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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16

soil machines are employed, with from
one to two "baby" machines, which
are used to drill block holes in the large
boulders.
Somewhat of an innovation in ma
chine drills for block-holing has been
introduced. A small pneumatic ham
mer, such as is used in shops for chip
ping and caulking, fitted with a rotat-
ing movement, operates a small drill
bit about one inch in diameter. This
machine will drill holes from inches
to IL inches deep, and has so far proven
very successful in block-holing large
boulders in the open slopes.
AS there are no timbers to break,
no limit is placed on the miner as to
the amount of rock he may bring down
at one blast. The stope should be fin
ished as quickly as possible, so that the
broken rock all may be removed if
needed Consequently large slabs of
ore are blasted down, and these must
be broken up to regular car size, either
on top of the pile or on the sill floor as
it is drawn down by the shovelers.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
A MILL FOR DIAMOND JOE
Manager John Olson Goes to Lewiston Attend Stockholders
Meeting Where it is Expected Definite Arrangements Will
be Made for the Purchase Of the Boyer Mill

John Olson manager of the Diamond oe left Wednesday
for Lewiston where he will meet Mr. Sruye president Of
the company stockholders meeting will also be held for the
pose purchasing prospecting mill and machinery for sinking
1t understood the has secured option the Boyer
mill which installed the Gaena Creek companys
y the head of the north fork Of Sege creek This mill
short time after erection having shut down For lack OF
started aganor lack of and brains
those headstones dead and buried hopes be found
every camp erected usually by sheep herder who
thought he miner.
a conversation with the News Mr. Olsen sad You
say assay returns taken from the bodies already
$3.50 worth of sight Work will in all
probability the construction of the mill just
the snow goes enough to permit horses to get around.
Sruve will probably remain all summer or until all
preliminary work completed.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16

means of cyanide potassium in very di-
lutte solution casually one pound of cya
nide to the ton of water), and deposit
ing the metals so dissolved upon plates
by the agency of an electric current.
The essential mechanical feature is the
Hendryx agitator, which consists of a
cylindrical tank having a conical bot
TOM In the center of the tank is
cylindrical we'll in which vertical shaft
revolYes, carrying two or more propel-
lers, and driven by pulley above the
tank. In the tank, outside the well,
the anode and cathode plates are placed
which are supplied with current from
dynamo. The ore from the grinding
department, after having been ground
to the proper fineness, is discharged in
to a series of settlets of sufficient ca
pacity to hold charge for the agitator.
The size of the settler is largely gov
erned by the character of the ore. They
are of sufficient capacity to permit the
return of clear water or solution being
continually pumped back to the mill
supply tank. When sufficient ore has
been ground for a charge it is drawn
into the agitator, together with water
and chemicals. The revolution of the
propellers in the we'll creates a strong
upward current there which immediate
lv starts agitation in the tank and cir
culation of the whole charge upward
through the we'll and downward through
the electrically charged plates. Thus
the extraction of the gold and silver by
cyanide, thorough aeration of the
charge, and disposition of the precious
metals are accomplished Simultaneous
ly.
When the extraction is completed,
which usually takes from four to eight
hours, a valve is opened in the bottom
of the tank and the whole contents OF
the tank discharged into a settler,
whence the decanted solution is pumped
back to the storage or mill supply tank
for further use, and the exhausted
tailings run to waste.
Tests have been made with the var.
ious sizes of machines, from two feet
to sixteen feet in diameter, with
charges from 100 pounds to 76 tons Of
material to the charge.
Some of the important features o.
the machine are: l. 1t is the only ag
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
A Letter
from Portland

