinder lubl'i
fining the crude oil was slow. For many The growth of the Utah 011 Refining The oil is brought to Salt Laki
years, gasoline, a distillate driven off be company has. been phenomenal since that tank acrs of 12,000 gallons capacil ,it
fore the much desired kerosene, was con­ time. Today, it has a plant covering five 'Method of Treatment.
Sidered worthless, and either thrown away, acre3, 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 or
most valuable constituent of petroleum, far troleum and its products. two trainloads capacity.
otustripping Its earlier rival, kerosene, and /The supply of crude oil" for the refinery is brought to the still again,
its utilization has Ii1Iade thIs age
of
14 T H ES A L T
With a refinery already established at
Salt Lake, any new field coming in, tribu·
tary to this city, will be able to market its
oil immediately and convert its crude into
cash, thus making it not only an interesting,
but also a commercial proposition, without
Crude 011 Storage Tanks, Utah 011 RefinIng Co.
awaiting the tedious construction of a reo
Hnery.
The Utah Oil Refining company hi con·
trolled by large eastern and local interests.
The local officers are. J. C. Howard, pres·
IMPORTANCE OF LOW GRADE ORES.
In connection with the continued pros·
perity of old districts, the following discus·
slon of conditions and metallurgical ad·
vancement in Colorado, by Thomas Tonge,
is of great interest:
"The decline in the average grade of
ore in: ColoradO is simply a stage in the
evolution of the mining Industry, not only
In Colorado, but everywhere else," says Mr.
Tonge. "The great mines. of the world
are those economically and prOfitably min­
ing and treating big tonnages of medium
and low.grade ore.
"In 1878 the average value of the ore
mined and treated in Colorado had to be
about $100 per ton to leave a profit, as
against the average value in 1899 of $25
per ton, including concentrates. The avo
erage value has since been much further
decreased, by reason of improved mining
and metallurgical methods and reduction of
freight and treatment charges, bringing still
lower grade ore within the range of profit·
able treatment.
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
ident and general manager; A.. Hamilton,
viC&preSiden~ and superintendent of the
refinery; W f B. Sage, of Cleveland, Ohio,
secretary and treasurer; Earl Casey, as­
sistant superintendent; Paul F. King and
D. H. Sherman, lubricating engineers.
Many thanks are due, to the president
and general manager, who kindly furnLshed
much of the information concerning the
plant, and greatly assisted the writer in his
visit of inspection. ~ erage of $14.89 per ton, of which 29,000 tons
"For every ton of ore running $100 per
ton and upwards ever taken out in Colorado,
there are more than 600 tOIL3 averaging $10
per tOn relJIlaining to be taken out. Owing
to improved mining and metallurgical
methods and reduced costs the relative
profit is about the same.
"Usually $10 ore will not stand the ex·
pense of mining, freight and smelting
charges. It involves local treatment. The
metallurgical progress in recent years in
concentration, separation and cyanidation
has been great.
"Several Colorado instances of up-to·date
methods may be cited.
"The Tom Boy mine in San Miguel
county, remote frO'm railroad, pays steady
and liberal dividends on ore running less
than $10 per ton, by means of local treat·
ment, marketing the separated products,
(gold, silver, lead, zinc Iron) oII.tbest prices.
The operations of this mine for the month
of July last show an output of 10,500 tons
of ore, yielding $65,600, or a little over $6
per ton; expense, $40,500; profit, $26,000,
or 38 per cent on the gross output.
"The last annual report to the share·
holders of the Iron.Sllver mine, Leadville,
which bas been producing ore since 1878,
shows that the average valUe of the ore
mIned and sold for the preceding year was
$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 Crl\>­
pIe 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 net ,profit of over $1 per ton. This
mill opened the way for the profitable treat·
ment of millions of tons of low·grade Crip·
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 cO'tllpleted 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.
Sup!. Thorne has issued the following
repor·t of the July operations of the Gold·
field Consolidated Mining company of Gold·
field, Nevada, to President Wingfield:
During the month of July, 1912, the
total production of your company was 31,·
907 tons, costaining $474,956.84, or an avo
were milled with an average extraction of
91.06 per cent and 2,907 tons were shipped
of an average value of $16.52 per ton, the
net recovery from all ore being $13.69 per
ton. The total net realization to your com·
pany was $238,278.70, or $7.47 per ton.
Development Work-2,923 feet of devel.
opment work: was performed du'ring the
month of July, 1912.
Operating Costs-The total cost of min·
ing, development, transportation, milling,
i
offiCe and general expense was $6,41 per
ton, distributed as foHows:
Mining, including stoping and develop­
ment ............................ $3.18
Transportation ...... _. . . . . . . . . . . • . ... .08
Milling , . ..........................• 1.97
Marketing . . . ...................... .06
General expense ................•.... .40
I
I
Bullion tax ....................... ,.. .05
Marketing ore shipped ............... .66
Construction ......................... .07
Total cost of operation ............ $6.46
Miscellaneous earnings ............ .05
Net cost per ton .................. $6.41

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THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, SEPT E M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
THE MET A~~Bl!u~~Y OF LEAD II
II
(Improving the Blast Furnace, Cont.)
With large furnaces mechanical feed is
highly desirable and generally used. This
has involved various matters as to furnace
covering, size of charge, packing of charge
and distribution of coarse, fines and coke.
For meeting each problem and attaining
the desired result hardly any two plants
use exactly the same means. The vertical
flue with charging from cars dumped side­
wise as Installed at Laurium is descrihed
in detail by Collins: American practice has
been to take the gases away through an
opening in the end of the furnace directly
beneath the feed floor. This leaves the
entire top of the furnace free for the pass.
age of charge cars. As space must be left
so that the charge will not ·roU into the
down-take, this involves inserting the
"spreader" jU3t helow the floor level botb
to break the faU of ore and adjust the dis·
tribution.
In our large plants the charge is as­
sembled in appropriate layers in the long
car; first slag at the bottom and abo-ve this
coke, hedded ore, roasted ore, limestone,
iron ore, etc., each in one or more layers.
After the car has been run from the
"charge" to the "feed" floor and is directly
above the furnace the bottom is opened
and the cbarge faUs into the furnace.
After the building of the present Murray
smeltery months were consumed in experi­
menting to determine the best details for
car construction, spreaders, and furnace
tops. As finally determined on the bottom
of the car consists of a firm V.shaped longi.
tudinal ridge, from eacvh edge of which the
two long hinged doors swing aWl/l.y, when
loosened to drop the charge. The charge
drops quickly of its own weight, the attend·
ant swings the doors together with one lever
and clamps the dogs which hold them with
another. As the tops of the Murray fur­
naces are closed by almost level iron plates,
leaving an opening 27 inches wide, the length
of the furnace, quite a lot of the charge pile.3
up In ridges along each side of the mouth.
These ridges of charge are then immediate­
ly pushed in by a m.an with a shovel, and
one or more pieces of thin sheet steel pull­
ed over the mouth. The spreader consists
of five 3-inch angle bars, each the length
of the furnace, and all so bound together
with braces as to form a long, sharp root
with two slots, through Which much. fine
ore will sprinkle down onto the center of
the burden, while much coarse will be de·
fleeted to the sides of the shaft. The
spreader is suspended in the top of the
shaft by four hangers passing beneath the
spreader, and fitting Into 'straps riveted to
the longitudinal plate supports. Thre.e men
can 11ft a spreader out, one end at a tlme,
closely related problems such
and by swinging the hanger to a horizontal
position, may also remove It. The furnace
top can thus be quickly put in order at blow·
ing'in, or cleared for blowing·out. The
sketch indicates the general arrangement
as seen in section. Of course each small
detail was developed to attain the best
metallurgical results; and deViation is ac·
cordingly thought to result in immediately
impairing the work. It may be added that
more perfect mechanical operation In which
the piles of charge are not left, did not
prove satisfactory. Proper distribution of
the burden is naturally of extreme import·
ance at the beginning of a furnace cam­
paign, or after barring down and as long
as the shaft is clean. After the "hang"
has accumulated, and especially when the
construction is considerable, other factors
completely outweigh any influence from the
distribution of the charge.
The internal configuration or "lines" of
a furnace has a great deal of influence on
both the rate of smelting and the results
attained. The sketCh which is here given
illustrates a transverse section of what is
probably the most satisfactorily operating
furnace in America. ·The dimensions are
not much different from those given by
lIes ten years ago. His ideal furnace called
for 48 Inches at tuyeres, 10 inches bosh
and 16 to 17 feet of charge column. This
corresponds closely to the Murray furnaces;
the furnaces are, however, longer at the
tuyeres with taller jackets, and would be
rated for at least ,fifty tons more than tlie
140 to 150 which Iles estimated for his fur·
nace.
The "hearth inten.sity," a quotient ob·
tained by dividing the 24-hour neutral
charge tonnage by the square feet cross·
section at tuyeres, was 'given for a variety
of furnaces in the table of the last issue.
As both the blast pressure and character
of charge are independent of the furnace
size, the intensity of different furnaces is
not strictly comparable nor is that' of any
ore furnace always the same.
The chemical, mineralogical and physi·
cal character of the furnace charge, together
with atm,ospheric conditions, constitute such
tremendoua. :f\actors Qf furnace operation
that our furnace rated at 200 tons
might smelt less than 150 tons of charge
at one time, while under other circumstances
it might do better work with the tonnage
·doubled. The maximum that such a fur·
nace as sketched has smelted is probably
a little over seventy-five 4-ton charges dur­
ing 24 hours;' if, to this 300 tons of "neutral"
charge there be added 45 tons of foul
slag and 37 tons of coke, we have 382 tons
for the total burden. If we have seen little
progress in blast furnace design during the
aLii IJIJ L
last ten years, we must allow'
tention of the metallurgists hf
sity been divided and amply re~
and fume control.
If we are not mistaken, a
furnace of larger dimensions w;
tried out in the Uqited Stat.!
periment proving a total fa!.
gard to the design of' other lar
one of which is mentioned by
available details are too scan
of intelligent discussion. The
Australian furnaces described
which have somewhat largeri
than our 48 by 176 inches fl
have less capacity. l!"'i:om this
that in furnace design we are
cally at a stand·still. Econom.
tion and better meta!lurgical r
doubtless be attained with I:
from which we judge that the 1
design' is not yet uttered.
The accretions which usua'
the furnace shaft so profound
lines, without necessarily imp;
city or results, that one won
shaDe is. indeed. the b€st· l>­
this connection the accepted dE
blast furnaces is especially Bug!
nace men find the present type
so practical, that for incident
idents worth relating, they 1
recall the former days of the'
and canvas connections. The
excuse for leaking of air as
is now made, Metal pipes E
bustle pipe to the tuyere bOl
turn, can be bolted tight to the
packing in all the joints.
The paper plug apprises us
. rising slag while the peep ho
valve and removable front, 4l
the Eilers' tuyere, meets ev
Which can arise during bloWil
ting off blast, or plugging or
slagged tuyeres. The present
comparatiVely simple but ma!,'!!
ment on the leaky and awkwat
only a comparatively few yea:t:,
In regard to the accompl
the art of getting metal and I
slag, it is to be questioned if c
have proven entirely satisfacto
slag·pot forehearth or settler tit
ceded by the brick lined forehe
reverberatory settler; while ;:
does far less perfect work, t
not yet as commonly used. II
far from perfect work, the ~
tangular settler is a rather ell
to keep in order. The slag I
be further cleaned in large,
are tapped so as to retain 11
large bottom button, which 1
through the furnace.
The settler has to do for
,
*Eng. & Min. Jour., 'May 2'8.
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 16 THE SALT LAKE MINING RE.VIEW, SEPTEMBER 15, 1912.
actly what the thickener does for the sludge
in ordinary ore dressing. But the compari­
son is as to purpose only; there is no sim­
ilarity in results. The different conditions
are obvious. In particular, the thin, wide,
superficial overflow, which is vital to the
thickener, is apparently out of the question
with slag. A cursory observation on the
flow of material through the ordinary fore­
hearth Indicates only a gross separation of
matte and metal from slag, a conclusion
. abundantly confirmed by the finding of rich
skulls in the slag pots afterwards. When
we consider the amount of matte usually
carried in the settler, there is small actual
settling capacity; when badly crusted the
settler hardly more than merits the name
of a 'matte "trap." lIes states that for six
years his slag averaged only 0.84 ounces
silver and 0.53 per cent lead, with the
Imllion going 266 ounces in silver. There
is little reason to think that present re­
sults at most smelteries equal such clean
slags. It would be interesting to know the
average results at the two largest smelteries
near Salt Lake, as well as speCific data
as to why they retain the small fore­
hearths and usual slag pots.
As to the application of modern refrac­
tories to the lead blast furnace there is
little to be said. Water jacketing pro­
vides for the zone of most intense heat
and corrosion, leaving the crucible, stack
and settler as the only parts needing pro­
tection. The crucible shell, or curb, is
usually lined with brasqae and the interior
finished with fire briCk. The most desir­
able shape of the crucible is not fully rec­
tangular, but with a sloping fioor at the
back. Both this and the level portion will
be built in the shape of an inverted arCh,
the brick fitting perfectly after being dip­
ped in a fireclay wash. Such a lining will
last indefinitely if the furnace !s kept In
blast.
The whole crucible gradually becomes
saturated with sulphides and infiltrated
with lead, and the space originally fllled
with molten lead becomes ever smaller
and smaller during a run, through accumu­
lation of infusible compounds, in particular
zinc sulphide. After a campaign, the cru­
cible may be dug out, and, if the furnace
is not down too long, the crucible may be
used again. On long standing, a saturated
crucible swells and breaks up.
In a lead blast furnace there is no
severe abrasive action of the 'settling charge
on the inside of the shaft. In the first In.
stance, the charge column is low and the
pressure not great; in the second place,
sublimation of galena quickly coats the
walls, the bricks become impregnated and
a shaft tends to get smaller instead of
wearing larger. At Urnes blowholes may
eat into the masonry, but if the furnace is
properly managed, that will occur seldom.
Good practice Is to build the shaft of com­
mon brick, firmly bound with iron, using
firebricks only for the lower portion of
the lining and the narrow zone between
the jackets and main girder supports.
Small settlers or forehearths commonly lose
their usefulness because of crusting, rather
than because of burning through, even when
lined with common brick. At times one
will break out, but It is of advantage, even
then, to have the more easily gmelted com­
mon brick.
The curb of recent furnaces is made of
steel, say a half inch thick, heavily sup­
ported by clamped rails or massive strlp3
of even 3-lnch square steel. The sides are
joined to the base with an angle iron riv­
eted to each, and every joint In the plates
covered with a strip and riveted.
A curious matter of opinion exists as
to blast furnace foundations; some, with
Hofman and Collins, considering a huge
block of poured slag the best possible base
against which we have the statement of
no less an authority than I1es, that such
a block is the worst possible. The Ameri­
can Smelting and Refining company has
dismantled various fairly modern plants,
but we are not aware that any specific
infoI'IIlation on the Ilubject has become
available.
The lead furnace we have arrived at
after some fifty years practice in this coun­
try, is a tight steel box, on the most sub­
stantial foundation possible, holding the
bricked-in crucible, on which rests the zone
of water jackets. On portions of the same
foundation stand the four strong cast-iron
posts, which support the massive masonry
shaft, joined to the jackets by a smaller,
easily built in, zone of firebrick, and rest­
ing on steel beams carried by the posts.
No Intentional opening exists in either curb
or bricked-in portion of the .crucible below
the level of its top. The well, a cavity
thinly separated from the main portion of
the crUCible, is not far from the top end,
so that a channel can always be Cleared,
downward, to connect well and breast. Each
jacket is individually held in place by
braces to the girders supporting the shaft,
and to change anyone, the onl~ interrup­
tion is in shutting off the blast long enough
to pull out one and set the other in. Verti­
cal flues are a. thing of the past. The whole
top of the furnace is free for poking, bar­
ring and the passage of cars which can
dump the charge in quickly. In short, fur­
naces are built to run continuously, and to
capacity. Aside from such exigencies as
strikes and ore shortages, they do run for
months, and even years, with only trifling
deductions from full elapsed time.
CORRECTION TO LAST INSTALLMENT.
Near Clove, when speaking of the lead
well it says, some furnaces now have
the wells as large as 10 inches by 12 inches
on top and 14 inches square at the bot­
tom."
Change this to, "some furnaoo3 now have
the wells as large as 10 inches by 12 inches
on top and 14 inches square at the bottom."
In Blast Furnace table the last "Murray"
furnace marked "Private" given as Ill09,
Murray; Steel Jackets; 48 inches by 164
inches; 20; 4·in.; 36 oz.; 16 ft; 240; 4;
change to Private; 1909; Murray; Steel
Jackets; 48 inch by 176 inches; 20; 4-in.;
36 oz.; 16 ft.; 250; 4.
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FOR GREATER SAFETY.
A world-wide movement for greater safe-­
ty among the several million men who work
in the mines, suggested by Dr. Joseph A.
Holmes, the director of the United States
Bureau of Mines, was inaugurated at the
Pittsburg experiment station of the bu·
reau September 13, willen government offi­
cials from the leading nations of the earth
convened to discuss the great problem be­
fore them. Invitations to participate in
such a conference were extended by the
federal government throagh the state de­
partment and the American ambassadors to
the different foreign countries that have
mining Interests, including Great Britain,
Germany, France, Belgium, Austria-Hungary,
Mexico and Canada.
The army of coal miners throughout
the world numbers more than 3,000,000 men,
and each year between 6,000 and 7,000 meet
death through accident. The death rate
among these men in 1910 was 2.11 in every
1,000 employe{l. In the United States alone,
in the same year, 2,834 men were killed in
the coal mines, or 3.91 In every 1,000 em­
ployed. With conditions worse in the
United States ·than in any other country,
it is expected that the conference of ex'
perts will result in great good to this coun­
try, and perhaps a lessening of the death
rate in tbe world.
The prevention of coal dust and gas ex­
plosions in the mines will be the general
theme of the conference officials, who will
continue in .session at Pittsburg for ten days.
The United States has the only experimen­
tal mine is the world and the viSitors, who
are anxious to see it, w.1ll witness actual
coal-dust explosions in the mine. Nearly all
of the visitors are the heads of explosives­
testing stations in their respective coun·
tries and the conference will endeavor to
develop more uniform, and if possible, new
methods of testing explosives. It is be­
lieved that such a conference will contrib­
ute largely to the initiation of improve·
ment!> in mining and will be helpful in
the adoption of safer mining equipment
and methods.
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It is proposed to Increase the capital
stock of the Butte & Superior Mining com­
pany of Butte, Montana, from 250,000 to
350,000 shares, the proceeds from the sale
of this stOCk, at ,37.50 per share, to be used
for further explora.tlon and the purchase
of adjoining properties.

