The Engineering and Mining Journal WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED “MINING AND METALLURGY.” VOL. LXXVIII. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1904. No. 15. CONTENTS. EDITORIAL. Editorials: Notes. 577 The movement of iron ore down the Lakes Lead Production. 578 Coal Production of the World.578 is increasing as the season draws towards its i PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Tube-Mill and Filter-Press.579 close. Shipments have been larger recently, 261 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. The Joplin Mill Practice.579 and at some of the big Mesabi mines an effort Tblsphokk 686S Cortlamd P. O. Box 1833. Market Conditions . 580 Cable Addrbss *' Enominjour ” Nxw York. Metallics. 580 is being made to clean up the stock-piles before Chlorine Smelting.580 Method of Plumbing a Chimney during Construction 580 navigation- ceases. This is partly due to the T. A. Rickard Discussion: fact that the demand for ore during the com¬ Coal Washing . G. R. Delamater 581 Prbdbrick Hobart j1 ing winter promises to be larger than was ex¬ Samubl Sanford 1' . Associatb Editors Titaniferous Iron Ores.Investor 581 D. H. Nbwi.and ! Le Roi Mine.Outsider 581 pected two or three months ago. A number *Goldfield District, Nevada ... Leon Dominion 581 Pyrite Smelting . G. F. Beardsley 582 of furnaces have been blown in, and managers Special Contributors. Molybdenite: Its Uses and Value.583 of the iron ore properties evidently do not want Nbw York . .R. W. Raymond The Iron and Steel Institute.583 J. Parke Cranning ♦Stamp Tappets . M. P. Boss 584 to close the season with a short stock on the John A. Church ♦Copper Mines of Lake Superior,—I.. T. A. Rickard 585 lower lake docks, when there is a possibility of Robert T. Hill A Nevada Sulphur Mine.587 Joseph Strutbers Iron and Steel for Western Canada, a demand arising during the winter. Boston .... .W. R. Ingalls William Blakemore 587 Edward D. Peters ♦A Great Engineering Problem.W. A. Lawson 588 Philadblpria . F. Lynwood Garrison The Iron Ores of Shady Valley, Tennessee, The strike of the Alabama coal miners still R. A. F. Penrose, Jr. F. Lynwood Garrison 590 continues, but the present prospect is that it Anstbd, W. Va .W. N. Page ♦Revival of the American Sulphur Industry.592 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Robert V. Norris Electrically Driven Air Compressors.593 will finally fail. The number of mines in Washington . ♦A Modem Method of Coal Washing . C. A. Meissner 595 operation is increasing, and the iron companies Edward W. Parker The Canadian Bounty on Lead.595 J. E. Spurr Lead in Ontario.595 seem to be no longer embarrassed by fuel W. H. Weed Books Reviewed.596 shortage. The strike had no substantial basis, Dbnvbr .Philip Argall Books Received.596 Chester W. Purington Correspondence ; or grievances to justify it, and seems to be grad¬ San Francisco R. Gilman Brown Tube-Mills on the Rand.R. Krall 597 ually losing support. Under the old schedule Charles G. Yale Spelter and Zinc Ore Prices . Spelter 597 London . A. G. Cbarlbton Abstracts of Official Reports: the miners earned last year more than they ever Henry F. Collins Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company, Ltd.597 did before, and the present lower prices of J. H. CURLE Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company.598 T. Kirke Rose Questions and Answers.598 iron would have caused only a moderate reduc¬ South Africa . T. Lane Carter Recent Decisions.599 G. A. Denny Patents Relating to Mining and Metallurgy: tion in wages. Australia .Donald Clark ♦United States.599 F. Danvers Power Great Britain^. 600 ^Illustrated. Cripple Creek has apparently recovered Horacb M. Swbtland.Prbsidbnt DEPARTMENTS. from the effects of recent labor troubles, and is J. T. Morris Managbr and Trbasdrbr Assessments. 615 now making excellent progress in mining de¬ Chemicals and Minerals: BRANCH OFFICES. New York. 612 velopment. Several new di.scoveries give as¬ Chicago, Tel.; Harrison 3326 . 520 Monadnock Block Foreign. 613 Pittsburg, Tel.: 504 Court 701 K^stone Building surance of contributing largely to the output of Coal Markets: Dbnvbr. 206 Boston Building Salt Lake City. 662 Main Street United States. 610 the district, the chief increase in activity being Buttb, Montana.10 & 20 OwsW Block Foreign.611 San Francisco.168 Ciocker Building on Beacon hill, where the Lanoconning vein, Dividends. 615 London, England ... 20 Bucklersbury, E. C. Financial Notes: found on the hillside below the Orizaba and Gold and Silver Movement.613 El Paso workings, is now richly productive. SUBSCRIPTION, payable in advance, $5.00 a Year Prices of Foreign Coins.613 of 52 numbers. Including Postage in the UNITED Industrial Notes.•..604 This discovery h.as stimulated exploration for STATES, CANADA, MEXICO, CUBA, PORTO RICO, HAWAII or the PHILIPPINES. Iron and Steel Markets: the extension .if the known orebodies, and To Foreign Countries, Including Postage $8.00 United States. 