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Precious metal mining in Texas never the land within the state boundary (not ular, and in pieces up to as high as $5
has received the amount of attention or en individually owned) is not government but in value. The source of this gold was next
couragement that indications point it as state property; but, nevertheless, precious sought and discovered in numerous quartz
being entitled to, either from the resident metals occur in places in paying quantities, stringers and lenses in the chloritic, biotite
or outside prospector. This unfortunate due to a code of laws of Dame Nature and hydromica schists, and on the contact
condition can be traced to several reasons, which antedate those of man by ages, and between t~e .abovemen!tioned forma;tions
principal among which are: The residents bear the distinction of being irrevocable. ann the underlying granite.
have been mostly devoted to pastoral and At the present writing the only known Samples were then sent to a San An-
Lane Slow Speed Mill of the Llano Gold & Rare Metal Mining Company
~icultural prusuits, hence, very few have gold mine in the state, in operation, and tonio party, elsewhere interested in mlllmg,
had the opportunity to become in any way equipped with an up-to-date milling plant, who had them assayed, the tests showing
familiar with prospecting or mining for is that Qf the Llano Gold & Rare Metal high gold values, as well as proving that
gold or any other of the valuable metals; Mining company, situated in what is geo the major portion of the gold values were
the outside prospector and capitalist have logically known as the "Llano Quadrangle," In tellurides, such as petzite and calverite.
_so .far refrained from invading the ,state to and geographically about five miles in an A bond and lease was then taken on the
~ither investigate or invest in what were easterly direction from the town of Llano. property and an experienced engineer put
~laimed to be mineral lands, owing to the Gold was discovered here some twenty. in charge of the operations. This was fol
£haotic condition of the laws that have any years since by panning the surface soil; lowed by the shipment of several carloads
llearing, whatever, on mineral rights, as the metal being free, very rough and gran of "high grade" to the smelter, and from
12 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 15, 1912.
which were obtained :flatteringly renumera sedimentary origin are very sparingly dis other metallic constituents, the concen
tive results. tributed throughout the district, and then trates, when analyzed, showed over 7 per
This work, unfortunately, was brought only in ,such cases as, here and there, frag cent bismuth; the ore average for several
to an end by the man who was furnishing mentary deposits of metamorphosed lime days run being 0.09 per cent, and which
the money, bringing out a mere boy, said of but little extent, and with apparently no later was proven to be the flouring element
to be vested with wonderful power in lo bearing on the ore deposited., The entire in the ores.
cating ore bodies. formation surrounding the property may be As well as demonstrating what the trou·
The boy was blindfolded and turned termed an Archaen complex of granites, ble was, this analysis went to show that
loose on the place, with nothing to guide schists and quartz. there were several other valuable constit
his movements but a "bob stick," with A well-defined vein or body of altered uents in the ore that were hitherto un
which he began searching for the proper serpentine, chlorite and quartz interspersed thought of, but which increase the value
place in which to "throw a fit," which he with unaltered nodul~s of peridotite, .trav of the concentrate measurably_ The fol
did, much to the disgust of -the engineer erses the property in an easterly and west lowing is a partial analysis of a number
in charge, who.gave up his position rather erly direction for a known distance of 1,500 of samples of the concentrates:
than have his reputation discredited by the feet, and varying in width from six to Gold, from $10 to $80 per ton.
sinking of a shaft seven hundred feet twenty-eight feet, dipping to the south at Platinum, from 1.88 to 2.14 oz. per ton.
through barren granite on nothing that was an angle of forty-two degrees, on which an Bismuth, from 6 per cent to 8 per cent.
in any way indicative of a vein, and know gle it has been opened up to a depth of Cadmium, from 5 per cent to 7 per cent.
ing that every vertical foot carried the 142 feet; at ;which point the ore body is 'This was followed by a complete samp
work so much farther away from where twenty-eight feet in width, with a very" ling of the mine, and the running of several
he had demonstrated the values occured; rough and uneven granite foot-wall and a hundred samples .in an effort to locate
Mining Ore witll Plow and Scraper at tile Heatll Mine of tile Llano Gold & Rare Metal Mjnln~ Company
all this on the say-so of a young man whose very even and c1early.defined graphitic where and how these values occurred, and
ability to distinguish ore from "brick bats" schist hanging-wall. if there were not streaks and seggregations
was to be doubted. This work resulted in This ore-body was milled on for a period where they occurred more abundantly than
the expenditure of several thousand dollars, of three months, and averaged in gold $4; in the average mine run, with results as
and the reversal of "Voodoo decision." and was exceptionally free, inasmuch as follows: (Gold values ommitted.)
The property then lapsed into several concentrator heads averaged but forty cents Platinum, from 0.04 to 0.14 oz. per ton.
years of inactivity until taken up by 'the per ton in gold. Bismuth, from 0.88 to 3.10 pel' cent.
late Captain Kieth, an old-time "Comstock Bismuth in the Ore. Cadmium, from 0.22 to 2.70 per cent.
0.1'" who succeeded in interesting W. Mc At times considerable annoyance was ex Qualitative analysis went to show the
Carty Moore, of Dallas, through whose per perienced through excessive flouring of the prescence of gadolinite, iridosmine, mona·
sistent efforts tha property was developed, mercury. This was at first attributed to zite, thorite, cerium, yttrialite and erbium.
and stands today with a modern equipment, the graphitic schist hanging wall, portions Whether any of these are present in com
and is producing. of which had become detached in mining mercial quantity, is, as yet, a matter to 1:>e
Geolog:cal Faetures. and mixed with the ore. A run was then determiried.
The geological features of this property, made on ore known to contain abso The best of the platinum values were
which are peculiar and as such, highly in lutely no graphite, whatever, but was at found to be in the unaltered peridotite; one
teresting, may be classed as Archaen, prin tended with somewhat similar results, as to specimen sample, in which crystals of sper
cipally acidic rocks metamorphosed into flouring of the mercury. It was then de· rylite were viSible, assaying 45.00 oz. per
schists, felsites, and spars; the granite, cided to make a complete analysis of the ton in Pi.
which is biotltic in nature, being interstra ore and concentrates in an endeavor to lo The bismuth and cadmium were found
tified with hydro-mica, chloritic, graphitic, cate the trouble, as we had previously dem to be very evenly distributed throughout
and biotitic schists, and small quartz seams onstrated that the trouble was from chem the entire width of the vein, twenty-eight
and lenses. The limes and other rocks of ical and not mechanical causes. Among feet.
How Uncle Sam Classifies His Coal Lands WRITTEN FOR TIiE MINING REVIEW BY W. Ii. CALVERT.
Altho many people are aware that Uncle contained in the organic act taken serious· tion board, was appointed. After c~retul
Sam is the largest Individual holder of . ly. Since that year, however, more and cosideration of coal·mining condftions ;'(Jth
coal lands in the world, few have more more of Survey energy has been expended in this country and abroad, this committe",
than a hazy conception of his methods ot in land classification, and as many as fifo drafted a set of regulations governing coal
classifying and appraising them prior to teen field parties have been engaged in land classification whic,h was submitte(! to
transfer from the pubiic domain to indiv· this work during the summer season In the Secretary of the Interior for approval,
uals interested in their acquisition. The various western coal areas. As the prj· and these regulations, modified laler as
governmental policy in vogue of affixing mary object is land classification the area the need became apparent, have since con·
varying sale values of coal lands rather covered is mapped carefully by plane·ta trolled the appraisement of public coal
than to sell them at the flat rates of )10 ble methods, the geology studied, the struc· land.
or $20 per acre, dependent upon whet!J.er ture determined, and coal outcrops located Space does not permit of quotation of
more or less than fifteen miles from an accurately in their relation to land sub these regulations in this article, and only
operating railway, is one of comparatively divisions. All mines and prospects are vis an abstract of their contents can be given.
recent origin, for up to within a few years ited and usually, in addition, a large num:. Fqr the purpose of appraisement four
. ago the purchaser would pay as much for ber of openings are made on the coal beds classes of coal are recognized, designated
. a thin bed of lignite as would be asked in order to ascertain their character and . A, B, C, and D. In the first are placed
for any thickness, no matter how great, of thickness. In order also that the chemical the coking, blacksmithing, and anthracite
high grade bituminous or even coking coal. nature and exact heat value of the coal coals; high-grade non·coking bituminous
Under the new system however, high grade may be known, samples are collected and coal falls in class B; to class C is assigned
coals or thick beds are rated at higher analyzed in the government laboratory. high-grade subbtiminous and low to medium
figures than those assigned to low grade Upon the completion of the field season grade bituminous coal; and low grade sub-
fuel or to thin beds, for the flat rate of
$10 or $20 per acre, regardless of thickness
or quality, no longer applies except with zolzo 1'0 ~: c 0_ 1__
I
respect to lignites and to subbitumlnous
coals of low heat value. 55:8; Z5:60 S5:20 ~ I~
It has been asserted that since Uncle .1
Sam's coal holdings are in the west they 140:/05 135:/40 12"iZ O I
should be disposed of exactly as were the ---- - - - --
coal fields of the Appalachain region, and 140:/40 75: 60 40:Z0 2011/0
that under the new system of dispostion
the west does not benefit from the In 140~/40 40:20 20:55 ~-::~~
creased sale price over the former flat -- - ! -
rates. It should be kept in mind, how 140:/25 20 :/C'S ~:;::~,;- CO:20
ever, that all moneys resulting from the
---- ~~.:~~
sale of public coal lands is transferred to 140:/35 125: 85 ICS: 85
the Reclamation fund, all of which is ex -- --
pended in the western states, so that the 140:/40 135:/40 13":/40 j4;:~;;
east obtains only indirect benefit from the
disposition of public coal holdings. It is
not the intention of this article, however, Fla;ure 65. Fla;ure IIlustratina; Government Sale!Prlce of Ooal Lands where One Flat-Lyina; Ooal Bed i.
Present. Left·Hand Sketch Shows Relation of Ooal Out-Orop to Land Subdivisons and Area Under
to argue for or against the present policy lain by Ooal: Sketch on Ria;ht Shows Olaslficatlons.
with respect to the sale of government· therefore, full and accurate data are avail bituminous coal and lignites constitutes
owned coal lands, as that subject has been able relative to the coal character of the class D.
discussed pro and con in the public press_ lands examined. The extent of territory In appraisement the uni:: of valuation is
What is intended instead is to describe covered in this way naturally varies with the ton, and in field examination care is.
briefly the methods now employed in ar conditions. Where coal is present only in taken to obtain all availab!e data upon
riving at the appraisement of Uncle Sam's one bed or where the geolqgy is simple, which to base· an estimate of the coal ton
coal holdings. 1,000 or more square miles may be exam· nage of each individual tract of land. Class
BY the organic act of 1878 creating the ined by a field single party in a season. A coals are priced at from 2 to 3 cents per
U. S. Geological Survey, that organization On the other hand, where coal beds are nu ton as estimated; class B at 1 to 2 cents;
was, among other prescribed duties, merous or the geology is complex, slow that of class C at 'h. to 1 cent per ton, and
charged with that of classifying the public painstaking study is necessitated, and un· clas'S D is priced at the fiat rate of $1(\ or
lands. Not until 1905 nowever, when It der these conditions one hundred sq,l:1re $2{) per acre, dependent upon relation to
field party was sent out with definite in miles may be considered a good season's the 15-mile limit from railroad, regardless
structions to exami~e and classify certain task.
of tonnage. The tonnage to which these
speCified coal areas, was this authorization When coal land classification was nrst ratings apply is not based upon all the coaJ
attempted by the Survey no fixed proce present, but on the basis cf 1,000 tons re
·Of Arnold, Fisher and Calvert, Consulting dure was in force, each chief of party covery per acre·foot, or about 4-7 of the
Geologists and Engineers, 711 Kearns classifying practically independently the
coal actually in place. Moreover the ratings
Bldg., Salt Lake City. Formerly Chair lands he himself had examined, and in or cited apply only to one bed, and that where
man Coal Classification Board, U. S. Geol. der to unify and systematize procedure a
it is not more than 15 feet thick. Where
Survey. committee, deSignated the coal classiflca more than one bed is present beneath the
.nd to be valued the ratin~ assigned to the of labor in ascertaining from General Land normally be considered all the most valuable
articular class of coal involved applieos only Office records what tracts have passed from of class A, or according to the regulations,
) the best and thickest bed. The second. the public domain. The most important ex be priced at 3 cents per ton. Dikes are oc
hird and fourth beds, if present, are given ception to this general rule refers to land casionally encountered In the mine working,
. 60 per cent, 40 per cent and 30 per cent grants in New Mexico and to railroad grants however, and a reduction of 20 per cent is
ating, according to their relative import elsewhere. mainly in Montana and Wyom made for that factor; which causes the sale
Lnce, and all remaining beds are assigned ing, and where underlain I:>y coals consid price to be fixed at 2.4 cents per ton. It was
• 30 per cent rating as compared to the one ered of value these tracts are desIgnated as found that the coal bed is about 70 inches
~onsidered of greatest value "coal lands, price not fixed."
thick along its outcrop in the area shown
The ton-rating affixed to a coal within The details regarding the system of ap
on the map. An acre tract underlain by a
any particular class is based mainly on its praising government coal lands are numer
70-inch coal bed less than 500 feet from the
relative heat value as determined by analYIl ous and somewhat complex, and perhaps the
surface and valued at 2.4 cents per ton,
is. This is also the basis upon which the best way to elucidate them is to quote from
based on 1,000 tons recovery per acre-foot,
government buys its coal, for if one Cuel con· a paper prepared by the writer while chair·
is worth $140, and this sale price per acre
tains twice the heat units of the other, it man of the coal classification board of the
is therefore assigned to those tracts entirely
underlain by the coal bed. Prices less than
Total Average $140 are given to those tracts crossed by the
Coal Bed and Tblckness Value per Value per Acreot
Tract Designated Percentage Rating In Acre Tract, as Modified coal outcrop, based on the ratio of the acre
Per Cent Inches by Acrea.ge
Underlain by 000.1 age underlain by unweathered coal to the
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60 total acreage in the tract. One exception
~ Carpenter, 100 $50.00 ~
Sec. 30, Lot 4 ,McClearY, 60 48 24.00 $20,00 is to be noted, however, in that no tract i'S
Sec.31. NE% of NE% Carpenter, 100 54 45.00 20.00 to be valued at less than the minimum fixed
NW% of NE% Carpenter, 100 54 45.00 20.00 by law. In other words, if there Is any
NE% of NWl,4. Carpenter. 100 54 45.00 20.00 amount of coal whatever in a 40-acre tract,
~ Carpenter, 100 57 47.50 ~
Lot 1 McCleary, 60 51 25.50 63.00 considered workable according to the regu
~ Carpenter, 100 54 45.00 ~ lations, that tract is not to be sold at less
Lot 2 McCleary, 60 54 27.00 72,00
than $400 or $800 (minimum price), depend
~ Carpenter, 100 54 45.00 ~ ent on distance from railroad. even though
SEI.4 of NW 14 McCleary, 60 54 27.00 53.00
~ McCleary, 100 60 the value based on tonnage should be much
50.00 ~
NE14 of SWI.4 Carpenter, 60 54 27.00 77.00 less than those amounts.
