THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, AUGUSi 30, 1912 1'7

Of this somewhat diffuse origin the wa­ down, obliquely. to the bottom of the cru­
ter jacket has now come to be generally
used on lead blast furnaces. Wrought iron
jackets may have been used earlier than
cast iron ones, but cast iron was the fa­
vorite material for many years on rectangu­
lar furnaces. Cast iron jackets are now
eVidently giving place to steel, in particular
with the autogenous weldIng of the tuyere
thImble to the inside of the jacket, there
can be little ground for dissatisfactlon.
Water·block cooling and spray jackets are
now used only in a few localities in foreign
countries.
Of course, jackets develop leaks, get
damaged in shape or are punctured in drill·
ing out slagged tuyeres, but in general tne,.
are quite indispensible and cause little trou­
ble. They abstract a large amount {)f heat,
possibly 10 per cent of the total, from the
furnace, but no better way has yet been
devised to keep the fusion zone within con·
fines.
The circulation of the water within the
jacket is determined by partitions and the
positions Qf inlet and outlet, the latter usu­
ally being built up so that the jacket must
always be entirely filled. The nearer hoil·
ing the outflow so much less is supposed to
be the chHling effect ob the furnace.
Large rectangular furnaces now have
jackets about six/ feet tall, and varying
widths, according to position and judgment
of the builders. Narrow 1 and 2 tuYere
jackets are easily replaced and keep the
furnaCe off blast -but a little while during
the change, The very wide jackets do not
United States, Canada, Mexico and Aus·
tralia, as well l,los many on the continent are
seem to retain their inside surfaces as well
as the narrow ones. The bosh of the side
jackets begins close above the tUYeres.
Hand holes are always necessary and jack.
ets should be bolted together as well as
held in place with screw braces.
The siphon top, or lead well, may be
said to be as important as jackets in al-
to the walls and bottom of the crucible,
cible. Red hot and molten lead rises from
the filled crucible to a somewhat greater
elevation in the outside basin; from this
basin several hundredweight will be tapped
out whenever the lead is al'most high enough
to flow out the regular slag top.
The large internal crucible, filled with
Fig.2. Forty-four by IBO·lnch Rectangular Cast·lron
Water-Jackted Lead Furnace-ooAllis-Chalmers Co.
lead, prevents the formation of "sows,"
while the lead is easily restrained at the
top in the basin, besides being thus ob­
tained free from matte and slag. If lead is
allowed to run with the slag there Is not
only the troublesome separation and hand·
ling, but continual difficulty in closIng tnb
gradually building up into accretions and
·'sows." Metallic iron is readily formed in
the strongly reducing atmosphere of the
smelting zone, but floating about on the
lead bath it is slagged away or dissolved
in the matte and carried out of the furnace.
It would be a most serious matter to
attempt the operation of the big furnaces
without the lead filled crucible and the well.
Trouble comes often enough as it is; crusts
form in the crucible and dross gathers on
the sides of the well, but cleaning these
out so that the well keeps in use is trifiing
compared to the continual barring cus·
tomary with former furnaces.
The lead wells are at present made of
ample size and seldom need more than I"uu­
tine scraping out if properly watched. Once
as small as three inches in diameter they
are now sometimes made as large as nIne
inches square at the top, and fourteen
inches square at the bottmn.
With the invention of water jackets and
the lead well no further need has hindered
the building of large and larger furnace...
The table indicates the increase in size
and capacity with the years. Many {)ther
furnaces mentioned in the literature are nOt
described fully enough for tabulation.
Small round furnaces are found in many
localities but only a very few large one3
exist. One is mentioned by Collins as in
operation at Pertusola, and another at Fried·
rickshutte is mentioned by Hahu.*
Practically all the large furnaces in the
rectangular.
*Eng. Min. J oumal May 28, 1910.
H. B. PULSIFER,
Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago,
Ill.
(To be Continued.)

SIZE AND CAPACITY OF LEAD BLAST FURNACES

Height of Tons per Hearth
Authority Date LocatJon Jackets Cross-Section Tuyers Oz. Blast Charge Col. 24 HOUfS Intensity
Eissler .............. . 1871 Eureka .....No water coo·ing ... 20·in.x30·in .... 1 or 2 ... 9 ft.. ..... 6·8. . .. .... ........ 2

Eissler .............. . 1872 Bingham ... Tap water cooled ... 42·in. Round .. 6;2.5·'n ..... 12 oz... .. . ... 14 .................. 1.5

Eissler .............. . 1883 Freiberg ... Wr't. Iron Jackets .. 58·in. Octagon.8 .......... .l 0 oz ....... - - - ......17. . . . . . . .. ......... 1

Collins .............. . 1910 Goslar ..... Water Tuyeres ..... 43·'n. Round .5; 2·in ...... 12 oz ....... 18 ft. 6·n ... 15 .................. 1.5

Guillame ............ . 1906 Laurium ....Water Tuyeres ..... 54·in. Round ...4 ......... 7 oz ....... 9 ft.. ..... 25 ................. 1.5

Eissler .............. . 1891 Leadville ... Wr't. Iron Jackets . .40·in. Round .. 6 ......... --~ .... .14 it. 6-in ...17·20 ................ 2

Collins .............. . 1902 Pejibram ... Water Blocks ...... 55·in. Round .. 8;2.25·in .... 13 oz .......--....: .... 31. ................. 2

Eissler .............. . 1891 Eureka ..... Water Tuyers ..... S4·in. Round .. 9 ..........- - - ' .... 15 ft. 6-in ...50-60 ................ 1.5

11es ................. . 1902 Denver .....Cast Iron Jackets .. 42-in.x140-in... .14;3 5·in ....56 oz .......17 ft....... .150 ................. 3.5

Hofman ............. . 1898 (?) .. .. Steel Jackets ....... 60·in.x120·in....12; 4-in ..... 24 oz ..... ....W rt ....... 200.. .. . ... ......... 4

Collins .............. . 1897 Murray .... Water Jackets ...... 45·in.x140·in ... 14;3.5·in ....- - - .....20 ft ....... 180 ................. 4

Collins .............. . 1899 Pertusola . Spray Jacket ....... 90·in. Round .. 15......... - - ' - .. , .--~ .....233. . . . . . .. ......... 5

Collins .............. . 1906 Port Pirie ..Water Jackets ..... 62-in.x212·in ... 22;3.5·in .... 3J oz ...... 21 ft ....... 175 ................. 2

Palmer .............. . 1911 Midvale .... Water Jackets ..... 45·in.xI60·in ... 20:35·in ....35 oz.. .... . ....200 ................ 4

Private ............. . 19::19 Murray .... Steel Ja,ckets ....... 48·in.x160-in ... 20; 4-in ..... 36 oz .......16 ft. ...... 240. . . . . . .. ......... 4

Collins .............. . 1908 Laurium ... Steel Ja.ckets ....... 48-in.x160·in ... 20;3.5·in ....37 OZ . . . . • • J8 ft. ...... aot}. . . . . . .. ......... 6

lowing us to build large furnaces. This im­
provement, devised by Arents, at Eureka, is
now even more universally employed thafi
water jackets. It consists of a small lead
basin on the shelf of the crucible just out·
side the jackets, from which a "well" leads
slag hole. From the largest furnaces lead
may flow continuously from the well.
The crUCible of the furnace is normally
filled with molten lead. On the surface of
this bath floats any metallic iron or suI·
phides which would otherwise tend to stick
The Minersville Milling & Power com·
pany was recently incorporated to produce
power for Minersville and surrounding ter·
ritory in Beaver county, Utah. Frank Clay·
ton is president, George Marshall, Sr., vice·
president, and A. E. Dotson secretary.

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18 THE SAL T
TRANSPORTATION OF MATERIAL
By H. M. ARNOLD
During the last few years much has
been written and spoken relative to effi·
ciency insofar as the manufacturing end of
the matter is concerned, but in very few
instances has the transportation of material
in and about manufacturing plants reo
ceived the attention its importance de­
serves.
Necessarily, the transportation facilities
of a plant include all the surface and over­
head devices used in moving material from
one point to another; but, in this brief ar­
ticle, it is purposed to consider only the
surface movement of material.
In most instances large manufacturing
~lants present a rather difficult transporta­
tion problem. This is due to the unsymmet·
rical growth of plants of large proportions
owing to the fact that in a great majority
of cases the expansion was not anticipated,
For Use In Industrial Plant.
or provided for, in the original conception.
The Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., of Co­
lumbus, Ohio, is spread out over an area
of a.pproximately twenty-six acres, and has
eighteen acres of floor space. This plant
manufactures a large and varied line of
electrical locomotives, electric storage bat­
tery trucks, coal mining, elevating and con­
veying machinery of all descriptions, struc­
tural steel work, etc., etc.
Throughout the shops of this company a
high degree of efficiency has obtained for
some time, but the matter of transportation
of raw and finished material did not re­
ceive adequate oonsideration until a few
years ago. Up to that time our raw and
finished material was being transported to
and from <:ars in and about our various
shops and departments by means of two­
wheeled warehouse trucks, four-wheeled
trucks, and industrial cars. Also, part of
the territory was served by a Jeffrey stor­
age· battery truck, working on a 36-inch
guage indUstrial track. A careful study
of existing conditions made plain the fact
.. )1.
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG US T
(Standard, Leadore, Idaho.)
that a very material saving could be ef­
fected by establishing a more efficient
transportation system.
After considering the problem from every
angle, it was decided that the Jeffrey stor·
age battery ,trucks and industrial cars or­
fered the best and most efficient means of
surface transportation. Accordingly, the in­
dustrial railway was extended to take in
all departments and a systema;tic method
of car dispatching established.
As soon as this system was established,
very rigid instructions were issued that abo
solutely no material was to be transported
by other means than by the storage bat­
tery trucks and industrial cars. It was
immediately found poss:ble to dispense with
the services of a two-horse team, twenty­
eight two·wheeled warehouse trucks, thir­
teen four-wheeled trucks, eight wheelbar­
rows and eighteen men, whose whole time
ha·d been devoted to this purpose. This
effected an annual saving of more than
$600 per month over the cost of the for­
mer system, taking into consideration the
interest and depreciation on the investment,
operating, maintenance, costs, etc. The
monthly t<mnage :handled is close to 4,000
tons. Viewed from its present efficiency.
it would seem almost an utter impossibility
to go back to the previous or any other
method of transporting material.
These trucks will pay for themselves in
a very short period of time and especially
where the industrial track system is al­
ready installed. The Jeffrey Mfg. Co. would
gladly demonstrate, to interested parties,
further details of the systems we employ
for dispatching our trains, without loss of
time, thus securing the greatest efficiency
from the service of these trucks.
* Supervisor of Power and Maintenance,
Jeffrey Manufacturing Go.
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Advertise in The Mining Review.
3 D, 1912
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PATTERSON CREEK TUNGSTEN.
The trip of U. S.Commissioner R. 'V_
Morphey of Junction and Mining Engineer
John Annear, of Colorado. to Patterson, in
the Pahslm:arai, a few days ago, was not
made for the pur·pose of bonding, leasing,
or of staking ground lying open to location,
,but merely to as<:ertain for themllelves, as
nearly as could be determined, the i3tatus
of the tungsten ca;mp, which th·e gentlemen
found to be well up to the "high wa;ter"
mark of representations heretofore made.
The two prinCipal tung'S ten properties on the
active list are the "Ima" which is being op­
erated by a leasing company, and the "Inter­
national," by the company owning it, under
the management of Mr_ H. E. Sharpe. The
former mentioned property is largely devel­
oped and is in ore in nearly all the divers
workings, the lower tunnel showing a body
ot tungsten blocked out, ready for ·break­
ing, that in .places is sixteen feet wide. At
a very c01ll3er·vative estimate there are
thousands of tons of concentrating material
in sight, awaiting retiuction. The mill in
connection with the proPerty, which, from
reasons best known to the management, has
been a long time in process of construdion,
is nearly completed" and it is expected it
will ·be finished and go into cOIl1!lIlission
within a month, and following this event
the company will sublease a ·part of their
ground. The plant Is of 100 tons capacity
and is ~uipped with flat crus'her, roug,hing
rolls, fini,;;hing foils, Jigs and Wilfley tables,
the poWer to be supplied fwm Patterson
creek through a flume 3,000 feet long, to a
Pelton wheel. Present working force of the
"lma," is for the ·greater part on oonstruc­
tlon. Leaving ,the "Ima," MeSlJrs. MOJlphey
and Annear looked over the holdings of
well defined mineralized ground of one of
the oldest prospectors in the district, Mr.
Sam 'Carey, the area of which cOilll,prises
1,500 by 3,000 feet, Mr. Carey being busy
on development work, on remarka.·bly good
showings in tung'Sten. The Carey holdings
lie between the "Ima" and the "Interna­
tional," ,the latter property being the next
visited_ u.p the trail went the horses and
riders to a.n altitude 2,000 feet greater than
that of the "Lma," to the home of the "Inter­
national" where Mr. Sharpe with a small
force L3 driving a tunnel on the vein which
is now into the mountain 175 feet. with good
tungsten ore coming in. Improvements on
>the "International.," which is one of the
"youngest" properties of the camp, are
strictly up to date andretlect the greatest
credit upon the management of Mr. Sharpe,
also the enterprise of Sir Thomas Keating
of Leadore, who is largely Interested in the
company.
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The Adison Mining company, of Sun·
shine, Colorado, Is developing a. fine body
of highgrade tellurium ore.

THE KELLER ANALYTICAL BALANCE
ever used. The "Keller" is Se'l
The following cut Illustrates the G. P.
Keller analytical balance now In use in
various institutions between Salt Lake City
and the Atlantic coast. This balance as
well as the famous "Keller Assay Bala~ce,"
is of original deSlignby ,Mr.G. P. Keller,
and is manufactured by him in Salt Lake
eity.
For about a generation precision bal­
ances for assay and analytical purposes
were made practically without changes in
design or rela.tive fineness until Mr. Keller
converted the assay balance into what is
known as the "KeUer type assay balance,"
which Is being much imitated Iby balance
manufacturers in ,this rountry.
In recent years Mr. Keller has devoted
much time to designing an analytical high
grade balance that should not lack any
of the good points embodied in his assay
balance, and stimulated by an enquiry from
the United States Bureau of Weights and
Measures for just such an instrument, con­
tinued the efforts that resulted in ,the "Kel­
ler Analytical Balance." The tests made
with this new type surpassed all expecta­
tion; the first one completed was accepted
by the Bureau at Washington, ana there
is not an analytical balance on the market
its equal for accuracy, sileed, convenIence
in ,manipulation and perfect freedom from
jaring of the ,beam (commonly called "kick·
ing").
The points to be considered on ,the Kel·
ler Analytical Balace are ,briefiy:
1. The beam, is mounted on Its sup­
port by a new nwthod; each end of center
edge being provided with a screw inserted
vertica_Iy, one resting on a V-post;. the
other on a conically apertured post.
This fixes the beam on its support with
absolutely no lost motion and whenever
neceessary can he re-adjusted by the oper­
ator simply turning one of the screws until
the edge resumes its parallel position with
its bearings.
2. The release of the beam without any
'kicking" constitutes a saving of time to
the operator. The Keller fiat stone stirrup
balances were the first balances made that
placed hangers on the beam before releas­
ing the same, thereby eliminating all iars
caused .by the hangers. Stirrups, beam and
hanger supports are operated by one knob
in front.
3. The Keller stirrups are made me­
chanIcally so acciIrate as to be completely
interchanable. These Interchangeable stir­
rups make possible eight tests on bearing
surface of stirrups and keenness or end
edges, to determine frictional resistance.
If bearing stones and end edges are abso­
lutely correct the beam will show no varia­
tions on pointer scale.
MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T
I
4. Hangers are of a new ty;pe, weighing
about two-thirds less than any other hanger
in use, when sufficiently strong for a load
of 500 grams, adding to the rapidity of
the ,balance's action.
5. Hanger supports are of a new style,
well appreciated by all users of the bal­
ance; will turn up against the column when
it is desired to clean the back plate sub·
base and are easily adjusted to keep hang­
ers from swinging.
6. Construction is such that the entire
instrument can be thoroughly cleansed, even
by Inexperienced hands, without suffering
the loss of any adjustment, parts being
easily and quickly removable and as readly
replaced.
7. The superior methods used in produc­
ing and assembling parts, resulting from
eighteen years experience in designing and
adjusting precision 'balances exclusively, all
of which tend to prolong the life and deli­
cacy of the finished product.
The development of such methodE! in­
volves the construction of many special
machines, superceding the old time me­
chanic peculiar to this line, and has brought
the art of balance building to the plane of
a profession as intricate in mechanical
methods as those of the 'modern watch or
typewriter factory. Formerly a tlalance
maker drilled holes Into glass with a hand
brace and steel drill, often spending a whole
day on a few holes in one plate, only to
,break this before completion of the job;
and this not more than twenty years ago.
:'his work 13 now done with diamond tools
much more accurately" but these tools had
to be evolved for the purpose. Agates
were formerly imported from Europe cut
"close to size," and the metal worked to
match the stones; now agates are cut and
ground at the Keller Mfg. Co. to exact size
with diamond tools, to fit places provided
for them and planty of agates are found
at home to make good knife edges and
bearings. Numerous comparisons between
old and modern met!::'U,b may be cited, of
equal moment to the user and the builder
of a fine balance--ultimate excellence.
30, 1912
Any old balance is a gOO!
the operator, as long as his i
day trial and must be seen
clated.
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WILL OPERATE IN A
~
A special from New York
Tribune, says:
Hayden, Stone & Co. are (
Alaska Gold Mines company
thorized capital of $7,500,000
shares of the ,par value of $
pany is being formed to acql
ling interest in the Alaska G
Ing company, which owns a la
free milling gold deposit nea
aska.
. There will be issued at thl
614,700 shares, and the coml'
in its treasury 1,790,000 Alai
'Mining company stock, ,being
cent of the total capital of $12,
will be placed in the treasu
aska Gastineau company $1,2
addition in the treasury of th
Mines company the further s
000, or a total of $4,500,000. '
The balance of the auth
of 750,000 shares of the Alas}
company /Unissued" amounth
shares, will be reserved for t~,
ness development.
The oMcers so far decidec
Charles Hayden for preslder
C. Jackling for vice-president
operations. Albert F. Holden,
officers named a,nd two othel
tute an executive c()mmlttee.
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BULLION COALITION
(Special CorrespondE
•
Stockton, Utah, Aug. 26.-T'
for August are: Company ore
sees ore, 6 cars; slag from
nor lease 20 cars.
Contractor .George Ewing
Ing In the face of the Honel
nel. The showing is good all
entering an area, that has b.
on the surface.
The Weir raise will hole t
600 level some time in Septa';
an'ord much needed ventllatil
an egress from the deeper "
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The Bingham, Utah, mine
adopted a new wage schedd
fect September 1st. MachiIl!
paid $3.25 per shift; helpers,
drlllers the wage will be $1
pending on individual efficit
men will receive an increas~
cents a shift, as will theiT 1
trammel'S will get $2.75, hJ
trammer!! . $3,. their b,elperll
will be paid $2,7§., ~ '.•
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20 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG US T 30, 1912

years of general business depression, but

the decrease in 1911 may perhaps be in large

II CEMENT INDUSTRY IN 19l1 ] part attributed to an over production in

The statistics of cement production in
1911, prepared by Ernest F. Burchard, of
the United States Geological Survey, show
an increase over 1910 of only about a mil·
lion and a half barrels. The increase in
quantity is the smallest recorded within
the last thirteen years, and the fact that
the total value showed an actual decrease
indicates that trade conditions were not as
satisfactory in 1911 as in 1910.
Production of All Cements.
cement in the United States.
The total quantity of Portland, natural,
Production of Portland cement in 1910
the plants in the Rocky Mountain states
and western Texas are {;onsidered in a
,grou;pinteirmediate ,between the Great
Plains and the Pacific coast. The following
tables summarize the statistics for 1910 and
1911 for each district with regard to the
number of active plants, the total produc·
tion in 1910 and 1911, the percentage of
gain and loss in 1911, and the average price
per barrel.
Production of Portland cement in 1911 by
commercial distriets:
1910. The production for 1911 was 25,972,·
108, valued at $18,568,670, or 71.5 cents p~),
barrel. This ,Production represented a de~
crease in quantity of 343,251 barrels, and
in value of $619.845, as compared with the
production of 1910, an average decrease In
price of 1.4 cents a barrel. There was no
net gain or loss in the number of producing
plants in the Lehigh district, but ,the start­
ing of new plants in the south and west reo
suited in .lowering once more the Lehigh
district's proportion of the total output ot

-~ls":lc~-=-I-~:-'-I'~~~tio.\!-iwel '}:~~
and puzzo Ian cements produced in the by commercial district<J;

=~l~:~~ ==-I-~~~~-I pr1~s:;IJfff~

United States during 1911, was 79,547,958
PI.nts B• .,..,!., % P;;::.:'
barrels, valued at $66,705,136. Compared
with 1910, when the production was 77"
785,141 barrels, valued at $68,752,092, the
N~:d" Je:::[i --r--~-T--I--- ,1910
:New-jersey and easf-r---l-~-
Barre!., &.rei

ern penn.\ I I I
ern Pennsylvania l I 1

year 1911 showed an increase of 1,762,817 sylvania I I I

(Lehigh District). i 24 126,315,3591$0.729

barrels, or 2.27 per cent in quantity, but a (Lehigh 1 I i i

New York ......... i 8 1 3.296,3501 .882

decrease of $2,046,956, or 1.48 per cent in District) .. 1 24 !25,972,108;- 1.30\$0.715

Ohio and westernl 1

value.
New York .. 1 7 ! 3,314,2171+ .541 .805
Pennsylvania . . .. 1 9 6,072,9871!. 776

Ohio andl I 1 1

Portland Cement-More Than Thirteen

Million Tons Produced.
western
pennSYlVa-\
I I I
j
1

Michigan and north·l·

eastern Indiana.. 14
1

4,524,5911 .921

Kentucky and south- 1 r

The total production of Portland cement

nia . ..... 9 I 6,756,3131 + 11. 25i.766
ern Indiana ...... 1 3 1 2,824,8321 .799

Michigan andl 1 I I
Illinois and north'l 1 I

in the United States in 1911 as reported to northeastern I 1 1 I

western Indiana .. , 6 1 8,376.4501 .940

the United States Geological Survey, was Indiana . . 1 13 1 4519,7261- .111 .827
Southeastern States I 1 1

78,528,637 barrels, valued at $66,248,817. Ken t u c k yl 1 1 I

(Maryland, Virgin'l 1 1

This quantity reduced to tons is equivalent and south·1 1 I I

ia, West Virginia" 1 1

to 13,321,822 long tons, valued at $4.97 per

ern. Indiana! 3 I 2,818,8201- .211 .793
Tennessee, Geor·, I 1

IllinOIS and 1 1 1 1
gia, and Alabama)1 8 1 3,071,0091 .794

ton. As compared with the production o. northwest.\ 1 I 1

Iowa and Missouri..1 6 I 5,722,9711 .916

Portland cement for 1910, which was 76,549,. ern Indiana 6 1 8,617,3411+ 2.88\ .791
Great Plains States1 ! 1

951 barrels, valued at $68,205,800 the out· Southeastern1 I i i

(Kansas, Oklaho-I I 1

States j j 1 1
rna. and central 1 I I

put for 1911 represents an increase in (Maryland,1 1 I 1

Texas) .......... , 16 I 7,723,2531 .996

quantity of 1978,686 barrels or 2.58 per Virginia, 1 1 I

\

Roc k y Mountainl I 1

cent, and a decrease in value of $1,956,983, W. Virginia,j I I

States (Colorado,1 1 !

