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WHITE, whose name we were always surprised to see associated ENGINEERING and MINING JOURNAL. with this enterprise, has resigned; but we are equally surprised to VoL. XXXII. No. 6. see the name of Mr. A. P. MEEKER, of Chicago, given as entering the new board. The new management is heralded by the subsidized press as a mat-
RICHARD P. ROTHWELL, 6.E., M.E,, | Editors. ter of great importance, and it is rumored that a new movement will be ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, Ph.D., made to advance the price of the stock. Norz.—Communications relative to the editorial management should be addressed te} We have only to repeat the advice already given, that at any price RicwarD P. KoTHWELL, P.O. Box 4404, New York. Communications for Mr. RAYMOND should be addressed to Rosstrer W. Raymonp, P.O. | these properties are unsafe ; for the best of the claims, Nos. 3 and 2, are ' for Box erticies 1465, New 00 signed York. ts he Articles responsible. written by Mr. Raymonp will be signed thus * ; and only merely prospects on which ‘ we understand only about $5000 had been i UBSCRIPTION Price, including postage, for the United States and Canada, $4 per|spent when these companies purchased, and so far as we are i annum ; $2.25 for six months; all other countries, including postage, $5.00 = 20s. = ‘ 23 francs = 20 marks. All payments must be made in advance. Parties accepting any |1nformed, no mining work has since been done, and the ores are ‘ ; “eee a a —e a from agents, do so at their own risk. by no means as rich as stated by interested parties. Some i vertising Rates.—*ce page . am Mr. D. B. Rich is our accredited representative for New York, Boston, and the Eastern aye were recently made from samples taken by disinterested | States, and may be addressed at this office or 57 Clarendon street, Boston. parties, and they ran $2, $12, $15, and $17 per ton; while even if Mr. J. Viennot, 407 Walnut street, Philadelphia, is our accredited representative for they were rich enou gh to pay for treatment, the supply of water a Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. ; RemirraNces should always be made by Post-Office Orders or Bank Drafts on New is wanting. The question is, we understand, no longer how much York, made payable to THE ScIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CoMPaNny. THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., Publishers, water can be brought through 12 miles of six-inch pipe, but how water isto | P.O. Box 4404. 27 Park Place, New York. be had to half fill a six-inch pipe. The State Lines Nos. 1 and 4, and the ate teen = Oriental and Miller, have ncither mines nor ore, and the latter not even CONTENTS, a share in the driblet of water which some are sanguine enough to believe eas it is intended to bring through that six-inch pipe. Asan investment, the i EDITORIALS : Pacg. PacE.| whole group is worthless; but if the stock is purchased as ‘‘a gamble,” Tuberose’s Lotter...... 2.2 cecccece 85 The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. 91] we trust those who lose their money, as they deserve to do, will not Fire in the Lehigh Coal Company’s Coal in British Columbia...... 91 | blame ‘“‘ mining” for the natural consequences of their folly. IOI sain ve nineyie scsed sah scnednen 85] Colorado Ir on-Works Burned...... 91} The several properties are said to have cost the promoters less than Henry G. Clark, E.M...... 85| Sonora Railroad...... +++ 91 | $100,000, and at so-called ‘* hard pan” ($1 per share) amounted to $800,000 ; The State Line Mines...... 85 The George’s Creek & Cumberland The North & West Branch Rail- Railroad an Important Factor in WOM ccs. tea Sree, Scho aaa 91 | can be judged from the meager data obtainable, were dear at the original Ub: 0b) PHANG 6 isncicn ssc cccececs 85 ‘* less than $100,000.” American Mines in England...... 86 anaes Se Ses The Foreign Commerce of the DNR is on cccksencadecey.rcectonaseuee 91 s THE GEORGE’S CREEK & CUMBERLAND RAILROAD AN IMPORTANT FPAC- United States...... ccccececccece 86 NN ini cine gS cace since oa vecnae 91 TUR IN THE COAL TRADE, Montana Mining Notes...... BG} Colorado...... cscccceesee coves 92 The Baltimore Copper Works...... 87 | Dakota...... 0...-.-eeeeeeee eeeeee eee 92] This company was organized about two years ago, with a capital stock Coal and Iron Discoveries in Utab..... 88] Hdaho...... sseeeeeeeesereeeee es 98 | of $345,000, which is controlled by the American and Maryland coal com- Iron Shipments and Iron Furnaces.... 88| Montana...... ee eeeeeseeceseees 93] panies. A bonded indebtedness of $500,000 was authorized, which will Brazos Coal-Field...... 2068 gg| Nevada...... --..++ stteeeeees 82] not be fully required to make the road complete in sidings and rolling The Mendocino Flume and: Mining New Mexico...... seeeseeeeeeees 93} stock. The main line of the road is 24 miles long, extending from the Company, Calpella District, Mendo- Uter..ceccceseseccseeee secereesseeens 93] center of the Cumberland coal-field to the city of Cumberland, where it cino County, California...... 90 | FINANCIAL : connects with the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Balti- Proaress IN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS : Gold and Silver Stocks...... 94jmore & Ohio Railroad ; and there are about three miles of sidings. Graphite as a Conductor...... 91] Philadelphia Mining Stocks...... 96 | The same parties control the connecting Pennsylvania Railroad in Mary- New Variety of Coal...... see. 91] Copper and Silver Stocks...... g6}land, which is 614 miles long and has about a mile of sidings. This Popular Science Monthly ...... 91] Coal Stocks ...... sscssseseseee coos 96 | road has a capital stock of $35,000, and a first mortgage of $80,000, and a The Trial of the Pyx...... +.. 91] BULLION MARKET...... 2.. ceseeseees 97| second mortgage of $65,000, which is held by the city of Cumberland, and Nores: Mmieey ron) tial) Set a 97 | bears no interest for thirty years. After a hard struggle with the Balti- "Copper in Virginia...... -. 88 | IRON MARKET REVIEW...... 005 cesses 97 | more & Ohio Railroad Company, these lines have been completed, and now Coal Miners Sought Abroad...... 88 | CoaL TRADE REVIEW...... e. 98} 2 large portion of the Cumberland coal-field has outlets to the Pennsyl- Sinking of Land over an Old Mine... 88} StaTisTics oF CoaL PRODUCTION...... gg | Vania Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal ; whereas in the past, this district was dependent on the Our reliable correspondent, TUBEROSE, gives some interesting informa- | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad solely, and was all but ruined by that com- tion concerning the Boston & Montana dividend, and about the manage- | pany’s traditional policy. These roads form a line that extends from the ment of several Montana companies, which will be interesting reading to} heart of the George’s Creek basin to the city of Cumberland and to the stockholders. Pennsylvania State line, where a connection is made with the Pennsylvania Railroad system, and they thus enter into com- A FIRE originated in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s No. 9 petition with the Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, which colliery, at Lansford, near Tamaqua, Pa., on the 29th ult., and the|is owned by the Consolidation Coal Company. The saving in distance miners had a narrow escape from suffocation. At one time, it was} by the new route is about 20 per cent, while it is found that a reduction thought that the fire would be very serious, but the latest advices indi-| Of 25 per cent from the minimum (two cents per ton per mile) charged by cate that it is under control. the old roads will make the new enterprise a very profitable one. This road has a further advantage in the fact that it runs along at the mouths of the drifts of the several mines, and does away with the expensive WE regret to learn of the death of Mr. Henry G, CLark, E.M., which planes which must be used to lower the coal to the old road. The at Aurora, Nev., on the 2d of August last. Mr. CLARK, though occurred economies aggregate what alone should be a good profit to the coal years of age, was at the time of his death Superinten- only twenty-five companies. Furthermore, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company is the Cortez Mining Company, and had entered on what promised to dent of under contract fora period of twenty-seven years to limit the tolls col- be a highly successful and honorable professional career. lected on all coal passing over this road to its canal to a maximum of 40 cents per ton. THE STATE LINE MINES. Shipments of coal over the Pennsylvania Railroad for transhipment The State Line mines continue to attract the attention of a very large] into vessels at Philadelphia began about June 1st, and shipments are now circle of disgusted and choleric stockholders who might have been saved | also making to the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. The business over the their ruinous losses had they heeded the many timely warnings of | new road for the month of August is estimated at 50,000 tons, while for the ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. Mr. ROBERTS, who has reaped a | the year 1882 it is expected to amount to 1,000,000 tons. still more abundant harvest in these than in Chrysolite, Hukill, Freeland,| In addition to the advantages which are to accrue to the trade from and other disastrous enterprises with which his name has been identified, | the building of this road, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal is to make im- has retired from the State Line management, and Mr. A. HARPENDING— | provements which will both facilitate the transportation of coal and re- whose name was prominent in the notorious diamond mine swindle of | duce the cost of delivering it at tide-water. During the winter of 1881-82, some years ago—who originally brought the property here, and is still | it will double the length of half its locks, and during the following winter one of the moving spirits in these stocks, has, we understand, | will complete this work. Steam canal-boats have been adopted with succeeded in getting up a Boston management with Hon. |substantial advantages on this canal; and with the increased size of Joun B, ALLEY as president, to succeed the old board, Mr. S. V.jlocks, it will be but a few years before all of the carrying 86 ’ THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. (Aue. 6, 1881. will probably be done by them. The present steam colliers carry but | be, we cordially wish the enterprise ‘‘ good luck,” and shall be pleased to about 90 tons, and compete successfully with horse boats carrying about | record success should it come. 110 tons. Upon the completion of the enlarged locks, it is proposed to use| It appears that this enterprise was organized in Canada, which prob- boats of double the present length, with a capacity for carrying about 210| ably accounts for the fair terms upon which it was floated. tons. The power required to move these will be scarcely 10 per cent a greater than that required for the 90-ton boats now in use. THE FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. The result of all of these improvements will be to enable the Cumber- The Bureau of Statistics at Washington has made a report showing that land mines to put coal on board vessels at tide-water at a lower cost than the exports of merchandise for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1881, any other mining district in this country, and about as cheaply as any of amounted to $902,319,478, and that the imports amounted to $642,593,219, the English mines. making an excess of exports over imports of $259,726,254. For This subject is of special interest to the producers of both bituminous the year ended June 80th, 1880, the exports were $835,946,353, and the and anthracite coal ; for after having its influence on the prices of other. imports $667,954,756, or an excess of exports over imports of $167,683,912. bituminous coals, Cumberland will become, in a measure, the In 1870-71, the exports only amounted to $442,820,178, as against $902,- regulator of the prices of anthracite steam coals, which are even 319,473 in 1881, as stated above. With the exception of two years (1862 now, suffering from the competition with bituminous coal. While and 1874), the balance of trade was against us from 1860 to 1875 the policy of the companies which control the George’s Creek & Cum- inclusive. The imports during that period exceeded our exports berland Railroad will be not unnecessarily to depress the price of their by $1,175,609,561. From 1876 to 1881, inclusive, however, our product, yet with the economies which have been, and are to be, estab- exports exceeded our imports by $1,180,681,641, which practically equal- lished, they will be able to do a profitable business at prices which have izes our foreign business for twenty-two years, but leaves usin a position heretofore been considered very low, and which were far from being re- to absorb from other nations at a greater rate than we have ever been munerative. drawn upon, Our gold and silver account with other nations does not make so good AMERICAN MINES IN ENGLAND. a showing ; but it is probable that within a few years we shall get back We have received letters from several persons referring to our editorial all that we have sent to foreign countries in the last twenty-two years. on this subject in the JoURNAL of July 23d. Some confirm the accuracy From 1850 to 1879 inclusive the exports of gold and silver exceeded the of our statements, others complain of them. One writer, speaking of the imports by the immense sum of $909,829,417. During the fiscal Gold Hill mines, while admitting that the property was recently offered year ended June 30th, 1881, the imports of gold and silver exceeded the here at $80,000, intimates that the title of the vendors is not good, exports by $75,891,390, and for the year ended June 30th, 1881, by and that a suit will be brought to recover the property ; so that—should $91,168,650, making an aggregate for the two years of $167,060,041, thereby there be any foundation for this statement, which we have no reducing our loss of gold and silver from 1860 to 1881, inclusive (22 years), evidence to support—the English stockholders might find that to $742,769,376, which amount is but little over half of our estimate of they bad no mine at all, instead of one greatly overvalued. production of these metals during that period. The same writer thinks the property very valuable, and says it was three This account has, however, another side ; for within the past twenty times capitalized for a million of dollars in this country, and