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cut off, the most important fact to
determine is whether this cutting off
is real or only apparent. Hence the
ore must be followed to it's end, and
not abandoned because it seems to be
getting poor. Then, if fracture is
found against which the ore abuts and
beyond which it does not continue, We
may reasonably assume that 1t is a
true cutoff and that the ore may be
found again, especially if the country
rock changes in character at the cut
off. In other words, the lode has been
fractured and shifted. No cutoff can
possibly destroy a lode; yet mines nave
been abandoned over and over again
from the unfortunate fact that the ore
has been cut out. The fracture must
be carefully examined, and if evidence
Of faulting or assuring is found there
is every reason to anticipate the re-
covery of the lJde. The evidences to
be sought for are GD, the situations or
slickensides; ~, fragments of country
rock (breccia) included between more
or less defined walls; 90, clayey sell
wages, and a., a platy or slate-like
structure Of the country rock roughly
parallel with the assure. These are
evidences of movement under pressure,
and have already been described. If
one or more of these phenomena be
observed, the probability of the lode
being shifted and not cut is enhanced.
The direction (course) and the underlie
or dip (hade) and angle of the fracture
and of the lode itself must be carefully
determined The problem now is to
determine in which direction the lode
has been shifted. For simplicity we
will speak of the ore-bearing assure
as the lode, and the fissure against
which it cuts off as the fault. 1t is
clear that as the lode is intersected by
the fault, the angle at the point of
intersection is greater on one side than
the other. The lode has, then, been
shifted either towards the greater or
lesser angle. A number of empirical
rules have been adopted in mining dis
tricts to determine this most import
ant point, but they are quite arbitrary,
and do not hold good universally. AS
fact, the fault may shift q lode
either way, or even break it without
any shifting.
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of getting out ore near the surface This
tunnel will attain a depth of $50 feet.
This mine has been developed by two
other tunnels. the lover OF which tapped
the ledge at the depth of 400 feet.
Fred j. Leonard who returned Wednes-
day night from a visit to Mercur, states
that the Golden Seals is showing up in a
most encouraging manner. Mr.. Leonard
also states that Mercur is red hot and
that the camp is growing rapidly, while
the large amount of work going on all
OYER the district IS an evidence of the
faith maintained in the camp by claim
owners. mine-owners and capitalists. In
fact Mr.. Leonard still clings to the belief
that in time Mercur will rank as the
greatest gold mining district in the
world.
The Herald is in receipt of another in
quiry, this time from Idaho, asking if the
assessment work on a group of claims
can be done on one of the claims of the
group. In answer, The Herald would
state that the assessment work for the
group can all be done on one claim, pro-
viding that the work so done will tend to
the development of the group as 4 whole,
and that the group has been consolidated
for this purpose and IS held under one
specific or general ownership. Notice of
intention to do the work as above OUT
lined should be conspicuously posted
where the work is being done, so that all
interested may be notified of the inten-
ton of the owners or owner of the group.
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whom he is associated in his enterprise.
he viii not tell.
The plant at Lowe avenue and
Thirty-ninth street was designed as
soon as the company was organized,
and work started at once. Some $4,000
worth Of stock in the new concern was
sold at par, 500, TO pay for the work.
All the capital stock, amounting to $75,-
COO has been paid for, so President Brice
claims, aid none is for sale at any
price. In the Office Of the factory is
a sign announcing that all persons are
prohibited from offering stock certifi-
Gates Cor sale on the premises.
Access to the plant was freely grant
ed TO & Daily News representative. and
the process by which Brice claims he
is able to produce gold was explained.
Briefly described, the process as repre-
sented by the inventor. is as follows:
Pure anthony is placed in furnace
and subjected to destructive distilla-
ton. The fumes arising from this pro-
cess are driven by means of air blasts
from fans into a shaft six feet in diam
eter and los feet long. At the end of
this shaft ne fumes are run into wool
bags, to the sides of which the anti
mony collects in the form of gray
colOred sand, the fumes arising from
the coal being allowed to escape
through the meshes of the cloth. This
sand IS mixed with water to the con-
sistency of holders clay and cut into
small blocks, which are placed in fur
mace and subjected to a heat approx
mating 5000 degrees This is to secure
as nearly as possible volcanic action
Oxygen. so Mr.. Brice explains, is the
medium of change. For As hours the
blocks are allowed to remain in the
furnace, which is patented, and which
Mr.. Brice claims is the secret of his
success, inasmuch as he has in it de-
vised q means Of securing great heat in
! large amounts.
An ore-crusher of the dry-pan kind
| then grinds the blocks into a gritty
sand, and this is put in another fur
mace and covered with two portions of
lead to one of the sand which Briee
calls his artificial ore. AS it's specific
gravity is greater than that of the So
| called ore, the lead is precipitated to
the bottom of the furnace. The intense
| heat causes the lead to form q '1eth-
aTge," which acts as a. caustic on the
ore and eats UP nearly all it's constit-
uent elements except the gold and sill
yer alleged to be thus produced. The
| lead, as mixed with the gold and silver,
is base bullion, and it was a quantity
of this substance which was sold by
Brice to the National Smelling & Re-
fnfng company.
! This ends the process which Brice
claims the honor of inventing.
| To refine the base bullion, it is nodded
| into small pigs, which are placed in
! bone-ash cups. Thirty of the cups are
| put in a furnace and fused. Forty min
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-26
TIE DAY IN NEW YORK.
Double Holiday = Celebration Of
British Evacuation.

