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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

Of mountains on the east side of the
Saltwater river opposite the remains OF
old Nye City. This drilling showed that
the veins continued down at least sew
eral hundred feet below the surface
outcrop and sufficient ore was blocked
out to make large-Scale operations adj
visable
Government officials decided to let
the actual mining of the ore be done
by responsible private companies who
would act as agents for the govern
ment on the defense program. FL
nanced by the defense plant corpo-
ration, a subsidiary of the reconstruc-
ton finance corporation, the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co. is acting as gov
eminent agent in the development Of
both the Benbow and Mouat proper
ties.
Run Four Tunnels
During the last year, four long tun-
nels have been run in the Benbow
area as a preliminary to operations to
stope the ore. Installation of tram
way and construction Of a mill at the
foot of the mountain slope a short
distance above Dean keynote present
activity in the Benbow area. These
operations are being designed so that
approximately 800 tons of ore can be
mined and treated per day from the
Benbow claims. The forest service has
played an important role by construct
ing a new road into the area.
The bureau of mines has been con-
Quoting a diamond drilling program
in the Mouat area during the summer
months and has blocked out a consid-
cradle tonnage Of ore. The Anaconda
company is driving two tunnels into
this area. A tractor trail has been |
constructed, two camps have been es-
tablished and Nye City is awakening |
after a lapse of more than so years. |
Government officials point out that |
If exploration work proves out as ex-
pected, large-scale mining and milling
operations will border the sides Of the
Saltwater river in the chrome belt
area
VIII Supply 40 Percent
Officials of the bureau of mines es-
innate that when full production gets
under way, approximately 40 percent
of the total chromite needed in the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
ROTARY TOOLS
ARE ARRIVING
IN MICHIGAN

MOUNT PLEASANT, NuCH-More
rotary rigs are operating today in
Michigan than ever before and for the
first time a basin field is under de-
velopment with rotary rigs employed
as one Of the standard methods for
drilling all the hole, says Oil g. Gas
News. One major company has been
using rotaries entirely for its Reed
City field development and three
other companies are using rotary rigs
in part of their development.
It was not until 1888 that rotary was
used to drill $500 feet in the state.
One other was drilled to 3,700 feet the
following year and nine drilled to ap-
proximately $500 feet last year in the
North Adams field, Arenac county.
This comprised the complete "all way"
rotary drilling in the basin up to July
l this year.
In shallow drilling 1900 to 1000 feet,
for Traverse lime production in the
Grand Rapids field rotary rigs were
used during 1e39-194O on approximate
ly 10 percent of the 500 wells drilled.
Chief use of rotary in Michigan has
been for the drilling Of 1901 ZOO feet
Michigan Stray sand gas wells in the
basin and with combination rotary
cable rigs to drill 3,6OO-4,OOO feet wells
in the basin. Where the combination
method is employed the customary
practice is to use rotary through the
Stray gas sand and the Marshall-Red
water horizon where 8, Z or 69s inch
casing is set and cemented. At this
casing point these wells are standard
lied and completed with cable tools.
The standardizing point ranges from
400 to 1,7OO feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

/ defense program can be procured from
the Mouat and Benbow areas. The de-
tense requirement is equal to approx
mately 80 to IS percent Of the needs
of the nation during peacetime.
To Test Depth
The bureau of mines at present is
attempting to trace the chromite ore
from the higher outcrops down toward
the Saltwater river. This area is COW
cred with overburden and is difficult
to explore. A 160-foot shaft has been
sunk by the bureau below Mountain
View lake on the Mouat properties to
prove up the continuation of the vein.
Starting early next year, the bureau
contemplates deeper drilling on both
the Benbow and Mouat properties in
order to keep sufficient ore blocked
out ahead of actual mining operations.
When operations enter the maximum
stage, several hundred persons will be
employed in the Benbow and Mouat
areas in mining, milling, transporta-
ton and allied operations.
Mining operations have been con-
Quoted internationally on the present
Mouat properties from 1888, when Nye
City was a booming town, through the
turn of the century, during World war
days and the postwar depression and
now into the days Of war engulfing the
greater part Of the world
The first tunnel on the Mouat prop
ertieS-Monte Altos located at $3.50
feet and has been driven 300 feet.
Plans. are being studied to extend the
tunnel many times this distance in an
effort to obtain the ore in the lower
reaches of the chrome-bearing noun
tain.
Camp headquarters for exploratory |
work have been established near a |
tunnel site 1000 feet up the slope and |
the bureau of mines has placed a camp |
at Mountain View lake high on the |
mountainside.
A short distance above the crumpled !
debris Of onetime smelter, bright
new tents, sturdily anchored for Oc-
cupancy throughout the winter, give
new life to a decaying log shack once
lsed as a boarding house for miners
Turing the Nye City boom.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