that conse- years we have borrowed in Europe very large amounts on our government quently the English cost price—$450,000—though five times what the railroad, and other bonds, and sold mines and railroad stocks which Co mine was Offered for here, was reasonable. On the contrary, it seems to not appear among our exports, but what we received for them, merchan- us that a property which has already bankrupted three companies with a dise and gold, doappear in our imports. What the amount of this foreign million dollars capital each may be very dear at any price ; but the actual indebtedness is, or how much of our assets are’owned abroad, should be value of Gold Hill can only be ascertained by unwatering and thoroughly known before we can come to acorrect understanding of our balance testing the mines. sheet. We understand the payments on account of the property have been MONTANA MINING NOTES. deferred since the appearance of our remarks, and that the matter is to be investigated. We trust it will be confided to some honest as well as Special Correspondence of the Engineering and Mining Journal. capable mining engineer—of whom there are many in this country—and I was very much pleased to see your neat and intelligent table of the not to a mere agent of the vendors or promoters, sent out, as in the case dividend-paying mines of the United States in your issue July 9th. I of the Hoover Hill mine, in North Carolina, simply to confirm the pro- noticed, among others, the Alice and Boston & Montana compavies. The moters’ figures, and share in the spoils. Alice has a goodly showing, $160,000 having been paid to date, and this out of earnings. I regret I can not say as much for the Boston & Montana We might have mentioned the Hoover Hill Company as another Company. This company was only formed last fall, and I see by your instance of the manner in which English stockholders are treated by paper has paid $80,000 in dividends, while it is an open secret that the their own countrymen in American as well as in other mines. This gross product of the mine has not been over half that since the forma- property was floated in London in January last, the capital of the tion. The company has only a ten-stamp mill. The mine is downa scant 100 feet, and the vein is opened up a distance of 300 feet. The company being £120,000—or say $600,000—of which £70,000, or management claim $16 rock. Parties knowing the ore say it is less. It $350,000, were paid for the property. This same _ property is always an unpleasant task to say disparaging things of Montana, or its was sold by the owners to the promoters, as we are informed, mines ; but duty to the public demands that the fact of this company pay- for $12,000—or the English stockholders paid about twenty-nine times ing $80,000 dividends out of its capital stock should be made known. The old Whitlock Union mine, owned by the National Mining Com- the market value of the property. The mining engineer (an Englishman) pany, is still producing small amounts of gold, Old miners are working who made the reports on which the property was placed, and who super- it under tribute, and ‘‘ gophering” about in its upper levels, doing the intends the mines, was, we understand, interested in the sale. We trust mine infinitely more harm than good. The Messrs. Roosevelt & Porter, this property will not repeat the (to the stockholders) unfortunate history of New York, who bought the property, are making a grand mistake in allowing it ; and if they would only develop the property in an intelligent, of enterprises with which this gentleman was previously connected. We business-like manner, the famous mine would astonish the world again, see much disappointment in store for the English investors, and we enly as it did in its palmy days. It is well known here that nothing but the hope that, when it comes, they will lay the blame on their own ‘country- most incapable management ever caused the diminution in its product, men, where it belongs, and not on Americans or the mine, which was as all old miners unite in declaring that the money is still there to be taken out. I do not wonder that careful business men in the East hesitate when probably a good purchase at the price ($12,000) the American owners were you speak ‘‘ mines,” as we have so many examples, even in Montana, of willing to take. good mines having to carry gross rascality and incompetence in man- We hear from the secretary of the Michipicoten Native Copper Com- agement. pany, who informs us that the £50,000 to be Messrs. Park, Harford & Co., of Basin Gulch, right in the top of the paid for the property is in main range of the Rocky Mountains, worked sixty days this year in their shares, which are to receive no dividends until the holdersof the £50,000 placer claim, and cleaned up $7000. Their water supply really lasted but working capital shares are reimbursed their whole expenditure out of pro- thirty-one days. This is a very rich claim, and its yearly products range fits. This not only makes the arrangement a fair one, but it accounts for from $6000 to $10,000. All of Montana’s placers are doing well this year. the fact mentioned in our article that the property—according Our water supply is very good, and we have all through Central and to our in- Western Montana more rain than common. formation—could have been purchased at much less than £50,000 in cash, There has been a new company formed this season, called the Alder as, of course, the Canadian vendors’ shares have but little value compared Gulch Placer Mining and Water Co., with a capital stock of $100,000, di- with the working capital shares,and these were placed at par. The rec- vided into shares of the same number, with a par value of $1 each : 25,000 retary of the company states that] there are shares are offered for sale. Some excellent men are at the head of it. four shafts, respctively 63, The following are the trustees selected : Edward W. Knight, Alexander 112, 180, and 95 feet deep, and some levels driven from these. “‘and the H. Beattie, Joseph K. Toole, Theodore H. Kleinschmidt, E. W. Toole, mines are now producing excellent stamp-work.” We hope that the expec- Charles Rinda, and James McEvily. The object for which this company is tations of the company as to the average yield of the ore will be realized. formed is to construct a water-ditch from Wigwam Gulch, in Madison We are very much pleased to see so fair County, Montana, to cover the mineral barsand gulches im about Alder an arrangement made for secur- Gulch, in said county ; to work placer and lode claims ; to use, sell, and dis- ing the opening and development of this property. And though our infor- pose of water for valuable and useful pommcen. The mines covered by mation does not make us as sanguine of success as the vendors appear to the proposed ditch, the rights to which have been secured by the company, Ave. 6, 1881.] THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 87 have been long known to be very valuable, and nothing but want of water | That one main result, good copper, could be relied on at Baltimore, and to work the same has left them undeveloped so long. It is confidently | upon the faith of it there was again built up a business which at tiis expected by the corporators that the enterprise will be a profitable one, | time has assumed large proportions and rests upon a solid basi It isto be hoped that the men incorporating this ditch will apply the | The Baltimore Copper Works were started in 1844, by a stock company, same business principles in its management that they have done in their called the Baltimore & Cuba Smelting and Mining Company, in con- own private affairs. It is a well-known fact that nearly every ditch com- nection with amining scheme never undertaken. Prominent merchants of pany ever organized in Montana has come to grief through stupidity in Baltimore, however, hocks identified with it, and smelting was seriously management. undertaken. The Penobscot and Snow Drift Mining Company is still displaying that Mr. Hazlitt McKim, now a banker in New York, and the late Dr. David utter disregard of all business tact which has always characterized its | K eener, were the managers. A whole eolony of smelters was imported affairs, and which has resulted in its complete failure. This time, it is in | from Wales, and the furnaces built on Locust Point, where now are the retention of a high-priced superintendent to watch over the mill and located the grain elevators and steamship wharves, but then a waste tongue machinery and to conduct their sale, which has engrossed his time at of land ; historical ground, however, as on it waves the star-spangled ban- the stockholders’ expense for the past four months. Prompt, energetic ner of Fort McHenry. action on the part of the company could have closed up this concern in a The company subsequently divided, and Dr. Keener built in 1846 new short time and given to the still suffering shareholders a little pittance, works on the opposite shore, at Canton, of which a sketch as it looks which is now wasted through sheer indifference. I understand that the to-day, is given on this page. treasurer and secretary, also in New York, are paid. TUBEROSE. The business of Dr. Keener’s company was very successful and profitable. It was wound up in 1861, the works being sold to the other company, who then for a number of years—during the civil war—ran both works, the THE BALTIMORE COPPER WORKS. President until 1867 being the late Clinton Levering. That at Locust Point was in 1868 sold to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company for In this country, copper ore smelting, as disconnected from concentra- terminal purposes ; the Canton works finally suspended through losses in tion at the mines, and distinct from the melting and casting of native cop- the business, mainly occasioned by bad commercial operations, currency
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r, was carried on for some years in five different places—at Boston, fluctuations, and the radical change in the tariff of 1869. Mr. John W. ew Haven, Taunton, within New York Harbor. and Baltimore. Garrett and the late Johns Hopkins took a lively interest in the affairs of As elsewhere, the cost of carriage of that part of the ore, or concentrated the company, and were so well satisfied of success under reasonable man- product which is not copper, discriminates against this particular in- agement that they joined the present owners in reviving the Baltimore dustry, which is bound to decrease in extent as facilities in the mining Copper Works at Canton in 1872, which were thenceforward and are now regions themselves increase. conducted under the firm of Pope, Cole & Co., by whom the business is graphically as well situated as England for drawing supplies of ores managed in a strict mercantile way and with marked success. from abroad, the economic conditions, however, when at their best, were The Welsh smelters, transplanted from a field where the ugly, rebellious unfavorable compared with those at any time obtaining there. The ores of Cornwall, etc., made success in good copper smelting difficult, as home mines were not very important ; hence the natural basis for the Mr. Vivian amply testifies, encountered a new condition of things at business of such works remained local, and since spontaneous arrivals of Baltimore. Instead of finding impure ores, instead of having to practice ores from South America could not always be counted upon, heavy com- the selecting process and making several grades of copper, they found mercial risks of importation had tobe taken. The industry enjoyed some only pure ores, and could only make one grade of copper, and that better protection through customs tariffs, but, of course, only against foreign than any they had been able to make from the promiscuous ores sent to competition. Wales. They found the best of long-flame coal only as fuel, instead of the The huge exploitations of our Lake Superior mines of native copper, laborious mixture of coal imposed on them in Wales. They were allowed requiring no smelting, became a new element ; the sometime instability of to retain their customs and liberties, and thus really transplanted their the currency and of prices made the business not very safe commercially. particular industry in its integrity to Baltimore ; were content, and taught All these causes operated to bring about a total cessation of copper ore the handicraft totheirsons. That they made uniformly good copper, was smelting as a commercial industry in this country some ten years ago. due to their skill and discipline no more than to the fact that tin, nickel, Only one of the six works at one time running is now in existence, and antimony, arsenic did not exist in the ores which came into the works flourishing—the one at Baltimore. And it is a stubborn fact (stubborn for years, these metals never being found in the copper mines on this side as any thing Welsh can be—which surely is emphatic enough), that the of the Rocky Mountains. These pure pyritous ores were.a very different main reason why that establishment is in existence, and the others not, furnace material, had a very different effect in mixtures, than those at lies in the steadfast faith, incarnate there, in Mr. Vivian’s doctrine, home. Hence, the work of the men resulted better in all respects than in ‘South Wales against the world.” Wales. The brand of ‘‘ Baltimore Copper” became as famous as the Adhering to the Welsh copper smelting process one and unchanged, instaking manager, Dr. Keener, became popular in the manufacturing the Baltimore works had turned out good weer or brass. The other Fiatricts of New England, His chief smelter, Mr. Davis, is still superin- works, having mixed in the German practice of blast-furnaces, never had. tendent at the works, 88 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. [Avue. 6, 1881. er There were smelted at Baltimore the ores and mattes of Tennessee, of IRON SHIPMENTS AND IRON FURNACES. Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, and of Lake Ontario, all pare sulphurets, mixed with the rich ores of Chili, especially such from the famous mine MICHIGAN, of Sr. Urmeneta, the late President of Chili, with whom an excellent con- LAKE SHIPMENTS OF IRoN OrE.—The following from the Marquette tract had been made. After the civil war, California sent many cargoes Mining Journal of July 30th is a statement of lake shipments of iron ore of sulphurets, and Arizona of rich oxides, to the wharves at Canton Cop- for the season of 1881, up to and including July 27th : r Works. Lake Superior sent her native mineral there to be melted, —mane WOLWAT 2000 ccccrvccsocesescessesecses 59,625 Eeieon the refineries a Cleveland and Detroit were built; and indeed it vee oneness aan Perkins...... -.sseseeceeeseveees ao was a detachment of Welsh smelters from Baltimore who built the snoae woccccrcnccceces coccccccocce 5, 2 a eee cccccccescececs - eee ne . 