The EngSneeting and Mining Jotifnal
VOL. LXXXI. NEW YORK, APRIL 7, 1906. NO. 14.
Published Weekly at it as a typical case of the significance of The elevator has 30xi2-in. bucket* 505 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK leaching the approximate 100 per cent, of and travels not more than 30-ft. per London Office: Bucklersbury, London E. C., England. conventional technique. min. This enables all the water to Suhncription, payable in atleanee, $5.00 a year of 52 Thus the common coal analysis gpves drain out and back into the settling tank. numbers, ineluding postage in the United States, Canada, over 100 per cent., the iron (existing in All of the disturbance occurs in the fourth Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Haicaii or the Philippines, the coal as FeS2) being converted into partition of the tank; practically no coal To Foreign Countries, including postage, $8.00 or its works back to the first compartment equivalent, 33 shillings; 33 marks; or 40 francs. Fe20» in the ash, and weighed as such, thus figuring oxygen into the coal which where the pump is connected to raise the Notice to discontinue should he icritten to the Neio York office in every instance. does not exist there. In a careful coal an¬ clear water to the fresh-water tank above. Advertising copy should reach Neie York office by Thursday, alysis correction is always made for this. a week before date of issue. The case offered by Professor Richards A similar arrangement can be made to Copies are on sale at the news-stands of the following is an excellent illustration of discovery separate water from waste rock, or in¬ hotels Waldorf-Astoria, New York; Brown Palace, Denver; coming from seeming inconsistency; but stead of a 30-ft. settling tank, one can be- Palace Hotel, San Francisco, and the lending hotels in the principal cities. it is only the natural experience of chemi¬ built 60 ft. in length with two screws, eachi Copyright, 1906, by cal analysis. revolving toward its end. The sludge is- Thb Enoineebino and Mining Journal. dropped into one end, and the waste rock Entered at New York Post Office as mail matter of into the other, the clear water being- the second class. Recovery of Water from Coal pumped from the middle partition of the Washing. tank. During 1905 The Engineehinq & Mining The advantages of these systems are: Journal printed and circulated 454,250 BY F. W. PARSONS.* copies, an average of 8735 per issue. Of this I. Dryer coal in the waste-coal bin, and issue 12,000 copies are printed. None sent consequently, better service at the ovens. regularly free. No back numbers beyond It has been the custom for some years Ihis is due to the use of larger meshes current year. past to run washed coal through a in the revolvng screen, for the pump has cylindrical screen having fine meshes, and not to handle all that goes through. 2. The New Oxide of Aluminum. then pump the water and slack coal, or There is a saving of about 50 per cent, in BY CHAS. S. PALMER. sludge as it is called, up into a tank at power, for neither the coal nor the water the top of the washery, just over the has to be raised so high. 3. Practically The statement in the last paragraph on washed coal bins. The sludge is there no water is lost. 4. A smaller pump can p. 505 of the Journal (March 17, 1906) allowed to settle, the water is run off be used. relative to an analysis of supposed alu¬ into the fresh-water tank lower down, The cost of installation is hardly any mina as giving “over 100 per cent.” seems while the slack coal is dropped from the mqre than that of the older method. The to have attracted some attention, and sludge tank into the bins. This requires settling tank can be placed on top or set many hasty readers, without waiting to an expenditure of much power and can in the ground. It is made of 3xi2-in. read the paragraph through, seem to have be avoided by separating the water from lumber; part of it is lined with iron; in jumped to the conclusion that the ed¬ the waste rock and slack coal on the the remainder the boards are so beveled itors must have allowed a statement of ground floor. where they join that a wedge and caulk¬ the impossible to appear. The washed coal, after leaving the jigs ing can be driven in to make it water¬ As a matter of fact, not only is this and going through a disintegrator, is run tight. particular statement true (the figures ob¬ into a long revolving cylindrical screen, tained were really somewhat over 102 per with perforations. The fine coal and water Such a tank will contain about 6000 ft. cent.), but it was this seeming paradox goes through the screen, and instead of of lumber, and the iron, calking, and all, which guided the chemist in his success¬ being pumped to the sludge bins before will cost about $165. The 12-in. screw on ful search for the new oxide. The gain mentioned, goes into the fourth partition a 3-in. pipe and the conveyor for 7S-ft. in weight from the proportions implied in of a settling tank. center, with all driving machinery ex¬ AUO,, to those in AUOs (in which form This tank is 30 ft. long, 9 ft. wide and cepting the motor, will cost about $1050. aluminum is invariably determined and 6 ft. deep; the bin is so hoppered that A centrifugal pump will cost about $90. weighed), involves the principle, which is everything will run into a revolving 12-in. This equipment will handle the waste, by no means new in the history of chem¬ screw in the bottom. This screw is 29 ft. water, and sludge from 400 to 500 tons of istry. long, and the 3-in. shaft on which it re¬ coal in 8 hours. Each ton of coal requires The classic illustration in this line is volves passes through a water-tight stuf¬ a ton of water. probably the conservative analysis by fing box and is operated by a bevel-gear Plattner of the mineral pollux, in the arrangement. J. K. H. Inglis, in an exhaustive paper forties. Plattner’s figures showed a total The settling tank has three partitions, read before the Society of Chemical In¬ of about 92 per cent. He obtained these which fit down within one inch of the dustry, Feb. s, 1906, on the loss of niter results, but no explanation was offered of screw circumference and have several in the chamber process of sulphuric-acid the anomaly, till in the sixties, when spec¬ J/2-in. holes drilled about two feet from manufacture, summarized his results as trum analysis discovered the new alkali the top. There are four compartments follows: (i) Only very small quantities metal caesium. Pollux contains over 30 in the tank. The sludge is dropped in the of nitrogen peroxide and trioxide are re¬ per cent, of caesium, which has an atomic last compartment, the screw revolves and duced to nitrous oxide in the sulphuric weight of 132.9; but Plattner, knowing carries all settlement to its end and there acid chambers. (2) About 50 per cent, nothing of caesium, had faithfully figured drops it into a boot where an inclined of the total loss of niter takes place ow¬ it as sodium (atomic weight, 23), with the bucket elevator carries it to the washed- ing to incomplete absorption of the nitro¬ deficit as noted. The sturdy fidelity of coal bin above. Plattner to his actual results not only vin¬ gen trioxide and peroxide in the Gay- ♦Chief Engineer, Victor Fuel Company, Lussac tower. dicated his conscientious work, but marks Denver, Colo. 650 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
Great Lakes Coal Company. narrow valley, along which runs the Lower Kittanning. In the mines on this Western Allegheny Railroad. Of thesC seam, wide rooms and chain machines are BY JOHN LEGGETT PULTZ.* five mines, the Kaylor, Snow Hill and practical. Pine Run openings are on the Lower At the Kaylor mine the coal lies about The Great Lakes Coal Company’s Kittanning, while the Reese and Barnhart 40 ft. below the stream; a rock slope has mines are located at Kaylor, in the north¬ are on the Upper Freeport seam. All therefore been driven on a 15 per cent, east portion of Armstrong county, Penn¬ the mines are drift except Kaylor, which gradient to strike the coal at a distance sylvania, about 40 miles northeast of is opened by a slope. At the Reese mine, of 600 ft. The mouth of the slope is in Pittsburg. The company owns a standard owing to the high elevation of the coal the hillside at an elevation above the gage railroad 18 miles in length, known above the river, it has been necessary to valley floor sufficient for the necessary as the Western Allegheny, connecting at construct a gravity plane equipped with tipple hight. A few hundred yards down stream from this point the Lower Kittanning rises above water, so that the Snow Hill and Pine Run mines are opened by drifts. The last named mine is at present in the construction stage. The Snow Hill and Pine Run mines are tri¬ butary to one tipple. The approach from each pit mouth is by trestle across the valley. As the general method of development and working the coal is similar in all the mines, a brief description of the mode of attacking the coal at the Snow Hill will be sufficient. The coal has been opened by a main-drift entry one-fourth on the face, from which run two face entries 1300 ft. apart and connected by parallel butt headings every 420 ft. The face headings are driven 5x10 ft. The butt headings are usually of the same dimensions, but they are first driven 18 ft. wide, posts set every 10 ft. Queen Junction with the Pittsburg, Bes¬ barneys which deliver the coal to the and 8 ft. from the rib, and the rock is semer & Lake Erie Railroad, which is valley below. The position of the Barn¬ gobbed to one side. There are break¬ essentially an ore road. The branch is hart mine has made it possible to run a throughs every 125 ft. unless the butt head¬ well constructed and admirably equipped spur of the Western Allegheny up a small ings are driven from opposite directions to take care of a large tonnage. The pro¬ tributary giving the distance required by to meet. Face-entry pillars are 22 ft. longation of this road to New Castle, at the elevation of the tipple with respect to and butt-heading pillars 20 ft. A present under construction, is progressing a favorable grade. pillar 100 ft. in width is left between with such rapidity as to w'arrant the as¬ Comparing the Upper Freeport and the face entry and the first room off the sertion that the line of 46 miles from Kaylor to New Castle will be in operation by early spring. Practically the entire production of the mines is shipped at present over the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie and connecting lines to points on the Great Lakes. Upon completion of the New Castle extension of the Western Alle¬ gheny, the Great Lakes Coal Company will be a strong competitor in the Ma¬ honing Valley. By a contract with the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Rail¬ road, extending over a term of years, the coal company is given favorable freight rates and is assured of an abundant car supply. The company owns 25,000 acres, the greater portion of w'hich is underlaid with coal. There are three workable seams on the property, viz.: the Lower Kittanning, the Upper Kittanning and the Upper Freeport. The intervals between Lower Kittanning seams with respect to butt headings; this causes the roof to these seams range from 90 to 125 ft., the mining, the former seam has a more break should there be any subsidence, and Upper Kittanning being about midway be¬ treacherous roof, and it has therefore so insures protection against creeps in the tween the upper and lower seams. The been found best to turn the rooms narrow, main haulage roads. Upper Freeport and the Lower Kittanning and Harrison machines are used in this Rooms are turned in both directions seams are worked on a large scale. coal. The bottom is taken up to give the with 41-ft. centers where the rib is drawn. The operation consists of five mines lo¬ required hight in the entries, as the roof If the roof is strong, as is generally the cated for about a mile on both sides of a holds better when undisturbed. These case with the heavy sandstone cover over *MiniDg Engineer, 25 Broad St., New York. conditions are not characteristic of the this seam, double rooms are driven with 1
April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 651 necks 8 ft. wide by 21 ft. in length, at the capacity of the pit wagons being 2500 150-kw. generators, one Norwalk compres¬ which point the full width of the room, lb. At Kaylor a Westinghouse-Baldwin sor and one boiler-feed pump of the Still- from 40 to so ft., is taken. The room pil¬ gathering locomotive is in service. Forty- well-Smith-Vaile type. The Barnhart lars are 24 ft. As the room advances, pound rail is laid in the main headings. power station has one 220-h.p. Taylor en¬ three or four rows of posts are set in the Both electric and air pumps are in gine, one Morgan-Gardner 150-kw. genera¬ the middle and the dirt is gobbed between service under ground. The former type tor, one Norwalk compressor, one Inger- them. Twelve feet of the ribs on both is represented by Stillwell & Bierce tri¬ soll compressor and two iSO-h.p. boilers. sides is brought back by pick. plex horizontal plungers with Q-h.p. The Great Lakes Coal Company is one A modification of this method consists motors and vertical plunger pumps of the of the largest coal producers in the bi¬ in running the track along the middle of same make operated by 754-h.p. motors. tuminous fields of Pennsylvania working the Kittanning and Freeport seams. Its mints are capable of producing over 3000 tons per day, but the output will be raised to 4000 tons when the fifth mine is further advanced in development. The large acreage held by the company will make it possible to increase the output as desired, by opening up new mines.
Hudson Bay Minerals.
William Beech has returned to Winni¬ peg after an extended prospecting trip on the shores of Hudson Bay and reports important discoveries of minerals. With¬ in a few miles of Fort Churchill there are valuable plumbago deposits. Mica abounds in some of the rocky districts, where both the white and brown varieties are found. Six miles from Fort Churchill Mr. Beech found iron ore on the shores of the bay, samples of which he procured for analysis. the rooms and to post and gob on both Rotary pumps with 6-in. suction and 5- He is the first man to stake out a mining sides for half the length of the room, in. discharge, direct connected to lo-h.p. claim on Hudson Bay and register it and then to take the ribs for the remain¬ motors are also in use. The vertical type with the Dominion Government, having ing distance. of plunger pump seems best adapted to located deposits of mica, iron and plum¬ The second method gives 10 per cent, conditions met with in low coal. It is bago. The Hudson Bay factor showed more machine coal in the butts, while the lighter, takes up less room, can be more him samples of gold which had been present way insures the recovery of the easily moved and costs less than the hori¬ brought in from time to time by Eskimos entire pillars against only half in the first mentioned plan. The roof must not be allowed to settle, as there is only a clear¬ ance of 3 in. above the armature pin on the chain machines. In the first method the roof is held by coal stumps on either side track, while in the second method the road is 20 ft. from the stumps and is therefore not as well supported. The rout is a massive sandstone and is apt to cause trouble unless carefully timbered. There are seven Morgan-Gardner chain machines in use in this mine; four of these are “Low D’S” with self-propelling trucks, and three are “Standard D’S.” Each machine is capable of cutting 70 tons to the shift of 10 hours. They are all 5-ft. machines and give results as good as the larger style capable of under¬ cutting six feet. The reason for this is that it is practically impossible to shoot down w'ith one firing a block of this coal .1 . ■! -ru undercut for a distance greater than from zontal pump. The electric pumps in use and explorers, and he learned that copper four to five feet. in these mines have given efficient service abounds in the vicinity of Chesterfield Ventilation is accomplished at Kaylor over a period of two years. Inlet, where it is chopped out of the rock and Snow Hill, by 5xi5-ft. and 4x There are two power plants; one situ¬ in large chunks by the natives. Others ated at Kaylor and one at the Barnhart 1354-ft. Capell fans. At the former are prospecting in the same region. Mr. mine. The former is the larger and mine a 220-h.p. Russell engine drives the Beech returned part of the way on snow- fan; at Barnhart a direct-connected Pol¬ furnishes power to Snow Hill and Kay¬ shoes and the remainder of his journey lock fan is employed. Electric haulage is lor, while the Barnhart plant supplies used in all the mines. The voltage is Snow Hill besides itself. The Kaylor was by a Hudson Bay Company dog train. 250. The Baldwin 13-ton electric locomo¬ power station consists of four iso-h.p. He will return and prosecute further rerr tives are capable of hauling 30-car trips, boilers, two 220-h.p. Russell engines, two searches when navigation opens. 652 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
The Mickley Conveyor.* The driving-wheel, D, is an ordinary pul¬ rows of chocks made of soft wood, 20 in. ley-wheel, 18 in. in diameter, with a long, 5 in. wide and 2^-^ in. thick, set on a
BY J. W. BATEY. groove, lYi in. wide. The spindle which few inches of dirt. Thc.se chocks arc set, carries the driving-wheel is fixed to the alternately, 8 ft. apart, with props be¬ At the Prudlioc colliery of the Mickley frame or standard of an ordinary stone¬ tween them. When the rails are moved Coal Company, Ltd., the output is chielly boring machine, and is set, between the forward, as the face advances, anothVr derived from the Hrockwell Seam, which conveyor-rails, on the far side of the tub¬ row of chocks is put in, and the back row varies from ly to about in. in thick¬ way. A handle, about 12 in. long, is fixed is drawn out. Where it is neccs.sary, ness. Immediately above the coal is a to one of the spokes of the driving-wheel, erowntrees are put across the conveyor¬ bed of shale, about 12 in. thick, containing and is worked by a strong lad. I he re¬ way. The face of each conveyor advances a considerable number of shells; next oc¬ turn-wheel, /:, 10 in. in diameter, is fixed about 35-j ft. per day. and the way is curs a bed of line blue metal, from 5 to 6 to a drill-.standard, and is set at the' top- shifted forward on alternate nights. feet thick; and this is overlain by a bed end of the face in the same way as the I hree men do all the work in connec¬ of post, of considerable thickness. The driving-wheel (big. i and 2). tion with the shifting forward of the two thill is a coarse lire-clay, containing iron- The .Mickley conveyor has been used in conveyors: they shift the way, fix the nodules. a district which had been worked on the wheelstands, put on the rope, set new '''here being no power at bank to work longwall system, with a face 300 ft. long, chocks and draw all back chocks and coal-cutters or mechanically driven con¬ with 10 gateways each 30 ft. wide, and 10 jirops in a shift of 8 hours, and these men veyors, a simple form of conveyor' has workmen per shift (Fig. 3 and 4). are kept regularly employed in attending been introduced, to carry the coals along Height was made in the main road to two conveyors. the face, i his conveyor and its accesso¬ or winning gateway, ./, by taking up a Since these conveyors were started, the ries arc not costly; it is entirely worked bottom-canch, 4 ft. thick and 5 ft. wide, width of the face has been increased from by manual labor; and. since its introduc¬ and in the other gateways the bottom- 300 to 3t)0 ft., making 156 ft. of face for tion, the cost of working the coal has been canch was taken up 2Y2 ft. thick and 5 ft. each conveyor and 24 ft. for each winning considerably reduced. wide. Cross-headings, B and C, were place; and 12 men are now working, in 'I'he conveyor, .1, is a long shallow tub driven at intervals of about 150 ft.; and a place of 10 men per shift. (Fig. I and 2). The box, made of putting-station or Hat, I), was made, be¬ riie best output from 360 ft. of face, thin sheet iron, is 7 ft. long at the top tween alternate headings, in the winning- with one boy employed at No. i,conveyor tapering down to 6'^ ft. long at the bot¬ place. rite coals were brought from the and two Iniys at No. 2 conveyor, has been tom, and 2 ft. 8 in. wide; the depth at the face to the flat by hand-putters, and from
The Quincy Mine Assay Office. are put in boxes that hold 12 cans each, Method of Combination—The samples and are shipped to the assay office, via are combined into what are termed “runs.” The Q. and T. L. railroad. The total A run usually consists of the samples BY C. W. MACDOUGALL.* number of samples taken each shift at received for one week, though the num¬ the mills is 232. ber of samples making up the run really This paper describes the methods in MINERAL SAMPLES. depends on the total number of working detail of determining the percentage of The mineral samples assayed are sam¬ days in the month. As it is desirable not copper in waste sands; the No. 2 min¬ ples from the hydraulic classifiers (known to have the final sample weigh over 200 eral from the hydraulic classitiers and the as No. 2 hydraulic), from the Wilfley grams, a run usually consists of the sam¬ Wilfley linisher tables; and the No. 3 finisher tables and the finisher jigs ples received for six days, 30 grams of the mineral or slime from the Quincy mills daily sample being taken. (known as No. 2 Wilfley) ; and from the at Mason, Mich; also the percentage Wilfley slime table (known as No. 3 min¬ Each day after the sample is dried it is of copper in the waste slag from the eral or slime copper). The samples are thoroughly mixed by rolling on a piece Quincy mineral smelter at the Quincy of white oil-cloth; 30 grams are weighed all taken in the same manner. When the smelting works at Ripley, Mich. out aiul placed in a large-mouth 6-oz. finished product is removed from the METHODS OF SAMPLING THE WASTE SANDS. bottle. The next day a sample of 30 machine, it is loaded directly into small Jig Samples—A galvanized iron trough grams from the same source is added to mineral cars, each grade being kept sepa¬ (about 3 in. wide, 2 in. deep, and a trifle the first sample in the bottle The pro¬ rate. W'hen the car is full it is sampled by longer than the discharge lip of the jig cess is continued until the run is com¬ boring out a small quantity of the min¬ launder) is placed under the discharge plete, care being taken to keep from mix¬ eral with a rounded spatula, similar to lip so that a sample representing an en¬ ing, the samples from different sources. a button tester. This process is repeated tire cross-section of the discharge for When the combination from that par¬ at several points in the car, in each case a certain length of time is taken. ticular run is complete, the sample is the borer being driven diagonally through WUHy Finisher Fables—A trough ground in a Weatherhead crusher, either the entire depth of mineral in the car. similar to the one described above but by hand or by mechanical power, until The several samples of that particular larger, is used to obtain the samples of it will all pass through a 60-mesh sieve. grade from that mill are mixed and put waste sand from the Wilfley tables. The The ground sample is then returned to in a sample can, the same as the waste trough is placed under the tailings por¬ the bottle and put one side for the chem¬ sands. The number of samples received tion of the table, and a complete cross- ical treatment. All the machine samples at the Assay Office each day is: Waste section of the stream of waste material are treated in the same manner. sands, 58; concentrates, 6; total 64. is taken from each set of the various Launder Samples.—It is desirable in machines four times each shift. TREATMENT AT THE ASSAY OFFICE. this case to make very short runs so that Combining the Samples—The samples any excessive loss of copper in the tail¬ The samples received from the rough¬ from one set of machines (say the rough¬ ing jigs, the finisher jigs and the tables ings may be noted at once and stopped. ing jig for each separate head are com¬ For this reason a run usually consists of are known as “Machine Samples,” and bined into one large sample and thorough¬ the combination of two days’ samples. are treated as follows: Each sample is ly mixed; a portion, weighing about three .After drying the sample, it is thorough¬ dumped from the small can, in which it is lb. is placed in a galvanized iron can, 3 received, upon a sheet of glass (16 in. x ly mixed in the same manner as the in. in diameter and in. deep. All the 19 in X H in.) and thoroughly mixed machine sample, and 100 grams are re¬ samples for the machines are treated in tained. This is placed in a bottle, and a with an iron spatula; it is then collected the same manner. 100 gram sample for the next day from into a square and quartered. Two op¬ Samples from the JVaste Sand Laun¬ that particular source is also placed in the posite quarters are returned to the can, ders—A pipe is suspended over the laun¬ bottle. The whole 200-gram sample is while the remaining quarters are mixed der in such a way that the free end may then ground in the same way as the again. This process is continued three be lowered to the bottom of the launder machine samples, and put to one side for times, or until about 50 grams of the and also may be swung freely from side the chcmic.al treatment. Table 3 shows original sample remains on the glass. to side. the dates of the samples combined during The "discard” has been returned to the When the sample is to be taken, a June 1905. can each time. Whe’.i this process is bucket is suspended under the fixed end Chemical Treatment.—The chemical complete the can and contents are set to of the pipe. The free end of the pipe is treatment of all the waste sands, both then lowered, and swung from side to one side for further use in case of need. from the machines and launders, is the side so as to pass over all portions of The retained sample is then scraped on¬ same, and as follows: The ground sam¬ the stream of sand and water flowing to a “pie tin” (7-in. diameter and i-in. ple is dumped on a sheet of oil cloth through the launders. deep) and placed in a “dryer” to be about a foot square, and thoroughly mix¬ This stream of sand and water has thoroughly dried. The dryer consists ed by rolling. It is then spread in a thin momentum enough to carry a stream of of a sheet-iron box with hinged front, layer over the cloth. From this layer, sand and water up through the pipe and and contains four lengths of l-in. pipe, into the bucket. When the bucket is full 3 ft. long through which live steam at small quantities are taken at numerous it is put one side until all of the fine sand about 20 lbs. pressure is continually pass¬ points until a sample weighing 5 grams and practically all of the mud have set¬ ing. When the sample is thoroughly dry has been obtained. This 5-gram sam¬ tled ; the water is then decanted off. When (which takes about one and one half ple is placed in a No. 2 beaker (cap¬ all the samples have been taken from that hours) it is allow’ed to cool; it is then acity about 200 c.c) and slightly mois¬ launder, they are mixed in the same man¬ weighed and placed in a sample bottle, tened with water ;5 c.c. of cone, nitric ner as the samples from the machines, a certain weight being taken each time acid is then added. After the action and are placed in a can similar to the for reasons to be stated later. ceases the bulk of the solution is increas¬ cans used for the machine samples Launder Samples.—The samples re¬ ed to about 60 c.c. with water. It is then Finally when all the samples from the ceived from the main launders and separ¬ boiled on a sand bath over a Dangler machines and launders have been taken, ate head launders are sampled and dried gasolene lamp until all the nitric oxide combined and placed in cans, the cans in the same manner as the machine sam¬ (“red fume”) has been expelled. The so¬ ples; but in this case about 125 grams of lution is then cooled by placing the ^Assist, milling engineer, Quincy mine, Han¬ beaker in a wooden trough through cock, Mloh. the original sample received, is retained. Apiil 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 655 which water is running. When the so¬ thrown into series with the main leads. place in the hardening chamber. The sec¬ lution is cold, 5 c.c. of cone, sulphuric In case only 12 cells are required, con¬ ond assumes that the hollow spaces be¬ acid is added, and the solution diluted nect A to E, B to F, and bridge G to H, tween the individual grains of sand are to about 200 C.C. It is then placed on the by means of the switches. When only filled with lime, which then effects the ce¬ electrolytic apparatus and electrolyzed. six cells are required, connect C to G, mentation. From his own experiments Seldis considers the following to be the The cone on which the copper is de¬ and D to H, bridging E to F. explanation of the process: At the usual posited is a sheet of platinum, 3in. long When the crowfoot cell is not in use, it pressure and temperature prevailing in the and 2 in. wide, suspended from a plati¬ loses strength and requires two to three num wire of No. 14 gage. The weight hardening chamber, a portion of the silicic hours to regain the normal maximum of the entire cone is about 15 grams. The acid goes over to the gelatinous or col¬ efficiency, thus making it necessary to anode is a piece of platinum wire. No. 17 loidal condition. 1 he hydrated lime pres¬ leave the cones in the solutions that much gage, bent in the form of a spiral; it ent in the object reacts with this silicic longer and causing considerable loss of weighs about 6 grams. The cones and acid, with a simultaneous union with wa¬ time. Therefore, it has been found ad¬ spirals are connected in series, with ‘crow¬ ter, and forms a calcium hydrosilicate, visable to short-circuit the cells after foot” cells also connected in series. The CaH2Si042H20, which causes the hard¬ the cones have been removed. To ac¬ cones and spirals are connected in par¬ ness of the brick. complish this short circuiting, connect allel with each other. This theory explains why bricks cannot F. to F, and G to H, by means of the After the copper has been deposited be made with either a very small or a switches. electrolytically, the cone is removed from very large addition of lime, and why the the solution, washed, dried and weighed. (To be Continued). amount of lime required is dependent upon the quantity of soluble silicic acid contained in the sand, and further why the best bricks are obtained when the cal¬ cium hydroxide and the free silicic acid are in molecular proportions. The fact that bricks cannot be made from pure quartz-sand and lime is because the silica in such a form will, not combine with the lime at the oven temperature. Feldspar sand is used most for the manufacture; it contains 5 to 7 per cent, of soluble silicic acid, and this, with a lime averaging 85 per cent, of calcium oxide, corresponds to 4 to 5 cwt. of lime to 2j4 cu.m, of sand, a ratio used in practice. The theory also shows that if a hard water containing much lime is used, this will not become chemically combined in the hardening process. It also explains FIG. I. WIRING OF ELECTROLYTIC APPARATUS. why, when the heating process already re¬ ferred to is employed, it is necessary to After subtracting the weight of the cone, Lime-Sand Brick.*^ pass the pressed objects at once to the from the weight of the cone with the cop¬ hardening chamber, to avoid interruption per coating, the percentage of copper is According to R. Seldis (Zeit. f. angew. of the chemical reaction, which begins in calculated as follows: Cliem., 1906, XIX, 181-183, and Journal, the heating process. Variations in the Weight of sample taken (5 grams): Society of Chemical Industry, Feb. 28, steam pressure of the hardening chamber ioo=weight of copper obtained: per cent 1906) for the preparation and mixing of should be avoided, and for this purpose a copper, or (weight of copper obtained) x the materials three methods are used— registering pressure gage is recommended. 20=per cent, copper in sample. 'Ihe electrolysis of the solution is the quicklime, the slaked lime, and the complete in 14 hours, and requires a heating process. In the first, the moisture The Kirby Oil Process. current of 0.25 amperes with an e. m. f. of the sand effects the slaking of the lime; of about I volt. At this office there are in the second, the lime is slaked to the dry E. B. Kirby has patented (U. S., sixteen cones and spirals, requiring eigh¬ hydrated condition, ground to a powder 809,959, Jan. 16, 1906) an oil flotation teen crowfoot cells. At times it is ne¬ and mixed with the proper amount of process, wherein the pulverized mineral is cessary to electrolyze less than 16 solu¬ sand; and in the third, weighed amounts mixed with a considerable quantity of tions. In this case, all of the 18 cells of ground quicklime and dry sand are water and with a substance immiscible would give entirely too great a current, mixed together for 22 to 25 minutes in a with, but lighter than, water, e. g., a solu¬ and the copper would be precipitated in closed vessel, to which steam and water tion of bitumen in kerosene, which, in a spongy form which can not be weighed. are admitted to slake the lime. After any presence of water, will adhere to some of To overcome this difficulty the cells have of these processes the materials are taken the mineral particles but not to others. been connected to the main lead wires in to the press, and from it the objects are The mass is violently agitated and then such a manner that either 6 or 12 cells removed to a wagon, which is pushed into allowed to settle, whereby the particles may be used when that number is all the hardening chamber and exposed to a that is required to accomplish the desired steam pressure of eight atmospheres for which have become coated with the bitu¬ results. eight or ten hours. men solution rise to the surface, this In the process of operation, as shown in Two hypotheses have been advanced to separation being assisted by gentle agita¬ Fig. I, the connections are as follows: explain the process of hardening in this tion and by blowing in a current of a When all sixteen solutions are being chamber. The one assumes that in the gas. The layer of floating matter is re¬ electrolyzed, connect A to E, F to G,'and production of the pressed w'are each grain moved, and washed, and the mineral par¬ D to H, by means of switches at these of sand must become coated with a thin ticles are separated by filtration and then points. In this way all the cells are skin of lime, and that a cementation takes heated to recover the light hydrocarbon. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOl'RNAL,
•Felling a Large Chimney.
BY DR. ALFRED GRADENWITZ. i t At the works of A. Koppel, Ltd., of Bochum, Germany, a large chimney had recently to be felled, as a junction track was to be reconstructed. The preparatory work consisted in withdrawing part of the masonry from the base and replacing it by wood struts on the eastern side be¬ tween the railway dam and the junction track, where the chimney was to drop. The masonry in the base was withdrawn stepwise and replaced by wood struts, while large amounts of readily combusti¬ ble matter, especially straw, were heaped up within the base. Fig. 2 shows how, the combustible mat¬ ter being lighted, the chimney is turning slowly eastward, breaking into three parts on its way down, as shown in Fig. 3. In
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FIG. 2. THE CHIMNEY FALLING.
Fig. 4 is shown the debris of the turned- over chimney. The work was performed without any disturbance or irregularity, and lasted somewhat less than two seconds from the instant the chimney began turning over. The chimney dropped accurately in the direction calculated.
.\laska may soon become an important copper producer. Copper is found in large low-grade deposits over a wide area. An important copper-bearing area is situated around the head waters of the Tanana, White and Copper rivers, which will shortly be opened up by railroads. At present a railroad is being built to con¬ nect Valdez and Dawson, It will cross the Copper river at a point about 100 miles above its tidewater terminus at Valdez. This copper region includes portions of the Chugatch, Wrangell and Alaskan mountain ranges, which all rise from the FIG. I THE CHIMNEY PREPARED FOR FELLING. valley of the Copper river. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL.
Electric Smelting Experiments at ment, and taken from various Canadian ysis of the pig iron produced showed that 7 Sault Ste. Marie. mines. The sulphur content was high, ex¬ sulphur could be passed into the slag, the cept in the Wilbur magnetite, which was iron containing only a few thousandths of Dr. Eugene Haanel, Dominion superin¬ low in sulphur. I per cent, of sulphur. The experiments tendent of mines, was entertained by the It was found that magnetite could be had demonstrated that the best of pig iron Canadian Club, of Toronto, March 12, and smelted as readily as hematite, and anal¬ could be produced from ores containing as high as i per cent, of sulphur. The blast furnaces would not usually handle an ore containing o.i per cent, of sulphur, and therefore required ores only obtain¬ able at a high figure. A pig iron equal in value and lower in sulphur content than that produced at the Algoma Steel Works from ore costing $4.50 per ton, could be made by the electric process from the sulphurous ores which could now be bought for $1.25. A reduction had been made in the cost of the electrodes per ton of pig-iron pro¬ duction which, in the French experiments, amounted to 77c. and in the Sault Ste. Marie demonstrations to 30c. The cost of electric energy produced from natural wa¬ ter powers, which abounded in the neigh¬ borhood of many iron-ore deposits, was estimated at from $4.50 to $6 per h.p. per year. The experiments made in smelting roasted and briquetted nickeliferous pyr- rhotite carrying 1.6 per cent, of sulphur, had proved so successful that the Lake Superior Corporation desired to ac¬ quire the plant from the Government for the commercial production of ferro-nickel pig. They had succeeded in turning out a ferro-nickel pig containing 4.50 per cent, of nickel and virtually free from sul¬ phur.