Buckey, 40 15 5.00 In the for(lgoing illustration of the ap
~ McCleary. 100 54 45.00 ~
Lot3 Carpenter, 60 54 27.00 73,00 plication of the Regulationll to coal land
Buckey, 40 15 5,00 valuation, only one bed is present and the
{ McCleary, 100 60 50.00 ~ consequent computation of acreage price is
Lot4 Carpenter, 60 48 24,00 78.00 exceedingly simple. Where several beds
Buckey. 40 15 5.00
100 are considered, however, there are a greater
{ McCleary, 60 50.00 ~ number of factors involved. To aid in the
Lot 5 Carpenter, 60 48 24.00 78.00
Buckey, 40 15 5,00 verbal explanation of methods where at
{MCCleary, 100 60 50.00 ~ least three coal beds underlie the land to be
Lot6 Carpenter, 60 48 24.00 72.00
5,00 valued, the accompanying graphic ilIustra,
Lot 7
t Buckey,
Carpenter,
McCleary,
40
100
60
15
48
66
40.00
33.00
~
38.00
tion (Fig. 66) is appended. This represents
four square miles on the margin or the Bull
Buckey, 40 15 5.00 mountains coal fields in central Montana.
NE1,i of SE 4 1 Carpenter. 100 54 45,00 20.00
~ McCleary, The coal in this field is a high,grade sub
NWl,4 of SEl,4 100 60 50.00 ~ 77.00
Carpenter, 60 54 27.00 bituminous variety and falls in class C of
SEl,4 of NEl,4 Carpenter, 100 54 45.00 20.00 the Regulations. It is fair stocking coal,
SWl,4 of NEl,4 ~ Carpenter,
. MlcCleary,
100
60
54
60
45.00
30.00
t 47.00 which together with its high calorific value,
~ Carpenter, 100 48 40.00 ~
causes it to be rated at 1 cent per ton. Also
Sec. 32. Lot 4 McCleary, 60 20.00 in accordance with the regulations, a H
60 30.00
Lot 3 Carpenter, 100 48 40.00 20.00 inch bed of this coal is considered workable
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to a depth of 2.000 feet. The three beds oc
is logical that their sale price should vary U. S. Geological Survey. in EconomIc Geo curring in the area indicated are known as
somewhat in the same ratio, logy, with the permission of the director. the Carpenter, the McCleary ana the Buckey.
According to present practice a price The statements made therein may therefore The Carpenter shows the greatest length
greater than $300 per acre-for tracts wIth· be considered authorltati7e. of outcrop and thins from five feet on the
in the 15,mile limit-ill, with one exception, The specific method of applying the reg west side of Section 30, to about four feet
not assigned to coal lands, regardless of ulations to valuation of co,ll lands can per, on the south line of Section 32. The Buckey
how much greater a valuation may be haps best be shown by considering typIcal bed shows the least length of outcrop and
reached by the tonnage-rating estimate out· cases. The accompanying map (Fig. 65) of averages fifteen inches thick in this locality,
lined previously. This exception refers an area of four square miles in a Colorado The intermediate or McCleary bed thins
to lands in the immediate vicinity of oper coal field, shows mine locations thereIn, the from five and a half feet near the southeast
ating mines, where the character of the coal relation of the coal outcrop to land lines. corner of Sec. 31, to four feet near the
has been demonstrated practically, and In and the government sale price per acre of southeast corner of Section 31, to four feet
, consequence its value should be well known the various tracts involved, This is pre near the southwellt corner of Section 30.
to the purchaller. sented as the simplest possible case, since These beds lie nearly horizontal and the
In pricing coal lands distinction is sel· there is only one coal bed present and the vertical distance between them is such that
dom made between public and private hold, strata are practically horiwntal. This coal any bed will not be disturbed by the min
Ings, for to do so would entail a vast amount is a hlgh·grade coking variety. and should ing of the others. Each is less than 500
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV T E W, MAY 1 5, 1 912.
feet from the surface in the area shown For example" where a coal bed dips at a formly 45 degrees to the east, which plac'
and no reduction for depth need therefore GO·degree angle, the vertical projection of es the 2,OOO-foot depth contour in the east
be made. . the lines bounding a tract underlain b;' tier of tracts as indicated. For the pur·
The specific method of determining the .the "bed will enclose an acreage of coal pose of valuation, consider that the coal
acreage price of the various tracts under measured on the bed equal to twice the is rated at 1 cent per ton and will fall
lain by one or more of the coal beds desig acreage of the tract. This increase ill in class C, which aSSigns a 2,000,foot
nMed can perhaps best be illustrated by area should of course be taken into ac· depth limit of workmanship. In' the SW~
the tabulated statement appended· below. count in valuation since that valuation is of SE% of the section this bed lies at an
'This table lists the tracts, indicates the based primarily on tonnage. average depth of 1,200 feet. A G·foot bed of
thickness assigned to each coal bed there A second factor to be considered is coal within 500 feet of the surface, if hori·
under together with its percentage rating, that of depth. Coal 1,000 feet beneath
zontal, ~s worth $60 per acre based on 1
whether 100 per cent, 60 per cent or 40 per the surface is obviously of less value than
cent per ton and 1,000 tons recocery. Ap
cent, the value per acre placed on this that near the, surface, since not only IS
thickness and the total averag~ price com· th~re an additional cost in mini1ig be
plying the formula quoted in the preceding
puted for each acre in the individual tracts cause of increased lift, but a greater paragraph, the value per acre of the tract
as modified by the proportion of the tract amount of crushing is involved which ne· in question $60 (60 X.L2.·H=t.f.2.) , or $32.
underlain by the coal. cessitates heavier timber, and usually '" The value, however, does not take
A study of the foregoing table wiW dis· larger proportion of coal to be left as $32. The value, however, does not take
close several apparent inconsistencies supporting pillars. In valuation it is as· into account the increased acreage due to
which are in need of explanation. For in sumed that for the first 500 feet of depth the dip. Beneath a 40-acre tract the area
stance, with respect to the valuation of Lot little if any excess in mining cost is in· of a coal bed which dips 45 degrees is 1.41
7, Sec. 31, the question naturally arises reo volved, but from 500 feet to the maximum times the area of the tract, as may easily
garding the consideration of the Carpenter depth to which the coal can De mlnet! be demonstrated mathematically. The val·
coal as the first or 100 per cent bed inas·
much as the McCleary bed is considerably
thicker. The assignment is due to the fact -i! -
that the former bed underlies the greater
acreage in the tract, hence by adopting it
as the first bed and the McCleary as the sec·
ond or GO per cent bed, a greater total aver·
age price per acre for the tract is obtained.
The general rule, heretofore, is to ar·
range the bids according to the percentage I
rating that will yield the highest possi I 63:20 ,
ble value for the tract. In other words, --I- -:"-,- I -,
where the depth factor is not involved, I 72 153 47 , 20 I
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the comparative tonnage of coal in the
various beds in any particular tract con·
I
I 73: 77 77: 20
trois the percentage rating.
A second apparent inconsistency in the
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values indicated is in the relation of the I I I
. rc~
column headed "Value per Acre," and that .- ........ -~- .. ~
designated "Total average value per acre Figure 66. Illustrating Government Sale Price of Coal Lands where three Flat·Lylng Coal Beds are
for tract, etc." A case in point is with Present. Left-Hand Sketch shows relation of Ooal Out· Crops to Land Subdivisions and Area
Underlain by Ooal; Sketch to Right shows Olasslfication and Valuation.
reference to the NW% of NE%, Sec. 31,
where approximately two·thirds ,Qf the costs increase at a steadilY .progressive ue of the tract in question, therefore, is
tract is apparently underlain by the Car· rate. A sImple mathematical formula ex $45 per acre. Since conditions are identi
penter coal bed to which a thickness of presses this reduction in value for depth. cal for the three tracts to the north of that
54 inches is assigned. Since this thick· For illustration, consider a coal of class discussed, the government sale price per
ness gives a value Qf $45 per acre, the B workable to a depth of 3,000 feet be, acre will be similar for each.
total average value for the tract should low the point of access. Down to 500 feet Applying the same principles outline:l
apparently be $30 .per acre instead o~ the outcrop value holds, from whlcn aoove to the SE% of SWlh gives a value
$20 as shofn in the table. This seeming depth the value decreases to zero at 3,000 of $84 per acre for that part underlain by
discrepancy is due to the fact that the feet. At 2,000 feet, therefore, the reduc· the coal. This II!! reduced to an average or
Carpenter coal bed is burned along its tion in value expressed mathematically $32 per acre for the entire tract because of
outcrop across the tract in question, thus would be j,~%1foQJL, or three·fifths reduction the ratio of coal·bearing area to the non·
reducing the acreage of workable coal from the outcrop value. coal portion. The same price per acre nat·
therein. A similar condition likewise oc These conditions may be illustrated urally is assigned to the three. tracts to
curs in several other tracts valued. further graphically. Fig. G7 represents an the north. Tne tier of tracts adjacent on
In the application of the regulations to ideal condition because of its extreme the west is non·coal.
valuation of lands underlain by Qne or simpliCity, seldom, if ever, occurs in reo Only a glance at the illustration i3
more coal beds which are considerably in· ality. An area of one square mile is shown needed to show that the actual value per
clined from the horizontal, several factors in this Illustration, across which a coal acre of the east tier of subdivisions in th;:)
are involved which were not conisdered bed six feet thick is assumed to outcrOI) section is a very small amount. Accord·
in the preceding illustrations. Where a in a straight line parallel to the north· ing to law, however, these tracts cannot bl'!
coal bed lies horizontal within a tract, lt2 south subdivision boundaries and in such sold as coal land at less than the mIni
acreage is that of the tract, but where relation to them that the 500-foot depth mum price of $20 per acre, as,suming that
inclined, its area relative to that of the contour falls on one such boundary. It the land is within fifteen miles of a rail·
tract is a function of the angle or dip. is assumed further that the coal dips uni road.
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THE SAL T L A K E "!'II N I N G REV lEW, MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2. 17
In Inclined strata where more than one comprehensive to be discussed in this pa· (5). During the year, notwithstanding
coal bed is involved, the consequent valu per. that the grade of ore treated was lower
ation of lands is based on the principles It is realized that the methods of coal than the preceding year, the extraction of
outlined above combined with those dis land classification are accorded too brief copper recovered increased from 20.51 to
cussed in connection with Fig. 66. The treatment in this article to be of the great 21.03 lbs. per ton.
proper percentage rating of the various est possible value to those interested in the By August the co'ncentrators will be in a
beds where so inclined is in many ,In· subject. However, the main principles are pOSition to handle 20,000 tons of ore per
set forth, and, it is hoped with ·sufficient day; with this increase from August to
stances determined only upon computation
detail to show c1arly that such classification the end of the year, production for the year
to decide which rating results in the high
based on careful field examination and 1912 is placed at 120,0000,000 pounds.
est acreage value. exhaustive consideration of all data bear The result of oprations of the company's
Many other factors are involved in coal ing on the question of coal land valuation. new Bingham & Garfield Railroad indicates
land valuation concerning which the brev ~-------{)-~~-
that, with the tonnage, it will be called
ity of this article forbids detailed discus ANALYSIS OF UTAH COPPER REPORT, upon to transport after the middle of the
sion or illustration. structural conditiona, present year, it will show earnings which
for instance, notably affect the cost of (Boston News Letter.) will result in reducing the cost of copper
mining and should therefore be considered An analYSis of the Utah Cappel' COM three-quarters of 1 cent per lb.
in valuation. -Where faults are present pany's report for the year ending De.::elllher Utah Copper after several years of re
there is necessarily a large amount of 1st, 1911, which has just been issued, s'1ow~ vamping its concentrators and bringing its
dead work in mining. The character of thtl that the operations and results obtained were plants up to capacity, is apparently just
floor and roof, especially the latter, in by far the most satisfactory of any year coming into its own. The company's opera·
fluences mining cost materially. As a rule. in the company's history. Among the sa tions henceforth should show an increase
in production and lower costs, which should
result in a large increase in earnings. From
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in order that even a close approximation to note that the average of the ore milled The Majestic Gold Mining company, of
of tonnage can be made. Where that even in 1911, when the above cost was attained, Salt Lake, has been incorporated with a
a close approximation of tonnage can be was 1.510/0 copper per ton, while in 191u, capitalization of $20,000 divided into ten
made. Where such data are available how when the figure was 8.06c., the grade of the cent sbares. The officers are Fred J. Hol
ever, it is possible in many instances to ore treated was 1.540/0. ton, Bingham, Utah. president; Stanley A.
outline, with the feeling that the result is (4). The increase of approximately Hanks, vice-president; George L. Graehl,
not greatly in error, the sbape and extent 100,000,000 tons in the ore reserves has add secrelary, and Lucy P. Holton, treasurer.
of the basin In which the coal was formed. ed 14 years life, bringing the total life of The property of the company is located in
This one feature, however, is a subject too the mine up to more than 40 years. West :MJountain district, Utah.
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
o o
Diagram of Drum Type Cont:nuou$ Roast·Sintering Machine Fan as Designed by Greenawalt
large. The ignition is to be so regulated less, while the mechanical operation is about ing is well under way, with condensation
lat the charge shall be properly started as simple as can be imagined. This is of water in the lower part of the charge.
.ward self-sintering, yet avoiding any ex· of the utmost importance in metallurgical Little by little the' passing of air diminishes
lSS, which would be wasted. The suction work. About ten inches has been found a as the charge evidently gets filled with
Id size of the suction box beneath the suitable thickness for the cake. This al· water in its lower part; maybe only a
~ates is likewise so adjusted that aftel> lows adequate protection of the grate with· tenth part of the starting amount will soon
Ie proper course of the roasting and slut· out making the proportion of bed to charge be passing; but, at the same time the
'ing is accomplished the cake is prompt- unduly great. The charging, ignition and charge is getting hotter below the fire linl>,
beyond the cut-off, and advanCing to suction requirements of the pan have also and it is not very long before the mini
ard the discharge, Of course the speed been well worked out and prove decidedlY mum amount of air is passed through, and
which the' grate travels affords a means practical on a commercial 'scale. with the drying out the charge becomes
regulating all these details to a con· The illustration of a fan as designed by more and more porous. Considerably be
derable extent. Greenwalt gave general satisfaction. The fore finishing the charge is even more po
As details relating to the cost of oper bearings, however, would be better made rous than at first, and at the end from
ion, in particular the cost of repairs and and even stronger with <lnd thrust better two to three or even five times that
newals, covering considerable periods are provided for. - The fan should also be split amount may go through. With this in
.t 'available, much interest will attach to horizontally, about half way up, so that the creasing permeability the intensity of the
e performance of the machines as re casing can be raised on a hinge and the suction 'falls off equally, and the gases
.rted from .time to time. whole interior exposed for cleaning. This reach their maximum temperature.