In letter to the Mining News w. H.
Bennett, of Portland, says: II expect
to visit Elk City with party of capi-
talists and wish to know how soon we
can come and see the ground. How are
the roads? How much snow is there?
1 enjoy your paper very much but never
see anything about the weather, roads,
etc., all of which would be of interest
to an outsider, especially one expecting
to visit your camp. know a num-
ber of mining men who expect to
see Elk City this season. With best
wishes for your success and that the
effort being made to segregate the min
ing portion from the reserve may sue
ceed"
The Mining News will say for the
benefit of those desiring to visit Elk
City district that the snow will all be
gone by the first of May, and that the
roads are good enough for the mails to
arrive six times per week as usual at
present but will naturally improve as
the season advances.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
MINING IN BLACK HILLS
System Stopping Ore in the Great Homestake MneIs Done
at Cost of Thirteen and Half Cents Per Ton.-Ore
Should be Mined as Cheap in Elk District

pillars are numbered north and south of
the main crosscut. No. 3 stope north
would be the third stope north of the
crosscut, and No. stope south the
fourth stope south of the crosscut.
Some difficulty was experienced in
keeping the sides of the rooms straight
while the sill floor was being opened.
To overcome this sills We're laid in the
foot wall drift to lines given by the
surveyor, and the miners took their
lines from these. Each stope contains
II lines of sills. When the system be-
came established no difficulty was ex-
perienced in keeping the room of uni
form width and the sides comparatively
straight.
When stope has been worked and
filled, the pillar may be attacked, and,
by lacing the sides next the fill, all the
pillar may be removed.
However satisfactory this method of
blocking out the orebody may be, it did
not solve the timber problem. After
much deliberation and discussion it was
decided to try stoping in these rooms
without timbers. Again the practical
ideas of the mine foreman and his as
sistants worked out a system which
seems to be well adapted to the the
conditions existing in the Homestake
mine, and which for the sake of con-
venience has been called the "Home-
stake system of stoping."
The level is opened by the room OF
block system and sills are laid in the
rooms the same as for timbered slopes,
When the sills are in, three lines OF
track are laid running lengthwise of the
stope. but crossing the ledge, with as
many cross tracks connecting them as
are necessary. The sill floor posts are
put up and tagging placed over the top
The tracks are protected by double
tagging on top and the rock is prevent
ed from running in at the sides onto the
| tracks by tagging or slabs spiked to tn,
posts.
AS soon as the timber is in position
the mining operations begin. The ore
J is broken down and allowed to fal
through the tagging, entirely filling tn
sill floor sets, with the exception of tn
= car-ways. The tagging, which serve
merely as staging, is removed as fas
as the sets are filled with broken ore
, No rock is removed from the stope un
til this filling is finished, When tn
next cut or breast is carried across tn
t stope, some ore must be removed t
, make room for the miners,
| In the larger Slopes two D23 Ingei
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16

