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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
ELECTROLYTIC ZINC
Mining and Scientific Press)

Mr. John D Ryan, president of the
Anaconda Copper company, has con-
firmed recent rumors that large cleo
trolytic zinc plant is to be erected at
Great Falls. On December 10, ground
for the new works was broken, Mr..
Ryan holding the pillow and Mr.. Ben B.
Thayer driving the team while the first
! furruw was upturred, preparatory to
clearing a site for the foundations. The
new plant is to have a capacity of TO-
100000 pounds of spelter per annum
and is to be completed by september
next at a cost of $2.000,OO0. The decis-
ion to make this metallurgical depart
ure is the sequel to a series of careful
working tests conducted under Mr.. e.
p. Mathewson's direction at the Was
hoe works. OF course, the choice of
Great Falls as the site for the electro
lytic plant is due to the fact that cheap
electric power of which 10000 horse
power will be required is available
there. from the Missouri river The
experimental plant at Anaconda began
operations in October, it has a capacity
of 10 tons daily but the actual output
of zine has been only three or four
tons per day owing to the lack of an
adequate concentration for zinc ores.
We understand that the refinery will
be enlarged Immediately to 25 tons ca
pacfty. Meanwhile another interesting
step will be taken, namely, the building
of concentration of 1000 tons daily
capacity using the Minerals Separation
process of flotation which will then
supply zine concentrate for both the |
zine refinery at Anaconda end the one
at Great Falls. As regards the treat I
ment Of the zinc concentrate, the pro-
cess is modification of the old sui |
phate roast as worked out by Mr., Fred |
erick Laist and his assistant, Mr.. f. +. |
Fisk. The ore Is first oxidized by a /
gentle roasting and is then leached
with dilute sulphuric acid. Impurities
n the solution are precipitated, the |,
ron by means if limestone, the copper
ind cadmium by means of zinc. The |,
main thing is to get pure solution of
inc sulph2te; this is then clectrolized, I.
Using insoluble lead for anodes and
ther aluminium for catholics or start
ngsheets of zinc that have been de- &,
osited on aluminium sheets and then ,
tripped. After the zinc has been re-
moved from the electrolytic tanks it is }
leted in small reverberatory fur
ace in lots of few tons and ladled
ito bars 81 so pounds each Ia
Electrolytic zinc, being practically a
zee from impurities, is extremely Il
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06

above entitled action, the undersip,.,
receiver viii sell at public auctio1 ~
the highest bidder for cash in -
money of the United States of Ar,1 -u'
lea, subject to confirmation hy ~,
District Court or the Judge there "a
the 10th day of January, 1916. NJ i .aa
o'lcock a. m. at the Office of the Pl.9g
Top Orofino Consolidated Mi,'JaI
Company, near the town of Murra,ss
in Shoshone County, State of T65ES
all the right, title and interest Of W.
defendants, Bear Top Orofino Conf
tdated Mining Company and Twin
star Mining Company in and to Tho
following described property, to-wjt.
those certain lode mining claims 81; ~
uated, lying and being in Summit r,in
ing district, Shoshone county. stat as
idaho, and known as and called *,
stone" keystone Fraction" "Ban1sT,,
Banner Fraction" "Orofino," "Gia
Slick" Great Eastern" 'Katb,oa1a
Burns" "Dooley," and "Daly., ~
gether with the improvements sf+,9t
ed thereon and various and sundrv
tools, implements, fixtures, and ot5as
personal property situated upon ana
used in connection with the prose-
ton of work upon said Orofno ,nfro
and partially described as follows to,
wit
| Woods ~ piston drill.
Waugh stopping drills; IngersolI AZ
ID . drills; Liner plugger; l 7-inc6
Machtne bar 4 IL; / 6-ineh macbinn
bar n; I Il. GIL drills; machine
drill steel; machine drill hose. .
hoists; l hoist; hoists; B. G 81
drill; double set tram harness; M ,
bob sleigh; dining ROOM: Office ala
bunk house; new bunk house; shifterS
cabin; boiler room; blacksmith shon
No. /; blacksmith shop No q black
smith shop No. 3; outhouses; nOU,der
magazine No. /; powder magazine No
2; steam compressor room; aerial
tram; pipe installation 800 feet
inches; ton muck car; log cars.
cars; cars; assay furnace; stove in
cabin; iron Wheelbarrow; blacksmith
shop No. / tools, ETC.; cook range; Ro-
chester lamp; blacksmith shop No .
tools, etc; blacksmith shop No
tools, ETC.; portable blacksmith forge,
track pipe, installation, 2720 feet.
pipe installation, 665 feet 2 inches,
1900 feet ~ inches from No 3 tun-
mel to compressor; " horse power
steam engine; ventilating pipe 1000
feet, blower for above; receiving tank.
IL mattresses; IL springs; 6 mat
tresses; 20 old mattresses; springs;
/ heater; | Majestic range; | box
stove; tables; benches; l Rocbes-
ter lamp; bed; extra water wheel.
typewriter desk; phones; clock; Ro-
chester lamp; book cases; heater
and pipe; cook stove; rocker; Morris
chair chairs, table; engine and
compressor; receiving tank; 9 boilers
stacks, etc; foundations for machin-
cry; l Liner belt driven compressor
complete; tools and appliances; big
flume, miles high line flume 1000
feet penstock pipe; 200 feet ia inch
pipe; car coal 80 tons; extra Trum
bel screens; 2 swing Jaw plates; stin
plate; 2 side liners for Chicago rolls.
2 slide liners for Hunphry rolls; side
liners for Joplin rolls; 4 iron wheels
Trumbel spiders: ! set shells cast, y
inches by "a inches; 1 set shells case,
IA inches by 81 inches.
The said receiver reserves the right
to reject any and all of said bids
ALLAN G. KENNEDY
Dlb-Jl3-5t Receiver.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06