7134 furnaces and taught . the Lake Superior * . people how to melt and refine their ; | Barnum ngeline, ...... ---.000--++++= hematite...... + «++ BB EOI is 600 cescackauce cdcccs. puna cccccvsccnss sastnetos 41,846 . copper. And for years, both here andin Europe, the brand of ‘‘ Baltimore | Bessemer...... -.+-+++++++0+8 4.208 RB opt aceucsscucersseneoseneesen= 4,525 Copper” was considered quite equal to Lake Superior copper, and the | Chithire:(707000000 00 NIIIINS 4.030 | ‘Total...... ee0e-+ Saami 307,135 quantity produced in Baltimore was greater fora long time than that of | Ghicago. 0 LI gz ee the Lake mines. Baltimore has produced as much as 10,000,000 pounds of | Cleveland. :...... 00.020e0ee00 ee Wie Wibed. 5 oe. oo, scan ceeces 606,729 refined copper per year. Cleveland Hematite...... -.+. a. MARQUETTE—MARQUETTE DISTRICT. The plan of the works at Canton was designed with a view to future | Forest Lity------200-2 s-* E08 | Rolling Mill...... ecseeeceeseeees 485 growth. Originally only three acres, the land has been made to grow by | Jackson...... 0.02 seseseees 21,744 —e bshoase nie ssneeeeeneteeess “ the filling in of slags and débris to some five acres ; they are admirably conee, South...... sseeeeeeee veee oe ed. nS ae situated upon deep water, so that the largest sized vessels can discharge a Cottsseesssesssssess s+ “@ngg@ | Lake Superior...... ibaumeiminedll 36,862 at the wharves ; the division of the ground and buildings to serve for the | Mitchell...... 0.2.05 eee 9.063 | Lowthian 11,668 various departments of work of the several industries which have been Winthro) engrafted upon the original copper smelting works does justice to the policy of the founder; the arrangement is harmonious, although the additions were made by piecemeal. 1 There were formerly in the works eighteen reverberatory furnaces for | S9RIDAW.------ereecee rere ee seco smelting and metal prey two refineries, three calciners, worked by | Secti {aS Geach pe ARSE I oS: two great and four or five lesser stacks, a fire-brick house, crusher, one |Superior...... sseeuadanile assay office, with lesser shops, all under lofty roofs, extending over coal | Superior, hematite sheds in the rear, with plenty of yardroom. Five ore-houses were built of slag stones, from which also was built a handsome wall around three Snachyeedosashatsekernnsasennes sides of the property. MPION.....+-2-eeeeeee Subsequently, upon some extremely crude notion and without regard to its economical relation to copper smelting under changed conditions, a handsome sulphuric acid chamber system had been erected near the een. BN Sieciceicens: aiinen aaionguniced ited PIG-IRON. eee... iii When the works came into the hands of Messrs Pope, Cole & Co., the MENOMINEE DISTRICT. Pioneer Furnace...... +++. 587 commercial aspect as well as the nature of the supply of furnace stuff was | Chapin...... 0c000e0eeee 58,819 | motel pig-i 3.647 almost totally different from what it was in the earlier history of the |Commonwealth...... -+++ RS eee en saesanosecevennnes ’ business. Poor ores no longer came ; instead of them, regulus, rich ores Grdige sebetn rend tenseennsesseeny arse ions ao Pi wand black copper, argentiferous and auriferous mattes and speiss from our | Florence ..221.2200022222 772222: geese | CP? River ron Company...... ———— Western territories. It became now necessary to add new processes to im ate sete teee eee eeceeseeeeeeees — Ore to local points...... +0+ 14,875 the old system of smelting. ; and to practice : ‘‘ “cc selection. . his Ses is Se done ame, | VOTREM. ——_..... coccce Seebabbe seaeenbeanhy es * 731 | ‘Total ore, pig-iron, and quarts. ...327.557 sguieiee detente eG Into the department where the Baltimore copper—branded “B.C. W.”—is made, nothing is admitted except well-known pure and The following table exhibits, in gross tons, the total lake shipments of soft material. The rest goes to the departments of silver extraction, iron ore the present season, up to and including — 27th, together with blue vitriol making, and residue treatment. These departments are fenced the amount shipped during the corresponding period last year : off : each has its own tools, furnaces, staff, and workmen. The silver ex- Where from. _ 1880. 1881. traction is worked by ingenious processes differing from those elsewhere meee steeteeseeeeeeeeeeneeeeenceeceeeesee ieee ae pa i of practiced quite materially. The blue vitriol establishment is the largest NG noe oe | and most complete in the country, turning outan extremely popular quality ———— ——— for all uses, and an unsurpassed extra kind for the fine color manufacture. Total...... 20. oe cece eeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeees 862,645 913,363 There are now in the works three refineries—and room for three more— An increase of 50,718 gross tons. many metal and ore furnaces, two blast-furnaces, four steam-engines, The following is a statement of shipments made from the Menominee eight boilers, sixty tanks, and machinery to work it all. Mining Company’s mings by lake, from opening of navigation to Wednes- The scientific department is superintended by G. W. Lehmann, Ph.D. day, July 27th, inclusive : and assistants, who use three separate assay offices and make independent Name of Mine. Gross Tons. assays and analyses. Weighing, sampling, keeping of accounts, are all Chapin FELD AGRER EGU EMER EERE ES EAE Sep SOL STO ena eenE Eee ae ehyunansee 58,919 systematized in the completest manner ; errors are unknown in all these ae ness ¢ encaa ne details. All repairs are made in the shops on the ground, and the smallest MDI oben cs sccks ache
BRAZOS OOAL-FIELD,* coals is very great. I found the limestone which occurs under the latter coal but a short distance west of Weatherford. The top of the limestone By Oharles A, Ashburner, Philadelphia. is not reached until we approach the Brazos River in noithern Palo Pinto (Concluded from page 73.) County. Here the sandstone which is found over the Belknap coal-bed shows itself in the tops of the hills from 100 to 200 feet above the bottom 6. On Coal Creek, in the southeastern corner of Section 3 of the rail- of the valleys. If the coal-beds should be found on these hills, the area road lands, the Belknap bed is exposed, showing from 214 to 8 feet of would be too limited to make a development profitable. In eastern Ste- coal. The bed is here imme- phens County, the sandstone is found Fia. 5. diately overlain by 18 inches more universally underlying the sur- Fie, 8. of highly rere black face. slate, above which occur 15 Going south from Crystal Falls to feet of hard, shaly iron sand- Breckenridge, the topography resem- stone. The same bed has been bles very much that in the eastern found at several other points part of the county. The limestone 38 feet Sandstone along the creek. for the most part is below the surface, 7. The Belknap bed outcrops and the topographical features are around the base of Coal Moun- formed by the sandstone. 1 ft. Coal tain, 7 miles southwest of From Crystal Falls to Belknap, I 16 ft. Sandstone Crystal Falls, and between found the sandstone generally beneath and Shale 12 ft. Sandstone and Shale Hubbard and Gonzales creeks. the surface until we descended into The elevation of the coal is the valley of the Brazos River, about aa 1135 feet, and of the top of the three miles southwest of Fort Belknap. 44 | 15 ft.Sandstone and Shale mountain 1200 feet. There is no reason against the exist- The following section is ence of both the Belknap and Brazos ge (Sa Coal 6 inches observed. (See Fig. 5.) coal-beds under most of the plateau Sulphurous Slate 6 inches The coal has been hauled between Crystal Falls and Belknap. rom the mountain to Breck- The Belknap coal has been opened on G6 inches slaty Coal Coal 24 inches f eee a ”»> enridge for blacksmith use. several places on Whisky Run, one x ne 9 inches Shale very Fire Clay It is very sulphurous and very and a half miles northwest of the set- Sulphurous slaty. At the junction of tlement. About half a mile from the 2 ft. 6 inch.Coal Sandy and Hubbard creeks, mouth of the run, the following sec- northwest of Coal Mountain, and at an elevation of 1105 feet, a coal has tion is exposed. (See Fig. 8.) been worked in the bed of the creek below water-level. The coal from The bottom of the coal-bed is 45 feet this bed has been mined and used by the blacksmiths ; it is said to be vertically below the town tavern, and Fire Clay urer and to burn much better than the coal from the Belknap bed. The 50 feet above the botton of the Brazos | was under water when I visited it, so that I could not see the coal. River. An indication of a coal-bed 8 This bed occurs at a lower level than that at the foot of Coal Mountain. or 9 feet above the Belknap bed is I should judge it to be a lower coal, and very probably the representative seen on Whisky Run. It is possibly the same coal that was found above of the Brazos coal-bed. Its thickness is very uncertain ; it was variously the Belknap bed in the vicinity of Crystal Falls. a we to me to be from 1 to 6 feet thick. A coal-bed has been opened at one time on the Brazos River near the - On Mr. P. F. Pascall’s farm, two and a half miles southwest of mouth of Whisky Run, and 30 to 35 feet vertically below the Belknap Crystal Falls, a well has recently been dug, and I was fortunate enovgh bed. 1 did not see this bed exposed. It was reported to me to be 2 to 3 to obtain a record from the well-digger. The well was dug 39 feet, and a feet thick, and of better quality than the upper bed. I was informed by drill-hole 10 feet deep was sunk below the bottom of the well. The fol- the blacksmith at Fort Belknap that he picked blocks of coal out of lowing is a section of the well. (See Fig. 6.) the bed of the river The elevation of the top of the well is about 1125 feet. The elevation which had come from Fie. 7, of the 1st coal is 1107 feet, and of this lower coal-bed, Fig. 6, the 2d coal 1079 feet. which may prove to be I believe the lower coal-bed the Brazos. which was pierced by the drill is The elevation of the the Brazos coal-bed. The upper Belknap bed at Fort 5 ft. Gravel coal, which is found associated Belknap is about the with black slate, is very possibly same as it is at Crystal the thin coal which is shown in Falls, so that the coal the general section underneath the strata lie very nearly 10 ft. Clay Belknap coal-bed. I am inclined horizontal between the to put this construction upon the two places. well record from an examination The Belknap bed is of the rock exposures and topog- opened two and a half raphy in the immediate vicinity miles from the mouth of the Pascall farm. of a small stream which : 3 ft. Coal and Slate The most important outcrop empties into Salt Creek visited in Stephens County was nine miles north of Gra- that of the Brazos coal seam in the ham. The coal is 244 bed of the Clear Fork of the feet in thickness, and has 8 fi. Light Gray Slate Brazos River in the eastern part all the characteristics of of the Johnson tract, four and a the Belknap bed. Most
=_ half miles northwest of Crystal of the territory lying be- Falls. The coal lies 3 to 4 feet tween the Belknap and under the surface of the water in Graham, and Graham the bed of the creek, and is vari- and Crystal Falls, is un- ously reported to be from 5 to7 derlain by the Belknap 45 ft.Sandstone and Shale feet thick. The coal has been and Brazos coal-beds. worked by prying large cubical Whether they will ever blocks apart by a long crowbar, prove to be workable, and raising the Mhselan on the rafts commercial coal-beds in by divers or tongs. The elevation all this territory, can only of the top of the coal is 1075 feet. be determined by actual Forty-five feet above the top of tests and openings made the coal in the creek, which I have on the beds named the Brazos bed, and on the The Brazos coal-field south side of the stream, is seen an extends south to the Col- CE Fok et razon imperfect outcrop of a coal which orado River. There are S COAL BED is probably the representative of many conflicting reports BRAZOS COA the Belknap bed. The following as to its boundaries. I (Johnson Tract) is the section. (See Fig. 7.) gathered no facts outside A hard, massive gray limestone of the immediate terri- is found in the bed of the Clear tory examined, so that I Fork at Crystal Falls ; in fact, itis am not prepared to ex- the limestone which forms the natural fall of 4 feet 10 inches which has ress an opinion as to its definite limits. Coal has been reported to have given a name to the place. This limestone underlies the Brazos coal-bed, en found in El Paso and Presidio counties along the Rio Grande, but and is probably the base of the coal measures. The top of the limestone nothing has been authentically stated as to the extent of the areas or the is only ones in the northern part of Stephens County. By glancing value of the beds. over the elevations of the Belknap bed in the vicinity of Crystal Falls, we Tertiary lignites, or lignitic coals, are said to exist in the following see that the bed is nearly horizontal. The lowest point where it was counties: Rush, Harrison, Cass, Grayson, Bastrop, Fayette, Caldwell, found was at the Ballard opening on the Pinkney tract. and Guadalupe. The Brazos coal-bed, if it has an extended area, should be found at _ Résumé.