The intermittent dumping-pan type of is necessary if the fan is placed in close The generation and absorption of the
heat is an interesting phase of the opera Not determlned- best to assume that the balena is fully used
Oxygen. . ............................ 7.0
tion; unfortunately I do not find data for Carbon Dioxide ....................... 1.4 and that the lead oxide gets its required
the heat of (lecomposition of pyrite, nor for 100.0 amount of silica to form PbSiO•. We know
the heat of formation of lead silicate. In that the lead silicate forms quickly and at
neither case are the quantities large and The result of the roasting and s:ntering a lower temperature than any of the other
we may hope they balance nearly equally. cannot be definitely stated as to the exact silicates, and that the product contains
It will be seen that about one-third or compounds and the exact amount of each much lead silicate, the full amount of lead
.the heat generated is absorbed in the produced. It is probable that most of the not appearing in the analysis unless hydro
charge. Of the remainder a portion is rad silica will combine with the oxides of leari fiuoric acid is used with the other acids
iated and conducte(l away from the top sur· and iron resultin'g from the ox!datioJl of in getting the sample into soluton.
face of the charge dUring the first few their sulphides. Fragments of unchanged Although some of the blend will doubt
minutes of the run; some is given to the sllcious ore are noticeable in the proLiuct less be acted upon we deem it best to' con
pan. especially after the roasting has pen under certain conditions. It is eqnally ap· ·sider it unchanged; the rapid sintering and
etrated below the surface layers, and the parent that in good sinter the silict). wi;J low temperature can hardly favor adequate
major portion is of course carried away be mostly fused and changed to silicate. treatment for this constituent. It is a fact
in the sensible heat of the current of gas The pyrite we shall assume to be fully that if the zinc in the charge runs as high
through the pipes and fan. If the tempera decomposed, the iron ozidized to the fer as 5, 6 or 70/{;, the smaller sulphur elimina·
ture of the gas as it comes (lirectly from rou$ condition and satisfied with sili.c!\ to tion is decidedly less than with lower zinc.
the unit were available. it would be in form PeSiO,; this is not ahsolutely cor It has also been noticed that charges which
teresting to check the heat actually car· rect for some pyrite may esca1'e decompo appear uniformly mixed and of even mols·
ried away with the quantity calculated to sition, some higher oxide may he formed ture may not sinter in spots. These patch
be lost this way. In the absence of this and some oxide may not fI.'H\ct with ,silica. es will be found to analyze high in zinc,
data we shall have to be content with the However, the assumption is accurate the unchanged crystals of sphalerite ap
ensuing figures. enough for the calculation in hand. pearing prominently.
We may consider a charge of 1 metric The oxide of iron present in the charge As considerable calcium .sulphate will
ton, which is approximately 1 long ton, an as the iron ore, Fe,O., will be more or be formed we assume the full amount of
amount such as is actually used in the less fused with the other constituents, it carbonate changed to that compound; the
pans yet tried. will not take part in any reaction, as here product will of course be anhydrous.
Constituents. Formula. % Wet. % Dry. Kilos. considered. but being heated and cooling We may quite accurately assume that
Silicious Ore.. SiO. 24 25.5 240 with the remainder of the charge, neither there will be no loss of metal during the
Iron Ore .... " Fe.O, 22 23.4 220
Pyrite. . . . . . .. FeS. 22 23.4 220 adds nor subtracts In the total heat. operation. It Is not known how much of
.,~ Ga.lena........ PbS 18 19.2 180
Blende.... .... ZnS 5 5.3 50 Some small amount of the galena may the sulphur is sublimed without oxidation;
Limestone. . .. CaCO, 3 3.2 30 remain intact during the sintering and let us say one·third of the sulphur of the
MOisture.... .. H,O' 6
some of the lead oxide formed may not pyrite acts thus. The amount of sulphur
100 100.0 940
react with silica, but for the calculation it trioxide formed is here taken as only
The chemical analysis of the charge will is assumed that the reactions are com· enough to form sulphate with the lime. Ex
show pleted. As the product is assumed to con periments show that the amount in the gas
Per Cent.
Insoluble. . , ... , ... , ............. ".. 25,5
tai.n only 2.9% sulphur, a considerable por must be very small. much less than in
Iron . . . . ..................... ,...... 27.3
tion is present as calcium sulphate, and as the ordinary up·draft blast-roasting.
~~~h~r. : : ...... _........... :','.',:: ::: : :::: :: . :: 16.8
zinc sulphide is ozidized with more dfficul A bed of inert material, such as lime·
ZinQ . . . . . . . . . . . , .................. ". 1~:~
kii?
THE SA L TL AK E MIN I N G REV I E W, MAY 15, 1912.
will necessarily be added to protect the constructed so that a large fan might be ores consist of gray sandstone, and· aresep
Fates. placed at some distance, thus handling arated from each other by other sandstone
The residue will thus have the following cooler gases and avoiding collecting the beds of gray, greenish and reddish tints.
~omposition : fume which will be settled out where the The lower and larger bed in area, at the
individual pipes enter the fiue. base of the mountain, shows uranium-vana
[nsoluble, silica .... 240 Kilos 8iO. 26.7% The figures indicate plainly the predom dium ores on its northerly side, a sample
i1'erric oxide ..•.... 220 Kilos Fe 28.6%
frerrous oxide .•... 179.8 Kilos Pb 17.3% ina(;ing influence of the sulphur as the from which, assayed in Denver, " gave re
i:.ead oxide . . . . . . . 167.9 Kilos Zn 3.8%
?;inc sulphide ....•.. 50 Kilos S 2.9% ,source of the heat generation. Practical turns of approximately 1 % uranium oxides
:Calcium sulphate • _. 40.8 Kilos CaO 1.9% experiments have determined tlIat with a and 70/0 vanadium oxides_
898.5 Kilos charge of this general character 21% sul This bed is approximately fifty feet in
Generation of Heat.
)xidation of Sulphur to Dioxide .... _..... A
phur is on the upper limit, for the whole
mass fuses and stops the re3ci.ion; like
thickness, and at the time of the writer's
visit, had no development, except a face of
1
)xidation of Sulphur to Trioxide . _...... n
Jxidation of Iron to Ferrous Oxide ....... C wise, 10% SUlphur is too low for the heat . ore on the northerly side of the mountain,
!
)xidation of Lead to Oxide ....... _...... D I
:;ombination of Silica with -Lead Oxide ... _E liberated is not sufficient to propogate the as noted above. The limits of this body of
c:'ombination of Silica with Iron Oxide .... F combustion zone uniformly to the end. ore were not determined by the work done
Onion of Calcium Oxide with Sulphur Tri
oxide .. _ . _........ _............... ~G
The roasting and sintering of lead is an at that time. The next higher, or middle
C~l.
operation as necessary in the metallurgy sandstone bed, was opened on the westerly
of lead now, as it was fifty years ago; we
A, 92.8(
B,9.6(K
C:,102.5(
,S)x2,164 Cal. per Kg.)=200,819
S)x2,870(Cal. )per Kg.)= 27,571
Fe)x1,175(Cal. per Kg.)=120,438 have tried to record the development~ and
side by a tunnel to a depth of approximately
thirty feet, and was run in on a vein of
I
D,155.8(Kgs. Pb.)x245(Cal. per Kg.)= 38,171 give some account of each step in the'· dark-colored sandstone, containing urani
E, 167.9(Kgs_ PbO) No data.
fr, 179.8(Kgs. .I<~eO)x124(Cal. per 22,295 progress. From every point of view, ef um values. The ordinary gray sandstone
J,18.0(Kgs. CaO)x1,676(Cal. per 30,168
ficiency, cost, healthfulness, the conserving: in this tunnel gave returns, in New York,
439,462 of human labor, time, fuel and metal val of 1 % uranium, which would indicate a
Absorption of Heat. ues and the practical eliminati::m of tile in large body of concentrating ore at this
Heat Required to Deeompose Pyrite .•. _.. A
Heat Required to Decompose Galena ...... B jurious product, sulphur trioxide, develop point. This middle bed is approximately
Heat Required to Decompose Carbonate ... C ments have been remarkable and at the fifty feet in thickness. Some distance
Heat Required to Vaporize Water ........ D
Heat Required to Vaporize Sulphur ..... _.. E present time constitute one of the most above this bed and near the top of the
In the absence of the quantity of heat absorbing phases in the metallurgy of leac. mountain, is the .upper and thickest bed ot
necessary to decompose pyrite we ~ill use H. B. PULSIFER. gray sandstone, which approximates 100
that required for ferrous sulphide, a quan Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. feet In thickness, and contains the largest
tity probably slightly less. ----,o!--- showing of uranium ores, both on the
Cal. A ROOM WITH BATH AT $1.50 PER DAY. easterly and westerly sides of the moun
A, 220( FeS)x273 (Cal. per Kg.)=60,060
B, 180 s. PbS)x84.5(Cal. per Kg.) =16,210 tain.· These outcrops show on opposite
C. 30( CaCO,)x452(Cal. per Kg.)=13,560 For months, there has been a great de sides of the mountain, a very large body of
D, 60(K~._Water)x606_6(Cal. per Kg.)=36,390
E, 39.2(Kgs. S) x 72(Cal. per Kg.)= 2,822 mand for a room with bath in Denver ho dark, possibly iron-stained material, two or
128,042 tels at the rate of $1.50 and $2 per day. three feet in thickness, under which are
Subtracting 128,042 Cal. from the total The Albany Hotel company, at a very large found lenticular or kidney shaped masses
amount of heat liberated, 439,462 calories, expense, entailing six months labor, have of It black asphaltite material which gave,
leaves 311,420 calories as the quantity of thrown open to the public 38 rooms with from various samplings, from 1.2% to 4.22%
heat to be radiated away, conducted away, private toilet and lavatory, $1.50; 42 rooms uranium oxides. These samples were taken
and carried away in the gases as sensible with bath, $1.50; 45 rooms with bath, $2. from the westerly side of the mountain,
heat. When you are in Denver, we wO\lld be and a similar deposit shows on the easterly
The sulphur which is eliminated as di very glad to show yoU one of these rooms side, directly opposite, which would seem
oxide will fill a volume of some 64 cubic and we know that you will be pleased with to indicate that the deposits of this char
meters under standard conditions; If we it. The fact is, since May 1st, one can acter would be found entirely through the
suppose 4,100 cubic meters of gas, reduced secure a room with bath at the Albany mountain at this point. But enough work
to standard volume, to have been used dur hotel at a price formerly charged for has not been done to determine this.
ing a run of ,some two hours, the average rooms without bath. This black ore seems to contain little
content of the gas in sulphur dioxide is evi or no vanadium, and if found of sufficient
dently about 1.5% by volume. The tem TEMPLE ROCK URANIUM-VANADIUM grade, appears to promise extensive ship
perature of the gases will be well below PROPERTY. ments. To the north from this outcrop, on
100 deg. C. during the first half of the run. the easterly side and in the same bed, is a
Toward the last they may get as hot as This group of claims is located in Em large body of uranium-vanadium ore, but I
400 to 500 deg_ C., when the cake is pretty ery county, Utah, about forty-five miles am not informed as .to its value. A streak
well finiShed and the line of fire has en south-west of Green River, and three or of fine-looking carnotite ore shows on the
tered the pipes. four miles westerly from the wagon roaJ northerly side of the mountain, at the bot
It would seem that the common method from Green River to Huntsville. Six claims bot of this upper bed, and float from it
of placing the exhaust fan near the unit have been located, covering the deposit, may be gathered up in considerable quan
is ill-advised for both continuous or in and the mountain known as Temple Rock, tity at the base of the mountain under it.
lermittent units. With a continuous ma a high sandstone butte visible for miles Towards the southerly end of the moun
chine, or several pans at various stages, from the surrounding country. The moun tain, and at the black outcrop, the strata
the temperature of the gases cannot b~ tain lies towards the southern end of the are bent downward towards a large fissure,
high enough to prevent the deposition of great San Rafael fault, the ·sandstone beds the fissure being filled with broken -sand
the more or less sticky fume. With a fan in it having a slight dip to the southeast. stone; and this fissure probably indicatell
for each pan the depOSition is excessive There are three great sandstone beds, run the source of the mineralization of the vari
during the first of the run, and at the end ning entirely through the mountain, which ous beds of the mountain. Galena is dis·
the fan gets entirely too hot. The re contain uranium-vanadium ores, and th(lse seminated through the sandstone at the
quired suction is not more than twelve or three beds all contain asphaltum in varying base of the mountain in the fissure, and
15 inches of water and flues can well be degrees. The beds containing carnotite along the westerly side pieces were seen
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 15, 1912. 21
quarries, for a long time, and it would re Lane Mill & Machinery Co..•....... ,... 4
quiJ:e but little work to make the road good Jones & Jacobs, Mill Builders .......... 4 Adamson. W. G. . ...........•.......... 37
Kelly Fi,iter Press Co............... ,.. 43 Arnold, Fsher & Calvert ......... , ... . 37
to the mountain, from the main road. In l';line and Smelter Supply Co. .......... 1 purch, Caetanl & Hershey ......... . .. 37
addition to what shipping ores may be de Numa Rock Drill Sharpener Co. ....... 10 Burke. Jltmes J. . ......................•. 37
veloped, these seems to be a probability Richmond, F, C .. Ma.chlnery Co. ........ 2 Craig, W. J ........................... . 37
of very large bodi,es of concentrating ores; Roberts & Kaufman .................... 9 Fiske. Winthrop W . . , ... " ............ . 38
and on the whole, these claims with their Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co, .... 42 GaUgher, T. W. . .. ' .............. , .... . 41
Salt Lake Boiler & Sheet Iron Works.... 38 General Engineering Co. • ............ . 37
three great beds make, for the area coy· Salt Lake Hardware Co................. 44 lIowelI & Kingsbury ................. . 37
ered, one of the largest deposits of such Union Portland Cement Co.............. 43 jennIngs. E. P. • ......•................ 37
ores in the state. The property' has lately Utah Fuel Co........................... 41 Pack, Mosher F ............. _.......... . 37
Utah Fire Clay Co. . .... " ..... , ... ,... 40 Peet, C. A........................... . 38
been placed in control of Col. J. C. Robet·ts Utah Welding Co. .............•....... 40 Pulsifer, H. B. . .•..................•. : 37
and associates, and it is reported that Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. ..,... R Safford, J. L. • ...•...................... 37
ers. An investigation made by the pres· Utah Ore Sampling Co. . ......... :: .• ::: 43
ent commLssioner of mines, Thos. R. Hen Mine and Stock Dealer. We~tern Press Clipping Service ....... . 40
ley, Montrose county, was shipped via Gal inVolved in the transportation by wagon
and rail of a low grade ore. In order to Richfield Sun: Wm. J. Shelton, of
veston to Liverpool. The average price
get three or four pounds of vanadium from Joseph, the well known mining man, was
paid for the ore, f. o. b. Placerville, was
the Paradox valley mines to the railroad, a Sun caller on Monday. Mr. Shelton bas
$70 a ton, or a total for the year of $106.
a ton or ore has to be hauled fifty or sixty great faith in the Copper Butte property.