l 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.
LARGE SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS
WRITTEN FOR THE MINING REVIEW
Of late, much ,attentiDn has .been given
to' the institutiDn Df eCDnDmies in the min­
ing Df CDpper Dre, and Dne Df the principal
steps tDwards the reducing Df bhe CDSt Df
CDpper per pDund has been the gradual, but
cDntinual, displacement Df steam plants by
installatiDns Df electric pDwer. Wherever
PD3sible, direct electrificatiDn has been the
rule. In 'places where this has nDt been
feas!ble, cDmpressed air, prDduced by elec­
trically driven cDmpressDrs, has Dften 'been
used to' advantage. The next step tDwards
securing greater eCDnDmy Df DperatiDn has
been to' centralize the electrically driven
CDmpreSSDrs.
The variDus prDpertie3 Df the Ama:Iga­
mated CDpper cDmpany, in the Butte dis­
trict Df MDntana, prDbably have the largest
View of the 1,20'0' H. P. Engine Type Syo.chronou5 Motor Built on the Bhaft of the Air Compressor
DUtPUt Df CDpper in the wDrld fDr the same
extent Df territDry. FDr this reasDn, and
alsO' 'because the district is cDmparatively
limited in area, thiscDmpany has led in
the building Df large electrically Dperated
central CDmpreSSDr installatiDns.
Particular advantages have accDmpan­
ied the centralizatiDn Df the air CDmpreSSDr
stat!Dns. Where fDrmerly each mine ran its
Dwn cDmpressDrs, there are nDW fDur large
cDmpressDr sta-tiDns, which have displaced
mDst Df the iSDlated CDmpreSSDrs fDrmerly
used, viz., thDse at the Neversweat, the
LeDnard, the Bell, and the new central CDm­
pressDr plant located adjacent to' the sub­
statiDn Df ,the Great Falls PDwer cDmpany.
The plant Df the Neversweat is the Dldest.
At this 'PDint there are installed three 300
H. P. and Dne 800 H. P. inductiDn mDtDrs,
driving air CDmpreSSDrs. The n1)xt plant to'
2 2
be built, that at the LeDnard, is equipped
with twO' 550 H. P and twO' 660 H. P. induc­
tiDn mDtDrs. 'Dhe third plant, that .at the
Bell, has fDur 600 H. P. mDtDrs. RDpe drive
is used in the three plants mentiDned.
FDr the last plant, knDwn as the Central
Compres3Dr Plant, it was decided to' in­
crease the size Df the unit Dver anything
attempted preViDusly, to' use direct cDnnect­
ed drive, and to' install SynChrDnDus mDtors.
AccDrdingly, at ,this plant there are Installed
three 1200 H. P. engine-type SynchrDnDus
motDrs, built Dn the shafts Df the air CDm­
preSSDrs. TwO' Df these motDrs are shDwn
in Fig. 1. A fDurth 1200 H. P. mDtDr Is Dn
Drder and twO' mDre Df the same sIze are
to' be Drdered at a later date, makiog the
ultimate capacity Df the plant 7200 H. P.
The eCDnDmies Df electrificatiDn are ap­
parent when it is cDnsidered that the CDSt
Df Dne hDrse pDwer per year, generated in
the Butte district :by steam, varies frDm
$80.00 to' $125.00, while fDr iSDlated elElctrl­
cal installatiDns the cDstper hDrse pDwer
year was reduced to' $60 to' $35. By cen­
Itralizing these plants, further eCDnDmics
were effected, bDth Dn accDunt Df reduced
maintenance, and Df the fact that
the IDad factDr Dn these centralized plants
was very IlliUch better than the IDad
factDr Dn individual installatiDns, thus sav·
ing a cDnsiderable investment in mDtDrs
and cDmpressDrs. The use Df large direct
cDnnected llynchrDnDus mDtDrs resulted in
still further eCDnDmies by permitting a bet·
'ter efficiency per unit to' be ohtAined; by
reducing the CDSt per hDrse pDwer installed;
by eliminating the IDSS in rDpe transmissDn;
[1
by decreasing attendance oharges,
permitting the synchrDnDus mDtDI
used to' cDrrect 'PDwer factDr, in r!
which the pDwer cDmpany was w
make a cDnsiderable reductiDn in
Df pDwer. In this new Central COl
Plant the CDSt per hDrse pDwer ~
be in the neighbDrhDDd Df $25. ~
'Dhe CDmpreSSDrs were 'built by 1
'berg Manufacturing cDmpany. .Th,
intO' a large receiver system, CDns
a eDnsidera'ble number of steel
SDme Df these are shDwn in Fig. 2.
pressure is maintained hydraulicall~
water tank being IDcated Dn a hill E
tance abDve the receivers. By thm
ing the cDmpressDrs to' pump in1
ceiving system and causing the
machines in which the air Ls used
upDn these receivers, the Individl
preSSDrs Dperate cDntinUDusly at I
and maximum effiCiency, large v
in IDad being taken care Df by su
shutting dDwn an entire CDmpress,
A nDvel methDd is used in star
synChrDnDus motors. The valve ~
the cDmpressDr is arranged with a
tiDn, sDmewhatsimiiar in purpose
used Dn a IDcomDtive, but cDnsider
ferent in design. By means Df t
mDtiDn, the valve mDtiDn may ,be'
and by intrDducing cDmpressed air i
receiver system, the CDmpreSSDr m~
tuated as an air engine. In this wa
preSSDr may start its ,synChrDnDu
and bring it up to' the prDper speed
chrDnizing It wHh the power SUD
A refinement has been added to' bh!
board equipment furnished at thi
by means Df which the mDtDr may.
matically cDnnected to' the supply 11
it reaches the prDper speed, thu
nating the necessity Df synchrDn'
hand. This refinement cDnsists Df
matic SynChrDnizer, SO' arranged th
erates, ,by means Df sDlenDids, U
switches between the bus bar and
dividual mDtDr. While this autDm
ture is nDt always used, it acts as
safeguard to' render the statiDn J
liable.
A still further safeguard is prO"
having the mDtDrs designed SO' till
sDlutely necessary, they may be st
supplying current directly to' the ~
The field is prDvided with a cage t~
ing, Wlhich, while Drdinarily used tl:
hunting, permits the mDtDrs to' a'
ductiDn mDtDrs at starting. This n
starting is used Dnly in case Df eo
when no Dther means Df starting'
able. The feature has, hDwever, i
advantage that the 'Plant can still ti
frDm a cDmplete standstill, even;
is nO' air In the stDrage system.
A cDnsiderable quantity Df the.
ed air frDm this central cDmpre.s1
is used to' DPerate the very larg~
engines at the variDus shafts; ~
1
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18 THE SA L T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M BE R 15, 1912.
its immediate vicinity. The balance is used
to operate the pneumatic drills used under·
ground.
The hoisting engines now pneumatically
operated, were formerly operated by steam.
To adapt them for air operation, only a few
C'hanges were required. It has been fig­
ured that the economy in hoisting, secured
by the use of compressed air in the man­
ner here described, will reduce the cost of
copper approximately one· half a cent per
pound which, considering the tremendous
output of the Butte mines, means an im­
mense annual saving.
Calculations of the cost of hOisting by elec­
tricity direct, indicate that the economy of
electric hoists would be even greater than
that secured by the use of compressed air;
but, on the other hand, the installation of
electric hoists would have meant the entire
discarding of the present equipment, the
Central Compressor Plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Butte. Mont.
purchase of considerable equipment that
would be of no service except in connection
with hoisting, and further, to O'btain the ad­
vantages of ,storage system, such as is af­
forded by the receivers at the -Central Com·
pressor Plant, motor·generator-sets with
large fly-wheels and storage batteries would
have been necessitated. For these reasons
and certain other considerations, it was not
considered feasible, in this particular In·
stance, to electrify the hoists themselves,
although for mast installations vhe direct
electrification of the hoists will prove more
economical than the use of electrically
compressed air.
On account of the importance of the
mining operations in Butte, the great ex­
pense of even temporary Shut-downs, and
particularly on account of the compr~sed
air 'being so largely used for hoisting pur­
poses, the reliability of the apparatus to be
used was given the greatest consideration by
the engineers of the mining company. :/!'or
a long time there was considerable doubt as
to whether synchronous motors of this size
could be made 3.3 reliable as induction mo­
tors. It was thought that if there were any
very large variations in load, or if unfor­
seen circumstances disturbed the normal
condition of the electric power supply, the
motors might fall out of step. So when
synchronous motors were finally decided up­
on, very rigid guarantees, regarding suc·
cessful and continuous operation, were re­
quired from the manufacturers, but the
machines have more than lived up to their
guarantees. Since the early part of 1910,
when the first synchronous motor was plit
in to .operation, not a single failure or any
sort has occurred, and although the power
supply during this time has often been un­
steady, and despite the fact that there have
been large variations in both voltage and
load, none of the motors have 'ever rall~
out of steP nor has there ·been any dl'l!posi·
tion on their part to hunt. For this reason
it bas 'been recently decided to double the
capacity of the original installa tion.
The three motors now ill3talled, and the
one now on order are all rated at 1200 H.
P., 3 phases, 2400 volts, 60 cycles. The:\:
have an overload capacity permitting con·
tinuous operation at 25 per cent overload
and 50 per cent overload for one hour. Prac­
tically, therefore, they are 1500 H. 1;'. mo·
tors. On account of the slow speed requir·
ed, due to their being direct connected to
large compressors, they have ninety..s!x
poles, giving a speed of seventy41ve revo·
lutlons per minute. They were 'built by the
'Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
company. The dimensions are probably
larger than any other synchronous motors
ever built for the class of service.
The electrical energy used is generated
on the Missouri river by the Gr(lat Falls
Power company, and transmitted approxi.
mat(lly 100 miles, under a pressure or 110"
000 volts, to the point at which these mo·
tors are installed.
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SELLING WAY'S POOKET SMELTER.
The prospector and small operator is
coming into his own again. There is a
strong demand for new properties, the gov·
ernment of,fieials are showing a disposition
to co-operate, and everything points to a
big resumption of prospecting and develop·
ment this fall and early winter. A reflec·
tion of these conditions is .shown in an al·
liance recently completed by the Way's
Pocket Smelter company.
The sales of this company have reached
such a point that it has become advisable
to separate the manufacturing and sell·
ing organizations. In the future, Wa.y's
Pock(lt Smelter company will devote its
entire time to making smelters and in ex·
perimental work along new lines. The sell­
ing organization will be J. W. Swaren &
Company, 112 Market St., San Franci·3Co,
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 Process 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 himllelf, 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 giv(ln to securing for the
customers of this new firm the best mate­
rials on the market.
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A GOOD SPECIAL ISSUE,
The Las Vegas Age has issued a Pros·
perity Edition, which gives many interest­
ing facts as to history and mining condl·
tions in Clark county, Nevada. Mention is
made of the old Potosi mine, a famous lead
and zinc producer of the fifties, and the
prominence of Utah men in those days.
The most important mining enterprises trio
butary to Las Vegas are the South Nevada
Mining company, of Which O. W. Hillegas
and Paul Watelet have control; the Arden
Plaster company, which has important gyp­
sl1m products and ships several cars per
day from its mill; the Potosi, which still
ships 600 tons per month of zinc ore; and
other claim3 in the Vincent, Triangle and
Mesaba district. The issue is well printed
and embellished with many good cuts of
interesting points, and biographies of the
leading men of the county.
o
The mines in the Stockton district of
Utah are reported to be very active, and
shipments are steadily increasIng, as are·
suit of the 'present high metal prices.
 2 2

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.

