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respondent desires to obtain, if he will give us a list. It must be stated, EER ING however, that the minor metals are generally controlled by a few parties, Tar ENGINe who allow very little correct and complete information to reach any but a “Manin JOU limited public. Entered at the Post-Office of New York, N. Y., as Second-Class Matter. THE reports of the discovery of tin ore in different parts of the country are multiplying. The Alabama mines, now we believe temporarily idle for Vou. XXXVI. No. 18. want of additional working capital to carry out some improvements, have been followed by the Black Hills tin deposits, so elaborately described RICHARD P, ROTHWELL, 6.E., M.E., by Professor BLAKE in these columns. Some time since, there floated to ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, Ph.D., Editors, us rumors of discoveries of the same metal in Virginia. They are now CHARLES KIRCHHOFF, Jr., M.E., authoritatively confirmed by Prof. Harry D. CAMPBELL, of the Wash- Note.—Communications relative to the editorial management should be addressed to Eprror, P.O. Box 1833, New York. ington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., who has reported on the subject Communications for Mr. RaymMonp should be addressed to Rossiter W. Raymonp P.O. in a letter to The Virginias, an advance-proof of which has been kindly Box 1465, New York. Articles written by Mr. Raymonp will be signed thus * ; and only for articles so signed is he responsible, sent to us by Major JED Hotcuxiss, the editor. The ore, which was seen SuBscripTion Price, including postage, for the United States and Canada, ¥ oe in place by Professor CAMPBELL, is found on Painter Mountain branch of annum ; $2.25 for six months ; all other countries, including postage, $5.00 = 25 francs = 20 marks. All payments must be made in advance. Irish Creek, Rockbridge County, Va., about one and a quarter miles from FiLe Covers will be sent by mail for $1.25 or delivered at office for $1 each. the Nelson County line. It is cassiterite in a vein running east and west, Advertising Rates.—See page vii. several inches thick. The country-rock consists principally of large crys- Mr. C. A. Green is our accredited representative for New York. tals of quartz and feldspar, smaller crystals of mica, and some mica. Mr. A. R. Brown, Jr., is our accredited representative for Boston and the Eastern States. Office, Room 1, Simmons Building, 40 Water street, Boston. Mr. J. Viennot, 150 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, is our accredited representative From California come again strong complaints concerning the present for Philadelphia. Mr, A. H. Taylor is our accredited representative for Chitago and the Northwest. status of the quicksilver industry, which is languishing under low prices, Mr. O. D. Cotton, Columbus, O., is our accredited representative for Ohio, Ken- apparently brought about principally by the extensive importations in tucky, and Indiana. anticipation of the duty of 3°6 cents per pound under the new taniff. Mr. O. J. Frost, care Boston & Colorado Smelting Company, Argo, Colo., is our accredited representative for Denver and vicinity. During the first six monthsof 1882, the imports were 4781 flasks ; for the REMITTANCES should always be made by Post-Oftice Orders or Bank Drafts on New entire year, the heavy importations of the second half carried them up to York, made payable to THE ScrExTIFIC PUBLISHING COMPANY. 13,116 flasks; and in the first six monthsof 1883, they ran up to 12,982 THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., Publishers. flasks. It might be argued that the depression due to this heavy stock R. P. ROTHWELL, Pres. HENRY M. GEER, Sec. and General Manager, would be likely to be only temporary. But the course of prices abroad P.O. Box 1833. 27 Park Place, New York. discourages any such hopes. In September of last year, the price in Lon- don was £6, but it has since declined to £5 5s., while here it has dropped CONTENTS, to 34°5 cents per pound. Nor does there appear to be any prospect of an EDITORIALS : Pace. | Notes: PAGE -| early recovery, because there are fully 100,000 flasks of quicksilver in Is it Coal, or Albertite or—Salt ?...... 27 z , stock in England. Under such pressure, the mines in this country are Prices of the Minor Metals—a Gold Sale of North Carolina Land...... 278 steadily losing ground. The production, according to the leading authors Company in the Market with Ar- ity on the subject, Mr. J. B. RANDOL, of San Francisco, has been as fol- RIE iv eisisica e505 cosas 273 Tin Ore in Virginia ...... 273 | GENERAL Minina News : lows since 1873 PRODUCTION OF QUICKSILVER IN CALIFORNIA. The Languishing Condition of our Quicksilver Industry...... ieee hi e's aie The Meeting of the American Society IN ois 5) daigins sicuhiamrccukin unis of Mechanical Engineers...... Se “CU c a catiines dea a ccasrecicedcea 60,85, MII 5 cin oe vclscue*sonecessunes 52, 732 RMN ivi cesvecncsxc wautunuenckases 283 For the first nine e months of the year 1883, the production of the differ. CORRESPONDENCE : NIN gc ook nts, Sc oN nausea Asc 284 Water-Jackets versus Brick Furnaces ao Kaaoice sia dosieinate sa donncmaanay 284 ent mines was as follows : Flasks Flasks. in Copper Smelting ee or RE Nt te 27 Mexico COCe eeecvceseescoccevcessces 284 HG RIO 5. sa ccicca dees 21, TD CR NS es ois siaaaceewdnxee 1,377 Desilverization of Refined Lead..... 274] Michigan...... --.-+++ cesses 284 Napa Consolidated...... 6.. 0000+ CAEP Wee WAL 5 5c sscnccescccondsceacas 1,132 The Electrolytic Process, as Described Neate Aucnid oa as tatkicteante 284 ORE ENR as ciccais cuvancnecs 3, 104 PRIN as icc wccuacenacnte 1,67 II 6 cecicwacccicaccvceuese 2,182 | _—_— by C. O. Mailloux...... 608 274 TRING ants “acuresacastaseuns oadene 284 I al cn rivencocecne -evarr oc 1,573 MR ia vecadeucceddnsaseidsedqg aces 35,836 PID aan caccensccic. caccoseast 284 At this rate, the total production of the year will probably not be PNR ooo ccccetosieneerndes 284 higher than 48,000 flasks, and this is only reached because the largest The New York Meeting of the Ameri- MINING sein xsd vaenepeesssaareued |< tess 284 can Society of Mechanical Engineers. 275 miners are straining their capacity to make up in their returns by a heavy Mining at the Boston Exhibition...... 277 output for the falling off in price. The result may be readily foretold. An Endless Trough Conveyer...... 279 | FINANCIAL : Nearly all the mines will stop dead-work, exhaust their resources, and Among the Iron Workers.—Steelton... 279 close down, or will continue to make as heavy drains on the purses of Investments in Mexican Mines...... 280} Gold and Silver Stocks...... - Rsaerrere 285 Mining Matters in Chihuahua ...... 280 OI PROMI Ss 5 cicccccecewsc stececcs 285 their shareholders as the latter will submit to. The producers see only The Lawas Affecting Mining and Metal- one way out of the dilemma to save the heavy amount invested in lupwionl Imheregts.....csccvecsce secce 281 mines and plant and now threatened with ruin. They will probably ask, Furnace, Mill, and Factory...... 282 | BULLION MARKET...... ccccscccccces 285 and it is hoped will obtain, an increase in the duty to 10 cents per MRIs pacts bdo kane wenasaee+ ae sigaiie 285 _ . TRON MARKET REVIEW...... 0. 288 pound. Moens : Cost, Thame REVIBW. « «0.6.060...0.000 288 Phosphorus - Manganese-Tin-Copper STATISTICS OF CoAL PRODUCTION...... 288 THE meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, held in Alloy 277 | Advertisers’ Index this city this week, was fairly successful. The number and standard of the papers was not so high as those interested in the welfare of the society Last week, we printed in a letter from a correspondent a report of the might wish ; but this, we happen to know, is due principally to the fact alleged discovery of coal near Clinton, Summit County, O., which was that a number of very interesting papers were withdrawn a short time causing considerable excitement throughout that State. The opinion was before the meeting, because the authors could not complete them. advanced by Professor ORTON that possibly it might be albertite, while There is one matter which occupies entirely too much of the attention others held that it might be the lower coal of the slate series. Mr. of the meetings not to affect the interest and therefore the future of the ANDREW Roy, the State Mine Inspector, however, believes that the hole society unfavorably. There are eternal bickerings as to its by-laws. was salted, and some of the points he brings forward certainly make it There is altogether too general a disposition among the members to take look as though such an operation had been attempted in avery crude way. a share in tinkering with the constitution, insisting on its being carried They pump a material conta ning 80 per cent of carbon out of the hole in out to the letter, however unimportant the points raised may be. The pieces as large as the thumb, a size which no true borings could furnish. Society of Mechanical Engineers should follow the example of the Mining Engineers—elect a good council, have faith in its wisdom and zeal, and AN anonymous correspondent has requested us to insert a price-current leave the management of the affairs of the society to it. Asitis now, of ‘‘the numerous minor metals, which, though not largely dealt in, are hardly a session is passed without some unprofitable discussion, generally matters of considerable interest to those having to do with which at best discourages those intrusted with executive func- ores and metallurgy.” We are fully aware of the interest attaching tions, because they are subject to a constant and often captious to this subject, and to show how such figures may occasionally criticism. While we have no doubt that the motives of all become important, we may state that only recently a gold company has are the very best, and while it is true that generally young entered the market with arsenic products, which it now offers for sale. societies struggle to some extent with questions of organization, it We shall be pleased to make an effort to collect the data which our cor- jooks to the unbiased spectators as though the greatest danger gto 274 - THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NovEMBER 3, 1883. the future of the society comes from those who are so anxious The Electrolytic Process, as Described by C. 0, Mailloux. to make its organization their ideal of perfection. The Council EDITOR ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL: of the Society of Mechanical Engineers is composed of gentle- Str: The volume just published by the United States Department of the Interior, Mineral Resources of the United States, contains so many men many of whom have had a wide experience in the affairs of kin- excellent monographs that Mr. A. Williams, Jr., Chief of Division of Min- dred associations, Throw upon them the responsibility of executive ing Statistics and Technology, deserves much praise for his good judg- details, and devote the time of the sessions to the business that members ment in the selection of the men who have assisted him in his difficult task. have come long distances for. Engineers do not travel hundreds of There is one article, however, which I shall take the liberty of criticising, namely, ‘‘ Electrolysis in the Metallurgy of Copper, Lead, Zinc, and other miles to listen to a debate on some amendment to the by-laws. They Metals,” by C. O. Mailloux. want to learn what the best of their fellow-engineers have accomplished ; The literature on this subject is exceedingly poor, and entirely worth- in what direction they are working; how they are going at it; what less, as far as practical application of this process is concerned. Those obstacles they have met, and how they propose to overcome them. who know something about it keep their experience a secret, and those who know nothing about it are the most eager to rush into print. Mr. Mailloux belongs to the latter class, ard I propose to discuss the most CORRESPONDENCE. glaring misstatements of his paper. Page 639: ‘‘ Copper by Electricity at the Cker Mine.—In Germany, at the {Communications will be noticed only when accompanied with the full name and royal mines of Oker, the extraction of copper out of the solutions result- address of the writer. Unless specially desired, only initials will be printed. We invite ing from the working of copper mattes is done at present by the agency criticism and comment by the readers of the ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. kKeplies not intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor of the ENGINEgR- of electricity. . . . Three Siemens machines are run day and night, the ING AND MrinING JoURNAL in blank, stamped, and sealed envelopes. We do not hold current being passed through ten or twelve precipitating-vats containing ourselves responsible for the opinions of our correspondents. | the solution. The anodes and cathodes used are of lead or other metal not soluble in the solution. The average product is 25 kilograms of Water-Jackets versus Brick Furnaces in Copper Smelting. metallic copper per vat per twenty-four hours, or between 250 and 300 EpITOR ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL: kilograms for each machine, with an expenditure of from 8 to 10 horse- Sir: In Mr. Douglas’s interesting paper on the metallurgy of copper, power per machine.” printed in Mineral Resources of the United States, Washington, 1883, he In the first place, there are no ‘“‘royal mines of Oker.” The metal- says: ‘* The data are not yet available for determining the consumption lurgical works at Oker are the principal ones which reduce the ores from of fuel in water-jackets and brick furnaces, respectively.” When we were the Rammelsberg mine, near Goslar. The process, as described, only considering that question, Mr. Douglas gave it as his opinion that water- exists in the imagination of the writer. He is fully justified in asking : jackets were at least as economical as brick furnaces. We have come to ** Why use the current from an external source at all? etc. . . . it velieve they are more so, and offer these results from one we have in would be better to use more vats, and larger ones, and substitute the operation here. Jacket, 44 inches diameter at bottom, by 48 inches at process of MM. Dechaud and Gaultier.” But I ask myself: Why use the top: hight, 84 inches. Six tuyeres of 23-inch opening. Blast, 7 ounces process of MM. Dechaud and Gaultier, when the — can be precipi- per square inch. Smelting roasted sulphurets. Charge, 700 pounds ore tated by simply bringing the solution into contact with scrap-iron? The and 80 pounds Connellsville coke ; both weighed for each separate charge. electrolytic works at Oker part copper, containing silver and gold, which With this burden, the furnace melts about 80,000 pounds of ore daily. were formerly (and are, in part, now) granulated and dissolved in dilute During the week just past, we used a mixture of equal parts of Boston sulphuric acid for the manufacture of copper vitriol. There are five gas-coke and Connellsville coke. Including loss in wagon transport and Siemens machines, each requiring eight horse-power, and capable of otherwise, the week’s account showed this furnace had melted 7°85 precipitating each 300 kilograms of copper in twenty-four hours. pounds of ore with one pound of mixed coke. And besides, it melted Page 641: ‘* The Elkington Process.—The current causes the copper to about 18 tons of slag from matte smelting, for which no fuel was allowed be dissolved out of the matte plates ; and, at the same time, it is deposited in the charge. at the cathodes in equal amount. Almost all the impurities ordinarily We should like to see some results from brick furnaces on similar ore. present in the anode are insoluble in the solution, except iron.” ce oe WILLIAM GLENN, Agent Here the idea is conveyed that at Elkington’s works anodes of copper SouTH STRAFFORD, VT., Oct. 31. Elizabeth Mining Company. matte are treated. This is not correct. The only material which can be, and is, treated by the electrolytic process with economy is metallic cop- per. It is even unprofitable to subject black copper to the process. Desilverization o Refined Lead. The copper, before being cast into anodes, should be, and is, first refined, EDITOR ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL: and made as pure as possible for various reasons, naiely: Ist. To get Str: At the works of a certainsmelting and refining company, where smooth anodes. 2d. Because pure copper is a betier conductor, and the Parkes process is used, when the silver in lead goes down to less than polarization is reduced to a minimum. 3d. On account of conserving 0-2 ounce per ton, the operation is considered finished, as it would not pay the solutions as long as possible. Mr. Mailloux does not seem to be aware to attempt any further desilverization with zinc. The assayer then of the fact that arsenic goes into solution, and is, indeed, the greatest usually sends a written order to the kettle-men to ‘“‘steam 15 or 30 or 45 enemy of the process. Arsenic is precipitated on the cathode when it minutes and tap,” the time for steaming depending on the amount of obtains even a moderate concentration in the solution. It has been found silver left in the charge. that, with very low volts of the current, arsenic commences to precipitate The other day, the foreman of the refining department. who had had sooner than if a current of higher volts is used. Bismuth will also go much practical experience in silver smelting and refining, first conceived into solution, and recipitate on the cathode, if the copper, in refining, an idea that when a charge of base bullion, after repeated zinckings, had has been ‘‘Over-poled.” If the copper containsantimony and oxygen, the come down to0°4 or 0°5 ounce of silver per ton, he might dispense with bismuth will be found as a precipitate of antimonate of bismuth. the usual zinc at this point and substitute the use of steam, in hopes that Page 644: “‘Thousands of tons of Chilian copper mattes, containing he could save the zinc as well as four or five hours’ time. I then had daily traces of gold and silver, find their way to Swansea, and the greatest charge of the chemical analyses and ‘‘ kettle assays” which control all portion of them is refined by electrolysis. The pioduction amounts to the operations in the refining department; and that day I gave an order several tons of pure copper a day in each place.’ ne for the usual quantity of zinc for say 0°3 or "4 ounce of silver per ton, which Will Mr, Mailfoux oblige the readers of the JOURNAL by giving the names I had just found by assay. But the foreman reversed my order, and of the works at Swansea in which such large quantities of copper ‘‘ with directed the kettle-men to steam 45 minutes instead. At the end of that traces of gold and silver only” are refined by electrolysis? time, samples were sent right off to me to assay, to see if the amount of Page 644: ‘Only a little labor is required for attention in such accer- silver left had been successfully reduced to below the specified minimum sory Operations as casting the plates, emptying and filling vats, etc. The of 0°2 ounce per ton. Innine out of ten cases, such samples assayed much power required need not be very great. An expenditure of 20 horse- too high, very often as high as 2 or 4 ounces, and sometimes even higher. power would, no doubt, suffice to produce enough current by means of That thelead could become richer after steaming, should be considered dynamo-electric machines to refine as many tons of copper a day, without ridiculous and absurd, even though experiments on other charges, under necessitating a plant of undue or undesirable size. The solution, it is some conditions and circumstances, gave similar results; and I was seen, is not costly ; moreover, it is durable. It undergoes no changes by at a loss how to account for such high assays, especially as I was told use, except that it becomes charged with iron and other impurities that they had taken off the skimmings before sending their samples to derived from the crude copper.” : the assay-office. This statement is astonishing on account of its absurdity. It issurpris- I have been thinking carefully over the matter ever since, and am now ing that Mr. Mailloux could make it after giving, in previous pages, a strongly of the belief that those samples I assayed had been taken out correct exposé of the effect produced by connecting the electric cells too early, and out of a kettle while yet too hot. In the melted lead, when ‘* parallel” or ‘‘in series,” and after stating the injurious effect of polari- heated by steam, quite or nearly all of its silver contents will go upward zation. It is to be presumed that at Oker, where a few tons more of and be more concentrated in the upper part of the lead ; and as samples copper in rotation would be no object, they have reached a practical are necessarily taken out from the top, they will assay too high, and limit of arranging the plant ‘‘in series.” Hence, we may assume that therefore can not represent the average value of the soft metal in siiver. it is not practicable to precipitate with an expenditure of 20 horse-power If they wanted to procure fair samples, they must have waited until the much more than 750 kilos of copper in twenty-four hours. Mr. Mailloux, kettle became sufficiently cool, when the silver would have been uni- however, has no doubt that he can precipitate with 20 horse-power 20 formly distributed throughout the lead again. tons of copper per day, and that without necessitating a plant of undue Exceedingly hot and moderately hot lead will assay differently, as any or undesirable size. Taking the experience at Oker as a basis for calcula- one can find by careful experiments ; the former invariably giving higher tion, works of 20 metric tons daily capacity would require 67 Siemens results than the latter. But the latter is correct and truthful as to the machines, 536 horse-power, and an area of about 20,000 square meters to average richness of the metal. set up the plant. Concerning the durability of the solution, I have It has recently occurred to my mind that, if silver is really con- already stated that it depends principally on the absence or presence of centrated in the upper part of the lead when steamed, this fact might be arsenic. That the labor of attending to such an extensive plant forms also utilized with financial profit. When the kettle becomes exceedingly hot a considerable item of cost, requires no further demonstration. by means of steam, you may ladle the uppermost portion (say one half, On page 646, we find a rather long and superfluous discussion of Cassel’s or rather, one quarter) of the charge out of that kettle into a fresh kettle ; process. Any person familiar with the subject who reads Cassel’s patent when the latter becomes full from subsequent operations on other specification will see at once that there is nothing in it, and that it is not charges, you will have the lead rich enough to allow the use of zine for worth three pages of criticism. But here again the facts are not cor- the extraction of an additional quantity of the precious metal. In the rectly stated in some respects. The electrolytic plant put up in 1882 at former kettle, you may tap the remainder oi the lead at once, and send it Mathey & Riotte’s metallurgical works for the purpose of refining silver to the market as ‘‘ extra refined lead.” GEORGE T. DOUGHERTY. and gold bullion was constructed by P. Holder, a Mr. Hamilton furnish- 2623 Texas AVENUE, ST. Louis. Mo., Oct. 20. ing the capital for the enterprise. Mr. Holder, as agent for André, had NOVEMBER 3, 1883. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 275 previously carried out a series of experiments in the electrolytic refining It will be noted that this list contains a large number of representative of copper at the works of Pope, Cole & Co., Baltimore. The Siemens men. machine, imported at the time by Pope, Cole & Co., was the one set THE SECOND SESSION up at Mathey & Riotte’s. Mr. Holder had adopted a modification of André’s plant. On account of financial difficulties, this plant was never was held on Thursday morning, the first hour being occupied by routine completed or operated by Holder. How much Messrs. Mathey & Riotte business, a brief report by the council, a more lengthy document frcm experimented with it I do not know. One fact only is certain, that the treasurer, and a report by the Committee of Tests, presented by P:0- they never obtained a sufficient quantity of bullion to experiment on a fessor Egleston, who urged the appropriation of $200 for the republishing large scale. The same plant was subsequently bought by the United for distribution of the report at the Philadelphia meeting of tle States Bullion Refining Company, and set up in Cortlandt street by Cas- society. The low condition of the treasury of the society sel, with the addition of his “eee improvements. It proved to be a gave rise to some doubts as to the advisability of incurring total failure, as stated by Mr. Mailloux. this additional expense, and led to a somewhat rambling debate The account of Keith’s process for desilverizing lead bullion is the most in which, incidentally, the question was raised by Mr. Towne, whether interesting and best chapter of the paper. It is to be hoped that when it would not be best to increase the fees to $12 per annum, to provide for the new works at Rome arein operation, Mr. Keith will be able to current expenses. Mr. J. Bogart, Secretary of the American Society of demonstrate to lead refiners the economy of his ingenious process, which, Civil Engineers, gave a statement of the action of his society in the so far, he has not done. matter. Hegave some account of the conferences held with General In concluding his paper, Mr. Mailloux refers to electrolytic assaying. Benét, Chief of the Ordnance Department, whose co-operation was He says: ‘‘A French chemist, M. Alfred Riche, has applied the idea secured. The society now takes the position that it will do all it can to successfully to the assay of copper, lead, zinc, manganese,” etc. It would aid the Chief of Ordnance in his work of testing, until a bill can be have been more appropriate to state that the electrolytic method of passed for the appointment of a Tests Commission. Finally, after some assaying, so far as copper is concerned, is now generally introduced talk, the grant of $200 asked by the Test Committee was voted. everywhere. That M. Riche is not the originator of this method, but After a report by the Publication Committee and the Committee only one of the many co-workers in its perfection, is well known to all of Gauges and Standards, Mr. James C. Bayles addressed the meeting who are familiar with the literature of this subject. in behalf of the Holley Memorial Committee. He stated that the Finally, I wish to state that an electrolytic plant of 800 pounds daily treasurer had collected the amount necessary to build the monument, capacity is in successful operation at Balbach’s works, Newark, N. J., the subscription having reached the required sum, so that the execution where copper rich in silverand gold is parted. Mr. Balbach uses the is now assured. Mr. Laureau, of New York City, formerly associated pure electrolytic copper for precipitating cement silver in refining silver- with Mr. Holley, isnow working on designs for the base. Mr. Bayles gold bullion by the sulphuric acid process. C. A. STETEFELDT. submitted a letter received from Dr. Raymond, which the committee did not feel authorized to reply to. Upon motion, the council was given authority to instruct the committee to co-operate with the American THE NEW YORK MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL Institute of Mining Engineers and possibly the Society of Civil Engineers, ENGINEERS. in reference to the publication of the Holley Memorial Volume. Mr. Bayles also spoke of the possibility of a visit of the British Iron and The widespread interest shown in the work of this young society is Steel Institute to this country in 1884, the members coming to this evidenced by the comparatively high percentage of its members attend- country after attending the meeting of the British Association in Canada, ing the meetings, fully one third taking part in them. At the opening and a resolution to issue an invitation to them was passed. session, fully one hundred gentlemen gathered in the rooms of the American Society of Civil Engineers, hospitably tendered for the pur- THE AFTERNOON SESSION pose. After a few words of welcome from the President, Dr. E. D. was opened by a paper by Mr. W. F. Durfee, of Bridgeport, Conn., on Leavitt, Jr., of Cambridgeport, Mass., Mr. Thomas R. Pickering, of Port- land, Conn., read a paper on A POWER CRANE AMERICAN MACHINERY AT FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS, of six-ton capacity, designed by him in 1867 for the machine-shop of the Milwaukee Iron Company, which was provably the first crane of that in which Mr. Pickering, who has been a commissioner at almost every capacity built in this country. leading international exhibition for the last quarter of a century, gave a The paper was highly commended by Mr. Towne, of Stamford, Conn., series of reminiscences. He dwelt upon the advantages which have who, in the light of the present state of the art, had only a criticism to accrued to manufacturers of machinery and the country at large. He offer on two points of minor importance. gave some striking instances of the lack of faith of official representatives Mr. Carl Angstrom, of Worcester, Mass., explained the construction of of the United States in the work of their own country. Thus, at the Paris Exhibition, its representative asked that power be furnished by a A NEW VALVE MOTION, French engine firm, as he evidently believed that American engines belonging to the class, like those of Joy, Brown, and Marshall, known as could not be depended upon to furnish power with regularity. A French ‘radial valve motions.” The motion is generally accomplished by an engine did actually drive the machinery of the American exhibit, yet a arm, two points of which move in different curves. One point moves in Corliss engine. although hidden by it, attracted more attention and a closed curve, such as a circle or an ellipse, this motion being derived obtained a gold medal, and its French rival was awarded only a silver from an eccentric, crank, or from the connecting-rod. The other point medal, He dwelt on some striking cases of piracy, which a number of again moves either in an open or a closed curve, and this motion is the gentlemen present referred to in the discussion following. accomplished either by levers or slides, or both combined. In the Ang- Mr. A. C. Hobbs, of Bridgeport, Conn., told a number of amusing strom valve motion, the difference from those previously mentioned con- stories concerning his experience in showing European lock-makers how sists chiefly in the mechanism for giving motion to the last-mentioned difficult it was to baffle the ingenuity of an American mechanic. point of the valve actuating arm. Mr. Angstrom believes that this At the invitation of the local members, the society partook of a supper motion can be used with advantage on engines running chiefly in one served in the rooms of the Society of Civil Engineers. direction. The pendulum links and connections could then be propor- Among those present at the meeting we noticed the following : George tioned so as to give a good steam distribution and equal cut-off at each J. Alden, Worcester, Mass. ; T. R. Almond, Brooklyn, N 3 W.8. G. end of the stroke. ; Baker, Baltimore, Md. ; W. J. Baldwin, New York City; S. W. Bald- Prof. R. H. Thurston, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, and win, New York City ; W. M. Barr, Cleveland, O. ; P. Barnes, Springfield, others, asked Mr. Angstrom a series of questions, and dwelt upon special” Ill. ; J.C. Bayles, New York City ; T. Bergner, Philadelphia ; A. Betts, Wil- features of the design. ; mington, Del. ; Charles E. Billings, Hartford, Conn. ; G. M. Bond, Hart- Prof. Robert H. Thurston, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, ford, Conn. ; W. G. Cartwright, Hoboken, N. J. ; Z. B. Coes, Altoona, Pa. ; Hoboken, N. J., presented a paper on A. W. Colwell, New York City ; A. B. Couch, Philadelphia ; D. P. Davis, New York City ; C. P. Deane, Holyoke, Mass. ; J. E. Denton, Hoboken, THE PRESSURE ATTAINABLE BY THE USE OF THE DROP-PRESS, N. J.; W. W. Drummond, Louisville, Ky. ; W. F. Durfee, Bridgeport, now so extensively employed in the process of ‘ drop-forging” and in Conn. ; T. Egleston, New York City; C. E. Emery, New York City ; the manufacture of small parts of sewing-machines, fire-arms, and light Faber du Faur, New York City; John Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa.; Francis machinery. : ; E. Galloupe, Boston, Mass. ; Edmund le B. Gardner, Passaic, N. J.; A. In the course of an investigation of the efficiency cf drop-presses A. Goubert, Jersey City; John J. Grant, Flushing, N. Y.; How- lately made by the Mechanical Laboratory of the Stevens Institute ell Green, Jeanesville, Pa.; Robert Grimshaw, Philadelphia; A. F. of Technology, it was found that the most efficient presses experi- Hall, Boston ; F. A. Halsey, New York City ; S. A. Hand, Tough Kena- mented with had an “efficiency,” as the term is technically used. mon, Pa.; F. F. Hemenway, New York City ; M. P. Higgins, Worcester, of 90 per cent. A few figures from a table given were computed Mass. ; H. A. Hill, Boston, Mass.; J. C. Hoadley, Boston, Mass.; J. L. upon the assumption that this‘efficiency can be reached, and exhibits the Hornig, Jersey City ; R. W. Hunt, Troy, N. Y.; F. R. Hutton, Secretary, mean pressure attained when the piece attacked is crushed to the amount New York City ; W. Johnson, Lambertville, N. J.; H. C. Jones, Wilming- of 4, 4, #4; inch respectively. These figures are seen to be simply enor- ton, Del. ; C. Kirchhoff, Jr., New York City ; L. G. Laureau, New York mous, and the power of this form of press is evidently limited only by City ; E. D. Leavitt, Jr., President, Cambridgeport, Mass. ; W. Barnet le the rigidity of its parts and their strength. § ee Van, Philadelphia ; L. F. Lyne, New York : De Courcy May, Cambridge, The figures given for the pressures reached when the compression is Mass. ; George W. Maynard, New York City; Alexander Miller, New one sixteenth of an inch can only be obtained when the anvil is so set and York City: Thomas R. Morgan, Sen., Alliance, O.; William H. of such material that the yielding there occurring can not absorb more Odell, New York City; E. H. Parks, Providence, R. I.; W. than the allowed 10 per cent of the total work of the falling mass. The E. Partridge, New York City; T. R. Pickering, Portland, Conn. ; same remark applies to the table generally ; but the loss may always be C. T. Porter, New York City ; T. W. Rae, New York City; W. J. expected to fall within the assumed figure for the smaller weights and Root, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Joshua Rose, New York City; P. B. de Schwei- lesser hights fallen through ; if the machine is well built and the anvil nitz, South Pueblo, Colo.; W. N. Shock, Washington, D. C.; G. H. and foundation are of ample size and rigidity for good work, it is Smith, Providence, R. I.; Oberlin Smith, Bridgeton, N. J.; G. 8. Strong, improbable that the higher figures can be readily obtained; also, if proper ne Pa.; J. E. Sweet, Syracuse, N. Y.; H. R. Towne, Stamford, precautions are taken in the setting of the press. ; Conn.; R. H. Thurston, Hoboken, N. J.; J. B. Webb, Ithaca, N. Y.; S. The intensity of pressure attainable is evidently determined by the area Webber, Manchester, N. H.; 8. S. Webber, Lawrence, Mass.; A. Web- of the surface exposed to the action of the drop, and this in turn deter- ster, Waltham, Mass. ; G. W. Weeks, Clinton, Mass. ; W. H. We'ghtman, mines the distance through which crushing may occur. The figures New York City; S. T. Wellman, Cleveland, O.; F. M. Wheeler, New given in the table are total pressures, and the mean intensity of pressure York City ; W. H. Wiley, New York City ; Alfred R. Wolff, New York corresponding to these amounts is to be obtained by dividing the total City ; Horace B. Miller, New York City; Carl Angstrom, Worcester, pressure as shown in the table by the area of section of the crushed piece, 8.; William Betts, Wilmington, Del. ; W. T. Capen, Stamford, Conn.; or by the mean area opposed to the crushing action during the operation. A. Sinclair, New York City ; and J. F. Holloway, Cleveland, O. The proper comparison is that of the energy of the falling weight with - 276 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NovEMBER 3, 1883.