—The Brazos coal-field is the southwestern limit of the Missou- Crystal Falls above the level of the creek, as the limestone in the creek rian or Fourth bituminous coal basin of the United States. The coal occurs below the coal. measures of Stephens and Young counties belong to the Carboniferous The area under which we might expect to find the Belknap and Brazos Age. The coal strata proper are 85 feet thick, and are included between an upper sandstone and conglomerate, representative of the Millstone FA r read at the Philadelphia Meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engi- neers, Peoruary, 1881, From the Transactions of the Institute. a a Grit or Pottsville conglomerate, No. XII. of the Pennsylvania series, and é 90 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. [Ave. 6, 1881. a lower gray limestone representative of the Mountain limestone or The timber lands owned by this company—over eighteen hundred Chester and St. Louis limestone of the Mississippi Valley. The coal acres—seem to be a spur of the great redwood forests on the west side of strata contain two coal-beds of workable thickness. The upper bed, the coast range. It is the only redwood timber to be found off that slope, named Belknap, ranges from 214 to 4 feet, and the lower, named Brazos, except at Guerneville about fifty miles farther south. And this ‘* spur” from 4 to 6 feet. The coals are high in ash and sulphur, but have never must of necessity furnish all the lumber required in the entire valley, ex- been thoroughly tested. The Brazos bed underlies a great area, and will tending from Cloverdale on the south, thirty-six miles, to Round Valley, no doubt prove to be a valuable commercial coal in some localities. sixty-five miles north, and east to Lakeport forty miles. This immense expanse of territory is now tributary to Reeves’s Mill, and makes that property very valuable even now, in the present sparsely THE MENDOCINO FLUME AND MINING COMPANY, CALPELLA DISTRICT, settled condition of the valley. The advent of a railroad within reach of MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, this timber will not only be of great advantage to the people whoare making homes in the valley, but a mine of wealth to the owners of this spur of WITH SUPPLEMENT. timber. This timber the flume brings to market at a cost (includin cutting, manufacture, and delivery) of $6 per thousand, where it wil This company was organized in November, 1880, and capitalized at find ready sale on delivery for from $15 to $35 per thousand, cash, accord- $1,000,000, in shares of $10 each, and is under the control of Boston capitalists. ing to kind of lumber. The demand for various kinds of lumber on the ts object, as set forth in its prospectus, is ‘to construct and main- Pacific coast now exceeds the supply. and will continue to increase, tain a lumber and mining flume, to carry on the business of manufactur- partly on account of the rapid exhaustion of timber at man points of supply, and by the constantly increasing demands ing lumber, and of operating its gold gravel mines, and to sell water to from new markets, opened up by the railroad connections the mines adjacent to route of flume.” with ‘Arizona, Mexico, and the Southern coast. The cost of lumber at Early in the spring, a corps of engineers and surveyors took the field, the town of Calpella, the terminus of the flume, will be reduced by the and surveyed the route for the flume from a point on Mill Creek, near flume to one quarter what it now costs to deliver by teams, so that this Leonard’s Lake, to the town of Calpella, a distance of about twelve miles. difference in cost will be added to the large profits that have hitherto This work occupied nearly two months, and Mr. William T. Riley, Sup- erintendent of the company, who was requested by the directors to ex- been realized there upon that lucrative branch of business. If that mar- amine and report on the survey, in a letter dated May 9th, 1881, says: ket—the local market—should be at any time overstocked, an outlet to “The general route of the survey, I am _ thoroughly satisfied, other markets will soon be opened by the railroad that is about to be ex- tended from Cloverdale, its present terminus, 27 miles from Calpella, to a could not be bettered. For a very large portion of the point on the Russian River beyond Calpella. The company possesses all distance, the flume will require simply a foundation on the ground, the elerments needed to inspire a business man with confidence in any and not more than, in the aggregate, a mile of trestle-work will be re- quired for short distances, and over comparatively shallow ravines and commercial undertaking—an inexhaustible supply of the raw material at reduced cost, and a constant demand for the manufactured products ; and depressions, and in only two instances will trestle-work of any special by its position geographically, the company has a monopoly of the in- magnitude be required—in one case, one hundred and thirty, andin the terior trade at all points distant from railroad and water communication, other ninety feet high—and perhaps two short tunnels of two hundred as the cost of transportation by teams would amount to a prohibitory and fifty or three hundred feet each ; so that, as a whole, it is as favor- able a route as would be possible to ask for in a lumber country. With tariff. Itis in view of these advantages that several enterprises are very little trouble and expense, a dry chute may be constructed from the now in embryo that will take shape as the flume approaches to comple- Smith tract to the line of the flume, and thus open up as fine a body of tion. The Ukiah City Press of recent date says that a large tannery is virgin timber forest as there is in California ; and every year will add to talked of, and, as soon as an abundant —. of water is assured, will be its value, as the redwood timber is fast disappearing throughout the State, further discussed and probably started. So also a large factory for mak- ing sashes, doors, and blinds is more seriously entertained, as these are and its value over pine will be more and more appreciated as the redwood now manufactured and brought up from San Francisco. becomes scarcer and more difficult toobtain. The trees on the company’s Mr. Charles Nordhoff, in an article on ‘‘ Northern California,” pub- tract are really a picture to look at, ranging, as they do, from five to nine lished in Harper’s Monthly, December, 1878, gives a very full account of or ten feet in diameter, and two hundred or more feet high, without a branch for a hundred feet, and as clean as a Doric column.” the redwood forests of Mendocino County. He says: “It is in the log- By reference to the Supplement, it will be seen that the flume takes in ging camps that a stranger will be most interested on this coast; for the waters of Mill Creek at a point near there he will see and feel the bigness of the redwoods. * * * One tree in Mendocino, whose remains were shown to me, made a mile of railroad LEONARD’S LAKE. ties. A schooner was filled with shingles made from a single tree. Trees This lake is the property of the company, and comprises an area of fourteen feet in diameter have been frequently found and cut down ; the nearly sixty acres, having an average depth of 96 feet. It is perfectly saw-logs are often split apart with wedges, because the entire mass is too landlocked, with only a subterranean outlet some two or three hundred large to float in the narrow and shallow streams ; and I have seen them rods down the mountain, and so forming the source of Mill Creek. Itis blow a log apart with gunpowder. A tree four feet in diameter is called a wondrously beautiful place, and as a water supply, if near to San Fran- undersized in these woods. I was told that an average tree would turn cisco, would be worth one million of dollars. It fills what once might out about fifteen thousand feet of lumber, and thus even thirty such trees have been the crater of a volcano. It ison the very top of one of the to the acre would yield nearly half a million feet.” highest ridges, and is surrounded by a rim of heavy timber, one hundred Mr. William H. Bellows, who has carefully examined the timber-lands acres in extent, also the property of thecompany. The engineer mea- belonging to the Mendocino Flume and Mining Company, says: ‘The sured one tree, near the margin of the lake, which showed 47 feet in cir- company possesses a tract of land that will yield, I estimate, more than cumference. There will be no difficulty in obtaining a reserve supply of one hundred and fifty million feet of merchantable lumber, which, if water from the lake, as it will only be necessary to sink down the proper sold (as it would be readily) at the low average price of $20 per thousand, distance, some fifteen or twenty feet from the margin of the lake, put in would yield a total return of over $3,000,000. Deduct from that the cost a substantial head-gate, let the water to it, open it, and the water will do of cutting, manufacture, and delivery at Calpella, say $6 per thousand, the work between there and Mill Creek in the way of cutting a channel. will leave over $2,000,000 for dividends ; and at an average cutting and The company’s engineer measured the water flowing through Mill sale of 10,000,000 feet per year, would require between fifteen and sixteen Creeek, and found there ‘‘two hundred and twenty-five miners’ inches,” years.” under pressure of a four-inch head (the usual gauge), and ascertained, On the Reeves tract, purchased by the company, are improvements, from reliable authority, that the amount would be maintained for such as mill machinery, houses, implements, etc., valued at least at nearly the entire season. $10,000. The mill has a capacity of 20,000 feet per day, and will furnish The company has taken up the waters of the two other creeks, Smith’s the materials for the company’s lumber flume, now building, besides and Jackson’s, and will connect them with the flume. manufacturing for the local trade. THE FLUME The superintendent of the company, while studying the problem as to will be Y-shaped, and is now rapidly panies forward to completion under what disposition to make of the waste water from the flume, conceived the idea that that water, and a great deal more, could be carried to the superintendence of Mr. W. H. Bellows, the engineer who constructed Ukiah (six miles) in pipes, where a market for it, and more, in fact, the famous flume of the Miocene Company, in Butte County, California. than the company can command, could be readily found; and they The name of this gentleman is sufficient guarantee that the work will be would be thankful to get it. Better water is not found on the face of the thoroughly and faithfully executed. The right of way for its entire length has been deeded to the company. The lower terminus of the flume globe—as cold as ice and clear as crystal. Hespoke on this point with will be located-at the lower end of the Calpella tract, on a plateau numbers of the people of Ukiah, and they welcomed the idea with eager- ness, and, should the company decide to carry out this idea, it could not between Gold Gulch and a ravine north of it, in immediate proximity fail of proving very profitable. to the county road, the ravine affording all facilities for disposing of waste water. It is near to town and is close by the line the railroad must THE MINES be built on, when it is constructed ; so that side-tracks from one to the of the company comprise 300 acres of valuable placer claims, which other may be easily and cheaply constructed. The company has it will be able to work most successfully as soon asits mining flume acquired title to a few acres here for terminal purposes. is completed. Professor J. Kellogg, of San Francisco, who is thoroughly In the Supplement, the timber-line is clearly marked out. In addition familiar with the property, says: ‘‘ Hardly a pan of gravel can be taken to the one hundred acres of heavy timber around Leonard’s Lake, which up in hundreds of acres at Calpella that has not the color in it. In the we have already alluded to as the property of the company, the line of surrounding hills is the bed of an ancient river, covered sixty feet deep flume crosses what is known as the with gravel, which will yield abundantly to scientific mining, when SMITH TRACT, water is brought to work it. The Calpella gold placers have been profit- which the company has purchased. This is covered with a dense growth ably worked in ravines and gulches for twenty—perhaps twenty-five— of Oregon pine and redwood. There are also many rare and valuable years, during the rainy season, paying in many places from $5 to $10 per day to the hand. The ground is especially suitable for hydraulic min- woods, such as oak, alder, and mountain mahogany. This tract com- in 9 prises four hundred and fifty-four acres. The company will erect a saw- Mr. William T. Reilly, Assayer at the United States Mint of San mill here. The company has also purchased an adjoining timber tract of Francisco, and who had practical experience in placer mines from 1849 one hundred and sixty acres. to 1861, writes of this section as follows: ‘‘On the ground owned by the Two miles and a half from Leonard’s Lake is Mendocino Flume and Mining Company, mining has been done at times REEVES’S TRACT. during the rainy season for the last twenty years, and nothing but the The company has just concluded the purchase of this property. This lack of water has prevented most successful mining operations from contains eleven hundred and three acres of the finest timber. It lies in being carried on there. The gravel is eminently calculated for free the center and gateway, and virtually commands the situation. working, as it, as far as can be ascertained, is entirely free from pipe- J Ave. 6, 1881.) THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 91 SS clay, that bane of gravel mines. The ground, as indicated by positive 61-63723 grains. The millesimal fineness of the six coins was found to be and certain data, is an old river-bed ; and I should expect, under an 916-8, 916°6, 916°8, 916°7, 916°6, and 916°7 respectively, results which de- intelligent management, excellent results generally, and from consider- monstrate the almost unvarying accuracy pervading the coinage opera- able portions of it, toward the bottom or bed-rock, very rich returns. tions at the mint. The construction of thé flume, for the single p se of mining that ground, would be a splendid investment ; and combined with the oppor- tunity of selling surplus water to the mines now lying idle for want of THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAD.—This road is open to Durango. it, on its route, would make it as lucrative an enterprise as any in Cali- COAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.—A vein of anthracite coal is reported to fornia, and as far as my judgment will warrant, I can say that it is, with have been discovered within five miles of Victoria, B. C. a minimum risk, a thoroughly legitimate enterprise on a business basis.” _Mr. John Simpson, Mining Engineer, who made a thorough examina- CoLORADO IRON-WORKS BURNED.—DENVER, Aug. 2.—Late last night, tion of the property, says he found gold from top to bottom in the pros- the Colorado Iron-Works, with nearly all the machinery, were burned. pect openings, yielding from 80 cents to $1 per cubic yard. He madea Loss about $125,000 ; insurance, $41,500. careful and detailed report of the mines, and estimated that, at the low- Sonora RaILROAD.—SAN FRancisco, Aug. 2. — Advices from est yield of 30 cents per cubic yard, the claims would produce over Guaymas, dated July 18th, say that the road is in running order for $29,000 per acre. fifty-seven miles, and that 52,000 ties are on the ground for track- The enterprise is indorsed by the leading citizens of the county of laying. t Mendocino, who, in a letter to the company, say: “It is entirely practi- cable, and is what we need for the cheap and rapid transportation of Mr. HERMAN GARLICHS and Mr. J. F. Wannemaker have established lumber, and for the development of our rich gravel mines. Such an en- themselves as civil and mining engineers at Rico, Dolores County, Colo. terprice, casetelly managed, must prove a paying investment to all Mr. Garlichs is a brother of Mr. Charles Garlichs, a highly-esteemed parties interested.” member of the New York Stock Exchange. _ From the foregoing, it will be seen that the enterprise embraces pro- IRON AND STEEL-WORKERS’ ASSOCIATION.