THE CHIMNEY FALLING. gave an address on electric smelting which contained some interesting details with regard to the experiments at Sault Ste. Marie not previously published. He stated that the furnace specially designed for the occasion by Dr. Heroult was of 250-h.p. capacity, having the upper half lined with fire-brick and the lower half with carbon. The latter received the electric current, which, by a transformer furnished by the Westinghouse company, was transformed from 2200 to 40 volts, the tension required. The electrodes, S ft. long and 16 in. square, were brought from Germany. The spe¬ cial points which the experiments were held to determine were: Can magnetite be successfully smelted? Can iron ore with considerable sulphur content be made into pig iron of market¬ able value? Can charcoal be substituted for coke, which must be imported? And, lastly, what is the amoui\t of elec¬ tric energy required per ton of pig iron produced ? Experiments on Canadian iron ores be¬ gan in earnest in the middle of February and lasted night and day until March 5, during which period 150 casts were made, yielding 55 tons of pig iron. All the iron used was magnetite, except in one experi- THE CHIMNEY FELLED. 658 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
Coal Mining in the Indian Territory. of pyrite and gypsum occur occasionally Mining Methods—The mines in this in the coal. field are opened both by slopes and BY W. R. CRANE.* The sulphur rock is extremely hard, shafts; slopes are, however, preferred and is often left either alone or with the when such a method of development is The productive coal beds of the Indian l>ony coal as a roof, making an excellent possible, and form the common method of Territory, so far developed, lie in the top. The bony coal is hard, dull in color, procedure where the properties include or northern and northern central portions is shiny on fracture and breaks like can- are adjacent to the outcrop; otherwise of the Territory, extending from South nel coal. The main stratum (3 ft. 6 in. to shafts are employed. Most of the mines McAlister on the'west, to Howe on the 5 ft. 6 in.) is an excellent quality of bitu¬ are, in reality, operated as slope mines, re¬ east, and terminating some 45 to 50 miles minous coal, being much harder than gardless whether the surface connections to the eastward in Arkansas. From South the bituminous coals to the north, as in are slopes or shafts. McAlister and vicinity, reachii'.g south¬ Kansas and Missouri. Analyses of both .4s a rule, near the outcrops the pitch ward almost to the Texas line, is an ex¬ the bony coal and that of the main of the coal stratum is slight, being often tension or spur of this field, the whole stratum are given herewith: as low as 5 deg.; while at some distance from the outcrop, as indicated above, it being a southern extension of the west¬ Bony. Main Stratum ern-interior region. The principal min¬ Per Cent. Per. Cent may reach 17 or 18 deg., averaging prob¬ Moisture. 3.86 2.16 ably 15 to 16 deg. When a property is ing centers in this extreme southern dis¬ Volatile aud cumbusU- trict of the Indian Territory are Coal- ble matter.. 36.80 42.10 opened by a slope, the slope is as nearly Fixed carboi.. 46.13 38.18 as possible in the direction of the pitch, gate, Lehigh and Midway. Sulphur. 2.20 3.60 Coal mining in the Indian Territory is Ash. . 13.01 14.07 levels or headings, being driven to either by no means an easy proposition; owing The bituminous shale bottom, com¬ side as the slope is extended. When to the more or less disturbed condition of monly called "black-jack,” is hard, brit¬ opened by a shaft, a gangway is driven ihe coal and associated strata, one must tle and shelly, and tends to mix with the in the coal from the foot of the shaft, and as nearly parallel with the strike of the coal stratum as is possible. From this gangway slopes are driven both up^ and down the pitch, from which in turn are run the room entries or headings. *It is then evident that the mines are oper¬ ated as slope mines; although the coal may, in some cases, be hoisted to the sur¬ face through vertical shafts. The shaft mines at Coalgate are about 600 ft. in depth. The methods employed are single- and double-entry room and pillar mining. The former is the older, and probably more widely employed than the latter, the so-called dip-and-rise working. In the single-entry system (that commonly em¬ ployed throughout the Territory), two entries, the room- and back-entry or air¬ way, are driven; from the former the rooms are run, either directly up the pitch or at some angle with it, while no DANGEROUS ROOM. FIG. I CLOSING A rooms are turned off from the back-en¬ contend with faults and folds, weak roof, coal when loading the former into the try, the main purpose of which is to serve considerable water and much gas. How¬ cars at the face; but owing to its extreme as a means of facilitating ventilation. In ever, with modern methods and equip¬ brittleness, its separation is readily ac¬ the double-entry system, rooms are turned’ ment, together with careful management, complished, as is noted later on. off from both entries, to the rise and to supervision and inspection, the produc¬ Rolls are of frequent occurrence, cut¬ the dip, in which case each serves the tion is as large or larger than that of any ting into, and even pinching out the coal same purpose, that is, as haulage-ways other district of equal area and similar altogether; they usually come in from and ventilation passages, the arrangement product; and further, the casualties result¬ below, rarely from above. Faults are oc¬ being identical with that known as dou¬ ing from fall of roof, explosions and casionally encountered near the outcrop, ble-entry, as employed in practically flat other accidents are remarkably few, con¬ and are therefore confined almost entirely seams. sidering the existing conditions; and the to the slope mines (those opened by In both single- and double-entry sys¬ southern field is, in most particulars, no slopes). Displacements of 6 to 18 ft. are tems, the rooms are 100 to 125 ft. long,. exception to prevailing conditions. not uncommon. The strike of the faults 20 to 22 ft. wide, with 34 to 35 ft. centers. The coal ranges from 3 ft. 6 in. to 5 ft. is roughly N.E and S.W., being practi¬ Owing to the necessity of protecting the 6 in. in thickness. It is, however, fairly cally parallel with the line of outcrop or entries and air-ways, the distance between uniform in thickness and quality. A sec¬ the strike of the coal (they often bifur¬ the sets of entries turned off to either tion of No. 5 shaft at Coalgate, is as fol¬ cate). Many of them are reverse faults, side of the slopes is greater than the lows : Shale, in lenticular masses, i ft. to the coal on that side of the fault opposite length of the rooms; the distance, center 3 ft.; sulphur rock, shale and pyrite, in. the outcrop being higher. to center, of two consecutive sets of en¬ to I ft. 6 in.; bony coal, 2 in. to 6 in.; sul¬ The dip of the strata is 5 to 17 deg., tile tries is 150 to 175 ft. Slopes are 8 to lo phur rock, shale and pyrite, in. to 4 in.; direction being rather irregular, as is the ft. wide, while the entries are usu¬ coal, 3 ft. 6 in. to 5 ft. 6 in.: bituminous case further to the north. The cleav¬ ally driven 8 ft. wide and 5^ ft. shale (black jack), 4 in. to 8 in.; fire clay, age is quite pronounced, ranging from 12 high. The necks of rooms range from .^veral feet. Small partings (J^toJ/^in.) to 18, and often 20 in. apart; the direction 6 to 8 or 10 ft. in width. Pillars between '■Jl_ varies largely with the dip and strike of main horizontal gangw'ays and air-ways • ‘Assistant professor of mining. School of Mines, Colnmhla t'niversity. New York. the coal. are 50 ft. wdde, between slopes, and air April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 659 ways 15 ft.; also between room-ways or pitch) usually only one mule is employed cars (from one or several rooms) to room-ways and air-ways, 15 ft. Only in hauling the loaded cars, one by one, make up a train or trip (usually 5 or 6 one air-way is driven parallel with the out of the dip-rooms; with steeper incli¬ cars), they are hauled by the gathering main gangway, which is on the nations, trail-teams of two or more mules locomotive to the partings on the en¬ down-pitch side. It is customary to drive may have to be employed. This is sel¬ tries next the slopes from which place two air-ways, one on either side of the dom done, however, unless the pitch they are hoisted, in trips of 5 to 8 cars, up- slopes and parallel with them, although equals or exceeds 10 deg.; yet rough and the slopes to the surfa-'e or to the foot occasionally only one is employed. irregular track or pitches as low as 5 to of the shafts, if vertical shafts are em¬ The system of dip-mining, as outlined, 6 deg. may require it. ployed. Haulage on the slopes is usually is rendered possible only on account of Several of the mines at Coalgate are done by an engine located at the head of the dryness of the mines. The coal strata, being equipped with gathering locomo¬ the slope, or by the endless- or tail-rope in the northern Indian Territory fields tives, which are employed in rooms driven systems. The partings are provided with have been so highly tipped, folded and both to the dip and to the rise. In the double tracks, usually 13 ft. wide, and are faulted, that water finds easy ingress into the rooms driven to the rise, the cars made long enough to accommodate at any part of the mines; then too, most of are hauled up the pitch to the face and least two trips of cars. Formerly mule the mines are opened by slopes, which in lowered to the entry again by an electric haulage and occasionally rope haulage, itself is a good reason for wetness. locomotive provided with a drum upon tail- or endless-rope, were employed on the Coal was formerly, and is largely at the which winds a rope. The rope extends main gangways that connect directly with present time, mined by pick work, and from the drum up to the face of the room the shafts. The capacity of the mine cars shot from the solid. Within the past (where it passes over a sheave firmly sup- is 1500 to 1800 lb., being purposely made
FlG. 2. COALGATE TIPPLE. year a number of tlie mines in the neigh¬ ported at that point), thence down to the light to facilitate handling on varying borhood of Coalgate, especially the Coal- entry where connection is made with the grades. gate Coal Company’s mines, have been car. Empty cars are thus transferred to Mine Drainage—The mines are, as a equipped with Sullivan electric longwall the working face of the rooms, while rule, remarkably dry, yet it is customary chain-cutters, each machine being pro¬ loaded cars are in turn transferred from to install mine pumps which are usually vided with a self-propelling truck. It is the face to the entry, from which point placed at the foot of the shafts (when estimated that from 6o to 64 per cent, they are collected and hauled away. Cars shafts are employed), or at points on the of the coal is won from the breasts; 2 per are handled in the rooms driven to the line of the slopes or entries that are found cent, more is obtained in robbing pillars; dip by a gathering locomotive, similar to to be most desirable. The Worthington, thus about two-thirds of the coal is ex¬ that employed in the rooms driven to the Snow, Gardner and Cameron makes of tracted. rise; but in this case the empty cars are pumps are largely used. Occasionally tank Underground Handling and Haulage— lowered into the rooms, and the loaded cars are employed, and are especially ap¬ When rooms are turned off at back entries, ones hauled out, the locomotive being plicable when (for some reason, such as as when the double-entry system is em¬ stationed in the back-entry at the mouth faulting) water enters an isolated por¬ ployed, the coal mined in the dip-rooms of the room. It is then evident that the tion of the mine; and, to prevent its has to be hauled up the pitch to the entry systems of handling coal in the rooms is, spreading, it is collected and hauled to the above; while the reverse is true when in the former case, a gravity-plane; in surface. the rooms are driven to the rise. With the latter, an engine-plane; the winding Mine Support—The support of the roof moderate pitches (which are obtained by appliances being the same in both cases. is comparatively easy where the sulphur running the rooms at an angle with the After collecting a sufficient number of rock occurs ; but where it is wanting, the 66o THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. roof is usually weak and exceedingly diffi¬ cross to the upper set of rooms through struction consisting of single pieces. Fur¬ cult to properly maintain. Then, too^ back-throughs in entry pillars, and after ther, the tipple is an angle instead of a the disintegration of the pyrite is continu¬ sweeping the face of these (which are straight-line construction, the latter be¬ ally loosening and weakening the pillars. connected with one another by break¬ ing more used. The location is largely The main gangways are usually tim¬ throughs similar to those below) they responsible for the arrangement noted. bered with sets, while the slopes rarely enter the air-way running parallel with Although many of the mines in this dis¬ have more than sets (cap and one the slopes, and thence to the surface trict were idle for several months during post), although caps needled into the through the fans. In single-entry min¬ the past summer, yet the time was not walls are probably more widely used. ing, the air currents enter the rooms by wholly lost, as in many cases new equip¬ Lagging is employed in all cases to sup¬ way of the upper room entries; then after ment was installed and the resumption plement the various forms of sets, being passing from one room to another of operations was under much more ad¬ used especially above the caps, where 4- through openings in the room pillars, they vantageous conditions, which are mak¬ in. round poles are placed and wedged up enter the back-ways and reach the surface ing themselves felt in increased produc¬ against the roof. through the main air-ways running par¬ tion and facility of working at a material Oak is the kind of timber in most gen¬ allel with the slopes. reduction in cost; it can be said with eral use for all forms of timbering, and is The distribution of the ventilating cur¬ confidence, that the outlook for the coal seldom used other than in the round. rents to the breasts is varied somewhat in industry of the Indian Territory has The bark is usually left on, which is a each mine, the exact method being imma¬ never been brighter. great mistake, as is evidenced by the rav¬ terial, provided that sufficient air is fur¬ ages of the borers; this is so marked that nished. Coal Mining in the Indian Territory. often within a year’s time, the timbers are Preparation of Coal—Four grades are supports in appearance only. usually produced by the mines of this The report of William Cameron, United In case of failure of the shoulders of field; namely, lump, egg, nut, and slack States Mine Inspector, for the fiscal year coal that support the caps (when needled or house coal. Double balanced screens ending June 30, 1905, shows a decrease of in), it is customary to set either a full- are used; the upper section of the screen 349,096 tons in output when compared with length post or cut out the broken part has bars spaced in., the product of that of the previous fiscal year. No par¬ of the pillar, until a firm footing is ob¬ which is nut; the lower section has bars ticular reason for the decrease can be tained, and then set a short prop, which spaced 2j4 to 3 in. and makes egg size; pointed out, other than that petroleum is is seldom more than 18 to 24 in. long. while that which passes both sections of generally supplanting coal for railroad and The size and position of the coal pillars screens is fancy lump. By the use of manufacturing power in the region in have been referred to under the head of veils, placed on screens, mine-run can be which Indian Territory coal is consumed. mining. obtained. Statistics of the coal industry for the past Ventilation—Considerable gas is pres¬ As already stated, the bituminous shale two years compare as follows: ent, and naked lights are used, as a rule, lying directly beneath the coal, being 1903-04. 1904-06. only in the haulage ways and other parts hard and brittle, mixes readily with the Mines In operation. 117 109 of the workings where the ventilation is coal, and is therefore difficult to keep sep¬ Coal produced, tons. 3,320,067 2,970,961 Value of coal production-$6,376,453 $6,398,689 good; safety lamps are used in the work¬ arate in shovelings; the value of the coal Value per ton, run-ol-mlne.. $1,923 $1,818 ings driven to the rise, unless break¬ may be materially affected by the presence Coke ovens In blast. 286 186 Coke produced, tons . 60,210 41,193 throughs are provided, making connection of this shale. Men and boys, under ground 7,194 6,676 Men and boys, above ground 1,066 1,062 with the back-ways above. The davy The coal is loaded into cars, hoisted and Fatal accidents. 30 44 lamp is largely employed by the fire dumped onto a grizzly (bars spaced ^ to Non-fatal accidents. 69 70 Lives lost per 1000employees 3.6 6.9 bosses, who examine the rooms before the I in.); the oversize goes to balanced During ihe year 1904-05 there were 22 miners are allowed to enter; if gas is screens, the undersize to a trommel, workings abandoned and 14 new mines found to be present in considerable quan¬ which has two sections of wire screens were opened; the abandoned ones were tities, a board or timber is placed across with holes J4 and ^ in., respect¬ nearly all small workings, while the new the mouth of the room upon which, or on ively. All undersize from the trommel openings are mostly substantial producers, the walls, is written with chalk the date, goes to the waste bank, and all oversize so that the total productive capacity of In¬ and a warning to keep out (Fig. i). to coal bin. The bituminous shale being dian Territory is about double the amount The exhaust system of ventilation is very brittle, breaks up readily in the of last year’s output. In past years mining that commonly employed. Small quick¬ trommel; the greater part being under¬ has been confined t.o the limits of the running fans, such as the Sullivan make, size, goes through the screen, thus effect¬ Choctaw Nation; under more recent de¬ also large fans of the Guibal type, are ing a fair separation. velopments the Creek and Cherokee na¬ largely used. The former are 6 ft. diam. Coal is paid for in the Coalgate portion tions are increasing in importance. by 4 ft. width of blades, and run at a of the district as mine-run; it is estimated The increased number of accidents is speed of 300 r.p.m.; while the latter are that 25 per cent, is waste. Therefore if due mainly to an explosion, cause un¬ 12 to 16 and 18 ft. in diam., from 4 to 6 72c. (the present price) is paid per ton, known, at the Wilburton mine, in which 13 ft. wide, and are run at 65 to- 75 r.p.m. mine-run at the actual cost of mining will men were killed. The most serious cause The slopes are the down-casts, and the be close to 90c. per ton finished coal. At of mining accidents in general was the fall air-ways paralleling them are up-casts, Lehigh, coal is paid for on a screened- of mine cars, an event to which steeply- which connect with the fan shafts, set coal basis. pitching workings are particularly liable. some distance back from the slope mouth Surface Equipment—^The method of Gas explosions were the next most prolific by passages. The air-way on the oppo¬ preparing the coal for market has already source of accident and were attributable, site side of the slope shaft has its connect¬ been described; this gives an idea of the in almost every instance, to recklessness ing passage either under or over the necessary arrangements for the tipples. A in shot-firing. slope; an air-bridge over the slope is typical form of tipple for this district is probably more common, owing to the shown in Fig. 2 (for the plans of which I slight inclination of the slopes near the am indebted to the Coalgate Coal Com¬ During the last quarter of 1905 the surface. In the double-entry mining, the pany). The construction of this tipple Mount Lyell Company, of Tasmania, pro¬ air currents entering the slopes pass is rather unique, being a built-up form; duced 2323 tons of blister copper, con¬ downward and reach the rooms by way of but it is substantial and looks well. The taining 2294 tons of copper, 163,360 oz. the lower or back-ways; passing through labor as well as the timber costs are silver, and 6446 oz. gold, of the aggre¬ these rooms close to the working-face, they probably greater than for a similar con¬ gate value of £232,244. April 7,1906. the engineering and mining journal. 661
The New Railroad for the West Coast of Mexico.
BY E. A. H. TAYS *
A concession for a railroad from Guay- mas, Sonora, to Guadalajara, Jalisco, has been granted the Southern Pacific Rail¬ road Company, and recently this was rati¬ fied by the Federal Congress. This road will be the last link in the north-and- south systems of Mexican railways, north of the City of Mexico; it should have been built 20 years ago; it offers greater inducements as an investment than any of the other north-and-south lines in that country. The concession makes Guadalajara one of the terminals; but as the Mexican Central has built to that city and has this branch well advanced toward the Pacific Coast, it is probable that it will now fin¬ ish it to the Port of San Bias without de¬ lay, in which case the natural terminus of the new line will be the city of Tepic, or some convenient point near it. So far this line is spoken of as “the railroad from Guaymas to Tepic’’; but the logical name for this road would be “The Sonora, Sinaloa & Tepic railroad.” Twenty-five years ago the Sonora rail¬ road was built from Nogales to Guaymas, across over 200 miles of desert country, and stopping at the entrance to a sparsely settled region, but a country of great resources. Why the Sonora road was not continued down the coast is a mys¬ tery. In 1888 and 1889, a company (formed under the Huller concession, and called the Sonora, Sinaloa & Chihuahua Rail¬ road Company) made surveys as far south as the Fuerte river; but before any construction was done the company “broke.” The present concession could not have fallen into better hands, as the Southern Pacific has taken hold with its customary energy and ample funds; survey parties are now in the field along the entire length of the proposed line. The whole country to be traversed is essentially an agricultural, cattle and min¬ ing country; all the large towns will be supply points for one or more mining dis¬ tricts back in the mountains; while Guay¬ mas, Topolobampo and Mtizatlan will supply the whole country. The total distance of line to be built will be over 600 miles. This country has now about 500,000 population, but is capa¬ ble of supporting 25 millions with ease. From a point on the Sonora road, be¬ tween Guaymas and Balmoral, the new road will run nearly east 60 miles to Torin, a large town, and the military headquarters on the right bank of the Yaqui river. En route it will touch several ranches.
'Mining engineer, Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico. 662 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. and the military forts of La Guacima and corit to the coast. One large ditch has mining camps of Bacubirito, San Jose de Pitahaya. already been taken from the river above Gracia, Calabacillas, San Juan and many The country traversed is the typical Cocorit, and there is room for more. This others that will spring up within a very coast country; excepting one or two estu¬ country is destined to be a good wheat, few years after the line is finished. The aries, there will be no streams to cross. corn and fruit country. The land on the agricultural resources of the Sinaloa are The rise to Torin will hardly exceed 200 Mayo river is good for farming, and the promising. ft. in the 60 miles. section around Navojoa and down the From Sinaloa the line will continue From Torin the line will probably fol¬ river will posper under irrigation. southeast, its general course, for 44 miles low up the bank of the Yaqui river, about Leaving the Mayo river, should the rail¬ to or near Mocorito, passing through a four miles to Chunampaco, a military post road follow the line of least resistance, it ranch country (cattle) all the way. Mo¬ on the left bank of the river. At this place will keep its southeasterly course, running corito will be the supply point for a large the river narrows, affording an excellent across a rolling, brush-covered country mining section, including the camps of location for a bridge. From this crossing (nowhere exceeding 400 ft. above sea Palmarito, Guadalupe y Calvo, Basonopa, a line can be laid about S. 20 deg. E. to level) to the Fuerte river, 90 miles. It and the Badiraguato district. Agriculture the Mayo river on a tangent for 53 miles, will run close to the small ranch town of in this district will be limited, due to lack and over virtually a level country. This Masiaca, passing within five miles of the of water, although there is much good tangent would hit the Mayo river at a lit¬ port of Agiabampo; thence, via the land. tle Indian town called Cohuirimpo, a place ranches of Carrigo and Metate, it will From Mocorito the line will run to Cu- where there is the only good crossing to cross the Fuerte river just below the ranch liacan. The distance is 60 miles, and en be found for miles. At Cohuirimpo a of San Bias, w'here it will also cross the route the road will run near Pericos, the town would spring up, unless the impor¬ Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, great mescal liquor and fiber section of tant town Navojoa, five miles up the the new line from the port of Topolobam- the State. Culiacan is a clean, live town river, should prove strong enough to po across the Sierras, which has a track of about 12,000 inhabitants; it is destined kill it. laid beyond Fuerte. This crossing of the to be the most flourinshing town in the From this point probably the line will river is one of only two good ones to be state of Sinola. It should be the supply split—the main line continuing southeast found between Fuerte and the mouth of point for a large mining section; the between the coast and the Alamos range the river, a distance of 75 miles. The other present camps of Copalquin, San Fer¬ of mountains, and a branch running to is at San Miguel, 25 miles below San Bias. nando, San Andres de la Sierra, Canelas, Alamos, So miles via Navojoa and Las The elevation at the Fuerte river is about Sianori and Topia being tributary to it. Lomas. 120 ft. above the sea. The country south of Culiacan, along The Mayo river station would be the The Fuerte, above San Bias, to above the line of the railroad is rolling, often distributing point for the important min¬ the town of Fuerte, runs between low hilly, but not mountainous; the elevation ing town of Alamos, and would supply a ranges of isolated foot hills of volcanic never going over 400 ft. above sea level. large section of the mountain mining origin, the valley varying from one to The work will nowhere be excessively towns, such as Chinipas, San Augustin, three miles wide. The hills stop just be¬ heavy; the curvature will be light, 6 deg. Baroyeca, and even Jesus Maria, besides low San Bias, on the south side of the perhaps, and the grades should not ex¬ many new camps that would spring up; river; a level stretch of fertile land ex¬ ceed 0.6 per cent. for the country to the east of the proposed tends southwest to the bay of Topolo- From Culiacan the line will run to Ma- line, up the Yaqui*and Mayo rivers, is a bampo, 30 miles away; and down the river zatlan, 130 miles, passing no town of well-mineralized section. for 45 miles westward. any size; and although the region is fer¬ Should the importance of Alamos force The Fuerte river is the largest of all the tile, scarcity of water accounts for the the main line through that point, it would rivers crossing the State of Sinaloa; it sparse settlement. The principal indus¬ naturally seek its outlet via Fuerte, strik¬ t.'.kes its source beyond the snmniii of the try along the coast is cattle raising. At ing the coast country again about Ocoroni Sierra Madre, cutting well into the cen¬ 25 miles from Culiacan the line will cross (this line is dotted on the map). To take tral plateau, which, in reality, is the con¬ the San Lorenzo river, near the small this route would mean grades three times tinental divide. This river never goes town of Quila. Forty miles farther south¬ as steep, 200 per cent, more curvature, dry; at San Bias is a stream varying from east, the line will cross the Elota river, and nearly three times more for cost of 2 ft. deep by 250 ft. wide, with a speed of probably below the town of Elota. This construction; and this for the entire dis¬ iy2 miles per hour at the extreme low place should make a good supply point tance of 160 miles. stage, to a mile wide, 25 ft. deep and flow¬ for the important mining camp of Guada¬ The line from Cohuirimpo to Alamos ing from 7 to 10 miles per hour during lupe de los Reyes and others that will would be 50 miles long; and in that dis¬ floods. spring up in the districts of Cosala and tance the rise w'ould be nearly 1200 ft., The crossing at the Fuerte, wherever San Ignacio. 6 per cent, of which would be made in the made, should be the supply point for a About 10 miles southeast of Elota, the last 20 miles. From Alamos to Fuerte, large mining region, which would start at line will cross the Piaxtla river at, or 65 miles, the drop is 900 ft. over a rolling, the station itself, as the Fuerte district near Piaxtla ranch. About 25 miles far¬ broken, foot-hill country. From Fuerte has mineral ledges almost from the coast ther southeast it will cross the Quelite out to open country again, at Ocoroni, to its east boundary. From tire start the river, near the small town of that name. would be 45 miles more through rather present camps of Lluvia de Oro, Batopi- Quelite will, in time, become an import¬ a rough region, unless the line ran down las, Urique, Guazaparez, Morelos and the ant supply point for the mining region the river to San Bias. In view of these mining country around Choix would be¬ 100 miles to the east that will become difficulties it is probable that a branch come tributary to the road. *From the active when the road is completed. will be built to Alamos and the main line Fuerte river the line will run southeast to From Quelite the line will run nearly be continued down the comparatively level the Ocoroni arroyo, about 36 miles, over due south, 30 miles to Mazatlan. On the coast country. a rolling but not a difficult country, used accompanying sketch map the line is The regpon between Guaymas and the for cattle raising entirely. drawn through La Noria; but this place Yaqui river is a ranch country. The soil The line will cross the Ocoroni some¬ will be left 10 miles to the east. is of good quality, but water is lacking. where below the town of this name, and It is hardly probable that the line will Up and down the Yaqui river from Torin continue on 20 miles farther to the Sina¬ run into the town of Mazatlan itself, on are thousands of acres of prime land, loa river, which it will cross about two account of the estuaries, but it will come much of which can be irrigated, especially miles below the town of Sinaloa. This within two to five miles of it. on the south side of the river from Co- crossing will be the supply point for the Mazatlan is the largest and most im- April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 663 portant place on the Coast. It has about it will be almost impossible to follow up of the man who travels, and this is the 20,000 inhabitants, and is the supply port the Santiago river, due to ths wild and quickest mode of getting anywhere; but for the entire West Coast, between latitude broken nature of the country for 50 miles it only runs from November to July, and 22 and 29 deg., and for 200 miles inland. up its course, the river running in a deep up and down the coast. If it is desired This railroad will be of great benefit to canon for many miles. to make a trip inland, recourse must be the port; but the lack of a good bay, Following the natural line, the road had to the ubiquitous mule. which no reasonable amount of money will take a southeasterly course for about can remedy, will limit its size and im¬ 70 miles to San Marco, through a rolling The Disaster at Lens. portance. The nearer the road runs to mountainous country; and from San the present town, the greater the benefit. Marco it will run on a general easterly BY MATTHEW VINGOE. From Mazatlan the line will run about course, for about 70 miles more, to due east for 15 miles, to Villa Union, Guadalajara. Early on ihe morning of March 9 a se¬ where it will cross the Mazatlan river; Although the road will run through a rious explosion occurred in the Courrieres from this place it will again take its mountain country, climbing 6000 ft. in colliery. Pas de Calias, France, about southeasterly course to the Rosario river, 140 miles, the agricultural and mineral two or three hours’ journey north from 20 miles farther on, crossing this at, or resources of the district are good. Paris. The mine is situated just outside below, the important mining town of Ro¬ Active work has begun; numerous en¬ the town of Lens and is known as the sario. This place should develop into a gineering parties are in the field all along Concession de Courrieres. The operations flourishing business center, as it has a the line; actual construction has started numbered 2, 3, 4 and ii (shown in the ac¬ large undeveloped mining section back from Guaymas south, and the Rio Yaqui companying sketch) were the scene of the of it. country should, in a few months, be con¬ trouble. Down these shafts 1800 miners 'I'en miles southeast of Rosario the line nected with the outside world. descended on the morning of the disaster. will pass the small town of Escuinapa; and 25 miles farther southeast the boun¬ dary line between Sinaloa and the terri¬ tory of Tepic. The boundary is a small river emptying into the Teacapan bay; the railroad will cross this stream near the small town of Concepcion. From Concepcion the line will con¬ tinue southeast for 35 miles to the Mes- quital river, a small stream it will cross near the town of Tuxpan. From Tux- pan the line will run nearly south to the Santiago river, a distance of 20 miles. This large stream will be crossed near Santiago, perhaps above the town. The line from Mazatlan to the Santi¬ ago river will traverse practically the coast line, never getting over 30 miles from it, nor over 200 ft. above the sea LOCATION OF SHAFTS AT LENS. level. This section, although capable of Scenes of the explosion are marked with a cross. agricultural development, will remain From present operations it looks as and of this number about 1300 are known dormant in that line for many years, due though the construction of the road would to have perished. The exact number will to the scarcity of water. However, its be pushed from Guaymas south, and from probably never be known. mineral resources compare favorably with Mazatlan north and south; but should The Concession de Courrieres ranks most parts of the Coast; mining camps the company care to complete the third in importance among French coal will spring up in many directions to the whole line in the shortest time possible, mines, and ihe loss of 1300 workers, all east. it could, also, be built both ways from the of them being between the ages of 20 and b'rom the crossing of the Santiago river Inierte river, and both ways from Culia- 40 years, is serious. The accident may it is probable a branch will be built to can. Material for the Fuerte division make a difference of a million tons in the the port of San Bias, a distance of about would be handled at the Port of Topolo- output of the Lens district this year; and, 30 miles, over a low level country. From fcampo and run up to its destination on as France already is a large importer of the river, the main line wdll continue its the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient road; coal, this difference will probably have to general southeasterly course for about 30 while that for the Culiacan division could be made up by importation from England miles to, or near to, the large and im¬ be landed at Altata and run up to Culia- and Germany. portant town of Tepic, the capital of the can on the railroad connecting those two Courrieres took rank next in impor- Territory of that name. As Tepic is places. tar.ee after tiie Anzin and Lens collieries. about 1000 ft. above sea level, from the From time immemorial this section of In accordance with the latest practice the Santiago river south, heavy grades and Mexico has lain dormant, due to a lack of entries were made intercommunicative, more costly construction work will be the transportation. It has had an outlet on the thus multiplying the .means of escape order. As already stated, it is probable coast side, but that benefits only a limited from the mine to the various shafts, and that Tepic will be the terminus of the strip along the coast, and only in a limited affording the means for a more perfect road, especially should the Mexican Cen¬ way. In the last 20 years business has in- coursing of the ventilation currents. It is tral continues its line from San Marcos, creased from two steamers to a dozen or this very fact, however, that accounts for its present terminal, northwest to San more; and the sugar industry alone, in the great number of victims, which, under Bias, via Tepic. spite of this limited outlet, has jumped ordinary circumstances, would not have ’Should the terms of the concession from one factory to eight. amounted to more than 20 per cent, of the demand the construction of the road to For passenger traffic, a stage line runs actual number killed. The mine has been Guadalajara, it would have to follow from Guadalajara to Guaymas, a journey 50 years in operation, and this is the first about the line of the Mexican Central; over which is a nightmare in the memory serious accident that has occurred in it. 664 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
The mine has long been noted as con¬ ficient means of succor do not, so to proper recording instruments and in sus¬ taining fire-damp. The coal found is of a speak, exist in any of the French coal¬ pending mining operations for two days. soft, friable nature and has a high per¬ mining fields, and this feeling was accen¬ It is believed the company refused to take centage of volatile matter. The strata tuated by the arrival of the German coal¬ this course, fearing the result it would overlying the coal seam are very treach¬ mine salvage corps. This corps did yeo¬ have on the annual dividend. However, erous, and from time to time, owing to man service and rendered signal aid in the Government report will be made as the falling in of the roof, pockets are dis¬ leading the way during the first descents soon as possible, and we shall learn some¬ covered which disengage large quantities into the mine. They were somewhat thing definite regarding the technical and of fire-damp. These conditions were well coldly received at first by the authorities, immediate causes of the catastrophe. understood at the mine and extra precau¬ but their home-sending more than made tions were continually taken in respect to up for any tension at first observable. The ventilation, and the employment of safety members were naturally reserved in expres¬ A Real Referendum. lamps and explosives. sing their impressions of the French mine, BY R. W. RAYMOND. This disaster, it is generally agreed, is but it is understood that they as a whole in no way directly due to fire-damp. It consider that the French mine, as com¬ appears that the following causes contrib¬ pared with German standards, was obso¬ The vote of the miners of Bisbee, uted to the accident: During Tuesday lete in respect to size of rooms and en¬ Arizona, to which editorial allusion was and Wednesday nights, through the care¬ tries, whicM are small and tortuous. The made in the Journal of March 24, sug¬ lessness of a miner, some wood ignited methods of ventilation were considered gests a further comment, not made in and the fire quickly spread to a coal seam. below the standard in the leading Ger¬ that article (which otherwise commands Barriers of stone were hastily erected to man collieries, and the means of succor in my cordial assent). Namely, what would confine the fire. These circumscribed the case of accident were found to be most be the verdict of wage workers in general, dangerous di.5trict, but the barriers were primitive. It is very likely that these criti¬ as to the tyranny of labor-unions, and es¬ not duplicated, although prudence might cisms are justified. pecially of that worst of all such organ¬ have suggested this course to the engi¬ The bad feeling aroused among the izations since time began—the Western neers. This precautionary work being fin¬ miners after the accident was by no means Federation of Miners—if they could vote, ished, everything was believed to be safe, fostered by the men’s delegates, who tried as the Bisbee miners did, without in¬ as, owing to the good ventilation, no air hard to keep on good terms with the mine timidation? from the burning material escaped toward owners. This is now considered impos¬ It is notorious that the real miners of the entries where the work was going on. sible, and from dull mutterings and angry the anthracite region were overpowered What then happened is probably this: In meetings the miners are proceeding to in 1902, and are only too likely to be over¬ view of the close confinement of the burn¬ organize a general strike, which is consid¬ powered again, by the votes of laborers ing-coal area, the resulting pressure burst ered inevitable. This has four objects: and breaker-boys, admitted for that pur- the barriers and probably disrupted some (i) A common base for men’s wages by pos to the so called “Mine Workers’ ” of the pockets in the rocks containing all the companies of the district of 4.80 Union. It is equally well-known that fire-damp, or possibly some old working francs per day; (2) increase of the bo¬ large numbers of miners, opposed to a long closed up. This resulted in the dis¬ nus for work done beyond a fixed output strike, abstain from voting, when they ex¬ aster. It was undoubtedly a serious error amounting to 45 centimes instead of 30 pect to be out-voted, for fear of being of judgment to have allowed such pres¬ centimes; (3) more equitable division of stigmatized as traitors to the Union, sure to accumulate in view of the non¬ wages; (4) means of regulating wages And, finally, everybody knows that when duplication of the barriers. by a sliding scale; (s) minimum wage a strike has once been declared, however The mine has a maximum depth not ex¬ for a fixed day’s work; (6) widows and unwisely and by whatever trick of tactics, ceeding 1200 ft. and the fire was limited orphans of men killed in the mines to be large numbers of those who did not ap¬ to the Merricourt shaft at a depth of 850 kept within the companies’ premises (free prove or desire it, and would have defeated ft. The miners descended between 3 and lodgings are here referred to) as is the it if they could have done so without in¬ 4 o’clock in the morning, the accident oc¬ custom for men in work. curring vindictive ostracism and persecu¬ curring about three hours later. The rush The strike is rapidly extending, and it tion, submit under terrorism to the decree of air at the mouth of shafts 2, 3 and 4 is estimated that 1500 men are now out. which they condemn. was tremendous, one man being killed in This is almost a unique case of a big strike We shall hear a good deal from “labor one shaft, and a horse being lifted high following a mining disaster, but it indi¬ leaders” about the “referendum” as a from the ground at the bottom of another cates the tendency which such an event panacea for social ills. The vote at Bis¬ shaft. No escape was possible from these can gpve to general mining affairs in bee was a real referendum. How do shafts, down which no one has since been France. In consequence of the strike they like it? able to descend. Of the 858 men who de¬ many large orders for coal have been scended shaft No. 4, 13s were sent up be¬ placed in South Wales, and some orders The most important find of alluvial fore the accident, they being unable to have gone to Germany, gold in South Australia in late years was work in their particular rooms by reason As regards responsibility for the causes that of Teetulpa. The schists and granite of the barriers erected to confine the fire of the accident, at present complete evi¬ around that field and its neighboring gold¬ area. There is not a single survivor of dence is not obtainable. It is pretty cer¬ fields bear auriferous quartz lodes. The the remainder. tain, however, that all possible means alluvial gold is scattered sparingly in areas Only a couple of hundred victims of were not taken to watch the progress of close to certain lines of lode, and is evi¬ the Courrieres disaster are all that can be the fire in the mine; and the fact that the dently derived from such lodes. At Tee¬ at present reached or withdrawn from the fire was hermetically shut up in a pros¬ tulpa alluvial gold was largely concen¬ ill-fated mine. Their bodies are for the cribed area, without even the precaution trated in certain gullies, and this fact g;avc most part unrecognizable, and it is im¬ of placing a gage to show the pressure rise to much speculation as to a lead of possible for them to be exposed for identi¬ within that area, indicates carelessness on value being opened in the deeper gp'ound fication. All this was, of course, to be ex¬ the part of the company. The placing of whence such gullies trended. It was pected. It is now admitted that there is efficient means to control the progress of speedily found that all such hopes were not the least chance of any living man the fire and to insall means to safc.guard fallacious; for the yield of gold tapered being still in the mine. such a terrible occurrence as this has off to a vanishing point as its sources Throughout France there is great criti¬ proved to be, would, it is stated, have cost were left behind at the little belt of quartz cism regarding the fact that proper or suf¬ only a few thousand francs in supplying lodes. April 7. 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 665
