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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
ASSESSMENTS LEVIED.

American Commander Mining &
Milling co.-Levied January 3. / cent
payable February l to J. L. McCor-
mick, assistant secretary. Wallace
Delinquent sale March l. Postponed
to March Is.
Alma Ray Mining Co.-Levied De-
cember 20. 1 mill. payable February l
to G. B. Forbes. secretary. Kellogg.
Delinquent sale March /
Blaine and Emmett Mining Co., Ltd.
Levied January 4, 2la mills. payable
February 4, to r. w. Skeman. secre-
tary, Kellogg. Delinquent sale March S.
Postponed to April s.
Black Traveller Copper Mining Co.
Levied February 9, IL mills. payable
March 20 to }. r. Bean. secretary
treasurer Wallace. Delinquent sale
April 21
Enterprise Mining co.-Levied Feb
ruary Is, 2 mills, payable March IS to
w. A. Tuson. secretary, Kellogg. De
linquent sale April 10.
Friend Mining Co.-Levied January
"a. mills, payable February 25, to
William Schierding, treasurer, 32l Lin
dele building Spokane Delinquent
sale March Is.
Hypotheek Mining & Milling Co.
Levied January 3, mills. payable
February to Otto A. OLSON. secre-
tary- treasurer. Wallace Delinquent
March g. Postponed to April l.
Jack Waite Mining co.-Levied on
September 10. 1 cent. payable OctO-
Der 25 to Chas. E. Chamberlain. sec
rotary treasurer. box 217S. Spokane.
Wash. Delinquent sale November 20.
Postponed to March 16.
Lime Greek Mining Co.-Levied Jan
uary p, 5 mills, payable March l to
T. s. Tweed secretary treasurer, Wal
lace. Delinquent sale April 1.
New Caledonia Consolidated Mining
Co.-Levied November 80. mills, pay
able in installments December 80, Jan
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
DIAMOND DRILL SLUDGE.
How 1t is Collected and Its Value in
Samping.

How It is Collected and Its Value in
Samping.
In paper prepared for the Febru-
airy, 1922. meeting of the A. l. NJ T.,
X. d. Longyear describes methods of
taking care of diamond drill cores and
collecting the sludge. Allowing to run
into a tub and overflow should not be
concentration. A sludge box with baf-
files is an improvement but the best
method is to run the return water into
three or more barrels through a pipe
or launder. When one barrel is filled
the pipe is swung to the next barrel.
and so on. After the material in the
first barrel has settled sufficiently so
that the clear water can be siphoned
off, the barrel is again filled. The
process is continued until the end of
the interval to be sampled. All of the
material is then poured into one bar
rel and allowed to settle further At
ter all of the clear water has been
drained off, the residue is removed
slowly dried over a fire. quartered and
sacked. The number of barrels used
depends on the time necessary for the
material in suspension to settle. When
this method is used the hole must be
in such condition that all of the cut
tings are washed to the surface. on
one of the large copper deposits in
Arizona this method gave remarkably
accurate results even though less than
50 per cent of the core was recovered
Later test pits and mining operations
checked the drill sampling within
OOOO5 per cent in carbonate ore and
OO5 per cent in sulphide ore. bit
recovering a rs Inch core was used.
The choice of sampling methods must
depend on the engineers judgment of
the character of the material to be
sampled. In case of doubt, it is better
to err on the side of accuracy than
to risk getting a worthless sample.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02