085. This ore averaged 3% per cent metal
miles in wagons. in which he is interested, and he believes
lic vanadium, in addition to uranium and
The possibility of developing a produc that it will soon be one of the great pro
radium. A conservative estimate of the
tion equal to demands for the manufac ducing mines in the state.M:t('.h work l1as
.c •. ",value, the vanadium extracted' from the
·"·~;'~t;re would be $200 a ton, or $303,106 for ture of steel rails is now attracting at been done on the property GIIO) past winter
.:+ Montrose county. In the production of the tention. By adding not more than five and in the main tunnel hea.v~' ore bodies
have repeatedly been pier(:I<d. At the
. Fore not more than fifty miner,s were em- pounds of vanadium to a ton of steel its
- ployed, but twenty-six men with four and tensile ,strength and toughness is greatly present time the tunnel is u8in~ driven
Calx horse teams were needed in hauling it increased, and its ability to .withstand suc through a wall of almost solid 0\'13 eighteen
the shipping point. cessive jars and shocks multiplied by three. feet in width which carries excellent
Not enough development has been done The use of vanadium steel in rails values In copper and considel'abI<) goM.
determine the extent of the ore depos would mean safety undlh the strain 1m· The working force is soon t<) be increased
Practically all of the ore has come posed by heavy locomotives and high and work is to be prosecuted with more
lenses in sandstone strata exposed speed. energy than ever before.
THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW. MAY 15, 1912.
of the west. and fo,r awhile capital sought when these tests were begun, the manage
~.
an outlet through other channels. Now, ment had not the slightestsllspicion that
~
i)lishment' of numerous new camps in al ing quantities. cents. If history is to repeat itself, the
)st every county and section of the old In the case of this Texas' mine, al rise should continue and we should enter
:attle Born" commonwealth. though the original intention was to mIne a period of three years during which
:'Notwithstanding the excitement follow for gold only, a trouble in mill practice prices will average 18 cents.
i: these wonderful discoveries, the panic
,1907 caBell a halt in mining operations,
mining investments, in Nevada as well
led to careful tests being made to deter·
mine, if possible,· what 'deleterio'.li! sub·
"In making the Michigan report last
year I remarked that the price of copper
I
stance in the ore led to the flQul'ing of the although constantly changing, seemed gen·
throughout all of the mining districts quicksilver used in gold recovery, And, erally to have been rising since 1894. The
lI'DlPt tlTfTtr eN f·mm r 1 • • 1 W' f' 'wz.'C T 'tt e-? 1*'* wt mn et'
THE SAL T L A K EM' N I N G REV' E W, MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2. 23
developments {)f the past few months may about a mile above the holdings of the As
of course show only a minor swing, but sociated company. They are using Hunt
so far as they go they point in the .same ington mills and Card concentrators, re
The P'rospecior .
direction. Several good observers with torting the concentrates. The Almaden and His Burro
wh{)m I have talked have entertained the . company is also engaged in the develop
idea that the price of copper may be per ment of its cinnibar properties in the can
manently enhanced in comparison with oth· yon.
er metals, because the mines may fail to ----0---
yield a proportionate ,supply. Such ~ PH ALUNITE IN UTAH.
manent rise seem!il to have taken plac') in
the price of tin. Another example of a per Continued interest in American potash
manent change in metal prices is given tJV di,seoveries has necessitated the reprinting
the case of silver, which seems to have fal of practically all the recent government
len to less than Jhalf of Its traditional publications on the subject. The United
value." St3ltes Geological Survey has just reissued
---0---,.-- Bulletin 511, by Hoyt S. Gale, on alunite,
SAVING GOLD AND CINNIBAR. a potash-bearing mineral found in a newly
discovered deposit near Marysvale, Utah.
J. W. 'Wenzel, of Lovelock, Nevada, who Special interest attaches to alunite, for
has been in Salt Lake for some time, left the potash which it carries i.s believed to be (By Will C. Higgins.)
last week for American canyon, Nevada, commercially soluble-that is, it can be re "This is a wild and isolated region in
where he is in charge of mine operation duced Ito a fertilizing material, for in which we find ourselves," said the prospec
and development in behalf. of the Associat stance, by a simple process of roasting and tor to his burro, "and, from the looks of
ed Placer Mining company. leaching the rock. The bulletin describes things, mining must have -been carried on
This property, which is located two miles a vein which Is believed to be of consid here many years ago. Hardly a log Is left
south of Fitting, is a drift mining proposi erable size and although It {)an by no Qf the cabins which once lined this little
tion, the methods employed in the recov means supply the American demand for stream; the old dump is covered with bush
ery of gold and cinnibar in underlying potash it may meet local needs. The oom es' and small trees, and nothing but the
.gravel deposits being the sinking of shafts mercial development of this deposit will be stamps and dies, and decayed frame work,
from which drifts are run through the pay of greatest importance perhaps in stimu is left of the mill that, evidently, pounded
zones, which lie practically horizontal. lating exploration for other similar depos out a lot of gold in the early days ·before
The upper shaft on the property has its. Alunite has been observed by other we were ever thought of. And yet this re:
been sunk to a depth of 130 feet to the mesm bel'S of the Geological Survey at sev· mote region, at one time, must have sup
lowest pay streak. In thIs ,shaft a grayel eral points in a' number of western states, ported a flourishing camp, although it is
deposit, fifty feet thick, has been encoun and it may therefore be expected that clean fQrgotten now, and it certainly is not
tered, and is being worked. The lower further prospecting and investigation will often that a straggler finds his way here.
shaft has reached a depth of 107 feet, the disclose deposits that may yield a largtl That time has ravaged the old works here,
bottom being In what is termed the "low tonnage. 'goes without saying, for I find that the en·
est pay-streak," which hits been proven lo A OOpy of Bulletin 511 may be obtained .trance to the tunnel workings of the mine
be 200 feet in width. All of the workings free on app~ication to the Director of the above the mill-site has caved in so that it
are dry. Geologica] Survey, Washington, D. C. is impoksi·ble, under present conditions, to
At the upper shaft the company has in make an examination of the underground
staIle da Krogh gravel mill, which is equip workings. And yet I will venture the asser·
ped with a cQncentrator for the purpo:Je BRIGHTER OUTLOOK FOR CONTACT. tion that the mine is a rich one, or has
of recovering the cinnibar contents of the been, judging from the pieces of weathered
gravel, of which 100,000 yards have been (Herald, Wells, Nev.) quartz I have found scattered around, and
blocked Qut ready for extraction_ In prac I will wager a sack of barley against a
tice the Krogh mill dissolves the clay W. F. Klitz and Geo. A. Martin of Con worn-out shovel that this old dump is fairly
bound gravel, which is passed througil tact, who had been spending a few days loaded with gold; gold which can be easily
sluice boxes and the native gold recovered. in Elko, arrived here Tuesday and departed recovered by sluicing; for it Is well known.
From the sluice boxes the tailings pass the following day for the northern copper that the early-day mills saved only a small
over ,screens, and the fines are then camp. They state that Contact is some petcentage of the gold content of the ores.
treated on Wilfley tables for the recover)' what quiet at the present time, but be· they treated; and so I am going to stop
{)f their cinnibar content. The concentra lieve that the near futu,re will see a great here for awhile and see if I cannot take
tes carry $2.30 in cinnibar values, wIth a change for the better. A representative out a wad of the yellow metal from these
cost of $1 a yard for treatment. . of the proposed railroad from Rogerson old tailings. A decision, you say, that
A second Krogh mill Is being installeJ south through Contact recently visited the pleases yoU immensely, as the borders of
at the lower shaft, where the values are camp. and, while he gave out no informa this little stream afford excellent patur
in gold only, gOing from $2 to $12 to the tion, his visit is taken as a good omen. age, while the great pines, up around this old
yard. From the mill the gravel will run A gentleman whose named could not 00 cabin, will afford pleasing shade while you
through sluice boxes. At the lower shaft ascertained, but who is one of the most are abs{)l'bed in meditation after you have
a 32-horsepower gasoline hoist is being in· noted, metallurgists of the Pacific coast, taken a course in 'how to keep a burro fat
stalled. The mill at the lower shaft will having for a number of years been' at the on a grass diet' in the little meadow below
have a capacity of 100 yards of gravel, head of the independent smelter companies us. It appears, therefore that we are 'both
dally. of Tacoma, Washington, visited the camp well satisfied, for the surroundings are ideal,
Mr. Wenzel informs The Mining Review a short time ago, and the indications are reminding me, very forcibly, of an old and
that considerable activity is noticeable in excellent that the capitalists he represents albandoned camp I visited several years
American canyon. The Walker Brothers, will take hold of a number of properties ago, and from which, after a stay of three
he states, are concentrating cinnibar ores there, and may erect Ii smelter. months, I left for the nearest settlement
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
th a bunch of gold on a pack-saddle that few years, and too old property is still pay CAMP DOUGLAS FLOURISHING.
tde my burro groan as 'much as if the ing dividends.
~d bad been a big boulder instead of the ,'1 want to tell you, Old Long Ears," con The Little Ch:efs Being Developed. Shaft
mIt of several cleanups from my sluice cluded the prospector, "yOU cannot always Sinking on Davenport-Independent.
xes. tell the hole into which thebaU will drop
"It all happened in this way," con tin· when playing roulette, or who will be the (Miner, Mina, Nev.)
d the prospector. ''1 had been out in lucky man at the faro table. Neither can Mining interests in the Douglass camp
~ hills for several months without find you .tell what an old mountain trail will in the Gold Range district, are progressing
~ anything that looked good to me. One lead to, or what the possibilities are that in a most satisfactory manner. Recently
y, after a long tramp, and when I felt it will end at an old dump that is half full Chas. W. Ward opened a ledge carrying
nsiderably discouraged, I stumbled onto of gold. But, all the same, I will follow high values in free milling gold ore. The
mere fragment of an old trail. You would up every indication, every ancient trail, find was made at grass roots by Mr. Wara
t have taken it for being' more than an whether my fool burro wants me to, or not; and the ledge is about two feet in width.
dent mountain sheep path, worn and and there you are, and then some." Samples of the rock brought to this office
tted with the rain; but, I saw at once o panned from $50 to $100 per ton. The claim
EXPERTING THE RAMBLER MINE. adjoins the Sunset upon which a high
H it was too Wide for a sheep path, and,·
ew that it must have been made by, grade strike and shipment was recently
rsesor ,burros, many years ago. 'When (Post, Centennial, Eureka.) made by Will Gilbert and Clarence Tow
3truck this trail it was late in the after The great Rambler mine is again operat· ers, and is owned by C. \V. Ward, Eugene
on, and so I camped on the spot for the ing. No one piece of news will be received Giunghia, Will Gilbert and Clarence Tow
~ht. The next morning I started to fol with more real satisfaction by the entire ers. It is the belief that the ledge is the
v it up the hill. A few hundred yards community than that this famous property is extension of the big vein opened on the
.m my c'amping place I found a tree that at this time being placed in condition to be Tennessee by G. C. Webb. Development of
d been blazed years before, and near it extensively developed along lines that will the ground is to be made in order to dem
,re, several pieces of quartz that was forever preclude any chance for criticism or onstrate the extent and value of the dis
ld-bearing. This encouraged me, and af dissatisfaction among those who are either covery.
. going on for about fOur or five miles directly interested or otherwise. On the Sunset claim Gilbert and Tow
:ther I rail onto an old camp, much the La'St Saturday, Mr. Julius Thielman, for ers are still pushing development on the
me as this one. The cabin was in bad merly one of the largest stOCkholders in the ground and sinking the shaft to greater.
lair, and the mine was so badly caved owning company, but now president of the depth. The ledge is not only holding its
it I could not get into it at any point. present leasing company, arrived in camp to values but is increasing in width, is mor~
hat linterested me the most, however, assist in directing active operations at the strongly defined and shows permanency,
,s what remained of an old stamp mill, mine. The work of unwatering the entire The returns from the first shipment were
tile the dump, or tailings pit, gave evi workings was completed early in the week highly satisfactory, and ore is now being
nce that, during its time, the mine had and miners are now engaged in clearing the hauled to Mina to make a second ship·
en quite productive. F'Ior a few days I drifts of accumulated material preparatory ment.
oS engaged, in sampling the old dump, to having a complete and thorough examina Superintendent Otto Zeigler has a fOrce
d soon convinced myself that it con tion made of mine. at work pushing development on the Little
ned about $20 to the ton in gold. I then The man selected for this Important Chiefs. for the Pennsylvania owners, of
!!ian making sluice boxes, conveying the piece of work is Mr. Leo on Rooenburg, M. whom Dr. James, of Vandergrith, is one
,ter to them through a short ditch' which E., of New York City, who is said to be one of the principals. The company is well fir
aded into a small mountai'n stream near of the very best in this country. nanced and work has been pushed steadily
W1len I had completed these prelim Upon Mr. Von Rosenburg's report will and the orebodies continue to improve. Quite
try necessities I began sluicing the depend in a great measure the future of the a reserve of a good grade of milling ore
mp. Sometimes I would clean-up every Rambler mine. This report will be complete is now blOCked out awaiting the completion
aning; sometimes not for a week, and in every particular, including a thorough of the mill of the Gold Range Mining, Mill
llways took out a bunch of the Wall analysis of the geological struCture of the ing and Leasing company for treatment.
