VOL. 14. No.8.
SINGrLE COPY, 15 CENTS
II THE PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY OF UTAH
The Portland Cement Co. of Utah has
built and is operating at Salt Lake City a
plant, representing an investment, in all de·
partments, of $650,000, which is an example
of the latest and best practice in I'quipment
for the manufacture of Portland cement
Plant of the Portland Cement Company of utah at Salt Lake City.
by the dry process. The plant was built
in the early part of 1910, and. with some
improvements and modifications since
added, 'it is now one of the best equipped
and most interesting plants in the west.
Its brand, UTAH, has the very highest rep·
utation throughout Utah, Idaho, Nevada and
SALT LAKE OITY. UTAH. JULY 30. 1912.
ea'Stern Oregon and ''Va:;hington for uniform
hig? quality and satisfactory behavior un·
der all conditions of construction, and for
all types of concrete work, from the foot·
ing for the ~ve hundred dollar-cottage up
to the foundation piers, reinforced frame
and concrete floors or the twenty-story sky·
scraper, and from the farmer-s two-foot
head-gate -of an irrigation ditch to the stor­
age dam and tunnel linings of the Straw­
;berry Project.
Portland cement is an artificial product.
made by combining, in certain fixed propor·
tions, lime, silica, and alumium, under a
heat of about 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
These element3 may be 'Secured from vari­
ous kinds' of natural raw materials, such
as limestone, marble, marl and chalk for
the lime content, and various clays and
(Photo by Shiplers )
shales for the sillca and aluminum. In or­
der to secure the intimate mixture neces­
sary for effecting a complete and stable
combination, it is of course necC'S;;;ary that
these raw materials shall be ground to·
gether to an extreme fineness and most
carefully mixed. In this [Jarticular. as well
UTi r
 THE' S A ~ T LAKE !VI I N I N G R E VI E W, J U LY 30, 1 9 1 2.

thers, the Illako/~ ~ V,fA~ ~ortland ceo the fire-grate is at the inlet or higher end the tubemills, which are 6x22 feet, made
.t are fortunate, IJtasIJ:!.uch as their raw of the drier, ,and the smoke-stack at the by Allis-Chalmers, and equipped with the
erial is an unusually 'uniform deposit l{)wer or discharge end. The fire, therefore, usual silex lining and Hint grinding pebbles.
he ,so-called 'cemfjnt rock," or argillace­ Is most intense at the inlet end where the The tubemiIls del~ver the product ground
i limestonfj, a sedimentary aeposlt in rock, of course, contains the most moisture, to a fineness of 85 per cent through a 100­
~h lime, silica and aluminum are most and the fire follows the rock through to mesh screen, and most thoroughly artd in·
Inately combined in such a way that the discharge end. This method of firing timatelY mixed. This raw dust is dellverea
, unite In the process of cement-mak­ a drier has' pr{)ved much more efficient from the tubemills to the fee-bins over th~
with the least possible chance for vari­ than the ordinary type, in which the fire­ two rotary kilns, which are 125 feet long by
on or uneven combination. grate Is at the lower or discharge end. 8 feet i11 diameter, made by AIls-Chalmers,
At the Company's Quarry_ Process of Manufacture. and operated in the usual way, ,being set on
The company's raw materials are de­ From the rock dr,ler, the raw mater:al a slight incline and rotated slowlY, so that
ited in inexhaustible quantities on its Is delivered to separate storage bins, from the raw material, passing in at .the upper
1 property, some 300 acre:> in extent. in which it is fed !by automatic feeders, set end through an a,300stos-covered feed-pipe,
'ley's canyon, ll>hout ten miles from Salt to deliver the exact proportions dictated, travels slowly through the kiln antI in its
re City. The rock is quarried by the., by the chemist. These feeders deliver the passage is clinkered by a fire of powdered
len face" >system. by means of shafts. rock from two or more bins to a belt con· coal and a'r, blown in from the lower end
I tunnels driven into the face of the veyor running underneath, securing a very by means of pressure b~owers. The clinker,
k and so charged and fired as to break uniform and intimate mixture without the which is practically slag, fused to a slightly
and throw down the roek in quantities
i grades most suitable for cement-mak-
The quarry Is equipped with a 7~ K
tes gyratory crusher, having a capacity
fifty, ton:> per hour. together with the
cessary boiler, engine and compressor
• furnishing pOWfjr to the crusher, ele
tor, and Sullivan drills, which are used
'oughout the quarry. The rock i'S tak'ln
t on two levels, the main floor, being at
1 level of the crusher, and the' upper rr
~h-lime quarry being reached by means
a chute and inclined tramway, whir'h
livers the rock to the erusher on the
me level as the main floor. From the
usher, the rock is fjlevated and di3tri­
ted to the storage bins of two hundred
d fifty tons capacity by means of a travel­
g horiztontal belt ~nveyor on the top
the bin. There are eight of these stor­
'e bins under one roof, making a storage
,pacity of 2,000 ton'S of crushed rock at
e quarl'Y. As each bin is filled it is au­
matically sampled by means of a Snider·
.mpling-wheel and a small .sample crusher.
hese samples, which are forwarded daily
, the laboratory at the plant, gIve the
lemi~ accurate advance information as
• the character of the rock in each bin.
ld enable him to regulate the shipments One of the Roasters or Kilns In the Plant of the Portland Oement 00. of Utah. (Photo by Shlplers)
, rock to the plant aecording to the pro­ danger of the variations caused by mixing plastic condition, rolls up into more or less
)rtions and character required. two grades of rock in units of from one even round clinkers in its passage through
The rock is transported from the quarry hundred to two thousand pounds, as is the the kiln, and drops at the discharge end at
I the mill OlVer the Park City braneh of case in the ordinary automatic weighing a bright red heat into a continuous bucket
Ie Denver & Rio Grande railroad, using de"ices usually employed for this purpose. carrier, which runs on the four sides of a
Ie short-bodied National dump cars of fifty The mixture from the rock bins is delivered steel frame housing with sprockets at each
IDS capacity. equipped for bl)ttom dumping. by belt conveyors and elevator .to the corner.
hese ·cars are switched in on the rock kominuters, which are Smldth and Com­ The coal used for firing the kilns is ,the
-ack at the plant and are unloaded one at pany's improved type of the ordinary baIl Utah Fuel company's Castle Gate slack,
time by tripping their contents into a mill, charged with steel balls and lined with which, on account of its high percentage
it underneath the track; from it, the rock manganese steel grinding plates. These of volatile matter, has Pf{)Ven most suitable
! carrled by a belt conveyor and elevator kominuters. by means of an ingenious al'­ for this purpose. The eoal Is drIed in a
!lrough a set of Allis Chalmers 36x14 Ana­ rangement of return feed pipes and inner dJouble-shell,fire.,beated drier, fitted with
onda rolls, and then to the roc~-drier, and outer screens, are entirely self-contained both smoke-stack and :vapor stack, and is
rhlch removes all moisture from the rock and deliver a uniform product, screened to then passed through two sets of rolls, ,and
y direct heat. This drier is the ordinary the desired fineness, without any further a 5x22-foot Smidtil tUlbemill, which delivers
evolving drum or cylinder type, fitted with separatin.g or combining apparatus, From the coaldust, red}lCed to a fineness of 95
;·bars on the inside, and set on an ,incline. the kominuters, the material, which is now per cent through the 100-mesh screen. This
~he method of firing, however, is the re­ reduced to a coarse grit, all of which will coal-dust, conveyed to small bins set in
'erse of that ordinarily used, inasmueh as pass the 20-mesh screen, is delivered to front of the lower end of the kilns, is fed
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, J U L Y 30, 1912. 11

by an automatically regulated screw-feed
into the outlet pipe from the blowers, in
which it meets a blast of air and is mixed
with air and blown into the kilns, where it
forms a very intense and at the same time
elongated flame, perfectly adapted for heat­
, ing the kiln to clinkering temperature, for
about sixty feet from its lower end.
The continuous bucket carrier for clinker
carries the hot, clinker horizontally from
the kilns, elevates it and carires It again
horizontally across the mill and delivers it
to the clinker cooler, a steel cylinder sml­
lar to fu,e rock drier, 'but for the opposite
purpose. The clinker is wet by a constant
stream of water as it enters the cooler and
is met in its passage through ,by a blast
of -cool air from a blower, which both dries
and cools the material, so, that, by the time
Tube Mills Grinding Raw Material In Plant of Portland Cement 00. of Utah.
been recently equipped with an improve­
ment patented by Smidth & Co., consisting
of a perforated partition across the barre!
of the mill, about one-fourth of its length
from the discharge end, and the use in this
small compartment of small bits of round
steel rods about three-fourths by one-fourth
inch, as a grinding medium, in place of
the flint ,pebbles whioh are used in the
main bodY' of the mill. This device results
in increasing the capacity of the tubemi'ls
on clinker ,by at least 35 per cent, and
increasing the fineness at the same time
frorr. six to ten pomts on both the 100 and
200 screens.
From the turbemills the UTAH cement
is conveyed to the storage b:ns in the
st.ockhouses, where it is sacked and
weighed, and loaded on cars and teams fot
(Photo by Shlplers)
ment plant is furnished by a series of indi­
vidual motors, varY'ing from the 200 horse­
power motors which drive the tubemills to
the 7% housepower motors which drive the
elevators and con,veyors. Generally speak­
ing, each piece of machinery and elevat­
ing and conveying apparatus has its OW,l
motor, an arrangement which attords the
maximum of flexibility in handling the ma­
terial through the different processes, with
the minimum loss of time and output
through a tempor,ary break-down In anyone
department. The total horse-power of the
motor installation Is 1,300. The power cur­
rent Is purchased from the Utah Light and
Railway company, and delivered at the
tr,ansformer house at 4,000 volts, being
stepped down to 2,200 volts and 440 volts
for the two types of motors employed. The
transformer house, ,itself, is a 'Very nne ell.­
ample of careful and intelligent arrange­
ment of transformers, wiring, departmen­
tal 'Switch connections, recording instru­
ments, and lightning arresters, required for
the utmost efficiency and flexibility in the
power department. The power is delivered
{rom the transformer bouse to the several
departments of the mill by lead-covered
cables, laid in underground conduits, thus
affording the utmost security to the con­
nections, and doing away with practically
all danger to life and property fr'Om acc!­
dental contact with high-power wires_
The raw deposits from Which this com­
pany manufacturers its product is conceded
to be ODe of the highest grade deposits of
its kind known, and its plant is one of the
most compact and up-to-date in the United
States today. The company has demon­
strated that the quality of UTAH Portland
is not excelled by any brand ot' Portland
cement which is manufactured either in
this country or abroad. Its product has
been used extensively througllout the west
in the most Important work, among which
are some 'Of the large irrigation projects,
and a great many mills and smelters; scores

of large .buildings, among which are the

Roston and Newhouse huildings, the Walker
it drops from the end of the cooler Intu delivery. In this particular, also, the UTAH
Bank building in Salt Lake City; and in
the weigh scales, it has a temperature of plant is remarkable, being almust the only
various cities throughout the west for pav­
only about 100 degrees. cement plant operating within the Iim:t~ ing sidewalks, curbs, gutters, etc. The com­
The weigh seales have a capacity of of a considerable eity, and delivering itS' payn feels that it would be a difficult mat­
3,200 pounds, and not only register the cement directly from its mill to the wagons ter to make a grade of Portland cement
weight of clinker produced bour ,by hour, of the city dealers and contractors without which would be superior to UTAH Port­
but also afford an opportunity for add,ing the intervention of any ra,ilroad h'l.ul. land, but when modern methods of manu­
an accurate percentage of raw crushed gyp­ A modern P{)rtland cement plant, such facture have improved to such an extent
sum, to the amount of about 2¥! per cent as the one here described, is a fine example that it will be jl03sible t'O surpass its pres­
by weight, is mixed with tIle clinker and of the typical American tie.velo{)ment of au ent day methods, then the Portland Cement
serves to regulate the rate of set of the tomatic machinery and devices for handling company of Utah will be in the van and
finished cement. From the weigh scales, material rap1dly, efficiently and cheaply. its product will be what this company has
the clinker passes through another pair' M From the moment that the tram-cars at the always striven to make it, the very best that
Smidth kominuters, and from them again to quarry are dumped ,into the crusher until
can he produced.
two Allis-Chalmers finishing tubemills, from the finished cement is put into the bags in
-··~-~o-~---
which it is deli;vered, ground to a fineness the stockhouse. the material is not touched
of 98 per cent through 1M-mesh screen, by any human hand or by any hand-driven The Bingham-New HaVE;n ~lining com­
and 80 per cent through 200-mesh screen, tool. pany, of Hingham, Utah has posted a. d~Vl'
In the form of finished UTAH Portland Machinery Electrically Operated. dcnd of 10 cents a share on outstandmg
cement. These finishing tubemills have The power fol' the UTAH Portland Ce­ stock, amounting to $22,869.
 SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV I.E W, J ULY 30, 1 9 1 2.

flue this might collect for months before

iE METALLURGY OF LEAD By H. B. PULSIFER
)ortant Factors in Blast Roasting.
)*
Roasting Operation.
:harge once prepared and assembled
roaster unit those operations per­
to the roasting act itself may be
begin. As commonly carried out,
,parate steps comprise this duty;
the units, igniting, blowing or sln­
nd ~mptying or discharging.
the assembling and mixing and
ng of the charge It ,has quite a
onsistency, the proper consistency
best sinter is exactly that at which
through an opening or in a trough
.st difficulty; in other words, that
1 .It best retains any given shape.
:is it follows that we must not ex·
put it in a large hopper bin over
s and be able to draw it without
able difficulty; besides the possible
ing we now have a mass which will
k easily nor flow easily; in fact,
, what we want and we must merely
nditions to handle it properly. Any­
ore than a s!Uall, simple and 'wide­
hopper directly over the unit can
Iy two advantages; one is as stor·
)qualize irregular supply, the other,
rage disseminates the moisture very
ind uniformly; both of these ad.
3, to my mind, do not compensate
disadvantages involved. Any cars
ers handling prepared charges will
steep-shled and with wide months,
yor belts are used, ample provision
to brush or to scrape the belt di·
fter it discharges.
charge is dropped upon the grate
mit, this already made ready with
19 bed or burning igniting material,
is broken with appropriate strips of
r steel; it is quite as readily slid
The slntering follows fast and well if
the previous work has been well done; noth­
ing will avail in the units to compensate
for ,poor preparation. With any type of unit
the ,blast or suction is turned on and re
suits awaited.
The factors of moisture, fineness, unl
formity, sulphur, lead, iron and silica in the
mixture have been pretty thoroughly dis­
cussed and their limits defined. More than
already stated, It is to be noted that some
zine is usual in all ores and concentrates;
up to 3 or 5 per cent its effect is certain·
ly not more harmful than possibly giving
higher sulphur in the product. Sulphide ores
containing more than this amount should
be milled for its separation. Flue dust well
Incorporated into the mixture does no par­
"another man to clean grates and the fines
(Iilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilimil '~'
~-.~tWJ
Section and End View. with Desl ..n of Grates. of
requiring removaL
When the operation' of roasting and s;n·
tering Is completed or has been carried as
far as practical, the discharging takes plaCE)
according to the particular equipment In­
'stalled; any particular cost for this part
of the work should be eliminated. Thus,
at Midvale, the services of the ram man
and the crane chaser are practically de·
voted entirely to this detail, involving a di·
rect cost of 4 5c. per ton. With the Greena·
',~
walt pan, which is in unstable equilibrium
when loaded, a slight push inverts it and
the cake falls out, breaking on the angle
irons below and sliding off Into the steel
boat or skip placed below, ready to be
taken to the breaker.
The Dwight-Lloyd machines are supposed
to work equally simple and with the same
minimum cost.
Nothing more complicated or costly of
operation will be tolerated in future design;
even for these simple cases one must bear
in mind the ,properties of the material and
use no material or construction which
would be quickly damaged by the nard,
rough and hot cakes in their entirety if,
perchance, they should not be broken as
expected.
Referring to the data given, the labor
cost of the roasting operation is given as
20.7c. at one plant, and for the other plant
we may likewise find a sum of similar itE-\ns
which will amount to 6.3c. For a Greena·
walt pan we may properly estimate that 2
men, whose pay equal $4.00 an 8-hour shift.
>will be able to dump and load a pan every
15 minutes, or handling a tonna'ge of 60
tons per 8 ,hours their labor wlll cost 6.7c.
per ton, If we add to this the services of
from beneatii the grates we shall have a
cost for labor of approximately lOco per
ton. This item of operating cost for the
Dwight·Lloyd machines might be supposed
to be somewhat less.
To furnish the blast or suction requires

wide and steep trough. Once in Greenwalt Oown Oraft Pan.

more power than tile sum of all the other
t, the sticks are removed and the power requirements in the roasting depart·
, spread with hoe or shovel; suction ticular' harm even if it does contain large ment.
quires an additional smoothing with ""mounts of arsenic. If. l~t us say. 100 continuouB horse­
any coarse bits on top are also
I, as they hinder 'Ignition.
The blast regulation at the unit is more
to compensate for faults elsewhere than as
power is required to supply air to treat
300 tons of material per 24 hours at a
i
Igniting has already been quite fully belonging to this detail of sintering, except, cost of $30.00 per horsepower year the cost
'd for all ty,pes in' the literature, with updrafts pots or stalls where the Is very nearly 3c. per ton.
:h proper preparation of the charge, blast is cased or shut off while the blow· Depending upon the cost of coal or of
I no particular difficulties. The Igni­ holes are punched. The sulphur, arsenic and the electricity, this item is in so much a
,h oil or suction equipment is likely lead fume from suction units will accumu­ variable factor; the price of coal at most
,pest of any methoil; this need not late in a fan placed near the unit; the fan lead smelters, due 'to the long haul, will
a cO,st of 5c. per ton, which is a is thus to be made with the case split hori· hardly be at a low figure and the price of
gore tha!l we are aware of as other· zontal and hinged so that it can be qulck~y power will probably be much greater than
,ainable. For use in the fine nozzles opened and cleaned. A large fan placed in this last instance. In the case of two
must be free from grit and scale at considerable distance from the units and plants already considered the cost of, power
fittings well made. supplying several with suction will have has been estimated at 9 and lOco per ton
slight inconvenience from the small amount of production, respectively. Without fur­
m "Metallurgical and Chemical EIl­ of fU'me made. A few pounds of the sticky ther explicit {lata the cost of a suction
(g," wifb slight alterations, by per- fume will put a small although powerful plant will be assumed at this same figure
fan entirely out of commission; In a large (9),) per ton.