ton of gold used in the arts during
over total production OF the metal in
this country is indicated by the annual
report of Director of the Mint Roy
Baker, the arts using total valued
at SS2,215,0SZ while the production
stood at $5l.lS6,OOO. OF the arts con
sumption. S54OOs6O9 was new mater
ial.
The year ending June 80 1921. stood
high in mint coinage, with the total of
55S.S6S.492 pieces, being exceeded in
the history of the mint only by 1918
and 1920.
The total value of gold acquired at
minis and assay offices was S673. l61.
1854. Silver purchases amounted to
66,126,511 ounces, which exceeded
those of any other year OF this silver
62.SS0 $50 ounces were purchased I'M
der the Pittman law at 81 an ounce.
the other being purchased at an aver
age of ~ cents per ounce.
Mining Conditions.
General conditions in the gold min
ing industry in California in 1920 were
such that all the larger gold mines
curtailed operations, many by so per
cent numbers ceased work for time
while others closed permanently al
lowing the mines to fill with water.
according to the report. In deep
mines the cost of producing an ounce
of gold increased from 1851 in 1913 to
S19.15 in 1920. The Cripple Creek gold
district of Colorado labored under the
of high costs and the I'M
changing value of gold In Oregon the
cost of labor and supplies was eX-
cessive and prevented full time work !
in the productive mines, closing some |
OF them altogether and also stopping |
prospecting and prohibiting the start |
ing of any new mining enterprises of |
note. 1t is said, however, that the |
downward trend of production has APP
parently been checked. In Utah ex-
penses OF mining shipping and smelt-
ing were excessive.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
GERM PROOF HOUSES.
Odd Structure Occupied by a Japanese
Scientist.

Odd Structure Occupied by Japanese
Scientist
One of the oldest domiciles on earth
is that erected at Yokohama by a noted
Japenese bacteriologist. 1t may be de-
scribed as a dustproof. airproof, germ
proof building of glass, which stands
on the open, unshaded grounds of the
hospital of Yokohama.
The house is forty-four feet long,
twenty three feet wide and seventeen
feet high Large panes of glass. one
half inch thick and about four inches
apart, are set in iron frames so as to
form the sides of a cellular building
block. OF these blocks the walls are
constructed.
There are no window sashes the air
escape being through several small
openings around the upper part of the
second story. but through which no
air from the outside is admitted.
The air supply is obtained from
considerable distance, forced through
a pipe and carefully filtered through
cotton wool to clease it of bacteria.
To insure further protection and
sterilization, the air is driven against
q glycerine- coated plate of glass, which
captures all the germs the wool spares.
The few germs brought into the house
in the clothes of the visitors soon die
in the warm sunlight with which the
place is flooded.
The space between the glasses Of the
building blocks is filled with solution
Of salts which absorbs the heat of the
sun. so that the rooms of the house are
much cooler than those protected by
the thiclxest shades. In the evening
the interior is heated by the salts radi-
ating the heat they have absorbed dur
ing the day.
SO effective is the system of regu-
lating the temperature that few
hours Of sunlight. even in freezing
weather will render the house hab-
table II is only when several cloudy
DAYS follow in succession that artifi-
cial heat is needed Then it is sup
nlied by pumping in hot air
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02

uar, 80 and February rs to NJ w.
Emmett secretary Kellogg Delin-
sale March 30
North Bunker Hill Mining Co.-Lev-
led February t. 4 mills, payable March
8 to n. Il. Hardy. secretary. Kellogg.
Delinquent sale April $.
Pine Creek Mining Co.-Levied jan
uary II, IL mills, payable February
IA. to O. W. Lewis. secretary -treasur-
err Wallace, Idaho. Delinquent sale
March g.
Slovenian Mining Co.-Levied Jan
uary 25, l mill. payable March 4 to
G. w Dougherty secretary treasurer
Wallace. Delinquent sale March 20.
Syndicate Mining and Exploration
Co., Ltd.-Levied January 9. l mill
payable two nstallments. February Is
March Is, to Louis Stevens. secretary
Wardner Delinquent sale April IS.
Silver Lode Mining & Milling Co.
Levied November 80. 1 mill, payable in
three installments December 30, Janu-
airy SO and February % to NJ. W. EN-
nett secretary. Kellogg Delinquent
sale March 80.
True Fissure Mining Co.-Levied
January 2S, mill, payable April l to
A. II. Fox. ecretary- treasurer Wallace.
Delinquent sale May /.
Tarbox Mining co.-Levied Sep
TENDER 20. mills. payable November
II to John f. Ferguson. treasurer.
Wallace. Delinquent sale December
20 Postponed to January 30 Post
med to February 27.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
GOLD PRODUCTION 1922.
SHOWNOGREATINCREASE.
OPINION OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL
sURVEY-ooL0 AND SILL
YER IN 1921.

