Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-14
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cium and barium, Is a new product of
the electric furnace that, like calcium
carbide, Is decomposed by water. 1t
was first made by J. Carter, French
metallurgist
1t has been decided that the meat of
animals used for obtaining vaccine Is
not made unfit for food. The carcasses
Of many calves that have been vac
cinated are sold in the London mar
ket, and their use as food effects a
saving Of many thousand dollars an
nually.
Attention has once more been called
to the geological indications that dia-
mond drifts may exist in the northern
part Of Canada. This idea, to which
Doctor Ami Of the Canadian Geological
Survey referred In a recent lecture, Is
based upon the known discovery of
eight diamonds In the glacial deposits
of Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan.
The glacial drift In which the dia-
monds were found is believed to have
been carried down from Canadian ter
r1t0ry In tne Ice age
Locomotives built In Germany, but
modelled on the American Atlantic"
type, have recently been put into serv-
Ice on the fast express line between
Berlin, Cologne and AK la Chapelle.
They are more powerful and swifter
than the ordinary German locomotives,
and with their large boilers, low smoke
stacks Of the same height as the dome.
huge driving wheels and massive and
powerful appearance, together with
their American type of tenders, they
attract much ndmiring attention, and
it Is believed that their number will be
increased.
An electrolytic process is one Of the
new suggestions In color photography.
Certain substances, such as selenium,
have an electric resistance varying
with the degrees of light, and when
such 4 substance is used as an cleo
trode, and the image projected on 1t
a galvanic deposit would be formed
with a rapidity varying with the in
tensity of the illumination. Though
the difficulties seem formidable, ex
periments are stated to be in progress:
with anodes of different kinds pre-
pared by exposing to light in a bait
containing lead oxide In solution witt
potash.
Automatic typesetting by telegraph
J Is regarded as a possibility of the fu
! ture through the development Of ex
listing printing telegraph apparatus. Il
E England the Murray telegraph printe
!, was originally designed for typeset
ting, but this aim was overshadowe'
/ by It's use for simple Geographic pun
poses. The apparatus is able to ope
rate automatically the mechanism
L the linotype typesetting machine.
Is only necessary to substitute the key
y board Of such a machine for the key
IS of the typewriter on which the tele
a grams are ordinarily recorded. Thu
d a correspondent of a newspaper coul
]. telegraph an article, which would b
=, automatically set up in type as fas
a. as it came over the wires. He woul
% be correspondent and compositor at tn
l. same time.
The art of making diamonds ha
been given a step forward through
study of the diamond-bearing metero
. iron of Canon Diablo. In sectio
a. of this famous meteorite Professe
or Moissan has found numerous diamond
g both black and transparent-togetl
er with graphite, and phosphorus an
a. sulphur combined with iron, and hi
at made experiments to determine the e
81 feet Of silicon, sulphur and phosphoru
Iron was fused with a large mass I
sugar in a crucible in an electric fu
le mace. AS soon as the molten iron hs
". become saturated with carbon-part
lie from sugar. small proportion of ire
III sulphide was introduced, and the cruz
BILE was plunged into cold water. WI
rapid cooling as an essential, the ca
: bon crystallized out from the center
en- the mass. The iron sulphide conslde
ably increased the yield Of diamoi
CRYSTALS, as did also the silicon. b
tx phosphorus had no influence.
H. Subject to Change.
Fogg-Well, Clara, bet heavily
tha Loot game thought 1t right