)r 2.87 per cent. The average price per Tennessee, ! 1 , j

Uta h, Montana,! I I

Georgia 1 I I ,

barrel in 1911. according to the figures reo­

IlOrted to the Survey, was It trifle less than
and Alaba·1
rna) ..... 111
j I
:1049,0631+31.85 .793

I
Arizona, and west- 1 I

ern Texas) ....... , 8 1 2,236 561; 1. 288

Pacific Coast States! 1 1

84.4 cents, as compared with 89.1 cents in Iowa and I 1 I I

(California and1 I 1

1910. In the average price for the country Missouri.. 1 7 I 6,067,4491+ 6.02, .862
Washington) . . .. 1 9 ! 6,385,5881 1.385

Great Plamsl I I
i---~----I---
is included the value of 135,775 barrels of
white Portland cement which sold at an
States (Kan·! I I
30tal .~=-:.~=-:.~~~,549,951Il0. 891

sas, Okla'l 1

average price of about $2.50 per barrel. homa and! 1 1 1

Prices of Cement.
Production by Com'mercial Districts. {; e n t r a l i i 1 1
According to reports made to the United
Texas . ..! 17 1 7,010,3961- 9.231 .834

The United States has been divided into Roc~y Moun·1 1 I I

State (kological Survey by the manufac­

eleven subdivisions based on the grouping tam States1 II!
turers the average price of Portland ceo
of plants in direct relation to the trade (Colorado,
Utah, Mon·
I 1
1
I
I

!
ment per barrel by districts in 1911 in bulk
at the mills ranged between 71.5 cents in
territory covered by each group. This
tana, Arizo-I I i I

grouping is also logical when the raw rna· na and west·1 I 1 I

Lehigh district, and $1.406 on the Pacific
terials are considered. For instance, the ern Texas) 1 7 1 2124,930:- 4.90: 1.18b
coast, as compared with 72.9 cents and
plants in northeastern Indiana and north· Pacific coastl 1 I I
$1.385 for the same districts in 1910. Tho
ern Kentucky, all of which are near the States (Cali-I' 1
average price for the whole country was
fornia andl 1 I :

Ohio river and all of which use hard lime­ and Wash· 1 i I I
84.4 cents a barrel. The lowest individual
stone, are grouped together. Plants near ington. ., 11 1 7,278,2741+13.98[ 1.406
average price reported ,to the survey was

~ ~.:...,:J 11~J78;528,6~~\±
Chicago, whether in ll11inois or Indiana, are 60 cents per barrel, and many mills sold
grouped together because of their nearly Total 2.58\ ._844
cement as low as 65 to 67 cents, not only
equal freight rates. T·he sDutheastern The Lehigh district of eastern Pennsyl·
in the east but in the middle west.' The
&tates, in which plants use mostly Appa· vania-New Jersey has, with three excep·
highest figure reported was $1.70 per bar­
lachian limestone, are grouped together, tions. shown a steady increase in produc­
rel from a plant in the Rocky mountain dis·
and central Texas is included in the group tion each year from 1890 to the present
trict,
of Great Plains states. Plants between time. The years in which slight decreases
The year opened with the prices on the
Missouri river and Mississippi river in Mis· are recorded are 1893, 1908, and 1911. The
downward grade, and there were only tem­
souri and Iowa are grouped together, and first two decreases were coincident with
porary revivals. Taken as a whole and
 THE

judged by the personal testimony of repre­ 60 feet, 208 kilns; 60 to 90 feet, 149 kilns; reported H) be 30 cents per l'
sentative cement manufacturers from all 100 feet, 84 kilns; 110 feet, 140 kilns; 120 from the United states, and 3S
states east of the Rocky mountains, prices feet, 86 kilns; 125 feet, 163 kilns; 125 to 100 kilograms from all other q
appear to have been very unsatisfactory. 140 feet, 60 kilns; 150 feet or more, 26 kilns. Portland Cement in the PF
Production by States. The gains were all in kilns 100 feet or At present no Portland ceril,
In the following table the Portland ce­ more in length, and these gains more than factured in the Philippine islan
ment production is gIven by states, or by balanced numerically the smaller kilns der&tood that one or two mil:
groups of states where there are less than which were shut down, giving a total of 559 erected if conditions pertaininJ
three producers In a single state. kilns 10(1 feet or more in length in 1911 as terials, fuel, manufacturing, ail!
1910. against 473 kilns in 1910. The 125·foot kiln tion are found favorable. The \
is apparently still the most common length of all kinds of cement (princlp
for modern kilns. From the reports received land) into the Philippines in 1!
it is apparent that the total annual kiln ca­ 933 barrels of 380 pounds, valuC{
pacity of the country in 1911, allowing for as compared with 351,498 barre
Indiana ~ .. .
5 ~

reasonable loss of time for repairs, should $600,758 in 1910. The averal!
Kansas "* •• 11
California ' " 7 have been about 112,500,000 barr~ls, and barrel in 1911 was $1.565 as co
Washington 2 6,385,588 1 8,843,210 that the total production of 78,528,637 bar­ $1.709 in 1910.
Illinois ...... 5 4,459,4501 4119,Gl2 rels represented about 70 per oont of thE! Cement Specification
Missouri " .. 4 ~ 4,4555891 9,858,088 total capaCity. As compared with the esti­ A committee composed of
New Jersey .. 3 4,184,698 1 3,067,265
Michigan ... 12 3,687,71 91 3378,940
mated total kiln capacity in 1910 wlilch was engineers and representative co
New York ..
8 3,296,3501 2,906,551 97,670,000 barrels of Portland cement, the manufacturers, and of the nf
Texas . 4 ( 2,287,44&1 capacity in 1911 increased 14,830.000 bar­ neering SOCieties, has recently :
2,664,846
~ 4 •••

Oklahoma ... 2 \ rels, or far in excess of the actual increase set of specifications for Port1
Iowa. 2

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~ ~

in production. The apparent average out­ to be used by all departments

4 •• •

Kentucky. .. 1 2.010,379\ 1,986,694

West 1 put per kiln in 1911 was about 85,730 bar­ ernment. These specificatiOl
1
Ohio ........ 5 1527,6701 1,279,717 rels, as compared with 84,867· barrels in scribed in the advance chapter J
Alabama .. ,. 2
Georgia ..... 1 I 1 1910. This increase is explained by the resources on cement production

~ 1,481,3591 1,323,495 greater average size of the kilns operated

Tennessee .. 1
Maryland. 1 .. 1 during 1911. According to the mill il'eports
Virginia.
Arizona .....
2
1
~ 1,206,1581 830.218 all but about some 30 of the producing

~
plants in the United states were shut
Colorado .... 2 down part of the time for causes other than
Montana .. 1
Utah. ... '". 3 repairs for periods ranging from two to ten
months. Shutdowns for repairs ranged from.
Total ." .. 111 two to six weeks. The following nine new
1911. plants reported ,their first commercial out·
put in'1911: Golden State Portland Cement
Quantity Co., Oro Grande, Cal.; Piedmont Portland
(Balrel.) Cement Co., Portland, Ga.; Lehigh Portland
Pennsylvania i 25 1 26.864,6791$19 258,253
Cement Co., Mason City, Iowa; Chanute Ce­
Indiana ..... 1 5 : 7,407,830 5,937,241 ment Co., Chanute, Kans.; Tidewater Port­

California .. , 8 1 6,317,7011 8,737,150 land Cement Co., Union Bridge. Md.; MichI­
1~
Kansas ..... 1 4,871,9031 3,725,108 gan Portland Cement Co., Ch~lsea, Mlcb.;
Illinois ...... 1 1 4,582.3411 3,583,301
New Jersey .' 3 1 4411,8901 3,259,528
Knickerbocker Portland Cement Co., Hud­
Missouri .. 4,114,859 3,349,312 son, N. Y.; Clinchfield Portland Cement cor­

Michigan. "J
New York .. .
Ii7 I, 3,686,7161 3,024676
3,314,217, 6,269,194
poration, Kingsport, Tenn.; and tnland
Portland Cement Co., Metaline Falls, 'Wash.

~I
Iowa ........ 1 1,952,9501 1,881.253

Ohio ....... 1 1,451,852 1,228,680

In addition one plant in the Lehigh dlst·rlCL
Washington .. I 960 573\" 1,496,807 whioh was idle in 1910 reported a produc­

Utah ....... 1 3 1 662,849 827,523 tion in 1911. Against these there were six

Texas ...... 1 4 plants idle in 1911 that produced cement' in

1 ( 2,438,4931 2,541,449
Oklahoma . . 1
1910, distributed as follows: One each in
Tennessee . . \
ll\ 1
Arizona and Pennsylvania, two in Michigan,

~
West Virginia 1,9813411 1,590,438
Kentucky.
Virginia .... 1
Maryland. "1
I

2
II
1 f

1,487,7531
1
1,084;315
and two in New York.
portland Cement In Cuba,

There is one Portland cement plant in

Colorado .... 2 I I 1,162,0811 1272,317
Montana. 1 1 \ Cuba, the Almendares, located in tlie west­
Alabama. 2 1 I 782,272 ern outskirts of Habana. Its present maxi­
858,969\
Georgia .. ·1 2 1 \ mum is reported as approximately 288,000
Total:::i115 [--7-8,-52-8-,6-3-7/$66,248,817 barrels of "Vol can" Portland cement. The

present total consumption of Portland ceo

Nine New Plants Begin Operations.

ment in Cuba is approximately 648,000 bar­
In 1911, 115 plants reported a produc­ rels, of which 360,000 barrels are imported.

I
tion 9f Portland cement as compared with Of these imports the Unlted States supplies

111 plants in 1910. The total number of about 74 per cent; Belgium, 14 per 'cent;

rotary kilns in the producing plants was France, 8 per cent; Germany and other

916 as compared with 902 in 1910. These countries, 4 per cent. The ImPorts from

r
(
it
kiliis ranged in length from 40 to 240 feet.
The kiln lengths were as follows: 40 to
France 'are largely of white cement.

The import duty on cement into Cuba Is'


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22 THE SAL T
should be intrusted to private commerCIal
laboratories, such as are in operation in
all the large cities of the United States.
Waterproofing Concrete.
In response to a demand for a way In
which to render cement mortar and concrete
water·tight, a series of tests were carried
on at the Structural Materials Laboratories
of the United States Geological Survey at
St. Louis, Mo. This work has been trans·
ferred to the Bureau of Standards and the
unpublished data delivered to that bureau.
These data, which have recently .been .made
pubHc, have received attention 1ll thIS pa­
per.
Relations of Cement to Alkalis.
Tests of iron ore cements and of various
Portland cements, both in sea-water and in
fresh water, which extended over fifty·two
weeks, were made at the Atlantic City
Structural Materials Laboratories, organized
by the United States Geological Survey,
but recently part of the Bureau of Stand­
ards. These tests are discussed in the chap·
ter on cement.
Publications and Illustrations.
A list Is given in the cement statistics
for 1911 of the principal publications on
cement and concrete materials by the
United States Geological Survey, also by
other government bureaus, state geological
surveys, publications by organizations inter·
ested in the use of concrete, and by maga·
zines publishing articles on cement cover­
ing a wide ·range of special subjects.
The illustrations consist of a map of the
United States showing outlines of commer­
cial districts, with producing Portland ce­
ment plants, and curves showing the pro­
duction of Portland and natural cements,
and the range in cement prices from 1880·
1911.
The report on the cement industry in
1911 is published as an advance chapter
from Mineral Resources 1911, and may be
obtained free by application to the Direc­
tor, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington,
D. C.
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A new consolidation Is proposed for the
Wallace, Idaho, district. The Surprise Min­
ing & MiJIing cOimpany and the Highland
Chief group will be combined under the
name of the Highland-Surprise 'Consolidated
Mining company, with a capitalization ot
$1,200,000. The Surprise group consists of
nine claims on the east fork of Pine creek.
It has a 100-ton concentrator, power plant
and machinery costing about $50,000. The
Highland Chief adjoins and covers the ex·
tension of the Surprise vein for 4,500 feet.
Prospecting in 1,500 feet of this has re­
vealed th'ree ore shoots. Average analysis
is said to be 8 per cent lead, 16 per cent
zinc and .six (mnces of silver. Water and
timber are plentifuL The bQard of directors
Includes AI 'Page, W. W. Papesh, C. W.
'SImmons, W. J. Mcl.ean, and M. J. Sinclair,
all Wardner ·and Kellogg men
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T
THE ROCHER DE BOULE.
British Columbia Property Which is to be
Extensively Developed.
In commenting on the Rocher de Boule
mine near Hazelton, B. C., in which John
F. Cowan and other Salt Laken; are heavi­
ly interested, the Herald, of Hazelton, says:
The Rocher de Boule mines need.no more
boosting. Several of the capitalists (all
mining men) have been on the property.
and they have seen with their own eyes
what heretofore they had" only heard or
read. T,hey are everyone satir;,fied and are
prepared to put up the necessary money
for ,big development.
There wm be no more hand work once
they can get machinery in. which will be
after 'the snow comes. The money voted
by the government for a road has ,been all
spent and the road did not reach the bad
,place. Now Mr. Cowan has a crew of his
own meaJ. cutting out and building a snow
rood. This will be ready. and after the
first fall of the beautiful teams will start
in hauling up the machinery which will
make Rocher de Boule one of the biggest
'Producing mines in the province.
At the pTe!lent time there are fourteen
men at the time,and this force will be reo
tained and kept at work on the 150-foot
aevel, on which they are drifting now. It
was the original intention to put in a. small
tram from the upper lead down to the
gulch and ship ore out this winter, but since
the conference of the large stock holdeJ'lS
it has been decided to abandon that idea
and keep on developing until sprIng. wben
a trRlm wil! be put in from the property
right down to the railway, a distance of
three and a half miles. Ore shipments are
not needed to make the stock valuable, and
the ,big men are pre,pared to wait until they
can ship by the hundred tons per day. and
every day. and at a rate which will add ma­
.terlall'y. to the profits of the mine. . A ,power
pLant will a~30 ,be taken In over the s<now
this winter., and until it is erected work on
the .big tunnel will not be attempted.
The party who accompanied Mr. Cowan
on this tri,p are: J. E. Oppenheimer, E. H.
Wilson and B. Binnard, all of Butte. Mon·
tant. Mrs. Binnard also was one of the party
and came on to Hazelton. She and Mr. Bin­
nard left on the Thursday boat for their
home. The first two returned earlier. and
Mr. Cowan will remain at the mine for
some time to heLp get ready for future
work.
Asked if any mor-e stock would be put
on the market, Mr. Cowan said that no
more would be offered for SQme time, prQb­
ably not until spring. They were satisfied
with the ore that is in 13ight now and that
the more work they do the greater value the
stock will have.
Mr. Binnard stated to the Herald that
be had never seen such fine specimen\!! of
··T .. ijRSJ
30, 1912
ore In any camp as he saw in the brokers'
windows here_ He was mor-e than pleased
with everything he had seen. On Wednes·
day afternoon he and Mr. Cowan went out
to Silver Standard and looked over the
property. They were both amazed at the
immense quantity of ore on the dump which
had ,been taken out of the shaft. Mr. Cowan
said he had never l3een so much high grade.
ore taken from a shaft before. There is
nothing either of these men could say which
would be detrimental to the camp.
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ORE SHIPMENTS FROM PIOCHE.
(Record, Pioche, Nev.)
That Pioche is one of the best mining
camps in the west at the present time Is
evidenced by the or€ shipments being made
from the camp at the present time and
with very ftaterlng prospects that the out·
put will soon be very materially increased.
The Prince Consolidated company leads
with an average output of 300 tons, or six
carloads per day from the mine.
The Mendha company is sending out fifty
tons per day from its property in the High·
land district. while the Day-Bristol com­
pany Is marketing approximately 100 tons
per day from its Bristol and Jack Rabbit
mines. In the near future, there is every
reason to ·believe, this company will be send­
ing regularly s('veral hundred tons daily­
particularly after it shall have completed
the erection of th€ proposed aerial tram·
way connecting the Bristol mines with the
Pioche Pacific railroads at Jack Rabbit. The
Day.Bristol cOimpany has sixty head or
horses on the road constantly hauling or"
to the railroad from the Bristol side.
In addition to the activities of the Day·
Bristol, the Home Run Copper company is
shipping from Its Bristol mine, and notwith.
standing that the Home Run is yet in the
initial stages of production. it is marketing
at least one car per week. Snyder and Em­
pey are also shipping from Bristol and will
have another car in transit early next week.
The Highland Mary mine in the High.
land district is another good producer.
All told, approximately seventy ears of
ore are being sent from Pioche every week,
while Olver 100 cars of tailings per week are
going from Bullionvme and Conder canyon,
making a total of about 200 cars In transit
weekly over the Pioche branch at the pres­
ent ti'me.
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The Mercury company. of California, bas
some very valuable cinnabar mines near
lone, Nye county, Nevada, which produce
about 40,000 pounds of quicksilver pel
month, which nets about $10,000 in spite
of the handicap of a 90-mlle wagon haul.
There are other possible prQducers ill the
vicinity. At present, the largest portion ot
the United production comes from
Texas and
 THE SALT
THE CHIEF CONSOLIDATED.
(Reporter, Eureka, Utah.)
The heavy tonnage of ore which has
Orem & Co.••...•••.•..••••..•••
been billed out from the Chief Cons. mIne
Civil and Mlnlnlll' Enlll'lnee.
during the past few weeks is causing some
Adamson, W. G.....••••..•.••.•.
Arnold, Fisher & Calvert ..•....j
little surprise among the mining men of the
Eurch, Caetanl & Hershey ..... ...
Erown, G. Chester ••••...•.••...•
state, but those who have been keeping
Burke, James J. . ................. .
close tab upon this property have .been ex­
Craig, W. J •••...•.....•••...•.•.
I
Deseret Construction Co. . .•••.•.•
pecting jW3t su{)h a record as this mine is
Fiske, Winthrop W ..........•....
now making. The Chief Con'S. is undoubt·
Galigher, T. W. . •................
General Engineering Co. • ••....•
edly one of the coming bonanzas of Tintic
Howell & Kingsbury ...•......•.
~ and there are several reasons why big things
can be expected of this mine. In the first
Jennings, E. P. • ..•...•.........•
Lee, Murray .....•••••.....•.•...
place the extensive mineral ground which
Pack, Mosher F •... , .... : .••••••..
Peet, IC. A.....•..........•.......
this com.pany owns is undoubtedly traversed
by four distinct ore zones while most of the
Saff'ord, J. L. •..•....•............
other properties of the district are located
Sliver Bros. Engineers & Contract
upon but one zone. Of course,the Chief
Troxell, L. E. • ..••.......•.......
Utah State School of Mines . _.••.
Cons..peo)}le have a large amount or work
Villadsen Eros. . .............••..
ahead of them before these fOllr zones are
prospected., but they are right on the job
Zallnskl, Edward R. . •.••••.....•
all the time and are pushing out In a half
MI.eelJaneou•.
Albany Hotel .......•...•........
a dozen different directions upon almost as
many different levels and while they are do­
Breeden Office Supply Co. . ..•..•
Century Printing Co. . ......... .
Ingbut little talking the fact that the mine
De Bouzek Engraving Co........ .
can be called upon for an output of from
twenty-five to thirty carloads of ore each
week Ia sufficient )}roof that some bIg ore
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. ..
Off'lclal Directory of Mines .••••••
bodies have already been located and that it
Nephi Plaster Co................•
Is not one stope or anyone level for the
Railroad Time Ta.bles ••••••••••••.
present tonnage.
Smith & Adams. Tents ...••.... ;,
It will .perha)}S take years ·to finish the
Shiplers, Commercial Photographe
d.rifts and complete the other work which
Utah Junk.. Co. • .••...•.•.•....•...
Utah Ore Sa.mpllng Co. • ..••••••••.
has been map)}ed out by the management,
United States Smelting Co. . .•....
but from the looks of things the Chief Cons.
Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars .......• '.
bas passed through its period of uncertainty
and is almost ready to take ita place among
the uiviuend payers. When Walter Fitcb
came to Eureka and undertook to put the
Chief Cons. ground upon a .paying ·basis
many peo.ple were of tbe opinion that he
was up against a hard game, hut he had all
kinds of faith in the productiveness of the
Tintic lLmestone and was willing to back up
his judgment with the cold cash. In the
matter of development work he is exception­
ally progressive in hiB methods, always
keeping well ahead with .the prO'Spectlng,
but when it comes to taking down the pro­
fits he is equally as conservative. There
must he about $250,000 in the com.pany's
treasury before Mr. Fitch will consent to a
dividend, but the ·bulk of this money has
already heen secured and the mine should
earn ,the remainder of it within the next
few .months, thus inJ3uring a dividend ·be­
fore the close of the present year.
o mines on Bilk creek, Is now working eigh­
BLACK SAND CARRIES PLATINUM.
(Record, Ely, Nev.)
A. Ferguson and family returned Mon·
day evening from the scene of the plati·
num discoveries near lllipah where :Mr.
Fergu30n has been doIng the assessment
work on his claims near the property of
the Ely National MinIrrg company. Mr.
Ferguson brought with him to Ely samples
LAKE MINING REVIEW, AUGUST
= I N D E X TO ADVERTISER~
Mining Machine..,. anti SuppUe..
Page.
Bogue Supply Co. .......•..•..•........ 9
Denver Fire Clay Co. .................. 4
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. •••.•••.••..• II
Lane Aiill & Machinery Co•...•• ;....... 4
Independent Powder Co. .•...••••....••. 7
Jones & Jacobs. Mill Builders .......... 4
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.. . . . . . . 6
Portland Cement Co., of Utah ............ 43
Richmond. F. C., Machinery Co. ...•.•.. 2
Revere Rubber Co. . •••••••.••••.•. ,.... 5
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. .... 42
Sliver Bros. Iron Works Co. .......•.... 3
Stonehouse, J. W., Mine Signals ........ 8
Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44
Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... 10
Union Portland Cement Co.............. 43
Utah Fuel Co........................... 41
Utah Fire Clay Co. .................... 40
Westinghouse Machine Co. .....••...... 7
Z. C. M. I. •.. ..................... 7
Bankl... Houaea.
Merchants' Bank ...•.•••....••....•...•
McCornlck & Co. •••.••.•••••.•••••••••
National Copper Bank ..•..•.•.••....•••
Walker Bros. . .................•.. 6 and
Utah State National Bank ............
A. .a,.er. and Metallul'5'l.ta.
A. F. Bardwell ••••••••..•.•.....•......
Bird-Cowan •.•.•.•••••....•••..••....•.
Crismon & Nichols .•.••.•.• _•..• _ . . • . . •
Currie, J. W. ...••..•••.......•........
Officer & Co .• R. R. .••••.....•••........
Union Assay Office ••••••..•.. _. • . • . . .•
Utah Department Denver Fire Clay Co...
Westerald, F. H. ••....•.•............•
Rallr..ad..
Oregon Short Line ..••.••••.•....•...•
Salt Lake Route •••••.••••••.•..•..•••
Rio Grande Western ••••••••••••••••••
Mining AU......e,.••
Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewlshon........
Bra.dley, Pischel & Harkness............
Callahan. D. A.. Mining Law Books....
Davis & Davis ••••.•••.•..•..•.....•..•
Higgins, E. V. •............•.•.....•••
Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette .......•...
of the black . sand in which the platinum
is found.
In its natural state, the black sand ap­
pears only as small dark particles mixed
with light colored sand, but on running a
magnet over it, the black particles gather
in ma3ses on the points of the magnet
and are dislodged with some difficulty.
A .process of magnetic se<paration cou:d
no doubt be devised by which the black
sands could he concentrated without the
IUse of water. Mr. Ferguson is satisfied
that the area covered by the black sa;nds
is not le3s than 400 acres and the deposit is
unknown depth.
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THE MORNING STAR.
(Examiner, Telluride,Colo.)
W. R. Vanderveer, who is the resident
manager of the Morning Star group of
teen men and has sufficient capital behind
him to do the development work he wishes
and has planned out. He is at present ex­
tending a long tunnel which will reach the
MagJPie vein., and when this is done he will
have ground sufficient o·pen to make a
good showing for the owner3. He has ex­ is
tended his water pipe line llnd has plenty
of water and a splendid pressure far run~'
ning-h~!,
30,19'12
Mine and Stock Dealer.
Ireland, T. W. . •..................
James, Geo. D. • ............••...
Pulsifer, H. B. ••••.•.•..••.••••.
Roberts, J. C. • ••...••....•••••.•
38
38
38
23
38
Widdicombe & Palmer .•........
Walker, H. C. • •.•••.......•.....
39
39
39
39
39
39
39
39
Hotel Stanford ................. ..
Gardner & Adams ••.•••.••.•...•
39
40
40
New Era Motor Co. _..•..•.......
Salt La.ke Stamp Co. . ••••••••••••..
38
38
Tooele Smelter .................. .
38
38
38
38
build a system of reservoirs to 1
water during the water making ~
will have plenty of power to run I
What work Mr. Vanderveer
is in a conservative manner and wi
of developing the property and ~
on a paying basis as cheaply and
ly as possible.
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A great deal' of interest is bell
locally, in the organization of th
'Gold Mines company, for the reI
Col. D. C. Jackling, of Salt Lake
A. F. Holden, of Cleveland, C
'heavily interested In the enterprili
capitalization of the company, wh~
are located in Alaska, has been 1
750.000 shares of. a par value of1
In a report made by the. gentled
tioned, it is estimated that in t
workings about fifty million tons
in sight that will mill about $1.50 D
a );)rofit of 75 cents a ton. It is t
tion of the company to put in a '
plant and a mill with an initial':
of 6,000 tons daily.
24 THE SAL T
PubIlshed Semi-Monthly by Will C. Higgins and
A. B. Greeson.
P. O. Box 1137 Phone, Wasatch, 2902
Oftlce, Rooms 434-435 Atlas Block, West Second
taquin- if located in some isolated regIon
South Street.
were its rich mineralization but a new dis­
WILL C, HIGGINS ................••.. Editor
covery, would be the scene of the wildest
A.. B. GREESON ........... B."lIn"... Manalter
Sub.crlptlon Rate••
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WHAT ABOUT SANTAQUIN?
In the southern portion of Utah county,
. Utah, the Santaquin mountaiilll, a part
of the great Wasatch range, tower up into
the clouds to a heighth of 10,000 feet, and,
looking west, across the intervening val·
ley, Tintic district, in the Oquirrh range,
is clearly vii;ible. In many ways Santaquin
district is very similar, in the matter of
formation and the character of its ore de­
posits, to Tintic. It has the same kind of
fissuring in the lime, the same kind of de­
posits in the bedding planes, ana much the
same class of ore. Santaquin is, to all in­
tent and purposes, a virgin field; and yet
it has nearly all of the earmarks of a Tin­
tic, a Park City, of another Ophir.
So far as developed, the mines of Santa­
quin di3trict sh'ow possibilities which should
enable it, at no distant day, to take rank
as being one· of the great silver-lead
producing districts of the west. It should
become a:o famous as Tintic in its
ore production, in its dividend-payments.
No one could examine its prospects and its
mine:> without becoming convinced that its
ore deposits are not only large and rich,
but that they are also permanent and go
to the deep. Then, too, every fadllty and
(l~!~:~~:~;.€eXist for mine development and
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operation. A haul of three or four miles
wiil deliver ore to the railroad. Power for
electric lighting and the operation of ma­
chinery is easily obtained, and the valley
below teems with farms and orchards.
Nothing more could ,be desired by the most
conservative mining operator, the most ju­
dicious investor; and yet, Santaquin has
bent neglected for years, and its merits have
never been fully realized or appreciated. San­
be paying dividends for years after the
highgradeproducer has been exhausted and
abandoned. The promotor. however, if he
excitement, of a stampede that would put
hesitates; and, in the end he generally suc­
ceeds in interesting the desired capital, in
developing the mine.• and in giving to the
near the smelters, too near a good market,
and too near .salt Lake to attract any spe­
cial attention; and so it has been neglected
when, without a question of doubt, its mine;;;
will eventually prove to be as big as prof­
itable, and as permanent as any to be
found in the west.
How about Santaquin, anyway?
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THE GRUBSTAKE AND THE PROMOTOR.
Throughout the west many of our great·
est producing and paying mines were dis­
covered by 'prospectors who were out on
a "grubstake." The "grubstake" is generally
furnhhed by men engaged in bus,ines!! In
city or town, or by men who already have
made fortunes in mining, the supplies con­
Sisting or proviSions, tools, powder, tents,
and sometimes burros or horses. By the
terms of the agreement between ·the "grub­
staker" and the prospector, the two are to
'3hare in any valul1lble discoveries that may
be made, the interests held by each being
in accordance with the bargain made be­
tween the two.
Sometimes the prospetcor may be out
for a year or two before he makes a dis­
covery that appeals to him as 'being prom­
ising and possessed of intrinsic merit and
value. Quite often he fails to make a "find"
of any importance. But, if he is sucess­
ful it is up to the "grubstaker" to devise
means for the development of the pros­
pect located in the joint names of the
"grubstaker" and the prospector. It may
be that the "grubstaker" and those who
are associated with him in the enterprise
have sufficient means to go ahead with the
development and equipment of the pr03pect
:without the aid of outside help. More of­
ten. however, assistance is needed, ~d here
is where the promotor comes in . .!"His ser­
vices are enlisted, and he proceeds, at
once, to finance the proposition. If the
discovery borders on the sensational no
difficulty is experienced in getting all the
money necessary to push active work in
the transformation of the prospect into a
producing and paying mine. If, on the other
hand, the prospect consists of what might
be termed a bIg milli~g proposition, a "pros-
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pect which, when developed. can ship ore
of fair average value, and which could pro­
duce an unlimited tonnage of ore which
mu:;;t be milled to prove profitable, some
difficulty -is often encountered, for the av­
erage investor has his thoughts all cen­
tered on what is termed "highgrade," and
it often takes considerable argument to
convince him that it is the "lowgrade" mine
that is the most lasting, and which will
is made of the right kind of stull', never
world another ,bonanza.
The promotor, however, has his troubles
and trials in carrying on his campaign of
money-raising. He may be thoroughly hon­
est and working for the ,best interests of
hi:;; associates and of those who have be­
come interested in the enterprise: By some,
however, he is regarded as a crook. a
"hot-air" merchant, and a candidate for the
penitentiary. He ,is subjected to all kinds
of affronts, insults, . and cold mitts, and
especially so if he experiences difficulty in
interesting inve:;;tors. But, it he is able to
"make good," if the ,prospect grows into a
mine, and if dividends enrich the bank ac­
counts of stockholders in the company that
has been organized, he Is one of the most
popular men in town, and people run after
him, with check-books in hand, in order to
he may have in view.
The "grubstaker" and prospector go hand
In hand with the promotor, and all three
are necessary in the furtherance of the best
intere3ts of ,the great mining industry of
the west. The ,prospector must have finan­
cial assistance in his quest for new discov­
eries. A prospect must be found before
a new producer can be given to the world,
and the promotor must be ,brought into the
combination before any progress can be
made in mine development and equipment.
He is a most important factor in mining op­
erations, and. without him many valuable'
properties would remain undeveloped that.,
otherwise, would make big money for those
having money for investments. He is the
link in the chain that connects the claim­
owner with the financial side of the propo­
sition. He is human, like the rest of us, and
worthy of careful consideration.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA COAL LANDS.
In connection with the leg:i3lation in re­
gard ,to the acquisition of mineral and coal
hlnds, the administration by the Department
of the Interior of the present land laws,
and the general policy of our government
In promoting the development of' the min-·
ing industry, and, more specifically"the treat-
of the of the Alaskan coal
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lands, the poiicy of the provincial govern­
ment of British 'Columbia furnishes an ex­
cellent model, which we might well imi­
tate.
Without again bringing out the disagree­
able features of our own laws, which have
,been the subject of much adverse criti­
cism,. it will suffice to briefly summarize
the, laws or British Columbia as to the
acquisition of coal lands. and the policy
of its government in promoting the devel­
i
~.
opment of its vast resources. In the re­
cent hearing ,before the Committee on Pub­
lic Lands of the United State]; senate on a
" bill "providing a permament supply for the
i'•.
use of the United States navy and other
i· !
governmental purposes, for the leasing of
coal lands in the territory of Alaska and for
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other P'llrposes," Donald Mackensie, of Cor­
dova Bay, Alaska, explained the British
Columbia laws on the dispoaition of coal
t lands. Any person, alien or not, can, by
~ taking out a government license at a cost
ff of $100, take up 640 acres of coal land for
!, one year, with the option of renewal for
I a second and third year on the payment of
an additional license and -the performance
of $50 worth of work yearly. If coal is dis­
covered, the locator can lease for a period
'il of five years at a rental of 15 cents per
,I
acre per year, with the privilege of extend­
ing the lease for three years upon the pay­
ment of $100 in addition. If he doe3 $500
worth of work dUring the life of ,the lease,
or within three months subsequently, he
may obtain a title in fee simply by pay­
ing $20 per acre.
The prospector may thus, on very simple
'terms, hold the property for eleven years,
and any number, up to ten, may eombine
to do the assessment upon 6400 acres on
one claim and' work the group as a whole.
Compare with thL,; the small claims allowed
by the United States government, the neces­
sity of assessment work on each claim, and
the avoidance of all suspicion of the com­
bination of several claims, which is so ne­
cessary in the inherent nature of coal
mining.
CongreS3 has made three feeble attempts
to sell Alaska coal land, ail nulified by the
arbitrary ryles of the Department' of the
Interior, with the familiar result of much
time and money wasted in a legitimate
effort to develop the lands.
Furthermore, the provincial legislature
of British Columbia has passed laws com­
miting itself to spend $40,000,000 for rail­
road building. This policy will brIng the
new coal field,;! of British Columbia into
connection with two transcontinental rail­
ways. by granting subsidies and guarantee­
ing the bonds of the roads, which can
not be operated profitably for some time to
come, and eould not be built without his
aid. Much capital and many immigrant·;;
will ,be brought in to aid the mining and
agricultural development of the Canadian
northwest.
Our government has, on the other hand,
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given to Alaska railroads a right of way
and small amounts of land for Etation sites,
and, in return, taxes them at the rate of
$100 ,per mile yearly.
Why would not government aid to tail­
roads be as productive of good results, to­
day, in the development of Alaska.. a!!> it
was in the early days in the west?
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GOLD IN A WELL.
(View, Kennett,Callf,)
While employed in sinking the well in
the rear of the Commercial hotel to a great­
er depth, Chas. Flasch and E. J. Timmins,
employed on the work, were surprised last
Monday noon, just as they were completing
their work and the last shot had been fired
that was to lower the well to a depth of
twenty-seven feet, that a frozen seam of
quartz in a slate formation. had Ibeen uncov­
ered. Upon examination it was found to
be fairly glued together with gOld. The
seam, while very small, not over a halt
inch In width, Is the richest in native gOld
that has ever b\len uncovered In tillS min­
eral region
Joe Marconi, the owner of the hotel
Is at a loss to know what course to pursue,
with a pOllsnle bonanza almost under his
newly acquired hotel property, and a deed
from Charles Butters, owner and founder
of the greater part of. Kennett stipulated in
deeds to .purchasers the reserve of all min­
eral bearing lodes and veins.
It is thought by many around the hotel
that IMr. Butters, who is a mining man of
world-wide note, and who is at ,present in
Europe, Is cognizant of the hidden treas­
'Ure that lie;; under one of the principal
business block of OUr city.
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MINE SIGNAL SIGNS.
Accidents due to misunderstanding of
signals underground may be guarded against
by using a durable sign, on which the
legibility of the printing will not be de­
stroyed by the severe use of mines. Most
signals are posted on cardboard or cloth,
both of short life, or are painted on wood,
in which case they must be repainted at
short intervals.
In this issue there is advertised a dur­
able mine signal sign, invented by J. W.
Stonehouse, of Victor, Colorado. The code
Is printed in white enamel fused on a steel
sheet, having a dark blue ground. This
sign has been installed in several mines in
Colorado and Arizona, and it is said to
have given great satisfaction,
While the signal codes used in different
states, and in different districts in the same
state, are not uniform. men moving from
one district to another need io have the
new signals plainly exposed, in order tbat
they will not unconsciously give the old
signals, with which they are familiar, with
disastrous results.
30, 19,12
The Prospec~
and His 1.,
(By Will c. Higgln
"You are about as finicky ~
getting your feet wet," said t
to his burro, "and, it yoU get
ture in your ears, it is all up
the rest of the day; which all
that a burro has his limitatil
as anybody else, although ,al
lines from a thoroughbred, '
along through mud and wate]
ously and as full of action aI
a tenderfoot washing out gold
rado river sa.nd-bank. I knl
however, that the recent hea
clOUdbursts have somewhat I
serenity of your mind; the Ii
possess; and that yOU are at
down from the canyon into t
low, using as an excuse fOl
that the mountains are nop:
or beast when the heavens cor
a rush and change the contou
rounding country so that ev
could not find his den again, '
Is left of the wagon roads 01
you argue, that when such COl
a prospector might as well
the Bucket of Blood saloon ~
of the canyon, and spend hi;
for a month or two. rather tha
the elements toss him around
cat playing with a mouse; :
goes to show that your prefer.
and comfort is on a par with
old ,hermit over on Stillwater,
I do not take' your view of tll
whatever; for, if there was
prospecting country, it is ori)
been recently washed by flood
been torn and cut by cloudburs1
the raging torrents have ext
ledges and uncovered blind vel
going to stay right where I
soon as the rainy season is 0'
Ing out into the hills and t
the expectation of 'finding
work of the floods has done
to
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RANSPORT ATION OF MATERIAL
By H. M. ARNOLD
o.g the last few .years much has
ritten and spoken relative to effi·
neofar as the manufacturing end of
ter is concerned, but in very few
II has the transportation of material
about manufacturing plants ra­
the attention its importance de·
!arily, the transportation facilities
I!,t include all the surface and over·
rices used in moving material from
t to another; bu t, in this brief ar·
is purposed to consider only the
movement of material.
I)st instances large manufacturing
'esent a rather difficult transporta·
lem. This is due to the unsymmet·
wth of plants of large proportions
. the fact that in a great majority
the expansion was not anticipated,
For Use In Indu.trial Plants
~d for, in the original conception.
)ffrey Manufacturing Co., of Co­
'hio, is spread out over an area
mately twenty-six acres, and has
cres of floor space. This plant
:es a large and varied line of
.QComotives, electric storage bat·
l, coal mining, elevating and con·
~hinery of all descriptions, struc·
work, etc., etc.
mt the shops of this company a
e of efficiency has obtained for
but the matter of transportation
d finished material did not re­
uate consideration until a few
Up to that time our raw and
Lterial was being transported to
cars in and about our various
departments by means of two­
'arehouse trucks, four-wheeled
industrial cars. Also, part of
y was served by a Jeffrey stor·
, truck, working on a 36'inch
strial track. A careful study
conditions made plain the fact
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that a very materlal saving could be ef·
fected by establishing a more efficient
tr.ans'portatlon system.
After considering the problem from every
angle, It was decided that the Jeffrey stor·
age battery trucks and Industrial cars or·
fered the best and most efficient means of
surface transportation. Accordingly, the in­
dustrial railway was extended to take in
all departments and a systemMic method
of car dispatching established.
,As soon as this system was established,
very rigid instructions were issued that abo
solutely no material was to be transported
by other means than by the storage bat·
tery trucks and industrial cars. It was
immediately found poss;ble to dispense with
the services of a two-horse team, tw<:mty·
€ight two·wheeled warehouse truckS, thir·
teen four·wheeled trucks, ",1ght wheelbar·
rows and eighteen men, whose whole time
had been devoted to this purpose. This
effected an annual ·saving of more than
$600 per month over the cost of the for·
mer system, taking into consideration the
interest and depreciation on the investment,
operating, maintenance, costs, etc. The
monthly tonnage handled is close to 4,000
tons. Viewed from its present efficiency,
it would seem almost an utter impossibility
to go back to the previous or any other
method of transporting material.
These trucks will pay for themselves in
a very short period of time and especially
where the industrial track system is al­
ready installed. The Jeffrey Mfg. Co. would
gladly demonstrate, to interested parties,
further details of the systems We employ
for dispatching our trains, without loss of
time, thus securing the greatest efficiency
from the service of these trucks.
* Supervisor of Power and Maintenance,
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co.
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Advertise in The Mining Review.
30, 19>12
PATTERSON CREEK TUNGSTEN.
(Standard, Leadore, Idaho.)
The trip of U. S. Commi'Ssioner R. W.
Morphey of Junction and Mining Engineer
John Annear, of Colorado, to Patterson, in
the pahsimarai, a few days ago, was not
made for the purpose of bonding, leasing,
or of staking ground lying olpen to location,
,but merely to ascertain for themselves, as
nearly as could be determi.ned, the liltatus
of the tungsten camp. which the gentlemen
found to be well up to the "high water"
mark of representations heretofore made.
The two p,rincipal tungsten properties on the
active list are the "Ima" which is being op­
erated by a leasing company. and the "Inter·
national," by the company owning It, under
the management of Mr. H. E. Sharpe. The
former mentioned property \s largely devel­
oped ahd is in ore in nearly all the divers
workings, the lower tunnel showing a body
of tungsten blocked out, ready for >break­
ing, that In places is sixteen feet wide. At
a very COll!3ervative estimate there are
thousands of tons of concentrating material
in sight, awaiting reduction. The mill in
connection with the property, w·hich, from
reason'S best known to the management, has
been a long time in process of construction,
is nearly completed, and it is expected it
will ,be finished and go into commission
within a month, and following this event
the company will sublease a J)art of their
ground. The plant is of 100 tons' capacity
and is equipped with flat crusher, roug,hing
rolls, fini:3hlng foIls, Jigs and Wilfley tables,
the power to be sllP'Plied from Patterson
creek through a flume 3,000 feet long, to a
Pelton wheeL Present working force of the
"Ima," Is for the greater part on construc­
tion. Leaving Ithe "Ima," Mesl3rs. Mor.phey
and Annear looked over the holdings of
well defined mineralized ground of one of
the o}dest prospectors in the district, Mr.
Sam Carey, the area of which cOOllprises
1,500 by 3,000 feet, Mr. Carey being busy
on development work, on r€>markably good
showings in tungsten. The Carey holdings
lie between the "Ima" and the "Interna­
tional," the latter property being the next
visited. Up the trail went the horses and
riders to an altitude 2,000 feet greater than
that of the "Lma," to the home of the "Inter­
na.tional" where Mr. Sharpe with a small
force ~3 driving a tunnel on the vein which
is now into the mountain 175 feet. with good
tungsten ore coming in. Improvements on
tile "International," which is one of the
"younge;:;t" properties of the camp, are
strictly up to date and reflect the greatest
credit upon the management of Mr. Sharpe.
als() the enterprise of Sir Thomas Keating
of Leadore, Who is largely interested in the
company.
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The Adison Mining company, of Sun­
shine,Colorado, is developing a fine body
of highgrade tellurium ore.
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The following cut Illustrates the G. P.
Keller analytical balance now in use in
various· institutions between Salt Lake City
and the Atlantic coast. This balance, as
well as the famous "Keller Assay Balance,"
is of original deSJign ·by ,Mr. G. P. Keller,
and is manufactured by him in Salt Lake
'City.
For about a generation preCision bal·
ances for assay and .analytical purposes
were made practically without changes in
design or relative fineness until Mr. Keller
converted the assay balance into what is
known as the "Keller type assay balance,"
which is being much imitated iby balance
manufacturers in this country.
In recent years Mr. Keller has devoted
much time to designing an analytical high
grade balance that should not lack any
of the good points embodied in his assay
,balance, and stimulated by an enquiry from
the United States Bureau of Weights and
Measure3 for just such an instrument, con·
tinued the efforts that resulted in ,the "Kel·
ler Analytical Balance." The tests made
with this new ty:pe surpassed all expecta·
tlon; the first one completed was accepted
by the Bureau at Washington, ana there
is not an analYtital balance on the market
its equal for accuracy, speed, convenIence
in manipulation and perfect freedom from
jaring of the ,beam (commonly called "kick·
ing").
The points to be considered on ,the Kel·
ler Analytical Balace are briefly:
1, The beam. is mounted on its I!UP·
port by a new method; each end of center
edge being provided with a screw inserted
vertica,ly, one resting on a V·post;, the
other on a conically apertured post.
This fixes the beam on its support with
absolutely no lost motion and whenever
neceessarycan ,be re·adjusted by the oper·
ator simply 1AIrning one of the screws until
the edge r03umes its parallel position with
its bearings.
2. The release of the beam without any
'kicking" constitutes a saving of time to
the operator, The Keller fiat stone stirrup
balances were the first balances made that
placed hangers on the beam before releas·
ing the same, thereby eliminating all jars
caused ,by the hangers. Stirrups, beam and
hanger supports are operated by one knob
in front.
3. The Keller stirrups are made me­
chanically so accurate as to be completely
interchanable. These interchangeable stir·
rups make possible eight tests on bearing
surface of stirrups and keenness of end
edges, ,to determine frictional resistance.
If bearing stones and end edges are abso­
lutely correct the beam will show no varia·
tions on pointer scale.
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LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T
4. Hangers ,are of a new ty,pe, weighing
about two·thirds less than any other hanger
in use, when sufficiently strong for a load
of SOO grams, adding to the rapidity of
the balance's action.
S. Hanger supports are of a new style,
well 'appreciated by all users of the bal­
ance; will turn 'up against the column when
it is desired to clean the back plate sub·
base and are easily adjusted to keep hang·
ers from swinging.
6. Construction is such that the entire
instrument can be thoroughly cleansed, even
by inexperienced hands, without suffering
the loss, of any adjustment, parts being
easily and quickly removable and as readlv
replaced.
7. The superior methods used in produc·
ing and assembling parts, resulting from
eighteen years experience in designing and
adjusting precision 'balances exclusively, all
of which tend to prolong the life and deli·
cacy of the finished product.
The development of such method~ in·
volves the construction of many special
machines, superceding the old time me·
chanic peculiar to this line, and has brought
the art of balance building to ,the plane of
a profession as intricate in mechanical
methods as those of the modern watch or
typewriter factory. Formerly a 'balance
maker drilled holes into glass with a hand
brace and steel drill, often spending a whole
day on a few holes in one plate, only to
break this before completion of the job;
and ,this not more than twenty years ago.
':'his work is now done with diamond tools
much more accurately. but these tools had
to be evolved for the purpose. Agates
were formerly imported from Europe cut
"close to size," and the metal worked to
match the stones; now agates are cut and
ground at the Keller Mfg. Co. to exact sIze
with diamond tools, to fit places provided
for them and planty of agates are found
at home to make good knife edges and
bearings. Numerous comparisons between
old and modern met!:.;:',}" maybe cited, of
equal moment to the user and the builder
of a tine balance-ultimate excellence,
30, 1912 19
Any old balance is a good balance for
the operator, as long as his is the best he
ever used. The "Keller" is sent on a fifteen
day trial and must be seen to be appre­
ciated.
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WILL OPERATE IN ALASKA.
A speCial from New York to ,the Daily
Tribune, says:
Hayden, Stone & Co. are orgamzlng the
Alaska Gold Mines company with an au­
thorized capital of $7,500,000, divided into
shares of the par value of $10. The com­
pany is being formed to acquire a control·
ling interest in the Alaska Gastineau Min­
ing company, which owns a large low grade
free milling gold deposit near Juneau, AI·
aska.
There will be issued at the present time
614,700 share3, and the company will hold
in its treasury 1,790,000 Alaska Gastineau
Mining company stock, .being about 80 per
cent of the total capital of $12,000,000. There
will be placed in the treasury of the Al­
aska Gastineau company $1,250,000 and in
addition in the treasury of the Alaska Gold
.Mines company the further sum of $3,250,.
000, or a total of $4,500,000.
The balance of the authorized capital
of 750,000 shares of the Ala:ska Gold. Mines
company 'Unissued" amounting to 135,300
shares, will be reserved for the general buSJi­
ness development.
The officers so far decided upon wOl be
Charles Hayden for president and Daniel
C, Jackling for vice·president. in charge of
operations. Albert F. Holden, with the two
officers named and two others, will consti.
tute an executive committee.
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BULLION COALITION MINES.
•
(Special Correspondence.)
Stockton, Utah, Aug. 26.-Totalshipments
for August are: C()Impany ore, 17 cars; leg..'
sees ore, 6 cars; slag from the John Con­
nor lease 20 cars.
Contractor George Ewing is still drift.
ing in the face of the Honerine drain tun­
nel. The showing is good and the work is
entering an area, that has been productive
on the surface.
The Weir raise will hole through on the
600 level some time in September, and will
afford much needed ventilation, as well as
an egress from the deeper workings.
--·---0---­
The Bingham, Utah, mine operators have
adopted a new wage schedule, to take ef­
fect September 1st. Machine men will be
paid $3.25 per shift; helpers, $3. For hand
drillers the wage will be $2.75 to $3, de·
pending on individual efficiency. Timber­
men will receive an increase of twenty-five
cents a shift, as wUl their helpers. Hand
trammers will get $2.75, horse and mule
trammers $3, their helpers $2.75. Nippers
will be paid $2.75.
..
 AUG U S T 3 0, 19 12

