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Sinking Iron Cylinders in Shafts. independent of water, which was allowed to remain in the since, leaks less than the last one. The loss, at the present cylinder until the excavation was completed; secondly, that time does not reach half of one per cent, upon both cables. Mr. John Milroy, Assoc. Inst. C. E., recently read a paper it could be used, and was equally effective, at any depth, This is surprising and very encouraging to the owners of the descriptive of his new apparatus for Excavating the Inter¬ without sensible difference in the cost of working; thirdly, line. The extreme cold of the deep sea basin, in which the ior of, and for sinking, Iron Cylinders at the Institntion of that its rate both of sinking and excavating was higher wires repose, is favorable to the retention of the electrical Civil Engineers, London. It was believed that for the than had yet been attained by any other method; and impulses in the channel provided for them. The time con¬ purpose of sinking cylinders, the great desideratum hith¬ lastly, that it is not liable to get out of order, whilst its sumed in charging and discharging the conductors is a bar to erto had been some method of excavating the earth from action was always in the same perpendicular line, and the rapid communication ; but this is to bo overcome by new tlie interior without at the same time having to take out expense attending its working was comparatively trifling, methods of insulation. A device has recently been brought the water, and to keep it out during the operations. This as skilled workmen were not required. forward which promises to fully remove this obstacle, aud
object seemed to the author to have thus enable submarine cables to per¬ been attained by a machine of his form double the work in the same invention, which was used in the con¬ length of time. The success of deep struction of tl»e bridge over the River sea cables is now fully assured, and we Clyde, for the Glasgow Union Rail- may look for a large increase in the way, to which Mr. Fowler and Mr. number during the next quarter of a century. Blair were the engineers. The exca- rating apparatus,commonly called the - ON SAWS. “Excavator,” was thus described :—It consisted of a horizontal frame of f' One of the most purely mechanical iron, with an outside rim 9 inches in - kinds of labor is sawing. No wonder height, to which radiated, like the tt therefore, that as soon as machinery, spokes of a wheel, T-irons from a ^ driven either by animal, water or small cast-iron ring in the centre fe steam power, was applied to the differ- To the bottom of the outside rim ^ g s ®nt varieties of hand labor, it was ap- were hinged eight heavy iron spades, ^ ^ % \ A ' plied to the driving of saws. The first nd and which, when drawn in, fitted closely, ^ ( | ^ kind of saw to which it was applied, lie sock- with their points pressing against I be run ^ j j 1 was of course the simple straight saw Btafrom the inner ring. The hinges of spades ^ J I used for sawing logs. And indeed in vontagt were so constructed as to prevent \^k % \ our western forests, the first factory them from turning back beyond the J where water or steam power is used, perpendicular. The whole apparatus ^ i | is the lumber factory or the saw-mill, was very strongly made, and it form- \ io order to work to advantage, or ed when closed a nearly water-tight ^ 3 in other words, to produce the greatest tray. When the machine was des¬ ^ amount of work in the least time, it is cending the spades were allowed to I necessary to take advantage of those hang vertically, and they were forced modern improvements, which have into the ground by the aid of two wrought such a change, not only in chains, fastened to the top of upright this, but in every other department of arms on opposite sides of the exca¬ the arts.
vator, then passed down the cylinder, In the following engravings are under a pulley, up between two lead¬ shown a few of these important im¬ ers, and over another pulley, the end provements which have been introduc¬ of each chain being wound round the i ed by Messrs. Hoe & Co., of this city. large axle of a capstan or drum on Their new patent cross cut saw re¬ the landing stage. These chains presented in Fig. 1, cuts with an ease were calculated when tightened to and rapidity hitherto unequalled. But keep the machine down whilst the in order to give this saw the full effici¬ spades were being drawn in through ency of which it is capable, it is essen¬ the ground and up to the frame. This tial to use a good gummer, as every was effected by a second set of practical man knows that the proper chains, all of e^jual length, and each Betting of the saw is a point of great fastened at one end to the inside of importance. In Fig. 2, is shown a a spade, and at the other to the end form of gummer which Messrs. Hoe Figure 3. LIEEIE8, of a main chain, by which the ma¬ & Co. regard as the best now in mar¬ chine Was raised to the surface, with ket, experience having fully convinced the earth it contained, by means of a them that gummeia made on any steam hoist. In order to enable an other principle than that of the punch opinion to be formed of the capabili¬ and die are unreliable and unsatisfac- ties of the excavator, it was mention¬ tory.
ed that the progress of the excava¬ But in the use of straight saws, when tion, and the corresponding subsi- of large size, there is great loss of jmw- dinoe of the cylinder, reached from er, owing to the continual to and fro almut 12 to 20 feet per day of 10 motion of the large masses employed. hours, inclusive of the time employ¬ , When the saws are small, the loss is WG, ed in adding fresh lengths of cylin¬ of course inconsiderable, but when they ' imporU- der, putting on weights, &c. 1\ hen are large, it is desirable that the masses there had been little interruption for should always move in the same direc¬ any of these purposes, it had amount¬ tion, so that all tlie advantages of ac¬ ed to 25 feet in 10 hours, and then the quired momentum may be fully re¬ average quantity of sand brought up tained. For this reason the straight at each list was 21 cubic feet, and the saws are used only whjn it is impossi¬ Figure 1. total quantity during the day was ble to use others. iMwing- found by measurement to be 70 cubicyards. Twelve man in Insulation of the Atlantic Cable. 1 In all othercases the circular saw is preferred, and in this 6LE8, all were employed—one engineer, one stocker, six men kind of saw Messrs. Hoe dc Co. have made the greatest iin- working the drums, three attending to the loading and The Boston Journal of ChemUtry asserts, on the authority provemeuts; foremost stands the arrangements ol the ad¬ discharging of the excavator, and one man wheeling away of a gentleman intimately connected with the working of the justable teeth seen in Pig. 8, which in order to act well, the materials. In conclusion, the following advantages were Atlantic Telegraph Cable, that the insulation is growing must be set by the indicator, also represented in the figure. claimed for this apparatus '.—First, that it was perfectly monthly more perfect, and that the first cable, laid four years By means of this indicator it is possible to bring the poinb AMERtCAtl JOURNAL OP UtNtNC April 17, IS (.9 of all the teeth to the circumference of a perfect circle, so Tlie evening was fair and warm. Tlie moon stood in cavern was like the former one, and was just as rich in ani. that they may all be made to cut alike. In this way a great | mild brightness above the hills, and raised wonderful mal remains. saving of time, teeth and files is effected. In figure 3 is shown i dreams in every creature. Just like a dream of the sun it Henry was awestruck and full of wonder; it seemed to clearly'the manner of using the indicator, thus rendering any lay over the Inward-looking dream-world, and led all nature him as if he were wandering through the front courtyard further explanation unnecessary. Finally,the duplex swage, ful storm rmrresented in figures 4 and 5 affords a very simple, but with its countless parts baca into that fabulous early time, of the inner earthplace. Heaven and earth lay all at ouce feeble eel effective mode of adjusting the teeth of this most excellent when every germ slumbered yet by itself, and lonely and a great way off, as it seemed to him, and these dark, wide world of circular] saw, the efforts of the operator being directed to untouched, longed in vain to unfold the dark fullness of its halls seemed to belong to a strange kingdom of the nether times, if t bring the saw-teeth to the shape shown in figure 6. boundless life. In Henry's Peelings the tale of the evening world. How, thought he to himself, could it be that a It would be difficult, nay impossible, to make an estimate ocean, h of the saving of time and labor '^hich has been af¬ j was mirrored. He felt as if the world rested all open world by itselt moved with a monstrous life beneath oiir stories of fected by the modern improvements in saws, which saving [ within him, and showed him as a guest all her trcMSures feet? That unheard of races had their being in the for¬ with heir in the end j)Uts so much money in the pockets of those I and hidden delights. The great, simple show around him tresses of the earth, whom the inner fire of its dark bosom It is pi who are sufficiently enlightened and liberal to incur the seemed so easy to understand. Nature seemed to him not swelled up to gigantic and great-souled forms? What, if small additional expense connected with the slight changes down of involved. , j to be fully taken in, only lor the reason that she piled up some day these awful btrangers, driven forth by the in¬ uiiderstai ■ around men the nearest and most familiar with such a coming cold, should come among us, while, perhaps, at the holding a lavishiiess of manifold forms of ut¬ little, auc terance. The words of the old man well be tl .liad opened in him a tapestry hid¬ yet, and t den door. He saw his little dwell- you can E iiig chamber was built close to a ^ inonious i lofty minster, out of whose stone C and lead fioor the solemn ancient world rose no longei up, while from the dome the bright, stones, nc cheerful future in the form of golden her powei angel children floated and sang before eiinohling it. Mighty sounds trembled in the become 8< fev ilvery singing, and all creatures went full of n ill at the wide doors, every one of She come whom clearly spoke out his inner na- that hort ^ turc in a simple prayer and in a tongue h plant, a cl of his own. How amazed was he that I nec*d of ai this clear view, already so needful to I than enoi ' his being, bad so long been un- 13. 1 have tru known to him. Now he scanned at found at I once all his ties to the wide world sj after time Figure 2. < around him; felt what he had be- shut in, V niy inothc
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TRANSLATF.U FROM THE GERMAN, BY BENJAMIN SMITH LYMAN. of silver 1 lieavy trei in quite a in these v ing throu in their jt many ren other cou here for nothing. He chimbercd about among the hills to- | There ii day, and has, no doubt, found good signs. Let’s ask bim | of die ti ei when be comes in again. Do you know, said another, we i not the fa could ask him to find water for our village ? The water ancient ti now is a long way off, and a good well would be very wel- j sure, docs come to us. It comes into niy bead, said a third, that I ‘ come through it, and wliat it would become to him, and | mountain might ask him to take along with him my son, Uiat lias be quite took in all tlie strange notions and goadings that thoughts filled the whole house full of stones—the boy is sure of he had olteii traced in its looks. The merchauts’s story of huds, poll making a skilful miner, aud the old man seems to be hon¬ the young man who studied nature so busily and became could I th est and sure to get something good out of him. Tlie mer¬ the king’s son-in-law came again to his mind, and a thou¬ day tliese chants woiideicd if tliey could not, perhaps, start a paying sand other things that he recalled in his post life of their days in tli traffic M’ith Bohemia through the miner, and in that way own will strung tliemselves upon a magic thread. get metul at good prices. The old man came into the I "Wliile Henry gave way to his thoughts, the company had [WRITT room again, and they all wished to avail themselves of his come near to the cave, The entrance was low, and the old acquaintance. He began by s.iying: How close and un- man took a torch aud clambered over the stones into it the SAND: ooiiifoi table it is liere in this little room, isn’t it ? The first. A pretty plainly-felt stream of air met him, and the moon stands out there iu full gloiy, and 1 have a great mind old man assured them that they could follow him without^ to take a walk yet. I have seen by daylight to-day some fear. Tlie most faint-heaarted went last, and kept their remarkable caves near here. Perhaps some of you will weapons in readiness. Henry and the merchants were be- have a mind to go too ; and if we only take lights with us I'iiid the old man, and the boy walked, delighted, by his The ina: side. The way ran at first through a rather narrow passage, A. Win that soon ended, however, in a very wide and lii:,di cavern, 1. Cr which the torches could not fully light; still they saw in the background that some openings passed out of sight into the wall of rock. The floor was soft and pretty even ; 4. Co B. Pain the walls, as well as the roof, were not rough nor uneven C. Cast either; but what chiefly caught the eyes of all was the countless number of bones and teeth that covered the «, Rc ground. Many were quite well kept, on others you saw k Pri r. Uo signs of rotting, and those that here and there stuck out of the wall seeinetl to have turned into stone. Most of 1). Bott them were of uncommon size and strength. The old man 1. Oi 2. M( was much pleased at these relics of a very early time; the 3. M( 4. Tl E. Glas reservoirs, F. Flin colored, oi 1. B1 2. M< 3. Ct 4. Re flashed, ei baster gill 6. G1 glass wei£ Apeii. 17, 1869.' AMERtCAtt JOURttAL OF MtIURC. future, like a child of cTerlaaling peace. How quiet and 6, Beads and imitation of pearls, etc. 1 calico printing, that it is unnecessary to devote any space j)eacealdc, how mild and bright by the side of those mighty, 7. Chandeliers, candlesticks and lanqi apparatus. on this occasion. gigantic limes is the nature of to-day ! and the most fright- G. Optical glass, flint and crown. The Bohemian Glas$ is manufactured largely in Bo- ful storm, the most horrid earthquake in our day is only a 1. Rough disks of flint and crown, to make lenses for hernia, from 100 parts silica, purified pearbash, 80 parts, feeble echo of those awful birth-pangs. Perhaps, too, the telescopes, microscopes, stereoscopes, spectroscopes, dagucrre- and carbonate of lime, 16 parts. These three substances world of plants and animals, yes, even the men of these otype and calotype apparatus. are fritted in a reverberatory oven called calcar, and while times, if there were any on islands here and there in that 2. Flint and crown, blown, or cast in plates for the op- still red hot, thrown into the glass pots, already in a glow- ocean, had a stronger, rougher build—at least the old tician. ing heat, and there melted, and when p9rfedtly liquid, stories of a race of giants, then, ought not not to be taxed 3. Fine glass lor microscopes. scooped out or taken out with an iron rod. The objects witli being a mere Action. 