:eet metal that was good for sore eyes immediate and surrounding formation, a Manager H. S. Lucas of the Penn Vir·
leok at. For two or three months I technical report on the ore deposits, a chem ginia Leasing company, has returned from
rked in this manner, sometimes taking ical analysis of the entire vein material in the springs, where he went for medical
day off to hunt or fish, for the country the different part'S of the property, the prop treatment on account of a threatened at·
:lUnded in game; deer, bear and pine er methods that should be adopted in the tack of pneumonia. He has resumed ope·
ns; while the little stream was fairly treatment of the ores and many other mat rations on the company's leaseholdings of
ve with trout. When cold weather came ters essential to the practical and profitable the Douglass Mining company',s estate, and
packed up my gold and calculated that working of the mine. Mr. Von Rosenburg is showing up some finds of good ore. We
tlad a little more than $10,000 for my will arrive here in a couple of days and it understand the company contemplates over
nmer's work, my intention being to re is expected that several weeks' time will be hauling the Douglass ten·stamp mill and
'n in the spring and complete the job. consumed in his work of making the exam putting it in commission on ore now piled
len I got back to the diggings, however, ination. on the dumps and blocked out in the under
I>und that others had found my litUebo It has been known for some time that ground workings. all of it being of a grade
;za, and' that they had located the mine the methods formerly employed in the man of rock that will plate from $22 to $34 per
Ii the Whole shooting match, which Im agement and the syostem of ore treatment ton.
~sedupon me my folly in not securing were not of the best. These errors are to Manager Gus Priess continues to push
fe to the property the year before. But, be entirely eliminated and, according to the the work of making the main shaft on the
rvas satisfied, for I had taken my little men now in charge, matters In every depart Davenport-Independent estate. They have
.d from the mine, and I did not feel bad ment will be carried along under thoroughly recently run into a softer formation and
en I found the new owners working at competent heads and a systeIIl;atic campaign are consequently enabled to make more
. sluice-boxes and opening the old work·
;;6 of the mine; from which, later on,
carried out that is bound to make this the
great mine it has always been destined to
rapid progress. Some stringers that pan
values were cut in .sinking this shaft. In I
lY took' out something like a million in a be. a few days work will be started on the
tntm [, 7'1.ann:r rt';,'il/ilt ",em Tt \',n' 7 l t tKrttt'ts "ir' rat! 7' r 7t ~ 3 @ = nn - 'ift t fttw x t "WMtMrl .J
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 1 5, 1 91 2. 25
crosscuts to be run from the 350-foot level IN THE COEUR D'ALENES. Hecla Mining Company.
to cut the ledges exposed in ·the tunnels Gross tons extaacted, 136,479.
above, as well as some other parallel and Nine Mines Give Production, Profits and Gross yield ...................... $1,001,344
cross ledges which outcrop on the surface. Loss, and Dividends Paid. Extraction . .................... 396,076
With the cutting of these ledges, together Reduction and transportation.... 316,298
with the ore on the dumps and the re (Special Correspondence.) Betterments and repairs ........ 1,868
serves blocked out in the two tunnels, Wallace, Idaho, May 10.-Nine mines in
there wiIl be big doings around the hold Coeur d'Alene district. Shoshone cOUnty, Total expenses ............... $ 714,242
ings of the Davenport-Independent. produced ores of a gross value of $13.375, Net profits _., ....... ,........ 287,101
----0--- 178 in 1911, an increa'le of more than $1, Bunker Hill 8. Sullivan.
000,000 over 1910, according to "tatements Gross tons extracted, 464,750.
LITIGATION SETTLED. sent by operators to John Dolan, assessor Gross yield ..................... $3,306,360
of Shoshone county. The cost of extrac Extraction . . .............. _. . .. 1,012,010
(Miner, National, Nev.) tion, including labor, was $5,040,529. and. Reduction and transportation .... 1,239,260
The best news for the camp of National $727,872 was expended for betterments and Betterments anr repairs 256,336
for a long time is that the dispute Detwee,j repairs. Dividend", amounting to $2,827,7G9
the Mammoth National and the Workman were paid during the'year, or $175,000 more Total expenSe" ............... $2,507,612
interests bas been compromised under an than in 1910 and $700,00 more than in 1909. Net profits . ................. 798,747
amicable arrangement, the suits that have The five largest mines produced 1,41'S, Caledonia Mining Company.
been pending for some time will be dis· 329 tons of ore. The Federal company reo Gros" tons extracted, 7,388.
missed and the parties to the controversy ported more than 800,000 tons for three Gross yield . _............. _.... $ 364,217
have joined their forces and will carryon properties. the Bunker Hill & Sullivan ha::l Extraction . . .................. . 195,026
extensive operations under the direction 464,750 tons, and the Hecla had 134,419 Reduction and tran"portation ... . 93,050
of J. L. Workman, the original owner of tons. The Snowstorm company report<)d Betterments and repair" ...... _. 37,404
the property. Mr. Workman, who has just a net loss of $6,232. The details follows:
returned from San Francisco, where the Federal, Mace Mines. Total expenses ....... _........ $ 325,481
settlement was made, is autnorlty for the Gross ton" extracted, 225,400.
Net !profits ............... _. . 38,736
statement that this long standing contro Gro$S yield ......... _........... $2,029,44')
Snowstorm Mining Company.
evrsy had been ended. Extraction . . .................. 842,287
Gross tons ~xtracted, 26,202.
The company that will operate the Cost of transportation .......... 596,260
Gross yield ..................... $ 263,774
property is the Charleston Hill National Betterments, repairs ............ 8,216
Extraction . . ....... _. . . . . . . . . . . 83,863
Mining Syndicate, the company owning the Reduction and transportation . _.. 150,595
property, which adjoins that of the Nation Total expenses ... ~ ........... $l,446,EG4
Betterments and repairs ....... . 35,547
al Mines company on the west. Net profits ......... _. . . . . . . . . :132,67;)
The new officers are J. L. Workman, Federal, Wardner Mines. Total expenses .........•...... $ 270,OOG
president; Walter Brann, secretary; W. D. GroBs tons extracted, 207,100. Net loss ............ _. . . . . . . . . 6,232
McKenzie, treasurer. The three in turn Gross yield ..................... $1,624.142 Success Mining Company.
comprise the majority of the board of di Extraction . .................... 814,089 Gro"s ton" extracted, 8,975.
rectors. According to President ·Workman Reduction, transportation ....... . 522,198 Gross yield .. _.................. $ 203,323
operations on a large scale will be imme Betterments, tran"portation .... . 23,99(} Extraction, reduction, transpora'
diately resumed. . tion, etc., .................. . 129,837
The new arrangement will carryon the Total expen"es ................ $1,360,285
Betterments and repairs ....... . 10,00')
legal contest now in the· courts involving Net profits -................... 263,856
apex rights ootween the National Mine~ Federal, Morning "'titles. Total expenses ....... _........ $ 139,837
company on one side and the Mammoth Gro"s tons extracted, 384,600. Net profits •..... ............. 63,48G
National and Charleston Hill National Gross yield , .................. _. $1,776,671 ---·~o~--~--
Mining Syndicate on the other side. Extraction • . ............... _.. . 859,557 OUTLOOK FOR CAMP BIRD.
The full import of this settlement is Reduction, transportation ...... . 722,443
that it removes one of the main hinder· Betterments, repairs . . ........ . 79,950 (Herald, Ouray, Colo.)
ances in the mining development of Nation· l!'rom a source that is in direct touch
al and means that large capital will be Total expenses ............... $1,661,951
with the London office of the company. it
come a factor in bringing into relief the Net profits ................... 114,719
was learned that shaft No. 3 on the Camp
latent resources of the National district. Hercules Mining Company. Bird, which i'S being sunk from the third
Gross tons extracted, 31.399. level to ·develop the new ore zone that wa"
Milford News: Out in the Beaver Gross yield . . .................. :j;l,922,486 recently proven on the eastern end of the
Lake mining dl'Strict, Bert Nichols and Extraction cost. . .. . ........ _. 405,07') company's holdings, will be continued to a
as-sociates are getting some very good reo Reduction and transportation . _. . 773,913 depth of 900 feet.
suIts on the Dippy group of mining claim". Betterments and repair" ......... 199,074 The immense ore bodies that have been
We mentioned this matter an issue or revealed by the drfts run east and west from
tW{) back. They are now down consider Total expenses ................ $1,378,057
the new No. 3 shaft workngs, more than
ably further than they were at that I~sue Net profits ............. __ . . . . . 544,429
justify the belief that the big ore shoot goes
and the ore is sUU holding strong at an Stewart Mining Company_ down to a depth that will eventually fully
average width of two fBet. The contaet Is Gross yield ..................... $ 883,421 ju"tify the running of a two-mile tunnel
well defined and the ore carries large Extraction cost ..... _.......... . 302,7H from the mill, to drain and tap the present
values of both lead and silver. FrOm m')st Reduction and transportation ... . 372,209 workings of the property 1,100 feet deeper.
recent assay", silver 29.09 oz., and lead Betterments and repair" ....... . 75,481 As the levels on all the Camp Bird shafts
48.12 per cent at a depth of 20 feet, and are 300 feet apart, the sinking of the new
10 tons of ore on the dump, the -proposi Total expenses ...... , ........ $ 749,401
shaft No.3 to a depth of 900 feet will have
tion looks good. Net profits ............ _. . . . . . . 134,02:)
to correspond with the depth of the 6th level
T H £8 A L. T L.A K E MIN I N G A E V I t w, M 'A Y 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
shaft No. ,1, which is just a mile distant to PRINCE CON. REPORT. Railroad extensioo
lhe west. In the west heading of the sixth Engineering, grading, material,
~vel of this latter shan No.1, a body of five Facta and Figures Show Company to be In
etc. . ..................... 11,827. n
,0 six feet of good milling ore was being Excellent CondItion.
Office furniture and fix-'
)pened up, when a wat~'rcourse was struck, tures-
hat the powerful pumps were unable to han Furniture at Salt Lake office. 582.60
"In response to a request from the Salt Notes receivable-
lIe, and in consequence, after being bulk Lake Stock and Mining exchange," says Notes due the company ..... _. 1,400.00
leaded, the pumps were pulled and all fur the Salt Lake Tribune, "and for ;the infor Accounts receivable
her development in this shaft No. 1 was mation of shareholders, the Prince Con· Accounts due the
.bandoned. solidated Mining and Smelting company company ....... $ 3.820.54
With the completion of the new shaft, has prepared a statement of the ~financial Cash on hand ... 26,772.64- 30,593.18
nd connections made between the 6th level condition of the organization as of date of Mine development
f shaft No.1, the stoping area of the new March 31, 1912. There are many matters Deve!opment and ore extraction 104,884.67
re zone, as developed thus far, will be just of interest disclosed in this report, one of General expense-
ne mile in length by'900 feet in depth. How the most ,striking features being the net General and legal exp.::1I"e,
u beyond the eastern' trend of the Han· amount disclosed received from the ship executive, Interest, taxes and
ock claim the new ore zone extends, or ment of the Bullionville tailings from on or isurance . .., _. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,81)3.27
ow far it goes below the sixth level in about January 1 to March 31, 1912, thIs TreasurY shares
tther £haft, time and continued develop. being $103,760. -,1,007 shares in treasury at $2. . 2,104.00
lent alone can tell, but if the Camp Bird "Inasmuch as these tailings have been Capital stock expense--
ontinues to fUrnish surprises in future as eonsidered for thirty years or more too Dif. between stock at par and
; has of late, the assertion may be risked low in grade to be available, and not until price sold, including costs
lat it has only just begun to produce its the International Smelting and Refining of selling same ... ',....... 274,040.15
ig gold values. Nearly two miles of Camp company entered the local competitive
ird claims remain undeveloped toward Iron- ~melting field -did they become available, Total . . .. _................ $2,114,346.51
W"$" P 8*1 n
THE SAL T L A K E'. MIN I N G REV lEW I MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2. 27
THE WENTWORTH-FREY LEASE. years past. Much of the machinery that ROBERTS BUYING OIL LANDS.
was removed from the mill has been put
~xcellent Showing on the Schiveley Property back again and the mill will again be put Gas Struck in Green RiveI' Field. Road
Neal' Winnemucca. in operation. Building in Progress.
Harry Mumma, and as'Sociates, who
(Special Correspondence.) closed down their cyanide plant near Para (Dispatch, Green River, Utah.)
Winnemucca, Nev., May 10.-Good reo dise Valley. last December, on account of At a depth of 275 feet illuminating and
~orts are coming in from the Wentworth the cold, have again started uP for a long fuel gas was struck in the well or the
rrey lease at Barrett Spring. During the season's work. J. L. SAFFORD. Moab oil company Monday and this will
~a.st year Mr. 'Wentworth stoped out and ----0--- be cased off and used for fuel and lighting
!hipped the ore above the tunnel level, and, CONTRACTS WITH INiERNAT10NAL purposes, thereby effecting a saving at this
~ short time ago, Mr. Frey bought a half in SMELiER. rig alone of neaorly $10 a day. It may later
;erest, a hoist has been im;talled, and a be piped to other parts of the field. The
winze is being sunk from the tunnel face. (Special Correspondence.) discovery was made when the fireman
rhe report is that the winze is going down Wallace, Idaho, May 10.--The Marsh started to shovel some coal into the fire·
;hrough an excellent grade of shipping ore. Mining company, in the Coeur d'Alene dis box and the gas ignited. Several of the
1 is the purpose of the management to CO.l1 trict, has just signed a contract with the crew were severely burned about the face.
;lnue the winze down to the hundred-foot International Smelting company of Tooele, A road is being constructed from camp
evel before drifting and stoping is started; Utah, to handle its ore the next five year.s. to this city, which is to be the supply
md, while this new level is being stoped Reports from the property are that the pOint.
md shipped, the winze will be pushed down recent strike on the lower level is of im Actual construction work has been
o another level; thus keeping a whole hun· portance and the showings lead the own started on the thirty·five-mile wagon road
Ired foot level blocked out ahead.. The ers t() believe an immense ore body has which will connect Green River with the
ease, which is a portion of the Nineteen been uncovered. In a drift west, twelve San Rafael oil fields, where it is sanguine·
ren property, has paid well in the past, and feet from the point in the crosscut where ly predicted there will be a dozen big oil
pves no indication of letting up, as the vein the ore was encountered, the vein has wid· rigs before snow flies this fall.
s holding its size. and. growing richer as ened to six and a half feet, of which thirty Colonel Charles P. Tasker is now In
lepth is attained. inches is high-grade shipping and the re Philadelphia, but it Is expected that he
The new shaft on the Schively property, mainder first·class feed. The first round will be back early in May. The road he
vhich is located on the north end of Winne· of holes in a drift east from the crosscut has had laid out should be completed and
nucca mountain, about five miles from diSClosed a faCing of high grade ore of six the first rig should be set up and in actual
lere, waf; sunk to a depth of fifty feet, a feet in width, and neither wall showing. operation inside of ninety days. He lefr
,ross-cut was run from this point, tapping ----0---- his son, Charles Tasker, Jr., and Mr_ Swa
he vein directly under the twenty-foot ORGANIZE WASHINGTON CHAPTER sey in charge of the roadwork, and they
:haft, 'Sunk further up the hill. Rock was will push It with vigor. The big standard
aken from the upper shaft which showed (Special Correspondence.) drilling outfit has been hauled out as near
letter than $500 per ton, and it is claimed Spokane, Wash., May 10.-The Spokane the scene of the first operations as pOssI
hat the vein has lost nothing in values in section of the Washington chapter of the ble. Part of it is twenty miles from the
he extra depth. Much ground has been 10 American Mining Institute was formally or station now. There the Imachinery will
:ated in all directions from the Schively ganized April 29, with these executive of· await the completition of the road, when
trike and W nnemucca mountain is well ficers: Chairman, G. B. Dennis; vice chair it will be Qauled to the point designated
lotted with white tents, as most of the 10' men, W. J. Harris, J. H. Tilsley ad J. W. near the southeast rim of the swell and
aters are prosecuting development work. Turner; secretary-treasurer, Sidney Nor set up for drilling.