"
WZt w $'c1Cft'tn _rtM'if'ittt#' b'ttih't "hz%
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, J U LY 30, 1912. 1S

3. Crush:ng and Loading. apparatus. Skips are proving their useful­

The employment of hand labor, alone, to
break and load the product of the roasters
is altogether too expensive to be consid­
ered where the amount of product is as
,large a,s is likely to be found in any per­
manent lead plant. A certain development
in learning how to treat the roast mechani­
cally is to ,be recorded, but, the usual cost
of this operation is, evidently far greater
ness in many instances, and the cranes also
in use testify for their high cost for up·
keep.
Summary of Operating Cost.
Various summaries of operating cost for
different plants are at hand in the litera­
ture indicated.
In his paper in the Engineering and Min­
ing Journal Herbert Haas supplies the fol­
• for 80 tons, or
63c. per ton.
He estimates the cost of converting thus:
Labor: 3 foremen at $3 20 .. $ 9.60
9 men at $2.50...... 22.50
Power: 21 hp. at 30c........ 6.30
Supplies, repairs and renew­
als ....................... 5.00
Total .................... $43.40=

than will long be tolerated.
Allowing a crane man, a hoist man and
3 laborers as at work on this detail to care
for 90 tons a shift the labor cost is about
Hc. a ton. The question arises, should not
a hoist man and one laborer be sufficient,
and we inevitably answer that we believe
the plant could easily be so designed that
lowing estimate for a plant consisting of 20
of his units, each of which is to ,handle 20
tons per 24 hours. To the. table he adds
the cost of bedding, mixing and conveying
the material, which items he says may
amount to from 5 to 20c. per ton.
.cOST PER TON OF SINTERING WITH
400-TON PLANT.
60c. per ton of chin.
Total cost of treatment Ingalls also
gives as follows:
Crushing, 1.0 ton at 10c ............ $0.10
M.ixing. 1.0 ton at 10c .............. 0.10
Roasting, 1.0 ton at 63c. . ......... 0.63
Delivering, 1.1 tons to converters at
12c............................... 0.13

'with not more than present power consump· Fuel and Labor. Converting, 1.1 tons at 60c ......... 0.66

tion this amount of labor can do the work. Fuel for primer, 1 per cent on charge Breaking, 0.9 ton at 60c, .......... 0.54

The tough, hard, massive and hot cakes @ $2.50 per ton ............. , .... $0.025
commonly made with up-blast must first be Six men for priming, two per shift, Total ........................... $2.16

broken before going to the crusher; even @ $2.00 ........................... 0.03

then an inordinate amount of labor is con­
sumed in pounding, prying and turning
!tbout the big pieces before they settle in·
Ingalls also remarks that the Savel berg
One and one-half man per unit, @
process will probably be a serious competi­
$2.00 .............................. 0.15
tor insomuch as the roasting is omitted,
Six crane men. @ $2.50
thus making the process cost 63c. less.
In the same paper the cost of the Car­
michael-Bradford process is given to be as
estimated by the patent owners:
LalXlr reckoned at $1.80 per 8 hours,
gypsum to cost $2.40 per 2,240 lb., and coal
at $8.40 per 2.240 l'b.
o 25 ton of gypsum ................ $0.60
Dehydrating and grnulating gypsum. 0.48
Drying mixture of ore and gypsum ... 0.12
Converting ......................... 0.24
Spalling sintered material .......... 0.12
0.01 ton coal ...................... 0.08

Total ........................... $1.64

LonlCitudlnal Section and Side View of Down-Draft Pan. In 1910 Hofman gave the cost of the
to the jaws of the crusher. To use a Blake­ Three crane operators. @ $3.00 ....... 0.06
blast roasting at Midvale, Utah, as $1.25 per
type crusher of larger size than 24 in. x 36 Three foremen, @ $4.00 ............. 0.03
ton when treating 320 tons a day. He also
in, which is a common size, is evidently Six laborers. @ $2.00 ................ 0.03
says that the estimate of Ingalls of $2.16
not practical; it is, however, not so dif­ Power. per net ton of blown mixture should be
ficult to imagine a £et of slow·turning and 50 hp,hours per unit for air @ 1c ... '0.025 deducted by one·third for Rocky Mountain
massive rolls above the crusher. whose 800 hp-hours for crushing sinter @ 1c. 002 plants and by one-half for the Mississippi
teeth shOUld engage and draw in the cake 600 hp-hour for operating crane @ Valley region. This would leave his esti­
to be broken and passed down to the crush­ 1c. . .. , ......... ,................. 0.015 'mates $1.44 for the first and $1.08 for the
er for final sizing. Grusher repairs. wear and tear, sup· second case.
It ought not to be difficult to plan and plies. etc. ........................ 0.03 In this same paper Hofman states that
construct units so that a skip could catch Repair of plant, wear and tear, sup­ at Salida, Colo., a Dwight-Lloyd machine is
the finished cake and carry it directly along plies, etc.......................... 0.10 treating 50 tons of mixture a day at a cost
and up and over the crushing equipment, Amortization: 10 per cent on $8,000 of 75c. per ton, also that two machines in
dumping it and returning for the next load. per unit .................... , ..... 0.11 Illinois are treating 100 tons a day at a
Meanwhile. 'we 'suppose the rake to have Interest on invested capital, 5 per cent cost of less than 50c. per ton.
fallen in, been crushed, and is now drop­ on $8,0.00 per nnit ............... 0.055 In 1908 Austin, in the Mining and Scien­
ping down into the railroad cars which en· tific Press, estimated the cost for a 50,ton
Total estimated cost of sintering H. & H. l,lant to be:
ter directly beneath. We thus come to
per ton ................ , ..... $0.680
13 men at $2.50 .......... $27.34
esti'mate a cost of only 5c. per ton, which
Ingalls. in 1906, estimated the cost of 1 foreman (part) ....... 1.40
we presume will more than likely be bet­
pre·roasting in the H, & H. process to be Fuel. soft coal, at $1.55.. 9.30
tered in the plants of the future. In parti·
cular ,with downdraft work, which produces 63c. per ton, estimating details' as fol· Power, est .... ,........ 3.00
lows: Light, est .............. 0.40
a much more open sinler than up·draft, this
I.abor: 3 men at $2.50 .... $7.50 Repairs and supplies .... 2.50
estimate will be reasonable enough.
Coal: 18 tons at $2.00 .. 36.0:1
In regarding to handling this type of
Power ................... 3.35 Total. ....... , ......... $43.94 and com­
:naterial with elevators and conveyor belts.
Repairs .................. 3.35 pares this at a cost of $1.02 per ton (the
)1' conveying steel buckets, the burden of

Jroving adaptability is still evidently Oll the Total ................ $50 20

product weighing 15 per cent less than the
 THE SAL T
·
I: with a cost of $2.60 for hand roast·
bdvuetting the same material..
ing and Heberlein, in their paper,
, that pre roasting cannot cost more
c. a ton, and that, in the United
it will cost 24c. a ton less than
Very often. in the course of working pros­
llowing.
pects or mines situated at a considerable
lis discussion the cost of H. & H.
distance from a base of supply it devolves
1t has been given as:
'llponthose doing the work to exercise a
200 ton capacity .. 85c. per ton
lnt, 400 ton capacity .. 69c. per ton
ferter stall treatment as
270 ton capacity .... 87c.per ton
Int, 350 ton capacity ... 68c. per ton
Ich case this refers to per ton pro­
t to operating cost only.
:l1Il'marlze for a down-draft plant, in
~r for a Greenawalt pan inst'll.lla·
th even less than customary cap­
ay, operating cost:
~ons capacity-
Ig charges .. $0.06
; ........... 0.10
~ and load­
0.14
ne to cover
0.02
0.05
0.05
012
0.02
0.05
.......... $0.46 per ton of product
H. B. PULSIFER,
Institute of Techuology, Chicago, Ill.
o
lORE IN SUNRISE DISTRICT.
(Times. Yerington. Nev.)
Pringle is in from Sunrise district
~omo mountains, where he is work·
old prospect from which he is ex-
and sacking ore that runs $1 a
In the tunnel which he is driving
mountain he has a vein about five
e. of which two feet 13 very high·
e, running up into the fancy figures.
ance of the vein is what ma.y be
\ high·grade milling ore and ",-;ill avo
·out two and one-half ounces of gold
He would like to begin shipping
but finds it hard to find freight
lat are not busy these day'S. How·
says he will get somebody to haul
1S he can afford to pay a good price
haul when he is getting ore that
over $1,000 per ton. Mr. Pringle
everything booming iI;l the Sunrise
The Baltimore company. in their
shaft. have made a big strike of
ling several hundred dollars to the
gold, the vein being opened to a
between five and six feet. A great
ople are on their way into the dis·
d several properties are already
pt\-on, it being reported that Geo.
i had a man In looking over the
's a short time ago.
LAK E MIN I N G REV lEW, J ULY 3 0, 1 9 1 2.
HOME-MADE LANDING CRADLE
Written for the Mining Rev!e... by GEO. H. RYAN. B. M.
T·he crade "A" was made of l1,4x1,4
strap iron, riveted, and two guide C'mbers
"J" bolted on to receive the bucket. Two
counter weights "A," being behind the winze
good deal of ingenuity to devise some spe­ door, were attached to lugs on the cradle;
cial method or appliance with which to ac· the ropes running through pulleys bolted to
complish the work in hand. Having read the stull "H." Nail kegs, partly filled with
with a good real of interest and profit the dirt, served for counter weights, and were
many "shop kinks" appearing in The Salt adjusted so as to pull the empty hucket
Lake Mining Review from time to time I back to the position Shown at "A." A tail
am here giving a description of a device rod attached to the back of cradle at the
whfch it became necessary to create with ·bottom, by a clevis, with notches at "E."
as little time and expense as possible. It "F" and "'0" into which a latch dropped,
served its purposes well and can be dupli­ held the cradle in the required positIon at
cated. with modifications or improvements. each end of Its ·swing. The notch "G" is to
hold the cradle back out of the 'way after
to fit any similar case.
At a property in Nevada where the it has landed a bucket of muck to be
writer was in charge it became necessary dumped. The latch is lifted by the rope
I
,
\:
I
f
,:
CRADLE
LANOING
to unwater and work an old incline winze shown running back to engine, and can be
already equipped with hoist and gallows
frame, the latter being so low as to leave
arranged for engineer to operate with one
foot while his hands are engaged with the
.
very little room in which to swing and dump brake and clutch levers.
the buckets, necessaating the constant ser­ As soon as the loaded bucket is on the
vice of a man to handle them, besides the cradle in position "A," t,he latch is releas­
engineer. ed and the cradle swings to position "B,"
After experiencing considerab:e annoy­ where the latch eng~ges notch "F" In the
ance in working in such close quarters I case of hoisting water. or. if hoisting muck.
rigged up the landing cradle shown III Uie the latch is held up so it passes "F" and
ac60mpanying cut and was able to dispense engages "G." As the counter weights re­
with the top man, which amounted to quite tard the momentum of the cradle with load,
an item, inasmuch as there was not enough there is very little jar when the latoh en·
hoisting to keep the engine go:ng the full gages the notche·s.
shift, and it. was necessary tq take a man A valve bucket made from a forty gallon
from other work. barrel, shod with strap-iron. gave very effi­
By referring to the illustration the con­ cient service for the amount of water w·e
struction and method of operating tile had to handle. There was a hinged trough
cradle can be readily seen. which dropped over the opening in the plat­
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, J U L Y 30, 1912.

and discharged the water into a tank

1 which it ran through the engine ex­
,t to the mouth of the tunnel. CONDENSED ESSAY 0 N COAL By ROLLA B. CLAPP, B. M.. B. G.
Nhen tnrough hoisting the weight ropes
e unhooked from the lugs, leaving the
{ clear to run cars back and forth across Coal. (Mineralogy.) Coal is a carbonace' locali ties of the earth, though, in '3uch
winze door. ous mineral substance, black, brownish­ stances, either mixed with or passing in
Salt Lake, Utah, July 20, black and brown, shiny or dull easily ,brok· lignite, a greatly diminished fossil fuel
---------0'--------­ en, often splintery, inflamma,ble, and es­ value, because a very small amount of t
A BIG MINING DEAL. sentially u3ed for fuel; its constituents of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen has be
gases and fats being by destructive distil­ eliminated by chemical alterations, and
(Miner, Mackay, Idaho.) lation segregated chemically. It is com· a result of this as high as thirty-two I
posed of carbc)ll, 40%, 96%) hydrogen, oxy­ cent of water remains in lignite, while t
A mining deal of vast importance to
gen, and a small quantity of nitrogen, with higher grade coals '3eldom have a great
layton and all of Custer county has Just
silicious, ferric, pyrites, ash and other amount than five ,per cent. When latel
een made, wherein the Clayton Mining
earthy impurities, It consists of compresced pres-sure has come into operation on t
, Smelting company, and the joint com­
and chemically altered vegetable matter, coal measures, more hydrogen (with
Janie'S, have transferred their holding, at
chiefly extinct Lycopodiaceous trees, to, quantity of carbon) has 'been driven 0
.he old town of Clayton to a party of Chi­
gether with over three hundred other known and the coal metamorphosed into anth
Jago capitalists, headed by R. T. Tustin and
varieties, 'As the successive jungle-growths cite (hard coal), which has eighty to nine
son Robert, and W. D, Ditto, of that city,
(coal measures) accumulated there. stems, six per cent of cal'bon. Some coals ha
and Judge Trimble, of Princeton, Ill.
leaves and spore3, hydrogen and oxygen become simply an anthracitic. Other co.
R. T. Tustin arrived in the city the latter
were evolved with a percentage of the car, have had a great deal of carbon in th~
part of last week and went up to the min·
bon, The relative proportion of the car· originally. This a<::counts for the conditio
ing and smelting camp to take over the
bon in the mass was decreased, the woody of producing the "steam·coals," or "3m01
property and arrange, preliminary, fvr the
fibre reduced in volume to one·eighth or less-coal'S." According to the decompositi
opening up of the mines and the operation
even to one-sixteenth of the original bulk, of the vegetable .matter, al.ld the result!
of the smelter. Mr. Tustin is known t.:l
and the mass ,became black, shiny hydro· combination of carbon and hydrogen, fos
the mining circles of the Gem state, as he
carbons, with imbedded charcoal (mother, fuel, to a greater or less extent, is biUm
,,,as the man who took millions out of the
coal), due to decomposition of trees lying ous when burnt.
~nnnie Moore at Hailey. He h a min'ng
exposed to the air, or dull black hydorcar· Geology-Carboniferous System.
engineer and a most 'Successful operator
. bons.. resulting from the consolidation ot The Cal'boniferous system, or for mati.
~'nd will be in charge of the newly acquir·
decomposed vegetable pulp, like soft peat. contaillG the commercial coals; which s
edproperty until the property is all under
Mineral coal i,3 divided into the follow. ceeds the old red 'Sandstone or some oU
operation, when Mr. Ditto will be actively
ing varieties: (1) anthracite, (2) native member of the Devonian system, and her
in charge' of the business.
coke, (3) caking coal. (4) non-caking coal, passes upward into the Permian series.
The holdings of the Clayton Mining and
(5) cannel or parrot coal (6) torbanIte, (7) constituent groups vary a great deal in
Smelting ('ompany and the allied concerns
brown coal or lignite, (8) earthy brown thicknesses of their sancbtones, IimestoI
consist of a highly mineralized group of
coal, (9) mineral charcoal, (10) common bi­ clays and coals in various sections of
patented mining claims, a well equipped
tuminous. The first variety has from' two earth, according to their conditions of
sE>venty ton capacity lead smelter, store and
to forty·folfl' per cent of bituminous mat· composition in conterminious seas, est
other minor busine&3 institutions.
ter; the second void of such; and the rest ie'S and lagoons.
The property ha'S all been laying idle
vary materially in this respect. Mas'Ses of The carboniferous attaioo its gre;:
for years, owing to the lack of desired
mineral coal when broken splits In three development in North America, espec
transportation facilities, The mines are
dir-eciions; (1) along the planes of bed· in the Unite,l States, the stratificatior
known over the state as some of the most
ding, commonly pre3enting dull black sur ing divided into two groups; the car
v:.lua'ble properties in the country. Enough
face; covered with a quantity of fine coal ferous and the lower or su.b·carbonife
('rt is blocked out and broken to run the
dust; (2) vertically across the stratifica, comprising the millstone-grit and the
rlant continuously for nearly a year, an:!
tion, the different surfaces are bright and measures, The coal·bearing are of :
it is said that enough ore is in ,3ight to
smooth and are nut covered with a coal America comprises an immense area,
operate the plant for a dozen years in one
dnst, the direction along which these joints cially the bituminous, being general!
of the claims alone.
run is known as the "face of the c'ml. (3) '3eminated, the anthracite generally
Arrangements have boon made for the
A third set of planes at right angles to ized to Pennsylvania,
immediate resumption of o,perations of the
both of the other set3, and less perfect, The carboniferous also attains ~
mines and the smelting plant and a l,lfge
~o that the fracture here is more irregular;
order for coke, sufficient to run the plant • state of development in the British
this direction is called the "end" of the Hungary, China, and other parts of 1
through the winter, has been ordered and
caaL Consequently it yield>s blocks more o~ world.
\vil! be taken into the property at once,
less regulal in shape and roughly resem· Carboniferous fossns comprise

It is the intention of the new holders to

bling cubes. thodont, amlphibia and amothibia,

eperate the plant the year around alld in ad­

dition to treating the ores from their own Geology. cereal fishes of various forms; m

property, custom smelting will be done and Geologically coal occurs as a stratifie:i '3ects, many xla{tods, and arechind'

there is '3aid to ,be quite a lot of ores in rock, interbedded with clays ironstones, taceous (including the last of th~

o:.her properties that will now be available sandstones and limestonell, in what are of trilobites and eurypterids) of a)

ro~ market. termed "coal measures" (coal stratification), except the high~st dec-opods; mu)

'The o.peration of this splendid property The highest grades of coal belong to the every known specie; corals of the

Will revive the old town of Clayton and carboniferous series of the Palaeozoic sys­ kind; polygoa, formanicafera; al

stimulate the mining indu'Stry in the Sa!· tem; however. a great quantity Jf coal of plants of the conifer and cycad or'

, -. ~~ ""thlng else could. later (Neozoic ages) is found in various exceedingly greater number of

 and the lycopod orders, espec1al­
constituting the greater of all
variety of specie or order.
,'carbof!iferous llimestones conatlt­
are ,corals, foraminifera, the sea
encrinites, with muds, tSands and
eds on Its margins, both at first
!In) and afterwards (Yoredale). This
utes the coal measures or coal strati­
LS of Rusl3ia, Italy. France and the
~oal roeasures of Scotland and Hun-
millstone next formed in shallow
of widespread folds or sheets, of
and sands, has some fossil planln
tells, and then strata or seams of
asure:;" is a name applied for strata,
d fOl' the coal measure3, which com­
LUmerGU~ successive groups of: (1)
I-) coal, (3) shale, and (4) sandstone,
hrought by floods, together with its water
logged fern-fronds and trunlffi and branches
of large plants. This as well as other
shales, such as "batt," contains sometimes
beds of anthracosia and other aq]1atic mol­
luscs; likewise a few land 13hells, numer­
ou's entomostratca, and large crustacea, a
few arachinds, insects and myriapods; oc­
casionally amphidia, and an excess of the
lemains of heteracercal f.il'hes; often these
fossih are imbedded in ironstone concreted
in the shales.
The sandstones were formed by thick
sand drifts, of frequent occurrence, contain­
ing scattered specie of plant remains. Ori­
ginally many ferns, of various genera:
~henopteris, Peopteris, Neuropteris, .eyclo­
pteris, etc., but with the fructification as a
rule de3troyed. There are also genuine
Conifers in the coal measures which prob­
ably grew upon the hill'S, while virtually
'Clays-Clay is essentially, in a miner­
alized sense, composed of hydrous slllcate
of aluminium, and cOll1lPrises many varie­
ties, such W3: (1) Slate-shale, (2) adhesive
slate, (3) ordinary shale, (4) slate, (5) pol­
ishing slate" (6) Hthomarge, (7) free earth,
(8) ,potter's clay, (9) ,black chalk, (10) pipe­
clay, (11) mineralmeal, (12) laminar clay,
(13) tripoli, (14) ,hole, (15) cymolitc, (16)
fireclay, etc. In fact, clay of different kmds
figures simply as a synonym of various min­
erals, as alumina is a constituent of a great
many minerals, it is likewise, of claY'S. Many
of the dark colored Oolitic clays contain
large quantities of Ibituminous matter. These
clays give off a very offensive odor when
burnt. It is the silicious SUbstance of clay,
which creates the hardness, when burnt
into bri.clm. It is with the claY'S of coal­
me~;;nres, of which this article essentially
deals.
Clay is simply mud produced by the
',Yearing down of rocks. If a flow of water
brings down sediment, the heavier ,boulders
fall first, then the pebbles, next gravel, after
which but a small quant!.ty remains except·
ing fine silt,which cau'Ses the water to
look torbid for a time, but gradually Get­
tles down at the bottom, and becomes mud
or clay. Clay suspended in fresh water
is precipitated in saline water. The great
river deltas, when hardened into a thinly
laminated rOCk, and .by carhonaceous mat· .,
ter, colored black. will become shale. A
form of clay called fireclay (from which is
burnt firebrick) exists in coal-measures just
beneath each coal seam; the remains of
",·t,ich have transformed into coal, grew;
while Isandstone is generally too porous to
relain fossils uninjured, clay, shale or its
equivalent will do EO readily.
Shale-Laminated rock of various hard·

ness, consisting of exceedingly fine com­

minuted materials. sometime'S resembling

slate, but of a more recent geological age.

Shale having originally been mud, may oc·

Outcrop of Coal Formation. cur wherever silt has ,been deposited in

rying from less than a foot to sev­ those previously described plants had their ag€l3 ,past, and metamol"lPhic action has not

t in thickness. These originated as :labitat in ,plains, swamps and 10wlalJds. subsequently taken place. The carbonifer­

Ie flata, with luxuriant jungles, sub­ T'he known specie of plants, stems, leaves, ous shale, blackened and otherwise modi·

to inundation of fresh and torpid roots, etc., comprising the coal-strata fied, by carbonaceous matter, is by far the

carrying mud and sand'S, and at' will a.ggregate three hundred varieties. II'.Ost prevalent. Contains many well pre­

f sea water depositing a limestone ,rany instances, by the discovery of a 'Served fossil specie.

Ihells. firm impression of vegetation in the coal, Slate-(Clay-slate) called alsl) argillace­
dense forests of gigantic lycopods,
have given a clear conception of the size eus shis1)3. An Indurated laminated rock.

, and ferIlJ3 Cover their floors with·

and form of various specie. corresponding to shale, but of a greater age,

ated exuviae, and thick layer'S of

Rocks Surrounding Coal Beds. appearing in the antique ages, (Cambrian,

ison's spore-dust. Storms eventual-

Sandstones-Any stone which is an ago etc.) and having ,been su,bjected to great

the clustered trunks, covering them

glutlnation of grains of ':sand, whether cal­ .pressure; often exceedingly fissile, cleavage

1d and sand of inundation; laying

careous, s1licious, or of any other mineral in the direction across the planes of strati­
!dation for the present great coal
uai.ure. Silicious matter most common va­ fication. Color varies considera'ble, from a

The "under-clay" ."or sub-earth" un­

riety, of a cement compactness, generally greenish or bluiI3h-grey, to a leaden hue.

l. coal-seam was the Iiloil in which with the hardness of quartz. Grains held Sometimes a shiny gloss may be imparted

,g (Sigillaria, Lepodenodron, and by iron oxide l\nd calcareous r.latter; sim­ by its containing some mica, also a metal­

,8) grew. Being a pure clay it is ple pressure or fine. grains called free­ lic lustre, caused by iron-pyrites. It is some·

nmercially for fire.bricks, encaustic stones. ShOW 3 deep crevices by the adion
l
times foksillferous, but a great part is

ora-cotta, etc. of water or elements; occurring In nearly metamorphic; this last is not homologous

"over-shale," over the coal seams, every geological formation, from the Cam­ to coal-measures. The clay-slates generally

compact ceiling of the mines, was brain to the Tertiary system'S. belong to the Palaeozoic age.