4. Refractive apparatus, prismatic lenses for lighthouses, of fritting are to expel moisture and carbonic acid, and It is pleasing, said the old man, to remark that quieting The above classificatioa was made at the London univer- produce a caking of the materials, which facilitates the down of nature step by step. A more and more hearty sal exhibition of 185L Another classification is made in the fusion. This glass is employed for making panes, tum- nuderstanding, a more peaceful agreement, a mutual up- following kinds, according to their constituent materials : biers, and other articles, which are characterijtedcliaracteriiied by their holding and quickening seem to have grown up little by 1. The.soluble glass, silicate of soda or potash, or both beauty when compared with flint and crystal glass. They little, and we come to better and better times. It might sl^alisalkalis combined with silica. also possess greater infusibility and resistance to chemical ell be that now and then some of the old leaven worked 2. Bohemian glass, a silicate of potash and lime. agents; for this reason it has become celebratedcele'Drated and indis- yct and that some heavy quakings followed; nevertheless 3. Crown, or spread, a silicate of soda and lime. pensable in the laboratories.laboratories, you can see the all-powerful striving for a freer, more har- 4. Plate,Tlate, a silica of soda and lime cast into plates. The Vial and Spread GlawOlau has a similar Composition to monious state, and in this spirit every quaking will pass by 5. Bottle, a silicate of potassa, lime, alumina and the last described, and contains silica, soda, lime, and some-somc- mid lead nearer to the great end. It may be that nature is oxide of •iron.■‘on. times potash in similar proportions, asns [before; but a no longer so fruitful, that to-day no metals nor precious 6. Crystal, silicate of potash and oxide of lead. smaller amount of soda is requisite than of potnsli,potash, be- stones, no rocks nor mountains take their rise; the more 7. Flint contains more lead than the last. cause soda has a lower equivalent. For spread or common her povver to create has been used up, the more her shaping, 8. Strass, or paste, contains still more lead than flint. window glass, a considerable quantity'quantity of soda is used in ennobling and social powers have grown, her heart has 9. Enameled and colored glass, from all the above, ex- order to flux the materials rapidly, and the addition of become softer and tenderer, her fancy more manifold and cept No. ^1 and No. 5. salt is believed to clear the glass. full of meaning, and her hand lighter and more skilful. An excess of alkali is often used in order to obtain a more For making window panes, a lump of melted glass is Slie comes nearer to man, and if she was formerly a rock, glass, but such glass is more readily acted upon by teken out of the pot, blown and elongated into a pear, then that bore only wild beasts, she is now a still, sprouting I when water is boiled, in it, it will readily convert blown and rolled into a cylinder, which is slit longitudin- plant, a dumb, manlike arti-t. And what would be the f®d litmus to blue, on account of its alkali; caustic alkali at- ally on one side for Its whole length; it is then placed on need ot adding to those treasures, which are already more glass by dissolving the silica, and fluohydric acid de- tbe smooth hearth of the flattening kiln, with the slit side than enough for untold ages. Hotv small is the space that g^*®® readily. uppermost, and when softened by heat, is opened, until it 1 have traveled through, and what mighty stores have I not regards the physical characters of glass, it may be re- spreads out upon the hearth, a flattened sheet, found at the very first glance, the using of which is left for glass is fusible, but the temperature for dif- Crown Olas$ is composed of materials similar to those alter times What riches do not the mountains of the north kinds is different; oxide of lead, or a larger amount of the preceding kind, but they are generally poorer; to shut in what promising signs did I not find everywhere in alkaline silicate imparts more ready fusibility, and a simi- loo parts silica, 60 parts soda ash, 8 parts potash, 10 parts niv mother country, in Hungary, at the foot of the Carpa Pffxiuced by borax. Bottle glass, 'containing jime, 4 parts saltpeter or nitrate of soda. 1-8 part of white thian Mountains, and in the rocky valleys of the Tyrol, f aluminum and less alkali, is more difficult arsenic is thrown in the melting pot. The mixed materials ‘Viisliia and Bavaria. I might be a lich man if I could of fusion than ot'i®''kinds. AVhen melted glass is cooled it are placd in the furnace, which is of rictangular con- ii ive c iiried with me what I had only to pick up or to '* P«’’f®®tly flexible and plastic before it is cooled down to gtiuctioii, containing from four to six clay pots, of the ca- k'nock oft-. In may places I looked around me as if in a the softer kinds, such as flmt or borax glass, when p,city of half a ton of glass, and is now quickly heated ma-ic "ardeii. What I saw was formed of the costliest heated, begin to bo plastic below a red heat; when in ihe „j, to the melting point. When the first charge is melted merals and most skilully. In the beautilul hairs and spray pl“tic state pieces will unite together as firmly as if they down, the next is thrown in, and soon until the pot is of silver him*'shining ruby red transparent fruits, and the together. When glass is much softened by heat, sufficiently filled. The temperature is then lowered for a heavy trees stood on a crystal ground that was worked up f®w hours, during which some of the foreign matters sub- illin quiteouite a matchless way. You scarcely trusted youryoursenses senses “ revolving wheel, intominute flexible threads, called .-.je, and the glass all rises to the top, when, after raising ill these wondefulwoiidelul places, and were never tired of wander-wander¬ ^Jass hairs, and these properties cauM the glass to be ti,e g,® a little, it is skimmed. It is called Crown Glass ing through these charming wildenie^ses, and in delighting ‘"J” numberless shapes demanded by the wants of on account of the shape it assumes when broken off from in their jewels.iewels. In this journey of mine now I have seen , , , , formed at the end of the iron rod called the many remarkable things too, and surely the earth is in ^ •’.* , pnnto. other countries quite as richly-yielding and lavish. whiteness may be held with safety by the hand, pi^te Glats is composed of 100 parts silex, 33 parts car- There is no doubt of that, said the unknown, if you think two of the hea^ end ; the bad conducting i^^nate of soda, 20 parts carbonate of lime, and a very small of die treasures that have their home in the east; and have * “f®’ cohesive force of its par- proportion of peroxide of manganese—say, 1-2 part. This not the far Indies, Africa and Spain been known even in t>®l®«. gave rise to the manufacture of Pnuce glass is usually cast into large plates, for mirrors and large ancient times for the riches of their soil? A warrior, to be which ar. pear-shaped piec^ of glass, with a long thm panes; all materials must be very pure. The arrangement sure does not give close heed to veins and clefts in the by droping melted gl^ss mto water; the bulb may for casting the ton of glass into the forms areveryinterest- nioimtains, but, nevertheless. I have sometimes had my be struck without injury, but uf the smallest partick ^ ing, and must be seen personally at St. Gobin, in France, or tlioiiobts aboul these shining streaks, that, like strange off, the whole drop flies into powder with at Ravenhead, in England, to be appreciated, hud "point to ail unlooked for blossom and fruit. How 7“ and violence owing to the bad conducting oia„ composed of the coarsest materials of silex, could I then have thought, as I gaily passed in the light ol ® combined with the cohesive force of its parti- .^da. lime, oxide of iron, and clay. It is generally of Ies.s day these dark dwelling places, that I should yet cud mj contracts on cooling, gpedfic gravity than any other variety, it is tougher and re- days in the bosom of a mountain. 7'®^ ^ ^ fsists chemical action. In New Jersey, green sand is added J --_ cles to come uniformly close together. If suddenly cooled spread glass for beer bottles, etc., etc. • by dropping melted glass into water, the outside suddenly gia,, comprises three varieties, crystal, fluid glass [written for the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MINING.] assuines the rigid and more contracted form, while the inte- gtrass, differing in the proportions of litharge and red _ vior is still soft and expanded from the bad conducting contain; it may be shown that crystal glass con- 8AND:SAND: OEOLOOIOALliY,OEOLOOIOALLY, CHEMIOADLYOHEMI^^T AND power of the glass. When thoroughly, cooled, the interior tains but little oxide of lead, In comparison to the famous TEOHNIOAIXY OONSIDERED.CONSIDBRED. must still retain the expanded state, so contrary to ite cohe- paste called strass, which contains more oxide of lead than
BY DR. LEWIS FEUCHTWANGER.FEucHTWANOF.R. *"'* common temperature, and when the cohesion of gjiica. The crystal glass is co'mposed of 100 parts of silica, - *'*e outer layer is in the least disturbed, as by a scratch or jq parts oxide of lead, 36 parts purified potash, and 13 parts The manufacture of glass is divided into severalsever.d classes: slight fracture, the whole of the cohesive force exerts its carbonate of lime. The common flint glass contains 100 A. Window glass, which includes, power to fracture the entire mass. From this fact, it is ne- parts silica, 66 parts oxide of lead, 26 jiarts purified pota.sh, 1. Crown glass. cessary to cool more slowly than can be done in the air and and 7 parts saltpeter. Optical glass contains 100 parts silica, 2. Sheet glass. ‘he process of annealing is indispensable. This consists in joo parts oxide of lead, 23 parts purified potash, and a very 3. Brown plate, silvered or uiisilvered. placing a glass vessel, as soon as made, and while still hot, small proportion of saltpeter and borax. Strass contains 100 4. Colored sheet, pot metal or flashed. ®“® ®“*^ ^ annealing oven, w ith a fire at parts silica, 133 parts oxide of lead, and 13 parts purified B. Painted and other kinds of ornamental window glass.glass, ‘his end and gradually pushing to the further or cold end of potash. The dried and mingled materials are then thrown C. Cast plate glass. ‘he oven; the particles of the interior and exterior have white-hot melting pots, and when full of melted u.<(. Rough plate. , ‘h®° f*™® arrange themselves uniformly according to their glass, the mouths of the oven are closed. Some heavy eom- h. Pressed plate,plate. cohesive force at each point of temperature, until they be- binations of lead sink to the bottom, while the salts, which c. Rolled plate. come perfectly rigid. ^jll not incorporate with the glass, rise to the top as a scum, 1). Bottle glass. Glass is very elastic, as is easily shown by any strip of called gla$» gall and mndinete. The greater part of this is 1. Ordinary bottle glass. window glass, but more strikingly by hollow balls sus- skimmed off. Strass is the basis of a beautiful glass, and 2. Moulded^bottleMoulded_bottle glass. pended by strings. On playing w’ith your fingers on the was invented in the 17th century by a man named Strass, of 3. Medicinal bottles. windows, the harmonious sounds indicate their elasticity. Strasburgh, who first conceived the importance of imitating 4. Tubing.Tubing, i A glass harmonicon consists of small strips of window the real gems, as respects their hardness, specific gravity, and E. Glass for chemical and philosophical purposes, retorts, I glass of different sizes, suspended on parallel string?. They refraction of light, and the white mass obtained by his re¬ reservoirs, large_ water pipes, etc., etc. j may be graduated to any scale; goblets of various sizes ceipt has produced a beautiful base for imitating the dia- F. Flint, or crystal glass, with or without lead ; white,' are also sometimes employed in a similar manner, and are mond, the rock crystal, and the white topaz. It is now man- colored, ornamented, for table ware, etc. | made to vibrate by [passing the ^^moistened finger around ufactured in large quantities in France, as a base also for 1. Blown. their upper edges. the production of all other colored gems, such as ruby, emer- 2. Moulded and pressed. As has l>een stated, one of the various kinds of glass aid, sapphire,amethyst, aquamarine, garnet, clirysoprose, opal, 3. Cut and engraved. ' is the Soluble Glate, or silicate of soda or pot issa, or both hyacinth, robellite, indigolite or blue tourmaline, chrysolite* 4. Reticulated and spun with a variety of colors, incrusted, j combined, and on account of an excess of alkali, has be- turquoise, lazulite, and agate. Although the properties flashed, enameled of all colors, opalescent, imitation of ala- come a soluble salt. It is termed also water glass, and has which are usually considered as constituting excellence in baster gilt, gelatinized, silvered. | the formula, 2 KO, or Na 03, Si 03. The u-es of. silicate glass for ordinary purposes may be easily obtained, yet, in 6. Glass mosaic, miliflori, and aventurine and Venetian of soda are so well known for the application to wood and glasses for optical instruments, and to be employed in the glass weights, | textile fabrics, as a paint and substitute ol dunging salt in examination of objects so remote and so minute as to require mrncm 4o
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lie has a coDtrolliog interest, which, with hia knowledge jitBJL 17, 1869 AnEBtcAtt jouAttAL OF ntititte. ditcbing and mining, will guarantee water again to those who hence travel on this road has ceased for the present There Is, have suffered for the want of It since the fall of the high however, little. If any snow In the valley, yet the monntidiis are Utah. jggie.” thickly capped and the ravines well leveled up with drifting FROM THB SWXETWaTKR. Alpinn County.—The Alpine Miner of March 6, says :—“The snow, and fears of scarcity of water for mining purposes next -;—' t ■ ‘rr ., w j ’ I_j j m w I The Sweetwater Mines has again moved back to its old loca> Alpine Tunnel running in on the Taml.ish ore deposit is now so summer, are apparently ill founded. The Rutan furnace on P direction we ,ar under Uiat the suiphurcU arc not sntirily decomposed as at M.neml Hill near Jefferson City ^sed into toe hands of ,re placed in possession of files of its Issue to too 3d insUnt It first A parcel of the rock assayed to-s week gave a return of Charles Wooden for the sum of $1,025. The uraace construct- ^ of pleasant weather and but little snow. The editor orer thirty dollars per ton. Mr ^liwerinc who comes to ed by a New York company on toe Gregory lode, was recently Union Pacific Railroad has been built through ,Urt up the work on the Tarshlsh, left New York on the ^ih of sold for taxes at Radersbnrg. Six dollars snd seventy-fi^^e cents operated without difflcnlty. J. U8t month. We have information too which will be good news made H. Axe the temporary owner.”... The Post of March 5, w. Anthony is building a quarts mill on Hermit Creek. A for all who know him that the company desire, and w 11 try to notices a gold brick “At the Banking House of L. H. Uersh- ^y of miners are digging a drain ditch to develop too riches Kcurc again the service of N. Geaff, M. E to cont nue toe field & Bro weighing 245 ounces, and amounting In value to Prospectors had been driven back from the work so well begun and planned.The formation In which «lx thousand dollars. It was run by Molitcr & Bro. of ^ ^ Arapalioes, the imperial tunnel is now running—tracliytic tufa, of volcanic tola city and was the result of a five day’s run of the I. X. L. committing various depredations in that region. We origin-seems to be more favomble to progress than any found Mill of J. C. Ricker, Esq. This mill is continuing to run under ^j. following : “Claims are being located and prospeeted on Uiereln. Eighteen feet of tuniiel at a total cost of $7 66 per the superintendence of Mr. Anders. ”... .The Helena Guzefte ifo^mit Creek.An ounce per day is being taken out of Rock foot was made last week. This tunnel is now in over seven March 4, has the following account of things about Lnlonvlllc by the Rocker Process.Mining hands are scarce hero hundred feet, and Mr. Chalmers confidently expects to reach the and Grizzly Park—” A trip to Unionville and Grizzly Park, and present, and many inquiries are made for such hands. Wages triumph lode early in April, if the present rate of running can a careful survey of toe mines in this neighborhood, will convince fo^ laborers are $5 per day, and from $7 to $10 for mechanics be maintained. February 27. Owing to the impossibility of haul- the most skeptical, or even prejudiced, that the vein mines of Miners’ Delight continues to improve at a four-fold ratio as Inglug luniDcriromlumber from luethe nrnimill belowoeiow MameeviiieMarkleeville aiat uusthis ume,time, theuie thatumt vicinityviciimy are noLnot oniyonly so larfar aevciopeadeveloped osns wto leave no aouoi.doubt theyy,,, go down.y^wn. The rock is now turning out a fraction over $150 Monitor Consolidated Company, though having funds in hand to of their permanency, but they arc highly remunerative to their foy, yj , gyo finish toe mill, are delayed in Uie construction of their fortunate owners. On a recent trip to and tlironghthrough these mines, _Mr. Walsh, of the firm of Walsh Holbrook & McGov- flume.” we found everything on the original Whitlateh Union being ern', left for the mint at Denver, Colorado, on toe 15to of Feb., Amador County.