years of general business depression, but

MENT INDUSTRY IN 1911
.atistics of cement production in
)lI.red by Ernest F. Burchard, of
i States Geological Survey, show
!e over 1910 of only about a mil·
a half barrels. The increase in
is the smallest recorded within
Jtirteen years, and the fact that
value showed an actual decrease
that trade conditions were not as
'y in 1911 as In 1910.
roduction of All Cements.
tal quanUty of Portland, natural,
part attributed to an over production in
the plants in the Rocky Mountain states
and western Texas are considered In a
,goou;p 'inteirmed1ate ,between the Great
Plains and the Pacific coast. The following
tables summarize the -statistics for 1910 and
1911 for each district with regard to the
number of active plants, the ,total produc­
tion in 1910 and 1911, the percentage of
gain and loss in 1911, and the average price
per barrel.
Production Qf Portland cement in 1911 by
commercial districts:
the decrease in 1911 may perhaps be in large
1910. The production for 1911 was 25,972,­
108, valued at $18,568,670, or 71.5 cents P!l'"
barrel. This ,Production represented a de­
crease in quantity of 343,251 barrels, and
in value of $619,845, as compared with the
production of 1910, an average decrease In
price of 1.4 cents a barrel. There was no
net gain or loss in the number of producing
plants in the Lehigh district, but the start­
ing of new plants in the south and west re­
sulted in lowering once more the Lehigh
district's proportion of the total output or
cement in the United States.
Production of Portland cement in 1910

IPIAnb
I IPB'::'

,Ian cements produced in the

-~~---~-'~-'~~-~~-'------~ ===~=
by commercial district~:

DISTRICT A' P,oduetioo

1911 \ ChADee
1911 Ar"'Age
~<Io'y

----~;;;I~-----T~~~~Tp~:~tn I~iiJ;w.
---~--~-~-~---~.-~--~-~-~-~-------.~-.----­

:ates during 1911, was 79,547,958 <!lve

Barrel, %
alued at $66,705,136. Compared
New Jerseyl 1 '-~I--~I-­
" when the production was 77,­
).frels, valued at $68,752,092, the and east-I
ern p e n n - I I I

I
I
New Jers-ey an'deast:'l--'l~'--~I-~­
ern Pennsylvania1 I I

showed an increase of 1,762,817 sylvania , I \

(Lehigh District}'1 24 126,315,359 $0.729

r 2.27 per cent in quantity, but a (Lehigh 1 I I .

New York ......... i
8 1 3,296,350; .882

of $2,046,956, or 1.48 per cent in District) .. 1 24 125,972,108i- 1. 301$0.715

Ohio and westernl 1 \

Cement-More Than Thirteen

Ohio
western
andl
1
I

New York .. , 7 I 3,314,2171+ .541 .805

I'
1
I

Pennsylvania . . .. 1 9 I 6,072,98711 .776

Michigan and north,) 1 \

eastern Indiana .. 14 1 4,524.5911 .921

Million Tons Produced. Pennsylva-I I \

Kentucky and south- I r

nia . .. ... \ 9 1 6,756,3131 + 11.251 .766

tal production of Portland cement

cited States in 1911 as reported ,to
Michigan andl
northeastern 1 1
\ I
i
I
t!rn Indiana ...... 1 3 I 2,824,8321 .799

Illinois and north-, I 1

western Indiana ·.1 6 I 8,376,4501 .l.I40

,d States Geological Survey, was Indiana. '1 13 1 4,519, 726 1- .11 .827
Southeastern States I I I

barrels. valued at $66.248,817. Ken t u c k y 1 1 1

(Maryland, Virgin-, I

tHy reduced to tons is equivalent and south-I \ I ,

ia, West Virginia, , I

ern Indianal 3 1 2,818,8201- .211 .793

Tennessee, Geor-I I I

s22 long tons, valued at $4.97 per Illinois and I 1 I

1 gia, and Alabama) i 8 1 3,071,0091 .794

compared with the production o. northwest· I 1 1

Iowa and Mlssourl..1 6 '5,722,9711 .916

}ement for 1910, which was 76.549.­ ern Indianal 6 1 8,617,3411+ 2.881 .791
Great Plains Statesl 1 1

Is, valued at $68,205,800 the out­ Southeastern I I i i

(Kansas, Oklaho-I 1 1

States 1 I 1 I
ma, and centrall , I

1911 represents an increase in

(MarYland'l I I I
Texas) ........ -.1 16 1 7,723,2531 .996

of 1978,686 barrels or 2.58 per Virginia, I 1 I

Rocky Mountainl 1 I

a decrease in value of $1.956,9!S3. W. Virglnia,1 I 1 1

States (Colorado,1 I i

er cent. The average price per Tennessee, 1 1 I 1

Uta h, Montana'i 1 1

1911. according to the figures re­ Georgia 1 1 1 1

Arizona, and west- ! 1

and Alaba-I 1 1 1

a
the Survey, was trifle less than ern Texas) ....... , 8 I 2,236561i 1. 288

mal ..... I 11 1 4049,0631+31.851 .793

Pacific Coast Statesl , I

I, as compared with 89.1 cents in Iowa and: 1 1 1

(California and1 1 1

the average price for tbe country Missouri. 1 7 1 6,067,4491+ 6.021 .862
Washington) . . .. 1 9 ! 6,385,5881 1.385

Great Plainsl 1 , ,
I~-I----!-­
,d the value of 135,775 barrels of States (Kan-, 1 1 1

rUand cement which sold at an sas, Okla-I 1 J 1

-'!'.o~~~~~~".:_._.·_I!!~6,54 9Jl51\!()~891
,rice of about $2.50 per barrel. homa andi 1 I 1
Prices of Cement.
:tion by Commercial Districts. ~ e n t r al \ 1 1 1

According to reports made to the United

Texas . ..1 17 1 7,010,3961- 9.231 .834

nited States has been divided into 'Rocky M o u n - I I I

State Geological Survey by the manufac­
bdivisions based on the grouping tain States ! turers the average price of Portland ee­
in direct relation to the trade (Colorado, I '
Utah, Mon-I ,
1

I
ment per barrel by districts in 1911 in bulk
CQvered by each group. This at the mills ranged between 71.5 cents in
tana, Arizo-! 1 I 1

is also logical when the raw ma­ na and west-, 1 1 1

Lehigh district, and $1.406 on the Pacific
e considered. For instance, the ern Texas) 1 7 I 2124,930:- 4.901 1.1lSb
coast. as eompared with 72.9 cents and
northeastern Indiana and north· Pacific coastl , 1 1

ucky, all of which are near the States (Cali-,

fornia and,
1
I
1
1

I
$1.385 for the same districts In 1910. Th",
average price for the whole country was
r and all of which use hard lime­ and Wash-, I 1 1
84.4 cents a barrel. The lowest individual
, grouped together. Plants near ington. .1 11 1 7,278,2741+13.981 1.406
average price reported .to the survey was
11-U5h,5~28,637\+_~:58\
,hether in IlIlinols or Indiana, are 60 cents per barrel, and many mills sold
;ogether because of their nearly Total . . . . .844
cement as low as 65 to 67 cents, not only
~ight rates. The southeastern The ~high district of eastern Pennsyl­
in the east but in the middle west. The
which plants use mostly Appa­ vania-New Jersey has, with three excep·
highest figure reported was $1.70 per bar­
mestone, are grouped together, tions, shown a steady increase in produc­
rel from a plant in the Rocky mountain dis­
al Texas is included in the group tion each year from 1890 to the present
,trict.
Plains states. Plants between time. The years in which slight decreases
The year opened with the prices on the
'iver and Mississippi river in Mis· are recorded are 1893, 1908, and 1911. The
downward grade, and there were Qnly tem­
Iowa are grouped together, and first two decreases were coincident with
porary revivals. Taken as a whole and
 . ~"illony of repre· 60 feet, 208 kilns; 60 to 90 feet, 149 kilns; reported to be 30 cent
~ ~"ment manufacturers from all 100 feet, 84 kilns; 110 feet, 140 kilns; 120 from the United States,
~tes east of the Rocky mountains, prices feet, 86 kilns; 125 feet, 163 kilns; 125 to 100 kilograms from all t
pear to have been very unsatisfactory. 140 feet, 60 kilns; 150 feet or more, 26 kilns. Portland Cement in
Production by States. The gains were all in kilns 100 feet or At present no Portlan
In the following table the Portland ceo more in length, and these gains more than factured in the Philippine
ent production is given by states, or by balanced numerically the smaller kUns derstood that one or tw,
oups of states where there are less than which were shut down, giving a total of 559 erected if conditions pert1
ree producers in a single state. kilns 100 feet or more in length in 1911 as terials, fuel, manufacturin!
1910. against 473 kilns !n 1910. The 125·foot kiln Uon are found favorable. '
is apparently still the most common length of all kInds of cement (pri
i Pt?<iUc, \ Quantity
I for modern kilns. From the reports received
STATE I 101
Ptant~ (Bartel.)
1
1
Value
it is 'apparent that the total annual kiln ca·
land) into the Philippines i
933 barrels of 380 pounds, va
nnsylvania I 25 I 26,6759781$19,551,268 pacity of the country in 1911, allowing for as compared with 351,498 bE
Hana ..... 1\ 5 7,219,199 1 6,487,508 reasonable loss of time for repairs, should
msas ..... 11 I
lifornia "'11 7
1 (
5,655,808 1 5.359,408
6,385,588 1 8,843,210
have been about 112,500,000 barrelS, and
$600,758 in 1910. The ave
barrel in 1911 was $1.565 as
ashington .1 2 1 \ that the total production of 78,528,637 bar· $1.709 In 1910.