TRUE CONSERVATION. our present knowledge, this one supply must tending back over three years,h
serve as a basis both for the needs of the made a satisfactory agreement
In the preface to Bulletin 47, Note. on present and the far greater needs of the fu­ owners of the North Moccasin fc
Itlneral Waste, written by Charles L. Par­ ture. chase of that ·property. It COl
Ions, chief mineral chemist of the Bureau "In a higher way our mineral resources 2,000 feet in length along the i
)f Mines, which has Just ·been issued, Dr. should 'be regarded as property to be used formation between the Barnes-Kl
Joseph A. Holmes, the director, givbjo hIs and to be held in tru3t, with regard to both north and the Kendall on the SOl
v!ews upon what he terms real or true con· the present and the future needs of the "The Kendall' mine has proM
servation. country. It should ·be remembered that than 700,000 tons of ore, and ha
Dr. Holmes say.,: "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 t1
wasted or left underground, in such condi­ Intrinsic value, and that whatever rights ownership, produced about 300,0
tion that It probably wlll not be recovered the individual may possess have been de­ ore, and paid dividends amountln
in the future, 250,000,000 tons of coal; we rived from the general government and 000. The new company, beginD
turned loose into the atmosphere a quantity from the state as the original owner. The tions in January, 1907, mined 23
of natural gas larger tItan the total output state does not surrender its right, and which produced $828,110 Inbullio
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 ita 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 resoorces. age yield in bullion of about $3.l
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 hut 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 Moccasil
serve to indicate the importance of inquir­ is not needed for present use, 'but Is certain owners of that property took ou
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 r
on the same general lines as those looking and duties of the federal government as be­ milling deducted, and the expelie
to a reduction in the loss of life in the min­ ing . limited to the carrying on of inquiries in constructing a tramway to tJ
.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 mlning the nature and extent of this waste a cave occurred in the 'Workings
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 1
"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 tUl
power, and it will exercise the right, to use "In the preliminary work along these per cent of the balance to the 1
as 'much of the country's resource. at it lines, the repre3entatives of the bureau have casin until the purcha3e price a
actually needs; there can and there will be received the cordial cO-Qperation of the en­ tioned has been paid.
no such thing as stinting the present gen­ gineers and chemists associated with the "We propose to re{lair the B
eration by bottling. up resources for the use varied mineral Industries of ,this country, shaft. and then develop the NorM
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 to the mines and the metallurgical plants." be run under the ore body fro)
be curtailed; these needs will increast> with Copies of this bulletin may be had by level of the Barnes-King mine.
the extent and diversity of the nation's in· addressing the Director of the Bureau of will require a considerable inil
dustrie3, and they wiJl increase more rapid­ Mines, Washington, D. C. we believe that our costs of D
ly than population increases, for the reason ----0--­ milling when we begin to extra,
that the per-<:apita consumption of mineral not exceed $3.50 per ton, and t~
THE BARNES KING DEVELOPMENT CO. be a"ble to make some profit 'VI!J
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. ' f
at continuous financial loss to themselves, opment company's affairs have been an­ "About two years ago the Pifl
in order that something may be left for the nouncedby C. W. Goodale, general man­ property was offered to the E
uoe 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 satisft
profits. MarY·3vllle, has been purchased, C. C. Swin­ have just executed an agreemel!
"Furthermore, it should be clearly under­ burne, treasurer, states that, after paying owners, by which 'we may Pn
stood that· the mineral resources of this the options of $5,'000 each on the North property under the following terl
country have requ!red long ages for their Moccasin and Plegan..Glo!,\ter mines, the down; $20,000 Sept. 20, 1912; $:
accumulation and that, of· these r~sources, first of which was mentioned in our last 20, '1913; $25,000 Jan. 20, 191
the nation has but the one supply. There issue, there remains on hand, $288,153.81­ July 20, 1914. Total, $125,000. ~
are no known substitutes available to meet The circular letter, Issued to stockholde.rs, "After the second payment i
the nation's further need. when that SUll'­ . by Mr. Goodale folloW3: deveiopment, which will be act'.
ply will be exhausted and, to the best of "Your dirootors after negotiations ex­ taken. should ·be sufficiently 1
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20 THE SAL T
the company has the privilege of paying
$75,000 on or before March 20, 1916, and
receiving title, thereby saving $25,000 on
the purchase price,
"The property is located near Marys,
ville, Montana, the terminus of a branch
of the Northern Pacific railway, It in·
clude3 about 200 acres of. patented ground
. and several claims held by location, and
covers about 9,000 feet along the Piegan­
Gloster veln. Near the middle is the old
Gloster mine, which was actively worked
from 1880 to 1888 down to a depth of 500
feet, and produced several million dollars
in gold and silver bullion. It is ·believed
that by better, modern methods of treat­
ment a good deal of ore left in these work­
ings, or which may be developed by deeper
exploration, will yield a profit, but this
cannot be verified, as the mine is fulIof
water.
"The Piegan claim, which ha.3 been
worked by tunnels, has yielded about 10,­
000 tons of fair grade, and the company's
engineers, after a careful examination, reo
port 23,000 tons in sight, assaying $8.50
per ton, which should yield a net profit of
about $90,000.
"Besides these known ore bodies, there
are possibilities of finding others in such
an extent of mining ground, and your direc­
tor. decided that the company was just!­
fied in making the cash payment ana un­
dertaking further development.
"There is no mining equipment at the
mine, but in the old Gloster mill building
there is ample room for any mill machin­
ery which may be required.
"George T. McGee, formerly manager
at the Barnes-King mine, has been again
engaged as manager, and will have full
charge of the company's new ventures.
"The directors have had under consid­
eration more than 100 mining propositions
during the last three years, and the North
Moccasin and the Piegan..Gloster are the
only ones within our financial means which
we have been jU3tified in accepting.
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RESULT OF HIGH METAL PRICES.
As compared with the same period of
1910 and 1911, says the Engineering and
Mining World, American mines and met­
allurgical works show increased dividend
disbursements during the first 8 months
of the present year.
By reason of n,igh metal prices, 135
,American properties have yielded profits
in the shape 'of dividends 50 far this year
totaling $57,356,881. This compares' with
$54,865,316 in 1911 and $48,301,333 in 1910.
Since .incorporation these 135 companies
have operated their properties so success·
fully that holders of their stock have been
enriched to the extent of no less than
$758,324,170, a return of 107 per cent on
the combined capital of $703,642,029.
This is, indeed, a remarkable accom·
L A'K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M BE R 15, 1912.'
pllshment, and is In keeping with Mining these companies paid ouf $8,923,904 in divi­
and Engineering World's oft-repeated state­ dends, as compared with $8,537,430 in 1911.
ment that mining, when carried on on a Since incorporation these companies have
business plane,. will yield profits equal to enriched shll.reholders to the extellt of
any industry and will exceed a large mao $131,140,201.
jority. The seCUrities-holding corporations, nine
Companies operating copper properties, in number, divided among shareholders this
particularly, have at last begun to feel the year $12,965,904, as compared with $9,896,
effects of the improved copper prices, for 556 paid by eight companies in 1911. To
27 of these were able to declare dividends date these nine companies have paid out in
totaling $24,122,999. This compares with dividends $146,227,399, a 71 per cent return
$21,107,285 in 1911 and $15,440,012 in 1910. on the outstanding $205,205,790 share capi­
Since incorporation the 27 companies men­ tal.
t:oned have paid out in dividends $357,­ The accompanying table giVS3 the divi­
998,454, a return equivalent to 158 per cent dends paid during August, the date of pay­
on the outstanding $227,277,082 share capi· ment ·and the amount per share. For total
tal. dividends paid by these companies since
By reason of its present large holdings, incorporation and for dividends paid by
Anaconda is far in the lead in point of other companies previous to August, see
dividends paid in 1912, having disbursed no ta-bles elsewhere in this issue;
less than $6,386,250, and to date has $65,· Dividends Paid In August.
658,750 to Its credit. Utah Copper ranks Per
second for the year, with $3,750,000, and Aug. Share. Amt.
to date has paid out $14,451,263. GalUmel, Ala.3ka Mexican, Ala .. 28 $0.35 $63,000
& Hecla is third for the year, with $1,800,000 Alaska Treadwell ..... 28 .75 150,000
but since Incorporation has divided among Alaska United 28 .50 90,100
its shareholders no less than $117,660,000. Ama!. .copper ....... 26
~ 1.00 1,538,879
In the gold-sllver-lead-zinc class 135 com­ Amparo, Mex. ........ 10 .03 60,000
panies contributed to the 1912 total to. the Buffalo, Onto •••• • 5
••• .02 ¥.z 15000
4
extent of $24,219,987, and to date have to Bunker Hill & Sull. ... 3 .20 65,400
thelr credit $267,585,515, a 102 per cent Butte-Alex-Scott, Mont. 15 .50 37,500
return on the $261,871,997 issued capital. Champion, Mich. ..... 1 1.00 100,000
Of the above 135 companies, 68 operate Cliff, Alaska .......... 1 .05 5,000
properties in the United States, and they Colo, Gold Dredging ... 10 .25 25,000
paid dividends during the year totaling Coniagas, Ont. 0 ••••••• 1 .45 360,000
$14,213,525, and to date $172,973,360. Crown Reserve, Ont. .. 15 .05 85,442
Far in the lead for the year is Go!dfield Elkton Con., Colo ...... 24 .01 25,000
Con. of Nevada, which has enriched share­ Fremont, Cal. ........ 28 .02 4,000
holders to the extent of $4,626,877. This Frontier, Wis. ....... 9 2.00 2,478
company also leads among the 1912 divi· Golden Cycle, Colo .... 1 .02 30,000
dend payers in total disbursements, having Grand Central, Utah .. 25 .05 25000
divided amOng shareholders during the few Greene Cananea, Mex. 31 .25 606.000
years of its life $22,773,'060. Tonopah and Greene Con., Mex. .... 30 .40 400,000
Tonopah Belmont, two' other companies Hecla, Idaho .......... 20 .02 20,000
operating In Nevada, rank second and Homestake, S. D. ..... 25 .50 109,000
third, the former having paid out $1,200,000 Int'l Nickel, pfd ...... 1 1.50 133,689
and the latter $1,125,000. Int'l Sm. & Ref....... 31 2.00 200.000
Seventeen Canadian companies disburs­ Jerry Johnson, Colo ... 10 .01 25,000
ed dividends during the year amounting to Lucky Tiger, Mex...... 20 .05 35,767
$6,381,987. Nipissing leads for the year ..
Miami, Ariz. . - ...... 1 .50 371,288
with $1,350,000, and in total disbursements Mohawk, Mich. ...... 1 2.50
~ 250,000
with $8,640,000. Coniagas ranks second for Parrot, Mont. *, • • • • • • 26 .15 34,478
the year with $960,000, and to date has paid Pittsburgh-Idaho ...... 1 .04 32,120
out $3,800,000. Crown Reserve is third for South Eureka, Cal. ... 1 .07 20999
the year with $707,531, and to date is cred­ IStandard, B. C. ..... ,. 10 .02¥.z 50,000
ited with $4,323,598. Tennessee Copper .... 10 1.00 200,000
Fifteen Mexican companies, handicapped Tuolumne, Mont. • ,* •• 15 .15 120.000
by the continued turmoil in the republiC, United Copper, Wash .. 1 .01 10.000
have been able to declare dividends during United Verde, Ariz..... 3 .75 225,000
the year totaling $3,594,475. Since incor­ Wasp No.2, S. D...... 15 .02 10,000
poration these fifteen companies have divld· Yosemite Dredging, Cal. 15 .01 2,400
ed among shareholders $52,901,941. Santa ~---o
Gertrudis leads for the year with $997,632, It is reported that the Utah Copper com­
with Dos Estrellas second with $750,000, pany is to electrify its shovels and railroad
and to date, $11,505,000. Mexico Mines of at Bingham, Utah, u31ng motors in place· of
Ei Ore ranks third with $360,000. the present locomotives. The' company has
Six metallurgical companies show a begun the use of power of the Telluride
slight increase in disbursements as com­ Power company for its compressors and un­
pared with. 1911. During the present year (lergtound haulage arid lighting.
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M BE R 15, 1 912.
THE KARNS TUNNELING MACHINE.
The Committee on Science and the Arts
of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania,
has awarded the Edw~rd Longstreth Medal
of Merit to John Prue Karns of Boulder,
Colorado, for his Tunneling Machine, in
consideration of facts "wh'ch indicate that
the Karns machine will operate with econ­
omy within the limits of commercial utility,
and possibly with a very considerable de­
gree of economy. depending on its durabil­
ity and the continuity with which it can be
kept in operation."
7 Lee, . Murray ..••.....•..........•
As early &. the fifties, efforts were
made to perfect a satisfactory tunneling
machine, and in 1851 and 1858, patents were
taken out in the United States and Eng­
land for such machines, and many have
bee patented since, but these proved im­
Widdicombe
practicable.
Walker,
The Karns Tunneling Machine is con­
structed to drive a six-foot hole in rock
without the use of explosives. The hole is
made by steel cutters, inserted in a circu­
lar head, to whiCh is imparted a reciprocat·
ing motion, from the cylinder of what Is
practically a very large air-drill, and ro­
tary motion through a rifled nut. The lat­
ter motion is intermittent, the nut being
provided with dogs, and the head is rotated
a few degrees on each back stroke of the
shaft- which carries it, so that the cutters
strike in a different place at each stroke.
The shaft is sixteen inches in diameter and
about twenty feet long, and substantially
made. Rea;mers are provided for maintain­
ing the gauge of the tunnel. All moving
parts are carried on roller bearings.
The committee watched the operation at
a machine at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, driv·
ing a tunnel through horizontal strata of
coal and a hard, close-grained rock. The
tunnel had been driven' 150 feet. The rate
of driVing was one and two feet per hour
at eighty and 160 strokes p!<r minute, re­
spectively. It was driven from a eompres­
sor of a capacity of 2,500 cubic feet of air
per minute, compressing to 100 pounds per
square inch. The weight of the recipro­
cating parts of the machine was about seven
and a quarter tons, and the stroke. seven
inches. The tunnel surface was smooth and
the gauge well maintained. The chips reo
moved ranged from one-eighth inch to one
inch. The temper of the cutters is varied
for different parts of the face, to maintain
an even wearing surface. The chips were
removed by flushing through an eight-inch
pipe.
The inventor claims that the cost of
drilling can be cut eighty per cent with his
machine. The complete cost of installa·
tion is estimated to be about $30,000. Op·
erating cost per twenty-four hours is es·
timated at $160. with coal at $3 per short
ton, and labor at $3 per twelve-hour day.
Interest anct" depreciation are ngured at
twenty per cent or $20 per day, making the
= I N D E X TO ADVERTISER.
Mlllinc Machla"..,. aail Suppll"a.
Bogue Supply Co. • ••••••••••.•.•.• _• . . . 1/
Denver Fire Clay Co. . .•...........• _ . •
General Electric Co. ...................
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. •••..•..•..••
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. ....•........
Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders ...... _. . .
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.. . . . .. . 6
POrtland Cement Co.. of Utah ............ 43
Richmond. F. C. Machinery Co. ••......
Revere Rubber Co. ••••••.••••..........
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemica! Co. .... 42
Salt Lake Hardware Co................. H
Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... 1()
Union Portland Cement Co.............. 43
Utah Fuel Co........................... H
Utah Fire Clay Co. ...•................ 4()
WestInghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. .....• . 7
Z. C. M. I. ........................
Baaklac Bou."••
Merchants' Bank ••••••••...•......••.••
McCornick & Co. ••••••••.•..•••••••..•
National Copper Bank ••.•.......... ~...
Walker Bros. _...•......••••....•. 6 and
Utah State National Bank ............
Aaaayer. aad lIfetallurclata.
A. F. Bardwell ...•••.•..........•......
Bird-Cowan .••........•.•••••.........•
Crismon & Nichols .•.•...•• _ . . . . . . . . . . •
Currie, J. W. ....•••••••..•...........•
Officer & Co., R. R. ••••.................
Union Assay Office ....................
Utah Department Denver Fire Ciay Co...
Rall,;,oail..
Bingham & Gadield Ry. ..•.............
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Salt Lake Route .•....•.••......•.•...
Rio Grande Western •.••..•... _ . . . • . • .
lIflal_ Attonleya.
Booth. Lee, Badger & Lewishon........
Bradley, Pischel & Harkness ...... __ . ...
callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books....
Davis & Davis.........................
Higgins, E. V. .......•........ • • . . . . . .
Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette ...........
total per day for interest, depre­
ciat'on and operation. $180. At a rate of
drilling of eighteen Inches per hour, the
cost of excavation is about $5 per cubiC
yard. Taking the average figure for driving
an -eight-foot tunnel at $10 per cubic yard,
this means a saving of one·half in operat·
ing cost. The initial cost of the machine
would be greater than in the ordinary
method, but the compressor plant would
be about the same.
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AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS.
(Special .Correspondence.)
Spokane, Wash., Sept. 23.-With the ex·
pected arrival in Spokane in a few days of
Secretary James F. Callbreath and Assist­
ant Secretary Walcott, of Denver, active
preparations for the annual convention of
the American Mining Congress will be put
under way. The convention will be held
November 25 to 30.
En route from washington, D. C., to Spo­
kane, Secretary Callbreath is making stops
in Pittsburg, Chicago and other eastern
cities, arousing interest in the congress.
Local offices in charge of Sydney Nor·
man have been opened in Spokane at 701
Paulsen building, and interest lrmong min­
ing men of this section 'is running high. On
the arrival of Mr. Callbreath· a large gath­
ering of mining men will be held to wel­
come him and to take up further arrange­
lIfla" aail Stock Dealen:
Palli!"
Orem &- Co....................... ~
4 "-
3 ClvU alld lIflalac Englueel"
II Adamson, W. G. • ...••......•••.•;
4 Arnold, Fisher & Calvert ........,
4 Burch, Caetanl & Hershey ...... ~
Brown, G. Chester : ••.': •........ _
Burke. James J .........•.......••
2 Craig, W. J .••..••...............
6 Deseret Construction Co. . ....•...
Fiske, Winthrop W .............. .
Galigher, T. W. . ................ .
General Engineering Co. . ...... .
Howell & Kingsbury ..•..........
Ireland. T. W .................... .
James, Geo. D. . ................ .
Jennings, Eo P. • •............... :
Pack, Mosher F. • _ .........••.•.. "
Peet, IC. A.' •••••••..............•.
38 Pulslfier, H, B. . .....•...........
38 Roberts, J. C. . .•...•.............
38 Sal'rord, J. L. • ...••....... _.....••
23 Sliver Bros. Engineers & Contract,
3~ Troxell, L. E. • ••...............••
Utah State School of Mines ..... .
VlIladsen Bros. . ............. __ ..
& Palmer .•....••.•
39
39
Zallnskl,
H. C. . ............... _..
Edward R. . ...••.•.....
39
39 BI.cellaneoa•.
39
Century Printing Co. . ......... .
39
39' De Bouzek Engraving Co. . . . . . . ;.
Hote! Stanford ..••.........• , .. .
Gardner & Adams .......••••.•..
36 Mountain States TeL & TeL Co. ..
39 Ol'rlclal Directory of Mines •...•••
40 Nephi Plaster Co. . ..............•
40 New Era Motor Co.•............',
Railroad Time Tables •. , •••••••• r.
Salt Lake Stamp Co••••••••••••••.
Smith & Adams, Tents •.••......
38
38 Shiplers, Commercial Photograplll
Tooele Smeaer ................. ..
38 Utah Junk Co. . ... __ ...•.•.•...• ;
38 Utah Ore Sampling Co. • •.••.•••••
38 United States Smelting Co. . ...••
38 Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars .•......
menst fo;'- the convention.
Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, direct
bureau of mines, will be on tJ
speakers. which will include sor
national authorities on mining.
t!on, treated in its true ,3ense, anI
the greatest possible use with the
sible, waste, wiI! fJe one of the
topics to be discussed.
0.
THE GRANBY SMELTE
(Special Correspondence
Grand Forks. British ColumbiJ
ber 10.-The Granby smelter
Forks, B. C" broke its year's
,eently, treating in one week 25,7
ore. bringing the year's total thus
252 tons, The high price of cod
1; inducing the com!}any to PI
greatest possible tonnage of 0'1
provements at the smelter areJ
reasons for the increase. To
year the company has .produce.~
pounds of blister copper, 395,0
being sent to the refineries last·~
production in the Kootenay anq
distri,cts was again well above ti
and totaled 52,441 tons and t~
the year jumped above the miij
half ton mark, the output to
1.524,600 tons. Smelter receipt
J
were 47,161 tons; for' the Ye
1,372,733 tons. ·M~h}! sl;i,
Trail were '64 tons, valb~d at
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investors. A $40,000-plant would not only
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ELECTRIC POWER FOR MINES.
Every mining camp in the west should
be able to secure electric power for the
operation of its mines and mills. No mat­
ter if fuel for the generation of steam
power is abundant and cheap, the appli­
cation of electric power is cheaper, more
convenient and more reliable. In the ab-'
sence of wood for fuel, or when a long wa·
gon haul is involved where coal has to be
used, many good mining properties are com·
pelled to operate at a very close margin
of profit, or to close down altogether, un·
less the ore is exceptionably high in grade.
In the west, Where the use of electricity is
becoming so common, there are still many
camps which have not, as yet, been sup·
plied with this convenience, this necessity;
and the mines of these districts can show
any amount of $6, $10, $12 and even $15
and $20 ore, which cannot be handled and
treated at a profit on account of the high
cost of fuel for power·generating purposes.
And- yet any of these camps could be sup­
plied with electric power, although ten,
twenty or forty miles from some stream
Wlhere this power could be generated. In
the ~st, today, there are a number of camps
which are practically idle because of the
fuel and power problem; and, the mines
of these camps can make a showing of
thousands upon thousands of tons of ore
which could be handled at a handsome prof.
it if cheap power could be secured. There
are many mines in the.3e districts with a
quarter of a million blocked out in their
workings wh!ch are noW idle, but which
could be operated successfully by the in­
stallation of an electric power plant at a
cost of from $35,000 to $40,000.
healthy future.
~--~o,---­
ognized and seized upon by capitalists and
(Record, Ely, Nev.)
While the great plant of the Steptoe
Valley Smelting & Mining- company at
such a plant could also be used for manu­
facturing purposes in valley towns, and
an extensive lighting system inaugurated,
as well.
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INCREASED METAL PRICES.
Since our last issue, there has been a
very gratifying advance in the price of the
metals. Of most importance in the inter­
mountain region are the increases in the
price of copper and lead. Copper stood at
seventeen and four-tenths cents for some
time, but has now advanced, at the time
of writing, .to seventeen and fifty·one hun­
dredths cent3 per pound. Lead has ad­
vanced in the same period from four and
onehaif cents to four and seventy-one hun­
dredths cents per pound, and some quota­
five cents.
The continued high level of prices and
the advancing market mean much 'to west­
ern producers. Many small mines, hereto­
fore unable to ship, are now coming into
prOduction. Old dumps, many of which are
available in the Tintic district of Utah,
are being reworked for the value lost in
the days when only highgrade ore could
be shipped .at a profit.
Better prices mean better smelting con­
tracts. The advantages are not alone limit­
ed to the actual cents per pound increase,
but are refiected largely in the better feel·
ing prevailing as to the success of individ­
ual mines, a feeling which is always in the
air at a time when prices are advancing.
Not only are many old producers COin­
ing back, but there is great inducement to
prospecting and development of new prop­
erties in those districts which have long
had a few shippers. Refering again to the
Tintic district, the past two weeks have
seen all records broken in the matter of
tonnage shipped. This may be assigned,
:iin' great measure, to the feeling that min­
ing is again picking uP. as evidenced by
market conditions.
Silver has maintained its high level
around sixty-two cents an ounce, a factor
which is always a gratifying one to produc­
ers of that metal. All that has been said
in regard to copper and lead applies equally
well to silver. Zinc, likewise, has shared
in the general advance.
It is clearly evident that mining in the
west is due for a great impetus. New pro­
motions are daily reported, and capital
seems eager to acquire good mines and
prospects; in fact, the supply of good prop­
erties held at reasonable prices is much
less than the demand. All this indicates a
WILL MAKE GREATER SAVING.
McGill has about reached its capacity for
gross tonnage; with a steadily maintained
demand on the mines for 10,000 tons of
ore a day, the possibilities of the plant for
increased savings are the subject of con­
stant experime)lt. One of the greatest
sources of loss in the concentration of cop.
per ores is the tendency of the tiny par­
ticles of mineral to escape in the fOflm of
"slimes." A small experimental plant is
now handling a portion of the slimes and
effecting a large additional saving and when
the problem has been more fully worked
out a special plant with sufficient capacity
to handle all the slimes from the mill will
be erected. With ore running less than 40
pounds of copper to the ton, it is of course
a mechanical impossibility to save all the
values, but the recovery of an additional
pound of copper per ton of ore in a plant
handling 10,000 tons a day will amount to
a very handsome figure annually.
The repumping system at the Steptoe
concentrator Is now sending back to the
mill from 5,000 to 5,500 gallons of water a
minute. A new ten·inch volute pump is be­
ing installed in the pump house as an aux·
iliary and a new steam pump With a capa­
city of about 5,000 gallons a minute has
been ordered but will not be installed for
several months as an addition to the pump
house, 90x45 feet in size, must be built to
make room for it. The new settling ponds
have been allowed to fill up with slimes so
that the mud might seal ,the earthen walls
of the ponds, but now that this has been
accomplished the mud will be fiushed out
by hydraulic pressure and the ponds will
in future serve their purpose of supplying
clear water to the repumping plant.
, 0
A deed of trust to secure the issuance
of first debenture mortgage bonds of $200,­
000, bearing.7 per cent interest, has been
issued by the Central Republic Mining com­
papy, with Thomas H. Brewer, president
of the. Fidelity National bank of Spokane,
and Ortho Dorman, as trustees. The bonds
will be issued to enable the company to
start extensive development of its prop­
erty, comprising the Valley View, D. D.,
Fingerboard and Evening Start claim, in
the Republic district.
 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.
The Prospector
and His Burro
"A bobtail fiush is nothing to what the
tenderfoot prospector will .put over on the
veteran miner,once in a while," said the
prospector to his burro. "The old-timer who
is long on information, even if he thinks he
has four aces in his hand, Is often beaten
to a finish by the young fellow who drifts
into camp with a mine sam,ple bag in one
hand, a mandolin in the other, while a crop·
tailed dog follows in his rear. The old fel­
lows in the camp wag their heads when they
see him, and those of tender heart begin to
worry about his future, for they do not see
how he can make good when they know they
have spotted every good thing in the dis­
trict. Still they extend the glad hand, for
the fresh, spicy air of the newcomer catches
their fancy, and he is a good fellOW to have
around. If he wants to know where there is
a good place to prospect they will tell him
to go anywhere, as the country is all good.
He takes them at their word and goes out
and locates a bonanza in the serpentine,
which, the old·timer had often maintained,
could not be mineral-bearing. Or, his dog
chases a chipmunk into the underbrush, the
tenderfoot follows, and finds a strong ledge
of $150«)re within a hundred yards of where
the veteran prospector has been camped
for six months. The tenderfoot does things
the old-timer would not think of doing, and
prospects II stretch of country that has been
condemned for many years by the veteran
miner, just because he doesn't know any
better, as· everything looks alike to him;
with the result that he finds more good veins
'and ledges than the average prospector
would find in ten years; and, all of the old
grizzlies wonder and shake their heads, and
eventually accredit the success of the new·
comer to nothing but sheer luck.
"You cannot confine mining to a mere
system," contlnued the 'prospector," none
whatever. 'Wheat stacks, to be goo'd, must
be made with just so much fiour in them,
a proper amount of baking powder, a few
teaspoonfuls of bacon grease and a pinch
of salt. When all is ready a skillful hand
at the skillett turns out a dish fit for the
gods. But, in prospecting, you must take
conditions as you find them. A prospector
should not slight a new section because the
lime does not just suit him, because the
quartz and the porphyry do not correspond
to his ideas of what forms a desirable com­
bination, or because the grani'te is lacking
in feldspar. He must remember that he is
not making the .formation, and that he must
take it as he finds it, with a chance of
finding 30mething big with geological condi.
tions different from that in which great divi·
dend-payers have been found in before; for,
'gold is where you find it: and not where
you believe it ought to be.
"You say that you don't see how a man
can ,find anything unless some wise guy had
preViously furnished him with a chart and
detailed map of the country, like those pro­
vided by the U. S. Theological survey,
which are so pretty.and nice to look at, and,
that as far as you are concerned, you do not
see how the tenderfoo't could have the heart
to dig in barren ground when he could not
tell a piece of pyrite from rock fiecked with
gold, if he should find, either; which goes
to show that you would not make a good,
enthusiastic tenderfoot, or an old, dyed-in­
the-wool prospector, ndtwithstanding' the
fact that you have traveled with me, In the
hills, many Years, and should have absorbed
some mining lore, along with your daily ra·
tlons, without being conscious of the fact.
Why, you haven't brains enough to make
even a green tenderfoot, 'two of the green­
est of which stumbled into my camp three
years ago. These boy. are big guns, now,
and look more like steel trust magnates than
men wlftJ have made fOl'ltunes in the hills;
and, as we have run out the chuck-a-wallas
and looked into the bedding for snakes, I
will tell you how these youngsters came
into our district and found a whaling big
mine that we had been looking at for
months without having any idea of its exist­
ence. At the time I mention two boy. from
8t. l..ouis bumped Il1'to camp one day, as
full of push as a bottle of pop, and -know­
ing so little that even my burro felt asham­
ed for them. One of the boys had a powder
rag in his kit, and I believe the other wore
corsets. All that I could say of them was
that 'they were alive: and nothing more.
They made the camp hilarious, however, and
took a great deal of interest in the pros­
pect hole I was sinking. One day they
asked me to direct them to good pr03pect·
ing ground. I pointed to some over-hang­
ing cliffs, on the bare face of one of which
there appeared 'to be the opening to a cave,
and told them that was likely ground. As
a matter of fact, however,. noth'ng but an
eagle could get to it, and the boys were
short of eagles. They started ouE, however,
as' JOYOUS and as confidell't as a baby with
'a full nursing bottle. That night they came
In leg-weary but enthUsiastic. They had
their way to the base. of the.
back with 'them looked good, ey
But, I knew that gold could nc
those chalk cliffs, and so gave 1
no serious thought. The next m
boys went out with some ropes
'their equipment. They did not
that night, and I began to fee!:~
worried. Along during the aftern
second day, however, they broke
on a run. I think they must haVE
powder rags and corsets, for til
more like a remnant of the lost
even the raggedest of present-da
tors. But they were happy, all
and the samples of gold-bearing q
had in their saanple sacks set'
wild. Arter ther had rested a~
. told me of their adventures. It
until nearly noon, the first day 01
the top of the cliffs, by a roundal
After eating lunch one of the bo)
the other to the mouth of the ca
rope they had taken with them.
other tied his end to the trunk ..
and slid down. The cave was i
ger than It looked, from my cal
little spring broke out of a erev
feet in. The boys had candles ,
and soon began making an expl
the cavern. After going in a de
100 feet the chalky fOl'Dlation gal!>
a fissure in rhyolite took its plaCi
olite not being visible from the (
low. After following the cave fc
100 feet they bumped up against
of the fissure, a bodr of quartz
in width, and which was fairly
geth€r with wire gold. They knE
about metals to know nothing bi
silver, in that region, could ex
eondmon, and, although overjo;
not surprised at their discovery
was what they were out proopecti
they worked for an hour or two
decided to return to eamp with I
pies. When ·they got back to the
real troubles began. Not being ai
steeple-chasers, they had difficulty
Ing uP. First one would slip a
then the other. Finally onega.,
tlrely, but the fellow with the t
managed t9 get up ten or twelve I
by grabbing at the few scatterh
growing in the crevices in the fa
cliff, he managed, finally, to rea"
where h€ collapsed from ov'er-e~
ter an hour or two he succeeded ~
up his partner and they camped'
the night. The next morning tlie;
ing but re.t, and they were a to~
lot when they finally got Into

