The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-04-05
BUTTE 8 SUPERIOR HAS
GREAT ELECTRIC HOIST
LARGEST AND MOST MODERN IN
WORLD SAYS JAcKLlNG--
HYDE DECISION.

THE Butte & Superior company
was the first company to develop the
oil flOtation process and put it into
practical commercial use in the Unit
ed States. Previous to the time that
our company took up the process and
put it into operation, no single dollar
of profit had ever been made by any
mining company out of the process in
the country"
Such was the declaration made by
Col. d. C. Jackling, managing director
of the Butte & Superior, Utah Cop
per, Alaska Gold and other great min
ing companies, in discussing the oil
flotation process last night says the
Anaconda Standard.
Mr.. lacking spent all of yesterday
visiting the mine and plant of the
Butte & Superior company and left
at an early hour this morning in his
private car over the. Milwaukee.
No infringement.
1--WE have been. operating" said he
since December, when the United
States supreme court handed down it's
decision in the Hyde case so that ac-
cording to that decision, we are not in
any manner infringing on the patent
rights Of the Minerals Separation
company At the time the first case
came UP, the local court rendered a
decision in the case which was care
fully prepared in accordance with the
courts views on the case. Later the
court of appeals. to which the case
was carried rendered decision that
set aside the local courts decision.
After that decision was rendered We
operated under what we regarded as
our rights and which had been defined
in that court decision.
I'VE ran along under that finding
until the supreme court decision.
which held that the use of less than
20 pounds of oil to the ton of ore was
an infringement on the patent of the
Minerals Separation company. We
Immediately changed the operating
plans under the process to meet the
new conditions. That, in brief, tells
the story to date. OF course, there
are a number of poinst involved
which it would not be appropriate
for lne to talk about previous to the
decision of the case in the courts.
Pioneer in Using FIotation.
"Our case will come up in the
courts here in short time. The fact
is not generally known that previous
to the Butte & Superior taking up the
OF! flotation process, not single mi
ming company in the United States
was using the process in a commercial
way and making any money out of it.
We took up the process and made
such progress and secured such re-
suits with it that today all the big
progressive mining companies are
turning to flotation methods in handl-
ing their ores.
mo change in our machinery was
necessary in adapting ourselves to
the new regulations In the past two
months we have made great Roadway
in the use Of the process. We are
handling our normal output of ore
and getting the finest possible results.
I'VE are using, of course, a great
deal more oil than we did formerly.
We had the process developed so that
the minimum amount of oil was re-
quired to get the best results. 1t was
the same principle that would lead
one to use two pounds of powder in
stead of 10 in blasting If the two
pounds would get the same results.
New Hoist a Wonder.
"The new electric hoist which we
are installing at the Butte & Super
ior's new shaft will be ready for OPP
/. Grafton by the middle of May, barring
accidents. This is not the hoist for
4 the smaller shaft, which will be run
ming within a couple Of weeks, but
the large new one for hosting ore.
1T will be the largest and most
modern and up-to-date electric hoist
in the world. 1t will have a capacity
that will permit of the hosting of
tons of ore from depth of 5000 feet
in one and ltwo-fifths minutes. That
hoist will be of sufficient capacity to
handle all the ore from the Butte &
Superior's mine that can be handled
in my lifetime.
There are some steam hoists that
surpass it, but no electrically driven
ones"