Wltwatersrand Profits. organization and extension of the Survey 2SE^GIN£ERINGi£S work which is planned. Mining Journal, The statistics of gold production and Dr. Robert Bell, who is now practically dividends paid by companies operating on retired, has been for many years promi¬ Contents. pass the Wkwatersrand, which are communi¬ nent in the Survey and has reached an Kditoi'ials: cated by Mr. Spilsbury, are extremely in¬ Wltwatersrand Profits. 665 age and acquired a reputation which will The Canadian Geological Survey.... 665 teresting in their showing of the profits enable him to look with satisfaction on The Anthracite Situation . 665 in gold mining on a large scale. Probably The Prospect for Copper. 666 the work and the successes of the younger The Western Coal Situation . 666 there is no other mining district in the men to whom the direction of the Survey The Courrlferes Explosion . 667 world for which the statistics have been The New Oxide of Aluminum, is now entrusted, and who will doubtless kept up from the beginning with so much Ohaa. 8. Palmer 649 maintain the high reputation to which he Recovery of Water from Coal Washing, detail as in the case of the Witwaters- F. W. Paraona 649 himself has contributed in the past. Dr. rand. These statistics show a total out¬ •Great I^ikes Coal Company, Bell has labored under the disadvantage John Leggett Pultz 650 put from 1^7 to the end of 1905 amount¬ Hudson Bay Minerals . 651 of holding a temporary position as acting ing to nearly £130,000,000, out of which •The Mlckley Conveyor... .J. W. Batey 652 director, which was liable to be termi¬ •The Quincy Mine Assay OflSce, dividends have been paid to the amount of O. W. Macdougall 654 nated at any time; but he has done his ■nearly £33,000,000, or slightly more than Lime Sand Brick . 655 best to hold the Survey to its work and to The Kirby Oil Process. 655 25 per cent, of the gross output. This •Felling a Large Chimney, maintain its organization during his ten¬ is certainly a remarkable showing, be¬ Alfred Qradenwitz 656 ure of the office, and his services will not Electric Smelting Experiments at Sault cause although the mines are of except¬ Ste. Marie . 657 be forgotten. •Coal Mining in Indian Territory, ional continuity and regularity, the veins W. R. Crane 658 are not wide, the ore is not of high grade, Coal Mining In the Indian Territory... 660 The Anthracite Situation. •The New Railroad for the West Coast and the conditions of working are un¬ of Mexico.E. A. H. Taya 661 favorable in many respects. In another column we have referred •The Disaster at Lens.Jfatt/ieio Vingoe 663 A Real Referendum... .R. W. Raymond 664 It is to be remarked, moreover, that the to the coal situation m the West. In the Coal Traffic on the Lakes. 670 dividend percentage is calculated on the anthracite region the prospects are more Arkansas Coal . 670 Coal Traffic on the Ohio. 670 basis of total output, which includes the doubtful. The mines are not working •The Rockwood Mine Water-Car. 671 production of some mines which have not this week, though the stoppage is called Escape of Miners at Lena. 671 Geographic Names . 671 paid dividends. If the dividends were re¬ a “suspension,” not a strike; and a con¬ Ratio of Copper to Pig-Iron Consump¬ ferred to the production of only those tion .Jamea Douglaa 672 ference is still in progress, in which, how¬ Metalllcs . 668 mines which have paid them, the percent¬ ever, neither party seems inclined, up to Colliery Notes . 669 age would be higher. On the other hand, date, to give way. In this case there is Correspondence and Discussion; Profits In Mining_E. O. Spilabury 670 the broad method of financing these com¬ a wide difference from the conditions pre¬ Guanajuato Amalgamated Gold Mines panies makes it difficult to determine how Company .Qeo. Karach 670 vailing in the West. The almost absolute much of the outlay for plant has come Abstracts of Official Reports: unification of the anthracite companies— Tamarack Mining Company. 672 out of operating profit and how much out though no formal combination exists—and 'Pennessee Copper Company. 672 of subscriptions of stock and bond Questions and Answers: the almost entire absence of competition Lime Roasting of Galena . 673 holders. However, the statistics of pro¬ over a wide field, make the question a The Dessau Gas Retort. 673 duction and dividends are certainly im¬ Patents . 673 direct one between operator and em¬ Personals . 674 pressive. ployee. In case of a final rupture, there Obituary . 674 Societies and Technical Schools. 675 is no power but the pressure of public Trade Catalogs . 675 The Canadian Geological Survey. opinion which can force either side to Industrials . 675 Construction News . 675 make the concessions which will bring The interregnum in the Geological Sur¬ Special Correspondence: about a settlement. In 1903 this pressure San Francisco . 676 vey of Canada, which has existed since Butte, Mont. 676 was expressed in a way through the Pres¬ the death of Dr. Dawson in 1901, has been Cripple Creek . 677 ident’s Strike Commission, and it is quite Tellurlde, Colo. 677 ended by the appointment of Albert P. lieadvllle . 677 possible that a similar measure may be Low as director of the Survey. The new Salt I.ake City . 677 needed now. Joplin, Mo. 678 head has grown up with the department Calumet, Mich. 678 For the present the situation is not now under his charge; he has been con¬ Scranton . 679 alarming. The opening of spring, follow¬ Toronto . 679 nected with it for 24 years, is thoroughly ing an unusually mild winter, and the Sudbury, Ont. 679 familiar with its work, its traditions and accumulation of stocks by the companies Victoria, B. C. 680 its present condition and its needs. He has Mexico .^...... 680 won recognition by his own work in vari¬ will prevent any such pressure for coal as Aguascallentes, Mex. 680 ous directions, especially by his explora¬ existed at the time of the last strike. A Parral, Mex. 681 stoppage, even of a month or so, will en¬ Paris . 681 tions in Labrador and the Hudson Bay London . 681 country. His latest contribution is the tail no serious trouble; though a longer Johannesburg . 682 monograph on the Chibogamoo region in cessation of work may give rise to some General Mining News . 682 northern Quebec. He has shown that he difficulties. That the present “suspen¬ Foreign Mining News . 686 possesses the executive ability which is sion” may last, at least for several weeks, Markets . 687 *Illu8trated. now one of the chief requisites in the re¬ begins to look probable. 666 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
The Prospect for Copper. ation in the early summer; there is, more¬ districts, have come largely under the con¬ over, likely to be a considerable increase trol of the railroad interests. Whether The article by Professor Douglas, which in the production of California during the this movement has been for the best is is published on a following page, is bound year. The important enterprises which a question that cannot be discussed here; to attract much attention. He shows in a ’are likely to add materially to the produc¬ but undoubtedly it results in the adoption very careful statistical compilation that tion of copper, such as the development of of a different—perhaps a wider—view of ■during the 10 years from 1896 to 1906 the the disseminated copper ores of Utah and the trade. consumption of copper has averaged one Nevada, are hardly likely to cut much of The western Pennsylvania operators, ton to 83 tons of pig iron, and he points a fig^ire in the output of 1906. It is doubt¬ with few exceptions, have already signed out that a demand for copper in that ratio ful whether the increase in production the district agreement, and most of the to meet the requirements of the trade that is reasonably to be expected this year mines will be at work in a few days, only shows that the stocks of copper must now will more than equal the normal increase a temporary misunderstanding having pre¬ be very low, and the existing scarcity of in the demand. The present outlook is vented their continuous operation. The copper need not be attributed to artificial for a strong market in copper throughout causes of this readiness are found in great manipulation. The method of arriving at the present year. part in the iron and steel situation. The this conclusion is ingenious and the result larger companies in the Pittsburg district has the further merit of agreement with The Western Coal Situation. are controlled by the steel companies, or the evidence of the trade as it is at the have important contracts with them; and present time. The coal situation, now that both the the steel makers cannot just now run the The situation in copper is certainly very anthracite and bituminous agreements risks involved in a short supply of fuel. strong; probably it was never stronger in have expired by their own limitations, re¬ Moreover, the Pittsburg men are too near the recent history of the metal. We mains altogether uncertain. No settle¬ the non-union mines of West Virginia, stated at the beginning of the year that ment has been reached, either in the East and there is still a recollection of the way there were then no stocks of refined metal or the West, although the way has been in whioh the strike of 1897 brought the in first hands, save an insignificant quan¬ opened for a partial arrangement in the mines of that State into the competitive tity reserved for certain regular custom¬ Central bituminous district. Beyond this market—and brought them to stay. The ers, who might find that they had under¬ the future is still doubtful. insistance of the steel companies on a set¬ estimated their requirements. The appa¬ The Indianapolis conference broke up tlement was hardly necessary, though it rently large stock of copper figuring in on March 31—it cannot be said without was effectual. the statistics is metal in transit, or in pro¬ results, since an important outcome was The strongest opposition to a district cess of refining, which always, inevitably, the virtual abandonment of the interstate settlement at present seems to be in Ohio, constitutes a considerable proportion of agreement, which has heretofore governed where the operators are more independ¬ the production. There was a relaxation the operations of the mines in the Central ent, and where they have suffered more in the demand for copper during January competitive district, which covered the from the low prices due to excessive com¬ and February, but toward the end of Feb¬ country from central Pennsylvania to the petition. Ohio, however, has suffered per¬ ruary consumers appeared in the market Mississippi. On the part of the miners haps more than other districts from the again, and throughout March the demand this was an abandonment of the original growing importance of West Virginia. has been large. ground that no settlement would be made The prospects of further displacement of At the present time there is no evidence which did not cover the whole field. Hocking Valley and other Ohio coals in of any accumulation of stock; on the con¬ Doubtless it was due to the stand taken the Western and Lake markets by the trary, refiners are shipping their product as by the Pennsylvania operators, who had New River and Pocahontas products will rapidly as they can turn it out. Estimates announced their willingness to compro¬ probably be a strong element in deciding of production and consumption, which mise. The resolutions adopted by the the operators of the State to concede the go to show that the supply of copper union authorize the signature of an agree¬ settlement. We believe that they will do is exceeding the demand, are misleading. ment in any district where the operators this after only a slight delay. Such estimates are based upon an assump¬ are willing to concede the wage-scale of The Indiana operators seem determined tion as to the current consumption of cop¬ 1903, which involves an advance of 5.55 to stand out; at least this is the official per, which can never be any more than a per cent, on the mining rates of the past statement of their association, and perhaps guess. Moreover, at the present time there two years. the sentiment of many of the smaller are no reliable statistics as to the current Under these conditions the closing of operators, who have been doing a busi¬ production. There has been undoubtedly agreements will depend in part on local ness which leaves only a small margin of a small increase in the production of the considerations; but will also be deter¬ profit. But it is no secret that there is •older districts during the first quarter of mined in large part by the competitive division in the ranks. The large combi¬ the year, and there will probably be a situation. It is also the case that during nations recently formed and controlled, as larger increase during the remainder of the the past year there have been many con¬ we have said, by the railroads, do not >ear. A new smelting works, producing solidations and combinations which have want, and will hardly consent to, any long blister copper, has just gone into operation already changed materially the position of stoppage of production. If they come into in Arizona; the large plant of the Ameri¬ the coal trade in some of the Western the agreement and start up their mines, can Smelters’ Securities Company, at States. The Indiana coal trade, for in¬ the smaller operators must follow or go Garfield, Utah, will probably go into oper¬ stance, and that of some of the Illinois out of business altogether—some of them April 7. 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 667 permanently. The situation is a grave one The mine was known to give off fire¬ chief engineer, immediately assembled the for this class of mine-owners, and few of damp, but not in large quantity. In cer¬ corps and started for Lens with a full them are in a position to fight. tain districts safety lamps were used ex¬ equipment of modern appliances. They In Illinois the outcome is more uncer¬ clusively; but in others naked lamps were made the first descent into the mine after tain. The operators had hoped, not only . permitted. As the French law requires the accident and rendered much valuable » to settle the wage-scale, but to bring up careful daily inspection of the workings, assistance to the colliery engineers. some collateral questions, such as the run- the Courrieres company employed 10 un¬ The Government commission that will of-mine basis and the shot-firers’ wages. der-managers, 50 underground inspectors shortly be appointed to investigate the cir¬ In this they have been altogether disap- w'ho make daily written reports to the cumstances surrounding the catastrophe, jKjinted and are correspondingly sore. managing engineer, and 50 sub-inspectors, will be required to make an exhaustive re¬ The same commercial considerations who make daily inspections and report port, which should throw much light on which have been already referred to may verbally to their immediate superiors. In several obscure problems in colliery prac¬ prevail in this State also, but there is addition to these managerial inspections tice; more particularly, perhaps, upon the more uncertainty, and the possibility of the Government mine inspectors make desirability, under certain circumstances, longer delay and stoppage of mining. frequent examinations, and the miners of ventilating old workings, the action of In the Southwestern district the general elect a number of delegates from among intercommunicating shafts upon the venti¬ agreement has been abrogated also, and themselves to make an inspection of the lation, the implied danger from these in¬ district settlements are to be the order of workings on their own behalf before each tercommunicating shafts and entries in the day. In most cases it looks as if these shift goes below to work. As a result of case of accident, and their influence in res¬ would be made, with more or less delay this care the average death rate from acci¬ cue operations after accidents. The fact that and friction, according to local conditions. dents in the mine before the recent disas¬ the Courrieres mine has been worked Upon the whole, therefore, it seems safe ter was only 0.126 per 1000. with an immense annual output for over to predict that—barring unforeseen diffi¬ The exact cause of the accident will not 40 years, and consequently possesses very culties—the stoppage of coal mining in be known until after the Government in¬ extensive abandoned workings, which are the West will be of short duration; too quiry. At present the leading French au¬ liable to accumulate fire-damp; also that short to affect business seriously. It is to thorities suggest three theories, viz.: (i) there are many shafts and other openings be noted that the leaders of the union are A fire which had been burning for several (eight shafts being now in working condi¬ insisting that agreements made now must days and had been walled in, distilled a tion), should enable a flood of light to be be for two years only. This shows that large volume of coal gas which exploded, thrown on these problems. they are not unmindful of the tactical ad¬ after accumulating in a vacant chamber. After the section* of this* issue contain¬ vantages which will result from the fact (2) Gas already existing in the rocks was ing the report of the disaster had gone to that the next adjustment of mining scales freed by the caving in of some roof, w'hen press, news arrived by cable of the escape will come in the year of a Presidential the timber was consumed, and exploded; of 13 men who had been imprisoned in election. this explosion was carried for some dis¬ the mine for 20 days. Their heroism and tance along the haulage roads by coal dramatic reappearance, after all hope had The Courrieres Explosion. dust. (3) The fire ignited a large quan¬ been abandoned, will ever remain one of The disaster in the Courrieres colliery tity of fire-damp in old workings. the noteworthy events in the history of resulted in the greatest loss of life in a The evidence at present available ap¬ colliery disasters. It is, however, a serious single accident, so far as we are aware, pears to indicate that the fire generated a reflection upon the management of the ever recorded in mining annals. Accord¬ large quantity of coal gas and carbon colliery that the rescue work was so early ing to the latest advices over 1200 men lost monoxide, which escaped into the work¬ discontinued, when, as it has been proved, their lives in the mine. Previously the ac¬ ings in the vicinity of No. 3 shaft, where there were men still living in the mine. cident in the De Beers diamond mine. i*. became ignited by a naked light carried The escape of the thirteen was effected South Africa, in 1888, held the record with by one of the miners. Possibly coal dust by their own brave efforts; not by any as¬ respect to the loss of life. In that acci¬ assisted in extending the explosive zone sistance from outside. Unfortunately there dent 500 men perished after breathing the One serious defect in French mining appears to be ground for the belief that up poisonous fumes given off by the burning practice, which ought to be speedily rem¬ to that time there were others alive in mine timber. The most disastrous colliery edied (as doubtless it will be), was em¬ the mine, who might have been rescued if explosions previously experienced in phasized by the accident. It was found the work from the outside had been intel¬ France were those in the Verpilleux col¬ that khere were no up-to-date life-saving ligently and vigorously prosecuted. It is liery in July, 1889. which resulted in a loss appliances at the mine, or in the district, improper to charge incompetence before of 207 men; and in the Villebceuf colliery and there was no well-trained life-saving all the facts are known, as they will un¬ in 1890, when 113 men perished. corps. Ordinary city firemen had to be The Courrieres colliery is one of the doubtedly be developed in the investigfa- hurried from Paris to render assistance. tion to follow; but we certainly may draw most important in France. It has an area Fortunately the Hibernia Coal Company, the conclusion that after any colliery ex¬ of 13,484 acres (20 square miles), gives operating in the Westphalian coal field in plosion the efforts to rescue men impris¬ employment to more than 8000 miners, and oned inside should not be abandoned un¬ last year produced 2,370,752 tons of bitu¬ Germany, has an efficient life-saving corps til it is morally certain that life must have minous coal. It was operated by eight of 170 men at its mines; and on hearing of shafts, the deepest being about 1200 ft. the French accident, Herr Meyer, the become extinct. 668 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
Metallics. the manufacture of valves and fittings for and consisted of a small chamber attached use in sulphite work consists of the fol- to and connected with the supply pipe Old powder is dangerous to handle in following proportions: Copper, lolb.;lead, close to the air chest. This chamber was many ways and hard to explode. Fresh 2 lb.; tin, lb. and 5 per cent, phosphor filled with oily waste, which was found to powder and strong caps should always be tin, Ib. The copper should be melted and burn freely and add the hot products of demanded. the lead then added, after that the tin, and combustion to the inflowing compressed Palladium has about the same degree of the phosphor tin last of all. The mixture air. In the next design, a paraffin lamp hardness as platinum. It may be easily should be stirred thoroughly and the pour¬ was placed in the chamber, and, as before, rolled into sheet, and is usually found in ing should be done at a low heat. Owing the products of combustion were taken commerce in the shape of thin sheet 01 to the large amount of lead present, this through the drill along with the com¬ foil. metal is liable to sweat out if too much pressed air. These experiments, though heat is used. only carried out on a small scale, were The secret of good quality boiler and sufficient to demonstrate the advantage of pipe coverings lies in the imprisonment of Nine aluminum cables carry electric utilizing the heat and gases of combus¬ air and the prevention of such air from energy across Niagara river from the Ca¬ tion; but oil is generally an expensive moving. In some works it is usual to nadian side to the American border fuel, and the drill operator, having no in¬ leave small boilers uncovered. This is whence it will be distributed through terest in reducing the amount of com¬ most expensive neglect. From 25 to 40 central and western New York State. pressed air used by the drill, cannot be per cent, of fuel can be saved by covering. The energy is developed by the Ontario induced to bother with separate reheaters If these boilers are to be used in works Power Transmission Company, Ltd., and attached to each drill. where they are likely to receive rough is handled in New York by the Niagara, usage, it is advisable to protect the cover¬ Lockport & Ontario Power Company. In the manufacture of hollow-metal ing with sheet-iron sheathing. Each cable consists of 19 No. 5 wires. ware—especially in jewelry such as brace¬ Paul Speier, in a recent article in Oest., The power house is on the Canadian side lets and the like—some method is neces¬ Zeit., shows that the spontaneous igni¬ in the gorge at the foot of Horse-Shoe sary to prevent the collapsing of the thin tion of zinc dust is out of the question, Falls. The water is carried in an i8-ft. walls under the strain of working. The when the material is properly packed. steel flume, concrete covered, from a process used is analogous to that of the Wetting of the material is also without point a mile above the Falls. plumber, who fills a lead pipe with hot sand before bending. The jeweler, in¬ danger. Ignition and explosion can The resistance offered by sand or only occur in the presence of air. The stead of sand, uses a cement that is gravel to the flow of water which is per¬ squirted, by means of a ram, into the matter is of some importance, inasmuch colating through it is very great. The as steamship owners sometimes refuse end of the tubing while in the heated water is obliged to pass through very state. As soon as it reaches the other to transport this material, and fire-under¬ small pores, usually capillary in charac¬ end of the tube, this is pressed together writers have stringent regulations with ter. The rate of transmission varies respect to it. in order that the wax-like cement may greatly with the temperature of the wa¬ completely fill it. When all the engrav¬ To heat 700 cu:ft. of free air from 60 deg. ter. For example, a change from 50 deg. ing or other work upon the article has to 353 deg. F., when under 65 lb., requires to 60 deg. is said to increase the capacity been completed, the cement is melted out 12,800 B.t.u. per minute. Allowing 50 per to transmit water, under identical condi¬ before “coloring” the object. Sometimes cent, as the efficiency of the reheater (a tions, by about 16 per cent., while a the cement is left in, when its weight is figure which tests of standard types have change from the freezing temperature to not objectionable; or, to’give the pur¬ shown to be fair), we must develop 25,600 a temperature of 75 deg. will nearly chaser the idea that heavier stock has B.tu. in the reheater per minute, w'hich double the power of a soil to transmit been used; but not as a general thing. will require about 2 lb. of coal per minute, water. These facts have an important or about 2goo lb. per 24 hours. These cal¬ bearing upon the capacity of gravels to The Edison air reheater consists of two culations are based on installation at an furnish water to wells or to transmit concentric cylinders. In the inner one a altitude of 5000 feet. water in the underflow of a river; the coal fire is built, while a portion of the compressed air is passed through the Slag wool was first manufactured for principles involved are also of importance in dealing with the permeability of space between the cylinders, and a por¬ commercial' purposes at the Tees Iron¬ tion is conducted through the fire. Valves works, Middlesbrough, under the patent crushed ore by leaching solutions. are arranged to regulate the proportion of of Charles Wood. Slag wool was at one A good scheme for washing blue¬ air passing through the fire. The work is time used" for the covering of boilers and prints is that seen at the general office intermittent, as the reheater must be opened pipes, but since the introduction of steel of a mining company not long since. The and emptied before a fresh supply of plates its use has diminished for this pur¬ tank in which the prints are washed is fuel can be added. When properly lagged pose, as it is said to cause a pitting on vertical, instead of horizontal (as usual), with asbestos, 90 per cent, of the heat steel plates. Other uses, have, however, and has at the top, a shade roller about units of combustion are imparted to the been found for it. The weight of a cubic 3 in. diameter. This rests upon a pair air as w-ell as all the gases produced by foot of slag wool is not more than 8 lb. of rollers at each end, and turns freely; a the burning coal. The result is that a even when most tightly packed. perforated pipe is arranged at one side horse-power may be added to the com¬ of it, and delivers small streams of water With the ordinary direct-acting under¬ pressed air by burning 0.4 lb. of coal. This against the face of the blue-print. The ground air pumps the amount of com¬ is far below results obtained in any type latter, preparatory to washing, is pinned pressed air required to raise a given of steam or gas engfine. Two men are re¬ together at the ends and the shade- amount of water is appalling. Owing to quired to operate it, and the temperature roller inserted; the roller, with the print the resistance of the water passing through to which it will raise the air is uncertain. hanging from it into the tank, is replaced the valves, as well as the large amount of Sometimes the fire goes out after the re¬ and the water turned on. A quick turn friction developed in direct-acting pumps, heater is closed; sometimes too much air of the roller, together with the streams it has been found that in order to operate passes through the fire, and all the ashes of water directed against the print, keeps a pump of this type at a normal piston are carried along with the air; and some¬ the latter in motion for a sufficient length speed of 100 ft. per minute, the indicated times the fire burns so hot that the air of time to insure thorough washing. horse-power of the air end must be double is raised to temperatures which make lu¬ the useful horse-power of the water end. One of the first air reheaters ever built brication impossible, even exceeding tooo A formula that is extensively used for was designed for use with a rock drill. degrees Fahrenheit. April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 669
Colliery Notes. its output 500 tons per day, but also, it the face cleaned’and prepared for start¬ is claimed, is getting out cheaper coal. ing another cut within 24 hours. Opera¬ In many collieries, especially where The ventilation of a colliery shaft while tion expenses are 60 per cent, lower than si'fety lamps are used exclusively, and sinking is in progress is often done by under the old hand system. Other mines in all mines which are dry and dusty, it compressive ventilation. The air is forced ii the same field obtained good results from employing chain heading ma¬ IS advantageous to fire shots electrically. into the shaft by a powerful blower or chines. When this method is carefully carried fan, the object being to get as strong a out, it is undoubtedly safer than the old current of air into the shaft to displace The coke residue found on the timber and floor of the workings after a coal- system of hand firing. the heavy fumes from the explosives as dust explosion in a colliery, bears evi¬ When pillars are robbed in an irregu¬ soon after blasting as possible. In order dence of the voluminous and rapid dis¬ lar manner trouble from “creep” is lia¬ to carry the air directly to the bottom of tillation that occurs. The coke is only the shaft, wrought-iron pipe 2 ft. in diam¬ ble to be experienced. Pillars sufficient to visibly deposited under special conditions. eter is used, excepting the last length or prevent creep in the first working are Any prominent obstruction to which the sometimes quite incapable of doing so so, which is formed of heavy canvas. soft pasty coal can adhere may retain a when the work of extracting has pro¬ It is becoming more and more evident deposit. Where distillation is arrested, gressed a little. lliat mule haulage is not only too expen¬ the gases may retreat, on account of the When coal undergoes washing and is sive but also is a detriment to large out¬ attenuated condition of the air behind, put into the larry wet, it is found that put. Mules cost from $125 to $250, ac¬ and impelled by air of normal tension in the chute from larry to funnel head of cording to quality and location. One front carrying fine coal-dust in suspen¬ oven should not be under 50 deg. if the company using 200 mules has averaged a sion. If the floors of the haulage ways could be examined immediately after coal is to run quickly and freely into the loss of 48 per year, or four per month. such an explosion, and before the fine ovens. The end of the larry chute should A large Western coal company, using 900 dust disturbed by the violent air move¬ not narrow too quickly, else the coal will mules, killed 174 in 12 months. Counting ments settles, a fine coating of coke-dust clog. the cost of hay and grain, and adding the would be found covering them. Electric motor.s with a self-winding reel loss from accidents shows mule haulage When there is a heavy cover and a bad for carrying their feeder cable with them, to be much more expensive than mechan¬ roof over a coal seam, and especially if the and gathering from the face of rooms are ical haulage by either electric motors or coal is of such a character that it will becoming popular. One of these compressed air. motors has been known to replace seven break up by simply undercutting, and Gas is held in coal seams both mechani¬ mules and seven drivers, and to pull 280 without the use of powder, it is best to cally as occluded gas, and chemically in work such a property by the panel system, cars in eight hours. They can be made bituminous niatter, the extent and volume tc stand only 30 in. over all above the 25 rooms to the panel, driven only from in either case being dependent on the na¬ tail, and will ascend a 9 per cent, grade. the cross entry and not from its air ture of the coal. The South Wales hard course. No room should be broken into In a large mine where part of the coal has been found to hold mechanically the air course ahead, but should be stopped workings are distant from the surface 5000 cu.ft. of gas per ton, measured at or¬ in time to leave a 75- or loo-ft. pillar. The openings, and the fan has an unusually dinary temperature and pressure. The first room in the panel should be separated long pull, it is found beneficial to install occluded gases were found to be com¬ from the main entry by at least a lOO-ft. a “booster” fan in one of the remote air pressed to 200 atmospheres, practically pillar, and the last room in the panel courses which gives the air a new start representing a pressure of 3000 lb. per should likewise have a pillar separating This fan should be 6 or 8 ft. in diameter, sq.in. These great volumes and pressures it from the parallel entry. Each room and cannot be run at more than 200 r.p.m. are in part balanced and controlled by the should have a neck 30 ft. long and 8 ft. without drawing large quantities of dust. absorptive power of the coal. wide. In this way the whole panel is Circular shafts are preferable to rectan¬ It is common tc hear coal men say that enclosed within a barrier pillar, and as gular shafts: (i) when the ground re¬ ?n entry is in a fault when the coal has soon as the last room is driven to its quires reinforcing beyond what is econ¬ thinned down and gradually disappeared. limit the pillars can be brought back and omically possible in rectangular timber¬ A fault is a sudden break of the coal the panel worked out, without injury to ing; (2) where the ground is so wet that seam, the vein disappearing entirely up the haul ways, by the time the rooms in the steel tubbing is necessary; and (3) where or down the line of fracture often telling next panel ahead have been developed. timber is expensive in comparison with which way to lock for it. Before a fault The size of pillars, of course, depends on masonry or concrete. Otherwise rectan¬ is reached the coal generally becomes the weight of cover. One mine having gular shafts possess advantages over cir¬ mixed with rock and clay, while a nearby poor roof and 700 ft. of sandstone above, cular shafts. squeeze is often indicated by a thicker required a barrier pillar of 200 ft. around It appears probable that explosions of seam before the coal disappears. These each panel. This mine has now found it gas in coal mines have periods of fre¬ squeezes are entirely different from profitable to go still further and adopt quency. It is during these periods that faults. The coal when found again is a method of working where they develop miners should take every precaution to generally on the same level as when lost sll the narrow work or entries to the insure safety. During such periods extra .and they should not be classified as limits of the property, and come back with care and vigilance are needed in detecting faults. both pillars and rooms at the same time, and diluting gas, and every practicable Disk coal-cutting machines are useful taking up the steel and saving what few means should be adopted to reduce to a in running entries and rooms in narrow timbers have been used. This system of minimum the tendency toward an explo¬ .seams. At a colliery in Scotland, a disk course entails greater first cost and a sive condition of the mine air. machine has been successfully employed longer wait for returns; still it is a ques¬ Mules continually wear holes in the in this work for several years in a 2 ft. tion whether or not the getting of in¬ track over which they travel; this is es¬ seam. This machine cuts a face 150 ft. creased tonnage per acre does not justify pecially true in wet entries and necessi¬ in width, eight times a week of five work¬ it. The panel system is easy of ventila¬ tates constant repairing or the injuring of ing days. The cut is 3 ft. deep, and, con¬ tion and a heavy fall of roof, or other ob¬ the mules. A large central coal company sequently, the advance is 24 ft. per week. struction, will not impair the air current reduced the number of mules in one of its The actual time occupied in making the in the whole mine. Likewise an explo¬ mines from 124 to 52 by substituting elec¬ cut is about three hours. The undercut sion is more likely to be confined to a tric haulage, and has not only increased coal can be broken down and loaded, and local area. /
THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL,
Correspondence and Discussion. Guanajuato Amalgamated Gold Mines Arkansas Coal. Company. We Invite correspondence npon matters of Sir—In your issue of March lo your Interest to the Industries of mining and metal¬ lurgy. Communications should Invariably be correspondent in Mexico makes a state¬ accompanied with the name and address of the writer. Initials cmly will be published ment regarding this company which I when so requested. wish you would rectify, as it is incorrect. Readers are invited to use this department for the discussion of questions arising In tech¬ In connection with the La Luz section of nical practice or suggested by articles appear¬ ing In the columns of this Jodbnal. Guanajuato he speaks of the properties of I/etters shoud be addressed to the Bdltor. this company, and says that the mines con¬ We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. trolled by us “have been worked by the sons of Mr. Adams in a haphazard way Profits in Mining. for several years.” Sir—In your editorial of March 10 the Your correspondent is evidently mis¬ the records of the Quincy Mining Com¬ taken. The properties controlled by this pany and the Broken Hill Proprietary company were not acquired until last Company are extremely interesting as June, and work was not actually begun showing the real amount of profit ob¬ until last August, prior to which time tained from these mines over long periods neither Mr Adams nor his sons, nor this of time. company, ever had anything to do with I think it may be of interest to your them. The records of the Mining Office readers to supplement these figures with at Guanajuato will confirm this. some of the statistics of the profits made George Kar^ch, Secretary. in the Witwatersrand mines from 1887 New York, March 28, 1906.
WITWATERSRAND STATISTICS.
Issued Dividends nominal Tons Yield per Cost per Profit per declared Period capital of during
crushing 0 c p c a
•d 2. crushed. ton. ton. ton.«
I mines. Average number period. of stamps dropping.
KromlSS: till war. £72,013,649 34,649,506 42s. 2.6d. Bo^r working. l,700,000i' 1001 1,003,267 ; 412,006 488. 8.4d./ 248. lOd./ 238. 11.8d./ 1900 6,074,196 3,410,826 40s. 10.7d./ 26s. 4.2d./ 168. 7.6d./ 1903 £25,816,030 11,844,942 a 3975 6,002,788 39s. 6.6d. 248. 9.6d. 148. 8.2d. 1904 29,994,408 16,462,186 6128 8,120,216 38s. O.ld. 248. 3.7d. 13s. 9.3d. 1906 33,700,000 19,960,0007! 6930V 11,160,422 35s. 6d. 238. 8.8d.« 128. 6.1d.* 1 |£199,848.139 63,665,673 , 1 ■ £660,000 did not tank for dividend. » Estimated. » Approslraately. v At Dec. 1, 1905. » Up to Sept. 30. During the first quarter the cost per ton was 24s. 4.5d., and profit per ton was 12s. 4.1d.; second quarter, cost per ton was 238 9.8d., and profit per ton 12s. 2.8d.; third quarter cost per ton was use. 238., and profit per ton a as 128. 11.5d. r Gold tax not allowed for. /These figures do not exactly agree, as some companies did not give complete figures. until 1905, a copy of which is communi¬ Coal Traffic on the Ohio. Coal Traffic on the Lakes. cated herewith. These figures are authen¬ tic, being compiled from the records of (3 On the Ohio alone, among the rivers, the different companies. It is interesting pgj- does there st em to have been any increase to note the gradually diminishing values pg, in traffic in recent years, and that is con¬ per ton of the ore treated as greater fined almost entirely to coal. The coal depths are being reached. The cost of sent down the Ohio from Pennsylvania extraction per ton is not being lowered and West Virginia is mainly destined for in anything like the same proportion, and Cincinnati and other Ohio river points, the profit per ton appears to have been p^j but a large amount traverses the entire reduced very nearly one half since the gjjjj 2200 miles to New Orleans. Fleets of resumption of work in 1901. tjjg coal barges in tow carrying 10,000 to On the other hand, the actual ratio of ijgj, 15,000 tons ore made up at Pittsburg, and profits to capital invested (which is after j^jjj when the stage of water is favorable are all the main thing) appears to have been gpjj brought down to Louisville, where they not only maintained but somewhat in- (2;jg are made up into fleets of from 35,000 to creased; this has evidently been the result pg^ 40,000 tons, destined for New Orleans. of the enormous increase in treatment ca- pg] The barges are made of wood. The pacity, the number of stamps at work last strongest of them, after discharging their year being practically double those of two fgj cargo, are lowed back to the mines for years previous. cg^ reloading; but 70 per cent, of them are In view of the present agitation in Eng- constructed as cheaply as possible and are land, over the latest situation of the Rand, cqs sold for rough lumber in or near New these figures showing a gradual reduction .^^.g Orleans. This cheap method of transport in the profit per ton would seem to in- (jjg makes possible a rate of $i per ton for the dicate that any action of the Government sol distance of 2200 miles, or less than half a which would lead to hampering the mine vva mill per ton mile, a rate that is superior operators in obtaining cheap labor might .^va to railroad competition. result very quickly in wiping out the pre¬ sent margin of profit. Mining is the art of digging minerals Prussia in 1905 produced 112,999,716 E. Gybbon Spilsbury. and ores out of the earth at the minimum tons of stove coal and 44,237,200 tons of New York, March 21, 1906. of cost and with the maximum of profit, brown coal. April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL.
The Rockwood Mine Water-Car. The car is in use at a number of col- hay and bark. We suffered most from lieries in the Tennessee coal fields, where want of water. Finally we became des¬ The danger existing in coal mines it is said to be giving satisfaction. perate and separated into three parties and from the presence of dust has come to be communicated with each other by shouts. well recognized in present practice, and Escape of Miners at Lens. Last night we felt a draft of fresh several means have been devised to min-, air, which finally guided us to an opening.” imize the danger of explosions from this The disaster at Lens had a startling se- It would appear that the German life¬ source, which have previously been re- quence on March 30, when 13 miners. saving corps remained at the mine for ferred to in the Journal. A new device who had been entombed for 20 days, about three days only, when all hope of is the Rockwood car, which has lately were taken out of shaft No. 2, alive. The saving any of the entombed men was been introduced by S. B. Stine & Son, appearance of the imprisoned men caused abandoned. It will probably be found Osceola Mills, Penn. stupefaction. A gang of salvagers had that only a comparatively few men were This car consists of a steel tank just completed their night’s work, when directly killed by the explosion and that mounted on a platform; as usually con- they were startled to see a group of the majority perished from starvation structed it holds about' 300 gal. Inside . miners, terribly haggard and exhausted after living for many days in great agony, the tank, where it is out of the way, is a and with eyes sunken, appear from a re- - _^ Geographic Names.