-The Amador (Hayward’s) mine, has just pushed forward with energy, and the various mills working from one hundred and fifty-seven pounds and three ounces of declared a monthly dividend of $10 per share ($;{7,000). The this part of the vein resounding with toe din of continually fall- bullion a week’s run of Miners’ Delight Mill.” product of toe twelve months of 1868, was: ing stamps. The National Mining Exploring Company (Hodge’s) ’ _ ^ __ RIO o«a have commeneed work on discovery claim, and in their two In- * . Clines arc now employing aboutseventy miners, at $75 per month. !MISCEI.«X-«A.N120U S, . Ko’fi'jn Owing to the extreme reticncc of the company there has never —— . S'Taio been any statement of their runs, but the energy displayed affords [from ocr new engla-ND corbespoicdent.] i >. abundant evidence of satisfactory returns. The Philadelphia - . Gold Enterprise Company’s thirty-stamp mill is kept busy by lUlAitlP . a7’snft the mining operations from a single incline, with continually in- IvlwlllC. . creasing richness and abundance of ore. This company having miming review. tJ!fiember. 4^’^ t'*e*'‘>®wer level (about three hundred feet) ma- Editor Journal or Mining : October " "" " dfi'eiX) chincry is now upon toe ground for hoisting works, which will It is now half a century, plus one year, since toe lead mines November ' 47'l60 be in operation at an early day. But this portion of the vein of worked at Lubec, Maine. Profs. Hitchcock and December ' ' 46*000 which we wish more particularly to speak, is the recently opened j Shkpard, under the special commission of that State, have made ’ ' • • • _ mine of Messrs. Parkinson, Argyle, McClure and othei's, and extensive tour over it and collected a large amount of botan- Total $548 873 . ** Parkingson lode. The discovery shaft is some geological and mineral details that for years the people of .. ' 1,500 feet north-east of the original Union discovery, is unquest- t|,g Sunrise State have been ploughing and felling timber, where A letter from the mine, doted the 26th, says the north shoft lonnbly upon the same vein, and is sunk to the depth of 200 feet, i)iasting*powdcr or plck-ax might have secured an immediate continues to improve as sinking goes on. From this mine there where a level has been breasted out on either side of toe shaft competency. But outside capitalists have here, as too frequently is but one uninterrupted succession of good news. It enriched some sixty feet, disclosing a crevice remarkably uniform, and occurs in large enterprises, stepped in, and one fine morning the the original owners, and from present indications bids fair to fully eight feet in width of ores equal to the best extracted from -pree people will open their heavy lids to see “ toe stranger nrieh thousands more. the ground of the original locution. For the whole length of leaving with a mint of coin” that could have been tlieirs by the Inyo County.—The Los Augcles Star speaks of the Cerro f'*® •ncliiie the vein will average five feet in width, though vary- fijgging for it. Gordo, an aigentiferous galena mine as follows : A vast amount froni two to twelve. The angle of inclination is somewhat lately, Mr. Walter Wells, an enthusiastic student, and as of ore has been extracted from the veins, and several wagon loads than that of the origuul mine, and dips in the same di- tiiorough as he is zealous, made a second tour of Maine, in com- bave passed through town, destined for Son Francisco. Col. with the same general characteristics of ore, though the p^ny with others also commissioned for the purpose, and his Taylor, who is an extensive proprietor in the Lone Pine district, ®u assay, is reported somewhat finer. Five hundred feet report on the water powers of the State is as elabomtc as it is co¬ in which the Cerro Gordo settlement is situated, reports toe shaft a tunnel 173 feet long, 7 feet high and 6 feet tertainiiig. If the figures of the reports of these commissioners metal in great abundance, with every facility for its reduction, been run through the solid rock to tap the lode, witli 1,^ correct bases of calculations, Maine is the wealthiest in re¬ wood, water, and especially fire clay. There are three large ®'®*'y ^ufii®ufiou of an early realization of its object, as the rock goiirces of any New England or Middle State, coal and petroleum furnaces on the ground, besides a great many small ones owned ®'*fi ^fi® l®de is highly colored and impregnated with not excepted. Experiments made opposite Eastport, and about by Mexicans. The ore contains, besides galena, some copper, rnineral^ with frequent seams of quartz. The Diamond City ti,ree miles from Quoddy Head, have determined the existence and from eighteen to twenty cents to the iMJund of silver; there C®-’® 1® niifi i® ®u'Pl®y®fi ®>‘® from the dls- qj imniense deposits of iron, copper, lead, silver and gold (we is also a very small quantity of gold. The ore is run into bars ®®''®'’y claim, and toe plates give abundant evidence of the pres- about to add petroleum, coal, platinum, and take down the or pigs, and in this manner fitted for transportation. These ®®®® ®f pai’- The last run was $1,.500, coin, and the next, niineralogical dictionary to continue the catalogue of natural mines are situated in a fine agricultural country, producing the we predict, will be nearer ^,000. Ii is found that toe direction wealth), and to-day shafts have been and are being sunk, and a cereals, vegetables, and all kinds of farming produce. Over of Gie vein west of the \V hltlatch location is nearly north-west gmall fortune also realized. twenty tons of this ore have been already transported from this south-east, which is the cause of its not having been struck q'ljg Ramsdell Lode, as the principal vein is called, is opposite point and there arc over fifty tons now on the way—with hun- fi®F®tofore, as work to the amount of fully $10,0W at points upon Eastiiort, and here 2,000 tons of iron ore are already on the sur- dreds of tons ready for reduction and awaiting transportation. w’hat was thought to be a prolongation of the line of direction foce. The area of iron ore here is fully a mile, and the shaft has iMi,rion«a Coimtv —The fiazette of March 5 anvs the Wnah. ®'‘‘slnal mine has been done, while the lode been sunk 143 feet. The same territory is vciy rich in copper, inirton i^l situated^'ear Hornitos crushed week before last higher up the hill, and to the north. The discoverers gjiver and gold, and twenty different assays have been made, not fnru ton! of rock which viclded <51 400—urettv cood for six davs l®®>'t®™ have spent nearly two years prospecting in this one having failed to realize $75, gold and silver, to the ton. It n.n^ ^The runnimr was sLpended lost we^ek Lf repairs which neighborhood, and abundantly deserve the very great also yields 70 per cent of copper ore. Col. Stevens, of Boston, wLfinUhed w^Laintar^^^^ success they have achieved. East of the Union mine Messrs. ,„ycntor of the Stevens Flux; ^ been working seven tons of tlm ^Duri^e the mst weSc a large biil^^moL sLik and Ferguson have run an incline 70 feet in length upon a i,on ore, and his report of experiments will be read with general l^r'noSuB of M^hln^v have been b^ interest by the mechanical community. other portions 01 * lacmncry, 11 ee orougui into -lanposa miinigtabable evidence of being connected with toe Union vein. -ur. r.r ti.o cnintnor nr irat Piinf
hi®- . o T- . . - , , results- West of the Park, Judge Clancey is sinking a shaft in I producing pigs. The iron from this ore, if at all defective, is so Placer County.—A San Francisco paper is informed by a i,ope of striking the vein at a distance to secure a new location, 1 fo ductility. Lake Superior ores require admixture with lower gentleman from Bath, that a sale of one-fourth interest in the through thus fur without any encouraging indications. This .rrade to produce a serviceable iron. It may be for Maine yet mine known as the Paragon, has just been made for ^5,000. The neighboihood will be one of the most busy and productive quartz ^ pg an iron superior to what we have in market. The spec- claim is divided into four shares, and has paid in dividends with- camps in Montana this coming summer, which is but “ the be- jipcns we have seen are compact and remarkably fine in texture, in the lost three years, over $30,000 to the share. The tunnel is ginning of the end.’’_The Virginia Democrat has the sub- yet it is hardly to be presumed that the supply is sufficient to now 3,000 feet into toe hill, and no signs of the clay paying less joined from the Gallatin—“ The Madison mill at Gallatin City rpme more than a passing comment and occasion a note in toe than heretofore.A gravel deposit has been struck in Castle ig now idle, in consequence of the scarcity of grain....The wa- scientific annals of the day. If silver, gold or even less kingly Hill, Placer county, two miles east of Georgetown, which pros- ter has receded and Gallatin City, which has been overflowed for metals are to be remarked there in abundance, we will notify the pects well. There was a great deal of labor and money spent in gome time, is now perfectly free from water, and the Madison is Journal readers. It is of special interest to know that the New prospecting this hill in ’54 and ’55, but nothing of account was pow keeping toe even tenor of its way_Mrs. Shed has pur- York General Mining Company (C. 8. Stillwell, M. D., of Sag then found. chased an interest in the Sterling House, and opened it for the Harbor President.) is operating there, and with success, on iron. Plumas County.—^The Alpine Miner is authority for the fol- accommodation of the imblic... .The miners of Norwegian gulch q-ijig company has the money and men requisite to large opera- lowing :—The Eureka mill, in Plumas county, turned out about have commenced operations, and on Tuesday toe Sterling Min- tions, and owns exclusive territory. $100,000 last year, running five months, from May till October, ing Company took out eighty dollars of beautiful clean dust. Being a native of Maine, we feel grateful to outside purses for The average gross yield was about $12 per ton, and half of that Our friends Vanderbilt and McCarthy are interested in this com- their internal influence upon the State. The workers in the Was profit. Work stopped on the 25th of October, in conse- pany, and we are glad to learn that their prospects are brighten- mines of Mexico, Bucksport, and a half dozen other town- quence of the snow and ice. Eight Stewart pans were kept ing... .Numerous families are settling in Norwegian gulch, three ghips, the diggers for the silver of old pirates, if not of nature’s running for six weeks on old tailings, and the yield from miles from Sterling, and the coming season promises to be lively, deposit, on Richmond’s Island, or toe searchers for brass which these was $13,000, or $2,000 per week, at very little expense.A new bridge has been erected over the Madison river, at a ^ gg abundant about the State House, can hope on, that some- Tbe mine has been worked for eighteen years, with steady profit, point about three-quarters of a mile above the Madison mill, where or somehow toe land that lieto so far to toe east may be and for about ten years the tailings have been saved in two large which will prevent the inconvenience heretofore experienced of gufficiently developed, then at least it may induce her young men dams, and they pay better now in toe pan than they did in the going by the way of Canada’s bridge, some ten miles out of toe fo gfoy at home rather than seek the great cities and toe west. first working. direct route to Gallatin City.” _^ ^ Kern County.-We glean toe following from the Havilah ColOradO StondinwStanding of the Journal of Mining.Blining. Courier of the 2d : The well-known McKeadney mill, now un¬ der toe control of M. Danton, has been clattering away since The Denver A’ews, March 24, has the following“ Mr, Geo. I rpjjg Boulder County (Colorado) Pioneer, March 10, thus Thursday. This mill is cranected with the Delphi and ^ Leonhardy, a well-known citizen of Granite dUtrict gives ns compliments the standing and influence of the Jodrnau or Tyronce mines....La Esperanza claim, in Kelsoc V^ley, about tjjg following important mining items from Granite:—The ^ ‘^^^is tora\Kt“JelT The^h^vf®a 5®Jtamp"ba‘tta^!f Treasury Mining Compunfe Mill-15 s^ps--has just started Xmerican Journal of Mhoko stands at the head of othere, and is turning oui wen. ineynave a a stamp nailery, ,,pgoraln, having been obliged to lay idle for five weeks on ac- .. .. ravnr*hlo nnfi/.Mi in and last week retorted 138 ounces after a run of 13 days The count of the freezing of the water in the ditch. It is crushing mining press “ J clMm promises to continue profitable. W. W. Sterns is Super- o^e from toe Magenta lode. The Niagara company’s mill—» columns of our mining loralities are worth n^re to this intendent stamps—is about to start up on ore from toe Monarch lode, community than anytlnng from other sources. Every miner Eldorado County.—The Pacific Company have shut down The saw mill, in connection with the stamp mill is running, as in the country ought Xp take tlw JOTONAL. it is a their mill to add another battery. The mine is looking well and is also the saw mill in connection with Hayden’s stamp mill. A sixteen page weekly, pnn^ on fine book paper, With good showing so good signs of improvement as the work progresses great deal of mining is being done. The Wateree, Red Clond, illustrations of new machinery, etc.’ ss 10 warrant this addition to their mill. The ore is said to pay Seymonr, Mountain Gem, Magenta, Yankee Blade, Velocipede, __ »>» — very handsomely, which is enconraging to the qnartz interests of Eldorado, Hercnles, Manhattan, Robert Emmet, Golden Eagle, ~ ^ , * El Dorado, which for a long time have been in a languishing Mary F., Seven-thirty and Monarch lodes, are ail being actively condition.According to the iftmii/ain Democrat, the Silicon developed, and work on them is going on rapidly. Several other ^ fr O mine, situated on Smith’s Flat, and owned by Watson, Bascomb lodes are also being opened_The Yankee Blade Company arc T wrni & Co., has been sold to parties in San Francisco, who have erecting a fine twenty-stamp mill, and Mr. Newhouse is prapar- The WUzot otomp-mui. made several shipments^f toe rock, recently, to toe Bay. It is ing to do the same. With these two additional mills, there will The Wilson Steam Stamp-MiU Uomj^ny have just fished Skid to be superior as a ^lish for brass, tin, copper, and in fact be not less than eighty-seven stamps running In Granite next another of toclr mills for toe Bennett Gold and Silver Mining almost any metal. season. Other items are few. The traveling between here and Company, of Colorado, and have wiother finished for Wm. the district Is very good. There has been scarcely any snow this P. Jones, Esq., of Coloi^o. The comp e one is now in monxana. and contains now operation at Cbesbon & Smith’s, comer 18to imd Hamilton The Helena Pott of March 19 contains toe following in its cor- about sixty houses. So also are the towns of Low Pass and streets, Philadelphia, (the manufacturers,) and is att^Ung con- respondence from Boulder Valley, March 13:—“The snow has Manbattanville, which contain about thirty houses each. Mr. siderable attention from prominent inining * e fata im- completely blockaded toe road between here and Bute City. Leonhardy is on his way east, and has with him a large number 1 provements on this mill practical men to navs Through toe Park there is a solid depth of four and five feet of rich spedmeas boat TMtaiis lodes.” 1 inersased its efficiency and durabluty. 246 Ammm mmAi or Misma. Apbil 17,1869