inois . .- .... j 5. I 4,459,4501 4119,012 rels represented about 70 per cent of the Cement Speclficati
ssouri .... I 4 1 4,4555891 9,858,088 total capacity. As compared with the esti· A committee composed 0
,w Jersey .. J 3 ! 4,184,698 1 3,067,265 mated total kiln capacity in 1910 wlilch was engineers and representative c
,c h'19an .... ,1 12 3,687,7191 3378,940
w York ...
'xas
I 8
4 1
3,296,3501 2,906,551 97,670,000 barrels of Portland cement, the
capacity in 1911 increased 14,830,000 bar·
manufacturers, and of the L
neering societies, has recently
..... 1

:lahoma ... 1 2 II ( 2,287, 445 1 2,664,846

rels, or far in excess I)f the actual increase set of speCifications for Port
.va . ...... I 2

~
in production. The apparent average out· to be used by all departments
mtucky ... 1 1 2,010,379\ 1,986,694
est Virginial
lio ........ 1 5 1
I 1 1
put per kiln in 1911 was about 85,730 bar·
1527,670 1 1,279,717 rels,as compared with 84,867 barrels In
ernment. These speclfic.atloL
scribed in the advance chapter fl
abama .... 1 2 1 1910. This increase is explained by the resources on cement production
1
orgia ..... 1 1 1 1,323,495 greater average size of the kilns operated
,nnessee . . 1 1 1 1,481,3591 Tests of Cement.
lryland . .. I 1 i 1 during 1911. According to the mill ,reports The importance of testing Ct
rginia . .. ·1 2 1 \
1,206,1581 830.218 all but about some 30 of the producing before using it is generally rece
1
~
izona ..... 1 1 plants In the United States were shut large consumers, but it is enti.
lorado .... 2 1,204, 761 1 1,543,620 down part of the time for causes other than looked by the great majority of j
mtana . . . /
ah . · .... ·1
I 1
811,8001 1,005,960 repairs for periods ranging from two to ten employ cement on a small scale, a:
3 1
1--1 months. Shutdowns for repairs ranged from. ing sIdewalks and small houses, I
Total . .... I 11lf 1 76,549,951i$68,205,800 two to six weeks. The following nine' new cellars, etc. These suggestions l
1911. plants reported the!r first commercial out· fore addressed only to consumers
put in 1911: Golden State Portland Cement never looked into the matter of ha
Co., Oro Grande, Cal.; Piedmont Portland made. A few important reasons
Cement Co., Portland, Ga.; Lehigh Portland are essential are as follows: 0]
nsylvania
ana ..... ,
I 25
5
26,864,6791$19 258,253 Cement Co., Mason City, Iowa; Chanute Ceo
7,407,8301 5,937,241 ment Co., Chanute, Kans.; Tidewater Port·
of the nature of the manufactu
ment from raw materials which l
'ornia • .. 1 8 6,317,701 1 8,737,150 land Cement Co., Union Bridge, Md.; Michl· constant in composition, the resu
las .. ···1 12 4,871,9031 3,725,108 gan Portland Cement Co., Chelsea, Mich.;
is ...... 1 5 4,582,341[ 3,583,301 duct can hardly be expected to be
Jersey .1 3 4411,8901 3,259,528 Knickerbocker Portland Cement Co., Hud· uniform. Manufacturers gener
uri .. 4 4,114,8591 3,349,312 son, N. Y.; Clinchfield Portland Cement cor· precautions to prevent the shipmt
gan . .. 11 3,686,7161 3,024676 poration, Kingsport, Tenn.; and Inland fective ce'rnent, but the tests ma,
fork '," 7 I 3,314,217, 6,269,194 Portland Cement Co., Metaline Falls, WaSh. mill can not always reveal imp
3 1
1,952,950 1 1,881.253
5 1I 1.451,8521 1,228,680 In addition (lne plant in the Lehigh distrIct in manufacture. The properties i
Igton .' 3 ! 9605731 1,496,807 whieh was Idle in 1910 reported a produc· are subject to alteration after Ie
..... ·1 3 662,849 1 827,523 . tion in 1911. Against these there were six mill. Cement that is found slight1
..... ! 4 plants idle in 1911 that produced cement in
na . ·1
ee. ·1 !!
2
2
2,438,493 1 2,541,449

1
1910, distributed as follows: One each in
when tested at the mill may be s
it is not likely to be tested. Ce,

I~
rginial 1 J,9813411 1,590,438 Arizona and Pennsylvania, two in Michigan, is tested by large purchasers at
Y •. ·1 1 and two in New York. and rejected by them may be sold
.. ·1 2 I
I 2 1,487,753
.... / 2 j 1,162,081 1 1272,317
1 1,084,315
I There
Portland Cement In Cuba.
is one Portland cement phlnt in
consumers.
In order best to ascertain the
1 1t Cuba, the Almendares. located in the west· cement shipped, the tests should
:: :1 2 It 1 ern outskirts of Habana. Its present maxi· after the ce'rnent arrives on the .
... ,I 2 1 858,969 1 782,272 mum Is reported as app.roximately 288,000 they should be made with the gre
1---1 I barrels of "Volean" Portland cement. The and only by responsible and tra
:':'l:~_~,528,6371$66,248,817
present total consumption of Portland ce' in laboratories where the instrum
lew Plants Begin Operations, ment in Cuba is approximately 648,000 bar· been properly standardized.
115 plants reported a produc· rels, of which 360,000 barrels are imported. For the purpose of correcting a
tland cement as compared with Of these imports the United States supplies prehensions that may arise it .1
in 1910. The total number of about 74 per cent; Belgium, 14 per cent; stated that the United States t
in the producir..g plants was France, 8 per cent; Germany and other Survey maintains no tesUnp' 1~'
ared with 902 in 1910. These countries, 4 per cent. The Imports from and does n"<
in length from 40 to 240 feet. France are largely of white cement.
 to private commerCIal THE ROCHER DE BOULE.
I are in operation in windows here.
f the United States. British Columbia Property Which is to be
with everything he had seen. VU .. _
1ng Concrete. Extensively Developed.
day afternoon he and Mr. Cowan went OU
demand for a way III to Silver Standard and looked over th
ent mortar and concrete In commenting on the -Rocher de BOUle property. They were both amazed at th
s of tests were carried mine near Hazelton, B. C., in which John immense quantity of ore on the dump whic'
,I Materials Laboratories F, Cowan and other Salt Lakere are heavi­ had ,been taken out of the shaft. Mr. Cowa
;es Geological Survey at ly interested, the Herald, of Hazelton, says: said he had never Iseen so much high grad
lis work has been trans­
The Rocher de Boule mines need.no more ore taken from a shaft before. There i
Jau ot Standards and the
boosting. Several of the capitalists (all nothing either of theose men could say whlc
delivered to that bureau.
mining men) have boon on the 'property, would be detrimental to the camp.
I have recently ·boon made
----10)---­
and they have seen with their own eyes
ived attention in this pa·
what heretofore they had" only heard or ORE SHIPMENTS FROM PIOCHE.
read. They are everyone satlG,fied and are
)f Cement to Alkalis. prepared to put u.p the necessary money
ore cements and of varioull~ for ·big development. (Record, Pioche, Nev.)
,s, both in sea-water and in, That Pioche is one of the best minin
There will be no more hand work on~e camps in the west at the present time I
lich extended over fifty-two they can get machinery in, which will be
lade at the Atlantic City after 'the snow comes, The money voted evidenced by the ore shipments being mad
~rials Laboratories, organized
from the ca:mp at the present time an
by the government for a road has 'been all with very fiatering prospects that the ou
I States Geological Survey, spent and the road did not reach the bad
.art of the Bureau of Stand· ,!}lace. Now Mr, Cowan has a crew of hi'S put will soon be very materially increased.
ests are discussed In the chap· own <IDem cutting out and bullding a snow The Prince Consolidated company lead
t. with an average output of 300 tons, or 5i
road. This will be ready, and after the carloads per day from the mine.
ations and Illustrations. first fall of the beautiful teams will start
given In the cement statistics in hauling up the machinery whic·h will The Mendha company is sending out flft
the principal publications on make Rocher de Boule one of the biggest tons per day from its property in the Higl
concrete materials by the ,producing mines in the ,province. land district, while the Day·Bristol con
.es Geological ;Survey. also by pany is marketing approximately 100 ton
At the p!'et3<'lnt time there are fourteen per day from its Bristol and Jack Rabb
nment bureaus, state geological men at the time, and this force will be reo
blicatlons by organizations inter· tained and kept at work on the 150·foot mines. In the near future, there is ever
e use of concrete, and by maga· level, on which they are drifting now. It reason to ·believe, this company will be sen(
shing articles on cement cover· was the original jntention to put in a small ing regularly s('veral hundred tons daiJy­
range of special subjects. particularly after it shall have complete
tram from the upper lead. down to the the erection of the proposed aerial tran
strations consist of a map of the gulch and ship ore out this winter, ,but since
tes showing outlines of commer· the conference of the large stock holden; way connecting the Bristol mines with th
ts, with producing Portland ceo it has been decided to abandon that idea Pioche Pacific railroads at Jack Rabbit. Tb
;s, and curves showing the pro- and koop on developing until sprIng, when Day-Bristol cdrnpany has sixty head I
Portland and natural cements, a tram will be put in from the J}roperty horses on the road constantly hauling 0
nge in cement prices from 1880· right down to the railway, a distance of to the railroad from the Bristol side.
In addition to the activities of the Jj
three and a half miles. Ore shipments are
)ort on the cement Industry in not needed to make the stock valuable, and Bristol, the Home Run Copper company
Ibllshed as an advance chapter the ,big men are prepared to wait until they shipping from its B.ristol mine, and notw
ral Resources 1911, and may be can ship by the hundred tons .:per day, and standing that the Home Run is yet in
~ee by application to the Dirac- initial stages of production, It is marke
every day, and at a rate which will add ma­
Geological Survey, Washington, ,teriall'y. to the !profits of the mine. A ,power at least one car per week. Snyder and
pey are also shipping from Bristol and
p1ant will akso ,be taken in over the s-now
--~o'--- have another car in transit early next'
this winter.• and until it is erected work on
consolidation is proposed for the the ,big tunnel will not be attempted. The Highland Mary mine in the
laho, district. The Surprise Min· land district is another good produce
The party who accompanied Mr. Cowan
ling company and <the Highland on this trIp are: J, E. Oppenheimer, E. H. All told, approximately seventy c:
.p will be combined under the Wilson and B. Binnard, all of Butte, Mon· ore are being sent from Pioche every
e Highland·Surprise Consolidated tant. Mrs. BinlIlard also was one of the party while over 100 cars of tailings per we
npany, with a capitalization ot and eame on to Hazelton. She and Mr. Bin­ going from B.ullionville and Conder (
The Surprise group consists of nard left on the Thursday boat for their making a total of about 200 cars in
! on the east fork of Pine creek.
weekly over the Pioche branch at tI
hO!IDe. The first two returned earlier, and
OO-ton concentrator, power plant M.r, Cowan will remain at the mine for ent ti'me.
lery costing about $50,000. The some time to heIp get ready for future ---0--­
Jhief adjoins and covers the ex· work. The Mercury company, of Califo
the Surprise vein for 4,500 feet. Asked if any more stock would be put some very valuable cinnabar mi'
~ in 1,500 feet of this has ra­ on the market, Mr. Cowan said that no lone, Nye county, Nevada, whicb
le ore shoots. Average analysis more would be offered for some time, prob­ about 40,000 pounds of quicks
be 8 per cent lead, 16 per cent ably not until spring. They were satisfied month, which nets about $10,00(
Ix ounces of silver. Water and with the ore that is in ,sight now and that of the handicap of a 90-mile WI
plentifuL The board of directors the more work they do the greater value the There are other possible produc
1 'Page, W. W. Papesh, C. W. stock will have, vicinity. At present, the largest
--" M. J. Sinclair, Mr. Blnnard stated to the Herald that the United States production c
"on never seen such fine specimens of Texas and California.
 THE SALT
THE CHIEF CONSOLIDATED.
(Reporter, Eureka, Utah.)
The heavy tonnage of ore which has
Orem & Co. . •.• - •.. - . . . • • . . . . . • . . . . . . . 38
been billed out from the Chief Cons. mIne
Civil and IUlulng Engineers.
during the past few weeks is causing some
Adamson, W. G. • ...••...... _ . . . . . . . . . •
Arnold, Fisher & Calvert ..............
little surprise among the mining men of the
Eurch, Caetani & Hershey .............
Brown, G. Chester .....................
state, but those who have been keeping
Burke, James J. ....••.........••......•
close tab upon this .property have ,been ex­
Craig, W. J. .......................
Deseret Construction Co. • •...•.... :.:::
pecting joot such a record as this mine is
Fiske, Winthrop W . . . . ,................
Galigher, T. W. ........................
now making. The Chief Cons, is undoubt·
General Engineering Co. ••............
ed:ly one of the coming bonanzas of Tintic
Howell & Kingsbury ..................
and there are several reasons why big things
~~e~ae':.?' 6eo:Wi:J: .:::: ::: : :: : :: :: ::: :: ::::
can ,be expected of this mine. In the first
Jennings, E. P. • .•................•.. ,.
Lee, Murray ...•. ,.....................
place the extensive mineral ground which
Pack, Mosher F .•..........••.... ,......
Peet, C. A. .•.............•........•....
this company owns is undoubtedly traversed
by four distinct ore zones while most of the
Safford, J. L. . ....•..••....... , ... , ... ,.
other properties of the di1:ltrict are located
Silver Bros. Engineers & Contractors...
upon but Qne zone. Of course, the Chief
Troxell, L. E ..................... ,.....
Utah State School of Mines ............
Cons. ;people have a large amount or work
Villadsen Eros. ................. ..
ahead of them before these fOln zones are
prospected. but they are right on the job
Zallnskl, Edward R. •...•••......•.....
all the time and are pus.hing out In a half
lIUsceUaueou...
Albany Hotel .. ,............. .........
a dozen different directions upon almost as
Breeden Offi,,>,! Supply Co. . .. ,.........
many different Jevels and while they are do­
Century Printing Co. . ...... , ...... ,..
ing ,but little talking the fact that the mine
De Bouzek Engraving Co. , . . . . . . . ,....
can be called wpon for an output of from
twenty-five to thirty carloads of ore each
week i13sufficient proof that some big ore
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. ........
Official Directory of Mines .....•• _ . . • • •
bodies have already been located and that it
Nephi Plaster Co. ...............
is not one stope or anyone level for the
Railroad Time Tables ........... :::::::
present tonnage.
SmIth & Adams, Tents ........... ,....
It will perhaps take yearS to finish the
Shiplers, Commercial Photographers ..
drifts and complete the other work which
Utah Junk Co. .........••..•......•••..
Utah Ore Sampling Co. .•....•••••..••.•
has been mat>ped out by the management,
United States Smelting Co. . •.... ,.,.,.
but from the looks of things the Chief Cons.
Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars ..............
has passed through its period of uncertainty
and is almost ready to take it3 place among
the dividend payern. When Walter Fitch
came to Eureka and undertook to put the
Chief Cons. ground upon a paying ,basis
many peo.ple were of ,the opinion that he
was up against a hard game, but he had all
kinds of faith in the productiveness of the
Tintic l1mestone and was willing to back up
his judgment with the cold cash. In the
matter of development work he is exception­
ally progressive in hiJ3 methods, always
keeping well ahead with the pr()'f;pecting,
but when it comes to taking down the pro·
fits he is equally as conservative. There
must be about $250,000 in the company's
treasury before Mr. Fitch will consent to a
'tlividend, but the ,bulk of this moneY has
already been secured and the mine should
. earn ,the remainder of it within the next
few .months, thus iru3uring a dividend be·
fore the close of the present year.
~~
BLACK SAND CARRIES PLATINUM.
(Record, Ely, Nev.)
A. Ferguson and family returned Mon­
day evening from the scene of the plati­
num discoveries near Illipah where Mr,
Fergu30n has been doing the assessment
work on his claims near the property of
the Ely National Mining company. Mr.
Ferguson brought with him to Ely samples
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= = I N D E X TO ADVERTISERS
Mlulug MachlneP7 aud Supplle•• Mlae aad StOck Dealer.
Page. Pag"
Bogue Supply Co. •.•..•.•..•••.......•. 9
Denver Fire Clay 'Co. .................. 4
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co_ •••.... _., • . • II
Lane Mill & Machinery Co•• _ . . • . . . . . . • . 4
37
Independent Powder Co............. ,... 7
37
Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .'........ 4
37
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co..... . • . 6
37
Portland Cement Co., of Utah ............ 43
37
Richmond, F. C.• Machinery Co. . ... ,... 2
37
Revere Rubber Co. . ••.•.. _ • • . • • . • . • . • . . I)
37
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. .... 42
38
Silver Bros. Iron Works Co. ............ 3
41
Stonehouse, J. W., Mine Signals ........ 8
lI7
Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44
37
Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... 10
Union Portland Cement Co.............. 4a
28
Utah Fuel Co.••.. _• • . • • • • • . • . • • . • . • • • . . 41
i~
Utah Fire Clay Co. . .... ,.............. 40
37
Westinghouse Machine Co. . ....... ,.... 7
37
Z. C. M. I. ........................ 7
38
Pulsifer, H. B. -....................... 37
Banldng Hou.e•. Roberts, J. C. . .••. - ...... _. . . . . . . . . . . • 37
Merchants' Bank ....................... 38
37
McCornlck & Co. • •....•• _ . . • . . . • • • • . .. 38
37
National Copper Bank .....•.....• ,..... 38
39
Walker Bros. .......... ., ... , .... 6 and 23
37
Utah State National Bank ... '........ at!
27
Widdicombe & Palmer ...•...•. : .• :::: 37
A.....TU. and Metallurg"'.". Walker, H. C. . ....•........ , ...... ,... 38
A. F. Bardwell .••....•....•..... _.... , . 39
31
Bird-Cowan •. _...... .••....•. . .•••..... 39
Crismon & Nichols ••.•.•.••• _..•....•. _ 39
7
Currie, J. W_ ....•.•................•.• 39
Officer & Co., R. R ...••. _ • . . . . . . . . . • • . • . 39
8
Union Assay Office ..••• _...•.....•.•. _ 39
9
Utah Department Denver Fire Clay Co... 39
40
Westerald, F. H. ....•...•............. 39
Hotel Stanford .......••.....•.•....... 38
Railroads. Gardner & Adams •...... ,............. 42
Oregon Short Line ...•••.............• 39
41
Salt Lake Route . _ ..... __ ............. 40
U
Rio Grande Western •.•.••••...•...••• 40
New Era Motor Co. ....................
39
Mlnlac A.ttoraeT•.
48
Salt Lake Stamp Co. ................... 41
Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewlshon .... ,... 38
36
Bradley. Pischel & Harkness............ 38
31
Tooele Smelter .•.•.••.. _. . . . . . • • . . . . .• 44
Callahan, D. A .• Mining Law Books.... 38
39
Davis & Davis •..•.•• _... •...••.. . .• ... 38
U
Higgins, E. V. •..••....•...•.••......• 38
1
Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette ..• ,....... 38
38
of the black sand in which the platinum build a system of reservoirs to ho:a back
is found. water during the water making season he
In its natural state, the black sand ap­ will have plenty of power to run all Winter
pearS only as small dark particles mixed \Vhat work Mr. Vanderveer is doing
with light colored sand, but on running a is in a conservative manner and with a view
magnet over it, the black particies gather of developing the property and putting it
in ma3ses on the points of the magnet on a paying basis as cheaply and as quick­
and are dislodged with some difficulty. ly as possible.
A process of magnetic separation cou:d ---o~---
no doubt be devised by which the black A great deal' of interest is being taken,
sands could be concentrated without the locally, in the organization of the Alaska
use of water. Mr. Ferguson is satisfied 'Gold Mines company, for the reason that
that the area covered by the black sands Col. D. C, Jackling, of Salt Lake City, ana
is not less than 400 acres and the deposit is A. P. Holden, of Cleveland, Ohio, are
unknown depth. heavily interested in the enterprise. The
----0---­ capitalization of the company, whose mines
THE MORNING STAR. are located in Alaska, has been placed at
750,000 shares of a par value of $10 each.
(Examiner, TellUride, Colo.) In a report made by the gentlemen men­
W. R. Vanderveer, who is the resident tioned, it is estimated that in the mine
manager of the }lorning Star group of workings about fifty million tons of ore is
mines on Bilk creek, is now working eigh­ in sight that will mill about $1.50 per ton at
teen men and has sufficient capital behind a profit of 75 cents a ton. It is the inten­
him to do the development work he wishes tion of the company to put in a big mine
and has planned out. He is at present ex­ plant and .a mill with an initial capacity
tending a long tunnel which will reach the of 6,000 tons daily.
Mag)Pie vein, and when this is done he will -~~-,o----
have ground SUfficient open to make a An eight·foot body of highgrade gold ore
good showing for the ownen. He has ex­ is showing in the Hidden Treasure mine
tended his water pipe line and has plenty at Lewiston, Wyoming. The property will
of water and a splendid pressure for run· be equipped with a milling plant In tile
ning his air compressor, and if he can spring,
nwr SrI
it t 17m: rIl rtf

, conservative mining operator. the most ju­
bed Semi-Monthly by Will C. Higgins and
A. B. Greeson.
Box 1137 Phone, Wasatch, 2902
Rooms 434-435 Atlas Block, West Second
South Street.
C. HICJGINS .................... Editor
covery, would be the scene of the wildest
GREESON . .......... BUIIID.,,,. MaDall:er
will deliver ore to the railroad. Power for
electric lighting and the operation of ma­
chinery is easily obtained, and the valley
below teems with farms and orchards.
Nothing more could ,be desired by the most
dicious investor; and yet, Santaquin has
bent neglected for years, and its merits have
never been fully realized or appreciated. San­
taquin- If located in some isolated reg!on
were its rich mineralization but a new dis·
abandoned. The promotor, however, If he
pect which. when developed, can ship ore
of fair average value, and Which could pro­
duce an unlimited tonnage of ore which
muat be milled to prove profitable, some
difficulty <Is often encountered, for the avo
erage investor has his thoughts all cen·
tered on what is termed "hlghgrade," and
it often takes considerable argument to
convln.ce him. that It is the "lowgrade" mine
that is the most lasting, and which will
be paying dividends for years after the
hlghgrade producer has been exhausted and

excitement, of a stampede that would put Is made of the right kind of stuff, never
Sub..,rlptJoll Rat.,•. Goldfield in the shade, and eclipse that of hesitates; and, In tbe end he generally suc·
'ear ............................. ., ... $2.50
onths ................................ 1.50 Tonopah a few years ago. As a matter ceeds in Interesting the desired capital, in
Copy ..................................15
" CountrIes In the Postal Union .... 4.00 of fact, it is too near the railroad, too developing the mine. and In giving to the
Subscription Payable In Advance. near the smelters, too near a good market, world another bonanza.
ered November 29, 1902, at Salt Lake and too near ,Salt Lake to attract any spe­ The promotor, however, has his troubles
Jtah, as second-class matter, under Act cial attention; and so it has been neglected and trials in carrying on his campaign of
tress of March 3, 1899
when, without a question of doubt, its mines montly-raising. He may be thoroughly hon­
ertlslng Rate.: Advertising rates fur­ will eventually prove to ·be as big as prof· est and working for th"ebest Interests of
on application.
itable, and as permanent as any to be hl3' associates and of those who have be­
CODtrlbutor•.
f(}und in the west. come interested In the enterprise.' By some,
Pulsifer. A. L. Sweetser.
Calvert. H. W. McFarren. How about Santaquin, anyway? however, he is regarded as a crook. a
A. Palmer. Maynard Bixby.
1cLaren. B. F. Tibby. 0----­ "hot-air" merchant, and a candidate for the
J. Eliot Johnson. THE GRUBSTAKE AND THE PROMOTOR. penitentiary. He ,is subjected to all kinds
AdvertLll.lac Aceael.... of affronts, 'insults, . and cold mitts, and
rVER Colorado.-The National Advertls­ Throughout the west many of our great­ especially so if he experiences difficulty in
, Quincy Building.
est producing and paying mines were dis­ Interesting investors. But, if he is able to
" YORK.-Frank Presby Co., General
covered by ,prospectors who were out on "make good," if the ,pro.spect grows into a
sIng Agents, 3-7 West 29th Street.

