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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
BIG COTTONWOOD STRIKE.
Rich Ore Is Opened in the Giles Com
pany's Territory.

y strike has lust been made in the
Giles Mlnlns company's property near the
htdu al Big Cottonwood canyon which
makes it plain that when the lower tun-
mel has reached the leuge there will be
something doing i'm that region Every
hole sunk IN the vein which runs through
the company ground for nearly two
miles, has produced fine ore but the
present disclosure is looked uDon as being
more significant than any of the former
ones. because il is at point I'm the ledge
that Will be first tapped by the long tun-
mel and which is due To make connection
AT any tire within the next 200 feet or
SO. as the pitch OF the Vein may deter
mine.
I'm 81 shaft that was started some time
ago with the idea of eventually connect
ing mp with the lower tunnel for ventilat-
lnE purposes, some good copper ore was
encountered, ore that carried fine values
IN silver ana gold as We'll As AN old tun-
net was headed for the same snot with
only short distance 10 go to reach il.
10 was recently decided to extend 10 and
see what the Vein looked liks there. Dur
ing the week connections were made and
the ore exhibited BY Manager II. $. Giles
yesterday and which was shown I'm con-
traSt with the rock first opened up i'm the
shaft at depth of fourteen feet from
the surface, looked as though il would
surpass iu value by long odds the first
ore struck.
sir. Giles has not yet had assays on
the rock about twenty inches of which is
exposed, but some idea of it's metallic con-
tents may be had when it is stated that
the ore taken out of the shallow shaft,
forty feet nearer the surface, carried over
go per cent copper, so I'm gold and 10
ounces silver per ton. When connections
are made i'm the lower tunnel Manager
Giles expects 20 be in shape GO produce
large tonnage of rich shipping ore. He is
enthused over the strike Just made and,
although badly crippled with rheumatism.
ne viii try and get out to the property
during the coming week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
BOSTON CON. Is
BEING WATCHED
Suspicion That It Is Headed for the
American Securities Company.
BIG COTTONWOOD STRIKE
FORTUNE IN DALY-WEST ZINC
MlDDLlNGS.

There was a sharp rally in the shares
of Boston Consolidated on the Boston eN-
change yesterday, the close finding II
sought at s. a share or nearly 81 more
than the talent has been willing to DSv
Tor the past two weeks or more. What
has been happening to cause the squirt
no one here appeared 10 know, though
the opinion was offered in one of the
brokerage establishments that it was due
entirely 10 improved conditions i'm the
NINE and the gradual increase IN the
property's earning capacity
For some time past Boston Consolidated
affairs have been at ii practical stand
stu so far as the building of the con-
templaJed big concentrating works and
the connecting road to the mines of the
company are concerned. Samuel New
houses summons to Denver several days
ago, however, has caused a suspicion iii
certain quarters that more was doing
than had appeared on the surface. 1t
has been no secret for a good while back
that negotiations We're under way haV-
ing Tor their object the securing of a
millslJc at a point not remote from the
new copper plants of the American
Smelling a Refining COMPANY
These negotiations. 10 is now surmised,
have gone beyond the original cdlcula-
uOns and that they now probably include
at least "a close alliance with the AmeTi-
can Shelters Securities company with
a possibility of the passing of a control
90 Nlai powerful combination. As pointed
out by one of the Bingham operators
during the afternoon, there is nothing i'll
logical in the surmise. With the control
AZ the Utah Copper COmpany's properties
already within its grasp, with bond on
me ohio company mines that will be
exercised during the next sixty days.
nothing would be more natural than that
the securities company would also like 60
land the Boston Consolidated possessions
as they carry the same class of ores and
would help 10 round out one of the larg-
est blocks of practically ineXhaustible
c0pper-bearing territory i'm the country.
While there is yet nothing appearing
on the surface 10 indicate that such a
deal d really under way. there is reason
10 believe that the meeting of directors
IN the Boston Consolidated COMPANY
which was arranged for the 18th Of the
present month and suddenly indefinitely
deferred. had infinitely more significance
IMAM has been attached TO il. This is all
the more apparent when IL is considered
that Samuel NeWhOuSe is not a man 10
delay undertakings such as those con-
templated when the SLJlO.0OO bond issue
was authorized, unless affairs of even
greater moment 10 him and his company
We're up Tor consideration Important de-
NclupmentS may reasonably be expected
within a short time
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24