,1-—.■ —jr. u j u. u -. i . . The following principles have been Q* ^ f adopted by the United States Board on ^ “I'l' || || I I Geographic Names for guidance in the |,i|' _ || I /// \ selection of place names: |ijl N li - ^ Euphonious and suitable names of In- 11 11,1 L |1 /// il fl\ dian, Spanish or French origin should be I n ^ I'w ^ ^^ \l!— Names suggested by peculiarities of the ° o » «. , o ...2)^ ^1) topographic features designated—such as H( U u ^ vegetation or animal life—are generally .acceptable, but duplication of _^ names, especially within one State, should be avoided. The names “Elk,” “Beaver,” “Cottonwood” and “Bald” are altogether ' too numerous. FIG. I. ROCKWOOD WATER-CAR. Names of living persons should be ap- horizoiiial force pump arranged with a mote part of the workings near shaft No. pbed very rarely, and only those of great system of levers and a countershaft so 2. The strongest of the party stated that eminence should be thus honored, that it can be operated by a detachable they had broken out of a distant entry Long and clumsily constructed names hand lever from the outside of the tank, where they had been entombed since the ‘’ndand names composed of two or more There is also connection with an eccentric disaster of March 10. The rescued men words should be avoided. If the name which is secured to the rear a.xle of the car; were taken up the shaft, but were unable selected consists of more than one word when the car moves the pump makes one to see, the daylight dazzling them. the words should be combined if prac- complete stroke for each revolution of the One of the survivors states that for the ticable. wheel. The pump has a double suction and discharge, each controlled by valves. I hc car is shown in Figs, i and 2. It is filled from a sump or other supply by an arrangement of the valves. The hand lever is then used, thus pumping water from the outside and discharging into the car. The valves are then reversed and the hand lever detached and the eccentric shaft connected. The pump then takes water from the tank and discharges it in a oS continuous stream from the spray nozzle which is used in conjunction with a hose FIG. 2. ROCKWOOD WATER-CAR. of suitable length. The pump meanwhile first eight days the party ate the bark off The possessive form of names should .s being operated by the wheels of the ear ,i°bering of the mine. Later they be avoided, unless the object is owned by while ,n motion. As the riorale is in the ^ i, V_1 f .u i . 1. lUUilU lllC UUUV a IIKJIJK, YVIliVi. invjf hands of the operator the water can be , • , i t- .1. u j- . , , . j . , . rr up and ate with hay. Furthermore he The naming of forks, prongs, branches, directed where most needed, washing off , , 1 • t a said “After the explosion I groped my etc., as “Ea.st Fork” or “North Prong” of both sides and roof as well as wetting way about, stumbling over bodies and a river, should be avoided unless there is the bottom. Since the pump will throw seeking refuge from the gases. I found special reason for it. In most cases inde- a spray from 30 to 50 ft. it will reach into some comrades sheltered in a remote pendent names should be given to a rivePs gob piles or cover wide rooms. niche. We ate earth and bark for eight branches. While the car is generally operated in motion at a speed corresponding to the days and then these provisions gave out. Department of Mines and Agri- ordinary walk of a mule, thus utilizing the We continued to grope among the bodies, culture of New South Wales announces traction power of the wheels, a stream can seeking for an outlet from our prison, that the gold yield of this State for the be thrown when it is at a standstill by but were forced back time and time again, year 1905 was 274,267 oz. fine, valued at the use of the hand lever, which may be We found some hay, which we ate, and £1,165,013; and that to the end of the year desirable in case of fire, or at the face two days afterward we found a dead 1905 the State has produced 12,532,651 oz. of rooms. horse, which we cut up and ate with the of fine gold, valued at £53,235,286. 672 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
Tennesssee Copper Company. Ratio - of Copper to Pig-Iron we need not attribute to artificial manipu¬ lation the existing scarcity. The develop¬ The feature of greatest interest in the Consumption. ment of our iron mines and the capacity of operation of this company in 1905, is that our iron and steel works is such that a raw pyrite smelting has, in this, its first BY JAMES DOUGLAS. large increase in production of raw ore complete year of trial, reduced the cost and finished product can apparently be The high price of copper has excited of making copper by ic. per lb., or 46c. speculation as to its cause. The follow¬ made without seriously affecting the per ton of ore. The heap-roasting meth¬ ing statistics, griving the comparative price, but no large increase in demand od was gradually abandoned in 1904, but quantity of pig iron and copper used in can be made on either our own or the during 1905, no roasted ore was smelted. Extraneous circumstances prevented a the various arts and industries during the world’s copper resources without produc¬ last 10 years, and the ratio of consumption ing scarcity and a high value for the metal. full manifestation of the benefits result¬ between the metals, may throw some light ing from the change, scarcity of labor and upon the subject. The column of produc¬ Abstracts of Official Reports. the unfinished state of the smelter en¬ largement being the retarding elements. tion of iron represents also its consump¬ tion inasmuch as the trifling imports of iron Tamarack Mining Company. In the course of development during the year, 1104 ft. of openings, and 1143 and steel are nearly balanced by our ex¬ The report for 1905 shows an increase of diamond drill holes were made. The ports. The home consumption of copper of nearly 1,000,000 lb. of copper over the Burra Burra mine, the chief producer, is taken from The Mineral Industry, previous year. Development amounted to and is calculated on the production, plus was active throughout the year, except in 8450 ft., of which 5107 ft. was drifting on February, when its shaft was being re¬ importation, minus exports. As larger or the conglomerate. The cost per ton of ore smaller quantities are carried in stock paired. The company’s two other mines, for mining and stamping shows a decrease; Polk County and London, in both of from year to year, the following years are but on the basis of fine copper won the bracketed, namely, 1897 and 1898, 1899 and which mining was suspended in 1904, 1900, 1904 and 1905. The couples then cor¬ cost of production shows an increase, were re-opened in 1905. The output of each mine during the year, and the re¬ respond closely with the average, and owing to the lower copper contents of the with the consumption of other years. ore in 1905. serves of positive ore remaining in each, at the year’s end, were: comparative statement of the production of iron and copper in the U. 8. Mined, Reserves, 1896—1906. 1906. Dec. 31,1905. Pig iron Tons pig Copper Tons of pig Burrs Burra, tons. 2,225,000 Copper Per cent, of . 131,664 produced Per cent, of Per cent, of Iron pro¬ consumed iron con¬ London,tons. . 63,376 446,000 Year. and produced. copper to duced to sumed to in the U. S. Polk County, tons. . 17,802 316,000 consumed. increase. Increase. one ton one ton Long Tons. iron. Long Tons. copper. Long Tons. copper. Total, tons. .212,831 2,986,000 1896 8,623,127 208,760 2.42 41 102,083 83 Further resources, disclosed by the dia¬ 7 9,662,680 11.94 223,826 7.22 2.32 43 122,601 8 11,773,934 21.97 239,241 6.89 2.03 49 122,382 196 mond drill, are estimated at 1,070,000 9 13,620,703 16.68 269,617 8.47 1.91 62 174,822 1900 13,789,242 1.24 268,229 3.36 1.96 61 155,169 188 tons. 1 16,878,364 16.16 271,949 1.39 1.71 68 196,836 81 2 17,821,307 12.23 288,342 6.03 1.62 62 213,300 84 At the smelter the same equipment of 3 18,009,261 1.05 319,043 10.65 1.77 56 224,026 80 three 56xi8o-in. water-jacketed furnaces 2.26 44 215,264 4 16,497,033 •8.60 372,233 16.36 83 III 6 23,010,625 39.48 413,066 10.96 1.79 66 262,678 \88 that was formerly run on roasted ore, was
148,676,266 12.25 2,864,205 7.92 1.93 52 1,789,061 83 in constant use throughout the year; the * Decrease. only alteration necessitated by the changed method was to substitute water- The production of copper shows much The operations of the two years com¬ jacketed crucibles for the solid crucibles slighter variations than that of iron, due pare as follows: previously used. One of the newly con¬ to the fact that the copper mmers, being 1904. 1906. Ore hoisted, tons. 760.189 871,636 structed 56x27o-in. furnaces was com¬ unprotected by either tariff or trusts, have Ore stamped, tons. 642,320 760,120 pleted in time to go in blast in December. no inducement to restrict their output to Mineral recovered, lb. 22,662,070 24,780,946 Fine copper in mineral, %_ 66.022 63.856 The tonnage of charge put through dur¬ the demands of a home market, but have Fine copper per ton ore stamped, lb. 23.8 21.1 ing the year consisted of: Ore, 229,116; for many years opened and sustained com¬ Fine copper produced, lb. 14,961,886 16,824,008 converter slag, 14,294; blast furnace by¬ mercial relations with the world at large. Cost per lb. copper, for: Mining and stamping. 10.64c. 11.31c. products, 15,647; blast furnace flue-dust What is peculiarly interesting is the ratio Construction. 1.08 0.56 Smelting, freight, soiling. briquettes, 2,802; quartz flux, 51,452; of home consumption of copper to that of etc. 1.36 1.61 limestone flux, 332; first matte and cus¬ iron. During the 10 years illustrated in the Total cost. 12.98c. 13.37c. tom matte, 54,710. Total, 368,353. The table the consumption of copper has been Cost per ton ore stamped, for: Mining. $1.20 $2.17 amount of coke used was 19,473 tons. one ton of copper to 83 tons of iron, and so Stamping. .26 .22 The second, or high-grade matte from uniform is the proportionate use of the Total. $2.46 $2.39 blast-furnace concentration was besse- rarer to the baser metal that, assuming the During 1905 one compound stamp, with merized in two converters; a third, elec¬ bracketed years merely to correct vari¬ its re-crushing rolls and concentrating ap¬ trically operated, stand has been erected, ations due to shifting stocks or temporary paratus, was installed in mill No. 2. The and the two old ones will be reconstructed disturbances, the ratio of consumption of remaining six simple stamps in Nos. i and to be operated electrically, instead of hy¬ copper to iron has never fallen below i to 2 are to be replaced by four compounds draulically as at present. These convert¬ 80, nor risen above i to 87. But during in 1906. The principal savings by the ers treated also the Ducktown company's 1905 the percentage in increase of pig iron change already noted b^ve occurred in second matte. The comparatively high over 1904 was 39.48 per cent, though the fuel consumption and in tailing loss. price of pig copper during 1905, rendered average for 10 years was only 12.25 pcr Sales of copper brought in $2,448,240. it uneconomical to refine any of the year’s cent, while the increase of copper pro¬ Operating expenses at the mine were output; the refinery therefore stood idle duction in 1905 over 1904 was only 10.95 $1,789,243; smelting, freight and selling and the whole output was sold as pig and per cent., or only 3 per cent above the cost, $239,876; and $86,414 was spent on shot copper. The fine copper yield of average. construction, leaving a net profit of $332,- the year included 8,125,725 lb. in besse- If, therefore, there has been a demand 707, out of which dividends aggregating mer pig and 135,257 lb. in shot copper; for copper in the ratio of i to 83 of iron, $300,000 were paid. Adding the balance the stock of copper in treatment was to meet the requirements of the trade, the brought up from past years, makes a sur¬ 283,000 lb. less at the end than at the be¬ stocks of copper must be very low, and plus of $848,589 to carry forward. ginning of the year, wherefore the net April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 673
production was 7,977,1^2 lb. of copper. ton of ore and the pound of copper, the Patents Relating to Mining and This was equivalent to 34.82 lb. per ton totals need not be itemized. The profit Metallurgy. of ore, or 1.74 per cent. and loss account for the year, in brief, Based on these figures, the detailed op¬ stands thus: UNITED STATES. erating costs f.o.b. cars Tennessee, are Copper production, net profit. $482,110 The following is a list of patents relating shown to be: Royalties, tolls, etc. 61,688 to mining and metallurgy and kindred sub¬ Interest and discount. 13,126 jects, issued by the United States Patent Per ton Per lb. Office. A copy of the specifications of any of Total Income. $366,824 Ore. Cop[)er. these will be mailed by The Enoinbebino AND Mining Joubnal upon the receipt of 25 Mines development. $ .1712 $ .0049 Depreciation. $ 62,043 Mining, hoisting, etc.6861 .0197 cents. In ordering specifications, correspond¬ Interest on bonds. 22,600 ents are requested to name the issue of the Crushing and sorting.1060 . 0031 Commission and discount. 20,176 Railway.1279 . 0037 Joubnal in which notice of the patent appeared. Blast furnace. 1.2460 . 0358 Total charges. $104,718 Engineering and laboratory.0534 . 0016 General.1646 ,0044 Profit tor the year 1906. $462,106 Week Ended Mar. 30, 1906. Converting.2313 . 0066 Balance from 1904 . 466,396 813,936 and 815,937. STAMP-MILL.—Mar¬ tin P. Boss, San Francisco, Cal. Filed Jan. $2.7766 $ .0797 Available for dividends. $918,602 14, 1903. Adjustment of ore account.0372 . 0011 Dividend No. 3, paid. 218,760 816,021. DRILL-BIT-ROTATING MECHAN¬ ISM FOR ROCK-DRILLING ENGINES.— Cost of fine copper in pig. $2.8127 $ .080 Balance carried forward. $699,762 John G. Leyner, Denver, Colo. Filed June The corresponding totals for 1904 were 22, 1903. Of the amount written off for depre¬ 816,065. SYSTEM OF EXCAVATING AND $3.27 and $.0918, showing marked econ¬ ciation, $37,043 was applied to the elimina¬ FILLING VATS.—Hiram W. Blalsdell, omy in spite of the difficulties attendant Los Angeles, Cal. Filed Oct. 23, 1902. tion of the roasting yard from the assets. 816,071. HOISTING APPARATUS.—Jere¬ upon changes in practice. Subsequent Since July i, 1901, all construction and miah Campbell, Providence, R. I. Filed charges in 1905 were 0.68c. per lb. of cop¬ Jan. 14, 1905. improvements have been charged to op¬ 816,090. ROCK-DRILL OR ROCK-DRILL¬ per for freight, insurance and selling ex¬ erating; the heavy construction now un¬ ING MACHINE.—Henry Heilman and Lewis C. Bayles, Johannesburg, Transvaal. penses and 0.52c. for taxes and general der way has suspended for a time, the pay¬ Piled Aug. 15, 1904. expenses, making a total cost of $0.0928 ment of dividends. During the year, 25,- 816,142. PROCESS OF MAKING IRON ' FROM THE ORE.—Robert H. Aiken, Win- per lb. of copper sold. The selling price 000 shares of treasury stock were sold at throp Harbor, Hi. Fiied June 1, 1903. averaged 16.54c. per lb. for the year. par, and the $625,000 is being held in the 816,214. PEAT-OVEN.—Patrick J. Buckley, The Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Waukesha, Wis. Filed May 27, 1905. treasury, with which to enlarge the com¬ 816,222. BLAST-FURNACE CHARGING AP¬ Company, under agreement with the Ten¬ pany’s operations. PARATUS.—John W. Dougherty, Steelton, nessee company,took 60,073 long tons of Pa. Filed Mar. 17, 1905. 816,243. AMALGAMATOR.—William H. iron ore during the year. Questions and Answers. Morgan, Los Angeles, Cal. Filed June 30, The company’s railway handled 305,911 1905. 816,303. GRAPHITE-SEPARATOR.-John tons of freight (ore, slag and matte) in Lime Roasting of'Galena. H Davis, Glen Falls, N. Y. Piled May 11, its own cars, and 233,006 tons in foreign 1905. Will you kindly give me references to 816,341. WELL-DRILLING MACHINE.— cars. ll;e Huntington-Heberlein and Savelsberg William L. Knowles, Hatton, Ohio. Filed The total average force employed dur¬ Apr. 22, 1905. processes, and the numbers of the pat¬ 816,389. SLAG CEMENT AND METHOD ing the year numbered 963 men, of whom ents? X. Y. Z. OF MAKING THE SAME.—Joseph A. 233 were in the mines, 370 at the smelter, Shinn, Pittsburg, Pa. Filed July 8, 1901. Answer—The literature is already ex¬ 816,491. MAGNETIC ORE-SEPARATOR.— 187 doing construction work and the rest Richard R. Moffatt, Brooklyn, N. Y., as¬ tensive. As to the H.-H. process, see the signor to Imperial Ore Separator Company, on railroad and miscellaneous w'ork. Journal, Oct. 20, 1904; July 6, 1905; a Corporation of New York. Original ap¬ plication filed July 19, 1904. New construction finished or inaugur¬ Sept. 2, 1905; Oct. 14, 1905; Oct. 21, 1905. ated in 1905, includes four 56x27o-in. fur¬ The Savelsberg process was described in GREAT BRITAIN.. naces with flues, dust chambers and a 325- the Journal of Dec. 9, 1905. Yhe H.-H. ft. brick stack, mills for mixing and The following is a list of patents published process is protected in the United States by the British Patent Office on subjects con¬ charging converter linings, and new cars by patents No. 600,347 (March 8, 1898) nected with mining and metallurgy. and bins at the smelter; new boiler house, and No. 786,814 (Apr. ii, 1905). The three Nordberg cross-compound blowing- Week Ended Mar. 17. 1906. process is now used as described in the 472 of 1905. BRIQUETTING MACHINE.— engines affording 30,000 cu.ft. of air per latter patent. The Savelsberg process is National Fuel Company, New York. A bri¬ quetting machine consisting of a chain of minute, electric generators and two addi¬ covered by patent No. 755,598 (March 22, connected molds movable about two cylind¬ tional boilers of 500 h.p. each, at the ers. with molding plungers carried by the 1904). The Carmichael-Bradford process molds. A mechanism for successively mov¬ power plant; new pumping station with was described in the Journal of Oct. 28, ing the plungers toward molding centers formed on one of the cylinders, and means two 2800-gal. per min. centrifugal pumps 1905. It is protected by U. S. patent No. of expelling the briquettes. and three 100,000-gal. storage tanks for 705,904 (July 29, 1902). 2532 of 1905. ZINC OXIDE PRODUCTION. W. G. Rumbold, G. Patchln and J. W. the water supply system. Numerous Hughes, London. A modification of the dwelling houses have been built for work¬ The Dessau Gas Retort. process for producing zinc oxide from complex zinc ores in which the ore is men and superintendents. A large quart¬ In the Journal of Jan. 27, page 184, roasted, lixiviated with ferric sulphate, the other metals precipitated with metallic zite deposit 40 miles from the smelter, has reference is made to the Dessau gas re¬ zinc, and the solution of zinc sulphate been leased for 10 years, and a quarry is tort. Not having been able to find any treated with ammonia for the precipitation of hydrated oxide of zinc. being opened with a plant for supplying reference to this in your advertisements, 2619 of 1905. FLUX.—A Gutensohn. Lon¬ 500 tons per day of rock suitable for will you kindly furnish me the name and don. In smelting slllclous ores of low grade, the use of a flux containing five flux. address of the maker, or agent, of the parts of borate of manganese, two and a half of fluorspar and one part of carbon. Experiments on the gases from the retort in this country? J. P. K. 5984 of 1905. ELECTRIC FURNACE ELEC¬ pyrite furnace have been continued, and Answer—We are unaware that this re¬ TRODE.—E. F. Price. J. G. Marshall and G. E. Cox. Niagara Falls. U. S. A. Improved they indicate that the gas is sufficiently tort is manufactured, or represented, in form of electrode for use in calcium car¬ rich, while also sufficiently pure, to be this country. The patents are controlled bide furnaces. 6185 of 1905. COLLECTION OF FUMES.— utilized in making sulphuric acid; the by the Dessauer Vertical-Ofen Gesell- G. A. Mower, London. Fixing a hood erection of a imit w'ith a capacity of 400 schaft, of Berlin, Germany. around furnaces, such as zinc distilling furnaces, in order to catch any escaping tons of acid per day, is anticipated within fumes, and drawing such fumes away by a year. The official tests to determine the vapor¬ a fan to a settling chamber. 6290 of 1905. AI.LOY.—M. Wagner, Wies¬ The treasurer’s report gives the cost of izing power of New Caledonian coal are baden, Germany. An alloy for use for ornamental purposes consisting of 65 te mining, smelting and general operating in finished (Revue Mineralogique) ; they 76 per cent. tin. 20 to 25 per cent, antl- admirable detail; the essential items hav¬ have demonstrated that this coal is 25 per monv. and 4 to 10 per cent, arsenic. Plates made of this alloy show the ing been given above, on the basis of the cent, superior to Australian coal. crystalline structure in an ornamental way. 674 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906.
a severe attack of typhoid fever. He is mining expert for the Rock Island sys¬ Personal. at the company’s hotel in Butte. tem, president of the Coal Valley Mining Mining and metaliurgicai engineers are in¬ Daniel M. Watters, recently at Sumpter, Company, of Illinois, and the Rock Island vited to. keep The Engineering and Mining Journal informed of their movements and Oregon, has moved his office to Baker Coal Company in the Indian Territory. appointments. City, Oregon, and has taken over the F. E. Junge and H. Diederichs, of Sibley Edward L. Dufourcq has returned from laboratory of Frank J. Davey there. College, Cornell University, have associ¬ Peru, having arrived in New York March • E. W. Sebben has returned to Denver ated themselves as consulting engineers, 29. from Arizona, where he was in the in¬ with headquarters at 150 Nassau street. W. E. Defty, of Phanix, Arizona, terests of the Houston & Arizona Copper New York. They propose to devote their will be in Oregon during the early part Company, of which he is consulting en¬ attention exclusively to the subject of gas of April. gineer. power, and have entered upon an agree¬ ment for mutual co-operation with Dr. \V. G. Moore has left England for Bor¬ We regret to hear that Jam.;s M. Lucke, of Columbia University. neo, where he will investigate gold-mining Swank, general manager of the American properties. Iron and Steel Association, ha-, been The British Government has awarded H. F. Poland, of Boston, representing seriously ill, having undergone an opera¬ the Albert medal for bravery to Edward the mining interests of H. C. Burrage, is tion at a Philadelphia hospital. Nicholls, a West Australian miner em¬ ployed in the Lake View Consols mine, visiting Butte. Newton W. Emmens is on his way to Kalgoorlie. Nicholls was employed in the F. B. 1 iffany of the Gold Run Mining inspect 'the properties of the Pittsburg & i200-ft. level in the mine with two com¬ and Tunnel Company, of Boulder, Colo., Sonora Mining Company in the district of panions charging a round of holes with is in the East on business, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico and will retuni to dynamite, when a charge exploded pre¬ Pittsburg by way of Tonopah, Nevada. J. D. Spargo has been appointed super¬ maturely and seriously injured two of the intendent for the Enterprise Mining Com¬ Bruno Newman has resigned his posi¬ men. Nicholls then, in the face of immi¬ pany, at Kingman, Arizona. tion with the American Smelting and Re¬ nent danger, rescued his companions from O. H. Fairchild arrived in Denver a fining Company at Aguascalientes, and further injury under most difficult cir¬ few days ago from Arizona and left on a has been appointed engineer of the Sta. cumstances. Francisca mine of the same company, at professional trip to Washington. Albert Peter Low, of the Dominion Asientos, Mexico. W. Spencer Hutchinson, of New York, Geological Survey, has been appointed di¬ Flores Osmond, the eminent French is on his way to Grant’s Pass, Oregon, rector of the Survey in succession to the metallurgist, has been awarded the Bes¬ to examine mining properties there. late Dr. Dawson. The position has re¬ semer Medal for 1906 by the Council of Fred G. Farish has returned from mained vacant for some years, during the Iron and Steel Institute of Great which time Dr. Robert Bell has been act¬ Guerrero, Mex. and is now on his way Britain for his work on recalescence into Sinaloa on professional business. ing director. Mr. Low was born in Mon¬ phenomena and in metallography. treal in 1861 and graduted at McGill L’ni- W. H. Knowles, of Rollinsville, Colo., William Brown, for the past two years versity with high honors in 1882. He im¬ has returned after a visit of several weeks superintendent of the open-hearth depart- mediately joined the staff of the Geologi¬ to Pittsburg and other Eastern cities. runt of the Dominion Iron and Steel cal Survey and was appointed geologist John G. Goodier, manager of the Abun¬ Company. Sydney, N. S., has resigned in 1891. For upward of six years he was dance Company, Breckenridge, Colo., has and will shortly return to the United engaged in exploration work in Labrador returned from a visit to Eastern points. States. and in 1903-04 had charge of the explor¬ C. L. Whittle has returned to his office Herr Schmeisser, the director of the ing expedition of the “Neptune” to the in Boston, after three months spent in the Berlin School of Mines and director of north of Hudson Bay, which won him examination of gold properties in Costa the Prussian Geological Survey, has been world-wide recognition. He is a member Rica. appointed head of the Department of of many scientific societies and in 1896 H. W. Hardinge has returned from Mines at Breslau, and Herr Bornhardt, of received the McGill memorial prize from London and will be in New York City for Bonn, has been appointed to succeed him. the Royal Geographical Society in ac¬ a few days. Address, care Engineers’ Dr. Robert Bell, late acting director of knowledgment of his services to geograph¬ Club. the Geological Survey of Canada, will re¬ ical science. ,\lex. Livingston, one of the best known ceive the medal of the Royal Geographi¬ cal Society in recognition of his work as civil engineers of Western Canada, has Obituary. gone to the Peace River country on an an explorer. King Edward having ap¬ exploring expedition. proved of the recommendation of the So¬ George Lansell, the well-known gold¬ J. L. Crump, of St. Paul, Minn., has ciety to that effect. mine owner, of Bendigo, Victoria, died in been looking after mining interests of T. C. Cloud, of .Steinhart, Vogel & that city on March 18. Mr. Lansell was a the Anglo-Saxon Mining Company at Cloud, of London, left that city March 23 great advocate of deep sinking and in¬ Georgetown, Colorado. for Argentina in connection with the vested largely in mines which were aban¬ Wm. G. Mather, president of the Cleve¬ smelter to he erected at Chilecito for the doned when the water level was reached, land Cliffs Iron Company, Clevel.anrl. has Famatina Development Corporation. He and whenever values fell off. Mr. Lan- returned from a two months’ trip to expects to be away from London about sell's mines were developed to great Germany and Scandinavia. two months. depths and were very profitable. He was A London press despatch daitecl March one of the richest miners in Victoria. G. G. S. Lindsey, general manager of 24 states that, after an official Inquiry, the Crows’ Nest Pass Coal Company, Eugene Grasselli, of the Grasselli Percy Gilchrist was committed tc an has returned to Fernie, B. C., after spend¬ Chemical Company, died at Albuquerque. asylum for the insane. In collaboration ing some months in the East. N. M., March 20, 1906. Mr. Grasselli with his cousin, Sidney Thomas, he in¬ was born in Cincinnati in i860. His P. Carmody, Government analyst and vented the Thomas-Gilchrist or basic father was the founder of the well known professor of chemistry in the Technical converter process of manufacturing steel. company to which he gave his name, in School, Trinidad, British West India, is Carl Scholtz has been appointed mining which the son also won a prominent po¬ visiting friends in England. engineer for the St. Louis &. San Fran¬ sition, being a director and vice-president. Oscar Rohn, manager of the Pittsburg cisco Railroad, with headquarters ir the Eugene Grasselli claimed Cleveland & Montana property, is recovering from Old Colony building, Chicago. He is also as his home, at the time of his death; April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 675 he was prominent in that city not only in The Calkins Company, Los .Angeles, pany, Mansfield, Ohio, has opened an of¬ other lines as in banking and trust con¬ Cal. Catalog “E,” Appliances for As- fice at 95 William street. New York, which cerns, but also was active in society, and sayers; Pp. 51, illustrated; indexed; paper, has been placed in charge of A. 1. Laing. generous in charitable work. His brother, 4 by 8 in. Samples of the company’s iron and brass C. A. (irasselli, is president of the I. Weil, 2026 Farmers Bank Building, pumps will be carried. company. Pittsburg, Pa. The Weil System of End¬ R. R. Nicely has been appointed Aus¬ less Rope Haulage. Pp. 4; illustrated; tralian representative of the J. George Societies and Technical Schools. paper, by 8j^ inches. Leyner Engineering Works, Denver, Wickes Brothers, 137-139 Liberty St., Colo. His office is located in Melbourne, American Electrochemical Society— New York City. Booklet, The Murphy A^ictoria. A large stock of Leyner ma¬ The ninth general meeting of this society Little Champion Rock Drills; Pp. 4, il¬ chine drills will be carried in Melbourne. is to be held from May 1-3, 1906, at Ith¬ lustrated ; paper, 6 by 9 in. The Power and Mining Machinery aca, N. Y., in the Cornell University Company, Milwaukee, Wis., has opened buildings. P. H. & F. M. Roots Company, Con- nersville, Ind. Catalog No. 32, Rotary an office at 312 17th street, Denver, Colo. Massaehusetts Institute of Teehnology Blowers, Gas Exhausters and Pumps; Pp. This new office is in charge of Henry F. —.Xl a meeting of the Mining Engineer¬ 20, illustrated; paper, 7 by 10 in. Jurs as district manager, who will give ing Society of the Institute held March 9 his personal attention to all inquiries com¬ at the Tech. Union, in Boston, E. G. Ache- Crawford & McCrimmon Company, Brazil, Ind., Hoisting and Hauling En¬ ing from Colorado, Wyoming and New sen, president of the International .Xche- Mexico. son Graphite Company, of Niagara Falls gines, Ventilating Fans, Acid Proof The United States District Court for read an interesting paper on “Discovery Pumps. Pp. 44; illustrated; paper, lYz by AVestern Pennsylvania, sitting at Pitts¬ and Invention.’’ After brief mention of 8 inches. burg, has issued decrees in the suits for his early work .Mr. .Acheson told of his I he Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, patent infringement of the Stirling Com¬ c; Special Correspondence. ical Company. It is expected that the pursued their development work, ship¬ building and equipment of the plants will ping sacks of rich ore to San Francisco, consume about two years. The first plant Helderman and Vesner have sold their San Francisco. March 31. is to be equipped to treat for chemical claim to Searchlignt mining men for The principal topic of interest in this values the pyrites found in the mines $150,000. It was first bonded for that city during the past week has been the owned by Frank M. Smith and associates amount, and last week was bought out- visit of the president of the American in the hills near Mills College. Sul- right. Smelting Company and his definite an¬ phuric acid is the chief value to be ob- - nouncement that the extensive new smelt¬ tained, and with the acid thus saved other Butte. April 2. ing plant so long spoken of will be erected chemicals are to be manufactured and , , .... ?t San Bruno point on the San Francisco other buildings and plants for that pur- ^ two weeks period of uiterrup- bay shore some 13 miles south of the city. pose erected. The new plant is located at tion as a result of cold weather, the inm- Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, of the Guggen¬ the site of the old Melrose smelter, cov- companies of Butte have assumed a heim Exploration Company, the American ering a tract of 80 acres which has been ‘ condition and are once more work- Smelting and Refining Company and the held for this purpose for several years. blast The Gagnon mine, which American Smelters’ Securities Company Frank M. Smith is president, and the 7 to permit of repairs states that the new smelter will have a most heavily interested stockholder, and the shaft, was re-opened today, a month capacity of 45,000 tons of ore monthly, H. Dupont is the secretary. ^han was at first anticipated. Dur- T., ..u 4. ..u u • T7 1 ing the suspension the property was put in and the capital to be invested in plant and The news that the Guggenheim Explora- ^, , ■ , 111 ^ r 1.- 1 T 1. TT Ti good shape for production and with luck accessories will be about $5,000,000. It t’on Company, of which John Hays Ham- ... , . . r , . -j 4 u HU j will be a continuous producer of copper will be a custom smelter, and will han¬ mond IS president, has finally secured , . * 1 4 1 f XT 1 /- 1-j 4 j ore for some time. It is one of the Amal- dle not only California but Nevada ores, control of the Nevada Consolidated group , . • . r • 4 t:-! T»ru-4 o- gamated group and yields about 400 tons as well as those from Central America, of copper mines at Ely, White Pine , , XT j • • j -41. 1 of ore a day. The Washoe smelter is .Mexico, Alaska, etc. Incidentally it county, Nevada, is received with pleasure . . ■ . . , 4 11. 41. -11 u again in operation in all departments may be mentioned that the company has here, not only because the ores will be . V • . 4 j 4 41. n • 4 c D I the output of copper from it this month entered into a 25 years’ contract with treated at the new Point San Bruno smel- ... , , . , r ^ .4 1. o T- Will not be so large as last month, for Chas. M. Schwab to smelt the ores from ter, but because San Francisco men were , . , ,, ,, r . ,, T-i /- , • j during the cold spell from one to three his Nevada mines, so that the talk of a the sellers. Ihe Guggenheims secured ... , ^ 4 ^ sections of the concentrator were out ol new smelter to be built by that gentle¬ 54 per cent, of the 1,200,000 shares at . . tf. , commission. man is disproven. Arrangements will be $12.50 per share, netting quite a tidy sum made to condense the fumes and sul¬ to the sellers, who retain 46 per cent, of ^ be new concentrator at the Clark plani phuric acid will be manufactured, as well the stock, now quoted at about $20 per '^‘>1 be fipished the first week in April as fertilizers. Ores from China may also share. The largest owners were Mark simultaneously with the beginning oi be handled, the company having obtained L. Requa, Fred W. Bradley and Mr. Mac- work in it the new converters Will b( valuable concessions in that country. The Kenzie, Requa owning the most shares, started. All of the furnaces have beer lailroad from Valdez, Alaska, into the In a letter that was received by State connected with the flues and 3S2*ft. stack copper region of that district will bring Mineralogist Aubury, the statement was These are the first converters used ii ores to the seaboard cheaply, and they made over the signature of J. S. Stice, this plant. Prior to their instalment the will be reduced at the new plant on this Post Office Inspector at St. Louis, Mis- company used blister copper furnaces bay. souri, that a fraud order had been issued which were put in three years ago as ai The Selby smelting works, now owned against the Clover Creek Quicksilver Min- c-.xperiment. Before the old conccntrato by the Guggenheim companies, are being ing Company, dated March i. The mines burned the company was making abou enlarged, and arrangements are being car¬ of the company are in Shasta county, near t,600,000 lb. of copper a month Sino ried out for condensing the fumes, so as Redding, California. State ^lineralogist tlien it has been making only i,oco,ooo lb to avoid future damage suits and manu¬ Aubury has been seeking to have proced- in its Butte plant and getting betweei facture sulphuric acid. lire begun ever since October, 1904. The 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 from the Washoe The Bay Point Smelter, above Mar¬ operations of this company were recently to which it has been shipping about 50 tinez, formerly owned by the Copper mentioned in the Journal. tons of ore a day. These shipments wil King Mining Company, is being cleared W. P. Hammon and associates have cease tomorrow, up and put in shape for work, and will again taken up active dredging operations Directors of Butte & London me soon be at work again. It is probable on the Bear river. They will operate two 4\larch 24 and ratified the sale of a con that it will be sold to satisfy the judg¬ of the very latest types of dredge boats, trolling interest in the stock of the com ment of $177,767 recently given to the The pit for the first boat is now finished pany to the Venture Company, Ltd., 0 Crocker-Woolworth Bank by Judge and the machinery is being delivered. l.ondon. Acting on advices from Londoi Wells. Immediately after, it is said, the After several months of untiring labor they also elected Frederick W Bake: smelter will be started up. For several the w'ater has been all pumped out of the John C. Montgomery and Leonard Smitl years there has been no one at the plant Banner mine. Sinking will now com- of the Venture, directors in Butte & Lor except a watchman. The Copper King mence with vigor. The Banner, which is don and granted the Venture permissio mine is shipping its ore to Tacoma at east of Nevada City, was once a rich to appoint the consulting engineer an present and rapidly paying off its indebt¬ producer, but lay idle for a long time be- select a register and transfer agent for th edness. fore the present company took hold. company in New York. The Butte ' The Great Western smelter at Ingot, People around Manvel, San Bernardino London has its shaft down about 190 fl Shasta county, has been started up again county, are much excited over a rich gold but is not yet through the wash on tl: after a two weeks’ shut-down due to discovery between that place and Goffs, bedrock. s scarcity of fuel. A new furnace with Men, women and children have taken to Boston & Montana is shaping the We; 150 tons capacity will soon be installed at the little buttes, and from mining camps Colusa mine for greater production, the smelter. The machinery is at Bella within a radius of 100 miles people are has finished cutting the station on tb Vista already loaded on the wagons ready pouring in. The strike is located in the i6oo-ft. level and is now cutting one c to be hauled to Ingot. Vontrigger buttes, where the original the 1500. When this is through, sinkir Ground has been broken at Melrose, strike was made by Gustaye Vesner and will be resumed and 400 ft. added to tl Alameda county, for the first of a series Jacob Helderman. Early last February sl;aft. The company has its new 1200-I of chemical plants for the Oakland Chem- thev uncovered a rich ledge. Quietly they shaft on the Leonard almost finished ar April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 677 is erecting the steel head-frame, which a few days, and the mining industry will this winter at and near Winfield, at the will be 156 ft. high. move along with its accustomed regularity. head of Clear creek. Reins Copper has reached a depth of A barricade composed of log cribbing, The lessees on the Ibex are shipping 1165 ft. It has 55 ft. to sink, 20 for the filled in with stone, saved the boarding in the neighborhood of 9,000 tons per sump. Two pumps are to be placed on the and bunk houses, upper terminal of the month, mostly silicious ore, and the av¬ 1200. It will take a month to finish the tramway and other buildings at the Lib¬ erage value holds up to $10 per ton. shaft and five weeks to cut the station and erty Bell mines from being carried away This is outside of the Nicholson lease in install the pumps. The north vein is by a gigantic slide. The bulwark was the zinc body. Some work is being car¬ supposed to be about 50 ft. from the built during the*summer following Feb. ried on in virgin ground and the results shaft. 