tough and practically suited for the
manufacture of the highest quality OF
)rass, such as is used in munitions. Jr
our issue of January 2, 1915, we pub
lished a description of another electro
lytic method of zinc precipitation. as
conducted at Palo Alto, California by
means of the Carl Herring patent, the
dea of which is to employ an electrode
able to combine with, and thereby re-
move the impurities in the zinc sui
plate solution. This is supplemented
/ by the publication of the zinc sulphate
! solution by means of evaporation and
disqualification. The plant at Palo Alto
1as treated small lots of playhouse fume
from the Shasta county smelters and
has produced some spelter of excep-
uonal purity. However, the thick
ness of zinc precipitated has been so
small as to interfere with practical
success. Other experiments have been
IN progress in Shasta county, by the
Bully Hill company, on lines similar to
those of the process now successfully
developed in Montana, save that the
teaching is done with the acid eIectro-
lyte, so that the amount of sulphuric
acid remains practically constant in the
cycle of operations. Here also the ex-
detrimental work has progressed to the
point where the construction of a large
plant is justifiable We are Informed
that such plant is to be erected with
in the next six months. This win lead
to the resumption of smelling at BaIa-
klala and Bully HILL But the fact
remains that the problem was solved
first at Anaconda. This is an event of
supreme metallurgical Importance, for
1t marks the doom of the old retort
furnace and the clumsy distiflation
methods hitherto in vogue in Enrnpe
and America. Combined with the suc-
ressful concentration Of the byproduct
zinc In copper lead, and precious
metal ores by means of the flotat;on
process, this radical change in the
netallurgy Of zinc will have reach
ng effects. The precipitation of the |
zinc from an ordinary complex ore |
Fields a concentrated residue readily |
lmenable to ordinary lead or copper
practice. Instead of the min
n zinc content being the excuse for
he exaetlon of a heavy penalty by
he smelter 1t will be a saleable by
'roduct. This beneficiation Of the zinc
hitherto worse than valueless viii
ause a cheapening of the metal and
further extension Of its use in the
rts, especially in the galvanized iron
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
TRENCH DIGGING MACHINE.

Two powerful American trench dig
ging machines, says the Scientific Am
erican, have been in operation for some
Tune at the Canadian camps, where
men who win ultimately be sent to
the fighting front are being trained.
These men are already thoroughly ac-
quainted with life in the trenches, but
the trenches have been dug for them
by the American machinery referred
to- thus relieving them of the hard
shovel work. This innovation was or
iginated by General Sam Hughes com
mandant Of the Canadian militia, and
has proved to be quite successful. AT
one of the camps two of these ma
chimes dug seven miles of trench 5b
feet deep, with 2-foot bottom. in 10
days. They are readily moved about
under their own power and dig
trenches of any reasonable depth or
width with straight or sloping sides.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
SAFETY FIRST.
Suggestive Slogans Devised to I'm
press Employees With Im3ortance.