For a. small mounta:n, Winnemucca man; supervisors, John A. Finch, Patrick Col. J. C. Roberts, the mining and oil
aountain has an interestip.g history. The Clark, E. P. Spalding, Frederick Burbridge, expert, buying for London parties, has con·
aountain, proper, is not to exceed six miles Conrad Wolfle, J. C. Haas, E. A. McDon clUtled a deal for the Oscar Beebe group ot
n length by some three miles In width, and ald, W. H. Linney, George E. Kingsley, eight vanadium claims thirty miles from
eaches an altitude of 7,000 feet. In the G. A. Collins and M. Baumgartner. The town close to the Hanksville road. The
arly sixties several millions of dollars section was organized by H. S. Taylor of consideration was $15,000.
rere mined from the west end and milled Chicago. The first work will be to ar On this property there are four veins
!l an old adobe mill whiCh is still standing range for the entertainment of the officers exposed, one of which varies from six to
:l the cty of Winnemucca. It is claimed by and delegates of the American Mining Con eighteen feet in thickness, and each aver
(}me of the old timers that the old mine gress, scheduled to mect in Spokane the ages from four and a half to six feet in
ras never worked out; that the volume o.f last week in November. thickness, assaying eighteen to forty per
rater became to heavy for the old style Among other legislative matters to be cent vanadium.
umps to handle, and that the mine gradual taken up in the near future by the Spo This large deal was negotiated through
I filled till the pumps were drowned, which kane section will be the question of the the agency of E. J. Cook, the abstracter,
onditon prevails to the present time. blue-skY law. Recognizing there is a press of this city. Ira Browning was one of the
Braito, and Beera. who have been leas· ing need to protect the public from fake former owners of the property.
19 on what is known as the Black Hole, at mining schemes, officers will urge tn" Col. ,Roberts states that his people will
Junn Glen, have worked ont the ore in adoption of such a law as will give the commence working the claims and hauling
ight and quit the lease. This property was greatest possible assistance. to all legiti ore within 90 days.
forked by Ed. Chaffey and associates a few mate mining ventures. The Paradee law ----'0---
ears ago, from which it is estimated th1t of California seems to find more favor than The Silver King Coalition Mines com·
300,000 were taken out. . the Kansas statute. pany, of Park, City, Utah, is giving em
Considerable activity is manifest at the ----'0--- ployment to a force of about 400 men, and
Id "Sheba" mine in the Humboldt range, A strike of considerable importance is ore shipments are being increased. It is
nd it is reported that more ore has been reported in the Barry-Coxe mine near Park believed this will be a banner year with
roken during the past winter than for City, Utah. the Silver King company.
Ii ,: -rretns en ",en U- 4ft tift. 1r t,. P .-$ .7 # 'g W b t7Xtc'i« t t1 "1 "*X
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 15, 1912.
a great deal of activity and promise. The production on a large scale will be realized,
1 In Adjoining Slales force under Superintendent Jim Reay, who
formerly had charge of work at the Sav
but the actual ,success of the enterprise is
assured as the mines are deposits of im
" age, has been doubled, ten or twelve men mense ·bodies of very rich ore.
ARIZONA.
being employed, and shipments of ore are 0)---
Prescott Courier: Reports corne from going forward. Two shipments have been
IDAHO.
'Copper Basin that A. M. Horton has ex made. The first shipment is said to have
ceedingly rich ore in his Ox Shoe claim, run $100 to the ton and the second $30 to
Leadore Standard: Word comes from
three miles southeast of the old smelter, the ton, The showing of ore is declared
the Birch creek country that a new ore
the best of the ore assaying as high as to be fine. It Is proposed to transport ore
body has been opened up in the Scott
$1,000 per ton. In addition to high values to the El Paso & Southwestern at Rodeo
mine, through the Sinking of a shaft. Also
in gold and silver, the ore also carries con in future by means of automobile trucks.
that Frank W orihing is elated over a dis
siderable copper which is readily roasted A test was made recently of ,such a truCk,
covery of a (-inch streak of lead-silver ore,
out in a blacksmith forge_ Mr. Horton is run out from Douglas for the purpose, and
purported to be the richest find in the
constructing a small smelter in which he was satisfactory.
Kaufman section.
will treat the ore. ----0'---
COLORADO. Elk City Mining News: Chas. Tiede
Kingman Miner: Last Tuesday the
man, one of the owners of the Golden Rule
Tom Reed shipped its regular monthly bar
Rico Item: A new body of ore has been placer mine, situated about six miles
of bullion to the mint, the bar weighing
struck at the Rico-Argentine mines during north of Elk City, has commenc.ed to get
5,705.20 ounces gold and valued at $70,
the week, which is showing up fine and things in shape for the 'season's run. Mr.
000. This is about the ordinary cleanup
gives promise of being another very large Tiedeman says that the water is about a
of the mill for each month and will give
deposit, such as the great vein evidenced month late in starting this year and he
some idea of the output of the property
in the Black Hawk mine and at present in does not expect to begin piping for three
The Tom Reed has been proven to the
the immense deposits of the Rico-Welling weeks.
800 foot level, far below the contact with
the older andesite, which was thought to ton. The ore is of a lead-cop per-zinc char Twin Falls Times: Alex. Erdley, who
be the line of demarcation between the acter. has charge of the work on the Buckeye
value bearing rock and the non-value Telluride Examiner: Tuesday M. A. group of mines in the Jarbidge mining dis
bearing. The best values are now to be Wood, manager and the largest owner in trict, arrived in the city yesterday even
found in the rock generally understood to the Mammoth property up Bear creek, ing. He reports that a new strike has been
be non-mineral in character. leased the Mammoth mine and mill to made on that property, the ledge being
William and John C. Midwinter and others three and one-half feet, paralleling the orig
Parker Post: C. W. Mitchell, secreta!'y inal ledge. The strike is said to be one
of the Arizona Empire Mining company, for a period of two years. Tbe leasers are
practical miners and can do as well with of the best made on that property.
arrived Wednesday and left for the com·
pany's property in the Empire Flats dis this property as anyone else that we Murray Sun: A rich strike in the drift
know of. from the raise in the lower workings of the
trict the same day. Mr. Mitchell took a
Silverton Standard: The Highland Caledonia mine sent the stock of that com
number of ore sacks with him and the best
Mary mine which has been pushing work pany soaring. According to reports, some
are is to be sacked for shipment. The
most vigorously during the winter months, of the richest ore ever encountered in this
property is developing into a big propoRi·
gives promise of being one of the busy mine, noted for its extremely rich ore, wa,.s
tion, it is claimed by those who have
properties during the summer. A large found. While the lower tunnel has not as
recently visited the mine. 'York is now
force of men have been employed at the yet reached the ore body, which seems to
being confined to the 200-foot level, whe!',J
mine and indications point toward a most have faulted, the manager now believes
a 60-foot crosscut has penetrated a mam
successful run for the Highland Mary peo little difficulty will be met in locating it
moth ore body. Kidneys of rkh gold are
ple this year. on the lower level.
occur in this large are body, a sampl~
taken last week assaying $128 in gold a'ld Lake City Phonograph: What appears Leadore Standard: The "Leadville" is
8 per cent copper. to be a strike of splendid ore has been outputting some excelient ore. One car
made in the Nellie M. tunnel. In cleaning sent out to the International smelters,
Prescott Journal-Miner: H. L. Sweeney
out a cave about 300 feet in, at about Utah, last week and two more cars of fifty
successfully operating the Golden Gate
twenty feet up, a streak of blue talc ter ton capacity will be shipped during the
mines in the Black Hills district, was in
minated in a body of massive mineral present month. The average value of the
trom camp yesterday and states that the
composed of galena, iron and other min. lead-silver product is abeut $35 per ton,
good showing conHnues, and the nickel
erals that cannot be determined. We will which is considerably higher than the bulk
ores are still in evidence. At the adjoin
make a more complete report next week, shipped from our sister camp, Gilmore, but
ing works the La Gracia company is pre
after Mr. Ramsey has made assays anil when quantity and ,size of ore measures
paring to Introduce a compressor' and to
has put in ladders so he can examine the are considered, we politely lift our hat to
develop by drills in the future. Their in
ore streak. the boys across the way.
terests are becoming important and recent
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development, it is said, has practically Idaho Springs Mining Gazette: The
established the property as one of great Kansas-Burrows m.ines in 1'he Newhouse MONTANA.
merit. It is to be operated on a larger tunnel 'started up with a full force of men
basis than formerly. Mr. Sweeney also Tuesday morning. This is the most im Twin Bridges, Monitor: The news
states that other mines in ,that field are portant enterprise in the tunnel, both by comes from the Highland district that Wil
coming to the front and the outlook is de reason of the importance of the mines, be liam Johnson has struck some rich gold
cidedly bright. ing among the greatest in COlorado, and ore on tne Farragut claim, The yellow
San Simon Artesian Belt: 'The Old because of the strong financial standing of metal can be seen plainly with the naked
Homestake property, at Paradise,. now the company. It will take some time for eye and was uncovered in a tunnel a few
called the Boeckler mine, is the scene of the necessary development work before days ago. In years gone by Highland dis
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THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW I MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
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fict has produced quantities of very rich operations at the Rand, formerly the B.lack the large dredge at this place for the Pow
ire. Hawk, at Eldorado canyon, was In tOW'l der River Dredging company. The work is
Boulder Monitor: Joe Davis, the well the first of the week, and reported fine pro being taken in hand as rapidly as 'material
mown Helena dry goods merchant, has a gress at the property. On the 300-foot arrives.
ease and bond on the Golden Moss mine level there is twelve feet of ore. _ While as Sumpter American: C. D. Snyder and
~t Elkhorn, and is working four men, at yet no assays have been made, Mr. Dun son of Parma, Idaho, were In Sumpter the
,resent, sinking a shaft. Mr. Davis says it bar is sure that the values are better than first of the week on their Way to Granite
II his intention to sink 100 feet before $35 to the ton. Drifting both east and west and the North Fork. Mr. Snyder last fall
:ross cutting the lead. Tom Connor of is in progress on the 400-foot level and became interested with Joe Watts in a
~orbin is in charge of the worK. Mr. there is ore averaging better than $20. It placer property north of Granite. Mr.
~onnor is an old scout, and a mining man is expected that the new reduction works Snyder is an- experienced placed miner and
:'s well. Success is certainly his, If there will be installed in three months' time. he and Mr. Watts will do extensive work
s an ore body to be found on the claim. Lovelock -Review-Miner: During the when the spring floods start. The prop
Deer Lodge Silver State: The cancel· week just passed the Seven Troughs Coal· erty is well equipped for successful mining.
ation of eight placer mining claims on ition Mining company has penetrated and Grants Pass Courier: J. F. Dwyer,
jold Creek west of Garrison is reoom commenced the development of three new connected with the Keystone mine, on
Clended in a decision rendered Friday by and distinct ore shoots. At the face of lower Rogue river near Mule creek, has
tegister Stephen Carpenter and Receiver the west drift on the ninth level, 210 reet been in the city for several days on busi·
:. O. Freeman of the Helena land 'office in west of the station on the Friedman . ness, and will return to the mine shortly.
he case of the g,overnment against Carl winze, a four-foot width of Sixty dollar -For the past two months they have been
lergstrand. The governmellit 'raised the ore was encountered the latter part of last constructing buildings and installing a 4
.:oints when Bergstrand applied for patent, week,and advancement through this vein stamp mill, which is expected to be in
hat there had been no discovery of min since that hime has demonstrated no running order within the next ten day!!
ral, that the land was not valuable for weakening of either the vein or its values. Frank C. Hammond, of Portland, who
,lacer mining purposes, and that the nee· At this point the vein shows a decided opened up a mining property in the Alt
ssary $500 for the patenting of a claim easterly and westerly tendency and is tak house district last summer, is manager of
ad not been exptended. ing a course almost at right angles with the property.
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that which it lias heretofore maintained. ----0---
NEVADA.
Yerington Times: The Mason Valley THE DEMAND HAS BEEN SUPPLIED.
mine is keeping up its usual shipments of
350 to 500 tons of ore a day. All stoplnl!l The demand has been supplied. The
Austin Reveille: More machinery ar·
in tunnel 4: level has been suspended, ow Albany Hotel of Denver has supplied it.
ived this week over the Nevada Central
)r the King Midas Mining company, oper ing to everything being full of ore. stop The hotel has been undergoing extensive
ting at Goodings, up Reese river. This ing on tunnel 3 and up to tunnel 1 isgo remodeling in the past five months, and the
ing on as usuaL Only about one-third of Albany management now places at the dis
ompany is making a complete installation
the amount being broken daily is shipped, posal of its patrons, rooms with private
f mining and milling machinery this
as this is all that is required to furnish bath or rooms with private toilet and lava
pring and will be among the producers
lis year. the smelter with the full tonnage. One tory at the rate formerly charged for
man is breaking a big tonnage of ore ev· rooms without similar aC{)Qmmodations.