the “‘ resilience,” elastic or total, or both, of the mass on the anvil or in with the given fall, and the proposed compression by the maximum the dies. resistance of the material. The maximum area which will permit any action upon the surface is to be ascertained by dividing the same maxi- {PRESSURES OF THE DROP-PRESS.—(EFFICIENCY 90 PER CENT.) mum pressure due the fall of the drop by the elastic limit of the metal in compression. The total work done in any permanent change of shape is WEIGHTS OF DROP. proportional to the volume affected and to the maximum resistance of the material to such deformation. What figures shall be adopted for the resistance to be calculated upon in the production of flow in metals subjected to the action of the drop- feet andin inches. inches. in press is a question which can not be as yet answered definitely. It would of Fall drop Compression seem probable that the effect of the blow may be, in thecase of cold metal somewhat similar to that of cold-rolling, and this being the case, the ini- tial.resistance to flow must be taken as at least 70,000 pounds per square > | inch (4921 kg. per sq. cm.) and the resilience during flow at as high as 70,000:inch-pounds per cubic inch (4921 kg. m. per cubic centimeter) for good 5|common wrought-iron. It may be safe to take the figure for hot iron, as usually worked, at less than one half this amount; for copper, in the absence of exact data, it would be well to take the work of deformation to be two thirds that of iron for pieces of small section, and expect a great increase of resistance with either metal when the surface acted upon by the drop becomes large in proportion to its thickness. Probably no very relia- ese eeee? ble figures can yet be given. Whatever the resistance may be, the drop will be very certain to overcome it, and the variation in its amount will

a o 64,056 simply determine how many blows must be struck to obtain a given SS ae 432,02 amount of change of form. Mr. Towne and Mr. Morgan, of Alliance, spoke at length on the subject of the paper, the former dwelling on the difference in different work of The limit to the resistance of any mass on the anvil is found at the using a small weight and a high drop, and using a heavy weight and a pressure at which the metal will ‘‘ flow” continuously. This pressure low drop. The latter emphasized the same point, and called particular varies with not only the kind of metal, but with every variation in the attention also to the necessity of guiding light hammers more carefully. chemical composition, the physical structure, or the form and method Much of the loss of efficiency is chargeable to the lightuess of the anvil. of support of the piece. For general use, the value of this ‘‘ modulus” In this country, the general practice is not to go much beyond a ratio of may be taken at about the value of the shearing resistance of the mate- one to ten of hammer to anvil weight. Krupp, in his work, increases rial. For soft wrought-iron, for example, it may be taken at about this as high as twenty to one. 50,000 pounds per square inch (3515 kg. per sq. cm.), for moderately hard The last paper read was on iron at a figure 20 per cent higher, and for pure we at about one SHOP ALGEBRA, half the latter figure. There is, however, a great difference in the behavior of the two metals under pressure. The former has a distinct by Oberlin Smith. It elicited no discussion. elastic limit in its original state which becomes “‘ exalted,” as was shown After a number of announcements by the secretary, a debate was by Professor Thurston some ten years ago, when the piece is distorted, begun on an amendment to the rules ; but in view of the late hour and and becomes approximately equal to the maximum force, producing the importance of the subject, it was decided to postpone the matter to change of form, remaining permanently altered. The metal thus trans- the Friday night session. formed does not yield subsequently to any less pressure. It will not flow The tellers then announced the following as the list of officers elected : under any pressure less than that which is required to produce distortion President.—John E. Sweet, Syracuse, N. Y. immediately upon its application. Copper, however, has no true and Vice-Presidents.—A. B. Couch, Philadelphia ; W. R. Eckart, San Fran- measurable elastic limit in its original condition as found in the market, cisco; J. V. Merrick, Philadelphia. and it does not flow under the continued action of forces far less than Managers.—W. F. Durfee, Bridgeport, Conn. ; Oberlin Smith, Bridge- those required to produce rapid and continuous distortion by steady pres- ton, N. J.; C. C. Worthington, New York. sure. Aload which produces no visible effect when first applied will Treasurer.—C. W. Copeland, New York. after a time be found to have caused a very decided and often a very After the election of anumber of members, Mr. J. C. Hoadley was extensive alteration of the form of the mass. This is also a now well- called upon to read his paper on known property of some kinds of brass and of many other metals belong- A TILTING WATER-METER FOR PURPOSES OF EXPERIMENT. ing to what Professor Thurston has called the tin class, to distinguish them from the metals of the iron and steel class, which do not exhibit Having had to make, in the course of the year, a great number of this treacherous behavior. This difference is of some importance, not experiments in pumping water filtered through sand under various prear- only as indicating the best method of working them, but also as showing ranged conditions, in quantities ranging from little more than one gallon that the first of these two classes is a safer class to deal with where the in an hour to eight or ten gallons in a minute, he soon found that all com- metal is to be used in the carrying of heavy and unintermitted stress than mercial water-meters were wholly unsuitable for his purposes. There was . is the second class. ” . required an instrument which would measure and record with all possible Another important distinction between these two classes is, asindicated accuracy, and without liability to important error, the quantity of water by the results of investigations made by Professor Thurston, that the flowing in a continuous, but pulsating and sometimes variable, stream, in ‘**iron class,” which includes all the irons and all of the steels, offers more accurately ascertained intervals of time. As constructed and used, the resistance as the rupturing action is slower, while the ‘‘ tin class,” which instrument is very simple and inexpensive. includes nearly all the other metals and very nearly all of the alloys that Two V-shaped cups, each embracing an angle of 60 degrees, are joined he had ever tested, yields the more readily the more slowly the distortion together by a common side, which is, in fact, a mere partition between goes on. The second class is thus subject to that singular kind of change them, so that the two cups together embrace an angleof 120 degrees. .of form under heavy, continuous stress which is illustrated in the move- This double cup is supported in a case upon pivots directly under the ment of all viscous solids—ice, for example, as seen in its flow in the partition, turning in hollow, adjustable screws in nuts attached to the glacier. This, it seems probable, may often occur under pressures far case, one on each side. When one of the outside plates of the double-V within those which are required to cause change of form in the testing- cup is in a horizontal position, supported in that position by two cork machine in the ordinary methods of.test. Iron has been found by Vicat, stops on which it rests, the partition between the two V-cups makes and later by Professor Thurston, to exhibit something such a phenome- an angle of 30 degrees with the vertical, and the outside-plate of the non, but only when the pressures are considerably above one half those upright cup makes an angle also of 30 degrees with the vertical, but at a usually found for the moduli of rupture, and this action is only seen in little greater distance horizontally from a vertical plane passing through serious degree when the iron has been annealed and thus softened. Com- the axis of the pivots, on account of the curve by which the outside plate mon merchant iron does not show any tendency to such slow and imper- is joined to the partition and to the outside plate of the prostrate cup at ceptible yielding under moderate loads. its lower end. But for this greater horizontal width on the outer side, The bearing of these facts upon the value of the drop-press as a means there would be no tendency to tip—the upright cup would simply fill up of working iron and other metals into shape is obvious. Change of form and overflow, and there would be an end. Butas the water rises in the can only begin when the elastic limit of the material is passed, and flow upright cup, the prism of water outside of a plane passing through the can only progress steadily and uninterruptedly when the pressure applied axis of the pivots and making an angle of 30 degrees with the vertical is in excess of the maximum resistance of the metal to shearing. The acquires constantly increasing preponderance over the equipoise of the soft metals which belong to the “‘ tin class” are best attacked by processes wedge-shaped body of water bounded by planes, each making an angle which cause a comparatively slow motion of their particles in changing of 30 degrees with the vertical, and intersecting in the axis of the pivots. form ; iron and steel, on the contrary, being less resistant at high than at When this preponderance becomes sufficient to overcome the mechanical low velocities of flow, are best worked by methods which produce rapid advantage of the prostrate cup itself over the upright cup—an advantage distortion. Professor Kick, of Prague, has shown very plainly that this due to its greater leverage with equal weight—the cup will tilt, the water difference in the amount of work demanded by the soft metals under the in the upright cup, nearly filling it, will be poured out into the case to two kinds of treatment may amount to a very important quantity. He run away through its spout, and the now empty cup, lying prone on its finds that the distortion of bodies by the action of the hydraulic press and cork stops, will become the prostrate cup, with the greater leverage—its by the action of a hammer dealing a succession of blows to produce the center of gravity being at the greater horizontal distance from the axis same change of form consume power in the ratio, in some cases, of one to of the pivot. The other cup, now upright, will be filled in its turn and ten. It is thus evident that the hammer or the drop is to be used for repeat the tilting process, and so on alternately as long as the stream those special cases in which the pressures desired can not be reached by flows into the cups. ordinary methods, and that it is best adapted to the working of iron and The tip is very sudden, and is made with considerable force. A_ light steel. The hydraulic press and automatic machinery are to be preferred spring of sheet-brass, attached to the case in the middle of its length by a where they can be conveniently and cheaply used. For much of piece of wood which insulates it, is connected by a binding-post with one the work that is. now done in our smaller kinds of manufacturing, the pole of a battery, and the case itself is in like manner connected with the drop has been shown by experience to be the only machine which will other pole. A bit of sheet-brass soldered to the outside of the tilting give the required enormous pressures and do the work rapidly and cheaply. double cup, directly opposite the partition and above the case, forming a The maximum area of surface exposed to pressure which will be allow- sort of cam, comes into contact with the spring in passing. This com- able for any given amount of compression can be determined approxi- pletes the circuit interrupted by the block of wood which supports the mately by dividing the total mean pressure due to the action of the drop spring, and records each tip by a dot or short dash. The cam does not NOVEMBER 3, 1883. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 277

