THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R 30, 1912.
the cooling and settling flues, or be fil~
THE MET ALLURGY OF LEAD
By H. B. PULSIFER
FLUE-OUST, FUME AND ACID-(Cont.)
In our study of the blast furnaces gases
we have seen that only a small a'mount of
sulphur comes of( with the waste gases, the
sulphur, moreover, is all combined as sul­
phur dioxide.
J>fost of the sulphur entering the furnace,
as it inevitably and desirably does as a con­
stituent of the charge, passes out as one
of the major constituents of the matte. A
smaller portion is dissolved in the slag and
thus disposed of.
This, then, is the key to the disposal of
sulphur trioxide at the Midvale plant: what­
ever sulphur trioxide is formed in any of
the roasters is neutralized by the lime or
zinc base and collected as sulphate, in the
shape of briquettes, arsenic plant sinter or
converter sinter; the sulphates again enter
the blast furnace to be reduced to sulphide
or dioxide. As a matter of fact the amount
of tr:oxide produced and continually re­
turned is ~o small as to be of slight signifl.
cance in the actual running of the plant;
the extremely desirable suppression of trio
oxide has 'been acco'mplished at what can
likely be figured as positive profit because
of the metal values recovered. The great
final disposal of sulphur is accordingly as
d:oxide in the roaster gas.
However deficient in ultimate economy,
it is none the less quite a metallurgical
feat to thus successfully control the sui·
phur condition at the time it is thrown out
into the atmosphere.
The economic conditions in most of the
lead smelting centers in the Uulted States
have so far been adverse to utilization of
sulphur dioxide for the manufacture of sui·
phuric acid or use in other ways. The
heavy demand on the natural resources of
the European countries leads their metal·
lurgists and chemical engineers to devise
means and make profit from every such
leakage. Whenever the time shall arrive
for us to do the same, there Is not the
• slightest doubt but that Americans will be
found fully equal to the occasion.
In the first place the smelteries are" not
located in <:enters of acid ~onsumption;
then there are the important factors of high
freight rates, excessive cost of skilled lao
b5)r and experimental installations. It may
be conservation and economy to cut divi­
dends from $15 to $14 for the sake of mak·
ing $5 worth of non-profitable material, but
it doos not in the least appeal to stock­
holders. Possibly most noticabJe of all is
the magnificent opportunity for capital to
invest in and busy itself with the cruder
development of our natural resource. This
is but the sane business view of conditions;
talent and money are available in unlimited
amount for acquiring or developing reo
sources which shall earn many times their
original investment within a few years;
such opportunity is amply abundant and so
well known that the refinements and econ·
omies are out-classed.
As illustration, we may suppose that
a competent engineer makes a proposition
to a" smelting company to effect full econ­
omy of every valuable element which comes
in their ores. Considerable outlay will
be necessary, much pains will be required to
install and operate the new departments,
and, after all, not over twenty per cent net
profit is to be expected. At the same time
the same capital is solicited for investment
in mines and power plants and railroads;
there is equally ~ertain a net profit of thir,
ty to fifty per cent besides the possession.
of property whioh will continually increase
in value. Our great smelting companies
control their fume and aCid when the courts
wmpel them to; their business transactions
indicate their available capital and abund­
ant profits.
Those solid constituents of the bag house
fume which are again recoverable, If the
material is properly prepared and returned
to the blast furnaces, are lead, silver, gold
and copper, in the order of their value, Be­
sides these metals cadmium may be pres­
ent in small percent and arsenic will be
abundant. The reeovery of cadmium is re­
ported by only one plant in the United
States, the Globe plant of the American
Smelting & Refining company. Prepara­
tions for producing large amounts are said
to be under way. Sdme tellurium has been
recovered at the Omaha plant of the same
company.
The recovery of arsenic is already a
well established industry. The Everett
plant and the Globe plant of the A. S. & R.
have both produced refined arsenic for
some years; the Midvale "plant of the
United States Smelting, Refining and Min-
Ing company, has more recently done the
same. Among the copper smelteries the
great Washoe plant at Anaconda is the
only one marketing this by·product. Out-
s'de of our own country, a few plants in
Canada and at least one in Mexico find
themselves in position to refine and mar­
ket arsenic; in each of these instanees the
arsenic is not desired, but CO'nles as impuri­
ty in the ores. No mine In North America
produces arsenic as a main produet such
as frequently occurs in Europe.
To recover arsenic from bag house dust,
it is only necessary to heat the material
in a furnaM provided with moderate draft
and settling fiues. In the easy draft from
the fire which" keeps the hearth at a low
red heat the oxide of arsenic, As,O" sub­
limes to condense again in solid form in
out as the gas is finally strained thra
bags. When this crude oxide is again t
limed, with attention to the keeping od
dust and impurities, it is not difficult t"
the oxide over 99.6 per cent pure in 1\
quantities. The crystals thus obtaine<i
commonly ground in a 'burr mill befor4t
reling for shipment. " •
Brief account of the \Vashoo arij<
recovery is given In Trans. Am. Inst. 1
ing Engineers, Vol XXXVII, p. 480, COl
in Mineral Industry, XV, p. 52. A good
cription of the Midvale plant is given
The Mining Review of February 15, 1
by Leroy A. Palmer.
The M1idvale plant is modeled closely
the one at Anaconda. Both treat the
senic bearing dust in Brunton furm
which are fired by coke. The settling cli
bers consist of a long brick fiue whici
divided into rooms by partitions opel
first at one side and then at the other:
the M:.Idvaleplant, bags suspended (
the last chamber collect the residual 01
before the gas passes into the air.'
both plants the refining is done in a st
reverberatory furnace with screened @
to keep out dust. It is also the practiCE
clean the grate as seldom as possible.
The oxide which collects in the j
chambers and that which is shaken dJ
from the bags is the most impure. T'he,!
est material settles out In the intermedi
chambers. For uniform product and i
largest output the oxide from the J
chambers will be mixed with the morel
pure,providing, of ~ourse, that the gt.
is not lowered below guarantee by so"
ing. Any very poor oxide will have t6
refined again.
The grinding of the oxide is an extr~
ly dusty operation and is carried out ~
tight room, with means to regulate the
chlnery without entering.
The novice is startled at the appal
carelessness and nonchalance of the
men employed about such a place. If c
Bruntons are running the three men
shift find the work deCidedly easy; one I
. one Is in the crane transferring the bUF
sinter to the cars to be returned to
lead furnaces, and the other is helper
various duties. If the refining furnae,
running two other men are required; ,
shovels the oxide out of the chamber~
the craneman and the other is gelli
helper.
The man in the chamber is the unto
nate one. The room probably reeks •
sulphur dioxide from the pyrite whieh {
burned with the dust; it is hot and stift
The oxide must be handled deUbetate'tf
avoid dust. Many Individuals canno~
dure the work for even a few hours~o
do not miIid it. Perspiring shout'
avoided as much as POSSi.b.le;.a carel ...'.•.
can cover himself with BOres in a few
But beyond this it seema to be
larg
·1
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a: !t &! at
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matter of susceptibility; some men do not If the cost of producing the arsenic be Murray plant there is the recent contribu·
notice any effect from the pervading dust, charged wholly to the arsenic, and the lead tion by Eilers, already referred to, which
others are affected immediately. be considered as returned free to the blast attempts to show that it is not financially
Several hundred tons of arsenious oxide furnaces, it will be fOU!J.~that not over a profitable. The operating cost is given as
will likely be about the plant all the time. ton of coke should -be' required to supply $76,853.43 for a period of four years, eight
Oxide Is under foot, it is the dust on every a ton of refined arsenic; the full labor cost months; the value of the metals recovered
obiect, it is in the air and in the special should not amount to over $10 a ton. As amounted to $152.690.52. To fully estabJish
suits which the men wear; there is enough these are the two chief items in the cost a financial loss interest is reckoned on
under the one roof to kill the nation yet the of production it allo'Ys us to estimate that, the original cost of the bag house at six per
same men often keep their jobs for months including supplies and repairs, power and cent, amortization is figured at 5 per cent
and years. genera.l charges, a ton of refined arsenic and further treatment charge of $10 per
At the Midvale plant a special change may cost between $25 and $30 per ton. If ton on the raw fume is allowed. For our
and wash room is ·provided. The men are
required to put on one piece suits going on
shift, coming off they must go under the
shower bath. Sores are prone to develop
about the sides of the nose or where there
are creases in the skin; ferric oxide in vase­
line is freely supplied and much used. A
man appears rather gruesome with his face
all daubed up with red salve but it affords
immense relief. A cheap variety of respir­
ator is also providoo to be used in the
worst places. Undoubtedly they are benefi·
cial yet susceptible of improv·ement. They
fit poorly, the valve is troublesome and, of
course, the valve is no relief against sulphur
dioxide.
As we have just affirmoo in regard to
the general utilization of by-products, ar­
senic is recovered mainly because it must
be gotten rid of for the sake of the other
metalliC value found in the fume. The
American market for arsenic oxide is slug·
gish, it is commonly worth around five
cents a pound in New York, with possibility
of a slump if production should be much
increased. The few real arsenic mines in
the country find it impossible to compete
against this by-product arsenic, which. if
all available should be recovered, would
increase the supply many times. There is I

little inducement for the smelting compan·

ies to go into the business of manufactur­ I
ing further products or perfecting the re­
covery.
If the elimination of arsenic from the
I

fume is eighty per cent in the Brunton fur·

naces, it is considered good work; what is
J

returned to the furnaces with the lead will {

come around later. This is not at all bad

work; one looks rather to the careless w'ay
of handling such a dangerous material. It
is not difficult to i'tnagine all the operations
carried out with complete elimination of
dust and freedom from contact in any way
with the person. Perfection of the mechan­
ical arrangements with mechanical or pneu­
matic handling could certainly accomplish
wonders. This deserves to be mentioned
because the less one stays about an arsenic
plant the safer he is. Superintendents and
foremen do not put themselves out to prove
immunity, and unless labor is abundant
it is commonly quite a task to bring in
enough men to fill the ever vacant job at
. shoveling out the chambers. Men who have
once done this work with III effect prefer
idleness to further inveiglement.
FLUE SECTIONS
ther.e is any market at current quotations
there should certainly be good profit in
the business.
The entire bag house operation ought
to return some profit. T·he testimony of
Iles from his experience at the Globe plant
indicates that it was decidedly profitable
there. It is commonly supposed that the
bag house at the Mddvale .plant now oper'
ates as a source of credit to the other de­
partments. As to the bag house at the
S.1..._M~nint'
R .. ",i£u.1.
purpose it suffices to know that neglect·
ing any return from the thirty odd
pe1' cent of arsenic in the fume, the value
of the metals recovered is almost twice
the cost of running the bag house. After
deducting interest, amortization and treat­
ment at the bag house for the converters
at the Omaha plant, Eilers shows that there
ensued a net profit of $98.711.50 in one year.
Considering the great benefit. to the :
nillni~Y ~tJ~ge '
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THE SALT LAKE MINING REV I. E W, NOV E MaE R 30,1912.
that,besides the conservation of so much
good material, bag houses are no appreci·
able tax on the metallurgical operations.
A complete study of our subject would
require lengthy discussion of the fiues used
to cool and convey the gases; the fans
necessary to keep them moving; the devices
for agitating the bags to free them of accu·
mulated fume; the methods of handling or
conveying the fume; the topic of roofs and
numerous other details which find little
mention in the literature. As with the
other phases of the metallurgy of lead this
also Is in a rapid state of change; we shall
have to be content with a few remarks COIl­
cerning fiues.
American practice has demanded fiues of
hlthertofore unknown size and considerable
length. EI'l'orts were thus made to get
away from the more massive and costly
structures characteristic of Eluropeanprac­
tice. Somewhat over a decad~ ago the
Monier fiue, which had already been exten­
sively tried out in Europe, became very
popular. This fiu.e Is built of <:oncrete laid
over expanded metal which is supported on
steel ribs bent to the exact section of the
fiue. The chief virtue of the fiue lay in
its small first cost. According to foreign
practice the fiuehad been most thoroughly
protected both inSide and outside with im­
permeable coatings to exclude both acid and
damp. American practice no longer builds
this type (Fig. 2). The outline is com·
monly combined segments of circles, the
thickness 2.5 inches, a concrete footing be­
ing supplied to support the fairly light
structure.
If 'built thicker and well coated they
might be sufficiently durable; a.s they have
been built they are prone to crack and
soon crumble badly. It is a common sight
about western plants to see them in all
stages of decay.
When properly designed, a brick fiue
shaped like an inverted catenary proves
perfectly satisfactory. The wallS must
necessarily be nine inches thi<:k for large
fiues. Passage ways are built through by
enlarging the section and piercing with a
brick lined tunnel built On the same lines.
A section Is given in Fig. 1.
For fiues of the largest cross sectional
area and of great stability short transverse
arches, between steel beams laid on thick
walls, is proving permanent. Our Fig. 3 il­
lustrates the type. For fiues of some 250
square feet area the wallS Imay be seventeen
inches thick;· the beams five feet apart and
tied with oolts. The roof should be sur­
Ifaced to slope to one side and well coated
to keep out water. The usual tar and
gravel roof covering answers well.
Fig; 4 illustrates a type sometimes built,
but not to be recommended. The longi­
tudinal arch Is too difficult to hold, with
the first cost greater than ·for the trans-
j 2
very common. For collecting ~nd for' cO;
ing they have decided advantages, as u:i
also be said of the ease with whicll. th
may be cleaned out. They may be 1'1
through a building well above the fioor Ie,
and for superimposed fiues the advanta
is, of course, with steel for the upper st!!
ture. In the evolution of metallurgiC
methods the tendency is certainly aw
from the massive masonry conduits
prominent in many of the great plants
'the past and present.
For settling out the coarsely granuJ
fiue dust, for cooling the gases, for es
'"'" ...'"
00
'"""... assembling of the settled material and gl
'"
eral convenience, the steel tu:be, or t
balloon, or angnlar shape is certainly m(
accepbible than any brick or concrete str
ture. The item of first cost may be :
n: van<:ed to the contrary; yet, fignred on i
efficiency per linear foot as to the requiI
w
r
i-+--,--l--+--+--!.-...:...,.-'----
functions the steel shows its advanta
most conspicuously. Fig. 5 sketches t
bal100n type, and Fig. 6 the angnlar varie
.J The <:leaning doors are at short interv.
W and a track will run beneath or alongs:
to accommodate the <:arB to receive the
~ II~-+--::.......L~~--+---.:-'--.:~II · cumulation. The most recent improvem4
(J) Is to have a short vertkal steel funnel, e:
· Ing in a bag prolong, Instead of the slidl
() lloor. The bag is tied between cleanin
« and when the man comes along with
car to get the material he is not expO!
w to the fume.
H. B. Pulsifer, Armour Institute of Te
.J no logy, Chicago, Illinois.
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z STOCKTON IN NOVEMBER.
(Special Correspondence.)
Stockton, Utah, Nov. 27.-Shlpme
(J) from Stockton for the" month of Novem:
W were as follows: Bullion-Coalition Mi
<:ompany ore, 17 cars; Lessees ore, 4 ca
(J) · John Connor lease on the Stag dump,
:J cars; Galena King, 1 car; Campbell, Ea
oI II_+--..........\-..........\----,!-~---..-!--'-II & MUis, lessees, on the Ben Harrison
cars; on the Cyclone, 3 cars.
Owing to the heavy storms all 81
ments were curtailed and none were
ported from Dry canyon, where the sn
G
« · fall was so heavY' that teaming had to
abandoned.
m Favorable rates granted 'by the lUI
eries on ,low grade ores have ,brough
great many lessees Into ,the dl.strioct lat
and December promises to be one of"
best months experienced in, the camp
years.
It is reported that the Galena King Jj
will be operated on eompany account a;
December 1st, the lilMe or JamesCrelgt
and aSsOclatesexpiring on that date. ;
M:uirBr06k group has been leased
'Messis. MOI:ioW';li.nd Walker, o{ 8altj
City, who are 6ntheground in
recfing 'operations',
'·:As.~essi:neiit ;Work~'li!!':IIl
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16 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M B E R 30, 1912.
BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MINING MEN
By WILL C. HIGGINS
It may be that Charlie Lammersdorf was
Dorn with a "Golden Spoon" in his mouth;
but, if he was, he didn't know it at the
tim", and so it cannot be charged up against
him, as he was very young in those days.
As a matter of fact, it was a, long time
b£fore he had any use for spoons, or knives
or forks, for that matter. If the spoon,
1vith which his mother fed him broth, soon
after he cut his first teeth, had been of
gold, he could not ,have told the difference
hetween it and a common, every-day pew­
ter ladle, for he was not interested in the
metals during this trying period of his
existence. This 'woeful lack of knowledge
of the yellow metal, however, he made up
for soon after arriving at the physical per­
fection or young and vigorous manhood, and
it was for the sale purpose of posting up
on this matter that he left his fatherland
and settled in the wild and wooley wastes
of southern Utah where, according to his
young and festive imagination, gold nug­
gets were to be picked from the sage-brush
and harvested in about the same manner
that the agriculturist gathers in his to'IIlato
crop for the canning factory. It is not
stretching the truth to say that he was dis­
appointed in this matter, and to make the
further statement that he believed that, be­
cause of the crushing of his early hopes,
he was entitled to a certificate of member­
shiV in the society of "First Ald to the In·
jured" He soon recovered from the shock,
however, and began the earnest study or
mining in all its (lips, spurs and angles.
As his knowledge accumulated and experi­
ence ripened, he learned what was meant
by the formula entitled "T·he Strike of the
Vein," its pitch, and the difference between
the foot and hanging walL He even r.eached
such a point in his mining education that
he was able to tell the difference between
a piece of quartz, lousy with visible gold,
and common country rock.
When this distinction became well
grounded in his mind he was able to tell
the difference between a cellar and a hole
in the ground; the hole, according to the
best mining authority, being a mine if lo­
cated in a reputable mining district. After
fully satisfying himself upon this pOint,
Mr, Lammersdorf began to take note of
formations, of physical oondltions whIch
led to ore depositions, and in time he be­
came a full-fledged prospector. It was then
that his main research and study related
to outcrops and strong ledges; while his
~hjef ambition was to find an ore outcrop
as big as the Newhouse ,block, and as rulI
of gold as a national bank. Such an out­
crop he found, eventually, in Gold Moun­
tain district in southeastern Utah. He
called his new mine the Sevier, and to keep
it from getting away't;o; him he pegged
down the corners of every claim with big
cedar posts, and built his cabin in ,the cen­
ter of the group.
The disoovery of the ,Sevier marked an
epoch in the hi.3tor;r of Mr. Lamm.ersdorf.
For many years prior to this important
event he had been content if he had six bltfl
in silver in his pocket, and a greasy and
ill-savored greenback, or two, in his purse.
Oharlle Lammersdorf In Africa
With the development of the Sevier, how­
ever, gold began to fiow in streams. He
thought, at first, that an old and Ume-hon­
ored carpet-bag would hold the gold bricks
he was running out of his milL But he
soon discovered the fact that the carpet­
bag, like a two-horsepower engine, was
lacking in capacity, and so he began stor­
ing his chunks of the yellow metal in an
old hogshead he had installed in one cor­
ner of his cabin. This answered the pur­
­
pose for a little while, but it was not long
before he began sending his gold to the
mint, receiving gold certificates in return.
But, what was the use in having every
pocket of his overalls bursting with the
yellow metal if he could not use it and "see
things.!' This was the way Charlie' rea­
soned, anyhow, and although he hated to
leave his cozy log cabin, and the gentle
and well-behaved raspberry patch near the
mill-site, he finally consented to let others
in on the Sevier while he skirmished out
and around for a taste of high life. From
the mine to Richfield, was but a day's
journey, and here Mr. Lammerodorf built
him a palatial residence and settled dow'n
to enjOY his Monte Cristo wealth. Here
he was respected and beloved. He was
looked up to as a sage in counsel and a
wizard in finance'; and he wall "Uncle" to
many. But, he was not contented, after
all, and was seized with a burning desire
to revisit the scenes of his childhood. HI>
longed to show his youthful associates
how a man can grow from a stripling, with
nothing but courage as an inheritance, into
a Rothschild by simply coming to America.
He also wanted to show the people of Ber­
lin his big gold,headed cane. So, a year
or two ago, he set out for Germany, where
his democratic manners and ideas shocked
the aristocracy and nobility, for he was
"hail fellow, well met," with a common
laborer, just as he was with the emperor.
But, the old country soon seemed to grow
narrow and cramped for him, and so, with
his good and excellent wife, he sailed for
Africa, where he soon became known as
the grand nabob, the prince of generOSity,
and an expert at camel riding.
Returning to Utah, Mr. Lammersdorf
has settled down to the actual enjoyment
of life. He has ~legant apartments in Salt
Lake City, where he receives his friends,
and applicants for charity. If he feels like
it he remains in bed until 10 a. m.; and,
when inclination draws him, he will spend
an hour or, so In the hotel lobbies talking
over old times with ancient and grizzled
prospectors; or, he will take lunch with the
governor or some bank president.
They says that a "woman is as old as
she looks; a man /1,3 old as he feels;" but
Charlie Lammersdorf, although his flowing
,hair is a white as the driven snow, is an in­
fant which we all hope to raise, for his
heart is as young and his eyes as bright as
on the day When he left his boyhood home
for the gold-bearing fields of America.
--,,-0---­
A. U, ManyX)n, of Denver, owner of gil­
sonite property in the vicinity of Price,
Utah, announces that the shaft has reached j
I
a depth of 300 Jeet, and that the company
expects to increase the daily shipments
above the present ten tons. The vein i'3'
thirty-eight inches wide at the lO~-foot level
and widening with depth George Stewart
is manager of the property.

THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R 3.0, 1912.
PO~DE~~ESOURCES ·.1
[I WATER
74
It is the intent of this paper to lIst in
a quantitive way, the power capacity of de­
veloped plants and to estimate the addi­
tional water-power available for future de­
velopment within the territory tributary to
Salt Lake. While the physical limit to
long distance electric transmission can not
yet be definitely set, pending further sci­
entifiC knowledge of corona, line disturb­
ances and other similar phenomena, it is
highly improbable that the future will bring
forth any new methods or materials which
will greatly change the cost of those items
affecting the transmission of power, so that
for local conditions the limiting radius may
be chosen purely as a commercial problem,
and while it is not subject to exact solution,
it is probable that one hundred and fifty
miles is not far from the maximum dis­
tance that power can be profitably tr.ans­
mitted for rates at which it Is now being
sold .in Salt Lake district. Even within
this one hundred and fifty mile radius, mar·
kets will develop in the vidnity of certain
plants to absorb power at higher rates than
the Salt Lake rates less the cost of trans­
mission, so that not all the power within
even this radius is trictly "tributary" to
this market.
'l'he developed water power plants, as
far as known to the writer,are listed here­
with, excluding some few municipal systems
of insignificant capacities, the capacities
given being the normal manufacturer's rat­
ing in kilowatts.
Plant. Head_ K.W.
Ogden River.
"Pioneer plant" of Utah Light
& Railway company ..... 485 ft. 6,000
Weber River.
"Oakley plant" of Knight
Power company ~ ~ ....... 390 ft- 3,500
"Devil's Gate plant" of Utah
Light & Railway company 180 ft. 2,500
Davis & Weber Counties Ca­
nal company power plant. 204 ft. 3,25()
Provo River.
"Murdoch plant" of Knight
Power company ......... 196 ft. 2,500
*Municipal plant, city of He­
ber . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ** 90 ft. *600
"Olmstead plant" of Telluride
Power company ......... 339 ft. 7,200
Logan River.
"City of Logan Municipal plant *500
"Logan plant" of Telluride
Power company ...'. . . . .. 214 ft. 2,000
*Plant of Agricultural College
of Utah ................. 30 ft. *400
*With General Electric Company.
'Paper read at the November meeting of
the Utah Society of Engineers, Salt Lake
City.
Bear River.
"Grace plant" of Telluride
Power cfrmpany ......... 484 ft. 11,000
"Wheelon plant" of Utah-Ida­
ho Sugar company ...... 121 ft. 7,800
Battle Creek.
"Battle Creek plant" of Tellu­
ride Power company .... 1,750 ft. 2,400
Blacksmith Fork of Bear River.
Browning & Eccles power
plant • . ................ 260 it. 2,500
"Narrows plant" of Telluride
Power company ..• _... . . 75 ft. 1,000
Box Elder.
"Municipal plant of Brigham
City . _ .................. 300 ft. *750
Mill Creek.
Knight Power company, "Mill
Creek No.2" ...........• 1,050 ft. 1,400
"Mill Creek No.1" ...... ·350 ft.
Big Cottonwood Creek.
"Stairs Station" of Utah
Light & RaHway company 360 ft. 1,800
"Granite Station" of Utah
Light & Railway company 450 ft. 1,750
American Forks.
"Alpine plant" of Knight
Power company ......... 1,900 ft. 1,750
"Utah Fork, No.2" of Knight
Power company 600 ft. 1,200
• ~ • ~ •• a
"Utah Fork No.1" of Knight
Power company ......... 300 ft.
Snake Creek.
Knight Power company.
"Snake Creek" ........... 700 ft. 1,200
Santaquin Creek.
Knight Power company, "San­
taquin Creek" ........... 650 ft. 1;000
Willard Creek.
""Willard plant" of Browning
& ECCles .......... , ..... 1,200 ft.
Baker Creek•.'
"Ogden-Portland Cement com­
pany .' .................. 1,200 ft. *175
High Creek.
*High Creek Light & Power
eompany . ..... .........
Farmington Creek.
*Davis County Light & Power
·company . .... . . . . . . . . .. 490 ft. *300
Little Cottonwood.
*·Columbus Cons. Mining com­
pany 185 ft. *600
Spanish Fork.
*United States Reclamation
Service . ................ 125 ft. *1,000
South Willow Creek.
"Clark Electric company ... 1,050 ft. *400
Ophir Creek.
*Clark Electric company ....
·Tooele Creek.
*Clark
--------------------------------------------------
Manti Creek.
*Gunnison Valley Pro company 280 ft.
Total ................. .
Plants marked with an asterisk are
vate or municipal, serving a local mat
hence should be excluded from this dis
sion. Howe.ver, as it is intended to COnS
the general local power market, and
strictly the city of Salt Lake, no differel
tion is made between power used her~
in Ogden, Provo, Bingham, etc. This Ie:
a rated capacity of 66,850 kilowatts; bu
the majority of these plants ·suffer fro
shortage Qf water for a greater or less
tion of each year, the continuous capa
is materially less ,than the above total. S
this reduction factor varies from mont:
month and from year to year,
the stream flow, i\nd since two water pc
plants in ,the same system but on diffe
water sheds may overcome each others'
ficlencles or an auxiliary steam plant
s·upply· the deficiency due to low water,
350
writer does not care to assume the res
sibility of stating a reduction factor
would be acceptable to the plant opera'
It Is believed however that, allowing for
deficiency factor and for average trans
sion losses, there is available or wi!:
available, when certain plants include(
the above list and now under construe
are complete and in operation, approxil1
ly 45,000 kilowatts for delivery at tribu
markets. While It is not within the pro v
, ~
of this paper to estimate the present
600
mands of the power market or its rate 0
crease, it is certain that this does not.
vide any considerable margin and thai
ture requirements necessitate rapid fu~
development. .
In a country comparatively unsettle
this ,is, and with meagre water records
survey data, it Is hardly possible to lis:
actly aU of the potential power sites c
"S50
estimate closely their power capaciUe
ecomonical development. Capacities b
on avera.ge stream flow, or even on'
usual minimum flow, are so much in ex
of the power available with extreme
that the streams not yet developed are
"550 eraUy discussed on the basis of storing:
waters to regulate minimum stream flov
As a' general proposition. storage of .
water for the purpose of power gener!
is not commerciaUy feasible. For
high heads, where a small improvemer
regulated flow increases materially the
tlnuous output of the .plant, it may n6
prohibitive in cost, but a.s J:ligh heads
be eollected only in the upper water Sj
the topography generally prevents .~
reservoirs.
In some caSflS' storage of flOOd'
*300 primarily for Irrigation, may
stream regulation' for., ''POwer
*250 . between such reservoirs
'diversion of '·lrI-ig'~l"'"
 THE SAL T LA K E ,M I N I N G REV lEW, NOV E M B E R 30, 1 9 1 2.

;Hlioll projpct:--l un­

The Green below ,the town of Green June ........ . .................. 5,913,882

it ,sc'1.'iioll J.,rnnllK"
River, Utah, the Grand and Colorado, also Total ... .. . .......... ,18,092,439

":;;Ul)l1: 1,\1' !h!~ I;;

the Sevier are beyond the range of econO­ Pounds .
. {Jd OJ:': 1 lJal may
mical transmission. Straw,berry river, Rock July ............................ 6,246.859
OtCUI III t"lRh; ;)0
creek, Willow creek in UIJ!!,ah county and Auguc;t .......................... 6,551,030
tllltnnHl stre,-llll 110\\", the White will be stol:'e{i'or diverted for ir­
September ..................... 5,607,578
rigation and consequently olIer no consider­
able power ,possibilities. The Uintah, the Total ....................,.. 18,405,467
" ::lrl'~lti! lor pOWer Ui.." Price and a number of other smaller streams "The lower ,production for the month of
\.\' i: lJ
! ; ..:~, ~-: j)O\"-\~ 1 have sutfident fall and tlow to develop a September compared with the previous
~ alld ji(j\\-Vr lllarkt'~s few hundred horsepower, enough to furnish months of this quarter was due in part to
~ Oil \.lu;, ba:;i;:; tila: til\.: utilities to towns in the vicinity; but not of the treating of considerable ore from the
l\'~' bl'fiH jnv(-:::tigUI1?d, Intere"t In the present discussion. Liberty Pit, which owing to its hardness re­
.!l\.E- (1~ a fP$t;'rvoir til€, duced the tonnage per mlll section, and fur­
The following list summarizes the addi­
(',ljJ hi" ('qUitlizpd for
tional development mentioned above. ther to the unsettled condition of labor
S. ;11 O),!Jv\~ and OlH:;ida in the latter part of September previous
Stream. Add. Power

L. 1'- ;; 111 iJl:;\j' l'}\'\'j

'Bear river .................. 45,000
to the strike referred to more fully herein.
\ ;, .. ­
Blacksmith·s Fork of Bear .... 2,000
There was milled during the quarter 797,.
·dfl!{,U r(' head at (; race, 794 tons of Nevada CO!li3OUdated ore, aver­
East Fork ot Bear .......... 1,000

)In:HL! ;-":,trJ'0\\;: awl 11:,

Green river .. _.............. 27,500
aging 1.74 per cent copper, of whlcb 737,­
E"plon g-i\ing- Ij>~,:...:(q) k!lo­
Snake river ................. 11,250
065 tons were from the pits and 60,729 tons
·('ft,;,· of 4:, finn kilowartc:
Duchesne . .................. 5,000
from the Vewan mine.
j' ruT nlg~ f!l)W t:lstHlkd on
Ashley creek ................ 5,000
nTh;,> net credit to undivided protlts
Weber ...................... 5.000
amounted to $798,135, after payment of the
Idj'Hl .,;,Ujl UUHl
Rock creek ................. 1,250
twelfth quarterly< dividend and the charg.
Uli!ll1;": tiJ .J!'l.!:";elt, t"l;,th, be­
San Rafael ................. 1,000
ing alI of $134,901 for ore extinguishment
oJ) t;3 tl,,<~ fN-\ Pl-'l mil,€' \vith·
Portneuf . . ................. 1,000
and the further sum of $133,295 paid Step..
A llnmhel- Of Bllnl.U plants
Box Elder .................. 750
toe for depreciation.
.I, IWl :l1-21'e arc 110 opporllln­
Total ................... 105,750 "Actual stripping amounted to $281,081,
l<l)-_~(' ]:!alll~ HO\\ llalltnll
Allowing for transmission losses thIs will of which $115,618 was charged to operat·
Jor S\('Ulll rf;gulatioll.
give about 90,000 kilowatts noW In operation Ing costs, balance deferred.
liJ,iJi)u k'lo\\""ltts ('all be
or under construction, but It must be re­ "There has been a material incre!\!3e of
;U W1:!t>H J'(:'-nst>lI aud Grl'ell
membered that outside of the Bear riv· ,r cash on .hand due to the profit from market­
~ ..·JHI kilowatts ('lUI })1; U('vp).
and .the American Falls site of the Snake Ing not only ae much copper as was pr()­
1 LO(JlI C. V 8. tiuw anti ntH­
river, that these are unproved plants and duced during the quarter, but also to a re­
of ~hf' ISl:!G ft'et f':xisting: droll.
that thorough Investigation might show duction of $140,000 In amount of copper In
Jfag 41!; ft.'I..': fall. some lllay
many of these sites Incapable of commercial transit, and to. the taking over of cash from
n'ry low lH'iul plant9, lHll the
development under present conditions. the su,bsldary companies, the Steptoe VaHey
f. of :l7.;;00 ktlowa tIs is be-
----0­
SUlielting and Mining company and Nevada
liberally all power whiel! can
ly (lt~vf:>loped at pl'es('ut, THE N.EVADA CONSOLIDATED. Nprthern Railway company, as shown un­
'11 Ampri(",Jll Fall.';, ow"
der increased liabilltiea. If this general fi­
It'bil!,llJn lOr irrigl.l!iull l'igilL., The r<lport of the Nevada ConsoUdated nancial condition prevails a.t the next dlvi·
S :1. CtJll>is:'put willimnol flOW Mining company of Ely, Nevada, for the dend declaration date, an extra dividend will
S wUh ;lll ('ffl'C1.iI'{' b:'ad of quarter ending September 30, 1912, has just be declared of as much cash as Is not needed
t .so Ihin 11,2;,\) ldjow;!tts nd­ been made public. We publish the ea.me for the proper conduct of the business.
t~ <h:\"plopt:'d at that pojnt. below practically in fuU. "Shortly after the close of the quarter
sne has ]lrE'Sf'nt flower IJORsi· Earnings from mine, Investments and referred to herein, a strike among our
o kj]owan~. but lrrigation re­ miscellaneous, $1,816,116. emplo~es was ordered by the oftlcers of the
ly he eXl-->€tlf:O to H:UUCe this Dividend No. 12, $749,784. Western Federation of Miners, but only a
y. Net surplus for quarter, $1,066.332. portion of the m<m went out. This strike
S'k ;:d~o offer:: po.qf'-.ii)ilities o( Lees depreciation for Steptoe putont, was not based upon the question of wage
lJ to :dH};) kilowatts.
$133,295. or scale of hours ot labor, but purely on a
l'in'l', \vhile all':cady dm'eloped
Le"3 ore extinguishment (original cost of recognition of the Western Federation of
waf 1'.5, {)ft'er~ addiriollal POW€l' ore In ground), $134,901-$268,197. Miners. This company has not objected to
to th(o !;l{'t lhal i1'l'iJ!ation re­ Net credit to undivided protlts, $798,135. its emploYees being members of unloll3, but
in alrnosf cl?l'taiuly regulate President S. W. Eccles sayos: its directors do Insist the management shall
rltis is cstinltH{'U at ;;,000 kilo­ "The production of copper amounted to not be hampered In Its operations by the
y lJe !!;r€ a ter depf'lIding Ullon 18,405,467 pounds, which compares with the interference of men not In the employ of
~!-iS of storage and stream de- preceding quarters as shown below: this com'pany. Operations at the mIne!!
Pounds. ceased on October 2, but were reaumed on
Fork of the Bear rive)' can January ...... . .. , .............. 6,309,228 October 24, and at· the date of this report
for ali additional 2.000 kilo­ February ........ . ...........'.. 4,888,790 we are running 50 per cent capacity> and
'eek fOI' 1.250 kilowatts, East. March ............ . ............ 6.380,432 expect to reach normal tonnage shortly.
,ear 1,i)O(1 kiJO\vutts, Ponin€ u f. "Deep drilling to determine the possible
o\Yatts, and Box Elder creek Total ........... " ........... 17,578,450
eDstence of additional ore at the Eureka
The upper triblltari€ s of the Pounds Pit was begun In September, 'but the strike
,n develop ahout 1,(100 kilo· April .... . ...........'........... 6,115.095 forced a suspension of this work. It will
May ............................ 6,063,462 ·be resumed again as \SOon as possible.
• 2L 12
THE SAL T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW" N.O V E MB E R 3 0, 1 9 1 ,2.
II
UT AH SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS
At the meeting of the Utah Society of
Engineers held in Salt Lake, November
15th, the evening was devoted to a con­
sideration of electrical subjects, which have
so close a connection with the mining In­
dustry that a resume of the papers should
be of interest to mining men. The fIrst
paper presented on "Hydro-Electric Power
Resources Tributary to Salt Lake City,"
by H. D. RandalI of the General Electric
company, we pub:lsh in fulJ elsewhere In
this issue. The list of power plants in
the Salt Lake district and possible future
sources of hydro-electric power are thor­
oughly and competently discussed in this
paper.
In his paper on "Factors Determining
Cost of Hydro·Electric Power Service,"
Markham Cheever of the Telluride Power
company divided the cost of producing,
transmitting and dt3tributlng electric power
into two Important, distinct and component
parts.-fIxed .expense, composed of Interest
and depreciation charges, and variab e ex­
pense consisting of operating and malnte·
nance charges. Six factors determine the
cost. They are, fIrst, the character of de­
velopment; second, distance of transmis­
S1011; third, extent of distribution; fourth,
load factor; fIfth, ratio between power dis·
posed of and developed capacity, and sixth,
service requirements.
The fIrst factor depends on physical con­
ditions. If the best pos3ible equipment 1'1
used, interest Is high, maintenance and
depreciation low. If the Initial cost is kept
low, the interest charges will be low but
maintenance and depreciation high. The
grade of the stream deve:oped is a large
sub·factor.
The expen:3e of transmission is in excess
of fifty per cent of that for development.
As the distance of transmission increases,
the cost increases out of all proportion on
account of the additional los3es, or the
higher cost of transmission if a higher volt­
age is used to keep down transmission
los3es.
If there are many large consumers, the
cost of distribution Is low, if the reverse, it
is high, especially where there are a num­
ber of small consumers taking power at a
l{)w voltage.
The load factor i-> the ratio of the aver­
age load to the peak load, which is defIned
as the peak which requires equipment cap­
able of carryIng it. If the factor is 100 per
cent, the average load is the same as the
peak load, an Ideal condition. The.kllowatt·
h{)ur Is the usual means of measurIng the
The the loa.d factor,
it £
whole load for short periods, operatln'g forS
and details of equipment
L. J .. Riter of the same company pr,
II sented a paper entitled, "An Example c
Modern Tran3mission Practice." In this h
The necessity of anticipating the demand described the transmiS'lion line of the con
for service means that development ls al­ pany between Ogden and Salt Lake, detail
ways in excess of the amount of power that of towers and arrangement of conductor
can be delivered. The 8A!tual load is rarely being given. as weI! as the methods of ere,
greater than fIfty per cent of the Ca.paClty, tion used on dltrerent part. of the lme. Th
so that unit cost3 therefore go up. speaker favored all steel towers spaced 8\
If the service requirements are rigid, to twelve to the mile, and ranging fror
it means more investment in duplication to forty to eighty feet in height, with standaf(
give the same production, this duplication ization of equipment to promote fIexlbilii
being in the nature of insurance. in erecting and in distributing the dlJlerel:
Leonard Wilson, consulting engineer, members of the towers to the erectors. Th
read a paper on "Continuity of Hydro-Elec. rowers were made in i3ections. so that an
tric Power Service," and classified the Ser· section at a given distance from the top (
vl-ce requirements into four classes. the tower was replacable by the correspon<
Special service Is required by municipal ing section of any other tower. There ar
lighting and special industries, and in this then no variety Of parts to care for, an
class of service not m(}re than one Inter­ sections can be superimposed for the higl
ruption in two months is permissible and e3t towers. All steel shOUld be galvanize
that should not exceed fIve minutes after it has been machined, and all rlve1
First class service B necessary for rall­ Sherardized. .,
ways and large mines and mUls, where In­ Copoper conductors Were used In this coi
terruptions should not be more frequent atructlon, with the suspension type of il
than two in three months, and should not Bulators, which have the adva.ntage that fu
exceed five minutes at any one interrup­ ther units can be added if the voltage
tion. Increased. A -ground wIre Is carried ove
Small milb and mInes require {)nly what head and a telephone'line twelve feet belo'
may be called second class service, In which the oonductors, which are in duplicate cl
interruptions should not exceed two in one cuit.
month, and fIfty per cent of these should R K. Brown, of the Salt Lake rout
not be greater than thirty minutes each. president of the SOCiety, exhibited a dl
In the third class, are placed remote gram showing the large Increase in met;
mine. and mills, on long distributin'g lines bership during the current year, and tl
carrying a low voltage, where interruptions still larger Increase is attendance at mee
shou'd be kept down to four in one month, Ings. The curve3 representing the two i
twenty-fIve per cent of which should not Cre&!!eS threaten to intersect and the latt,
exceed six hours. curve Is approaching a vertical line, sho'
Interruptions are due to the Immediate Ing that the increase In attendance "'I
distribution or transmission line being in soon be infInite. There were ninety mer
trouble, when total IOS3 of service results bers and Visitors present at thi-3 meeting.
to the individual consumer. Pia.ns were announced for the next meE
Troubles connected with remote trans­ ing on December 20th, which will be devot.
mission, generating machinery, waterways to mining. Papers will be presented I
and water supplies decrease the total power George Blood of Park City, J. FeW'SOn Smi'
available. Of these, interruption3 due ro of the United States Smelting, RefIning
transmission troubles can be practicalIy Mining company, George W. Riter, a1
eliminated by good construction and dupli­ others, in which the principal llIlinlng dl
cation. Troub!es affecting generating mao triets of the tState will be described.
chinery are of no account as there is alwayS The entertainment committee will E
a large reserve of generating capacity which range for a dinner at seven o'clock at tl
can be thrown in. Waterway" must be very Commercial club on the evening of the me.
well constructed to avoid Interruptions from lng, to which members may bring friends.
troubles there. In the case of fallure of The society is in a most fiouri-shing co
water supply, a steam reserve plant is the dition, for which the present officers mn
only remedy. be congratulated. Interest in the meetin;
A pa.per by C. A. Cohn of the Utah Light is intense and discuesioI). free.
& Railway company, on "An Example of a ---0---­
Modern Steam Relay Station," was devoted The South Nevada Geld Mining
to a description of the Jordan river steam P. Watelet, manager, is pushing de'velopm4
plant of the Utah Light and Rallwa,y com­ iI). its mines a.t La..;! 'Vegas, .
pany, and d~3cussed. the efficiency of the tory to putting In a mill.
station in picking up the load when has been In process 'He U'"'WU"