Austin Reve!1le: Eleven miles west of
ery day in the open cut. The mine has Rooms wl:th private toilet and lavatory,
me, Joe Bartollozzi, of Austin, believes
developed so far ahead that practically all $1.50 per day; rooms with private bath
e has uncovered ore deposits that will
dead work has been suspended until the $1.50 per day. These are exceptionally
ause a stampede as 'soon as the snow
second furnace at the smelter is blown in, fine rooms, newly decorated and refurn
oes. He brought in samples this week
and even with this in commission they ished. For a long time, there has been
'hich pan gold in generous streaks. The
have a great many years' ore ahead with a demand for rooms at this rate. The
re looks very much the same as that
out any further development. The mine Albany is the first to supply the demand.
hich first came from the surmce In Man
is certainlY in a most satisfactory condi and the wonderment of all is how a hotel
attan and caused the memorable rush to
tion. of the AlbanY's character can afford to
lat camp. In the ravines, at present, lhe
lOW comes up to a man's arm pits, antl ---""'01---- supply its patrons with such accommoda
will be some weeks before prospecting tions at so low a price. Try one of the
OREGON.
$1.50 and $2 per day rooms with bath,
ln be carried on -to advantage.
and yOU will be pleased. Larger room~
Lovelock Review-Miner: We are in Baker Herald: Pete Keepis of Cornu
with bath, $2.50 and $3 per day.
frmed, authoritatively, that a new ore copia is in the city spending a feW' days.
Mir. Keepis is interested in the placer ----'0---
lOot has been struck in the east drift on
Ie ninth level in the workings of the properties near Cornucopia and says that RELIABLE HEADQUARTERS.
~ven Troughs Coalition Mining company, all the owners save those -of the Unaer"
hich measures twelve inches across and wood claims are doing deveh)pment work The reliable headquarters for transists,
Isays $5,240.00. It is reported as being and expect to strike bedrocR this season. levels, draughting materials, blue prInt pa
ie of the richest and most important The Underwood claims, he said, are making 'per, blue printing, mining, railroad and
l
rikes made by this company since the a good showing under the new mana'ge other corporation paper, Pembroke Station
manza shoot was encountered in the ment. erycompany, at its new location, 22·24 East
est drift on the eighth level last fall. Tne Sumpter American: Fred Deland and Third South srteet, Salt Lake City, Utah.
~ws of this new find reaches us as we go F. J. Ryan arrived in Sumpter yesterday Phone, Exchange 16. tf.
'press, and will be fully detailed in our from Sacramento, California. They are, ----{Ol----
~xt issue_ respectively, construction foreman and ac The Utah mine, of Fish Springs, Utah.
Searchlight Bulletin: Robert Dunbar, countant for the Yuba Construction com has marketed three carloads of ore. so far
:incipal owner and in personal charge of pany, and will look after the building of this month. I
The Oneida mine, at Freeland, Cilorado, Assay Supply Catalogue No. 24, contain The Moose lodge, of San Diego, Califor
is to be equipped with reduction works. ing 595 pages,has been issued by the Mine nia, is getting ready to build a $35,000·
& Smelter Supply company, and is now home.
The Poughkeepsie mine, near Ouray,
'Colorado, is to be provided with a milling ready for free distribution to the trade. The Great Northern Railroad company
plant, under the supervision of Henry Dam The Numa Rock Drill Sharpener com will build a new depoE at Helena, Montana,
schroder. pany, of Salt Lake, recently sold and deliv this year, to cost $150,000.
ered Qne of its standard-sized rock drill A creamery plant is in contemplation for
The Florence mine, near Thompson, sharpeners to the Anaconda Copper com Harve, Mlontana, backed by Col. John W.
Montana, J. A. Close, superintendent, is to pany, of Anaconda, Montana. Searles, of Spokane, ·Washlngton.
be equipped with an assay office. and cya·
The 'Copper Range C<>nsolidated com The United States government, in all
nide plant.
pany, Houghton, Mich., is about to extend probability, will construct a $90,000 federal
The Little Dorit mine, near Idaho the traction equipment of its mines with Quilding at Twin Falls, Idaho, In the near
Springs, Colorado, F. L. Patrick, manager, the addition of five new 4-ton electric trol future.
is soon to be equipped with reduction works ley mining locomotives, which have been The school ·board of Levan, Utah, has
and power plant. porchased from the General Electric com disposed of oonds to the amount of $10,000,
The milling plant of the Arden Plaster pany. the proceeds to be used in school house
company. of Arden, Nevada, was recently The General Engineering company, of construction.
destroyed by fire. The company will prob· Salt Lake, bas been making exhaustive Latah county, Idaho, will hold a $100,000
ably re-build, at once. tests on ores of the Boston & CorbIn com bond election in July. If the election car
The Michigan-Utah Consolidated Mining pany, of Corbin, Montana, to determine the ries the bonds will be used in building a
company, of Salt Lake, is planning an aerial best milling practice for their treatment. county court house.
tramway for its property near the head of The Boston & Corbin company will soon
A bond election will be held at Casa
Big Cottonwood canyon. put in a 100-ton mill.
Grande, Arizona, May 25, to vote $10,000
The Bartlesville Zinc company, Collins bonds for the building of a school house in
The Ireland mine. near Minnesota, AI· ville, Okla., has completed plans for an ex
leghany district. California. George W. Hag school district No.4.
tension of the electrical equipment in its
arty, manager, is to be equipped with a 5 The board of education of Salt Lake
existing plant and will install one 100 kw.
stamp milling plant this summer. City will receive sealed bids on May 20th
turbo-generator set, one 25 kw. motor gen
W. C. Vanderlip, of Fairbanks, Alaska, and May 22nd, for the building of the new
erator set, two 50 horsepower motors, one
high school on the east side.
is organizing a company whose object will 25 horsepower motor, one 75 horsepower
be the installaUon of 5·stamp mills on motor and a switchboard. . The apparatus The county commissioners of Josephene
Skoogey, Cleary and Fairbanks creeks. will be furnished by the General Electric county, Oregon, may soon advertise for bids
According to a special from Butte, Mon· company. for the construction of a steel bridge across
tana, W. A. Clark and ass'Ociates will soon Applegate river at Murphy, same state, to
The Benson Mines company- is arrang
begin work in the construction Qf a concen cost about $10,000.
ing for electrifying its iron mines at Ben
tratorand smelting plant. to cost $100.000. son Mines, N. Y., and will install a· com The North Washington Power Reduction
The Hypotheek Mining & Milling com plete new equipment of electrical appa company, of Spokane, Washington, J. L.
pany. of Wallace. Idaho. George V. Har· ratus to supply power both for crusbing Harper, general manager, will build an
rington, manager, will increase its mill and grinding, comprising two 437 kva. electric transmission lirie from Grand
equipment, and install an electrically-op· waterw'heel type generators, two 12 kw. Forks, B. C., tt} Republic, Washington.
erated hoist. ,generators, six 300 kva. transformers, one A company has been incorporated at
The Apache Box group of claims near 450 kva. generator, one 12 kw_ generator Ely, Nevada, for the construction of a $20,
the Arizona·Mexico line, has been sold and and sixteen motors ranging from 5 to 200 000 building to be used for lodge and
is to be equipped with a 200·ton milL W. horsepower. An of the apparatus w'111 be amusement purposes. Particulars can be
H. Worthington, of Douglas, Arizona, is in· supplied ,by the General Electric company. obtained from D. P. Bartley or Wm. Mc
terested in this en terprise. 0-- Knight.
The North Washington Power Reduction 'Work is progressing favorably in the The following buildings will be con
company. of Spokahe, Washington, J. L. driving of the tunnel in the development structed at Williams, Arizona, in the near
Harper, general manager, will increase of the Big Nebo mine in Santaquin dis future: A. R. Boling, opera house and
the capacity of its cyanide plant, at Repub trict, Utah, and it is believed that ore will store, to cost $12,000; C. R. Boyce, store
lic, Washington, to 5,000 tons, daily. soon be encountered. and office building, $30,000, and 4-story
building, $8,000; Alexander Kiriakou, large
The Hazel T. Mining company. George ----0---.-
business block, $5,000.
Chandler, 714 Park Place, Spokane, Wash A speCial from Meeker, Colorado, says:
ington, manager, will equip its Libby, Mon· A gold fever is sweeping over southern Utah, The Rio Grande Reservoir & Ditch com
tana, property, with a milling plant in the sparsely settled as it is. A report has just pany, of 420 Symes building, Denver, Colo
near future. John H. Town, of Libby, is . been brought up from the San Juan river rado, has advertised for bids for furnishing
mine manager. that two Canadians had found a l>pot on the material and the construction of a wire
The Boston & CQrbin Copper & Silver the banks of the Colorado river, fifteen wound wood pipe-line 2,460 feet in length.
Mining company is preparing to build a 100 miles north of Navajo mounta.in, at the foot Plans and specifications win be found at the
ton concentratin'g plant. Main office, 82 of the Linear plateau, where gold nuggets office of Thos. W. Jaycox, consulting engi
Devonshire street, Boston. Mine office, the size of marbles could be washed out neer, 1011 Foster building, Denver. Bids
Cor'Qin, Montana. Nathan L. Amster, presi of the gravel and sand, not far from the must be in by June 8, 1912.
dent. Homer E. Emerson, general man river, and a few days' work nets over $1,000 0----
ager. J. W. Neill consulting engineer. in gold. SubscrIbe for The Mining Review.
river, in which there is an abundance of the stringer in which the pay ore has been
[Dips, Spurs and Angles 1
the yellow metal.
The Granite Mining company has re
found is 18 inches wide. The principal
owners are T. j. Curran, \'1; R Scott and
The Nevada Consolidated, at Ely, Ne· sumed work in the development of its prop C. W. Toole.
vada, is producing copper at a net cost of erty with A. L. Fotheringham in charge. Announcement is made that the Alice
6.97 cents a pound. The mine is located in the Mineral range mine. near Wallace, Idaho. under bond to
The Silver King Coalition Mining com between Milford and Beaver, Utah. capitalists of Ohio, will begin shipPIng the
pany will hold its annual meeting in Salt A rich strike is reported in the Ridge m:ddle of May. Forty men are at work on
Lake on Monday, May 20th. way mine neal' Sylvanite, New Mexico, the property, which is equipped with a 150
It is s.fated that work will soon be re owned by C. H. Morris, of Monrovia, Cali ton mill. The plant is being overhauled
sumed in the operation of the Imperial fornia. The find consists of six or eight with a view to beginning operations within
mine, near Newhouse, Utah. inches of ore that fairly bristles with gold. thirty days.
The Utah Copper company will soon Word comes from Alta, Utah, that a The Skidoo Mines company, of Skidoo.
place the 10th and 11th units of its Arthur drift in the Alta Consolidated has broken California, milled 1.175 tons of ore during
mill, at Garfield, Utah, in commission. into a body of fine carbonate ore, six feet the month ·of March. Value of bullion pro
The Tetro claim of the Plutus group, in in width, that can be shipped as it is brok duced, $11,957.21; value of cyanides, $2,
Tintic district, Utah, has been leased to en down. The showing in the mine is re 451.06. Total receipts, $14,408.27. Costs;
W. Lester Mangum and John H. McChrys ported to be most encouragng. Development, $1.334.11U operation, $8,205.43.
tal. The Goldfield Consolidated Mines com Total costs: $9,542.39. Net profits for the
A strike of ·twenty inches of highgrade pany has made a contract with the Tooele, month, $4,865.88.
galena ore, valued at $80 <l. ton, has been Utah, plant of the International Smelting ----0·---
reported in the Hazel T. mine at Libby, Mon· & Refining company, for the treatment of TECHNI.CAL BOOKS.
tana. its refractory ores Shipments will amount
to about thirty carloads per month.
The Nevada Gypsum company, operat By your technical books from
ing at Mound House, Nevada, has sold its The Waldo Mining & Smelting company
The Salt Lake Mining Review.
plan~ to the Pacific Portland Cement com has between forty and fifty outfits hauling
We carry in stock for immediate deliv
pany, of San Francisco. copper ore from the Takilma mine, near
ery
'Waldo, Oregon, to the railroad at Sumpter,
Work has been resumed in the develop Principles of Mining, by Herbert C. Hoo
same state. The ore is being consigned
ment of the South Hecla Mining company's ver, price $2.
to the Kennet smelter in California.
property at Alta, Utah, under the manage· Timber & Mining, by Wm. H. Storms,
ment of George Watson. The National-Nevada Mining company,
E. M., pric~ $2.50.
of Nati(}nal, Nevada, has ·been incorporated Timbering and Mining, by Robert BrUCod
The Rough and Ready mi"nes near Grass
with officers and directors as follows: M_
Valley, California, are to resume operation Brinsmade. B. S., E. M., $3.
A, Houser, president; S. S. Spell, vice-presi
under the supervision of F. E. Sipe and as· Practical Shaft Sinking, by Francis DO:l'
dent; 8. H. 'Crittenden, secretary; Thomas
sociates, of Mansfield, Ohio. aldson, M. E., price $2.
Defenbaugh. treasurer; N P_ Hatch and
The International Smelting & Refining Joe Jaca: Cost of Mining, by James Ralph Finlay,
company has posted its regular quarterly price $5.
The Mines Development company, of Rock Drills, by Eustace M. Weston, price
dividend of 2 per cent, payable June 1st to
Salt Lake, has begun work in the ·re-model $4.
stockholders of record May 14th.
ing and re-equipment of the old Ontario Simple Mine Accounting, by David Wal
Congress has defeated the attempt to mill at P!lrk City, Utah, and, when com
abolish the U. S. assay offices at Boise, pleted, the plant will begin work on the im lace. price $1.
Idaho; Deadwood, S. D.; Helena, Montana; mense tonnage of lowgrade are blocked out Ricketts on Mines, price $4.25.
Seattle, Washington, and Salt Lake, Utah. Benson's Compendium, price $3.
in the Ontario mine. Wilson's Mining Law. price 50 eents.
Ore going nearly 20 per cent copper Clyde Daniels has just completed the F'rom Prospects to Mine, by Ettlnne A.
has been uncovered in the Badger mine work of running 100 feet of tunnel on the
Ritter, price $1.50.
near Walden, \Vyoming. Harford Loucks, St. Paul group of claims near Ldbby. Mont.
Mining Law for the Prospector, Miner
of that place, Is Interested In the property. He reports that the property is looking fine
and Engineer, by McFarren, price $2.
Work' has ·been resumed in the devel and that the owners intend to do a large Secrets of the Rocks. by F'. M. Frasier,
opment and operation of the Old Hick amount of additional work this season. price $2.
ory mine of the Majestic Copper company, The ledge carries values in silver, lead and Mine Examiner and Prospector's Com
near Milford, Utah, with H. K. Olsen in gold. panion, by Miller, price $3.
charge. The Hecla Miining company's April divi Origin of Ore Deposits, by Ettinne A
The Gila Copper Sulphide company has dend of $20,000, at the rate of two cents a Ritter, price 50 cents.
decided to blow in its Sasco smelter near share, places the disbursement at $80,000 Stevens' Copper Handbook, price $5.