MARKXrr REVIEW. Seoteli Pl|;,No. L, beatbd 40 00 48 00 Ovals and half round.. 117 60 142 60 Soport of Coal Truoported oror Lohigh Tallep Ballroad “ “ *• outside, 40 00 - Band.117 60 - For the week ending April lOtb, 1860, and previously this season, com¬ Wt. No. IScrap fm yd. 47 50 60 00 Horae Shoe.117 60 - Feidat ETeaiifO, April 16,1866. pared with same time last year: Ee ship... .4.5 00 Kods,|®8-16 luck.... 07 50 155 00 WEEK. rnEviorsLT total. Mining Btockt.—Tlio suk-s nt tbi- Mining Stock Boord to-dsy coinpiiEcd Bar, K«r., En. A Am... 85 00 90 00 Hoop.125 00 190 00 WHEBE SHIPPED FBOM. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt transEctiooi in La Croaac at i!t> to SOc.; (juartx Hill, fl 66 to |1 65; Muutaoa Bar, Sw'a, as. size8,guld 82 50 87 60 Nail Bod, per lb. 8* 9{ Old Kails. 47 50 Sheet,Kus..as'd. NoB.(goId) 11* 12* 30c.; Smith A Pannelce, $2 bO to $3 05; Bocky Mountain, 15e.; Gregory, | K JirTron, ForVfin'stock Sheet, s'gle. D a T. com .5* Total Mahanoy. | 11.125 071 6.M98 12 76,813 IS ** Total B. Meadew. I $3 45; and Oraaa Valley, 90c. to |1 OO. In Petrelcum SUicka, Home lold at gold ... 54 no 66 50 Kails, Eng, gold, ton. 55 00 56 00 10,180 06 108,490 07 119,6-20 it Kails, American at w'ks 74 00 76 00 Total M. Chuuk.' 40 19 82 08 73 01 ♦7 25 and Central at 90e. ’ E. K. Iron For., to Imp. 55 00 00 00 ! “ “ Amer. at wks. STEEL. Total U. Lehigh. 878 18 6.221 16 6.594 OS Total Hazletob. i 24.667 1 8; 872..399 09 OOLU STOCKS. ' currency. 75 00 76 — English, cast id A 1st quat. 79 ®22 897.257 04 , B. K. Iron, Am.deliv'd 78 00 90 00 9 Total Wyoming. 5.69:) 06 189.455 07 145.1$S It Bid. Asked. BhI Asked. 11* 1 j Stt rails of any pattern at It Total.1 52,021 09 691,99-2 13 r
Money continues steady on call, mainly at 7 jier cent, currency, and wltli Kiqioit of Coal shljiped lor week ending .April 10,1909. [COBBECTBD WEEKLY.] ».veeptions at 7 per cent gold. WHERE FBoK At Hew York, April 16,1869. Tli-roiints move a little muru freely, hut rates eootioue at 1U®12 per rent. TiM-AL. BcbuylkUl B. A., chmoe .$ 6 00 $ ScbuvIkiU Chestnut.. Jbi- prime paper, and 9® 10 ptr cent fur si>eciaUties. Tuns. Cwt WYOMING BEUIOK. “ OrdinB^. 5 75 .... LehigbW.A.Lnmp.6 00 Petroletlin-—In relined tliere is more business, mostly speculative, but Newiiort Coal Co. “ W. A. Lump. 5-25 “ Broken. 5 85 i n part to till up a few vessels loailing. There has been a cunsiderablo stock Albrig'ton, Roberts A Co. 97 05 1,154 02 ** Bteamboat. 6 25 “ EkT. .5 35 cleareil off the market wiililn a few days past, while freights were ruling low, New England Coal Co. 139 U5 279 01 “ Broken. 6 50 .... “ Btove.6 65 .and with tills increased demand prices advaneed a trifle, standard wlilto cloa- Morgan Mines. “ Egg. 5 50 ... “ Chestnut.6 15 ing at 32*. The sales are 500 bbls.,deliverahle within the next ten davsat 82*; Warrior Kun Mining Co. “ Stove. 6 75 Bhamokin. l..M»0 l>bls. at 821c.; 2,IK»0lills. for May and .Tunc, at 84e,; 2.000 bids', fur Mav Parrish A Thomas. 9Ul 18 4,6s:! 17 BPECIAL COALB.—Dealebs' Quotations. and .June, at 34*c.: 1.009 bbls. for June, at 84*c.; 8,000 l.bls. for May, New- Jersey Coal Co. -shS 14 4.469 03 Diam'd Vein R.A.,8ch'km 6 00 I Old Co.'s W. A. Lehigh. .Tune, and ,luiv. at 8:{*c.. 34Je., 3,5*c.; 2,0il0 bbls. for April, Mav, .Tune and Gaylord Mines. Locust Dale W. A., “ . 5 75 ... I Mt. Pleasant. 5 50 •tiilv, at 8'2e.. 83c., 34c., :15c., and 1,000 bbls. for July, at 86*c. Crude in bulk Delaware A Hudson Canal Co. 1,490 16 1 9,990 08 Honey Brook “ Lehigh 6 00 5 15 I Buck Mountain. 5 50 i s a little more steadily held at ITc. For Philadelnbla delivery the market also Lehigh A Susquehanna Coal Co. ....I Harleigh “ “ 6 00 5 15 I Fulton.6 00 6 1.3 is more acliv<% with better prices ruling ; the sales are mostly for exiiort, In- Germania Coal Co. 560 06 5.766 05 Spring M’n “ “ 6 00 6 15 I Stout.6 00 5 15 cliiiliiig .500 libis. standard w hite at Sic.; 500 bbls. do. for last hair, at 82c.: 500 Franklin Coal Co. Sugar Creek “ “ 6 00 5 151 New England Bed Ash.. bids, prime light straw to white, on spot, at 31e.; 2,000 bbls. sundard white Audenreld Improvement Cool Co. Sugar Loaf “ “ 6 00 6 151 Wyoming. 5 60 at 32*1-.; L.'iOO bbls. do. for April, .May and June at S'2*e., 83>c., S4*e.; and Wilkesbarre Coal A Iron Co. 9.361 05 73,501 04 DMlers in these Coals msy bs found In onr adTcrtising columns. 1.000 bbls., seller's option Msy and June, at 8S*e. Union Coal Co. At Philadelphia, April 15, 1869. Mineral Spring Coal Co. 370 09 4.577 IS Lehigh L'p and St'mb't.. 6 00 Receipts lor the week ending April 1.3.pkgs H. B. IliUinaD A Son. 94 18 1,959 04 Zgg and Stove. “ Broken aud Egg.. 6 00 “ Chestnut. Exi>orU for the week ending April 18.galle. 1.174.99.3 Bowkley, IVice A Co. 682 19 “ Btove. 6 25 Locust Mount Lump.... 4 00 4 2.3 Exportefrom .Tan. 1.gallk 12,951.759 Wyoming Coal A Trans{iortatiou Co. 1.109 08 “ Chestnut.6 .30 “ Steamboat. 4 00 4 23 ExporU name time laet year.galla. 11,182,441 Henry Colliery. 44C 07 4.407 09 Schuylkill R. A. “ Broken. 4 23 The following Is the quantity exported from other portA Jan. 1 to A pril 10. J. H.’Swoyer. 465 19' 491 14 Everhart Coal Co. “ Chestnut. “ Egg. 4 23 1869. ^9-23 16 1869. Morris A Essex Mutual Coal Co. “ W. A. Lump .. “ Stove. 4 50 From Boston.galls. 713,150 594,798 Shawnee. 866 15 “ Broken. “ Chestnut.. 3 50 4 FhlladelpbU. 4.04s.7o7 6,818178 -2,7-21 02 Pine Ridge Colliery. 1,094 121 SPECIAL COALS.—DEAin's Quoamoiis. Baltimore. -270,19:1 :178.991 7,218 15 Lances Colliery. 195 06 885 18 Lorberry Coal. 5 00 6 25 Burnside R. A.Egg.A St. 4 75 Portland. 6,900 Consumers Coal Co. Cleveland. .... 6-24 17l 768 00 Sbamokui. 4 75 PowsltoD Coal Co. Harvey Bnithers. Franklin, (Lykvns Vol.). 5 25 Hill A Harri^ Egg A St. 4 50 ToUl. .5,I«9.04ii Lehigh A Lut. Coal Co. 10,490 13 Broad Top. 6 00 Henry Clay, Egg A St... 4 50 4 75 7.299,761 Other Ship|K-rs. Total exiMirta from the United States. l\.5S6,5-25 19.690 HOo Dealers in these cools may be found in our'advertisihg columns. Same time in 1867. 19,256,783 Total Wyoming Region. Fowelton Coal at Philadelphia, April, 1869- Same time in 1966. 16.5,38 01' 149,478 Oti 18,s56.sy0 rPfER LEHIGH BEGIO.N-. I Powelton Egg and Stove.$5 00 1 Powelton Gas. .$7 SO Copper has Improveil in price, without any larger transactions on tlie Upjs-r Lehigh..,.,. :l,414 lu 4:1.823 06 Powelton Semi Bituminous... 5 00 1 -put: '2-2(c. is the quotation of both Lake and Baltimore. Sales of 500.000 8cranton Coal at Eliaabothport i April, 1869. pounds. Us'tiiiiore, Msy and June delivery, at 2S*®23*c. Other Shlpjiors. (Corrected weekly by D. ll A W. li. K. Co. Till- English market declined to 170 for Chili Bars. Lump.... _ 75 1 Egg. 5 00 Total Upper Lehigh Bigion. Tin—Sales or2.0iH) slabs. Straits, to arrive in Boston, at 88®8.3*c.: OtH) on 3,414 lU 4:1,3-23 06 • Stt-amer.4 75 Stove. 5 60 HAZLETON- BEGION. I Grate.4 75 I Cbestnnt. 4 75 till- SIS It at :i8*®S.3}c, Straits is qnoteil nominally at 34c.; Banca. 200 slabs, A. Pardee A Co. :il 3's-.: Englisii, 5 tons 31*8., 5 tons 32s.. gold. 1.681 05 6,164 no! Llnderman A Skeer. Prices for Pittston Coal at Hewhnrgh, April, 1869. The London market is steady at 1180 fur both Straits and Englisii. 25 05 Sharpe. Welas A Co. 1,0-26 16 (Corrected weekly by Penna. Coal Co.) Lead.—6* for ordinary fureign. Sales inO tons. Wm. Taggart.. 271 07 Lump, per ton, 2240 lbs.. .4 60 Egg Spelter dull at 6;®6J for Silesl.-in. Harleigli Coal Co. 772 06 004 16 Steamer, ....4 60 Stove O. B. Markie ACo. 192 12 Grate ....4 GO Chestnut Zinc—Dry American, 7*®9c.; Drv Freneh. 11*®!!*: sheet Metallie. Ehervale Coal Co. l-21®I3e. 1,097 W 1,489 07 Stout Coal Co. 117 17 269 01 70c. Freight to New York. Paraffine Wax.—‘5Ve note*a sale of 2,o0o lbs. No. 1 at 28 vents. Buck Mountain Coal Co.. 4n9 00 489 09 Lime—Kuckland is steady at |1 25 for Cummun, and $2 fer Lum|i. Coxe Brothers A Co. 3->6 17 492 00 Lackawanna at Bondont, April, 1869. Ashburton Coal Cu.. Lump. 4 75 5 INI Plaster Faril-lYe note sales 150 tons White Nuva Si-otla Lump at ■>9 (HI 89 00 Egg. Highland Coal Co. Steamer. 4 75 Stove. 5 HO ♦ 4 75, o.ish Pardos Brothers A Co. 1S3 09 ‘All is Orate. 4 83 Chestnut. 4 75 Saltpeter—Crude is dull. We quule i{®9c,, gold, as to quality. Jeddo Coal Co. 104 02 517 15 €5 centa Freight to New York. Mount Hall (j. s. s.). Old Company’s Lehigh Coal at Ranch Chunk. K. U. Carti-r. 83 14 April 1869. THE IBON TBADE. Other Shippers. 167 11 Lehigh L'p and Steamboat $3 50 | Stove.$3 75 Total Hazleton Region. 7.034 06 11.354 05 Broken and Egg. 3 50 | Chestnut. 8 25 New Yusk. -April 16. ImB. XAUCH CHUNK KEUION. Lehigh Coal at Elisabothport, April, 1869. There is no change to report in the Aiuerivaa Iron Market, sod there ars Lehigh Coal A Navigation Co. Lump.. 6 00 .... j Stove. 5 50 lew sali-s of iinportaiici-. Summit Mines. 703 05 48.052 OS Steamboat and Broken.. 5 25 .... I Cbeatnut. 5 00 In Fui-ge Iron tliei-e is mo,-e doing, and sales have been made of 2,000 tons Boom Run Mines. 1,265 04 7,841 08' Crane and other brands at $34. at furnace. Other Shippers. lire.Si** — I In Scotch I3g there is a little doing. Stocks have somewhat increased, 50c. Freight to New York. but prices n-main firm. Sales have lieen Olaile for May shipment on the basis Total Mauvb Chunk. 1.969 06 55,393 11 Wilkeaharre Coal at Hohokoni ApriL 1869. of $32 fat, golil, for Gartslierrie. We note some other Mies in limited omouots (Corrected by Wilkesbarre Coal A Iron Co.) at $'>2 .5ii. gold, for t'oltness and Gartsherrie. TuUl Manch Chunk Begiun. 1,968 08 .V>
At OMrgetowBi S. 0. and Alexandria, Ta. Monthly Metal Circular. less, tbe empties are returned to the loadins station or quarry <}forgc'» Cwk CuinberUnd t o. b. - at the saiqe rate as they are sent away. The boxes are not Prices of Gas Coals. New Tore, April 6th, 1S69. clipped or fastened on to the rope, but simply adliere to it, April, AMXBICAR. I refer to my last Circular of 5th March. The activity of the preceding in this WAN’; From the box itself tWO Upright staucheouS, Duty. $rS""*Co»r««. Slack. ci>arM.Coarse. Slack. I threetiree monihs was siiddenlvsuddenly checkedchocked in the earlvearly iiarti«rt of March; theth'e delay iniS afuiut-t.-,,. "la vTrd fnnff nasw un^wards and are Kantbenrover nwor at tor.tOD fnrfor ^ * Gold. Gold. t'urwncy.Currency. thelie organization of tbethe Dewnew administration,adiniiiistration, the wwant ant of harmony lietween the 3“ ••JUf’yUi B» yardyarn loUg,long, paSSpass upwards,upwaros, BBdauU are Uu ^ pjr m.irkk House.•»House |1 75^Touil 75is Westmoreland Co ... President and the ruling party, ami linalle an unwttled monev iiiai-ket. all about a foot of tlieir length, and attached at their extremities G^l^rie .....■.'.V.’.V.V. X 75 75 Desiard Coal Co. 8 50 8 00 | |>»verontritmt^ to shake confidenee, and'it is dillieiilt to judge how long to a short solkl square block of WOod passing between them, 1 75 75 Penn. i this state of thinirs Is likely to last. , ° oi_. .. 2 1S|IS* 71J71* Newburgh Orrel Gas.Gas.. 8 60 8 00 Ctold advanced from ISOj per cent, on the 6th iilt. to 132 per cent, on the and arched OUt beneath to .16 Upon the ropC, ohect-iron Rctou .'..■‘.‘.’.V.’.! ®2 13* 118*7 X8J West Fairmont Gas Coal. 7 00 10th, and has since been comparatively steady at between 131 and 132. Yes- fli,nge.S are also pUt along the sides of this block tO make its puiemkiiBay.iwLittle Glace Bay. X 76 1IM 00 Poweiton Gas Coal. ..8 00 7 00 | » closing quoution was 181* juir■ cent. Kxchange on London snu-r- .etinenceleiiiiciiut; uiion theme roperujie moreinuie aeeuie.secure. Theiiie boxucia hangsiiaiigs thustuua v/i*OU CaMonia. X 60 75 Caledonia.* n j l ' Tin'in has not ailvanced in proportionpromrtion to the rise in Europe. During the last the rope, with its Center of gravity always Under the line, Prices ot Foreign Coals. Prices ot Foreign Coals. ^ sold, part to arrive, at 82^2|c.,32@32ic, and itsita adhesion to the rope is18 sufficient to ensure its travel- April. ?ola.a. It IBiB to-day, however, held at84c.;at 34c.; Hanca,Kanca. 85c.,85c.a and English 82c. Ihe . ^. .» r •. ii,• uv *i. i Dnty,Doty, 11|i 2526 per ton. quotations of the two tirst nani^ kinds are fully 18 per cent, below the Lon- ing Up to the bearing pulieys, When there are cveii very large Corrected weekly byr Parmelee Brob.,Bros., ^382 PineOne street, N. Y. o
Conatiy aagtTeii Tear of Country as given AMERICAN Tear or Name. at entrance. entrance. at entrance. executed by entrance. Alfred Betts.England.1862 jf jj j,. metallurgicM Vermont... .1867 Hillary H. Bauermann.England.1853 Henry Booth . « New York. .1868 pburous cop John Blandy.United States, New York. .1853 n,,,, jj .; «i 0urn»t oi ^inini Wa8lilngton.l868 for the mo-' John D. Eastor.United States, Baltimore.. .18.53 Frank Crook . “ Baltimore . .1868 artenU a»d Henry F. Blanford.England.1853 ^ pioyd Delafleid.I “ New York. .1868 WESTERN A COMPANY, Propriaton Samuel Minton.EngUnd.1853 Alfred Einhorn .1 » meats must 1 .1868 Stewart D. Birch.England.1854 James Fitzpatrick .' •« Detroit ... .1868 to condense ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, Editor. George Brush.UnitedBrash.. .United SUtes,Sti Brooklyn... 1^ Ernest de Neve Fcister.’..!.’England - Herbert Reynolds.England.. .1868 iulphiir eolU George H. Gray.’... United States, BostonBoston.1868 OFFICE, 37 PARK ROW, NEW YORK. Wm. T. BUnford.Englnnd.. Joseph L. Jernegan. “ . ntanufactun _ Henry BIcldom.New York .1868 Walter Kennedy.. “ N. OrleOrleans. .1868 in the proce By pobUihlsg ooDtributlons, the JouBMAL or Ifiniiia does not neoeasarily John Sturz.England.. John Sturz ..England.1^ George P. Lockwocid... .V... ’. New York. .1868 endorse the positions aasnmed by oontrtbntors. George P. Wall...England.. the problem George P. Wall.England.....18M Schuyler Van Rennselaer. New York. .1868 James Hai^e.Lnited SUtes, Albany.1^ Frederick SUllknecht.I New York. .1868 involves tin Pabliahed Every Saturday Moruiuf. R J. Keraick.....Louis 8. Sweeny. Peoria, Ill.. 1868 from pyritei Thomas Macfarlane.Jutland.1^ Alexander M. Wateon.I New York. .1868 every 100 pi TKBM8.—8cBsraipnoif, $4 00 per sonnm, in advanee; $S SS for six .Eng and.1^ Benjamin W. Frazier.I Philadelphia 18C8 moDthfl. Single copiPB, Ten OnU. Now York City eubecrlber* *re required William Powlen.. ..'Kogland.1856 antimony, to paj 50 cenu a year extra for dellrery. Adtxst»ik« : Twenty*flT6 cent® Raphael Pumpelly.United States, New York. .1856 psr lin. oi nine worfs for rscb insertion Inside, snd forty oenu outside. Leopold Bierwirth. I “ New York.. 1857 COLUMBIA COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MINES. find few buj t.nn.mvari.bl,c.6hln.dvance. CarlFrocbel. “ New York.. 1857 - Domical sue PHILADELPHIA OPFICE.-OaoaoE E. Cc«iiii.os is onr sols Sfent Louis Janin. » N. Orleans. .1857 Tllis young and vigorous institution is beginning to re¬ tion that » in Philsdelpbla, Pa., for tbs Amebican Jocbhal or Mibimo, our new paper, Henrv Janin.' “ N Orleans. .1857 . i. r • , , .m , tbs MAHcrACTCKEB AND liuiLDEB, and our Bpanish paster, El CoBBio Uia- William A. Kobbe.! “ New York.. 1857 results OI practical value, riie catalogue for 1868- process of fabo-Abebioano. Hii address Is 154 South Fourth street, PhiiAdelphiA, Pa., William Hustler.England.1857 ’69 sliows, in addition to the solitary graduate of 1867, a pyrites was where all informAtlon respecting cominunicsUons,subscriptions snd sdTsr- j,mes Uthain.jEngland’. .1857 list of twenty graduates of 1868, half of whom are alreadv scale in N' ttsemenU for those pspers will bs gladly given to tboss who may wish to Edwin Parkvn.Enciand .. 