 ilJLE JELL. £
THE SAL T LA K E MIN IN G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R 30, 1912.
ACTIVITY AT LYNN, Soldier Summit is seven miles long and
the grade four per cent, or 211 feet to the
O;str1ct is Showing Promise of De­ miles, The new line, bet'l'l'egn the same
:'1to Large Pt'Qducer. points will be fifteen miles long with grade
reduced to two per cent, or 105% feet to
I:f ('nrlin ~t}~ the mile. The reduction In the grade and
\\llil-il curvature w)1l more than oftset the in·
f\. tt (-nl iOll of creased mileage.
~'eal'S ~\g-o the 0l'l:_dnnl dis­ The cost of this work will be approxi­
mately three millions of dollars. being the
"\1~d nil' 1H'PSPllt
"'('(>n gr-eat dpve]0prnPIHS. Geol'gt~ most important improvement yet authorized
of Salt LakE' >..yas rer'l'ntiy at by the Denver & Rio Grande under the new
manage'ment.
:-tis pal'j~H?r, John
This large expenditure has been author­
ized by the Board of Directors because of
the rapidly increasing traffic incident to the
opening of the Western Pacific railway, as
well as to take care of the enormous ()oal
and coke output going from the Utah mines
to the Salt Lake, Nevada and Montana smel­
teries and reduction plants.
lw~ also ill'(:l\ lil;3t;LII t'l<v'd J"
On the 18th, Vice-President Brown an·
:lil:i s,-~Y('-nd HH'n hayf' 1 iPcn WUl'k:;1g nounced that the first steps in electrifying
\\ ~i :ch Y~E!hlf:d from $2/1\1(1 10 $:lJH)U the system are to be taken at once. The
quartz t:la~ms p(1nnings first unit to be electrified will be from
,l1nounts of free gold. Helper, Utah, to Salt Lake City, 114 miles.
<l1"L' located in t!1P Cortez The second unit will be over Tennessee
<111 ple';aUull of 1"tJHO The Pass, the great continental divide in Colo·
-jlj ,'1. f.:i1!dOllS POl'ph~TY, Rnd qnartz. rado, and will involve the electrification of
YOl'k interests taxe o1Jtioned SOlne the line from Salida to Minturn, Colorado,
and Stln F'l'ancisco l>f:oph~ a distance of 87 miles.
Tono];nh ('l1.,l);tal The Utah work will be commenced early
in 1913. and it is hoped that it will be com·
(Ie exc€ l Ient pleted by the time the new two per cent
frorn Carlin detour Jine over Soldier Summit is finished,
in July of that year.
Sh: group of e1nlms on '\y}yich The Utah Utilities company is to furnish
!H''2.t sho\\"ings has hE'C'J) rnade UH~ the power for the Utah lines, and the Cen·
;' n iU(-()l'l}Ql'atio;l 2'IJIt Lake tral Colorado Power company will probably
Tl!(' ("otJl]lallY \\'ill bp Kllown as the furnish the electricity for the Colorado
Gold :JJil~in~ & \lining ('on;~ lines.
(d~il_'f'S' in thc' f'o:ltij)el:iai '88J)k The improvements to ·be undertaken by
T,:" oft:cel's are the Denver & Rio Grande, the Central Col­
jll'esidolt: A. noyaL yir;e­ orado Power, and the Utah Utilities com­
.TOS(?r:~j Hillstead, trE>as:n'P1': and pany will aggregate between twenty and
L:: usworth and C, p. nOllil~S addi­ twenty-five million dollars, most of which
C. )r('~'(;,ill
is g'(-:'lleral
J), will be expended during 1913 and 1914,
hnnrdin~
house. Other units in addition to the two men·
and blacKsmith slio:) are be­ tioned will be added from time to time, and
\T,:hile the muin Bhart is being eventually the entire system will be oper­
[It the I'at~ o[ fin: feeL a ated by electricity generated by the great
is no\\' talking Of oe,·olo))­ power in the torrents now coursing down
0 ill)-foat len.:l. 0n?(,tiue!; 200· the mountain sides and which is only wait­
ing to be harnessed,
he' Ldld:ng, and oille]' vlnns of likE' sC'ope. On the 19th, Vice,President Brown
----0--­ awarded to the Utah Construction company,
ELECTRIFICATION OF THE RIO GRANDE of Ogden, Utah, contract in the sum of $1,.
500,000 for the grading of the new double­
A'~nOll11Cell1ents ha\'e been made in the track detour line over Soldier Summlt, Con­
forL1l1ght that are of the gfeatest inl­ struction will commence at once. and con­
,01'1.an1'c in the development ofCtah and tract calls for completion August 1st, 1913.
neip.hboring stat€ ' s. On };o\"elnber 13th, The work will be very heavy and will in­
Bush and Vice-PrE'sident Brown,
·']'(~sicl"llt clude one tunnel 255 feet long. There will
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, au­ be no bridges, but numerous concrete
horized the immediate construction of the arches. The new line will be laid ·with 90·lb.
louble·track detour line o,er Soldier Sum­ steel rails, rolled at the plant of the Colo·
nit, where the railroad crosses the \Vasatch rado Fuel & Iron company, Pueblo, Colo·
nountains in Utah, rado. The track will be ballasted with Jor·
The present line between Tucker and dan Na.rrows grave!.
24
CANANEA CONSOLIDATED.
The following is extracted from the re­
port of general manager Ricketts of the
Cananea Consolidated Copper company:
The cost of mining for the CamLnea Con­
solidated Copper company in 1911 was $2.46
per ton, as against $2.75. $2.22, $2.13 and
$3.28 for the four previous periods, Con­
sidering the fact that the amount of first·
class smelting ore which requires a certain
amount of selection and hand sorting, has
largely increased, I consider this cost 11;3
most satisfactory. The tonnage produced
and the segregated costs for mining at the
various mines are shown in the foregoing
table.
The amount of development work driven
totaled 51;784 feet, of which 606 feet was
,ahaft and 9,811 feet was raises and wlnzes.
The average cost per foot for the completed
work was about $8.
The wooden jigs of Mill No, 2, which
have been in ·service for about eight years,
have rotted out, owing to the acid char­
ac:er of tbe water. During the year almost
all of these jigs have been replaced by re·
inforced concrete jigs, the cost of which
has been charged to operating expenses.
Other work has been done in the way of
lluttlng in drag cla.:>sifiers to separate coarse
sand from slime and very fine sand with·
out the use of water_ Many small improve­
ments have been made, but none or great
magnitude,
During the year 528.412 wet tons of ore
was milled, Of this, 415,199 wet tons was
produced from the company's mines, and
113,213 wet tons wal produced from the Can·
anea Duluth mine. The former had a con·
centration ratio of 2.40 into I, and the lat·
ter a ()oncentration ratio of 5,17 into 1. The
operating and repair coat was $0,076 per wet
ton, giving a total cost for the year of
$0.722. The average saving of the copper
in the ore in concentrate was 77.69 per
cent.
The new impounding dam for taillng is
serving most satisfactorily, and every pound
of tailings, whether slime or sand, b .belng
saved, and there can be no question but that
the reclamation of clear wa!·er from the
tailing pond is of more value than the cost
of Impounding the tailings, The concen·
trators are in most excellent condition, and
in fully as good a state of repair as they
have ever been in their his:ory.
The copper CO'3ts' for the past year were
as follows:
Per pound
of eopper
Gross eosts, f. o. b. Cananea .. , .. ,. $0.09568
Freight to New York. refining mar·
keting, etc. ..'" .... ,., .. _. . . . .. 0.01343

THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R
Credit:
Value of precious metals .. $0:01339
Miscellaneous revenues ... 0.00~84
Total credits .................. 0.01823
Jetrrey Manufacturing Co. •••...........
Total cost, fine copper sold ........ $0.09088
Jones & Jacobs. Mill Builders ..........
Construction, .................... 0.00755
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.......
$0.09843
The total cost of mining and treating a
ton of ore, including every cost until the
refined copper has been sold, has been as
follows:
Tons
Per ton. treated.
Fiscal year 1905·1906 .... $10.210 947,977
August 1, 1906, to
October 31, 1907....... 7.625 1,305.291
A. F. Bardwell ••••........••.•.•••••.•.
July 11 to ~c 31, 1909... 5.976 295,554
Bird-Cowan .••........•...••.•.••.•..••
835,929
Crismon & Nlchob .........••...•...•.•
Fiscal year 1909 ........ 4.459
Fiscal year 1910 ........ 5.765 792,856
Otrlcer & Co., R. R. ...•.•.•...•.•..•...•
Fiscal year 1911 ......... 5.257 741,873
These costs are exactly comparable, and
for the year 1911 the figure of $5.257 in·
eludes an item of $0.377 to cover coootruc·
tion as well as every item of repairs and reo
placements, which were quite extensive. The
actual yield per ton of ore treated was
50.01 lb' as against 46.68 lb. and 44.12 lb.
for the two preceding years. It is prObable
that' during the coming year the yield will
not be SO high, for the reason that certain
bodies of very lean concentrating ore have
been found that can be mined very cheaply,
and with the high price of copper It will
be profitable to mine this ore at the ex·
pense of a drop in the yield per ton, but
the cost per ton for mining and beneficia.~·
ing should also drop. The total amount of
money spent for betterments and improve­
ments and extraordinary repairs was $435,­
000, of which, in round numbers, $280,000
was charged to construction and the bal­
ance against operating C03tS. Aside from
the improvements to the powerhouse and
the converter department, the construction
to be done during the coming year is not so
heavy.
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MOTOR HAULAGE FOR MINES,
The Intermountain Transportation com­
pan has presented to the Chamber of Com­
merce of Salt Lake a memorial setting
forth certain facts which we reproduce
herewith. The officers of the company are
F. V. Bodfish president; Goo. E. Hemphill,
vice-president and general manager; Thos.
H. Lawrence, secretary and treasurer; di·
rectors, Henry I. Cobbs and Daniel Alex­
ander, gellera!counsel.
,Parts of the memorial follow :
The primary object of the Inter-Moun­
tain Transportation company, whiCh was
chartered under the laws of the state Of
Utah on Ootol)er 1,7th,1912, is
2 2
INDEX "'ro ADVERTISERS
IIIlal... lII.chlae..,. ..ad. SOJIIJIIUU.
Page.
Denver Fire Clay Co... _....... _... 4 and
Fairbanks. Morse & Co. ................
6 Eurch, Caetanl & Hershey ............ .
4 Brown, G. Chester ...... '.............. .
Lane Mill & Machinery Co. ••..•........
8 37
Revere Rubber Co. ....................
Richmond. F. C., Ma.chinery CO. . ... _ . . .
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co.....
Salt Lake Hardware Co.................
Sliver Bros. Iron Works ... ............
Utah Fire Clay Co. . ................. _.
Utah Fuel Co......... _•........... _ . . . .
Ways' Pocket Smelter ......•..........
Z. C. M. 1. .............................
Bankl... Do..a"•.
McCornlck & Co. ......................
Merchants' Bank ............ . ... 1 and
Salt Lake Security Co. ...............•
Utah State National Bank ............
'Walker Bros....•......... _....... 8 and
Aua.,,,ra and. lIIetallors-llrf..
S9
39 Widdicombe & Palmer .•....••...•.... 87
39 Zalinskl, Edward R. • •..•.•. _.....•...• 11
Currie, J. W. •...•......•.........•.•..
39 IUKellaneoua.
Union Assay Office ••.•.•.••.••••...•.•
Railroad..
Bingham & Garfield Ry. ••.........•....
Oregon Short Line ••••................
Salt Lake Route •••••.•.•...•.........
Rio Grande Western ..................
IIIlal... Attorn".,•.
Booth, Lee, Badger & Lewlshon........
Bradley, Pischel & Harkness............
Callahan, D. A., Mining Law Books....
Davis & Davis.........................
Higgins, Eo V. •• . • • • . • • • . . • . . . • • . . . • . .
Hutchinson, W. R. .....................
Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette ••....•....
Mla"a.d. Stoell: Dealer.
Orem & Co............................
The company will also engage in city deliv­
ery of all kinds, including the hauling of
coal and merchandise, and, too, will carry
lla~sengers on stage lines.
'With the launching of this new transpor­
tation industry a great deal of actual bene·
fit will be done, it is thought, to the mining
industry in Utah and Nevada and other
.states, in that it will make possible the
operation of mines now idle, it will make
possible moving of vast tonnages now on
dumps, or blocked out or broken down in
mines,but today without chance of ,being
marketed at a ·profit. The new enterprise,
it is believed, will also inject new life into
bodies and ore dumps of old mines.
The Inter-Mountain Transportation com·
pany is organized with a capital of $300,­
000.00, divided into 60,000 shares of the par
value of $5.00 each. Of that amount there
has been already SUbscribed $108,000, which
represented to the c~pany the following
assets: Three Atterbury motor trucks
(two of five-ton capadty and one of three·
ton capacity an done three-ton trailer), ()f
a cash value of approximately $16,000.00; a
general factory distributers' contract with
the Atterbury Motor Car company of Buf.
falo, New York, for the states of Utah. Ne­
vada, Arizona and Idaho, valued at $75,000;
two contracts for the tran.sportatlon of ore
tonnage with mining companieS in Pioche,
a0, 1912. 21
CI"n and. IIIlnlac Enclneer&.
Page
39 Adamson, W. G. • ..................... . S7
7 Arnold, Fisher & Calvert •.......... : .. 37
37
38
4 Burke. James J. • •••...................• 37
43 g~:y~~r'w:'J.E:.:::::::::.:::::::::::::: : 37
2 Dunyon, N. A. . ........... _............ . 37
39 Fiske, Winthrop W. . .................. . 37
H Galigher, T. W. . ..•.................... 37
3 General Engineering Co. " •....•....• 37
41 Howell & Kingsbury ................. . 37
36 Ireland, T. W. • ........• _............. . 38
6 Jennmgs., Eo ,Po ....................... . 87
7 Lee, Murray ..••.......... . .........•. 37
Pack, Mosher F ••........••.•.....••...• 37
Peet, C. A. . ..................... ~ .... . 37
38 Pulsifer, H. B. . ..................... . 37
38 Salford, J. L. ••.......... _..•.......... 87
38 Sherrill, S. C. . ........................ . 38
38 Silver Bros. Engineers & Contractors .. . 37
36 Troxell, L. E. . ..•...................... 37
Utah State School of Mines ••...•.•.... 37
VllIadsen Bros. . ...................... . 37
Walker, H. C. . ..•...................... 37
39
It Beer, Sondheimer & Co., Zinc Ores...... 5
Bradford, A. •........•................. 38
36 Century Printing Co. .................. 6
S9 De Bouzek EngraVIng Co ............ _ . 41
to Gardner & Adams ................. ,... 4.2
U International Smelting & Refining Co... 44
Hotel Stanford ........................ 38
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. .•...... 41
38 Nepnl .Plaster Co. •••................... 31
38 New Era Motor Co. .................... ~
38 Official Directory of Mines ...•........ 4(
38 Railroad Time Tables •..•.............. 3E
31 Roberts,J. C., Dealer in Rare Metals ....
38 Salt Lake Stamp Co. .•......•.......... 31
Shlplers, Commercial Photographers .... 3~
38 Stelren, H. We, Buyer of O.d Dumps.... i
Utah Ore Sampling Co. .•.............. I
U W bltaker, Geo. A.. Cigars •............. 31
York, wiUpalce the company on a basis 0
15 per cent net earning on Its entire capit
alizatlon.
The operations of t-he company will n£
cessitate the construction or instaUaUon 0
a large central machine and repair shop Il
Salt Lake City.
T·he mining districts In w~ich the COlI
pany proposes to operate trucks as quick!
as equipment can be ,bought are as follows
Deep Creek, Fish Springs, Park City, an
St. George, Utah; Pioche, Nevada, from Fa
Ion to Fairview and Wonder, Nevada, bot
,passengers and freight; Luning, Nevada
Groom, Nevada.; Superior, Montana; Twl
Falls, Idaho, to Jarbidge, Salt Lake t
-Brighton, passengers, ·freighting for COl
and mercantile comllanies In Salt La!!
City proper, and others which ,have bee
investigated thoroughly for contracts, bl
in which no contracts 'have as yet bee
.sought,
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The Knight Inve3tment com,pany (
Provo, Utah, has recentlY' taken ·over co;
trol of the Middle Swansea mine in U
Tintic district. from Ricqard B. Shepa1
and associates. Development work will 1
undertaken I1t once, as, the property Is i
garded as a good p~ospect. .. .' ~
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A .sixth cave has been e.ncountexed
the mine of the. HQme
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV EM BE R 30, 1912.
ing ores of all kinds, containing less than
ten per cent zinc, free; between ten and
twenty per cent zinc. one·fourth oont per
pound or zinc; between. tweifty and twenty­
five per cent. one·half cent per pound; over
twenty·five per cent, one cent; zinc dust,
one and three-eighths cents; in sheets, one
Sen::-:'fof::thly by Will C, HIggins and
A. B. Greeson. and five·eighths cents; In coated or plated
",heets, one and three·quarters cents; In
'! '=-.
sheets one and five·eights cents and scrap, and more so, than is the man who eventually
one cent per pound.
iLL {' J:Hcaa.:\~ •. . . . ~ . . . . . . . . . . . Editor
The Underwood bill provides a twenty­ coveries. And, but for him, many of the
O. Bon _'-ltD ...• . ....-\s,!'iOt-'iute Editur
l!, l.dU ,t.::"IO,', " . UUS.1U·SIll1 ~'lullnger five per ceIl!t ad valorem duty on lead
--------------------
~ub.l!l"·rtplHJIl. Huu"•.
. $2.50
of all kinds and admits zinc free.
As to price'S let Us take lead and zinc
1.50
... , .•. " ' ..... , '"" .. 15 as quoted in New York and London. At
PC'Si..al Union .. $iL75 prEl3ent the price of lead per pound is four
in AdvU.ll,,'e.
and one-half cents New York, four cents,
1~02, at oa.lt, Lake
matter. unJer Act London; of zinc, seven and forty-five hun·
dredths, New York, and five and eight­
j\dver"tlsrng Rates: Advertising rates fur- tenths, London, During 1910, and up to
U]) al)1J;icaUoIl.~~_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
July, 1911. the difference between the price
of lead in New York and London remained
at about two and seven-tenths cents, Since
:'-J
that date the gap ha'S grown smaller. In
January, 1912, it was but one cent and is
Au" t~"l"".ln~ Ag~nC'lc.~
IH'::':\l\rgn COloradu.-The NatIonal AdverUs­
now but one-half cent. Tht3 diminishing dif­
if c'o, W:.dlH:Y Building. ference is due to the rise in the London
N r,,:\V YUHK.-Fl'ank Presby Co.. General
dYcnh:itng Agents, 3-7 WesL 2'Jth Street. price; and we see no reason why the lat·
SUCTHKR.'1 CALU'ORN1A.-Hamman·s Ad­ ter price should fall -if the tariff is reduced.
eniswg ..\ geu\.!y. South Pasadena. Cala.
5AN F'RANCISCO.-W .W. Ross Co.• Pub­ On four cent lead in London, the duty by
~l,er.9' Sycclai Representative~ 1006 Call BuHd­
'/! Sa n Fl'anclSCO, Cala.
the Underwood bill would be one cent a
pound so that the price in the United States
would have to be higher than five cents to
allow of any importation.
'ARIFF REVISION AND LEAD AND ZINC W)e believe then that nothing Is to be
feared from lead from across the water, it
~t hC·l'e i:; con:dderalJle speculation as to the tariff 13 reduced.
lJe (·rlCe:t cf possiule revis!on of lead and As to Mexican lead, it must be
l:tri:T:; on t~1e mjl1in~ indnstry of the remembered that the supply is owned
The dd;llOc·aLit lJori!.:) is held uy by the American smelteries, and
to 19? flAtal to the miuing- industry, in 1911, the importation equalled
]i<ld and zin(: ai'£;' the mainsta~'R of' one-third of the produc:iOn of the
l~iyJH«l;Ol1. a~ in certain i~tah di.ntiets, United States which was about thirty·three
Colorado. and the Coenr d'Alenes 'per cent of the world's production. Mexican
lead must be at three ceIJ.ts to compete with
L('~ look into the qlH':ztion hy ('ollsid­ domestic lead and could compete at about
(he present t";·iff. The proposed tariff, three and six-tenths under the proposed
cxeml,l'fied in 'he l-ndprlYO'lU bU, llassed tariff. We believe therefore, that the bad
la~L session of cOllgress and ve:oed effect of tariff revision on the lead mining
Pn!~itlent Tall, and compare prices here industry is exaggerated largely for political
.11t1 abroad reasons.
The V1'(-:8ent dunp~ on lead are, by the As to zin<:, we know that the recent high
--'aync-Ajdrieh law, on€ and one~haif cents priCe'S are the result of restricted smeltery
.:'o\!Ilt}, 011 :eac1 b1 ores of al1 kinus; two capacity due t() the gradual failing of the
OJH···(-·ighth l'f2n ts llel' pound on ~ead in gas aupply, rather than to the protectiou
lead or \laoe bullion. pIgs and of the tariff. The reduction of one cent
o:a r€Cuse le~u run into blocks and per pound On highgrade ore would not af­
;ars and oid scrap fit only foJ' remanllfac· fect the situation any and the zinc induced
tUi'('; t\YO and thre0-elghths ·('ents on lead to come in should not be a very heavy com­
Il1 sheets. pipe. shot. glazier's lead and lead petitor with domestic production.
,\'ire: OIl€ and one-half cents on lead In On the other hand we fall to see the gain
.,vpe melal; two and five-ei~hths per pound to the consumer in cutting down the tariff.
))1 1'ed lead; two and one·half cents on lead since from our argument it will have little
in ]Jigm<mts three cents on white acetate affect on the price of the mtals, (we do
1ml two on other colors; two and one·quar· not mention any trust control), and will
tel' cents on nitrate of lead and two and on'y result In dimini'shed revenue without
3ne-half cents on litharge. adequate gain. We should ffl3t content,
Zinc is duitable a3 follows: Zinc bear­ therefore, with whatever stand Is taken.
THE PATHFINDER,
There can be no doubt but that the pros­
pector is the pathfinder in mining opera·
tions. He blazes the trail through f'egions
practically unknown He is the pioneer. the
vanguard of an army of mining men and
investol'S who follow in his lead; and in
hj.s line of work, he is Just as important,
takes advantage of, and profits bY' his dis­
great mining camps of today, many of our
great producers and dividend payers, would
never have been heard of.
As a general thing the prospector til in
a class by himself. It is not often that he
is a skilful miner; it is usually the case
that he ha..3 had but little schooling; his
knowledge of geology and mineralogy is nil;
surface indicatio1Ul appeal to him only and
his .ignorance of formation and the compo­
sition of ores oeen leads him into grevious
errors, Into mistakes which his victims
charge to a desire to deceive; and yet, every
little while, he will pry into the mysteries
of Nature and her hidden treasures,
and a's a result of his toli the world t3 given
another sources of great mineral wealth.
It is true that many people find fault
with the average prospector and condemn
his methods, and ~t he is the anchor to
which the mining dndustry L3 tied, He may
make mistakes and still his intentions are
good and honorable. His imagination may
be vivid, but his exaggerations are only
the echo of his hopes and the lack of a
real knowledge about mining affail'3. All
men are not fitted for the life of a prospec­
tor. His is the longing to be alone with
Nature. He enjoys the SOlitude, the sublim·
ity of the mountai~ fastnesses. For months
at a time with or without companion,
he lingers in the canyoIl!3 in almost inacces·
sible places. and ishapp)". Once let him
visit a city or bUstling mining camp he soon
tires and longs for the freedom of the moun·
tains. The pavements hurt his feet. The
routine of bUJ3iness is tiresome to him. His
friends and acquaintance.s are too bllSy to
keep him interested, and he soon trans­
plants his wearied self to localities more
congenial to his nature, there to climb the
rugged hiIlside3 in his search for the ledge
from which came the promising·looking floa.t
found a month or two before. He may not
shine In society, aud could not lead the
German in a social function; but, through
his efforts the money medium of the world
is constantly increasing; and, for all his
ra·g.s, and notwlth3tanding his peculiar make.
up, he is a pathfinder all the same, a.nd
just as important jn his sphere as the Na­
poleon of Flnanoo or a Captain of Indus­
try.
----(01---­
Over 5000 tons of ore have been 13hipped
to date from the mineso! the Commerctal
Miningconi'panY,'a:t &l1peI"Bjl.lltnl~iia.
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THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, NOVEMBER 30,1912.