itator in which constant electrolyte is
obtainable. 2. 1t is the only agitator
oil large capacity in which a charge can
be allowed to settle (resulting from
breakdown or other cause) and again
put into a state of agitation without
practically emptying the tank. Tests
was with sixteen-foot machine con-
tanning thirty tons of ore and forty-six
tons of solution. 1t was allowed to
stand forty-eight hours owing to break
age of line shaft. When the power was
again applied (eight horse power) the
pump was discharging its full capacity
inside of three minutes, and the whole
charge was in state of agitation in
side of ten minutes.
One other feature is the fact that the
agitator is self-cleaning when discharg-
ed, no washing or shoveling being nee
essary.
Owing to the use of weak solutions
of potassium cyanide and the period of
contact between ore and solution being
so short, the salts of iron, lead, copper
and others of the baser metals are but
slightly attacked. This materially re-
duces the consumption of cyanide. A
further saving of cyanide is accomplish
ed owing to the regenerative action of
the electric current, bringing the ap-
proximate average loss to one-half
pound of potassium to the ton of ore
treated.
The claims for the process are:
First-That it will extract all of the
values that any cyanide process can.
Second-That it will deposit the pre-
cious metals in the form of a market
able bullion without the intervention of
a troublesome precipitating and refining
process.
Third-That it will make the extrac-
ton with less cyanide because of the
perfect aeration, and the regenerative
action of the electric current.
Fourth-That it will do this work al
a much less expense for plant and oper-
ating costs than the ordinary methods.
Fifth-That it is perfectly adapted tc
handling tailings and shines from ANAL
gamating and concentrating plants al
= ready equipped and running.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week
No unusual features are introduced
in this method of timbering so that
no detailed description will be given.
The sets are six feet square, sill floor
sets nine feet high and all upper floor
sets feet 1-2 inches. A sill floor set
contains 324 cubic feet, or about 80
tons, and an upper floor set 3O4.5 cubic
feet, or 80 tons.
All stope timbers are shipped in con-
venient lengths to the company's saw
mill. which is located at the Golden
Prospect shaft. Here they are sawed
and framed as needed. Most of the
timber used is native, although some
Oregon timber is used for caps and ties.
With labor at SO per day, it has been
found that the framing of what is term
ed a set of timbers Ga post, cap and
tie) costs GO cents, and the cost of saw
ing tagging is 8 cents per running foot.
Two timbermen, whose wages are
$3.50 and So, working one shift, will
stand timbers, build chutes and do all
necessary repairing in stope which
furnishes 100 tons of ore in "a hours.
This makes the cost of labor for stand
ing the timbers IL cents per ton.
All chutes are the ordinary board
type, with bottoms made of tagging
and sides of two-inch plank. The rock
is held back by two boards, one above
but not directly over the other.
On the upper levels of the mine,
where the ledge was broken and COM
paratively narrow, the sill floor eXcava-
ton was made from wall to wall, and
sometimes for the entire length. The
sill floor timbers were then put in and
and slopes worked where convenient.
When the ledge began to widen this
method proved disastrous and thousands
of feet of lumber were used to make
bulkheads in vain endeavor to keeI
the slopes open.
A new method was inaugurated OF
the 600-foot level, under the supervision
of Mr.. w. S. O'Brien, mine foreman
which is being used on all new levels
The plan is as follows: A crosscut il
driven through the ledge from the cen
tral shaft, which is called the mail
crosscut. The ore body is then devel
oped by driving "a foot drift along
the footwall. From this drift rooms g.
feet wide are opened across the ledge
with 5O-foot pillars between each stope
Beginning with the main crosscut a pill
lar is left on each side, then a 60-foo
room, 6O-foot pillar, and so on to tn
end of the ore body. These rooms ant
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
Hendryx Cya-
nide System

This is a process for the extraction
of the precious metals from ores by
amalgamation of the coarse gold when
present, and from the mill tailings by
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
Notice of Final Settlement and
Petition for Distribution

In the Fifth Judicial District Court of
Humboldt County.
In the matter of the estate of Olt-
man Reil. deceased.
Notice OF settlement of final account
and hearing of petition for distribu-
ton.
Reil, the administratrix of the estate
of Gilman Reil, deceased. has rendered
and presented for settlement n filed
with thhe clerk of salt court. her fina
| account of her. administration Of saiu
estate. together with a petition praying
for the distribution OF a estate: anu
that Satui day. the seventh 9TH da.
OF May. 1914, at the hour of ten O'Clock
A. M. of said day. at the courtroom oi
said court. at the county seat In Win
nemucca, in said Humboldt county
has been duly appointed for the sci
Element of said account and for tn
hearing of said petition for disiribu
ton, at which time and place all per-
sons interested In said estate are here
by notified to then and there appea
and shuw cause why the said accoun
should not be approved. allowed anu
confirmed. and a decree OF distribution
entered herein as prayed for in sal,
petition.
In witness whereof. I have hereunt,
set nv hand and affixed the seal oI
1904. !. Il. DUNN.
4-12d5-1 Clerk.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
Cattle Growers Convention

Denver, May 3.-Delegates from ev-
cry important stock raising n ship
ping point west of the Missouri rive
were present at the opening of tht
stockmen's convention called by the
cattle growers of Texas, which as
sembled at the Brown Palace hotel in
this city today. w. w. Turnev. presi-
lent OF the Texas Cattle Growers as.
ISOLATION, presided. 1t is proposed Il
establish a permanent organization o.
live stock men in the territory west Of
the Missouri river. independent of the
National Livestock association, to b,
composed of three delegates from eacf
state livestock association. Alread,
as a result of this movement important
concessions have been made by thu
railroads to shippers of livestock.
J. j. Dickinson of Washington, d. C.
is attending the meeting as a repre-
sentative of the government. He is In
vestigating the operations of the so
called beef trust.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
UNDER H ROSE.
The Term which Stands as the SYM
boil of Closed Lips.

