The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-03

Several noted mining experts are in
the city this week and gossip couples
their visit with some impending big
mining deal the nature of which can
not be ascertained, says the Butte
Intermountain. Reliable information
as to the object OF their visit to Butte
at this time is difficult to obtain, as the
parties who are in possession of the
facts viii not be interviewed.
One of the experts is r. H. Bayliss,
formerly of the Drum Lummon, and
the other c. L. Nelson, who was for
many years with the Elkhorn company
in Montana. 1t is believed that Mr..
BayIiss has succeeded Hamilton Smith
as the expert for the London EXplora-
ton company, which owns about 80
per cent of the stock of the Anaconda,
and that Mr.. Nelson is his assistant.
Messrs Iayliss and Nelson have
been making an examination OF the
mines of the Anaconda company dur
ing the past two days and were ac-
companied through the High Ore mine
yesterday by Marcus DAILY. The eN-
animation was a most thorough one on
each level visited, and it is likely the
experts VIII be engaged for several
weeks in the work.
II is possible that the examination
has no significance beyond the fact
that it is the usual annual inspection
of the mines The fact, however, that
an attempt has been made in London
and New York to depreciate Anaconda
stock may have had something to do
with it. 1t is believed that the Eng
lish stockholders determined to find
out for themselves what truth there
was in the rumors that the Anaconda
ore was running very low grade in the
bottom levels of the mines, and sent
Mr.. Bayliss here to make a report of
the conditions. This report will not be
made public, however, before Mr..
Bayliss returns to England.
Some Of the richest ore ever OBJ
tanned from. the Butte copper mines
has been taken recently from the new
ly opened mines of the company, such
as the Bell, Diamond and High Ore.
There are said TO be immense reserves
of this ore in those properties. In the
Anaconda, st. Lawrence, Never Sweat
and Mountain Con the ore is low grade
from 4 to per cent copper-but there
are such immense bodies of it that it
can be mined and smelted at a big
profit.
Another noted metaIlurgist, who is
believed to be in the employ of the
ROthschilds, is A. Raht, formerly of
Pueblo, Colo, now visiting Butte. Mr.
Raht has a worldwide reputation as a.
mining and smelling man and has just
returned from a visit to Australia,
where he says he went to examine the
merits of a, new chemical process in
use there. Mr.. Raht had nothing to
say for publication. He stated that his
visit here had no particular signifi-
canoe, and that he merely dropped off
here to see the town before his return
to the east, where he makes a report
of his Australian trip.
Mr.. Charles w. Goodale, the super
intendent of the Great Falls smelter of
the Boston & Montana company, is
also in the city today. Mr.. Goodale was
formerly consulting engineer for the
Drum Lummon, and his visit here may
be for the purpose of renewing his ac-
quaintance with Mr.. Bayliss, but
others are of the opinion that he is in
the city for another purpose and that
soDee big mining deal is about to be
contaminated