turn courses we get a larger amount of
caFbonic acid gas and watery vGpor than
We get IN The intake. and timber. like
other vegetable structures. takes up a
great amount of carbon5c acid gas and
Watery vapor. and those two ingredients.
with the timber. forms d chemical acton
resulting IN the rapid decay OF the tim
Der, The timber viii last many times
longer in pure air. and this itself is vast
saving when the cost and the amount
of timber used in Butte is considered.
Note what part OF telegraph pole de-
Gays first That part of the pole that is
below the ground where it is in contact
with the moisture and grass of the earth.
This point is worthy Of consideration. To
prove that ! am right. notice the timbers
in a downeast shaft and compare them
with the timbeFs in an upcast shaft. and
see how much more rapidly the timbers
decay in the latter shaft never changed
a set of timbeFs in seventeen years in the
downcast of the PARROT"
Did the timber rot much il the lev
els?'
mo, becagse the air was not charged
with a sufficient amount of nOXious gases
10 decay them. There are two ways 10
protect timber IN mine, and two ways
which will lead 20 their destruction.
What are they?
IF you put plenty OF air in your mine
the timbers will not decay nearly As
quickly. and timber under water never
will decay. l have known shafts 10 be
pumped out after being filled with
water for fifty years. and the timbers
pumped out after having been filled with
water for fifty years, and the timbers
could not be cut with an ak. The reason
timbers decay is for want of good air
which causes dry rot and also from moist
ure and gases in the air. Now, in the
Parrot mine 1 divided the air system up
into five different currents from the down
cast shaft. Each current had about 1900
feet to travel say about 800 feet along
one level and back through the Slopes and
delivered to the up-casI ard thrown TO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
MINING MEN ON NEW ROAD.
Salt Lake Routes Branch Into Tono-
pah Means Much for the Miner.

The chief topic in mining circles yes
terday was the filing of articles of in
corporation by the Las Vegas q TOnOpah
company, the rails of which are to con
meet with all The camps TO the north and
northwest of It's stated terminal con-
uection with the Salt Lake route-Las
Vegas.
The building of this line will bring
F0n0pah within less than 700 miles of the
smelters IN this valley. IL will put Bull
frog and RhyOlite well within the GOO
mile limit or just about half what il is
bV the northern route. Nothing could
be said for the districts through which
this road is TO pass that could help them
as this piece of news is sure to do. No
amount of boom literature and glowing
pFOspectuses could carry the same amount
of conviction that mines exist there and
that the prospects are counted upon 10
develop more. The promoters talk on the
merits of BullfrOs goes just So far, then
the investor wants 10 hear of ore being
shipped When the railroad corporation
steps in and says, in effect, that the ore
is there and that IL stands ready TO make
it's shipment and treatment possible and
profitable, the promoters argument is
clinched. That's all there is to il.
The Las Vegas x TOnopah company is
organized and promises TO begin work
right away. That means that the men
and money behind it have learned To
their satisfaction that an expenditure of
HU0.09U for construction and equipment is
justified by conditions in the camps of
which 50 much has been said during the
past year or two; IL means that the ore
is there: il means that the company will
make IL possible for the mine operator
to take il Out and ship at a fair profit
and Judging by what the Salt Lake route
has already done in the matter of making
cheap rates on ore TO Utah smeiters. il
means that ore which might otherwise
have 10 be concentrated or reduced to
bullion on the ground, can be shipped
with Just as good results when the new
read is fir shed
''The building of that road is going 60
result i'm giving 10 Nevada the chance of
IT'S lifetime" said one of the sampling
mill men yesterday The San Pedro has
shown a disposition already TO help the
miners of the desert region. and, with
that splendid feeder finished, l believe
the shipper will be placed in d position
where ne can ship $50 ore from TOnOpah
and the camps 20 the south at better
profit than he can ever hope TO do by
running milling plants in that dry cOun-
trv. AS things are today, freight and
treatment charges make away with prac-
ideally all the profit there is In the lower
GRADES of ore in the Nevada districts
tributary to the Southern Pacific, and it
is good 20 hear that the daY Of deliver
anee is at hand. All the camps from
las Vegas 10 TonOpah ought to boom
now as they never have done and II will
probably keep the smeiters here on the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
MINING STOCK EXCHANGE.
Lower Mammoth Holds First Place
in interest-Daly-Judge Active.