1857 , • . r i ■ ... r.vor uA with a call. William V. Russel.England!!!!!!!.1857 ®"K*8cd in the practice of their profession, while, of the roasting; h 1C maatuK rrmuuuioes toi subscriptions, alwayi proears a draft on New John Taylor.'England.1857 remaining half, two are in Europe and four are employed for this rud York, or a Pont Monty Order if iK.osibio. wh^ Rudolph E. Werthemauu.jUnited SUtea, PhiladclphU.1857 as instructors. We notice that these vouii" men cravitata fiictured, it rw^itTAiion fee ha* been reduced And lb# preftent rejfistra- _ . .* * V * V * rather townrds metalluriTV than towards inilUI]<^_which Mon sysu-u. has been found by the tKistal authorities to be vlrluslly sn mb- Lewis Falkenau.Lnited SUtes, New York. .1858 mo a luifc, lunuiuo wmeu lue of sulpl solute protection against losses by mall All Postmaatera are obliged to Alfred P. Rockwell.| “ .1858 to he expected, When it IS Considered tliiit the principal ric acid; m register Istters whenever requested to do so. William B. Richardson. Scotland. in works w John H. Boalt. United States, Ohio.1859 8. M. CrafU. 4i Boston.1859 we are ini NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1S69. Robert H. Lamborn. ti PbiladelphU1859Philadelphia 1859 ia not in more immediate neighborhood to tlie mining dis- perhaps it <4 Ernest Moss. N. Orleans. .1859 this out foi Fruncia Washburn. 44 Boston.1859 CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. Clement Foster.i England. In that cos William Galloway. Scotland. but we can Edmund B. Preston. .1859 Editobials.—American and British CoaaxsroNDBNrB.-Important to Calcutta. art too Ion Students in ths Freiberg Hcbool of Compsnies Mining in Nevada. John F. Lewis. United States, 8. Carolina.. 1860 Rossitcr W. Haymoud. 44 Cincinnati. .1860 science, Augustus Steitz.i 44 St. Louis... 1860 day be rea Louis Vogel.j St. Louis.. .1860 Harry Bowman. England. eally, Cbemicallv, and Technically Nevada—(California-Montana— Hugh Bowmau England 1861 oonaldered, liy l>r. L'‘wls Feucb- ICtab—Colorado—.Miacbllahboi's: . . . twanger—The Assay of Silver by Maine. Walter Crafts. United States .1861 the Wet Process—I'ndergrouiid. New Pi’blications. 44 .1861 Dr. IlKB Illcstbations.-U. Hoe it, (Co.'s Review or the Ieoh Tbadb. Wiiiflcid 8. Kcyea.j 44 New York..1861 Saws. Review uftheCoalTbade. 44 fessor in tl SciEHiirio Mbetinos.—Polytechnic Minino and Otiieb Stoces. Benjamin 8. Lyman. Mass.1861 Association of the American InsU Metal Maeebt. Eugene N. Riottc. 44 .1861 well deser tute. 'SpecialSpecial Notice. James B. Smith. 44 .1861 esteemed f Eckley B. Coxe 44 1861 . . and theses Wadsworth Bush. England. .1861 NOTICE TO CORRESFONDENTS. William 8. Lee. United States, Philadelphia 1862 was oblig( 44 1862 . being leas than a gold medal, may l>e reasonably set down ses great i Charles J. Duval 44 N. Orleans.. 1863 . which he i Fritz Gilniann. England. .1863 Philip H. Lawrence. England. .1863 sition. T Cliarles Madge. England. .1863 Eozoic (p Louis F. Reichert United States, California. .1863 . . North An Augustus J. Bowie. 44 California...1864 44 .1864 Silurian s; 44 Howard Crittenden. Caiifornia...l864 New Yoi Walter L. Kane 1864 . . and the I Samncl F. Emmons. Boston.1864 SCHOOL OF MINES. Marshall Hastings. <1 California.. .1864 Canada ai 44 Maximilian Koester. CalifornU . .1864 Atlantic ! Ethebert Watts. 44 Philadelphia 1864 John H. Caswell. 44 New Yore. .1864 son with J. W. Cortlan. 44 .1864 memhersl 44 WillUm M. Courtis. New York. .1864 some dtd Thomas M. Drown. 44 PblladelpbU1864 William B. Foster. 44 Penn.1865 We hope Robert Hazen. 44 San Franc’0.1865 and scope 44 Arnold Hague. Boston.1865 by Dr. Ci Almond D. Hodges. 44 Edward R. Howe. 44 .1865 lowing tl Alexia Janin. 44 N. Orleans. .1865 public di 44 Richard J. Inge. California. .1865 cere zeal, George J. Johnson. 44 .1865 Lebcus H. Mitchell. 44 Moss.1865 The course of study at this school is judiciously laid 1. Th( 0. A. Moses. 44 .1865 times of 44 Lyman Nichols. Boston.1865 2. For Philip Oettinger. 44 New York.. 1865 John B. Pearsc. 44 FhiIadelphU1865 crystallii Edward D. Peters. 44 Boston.1865 8. The 14 William H. Pettec. extensiv( Country as given Frederick Prime. 44 New York.. 1865 at entrance. Thomas C. Raymond. 44 {Steht in Charles C. Rueger. 44 California... 1865 4. Th< 44 James Watt. Duncan D. Templeton. N. Orleans.. 1865 44 suiUble A. Champercownc.. Sydney W. Tvler. Connecticatl865 44 ein Mint Thomas Barcker_ Gardner F. Williams. .1865 44 Thomas Weaver.... Florian Alexander. Baltimore.. .1866 One jiraiseworthy feature in the plan of tuition is the 5. Eai 44 John Hailstone.... Amos Bowman. California.. .1866 44 earth’s i John Coke. Stuart M. Buck. Boston.1866 44 George Mitchcl.... Henry B. Cornwall. New York. .1866 The fij 44 George Tuthill. E. G. dc Crans. San Franc’o.l866 might V 44 Thomas Holland_ John C. Davis. San Franc’0.1866 44 Cbedne Robert Jameson... Persifer Frazer. Philadelphia 1866 44 John Henry V'ivian. James R. Gage. Port GitMon.1866 dignifiei J. Ernest Oignoox. 44 New York. .1866 passion 44 Stephen dc Mornay. William Guy. Cincinnati. .1866 44 One c Richard G. Kilally.. Richard R. Hawkins. Buffalo.1866 1 Charles Kreissmann. 44 Boston ... .1866 in vdiic 44 Edward Steut. 1 Benjamin N. Lilienthal. New York. .1866 souther 44 Stephen D. Buchan.. Francis Potts. N. Orleans.. 1866 44 beneath Adolph Steiiihauser. 1 Milton Robbins. New York. .1866 44 Lewis Gorden. Drake Whitney. New York. .1866 localitie : George P. Atwill. 44 New York...l867 he cont 44 Christian E. Cheeswright. Chicago... .1867 44 Frederick Bridgcman.... {Samuel Brady. Detroit... .1867 : Brestou M. Bruner. 44 Emans, Fa.. 1867 Ricardo de Bayo.. Frederick E. Cabell. 44 Virginia.1867 44 Robert Pigott.... 1 Solomon P. Cohen. New York...l865 John W. Osborne. John J. Crawford. ! « Philadelphia 1867 Joseph 8. Curtis. 44 New York...l867 1 44 ..1867 Alexander C. Laughliu. United SUtes, 8. Carolina. .1867 44 OtUwa. 111.. 1867 necessary Edward A. Pittman. England, Exeter.1867 Charles I. Rader. United SUtea, Easton, Pa..1867 .1867 We are a little puzzled, by the way, over some parts of ^FrederickB. Wilmarding. [UiJted SUtet , New Tork...l867 ItfssL IT, 1869.] AnERtcAttvottA»At.‘or tntme. executed by the class graduating in 1869. It is a plan for rions publications I have myself applied the name Taconlc to I /ff II •« 1 17 000 Sftna nf anl thsse southeTO aurlferous Bchlsts, using It, however, only as a metallurgical works to treat annually 17,000 tons of sul- pre-Silurian, Cambrian or Huronian, in opposition i pburous copper ores.” The amount of sulphur, “ combined to the hypothesu of thr ir Silurian Now that a part of the „„^,^„g^theniUnameandad. fur the most part with copper and iron, and 2 j)er cent, of Vermont strata which Emmons called Taconic must be reckoned 1 dress of the writer mustmast be giren.]glren.] , .iijo _ ». A—to tlie Silurian, and tlie equivalence which he asserted be- - artenut and antimony, is put at 43 per cent. Arrange- Taconic of Vermont and the auriferous schists of tlie ! Important to Companies Mining in Nevada,Nevada. meiits must lie made to collect the sulphur in roasting, and South is shown to be partly untrue, it seems advisable, to avoid ! - to condense the gases escapin'' from the furnaces. The further confusion, that the name of the Taconic system should Law OrriCR Fenner «fc Dunne, Treasure Citt, ^ 7 ri^lleeted miZZ Zm oohi The condensed iraaes will be ^ «“tirely abandoned, and the Huronian extended over the pre-. White Pine, Nevada, March 22, 1869. ) tulphur collected wUl be sold. 1 he condensed gases will ue The credit editor Journal or Mining : ,nanu/actured into sulphuric acid, to U sold as such, or used of being the Arst to point out the pre-Silurian, independent po- g rj,^^ Legislature of Nevada has just passed a law in the process.” The italics are ours. If we understand s^UonjUhe described formations, must, however, remain \ m fo7e\gxx corporations operaLg in Nevada, to the problem tliiis propounded to young metallurgists, it ‘ ; furnish evidence of their incorporation and corporate name, involves the manufacture of commercial sulphuric acid TliU solution of a hotly-disputed question in American , ^ makes it a misdemeanor for any managing agent of such from pyrites containing two per cent., (that is to say, to g®«>ogy probably be Bnally accepted by all. We only , corporation, to carry on business for iL^ filing in
,m, 100 p.rb of .ulpl,„r ne.rl, 5 p.rl.) of amnic .od *!•'> «■" <»■■'<• >*«'« “"<1 "“I™ “■« 1 [. talS., . ,l„lj:’»rtiaed cop? ofTS?” sntimony. We fear that siicli acid, “ sold as such,” would justice which is now bestowed upon his work. ficate, act, or law of incorportion, together with a certified fiud few buyers, and that it could not be refined with eco- ' ' list of the officers of the corporation. It would probably be . , „ . I • • 1- THE WIELICZKA MINE. well for you to call attention to this requirement through the noraical success. But still more perplexing is the condi- columns of your paper. We have not yet seen the full text tioii that sulphur shall be produced for sale during the The accompanying illustration was prepared to accompany I jj,e law, it not having been publislied, and we quote by process of roasting. The manufacture of sulphur from the article furnished on this subject last week, by Mr. Robert j the abstract furnished by the Enterprise. It is not likely pyrites was indeed formerly carried on upon a limited Heuschkel, but was omitted by accident in making up the i that the whole penalty for the non-observance is confined to
btnii,scale inI.. Nortl.ern4., . Germany,ji byj a slow process1 of heap-1 forms.tv/ii4io. We now give it,,1 repeating o at the same time the ex- i! the corporation will laboJSersoSi’sJbililiV^^labor under some disabilities imSutuntil it Uis roasting; hutbut nobody ever claimed completeness or merit planation which refers to it. ; done. Another matter requires care, for this rude method ; and where sulphuric acid is manu- Quite often when we have sent to New factored, it is necessarily given up. The commercial va- York for certified copies of the certifi- ,11 1- • -4 •-4 .»' ,4f . c 1 1 j m cate of Corporation, there has been rc- lue of sulphur lies iii its use in tne manufacture of sulphu- z# turnedf«^“ed to us a certificate stating the ricacid; and the notion of collecting and selling suZpAur !\ * fact that the certificate wrs duly filed in works where sulphuric acid is manufactured, possesses, and was in due form, &c. Of course we are inclined to think, more novelty than judgment. A this will not do; a full copy duly cer- 1 -4 • • 4 1 j 4*1i 4 41 j 4- 1 I 11 4aj j ^ y ymrz.Aitni/mnw^^^j'y ^r tified by the officers, with whom it is Perhaps it is intended that the graduating class shall find / necessary to file the certificate, in order tliisthis out for themselves in wrestling with their “project.” ? to complete the incorporation will be In that case, we beg pardon for having let out the aecret; V’ ^s?^required. required. The beat way would be to but we cannot forbear to suggest tliatthat life is too short and -vi ^ certifi^ copy from the Secretary . , ,--414, •1 14 4-/- A 1 of State under seal of the State. As art too long, for the consideration of mere conundrums in * O 6 W for the list of officers, let the Secretary science. We would rather see “ projects” that can some O '»v -s * and President of the Corporation certify day behe realized. I to that under the seal of the Corpora- -- SECTION OF THE SALT MINE. Let the papers he sent to the agent in Nevada, and THE EOZOIC SOCKS. 0. A bed of tertiary sand, about 360 feet thick, and carry- by him submitted to counsel before filing, to make sure of - ing a vast quantity of water ; underlain by their being correct. Dr. Hermann CrrdnerCbkdner was recently installed ns a pro- 1. “Tegel” clay, containing marine fossils, but no salt. Respectfully Yours, E, F. Dunne. lessor in the University of Leipzig—a distinguished honor, and having about the same thickness. r»r • i ' . well deserved, upon which we heartily congratulate our 2. A bed 180 feet thick of salt clay, inclosing irregular ^ nown us persona y, as an intelligent, esteemed friend and contributor. The subject of his essay bodies of salt, which often have a size of several thonsands of trustwort ly aw^r. ining companies will do well to heed bis warning.—Ed.] and theses (upon which, according to ancient custom, he cubic feet. (These salt bodies are called “ Gruensalzkoer- -»*#»•-- was obliged to dispute publicly against all comers) posses- per.”) The Gold HiU Fire. Ees great interest for American geologists; and the views 3. A bed 36 feet thick of rock-salt, contaminated with which he supports will doubtless meet with vigorous oppo- clay, lignite, etc. (“ Spikasalz ’’) LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. sition. The essay is entitled “ The Subdivision of the 4. A bed of about the same thickness, of the purest fine- San Francisco, April 13,1869. Eozoic (pre-Silurian) Group of Geological Formations in grained rock-salt, (“ Schybikeisalz.”) On opening ifliafts yesterday, the fire was still burning on 700 North America.” In it, he defines the lower limit of the A. “ Francis Josef ” sliaft. feet level, between Kentuck and Crown Point. Shafts again Silurian system, describes the Laurentiaii group of Canada, B. “Alt Regis” level. closed. New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and the Appalachians, C. “ Halts Oestcrreich ” level. and the Huronian system, including a not them zone in D. “Rittinger Horizont” level. HEW PUBLICATIONS. Canada and Michigan, and an Appalachian zone in the TEE CATA8TB0FHE AT GOLD HILL. Atlantic States, and finally, after an inteiesting compari¬ Polar Magnetism : A Paper read before the American Institute son with European formations, and a tabular resume of the The recent deplorable catastrophe in the Yellow Jacket, on the Cause of Polar Magnttism.the Attraction of the Seedis to'the ... , - 1 I * 4i 4 4 1 j •41. . . 4, -.4 . . ... , , Pole, tne Variations of the Compass, and the Phenomena Incident to membership and equivalehce of the strata, concludes with Kentuck and Crown Point, by which at least forty lives were the same. By John a. Parkks. New York: Whet a Son. some dtductions concerning the genesis of Eozoic rocks, lost, and doubtless much material damage was done to these LtetenKonPohAK hisaumau: its Astronomical Origin; its Pe- We hope to be able to do justice hereafter to the contents important mines, seems inexplicable to many persons. How Recoiution and the Synodical Period of the Earth identical. , - ., . , , O'! •4' • J . • 4 1 /• 4L 4 • ni4 Read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society. Bv and scope of this very able essay. 1 he position occupied a quartz mine can take fire, they can not conceive. Ihe .iohn a. Paeker. New York: Wilev * Scn. by Dr. Credneb will pretty distinctly appear from the fol- latest accounts from the scene of the disaster will be found in These two pamphlets, instead of bein)? a contribation to the stock of pub- lowing theses, which he defended on the 15 th of March in another column ; but we must wait for the mails to bring us knowledge, are simply an exhibition of the ignorance of the author con- public disputation, and we presume with sturdy and sin- full explanations. Meanwhile we will merely allude to one cere zeal, not merely proforma : or two points, which will make the story, as thus far told, years ago. He now takes the drcnmference of this circle and propounds 1. The granites are sometimes of sedimentary, some- more intelligible to the public. the following surtiing proportion: As one primary circumference of a cir- 4. 