press employees With Importance.
The safety firts movement has
reached the stage Of education through
slogans. says the Boston News Bur
eau. Safety first literature teens with
them. The walls Of workshops are
covered with them Among the fol-
lowing, drawn from the Inland Steel
company, and other sources. employ
ers might select an assortment:
Keep out of debt and danger Both
are alluring. yet poor friends to make
Peace. prosperity and good health
depend on the selection and proper
preparations of normal food material
The difference between wise man
and a fool Is the FOOLS mistakes never
teach him anything.
The thinker win not drink. The
drinker can not think.
Any fool can take chance 1t takes
brains to be careful
1t takes only a moment of careless
ness to cause lifetime of suffering.
When hurry interferes with safety.
cut out the hurry
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06

cent admissions To statehood, sections
2 and SO have been added, making
four sections in each township which
have been given free for the public
schools. But this has not been all
the national government has done fer
educational purposes. In 1862, con-
gress passed an act establishing the
policy of giving to all states for agri-
cultural and mechanical colleges
thirty thousand acres for each repre-
sentative and senator in congress.
This has been of great advantage to
the state universities in the western
states. Besides this general grant
gifts of other lands in special cases
have been made.
Retains Minerals.
The right of the state to these
school lands does not attach until at
ter they are surveyed and the survey
is approved by the department of the
interior. Neither do lands contain
ing minerals go under school grants,
for it has ever been the policy of the
federal government to retain for
future disposition all mineral lands.
Lieu Lands.
1t was found that often these schools
sections had been disposed of in some
other manner, or settlement had been
made thereon by some bona fled set
tier, and therefore it was impossible
for those particular sections to be
granted to the states To remedy
this situation, congress provided for
the section of indemnity lands, or
lands in lieu of the specific sections
is and 36 granted. These lieu lands
are selected by the states, as nearly
contiguous as possible to the original
sections, and are to be devoted to
school purposes the same as the or
iginal grant.
The total amount of land granted
to the state for common school pur-
poses is approximately seventy mill
lion acres. For educational purposes
of all kinds, it is said about eighty
seven million acres have been dis
tributed.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
NOTICE OF SALE.
No. 1852.

In the District Court of the First Ju-
dicial District of the State Of Idaho.
in and fer the County of Shushcne.
A. j. Brincken, plaintiff, vs.. Bear
Top Oroflno Consolidated Mining
Company, and Twin Sta M!alng
COMPANY defendants.
Notice is hereby given tina. IN pir-
suance { an order of the Judge f TIE
District Court of the First Jui.la1
District of the State of Idaho, in and
for the County of Shoshone made on
the 10th day of December, 1915, in the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office of the Old Veteran Mining
Company. Wallace, Idaho, December
s. 1915.
Notice is hereby given that at a reg
ular meeting Of the board of directors
of the above named company, held on
the 9th day of December, 1915, an as
sessment of two (2) mills per share
was levied upon the capital stock of
uary, 1916, to L. L. Brainard, secre-
the corporation subject thereto, pay
able on or before the 9Th day of jan
tary- treasurer of the company, at
Wallace, Idaho
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 9Th day
of January, 1916, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and unless payment is made be-
fore, will be sold on the goth day of
January, 1916, to pay such delinquent
assessment, together with the costs of
advertising and expenses of sale.
l.. L. BRAINARD,
D9-J6-5t Secretary Treasurer
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC
TALK OF THE FAR EAST
FlNANcIERs OF BOSTON AND
NEW YORK ARE IMPRESSED
WITH ITS SUCCESS.