During the week on the mining ex-
change total of l24. 493 shares of stock.
the selling value of which was $29513. %.
changed hands. yesterdays proportion of
the totals being H. 100 shares and S. 30 %.
me sale of 40 shares of Daly-Judge at
30 ana 900 shares of Victoria at 81 ac-
counts for the big end of the money in
vowed IN yesterdays business.
In 3oint of interest Lower Mammoth
continues to hold first place. and the
good form of the stock is indicative that
conditions on the 1900 level are becOm-
ing interesting. Uncle Sam is in better
shape than il has been for several DAYS,
but otherwise there is hothing inspiring
about the market. which has ruled weak
and dull all through the six days of trad
ing
Prospects of another assessment on May
Day has caused that stock TO fall about
&c q share, while the talk of assessing
New York has had a tendency to hold
that stock down as well.
Star Consolidated has held uD well
through the last few weeks of unusual
depression. ard the opinion is that sub
stantial results are TO follow the sink
ing Of the shaft TO the 500 level But
ler-LlbcTdl should also soon make
showing that will command attention, and
the same might be said of several other
propositions which are laying low ct the
present moment.
Following is the list of final quota
tons and record of sales made during
yesterdays single and open board ses-
SiOns:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24

knows the weather affects his working
place, but he has not the knowledge 10
enable him 10 understand why. The con-
duon ct the air In mine depends very
much ON the state of the air at the sur
face. As the weight of the atmosphere
IS shown by the height of the barometer,
we can readily see that when the baroni-
eter has sunk, the air has become hght-
er: and the pressure which before assist
ed TO Keep in the gas, now being dlmin-t
lShed. allows il 10 escape. As the gases
coming out of the slips and seams OF the
earth come in contact with air, and the
air being hot, the moisture in the mines
naturally makes il oppressive, as there IS
so much humidity in the air. the same as
grees III the shade, the air being of low
humidity. we do not feel the heat here as
much as We do in the east. The humidity
existing there makes it Oppressive, and
so II IS in the mines when the ceiling Is
only seven feet high as in drift or stope.
Compare how much cooler room with
high ceiling is to one with a low ceiling.
Take 1t in Arizona and Mexico, where 1t
IS from ITO to 100 in the shade al times,
the atmosphere there contains so little
humidity that II Is not so oppressive as
80 degrees would be In the east. but II the
temperature of Mexico existed in the east
with the humidity common there, thou-
sands would die. The powder smoke the
gases Of the earth, the carbonic acid gas
given off by the men in breathing and
perspiring forms a combination of gases
unknown to chemists, and If they did
know. il would not help the situation. for
to set rid of it is to remove the cause
which produces the effect, and the effect
ceases, that can only be done by plenty
of fresh air.
"A number of ideas have been brought
forth TO suggest a possible cause OF the
heat Of the mines, some OF which are abb
suTd. One. for example, states that the
wood Of the timber gets hot spontaneous
ly' and gives off heat necessarily, This
would place wood in class perhaps with
Tadium. However. the cause OF the hear
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
Sales. On. High. Low. Close
ZINC MIoDLlNes WORTH MUCH.
Oaly'Judge Has a Fortune in Its
Present Mill Dump.

Several hundred tons of zine middlings
from the mill dump of the Daly-Judge
company have been delivered at the
plant of the Western ore Separating
company IN this city and the new plant
is now getting we'll under way i'm their
treatment The run has not progressed
lar enough for a statement TO be pre-
pared as TO what the results will be. but
Jhere Is no question that the Daly-Judge
company VIII make a large amount of
money from the sale of this product If
the Western Ore Separating company
can meet the expectations of the DAILY
Judge management II viii probably get
The handling OF this product of its Park
CITY mill. II it cannot then some other
concern will set it. for Manager Daly's
Investigations are known to have reached
a point where he knows. almost TO a
penny, what the product should bring
the market price of zinc considered
NO Gaia on this point have been re-
leased, but it comes from a source en-
titled TO consideration that the com
pany IS certain that the thousands of
tons OF zinc middliugs nov on hand can
De made 20 provide more than the means
10 discharge the bonded Indebtedness of
the company. 1t therefore seems to be
simply matter of waiting to give the
western company a fair chance and then
cut loose at the mine and mill of the
company in the Park.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
BINGHAM MINING NOTES.
Ne"sy Items From the Mines of
utah's Bonanza Copper Camp.