Miners at the Belt coal mine had
a nervous moment when truck load
ed with dynamite broke loose and
crashed into the mine tipple. knocking
out the supporting timbers so that
the tipple crashed over the top of
the truck, down the hillside. None was
injured and the dynamite was undis-
tllrbed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

Here are some of the factors tina
direct prospectors in their search:
Ore deposits occur most frequently
in the older formations and in the
crystalline or volcanic rocks, or at or
near the junction of volcanic rocks
and sedimentary formations.
They are most frequently associated
with porphyries and other igneous
rocks, and in formations that are gen.
orally tipped up at large angles.
Bunches and clusters Of ore general
" arrange themselves in accordance
with the dip or cleavage of the en-
closing rocks.
In parallel veins, ore bodies or shoots
generally arrange themselves opposite
each other or In transverse zones, /. e.,
ore opposite ore.
The nearer the vein approaches a
vertical position. the richer the ore
is likely to be.
A heavy gossan dron capping) indi-
Gates extensive sulphide ore bodies at
depths.
The richer ore is generally found
between the moderately hard parts of
the wall rock.
Veins that follow the general course
Of the mountain ranges are nearly
always the most prominent and pro-
ductive.
Cross courses, or veins which cut
through the parallel vein system of
the district, are generally Of least i'm
portance.
A change in either strike or dip in
a vein is generally accompanied by
local enrichments at or near the angle
When veins intersect bikes or other
veins, there generally results at the
intersection an enrichment of the ore.
If vein pinches, the narrow parts
are generally richer than the wider
places.
In any given district, veins follow
ing certain known directions are al
ways more productive than those
which vary only few degrees from
that course.
The vein that is cut through or
faulted by an interesting vein is the
oldest and consequently most likely to
be the most productive.
The per ton value of the gossan of
gold-bearing veins, as a consequence
Va tAAC AC1oC1 oPSS4AAC gravity u The
ore and the insolubility of the gold, is
generally greater than that of the I'M
DERIVING sulphides.
Gold veins, carrying their value in
whole or in part In cubical iron pyrites.
very rarely ever afford values when
the ore changes to a marcasite or white
iron. This is generally true throughout
the entire district.
Such minerals as iron, oxide, cerus-
site, wulfenite, etc., resulting from the
composition Of galena and pyrite; and
cuprite, azurite, malachite, melaconite. |
ETC., are all secondary minerals (the
latter four resulting from the decom-
position Of chalcopyrite). These min
erals cannot, therefore, be expected |
in any case to continue In depth or
70 extend downward any further than /
the underlying sulphide horizon or
ancient water level.
Deposits Of quicksilver ore (cinna-
bari rarely or never occur In paying !
quantities except in deposits between |
sandstone and serpentine formations. |
Intrusive porphyry. more especially |
IuaFtx porphyry. In q vein, or when
occurring IN any form nearby, Is q
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
Doing Research
At Mines Lab

Amman F. Frederickson Is at the
Montana School of Mines at Butte do
ing research work on the determine
ton Of the solubiities of the heavy
metal xanthates and sulphides by
spectroscopic methods and their re-
lationship to the flotation theory. He
also plans to determine the crystal
lographic properties Of the xanthate
crystals. Before going to Montana,
Frederickson was chief geologist for
Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc, at Cor
nucopia, Ore.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
WESTERN IRON ORE PLANTS

1t now appears that Provo, Utah,
will get three instead of two blast
furnaces financed by the Defense
Plant Corp. They viii make iron from
Columbia Steel Co.'s Iron county ore
deposits. Government may also finance
a mill to make steel. This Is important
to Montana as it means the breaking
down Of the Pittsburgh policy
which has prevented western iron ore
DEVELOPMENT.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
The Texas Company
Drilling Report
COLORAnO