THERN CALIFORNIA.-Hamman's Ad­
g Agency, South Pasadena, Cala.
. FRANCISCO.-W .W. Ross Co., Pub­
Special Representative. 1006 Cal! Bulld­ eity or town, or by men who already have
1 !,'rancisco, CalL
x get in with him .In any kind of a promotion
IY'HAT ABOUT SANTAQUIN?
he southern portion of Utah county.
the ;Santaquin mountains, a part
great Wasatch range, tower up into
Ids to a heighth of 10,000 feet, and,
west, across the intervening val­
ItiC district, in the Oquirrh range,
ly visible. In many ways Santaquin
is very similar, in the matter of
m and the character of its ore de­
to Tintic. It has the same kind of
~ in the lime, the same kind of de­
l the bedding planes, and much the
ass of ore. Santaquin is, to all in­
I purposes, a virgin field; and yet
early all of the earmarks of a Tin­
ark City, of allother Ophir.
.r as developed, -the mines of Santa­
lrict sh'ow possibilities which should
t, at no distant <lay, to take rank
gone . of the great silver-lead
g districts of the west. It should
; a3 famous as Tintic in its
iucHon, in its dividend-payments.
Jould examine its prospects and Its
ithout becoming convinced that its
~Its are not only large and rich,
they are also permanent and go
eep. Then, too, every fac1llty and
nee exist for mine development and
a "grubstake." The "grubstake" is generally
furnished by men engaged in business In
made fortunes in mining, the supplies con­
Sisting or prOVisions, tools, powder, tents,
and sometimes burros or horses. By the
terms of the agreement between the "grub­
staker" and the pr03pector, the two are to
'share in any valua;ble discoveries that may
·be made, the interests held by each being
~n accordance with the bargain made be­
tween -the two.
Sometimes the prospetcor may be out
for a year or two before he makes a dIs­
covery that appeals to him as being prom·
ising and possessed of intrinsic merit and
value. Quite often he fails to make a "find"
of any importance. But, if he is sucess­
ful it is up to the "grubstaker" to devise
means for the development of the pros­
pect located in the joint names of the
","rubstaker" and the prospector. It may
be that the "grubstaker" and those who
are associated with him in the enterprise
have sufficient means to go ahead with the
development and equipment of the pr03pect
without the aid of outside help. More of·
ten, however, assistance is needed, I?d here
Is where the promotor comes in. """'His ser­
vices are enlisted, and he proceeds, at
once, to finance the proposition. If the
discovery borders on the sensational no
difficulty is experienced In getting all the
money necessary to push active work In
the transformation of the prospect into a
producing and paying mine. H, on the other
hand, the prospect consists of what might
be termed a big milling proposition, a pros­
mine, and if dividends enrich the bank ac­
counts of stockholders in the company that
has .been organize<l, he is one of the most
po.pular men in town, and people run after
him, with check-books in hand, in order to
he may have in view.
The "grubstaker" and prospector go hand
in hand with the promotor, and all three
are necessary in the furtherance of the ·best
interests of ,the great mining industry or
the west. The ,prospector must have finan·
clal assistance in his quest for new discov­
eries. A prpspect must be found before
a new producer can he given to -the world,
and the promotor must be .brought Into the
combination before any progre3s can be
made in mine development and equipment.
He is a most iIll,portant factor In mining op­
erations, and. without him many valuable'
properties would remain undeveloped that,
otherwise, would make big money for those
having money for Investments. He is the
link in the chain that connects the claim­
owner with the financial side of the propo­
sition. He is human, like the rest of us, and
worthy of careful considera.tlon.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA COAL LANDS.
In connection with the leghlatlon In re­
gard to the acquisition of mineral and coal
hinds, the administration by the Department
of the Interior of the present land laws,
and the general policy of our government
In promoting the development of' the min-·
ing industry, and, more specificallY,the treat·
ment of the question of the Alaskan coal

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THE SAL T
lands, ·the policy of the provincial gOvern­
ment of British Columbla furnishes an ex­
cellent model, which we might well imi­
tate.
Without again bringing out the disagree­
a.ble features of our own laws, which have
·been the subject of much adverse criti·
cism, it will suffice to briefly summarize
the jaws of British Columbia as to the
acquisition of coal lands, and the policy
of its government in promoting the devel­
opment of its vast resources. In the re­
cent hearing before· the Committee on Pub­
lic Lands of the United State.3 senate on a
bill "providing a permament supply for the
use of the United State!! navy and other
governmental purposes, for the leasing of
coal lands in the territory of Alaska and for
other purposes," Donald Mackensie, of Cor­
dova Bay, Alaska, explained the British
Columbia laws on the dispo:>ition of coal
lands. Any person, alien or not, can, by
taking out a government license at a cost
of $100. take up 640 acres of coal land for
one year, with the option of renewal for
a second and third year on the payment of
an additional license and the performance
of $50 worth of work yearly. If coal is dis­
covered, the locator can lease for a period
of five years at a rental of 15 cents per
acre per year, with the privilege of extend­
ing the lease for three years upon the pay­
ment of $100 in addition. If he doer; $500
worth of work dUring the life of the lease,
or within three months subsequently, he
may obtain a title in fee simply .by pay­
ing $20 per ~cre.
The prospector may thus, on very simple
terms, hold the property for eleven years,
and any number, up to ten, may combine
to do the assessment upon 6400 acres on
one claim and' work the group as a whole.
Compare with thi·s the small claims allowed
by the United States government, the neces­
sity of assessment work on each claim, and
the avoidance of aU suspicion of the com­
bination of several claims, which is so ne­
cessary .in the inherent nature of coal
mining.
Congres3 has made three feeble attempts
to sell Alaska coal land, all nulified by the
arbitrary rl1les of the Department of the
Interior, with the familiar result of much
time and money wasted in a legitimate
effort to develop the lands.
t F"Ilrthermore, the provincial legislature
of British Columbia has passed laws com­
mitlng itself to spend $40,000,000 for rail­
road building. This policy "'ill ,brIng the
new coal field:;; of British Columbia Into
connection with two transcontinental rail­
ways., by granting subsidies and guarantee­
ing the bonds of the roads, which can
not be operated profitably for some time to
come, and could not .be built without his
aid. Much capital and many immlgrant·s
will be brought in to aid the mining and
agricultural development of the Canadian
northwest.
Our government has, on the other hand,
"
L A K E MIN I N G' REV lEW, AUG U S T
given to Alaska railroads a right of way
and small amounts of land for station sites,
and, in return, taxes them at the rate of
$100 .per mile yearly.
Why would not government aid to rail­
roads be as productive of good results, to­
day, in the development of Alaska. al> it
was in the early days in the west?
GOLD IN A WELL.
(View, Kennett, Calif.)
While employed in sinking the well In
the rear of the Commercial hotel to a great­
er depth, Chas. Flasch and E. J. Timmins,
employed on the work, were surprised last
Monday noon, just as they were completing
their work and the last shot had .been fired
,that was to lower the well to a depth of
twenty-seven feet, that a frozen seam of
quartz ,in a slate formation had been uncov­
ered. Upon examination it was found to
be fairly glued together with gold. The
seam, while very small, not over a haH
inch in width, is the richest in native gOld
that has ever b"en uncovered In uus min­
eral region
Joe Marconi, the owner of the hotel
is at a loss to know what course to pursue,
with a pO.3sible bonanza almost under his
newly acquireu hotel iproperty, and a deed
from Charles Butters, owner and founder
of the greater part of Kennett stipulated in
deeds to purchasers the reserve of all min­
eral bearing lodes and veins.
It is thought by many around the hotel
that ,Mr. Butters, who is a mining man of
world-wide note, and who is at .present in
Europe, is cognizant of the hidden treas­
ure that lies under one of the principal
business .block of our city.
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MINE SIGNAL SIGNS.
Accidents due to misunderstanding of
signals underground maybe guarded against
by using a durable sign, on which the
legibility of the printing wi1l not be de­
stroyed by the severe use of mines. Most
signals are posted on cardboard or cloth,
both of short life, or are painted Qn wood,
in which case they must be repainted at
short Intervals.
In this issue there is advertised a dur­
able mine signal sign, invented by J. W.
Stonehouse, of Victor, Colorado. The code
is printed in white enamel fused on a steel
sheet, having a dark blue ground. This
sign has been Installed in several mines in
CQlorado and Arizona, and it is said to
have given great satisfaction.
While the signal codes used in different
states, and in different districts in the same
state, are not uniform, men moving from
one district to another need ,to have the
new signals plainly exposed, In order that
they will not unconsciously give the old
signals, with which they are famiIlar, with
disastrous results.
3 0, 1 9.1 2 25
The Prospector
and His Burro
(By Will C. Higgins.)
"You are about as finicky as a cat about
getting your feet wet," said the prospector
to his burro, "and, If you get a little mois­
ture in your ears, it is all up with you for
the rest of the day; which all goes to show
that a burro has his limitations the same
as anybody else, although along different
lines from a thoroughbred, which travels
along through mud and water as courage­
ously and as full of action and vinegar as
a tenderfoot washing out gold from a Colo­
rado river sand-bank. I know full well,
however, that the recent heavy ra~ns ana
cloudbursts have somewhat disturbed the
serenity of your mind; the little that you
possess; and that you are anxious to get
down from the canyon into the Valley be­
low, using as an excuse for this desire
that the monntains are no place for man
or beast when the heavens come down with
a rush and change the contour of the sur­
rounding country so that even a coyote
could not find his den again, While nothing
Is left of the wagon roads or trails; and.
yon argue, that when such conditions exist
a prospector might as well go down to
the Bucket of Blood saloon at the mouth
of the canyon, and spend his time there
for a month or two. rather thart stay where
the elements toss him around like a tom­
cat playing with a mouse; all of which
goes tc show that your preference for ease
and comfort Is on a par with that of our
old hermit over on Stillwater range But,
I do not take your view of the case, none
whatever; for, if there was ever a good
prospecting country. it is one which has
been recently washed by floods, which has
been torn and cut by cloudbursts and where
the raging torrents have exposed hidden
ledges and uncovered blind veins. So I ant
going to stay right where I am, and as
soon as the rainy season is over I am go­
ing ont into the hills and c<'.nr')ns with
the expectation of finding that ll~e mighty
work of the floods has done more [or me
in the way of bringing to lig'::Jl deposits
of the precious metals than a thousan~
men, with pick and shovel, drill and dyna­
mite, could accomplish in a dozen years;
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THE SALT
A GOOD WORD FOR JARBIDGE.
(Special Correspondence.)
Jarbidge, Nev., Aug. 24.-Jarbidge is
slowly forging ahead and all the work done
adds to the proof of former conclusions in
regard to the great future of the camp. But
it is still -handicapped by lack of outside
money, due, largely, to the effects of the
mismanagement of "would-be" mining men,
and their rank failure of last winter, from
which it will be some tilme yet before the
camp can fully recover itself.
There are a score of good, in fact, extra
good prospects already shown up in the
distri{)t, but prices are too high to encourag{o
capital to take hold. Until some of these
parties let go and give capital a {)hance,
the camp is bound to drag along.
There have been several parties in calli!,
within the past few days who represent
some of the best mining men in the country,
and they have been surprised at the remark­
able showing made in several of the proper­
ties; but, although they seem willing to ne­
gotiate at pretty good figures, they do not
seem to think it possible to consider the
prices at which the properties are helO.
It is to be hoped that a compromise price
may be reached soon, and that these mines
may be worked as they should be, with
capital and experience. Then will Jarbidge
soon be put on the producing list.
So far, only one outside company has
been able to secure a holding here It got in
right and is going ~ead in a quiet, busi­
,nessJike manner to open up a mine. Every
month's work1)n this property is proylng
more satisfactory conditions in the mine,
and more men are being added to the work­
ing force.
During the past season considerable de­
velopment work has been done on a num­
ber of properties here, and the results arE>
beginning to show, quite conclusively, that
there is a great future for the camp. Sever­
al of the workings have proven the or~
bodies to a depth of 100 feet; a rew have
opened them to 200 feet depth. Two have
tested them to 300 feet, and one has gained
a dejlth of over 400 feet. The evidences
from all of these workings gOes to prove
that the ore shoots go down and that the
quantity and the quality of tne ore improves
with depth.
Jarbidge has been so quiet since last
year that tho,se who have visited the camp
this summer have ,been greatly surprised
at the amount of work done, and the great
improvement in the showing OVer that run
a year ago. They came in here expecting to
see a dead camp. and nothing doing; they
find twenty-five men working on one prop­
erty. from six to ten men at work on sev­
eral other poperties, and, withall, some 150
men at work throughout the district. They
visit a dozen properties which have remark­
ably good ore showings, and can take O'lt
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LAKE MINING REVIEW, AUGUST
samples of ore from these properties that
are rich in pure gold. In numerous places
they can see from three to five feet of good
ore; in other places they find five to ten
feet of ore, and are astonished at the P"'''­
nings. In a few places they are surprised
to see ore between walls fifteen feet apart,
and at least one place shows twenty-five
feet of a very fair grade of ore; While, in
another place there is forty-two feet which
shows an average value that will pay t6
'mill.
Bes:des these properties, upon which
considerable development work has been
done-from 300 to 2,000 f~, there are
many more upon which only a small amount
of work has been done; but which have very
fine surface showings and which only await
the money to develop them into possibly
better mines than any yet opened.
Enough work has now been done on the
mines of the distrid to prove, to the most
skeptical, what the veins go down; that
the ore shoot3 are numerous; that the qual­
ity of the ore is better at depth, and that
the values improve as depth is attained.
There are lots of good prospects in the
camp which can be obtain on very reason­
able terms, and prospects that might soon
be developed into good mines.
There was never a better time, in the
history of the camp than the present, tor
investors to secure holdings on a legiti­
mate basis. Accommodations here are good.
The roads into the camp are in excellent
condition; the developed properties ar€ all
open for inspeetion, and there are trails
to almost all parts of the district. Stage
lines rtnl from Deeth, on the south, and
from Rogerson, on the north, each makIng
the rUn in two short days, with good ac·
commodations on the roads. Both trips are
made wholly .by daylight and the scenery
along the route is well worth the journey.
When one gels into camp he can see some
as rough country as can be found anywhere,
and to visit but a part of the properties will
take a week of the most exciting mountaIn
climbing. But the samples that can be
broken out of the veins and the big string
of gold that can be panned out of the ore,
will abundantly satisfy inVestigators, and
send them home enthusiastic boosters for
Old Ja-ha-bich mountains, and a firm be­
liever in the vast wealth of its numerous
gold veins.
OLD TIMIDR.
----01---­
The South Utah Mining company, at
Newhouse, Utah, will soon have it remodel­
ed concentrator in operation. The capacity
has been increased to 1,000 tons a day.
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The Parker Mining company, of Parker,
Idaho, is putting in a new milling plant.
T. R. Jones is general manager for the com·
pany, and Richard Bennetts is mine super­
intendent.
30,1912 27
CAMP-FIRE CHATS
By PAUL VALTlNKE
Different parties having read my article
on radium under "Camp Fire Chats," in the
Salt Lake Mining Review of July 30th, were
interested enough to ask me so many dif­
ferent questions about its actions, price, and
separation, et{)., that I will, in this ar­
ticle, dwell more on these points than on
the question of the possibility of the trans­
mutation of the chemical elements referred
to in my former article.
In 1896 Bequerel discovered that photo­
graphic plates, carefully protected from
light, would show impressions if kept near
uranium compounds. The mineral pitch­
blende (uraninlte) did show this radio-ac­
tivity in a high degree, and Mr. and Mrs.
Curie discovered that after uranium had
been extracted from the mineral the residUe
was still Very radio-active. This led to
further inVestigations, and in 1898 they an­
nounced the dis{)overy of a new element,
which they called radium. One ton of the
above mentioned residues contained about
thirty pounds of barium whiCh, still show­
ing radio-activity, was submited to a series
of further processes until, finally, a few
fractions of a gram of radium-chloride was
obtained. This componnd was over a mil­
lion tUnes more radio-acUv€ than the min­
eral pitchblende. The metal, radium, has
not yet been Isolated. The chloride, bro­
mide, nitrate and hydroxide have been pre­
pared. All these compounds are luminous
in the dark. They also emit heat continuo
ally. Radio-activity can be communicated
to SUbstances placed near them, and, con­
tainers of the compounds become, also, after
some Hme, radio-a{)tive. The rays emitted
from radio-active substances will kill germs,
will destroy the life of seeds, and act (Y@!.
structively on living tissues. Therefore, ex­
periments with the purer compounds neces­
sitate great care. Glass containers of ra­
dium salts turn violet in color; cloth is
gradually destroyed by the rays. Radium­
chloride, or bromide, is valued at about
$80 for the milligram. As some of our best
carnotite-Dres (mined in Colorado and Utah)
yield from one to three milligram of radium­
bromide, per ton, their value becomes ap­
parent. Unhappily so far, the process Of
extraction will amount to about $150 per
ton, and the ores are therefore bought only
on the basis of their vanadium and uranium
contents,
Pure copper does not make good cast­
ings, for on COOling it contracts and doe:.
not fill the moulds.
The metal, aluminum, is never found in
the native state in nature on account or ItS
great affinity for oxygen. In the form of
the oxide (alumina) it makes up about 7.9
per cent of the rocks and minerals. Plants
'tr " 5'
;:; "pm par
~
1m as successful as 1 was, twenty
tjust after a cloudburst in Orizoka
'will feel Uke a retired trust mag­
~em to be interested in the idea
,very following a big stOr'lli," con­
, prospector, "and now that we
c~mp fixed up tor the night, and
,your night-gear en in the sh:JI;e
ning hobbles, .I will tell you of
ence at the time I speak of. 1
I, the mountains, with your granl!.
6king for a lost mine, claimed tl)
discovered by Spaniards before
ry passed into the domination' of
. Rumor had it that the old mine
d near the head of 'Orizoka can-
an overhanging cliff. But, pros­
thfully as I might, I could find no
. 'litho ugh I found ~evE-l'!l1 ;;>ieces
lng float in the little s:ream that
way several hundred feet telow.
.camp under two big pine,; in "
ya half a mile from the cliff,
luite comfortably fixed. I was
Isiderably discouraged, however,
,bout to give up the quest, for
't a cropping or well-defined vein
yon, and so had about decided
.mp In the morning. That night,
, terrible storm came up, and
I it began to ·rain in torrents.
,r and lightning was something
the water came into' my tent
eams that I was soon drenched
. I could not change my ca'mp,
lr it was as black, outside, as
, a thousand-foot tunnel. So I
patience on the back as much
and waited for the storm to
break it did, for all at once it
if the mountain range shook
!d, and the roar that followed
terrific. The explosion of a
mnds of dynamite would have
n comparison; and then, down
as I could plainy see when
~ flashed, there came a wall of
st a hundred feet in height and
feet across, that swept away
,n its path. I could hear the
he rocks, the sullen roar when
~ flood came in contact with
obstacle, and great pines rock­
'ed on the crest of the rushing
traws in a mill-race. It took at
urs for the turmoil to subside,
[l bet your sweet life I was
1t of the path of the great river
,e into existence within a night,
bslded into a little tricking
l. At daybreak I was up and
as as if I had been transported,
;orm, into an entirely different
tlardly an old land-mark was
The whole appearance of the
'been changed, and the tower­
have spoken of had entirely
The canyon had been swept
11m PPWT
,bare of trees, about all vegetation had dis­
appeared, and great excavations gave evi­
dence where the cloudburst had undermined
steep mountain-slides. I kept pretty close
to camp, that day, for the country was wet
and slippery, and cut with deep crevices.
The next day, however, I ventured out, and
had not gone more than a quarter of a mile
,before I found a two-foot vein of rich gold
quartz which had been uncovered by the
rushing waters. I thought this a pretty
good thing, but decided to carry my explora­
tions a little further. By degrees I ap­
proached the region where the cliffs had
stood, and was almost freightened by the
havoc worked at that particular point; for,
instead of precipices, almost unscalable, a
great' pit, covering at least five acres, met
my astonished eyes. Examining this through
my field-glass, I thought I detected chang·
ing formations in its steep banks, and at
once decided to investigate. It took me
two hours, by a circuitous route, to get
into this great excavation, and here a won­
derfulsight confronted me; for, standing
out of the west bank of the cut like an
1. W. W. agitor on a dry-good's box, there
was a great ledge of ore that was all of
100 feet in width, and which extended up­
ward to where the base of the clitf at one
time had hid it from view. At least two
feet of this huge ledge was quartz that was
'fairly bound together by wire gOld. Then
came ten feet of at least $100-ore, while
the balance of the vein carried excellent
milling values. Near the surface a little
stringer of almost pure gold branched out,
and this must have been what the SpanIards
had found, so many years ago, for its di­
rection would have taken it to tl'lepolnt, at
the surface, where the lost mine was sup·
posed to exist; the exisence of which, how­
ever, must have been well hidden by nearly
a century's accumulation of debris and ero­
sion. You may well believe that it did not
take me long to cover this great depOl;lt·
with location notices. For the first two
years that I worked it I took out nearly a
million in the yellow metal, and then I sold
it for a million 'more; and the mine, today,
is one of the greatest lowgrade milling prop­
ositions and one of the most regular divi­
dend payers to be found In the west.
"1 want to tell you,OId Long Ears," con­
cluded the prospector, "a great flood in the
mountains is often a wonderful help to the
prospector. It is hell, while it' lasts; but,
when it is all over with, no better oppor­
tunity exists for making great discoveries;
and there you are, and then some."
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METAL PRODUCTION IN ARIZONA.
Th valUe of the gold, silver, copper, lead
and zinc in Arizona in 1911, according to
V. C. Heikes, of the United States GeologI­
cal Survey was $44,151,223, against $42.­
157223 against $42,731.519 in 1910. This In·
'it-tm'.
crease of $1,425,704 was due to the enlarged
output of every metal except zinc.
The production of gold in Arizona in
1911 was valued at $3,430,503, an increase
of $281,137 over 1910. The output consist·
ed of 104,011.72 ounces from siliceous ore,
51317.93 ounces from copper ore, 6,651.95
ounces from lead ore, 1,143.63 ounces from
placers and small amounts from zinc ore
and mixed ores. Mohave county again led
in gold production, Co~hlse came next, and
Yavapai, which was first for many years~
had a greatly decreased output. ~'rom bul­
lion produced at gold and silver mills 92,­
622.45 fine ounces of gold were recoverea.
Concentrates produced 10,0939.89 ounces.
ane shipped direct to smelters, 60,689,36
ounces.
Output of Silver Increased.
Silver, production of the state In 1911
was valued at $1,736,583, agairtst $1,385925
in 1910. This unusual increase was due
largely to the production of lead ore in
Cochise county. Of the total output 414 981
ounces came from siliceous ore, 2,136,121
ounces from copper ore, and 635 363 ounces .
from lead ore. From bullion at gold and
silver mills 49,162 ounces of silver was re­
covered, from concentrates 388,173 ounces,
and from crude ore shipped to smelters
2,819,873 ounces. Cochise and Yavapai
counties remained the largest producers of
silver. The output of Cochise was 1946.319
ounces and of Yavapai 764,744 ounces.
Leading Copper-ProducinQ State.
Arizona remained the leading copper­
producing state, increasing the production
from 297,491,151 pounds, valued at $37,781,
3.6, in 1910, to 306 141,538 pounds, valued
at $38,267,692, in 1911, a gain of 8,650,­
387 pounds. Increases in Pinal and Gila
counties more than offset a large decrease
In Cochise county.
Lead Production Increases.
The lead output of Arizona in 1911 was
nearly four times as large as that of 1910,
Increasing from 2,696,998 pounds, valued at
$118668, to 10,274,552 pounds,. valued at
$462,355. Cochise and Mohave counties
were the sources of greatest output and in·
crease. The Warren district, In Cochise
county, made a record production.
Decrease in Zinc Output.
The production of zinc in ATizona Wal:>
4,562,984 pounds, valued at $260090, in 1911,
against 5,484,899 pounds, valued at $296,184
in 1910. Cochise, Sarita Cruz, and Yavapai
oounties made small production>, but Mo­
have county turned out most of the zinc
product.
There were 397 mines producing gold,
silver, copper, lead. or zinc, in Arizona in
1911, against 373 in 1910. The total quan.
tity of ore sold or treated in 1911 was 4,567.­
139 tons, of which 1727,451 tons was
shipped to smelters without treatment and
2,624,037 tons was concentrated. Over 90
per cent of the total was copper ore.
 does not even show a trace oCtt. Tills
affinity of aluminum 'has been utilized
the metals from different oxlaes.
, nickel, chromium and tungsten oxides
be reduced by means of powdered alu­
am In the following way:
rhe latter, mixed with the oxide to be
!Ced, and then ignited by means of a
of magnesium ribbon, will unite with
oxygen of the oxide to b€ reduced and
w the metal down.
feet in width, carrying $30 to $40. per ton
7he reaction, once started, continues
in gold.
I great evolution of heat. If ferric ox­
is r€ d ucld in this way over 3,0.0.0. degroos
,eat are attained, sufficient to m€1t the
and the resulting alumina. The same ~
less is used to a great advantage to weld
in. place. If, for illustration, two ends
:ar rail must be welded together, the
s to be welded are placed tightly to·
er, after which they are surorunded with
aste consisting of a mixture of iron.
e and powdered aluminum. After igni·
. reaction takes place, and the evolvea
is sufficient to weld the Iron securely.
y metallic sulphides, when heated wl+:'1
li'lUlll powder, may simil'lrly be reducea
If" a!, aluminum-sulphide he:ug formed.
:Lver-chloride {hornsilvecl is Insolub'e
itc1c acid, unlike the other minerals f'f
:r, but it will readily dissolve in am·
ia water. It Is thereby easily (listing'
ed from the lead-chloride which is not
ble in ammonia. A. good field test for
-silver is the following. Moisten the
rub it on a zinc·surface; if pure, horn·
,r. Spongy metallic silver will become
,Ie.
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CONSTRUCTION NEWS.
'he Northwestern Light & Power com·
, of Sumpter, Oregon, whose plant was
:oyed by fire on the 11th inst., will ra-
I at once.
. A. Burg, postmaste'r at Livingston,
tana, has advertised for bids for the
truction of a tW'o-story postoffice build­
at that place. Bidfl to be in by Sep-
Jer 18.
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he SilVer City Mining & Milling com·
" operating in Owyhee county, Idaho,
h has had to close its properties fol'
l weeks, due to damage from lightning,
cts to resume September 1st. Devel­
mts includes a 1,175·foot adit, which is
cted to cut the Crown Point vein in an­
i 20.0. feet. On the Nugget vein, a drift
the adit taps the mineralized zone at
pth of 250. to 30.0.· feet. The vein is four
wide, with a 7-inch quartz stringer car­
~ good gold and silver values. This
should encounter, in the next fifty feet.
rery rich shoot. which extends to
aurface.
it fl
II In
._
Adjoining States
ARIZONA.
Prescott C(}urier: A miner who had been
working at the Climax came to town, 'Ved·
nesday. and reported that a big strike of
ore was made in that mine a few days ago.
Th€ ore is reported to be from four to five
operating the Trail lode in Russel gulch, Is
outputting $70..0.0. ore. Dev€ l opment work is
CliftQn Copper Era: Geo. Fraser, ·,mper·
Intendent of the A. C. Co. smelters, returned
Friday evening from I)(mglas, where .he
went to make an inspection of the method
of lining converters with BeS,3€mer bricF.i
This is a new idea in lining converters and
is said to be superior in every way to th€
old method. An experiment will sllOrtly
be made on one converter at the A. C. plant.
Bisbee Review: It is understood that
arrangem€ n ts are (practically completed for
the resumption of work in the Burros by
the Mangas D€ v elopment company. There
can b€ little doubt but that the building
of a railroad into the district, as s€ e ms
likelY to occur now, will result in very gen·
eral -activity In the many l}romising prop­
erties at present undergoing development.
Clifton Copper Era: The Miami mine
established a record production of 3,,0.21,710.
pounds of copper for the month of July,
which was 253,173 pounds in excess of its
best previous outl}ut, the June production
of 2,824,537 Ipounds. Since the first of the
year the -company has produced 18,664.225
I>Qunds of copper and since it started pro·
duction In March, 191.1, its output has to­
taled 33,713.,0.14 pounds.
Kingman ,Miner; A rumor is afioat in
Kingman that the Bi-Metal mines, three
miles south of Kingman, are to be taken
over by a big corporation and that a great
plant is to be erected on it. The vein is
one of the ,greatest in the United States,
having a width of seven hundred feet, every
foot of which is said to carry above three
dollars gold 1.0 the ton. It could readily be
mined and milled for $1.50. per ton, leaving
a neat .balance of \profit.
Florence Blade-Tribune. Bert W"~lliams
has decided to make his home in Florence,
and give attention to, his mining claims
situated In the Red Hills district, 12 miles
east of here. Bert and ,his partn€r" Juan
De Armitt, have several claims from which
they can extract shipping ore and they
will take out a carload of their high·grade
copper ore at once, and ship to El Paso.
But when the Hayden smelter is ready to
buy custom ore they will ship to that plant.
Tombstone Prospector: The old Pea­
body mine, which is among the most fam·
ous of the old producers in Arizona, hav·
ing yielded $2,225,0.0.0. previous to its clos­
ing some years ago, has beeh opened up
again for operations in the Johnson district
by Tom Johnson, and he is shipping over
30.0. tons per month from the ,property. The
ore is high grade copper carbonate run·
ning 11, 12 and 13 per cent copper. The
first copper smelter ever used in Arizona
was operated at this mine in the early days.
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COLORADO.
Central City Observer: Thos.Hughes,
progressing on both the 125 and 180-foot
levels, with the idea of opening a new shoot
in virgin ground. Wlith this accomplished, .
a large reserve tonnage will be blocked out
that can be stoped to surface.
Cortez Herald: Tbe new tunnel on the
Oopper Hill at La Plata has cut a fine
sb:owing of copper. The new tunnel is
some three hundred feet lower !lown and
a couple of hundred feet east of the low­
est working3, and was started !tbout mid­
way ,between the Copper Hill and Elmeralda
veins, designing one entrance for the two
workings.
Central City Observer. Manager B. T,
Lloyd has returned from his western trip
and is arranging to do a lot of work on
the Buckley mine in the way of necessary
development. With the tonnage now in
sight, his company figures on erecting a
mill for the treatment of the ore. This
mill will bebuUt on new lines that have
proven very satisfactory on similar ores in
Utah.
Georgetown -Courier: A rich body of ore
was encountered lately in the Tom Payne
mine on Covode mountain, above North
Empire, which gives promi'3e of deVeloping
into a heavy producer. The ore body meas·
ures only .a few inches in width at the pres­
ent time, but from all appearances It will
Undoubtedly widen into a large body and
assay tests show it to be worth in the
neighborhood of $40.0. to the ton.
Georgetown -Correspondent Idaho
Springs Gazette: The Indian vein that was
recently intersected 'by the 'Big Indian cross­
cut tunnel at a distance of 40.0 foot from
the portal 13 in mineral values, In the bot·
tom of the south drift a six-inch streak of
copper is .showing that shows assay mlues
running as high as $20.0. a ton in gold and
silver. It is proposed to € x tend this drift
until the heading cut under the shaft sunk
from surface when a raise will be put
through to connect with the level above.
Georg€ t own Correspondence, Idaho,
Springs Gazette: Farragher & Co. leaSing
abOVe the tunnel level on the Gambetta
vein. will start a two carload shipment of
zinc ore some time during the coming week.
The product will be sent to the Lin or Min·
eral Chief mill for the separation of the
lead and zinc. after which it will be con·
signed to D€ n ver, where it will be sold to
26 THE SAL T
and, if I am as successful as I was, twenty
years ago, just after a cloudburst in Orizoka
canyon, I will feel like a retired trust mag­
nate_
"You seem to be interested in the idea
of a discovery following a big storm," con­
till.INl the prospector, "and now that we
haye the c~mp fixed up WI' the night, and
Y1U have your night-gear en in the shuj,e
of restraining hobbles, I will tell you of
my experience at the time I speak ot 1
was out in the mountains, with your grand.
mother, looking for a lost mine, claimed to
have been discovered by Spaniards before
this country passed into the domination of
UncIe Sa:m_ Rumor had it that the old minll
was located near the head of Orizoka can­
yon, under an overhanging cliff. But, pros­
pect as faithfully as I might, I eould find no
trace of it, '1 1though I found "evE-l9.1 ;Jieces
of fin13·lo;,king float in the little g-.ream that
wounC its way several hundrefl feet below.
J :1:Hl my camp nnder two big pine.; in .1
little arroya half a mile from the cliff,
and was quite comfortably fixed. I was
getting considerably discouraged, however,
and was about to give up the quest, for
there wasn't a cropping or well-defined vein
in the canyon, and so had about decided
to break camp in the morning. That night,
however, a terrible storm came up, and
pretty soon it began to ,rain In torrents_
The thunder and lightning was something
awful, and the water carne into my tent
in such streams that I was soon drenched
to the skin. I could not change my ca'mp,
however, for it was as black, outside, as
the face of a thousand-foot tunnel. So 1
patted my patience on the back as much
as pOSSible, and waited for the storm to
break; and break it did, for all at once it
seemed as jf the mountain range shook
and trembled, and the roar that followed
was simply terrific. The explosion of a
thousand pounds of dynamite would have
been mlld in comparison; and then, down
the canyon, as I could plainy see when
the lightning flashed, there came a wall of
water at least a hundred feet in height and
a thousand feet across, that swept away
everything in its path. I could hear the
rending of the rocks, the sullen roar when
the irristible flood came in contact with
a formIdable obstacle, and great pines rock­
ed and swayed on the crest of the rushing
waters like straws in a mill-race. It took at
least two hours for the turmoil to Bubside,
and you can bet your sweet life I was
glad I was out of the path of the great river
that had came into existence within a night,
and then subsIded into a little tricking
stream again. At daybreak I was up and
around. It was as if I had been transported,
during the storm, into an entirely difl'erent
region, for hardly an old land-mark was
to be seen. The whole appearance of the
country had been changed, and the tower­
ing cliffs I have spoken of had entirely
disappeared. The canyon had been swept
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T
bare of trees, about all vegetation had dis­
appeared, and great excavations gave evi­
dence where the cloudburst had undermined
steep mountain-slides. I kept pretty close
to camp, that day, for the country was wet
and slippery, and cut with deep crevices.
The next day, however, I ventured out, and
had not gone more than a quarter or a mile
before I found a two-foot vein of rich gold
quartz whIch had been uncovered by the
rushing waters. I thought this a pretty
good thing, but decided to carry my explora­
tions a little further. By degrees I ap­
proached the region where the cliffs had
stood, and was almost frelghtened by the
havoc worked at that particular point; ror,
instead of precipices, almost unscalable, a
great pit, covering at least five acres, met
my astonished eyes. Examining this through
my field-glass, I thought I detected chang­
ing formations in its steep banks, and at
once decided to investigate. It took me
two hours, by a circuitous route, to get
into this great excavation, and here a won­
derful sight confronted me; for, standing
out of the west bank of the cut like an
I. W. W. agitor on a dry-good's box, there
was a great ledge of ore that was all of
100 feet in width, and whiCh extended up­
ward to where the base of the cllll' at one
time had hid it from view. At least two
feet of this huge ledge was quartz that was
'fairly bound together by wire gold_ Then
came ten feet of at least $tOO-ore, while
the balance of thc vein carried excellent
milling values. Near the surface a little
stringer of almost pure gold branched out,
and thIs must have been what the Spaniards
had found, so many years ago, for its di­
rection would have taken it to the pOint, at
the surface, where the lost mine was sup­
posed to exist; the exlsence of which, how­
ever, must have been well hidden by nearly
a century's accumulation of debris and ero­
sion. You may well believe that it did not
take me long to cover this great dep0l51t
with location notices. For the first two
years that I worked it I took out nearly a
million in the yellow metal, and then I sold
it for a million 'more; and the mine, today,
is one of the greatest lowgrade milling prop­
ositions and one of the most regular divi­
dend payers to be found in the west.
"I want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con­
cluded the prospector, "a great flood in the
mountains is often a wonderful help to the
prospector. It is hell, while it' lasts; but,
when it is all over with, no better oppor­
tunity exists for making great discoveries;
and there you are, and then some."
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METAL PRODUCTION IN ARIZONA.
Th valUe of the gold, silver, copper, lead
and zinc in Arizona in 1911, according to
V. C. Heikes, of the United States Geologi­
cal Survey was $44,157,223, against $42,­
157223 against $42,731,519 in 1910. This tn­
30, 1912
crease of $1,425,704 was due to the enlarged
output of every metal except zinc,
The production of gold in Arizona In
1911 was valued at $3,430503, an increase
of $281,137 over 1910. The output consist.
ed of 104,011.72 ounces from siliceous ore,
51 377.93 ounces from copper ore, 6,651.95
ounces from lead ore, 1,143.63 ounces from
placers and small amounts from zinc ore
and mixed ores. Mohave county again led
in gold production, Cochise came next, and
Yavapai, which was first for many years,
had a greatly decreased output. From bul­
lion produced at gold and silver mills 92,­
622.45 fine ounces of gold were recovered.
Concentrates produced 10,0939.89 ounces,
ane shipped direct to smelters. 60,689.36
ounces.
Output of Silver Increased.
Silver production of the state in 1911
was valued at $1,736,583, against $1,385925
in 1910. This unusual increase was due
largely to the production of lead ore in
Cochise county. Of the total output 414 981
ounces carne from siliceous ore, 2,136,121
ounces from copper ore, and 635 363 ounces
from lead ore. From bullion at gold and
silver mills 49,162 ounces of silver was re­
covered, from concentrates 388,173 ounces,
and from crude ore shipped to smelters
2,819,873 ounces, Cochise and Yavapa\
counties remained th~ largest producers of
silver. The output 'of Cochise was 1946.319
ounces and of Yavapai 764,744 ounces.
Leading Copper.Producin,g State.
Arizona remained the leading copper·
producing state, increasing the production
from 297,491,151 pounds, valued at $37,781,
3.6, in 1910, to 306141,538 pounds, valued
at $38,267,692, in 1911, a gain of 8,650,
387 pounds. Increases in Pinal and 'Gila
counties more than ofl'set a large decrease
in Cochise county.
Lead Production Increases.
The lead output of Arizona in 1911 was
nearly four times as large as that of 1910,
increasing from 2,696,998 pounds, valued at
$118.668, to 10,274,552 pounds,. valued at
$462,355. Cochise and Mohave counties
were the sources of greatest output and in­
crease_ The Warren district, in Cochise
county, -made a record production.
Decrease in Zinc Output,
The production of zinc In Arizona wali
4,562,984 pounds, valued at $260090, In 1911,
against 5,484.899 pounds, valued at $296,184
in 1910. Cochise, SaIita Cruz, and Yavapai
counties made small production., but Mo­
have county turned out most of the zinc
product.
There were 397 mines producing gold,
silver, copper, lead, or zinc, in Arizona in
1911, against 373 in 1910. The total quan.
tity of ore sold or treated in 1911 was 4,567,­
139 tons, of which 1727,451 tons was
shipped to smelters without treatment and
2,624,037 tons was concentrated. Over 90
per cent of the total was copper ore.
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A GOOD WORD FOR JARBIDGE.
(Special Correspondence.)
Jarbidge, Nev., Aug. 24.-Jarbidge is
slowly forging ahead and all the work done
adds to the proof of former conclusions in
regard to the great .future of the camp. But
it is still handicapped by lack of outside
money, due, largely, to the effects of. the
mismanagement of "would·be" mining men,
and their rank failure of last winter, from
which it will be some ti'Ille yet before the
camp can fully recover itself.
There are a score of good, in fact, extra
good prospects already shown up In the
district, but prices are too high to encourag6
capital to take hold. Until some of these
parties let go and give capital a chance,
the camp is bound to drag along.
There have been several parties in calltp
within the past few days who represent
some of the best mining men in the country,
and they have been surprised at the remark­
able showing made in several of the proper­
ties; but, although they seem willing to ne­
gotiate at pretty good figures, they do not
seem to think it possible to consider the
prices at which the properties are helo.
It is to be hoped that a compromise price
may be reached soon, and that these mines
may be worked as they should be, with
capital and experience. Then will Jarbidge
soon be put on the producing list.
So far, only one outside company has
been able to secure a holding here It got in
right and is going ahead in a quiet, busi·
nesslike manner to open up a mine. Every
month's work on this property is provln3
more satisfactory conditions in the mine,
and more men are being added to the work·
ing force.
During the past season considerable de­
velopment work has been done on a num­
ber of properties here, and the results art.
beginning to show, quite conclusively, that
there is a great future for the camp. Sever·
al of the workings have proven the ..or1!l
bodies to a depth of 100 feet; a rew have
opened them to 200 feet depth. Two have
tested them to 300 feet, and one has gained
a depth of over 400 feet. The evidences
from all of these workings goes to prove
that the ore shoots go down and that the
quantity and the quality of tne ore improves
with depth.
Jarbidge has been so quiet since last
year that those who have visited the camp
this summer have ,been greatly surprised
at the amount of work done, and the great
improvement in the showing over that run
a year ago. They came in here expecting to
see a dead camp, and nothing doing; they
find twenty-five men working on one prop·
erty, from six to ten men at work on sev­
eral other poperties, and, wUhall, some 150
men at work throughout the district. They
visit a dozen properties which have remark·
ably good 0!)El showings, and can take out
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 30, 1912
sampies of ore from these properties that
are rich in pure gold. In numerous places
they can see from three to five feet of good CAMP-FIRE CHA!
By PAUL VALTINKE
ore; in other places they find five to ten
feet of ore, and are astonished at the pll..­
nings. In a few places they are surprised Different parties having read m~
to see ore between walls fifteen feet apart, on radium under "Camp Fire Chats;'
and at least one place shows twenty·five Salt Lake Mining ReView of July 30f
feet of a very fair grade of ore; while, ill:interested enough to ask me so ma
another place there is forty·two feet which ferent questions about Its actions, pri
shows an average value that will pay t6 separation, etc., that I will, in t
mill. ticle, dwell more on these points t:
Bes:des these properties, upon whicll the question of the possibility of thE
considerable development work has been mutation of the chemical elements r
done-from 300 to 2,000 fe¢, there are to in 'my former article.
many more upon which only a small amount In 1896 Bequerel discovered that
of work has been done; but which have very graphic plates, carefully protected
fine surface showings and which only await light, would show impressions if kel
the money to develop them into possibly uranium compounds. The mineral
better mines than any yet opened. blende (uranlnite) did show this fI
Enough work has now been done on the tivity in a high degree, and Mr. an
mines of the district to prove, to the most Curie discovered that after uraniu:
skeptical, what the veins go down; that been extracted from the mineral the 1
the ore shoota are numerous; that the qual· was still very ra.dIo·active. This _.
ity of the ore is better at depth, and thatfurther investigations, and In 1898 tt
the values Improve as depth Is attained. nounced the discovery of a newel
'fhere are lots of good prospects in thewhich they called radium. One ton
camp which can be obtain on very reason­ above mentioned residues contained
able terms, and prospects that might soon thirty pounds of barIum which, still
• be developed Into good mines. Ing radio-activity, was submited to a
There was never a better time in the of further processes until, finally,
history of the camp than the present, lor fractions of a gram of radium-chlori'c
investors to secure holdings on a legiti­ obtained. This compound WlIlS over
mate basis. Accommodations here are good. lion times more radio·active than th
The roads into the camp are in excellent eral pitchblende. The metal, radiul:
condition; the developed properties are all not yet been isolated. The chloridE
open for inspection, and there are trans mide, nitrate and hydroxide have beE
to almost all parts of the district. Stage pared. All these compounds are lUI
lines rUb from Deeth, on the south, and in the dark. They also emit heat C(
from Rogerson, on the north, each making ally. Radio-activity can be commun
the run in two short days, with good ac· to substances placed near them, an.
commodations on the roads. Both trips are talners of the compounds become, also
made wholly by daylight and the scenery some time, radio-active. The rays e:
along the route is well worth the journey. from radio-active substances will kill I
When one gels into ca'Illp he can see some will destroy the life of seeds, and a
as rough country as can be found anYWhere, structively on living tissues. Thereto:
periments with the purer compounds
and to visit but a part of the properties will
take a week of the most exciting mountain sltate great care. Glass containers:
climbing. But the samples that can be dium salts turn violet in color; ch
broken out of the veins and the big string gradually destroyed by the rays. 1U
of gold that can be panned out of the ore, chloride, or bromide, is valued at
will abundantly satisfy inVestigators, and $80 for the milligram. As some of on
send them home enthusiastic boosters for carnotite.ores (mined in Colorado and'
Old Ja-ha-bich mountains, and a firm be­ yield from one to three milligram of ra
liever in the vast wealth of its numerous brQlmlde,per ton, their value becom)
gold veins. parent. Unhappily so far, tpe procE
OLD TIMER. extraction will amount to about $15
------~o------- ton, and the ores are therefore boughJ
The South Utah Mining company, at on the basis of their vanadium and un
Newhouse, Utah, will soon have it remodel­ contents.
ed concentrator in operation. The capacity Pure copper does not make good!
has been increased to 1.000 tons a day. Ings, for on cooling it contracts and
----~o------- not fill the moulds.
The Parker Mining company, of Parker, '. The metal, aluminum, is never
Idaho, is putting In a new milling plant. the native state in nature on acc~Olint:,i
T. R. Jones is general manager for the com· great affinity for oxygen. In
Richard Bennetts Is mine super- the oxide (alumina) if makes
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contain very little of it, while the human
body does not even show a trace or It. ThIs
great affinity of aluminum has been utilized
by Tom Johnson, and he is shipping over
to prepare the metals from different oxlaes.
Iron, nickel, chromium and tungsten,oxides
can be reduced by means of powdered alu·
minum in the following way:
The latter, mixed with the oxide to be
reduced, and then ignited by means of a
fuse of magnesium ribbon, will unite with
the oxygen of the oxide to be reduced and
throw the metal down.
The reaction, once started, continues
with great evolution of heat. If ferric ox­
ide is r€duct d in this way over 3,000 degrees
of heat are attained, sufficient to melt the
iron and the resulting alumina. The same
process is used to a great advantage to weld
iron in place. If, for illustration, two ends
of car rail must be welded together, the
parts to be welded are placed tightly to­
gether, after which they are surorunded with
a paste consisting of a mixture of iron·
oxide and powdered aluminum. After igni­
tion, reaction takes place, and the evoh en
heat i~ sufficient to weld the iron securely.
Many metallic sulphides, when heated wi+:t
alumirlum !Jowder, may simil-uly be reducea
to m,,' a!, aluminum-sulphide IJe;ug formed.
SLyer-chloride (hornsilvec) is insolub:e
in nit,ic acid, unlike the other minerals t'{
silver, but it will readily dissolve in am­
monia water. It is thereby easily <listing·
uished from the lead-chloride which is not
soluble in ammonia. A, good field test for
horn-silver is the following. Moisten the
ore, rub it on a zinc-surface; if pure, horn­
silver. Spongy metallic silver will become
visible.
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CONSTRUCTION NEWS.
The Northwestern Light & Power com·
pany, of Sumpter, Oregon, whose plant was
destroyed by fire on the 11th inst., will re­
build at once.
C. A. Burg, postmaste'r at Livingston,
Montana, has advertised for bids for the
construction of a two-story postoffice build­
ing at that place. Bid~ to be in by Sep­
tember 18.
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The Silver City Mining & Milling com­
pany, operating in Owyhee county, Idaho,
which has had to close its properties for
some weeks, due to damage from lightning,
expects to resume September 1st. Devel­
opments includes a 1,175-foot adit, which is
expected to cut the Crown Point vein in an­
other 200 feet. On the Nugget vein, a drift
from the adit taps the mineralized zone at
a depth of 250 to 300 feet. The vein is four
feet wide, with a 7-inch quartz stringer car­
rying good gold and silver values. This
drift should encounter, in the next fifty feet,
a very rich shoot, which extends to
the surface.
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 30, 1 9' 1 2
again for operations in the Johnson district
[ In A djoining States
300 tons per month from the ,property. The
ARIZONA. ore is high grade copper carbonate run.
ning 11, 12 and 13 per cent copper. The
first copper smelter ever used In Arizona
Prescott Courier: A miner who had been was operated at this mine in the early days.
working at the Climax came to town, Wed­ ----,0
nesday, and reported that a big strike of COLORADO.
ore was made in that mine a few days ago.
The ore is reported to be from four to five
Central City Observer: Thos. Hughes,
feet in width, carrying $30 to $40 per ton operating the Trail lode in Russel gulch, is
in gold.
Clifton Copper Era: Geo. Fraser, ,super­
intendent of the A. C. Co. smelters, returned
outputting $70.00 ore. Development work Is
progressing on both the 125 and 180-foot
levels, with the idea of opening a new shoot
•
Friday evening from Douglas, where he in virgin ground. With this accomplished,
went to make an inspection of ,the method a large reserve tonnage will be blocked out
of lining converters with Bes3emer bricF-i that can be stoped to surface.
This is a new Idea in lining converters and Cortez Herald: The new tunnel on the
is said to be superior in every way to the Copper Hill at La Plata has cut a fine
old method. An experiment will snortlY showing of copper. The new tunnel is
be made on one converter at the A. C. plant. some three hundred feet lower <lown and
Bisbee Review: It is understood that a couple of hundred feet east of the low­
arrangements are !practically completed for est workings, and was started a.bout mid­
the resumption of work in the ,Burros by way ,between the Copper Hill and Emeralda
the Mangas Development company. There veins, designing one entrance for the two
can be little doubt but that the building workings.
of a railroad into the district, as seems Central City Observer. Manager B. T.
likely to occur now, will result in very gen­Lloyd has returned from his western trip
eral activity in the many promising prop­ and is arranging to do a lot of work on
erties at present undergoing development. the Buckley mine in the way of necessary
Clifton Copper Era: The Miami mine development. With the tonnage now In
established a record production of 3,,027,710sight, his company figures on erecting a
pounds of copper for the month of July, mill for the treatment of the ore. This
which was 253,173 pounds in excess of its mill will be buiJt on new lines that have
best previous output, the June production proven very satisfactory on similar ores in
of 2,824,537 ~ounds. Since the first of the Utah.
year the company has produced 18,664.225 Georgetown Courier : A rich body of ore
pounds of copper and since it started pro­ was encountered lately In the Tom Payne
duction in March, 191.1, its output has to­ mine on Covode mountain, above North
taled 33,713,,014 pounds. Einpire, which gives promi'3e of developing
Kingman Miner: A rumor is afloat in into a heavy producer. The ore body meas­
Kingman that the Bi.Metal mines, three 'ures only a few inches in width at/the pres­
miles south of Kingman, are to be taken ent time, but from all appearances it will
over by a big corporation and that a great undoubtedly widen into a large body and
plant is to be erected on it. The vein is assay tests show it to be worth in the
one of the greatest in the United States, neighborhood of $400 to the ton.
having a width of seven hundred feet, every
Georgetown Correspondent Idaho
foot of which is said to carry above three Springs Gazette: The Indian vein that was
dollars gold ~o the ton. It could readily be recently intenected ,by the Big Indian cross­
mined and milled for $1.50 per ton, leaving cut tunnel at a distance of 400 feet from
a neat ,balance of profit. the portal is in mineral values. In the bot­
Florence Blade-Tribune. Bert W~lliams tom of the south dri,ft a six-inch streak of
has decided to make his home in Florence, copper is showing that shows assay values
and give attention to, his mining claims running as high as $200 a ton in gold and
situated in the Red Hills district, 12 miles silver. It is proposed to extend this drift
east of here. Bert and his partner" Juan until the heading cut under the shaft sunk
De Armitt, have several claims from which from surface when a raise will be put
they can extract shipping ore and they through to connect with the level above.
will take out a carload of their high-grade Georgetown Correspondence, Idaho,
copper ore at once, and ship to El Paso. Springs Gazette: Farragher & Co. leasing
But when the Hayden smelter is ready to above the tunnel level on the Gambetta
buy custom ore they will ship to that plant. vein, will start a two carload shi:pment of
Tombstone Prospector: The old Pea­ zinc ore some time during the coming week.
body mine, which is among the most fam­ The product will be sent to the Lin or Min­
ous of the old producers in Arizona, hav­ eral Chief mill for the separation of the
ing yielded $2,225,000 previous to its clos­ lead and zinc, after which it will be con­
ing some years ago, has beeh opened up signed to Denver, where it will be sold to