24 THE SAL T L A K E MIN 1 N G REV 1 E W, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
was amazed at the showing. A company was
formed, an aerial tram way installed, and
the fir3t few carloads that went out con­
tained the ramson of a Caesar. The boys
help€d in development and eqUipment, and,
before two years were rolling in wealth and
the whole country looked upon them as be·
ing expert mining men who had style and
system in their prospecting.
"I want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con·
cluded the prospector, "I never pass up
anything after that experience, and would
as soon prospect around a badger hole on a
sandhill as in a lime-belt cut by a porphyry
dyke. I no longer look for gold where it
ought to be, but am always expecting to
find it where it reaJly is; and there you are.
and then some." . posits, it will be of great use to the prospec·
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LOW GRADE GOLD ORES.
(Colorado Springs Telegraph.)
The work of the Portland Gold Mining
company's mill at Victor, Colo., in the treat·
ing of low grade ore, is an object lesson to
the mine operators of the entire Cripple
Creek district, in the opinion of George :M.
Taylor, general mill superintendent of the
company, who gave out some interesting fig,
ures on the operation of the mill today. A
few days ago, for the first time since the
mill opened, the amount of ore treated
passed the 600-ton mark. 625 tons of rock
being run through in twenty·four hours.
This ore had an average value of $J.:W a
ton and the net profit to the company is
$1 a ton. The net profit of the mill for
the month of July is close to $18,000, al·
though the actual figures have been made
out.
"Every day in the Cripple Creek dis·
trict," Eaid Mr. Taylor, "there are from five
to fifty tons of rock of just as good or bet·
ter grade thrown on the dumps at every
property that is being worked at all. This
rock can all be worked at a profit of $1 a
ton jU3t as we are dOing, and when one
stops to consider the unlimited quantities
on the dumps of the district, we can con·
ceive what the net results would be."
Ten and fifteen years ago-yes, five
years ago-ore was discarded as worthless
that ran $5, $6 or $8 a ton in gold. Today,
handsome profits are being made on rock
that averages only $3.20. And when it is
consIdered that. during the days when
science played less a part in the general
scheme of extracting the ore from thh hills
and the gold from the ore, there were tens
of millions of "pay stuff" thrown over the
dumps, the possibilities of the mining alone
almost surpass comprehension.
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The Chief Consolidated of Eureka, Utah,
has over $200,000 I.n its treasury, and is
shipping regularly. It is expected a divl·
dend will . be paid when the net earnings
reach $250,000, which should be at an earlY
date.
r n mt"rr:rtt
are good illustrations of the chamber·de­
posit class. Gash·veins are the most dis·
CAMP-FIRE CHATS
By PAUL VALTINKE
appointing of all veins to tpe miner. They
are nothing else but small cracks which
derived their mineral values either frqm
The mere fact that you have a "true the surrounding rocks, or, what seems more
fissure" does not in the least add any addi· probable, by infiltation from the surface.
tional value to your prospect. There have They seldom attain a depth of more than
been thousands of fissures discovered and a hundred feet, gradually pinching out with
....'Orked which never produced better
depth. They will very seldom show talc
than Irish dividends. Although a true fis· lining. As cracks may result by either con·
sure Is a very desirable find in a mineral­ traction, by folding or the cooling of igneous
ized district, it would be utter folly to dis·
rocks, the number and variety of said
card any other mineral deposit simply be­ cracks is easily explained; but the genesis
cause it does not show the earmarks of a of their orebodies is still open to dispute
fissure. As some of the richest mines de· and varied theories have been advanced on
rive their wealth from other than fissure de.this subject. Impregnation veins and stock·
works are rather related to the fissure vein,
tor to familiarize him,elf with all clasess class. The ore bodies consist of small
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
the field man cannot err, consid·
the walls of the deposit. They are mostly
ering only the follow!ng: Fissure veins, found in igneous rocks. Fahlband dep0..3its
contact veins, segregation veins, bedded never ca'me under the writer's observation
veins, chamber deposits, gash veins, impreg· in this country, and he has never heard of
nation veins, and stockworks. Fahlband de· any being reported. If fissures cut or cross
posits are not met with in this country. through different formations, and the ore·
Fissure veins are best recognjz.ed by bodies only appear when a certain forma·
their regular strike, and if several veins tion (in most cases shale or shist) makes
are found in the district they will generally the walls, while the rest is barren, the de·
run parallel to each other. They will ex· posit will belong to the I<'ahlband class.
hibit a more or less banded structure of ---~o)----
often different minerals. They mostly SMELTERY SUPERINTENDENT KILLED.
show the well·known talc selvage; but, if
there has been little dip or plane faulting, S:meon C. Hazelton, superintendent of
they may, as the 'miner says, "be frozen the United States smeltery at Midvale,
to the wall and still be fissures." They Utah, was killed in an automobile accident
strike for long distances and extend to great on the evening of September 6th. With
depths. Contact veins should, as the name three companions, bound for Salt Lake City,
implies, lay between to or more dissimilar he was struck by a street car, while at·
formations; but, if they cut across the tempting to avoid collision with a carriage
formations, as they often do, they should A gasoline explos:on added to the horror
be rather termed fissure veins. Segrega· of the occurrence. Mr. Hazelton and one
tion veins will also sometimes show the campanion died before reaching the hos·
banded structure of fissure veins. Their pital.
veinstone will ,show more or holss crystali· Mr. Hazelton was unmarried and about
zation. The ore·bodies will be irregularly thirty·five years of age. He came to Salt
distril;mted; the veins will follow the stra· Lake a few years ago from Phihidelphia.
tification of the surrounding rocks closely, Pennsylvania, to take charge of the Ameri·
exhibiting thereby a more irregular strike can Smelting & Refining company's plant
than fissure veins in general. Signs of fault­ at :Murray, and later assumed the super·
ing are seldom observed. Bedded veins or intendency of the United States smeltery.
blanket veins will only be found between Mr. Hazelton was well liked by all with
sed'mentary rocks. They lie parallel to whom he came in contact, and his loss will
the stratification and will follow all con· be' keenly felt.
tortions of the enclosing beds. If found ----0--­
at the top of a former anticline they will Walter Harvey Weed, 'manager of the
necessarily crop in two places; one outcrop Calumet & Sonora Mining company, oper·
dipping away from the other. These de· ating in Sonora, Mexico, announces further
posits were laid down, originally, horizon· improvements at the property. The shaft
tally. Our Mercur mines are an illUstration will be enlarged to a size permitting two
of this class of deposits. Chamber depos· hoisting compartments. The shaft was re..·
its are always found in limestone or other cently deepened by raising from the 525·
soluble rocks. Ore bodies of varying ex· foot level, and a new drift ha3 been com·
tent and purity, of mostly lenticular shape, menced. The dry mill is operating one shift
without any connection or connected onl.\' a day. A recent shipment of copper con·
by small seams, make up their mineral centrates to the Cananea Consolidated smel·
wealth. The United Verde Copper mine and tery at Cananea, contained fifteen per cent
the lead·silver mines of Eureka, Nevada, copper.
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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.

MASON VALLEY DEVELOPMENTS. and netting about $5 per ton. Messrs. THE WILBERT MIN,
Sonne and Alberts have a lease and bond
In an interview in The Salt Lake Trib· on this property for $20,000, which they (Standard,Leadore, I'dal:
The 'Wilbert" Mining_ & M
une, A. L. Jacobs of Salt Lake, makes some would not sell now for four times that
interesting comments on the Mason Valley amount. They are experienced mining men pany with field of operation iii
district, is pushing ahead witt
district of Nevada, as follows: and they have developed large bodies of
"The Mason Valley property has been shipping grade ore.
energy, .since the necessary reIl .·
mill have been completed, andit
opened by means of a series of tunnels, "About a year or two ago the McCon~
for the enterprise now forecastS
the lowest of which, the No.4, is about nell property was leased by Goldfield peo·
succeES. 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-ton~ ca
cobs. a report 'made by Engineer O. A. Palmer
prises a Blake crusher, rolls, Ct
"The mine is connected with the tracks of Salt Lake City. Thel> ,3pent about $70,·
James and ,"V!lfley 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 fine enough are conve~
which is about 2000 tons daily. The man­ fol:ow the advice given by Mr. Palmer, but .
be ground over again. are 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 ioS treating about 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. ConcentraU
"As the management widens its surface When asked in regard to the Mason
'ratio of 4 to 1. From the crude
explorat:on, new surprises are being brought Valley smelting plant, Mr. .Jacobs said It ters the crusher, to the fini·.ab
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. Theone furnace is treating about
ues is effected. The mill is ,
ing enough to convince 'me that new bodies 800 tons daily Qn an average. The perfec. steam power, which, although
tion with which smelting operations have
of ore will be disoovered, when the com­ attendant on freighting the h~
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 qredit upon General Man­ road point. Is great, will prov
to the mountain, the management has op­ ager Jules Labarthe. The capacity of the
in the long run against water 1
ened its lime fluxing 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 sinterlng 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 i
stituting a splendid. fiux. plant reaches its lOgical capacity Mr. Ja­ north ,by south in a big eonti
"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 fin'ng plant installed. mation being the hanging wali'
figure per ton. It is conveyed through Conditions throughout the entire district which is on ·a contact fissure.
chutes from the surface to the No. 4 tun· are extremely gratifying, Says Mr. Jacobs, working represents a vertical!
nel level, where the loading station is 10' and nU'merous properties are being added outcrop of only. 250 feet. ThrQ
cated. The several levels have been con­ to the active list right along. of openings, good mill dirt Q
nected with raise to the surface. and in do­ ----0
posed on the vein i'Qr the dist!
ing this work the management has driven NOVEL METHOD OF GRADING. feet, and, it is estimated that
into good Qre 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:
measured today, a larger tonnage of 4 per The excavating is being done just back
on ore, a Systematic course 0"
is being pursued.
cent copper ore would be shown. than then of the present hoist building, and to avoid The Holman air drills, whit
existed. It is my opinion that there are danger to the building and to the men in USe since the placement '
'more than 1.000,000 tons ot 4 per cent cop­ employed on the surface from the heavy compres'SOr and 150 h.p. engill
per me now blocked out. blasting. a tunnel was run in at ail angle excellent satisfaction. Total 'Ii
"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 and ~
ores dally, just as required for fiuxing tile built at the bottom of this raise and a ager, H. S. Knight, of Salt U
custom ores at the smelters and to af· track laid through the tunnel to the dump. and treasurer and M. M. Johq
ford the food for the one furnace now As the rock is blasted down from the sides engineer of the company, arl!
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 I
by small mines to the smelter each day. inside this glory hole 'eliminates danger And to Mr. Johnson must I
The custom ores are carrying a consid­ of fiylng rocks to those working about the credit for the adequate mill eI
erable excess of silica, the Mason Valiey collar of the shaft. its adjustment, thereby insuritf
ores contain a faIr excess of iron, hence ---0--­ of the plant.
it is better business to conserve the Ma­ The August production Qf th€ Miami Although' it is

son Valley ores for fiuxing purposes than Copper company. near Globe, Arizona, was the hill to Arco and

to rush their extraction. 3.048,750 pounds. This is abQut the capaci·

ty of the present mill, and t:h~ advisablllty
26 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M BE R 1 5, 1 912.