28, 1902, when 19 persons were killed and so far have been satisfactory. In the im¬ East Butte Copper is not doing much at buildings demolished by a stupendous mense body of low-grade silicious ore, present. Lessees are still mining the slide. When the recent avalanche came there are frequently found rich pockets ground, and while they are getting some down, "it was deflected by the wail of stone of gold ore._ ore they are not working in large veins. and cribbing, and the only injury result¬ Good progress is being made driving The veins in this part of the district con¬ ing was to the trestle-work between the the maip drift from the breast of the Yak tain better values between the surface and mouth of the working tunnel and upper tunnel to the Golden Eagle, and this week 250-ft. mark than they do deeper. terminal of the tramway. After the slides a double track is being laid. From the The Butte-Mihvaukee Mining Company the employees came down towm and re¬ "upper workings of the mine 20 tons daily has been organized in Butte. It has a mained several days, but the mines and of silicious ore are being sent to the capitalization of $3,000,000 in shares of mill are again operating as usual. smelter. $2 each. The company has two groups A slide in Bear creek basin broke in Work has been started on the Bug of claims, one of five in the Argenta the side of the lo-stamp mill on the prop¬ Gold tunnel. Big English gulch, and it district of Beaverhead county and the erty of the Adams Gold Mining and Mill¬ will be driven to the main orebody other, five claims, in Butte. Development ing Company and tore out the lower ter¬ opened in the shaft. There is plenty of is to begin within 30 days. John F. minal of the tramway, necessitating the low-grade gold ore in this mine and the Cowan, Owsley block, Butte, will be man¬ closing down of the mine and mill until driving of the tunnel is to prospect it at ager. The Butte claims are the Pollock, the tram is repaired. In the Ophir section greater depth and to drain the mine. Sarah, Bird, Col. Sellers and a portion a slide crushed in the side of the Carri- The tunnel of the Emerald Mining of the Comstock. They are a short dist¬ beau mill, another gave the Butterfly mill Company, West Sheep mountain, is in ance northeast of the Alice property. A a severe shaking up, and a third carried 130 ft., and is being driven on the vein, 300-ft. lead of copper cropping traverses out a bridge on the county road between which carries values in silver and lead. the Sarah, Bird and Col. Sellers. Ophir Loop and San Bernardo. On the The Tucson shaft, belonging to the Morning Star mine, in Bilk creek basin, Iron Silver Mining Company, and the ex¬ Cripple Creek. March 31. a slide crushed the boarding and bunk- tension east of the Moyer, is down 90a ft., and is in the parting quartzite; about The Dorcas mill at Florence was house and blacksmith shop like egg shells, another 100 ft. will be sunk before drift¬ burned to the ground this week. The but fortunately the timber in the bunk- ing to the orebody opened by the diamond cause of the fire, as far as is known, was house held up the debris in such a way drill is started. The Moyer is shipping from an electric wire. It is understood as to enable the few occupants to crawl out alive. steadily 300 tons daily. that a fair amount of insurance was on The tunnel being driven by the East the property. The mill has been doing Leadville. March 29. Lake Creek Mining and Milling Company, a large amount of business in handling Mayor S. M. McElroy, of Pittsburg, is now in 60 ft., leaving 400 ft. still to be. Cripple Creek ores for some time past. k.as been in the camp for the past few driven before the cross-cut reaches the The mill will probably not be rebuilt. days, and asserts positively that the finan¬ veins opened on the surface. The prop¬ The burning of the mill will not make cial end of the Shinn tunnel is all erty is located in Eagle county, at the any material difference in the handling light, and that whenever the snow disap¬ head of Lake creek, which joins the Holy of the ores of this district, as there are pears from the head of Empire gulch to Cross range. a number of other mills to do the work. permit of surface work being carried on Work is being pushed on the sinking of ground will be broken for the tunnel. the shaft on the Aileen property on Guyot Salt Lake City. March 31. A deal is nearly completed by eastern kill. This property is being operated by parties and A1 Lynch, the owner of the Last week’s ore and bullion settlements, John Sharpe and associates under lease. Blue Bell group of claims, consisting of as reported by Salt Lake banks, aggre¬ It is owned by the Morning Glory Leas-, to8 acres in Big Evans basin and adjoin¬ gated $428,500. ing Company, which is controlled by the ing the Resurrection. The eastern people The Boston Consolidated Mining Com¬ Woods Investment Company. The com¬ have sent out experts who have thor¬ pany, operating at Bingham, has placed an pany some time ago obtained a judg¬ oughly examined the ground and the ad¬ order for a new compressor which will ment against the Mary McKinney for a joining mines, and the report was fav¬ double the present air supply, giving considerable sum of money on the ques¬ orable. enough for the operation of 45 drills. The tion of the apex of the vein. The owners of the Miller claim, Lack¬ development of the porphyry zone con¬ awanna gulch, have been at work all tinues vigorously by the extension of sev¬ Telluride, Colo. March 28. winter on the mill and mine. The five- eral tunnels into the mountain. This district was exceptionally fortun¬ stamp mill will be completed and running Practically all the contracts for the Og¬ ate during the recent storms, having inside of a few weeks. den smelter of the Utah Smelting Com¬ escaped without the loss of a single life The Mammoth shaft. Big Evans gulch, pany have been let and excavations have and with comparatively slight damage to is down 565 ft., and the last few feet a started. The Colorado Iron Works Com¬ property. In two adjoining counties, Ou¬ heavy flow of dolomite sand was en¬ pany will build the 150-ton matting fur¬ ray and San Juan, the destruction of life countered, which retarded the progress nace with w'hich the plant is to be and property was appalling, and the prac¬ of sinking, as it clogged the valves of the equipped; the Allis-Chalmers Company tical immunity of San Miguel, within a pumps. This has been overcome and the will equip the sampling mill, and James J. distance of less than 20 miles, is remark¬ shaft is again being sent' down through Burke, a Salt Lake mechanical engineer, able. The damage wrought by snow.slides heavily mineralized matter. was awarded the contract for the 150-ft. in San Miguel county will be repaired in Considerable, work is being carried on stack and flues. 678 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 190O. A series of bad washouts on ihe line of silver, copper and gold ores. The com¬ and fairly well charged with copper, will the San Pedro, Los .\ngeles & Salt Lake pany will continue to buy custom ores. be explored first. Railroad has temporarily paralyzed ore While nothing official has been given out, With the exception of the Victoria, the traffic to Salt Lake smelters from south¬ the impression prevails that the Bingham Norwich is the most important property ern Nevada camps. It may be several properties are now controlled by Augus¬ west of the Ontonagon river. It has pro¬ weeks before traffic is resumed. tus F. Heinze and associates. duced 1,000,000 lb. of refined copper. The A suit instituted by Arthur S. Wilfley, Lafayette is located in the western sec¬ inventor of the concentrator bearing that Joplin, Mo. March 31. tion of the Porcupine mountain district, • .and was worked by the nomadic tribes name, and the Mine and Smelter Supply C. T. Orr, manager of the Missouri which frequented the lake region cen¬ Company against the Utah Copper and Zinc Fields lease at Webb City and the Daly West mining companies, and involv¬ turies ago. Alexander Henry, an Eng¬ Boston-Aurora Mining Company’s land ing the use of Overstrom tables, has been lish explorer, and one of the first white at Aurora, reports a recent discovery of a decided in the Federal Court in favor of men to visit the district, did a little 25-ft. face of zinc ore at a depth of 2*50 ft. ihe plaintiffs. The validity of the Over¬ work on the Lafayette location in 1673. in a new shaft at .Aurora. This is one of strom patents was not attacked in this ac¬ Diamond drill work on the lands of the the deepest mines in the district. tion, but the defendant companies were Keweenaw Copper Comi)any in Ke¬ The Bailey lease on the Hamillon land charged with having changed the riffles weenaw county is progressing steadily. north of Joplin was this week taken over on the table so as to make them conflict One drill is located on the western part by Coyne & Ilatten, of Webb City, for a with the Wilfley patents. The damages of the Resolute property, near the Calu¬ consideration of $50,000. 'I'hey imme¬ were arranged out of court. met & Hecla’s Delaware tract, and is diately transferred it to the LeRoy Min¬ The management of the Utah Copper .searching for the Montreal river lode. ing Company, of Pittsburg, Penn. A new Company has placed an order with the This bed has already been opened on the 150-ton concentrating plant will be erected Risdon Iron Works of San Francisco for Keweenaw’s Mandan property, directly at once. •80 vanners, which are ta be operated in eastward, by diamond drilling, and cop¬ John F. Wise and John Malang, of Jop¬ addition to the 52 now in use. per is shown in the cores. The formation lin, closed a deal this week whereby the The American Smelting and Refining has also been extensively developed direct¬ Bradford-Kansas City mine and 40-acre Company has been made defendant in an¬ ly westward by the Calumet & Hecla, fee located just north of the Center Creek other damage suit on account of smelter which has done diamond-drill work, test- Mining Company's lease at Webb City fumes. The plaintiffs are Oscar J. and pitting and shaft-work on the Delaware was transferred to a company composed Abram J. Reese, farmers, who ask the tract. The Keweenaw’s drill is being cf New York, Indiana, Michigan and court for $37,440, alleged value of crops, driven vertically, and has reached a depth Joplin parties. The consideration was live stock, etc., injured or destroyed du¬ of 600 ft. At a point 1200 ft. east of $150,000 cash. ring the years 1903-1905. this hole, another hole is being primed by The Rogers Mining Company, operat¬ The head offices of the Balaklalla Con¬ means of a jumper drill. This jumper ing on the Guinn land north of Webb solidated Copper Company, heretofore drill will penetrate the overburden and City, who had the misfortune to lose the maintained in Salt Lake, have been moved case the hole with a sand pipe, through new mill by fire the first day it operated, to San Francisco. The company’s mines which the diamond drill will be operated. will immediately begin the erection of are in Shasta county, California. At the Mandan property a diamond another one. Their loss was about Engineers of the Tintic Mining and De¬ drill has reached a depth of 500 ft., in the $20,000. velopment Company, owner of the Yampa search for the Kearsarge amygdaloid bed The Vantage Lead and Zinc Company, mine at Bingham, are in the field locating The core will form a portion of the cross- of Webb City, has filed articles of incor¬ a right of way for an aerial tramway to section which is being made of the prop¬ poration, with a capital stock of $500,000 operate between the mine and smelter in erty, and it is probable that the hole will lower Bingham. in 500,000 shares of $i par value each. be driven to a vertical depth of 1500 ft., Growing interest is being taken in min¬ A company composed of Carthage par¬ the capacity of the drill being 3000 ft. At ing in the Deep Creek country in western ties will soon begin the erection of a present 30 men are employed. Utah. The Clifton district, which is one large tailing mill on the Luscombe land in The approaching summer will witness of several in Deep Creek, has been the south Carterville. The mill will be much considerable exploratory work in Onton¬ scene of some important developments du¬ larger than the ordinary tailing mill and agon county other than that conducted by ring the past few months. The vein opened will cost about $8,000. the companies already in the field, it is in the Gold Hill mine on the 100 is not believed. Last summer the Mulock tract, only extensive, but carries good values. Calumet, Mich. April 3. west of the Hamilton, received some at¬ Capt. Duncan McVichie, general manager The greatest activity in exploratory tention, and it is presumed that work will of the Bingham Consolidated, and asso¬ work in the Lake Superior copper district be resumed there this season. Another ciates, are the heaviest shareholders. this season will be at the northern and exploratory party is expected to do some The Bingham Consolidated Mining and southern extremities. While there will work upon the Garlick and Andrews Smelting Company has been smelting cop¬ be considerable new work prosecuted on properties, near Union Bay. The Walsh per ores for the American Smelting and the properties betw’een these two points, farm, east of the Victoria, may be ex¬ Refining Company, • which was unable, in Houghton county, the pronounced ac¬ plored, some copper having been found owing to lack of equipment, to take care tivity will be in Keweenaw and Ontona¬ last year. The Tremont & Devon Com¬ of the ore contracted for. The Bingham’s gon counties. pany, a close corporation formed by a contract with the American has terminated Deeds to the Norwich and Lafayette dozen Lake Superior mining men, owns and the latter is now filling the bins at the mines in Ontonagon county have been property west of the Victoria, and if the new Garfield smelter with ores from the given to the Copper Crown Mining Com¬ latter proves a success will start work. Utah Copper, Cactus and Boston Consoli¬ pany by Alfred Meads, of Marquette. Thomas F. Cole, of Duluth, Minn., is dated mines, which have gone to the Bing¬ The delay in the formal transfer of these credited with owning lands immediately ham smelter. The Dalton & Lark will properties was caused by legal technicali¬ west of the Tremont & Devon tract. supply the Bingham smelter with a large ties. The Copper Crown Company pro¬ Tamarack-Osceola Stamp Mills—Work tonnage of lead ores; the Commercial poses to prosecute work at the Norwich, on the 40,000,000-gal. pump which is be¬ mine at Bingham will supply low-grade where the old openings will be unwatered ing erected for the joint use of the stamp copper ore, while the Eagle & Blue Bell, and new equipment installed. The Meads mills of the Tamarack and Osceola of Tintic, contains bodies of silicious lead. vein, an amygdaloid 35 to 45 ft.’ in width companies has been progressing for April 7. 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 679 10 months, and is nearing completion. The orders for the branding of all their mules countered, comprising large slabs of na¬ new pump is a duplicate of one already in case they were placed in pasture during tive silver and argentite. This was found in commission. As soon as it goes into a strike. altogether away from the vein in country service a smaller pump will be laid up The exchange of coal lands between the rock. The ore at this level retains its and held as a reserve. Lackawanna and the Lehigh & Wilkes- general character. Some extensive ship¬ Barre Company was effected last week, ments from this mine have recently been Scranton April 3. when a deed was filed for the transfer made. Prompt action was taken by all the an¬ to the Lackawanna of seven tracts of Agents of Thomas A. Edison at Cobalt thracite coal carrying companies upon the land lying between Wilkes-Barre and are offering to take all the cobalt ore that receipt of the telegram from John Mitch¬ Nanticoke, which will make the company can be supplied at 35c. per pound, with ell directing the mine workers to suspend the sole owners of the land between the full price for 90 per cent, of the silver work, pending the making of an agree¬ two places named. The Lehigh & Wilkes- content. The unwillingness of refiners to ment with the operators. It was a dis¬ Barre Company will, in exchange, receive allow anything on account of the cobalt tinct surprise to both operators and mine the Pettebone colliery and some coal land content of the ore has long been a cause workers. Although the whistles will now owned by the Lackawanna. of complaint. blow as usual, it is not expected that The Parrish Coal Company has obtained The depth of snow in the woods still many men will disobey the order. The a lease from the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre delays the opening of the prospecting sea¬ suspension will, however, be of short du¬ Coal Company to mine coal in the Balti¬ son. Owing to the township of Coleman ration, according to the sentiments freely more vein in Plymouth. being practically all taken up, attention is expressed by the men. They are greatly A Philadelphia syndicate is prospect¬ being directed to the adjoining township discouraged by the elaborate preparations ing for anthracite in Little mountain, of Bucke, where some good finds have immediately made by the companies. The Beaver Meadow. If successful, the op¬ been made. In this locality much of the miners who discuss the order of Mitchell erations may be extended the entire length Huronian rock is covered with drift, ren¬ console themselves with the thought that of Beaver Valley. dering prospecting slow and difficult. The they are not out on strike, but are merely A dastardly attempt was made a few McBride location in this township is the awaiting developments. One of the offi¬ days ago to wreck the Greenough col¬ most important find hitherto made outside cials who attended the conference stated: liery near Shamokin, one of the hotbeds of Coleman township, and is rich in ‘'There has been some surprise at our ac¬ of lawlessness during the last strike. A smaltite, with some native silver. The tion. In the absence of a working agree¬ stick of dualin had been placed in the Green claim has an important vein of co¬ ment what could the miner do but cease machinery of the fan with the result that balt, with a cross-vein carrying silver. work? That has been our stand all the fan was totally destroyed, and work The Leith claim has a large cobalt vein along; a determination to have a definite had to be suspended until another could averaging 10 to 12 in. solid smaltite. The understanding with the operators con¬ be placed. shaft of the latter is down 80 ft., and a cerning terms of labor. We have had A fire which had a remarkable origin mass of smaltite weighing 800 lb. was taken out not long since. an agreement for the past three years, is now raging in the Beaver Brook mine. and now we want a new working agree¬ A small engine drawing culm cars on the The high price of lead has acted as a ment. That is the situation in a nut¬ culm bank suddenly fell into a cave-in. stimulus to the lead mining and refining industry. The Stanley smelting works at shell.” Before any steps could be taken the en¬ The first step taken by the coal com¬ gine disappeared in the big hole, the crew Bannockburn, in Hastings county, oper¬ ated by the Ontario Mining and Smelting panies was the posting of notices that escaping. The fire in the locomotive set they stood ready to continue operations fire to the coal in the mine, and it is Company, shipped a car-load of lead pig to Toronto last week. The new smelter is under the provisions of the Anthracite feared that the work of fighting tfie fire running steadily, hematite from the Eldo¬ Commission’s award. The Delaware, will be expensive and prolonged. The rado mine being used for fluxing. Lackawanna & Western Company oper¬ officials have constructed a flume from ated four washeries on Sunday, the first the breaker to the cave, and a large vol¬ ume of water is being turned into the day of the suspension and no trouble was Sudbury, Out. March 26. reported. mihe. The cancellation of 100 more leases in All the companies in the anthracite re¬ The new Susquehanna washery of the the Rainy River district has been an¬ gion, with the exception of the Delaware, Hillside Coal and Iron Company was nounced by the Ontario Government Ga¬ Lackawanna & Western, have made vari¬ placed in operation last week. zette. The action of the Department of ous arrangements for the protection of the The foremen of the Kingston Coal Lands and Mines is approved of and puts breakers and other properties. Men have Company have formed an association for an end to parties holding properties un¬ been hired as special officers, while hun¬ the purpose of mutual improvement, and der leases ad inAnitum, thus tying up the dreds of men have been secured for the formation of a library to be used by country and retarding its development. working the washeries in case the sus¬ all the employees of the company. The The rush of prospectors and others into pension is prolonged. Eighty-six men company will furnish a room. the Cobalt country is unprecedented and were imported to Dunmore on Sunday, every day brings a train-load of people. and will be placed at work immediately. Toronto. March 31. In fact, the commissioners are wisely con¬ Other companies will concentrate work The main shaft of La Rose mine at Co¬ sidering the placing of another train daily on one colliery with as many men as can balt has been sunk to the 200-ft. level and to meet the demand of travel. Notwith¬ be secured, and will increase the number next week drifting will be started at that standing the inclement weather, develop¬ of collieries in operation according to the point. The south winze, 150 ft. distant ment work proceeds and the village of number of men who can be hired. from the main shaft, is also at the 200-ft. Cobalt has developed into a fair-sized The Philadelphia & Reading Company, level. The mine has been developed by town within the last few months. Several as soon as the suspension was ordered, 500 ft. of drifting on the 90-ft. level with parties endeavored to operate a diamond issued directions to its officers over the winzes to the surface. To the north on drill on Cobalt lake, adjoining the town. entire system to confiscate and hold for this drift the veins carry good values, the They erected a wooden building on the ice the use of the company all coal that was ore occurring in bunches. The southern and were preparing to examine the bot¬ being shipped over the lines. Immediately drift is more regular, and in neither di¬ tom of the lake when they were ordered long trains of coal were confiscated. The rection are there signs of the vein failing. to discontinue work. It has been hinted other railroads are issuing similar or¬ At the bottom of the 200-ft. level the rich¬ upon several occasion that there are rich ders. A. Pardee & Co., of Hazleton, gave est ore so far found in the mine was en¬ 68o THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906, deposits on the lake bottom, and several its reputation as an ore producer, ship¬ times, and from which there should be have made applications for leases to test ments having been 343 cars, representing a profit of at least $5,000,000 Mexican. same, but so far the Department has with¬ 6847 tons of ore and 20 tons of coppei Preparations to treat the low-grad** ores held the granting of same. matte. The operating plants of this mine and the immense old dumps, together with Other applications have been received were considerably augmented, and as the the work of new capital that is continu¬ to operate and mine beneath the right-of- orebodies show no diminution the man¬ ally coming in, should see great increases way of the railroad, but so far no privil¬ agement looks forward to a prosperous to this in 1907 and 1908. eges have been granted. The next vex¬ future. In Jalisco the Boca Aucha Mining Com¬ ing problem that the Government will East Kootenay—The output of the pany, of 34 Monroe street, Chicago, with have to deal with is the disposition of the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company’s col¬ C. E. Lee, of Chicago, president; C. C. claims on the timber limit of Gillies Bros., lieries for the week ended March 2 was Bruckner, Guadalajara, vice-president and some of which were taken up and sur¬ ^9,769 tons of coal or a daily average treasurer, and G. E. Purnell, general man¬ veyed before the order in council was for the six-day week of 3295 tons. That ager, has acquired 10 pertinencias (25 passed prohibiting prospecting thereon. of the corresponding week of 1905 was acres) in the Paruaso district, 60 miles There are quite a number of good show¬ 18,113 tons, or an average of 3019 tons southwest of Ameca, and is preparing for ings on the limit, and considerable work per day. the erection of a lo-stamp concentrating has been done on some of the properties. It is reported that all construction work and cyanide mill. - The Department has returned all papers toward an increase of the treatment Chas. Butters, of the Butters Mining and applications, together with all money capacity of the lead smelter at Marysville, Syndicate, is negotiating for several rich paid in behalf of same, to the applicants, in the Fort Steele mining division of East properties at Hostotipaquillo. George L. informing them that their applications can¬ Kootenay, has been stopped. It is under¬ Cuming has completed his survey for Car¬ not be entertained. The Department has stood that a deal is pending for the trans¬ los Romero of the projected railroad from further ordered the limit-holders to cut fer of the Sullivan Group Company’s this camp to Tequesquite to connect with the pine therefrom and lumbering opera¬ mine and the smelter, and that construc¬ the proposed line of the Southern Pacific tions are now in progress with this end tion work will not be resumed until after or Mexican International between Du¬ in view. What disposition will be made this deal shall have been completed or rango and Guadalajara. The Santo Do¬ after the timber has been cleared is at abandoned. Only one of the two 100- mingo Mining Company has been organ¬ present a secret; several remedies have ton lead stacks is being operated, as there ized, with Wm. B. Davis, U. S. consular been suggested, but so far none have been is not a sufficient roasting capacity to pro¬ agent at Guadalajara, as president and acted upon. The richness of the country vide suitable ore for both to be run simul¬ M. M. Mathews, vice-president and gen¬ and the high prices paid for claims are taneously. The Huntington-Heberlein eral manager, as a sub-company of a large not assisting the solution of the matter, process is in use at these works, but tho development company being formed in and the situation is a complex one. large percentage of zinc in the Sullivan St. Louis, Mo., with a capital of $5,000,000 The McBride brothers have sold their ore makes it a difficult ore to reduce. gold, by Chas. H. Brooks, to take over the claim in the township of Bucke, realizing Iguana and other mines in Etzatlan; also $85,000 and retaining one-fifth interest in Mexico. March 26. the Santa Maria group of the Dwight the property. Furness Company in Hostotipaquillo, be¬ It is understood that the Venture Cor¬ The district is alive with agents of com¬ ing 161 acres across the Santiago river poration, holding an option on the proper¬ panies selling stock, and it is a repetition, from the San Pedro Analco Mining Com¬ ties of the Peregrinas Mining and Milling only on a larger scale, of Rossland during pany. On this river the latter company is Company, of Guanajuato, at $2,500,000 the mining Itoom of 1896-7. preparing to erect a 5000-h.p. electric- gold, has asked for an extension on time, Major Leckie and Hiram Hixon re¬ power plant for the working of its Cinco for by reason of its recent purchases in turned from the annual meeting of the Minas, Tamara and other properties. other districts it is not just now prepared Canadian Mining Institute at Quebec last The Chio-Mexican Mining Company, of to make payments. As the Peregrinas week. Mr. Hixon’s paper on “The Ore De¬ Cincinnati, John Henderson, general man¬ Company has, since giving the option, posits and Geology of the Sudbury Dis¬ ager, is building a 6o-ton smelter at Ca- opened up considerable more ore, it is trict” elicited much comment and was borca, 70 miles west of the Santa Ana questionable whether the option will be much appreciated by students of geology station on the Sonora Railroad, and has in extended at the same figure, and George in this section. contemplation a railroad of its own to the W. Bryant is now in New York in this A discovery of asbestos has been made California Gulf coast, a distance of 75 connection. on a lot on the northerly limit of Cole¬ miles. man township in the Cobalt district, and In a paper read by Dwight Furness re¬ bordering on the township line of Bucke. cently before the Guanajuato Saturday Aguascalientes, Mexico March 26. The vein is 10 in. wide. Night Club he showed that the monthly The Aguascalientes Metal Company is The Rat Portage Diamond Drill Com¬ expenditures of the mining companies in the owner of a heavy producing group, 1q' pany is at work on the Crane Hill nickel that camp at the beginning of 1905 were cated in the State of Aguascalientes. The property near Victoria mines. Consider¬ but $80,000 Mexican, while by the end of stock is practically held by the Doerr fam¬ able drilling has been done on the prop¬ 1905 they had reached $200,000, and it was ily. Edward Doerr, whose death a few erty, which is owned by the Canadian estimated that at the end of this year they years ago was widely lamented, founded Copper Company and is under the man¬ will increase to $400,000; that Jan. i, 1905, the company. The various claims, compos¬ agement of Captain Boss. saw 90 stamps dropping, which, with the ing the group, represent the labor of sev¬ “patios,” were treating 300 tons of ore eral years. Some were acquired by pur¬ Victoria, B. C. March 24. daily, and the year closed with 200 stamps chase, others by denouncement under the Kamloops—The following reference to treating 600 tons daily, or 200,000 tons a Mexican laws. At first, because of the mining in the Kamloops district in 1905 year, with an estimated value of $4,000,000 total lack of capital, the mines were op¬ was made in the recently issued annual Mexican. The new work already projected erated on the Mexican plan. Ore was report of the local Board of Trade; “De- for this year will bring the total up to 700 mined in the ancient workings by follow¬ velopmerit in our- camp has continued stamps, with a capacity of 2000 tons daily, ing the rich seams and stringers. Hoist¬ without abatement during the year, and or 700,000 tons a year, valued at $14,000,- ing was conducted over notched ladders, some carloads of ore were shipped as 000 Mexican, being about 50 per cent, and upon men’s backs. Sorting was per¬ smelter tests by claims under develop¬ higher than any previous production of formed on the dump, without the use of ment. The Iron Mask has maintained the camp in its palmiest days of bonanza any mechanical appliances. When water April~7» 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 68r was encountered it reached the surface work, whether underground or surface, firms. (3) The fact that there will be in oil cans, carried by boys. The ore pro¬ is performed by either task or contract. shortly a great need of improved and in¬ duced was transported to the railroad on Mining in the stopes is paid for at $i creased facilities for handling goods, ii» burros. Railroad freight cars, the only Mexican per meter length of drill-hole. view of the improved conditions of trade modern factor in the transaction, finally Development work, either sinking or in France, and (4) the fact that the Ger¬ carried the mine product to market. The driving, is carried on by linear meter. man State railways are securing an addi¬ holdings of the company in the section tional lot of 679 locomotives and 16,665 under consideration consist of two Parral, Mexico. March 26. wagons, of which some 14,700 are freight groups. The most important, known as cars, will stimulate effort on the French The Veta Colorado Mining and Smelt¬ the Mercedes mine, is located withiri side of the frontier. In this connection it ing Company is installing a 1500-h.p. elec¬ three miles of the town, Asientos, cen¬ would be perhaps inadvisable to intro¬ trical power plant. The company is ship¬ turies old, and enjoying a national repu¬ duce American wheels and axles into ping 3000 tons of ore monthly. A three- tation as a mining center. The other France with any importation of cars. The compartment shaft, now down 400 ft., is group, of minor importance, is located requirements of French railways are spe¬ being sunk to a depth of 1000 ft. some three miles distant from another cial in this particular, and wheels and axles The Hidalgo Mining Company, at Mina famous mining town, called Tepezala. can be procured here to suit the condi¬ Nueva, is shipping 5000 tons of ore Surrounding both groups on every side tions. monthly to the smelter and is getting its are producing properties, or properties Paris is not without some of the large mill in shape to start up in about two that have played important parts in the electric-power stations which characterize months’ time. It is expected that its ca¬ history of Mexican copper production. New York and London. At St. Denis, on pacity will be increased to 150 tons per An experienced member of the Doerr the north of Paris, the Societe d’Electri- day. cite de Paris has constructed a large tur¬ family is resident manager. .Persistence In the Zaynes shaft in the San Fran¬ bine station, the output of which is used under the most adverse circumstances, cisco del Oro mine a body of sulphide ore mostly for the Paris Metropolitan Rail¬ has finally crowned his labors with suc¬ is being developed. In No. 2 level the cess. Albert Doerr is a graduate of vein is about 27 ft. in width. way. It includes at the present moment the German mining schools, and still con¬ In the Santo Tomaso mine No. 3 level, four 6ooo-kw’. turbo-alternator groups of tinues his studies in the field, keeping 400 ft. north, is in ore, and for 800 ft. the Brown-Boveri-Parsons type, constuc- abreast of all the newest developments south there is a good showing. In both ted at the works of the Compagnie Elec- in his profession by travel and study. the above mines, owned by the San Fran¬ tro-Mecanique at Bourget, France. There From the beginning mining proved cisco del Oro Mines Company, it is esti¬ are six new groups of the same size on profitable. The surplus, instead of be¬ mated there is already 20 years’ ore de¬ order, thus liringing the output of the sta¬ ing distributed among the owners, often¬ veloped. At present the company is em¬ tion up to aL>out 60,000 kilowatts. times the ruin of Mexican mining enter¬ ploying 350 men and is erecting a large There is another large power station de¬ prises, was accumulated for the purpose of power plant, consisting of electric motors, signed for the supply of current to some introducing the most modern mining pro¬ air compressors, electric hoists and pumps. of the principal Paris tramway companies, cesses. A little over a year ago study The company is shipping 1500 tons of ore and this will be situated on the Seine, in was devoted to the installation of Ameri¬ monthly to the Torreon smelter. J. E. the southeastern part of Paris. The Com¬ can machinery. Immediate needs de¬ Hyslop, Parral, is general manager. pagnie Generale de Distribution d’Energie manded a plant for hoisting, for drilling The American Smelters Securities Com¬ Electrique, of 12 Rue de Londres, in con¬ and for electric lighting, on the surface pany is rebuilding its mill. It will be in¬ junction with the Compagnie des Grands and underground. The 'purchases finally creased to 400 tons daily capacity. This Travaux de Marseilles, has undertaken made embraced a steam turbine, a dy¬ mill will treat argentiferous lead ore. The the work, w'hich will be pushed forward namo, an electric hoisting engine, an elec¬ ore will be coarsely crushed, sized and to be completed within 18 months. The tric lighting plant, together with electric treated in Hartz jigs, Wilfley tables and total output of the station will eventually drills. The old Mexican shaft was Frue vanners. A magnetic plant will treat be 50,000 or 60,000 kw., and the machines straightened and enlarged. Cables were the zinc middling. Gas producers will at present on order include two 5000-kw. placed as guides. A large bucket is em¬ supply gas to American Crossley gas en¬ three-phase Curtis turbo-generators, 13,200 ployed for ore hoisting. A device, invented gines of 220 h.p. each, which will drive volts, 25 cycles. These are being supplied by Mr. Doerr, serves to unload automati¬ alternating-current electric generators. by the Compagnie Franqaise Thomson- cally, and subsequently to place the ore The power plant will have a total capacity Houston, Paris, which will also supply and rock where most convenient for sort¬ of 1500 h.p. Hugh Rose is superintendent. the remainder of the electrical equipment ing or for ultimate discharge into the of the station. This firm is in the market waste pile. The levels are illuminated by Paris. March 15. for the supply of accessory power-station incandescent lamps, rendering unneces¬ Some little time ago it was reported in material, including boilers, transporters, sary the carrying of candles, except where this letter that freight cars of 40 tons ca¬ stokers, and generally all that pertains to blasting is carried on. Fortunately for pacity were authorized for use on French the equipment of a large steam-turbine the profits of the concern, no water of railways. As these are quite new to power station, and offers of services may consequence has been encountered. Eigh-^ French constructors, it may be imagined be made to them at 10 Rue de Londres, ty-two meters is the greatest depth at¬ that there are few firms ready or able to Paris. tained in the lowest workings. The free¬ deliver satisfactory cars of this description. London. March 24. dom until now enjoyed from this costly The American pressed-steel mineral cars and disturbing element can be counted should find a ready sale in France just The disaster at the Camp Bird mine, upon for another 100 feet. now, if well represented, and for the fol¬ Ouray, Colo., has naturally has a depress¬ Santa Francisca mine, an adjoining lowing reasons; (i) The lack of French ing effect on English shareholders and the property, owned by the American Smelt¬ enterprise in this direction, whereby no official quotation has dropped. The bulk ing and Refinitig Company, is pumping firms are able as yet to quote for these of the shares of this company are now 500 gal. per minute. Singular to relate, wagons. (2) The recent appeal of M. held for dividends and the speculation in no complaint is heard at these mines con¬ Gauthier, Minister of Pu*blic Works, who connection with them is confined within cerning the scarcity of labor. Patience has issued a protest against the dearth of very narrow limits. The company has and consideration were the traits solving freight cars on French railways, and re¬ £120,000 undivided profit in hand, so that the problem here. Double the number quests that attention be given to the mat¬ all the damage can be made good without employed are readily procurable. AIT ter of construction and supply by French raising any further capital. It is not prob- 682 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. able that shareholders will know the ex¬ Johannetborg. Feb. 10. General Mining News. act amount of damage done by the ava¬ This is a trying time for the mines em¬ lanche until the beginning of summer. ploying Chinese, for the Celestials have ALABAMA. Last week I mentioned the Salt Union, been celebrating their new year with great JEFFERSON COUNTY. Ltd., and gave some account of the pres¬ pomp and circumstance. Under the impor¬ ent state of its finances. This week the tation ordinance they were entitled to Imperial Coal and Coke Company—^This report of the United Alkali Company has three days’ holiday, and it is almost im¬ company has been organized in Birming¬ been issued. Though the history of these possible to induce them to work during ham with capital stock $30,000. The offi¬ two combines is nearly identical, the pres¬ that period. They will carry out such es- - cers in the