 _~ ""curring
__ .'u ot nodul&.;! or ,bands in
;al'lloniferous series of beds or Istratifi·
n. Consists of carbonate of iron me·
ieally mingled with earthy ma-tter, the
Ilic carbonate having been produced by
~ctlon of decaying vegetables or any
,xide of iron in solution with which it
have 'been ,brought .in contact. Iron
:8 are homologous to coal-measures, be·
:enerally in evidence,. sometimes called
~lay ironstone, or brown-clay ironstone;
ing in very compaot m1lJ3SeS, or in con·
mary nodules and may be Pisolitic or
ic, the nodules often enclose shells, en­
les, ferns and other organism.
mestones-Limestone is essentially
miferous and is very closely related
al formatio.ls; it is a general name ap­
to rocks having a basis carbonate of
Silica and alumina are generally
in lime, hence its seldom being pure.
Lany regions where exist extinct vol·
I, innumerable springs, either thermal
Id, bring up, with their aqeous solution,
,subterranean depths, carbonate of
therefore the quantity in this manner,
lited on the surface, is enormous, and
fold rivers and streams carry it into
sea, Molluscs withdraw it for their
l, corals for their reefs, and in due
the upheaval of the sea bed converts
~o a terrestrial limestone rock. ·Meta­
hie action will destroy it, consequently
is a minution of limestone in forma­
which has experienced such changes.
L crystalline or metamorphic (formerly
jve) limestone is discovered in such
t is probably of organic origin. Lime·
of carboniferous and tertiary ages
en composed of entirely organic re­
1r are thoroughly impregnated wi':h
Crinoidal or encrinital limestone is
d prinCipally of encrinites, chalk of
rers, mummulitic limestone of num­
and leith, a ka;lk of the tertiary of
reo Limestone may be brecciated,
lary, compact, magnesian, etc.
-A great deal of liquid matter is
in coal-measures and its imme­
ations generally called bitumen,
~d!nmercjany designated as as­
~ asphaltic; among them is
lestructive distillation, the fol­
-Coal,tar is produced in the de­
,til1ation of bituminous coal.
ion of coal-tar varies accord­
mperature at which the coal
) greater the temperature the
e yield of solldbodles. It is a
mmy, dark colored substance,
purposes, as printers' ink,
ment, etc. By coal tar dis­
first -given oft', then water
oniacal-salt; 'then 'brown
when purified, is classified
a higher te'mperature is
produced a yellow, heavy, foteid oil called
kreasote oil (creasote), then napthalene;
afterwards the black residue in the retort
solidifies on cooling and forms pitch, which
is used in the synthesis of asphalt, and
a black varnish, for protecting iron from
corosion. If the distillation is conlinued
the pitch yields a yellow substance, similar
to butter, containing anthracene, phenanth­
ene, fluorene, etc.; afterwards. at red heat,
a bright orange powder, consisting chiefly
of pyren~ C"H,. and chrysene C"H,,; the
residue forms a hard, porous cake.
Coal-Gas-A mixture of gases produced
by the destructive distillation of coal at
regulated temperatures. Commercially
used in lighting and heating. It is purified
from H,S by ferric hydrate, which is moist­
ened with FeSO, and H,SO. to remove am­
monia. The carbon disulphide can be re­
moved by passing it through an iron retort
filled with iron fillings and heated to a
red heat. Coal-gas consists of a mixture
of ,hydrogen forty to fifty per cent; carbon·
'monoxide about five per cent. marsh gas
(CH.) about forty per cent, which contri­
bute absolutely nothing 'towards the iIlu·
minating power of the gas; it depends
solely upon the presence of heavy hydro­
carbons, prinCipally C,H, ethene, ordinary
gas containing about four per cent,. and
cannel ga; about eight per cent. Coal gas
also contains small quantities of acetylene,
etc. The percentage of nitrogen is very
variable and the CO, is nearly all removed
from a great deal of the gas made. When gas
is burnt a large quantity of water is formed,
hence, if a gas consuming apparatus is
used in an inclosure, there must be suffici­
ent ventilation to carry off the aqueous va­
por. The SUlphur in coal gas is converted
into sulphuric acid. By escaping it does
great injury to vegetation. The admixture
of a very small quantity of air greatly im­
pairs the illuminating power of coal-gas.
The higher the temperature and the den­
ser the gas, the more brilliant the flame.
This brilliancy may be increased by the
pressure of a third body, as in the instance
of the calcium-light. Three causes are ca·
pable of decreasing the luminosity of
flomes; withdrawai of heat, dHution, or oxi­
dization materiaL
(To be Continued.)
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G00'D OUTLOOK FOR HAMILTON.
Now that the railroad has been com­
l}ieted ,between Palisade and Eureka, Ne­
vada, the famous old camp of Haruilton i'3
in the limelight again, and t.he mine·owners
there are beginning ore shi])ments. The
Record, of Ely, in commenting on the pros-­
peets of this district., says:
The future of the camp of Hamilton
seems much brighter at the present time
than for several years past. Recentlv fl-­
chief engineer and the
the Eureka and Pa/sade 1
camp and spent several
up the probable tonnage, !
pleased with their investi~
to 'be the general unders
Western Pacific is behind
road, and will soon equip
business. It b also the un,
when this occurs the road"
to Hamilton, and 'perhaps stil
as a feeder for the Western i
Charles Rodine is shippi
ores from his Silverado min,
Hugh Coyle is shipping fI
on the Jennie A. lead, whic
in lead and silver. He will
t"nnage ·before the season is 0
Hoppe & Rosevear have ope
vein of good pay ore on their
I he west side of White Pine
S Jme of which runs as high at
ton. They expect· to be shi,ppi
the 13eason closes.
SamCocroft, who is backed b
Patton and Dunham, is already shii
from leased ground.
Wilson & Johnson, who recelll
menced work on their mines neal
ure Hill, are already sacking and s
ore.
The Ne Plus Ultra company, whi.
shipping ore when the railroad to
washed away, is expected to resum,
ations in the near future. The cc
has ore 13cattered all the way from th
to Eureka. It also has 100 tons
in it.s ore 'bins and as much more
in the workings of the property, and
of ore in sight in the mines. The Cf
is controlled by the Bambergers (
Lake City, who at one time were ext
ly engaged in mining in Nevada ane
but who for the past two years hav
devoting their energies largely to rl
ing and other enterprise3 in and
SaIt Lake City. They have one of tl
developed properties in the state, ar
that their ore can be shipped at a
it i'S not reasonable to suppose tha
will allow it to remain idle much Ion
Ed. McEllin is driving a tunnel
nect with his main workings, and "
is completed he will resume shipmet
years past he ,shipped a large amc
ore from his mines at a good mal
profit.
There is also a considerable am(
work going on in the camp aside fron
a;bove mentioned. No other camp
state offer'S as favorable opportunit
leasers and miners as Hamilton. I:
are usually high grade, running fron
80 per cent lead and carrying good
in silver.
Should the Eureka roan }-­
the cam n
 30, 1912.

The mill is run by GOLD STRIKE IN THE ALLIE.

~ water power, and it is capable of milling
i. O. Granberg, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, about 1800 pounds per ·hour. The concen­ (Standard, Leadore, Idaho.)
ident of the Hahn's Pea.k Gold M..& M. trates contain both lead and zinc, and he hi The recent gold strike on the 250·foot
pany, operating in Routt county, Colo· able t'O separate them in his process. level of the "Martha" vein, "Allie" Mining
!, has decided to equip the company's This is said to be the ~nly ledge of the company, places Gilmore on the Jist at
~rty with a Reid Electric ,smelter. The kind known in the world, and with inproved least several miles ahead of all competing
pany will also put in a water-power machinery it could undoubtedly be made camps in the state for honors in the yellow
is several miles from the mine, for the to pay ,big. metal producing line, and it would aprear
rration of electricity. Mr. Ball is somewhat of a philosopher that this property which is already shipping
11 speaking of this enterprise Mining and he is a thorough geologist. He can out three cars weekly from other worKings
nce, of Denver, says: . This plant will tell more of the formation in Salina can· that nets $28 gold per ton, has an inex­
!rate 2,200 horsepower. It is estimated' yon than any other man living. He has haustible fuud of goid, which is gradually
the hydro-electric plant will cost from prospected it from beginning to end and coming to light through systematic develop­
)00 to $50,000, while the smelter and knows practically the value and nature of ment. Two years ago this ·paper had the
lings will cost about $15,000. The aver· every ledge and deposit in the canyon. honor of chronicling a big gold find in­
of the ore in the Royal Flush vein is.- John Hood, who spent some time in coi­ the "Martha," which find, subsequent work­
~d at $24 per ton. Mr. Reid says the .lecting specimens for B. county exhib·t, ings have proven to be permanent to date.
of smelting and refining will not ex- made it a pOint to visit :Mr. Ball, and in The depth at which the recent find was
'$2 per ton in the case of this ore. a short time he had specimens of lead car· made and the values expres3·ed on the but·
.,ietly, the operation of the Reid smel· bonate, copper carbonate, coral limestone, ton scale should ,be regarded with equal
:cnsists in feeding the ore between two gypsum, iron, cement rock, oil shale and significance tar removed fro~ surface out,
,ated or flat electrodes which approach salt in several f·orms . crqp picked specimens for assay purposes
. other at an angle of about 90 degrees The coral limestone is over 99 per cent only. As nearly as can be determined, the
.s to form a V-shaped receptacle, the pure; the gypsum also runs high; the iron ore streak, the matrix of which is mangan·
being made at the inverted apex. The runs about 40 per cent; the cement rock ese and oxides of iron, is eight inches wide,
,nce between the electrodes is regu· when burned, ground to powder and pro- the entire masS broken down and without
automatically and the molten material perly mixed gives a cream colored cement any attempt at sorting, averaging $1,500 per
out below. The metallic content is reo which will "set" in 40 hours and ,be harder ton, gold. The gold is free and for the
d to bullion and drops usually into a than Portland cement; the oil shale con­ greater part coarse and pans freely as wa­
of water, where it agglomerates as tains about· 3(} per cent of illuminating gas, ter. The property lying in the very heart
I hollow giobules. In the case of a and the residue will produce one of the of the great lead-silver belt of the range
ous ore the silica !La exploded into a most elast'o road materials known. where Gilmore has established a home; solid
fine powder when it strikes the sur­ All this is within reach of Salina, and
as the "Rock of Ages" in which th€ eX·
of the water and it is foated off by there is onyx and coal, a scouring sub·
istence of the yellow metal was entirely
LS .of a ourrent which thus affects a stance, something like sapollQ; several good
ummspected until two years ago, might
'ation of the ganglle. The electrodes varieties of building stone, ana various
pososibly open t.he eyes of the outside world
[lade of the dross from the refinery and other materials the exact nature of of which
by reason of th€ contraries in uniooked fo~
,teadily consumed, their valuable con­ is as yet undetermined.
conditions in a country of limestone and
being thus conserved. The electrodes Mr. Ball has recently found pieces of
base metals.
nade on the ground, and, according to fioat which indicates the presence of vana·
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'leid, may be made of any dross which dhnn. a sUQstance which gives steel 100
ORE FROM BEAVER CO.
)lant '!nay happen to produce from its per cent greater tensile strength and which

