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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
VALUE AND VARIOUS
USES OF MOLYBDENUM

Molydenum, which is inexpensive,
has been largely used in making
commercial phosphOric acid. Ammo
mum m%olybdate is used as a fire.
proofing material and also as a dis
infectant. Various compounds of the
metal are now employed for %colOring
rubber and leather, and molybdic
acid is used as a pigment in the man
ufacture of porcelain, and has also
been proposed as a substitute for in
dlgo for dyeing silk, cotton and linen
goods.
1t is in steel working that mOlyb-
denum, like tungsten, is at the mo-
ment of the greatest commercial val
ue. In this connection it is of dOub-
lie the value of tungsten, a certain
autntity of ~molybdenum ensuring the
same results as could be obtained
with twice the quantity of tungsten.
Molybdenum high-speed steel con-
tains from s to 10 per cent of the
metal, and when other elements are
present in the correct proportions the
steel is extremely hard and will re-
tain it's cutting properties when raised
to a high temperature. 1t is thus of
great value for m~achine-tOOl work
and general engineering purposes,
and will resist heavy strains. Molyb-
denum, which has an atomic weight
of 95.3, a specific gravity of S.62, and
is a member of the tungsten uranium
group, is found largely as molybden-
ite. In lesser quantities it occurs as
a lead molybdenite known as wul-
fenite, and as an element presents
a white appearance and is extremely
hard and brittle.-Mining World.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
a NEW MOTOR FUEL

A new fuel for automobile and
other internal combustion engines is
announced by a British engineering
journal. 1t has for it's base so per
cen kerosene, the remainder being
chemicals which form an emulsion.
BY distilling this mixture a fuel is
obtained which is said to be cheaper
than gasoline, and giving more power
for the same motor. A further claim
is that the combustion is so perfect
there is almost no carbon deposit in
the cylinders, that there is no odor
and the motor starts easily. The
fuel is not yet on the market but a
plant is being constructed to turn out
20,000, 900 gallons a year.-Mining
and Engineering Void.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
Of MINES
IS VERY RARE NOW

While the practice of mine sailing
is not as common as it was twenty
years or more ago, it is still occasion
ally done, and in Mexico with partic-
ular skill. One of the most success
full larger-scale operations of this ma
ture was perpetrated at Juneau, Alas
ka, about twenty years ago, writes
a correspondent in the Engineering
and Mining Journal.
Three partners owned a ledge zoe
to 800 feet wide on an island near
juneau. They had done a great deal
of work in tunnels, drifts and raises,
but the ore was too lOw-grade to
make the property of any value. The
owners, however, proceeded to work
up a sale on a basis of a total price
of s%45O,OOO, a 25 per e. payment
to be made after examination.
The prospective buyers sent two
different corps of engineers. one fol-
lowing the other. One of the owners
met the first party in San Francisco,
worked into its good graces and as
sisted in the sampling. He was able
to salt the samples SO hat they dep
resented a value of 81 per ton. The
second party was met by another of
the owners and the same scheme NC
cessfully worked. Tne samples
checked nicely.
Wishing to make assurance doubly
sure, the purchasers sen out a third
party, but the engineer i'm charge of
this one would have nothing to do
with the owner and required them
to turn the mine over to him and
leave the island. He took two or
three tons of samples and the lot,
i'm large sacks, was brought to Jul
neau and remained on the wharf for
several days while waiting for a San
Francisco boat, in charge of a watch
man night and day.
While the samples were on the
wharf three fellows dressed as trav-
elers or tourists, with their little
dude canes, strolling around, would
come to these sacks, ask the watch
man a lot of foolish questions about
them, and all the time they would
be ~stabbing and punching the sacks
with their dude canes, which were
loaded with chloride of gold. This
was repeated several times, each time
changing the disguise. 1t was so well
done that the third engineers report
was satisfactory and the schemers re-
ceived their first payment, all that
they expected.
About fifteen years ago a property
on Signal Hill, Cripple Creek, with
in less than a mile from the town,
was sailed by using chloride of gold
in a shotgun, shooting it into the
breasts of the drifts and bottom of
the shaft. 1t was sc well done that
the swindlers received the first pay
ment, amounting to $4,000.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
RECOVERY MINE IS
LOOKING PROMISING
SHOWS MATERIAL M
PROVEMENT