company are: Y. A. Dyer, ent position of the United Alkali Company sential work as pumping, but the ordinary president; H. Hammond, secretary, and is much more hopeful than that of the routine labor was forsaken for these three J. C. Persons, vice-president. The new Salt Union. During 1905 the net profit of days. The holidays started on the Chinese concern has acquired the coal mines of the United Alkali Company was £426,000, new year’s eve, when the coolies quit R. D. Smith, at Bradford and Dixiana, which is a distinct advance and is the work. Those mines employing Chinese 18 miles north of Birmingham, on the highest profit made since 1893. This, how¬ labor solely found it impossible to keep Birmingham Mineral railroad, and in ad- ever, is not sufficient to provide any divi¬ the stamps crushing during the holidays, dtion, 302 coke ovens. The purchase price dend on the ordinary shares, which have and were forced to close dow'n from 48 to was $106,500. The mines will be ac¬ now gone without any distribution since 60 hours. On some mines employing a tively operated, and further development 1896. In fact, the total return to ordinary number of Kafirs it was possible to keep will take place. shareholders since the commencement of the mill going by tramming the accumu¬ WALKER COUNTY. the company in 1892 has only been 14 per lated ore from the mines. Some large deals are under negotiation cent., of which ii per cent, was paid du¬ On the mines where only Kafir labor is for coal lands adjoining the Jefferson ring the first two years of the company’s used the holidays were unnoticed, for, un¬ county line. The Southern Railway has existence. The company, as has been re¬ like the Chinaman, the Kafir has no na¬ filed notice with the Secretary of State peatedly mentioned in these columns, is tional day or days for celebrating. that a branch, one dozen miles in length, weighted with £9,000,000 capital, divided The festivities went off quietly. As this will be constructed along the Warrior equally between debentures, preferences is the great peace time of the year with river to traverse the coal-fields which are and ordinary shares. It w’as floated in the the Chinese, when everyone pays his to be developed. The Ensley Southern heyday of the British chemical trade, be¬ debts and is on his best behavior, there railroad, from Ensley, in Jefferson county fore German and American competition was no danger of outrages. Coolies from to Parrish, in Walker county, is part of became acute. Comparatively little of the one compound paid visits to neighboring the development. profits are written off year by year for de¬ mines, to wish the compliments of the preciation, and hardly anjdhing is put to season. ARIZONA. reserve fund, so that it cannot be said Some mines were more elaborate in that the finances are in perfect condition. their celebrations than others. There was YAVAPAI COUNTY. For some years now I have pointed out a variety of entertainment. Chinese sports Arizona Smelting Company—The works that the company would never be in a were the feature of the day in some com¬ of this company were pit in operation on sound condition until the capital was dras¬ pounds, while at others the coolies sat for March 19, and it is reported that every¬ tically written down, but the various "in¬ hours listening to theatrical performances. thing moved off in a satisfactory manner. terests among the shareholders prevents Unless we get an abundant rainfall du¬ These works are particularly interesting, this question from being even discussed. ring the next three months, many mines in view of the fact that reverberatory fur¬ Toward the end of last year you pub¬ will be in a serous state during the dry naces fired by oil fuel are employed, this lished an account of the position of the season. So far the rainfall for this season Tieing the first installation of that kind on British South Africa Company, as out¬ is far below the average. The dearth of a large scale. lined in the report for the year ended rain has affected agriculture. In Johan¬ March 31, 1905. At the time the balance nesburg the rainfall has been much more CALIFORNIA. sheet of the company for that period had abundant than in the east or^west Rand. AMADOR COUNTY. Another mill has commenced crushing not been published—in fact, the balance Mitchell—This mine, near Pine Grove, sheet that was published with the report in the Klerksdorp district. There is much has been closed down, the parties holding was for the year ended March 31, 1904. need of successful mines in this part of the the bond not being satisfied with the re¬ It has always been a mystery why these country, where there has been so much dis¬ sult of crushings in their five-stamp mill. financial statements were not published appointment. Lord Selborne on a recent CALAVERAS COUNTY. earlier, and it was felt that efforts ought visit started off the 40-stamp battery of to be made to bring the finances more up the Klerksdorp Gold and Diamond Co. Stockton Ridge—At this gravel mine to date. It is of interest, therefore, to Labor scarcity and the need of adjustment near Mokelumne Hill, D. A. Nuner super¬ note that the balance sheet for the year of machinery have delayed matters con¬ intendent, the tunnel has reached 800 ft. ended March 31, 1905, has now been is¬ siderably. Samples from the ore av¬ and has 100 ft. to be cut to reach the sued. It fully confirms the opinion ex¬ erage 8 dwt. The screening used is gravel channel. pressed in your article that the expendi¬ 900 mesh and as the gold of the ^Phoenix—This mine, adjoining the ture would continue to exceed the income. property is flakey and coarse, a good Reed at Central Hill, will soon be started Southern Rhodesia is the most important deal is retained in the die sands, up again by a San Francisco company. and the most developed of the company’s which are very rich. Another mine in Lloyd—This gravel mine. Central Hill, territory. Its income during the year the Klerksdorp district which promises to Chas. Nielson, superintendent, is being specified was £456.000 and the ex¬ be a success, is the West Bonanza. A worked through the east shaft with good penditure £590.000. The income of the battery of 20 heavy stamps, with cyanide results. The gravel found at that point remainder of the territory was £48,000 and and slime plant, is now complete, and as is not cemented, so is washed without the expenditure £150.000. The company there is a lot of good ore developed this milling. estimates that the income and expenditure mine should be a success. Galena—This mine at West Point is of Southern Rhodesia will within a «hort Gold shares have been more or less working 14 men on eight-hour shifts un¬ time more evenly balance, but in previous neglected for tin shares. The tin people der management of John McCuch; a fine years the estimates have been equally op¬ are encouraged by a report made by Mr. body of ore was recentl;, struck in the timistic. W. Frecheville. bottom of the shaft. April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 683 Folcano—At this property near West mill is kept busy on ore and 25 men are Chance claim in Trail creek district has Point, C. J. Nunian, superintendent, sink¬ on the payroll. been sold to this .company by R. W. Mc¬ ing is going on and new machinery has SIERRA COUNTY. Kenzie. been ordered. There is a large body of Royal Quartz Mining Company—This Main Gulch Mining and Milling Com¬ ore in the tunnel and the lo-stamp mill company, recently incorporated by Los pany—This company has been formed to is running steadily. Angeles men, is to work the Royal mine operate the Smuggler group on Brown EL DORADO COUNTY. at Sierra City, near the old Sierra Butte mountain; machinery is being overhauled and -heavy developments are planned. J. Vivian—At this mine, Greenwood, a property. R. Hutchinson, Silver Plume, is in charge. lo-stamp mill is to be installed as soon as SISKIYOU COUNTY. GILPIN COUNTY. weather conditions permit. The vein is Shaft Rock Mining Company—This 4 ft. wide at the 6o-ft. station. property, on Enterprise creek, four miles Gilpin County Chamber of Commerce— Lilly Emma—This copper mine, near from Gottsville, is about .to be properly This is a new organization which has for Coloma, is under bond and considerable opened, and a road is being built to haul objects the advertisement and betterment development work will shortly be done by machinery and supplies. A 20-stamp mill of the county. The new body starts out the intending purchasers. has been purchased and will be installed with nearly 200 members; the annual dues are $10 and the directors are: R. L. Mar¬ INYO COUNTY. as soon as circumstances permit. tin, J. C. Fleschhutz and H. C. Eastman, Six Mile—This property at Cecilville Great Western Ore Purchasing Com¬ ot Central City: H. C. Bolsinger, of Ne- has been bonded by W. H. Young to pany—This company will have its new vadaville; E. R. Fouts, of Russel Gulch; H. Janse and will now be developed. smelting plant at Keeler in running order 1. Dunstone and J. L. Robins, of Black within a few weeks. The capacity will Kingsbury Gulch—The Layman Bros., Hawk; Lieut. C. S. Ripley, of Apex. The be 150 tons daily. The ore will be trans¬ of Hayfork, have struck very good gravel board has selected as secretary P. R. Als- ferred by traction engine from Cerro in the back channel of this mine, and dorf, of Central City; W. A. Frank, of Gordo. numbers of nuggets are being found. Central City, treasurer. Wellington Group—A strike has been TRINITY COUNTY. SAN MIGUEL COUNTY. made in this group in Coso district, the Bullychoop Mining Company— At this Buckeye Mining and Leasing Company ledge being a large one and carrying property 75 men are now employed build¬ —This company was recently incorporated values from $3 to $22 per ton in gold. ing roads, sawmills, preparing for an by Melvin Edwards, Albert C. Krez and KERN COUNTY. electric power plant and development of John L. Donahue for $100,000 in 10,000 the mine. The lo-stamp mill is connected Chase Creek Copper Mining Company shares of a par value of $10. Win J. Mor¬ with the mine by aerial tramway, and 10 —The tunnel on these claims near Teha- gan, John Manser and H. Semler con¬ stamps are to be added. W. R. Beall chepi is now in over 1200 ft., cutting veins stitute the first board of directors. James is the superintendent. at a depth of 700 ft. The tunnel is to L. Brown and Baptiste Mattiotti, of Tel- cut through the continuation of the Long¬ luride, are general manager and superin¬ fellow lead, and until this is done no COLORADO. tendent, respectively. The company has ore will be shipped. BOULDER COUNTY. leased the Butterfly-Terrible group of NEVADA COUNTY. American Queen Gold Mining Com¬ mines and 30-stamp mill at Ophir Loop, Sierra Nevada Mines and Development pany—The shaft-building and machinery 14 miles from Telluride, for a long term, Company—This company, owning 14 of the Cash mine at Gold Hill was de¬ subject to the lease of M. Mongrandi on quartz claims in Gaston district, will start stroyed by fire, March 15, entailing a loss some of the upper workings of the But¬ a new tunnel this spring, and ^hen the of $6000, with no insurance. Property was terfly and 10 stamps of the mill for a pe¬ orebodies are sufficiently developed will producing about $20,000 per month and riod of two years from Dec. i ,1905. The build a mill. The vein is a very wide one. 60 men were thrown out of work. L. R. lessee has begun extensive development. The mill-tunnel level, which has been pro¬ SACRAMENTO COUNTY. Johnston, Boulder, is one of the principal owners, and a new equipment will go on. jected about 1200 ft., will be continued Blue Ravine—The damage by caving of 1300 ft. more to get under the orc-shoot in ground in this mine near Folsom, has CLEAR CREEK COUNTY. the Ida vein, which will give a block of been repaired, and work is again progress¬ International Mining Company — This stoping ground 750 ft. in hight by nearly ing under Superintendent Henry Trent- company has. purchased for $7,000 the 1000 in length. The lessee of the upper man. The prospects are considered quite Mendota group of three claims and water workings has been taking out mineral encouraging. rights on Santa Fe mountain from W. H. which has been yielding $14.70 in gold on SHASTA COUNTY. Doherty. Property is located near Idaho the plates, and concentrates in addition. Midas Mining Company—In this mine, Springs. Harrison Gulch (Knob P. O.), 40 men are Continental Mines, Power and Reduc¬ IDAHO. tion Company—This company is asking now doing development work. The com¬ SHOSHONE COUNTY. pany is getting the mine intq shape to for bids for driving the Seeman tunnel Snozv Storm—This property, near Mul- resume ore extraction on an extensive from 1000 to 5000 ft. on Fall river. A lan, is shipping 200 tons of copper ore scale. The shaft is being deepened to power plant is to be installed and the com¬ daily. open up the mine on lower levels. pany figure on a mill in the future. H. I. KOOTENAI COUNTY. Bully Hill Copper Mining .Company— Seeman, Equitable building, Denver, Col¬ The smelter of this company will shortly orado, is manager. Panhandle Smelting Company — This close down pending extensive improve¬ Pay Rock—It is reported that arrange¬ company has erected a lead smelter near ments and remodeling. The old Copper ments are being made for the resumption Sandpoint. Its buyers are now making City tramway is being repaired and a of work on this property, one of the for¬ contracts for ore to enable blowing-in to standard gage track added. Ore from the mer lead-silver-ore producers in upper commence about May i. Winthrop mine will be conveyed by elec¬ Clear Creek. Hendrie & Bolthoff, of Den¬ IDAHO COUNTY. tric power. ver, are the owners. The property is Thunder Mountain Gold Mine Company National—The new cyanide plant of equipped with machinery and 50-ton con¬ —^This Philadelphia company is purchas¬ this mine, in Reed Gulch, near Buckeye, is centrating plant. ing five additional stamps and a 40-ton now in regular operation. The lo-stamp Big Forty Mining Company—^The Last cyanide mill from the Bradley Engineer- 684 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. ing and Machinery Company, of Spokane, ST. martin’s parish. Old Colony—Crosscutting eastward to be installed at once on its Champion Anse Le Butte—Shipments of crude from the shaft at the 700-ft. level has group near Elk City. The plant should are now being sent through the new 4-in. progressed 87 ft. without encountering be running in 30 days, for a millwright line from the field to Breaux Bridge. The anything of an encouraging nature. If lias the timbers all framed. It will suople pipe-line is owned jointly by the Heyward nothing of value is found at the present ment a five-stamp mill which has been Oil Company, Lake Oil Company and depth within a reasonably short time sink¬ treating the ores of the higher-grade vein the Louisiana Oil Company. The largest ing will be resumed in the shaft. since last August. The property also in¬ oil operators in, the South look on this Rhode Island—Another diamond drill cludes a portion of a low-grade gold dike, field as the most promising one for de¬ hole is being put down upon the Kear- believed to be an extension of the Hogan velopment. It now has five producing sarge amygdaloid bed. It is going down or Crooked river mine, which has its mill wells and others are being drilled by the on the dip and will extract a core from only a mile and a half away. It is ex- Guffey Petroleum Company, Louisana Oil the lode at great depth. Two holes al¬ l.*ected that tests of the ore from the reef, Company is now dowm 1000 ft. and Lake ready opened positively identified the for¬ assaying about $2.50 a ton, will be made in Oil Company No. 3 is down 2200 feet. mation by intercepting the Wolverine the mill. sandstone. MARYLAND. INDIAN TERRITORY. MONTANA. ALLEGANY COUNTY R. E. Wipfler, chief engineer of the FERGUS tOUNTY. Rock Island Coal Company; John H. Consolidation Coal Company — At the annual meeting in Baltimore recently, S. Kendall Gold Mining Company—This Mitchell, prospector for the Chicago, Rock company, of which Finch & Campbell, of Davies Warfield and Grier Hersch, of Island & Pacific Railway, with C. W. Spokane, have the management, declared Baltimore, and 'ormer Governor A. B. Brown, of Comanche, I. T., and R. V. Le its regular monthly dividend of three Fleming, of We^t Virginia, were elected Grand, of Dallas, Tex., have been at work cents a share or $15,000, March 20. No. directors to succeed Edv/ard R. Bacon, of from Comanche 'to Ardmore, 60 miles, ex¬ ore has yet been found in the sinking New York, and George M. Shriver and amining the deposits of asphalt, graham- shaft, below the cyaniding rock. How¬ C. W. Woolford, of Baltimore, who re¬ ite and gilsonite, which are largely con¬ ever, there is much ore still in the signed. C. W. Watson was re-elected trolled by Brown and Le Grand; also the upper workings, and the exploration in I)resident by the stockholders. The gross oil territory near Ardmore, which is being depth is confidently expected to result in earnings of the company for the year 1905 prospected in the interest of the Santa Fe the discovery of new orebodies. Railroad. were $4,165437; the surplus, after paying fixed charges and depreciation, was KENTUCKY. $1,017,289, from which dividends amount¬ NEW MEXICO. Green River Coal and Mining Cotn- ing to $615,000 were paid. The coal LUNA COUNTY. any—The stockholders of this new com¬ mined was 2,096,213 tons, an increase of Mining activity in Luna county has pany have elected the following officers .•62,842 tons over 1904. been rapidly increasing the past few and directors: C. H. Shattuck, president; In his report President Watson states months. Mining men from the East are Lysander Dudley, vice-president; J. W. that in November the Board authorized investigating properties and several deals Dudley, Jr., secretary; J. H. Grogg, treas¬ the purchase, for $400,000, of a majority are now pending. urer; H. H. Moss, Reese Blizzard, J. M. of the stocks and $400,000 par value of Several carloads of machinery and lum¬ Dare, Gordon C. Enoch, B. D. Stout, W. the bonds of the Southern Coal & Trans- ber have arrived for the old Florida camp F. Harvey, A. D. James, W. U. Grider, E. tiortation Company, whose property is lo¬ southeast of town, which was recently M. Gilkeson, E. L. Morgan and W. H. cated at Berryburg, West Virginia, con¬ purchased by R. C. Arnold, of St. Louis. Wolfe, directors. The company holds op¬ sisting of some 4,500 acres of the Pitts¬ Much activity is being revived in the tions on coal property in Ohio and Muh¬ burg seam of coal, equipped with a mod¬ Tres Hermanns district, 25 miles south of lenberg counties, Kentucky. The tract is ern plant and producing about 250,000 Deming, where extensive work is being located on the Green river in Kentucky tons per annum. This was done. done in the lead and zinc mines owned by and on the lines of the Louisville & Nash¬ Frank Thurmond and others. ville and Illinois Central railroads. If MICHIGAN. Ore is rapidly being shipped to the its purchase is closed arrangements will HOUGHTON COUNTY—COPPER. smelter of the Luna Lead Company, and te made to develop daily output of 10,000 Baltic—The new compressor for No. 2 as soon as the extensive improvements tons of coal. The capital stock is $1,500,- shaft will be ready to go into com¬ now nearing completion on the plant are 000; the office is in Parkersbutg, West mission early in May, when produc¬ finished a large force of men will be put Virginia. tion on a permanent basis will start to work operating the smelter. at that opening. Work on the steel LOUISIANA. rock and shaft-house is advancing OREGON. GRANT COUNTY. CALCASIEU PARISH. rapidly. It is enclosed, and the interior Jennings—Crowley Oil & Mineral Com¬ is being finished. The permanent hoist Standard Consolidated Mines Com¬ pany No. 18 came in gushing at the rate has been installed for some time, and the pany—This company, operating in east¬ of 10,000 bbl., but as no preparation had boiler equipment is completed. As the ern Oregon, is reported to have a vein, been made for such a large output it had mine is operating up to the limit of its which contains ore rich in silver, together to be shut off. This caused the well to compressor capacity, it will be impossible with an average of 2 to 4 per cent, of sand up, but when cleaned it will be a for No. 2 shaft to become a source of pro¬ cobalt, a small percentage of nickel and large producer. duction on* a large scale until the new a high percentage of arsenic. The Jennings Oil Refinery, which has compressor is installed. No work has Crane Placers — Fred Burbidge, of been idle for more than one year, has re¬ been done underground in No. 2 shaft Burch & Burbidge, recently visited the sumed operations under the management for some time. Crane Flat placer grounds near Granite. r.f Theile & Brack, who expect to produce Maydower—Work is confined to the The dredge taken into the camp last year lubiicating and illuminating in addition to crosscut which is being driven eastward from the old placer camp of Murray, solar oil. from the shaft on the 580-ft. level. This Idaho, was worked enough to prove the In 1905, Louisiana produced about crosscut recently cut a lode offering value of the ground, which went about 10,000,000 bbl. crude, of which 7,200,000 some promise and the formation is being 15c. a yard. This year a new dredge were shipped. Present output is 23.000 investigated by a drift going north on its manager has been secured, who expects bbl. daily; prices 28c. per barrel. course. to put through about 800 yds. a day. April 7. 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 685 PENNSYLVANIA. the coal. In addition to the above, this Gold Stake—The main tunnel has been ANTHRACITE COAL. company has been most careful in saving driven more than 1700 ft., 138 ft. being the small sizes in the preparation of its made during February. It is expected to IVashcry Coal—The production of coal, and has been able to find a market reach the vein in about 300 ft. more. marketable coal from the washeries in the for them, instead of wasting the coal on This is a close corporation, most of the anthracite region in 1905 showed a con¬ the dirt banks. . . . stock being held by local and California siderable falling off as compared with “Ten collieries were in operation during parties. previous years. The heaviest shipments the year, without any serious interruptions l)y the washeries were in 1903, when Gilt Edge-Maid—New tanks have been due to accidents or other causes. . . . 3,963,606 tons were sent to market. In ordered for the mill which will be “The average time worked at each of 1904 the product fell to 2,800,466 tons, changed to a dry-crushing process. The our collieries was 242.65 days, as com¬ and in 1905 to 2,644,045 tons, which was capacity of the mill will be increased So pared with 233.71 days in 1904. The cost 4.3 per cent, of the total production in per cent. A compressor and drills, to be of mining and preparing coal was $1.75 the year. A decrease in the washery out¬ driven by electric power, are being in¬ per ton, a decrease of 4.2c. compared with put is to be expected, as the more profit¬ stalled. The company has immense quan¬ that of 1904. This decrease in cost was able of the old culm banks in the an¬ tities of low-grade ore in sight. due to the increased tonnage and in¬ thracite country are worked out. Disey—An incline shaft is being sunk creased facilities furnished, both of which Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron on this property on False Bottom, west of are the result of the large sums spent in Company—This company’s statement for the Maitland. About 205 ft. is the dis¬ the last few years on coal improvements. February and the eight months of the tance to quartzite and the shaft has now The cost of mining coal at the collieries fiscal year from July i to Feb. 28 is as been sunk 75 ft. owned by the company, based on the pro¬ follows: PENNINGTON COUNTY. duction of all sizes, exclusive of the coal ary. Eight Mos Bullion—A new body of ore has been' used by the company in its mining opera¬ Earnings. 12,943,199 923,861,243 cut by the lower tunnel for a length of Expenses. 2,741,696 22,247,345 tions, and including all expenditures for several hundred feet. A force of men is Net earnings..* 8 201,604 9 1,613,898 extraordinary improvements, consisting employed in timbering and straightening For the eight months the earnings in¬ of work on two new breakers, two new the tunnels and putting the workings in creased $678,927, and the expenses $662,- shafts, extinguishing old fires, additions shape for operation. As there are 316; leaving an increase of $16,611 in net to boiler plants to burn refuse coal, was large quantities of ore in sight no more earnings. $1,905 per ton.” development work will be done until the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company mill is ready to run, which will be some —The company’s statement for 1905 shows SOUTH DAKOTA. time early in the summer. The Bullion that the revenue from all sources CUSTER COUNTY. rock is heavily mineralized with arsen¬ amounted to $3,422,662. General expenses, Ivanhoe—The stamp mill on the com¬ ical pyrite carrying high values in gold, taxes and interest were $1,305,265; pany’s ground started up a few days ago. Several thousand tons of this ore have coal land sinking fund, $121,415; deprecia¬ The main ledge has recently been en¬ been milled in test runs at different times tion of mine plant, $200,000; a total of countered in the east drift and the ore and the results have justified the erection $1,626,680, leaving a balance of $1,795,982. averages $5 a ton. It is largely free- of the mill. From this dividends of 8 per cent, were milling. Dr. Ratte is the manager of TEXAS. paid on the stock, amounting to $1,387,- this company. 604, and the balance of $408,376 was JEFFERSON COUNTY. Clare Bell—The two-stamp mill on placed to credit of profit and loss. Beaumont—The Heywood Oil Com¬ this property is running only at nights, The coal mined by the company was pany paid its i8th dividend of 3 per as the engine runs the sawmill during the cent, this month, making a total of $424,- as follows, in long tons: daytime. About $65 is the net production --1904.-- -1905.-, 000 paid stockholders. Operations are Tons. Eer Ot. Tons. Per Ct. per night. The sawmill is busy turning more active at Spindletop than for a long Shipped to market 2,046,649 91.1 2,428,304 91.6 out lumber for the proposed annex to the period, the quality of the crude and the Used at mines. 199,496 8.9 ^,234 8.4 mill. The capacity of the mill will be in¬ advance in prices make the operation of Total. 2,246,044 100.0 2,661,638 100.0 creased to 10 stamps. Tests are now be¬ a 50-bbl. pumper profitable, so that new The increase in coal mined was 406,494 ing made of the tailings with a view to wells are being drilled and old ones tons, or 18.1 per cent.; in coal shipped, putting in a cyanide annex to the mill. cleaned out and deepened. The Guffey 382,755 toi^, or 18.7 per cent. In addition LAWRENCE COUNTY. Petroleum Company is the largest oper¬ to the coal shipped by the company 95,341 Minnesota—The work of draining the ator. Others drilling wells are: James tons were mined by the Alliance Coal shaft on this property by means of a tun¬ Sharp Paulhamus Oil Company, Gordon Company, a controlled operation. The nel has been completed. The shaft & Nelson, Phillips & Co., Shep¬ proportion of large and steam sizes made passed through the flat formation at about pard & McCauley, Henderson & Brass, for two years past was as follows: the 2oo-ft. level, and has now been sunk J C. Wilson, L. Solinsky & Bowles 1904. 1906. 14 ft. into the verticals below. A well Brothers, Moore & Pater and Bass & Prepared, chestnut and over. 48.6 48.7 defined vein of ore has been encountered. Moore. Pea coal. 13.8 13.8 Funds are being raised for the prosecu¬ Buckwheat.15.2 16.1 The prices for crude have been ad¬ No. 2 buckwheat, or rice. 21.6 22.4 tion of work. vanced 2c. in all fields. Production and Total small sizes. 61.6 61.3 SpearHsh—The bullion output for Jan¬ present prices of the different fields are The report says: “The large percentage uary was about $13,000 and the February as follows: Spindletop, 4300 bbl., 54c.; of the small and cheaper sizes produced output will be about the same. The ore Batson 6600 bbl., 35c.; Sour Lake, 6900 by this company, as compared with other shows a marked improvement, the main bbl., 45c.; Saratoga, 5700 bbl., 36c.; companies in the anthracite region, is due drift in the Black Diamond claim showing Humble, 7000 bbl., 39c.; Jennings, 234XX) largely to physical reasons, relating to the a face of ore 8 ft. thick, 18 ft. wide and bbl., 28c.; The estimated 1905 produc¬ • coal as found in the ground. The veins averaging about $13 a ton. The course of tion of Texas fields is 29,500,000 bbL on this company’s property are unusually this ore shoot indicates considerable Wells completed in Southeastern fields. thick, and the increased thickness is length. Some ore is being taken from the March 1 to 15, 13; producers, 9; dry- largely made up of coal of friable nature; Metallic Streak but the grade is much holes, 4; abandoned, 32; drilling, 66 rigfs. further, the dips of the veins are very lower than that, found in the Black holes, 4; abandoned, 32; drilling, 66. steep, causing more or less crushing of Diamond. rigs 686 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. UTAH. ment is preparing to push the construc¬ urer, all of New York. The directors in¬ JUAB CX)UNTY. tion. David Eccles, of Ogden, is presi¬ clude, besides Messsrs. Olcott and Can¬ dent of the company. non, T. A. Potts and John B. Loree, of Scranton—Conditions are favorable for New York, and S. B. Avis, of Charleston. a large output of ore from Tintic prop- WASHINGTON. The company intends to open up coal ert>' this year. The ore carries high- mines and also to mine iron ore. grade zinc values. FERRY COUNTY. Godiva Mill—This plant will probably Copper World—This adjoins the Cop¬ WAYNE COUNTY. be in commission in April. per World Extension mine. It is Le Roy Coal Mining Company—This stated by the management that work company has been organized at Preston to May Day—The past few weeks have will soon be resumed, with a view develop a tract of 960 acres of coal land. witnessed some important developments to continuous operation. So far the work It is proposed to put in a mining plant to in this property, and the management is done on this property has been confined have a capacity of 500 tons per day. Of¬ preparing to make an increase in reg¬ to the surface, and a tunnel which has ficers of the company are C. V. LeRoy, of ular shipments. crossed a part of the vein at little depth Preston, president and general manager; PIUTE COUNTY. of consequence, but the prospects of the Charles R. LeRoy, Dingess, W. Va., vice- Sevier—This company is now running property appear bright. president; W. T. Cook, Dingess, W. Va., r. mill in the Gold Mountain district, and Copper World Extension—The south secretary; Harry C. LeRoy, Huntington, is preparing to do custom work for crosscut on the 200-ft. level, after inter¬ W. Va., treasurer; Henry Mace Payne, many prospects, which heretofore have secting the ore heretofore reported, has Williamson, W. Va., engineer in charge. been held back by the excessive cost of passed through 23 ft. of solid copper-gold hauling, freighting and smelting charges ore, with a large excess of iron, thence Foreign Mining News. on their product. At present the district through strata of country rock and is practically undeveloped, but it is con¬ stringers of ore 36 ft. The latest report . CANADA. sidered to have valuable resources and is that the crosscut intersected 10 ft. of NOV/^ SCOTIA. good prospects for the future. quartzite and again ran into solid ore. SALT LAKE COUNTY. Coal shipments reported for the two STEVENS COUNTY. months ending Feb. 28, were 369,137 tons Butler Liberal—At this Bingham prop¬ Copper King—This mine, in Chewelah erty the tunnel now being driven has cut in 1905, and 591,257 tons in 1906;-an in¬ district, is working and shipping an ex¬ crease of 222,120 tons, or 60.2 per cent. a body of high-grade lead ore. A sam¬ cellent quantity of copper-gold ore. There pling of 2 ft. across the face showed av¬ The shipments this year by companies is considerable activity in mining circles were: Dominion, 357,089; Cumberland, erage values of 60 per cent, lead and 8 oz. in this district, and several mines have silver. 85,173; Nova Scotia Steel, 66,116; Interco¬ been bonded recently. lonial, 39,141; Acadia, 38,514; Gowrie and Bingham Central—The $250,000 worth Old Dominion—This mine, the oldest Blockhouse, 5224 tons. of bonds, recently subscribed for, have in the State of Washington, has been idle been signed by the proper officials and QUEBEC. for a year and a half. sent to the Morton Trust Company, New Kettle River Marble Company—This A molybdenite deposit has been dis¬ York, to be registered for subsequent de¬ company is operating its quarry at Bar- covered in the township of .Egan, on the livery. This company is getting ready stow. The Jefferson Marble Company has Gatineau river, about 80 miles north of for a very active campaign of develop¬ been operating the last six months. The Ottawa, on the Lachance farm. Numer¬ ment. Crystal marble quarries, west of Addy, ous indications of the mineral have been Continental Alta—The late storms have are in operation. found in this vicinity. greatly interfered with the repairing of The Union Asbestos Mines at Black Standard Marble & Onyx Company— the tramway damaged by snowslides at Lake in the Eastern Townships, in the Preparation is being made for extensive Alta. The management expects to have heart of the asbestos region and oper¬ operations the coming summer, at the the line in operation in April. ated by German capitalists, has been quarries, five miles east of Colville. City Rocks—^This company has paid all bonded by John Mackintosh, of Ot¬ but $100,000 on the purchase price of its tawa. The area covered by operations is WEST VIRGINIA. Alta property. With the opening of 104 acres of asbestos land. The property spring an active shipping campaign will Fairmont Coal Company—This com¬ was first operated in 1^8 and has been be inaugurated. pany operates mines in the Fairniont dis¬ worked intermittently since *that time. trict, covering several counties. The re¬ Two mills with a capacity of 100 tons of SUMMIT COUNTY. port for 1905 gives the shipments as fol¬ asbestos rock daily handle the output of Park City Shipments—During the past lows, in short tons: the mine. week shipments amounted to 5,050,000 lb., 1904. 1906. Changes. YUKON TERRITORY. of which the Silver King furnished, Coal mined. 3,760,176 3,748,230 D. 1,946 2,000,000; Daly West, 1,150,000; Daly Coke sold. 68,473 106.086 1.37,612 The Dominion Railway Commission Crushed coke sold.... 3,747 10,966 I. 7,208 Judge, crude ore and concentrate, 970,- has been called on to take action in con¬ The gross earnings for 1905 were 000; ditto, zinc middlings, 654,000; other nection with the freight charges of the $3,518,674, and the net earnings $699,709. mines, 276,000 pounds. White Horse Pass Railroad in the Yukon The gross earnings were $0.94 per ton of Jupiter—Conditions at this property are which, it is claimed, prevent mining oper¬ coal reported. looking excellent, and the company is ations from being profitably carried on KANAWHA COUNTY. shipping considerable high-grade ore. on any extended scale. The line runs Olcott Coal and Iron Company—This from Skagway, Alaska, to White Horse Monarch—Development work will soon company has been organized, with $500,- in the Yukon, a distance of 112 miles. be inaugurated at this property. The 000 capital stock, to take over 6000 acres During the last season freight on one Jupiter orebody, from which shipments of land on Brier creek, formerly owned dredge forwarded by the Anheuser-Busch are being made, penetrates this group. by the Emmons Tract Coal Company, syndicate, of St. Louis, to operate on the WEBER COUNTY. and recently sold by order of the court. Klondike, was $40,000. The commission¬ Utah Smelter—^The railway spurs to The officers are: R. Morgan Olcott, presi¬ ers held that, while they had power to or¬ the site of this plant will be completed dent; Duncan B. Cannon, vice-president; der a reduction, the difficulty would still within the next 10 days. The manage¬ A. de Costa Gomez, secretary and treas¬ remain, as the company might then in- April 7, 1906. . THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 687 course adopted would be fatal to the Anthracite. Bituminous. Total. crease the charges over the American por¬ New York. 1.196,031 780,598 1,976,629 tion of the road. Judge Dawson, of St. Interstate agreement, which it had taken PhUadelphla... 112 912 424,646 537,557 Baltimore. 12,118 314,379 326,497 Louis, who represents the syndicate, will years to gain. However, President Newport News. 233,842 233B42 accordingly invoke the aid of the United Mitchell and about two-thirds of the dele¬ Norfolk.. 185,128 185,128 States Interstate Commerce Commission, gates were willing to take the chances. Total. 1,321,061 1,938,592 3,259,663 to see whether redress could not be had It looks now as though the miners had The total increase over January, 1905, from that quarter. Governor Mclnnes, acted wisely, since a number of operators was 682,07s tons, or 26.5 per cent. of the Yukon, asserts that the freight in addition to Mr. Robbins, have indi¬ cated their willingness to sign the 1903 charges are so exorbitant as to absorb New York. April 4. half the products of the mining industry. scale. ANTHRACITE. On the whole the public is encouraged Local business in hard coal has come to over the outlook and it is believed that all Coal Trade Review. a standstill pending some settlement in of the operators will have signed the con¬ the labor Controversy. The joint meeting tracts within 10 days. The miners are New York, April 4. on Tuesday w'as adjourned for two days especially pleased with the outlook and e.x- Work was stopped April i throughout- without having brought about any agree¬ pect to be back at work again under con¬ the anthracite region, but the Miners’ ment. In the meantime, mining in gen¬ tracts that will enable them to make Union does not call it a strike, but a sus¬ eral has ceased, and but little coal is com¬ more money. pension. The men, however, were called ing forward, the producers being unwill¬ On the other hand. President Kolsem out on the ground that the contract has ing to draw upon their stocks under the of the Indiana Operators’ Association terminated, and that there will be no present conditions. They have not, how¬ says that not 2 per cent, of the output working agreement in existence until the ever, added anything to the f.o.b. prices. can be signed; that the operators al¬ new conference is concluded. The miners The local dealers, on the other hand, have ready signed have small mines and few representatives met the operators’ com¬ raised their prices, they claim, in order to of them are members of the association. mittee on Tuesday, April 3, and several discourage trade, as they say they are not The Indiana Operators’ Association will days will probably be occupied in dis¬ able to get prompt shipments from the hold a meeting in Terre Haute this week cussion. The general feeling seems to be producers. Considerable coal has found to determine upon a course to be pursued. that some ground of compromise will be its way into the hands of speculators, al® Large quantities of coal were stored dur¬ found, and neither a long suspension nor though the producers try to prevent any ing the past two weeks by the interurban a serious strike is expected. The an¬ such accumulations. and steam railroads and also by many thracite operators are firm in their inten¬ No April discount has yet been heard large manufacturers. This was done be¬ tion to maintain the “open shop” principle, of and prices hold at $4 75 for broken and cause of the expected suspension of the but may be willing to make some minor $5 for domestic sizes. Steam sizes: $3 mines. The price of coal has advanced concessions. for pea; [email protected] for buckwheat; $1.45 generally throughout the West. The Joint Conference Committee of @1.50 for rice and $1.30(^1.35 for barley the coal operators and the miners of the COAL TRAFIC NOTES. f.o.b. New York harbor shipping points. central competitive district at Indianap¬ The total coal and coke traffic originat¬ BITUMINOUS. olis reached a total disagreement on ing on all lines of the Pennsylvania Rail¬ March 27. All propositions made by The Atlantic seaboard soft-coal trade is road east of Pittsburg and Erie for the either the operators or miners were re¬ not as feverish as it w’as last week. Spec¬ year to March 24 was as follows, in short jected and on motion the conference was ulators have considerable coal on hand, tons: declared adjourned. The miners held a which they expect to dispose of at higher meeting and voted to call out the men ex¬ 1905. 