RADIUM IS KING. source of <supply, the investor may rest con·

tent that no oompany which is making fran­
Our attention ha.3 been called to certain tic efforts to distribute its stock is in a posi­ The Prospector
flamboyant advertisements promising great tion to control the deposits, inasmuch as
wealth from investments in stock of a com­ there i-. a long belt in eastern Utah and
and His Burro
pany claiming to possess vast deposits of western Colorado, where discoveries as Im­
uranium, vanadium and radium ores. The portant as any Yet made are likely to be
display teems with such expressions a3 uncovered. Carnotite ores are found to
"big,' "gigantic," "immense bodies of ore," cover a long distance in apparentlY' great
"wonderful,' etc., which will not deceive the shOWings, but when investigated it will be
careful investor, but may those who desire found that it takes a tremendously large
to get rich quickly, for whom perhaps we acreage to control any very large amount of
IShould have little sympathy-. it, and a few claitn.3 will not do it, since so
Radium offers peculiar lure to the vic­ . much of the ground is unprOfitable.
tims of stock gambles So much about it is The market for uranium ores is In a
mystery, so much unknown, that the wildest somewhat chaotic state, and the .methods
statements are given credence. Wlthou' tak­ of analysis unsatisfactory, and it goes with­
ing up the many exaggerated and ofttimes out question that few fortunes will be made
untruthful 'statement3 in the offer in ques­ in radium, except pOs£ibly by quacks in (By Will C. Higgins.)
tion, we will point out a few of the pitfalls medicine or those who sell stock; but cer·
which beset the unfortunate investors in ra­ tain1y- those who invest In stock the sellers "The mountain peaks back of our cam
dium mines. of which announce that the price will be are already covered with a mantle of snow,
In the first place, radium, like gold, is doubled in ten daY'S are due to .be stung. It said the prospector to his burro. "and I ar
- not so unusually rare, and may be detected is such enterprises as these thllit have patting myself on the back because of lh
in many ores in this eountry, but geologi'3ts brought mining into great disrepute, and fact that I have been far-sighted enoug
have yet to find any immense bodies con­ caused it to be classed by many with sea­ to get in our winter's supplies early in til
taining it. Carnotite and pitch blende, the water mines, perpetual motion, sun-motors season. In the cave cellar back of our cal
main sources of radium, occur in this coun­ and the like. in I have several fine hams and a numb€
try as secondary products, or at any rate o of slabs of dry salt hanging up out of th
mostly as coatlngoll '3andstonegrains and BLUE MOUNTAIN MINING COMPANY. way of mice and rats. Ten sacks of ilo~
small agg'omerations of material, in small are stowed away in empty sugar barrel
pockets separated by- considerable intervals C. L Arzeno of Cincinnati. Ohio, is in and those gasolene cans contain sugar, co
of barren ground. This necessitate. much charge of the work at the properties of the fee, rice, prunes and other groceries; whil
dead and profitless work in exposing and ex­ Blue Mountain Mining company in Cable there are two cases of condensed milk, an
tracting the ore, and it is a foregone conclu­ COve, near Sumpter, Oregon, -and has put two big cans of syrup, I know how YO
sion that it absolutely cannot be mined at them on a solid basis. On the Christian complained when packing all of this stu
any such ridiculously low price as two dol­ claim a five-foot vein has been opened in up here, excepting when you happened _I
lar.• per ton. Possibly a sack might be mined th,e Grever tunnel. About 1,000 feet from be loaded with sacks -of barley, and seven
for that price. this another four-foot vein shows. Four bales of hay; but, when the snow is brea:
stopes have been opened in the Rawson deep clear down to the canyon, and you al
In considering speculation,. such as this,
tunnel No 3, of the Last Chance claim, all comfortably housed in the shack I ha,
investors should remember that published
of which have from eighteen inches to four built for you, and are getting your dar
assays amount to little, as in most casel!, by
feet of ore. The ore chutes in these stopes rations, with nothing to do but reflect upe
careful election of a handful of ore, any de­
have been filled. T·he mill is treating ore YOur past sins, you will be migb ty than­
sired analysis can be obtained, and the fact
from this section and producing WiJiley ful that I took the trouble to make prepar
that a reputable assayer's name is attached concentrates running $70 to $150 a ton and tions for the winter instead of putting c
to the certificate amounts .to nothing, exc<;lpt vanner concentrates $26 to $35 a ton. The the duty until it was too late; for it·
as it guarantees the contents of 11 sample tailings vary from $1.60 to $2.76 per ton. nothing short of hades to be snowed in wil
which was all used up in making the deter­
Settling tanks 'have been Installed to con­ nothing to eat in the larder, and with tl
mination. Any' quantity of rich ore does
serve the water and use it again in the fuel supply so low that you have to su
not neecssarily fOllow a high assay. mill. in bed to keep warm; just as so many II
To ",hip carload lots of four per cent ura­ The management estimates that there provident prospectors and miners have
nium ore would require very careful sorting is ore In sight suffiCient to keep the mill do almost every season, getting out in tl
and selection, which runs up the cost. The running about five years. N.ew openings are -spring as thin and'lean as a bear, and nut;
enterprise may still be successful, but like 'being made with the idea of getting enough in the upper stOry.
most other mining, it requires careful and ore for a 100-ton cyanide plant. A twenty­ "You want to know;' continued the pre
conscientou3 work, and is not the result of stamp mill is now the subject of negotia· pector, HIf I ever got caught out in tl
mere digging, ­ tions. mountains in the winter time with - hal'"
The question of milling is often .brought Two cars of concentrates were shipped to enough grub to last me a weel!: and w~
up. Every new company organized in this a Utah smeltery last month. a shortage of wood supply staring me ~
jndustry at once announces a mill, but in­ -----;0---­ the face. I have had such an experielll!
vestors may discount this statement, trom It is reported that the copper bag-house but it will never happen again:
the fact' that no commerCial process for of the Mammoth smeitery of the United ever; and It taught me such a l",.,,,,.,,",-tB
treating this ore is available in this country States Smelting company at Kennet, Cali­ I now begin getting in mY' winter's
and Is not apt to be controlled, when it be­ fornia, Is operating .successfully. There was along the latter part of September;
comes aVailable, by tbose who are seeking expended on the plant $340,000. The three am all snug arid happy when the
the capital of glitterill'g furnaces are treating 1.275 tons of ore a storm comes. Many

THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R 30, 1912.
trouble in gett;!lg in supplies, [lnll
'hI so:ne:imes they haye to auando!l their
ork and stay down in the vaW?y until
Jring because of their inability to stock up
'I' p!'fe~ij ve op€ r a lions during the time
10W is on the ground. Yon think this is
rcn,'-" and can110t illlagine hOI\' anyone
o~":ltl he able to pun through \\ ilhout a
assortment of eats on hand when
Ie: Whld is howling about the cabin, and
SllOW so deep that a burro woulll be
ill tile drifts with only his ears stiek­
out as a 3ignal Of his whereabouts, )Jut,
Y,a VCr had one such experience and, if you
'ii! ilstell to the stor) without interrupting
\y~u! dllY (It .rour ;:;illy qd8Sliol.ls, I "yill
yo" just how it happened,
wac; in the year of the long, hard
,'intel', seyeral years ago, that this thing
appu:ed to me, I had bought my sllppLes
nrI llad had t.hem hauled to the mouth
canyon se\"en miles be!ow my camp"
l::~d lIlY LoU1TO WlLll IHt:, auu ll,uile!l u.lI '~H;
dar with my lJediling, a few cooliing
.tf:n3ils, and enough gru!:J to last me over
ligllt. \Vhen 1 started out from camp in
he morning the wind was blowing so hard
hat my hurro had to lean up against it to
,ecp from lleing swept over cliff near
he trail. When we reached the mouth of
he C(Ulyon the gale had sulJsided, and a
(enUe rain set in, I concluded to take up
,wo boxes of powder, lhat day, together
,Hh half a ham, a little 1I0ur and a sack
J[ barley. \Ve had hardly started back be­
"are it began to snow. Half way to the
::al)'n it was a foot deep, and tile '!:Jeanti­
"nl' came down in such masS€ s that we
:ollld hardly see to travel. At last, how­
eVer, we reached camp, and I was mighty
~lall to get into the callin and get a little
lito to cat; thinking that it would clear off
luring tlIe night, and that I could get in
balance of my supplies within the next
:wo or three days. Imagine my surprise,
",nye';er, when I looted out in the morning,
to find that the snow wa s four feet deep
In the level, and that it had turned exceed­
iEgly cold, I was somewhat uneasy about
IllY burro, and found It necessary lo dig an
ollen cut to her stable, which was com­
pletely covered with snow, and the roof
had sagged in until the raftBr!! were near
to the breaking point. 1t warmed up to­
wards night, and before dark it began to
snow again. In the morning tile snow was
six fBet deep, and it was so cold that I
could hardly stay a foot away from my fire"
It was then that I had a full realization ot
my predicament, and how I was facing
death because of my lack of supplies and
fuel. I could not use snow-shoes, or skees,
then, as I can now, and so was absolutely
hemmed in, with no alternative in sight
but to starve it out. I know you will shud­
der at the thought, but I really consid­
Ered the proposition of my burro being a
source of meat supply should the dreadful
alternatiYe finally present itself; and, al­
2&
though I never even whisI)€red such a pos­
sibility to her, I know that she sensed what
might happen, as the. wint,w wore on, by
the look of horror sCI1:rietfmes showing in
her eyes when I got around to her stable
in the mornings. Of course, I went on a
strict diet, at once, and in a week was more
than half-starved with barely enough pro·
visions left to last >me another week, even
if I only had one scant meal a day. My
limited supply of fuel, also, was also get­
ting low, and I had begun to use the tim­
ber and lagging in my tunnel to keep from
freezing, for it was exceedingly cOld. One
day I shot a hawk, which I cooked and man­
aged to swallow. Another day I brought
down an owl; ,but this was poor picking. At
the end of three weelo! I was ravenous and
often found myself looking hungrlIy at my
burro, who crouched back into the further·
est corner of her shack, with fear ex­
pressed in her eyes, whenever I approached
her. The time finally came when I had
heen without food for twtJ nays, and I was
desperate and famished. It took me a long
'time to decide the question, but I finally
made up >my mind to make savory porter­
house and T-bone steaks out of my bur­
ro, My decision to commit the bloody deed
was sway-backed and weak in the knees,
however, and I frequently stopped, on my
way to the stable, to glance out over the
vast field of snow with Which I was sur­
rounded. The day was clear, and I was as­
tonished to note how vividly every tree-top
stood out in relief against the blue sky. As
I gazed I was somewhat puzzled to note that
what appeared to be the tops of stunted
bushes were moving around the snow line.
Sometimes they would all bunch together,
move away, and then disappear. What it
could mean I could not imagine. To solve
the problem I managed to cli>mb to the top
of my cabin. from which view-point I was
enabled to establish the fact that the sup­
posed bushes were nothing more than the
antlers of deer; and I finally discovered
that there was a door run not more than
fifty yards from my cabin, and that at least
fifty deer were in captivity therein. No
one can imagine the fiood of thankfulness
that surged through my heart. I was saved.
I shouted for JOY, And then, with rifte ill
hand, I crawled over the snow to where
the deer had been so long concealed. Se­
lecting a fine young buck as my victim, I
soon laid him low. One of the hind quart­
ers I took back to the cabin with me, and
the feast that followed was somewhat in
the nature of an orgie, The burro must
have had some idea of what had happened
for, the next time I went out to give her
a handful of barley, she soomed p!eased
to soo me, and gave vent to a song of
thanksgiving that reverberated through the
canyons and hills like a volle:;: of musketry.
For two months more I drew on my supply
of venison before the snow melted so that
I <:ould safely make my way to the mouth
of the canyon. I was in good condition and
felt grateful that I was able to pull through
without the necessity of sacrificing my
faithful burro. It was a dull and trying
time but, fortunately, I had four or five
copies of The Salt Lake Mining Review
with me, and these I read and re-read. ad­
vertisements and all, until I had memorized
every line and paragraph. It was a hard
winter, however, a rough experience, and I
never want to go through another one,
"I want to tell you, 'Old Long I<Jars,'''
concluded the prosI)€ctor, "it is not safe,
or wise, to delay getting in supplies and
provisions until late in the season. Some
men may trust to luck in t4is matter; but,
for me, I will make ample provision for
winter, early in the fall, no matter how
much I am guyed for doing so; and there
you are, and then some."
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN COAL INSTITUTE.
The organization of the Rooky Moun­
tain Coal Mining Institute was completed
ata meeting recently held at Denver, when
the following officers were elected: E. H.
Weitzell, manager of the fuel department
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company of
Pueblo, Colorado, president; W .B. Williams,
general manager of the Utah Fuel company,
W. J. Murray, vice-president of the Vic­
tor-American Fuel company, of Denver, T.
H. O'Brien, general manager of the Stag
Oanyon Fuel company, of Dawson, New Mex­
cio, Frank A, Manley, general manager of
the Union Pacfic Q)al company, of Omaha,
Nebraska, vice-presidents; F. N. Cameron,
general manager of the Castle Valley Coal
CO'Illpany, of Salt Lake, J. E. Pettit, state
mine inspector of Utah, John P_ Thomas, of
Glenwood, Colorado, C. W. Babcock, of Den­
ver, D. H. Summerville, New Mexico, Alan
French, Raton, New Mexico, P. J, Quealy,
Kemmerer, Wyoming, and H. C, Campbell
of Rock Springs, Wyoming, additional
members of the executive committee; F. W.
Whitesides, Denver, secretary-treasurer.
The charter melJnbership is 250, repre­
senting all the mine operators in Colo­
rado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. The
object of the association is the exchange
of views and ideas as to coal mining and
the reduction in the accident death rate,
concerning which the state mine inspector
of Colorado produced statistics, showing that
the death rate in the states named is higher
than in any other state but two.
Plans are made for the holding of meet­
ings in June and November of each year,
and meeting places have been selected for
some time ahead, Salt Lake w111 have the
June, 1913, meeting, the November >meeting
of the same year being scheduled for Albu­
querque, New Mexico, the June meeting of
1914, at Cheyenne, and the ,No­
vember mE!et~g
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THE SA L T LA K E MIN IN G REV lEW• NOV E M BE R 30, 1 9 12.
CAMP .. FIRE CHATS
By PAUL VALTlNKE
In one of my former articles in the "Salt
Lake Mining Review," I dwelt, as much as
space would permit, on the not enough re­
cognized use of the blowpipe for the <leter­
mination of minerals and their constituents.
For the benefit of prospectors and mine own­
ers, of whom many could never get satIs­
factory results with the blowpipe, I will
enumerate here a few wet test3 for the quali­
tative determination of the more common
elements. I will not make use of symbols or
formulae In this article but will 'give to the
necessarY' chemicals the full name by whIch
they are known commercially. Before 1 be­
gin to take up the different elements you
will do well to remember the following de­
tails, as without unders~anding them you will
not be able to make the tests successtully.
Always use chemicals marked c. p., (that is,
chelIllically pure). Use only distilled water in
these tests. If you cannot procure the same,
fil~er rain or snow water and use it for the
same purp0<3es. Learn to use litmus·paper
as an indicator. Acid solutions will turn
blue litmus paper red, while alkaline solu­
tions will turn red litmus paper blue. A
neutral solution will not change the color
of the immersed paper, the red will remain
red and the blue will stay blue Add chemi­
cals or solutions serving as a precipitant
gradually, never In bulk. Never pour water
into sulphuric acid; add the acid drop by
drop to the water.
Antimony. Powder the mineral, put it in
a cavitY on charcoal. Direct a blue flame on
the mineral for a few seconds. As antimony
is volatile thE! coal will ,be covered with a
whi:e sublimate. Wet this sublimate with
a drop of ammonium-sulphide. If It turns
orange-red the mineral contains antimony.
Barium. All barium salts will color the
oxidizing fiame green. Take a small splinter
of the mineral with the forceps (if possible
one with platinum tips) and hold it in the
outer mantle of the Bunsen-burner flame. Af­
ter the flame shows an indicates barium,
moisten the same piece with a drop of hydro­
chloric acid for the following reasons; cop·
per will aL30 discolor the flame as indicated,
but if moistened with the named acid (any
copper present will be converted into copper·
chloride), It .will show a beautiful blue
flame.
Gold. Dissolve the finely powdered and
wetted ore In a flask containing 500 cc. of
bromlne·water. Let contents stand for sev­
eral days and shake as often as pOSl3lble.
Decant, that is, pour off the liquid carefully.
Then wash the ore carefully with a little
water and add this to your 601ution. Now
let stand. for a
can _2
Hyldro-chloric acid will take up these
hydroxides, leaving metallic gold.
Iron, If yoU add to an acid solution con­
taining iron a small crystal of potassium­
ferro-cyanide the solution will turn blue.
PotaSSium sulpha-cyanide will turn it blood­
red.
Lead. Dissolve the finely powdered ore In
strong nitric acid, then add a little water
and let cool to room temperature. Add a few
drops of a potassium·iodide solution. A Prince Consolidated Mining and Sme
deep orange-colored precipitate indicates
the presence of lead,
Manganese. Mix a small portion of the
powdered ore with four times its bulk of a
mixture of sodium·carbonate and sodium­
nitrate. Fuse the mass on a platinum foil.
If the paste turns ·bluil3h·green manganese is
present.
Mercury (Quicksilver), Dissolve the
finely powdered ore with about 5 cc. ot nydro­
chloric acid, dilute with a little water and
filter. Then place in the obtained \Solution
a little piece of sheet aluminum and boil for
a few minutes. Let cool, remove the alum­
Inum; any mercury present will coat the
sheet. Mercury! will show on Its surface ac­
cording to the quantity present in the ore.
Copper. Beside the flame test already
mentioned above, the following Is an
unerring test for the element. Dissolve the
ore in a mixture of nitric and hydro-chloric
acid, dilute with some water. then add .some
ammonia water. If copper is present the
solution will turn a beautiful blue.
Chromium. Mix the finely pulverized ore
with three times I~g volume of dry sodium­
peroxide and fuse on platinum foil. Dis­
solve the fused mass in a little water, make
faintly acid with acetic acid then add a few
drops of a solution of lead-acetate A yel­
low precipitate is evidence of chromium
Calcium. Dissolve In a mix~ure of hydro­
chloric and nitric acid. Then add a little
sulphuric acid to precipitate any barium
which might be present. .Add ammonia
water to alkaline reaction and filter. Boll
the filtrate and when boiling add ammonium­
oxalate in ,"olution. A whi~e crystalline pre­
cipitate is evidence of calcium.
Tests for some of the rarer minerals will
appear in the next number of the "Review."
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OHIO COPPER REJECTS WALL ROLLS.
The Boston News Bureau reports that
the Ohio Copper company has discarded the
patent WaH rolls, their operation having
proven unsatisfactory, and that E. A. Wall
of Salt Lake has sued the company for $36,­
000 in payment for them.
The company is operating two sections
of its mill, and the third unit in which the
rolls were used, will be re-equipped. This
decision of the company is Interesting, since
the Wall rolls have long ·been a subject of
speculation to mill men.
The debts of the company are beln~
I
PIOCHE IN THIRD QUARTER.
The Record of Pioche, Nevada, giv.
the outputs of the Pioche mines for tl
three months ending September 30th, as 1
ported to the county assessor, as fOllows:
Prince Consolidated Mining and Sme
ing company.-Qres from the Prince min
8,845 tons and 1,935 lbs., giving a gro
value of $72,525.40.
ing cO'mpanY.-Tailings from BullionvlI:
11,464 tons and 590 lbs., giving a gro
value of $152,576.86.
Day-Bristol Consolidated Mining co:
panY.-2,027 tons, gross yield $44,889.53.
J. A. Nesbitt.-Tailings shipped frc
Condor canyon, 2,852 tons. and 468 Ibs., gro
value of $39,971.72.
Mendha-Nevada Mining company.-9
tons and 1,770 tbs., giving a grOSS val
of $9,803.40.
Patrick Sheahan.-Qre from Raymo
and Ely dump, 64 tons and 1,092 lbs., givl
a gross value ef $2,553.40.
Home Run Co'pper company.-57 to
and 476 lbs., giving a gross value
$2,431.51.
Bullion tax was paid on a net value
$57,949.30 of tallings. The average gr(
value per ton of all tailings shipped 1
the quarter was $13.45, and the average 1
value per ton was $400.
The gross average per ton of ore ship!
by the Home Run Copper company '1\
the highest of any, being $42.65 Per ton.
The gross average per ton for the (
shipped from the Prince mine for the qu
ter was $8.19.
The foregOing totals $326,314.95.
The gross value of all shipments m~
for the six months ending on June 30, 19
was $350,950.84.
NOTES FROM GOLD CIRCLE,
(Special Correspondence.)
Gold Circle, Nevada, Nov. 21st, 1912
The electric hoiat recently installed on .
Elko Prince has proven very satisfactc
They are sinking from the 400-fQot to
500; over $500,000 In ore is ·blocked out
this property. Its manager, L. L. Savage
In New York City visiting his parents.
Frank Macey and C. C. Raii.i:i:alJ. ·a.re si
Ing on the Climax vein. TheY'l1te down t1
tY' feet; the vein paIll3 from top to bott~
and eiisbteen inches assays $38.
The SUrprise Mining company is pusq
its crosscut tunnel ab.ead to ID.tereect 1j
main vein, which has been opened up on~
surface. The~ expe.si: ):o;.&ut It at 160 ~
in depth. .- . ,
John Koot, owner of the Esmeralda
tion, is taking out some spfendid ore
the east drift on the 125-footThe