The Term which Stands as the SYM
boil of Closed Lips.
Sir T. Browne. In his Inquiries Into
Vulgar Errors" dated 1916. says of the
old phrase sub rosa. 1.-The expression Is
commendable. If the rose from any
natural propertie may be the symbolic
Of silence" and goes on to quote some
Latin lines which represent the rose
bud folded in its sheath as an emblem
of closed lips.
He also speaks Of the secrecy to be
observed sin society and compotation.
from the ancient custome in Symposi-
acke meetings to wear chaplets of roses
about their heads"
Others derive the expression from the
fable that Cupid gave a rose to Har-
pocrates. the god of silence. as a bride
to prevent the disclosure of the amours
of Venus.
There are many records OF roses
carved upon ceilings in early and In
more modern times as reminders to
guests that words spoken in convivial
moments should not be repeated.
1t is said that in 1926 roses conse-
Grated by the pope were placed over
the confessionals in Rome to denote Sc
crecy.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

There isn't anything my boy VIII
liam won't do to oblige a friend II he
likes him." Mrs. Hockafus was saying.
I'VE had q leg Of lamb the other day
for dinner. and Willie ate till | thought
he'd burst. but when he went u to
play ten minutes afterward a neigh
boris boy told him they were going to
have roast goose for dinner at their
house and asked him to 60 and eat
with him. Willie didn't want to be
u~ncivil. so he went along. and just as
sure as I'm sitting here he pretended
he was hungry and ate more Of that
roast goose than the other boy did!"-
Chicago Tribune.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
O~verw0rked Gar

The question is often asked why the
car is unable to exert more real per-
sonal influence in the government OF
the country where he Is supposed to be
absolute autocrat. A curious hint of
the limitations imposed on him is given
by a writer in a late number of the
Tortnightly Review.
The amusements of the car are
few. He is fond of photography, m
times INDUCES in a mood for making
melancholy verse. When at Gatcbina
he is in the habit of cycling by himself
for a portion of every day, but at
Pete. hof the work brought down from
st. Petersburg and the constant inter-
views with ministers and officials CON
sumo the whole of his time, n a light
in his majesty's writing room may be
seen far into the night as he labo:s
with the mountains of papers that are
dispatched to him by cunning minis
tiers, who are resolved to surround the
young czar with a parapet of detail In
order to prevent his mastery Of the
larger QuSSiioiiS dhSctiiS russian po'
Icy. The car is a kindly, saddened.
overworked and unhappy man. His
desire to do his duty compels him to
engage in an unceasing struggle with
details which are never overtaken. In
this struggle he is helped by one OF
the best and noblest of women. whose
VII tues are derived through her moth
er, from Queen Victo. ia"
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

Sir Michael Foster In a lecture on
Health and Ill Health" to the mem
bcrs of the Workingmen's club said
that health. like happiness. did not ex-
ist. They Lad a goal. or limit. and.
while seeming attainable. eluCed per-
feet possession. The body consisted
of a number of m~echanisms which had
the closest and most exact relations.
As they Appropriated to harmony
there was health. but when discord
came, Ill health.-London Telegraph.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
Ea.x Goinx Butcher.

The Kansas City Journal tells of a
Kansas man who went to a rural
butcher shop In Kentucky to order a
porterhouse steak. Il have just START
ed In on this beef" said the butcher,
land ! won't be down to the porter
house until about 2 o'clock" His
method was to lay half a beef on bis
block and begin at n end and cut
along until 1t was gone. serving his
customers with pieces all the way from
the hoof to the neck regardless of their
preferences.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
GRiNNlNG MATCHES.
An Accepted Form of sport In Early
English Days.

