Oct. 11, 1879.| THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. 257 THE boom in the metal markets continues undiminished; indeed, ENGINEERING and MINING JOURNAL. it seems to grow in intensity from day to day. Thus, lead, which, a VoL. XXVIII., No. 15. short time ago, was selling at 3 cents, rose rapidly to 314, 4, 414, 5, and is now held at 544 cents per lb. That this sudden rise is not altogether RICHARD P. ROTHWELL, C.E., M.E., t Editors, without reason, may be seen by reference to the following statistical ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, Ph.D, statement : WILLIAM H. WAHL, Ph.D., Department of Progress in Science and the Arts. May 1. Oct. 1. Tons. Tons. Notg.—Communications relative to the editorial management should be addressed to The stock in New York stores and at Newark works....... .... 12,550 6,970 RICHARD P. ROTHWELL, P.O. Box 4404, New York. Lead and bullion in transit from California (by water)......... 2,200 150 Communications for Mr. RayMonp should be addressed to Rossiter W. Raymonp, P.O. In transit by rail from Utah and Nevada......... .........s005- 2,030 2,100 Box 1465. New York. Articles written by Mr. RayMonp will be signed thus *. Ig ratidd kvcvncencued- ceddcdacccedyacaaceiesevadeh<as 700 . SuBscRIPTION Paice, including tage, for the United States and Canada, $4 per annum : $2.25 for six months: all other countries, including postage, $5.00 = 20s. = 16,480 10,476 25 francs = 20 marks. All payments must be made in advance. I NS oi oii aie he chasnaredaaanesiad easeGinnacataaeundaeies 7,010 REMITTANCES Should alwavs be made by Post-Office Orders or Bank Drafts on New York, made payable to THE ScigNTIFIC PUBLISHING CoMPANY. Early in the year, the Eureka Company shipped about 1500 tons THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., PuBLiIsHERs, 27 Park Place, New York. monthly—now, about half that amount. The arrivals of lead and bullion at New York since May 1st have been about 11,000 tons, and our surplus ; CONTENTS, has been reduced 7000 tons, making a total consumption, supplied from EbITOoRIALs : PAGE. Paae. this point alone, of 18,000 tons in five months, at the rate of nearly 41,000 Francis Laurens Vinton.............. BOT PlmeS- PU ROOS 65. ie cccccscees 264 tons per annum ; an increase of fifteen to twenty per cent over last year. Reminiscences of the Montreal Meet- Anthracite Mining in Pennsylvania— TI, Sic anon uted scucvenaiisene, ven 265 PRANCIS LAURENS VINTON. Inspectors’ Reports........ agonaes SOR} Catlomilan...c....ccecses oo a w-2. 265 San Juan Silver Mines................. 260 IN oe oo cvec one cccraaasiesas .. 265 The death of this distinguished soldier and engineer, which occurred on Montana Mining Notes ...... ......... 260] Georgia ........... gine at oteedrescie as 286 the 6th inst,, at Leadville, Colo., will cause, in the wide circle of his friends Colorado Mining Notes........... .. -- WEA MIN es, Kew caca ees caseesiisesened 266 Arkansas Silver Mines................- EE) SONIIN oo cioe aise Scccivuned-aewonsed 266 and acquaintances, a shock of surprise and sorrow. General VINTON San Juan (Colo.) Notes..............0.- 262 I hc aa i re 266 came of a military family. His father was an officer, distinguished in Ns aaa cadens sadcuees I ae er a lpr . 266 the Florida and Mexican wars, and killed in battle at the siege of Vera Mining in Montana...... ......----+-- NER occ. c sisns siciesessasmurieen ies 267 Cruz. His uncle, the late Rev. Dr. FRaNcis VINTON, of Trinity Church, PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS : NeW PATENTS. .....cscccesss i tteeeeeees 267 was a graduate of West Point, and an officer in the army before he be- The Supposed Compound Nature of FINANCIAL : tee ee 264 Gold and Silver Stocks......... ...... 267 came a clergyman ; and still another uncle had a similar history. Comparative Energy of Explosives.. 264| Miscellaneous Stocks and Quotations 269 FRANCIS L. VINTON was appointed by President FILLMORE to a cadet- NN NE oe nc eck Ug wae 264| Copper Stocks..............seseeeeeee 269 ship in the United States Military Academy, which he entered in 1851, Paris Green and the Potato-Bug..... SR) OC Re ies. sinaidicic nse ees) soredece 269 and from which he graduated with honor in 1856, at the age of 24. He Interoceanic Transit................. 264 | Os asacncncneceescoecjacees 270 Tie Sethenian Canal... ..... 00600005 264| BULLION MARKET. .. __.... ... os acl ee subsequently resigned his commission in order to study for several years The Construction of the Interoceanic NM ag coca olny ide veda aseian 271 in the Ecole des Mines, of Paris. On his return to the United States, in INR aos osc eseanas <cbm scorers 264 | IRON MARKET REVIEW.............000000- 271 1860, he at first gave instruction in the schools of the Cooper Union, but The Construction of the Hudson River BritisH IRON MARKET.... ............