New York. Nov 25.-New Workers
have the advantage of celebrating two
holidays in one. This was not only
Thanksgiving day, but also Evacuation
day, tho anniversary of the departure
of the British troops. Evacuation day
is a social holiday, and is observed by
the Old Guard and the military.
The Old Guard observed the day, as
usual, by marching from its headquar-
tiers down to the battery, where the
exercises of raising tentage was fol-
lowed is usual. The Old Guard was
escorted by a detachment of the United
States regulars from Governors Island
Flag raising exercises occurred at the
block-house at Central park.
Great preparations had been made tc
feed the poor by the commissioners OF
charities ard corrections, and the
eleemosynary institutions of this city
and none went hungry
The striking feature of the day was
the absence of any great sporting
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MINING IN ARIZONA.
Considerable Activity in the Neigh
borhood Of Kingman.

Considerable Activity in the Neigh
borhood Of Kingman.
The Miner, of Kingman, Ariz, has
the following to say relative to mining
matters IN that section:
w. T. Little is having the old hoist
ing engine at the Cupel mine hauled
into town and viii ship it to a mine
near Prescott, where it will be used in
the preliminary development of the
property.
Charles Price is running an arastra
on one of his gold mines in the neigh
borhood of Signal and taking out O.
little bullion. Mr.. Price has some good
property that would pay we'll with a
big reduction plant on it.
Several hundred tons of ere will be
hauled in from the up-country mines
between this date and the first of the
money and they have been saving their
shipments until holiday week.
Charles Gracey, Of FL Dorado can
yon, New, who has been east on bust
ness connected with his mining opera
tons, passed through Kingman last
Monday. 1t is probable that his con-
ference with the company will result
in the erection of an 100 stamp mill in
the canyon. The property is capable
pounding away for years to come.
Judge w. G.. Blakely, Lew Blakely
and wife and Mr., Van Dyne, left King
man Monday last to go to Cedar, where
the Blakelys are interested in valuable
mining property. They will put in mo-
ton their little mill and will pound out
the gold from ten ounce gold ore until
all the dump ore has been worked up,
when ii is probable a hoist will be put
/
The mine, at a. depth of 100 feet, is one
of the best gold producers in Arizona.
Captain R. D. Crawford, returned
from Fort DTohave and the Union Pass
mines yesterday. While absent he To-
Gated a toWnsite at Camp Meyer, six
miles from the river which has been
named Emmonsville, in honor of Pro-
fessor Emmons, the noted scientist,
! who has caused such a Juror in the
scientific world by his theory of the
transmutation of metals and his prac-
teal demonstrations thereof. Captain
! Crawford reports that in a vein cross
! ing the independence ground ore
valued at five ounces in gold has been
! discovered. The contractors have COM
/ menced work on the 100 foot tunnel
! that will cut the Independence vein at
q depth of 200 feet, and are making
! GOOD headway
The GRO Plata mine is outDuttHs
more ore than any mine in MOhaVe
county. The Clark brothers are drift
| ing both wavs on the ledge at g
depth Of 1856 feet and are getting eight
ounce sold ore. The shaft is being
pushed down as fast as their shifts OF
| men can send it. O'Day & Hampton
at q depth Of $50 feet are getting SIX
ounce gold ore and have a streak l;
inches wide. Owen McNeely is taking
out two tons daily that will net hin
500 per ton. He is working three men
Stinson &. Austin are sinking a WINE
on their lease and making big money
from the ore taken out. Cross
Chidister and Fisher and Hines ar,
drifting north and south from the bot
! tom of so foot Wine and are in gOot
pay ore. The crosscut to the Pennsyl
vania ledge is in "a feet and is in quart!
showing some mineral. It is. though
that the ledge will be cut in q few
! DAYS.