Manager A. b. Cramer of the Re-
covery Mines company, whose prop
erty is ten miles south of Golconda,
New, has returned from a trip there
and is much pleased with the out
look.
While there the cross-cut from the
main shaft reached the hanging wall
of the large vein and it's course was
changed to drift in the ore along the
hanging wall. Recently ten feet Of
ore of a higher grade, according to
pan tests, than any previously IN
countered was found, and Mr..
Cramer had a 45O-pound lot of this
shipped here by freight for thorough
tests. He is confident it carries
heavy gold values. This ore was
found from the bottom of a 100-foot
shaft.
A tunnel has been started. which,
running as a drift on the vein, will
attain, at a length of 500 feet, a ver-
tical depth of 24O feet. At that
point its face will be directly under
the present 1O0-foot shaft. To ex-
pedite the work, a compressor is be-
ing installed, which is expected to
be in commission by the latter part
of February.-Salt Lake Tribune.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
QUANTITY OF PORTLAND
CEMENT MANUFACTURER

According to returns received by
the United States Geological Survey
up to January II, 1914, it is estimated
by Ernest F. Burchard, that the guam
tity of Portland cement manufactured
in the United States in 1913 was APP
~proximately 92,406 600 barrels, com
pared with S2.43S,096 barrels in
1912, an increase of about 1851 800
barrels or II per cent. The esti-
mated shipments of Portland cement
during 1913 were SS,S53,O0O bar
rels, compared with S5,012,556 bar
rels in 1912, an increase of about
3,S4O,OOO barrels, or As per cent.
On account of a large surplus of pro-
duction over shipments stocks of ce-
ment at the mills apparently in
creased more than As per cent, or
from 7,S11,329 barrels in 1912 to
1~1,375,OO0 barrels at the close of
1913. In 1913 the relations between
production and shipments were the
reverse of those for 1912, when ship
ments exceeded production. 1t may
be necessary to revise considerably
the estimates of stocks, but it is be-
lieved that these figures for prOduc-
ton and shipments are very close
to those thai will be shown by COM
plete eturns from all producers.
Although few definite statements
as to selling prices are at hand it
is evident that the average value per
barrel was apperciably higher than
in 1912. Increases of 10 to 20 cents
a barrel are reported from several
plants in the Central and Eastern
States, but there were slight decreas-
es reported from a few plants in the
Rocky Mountain district.
Two new plants, both in Washing
ton, were added to the list of pro-
ducers during 1918.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
HAMILTON SEES MUCH
MINE WORK BEING DONE

In spite of the deep snow which
covers all the White Pine mining dis
trict operations near Hamilton are
being conducted by a numher of COM
panies and will be continued all win
ter. Next spring is expected TO find
the district in better shape than for
a number of years and greatly IN
i creased astivity is looked for.
The property of the Hamilton
Power, Mining & Transportation
company is reported to have a splen-
did showing in the winze sunk from
the tunnel. The Orebody is exposed
for a depth of forty feet and is said
to be five feet wide at the top and
| seven feet wide at the lotion. AS
there is little waste in the ledge the
ore is sacked as it is broken down
and, consequently, the expense for
dead work is little or nothing. One
outfit is kept busy hauling the ore
from the property to the summit and
several outfits have been making
regular trips from the summit to the
railroad at Eureka with loads o.
ere. The value of the shipments is
said to average close to 500 a
ton.
Several men are working in the
Ne Plus Ultra mine of the White
Pine Lead company which is on
trolled by the Bambergers of Salt
Lake. 1t is not known what KIND
of work was done in this mine two
years ago from which no shipments
have been made, though a lot of ore
was broken down, sacked and piled
in the drifts, it is surmised that
further development of the ore found
in the assure is in progress.
John w. Nyce has been at work
on the Jennie A. group erecting a
cabin and preparing to begin pro-
duction from this property on which
he and A. b. Witcher nave a lease.
The weather and high winds have
delayed this work somewhat.
In the tunnel which the Silver
Queen company is driving to catch
an east-west assure two men are
working and the face was pushed
ahead 100 feet in tWenty-seven days.
1t is figured that the tunnel will
have to be driven 2G5 feet more to
reach the objective point and that
this development will be completed
by spring. AS the east-weSt assure
is highly mineralized near the sur
face and as good ore has been pro-
duced from it where it passes
through other properties, the ex-
~pectations are hat shipping ore will
be found where the tunnel will in
tersect it .
Development in a small way is be-
ing done on other properties in the
district where it is possible to work
in the winter, for the purpose OF
shaping things to be prepared for
larger work next summer. And in
dications are that the coming season
will see the greatest activity that has
prevailed in the White Pine dis
trict for a long time.-Expositor.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
TONOPAH MERGER OPENS new VEIN:
DEVELOPMENT IN OTHER BIG PROPERTIES