26 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M B E R 30, 1912.
lng on the eighty-foot level to cut a rich
shoot of ore opened up to the forty-foot.
'This property has produced ,3everal thou­
mining men in the west. He was with the
sand doLars in the last three y-ears.
'The Esmeralda Mining company, which
ha.s been in a chaotic state for the past
month, reached an agreement with creditors.
'TheY are to be paid pro-rata from the net
proceeds of the mine and mill per month un­
til paid. 'Twenty men are now employed in
the mine. The mill will ,start December 1st.
H is reported here that Dave Eccles and
L. S. Finnigan have taken over the. con­
trol from George Davis_
Horace Winchell, a noted mining engi­
neer of MinneapDlis, Minn., who made sev­
eral examinations of properties here, has
become interested with Herman Mattern In
the Belvoir and Helen property.
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THE LOST PACKER.
The annual report of the Lost Packer
Mining company, for the year ending Sep­
tember 1, 1912, is given herewith. This
property Is located in Idaho.
"Development cost per foot was very un­
sati3factory. It is the largest ever reached
here ($7.24) and is due to several causes­
extremely hard rock; bad air; long dis­
tance to tram dirt, the face being 2,200
feet from the surface, and the scarcity of
capable men. Ten-day men were about the
best we could get and it was no uncom­
mon thing to find a machine crew short
in the morning. This condition Is partly
due to the activity of the copper camps
of the country since the increase in the
price of that metal, and the increase In
wages in and around Butte. Miners there
are receiving $4, and when this condition
exists it is difficult to get men here at
$3.50,"
"The report gives the ore in blocked
form in minute detail, the total reserves
measuring 4,830 tons of first·class, valued at
$285,731, and 20,000 tons of second·class,
valued at $200,000. There also is consid­
erable good ore in the shape of fill in all
the stopes, but this is not easy of calcula­
t:on at the present time. 'The Officials
at the last annual meeting stated tnat it
was the purpose of the 'company to extract
and matte the ores during the eoming sum­
mer, distributing the profits among the
shareholders.
"The company began the fiscal year
with a balance of $33,086.62. There was
checked out during the year for supplies,
general expenses, taxes, freight, road mak­
ing, etc., $26,913.97, leaving a balance at
the close of the year of $6,172.65. There
are supplies of all kInds on hand valued at
$2,392.08."
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The Swansea mine In the Tintlc district
of Utah has closed down. The ore is ex·
hausted above the water level andpuDlplng
cOSt3' a,re too heavy to mine below.
· ... _--_._----- ..
Personal Mention
J. E. Osselin. has':'li;gne to Nevada City,
California, from Nevada.
George W. Forman, an ore bUYer of
Butte, Montana, Is in Salt Lake.
H. E. Bierce of Mineral Park, Arizona,
has gone to Denver on mining business.
G. W. Avery has returned to Nogales,
Arizona, from a long visit in Los Angeles.
J. S. Austin, of Philadelphia, president
of the Tonopah Mining company, is at Tono­
pah, N evada_
Oscar Friendly of the Snake Creek Tun·
nel company, of Park City, Utah, has gone
to Portland, Oregon.
A. H. 'Tate of Spokane, Washington, is
in the east on business connected with
Idaho mining properties.
C. L. Fountain, of Los Angeles, has been
in the Searchlight, Nevada, district, inspect­
ing various mining properties.
Walter Fitch, of Eureka, Utah, manag·
er of the Chief Consolidated, at that place,
was in Salt Lake, last week.
James Tonkin and John Jose, old Salt
Lakera, now of Humboldt, Nevada, are re­
newing friendships in Salt Lake.
W. H. Blackburn, superintendent for the
Tonopah Mining company. has been in
Berkeley, California, for two weeks.
Siegfried Pels, an ore buyer of Hamburg,
G(lrmany, has been at Llano, Texas, secur·
ing rare Ores for his German clients.
R. G. Gillespie of Pittsburg, Pennsyl·
vania, is in Nevada City, California, in con.
nection with property at Indian Flat.
Jules Labarthe, manager of the Mason
Valley Mines company. of Yerington, Ne­
vada, was In San FranCisco recently.
Col. C. E. Loose, of Provo, Utah, the
well 'known mining magnate, transacted
business In Salt Lake a few days ago.
Herbert Salinger, ore buyer for Beer,
Sondheimer & CompanY, has been in King.
man, Arizona, in the interests of his com­
pany.
James Forman, who has been Inspecting
mining property at Manhattan, Nevada, and
vicinity. has returned to Oakland, Cali­
fornia.
Joe Kemp has returned to Park City,
Utah, from Ludwig, Nevada, where he was
looking over property in which he is In­
terested.
C. W. Adams of Boulder, Colorado, owner
and manager of the Logan group on Sugar
Loaf Hill has gone to Boston on mining
,business.
A. P. Mayberry, of Eureka, Nevada, mine
manager for the United States company at
that place, is in Salt Lake, this week, after
an absence of about three years. Mr. May·
_--_.... - .. _----_ ...- ---- -- -------~---.-----.--.-- ..
f
berry is regarded as being one of the best
U. S. company at Bingham for years, and
has a host of friendS throughout this inter­
mountain region.
L. L. Mushett, manager of the Mushett
& Wittenburg leasing operations at Man­
hattan, Nevada, has gone to San Francisco
j
on business.
I
Geo. Z. Edwards, manager for the
Eureka-Windfall Mining company, operating
near Eureka, Nevada, was a recent Salt
Lake visitOr.
L. V. Shearer, of Colton, Utah, manager
of the American O'Zokerite company, has
returned home from an extended visit east !
and northwest.
John C. Wagner, manager of the Wag.
ner Development Mines company, operating
near Telluride. Colorado, Is in Denver on
mining business.
D. States, .superlntendent of the Pony
Express Mining company of Ely, Nevada, is
in Ogden, Utah, where he underwent an op­
eration for appendicitis.
J. F. Howell, of Salt Lake, is engaged
in digging out what is supposed to be ll. big
meteor which fell in Garfield county, Utah.
about four years ago.
David Evans, managing director of the
PlutuB Mining company, of the Tintic dis­
trict of Utah, was a recent visitor in Salt
Lake from Los Angeles.
W. M. Harwood was in Salt Lake re­
cently from Hamilton, Nevada, Where he
reports great activity in the copper and
lead and silver developments.
D. W. Jessup. of Salt Lake, has been ap­
pointed superintendent of the mines of the
HOme Run Copper company, operating In
the Bristol district of Nevada.
H. L. A. Culmer, of Salt Lake, recently
lectured to the studellts of the chemistry
department of the University of Utah on
the "Hydrocarbon DepOSits of Utah"
A. L. Bak(lr of Raleigh, North Carolina,
Is looking after his mining interests at
Leadville, Colorado. He is president of t'he
Saguache Mining and Tunnel company.
G. B Smith, formerly foreman for the
Utah Fuel company at Sunnyside, Utah,
has been appointed assistant coal mine in·
spector for the state of Utah, to serve until
January 1st.
James A. Roberts, of New York, treas­
urer of the Frisco Gold Mines company, is
at Kingman, Arizona, having recently. with
associates, taken over the Williams tung·
sten property.
S. M. Walker, of the Glade Consolidated
Mining company, which operates .placer
properties near Sumpter, Oregon, has gone
to Ogden, Utah, for the winter, the placer
mining season being over.
W. E. Clark has returned from -DabOis,
Idaho, t() the. Spriilg moun:tal.n'dil!tl::l~of
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THE SAL T L AK E MIN IN G REV lEW, NOV EM B.E R-,3 0, 1912.

Idaho, where developments are proceeding Survey to sU,ceeed WaldemarLlndgr~

at the Iron Mask ;property, shipping hav­
ing ceased for the winter.
I, Engineers and Millmen I becomes' head of the geological depa!
of the MAssachUsetts Institute of Te
W. T. Maddox, until recently superln. J. E. Spurr, second vice-president of the ogy.
tendent for the Pacific Electric company of Tonopah Mlinlng company, is In Tonopah W. RCalvert, of Salt Lake. of th.
Los Angeles, will be the new assistant gen­ from the east. of Arnold, Fisher & Calvert, consultinl
eral manager of the Utah Light & Railway Dr. James DoUglas has returned to New ogists and engineers, recently returnei'
company, with office at Salt Lake. York after a month's visit in Arizona and a professional trip to eastern Utal
M. J. Doolin of San Francisco has re­ other western states. westen Colorado, where ·he made eXI
turned from London, England, with G. M. F. C. Titus has become consulting en­ tion of hydrocarbon fields and 'j}rosp
Bar,ber of England, who is making examIn­ gineer ·for the Hope Mining company of oil territory. Mr. Calvert is now in
ations of the Catherine property at lone, Republic. Washington. ver making up his reports, and will
Nevada, for the English stockholders. visit Wyoming fields to study the q~
D. J. A. Holmes, of the Bureau of Mines,
cif gas waste, and w11l proba:bly .follow
W. F. Frazier, of Los Angeles, has been has gone to Panama to investigate fuel investigations into California.
looking over the Ontario group of claims questions concerning the canal.
near Silver City, Idaho, which have re­ R. J. Kroupa, of Colton. Utah, with the Samuel H. Treloar has resigued a;
cently been taken over by FrenQh interests. American Ozokerite company, has been a tlUIting engineer for the Utah Metal
A. F. Stevens w111 have charge of operations Salt Lake visitor, this week. pany, and left this week for his Lo
a t these properties. geles home. Mr. Treloar resigned f(
Murray Lee. a mining engineer or ~tock­
purpose pf attending w his personal a
Arthur WinSlow, president of the Lib­ ton. Utah, was in Salt, Lake the first of including mining Interests. He .state:
erty Bell Gold Maning company, and J. J. the week on professionalbusinel:l6. satisfactory 'Work 1a being dOne In thE
Cairnes, a stockholder, have arrived at Tel­ H. O. Johnson. engineer for the local Ing of the long Ultah Metal tunnel wh
luride, Colorado, from Boston, accompanied branch of the Mineo & Smelter Supply com­ to connect the great camp of Binghan
by the company's engineer, Charles A. pany, is on 'professional business in Idaho. the Tooele side of the mountain.'
Chase, of Denver. Duncan Maclnness, a graduate of the completed the tunnel will be li,949 t.
Tony Jacobson, of Salt Lake, president University of Utah, is now an Instructor in length. From the face, on the Tooele
of the Alta Consolidated Mlinlng company, the department of chemistry at the Univer­ the tunnel is now in a distance of
in Big Cottonwood canyon, near Salt Lake, sity of Illinois. feet. and from the Bingham Side It il
who has been very ill In California, Is now Henry Krumb, of Salt Lake, has been distance of 1,970 feet.
convalescing at his' home and his friends making an examination of the Giroux Con. ---0--­
hope to Bee him among them again Boon. solidated and other properties In the Ely
district of Nevada. TRADE NOTES.
E. F. Adams, president and manager,
Charles A. Chase, of Denver, consulting
and E. J. Shaw, ,vice-president of the Smith
engilleer for the Liberty Bell Gold Mining
Yalley Mines company, were in Yeringtt.ll,
company Is at the mines of that company in The Colarado Fuel' & Iron con
Nevada recently from Oakland, California,
Telluride, Colorado. -Denver, Colo., Is Installing a4MtlollAl ,
to make' final payment on the pro~ising
Ernest Gayford, of Salt Lake, of tbe Gen­ atusfor equipping Its mine at Pietonj
group of claims recently purchased by the'
eral Engineering company. consulting and rado, with elootric drIve. The Instal
company.
contracting engineers. \s in Montana on Includes a 500 kw. 'rotary converter
A. H. Seep, of Denver, Colorado, vice­ ,professional business. motors of 235 h.p. each, four mot<:il
president of the Mine and Smelter Supply 200. 1tjO. 100 and 65 h.p. l'e&pectlvei;
L. B. Mitchell and E. W. Benner, with
companY', was in Salt Lake last week visit­ switchboard apparatus. For operatli
the Copper Queen Consolldated Mining
ing the local branch of the company. Mr. Coal Creek mine at Car,ron .mty, Col
company of Bisbee, Arizona, are In New
seep makes regular viSits to Salt Lake, and new electrical holst apparatus, consist
York for a months' recreation.
is alwaY1il surprised at the substantial and a 125 h.p. motor generator set, 260 h.p, I
splendid growth 'being made here. He is F .. L. Ransome is to succeed Waldemar air ·compressor and Switchboard is
highly. pleased with' the volume of business Lindgren as chief of the section of eco­ added to the powerhouse equipment
'transacted by his company in this terri­ nomic geolt;'gy of metalliferous deposits of the apparatus Is of the General El
tory. the United States Geological Survey. company manufa.eture.
Max W. Ball, of the United States Geolo­
T. C. Parker, of Cortez, Nevada, manager The Calumet & Hecla Mining' con:
gical Survey, Is in Moab, Utah, making
of the Cortez Leasing company, was in Salt Calumet, Michigan, is making alar,
preparations for the study of the Klondike
Lake, the first of the week. Mr. Parker &!.allation of six.ty-five motors of 40 Ii
oiIfields, and .wUl be assisted by A. M.
states that the property of the company is Rogers. pacity each for equipping Its mines
inexceUent condition, and that shipments of smelters with electric drive. ,The D
about three carloads of good ore, per month, Frederick Laist, blast furnace superin­ are all being furnished by the G.
are being made. The company has solved tendent at the Washoe smeltery of the Electric company.
the tran.3portation question, from mine to Anaconda Copper Mining coril,pany, of Ana­ The St. Joseph 'Lead company,
railroad, a distance of thirty-five miles, by conda. Montana, Is in the east on 'a tour Terre, Missouri, is adding to itS
the purchase of an Alco auto trUCk, which of inspectton. plant equipment at ,the \Leadwood m:l
can make one round trip a day. and at a cost C. A. H. DeSaullea has beconie manager
large 1.000 kw. alternating .current "
of about $4 per tOn. Mr. Parker states that !for the United States Zinc compapy at .tor, In the power plant of the Bonll&l
work is progressing in the development of Pueblo, Colorado. He'was formerly ge~eral mines a new 1250kv-a. Curtis tu!'lbo-~
the Buckhorn. ten miles from Cortez. where manager for the Prime Western Zinc com­ tor .is being added to ·tl;te
excavation for:miH foundation is beillg pany at lola, Kansas. the. fnstallation ma4e.,by
made; and a: long workl~g tunnel is" being ,David White has bee!! apPointed chief tric .compiny,'the
run.
 THE S '" L T L A K E MIN I N G REV I E W, NOV E M B E R 30, 1 9 1 2.