.The refinery is also an electrothermal has made the automobile and air machines
(News, Milford. Utah.)
, and the separation is affected by c.en­ possible. He has not located the source,
DurIng the month of June the Moscow
~al force, similar to the common method but it is a reasonable inference that where
shipped four cars of ore, which were loaded
lparating cream from milk. The re­ the float is found there must be a parent
at Laho. Also the St. Mary's shipped one
d use of the dross in the electrodes ledge nearby. It is a rare and valuabl;'!
('ar, loaded at same ,.place. Some leaser3
-es the operator from the necessity of metal. shipped one carload loaded at Solac€ . The
lete refining. Mr. Ball avers that the recent flood ex­ Majestic company 'Shipped fifteen cars load­
----0---- posed a ten-fo.at vein of coal up in the ed at Milford; the Red Warrior two, loaded
LINA HAS NATURAL RESOURCES. canyon near the old Gilson cQal mine, about at Milford, and the Old Cave one, loaded at
twenty miles from Salina. This vein is on Milford_ We are advised by various par·
Ie Sun, of Richfield, Utah, In com­ the forest reserve, but it will undoubtedly ties that there was a total (}f forty-seven
.ng upon the :varied mineral resource,; be opened up, and this will probably prove cars shipped from Beaver county during the
unding Salina, a nearby town, says: to be one of the greatest things in the month of June, excluding shipments from
lina and the district surrounding it, as canyon. !\'ewhouse and Frisco. We, however, have
1 by the recent work of collecting Nature has been more lavish in her gifts been able to trace only those above. Of
nens of its resources, shows up as the in and around Salina than possibly any course Newho11.3e is shipping regnlarly from
wonderful district in Sevier county. other section in Utah, and the hand of the Cactus mine, so that an announcement
of the chief factors in this showing capital is all that is needed to bring out of 'Several carloads a week or even several
"E. Ball, who, for years, has mined the varied resources and make this the ban· a day from that property is no particular
~rbonate ore frOiIna .gray ledge about ner manufacturing and producing section . news. Also, the Horn Silver occasionally
miles from Salina. This ledge is a of the entire west. gets out a car, although they are not work­
nilling carbonate carrying 5 per cent ----0---­ ing many men.
and showing pockets of carbonate of Work has been resumed in the dQvelop·
r .and sulphide of copper runn'ng from ment of the property of the East Ontario
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The Rambler mine near New Albany,
70 per cent. Mr. Ball has a 5-stamp Mining company, near Park City, Utah, un· Wyoming, is shipping platinum ore to the
In the property and a gasoline. engine der the management of James B. Allen. Omaha Smelting & Refining company.
 THE SAL. T
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THE VIRGINIA-L.OUISE.
(Rec{}rd, Pioche, Nev.)
That the Virginia-Louise Mining com·
Oregon Short Line .................... 39
Salt Lake Route •.............
pany will soon enter the Ust of regular pro­
Rio Grande Western .......... :::::::: 4(}
ducers of ore from this camp is a foregone
Civil and Mlnln&' Enginceril.
conclusion.
Adamson, W. G. .••...•......... .
ArnOld, Fisher & Calvert ....... :.:::::
37
Recent developments have more than
Rurch, Caetanl & Hershey ............ . 37
come up to the expectations of the directors
Brown. G. Chester .•......•...........•
37
Burke• .James J ........................ _
37
and stockholders. From the manager, Alex
Craig, \V• .J.•••..•.......•........••...
37
Deseret Construction Co. . .....•........
37
Lloyd, the Record nll.s ascertained that in
Fiske. Winthrop W .................... .
37
sinking the shaft more than 50 feet of solid
Galigher. T. W. • ...................... . 38
General Engineering Co. . ___ ...•...... 41
ore has been passed through, while there
Green River Eng. & Construction Co
Howell & Kingsbury ........... _... :: :
is no indication as yet, that the bottom has
beeu reached. Mr. Lloyd eXlplains that the
i;::'n~~g~e~. lj';. ::::::::::::: .. :::::::::
Lee, Murray .......... ............. .. 37
bE'd which the ~haft is now penetrating i,3
Pack. Mosher F ......... _.............. . 37
Peet, e. A. .......................... ..
nothing more than an extension of the
Pulsifer. H. B. . •........••.•.... _.... . 37
38
great manganese body which the Prince
Consolidatf'd compony has ex,plored in its
Silver Bros. Engineers & Contractors .. . 37
Troxell, L. E. ..........
property adjacent and if the {ie,velopments
Utah State School of Mines ........... . 37
in the latter is any criterion to go by, the
Villadsen Eros. ..................... ..
Virginia shaft should continue in this same
Widdicombe & Palmer ............... . 27
body for about 190 feet further.
37
Mr. Lloyd says that the average of the
MlaeelloneouN.
ore as it has appeared in the shaft contaiIlJ3
Albany Hotel .......... ,.......
Century Printing Co.......... .::::::::
vaiues of about $8 per ton; the as,mys show­
iie ~ouzek Engraving Co. '. _.. ' ... .. . .. 41
ing 3 ounces in silver, 4 per cent lead and
ole Stanford ..••................... _ 38
Gardner & Adams ........•..•......... 42
an iron excess of a:bout 38 per cent; making
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. ........ 41
it an ideal smelting ore.
R erl
A more powerful hoisting plant is being
a road Time Tables .• _ . . • • • • . . • . • • . •• 48
installed at the Virginia-Louise this week
and ,steps will ,be taken shortly to build
Shiplers, Commercial Photographers ..
an ore bin at the mine and extend a spur
Tooele Sme:ter ..••...•.•............. _ 44
Utah .Junk Co. • •...•••.•...••..•.... _•. 39
from the Prince Con. railroad; after which
Utah Ore Sampling Co......... __ ..... .. 43
the COlll(pany will inaugurate regular ship·
United States Smelting Co. . .......... .
Whitaker, Geo. A., Cigars ............. . 38
ments.
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GOLD ROAD BULLION.
(Miner, Kingman, Ariz.)
Today the Goldroad bullion me3senger
brought in a $20,000 bar from that property,
the deanup of the week. This is the regu­
lar thing from that property and it has
been so regular that it has failed to excite
comm~mt. The average bullion shipment
from the property is now close to $100,000.
but this is to .be dou'bled within the next
six months. It is the general under,,,tanding
that within the next sixty days the new
machinery for the additions to the big mill­
ing ,plant will be received at Kingman and
will be at once hauled to the mines. The
property is now in such shape t!lat it will
be possible to install machinery capable
of handling 500 tons daily, there being
sufficient water to care for that tonnage.
The company will make this mine one of
thf' greatest producers of the great groupJ
of mining property in the United States
ann Mexico.
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The North Amenda Mining company. of
Pioche, Nevada, held its annual meeting, a
few days ago, and elected a directorate as
follows. E. D. Smiley, president; M.
Smiley, vice president and secretary; John
\V. Baker, treasurer; R. Lauderbach and
D. L. Heartz.
L. A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, J U L. V ~ 0, 1 9 1 2.
= I N D E X TO ADVERTISERS
Mining Machinery and Supplle•• Railroad...
Page.
Page
Ackerman, R., Mine Timbers ........... 36
Bogue Supply Co. •..................... 9
40
Denver Fire Clay Co. .....•........... 39
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. •.•.....•.... g
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. _... _. .. .... 4
Independent Powder Co. .•.............. 7
Jones & .Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.. . . • . . . 0
Numa Rock Drill Sharpener co. ........ 8
Portland Cement Co., of Utah ............ 43
Richmond, F. C .. Machinery Co. ........ 2
Revere Rubber Co.••••••.•. _. _......... /)
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. .... 42
Si;ver Bros. Iron Works Co. ............ 3
Salt Lake Boller & Sheet Iron Wcrks.... 38
Salt Lake Hardware Co._............ .. 44
37
Trent Engineering & Machinery Co...... I(}
9
Union Portland Cement Co.............. 43
:n
Utah Fuel Co..••.•••.•• _ . . • • • . . . . . .. . . . 41
38
Utah Fire Clay Co. .... . ........ ,..... 40
Utah Welding Co. ..................... 40
37
Westinghouse Machine Co. ............. 8
Z. C. M. I. .•.......•.................. 4
Roberts, J. C. •• _.•.......•• _...•...... 37
Banking Bonlle•.
Safford, J. L. . ••.......... _............ .
Merchants' Bank .....................• _ 38
McCorllick & Co. • ..•................. _ 38
37
. .....•....... 39
National Copper Bank .................. 3S
Walker Bros. . ........•......... 22 and 23
Utah State National Bank ............ 38
37
Walker, H. C. • ....................... . 38
A ...a}"e .... and Metnllu....II.t... Zalinski. Edward R. . .....• _.......... .
A. F. Bardwell ......................... 39
Bird-Cowan ...•... _.... _...•........ '" 39
Crismon & Nichols .•..••....... _ . . . . . .. 39
4
Currie, .J. '\V. ., ..... " __ ..•... _.. .. 39
7
Officer & Co., . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Union Assay •..• .•..• ........ . .. 39
Utah Department Fire Clay Co... 39
Westerald. F. H. ...................... 39
gffiiflal :pirector y of Mines .... _. . . . . • • • 41
Mine and Stock Dealer..
P aster Co. ..••..•......•....... 40
Orem & Co.••........•............... 38
Salt Lake Stamp Co. '" _............... 41
Minin.. Attorne}"lI. Siegfried Pels, ore buyer .............. 7
SmIth & Adams. Tents •............... 36
Booth. Lee. Badger & Lewishon........ 38
?~
Bradley. Pischel & Harkness............ 38
."
Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books.... 38
D.avis & Davis ......................... 38
Higgins. E. V. . ...•....•...•... _... _ . • 3S
1
Pierce, CrItchlow & Barrette ........... 38
TWO MINING DEAL.S. PACK CREEK URANIUM.
(Gi1zette, R(mo. Nev.) (Times, Moab, Utah.)
Two mining deals of conniderable magni­ That the uranium claims on Pack creek
tude l,Hve been concluded. III this city. One al'e attracting the attention of prominent
was the, !alcng over of control of the East­ mining men was evidenced, this week, when
ern Star stock by S. C. Scotten, J. E. Pel­ a party of four arrived from Salt Lake City
ton and others. This property was formerly and made a trip to the mines. The party
controlled by A. J. Stinson and his associ­ consisted of Angus Cameron. the well known
ates, Geo. Bartlett. J. G. Campbell, G. S. investor; David Taylor, an ore buyer; G.
Johnson and othel'3. B. Wilson, a chemist, and Mr. Bancroft,
Mr. Stin-son still retains a big block of government geologist. These gentlemen
the stock. The deal has enriched the treas­ came away very much impressed with th"
ury to such an extent that an aggressive richnes'S of the uranium ore.
campaign will be started at once, both sink· On TUCl.3day, Herbert Solinger. ore
ing and crosscutting ;being carried on. buyer and a partner of W. S. Eardley, chle~
The other deal was one in which Zeb lmyer for the U. S. Smeltillg and Refining
Ray, already a heavy stockholder in the company. "e:1Ched town anJ. the next day
stock of the Eastern Star Extension, pur­ idt for the mines. in company w!th J. L.
ch:J)3ed the Tom Foley stock. This gives \/ade, Knox Patterson and J. F. Hall..Mr.
him at'solute control of the corporation and Solinger was greatly surprised at the qual·
enables him to proceed with his develop­ ity of the are that has been mined. and
ment plans. He will start deepening the declared that it is very rich. He said that
shaft within a few days. it will average between 6 and 10 per cent
The Eastern Star and the Extension, uranium.
both on the same dyke, are located nearly A carload of the ore wiT] be shipped by
midway between Gold Circle and Tuscarora J lily 20, according to J. L. Wade, one of
in Elko county. and are located on a dyke tile owners of' the property.
cointaining quartz veins sh<Jwing ribbon ----0---­
gold. The formation is most promising The Utah ,Copper company, of Bingham.
fol' developing shipping a3 well a'S milling Utah, produced 9.234 465 pounds of cOPIlel'
ores. during the month of June.
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With the case of lowgrade ores, the sit­
iE~ C south pasadena. Ca\a.
uation is different. It takes big money to.
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IN SIGHT.
'gh <'rade ore:' means that
1 As a usual thing, it is the educated man
erJ1'l. "b. n is "
above the average in
e S tlO • who is endowed with "force" to the highest
n qU cfore. that it would pay bIg
ld tll er rJ!;et when material or lOWer
and JIla be bandied to so good an
.uld lIot Mrade ore should be as
;e. ):!jg ill the bank," for it can
"JlIOlICY anY time and under al-
at
n UpOlI r . II In fact, a large body
Uo .
y con I uld be better and safer
o 0)----­
'raM
, sb e"I in the bank, for its
Jllon
thall ill undiminished if not
will re~l a the bank might fail, or
l
poll, /VIb ebeing t he case, I'f anyone
,~ su bat be had thousands of tons
",.
cll
ell ~ t blocked and in sight in
'rade are we would consider that
: worj{!l1g'S. and that all he had to
~ mall.
a ricb a little ready cash, was
1 . II feW tons of his ore.
alld slll~tell ·bear of men who have
yet wll a of high-grade blocked out
Ids of tollSrJ!:ingS" who are always
'/10
wille capital for the purpose of
.0 eU llS! f Jllining companies who
it out; .~ rich ore" in their hold­
aiilioPs I 'ng' to sell treasury stOCk,
'0 jlre trYleD so that this ore may
, ·ttjlll .~,
lere pi t to the market.
~d alld se~s told to YOU, pay no at­
tis ~torY jt Is a myth. If you see
to it. fof
$ ..ALT LAKE Mll>1lNG REVIEW, JULY
the· same statement made in a flaring ad·
vertisement, do not take the bait, and do
not buy any of the stock. You might alii
well kiss your money 'good-bye, for you will
never see it again. In· either case it is a
fake. If any man of any mining company
has thousands of tons of highgrade ore
blocked out and in ·sight and ready for ship­
ment, even if the man or the company has
not a penny, assistance can readily be se­
cured in the mining or marketing of the
ore. For, if it can be shown that the state­
ment is true, the leading merchant of the
camp near which the mine is located will
advance enough money to mine and freight
the ore to the nearest shippIng point. and
the s~eUers will do the rest. ,All kinds of
assistance can be secured for the handling
of a large tonnage of highgrade ore. and
the owner or owners of the mine will 1j-ot
find it necessary to hawk about for finan·
cial assistance, nor will any mining com­
pany possessed of such a bonanza be obliged
to dispose of treasury stock at ridiculously
low figures in order to realize on the ror­
tune in sight in the mine. workings. The
investor is dull, indeed, who will even listen
to the "highgrade" story. And, if he bites
. at the bait, it only shows that suckers are
still as plentiful as ever.,
and abandoned mines and places them in
the ranks of heavy producers where others
have failed. Mills, smelters and great and
handle large bodies of mineral of this <:har.
acter. And it is not always that financial
assistance can be obtained for the handling
of a propOSition of this character; neither
can help always be readily secured in the
development of a promiSing prospect. In
either case it is perfectly legitimate to ap­
peal to capital for aid, to ask for assistance
to place the one on a produc:ng and pay­
ing basis, or to sell treasury stock for the
development and e<).uipment of the other.
But, when asked for money to help in the
furtherence of an enterprise where a large
tonnage is of highgrade ore is involved, the'
intended victim should heed the warning,
"low bridge," and duck.
PERSDNALITY IN MINING.
Mining has its. personal side as well as
any other occupation or pursuit. As a mat.
ter of fact, success depends upon the indi­
vidual as well as upon other phases, physi­
<:al or otherwise, in the transformation of
a prospect into a producing and paying
mine; and the personality of the opera­
tor, the possession of a certain quality, de­
signated as "force," has as much influence
in determining the outcome of a mllllllg
proposition as does the ability to furnlsll
sufficient working capital.
When we review the past history of the
mining industry in this intermountain re­
gion, it strikes the close observer and rea­
soner that the success which has crowned·
the individual efforts of hundreds who have company, of Colorado and Utah, has given
made fortunes out of mining is nQt entire­ an option on its holdings to .T. R. Nutt, of
ly due to favorable conditions, the finding Cleveland, Ohio.
30, 1912.
of rich mines or the assis-tance that has
been rendered by capitalists to the financial­
ly embarrassed prospector and mine owner.
The existence of ore is of course necessary
in order that a mining enterprise should
ultimately prove successful, and conditions
should be favorable in the development of
a virgin field. Another essential element
is force. This applies to the man, the In­
dividual, and is not one of the phYsical
characteristic of a mining proposition.
For instance, take half a dozen men.
Give them the same opportunity. Let thell!
have as many mines or prospects of equal
promise and value, governed by the same
conditions, and it is safe to say that but
one of them will meet with unqualified suc­
cess in his mining operations. What this­
man possesses in a marked degree is lack. )
ing in all the others-and this is force, the
strong personality, the unfaltering persever­
ence, the bull-dog tenacity, the courage of
his convictions and the ever supporting con­
fidence that will overcome every o\)stacle
and that will push onward and upward to
success while those, not possessed of this
attribute, will fall by the wayside.
We see the forceful mining man in all
of our camps. It is he who resurrects old
successful enterprises stand as monuments
to the one desirable quality he possesses,
while others, enjoying the same opportuni­
ties, the same advantages, deplore their ill­
luck and wonder why this man has made a
success while they still struggle along in the
same old ruts.
degree, but education is not all that is neces·
sary in order to Itlake a success in mining
or iIi any other calling, and wealth and in­
herited ·riches are not governing elements
in the career of any man enga,ged in min­
ing as a business or pursuit, for, without
the self-reliance that force gives, the inher­
ent feeling that no discouragement cun Ill­
terfere with ultimate success, one might as
well become ,resigned to the fact tha.t he
is not fitted to pose as .a. shining light in
important and collosal mining operations in
any of the camps of this western country,
even if possessed of chances in this line
that an eighteen-year-old boy ought to be
able to push to a successful issue.
Salt Lake hllis many men who have
"farce" in their make-up. Sad to relate,
it has more bunglers than it has successful
operators. These are a drag to the mining
industry, a hindrance to the bUsiness, and
should !be herding sheep, raising beets or
pitching alfalfa, for they will never amount
to anything in mining, as they lack "force."
It is reported the Telluride Power
 I H E SAL T
INVESTMENT OR SPECULATION?
In answer to an inquiry as to what con­
stituted a good investment, an ellstern l'ank­
Ing house is quoted as saying: "We do not
consider any mining stock a good invest­
n~ent. All mining stoc\!:s are speculative."
The answer was brief, almost brutal;
but, was it correct?
H gilt·edged dividend·paying mining stock
is not a good investment, where can on8
be found? If the line is drawn on first­
class mining securities in what list shall
we place real estate, industrial stocks and
bonds, mortgages and railroad securities?
If we were to reply upon the statement
of this banking house, even government
bonds are nothing more than a speculation
if dividend·paying stoc\!: in a heavy and
regularly producing mine is regulated to
this class.
It is certainly tough to have to do
away with mining3tocks a'S an investment
and to be compelled to regard them as
purely speculative. Some people may at·
tach some importance to the opInion of
the banking house in \l.uestion, but there
are thousands upon thousands of investors
who would not turn down mining stocks in
favor of any railroad, industrial of manu­
facturing seCurity now on the market. In
fact, it would require more argument than
this ea'Stern institution could advance for
=t century to convince them that ",hares in
a good, substantial mining company are not
the best, the safest, and the most legiti­
mate investment that can ,be found.
It may be well to tell the tenderfoot
and the farm laborer that stock in a regular
dividend-paying mine is not a good invest·
ment, that it is only a speculation; but it
is !l. waste of time to give such an an'Swer
to intelligent busines3 men and capitalists
who have a real knowledge of the magni·
tude and legitimacy of the mining industry,
and who have long ago been impressed with
the fact that no more profitable avenue for
investment exists. It would be difficult to
convince a shareholder in the old Ontario,
of Park City, a mine that has paid nearly
fifteen millions in dividends, that stock in
this com.pany was not a good inveGtment for
him; and the sa me ('an be said of owners
in the stock of the Silver King Coalition,
which has nearly thirteen millions, in divi­
dends paid, to its credit. And, it would be
extremely difficult to convince the holder
of Utah Cop'per stock that his holdings in
this company represented a speculation on
his part, instead of an invC<3tment, and to
make him believe that a company that had
paid out nearly fourteen millions, in divi­
dends, in the course of only a few years,
offered an avenue for speculation, only.
What is an investment? It is supposed
to be some security or holdings which will
return a regular and steady income. This
being the case, who can guarantee that an
inve3tment in real estate may not shrink
LAKE MIN I N G REV lEW, J ULY 30, 1 9 1 2. 23
in value and fail, ultimately, in its earnIng
capacity? Who can bank on railroad stocks,
on manufacturing or industrial securities?
The Prospector
In this day and age" when any business en·
tel'prise may collapse and fall to the ground,
and His Burro
who would dare to say that any invest­
ment was superior and preferable to gilt·
edged dividend,paying mining stocks, or ,~e­
curiUes in mining property of known value
and proved merit?
Money of Ultimate redemption is based
upon gold and silver. Were it not for a
steady flow of these metals from toe mines
of the west to the commercial centers of
the east, the whole country would be
swamped in a panic. Theorl'Sts who depre­
cate mining and attack the legitimacY of
~he industry do not stop to conJ3ider this
fact; but, good financiers do, and they are
alive to the fact that disaster would follow
the suspenSIon of mining; and more, they (By Will C. Higgins.)
know that mining would not be carried on "When a man puts an iron dollar on a
with greater activity and energy year after numb-cr at the roulette' wheel," said the
year if it were not profitable, and a good prospector to his burro, "and when he cop·
thoroughfare for lucrative investments. pers the ace to win at the faro table h~
The purchase of shares in an llndeyeloped i3 speculating, although there are those
prospect may well be termed a speculation, who are so narrow·minded as to say that
but '3uch is not the case with an investment the man is a gambler. A man may tak(;' a
in a profit-paying mine, the develQIPment of chance at a drawing for a gold watch of
which has been advanced to such a staga for a hair bridle. You may call this gam.
that its future, for many years, is assured. bling, but, in reality, it is only a specula·
~---o'---­ tion. The farmer sows his grain in the
spring. He expects a harvest in the fall;
NEW MOON STARTS MILL.
but he is likely to be di'SapPointed, for too
much rain or too long a dry spe:l may ruin
(Mining Expositor, Ely, Nev.)
his crop. As a matter of fact, he is taking
At Osceola the New Moon Mining com·
a chance, and i3 gambling with porvidence.
pany started its mill this week on ore,
Another man may invest in mining stocks.
from the mines above the town. For some
He is willing to take a chance on what
weeks the company had a crew of men
some others might term a gamble, or a .spec.
overhauling the 'Stamps and other m:ll
lation. It may seem strange to you to
equipment and had the ore hauled down
have these seemingly common pUl'Suits de­
and put into the bins. While the run will
Eigned as a chance, as a gamble, or as a
,be made only as a sort of test II Is ex­
5peculation. But, everything in life Is a
pected to be extremely profitable, taking
chance, a gamble or a speculation, every­
everything into consideration. The quan­
thing but taxes and death; and it is a
tity amounts to about one hundred tons and
big gamble, a speculation or a chance if
is expected to run albout $30 on the av­
Taft will ever see the inside of the White
erage. While this run is being made a
House again after March 4th next. A man
,small force of men is engaged in additional
even takes a chance in mining, although
development and prospecting in the mines
not as gres.t a one as if he were engaged
with the expectation of extracting more
in farming, rea I estate, or in the publica·
ore of the same grade to keep the mill go­
tion of a mining journal. The purchase of
ing longer.
mining stock, even, is attended with an
The company has worked a small force
element of chance, although I have known
nearly all the time for th(;' past five or 'Six
or peoille who have taken this chance who
years driving a tunnel deep into Oseeola
now own brown stone fronts and who ride
mountain, prospecting for the contacts or
around the country in six-cylinder choo­
ledges from which the placer gold of the
chao wagons; and I can a3sure you, from
district came and some very high grade ore
]Jersonal eX]Jerience, that a man who dips
has been found at times. The company
in to mining stocks, once in a while, has a
is controlled by Cleveland, Ohio, capitalists
good chance to )lull down a big bunch of
whoho.pe to develop a good property even·
the long green when a fortune is least ex­
tualiy.
pected.
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"You seem to be Interested in my con·
The Golden Glow Mining company, of v(;'rsation" continued the proopector, "and
Hailey. Idaho, hall two feet of $125 ore in would like to know how it was that I was
sight in its mine workings, amI five feet of able to pick out the lucky number in a
ore of good milling grade. stock speculation when you have known
 THE SAL T
~Of the boys out in the hills who
:p€red the walls of their shacks with
tnining share certificates. Well, it
l1teresting story, and I will relate
; we are resting befOre pushing on
'next divide. Several years ago I
nped out in the Aviation range and
Lng some work on a prospect I had
'sometime bRfore. I was. all alone
lonesome and two burros, and had
work one afternoon when a man
iong with a covered wagon, a mule
lame horse. The man had his wife
m, who was suffering from trouble
er heart, and an effort was being
o get to the nearest town so that
vices of a doctor might be obtained.
,ays before the horse had gone
;hd progres'S had been so slow that
lD:S for the trip had boon almost
:ed, and it was yet fifty mile:. to
.rest town. I felt sorry for the out-
especially so as the couple - seemed
30 poor and up agamst it; and so,
he man offered me 10,000 share'S In
stock, which cost him a cent a share
)Rths before, for one of my burros
11 up with his mUle, and a sack of
Ild side of bacon, I made the trade,
h I had no use for the stock and
lxpected to get a dollar for it. nut,
j the deal, all the same, and the
'as endorsed over to me, and the man
ife left my camp rejoicing, for a
Jurro wal; a much better mate for an
_mule tuau a lame horse, although
a sorr:'-looking team. I put the
'Stock in a tin can and chucked it
hole in the wall- of my cabin, never
g of ever 'Ieeing It again, and hardly
oering, even, the name it bore. Six
later I hall occasion to go to the
. mining camp, sixty miles away. I
t $een a paper for so long that I had
forgotton how to read; so, the first
did, when I got Into camp was to
copy of the Bunkerville Pusher. The
l'3.dline, in eighteen point type, told
rong advance In Gumbo. At first the
lid not strike me as ooing anything
the ordinary; but I had a subconsci­
3ling that caused me to re-read the
~. Then it came to me that I had
}umbo stock, and I continued the ar­
vith renewed interest. It seemed,
rhat I could g'lther, that the Gumbo
lY had made a fabulously rich _strike,
1t from a few cents a share the stock
dvanced, by ieaps and bounds, to
~,share. You can bet your sweei;
at I became mightily interested in
at once. In fact, I felt as if Gumbo
y affinity, and the way my affection'S
ut to that old tin can in the hole in
11 in my shack out in the hills, would
a Reno divorcee look -like a nickle
. hole in it; and the pull its con·
ad on me was greater than the attrac­
Ie north pole has for the magnetic
LA K E MIN I N G REV' E W, J U LV
needle, for I was back home before midnight,
and it was with trembling hands that I lit a
candle and sought the spot where I had
deposited my Gumbo stock. To my delight
it was there all right, although the m,ice
had nibbled around the edges of the certi­
ficates. The next day found me in the
mining camp again, and when the stock ex·
change opened Gumbo had climbed to $3
a share;. but I let my block of 10,000 'Shares
go at that figure, and that night my bank
balanCe of $3.60 had been swelled by the
addition of $30,000, less the broker's com­
mission. I could have gotten more, the next
day. for the stock went to $5, but I was
willing to let the other fellow have a
ch.ance. and was fully satisfied in taking
down my profits. Within a month the
stock was selling for $15 a share. Within
three months the company beg~n paying
dividend'S, and has since paid. mort) than
$20 a share in profits. The stock is no
speculation now, no gamble, but a safe In­
vestment; and, while .I made a bunch of
money by a small speculation. I have al­
ways felt that the whole thing was entirely
legitimate, although It might be termed
'taking a chance: 'gambling,' or a 'specu·
lation.' "
"I want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con·
cluded the prospector, "No man will ever
make a success in life unleS'S he takes 11­
chance. The ,baby will never learn to walk
unless he ta;kes the risk of a fall. You
cannot know if the girl of your ChOIce will
have you unless you chance the risk of a
refusal by proposing; and no one can bene·
fit by the advance that may be made in
any of the many lines of stock offered on
the board unless he has had the courage
to buy a little of it while. being sold for a
song that you can almost sing for yourself.
To succeed in life one mu,st gamble a
little, one must take a chance, and one must
by willing to speculate once in a while;
and there you are, and then some."
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THE BARRY-COXE.
(Record, Park City, Utah.)
Superintendent James Davidson was
down from the Barry-Coxe property Tues­
day last and gave the most encouragIng re­
poort of conditions. Eleven men are em­
ployed in prospecting and stoping. A sev­
enty·frve·ton shipment was made this week
and ore is being raised to the surface every
d,aY. Ore Is uncovered in several drifts and
a'S development progresses the more promis­
ing are the prospects for a big producing
mine. A large body of zinc ore has bee~,
uncovered in one of the drifts and now a
lead is being fol1(Ywed that in all likeliho:Jd
will open up another big body of first·clasa.
The Barry-Coxe Is surely one of, the most
vigorous youngsters in the camp and its
big ore showings is an agreeable surprise
to all mining men who visit it.
30, 1912.
SAL.E OF URANIUM CL.AIM.
(News, Grand .Junction, Colo.,
Almost a sensation was created in Grand
Junction yesterday by the announcement of
the sale of a vanadium and uranium claim
near Gateway by King and Loveridge, pros­
pectOI'l3, to an English syndicate for $9_000
In cash. The claim was only one of the
half dozen owned by the two men. . The
English people will start taking out ore at
once and will start hauling as soon a'S a
road between Gateway and Grand Junction
,
can be opened up_ The property purchased
includes a ledge of vandlum ore averaging
5 per cent and running 1,200 feet long and
seven feet wide. How far back into the
mountain it extends no one knows.
The closing of the deal has acted \}S a
stimu1us to the Gateway people in Working
for a passable road to this city, anll J. H.
Denby, a prominent mining man and pros­
pector of Gateway whG wa'S in the city yes­
terday, conferred with Commissioner of
Highways Rankin and L. W. Burgess or the
freight rate club and urged them to make
every possible effort for the construction
of the Grand Junctlon-Paradox-Gateway road
and the Gateway .bridge In order that Grand
.
Junction may become the shipping point
for the thousands of tons of ore which
will be mined from the Gateway dIstrict.
Mr. Denby is very well posted and is a
representative from the settlers in the Gate­
way region a'Sking that the Gateway bridge
be installed. He owns many claims him·
self and has unlimited amounts of vanadium
ore running from 3 to 5 IH::" cent and in
some cases much higher. W. W. Lewis
of the Interstate cigar store is also inter'
ested in Gateway vanadium claim3 and has
ore which runs as high a'S 10 per cent ~an­
adium.
It is believed that this field is but a
continuation of 'the ,Cisco vanadium belt
where Messrs. Cherrington, Campbell, Ran­
kin, Halbouer and others have their rich
claims.
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MILL FOR JUMP·OFF.JOE.
(Courier, Grants Pass, Ore.)
Material is ready and on the ground
for the new mill building to be erected on
the property of the Jump-Off Joe Gold Min­
ingcompany and on Monday carpenters will
commence the structure. This building is
to be of suffiCient size to accommodate
the machinery for a 40·ton plant, machin­
ery for which will be deJilvered as soon as
the building is far enough advanced. It is
propoosed to complete the building iI} 50 daylS.
The Jump-Off Joe property is located
about twelve miles from Grants P,ass. C.
Ed. Lukins, of Colorado, is president, and
Frank McCorkle general manager of the
company.