—The sixth annual conven- pm aside from mining that can not fail of proving highly remunerative. tion of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel-Workers began its nless some unforeseen contingency should arise, the flume will be com- session in Cleveland on the 2d inst. Delegates numbering 160 were pleted and the water flowing through it early the coming fall. present, representing several States. The proceedings are secret. The office of the company is at No. 79 Milk street, Boston. Its officers are: Albert W. Mann, President; William A. Travis, Treasurer : John THE NorRTH AND WEST BRANCH RAILROAD.—WILKES-BARRE, PA., H. Cheever, Secretary. Robert Harrison, Esq., No. 430 California street, Aug. 3.—A number of engineers in the employ of the North & West San Francisco, Cal., Attorney for Company on Pacific coast. William T. Branch Railroad Company arrived here to-night. They come for the Reilly, San Francisco, Cal., Superintendent. purpose of locating the lines of this road through this city. The work is to be pushed forward as rapidly as possible; and when completed, will connect with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. GENERAL MINING NEWS. Graphite as a Conductor.—Herr Muraski finds that graphite is better than any other carbon, and that its resistance is also most sensitive to ARIZONA. variation of temperature. Oro BLanco.—A ial dispatch says that the q mill of the Orion Silver Min- ing Company is running successfully. There is plenty of water. Every thing New Variety of Coal.—The Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie says that a encouraging. : : new variety of coal, said to be the most highly carbonized member of the SULPHURET.—This mine started again August 2d, and is excavating a chamber cval series hitherto described, has been found near Schunga, on the west- for the pump, which is expected daily. This will be the first mine in Tombstone to work below the water-level. Better ore is expected than has yet been found. ern shore of Lake Onega. It contains about 91 per cent of carbon, 7 or ToMBSTONE.—A dispatch received in this city August 1st says that the Conten- 8 per cent water, and 1 per cent ash ; it is extremely hard and dense, tion and Head Center mills started up again July 30th. The Tombstone Com- has an adamantine luster, is a good conductor of electricity, and has a pany’s mills start up again to-day. ‘The heavy rains have ceased for the present, high specific heat—0°1922. Although containing as much carbon as the the river has receded, and the dams have been repaired. , best graphites from Ceylon, it is not a true graphite, inasmuch as it is not TOMBSTONE MILL AND MINING ComPaNny.—The associate secretary of this com- oxidized by potassium chlorate and nitric acid, but behaves toward those pany’s mines telegraphs July 30th: Expect to start mills to-night. Bullion yield reagents like an amorphous coal. this month will equal that of June, notwithstanding breaks. The Gird will, which was formerly run by water-power, has been run by steam since June 20th, Popular Science Monthly.—It is hardly necessary to say that the a break in the dam having been anticipated by the Tombstone Company. number for August, lying before us, is a good one ; but it is a gratifica- tion to say it, and to add that all the numbers in all the years of the CALIFORNIA. Monthly's existence have been good ones. Professor Huxley's paper on AMADOR COUNTY. the Herring, is August reading in the mountains ; and Physical Educa- EmMPtIre.—The Ledger says that at this mine every thingis moving along at a tion—Recreation, by Dr. Oswald, will lessen the discomforts of those satisfactory gait. The mill is kept running on rock from the 1200-foot level, all confined in the sultry city. Herman L. Fairchild writes of the Blood hoisted from the south shaft. The ore is low-grade, but, by putting large quan- and its Circulation. This article, and that by Dr. Arthur Schuster on tities through the mill, it can be made to pay well. At present, the full 80 stamps can not be kept going, as all the work has to be done through one shaft—hoisting the Teachings of Modern Spectroscopy, and that by Leon thorough Malo on the Origin and Uses of Asphalt, are illustrated. Theo- rock, lowering timbers and men,etc. The north shaft is undergoing repairs. It is expected that a month more will see the shaft in perfect working dore Wehle treats of the Origin and History of Life Insurance. In order. As soon as the repairs are completed, a tunnel will be pushed north, at the the paper on the Insufficient Use of Milk, Dr. Dyc2 Duckworth says, 1200-foot level, to thoroughly prospect the 1500 feet of unexplored ground in incidentally, that milk with rum in it is at times a valuable prescription; that direction, Indeed, this unexplored territory embraces more than one half but he finds that people resort to it without medical advice, which may of the mine. There are between 170 and 180 hands on the pay-roll. An im- be the case, even in these melting hours, and may fitly suggest a perusal mense supply of wood is on hand, estimated at 1500 cords, enough to run the of the section, ‘* Sense of Direction,” in George J. Romanes’s article on works for a year. the Intelligence of Ants. Lunar Lore and Literature is by F. E. Fryatt. BODIE DISTRICT. Francis Galton’s paper on the Visions of Sane Persons is followed by that Official advices for the week ending the 23d ult. say : of Dr. P. J. Higgins on School-Room Ventilation. Then come the Unit BECHTEL CONSOLIDATED.—The stopes on the 150 [#200, 300}, and 400-foot levels in Plant-Life, by Byron D. Halsted ; the Electric Storage of Energy, and of the old shaft continue to look well—showing large bodies of ore, which is like- a Sketch, with portrait, of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Correspondence, wise true of the stopes on the 312-foot level of the new shaft. The west vein in north drift (being run from No. 2 west cross-cut) 400-foot level, is 314 feet wide, Editor’s Table, Literary Notices, Popular Miscellany, and Notes. of ore. The mill is kept fully supplied with ore. ODIE ComsoLinarsp.—During the past week, there were 126°5 tons of ore The Trial of the Pyx.—The Pyx, we may remind our readers, is a box hoisted. The amouuvt hauled to the mill was 116°54 tons and 106°362 were used in English coinage as a place of deposit for certain sample coins crushed, The average assay of the pulp was $66.80 er and of the tailings taken fora trial of the weight and fineness of metals, before they are $11.58. At the 206-foot level, the east cross cut has been been driven 7 feet, its sent from the mint. Of all the mechanical metallurgical operations of total length being 39 feet. The south drift at the second incline level is now 45 the year, says the London Ironmonger, none transcend in importance, feet long, a gain of 8 feet since last report. North drift No. 2, fifth incline level, and few exceed in magnitude, those conducted at the Royal Mint. There, and the north drift No. 3, sixth level, have been driven eight and nine feet re- the money of the nation is manufactured by automatic machinery of the spectively, so that the former drift is 149 feet in length and the latter 88 feet. somewhat broken, in consequence of faulty seams utmost delicacy, and thence we receive, indirectly, it is true, the coins In both drifts, the vein is through which the drift will probably soon pass. The stopes are yielding the which to most of us represent the bread and cheese of our daily existence. usual amount and quality of ore. The mill is now running with water from the Although the machinery and appliances in charge of the mint officials Lent shaft. F ? are almost perfect specimens of the finest products of human ingenuity, STANDARD CONSOLIDATED.—Extracted and shipped to the mills 1146 tons of ore the results of their working are not left to chance, but are checked and from the 300, 385, 500, 550-foot levels. The average assay for the week is $31.15. regulated by an annual test, which is officially known as ‘the Trial of The east cross-cut 1000-foot level is in 352 feet, with no change of importance. the Pyx.” This trial took place on Wednesday, July 13th, at the Gold- The west cross-cut is in 295 feet ; progress, 7 feet. The character of the rock smiths’ Hall, under the direction of certain officials and a jury of experts, in the face is the same asusual. The south drift, 700-foot level, is in 73 feet ; rogress, 17 feet. The south drift, 500-foot level, has been run 11 feet; total who were, in the stereotyped fashion, sworn to well and truly make length, 357 feet. The ledge here is about 4 feet wide. The west cross-cut from assays of the gold and silver coins of the British realm, in conformity this drift isin 71 feet ; progress, 19 feet, in hard blasting rock. Uprise No. 1 with the coinage act of 1870. No gold has been coined from the south drift has reached a hight of 74 feet ; prog 10 feet. Uprise during the year, but silver to the value of £665,676, has received No 2. from this south drift; to connect with 400-foct level,sis up 12 feet. The up- the impress of the mint dies. Since the last trial, Prof. Chandler Rob- rise on Bruce ledge, 450-foot level, is up 155 feet. South drift No. 2, 400 foot level, is in 68 feet. Owing to the spar-wheel of the pumping soq being erts, the official chemist, has made as many as 7348 assays of gold, and mills, we concluded not to 6754 of silver—involving no slight amount of labor and skill. The gen- cracked, and as it is necessary to pump water for the sink the shaft until new gear is put in, lest it should break and cause a sto eral excellence of the year may be inferred from the report of the trial page of the mills. All the stopes throughout the mine are looking well and yield- on this occasion. The legal standard weight of a sovereign is 123°27447 ing as On the 385-foot level, the ] in the stopes is from 15 to 25 feet grains, and its millesimal fineness 916°66. Of the four sovereigns which wide, and on the 550-foot level, it is about 20 feet wide. the jury selected haphazard from out of the Pyx for special trial, they SYNDICATE.—The mill is running steadily and the mine looks well. The stopes found the weights to be respectively—the first, 123°314; the second, 123- are yielding some very good ore. ° "224; the third, 123°104; and the fourth, 123°274 grains—the last being GREENVILLE DISTRICT. exactly standard ; and of the two half-sovereigns so selected, the first CHEROKEE.—The superintendent reports that the main shaft at the depth of weighed 61°667, and the second 61°667, the legal standard weight being 200 feet struck the i of the old mine, and that the first blast tapped the 92 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. [Aue. 6, 1881. water which has been standing in the old works. This water will soon be works being pushed. A few days more will determine whether there is any pumped out and the sinking resumed. ea Sie found in thefr prosecution, and if not, work will be suspended GREEN MounTaAIN.—At the Green Mountain mine, the sulphuret iedge has been through this shaft, until provision can be made to operate at greater depth. It cut in the face of No. 5 tunnel, showing good ore. is the intention of the manager to begin about the first of eae, and take up the prospect work in No. 6, New Discovery, where it was left o six months ago, COLORADO. and make another effort to prospect the southerh end of the New Discovery claim. In sinking this shaft, a contact of iron, 15 inches thick, was penetrated CHAFFEE COUNTY. below the quartzite, 150 feet from 7. Ae tees nega ae HortTense.—The Hortense tunnel, Chalk Creek, is now in 220 feet. It is ex- 20 feet lower, consisting of quartzite showin icles of galena pected to extend 430 feet farther before the vein is reached. A drift is now and assaying 10 to 15 ounces to the ton. extending on the No. 4 level, extending from the workings above. Of the road cod ks in the hopes of leading ae to bodies of eee ore. eae, There are eine still some cree g S leading from the shaft, a mile and a quarter is finished. Foe in the sorieane end of the New Discovery beyond No. 3, but these can not be worked to good advanta; atpresent. It is evident the Little i Pittsburg i is CLEAR CREEK COUNTY. wary meaty exhausted in all its old workings, and that unless mineral is found;on PELICAN-DIVES.—According to the Silver Plume Mining News, this m ine is the ridge to the south, or else at lower depths, no hopes can be entertuined of the doing good work. It has made fifty-six shipments since last April, amounting to ever working its mines to a profit. The project of sinking a deep shaft over 200 tons of ore. The Eagle Bird and Unicorn have been cut by the tunnel is daily forcing itself omer upon the managers of the Little Pittsburg and Little and both lodes are producing well. The mines employ 74 men, 34 of whom are Chief mines, and there is little doubt but that the present year will yet see the leasers, and the remainder are working oncontract. At the engine-house, 950 inauguration of a movement in this direction. feet from the mouth of the tunnel, and 280 feet below the surface, there is a MorninG Star.—Morning Star has discharged nearly all the men from the shaft extending 500 feet, or 120 feet below the Diamond Tunnel, at the bottom mine. No ore is to be tahun aes i pending negotiations for the sale to the Evening of which a large vein of mineral-bearing antimony, lead, and zinc was struck. Star owners, the option extending to the 15th. TERRIBLE.—We learn from the same paper that this mine is now worked Rosert E. LEE.—The new machinery for this mine is beginning to arrive, and through the Union Tunnel, which is now in a distance of 465 feet, and in this will be set in place as early as possible. distance gains the depth of nearly 400 feet. A new engine-chamber has been SILveR Corp.—The Leadville Herald says: One of the most extensive prop- made at the breast of the Union Tunnel 27x42 feet, and extensive preparations erties about Leadville, as well as one that is producing lurgely at present, is that are making to put the machinery in place. From the fourth tu the eleventh of the Silver Cord Combination Mining Company, located on Iron Hill, and levels, leasers are at work, and all seemingly doing well. A shaft, called the adjoining the properties of the Iron Silver Company. The entire property of the Silver Ore shaft, hus been sunk from the breast of the Union Tunnel a distance of Combination Company includes eight locations and about sixty aeres of ground. 