call for tenders for the building of the pro­

posed smelter at Granby Bay, British Col­
umbia, as well as for all machinery and
Construction News

equipment, The Superior Portland Cement company

The Bull Valley Gold Mines company, will build another large kiln at Concrete,
operating in Washington COUlJ,Q!:{ Utah, will Washington.
make tests to determln;' the advisability William Hobson has filed on 2,000 sec­
of erecting a mill. The principal office is ond feet of water, which will generate 10,­
in Salt Lake. 000 horsepower near Salem, Oregon.
J. L. Stanford has been engaged as suo The Northern Pacific will double-track
perintendent for the Mizpah Copper com­ its line across the Cascade mountains be­
pany, operating in Latah county, Idaho, and tween Lester and Eastop., Washington.
will develop the mine, with a view to in­ An election will be held at Mllton, Ore­
stalling a mill in the near future, gon, December 10th, to vote a bond issue
The Daisy Mining & Milling company for $18,000 to enlarge the municipal light­
will double the capacity of Its mill at the ing system.
West Dip, near Mercur, Utah. C. A. Preble, The Flathead Valley Interurban railway
one of the owners, states that the Frank. has been incorporated to construct a line
will 11(' ll;;-.;iidl\,d ;d :hl~
ing Leasing company will install an Oliver from Kalispell to Whitefish, in Montana.
c..:1Jl( ,
fllter. City Engineer Ball and the light com­
R. Chester Turner of Berkeley, Cali­ mittee of Puyallup, Washington, have been
fornia, will have charge of the erection of appointed a committee to investigate the
a fifty-ton concentrating unit on the ground feasibility of an municipal light plant for
of the old Hidden Treasure mill near Cen­ that town.
,'1) I! j 1 i, \ ! I_~ tral City, Colorado. A sampling plant is Jesse Knight, of Provo, Utah, and the
1[) Included. Utah-Idaho Sugar company have both sub­
oj" \\'i.~sl: :l~tUtL mitted propositions to the Commercial club
The Aurora Copper com'Pany, operating
jilt, nowe: mine: :)1 I)u;'cn­ in the Chewelah district of Washington of Payson, Utah, for erecting a sugar fac­
;\dd fOny ~llHl will install a compressor, a 200-ton con· tory at that place,
10 the vljllijlH:ClJl of centrating plant and a short tramway. Con­ A creosoting plant is proposed for Wat­
'; i: rad Wolfe is president and manager of the sonville, California, which will be the larg­
PI', ;If, Ll'ad,'!1]i­ company. est in the United States, according to F.
if ~hntt lIOW The Eureka-Johnnie mine in the south­ W. SnOWden of the Watsonville Railway
riis( lcSt\~' or1 ('lHl'l!:li to ern part of Nevada wlll 'be equipped with and Navigation company.
a mill in the near future. Charles Labbe The city of Tacomat Washington, is
<,'.I iliill :1;,. F'c:'t Hid\\PI1 ('on­ is 'President of the company and J. K. considering the granting of a franchise to
wiil add (y­ Turner of Goldfield, Nevada, is the con­ P. H. Hobb for turnishing light to the city
th(~ lligh Grade sulting engineer. from a hydro-electric plant which he pro­
poses to bUild on the White river.
Arrangements are being outlined for a
custom concentrating plant at Silverton, Col· A number of German, French and Amer­
!'o1' installing' (:1e('-
orado, which may use Hardinge mills and Ican capitalists are in Seattle investigat­
111,' of UIP:
electrostatic separation as part of the ing conditions with a view to establishing
equipment. The enterprise is headed by an iron manufacturing> industry on the Pa­
J. N. Pascoe of Silverton. cific coast. C. W. French heads the party.
The Arizona Corporation Commission
The Reno Smelting & Refining com·
has granted permission to the Arizona-East­
pany, capitalized at $1,000,000, has been
ern Railroad company to sell bonds for the
1,i;l1H, incorporated to build a smeltery at Reno,
erection of shops in Pheonix, the construc­
('::!llyon CCHc::;ulHlat(ld )lhJng Nevada. Incorporators are John S. Loder,
tion of a bridge across the river at Tempe,
~ ('1;adu a('tin'ly of Reno, and C. W. Thorpe and Marvin E.
and other projects.
:, ~-i('\\ 10 Hall of Detroit, Michigan.
B. T. McBain of Oregon City. Oregon,
C(~~l\jllu YI:'n!. H. O. Granberg, general manager of the has filed an application with the state en·
Royal Flush Mining company, has arrived at gineer asking for the appropriation of suf­
-:\I01ill:C11ll op~
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and will let ficient water from the Clackamas river just
('illdi' r 01'(>­
contracts for hauling 35,000 feet of lumber below the mill of the POrtland Railway.
~'~Oihltill:": a
and three carloads of machinery to the mill Light and Power company, to develop 11,­
site of his company at Columbine, Colorado. 000 horsepower. Plans call for a S()..foot
.\[jlE"S f'ulHPiIH,\ Kiu~·
~--~o----
f:'nlnl';..:;e-
(:IIH(t:ll:jJJat r;g- ali
dam, five-mile canal, and estimated cost is
John T. Hudson and M R. Evans of $1,000,000.
II S n:ilL The ore iree nlilliug.
Salt Lake have returned from a visit to The Stone & Webster interests have
(wenty dollars to the lOlL
the Bull Valley mines in Washington county, purchased 3,000 acres of land a half mile
r11<,[ H!:ll1 )'Iinlllg (,OH:[J[tny, \\~il· Utah, and the Comet and Home Run mines north of C<lncrete, Wa.shington, adjacent
vreBiti0nt. \Yill eJ'e:'t a 2(10· in Lincoln county, Nevada. to the Baker river gorge, and contemplate
Iming plam in the Clliiwoo(\ B€ C ­ ~-o----
the building of a dam of the Coquitla!m,
.Joplin (listric! 01' ;I[jssonri.
The Washington Anthracite Power com­ British Columbia, type which will make
of the Granhy Consolidated pany will 'build a power plant on Glacier available 30,000 horsepower, and the erec­
company have author­
Sm~:L:ng crook, three and one-half miles from Gla· tion of three sawmills and a pulp paper
1 gdH)ral manager F, M. Sylvester, to cier, Washington. mill, as well as a hydro-electric plant.
 L J L j liES Ij
THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R 3.0, 1912.
[Dips, Spurs and A ngles I
record January 10th. A: year ago the com·
At Boulder. Colorado, D. M. Reedy is
remodeling the mill of the Prince Arthur
group.
The Iron Blollsom mine, at Mammoth,
Utah. has encountered a body of shipping
copper ore on its 700-foot level.
L. C, Goula will w'ork the Mark Twain
claim in the Slate creek district of Arizona.
The ore is high in lead and silver.
The Grand Central and Gold Chain Min.
ing compani€>3 in the Tintic district of Utah,
will probablY' declare dividends in Decem­
b€r.
Another strike on the Big Four ground
at Manhattan. Nevada, completes a showing
of ,ore on all the levels from the 100-foot to
the 500-foot.
The Giroux Consolidated Mining company
of Ely, Nevada, will try to resume ~hip·
ments at once, and is putting men at work
with this end in view.
John Lamon. of Aspen. Colo.• owner of
the Star mine, is planning to drive' a 6,000­
foot tunnel through Italian peak, in the
northern 'part of Gunnison county.
In the Comet district near Pioche, Ne·
vada. Charles Schodde and B. I. Christen.
sen are working the Lyndon property and
expect to make a shipment, of ore soon.
The stamp mill of the Commonwealth
mine at Pearce. Arizona. is being rebuilt.
and between one and two hundred men will
be employed as soon as it is finished.
Work Will be resumed on the Calhoun
mine. operated by the Calhoun Consoli·
dated Mines company at Central City, Colo·
rado. L. D. McCall is general manager.
A cave-in at the Horn Silver mine at
Frisco, Utah. entombed six men and two
girls for sixteen hours "onNovember 14th,
but all were rescued without serious in·
jury.
The Burlington mine. near Osburn. Idaho.
is reported to be the scene of considerable
activity. Two shifts are employed on de·
ve:opment work and indications are encour­
aging,
The Arkansas Valley smeltery at Lead·
ville. Colorado, hlb3 blown in another lead
furnace, making five now in full blast. Ship­
ments from the Leadville mines are 'sUi!
heavy.
Power has been turned on at the Flint
mine at Flint, Idaho. and development work
Is b€ing pushed. The company is controlled
in LOndon and J. M. Morgan is the Idaho
agent.
The Nevada·Douglas Copper company is
the first of the Yerington, Nevada. mines to
enter the dividend clas;;. It will pay 12%
cents per share On 900,000 outstanding
shares on February first to stockholders of
.H,
pany was $800.000 in debt. but expects to
have this cleared by March 1.3t.
The Alta ConsoUdated at Alta, Utah, has
put up a sixty-foot raise in a four-foot vein
of 'high grade g-alena ore. Development is
proceeding at full speed in various parts of
the mine.
George O. Ford. president and general
manager of the Ford Mines company. has
J)urchased machinery and other equipment
for his properties in the Mineral Point dis·
trict of Arizona.
At the Arkell mine. near Reno, Nevada,
a strike of solid galena ore hru3 been made
which may promise much for this district.
Edwin Arkell. of san ~'rancisco. is the
owner of this property.
The Southern PaCific is to bUild a line
between Palisade and Sodaville., Nevada.
which may put Manhattan on a trunk line
between 'Los Angeles and the east. and
greatly aid the development of that district.
In Morgan county, in the northern ex­
tension of the Park City. Utah, district,
the Morgan-Crescent. Iron King and Morgan
ConSOlidated will resume operation under
the direction of George T.Stenhouse, man­
ager.
The Rich Gulch Mining company is put·
ting an electric locomotive on its road from
mine to mill, near Silver City. Idaho. and
will soon resume operations on a large
scale. A new 100·ton mill is being com­
pleted.
An eXP!003ion of fire damp in a coal mine
at Alais. department of Gard. France, result·
ed on Novemb€r 24th in the death of twentY'­
one miners. Only thirty-eight men were in
the mine at the time and the others es·
caped.
It is reported that Hayden, Stone &; Com.
pany of New York have taken an option on
the Success, Pick & Shovel and Bourne prop­
erties at Jarbidge, Nevada. If this option
is exercised. it will mean much for this dis·
trict.
C. F. Lake, general manager of the
Primos· Chemical _company's interests in
Boulder county. Colorado. has the three
mile rall-tram ready ·for laying the rails to
connect the Conger mine with the Primos
mill at Lakewood.
Work is being pushed on the Wizard
claim of the Fortune l\Hning company near
Prescott. Arizona, and ore is being piled on
the dump. Water is plentiful for milling.
and when enough ore has accumulated a
'mill may be installed.
The last annual report of Strattons-In­
dependence. operating at Victor, Colorado.
shows profits for the year aggregating
$174,511.S8,part of which was fram the
cyanide treatment ot ore running$S.10 a
ton. of ,which $1.'50S were costs.
Archie J. Orem. superintendent of' the
JLi ill .3 l(Jlt.i..,
29j
1.4
Nevada-Douglas Copper ICOmpany, operat·
ing at Ludwig, Nevada. states he expects
that 14,000 tons will be shipped in No· ~
vember, the average daily shipments of cop·
per ore being now about 400 tons.
The Montreal mine at Beaver. Utah. is
reported to be in good ore. in the shape of
native coppe-r. W. 1.. Bachtell reports that
anything that at al] resembles a mine or
dump in the Beaver section is now being
lea'3ed on account of the excellent returns
being received.
The new 3,000 foot tramway of the Junta
Consolidated Gold Mining company is fin·
ished up to point where the new SOO·ton
mill is to be built. The mlll building will
be 96 feet by 120 feet. 'built in six terraces
and will be the fourth in size. in" the San
M~guel section.
The Crown King mill, in the Bradshaw
district of Arizona. will resume operations
after a shutdown of several years, Six con­
centrators have been added and work will
begin on the accumulated dumps. Besides
the gold value in the old tailings dumps,
zinc will 'be recovered.
It is rumored that a big copper merger Is
on in the Ely. Nevada. camp, whereby the
Utah Copper companY' wiH ,merge the Gi­
roux Consolidated, the Nevada COllJ3olidated
and the Copper Mines company. This
possibility is Interesting, but the rumor is
as yet unconfirmed.
Leonard Hoffunan, general manager of
the Southwestern Copper company. operat­
ing near Kingman. Arizona, is placing a
new 150 horsepower engine; ore bins. ceo
ment fioor. etc.. have been finished. and
preparations are well advanced for the
new mill of the company.
E. Shoush of Macon, Missouri, is in
charge of the work on the Pine Com!) prop­
erty at Central City, Colorado. where a new
compressor is being installed to facilitate
the sinking of the new shaft. which is now
eighty feet below the tunnel level and
shows four feet of good ore.
J. A. Houlahan. manager of the Nevada
Eagle ,property. near Goldfield, Nevada. hlliJ
received returns from his first shipment.
This ran about forty dollars to the ton.
anq was all mined below the SOO·foot level.
This shipment is of importance to the de­
ve:opment of the Goldfield district.
The Success Mining company. H. F. Sam·
uels, manager and principal owner. has de­
clared another dividend. bringing the total
for the year to $180,000. The 'mine at Wal.
lace,Idaho.employ\! about 100 men. The 1
plant has recently b€en thoroughlY' over­
hauled a,nd put in first class condition.
The mill at the Barstow mine at Ouray.
Colorado, has closed, down for the winter
season. In June 388,220 pounds of concen- f
trates. were prodUced. in July, 556,440 and •
in August 670,560. Lead wn " r
produced'to the amount' ot .~5~.
 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV EM BE R 30, 1912.

,L!l(l ah(lut 1111' ~(\nl(- :t;llollnt ed to drive the lower tunnel, which should year the production has boon ·20,028,000
!"oIH'cnil ati);;' al e DE-ing cut the ledge at 730 feet in depth. Ralph pounds, as against 19,969,000 pounds f.or the
in 1.)(; tt'I'U"tHJ 111 tlu-: 5<:'P'" Keliogg is in charge of the work. same period in 1911.
llr> r ('l(J~), C. A. Erickson, manager of the Huish The Hidden Treasure mill on North
Jill 11~ Mining & Milling company, operating be· Clear Creek, in Cqlorado, has been sold to
tween the Santaquin C~~,~l and Union California interests. The old mUl will be
Chief mines, in the 'Santaquin district of dismantled and a new unit .of fifty tons,
Utah, reports that ore of gOod grade haJ3 with sampUng plant, will be installed by
·been found in stringers in the breast of the R. Chester Turner, of Berkeley, California,
150·foot tunnel and that the main vein who is in charge. The mill will treat cus·
t' {",u ry­ 'Should be cut in another fifty feet. tom ores and will be enlarged ultimately
\\ hiph l1fll t,-.Jj The Gemini mine in the Tlntic district to 500 tons capacity.
'!) $1 1'''1 ear· has joined the ranks of the zinc producers The Utah Copper company, .with mines
of that district with its first car of zinc at Bingham, Utah, has declared its regular
0; Pas~\d('na, California, j'p. ore. This Is a famous lead and silver pro· qual'terly dividend of seventY·live cents a
11;" HUlll· ducer, and like many Tintic mines, it Is sbare, and Nevada Consolidated, its subsid·
found that the zinc ore bodies opened up iary at Ely, Nevada. posted a regular of
in the old days in extracting lead and sil­ thirty-seven and one·half cents and an extra
ver ores are now a valuable asset. dividend of fi~ty cents. Utah Copper will
The Salt Lake offioo of the California· dis'burse. $1,182,412.50, making n total' of
Utah Gold & Copper company has received $4,727,459 for the year.
word from the mine that most gratifying According to advices received from Lima,
~ 'oPP"J' vOlilvnny, w!!'tl prop­ exposures of fine shipping ore are being South America, Louie Seckles, formerly .of
SOllth \mJ'l'i('i.l. ("llJipping made as work progresSlli! In shaft sinking. Salt Lake, who left for Peru two yeal\'3 agO
with illt' ;\!iJlE'raJ ~('peranon Quite a number of vi(Sitors have visited the as auditor for the Amazon·PacJ.!ic railroad,
II" line property, of late, and these have been well has been fQrtunate enough to make some
)-('<"OYf-:"lT of pleased with mine conditions. important gold dieooveries in Huanuce dis·
will Le made, A new coal enterprise in JacksQn county, trict. Mr. Seckels has been able to sell a
will lw
Colorado, is the result of negotiations .of Y. half interest In his find to a New York com~
Z. Read, O. H. Shoup and B. H. Hopkinil pany for $60,000, and Is now on "Ea.3Y
Bnl+.: millf; ill tiH~ (jilmore with English and Q()rman capitalists, who Street."
I. ,': .ldHl}iI, ;1 lunlH:,1 ·UHi f{.;er long, has wlIl Invest $500,000 immediately, and ulti­ The Lowland Tunnel, Water & Transpor·
whkh u;3;sayiJ;g $20 mately three times that amount In develop­ tation company has been Incorporated by
\\ R Horn, of Raimon. Idaho. ing land.3 that may add enormously< to Colo­ Salt Lake. interests with a capitalization of
:fWl sl111lfnents rado's coal production. $1,000,000 to drive a 10,000-100t tunnel In
the' middh· of D(~ct'mher.
The preliminary estimates of the result3 the Mt. Nebo·Santaquin district of Utah to
has of operatiQns at the Goldfield Consolidated crosscut the ore zone at a depth of 4,460
mines, at Goldfield, Nevada, are out. The feet. Lows Fugal is presIdent, Clark L.
J1)1:1 (It TlIt? South ('tall gross production was about $401,000, against Whitney, secretary·treasurer, and George F.
,-,-=- ~1;]\'l1('i'l' ('O'liJj)any, al X{~whous(', $433,500 in September, but the net prolit Is Wa.'lson and -Alvin F. Sund'berg additional
j1\lL ia to lWlldh-;, 3~)O $216,000 as compared with $200,800 in Sep­ directors.
(1:d1y fro;)! Ihp Hu!'n SjJ-ver tember. Operating cosf;:3 were $185,000. A contract has been let for the installa·
( )' IJ 11(! n.~·
Slightly over 30,000 tons of ore were treated. tlon of a ten·ton Scott furnace on the
:.1 11 l!-v;'jps and h:iS ,w)('/l1)O t()llk o! ground of the Telluride ConsQlIdated Mines
The Rico..Wellington Mining company,
(IJI111(' dump H,K w{-'!ll (IS mille l'().
company, near Beatty, Nevada, to treat the
operating at Rico, Colorado, is shipping thir­
Il'i,IIIII, i
ty-five to forty tons of ore dallY, running cinnabar ore which ia now exposed in the
tll"t the Golctfie\<1 Oro
l"nOllllCc'd seven to ten per cent cOl>per, and seven company's mines. D. Wiggers, Of Beatty,
'illl"]">' o]Jeratill!, at Gohlfleld. Ke· to ten ounoos silver. The .old Pro Patra is in charge. The ore is said to run from
f: jJUt do\\ 11 a j J100-foot shaft. At mill is being remodeled to a capacity of sev· seven toO ten 'per cent mercury. If these
I" the following officers were enty·five tons a day and should go· Into values are true, Nevada should increase Its
f~t~()l'.:'!'(:o' A ).rnnnir:.f2;, of CUTIYj1bfdl! commission In January. It wIll treat the quicmi1ver .output.
P,~lflllllillg, lead·zinc ore.
In the Jerome district of ArIzona mIn·
At the Ben Harrison, near Sumpter, Ore. ing is active. The Pittsburg-Jerome MlIn·
gon, the mill building has been enclQsed, Ing company is shIpping in suppUes for re­
the transmission line is nearly completed
and the mill machinery Is being placed on
sumption of work, the Haynes Copper com­
pany ,has contracted for power, the Jerome·
1
the ground. The mine is practically idle. Verde is ready to install Its new holst Bnd
',;nly incorporated to Ollerate at awaiting the completion of this mlll, whIch has signed a power contract wRh the Arl. J
pl'f?l: minar,r ('011­ treats an auriferous fltlbnite. Details of the zona. Power company. The United-Verde
h('en dOll(:. ill grading, mill were published in a recent issue of the Extension company is expected to resume
f(,.lil1dd k iOl1S, instal1in'.g compr'ps30r Mining Review. work this month.
ill electrical wir!n,,:
The Old Dominion Copper company, ()per· The Sacramento claim of the Muir
('dba. rrline in the Ely district of ating at Globe, Arizona, produced 2,223,000 Brook group, near Stockton, Utah, Is now
;1;'" prorjllced two carloads Of high· pounds of copper in September, as com· being worked, under lease, by Thomas Mol"
Three meu macle Ih" production pared with 2,500,000 'pounds In August of row and Leland Walker, two U. of U. grad­
x f~' d'I)'S. The ore is hand-sorted and this year, and 2,032,000 In September of last uates, who expect toO have a carload ship·
(;(1. 1lriJIs alld compressor will be add­ year. For the first nine months of the ment of heavy lead ore on the market by
 I I

the middle of December. There is a good Goldfield, Nevada. The amount was thirty importance, have, been made. Mr. Dull.
showing of ore in, the mine workings, and cents a share. Stockholders are in recetpt was in SalttakEl on the', 15th, and 16th,~
it is believed the lease will be on a regular of a statement for the months of July, Is back at the niine again wo~kingil
shipping basis by spring. August and ~ptember, which shows that a in the further exploitation of his new I'll
The Smuggler·Union Mining company, total of 94,U5 tons werEl treated for a rer The Hope Mines Development romp
operating at Telluride, Colorado, has taken covery of $1,245,861.49, at a. cost of $584,­ has been organized with a capitalizatioI
a three-year bond and lease on the 002.08, of which $2,078.80 was for construe­ $500,000 in $1 sharefil, to develop the II

I
group of claims in Cornet cNlek basin, tion. The net for the quarter was $661,­ and other, mines, in Tuolumne county. (
owned by the Moorhead Mining & Milling 8{)9.41. ' fornia. George ,T. Stenhouse of Morl
company. The claims lie between the Lib­ It is rumored that the Columbus Con- Utah, Serge M. Stenhouse and F. O. H
erty Bell and Mendota, mines and the ore 801ldated,Flagstalf and Columbus Extension of Salt Lake, are the incorporators.
can be cheaply mined and milled. A. L. mdnes of the Alta, Utah, district, wUlbEl officElI13 arEl Theo W. WhitElley, prElsid.