COLORADO
M0ffat County
MOffat-10-4N-91w, Lot No. 8. B.
Knowlton No. 10. 4TO1 feet-P-B 1893.
installing pump.
Rio BIanc0 County
Wilson Creek-26- 3N-94W, Unit No.
8, 5638 feet-drilIing.
WYOMING
Sublette County
La Barge-27-27N-113W, q. s. Gov
eminent 2-J, 07478-A, 1856 feet-Ce-
mented 8% Inch casing at 1855 feet
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
HecLG Dividends
Total S24,O5,OOO

Next Monday, Dec. 8, Hecla Mining
Co. will pay a dividend of so cents
a share to stockholders Of record Nov.
8, bringing its 1941 dividends to ST.
100000 and the grand total paid by
the company to $24,905 900. Hecla
earned net profit Of $179,630 for the
third quarter, reports L. E. Hanley of
Wallace, Idaho, president.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
Wendell NOW
In WGShinQtOn

Clarence A. Wendell is reported to
be doing consulting work in geology
with headquarters in Seattle. Recently
he has been shift boss at the Tram
way mine Of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. at Butte, and for some
years was geologist for the Dayton
Consolidated Mines Co. at Virginia
City.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
STEVENSON IN HOSPITAL

B. Q. Stevenson, Socony-V Vacuum
representative In Montana, is a patient
in Deaconess hospital with a broken
leg, the only serious result of an auto
mobile accident on the Fort Benton
road is miles north Of Great Falls.
With telephone beside him he has
carried on business as usual since
his arrival at the hospital
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

favorable indication Of valuable ore
deposits.
Extensive deposits of copper ores
very seldom occur except they are as
ISOLATED with quartz porphyries.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

institutions abe 10 pay taxes enough carry the emergency
governments profitable cut in the mining bust
ness reflected the Federal Mining Smelling report
company provided $ZOO for federal income during the
first months of the year. compared
dividend totals S660 Uncle Sam with nothing gets
than the stockholders
If the needs "copper"
western miners will provide it, if the will fix the
where marginal mines can operate There nothing unpatroc about
miner who VIII not produce lead and at Yet the
calls it the patriotic duty miners
the of these metals essential the defense of the nation
Pos-Thanlsgiving thought
You know have been living emergencies since 1882
lust emergency after another necessad this and that and
the system getting What would have done
for emergencies if hadn't been for Hitler?
situation advancing development
Montana cromte deposits by 10 and perhaps 70 If the present
emergency will hold for while Montana will have established
steel industry that will much the future copper
has meant to the past
good administrations spending federal funds
Montana There's other place for the quality and quantity
of manganese and chromie that Montana possesses
We wouldn't trade good manganese hromte mill for all
the boom ammunition factories the country think
ing in of the best possible future good.
thing emergency doing stripping the country
bonanza since miners operate present pegged prices only
bonanza When that is all there will be chance for
low-grade properties.
The writer was called upon speak body Of
Montana School of Mines Butte few and induced
a long, insulting silence with his opening sentence:
Il would rather devote this discussion to stainless steel since 1t
that history Montana
urgy will be written
Not only did those copperinded boys idea with silence
recacaed in prof that the chromite
than badly uled promoters pipe dream
boys may prove themselves right but lot OF good engineers
are going to have good jobs while proving it.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
CURAToRIAL ASSISTANT

Jorge r. Sendon, who has been en-
ployed in the geological department Of
the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at
Butte, was recently granted a cura-
torial assistantship at Princeton uni
versity.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

Most of the car-owning families In
the United States have never pur-
chased a new car. They depend upon
second, third or fourth-hand cars for
their transportation.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
subIette County
MINER SHOOTS LION

Donald RooS, Lincoln gulch gold
miner, came upon a mountain lion
eating deer. He shot the lion and
brought the carcass, 2 feet long. to
Helena, to claim sos bounty.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
PrOspeCtorS Needed to Find
New Deposits of Strategic Ores


metals
bodies
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
Ready to Slope Ore in
BenbOW Chrome Mines