1906. Changes. prices than now' prevail, but there are few Anthracite. 936,901 1,188,924 I. 352,023 purchasers. At this writing prices vary cept in mines where contracts are signed Bituminous. 6,123,003 8,586,283 1.2,464,190 with operators willing to pay the 1903 Coke. 3,431,938 2,896,977 I. 465,039 from hour to hour, but range somewhere around [email protected] f.o.b. New York harbor. scale for two years. Developments thus Total. 9,490,932 13,672,184 1.3,181,253 It is the opinion that whatever strike far indicate that the strike will not be of Shipments of Broad Top coal for the the extent at first anticipated. The action week ending March 31 were 17,024 tons; may occur will be of a sporadic nature. of the miners in deciding to make partial for the year to March 31 the total was • Large stocks have been accumulated and agreements by districts bids fair to re¬ 273,637 tons. it is a difficult matter tg dispose of the coal now arriving; if no strike should oc¬ lieve the situation before it bears heavily The coal tonnage of the Baltimore & upon the public. cur, a three months’ period of stagnation Ohio Railroad in January was, in short may be looked for. The National Executive Board of the tons: Miners’ Association held an all-day meet¬ Trade in the far East is dull and the 1906. 1906. Changes. ing March 31, arranging to carry out the Sound shows only a slightly better de¬ Anthracite. 97,766 98,488 I. 722 mand; New York trade is largely in the policy of authorizing district and sub-dis¬ BitumlnouB...... 1,881,922 2,244,691 1. 363,769 Ck>ke. 328,220 533,953 I. 206,733 trict officers to supervise the making of hands of speculators. As many contracts contracts where operators indicate their Total. .. 2.307,908 2,877,132 I. 569,224 have been closed as the producers are M’illingness to grant the 5.55 per cent, in¬ The coal tonnage of the Norfolk & willing to make. All-rail trade is not as crease in wages and the other conditions Western Railway in Januarj' was, in active as would be expected. Car supply of the scale of 1903 for a period of two short tons: is fair and transportation is excellent. years. No general strike order has been Rates in the coastwise vessel market do Coal. Coke. Total. not soar to the high speculative prices an¬ issued by the board. The local unions Tidewater. 256,034 18,976 374,010 have been requested to quit work until Line points. 70{^,801 201,678 907,479 ticipated, but remain at last week’s quo¬ they are ordered back under the new con- Total. 960,836 220,654 1,181,489 tations. Rates on New York harbor boats ^ tracts. Total, 1905 . 830,731 190,005 1,020,736 are reduced to about 25c. alongside. The miners were not a unit in giving The increase in coal this year was up the principle of Interstate negotiation. 130,104 tons; in coke 30,649 tons; total, Birmingham. April 2. They have heretofore refused to settle, ex¬ 160,753 tons, or 15.8 per cent. Alabama coal producers are not anx¬ cept with all the operators in the Central Coastwise shipments of coal in Jan¬ ious to see a strike in the anthracite district. Some of the miners, including uary are reported by the Bureau of Sta¬ fields in Pennsylvania and bituminous Vice-President Lewis, thought that the tistics for the following Atlantic ports: fields in the North and West. Very 688 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. little more business could be handled prices. The only possible relief to the tion restraining the delegates from inter¬ than is coming to them from their own situation now will be a sharp movement fering with him, and today insisted on markets. The work of development in up the lakes, which seems to be prevented presiding at the convention. He sent for this district continues. By the coming fall by the prospects of labor difficulties in that his attorney to explain the terms of the the output in this State will have been in¬ quarter. , injunction, but the delegates would not creased at least 20 per cent. The tangled situation has brought about listen, and put both out of the hall. The The coal miners belonging to the union some peculiarities in prices. Coal has quarrel will now be taken into court, and in this State, who have been out on strike been screened to get the slack; three- there may be a division in the district since July i, 1904, are encouraged by the quarter and mine-run coal are now sell¬ organization that may complicate the min¬ change in management of the Tennessee ing at the same price, $3 delivered in ing situation here. The questions involved Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the Cleveland, while slack is selling for $2.60 are so unusual that it is impossible to claim being that President Bacon is an in Cleveland. \In the coke market active make a prediction as to the probable re¬ ardent advocate of the open-shop policy. buying by furnace interests has brought sult. Coal prices have not advanced to There are many leaders of the miners who about good prices and a parity of value the high point anticipated, and sales are express the belief that they will get a hear¬ between foundry coke and furnace coke, reported at $1.40, and some at $1.50 a ton ing at the hands of the new* chairman of both of which are selling at $3.15 to $3.25 for mine-run, but deliveries are still be¬ the board, and that somehing in their fa¬ at the oven. ing made at the old prices of [email protected] a vor is likely to follow. Positively nothing ton at the mine. Pittsborg. April 3. definite, not even an intimation, has been Connellsville Coke—For prompt ship¬ held out by the directors, who were in the Coal— According to the decision of the ment furnace coke is quoted at $3 a ton, district for several days last week, that convention of the United Mine Workers and foundry at $3.25 a ton. On contracts there was to be any change in the open- any operator may sign the 1903 scale for future delivery quotations remain at shop policy at the coal mines. which provides for an advance 5.5 per [email protected] for furnace and [email protected] cent., and start his mine. In compliance for foundry. The production for the week Chicago. April 2. with this decision the district convention was 277,909 tons, and the shipments ag¬ Strike news has operated to advance the of miners in session here appointed a gregated 12,125 cars distributed as fol¬ local market for coal to purely specula¬ scale commmittee. This committee met lows: To Pittsburg and river points, tive prices. Large sales are being made, yesterday at the office of the Pittsburg 4,383 cars; to points west of Pittsburg, the disposition of manufacturers and rail¬ Coal Company, where a number of in¬ 6,485 cars; to points east of Everson, roads being to lay in as large stocks as dependent interests assembled and signed 1,267 cars. The combined output of the possible in anticipation of a prolonged the agreement for the next two years. The Connellsville and Masontown fields- struggle. Eastern bituminous and an¬ Pittsburg Coal Company signed for all its amounted to 352,308 tons.. thracite are not so much affected, the un¬ interests, including the Monongahela derstanding of the public being that the River Consolidated Coal and Coke Com¬ West Virginia mines will not be tied up, pany, except for the New York & San Francisco. March 29. while the coming of mild weather makes Cleveland Gas Coal Company’s mines, The market remains quiet, but steady, anthracite demand generally dull. which are not regarded as being in the with no further changes in prices re¬ Confiscation of coal by railroads is gen¬ Pittsburg district. About a dozen inde¬ ported. erally complained of by the bituminous pendent concerns also signed and a re¬ For coast coals, in large lots to deal¬ shippers, it being estimated that 3000 car¬ sumption of operations was ordered for ers, prices are: New Wellington and loads have been confiscated out of ship¬ this morning. Not more than half of the Richmond, $7.50; Roslyn, $7; Wellington, ments for Chicago in the last two weeks. mines were started, however, and it is ex¬ Seattle and Bryant, $6.50;. Beaver Hill The difficulty of storing bituminous coal plained that notice could not be got to the and Coos Bay, $5.50; White Ash, $5-25. without slacking taking place makes the mines in time, but it is expected that all For Rocky Mountain coals, in car-lots, situation grave for many manufacturing will be running tomorrow. At the mines prices are: Colorado anthracite, $14; Cas¬ concerns. To most users of Western coal signed for over 22,000,000 tons of the 41,- tle Gate, Clear Creek, Rock Springs and supplies will be imperative within a month 848,630 tons mined in this district in Sunnyside, $8.50. Eastern coals are largely or six weeks. There is an impression that 1905, was produced. The independent nominal at $14 for both anthracite and a strike in Illinois will not last longer than operators who represent the rest of the Cumberland. Foreign coals, ex-ship, in that time—that public pressure will be too production will hold a meeting tonight to large lots are: Cannel, $8.50; Brymba great for one side or the other to stand take action. If assured that the miners and Walsend, $7.50. No Welsh anthracite out after the end of that time. The be¬ will work for the companies that have on the market. ginning of this week sees active buying, signed it is understood all of the operators but a real test of the market will not come will sign. If the miners refuse to return Foreign Coal Trade. for two or three weeks yet, assuming that to work tomorrow, the independents will the strike continues. make a fight for last year’s scale. It is April 4. Quotations are in general 50@7Sc. higher doubtful at this time if mining opera¬ Exports of coal and coke from the- than last week on Western coals, and 25 tions in the Pittsburg district can be tied United States for the two months end¬ ^50c. on Eastern coals. All grades are up, but it may be a week or two before ing Feb. 28 are reported as below by the in demand and seem bound to increase all mines are in full operation again. The Bureau of Statistics of the Department of greatly in demand. operators who were parties to the inter¬ Commerce and Labor: state agreement are indignant over the CleveUod. April 3. action of Chairman Francis L. Robbins, 1906. 1906. Changes. Anthracite. 244,136 269,867 I. 16,232 The coal market in this territory has of the Pittsburg Coal Company, in forc¬ Bituminous. 776,306 1,060,288 1.284,982 been excited. The coal strike has been ing a settlement by conceding the miners’ Total coal. 1,019,441 1,319,666 I. 300,214 the predominating influence. Disappoint¬ demands for a restoration of the 1903 Coke. 76,282 117,169 1. 41,877 ment was experienced by some operators scale. The district organization of min¬ Total. 1,094,723 1,436,814 I.342,09r at the turn toward a compromise and ers is holding a convention and it is the aettlement, since some of them had turned liveliest ever held. This morning the dele¬ The coke exported went chiefly to jobbers instead of producers and bought gates ejected President Patrick Dolan, Mexico, though some was taken by Ca¬ coal in West Virginia for sale to the whom they had formally deposed, from nadian furnaces. The disposition of the- trade here, expecting fo make a turn in the hall. Dolan had obtained an injunc¬ coal was as follows: April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 689 1906. 1906. Changes. their product, and that quotations are the coal situation has made the demand Canadu. 712,642 924,169 I. 211,617 Mexico. .. 162,873 177,837 I. 24,964 firmer than they have been for the past and the price abnormal. Business in iron Cuba. 67,956 123,826 1. 66,869 four weeks. The larger concerns in this Other W. Indies... 40,186 64,677 I. 14,391 and steel products is very good. France. 95 621 I. 426 district are not quoting No. 2 foundry iron Italy. 736 697 D, 138 Cleveland. April 3. Other Europe. 3,189 6,214 I. 2,026 under $14 per ton. Some sales have been Other countries... 61,766 32,926 D. . 18,840 made for delivery during the third quar¬ Iron Ore—The Lake season of naviga¬ Total. .. 1,019,441 1,319,665 I. 300,214 ter of the year. A lively inquiry is being tion will not open before May i, if then. The coal to other countries goes received for iron. The longshoremen and the dock mana¬ chiefly to South America. Canada took The event during the past week was the gers are not planning to end the difficulty this year 70.3 per cent, of all the coal meeting of the directors of the Tennessee which separates them and until they come shipped. The exports to Canada in de¬ Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in this to terms boats cannot run. The one thing tail were: city. The meeting was attended by J. W. which may settle the dispute will be the 1905. 1900. Changes. Gates. L. C. Hanna, E. W. Oglebay, Grant outcome of the conference between the Anthracite. 239,419 263,666 I. 14,146 Schley, Don H. Bacon, S. G. Cooper and longshoremen and the seamen at Erie, Pa., Bituminous. 473,223 670,694 1.197,371 L. T. Beecher. The following statement April 18. If the seamen win their conten¬ Total. 712,642 924,169 1.211,617 was authorized after the meeting: “At a tion that the pilots ought to be affiliated Shipments to Canada in the early jiart meeting of the board of directors of the with them, this will end the lake dis¬ of 1905 were impeded by severe weather. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com¬ pute, since the pilots affiliated with Imports of coal and coke into the pany, John A. Topping was elected a di¬ the seamen have already obtained United States for the two months end¬ rector and made chairman of the board; recognition from the Lake Carriers’ As¬ ing Feh. 28 were as follows: but this change in the board of directors sociation and have made terms for the 1906. 1906. Changes. does not involve any changes in the or¬ year. Canada. 206,231 309,226 I. 102,994 ganization. The board declared its reg¬ Pig Iron—One big concern came into Great Britain. 16,392 46,774 I. 30,382 Other Europe. no 3,962 I. 3,862 ular quarterly dividend of i per cent, on the market this week and placed an in¬ Japan. 16,624 4,962 D. 10,662 the common stock and its quarterly divi¬ Australia. 16,746 30,441 I. 14,696 quiry for 12,000 tons of No. 2 foundry Other countries. 37 23 D. 14 dend of 2 per cent, on its preferred. No iron which will be sold before the week is Total coal... 263,039 394,387 I. 141,348 action was taken in the matter of exten¬ out. This entails delivery through the last sions or new improvements at this meet¬ half of the year. Other inquiries are in for Coke was not reported separately last ing, but it was determined to remodel amounts ranging between 1000 and 5000 year. With the exception of some Nova thoroughly the steel plant and blast fur¬ tons of material. Spot buying is heavy Scotia coal which comes to Boston, the naces so as to bring them up to the high¬ and in most instances foundrymen are imports are chiefly on the Pacific Coast. est state of efficiency. This work will nec asking an anticipation on their shipments, The coke is nearly all from British Col¬ essarily involve the expenditure of large but some of these movements are pre¬ umbia; a little comes from Germany. Of sums of money and will materially in¬ cautionary, fearing the effects of the coal the coal imported this year, 6461 tons crease the output of the company in its strike. No. 2 foundry is selling for $17 were classed as anthracite. various finishing departments. General in the Valleys, with some producers shad¬ improvements will also be made in the ing to $16.75. Southern furnaces are hold¬ Iron Trade Review. coal-mining department of the company ing for $14 for No. 2 Birmingham. by additional equipment necessary to se¬ New York, April 4. Finished Material—The situation has cure a greater output in coal and coke, as The situation of the trade shows little not changed, with the exception that well as to improve the quality.” change during the week. The prospects billets are scarce and consequently higher, Don H. Bacon, who has been president of settlement in the coal trade in the West the forging quality selling at $35 at the of the Tennessee company for five years, • have releived some of the tension; but mill or $38 Cleveland. Bessemers are al¬ tendered his resignation, effective May 15, the anthracite situation is still uncer¬ most out of the market, with $30 a rea¬ or, in other words, he gave notice that he tain, and may cause some trouble in the sonable price at the mill. Sheets are will not stand for re-election when the East. stronger, jobbers doing most of the busi¬ annual meeting is held at that time. Who New business is developing largely at ness and bar iron is weak at 1.65c. to 1.70c. will succeed him has not been stated yet. present in the way of small orders, but at the mill. these are usually the precursors of a larger trade. Structural business con¬ Chicago. April 2. New York. April 4. tinues to be pressing, and rail orders are Buying of pig iron is still dull, but there Pig Iron—Business has been more ac¬ still coming in. The quantity of mate¬ are no signs of a slump in the market. tive in this district. Many small orders rial asked for in electric railroad building Because of labor troubles and other have come in, which make up a consider¬ is quite unexpected. reasons conducing to caution, the melters able aggregate. Apparently foundry stocks Weather conditions promise an early are yet shy of contracts that will assure are running low and new supplies are opening of Lake navigation, but there is supplies for the last half of the year. needed in many places. The general im¬ a prospect of labor troubles which may Several local foundries have shut down pression about the coal situation seems to delay the first shipments of iron ore because of labor troubles, and general be less apprehensive. from the Lake Superior region. Mean¬ conditions are such as to make the users For Northern iron, large lots, we quote: time the Lake docks are being rapidly of iron cautious. No. I X foundry, $18.25^18.75; No. 2 X, cleared of their stocks of ore. Buying is chiefly confined to small [email protected] ; No. 2 plain, [email protected]; A late report is that Pittsburg and New lots for quick shipments—within 30 forge, $i6.5o@i7. For Southern iron on York parties are considering the estab¬ days after the order is placed. It seems dock prices are: No. i foundry, $i8.25@ lishment of a large steel plant at some probable that the present dulness of pig 18.50; No. 2, $i7.75@i8; No. 3, $I7@ point on Puget Sound, to supply Pacific iron buying will drag along with the re¬ 17.50; No. 4, $i6.25@i7 ; No. i soft, $18.25 Coast demand; and also to manufacture sult of a rapid upward shoot of prices. @18.50; No. 2 soft, $i7.75@t8; gray forge, for export to the East. Prices are steady—[email protected] for North¬ [email protected]. Basic is held at $19 for ern and $14 Birmingham for Southern, Virginia, $18.50 for Alabama and $18 for Birmiogham. April 2. No. 2 iron. There is a little Lake Super¬ Northern. Alabama pig-iron manufacturers assert ior charcoal moving at $20. Coke is Cast-Iron Pipe—Prices are steady, the that there is a little better demand for eagerly taken and has speculative values— present basis being $29.75 per net ton for 690 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. 6-in. pipe in carload lots at tidewater Pipes and Tubes—The tube market re¬ what above $17.25, Valley furnaces. The points. -The foundries have still lots of mains unchanged, the mills are all be¬ sale will be made by the Bessemer Furn¬ work on hand. hind in delivery. ace Association, as the leading indepen¬ dent interest that usually sells to the cor¬ Bars—Business is fair, and prices are Merchant Steel—Prices remain where poration has disposed of its entire output steady. Sales are at [email protected]. for they have been for months. common iron bars, and 1.745c. for refined up to July I. Some inquiries are being Plate—The new orders for plates that iron. Steel bars are also 1.645c., tidewa¬ received for bessemer iron for the third are coming in are all for small lots. It is ter. Store trade is easy, at 2c., delivered. quarter but so far no large contracts have stated today that inquiries were received been closed. It is reported that several Plates—Steel plates are in steady de¬ yesterday for ship material and for bridge small lots have been sold at prices a trifle mand. Tank plates are nommally i.745@ material, but the nature of the business under $17.50, Valley. 1.825c.; flange and boiler, [email protected].; cannot be ascertained at present. Despite the fact that all the large mills universal and sheared plates, i.745@ Structural Material—An enormous in this district have large stocks of coal 1.845c.; according to width. amount of business is being done, which stored all were anxious for a settlement . Structural Material — Prices are nomi¬ is only limited by the capacity of the mills of the mining rate. The Jones & Laugh- nally unchanged. Beams under 15 in. arc and the willingness of the mill people to lin Steel Company, which was believed to 1.845c. for large lots; over 15 in., 1.895c.; accept the orders. A good deal of ma¬ have a big supply, was the first to sign angle and channels, 1.845c., tidewater de¬ terial intended for New York and New the new agreement when it was offered livery. Jobbers ask a considerable ad¬ England delivery has not yet been con¬ yesterday. While there has not been any vance on small orders. New business on tracted for, but it is not the fault of the avtive buying for over a month, except in a large scale is under negotiation. buyer. structural material, plates and steel rails, Steel Rails—No change in standard sec¬ Steel Rails—Large orders for steel it has developed that a strike of coal tions. Light rails are in steady demand, rails have been placed during the past miners would have seriously affected the prices ranging from $26 for 25-lb. up to week. Orders for light rails are now be¬ mills, as all are busy and have orders $33 for I2-Ib. rails. The demand for trol¬ ing hurried in, and in most cases they that will keep them running steadily for ley rails is increasing, and new' projects are wanted for the quickest possible de¬ several months. Some of the merchant are still coming forward for electric-rail¬ livery. Electric roads are also liberal steel bar makers held a meeting here on road work. buyers, or are at least endeavoring to Wednesday to discuss prices but did not Old Material — Business is quiet, but make satisfactory terms for delivery, make any change. A number of buyers prices are steady. No. i railroad wrought w'hich they are not able to do in all cases. sent in heavy specifications last* week to is $i8@I9; No. i yard wrought can be Scrap—The scrap market has again close up their tonnages before April i, had for $i7@i8; machinerj' cast, $I4@ turned upw’ard, and prices for heavy steel when they would otherwise have had to 14.50; heavy steel melting scrap, $15@ scrap rails are $17.25. Holders are ask¬ try to get the contracts extended. Con¬ 16.50. These prices are on cars, Jersey ing $17(0:17.25 for No. I steel scrap; tracts with some of the largest agricul¬ City or other terminal delivery. there are quite a number of buyers in the tural-implement makers will not expire market, an^ their inquiries are encourag¬ until July i. Over 100,000 tons of steel- PhiUdelphU. April 4. ing the large scrap dealers to hold out for rail orders have been added to the im¬ strong prices. Machinery scrap sold mense tonnage now on the books of the Pig Iron—The inauguration of the coal at $15.75; No. I forge fire scrap at $15.50, different interests, the Carnegie Steel strike has unsettled business in this ter¬ and wrought iron pipe at $15. Old rails Company getting about 50,000 tons, and ritory and threatens to unsettle prices, al¬ are nominally $22 per ton. will keep its Ohio works on rails prob¬ though the strike is too young yet to be ably all year. New business in structural able to note any decided change in the Pittsburg. April 3. material and plates continues heavy. A situation. Considerable business has been meeting of the presidents of the subsi¬ quietly done in basic iron, apd more busi¬ The averting of a serious coal strike in diary companies of the United- States ness is promised. Negotiations are pend¬ the Pittsburg district is expected to have Steel Corporation was held here on Fri¬ ing for large quantities of pig iron for a stimulating effect on the iron and steel day and Saturday, at which some en¬ pipe concerns, and it is probable that this market. Buying had almost stopped on couraging reports were made. Most of business will go through. The entire sit¬ account of the uncertainty, but late last the plants, particularly those of the Car¬ uation is liable to change at any time. week, when it was learned that the negie Steel Company, are being operated Quotations for No. iX foundry are operators were not a unit in the refusal to capacity with business on the books and $19.25; No. 2X foundry, $18.50; No. 2 of the miners’ demands, there was a in sight that will keep them in steady plain, $17.75; standard forge, $17; basic, marked increase in inquiries for pig iron, operation the rest of the year. Owing to $18; bessemer, $20; low phosphorus, particularly for foundry iron. The West- the excessive sheet capacity in the coun¬ $24.50. inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company is in the market for 12,000 tons try it seems impossible to maintain the Steel Billets—Several large lots of steel of foundry iron for equal deliveries prices established some time ago and of billets have been sold, and there is an ur¬ through the second half, 8000 tons for late there has been some shading in the gent demand for still larger lots, which Pittsburg, and 4000 tons for Cleveland. West and it amounts in several instances will probably be taken care of on a basis All of the iron will be Northern except according to reports, to about $2 a ton, of about $29. on 1250 tons of No. 4 grade, which calls sales being made on a basis of 2.30c. f.o.b. Bars—Urgent buyers of steel bars for Southern iron. An Eastern cast-iron Pittsburg. All the wire and wire-nail are paying premiums. A great many pipe concern is inquiring for 6000 tons of mills in this district are busy but are of our small consumers are buying foundry iron and some Western malleable running on old contracts, no new busness in a hand-to-mouth way. The mak¬ concerns also have come into the market. of any consequence having been booked ers of refined iron report today Sharp competition between two Cleveland for over a month. Common iron bars that they are taking all the business interests was responsible for a decline in continue to decline and are now quoted they care to on a basis of 1.735^- The prices, but it has been checked and the at 1.60c. Pittsburg, or $2 a ton above steel mills are all crowded. market is firm. Second quarter bessemer bars. Sheets—^The last few days have brought iron is limited and it is understood th^ Pig Iron—Sales of bessemer pig iron in out a demand for light sheets, and in United States Steel Corporation will close small lots during the week aggregated some instances premiums were paid for negotiations this week for about 15,000 about 2500 tons at $17.50, Valley furnaces. prompt deliverj'. tons for April delivery' at a price some¬ The foundry-iron market has been April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 691 strengthened somewhat, but it is reported getting scarcer, though it is expected that February reached a total of 13,876 tons, that sales have been made as low as within the next few months the mangan¬ consigned to Bremen, Hamburg, Rotter¬ $16.75, Valley. The gray forge market re¬ iferous yield will be considerably increased dam and Karstrup. mains about the same, $i6.85@i7 Pitts¬ if the pumping operations of the Desague Potash Salts—New quotations were re¬ burg, being quoted. Company reduce the water in the mines cently announced by the American agents Steel—Open-hearth billets and sheet- to the extent expected. From February of the German Kali Syndicate. It is re¬ bars are strong at $28 and bessemer billets last the mines in the zone calculated to be ported that most of the independent Ger¬ remain at $27. Sales of both billets and affected by the company’s pumping are man producers have joined the syndicate. sheet-bars have been very light; there is obliged to pay the company 12 per cent, Thorium—The nitrate is quoted at $3.78 a great deal of inquiry for small lots of the value at pit mouth of all minerals per lb., with a small rebate for large for quick shipment. Steel bars remain at extracted. Shipments continue heavy, quantities (8c. per lb. for 1500 kilos). 1.50C. and plates at i.6oc. chiefly owing to the declining freights, Monazite sand not quoted; market un¬ Sheets—Black sheets are still quoted and stocks during the last few weeks have been considerably lowered. There is a settled. at 2.40C. and galvanized at 3.45c. for No. Tin Salts—Formerly these were quoted 28 gage. continued demand for most classes of ore, but the steady fall in exchange takes a once at the beginning of each month for Ferro-Manganese—The market is un¬ great deal off the advantage of the higher the respective month, and this is still true changed and $140 a ton seems to be the prices offering this year. of the bi-chloride, which is given in the price for prompt shipment; and for de¬ Quotations are 8s. 3d.@8s. 7d. for ordi¬ table herewith. But crystals are not now livery through the second quarter $iio@ nary 50 per cent, ore; 8s. iod.@9s. 2d. for held to one quotation for the month; they 120 is quoted. special low phosphorus; its. yd. for spec¬ vary with the fluctuations of the metal, ular ore, 58 per cent.; los. for S. P. Cam¬ even from day to day. Dusseldorf, German y March 20. panil. All prices are f.o.b. shipping port. Manganiferous ores, same terms, range PBICES. Exports of iron and steel from Ger¬ Alkalies. many, including machinery, were as fol¬ from IIS. 6d. for 35 per cent, iron and 12 Soda ash. (alkali) per lb., future.... 0.8(Va.87%c. . prompt... .86r3.95c. lows, in metric tons, for the month of manganese, up to i8s. for 20 iron and 20 Bicarb, soda, per lb. 1.8(91.6c. per cent, manganese. Bleaching powder, per lb. 1.26c. January: Boda, caustic, per lb., future. l%®1.8c. Pyrites—Iron pyrites, 40 per cent, iron “ •• •* April, May... 2%®3c. 1905. 1906. Changes. Balt cake, per lb. .66c Pig iron and scrap. 27,426 48,663 I. 21,137 and 43 sulphur, are quoted los. 6d. per Sal soda, per lb. .6)all.4c. Bloums and billets. 37,603 46,966 I. 9,363 Soda, monohydrate, per lb. 1%®1HC. Finished Iron and steel. 163,977 248,470 I. 94,49:1 ton, f.o.b. Cartagena. Potash, caustic, per lb. 4%l2)6%c. •• carbonate, 82-86%. 8%®4% Total. 219,006 343,989 I. 124,983 Alum, per lb. 1.76®196c. Machinery. 20,268 27,377 I. 7,119 Ammonia, aqua, 26 deg., per In. 4%®6Xc. Heavy Chemicals and Minerals. Nitrate of soda, 100 lb. 96% for 1906.... S3.30 Total. 239,264 371,366 I. 132,102 96% for 1906.... 2.‘.2%^.26 96% for 1907.... 2.30(S)3.224 The exports show a large increase over New York, April 3. 96% for 1907.... 2.16®2.17i Saltpeter, per lb. 4>4®6%c. last year. In the German customs reports, The quotations for heavy chemicals are Potash, muriate, per cwt. $1.90l®$1.98 all machinery is given by weight. shown in the table given herewith; and Potash, katnlte, per long ton. <8.e0ra)9.60 Potash, sulphate, 90%, 100 lb. .82.18^.21% Exports of slag and slag products were in particular: Sulphate of ammonia, per 1001b. . S3.10r3S.12i Acids. 1808 tons in 1905, and 2607 tons in 1906. Arsenic — This is still unsettled; for Carbonic, liquid gas. .12i In addition to this the exports of basic Hydrochloric, nominal, per lb. l.lc. shipment it is a shade off from the fig¬ Hydrofluoric, 30:(. . per lb. .03 slag, used as fertilizer, were 6338 tons in ures quoted herewith. 48){. .06 T905, and 11,360 tons this year. m.. •• .U Blue Stone (copper sulphate)—This has Nitric acid.per lb. 3%|36%c. Imports into Germany in January were Oxalic acid, com'l, per lb. SX®6%c. shown much activity lately, jumping 10 Sulphuric acid, 60°, bulk, per ton. $12 up. as follows, in metric tons: , 60®, 100 lb. in carboys 1.00 points on two separate occasions recently. 60®, bulk, ton. 18.00ra)20.00 1905. 1906. Changes. As we go to press it is quoted as in the 66®, 100 lb. In carboys 1.0001.26 Pig Iron and scrap.. 13,972 19,666 I. 6,684 66°, bulk, ton.. 21.00023.02 Blooms and billets. 604 660 I. 66 table given herewith. Arsenic, white, per lb., nominal. 6XO€%c. Finished Iron and steel. . 8,820 11,826 I. 3,006 •• red, per lb. 6>4c. Nitrate of Soda — Conditions on the Blue stone (copper sulphate), carload, $6.00O$6.16 Total. . 23,296 32,041 I. 8,746 west coast (of South America) are lively; Sulphur. Machinery. . 4,606 6,119 I. 1,614 IiOul8lana(prlme)to New York.Boston the market is firm and prices are advanc¬ or Portland.ton $22,124 Total. . 27,801 38,160 10,369 ing, owing to the chronic scarcity of la¬ To Philadelphia or Baltimore.... ** 32.63| The imports also show an increase. Im¬ bor and increasing consumption of fertil¬ Tin, bichloride per lb., for month... .11 Crystals, per lb., varies with metal .29i ports of slag and slag products were 65,900 izer. The West Coast combination will tons in 1905, and 83,269 tons in 1906; of P^lte. undoubtedly be readjusted, and perhaps Domestic, furnace size....per unit lOXOllc. basic slag, 6465 tons in 1905, and 15,276 Fines. •• 8O10c. while we "go to press, as 95 per cent, of the Imported, lump. At. ports. “ 11012c. tons this year. concerns have signified their willingness •• fines •• “ . •• lOOlOfc. “ furnace size. •• iioiac. Exports of iron ore—chiefly to France to join in an agreement; further particu¬ —were 303,296 tons in 1905, and 304,109 lars next week. Pyiite prices are per unit of sulphur. On lump deliveries, a charge of 26c. per ton is made for tons in 1906; an increase of 813 tons only. Total imports from Jan. i to date into breaking to furnace size. Imports of iron ore were 243,305 tons in Atlantic ports from West Coast were Phosphates. F. O. B. 1905, and 407,187 tons in 1906; an increase 78,600 tons, as compared with 50,100 tons ®Fla., hard rook.$8.0008.60 land pebble. 4.6006.00 of 163,882 tons this year. in same period in 1905; and 81,161 tons in tTenn , 78080%. 4.6004-66 78%. 4.0004.26 1904. Total visible supply in store and 76%,. 3.7604.00 Cartagena, Spain. March 17. afloat, to arrive before July 15, is 78,800 68072%. 3.2603.60 tSo. Car. land rock. 4.0004.26 Iron and Manganiferous Ores—Messrs. tons, as compared with 103,500 tons in river rock. 3.7604.00 1905; and 71,900 tons in 1904. Fla., hard rock guaranteed 77$ phos- Barrington & Holt report that shipments photicacid, to London, Rotterdam for the week were one cargo, 1500 tons Phosphate—The market is stiff on ac¬ or Hamburg, 1907, per unit.... 7%d. Ditto to Stettin, 1907, per unit. 8X08%d. dry ore, and three cargoes, 7700 tons count of an apparent shortage for 1906; Ditto to Stettin. 1908, •* . 8Hd. in accord with which quotations hold their Ditto, to Mediterranean ports, 1908, manganiferous ore, all to Great Britain; per unit. 8%d. one cargo, 4700 tons Calasperra magnetic own in the recent advances. Prices for 1906 are merely nominal, as there is ore to Rotterdam. The sierra continues Foreign shipments of high-grade Flo¬ practically none to be bad. rida phosphate rock made through the active, with considerable competition for *F. o. b. Florida or Georgia ports. tF. o. b. M. the higher-grade ores, which are yearly port of Savannah, Ga., in the month of Pleasant. tOn vessel Ashley River, S. C. 692 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. Metal Market. Shipments of silver from' London to the The average price of lake copper in East are reported by Messrs. Pixley & March was 18.641c. per lb.; the average Abell as follows for the year to March 22: for electrolytic copper was 18.361c. per lb. New York, April 1. In making up our averages, where two Gold and Silver Exports and Imports. 1906. 1906. Changes. India. £ 1,956.387 £ 4,761,910 I. £ 3,806,633 figures are given to represent the range At *11 United States Ports In February and year. China. 1,370 . D. 1,370 Straits. 3,800 . D. 3,800 of the market on any particular day, as is Metal. Exports. Imports. ^ Excess. commonly the case, we take the mean of Total. £ 1,960,467 £4,761,910 I. £ 3,801,463 the two, in calculating the monthly Gold: Receipts for the week were £2000 from averages. Feb. 1906.. $7,686,330 $2,083,938 Exp. $6,606,392 South America; £159,000 in bars and <• 1906 . 14,794,312 2.192 919 12,601,393 Year 1906.. 13,437,996 4,689,647 8,783,348 £100,000 in Mexican dollars from New 31,633,480 4,088,610 27,633,870 “ 1906.. York; a total of £261,000. Exports were Copper—The market has remained very Sliver: firm. However, quotations remain the Feb. 190t.. 7,336,129 4,461,376 Exp. 2,783.763 £186,700 in bars and £61,200 in Mexican •• 1906 .. 4,036,076 3,061,368 1,974,717 same, as the leading interests are still Year 1906.. 14,761,797 9,138,087 6,613,710 dollars; a total of £247,900, all to India. •• 1906 .. 8,400,820 3,983,660 4,417,260 booking all business that is submitted to them at unchanged prices. The market These statements cover the total movement ot closes at i8^(gi8^ for Lake copper; Indian exchange has been easier, owing gold and silver to and from the United States. for electrolytic in ingots, cakes The nguree are furnished by the Bureau of Statis¬ to light exports and plentiful supply of tics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. and wirebars; i8(a i8j4 for casting cop¬ money in India. The council bills of¬ per. fered in London were taken at an average Gold and Silver Exports and Imports. N.Y. The situation in the London market has of i5.97d. per rupee. Shipments of silver shown conclusively that an absolute cor¬ For the week ending March 31, and for years from tc India have been moderate only. January 1. ner in standard warrants exists over there, bears being forced to cover their com¬ Gold. Silver. Prices of Foreign Coins. mitments at continuity advancing prices. Period. Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. The market closes at £84 5s. for spot, £82 for three months. $113,546 $ 663,498 $1,043,773 $ 67,061 „ . Bid. Asked. Week. Mexican dollars.$0.50 $0.63 Statistics for the second half of March 3,140,936 2,062,985 18,373,803 603,361 1906. Peruvian soles and Chilean. 0.46 0.49 1906 . 31,936,270 3.974,111 9,336,041 677,437 Victoria sovereigns. 4.86)4 4.87 X show a decrease in the visible supplies of 1,927,160 1.633,704 12,204.640 177,630 . Twenty francs. 8.87 3.89 300 tons. Spanish 26 pesetas. 4.78 4 80 Of the gold Imported for the week $608,298 came Refined and manufactured sorts we from Liverpool, the balance from the West Indies. The gold exported went directly to Panama; the quote: English tough, £85@86; best se¬ SILVXB AND STXBLINO EXCHANOX. silver to London. lected, £88 los.; strong sheets, £96. --9- Silver. 1 Silver. Copper Exports and Imports—The ex¬ The statement of the New York banks M u ports of copper from the United States —including all the banks represented in 0 for the two months ending Feb. 28 are re¬ the clearing house—for the week ending *:s Apr. ported as follows by the Bureau of Stat¬ Exchange. Sterling London, Pence. Exchange. Sterling New York- London, Pence. March 31, gives the following totals, com¬ IS Gents. istics of the Department of Commerce and parison being made with the correspond¬ 39 4.8620 30X 3 4.8640 65X 64H 29X Labor; the figures given being in long ing week of 1905: 80 4.8630 64X 30 3 4.8630 64X 31 4.8636 64X i»II 4 4.8530 64X 29iA tons of 2240 lb. each: 1906. 1906. New York quotations are for line silver, per To; 1906. 1906. Changes. Loans and discounts.. $1,099,289,700 $1,036,603,960 ounce Tr ^y. London prices are for sterling DeposlU. 1,138,661,300 1,004,390,600 silver, .936 One. Great Britain. ... 