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a representative of a Kansa3 'Clty smelter.
These operators have an excellent show­
ing, the last carload of ore bringing a set·
tlement on the first class of $40.10 a ton.
The second class milled $36 a ton.
Boulder Miner: A recent shipment of
51 tons from the Argo mine at Jamestown
returned .05 oz. gold, 8.65 oz. silver and 32.2
per cent lead-a gross value of $477.61 and
net $438.58 for the lot. Between 300 and
400 ton of th() same class of ore are now
broken in the mine awaiting shipment,
every team in the camp having been en­
gaged in hauling fluorspar ore to Boulder
for shipment to the C. F. & 1. company
at Pueblo. There will be a let up for
awhile in fluorspar shipments which will
free the teams for the hauling of the Argo
and other ores, a heavy tonnage of which,
in the camp, is awaiting transportation.
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IDAHO.
Mackay Herald: Ravenel Macbeth, who
is operating a lease on the Gilbert-Carr
property in Lucky Gulch, has just been in·
formed by Mr. Mulhull, the man in charge,
that they have gone in on the old workings
of the mine and have oPened up a fine two
foot body of very highgrade copper ore
and also have a big streak of lower grade
stuff. Men are now working on this ore
and shipments will be made from the prop­
erty in the near future.
Salmon Recorder. W. F. McQuarrie, suo
perintendent M the A. D. & M. mine at Gib·
bonsvilje, was in the city for a couple of
days the first of the week. (1\·11'. McQuarrie
informs The Recorder that the mill is now
running and development work on the mine
is progressing. They are now 'sinking a.
large shaft, which is to be kept going in
depth until they ascertain what is under·
neath the present workings. Two stock·
holders of the mine, Messrs. D. W. Burle·
son and Ed Hawkins, of southern Texas,
were in the city with Mr. McQuarrie.
Silver City Avalanche: The most im·
portant strike ever made in the hi3tory
of this mining district is that of the Rich
Gulch Mining company, whose property is
located upon the west slo/pe of Florida
Mountain. For a long time this company
has been driving its tunnel ahead under
• the skillful superintendency of Mr. William
Williams, and a tremendou3 body of ore
has been encountered at a vertical depth
of a thousand feet or more from the sur­
face. \Vhile the management has been very
conservative, sujlficient data is at hand to
announce that the officers, directors and
those of the stockholders who have ex·
amined the ore measures are highly pleased
with the results.
Silver City Avalanche: Mr. Peter
Steele, president and general manager of
the Banner mine whiCh is located at Long
Gulch, reports that they have just recently
r
LA K E MIN I N GRit.! V lEW, AUG U S T
installed a compreSSor and that It is 'Work·
ing in good shape. The company is work·
ing ten men at the present time and they
are making an upraise to connect the two
and three hundred foot levels. This 'Work
will take about two weeks and as soon as
finished they will start to get ore out to
the mill. They haVe two machine drills now
at work and expect to have one or two more
working in the near future. The Banner is
a very promising property and it will give
a good account of itself as far as the pro·
duction of ore is concerned.
Murray Sun: On Sunday morning last
two cars of ore, one of lead and one of
zinc, were shipped from the Terrible Edith
mine. This property, considering the lim·
ited number of men employed, and the fact
that it has not the ",quipment for handling
any but the best of crude ore, is making an
excellent record as a shipper. It is :pleas·
ing also to note that the mine at this time
gives every promise of being able to con·
tinue the shipment of crude ore for a long
time to come"and while doing 30 is piling
on its dump a large amount of ore of a
concentrating grade. While mining is go­
ing on, development is also progressing and
we are informed ore is appearing in the
face of the drift and there is every indio
cation that another good ore shoot is about
to be opened. Should this be the case the
Edith will become one of the exceedingly
valuable properties of the district,
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NEVADA.
Austin Revielle: ,Material has arrived
at the siding down the Nevada Central rail­
road for the equipping of the mines at Ra·
venswood recently taken over by J. M. Pine
and associates of Denver, Colo. Jnstallation
will be promptly made and development
work started.
Yerington Times: Al }latt received re­
turns from some twenty tons of ore he
shipped to the smelter a few days ago from
his copper property in Mason Pass. This
ore ran a'u.:>ut 10 per cent in the red metal
and netted Mr. Matt a nice little sum for
his labor of extraction and hauling. He
also has much more ore on the dump and
in sight in the mine and will maKe more
shipments as soon as pos.sible.
Yerington Times: Morg. Cloud and
Charlie Oberg, who have a lease on the
Kaufman and Randall copper ground in the
west side of the district, recently shipped
a carload of copper ore to the smelter at
Thompson, and this week received returns
from it. There were forty tons in the ship·
ment and the boys divided $633 between
them as the net proceeds of the shipment.
They have more ore out ready for ship­
ment and lot.;; more in sight in the mine,
and will have another shipment unaerway
soon.
Ely Mining Expositor: S. M. Levy.
30, 19' 12 29
presiaent and· manager of the Ely Consoli.
dated, spent yesterday at the Zack shaft
to note the progress of the work of sink­
ing and today is visiting the Cuba group in
the Granite district, in company with Ralph
Kellogg who is working the property under
lease and bond. Mr. Levy will catch the
train for Salt Lake at Steptoe tomorrow
morning. The first part of thi;; week was
spent at Blackhorse where he inspected the
Amalgamated Nevada property and suggest­
ed some development to be done.
Ely Record: Three hundred flasks of
quicksilver are produced each month by
the Mercury Mining company, which is op·
erating at lone in the northwestern cor.
ner of Nye county. C. G. Dennis, manager
of the company, states that his company is
operating at low cost, the expense of min­
ing and reduction being not over $5 a ton
which break ali records for Nevada. \Vood
is used in volatilizing the cinnabar, only a
cord and a half a day being required. This
fuel is found in abundance on the property.
The qUicksilver is found in a rhyolite for­
mation lying between lime walls.
Reno Gazette: Los Angeles capitalists
are at present having a big dredger con·
structed in the Carson river below the site3
of the old Morgan and Mexican mills. They
intend to dredge the river channel and to
gather, if possible, the gold and silver from
the tailings washed into the river during
the time the mills were in action. For
more than a quarter of a century these
two mills operated continuously and during
the time they were in operation a large
percentage of the gold and silver values
were lost in the tailing3, as the process of
catching the values was not then perfected
as perfectly as at present. The Los An·
geles people believe that much of these val­
uses can be recovered and it is for this rea­
son that they are now installing this
dredger.
Reno Gazette: Manuel Cafferata is in
from OlinghOU3e, where he is operating a
lease on the Dondero claim of the Spring'
field·Nevada Mining company, He has fOllr
men at work extracting ore, which will avo
erage $40 to the ton, There are now abont
~5 tons on the dump and lots of it in sigh t
in the stope, which is being r\ln from an
extension of the old Semenza tunnel, which
produced a considerable fortune nom an
ore lens a year ago. Mr. Cafferata recently
finished a mill run of 356 tons of ore from
this lease. It cleaned up $18 to the ton.
"The camp," says ::\fr. Cafferata, "i3 very
lively at [Jresent. There are eighteen or
twenty sets of leasers at work and all arE
either taking out ore or getting fine pros,
pects. The Thomas Poole mill is running
steadily on lcase ore. Olinghonse is thE
best little 1100r man's camp in the state.'
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When writing advertisers kindly men
iion The Mining Review.
30 THE SAL T
OREGON.
Grants Pass ·Courier: Superintendent
Tubbs of the Oregon Strong Ledge Mining
company, near Murphy, was in the city
yesterday, and speaks of very satbfactory
work at the company's property. Their new
amalgamator man, Gallord Hilleberth, who
.arived last week from Boulder, Colo., is
securing good returns from the ore milled.
Mr. Hilleberth has been with the Monell
Concentrator company for eighteen years
past, and Is thoroughly competent. There
are twelve men now working at the mtne.
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RESUMES WORK ON DALY.
(Record, Park City, Utah.)
Mining news that will be hailed with de­
light by all Parkites, is the fact that Rich­
ard Pelton, the well known mining man of
Park City, has been given the superintend.
ency of the old Daly by the Col. Wall inter­
ests, and yesterday a force of men were
put to work on the 800 of this famous prop­
erty, with R .H. Williams as foreman After
a certain amount of preliminary work in
cleaning up and mapping out future devel­
opments, the force will be steadily Increased
and the old dividend payer again added to
the shipping list and make new history for
Park City. Col. Wall made a wise selection
when he put "Dick" Pelton in charge of the
work, for no one is more familiar with the
geological formation of that section of coun­
try, and it Issafa to predict that before
many weeks elapse the gentlel}lan will open
up ore bodies that will set tongues wagging
in the mining world and be the cause of
centering new attention on Park City. Sure­
ly, the future of our great mining camp Is
becoming brighter with every Issue of The
Record.
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In the operation of the Scranton mine in
North TinUc district, Utah, Manager N. A.
Dunyon has uncovered a body of lead ore
at the bottom of the Knapp incline, 200
feet below lower tunnel level, on the dip of
the vein. This is the same ore-body open­
ed up 100 feet above, where it is twelve
feet wide and assaying 30 to 35 per cent
lead. The Scranton mine is looking ex­
ceedingly well, better than ever before In
its history, and the management Is elated
over its future outlook.
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The sixth congress of the National Asso·
ciation for Testing Materials will convene
in New York, September 2nd. President
Taft and Governor Dix will address the
opening meeting. An attendance of about
1,000 engineers is expected. There will
be 300 foreign visitors. The latter will
take an ofricial excursion for one week,
visiting Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and
Niagara Falls. The steel plants at Pitts­
burg and the electrical plants at Niagara
Falls will be inspected.
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T
A round the Stale
Richfield Reaper: The new 100-ton
stamp mill of the BullyBoy and Webster
company was recently put into operation
and is now rapidly turning out concen­
trates. The cyanide tanks are being rushed
to completion as fast as possible.
Green River Dispatch: Frank and E. J.
Cock have been in Salt Lake the past week
helping organize a company to take over
a group of six claims fourteen miles south
cf Green River, where they claim to have
discovered $300 ore. The company Is the
Western Vanadium.
Rolla E. Clapp, conceded to be one of
the most noted experts 011 carnotite ore;;
within the United States and Who was lately
with L. Vogelstein & Co.., the largest uran­
ium-vanadium ore dealers in the world, Is
now chief chemist and expert for the West­
ern Vanadlum company.
Green River Dispatch. H. H. McFann,
the well-known Oklahoma dril;er, has the
contract for drilling Dr. F. K. Collins' oil
well near this city and arrived with his
cre.w early this week. With him are G. H.
Lisellibigler, Dan Noise and D. T. Duck­
worth. all reputed to be experienced
drillers.
Park City Record: Delayed machinerY Is
preventing an initial run at the Ontario
mill and causing practically a cessation of
work at the mine. The mill, however, is
a scene of activity, a force of about fifty
men being busily engaged in building tanks,
vat,., runways, etc., and in perfecting de­
tails of a process that will eventually add
materially to the mineral output of our
camp.
Bingham Press-Bulletin: During the
month of July, the Bingham Mines company
shipped from the Dalton & Lark mine at
Bingham 3,350 tons of ore. Of this amount
975 tons was lead ore and 2,475 ,tons cop­
per ore. From this it is claimed the gross
profits amounted to about $23.000 and the
net $1,5,000. A: out 400 feet of continoous
ore has been opened fr()m the 1,950 level
of the Mascot tunnel to the 1,600 level
above. In one place the ore has been
stoped 17 sets high.
Eureka Reporter: The Silver City plant
of the Utah Ore Sampling company is now
being operated with twu shifts and between
700 and 800 tons of ore is being sampled
each day. For some time the sampler has
been .getting some ore from Nevada prop­
erties which are shipping over the Salt
Lake Route and commencing next week the
zinc ore from the May Day mine, and per·
haps the Yankee Cons., will be handled at
this plant and then started upon its long
trip to the smelters in the Kansas gas
belt. The rate on zinc ore from Tintic
to the gas belt smelters will be $7.30 per
ton.
30, 191 2
Price News: A number of Price men
including Jim Ferguson, Ed Hartzell Fran~
and Parley Warren and Jim Cox have re­
cently returned from a trip to the north
in search of what for yeaN! has been known
as the Old ,Spanish mine. They found som~
old· workings across the Duchesne river,
about 150 miles north of this city, which
looked good, and on making careful search
found several ledges of ore that assayed
·from $48 to $68 per ton in gold. Returns
from a sample of rich talc have not yet
been received from the &3say office. Each
member of the party staked claims and
had them recorded at Heber City. Old
tools of antique make and other evidences
that the mines had been worked years ago
were found in the old workings, and the
boys are confident that they have discov­
ered the long lost Spanish mine.
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The Home Run Copper company has
made another strike in the Bristol district,
near Pioche, Nevada. Six feet of a hIgn­
grade copper ore has ,been ·encountered.
This property was once a heavy shipper.
In MarCh, 1912, a new company was Incor·
porated with M. C. Godbe, of Salt La~t>
City, as president, and H. F. Earle, secre­
tary and treasurer. In addition to these,
the directorate consists of W. H. 'PI-tts, of
Pioche, E. S. Woodard, Qre buyer for th~
International smelter, Henry Sadler and A.
H. Godbe. The property Includes eight run
claims and three fractions, a total of 180
acres. The ore contains 8.25 per cent cop­
per, and 40 to 200 ounces of silver pet
ton. The mine is situated nine miles jlrom
a railroad. Timber in plentiful, but water
must be brought three miles. A gasoline
hoist has been installed. A boarding house,
blacksmith shop, bunkhouses and ore bIn!>
ihave been built. Development work con­
sists of 90 feet of shafts, 200 feet of drifts
and 100 feet of w1nzes. In a cave on the
90-foot level, there are exposed 1500 tons
of hlghgrade ore, which, it is expected,
can be mined for less than $3 per ton.
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The Plaza Gold Mining company, of Salt
Lake, whose holdings are near Mina, Ne­
vada, will soon begin work In the systematic
development of its property, The officers
of the company are: W. N. Gundry, presi­
dent; Brig L. Morse, vice president, and
T. John Gundry, secretary and treasurer.
The company maintains an ottice at 207
Atlas block, Salt Lake City.
The Ohio Copper company, with mines
at Bingham, and mill at Lark, Utah, expects
to increase its capacity to 3,000 tons a day,
through the starting up of a thlrd section
of its mill.
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The Barnes·King Development company
has taken over the mine of the North
Moccasin .Mlning company at Kendall, Mon·
tana, and will start producing at once.
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and the Nevada Savings & Trust company

