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Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12

What DIR. Carpenter says of Color
ado, Utah and other mining states may
apply to California, and particularly
to Northern California. There are
some high grade gold aud copper prop
ositions in this county, and in the
eagerness to get rich mine there are
many big low grade properties that are
being overlooked.
In some instances the owner of a
ledge that carries ore worth from So
to sos in gold to the ton will carefully
save the low grade ores against the
time of the coming concentrators but
in most instances ore that isn't worth
25s a ton is thrown away as unprofit-
able.
In Siskiyou and parts of Trinity the
mills make profitable the working of
big lodges; but even with the big prof
its derived there are millions of dollars
going out with the tailings that can
never be recovered.
With the erection of the DelamaI
smelters there will come new impetu:
to the development of gold aud copper
properties; and while the Bully Hill
ores will not require so much tluXinG
| quartz as those of Iron Mountain, ye
there will be an increased market fo
smelling ores.
BY and by the magnitude of the Low
grade ore industry will be forced upor
the comprehension of the mine owner
and those seeking investment aud tn,
concentrator will come, particularly t
Shasta county.
Cyaniding has already been intro
duced, the plant at the National min
being the initial one there will b
more cyanide plants, and there will b
concentrators. The low grade ore III
dustry of Shasta county is in its in
fancy. II will grow to enormous pro
portions within five years; but it
profitable conduct must depend upo
judicious and economical treatment o
the ores.-Redding Free Press.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12
Effective Prospecting.

naturalization is seldom confined to
a single plano, so that the ore body is
seldom an isolated body in barren
country rock, parallel ore bodies are
always possibility, hence the value Of
exploratory crosscuts. For the same
reason, when crosscutting for the lead
where it has been cut off by fault, it
is to be remem mbered-and this is not
always done in practice-that the first
ore encountered is not necessarily the
continuation of the ore body originally
followed, it may represent parallel
deposit, which has been brought up by
the fault. An instance of this kind
which came under my notice last sum
mer might be given. In one well known
mine the vein continued strong and
rich to certain point, beyond which
it became weaker and in about fifty
feet petered out. Crosscuts were run
transversely to try to pick it mp, but
without success, and the work in this
direction was for the time being dis
continued. On examining the points
where the vein weakened, found evil
dences of fault-from the amount of
triturated material, quite a consider
able fault-suggesting, of course, that
what appeared to be the continuation
of the vein was in realty parallel one
brought up in place. On questioning,
the manager remembered having been
struck at the time by the sudden
change in the tenor of the ore, from
high grade to low.
A matter | would like to see dis
cussed by this institute is the work of
the prospector, and how it can be made
more effective. 1t is self-evident how
important it is for a mining district
that it be intelligently prospected, and
the prospects intelligently tested. That
the ordinary prospector is not always
com petent to do either of these of him
self is apparent to any mining engineer
who has an opportunity to look over
his work. 1t is regrettable in every
way that the prospector's labor, his
time and his money, are so often squan-
dered, especially when this is largely
due to lack of technical knowledge.
The annual assessment work represents
far too frequently just so much time
! and money put into the ground; often,
in fact, it leaves the property in a
worse condition than If nothing had
been done. The same time and money
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12
A SouIless Trust.

This is the way the Salt Lake Mining
Review sizes up the Utah Smelter
trust:
The strike at the Germania smelter
is over and the mployes of the Ameri
can Smelling and Refining company
this heartless trust combine-have re-
turned to work at starvation wages,
and this in an era of what certain
class of politicians call 'good times;
season of prosperitym All Utah is
in sympathy with the strikers, and
feel sorry for them, but this sympathy
reaches no lower than the heart and no
financial aid is offered, and so the poor
devils, poor and almost penniless as
they are, were forced, were actually
obliged TO go to work again. They can
get credit at the trust store aud buy
goods there at higher price than the
same can be obtained at in any store in
Salt Lake City. They should feel
thankful for this concession; thankful
that the trust will allow them the priv
ilege of living, of breathing the fresh
air of heaven when not working in the
Notwithstanding works of the trust
mbination, the management of which
ride in palace cars, give champagne
dinners, take annual European trips
and live on the fat of the land. Bnt
the smeltermen, the serfs who are
Obliged to breathe the deadly fumes OF
the furnaces, are not the orly class af.
\ fected by the iron and grasping hand
of the trust combine. The small mine
owner is also robbed by this gigantic
| octopus. Treatment charges are higher
/ today than they were two or three years
ago, and the small mining operator is
in despair. Only recently one of this
class brought consignment Of ore to
this city valued, according to numer
Gus assay tests, at from COOS to SOOS
| After deducting railroad, treatment
and assay charges the consignor re
ceived paltry check from the com
bine for less than 90s. A protest was
made by the mining man, when he wa:
informed that he could take the or,
away with him if he did not like it; ol
that he could 90 aud sell the lot else
where If he was not pleased with The
treatment accorded him by the smeltel
trust; as if there were any other place
to go and find purchaser! The rem
edy is the erection of independent
smelters; or, the smashing of al
trusts.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12
Value of Low Grade Ores.