UTAH COAL MINES. It is probably more than they will earn THE BEAVER.UTAH.
until the new railroad line is finIshed 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 about 4x6 feet and is being sunk on the
ance among eastern financial interests 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.
s!bilities 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 com·. 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 heen 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·
Wal! 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 optimism 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 ~ooks 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 w11l have
mile road to connect with Union Pacillc 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 ca:mp and 01__--­
a few weeks 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 1S0·ton mill, which is to be
"The present facilities of the coal "rop' nearly all of them .are gold-bearing. erected by the Manhattan-Big Four :r.mning
erties are confined to a connection with the Charles Everson is another prospector company. The mill will be gravity type, de·
Denver and R!o 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 wilJ go by gravity to ten 1,050·
production of coal to market. w:hen the on his claims. He states that in all his poun!i 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 mf>3h. After this sec·
dred thousand tons Yearly. The curl'ent Other claim owners in the camp are Al ondary grinding, the pulp will pass over
output is 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, Ja:mes Robins and as.sociates, plates. It is expeeted that the pulp from
increase, so that by the first of Janulll'Y it and all have good showings of ore. the plates will be of sufficiently low! 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 --~-o----

"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 coal properties Gypsey mine, and will soon be shipping way up Little Cottonwood canyon near
through sale of $10,000,000 6 per cent notes. forty tons a day from its May Day mine, Salt Lake. The route is a difficult one and
This calls for an ann ual 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.
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THE SAL T
IRON BLOSSOM,
Jesse Knight, president cf the IrQn Blo.s­
driven over Into the Gold {)hl
SQm Mining CQmpany Qf Tintic, Utah, has
. anno.unced that a 100,tQn cQncentrating
plant will be built by that cQmpany. FrQm
experimental wQrk, extending Qver the past
year, it is estimated that the saving by co.n­
centrating will be fifty per cent mQre than
by the present methQd Qf shipping to. the
smelteries.
The mill ..'lill pro.bably be erected at Sil­
ver City, where water is plentiful. It is be­
lieved that $6 Qre can be treated. There is
much Qre o.f this grade in the Tintic dis­
trict, which WQuid beco.me available if the
new mill wa.;; successful in treating' it. In
cQnnectiQn with these plans, the IQwer
grade Qre Qf the IrQn BlQssQm will be no.
IQnger shipped to. the smelteries, but will
be held in reserve fQr the mill, resulting in
the curtailment Qf the pro.ductiQn by fo.rty
per cent, and the consequent laying Qff Qf
lIl/any men. It is expected, hQwjever, that
the develQpment wQrk, nQW be~ng planned,
will prQvlde for the emplQyment of mQst
of the men. . ,
There has been no. mill building in Tlntlc
II). the last ten years, and nQne are now in
QperatiQn. The success Qf the IrQn Blo.ESQm
mill WQuid mean much to. the district. The
methQd Qf treatment is nQt annQunced.
---Q'--~
VERTICAL COPPER CONVERTERS.
For many years, there has been consid­
erable difference Qf opinion among metal­
lurgists as to. the relative advantages o.f the
barrel and vertical types Qf copper cQnvert­
ers. The barrel type has perhaps been in
mo.re general use in copper smelterieE, the
Boston and MQntana plant of the Anaconda
Copper 'Mining company, at Great Falls,
MQntana, being almo.st the sole representa­
. tive Qf the vertical type. The size Qf co.n­
verters at this plant has been steadily in­
creased, and most cQmprehensive experi­
ments have ·been carried out. Finally a
large type has been perfected, which Is be­
ing rapidly adopted at many ,smelteries, and
seems to. be the most economical to use.
The Greene-Cananea 'Conso.lidated Mining
company has Installed Qne at Cananea, Mex­
Ico; the Calumet & ArizQna Mining com­
pany will install five in its plant at Doug­
lass, Arizo.na, and the Co.Pper Queen, three.
The .smeltery o.f the Arizona CQpper com­
pany at Clifton, Arizona, will have three,
and the United Verde, at Jerome, expects
to install some. The ArizQna smelteries
will use the 'size which is nineteen feet
high and tw;elve feet in diameter. ,The lat­
est practice at Great Falls favors even
larger sizes.
- - - ' - '-<o}---­
The Wyo.ming Mineral Develo.pment
company has taken o.ver the Victoria Gold
coII!lPlLllY and the Free Gold gro.up, near
Centennial, Wyoming.
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 91 2.
A round lhe Stale
Beaver Press: A fund of $3,000 has
been raised here to. be expended in pro.s­
pecting for the extensio.n o.f the Ro.b Roy
vein in NewtQn district. The parties o.wn­
ing the grQund adjQining this fam:/JUS pro.P­
erty think they have an excellent chanCe
'Of cutting the vein and are go.ing right to
work on the pro.po.sitiQn.
Park Record: Conditions are again im.,­
proving at the NeW' Yo.rk Bonanza, Thurs­
day of this week a nice bunch of o.re was
uncovered on the 200 and Manager McGill
is in hopes tkat the bo.dy will pro.ve per­
manent, which appearanoos indicate it will.
Ore is again being raised to. the surface
and in all prO'bability ano.ther shipment
will soon be ready fQr marketing at the Lit·
tle Bell.
Beaver Press: The latest advices fro.m
the King of the Hills Is to. the effect that
the tunnel wo.rk is go.ing on at the rate
o.f eight feet a day, and that the machin­
ery is all working to. perfection. Some lit­
tle difficulty has been experienced in the
o.peration of the whim which is being U::3ed
for hoisting water, but the defect has been
remedied and nQW' everythiIlg is mo.ving
alo.ng like clQck work.
'Milford Newll: At the Moscow, during
the last week, a strike of are has been
made which is arousing considerable in­
terest. It seems to be the sa.me character
of are as that struck hereto.fore and to
be a:bo.ut five to six feet in width. The
actual extent of it has not as yet been
developed. but according to past history o.f
the mine, Mtatthew Cullen ,say,s, it promises
to be the best thing the Moscow has ever
had.
R!ch.field Sun: The Outzen Mining Co..
has fo.ur men at work driving Its tunnel
into. the mountain. T·he company expects
to. get the main lead in a short distanoo
and when it does find it it will certainly
have a bQnanza. It is a known fact that
this grQUp of claims is very rich and it
will o.nly be a case of time and hard w()rk
befo.re the company will reap its reward.
L. IH. Outzen is very much elated over
. the present showing of the tunnel and
says he will find the big lead or bu'st.
MilfQrd News: R. H. Burke and Robert
Finley, who. have a lease on the Cortez
claim in Elephant canyon, belo.nging to. Mrs.
Sophia WoodhQuse, o.f Beaver, are CQntinu­
ally sh()wing samples of ro.ck v.1th free
go.ld 'visible t~ the nak;;ed elYI', running
hundreds of dollar,s to. tbe tQn. They went
to Beaver and back o.n Ibusiness last week,
returning to Milford Thursday. They have
a. prospective deal on hand for the handling
of this property ()n a larger scale, details
of which will be anno.unced later if it goes
through successfully.
Eureka Reporter: The drif.i
from the 1500 level of the Lo.m
mine is n()w fully.400 feet withu
cQmpany's grQund and for' t4
weeks it ha,s been cutting Ul
go.Qd lo.o.king quartz. Some 0.1
fo.und but it has no.t been o.f f
nature. This is an imPo.rtant
velopment for the Gold Chain
will cut the ore bearing sec
pro.perty fully 700 feet below
point at wjhich work has been
Milford News. It is report
NQrth American Mining compl
claims in the Linco.ln district
miles fro.m Minersville, and sev!
southeast of Milford, will stal"~
in the very near future. Th
has W'iJrked o.ff and o.n for the
three yea!'l3 and has disclo.sed
go.o.d Qre; but permanent bQdiE
yet been reached. George E, C
ly Qf PiQche, but now living il
City, we understand, is the II
director of the company. C.'
is the president. Just as so.or
details can be arranged and ad
will be started with a force of
Park City Reco.rd. General
G. McMillan Qf the Daly West SP
of days at this pro.perty the,
week. He. reported that the"
able conditions co.ntinue at bot
mill with the usual to.nnage mal
week. The gentleman infQrmed
that an extensive campaign 0'1
velo.pment was planned, and tl
tract recently awarded to Jal
Ilwee and Sons of Denver, 1
much prospecting and opening .
t€rrito.ry in this ·big property
ultimately result in much goo
<City. Mr. ,McMillan is enthusi:
Umistic as regards the future (
camp.
Vernal Express: A coal de
$10,000 was oonsumJllated this'
by the Pack & Young cQal m
hands. The new purchasers'
Pack and L. H. Allen. By the
they come into possessiQn of
and mo.st developed coal mine 11
basin. rrhe vein is full five rt
ness and gets better with ev
depth. The new! owners havet
on a larger force of miners aU
Ing bins and loading chutes.
capacity now is about 200 toni
will be increased to meet the
the trade. L.R. Pack will,
mine. The purchase include.
mine 136 acres of patented cOi
a filing on 160 acres of other;
Ing the mine.
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It Is reported that oil has
in the Weiser valley', in Idaho.
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.Adjoin Slales
ARIZONA.
Wilcox Range News: The Standard
ining company, whose property is located
Dragoon and Johnson, owned by
Owen T. Smith, has begun {urther develop·
ment on its property. Mr. Smith has just
returned from a successful business trip.
and ample funds have been supplied to
finance the property for the next two years.
This property has all the earmarks of mak·
ing a mine and is situated between the Cen­
turion and Republic. Mr. Smith is an able
mining man of expH'ience and has con­
fidence in the .property.
Prescott Courier: It is reported that the
Emporia mine3, one of the best gold prop­
erties close to Prescott, will shortly be
unw'atered and that the development of
the property on a large scale will be re­
sumed. In a recent issue of the Courier
a quite extended descript~on of the Emporia
properties was printed, and it now appears
that the m,ines are about to make good.
The first work to be done, after unwater·
ing, will be the driving of a level to COn'
nect the two shafts, thus affording stoping
ground while additional sinking i3 being
done.
Florence Blade-Tribune: Frank Vincen t
is assorting a carload of coppel' ore at his
Butte mining claims, situated fourteen miles
east of Florence, and will ship it to Doug­
las. The ore runs over 17 per cent copper
and about $10 gold per ton. It also car­
ries some silver. The combined value of
the three metals runs the ore up to about
$60 per ton, a very nice shipping prodnct.
Frank ha3been prospecting in that district
for about two years past, and he and Henry
Zeuner, postmaster at Price station, are
partners in some gold claims, in that 10
cality, that carry high-grade free gold ore.
Frank is a sober, industrious miner and
prospector and will make a "stake" in the
Butte district if he keeps his strength and
health.
Prescott Courier: Development of lhe
properties of the Arizona-Portland Mines
company, whose large group of claims are
situated close to the rich strike of the
Commercial Mining company in Copper
Basin, continues steadily and with good re­
sults. A ·small force of men is engaged in
running a tunnel upon a claim of the group,
which 13 about three-fourths of a mile from
Copper Bas!n, and the tunnel has reached
a length of over 100 feet. O. W. Blicken­
staff, of this city, who is one of the prin­
cipal stockholders of the company, recently
returned from a trip east, where he suc­
ceeded in obtaining needed finances for
future development work. He reports that.
while money is by no means easy, there
is money to be had for legitimate mining
enterprises.
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COLORADO.
Gc.orgetowll Conrier: 'The Capital mill
is running steadily on ore from the com­
pany ground in the Cap'tal mine, and a
steady alld heavy production of concen­
tnltes and large retorts of gold are being
sent out regularly. The mill is running
on abont 100 tons of ore a day and it now
looks as thought the ore bodies in the com·
pany ground would keep it running indefin­
itely.
Idaho Springs C\.1ining Gazette: Schrieber,
Schoffer and Holler, leasing on the Treas­
ure, have opened a streak of rich ore, for
which this old mine i3 noted. Two months
ago these parties secured a lease on a
block of ground and proceeded to work
without any blow or bluster and the result
is that after a few weeks development,
they have at the sampler a shipment of
twelve tons of ore that will run over ten
ounces per ton. 'l:here are now ·six men
employed at the works.
Telluride Examiner: The Primos Chemi­
cal company is working a force of men
on a large deposit of vanadium ore, which
Ees in contact formation between Bear and
Fall. creeks. on the south side of the San
Miguel river. Recently thi.3 company tried
out an auto "truck, guaranteed to haul six
or seven tons of ore from their property
to the mill, but It is understood the truck
did not make good, and will be shipped
back to the selling company and teams will
be put back to do the hauling.
Ouray Herald: The grand neW3 reached
Ouray last Sunday that the Camp Bird had
cut the vein again, this time on the 500
foot level after crosscutting about sixty feet
from the shaft. The strike was not con­
firmed until Tuesday, when Manager Cox
stated to the Herald, that "it would add
materially to the prosperity of the Camp
Bird." On the 400 foot level, the vein is
nine feet wide, and at the new discovery
it has proven to be two feet better. Sample
and specimen assay.:> run five ounces in
gold. The ore is a lead-sulphide product.
.By Wednesday night, they had drifted thirty
feet both ways on the vein. No one knows,
for certain, the exact length of the shoot.
Georgetown Courier: The past two
weeks have witnessed some exceptionally
fine shipments of ore from the various
leases on the seven-Thirty and Dives-Peli­
can property. Paracchlni & Co. shipped
24 tons of ore which gave returns of $150
a ton. These lessees are operating in a
winze below the Hercules level and have
a streak of ore running from one to four
feet in width. They expect to have abont
40 tons of this ore and 40 tons of con­
centrating ore rea.dy for shipment early
next month. Oscar Johnson & Co. made
a shipment of 4% tons of ore which re­
turned values of 300 ounces in silver with
high lead values. Randah! & Co. shipped
:1 ions of 350·ounce ore. McGuire & Co.
shipped 3 tons of 300-ounce ore. Ramonds
& Co. opened up a streak of ore this week
in their lease which gives values of 250
onnces in silver with high lead values.
These le3sees expect to commence ship­
ments of ore in the near future.
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IDAHO.
Wallace Press-Times: It is reported that
a strike of considerable importance has
been made on the property of the United
Lead company a short distance below Os­
burn. The strike is represented as being
in a drift On the ledge from the long cross­
cut. The property lies on the south side
of the valley. Formerly it wa:> known as
the German-American. Dr. W. G. Pickerell,
of Spokane, is manager.
.Mackay Miner: J. A. Phegley of Arco,
in company with John Walsh and George
SerfeH, visited the Columbia Standard
group of claims, in which Mr. Phegley is
largely interested, the fore part of the week.
This property has a fine, ·strong six-foot vein
of "good copper ore exposed in several
places, and is considered to have some of
the best ground In this section. The gentle­
men in control of the property are planning
some extensive develQpment WOrk.
Wallace Press-Times: Henry Lee~r, of
Coeur d'Alene, who has charge of the work
on the Pennsylvania Mining company's
property, formerly known as the Mastadon,
about fifteen milt~3 southeast of 'Wallace,
in the St. Joe district, was in the city yes·
terday preparing to take over a second load
of supplies. He has been employing four
men in development. He reports an en­
couraging showing on the property. The
forest fire tWI) years ago wiped out all
surface improvements on the property, and
destroyed a vast amount of good timber.
Mullan Progress: The Snowshoe com·
pany is still drifting east on the ore body
in the lOwer tunnel. One crosscut has been
run to the footwall and shows a body of
sulphide ore 25 feet wide, similar in ·char­
I
acter and mineral contents to the ore being
milled by the Snowstorm. Assays across 25
feet show from 2% to 9 per cent copper.
The average will be about 3 per cent. The
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drift is being continued east on the hang.
ing wall, and a'bout the first of the com­
ing week another crosscut will be run to
the foot wall. So far all of the ore is
good mill feed.
Mullan Progress: The Carbonate Center
M,ining company has Ibeen organized fto
take over the property formerly. owned by
the Tombstone Mining company, east of
Mullan. The incorporators of the new com­
pany are John Foss, Archie Gillis, John
Erickson, Thomas G. Kennedy and O. A.
Larson. The old stockholders in the 'fomb­
stone comlpany will be given the opportun­
ity to secure the same number of shares
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t in the new company as they held in the
old, 'by payment of their proportion of the
! indebtedne3s standing against the old com­
pany. The property will be developed by
the new company as rapidly as possible.
The ground is located on the same vein
as the Carbonate Hill and Carney Copper
claims, both of which have good showings
of ore.
Hailey Times: C_ C. Ruthraull' visited
the Con. Virginia property Saturday after­
noon to examine the condition of the shaft,
after the burning of the hoisting works sev­
eral years ago. The collar was found to
be only slightly charred. On his return
east next month 'Mr. Ruthrauff intends to
arrange for building new hoisting works
of fire,proof material, to be equipped with
an electric hoist and other electric power
apparatus_ The present vertical ,shaft,
which is 270 feet deep, wUl be extended
with an incline on the vein to a further
depth of one hundred feet, and drifts will
be run both east and west, the former
to catch the ore shoot now leading down
and west from the Relief, and the latter
to intersect the Hancock and Alta veins
up the gulch.
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NEVADA.
Tonopah Miner: Another new ore body
was opened up in the lVQacNamara mine
this week about 100 feet east of3tope twen­
ty-six. This was cut in a crosscut from
the east end of drift twenty,six, which
passed through thirty feet of quartz in
Which were four feet of ore assaying from
$25 to $30 a ton and this has now been
drifted on for fifteen feet and gives every
indication of yielding a large tonnage for
the mill.
Pioche Record:, It is reported from re­
liable authority that the deal which has
been pending for some time and which
involves a controlling interest in the Prince
Consolidated mine, has been consummated.
It is said that the new management wiII
take formal control within the next few
days, and confirmatory of this report is
the announcement that Mr. A. Y. Smith,
who is to be the manager, will be in camp
again within the next few hours.
Winnimucca Star. J. P. Turner, the well­
known min!ng man, left Saturday With a
load of supplies and tools for the southern
end of the Eugene m'ountains, where he will
start work on the old "56" copper mine.
This mine is situated llot far from the
Humboldt river southwest of Mill City and
was located in the year 1856 by L. D. Vary,
who was passing down the river on his
way With a party of emigrants to the then
great gold fields of California. As near
a's known it was the first quartz' mine lo­
cated in the state of Nevada.
Wells Herald: 'C. H. Hand,
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Mr. Norton of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived here
last Friday night and departed at once by
automobile for Sprucemont. These gentle­
men are m,embefs of the Spruce Mountain
Mining & Smelting company and spent sev­
eral days on the mountain making an ex­
amination of their holdings. They gave out
no information as to what conclusions they
arrived at, other than that they intend con­
tinuillg the development work which has
been in progre3S for several months.
Ely Record: The Giroux mines and its
cam,P at Kimberly will soon have electric
lighting. The cement foundation3 are now
g'oing in for the big Corliss engine adjoin­
ing the engine ro()m at the Morris shaft,
which will furnish the ,power for the dy·
namos, which will have 440 voltage with
a three-phase generator. The stations and
drifts along the sulphide zone will be il­
luminated by >electrici~y, ,and there wlll
also be plenty of "juice" for. the entire
camp at Kimberly. It is expected that the
plant will 'be in operation in November,
or early in December.
Ely Record: Ralph Kellogg, manager of
the Ely Con., visited the Cuba mine in
the Blaine district Saturday last, which
he controls under a two year lease, and
was more thall well plea3ed with the splen­
did showing the property is making at the
present time. He is working only a few
men at the mine, but Since his last trip
they had taken about 400 sacks of ore which
is expected to average at least 80 per
cent in lead and 400 sacks wb!ch will aver­
age 50 per cent, besides about 250 tons of
second-grade ore which will pay to ship.
A shipment of two cars of ore will be made
by the middle of the present month, and
as lead is now $4.85 per hundred, it will
be seen that the lease is making good
money at the present time.
Ely Record; Ore bin3 for the Copper­
Mines company h~ve been erected on the
waste dump of the Nevada Con. at S,tar
Pointer, and immediately above the J.mn­
nesota shaft, through which all of the ore
is being hoisted; The cement foundation
is in for the hoisting engine, which is on.
the ground and will soon be in place, and
go into commission, after which the ore
from the, shaft will be, raised to the ore
bins through an incline and dumped direct­
ly Into the bins, from which it will be
drawn Into cars for shipment as '300n as
the steel rails are laid connecting the bins
with the Nevada Northern track. In the
meantime shipments are continued by
wagons from the shaft to the siding near
Junction City. It Is expected that ship­
ments by rail directly from the shaft will
be commenced within a couple of weeks
when more miners will be employed and
the output from the property largely In­
creased.
IMine &Smeller BUild~
The Rambler Mining company,.,
Rambler, Wyoming, will install a fif!
concentrating plant.
The Reno Ruhl Mining company, 0,.
Nevada, has decided to equip its pro
with a 25-horsepower hoisting plant.
It is reported that a cyanide annex
be built to the Brady mill of the Manh
Milling & Ore com,pany at Manhattan
vada.
The Bullwhacker M#iing compan
Butte, ,Montana, expects to erect a I
lng plant. Patrick Clark is president (
company.
The Cripple Creek Drainage Tnnnel
pany, of Cripple Creek, 'Colorado, ma
stall an electric power plant at the 1
of its tunnel.
,'fhe Nevada Gold Northern Mining
pany, of Fairview, Nevada, WI. F, S
general manager, has about decided to'
its property with a big milling plant.
Tb.e LaFountaine Bros., of Bo'
Ferry, Idaho, will build a $25,000 flum
the Lolo group of placer claims. Guy
neaux, of Sandpoint, Idaho, is their,
neer.
It is stated that a strong complil
about to take over the BhMetal mines
Kingman, Arizona, and that it is the :
tion to equip the same with a large m
plant.
The Pocohontas Copper Queen M
company, of Mayer, Arizona, W. H. SIQ
general man~er, will equip its pro
With a neW' ho~sting plant alld m,illinl
chinery.
Ben Ross of Silverton, Colorado,
build a cyan!de plant for the treatme
ores from the Esmeralda mine, as WI
custom ore3. The initial capacity 0
plant will be 100 tons, daily.
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CONSTRUCTION NOTES.
The city of Tucson, Arizona, will
build a reinforced concrete water res!
of 7,250,000 gallons capacity.
It is reported that Arthur Armsl
and associates, of Ephraim, Utah, wnl
build a flouring mill, and a grain elev~
The county commis3ioners of Box
county, Utah, Utilizing the recent bont
which realized $75,000, will soon ad\\!
for bids for the building of sixteen
bridges.
Clark of