ing but which only carried low-grade
values. This claim will be very
thoroughly prospected.
AT the Breckenridge placers in
Colorado one dredge is being oper-
ated and the other dredges will be
started in the spring and equipped
for continuous operation through
the winter, about which there will
be no difficulty.
The company has not acquired
any other properties, but has several
under consideration"
Montana
The A. b. X. vein continues to
show a body of excellent grade ore
on the 665-foot level where it was
encountered last week. Drifting east
and west on this has been started,
and the east drift shows from 8 to A
feet of ore in places assaying as
high as $50 a ton, thus showing that
the grade is well sustained from
above the 565-foot level down to the
present depth. The west drift on the
665-foot level also shows a width of
from 3 to 4 feet of good ore, al
thought not so high grade as in the
east drift, and drifting both ways on
the vein is being continued.
East of this, another north cross
cut has been run, and this week en-
countered a vein OF low-grade ore,
which may possibly prove to be the
eastern extension of the A. B. X.
vein, but the cross-cut is being ex
tended to determine if another vein
lies north of this. Drifting on this
vein will be commenced in a few
days.
The mine throughout is develop
ing in a most satisfactory manner.
Jim Butler
No very important change has oc-
Cured in the underground work
ings of the Jim Butler in the past
week, except that on the seventh
level of the Wandering Boy shaft
the ore in west drift rs has widen
ed to 4 feet of very good ore, on
WHICH drifting Is sui Ill ploSTeSS,
and on the sixth level a new east
drift has been started on 5 feet OF
good mill ore.
On the sixth level ore for the mil
is being drawn from stope COG where
it is . feet wide of very coed grade,
and in stope 61O across 8 feet Ut
very good ore, and on the seventh
level ore for the mill is being drawn
from the 702, 70S and 10, all of
which show good shipping ore, and
a good grade of mill ore is being
drawn from stope 706.-Tonopah
Miner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
NEWS OF THE MINES
IN JARB|DGE DISTRICT

In the Bluster five men are work
ing on ore of high grade milling
value north and south of the tunnel.
The company is now in condition
financially, to put on additional men
which will be done as fast as room
ear be found, says the Contact Miner.
A mill will be erected in the spring
on the Jarbidge river to be operated
by water power.
In doing the assessment work on
the Buster a strike has been made
500 feet north of the old tunnel
which vas driven by Birdno. Fiji
teen feet of clear quartz has been
disclosed which pans fair values en-
tirely across with hanging wall nst
yet cut. When the hanging wall is
cut the entire width will be sampled.
In the south drift of the Flake on
the tunnel level at a distance of 80
feet from the south cross-cut which
it will be remembered cut the vein
in a barren spot another ore chute
has been entered. This ore is of a
higher grade than thai. at the station
where the working tunnel cuts the
vein, returning for a width of three
feet an assay of $42.S0 to the ton in
gold. This makes two distinct ore
chutes now disclosed in the Flake
vein. The work of drifting south is
being pushed as the management
desires to know the length of this
chute as it may play an important
part in determining the size of the
mill the company will erect in the
spring.
On the Arizona Fraction, Pick and
Shovel, Success and 1t, under option
to Charles Nelson ct al, 1902 feet
of development work has been done
in the past six months with results
that warrant carrying on the work
is satisfactory arrangements can be
made with all persons interested.
The tunnel on the J~arbidge-Gold
is now in As feet. The ground Is
| similar to that of the Flake, a soft
rhyolite, and the tunnel is being
! driven at the rate of ) feet to the
shift.
On the J%arDidge Gold Crater prop
erty two men are still doing assess
ment work
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
THREE-FOOT VEIN OF
QUARTZ IN GLADYS

