Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-21
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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 a 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 overwhelm-
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
bred 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.
H. 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 so degrees the ordi-
nary milk organisms increase very
slowly; but on the other hand, the
putrefaction 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 a metal able to sustain
extraordinary pulling and twisting
strains have led to the invention In
France of a new alloy which is called
"formetal" 1t contains, in addition tc
the usual constituents of bronze and
brass, a mixture of other metallic ele
ments, which contribute great power
> of mechanical resistance. 1t is also
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exposure to the air, and it resists the
attack of weak acids. 1t can be drawn
l in bars or rolled and forged. Nut
= and screws made of it are unoxidiz
able.
The fact that compression or bend
ing causes a substance to emit N-ray
! has suggested to M. D. Lepinay tina
= vibrations producing sound SHOULD
= have the same effect as the sounding
body undergoes slight but rapidly re
peated strains. Experiments with
!, tuning fork, bronze bell, large stee
:. cylinder and a siren proved this to b
d true, and the phosphorescent scree
showed that the air also produces a
:. we'll as transmits the rays. Anothe
- Investigator, NJ. Meyer, has discovere
=, similar radiation in vegetable tissue
The green parts of the plant giving til
, most intense effect.
- The ether is the supposed medium
> filling all space and interpenetratin
- all bodies, by which the waves Of ligh
and other forms of radiant energy ar
u transmitted. Many theories of the nj
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=, The latest comes from the famou
- chemist, Mendeleef, who thinks til
ether may be a chemical element, S
- light that the velocity of it's molecula
: vibrations is sufficient to render it IL
- dependent of gravitation. If its att
= mic weight is supposed to be one-mi
lioneth of that Of hydrogen. it is b,
" lieved IL could escape the attra ctio
of the largest bodies in the univers
Mendeleef proposes for it the nam
- newtonium.