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American Journal of Mining 1866-09-15: Vol 1 Iss 25 Volume I. $1 A Yur in Advanci. Number NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 15, 1866, ^SiNOLK CoEiES Ten Cnna. STEAM PUMPS. Gold Mines proved so satisfactory, that Dr. K. was printing all specifications in full, with the drawings, Pursuing our series, we illustrate this week a Verti¬ induced to operate upon a quantity of pyrites, which besides printing the abridgments of patents, amount¬ cal Steam Pump—one of the varieties of the Crank- has hitherto been accunaulating as waste matter in ing to £13,705, the expenses of the Kensington Pat¬ fly-wheel pattern built by Mes.srs. A. S. Cameron & enormous quantities about the works, as you are ent Museum, which were £1,506, the fees paid to Co., at their establishment, corner of Second avenue aware. This morning he informed me that he has, by the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General and their and Twenty-second street, in this city. They are built the sodium process, and in a very simple and inex¬ clerks for doing nothing, amounting to over £10,000, as plain steam pumps : or are arranged to be worked pensive way, obtained gold from the pyrites, in the and the ordinary expenses of the office, bringing the by hand as well as by steam ; or as a steam aggregate up to nearly £82,000, there is engine, steam pump and hand pump, in one a surplus from the receipts of the year machine. They are designed for situations amounting to £47,326, or over three hun¬ where space is %’aluable, as on board of dred and fifty thousand dollars in United steamships, etc. The iron-clad steamship States currency! It is time that the Dunderberg, and numerous others of the enormous government fees on English pa¬ United States navy, are supplied with them. tents were further reduced. There is no They are made in the most substantial man¬ doubt that they act us a powerful check to ner, and occupy the least possible space. invention. The number of patents issued in Their general features correspond with tho.si' Ik England was less than one-third the num- of the horizontal pumps built by this firm, H ber issued in this country during the same which are in general use in the United i| year —American ArlUan. States navy and the merchant marine. New Desulphurizing Furnace. A Mammoth District correspondent of the Nye county (Nevada) A’cius says; M. B. Howard, a pioneer of the Di.slrict, has been quietly at work on the most needed improvement in milling, the de.sulpburizing and chloridizing of silver ores, He claim.' for his furnace a saving of four fifths in the labor, and fully one-faaif in the fuel here- tofore required, besides eliecting the most thorough roasting pos.sible ; also, reipiiring le.ss time for a given quantity of pulp. For this reason his furnace is self-acting throughout, and perpetual in its operation, no time being lust in discharging or refil¬ ling. The pulp enters at the point of ex¬ panded heat, anil is carried gradually around and discharged at the most intense. The arrangement is such that, by shifting the angle of the hoes, any desired length of exposure is given to the pulp between its entrance and its discharge. There is no. thing destructible about the furnace that is exposed to the direct action of the heat, ex- cept the hoes, which may be replaced in a few minutes’ time, at a trifling cost, and in that respect the wear is no greater than in the old reverberatory furnace, on the same quantity of ore roasted. This invention should not be confounded or classed with the numerous rotary and other labor- SEWELL AND CAMEKON’S VLKliCAL STEAM PUMP. saving furnaces of late invention, some of which are proportion of five ounces per t^n. This result far ex- i good, and do their work well, others work well for a ceeded bis must sanguine expectations. He is de¬ short time, but are soon destroyed, or destroyed in sirous of making arrangements for having large quan¬ part to such an extent as to be no saving at all, in the tities of amalgam, and would like to know what it end. It is the result of long study, by a practical would cost in quantities of a ton.” \ miner and intelligent mechanic, every point of which was suggested by the stern necessity of devising a English Patent Office Report for 1865. furnace more effective and economical than those in The annual report of the English Commissioners general use. of Patents for Inventions has j ist been published. It states that during the year 1365 there were 3,886 The Sodium Process in Nova Scotia. applications for patents, 2,186 of which were passed; Geology of New South Wales. The following extract of a letter from