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Moorhead, H. M. Hogg and William L. Hogg consolidated. The Flagstaff W'8.S a shipper Wendell P. Slayton and William J. Lea,
are the heavy ownElrs of th,EI claims. to SwansEla, WalEls, in the seventies, when vice·presldElnts; F. O. Horn. secretary; C,
John M. Dick, manager of the majestIctllis camp, was opened up. The Consolidat, Johnson, treasurer; E. C. Punn, Fresno,
MinEls company of Beaver county, Utah, ed has a concentrating plant, and is con. ifornia, and James H. Wolfe, Salt Lake,
states that th.is company has sh.ipped, venient for working the Flagstaff at greater rectors.
since May, 9,127 tons; From 2,169 tons of dElpth. The Extension is thought to have The Salt Lake managElment of the t
this the eompany made $3,500. One hun· the continuation of the vein found In the mine, In Flsh Spring>3 district, Utah,
dred and twenty-seven cars of ore aver­ other mines. more than satisfied with the present phy~
aging two and one·half'Per cent copper, In the suit of the Charleston Hill Min- condition of this old·time producer and •
one and one-half ouncEls silver ,and thirty- Ing syndicate against the National Mines dend"pa~r. In the Utah. of late, a :
live to forty·two per cent iron, were shipped oompany, at National, Nevada, decision has of ore has beEln encountered between
from Old Hickory ground in thNle months, ,bElEln rendered In favor of thEl latter by 3rd and 4th levels, In virgin territory, wl
The Cedar-Talisman Mining oompany, of Judge Farrington, at Carson City. The Na. has a dimension of three by four feet,
Salt Lake, operating In Star district, Beaver tlonal IlI!Il.y now follow its vein Into Charles. from which SlUlliptes have been taken all
county, Utah, is drifting from the 500, In ron ground, It having been decided that the Il)..g ,611 per cent lead, 994 ounces ail
the shaft, for thEl purpose of cutting fuEl National has the apex of the vein clafmed and $9 in ,gold to the ton. Some of
main Talisman fissure, the cropping.> of by both companies. The ground is ,excep. .ore from the new strike is now being 1
J which show so strongly on the surface. If tionally rich, and the case has attracted kEltEld.
the 'vein maintains its dip it should be much attention. The Camp Bird mine at Ouray, Color
encountered sometime next month, whEln. The International Smelting & Refining produced $1,742,137.64 In gold during
it Is expected, a fine body of ore will be company has posted a dividend of two per fourteen months ending June 30, 1912.
uncovered. cent on the 100,000 ",harEls Issued, making average value of the ore was $26.15 a:
1. E. Pettit, state coal mine inspector a' distribution of $200,000. Th.is is payable and the recovery in gold' 94.68 per (
of Utah, announce!! fue namEls of the fol· November 30th and brings the total for the The cost per ton was $7.81. The p
lowing' as succesSfully passing the recent year up to $800,000, and the grand total for the period was $1,135.291.81. TJ
examlnatlon,-Fire bOllS, GeorgEl Kendricks, sInce the beginning of opera.tions to $2,­ Were 1,635 tons of brol,en ore In the st.
Sunn,g .....j·de,· E. F. Chatleln, ".....
Ulnhrland and 700000
, . The copper smeI tery at Tooele, In June. and about fifty tons a day a.r~
Abel Boone, Castle Gate ·, ""ue nil'~
fo-men, Utah , h as b'ElEIn d own on account
' of strikes, ing mlllE\d. SincEI April, 1903, this com!
ElmElr MennElrby, Mohrland; M. H. Det· but the nElw lead refinery 1I.t East Chicago has paid approximately ulne mdllion d.ol
weilar, Sunnyside', Gus Goddart, Hiawatha; h' Id b i t dd i The resElrves in the mine assure many
S ou . Elg n 0 a Its earn ng;! to the dltional dividends. '
Oliver Sutch, 'Mlliam Rothwell and Joseph compa.ny's pr.oftts. _--­
Parr, of Castle Gate. The Utah Asphalt company and the Utah N.EW PUBLICATIONS OF BUREAU
R. M. Martin has taken over the interests Hydrocarbon company, were recently incor. MINES.
of W. H. Smith, In Copper Basin section porated with capitals of $700,000 and ~350,- Bulletin 43...,..(Jomparative fuel value
of the Yavapai district of Arizona, and will 000 ;respectively, ro develop the natural rock gasoline and denatured alcohol In Inte:
procEled to organize a. company and work asphalt deposits in Carbon county, Utah. combustion engines, by R. M. Strong
the claims, sinking a shaft 700 feet deep formerly the. property of the Pittsburg·Salt Lauson Stone; 1912. 243 pp. 3 pIs.
on a mineralized dyke on the property. Rich Lake on companY. The .officers of both Bulletin 46-An investigation of ex
values have been found on this ground. Mr. companies are O. K. LeWis, president;M. lon.proof motors, by H. H. Clark. 1912.
Martin Is also the owner of the Climax, in R. Evans, vice-president; 1. Heber Rlcnards, pp 6.pIs.
thEl same district, where he Intends to erect secretary and treasurer;F. A. Druehl, A. V. Technical Paper 25--Methodsfor thl
a twenty·five ton plant as soon as 'awagon Taylor, George T. Odell and Dale H. Parke, termdnation of water in petroleum ani
road Is completed. additional diNletors. products; by t. C. Allen and W. A. J!l.(
W. D. Roberts, C. F. ,Wesirope, John T. Some very important discoveries have 1912. l3pp.
Taylor, and James Sumner, of Provo, Utah, been made of late on the property of the Technical Paper 28-Ignition of gal
John Pulsifer of St. George, Utah, and CommonweaIthMining company In Star dis· standard IllcandElscent lamps, by H: H. q
Frank Waguer, of Denver, owners of a trict, BeavElr county, Utah. For sElverai 1912. 4 PP.
' group of four claims in Bull Valley dis· 'months past that veteran mining man, 1. A. The Bureau of Mines has copies of t
,4I trict, forty mdles WEIst of St. George, Will Dunyon, has 'been carefu lly p'ro
s... """tI
~v ng. th e publications for freEl distribution, 'b~,t~,
r I begin the development of this promiSing company'sdomai'n, with the result that he not ,giVEl more than one copy of thei
I I - p r o p e r t y in the near future. A company is has found Ii new veiIhln the AnchOr eIaim. bulletin to ,one -person. ,'cIteq,U€l3ts !'~
bElingformed for' the taking ever of the This was uncoveNld at a ~epth 'o-r fivElfeet, papers can not be' gral1ted without
,l property in question, which, .in the past, aM conslstsiof' a foot 'or eighteen inches OrJ'f ;T~ll. . f~ask!llg ·f()r ,Pllbll

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' had a Nlcord as a producer. of first-class shipping "6te, with every Indl· please on'der tbem -by number IJ.nd t~tiej
Dividend No. 17 has'been paid by the cation present that the ledge is a pElrma· plicat.!ons·should 'be add~~dto the'D
Goldfield Consolidated Mines companY, or nent one. other discoveries, or U1.e utm911t tor L9f,t,h~.J3:u.re~~-. cQr r~~~II' ,W:sph

32 THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV EM B E R 30, 1 9 1 2. '
[ Around the Slate
Vernal Express: The Carnegie Museum
of Pittsburg has authorized Prof. Earl Doug­
las of the famous Jensen, Utah, dinosaur
quarry, to begin shipping the fOSllil monsters
to Pittsburg. It Is estimated by Prof. Doug­
las that the fossils already crated for ship·
ment will make three carloads and the fam­
ous Jensen quarry Is still yielding rich re-
turns in dinosaur skeletons.
Eureka Reporter: At the property of
the Tintic Mining & Devel(}pment company
the shaft has now reached a depth of about
76J feet. Sinking will ·be continued until
the 800 level is reached when drifting will
be taken up. This property adjoins the
Gold Chain and Opohongo and on effort will
be made to l<>eate the same ore bodies
which have placed both of these mines in
the dividend paying column.
Eureka Reporter: Supt. Perry Fuller
states that ·in the Beck Tunnel he Is still
following the Humbug ore, chute toward the
south and that while nothing big has been
opened there is still a very nice showing of
ore. As the work progresses toward the
south and into new territory there Is always
a possibilitiy of finding an important ore
deposit. Everything considered the Beck
Tunnel is looking very good, ore being ex­
posed in three separate places in the mine.
Milford News: John M. Forgie, in charge
of the Montreal group (}f claims in Rocky
Mining district, owned by the Glasgow &
Western Exploration company, reports a
most wonderful strike and a large sample
of the ore is on exhibition in the drug
rotore here in Milford. It is ore whicll will
run about forty per cent in copper and also
carries' a high excess of red hematite Iron.
This ore has been exposed in two places
on the surface, about three ·feet wide in
each place.
Milford News: William Nertney and
George Algood have a lease on the Nevada
Ready Pay mine, located a few miles south
of the Cactus mine. They are driving a
tunnel and are now in 185 feet. The lead
of ore where they are is about ten feet wIde
and where the ilhaft cuts it is about five
feet near the surface. The ore is largely
lead. eopper and silver with a small amount
of zinc. The leasers have a car of ore out
on top of the ground, but do n(}t intend to
ship it for SOme little time yet.
Park Record: For the month of October
there were 206 cars of ore shipped out of
Park City aggregating 7,445 tons. Of this
amount the Union Pacific carried 5,416
tOn3, and the Denver and Rio Grande 2,027
tons. The shippers and the amount shipped
by each follows: Silver King Coalition.
2,632 tons; Daly Judge, 2,196 tons; Daly
West, 1,470 tons; GraSl3elli Chemical com­
pany, 438 tons; Crowther Ontario lease, 197
tons; E. J. Beggs. 51 tons; New York Bon-
anza, 57 tons; Barry>Coxe, 30 tons; Chas..
I'
. Moore, 21 tons.
Milford News: '. J~es McSorley, one of
the leasor,s on -tile' Old Cave property in
Bradshaw Mining district, expresses Mmself
as very enthusiastic over the work which
is being done out there under the direction
of J. R Smithson. Mr. McSorley says they
are breaking into the ore which they were
driving for; also, that in the not distant
future they are going to install a gasoline
pump and unwater the workings below the
tunnel level, whiCh will enable them to again
attack the ore ,whieh was left there at the
time work was shut down some years ago.
American Fork Citizen: Steve Woods,
John Armstrong and Wilhrd Chipman are
feeling elated over a strike o·f galena and
carbonate ore in their lease on the Mormon
tunnel side of the old Miller property. wpods
and Chipman took a load of su.pplies to the
canyon on Sunday. when they met Arm­
strong half way down, coming for ore sacks
and more ·help. They have small quanltles
of ore in a number of place3, but their im­
portant strike shows a vein two feet thick,
going down and into the hilL More sup­
plies and 1,000 ore sacks were taken to, the
canyon 'bY' Mr. Chipman yesterday. They
will now have sufficient supplies for all
winter.
Eureka Reporter: The May Day mine
still maintains its heavy output of zinc ore
nothwlthstanding the fact that the wagon
road between the mine and the railroad is
in fearful condition as a result (}f the ra­
eent storms. The earnings of the May Day
for the month of September were approxi­
mately $10,000 and this sum was sufficient
to wipe out the company's indebtedness
leaving the balance on the right side of the
ledger on the first of October. For last
month the mine's record was even better
than f(}r the previou& month, and it's doubtless
safe to say that th~ earnings exceeded $15,-
000. This means that the May Day share­
holders will be able to drag down a little
dlvidend m(}ney early in the new year.
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RECENT 'MINING DECISIONS.
(Prepared for the Mining Review.)
Cancellation of Patent.-Since an appli·
cant for public mineral land can hold a
claim against ;relocation so long as he Is
not in default in failing to perform the
annual labor, the cancellation of a min·
eral patent does not of itself make the
land subject to relocation.-McKnight v.
El Paso Brick Co., Supreme Court of New
Mexico, 120 Pacific 694.
Excessive Use of Common Property,­
'W!here a cotenant of a mining tunnel makes
use of the common estate for his exclUSive
benefit, he is liable to recompense his co­
owner for what such use of the latter's in­
terest is reasonably worth.-Morton v.
Laesch, Supreme Court of Colorado, 125
Pacific 498.
5f
In Adjoining States
ARIZONA.
Prescott Courier: Thingl3 about the
Redman camp are assuming a shipshape
and business-like appearance, and very soon
the opening up of the mine will be car·
ried forward rapidly by, an increased force.
The work of overhauling the hoist, painting
and renovating buildings and other prepara·
tiOTh. are completed, and later a new office
building and assay office will be erected.
The present shaft is 265 feet in depth, and
is sunk upon one of five veins which are
within a mineralized belt which is about
400 feet In width.
Kingman Miner: Ten tons of ore will
be shipped to the concentrator ·from the
W1lliam3 tungsten mines within the next
t_nty days. Thi.s is a test of jUllt how the
ore will concentrate and the installation of
a big concentrator will follow at once. The
property has recently been taken over by
a strong New York syndicate headed by
James & Roberts, of the Frisco Gold ·Mine.
company. It was recently examined by
Edward B. Sturges, a New York mining ex­
pert, and it is on ·his favorable report that
the property was acquired.
Bisbee -Review: The report comes from
Florence that President W. J. Yeung of the
Great We:;tern Mining company, which Is
operating a group of copper properties in
the Courtland mining district, has pur­
chased, together with his brothers, the
famous group of Alta mines, which are sit­
uated about eighteen mile:> northeast of
Florence. The Great Western mine, which
is under theit control and ownership, con­
tinued operations arid encountered large
bodies of copper ore long after the Copper
Queen and ,Calumet and Arizona Mining
companies had given up their options on
numerous ,mining properties in that district.
Kingman Miner: Dr. L. D. GodshalJ Wa.3
in Kingman this week, coming in from his
home in Los Angeles, and went out 10 look
after his mining interests near Layne
Springs. He reports that he has taken
over the old Teco'pa property, near Resting
Sprin~, on the Tonopah railroad, and will
soon have a big force of men at work break­
ing ore and shipping it to the Salt Lake
smelteries. The Tecopa mine is among the
big low grade proposition of Inyo county,
and,Jlwing to its high grade iron content a:nd
oxidized condition gets a free smeltery rate,
being paid for the entire content of the ore
in 'gold, silver and lead. Even then the ore
only returns a value of about eight dollars
to the' ton.
Bisbee Review: Substantial progress ir3
being .made on the building of the lOO-ton
concentrating and cyanide m!ll now under
construction at the Twin Peaks ·.eamp
twelve 'miles' elliSt'b'f llet.e!.:,:HL',b,il!.~D:U~i~$t'
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THE 8 A L T L A K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M B E R 30, 1 9 1 2.
completed, will be one of the most modern
mills in the southwest. The foundation,
have been made for a 250·ton mill by mak·
ing one change, which is to replace the
four Huntington mills with Chilean litills
at a cost not to exceed $5,000. This will
be done soon, as the mines are further,
developed, so 313 to furnish the extra ton·
nage of ore needed. This foundation work
is about completed. Mr. Bryan, the mill
metallurgist. is in charge of the work and
is now placing the machinery On the cement
foundations. A new and up-to-date chemical
and assay office has been erected close by
the mill. ----<>-­
COLORADO.
Telluride Examiner: O. B. Willmarth 13
just now completing a warehouse twenty..
four by forty-eight feet. twelVe feet hIgh,
at Placerville, to store carnotite ore that
he buys in the Paradox valley, Placerville
being his shipping point. He told the Ex­
aminer ,this morning that he now has five
cars of carnotite on the ocean en route to
hil3 company in Europe, and will start
another car of high grade from Placerv!lle
M):Jnday. This ore, or rather the best of this
ore, brings over $3,000 per car to the 'pro·
ducers, and the price paid is stimulating
mining down in the carnoJ.ite belt greatly.
Boulder Miner: A. M. Johnson, Henry
Swartz and Aaron Stromberg, aS30ciates in
lease on the Little Johnny at Salina, have
begun to shoot out a station at the lower
tunnel level, and will sink the shaft for
another lift from the present sump fifty feet
below after installing a fine hoisting plant.
They are now closing and will in a few days
make a car load .:shipment of a good grade
of ore. Demmon brothers will ship a car
early in the week ,from their stope in the
No.3 of the Uttle Johnny group. This ore
shows a conSiderable amount of free gold,
and will undoubtedl~ bring the boys satis­
factory returns.
Idaho Springs Gazette: Manager John
Hul! of the Torpedo group, up Spring gulch,
.:started a forCe of men at work last week,
The tunnel is now in 1,700 ·feet, which cuts
the apex 700 feet, and now being driven west
to the Black Eagle property, which at one
time produced some of the richest ore in
the district. They now have a streak
eighteen to twenty-two Inches wide, with
five feet between walls.' Th company has
made arrangements with the Hydro·Electric
for electricit}" and will soon have electric
power Installed for working the tunnel. D.
W. Landis of Dayton, Ohio, president of
the company, was here last week looking
over the situation.
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IDAH,O.
Twin Falls Times: Twin Falls county at
th(l present time is enjoYing a good healthy
gold excltetnenl:.
atedl,n .
as the Lilly trail, a few miles west of Buhl.
It Seems that some parties made the dis­
covery! some time last summer but the mat­
ter wa.:a kept on the quiet until the Perrine
engineers, who were doing some survey work
in that vicinity, made the discovery. As a
result of the find, placer location notices
have been posted for a mile or mOte on
each side of the trail,
Mackay Miner: Everything is now In
readiness for actual work in extending the
Cossak tunnel in the Empire Copper
company mines and the company is advertis­
Ing for bids for a five hundred foot section
of this most important ,piece of WQrk. The
Empire company! has been installing air
compressor, piping water and placing in
readineS3 a complete plant to be used in
performing this work. Bids will be opened
on the 21st of November. This will pro­
vide work for a good bunch of men. The
work is to ,be diligently prosecuted.
Elk City News: George Widmeyer has
again started Up the mill on the Little Butte
mine. The ore nOw being put through is
taken from a winze sunk on the vein about
400 feet from the portal of the tunnel. The
winze is now down about thirty feet and
is all in good high grade ore. The larger
part of the ore in the Little Butte is very
free. besides being high-grade, The mine
is opened by a tunnel some 800 feet long,
that attains a considerable depth. The mill
L3 situated at the mouth of the tunnel and
the ore is dumped direct into the ore bins.
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OREGON.
Sumpter American: Mr. C. L: Arzeno,
president of the Blue Mountain Mining com­
pany, repOrts his company has purchased
the Psyche 20.stamp mill in the Greenhorn
district and will move it to the Last Chance.
The Psyche plant is one of the best plants
in the Blue Mountains. It was purchased
originally for the Little Giant mine, then
moved to the Psyche. For a number of
~ars it ha~ been idle, the title to the 'plant
having pa.,3sed to the First National bank of
this place.
Sumpter American: It is understood that
active work of opening the Maid of Oregon
property in the Alamo district is to be
started at once. This is a quartz property
belonging originally to Geo. Sherf of Alamo.
Last summer a corporation was formed by
Mr. Sherf and Seattle parties to develop the
group, and Mr. Harper arrived at the mine
this week from Seattle. It is not under­
stood to be the intention to undertake to be
the intentions before next spring, but a
small forCe of miners wil! be employed un­
derground during the winter.
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NEVADA.
port is as follows: Ore shipped, 1,74'
gross Yield, $59,060.60; extraction, $7"
transportation, $4,397.03; reduction,
579.82; net value, $25,614.72, to
may be added $239.69 net from concel
leasers. The company has again re
operations and will soon be produc
heavily as in the ,past.
Eureka Sentinel: II. A.Linke', ~
manager of the Nevada Central 'CoPP€
pany's mines at Cedar station, is !
ready to resume active operations ;
properties. A n..:w sixty horsepower
compressor and air drills, are.being in
and with the men sent down from ]
this week there is now a force of
men at the plant.
Searchlight Bulletin: The erect
the stamp mill on the Parallel propeI
been completed and it was given a :
this week, Everything ,worked Sll'
and within a short time it will be I
tinuous O'peration, the only delay
occasiOiled by the lack of a sand;
to elevate the tailings to the settlin~
It is estimated there are already !
hundred tons of ore ready fO'r trea
but as yet no estimate ean be pla(
what the average production of the
will be. Work underground has ,beeD
ed on a small scale, and it is believf
property will be on the active list
this time on.
Yerington Times: G. W. Winckfie
Loma mining man and manager f!
Calaverite Mining company, was iii
last week and reports things lookinl
perous in his section of the countr:
is now engaged in sinking an inclin€
on the Lone Pine group of three,
and is being rewarded by finding or
runs $9.80 in silver, $5.40 in gold ar
ries sixteen per cent copper content
vein being followed is about flvef
width. The property is situated (
few miles from the Nevada and Cal
road, and there is a good wagon I'm
downhill haul from the mine to the ra
The CalaYerite company expects to s1
from this property to the Thompson
ery before the first of the. year.
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WYOMING.
Centennial Post: I. A. Eide is w:
on his mining property just above thl
mercial. He is retimbering the en4
trance to the tunnel and getting it in;
shape to carry on operations. The)
showing there is very encouraging '1
is believed that, with .~ ordinary
the gronhd, t b e c a ' n be .
well as it hasf~t
 THE SALT LAKE MINING