350 feet. Within 20 feet from the bottom of this shaft, or 330 feet below the The present shipments from the mine are 60 tons average each day. Kiready tunnel level, two drifts have been started east and west. The Union Tunnel this month about 1500 tons have been sent to the smelters. This amount could strikes the seventh level of the mine proper. A drift has been driven about 300 be increased, even with present facilities, but the company is earnestly driving feet on the 11th level on the lode, and is worked by contract. The tenth level, development-work, and _ is also — the arrival of new machinery. which is worked from the Silver Ore shaft, is in about 250 feet, and is also There are three inclines on the Silver Wave, all of which are worked by contract. The mine and mill give employment to between 75 and 80 i and connecting drifts are also being run. Down the men. south and second incline, wonderful deposits have been ; opened. Besides 3 CUSTER COUNTY. the work driven from the levels, development-work is also pushed in the BuLL-DoMINGO.—The Prospect says that this mine will soon begin to yield its drifts from the Silver Cord shaft, high on the bill, and some fine ore-bodies are accustomed output, and it will then be worked with a large force of men. Most there developing. Assessment-work is also being done on the Delta and other favorable reports are received as to the developments now making in the claims of the company. Of miners employed the number is about 125, while lower levels. some 75 others are working on surface improvements, putting up buildings and GAME RipGr.—The Rosita Journal says : The Game Ridge J es y is rapidly machinery. and wonderfully developing under the management of Carl Wulsten, the general PARK COUNTY. superintendent. There is already quite a force engaged in quarrying out the ore, and as soon as there is room, there will be moreemployed. The object of the SACRAMENTO. —The Flume says that the Lark tunnel is now in over 300 feet om the surface. At intervals of a few feet along the innermost portion, small superintendent is to open up an immense body of ore, with a face several hundred teas of high-grade ore have been taken out. Last week, a sack of ore was feet in length, and then employ all the force that can be obtained. The mill is taken out that runs u into the hundreds ¢ of ounces in silver. Since reaching the under contract to be completed by the first of January, 1882, and by that time the company expects to have from 3000 to 5000 tons of ore ready for the mill. cave, 170 feet in depth, of which mention has been made, the course of the tun- SILVER CLiFrF.—A dispatch received from the superintendent of this company nel has been slightly changed in order to avoid passing along the top of it. A says that on the 26th he crushed 106 tons, assaying 20 ounces. double suift of men is constantly at work here, and making as good progress as extremely hard rock will allow. Another shift is pushing down a shaft on the GILPIN COUNTY upper part of the Frue claim. ROLLINS.—From an extended description of the property of this company, SAN JUAN COUNTRY. appearing in the Register-Call of the 26th, we condense the following : The Brar CREEK.—The superinterdent of Bear Creek mines writes : We are push- Rollins Company is getting its placer mines on the South Boulder in readiness ing the work night and day on the tunnel, and accumulating ore of an excellent for active working. The company does not anticipate any great results this quality. The vein is improving every day in width and quality. season, Owing to the delays it has met with inthe transportation of piping and the SUMMIT COUNTY. Little Giant from California. The water which supplies these hydraulic works is conveyed through a line of ditch and fuming 214 miles in length, and at the Rospinson CONSOLIDATED.—The Robinson Consolidated shipped during the initial point of mining has a fall of 140 feet. This gives the hydraulic great week ending July 30th 500 tons of ore. The last shaft is down 50 feet. The new pressure. If nothing intervenes, the placer mines of the company will be in run ore-body in the main tunnel is o ning magnificently, and is 12 feet thick. The ning order by the 10th of the coming month. Passing up Gamble Gulch to the old ore assays 90 ounces per ton. e mine looks well throughout. town of Gold Dirt, the company is operating the Crown Point, Colorado, and DAKOTA. Perigo tunnels. The Crown Point, which is no more nor less than a tunnel on the vein of the celebrated Gold Dirt lode, has been driven in a distance of 700 feet, A dispatch from Deadwood, dated August 2d, says: There is great excite- and under former workings from the surface. At the present heading of the ment over the discovery of rich carbonates nire miles west of this city. Ore tunnel, a good crevice of mill-dirt and crevice material has been struck. The was brought in to-day alive with native silver, and assayed $2600 a ton. Bi Colorado tunnel gives a very favorable showing in miil-dirt produced, but’ how stories have been made in the Lawrence, Utica, Amsterdam, Greenland and Jef- high a grade has not yet been deterinined through the stamp-mill or smelters. ferson mines, and miners are flocking thither from alli rts of the hills. — The cross-cut driven to intersect the Perigo lode tapped that vein 840 feet from CaLepon1A, B. H.—The superintendent of the Caledonia Gold Mining Com- the starting-point, and the tunnel on the vein has been continued west 140 feet, ny; B. H., under date of July 24th, reports an accident to the mine on the the crevice-matter, as the tunnel has been driven, being over four feet in width, both ‘ult., which will cause the shutting down of the mill for fourdays. The with no hanging-wall yet encountered. The back of the tunnel shows u well, as hanging-wall of the open cut bad a slip in it extending across the slate formation also the floor of the same. The 16-stamp mill of the company, at Gold Dirt, is between the Caledonia and the Queen of the Hills veins, and a heavy shower row engaged in treating mill-dirt from the Perigo. caused the slide. This slip could not be seen until after the aecident. The damage to the mine will not be great, being of a local character only. GUNNISON COUNTRY FATHER DE SMET.—The report of the superintendent of this mine, dated Jul 18th, says : At the mines, things are running very well, except the results whic The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad track is laid to within twenty miles of are beyond my control. I have the mine — reduced to a low figure, as Gunnisun City, and it is expected that by the 15th of August it will be landing will be shown in our statemen for June, which goes forward in a day or two. freight and passengers at that place. The Deadwood-Terra Company has joined with us in locating and starting a tun- Iron. BONNET.—We have received from the officers of this company a report nel as deep as a dump can S had in Deadwood Creek. This tunnel will cut the showing the progress of work on their mine since the issue of the company’s vein 110 feet deeper than any of our present workings. The construction of prospectus, The manager, Mr. H. M. Bearer, who took charge in June last, the additional twenty stamps is progressing fast enough to be in readiness on the reports the mine jn excellent condition, and the prospects very encouraging. A arrival of the machinery. drew for $24,000 on the 15th inst. for June ex- company has recently been organized to treat the ore of the camp, and has pur- mses, chased the Hillerton smelter, four miles distant, which will he put in operation PM GREAT EASTERN.—The Deadwood Pioneer of the 23d says: The semi-monthly as soon as possible. In the mean time, the company will continue mining, and clean-up of the Great Eastern mill was fully up to its former productions since store the ore in the ore-house. the present management took hold of its affairs. The prospecting developments LAKE COUNTY. show a fine body of ore, and it is rumored that a new and larger mill is con- templated by the company. The Flora Belle property, owned by the Great Bic PrrrsBurG.—The superintendent of this mine telegraphs : Lent shaft 242 Eastern Company, has proved to be a property equally with any of the feet. Water annoying us greatly. Heytrossar drift 12 feet, showing two feet famous belt mines, and, with the same capacity, would add another perma- low-grade mineral. nent dividend-paying mine to the list, now the | and best in the world. CHRYSOLITE.—Chrysolite is keeping up its large shipments, the output being 75 Their famous mill, among the first built in the Hills is constantly at work, and to 100 tons per day. The mine netted, over all expenses in July, $128,000. The the ores from the present cross-cutting and developing tunnels are al] put through ped employs 210 men, and the ore extracted is said to average $88 per the mill, showing that the nay 8 is capable of large productions. on net. LitTrLE Rapw.—We extract from the Black Hills Journal of the 30th DENVER City.—A dispatch, dated August 8d, says: The large plant of ma- ult. the following description of the p of the Little Ra id chinery on the Denver City, which it has taken months to complete, is ready to Placer Mining Company of this city: We visited Ross’s Bar on Little run, and is expected to start up to-day. It will take only a few days to drain Rapid Creek, four oan a half miles below Rochford, on Monday last, the mine and resume work on the ore-body develo before the mine was clesed. and although aware that the Little Rapid Placer Mining Company DuNKIN.—Work has been resumed on the south shaft of the Dunkin. Three employed quite a force of men, we were somewhat surprised at the change shafts are employed, and the shaft, which is about 270 feet deep, is making fair wrought in the appearance of the place since our lest visit. As we have progress. before stated, a discovery of gold was made upon this bar in 1875 by Mr. Ross, Inon.—The Iron Silver delivered 1087 tons of ore for the week ending July who accompanied General Custer’s expedition into the Hills. From a small pros- 24th and settled for 834 tons. Ore delivered and unpaid for, 2227 tons. The t-hole sunk by him, he took out $100 worth of dust of fine quality. Upon mine is reported to be opeving up finely. eaving the Custer party, Mr. Ross returned to the Hills, and has since LITTLE PITTSBURG.—The Leadville Democrat says: The Little Pittsbu that time prospected the to some extent, finding more or less gold in every Mining Company is producing from ten to twelve tons of ore per day. The ield rospect-hole sunk. The creek has always been supposed to be rich, but it has is the product of the New Discovery and No. 2 workings of the Little Pittsbur, Soon impossible to reach bed-rock, as in sinking a great deal of water is encoun- claim, The company employs from 55 to 60 men. The prospect-work prosecute tered. is bar, together with other mining claims, in all eighty-three, passed from No. 6 Little Pittsburg shaft, on the present level, bas not met with much into the possession of the Little Rapid Company last spring. Ss property con- encouragement recently. The north drift is now ina dike of dolomitic sand. tains about 375 acres of bars and creek-bed, extending from the mouth of Silver This drift and ap uprise in another portion of the workings are the only prospect- Creek, one mile below Rochford, to the confluence of Little Rapid and Castle ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL (SuppLemMent). Aucust 6, 18814.
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creeks. The directors of the company some time ago commenced inv tion of reported. On the third level, the west drift, from the north cross-cut, shows the workings of the Roy Stone Hydraulic Excavator, and became satisfied that rome good ore, and in the east drift there is a small streak of ore of low grade. by means of this invention the ground could be worked to ad- The stopes on the second level do not look quite so well as last week. The stope vantage, and, as already stated in the Journal, the machinery has on the first level shows a good body of ore. arrived upon the ground and been placed in ition for operation. According NorTHERN BELLE.—The shaft-levels present about the same cqeunenes as last to a letter from the superintendent, published in the Journal of last week, steam week, and are Pinang om the usual quantity of ore. Within the last two days, was made on the 16th inst., and in less than a half-hour from the time of kindling a development been made on the eleventh or adit-level, which has opened fire in the furnace the dirt was rushing through the discharge-pipe into the flume into ore of a fair je, the extent of which is not yet determined, sufficient work at a rate to convince the most skeptical that the machine would do the work not having been done at this point. In the tenth level also, near the center of the claimed for it by the manufacturers. Only sufficient was done to make a test of mine, a development has been made during the week which at resent date looks the working of the invention, as it was considered better to arrange every thing quite promising. The ninth level is looking as well as ever, and turning out ore ‘ —— before commencing the work, that there might be no hitch after opera- of eens In other levels above the adit, there is no change of importance. ons were fairly started. This will require, perhaps, from three days to a week Eighty-five tons of ore are extracted daily, and sent to the mill. longer, when it is expected the success of the hydraulic excavator in work- ing the placers of the Black Hills will be fully and clearly demonstrated. EUREKA DISTRICT. A short distance above the bar, the creek is dammed, and a ditch and flume EvREKA CONSOLIDATED.—The Eureka Sentinel of the 24th ult. says: The cor- carries the water (at the present time about 1500 inches) across the bar, a dis- tance of between a furlong and a quarter of a mile, where it is discharged into ner-stone of the new hoisting-works for the rew shaft was laid yesterday. The the pit in which the discharge-pipe is fixed. This water is forced through a main building will be in the form of an L, and will be 150 feet long and 126 feet six-inch pipe a distance (as the machine now stands) of 210 feet, through two in width. The accumulator will be 76 feet in hight, 25 inches inside, 35 inches pieces of hose connecting with the pipe, each two and a half inches in diameter, outside, of 5-inch metal, with a capacity of 1250 — of steam to the square one running into the pit and discharging the jet of water through a inch. There will be two hoisting-engines, capable of hoisting from 700 to 1000 small nozzle against the material to be hoisted, at the bottom of the discharge- tons in 24 hours, and two ay org capable of pumping 2000 gallons of pipe in the pit. This jet is forced out with a pressure of 150 pounds ad square water a rninute from a depth of 3000 feet. Fifty men are now employed on the inch, and digs into and loosens the earth very rapidly. The present location of foundation-wv ork. the excavator is an advantageous one for making a good test, as the company has RICHMOND vs. ALBION.