Two or three or four dollar ore would
be valueless in a small vein, but when
it occurs in deposit more than 400
fee. wide-you can build upon it for
years. The Homestake mine, upon ore
averaging less than 4s, has not missed
monthly dividend in twenty years.
1t, with its allied companies, produces
about 5000 tons daily, and the pre-
serves are such that the superiutend-
ent is fully justified in saying that
twenty years supply is in sight. 1t is
common mistake to suppose that this
low grade ore is only valuable when
free milling, for the lowest grade ore
worked at profit In the United States
is not free milling at all, but produces
an ore that must be stamped, concen-
trated and then smelted. Ore from
the Atlantic copper mine has always
yielded value of less than % per ton
vet it is mined, transported quite dis,
tance, stamped, concentrated and
smelted for about 1.l0S per ton and has
been worked at profit even when cop,
per was lowest in price.
The above statement is quoted from
remarks made by noted metallurgist
DR.. Frank Carpenter, who has been
travelling in Colorado and Utah study
ing the low grade ores of those sec
tions. DR.. Carpenter says the high
grade ores will take care of themselves
that it is the low grade that demands
attention.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12

expended on trails or some other such
thing would often prove of much
greater value to the prospector. as we'll
as to the community at large. This is
due in some cases to the idea that as.
sessment work is peculiar form of tax
levied by the government, and which
must be paid by the prospector to hold
his claim. So the work is shirked as
as much as possible, and done not
where it will be most valuable, but
where it can be accomplished most
easily. The prospector who has this
idea does not recognize the fact that,
properly and Systematically done, it is
testing his property and adding direct
ly to its value il the property is worth
holding. Another cause for this waste
of capital is failure to realize that the
object should be to show up ore, and
that consequently there is a difference
in the proper method of procedure in
developing a prospect and operating a
mine. The prospector is not always
acquainted with the rule which should
be inviolable in West Kootnay-follow
the ore; consequently he sinks outside
his ore, or runs cross-cut tunnels tc
tap it depth, instead of sinking OF
the ore no matter where it leads him
or better, where possible, of drifting il
on it. He does not always realize how
much information may be gained and
how much the value of his prospect
may be increased by exposing the sur
face outcrop, nor how much better re
suits can be obtained where only q
small amount of capital is available, i
it be spent in prospect pits tracing the
lead in place of shaft or tunnel wbicl
may have to be discontinued while still
in country rock-R. w. Brock, Ottawa
Ontario, in Mining and Metallurgica
journal.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12
Prevented "a Tragedy.

Timely information given Mrs. Geo.
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre-
vented dreadful tragedy and saved
two lives. A frightful cough had long
kept her awake every night. She had
tried many remedies and doctors but
steadily grew worse until urged to
try DR.. Kings New Discovery. One
bottle wholly cured her, and she writes
this marvellous medicine also cured
Mr.. Long of severe attack of pneu-
monia- Such cures are positive proof
of the matchless merit of this grand
remedy for curing all throat, chest and
lung troubles. Trial bottles free at
Watkins drug store.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12

iness without making many enemies
among those customers who have had
higher assays elsewhere than he can
give them and who had rather believe
their assayer dishonest or incompetent
than that their ore is less valua BILE than
they hoped. Remembe that good men
as rGle can get fair price for their
work. If there is any trade ia which
"cheap" work is utterly valueless it is
in that of the assayer.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12

There are many persons in this world
who see only the dark side Of picture:
there are no clouds for them with sill.
yer lining. The man and woman who
never see anything good in life, who
are always bewailing their lot, who al
low their star of hope TO sink beyond
the horizon and bury itself in their
grave yard heart, should journey to the
bank of the river of oblivion and fall
in. There is too much good in the
great big bosom of Mother Earth for
pessimism and the sooner the black
germ is eradicated the better.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12
Hydraulic Mining.