A contact vein of quartz highly
mineraliZed was struck yesterday
in the Gladys shaft of the Ely Calu-
met company. TIL vein is said to
occur between rhyolite and lime and
for hat reason it is believed it will
be found to be continuous and prove
to be the best find yet made on the
property. The vein as disclosed by
the work done yesterday is four feet
thick and the rock has the appear
ance of carrying good copper values
with some silver.
This find is still more encouraging
to those persons interested in the
company and to the citizens general
ly as it is further confirmation of
the opinion regarding the value of
the property is not exaggerated.-Ex-
positOr.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
DESIRE AN ACCOUNTING

Through Attorney Francis McNul-
ty, J.. F. Atzet and others have be-
gun an action in the district court
against p. +. Bragg for an accounting
for the sale of a hoist and other min
ing equipment of the Standard Ne
vada Development company property
in Nye county, upon which, they al
lege they hold a claim for labor per-
formed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
GOLDFIELD MEN SAID TO
HAVE VALUABLE PROPERTY

Word has been received here from
Thad and Edward Dick, formerly OF
Goldfeld, to the effect that they ara
now working a valuable copper
property at Annidale, New Bruins
wick. They own mining claims near
Goldfeld and expect to return here
later to develop them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31
MARRIED IN LOS ANGELES

Word reached Goldfield this morn
ing of the marriage in Los Angeles
ly of this camp and a o of James
Burke, a miner employed at the
Combination mine, and Miss Pauline
/. Yeager of Colorado Springs, Colo.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-31

MRS. BESSIE RAIDS departed this
afternoon over the Tonopah and
Tidewater railroad for Omaha, Neb.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
She saw Him Passing BY.

That the aged are not easily aroused
to enthusiasm or excitement is well
known, but they are not often as calm
as the old lady that the Windsor Mag,
azine tells about
An old man fell from a second-story
window into the street, where an
anxious crowd Immediately gathered
TO see whether he was seriously in
jured. One of his daughters rushed
frantically into the first-foor room,
where his wife sat knitting and cried :
20 mother, mother, fathers fallen
from the top .of the house into the
road! o dearl o dear!"
Yes, my child" answered the old
lady, placidly, looking up from her
work, Il saw him pass the window
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
REMBRANDT AS A GAMBLER
UnwIse Investments Swept Away the
Entire Fortune Of That Most
Famous Of Painters.

German art students. who have been
Investigating the reason why Rem
brandt died hopelessly bankrupt, have
discovered that he was an incorri-
gible Spectator. II had hitherto been
popularity supposed that he was com
PEELED to remain poor because OF his
extravagant love OF jewels.
Unfortunate speculatlons turn out TO
have been the cause OF his financial
ruin. Documents have been disin-
TERED showing that he officially In
formed the municipality OF Amster
dam that he had suffered heavy losses
In business transactions as we'll as
through damages and losses on the
high seas.
II was at Observation-Disclosures
all Europe was engaged In feverish
money making in connection with Hol-
lands meteoric commercial prosperity.
Speculation took place on a reckless
scale. Immense fortunes we're sunk
in shipping. banking and colonial en-
terprises.
Rembrandt. whose highly artistic ma
ture was sadly devoid OF even elemen-
tary business sense, fell an easy vic
tim to the scheming spectators OF
that era OF frenzied finance, and he
lost his entire fortune Many Of his
pictures were seized for debt by the
legal authorities before the canvases
we're half finished Bankruptcy finally
overlook him and compelled him to
sell all his properties. his home and
priceless works Of art under the ham
mer at sacrifice prices.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
Unnotlced Opportunities.