—On the 27th ult., Judge Rives rendered his decision a splendid water supply. in the case of the Richmond vs. the Albion, the result being a oe the Rich- mond Company. The judge holds the St. George patent to be absolutely void, IDAHO. the Uncle claim is a good and valid location, and in fact every point ccn- Boston.—The Idaho Avalanche of the 23d ult. says that the Boston Company tended for by the’Albion as between the St. George patent and Uncle Sam loca- has been making some needed improvements on its mill, which are now about tion is found strictly and unequivocally in favor of the Albion. Among otber completed. It is the intention to start the mill again on the 25th, and run paper titles put in by the Richmond was a patent called the Victoria. This patent through 500 tons or more of War Eagle ore. At the mine, a winze has been was procured by the Richmond pending the protest suit between the St. rge sunk 30 feet below the seventh level and is in good ore all the way, which seems and Uncle Sam. It is a younger claim and a _ application for to improve as depth is attained. The sixth an seventh levels are yielding their a tent than either the St. George or the ncle Sam. The judge — I og of good ore, and it is from these the rock about to be worked has hol that it is a better title than that conferred by the prior n taken. application for the St. Geor; —_ The Victoria patent was scarcely Paciric.—This mine, the property of the New York & Idaho Gold and Silver aliuded to in the late trial. e Richmond made its big fight on the validity of Mining eee of this city, is situated on the southeasterly side of the Atlanta the St. George patent, which has been thrown out as utterly worthless and void. Hill in the Middle Boise Mining District. The report on the mine states that the A stay of all proceedings will be granted for thirty or sixty days to allow the development consists of an open cut 32 feet long and five feet wide, a tunnel 100 case to be taken up, and to prevent the destruction of the estate by either party. feet long, five feet wide, and six and a half feet high, and two cross-cuts from wall The decision oceupies thirty pages of legal cap. At the conclusion of the reading to wall one 20 feet and one 40 feet in from the mouth of the tunnel, all in pay of the decision, the Albion asked for an injunction covering the disputed prem- ore, and the ore taken out (about 300 tons) is now on the dump. Two cross-cuts ises in the other two cases pending between the same parties. The injunction from wall to wall have been made from the surface, one at the westerly terminus was granted for the whole ground until the hearing of these cases. The of the claim, and one at a point 800 feet ew therefrom, each six feet wide Albion was required to file a bond in the sum of $10,000, which was immediately and 16 feet deep, and the ore taken out assayed $60 per ton. These cross-cuts given. show a strong, well-defined ledge of good ore, with the precious metals about equally distributed through the vein. irteen assays e at the United States LANDER COUNTY. Assay Office at Boise City yielded from $20 to $83.66 per ton. DAHLGREN.—The following telegrams have been received at the office of the VARKUFF.—This company owns 26 mines in South Mountain District, Owyhee | company, from Superintendent Dahlgren: Battle Mountain, July 26th. Have County, Idaho. The mines are as yet undeveloped, and the work of opening | struck a body of ore in incline, three feet wide. spangled with gold. July 28th. them up is necessarily expensive and slow. The machinery for the concentrators | Ore-body five feet wide, rich in gold. July 29th. Ore from incline assayed $372 is on the way from Winnemucca, and concentrating ore is now hauling to the| per ton. Incline 135 feet deep. August Ist. Mine richer than ever. t mine yard, Work on the furnaces is going steadily forward. It is officially reported } in the camp to-day. that the ore-shipments to the furnaces for the week ending July 16th were S3 tons. The agent telegraphs that a rich strike of galena four feet wide has been NEW MEXICO. made in the City of Athens mine, the ore running 75 per cent lead and 200 The Chief-Justice of New Mexico, L. Bradford Prince, in an argument before ounces silver to the ton. him on demurrer to a bill in chancery tigate Fos title of the Ortiz mine grant, Woop RIvER.—We learn from the Hailey Times that the Wood River Smeltin on July 26th rendered a decision in favor of Elias Brevoort, who claims to be Company started up its furnace, near that city, on the 25th ult. At three aie the owner of the grant. The grant includes about 50,000 acres of mineral land, the next morning, it was char, ; three hours afterward, the first bar of bul- consisting of gold placers, copper and coal lands. The case of Brevoort agt. the lion was made, and by seven o’clock 43 bars were stacked up outside the works. New Mexico Mining Company, Jerome B. Chaffee, §. B. Elkins, and others, has Since higher then, grade the than output that has of averaged the five run, bars The per ores hour. run The through bullion are is of from a much the been in litigation for about twelve years, and this decision is considered substan- tially a settlement of the title in favor of Brevoort. Star mine, two miles south of this ey the Fearnaught, about a mile west of here ; the Carrie Leonard, in the Smoky is District ; and the Elkhorn, near Ketchum. UTAH About 350 tons are on hand at the smelter, anda supply sufficient to keep the . smelter going is contracted for. The same is the case with the fluxes and char-} Utah exchanges say : : ; ith coal. Of the latter alone, over 100,000 bushels are contracted for. A car-load|, BARBEE & WaLkeR.—Work is progressing steadily, and with very encourag- of new bullion will be shipped to-morrow or-Friday, and other car-loads will fol- | img results. The ore continues to improve in extent and richness, it is said, as low in quick succession. developments progress. The old workings have undergone a thorough retimber- ing at different places, and several good ore-faces are now exposed. The oe MONTANA. erty is worked in a systematic manner, and is supplying the mill to its full Our Montana exchanges contain the following : capacity. A winze is driving to connect the third and fourth levels north, and is Hecita Company.—This company is running both furnaces. The furnaces going through some good ore, This will perhaps show up a valuable block of are turning out about two car-loads of base bullion per day, which is hauled to ground between these levels. The mili is in condition. Melrose for shipment to the East. The company is pushing mining operations| CHristy.—This company’s mines continue to yield good ore and the mill is with great energy and with a regular system. The company is now employing | running uninterruptedly. At the California, the sinking on the main incline con- about 300 men. The mines belonging to this company are all looking we The | tinues, and shows increasing strength as depth is attained. Improved hoisting- Atlantis, True Fissure, Cleopatra, Cleve, and other mines are now worked, all} works are erecting. A new 64-inch boiler has been ordered, and will be put in of which are yielding a good grade of smelting ore. On the Cleopatra mine, | position as soon as it hasarrived. The Maggieshaft has cut the ledge at adepth high up on Lion Mountain, new steam hoisting-works are building. ef 155 feet, and is found to correspond in every respect with the California. HIGHLAND DISTRICT. The boiler and hoisting-works now in use at the California will be transferred to this mine. The ore from this mine will shortly be sent to the mill for reduction. The The quartz Butte mines, Miner which says that have been eines idle in for this some district time, are are assuming to be opened importance. againand The prospects at the Tecumseh are good. The Silver Flat continues to show good vigorously worked. ore-bodies, and is said to be yielding handsomely. .—This mine i i k i i Frisco.—Recent reports state that prospecting is going on vigorously around an aan. slants eile caaaricmaalanuaias uaies Frisco. Two smelters « are in full blast, and it is thought that when the San Pete ONLY CHANCE.—This company has begun active operations. The mine has| Valley Railroad is —— which will up immense coking ceal-fields, been cleaned out and re-timbered, and new steam hoisting-works are to be erected | the cost of smelting will be materially red al ; without delay. The Only Chance mine has been worked to a depth of 650 feet, | _HoRN-SILVER.— mine is down 400 feet, and, it is said, has ore assaying as and has yielded much gold in the past. A new mill is to be erected immediately | high as 600 ounces per ton. Arrangements have been made for raising 300 tons to work the quartz of this mine. " of ore per day. : LErps.—This mine continues to show good results for the work done. Repairs NEVADA. have not begun u the mill as yet, but every preparation is making and ma- THE COMSTOCK LODE. 7 — . at will — acm attest Pare a The Gold Hill Nowe of the 97th anys: The work at the north ond mines ie) COUTE ROR SIER fae Ene Rae SOUT CRAES SRS Cates eae oS were much the same as last reported, save at the Sierra Nevada, where the men en- | {1 one of the tunnels, a vein of copper 25 feet wide, assaying 30 per cent, has gaged in extracting ore have been laid off. The stations ere not yet completed | beet struck, and in another there is a rich vein of galena. ai eaate on the lower levels ; and until they are, itis impossible to commence the| STORMONT.—Reports a Soma s mines are very encouraging, and the work of prospecting. The hydraulic pumps at the Chollar-Norcross-Savage | ™@2@ger is quite content with the outlook, which surpasses his previous ——. shaft are no longer looked upon as experiments. The principle has been | 09s. As the work of development tenaes’ Ls promise of a most satisfactorily demonstrated, and only the machinery that will prove strong —_ ath | eee —— tr the eg Ra — ars _ enough to stand the heavy pressure is required for the constant working of them. south +) Ps om we ae . yo bote oe ped, and a — The Belcher and Crown Point mining companies are making daily ship- | has been let dh eal to run north from _~ = a iam an ments of ore of about 45 tons euch, besides the taking out of which, consider- | @POFt, and the in one oe hovel” i tne a aa ; Govennpmens able other work is done. At the Kentuck, four working stations have been | *!s_ point. bey second north lev es ae hich aye ao _ — opened, and the old drifts from each cleaned out for a considerable distance. act a cytes ee Sust f Se alles — Th arenes re os po —, of ore are daily sent to the mill ; . considerable surface work is : Chance, and ‘Thompson oneet cNally ans dle, but cane expected to resum +] os ? in the near future. The mill is running’ smoothly. The reserve boiler is now in COLUMBUS DISTRICT. place, and will prove a decided advantage, and will prevent delay during the We are indebted to the True Fissure for the reports of these mines for the week monthly clean-up. It is expected that this addition will add an increase of at ending July 28d : least twenty-four hours to the running time during each montb. The roads are Mount D1aBLo,—The general appeara 102 of the mine is much the same as, ]ast in splendid condition, and the ore supply on the mill-dump is abundant, 94 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. [Aue. 6, 1881.
DIVIDEND-PAYING MINES.
SHARES, ASSESSMENTS, DIVIDENDS. HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES PER SHARE AT WHICH SALES WERE ADE. Nam ComPany. AND LOCATION OF | Feeton| Vein. | Capital Stock. |——--—— a Par|, Total a | Date and Total | ss pividena, | eae 2030 _j_Aus- — 1 |_Aus.2 | Aug. an 3. fot | geen Aug.4. at | Aug.5.| ee & a 0. evied to| amoun to end, |— —————- | ——- ——__ | ——- —: - |-- one een ita) Val | "date. | share of last. Paate. H. | L.| HL. | H.) L. | H., 1. | | aS ai A aie cena guise tacts Paes aed ; i foe nc fae fmm = pe We alesea serene oak se as eames na ead a Allice, B. C.....ccscccooee Mon 3,000} 10,000,000] 400,000) 25...... 06). cee hegane Bee. 200,000! July.) 1881, Wiseccoese) cores loaieih vacant 6.75 . 7.00 6.88 7.00)...... /....0/. 500 DEPEND. Beis ics cane WE: licssimete | ,000,000; 300,000) 10 ae Ws eho ia dl) peed $05,000 aa, 1880; 10) .41 38 | 138 43 | 44 | 87 | .43 | .42 | 42 | Ai eens Barbee Argenta, & Walker, &...... -s00 8....\Uth|...... Nev a 500, 10, 000, 000; 000) 100,000| 100,000) 10) 10 130,000, _ pare vsefesess| 20! 40,000) 60, 000/Nov. Feb .|1880) 18 880! 20 10 seceejeeees [ewes Bassick, G. S...... 006. WORN con caee | 10,000,000} 100,000 100 * aes 000|Feb.. 25 Relle Isle, s Nev. 1,500| 10,000,000} 100,000) 100! 45,000 June issi|"”” is sur 0U0 Dec. 1859| RB -icher, @. 8..... Nev 1,040} 10,400,000, 104, "000! 100 2,328,000, Apr. |1881 75\ 165 397: 200; Apr. |1876 odie Cons., ¢ BT ee 0,000, 100, 000} 100 75,000 May. 1879! 1 00| 1,3 -000| Mar. |1880 Surin san wanes seislowesopases 5,000,000} 200, 000) 25 o _. ecepe ls ake icune 2,000\Feb.. | 1880) California, G. 8. ...|Nev. 600 54,000, 540,000 100 =: 162,000 June 1881| 30'31,320,000| Dec.. 1879) Calumet & Hecla, Cc. an -; 2,500,000] 100, UD Bn cal cgecch locke Alatovlbciete 19/350, 000 | Apr..| 1881) Caribou Con., s. 8 1,000,000 100,00; 10 >. Tee eeoloveoe | cekehe | 50,CC0,Mar _|1880} Coanten, SS ae . 8,000,006] 300,000) 10].... cescciee woe levccsfercces 180, 000| May .|1881) : Chrysolite. s.L.... ‘ .|10,000,000] 200,000] 50 Retest ere 1,200,000! Aug.|1881| wcee | r 63)... NE ER. cn ncs seve sol. BOI 00G, BOONSO| BW fF fa wes foeees coscss 180,000) Aug. | 1880) 50 | 50 | .40 | BS | .s 2) 12,01 Cons. Virginia, G. 8....|Nev. 710/|54.000.000} 540,000) 100) atl, peer June i873," 300 42,930,900! Aug. |1880) 1.85 2.00) 1.80, 1.90) 1.75] 20,440 Copper Knob, c.. .|N.C. «+ «.| 1,000,000) 1,000,000; 1 15,000 | Nov. |1880! -10 | 12 | .10 | 11 | 20 91,000 Copper Queen...... i ae | 2,500,000} 250,000 50.000 Aug. )1881| te sasenelecesee|eeeeeeleeeceeles sopee Crown Point, G. 8. Nev 600] 10,000,000) 100,000} 11,588 000|Jan..|1875) os | Deadwood-Terra G.. ...|Dak |...... | 5,000,096) 200,030 4420,000| Aug. 1881! ae e Pete ! DORN, B. Ean ns wenned » 5,000,000} 200,000 = 200,212|\Junej1a81| 7 65 ; 60 .60 | 61 58 { 60" 58 | siete 4,300 fureka Cons., G. 8. 