Attorney General Ford who has just
returned from Washington feels conf
dent that Congressman Burton, chair
man of the house committee on river
and harbors, will report favorably on
the resolution of Congressman DeVries,
which provides that work be immedi-
ately commenced by the California de.
bris commission on restraining dams
so as to permit of hydraulic mining on
a large scale. There is an appropria-
tion of 100000 for this work, of which
the state gave half and congress the
other half. The commission completed
its report long ago, but found that the
work would re ,uire an additional 300.
COOS. 1t did not want to begin the
work without the extra sum unless it
was specially instructed to do so by
congress.--Ex.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12

A party of Denver people and the
Pacific Construction Company of this
city have secured contract from the
Russian government to construct in
Siberia along the line of the Trans
Siberian railroad a large power plant
1t will be situated in the interior OF
the country, where timber is plentiful,
and will be built entirely by Siberian
contract labor A vast amount of
wood water pipe is to be used. c. p.
Alien of Denver has designed the char
acter of the piping Steel bands for
the latter, aggregating in cost thou
sands of dollars, will be made at
Pueblo, Colo, aud shipped via this
port. A. n. Stein of Denver is soon TO
go to Siberia to take general charge of
the work. The necessary machinery
for sawmills and planers to turn out
the wood pipe is to be shipped from
this city..San Francisco Examiner.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12

A wealthy japanese silk grower when
in San Diego recently stated that this
section was far better suited to silk
worm culture than any section of the
country he has ever visited. The
Chamber of Commerce began to look
into the silk industry. II was found
that France provides season for the
silk worm of but forty-two days, while
in Dan Diego four crops of cocnons can
be raised each year, and the season
lasts 240 days. The Chamber of Com
merce is now devoting its energies TO
silk culture. Five thousand mulberry
trees will be distributed at once, and
arrangements have been made for the
purchase of large quantity of silk
worms. Mrs. Williams, who is known
in the Department of Agriculture at
Washington as an expert on silk cul-
ture, is now resident of San Diego,
and she asserts that the industry will
thrive there better than in any other
section of the country.-Silver Belt.
The Hancock Copper Journal prints
a letter from w. b. Carlyle, superin-
tendent of the Rio Tinto mines in
Spa u, and formerly in this country,
written to an American friend: This
is monster. There are l35,000.O00 tons
of ore in sight, of which we must ex-
tract 100000 tons this year. We have
a very good railroad 375 miles long,
with 30 locomotives on the main line
and so at the mine, and this year we
will handle 5,000,000 tons of ore. There
are very extensive underground works.
The other day down on the loo foot
level, was shown solid body Of ore
660 feet wide. There are 10000 Span
iards at work. We only pay here from
! 80 cents to So cents per day.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-12
General Mining News