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L. F. Miller, in charge of tbe physics and

[ Personal Mention electro·metallurgical department of the Col­

orado School of Mines, has been inspecting
I Engineers and Millmen

A. Y. Smith of Los Angeles, California,
was a recent visitor in Salt Lake.
Grant Snyder, of Salt Lake City, has
been visiting the mining camps of Colorado.
C. W. Gaby, of Ely, Nevada, is noW' in
charge of the.:::reat Valley mine at Hamil·
ton, same state.
G. D. Wilkin, superintendent of the Mos·
cow mine near Milford, Utah, is visiting
relatives in Ohio..
A. W. Brantlund has accepted a position
as superintendent of the Ruth mine, near
Kingman, Arizona.
R. RClark, of Muskogee, and n. F. Hil·
liard, of Porum, Oklahoma, are visiting the
Zero mine near Prescott Arizona.
W. E. Young, of Chicago, Illinois, re·
cently visited the Rich Gulch mine, near
Silver City, Idaho, where he holds an in·
terest.
W. H. Smith of Shell Rock, Iowa, a
stockholder in the Big Five Mine, at Idaho
Springs, Colorado, recently visited that
property.
W. C. Hunter, assistant superintendent
of the Montana·Tonopah -:Min;ng company,
of Tonopah, Nevada, has been in Oakland,
California.
R. C. Kerens, vice·president of the San
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Route,
with associates, was a recent visitor at
Tonopah, Nevada.
William J. Priestly, Jr., is in Brigham
City, Utah, having resigned his position as
superintendent of the Rhodes-Hall mine,
the mines and smelteries in the principal
districts of Colorado.
C. .T. McGlynn, llresident of the Alta·
Emerald Mining company" will reside in
Salt Lake City. The n~;ne in Little Cot­
tonwood canyon, near Salt Lake City, is to
be opened up on a large scale.
.T. 0, Gilchrist has returned to Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, after spending two months at
the property of the Eureka-Ophir Mining
cO'mpany in the Stockton district of Utah,
in which he is interested. D. F. Clinton is
manager of the mine.
Hansen Elvs'mith, of Duluth, Minnesota,
who has been making such a success of
the St. Marys mine near Milford, Utah, duro
ing the past summer, has returned home
with the intention of returning to Star dis·
trict at an early day.
R. C. Breemer, sales maqager for the
\Vm. Jeg,30p & Sons, Inc., Importers of high.
grade tool and drill steel, was in Salt Lake
the first of the month. While here he com­
pleted arrangements with Delos Irish to
represent his company in this territory.
H. B, Paulim, of Duluth, Minnesota and
J, E. Curry, of Wa.rren, Arizona, who are
connected with the accounting department
of the Amalgamated Copper company, are
making an examination of the affairs of the
Giroux Consolidated c<Ympany at Ely, Ne­
vada.
J. L. Craig, J. V. Lyle and C. H. Jenkin­
son, of Salt Lake, who are with the Ore·
gon Short Line railroad, recently visited
MiHord, Utah, and, while there, made an
F. Augustus Heinze is it), Salt Lake City.
l<'rank H. Probert has returned to Cali­
fornia after an extended trip in Europe.
H. C. Hoover, a mining engineer of Lon­
don, England, and author of "Principles of
Mining" is in New York. l
Albert l<'rank, general manager of the
Oh!o Copper company, has returned to Salt I
Lake City from the east. <b
Sydney H. Ball has returned to New
York, after examining some properties in
the Ural mountains, in Russia.
William W~rd, who has been in Colom.­
bia, South America, investigating placer
ground, has returned to Denver, ,Colorado.
Robert S. Lewis, a graduate of Leland
Stanford university, has begun his duties
at the University of Utah, as associate pro·
fe3sor of mining.
Jules Laharthe, general manager of the
Mason Valley Mines company, with proper·
ties in the Yerington district of Nevada, is
in Salt Lake City on professional bUSiness.
D. C. Jackling, president and general
manager of the Utah Copper company, has
returned to Salt Lake City, from Butte,
Montana, w:here he has been examining the
Butte & Superior mine;;.
F.' F. Hintze Jr., of Salt Lake has re­
turned to Columbia university where he will
finish his course In geology. He wili grad·
uate in 1913. Mr. Hintze devoted his .. urn·
mer vacation to the study of the geology of
the Cottonwood districts.
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Fairbanks, Alaska.
O. Barlow Wilmarth, of Telluride, Colo.
rado, general manager of the Colorado Car­
notite company, has moved his residence to
Montrose, same state.
Walter Wilson, who is president of the
Manhattan Amalgamated :Mining company,
at :Manhattan, Nevada, has returned from a
trip to Los Angeles, California.
l<'. M. Bender, of Marion, Ohio, president
of the Golden Gate Mining company, has
taken charge of the company's operatioJ13 in
the Greenhorn district of Oregon.
S. H: Douglas, of Salt Lake, has returned
from Hazelton, B. C,' where he made an in­
spection of the Rocher de Boule mine which
he states, is In a. fiourishing condition.
W. H. Tangye is the neW' superintendent
of the Calumet and Sonora Mining com­
pany, operating near Cananea, Sonora, Mex­
ico, and succeeds Charles Strachan in that
position.
I. P. Allen, president of the Nonpareil
Mining company, and J. P. Burke and E. H.
Callahan, of San FranCisco, have been In­
inspection of the property of the Mining
Range Gold Mining company, In which they
are interested.
J_ 'V. Power, of Twin Falls. Idaho, who
is largely interested in Jarbidge district,
Nevada, was a recent Salt Lake visitor, com­
ing here on important mining business. Mr.
PoW'er is much pleased with conditions at
Jarbidge and stated that the camp was im­
proving rapidly.
George St. Clair, of Ophir, Utah, mine
manager for the Lion Hill Consolidated
Mines company, was in Salt Lake, last
week, with another 50-ton shipmA'lnt of high·
grade ore. Mr. St. Clair states that the
mine is looking fine, and that development
work Is being kept well ahead of ore ex·
' traction.
The COJpper Era, of Clifton, Arizona,
states that A. Lafave and wife recently
celebrated toe 49th anniversary of their
wedding, For a number of years Mr. La­
fave resided in Salt Lake, and was quite
heavily interested in mining in this section,
where he made many friends because of
his many sterling qualities. He is now ell­
POTASH PROPERTY WANTED.
have a ready custom.er for a hirge pot·
[,oh property. Would appreciate any infor­
mation relative to a property of this klnd_
Give all the details you possibly can a.nd
address ·,ame to C. A. W1., care of Salt Lal{e
Mining Review. Sept. 15, 2t
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WILL SELL OR LEASL
Owner will sell, lease, or stock propo­
sition. A splendid copper, silver-gold propo·
sition in Nevada. Six miles {rom Central
Pacific milroad. Have shipped several cars
of fine ore from upper workings. Owner
wants funds to complete lower tunnel.
Property well equipped. Complete descrip­
tion to interested parties. Box 7615, Salt
Lake, Utah. Sept. 15-21.
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The Yukon Gold company, operating In
the Klondike district of Yuk{)n Territory,
Canada, handled in July, by dredging, 1,020,­
700 cubic yards of gravel, yielding $644,000
in bullion. The production for the season
up to July 30th, was $2,760,700 from 2,481,­

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specting the company's property at Virner, gaged In mining in the near vicinity of 100 cubic yards of gravel. These results
California. CUlton. are better than those of 1911,
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The plant was blown In Mlay 29th.
( Dips, Spurs and Angles 1
ing company.
should oogin to show earnings during:
second half of the year.
The mines of Park City, Utah, produced
The Chino Copper company, operati'd
7,020 tons of ore during the month of Au­
Grant county, New Mexico, made a prQ
gust.
tion of 3,618,226 pounds of copper hI
The Lower Mammoth' company, of Mam­
gust. With the exhaustion of' the oXii
moth, Utah, is shipping ore going from 35
surface deposits, a better recovery is b'
to 40 per cent zinc.
'made on the sulphide ores.
The Victoria mine, of Eureka, Utah, re­
The improvement in the metal ma
cently shipped three cars of ore which
and favorable smelting contracts have
brought the company over $6,000.
abled the Carisa Mining company of
A ten-stamp mill has. been erected by
tic. Utah, to ship fifty or sixty 'ca;s ot
C. E. Warren, superintendent. at the Juanita
mine, near Prescott. Arizona.
The new boiler and compressor plant of
the Boston-Ely, at Ely. Nevada, is about
ready to be put in commission.
The mill of the Maricopa Mines company,
in Lander county. Nevada, has been started.
The company emploYI3' thirty-five men.
The Iron Blossom mine, of Tintic dis­
trict, Utah, has been mining about 100 tons
of fine copper ore, weekly, for sometime
past.
The Miami Copper company, of Arizona,
produced in July. a little over 3,000,000
pounds of copper. which breaks its former
record.
John Price, who is leasing on the Buck·
wheat mine. near La Plata, Colorado, is
preparing to ship a carload of high grade
silver ore.
The Colorado Mining company, of Tintic
Utah, has passed its dividend. in order to
keep its surplus unimpaired by the extelHive
development w'Ork to be undertaken.
An explooion of firedamp in the Clarence
pit. near Lens, France. on September 3rd,
resulted in the death of forty miners. The
mine is on fire and. will have to be sealed
off.
Construction work commenced, recently
on the new mill of the Idaho Continental,'
near Porthill, Idaho. The mine. owned by
Spokane people, was financed by John D.
Ryan.
A. M. Wilson, who has made several
shipments, now has three carloads of car­
notite ore ready for shipment at his mines
in the Paradox country, San Miguel county,
Colorado.
The plant of the. Primos Chemical com·
pany, at CHfton Station, Pennsylvania, has
been destroyed by fire.. The company has
extensive vanadium properties in western
Colorado.
The Lower Mammoth Mining company
of Tintic, Utah, expects to ship some of its
zinc ore this month. The deposit is on
the 1,500-foot level, and the showing is said
to be good.
The copper production of
Montana, district for Au!;ust, wa~ .. O,vV".U'\I"
p()1!l1-d s.thl}
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the properties ~f the Anaconda Copper Min.
The Brown Mountain pyritic smeltery
at Ouray, Colorado, will be blown in at
an 'early date. The capacity will be 125
tons.
A syndicate, headed by James S. Doug­
las, of Douglas, Arizona, has taken over
the property of the United Verde Exten­
sion Copper company in the Jerome dis­
trict of Arizona.
The Rico-Wellingt,on Mining compann
of Provo, Utah, recently paid $50,000 on the
. bond on Its property, the 'money coming from Its old waste dumps, formed 'i\
from ore shipments from the companys mine the mine was a producer of rich ores.
at Rico, Colorado. The deep shaft of the Goldfield Me
The mail routing for Jarbidge, Nevada, Mining. company has passed the 1300­
from Salt Lake. has been changed from level and It is planned to connect the 1
via Three Creeks, Idaho, to via Deetb, Ne­ foot level with the same level of the C
vada, making a much shorter route to this field Consolidated.. This' will assist the
"elopment of both of these Ncevada 1lJ.
promising gold camp.
at depth.
The July operations of the Nevada Hills
Mln:ng company, netted over $64,000. The The Mushett & Wittenburg lease on
average value of ore treated was $28.44 per Manhattan Consolidated, at Manhattan;
ton, with a total production of 3,550 tons vada, is preparing for a production of
and a recovery of 91.2 per cent. tons per day. Some very rich ore is
Carl M. OW'en, president, and Martin to have been uncovered on the 130·
level, and the same shoot Is being SOl
Schwerin, general manager, of the Rico
Mining company. have returned to New on the 250·foot level.
York after spending a week at the com­ Harvey M. Ross, manager of the Nt
pany's property at Rico, Colorado. Mining company, operating near KeB
The Alta Consolidated Mining company, Idaho, has arranged for a power line t
",·Ith mines at the hilad of Little Cottonwood the Bunker HHl & Sulllvan power hous
canyon, near Salt Lake City, is shipping fifo its property on Pine Creek. A seventy
te!'n to twenty tons of lead-silver ore daBy. horsepower motor will drive a compre
O. A. Jacobson Is superintendent.
of 427 cubic feet capacity.
The Silver King Consolidated Mining The placer property of the Dutch
company, of Park City, Utah, has increased Mining company, in Humboldt county,"
its capital stock to 700,000 shares of $1 each, vada, has been bought by T. F. Brotz
for the purpose of sinking its shaft deeper of Salt Lake City. The property has 1
worked but little although about $10(
and acquiring adjacent claims.
in gold has been taken out. A large fore
The Gold Roads Mines company, a sub­ men will be put at work at once.
sidiary of the United States Smelting, Re­
fining & Mining company, has ordered two The Goldfield Consolidated Mining ;
gasoline trucks, for service from its mine3 pany, of Goldfield, Nevada, has declare.!
at Gold Roads, to Kingman. Arizona. regular quarterly dividend of thirty II
a share, payable October 31st, to stockJ
The new Calumet and Arizona smeltery,
ers of record September lath. TjJ.e 'am
which it was ori,l!;lnally planned to blow,
to be distributed is $1,067,729. bringln/t
in August 13th, will probably not be blown
total payments to date to $22,840.,789
In before the first of 1913. The company
The Hecla Mining company, of WaJ
is now earning about $7.70 per share.
Idaho, paid dividend No. 110. amounti4
Charles Cox, superintendent of the P. $20,000, August 20.. This was the rei
P. R. mill in Gilpin county, Colorado, re­ monthly dividend, based on two celf
centIy deposIted in a Central City bank a share on an Issued capitalization of $1,
gold retort, weighing 65~ ounces and worth 00.0. The total amouIit of dividends in
$1,117, which was the result of. one month's is $160,0.00, and the total to date is,*
cleanup at the mill. 510.00.0.
The Ely Copper company is planning to The Shannon
resume operations near Ely, Nevada, by ing near Metcalf, Arizona, has
sinking a shaft near the east boundary of dividend of fifty cents a
its properties, to seek an ore body, believ­ Octoben 1st. This means a
ed to. underly this location. The mine has $150,000, and a total of $600,00.0.
been idle since 1907. of the company
32 THE SAL T
Arizona Railroad's six per cent bonds bav­
ing been retired. N. L. Amster, president,
of Boston, Massachusetts, says that the net
profits for the fiscal year will be $600,000.
During August, the Eva Mining company,
0perating in the Mount Nebo districc of
Ftah, shipped about 200 tons of ore, of a
g~oss value of $6,000. George L. Hyde i,
president ll-nd geenral manager; C. A. Hyde,
yice president; John L. \Vhiting. secretary
and treasurer, and Thomas West and M. W.
Bird, additl~nal directors.
Work has been begun on the spur con·
necting the property of the Inspiration Cop·
per company to the Arizona Eastern rail·
way, and on the extension of the line from
Miami, Arizona, to the Inspiration Tunnel
Site and the Live Oak mine. A number
of new dwel1ings have been built near the
portal of the Inspiration tunnel.
The Arizona Copper, operating at Clif·
ton, Arizona, had a gross profit of $850,215
for the half year ending March 31st. Pro­
duction was 9073 tons of Bessemer copper.
Superintendent George Frazer of the smel­
tery will make a trial of basic converter
lining, whlch has displaced the acid lining
at many smelteries, during the past two
years.
The Calumet & Arizona Mining company
with smeltery at Douglas, Arizona, has de­
clared a quarterly dividend of $1 per share,
payable September 23rd. Sixty-five dol­
lars a share have been paId to date, or a
total of $15,500,000. The Superior & Pitts·
burg, owned by the Calumet and Arizona
company, will pay thirty cents a share on
the same date.
The Braden Copper Mines company,
operating in Chili, South America, is ex­
perimenting with fiuer grinding, for which
purpose it will install a Hardinge mill and
a twenty-two foot tube mill. It is hoped to
increase the extraction above the present
figure Qf eighty per cent. If results are
satisfactory, the Minerals Separation com·
pany:s flotation process will be installed.
During the month of July, the Tonopah­
Belmont Development company of Tonopah,
Nevada, treated 10,415 tons of ore, with a
net profit of $114,081. The new mill at
Tonopah is giving very satisfactory results,
and underground conditions at the mine are
favorable. The next dividend will be paid
October 1st, to stockholders of record on
Scptember 14th. Twenty-five cents a share
wlll be paid.
The report of the Ray Consolidated Min·
ing company, of Ray, Arizona, for the sec·
and quart-er of 1912, shows a copper produc­
tion of 8,952,074 pounds, from 374,609 tons
of are. The are averaged 1.72 per cent of
COpper. The recovery was 69.37 per cent
against 68.85 for the preceding quarter. The
cost per pound of copper was reduced from
10.19 eents to "9.954 cents. The cost in
June was 8.95 cents,
LA K E MIN rN G REV lEW, S E PTE M 8 E R 1 0, 1 9 1 2.
The American B03ton Mining C0'l1V3~:r,
Diorite, Michigan, will install in its power
plant a 500-kilowatt, 2300-volt Curtis turbo­
generator. The order for this unit has ~eelJ
p'aced with the General Electric company,
The International Smelting & Refining
company has spent about $6,00.1,000 in new
pi ants and equipment, of which $4,000,()()0
was expended on the Tooele plant, in Utah.
About $3,000,00(1 came from earnings.
The McKinley·Darragh.Savage mining
company of Cobalt, Ontario, recently
shipped thirty-eight tons of are, valued at
$142,231, or a little better than $4,000 per
ton in silver, which makes a new record for
the district. The previous recant were
made by the Temiskaming Mining company
with cars containing $144,000 and $127,000 in
silver, respectiVely, and the Casey Cobalt,
with one shipment, which returned $132,000.
The Calumet & Arizona and the Copper
Queen Consolidated Mining companies of
Bisbee, Arizona, increased miners' wages
twenty·five cents a day, beginning Septem'
ber 1st. The operators decided to share
some of the profits of the late copper mar­
ket with their employees. This wage scal"
is the same as that of Butte, Montana,
when considered on the day bas's At
Butte, however, the miners must put in a
full eight-hour shift, while In Bisbee, they
are only required to work, on an average,
seven and one·half hours.
At the recent stockholders meeting of
the Black Jack and Plutus Mining com­
panies, operating in the Tintic district,
Utah, the following officers were elected:
Plutus Mining company, Jesse Knight, presi.
dent; Jacoh Evans, vice-president; David
Evans, director and general manager; W.
Lester Mangum, secretary and treasurer;
J. William 1<night and George Havercamp,
additional directors. Black Jack Mining
company, Jesse Knight, preSident; H. G.
McMillan, vice-president; W. Lester Man­
gum, secretary and treasurer; F. D. Kim­
ball and :Mr. Mangum, addition directors.
Harry Gestry and Levi Syphus, of St.
Thomas, Nevada, recentlj made a most im­
portant strike in the old Savanic mine near
the Grand Gulch, just over the 'Nevada
line, in Arizona. According to reports they
put in one round of holes is the old work·
ing,3, and broke into a body of solid, high·
grade copper ore. The lucky owners of this
property, .at one time controlled by Col. H.
L. Pickett, of Salt Lake, but now of Tomb­
stone, Arizona, took out about $4,000 in ore
in about three weeks. They wlll continue
work, and expect to begin ore shipments
at an early date.
At the last meeting of the stockholders
of the Stewart Mining company, operating
near \Vardner, Idaho, the following men
were elected directors to replace the old
board: Edward J. Hickey, president of the
State Savings Bank of Butte; W. E. CUllen,'
of Spokane; W. O. Allison, president of the
National Reserve Bank of New York; Wil­
liam A. Beaudry, superintendent of the mine;
and Allen P. Bowie, assistant cashier of
the State S'avings Bank of Butte. !tis ex­
pected that Allison will become president
of the company and Cullen, secretary. The
financial state>ment 'shows $270,000 on hand.
There are 1,238,262 shares of a par value
of $1 each, and the mines and mining prop·
erty are carried at a valuation of $1,378,363.
The net profit for the year ending June
30, was $275,181. F. Augustus Heinze still
retains the control.
Green River Dispatch: Colonel C. E,
Loose of Provo was an arrival Sunday even·
ing, accompanied by his .gon-in-law, Preston
Peterson. They visited the Wimmers and
drove out to the coal mines that they are
preparing to open up and which are com­
monly known as the old Farrer mines. They
already have two men at work and by the
time snow flies will prCrbably be getting out
fuel of very fine quality. A pipe line two
miles in length is being constructed to
supply water for camp use at the Collins
oil welL Contractor H. H. Mc}'ann and
his crew have everything in readiness to
begin drl11ing as -soon as the piping ar­
rives to complete the water supply sys­
tem. This well, being so close to this
city, will soon be a point of interest to
Sunday viSitors, who will go out there in
great numbers.
o
AMERICAN GEM OUTPUT.
American mines in 1911 yielded $2,700
worth of diamonds, $9,500 worth of emer­
alds, $215,313 worth of sapphires. and· $44,­
751 worth of turquoise, according to figures
just compiled by the United States GeolOgi­
cal Survey. The total output of precious
stones in the United States last year was
valued at $343,692; the production in'1910
;was valued at $295,380.
An important feature of the gem·mining
industry in the United States during 1911
was the result of prospecting at the Turner
emerald mine near Shelby, N. C. The qual·
Ity of some of the gems and the value of
the gem material found in this deposit with
a small amount of development work are
promising, for the output included gems val­
ued at $100 to $200 per carat and ,equal in
quality to the average run of the meraids
from South America During the last three
years this one locality in North Carolina has
yielded gems worth $10,500.
Much interest has lately been aroused in
the moss agates found in Montana, some of·
Which are remarkable for their resemblance
to landscapes. By taking advantage of the
arrangement of the dark seams and den·
dritic patches, patterns are obtained that
resemble moss, sea growth, ferns, rushes,
trees, and landscapes with water and
Islands. The cut gems consist of stones
suitable for use in broochee, Btick :pIne,

THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, S E PTE M B E R 1 5, 1 91 2.
watch fobs, belt buckles, and other orna­
ments. The gems cut from the Montana
moss agate or mocha stone command good
prices, bringing anywhere from $1 to $200
or $30() apiece. Some pf the smaller stones
suitable for stick pins, If the mossy or fern·
like patterns are particularly delicate and
beautiful, bring $25 each.
Most of Amerlacn diamonds come from
Arkansas and California, although accounts
have appeared in newspapers of tne discov·
ery of these gems in Illinois and Texas. The
most important find of the year in Arkan·
sas was an 8% carat white diamond-the
largest diamond so far found in the state
Another white diamond, of 322-64 carats,
was also found.
The largest emerald so far discovered in
North Carolina measured about 1 inch by
%. of an inch by half an inch. It was about
half of a crystal split parallel with the
length. This piece has been cut into about
twen.ty gems, the largest of w,hich weighs
about 3 carats. This stone has been de·
scribed as having an excellent deep·green
color and as being particulalry beautiful at
night. It has almost no visible /laws, but
is slightly foggy in strong dayfight.
Considerable business in gems is done
among tourists along the coast of Califor·
nia and Oregon, the beach pebbles having
peculiar textures" odd markings, and pleas·
ing colors. Some of these stones have been
described in terms suggested by character·
Istic features such as "enychthyol," "flower,
stone," "wire agate," "fish egg," and "Jap­
anese stone. One company in Avalon, CaL,
has been engaged in cutt;ng these stones
for several years. The stone is obtained
in all s'zes, from cobbles over 6 inches thick
to small pebbles, but good gem material is
not plentiful. Beach pebbles are collected
and cut for the tourist trade along the coast
of Oregon, as in soutbern California. The
tourists also collect these pebbles to carry
off as souvenirs, ether polished or in the
rough.
A copy of the surveys report on gems
and precious stones, 1911, by Douglas B.
Sterrett, may be obtained free on applica·
tion to the director of the U. S. Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C.
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DYNAMITE IN THE MAKING.
(Internatio~al Investments.)
To the casual visitor to a dynamite fac­
tory there is little indication t11at tremen­
dous explosives are in .course of manufac­
ture, for the general appearance of the place
is peaceful enough. One sees in the mix·
ing building nitroglycerine being mixed in
thousands of gallons and running down
leaden gutters into great tanks. This pro·
duct is driven by means of ccld air through
a series of lead coils, is piped off, drawn
off, poured off, and agitated through one
s x,
33
stage of preparation to another; yet but to other houses to be compounded with pul"
one teacupful of this harmless looking liquid and other substances Into divers kinds ot
would be quite sufficient to destroy not powders and high explosives. By one prO-:
only the factory but prety much everything cess it is poured into a basin filled with'
else for a considerable distance. There may pulp and by a hard rubber wheel is mixect
be seen other work houses, separated by into a yellow porous substance. This sub o
uniform distances and connected by nar­ stance is dynamite, ready to be loaded into'
row gauge tracks, wherein men work nitro· catrldges. This loading is accomplished bj
glycerine and pulp cotton into dynamite machinery, the machine being fed great
and blasting gelatine. Under a nitrating basketfuls of the product at a time. A
process the pulp becomes giant powder, Red dozen cartridges are thus made In a very
Cross, Hercules, Judson, carbonite, forcite, few seconds. The next step is to pack the
and other high explosives. For the perfec· cartridges in cases to be removed to the
tion of nitroglycerine the greatest care must stora'ge magazines. Giant gelatine is a
be exercised. During' the process of fusion substance almost thrice as powerful as dyna­
with nitric and sulphuric acids in big cal· mite. It is made in the same way that
drons holding hundreds of gallons an expert dynamite is made, although it is handled
keeps sending a cooling iiltream through thl'> in a separate house.
coils in order to maintain the proper tem­
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perature, It m.ust also be kept constantly
agitated while it is undergoing this mixing MINING AROUND BEAVER.
process. Should the temperature rise or
should the liquid cease to stir, a most de· (Press, Beaver City, Utah.)
structlve explosion might immediately occu... It Is stated that work on the Beaver
For the most part, it is said, explosions in Butte, in Newton district, is being steadil~
mixing houses are due to overheating and pushed along at a satisfactory rate, and
insufficient stirring-though, it may be that a considerable quantity of $8 and $10
added, few persons close enough to an ex­ rock is being deevloped. The Butte is II
plosion to acquire information as to its close neighbor to the Beaver Bonanza. and
cause have ever lived to tell. It follows the Sheep Rock, which is now stacking up
that even the most expert workers are tb a big shipment of $500 ore. No reports
no position to state with definiteness when have reached here this week of anythinli
an explosion is about to occur. When it new at the Rob Roy, except that the vein
has ~curred the survivors can only gues!! that was struck a few weeks ago Is keel>­
at the cause. As a general thing accidents in ing right up to expectations, and that Ii
dynamite and powder mills are exceedingly big shipment of high grade is being goi
infrequent. Indeed, they are out of all pro­ ready for the Salt Lake market.
portion to the risk. Many safety appliances Repotrs coming in from the King of thE
are employed - safety walls and embank­ Hills property in the Granite district arE
ments, hose houses, hasty exit doors, and to the effect that they have one of th.
simiJar devices. The buildings are lighted biggest copper propositions in the country
electrically. There is no wiring at all in Recent operations ,there have developed £
the dangerous houses, which are lighted vein of high grade copper for a consider
from the outside. Th~n. too. every article able distance with an average width 0
used in and about the machinery is made fourteen to eighteen feet, and an averag.
with peculiar care. Every person enter-_ value of more than 10 per cent copper, ant'
ing the grounds of a dynamite plant is other values in gold and silver and som.
- thoroughly searched-matches, knIves, and streaks in the vein going as high as 2:
all metallic substances that could produce per cent copper. One of the most encour
a spark being rigidly excluded. No danger aging things around the camp is that out
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.
house sulphuriC acid is mixed with .nitric. been made by different parties for a con
The acids are then applied to glycerine III trolllng interest, but so far the owneJ!l
the big vats in the mixing building already seem to be inclined to paddle their OWl
mentioned. In the mixing process the gly· canoe.
cerine liberates the nitrogen from the acid, F. P. Kessler is in from the Old Caw
the sulphuric element taking up the water property, where he and Will Hardy have I
set free In the operation. The mixture, lease. He states that their first car of or,
watched with the utmost care and care­ was shipped to the Salt Lake market 01
fully tested with the thermometer from time Monday and that they have plenty of shl,
to time, in <the' meantime becomes nitro­ piilg ore in sight. The work Is now bell\!
glycerine and is piped of into another stage di;ected to the driving of a drift for a dii
of perfection, being washed in warm water tance of sixty feet, for the purpose o.f gej
and soda to free· it of any add that might ting under the ore so that it can be takj'
induce decomposition and eXlllosion in late! out more advantageously. Mr. Kessler cou,
stages. The nitroglycerine is now drawn in not tell .the extent of the ore chute, b­
vessels and conveyed with the u,tmost car.. 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.

Room with Bath, $1.50 and $2.00

Per Day

The

Albany Hotel

This is something new for a Den­ i

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.
of these moderate priced rooms with
They are guaranteed to operate as suc­
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.

Salt lake Branch ~26, Kearns Building

J. c. ROBERTS, Manager

sight to kec<l> tlte ledsers bus,i an 6unl' -

;-::0111\:- ;lcfire operations art' 10 he ("oni­
('ll('(.'d al UF' Oak Lt-'8.f l)l'Ol)(,rTY in a fe"'tv
1)'S. Pn.:>]Hlra1iolls heing luade to in­
aU He st("'all) JllJist DL the IJl'ovenl)' earJ),
:;xt. month. The machinery Ins heen P"I"
lased and b no\\' hl tranSit and \\'i11 he
rought lljl from .\lilford suon as it ar·
yes. A pany ['ollslstillg' of L. B. Bohl'
(~. _\rcUan'Y Hnd \\-, ?\L Chri::;tian ~,I,fE'nT
tH. on T1H:sda.\· tn inspp("t the l)r(Jj}ert;.~,
llfl 1 hey l'f'1l"t'T n nne IlO<1,- or orc haH lJeen
}'H'J1ed up nlld \\"ill b(; hrOll,Ldlt to nl1: sur~
(lCp rio1' ship:nPlll ;)I.)on as the new
qUllJll1t'ut i:::: ]Jla\'ed ill ('onHHi~sj(}n. The
)ak Lt>~1f ha!S lH"Cll dlH:' to ~'o lIdo !he sl!ip­
lng di1SS for SOIlli-' tllllt', but. a lack of
'orking capita] stood ill l11e way, This
ondition has \H'€n removed and regular
hipments will p"ohahly follow.
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RECENT MINING DECISIONS.
i Prepared foJ' The Milling j(el'iel\.)
Lessee of Mine.-,.\ )po'ep in possessioll
r a minillg' elaiIn in ~\iaBktt undel' an ag"ree~
lei1t t.o work tll.(! :5an).~ cont ~nr;:ouslYJ and
llY over to the les,or a percentage of tlie
linerais extracted, Is a pnrchaser for Ii
elilable (:onsiderati.)I1, witbin tne meaning
f the act of June, 1:)0,) iiI 1 S,~t. at L. 321,
05, chap. 786), title 3, Section 98, provid.
19 that every unrecorded conveyance of
eal property shall be void against any sub·
sequent innocent purchaser, In good faith
and for a valuable conSideration, of the
same rea! property or any portion thereof,
whose conveyance shall b(' first duly re­
corded. Frank H. Waskey v. J. J. Cham­
bers. Supreme Court of the United States,
32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 597.
Oevelopment Work.-Where an original
locator of a mining claim on unoccupied
public mineral land·3 did some work In ex­
cavating a discovery cut, and then relocat­
ed the claim and further 8xc!i.va:ed the dis­
covery cut and completed It so as to make
it of t.he necessary dimensions, l'nd thereby
completed the location of th,' ground, he ac·
quired title, in the absence 0: pny showing
that the rights of another to the ground at­
tachedln the Interim by virtue of a location
by him.-Eureka Exploration Co. v. Tom
Moore Min. & Mill. Co., Supreme Court of
CGlor~_do, 123 Pacilic 655.
Location.-The rule that a locator of a
mincing claim on unoccupied public mineral
lands cannot, by relocation, extend the -time
within which the necessary steps must be
taken to complete a location, applies only
where rights of third persons intervene be­
tween the original location and the reloca'
tion, and the time wtthin which the steps
required to oonstittute a valid location is
completed Is ·immaterial where they are all
completed before the rights of third persons
!ntervene.-Eureka Exploration Co. v. Tom
Moore Min. & Mill. Co., Supreni~ Court ot
Colorado, 123 Pacific 655.
Location by Associates.-A location by
an association of persons is but a a.lngle 10­
eation and not s€lparate locations of each,
and will be treated as an entirety under one
locatJ.on for <a.U purposes of marking boun­
daries, doing assessment work, expenditure
for patent, and discovery of mineral, and a
single dL3covery is all that is required to
support it. and the a'Ssociates may malntain
such condition of entirety. though they con·
veyed a specifiC part In consideration of the
undertakin.g by the grantee to do discovery
work for the benefit of the associates.­
Merced Oil Mining Co. v. P,atterson, Su­
preme Court of California, 122 Pacific 950.
Lien on Mine.-A contract for the sale ot
mining claims, whiCh provides 'that the
purchaser Shall keep posted on the prem­
ises notices signed by the vendor to the
effect that he will not be liable for labor
and materials or machinery furnished tor
the premises, makes the purchaser the
agent of the vendor in keeping such a no­
tice posted, and the vendor may not as
against laborers or materialmen avail him­
selt of the failure ot the purchaser £0 to
do, but the laborers or materialmen may
enforce their liens as authorized by the me'
chanics' lien act ot 1899 (Laws 1899, p
261). Pike v Empfield, Court of Appeals 01
Colorado, 120 Pacific 1054.
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If you want to reach the men who make
mines and equip them, advertlse in The
Mining Review.
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G R E" lEW, S E PTE M BE R 15, 1912. 35

THE STOCK EXCHANGE. AngltHt 29.