I
THE SALT
SHOWING IN THE WHITE CAPS.
f , (Post, Manhattan, Nev.)
The east drift of the White 'Caps on and
above the 165-foot level is proving to be a
whale, according to Superintendent J. J.
McCarthy. There is no telling how large
the ore 'body may be, for one reason that
there is no fixed rule in Manhattan of know­
ing when a wall is a wall, Especially is
thi·s true In the White Caps where a dozen
or two ·of times the supposed walls have
been broken through and found to be only
narrow horses with ore bodies richer and
larger than ever beyond.
At present the east drift is furnishing
the great bulk of the ore to keep the Asso­
ciated mill busy. Some is coming from
the main stopes around the working .shaft
but not nearly all of It. As a matter of
good mining it Is up to the management to
work out the furthest from the shaft bef(}fe
bringing down all of that nearer by and
tha.t is being done. This ore is breaking
and milling from eighteen to twenty-two
dollars a ton. It is not as rich as that
recently mi11ed from the main stopes, but
it is so much better than the general aver­
age of this and other. camps as to make
the outside mining world sit up and take
notice. Indeed, it is equal to and even
better than the average production of Tono­
pah or Goldfield, yet in a mine whose stock
is quoted at only 15 cents a share.
1 In brief, with hardly a visible diminua­
tio}l of the ore in sight, the output of the
east drift now is avera.ging around fifty
tons a day_
METAL MINES PAY DIVIDENDS.
The following-named Utah metal mines
have declared dividends, during the first
six months of 1912, as follows:
Bingham-New Haven ............ $ 45,724
C~'iff _.......................... . 30,000
Colorado .... : .................. . 60,000
Daly-Judge ..................... . 45,000
Daly West ..................... . 135,000
Iron Bl(}ssom ................... . 170,000
Opohongo ...................... . 17.978
U. S. common ................. . 351,010
U. S. preferred ................ :. 850,576
Utah Consolidated .............. . 150,000
Utah Copper .................... 3,750,OO;}
in Golden district, near Tonopah, Nevada.
Total ...................... $5,605,288
lows: M. R. Evans, pre3ident; F. L. Davis,
THE UTAH METAL.
(Press-Bulletin. Bingham, Utah.)
Work is progressing rapidly in the great
on the Golden Hope, show a very encourag·
11,000-foot tunnel which the Utah Metal
Mining company is constructing between
the camp of Bingham and the 'Smelter town
to Tooele. The Bingham slide i,s now in
1,600 feet, and the Tooele end in about
7,000 feet, leaving less than 2,000 feet of
the big project unfinished.
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW,
Consulting Engineer E. P. Jennings has
returned to Salt Lake from an inspection of
the Bingham end of the .property. He.say~
forces of men are now cross-cutting in botn.
ends of the tunnel to open UP virgin terri­
tory. On the Bingham side the west cross·
cut i'S ,started about 1,300 feet fJl'm the
portal. The drift is in eighty feet in the
porphyry formation. It is a likely country
for encountering are of more or leSS im­
portance at any time.
On the Tooele side, the drift has been
started aboutu 6,000 feet from the portal,
making westward in the quartzite. It is
now in about seventy-five feet. This drift
will probably be run at least 1.000 feet
in a country entirely new as far as pros­
pecting for mineral goes.
Mr. Jennings also v~3ited the old Utah
Apex mine, where the new electric motor
is doing splendid work in the long Para­
venue tunnel. It is twenty horsepower, and
is easily handling thirty cars carrying one
and a half tons each. The mine is prob·
ably producing 300 tons of are a day in
addition to the 150 to 175 tons of direct
ship'ping grade.
----(o,......-~~
HYDRO-CARBON OUTPUT OF CALI­
FORNIA.
(Special ·Correspondence.)
San Francisco, July 20.-Hydro-carhons,
including petroleum, natural gas, bituminous
rock, exclusive of asphalt and all other re­
ned products, to the value of $41,161,226,
were produced in California during 1911.
Fourteen counties eontributed to the
above total, as folloW'S:
I-Kern ....................... $20,373,344
2-Fresno ..................... 9344 085
3-0range ..................... 4,097,980
4--Los Angeles ................ 3,329,180
5-Santa Barbara .............. 3,305,103
6-Ventura ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-52,735
7-San Joaquin ................
8-Sacramento .................
9-£anta Cruz .................
lO-Solano .....................
l1~San Luis Obispo ...........
12-Santa Clara ................
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13-King3 ......................
14-Humboldt ............... ..
The output is divided as follows:
Petroleum; sold in 1911. or in
storage Dec. 31. .............. $37,920,820
Petroleum; used as fuel in the
field ........................ . 2,631.268
Natural gas ................... .
Bituminous rock .............. .
Total ....................... $41,161,226
W. H. STORMS, State Mineralogist.
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The Pitt'Sburg-Idaho Mining company, of
Salt Lake City, operating at Gilmore. Idaho,
ha3 posted a quarterly dividend of 4 cents
a share, payable August 1st.
J U L Y 30, 1912.
BULLION COALITION MINES.
(Special CorreBlpondence.)
Total shipments from Stockton for the
month of July are as follows: Bullion
Coalition mines, 14 cars of company ore, 7
cars of lessees ore, and 1 cars of slag from
the Connor le!!J3e on the old 'Smelter dump
at Stockton.
Dry C'anyon district, 5 cars; Ben Harri­
son, 4 cars; Pelican lessees, 1 car; Galena
King, 1 car; in all 48 cars.
In the Honerine mine the Weir raise
reached the 750·foot point about the middle
of the month, a station was cut and drifting
towards the Weir ore shoot is now in pro­
gress. The raise is being continued on the
18;3t lift toward'S the 600 level. Dead work
on the 900 level is practically completed,
and stoping was started early in the month.
Sixteen sets of lessees are ,at work on the
different levels at the present time.
Stockton, Utah, July 24th, 1912.
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LANE MILL AT CARMEN CREEK.
(Herald, Salmon, Idaho.)
A representative of the Herald vIsited
the works of the Carmen Creek M. company
this week, and witne3sed the operatIon ot
the new Lane IChilian mill and other ma­
chinery which has been lately set into mo­
tion. Manager J. W. F. Halcombe was in
charge, giving personal direction to every
movement, and the machines were working
in fine order. Besides the manager, only.
two other men are required to keep the
plant running. It is an ideal 'System they
have installed. economical in operation, a!"
weIl as in first cos·t. It utilizes nature's
water power, 11arne3s,ed to a simple water.
wheel, and although capable of crushing
ten to eighteen tons in twenty-four hours,
only about four horsepower are necessary
to keep it in motion. The mill has been
running about seven days, and no clean-up
114,433
had been made; but to all appearances
83,890
there is nothing wrong with the system,
80,371
which certainly excels anything yet tried in.
40,274
Idaho for the salvation of gold from its
30,376
condensed adamantine encasement.
8505
800
150
The Golden Hope Mining company has
been organized in Salt Lake City for the
purpose of working a group of five claims
The personnel of the company is a'S fol·
491,859
vice president; R. J. Evans, secretary and
117,279
treasurer; John T. Hobson and Henry I.
Cobb. It is slated that surface work'ings.
ing deposit of gold ore.
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The Tonopah-Belmont Development com­
pany. of TonO'pah, Nevada, produced 7,370
tons of ore. in June, from which a net value
of $125,525.10 was received.
 P~'(;~~~;C' ;;~~;::'{~,~.r~P\·· ;; k~";:~:",·~.~~~.>,, ..·,·,·,,>.>:.··.,C
f THE SALT LAKE MINING REV lEW, JULY 30, 1912.

The line will be of standard guage' and holds that although only one bid was reo
~, Spurs and Angles will greatly facilitate ore shipments. celved that due notice was given of the
sale and that there is no reason to believe
L: A. Martin & Co., of Salt Lake, has
I Webb, and son Ronald, of Twin just issued a may of Santaquin and Nebo that other bidders would come in. The
Idaho, are shipping 2,000-ounce sil­
districts, in Utah. This map shows the 10' sale wa;a sanctioned by the court and the
from their Brown Bull mine in cation of the leading mining properties in bid was made by a reorganized company,
district, near Leadore, Idaho. both districts. The Mining Review ack­ which will allow all stockholders to come
nowledges the receipt of a copy of the mall into the plan on the same terms as thOSE>
Opohongo Mining company, of
with the compliments of the company. who formed the company.
Hah, ,operating in Tintic district,
ed a dividend of 2 cents a share, The Victory Lode Mining company, of 1. J. \Vadley, of Peterson, Utah, leasee
anding stock, payable JtJy 30, Salt Lake City, has resumed work in the on the property of the Carbonate Hill Min­
development of its property in Big Cotton­ ing company, near that place, was in the
leven Troughs Coalition Mines com­
wood canyon, a few miles southeast of Zion, market, a few days ago, with a shipment of
the flood which recently destroyed
under the direction of M. J. McGill, of Park twenty-four and a half tons of ore that
Nevada, lost it3 new cyanide
City. The organization of the company i.3 brought retUrD.i! of $569.59, net. The ore
Ild about $35,000 tn gold bullion
as ~follows. -Col. B. B. Mann, president; is a fine smelting product, and assayed 5.8
as in storage ready to be sent to
M. 'J. McGill, vice president; J. H. Deming. ounces silver, 32.4 per cent lead, 24.Z pel
,'cent iron. and 7.4 per cent silica. Mr
reported that Captain J. R. De· secretary and treasurer, Vi[. M. McCrea and Wadley expects to ship at least a carload
Bluestone mine in YerIngton dis­ II. T. Haines.
of ore. of thi'S character, weekly, from nOw
;vada, may be taken over by the A Boston dispatch says: The reorgan­
on. In the mine workings an eight-foot
valley Mines company. The con· ization committee of the Nevada-Utah Miues face of ore is exposed that assays 36.5 pel
Ill, according to reports, wilI be & Smelting corporation has acquired the
cent lead and 18 ounces silver to the ton.
O. property for $100,000. 'Stockholders were
Word has been received in Salt Lake
Cardiff Mining company, of Salt a3sessed 50 cents a share, for which first that late development has tii3closed the fact
lerating in the South Fork of Big mortgage convertible bonds, together with that the properties in Bull Valley u~strict,
ood district, near Alta, Utah, t3 200 shares of stock for each $100 subscribed Washington county, Utah, in which John
from forty to forty-five tons of were given. The new company will have T. Hodson and John A. Kirby, of Salt Lake,
~kly, carrying values of about $50

$900,000 bonds and 2,000,000 shares of stock

of a par value of $3. ,are interested, are of even greater value
on.
than at first believed. In the exploitation
Kate Hardy mine, near Nevada City,
On the 18th Inst. a cloudburst up Seven of these prQperties sensational values have
ia, owned by W. M. Beggs. of San Troughs canyon destroyed a large portiOn of been uncovered, and beautiful gold, speci­
me state, is being equipped with a the mining camp of Mazuma, Nevada, and mens have been found, which can be seen
mill, concentrator and cyanide nearly a score of the inhabitants of the at the offiCe of R. K. Cobb & Co. in the
md an electric power plant is to camp were drowned. Seven Troughs, a Mining Exchange building. R. G. ,Mc­
.lIed. camp about a mile up the canyon, was in­
Quarrie, of St. George, and associates, Wil­
jured as to wrecked buildings, but the loss
mportant strike of fine milling ore lard Scowcroft, of Ogden, and A. F. Greger­
was trifling compared to that sustained by
ted in the Hornsilver mine at fIorn· ,son, of St. George, have been the pioneers
'l'evada, thirty miles south of Gold· )ti'azuma. All of the victims of the dlsas­
of this new district, which looks as if it
. ter have not yet been found.
Howard Russel! is superintendent would soon take rank as one of the state's
company. There is some talk ot The Michigan-Utah Mining company, op­ best producers. and a boost for the "Dixie"
; a custom mil! in the district. erating near the head of Big Cottonwood country.
canyon, Utah, has been making an excel­ , O}---­
Uncle Sam Consolidated Minmg PATENTS RECENTLY ISSUE~
lent record, of late, in the matter of ore·
y, of Salt Lake, wh03e holdIngs are
shipments, the output amounting to about
in Tintic district, Utah, has voted (Prepared for' The Mining Review by
600 tons of ore a month that nets about '$30
~ase its capitalization from 500,000 Davis & Davis, patent attorneys, Washing­

a ton. It is expected that the companv's ton.)

)00 shares, the increase of 250 000

tram line will be in operation about August
to ·be used for treasUly purposes. 1,031,73O-Chilian mill, S. II. Pitkin and J.

15. This will reduce transportation ex­

I stated that the Mendha m.ine in H. Stratton, Cleveland, Ohio.
penses, and facilitate operations.
ld district, near Pioche, Nevada, will 1,031,918-Means for handling smelting, fur­
Professionai Pa.per 77, treating of the nace residues, E. Dor;Delattre­
esume operation'S. The completion
"Geology and Ore Deposits of Park City Liege, Belgium.
Prince Consolidate<I railroad makes
District, Utah," by John M. Boutwell, with l,032,00'7-Treating ores, E. Kerr, Pitts­
wagon haul all that is necessary to
contributions by Lester Hood Woolsey, has burgh, Pa.
rendha ores in the cars for shipment
been issued by the U. S. Geological Survey. l,032,256-0re-feeder, W. E. WahIin, Gar­
1 smelters.
This is a most important a, well as a very field, Utah.
Windfall Mining company, of interesting and instructive work. It is pro­
1,032,281-Concentrator, W. L. Hawley, Car­
Nevada George Z. Edwards, man­ fusely illustrated and contains many maps tersville, Mont.
'ill start up its mine and mill ab,out and drawings. In this work the author, who
l,032,332-Amalgamator, W. J. Gruss and
1st. It is reported that rhe mine is intimately acquainted with Park City
excellent physical condition, with formation, has exceeded all previou'S efforts M. R. McColloms, Ramsey, Nev.
'olumes of good ore in sight, ready in a faithful portrayal of Park City geolo­ l,032,400-Process of treating ores; \V. Gun.
raction and treatment. ther, Cassel, Germany.
gical conditions. 1,032,701-Pulp 'screen; E. J. Pape, Holyoke,
s stated that the R. G. \V. Rairrcad A s'pecial to the Salt Lake Tl'ibulle- from Mass., and J. W. Muller, ~t. Jos­
ly has about decided to extend Its New York says: Judge Hand, in the United eph, Mich.
line from Sandy; Utah, up to Wa­ States district court, handed down an order 1,032,746-Black-sand and gold savingma.
In Little Cottonwood canyon and to confirming the sale by the receiver of the chine and undercurrent; C. J.
1 mile and a half above that place. Nevada-Utah mines & Smelter company. He Ev.ans, San Francisco, Calif.

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II GUARD IN G AGA.INST FIRE
It is estimated that the property loss in
the United States from fires during the
last thirty-three years totals the enormous
sum of $5,147,253,724. The magnitude of
• Fit;. I.-Automatic Control Panel for 100 H. P. 220·Volt D. C. Fire Pump.
th,is loss is almost inconceivable, yet an idea
.of it may be gained from the fact that this
sUm is equal to 1-25 of the present wealth
of the United States. This sum, if in sil­
ver dollars, placed side by side, would reach
around the earth nearly five times, or to
carry them would require a freight train
38 l h miles long, if made up of cars of 60,000
pounds capacity and 40 ft. long. Fancy such
a train on the tracks along the Hudson
river, an unbroken llne of cars reaching a
quarter of the distance from New York City
to Albany, and every car loaded to its maxi­
mum capacity with silver dollars, and then
you have an idea of the wealth that has
gone up in smoke in the United States in
the last thirty-three years.
This enormous loss certainly drives home
the conviction that the fire hazard Is of no
small magnitude_ It is 'imperative there­
fore that the most approved and up-to-date
system for fire protection be installed. Many
plants are now equipped with automatic
water sprinkling systems and protection is
afforded provided the water pressure is main'
tained. In the case where the pumping in­
stallation belongs to the plant, this require­
ment means that the motor and control ap­
paratus must ,be absolutely reliable so that
no fault will develop and make it neces­
sary to shut the motor down and stop the
pump.
A fire pump motor with its control panel
is designed for emer.gency conditions and
l. A K E MIN I N G REV lEW,
consequently is seldom operated All oper­
ating parts of the control p.anel shown in
Fig. 1 have bearings provided wi til non­
corrosive Itarts so that they cannot rust on
(Front View.)
account of long disuse and prevent the mo­
tor from operating at the critical time.
The cdIDplete panel is enclosed in a splash
proof case which effectively protects it from
dripping water and also prevents the en­
trance of water if a stream from a fire hose
Fig. 2.-Rear View of Fire Pump Motor Control Panel shown in Fig. I.
should strike it. The panel is mounted on
four pipe .supports so that it cannot be
reached by 'Water accumulating in the base­
ment where the panel is generally install­
ed,
The pressure governor, connected to the
J U l. Y. 30, 1 9 1 2. 27
water pressure system close!! the control
circuit of the panel as soon as the water
11
pressure falls to a predetermined value,
starting the motor with its starting resis..
tance in circuit. Current limit contractors
automatically accelerate the motor by cut­
ting out successive steps of this resistance.
If desired the motor may be started by
hand by means of the operating lever at
the right of the contactor. This method
forces the contactors to close in their proper
sequence by m,eans of a caJm shaft.
The panel is .fully protected against fail­
ure of voltage and also from overloading.
Two lamps are mounted on the panel, the
one serving to indicate when there is volt­
age on the line while the other indicates
to the operator that the motor is running.
The lights are Visible through glass bulls­
eyes in the enclosing cover.
The contactors which open the main line
circuit are provided with powerful magnetic
blow-outs ·which snuff out the arc when the
circuit is opened and prevent any burning
of the contactor parts.
The G. E. circuit breaker used for over­
load protection. has been designed especial­
ly for very severe service. All current
carrying parts are of ample cross section,
ensuring conQnuous operation without over·
heating.
The iron grid starting resistance is of suf·
ficient current carrying capacity for fre­
quent starting of the motor. Frequent start­
ing might be required in case one sprink­
ler head only should open, as this would
cause a small flow of water in the pipes
and the pump would ,be able to quickly re­
fill the tank. At this point the control
system stops the motor only, to start it
again when the pressure falls to the value
at which the pressure governor is adjusted
to operate.
The .above description applies to panels
controlling D. C. 'motors. There is a simi­
lar panel for controlling the slip ring type
 THE SALT LA K E MIN IN G REV lEW, J U L Y 30, 1 91 2.

motors, where automatic con­
ring type of induction motors,
,automatic control is obtained by
:of a. motoroperated dial switch. The
may also be operated by hand if de-
statements made above regarding the
J construction operating. conditions
!lIability of the D. C. control panels
also to panels operating on A. C. c:r­
No.3 shows a special- panel installed
Delaware & Hudson company at its
.cket near Schenectady. This panel
is a 100 horsepower 220·volt 60·cycle
Ilg induction motor, driving a centri·
'tump. In this instance, the panel is
~ed by a separate pressure at a re­
)OInt.
interesting to note that the use of
THE SILVER KING WINS.'
Important Park City Mining Case Decided
in Favor of the Defendant,.
A case involving questions of the ut·
most importance involving mining property
at Park City, Utah, and which has been
stubbornly fought, reached its conclusion
on the 15th inst. when Judge Marshall,
of the United Stat€ s d,istrict court, handed
down his decision in favor of the defend·
ant in the suit of the Conklin Mining com·
pany versus the Silver King Coalition Min!!»
company.
'" "This case," says the Daily Tribune.
"was instHuted in February, 1905, when the
plaintifftHed a bill in equity to' qU1et title
to a strip of ground 135 feet wide on the
western end of the Conklin claim, and by
wer\ol and are owned ,by the Silver King
,Coalition Mines company.
"For the plaintiff, the attorneys were E.
B. Critchlow and W. H. King of Salt Lake,
and Judge McHugh of Omaha. Dickson,
Ellis, Ellis & Schuld·er and Powers & Mar­
i-oneaux' appeared for the defendant. The
deCision rendered by Judge Marshall up­
holds both the contentions of the defend·
ant company, namely, that the strip of the
Conklin claim inVOlved> is not part of the
property of the plaintiff company, but is
a !part of the defendant's ground, al,d that
the apex of the fissure \.::1 within the Monroe
Doctrine, Cumberland and Constitutioll
claims, the property of the defendant com·
pany.
"This .decision will ,be of far-reaching
impqrtance to the Silver King CoaUtion
Mines company, as the Crescent vein is an
extremely important avenue of mineral
wealth in Park City. and the apex rightE.
held to belong to the company glve the Silo
ver King Coalition positive title and righl
to the same in all phases of the 3<pex ruk
of law. The decision is one of the most
importance ever rendered in any Park City
litigation."
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SALT LAKERS BUY CERRO GORDO.