SSNS come into contact with the spring until the tilting cup has acquired con- MINING AT THE BOSTON EXHIBITION, siderable momentum, so that the tilting is not sensibly retarded. Mr. Hoadley hadtwo of these meters, substantially alike, and adjusted Special Correspondence of the Engineering and Mining Journal. them by flowing water through them into a tub placed on scales, count- ing the tips, and taking the weight and temperature of the water. He then placed one of the meters directly over the other, supported upon the THE TENNESSEE EXHIBIT. tub by a suitable frame, and flowed a stream through both, the electric The extensive coal-fields of Tennessee are represented by handsome register recording the tips, and the scales accounting for the quantity of cannel coal ; by some immense lumps of bituminous coal, from the Etna water. € The first tip of the upper meter did not fill the lower meter to the mines of Marion County, and the Roane Iron Company, of Rodswood, tipping point by about one sixteenth of an inch, a little water adhering to Roane County ; and by some very superior coke. The coke is hard, com- the cup and case of the first meter ; but the second tip of the first was act, brilliant, and quite resonant, looking not unlike Connellsville coke. instantly followed by the first tip of the second, and so on until the tub was t is in large pieces, one lump being over three feet long. Unfortunately, filled. A repetition of this experiment gave substantially the same result— no analyses of it are given. 61 tips in 202% pounds = 3°33 pounds per tip, and at 80 degrees Fahr., 0°4 These important coal-fields run entirely across the State in a direction gallon per tip—231 cubic inches per gallon. about northeast by north, in a band from some twenty-five to forty-five The electric register also recorded upon the same half-inch strip of miles wide, with a total area of 5100 square miles, containing from one to paper the beats of a seconds pendulum, and, when two pumps were seven workable seams. The eastern edge of this field is from fifty to used, the strokes of } the pumps and the tips of each meter. It was also sixty-five miles from the North Carolina frontier. The main seam, the one easy to note the tips by the ear while watching the second-hand of a which yields at present the greatest amount of coal, is called the Sewanee, horse-timer, by which means the interval of time between tips could and has an average thickness of 4 feet 6 inches, its greatest thickness being easily be observed to quarters of asecond. This is not an instrument of reported at 10 feet 4 inches, and its smallest at two feet. precision. It is, perhaps, alittle more accurate than a gallon measure at The largest coal mining operations are carried on by the Tennessee Coal, all practicable speeds ; at slow speeds, probably decidedly more accurate, Iron, and Railroad Company, which does extensive work at Tracy City, and, with proper care, no considerable error is likely to occur. When where it has 600 ovens, besides having coal mines and coke-ovens at Vic- operated very rapidly, the swaying of the surface tends to accelerate or toria. The output of coal for the State is stated to have been 600,000 retard in a small degree the tipping of a cup nearly full, but there is no gross tons in 1880, 750,000 in 1881, and 850,000 in 1882. In J. D. Weeks’s tendency to accumulation in such errors, which therefore may be pre- census report, it is stated that coke was made in four establishments in sumed to balance each other, at least in some degree. The sloping 1880, with a capital of $200,021, employing 144 hands, to whom were covers at the ends of the case were an afterthought to prevent spattering, paid $38,820 in wages, consuming 179,311 net tons of coal, worth $124,137 and were kept a sufficient distance apart to admit of taking out and and $8092 worth of other materials, producing 91,675 net tons of coke, replacing the tilting double —_ The curved wings under these sloping worth $212,493. This represents a yield of 50°9 per cent of coke from 100 cups were a second afterthought for the same purpose, and, as it stands, of coal, and a profit of $41,444, or upward of 20 per cent on the capital the case arrests all water—thereis no spattering. Of course, a suitable represented, or about 45 cents per ton of coke. funnel is generally desirable to collect the water from a pump and to con- From these figures, we may deduce the cost of making a ton of coke as vey it into the cup in a stream as steady as possible, and vertically over follows : the axis of the pivots. It is also necessary that the meter should be level, both when adjusted and when in use. COST OF PRODUCING ONE TON OF COKE 1N TENNESSEE. This instrument substantially weighs the water of a flowing stream, Material. Quantity. Rate. Amount WD anacun sakes svcinsnsave 1°89 tons. $0.69 per ton. 1.37 and may possibly prove useful, if strongly and delicately made, nicely Miscellaneous ...... re eae 0.09 adjusted, and suitably proportioned to the quantity to be recorded, for Daye’ IABOP 2... ..00: «= 66 $0.82 per ton. 0.42 oe the record of water used during tests of steam-engines and Total cost $1.88 oilers, ME ONCE ooo sdicec casted sas dictuetdeseseneanaeas. 04. enndendeces 0.45 The mouer was discussed at some length, and in a somewhat rambling way, by Messrs. Grimshaw, Odell, E. D, Leavitt, Jr., Wolff, Emery, and Wea OE ite Wit OE Oia. asin c acc i Se trices Seess deesecte $2.33 others. Prof. T. Egleston, of the School of Mines, Columbia College, New Making a similar calculation on Mr. Weeks’s figures for the Pennsyl- York, read a paper entitled vania coke production for the year ended May 3ist, 1880, we arrive at the following : A MACHINE FOR OBSERVING THE PHYSICAL CHANGES OF METALS, COST OF PRODUCING ONE TON OF COKE IN PENNSYLVANIA. which was designed primarily to investigate those peculiar phases of Material. Quantity. Rate. Amount. changes in the physical properties of metals and alloys, which Professor CD ao sc inne scicn snes anes 1°56 tons. $0.56 per ton. $0.87 WG cco ciccc wade 8 = |. | abi 0.09 Egleston has called the ‘‘ fatigue” of metals. The machine was designed DGGE ROE. ... s00sscesce 0°38 $1.11 per ton. 0.42 after indications of Professor Egleston, by Mr. Smith, of Messrs. Browne & Sharpe. It is like a planer, with a bed and uprights. On the bed, Total cost of one tom: Of CORO. <.... «00. csicisisecdiccicccacesssececec $1.38 there is a movable carriage, which has a chuck with rotary motion, and PHORG POR COR. onissscccccecssivnss caccctadcssicesecedeensssedeses see 4 two slide-rests to carry points. It has also a drilling-machine, to deter- Walle Git CE ac: 5 5 an ba cceeee ncdase acer esacncua leads us to believe that it is. Next, we have the polish, and not a few are of very great value from their intrinsic merits unwrought asbestos fiber, which looks as soft and fleecy as eider-down ; apart from their beauty. Among those which particularly charm the eye nor is one disappointed in its softness on submitting it to the ordeal by may be mentioned the black cherry, the live-oak, the ailantus, the iron- touch. Then there is the mill-board, as it is called, which is like paste- wood, and the mesquite. The latter two are of especial interest to those of board in appearance and feeling, except that it is tougher and does not us who have vainly endeavored to shield ourselves from the shriveling — into layers. This is shown of many thicknesses, the thinnest being sun of Arizona and New Mexico, in what would be their shadow, if they ardly thicker than ordinary Irish linen or other heavy linen writing- had any, and-have cursed their nakedness. per. This is extensively used for making joints, being unaffected by Texas Products.—The same railroad, the Missouri Pacific, also exhibits eat, moisture, and by scarcely any chemicals. The asbestos «employed some very handsome woods from Texas, which vie with those from comes almost wholly from Canada, where it occurs abundantly, fre- Arkansas and North Carolina in beauty. The pecan and live-oak struck quently associated with serpentine. It is of comparatively short fiber, me as especially attractive, as is also the finely-polished, deep-hued red say from three to four inches long, compact, and of a dark green, and is cedar, as beautiful as mahogany, and not unlike it. From the same very unlike the beautiful white, long-fibered mineral from Italy, there so State, are also displayed a number of valuable and finely-polished building- common that Dolomieu packed his minerals with it. One would think stones, granites, both red and gray, with a fine sheen, and many others. that the compulsory use of asbestos paint, or some other form of really A very handsome dove-colored marble, with an exceedingly fine grain ssa > yi paint, in such wooden cities as San Francisco and Leadville, and an excellent polish, deserves great admiration. would considerably diminish the now very serious danger of an uncon- We are informed of the existence of the refractory material industry trollable and exterminating fire, such as swept wooden Chicago. H. in this distant State by some fire-bricks made by the Fire-Brick and Tile Company, of Kosse. Their appearance is creditable, but no analyses or other data are furnished to enable one to judge of their merits. SALE OF NORTH CAROLINA LAND.—The State sold on October 31st 20,000 The Union Pacific Railroad has an extensive display of minerals, but, acres of land known as the Big Swamp, situated in Robeson County, on as in the case of the Missouri Pacific. there is no cooling draught of sta- the Carolina Central Railroad, to O. H. Blocker, of North Carolina, and tistics to slake the visitor’s parching thirst for accurate information. George 8. White and W. N. Jennings, of Pennsylvania, for 274 cents an

Many and beautiful agates there are, and what are attractively labeled acre. NOVEMBER 3, 1883. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 279

AN ENDLESS TROUGH OONVEYER. | tittle time to accustom himself to the noise ar.4 glare of the Bessemer apparatus, and to really examine the process thoroughly. The attendant The endless trough conveyer is one of the latest applications of link- appearances and phenomena are so striking in their character that they belting, consisting primarily of a heavy chain belt carried over a pair of | divert the attention from the truly essential points in the process. In wheels, and in the intermediate space a track on which the chain runs. company with the manager, we picked our way over the heaps of old This chain or belt is provided with pans, which, as they overlap, form an iron and débris that invariably accompany an iron establishment, and endless trough. Power being applied to revolve one of the wheels, the | ‘having gained our destination, a large gloomy-looking building, we whole belt is thereby set in motion and at once becomes an endless | entered, and applied ourselves to learn the secrets of the Bessemer inven- trough conveyer. The accompanying engraving illustrates a section of this | tion. It was a strange sight that met our eyes : showers of sparks, great conveyer. A few of the pans are removed, to show the construction of | volumes of flame, and clouds of steam combined to rival the most bril- the links ; and above this, a link and coupler are shown on a larger scale. | liant pyrotechnic display, while the large and still red-hot ingots of steel. As will be seen, this link is provided with wings, to form a rigid support | the diminutive locomotives, the numbers of attendant men and boys for the pan to be riveted to it. To reduce friction, each link is provided | seemed mixed together in utter confusion. But the disorder is only with three rollers, as will be seen in the engraving. This outfit makes a apparent; for under all there run the most perfect order and fire-proof conveyer which will handle hot ore from roasting-kilns to| discipline. And, indeed, it is most essential that it should be so; crusher, and convey coal, broken stone, or other gritty and coarse | for any confusion and failure in one of the numerous details material. The Link-Belt Machinery Company, of Chicago, is now erect-|of the process would bring delay and disaster upon the whole. ing for Mr. Charles E. Coffin, of Muirkirk, Md., about 450 feet of this | The — Bessemer converter, made of iron, and lined with fire-clay, is, conveyer, which is to carry the hot roasted iron ore from the kilns on an | at Stee ton, capable of treating ten tons at a time. It is mounted on incline of about one foot intwelve up to the crusher. This dispenses with | massive iron trunnions, so that it may be turned on its side at pleasure the barrow-men, and at an expenditure of a few more horse-power | when filling with the liquid pig-iron, or when, at the end of the process, becomes a faithful servant, ready for work in all weather and at all | the resulting steel is ran out into the large iron molds waiting to receive times of day or night. This company also manufactures ore elevators of | it. The whole process is intensely interesting, and it is one that has suc- any capacity, which, used in connection with this apparatus, will handle | ceeded only after many struggles with practical difficulties. All honor perfectly any thing in the shape of coarse, gritty material. It might be to Bessemer, Kelly, Holley, and the other brave spirits who, in the face of added that the endless trough conveyer is no experiment. Although so many obstacles, have achieved such grand results! We will follow comparatively new in this country, it has been in successful operation | the metal in its course from the state of pig-iron to that of steel. In the for some time in England, the English manufacturers of link-belting | upper portion of the building, and at a level above the converters, there having had great success with it. | is a series of small blast-furnaces arranged in convenient position. These

Endtess Trough Conveyor *% Luk BELT ACHIMERY Company, Chicago

AMONG THE IRON WORKERS.—STEELTON. ‘‘cupolas” serve to melt the pig-iron and spiegel, and thus prepare it for E FE M J its introduction into the eerie. ae — -— glowing, = DITOR ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL : turned on their side and are ready for the charge of me e Sir: A few miles from Harrisburg is an establishment of some note in clay-lined channel that leads into these capacious mouths brings down industrial matters. It is the works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company. the molten iron from the cupolas above. The bottom of the converter is The locality was formerly known as Baldwin’s station, but has recently | slightly contracted, so that the bulge of the vessel when turned on its been o> the highly appropriate name of Soe it is — |side is sufficient to contain the —— pig-iron and me a — many of the thousands of steel rails that are annually produced first take | of the perforations in the bottom. ese tuyeres a e air-| a their shape. The Doctor and I had seen the sights of Lebanon pretty | is to tae out the silicon and carbon, and thus convert the iron into steel. thoroughly, and decided to start for Harrisburg in the early train that | The blast having been turned on, the recumbent vessel, with its molten leaves at six o’clock ; but in this we were disappointed ; for as the awaken- | contents, is raised to a vertical position, and the transformation begins. ing knock sonne aney eight minutes before train time, — a As the converter slowly swings to = upright a par oe coy — ope, in spite of our recognized activity, to dress, pack up, and break-| minute particles of iron out into the air, and these oxidizing, produce fast, ‘while the clock ticked out its four hundred and eighty seconds. aeannien’ a2 innumerable sparks. It is an exhibition of great beauty, and — somewhat ———. we spared ourselves any vain —_ in an age more superstitious than our own woe not inengeepaeoey 3 be about the matter, and coolly prepared for the next train, leaving about | considered as the breath of the iron genii. The vessel having been half-past or Though the distance down to Steelton is so short, yet it | righted, the twelve-minute “ blow” begins. The flame that first issues was not till nearly twelve that we reached the place, and introduced | from the mouth of the converter and rushes noiselessly up the chimneys ourselves to ~—