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tory development was accorded the
claim. A shaft was sunk to a depth of
24O feet, and two levels run, respective
~ 90 and 67 feet, on the lead. at that
depth approximating six and one-half
feet in thickness Considerable ore was
extracted and sorted.
What was termed high grade yielded
$29 in gold, off the plates. the concen-
trates running as high as 1915 per ton.
The seco2d-class ore was left on the
dump, and there are now about 45O0
tons of rock which will run as high
as SIS, and as low as 1925 per ton gold.
At the depth in the shaft noted water
was struck It flowed to such an eX-
tent that night operations were wholly
devoted to unwatering the mine. This
method of proceedings didn't suit the
owners, and it was finally decided to so
down the mountain side, drive q tun-
mel about $50 feet and tap the lead at a
depth Of $50 feet. The commencement
of the work formed the nucleus of the
quarrel that shortly afterward arose
among the owners The mine was shut
down in 1898, and aside from a little
leasing work, it has reneained idle ever
since. Mr.. Musgrave fell on to the
proposition accidentally, it would seem.
He went into that section to look at
another proposition, and heard Of the
/ Golden Hope. He looked over the
property, and reported to Colonel Wen
ban, who told him to get it. 1t is un-
derstood combined stamp and cyanide
mill will be put up on the property
at oace. Adequate hosting machinery
and a powerful pump Will also be put
in place, and California machinists are
now figuring on the plant. Simeon
Wenban, the purchaser, is a man verg-
ing closely on to the 70s in years. Early
in the Washoe excitement he 'hoofed
it" over the Sierras from California to
that new Ell Dorado. He chopped
wood, ofT-beared brick and skinned
mules n the Sage Brush state until
he raised a stake. Then he went pros
pecting. He found the great Cortez
mine, when, financially, he occupied a
position identical with that of Tom
Cruise of Helena, when the latter
struck the famous Drumlummon lode.
He hadn't cent, and no one would
trust him for a sack of flour. But
Wenban was q slayer, and hung on.
He finally hooked an angel, and the
! Cortez within q year was worth q mil
lion From it Wenban took out over
SIS, 900 in Il years. He still oper-
ates the mine, although his partner has
been dead these many years. Colonel
Wenban IS ore of the largest holders
of business property in the city of San
francisco. is a leading holder of San
joaquin Valley railway stock, and a
! general man of affairs and acl1uowl-
| edged progressive spirit in the state
| he calls his home.
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Mining Notes and Personals.

A carload of hgh-grade galcna ore is at
the sampler
Superintendent NJ. Flynn of the sacra-
mento, at Mercur. was in the city yester-
day, eating dinner with his family,
Lode, De Lamar NeY.: The sale of the
Vanina group of claims. in Eagle valley.
will throw some extra change into the
pockets of three OF De Lamar's enterpris-
ing men, Hans Olsen, Pat Gallery and
Joseph Vanina. We congratulate the gen
tlemen.
A. b. Mcdonald representative of the
firm of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. of Chi
cago, is in the city. consulting with the
Utah company in relation to the erection
of a gasoline hoist at the mine. George
Le.rner is also talking air compressor
with the company.
World Idaho. City, Ida: The Montana
company that has bond on placer
ground at Placervflle to be worked with
a steam shovel, will soon begin the work
of prospecting the ground. a boiler 70
furnish steam for hosting and pump
ing plant arrived there last Thursday.
World Idaho City. Ida: The frame of
the mill building at the Newberg mine.
near Quartzburg, is up, and most of the
mill machinery is in place. A double
track tunnel is being run for the purpose
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RECOVERY OF LOST LoDEs.
How to Find the Ledge Where Faults
Have Occurred.
Western Mining World: The :