Personal Mention at Goldfield, Nevada.
O. C. Gosman, of DllJop., Montana, and
Engineers and
E. E. Finch, of Marietta, Ohio, recently aSSOCiates, who are interested in a silver­ J. H. Farrell, a mining
visited Ouray, Colorado, on mining liusiness. lead mine fifteen miles northeast of tllat Angeles, recently examined
C. C. Harris of Findlay, Ohio, has been place, are getting ready to ship first-class Eureka, Nevada.
visiting the properties of the Harris60p­ ore to the Salt Lake smelters. Fred T. Falkner, ofBalt La~
per company, near Phoenix, Arizona. 'George E. Merrill, of Salt Lake, of the cepted a position as Buperinteri1
Louis Fugal, manager of the Nebo High­ Morrison-Merrill Lumber company, has re­ mining property at Jarbidge Neva
land Mining company in Juab county was turned home from a two months' business J. M. Callow, of Salt Lake, of
and pleasure trip ,to the northwest, includ­ eral Engineering company, has
a recent visitor in Salt Lake City.
ing British Columbia and Vancouver. from a professional trip to Ari
P_ N. Nicholas, attorney, of Geneva, New
Dan Ferguson, the veteran mining opera­ 'California.
York, has been visiting properties in which
tor of Milford, Utah, was in Salt Lake, last J. E. Spurr, geologist for the
he is interested. in Lemhi county, Idaho.
week. Mr. Ferguson has made a discovery mining company, accompanied b:
J. C. Jansen,' of Provo, Utah, and K. Ben­
of fine iron ore in Beaver county, tl1e as­
nett, of Salt Lake, recently inspected the says from which give most satisfactory of the Goldfield & Tonopah rar
Rico-Wellington property, at Rico Colorado. the Tonopah Mining company, re
returns. spected the Manhattan district of
Dr. G. L. W'heeler, of Winnemucca, Ne­
Jesse T. Badger, of Badger Brothers, M. W. H. Storms, state mineralogi!
vada, president of the Wheeler-National
S. Duffield and G. H. Butler of the U'tatl fornia, and J. M. Hill, of the Un!"
Leasing company, was a recent Salt Lake State National Bank, have returned to Salt
Geological Survey, recently made
visitor. Lake from an inspection trip to the mines tion of the High Grade mining dis
V. B. Woolley, J. A. EUgood and J. W. of the Kanosh Mining company, ne.. r ooS8,
the Nevada line. Their report:
Whitman, of Wilmington, Delaware, recently Millard county, Utah.
awaited with great interest.
visited the Nevada Wonder mine at Won­
J. M Bidwell, of Salt Lake, manager for L. O. Howard, a mining
der Nevada_
the American Smelting & Refining COlli­ recently connected with the Ca
John W. Smith of Chicago, president ot
pany, recently Visited Mackay, Idaho where of Applied Science, of Cleveil
the Windfall Mlning company, operating
h'e was the guest of Frank M Leland. The is now located in Salt Lake
near Eureka, Nevada, died on the 28th ult., American is getting all of the ores from
Ing devoted several months to the
of septic poisoning. the mines of the Empire Copper company, industry near Green River, Uta:
J. P. Gardner and Duncan MacVichie of near Mackay.
G. T. Hanson, local manage
Salt Lake City, have been inspecting tllell'
A. L. Canfield of Summerville, New Jer· Allis·Chalmers company, has rett
properties in the Deep Creek district, in
sey, D. Dull, of Los Angeles, and A L. Al· a business trip to Montana, aJ
Tooele county, Utah. lender 'Of Parkersburg, West Virginia, ex­ much improvement in the min!1
W. L. Sendker, of Bradford, Pennsylva­ perienced oii men, were recently the guests ery business throughout his ten'
nia, recently visited Dixie, Idaho and e:!.· of Col 'Chas. P. Tasker of Green River, Hanson expects to make a visit ta
amined mining property near that place in Utah, who is heavily interested in the oil office at Milwaukee, in SeptemJ
which he is interested. industry of the Green River region. o
J. B. Bechan, of Fon du Lac, WiSCOlll'Ull, E. F. Shaw has resigned from the preSl' DRILLING FOR POTAS
who is interested in the Coeur d' Alene Vul· dency and directorate of the Union Consoli·
(E:K'po3itor, Ely, Nev.)
can, near Wallace Idaho, recently visited dated Mining company of Virginia City,
the companY's property. Tuesday afternoon a six-horsl
Nevada, and is succeeded by John Landers.
Ely with a new supply of casl
J. C. Sammons is working the Peterson Whitman Symmes, superintendent of tn..
drill hOle at Potash in Railroad
mine at Austin, Nevada, under lease, and Mexican mine and 111e Comstock Pumping
drliI has been idle for several
ihas already made two shipments of ore run· AssociaHon, will be the new superintendent
aecount of the non·arrival oft:
ning about $200 to the ton. of the mine.
casing which had been ordere'
Joseph Adams, of Seattle, Wallhington, Albert N. Larson, a prominent minlng time. The hole is now about 96
has succeeded Frank A. Brown as super­ man of Santaquin, Utah, who was superin­ 'and it was found impossible '11
intendent of the Rocher de Boule mine near tendent for the Union Chief Mining com· deeper with 6-inch casing thoul
Hazleton, British Columbia. pany during the early development ofthe tendent Walker had hoped to
H. F. Sanford, of Blackhorse, Nevada, company's property, which position he held 1000-foot point with it. The cas
manager for the Amalgamated Mines com­ until a few weeks ago, Was in Salt Lake, rive at Potash tomorrow nlght~
pany, has returned from Boston, where he last week, attending a meeting of the com­ will be resumed immediately ail;
conferred with company officials. pany. of which he is a director. as rapidly as possible. '
P. G. Beckett, of the Copper Queen Con· Simeon V. Trent of Salt Lake, and Mis!! While there is no way of
solidated Mining company, has left Bisbee, Martha Behrend, who were married in Pasa· deep it will be 'possible to go
Arizona, to become the superintendent of dena, California, on the 18th Inst. have re­ depth potash will be likely to .,;
the Old Dominion mines at Globe Arizona. turned home and are domiciled at No. 6 there is any there, the comPi
Robert Watt, of Carroll, Nevada, is sack· Miller Flats. Mr. Trent is manager of the If necessary and possible to d~
ing ore from the Carroll mine, the ore com­ Trent Engineering & Machinery company. to the depth of 3,000 feet belowr
ing from the 14O-foot level in the shaft. A The Mining Reyjew, with many other before giving up the 'hope of
carload shipment to the smelters will soon friends, extends congratulations. by the finding of potash In
be made. o other.
George Wingfield, president of the Gold· The Golden Cycle mill at Colorado City, Superintendent and 'Mrs.
field Consolidated mining company, has be· Colorado, treated 33,150 tons of gold ore the company car yesterdaY
eoone president of the Nixon National Bank of a value of $663,OOQ,g],l,ring July. creek a.nd Railroad valley.
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32
Qu'ine 6- SmellerBuilding I
by 30-foot being designed for its accom­
The Capital Mining company at George­
town, Colorado, is remodeling its mill.
A two-stamp )!issen mill is to be erect­
ed aL the Tolovana mine on Willow Creek,
in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Reynolds Brothers are building a mill
to treat the ore from their mines in the
Alice district, near Idaho Springs, Colo­
rado.
It is stated that a cyanide plant vdU
be bdlt in the near future at me Brady
mill of the Manhattan Milling & Ore com­
vauy at Manhattan, )!evada.
The Mary Ellen Gold Mining company
lIear Atlantic City, 'Wyoming, intends to re­
move the mill on the Helen G. property ana
reconstruct it on its own ground.
The Minneapolis Copper company, Will­
iam Kemp, manager, operating near Cum­
pas, Sonora, Mexico, expects to have its
new smelter running in n'nety days.
The new 200c ton cyanide plant for the
treatment of the lowgrade ores of the Nip­
issing mine at Cobalt, Ontario, will prob­
ably be put in cO'mmission in November.
The mill will cost $300,000.
John R. Wolff, manager of the United
States Gold corporation. in Boulder county,
Colorado, will install a ground tram frO'ffi
the Livingston dump to the mill. This will
do away with all wagon haulage.
The Hartford-Arizona Mining company
of Hamburg, Arizona, Henry Hamburg,
president, is running a preliminary survey
for a tramway from its mine to a wagon
road, by Which the railroad may be reached.
Directors of the Portland Gold Minin~
company, Cripple Creek, Colorado, have reo
cently visited the properties of the com­
pany and announce that further i:mprove­
ments are to be made at the new mill at
Victo!',
The Rocher de Boule Mining company.
operating near Hazelton, British ColumbIa,
John F, Cowan, of Salt Lake City, manager,
will build a threeJmile aerial tramway in
the spring, and will also put in hOistma
and power plants.
T' e Bonnie Clare stamp mill, in the
Goldfield, Nevada, district, will soon start
operations on the accumulated tailings of
the Polverde workings of the Jumbo Ex­
tens on company. E, S. Van Dyck is presl.
dent and general manager
The foundations and frame of the Swas­
tika stamp mill at Cobalt, OntariO, are in
place and the machinery will be on the
ground soon. A cyanide plant may be added
later, if the character of the ore, which
is now free·milling, changes.
It is proposed to erect a zinc mill on
the site of the old Beaumont sampler, in
the Ouray district, Colorado, The Huff
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T
Electrostatic process will be used, a 50-foot
modation. David Foerster is in charge.
A large force of men is at work at the
Mason Valley smelter at ThO'ffipson, Ne­
Yada, The capacity of the plant w1ll be
increased by enlarging individual furnaces,
building new ore bins, and installing a sec·
ond unit of the sintering plant. The capa­
city is expected to be about 2,000 tons ...
day
The Sweepstake Mining company, oper·
ating near the' Revenue mine, in the Clear
Creek, district, Colorado. will erect a com·
pressor plant, blacksmith shop, and bunk
house for forty men. The company owns
seven claims covering 9,000 feet along a
rich and productive zone. E. A. Krisher
will be mine superintendent.
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OPENING OF THE NEW FIRE-PROOF
ANNEX.
The new fire-proof annex of the Albany
Hotel at Denver, Colo., which has been un­
der construction for the last eight months,
was opened most auspiciously on the
evening of July 14th. While the exact date
and hour of the opening of the new fire­
proof annex had not been announced, and
had been kept a secret, nevertheless, six
hours after it'S opening every room was
occupied, and the house has been well filled
ever since that time.
The fact that each room contains a
private bath with rates from $1.50 to $4.00
per day, Ls accountable for the supply of
rooms being exhausted so quickly. The
fact is the Albany is now able to supply
nearly everyone of its patrons with a
room with private bath, and the rooms
which are rated at $1.50 and $2.00 per day
are in constant demand; but, no doubt as
soon as tourist season is over, the Albany
will have snfficient number of rooms with
bath to supply the demand.
The furnishings and equipment of the
Albany Hotel. new building are superior
to anything in the way of hotel furnishings
ever seen in Denver before, the patterns
being especially designed by Mr. Dutton,
himself; nothing like it ever having been
attempted before.
The new promenade and the complexIon
garden, which is the name of the principal
cafe, has already made a great hit with
the Denver people, and it can only be seen
to be appreCiated. The many '30cial
functions already booked for the fall and
",inter months is ample 'Proof that the
Denver public has passed its approval upon
what the Albany has accomplished in the
last few months.
o which devastated the Seven Troughs dis·
The mines of Tintic, Utah, were closed
down two days recently to enable the min­
ers to join the volunteer firemen in the
annual celebration held by the latter.
30, 1912
Dips, Spurs and Angles .I
A new pump i3 being installed on the
500-foot level of the Big Four mine at Man­
hattan, Nevada.
The July production of the mines of
Cripple Creek, Colorado, was 76,410 tons
of ore of a gross value of $1,225,224.
The Mason Valley smelter at Thompson,
Nevada produced 1,500,000 pounds of cop­
per during July from 22,074 tons of ore.
The Keane Wonder mine and mill, out
of Rhyolite, Nevada, have been closed down.
It is reported that there was a lack of ore.
The National mines, National, Nevada,
produced about $6,000,000 in gold in thirty
months, The ore is of a very high grade.
The Portland mill at 'Colorado City, Col­
orado, handled 10,000 tons of gold ore dur­
ing the month of July, the gross returns
being $224,000
The Utter Zinc Mining company at Pinos
Altos, N. M., expecb3 to ship over 1,000,000
pounds of zinc concentrates to Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, this month.
In a drilling contest at the annual pic­
nic of the Butte, Montana. Miners' union,
Perkins and Page, of Butte, drllled 43%
inches in fifteen minutes.
Al Matt has recently shipped a 30-ton
car of high grade copper ore from his claims
in the Mason Pass country, III Nevada. to
the smelter at Thompson.
The Sutte·Montana Mining company
has incorporated with offices in Ely, Min­
nesota. There are 750,000 shares of stock
of a par value of $1 each.
Hydraulic stripping at the Nipissing
Mines, Cobalt, Ontario has revealed an­
other vein of highgrade ore, thought to be
the extension of vein No. 128.
At the drilling contests of the Butte,
Montana miners union, on Labor day $750
will be distributed in prizes, $450 for the
heavyweight events, the remainder for the
lightweight.
Class, Smelser and Stewart have made
a strike on their Klondyke property, near
Centennial, Wyoming. Eight hundred
pounds of ore from the surface had a. value
of $176 per ton in gold.
A new vertical centrifugal pump being in·
stalled on the 2,500-foot level of the C. &
C. mine at Virginia City, Nevada, will allow
the exploration and development of this
property on the lower levels.
The Seven Troughs Coalition Mining
company has resumed shipments, which
were interrupted by the terrible clouaburst
trict, in Nevada, on July 18th.
The Oldham Mining company of Salt
Lake City has incorporated With 1,000,00:;'
shares of a par value of $1 each. The of­
 THE SAL T
ficers are Solon Spiro, president, W. D.
Donoher, vice president, B. F. Caffey, secre·
tary, Isaac Glaser and H. P. Clark, dIrect­
ors.
The Higgins Oil company of Beaumont,
Texas, has purchased the drilling outfit of
the Pecos Valley Oil & Gas company, near
Artesia, New Mexico, and will bring in an­
other rig from the Beaumont field.
The Giroux Consolidated Mining company
will ,soon resume operations in its Aloha
workings at Ely, Nevada. The company is
shipping about 1,000 tons daily of 2 per cent
ore to the Steptoe smelter at McGill.
Paul Klopstock, manager of the Gold
Note Mining company, will open up the
mines and mill of the company, at Kenneay,
Nevada. The mill will be thoroughly over­
hauled and put in shape for operating.
The second quarterly report of the Daly
Judge Mining company of Park City, Utah,
<3hows net earnings of $77,280.43 for the
quarter ending June 30th. Sixteen thousand
and seventeen tons of concentrates and 652
tons of crude ore were shipped_
The Nevada-Superior Mining company,
of Humboldt county, Nevada, is limbering
UI} its new 75·ton mill. A concentration of
five to one is being made, on eight to ten
dollar ore. The main values are in silver
and lead. John W. Geiger, of Salt Lake, III
manager.
A Colorado syndicate has taken a bond
and option on the property of the Gold·
berg Butte Gold Mining company in Lake
county, Oregon, forty miles north of High·
grade, California, and the property is now
Ibeing developed. The bond price is given
at $100,000.
J. C. Nelson and J. M. McPhee, of New­
house, Utah, who have a lease on the Hend·
rickson mine near that place, recently ship·
ped a 26-ton. car of ore averaging 30 per
cent lead, 20 ounces silver, with good cop·
per values present Two more cars will
be marketed this month.
The Utah Copper company has declared
its regu!ar quarterly dividend of seventy­
bt: ~____ _ __ . . _ a.ble September 30th
to stockholders of record on September
6th. The Nevada Consolidated, controlled
by the same interests, will pay 37% cents
Jer share on the same date.
The Bingham-New Haven company of
Bingham, Utah, has made a new contract
with the International smelter at Tooele
which will greatly increase its earnings:
The company expects to transport ore
through the No. 7 or main working tunnel
of the Utah Consolidated company.
The new mill of the United States Re­
duction & Refining company for the treat­
ment of the tailings from the Standard plant
at Colorado City, Colorado, has been start­
ed with an initial capacity of 700 tons a
day. The amount of accumulated tailing!>
has been estimated at 90,000 tons.
L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 3 0, 1 9'1 2
Thi'rty-two carloads of ore have been MONTANA'S METAL OUTPl
shipped from the Empire-Nevada property
near Yerington, Nevada. Operations are The value of the mine output
being actively carried forward ,by Smith silver, copper, lead, and zinc in
brothers. who are enabled to work the prop­ in 1911, according to V. C. Heikee
erties on account of the ready market fur· United States Geological Survey, ,
nlshed by the Mason Valley smelters. 955,287, against $48,358,253 in 191
H. S. Barnha-rdt, Joseph Dumont and erease of $1,402,966, caused by u4
George S. Hayes, of the California·Utah CoP­ ment in copper production. The
per company, have contracted for the haul· the gold, silver, and copper combl
ing of their ore from the Goldenshoe mine $2,300,426 less than in 1910, but the
in Plumas county, California. The ore is the lead and zinc yield was $897,4
said to run $40. It will be shipped to the than in 19'10. The value of the PI
Mason Valley smelters at ThO'nlpson, Ne· of SlIver Bow county, which incl'
vada. Butte district, was 91 per cent of
The New Bingham !VIining company wat> value of the metals from Montal
recently incorporated, with a capitalizatlolJ decrease in value in this county wa
of $100,000 in shares of a par value of 915, so that the combined prodt
twenty cents each. Frederick Eberharu\ the other counties in Montana W'af
greater in 1911 than in 1910.
is pres!dent, H. W. Sherwood, vice presi·
Slight Decrealle in Gold Outl
dent, E. H. Jacobs, secretary and treas­
The production of gold in 1911
urer, and H. B. Cole and D. F. Brayton, dI­
$19,915 less than in 1910. The gre,
rectors.
of the gold, 111,487 fine ounces, or
The Bride Mining & Milling company has
. cent of the total, was from silicec
taken a lea-3e of the Bride mine on Seaton
31,300.27 ounces, or 17.4 per cent, CI
Mountain, near Idaho Springs, -Colorado, and
copper ores.
is shipping 300 to 600 tons of $40 gold ore
Silver Shows a D~rease,
per month. John J. Hoban is president,
The production of silver in Mt
H. A. Miller, vice-president, and Edgar D.
Payne, secretary, treasurer and general 1911 was 11,985,196 fine ounces,
12,162,857 ounces in 1910. m me s
manager.
put of the United States Nevada 1
The Argentine central railway, running
leading place, which Montana hell
from Silver Plume, Colorado, to the top of
and 1908. Eighty per cent of r
Mount McClellan, has been sold at sheriff's
output of Montana crume from COl
sale tc? James Brown, of Denver, Colorado,
and nearly 14 per cent from silice
who will operate it to haul ore frmn his
Bullion at gold and silver mills
Santiago mine, The price was $20,002. The
only 122 823 ounces, concentrates
road may be later put into commission for
ounces, and crude ore shipped to
passenger traffic.
4,105,092 ounces. Silver Bow co
The Kanosh Mining company, owning nished 85.5 per cent of the state'
seventeen claims in Black Ridge, about tion.
eighteen miles east of Goss, in 'Millard Smaller Output of Copper
county, Utah, has resumed work. The ore The production of copper in
is a carbonate, containing values of $16 decreased from 284,808,553 pound;
to $18 per ton in lead and silver. The to 272,847,705 pounds in 1911,a
property has been worked intermittently 11,960,848 pounds. The Summit
for fifteen years. Butte district contributed ali bu
Much activity is reported in the Nebo pounds of the total. Concentrl
mining district, in Juab county, Utah, the tained 194,406,298' pounds and i:
following being among the operators: 'Eva shipped contained 73,172,276 POUD
Mining company, Eureka Leasing & Mill­ Increase in Lead Product!,
ing company, lNebo Highland, the Moly­ The production of lead in Me
neaux, the Relonia, the Jesse Nebo, Nebo creased from 4,106 292 pounds if
Excelsio-r, the Lowland, the Bald Eagle, 6,431,575 pounds in 1911. Neari
Nebo Star, Spider and the Clara Nebo. metal-mining counties in MJontaJ1l
It is reported that the Phelps·Dodge in­ small yield of lead,' but Jefl'ersQ
terests intend to commence operations at with a production of 2,088,236 Po}
Leopold, New Mexico, and will construct a plied nearly one-third of the state
railroad from Leopold to Deming, to reach Increase of Twelve Million pound
Of Montana's zinc output in H
their Arizona smeIte:" and that they have re­
cently taken over the Chemung prop­ was 43,810,145 pounds (figured as
erty at Tyrone, and are. negotiating for the against 31,638,184 pounds in 1910;
Savannah, Copper Gulf and Mangus Devel· mit valley district, in Silver
opment company's properties_ produced all but 75995 pounds.
Q the zinc ore was to
If you want to reach the men who make plants.
mines and equip
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1910, and 180 placer mines, against 157 in
1910. The average total assay value per
ton of ~re produced decreased from $9.41 in
1910 to $9.36 to 1911.
There were 4,940,303 short tons of are
from M-ontana sold or treated in 1911, a
decrease of 139,143 tons, or about 2.7 per
cent. The production of copper ores, which
amounted to nearly 87.6 per cent of the
total tonnage treated, was 4,332,479 tons, a
decline of 185,230 tons.
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MARYSVALE ALUNITE.
Much Interest Being Manifested in Recent
Discovery of Rare Mineral.
Sometime ago The Mining Review repub­
lished the report of 'the U. S. geological
survey relating to the discovery of alunite
near Marysvale, Utah. Since that time a
large amount of work has been done in the
way of development and explo,ration, with
the result thrut it has been demonstrated
that the deposit extends for a considerable
dhtance into the holdings of the Florence
Mining company, whose headquarters are
located at Ephriam, Utah. A special from
Ephraim to the Salt Lake Tribune. in giving
the details of what is being accomplished
in the exploitation of this alunite, says.
The great deposit of alunite found in
the Marysvale district last year has now
reached a stage of development that
warrants its being recognized as one of
Utah"3 gre3ltest sources of mineral wealth.
The fact that a large number of local peo­
ple and a number of Salt Lakers are in­
terest€d In t'he property controlled by the
Florence Mining & M!1ling eompany, which
adjoins the Custer groups, where the ori­
ginal alunite discovery was made, induced
your correspondent to investigate ~he pres­
ent status of the' deposits.
While the existence of the big vein has
been known for a number of yearn, it was
only last year that its real nature and value
became known, and considerable develop..
ment work was done on tbat part of the
vein wit,hin the confines of the Custer
groups. It was examined last fall by the
United States geological experts, who is­
sued several bulletins descriptive of the de­
posit. Bulletin No. 511, by Hoyt S. Gale
of the United Statro geological survey,
speaking 'Of the alunite, says:
"A conservative estimate of the tonnage
of this deposit may be had by assumIng
an average width of ten feet in the princi­
pal vein for a length of 3,500 feet, and, ne·
glecting the rest of 1he dejJ()Sit as not suf­
fleiently proved to be taken into considera­
ti'On at present, there would be approxi­
mately 300 000 s·hort tons of rock in each
100 feet of depth." .
The above quotation refem to that part
of the deposit which was opened up at that
time on the Custer groups. The vein ex­
tends north from the Cutlter ground through
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 30, 19 1 2
the pr'Operty 'Of the Florence Mining &
Milling company and has since been opened
very extensively on the latter company's
domain. There are no dark days
During the present seaEon an engtneer
and chemist representing one of America's
for those who use the
greate!3t manufacturing concerns have been
cond'llcting -an investigation til determine
the extent of this deposit on the Florence No. 3A SPECIAL
company's ground. Open cuts have been
made on the vein every few hundred feet
from the north line of the Custer ground to
the nort'h Une of the Florence company's
Edna claim, showing the existence or the
vein in Florence territory for considerably
more than 5,000 feet. In all of these cuts
KODAK
the alunite is of the same quality as the
samples pronounced by the Smith,30nian in­
stitute at Washington as "practically pure
alunite." The cuts show t'halt: the deposit
consists of parallel fissures, the larger ones
showing a width of from twenty·five to forty
feet.
Figuring the deposit at an average d€pth
of only twenty feet in the Game manner
as described inbull€ltin No. ·511, they have
for every 100 feet of depbh on the vein
904,348 tons of alunite, which will yield 170,­
917 tons of potassium sulphate, and added
to this will be alumin'lJ!In oxide contents
amounting to approximately 334,000 tons.
So far as at p.resent determined, this
big deposit is confined to the Custer and
Florence .properties, about two-third3 of it
being 'On Florence ground. The high power of its Zeiss­
Last week another large deJ)(lsit of Kodak Anastigmat lens (f.6.3)
alunite was found on the Florence eom­ in connection with the flexi­
pany's ground about 3.000 feet from the big bility of Speed control in the
vein. The deposit is entirely independ€n.t Compound shutter make snap­
of the original discovel7. <It is in the cen­
shots possible on days where a
ter of the Florence company's ex.tensve time exposure would be neces­
domain. the company controlling the terri­
tory both ways along the vein for a great
sary with an ordinary camera.
dstance.
The 3A Special makes pictUres of
The developm€ntwork on the Florence
Post Card size, 3:t,4x51,i, inches, using
property done under the direction of the
Kodak Film Cartridges. It has a rack
eastern interests resulted satiilfactorily, and
and pinion for focusing, riSing and
negotiations are now pending between the
·sliding front, bnHliant reversible
companies looking to the erection of a large finder, spirit level, two tripod sockets
mill to treat the potash and aluminum con­ and focusing scale. The bellows is of
tents of the alunite. soft black leather, and the camera is
The Custer people also have a foree of covered with the finest Persian Mo­
rocco. A simple, serviceable instru­
men at work developing their end of the ment, built with the accuracy of a
property. watch and tested with pa'nstaking
An'Other matter of great importance to care.
the Mal'Y'3vale district In particular, and to
the mining Industry of the state -also, is the
starting of the Bully Boy mill, which was
placed in commission August 1. The mill
Price $65.00
started off without a hitch, and is now
turning out a steady stream of high-grade Kodak Catalogue free at the dealers or
concentrates.
ky mail.
----0.---­
The Mining Review circulates among
the masses, as well as the classes; In the
Eastman Kodak Co.
big mining camps as well as In the little ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak City.
ones. It Is unexcelled as a.n advertising
medlum_
 THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 3 0, 1 9 12