- 272 soon afterward was sent to Honduras as engineer in charge of the ex- I cn ciscc —acshencnae cenenses's 264 | Statistics oF CoAL PRODUCTION....... 272 Record of New Railroad Construc- THE CoaL TRADE REVIEW................ 272 ploration of the mineral resources of that portion of Central America MN cies ain tae ksi oeeuramesses DOG | PRI osc cccedsetee 2%. secdtes Sued 273 We quote from the New York Herald the following account of his mili- On the Use of Compressed Peat in ae tary career : ‘* At the commencement of the rebellion, General Vinton hastened homeward THE address of President CoxE at the Montreal Meeting of the Insti- after receiving the news of the first hostilities, and offered his services to hiscoun- tute will be published next week. try. On the recommendation of General Scott, he was immediately commissioned as captain in the Sixteenth infantry, United States Army, the commission dating from August 5th, 1861, and permission was granted him to raise a regiment of WEshall publish next week a full report of the lecture delivered by Dr. volunteers. The Governor of Ohio offered him the command of a regiment, formed RAYMOND on the 2d inst., at the Bullion Club, concerning ‘‘The Valua- and equipped, and ready for the field. The Governor of Rhode Island proffered him a command in the forces of that gallant State. Several generals applied for tion of Mines.” him on their staffs. But General Vinton had aay accep’ the proposition of the Governor of New York to form and train in the art of war a regiment of Mr. J. C. F. RANDOLPH, mining engineer, has returned to the city from New York volunteers. The Forty-third regiment was the first organized of the new levy, and was composed of the Albany boys and the canal drivers—men his recent trip to Mexico, where he examined a number of rich mines in rough, but hardy, and inured to work in all weather. It was locally known as the State of Chihuahua. the Albany and Yates Rifles. Colonel Vinton had the merit of succeeding in drilling and ———— men to a state of military efficiency unsurpassed. THERE is a great excitement about the rich strikes in the Majada mines In Hancock’s brigade they acquired the name of ‘the fighting regiment’ and were noted for their accurate Arill and splendid charges with the bayonet. The in Mexico, and our miners are going South in great numbers. In a little engagement at Williamsburg attested the consummate bravery and skill with while, if the mines don’t give out, the frontier will itself move South, which the Forty-third, with the other regiments of Hancock’s brigade, made what General McClellan styled their ‘ —— charge’ on the enemy, which turred the and leave the mines to Uncle Sam. tide of battle and put the rebels to flight. General Vinton, with his regiment, was engaged in the siege of Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, at Gaines’s THE demand for good iron ores increases, and there will probably be a Mill, at Savage Station, at Glendale, and at Harrison’s Landing, 1862. He re- ceived a commission as brigadier-general, March 13th, 1863, and was given com- short supply of Bessemer ores under the extraordinary demand for steel mand of a brigade in the Sixth Army Corps. He took part in the Maryland and rails, ete. In another column will be found a card offering an interest Rappahannock campaigns. At the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862, in a valuable iron ore property, near New York waters, which is worthy he was severely wounded, and being henceforth unable to do active service in the field, he resigned his commission a few months later.” the attention of furnace owners. It was not until the organization of the Columbia College School of THE Bodie News still continues to work its vein of billingsgate, which Mines in 1864, that General VinToNn fairly became known as a mining appears much more nearly inexhaustible than the ore in its pet Bodie engineer. In that institution, he occupied for a dozen years the professor- bubbles. There are, however, signs that the vein is petering ; and per- ship of mining. It was unfortunate for him that he was called to such haps, when it has quite given out, the News may tind time and space to a position so early in his professional career. To be severed from active tell the public about that fictitious ‘‘ four feet of gold-bearing quartz of practice and confined in the professor’s chair ; to lose some of the most fine quality” which it editorially stated to exist in the Maryland Consoli- important practical lessons of professional life, and to be obliged dated ‘‘ mine,” and which erroneous statement, it knows, was used here to teach when one would fain continue to learn only, is an to float the stock at three dollars a share.