Gold production in the United States
during 1921 decreased $2.OSl.4OO in
value. as compared with 1920, while
silver production showed cores
ponding decline of 4.s97,1S4 ounces, ac-
cording to preliminary estimates made
by the director of the mint based up
on data secured through cooperation
of the geological survey The total
gold production for the United States
during 1921 is given as 2.S75.479
ounces, valued at sac. Jos. 500. while the
silver output is estimated at 5O.S64. $50
ounces.
Commenting on prospects of gold
production during 1922. experts of the
geological survey express the opinion,
unofficially. that no radical increase
over the 1921 figures will be achieved.
This belief is based upon the fact that
little or no development work has been
carried on during the reign of excess
sive operation costs. II is the opinion
OF close students of the situation that
the effects of this period during which
activities have been at
low ebb will be felt by the industry
long after reduced operation costs per-
nit the mines to produce at profit
California produced more than twice
as much gold as any other state dur
ing 1921 Utah and Montana led in
production of silver.
Production of gold bv states follows:
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
GREAT CHINESE WALL.
Bricks in Famous Structure Now Soft
and Crumblino.

An examination OF the bricks and
mortar in the Great Wall of China was
made at shan hai-kwan by chemist
attached to the bureau of science at
Manila. He reports that the bricks
are so weak that pieces may he broken
off with the fingers.
They are much larger than ordinary
building bricks. gray in color. and re-
semble pumice somewhat i'm structure
The mortar which is pure white under
the exposed surface. is much stronger
than the bricks. The tradition that
the bricks were dried in the sun only
has been confirmed by laboratory tests
If they had been dried in the kiln the
appearance of the wall would have
been considerably different and its
strength and durability would have
been much greater The general APP
pearance and analysis of the mortar
indicate that no sand was mixed with
the lime
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
Endorse ReeIproeaI Aareement.

A resolution indorsing Senator Poin-
deNters effort to bring about a re-
ciprocal agreement between Canada
and the United States. providing that
the lead bullion derived from ores
shipped across the international line,
either way. may be returned free Of
duty to the country of origin. was
passed at a recent joint meeting of the
Northwest Mining association and of
the mining bureau of the Spokane
chamber of commerce. 1t states that
such an agreement would not inter
fere with the lead schedules provided
in the Fordney tariff bill and would
provide alternative smelling outlets for
ore from districts adjacent to the in
ternatiOnal boundary in WASHINGTON
and British Columbia
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
THE BULL MOOSE.
Habits and Peeuliarities of This King
of Bio Game.

of Big Game.
Although taller than an ordinary
horse, weighing more than half a ton,
and adorned with widespreading ant
lers, the bull moose stalks with ghostly
silence through the thickest forests,
where man can scarcely move without
being betrayed by the loud cracking
of dry twigs In summer the moose
loves low-lying, swampy forests, inter
spersed with shallow lakes and slug
gish streams. In such places it often
wades up to it's neck in a lake to feed
on succulent water plants and when
reaching to the bottom becomes en-
tirely submerged. These visits to the
water are sometimes by day. but usu-
ally by night, especially during the
season when the calves are young and
the horns of the bulls are but partly
grown.
Late in the autumn. with full grown
antlers, the bulls wander through the
forests looking for their mates, at
times uttering far reaching cries and
calls of defiance to their rivals and
occasionally elashing their horns
against the saplings in the exurber-
ance of masterful vigor Other bulls
at times accept the challenge, and
hasten to meet the rival for a battle
royal. At this season the call of the
COW moose also brings the nearest bulls
quickly to her side. Hunters take ad-
vantage of this. and by initiating the
call through a birch trumpet
bring the most aggressive bulls down
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
Production Costs.

Indicative of the gold mine opera
ton cost situation in California where
the industry has best recovered, it is
Icing pointed out that the peak price
for labor was a so percent increase
over the 1915 price, with only y per-
cent decrease from the top level to the
present time. While recognition is
given the fact that labor is more eff
cient now than when wages were at
the peak, this condition does not make
more than a nominal difference in the
comparison of ultimate costs. The cost
of electric power in California has not
decreased. Powder is about IS per-
cent higher than in 1915.
Labor, power, explosives and lum-
Der, forming the greater portion Of
present costs. are less expensive than
two years ago. but have not yet APP
preached within a range close to the
1915 level. California operators ex-
press certainty that low grade pro-
ducers in that district have little hope
for recovery until costs have reached
a point not over 10 to Is per cent
greater than they were in 1915, doubt
even being expressed in some quarters
that they can resume profitable opera
ton at that level. reopening and re-
expenses being taken into
consideration.
Consumption of Gold by Arts.
An outstanding excess of cons,mp-
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS.

