The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-26

1923 of the Jardine Mining COM
pany, of Jardine. Park county, is
last month, is of more than or
binary interest to the people of south
central Montana, not alone because
of the fact that its property is the
only gold mining and milling corpor-
alton in active operation in this ter
rltory, but more particularly because
the brochure gives an accurate and
detailed description of the methods
employed in the mining and manu-
facture of commercial arsenic, the
mineral insecticide which has revo-
lutionized the methods of fighting
the boil weevil in the cotton fields
of the south.
Names of Officers
The anne of the officers of the
company are given as follows:
Henry G. Sitfel, president; Wheel
ing, w. Va.
M. c. Bacorn, vice president and
general manager, Jardine, Mont.
F. w. Bacorn, treasurer, Butte,
Mont.
M. E. Sewer, secretary, gardine,
Mont.
Henry G. Stifel, F. W. Bacorn, ].
E. Stevenson, j. B. McKillican and
Fl. G. Bacorn, directors.
The company maintains two offices,
one in Jardine and the other in Butte.
The accounting work required in
the compilation of the report for 1923
was done by B. F. Holcomb, certified
public accountant, of Bozeman and
Livingston, assisted by Edward E.
Grabow.
The company has made an enviable
record of accomplishment in the min
ing industry, in that the business is
conducted at all times strictly in the
interest of the stockholders because
of the fact there are no promotion ex-
penses; and nothing in the way of big
development is ever undertaken until
a thorough investigation of the pos
sibilities of the innovation is made
by experts and the money for the
work is directly in hand.
Public Always Welcome
One of the policies of the concern,
inaugurated some years ago by the
group Of Wheeling, w. Va, business
men who took over the property at
that time, is that of extending a stand
ing hearty welcome to visitors, sight
seers and tourists to inspect the stamp
mill and view the methods of mining
employed. According to Mr.. Holcomb,
the road from Gardiner to Jardine is
kept open at all times for the hauling
by truck of gold concentrates to the
Helena smelters, and for the shipping
out Of the finished ~arsenical product
to the eastern and southern markets.
"Motor parties from Bozeman who
intend to visit Yellowstone park" said
Mr.. Holcomb, could not possibly take
a more enjoyable trip this summer
than through Rocky canyon to Liv-
ingston and thence up the Yellowstone
valley, past Chico Hot Springs, to
Gardiner, turning to the left and
crossing the big red bridge over the
Gardiner river and then over the big
hill on the left bank that looks more
precipitous than it really is. The dis
lance from Gardiner to Jardine is
about the same as from Gardiner to
Mammoth Hot Springs. The trip
through the park could be made so as
to leave Wonderland at West Yellow
stone. There is no need for me to re-
count the beauties of the wonderful
motor ride of over 90 miles down the
beautiful West GaIlatin canyon, back
to Bozeman."
How Arsenic Is Made
The ore, as it comes from the mine,
is dumped into bins at the top of the
4O-stamp mill, and goes through a gy-
ratory crusher, which reduces it TO
pieces the size of a hens egg, into
storage bins below. From these stor-
age bins it feeds by gravity into the
stamp battery, which crushes it with
water to particles which will pass
through a screen containing about 400
opening per squire inch.
This "pulp" Of + and water flows
over copper plates coated with mer-