With gold bullion of the value of
over 4OO,OOOs iu his custody, Capt. P. B.
McKeon. who operates the big bullion
train between Del La Mars Nevada
mines and the end of the Utah and
Pacific company's track at Uvada, ar
rived at the Oregon Short Line depot
yesterday and transferring his precious
cargo to the Union Pacific, will leave
for the south again today. Just what
period or what tonnage was required to
produce this result could not be
learned at the offices, but it is said to
have represented considerably less than
month. While but little information
is to be had during the absence of the
owner concerning the behavior of the
bonanza from which more than 5,OO0,-
COOS has already been derived by the
Captain, the mill is handling an aver.
age of 5000 tons monthly-Tribune.
Prospectors will do we'll to note the
fact that there is steady and growing
! demand for mica, asbestos and asphalt,
and to look for same. Mica, even if
! the plates are small, is needed in in
creasing quantities fer electrical insu-
lation, the prices ranging from 80 cents
I to 2.50s per pound, or higher, according
to size it will cut. Grade No. 4. which
is quoted at 30 cents a pound, need
only cut from to inches wide, and
] 2la to 4 inches long. Asbestos as short
as q inch, can be utilized for weaving,
and even shorter than that is ground
up for packing, while the supply Of
merchantable asphalt can never exceed
the demand, owing to the many new
uses to which it is put.-Mining and
Engineering Review.
The Mining aud Scientific Press
rightly says: In mining matters the
force of understatement is as strong as
exaggeratiou is weak. To say the ledge
il feet wide and the ore average il
1905 when, as a matter of fact, it is 9
feet wide and averages %, appeals
more favorably to the prospective
bonder or buyer than to assert tEat the
ledge is u feet wide and that the ore
clear across averages lSs aud fail to
prove it.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-29
SENATOR MASON RET0RTs.


WASHINGTON, Jan Ex-senator Mason,
Of Illinois, In a signed statement, concern
ing the published reports that he had been
requested to withdraw from the Old Tip
pecanoe Club, of Chicago, said tonight:
II notice by the papers that l was ex-
PEELED from the Tfppecanoe Republican
Club, In Chicago. never applied for mem
bership. I heard through the press that
charges against me had been preferred by
Col. McWhirter, that I did mot agree with
the president on the Philippine and Boer
The senator then made personal attack
upon the integrity of Col. Mcwhirter and
This (the reference being to a personal
and not a political matter) Is the only COM
munication as to any charges against my
Republicanism. directly or indirectly. T.
have had with Col. Mcwhirter.. chairman
OF the committee on political action, of the
Old Tippecanoe Club. of Chicago. Had I
known that was a member OF the club,
and that McWhirter was chairman Of any
important committee. L should have resign
ed. Meanwhile, I ann for liberty and self
government in Cuba. the Philippines, South
Africa aHdi Chicago. .McWhirter or no Me-
Whittier. WILLIAM E. MASON"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-29
POPULISTS COUNT ON BRYAN
TExAs CHAIRMAN SAYS HE WILL
TAKE THEIR NOMINATION.
says Democrats Are Stealing Their
Thundcr and Necessary to Fore
stan Them-Plan to Drive Democ-
racy Into submIssion or Defeat.

AUSTIN, Tex. Jan. &.-The Populists
of Texas publicly announce that Hon. w.
]. Bryan will accept the nomination of
that party for president. II 1t Ia rendered
him. The following circular letter, out
lining the plan OF campaign. was today
published by Chairman Foster, who
claims to secure his information and the
the propositions outlined direct from the
national headquarters. The circular let
ter Is addressed to all county chairmen
and reads as follows
Dear Sir: You are no doubt aware of
the fact that IL the Bryan Democracy.
when they meet in national convention,
with a direct legislation plan as an issue.
and 1t seems probable that they will nomi-
nate William J. Bryan and some ire
ton Will be the death Of our party.
Should the Democracy do this, It will be
only repetition OF their policy and
Ve he n Tew 81 81 such 70 action
the part Of this newborn Democracy. It
is the duty of every Populist who loves
the PRINCIPLES he advocates to lend his
"A plan has been suggested and is be-
Ing discussed all over the nation. The
features Of this plan are In part:
sembles It reafnrm the Omaha platform.
with direct legislation as the paramount
issue. nominate w. ]. Bryan (and the as
friends that he will accept the nominal
tion) and some Southern Populist; that
the Free Silver Republicans will indorse
the platform and its candidates; that Mr..
Bryan's friends will go before the ma
tional Democratic convention with a de-
inand for the Endorsement of the Popu-
list convention. and 1t II argued that
they will not refuse. In the event that
they do Mr.. Bryan may refuse the nomi-
nation at the hands OF the Democracy.
This action by the Democrats will Of IT.
self signalize their utter defeat and also
that OF the Populists, but defeat will lay
at the door of the Democrats
We want discussion, open, fair and
full, Of these propositions, and when you
send delegates to the congressional con-
vention at San Antonio on February II
let them be instructed as to the senti-
ments Of the Populists in their respective
countless
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-29
OUR TRADE WITH ORIENT.
Great Development During Last De-
cade. Most of the Increase Hav-
ing Keen In Last Five Years.