The famOli'3 old Cerm Gordo mi~e, near

-Automatic Control Panel for 100.H. P. 220-Volt Slip Ring Induction Motor for Fire Pump Service.
panels is not confined to fire pump stipulation it was first determined to estab­
alone, as they may be used to ad­ lish the title to this territory. If the Conk­
~ in hotels, office buildings. stores, lin company succeeded in establishing a
or supplementing the city service title to tht3 ground, then an accounting of
curing a sufficient water pressure for the ores contained 'and extracted therefrom
ty use. They may also be used in by the defendant company would have been
I places; such as summer hotels, man· ordered by the court. the plaintiff setting
19 plants, etc., where power is avail. forth that ores to the value of $2.,000,000
had ,been extracted by the defendant com·
control apparatus described aboY(! pany.
tfactured by the General Electric COIn­ "The defenses were set up by ·the Sil­
.t Schenectady, N. Y. ver King Coalition Mine'S company, the first
being that the 135-foot strip was not part
Ile-third dividend interest in the Sun· and parcel of the Conklin claim, and if
'faction, Side Extension of Sunrise, it were a part of the same. the plaintiff
tty, Montana, Montana No.2, Idaho had no right or title to the ores contained
n and Nevada Nos. 1, 2, .3, 4 and I) therein for the reason that the apex of
.located in Tintic district, Utal!, have the Crescent fissure vein, in which the ores
onveyed to F. C. Richmond, of Salt occur, W3JS in the Monroe Doctrine Cum­
'tty. 'berland and the Constitution claims, which
Keeler, Inyo county, C!)'ifornia. has recent­
ly been purchased ,by a coterie of Salt
.
Lake mining and business men who will
work it in an extensive manner from now
on. In speaking of the purchase, the Miner,
of Tonopah, Nevada, says;
"Through a deal just consumated, and
for a cash consideration variously stated to
range from $125,000 to $150,000, Frank J.
Hagenbarth, J...ewis D. Gordon and R. J.
Shields. all well known Utah mining men,
have acquired the famous old Cerro Gordo
property of the Owens river country of
Inyo cOlmty, Cal. The Cerro Gordo is list­
ed among the antiguas of the great min­
eral southwest. having been mined in the
early days by Mex1cans and later by Amer·
ican capitalists, having a production record
of $20,000,000. From one stope alone be­
tween $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 worth of ore
was extracted, the ore being a lead car­
'bonate carrying an ounce of silver to the
unit of lead. The !property has been de­
veloped, and is now operated ,by both tun·
nels and shaft;;;, while the present equip..
ment is complete and modern. An aerial
tramway connects the mine with the South­
ern Pacific railroad tracks at Keeler, and
the present shipments of 1000 tons of ore
daily give'S this mine the distinction of be­
ing the largest producer of zinc carbonates
in the United States."
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The Midwest Oil company. of Casper,
'Wyoming, has just paid a dividend of :I
per cent on its $2,000,000 of preferred stock.
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 THE SAL T
In Adjoining Slales
ARIZONA.
Kingman Miner: W. H. Hall is operat­
ing the old Mocking Bird property, in Wea·
ver district and expects soon to have a
mill in operation. The mine has been open­
ed to a considerable extent and more than
$80,000 worth of ore is now in sight. The
ore has a value of from $15 to $80 to the
ton.
Kingman Miner.M. N. Honeywell of
Cerbat, has been at work for some time past
on a mining property east of the Cerbat,
from which he has been getting good re­
sults in gold, silver and copper. The veins
in the location are large and well defined,
and appear to be among the best prospects
in that section.
Willcox Range News: A great body of
high-grade ore has been encountered' in the
Republican mine at Johnson. That camp
will soon show sign!? of renewed activity.
Other mines at that place are aI.30 in oper.
ation. Wdth the increased price in copper
great activity has been evidenced in the
copper camps in this region.
Kingman Miner: Last Wednesday Sid R.
IWeves, of the Tom Reed force. brought in
a bar of bullion from the mill that weighed
.$79,000, the month's run of the plant. The
'bar was shipped to the mint, a me~senger
accompanying it. The new electric hoister
is at work at the mine and is said to be
doing nicely. The mine is capable of send­
ing to the mill a much larger tonnage than
formerly while the mill is being increased
month by month in capacity.
Florence Biade-Tribune: A. E. Troxel
shipped a carload of gold ore to EI Paso,
Sunday. from his Mineral Hill gold claims
discovered and located about one years ago.
The ore was shipped from the Alta Iltation,
which is located about six miles ea.t of
Florence: The' ore samples about $40 per
ton and as the freight rate from here to
EI Paso on ore of that class, in carload lots,
is only $3 per ton, Dick should reaUze a
handsome profit from the shipment.
Prescott Courier: The Cactus company
is working five men on its group, of claims,
which are ,situated about two miles east
of Cherry postoffice. They are taking out
ore 'preparatory to making a mill run. In a
drift from a shaft recently sunk ore was
encountered which runs from $80 to $100 per
ton, while in a tunnel now 350 feet in length
there is said to be a chute Of ore about
200 feet in length and having a width of
three feet which averages $12 upon Lhe
plates, the concentrates assaying $80 to $110
per ton.
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The Rob Roy mine in Newt.on district.
near Beaver City, Utah, will soon have an·
other shipment of gold ore on the market.
LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, J U L Y 30, 1912. 29
CALIFORNIA. Georgetown Courier: The Mineral Chief
mill is pounding steadily on ore from the
Nevada City Transcript: Work was re­ old Mineral Chief dump and judging from
sumed at the Coldspring and Buckeye mines the amount of mineral that is being saved
in Willow Valley yesterday under the direc­ the ore is exce]>tlonally rich ror dump mat­
tion of W. G. Motley, president and man­ ter. The tram is being kept in constant u,e
ager of the Coldspring Mining company, who transporting ore from the mine to the mill
arrived in Nevada 'City from the east a few and a large force of men is kept at work
days ago. It is planned by the manage­ blocking out ofe in the mine so that when
ment to carry out active. and extensive de­ the winter season comes on there will be
velopment work and place the propertie3 on a large reserve of ore to keep the mill in
a paying basis. A Z50-foot shaft has been steady operation.
sunk in the Buckeye, and it is planned to Central City Observer. A chunk of high­
tap the extension of the old Harmony chan­ grade ore disclosed in the Topeka mine
nel through the Coldspring. workings was placed on exhibit at the rooms
Yreka Journal: Last Saturday, Chester of the Chamber of Commerce today. This
L. Proebstel brought .over from the High­ new shoot was encountered on the HOO­
land mine, on Salmon river, about 160 foot level west of the shaft and Is seven
pounds of very rich high.grade ore, which feet in width. An assay from this body
will ,be on exhibition at the Mining Con· of ore gave returns of 76.55 ounces in
gress. The ore is all - in big pieces, the gold alone, enough in itself to start a rush
largest piece weighing about fifty pounds to any mining camp were it far enough re­
and the whole lot is estimated to be worth moved. This means a value or .over '15,000
$1,500. The Highland has been a big pro· per ton. Manager Lowe estimates the com­
ducer for a number of years, and was only mercial value of this seven-foot streak to
recently. 'Sold to a Dutch syndicate for $200,­ be at lea3t from $40 to $50 per ton net.
000. This ore is said to be 'some of the Ouray Plaindealer: The affairs of the
finest ever seen in the county and will un­ Wanakah Mining company are In a very
doubtedly attract much attention. flourishing condition, We are informed by
(',.eorgetown Courier: PrE'-aident J. N. Manager John T. Roberts, Jr. A deed
Lawson of the Bright Hope Mining com· transferring thirteen claims of the Bright
pany has four men employed extending the Diamond and Memphis groups to ·this com·
tunnel to tap the pay shoot at a depth of pany was recorded la'St Monday, thus com­
215 feet. The Bright Hope is a very promis­ pJeting the companY',3 title. The high-grade
ing property, and expert mining men say discovered some time ago in. the center of
that the mine shows every indication of the Bright Diamond group is showing up
developing into one of the biggest produc· better and better. The ore body averages
ers on the Mother Lode. A test run of about $50 a ton and is in a body over six
ten tons of ore taken from the bottom of feet thick. In a short time the entire mill
the shaft. which i3 down eighty feet, aver· tonnage will be taken from this body, which
aged $6.66 per ton in free gold, and $2.00 is now furnishing about half the material
per ton in the tailings, making a total of sent to the mill.
$8.66 per ton. The ledge is from six to ----0---­
fourteen feet in width, and prospects well IDAHO.
from the surface down.
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COLORADO. Hill and Sullivan Mining company paid divi­
dend No. 178 of $65,400, making the total
Georgetown Courier: Hummer & Harber amount of i1ividends paid' to date $H,584,­
have. one of the best bodies of ore yet 750. With the price of lead steadily In­
found in the Capital mines, and by the aid creasing there i3 no doubt that the divi.
of a small force of men are shipping about dends of this great lead producer will be
seventY-five tons of ore a week. These increased in the near future. The mining
lessees are at work on a streak of fine mil­ outlOOk throughout the entire country was
ling ore worth on an average of $25 a ton never better than at present; the demand
and which extends for a distance of 138 for copper, lead and zinc is greater than
feet and measures on an average of a little for some years past and there is little or
over two feet in width. no surplus on hand.
Boulder Miner: Dr. Curtis Brown, man­ Challis Mes'Senger: Since the Idaho
ager of the Southern Illinois Gold Mining Smelting & Mining company has purchased
company came down from his cozy mountain the mining interests of the Clayton Mining
home at Sunshine Tuesday morning and reo & Smelting company at Clayton, the here.
turned the same day. He brought down for tofore quiet town of Clayton has taken on
the cabinet of the Metal Mining associa­ quite a boom. Business is picking up and
tion a fine specimen of aurferou3 telluride town lots are being located, also many of
that is good for five dollars a pound. The the old abandoned mining claims up there
beauty of it is enhanced ,by the fact that are being relocated. Men have been put
there's lots more of the. same .kind where to work by the company at the Skylark,
it came from in the AddIson mIne. Red Bird and Ella mines, and at the smel·
 THE SAL T
the company expects to start up
within a month, and right now
could find employment. It is
that the new company paid for
perty $250,000. Motor truck;s will
to haul all their freight.
ore Standard: Litigation relative
10 Tung3ten" company, M. E. Calla­
'Salt Lake, manager, has been set­
:achinery for the 100-ton concentrat­
, of the company is on the ground
a. few weeks of unimpeded progress
work of construction, the plant will
:ommission. The mine is working
e men at present, which force will
lased when the mill gets busy. Con­
e' ore blocked out. "International
~n" 'company's working force com­
:en men. Other, propertie,3 mostly
prospective stage, are putting in
,urs and best licks in view of the
illenium in tungsten 'which is ex­
to arrive this season in the Patter­
Jek district.
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MONTANA.
ngston Enterprise: An immense
molybdenite, going $200 to the ton,
m discovered by Jim' Nelson and G.
on near Emigrant, on property which
cently purchased from Pete Clau::on.
s of the deposits were received this
on, according to a message received
migrant. There are millions, of ton3
deposit in sight and work on the
,ment has already been commenced.
;ese men are iexperienced miners and
that they· have one of the most
~ng 'mines which they have ever
loulaSentinel: J. H. Longmaid of
,has taken a bond and lease on the
1st Pacific mine, near Win"ton be-
to R. A. Bell, and now has a force
engaged in examining it, Mr. Long­
las been remarkably successful in
hold of abandoned and idle proper­
d putting them in the ranks of the
d payers. The Elkhorn mine is still
)perated by the Longmai!1s and 'they
t suspend operations for a month or
The pumps were pulled out some
;0. The water has ·risen only to the
-ot level and it will be 13ix months
e before all the workings are flooded.
Jy Herald: J. J. Hibbard, manager
, Kahspell-Lincoln Gold Mining com­
:ame' in from the mine Saturday and
, things looking up. He has been
~r the past two weeks installing a
mill. They installed a two-stamp
'hich Mr. Hibbard says ts' lUi'll the
lize for a property of this size and
This mine'is located on West Fish­
ek and promises to be on of the
producers in operation in this 10­
The ore runs as high as \$200 to
(1. If nothing goes wrong they will
L A K E MIN', N G REV lEW, J U L Y
have a full crew of men at work and the
dankeyos 'packing out gold bullion in a short
time.
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NEVADA.
Ely News:. O. H. Paulson from Egan
canyon, was in Ely this week, and d:s­
CUS3ed the mining operatiop.s .being car­
ried on by him at the canyon. He has "driven
350 feet of new tunnel, and is finishing
an upraise of sixty feet to connec't with
the ore. The ore carries both gold and
silver, and Mr. Paulson is planning to make
a shilpment before a very great while, and
SO!t his first car up to the $ZOO. per. ton
mark.
Yerington Times: D. W. McKenzie and
a'Ssociates" who have a lease on the North­
ern Light copper property, have purchased
a gasoline hoist at Buckskin ane: are mov­
ing it to the Northern Light property. When
installed it will facilitate the operating of
the property greatly. The first ore shipped
gave handsome returns and team3 are still
hauling for more shipments. This prop­
erty will be- one of the big east side pro­
. ducers in the near future and one which
will make it necessary for railroad people
to look into the proposition of a line for
the east side.
Ely Record: A telegram from New York
.to Hulse & Co" states that Frank Arm­
strong, of New York, has ,3ecured control
of the Coppermines company, owning mine3
and water rights of great value in the Ely
district. The company is capitalized for
1000.000 shares of a pare value of $5 each
and the telegram state'S that the capital
stock will be reduced to 500.000 shares and
the stocle listed on the New York Curb. W.
B. Thompson and George Gunn are 3till in­
terested in the property and there will be
no change in the local management nor in
the policy of development.
Winnemucca Star: James Whitelaw was
an arrival Monday evening from the camp
of Dyke, in the Pine Forest range, where
he had been for some- time with the Okla­
homa Mining company, which Is d,oing ex­
tensive development work in that district.
He states that the Oklahoma people are
opening a valuable property that will soon
take its place among the rich mines of
Humboldt county. It is a gold property,
with a number of good ore bodies exposed,
and it is a common sight in the drifts to
see rock fairly bespangled with part,icles of
the precious yellow metal.
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The Home Run Mining company, oper·
ating in Bristol district, a few miles out
of Pioche, Nevada, was in the market, last
week, with another shipment of fine copper
ore. As soon as mille workings can be
connected up 'So that ore extraction can be
accomplished to better advantage, the com·
pany will materially increa3e its output.
3 0, 1 9 1 2.
A round the State
Green River Dispatch. The big, heavy,
standard drilling rig 'Shipped in by the Brit­
ish-American Oil Co., represented here by
N. Levi, is being hauled out to the well,
where it v'ill replace .the lighter rig that
has been used. Levi has a good crew and
work will be prosecuted vigorously.
Park Record: Ed. G, Kidder returned
Friday from the Star Mining district where
he had been inspecting a property in which
several Parkites are heavily interested, and
upon which the Kidder Sand3torm mill will
soon be installed. Mr. Kidder is exceed­
ingly pleased with existing conditions and
is sure that the property will make big
money for the present promoters.
Park Record: v\,Tork was resumed at/the
Little Bell this morning. Supenmendent
Joe Kemp says the force will be increased
as development progres3es. He is very op­
timistic regarding the future of this prop­
erty and predicts good news during the
summer months. A shipment was closed
this week of 204,000 pounds of second-class
which was shipped direct to the smelter,3.
Milford News: Hansen Evsmith, man·
ager of the St. Mary's mine, returned Thurs­
day morning of this week from a trip to
Salt Lake City on business. In conver3a­
tion with him he reports that the St. Mary's
mine has, since he commenced operation out
there this summer, shipped five carloads of
ore and that the ore is improving steadily
with each shipment, the last car netting
$.250. They are employing six men and the
mine is looking better every day.
Park Record: J. H. Rolley who is in
charge of the Iowa·Copper returned from
a ten day visit in Salt Lake Thursday last
and resumed work in the main tunnel of
that property yesterday afternoon. Indica­
tions are decidedly promising and it ought
not to be long hefore the big fi3sure that
is carrying 'such good ore in Barry-,Coxe
ground is cut. The Iowa-Copper will cut
the fissure at a much greater depth and an
ore body should result. There should be
good news from this section before~ long.
Milford News: We have been advised
,by reliable ,source that the Horn Silver at
Frisco, during the month of June, 1912,
shipped twenty cars of ore; and that they
have a payroll of seventy men, not counting
contractors and leasors; that the company
itEelf pays its men $2.50, $2.75, $3.00 and
$3.25, the latter being for timbering and
machine men. 'Ve are al'So advised that
the company could use ten or fifteen more
men at $3.00 and $3.25 and that they are
having considerable trouble in getting men
just now, and are looking for more. The
company has also up to this date shipped
nine car::; of ore in the month of July. This
great producer is still producing in spite of
its past history of thirty years and over.
 THE SAL T
CAMP-FIRE CHATS
By PAUL VALTlNKB
Since the name of rad:um is more or
less on every prospector's lip for the last
few years, it will perhaps Ibe int"lrestlng tv
many of you to hear something about t;11S
wonderful element which, by it~ act.ioll~, is
ready to overthrow one of the standard
laws of chemistry; namely: the Ilnchanga­
bility of the elements. The chern:eal world
of only five years ago had notltini; but a
smile of contempt to show whennver the
theory of the old alchemist,; W'lS brough~
forward, that, after all, transmntat:oll Illay
be demonstrated some day. Ten yer,rs ago.
when Becquerel found on a phll!ografJllic
plate the legible signature of a n~w !:in,l of
. rays, the first step toward" a ne-" era was
taken, and the science of r,1.d;o activity was
born.
Although other elements DCl!:c.€ ' l the
uranium-radium group, such as' the actinuLl
and thorium groups, emit rays of dll'ferent
characteristics. we will here only 'shortly
consider the better-known emanations of t h·~
first named group.
I will not speak here about the price of
radium. nor will I try to describe
the elaborate process of its separa­
tion from the radium-bearing ores. New
applications for its rays are discovered
right along. The best known, so far, seems
to be its employment as a curative agent
to combat different diseases.
To make the following lines clearer to
you I ha-ve to go back as far as 1894. when
Raleigh discovered a ~ew element in .our
atmosphere, which he named argon. Ram­
sey soon followed with the discovery or
three more. «II derived from the same
source. which received the names of helium;
neon and krypton.
All four, and a later discovered one
(xenon), are not only present in our atmos­
phere, but the spectroscope has unquestion­
ably proven their presence in most of our
eruptive rocks as well. Three of these rare
elements will gilve us much to think about.
when mentioned further on in connection
with the wonderful radium.
Whenever a chemical action takes place,
heat is evolved. Dy not heeding said Jaw
many a student had his hands burned; for
example, by mixing in a careless way water
with sulphuric acid. The heat evolved by
the decaying radium is stupendous. It
evolves nearly throo m:llion times as much
heat as arises from any chemical action
known to men_
Its enormous store of energy is given
out through its decay. As it has beell
proven that nothing can decompose or alter
radium. is it not extremely interesting to
learn that it will decompose by itself? Dut
what does it become? What does it change
into?
L A K E MIN 1 N G REV lEW, J U L Y
When mapping the spectrum or the ra·
dium emanations it was found that the
known spectrum of helium and said emana­
tion was one and the S3-me, and it was
thereby established that one element could
be changed. into another, and that the al­
chemists were right, after all. But more
surprises were in store for the investigators
when theY passed said emanations through
water. Helium was the product of decay
in the dry state, but now helium was ab­
sent, while neon was the only product. Fur­
thermore, when said emanations were led
through a solution of copper sulphate, argon
was found to be the product of the decaying
element.
It is a well known fact that the electric
current will break down water into its two
constituents, oxygen and hydrogen. The
radium emanations accomplish the same
phenomenon, but the hydrogen set free in
this way will exceed by ten to twenty per
cent the amount of the gas contained in
water. Where the excess comes from no·
body is able to say at the present time.
Are all the elements sending forth em·
na.tions? Are they all changing from one
into another?
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TRADE NOTES.
The F. C. Richmond Machinery company.
of Salt Lake, has filled an order, from the
New Yerington Copper company. for a five·
drill air compressor.
The Numa Rock Drill Snarpener com­
pany, of 629 State street, Salt Lake City.
has an order from the Green Cananea com·
pany, of MeXJico, for one of its machines.
The Numa company has just installed a
large machine at the Iron Blossom mine
in Tlntic district, Utah, resulting in a sav·
ing of $400 a month over the old hand
method of drill sharpening. The Knight
Investment company, of Provo, Utah, has
also ordered a Numa Sharpener for its
water tunnel projest.
W. C, Fellows. manager of the Ben Har­
rison Mines company, of Baker City. Ore.,
has been in the city for a few days over·
seeing concentration tests on the antimon·
ial silver-gold ore from this mine. and de·
termining a concentration flow sheet adapted
to it. He has placed an order with the
Allis-Cha.lmers company for the complete
equipment for a I50-ton concentrator. the
mill to be placed in operation lat~ this Call.
There is a large volume of ore, running
high in silver, blocked out in the mine.
This ore is especially amenable to concen­
tration. and the Ben Harrison will 'Show
large earnings.
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The Lead King Mining company, of Salt
Lake, operating near McGill, Nevada. has
several carloads of fine ore sacked, ready
for shipment, which will soon be sent to
the smelters.
3 0, 1 9 1 2. 31
i Personal M enlion ]
Edgar A_ Collins is now superintendent
of the Commonwealth mine in Arizona.
J<'rank Thornburg, of Silver City, Utah,
has returned home from an extended eastern
trip.
R. H. Elliott is now superintendent for
the Liberty Bell Mining company at Tel.
luride. Colorado.
Frank M. Peck, of Elk City. Idaho. har.
purchased an interest in the Montana Belle
mine, near that place.
Joe Gruth, superintendent of the Johnnie
mine at Johnnie, Nevada, was recently mar·
ried to Miss Martha Harper.
C. E. Allen, of Salt Lake, on the staff
of the United State.3 Mining company, has
returned home from a visit east.
Orvil'R. -Whitaker has succeeded James
B. McDonald as manager for the New Mon·
arch company of Leadville, Colorado.
H. B. Cole, a leading mining man and
broker, of Salt Lake, recently examined gold
mining property in Newton district, near
Beaver, Utah.
J. G. Calvert, of Elk City, Idaho, super­
intendent of the Revenue ::I-fining company,
recently visited Spokane on mining busi·
ness.
B. C. Williams, a prominent mining and
business man of Salt Lake City, has re­
turned home from a business trip to At·
lanta, Georgia.
F. C. RiChmond, of Salt Lake, of the
F. C. Richmond Machinery company, ha!;
returned home from a busines3 trip to
Pioche, Nevada.
A. W. Forbes, of Tucson, Arizona, rep­
resenting the United Zinc & Chemical com­
pany. of Kansas City, recently visited ~e·
vada zinc-producing sections.
W. S. Enslow, of Ely, Nevada, of the
Marion M.ining company, was in Salt Lake,
recently, purchasing a milling plant for
the company's property at Charleston, same
state.
M. C. Hall, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who
is intere'Sted in the )Jroperty of the Haags­
man' Hall Mining company Hear Ouray. Col·
orado, recently made a visit to the com­
pany·.3 holdings.
Henry Catro, of Salt Lake City, at one
time prominently connected with the Ohio
Copper comp·any, has returned home from
an extended visit to Freiberg district, Ne­
vada. where, with Frank M. Shirer and H.
E. Monheim, he is interested In valuable
mining properties.
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The Tonopah Mining companY, of Tono­
pah, Nevada, produced 14.551 tons of ore, in
.June, which returned a net profit of $151,­
389.
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f· THE SAL T
!e 6- Smeller Building I
Snowstorm Mining company, of Mul·
ho, will soon add to the capacity of
ng plant.
Great Western Mining company, of
City, California, has mill' building
mplation,
made an examination of mining property
Terrible Edith Mining company, of
The Price Macaroni company, of Price,
; Idaho, may put in a milling plant
Utah, will 'Soon construct a factory building.
Lrly date.
Plans are being outlined for the build·
. and H. C. Saul, of Douglas, Wyom·
ing of a water works system for New Pine
~e decided upon machinery equip·
r their mining property.
First Thpught Extension Mining
Idaho, will build a large lumber mill at
r, of Orient, Washington, may equip
'Montour, Boise county.
erty with a cyanide plant.
'California Exploration company,
Jackson, California, will equip its
. with an electriC sinking pump.
s Golden, of Klondyke, Nevada,
mines in Klondyke district, has de·
I equip his property with a 50·ton
Pioneer Consolidated Mining com·
: Pioneer, Nevada, will re·!)ulld its
plant, recently partiaIly destroyed
Lion Hill Consolidated Mines c0.!ll·
Ophir, Utah, George &1. Clair, man·
planning a new milling plant for iti
§lixteen·to·One Mining company, of
lY, California, has decided to put in
worlffi, and electric power for both
d mill.
Ramsey Amalgamated Mining cern·
Reno, Nevada, T. B. Ramsey, man·
s decided to equip its property with
hoisting works.
stated that ~he 'Knight Investment
" of Provo, Utah, has nnder con·
n the building of a large concen·
plant in Tintic district.
Platt, of Winnemucca, Nevada, suo
dent of the Bonanza Mining' com·
cording to reports, has decided to
e company's property with hoL3ting
Jolden Rule mine, near Salmon
Iho, J. B. Allen, manager, is t'o he
with a sawmill a 5-stamp quarb:
I an electric power plant, operated
r power.
Owens and associates, of Salt Lake,
e taken a lease on the property of
i' Note Mining company, west of
:, Nevada, will probably equip the
th hoisting machinery.
Bristol Consolidated Mining com·
Pioche, Nevada, Geo. E, Bent, gen·
lager, and H. F. Widdecombe, mine
, may build a two·mile aerial, tram·
:onnect with shipping point at rail·
LA K E M I N,I N G REV lEW, J U L Y
The Marion Mining & Milling company,
of Ely, Nevada, has decided to build reduc·
tion works for its property at Charleston,
same state. W. S. Enslow, of Ely, and O.
B. Madson, of Ogden, Utah, are interested
in the company,
Conslruction News
F. V. Bodfish, of Salt Lake, recently
made an examination of mining properties
at National, Nevada.
Creek, Oregon.
orado School of Mines, has opened an en·
,·The Weyerhauser syndicate, of Bo:se,
1. I. Newton, of Quartzite, Arizona, suo
perintendent for the Cinnabar Development
J. B. Yates, of Dillon, Montana, 13 mak·
Ing preliminary arrangements for oil drill·
ing InSmallhorn canyon, near that place.
W. Hickey and Wm. Killroy, of Vancou·
ver, B. C., have decided to build a large
manufacturing plant at Suman, Wa.;3hlngton,
It is stated that the Oregon Short Line
Railroad company has decided to build a
number of new depots along its main line
and branch roads in Idaho.
The city of Weiser, Idaho, has advertised
for bids, to be opened August 9th, for the
laying of 600,00 square feet of cement side.
walk, and 100,000 lineal feet of concrete
curbing.
The city of Weiser, Idaho, has adver·
tised for bids-, up to August 9th, for the
construction of 45,000 lineal feet of cast·
iron water main, from four to sixteen inches
in diameter, wUh neces3ary valves, hy·
drants, etc. Also, for the construction of
a concrete reservoir of 500,000 gallon ca·
pacity.
The National Fuel company, of Salt
Lake, is getting ready to equip its coal prop·
erty in Carbon county, Utah, with the neces,
sary machinery for success~ul operation.
The officers of the company are John F.
vVilliamson, .president; George G. Higgins:
vice·president; R. S. Mitchell, vice·president,
and J. R. Shreck, secretary and treasurer.
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Rico-Wellington Shipping.
(Item, Rico, Colo.)
In less than two weeks the Rico·Welling·
ton has shipped thirty·eight cars of zinc
ore to the Pueblo smelter and is now ""hlp·
ping at the rate of three 50,000·pound cars
per day. Shipments of copper ore to the
smelter .at Garfield, Utah, will commence
Monday. The management reports tbe mine
in excellent shape.
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The Nevada·Superior Mining company,
of Salt· Lake City. whose property is 10'
cated in Humboldt county, Nevada, was in
the market, recently, with a shipment of
concentrates from its new mill.
30, 1 91 2.
Engineers and Millmen
Charles E. Mills has been appointed
manager of the Inspiration Con30lidated at
Globe, Arizona.
Frank Jardine, of Sa~t Lake, recently
near Salmon City, Idaho.
S. J. Clausen, Jr., a graduate of the Col·
gineering office at Green River, Utah.
company, recently transacted business 'in
Chicago.
II: F. Widdecomb, of Pioche, Nev., mine
manager of the Day·Bristol ConSOlidated,
was in Salt Lake. last week, on business for
his com:pany.
C. F. Sherwood, American engineer for
the Consolidated Goldfields company, of
South Africa, has taken up his permanent
residence in Salt Lake.
Arthur Hou:e, the well·known mining
man and engineer, has been appointed suo
perintendent of the mines and smelters of
the Shattuck·Arizona Copper company at
Bisbee, Arizona.
Grant Snyder, of Salt Lake, general man·
ager for the Cliff Mining company, operat·
ing at Ophir, Utah, has returned from Du·
luth, Minnewta, wh~re .he attended the an·
nual meeting of the company.
W. H. Calvert, of Salt Lake, of the con·
suiting and engineering firm of Arnold,
Fisher & Calvert, has been employed, of
late, in making coal examinations in north·
ern Colerado, and oil and coal investiga·
tions in northern Montana.
E. P. Mathewson, of Anaconda, Mont.,
general manager for the International
Smelting & Refining company, has been pre·
sented with a gold medal by the Institute
of Mining and Matallurgy, in recognition
of his valued services in connection with
his re3earch work relating to the metal·
lurgy of copper.
Thos. Morrell of Salt Lake, of the Utah
State School of Mines, has taken a lease
and bond on the property of the Indian Pete
M. & M. company, near the head of Porter
canyon, a £outh branch of Mill Creek can·
yon, twelve miles east and a little south
of Salt Lake City; and is now engaged in
the operation and development of the prop­
erty, in the upper workings of which there
is a showing of ten inches of good 3ilver·
lead ore. The Indian Pete is located neat
the old Scott mine.
 THE SAL T LAK E MIN I N G REV lEW, J U LY 3 0, 1 9 1 2. 3J