Western Mining World: The we'll
known expert, Mr.. S. B. ]. Skertchley,
late assistant government geologist,
Queensland, in speaking Of the recov-
cry of lost lodes, says that one of the
difficulties attending vein mining is the
cutting off of the lode by slides, "
faults .'cross-courses,' heads" or
other fractures, and the uncertainty as
to the direction in which the lode has
been heaved, or as to whether it has
cut out completely. Yet this can in
most cases be determined by care
full study of the geological features of
the mine and its locality. The first
points to be ascertained are the char
acters of the ore body and the nature
of the fracture which cuts off the ore.
The following remarks apply to true
lodes, to impregnations from faults,
and. indeed, to any ore deposit which
has shown signs of continuity, either
in ore or in lode stuff (formation'D }.
It does not refer to deposits on true
floors, for these are merely infiltrations
along joint planes, or similar lines OF
weakness, from the lode itself, they die
or pinch out, and are not truly cut off,
though their termination may be more
or less abrupt Assuming, then, that
we nave an ore deposit which has
great probability of having been con-
tinuous, but which seems to have been
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The Greatest Discovery Yet.

w. M. Repine. editor Tiskilwa. Ill,
Chief" says: we won't keep house
without Dr.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Elk
perimented with many others. but
never got the true remedy until we
used Dr.. Kings New Discovery. No
other remedy can take its place in our
home. as in it we have a certain and
sure cure for Coughs Colds, Whooping
Cough, etc 1t is idle TO experiment
with other remedies. even if they arc
urged on you as just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery. They are not
as good. because this remedy has a
teed. 1t never fails to satisfy. Trial
bottles free at z. c. NJ. l. drug store
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-26
PROF. BRICE MAKING GOLD.
Chicago's Achemist VIII Soon Be Supplying the World
With Gold Bricks.

Chicago News: Amid the terrifying
roar Of the blast in the furnace before
which he was standing, the wild
shrieking of the broad-winged fans
overhead and the thunderous clangor
of the swiftly revolving machinery, f.
G. Brice, the twentieth century alchem-
list, who is said to have discovered the
secret of natures gold workshop
showed small blocks of his gold-pro-
ducing compositions into the midst Of
the white heat of the fire and slammed
down the furnace door.
Saturday morning." said Mr.. Brice,
as he did so, that stuff will have be-
come a good-sized lump of gold and
silver
1t was after 10 o'clock when Mr.
Brice appeared in the offices of his big
workshop, Thirty-ninth street and
Lowe avenue, but without loss of time
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utes is all the time necessary to cause
the bone-ash to absorb all the impure
ties in the bullion, leaving a mixture
of pure gold and silver.
From $50 ounces of the mixture thus
acquired is obtained 26 ounces of silver
and the two are separated by any of
the methods in common vogue. 1t is
stated by Mr.. Brice that he will be
able to make 100000 worth of gold a.
week after his plant is started and that
he has effected arrangements by which
the entire output will be taken by the
Bank of England. He does not care to
discuss the disastrous result which the
discovery of a practicable method of
making gold would, according to finan-
ciars, have upon the monetary systems
and the finances of the world.
Il am not a visionist am not a
financier. nor a politician" said Brice,
but think that it will take 80 years,
even at the rate which / viii be able to
make gold, before the present standards
are broken down. 1 work for my own
interests and can stand any criticism,
be 1t favorable or unfavOrahle."
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ventor of the process says, is very
little, while the cost of refining it is
also of small Importance.
Brice is a native of Dayton, o., and
has long studied chemistry. He came
to Chicago four years ago, and now
lives at 3O40 Calumet avenue. All his
life Brice, who is still in the thirties,
has been decided in his opinion that
gold is not an element, but is the re-
suit of chemical action. Upon this
theory he has labored for years, and
has, so he insists, at last solved the
process by which the yellow metal is
formed in nature. 81 am not an al
chemist nor believer in alchemy he
saws, "but l have found how to manu-
facture gold profitably and practic-
ably"
A year ago, with money he possessed.
the alleged discoverer of the process
sought for ages erected a. small plant
at 402S Wentworth avenue, and started
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t,,a ..Trinois Chemical association"
Friends who were confident OF ms SUI
cess stood by him and IN sllal Mels
the manufacture OF gold, so ne CLAIMS ll.ss,;
was begun and carried 10 a SuccsS 5-' u
issue Some 565 ounces Oh tne pasc
bullion which he claims to be apie 20
make were sold by Brice TO the Nd
tional Smelling and Re1lnlng company
a concern whose offices are IN tne west
ern Union building, and the bullon was
refined by them Officials OF TINS CON-
pany bear out this statement puI say
that they, of course, are Ignorant o.
how the bullion was made or secured
nv Rrice Finding the Wentworth ave-
nue. plant too small and not adapted to
his use, Brice organized the National
Metallurgical company receiving pa
pcrs of Incorporation on July II. Wno
the other incorporaters are, or with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-26
THE GOLDEN HOPE MINE.
History Of This Old Time Montana
Gold Producer.


