Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-06-25
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Natural causes sometimes bring
about a sudden lowering of the heads
of lofty mountains, but perhaps there
is no record of the operations of man
having achieved such feat except in
the case of the vast rock-slide at Tur-
tie Mountain, in the province of AL
berta, Canada, on April 20, 1903 The
mining town of Frank was overwhem-
ed, and the height of the mountain was
reduced as much as 1000 feet. The
fall resulted from the honeycombing
by miners of a 10-foot seam Of coal
penetrating the base of the mountain.
From recent photographs, the era
tiers and craterlets of the moon are es-
timated to number more than two hun
dred thousand, but less than a million.
White patches in some craters and the
bright lines radiating in some cases
hundreds of miles are thought by Pro
fessor Pickering to be due to snow,
and the less conspicuous lunar canals,
which gradually appear, increase and
fade away in the lunar day, are at
tributed by the same authority to vege-
tation. A thin atmosphere of carbonic
acid and water vapor may feed the
plants.
II. w. Conn, the bacteriologist of
Storrs, Conn, says that while milk at
20 degrees Fahrenheit may keep not
longer than forty-eight hours, at 80 de-
grees Fahrenheit it may not curdle for
two weeks. At 80 degrees the ordi-
nary milk organisms increase very
slowly; but on the other hand, the
putrefactlon bacteria continue to de-
velop rapidly, and while they may not
sour the milk, nevertheless they make
it unwholesome. For this reason Mr..
Conn says that milk which has been
kept sweet by a low temperature
should be viewed with suspicion.
The demands of automobile manu-
facturers for metal able to sustain
extraordinary pulling and twisting
strains have led to the invention in
France of new alloy, which is called
"formetal." 1t contains, in addition to
the usual constituents of bronze and
brass, a mixture of other metallic ele-
ments, which contribute great power
of mechanical resistance. 1t is also
said to be unalterable by the effects of
exposure to the air, and it resists the
attack of weak acids. 1t can be drawn
in bars or rolled and forged. Nuts
and screws made of it are unoxidiz-
able.
The fact that compression or bend
ing causes a substance to emit N-rays
has suggested to NJ. d. Lepinay thai
vibrations producing sound should
have the same effect as the sounding
body undergoes slight but rapidly re
peated strains. Experiments with G
tuning fork, bronze bell, large stee
cylinder and a siren proved this to bt
true, and the phosphorescent screeI
showed that the air also produces al
we'll as transmits the rays. Anothe
investigator, NJ. Meyer, has discovered
similar radiation in vegetable tissue
the green parts of the plant giving thu
most intense effect.
The ether is the supposed medium
filling all space and misrepresentation
all bodies, by which the waves Of ligh
and other forms of radiant energy ar
transmitted. Many theories of the ma
ture of the ether have been proposed
The latest comes from the famou
chemist, Mendeleef, who thinks tn
ether may be a chemical element S
light that the velocity of its molecula
vibrations is sufficient to render it IL
dependent of gravitation. If its ate
mic weight is supposed to be one-mi
lioneth of that of hydrogen. it is be
lieved it could escape the attractio
of the largest bodies in the univers,
Mendeleef proposes for it the nam
newtonium.