The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-28
MINING BRIEFS.


Houghton county, Michigan, in which
are the largest copper mines in the Lake
SUPERIOR region, gives employment to
more than $4,000 men.
The first payment of $4,000 has been
made on the Copper Gulch group of
mines near Battle Mountain, Lander
county, Wyoming, by the purchasers,
the Glasgow & Western company.
Iron as used commercially is never
pure" 1t Is a mixture of other ele-
ments and iron. Pure iron can be pro-
duced chemically. Piano wire is prob
ably the purest form of iron in use
1917 per cent pure, 0.S per cent carbon.
Australia produces more gold now
now than at any time in her history.
OF this large proportion comes from
the desert of Western Australia, where
all the water is salt and life is largely
one of constant hardship.
Where it can be shown that work
done in a tunnel is for the benefit or de-
velopment of adjoining claims consti-
tuting a group. work SO performed may
be made to apply as assessment on the
adjoining claims.
The name Of no successful gold smelt-
ing electrical process occurs to the writ
and Scientific Press. Numerous labora-
tory experiments have been pronounced
successful, and in several cases the idea
has SO far advanced commercially as to
| occasion successful sale of stock in such
proposed enterprise. There are, how
ever several eminently successful cleo
trical gold refining processes of proved
| commercial value.
The new pyritic smelter for sulphide
ores at Leadville, Col, is treating about
| 300 tons of ore a day and is said to be
doing excellent work.
A dispatch from Fort Steele, B. c..
| to the Spokesman Review says: One of
| the most important mining deals which
has been made in this section of the
country is the bonding of the Estella
corporation for an amount approximat-
| ing $15O,000. The details of the trans
action have not been made known.
Manager ]. J. Daily of the Daly-West
mine at Park City, Utah, is reported
as saying that as soon as the new Union
Pacific railroad spur IS completed to
the mouth of the Ontario drain tunnel,
the output of the Daly-West, now 20
tons day, will be materially increased
A special to the Denver Republican
iioIH quay Solo., says. MoTe IIleH
will be employed in the San Juan mines
during the coming winter than ever
before in its history, but none but first
class men are wanted and the poor
ones are being weeded out. All the
San Juan mining districts have touch
ed bedrock and the rebound has set in
Owners are improving the waste
places, opening up new mines, return
ing to the old prospects, increasing
the capacity, driving long tunnels,
erecting tramWays and hamlets are
springing up clear above timber line.
The Salt Lake Herald states that
Joseph Beck is back from Antelope
island, in Salt Lake, where he went
about 10 days ago with three men, ex-
pecting to keep them working all win
| ter. 1t was found to be a difficult
matter to get the necessary supplies
across the lake without great hazard,
so it was decided to roll up blankets
and store the tools away until spring
when the claims will be worked again
and surveyed for patent. Samples of
the ore brought over assayed as high
| as 16 per cent. copper.
When an ore deposit occurs in
| massive rock like granite, porphyry of
| any kind. felsite, andesite, ETC., and
| there is found an extensive crushing
! of the country rock along and includ-
| ing the vein. crosscuts are of utmost
| Importance, for the best defined wall
| often proves to be merely a plane of
| fracture within the mineralized zone,
| beyond which pay ore may be again