6OO-ton mill the Saltwater ronte
the mill
completed the the Mouat and Ben
while difficult
mill materials
drilling the
located the east SLOPE OF The
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

GRANT 25-CENT INCREASE
Arizona miners employed by Phelps
Dodge Corp increased miners wages
IS cents a day to $6O6 for muckers,
$3.50 for machine operators and s7.O1
for timber men.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

Rattlesnakes do not lay eggs, but
bring forth their young alive.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06
Hand Sorted, Or What Have You

It's too bad the administration get hep idea that what
this country needs in this time of great need proearnng
institutions able to pay taxes enough carry the emergency
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

Send in Contribution to the Badger
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

We wouldn't trade good manganese chromite mill 70
the boom emergency ammunition factories in the country
ing in terms of the best possible future good
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

thing Emergency" doing stripping the
since miners operate present peged prices on
When that all gone there will be chance TO
low-grade properties.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-06

One good in this administrations ban spending federal fun
Montana There's other place go for the quality and quaint
of manganese and chromite that Montana possesses,
Evening star., 1941-12-18
By FRANK NOEL.

BY FRANK NOEL.
SINGAPORE, Dec. 18.-I have
iust returned from a week on the
Northwestern Malaga front, where
I found the British defense forces
combating the menace of a Japa-
nese fifth column and forming a
line behind an artillery barrage
along the River Muda.
Ohicers told me that. prior to the
Japanese attack, Japanese fifth
columnist troops armed with sub
machine guns and dressed In Ma
layan and Chinese costumes in
vaded Northern Malaga and dis
appeared among the native popu-
lace.
I was told that some japanese
troops who entered from Thailand
were clad in the yellow robes Of
Buddhist priests or disguised as
plantation laborers.
Immediately behind the front I
found the British military trans
port moving up speedily and ef-
ficiently through deserted villages
despite the confused nature Of the
fighting up ahead and the presence
Of Japanese planes. Some of these
planes closely resemble German
Junkers dive-bombers, according to
men who have seen the originals
elsewhere.
Best Natural Barrier
The British line was placed on
the river Muda, officers said, be-
cause this stream, entering the In
dian Ocean northeast Of Penang,
forms the best natural barrier in
South Kedah Province.
II the japanese attempt to cross
Il, they will find themselves forced
into the open for the first time
after more than a week Of Ameri-
can-style Indian fighting" in the
jungles and across rubber planta-
tons.
At the start OF the invasion the
Japanese crossed from Thailand at
many points in small units equipped
with one-man whippet gun-carriers
or tanks and automatic weapons.
These pushed ahead of the main
Japanese forces along the lanes
which In peacetime were travelled
by bullock carts.
At various points south Of the lines
I met European women and children
bound toward Singapore. The
women seemed more concerned
about the silverware and household
goods they had left behind than
about the Japanese planes which
often roared overhead. I brought
back q bull terrier pup for one
little girl who had to come on 10
Singapore without him.
Resemble Midwestefn Towns.
Most Of the natives near the war
Done also were heading south by
Evening star., 1941-12-18
Wright Sees Aiip|anes
Keeping Peace in Future

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-In one Of
his rare public statements, Orville
Wright expressed belief last night
that the airplane, Of which he was
co-inventor, would yet be instru-
mental in establishing . guarantee
of peace.
The occasion was the visit here Of
Prof. Richard V. Southwell, pro-
fessor OF engineering sciences at Ok
ford University, England, to deliver
the annual Wright Brothers lee
ture before the Institute Of the
Aeronautical Sciences at Columbia
University.
The lecture is given December II
each year to commemorate the first
airplane flight near Kitty Hawk, N.
c., on that date in 1903.
please extend to Prof. South
we'll" Mr.. Wright telegraphed. my
Evening star., 1941-12-18

are having . tough time, they
haven't lost q ceratin British sense
Of humor.
The boys at one base are still
laughing about one Of their num-
ber who opened the cockpit Of his
plane early one morning and found
a 10-foot python coiled in the seat.
1t was sound aslep, having crawled
in to fiet out of the cold rain.
Evening star., 1941-12-18
Ffth-CoIumn Activity Plays
Major Role in Malaga Attack
Armed Troops, Dressed as Natives,
Invaded Country, Officers Soy

automobile, bullock cart, bicycle,
rickSha or afoot.
Others showed no signs of ex-
pecting to leave. In fact, I drove
through some villages which looked
like Midwestern American towns on
Saturday afternoon.
Shops and houses were closed,
but the entire populace lined the
streets just to see what was going on.
At one place I was charged a
nickel for a single egg, although
chickens were to be seen every
where.
Although the defenders of Malaga
Evening star., 1941-12-18
Cowboy Sells Horse
To Enlist in Cavalry