5,000,000} 60,000 100} 100,000|May. 1874) ‘100 4,680,000 | July. |18d1 baeean [badeekl ewene \28. = aesets 21.50)...... 100 Excelsior W't’r & M. $} 10,000,006] 100,000 100; 100,000)June /1881, 1 00) 850,000|Sept.| 1880) - poses Raia Evening Star, s. L...... : 500,000} 50,000| | | $0°,000|July. 1881) es : ; Wather de Smet, G...... |Dak|\...... 10,000,000! 100,000! 310,000 | July. 1881 | = acivees Snisenc |e pash|oaeselssshsobeneees|esccsess PN 55 nenwenn oe BRO sndsienssce 200,060) - 200,000} 3,000|May. 1879) 25 : OS eae Col. |. | 5,000,000 200°000 50,000) May. |1880) eee ovccee cove elccccesiece Glass Pendery, Ss. L. -| 5,000,000} 250,000 50,000) May. | 1881 sce mapeclasuass ameasel Sake besmebiae oblnneses leo éuall earesha pases Gold Stripe, G...... IC ...| 1,500,000} 150,000 93,000 July. 1881] 15...... +. + 2.00)... 20} 100 Gould & Curry, 6G |Nev 612) 10, 300, 000! 108,006) 100|3,314,000 July. 1881 50| 3,826,800 Oct. 1870| Wlanbdartehs co peeesetlowsehewscam . Grand Prize, s...... |Nev 1,500 10, 000, 000! 100,000) 100) 200, 000 May. 1881 25 "450, 000 |Sept. l1gso Seiden 510 Great Eastern, G...... |Dak 1:200] 300.000] 800,000) 1) * |... el. 16,000 | July. |1880 11,800 Green Mountain, G..... Cal. 4,350) 1,250,000 ae 7000} 10| cieLeelinbbalcacoxs 179,000 July. 1881| 400 Hale & Norcross, Gs .|Nev o 11,200, 000] 112'000/ 100 8,698, 000 July. 1881 and) RU ETE ATI sss) sn cis locas lnspece loans) 60 acl nina sec osig cen|ctanse|avseselosuaer|ocsneshce ines >. aaa OLD . Ne eeaclinakilicnsens 180,000 | July. 1881) we "|148,059 Homestake, G...... | 100,000 2) 200, 000 Apr 1,050,000! July. 1881) 30/16 .00 Horn-Silver, s. L...... ! 400,000 200,000\Jan.. 1880 25 |14.00 5 1,600 Hukill, G. s. 200,000) 210, ‘000; Dec.., 1878) 900 Indepe ndence, 100,000) 100 295.000! Sept. 1879| Indian Queen, s 125,000} 2). 5,000\ July. |1881 Yron Silver, s.1 50,000) 20). 360,000 | Aug. /188i/| La Plata, s. L 200,000 10} 355,000) Aug. |1881) Leadville Con: 400,000 150,000 Jan. 11880) Little Leeds, Chief, S...... 8. "110,000,000 200.000! 60,000 ‘20 700,000 78, 000 Oct../1878 Aug. 1880 Little Pittsbur -|20;000,000] 200,000) 1 Be: = ©) | .cieslsnceslocwnas 1,350,000 Mar..|1880 Martin Whit 10,000,000] 100,000 25 Se, . MN acs nel nassesls ons Lauscied: nccselseannsl beasshlcacptaleveterlnesestevestsl onnsssionssesee Moose, S 2,000,000} 200,000) 10) * | ... .lccoclecccs- 550, 800 Mar. |1878 Navaje, S....- eel 000,000} 100,000 0 20 25,000 |Mar. 1881 N. Y. & Colorad 1, 000,000 5 ees 25.000 Tuly.|1879 Northern Belle 1,600) J 5 1,912,500/| July. |1881 North Belle Isle 1,500} 000) 15.000 |Sept. | 1880 ) Ontario, s 3,000) 10,000,000 , i ME. kcctnadhelnbhe skh nibe tanceas 3,650,000) Aug. /1881 ee ae 50 Ophir, @ Ss... 675, 10.080,000 100,800 | 1 00) 1,603, '200/Jan.. 1880] 100 | 5.25 380 Plumas,@.... 1,000.000} 100,000) 10 | 151,000|July 1879 Dig nacnnns) ceases lip coos leehenvdaaeeertae soln eeeee tesoneslane G. Gold. s. Silver. L. Lead. c. Copper. * Non-asses | FINANCIAL. | of 12@10c. Eureka, although almost neglected, has properties of the Long & Derry Hill Mining Company, | become very weak, having declined to $2114 to-day. which for brevity is called on the Philadelphia market Gold and Silver Stocks. | Findley was quite active early in the week at 24@26c., ‘*Long & Derry,” there being nostock witha name at NEw York, Friday Evening, Aug. 5. but has been entirely neglected since. Gold Stripe has at all similar to this either in that market or on the The business of the week under review has been been very quiet but weak, declining from $2@$1.60. New York market. The company owns the Little greater than for several weeks past. It has been | Green Mountain has joined in the general decline Canada and Mount Carbon claims on the Long & largely, however, in the State Line and associate | and sold at $51/ Hibernia has been very active, Derry Hill at Leadville. Since the controversy which mines, which will not help the establishment of a large | and during most of the week quite strong, but to-day has arisen between Messrs. Lovg Brothers & Derry and legitimate interest in mining. The Leadville it sold down to 47c. Horn-Silver has developed more and the company began, the superintendent has re- shares hold their own very well. There has, where activity and some strength, the price having ad- ported a very favorable strike. Previously the mines stocks have not been supported, been considerable vanced from $14@$1644. Iron Silver has had a had only a prospective value. weakness. moderate business at steady to advancing prices. The Tuscarora stocks still continue to be neglected, | UNLISTED QUOTATIONS. Leadville, under a moderate business, has been in- and hardly worthy of notice, the stocks all being | Mr. L. V. Deforeest, No. '70, Broadway under date clined to strength. Little Chief has been steady. quoted in the cents. of July 22d,3 P.M., reports the current quotations of , Robinson Consolidated has ‘been active and steady. Outside of the old bonanzas, the Comstock shares | unlisted stocks as follows: Stormont ran up to $3, but fell off to $2.60 again. It have been quiet aud have ranged within narrow is almost neglected. Bid. Offer’d | Bid. Offer’ . changes of quotations. California has been quite | Glass-Pendery. 50 2.35 |! Santa Cruz.. S $0.5) active but weak at $1.05@95c., assessment paid, and | Barcelona has been active and strong. Bear Creek, Highland ier .... $2.00] Telegraph Con. $0 62 52 ‘os | under a liberal business, has been a little weak. Brad- Hite. . ws 00 44 | Washington. .50 .60 75@50c., assessment unpaid, the sales aggregating | Sacramento . 2) 9455 shares. Consolidated Virginia has also been weak, | shaw, under moderate sales, declined from $1.40@ declining from $2.10@$1.75, with sales of 20,440 $1.15. Bull-Domingo records a business of 2550 DIVIDENDS. shares.. Sutro Tunnel has been quiet but weak, selling shares and a decline from $2.65@$1.55. Bye and Bye The last dividend of the Eureka Consolidated Mining from $11¢ down to $144. has been active and weak. Central Arizona has not Company was made payable on the 27th July, instead The Bodie stocks have been ‘quiet and, as a rule, been as active as it was, but still it records a very of the 20th, the usual date, in order to-allow-time for weak. Standard, under a moderate business, declined liberal business at $23¢@$2. Silver Cliff was quiet the transfer-sheets to reach the San Francisco office from $2314, dividend of 75c. on, to $21; dividend off. and weak. from the new transfer agency established in this city, Bodie had liberal sales, and was a shade weak. The The events of the week have been the State Line the transfers closing on the 19th in New York. only other stock attracting attention was North |and associate deals. Oriental and Miller advanced The Tombstone Mill and Mining Company has de- Standard, which records a business of 23,400 shares | from 63c.@$1.10, with sales of 84,450 shares. The clared its regular monthly dividend (No. 17) of 10c. at 14@2I1c. | sales of the State Lines were of Nos. 1 and 4and Nos. per share, equal to $50,000, payable August 15th. Amie has hada moderate amount of attention a 2 and 3; of the former, the aggregate was 83,000 shares Transfer-books will be closed from the 10th to the firm prices. Caribou sold from $2.75 down to $2.25 at 89c.@$1.5V0, and of the latter 64,700 at $3.70@ | 15th, inclusive. on 120 shares. Chrysolite has been only moderately | $5.50. Dividend No. 70 (for the month of July) has been active and by no meaus strong, there being a feeling John B. Alley, of Boston, has been elected President, declared by the Ontario Silver Mining Company, that the present evidences of prosperity can not last. and Lee R. Shryock Vice-President, of the State Line making a total the shareholders have received of Climax is receiving some attention and is higher. Mining Companies, Nos. 2 and 3. $3,650,000, The present monthly dividend amounts Copper Knob has been very active within the range The Leadville Circular Company has examined the to $75,000. Wells, Fargo & Co. will pay the July Ave. 6, 1881.] THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 95 __aoeaesseseso —$—$_—_—_—_—————————____ _ £ .&£°£ 0 OO Boston. NON-DIVIDEND PAYING MINES. Quotations and Sales of Mining Stocks for see 2 Deep a aera oc ee oe eg On a week ending Aug. 8d. ASSESSMENTS. HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES i ne AT WHICH SALES WERE NUMBER _—_——___ —_~— -——- — — |SALEs, | NAME AND LOCATION OF OF (Pa r. _ we | & a CoMPARY. SHARES. | | Total , Date-and| July30. Aug.1. | Aug. 4 Aug. 3. Aug. 4. Aug. 5. \levied to! amount | | & |}a@ |.8 3 3 | date. | of last. H. wD. Ath ‘ co 4 3 » | @ NaMmE oF Com-| | & | oF | 33 4 | é Albion, 8. L...... PANY. ! g $ 2 | of te 4 Alta-Montana, G Am. Flag,8...... = a ao | 2o = a Baid Mountain, G. wae | 8 |S | es) 8 | 5 Barcelona, G...... +.++++ N |6 |@ | 38 | 5 a Battle Creek. .. Bear Creek ...... aenanen 162,750 Dec. 81/15 | | | Rest & Belcher. G.8...... 1, 043, 390 Jly. 81/5 , Big ciemere, | eae . Black Jack, eocccsee Allouez...... | 27 8.00 2 8.00 | 400 Bonanza Chief... « cose Ariz. Queen -| 4 is 63 300 Bondholder ...... +++ Bon. Delv’mt| 53g |6.00 | 5 54 | 6,730 Boston Con, G...... ++ Bruns. Ant..|13 [13 | 1246 | 1246 150 Boulder Con, 8...... Cal. & Hec. c.| 220 220 215 219 291 Bradshaw, §...... 0--se08 1,000 | Catalpa...... | i } 1% 1 19-16| 5,900 86 Buckeye...... ccccccscee 1.60, 1.65 1.55} 2,550} CedarSpring) .5 .50 .55 | 17,500 Bull-Domingo, 8 L..... as cereses Copperopol's) 1.95 |1.96 | 1.94 | 1.96 5,150 Bullion, G. 8...... coe 4'75.000|May 81 50). aoe Crescent . -9334; 1.:0 .9334; 1.00 4,000 Bulwer 4G. 30,000 ane 7% 50, 27 Douglass.....| 3.00 | 3.00 24% | 2% 1,200 Bye and Bye.. Duncan <1 1.00 | 1.00 oeundeal wae 175 Geleveras, © Dunkin...... | 65 -56 61 8,200 Cal., B. H., Qa Empire.. 44 .38 44 | 5,200 Carbonate Finn, 8 Harshaw 6.00 51g |: 6.00 850 Catskill, s ...... Indian 3% as 150 Central ‘arizona, Mass. & ‘BD | _.08 50 58 | 13,350 Cherokee, G.... weasel Mendocino..| 5.25 |5.50 | 6.25 | 5.25 | 1,800 Cheyenne Cons, G ony Milton.. * 1.562 (1.17 | 1.82 | 97,475 Colorado Central, s.. Napa.... ¥, 7.00 7% =| .3,750 Columbia Con., G.S...... Osceola, c 39.60 | 0 Cons. Imperial, G. S...... 1,875,009] Apr. Sil 10. Pewabic, 1 11% | 12% 675 Con, Pacific, G.....cccceee 114,000|Jly 81 \40 Pine -| 3. 256 500 Con. Pay Rock, Ss...... uincy, 3 33 33 | 461 Crescent, 8 L...... ss0- ° 1dGC...... 0 i auc- eee} GCG 50 Crowell, & banee Sanne eu, oop San Pedro.. | 34% 3% | «1,150 Dahlonega, G.. econ Silver Hill. 4 - | .40 4 | 1, "150 Dardanelles, @ eat snacen Silver Islet,s 40 | 40 es 37% | "401 peneersens. Biscevecs ee Simpson Gid| .05 | -06 05 | 1,900 DUFARZO, G.....00000.0000 oe South Hite..| .40 | 50 1,300 Empire, 8...... seeeees Sycamore. ...| 1.1236 1 ‘iy i. Bue a 3134) 2,200 Enterprise...... Tremont silv, -65 4 .50 .50 450 Exch i. a 580,000 Twin Lead..| .70 | ‘| 1a | 185 |10,000 Globe oat War Eagle...| 1.40 }1.60 1.85 | 1.35 | 800 Glynn Da e Gon G "75,000 Jan. ai 8 3: Gold _ Placer, G. Goodshaw, G... | io | Granville, G.. Harshaw, 8s. cxale Head Center, eS ' c. Copper. s. Silver. Hortense, 8 ...... cce0-- DEB. 0005 GBs ccccccces as 110,000} 1001.... Kossuth, 7 ivapaksa oeeane eo 100 TMOTORES, G. .0cccvccserces : 100 10 Philadelphia. Legal Tender, SL.. Leviathan, s. sees wees Lucerne, 8...... 2 sscccese eee eres Quotations and Sales of Mining Stocks for Msinchite coeens 131. week ending Aug. 3d. ariposa preferred, G . 50,000] 100] 1,425,000|Dec. 80 common, G.. sooo 100] 12425;000|Dec. 80} SN I Mivcscnsescces dividend on the 15th inst. asin dite on the | The Napa Consolidated Quiduibver Mining Co., of was 5 being negidiy _ in liane and that all parts of 10th. California, has paid two dividends during the first half the mine were looking and yielding well. As intimated, The Alice Gold Mining Company, of Montana, has of the present year, of $10,000 each. these facts, coupled with the regular dividends dis- declared dividend No. 6, of $40,000, payable August The Lake Superior Iron Co., whose headquarters are bursed by this company, and also that the mines of 15th to stockholders of record August 10th. located in Boston, announces a dividend of $5 per the district are producing very largely, lead us to The Robinson Consolidated Mining Company has share on its 20,000 shares, payable on demand. the impression that the public have not been correctly declared dividend No. 5, of $50,000, payable August REVIEW OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MARKET. informed as to the actual condition of the mine, or 15th to stockholders of record August 9th. The The quotations of the San Francisco Mining Share that possibly another San Francisco “‘deal” is con- financial statement of the company shows a surplus Market, while somewhat irregular, are generally fairly templated, similar to that manipulated some years August 1st, after deducing this dividend, of $106,- maintained. The principal feature of the week is the ago. 363.72. remarkable decline in Eureka Consolidated, the stock A dispatch to the N. Y. Tribune, dated San Fran- The New York Hill Mining Company has declared closing yesterday at $19}/, as against $25 for the day cisco, August 3d, says: a dividend of 20 cents per share. previous, and $3034 as quoted in our last, a fall Senator Fair, who has just returned from the Comstock, The Central Copper Mining Company, of Kewee- of one third in the market value of the mine for the — encouragingly of prospects in the north-end mines. e says it isnot to the interest of the Bonanza firm, as naw County, Mich., has declared its first dividend of week. We have no information from this mine upon many assert, to keep ore-bodies covered up, and they will three dollars a share, a total of $60,000 on the capital which to base this decline; indeed, such information forward as rapidly as possible the work of any discoveries made. Notwithstanding the bright future. painted, the stock, payable August Ist. as we have obtained and published in our Mining Comstocks continue depressed, and speculators have no The Quincy Copper Mining Co., of Michigan, an- News recently, would warrant a contrary course in heart to enter the market. nounces a dividend of $3 per share, payable on the the movements of this stock; our latest advices Assessments are now the order of the day, and one 22d inst. being that the new shaft had attained a depth of on Consolidated Virginia of $250,000, it is said, is The Calumet & Hecla announces its usual quarterly over 900 feet ; that the new shaft-house was pro- daily expected. Late assessments are: Albion, 40 dividend of $500,000, payable on the 15th inst. gressing favorably-; that. newandheavy machinery cents per share; Grand Prize, 25;-Belmont,- 15; Star, 96 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. [Aue. 6, 1881,