Lies greatest opportunities are not
like the great ships which sail from
the chief ports Of the world, which
sail and come again and san at stated
intervals from the same ports. The
great chances touch once at the pier
Of our lives, throw out the planks OF
opportunity over which our feet may
pass. ring their signal bells In our
ears, and then sail out of the harbor
and away into the eternal sea and
never come again. The little chances
linger and return. but the great
chances come and go and never come
again. II with illumined sight we
could look back over the lives of the
people by whom we are surrounded,
how many great and rich opportuni-
ties would we see that they have per
mitted to drift by them unimproved
j. T. Mcfarland.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
Pernetual Motion.

AS the term is generally understood,
perpetual motion is the motion Of an
engine which, without any support or
power from without, can not only
maintain its own motion forever. but
can also be applied to drive machin-
cry, and therefore do external work.
In other words, it means a device for
creating power or energy without cor
responding expenditure. This is alb
solutely impossible, no matter what
physical forces be employed. The
quantity of force in existence being
fixed, no new stock can be created,
and therefore a self-moving machine
is out of the question. The modern
physical axiom, the conservation Of
energy, founded on experimental
bases as certain as those which con-
vince US of the truth of the laws of
motion, may be expressed in the neg
alive thus: Perpetual motion is i'm
possible.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
RICH IN BOARDED WEALTH
Russian Monasterles and Converts
Have Been Accommodating Through
the Centuries.

The boarded wealth OF the Russian
monasteries and converts is certainly
immense. although II may not reach
the fabulous aggregate Of $4,000, O00,-
900. at which popular belief persists in
estimating the gold and jewels which
the S73 recognized religious estab-
lishments in the empire have amassed
in the course of centuries.
The duma when considering this
years budget Of the Holy Synod in
sisted on an inquiry being made into
the resources of the religious associa-
tons. The results we're surprising,
for according to official reports the
private movable property OF ell these
institutions only amounted to $3O.657,-
500. Their total annual income was
placed at $10.000,000 and their expen-
diture at 100000, $3,50O.O00 of which
was put down as the cost of mainte-
nance of the archbishops and the
monastic fraternities. The value OF
the land owned by monasteries and
converts was estimated at $104,500.00O.
II is hardly necessary to say that
no one believes these figures to be
anywhere near the truth. 1t is point
ed out that a great number of richly
bejeweled saints images which are
well known to the public are worth
upward of 100000 each. Common re-
port places the wealth of the famous
Troitzka monastery at 1925, 100000
and it's possessions in diamonds alone
are estimated at s12,500,0O0.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
Potters, MARKS.

The stamp somewhat resembling
three written rs may be that OF Co
penhagen, a factory established In
l772 and still in existence, but IT
would be far better in all such inqui-
ries II description of the piece could
be furnished, also the color OF the
mark, and whether the mark is on pot
terry or porcelain. There Is a Delft
mark somewhat similar to the one
inquired about. With proper informa-
ton given there is seldom much diff
Guilty in ascribing old pottery to IT.
own factory and class.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
Value In a sehooIboy,s Hobby.

Every schoolboy is, by nature. a col
lector, and no matter whether he con-
fines his attention to the collection OF
birds eggs, butterflies and moths or
objects of like nature. his collection
is bound to be a source of education
to him. Most of the information OBJ
tanned by a schoolboy in the pursuit
of his hobby will be retained by him
when he has outgrown his boyish
craze for collecting or his business or
profession makes its further continu-
ance impossible. 1t always appeared
to me that the boys who took a keen
interest in natural history at school
almost invariably developed into men
with good, wholesome. sporting tenn
peraments and ideas.-Country Life.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-24
Problem In Identity.

A fshwife entered a tramcar. says
the Scottish American, and thought
she. recognized another passenger as
an acquaintance. Accordingly, she
bent forward, and with an ingratiat'
ing smile said, That's you, isn't It'll
| hardly kent ye."
AYE, that's me-" replied the other,
"and that's you. isn't it? How are
ye?"
ooh, Am nae that bad" was the
reply.
After this silence ensued and the
first speaker, on further scrutiny, be
came convinced that the woman oppo
site was not an acquaintance, after all
Again she bent forward, and with an
apologize smirk, remarked, But
that's nae you at al"
Nae" replied the other. TITS nae
ane o. u.s."