being removed in the first compartment, and

requires little or no attention, there being
THE YELLOW PINE MILL but the one valve to adjust. The discharge
By FRED A. HALE, Jr.* from each compartment of the classifier
goes to a special table of the Overstrom
The treatment of the ores of the Yellow
the two are dumped into separate bins at straight-line type, but especially designed
.Pine mining district, Clark county, Nevada,
the head of the mill, having a total capacity for the ore. Grooved linoleum is used In
has presented numerous difficulties, owingof 300 tons. stead of wooden riffles, and a feature of the
to the complex nature of the ore, and to From the bin. the fine ore is elevated table work is the varying size of the tables.
the ciosene3S of the specific gravitie~: of
directly to the fine-ore bin, and the coarse The table taking the coarsest feed Is III
the vaJuable minefials contained, render­ is fed on to an 18-in. conveyor belt, which. ft. by 4 ft. 6 in., and the slime table is
ing the ore hardly amenable to ordinary at an inclination of 30 degrees, elevates the 10x7 ft., the tables taking the intermediate
methods of concentration. Numerous
material to the rock breaker. Four ore sizes ,being a proportionate length an'l
methods have been attempted, the most not­sorters are employed, and only clean lime­ breadth between these two limits. ThIs
able the leaching plant erected in 1900 bystone is piGked from the ,belt. The con­ has been found to effect a closer concentrat­
the Mineral Union Co., Ltd., but all proved
veyor -belt discharges into an 8x12 Blake tion, with an increase. in the capacity of the
unsuccessfUl, until the present plant, op­crusher, where the ore is crushed to I-in. table, owing to the minimum of waste space
erated bY the Yellow Pine Mining company, size, and dropped into the fine ore 1)in. The on the table.
was completed last fall. ore from the fine-ore bin is fed automati­ A middling product is drawn from the
Metasomatic Replacement in Limestone. cally into a set of 16x30-in. Gates rolls, first two tables, and returned for regrind­
The orebody of the Yellow Pine Mining
'which reduces it to 7 millimeters. ing, but the remaining tables make but two
company consists of a metasomatic replace­ From the rolls, the ore is elevated in a products, concentrate and tailing. The con.
ment in the carboniferous ,siliceous lime·10-in. vertical elevator to a set of two 3x3· centrate Is wheeled to the storage bin and
stone. The limestone in the ore zone has ft. Colorado impact screens, the coarsest loaded Into cars for shipment. The tailing
been completely replaced by lead and zinc having 4·mm. openings, and the fine screen passes to dewatering bins, and is {lrawn
carbonates, although there are occasional being about 20-mesh. The oversize from from them into mil'S and thence to a plat­
ribs of coase limestone within the orebody.
the coarse screen passers to a two-compart· form, where it is dried for shipment. Water
The ore, when free from lime, assays aboutment Har,z jig, which remove3 practically is not plentiful and all that is possible is
30 per cent zinc, 16 per cent lead and 12 all the galena in the ore and some lead car· returned for re use. About 10 per cent of
oz. silver, the zinc being in the form of bonate, the jig tailing going to another set the tailing is a slime product, which, after
mixed smithsonite, calamine and hydro· of 16x30-in. ro'lls for regrinding, the product being thickened in cone-settrng tanks, is
zincite. About 75 per cont of the lead con·
from which is again elevated and passed run into slime pO:lds to dry for shIpment.
tent is cerussite. the remainder being angle·
through the screen system. The oversize All Separated Prod:lcts Shipped.
site and secondary galena, and the silver passes to a second 2-compartment j'g, the It can be seen that the mill is essen·
is apparently contained within the lead inmiddling from this jig being sent to the ti'llly a separating plant, rather than a con·
an oxidized form. regrinding rolls. A lead concentrate is een trator, and all products are shipped, ex·
This ore is readily marketab~e in the drawn from the hutch of the second jig and cept tile waste limestone averagin'S 28 per
crude state on a so·called "mixed ore" a:so from the first compartment, while the cent zinc, 17 [ler cent lead and 10 oz. silver;
schedule, but the nearest market be'ng thetail is sufficiently low in lead to go d'rcdly a lead concentrate is produced averaging
zinc smelters in the Mississippi valley, ex·
to the tailing bins. 62 per cent lead and 45 oz. silver, while the
cessive' freight rates and high treatment Special Overstrom Classifier. tailing contains 33 to 35 per cent zine, mak­
charges absorb most of the prOfit" so that The undersize from the fine screen, a ing both profitable shil)pingprodncts. The
the producer obtains only about one-fifth 20-mesh product, flows to a classifier, do· capacity of the mill is 75 tons per 24 hours,
of the actual value of the ore. For several
s:gned especially for this ore by G. A. and from a continuous operation for til€:
years, the Yellow Pine Mining co-mpany hasOvertsrom, consulting engineer for the qom· last six months, it· has been determined
been working on a method to separate the pany. This classifier is worthy of special that the increased value due to miring ex,
valua.ble constituents in the ore, and, while
mention, as the successful treatment of this ceeds $5 per ton, above the cost of milling.
the results from tests by ordinary concen·ore is ~argely due to the close classifica­ The company owns and operates a nar·
tration methods were far from satisfactory,
tion and table work. The classifier is of row·guage railroad 12 miles long from Jean,
the company was sufficiently encouraged the inverted type, i.e., the slime is re­ the shipping point 011 the San Pedro, Los
to decide that a specialized method could mowed in the first compartment instead of Angeles & Salt Lake R. R., to the mine, via'
be worked out which would give good re in the last.· as is usual with most hydrau· Goodsprings, where the mill is situated.
suIts on the, ore. Consequently, the old
lic classifiers. The hydraulic water is in­ Crude oil is used for fuel both on the rail·
leaching plant of the Mineral Union com­ troduced in the bottom of the classlfiel' road and for the mill, and costs $1.24 per
pany was purchased and remodeled to Its through a 6·in. main, drawing from a special bbl., f.o.b. Jean. The freight rate from Jean
present· condition. tank kept at a constant head by means 01 to Utah smelters on this class of concen·
In order to facilitate sorting, the ore Is
a float 'Valve. The classifier has six com· trate is $6 !Jer tOIl, and to the zinc smelters
screene'd at the mine, the skip dumping di·
partments, formed by vertical partitions, and in the Mississippi valley, $8 per ton.
rectly on to a shaking grizzly, having %,·In.
the velocities in the different compartments ---~.o-----

openings. The screenings, amounting tu are varied by their different area of cross· The Bromide mine in Douglass district.
about 50 per cent of the {lre, are kept sepa­
section. Sweetwater county, Wyoming, Is 'Shipping
rate from the coarse aud the two are trans· The classified products flow from the regularly. It is reported that $100,000 in
ferred to the mill at Goodsprings, four top of these compartments and a plug is Copper ore is in sight in the mine working,.
miles distant, by a narrow-guage railroad,inserted in the bottom .of the final compart· -----0

owned and operated by the company. Here ment to enable the withdrawal of any over­ Word has been received from pioche,
size too large to be elevated by the upward Nevada, that the PrinCe Consolidated com­
*Mining Engineer, Goodsprings, Nevada. current. This classifier makes a cleanly pany, in the operation of its property, is
Cor. Engineering and Mining Journal. divided product, 90 per cent of the slime finding higher lead values in its iron ore.

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 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, JU LY 30, 1912.

GOLDFI ELD NEWS. sinking a month is being accomplished, at quicksilver, iron, and rare-metal mining dis·
which rate of progress the bore should reach tricts of the w-estern states.
(Special Correspondence.) the 1470 foot point about September 1 and A geologic introduction to this report,
.Goldfield, N-ev., July 25.-Interesting devel· a depth of the 2000 feet, its present object­ by Chief Geologist Waldemar Lindgren, not
ments are likely to o'ccur within the next ive point, about the middle of ne,xt Febru­ only gives a general sum'mary of the geo­
11' days in the new crosscut being driven ary. The work of enlarging the Grizzly Bear logy of the states, but also describes in
the 350 foot level of the I<'lorence mine shaft of the Consolidated f·rom two to three some detail the economic geology of the·
intercept the new rich ore-body exposed compartments size from the 1300 to the more important camps as well as some or
out two months ago on the 250·foot level lOOO-foot levels is rapidly nearing comple· the less widely known mining regions. This
Qut 1,000 feet northeasterly of the main tion, Drifting is soon to be resumed in part of the report includes a small map
aft in virgin ground. It was calculated the big quartz mass on the 1300·foot level -of the western United States showing the
'l.t to pick up the orebody on the 35(}· of the Grizzly Bear and the sinking of the general distribution of the mining districts.
)t level it would be necessary to drive shaft to the 1400·foot level will be under The report contains two plates show.
distance of 130 feet from the point at way within a few days. It should be com· ing the areas covered by the topographic
llch the crosscut was started, The work pleted not later than September 1; there­ and geologic work of the United States
s advanced toward. the objective point fore, the or()sscuts to conect the Merger and Geological Survey-plates adapted from the
distance of about 120 feet; therefore, the Grizzly Bear shafts will in all probabll· Thirty-second Annual Report of the Direc·
eat Interest attaches to the present work ty be started toward each other simultane­ tor-and a separate map of each state ex·
the new crosscut. On the 250-foot level, ously. To accomplish the 600 feet of cross· cept California (which is rep'resented on
e new orebody has been extensively ex­ cut work will consume from six weeks to two maps), showing the location of the min·
>red, drifting to a total length of about two months time. The development of the· ing districts and by appropriate s"ymbols the
9 feet having been accomplished. This Atlanta ground at depth will be prosecuted principal 'meta:ls produced in each. The re­
)rk has steadily yielded an excellent grade through the Grizzly Bear·Merger crosscut port contains fourteen of these state maps,
milling rock, in addition to a large ton· by the driving of a working south into the Which show the location and area of over
ge of ore of a shipping grade. The main Union Jack claim. 1,400 mining districts, The map including
aft has passed the 1175·foot point and ---0---­ the largest number of districts Is tIlat of
ould reach a depth of 1200 feet within the northern counties of California, which
WESTERN MINING DISTRICTS.
e next few days. It is the plan of the contain 222 districts; the smallest Is toe
lnagement 10 sink a sixty-foot sump to ac· map containing that of trans·Pecos Texas,
mmodaie pumps below the 1200·foot point The United States west of the 103d meri· which shows only eleven districts.
fore running laterals on that level. Such dian, comprising the Rocky Mountain, Plat· With every mining district symbol on
)rk as well as that of cutting a large eau, Desert, and Sierra Nevada regions, is each of these maps is a number whiCh re­
ation will consume apprOximately one one of the most important producers of fers to its name in an accompanying list.
onth's time. On the 1000·foot level, the precious and allied metals in the world. A bibliography of the publications of the
.rth crosscut has .been advanced a dis· In this area are many 'mining regions or U. S. Geological Survey on each district
nce of 350 feet while the south drift, work camps which are known as "mining ~is­ is included in the text, as well as a con·
which has been retarded by ,bad a_nd trlcts." In most of the S'tates the boun­ densed statement of the geology and na­
!Stable ground, measures about 250 feet. daries of these districts are well recog­ ture of the ore deposits, a list of the metals
Ie faces of both workings are exposmg nized and some of them are legally reo produced, and the shipping point of the
vorable conditions. A telegram was re­ corded, and nearly all can be plotted on camp.
ived several days ago from Vice Presi· state maps with a fair degree of accur­ The bulletin contains the latest avail·
,nt T. G. Lockhart. of Los Angeles, say· acy. In the Mother Lode country of Call· able information, but .the director of the
g that he and President A_ D. Parker, fornia, however, there are no "mining dis· Geological Survey desires that any 'mistakes
Denver, COlorado, will arrive In Gold. tricts" in the sense tha:t the term is used or omissions be brought to his attention
,ld tomorrow to ma}!:e an inspection of In the other states. by men in the field who are in a position
e . mine and outline the work for the The output of the mines in the United to aid in this work.
ture. States is reported yearly to the division Bulletin 507, "Mining Districts of the
Merger. of miperal resources of the Unite~ States Western United States, by James M. HlIl,
President C. O. Whittemore, who recent­ Geological Survey, and by a study of the with a geo!ogic introduction by Waldemar
made one of his frequent visits to Gold· district reports for a number of years the Lindgren," may be obtained free of appli­
lId from his home in Las Ang-eles, Cali­ values. of the most Important metals pro­ cation to the Director of the U, S. Geological
rnia, -is authority for the statement that duced in each district can be fairly well Survey, Washington, D. C.
crosscut will be run from a depth of determined, In sO'me districts, notably those ----0---­
'out 1470 feet in the big Merger shaft to in Colorado, the values of several produ;:;ts The Alta-Emerald Mining company has
'nnect with a like working frO'm the 1400­ are nearly equal, but in most of the dis, been organized by Capt. C. J. McFlynn, of
ot level of the Grizzly Bear shaft of the tricts the output of one metal has a great­ San Francisco, on the Emerald claim at
oldfield Consolidated, when the depthS er value than that of the rest. Alta, Utah, and work has been begun in the
(med are reached in the respective proper· The United States Geological Survey has ext-ell'sive development of this old·time prop­
~s. Such a working will afford excellent published reports on the economic geology erty. Capt. McFlynn 13 now on the ground,
",Wation for both properties. The two of a large number of the mining districts of directing operations and, in this work he
lafts are about 600 feet apart and the the country. In 1908 the Survey published is being assisted by Dan J. Wheeler, a
IUndary line between the two estates is In its annual volume "Mineral Resources of veteran mining man of Placerville, Calif·
lout midway. The Merger shaft collar is the United States" a map of the western ornia.
)proximately seventy feet higher than that states ,showing the location of the mining ~---o~~--­

