The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-19

durated mass of selvage mechanically
produced by the faulting movement,
and not a true porphyry. This is re-
garded as an important point by both
parties in it's bearing upon the ques-
ton or priority between the veins and
the cross assures. AS the porphyry is
older than the veins, if 1t be found IN
the cross assures, it would indicate that
the cross assures were prior to the
veins and were cut by them.
Mr.. Bulkleys mathematical state
ment of the extent of the movement,
both vertical and horizontal, was ex-
tremely interesting, indicating the
closeness of his observation and cal
culations. He said that the movement
appeared to have been about 210 feet
vertically and about Is feet hori-
zontally to the north. Hence, If the
country west of the faults be raised 2l0
feet and then moved south 1876, the
veins east and west of the faults
would match, or nearly so. The wit
nesse's description of the situations or
marks upon the faces of the rocks
where the fault movements occurred,
as showing the direction of the throw,
was also very interesting and acute.
While Mr. Buckley was giving his tes-
: timony the court room presented a
rather unusual scene. The judge wear
led by weeks of attention suddenly
aroused to renewed interest: Mr..
Hughes, note book in hand, moved
with the witness from map to map, fol-
lowing every word, and evidently keen
ly on the alert; the other attorneys for
the plaintiff conferred repeatedly with
each other and with Mr.. Tower, one of
their leading experts; counsel for the
defendant listened with the plainest
manifestations of satisfaction; the de-
fendant's other expert witnesses pres
ent exchanged glances and nodded APP
provingly at each other, while the
spectators in general gave as close at
tontion as if they were listening to an
elegantly expressed scientific lecture.
Astatki, Russia's New Substitute for Coal.
From tho Pail Mall Magazine.
In appearance astatk, a product of the
oil wells of Baku, is dark, viscous fluid,
not more inflammable than vegetable oil,
and less SO than coal. As a steam pro-
Queer It has no rival and the demand for
this purpose is constantly on the increase.
Nothing else is burned on the railways in
Central Asia, the Caucasus and Southern
Russia, on the Black sea, Caspian and
river steamers, and in the nnumerable in
dustrial works which are springing into
existence on the Azov lttoral. On the
railways which employ this substitute for
coal, locomotive tenders are not piled high
with black diamonds, but carry a sheet
iron astatki tank, which is filled by pump
ing or the force OF gravity. numerous are
the systems of feeding furnaces with as
tatki: and indeed, every engineer has his
own pet apparatus. The principle of all Is
that of the Rott's blower. A current of
steam, or preferably air carrying with ii
the fuel in minute subdivisions is forced
at high pressure through a nozzle, called
'pulverZer." into the tubular interior
of the boiler to be heated The result is
an intensely white. roaring flame, and in
the pulveriZers of the latest type the
value of astatki compared with coal as
steam raiser is as 2h to !.
The former sells at Baku at $50 per
ton. and when the pipe connecting that
place with Batoum is complete, astatki
will be delivered at the steamers side at
something like 81 per ton. AT the latter
price coal will clearly be unable to COM
pete with its youthful rival. Nor do the
advantages of astatki end with its cheap
ness. Engines burning it require no army
of stokers, for all that is necessary in the
largest is a man to regulate the supply
by taps There IS no smoke, litter or dust.
Many passenger by ocean steamer will
bless the day when astatki shall supplant
coal. and the stokers, who are roasted
alive in tropical waters, will have stll
greater reason TO be thankful for the rev.