The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS BRIEFS
Matters of Interest Taken at
Random From Far and Near.
NEW LIFE IN PARK CITY
Placer Mining in Alder-Gold Coin Pays
Another Dividend - Handsome
Returns From a Tusca-
rora Mine.

After several years of unsuccessful
experimenting the bed of tailings at
the old English mill is worked salts
factorily by the process known as
chloridizing, or roasting with sulphur
and salt, after which they are run
through the matchmaking watts. Nine
tons of tailings are being roasted per
day, with salt and pulverized iron sui
phurets, obtained near Washoe City.
Six men are employed on the roasting
furnace working three shifts. A charge
of $50 pounds is drawn from the fur
mace every hour. The roasted tailings
are transferred to the amalgamating
vat, which takes $500 pounds at a
charge and runs four charges per day.
Two men are working on the pans,
each working IL hours a shift The
tailings assay IA ounces of silver and
from 81 to Sc per ton in gold. OF this
it is estimated that from IS to S12 per
ton is saved. Amalgam weighing from
100 to 100 pounds is retorted every other
day.-Reno Journal.
splendid illustration of the recu-
perative power of Leadville Is furnish
ed in the reopening of the mines of the
Leadville basin. A year ago every one
of the dozen or more properties were
practically worthless, the drifts and
levels were flooded and some of the
most prominent mining men of the dis
trict stated that it would require such
an enormous sum of money to unwater
the basin that it was scarcely practi-
cable to undertake the task particular
ly as it was said that the drifts would
all be caved in and the mines ruined.
1t cost more than 100000 to unwater
hn mil PIrt he orb
plished and now the mines are dry
and at work. and checks in cheerful
sums are coming in from the smeters
for the rapidly increasing output of
ores.
Outside of the operations Of two
large companies in the southern part of
the county, there are no placer opera
lions carried on in Lake county. says
the Leadvile Chronicle. 1t is a Gu
rious fact that no placer gold to
amount to anything has ever been
found in any of the gulches extending
west from the Mosquito range, except
ing in California gulch. There has
been no satisfactory explanation of
this fact by local biologists, except
the general statement that it might be
due to glacial action 1t is also an
interesting fact that above a certain
point in California gulch scarcely a
trace of placer gold can be found.
Negotiations are pending for the sale
of the Big Five combination of mines
at Ward, Boulder county, Colo, to an
English company. 1t was stated at
a meeting of the Adit company in Den
yer recently that the English company
had agreed to pay $4,000 one-half
cash in six months and the balance
in one year. The group comprises the
Dew Drop Mining company, Dew Drop
Milling company, the Adit Mining COM
pany, the Adit Tunnel company and the
NiWot Mining company.
The corrugations on the rim of a sill
yer piece of United States money are
not the milling" The milling" is the
little raised rim around and above the
level of the sides to protect the sur
face from wear. The parallel notches
or corrugations around the rim are
called the ''reeding." The latter term
is adapted from its architectural use
to express a small convex molding, es
pecially when such holdings are multi
piled, parallel to each other.
The Seven Stars mine in Western
Arizona crops for nearly 5000 feet but
in the entire distance casts no float.
The vein quartz is crystalized, heavily
mineraliZed and often presents comb
structure" Where oxidation has taken
and no pieces of float have ever been
found. The groupings are very OBJ
scure on this account and are much
mixed with the talus on the slope of the
mountain side.
1t is reported that while working a
claim which is an extension of the
Bonanza company's property in the
Baker City district a few days ago. the
miners broke into body of ore that
assayed $500 to the ton. The find was
Immediately investigated by F. P.
Hayes, president of the Bonanza COM
pany. and his offer of $75O000 for the
property was accepted. This may be
true, but 1t sounds like big story.
Bullion returns from the crushing
of ore from the Dexter mine at Tus-.
carora. Elko county, average $1,000
daily, $4,000 a month No so bad for
a single Nevada enterprise. says the
Silver State. 1t reminds us of the fact
that in the excitement attending the
big prices being received for Nevada
cattle, lambs and wool, we should not
forget that Nevada mines continue to
make their owners rich.
The Ontario mine at Park City, Utah.
which recently resumed operations after
a long idleness, has produced $3i 100000
and paid $1S,00O,000 in dividends. Forty
nVe hundred gallons or water per MIN
ute flow through the lower drain tun-
mel, driven at cost of 100000 The
pump in No. 3 shaft, costing 100000
has been idle since the tunnel was
driven.
Faults and veins each are often found
marking the course of q gulch or can
yon, due to the fact that the rock on
either side of the fissure, being softer
and more shattered. was more easily
eroded than the normal country rock,
and a depression was the result
The recent shipment of $1,000 900 in
coined silver dollars from the Carson,
New. mint to San Francisco was sup
Elementary to a clearing out earlier in
the year of about So 900 900 gold and sill
Yer bullion. etc. The Carson establish
ment is now a bullion assay office.
The Bosun and Fidelity mines in the
SLOGAN have been consolidated. They
are said to be valuable, or at least very