The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-30

ing the greatest popular interest i
that having to do with the oil posi-
b1litles of the southeastern part O
the state. Here two parties are dom.
work, one, in the Bonneville-Ca caribou
| area, east of Idaho Falls and nortl
| of Soda Springs, under the direction
| of Virgil r. Kirkham, one of the mem
bers of the geological staff of tn,
school of mines, assisted by w. H
B1rchby, recent graduate in geo
logy. This party is engaged in map
ping the structure of the beds, which
in parts of Wyoming, have beer
large producers of oil, and which al
suitable places to be determined BY
this survey would seem to justify
prospect drilling in this state. The
other party, under the direction OF
A. M. Piper, a member of the bureau
staff, not connected with the univer-
sity, and assisted by Felix Plastino
graduate of the university and a
member of the faculty of the Idaho
Technical Institute at Pocatello, is
making a reconnaissance survey OF
the oil possibilities in Power and
Oneida counties.
Study Gold Resources
S. M. Ballard of Placerville has re-
Gently completed about three weeks
of field work in Idaho county, de-
signed to supplement and bring down
to date the data which has been col
lected both by DR.. Francis A Thorn
son and Mr.. Ballard, during the past
three years. DR.. Thomson has also
completed brief reconnaissance in
the Pierce City country. All of the
material under this head is shortly
to be embodied in a bulletin which
will probably be entitled Geology
and Gold Resources of North Central
Idaho" to be issued this fall
Mr.. Ballard is now completing in
the field work and laboratory studies
for similar bulletin on the Geo
logy and Gold Resources of the Boise
Basin
DR.. F. B. Laney, head of the de-
partment of geology in the university
and member of the United States
survey staff, will shortly
conclude the field work in the Seven
Devils and adjacent areas, prepare
tory to the preparation of a scientific
of the genesis of the cop
per ore deposits of this important re-
gion. DR.. Laney's production when
will probably be issued as
4 professional paper by the United
states geological survey.
Bulletin to Appear
Prof D. G. Livingston, formerly a
member of the university staff but
low head of the department of geo.
ogy at the Oregon Agricultural col
eye, is completing a study begun
hree years ago on the ore deposits
If the Cuddy mountain and adjacent
treas. Professor Livingston's work
S expected to result in a bulletin on
his area to be published by the Idaho
bureau during the coming winter
Clyde P. Ross of the United States
BIOLOGICAL survey staff in co-opera- ,
ion with the state bureau, is at pre-
ent completing and correlating the |
york done in previous years in the |
lailey area by Messrs. Umpleby,
Vestgate, and others, and it is anti
ipated that bulletin including all
f this work will be issued by the
urvey early in the spring.
Upon the completion of his work
HALEY, the program for Mr. Ross
alls for him to make reconnais-
ance survey of the copper deposits
| the immediate vicinity of Salmon
ity in Lemhi county. In this work
9 will probably be assisted by A. L.
nderson, who has recently com
leted his work for the masters de-
rec in geology at the university.
Experiment at Mines
AS a part of the metallurgical
ork, in cooperation with the United
-ates bureau of mines, A. w. Fahren-
aid, the United States bureau of
ines ore dressing engineer, who is
stationed at Moscow, is
at the present time in |
cooperation with the Bunker Hill e.
lllivan Mining and Concentrating
mpany, extensive experiments in
e development of new type of
assifier, developed Jointly by Mr..
lhrenwald and the late r. B. Elder,
llch has given such successful pre- r
ninary results that a 150-ton unit
being completed by the Bunker Hill Z
for experimental demonstra-
IN on a large scale
Growing out of this work are two
one in the application
classification to flotation concen-
alton and the other the adaptation 4
different concentrating tables to
rious classification feeds The
ter phase of these problems is in
arge, this summer, of G. B. Mar
all, instructor in mining and metal
'gy in the school of mines.
How to Treat Ores
Another metaIlurgical problem to
studied during the coming year is
1T of the metallurgica1 treatment
dry silver ores and the oxidized
d-copper ores in Blaine, Custer,
mhi, and adjacent counties. This c,
rk will be under the supervision