The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS BRIEFS
News of the Mines From All
Over the West.
ASBESTOS FIND IN IDAHO
Inc Mammoth misunderstanding Sui
phide Ores-Determinstion Of Ore
in Place"-New Copper
Discoveries.

ala 1AaCe I'VE" copper
Discoveries.
A months cleanup from the cyanide
plant OF the Sacramento mine amount
ed to 1000 pounds of gold cyanides.
owned by J. r. De Lamar. New. have
produced $6,323 900, out of which divi-
dens amounting to $780, 900 have been
paid.
It is less expensive to send ore out in
trains of half a dozen or more cars and
maui them back by horse or other pow
er than to send cars out sngly each in
charge of trammer.
The secretary of the interior last
week decided that United States pat
eht may Issue covering both a quartz
ana placer claim, reversing the rul-
ing of United States General Land
Commissioner Best.
Pyritic smelling is y process of re-
duclng sulphide ores in blast furnace
without carbonaceous fuel, the neces-
sary heat being supplied by the burn
ing Of the sulphur contained in the ore.
Ores which contain as high as Is per.
cent Of sulphur should be roasted be-
fore smelling. This is a matter of
Judgment on the part of the smelter,
for ores containing high values in sill
Yer lose silver in the roasting process.
in heaps out of doors, the copper be-
coming sulphate. This is washed out
with water and the metallic copper
precipitated on old scrap iron. The
copper in waters coming from mines
is in the form of sulphate and may be
precipitated in this manner.
The products of the mineral indus
tries of Kansas for 1898 amounted to
more than $7,000.000. The output of
zinc ore was of the greatest value ever
known in the state. The production
of coal was valued at $4,000 900. and of
salt more than half a million dollars
The Monterey foundry at Monterey,
Mexico. employs 235 men regularly.
Most of the mechanics are Americans,
who receive on an average from s. to
So per day in silver. The other laborers
are Mexicans. who receive rs cents to
81 per day. About 1000 tons of pig
iron. are imported from the United
States each year by this company
The mines of Bingham canyon, Utah,
were first worked for carbonate of lead
and silver. The operators quit when
sulphides of lead. iron and zinc were
reached. Subsequent owners took mil
lions from the sulphide lead zone. The
present owners believe they will take
copper and gold zone. which by former
workers was considered valueless
Two well-known Cripple Creek min
ing men have been in Florence lately
investigating proffered sites for a new
reduction plant proposed to be erected
al this point. Two sites were looked at,
one on the north side of the Kansas
river and one on the south side. The
company is well pleased with this place
as milling point for Cripple Creek
ores 1t will expend in the erection of
plant $250000. Whichever site is Sc
lected the citizens Of Florence will do
nate the ground
. The announcement made in Dead
wood that a Colorado company had
been organized, composed of several of
the heaviest mining operators in Colo
RADIO Springs and Cripple Creek has
caused considerable interest in the
phonolite belt west of Deadwood. Last
summer number of Colorado men
made careful examination of the
phonolite belt. They reported favor
ably at home and the organization of
a company, in which some Of the most
prominent mining operators in Colorado
are interested is the result The COM
pany has organized the Old Ironsides
mine in Carbonate camp. which is own
ed by Frank Bryant and others.
Stick to the plain. iemonstrabla facts
when you are writing or talking up the
resources CT your camp says the Min
n PnanrI Il er,nc IN, % TO
agreeable surprise awaits the in"esti-
gator, which INSPIRES him favorably to
your interest; if you overestimate, a
disc greeable disappointment creates
prejudice against your camp and your
self. Truth in mining deal is cheaper
than a lie. and. nine times out of ten,
more profitable to yourself and your
enterprise.
In less than week the cyanide
plants in the Mercur district turned in
to the Consolidated Kansas City smelt-
ing and refining company at Salt Lake
gold dust amounting in value to $t5,C00.
Of this amount the Mercur produced
1900 pounds. The record of the week
is regarded as sensational one.
The boom in the copper belt along the
San Rafael. in Emery county seems
to have flattened out says the Deseret
promising prospects down there IRE
tied up in litigation. and it was on the,
development of these that majority,
of the owners We're depending to dem
onstrate the values of the others.
w. H. Murphy of Natrona county re-
ports the discovery of a rich vein of
copper ore by Casper prospertors in
the Owl creek mountains 100 miles
northwest of Casper, Wyo.. near De-
ranch, on the line of the Casper-Lander
stage line. The vein is four feet wide
and has been located for half a mile,
and is rich. There is rush of pros
pectors to the locality, and many
claims have been located
The Park copper and gold mining
company is new organiza ton incor-
porated in Wallace to revive the prop
erty just west of the Springfield prop
erty on Steven Peak. which is consid-
cred one of the best in that section.
This property has been in litigation for
the past two wears h,ft the ltipantS