, the Grizzly Bear; therefore, a depth of districts. Bulletin 507, "Mining districts of The Alta Tunnel & Transportation com­
70 feet in the former will correspond with the Western United States," which contains pany, of Salt Lake City, is pushing work in
.OO-foot level of the latter. The present a revised edition of the ()riginal map, to· the driving of its main working tunnel. The
lpth of the Merger shaft is around 1250 gether with much new material, Is an in­ property of the company is located in Big
'et. An average of about 100 feet of dex of the gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, Cottonwood district, Salt Lake county, Utah.
 17.50; electrolytic, $17.75: lake, $17.75; cast­ SHOULD SOON PAY D
ing, $17.00@17.25.
on the local hoard ThurRd,lY
.~vJ:l.ti Tln-l<'irm; spot, $43.90@!44.25. July, $43.85
" July 25: @44.25: August. $44.00@44.U'/2; Scpteml)er, (Reporter, Eureka, 1
LI..ted Stot!k•• $43.50'i'4@43.95; October, $43.45@43.75.
Lead-Stc:cdy; $4.60@4.75. The manner in which
=---==-====) B!c( -iA~k;'d-: Spelter--Fil'ln: $l" .15@7.3Q.
Antirnony-Cookson's:" $8,25. Eagle & Blue Bell and Chiet
unnel -:-:-:-.-.-.-:---:-·-~~T~091~·if--:--l [if,; Iron~Steady and unC'hanged. are responding todevelopmen
'1 Amalgamated ... i .07 I .09 ]'~xports of copper this month, 22,:20 tons.
Jack .... j .13 I .1, Local sales, 100 tons. London eopper quiet; to the belief that these new 1
alisman ..... ! O·} I .02 tA_ spot, £78 12s 6d; futur€ s , £78 12s 6d.
} Minlng ..... ·· ... 1 .18 1 .19 r~ocal sales tin, 5 tons. London tin quiet; rival some of the older mine.
) Consolidated ... ·1 .25 1 .:l;; spot, £200 108; futures, £197 lOs. triet in the matter of ore prOl
Point ....... · .. · ... 1 .02 I .0;; London ~e<Ld, £18 lIs 3d. London spelter,
I 5:
dg~' . : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ~g! U~
........... 1 .25 I········
London.
£26 58.
Iron-Cleveland wl:trrants, 57s lO%d in
three of these mines are ope
the same ore channel, which is
ff. . ................ 1. . . . • • • • 1 •••••••. -----0--­ very liberal dimensions, but cal
rince X ............ 1 .()l2 ! .05
'own Point ........ ! .001/,11 .OOlh NE"'- YORK 1.IS'l'ED S'l'OCKS. .tionally high values. It takes til.
.ntic Consolidated.1 .00'41 .01 a mining, property i~ the dividel
ntic Development .. j .00%_1 .ul i Sales. 1 H, 1 L. iClose
ntic G. K. ........ 1.. !. Chino Copper .. ~I '-600I-'3Tf,h3i'4! 31-)'4 class where deep mining is nece
1aln .
:::;entral
Queen
., .. 1
... 1
.... 1
.32 'f
.54
.01
.38
.59
.01'4
Goldfield Con.
Nevada Con. ..··· ... 1
Ray Consolidated
. ..
,.1
1
1,2U
4001 4 i 4. I 4
5001 21 I 2U %1 20 *
1)t '(!Oo/4-) 20¥.!1 ,(!O%
there are reasons to believe th,
ossom 1.20 ] .25 Tennessee COPlJor .. [ ~OO! 43%1 4iP/sl 4:n'8
not be very long before the sht
ing ..... , ... ,' . ul .O,) M ami 'Copper .,., .. : 4,900~ 29 'r,,! ~9 1/4! :'::9 '14 of these three mines are drawi
(ers ............... .0011<1 .02 Utlll1 Copper ........ 1 SOOI 6111<1 Gl ) 61
Ie .•........... .12 I ....... . ~s p ira t.i..~n_,(;;)2'-,-...:_~:J 200 I 1 9 I 19 ,1 \, some velvet. The Chief Cons. aIr
\Till iam ............ .03 I .1J4
N~W YORK CURB RANGE. a cash surplus of over $130,000, tl
•ntic .............. .0011<1.01

ill ......... .0311<1 .04

I'SalesTl=LTL:-jCl"se & Blue Bell is now piling up a nil
bell .............•. .30 I .37
f'lrst Nat'l Copper .. I~'-.- ..-.-·-.IIv8i 1%r;l1;;
Ma.mmoth ...... .03 I .0311<
Giroux Con.. ury, which has no doubt been incr(
... 1 3001 5 i 4 % 1 4 %
th . . .............. .70 1 .7"
Nevada Ut(th ... " .( ...... 1 5("! 2c 1 DC ·the extent of nearly $40,000 as a rt
Valley ............. 13.00 1 14.01)
Ray Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . ·1 2%1 2%1 2%
'Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , .12 i .12'h
Yukon Go,d ........ 1· ...... 1 3%1 3 'Xi. I 30)'. the shipments sent out during til(
Flat.···· .. ····.··1 .O?%I .O~":' Oh.o COPPH. ., .. \ 501 'hI 11<1 'h thirty or forty days; wh:le the Viet
n Lake ............ 1 .02 , .Ov

BrItish ........... [........ 1.

o~~IS ....... : ...... :: .... ~.' .. i! 1.. Zr~41! ~.'t~

New Keystone
South Utah ......... 1·· ·····1
Mason Valley ....... i
.. I· .· .. ··1 2",1
0/01
4001 13%1 131>1 13"'.
'hi '*
I 2
rapidly wip:ng out the indebtedness
was caused by the purchase of va
Braden Copper · .... 1 6001 11~1 ';' ~'81 'j Va
)pper ............' .. 1....... ·1· Ely Consolidated ... 1.... , .. 1 250 1 20e I 250 adjoining territory. Only a few day,
!;'o • • • . • • . • • . • • . • . ! .12%1 .13 'h Nevada Hills ....... 1 ZOO, 2%1 n~1 Z\\!
Demijohn ...... .1 .10 1 .1" Belmont .1 2001 9%1 90/41 ~o)'o ,the Victoria took up a note for $;
Metals ......... I .02%1 .05
'gh-Idaho .. . . . . . . 1. . . . . ·1 1.1)7 'h Tonopah ...... ':'.-:..:.'_'.' ·L..!'5~_ f>% which represented the bulk of the
. . ·················1 .1l6 '4: .0, 'h ')'HFJ I.OCAI, MAIlKET. pany's indebtedness and the RepI
Consolidated ....... 1 1. 57'h1 l.tifJ
"d and Anaconda .. 1 .08 '41. July 13. learns from a reliable source that
• • .............. .• ! .01%! .03 Silver, 60V4 c8nts; lead, $4.65; ('oPi1€ ' r mine's e:trnings for the month of
Troughs ........... 1 .02%, .0311< 17,22% cents.
<ing Coalition ..... j 2,40 j i!. ;H) .July 1:;. amounted to nearly $10,000, while the
King 'Consolidated .1 1. Oil i 1. 0211< Silver. 60¥" cents; lead, $4 75. copper ord for June, while hard:y as good as
Shield ............. 1
:::onsolidated ....... !
ron F>lossom ...... !
.01 !
%1
. ()4
.00 1,4
*
.I)~
.06
. o (Ph
c;lthode, 16.95 ('eats.
.July HI,
Silver, 6072: cents; lead, $4 ,75. ('opper
of the prev;ous month, owing to the.
, Consolidated .... 1 .06'h1 .07 en thode, 16.95 cents. that Manager Sullivan kept a large
~entral ............ 1 .01'41 .02 July 11. of h's force upon new work, was almoE
Tintic ............ , .00*1 .01
Silver, 60% cents; lead, $4 75; cOPIH?r
~m .'.,., .......... j • J 9' .:!5
cntllo<.1e, Hi. 95 c(~nts. satisfactory. Recent shipments from
nsolidated ........ 1 .02 i .02%

'I'. .\
.July IS.
~ief ....•..•....•. 1 .13 I • n; '& SUver. 60% f'ents; l€ > :ld, $4 1;'; ('opj.H'r mine have carried very good values in I
lnsol1.dated .. , ... .05 cathode, 16.95 cents. one and a half and two ounces gold OrE
Consolidated ,.... .55 I .5'( July 19.
.................. .1711<1 .20
Si1\'f'r, 60% CC1HB; le:HI, $4.7;); ('opp('r ing by no means unusual. in addi.tion to
onsolida ted ..... ·1 ....... '1' ....... .
cattlod(->, 1G.95 cents.
'Copper " " ' "
...................
,I .08% .,.09%
.00*1··.· .. ·.

Jl'l~Y 20.
splendid si:ver values. What causes
~i)ver, 60% centR; lead. $4.7;). copper feeling of optimism among the sharel
., ........... ~-'_:....:..:L~..:..~~~~
cathode, 16.9;") cents".
July 22. ers of the Victoria is the fact that. all
Unlisted Stock.. Silver, 60=1'4 cents; lead, $4. if,; eopl}er
c"tthode, 16. 95 ~en ts.
cations tend to show that greater d
I Bid. I Asked. I Soid )1'or. July 23~ will show the continuity of the vein
:--:--\'$. 65If'-:66 -1;-:-65--@$---:-S6­ Silver, 60% ('ents; lead, $4. ,l1; cop},lE'r
'.. .36 1 .37 1 .36 @! ...... . cathode, 16.95 (,f'nts. the permanence of values.
. ·1 .42 I .42%1 .41 I[v .4~ .July 24. 0---­
I ·· .. ··1 .15 I.. SiJvt'r, 60 % cents: Ipad, $4. 7i); C'oppf'r
,07'41 .10 I .. ·
cathodf>, lr..!-Hi ('ent~, POSITION WANTED•
. 03%1 .03'41.··.· ..
July 2:;.
. 10 I··· ... 1· ..... SUn'f', 60% ('ent~: J(';1I1. $4.7:-1; (,OPP<'J'
:~~%\:::::: :1.:::: (·'Itbod .. , lG.~';) ('ents. Wanted position as mine or mill Sl
.____ :~L~~~_J~~c . ----0)---­ intendent or foreman or mine survey·or
SaleH,
FOR SALE. assayer, by man who bas had twelve Y'
25 at $5.8;;,
practical experience in Co:orado, Utah
,000 at ao,c,
Neva{la camps. Will go anywhere, but
at 'ic.
An engineer's office outfit as follows;
aI, 1.000 at k.
One roll top desk and swivel chair; one fers Utah and Nevada. Available on
at 56e.

3,025.
4x7 drawing board and draftman's stool; weeks' notice. Good references. Add
, $444.57.
Olle Universal drafting 'machine, with G. H. R., Box 1137, Salt Lake City.

OIJeD Board.

1., 1,000 at 28e.

straight edge and squares; one Gurley ----0----­
w. 1.000 at 2e.
The leasers on John the Revela(or I
00 at $1.60: 100 at $1.57%.
Light Mountain transit with extension tri­
~n .. 100 at $1.00.
pod and transit and level rods; one 300· in Snake Creek district, Utah, have shl]
100 at 57c, buyer sixty Jays:
foot Lallie mining tape line; one five-sec­ the third carload of ore from this pro
181,1,('. ing prop2rty. It i3 stated that the ore
,00. tional bookcase and one office chair.
1l,4S7.50. Outfit has been s!:ghtly used, and the from $50 to $90 a ton in gold copper,
--0---­ transit is a new one in perfect condition. ver and lead.
lU:'I'AI. )IARKKr.
\Vill be sold at a hargain on account of
removal. Inquiries to Engineer, care Salt
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW. J U L Y 30, 1912.

LROAD TIME TABLES

-ON SHORT LINE TIME CARD.
Cedar Poles. Posts. Piling Pine and Fir Lumber and Timbers
~FFECTIVE .TUNE 16. 1912.
Douglas Fir Cross Arms Treated Wood Paving Blocks
c

• Dally.
£. .. Ogden. Malad, Den­
Arrive. Treated Poles. Ties and Timbers
ver. Omaha. Kansas
City. Chicago, San
Francisco. Ely and
intermediate
beyond Ogden. (Og­
points R. ACKERMAN, Sales Agent
den and intermediate
points only arriving) .. 8 :15 A.M. P. O. Box 1061 216 Dooly Block Salt Lake City. Utah
:1.•• Ogden. Logan, Poca­
tello. Boise, Marys­
ville. Intermediate-·
Montpelier. Going •. 10:10 P.M.
L .. Ogden and Interm,,­
diate Points ......... 6:55 P.M.
·f.•. Overland 'Limited-
The Why do so many thousands of peo­
ple do business with this bank. and
Omaha, 'Chicago.
Denver, St. Louis .•.. 3:20 P.M. Prospector's Manual why is It growing so steadily ancl
sturdily?
L .. Los Angeles Limited
-Omaha, -Chicago. Courtesy, central
Denver, St. Louis .... 4;45 P.M. The most valuable hand-book for location, facilities
I. .. Overland Limited­ the professional and amateur prospec­ for handling large
Ogden, Reno. Sacra­
mento, San Francisco .. 2;05 P.M. tor ever published. It is written by accounts and for
(.. .. Ogden, Boise. Port­ Arthur J. Burdick, well known as a transacting every
land, Butte •......•.• 4:50 P.M. metallurgist and field man. The suh­ branch of bank­
i ... Ogden. San Francisco .• 6;55 P.M. jects are treated in plain language.
:1... Ogden. Brigham. ing-all of these
Cache Valley. Malad with an elaborate glossary of neces­ are among the
and Intermediate .... 11;35 A.M. sary technical words. many factors. but
f. .. Ogden. Denver, Oma­
ha, Chicago: Park The majority of prospectors fail be­ one of the moat
City, Green River cause of lack of knowledge. Flven the important reason3
and West, only, re­ eXperienced seeker for mineral wealth undoubtedly is the
turning) • . . ._•...•.. 12:40 P.M. confidence inspir­
-I..• Motor Flyer-Ogden knows of little but gold, silver and
and Intermediate.... 9:35 A.M. copper, and in his. travels often passes ed by a record of
i ... Yellowstone Special by fortunes in other mineral deposits 53 years adhel'­
-Ogden, Pocatello, ence to sound
Idaho Falls and Yel­ or gems. A study of the simply told
lowstone Park (Chi­ s€ ' crets in this book will point the way methods.
cago and East and to many of earth's treasures.
San Francisco and
West, also arriving) .• 7:40 A.M. 156 pages 5x8. Illustrated. WALKER BROS.
f ... Ogden. Boise, Port­ BANKERS
land Butte ........... 10;30 A.M.
One Dollar, Net. Postage. six cents.
Full Cloth Bound. Weight 10 ounces. Founded In 1859.
ket 01llee, Hotel Utah. Tel. Ex. 11$. "A Tower of Strength"
lRO, LOS ANGEU~S & SALT LAKE SALT LAKE OITY
FOR SALE BY
RAILROAD COMPANY.
You e.n do your b.nking bun..,.. here by maa Irom any­
(Effective June 16, 1912.) The Salt Lake Mi ning R.eview where. $1 will op<n ••• nnp aCCounl. Wrilelor booklet.

II StatlOR, Salt Lake CUy, Utah.

DENVER & RIO GRANDE TIlliE TABLE.
DEPART.
,os Angeles Limited, to TIME CARD.
Los Angeles ......... 5:00 P.M. iI.
'he Over;and, to Los (Effective May 19. 1912.)
~eles " .................. 11 :50 P.M.
[mer's Loeal, to Tooele and Depart Dally.

Eureka. . ...•... 7:45 A.M.

farfield Local, to
Provo•• Manti. Mary,?vale .......... 8:00 A.M.

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

Midvale and Bingham •..••..•... 7:45 A:M.

'ooele SpeCial, to Garfield

Denver. Chicago and East ..•..... 8:35 A.M.

and Smelter, and Tooele.: 2:40 P.M.

Park City .............•...•...... 8:20 A.M.

'arfield Owl, to Garfield and

Ogden and Interme.diate Points ...10:33 A.M.

Smelter .......... ;....... 11;00 P.M.

Ogden, San Francisco. portland .. 12:40 P.M.

.ynndyl Special, to Lehl

Ogden. San Fra"clsco, Portland .. 2:45 P.M.

American Fork, Provo'

Mldvale and Bingham ..•.... , .••. 2:45 P.M.

SMITH & ADAMS

I
Payson, Nephi, Lynndyl . .' 4 :20 P.M.
Denver, Chicago and East ..••.••• 5:20 P.M.
'alleYMaiI, to Provo, Ne-
Provo, Springville. Tintic ....••.. 4:50 P.M. MANUFACTURERS OF TENTS AND AWNINQS
phi, San Pete Valley and
Denver, Chicago and East ...•..•• 7:00 P.M. Filter Clotbs~ Ore Bags, Camping Outfits, Anything
Mercur . • . . . . . • . . . . . '" 8:00 A.M.
Ogden, Portland and Seattle , ..... 11 :10 P.M. Made of Canvas. Get our prices. Send for Catalogue
,-\.rrlve Dally. 225·227 Edison Street. Salt Lake City. Utah
ARRIVE.
.os Angeles Limited, from ?!,d",n, San. Francisco. Los Angeles 8:15 P.M.
Angeles . . . . ........... 11 :40 A.M. TmtlC, SprmgvIlle. Provo ........ 10:20 A.M.
he Overland, from Los An­ Bingham a!,d Midvale ............ 10:30 A.M. FREE.
Denver, ChIcago and East ........ 12:25 P.M.
?ele~ . . . . ..........•.•.. 6 :3~ A.M.
.mer s Local. from Eureka Ogden and Intermediate Points ... 2:10 PM
Silver City, Stockton: Denver. Chicago and East ........ 2 :35 P.'M: Sporting goods catalogue. Address WfOSl
Tooele . . . . ............. 6 :00 P.M. Ogden. San Francisco and West .. 4:55 P.M.
-arfield Local, from Gar­ Park City and Intermediate Points 5:00 P.M. ern Arms & SpOrting Goods Co.• Salt Lak(>
Bingham and Midvale ............ 5:30 P.M.
field, Smelter ............ 8:50A.M. City, Utah.

ufield Local. from Smelt­ Provo, Manti. Marysvale ......... 6:30 P.M.
Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 6 :50 P.M. ------~o~-------
~r. Garfield ..... ,........ 4 :30 P.M. Denver, Chicago and East .......• 10:55 P.M•
...rfield Owl,. from Garfiell1. PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.
Smelter. Riter .......... 12:55A.M. Phone, Wasateh, 21126,
,ynndyl Special, f,'om
Tleket olflee, 301 I1latn Street.
Lynndyl, Nephi, Provo and

.Intermedia,te Points ..... 10:10 A.M.

The Salt Lake Photo Supply company•
~lJey Mall. from Nephi,
159 Main. headquarters for Kodaks Cam·
rovo, Mercur .......... 6:05 P.M.
Ingloam & Garfield R. R. Co. IF YOUR CARD
eras, Supplies and Kodak FiniShing: Mall
DEPART. us your orders. Come and see our new
~alt Lake, to 'Blngham .. 7:30 A.M. WERE HERE
store.
::mlt Lake, to Bingham .. 2 :50 P.M.
ARRIVE. OTHERS WOULD SEE IT
------0'----­
B!ngham to Salt ... 10:45 A.M. When writIng advertisers kindly men
Bingham. to Salt .•.. 6 :10 P.M. tion The Mining Review.