AIlASldln bulleIlQ.)
Inc Utah Copper company now has four
diamond drills working, Two are in the
tunnels and Two on the surface Some
be- S6e holes 6S abe being 20 drilled are down
ieet IN a shift is the drilling record es-
tabllShed so far.
The New England Mining company
shipped one car of concentrates one Of
screenings and o@e of crude ore this
Week. This ore All came from the drift
being driven in the old Mast VEIN The
company intends doing no Stopping un-
down
Superintendent P. NJ. McCree Of the
l tan AoeN mine has laid off the night
siniIt because OF the impossibility of get
tiug the ore hauled as RAPIDLY as ii is
being produced. Mr.. McCree is expert
encing the same difficulty as most of
me operators lack of teams and Wag-
The Phoenix has one machine at work
I'm the new tunnel and is driving about
I'VE ieet per day. machine will be
placed in the upper tunnel within a short
time. The compressor house has iust
peen given coat of paint inside and
outside ana is one of the finest buildings
of is kind in the cana
Both cables have been strung on the
Blngham-New Ravens aerial tram and
are ready to be frightened. The lower
terminal house is nearly completed, and
I rle upper one IS sufficiently advanced to
permit the placing of the machinery The
machinery IS now practically all on the
ground, the last car having arrived sun
day, and the work of setting it up has
begun.
The Silver Shield Mining company is
taking out about fifty tons of mill ore
daily. Superintendent Earfs states thai
the mine never looked as well as If
does at present The management has
not definitely decided whether the plant
TO be Installed for the treatment OF lis
ore VIII be mill or smeiter, although it
Is possible that it will be the former
A site has been selected at a distance
81 about go feet down the CuIch from
the mime and work on the pier will he
GIN within the next two weeks. AT the
present time there is being shipDad gh01,f
slNty-five tons of ore daily To Colonel
Wallis mill, and during the present month
the company has shipped six cars of con-
centrates Superintendent Earls is very
much pleased with the saving being made
at the Wall mill
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
OLD PROPERTY RESUMES.
Third Term Mine in Tooele County
to Be Opened Up.

T. W. Jennings, one of the chief owners
OF the Third Term property. in South
Willow canyon. ToOele county, was at
the mine early in the week getting work
under way again in the tunnel that was
started to open the ledge at depth and
which has already been driven a distance
of more than so feet. He was accom-
panied by Samuel earns Of Park CITY,
who has taken contract TO advance the
tunnel to a connection with the ledge
which i'm the upper workings shows very
strong, and from which d great deal of
ore was shipped in the days gone by.
There are five patented claims in the
Third Term group, and now that the
Western Pacific has begun building. ne
feels perfectly justified in going ahead
with the development Of the mine, as
shipments can be made at d fraction Of
the cost heretofore incurred,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
BACK FROM RESERVATION.
Park City Man Has Poor Opinion of
Section He Visited.

+. W Hayt, superintendent of the
Maclint0sh sampler at Park City. ana one
of the Oldest mining operators in that
camp, is in the city, after having made
a trip into the Uintah reservation coun-
try to examine what was thought To be
valuable mineral-beaTing ground.
Il have had no ASSAYS on the material
1 brought back us yet" said Mr. Hayt
Yesterday, "but / am quite certain that
1t will not show anything worth while,
The country did not look good to me,
and if mines are found out there they
will be discovered in different section
from that which / was called upon to
inspect. / did not 90 very deep into the
reservation country, and / should not
want to unless there was a different for
nation TO see than that which | was
taken To- Ia was a hard. dry. broken up
shaly region that might contain anything
bat mineral
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24

traders were inclined to take profits and
this selling prevented any material rise
The public interest in coppers is increas-
ing each day and the buying is becoming
more and more confident The volume of
stock being traded in reminds US of the
market IL 1893 and 1899 We still advise
the purchase of only the good stocks,
but believe that Copper Range. Old Do
mlnlon, Mohawk, OsceOla and Atlantic
will show good advances this fall. Quo
tatiOnS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
.COAISTOCK
Utah Stocks in Boston.