'1'HE STOCK EX.CHANGE. August 1:>.

Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.50; copper
Quotations on the local board August 24: cathode, 17.40 cents. Cable Address Western Un lot
Listed Sto<,ks.
August 16. "Roboil" Code
·-I~Bid.iAsked:-
Silver, 63 cents; lead, $4. 50; copper
Beck Tunnel ........... :~----:09'h1$--:1(J\{
cathode, 17.40 cents.
Bingham Amalgamated ... \ .05 .07
August 1'1'.
Black Jack ............... .13 1 .10

Carisa . . ......................... .10

Silver, 63'.4 cents; lead, $4.50; copper

J. C. Roberts

Cedar-Talisman .......... \ . OO~ \ .0I'A,

cathode, 17.40 cents.
Colorado Mining .......... .19'h .20

Augu.. t 19.
Columbus Con. ............ .20 .27

Consolidated Mereur ...... .02 ....... .

Silver, 62% cents;, lelld, $4.50; copper
cathode, 17. ,10 cents.
Crown Point .............. 1
Daly . . . . . · ... ···· .. · .. ···1 1.00 I
.02¥"1 .03

1.40
AUI/iust !W.
Daly-Judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5.80
E.astern prince ............ \ . 01 ~ 1
6.25
Silver, 62% cents; lelld, ~4.50; copper
.02%
cathode, 17.40 cents. 926 Kearns Bldg
. 00 ~'II
I
East Crown Pomt ........ .00;"

AUgD"t 21.
Emerald. . ........ ......
Gold Chain ............... 1
Grand Central ............ 1
.02
.35
.58
.07

.37

.64

Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4. 50; copper

cathode, 17.40 cen t5.
Salt Lake City, Uta
Indian Queen ........... 1 .01 .OPA,
August 2.2.
Iron Blossom ............. 1 1. 25 i 1. 27 %

Iron King ................ / .03 I .0:;

Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.50; copper
Joe Bowers .. ............ .00'h1 .02
cathode. 17.40 cents.
,Keystone ., ............ , .. ,\ .07 I .12
August 23.
King William ............ .03' .03'4
Silver, 62 1/4 cents; lead, $4.50; copper DEALER I N - ­
Lead King ........ ,....... .02 I....... .
cathode, 17.40 cents.
Lehl Tintic ............... I........ I .00"1<
August 24.
Lion Hill .............. · .. 1 .040/41 .05'4

Little Bell ................ 1 .35 .37

Silver, 62 1,4 cents; lead, $4.50; copper
Lower Mammoth ......... 1
Mammoth . . . " ........... 1
Mason Valley . . . . . . . . . . .
.04%
·1" ......
.75 \ 1.05

.05

13.37%

ca thode, 17.40 cen ts.

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Uranium
May Day ........... "....
Mineral Flat ·,············1
,16
.01 I .161A,

.02
NEW YORK LISTED STOCKS.
Vanadium,
Mountain Lake ...........
'1" .. ... .
.04 .05
.-~-~-

Nevada British .......... .10

I Sales. 1 H. I L~ICi"se
Nevada Hil's ............. 2.02 % I 2.25
ch;noCopper-~:"'-;~~i 1,0001-38 %1-38%135%
New York ................ 1 .03 I .U6';q,
Goldfield Con. . ..... 1 1001 3"'1 3 %. 1 30/4
Ohio Copper ............. 1
Opohongo . . ......... ·····1
Pioche Demijohn ......... 11
.83 I
.12 % 1
.09'.4
.85

.13

Nevada Con. . . . . . . . 1 4,200\ 22':0.1 22 I 22%

l<ay Consolidated ..
.09~
'1 ennessee Copper .. 1
1,600 21},. 21~1 21 %
2001 44 ~!!I 44 % I 44 %
Tungsten
Pioche Metals ......•... ·.1 .02 I .03
..m1mi Copper •..... J liOOI 29%1 29%1 ~~ ..
Pittsburgh-Idaho . . . ...... 1 .90 1 1.17%
Utah Copper .... , ..• 1 5,6001 66 '.41 65 '.41 ti6
Plutus • ...................
Prince Consolidated ...... 1 1.65 \ 1. 70

Rexall . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . 1
.06%1
.02
.07')<4
Inspiratl()n CO~:....: ..:.:J~J..l9%1....!~ 19%
.02;"
NEW YORK CURB RANGE.
and Potasl
Seven Troughs ............ \ .02%1
I .03

Sil ver King Coalitl',ln .....

Silver Kmg Consoltdated.
Sil ver Shield ......................
2.75
.99
j .u"
3.00

1. 05

1 Sales. j H. . 1..' IClose

'AI
First' NaPl Coppe~:!~1-2 '.41~ 1 %1 ~ ~4 Properties"
Sioux 'Consolidated ........ \
South Iron Elossom .......
.04%
.00'.4
.05%
Giroux Con. . . . . . . . 1
. !!!J'I1o
Nevada 'Utah ...... ·1 .. · .... 1 5c I
6001 5':0.1 5"'.1 5%
2c 1 5c
Swansea Consolidated ..... , .05 %.1 .06 'h
Ray Central . . . . . . . i.... · .. l 3 2 1 3

Tintlc Central ............ \ .01% .01%.

xukon Gold ....... 1 1,0001 3%1 3%1 3%

I
United Tintic .. ,.......... .Ol 'A, .02
Uhio Copper .... ·· .. 1 1001 %.1 0/.1 %.

Uncle Sam ................ .15 I .17 New Keystone ...... 1 1001 2'.-21 2%1 2;"

South Utah ....... ·1·· .. ···1 %1 %1 %

Utah Consolidated. ········1 .02 .02¥., Mason VaHey ..... ·1· ...... 113 112;"113

Union Chief............... .13%. .14

RARE

Victor Consolidated ....... , .04 .05

braden Copper ...... 1 1,8001 7%1 7 7

Victoria Consolidated ..... .57 .59

Ely Consolidated ... 1.. 1,5001 3-161 3-161 3-16

Wilbert . ................. .18 .21

Belmont . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1001 10 1 9%.110

Yankee Consolidated ..... .10 1 .14

Tonopah . . . . . . . . . . . 1....... 1 i\1,1 7 1 7\1,

Yerington Copper ........_.j_~.~0~7~_~..~..t......

1l;1 Paso--'- ...:.....:..:.:..::......'_._._.!_1,5001 1%1 1%1 1-""

UnllHted Stock•• _ _ _ _-~

·Bid. I Asked.
Thompson-Quincy' .......... 1$' .38%1$~~39¥.;

C'olumbus Extension ...... 1 .12% .13;"

GREEN RIVER OIL FIELDS.

A Gre€ n River, Utah, eorrespondent of

METALS

Alta Consolidated ......... /

South Heela ..............
!?E"-~~~~lll,oli~~ ...... 1
.51 I
.14
.30
.54

.17

.35

I the Price Advocate, says: Dr. F. K. Col·

lins, a well known oil operator from the
Sales.

May Day, 500 at 16'hc.

ea£t, has just received a car of machinery
New York, 3,000 at 3',4c.

Ohio Copper, 200 at S3c.

Opohongo, 1,700 at 13c.

and oil well tools from Oklahoma. The

car was set :in on the switch at Solitude, a
Expert Chemist and Eng;
Pioche-Demijohn, 1,000 at 9~~c.

Prince Consolidated, 700 at U .67%; 200

13'tation seven miles east of Green RiveI'.
at .n,;li~ Central, 500 at l~c.
United Tintic, 500 at 1 ~c.
Uncle Sam, 500 at 16c; 500 at 16%c; buy­
er .Rixty days.
Union Chief, 500 at 14c.
Open Boord..
New York, 5,000 at 3 '.4c.
Opohongo, SOO at 13%c, buyer sixty days.
Prince Consolidated, 700 at $1.70; 500 at
$1.72%.
Yankee Consolidated. 600 at 14c.
Total...
Regular ca' I, 9,800 shares for $2,424.50.
Open board, 8,100 shares for $2.598.
Total, 17,900 shares or $5,022.50.
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LOCAl, METAL MARKET.
Augullt 12.
Silver, 61% cents; lead,
cathode, 17.40 cents.
Auguat 13.
Silver, 61% cents; lead,
cathode, 17.40 cents.
Augullt 14.
Silver, 61 ~ cents; lead,
cathode, 17.40 cen ts.
Dr. Collins has excellent equipment and
ers in connection
intends drilling at least three we1!1;l in the
areas that lie east and ·south of this place. ])any, is blfSy erecting a standard lif
The Klondike Oil company's No. 1 well, the No.2 well and expeotB to resume·
twenty-five mil€£ southeast of Green River tions in a few days. Tillis well wasJ
on the Moab road, is drilling at eight hun­ thirteen hundred feet with a No. 5 K&
dred feci in the eighth hole and is pass· machine .but the equipment 'was toe
ing through very promising black ahale. and the company now expects to dr!
This is the well that 1;ltruck gas at four well at least three thousand feet d
hundred and twenty-five feet 'which ignited necessary to complete the te£t. .
from the !boiler, severely burning the dril­ Col. Tasker has a force of men aj
ler. W. J. Dixon is the manager. on the San Rafael swell constructin~
The QUeen Oil company's No. 1 well, lo­ The field work of thd'3 company
$4.50; copper cated !llJbout five miles northwest of Klon­
Ithe direc!tion of Clhar~es
dike No.1, of which Clyde Hagen of Park. known as "Pure OU'.'
$4. 50; copper ersburg, W. Va,. is
resumed drilling at
Nat Levi of the

::a

36 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, AUG U S T 30, 19 12

RAILROAD TIME TABLES DENVER & RIO GRANDE TUIE TABLE.

OREGON SHOIlT I.INE TUIE CARD.

TIME CARD. Will you be with us
(Effective May 19, 1912.) In the new building
EFFECTIVE JUNE 16, 1912.

D"pnrt. Dnlly.
7:10 A.M ... Ogden, Malad, Den­

Arrlv...
D ..port Dully. as depositor or ten­
ver, Omaha, Kansas
Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 8:00 A.M.
City, Chicago, San
Midvale and Bingham ........... 7 :45 A.M. ant, or both?
Francisco, Ely and
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 8:35 A.M.
intermediate points
Park City ........................ 8:20 A.M.
Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 10:35 A.M.
beyond Ogden. (Og­

den and intermediate

Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 12:40 P.M. Our new ban kin g
points only arriving) .. 8:Hi A.M.
Ogden, San Fra;,cisco, Portland .. 2:45 P.M.
8:00 A.M ... Ogden, Logan, Poca­

Midvale and Bingham ............ 2:45 P.M. rooms, into which we

Denver, Chicago and East ........ 5 :20 P.M.
tello, Boise, Marys­

ville. Intermediate­
Provo, Springville, Tintic ........ 4:50
Denver, ·Chicago and East ........ 7:00
P.M.
P.M.
will move this fall,
lI1ontpeUcr. Going .. 10:10 P.M.
Ogden, Portland and Seattle ...... 11:10 P.M.
10:00 A.M.. . Ogden and Interme­ will be among the
diate Points ......... 6 :55 P.M. Arrive Doi:y.
11 :40 A.:\1. .. Overland Limited- Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles 8:15 P.M. finest in the west.
Omaha, Chicago, Tintic, Springville, Provo ........ 10:20 A.M.
Denver, St. Louis .... 3:20 P.M. Hingham and Midvale ............ 10:30 A.M.
11:55 A.M... Los Angeles Limited Denver, Chicago and East ........ 12 :25 P.M.
-Omaha, Chicago,
Denver, St. Louis .... 4 :45 P.M..
Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 2:10
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 2 :35
P.M.
P.M. WALKER
1 :05 P.M... Over:and Limited-
Ogden, San Francisco alld West .. 4 :55 P.M.
Ogden, Reno, Sacra­
mento, San Francisco .. 2:05 P.M.

Park City and Intermediate Points 5:00

Bingham and Midvale ............ 5:30
P.M.
P.M.
BROTHERS
2:45 P.M... Ogden, Boise, Port­ Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 6 :30 P.M.
land, Butte .......... 4 :50 P.M.
2 :45 P.M... Ogden, San Francisco .. 6 :55 P.M.
Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 6 :50
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 10 :55
P.M.
P.M.
BANKERS
4:15 P.M... Ogden, Brigham,
Phone, Wosot("h, 2526.

Cache Valley, Malad

TI"k"t ofll..". 301 I\laln Str""t.
You can become a depositor through our
and Intermediate .... 11 :35 A.M.

5:20 EM... Ogden, Denver, Oma­ banking by mail department, no matter

ha, Chicago, Park
City, Green River where you live. W rite for booklet.
and West, only, re­
turning) . . . . . . . . . . . 12 :40 P.M.
6 :00 P.M... Motor Flyer-Ogden
and Intermediate .... 9 :35 A.M.·
BIN6HAM &6ARFIELD

7:15 P.M... Yellowstone Special

-Ogden, Pocatello,
Idaho Falls and Yel­
lowstone Park' (Chi­
cago and East and
RAILWAY COMPANY

San Francisco and

West, also arriving) .. 7 :40 A.M. The Scenic Line t8 the Great Copper

11 :45 P.M... Ogden, Boise, Port­

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

City TI..k"t 011'1..", Hot"l Utah. T"l. Ex. HI.

SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES & SAI.T I,AKE

RAILROAD COMPANY.

TWO TRAI N S DAI LY

VIA

SMITH & 'ADAMS

I
(Effective June 16, 1912.)

Union StntIon, SoIt Lok" City, Utah.

THE 6ARFIELD SMELTER MANUFACTURER8 OF TENT8 AND AWNING8
Filter Cloth., Ore BaC., Camping Out6ts, Anything
AND
Made of CanV2I, Gel our price•• Send for Catalogue

No.7-Los
DEPART.

Angeles Limited,
Los Angeles ............. 5 :00 P.M.

to
MILLS OF UTAH COPPER CO. 226·227 Edison 8treet, 8alt Lake City, Utah

No. I-The Over:and, to Los An­ th's primitive way he has washed out fully
geles .................... 11 :50 P.M.
$300 since the 4th of July. Several hundred
No. 51-Miner's Local, to Tooele and

Eureka . . . ............. 7 :30 A.M.

Excursions between
pounds of this specimen ore has been taken
No.53-Garfield Local, to Garfield

and Smelter ............ 6 :50 A.M.

Salt Lake City and Bingham

out, and it is yet too early to give an idea
No. 55-Tooele Special, to Garfield
Every Sunday
of the extent of the find, though all Indica·
and Smelter, and Tooele .. 2:40 P.M.

No. 57~arfield Owl, to Garfield and

tions are that it will 'prove an important
Smelter ................. 11 :00 P.M.
$I.()() Round Trip one. In the meantime Mr. Roberts is 'reap­
No. 61-Lynndyl Special, to Lehi,

American Fork, Provo,

ing a golden harvest such as all prospectors
Payson, Nephi, Lynndyl.. 4 :50 P.M.

No. 63-VaJleyMail, to Provo, Ne­

are searching for.
phi, San Pete Valley and
The new ledge has been traced 300 feet
Mercur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 A.M.
For further Information aDplD to anD "Sail Lake
Route" '1r Bingham & Garfield Railwa/i Agent and in places is four feet wide. It Is in
ARRIVE.
-or- the Eccentric claim joining the Snow Creek
No.8-Los Angeles Limited, hom
Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 :40 A.M. H. B. TOOKER. Oen" Pass. Agent mine.
No.2-The Overland, from Los An­
geles . . . . ............... 6 :30 A.M. 617 Meeornlck Bulldlnll' SALT LAKB CITY ----0---­
No. 52-Miner's Local, from Eureka, FREE.
Silver City, Stockton,
Tooele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:50 P.M.
No.54-Garfield Local, from Gar­ ROBERTS STRIKES IT RICH. Sporting goods catalogue. Address WleSl
field, Smelter ... ; ........ 8:50A.M. ern Arms & Sporting Goods Co., Salt L!'.kE'
NO.56-Garfield Local, from Smelt­
er, Garfield ............. 6 :00 P.M. (American, Sumpton, Oregon.) City, Utah.
No. 58~arfield Owl, from Garfield, ----0---­
Smelter, Riter .......... 12:55 A.M. Just by way of showing that there are
No. 62-Lynndyl Specia', from
yet a few min'ng sensations to brought to PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.
Lynndyl, Nephi, Provo and
Intermediate Points ..... 10:05 A.M. light in the Greenhorn district Frank Rob­
No.64-Valley Mall, from Nephi, The Salt Lake Photo Supply company.
Provo, Mereur .......... 6 :05 P.M. erts, a well known prospector, has opened
159 Main, headquarters for Kodaks, Cam·
Bingham & Garfteld R. R. Co, ore that brings to mind the rich strike of
DEPART.
eras, Supplies and Kodak Finishing. Mall
Gilkey & Kershaw a few years ago, Mr.
No. 109-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 7 :45 A.M.
us your orders. Come and see our new
No.lll-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 3:15 P.M.
Roberts uncovef\ed his find while placerlng
store.
ARRIVE,
and since then has been pounding out from
NO.llO-Bingham to Salt Lake .... 10:40' A.M.

N.>.1I2-Blngham to Salt Lake., .. 6:10 P.M. $10 to $20 !l day with a hand mortar.,~: "';~'~~;'~H;~~it~;~~~["