4. . . , ...... , cle Is to the earth’s time around the sun, so la the earth's time around tho times of Igneous, origin. How could the fire originate ? We hear also of an cxplo- expressed m day^ to the period of revolution of the magnetic pole 2. For many stratified crystalline rocks an original sion. Possibly it may have been some artificial explosive, aronnd the geographic pole, expressed in years, in this way, he obtains crystalline formation is to be accepted. accidentally ignited. But possibly also it may have been "’kich he “believes to be the exact period of the revolution 8. The theory ot the bydro-clieinical metamorphosis of caused by inflammable gases. The ordinary fire-damp (car-i extensive rock-formations contradicts natural plicnomena. buretted hydrogen) of coal mines is not met with in quartz probably suit the judgment of those gentlemen, learned in astronomical (StditimWiedcrspruchmitdenErsehcinungeninderlfdtur.) mines; but the decomposition of sulphurets may, under cer-1 ‘“'Wht.'wiio, following the angular system of their 4. The morphological pro,>ertie8 of minerals offer no tain circumstances produce another gas, sulphuretted hydro-1 suitable foundation for mincralogical classification {fucr gen, (the firc-stink of the coal-miiiers) which is also inflam-1 simple. “ tienticmen learned in astronomy, as at present unght,” do not tin Mineralsystem.) mable. There was an explosion of this gas, a year ago, in 1 Jo“P **■ conclusions concerning matters ot which, as yet, but little is known; 5. Earthquakes are consequences of the reaction of the the Gould and Curry mine. i “'f 7 'o'"®'”’ in «t- , , . . . n,, 1 4. j. j 1 ij t. -1 ■ • I tempting to solve, by a simple rule of three, the great problems of the earth’s earth S interior against its crust. g That the fire once kindled, should burn with intensity, 1 magnetism, the very conditions of which can be ascertained by only jk>s- The fight over propositions so decided and bold as these need surprise no one who knows how widely excavated and i terity, when the obaervationa of several centuries have been added to the might well wax hot. We are glad to notice that Dr how heavily timbered are the Comstock mines, and especially i . = ® -4-1.. . -41. »u wu 4 1 J f 1 - u 4 4 u J 4u 7 ' The second pamphlet appears to have been written one year after the Credneb s wntings announce and maintain his views in these three. The great body of ore, which stretched through other, and the author evidently obtained, during the interval, some informa- dignified and modest language, free from every trace of all three stood almost vertical, and was extracted in slopes ! tion not in his possessioD, when be evolved from bis inner conscioncness the passion. some twenty feet wide. The massive timbers, successive I *^*^**“**'®”*''®^*’***^“*’*“*^°“* ^**® *"■***'' publication he 44 ... . . , • v • J .1. . a J 4- 4 • - 41. 4 J 41. • 1 announces, 18 s great discovery of his own, that the magnetic pole revolves One of the most interesting passages in his essay is that floors and connecting stairs m these stopes made the mines | th* geographic pole. He was apparently ignorant that this hypoth- in which he discusses the so-called Taconic slates of the like a huge tenement-house, built underground. Once on | esis is very old, and, by later investigations, has been proved deflcient to ex- Boutbem States, which he claims as Huronian, and places fire at the bottom, there was no hope for the whole, except in ' P'**“ complex phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. He ignored the 4 4. ... , . 1. 1 • 41. J 1.4 i existence of the magnetic observations, established at the suggestion of Hcm- beneath the lower Silurian. After pointing out various choking the draught. ! boldt m different parts of the world, .nd the important results obtained localities where they are clearly overlain by Silurian strata. The awful loss of life thns occasioned is due to the policy from them. He was not aware that there arest different points of the earth’s he continues: of mining with deep shafts instead of tunnels, and to the in- \ numberless irregularities and anomalies irreconcilable with gen- — . . - . J 4 41. V— • • J ' eral formula;: and he pronounced Hcmbolbt and Capt. Ross wrong in some “ The superposition of the lowest member of the Silnrian sys- egress a e irginia an tf,elr observations and deductions (particularly the determination by th* tern npon the Huronian is thus placed beyond question. Since Gold Hill mines. This burying men a thousand feet nnder- latter, in locoipso, of the magnetic pole) because they do not agree with not only Emmons, but also Saffobd, Rogers, Cook and Lesley ground, with no other way out tlian the single shaft in which Parkerisn theories and suppositions. have called attention to this point of relative age it l» *nrprising j forbidden by law. ^ ® »''ghUy different story In ^rd to these matt^ ; a number of the most repatable geologists of North America i • u v. * i ; but this !• more than counterbalanced by increased self-^Ioriflcatlon. This still adhere to the opinion that the auriferous slates of the South Tb® Comstock mines have been man-traps long eQOUgu, | theory “ ranks among the most daring and feitcitous in the annals of sden- belong to the Silurian formation. (Thus Hunt, in Silliman's --■»<#» -- i tlflc discovery," and “ will prove as useful for the eztensioo of knowledge aa JournuZ, XXXI, page 403, says there exists os yet not a single SmoU Fox at White Fine. any sclentlflc discovery ever made." (Page 4 of second paper.) proof of the occurrence of pre-Silurian rocks anywhere in the - ' And now what does this discovery amount to? The revolution of the Appalachian chain I) The reason of tliis may lie in the fact that It is rumored that the small pox is raging at White magnetic poie was announced long ago, and Its period was approximately Emmons declared the schists of tlie Southern Atlantic States, pine. The story is not yet confirmed * but we advise known, but wisely left tar future observations to determine, not for circk- vhich I have described as Huronian, to be eqaivalenU of his Ta- * • 4 i- 4 • -4 41. -u' 1 4 1 squarers to guess. But besides this the author congratulates himself that all conic system in New England, the upper division of which was person intending to Visit the Pacific slope to he vac- j those are wrong who consider the earth’a magnet, and that “no one be- subseqaently proved to belong to the lower Silurian. In pre- cinated before he goes. liar# myself has ever advanced that the cause of polar attraetton is whoU AMEatCAS* JOttfttMI. Of Wf tfl»» v Apeil 17,1868 utroDomiad.’’ {P»f« JO.) farther on, howeror, (pofo IT) he remerki ihet j© complaints, which proToked a new examination of this AMERiaAN n»*n*rprrpis the earth tein„apian^ an4 ^<^7- The attention of tl.e Commiasionef of tlie mOTITUTB. ether pUneU are maf^netie alio. It U evident that Mr. Paekee, In dlieor- „ tx, ,>• -- eritif that the earth la not a mapjet, haa yot ahead, not only of everybody Mint was Called to the Subject, and M. D ABAT, Director of ProceedingsProc«wlingi of the PolytechnicPolytoehnic AasocUUon.A”~Hntlnil elae, but of hlinaeir alao. We advlae him to retreat npon himaelf. Finally the Assajs, WAS required tO ir.StitUte experiments, which _ THE M (and thil la the subject of auperUUve pride) our author trlea to prove, not gljowed that an allOJ by synthesis with the title of 900 «'TINO HELD AT THE BOOMS OP TUB ASSOCIATION April 8 18l>, with facta or sound reaaoninr, but with phraaea, thU electricity, macnetlam , , , . , _ ’ ■ and pravlUtlon are one and the same. He baa come “ to the eonclaalon that thousandths, when tested by the CUpel showed Only from ^ ^ TILLMaT what we call polar mafnetlam la the result of magnetic force, rendered acUve 896 to 896 thuusaildlhs. Alloys of a known Composition tn Al i " » " " i ^ ** ixtrr—•» Secreta It la a curioua phenomena of oerUln kinds ot minds that they are aatlafled every where tliey fountl too lo W a title. meter with a Ubie of relative temperatures and degrees of "hu. with a mere pUy of wordA and consider mere verbal aaserUons Bufflcient to A Commission, coin)>osed of the principal French chem- ,r, ^ ibe instrument is generally known as the Bring s foil spmenl of the prove . fact, without adducing any actual proofo When Mate, .nd Jort. uu, was appointed by tlie Minister of Finance to ef amine : of me irsUtSeCl'S? A^n^ril^rw^, provednroveA thetheMentlt* idenUty of heath«At EndAnd motion, theythev founded their new theory of ji,;, , „ , . , , wr the Instnim.nr’.UIB insiitue lor1 1^-7.if A good deal ^aswas saidsnid ab.about the conservation of force, on facU,dl«;overed «id measured them, and «»• to the t^J^trum^t teing self-rcg,storing This, however, is the conservation of forces on facts, discovered and roeasurea byDy tnem, aou *process and indicate changeso to be made.* M." I error there heinir8 nn reo'Uto • " verlflablc at any time by actual cEt.criment. Where are the new focu ad- Gat-Ld88AC, a member of tlie Commission, proposed a pro- hygrodeik is little else than*a duced by Mr. Paekee, proving the identity of gravlution, magnetism, etc.» cess that he had Used several years in his laboratorv, and ; tables which usually accompany the* ind s Trestis inz. *'th delir Turrit; »• .'>«n».«ci.»riK i. k.o.. w i.i., ..w-. ■■■• Systems of sU time. By .ktbei.phllowi*,n whoi.T.J.
Th.,wM ,„ick.r,.MJs«i,c,»llp,„ISci...,. Tl.« ,.«„«rc„l c„p,,er, St Mines snil insnner by tal “ I do not believj th. story which the savans tell us to account tor the sue- '“‘'i “‘etal lu the solution of Silver, lias uo 2 grains of water, while one cubic foot of air, at 08 degrees, will For full infori ceasionofdayandnight—that this earth of ours, which besia us all so kindly sensible influence ou the quantity of salt iiecessurv to pre- hold 71-2 grains. When air at 32 degrees has 2 grains of watery mid.ml smoothlyamoothiv on her bosom. Is In thetafhet a ro«,tingroastinir pig.pig, and that she turns her- oitiitot..cipitate it.if ThatTli-.f i.is tof,, no,,say, thefl... Same.....u quantity of silver, .“v^fvapor lu it,‘Veal it is itsaid half to satuiated be saturated: m^^ if it has but half this self around on axis or spit In front of the face of the sun. I am satisfied that ii i • r •» • • i amount, we call 11 half saturated. When air is saturated, that is, she 1. not a roasting pig, and that she at length will vindicate herself N^alnst PW® Of alloye.l, requires for its precipitation the same contains all ffie moisture that it 18 capable of holding, we say all such ssiiersions of vain and presumptious philosophers." quantity of tlie Solution of salt. that iU relative humidity Is IW ; if it conUins three-fourths of the amount it is capable of holding, we say tliat its relative hu-
“discover."’ Mesnwhil^ .. for Me Pakkke’s great charade, .bout which grammes lu We See from this that the relative humidity of the air does n such eomplimenury trash haa been ulked by people who couldn’t unriddle weight, Of 100 centimetres in Volume, will precipitate ex- all the absolute amount of watery vapor present. ILhlsfir.!: 1. anything, hi. second 1. everything and hi. wh.U 1. nothlEg. ^Ctly this quantity of silver. That quantity of the solu- -- «•* —- tion i>f fait is diviiled into one thousand parts; and the degrees, whose relative humidity Is but 30 per cent 90 YE title of ail alloy ol silver is given by the number of thou- T**® ... . A-V MINI j.l r .1ti.n cinfi,,.,.l mmUl. n. fww- __4• • . . AJX glassKIOOB tumblermuiwivi filledUI>VU withn imu coldvuiu water in111 summer,BUIIIUICI, isIB soonBUtMl be-uc- SEX RAILli ^ ^ aandtlis of the solutions of salt nicessary to precipitate dewed with moisture, not, as is frequently imagined, because seres. .\n as following res . kCTo... 1 the silver contained in one gramme of that alloy. the water oozes through the tumbler, but because the air around ro. Tn. .o™w.L o, ..w.ko.J ^ ^ .ud lu uolitd,. pudi^iuud «p,d It Tk. 0 51; Pko8->h psrU. S.32: < - 1 * 4k. 1 • t 1 would occur lu winter if the tumbler were brought into a close YOL’NG, No the assay op silver BT THE WET PROCESS. P*’®®®** 5 there was sometliing more than the mere the- room In which many persons were assembled, and the air loaded ___ ory in its industrial application. Tlie maiiiDulations bad with the accumulated vapor exhaled from their lungs and skin. BT raov H DUSSAUCE CHEMIST l>e made very simple to compete with' cupellation; cold windows of a crowded lecture- BT PROT.PBOV. H. DtssAucE,DCSSAUCE, CHEMIST.cnEMiBT, j t • i • i ^ • * foom are coDsUotly covcrcd With mlnutc drops of water, which _ l)Ut all tlieae difnculties having been conquered, this pro- ,oon collect together and run down the glass In streams. I. ceas, as practised to day, is not only iiiucli more accu- The liighesthighest point of the thermometer at which vapor beginsbepins to be deposited by the air, is called the dew-point; it is the point liis by c«i>ellation that the contents of silver in an rate tban tbe assay by cupellation, but also quite aa it is the point It is powei at which dew begins to form. tilist; ft is s ofUfe; sad, i alloy are genera ly determined. This process, of a very rapid. 55Ui.^1,_ Thexhe absolute amouut expressed in grains of water con- ancient origin, consists in keeping tlie alloy in fusion with The normal or standard solution of salt may be measured tained In a cubic foot of air, at the temperature, and relative bn-
a certain quantity of lead in a cupel or heartli of pbo.- 1*7 w®isht or by volume. The measure by weight is a depS.Tu that would be deposited to every msn phatc of iinie; the metals liable to oxidation by the air little more precise, being independent of the temperature, npou the earth by the condeusation of all the vapor held in Belie'ving t’ those tnteresi arc carried off with the oxide of lead in the cupel, and tbe but it requires too much time when numerous assays are the atmosphere ” suits of the c< weight of tbe silver resisting oxidation establishes the to be made. Tbe measure by volume has sufficient exact- ^^Mr.^ST.TSON asked if there was any self-registering One of i title of tbe alloy. It is tiiie that this operation, wiiich re- ness, and reqnirej much less time. It is indeed effected by di-.Dr. Tillman replied Inin the aflirmative.affirmative. quires only fifteen minutes, possesses great simplicitv; but the influence of tlie temperature; but we shall sliow bow Mr. EmortEmokt remarked that Ed^onEd^on’8 s instrument is certainly very ingenious as regards its mechanical arrangement. He then made the publicstlo the results it gives cannot he avlopted with entire conti- to make allowance for tliis. We shall describe this pro- a diagram “/'pru'fof Prof. Houoh’‘8^^^^^^^Hough’s self registering barometer. THE CHE; dence. The cupellation, indeed, is effected by the in- cess with regard to both these inothods of measuring. Dr”Dr. TillmanTillman—Hough’s—Hough’s barometer records the changes and Alienee of very variable circumstances, particularly by the Measure by Weight.—The standard solution must be prints them. A full deBcription was published in the last vol- teini«rature of the furnace; and it is well ascertained now such, that 100 grammes precipitate exactly 1 gramme of '"^r^VaroL^r *re*ferrTd”to tL AneroW barometer, and stated that it always gives too lowji title to the alloy—the differ- pure silver, dissolved iu nitric acid. We shall suppose it tnat it could not be depended upon at great elevations, dice of the title lound from the lealily ainoiiuting to 8 or made beforehand, iu order to indicate the manner of Mr. Johnson Uiiiiks that the barometer and hygrometer should lO-lOOOtlis. The assayers of different countries, or differ- weighing it; and afterwards we shall givo its prepara- J^reement & ent assays ot the same subject by one assayer, may vary by tion. Dr. Edwards referred to the use made of the barometer liy sea- this method 4-lOOOllis, and soiueiimes even 5-lOOOdis.wbile The solution is weighed in a burette of the capacity ol men for the purpose of foretelling storms. The British Admiralty . . ’ r .1 4 1 j 1- - 1 j - cause signals to be transniited all round the coast of England so none of them are quite correct. 115 to 120 grammes of that solution, and divided in „ forewarn seamen of tl.e approach of a storm. These defects of the assay by cupellation bad notes- grammes; these divisions make known approximatively Dr. Tillman—ThsAdmiralty forecasts of the weather have'beco caped the acuteness of Tillet. Numerous exiieriinents. the weight of the solution drawn out and thus shorten tlie ; found to be so generally liic irect that they have been given up.