Dobson Pass Mining Co.-Annual
melting to be held at Pacific hotel,
Wallace, on Monday. March g. at 11:OO
"a nj. =. Rogers, president
Wisconsin Mining Co.-Annual meet
ing to be held in First National Bank
building, Kellogg. on Monday. March
e. at 1880 p NV O. Straight, secre-
tary.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
Daily Quotations of Silver, Lead, Zinc and Copper
Which Are the Actual Basis of Settlement


The
all
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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02

difference shown between the 1920 and
1921 output may be changed materially
ports are made. Preliminary esti-
mates of the 1920 production varied
by almost 100000 from the figures
presented in the final report.
The production record was set in
1915, when the gold output was valued
at s1O1. O35. 700. and 74,961, O75 ounces of
silver were mined
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02

Weather bureau figures go to show
that the windiest place in the United
States is Point Reyes. Cal
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
Mining and Development
Companies of the Occur d'Alenes

Assessments Levied Delinquent L-Donas of
Companies Of Special Interest All Stockholders.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
Total ................. 2.875.47s s4s1O5,5Oo
Silver Production 1921.

Silver production by the various
states is estimated as follows, the val
ne being 81 per ounce as provided by
the Pittman act:
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-02
JUDICIOUS MINE WORK
IS URGED BY ENGINEER
ELEMENT OF CHANCE NEcES-
SARY IN ORDER TO WIN
LARGE PROFITS.

(Henry NJ. Atkinson in Salt Lake
Tribune)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-26
AERONAUTICAL PROBLEMS BEING
SOLVED AT LANGLEY FIELD. VA
for Gasoline Engine
Is Being Sought by National
Advisory Committee
tBy Tho Associates press)

WASHINGTON, April 25.-Aeronau-
tical problems which have baffled the
best minds of the scientific world are
being solved with marked success
through experiments in the laborator-
les at Langley Field, Va, under the
direction of the National advisory
committee for aeronautics. Joseph A.
Ames, chairman of the executive com
mittee, declared today in an address
at the concluding session Of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences.
There are three outstanding prob
lens in aeronautics, DR.. Ames said,
those involving the discovery Of a
substitute for the gasoline engine. de-
termination of the shape and section
Of wing which will improve the per-
formance of an airplane and the re-
placement of the ordinary experiment
on models of airplanes or their parts
by method giving complete informa-
tion concerning full sized machines.
One result OF the experiments, DR..
Ames explained, is the satisfactory
modification of the liberty engine
which will enable it to function by
an injection of oil. This is done by in
creasing the size of the piston, in or
Continued on Page Six)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-26
FORT WORTH SWEPT
BY MIGHTY FLOOD
Seventeen. Persons. Reported
Dead and Property Damage
Will Reach Million Dollars
tey The Asaoclated Pre,.A

