The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-13
The MINERAL EXHIBIT.
IA Attracted Hundreds Of Visitors
Yesterday and Is ! Cred
liable Display.
Silver Bow, Fergus and MeAgher
Counties Show the Largest
Collections.
lewis and Clarke and Jefferson IN h
Rsar-Ths Private Collections
Some Mechanical Exhibits.

There were Al least two thousand caller
u the auditorium yesterday, who wer
there especially 10 see the mineral exhibit
II q small compared to what Montana wi
do NJ the Worlds fair, but nevertheless III
display Ia . most creditabls one. Not Al
tho counties are represented. but some fe,
have made very good displays. This
true OF Silver Bow, Deer Lodge. Fergus m
Msagher. Neither Lewis and Clarke NO
Jefferson have lone what they should. Will,
Madison has no display whatever, ant
Beaverhsad has none. There are severa
private collections that attract = good deal
Of attention. amonQ them being those o.
w. @. Child. the First National bank, V
A. Cook, OF Boulder, W. G. Gooding and S
X. Davis. A. Il. Lee. who 10 in charge OF
the exhibit, has devoted all of his time for
the past three days 10 it, and the display ID
most creditably arranged. Bradley. tho
taxidsrmist. has helped 10 beautify 1t
BY contributing mounted animals head.
Angel h Kolb have q very neat display in
shs shape. Of a miniature Eifsl tower,
decorated with towering plants.
In the Lewis and Clarke exhibit there 10
ore from the Big OK. Blue Stone, Silver
III i lVs w nltldbSu- OAlOn q 1ANlluVyIc, huu u
few others.
Fergus county surprised its friends and
visitors generally, by the size and variety
of its display. 1t has heretofore been re-
Rarded simply as a stock growing county,
but hereafter Montanians will pay heed to
the mineral wealth of Fergus. Among the
mines represented are the Phoenix. Florence,
10 He, Northern Pacific, Utopia. Boulder,
tM Mafan - Cprw Sk1vu, To T,s~~c
Monarch. Silver Glance. Spotted Horse.
She, Virginia, War Eagle and q dozen or
more others.
Missoula makes a fair display, but not
near 80 good as she should. There is a
sample Of frs clay. snd specimens from the
stone, Curlew, Mohawk and some others.
In the Silver Bow display all the leading
properties are represented. The exhibits,
both from Silver Bow and Deer Lodge,
were collected and arranged by Prof.
Ilaphagen. Of the college of Montana. The
from the Gagnon. Anaconda, Biue Bird,
Alice, Showbar, Gsrmania, Moulton, BAN
mister. Parrot, La Plata and numerous
Deer Lodge is only fairly represented.
Tbs Champion. Mining company makes a
cimens from the Wandering Boy. Forrest
Rose, Granite Mountain and Hyalite.
MoaRher does very we'll with a most COM
plete display of the ores from Castle, and
also . general display from other sections.
There 10 also a frst-olass showing of Nei-
hart ores. Some of the mines represented
are the Queen Of the Hills, Gold Dust, Now
Granite. Diamond r., Mountain Gold, Sill
yer. Platinum and Tellurium
with a specimen that assays Sc, ZOO to the
ton. Legal tender. Cumberland, Judge,
Hidden Treasure, Ingersoll, California. coal
. rrn N~~nowN~oIrc AuA ~1A- .~. ~ L
Sulphur springs, Felix, Crescent, Powderly,
Florence. Gait, Hartley. Black Hawk,
GrasshOpper, and . score or more of others, |
Jefferson has mot done near as we'll as she
should. There 10 a sample of graphite that
attracts q great deal Of attention and be-
$500 : ton, some from the American Eagle,
the Katie Putnam and the Gen. Grant
Mining COMPANY. N. W. johnson has a
beautiful display of agatyZed rock in the
Jefferson exhibit.
There are a number Of specimens from
the kimini district, coke from Livingston,
coal from the Montana Coal d Iron Co., in
Park county, asphaltum from the recent
discovery near Red Lodge in the same
county. One curious exhibit ia an old
kettle, covered with crystals. found in the
mine.
The mechanical exhibit. while not large,
ATTRACTS a good deal of attention from
practical mining men. The Northwest
General Electric company has an electrical
plant in operation and it drives a Crawford
gold mill and a Jordan amalgamator. The
two work in conjunction, and az the pro-
cess il . new one some details of it are
given:
The hne reduoer or pulverizer is intended
TO take the place of the stamp battery now
In general use for crushing gold bearing
quartz. and the advantages claimed for il
IN comparison by experts who huve e1-
amined and tested it may be briefly stated
as follows: Extreme simplicity; so Der cent
reduction in first cost erected at mine: 30
rer cent reduction in weight; cost of trans-
port much less; erection far more simple
and expeditions; less power, labor and water
requlred; reduces the ore to a much finer
pulp when desirable; wear and tear and
working cost greatly reduced; occupies less
space; requires little foundation.
The amalgamator or extractor ia intended
70 lake the place OF copper plates, rifle ia
bles, grinding pans. settlers, and the uu-
merous other machines and plants now in
use. The various ex perts and miners who
have tested the machine report that it has
the following, among other advantaoes.
over all the present known methods of gold
Retains the finest particles of
gold; favorable condition of amalpamated
surfaces automatically and constantly en-
huied; extracts nearly all the gold from py-
ritic ores without calcination: Weld often
superior to COLONIZATION at about one-sixth
me cost per ton; greatly reduced cost of
treating auriferout ores; extracts the gold
from t~allings.
The Crawford mill is an entirely nav
model of quartz mill for gold ores, which il
represented as possessing the ADVANTAGES
fefefred to, besides being com parntiyelv in.
IN itself. The invention il of
origin, and the representative
LlnRham. of London. is now in Helena
Tor the purpose of bringing this mill to the
OF mining men. The mill il com
plete In Itself, having Il crusher which does
Inc work OF a tve-stamp battery. crushing
Inc ore 80 the flneness of 100 mesh. or finer
II necessary. and analgamatinp the nrn.
uuos IN . manner to save the largest possj-
bic percentage even where the gold is az
ceedingly fine. Tho amalgamator NAV he
apart from the rest Of the machine M
hn attachment to stamp mills already in
operation or In connection with any other
1t has been tried in this way in one
the mills of the Drum Lummon comnnnv .
harysviiie and hus received the unGual- :
ihed endorsement of Manager Robinson
Sha OF Others who have Seen it IN operation
~ was useo simply to each what it could
rom the ta1linRs now running from the
'hlii In the ordinary course of proceedings.
show that these tailinps RIM uhnnt
Tl.6O per ton. and this machine has taken
out from 60 cents to 80 cents a ton fron,
this comparatively barren material.
Many letters have been received nv +ba
tho aende in every case praisinn
Inc Invention. From the results obtained
by Mr.. Jordan and Independent expe,ts
with she machines i'll dealing with all kinds
ores, refractory or otherwise, it il esti-
mated that the minimum saving nv a 80