The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-23
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aOl CL 0OSSlF.
Alton L. Dickerman, the well known
mining engineer of Colorado Springs, ar
rived in town from Portland yesterday
and lunched at the Knutsford. Mr.. Dick
erman has been investigating the mining
industries of the great northwest, and Is
disposed TO think that there is q great
future before the comparatively unknown
mineral deposits in Washington and
Oregon. The advance in price of and con-
unued demand for metallic copper has
wrought a revolution in that particular
branch Of mining in the past year. Men
who were formerly employed in extract
ing the precious metals from the earth
are now deVotng their time to developing
the immense copper fields that abound in
nearly all the western states, and lands
that have lain idle viii soon be teeming
with mining camps and smelteTs.
The low price paid for copper two
years ago made the mining of that miner
al prohtleSs, but now conditions are
changed, and the increased interest in
the industry viii doubtless revive at
tempts at new and cheaper methods of
separating the metal from the alloys and
impurities with which it is usually as
ISOLATED. There are eight or nine prin-
cipal copper ores, known as commercial
ooppers; besides these there are more
than 100 varieties of ores, such as cuprite,
malacnite, azurite, chdtcoprIlte, chalocsite
ana others with names ending in lite,
the name depending on the composition or
association with other metals.
The copper ores of Utah are as num-
erous and as rich as any 10 be. found in
the world, not excepting the Lake super
Tor coppers, and Mr.. Dickerman thinks
there is a great future ahead OF the min
ing camps in which the production or
copper is The chief industry. The princi-
pei commercial ores are usually confined
10 the oxides. carbonates ana sulphides.
"Fullb,ooded ramboulettes are now
bringing from So TO $50 a head" said 5.
NJ. Barker. the shepherd from the east
yesterday afternoon. There is variety
Of sheep called the halfblood ramboulette
that is worth about SIS; il is raised by
crossing the ramboulette buck with the
deiaine eve. None of the sheep breeders
can complain of the result of TINS year
trading The sheep business has been ex-
ceptionaily prosperous. and l guess we
can watch the apples simmer and sputter
before the log ire this Writer without
being troubled with the usual thought
about the forthcoming of the morrow
brea kIast. Next year wool will be higher
than it has been for the past twenty
wears this win be brought about by the
demand for wooden fabrics in
place of cotton ones. and the more potent
fact that the number of sheep is decreas-
ing to an alarming extent yearly Inc
demand for mutton has been unpreceJent-
ed, and the consequent slaughter among
the sheep has brought about the unhappy
state of affairs. Unless legislative acton
of some sort is undertaken the ultimate
of the sheep Is IN slSnt.
'Huyler's candies are as much at home
in the mining camps Of Colorado and Utah
as they are on the New York 'R.alto, =
said 1raveling Agent Edesneimer az the
Kenyon yesi er1ay afternoon. The en-
pire may be taking It's way westward, pul
it has TO take the little things that 20 10
prove that life is something else than
daily demnition grind along with II TO
make fife worth the living IN a country
whose chief scenic decorations seem 10
CONSIST of snelting snlokestackS and ore
chutes. As long as men have teeth, SO
long viii there be u demand for the prod
ucts of the cOnfecuoner art; there is a
sweet tooth in every mans head, Just as
surely as there is black sheep in every
drove. We sell ard ship tremendoaS
quantities of candles to The country west
of the Missouri river. I he TACT that the
people are willing and anxious 10 pay u q
bound for our cani.eS is conclusive proof
that they cling TO thoughts OF the Things
that they left behind. no matter what they
may say to THE contrary in spirit or
braVado. We are now introducing the
Fuyfer cocoas and chocolates for drinking
purposes; this is the nrSt attempt 10
enter the far western markets, and the
success of the experiment has been lar
beyond our explorations. / go from here
to San Francisco. and Will stop off at all
the larger towns and establish agencies"
A. ]. Pollock of Washington, d. c.. one
of the engineers of the United States
corps of examining surveyors, is at the
Kenyon. Since last April Mr.. Pollock has
been in the fed in the southwestern por.
Iion of the state checking the results OF
the surveys of government lands made by
the government deputy surveyors
Under. the law alI the public lands must
be surveyed before a patent can be Sc
cured; the surveys are then made by one
Of The deputy surveyors ard the correct
ness of his work adjudged by tnes corps oil
examining surveyors. Odd portions OF the
land are taken at ran0Gm, about. one
tenth the area of the ground to be pat
ented. and if the one-ten5h Passes muster
as being correctly surveyed the whole
work is passed as correct and the patent
granted About one-i1alf of the public
lands in Utah have not yet Eeen exam
med and a vast area still stands unSur-
veyed. The southwestern portion of the
state has YET TO be mapped out, especially
in the Gold Mountain district. The town
Of st. George is now undergoing the sur
veying operation.
Mr. Pollock reports the southwestern
section of Utah very rich in copper ores.
and some good prospects for placer gold
mining. While working in the northeast
srn part of the stale last year he located
4 claim that aSsayed 10 per cent copper
and $40 in gold. The next movement of
the corps of examining surveyors will be
on 10 the Navajo Indian reservations;
they expect to remain there until the
outdoor work.
T Brookfield and ]. Tevor of Australia
arrived in town from San Francisco yes
erday and were quartered at the Walker
asst night. They are interested in mining
n the antipodes, and they visit Salt Lake
with the object of looking into some of
the American Mines the naeehod of ex
-racting the ores from the ground and
.le metals from the ores. They said last
night THAI the province of Victoria was
-ica in minerals, and all the best known
ipRiances in Europe and America are
lsed in handling the ores. Nearly all of
he mining machinery in The Australian
PROVINCES is imported from the United
States. The cyanide process tor the ex-
raction of gold from its ores has been
applied since it first became commercially
successful; it is used extensively today, !
hougln of course in a limited way in COM
Darison with the extensive plants in this
country. he nneSt WOODS on the market
ire grown in the province of New South
Wales. The sheep are especially favored
w the climate, as there is no snow or
)lig'hting fFosts, and once they are turned
oOSe on the ranges there is no need to
Aennents. Some OF the ranges are thou
iaIldS of acres in area, and in a few in
stances the number Of sheep on one pre-
;erve reaches as high as 100000.
D. W. cazier of Nephi is at the Walker
Waller Reven of Rock Springs is at the
lnutsford.
Erwin Tears OF the New York Central |
abroad is at the Knutsford.
Observation-Disclosures Miller. Chicago;
Rev. j. ReJltley ana wife. Gait, Canada; !
erwin Tears Denver; Alton /. Dickc.r- |