6,906 3,061 D. 2,866 Chrcnlatlon. 48,718,700 61,846,000 Belgium. 298 402 I. 104 Bpecle. 309,481,100 177,896,010 France..... 7.734 6,027 D. 1,707 I^al tenders. 83,848,830 78,308,900 Other Metals. Italy. ... 1,674 938 D. 730 Germany and H Hand 13,623 16,671 I. 4 048 Total Beserve. $293,629,900 $366,203,900 Russia. ... 2,084 662 D. 1,422 Legal requirements— 284,< 66,326 361,073,636 Other Europe. ,.. 1,783 1,844 I. 61 Oanada.. 220 269 I. 49 Surplus reserve. $8,664,676 $5,131,376 Dally Prices of Metals In New York. China. ... 4,696 600 D. 3,996 Other countries. ... 2,616 28 D. 2.487 Changes for the week this year were Copper. Tin. Lead. Spelter. Total metal. ... 39.333 30,392 D. 8,940 increases of $101,800 in legal tenders and In ore and matte.... 806 1,333 I. 628 $485,300 in circulation; decreases of A Total. ... 40,137 31.725 D. 8.412 $3,829,700 in loans, $4,529,500 in specie, The decrease in the total is 21.0 per $8,780,800 in deposits and $1,232,500 in 11 1 cent. The actual quantities of ore and London, Lake, £ per ton. Ota. per lb. surplus reserve. Ots. per lb. New York. Ots. per lb. li 1 Ots. per lb. . St. Louis, matte were 4668 tons in 1905, and 10,548 1 Mar.-Apr. 18K 18X 6.16 6.00 tons in 1906; contents are estimated 29 The following table shows the specie YS>18\ 018X 83)4 87)4 6.35 (0)6.30 06.06 chiefly on the basis of values. holdings of the leading banks of the world. 30 18X 18X 6.16 6.00 ^18X msH 83)4 rm 6.36 (2)6.17i 06.02^ Imports of copper and copper material The amounts are reduced to dollars: 31 18X 18>i 6.16 6.00 for the two months are reported as fol¬ 018V ®18X . 37)4 6.36 (a)6.17i O6.03A Oold. silver. Total. lows; the figures giving the contents of 2 18 X 18X 6.10 6.974 New York.... .$177,896,000 018X mm 84)4 37)4 5.36 06.16 06.033 all ^material in long tons of fine copper: Ingland. $193,361,090 . 192,361,090 3 18X 18X 6.10 6.974 France. 684,631,680 $210,176,160 791,707,840 ®18X (2)18)4 84)4 *7)4 6.36 (96.16 (36.03} Metal. In ore.etc. Total. Germany. 193,960,000 64,666,000 368,616,000 Spain. 76,380,000 119,396,000 194,676,000 4 18X 18)4 6.10 6.974 Mexico. .. 6,623 2,426 8,947 Netherlands.. 30,370,600 30,338,000 60,498,600 mm 84)4 88)4 6.36 06.16 O6.03| Oanada. .. 2,637 686 3,123 Belgium. 17,110,000 8,666,000 36,666,000 .. 1,217 1,317 141,486,000 19,378,000 160,763,000 Other countries. .. i;642 931 2,473 Italy. London quotations are per long ton (3,340 lb), Bussla. 463,176,000 33,810,000 486,966,000 Aiutrla...... 330,416.000 64,396,000 294,740,000 standard copper, which is now the equivalent ot Total Imports. . 11.818 3,941 16,769 Net imports, 1906... .. 11,196 2,664 13,760 The returns of the associated banks of the former g. m. b’s. The New York quotations for electrolytic copper are for cakes. Ingots or New York are of date March 31, and the wlrebars. The price of cathodes Is usually 0.136c. There were no re-exports of foreign others March 30. The foreign bank state¬ below that ot electrolytic. The lead prices are those material this year, so that the total im¬ ments are from the Commercial and Fi¬ quoted by the American Smelting k Beflnlng Oo. ports are also the net imports. The in¬ nancial Chronicle, of New York. The tor near-by shipments of desllverlsed lead In crease in the total imports this year was ■0-ton lots, or larger orders. The quotations in New York banks do not separate gold and spelter are for ordinary western brands; spsclal 1999 tons, or 14.5 per cent. The actual ton¬ silver in their, reports. ligands command a premium. nage of ores and matte from Mexico this April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 693 year was 21,641; from Canada and New¬ The foreign market has improved a 1906; an increase of 182,959 lb. this year. foundland, 4150 tons. The exports ex¬ trifle and closes at £25 2s. 6d. for good Imports of nickel ore and matte were 2018 ceeded the net imports by 26,377 tons in ordinaries, £25 7s. 6d. for specials. tons in 1905, and 2020 tons in 1906; an 1905, and 15,966 tons in 1906; a decrease Exports of spelter from the United increase of 2 tons only. of 10,411 tons this year. States for the two months ending Feb.~28 Platinum—Prices are still unsettled, the were 1237 short tons in 1905, and 1491 Tin—Reports from London indicate supply being irregular and the demand tons in 1906; an increase of 254 tons. Ex¬ that the spot supplies are cornered over large. The current price is $25 per ounce,, ports of zinc ore were 3554 tons in 1905, there, which accounts for the violent ad¬ but changes are likely to occur at any vance which has been experienced during and 4517 tons in 1906; an increase of 963 time. the last few days. Supplies in our mar¬ tons. Exports of zinc dross were 2556 Imports of platinum into the United ket are also of a very limited nature, and tons in 1906; this article was not reported States for the two months ending Feb. 28 premiums over the import price have to separately last year. were 1616 lb. in 1905, and 2284 lb. in 1906; be paid for tin which is wanted on the St. Louis Spelter Market—The John an increase of 668 lb. this year. spot. This market closes at [email protected].; Wahl Commission Company telegraphs while London quotes £173 5s. for spot, us on April 4, as follows: Spelter is Quicksilver — The metal is firm and £169 for three months. steady. The latest sales are on a basis New York prices are still $41 per flask of Statistics for the month of March show of 6c., and the demand at that price is 75 lb. for lots of 100 flasks or over, and a decrease in the visible supplies of 400 fairly good. $42 for small lots down to 10 flasks. For retail quantities, under 10 flasks, pound tons. Spanish Zinc Ore Market — Messrs. prices are charged, which work out* to Imports of tin into the United States for Barrington & Holt report from Carta¬ $43 So@44 per flask. San Francisco prices the two months ending Feb. 28 are re¬ gena, Spain, under date of March 17, that are firm at $39.50 for domestic orders and ported as follows, in long tons of 2240 lb.: the falling tendency of both spelter and $38 for export. The London price is £7 exchange has kept the local market rather 1906. 1906. Changes 7s. 6d. per flask, but jobbers ask £7 los. fitralts. 2,996 3,430 I. 434 quiet lately; a fair amount of ore has Australia. 15 60 I. 36 for moderate lots. Oreat Britain. 3,9.8 4,919 I. 1,011 passed from miners to merchants this Holland. 104 96 D. 9 week, but stocks at mines are large and Exports of quicksilver from the United Other Europe. 160 190 I. 30 States for the two months ending Feb. 28 Other countries. 5 3D, 2 miners who can afford to are waiting, were 135,135 lb. in 1905, and 165,981 lb. in hoping to see spelter improve. Shipments Total. 7,188 8,687 I. 1,499 1906; an increase of 30,846 lb. this year. for the week were 3000 tons blende to There was a considerable increase— Stettin, and 1000 tons to Antwerp. Manganese Alloys—Prices for these al¬ 20.8 per cent.—this year. Zinc Sheets—The price of zinc sheets loys in Germany are given by Paul Speier Lead—A little better demand has sprung •s $7.75 per 100 lb. (less discount of 8 per as below. The prices are for orders of up, probably in consequence of the more cent.) f.o.b. cars for Lasalle and Peru, in not less than 50 kg. delivered in Bre¬ seasonable w'eather, but prices remain 6oo-lb. cases for gages No. 9 to 22, both men, and are as follows, per 100 entirely unchanged at S.35C. New York, inclusive; widths from 32 to 60 in., both kilograms: S.27J4c. St. Louis. inclusive, and lengths from 84 to 96 in., Marke. The market abroad has declined some¬ both inclusive. The freight rate to New Manganeee copper. No. 1, 30^ Hn. 271 what. due to pressure to sell arrivals of York is 27.5c. per 100 lb. The fluctua¬ No. 2, 28HMII. 180 No. 3, 20 to 269^, with 2 t • 49i Iron. 106 l-ondon lead, and the closing quotations tions in the base price for sheet zinc since Manganese tin. No. 1, 669i Mn., no iron. 480 are cabled as £15 12s. 6d. for Spanish No. 2,66^ Mn., soihe Iron. 280 January i, 1906, has been as follows: Manganese nickel. No. 1, free from Iron. 400 lead, £15 15s. for English lead. Jan. 6, 1906, $8; Feb. 5, $7.75. No. 2, traces of Iron. 270 Imports of lead into the United States Antimony has been the banner article for the two months ending Feb. 28, with Manganese metal is quoted at 3 marks of the week. Prices have advanced by re-e.xports of foreign metal, are reported per kg.—38.8c. per lb.—delivered in Bre¬ leaps and bounds in consequence of urgent as follows, in short tons of 2000 lb. men. These alloys are made by the Isa- buying on the part of consumers all over each: bellenhutte, in Bonn, Germany, which is the world. Stocks in the hands of pro¬ represented by Mr. Speier in Breslau as 1M; ' 11: Changes. ducers, as well as middlemen, are exceed¬ selling agent. Lead, metallic. 1,608 1,776 I. 168 ingly light and the supply of raw ma¬ Lead In ores and base Minor Metals—For minor metals and bullion. 18,068 14,961 D. 3,107 terial is limited. Cookson’s is quoted at their alloys, wholesale prices are f.o.b. I9@i9j2; Hallett’s, i8j^@i9c.; Hunga¬ Total Imports. 19,666 16,727 D. 2.939 works : Re-exports. 5,316 7,066 I. 1,739 rian and French, i8^@i8j4c. Net Imports. 14,360 9,672 Imports of antimony into the United D. 4,678 Aluminum. Per lb. States for the two months ending Feb. 28 No. 1, 99Ji Ingots.36088C. Of the lead imported this year 14,607 were as follows, in pounds: No. 2.90Jilng ts. 33(9860. Boiled sheets.44c. ap» tons w'ere from Mexico and 603 tons from Aluminum casting all ya. 30(938c. 1905. 1906. Changes. Aluminum-bronze powder.90(381.00 Canada. There were 1446 tons imported Bismuth. 82.10 from Europe, an unusual movement. Ex¬ Metaland regulus.... 766,644 1,397,176 1.630,632 Cadmium, 99.69( f. o. b Hamiiurg. 92c. Antimony ore. 730,600 82,777 D. 647,823 Chromium, pure (N. T.). 8O0. ports of domestic lead were 36 tons in Copper, red oxide. BOo. Terro-Molybdenum (60H). 1905 and 40 tons in 1906; an increase of 4 This shows an increase of 82.3 per cent, Perro-TlUnlum (20026?', N. Y ). 76c. tons. in metal, but a decrease of 88.7 per cent, Ferro-Chrom. (th%). 12 Ho- Ferro-Tungsten (37H). 2®®' St. Louis Lead Market—The John in ore. Magnesium, pure (N. Y.). 81.60 Manganese (98(3983^ N. Y.). 7Bc. Wahl Commission Company telegraphs Nickel—Quotations for large lots. New Manganese Cu. (30(3709i N. Y.). 40c. us on April 4, as follows: Lead is firm Molybdenum (98(399?^ N. Y.). 81.76 York, or other parallel delivery, are 40@ Tantallc acid (N. Y.) (oz.). 49c. but very quiet. The latest sales here are 47c. per lb., according to size and condi¬ Phosphorus, foreign red. 7Bo. Phosphorus, American yellow. BOc. on a basis of 5.25 to 5.27l4c. for Missouri tion of order. For small quantities, prices Tungsten (best), pound lots. 90c. brands, East St. Louis. Corroding lead is range from 48c. up to 6oc., also according scarce, and [email protected]. is asked. . to size of order and deliveries. Variations in price are chiefly due to Spelter has been somewhat neglected Exports of nickel, nickel oxide and size and conditions of order and deliv¬ during the week, and prices are dull and nickel matte from the United States for eries. Our correspondents report that sagging at [email protected]. New York; 5.97^4 the two months ending Feb. 28 were cadmium is in strong demand, and prices @6.02j4c. St. Louis. Ij636>995 lb. in 1905, and 1,819,954 lb. in are advancing. 694 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. April 7, 1906. • MlMOuri Ore Karket. Wiscooein Ore Market. around $135^136. Allouez spurted $1.75 to $40.75, losing part of it. Centennial is Joplin, March 31. Platteville, March 31. also up $1.50 to $27.75. Atlantic, on the While there was a report of two One of the best posted local buyers other hand, is off $1.25 to $21 on free of¬ bins sold today at $52 per ton, the state¬ stated last w'eek that the price of ore ferings of the stock. Mohawk advanced ment is discredited by leading producers, would not change materially for some $i to $62. from the fact that there are several time. Attention was called to the fact Old Dominion got a bad slump Satur¬ hundreds of tons on the market for which that the bad roads were likely to con¬ day, breaking $3 to $46 on. knowledge ol a basis price of $47 is all that is asked, tinue and little ore would be loaded. The a flood in the mine, but has since recov¬ while the sale reported at $52 Would be price for 60 per cent, zinc ore is $47 ered $1.75. Utah Consolidated closes the equivalent to a basis price of $49.50 per strong, some lots of easy access to rail¬ same as a week ago at $64.50. The favor¬ ton. The contention of the producers roads being $48. able annual report issued Saturday had seems unquestionably well founded. The Owing to the heavy local rains the lead been discounted, although it shows $6.20 $52 price was reported direct by the seller, mines were nearly all flooded. The earned on each share. and later corroborated by the buyer. price remains the same as last week. Greene Consolidated was restored to Other buyers declare it a rank fake, and Prybone ranges from $10 for 30 per cent, the Stock Exchange list last Thursdey, hint at some sort of collusion, and sellers up to $20 for the higher grades. Sul¬ and the stock has advanced $i during the assert that there is no reason for such a phur $4 to $6 according to manner week to $31. United States Coal and Oil price being paid. It is an unheard of cleaned. had a smart spurt of $2.25 on the an¬ anofnalj", a price reported by a seller and The camps report ore loaded as fol¬ nouncement of the coal strike, but has a buyer, and other sellers declining to be¬ lows : settled to $13 again. This is an inde¬ lieve in it, explainable, however, in the pendent company and would benefit by a C„P.. simplest manner; such a price is approxi¬ prolonged soft-coal strike. North Butte mately $5 per ton higher than hundreds Platteville. 198 080 Buncombe-Hazel Green. 132,200 is $1.50 higher for the week at $85.50, and of tons of as good ore could be purchased Linden. 123,a’>0 Llvlngsti^m. 90,000 United Copper is $i better at $69.50. for. Aside from this report $49 was the Cuba City. 88,300 United States Smelting has been particu¬ Highland. 60,000 highest settling price of the week. A car¬ Mineral Point. 39,200 larly strong, selling up $4 to $62. Amal¬ load of ore sold todaj*, for next week’s Total. 731,560 . gamated has been strong. deliver}', on a basis price of $47. As the Tear to Mar. 31.17,314,440 761,770 2,026,400 bin sample assayed 64 per cent, zinc, this Several of the producers have had to Colorado Springs.March 30. ore will be settled for at $51 per ton. build extra ore-bins, on account of the 7 he exceptional purity of this ore is reason There has been but little activity on the difficulty in hauling ore. for a premium price being paid. Aside local exchange, and but few of the Cripple from this one bin the assay basis price is Creek stocks have been in much demand. reported at $43 to $46 per ton of 60 per Mining Stocks. The feature of the week was the sudden cent. zinc. The average price is $39.64. decline in El Paso, which tumbled from The highest price reported for lead New York.” April 4. 91 to as low as 51 ^c., but recovered on today’s market to 57, with a closing quo¬ was $78, ranging down to $72 for 78 per The market has continued to fluctuate tation of 55J4@56c. This is due to the cent, grades. The average price was in rather a meaningless fashion, showing flooded condition of the mine, which oc¬ $75.56. that the operations are still largely of a curred this week, when a shot opened up a professional character. There have been Zinc, lb. iLead,lb.| v^ue. stream of water of such volume that the several little spurts, but the promised Carterrllle-Webb City. 1,971,6301 644,210 $64,a50 miners barely escaped, and all the lower Joplin. bull movement is still in the future. 2,230,060i 281,170 61.310 levels are completely submerged. The Duenweg.. 667,390| 216,640 22,910 Amalgamated Copper closes at $iii54; Galena-Empire 846,4701 121,730 21 806 last sale of Portland was for $1.80. Find¬ Granby. 630,0001 36,000 11,000 United States Steel at $43, with $io8j4 Alba. 348,320 8,010 ley has declined from 77 to 74c. Elkton Sherwood. for the preferred. 324,290! 4,310 7,460 sold for 42, C. K. & N. for 10, Isabella at Badger. 316,6301 4,660 7,280 On the outside market the fluctuations Aurora. 342,460 6,060 25J4c. Work has held quite strong and Heck City. 212,030! 4,876 were comparatively small, with business Oronogo. 204,930: 4..380 sold today for 9^c. Vindicator has been Proeperlty. 158,9601 29,660 4,:i80 rather light. The chief trading was in traded in at 95c. Golden Cycle is quoted Spurgeon. 143,5301 61,070 4 020 Nevada Consolidated, which closes at Springfield. 124.2301 2,790 at 75@90, with no sales. Centra) City.... 126,220 2,760 2,666 $i8j4; and in United Copper, which is Stott City. 116,190' 2610 Heavy snow'S in the Cripple Creek dis¬ Carthage. 63,8901 1,470 quoted today at $674;^, with $99^4 for trict have greatly handicapped the smaller Zincite. 65,230 j 1,466 the preferred. producers'and no doubt the March pro¬ Totals 9,601.360 1,301,090 $237,620 On the Consolidated Exchange trading duction will be considerably curtailed. Th^teen weeks. 128,626,240 18,928,730 $3,629,076 was a little more active. Sales are noted Zinc value, the week, $188,365; 13 weeks, $2,866,360. of Montana Tonopah at $3; Diamond Lead value, the week, 49,166; 13 weeks, 663,726. field at 50C.; Comstock at 23@24c.; San Francisco. March 29. The following table shows the average Anaconda Gold at 14c. per share. A tumble in Ophir early in the week monthly prices of zinc and lead ores in was the main feature. The stock went Joplin, by months: Boston. April 3. down to $4.75, but recovered to $5 today. The feature of this market the past This seemed to start interest in the Com¬ ZINC QBE AT JOPLIN. LEAD OBE AT JOPLIN. week has been the strength of Lake Su¬ stocks, and business w'as more active than perior mining shares. Prices sagged late for several weeks. Consolidated Califor¬ Month. 1906. 1906. Month. 1906. 1 1906. last week, but have since improved, and, nia & Virginia closed at $1.40; Hale & January... 62.00 47.38 January.... 61 60 76.20 as remarked above, the strength and activ¬ Norcross, $1.25; Mexican, $1.15. The ten¬ February... 62.77 47.37 February... 67.62 72.83 March. 47.40 42.68 ity has been in the Michigan issues. Cal¬ dency is strong. » April. 42.88 ' April. M.061 .... umet is up $18 to $710; Tamarack $3 to The market for the Tonopahs was strong May. 43.81 May. 58.27 1 .... June. 40.76 June. 57.80 1 .... $110, and Osceola is being accumulated and active, with many fluctuations and July. 48.00 July. 58.00 { .. August. 48.83 : August. 58.00 .... with the price $2.50 above last week, at some sharp advances. The public is tak¬ Septembei . 46.76 September. 63.60 .... $105.50. Franklin has been bulled hard ing hold freely and buying orders for October.... 47.60 October.,... 63.86 1 .... Horember.. 49.66 Hovember.. 68.67 ! .... and rose $1.25 to $20.75, but lost the frac¬ these stocks are much in evidence. Mon¬ December.. 49.00 December.. 76.26 ! .... tion today. Wolverine holds steady tana Tonopah sold up to $3; Jim Butler, April 7, 1906. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 695 $1.55; Sandstorm, $1.40; Manhattan Con¬ STOCK QUOTATIONS. Monthly Average Prices of Metals. solidated, $1.25. Gold Bar made a big SILVEK. jump, to $2, losing only $1.90 at the close. NEW YOEK. Week Apr. 3. Oil stocks remain dull. Home sold at Name of Company, * High Low Clg. Sales New York. London. 38c., and Independence at loc., on small Month. 1906. 1906. 1906. 1906. transactions. Amalgamated... 113% 107 111% 486,706 Anaconda. 284% 270 278% 168,100 Boston Copper. 24 23 23% 3,960 January.... 60.690 66.288 27.^ 30.11$ fiibbcrt <$* Burns—At this property, British Col. Copper... 8% 8 8% 11.100 February... 61.023 66.108 28.047 30.464 Federal. 180 180 180 200 March. 68.046 64.697 26.794 29.864 Browns Valley, a new shaft is to be sunk, Federal, PI. 106% 103 105 10,200 April.. 56.600 26.108 Greene Copper. a new hoist put in and finally a 20-stamp 31 29% 30% 21,400 May. 67.832 26.664 Greene Gold'. 3% 3% 3% 3,760 June. 68.428 26.910 null is to be erected. The mine is to be Mitchell. 12% 11% 12 6,796 July...-._ 68.916 27.163 Tennessee Copper.... 19% 47 48 4,300 August. 60.269 27.822 re-opened under superintendency of H. Union Copper. 2 1% 1% 7,600 September.. 61.696 28.528 United Copper,. 37,400 H. Hicks. The property has produced 69% 66% 68 October. 62.034 28.637 United Copper. Pref.. 99% 99% 99% 60 November... 63.849 29.493 considerable gold from surface workings, Utah Apex. 6% 6% 6% 460 December.. 64.860 29.977 Utah Copper... 30% 29% 1,660 but no deep development has been done. Year. 60.362 27.839 NEW YORK INDUSTRIALS. The New York prices are In cents per fine Dividends. ounce; the London quotation Is In pence per standard ounce, .926 fine. Am. Smelting h Ref. 163% 169% 161% 169^000 Company. Payable. Rate. Amt. Am. Smelting & Ref., Pf. 123% 122 122% 3,960 Col. Fuel & Iron. 67% 64 66 199,900 COPPER. Pittsburg Coal. 8,800 Am. Smelting & Ref. ..Apr. 16 17% 14% 16% $1.75 $876,000 *• pfd. 62 67% 60 1,300 Anaconda Copper. ..Apr. 19 l.m 1.360.000 NEW YORE. Green Con. Copper. National Lead. 84% 79 82 29,210 LONDON. ..Apr. 18 0.40 346,600 19,310 International Nickel, pfd .. May 1 Republic I. & S. 32% 28% 32 Electrolytic. L^e. 1.60 133,689 Republic I. & S., Pf_ 101 102% 9,000 New Idrla Quicksilver ... ..Apr. 2 0.20 20,000 103% Penna. Salt Mfg. Co. Tenn. C. & I. 152 147% 160 2,700 1906. 1906. 1906. 1906. 1906. 1906. .. Apr. 16 3.00 180,000 U. S. Red. b Ref. 26% 27 1,200 Philadelphia Co. .. May 1 0.75 434,296 28 U. S. Red. k Ref., Pf.... 63 63% 1,200 18.310 18.416 68.262 78.896 Tonopah Extension. .. Apr. 20 0.15 150,000 63% Jan. 16.008 16.1^ U. S. Steel. 39% 43 387,311 18.116 67.963 78.147 Tenn. C., I. & R. R. pfd... ..May 1 2.00 4,960 43% Feb.. .. 16.011 17.869 16.136 U. S. Steel, Pf . 106% 108% 94,876 18.641 68.174 81,111 Tenn. C.', I. A B. R. ..May 1 1.00 226,536 109% March . 16.126 18.361 16.260 Standard Oil. 660 660 67.017 United Copper. .. Apr. 30 1.75 767,600 668 April. .. 14.920 16.046 Bethlehem Steel. 32% 27% 30% 14.820 64.876 United Copper, pfd. ..May 15 3.00 160,000 May.... 14.627 June... 14.673 14.813 66.881 These stocks, not elsewhere quoted, had the July. ... 14.888 16.006 66.887 Assessments. following range ol prices during the week: (New Aug.. .. 16.664 16.726 69.830 York) Bamb. Delamar, 6-:-6; Butte Coalition, 35 Sept.... 15.966 16.978 69.667 16.279 16.332 71.406 Company. Delinq. Sale. Amt. —38%;Cumb. Ely Mln„ 6)i—7; Greene Gold-Silver, 2%—IjMont. Shoshone, new, 16i—18; Nevada Con. Nov.. .. 16.599 16.768 74.727 Copper, 17Ji—19. (Boston) Adventure, 6)^—7^; 18.328 18.398 78.993 Caledonia. .... Apr. 20 May 11 $0.10 Montana C. & C., 3X—4)^; Nevada, 18—19 ; Trin¬ Challenge Con..... Apr. 17 May 8 0.10 ity. 10—10%; U. S. Oil, 12—14%; Wolverine. 134- Year.. 16.690 16.699 69.466 Confidence. .... Apr. 11 May 2 0.20 137; Wyandotte, 1%—1%. Christmas, Utah._ _ Apr. 16 May 6 0.004 New York prices are In cents per pound. Elec¬ Crown Point, Nev... -Apr. 26 May 16 0.10 trolytic quotations are for cakes. Ingots or wire Gould & Curry. ... Apr. 3 Apr. 23 0.10 BOSTON. bars. The London prices are In pounds sterling, Julia Con._ Apr. 9 Apr. 27 0.03 per long ton of 2,240 lb., standard copper. Eentuck Con. .... Apr. 11 May 4 0.06 Allouez. 40% 38% 38% 2,070 Lower Mammoth, Utah Mar. 19 Apr. 9 Amalgamated. 113% 107% 111% 39,327 Red Slide, Cal.. ... Apr. 10 O.OR Atlantic. 22 21 21 TIN IN NEW YORK. Segregated Belcher. 3,405 ... Apr. 6 Apr. 26 0.06 Bingham. 41% 38% 40 3.349 Sonora, Idaho. ... Mar. 31 Apr. 21 0.003 Boston Consolidated ... 24 23 23% 4,965 Month. 1 1906. 1906. Month. 1906. 1 1906. Tetro, Utah. ... Mar. 26 Apr. 20 0.01 *Calumet & Hecla. 1 Union Con., Nev_ 710 690 709 170 ... Apr. 10 Apr. 30 0.10 Centennial. 27% 26% 27% 1,846 Utah, Nev. ... Apr. 18 May 9 0.05 Mercur. 66 63 62% 350 31.760 Yellow Jacket. ... Apr. 20 May 15 0.10 29.326 36.390 *Copper Range. 82% 80 81% 6,712 Ffth . 29.262 36.403 32.866 Daly-West. 14% 14 14 666 32.096 Tonopah Stocks. Apr. 4. Franklin. 20% 19% 20 4,083 .3n!625'. 32.481 13% (Revised by Weir Bros. & Co. Granby. 13% 13 3,300 30 0491. 33.443 , New York.) Green Con. Copper. 31% 30 30 15,811 30.3Mi .i 35.836 High. Low. L(U9t. Isle Royale. 23% 22% 23 260 Tonopah Mine of Nevada. 19.00 18.60 18.76 Mass. 9 8% 8% 1,036 i Av. year. 31.358 Tonopah Montana . 2.90 2.86 2.90 Michigan. 13% 13 13% 870 Tonopah Extension. 10.60 10.26 10.60 Mohawk. 62 61 61% 2,062 Prices are In cents per pound. Tonopah Midway. 2.36 2.30 2.36 •North Butte. 86% 81 85 6,037 Tonopah West End. 3.45 3.36 3.40 Old Dominion. • 46 43 44% 4680 LEAD IN NEW YORK. Goldfield Mining Co. .66 .63 .64 Osceola. . 106% 103 104% 1,784 Jumbo Mining. Parrot. 40% 38 39 2,182 1.80 1.76 1.76 Month. 1906. 1906. Month. 1906. 1906. Red Top. 1.80 1.76 1.80 Quincy. 96 94 96 260 Sandstorm. 1.40 1.30 1.36 Rhode Island. 6% 6% 6 1,205 Montgomery Shoshone Cons. 17.60 17.00 17.26 Shannon . 7% 7 7 1,766 To„ 4.662 6.600 4.624 Eclipse-Bullfrog. 1.16 1.10 1.124 Tamarack. 110 107 108 235 Feb. 4.460 6.464 Aug. 4.666 Denver-Bullfrog. 1.75 1.76 1.76 Tecumseh.. 13 12 12 62 March. 4.470 6.360 Sept. 4.850 •United Copper, com,.. 69% 66% 68% 16,810 April. 4.600 Oct...'. 4.860 “ pfd.... 99 98 98 60 4.500 6.^ St. Louis. Mar. 31. U. S. Smg. k Ref. 62 67% 61% 10,172 4.600 6.422 • “ •• pfd. 46 46% 45% 4,660 "- Adams, $0.10—$0.26; American Nettle. $0.20— Utah. 66% 63% 64% 10,636 Av.,year. 4.707 $0.16; Center Creek, $2.60—$2.00; Central Coal and Victoria. • 9 8% 8% 743 Coke, $63 00—$62.00; Central Coal and Coke, pld., tWlnona. 9 8 8 60 Prices are In cents per pound. The London $80.00—$78.00; Central Oil. $60.00—$66.00; C. lumbla, average lor January, 1906, was £ 16.860 per long $1.00—10.60; Con. Coal, $20.00—$16.00; Doe Run (old COLORADO SPRINGS. ton; February, £ 16.031; March, £ 16.922. stock). $350.00-$300.00; Granite Bimetalic, $0.27— $0.20; St. Joe (old stock), $33.00—$30.00. Name of Company. First Hlghi Low Clg SPELTER. 43 46 i 40 40 66 58%j 61% 66% LONDON. [By CdbU.*) Apr. 4. New York. St. Louis. London. 26% 26%i 26% 26 182 190 1 175 180 Month. Dolores, £1 17s. 6d.; Stratton’s Independence, 1906. 1906. 1905. 1906. 1906. 1906. £0 78. 6d.; Camp Bird, £1 Is. 9d.: Esperanza, £3 Vindicator. 96 95 i 92 92 188. 6d.; Tomboy, £1 78. 6d.; El Ore, £1 88. 9d.; Orovllle, £0 188. 6d.; Arizona Copper, pi., £3 78. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan.... 6.190 6.487 6.032 6.837 26.062 ;».236 6d.; Arizona Copper, del., £3 78. Feb. .. 6.139 6.076 6.989 6.924 24.594 26.844 Mar... 6.067 6.209 6.917 6.066 23.826 24.563 *Furnlshed by C. Schumacher & Co., New York. April.. 6.817 6.667 23.813 Best k Belcher. 1.06 1.16 1.06 1.16 May... 6.434 6.284 23.694 Bullion. .29 .31 .27 .30 June.. 6.190 6.040 23.876 PHILADELPHIA. Caledonia. .36 .37 .34 .37 July .. 6.396 6.247 23.938 Confidence. .65 .76 .66 .72 Aug... 6.706 6.566 24.676 Cambria Steel. 36 86% 36% 36% Con. Cal. & Va. 1.30 1.40 1.30 1.40 Sept... 6.887 6.737 26.376 Philadelphia Co...:_ 61% 61% 51 60% Gould k Curry. .13 .29 .12 .28 Oct.... 6.087 6.934 28.226 Tonopah. 18% 18% 18% 18% Hale k Norcross. 1.30 1.36 1.10 1.25 Nov.... 6.146 5.984 28.600 Mexican. 1.10 1.20 1.10 1.16 Dec.... 6.622 6.374 28.719 Occidental Con. .94 . .96 .94 .96 PITTSBURG. Ophlr. 4.90 6.00 4 90 6.76 Year. 1 6.882 1 . 5.730 26.433 Savage. .74 .98 .70 .98 16 Crucible Steel. .1 14% 16% 14% New York and St. Louis prices are In cents per Crucible Steel, Pref_ •1 78% 79% 78% 79 * Ez-dividend. t Ist iBstallment Paid. pound. The London prices are In pounds sterling Tonopah Ext. • ! 11% 11% 10% 10% lAsssssmsnt Paid. % 3d InataUaiaiit Paid. per long ton (2,240 lb.) good ordinary brands. April 7, 1906. 696 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. DIVIDENDS. Metal and Mming Companies—U. S. Author* Dividends. Name of Company and Coal, Iron and Other Industrials—United States. Ized Par Tutal to Latest. Location. Capital |Issuod. Val. Dale. Date. Amt. Mexican, g. Al’ka.... $1,000,000 180,0001 374,381 Feb. 1906 $ .30 j Shares. Dividends. AlaakaTreadweli.g Al'ka.... 6.000,000' 200.000 .636,000 Feb. 1906 1.00 Author- Alaska United, g... Al’ka — 1,000,000 180,200 Feb. 1906 0.40 i Name of Company and ized Par Latest. Amalgamated, c,. . Mont .... 166 000 0001 630.879 .041,448 Feb. 1906 1.60 Location. Capiul. Total to , , , Issued, Val. Am.8m.aBef.,com. U. 8. ,760.000 Apr. 19061 1.76 Date. 50,000.000 600.0001 1 Date. km%. Am 8m A Bet. pf.. U. 8. 60,000 000 600,00m ,891,663 Apr. 1906! 1.76 $ Am. 8melter8, pf. A. 17.000,000 170.000' 765,000 Mar. 1906 160 Ala. Con., C. k I., pf. Ala . $2,600,0(X) g24 638 100 9906,266 May 1906 $1.76 Am. 8melter;i pt. B. 30,000,000 SOO.OOOj ,125,000 Mar. 1906 1.25 Allls-Chalmers, pf ,. U S. 26,000,0(X) 200,000, 100 3,213.760 Feb. 1904 1.76 Anaconoa.c.Mont ... 30 000,0001.200,000 200,000 Apr. 1906 1.12ii Amer. Ag. Chem., pf , U. 8. 20,000,000 181 360 100 6,286,790 Apr. 1906 3.0$ Annie Laurie, g.... Utah. 6 000,000 26,000 466,061 July 1906 .60 American Cement. .. Pa— 2,000,000 200,000! 10 888,000 Jan. 1906 .3$ ArlBona, c.Atlz. 3 776 000 6,186,826 Apr. 1906 American Coal.Ud.. 1,600,000; 60,000, 26 1,767,600 Mar. 1906 1.26 Atlantic, c.Midi — 2,600,000 100.000 990,000 Feb. 1906 .02 : Associated Oil.jCal.. 21,000,00021,000,000 1 630,000 Aug. 1906 .01* B. a H..1 B.Mo. 400.000 400,000 40,000 Dec. 1906 .01 I 10'm ' Bethlehem Steel, pf..'Pa... . 160,000 100 626,000 Feb. 1906 1.76 Boston k Montana. Mont_ 3 760.000 160,0001 44,826,000 Jan. 1906' ' BonAlrC. 4 1., pf.. .Tenn 2,600,000 18,803 100' 249,767 Oct. 1904 1.6$ Bunker Hill k 8ull. Ida. 3,000,000 soooool 6,186,000 Mar. 1906 .60 Cambria Steel.Pa... 60,000,000 900,000 60 10,600,000 Jan. 1906 .76 Butte k Boston, c.. Mont_ 2 600,000 300,000 1,800,000 Feb. 1904 1.00 Caribou Oil. a!.. 100 000 80,000 66,000 July 1906 .07 Calumet k Arlzonac Arlz. 2 600,000 3,900.000 Mar. 1906 2.60 300,000| Central C 4 C., coin.. M<>.. 6,126,000 61,260 1,166,260! Oct. 1906 1.6$ Calumet k Hecla,(*. \ilch .... 2,600,000 93,860,000 Mar. 1906;i6.00 1C0,000 Central C. 4 C., pf. ..Mo.. 1,876,000 18,760| 984,370 Oct. 1906 1.16 Camp Bird, g., s.... Colo_ 6,600,000 820.0001 4,682.600 Feb. 19061 .24 Central Oil.w. Va 1,600,000 60,000 182,600 May 1904 .26 Center Creek. 1. z .. Mo. i.noooou 170 000 Oct. 1904 .10 lO.OOU Claremont Oil. al... 600,000 460,000 68.6001 June 1906 .01 Central Eureka g.. Cal. 4 000,000 643,169 Mar. 1906 .07 398,426 Col. 4 Hock. C 4 I. ..Ohio . 7.000,000 69,244 173,066 Feb. 1906 .36 Q.t.'. k N.,g.i!olo. 229,104 Dec. 1904 .01 1 600,0001.431.900| Consolidated Coal ....Ill ... 6,000.000 60,000 360,000 July 1904 1.0$ Con. Mercur, g.Ctab.... 1,130,000 Jan. 1906 .02i 6.000 0001,000,000 Consolidation Coal... Md... 10,260.000 102,600 7,971,6601 Feb. 1906 6.00 Continental, z. 1_Mo. 660 001 22.000 143 000 July 1906 .60 . ' Crucible Steel, pf .. ,.'Pa— 26,000,000 »,000,000 260,000 Dec. 1906 1.00 Copper Range.Mich ... 160 000 1.60 2,600.000l lOO.OOOj Oct. 1906 Empires 4 I., pf....'N. J . 5,000,000 23,700 636.600 Jan. 1906 l.$$ Copper Bangs Con. Mich ... 38.600 0001 383.781 1,968,374 Mar. 1906 1.25 Fairmont Coal,.j w. Vs 12.000.000 120.000 840,000 Feb. 1906 2.0$ Creeds United, g... Colo. l,626.000il.«26.000 173,428 July 1906 .02 Four Oil.iOnl... 600.000 300,000 106.406 July 1906 .01 Cripple Creek Con g olo. 2 000 000 2 000,000 180,000 Mar. 1906 .0(4 . . ; , General Chem. • om..;U. 12,500.000; 74,103 1,448,713 Mar. 1906 2.00 Daly Weet, g. s. 1 .. Utah_ 3,600.000' 180,000 6,667.0001 Dec. 1906 .60 General Chem., pf....|U. 8... (2,600,000: 100,000 100 3,926,178 Apr. 1906 1.10 De Lamar, g s_Ida. 400 000 67,180 2,926,370 May 1906 .72 George’sC'k Coal.... Md ... 2.500,0001 22,000 100 1,188,000; July 1904 3.00 Dillon, g.<>'10. 1 260 000ll 260 000 21,876 July 1906 .01 . . , . | Home Oil.!Cal.. 100,000. 100,000 607.600 Oct. 1904 Mi Doe Bun, I.Mo. 1.600,000! 16,000 762,072 Apr. 1906 1.60 lU. Crude Oil.iOal... 200,000i 200,000 12,600 Dec. 1904 Blkton Coll., g.Colo. 3 000 000 2 600 000j 1,491.961 May 1906 .00} , { , . Imperial Oil.Cal.. i.ooo,ooO| 100,000! 880,000! July 1906 .10 El Faso, g.Colo. 2.600,000{2.460,000l 999.760 Nov. 1906 .01 Int. Steam Pump, pf. N. Y 12 600,0008,860,000 Feb. 1906 1.60 Fed. 8m., com.Idaho... 10 000.000: eo.ooo 968.760 Mar. 1906 4.00 Jeff. 4 Cl'f 0.41 , cm. Pa. 1.600,000i 16,000 330,000 Aug. 1906 6.00 Federal 8m., pt.... Idaho... 20.000.000 120,000 1,811,260 Mar. 1906 1.76 Jeff. 4 Cl’f. O. 4 I.,pf Pa.. 1,600,000: 16,000 788,000 Feb. 1906 2.10 Findley, g.Colo. l,260.000|l,260.000{ 76,000 Feb. 1906 .02 Kern Blver Oil.Cal. 2,000,000: 20.000 39,600 May 1906 .U Oemlnl-Keystone.. Utah_ 600.000 6 000 1.300,000 Aug. 1906 10.00 Lehigh Coal 4 Nhv... Pa.. 14,346,660 346,897 60 .’3,633,303 Nov. 1906 2.0$ Cold Elng Con.Colo. 6 760 370 5,760.370 1,407.604 May 1906 .01 Maryland Coal.pf.... Md. 2.000,000 18,850i 100 1.367.1601 Dec. 19(<6 4.6$ Cold Borerelgn .... Colo. 2 OOO.OO0I2.OOO.OOO 10.000 Jan. 1906 .00} Monon B. Coal, pf. .. Pa.. 10,000,000 100,000 3,164,946 Jan. 1906 .97 Orand Central, g... Utah_ 260,0001 260.0IO 1.066,260 Mar. 19061 .06 ! Monte Crls to Oil ....Cal.... •oo.oooj 660 066 120.000| July 1906 .01 Cwln Mine, Dev , g. Cal. i.roo 000,1,000,000 Mar. 1906 .02} NaUonal Carbon, pf.. U. S.. 4.600.000i ,6,000 2,047,600 May 1906 176 Hecla, s I.Idaho... 260 00011,000.0001 61.10 000 Mar. 1906 .07 National Lead, pf— N. Y.. 16,000,000 149,040 Mar. 1906 1.76 Homestake, g.8. D.. 21.840,000! 218 400 14,442,660 Mar. 1906 .60 Nat’l Steel 4 Wlre.pf. N. Y.. 6,000,0(H>2.677,800 Jan. 1906 1.76 HomSllTer,g.s o.zj Utah. 10.000000: 400,000 6,482.000 Mar. 1906 .06 New Central Coal.... | Md.... 1,000,000 60,000 310,000 Nfv. 1906 .40 Inter*! Nlcke 1 pt. N. T. 12,000,00018,912,616 133,689 Feb. 1906 1.60 Oil City Petr* leum ..;Cal — 600,000| 600,000 66,000 July 1906 Iron Silver.Colo.. 10.000,000, 600.0001 3.600,000 Apr. 1906 .20 .«»* Pacific Coast Borax.. ;Cal... 2,000,00(^ -19,000 2,066,600 Aug. 1906 1.00 Jamison, g...... Cal.. 3.900 000' 390,000 213.800 Jan. 1906 .03 Peerless OU al... 1,000,000' 92,0001 396,320 May 1906 .14 Jerry Johnson. ... Cal .. 2,600,0002,600,000 60,000 Jan. 1906 .01 Penns. Salt. Pa. 3.000.000; 60,000 60 13,988,000 Ot. 1906 3.00 Eendall, g.Mont... 2.600.000 600 000 796,000 Mar. 1906 .03 Penna. steel. Pa. 26,000,000 168,214 100 6.849,497 Nov. 1906 3.8$ Idberty Bell g ^.... Col< 700.000 66 ,766 110,867 Jan. 1904 .16 Phlla. Gas, com.. Pa.. 28.963,029 679,061 60 6.684.142 Nov. 1906 .76 Lightner.g.Cal 126,0001 102,266 296,694 Aug. 1906 .06 Phila. Gas, pf.. . Pa_ 6,744,813. 114,8961 60 1.683.606 Mar. 1906 1.26 Lucky Budge, z.... Mo. 4U,000 4001 46,800 \pr. 1906 12.00 Pittsburg I oal, pf Pa. 32,000,000 297,010 100 11,434,962 Air. 1906 1.76 Lyon, E. 1.Mo. 60 000 4.686 2 117 Jan. 1906 .20 Pocahontas C> 11., pf..|W. Vx 1,600,000 16,000 100 347,600 Aug. 1906 1.60 Mammoth, g. s. *... Utah. 10.000.000 400,000 1.980 000 Nov. 1904 .06 Republic 1. 4 S., pfd.j. 204,169 100 1,074.3$ Jan. 1906 8 12} Mary McKinney, g. Col •. 1.000.0001,000,000 667,000 Oct. 1904 .03 Sloes-Sheffleld, com..; via... 7,600.0001 76,000 100 376,2tS Oct. 1906 2.60 Mines Co. of Am ... M- x. 2,000.000'2,000,000 1,846,000 Feb. 1906 .18 Sloss-Sheffleld, pf....'Ala... 20.000.000i 67,000 100 2,674,0001 Jan. 1906 1.76 Mott. OrePurch... Mont_ 2.6OO.OOOI 81.000 4,104.000 May 1905 4.00 Somerset Coal.'Pa_ 4,000,000 40 000 100 80,000 Feb. 1904 2.00 Monument, g.Colo. 300.0001 300.000 27,124 Apr. 1906 .01 , | Standard Oil.U. 8... 100,000.000 970,000 100 296,036,000 Mar. 1906 16.0$ Nat’l Lead, pf.U. 8. 16 000 00U 1 9 040 100 14.607.600 Mar. 1906 1.76 22,663,600' 226,636 100 2,004,281 Feb. 1906 1.00 Nevada Keystone, g Nevada.. i.ooo.onti: 638 877 61,790 1904 .03 Tenn. C. 4 I., com ... Tenn .. 248,000 2,480 100 360.260 Feb. 1906 2.00 New Century, z_M‘>. 160,0(41: 160,000 21.000 ly 1906 .02 Tenn. C. 4 I., pf.. Tenn.. 2 000,000 20 000 100 1,930,000 Mar. 1906 2.00 New Idrla, q.Cal. 600 00(1 inO.OOOl 820.000 Apr. 1906 .20 Texas 4 Pacific Coal.'Texas. . , ! 600,000 100,000 6 430,000 July 1906 .10 New Jersey, z.U. 8. 10,000,000' 100.000 8.400,000 Feb. 1906 3.00 Thirty-three Oil.iCal.... 10 000.000 100,000 1,118,766 May 1906 .60 North Butte.Mont.... 6,000.0011 4t0,000 1000,000 Mar. 1906 1.26 Union Oil.Cal_ . 100 9.000,000 90,000 100 1,260,000 Apr. 1906 2.00 North Star, g.Cal. 2.600 000 260,000 1,066 366TDec. 1906 .60 UnlonNat iiilQiiPa. 660,000.0006,063.0261 100 ,63,360,978 Dec. 1908 1.60 Northern Light gs Utah. 2.OOO.OOO1 400.000 20.000 Feb. 1904 .06 U. 8. Steel |U. 8... 360,281,1003.603,141 100 149.623.486 Feb. 1906 176 Old Dominion Cop. Arlz. 7,600,001 288,000 144,000 Dec. 1906 .60 U. 8. Steel Corp.,pf.. U. 8... 100 3,678,829 June 1908 1.26 Old Oold.Col . 2.101.15012 101160 10,606 Mar. 1904 .06 Va. Carolina Cb.,cm.U. S.., 38,000,000! 279.844 180.000 100 10,020,869 Jan. 1906 3.0$ Ophlr,g. s.Nevada.. 302,400 100.800 1,797.400 July 1904 .25 Va. Carolina Cb., pf.,U. 8.,, 2 60,000 60 8.680,000 Oct. 1906 2.60 Oeoeola.c.Mich_ 2,600,000 96,160 6,221.200 Jan. 1906 4 mi Weotmoreland Coal.. Pa. Parrot, c.s.Moi.t.... 2.300.000, 229,860 6,462,876 Msr. 1906 5(1 Peacock Valley, 1. z. Mo. 26,000' 2,600 47.600 May 1905 Pennsylvania, g... Cal. 6,160,000 61,6001 284,926 July 190f .1(1 Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. Penn>Wy->mlng.... Wyo. 10,000,000 10000000 60,000 July 190f 01} Plattevllle, I. z.Wla. 20.000 600 89.600 Oct. 19 v. lu.uoi Portland, g.Colo. 3,000,000!3,000,000| 6,697,080 Jan. 1906 .18 <)ulcksllver, pf.Cal. 4.600.000 43,000 1,931,411 May llMW .5U <)nllp, g.Wash_ 1 600 0001,600.000 16.000 I \pr. 19(m .01 Shares. Dividends. Quincy, c.Mich_ 2.600,000 100,000 26 16,720.000 Feb. 190li 6 00 Name of Company and Ized Bed Bird, g s c 1.. Mont_ 1,600,000 300,000 72,000 Dec. 1904 .01 Par Latest. Location. Total to Bob Boy, E. Mo. 16,000 16,000 8,700 Jan. 1906 .03 Capital. iMued. Val. Date. Bocco Homest'k,l.s. Nevada. 300,000 300.000 112 000 Dec 1906 .02 $ Date. 1 Amt. Sacramehto, g, q... Utah_ 6,000,0001,000,000 230,000 Mar. 1906 .01} Salvator, g. a 1.Utah_ 200 000 200,000 6.600 Aug. 1904 .01 Amlstad y Omc’rdla. Mex... $480,000 9,600 60 $268,064 Jan. 1906;$1.71 St. Joseph, I.Mo. 6.000.000 376 000 4,608,357 Mar. 1906 .01} Butters’ Salvador, g.. Salv .. 750,000 160,000 6 600,000 Apr. 1906! .26 Silver Hill, g s_iNevada.. 108,000 108 000 64.800 Feb. 1906 .06 Cariboo McKii ’y, g.. i». C... 1,260,0001,260,000 1 646,837 Feb. 1904 .04 Silver King, g. a 1 .{Utah. 3.000,000 150,000 10 126,000 Mar. 1906 .66) Carmen, g. s. M- X... 27,600 1,100 26 117,437 Jan. 19061 2.37 South Swansi^a, g a. Utah. 300,000 300 000 170 600 Apr. 1904 .01 Coplapo, c. bile.. 1,126,000 112,600 10 3,000,900 Oct. 1904' 1.20} Spearfish, g.s. D. 1,600.0001.600.000 166.6001 Jan. 1906 .01} Crow’s Neet Phmi-_ 11. C... 3,600,000 121,486 26 968,947 Apr. 1904 2.60 -Standard Con., g r. ChI .. 200.000 178.394 4,178,174 Feb. 1906 .10 Dominion Coal, com \. S... 16,000,000 160,000 100 1,060,000 Dec. 1908 1.76 Stratton’sindepeno .!>-1. 6.600.0001,000.007 4 606,863 May 1906 .12} Dominion Coal, pf.... •N. S... 3,000,000 30,000 100 3,330,000 Jan. 1906 4.0U Tamarack, c. Mich 1.600.000 60,000 9.000,000 Jan. 1906 3.00 Dos Estrellas g. s.... Mex .. 160,000 3,000 60 1,020,656 July 1906 13.66 Tennessee, c.;Teni< 6,000,000 176,000 437,600 Jan. 1904 1.26 El Oro, g. s. Mex .. 6,760,00(11,060,000 6 2,706,800 July 1904 .16 Tomboy, g. s.jColo. 2,276,000 466,000 6 2,667,699 Jan. 1906 1,600,0001 300,000 1,316.000 Dec. 1904 .24 Esperanra, s. g. Mex .. “S* Tonopah of Nev_Neva la.. 1,000,0001,000.000 1.100,000 Jan. 1906 .26 Granby Con. B. C ... 13,363,0301,336,308 10 633,621 Jan. 1906 .80 Tonopab Ext’nslon Nevada.. 1,000,000 928,433 Mar. 1906 .10 Greene Con., copper. Mex... 8,640,000 864,000 10 4,094,400 Feb. 1906 .40 Tonopah Midway..!Nevada 1.000.0001.000,000 60,000 Dec. 1906 .06 Greene Con., gold. Mex... 6,000,000 600,000 10 300,000 July 1906 .20 Uncle Sam.Utah 600.000 600.000 100 000 Mar. 1906 .02 Guggenheim Expl.... Mex... 17,000,000 106,000 100 2,021,250 Jan, 1906 1.76 United Cop. Com... Mont.. 46,000,000 460,0001 2,287,600 Jan. 1906 1.00 LeRoi No. 2, g. B. C... 3,000,000 120,000 26 432,000 Oct. 1906 .24 United, c. pf.Mont .. 6 000.000 60 000 1,060,000 Nov. 1906 3.00 Mexican Coal k Poke Mex... 6,000,000 60,000 100 600.000 Dec. 1906 8.00 United, z. 1, com .. Mo. 6.000.000 92,400' 27,460 Get. 1908 .06 N. Y. k Hond. Bos.... C. A... 1,600,000 160,000 10 2,107,600 Feb. 1906 .20 United, z. 1., pf .. .1 Mo. 1.000.000 19 6661 197,084 {July 1906 .60 North star. H. C... 1,600,0001,300,000 1 361,000 Dec. 1904 1.00 United,