Simeon Wenban of san Francisco
one Of the weaithiest actual mine own
ers and operators in the west. and the
history OF whose career in Nevada. in
the good Old days agone, reads like a
romance, says the Butte Miner, is
the latest coast man of mines
to invest IN Montana. and take
an active interest in the development
of her mineral resources MIR. Wen
ban owns il its entirety the Golden
Hope mine, in Lewis and Clarke county
near the camp of Townsend; that prop
erty having passed into his hands last
Thursday. The deed was filed for rec
ord at the county seat at Lewis and
Clarke on Monday. The consideration
noted was $35, 900 paid in cash. Some
time ago, in this department of the
Miner was noted the arrival in canp
Of J. NJ. Musgrave, mining engineer, OF
san Francisco. 1t develops that this
gentleman, whose stated object was a
tour through the mineral bearing
areas of the Pacific northwest, was the
personal representative of Colonel
Wcnban. It was he who engineered the
deal resulting in the requirement by
his principal Of the property noted at
the figure named. While the transfer
from the point Of view of money in
volved may not be chronicled as a large
deal. yet it is important, in that
through It one of the wealthiest, yet,
withal. progressive and broad gagged
men IL his line in the west, has seen
tit to shy his. castor into Montana's ring
of future possibilities in the gold quartz
mining line. The Golden Hope is an
old-timer, having been discovered and
formally located in the summer of 1881,
by John J. Lafferty and William
Thomas, prospectors hailing from
Butte. Desultory development work
followed its discovery. It was sold in
1884 by Lafferty and Thomas to Fort
Benton parties, for $3.50, the buyers
taking over, also, an indebtedness of
some $780, contracted by the discover
srs. More systematic. yet still desul-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-26

Two kinds Of women need DR.. Pieree's
Favorite Prescription-those who want
to be made strong, and those who
want to be made well. 1t builds up,
fnvigorates, regulates and cures. It's
for young girls just entering woman
hood: for women who have reached
the critical Change of life for women
expecting to become mothers, making
delivery easy and almost painless; for
mothers who are nursing and ex-
hausted; for every woman who is run
down. delicate or OVerWOrked. For all
the disorders, diseases and weaknesses
specific.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-26
THE SAN JUAN DEAL
The Terrible and Butterfly Mines
Bought by
THE ANGLO-CONTINENTAL
BIG TELLURIDE GOLD MINES
SOLD FOR $4,000.

New Purchasers Confident They Will
Equal the Treadwell or the Home
stalze-Will Mine on Grand
Scale-The Golden Hope Mine
Early History Of This Old Time
Montana Gold Producer-Some
idaho Mines-Prosperous Condi-
ton of Affairs Around Silver City
Recovery of Lost Lodes-Mining
In Automatic Old Camp of Dry
Buck-Mining Notes and Person
ais.
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---]S>-E1sil-'-< 1'---
GA Wonderful Change

Has been. produced in the condition of
my health by few BOTTLES of Hoods
Sarsaparilla. 1t has given me good
appetite and enabled me to sleep better
than 1 have for years. 1t has purified
my blood and my skin is cleared OF
imperfections." Mrs. N. E. Moore, 1915
Tilden ST., East Las Vegas, New
Mexico.