TIlE STOCK BXCJL\NGE. THE LOCAL METAL MARKET. of sevent.een chapters whic~' were previous·
November 11.
Iy published as separate prumphlets as fast
rJ ,.'"7
;1. Silver, 62 % cents; lead, $4. 75. copper ca­ as completed.)
Lt.. tt"d "t(H·k!ol;.
thode, 17.05 cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7.40. Bulletin 530-D--Gold LQdes of t1;'( Carr­
NoveJDber 12.
Silver. 62 % cents; lead, $4. 75; copper ca­ ville District, Trinity county, California, by
thode, 17.05 cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7. 30. D. F. MacDonald. (Describes section Where
November J3.
Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.75; copper ca­
it is thought several small mines may soon
thode, 17.05 cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7.30. become producers of gold.)
November 14. Bulletin 530·R-Potash Explorations in
Silver, 62% cents; lead. $4.75; copper ca­
thode, 17.05 cents; zinc (S1. Louis), $7.80. Nevada, by R. B. Dole. (A summary of this
November 15. report is published elsewhere in this issue.)
Silver, 62", cents; lead. $4.75; copper ca­ Bulletin 531-B-01I & Gas in Oklahoma,
thode, 17.05 cents; zinc ( St. Louis), $7.80.
November 18. 'by Robert H. Wood.
Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4. 75; copper ca­ Bulletins 520-F, I, J, L-Mlneral Re­
thode, 17,05 cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7,30.
November IS.
sources of Alaska, 1911, by stephen R.
Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4. 75; copper ca­ Capps, H. M. Eakin, H. G. Maddren and
thode, 17,22% cents; zinc (st. Louis), $7.30. Philip S. Smith. (Describes Yentna, Ram­
NoveUlber 19.
Silver 62% cents. lead, $4.75; copper ca­
part, Ruby and Alatna Noatak dlstrlct§.)
thode, 17.22% cents; zinc (S1. Louis), $7.30. Bulletin 471-D-Lignite in Montana,
NoveUlber 210, (Fort Union and Baker fields are des­
Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.75; copper ca­
thode, 17.22% cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7.30. cribed.)
November 21. Bulletin 520-B-Tln Resources of Alaska,
Silver, 62% cents; lead, $4.75; copper ca. by Frank L. Hess. (The tin deposits of
thode, 17.22% cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7.35.
November 22. Seward Peninsular were discovered in
Silver 63 cents; lead, $4.75; copper ca­ 1900. Deposits are rich but climate severe
thode, 17.22% cents; zinc (St. Lou!s), $7.35. and season short for placer work.)
November 23.
Silver. 63 cents; lead, $4.75; COpPer ca­ Bulletin 49B-Headwater Regions of
thode, 17.22% cents; zinc (St. Louis), $7 .85. Gulkana and Sisitna Rivers, Alaska, by
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Fred H. Moffit.
NEW YORK LISTED STOCKS.
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1. ~;)
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I Sales. 1 H. I L. IClose Field, by E. G. Woodruff.
l. ;:! 1,'2 Chino . . . . . . . . . ,.... 2.900147%1471".'1 47"·
Goldfield Con. ...... 1,100 2'4 2" 4 1 2'4 Bulletin 530-E-Creede, Colorado, Min­
. Ol:~ Nevada Con. ....... 1,100 23", 23 23 ing District, by W. H. Emmons and E. S.
(I:; '4­ Ray Con. .......... 4001 22'4\ 22", 22'4
. ,0 Tenn. Copper ...... 10{),41% 41%141% Larsen.
:-L~:2 ~ Miam! Copper...... 6001 27%1 25%1 27% Bulletin 520-('-Mineral Resources of
Utah Copper ....... 900 63", 63'4 63%

;J:nspiration ........ I 1.30()j 20%1i20",1 20\j,

the Lower Copper River Basin, Alaska, by
Studebaker . . . . . . . . 1....... 1..... 1.... .420)43

NEW YORK CURB RANGE.

I Sales. I H. 1 L. IClose
GirOUT Con. . . . . . . . / 101 4%1 4%1 4",
Ohio Cop. . . . . . . ,... 20011 5-1611 5-1611 5-16
Mason Valley ...... \ 100112'4112'41 1214
Brad. Cop. ......... 3,000 9", 8%1 9
(Kerr Lake ... ...... lIlOI 2% 2%1 2%
Belmont . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1001 8% 8%
Alaska . .................. 9 I 9 1 9
RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE ClEO.
LOGICAL SURVEY.
Below is given a list of geological pub­
lications of interest in the intermountairl
region. In each issue, we shall publish such
a list, with brief comment on the contents.
Bulletin 471-J-Mliscellaneous Analyses
of Coal Samples from Various Fields of the
SnIes. United States.
Bulletin 520-A-The Alaska Mining In­
dustry in 1911, and Railway Routes in Al­
aska, by Alfred H. Brooks. (One of the
chapters of Bulletin 520.)
Bulletin 520-E-Gold Deposits of the
20 Seward-Sunrise Region, Kenai Peninsular,
at j2(',
Ol)cn Bonrd.
by B. L. Johnson. (Another chapter of Bul
letin 520.)
Bulletin 520-H-Water Supply of Yukon.
Tanana Basin, Alaska. ('Chapter of Bulle­
tin 520.)
Bulletin 52o-Mlneral Resources of Ala­
'rotu18.
ska, by Alfred H. Brooks and others. (Thir­ being brought down rapidly. Except for
H.\'S,~n];1r. 1:t,2iO sharf'S for $1,12ri.G5.
teen parties were in the field in 1911. This the ehanges noted above, the officials of
Open. 7.GGI shares for $1.558.20.
bulletin describes their work, and consists the company remain the same.
Total, ~2,931 slwres for $2,G83.85,
Fred H. Moffit.
There have also been recently published
as advance chapters of the Mineral Re­
sources of the United States, papers on
the smelter production of lead, zinc and
cadmium, and the production In 1911 of coal,
8%
glass sand and other sand and gravel, natu­
ral gas and lime.
Copies of these bulletins and reports
may 00 secured on application to the Direc­
tor of the Geological Survey, Washington,
D. C.
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PRINCE CON. REORGANIZES.
Some time ago we reported that the
control of the Prince Consolidated mine, at
Pioche, Nevada, had been taken over by
the Knox and Kirby interests. At'a re­
cent meeting the .new control was given
effect by the election of officers, who are as
follows: Charles E. Knox, president; Char­
les E. Knox, William H. Webber, John A.
Kirby and A. Y. Smith, directors.
A. Y. Smith has been manager of the
property for the past two months and has
demonstrated its worth. The mine is a low
grade proposition which is to 00 worked
on a large scale. At present about 350 tons
a day are beIng shipped, and the costs are

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THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV EM BE R 30, 1912.
RAY CONSOLIDATED.
The fifth quarterly repvrt of the Ray
Consolidated Copper company, operating at
Santa Rita, New Mexico, has just 'been is·
sued. The total production for the year is
given out in detail and the condition of
the property discussed.
First Quarter. Pounds
Jan uary ......................... 2,413,700
ing and general charges, as well as 121.4 to finish the'tl1 is on the ground read:
February . . . .................... 2,237,223
cents per ton for the second and third quar­
March . . ............. . ........ 2,472,011
ters, or approximately 0.6 of a cent per
Total .......................... 7,122,943
Average monthly production ..... 2,374,314
Second quarter. Pounds
April . . . ....................... 2,710,908
May .. " ..................... 3,078,856
June ........................... 3,162,310
Total ........................ 8,952,074
Average monthly production '" .2,984,025
Third Quarter. Pounds
July . . ....................... .3,105,165
August . • . . .................... 3,055,490
September ..................... 3,135,163
Total ........................ 9,295,818
Average monthly production ..... 3,098,606
The total production for the first nine
months of the year was 25,370,835 pounds.
During the past quarter the total net ton­
nage of ore treated at the mill was 429,411
tons, as compared with 374,600 tons for the
second quarter, and 301,674' for the fint
quarter. The total for the nine months was
1,105,694 tons. Of the tonnage treated duro
ground is now becoming available. Itl
ing the quarter sixty-eight per cent came
from the territory tributarY to No.1 shaft
and thirty-two per cent from the No.2 shaft.
Twenty-four per cent of the total was pro·
duced from development work. Average
daily tonnage for the quarter was 5,667 tons.
As average rate of 5,000 tons per day was
reached during the quarter and maintained
during September.'
The average assay of ore treated during
the quarter was 1.6148 per cent as com­
pared ~ith 1.72 per cent for the preceding
quarter. The lower grade of the ore,
amounting to about .01 per cent. taken to­
gether with the fact that tonnage was still
derived in large part from upper levels of
mines and therefore contained considerable
qUantities of oxidized material, is refiected
in a somewhat lower percentage of extrac­
tion applying to the third quarter than to
. either of the previous quarters of the year.
Average extraction for the quarter was
67.026 per cent, as compared with 69.37 per
cent for the previous quarter. Average ex­
traction for first nine months of the year
has been 68.35 per cent.
The total production of concentrates for
the quarter was 25.926 tons, containing an
average of 17.93 per cent copper. Ratio of
concentration was 16.56 tons of ore into
g
one ton of concentrates. Average cost per pleted and the plant at that shaft IS:
pound of net copper produced during quar­ finished. The plant on No. 2 shaft is
ter, after allowing for smeltery deductions, plete, with exception of installing of'
and after crediting earnings of Ray & Gila tioual crusher and set of rolls in the <it
Valley railroad against operating costs, was crushing plant at that point. The sU'
10.027 cents, as compared to 9.954 cents for Improvements, including hoiSt,. ore
the preceding quarter.. Average cost per crushing plant, etc., at No. 3 shaft on!
pvund so derived for first three~uarters is nal Ray Central territory are about •
10.047 cents. This cost includes all operat­ cent completed and all material necel
assembling.
Work of sinking this shaft has
pound on the third quarter's production, for gressed more slowly than was expe
extinguishment of mine development ex· This has been due largely to the fact
penses. this shaft is deeper than any workinl
The constant improvement is operating the vicinity and Is therefore drainin@
costs and conditions is shown by the fact entire surrounding territory, and morE
that on the recovery of 21.65 pounds of cop­ ftculty is experienced in handling 1
per per ton of ore treated for the quarter as than was anticipated. At end of qu
compared to 23 9 pounds per ton recovery there remained sixty feet of sinkin
for the previous quarter, the per pound complete t,his shaft. It should be fin'
cost of production increased only very in November and 'production of ore
slightly. The defficiency of something over the relatively high grade body In Ray
two pounds per ton in recovery is, of course, tral territory will be started in Decel
due to ore -containing approximately two or, In any event, not later than Januar
pounds less copper per ton than it did for In development work there was d
the previous quarter, and at the same time a total of 37,715 feet in drifting, ralsin~
being somewhat more difficult to concen­ sinking. This brings the total wor!
trate on account of oxidized contents, as in the mines at the end of SeptembE
previously explained. to 264,000 feet, or about fifty miles.
The financial results of operations for Rate of tonnage production has
the quarter were as follows, the disbursed somewhat disappointing, although am
earnings of the Ray & Gila Valley railroad mately in accord with prediction in
being included under the headings of operat· quarterly repvrt, wherein it was expo
ing profits: a rate of 5,000 tons per day woule
Direct operating profits for quarter. $640,148 reached in August. This rate was ref
Miscellaneous income, rents, etc.. 9,964 toward the end of August, and main!:
during September. As additional at­
Total net profit ............ : ... $650712
The above earnings are computed on pected that the rate of tonnage inc:
the basis of 17.13 cents per pound for cop· will be somewhat more rapid durln@
per, or approximately 0.5 cents per pounds fourth quarter than it has been in the i
less than was actually received for copper diate past.
sold during the period. The total net earn· The grade of ore produced durin~
ings for the first three quarters of the year quarter was not as high as We expecte<
were $1,497,708. During the entire nine the reasons for this were operating l'
months the copper production has been car­ than physical ones. Certain stoping ;
r!edat less than the market price in order from which we had expected toP"
that the Inventory price of copper In tran. considerable tonnages of good gradf!
sit might be brought down to 121.4 cents did not become available for actual e
per pound. The entire stock of copper in' as rapidly as we anticipated and it
transit or unsold is now carried at that necessary. as a consequence, to PI'{
price. At the dose of the quarter no cop­ the major part of tonnage from are~
per dnefor delivery from the refineries re­ vlously working near upper zones ~
mained unsold. deposits, and in ore bodies known to b>
T·he sixth section of the Hayden plant grade. "
has been put in operation, and the seventh All conditions pertaining to 'o]lex1
section Is now well along toward comple­ of properties as a whole. including the
tion, leaving only one to finish, and this last situation, continue to be generally .sat
one is also partly cOimpleted,all the mate­ torY, except as to grade of the or~
rial and apparatus required for it being on this is now improving and the outlO
the ground. that it will increase to an average of II
The power plant and all other acces­ 2 per cent by January 1. .
sories are completed, with the exception of o
.unimportant details, and on the Whole the The Courtiand district
additional expenditures necessary to finish
the entire 'Plant will be comparatively small.
At the mines installation of the new
compressor at No. 1 shaft has been com·
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THE SAL T LA K E MIN I N G REV lEW, NOV E M BE R 30, 1912.

36

RAILROAD TIME TABLES

OREGON SaOR'.' LIN..} 'rIllE CARD.

EFFECTIVE JUNE 16, 1912.

ort Dally.
7~OP A.M... Ogden. Malad. Den­
A ....lve.
CASTLE GATE
CLEAR CREEK
Pleasant Valley
Coa1 Election is Over
. ver, Omaha, Kansas Crops are Bountiful
City, Chicago, San
F'ranclsco, Ely and ---~o----
intermedlate points
beyond Ogden. (Og­ Metals are Up
8:00 A.M ...
den and intermediate
points only arriving). 8:15 A.M.
?e'ff;;n, J~;;,n'M~~~;=
Sunnyside Coal and Coke Prosperity is Increasing
ville. lntermedlate-
Montpelier. GOing .. 10:10 P.M.
10:00 A.M.· .O!,den a,:d Interme­
I'
~!

.
dw.te POints ......... 6:55 P.M.
11'40 A.M... Overland
Omaha.
Limlted­
Chicago,
Denver. se Louis .... 3:20 P.M.
Fuel for
~I
~I
al
11:55 A.M. .. Los Angeles Limited
-Omaha,
1:05 P.M... Overland
Chicago,

Denver, St. Louis .... 4:45 P.M.

Limited--
Every Under all conditions, a
good place for you to do
I
~I
~l
31
Ogden, Reno, Sacra­
mento, San Francisco. 2:05 P.M.
2:45 P.M. .. Ogden, Boise, Port­
land, Butte . . . . . . . . . 4:50 P.M.
2:40 P.M... Ogden, San Francisco .. 6:55 P.M.
Purpose
your bankIng business Is
- by mall wlth-
4:15 P.M... Ogden, Brigham,
Cache Valley, Malad
and Intermediate '" .11:35 A.M. You Get the Service You

5:20 P.M... Ogden, Denver, Oma­

ha,
City,
Chicago, Park
Green River
and West, onlY, re­
Want When You Want It.
Walker Brothers Bankers
turning) . . . . ....... 12 :40 P.M.
6:00 P.M... Motor Flyer-Ogden
and Intermediate .... 9:35 A.M.
7:15 P.M... Yellowstone Special
UTAD FUEL COIPANY

-Ogden, Pocatello, Top F:oor Judge Building.

Idaho Fall. and Yel­
lowstone Park (Chi­
cago and East and
San Francisco and
SALT LAD CIn, lITH BIN6HAM &6ARFIELD
West, also arriving) .. 7:40 A.M.
11:45 P.l\!... Ogden, BOise, Port­
land Butte ........... 10:30 A.M.
elty Ticket Offl"e, Hotel Utah. Tel. Ell:. Ill.
DENVER & RIO GRANDE TIME TABLE. RAILWAY COMPANY
TIME CARD.
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE
RAILROAD COMPANY. (Etrectlve May 19, 1912.) The Scenic Line
(EfI'ective June 16, 1912,) Depart Dally. TO THE
Provo, MantI, Marysvale .••••...• 8:00 A.M.
Union Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, Midvale and Bingham •..•.. , ..•. 7 :45
Denver, Chicago and East .•.•••.. 8:35
A.M.
A.M.
Great Copper Mining

DEPART.
No.7-Los AngeJes Limited, to
Park City ...•••.•..•..•..•..••... 8:Z0
Ogden and Intermediate Points ..• 10:30
Ogden, San Francisco, Portland •. 12:40
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
Camp of BINGHAM

LOB Angeles ............• 5:00 P.M. Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 2:45 P.M.
No, l-The Overland, to Los An­ Midvale and Bingham ••.......... 2:45 P.M. Two Trains Dail'lJ via

geles ............... , ... 11 :50 P.M, Denver, Chicago and East ..•....• 5:20 P.M.
No. 51-Miner's Local, to Tooele and Provo, SprIngville, Tintlc •....... 4 :50 P.M, The Garfield Smelter and Mills of

Eureka ................. 7:30 A.M. Denver, ChIcago and East .....•.. 7:00 P.M.
No. 53-Garfield Local, to Garfield Ogden, Portland and Seattle ..•... 11:10 P.M. Utah Copper Co.

and Smelter ........ ,... 6 :50 A.M. Arrive Dan,..

NO.55-Tooele Special, to Garfield
and Smelter, and Tooele .. 2:40 P.M. Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles 8:15 P.M. 1011
No. 57-Garfield Owl, to Garfield and Tintic, Springv1lle, Provo ......•• lO :20 A.M. Lv. Salt Lake 7:45 A.M.

Smelter ................. 11 :00 P.M. Bingham and Midvale ...••..•.••. 10:30 A.M. Ar. Bingham . 9:05 A.M.

No. 61-Lynndyl Special. to Lehi, Denver, Chicago and East ....•..• 12:25 P.M.
Ogden and Intermediate Points ..• 2:10 P.M. 110

American Fork, Provo,

Payson. Nephi, Lynndyl,. 4 :50 P.M. Denver, ChIcago and East ........ 2:36 P.M. Lv. Bingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:35 A.l'.I.

No. 63 ..-ValleyMail, to Provo, Ne­ Ogden, San Francisco and West •• 4:55 P.M. Ar. Salt Lake •........•.•.. 10:40 A.M.

phi, San Pete Valley and Park City and Intermediate Points 5:00 P.M. III

::>iercur ..•.•.......• , ... 8:00 A.M. Bingham and Midvale ....••....•• 5:30 P.M.
Provo, Manti. Marysvale ......••. 6 :ao P.M. Lv. Salt Lake 3:15 P.M.

ARRIVE. Ogden, San Francisco, Portland .. 6:50 P.M.

Ar. Bingham . 4:35 P.M.

No. 8-..Los Ang"les LimIted, from Denver, Chicago and East .••..... 10:65 P.M.
112

No. 2_T~~so:"~fae~~~ f~oin' 'Lo~ ·An·_ : A.M.

11 40 PhoDe, Wasatch, 2526*
Lv. Eingham . . • • . . . . . . . . . . 4:55 P.M.

Tleket otll.,." 301 Main Street.

Ar. Salt Lake .............. 6:10 P.M.

No. 52-_Mt:~~,ss 'Lo~ai: 'ir'o'r'n' E~j.~k;"·, 6 :30 A.M.

----
Silver City, Stockton,
PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. For further Information aDpl1l to anll "Salt Lake

Raate" or Bingham &. Garfield Railwall Agent

No. 54_G';"~~I~e L'o~';'i," from" C;;r'- 4:50 P.M.

--()r-­
No,56-G:r'ii~id SLo';1!r,r from' Eimeii-' 8:50A.M. The Salt Lake Photo Supply company, H. B. TOOKER, Oen'. Pass. Agent
No. 58_G::fie~ar8;]1~ f;.~·m· G';';'fi~id, 6:00 P.M. 159 Main, headquarters for Kodaks, Cam· 617 MeCornlek Bulldln&, SALT LAKE CITY
eras, Supplies and Kodak Finishing. Mail
No. 62-I4~r;;;~t;r' RJ~~~Iai:'" f~om 12:55 A.M.
Lynndyl, NephI, Provo and
us your orders. Come and see Our new It is reported from Phoenix, Arizona,
store.-(Advertlesment.)
No. 64_V!n~;;mi~~~I:e i~~::.ts N';PhI~0:05
A.M. that the Guggenheim interests have taken
Provo, Mercur .......... 6:05 P.M. o over the Christmas, Imperial and Congress
Bingham & Garlleld R. R. Co.
Lessees on the Hampton mine in Russell mines and the Basco smeltery from the De­
DEPART.

:'<0.109-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 7:45 A.M.

gulch, near Central City, Colorado, are velopment company of Almerica. The Cbrist­
N o.lll-Salt Lake, to Bingham .. 3:15 P.M.
shipping sdme second class ore runllring mas ores are regarded as good fluxIng ores
ARRIVE.
fifty dollars a ton and first class running for the Hayden smeltery of the. American
NNo 1I0-BIngham to Salt Lake .•.• 10:40 A,M.

0.112-Bingham to Salt Lake., .. 6:10 P.M. about ,uOO. Smelting & Refining company.