FORT WORTH, Tex. April 25.-Sev-
enteen probably dead and property
damage estimated at approximately
81, 100000 is the toll of flood which
swept Forth Worth early today, car
rying before 1t scores of residences and
small buildings, overflowing hundreds
of acres of land and inundating sew
eral city streets.
The estimate of possibly seventeen
dead was made by Major L. c. Whise
in charge of Red Cross relief
The flood was confined chiefly to tie
lowlands adjoining the tributaries of
the Trinity river. Marine, Sycamore,
.Ciearfolk ks and the Trinity river were
swollen, overflowing the bos- -ons
nearby
The flood is the most severe in the
history Of the city, according to old
time residents. Trinity river stood at
36.7 at noon and was still rising The
gauge measured only seven feet yes
terday. With the break Of the East
First street levee late today it was be-
lieved the water OF laing released
would spread out, losing some OF it's
force.
,SOHilllS Otl the slSclS VI IdlH, Tile
heaviest in the history of Fort Worth
ana wind and e.e.tr!cal sto N, $50
flood took. scores o. people by sur
p,'ss. The lowlan Is adjoining S.ys..
more creek were tho st to saffer
an at one time W.s.ser was stan sns
Level with the roofs OF residences.
Werd reaching here tonight froru
prints north of For: Worth Indicate
tina: further rise Of the wat. Is
expected. Rescue 6: ..kers are labor
,ng l.. lessly to 5--4,k@ relief to flood
sufferers.
With boiler rooms of the city power
and light plant flooded. residential
Fort Worth is spending night in
darkness. No drinking water has been
available since early morning.
With the city facing night Of
darkness. 500 members of the Ameri-
can Legion were patrolling the streets
augmenting the police force.
Many hihgways were covered with
water cutting off traffic.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-26
BE NO CHANGE
IN POLICY OF
COAL STRIKERS
Officials Of the Union Are Well
Satisfied With The Progress
Being Made
(sy The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, April 25.-There
will be no change in the policy of the
United Mine Workers Of America in
the conduct Of the national coal strike,
said John L. Lewis, International pres
ident, here today. Mr.. Lewis stopped
for a conference with the officers OF
district number 5, while on his way
from indianapolis to Charleston, w.
Va, where tomorrow he will confer
with the officers Of district number
II.
Mr.. Lewis said after a conference
with President p. T. Pagan and
Secretary William Hargast, that he
was very well satisfied with the pro-
gress being made toward the organi-
zation Of the miners in the extensive
Fayette and Westmoreland non-union
fields where, his reports showed, hum
dreds Of non-union miners had joined
in the strike.
Reports that number of mines in
the Fayette Westmoreland region,
which had been affected by the strike,
resumed operations today, excited much
interest in Pittsburgh. Operators de-
clared that this pointed to early re-
sumption in other mines while union
leaders said such defections were al
ways to be expected particularly in
the region where the miners had never
been on strike.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-26
STATEMENTS MADE
by ARMY HEADS ON
ARMY SUPPLY BILL
Argue in Support of War De
partment's Program For an
Army of 10000 Men
HADT. S. BEEN READY
WOULD BEEN NO WAR
Army. Figures. Fixed. by. the
House Considered Below Safe
Minimum Requirements
10y The Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, April 25.-A plea for
national military policy which would
assure the checking of aggression by for
sgn powers in its incipiency and which
would avoid Confusion. disorder, delay
and extravaganza" when emergencies
arise. was made today by Secretary
Weeks and General Pershing before a
senate committee in support Of the war
department program for an army Of Is,
900 officers and 10000 enlisted men.
The statements by the two army heads
concluded the public discussion of the
annual army supply bill and the appro-
priations committee which has charge of
II will begin Immediately to write the
measure.
General Pershing declared that had the
United States been adequately prepared
there is little question that the United
States under strong leadership could
have prevented the world war altoget-
her" He added that there was no doubt
that the civil war likewise would never
have occurred had the Union been equip
ped with an army of reasonable size and
ready for immediate use.
The army of 115,o00 men and 1,00C
officers, fixed by the House was con
sidered by Secretary Weeks to be below
the safe minimum requirements" Of the
country. He asserted that ''unbusinssS
IKE conduct Of the military establish
ment In years gone by was responsible
for the expenditure unnecessary" billions
in Americas wars.
I'VE have entered each war with our
national defense system unorganized, 20
Mr.. Weeks continued. This has requir-
ed an eXtemporized organization thrown
together In great haste and resulting
always in excessive expenditure and ex-
cessive economic disturbance. In each
war, we have consistently adhered to a
policy OF forming a great citizens army
10 reinforce our small regular establish
ment, but In the absence of any definite
army has been one of confusion. disorder
plans the process of forming this citizen
delay and extravaganza.
IN General Pershing's statement regard
ing the size Of the army, he warned that
human nature has not changed and that
our own experiences should have
taught us that the existence of envy,
jealousy and hatred can no more be ig-
nored among nations than among individ-
uals."
year to year" said the general, "a con-
We should possess and continue from
',slent and well matured plan contem-
pat'hG definite preliminary preparation
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