SHver, 62% cents; lead, $4.50; copper
Quotations on the local board Tuesday cathode, 17.40 cents.
morning, September 10:
LI..ted Stock...
AU'&tlst 30,.
Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4. 50; .copper There are no dark days
cathode, 17.40 cents.
Beck Tunnel .............. 1$ .09%1$
"'j
I Bid. J Asked.
.10­ August 31. for those who use the
Bingham Amalgamated
Back Jack ...............
.06
.12
Camp Bird ............... \ ......
Cedar-Talisman . . ........ J .oo%.
"I .07

. 15

. 10

.01'4

Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.50; copper

cathode. 17.40 cents,

Holiday.
Septenlber 2,
No. 3A SPECIAL
.
Century .................. j
I :::::::I
g~~~~~l M~~r'n'~t'h . ~ : : : : : : : : ~
.04
I : ~~
.07

SE'ptember 3.
SHver, 62+4. cents; lend, $L50; copper
Colorado Mining ..........
·····1 .17 %
I
.19
('athode. 17.40 cents.

KO DA K

Colorado Consolidated .15 .30

Septelnber 4.
Consolidated Mereur ...... .02 ....... .

Crown Point ..............

Daly ........•.......... "j 1.00
Daly-Judge . ..............
.02 %
5.80
I .03

2.00

6.20

Silver. 62 %. cents; lead. U.71. cop!,er

cathode. 17.51 cents.
Septelnber 5.
Dragon . ....... .......... ........ .35
Silver. 62;;' ('ents; lead. $4.11. ('opper
East Prince .............. J .01%1 02

East Crown Poin t ........ I.. .. .. .. .00 %

cat.hode, 17.5114 cents.
East Tlntic Consolidated .. 1..•..••. 1 . 00 'A,
September 8.
East Tin tic Developmen t "j . 00 % . 01
Silver, 62 'I< cents; lead. $4.71. copper
Gold Chain .............. :. .35 .38
cathode, 17.aJl4 cents.
Grand Central ............ , .61 .70
September '1.
Indian Queen ............. .01 .01 %

Iron Blossom ............. 1.20 1.22%

Silver, 62% cen ts; lead, $4.71 ; copper
Iron King ................ 1 .02 .04
cathode, 17.51'4 cents.
Joe Bowers .. " ........... J .00% ....... .
September 8*
King William ............. j .03 .03 %
Silver, 62% cents; lead. $4.8,; copper
Lead King ............... .02 ....... .
cathode, 17.41% cents.
Lehi Tin tic ............... 1 .00 V.I .00%

Lion Hill .......... · ...... 1 .04 '41 .05

September 9.
Little Bell ...............
Lower Mammoth .........
'1' .. ... ..
.06%
.37
Silver, 62% cents; lead. $4.85; copper
.OS%.
cathode, 17.H¥.. cents.
Mammoth ................. , .75
----0---­
Masonic Mountain ........ 1........ .25
NEW YORK LISTED STOCKS.
Mason Valley . . . . . . . . . . "112.00
May Day.................. .14%
13.00

.15%
-----
: Sales. j . H. IL:-'[ClO'Se
Mineral Flat ............. 1 .01 .02 Chjno~Copp-er ....... 1 4,200\ 43%1 42%1-42%
Mountain Lake ............ \
Mountain Lake Extension
.04
'1' ....... .05
.03 Goldfield Con. ······1 2,0001 3 %
Nevada Con ···.· ... 1 1.0001 22% 22'4 22 '4
I I
3% 3%
Nevada HlIls ..................... 2.10

New York ... ". ' " ....... 1 .02%. Ray Consolidated ... \
.02%.
Tennessee Copper . '11,400 44 %. 44 7'300122 21%.121'l1.
Ohio Copper ...... "...... . 78 .85
44

O!,ohongo . . ............. \ .12 .13

Miami Copper ...... 1,200 29'4 21>'4 29'4
Pioche Demijo hn ..... . ... , .09 .09 '4
Utah 'Copper ....... 2,600 6a%1 65% 65%
Inspiration Con . . . . . . . . . . . . 18% 18% 18 ....
~~~i~beU::~:i~sah'; " ....... : : : : :: .... 02 d~

"I
Plutus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1... .08'4
NE'V YORK CURB RANGE.
Prince Consolidated ....... \ 1.70 \ 1.72%

Rexall . . .................
Seven Troughs ............
'1" .... .02
.02%

.03
- \ Sales. 1 H. I L.-jClose
FTi'StNat'l Copper~:-T'-'-:--:-~1-'2\C-2'--2- The high power of its Zeiss­
Silver King Coalition ..... 1........ a.OJ Giroux Con. . ....... 1 300 5% 5% ,% Kodak Anastigmat lens (f.6.3)
Silver King Conso:ldated.\
Silver Shield .............. \
.65
.01 '41
1.00
.03
Nevada Utah ....... \.......
Ray Central ........ \.......
'C 3
2c
2
5c
3
in .connection with the flexi­
Sioux Consolidated ........ \ .04 % .05 '4 Yukon Gold ............... 3%. 3% 3%
South Iron Blossom ....... \ .00'4 .00% Ohio Copp~r ............... 85c 75c 75c bility of Speed control in the
Swansea Consolidated ..... \
TlnUc Central ············1
U. Tintic ....... ..........
.06 % \
.01
.01',4
1
.07
.01 '4
:-lew Keystone ...... \.
South Gtah ...............
.01%.
Mason Valley ......
"I 100 2
%1
2
%
100 12% 12% 12%

2
% Compound shutter make snap­
shots possible on days where a
Gncle Sam ................ \.14 . If.
Eraden 'Copper ..... \ 9001 no. 7 7

Ctah Consolidated ......... ,

Union Chief ...............
.02
.12
.02 %
Ely Consol1dated ...
.14
La Rose ............ 1
1,80°1 30c
100 20/.
30c 30c

2'1< 2%.

time exposure would be neces­

Victor Consolidated ..•.... .04 .04 %
Be:mont ................... 10 9%. 10
sary with an ordinary camera.
Victoria Consolidated ..... 1 .60 .64
Tonopah ............ /....... 7,.. 7 7.

Wilbert ............. " ....

Yankee Consolidated ...... 1 .Iv \
.18 .21
:l-J.a. ska _-..:·.:·:·~:~::..::~..:-_~O\).o._.!_~_~·'L~

.15%
The 3A Special makes pictUres of
Y erlng~n~(':'o'p'p_<?r~~.~,.:..~ ...:. 66 %L..:.!\)_ NEW YORK METAL MARKET.
Post Card size, 3l.4x5* inches using
lfnUsted St....k ...
New York, Sept. lO.-Copper, firm; stand­ Kodak Film Cartridges. It has a rack
----I-B1d~-!Asked. ard, spot, $17.25@17.75; Se!'tember. $17.Z5@
Kita:"Con soITda"te.r'.-:--:--.--:-::-:, $---:4 8- ,--: 50 ­ 17.37%; October. $17.25@17.40; November, and pInion for focusing. riSing and
South Hecla............... .12 .1"
$17,.25@.17.50; electrolytic, $17.75@17.87%; aliding front, brHlIant reversible
Thompson-Quincy . ....... .36 .38
casting. $17 .12%@17.25. Exports of copper
New Yerington ........... \ .11% .13
this month, 6,118 tons. London copper. finder, spirit level, two tripod .sockets
Rico-Welilngton .......... 1 .35 .4;
steady; spot, £78 lOs; futures, £79 5s. and focusing scale. The bellows is of
Cardiff . . ................ '1' .. .05
Ploc.!'.e_King -.:..~.:.:...:.:.~: ... .'
" "'4. .38
Tin, firm; spot, $48.12%@48.25; Septem­
ber, $48.10@48.20. October, $48.00@48.20. soft bla~k leather, and the camera Is
Local exchange sales of tin, 100 tons. Lon­ covered with the finest Persian Mo­
SalE'S. don tin, dull; spot, £220; futures, £217 5s. rocco. A simple, serviceable instru­
May Day, 1,000 at 15c.
Lead, strong, $;;.00@5.20. London lead, ment, built with the accuracy of a
Prince Consolidated, 100 at $1.70.
£23.
Spelter, firm, $7.25@7.50. London spelt­ watch and tested with painstaking'
Tlntlc Central, 1,000 at I%c; 1,000 at l'4c.

Shares SOld, 3,100.

er, £26 ISs. care.
Selling value, $347.50.
Antimony, quiet; Cooksons, $8.45.
Iron~-Strong and unchanged. Cleveland
Open Board. warrants, 65s 7%d in Lohdon
Lower Mammoth. 2,000 at 6%c.
S!lver King Coalition, 100 at $2.85.
Tlntic Central, 300 at 1 %c.
Shares sold. 2.400.
Selling value, $419.50.
So far as known to the United States
Geological- Survey, the only bismuth bear­
--~.---o-~--

Price $65.00

--~-o----
ing ore produced in this country during Kodak Catalogue [rtf at the dea/ers or
I,OCAL METAL MARKET. 1911 was in La Plata county. Colorado, by 111ail.
August 26.

which carried 6 to 8 per cent of bismuth.

Silver, 62 cents; lead, $4. 50; copper
This ore, however, was sold for its gold and
(·athode. 17.40 cents.

August 2'f.

Silver, 61% cents; lead, $4.50; copper

cathode, 17.40 cents.

sliver content. Another lot of still richer

ore was mined frO'm a claim about 35 miles
southwest of Tularosa. New Mexico. The
Eastman Kodak Co.

AUJrU"t 28­ imports in 1911 amounted to 172,093 pounds, ROCHESTER, N. Yo; The Kodak Cltl"
Silver. 61 % cents; lead, $4 .50; copper
valued at $311.771.
('athode, 17.40 cents.

 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.

RAILROAD TIME TABLES DENVER & RIO GRANDE TIME TABLE.

TIME CARD. Will you be with us

OREGON SHOR'I' LINE TDIE C,"RD.
(Effective May 19, 1912.) In the new building
EFFECTIVE JUNE 16, 1912.

))t'(wrt.
;'i,_r A.~r.. ,Ogclen,
DuiIy. A rrh'f'.

IVfnlad, Den­
D~port Dolly. as depositor or ten­
Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 8:00 A.M.
ver, Omaha, Kansas
City, Chicago, San
Midvale and Bingham ........... 7:45 A.M. ant, or both?
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 8:35 A.M.
F'rancisco, Ely and. Park City ........................ 8:20 A.M.
intermediate pOints Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 10:35 A.M.
llcyond Og"den. (Og­ Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 12 :40 P.M. Our new ban kin g
den and intern1cdiate Ogden, San Fra:1cisco, Portland .. 2 :45 P.M.
points only arriving) .. 8:15 A.M.
.\.,\1 .. Ogden, Logan, Poca­
Midvale and Bingham ............ 2 :45 P.M. rooms, into which we
;'1011
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 5:20 P.M.
tello, Duise, 1\larys­
yjIlc'. Intcrmediate-·­
Provo, Springville, Tintic ........ 4:50
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 7:00
P.M.
P.M.
will move this fall~ ~I
1\lontpclier. Going .. 10:10 P.M. ~!
)Jlp A.)'f. .. Ogden and Interm~-
Ogden, portland and Seattle ...... 11 :10 P.M. will be among the ~l
di~lte Points G:GG P.M. Arrive Dni:y.
~!
..\ :\1 ... Uverland Limited- Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles 8:15 P.M. finest in the west. ~!
OJrJ<Jli;l, Chicago, Tintic, Springville, Provo ........ 10:20 A.M.
Denver, St. Loujs :20 P.M. Bingham and Midvale ............ 10:30 A.M. ~!
.A ).:1. • LooSAl1gC'lcs Limited Denver, Chicago and East ........ 12 :25 P.M. ~l
--OnLll1<\, Chicago,
Denver, St. Loui3 :45 P.M.
Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 2 :10
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 2 :35
P.M.
P.M.
WALKER ~!
III
Ovcl':and Limited- Ogden, San Francisco and West .. 4 :55 P.M.
(',-, 1'.;"1.
Ogden, Reno, Sacra­
mento, San FraneiRco. :05 P."M.
Park City and Intermediate points 5 :00
Bingham and MIdvale ............ 5:30
P.M.
P.M.
BROTHERS
Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 6 :30 P.M.

'1.'
P.2\L. Og"del1, Doise, Port­
land, Butte
P.1\f. .. Og-den, San FrClncisco.
:;;0 P.M.
:55 P.M.
Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 6 :50
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 10:55
P.M.
P.M.
BANKERS
1 '.:\f... (,goen, Brigham, Phone, Wasntch, 2:120.

Cache Valley, Malau Tlcke-t office, 301 Main Stre-e-t.

anu Intermediate .... 11 :35 A.~I. ---~--

You can become a depositor through our
1'.:'11 Ogdcn. Denver, On1a­ banking by mail department. no matter
h,l, Chicago, Park
Cit~·, GrcC'n River where you live. Write for booklet.
,tIll1 West, only, re­
turning) . . . . . . . . . . . 12:40 P.M.
j'CI!/ P.:'If. .. ::\iui.or Flyer-Ogden
Clnd Intermediate 9 :35 A.M.
BIN6HAM &6ARFIELD

1;-, P.;H... Yellowstone Specinl

-Ogden, Pocatelln,
IdClho Falls a!1d Yel­
lowstone Park (Chi­
cago and East and
RAILWAY COMPANY

San Francisco and

West, a'so arriving) .. 7:40 A.M. The Scenic Line to the Great Copper

. !;; r.':\J. .. Ogden, Boise, Port­

land Butte ........... 10 30 A.M. Mining Camp of BINGHAM

~ y 'l'kk... t Officc, Hot ...} Utah. r.l'e]. Ex. 1:1.

~" "1'~DnOJ LOS ANGELES & S -\I,T LAKE

n.ULHO_~D COJIlJ_\:,\ Y. TWO TRAI N S DAI LV
VIA
(Efie<.:tive June 16, 1!)]~.)

THE tiARFIELD SMELTER SMITH & ADAMS

lniun Station, S:.tlt I,nke- Cify, Utah.

-(-Los
DEPART.
Angcles Limited,
L,)s Angeles .........
l--Tile 0\"(;1' anu, to Los An­
to

geles .................... 11 :50 P.M.

.J 1--:"1iner·s Lo(',ll, 1.0 Tooele and
:00 P.M.
AND

MILLS OF UTA~ COPPER CO.

MANUFACTURERB OF TENTB AND AWNINGB
Filter Cloths, Ore B"gs. Camping Outfits, Anything
Made of Canvas. Get our prices. Send for Catalogue
226-227 Edison Blreel. Ball Lake Clly. Ulah

debris which has accumulated around toe

old Woodside shaft.
I
Ellreka . . ... . ..... 7:30 A.:\L
Excursions between
In early days, when the late William
;:;:'-Garfielu Local, to Garfield
and Smeltcr G:50 A.M.
Salt Lake Citg and Bingham
T. Gibbs was sup'erintendent of the Wood·
.-.:. --Tooele Sl1t"'cial, to Garfield
!lnd Smelter, and Tooele .. 2:40 P.M.
Everg Sundag
side mine, the shaft was sunk to a depth
;.; -G<1l'fi('ld Owl, to Garfield and .of 240 feet and some very good ore was
Smeltcr ................. 11 :00 P.M.
\~l--·Lynlldyi SlleciaI, to Lehi,
$1.00 Round Trip encountered. but owing to litigation which
_..;. merican Fork, Provo. followed, the mine was closed down.
P;·lYSOll . .:\cphi, L) lllldyl .. 4 :50 P.M.
(,.~--\TillJey:..r:lil, to Provo, Nc­ The shaft at the Eureka mine is down
phi, San Pete Valley nnd
)'IcrClll' • • 8:00 A.M. For further information aDpiu to anI) "Salt Lake over 200 fuet. Four years ago this mine
ARRIVE. Route" or Bingham & Garfield Railway Agent was unwatered down to the 170-foot level.
S--Los Angeles Lhnited, from -or- At this point a highly mineralized ledge 23
Angeles . . . .. .......... 11 :40 A.M.
.2·-The Overland, from Los An­ H. B. TOOKER, Oen'l Pass. Agent feet in width between the 170 and 130 foot
geles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 :30 A.M. 6'7 MCCornick Building SALT LAKE CITY levels there are thousands of tons of ore
;,:::-),Jincr's Loc;'tl, from Eureka,
Silver City, Stockton, ready to be hoisted to the surface.
Tooele. . ..... . .... 4 :50 P.M. ----0---­
S 1-Garfield L(w;! 1, from Gar­ BURCH BUYS OLD EUREKA.
field. Smeltcr ............ 8:50A.M. FREE.
~C-G;'trficld Local, from Smelt­
er. Garfield ..... , ....... 6 :00 P.M. (Gazette, Georgtown, CaliL) Sporting goods catalogue. Address W"Sl

:is-Garfield Owl, fron1 Garfield,

Smelter, Riter .. . .... 12:55 A.)'f. A Burch o-f Berkeley, was here thi3 week ern Arms & Sporting Goods Co., Salt L?kp

fj~-~Lynnd~'l Special, from

Lynndyl, Nephi, Provo ;'tno looking after his mining interests. It is City. Utah.

InternH'oiatc Points ..... 10:05 A.M.

1.l4-Valley Mail, from
Provo, Mercur ....... 6 :05 P.M.
BlnghOlll & Garfield R. R. Co.
DEPART.
[n9-Salt Lake, to Bingham
.111--Salt Lake, to Bingham
ARRIVE.
1l0-Bingham to Salt Lake .... 10:40 A.M.
112-Bingham to Salt Lake .... 6:10 P.M.
Nephi,
reported that Mr. Burch has bonded the
famous old Eureka and Woodside mines in
this place, and that these mines will be
unwatered and thoroughly prospected.
7:45 A.M.
3 :15 P.M. The hoisting machinery at the Eureka
shaft has been overhauled, and ye3terday
a man was put to work clearing away the
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