a correi tne number of complete specifications filed was 2,159, dent in Nova Scotia, says the London Chemical I and the number of applicants who neglected to pro¬ Mr, Wm. Keene, Government Examiner of Coal will interest some of our readers : “ The experit ceed within six months, as required by law, was Fields of this colony, in a recent lecture, after speak- which 1 carried out with Dr. K., at the Lake 1 ipiOO. ^’^Qtwithstandulg the immense expense oi ing of his swly education, and geological 9 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MINING. science and practice, adverted to the fact that ge¬ idea that care and skill have overlooked every step of ology, as a science, was of very recent date, and said, progress in the workings, and gives ample a.ssurance “ that the first geologist had been looked upon as a that future operations have been looked at more than lunatic deserving of pity, lie recollected having present and transient profit. Nor is it less plain that when a boy, had an interview with Slraiiun .<niith, so Colorado. some such system of mining must become the rule, called, because he was always talking of strata, and Ce.ntbal City, Aug. 19,186G. rather than the exception, before the extravagant ex¬ who had been looked upon by every one as a mad¬ Editor .Toitrxai. or Mixisa : pectations formed of this country can be realized. A man.” With regard to the geology of Australia, Mr. Sir—Colorado is now reaping the whirlwind from year of patient labor is now required on many of our Keene stated that on the Wollombi ranges he had the wind sown in such liberal quantities during the producing mines to give any assurance of permanent found a bed of salt, upwards of an inch thick; and in jiast three years. No mining country has more profit in the future ; and mining companies would do Sydney, there were strata of sandstone extending all cause to pray for deliverance from its friends. While well to profit by the workings of this mine, which will along the coast, and beneath which they knew coal the vaunted superiority of her ores is firmly estab¬ shortly have a producing cajiacity equal to that of existed. In the Australian limestone he had found lished by every test that science and skill can devise, any other ten mines that can be enumerated in Colo¬ exactly the same indications as in the limestone of the headlong rush of experiment and reckless expend¬ rado. Seneca. Europe, but whilst inEurop.- when they had reached iture of money have more than counterbalanced the the mountain limestone, they need never look for advantages of intrinsic wealth ; and after years of .Montgomery City, Coi„, .-Vug. 18, 1866. coal, in Australia, iimlenieath the beds of mountain shameful extravagance in every branch of mining Editor Joirnai. of Mining : limestone, there exisUd nvo or three good seams of operations, the initial steps of legitimate business are Sir—Supposing that you don't often hear from this coal. Thus it was that the Australian coal formerly yet to be taken. Probably in no branch of operations mining region, I have concluded to write a few lines sent to England, had been treated with contempt, for are these tacts more patent tluin in those which em¬ from the .Montgomery Mining District of Colorado, it was thought to be only the coal tromthe upper and brace strictly mining and raising of ores. careful which is situated at the eastern base of Mt. Lincoln, not from the lower geological deposits. 1 n Austra¬ examination of the iiroininent mines on the Gardner, at the headquarters of the Platte, .Arkansas and the lia, there were coal beds much ohlcr than in Europe ; Gunnel, (iregory. Bobtail and other leading lodes, Blue rivei's. Our mines are auriferous. The veins, and, in fact, in New South Wales, seams had been will .satisfy any candid man that scientific mining has as a general thing, are very well defined, and large found where they were never before thought to ex¬ been heretofore neglected, at the expense of the best quantities of paying ores can be extracted from them ist. To the English Exhibition of 18112, ho (the interests of the country. With ona or two exceptions, right at the starl. This di.sliict has good natural ad¬ lecturer) had sent several .sjK'Cimens, showing the hereafter to be mentioned, the ti-uth is apparent that vantages ever many others ; 1st. The favorable loca¬ geological position of the coal seams, anil he had such workings have been entirety overlooked in the tion and bearings of the veins, admitting the tunneling also forwarded Sir Thomas Mitchell's map, geologi¬ haste to take out orrs enough to jiay expenses, or right on the vein itself; 2d.
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