published 111 the Memoires of the Academy of Sciences in weighings. In drawing the solutiou out of tlie burette, | |,g-,r^ whalebone, rye straw, etc. 1761, 1763 and 1769, liad sliown him that the cupellation each division furnish- s 8 or 10 drops, and consequently j Mr. Stetson enquired about the camphor storm-guage. It not only gives too low a title, but also that the cupel con- li'® we'tr'it of a drop is about one decigramme. The bu , was generally .greed that it was worth nothing. It ludicaUt 4-4 f .1 1 . . rette is filled with the solution as far as the first division, changes of temperature alone, tains twice tl.e quantity of the silver nominally missing, exactly lialanced on a delicate scale. We ! Mr. Blanchard descri’oed a hygrometer made of a tendril of and consrquently that the button is never entirely pure, ^ow draw from the burette, adding at the same time some plant. but must coiitLiii a quantity of lead and copper, usually ♦•xtra weights, to counterbalance the loss, until we reach i* Dr. Smith referred to thense of a h'^® ftog “ » storm reckoned as silver. In announcing these facts, Tillet ex- 100 graniine*. -As we cannot discharge less than one drop fhe^frog^''oTrtng dry*^wealUer*the frog defends iutZL 15 Ce jiressed a desire that the inoile of assay might be reiidercit * *'"1® ^ ^ i^ ' | hut climbs up the ladder on the approach of rain. 1 -f n4,- Calculation, blit for the iiStf ot a decimal salt ' rTl.e animal used is not Droperly a W hut a tree toad.- The It nun more certain and nniforin. But bis experiments were g,»intion. consisting merely of the standard s ilution, diluted ; i over -.too t-nzi to the workii soon forgotten; assayers were afraid to change a process to one tenth its original strength. It is not the water con-! Mr.A8PDEN,ofOrange,N.Y.,exhibitedamachineforplasUr- dn ds of dolls by which all transactions in silver were re<’UIaU.il and tiiineil in either solution tliat is important, but the amount j^g successfully tried in Jersey City, T Four years fi^’-AMERl wdiich was esteemed everywhere in the same iLnner. "f ^ Hence, one gramme of the decimal Mr. Blanchard mised sevenU objection, to it In tl.e CORREO HI 4-1-1 ■ solution IS equivalent to one decigrumuie ot the stundaid ; place it required skilled labor to operate it, and in tbe second •equAlDtS-d W The directors of the iiiints, however, who received pure |or lustance, we have been ali'e lo weigh 99.85 the amount of woik accomplished was not proporliouaidj joumsl for g( isfactiim tliat silver to convert it into uioney, l.aviiig a title of 900 ^raiiiines of the latter, we can raise the quantity to the de- great so long Ml b thousandths, were obliged to give tiieir alloy tbe title of sire.l 100 grammes, by adding one gramme upd a half of Dr. Edwards thought ^at at the present high rates of labor. •erist resoure ..44 .4.,. 4 . ^ 4. H vnliiti.iii ti> it almost any machine would pay if It would work well. 903 or 904 tbousaudiha (of tbe cupelled silver), winchwliicli was decimal ^oluiiou to it. | emort bad no doubt that an efficient machine might b( » loss in its fabrication of 3 or 4 thousandths. This led [to be costisceh.] ; constructed. I
ilta IT, 1869.] Mnrtiio:'
[E MINES y^WADVE nTISEMEyrS, PATENTS. MANUFACTURERS, ATTENTION’ TSe mines of the WEST: WM. F. McNAMARA, i COLOIIA.DO; Counsellor at 1j»w anil liolieilor of rati-nts. I _ _ 8T I’ai-k Uow, New York. ’ BY OTANIX) J.,1. HOLLISTER, ; A REPORT TO THE PROCl'RCO LATE F.niTOREDITOR AND rBOPEirroKCOLORADOPROPRIETOR COLORADO MIMINOJOUBNAL.MINING JOURNAL. I on all iuiproToments COAL SHIPPERS, COAL SHIPPERS, mBCBTjZANEOVS. Pier Ho. 14‘Horth Pt Eichmond. JJUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO., ,HEBBAB0 POWELTON COAL AND IRON CO, C. J. k h H. EiSTWlCR k €0., POLE MIXEIiS AND SHIPPERS BANKERS, Car Spring Co. BHIPPEBS OF Of tbe Celebrated Comer of Pine nnd Hasiaa Streeti, H.T. Bight and Left WHITE AHD EEE ASH COAL. 1880 CIBCm.AS HOTE8 AND UTTKR8 OF CREDIT . BPIBAL STffiL POWELTON NO. 2*8 DOCK 8TKBET. PHILADELPHIA, and ,rOR TBAYELEKS, ATAILABE IN ALL THE NO. 1» DOANE 8TKEKT, BOSTON. rBIMCIFAL. CITIES OF THE WORLD. CABSPEIVg Semi-fiituminoos Oas and Anthracite I.BCBNSIDE BED A8H, SUAMOKIN WHITE A8H. meecantilF credits M. B.WA8HBUES Coala UKIUST MOUNTAIN WHITE A8H COAL Oenenl Ageil, 1(4 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. JaaV-ly-li a.a. . For Use ik Eoope, Ceina, etc. Also maee BEAHCH OPPICES: Tranifers of Money to Europe and the 18T and 141 Qq Street, New York, Trinity Building ; IT Duane atreet, Boaton, THE DESPARD COAL COMPANY Pacific Coaat by Telegraph. Cleveland, Ohio; Plttaburgb, Pa. New York City. t anSO-Sm.la, oma THEiB tcraaioB (Bbl:U litTEBWT Allowed oh DErotiTS. I>E:8PA.Rr> COA.Ia. To Oaa Light Companiet tbroogbout the country. Gr, B. Lindennan & Co., MINE^8 IN HARBISON ^UNTY, WeatVlrginU. H. E. WOETHIHGTOH’S MACHIN WHABVE8, LOCUST POINT, miiv£:rs, COMPANY'S OFFICE, Baltimore. AND Jlannfactui SUGAR LOAF, No. 29 South Street, , Agenta, PABMLE BBOTIIEB3, No. 82 Pine street. tai Boilers LEHIGH COAL. New York. OFFICE: BANOS A HOBTON, No. 81 Donne atreet, Boston. CLAV RETORT WORKS rope 50 TRi:viTr ui ii.ni.irc}. Amoiv the cunsniners of Despard Coal we name; Man- Battan Oaa Light Company, New York; Metropolitan may 23-ly 111 BKOADWAY, N. Y. Oaa Light Co., New York; Jersey City Oas Light Co., ESTABLISHED 1845. UtheA •leraey City, N. J.; Washington Oas Light Co., Wash¬ Castings, ington D. C.; Portland Gas Light Co., Portland, Maine. SAMUEL BONNELL, JR., Beferenre to them is reqneated. May 80ly OFPICE,f58 GOEECK STEEET, stsntly on Corner Delaney Street, East Biyer, OFFICE Offers for Sale hla WEST FAIRMONT GAS COAL » * MINES. NEW 1ORK STJGAE CEEEK HENRY Y. ATTRILL. Proprietor. mar28-ly-f Mines at Fairmont, Mariun Co., West Va. Jusxru 0. AND Oliver laekson. Esq., Pres. First National Bank of Fair¬ HONEY BEOOE mont, Manager. rHE DEFIANCE LOW WATER L ALARM, I offer this sa|)erior Coal to Oaa Companies thronghont Endorsed by tbe highest authority as the Lehigh Coals, the United States—suy>erfor to any. An analysis by 8I.MPLE3T AND MOST RELIABLE OFFICi;—4.8 AND 45 “TKINITY BUILDINa.” Engineer Manhattan Oas Light Co. of New York, gave: V'uTatile matter, 87.0; fixed carbon, 59.0; ash, 4.0.-100.0. PATENT WATER-METER. Ill BROADWAY, N. Y. The maximum yield of gas per ton of 2240 lbs was 9,681 1-4ow "Water Indicator OILEF feet. When tbe yield was restricted to 9,.500 feet, the il¬ EVER INVENTED. luminating power of tbe gas was equal to 19..’i0candlrs. This Meter is also Used for the Measure¬ WORl Tbe yield of rnke was 40 bushels, weighing 1,500 lbs. One No Plugs, Springs or Floats to get out of order. ment of OiL Honey brook coal com¬ bushel of the hydrate of lime purified 4.180 feet of gas. CHARLES K. BILL, pany. Orders solicited from Oas Comiianies, Oaa Manufactur- IT COUBIXIB era, and Shippers of Coal by the Cargo. nur28-6m General Agent for the United States, Exclusive .Miners and Shippers of the tk-lebrated 747 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. ACCURACY, BIMPUCITY, AHD BKMARKABLE HONEY BROOR LEHIGH COAL, %sr Send for Circular. mchl3-8m DURABILITY, No. HI BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE NEWBURGH MTTTXIAL FRIEND with such ease and certainty of motion, as to offer no sp- preciable obstructions to the flow of water In tbe pipes w JAS. H. LTLES, Agent, ORREL COAL COMPANY which It Is connected, as it runs and registers upon thres Wharves, Port .Johnson. N. .1. Philadelphia Office, 209 Inches head, or when delivering the smallest stream COOKING STOVE. These qualities, with Its luw coat, have caused its exten¬ Walnut Street. Mines St Newburgh, Preston Co- W', Va. sive adoption by eori>orations and individuals, In many of apjo :iy J. B. McCREAHT, President. Company's Office, No 52 8. Gay St., Baltimore, Md. ip- I A PERFECT STOVE. our larger cities. C. Olivkx O'Dox.-iell, Pres't. <>. W. Maiiool, Sec't HENRY B. WORTHINGTON, I I* Yhe Best and the Cheapest of septlS-ly No. 61 Beekman street, H. Y. This Company offer their very superior Oas Coal at loweet market prices. (so-called) first-class Stoves. It yields 10.996 cubic feet of gas to the ton of 2.240 lbs., IIILIVERID DiaXCT FEOM THE MINEE OF ofgoo illuminating Mwer, and of remarkable purity; oua OLMSTED'S IMPROVED bushel of lime purifying 6.792 cubic feet, with a large variety of other Cook The Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron Co. amount of coke of go^ quality. It has been for many years very extensively used by and Heating Stoves adapted various Oas Companies In the Uniteil States, and we lieg OK, rOK RESniP.MENT AT ALWAYS RIGHT SIDE UP. to refer to the Manhattan, Metropolitan, and New York Oas Light Companies of New York, the lironklvn and HOBOKEN AND JERSEY CITY. Warranted the most dnrabls Citlxens' Oas light Companies of Brooklyn, N. V- the New York Fire-Place Heater, Sanford’s Oiler made. The S|iring cannot OFFICE—NO. 80 BROADWAY, Baltimore Oas Light t'oinpany of Baltimore, Md., and lie "set" by use, or the Oiler in¬ ProvMi'nce Oas Light Company, Providence, R. I. Challenge Heater, and Challenge jured by falling. These fMlers Anrill-lv NEW YORK. Tbe tiest dry coals shlp{M-d, and the promptest attention are made of heavy Tin, Brass given to orders. dec5-ly-q Rangea and Copper, and are soM by tbs trade everywhere. Address YyrinTE, fowler & snow, ENGLISH COAL AND CANNEL. MANUFACTURED BT THE LJ NATIONAL STOVE WORKS, J. H. WHITE, Successors to JOHN WHITE & CO., DESPARD COAL, frum Baltimore octSl-6uiis 239 dc 241 Water Street, N. Y. Newark, N. J, Wilkesbarre and Lehigh Coal, PROVINCIAL COAL, & H. T. ANTHONY & CO Manufacturer of SHEET and FOR STEAM AND FAMILY USE. CAST METAL, smaU wai^ Stationers' and Trunk iDaker8 OmcE, ANTHRACITE COAL. 601 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Hardware, ROOM NO. 75, 111 BROADWAY, (Trinity For sale In lots to suit. NOTIONS, Building.) Manufacturers of Photographic Mate¬ Patented Articles, Ac- Ac [no. White Linplev H. Fowlee. Louis T. Snow. PARMELE BROS.. rials and Albnma janl.ly Agency of Oscab I. Van Waet, Llverp JJ^ANDOLPH BROTHERS, VAN WICKLE k STOUT, mchl8-tf SOLE AGENTS OF THE ORIGINAL Geoeral CoBHission Broker, ^ROMPTON & DAWSON, SPRING MOUNTAIN LEHIGH COAL, TREASl'ME CITY, Cotton and Woolen Manufacturers’ SUPPLY HOUSE. FULTON & STOUT AUtbe Extensively Used for Smelting Iron. N e vada. I.EHIOH COATjd. VARIOUS KINDS OF MACHINERY BVY AJrn 8EZ.B MEAL ESTATE, ROOMS, 28 AND 80, TRINITY BUILDING, OFFICE 119 BROADWAY. ROOM 18. NEW YORK. AT makers’ prices. • HEW YORK. Our Fulton Lump is a Superior Article for FOUNDRY Mill and Mining Property, Wood Ranches, etc. *8 Front 8t.. Woroeeter, Mass. Apl7 ly-q USE. feb20-ly Procure Patents for Mining Ground. Furnish Certificates of Incorporation, Trust Deeds and TK. EARLE & CO. Mining Blanks. • lIAM'PACm;EEBS or Trnetees for non-resident Stockholders, Secretaries, Ac. ATTENTION, ENGINEERS, SUPERIOR COTTON, WOOL AND FLAX QOXE BRO.’S & CO. S\. MINERS, QUARRYMEN. Will fhrnish accurate information in regard to tbe White Pine Mines; progiese of developmenta, indica¬ MACHINE CAED CLOTHING. Lamson’s Patent Stone Channeling tions, new discoveries, strikes, transactions' In rM estate Of every description. Cross Creek Colliery, Machine, sad mining property, and attend to aU business with fidelity and dispatch. mch20-8m Combing Aprons for Silk and Worsted, etc, etc. MINERA and ftBlPPUft fur qcarrving Marble, Slate, Grindstone, Sandstone and other rocks; dues tbe work of 75 to lUO men per day; At tux Wobcesteb Caed Marufactout, of the c^'lebrtted Cross Creek can be seen in the quarries at Rutland, Vt- or at tne Translations from and Correspondence in Apl5-tf-q Worcester, Hass Company's works. Free Burning Lehigh Red Ash Coal, CASEYS PATENT DIAMOND ROCK DRILL; Is FOREIGN LANGUAGES pointed with black diamonas; is adjusted and operated Accurately and neatly done by] FROM THE BUCK MOUNTAIN VEIN. by one man; bores in any direction, or under water; ! ED. SEARS’ bwes In Ma-ble 8 inches. In Granite 5 inchea. in Quart! 8 Wood EograTisg Establishneiit. OFFlCEti t inches, in Talc 6 inches per minute. One drill-head has bored over 2,OOC feet without repair, and ii still perfect. hllad-lphla. I Drifton, ^ O. Address EDITORIAL ROOMS OF THE] I pNGRAVING DESIGNING ANI No. i4'. Walnut Street. Luierne Co- Pa. THE WINDSOR MANUFACTURINO CO., ; Photomphlng on Wood, In aU its bnnehea, vli Windsor, Vt. JOXJRNA-i:. OF MINING, Portrait^ Fine Book W’ork, Machinery, Hapa, BuUdini Arrangements made for maoulkctaring any new 87 PARK ROW, ; lUustrated CaUloguea, Viewi, *e. ^ B. Special attc PiteBt Machines. febS 7-6m-ia Feo,. ’ NEW YORK (jnr. iiMERiCAtit JOtJfUsiAu OF Mtsma 'J'HE WOODWARD steam Pomp Manofactoring Coi MANUFACTCBERS OF THE Woodward Patent Improved Safety Steam Pump and Fire Engine, BIOTH ft 8ATBE TODD kRAFFERTY, 'MAKUFACTURlire CO. GENERAL machinery merchants, engineers AND MACHINISTS. MAnufacturers of SUttoiury and Portable Steam Engines MANUFACTDEEES ud Boilers; also Flax, Hemp, Tow, Oakum, and rope machinery, mill gearing, SHAFTING. Latbe^ Ptoners, Mila, Chneks, Ae., Ii«b aii4 Brass Mackenzie Patent STEAM, WATER, AND GAS FITTINGS OF ALL Castings. Judson'a dt Snow’s Patent Governors con¬ KINDS. stantly on hand. Also dealers In WROUGHT IRON PIPE, BOILE BLOWER and CUPULA and TUBES, etc. Hotels, Churches, Factories, and Publl OFFICE AND WAREROOMS, NO 4 DEY Buildings, Heated by Steam, Ia>w Pressure. SMELTING FURNACE. STREET, N. Y. Woodward Building, 76, and 7S Centro Street, comer JNEW AND SECOND HAND Worth Street, New York. F'ormerly 77 Rc‘ekman Str e j Office and Works, Patterson N. J. Also, Mackenzie's Patent MarU-ly GEO. M. WOODWARD, President. STEAM BOILERS, Josarn C. Todd. oct27:6m Puiur KarraaTi GAS EXHAUSTER and STEAM PUMPS COMPENSATOR. Address AMD Niagara steam pumi AND STATIONARY WORKS pORTABLE SMITH A SAYRE STEAM GAUGES •SAFETY VALVES, FIBST PREMIUM AT FAIR. MAKUrACTUBlNa COMPANT, AMERICAN INSTITUTE 186 7. STEAM ENG-INES. Tsock'up and Safety halves, #8 Liberty street, N. Y. Send IIARDICK S PATENT. OILERS, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, MILL for illustrated pamphlet. and everytuing pertaining to Steam Engines. Also, mar861y WORKS, COTTON GINS, COTTON GIN Belting, Machinists’ Tools, MATERIALS. Manufactured by the WOOD WORKING M A CUINERT, Ae. gCOVlLL MANUFACTURING CO. Particular attention paid to the location of Machinery, Albertson k Douglass Machine Co., with view to Economy. Address MANVKACTURKBI OF NEW LONDON, CONN. marl&lv Ki:i.I..OCiICI H. 1.0091IM, SHEET BRASS, GERMAN SILVER, 8ept8-l y 117 Liberty street, N. T. Ot y ANDREWS PLATED METAL, pjEWES ft PHILLIPS, PATENT ENGINES, /Sga/ BRASS BUTT HINGES, ^ BOILERS, PUMPS, UOISTEES^s^^' out. Lasting, Brocade and Fancy Dress Buttons, Kero¬ IROlSr WORKS, OSCILLATING ENGINES, run at great speed. sene Oil Burners, and Lrap Trimmings. Corner of Orange and Ogden Streets, And importera and dealers In every description of Sizes 1-2 to 280 Horse-Power. Newark, N. J. SMOKEBURNING AND SUPERHEATING Photographic Goods, Manufacturers of the mots improved BOILERS arc economical and Safe. High and Low Prkssurb, Stationary, No. 4 Beckman street and 86 Park Bow, New York. CHARLES B. HARDI6K, CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS, pass Sand, Coal, Manufactory, Waterbury, Conn. acptil-ly PORTABLB AND MaRINB Corn, Gravel, Ac., without Injury. Capacity 90 to SUCCESSOR TO 40,000 gaUs. I>er minute. steam Engines and Boilers, CAMPBELL & IIARDICK, BROTHERS, HOISTING MACHINES, run without noise; JJYDRAULIC WORKS. Mecbanics’ Tools of all Descriptions, and NO. 9 ADAMS STREET BROOKLYN, N. Y speed changed or reversed instantaneously. Send for circular. fl 8 ALL Kinds of General Machinery. ALL COMPACT, LIGHT and Patented in England, Belgium and France. MANUFACTORY, Large aassortment of Steam Engines and Mechanics' DURABLE. CSSSw BROOKI^Y^r, 3i. Y. Tools constantly on hand. jel8:6m RNOWLES’PATENT STEAM PUMP s Address manufacturers, pS ]} Steam Pomping Engines, Single and Duplex, Worth¬ ington's Patent, fur all purposes, such ai Water Works The Novelty Iron Works. WM D. ANDREWS ft BRO., Engines, Condensing or Non-condensing; Air and Cir¬ culating I’umps, for Marine Engines; Blowing Engines; Foot of East 12th, 13th and 14th Streeta Julyl-ly 414 WATER STREET, NEW YORK. Vaenuin Pnmjris, Stationary and Portable Steam Fire En¬ BRANCH OFFICE.79 Liberty Street. gines, Boiler Feed Pumps, Wrecking Pumps, MANurAcrcaK ^TLANTIC l^ininse Pumps, Steam Engines and Boilers, Cotton, Sugar and Rice Machinery, STEAM ENGINE WORKS, of the most improved kinds. All kinds of IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS. Brass and Copper Work, MANUFACTURERS OF Indicators, Clocks, Steam Gauges. am Engines, Boilers, Sugar Mills, Tanks, Linseed and Gauge Cocks, &c. Cotton seed Oil Presses, and Machinery used in the Arts Large stock of patterns of SPUR, BETEL, and MITRE sed Manufactures. WHEELS, PULLIES, and aU sorts of MILL WORK. febhiy FACTORIES AT WARREN, MASS. CORNER WATER AND ADAMS STREETS, WAREHOUSE NO. 128 LIBERTY STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Norwalk Iron Works, R. B. DUYCKINCK, Treas. NEW YORK. SOUTH NORWALK, CONN., Air Pnmps, Blowing Engines, Hydranlie Pressur , WM ARTHUR, Prea Water Meters, Oil Meters; Water Pressure Engines; Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers Pumps, New Ixcomotive Pumps. Fire Pumps, Boll ian18-ly ’ Stamp Mills for Gold, Silver and Copper Ore ; uton's Fee TREATISE ON THE BLAKE’S STONE BREAKER Valuable Works CONCENTRATION INtXl’DINO THE ffietallnrsTi Ohlorination Prooeu for Oold*Bearlng XLI V LAKE! Mineralogy, golphurets, Etc. BY GUIDO KUSTEL, Geology, Etc. MlDlof Engtorer uwl HeUIlargtit, suthor of ‘ KoTada and CallfuroU Proocfiet of SilTer Mid Ould ExtrsctloB.” Any of the following Works can be obtained of tki This work Is designed to show the present oendltion of the art of cuncentraUon; putting forth the prioolples on Publisbm of this paper. Address which It Is founded, without entering Into scieottfle con¬ siderations. To make the work complete as Car as posst- The office of this Machine is to break Ores and Minerals of every kind into small fragments, preparatory to their hle, the processes of Dry Dressing are also briefly des¬ farther comminution by other machinery. cribed therein; and the whole is so arranged, and illus¬ This machine has now been in use, enduring the severest tests, for the last ten years, during which time it has trated by diagrams, as to enable every one to be successful been introduced into almost every country on the globe, and is everywhere received with great and increasing In concentrating ores. As the method of reduction by fhvor as a lalior-saviag machine of the flrst order. stamping is consldere IV. SPECIAL CONCENTRATION anS-tf I No. IS Exchange Place. LAMBORN (R. H.) Metallurgy of Copper. (Weale’a aeries). CCHOOL OF MINES, COLUM- L.kMBORN (R. H.) Metallurgy of Silver and Lead. (Weale's series). 1. Concentration of Gold Ores. O BIA COLLFXJF.. CALIFORMl STAMP HILLS, 2. I'oncentratiou of Silver Orea. With Iron or Wood Frames. 8. Concentration of Lead and other Ores. l FacuLTT.—F. A. P. BARNARD, S.T.D., LL.D., Prfsi- LYELL. Elements of Geology, By Chaa. Lyell. DKtrr; T. EGLESTON, Jx.. E. M., Mlneral.qnr and WHEELER & RANDALL’S 1 vol. Svo, cloth..... V. CHLORINATION. Metallurgy; F. L.VINTON, E.M.. Mining Engineering: C. MUSHET. Papers on Iron and Steel, Practical F. CHANDLEP,. Pit. D.. Anaivtical and Applied Chem- PATENT EXCELSIOR and Experimental 1 vol. thick Svo. (Very latir, JOHN TOKKEY,M.D, LL.D.. Botany; C. A. JOY acarce)... ■Methods of Dlsaidvlng and Precipitating the Gold from Ph. D., General Cliemistrv ; W. G. PECk. LL.D. Me- Sulphurets. cbanlca; J H. VAN .\MKlN6E, A.M.. Mathematics; O. GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR. PHILLIPS. Guide to Geology. By Prof. J. N. U machinery. MA.CHINERY, PUBLICATIONS. MISCELLANEO US, CIRCULAR SAWS SUBSCRIBE FOR AND ADVER READY, WITH T18K IK THE THIRD EDITION, 8ET18ETENTH THOUSAND, RE¬ EMERSON’S PATENT MOVABLE TEETH. ORE AiericEi JomeI of Miniiii, vised,VISED, eniaroedENLARGED, AND IMPROVED, THE BEST AND LARGEST PAPER OF THE KIND n_^_ IN THE UNITED STATES, NOW IN llOptOD 8 vOIlTPrSiltiOllS OD MlllCS) ITS THIRD YEAR, The Ambbican Jovbwai. of Mmitto is the only paper betwbbh in the United States that represents ALL the various min- -nv a rwvxwwtvww a vaTw-v Ing interests of the country in a complete, satisfactory, R! A.iRm.Rl«xC AND SON^, Coneentration by means of Air | and trustworthy manner. It should tlierefors be in the hands of bvbbt onb who desires to be informed upon, ENLARGED FROM 119113 TO 192193 PAGES.PAGES, lias long been attemptad, but hitherto without satisfactory and hence able to profit by a knowledge of the subjects results. 8. B. KBOM has invented and patented ma¬ of which it treats, via; our vast mineral resources, and The FoUowingFollowing are the Couteuts:Contents: chines which concentrate the various ores more perfectly toe best metooda, direct end indirect, by ine«ns of which than can be done by any other means. ^oSS w^”* “ “0 Air, why U is propelled down, into, and around the work- The Mechanicftl Combinations are extremely sim¬ Published every Satuxday in New York City. Only $4 « QuanStyQuantity of, prodnoed by the furnacefumaos ple, the machines therefore correspondingly durable. A a year. u frictionFriction of continuous self-delivery of ore on one side and tailings on i SPECIAL AOENTS ArrnoBizxD TO BBCBIVB SCBSCBIPTIOBS ** The peatPcat bictionfriction oCofi produ^produced by one mode of ven- the other is effected, hence very little attention is required, tilation. and how reduced by another AND ADVEKTISUilNTt. except keeping the hopper supplied with ore. The power Pure added to impure (iilans) Splitting of (plans) at one man is sufficient to operate a machine that will MASSAcnuSETTS.—Jons F. Rica, 18 Boynton Place, One current of (plans) soDcentrate one ton per hour. These saws are meeting with unprecedentedKdented success.snceess, ^ ! other kind, both MICH GAN.-J W. CRop^ Onton^m One current of, and how to adopt separate currents FartiM IntOTMted in Mininir arc invited to call at I superiority over every other kind, (plan) riiTin xnwiOTw 111 i »• to efficiency and economy is now fmlyi established MONTANA.—W’illiam Y. Lovbll. A irginls City, So. 40 West Eighteenth street. New York, whoie they ■' ai«o resiawisneu. oj,io._o. y. Hadd A Co, No. 18 West Third, Dividing of, but not into "separate and distinct’’ enrrent (plans) mav see » machine In operation, and have aamples of their ' __t ^ , a. a. .1 ^ 1_ Cincinnati, Ohio. Crossings (see H on plans) ,wn ores crushed and eonce^ra^. ^ EmcrSOn • Patent Perforated Circular NEVADA^^^D.Em^^^^^^^ COLORADO.—Gf.o. Tbitoh, Denver City. Weight of, in shafts Illu.strated Circulars may he had on application to and liOUg saWK CALIFORNIA.—W. E. Looms, San Francisco.F How to find the weight of PENN8YLVANI.V.—Geoeob E. Cuxuuios, IfM South Table of pressure in shafts STEPHEN R KROM | (AU Gumming avoided.) And Fourth street; T. K. Callbndbr, cor. 8rd snd Expansion of JanlO-Smos-ls No. 40 West 18th street, N. T. | EMERSON’S PATENT ADJUSTABLE W'ulnut streets, Philadelphia; W. H. Davis, Easton, Its velocity and force Rush oL into each division « SWAGE, Pa. NOVA SCOTIA.—Geoboe E. Morton A Co. No. ls.1 Quantity produced by natural ventilation for Spreading, Sharpening, and Shaping the teeth of all Hollis street, Halifax. Splitting, why it should be adopted JOHN P. GRUBER’S Splitting Saws. Price $0. Manufiutured by the ENGLAND.—Fredbbicx Aloab, 11 Clements Lane, SpUtting, why the workmen object to Mr. Hopton adopting the mode AMERICAN SAW COMPANY', Lombard street, London. MEXICO.—James Sullivan, aty of Moxlco; Juan Anemometer, measurement of air by, engraving of ■ Office No. 2 Jacob Street, near Ferry street, N. Y. . V Oirmoa Aeaimlco Area of a pit, how to find Pacific io^th AMERICA.—4>)lvillb Dawson A Co., 2:fcalle Barometers, showing the time of an outlet of gas in mines Coast, No 606 Front street, San Francisco, Cal. de la Union, Lima, Peru; M.NATARioprViLLALBA, Send for new Descriptive Pamphlet and Price List Kio de Janeiro, Brazil; Lucikm Hijo, Buenos Ayres, number in the walling of a shaft latest improved PATENTS Julyl-ly 1 OUBAf-^TiiM.^^^.^Wil^N, Havsns. Clrcumfei^nro of a pIL how to find y/AlER WORKSi FllTERlKG APPARAIUj ^ Coal, several ways of working it out, and why man methods of working it out are adopted AIR PUMPS INCRUSTATIONS DEALERS AGENTS. “ Working out in banks (plans) " Working it out in following upbanks (plan) svented byWINAN'S BOILER POW- rUE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, 131 'Jassau si “ Working ont In pillars] (plans) 5IL 11 Wdl otreet, New York, N. Y'. “ Working out in long wall (plans) r. B. Post A Co., Benham. Texas, say; THE NEW YORK NEWS CO, 10 Spruce Stree „N.Y. H iines oslafr Winana’ Powder, we save “ Working out with no regularity (plnn) ROT VVi YAPS ONE eord of wood per day, and have bet- |-—— ^ U Worklngoutby the “end way* or in endings (plan) ter steam, and would not be without the article for ten ISI.OOS1>00 _ #1.00 Cubical contents of 8 pit, how to find times Its cost. T vv Dialing, the mode of ®’'?£Weries” The Clevelsod (Ohio) Paper Mills removed scAle 22 Dials, several engravings inches long by 9 wide snd II iib thi> k. H. “ How constructed ALL KINDS ^SCALES Gaylord A Co., Portimoatb, Ohio, have nsed it for 10 IJOUSEHOLX)OUSEHOL I) “ How fixed in mine surveying 1 rof< 3A/^K£RS.BfiOK£RS.JEVi/ELLERS . years (8,000 pounds yearly) without Injurv. A—e “ Needle, its variationa Beware of imitations. H. N. wfNANS, a >455/4F£/?S. cmUCGISTS.GROCeRS.£'lliery accidents than an army of inspect- Patent Valveless Steam Hammer. D. M. Watson's Pat¬ I ora."—OnlUtry Guardian. ent Self-Centering, Self- Balancing Centrifugal Sugar Drain¬ Tbbms: $5 40 a year, payable In advance; single num¬ “The book cannot fall to he well received by all con¬ ing Machine, and Hydro Extractor, for Cotton and Woolen bers .50 cents. nected with collieries.”—Mining Jottrnal. Manufketurers. NovlWy ATUNTIC QUARTZ CDs, Bark Volumes supplied. Easy Terms for Clubs. “ Its contents are really valuable to the miners of tbla tg^ Active Canvassers wsntsd everywhere. country.”—Miner’, Conference. 8045 AND 804T CHESTNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA. E. STEIGER, PubUsber, “ 1 have works priced at £4 that do not contain the Under the Direction of mchlS-.lm 22 snd 24 Frankfort street, New Y'ork. same information."—W. W. KR.sairic, (,'olltery Viewer. J^INDSAY’S PATENT. “ The work is replete on the subject of underground management."—M. Bankrs, ColUery Proprietor. I CHARLES P. WILLIAMS, CH.VNNING G. FENNER. E. F DUNNi::. “ I have bad twentv years' management. It Is the test work I ever read, ann deserves to te circulated in every, FEnneu a dusne colliery district.''—Joseph Eames. ysis, Asssy and valustton of Ores, Minerals, Fertilixers ei/vwout T AU o aX snd Commercial Products, snd for instruction In Analyti- COUSEJuJLQaSCOXJSELLORS AaAT LAW, WESTERN A CO., csl. Experimenul snd Technical Chemistry. Treasure City, White Pine, NevadNevada. rm. sv M.%, w» . a. a S a Special •iMTUAIUUattention KIVCAJgiven tolA# XFertilizers. CY kU ^ ..-vrRvvrrs- The morits of this Wrench are too well known to need Sb^O-lf-lsfob20-ly-ls „ . __ BtlEBENCES.XEl'ERENrES: Bole Agents for the United Stater. Fenner A Preston. R. W. BAVNONDjEaq, comment. Go to the nearest hardware store and LOOK M Pearl St., Y'. Y'. Am. Jour, of .Mining. For sale at the office of the American Journal r AT IT BEFORE PURCHASING ANY' OTHER, or Aplt'6m Minino, 81 Park Row, New York, and through any .end for illustrated circular to 1 a GENTS and Canvassers Wanted seller. Price, $1. MANVEL & LINDSAY CO., TlE~w¥lTL0Ck:~ O' 12-ly 68 John street. New York. IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN IN THE EXPOSITION. motive power. united states, IVrOTICE. A In Aa supehSUPERINTENDENT OF MINES AND MIB- AA. PerpetualFerpetUal Jia^tFair, , , ing works, who has hsd long experience as a Cl\il 'T'HE Greatest Hand-Power Machine i fo» the _ Mining and Mechanical Englneer,in many ports of Ains- which is in existence, and can he nsed wherever 3S anti SV TDavlc lac©, h®*. win receive proposals for sn ENO.AOEMENT. Will tewer is needed. H. Hassenpflug's Gig and Circular Saw ■ • cite satisfactory References in New York City and else- < auiblDed, will cut wood from 1 to4la. thick, 1 in., as | AOICrieAB JOHriAl 01 fliUllDfft For fbll particniars send stamp for sample eopv of the where. Connexion with Coal or Iron Works preferred In frst ss by steam. The Gig Saw of the above Machine wiD , K EXPOSITION»N REPORTER, a Journal of , New York. Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, and heavy, rts- cut BcroUt and wagon foUieefcUiea Myany thhfceta,thi^eta, ^thwith iffiethe .. Owworf...... „ . ..nf »» . . , e. interest to every Inventor, llanufkcturer, Farmer, UorU- ■ ponslble eMrge desired. greatest focUlty.dlty. 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For erery Clnb of SO names, at $1.00 eaeh, $10.00 eaih. •• •• 10 names, at $l.Se each, $2.40 cash. “ ** 75 names, at $1.00 each, $15.00 eaah. found th “ H 15 names, at $1.10 each, $.'t.S0 cash. ** ** 100 names, at $1.00 esch, $n.60 eaah. creasing •> SO names, at $1.00 each, $4.00 cash. “ “ ISO names, at $1.00 each, $87A) calh. “ » 80 names, at $1.00 each, $0.00 cash. “ ** SOO names, at $1.00 each, $60.00 oaah. have, ill “ “ 40 namea, at $1.00 each, $S.OO cash. • j Where from fifty to fire hundred men consre^ate dally, there Is no difficulty in ralsinir these clubs. If the efflcienc; money be forwarded to us with a Hat of names, the amount of premlnm may be deducted from the same. boiler ol PUSH THE GOOD WOBX, and make glad the hearts of your frllow-workmea. th s end HOW TO GET UP CLUBS. Cireilar Saws witk Mo?able or Inserted Teeth. detrimei If you are employed in a FACTOEY, 8HIP-YAUI), MACHINE-SHOP, FOUNDEEY, or MAKUFACTTTB- t NG"T ESTABLISHMENT— iu othe 1st. Send to our office and fret a Specimen Copy, Free, with Circulars setting forth the objeets of the paper, The accompanying engraving repreaenU a new and improTCd Circular Saw with inaerted teeth and nioc id. At the end of the circular you will find room to write a notice that you will meet your fellew-workmen on manufactured by ua, and constructed on a plan in which la combined a mechanical arrangemen the morrow, at nuon-Ume, to take their names as subscribers. They will thank you kindly for the trouble yon hare boiler, taken, and your employer will readily grant the privilege. embraeing all the reqniremenu of inaerted teeth without an objectionable feature. 8<1. Send on the list of names, endorsed as correct by the firm, and to our address, and we will arrange with the Thero saws poaaeas great advantages oyer all others. The teeth are grooved all around and from ai coDoern by whom you are employed f