That the identification success of
the Milwaukee has greatly impressed
fasteners is shown by this item from
the Boston News Bureau;
only by personal inspection can
the magnitude of the st. Paul's cleo
trification of its mountain grades be
appreciated. The trains are braked
on down grades by shutting the cur
rent off, and the railroad returns to
the plants from which 1t rents the
power the surplus electricity it does
not use.
An electric locomotive will haul,
over mountain grade 30 per cent
more tramload, at a cost yet to be de-
termined. but approximately 40 per
cent less than a steam locomotive, and
it is guaranteed to perform this UNI
precedented feat at is miles an hour.
as against miles for heavy freight
trains under steam, often with two To-
comotives to pull and one to push.
The single track road increases its ia
cilities to a double track standard in
speed, weight and length of train, to
say nothing of enormous savings in
cost of operation.
Two Men Do Work of Six.
when three steam locomotives are
used to drive heavy freight train
over the Rockies 1t is necessary to
have an engine crew of six men. But
for two electric locomotives (and there
is good reason to believe that one will
do) only two men are necessary, be-
cause these locomotives can be linked
together indefinitely and the same
control operates them ALL Moreover,
the engineer of steam locomotive un-
his air brake can be taught to
drive an electric motor in an inconsid-
cradle time.
with the merest inspection, at
points 200 or more miles apart, the
electric locomotive now installed on
the st. Paul can run 1000 miles and
does not have to be taken to pieces if
ttHS dSl6CtS utNelup. It's pdFlS are
and the enormous differ.
enee in operating costs will be appar-
ent to anybody who has watched the
stripping of steam locomotive in the
shops to make some relatively minor
repair
1T Is a safe guess that the extern
sion from Avery, the western end, over
the Cascade mountains, the northern
of. the coast range, to Seat
tie, will be made on completion of the
present 440 miles on January /, 1917
The colder the weather is the better
the electric locomotive works.
1T is fair to surmise that from
of the eastern rise in
Montana down to the Pacific coast at
Seattle, a few short years will see that
great and most expensive portion of =
The st. Paul entirely electrified"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
NEVADA OPAL DEPOSIT
IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY
REPORTED AS LARGEST AND THE
BEST THAT HAS EVER BEEN
DISCOVERED.

In the extreme northwest corner OF
Humboldt county, Nevada, is depos-
| it of precious opal, which in point OF
area and variety of product as well as
quality of the gem material, probably
exceeds any similar deposit known.
Opals have been found from time to
time during the last 20 years by stock
men who ranged their herds between
the Black Rock desert and the Cali
fornia line, but the first real gem
stones We're found by Deb" Rupp in
1912, on Virgin creek, a branch of
Thousand creek, about 80 miles south
west of DEMO and fully 20 miles south
OF the Nevada Oregon line. Rupp's
property Is about the center of the
gem bearing area as it is known that
gems occur in the same strata from
Soldier Meadows to the Oregon line, a
distance of over 40 miles.
Where opels Are Found.
The opal country" is the southwest
ern extension of the famous Idaho lava
beds, which extend across southern
Oregon and northern Nevada as far as
Mount Lassen in California. In the
Nevada section these lava beds form a
series of mesas or table lands, whose
elevation is usually from six to seven
thousand feet above sea level. These
plateaus are separated by steep and
narrow canyons.
The top of mesas is a heavy flow
of basalt, termed locally the rimrock.
under which are beds of soft, light
colored volcanic ashes. One bed had
a distinct olive or greenish tint, and If
is from this bed that most of the opals
are taken. The greenish color is due
to the reduction of the iron oxides bv
the presence of organic remains in the
ashes. These remains are very num-
erous and indicate that the ashes in
question fell on a heavy forest, which
1t Killed, and buried during the MILO
Gene age of the tertiary. Many ami
mails were also caught by the eruption
and their bones are the best evidence
Of the age of the ashes.
How Opals Are Formed.
The opal is derived from the decom-
position of the feldspars of volcanic
ashes both in the opal bed and those
above it. 1t occurs in pockets, streaks
ana punches and as a replacement of
the stumps, trunks and branches of
the fallen forest Some of the opaliz-
ed logs are three feet in diameter and
go feet in length.
The colors and varieties of the onal
round in Rupp's property alone include
almost every variety known. The col
ors vary from almost jet black through
red, green, indigo, orange, to almost
eolorless and transparent. The gems
of Queensland, Bohemia and Mexico
ire exactly duplicated, while morals
md pattern opals are not rare. The
gems vary in size from small pea to
chunks that will weigh pound or
more
In quality, hardness and lustre they
IRE not excelled and are not more sub
ect to checking and cracking than are
ne crude stones of other fields. In
Quantity and distribution their occur
ence warrants the belief that an i'm
'ortant industry may be built IN by
my industrious miner.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
NOTICE CT SPECIAL sTocKHoLD-
ERS' MEETING.