BY the Associated Press
HAY SPRINGS, Nebr., Dec. lS.-
When Harvey Benschulter, %, a
ranch employe. decided his country
needed his help he went the whole
way.
He sold his car, horse and other
personal property for $500, invested
the money in Defense bonds and
then set out for Denver to enlist
in the cavalry.
Evening star., 1941-12-18

THE tollotoing story OF Japa-
nese nth column infltration and
Jungle fighting In Malaga tCcs
Dritten by staff photographer
OF the Associated Press in the Far
East Who has Just returned to
Singapore after a tour OF the
battle HnesJ
Evening star., 1941-12-18

the world inestimable harm, will yet
be instrumental in establishing for
the entire world a guarantee Of hu-
man liberty and Of lasting peace"
Evening star., 1941-12-18

cordial greetings and an expression
Of my belief that the aeroplane,
which in the hands of barbarous
men has been doing England and
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Winning Contract
sy THE FOUR ACES
SECOND HELPING

by TIE FVUN AOESs
David Bruce Burnstons, Merwin D.
Maier, Oswald Jacoby. Howard
Schenken, worlds leading team-of-
four. inventors Of the system that has
beaten every other system in
existAnce)
Evening star., 1941-03-03
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

People speak Of Cuba as IAN is
land south of Florida" and they
are quite right.
Yet it Is interesting to add that
Cuba also is near Mexico. The is
land is extremely wide. 1t stretches
out more than TOO miles from east
to west. Its western end is only
130 miles from a certain part of
the Mexican coast.
That part of the Mexican coast
Is on the edge of a region known
as Yucatan. 1t is one OF the states
Of Mexico, and is about the same
size as the American State of Iowa.
Yucatan contains many thousands
of Indians of the Maya tribes. Other
Maya Indians live IN sections Of
Central America, chiefly in Hon
duras, British Honduras and Guate-
mala. There are today more than
100000 Indians who speak the
Maya language.
OF all the Indians who lived in
the New World when white men
came across the Atlantic, the Mayas
held first place in the arts of life.
They had calendar of their own,
and a system of writing. In some
ways they were ahead of the Az
tees of Central Mexico and the In
cas- of Peru.
Some buildings of the Mayas
were two or three stories high, and
were made of a kind of concrete.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
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8 2
= A K @ 9 4

when South bid four clubs, he
signified that he was interested, at
least mildly, in a slam; otherwise
he would have bid four hearts or
three no-trump. This interest in
slam was very gratifying to North
with his tops in the trump suit and
two side aces! He temporized with
four diamonds to see what South
would do next
And when South bid five clubs,
North decided that South must have
a real club suit headed by at worst
-king-queen. After all, South
couldn't have better than queen-jack
of hearts, so had to have top cards
somewhere to justify even an open
ing bid-let alone two attempts to
reach a slam. If those tops were
kings in diamonds and spades, why
would South bid and rebid clubs?
"On the basis of this inference,
North jumped all the way to the
grand slam, which was made with
out the slightest trouble. At the
other table (this was a team of
four MATCH they stopped at six
The only thing that bothers us now
is whether we staggered into a
lucky contract, or if our inferences
were justified"
We don't think luck had anything
to do with the hand. It was beauti-
fully bid; and we agree with South's
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Quits Coffin for Job

Tired of living in a coffin, 73-
year-old Sosuke Ebihara of Tai
hoku, Formosa, arose and started to
hunt a job. He walked through
the streets with a paper sign read
ing please employ me-" pasted on
his back. -Four years ago Ebihara
decided his age made him useless
and isolated himself in the coffin.