verter must be partially r-arburized. This is accomplished by adding this point means cheap management. A director of a Mexican company a certain percentage of spiegeleisen. The resulting steel is then poured boasted how admirably they saved the salary of a metallurgist. They out into a large ladle, and from this is distributed into the ingot molds. had employed a man at a figure high in their estimation. He was taken As soon as the metal becomes at all chilled, a stream of cold water 1s mortally ill on his way South, and arrived at the mine a doomed man ;_ but poured into the top of the mold, and the ingots cooled off as rapidly as during the few remaining days of life, the superintendent tortured him into possible. The water, coming in contact with the red-hot metal, is at imparting all he knew, and that so effectually that, when death released his once converted into steam. As the large clouds rise from the casting-pit, victim, the inquisitor felt himself to be a fully equipped metallurgist and obscuring the workmen and all the apparatus, they form an effective competent to run the leaching-works. How the leaching-works succeeded pedestal to the vast volume of flame that is belching forth from the mouth need not be told. A clever fellow christened Parral the Leadville of of the again active converter. It is a very impressive sight, and, once Mexico. The misnomer created a smelting plant big enough to reduce in seen, can scarcely be forgotten. There was much to interest us at the one day all the lead ores Parral could produce in a twelvemonth. immense works ; but we had arranged to go to Altoona in the evening, But whoever lost the money, the epigram-writer probably did not. A still so after a hasty glimpse at the bloomaries and machine-shops, we bade cleverer man discovered, by a priori reasoning, the existence of tin in our kind guides farewell, and boarded the western-bound train. Mrs. Durango some centuries after it had been worked. He described a course Stowe begins Old-Town Folks with the apology that even the most com- through Cornwall, Queensland, and Penang, and, projecting it across the monplace life, if faithfully recorded, affords ample material for an elab- American continent, the line struck Oregon. His subsequent application orate romance, and in like manner, the modern traveler might find his of the experimental method in Oregon showed no tin there. So he excuse for long letters in the fact that the most ordinary journey is revised his chart, and the curve fell on the Conito tin-field of Durango. crowded with many incidents, amusing or pathetic as the case may be. Perhaps, after all, his first iso-stannic line was the correct one; for had Itis our misfortune, when traveling on the Pennsylvania Railroad, he continued it across the continent, it might have led him to the tin-field almost invariably to be detained from some cause or other; and on the of the Black Hills and Alabama. Such charlatanism is not confined to few hours’ ride that separates Harrisburg from Altoona. we lost about Mexico ; yet it seems to be most seductive when practiced on minds already two hours from a freight smash-up which had occurred so recently that predisposed to believe the marvelous, asmost people are when they invest the wreck still encumbered the roadway. We were obliged, in conse- in foreign mines. quence, to run on the left-hand or eastern-bound track, and the necessity The records of the great mines of Mexico are matters of history. The caused a very sad accident. One of the company’s trackmen, as he condition of some of those mines below water-level is only matter of trudged over his dreary round, was struck by the locomotive and thrown tradition. To put into working order such mines as Sombrete and Fres- * aside. When the train backed to the spot, we found that death had been nillo, will admittedly cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Those who more rapid than we, and we could only carry the poor dead body back to decide to resuscitate these great enterprises do so with full knowledge of its home. The man had probably heard the warning whistle, but the facts and of the risk they run. They know the fate which befell so being so confident that the train was on the other track, he had many similar enterprises in the hands of Englishmen, sometimes through entirely disregarded it, and hence the accident. It caused a mo- palpable mismanagement, at others through the poverty of the mines; mentary gloom to settle over the passengers, but what the sensations but they count in their favor the accessibility which railroads will give to of the engineer were at the time of the contact we hardly cared to their property, and the salutary effect of closer supervision on their super- imagine. The delay and the accident together made the travelers intendents, and they depend for dividends on the cheapness with which inclined to be neighborly. The little drummer in the seat ahead of us the railroad enables them to equip their mine and mill with efficient was particularly irrepressible. He began with the weather and matters machinery. We admire the courage of these adventurers, and every one in general, but it was not long before he drifted to the subject interested in mining wishes them the rich reward they deserve. But no evidently the nearest to bis heart—his intended visit to his fiancée. He sympathy is due to the sufferer who has eagerly swallowed the fly had not seen her for some four or five months, and he was evidently too decorated by some promoter with ridiculously gaudy feathers. Correct full of the subject to remain silent, so he favored us with his confi- and honest information is within the reach of every investor, if he is dence and even showed us her photograph; but the half twilight that willing to pay for it. He only offers a premium to dishonesty by invest- pervaded the car gave us little opportunity to judge of the beauty of ing his money without inquiry. Of this he may be pretty sure, that, as one whom “he thought more of than he did of himself”—to chronicle the Mexican is a good miner and a good metallurgist, if he abandons a the intensity of his devotion in his own words. CARL. small shallow mine, his doing so affords strong presumptive evidence of its worthlessness. The Mexican does not conduct his underground operations on the same system, and does not break down ore from large INVESTMENTS IN MEXICAN MINES. veins as cheaply and with as little damage to the mines as we do; but he can trace with unerring instinct the course of the rich ore, and he Special Correspondence of the Engineering and Mining Journal. removes only what it will pay him to treat. There may be some The current of speculation has for several years past set violently profit in mining and milling his leavings; but the profit will toward Mexico ; but unless the mysterious laws which seem to regulate generally be scanty. Another fallacy which enters the stock in finance be revised, the tide will ebb as strongly as it has flowed. The trade of a Mexican promoter is, that we can always make profit out result, as it affects mining, will be a suspension of the most legitimate of ores which the Mexican, with his clumsy methods of treatment, has to projects, as unreasonable as has been the crazy contidence with which reject. In certain localities, this is true ; but it is by no means always so. money has been thrust upon the dishonest and ignorant promoters of the At points near the railroads, we can undoubtedly smelt lead and copper most extravagant delusions. It is not to be wondered at that Mexican ores with coke more cheaply than he can in his little furnaces, so expen- mining schemes should receive support, appealing so forcibly as they do sive in labor and fuel. But we must recollect that heretofore labor has to the imagination of the purchaser, and affording, as they believe, such been one third or one quarter cheaper than it will hereafter be in the unlimited scope for the play of imagination on the part of the seller. vicinity of the railroads, and this will go far to reduce the advantages Mexico has produced $3,000,000,000 of silver, and still pours forth $30,000,- which cheap freights will give us. But it is questionable whether in 000 annually. Theinference that mere commonsense might draw from the localities where fuel and water are scarce ore mill processes and first figures would be that, in the nature of things, there must be little machinery will reduce free silver ores more economically and with less eft in store whence so much has been taken ; but the second figures con- loss than the patio. It is of course inapplicable to very base ores, and, in radict this conclusion. Nevertheless, as preference is given to the one handling these, a leaching process may in some cases be preferable to ine of argument or the other, will capital be refused or granted for the amalgamation after a chloridizing roast, or to the usual Mexican method more important and costly mining claims. of fusion with lead ores and litharge. But it is unwise to start with the The enormous output of the past affords undoubtedly, when coupled assumption that Mexican methods are crude and inefficient, and that we with the large output of the present, proof positive that the wealth which can of course make money where they, in their ignorance and unskill- Mexico inclosed within her mountain ranges is by no means exhausted ; fulness, failed. It is also hardly necesary to contradict the ridiculous but it does not necessarily prove that the old mines whence this wealth stories of the richness of the ores. There is everywhere very rich ore, was extracted will pay if rehabilitated. Some perhaps will, some certainly confined to very small veins or bunches. The average of very large bodies is comparatively low. JR. will not. The history of thelast days of some, if it reached the ears of °9 the investor, would determine him to keep his money in his pocket. The facts ascertainable about the closing scene of others make it justifiable MINING MATTERS IN CHIHUAHUA. to risk heavily in reopening them; but the same romantic story is told in almost every case of rich ores, which the imperfect Mexican method EDITOR ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL: failed to beneficiate, but from which Yankee machinery will extract their Sir: Though mining in New York appears to be sleeping ‘‘ the sleep that full value; of revolutions which depopulated the region, and therefore knows no waking,” we are far enough distant to be out of reach of the closed the mines ; of water which tlooded them in the face of the puny soporific influences that attach to the business there. Although we are appliance with which the Mexicans fought it; of rich workings closed by no means under the influence of a boom at present, yet there is a lively because devils haunted them or priests cursed them, and so on and interest evinced in all mining matters, which is well sustained by such so on. events as the arrival, on. the 14th ult., of the monthly ‘‘ conducta” from It is unquestionably true that mining was often checked, and some good Batopilas with 100 bars of silver. This was the result of twenty-seven mines closed, as one of the baneful results of revolutions; it is equally days’ work, and is the largest conducta ever sent out from that district. true that the horse-whim failed to cope with the water ; and that in many There are a numer of Americans in the city at present, and foreign cases good mines could not find capital to pay for steam-pumps. But it capital is slowly but surely taking hold in this State. I say slowly, not is not true that Mexican metallurgical methods are both costly and defec- merely on account of the lagging in business transactions peculiar to the tive, and that all old mines were killed by external violence rather than country, but from a variety of other causes, chief among which may be by internal disease. counted the fact that a demand for an article increases its value ten, What is too generally true is, that an unscrupulous man, with ready even a hundred, fold in a Mexican’s eyes, and especially now, since the wit and a glib tongue, goes south to Mexico, either denounces abandoned influx of Americans, when many think they have but to ask in order to mines or buys an old languishing one for a trifle, concocts his romantic receive. The unfortunate affair at Pinos Altos, the killing of Mr. tale, and sells the history and the mine in the North for as many hun- Hepburn, the manager there, last winter, is said in one case to have dreds as he expended units. What follows is perhaps the necessary cor- deterred English capital from taking hold ; while others disposed to invest rollary of the first act of folly. As the valuable mine was abandoned wait first to see the success of the principal railroad schemes, knowing because its ores would not yield to Mexican treatment, therefore American the importance of their bearing toward mining. Therefore, our progress is treatment must be applied, and a mill built ; but as amalgamation failed, in slow, but undoubtedly as sure as slow, and the caution engendered is a the Mexican patio process, therefore leaching must ag! be the thing, and most desirable and beneficial factor in placing mining here on the solid accordingly a ae and tubs are put up. Skillto conduct the basis it occupies, and in promising it a certain and greater measure of ——- is the last thing thought of. Already the cost has far exceeded success the estimates, and economy must be penstiond, and as usual, economy at While there are but few mines in the immediate vicinity of Chihua- NOVEMBER 8, 1883. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 281 hua, the fact that the city is the railroad center has made it also the mining | entire width of the vein, six feet between walls. The ore is a very rich center for all but the most northwestern and southern districts of | galena and tetrahedrite, flaked often with native silver, and is crushed theState. From Pinos Altos to Batopilas and Urique, bullion is sent in | under 15 stamps and smelted and cupelled in six Mexican ‘ vasos,” that for coinage and shipment to the United States, while from the east out-| is, adobe cupel furnaces. H. L. puts may be looked for in a reasonable time, as American companies | CHIHUAHUA, MEXIco, Oct. 2. have recently been formed to work the Guadalupe gold placers of the Conchas River, and the Santa Domingo galena and carbonate ores of the same district, which are similar in formation to the Santa Eulalia THE LAW AS AFFECTING MINING AND METALLURGICAL INTERESTS, ores here; that is, pocket or chamber deposits in limestone. These Santa Eulalia mines, situated about nine miles east of Chihuahua, are about A Knotty Coal Case.—The case of Kerr and Fowler and Carleton, reaching a successful stage of operations, and keep eight 414-ton wagons claimants for coal land in Wyoming, in which case the points of both busy daily carrying ore to the mill. Two miles east of the city, on the the secretary and commissioner were published in this journal when south bank of the river, this latter is situated, and it has’but just been | made, having come before the commissioner again in another shape, his put in operation, every thing working most admirably. Built by Fraser |last decision has sufficient points of interest to warrant a pretty full & Chalmers, the mill consists of 20 stamps, 24 wooden settling-tanks, 12} statement of the case. Kerr and Fowler appealed from the decision of pans, and 6 settlers, with buddle aud Frue vanner for concentration of | the local officers at Evanston, refusing to allow them to purchase and slimes. A 250 horse-power condensing-engine from the Kensington | enter certain coal lands, the first having made application upon his own Works, Philadelphia, drives the mill, and lifts the ore up an inclined plane | D. S., and the latter as assignee of Jamés Buzzo’s D. 8. In the former to the crusher above the stamps. A retort and melting-room and an|contest, the following facts were developed: December 19th, 1881, assay-office are erecting adjoining the mill, and the plant will shortly be | George W. Carleton applied to purchase and enter the land covered by in full working order. At Cosihuiriachic, two days’ ride east of Chihua-| his coal D. 8S. Kerr and Fowler, among others, contested his application hua, the new Howell-White roasting-furnace has at last been set to|at a hearing which was decided in favor of Carleton. Upon appeal to chlorinating successfully under the direction of Mr. Riotte, and the leach-| the General Land-Office, the decision of the register and receiver was ing-works are now giving a steady output. The ore, gray copper, galena, | affirmed. Upon appeal to the secretary, the commissioner’s decision and pyrites, is produced entirely from the San Bartolo shaft, now over | was modified as follows: It was held that Carleton was not, at the 600 feet deep, being hoisted ina half-ton Cornish kibble. The rich smelt-|date of his application to complete his entry, in occupation ing ore issorted for shipment to New York, while the lower grade, aver-|and possession of the land covered by his coal D. S.; aging about 60 ounces, is crushed under 20 stamps, chlorinated and|that he had, by the operation of a bond entered into with leached, the roasted precipitate being also shipped. the Utah-Wyoming Improvement Company, transferred all his In the more western districts, work is pushed in quite as energetic | interest in said land to that company, and was therefore not entitled and successfula manner. At Pinos Altos, 45 stamps are ee and|to patent. ‘‘If, however,” said the secretary, ‘‘ the Utah-Wyoming report puts the mine in a most satisfactory condition, while the bullion | Improvement Company can show its right to prove up and purchase as shipments arrive regularly, consigned to Norwald & Co., of this city. assignees of Carleton, it will be permitted to do so.” January 5th, 1883, At Yoquivo, the San Francisco and Pertenencia mines, yielding | Kerr and Fowler applied to purchase, claiming that, as the application of chlorides and native silver, are worked to but a small proportion of their | Carleton had been rejected, ‘‘ there remained of record in the land-office capacity by 15 stamps with Hendey concentrators. The mines are very | at Evanston only the coal D. Ss. of the appellants, which remain intact, promising, and it is probable will change hands before long. as they have not been canceled by the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, as The Carmen & Batosagichic Company, at Guazapares, has recently taken | it is not asserted that the appellants had failed to comply with the law.’ hold of a property there consisting of thirteen mines, of which the | The commissioner, in his present decision, says he does not regard the principal ones are the Carmen, San Miguel, and Santa Clara. The} view taken by the appellants as correct. ‘‘It was decided by this office, company is about to enlarge its 20-stamp mill, having put a steam hoist | from the evidence presented, that Carleton, by reason of the character in the Carmen mine, now 300 feet deep, and bought up the old Santa} and amount of his improvements, was entitled to enter the land embraced Clara mill, which was erected some years ago and fitted with 24 barrels, | in his coal D. 8S. instead of Kerr and Fowler. This finding of fact was for barrel amalgamation. A small cupola-furnace enables it to make} not disturbed by the Hon. Secretary ; but he decided, as a matter of law, use of the old iron for mill castings, and work is rapidly pushed under | that Carleton’s assignees, and not Carleton himself, were entitled to the direction of Joseph McNulty, E.M. make entry upon filing the necessary prvofs. This being the case, Twenty miles west of Guazapares, at Palmarejo, a new California mill|the register and receiver properly refused to allow the appel- of ten stamps, with pans and vanners, has just been erected, for the treat-|lants to enter the land. e . S. of Carleton not having ment of ores holding principally chlorides, and is working side by side| been canceled, entry by any other party could only have been with the old Mexican arrastra mill, which is also kept busy. At Santaj| allowed after notice to him. The only effect would have been Rita, one half-mile below Guazapares, there is a five-stamp mill and small|to inaugurate another contest upon the merits of the case, between leaching-works ; and at Uruapa another, while from here the high-grade | the same parties or their privies, involving the same matters of fact ores are shipped to the coast and to Germany. which had been already decided. The claims of Kerr and Fowler, In Cententrion, there are large deposits of low-grade ores, at present | therefore, as against Carleton and his assignees, were res adjudicata, and worked by arrastras run by water-power, but an American company is | could not be revived. Moreover, I do not consider that the decision of negotiating for their possession, intending to work them on a large scale, | the Hon. Secretary of December 11th, 1882, relegated the Utah-Wyom- there being an abundance of wood and of water-power, and the town | ing Improvement Company to the position of one who holds, under a lying on the route of the projected Texas, Topolovampo & Pacific Rail-| coal D. 8., but has not yet applied to make entry. If the decision of this r oad. office had been affirmed in toto, Carleton would have had the right to - Farther to the south, lies Batopilas, and this district at present rather purchase and enter the land without further objection, upon filing the leads the rest in the output of silver. This output is obtained just now necessary proof. The decision of December 11th, 1882, merely substi- entirely from the small mill of 15 450-pound stamps used for crushing the tuted the company for Carleton, and his status became theirs in all rich first and second-class ores only. The large mill is undergoing respects. His application to purchase, and the decision of the resulting repairs and being doubled in capacity by the addition of 15 more stamps, contest, inured to their benefit. There was, therefore, on January 5th, alongside of the others. These take the ore directly from the cars run 1888, a prior application to purchase, which was an appropriation of the down from the San Miguel mine, nearly amile up the river. This ore is ground embraced therein, until finally disposed of. And the applications low grade, consisting of zinc-blende and galena, with occasional specks of the appellants were, on this ground, rightfully rejected. The appeals of native and black silver in a gangue of spar and dioritic greenstone, of Kerr and Fowler are therefore dismissed.” and is concentrated on twelve Frue vanners, the headings, assaying from The application of the applicants having been rejected, the Utah- 220 to 300 ounces, being panned, while the tailings, which never assay Wyoming Improvement Company was allowed on January t6th, 1883, to over five ounces and seldom above three, are run into the river. The enter and purchase as assignee of Carleton ; and the commissioner proceeds settled slimes from all the pan amalgamation, whether from headings or to say ‘‘ that the register and receiver erred in allowing this entry. Their rich native silver ore from the small mill, are roasted and lixiviated by action in rejecting the applications did not become final until the thirty the hyposulphite of lime process. days allowed for appeal had expired. The record shows that within such Two “ Fortschaufelungs-Ofen,” undoubtedly the cheapest roasting-fur- thirty days, namely, on January 27th, 1883, said Kerr and Fowler did nace for these districts, chlorinate the ore for this latter process, the plant for appeal to this office, which appeal has just been considered. Inasmuch, which is yet small, consisting of eight 15-ton leaching vats, three precip- however, as the appeal has been dismissed, and as the applicants have no itation-tanks, with necessary filter and pump-tanks. The past week, there standing before this office as parties in interest, since a decision adverse were received at the Hacienda of San Miguel over eight tons of first-class to their rights has been rendered by the Hon. Secretary, the entry will not ore —— from the San Miguel and other mines under Governor Shep- be canceled on that ground, but will be allowed to proceed upon its merits. herd’s management ; and first-class ore assays anywhere from $2000 to Coal entry No. 11 being allowed to the said Utah-Wyoming Improvement $10,000 per ton, seldom under theformer figure. The mines giving the Company, the appellants appear in the character of protestants, and ask the greatest amount of rich native silverat presentare the San Miguel, Camu- cancellation of the entry on two grounds: First, that the company chin, Roncesvalles, and Ballinas. The tunnel of the former mine, nearly has not shown its right to purchase as assignees of Carleton; and 1400 feet long, cuts 13 large veins, and the principal of these, which second, that it is disqualified to purchase under the law and regulations * have already given large bonanzas of silver, though still holding simply of this office. Second. The records of the office show that one Charles M. immense areas of unexplored contents, are the MeSquite, Veta Grande, Gilberson filed in the land-office at Salt Lake City, Utah, coal D. S. No. Carmen, and San Antonio. 342 (same section), January 21st, 1882, and that the latter filing is now a The vein of San Antonio de los Tachos of the.Camuchin Silver Mining matter of contest in this office, upon appeal from the decision of the Company’s property has given rich silver since last June, when communi- register and receiver in favor of said Gilberson. The sworn statement of cation was established between the tunnel, 700 feet long, and the air-shaft, Franklin Barnard, Secretary of the Utah-Wyoming Improvement Com- 340 feet deep, and the mine put into workable shape. pany, shows that Charles M. Gilberson was a stockholder in said com- The Ballinas air-shaft, 280 feet deep, the deepest vertical shaft in the pany from May 7th, 1881, to June 15th, 1882. John W. Kerr, one of the district, has also been connected with the old tunnel, 780 feet long; and protestants, makes affidavit that the above parties are one and the same in Roncesvalles, the lower tunnel, 536 feet long, with the upper one, 150 feet person. The Utah-Wyoming Improvement Company files no formal above it, a continuous product of native silver being obtained from proof of an assignment to it by Carleton. It is evident, therefore, that this mine, beginning almost with the first blast put in it. they rely upon the decision of the Hon. Secretary, declaring the bond But adetailed account of the several good mining properties of Batopilas | given by Carleton to be infact an assignment. That bond was executed would take far too much of your space, on which I have already trespassed. |on December 20th, 1881, as shown by a copy thereof certified to by I would speak of one more district in good production before closing,|the clerk of Uinta County, Wyoming. That date must, there- and that is Tien, forty miles west of Batopilas,where the Becerra Broth-| fore, be held to be_ the date of the assignment under which ers havestruck an ore-body at a depth of littlemore than 500 feet in their | the company claims. From December 20th, 1881, then, until June 15th, Rosario mine, that has yielded largely the past year, and continues the! 1882, the company had among its members a person who was disquali- 282 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 3, 1883. fied to claim coal land under the laws providing for its disposal. Counsel The Cummer Engine Company, of Cleveland, O., has opened a branch office for protestants claim that this disqualification attached to the corporate at 34 South Canal street, Chicago, under the management of W. B. Pearson. association itself under the regulations, and Section 2350 Revised The North Chicago Rolling-Mill Company’s mill, at South Chicago, was the Statutes. The record shows, however, that the said Gilberson sold his scene of a terrible explosion about eight o’clock on the evening of the 21st, which stock on June 15th, 1882, and that entry was not made until January fortunately resulted in no loss of life. It being Sunday night, no work was doing in that locality, otherwise the loss of life would certainly have been great. The 16th, 1883. It has not been shown that any of the stockholders at the tunnel leading from the gas-house to the rail-mill, built of brick, exploded, send- date of entry were disqualified. Ican not accept the protestants’ con- ing masses of brick and mortar in all directions. The tunnel was eight feet in struction of the law and regulations. The Hon. Secretarv affirmed the diameter, and was destroyed, as well as the ceiling overhead. As soon as the validity of Carleton’s claim, and the rights of the company are their débris was cleared away, fifty masons were at once set to work, who completed rights under Carleton. The land is therefore held by Carleton’s original the repairs Monday night. claim or filing, and not primarily by direct claim of the company. The The Catasauqua Dispatch says: Messrs. Crump & Berden, of Philadelphia, disqualification of a stockholder in the company while the land was so have had manufactured at the Union Foundry and Machine-Works, this place, held could not affect the validity of the claim. I must, therefore, an ingenious machine for cutting slate, marble, granite, and other materials. One decline to hold the entry for cancellation on that ground, as requested by just completed has been placed in use near Siegfried’s Bridge, and is working very the protestants. The evidence, in my opinion, fails to show the disquali- satisfactorily. An immense saw revolves with lightning speed and slits the slate, and saves the labor of many workmen. It is also used in sawing slubs for fication of two other stockholders of the company, E. H. Murray and pavements, mantels, etc. The Union Fcundry and Machine Company has a large H. A. Van Proag, as alleged by protestants, nor has the identity of the planer in course of construction for the patentees. It has orders for two more Utah-Wyoming Improvement Company with the Black Diamond Coal sawing-machines, and prospects for numerous other orders from the same parties. and Coke Company been satisfactorily established. The proof filed by An explosion occurred at half-past one on the 19th ult., at Blast-Furnace No. the company in support of its claim is, however, deficient in several %, of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steelton, Pa., which shook the houses particulars. No affidavit of the individual members of the company at for squaresaround. The breast of the furnace was entirely blown out, and the date of entry affords the information required by official regulations. molten metal flowed around promiscuously. The claimant is required to file additional proof covering these points. In a week or ten days, the barb wire mill and galvanizing building, erected Parties Interested in Application for Patent.—‘‘A” made applica- along the canal in South Easton by the Iowa Barb Wire Company, will be ready tion for patent, and the abstract of title developed the fact that he for service. The main building is a frame structure, 45 feet wide, 260 feet long, was not thesole owner of the claim, and the local officers were notified and and two stories in hight. Someof the machinery for this part of the works has already arrived. The upper story will be used for manufacturing the barbed called upon to show why the other parties interested should not be joined wire. The lower story will be a machine and manufacturing room. The with the claimant when patentissued. Such call is always the practice in galvanizing building is also a frame structure, 40 by 80 feet. This building is the General Land-Office under similar circumstances. In reply, it was also nearly completed. Another building, which will be used for painting wire stated that the names of the other parties had been inadvertently omitted. that will not be galvanized, is now in course of erection. It is said that the Under the circular of July 6th, 1883, a patent can not issue for the average product of the works will be 4500 tonsa year. interests of other parties in such cases, because they are not appli- At the Vulcan Boiler-Works, of James McPeil & Brother, Pittsburg, a bat- cants nor assignees of applicants for patent. This is in accordance with tery of boilers has been made for the Pittsburg Manufacturing Company. A a decision of the secretary in the case of the Grampian Silver Mining large battery has been made by this firm for the Pullman Iron and Steel Com- Company. But although parties in interest are ignored by the applicant pany at Chicago, and also a 400 horse-power engine. for patent, and, filing no adverse claim to assert their rights, have At the Atlas Works, Pittsburg, a pair of large blooming-sbears are now making waived them by failure to file such adverse claim, still those rights are not for the Edgar Thomson Steel-Works. The bed-plate of it will weigh 32 tons, and is the heaviest casting ever made at these works. They are also making an a subject for consideration by the General Land-Office in passing upon ax poll machine for Hubbard, Bakewell & Co., a_ hoisting-machine for he regularity of the proceedings by the claimant in the case; and while Graff, Bennett & Co., and one for the Pittsburg Steel and Casting Com- he is in this instance unable to comply with the office regulations in show- pany. They are also making a complete plant for manufacturing glass bath- ing exclusive right of possession, and, by former decisions, the entry must tubs, including all the machinery, hydraulic accumulator, presses, and a great’ be held for cancellation, still the case comes under the secretary’s deci- variety of other machinery. sion that, ‘‘if antecedent publication and attendant proceedings have At the Keystone Boiler-Works, W. Manchester, proprietor, Pittsburg, the been regular, all that might have been set up by suit in court has been manufacture of steel anvils will be again started. adjudicated in favor of the applicant.” Thisso perfects the title that ‘‘ A” A Pittsburg firm has leased the Pennsylvania Furnace, located on the line of ~ will obtain patent if the application is regular in all other respects. Again, the Lewisburg Central & Tyrone Railroad, in Franklin township, from W. if ‘‘A” files a written statement that the parties were excluded inadvert- Lyons & Co., the owners, and will put it in operation as soon as the necessary ently, patent will issue to them, together with ‘‘A,” upon final proof of the supplies of material can be obtained. This furnace has been idle for more than claim. six years. The Right to Open Mines in School Sections.—The General Land-Ofiice, With the exception of one or two departments, the mills of the Mahoning in reply to a recent query made as to the right to open mines in sections Valley Iron Company are on full-time. reserved for school purposes in the States and territories, replies affirma- Mr. June Dunbar, foreman of the machine-shop of Brown, Bonnell & Co., has tively. The Hon. Carl Schurz, while Secretary of the Interior, settled invented a self-feeding nail machine which he has just patented. In constr uction it is much less complicated than other machines. this question, in so far as Dakota was concerned, when called upon to determine the right of the United States to bring an action for trespass upon Sections 16 and 36 of public lands reserved in Dakota by Congress for the use of schools. Hesaid: ‘‘The lands are public lands, although GENERAL MINING NEWS. reserved for a particular purpose. The United States has not granted the title to such lands, but has reserved them, in order that, at some ARIZONA. future time when a State shall be erected out of such territory, the same may be granted to such State.” COCHISE COUNTY—TOMBSTONE DISTRICT. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the Mining Com- BLUE JACKET.—It is rumored that extensive work in this mine will be soon - pany vs. Consolidated Mining Company, held that a grant of public lands resumed. to the State of California by the act of March 3d, 1853, for school pur- CONTENTION.—Rapid progress is made in placing the pumping machinery. It poses, ‘‘ was not intended to cover mineral lands, but such lands were will probably be in working order by the first of December. excluded from that grant, as they were from all others, by the settled GIRARD.—Since the mine started up, a month ago, the ore output, although policy of the government on that subject.” The operative words of the only ten men are at work, has amounted in value to somewhat over $3000. The mine is more than self-supporting. The lower levels show a large body of California act are, ‘‘ shall be and hereby are granted,” and there was no sulpburet ore containinga large percentage of zinc. The Benson smelter not question raised as to the intent of Congress to grant to the State of Cali- being able to handle such refractory ore, it has so far been useless to extract it ; fornia the lands, other than mineral, therein specified. The department but arrangements have been made with the Pueblo (Colo.) Smelting and Refin- says now : ‘‘ It appears settled that it was never the intention of Congress ing Company, for the treatment of the ore. to grant toa State or territory any mineral lands for school purposes, GRAND CENTRAL.—Nearly all the work done is in the upper levels. The 200- al it follows a fortiori that it can not be presumed to have been its foot level is worked the most extensively at present. There is hardly any intention to reserve any portion of them to be applied in the future to|& round above the water-level that is not prospected. Sinking will be resumed as soon as the pumps have started. such purposes. It is proper to remark further, that, since in case of the INGERSOLL.—The miue has been leased and work will be commenced soon. lands in question the United States never parted with its title, it was Although the oreis very refractory, carrying a large percentage of zinc, it con- entirely competent for Congress to exclude the mineral portion thereof tains enough silver to bear shipment to Colorado, should local smelting-works be (even conceding that a reservation of the same land had been made) from unable to handle it. such reservation, by the mining act of July 4th, 1866.” This construction TOMBSTONE MINING AND MILLING CoMPANY.—A small force of men is of the act is alsoin keeping with that of Secretary Delano, in the Key- employed on the Good Enough ground, mining some very high-grade chloride stone case, which issues afterward came up to the Supreme Court in the ore. The workings on this claim are mostly very near the surface, the ore being taken out wherever it shows itself, without doing much prospecting for it. Mining Company vs. Consolidated Mining Company, and in keeping with The company’s main workings are on the West Side, where a depth of 450 feet the judgment of the court therein. has been attained. At Charleston, the company has just completed the erection The case just considered by the department is a coal land entry from of four new concentrators. The flux used at the furnace is manganese ore Utah. The act of September 9th, 1850, to establish a government for derived from the Lucky Cuss and Luck Sure mines. As it carries from 40 to 50 that territory, says: ‘‘ When the lands in said territory shall be surveyed aoe i silver to the ton, it is by far the best and cheapest flux that could be under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory obtained. to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty- PIMA COUNTY. six in each township in said territory shall be, andthe same are, reserved EsPERANZA.—The mill is almost completed. for the purpose of being applied to schools in said territory and in the FRANCO-AMERICAN.—A rich strike has been made. A test-run of 20 tons of States and territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.” the ore will be made by the Orion mill. Or1on.—The mill is working successfully on ore from the Mountain mine, belonging to this company. PINAL COUNTY. FURNACE, MILL AND FACTORY. Ray Copprr.—Forthe week ended October 21st, the superintendent reports : ~ Our last week’s working in the Ray continued to show very favorably. Winze The Boston & Colorado Smelting Company, of Argo, Colorado, has placed an No. 3 from station 100-foot level isdown 19 feet, carrying glance ore. Have additional order for roller chain belting with the Lechner Manufacturing Company, started to drift from station, 100-foot level, west, to cut the native copper deposit Columbus, O. This company has also received orders for chain belting from the we had above. This drift is now in five feet from station and in native copper, Yazoo City Oil-Works, Yazoo City, Mich., for propelling steamboats. In addi- the same body we had in winze No. 1] and north drift 50-foot level. The cross- tion to the above, it has furnished the following firms with tan-bark conveyors : cut in the south drift in front of winze No. 3 is in 48 feet ; the face is in W. W, Kellet & Co., W. Hickory. Pa.; D. Gensemer & Co., Pine Grove, Pa.; copper glance. Cross-cut, north drift, 50-foot level, is in 35 feet ; the face is in Francis Hammond, Coudersport, Pa.; and others. red oxide, copper glance, and fine native copper. The cross-cutin tunnel level NovEMBER, 3, 1883. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 283 is in 25 feet, and also looks well in red oxide and copper glance, one seam in the Quartz Creek Mining District, was sold for the sum of $70,000. The Bonanza and face being very rich indeed. Shaft No. 1—a shaft sunk outside of all former Amie are patented claims. They were located in 1879, and have a large amount workings and 50 feet from the mouth of the tunnel—is down 15 feet. We intend of development. Recently, a large body of high-grade carbonate ore was struck to do all our hoisting through this shaft, and the same will be connected with the in the Bonanza. 50 and the 100-foot levels as soon as possible. Wehave a steam hoist now on the JEFFERSON COUNTY. road from Tucson to put up over this shaft. I expect now to be able to put 4000 MINERS’ SMELTING AND REDUCTION-WorkS.—It is pretty thoroughly under- tons of ore on the new dump. stood in Golden tnat these works have been sold to the Boston & Colorado Smelt- CALIFORNIA. ing Company, of Argo, and in all probability will soon be closed. INYO COUNTY. LAKE COUNTY. ARGUS RANGE SILVER Minina Company.—Thirty tons of ore produced 137 ounces of bullion, worth about $2200. The mill is now shut down for want of ADLAIDE.—The lessee who recently took charge of the property has directed water. It is stated-that the company will soon place enough funds at the dis- his attention to more thoroughly opening the mine and extending exploration posal of the superintendent to pay off all indebtedness. work into new ground. In consequence, although from 28 to 30 men have been CHRYSOPOLIS.—The machinery for a five-stamp mill is on the road, and will be continually employed, the production of the mine has been small. Operations put in place as soon as the work is enough advanced. are carried on through both the Ward and Adlaide No. 2 shafts. AMIE.—The northern portion of this mine, and also the workings contiguous to SAN DIEGO COUNTY—POOR MAN’S DISTRICT. the No. 2 shaft, are worked by the company with encouraging results. The This comparatively new district was discovered in 1864, and worked ina northern workings disclose fair indications of a good body of ore, and some good small way for galena. The mines were abandoned, however, and in 1881 con- seine mineral is obtained from them. Shipping ore is also extracted from tractors began assessment-work on the Luz mine. Re-location of the abandoned the No, 2 shaft. Shafts Nos. 4 and 1 are worked onrovalty. So far, however, claims was made, and in 1882 other claims were located. the lessees have taken out very little, nearly ten months of work having yielded AMELIA.—This claim has been opened to a depth of 180 feet by shaft on the only about onethousand dollars. The Deer Lodge shaft is worked ona lease, and foot-wall, showing ore from the surface and at intervals to the floor of the shaft, while producing some ore, has so far failed to disclose.a bonanza. from which level a cross-cut of 40 feet has been run, tapping the hanging-wall. ARGENT.—The increased production of the Vining mine is the result of several Tae chloride streak, four feet in width, is here uncovered, and chloride of the new developments recently made, giving the mine extensive resources in sight, green horn-silver variety found in quantity. From the surface, a shaft, now at as well as ore-bodies that promise great permanence. The shipments of the mine a depth of 40 feet, is pushed on the hanging-wall, to connect with the 180-foot are sorted into two classes, the first netting about thirty dollars per ton ubove cross-cut, and the rock extracted is pay-ore. Negotiations are pending for the smelting charges, while the second class ranges from eighteen to twenty dollars. purchase of this mine by California capitalists. The principal ore-body of the mine is to the southwest of the shaft. The present SanD-StorM.—A strike has bsen made in two feet of solid argentiferous galena, developments show a breast of ore twenty feet in width, eight feet in bight on an white and yellow carbonate. Chloride also is found on this location, as also on average, and open for a distance of thirty feet. the Nameless, the extension of the Sand-Storm,. CHRYSOLITE.—Carbonate and galena ore has been found in the Muldoon shaft, - located on the southern portion of the Chrysolite property. The mineral was CANADA. eacountered at a depth of 140 feet. Theshaft is worked on a lease. The new PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. strike, if equal to expectations, opens up a new field for prospecting. It is quite BELLIVEAU ALBERT.—Borings recently have reached a depth of 680 feet. As likely that the ore-body developed recently in the Luzerne shaft is connected the operations have proceeded, oil has been met with at times. It is stated that with this ore-body, in which event the four or six hundred feet of intervening the flow of oil is continuous. The oil is remarkably pure. ground will contain some very respectable bonanzas. If the ore-body is really a large one, it will improve the chances of both the Little Pittsburg and Chrysolite COLORADO. mines. The United States Central Railroad Company, organized under the laws of CLiIMax.—Shafts Nos. 1, 3, 6, and 7 are working under leases with varying Colorado, has filed articles of incorporation. The capital stock is $75,000,000, results. No. 1 shaft so far is the only one that has yielded any quantity of ore divided into 750,000 shares of the par value of $100 each. The time of the com- and more than paid expenses. mencement of the company dates from the Ist day of October, 1883, and the COLONEL SELLERS.—A contract for a year has been made with the Harrison company is to continue fifty years. The object is the construction of a railroad Reduction-Works, to take 750 tons of ore a month. The operations at the mine from Denver across the State of Colorado, the territory of Utah, and the States are confined to exploration-work. The sinking of the No. 2 shaft is still in pro- of Nevada and California to the city and county of San Francisco, in the latter gress, although it has passed through fifty feet of ore. The Accident shaft is also State. The incorporators are A. D. Sharon, R. H. Floy, Charles Kohler, Lyman pushing down at a rapid rate, and has attained a depth of 170 feet. Levels are Bridges, D. L. Randolph, W. L. French, M. Skelley, Frances Bridges, J. P. Man- also extending and prospect-drifts driving in various directions. row, Sampson Tams, Samuel McCullough, J. Bluxome, Robert Turner. Samuel Iron SILVER.—The No. 5 shaft of the Stone claim is producing about 40 tons Grove, H. H. Pearson, San Francisco: E. T. Wells, William C. Miller, and of orea day. No. 6 shaft on the same location is turning out about 160 tonsa Edward Rundall, Denver; and William Walker, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There day, making a total daily production for the California Gulch mines of the Iron will be a meeting of the directors in San Francisco soon, at which time the Silver Company of two hundred tons. The Moyer shaft is closed down entirely, officers will be elected. As soon as the organization is effected, a survey in pending the receipt of anew pump. The surface improvements of the company Colorado will be made, and then work will be begun at both ends of the road. are nearly completed. Exploration-work is stili in progress from the McKeon ARAPAHOE COUNTY. shaft, driven on the line of the fault from the Iron mine incline. The workings show several fair streaks of ore, and the value of the product is equal to the INTERNATIONAL PYRITES SMELTING COMPANY.—Thiscompany has filed articles expenses. of incorporation which define the purposes of the company to be to carry on in OPULENT.—The suit of the Opulent and Australian lodes, involving conflicting the State of Colorado and elsewhere the business of amalgamating, treating, and territory, has been decided in favor of the Opulent mine. The case was tried in refining precious metals. The capital stock of the company is fixed at $500,000, the United States Circuit Court at Denver, and the jury was out nearly three divided into 20,000 shares, and the following are named as directors : Homer days before arriving at an agreement. Pennock, Dennis Sullivan, James V. Dexter, George H. Corbin, and Edward O. RuBy.—The principal developments of this consistof a main west level, 245 Wolcott. The place of business of the company will be in Denver. feet in length, in which good ore has just been struck. At 295 feet west of the CLEAR CREEK COUNTY. shaft, and about forty feet above the plane of the main level, there is an ore- CASHIER.—This mine, at Empire, has lately been examined in the interest of body, the mineral of which consists of gray sand carbonates ranging from 40 to Chicago capitalists. Reports were so favorable that forfeit money was paid 65 per cent in lead, and from fifteen ounces upward. The ore-body, as far as down and the Chicago parties allowed the privilege of sinking a shaft on the developed, discloses a thickness ten feet and over, a width of about fifteen feet, lode. and a length of forty feet, wita fine ore in the breasts on three sides. At CoLORADO CENTRAL.—The mine is looking well. Several new ore-bodies are a distance of 100 feet west of the shaft, an incline has been driven to the opening up. A large amount of dead-work has been done on this property, and southward on the contact, showing in the face a fine breast of mineral four feet exploration has reached the west end of the claim. In No. 2 level, west from the in thickness, from which the principal output of the mine is at present secured. engine-shaft, a new and apparently rich ore-body has been encountered. In a drift running to the northwestward, 65 feet from the shaft, a natural cave has been opened 30 feet deep, 70 feet long, and 15 feet wide, the bottom of which DOLORES COUNTY—RICO. is covered with ore running fifteen ounces to the ton. Mr. Linwood O. Towne, of Rico, sends us the following notes : Twin LAKES PLACER MINING CoMPANY.—A large force is employed on the GRAND VIEW.—The company is working the usual force of men on its mine, Clear Creek ditch, of which about 5000 feet have so far been completed. Of the obtaining ore mainly from the Phoenix and Grand View. The large furnace at flume grade, 16,000 feet, or nearly the entire length, has been finished. A con- the smelter has been recently blown in, about 300 tons of ore being on hand at tract has also been let for driving a tunnel, of which about 500 feet have been the time. These have been and are being obtained not alone from Rico mines run up to the present time. Theentire work is advancing as rapidly as practical, proper, but also from Ophir and Mount Wilson. ; and will be completed in season for work in the spring. No changes have been SoutH Park.—The usual force is working. Recent shipments of lots to Grand made in the line and none is contemplated. View Smelter gave the following results: Silver, 410, 122, 225, and 990 ounces, and lead on same 30, 11, 20, and 14 per cent, respectively. PARK COUNTY. Cross.—Shipments to thesmelter during the mouth past were 60 tons, running East LEADVILLE.—This company, which has recently purchased the Mudsill from 72 to 220 ounces of silver, and from 8 to 25 per cent lead. This mine has and other mines in Horse Shoe Gulch, has put a force of fifteen at work on its lain idle along time, but the owners are now pushing things, employing from 15 property. The company contemplates erecting a stamp-mill early next spring. to 20 men. ‘The ore possesses value of from 25 to 30 ounces in silver to the ton. Newman Group.—The company owning this group, which includes the New- Lonpon.—The mine is producing regularly, and tne fine twenty-stamp mill of man, Swansea, Chestnut, etc., started work early in October, running day and the company is kept running at its full capacity. Unless the deep snows of that night shifts. At present, the mines are being put into good shape by extensive section should interfere with the operation of the railroad, the mine and mill development-work ; they have not been worked except by lease for over a year, will continue turning out gold bullion and high-grade concentrates during the during which time a large quantity of high-grade mineral was takea out. The entire winter. The mine is looking well, and the resources and available stoping ractical superintendence of the mine is under Mr. F. W. Reed, a former lessee. ground are daily increasing, notwithstanding that regular shipments have been r. A. B. Burnham, manager, isin town giving the business of the mine his made for months past. personal attention. : “DAKOTA. LitTLE Macore.—Upward of 75 tons have recently been shipped to the smelter. Work is pushed mainly on the tunnel. : : A dispatch from Fargo states that a mining company with a capital of IntRA Muros.—An offer has been made by this company on the Little Pitts- $500,000 has been formed by leading citizens of that place, and a claim has burg claim, and if the purchase is concluded, the mine will be worked exten- been filed for 200 acres of the town-site of Lisbon. Work will be prosecuted sively in connection with other properties owned by the company in the same vigorously on the arrival of machinery, which has already been ordered. vicinity. The claim is developed by a tunnel 300 feet long anda shaft at_225 Ciimax.—The shaft at this mica mine has attained a depth of 90 feet. At feet in, 22 feet deep on the Aztec Gulch side of Expectation Mountain. From present, seven men are at work in the mine, and produce nearly 20U pounds of the opposite side, another tunnel is run 100 feet and a shaft is sunk 40 feet. The cut mica per week. ; 300-foot tunnel is in lime and porphyry all the way. Properties already owned FATHER DE SMET.—The superintendent writes: Ore extracted from first, by the company are the Mohegan, Blue Bird, and Stranger. The first-named second, and third levels, 1885 tons. Ore milled, 1975 tons. Golden Gate east has a cross-cut tunnel 160 feet and a drift on the vein of 134 feet, showing a cross-cut, third level, advanced 5 feet ; Golden Gate south header, second level, large vein of carbonate ore. advanced 6 feet. Under date of October 18th, he reports: I herewith iaclose GILPIN COUNTY. express company’s receipt for bar No. 169, containing 748°70 ounces of gold, the result of run of mill for the first halfof October. Atthe mine, every thing FRoNTENAC.—A lease of this mine, more familiarly known as the Clifton, has seems to be looking as favorable as usual, and wesee nothing to prevent us been taken by Dr. Henry Paul, who has ten miners at work in developing and making fair shipments all winter, and at a reduced rate of expenses, as we opening up new ground, This vein is situated near the head of the south fork of have a full supply of every thing in the material line on hand, and nearly paid illis Gale , Russell District, and heretofore has been worked quite extensively. for. Golden Gate south header shows no change ; in fact, for the last 65 feet, GUNNISON COUNTY. the quality has not varied at all, and if the ledge proves to be of any size, will Bonanza.—This group of mines, consisting of the Bonanza, Amie, Little Eva, make a very fine chamber. East cross-cut, third level, does not look so promis- Ground Hog, and Bonanza No. 2, situated on the southeast side of Gold Hill, in ing. The face isin ledge-matter yet, but of scarcely no value. The rest of the mine 284 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 3, 1883. shows the usual amount and quality of ore. The mill continues to work well, and $13,000, This mine lies two miles west of the Moulton, and is the outlying mine gives no trouble. westward on this mineral belt. The ore is high-grade. One shaft is down 90 HoMEsTAKE.—A rich strike, it is said, has been made in the Old Abe shaft, feet and another 60 feet, both in good ore. which has attained a depth of 450 feet. At present, the workings are 135 feet LiQuIDATOR.—Active developments have begun again, and about 100 tons of only from a level with Whitewood. The shaft isin ore of good quality almost first, second, and third-class ore are produced daily. The first-class averages 35 the entire distance, but for the last 100 feet it has steadily increased in richness, per cent of copper ; the second-class averages 27 ; the third class, 18. Most of until, ata depth of 440 feet, the workings entered a body of ore, the general this heavy production is left on the dump, but regular shipments have recently character of which is far superior to any thing heretofore encountered. The shaft been made ; and since July 1st, the sum of $35,000 has been realized from the will be sunk to a depth of 550 feet. sale of crude ore on the dump, and which has been shipped to Swansea under Oro Frno.—It is stated that the superintendent has received from his company contract to New York parties. The amount previously realized from the sale ample means to liquidate all indebtedness; consequently, there will be no cessa- of first-class ore only was $8000. A conservative estimate of the amount of tion of work in mine or mill. third-class ore on the dump at present is 7000 tons, the sale of which has been Ropurorp.—Eastern capitalists, it is said, have a two-years lease of_ mine and arranged for. There is also a considerable amount of second-class ore on hand. mill, with the privilege of buying at the expiration of that time for $175,000. Under the new schedule of freight rates, the superintendent states that 26 per UNCLE Sam.—The 25-stamp mill continues in successful’operation on an excel- cent ore, which a year ago would not pay to ship, is now available for transpor- lent quality of ore. A 60-stamp mill will probably be erected next year. tation even as far as Swansea, and pays a profit above all costs. The Liqui- dator is not a full claim, being only about 650 feet long, but like a good many GEORGIA. other fractional claims in this district, according to the Butte Inter-Mountain, LUMPKIN CountTy.—During the present season, says the Dahlonega Signal, it is one of the most productive and valuable properties in the camp. there have been erected in this district something over 100 stamps, and 20 more Movu.ton.—The 400-foot level is driving west, and has greatly improved in are now to be added to the number already in the field. Prospectors have been the character of the ore. The battery samples are from 100 to 125 ounces. busy, and new territory is constantly added to that worked and known to contain This body of ore is about five feet wide in the stopes. gold in paying quantities. Negotiations are now in progress for the purchase of NEVADA. @ considerable tract of miuing territory, by a company of Northern capitalists, which, if completed, will add greatly to the prosperity of tiais section. ELKO COUNTY. SINGLETON.—Devehopments in the tunnel are of a favorable character. The ELKO CONSOLIDATED.—Depth of shaft No. 2, 170 feet. There has been a vein at this point is three feet thick, and prospects well. A force is at work favorable change in the formation, it now being porphyrite, and carrying small stoping the ore. A railroad has been laid from the stopes to the mill, and self- stringers of ore. dumping cars convey the ore directly to the feeders. GRAND PrizE.—The prospects are said to be very encouraging. The mill will IDAHO. start up on the 5th of next month. ELKHORN.—The new developments have placed in sight bodies of high-grade ESMERALDA COUNTY. galena in the breast of tunnel No. 1, in the stope between tunnels 1 and 2, in COLUMBUS CONSOLIDATED.—The extraction of ore has been resumed. winzes Nos. 2 and 3, and in rises Nos. 1 and 2 for the winzes. This shows a large HOLMES vs. NORTHERN BELLE.—Some of the lawyers and witnesses in the continuous body of first-class ore. The average net receipts for every ton of Northern Belle suit are beginning to arrive inCarson. The suit is brought by first-class ore shipped to the Philadelphia smelters are said to be $165. This is the Holmes Mining Company to recover the value of ore, estimated to be worth after the deduction of transportation and reduction. Besides a regular daily $1,000,000, taken out of ground claimed by the Holmes Company. It is alleged shipment of 12 tons of ore, much is done to give the mine a complete drainage by that the Northern Belle people went over their end boundary-lines in taking the means of a tunnel from the east hillside, which will tap the. vein at a depth of ore. The case will be called on the 6th of November, and will bring about one 500 feet. This will also be the main working tunnel. hundred jurors to the city. STar.—The new strike made in this mine, in Star Gulch, within two miles of Mount D1as_Lo.—The drift below lower winze No. 2 shows a strong ledge, Hailey, consists of three streaks of ore. One of these is four inches wide, of gray which is turning out some $45 quartz. The stope from this winze is yielding copper and galena, which assays high in silver. The drift is in 20 feet_on the new considerable $55 ore. ‘The stope below the third level, and near wioze No. 1, find, which seems to improve as 1un upon. shows a strong ledge of $50 ore. The cross-cut running directly south of the shaftis extending to prospect the ground below, to ascertain the depth of the MEXICO. Tipton ledge. EUREKA COUNTY. SCHLEY MINING AND MILLING ComPpaNny.—This company owns seven splendid EvuREKA TUNNEL.—The committee appointed toreport on the general and finan- mines near Pachuca, the Ida, Robert E. Lee, Washington, New York, La Reina, cial condition of the company states that the present indebtedness, as it appears Savannah No. 1, Savannah No. 2. Of these mines, the Ida, La Reina, Robert E. on the books, is $51,719. It advises the stockholders to contribute fifty cents a Lee, and both Savannahs are in good honest paying ore, and these ores are not share, for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness and starting the company in pockets, but in true fissure-veins, which, when worked on a large scale, will oe ~— amd sound basis. The money may be sent to Paxton & Co., bankers, pay bonanza profits to the stockholders. All that is now wanting in this district is a first-class reduction-mill, as the ores have to be shipped eighteen miles to be at Eureka, STOREY COUNTY. reduced. MICHIGAN. KEntTUcK.—This is the only mine in Gold Hill which did not shut down this season on account of the low water in the Carson River, and the consequent The following table exhibits, in gross tons, the total lake shipments of iron ore stoppage of the mills. from upper penivsula ports the present season, up to and including October 24th, NEW MEXICO. together with the amount shipped from the same ports during the corresponding period of last year : BERNALILLO COUNTY. There is a movement on foot to establish a Mining Exchange in Albuquerque Name of port 1882. 1883 and this movement is regarded as one of more than ordinary importance. PRS cssnks ccksbnbesthees > keeebabreekweeen 1,579,846 1,281,885 Charles L. Hubbs has transferred to Frank Huning et al., all his right, title, Marquette 528,101 BAM. os sseses 59.395 and interest in and to the smelter property below Albuquerque. It is understood St. Ignace 48,078 that some move will be made in the near future to put tbe works in active opera- tion. ° OMA sab cn eaU uke Gns bor nbunnensenkbeesasencs 2,535,928 2,017,459 A party of prospectors have recently discovered in Tyeras Cajfion, about six- teen miles east of Albuquerque, a gold lead whicb gives promise of being rich EmMeET.—The shaft which is sinking on the tract adjoining the Ludington, where it is expected to strike the Chapin vein, is down 140 feet. The shaft, it is and extensive. The lead runs nearly north and south, and crosses the cafon believed, will strike the Chapin vein at a depth of about 600 feet. about three miles from the mouth. The vein has an iron cap, some ten or twelve feet in thickness; and after going through this, an ore-body is struck Erre.—It is rumored that this mine has been sold to Cincinnati capitalists. which carries gold from the start, and steadily improves as depth is gained. FINLAND.—Articles of incorporation were recently filed at Lansing. The capital stock is $2,125, DONA ANA COUNTY.- GREAT WESTERN.—A small force is now worked, getting the mine in shape SrerRRA BELLA.—It is reported that the Columbia mine, at Lake Valley, has for economical production. been sold at auction to the Sierra Bella Company for 330,500, The Sierra Bella PEWaBIC.—Another assesment has been levied. The superintendent says: It Company owned two thirds and Hon. Jobn D. Miller one third. : seems to-me the best thing we can do is to sink anotber lift, then push along the GRANT COUNTY. 33d and 34th levels north and south, to prove up the ground that we are gaining from Franklin and Quincy. With Quincy rich on one side, and Franklin show- PyRAMID.—The rearranging of the machinery of the mill is nearly completed, ing well on the other, ouc chances for finding some good paying ground, if the and it is expected to start up soon. The company under the new management is openings are pushed along as stated above, are very good indeed ; and if we do making every necessary improvement on the workings. . not make some good bunches of copper long before this time next year, it will be GOLDEN RvuLE.—The mill continues to run steadily, crushing from fifty to very strange. There is nothing new at the mines. sixty tons per day. The mine is looking well. The ore in stopes and drifts West CHapin.—Indications point to the early development of a workable maintains its usual grade. Four to five tofis of concentrations from the mill tail- deposit of first-class ore. ings are made every day. Oversixty men are employed at the mill and mine. MONTANA. HarRPER.—A portion of this group of mines, in Hanover Gulch, was sold at sheriff’s sale recently. The successful bids were as follows : The Superior, $175 ; MISSOULA COUNTY. Mountain Boy, $90 ; Pylmira, $70 ; Gray Eagle, $68 ; Mastodon, $84; and | Milton, $64. The Mastodon prospect is a valuable claim, and cost Harper The first reports received from the gold-fields in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains over $1000 when purchased of the original locators. were greatly exaggerated. The latest information is, that the prospects will not justify any great excitement, but that there will be paying diggings. Some 220 PENNSYLVANIA. or 300 people are inthe camp. Most of the claims, comprising twenty acres NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. each, have been taken by Palouse farmers, and very few miners have secured ground. The ground on Beaver Creek and other streams in the vicinity of The quarries of Bangor, East Bangor, and Pen Argyl are increasing in pro- Pritchard Creek has been taken up ; but the work of development will be very ductiveness daily. They are, says a correspondent of the New York Sun, ham- slow this winter, and paying returns may not be expected before next July. As pered only by the scarcity of skilled labor. So many quarries are opening that yet, but four claims have paid any thing, and none of them at present makes more labor isscarce. Inthe entire region, there is great demand for all kinds of labor. than wages. One party sold part of a claim, five acres, for $1000. The neigh- Ordinary day laborers earn from $1 to $1.35 per day, and often more, according borhood has every indication of being a good quartz region, and a couple of to the exigencies of the occasion. Carpenters earn from $2.25 to $3.25. Brick- ledges have already been opened on Beaver Creek, six miles from Pritchard layers find work, but most new buildings are frame. Machinists are sought Creek. after daily, and make good terms, because practical men to work at the opening SILVER BOW COUNTY—SUMMIT VALLEY DISTRICT. of new quarries and the erection of machinery are scarce. Slaters (splitters and dressers) earn from $2.50 to $4 and $4.50 per day by the piece. Quarrymen can ALICE.—The pay-chute has been struck and stoping begun on the 800-foot level. always find remunerative employment. The growth of the industry has been The width of the ore-body at present is three feet, averaging 57 ounces, and is very rapid. increasing in width. The vein at a point 130 feet west from the bottom of the UTAH. winze is 47 feet wide. The south vein is opening up on the 400-foot level east of the main shaft. On the 300-foot, stoping is vigorously prosecuted on the new WASHINGTON COUNTY—SILVER REEF. south vein. The ore-body is extending east and west, and is rich, averaging BaRRY CONSOLIDATED.—The object of this company, recently incorporated, is 100 ounces. Tae foundations for the new hoist on the Magna Charta mine are to operate and work the Barry group of claims, located north of the Crescent finished, and the new engines will be set, the old engines being much too light Company’s property at Park City. The claims to be operated are the Moricus, for the service required of them. The mills are running very regularly, and Del Norte, Rickwah, Wakell, Capell, Weilchpeck, Areata, Lagoon, Aztec, and crush 100 tons per day. Fountain. Salt Lake is named as the chief place of business, and the capital Buivue WinG.—This claim has been leased on the following terms: The lessee is stock is placed at $2,500,000 in shares of $10 each, par value. A large amount to have all the ore taken out in sinking and drifting, and four fifths of that taken of work is to be done on the property this winter. out in stoping. BARBEE & WALKER.—Rumor has it that the company’s mines have been Gop Fiint.—A two-thirds interest in this mine was sold to W. A. Clark for closed down for an indefinite period. NovEMBER 3, 1883 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 285

