The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-08
Mining Notes.


the Montana Copper Company will smelt
their own matte and turn it out as blister
copper, about 96 per cent. fine.
The remainder of the Moulton machinery
came last Saturday evening after the MINERS
weekly report was set up. The hosting ap-
paratus was At once put in place, and regular
operations begun in the mine. .u.a
Great things are expected by Eastero
vestors and mining mon from the estab ish
msnt of the Butte mining exchange. There
is plenty of Eastern capital now ready for n
vestment in Butte mining stocks. .t
The net earnings for the month are esti-
mated at over $150, 900. The Chicago Min
ing Recieso announces dividend on the stock
of Is cents per share, and as there are 400,-
600 shares in the milne, it will require dis
bursement of $4,000. ......
Among dividend-paying mines the Engi-
neering and Mining Journal of Oct. % rates
the Alice as follows: Feet on vein, 5000;
capital stock, Sl0,00O,O0O number of shares,
100000; par value, $25; total dividends to
date, $32O,00O; amount of sales, 900 shares.
The bullion received from the mines at the
various offices in New York City during the
week ending Oct. 20th, as compiled from
various sources, amounted to $l35, ,SOO.S4, as
against 635,596.90 as reported for the previous
week. The receipts from January 1st to date
are $l3, ,673, ,4O7.S3.
One bushel Of coke furnishes a heat equal
in in'e ensity TO that produced by three bush
els Of charcoal. The Butte smelters may be
able to get good coking coal at no distant day
| from Washington Territory by the Northern
Pacific and from Wyoming by the Union
Pacific.
| The Alta Montana Co.'S mines have re-
Gently been examined by Prof WM. P.
Blake, Of New Haven. The property seems
70 be looking we'll. The method of working
used at the Alta by tunneling from the hill
side horizontally has its advantages as well
as its disadvantages.
Suppose some enterprisng Butte man
makes trial OF the petroleum refining pro-
cess, using petroleum as fuel and asbestos
blankets TO condense the various chlorides.
It is said to be a fact that in this Way all the
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alton of their chlorides.
Says the Leadville Circular: Some mes-
sures ought to be devised to check the busi-
ness of junping 1t has become regular
trade here, in which some, the worst men in
the community, are engaged. They engage
in it, knowing full well they can always sell
their jumpers title, if not to the parties
whose property they have jumped, to some
outside speculator. There are plenty of men
with money in Leadville who are ready to
buy jumpers tltls if the property promises
we'll. The new law ought to protect q poor
man in his rights to the property on which
he has spent his money and his time, with
out having to stand guard over it with a shot
gun.
OF the Horn Silver Nine near Frisco Utah,
eastern experts say "In figuring the mean
width between walls the difficulty has been
in finding any wall to measure from" The
average width of VEIN, running from % to 81
feet, is given at so feet, and estimates Of ore
frsm assays made from the output of years
production places the value at about 81
ounces of silver and "A per cent lead per ton.
Prof. Newherry Of the Columbia School of
Mines says: "The Horn Silver mine con-
tains the most valuable body of silver ore
known to exist in any mine in the world"
And again. "rbe Hern Silver mine stands to-
day as having greater ascertained value
than any other silver mine Known"
An Austrian engineer has discovered new
method Of disintesrating rocks. The chief
feature Of his system is TO employ a hollow
cylinder like gas-pipe and to place dyna-
mite cartridge, not a. hitherto in a hole bored
into The rock u be blasted, but in the cylinder
in question. The cartridge only touches the
surface Of the rock which il i, desired TO shat
ter. The explosion of the dynamite is effect
ed by means Of electricity, and the effect is
said to be greater than the usual cartridge in
the hole bored in rock. The rock is shat
tered into fragments so small that a fair
stream is able to wash them away without
help, whereas il the case of gunpOwdsr the
rock is split up II blocks more or less trouble
some TO remove. The system is calculated to
effect saving of fully 40 per cent. as conl-
pared with the old system.
Yestcriay afternoon John Quinn wac
brought to St. Marks Hospital, from the On
tario mine, Park City with his right fost
nearly sawn of. At the time of the uccident1
Quinn, who was employed in the mill, was
running past buzz saw, when he stumbled,
and falling against the belt was carried over
against the saw. He managed to fall to the
left of the saw, but his right loot was carried
against it and the saw striking his foot al the
lnstep, almoa: severed it from the leg. 1t
separated it at the joint, so that the toot was
laid back against the calf of the ley. When