WASHINGTON, Jan. ga report pre-
pared by Mr. Frank II. Hitchcock, of the
agricultural department, shows there has
been a great development of our trade with
China and Japan during the past decade.
In the fiscal year 1899. the value of the
merchandise exchanged with these two
countries. including the port of Hongkong.
reached sS7,305, 6SS, against only SAC ,29i ,l67
in 1889.
Figures given show that, in the decade,
there was a gain of $2S393. 1856, or 256 per
cent, in exports, while the increase III inn
ports amounted to only $i26lS, 1863, or 36 per
cent. During the last few years, in fac,
the imports disclosed an actual falling off ,
the value for 1899 being 81 ,l64 1871 less than
that for 1896. which was recorded at siS979.-
1865. Our exports, on the other hand, more
than doubled during the three years sue
ceeding 1896.
Our exports to the countries mentioned
consisted chiefly of cotton. cotton goods,
kerosene OIL wheat, flour and manufactures
of iron and steel, the value of these five
classes of articles exported aggregating in
1898 nearly so per cent OF the total exports
Of China Japan and Hongkong. Japan took
nearly all the raw cotton, while cotton
manufactures went quite as largely to
China. All three took kerosene oil, in large
quantities. The exports of wheat -four al
most trebled during the decade.
Generally speaking, 1t may be stated that
the figures show that the gain In our
Asiatic exports has nearly all been made in
the last five years
Aside from the FIVE classes mentioned, the
chief exports have been paper, alcohol
and scientific apparatus. OF the imports,
silk and tea made UP 70 per cent. Japan
sending most of the former and China most
OF the latter.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-29
iron, Mrs. WaxgAn
to Mrs. DlnAham.
LETTER TO MRS. rIsxHAn NO. 64,sSz]


"DEAR FRIEND--Two years ago had
child-bed fever and womb trouble in
its worse form. For eight months after
birth of babe I was not able to sit up.
Doctors treated me, but with no help.
/ had bearing down pains, burning in
stomach, kidney and bladder trouble
and my back was so stiff and sore, the
right ovary was badly affected and
everything ! ate distressed me, and
there was a bad discharge.
l was confined to my bed when I
wrote to you for advice and followed
your directions faithfully, taking
Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, Liver Pills and using the Wash,
and am now able to do the most of my
housework. l believe / should have
died if it had not been for your Com
pound. hope this letter may be the
result of benefitting some other suffer-
ing woman. recommend your Com
pound to every one. "-MRs. MARY
VAUGHN, TRIMBLE, PULASKI Co., KY.
Many of these sick women whose
letters we print were utterly dis
couraged and life was burden to
them when they wrote to Lynn, Mass.
to Mrs. Pinkham, and without charge
OF any kind received advice that made
them strong, useful women again.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-29
MUTINY ON BRIGANTINE.
Murdered Captain and Owner, Mate,
Three of Crew, and Then
scuttIed Ship.

VICTORIA. b. c., Jan. 2s.--Mail ad-
vices received here tell of n wholesale
tragedy on the New Zealand brigantine
Ethel in the Straits Settlement. She sail
cd from Broome, Western Australia,
about the end of November, with cargo
of lumber, and has been posted as miss
ling. A telegram was received by the
governor of the Straits Settlement from
the British consul at Batavia, to the eff
feet that the vessel had been scuttled by
part of the crew, who had mutinied and
murdered the captain and owner John
Alfred Riddle, together with his son, the
mate, the carpenter and three Of the crew.
The mutineers, who numbered thirteen.
after they had landed at Adult, had a
quarrel among themselves, as a result of
which, when they reached Maccassar one
Of them informed the Dutch authorities,
who arrested the mutineers and seized
the valuables and other property they had
stolen.
News has also reached here of the cap
ture of five officers of a Dutch mail steam
er who imprudently, went ashore and
were attacked by the savages of New
Guinea. A relief party next day found
ashes of bonfires and traces which led
them to believe that all five had been
killed and eaten by the savages. The
New Guinea authorities have Sent for
warship,