English Days.
That ~grinning matches were an &C
cepted form of sport in early English
days Is shown by an advertisement an
n~ouncing a gold ring to be grinned for
by men on Oct. o at the Swan, Coleshill
heath, in Warwickshire. which appear
ed In the Post-Boy of Sept. II and IL.
I'LL. supplemented by the suggestion
that all the country fellows within ten
miles Of the Swan should grin an hour
or two In their glasses every morning
in order to qualify themselves for this
extraordinary competition.
Addison gives q detailed account OF
one of these controversies of faces"
telling us that the audience unanimous.
ly bestowed the ring on a cobbler. who
produced several new grins of his w
invention, having been used to cut
faces for many years together over his
last"
His performance was something like
this: AT the very first grin he cast ev-
cry human feature out of his counte-
nance; at the second he simulated the
face Of q spout, at the third that of a
baboon. at the fourth the head Of a
bass viol and at the fifth a pair Of nut
crackers" Addison adds that a comely
wench. whom he had wooed in vain for
more than five years. was SO charmed
with his grins that she married him the
following week. the cobbler using the
prize as his wedding ring.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

Los Angeles. May 3.-The storm
which swept the Southern California
coast last Sunday, doing much prop
e-ty damage and imperilling life In
man instances, may have caused the
death of six men who left Avalon bay
Catalina island. In a 40-foot yawl dur
ing the height of the storm. and who
have not since been heard from. The
yawl was anchored in Avalon bay Sun
day when the storm arose. but the
force OF the waves caused her to drag
her anchor. and to avoid being driven
ashore she was finally put to sea.
Searching parties have failed to find
any trace Of the missing craft.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

twice In the hospital from a severe
case OF piles. causing "a tumors. Afte
doctors and all remedies failed. Buck.
lens Arnica Salve quickly arrested fur
Their Inflammation and cured him. i
ccnquers aches and kills pain. Zoe a.
Blown Bros. druggists.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

There are twenty different
cinnamon banks, and they cost
from 4 to 55c ID. This ex-
plains the market, all but one
particular. Schilling's Best is
the best with the coarser pieces
picked. out; not thrown-awav
oh no; they 60 to some les.
particular grinder.
MoneybacA everything.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
Drunk Sentenced

Drunk-That is the chare to which
five descendants Of Adam pleaded
guilty today in Justice Robins court.
To two he handed a meal ticket good
for twenty days at the Hotel de Lamb,
one more, having imbibed more freely.
needed more rest. sc the k~ind-harted
judge passed him twenty-five days.
The remaining two were discharged.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

IF YOU DESIRE A GOOD CON-
olexion use Moki Tea. a pure nerp
nink. II acts On the liver and makes
ne skin smooth and clear. Cures
sick headaches. rs cts. and 80 cts-
Ioney refunded II it does not satisfy
!ou. Brown Bros.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
Made YOUNG AGAIN

lone of DIR. Kings New 49,. Pills
each night for two weeks has put me
ir, my teens again." writes D. Fl.
turner of Dempseytown, Pa. They're
he best i'm the world for liver. stomach
and bowels. Purely vegetable. Neve
grippe. Only 25c at Brown Bros drug
store.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
MoneybacA everything.

PERCALES- All shades and pat
terms new goods, but at the old
prices df cotton is so per cent higher).
Stock limited, so get a move on you.
5-3tf +. Z. ROBINS q CO.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

LADIES' LONG SLEEVE UNDER
VESTS and drawers to match. spring
weights, at
5-3tf F. c. ROBINS & CO.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
S. p. rLaL CARD

Following shows the time ~ ar
wal and departure of all oa@senge'
raInp passing through Winnemuccs
u accordance with the latest tim.
able:
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

Ladies' and children's sunbonnets al
E. Reinhart & Co.'S.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

Hosiery, hosiery. hosiery; lace, drop
stitch and embroidered. at E. Rein
hart & Co's.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05
Piano Player Wants Sit

l am a piano player. sober and -eFa-
hl... Want a steady position for the
sun inner. Address. stating wages,
hou rs. etc. LUE r. VERNON,
(Gen. DELI Reno. New.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

DRY GOODS - Something new In
patterns at
5-3tf f. C. ROBINS g. co.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-05

SILK FINISH MULL-Colors, black
cream n tan.
5-3tf F. C. ROBINS & co.