SiIverbeJI, Arizona, and it is possible that for the first four months of 1912, or $2,430, Clason's Maps in all sizes from 25c. tu
a railroad will be built from Silverbell to 000 to date. The property of the company, $3.50 each, all with 1910 census.
Christmas. which is in near Wallace, Idaho, is being Clason's road maps f the different
Another big strike is reported in the. worked steadily and has large ore reserves western states have no competition, pri'~e
Tightner mine at Alleghany, California, con in sight. in cloth $2, in paper $i.
sisting of thirty feet of ore, six of which Shipping and milling galena has been Send today for book catalog if you do
is very rich, While the balance is a good encountered on the Prudential Mdning com not find what you are looking for in the
millin'g product. pany's property, four miles northwest of above Jist. \Ve will get what you want,
According to advices from Sian Juan \Vallace, Idaho. The are was found in the promptly. Our special clubbing offers arc
county, Utah, an old prospector has found crosscut of the main drift, which has been unequalled and will be mailed upon request
a blanket vein of gold ore near Horse run 700 feet and attained a depth of 500 We can save you money on your periodicals.
Creek, at Hall'S crossing on the Colorado feet. The ledge is 16 feet in width and THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW.
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, M A V 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
BUNKE'R HILL AND SULLIVAN. H. & S. screens for fine screening; the COPPER PRODUCTION IN 1911.
use of the Esperanza drag type chasslflers;
'gest Silver-Lead Concentrating Plant the use of the air 11ft for returning the The smelter production of primary cop·
In The WOl"ld. overflow from the ore bins and the sUm", per in the United States in 1911 was 1,097,
tanks; and other less important metlwds 232,749 pounds, as compared with 1,108,159,·
(Press-Times, Wallace, Idaho.) which have been developed in the many 509 pounds in 1910, an increase of about 1.5
With the opening of the last unit of the years of work of concentrating upon these per cent. The production for 1911 is the
w Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill in Kel ores. largest in the history of the industry.
;g this past week Kellogg gains the dis The rock house is a separate depart In the following table the production fo!"
.ction of being the home of the largest ment and has a capacity of 200 tons hourly, 1911 is apportioned to the states in which
ver-Iead concentrating plant in the wOlld. enabling it to supply the mill with a suf the copper was mined. The total is made
Not only is the mill the largest in the ficient tonnage of crushed ore to run the up of the fine copper content of blister
}rld, l?ut there is not one more modern. full twenty-four hours by operatIng the produced and of the smelter output of in·
rery improvement made over prevtous rock house eight hours. got and anode copper from Michigan. The
ills has been the result of careful study This latter department is equipped with production of 1910 is given for comparison.
,r the mill was not thrown up in a hurry, picking belts and facilities for sorting out Production of copper in the United State&
rery improvement being the result of leng the mine rubbish, the first class shipping in 1910 and 1911.
ld careful study, experience and expert ore and mine waste, if so desired. (Smelter output, in pounds fine.)
lent figuring in every detail. In addition to the automatic weighing
As a result of the opening of the new device already noted, the mill is equipped ..
Jill the company has increased its capa with a complete automatic sampling sy.s Alaska .......... 1 4,3~1,0261 22,314,889
tty to the stupendous figures of 35,000 tons tem in order that its various products may Arizona .......... i 297,250,5381 303,202,532
,month. The mill i,s operated entirely by be accurately assayed. California ........ 1 45,760,2001 35,835,651
,lectricity and 750 horsepower is required The construction of the plant has COSt Colorado ........ , 9,307,4971 9,791,8C1
o keep the machinery in motion. $375,000, and the supervision of the work Georgia . .. ...... \ 7241 .......... ..
The grading for the mil! began in 1907 has been under 'the charge of Gelasio Cae· Idaho . . ......... 1 6,877,5151 4,514,116
md from that date to the present there tan! and Roy S. Handy, as the metallur Maryland . . ..... 1.•.........., 23,505
b.as been no mad rush to get the mill up gists, while Ulysses B. Hough and E. P. Michigan ....... 1 221,462,9841 218,185,236
and to work. The fir,st unit, with the rock Dudley have been the erecting engineers Misslouri • .. ..... ,............1 640,411
house and conveyor, was placed in com in charge. Montana ....... \ 283,078,4731 271,814,49,
mission in December, 1910. The construc ---0-- Nevada . . ....... \ 64,494,6401 65,561,015
tion during the entire period went ahead GREAT STRIKE IN MAGMA. New Hampshire _ I 12,4091........... .
at an economical and leisurely rate, giving New Mexico . _... ! 3,784,6091 2,R60,400
time to study Into all of the elements en (Blade-Tribune, Florence, Colo.) North Carolina .. 1 181,263\ 13,699
tering into the construction with care. Superintendent James Neary, of the Oregon . . ........ , 22,022\ 125,943
The plant has an ore capacity of 3,000 M,agma company, was here Saturday on his Pennsylvania . . .. 1 740,6261 661,621
tons, enabling the mill to run two days way home from Phoenix. Another wonder· Philippine lsI. ... \ 1,7811 9,621
on the ore in storage. ful strike has juSit been made in the Mag South Dakota .... 1 431 1,607
The buildings and the retaining walls ma mine, on the SOO-foot level. A cross Tennessee . ...... 16,691,7771 18,965,143
are of concrete while the superstructure Is cut has been extended through a nand or Texas . . ........ 1 2,9611 105
of native timber. Galvanized iron roofing quartzite and another most remarkable Utah . . .......... 1 125,185,4551 142,340,215
over the conveyor add ore bins has been "pay-streak" encountered. The streak Is Vermont ........ 1 1,935! .......... ..
used while patent fire proofing has been four feet wide and the ore for this enUre Virginia . _...... \ 105,3131 ........... .
used over the remainder, a careful watch width averages 72 per cent copper and 50 Washington . . ... , 65,0211 195,503
being kept to make the plant as fire-proof ounces silver per ton. This ore is next Wyoming . . ..... 1 217,1271 130,499
as possible in every detail. thing to bullion. The cross-cut .also dem Undistributed . ..1 a603,5701 44,645
The Flow Sheet. onstrated that the vein at the 800 level is 11,080,159,509i1,097 ,232,7 49
The ore is handled from storage bins fully sixty feet wide and carries phenome·
:m an inclined belt conveyor over an auto nal values in copper and silver all the way (a) Includes Missouri.
matic recording weigher. It is first sized across the sixty feet. No copper mine in Refined Copper.
lY revolving trommel screens, the coarsest the world can equal the Magma In rIch The total production of new refined cop·
,ize.s, together with the ground middlings ness. The new boilers for the Magma are per in 1911, was 1,433,875,026 pounds. This
:rom the jigs, after a classification. are on their way from Florence to the mine was the largest output in the history of the
;reated on Card concentrator tables and and will be set 'as quickly as Jl"O,ssible. industry, exceeding that of 1910 by 11,835,
!i'rue vanners. Forty thousand pressed brick to be used 893 pounds.
Fine grading Is done by six-foot Hunt in enclosing these boilers will arrive here ---o--~·-
ngton mills in the fir-st unit and with this week and be forwarded to the mine
The m:nes of Park City, Utah. producej
Jhilean mills and a five-foot Hardinge mill at once. The work of raising the new triple
9,766 tons of ore during the month of April,
n the second unit. The coarse middlings compartmen t shaft from the 800·foot level
divided among the different companies as
'rom the jigs are crushed in six sets of to the surfce is progressing rapidly and
follows: Silver King Coalition, 3,747 tons;
'PIls. the shaft will probably be completed by
Daly West 3,266 tons; Daly Judge, 2.437
Special Features. the time the mammoth new hOist arrives.
tons; Grasselli Chemical company, 334 tons;
The mill has a number of special fea Superintendent Neary knows how to han
Ontario leasers, 138 tons; Daly company,
ures and among the most important might dle his force to the best advantage in
22 tons; "Charley Moore, 22 tOr:3.
Ie mentioned the following which enter breaking ground and timbering and there
nto the Imetallutgi<;,al Ischeme of . trea.t is something doing all the time under ----<0---
nent: The desliming of the jig feed in th~ ground at the Magma. Modern business demands judicious ad
>lassified jigs; the use of the Hardinge mill -~~-o--~- vertising. The Mining Review has a circu
or very fine grinding of fine middlings pro When wrltmg advertisers kindly men lation, the quantity and quality of whlcl
lucts; the use of the conical revolving B. tion The MinIng Review. makes it a mostvaluabJe medium.
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, MAY 1 5, 1 9 1 2.
RECENT MINING DECISIONS. from debt and post upon the premises a no Shares sold, 7,890.
Selling value, $2,152.75.
tice that no debt incurred by the lessee Open Board.
(Prepared for The Mining Review.) would be a lien on the property. Held, that Iron Blossom, 500 at $1.12 'h, 5,000 at
the lease did not make the lessee the less $1.10.
Relocation of Placer Claim-On reloca Swansea Consolidated, 500 at 8%c.
tion of a placer claim, monuments found in or's agent with authority to contract for Shares sold, 6,500.
Selling value, $6,279.
the ground, which had been used by a prior material so as to charge the property with
----0'---
locator, may be adopted as the monuments m:ners' liens.-Union Trust Co. of Phila·
NE'V YORK LISTED STOCKS.
for the new location.-RiversideSand & delphia v. Branch Mint Operating Co., Su
preme Court of South Dakota, 134 North I Sales. I High. I Low. I Clse.
Cement Co. v. Hardwick, Supre'me Court of
Chino . . . . . . . . . . I 2,7001 29% 1 29 I 29 '12
western 65. I 4
19
title to a placer mining claim may stipu Miami Copper .. 1 4001 25 I 24% I 25
late as to their conflicting rights, but they Quotations on the local board Thursday Utah Copper ... 1 7,5001 63 i 61 % I 620/8
from proving at the trial that they made a Giroux ICon . . . . . . 1 2001 5% 5% 5%
discovery of gold, either in placer, or in Beck Tunnel ............ ·1$--.1-3-1$':14 Nevada Utah .... I.. .... . '>I. % %
veins, or lodes in the land, as contemplated Bingham Amalgamated .,.1 .07 % I .09
Ray Central .... I....... 2'h 2'14 2'14
a suit to quiet title to a placer mining Central Mammoth ... , .. , .1 ........ 1 .10
South Utah ..... 1...... ·1 1 )i. 1
claim, who bases his claim on his mining Century. ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .04 I ,06
Mason Valley .... 1 500 12 11% 12
Colorado Mining .. ,., .... 1 .161 .17% Braden Copper .. 1 2001 5 % t>% 5%
location, must shoW" a discovery of gold Columbus ·Conso.idated ... 1 .16 I - .20
lEly Con. . . . . . . . . 1...... ·1 '4 '4 14,
sufficient to satisfy the federal statutes. Daly Judge ............... 1 6,25 I...... ·"
Mays Oil ........ 1 1,2001 33c 30c 30c
Garibaldi v. Grillo, District of Appeal, Third East Prince ... ·· .. , ...... 1 .00'141 .05 Belmont ..... 1....... 1 10 9% 10
District, California, 120 Pacific 425. .East Tin tic ;Consolidated .. 1........ 1 . 00 ~4
.02%
@46.35; June, $46.00@46.25; July, $45.25@
after failure and before·such relocation, the Mason VaLey ........ ·· ... 1 10.75 I········
45.75; August, $45.10@45.50; SeptembEr,
May Day ................ ·1 .10 I .12
$44.85@44.90. Sales were five tons of Au
original locator must show affirmativelY Mineral Flat .. : .......... I .01'141 .01%
gust at $45.15, five tons of September at
$44.87'h, five tons of October at $44.40,
that he had resumed work on the claim Mountain Lake .. " ........ 1
Mammoth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
.03'141
.90 I· 1.05
.04-"
covery of mineral within the limits of Silver Swansea Consolidated .... I .08'141 .G8%
southern soft, $15.25@15.75.
King Con . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.02%1 1.07l,i.
0 . - - -
the claim a prerequisite to the location, 'I'intic Central .......... ·1 .02 I .02%
LOCAL METAL MARKET.
Union Chief .............. 1 .12%1 .13
when, by the readjustment of its lines so Uncle Sam ............... 1 .19 I .20
.12
cathode, 15.625 cents.
v. Joseph Hammer, Supreme Court of the May 3.
UnllHted Sto<·ks.
United States, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 187. Silver, 60% cents; lead, $4 .20; copp('r
I Bid. I Asked. I Sold For. cathode, 15.625 cents.
Miners' Liens-A mining lease gave Lhe New Yer. . . 1$ .20 1$ .22 1$ .22 @ . . . . . ..
May 4.
lessee the right to develop and operate a Alta Con . . . I .58 I .60 I .60 @ . . . . . ..
Sil ver, 60% cents; lead, $4.20; copper
Th. - Quin. I .40%1 .42 I .41 @ ...... .
cathode, 15.625 cen ts.
mine for a certain monthly rental, and re S. Tru. Coal. I .48 I .50 1 .48 @ ...... .
May 6.
quired it to set aside one-third ,of the net Ely Witch .. 1 .05 I .07 I...... .
Silver, 60% cents; lead, $4.20; copper
Fed. Ely ... 1 .03 I .05 I...... .
cathode, 15.575 cents.
earnings as a fund from which the lessor's Opex . . . . . . I .06'h1 .10 I...... .
ate (From Ogden and Midvale and Bingham, ........... 8.00 A.M.
A.M.
$1.00
P.M.
a Week
In terme'dia te- Montpel- Ogden, San Francisco, Portland ... 2.45 P.M.
Ier. Going ........... 10.10 p.m. Midvale and Bingham ........... 2.50 P.M.
deposited in a
10,00 a ..... Ogden and Intermedi Denver, ChIcago and East ........ 5.20 P.M.
Louis ................. 3.20 p.Dt. Ogden, Portland and Seattle ...... 11.10 P.M.
terest, compound
11,5lS n.m. Los Augeles Limited, A.rrive Dally.
2.45 p.m. Ogden. San Francisco Denver, Chicago and East ........ 2.30 P.l\oC
in 20 years.
and Intermediate Po'nts 7,05 p.m. Ogden, San Francisco and West.. 4.55 P.M.
4,15 p.m. Ogden, Brigham, Cache Park City and Intermediate points 5.00 PM
Valley, Malad and Inter Bingham and Midvale ........... ~ 5.45 P:M:
Put compound interest to work for
medIate ............•.• 11 ,3l'j; a.m.
Provo, Manti, Marysvale ......... 6.05 P.M.
you by opening a savings account
11:20 p.m. Ogden, Denver, Omaha,
Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 7.00 P.M.
today.
Chicago, (Park City.
Denver, Chicago and East ........ 10.55 P.M.
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