FINANCIAL. at the office of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com- former price. Quincy has been very quiet, with sales pany. at $52 early in the week, but subsequently declined to Gold and Silver Stocks. The United Verde Copper Company, of Arizona, $50, at which it is now offered. Pewabic steady 1 New York, Friday Evening, Nov. 2. has declared a dividend. dull at $214. Osceola suld at $1814, same as last week. There is nothing of interest in the mining market PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES. Brunswick Antimony declined from $15 July this week to report. Business continues to be very Messrs. Watson & Gibson, No. 49 Broadway, report to $10. dull and uninteresting, and is confined to two or that the petroleum market during the past week has In silver stocks, there is absolutely next to nothing three low-priced fancy stocks. A full summary of been exceedingly dull. The public has taken very doing. A sale of 1200 shares Catalpa at 2714c. nd the market is given below. The total number of little interest in it, and the fluctuations have been so 100 shares Sullivan at 96%c. comprise all the ans- shares sold aggregates 117,935, as against 136,750 small that there has been no encouragement to trade. actions at the Boston Stock Exchange for the week. last week. The market has lost a little each day, notwithstand- At the Mining Board, there is more activity n Ihe Comstock shares were very quiet at steady ing the bull talk as to the future. livan and a better range of prices. Salesat 97!¢c.@3 prices. California sold at 31c., assessment paid, and The monthly report was bearish for October work, regular, and $1@$1.07 buyer’s optiun. Bowman at 8c., assessment unpaid. Consolidated Virginia and makes the following showing : ver, dull at 11@12c. Empire, 27@28c. unkin October. September. 25@28c. was moderately dealt in at irregular prices ; it sold Wells completed...... --- 320 300 from 47@50@45c. Sierra Nevada was quiet and WU Ne ie osseko6csscccee 336 310 3 P.M.—At the afternoon Board, Calumet & Rigs up and ‘building Besant aaa. eta 251 206 advanced to $240. The rest of the list was un- steady, selling from $3.75@$4. Union Consolidated New production...... 4,576 4,700 was weak, under a small business, selling from $4.35 Average per wi BURR ihe aac 14°30 14°43 changed. @$3.55. Mexican sold at $3.25, and Ophir at $5.26. * There has been a falling off in Balltown production Best & Belcher sold to the extent of 100 shares, as- during the past two weeks, but the total production i BULLION MARKET. in the oil-field is still in excess of the consumption. sessment paid, at $4. Sutro Tunnel was fairly dealt NEw York, Friday Evening, Oct. 26. in at irregular prices ; it sold from 17@15@16c. The pipe line returns for the month of October will The London market has declined in rate and one The Leadville stocks were also quiet and steady. show a loss of about 150,000 barrels in gross stocks, the past week, and with a weak sterling exchange Amie sold from 11@12c. under a small business, caiman acesseeetchtiendasaan, iaialiiniananiaaamnacnieaa but the shipments are about 200,000 barrels less than market here, silver has fallen in our market, and Chrysolite was steady, selling from $1.20@$1.15, for September. The exports were less in October dull at the figures of our table. with a business of 2400 shares. Dunkin was quiet than in September. and steady at 26c., and Breece sold at 18c. Iron Sil- The market needs a leader, and if noone comes in | London. | N. Y. | |London.| N. ¥ DaTE ee —)| Date. |— ver was moderately dealt in at steady prices ; it sold to stir it up, the chances are, that prices will go still | Pence. Cents. | Pence. IK Cents. from $2.95@$3. Leadville was quiet aud steady at lower. If there should be a decline to say 107 or Oct. 27/50 15- 16 11054 ‘Oct. 31/50 13 9-16 '110% 38@40c. Little Chief sold to the extent of 1200 108, we should consider oil a good purchase for a turn. 29150 15-16 * \Nov. 1/50 15-16 |110 shares at 56@54c. Little Pittsburg was steady, The following table gives the quotations and sales 30|5015-16 [110% ~~ | 2\50% |1108% selling from 58@56c. under a small business. Cli- at the New York Mining Stock and National Petro- * 110144@11056. max was quiet and steady at 7@6c. leum Exchange : Bullion Receipts at New York.—The bullion re- There was no change of interest in the Bodie Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing. Sales. 8 ey Ee 1.104 $1.114 $1. ss ) — 3,035,000 ceived from the mines at the various offices in this city stocks. They remain very quiet at about steady enwcces 1.10% 1.113% 1.1 10% 2,642,000 during the week ended November 2d, as compiled prices. Bodie Consolidated sold to the extent of 300 ne 1.1034 1.10% 1108 t 104 2,618,000 Wiss ccis 1.09% 1.104% 1.09% 1.0934 2,679,000 from various sources, amounted to $247,000, as shares at 15c. Standard was quiet and steady at Nov. 1. .... 1.09% 1.09% 1.0946 1.09% 2,158, 000 against $153,000 reported for the previous week. The $6@$6.25. Bulwer sold at 50c., and North Standard ee 1.09% 1.09% 1.08% 1.09% 3, ;430,000 receipts from January Ist, 1883, to date are $9,563,- at 14c. ORR GRIES, ois dcencwnsccudcwssssoasaaces 16,562,000 047. The Tuscarora stocks were quiet and steady. Exports and Imports of Gold and Silver at New York. Grand Prize was strong, selling from 48@60c. with SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Exports. a moderate business. Belle Isle sold at 40c. Navajo Week ended October 27th...... $255,807 was quiet and strong at $3.90. Elko Consolidated Daily Range of Prices for the Week. Corresponding week last year...... 56,620 was quiet and steady, selling from 18@17c. assess- CLosING QuoTaTIoNs. Since January Ist, 1883...... 0 12,328,959 ment paid, and from 3@2c. assessment unpaid. NAME OF —_——— ms ao CoMPANY. Oct. = Bf Oct. ; Oct. ; Oct. ; Nov. Corresponding period last year...... 44,443,877 In the miscellaneous list, Alice was very quiet at 26. | 29, | 30. a Imports, $2.65. Eureka Consolidated was quite weak, under Week ended October 27th...... 005 $599,793 a small business, selling from $6.50@$4. Horn- Corresponding week last year...... 335,736 Wabeciscsslexcssel Mea 2 1% Silver was moderately active at irregular prices ; it 14% 13g 14%) 1% 1% 1 Since January Ist, 1883...... 14,141,847 sold from $6.25@$5.88@$6. The trustees of this 15 Seema i YT 20° | £20 | _™ Corresponding period last year ...... 4,280,919 company have decided to reduce their dividends here- Bechtel...... -. Sarca| neste voltae cep @ ars lowance Puecccas BGIGHSE... ss 00sec 1% 1% wv 1% 1%...... Foreign Bank Statements.—The governors of the after from $300,000 to $200,000, or from seventy-five Belle isle...... AO) oS | on | A) cae lose Bank of England, at their regular weekly meeting, to fifty cents per share. Robinson Consolidated was Best & Belcher. . 334, 334 334) 33%! 3% 3% PREM Soce cose 25 25 | .35 | .35 | .33 | .40 made no change in the bank’s minimum rate for dis- quiet and irregular, selling from 42@45@43c. ae Wigawheeoonban ence tcades samebueenss count, and it remains at three per cent. During the Barcelona was irregular, under a_ small busi- pe eae dani oo California...... 10 ‘ .30 week, the bank lost £449,000 bullion, and the propor- ness, selling from 27@25@26c. Caledonia was | eee 24 y 2 2144 tion of its reserve to liabilities was reduced from moderately deali in at weak prices ; it sold from Con. Virginia. ...| .50 | . , 50 Crown Point.. ... 1% me | 43 15-16 to 43 per cent, against 36 15-16 per cent 81@30c. Decatur was very quiet at 3c. Eastern ae ee Gales Wek eases Eureka Cons..... 46 acow

| HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES PER SHARE AT WHICH SALES WERE | SHARES. | ASSESSMENTS, DIVIDENDs, MADE. | seas NaME i amen OF CAPITAL | | | SALES, § ¢ | Nov. 1. ee | STOCK. | |,,¢| Total [Date and] Total |Dateandamount | . | No. |32)| levied | amount per; paid | r share of | = | to date.| share of last.| to date. ast. | | | | | | | | BIANCO, B. C..205000 ove Mont $10,000,000) 400,000! $25) * ee $400,000 Dec. lest -10 2 Amie Con., s. L. . Colo.| 5,000,000 /500,000) * ses] 330,000 Oct. 1883 .0% | $3 Atlantic, C...... Mich; 1, ‘000,000| 40,000 2 $280,000| Apl. 1875 $1.00) 220,000) Feb. )1883 $2.06 4 Argenta,S_ ...... Nev.. 10,000; “000 100, "000 100 vi, 000 | _— 1883 3 | 40,000 Feb. | | 1880) .20 5 Barbee & Walker, s..;Utah! 1,000,000/100,000) 10) ; ° 7 60, 000| Nov | 1580 6 Bassick, G.S...... Colo. 10,000,000 100,000 10) : | . . 200,000 Jun, | 1883 7 Belle Isle, S...... - Nev..| 10,000,000/100,000/ 100} _ 85,000 May 1883, 300,000 Dec. |1879| 8 Helcher, G. S...... Nev..| 10, "400, 000 104,000) 100 2,588,000 Ap |1883 33 15,397,000 Apl. |1876) 9 Birdseye, G...... SUMR Aiocenchcn act MN ayo cite hat Accu Acsuce lecniannaeee Dec. |1882! . 10 Black Bear, G...... |Cal. 3,000,006 30,000) 100] 15,000 Sept | 1879 .50| 895,000 May 1883 11 Bodie Con., G...... Cal..| 10,000,000) 100,000; 100) 225,000 jAug! 1883 -50| 1,295,000, Nov |1882) .2 12 Bonanza Vevelopm’t C &M;| 3,000,000 300,000 | 135,000 Oct.. | 1882 5 18 Boston & Mont, @.... Mont) 2,°09,000) 200,000 310; 000\ Jan. {1833 08 14' Breece, S...... 0..0. Colo.| 5,000,000) 200,000) 2) ,000'Feb.|1880) O01 15 Bulwer, G...... — Cal | 1,000,000) 100,000 100! 30,000 Dee. | 1877 50} 185. 000|July 1883). LE 16 California, G. s...... /Nev..| 54,000,0 0/540,000 100) £62,000 Sept 1883) .20/31, $20,000 Dee.\1879, Ef 17 Calumet & Hecla, c..| Mich 2 500, 00,900) LOO, DOE Wssavess Useakelessactoouesh 4, 350,°00/Oet. |1883) 5. 18/Carbonate Hill, 8. L..|Coto.}.....000 22. ]-c00 oe] sosfoce cocces| coe lovee |ovcese| 60,000 July 1883! . 19 Caribou Con., 8s... ../Colo. 1,000,060) 100,000) 10 . cnc tanbbs tewtbas | 50,000'Mch 1880). 20 Carolina Queen, c....|/ N.C. BOD UOOEOEODD! B)...cc0sene lass cfoscoe]ocenes | _ 8,000 Oct. 1882). 21 “astle Creek, G...... |Idah 199.000) 100; BE, Bionsasbesnndibacalenssotesesen | 51,000 Oct..|1883) — .0: 22 Catalpa,sS L ... Colo. 3,000,000 30,000 10; . eaccclecccciocces-| 240,000)Jun./1883| . 23 Central, C..-.. Mich *500,000) 20;000) 23) 100,000 Sept!1861) .06! 1 ,670,000) Feb. | 1883) 3. 24 Christy, s...... Utah; 6,000,000) 60, 900) 100 12,000/Sept 1883) .20| 90,000 Jan. 1883). 25 Chrysolite, s.L.... |Colo.) 10, '000.000'200:000| 50 . lseencteo swe -| 1600,000 Dec.)1881| «5 * 96 Con. Bobtail, G..... Colo 1,136,6:50/227,326, 5) % =| .scejeee- Jooe ee 147,762; Mch|188,_. 27 Con. Gold Mining, G.|Ga.. *500,000 100,000] Sisk a Rika dee ies 112,000 Aug./1883) 28 Con. Virginia, G. 8... Nev..| 54,000,020|549,000 100) lL ous, ovo! July 1883, .20/42,930,000 Aug.|1880, 29 Contention, Bi eswic 12,500,000/250,0U0) 50) ...cccess| cccelecccc|occess $2,461,590 Jun. 1883.2 30'Copper Queen, C..... Ariz 2,500,000 250,000 10 FA cuslehonsl wewean 15225,000|Oct..|1883) _. 31|\Crown Point, G. s....|Nev..| 10,000,000 100,000} 100 2,673, ,000) Feb. |1882)".25/11'588,000 Jan. \1875| 2. 32, Deadwood-Terra, G.. Dak 5, 000.000 200; Pec Pee Ricunadnoepna | ¥900,000| Jan. | 188%). 33) Dunkin, s. L...... Colo.) 5,000,000 200, 000! 25 * : ksh Teewnbs 210,000/ Oct. | 1883) 34/Eureka Con., G. s. L. Nev 5,000, 000) 50,000, 100) 890,000 Sept 1883) | 4,767,500) July | 1882) 3; Evening Star, s. L..../Colo.| 500,090] 50,000) 10 wi. Be b .serctanenee a 1,275,000) Aug. | 1883 a6'Excelsior, G...... Cal..| 10,000,000! 100; 090/100) 369,000 Aug 1883) .60) 875,000) Oct..| 1880 37 Father de Smet, @.. Dak.. 10,000,000/100,000| 100) ...... -.[... 0 Jesces[ecsees | 630,000 — | 1888 3: Findley.... E pe MEcxbliccabsvetak Enakeshardssdel. cutsrelusbestoxeen tes phen meek an 39 Franklin, 54,000/...., 560,000 Jun ,000)... 40 Freeland, s. ,000 200, 000; 25) * |.....J.-... 50,000 May | 1880 41 Fresno Enterprise, G Cal. 5, 000000100, 000} 50)...... Mch 110, 000 | July | 1882 PR, 1 cbs -cunsovecess Colo 125,000) 125,000! 1 es 23°750! May 1883) 48 Glass-Pendery,s.L Colo 5.9C0,000 250; 000, 20 * 25,000 May |1881 SS eee Colo 100,00€'100:000| 1). 7 000 ~_e 1883 DRE UMD ca cinsansetps - Isanectenensel cess ebelysenlssontonnhstnesss* 46 Gould & Curry, G.s. Nev.. i0,800,000 108,000, 100 /3,530,009| Jun. | -50| 3,826,000 Oct -|1870 10 47 Grand Central, s..... Arlz 1,000,000; 105,000) 10)...... |..000lesees lovonss | 625.000 Dec. lisse . 48 Grand Prize, s...... Nev. 10,000,000 169,00», 109 470,00) Jun. | “i863! +25) =450,000/Sept/1880; . 49|Granite, S...... Colo BRB OOOTREG00) 1) 5.055000] c00es|evcen} scecee | 6,250 May |1883)_ . 50'Great Eastern, G..... Dak. $90,001'|300,000; 1; * |, .AL..... Lseonse 16,000 July | 1830) - 51\Great Western, Q....|-‘al. 5. 009,000 50,000 10" 35, 500 Aug 1873) .15, 262,500 Oct../1882) . 52 Green Mountain, G... Cal. 1,250,000|125,900} 10; © =| . ..ten 2 Jocoeee 212,000 Nov.| 1881 J 53 Hale & Norcross, G. § Nev..| 11, "200,000 112;00U) 12: , 4, 118, 00) Sept | 1883 50 1,598,000 Apl.|1871) 5. 54 Hall-Anderson, G.... N.S. 150,000 150,000 Cokubbaeeslebbenls es iieeeas 7,000 Jan./1882) 5h! Hecla Con., 8...... 1,500,000, 30/000 50 nel ehaba’ Thuteh basebakeebnrs 522,500 Oct..| 1883 f 56 Henriett, L..... sort! wuss acenee SP ancles Seiko daha dea. aeloeeeet 27,000 Feb.| 1883). 57 Hibernia, Ss. L...... 7,500,000 300,000, 25 eT pansinx nedeneene 180,000 July 1831 ‘ Eg Holyoke, G...... DEREISUEIIO Bi aconcocccelecee joscas|sesees 48.000 Oct. 1888. 59 Homestake, G 12,500,000 125,000 100 200,900 July 1878 1.00) 2,237,500 Oct .|1883) _.2 0 OS aaa 400,000 8,000 50 FN cetlckaenteeauen 113,036 Oct. 1688 1.50 ‘Oz, ; 61 Horn-S Iver. S. L..... Utah 10,000.00) 400; 000, 25 P. diexematasedclveusre 2,600,000 Aug./1883) «75 6.5) 66, 6. a0 | 62 Howell S. & M. Co .. Ariz ‘875, 000/187’ 000! % 3,75 1883 01 63 Hukill, G. s. . . Colo 1,000, 900 200200 . 18738 10 “GBs eect eeeeleweedeceee| OU 64 Idaho, G...... Cal. 310,000 3,100 - 1883) 1.09 6) Independence, s..... Nev 19,000,900 100,000 25.000 Sept 1879, 25 66 Indian Queen, s. . Nev. 259,000) 125,000 30°? 750 July |1833, 03 a as: Sore: pe ose Cal 500,000) 100,000 45,000 Apl. 1882) .05 - “366 pow bacassleenered Gece aet os win eren eee = 6< Iron-Silver,s.L ..... Colo.) 10, 000, 900 500,000 1,200,000 Oct. 1883} .20 3.00 2.83) 2.00 69 Jocuistita, s...... Mex.) 1: 5000, 900 | 100,000 900,000 Aug. 1883, 70\Kentuck...... ccccees Nev.. 3,900," 100 30,000 1,264,000 July 1883 71\La Plata, s. L...... Colo.| 2, 000; 000 200; 009 610,000 Sept 13882 72 Leadville, s, L...... Colo 4/090;000 400,000 310,000 Oct., 1383 7H Leeds, s. .... Utah) 6,000, 40 60,000 78,000 Oct.. 1878 74 Little Chief, | S.L ....|\Colo.| 10,000,090 200,000 720,000 Oct.. 1833 Little Pittsburg, 8. “an 20, 000, 900) 200,000 1,059,000: Meh 1830, a Marguerite, G 500,100) 25,000 18.750 Oct.. 1882 44 Martin White, s 10,000, "00 § 100 ,000 90,000 | July 1879 73 Minas Nuevas,s. 390,000) 100,000 0) 000) July 1883 79 Morning Star, s. L. 1,000,000 100,000 615,000 Oct . 18%3} 4) Mount Pleasant, G.. » Cale. 150,000 150,000 1 60.000' Sept 1883) 8] Mt. Diablo, s..... 5,000,000 50,000 100 37,500 | Oct. N83} 82 Napa, Q... 700,000) 100,000 Wiewes 290,000 Jan. 18833) 83 Nava - G. s. 19,000,000 | 100,000 100 225,000 May 18+3) 84 New York Hiil, 5,090,000! 50,000 100 215,000 Aug. 1882 85 New Yorn & Colo Colo 1,259,000! 50,010 25)... 25,000 July 1879 »6 Northern Belle, s Nev 5,0 10,000| 50,000 100... 2,400, 000 Apl. 1883 87 North Belle Isle Nev. 10,000,000 | 100,000 100 39,000 Aug. 1881] 88 Ontario, Utah 15,000,000 | 150,000 100 5,000,000 Oct. 1+83 89 Opbir, G . Nev. 10,009,600 100,000 100 3,645,000 Au 13 *595,000 July 1832| 90 Osceola, c Mich 1,250,090, 50,600 > "480,090 Apl. 985,000 Oct. 91 Oxford, R N.S 100,000) Lub,000 3),000 Aug. 92 Pleasant Vaiicy, o. s. Cal. 10,900,000 | 100,000 100, 30,000 Dec. 93 Plymouth Con., . Cal.. 5,000,000 100,000 50 250,000 | Oct.. DAIPOLCIIA, B.....00cccovece Colo. "200 "000! 8) 000 25 312,000|..... 95 Prussian, 8. L...... Colo 1,500,000) 150,000 10}. 132,000| Jan. os Quicksilver, pref.,Q Cal.. 4,300,000) 43,000 100). 654,000 July com., Q Cal.. 5, 700, 000) 57,000 100 151,000 July 93 St fhe eee Mich 1,200, 009) 40,000 23} 3,584,900 July enfrew, G...... 0¢ N. S.. 69,000 30,000 2 4,800' July i” Richmond, Ss. L. .|Nev.. 1,350,090! 54,000 25 4, 042? 587 May 1833) 101 Rising Sun.s...... Dak.. 750,000 150,000 iy 52,000 May 1881) 1u2 Robinson Bar, G..... Idah. 160,000 100,000 1 9,000 Dec. | 1882) 103 Robinson Con, s. L.. Colo. 10, 900; 900 200, 000 50 575,009 Nov 1881)| 104 Robert E. Lee,s L... Colo. 250,000,090 500, 000 500, 100,000 Dec. 1882) 105 San F rancisco, c y anwwe Cal.. 5,000,000 50,000 100 45,000 Se t 1880 20,000 Feb. 18x3} 106 |Savage, &...... 00 coos- Nev.. 11,207,000) 112°090 = 5,540, (000 Ju y 1883 , 4,460,000 July 1869 q07 Shoshone, G...... Idah 150,000 150,000 7,500 Apl. 1x53) 10% Sierra Buttes, G..... Cal.. 225,000; 22,500 1,450,933 Oct.. 1833} 109 Sierra Grande, s.. .. N. M. 10,000,005 400,009 700,000 Oct. 1883) lle Sierra Nevada, G. 8..| Nev.. 10,000,000 100,000 102,000 ey 1871 111 S’a P’mas Eureka,G Cal.. --| 40,625 1882) 112 Silver Cord, G. s. L.. Colo 4,500,007 1450000 180,000 Aug 1883) 113 Silver King, s. Ariz. 1,000,907 100,000 | 1, 275, 000 Jun. 1883/ 114 Silver King, s...... Colo. 1,900,000 509,000 50, 000) Aug. 1881| 115 Smuggler, s L.. . Colo.| 600,000 6,000 66,700) Aug. 1883) 116 Socerro,c ...... oN. ML] 250.000 2,500 4,000| Meh |1882| 117 South Yuba, G...... Cal..! 2,009,000 45,000) ¢ 150,000! Oct .|1881 118 Spring Valley, co. 200,000 | 200,000 50,000 Jan. /1881 119 Standard, G. s... 10 009,009 100,00 4,250,000) Oct., 1883 126 Stormont, s ..... 200,000 290,90 0 155,000| Nov |1881 121 St. Jos*ph, i .. 1,000,000 100,000 390,000 Dec. | 1882 122 Tip Top, s 10, On; 1000 100; 0 0 100 ,009|Nov | 1841 124 Tombatone, Go. s "| 123590,000 500,000 1,250,000/ Apl. | 1882 12 True Fissure, G. a Ra 1. 500,000 150,000 95, 000! Jun. |1883| i125 United Gregor i hess 300, 000 | 300, 000) 42,000, Apl.. 1883] 126 United Gol in. Co. a6

