Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-06-28

MINER IS
PLEASED
General Frank Hall Pays
Idaho Springs
a Visit

General Frank Hall, mining editor OF the Den
yer Post and mining and business who has
been in Colorado nearly forty-five years, visited
Idaho Springs this week accompanied by his wife
They went from here to Georgetown where the
General has many O. l-time friends the same as he
has here. Mr.. Hall ISL who wrote Halls
history of Colorado, regarded as the only authentic
work published and he has also been engaged in
mining nearly all his life. His opinion of a dis
trict and its prospect for the future is worth
thing and his ideas on mining and extracting the
values from the ore published in his depart mt
in the Post have attracted international attention
In the pioneer days of mining in Colorado the
General prospected and mined extensively in Gil
pin and Clear Creek counties and is practically
familiar with every foot of ground in these two
counties, to employ expression usually used to
convey the idea of familiarity.
He is particularly impressed with these two
counties, Gilpn and Clear Creek, beause he has
witnessed their steady and uninterrupted produc-
tion for the past thirty years. He is familiar with
their growth and expansion from year to year and
knows that the production of gold and silver is
and has been staple as the production of wheat
and corn in an irrigated agricultural section.
Knowing this it is not question for surprise that
he is believer in the future of Gilpin and Clear
Greek.
became reminiscent and told of the pioneer days
when it was more difficult to enlist capital in the
development of properties than it is at the present
time.
"There ought not to be the least room for doubt
concerning the future of Idaho Springs or of Cen
trail city, far their mines concerned, said
the General. 81 have witnessed the growth of
these cities aud heir industries. have noted
that you always the first to inaugurate
ideas in mining and in the treatment of the pro-
duct of the mines. You know what you have here
for experience has demonstrated that there is
practically no limit to the great bodies of low
grade sulphide ore.
"Of course regret, in common with all others
connected in any way with mining, that the smell
ter trust is creating the general feeling of unsafety
to the mining interests. Necessity is the mother
of invention, however, and the trust is furnishing
the mining of the state with abundance of
mother. AS a result there must be a change.
Some process of treating the ore will be
ceived and put into execution and then the smelter
trust will be practically impossibi1ity. l know
personally of two three experiments now under
way which have in operation but can say
nothing concerning them for the public at time
These processes will practically revolutionize
mining and it is my opinion that they will be even
successful from the start.
81 have witnessed the operation of process
that will separate the copper from the in very
short time and this leaves the residue that it is
amenable to cyanide, And the question of cyanide,
in my opinion, is that should not be forgotten
in this district and in many other districts in the
state Every mining and every mill man
should place himself in independent position
where it is possible for him to do so. This will
eventually guarantee success. We must all of us
strive to keep awake to the fact that processes
should be encouraged and everything that will
accomplish saving of even small per cent of
values should be introduced so that the total may
be every per cent possible
There are several men in the Idaho Springs
district who are beginning to feel General Hall
does. They realize that the smelter trust is a
menace to the mining but also realize that it
would require the combined capital of the Ameri-
Smelling and Refining company and the
Guggenheims to successfully combat the octopus