Office of the Advance Mining COM
pany. Limited, Missoula, Montana,
December IA, 1915
Notice is hereby given that special
stockholders meeting of the Advance
Mining Company, Limited, will be held
in Sweets hotel, Wallace, Idaho, on
January 10, 1916, at 1900 p. M of said
day for the purpose of electing
board of directors for The ensuing year
and for the transacting of other bust
ness as may properly come before said
meeting.
HENRC HUBERT,
Secretary Treasurer,
S24 Vine St, Missoula, Mont,
F. D. FOX,
Vice President,
S29 Cherry St, MissouIa, Mont.
D16-J6-4 t
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-06
IDAHO SCHOOL LANDS
STATES GREAT ASSET
GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN 81, oOO,-
oco ACRES TO THE STATE FOR
EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

Earl c. Arnold, professor of law in
the university Of Idaho, has prepared
tffe following valuable information re-
garding the school lands held by the
state: The federal government has
been more generous to the state in the
matter of granting lands and funds
for educational purposes than most
persons imagine Had 1t not been
for a gift from the national govern
ment many of our state universities
would be crippled because of lack Of
funds. The burden for providing the
running expenses of a university
would bear hard on the taxpayers in
the sparsely settled, undeveloped
states of the west. In some states, 1t
is said, the federal government bears
as much larger share of the expense of
running the university than the state.
This is notably true in the state of
Idaho, where the funds appropriated
by the federal government, and the
income from the sale Of government
lands comprises over 81 per cent Of
the amount expended by it's state
university during the present bien-
num-
Helped The Schools.
But not only has the federal gov
eminent provided bounteously for
the higher institutions of learning,
hut it has done even more in the
case Of the comon schools While
the federal government has provided
but little of the machinery for the
educational system, leaving that al
most entirely to the states, yet it has
furnished the funds with which the
state could begin its educational sys-
tenn, and keep it going until the
population increased so that the tax
alton could be made equal to the de-
mands.
Began Early.
This policy of giving lands to the
states is not of recent origin. Before
the constitution was adopted, during
the confederation, the then federal
government gave lands for the bene-
fit of educational purpose In the
of the confederation on May
20, 17S5, it was provided that there
shall be reserved the lot No. 16 of
every township for the maintenance
Of public schools within said town.
ship" This policy met with approval,
and was the inception of the present
generous federal policy The only
question was whether these lands
should remain subject to state or
federal control.
Grants Increased.
Between 1885 and 1S4S every state
when admitted was granted section
l6 of every township. Since the lat
ter date all states have received sec
tons 16 end SO as they have been
admitted, In some of the more re-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-06
OTHERS IN CONTEST DOING
BEST TO BEAT PENDLETON
CITIES WITH QUEEN CANDIDATE
CONSIDER THIS CITY
CHIEF OPPONENT.

"The other cities over the state are
out to beat PendletOn. You people
may have fixed upon one or two or
three of the other contestants as your
principal opposition but everyone Of
the others recognize Pendleton as
their chief opposition"
This is the statement made this
morning by w r. Crow Of Portland
who is connected with the queen con.
test Of the Portland Rose Festival
His remarks made IT evident that II
Pendleton wins the honor of naming
the queen she will have to put up
strong fight
Mr.. Crow is here in the interests Of
the campaign which, he states. Is
growing quite warm. He feels GER
tain that the queen will be named
from outside Of Portland and thinks
Pendleton has as GOOD a chance as
any Several Of the Willamette val
ley towns he states are making big
efforts to name the queen, various or
ganlzations ralIying 70 the support
Of their candidates with dances and
other benefits.
Miss Muriel Sailing Of Pendleton is
still in the lead but voting will be
heavy during the next two weeks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-06
Harry Redford Case DISMISSED,

BY motion of the district attorney
this afternoon the perjury case against
Harry Redford was dismissed. The
evidence of the state failed to show
that the druggist selling alcohol to the
defendant had caused him to swear
to the affidavit he made, which, ac-
cording to the opinion of the district
attorney made it impossible to con-
vict him of perjury, There is no
question that Redford secured more
alcohol than his statement shows, but
according to District Attorney Stei-
wer, the prohibition law does not fix
any limit to the amount of alcohol a
person may secure from drug store.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-06
FYremen Give BANQUET.

The members of Hose Company
No. last evening banqueted the
members of the city council, the may
or and the members OF the other hose
companies in their quarters in the
city hall Chief w +. Ringold acted
os POSTMASTER and speeches were
made by Mayor Best, Councilmen Fol-
som and Taylor and visiting firemen,
An enjoyable time was had and all
did full justice to the variety of
eats prepared by Mrs. Bert Lowell.
Bert Lowell and Harrison Minnis,
members of No. served the banquet.