*Non-assessable. +The Deadwood has previously paid $975 »,009 in eleven dividends, and the Terra $75,009. + This company, as the Sesion, up to December 10th, 1881, paid $1,475,000. Quotations of these stocks will be found in S. F., San Francisco ; B., Boston ; and P., Philadelphia, tables. E are British companies. | Total number of shares, 500, ‘000; 50,000 shares ave never been issued, and are still held by the company. Dividend shares sold, 48, O25.

Lead.—Under sales aggregating between 300 and nounced that 500 tons of Refined lead had been sold | | indicative of the state of the market that no sieaiis 400 tons, the market for Common lead declined from | at 4c. The fact that this transaction has been com-| was manifested as to its having been done in well- 4°10 to 4°05c. during the week, until to-day it was an- | pleted is questioned in some quarters, but it is|informed quarters. Witb lead at this figure, it NOVEMBER 3, 1883. THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL.

NON-DIVIDEND-PAYING MINES.

\ | | SHARES. ASSESSMENTS. ‘HicMEst AND LOWEST PRICES PER SHARE AT WHICH SALES WERE ——|——__- ree eee MADE. | | | NAME AND LOCATION OF CAPITAL | Dc | | s aa sie SALES COMPANY. STOCK. | Number.| Par | Total pate and amount per | l | Value. | Pag oe | shaseof iat. | Oct. 27. | Oct. 2¥. | Oct. 80. | Oct. 81. | Nov. 1. | Nov. 2 | 0 dé | | | | | H.| u| a. | L|a.| o |) e. | Oo) | Le. 1. | |

1|Advance M & M. Co. | aaa Seats E ecutenaika bacbeanaweantiecs casuutces Als wastranssctuesan BE Thane lactndie cannes he hekae 67. 0 Goes California 5,000,000 10,000; 100 /|1 687, 500 December. 1881)...... 6S 6 ” common,4. California 10,000,000 100,000; 100 (1 1975, 00, February.., 1883; .25| 6@. 70\May Belle, G... California 10,000,000 100; 000; 100 | 84 *000| December. 1881; 20) 70. 71|Mayflower, Ric |Nevada.. . 1,000,000 | 100, 000; 100 | 35,000| February... 1883; .10; 71). 72\Mexican,G.s . |Nevada.... 10,000,000 100, 800) 100 (2,420,200 Septemb’r, 1883) 1.00| 72 73| Michoacan Synd |Mexico.. . ben gee. 1 Konetwapasestossiaes® . 73. 74| Miner Boy, G. s. Colorado.. | 5,000,000 500,000) 74 '5;Miller...... |Nevada... 5,000,000 RN, aches) sees aca WS 76 Mono, G. |\California Q7) Moose Silv \Colorado.. 3,000, Simiees | aan 600} Facueesaciysesilvaaens " W7\. 78| Moulton, a. |Mentana.. 10,000,000 400, 000) 73). 79 Nevada Syndicate. slisdesennsens | “iD isa | **“saaneal sae’ | Base e 80 North Standard,@ (California 81|North Horn-Sil., s. L|Utah...... csonemeheees | 400,000 82|Noonday...... \California 600,000 | 60,000 83 Old Dominion, c....| Arizona... | 3,000,000 300,000 DE IIE i osx sc cccccne |Nevada.... 2,000,000 200, 000) 85 Oriental & Miller, s.| Nevada. ..- 10,000,000 | 400,000 86 Overman, G. 8...... |Nevada.... 2, 1520, 7000 115/200! 87|Parnell...... ia sage auexddaente Ra Nevada. .. 10,200,000 | *** 112,000 80/ Quartz Croek...... ]... . sss. 90 Rappahannock, @4..| Virginia .. ad eg RS Reta nies coodcoune-4 Wie oh ace. 91/Red Elephant, s....'Colorado . 500,000 Ce EG Piinccencdccleccevshacecas: | Wibceun boven 92|/Retort M. & M. Go..|Colorado . 93 San Pedro, G. s. L ..|New Mex. oe NMR cae a ne aes ives bai cece FMM: Glee. .dsseaefl ese 94\Silver Cliff, s ...... ‘Colorado | : 5,000,000 | 200,000 Leicesstodneciclsaieeoiats Beity savas ¥5|Silver Islet.. |\Canada.. 1,600,000 | MNT) EA Nacccvenscdlacaatesatccs! aslacaccc | Miitwas Bece-5 96 Sonora Con...... |Mexico.. 97|South Bodie, G...... aaa er ese | SOO ae 0,000/March.....,/1883!"""15 | 97... /..0.. BS a 98/South — * ..|California 10,0.'0,000 | 100,000; 100 105,000| May...... | 1988; 26) OB). ....]..... sles 99/South Hite...... California 10,000,000 | 100, 060) WE bake setene January..! 1883, 35) 9@)..... os 100/ South Pacific... 7...) California 101|State Line, No. * s..|Nevada.. . ia sais | **“wecceaal eee eee ee 102} “ No.2,8.... .| Nevada... 5,000,000 | 209,000) =a 108; “ No. G8... L211] Nevada. . . 5,000,000 | 2007000) «| eee ee, Be a iv innces |Nevada.. . 5,000,000 | 200,000 shoe 105; “* Nos. lan .-| Nevada... 19; “ Nos. 2 an ..| Nevada... 107 | Sullivan, @. s. .|Maine..... "500,006 | °°" 100,000)° 8" Bal ccou hemes 108'/Sutro Tunnel Nevada.. ig aeeunes 2,000,000) i ae ee 109 Taylor-Plumas...... California Sdeaimnees tia dteceseies Wack] Sedaal Sea a | cose Peony our | ee ..|California 10,000,000 100,000} 100 | 285,000/October...) 1882) .10 110.2... c.ee cee e ceee cere | eee 111 Tuscarora, s. ..|Nevada.. 10,000,000 100,000; 160 | 110,000 October... WBS} DS | AMM 2. fone. nt ween | cone | eeee | cece 112)Unadilla, s...... \Colorado . 50,000,000 | 500,000) 100 | r2¢ 000 Geter ARES 5G BEM cctia Sl ese acaeip =322) bie 113 Union Con., Gs. |Nevada.. . 10,000;000 100,000' 100 720,000 October ..| 1883) "" "350 ]193) 2572 | V..0"| @35) .... ee Se eee eee |Nevada... 2/000, 000 20,000) 100 I "440, 000; October ..| 1883) 1.00 |114 .... .).....4) «e- 115 Vandewater...... |Nevada ... 20;000;000 | 200,000 * 116 Washington...... |Arizona... 2,000,000 | 200,000! 11? Whalen Copper..... |Nevada... 2,500,000 | 100, 000) 118; Wide West eel Cin nemees kee 119) Willshire. : "250,000 | pate en af Or reed k ieceee ERE Peccacl cece) svc boesoheces

7,910. Total shares Gold. S. Silver. L. Lead. C. Copper. * Non-assessable. + Stocks quoted ons. F. San Francisco ; B., Boston ; P., Philadelphia. Non-Dividend shares sold, sold, ii 7,035. ee behoves the producers to look to the freight rates, a | week sum up over 200 tons of Refined at 3°85c., and | hands of holders are limited, and offerings are —— lowering of which can alone give them relief. 100 tons Common at 3°80c. fore on a moderate scale only. Sales aggregate 250 tons. Messrs. John Wahl & Co., of St. Louis, wire us} Messrs. Everett & Post, of Chicago, telegraph to- Spelter.—The market continues dull and lifeless, to-day as follows: i with Common and Domestic nominally at 4}

IRON MARKET REVIEW. Glengarnock, at Ardrossan, 538s. ; and Eglinton, at Plate and Tank Iron.—No large orders have been New York, Friday Evening, Nov. 2. Ardrossan, 47s. Warrants at the Exchange to-day placed, but tbe average run of business is fair for The protracted dullness in the iron trade in this and were 44s. 10d. delivery during the next two months. Buyers do not all the other civilized countries in the world has Rails.—To-day, the Lackawanna Company an- anticipate any further decline. Quotations, 2°35@ seemed to many inexplicable. A few figures quoted nounces the sale of 30,000 tons of steel rails at mill at 2°40c. for Boat Plate ; 2°40@2°50c. for Tank. Quota by the London Economist will, we believe, go far $35 for winter delivery, the result of the feeling tions for shell and flange are fluctuating, and inside toward removing much of the mystery that is sup- which we foreshadowed in earlier reports. This prices can not be given for some large lots which posed to cling about our present condition. The pro- means simply that the best located mills in the coun- have been ordered. Small lots of Shell, 3@3°25c. duction of the three principal producing countries, try are determined to run full by securing the busi- Flange, 4@4°25c. Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, for ness. At such figures, some of the mills must close Structural Iron.—Some brokers have had scattering the years 1868, 1873, 1877, and 1882, throw a flood of down to wait for better times, and in confirmation of inquiries for large and small lots, but no large busi- light on the subject : this we are informed that the Troy works have tem- ness has been done, although there are evidences that porurily closed their Bessemer works, which will run the requirements known to exist will bring buyers PRODUCTION OF PIG-IRON. 1868. 1873. only at intervals to supply the merchant steel depart- into market during the present month for large lots. United Kingdom 4,970,206 6,566,451 ment, which does not call for its full capacity. A great deal of bridge iron will be wanted this fall United States 1,603,000 2,868.278 Other agents claim to have sold this week several Germany 1,053,260 2:174,737 and winter. While other departments of the iron lots at as high as $37 at mill, but it is not probable that trade are suffering, the structural mills seem to be re 7,626,466 11,609,466 buyers, under the circumstances, will henceforth ceiving a fuir volume of business. 1877. 1882. place orders at more than $35@$35.50 at mill, ac- Nails.—There isless activity in nails this week, be- United Kingdom 6,608,664 8,493,287 United States 2,314,585 5,178,121 cording to time of delivery, section, etc. cause of the fact that jobbers have quit ordering. Germany 1,421,667 3,170,957 Old Rails.—The market has shown more anima- Quotations, $2°80@$2:90. Some interest is felt as to 10,344,916 16,842,365 tion under lower figures. We quote $21@$22 for Tees. the probable action of the Western nail-makers, who With such figures, it is rather a matter of surprise Scrap.—We quote $23 ex ship. will meet in ten days to determine the question of that the reaction has not been much more violent. Philadelphia. November 1. restriction. It will be noticed that the figures for 1868 and 1873 Pig-Iron. — Between 12,000 and 15,000 tons of Old Rails.—Nominal quotations are $23.50 and show a very heavy growth, which, during the period low-priced irons have been sold during the past few $25.50 for Foreign, and $24 asked for American. 1873-1877, received a check, and, in some instances, days, and there are inquiries in hand at present writ- Pittsburg. November 1. was followed by a decline. Then came another era ing which will probably result in the placing of sev- Pig-iron remains dull and unchanged. Demand is of wonderful expansion, which, as we know, reached eral additional large lots, although prompt delivery very light, and orders are placed for pressing require- its climax last year. We, as well as others, have will not be insisted upon. There is more speculative ments only. No. 1 Foundry sells at $20@$21 ; No. 2 overshot the mark, and it is a very encouraging in- feeling in the market this week than for many months. at $18@$20, with better inquiry, but no large dication of the permanent growth in the demand for The reason of the increased activity is not owing to moving. Gray Forge, $17.50@$18.50, four months. crude and manufactured iron, that the reaction has increase in consumption so much as to the belief There is no prospect of any improvement for some been as healthy as it has proved to be. prevalent in well-informed iron circles that the pres- time to come, but no further decline is apprehended Mr. Edward J. Shriver, Secretary of the Metal ent exceedingly low prices are the lowest probable, at present. Steel rails are quoted at $38@$38.50 for Exchange, has the following returns to November and that now is the proper time to buy. This small lots, November and December delivery, but $37 1st. It will be noticeable that they are in greater de- feeling has brought out several large consumers, has been taken for several good-sized lots for delivery tail, and though the number is necessarily limited on and will result in the covering of requirements for during the early part of next year. The long talked account of the early date, it is instructive : Fourteen a few weeks a least. An upward tendency would of suspension of nail production has again been post- anthracite furnaces—four in blast, ten out of blast. develop a further activity in the better grades. poned, as the stocks are found to be quite light. Car- Thus far, business has been confined to low- Grades. -——Stocks.—.. —Production.— load lots sell at $2.70, and smaller lots $2.80@$2.85. Oct.1. Nov.1. InSep. In Oct. priced irons chiefly. There are rumors of a The usual amount of businessis done. There is an 775 664 7 further drop of 50 cents on special and standard increased activity in Merchant Bar, but prices are as IO. Dn n0s50 412 361 405 makes, but inquiries show that there were only some usual, 1°80@1'90c., and no requirements are antici- Bessemer, with forge and pated. Muck Bars are in moderate demand, and some lower grades 1,565 907 shadings of about 25cents on large lots. A few spe- Grade not specified 654 539 sales have been closed at $33 cash, but $33.50@$34 cial brands are still held at outside prices, but most of time. Bessemer is quoted at $21@$21.50. There is no 3,244 2,557 the business done in specials is at the rates prevailing improvement in old rails or scrap. The whole trade is dull, and there is no immediate prospect of any im- Thirteen bituminous furnaces—four in blast, nine three or four weeksago. Ordinary quotations are provement either in demand or prices. out of blast. $20.50@$21.50 for No. 1 Foundry, and $19@$20 for ——Stocks-——. -—Production—, No. 2. There is no difficulty in obtaining supplies of Grades. Oct.1. Nov. 1. In Sept. In Oct. COAL TRADE REVIEW. PAS. Mstiw s eeeaws, osnun eee 5,000 250 300 desirable iron at $19@$20.50, and sales have been No. ‘ 350 200 100 made at lower figures. ‘The activity referred to has |NEw York, Friday Evening, Nov. 2. Bessemer, with forge and Anthracite. lower grades 4,454 644 700 been especially in mill irons, and prices range from Grade not given...... 500 500 2,000 1,900 $17@$19, tide-water, though very little is selling at Our local market is very dull, and shows a decidedly weakening tendency, under the pressure of threatened 11,214 9,300 3,094 3,000 the latter figure. A large amount of white and mot- accumulations. With the exception of some kinds of tled iron has been sold at inside quotations, and some stove coal, the shading is increasing, and good Fourteen charcoal furnaces—ten in blast, four out speculative inquiry prevails, and Western iron is of- buyers have little trouble in driving good of blast. bargains. The old-time threats, so often repeated, ——Stocks.-——, Production .-— fered for delivery in Eastern Pennsylvania. have no effect nowadays on the buyers, who have Nov.1. ImSept. In Oct. Foreign Irons.—Bessemer is quoted at $20@$21. learned by experience during the past few years how 8,129 2,535 2,650 Sales can be made at $20, and negotiations are in much there is in them. There seems little prospect Forty-one furnaces, all kinds—eighteen in blast, that any action will be taken during this month to hand at that price, but for moderate-sized lots. The carry out the policy of restriction, though it would be twenty-three out of blast. attempt to move large lots has failed, even with the idle to deny tbat insisting upon full-time work must All grades. ——--Stocks.—-——. -—-Production .-—~ offering of heavy concessions. American Bessemer is strain what is so often calletl the harmonious relations Oct. 1. Nov. 1. In Sept. finding more acceptance, and orders for foreign are of the companies. 4,597 Much is made of the demand for the coal in the 9,300 8,129 hard to place. Brokers of Scotch irons are in receipt West, and there is no doubt that many of the dealers of a number of orders for small lots for delivery in there are behind in their orders. Anthracite has been Grand total.... 26,174 22,026 8,873 Eastern Pennsylvania. Spiegeleisen is $30@$31. A pushed further Westward this year than ever before, and though the quantity bas been heavy, the nearer- American Pig.—The market is fair, with a few small lots have been asked for, but business is by points like Chicago are a little behind. How much moderate business doing compared with the absolute moderate. of the urgency of the Western dealers is due to the stagnation of the past month. For this season of the Blooms.—A weakening of 50 cents in Blooms has fact that they are anxious to get coal con- year, the transactions are decidedly limited, and Oc- brought out orders for a few hundred tons for deliv- tracted for months ago at the prices and freight rates then ruling is another question. In any case, tober has passed by with no better features than No- ery next month, especially of anthracite. the lack of cars puts a limit to this source of relief to vember, and there seems no immediate prospect of a Steel Rails.—Sales have been made at $36.50. this market, and, in spite of the cries from the West, revival in the demand. Foundry iron remains $20@ Small lots, $87@$38. coal accumulates here. The Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Company, we may here note, has also begun ship- $22 for No. 1 and $19@$20 for No. 2,with Gray Forge Merchant Bar.—The same unfavorable condition ments to the West this week. at $17.50.@$18.50 at tide-water. Bessemer pig is dull, continues, and nothing new can be. stated. There is Bituminous. and with the lower prices for rails, will not find buy- some speculative inquiry, but, so far this week, offers The trade continues dull, the only feature being a ers except at very close figures. We quote $20@ have not been excepted, and neither holders nor sel- stiffening in freights. $20.25. Spiegeleisen is quiet at $30 for 20 per cent. lers seem anxious to do business in the present condi- At the Exchange, the following sales were recorded : tion of the market. Manufacturers argue that a Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Friday, 100 tons No. 1, $19.50. change for the better is not far off, and that the pres- For Lemons or Lime Juice, Scotch Pig.—There is very little to report, the ent policy of reducing output will bring about an is a superior substitute, and its use is positively bene- situation remaining unchanged, with a light business improving tendency in a very short time. As long as ficial to health. dee IE ESN EEE AE RRR TS ARR a A A ARE and moderate supplies. iron can not be sold at more than cost, the restriction E ORN-SILVER MINING COMPANY, 44 We quote ex ship and to arrive: Coltness, $23 ; will continue. Business has been done in 50 to 100- Watt Strext, New York. Langloan, $23@$23.25; Summerlee, $22.50@$23 ; ton lots ; card rate, 2°20c. ; but iron can not be sold DIVIDEND NO. 11. Eglinton, $20.50@$21 ; Glengarnock, $21.75@$22 ; above 2°15c.,and considerable quantities have been A dividend of $200,000, being two per cent on the capita Dalmellington, $20.75@#21. sold at 2c., and even below this figure in country stock, will be payable to stockholders of record on and At the Exchange, the following cable quotations mills. The car-works are calling for retail lots of after November 15th, at the office of the company. were received to-day: Coltness, 56s, 3d. ; Langloan, iron, and pay from 1°75c.@1°90c. Business is promptly Transfer-books will close Wednesday, November 7th, and 55s. 6d. - Summerlee, 53s. 6d. ; Gartsherrie, 54s. 6d.; accepted at the best terms that can be had. reopen November 16th. W.S. HOYT, Secretary.