611 or its equivalent, 33 Shillings; 32 Marks; or 40 Francs. Foreign.612 promises to make Beacon hill more important Metal Markets: NOTICE TO DISCONTINUE than it has ever been, while giving more spirit Silver. 613 Should be WRITTEN to the New York Office in every instance. Copper, Tin, Lead, Spelter, and Minor Metals. .. 614 to all exploratory work in the Cripple Creek Average Monthly Prices Current.615 region. Mining News: Copies are on sale at the news-stands of the following hotels:—^Waldorf-Astoria, New York; Brown Palace, Summaries—Denver, Duluth, Goldfield, Nev., Denver; Palace Hotel, San Francisco, and the leading Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Monterey, Perth, hotels in the principal cities. Sudbury, Sydney, Toronto, Victoria.601 A CORRESPONDENT, On another page, calls at¬ United States. 606 tention to the discrepancy existing between the ADVERTISING COPY Foreign.607 Should reach NEW YORK office by Monday morning Mining Stocks: current price of spelter and that of zinc ore in of issue week; Changes or Copy by Market Reviews. 609 the Preceding Thursday. the Joplin district. Undoubtedly the present Quotations.615,616 Obituary.604 situation can hardly last, since the smelters can¬ Copyright, 1904, by Schools, Technical. 604 not continue to pay the high prices for zinc ore, The Engineering and Mining Journal. Societies.604 Entered at New York Post Office as 2nd Class matter, Trade Catalogues.605 unless there is a material advance in the price 578 THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. October 13, 1904. of metal. The latter does not seem probable. The cement industry in America and Europe ceived from Canada having been comparatively The demand for spelter, both here and abroad, is in the peculiar position of trying to re¬ small, only 9,600 tons. The Mexican lead is good, but high prices would certainly check habilitate prices by curtailing the output of comes chiefly in the form of base bullion, to sales, since the call is not so imperative that so-called combination plants, while the inde¬ be refined in bond. purchases cannot be postponed. At present, pendents, who are increasing in number, com¬ The total supplies of lead for the year, and most of the Missouri and Kansas smelters are bat this policy, anticipating a revival in con¬ the disposition made of them, are shown in not ready to use western ores; but they will sumption. In Germany the recently organized the following table, the figures being in short probably make arrangements to do so if the syndicate is considering a readjustment of its tons: present shortage and high prices of Joplin ores price-schedule; in Great Britain, Belgium and Lead Production and Consumption. continue. France, improvements in manufacture are re¬ 1902. 1903. Changes. Desilverized.199,615 188,943 D. 10,672 ceiving increased attention, and in the United Soft. 70,424 78,298 I. 7,874 Antimonial. 10,485 9,453 D. 1,032 States, where the market has been demoralized On another page we publish a letter from Total production . .280,524 276,694 D. 3,830 by competition, an energetic propaganda of the Addstocks, Jan. 1 . 70,316 30,500 D. 39,816 Mr. Beardsley dealing with pyrite smelting and Add net foreign. 13,534 29,545 I. 16,011 new uses found for cement is being carried touching upon one or two matters connected Net total supplies.364,374 336,739 D. 27,635 on, at the expense of the larger manufacturers. with that process in an illuminating manner. Domestic lead exported. 3,271 56 D. 3,215 The export trade of all the European coun¬ Estimated consumption . .. .330,603 315,683 D. 14,920 That the slag of the pyrite furnace is self-se¬ tries has suffered severely by the relaxation Total.333,874 315,739 D. 18,135 lected has been noted previously, but no ade¬ in demand from America—the largest con¬ Stocks, Dec. 31 . 30,500 21,000 D. 9,500 quate explanation has been offered. The be¬ sumer in the world. American manufacturers, The stocks at the close cf the year are havior of alumina is another point worthy of on the other hand, are cultivating a substantial necessarily estimated, since it was not possi¬ emphasis; in ordinary reduction smelting no foreign business, and so far this year exports ble to obtain accurate figures. We believe difficulty is found in making slags with 15 or have doubled, while imports have fallen off however, that this estimate was not far from even 20 per cent alumina, in the presence, of greatly. Evantually America will occupy a the actual quantity, and that there was less course, of a large quantity of coke; but in unique place in the world’s cement industry. lead on hand than at the beginning of the pyrite smelting it appears that on account of year. This estimate of stocks necessarily de¬ the low formation temperature of slag, but LEAD PRODUCTION.