James 4. Pollock x Co. bankers and
brokers' yesterday received over their
private wire from Paine, Weber & Co,
one of their Boston respondents the
record o. sales OF Utah stocks o. the
Boston market, vita range and closing
quotations.
Boston, Sept. 23-fhe market was very
active all through the list. but the floor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
What Poor Ventilation Costs Butte.

How much do YOU think is lost iu
Butte or account Of poor ventilation
Mr.. TibbeV?"
Millions and millions of dollars have
been lost here. Say there are 1000 men
working in poorly ventilated mines I'D
Butte. One-third Of eight hours pay
is III: let us put il at 81 a daV FOR J.gJJ
men In thirty days that would be &l1J-
0l9 or 81, 10000 per year. A. stated above
il NAV be that 50 per cent of the labor
is lost but ! have taken less than
third. --hich would nav per cent on
$40 cocoon This is a loss that is no bene-
tit 10 the wOrkingman' no beneht 10
the companies. but loss OF tldt amount
Of money ia the world. / hone 10 live
to see the day when better air will be
supplied to the mi.es, tor as 4 stated
before, there are thousands of men IN
this camp aware Of this condition. as
there are other thousands scattered 10
the four points OF the COMPASS
Would the cost of a ventilatlne sts-
TEN fo- the mines OF Butte be excess
sive?'
No; il would be but a droa f. the
bucket compared to what would be saved
and even less than that if the system
were understood in the BEGINNING and
carried along with the development WOfk
I'm conclusion. / would say; WhaL Is
the atmosphere and its uses 10 the hu-
man system Nan is so constituted that
his BODY is dependent upon the material
with which he is surrounded TOR nOuTlsn-
ment and support. and no subject deserves
greater attention. for the health OF the
human system. than TO live and breathe
a pure atmosphere. God gave Us pure air
in abundance, as he has water ana I"
deprive human beings OF that must Ger
tainlV ha = crime.
when Cod breathed into 2lan the
breath o. life he gave him eood, pure
air to breathe. Ii was not given grudg-
ingly. spariugly, nor scantlly; but given
plentifuliy and IL abundance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
Nevada Stocks.
Yesterdays Sales.

Daiv-Judge 1506S60o.
Lower Mammoth. 60Od3F4c: SOO4SSc: 100
057a.cs 50o055c, buyer so.
Mammoth, 59uN 30 seller 10.
MAY Da.-. l,0GpH7l-c
Uncle Sam. 50Jd303sc; l,O00q5)kc.
Victoria A0ofs2 90
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
VENTILATION IN
MINE WORKINGS
Expert on the Subject Gives Valuable
Pointers in Interview.
WHAT BAD AIR COST BUTTE
THINGS EVERY MINE SUPERIN-
TENDENT SHOULD KNOW.

The proper ventilation of mine workings
is a problem that is just now causing
more talk in Butte than any other sub
ject. The fact is recognized that through
poor ventilation miners are unable to do
a days work that is either satisfactory
10 themselves or to their employers.
There are undoubtedly exceptions to the
rule, but matters have reached that stage
where remedy is being sought from ne
cessity rather than choice. What Is true
of the condition of the mines of Butte
is more or less true of all camps where
deep mining is done. and on that account
the following interview with captain
Benjamin. Tibbey. for many years super
iRtendent of the Parrot mines i'm the Dig
camp of copper and a recognized authoT-
tty on mine ventilation, Will be read WIN
interest by mine operators everywhere
He discusses the subject at the sOhcita-
ton of the Butte Miner and in such way
that the deductions drawn are readily un-
dcrstood by the reader. There Is SO much
in the article that every miner and mine
superintendent ought to know, even here
i'm Utah. where the mines are probably
better ventilated than in most places
that the article is reDrodSced.
How long have you been miner ana
where have you mined?' the captain was
asked as a means of breaking the ice
and beading up to an interview.
Il have mined ever since | was years
old and ii would be easier for me to tell
YOU where I have not mined and exam
med mines than to enumerate the places
where / have mined coal and the precious
metals"
Are YOU acquainted VITA many mining
camps
Eyes. nearly all in this country and
very considerable number of those in
Mexico"
Were YOU not i'm Europe recently
YES. 7 went there eighteen months
ago 10 examine some mines in Norway
and at that time I visited some of the
largest coal mines in England and Wales
To examine their systems of ventilation,
and | visited some of the mines where
nv grandfather worked before me and
where I worked when boy, near Swan
sea Wales"