Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-21


 l 1t had in the same period last year. It's plants are running full capacity I with orders on hand to keep them run ming for months, without any new business. The Westinghouse and oth- l CT important companies reports are I the same, all of which mean all in creased consumption of copper. I Lake Copper was selling in New York, March f5, 1904, at 12.56 cents per pound; on the same date 1905 tie price was 1854; the same date, 1906, | 1t was 18.62h cents per pound; this year on March 15, the price was 26.- 121a cents per pound.
 Mine in Spain Over 5000 Years Old. While the copper mines in Arizona, l Colorado and Alaska have been creat- | ing such excitement in this country, not many people realize that there is a mine in Spain which has been turning out copper for more than B. OOO years. The Rio Tinto mine, which employs about 2,000 miners, has been l worked by the Phoenieians and Ro- i, mans and Moors and the Spanlards. Copper was taken from it long before the birth of Christ, and it is still working full blast with mineral enough in sight to last couple of centuries longer At present the mine is turning out about 100000 tons of copper ore year, which averages about 2la per cent copper. Some veins average as high as 30 per cent, but the general average is about 21a per cent. "The miners see many strange things in the old workings. Sometimes they unearth old Roman coins, baskets and lamps, and ropes of esporton grass. The latter crumble to pieces when touched. They also find old graves, with the tear bottles containing the tears of the mourners standing be- side them, and a small sum of money to pay Charon his fares across the river Styx. The methods of mining are, rot greatly different from those in this country, except in regard to the stopping. Very little timber is used there and old rubbish drifts are filled in with rubbish after the ore is ex- tracted. There are miles and miles of old galleries in the mine, which were opened centuries ago and every once in awhile they run across old water wheels which the Romans used to pump the water out. The lode is about two and half miles long 1S0 meters wide at it's widest point. They have drifted down 800 yards and have not reached the bottom.
 The Arizona Amalgamated Copper
 Company.
 The Arizona Amalgamated Copper company, which is merger of ten producing and partly developed mines in Clifton, Arizona, has absorbed The Stevens Copper company: the stock of this company was held almost exclu- sively in Connecticut mosr of it being held by Bridgeport and Waterbury manufacturing interests. This mine has been paying dividends for some years. They have also secured under contract The Signal Copper mines in Yuma county.
 Branch railroads uow traverse the i district, but the company will con struct its own railroads where their needs demand them. Although they have much ore ready to ship, they have decided to store 1t, until the couple tion of their own smeiters. which arc now under way thereby obtaining the fullest advantages for this company. They are to erect two smelters, one of thousand tons at Clifton and the other of five hundred tons daily ca pacity at the Signal Copper Companies i mine, which is a part of the merger.
 Cobalt.
 "The ores of the Cobalt district 1 are remarkable for their cobalt and nickel contents, and for their high proportion of silver. The report of the Ontario bureau of mines shows that at least one carload of ore as- saved as high as 1000 ounces of sil- 1 yer per ton. The first discoveries were made during the building of the the first ore was shipped in 1904, The development of the district has been i retarded by natural conditions. It ! is a rocky glaciated country, and al- though there is little soil the surface I Is covered with timber. moss and | glacial drift. The first discoveries | were made in rocky cliffs, where lit- i tie clearing or excavating was re- l quired. Deposits of glacial drift are i not extensive and are usually shallow [ and a great amount of trenching has | been necessary. On the Nippissing l several acres were washed l off last summer by hydraulic piping l with water pumped from the adjoin- i ing lake. Work of this sort is sus- pended for the winter. Snow falls i early. and the winter is long and i cold.-The Engineering and Mining | Journal"
 Samuel Newhouse of Nippissing | has announced to the directors of his l company that after extensive experi- | ments. it has been found that Cobalt ! ores carry platinum to the approxi- i mate value of $500 a ton. This has 1 been confirmed by Robert Ann. ex- i pert in Ontario minerals. Ores ] from now on will be treated SO as to save the platinum values.
 Cobalt has been called by an emi- I nent mining engineer a freak" camp. Not content with producing the richest silver ore in the world. I with heavy deposits of nickel and the l rare and high priced Cobalt. several 1 mines now report rich showings of | golf and copper and at a distance of 4 from 40 feet down they are getting rich gold ore In great quantities. l There fs absolutely no dotihf of the