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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. a xew cjikap a rr mi Ares ran uxdeu. unouxn suit vi: yixu. In connection with the affairs of this company, wo note the following in the Boston Thu impression exists very generally in the Economist : East that in mining, no camp or district is lho most important recent event in mining worth noticing which does not produce ore is the reorganization of the Stormont Silver Messrs. Clark & Both well, which assays and mills over one or two hun- Mining Company. who established their reputation as mino manadred ounces in silver, or which will not show in connection with gers the Starr-Grovmine, free gold or carry gold at the rate of fifty or a block of the Stormont stock, purchased large otic hundred dollars to tho ton. In other and at the annual meeting, Wednesday, Dr. words, Eastern people have the idea that only Wm. S. Clark was elected president and John II. Bothwell secretary. President Palmer of high grade ore is worth working for and that the National Broadway bank was elected low grade ore will not bear the cost of handling and treasurer. The office of the at all. Low grade ore is valuable. The decompany was removed to No. 2 Nassau street. sire lor all, all or nothing, a fortune or Through this change Claik & Bothwell assume beggary, has led many a miner who was work- the practical management of the company, ing in districts whose large bodies of low grade and the public will receive this announcement ore would have in the end enriched him, to as an assurance that the mine will be worked vigorously for the benefit of the stockholders. camps which were booming and which finally gave him nothing for his pains. A rliiK Emma mine litigations and controverlarge assay from a piece of ore, a report of sies between the English stockholders of the rich strikes in a certain district, the news of a Emma Company and Ilaron Grant, of England sudden fortune made by some man who has and Trenor W. Park, uf New York city, and for out immense sold an and found a bonanza H. II. Baxter, of Vermont, have all been amisum all these have a power over the mind of cably adjusted. The latter parties pay in cash the miner, ami he deserts the low grade mine or cash option on shares to English stockholdwhich, by sticking to, he could makeyield him ers 50, ODD nut of 70,000 shares of a new Emma the fortune he wants and wanders ofT after a company to he formed to work the mine. As After a while the miner the shares are now will selling in London for in lie mistake makes a realizes the fact that per share, this makes about $2,000,000 more. for a low high Park gets 11,000 of the new share. I'overing grade certainty forsaking a grade uncertainty, and he begins to prefer the original cost to him of the mine. The camps which he can rely upon although they American parties guaranteed the mine to be a are onlv moderatelv rich. true fissure vein and say it is doing well. An In this Territory there are immense deposits agent of the English parties, and General of low grade ore which can be made to return Burnett, of the law firm of Bristow, I Vet-a good profit by the proper machinery and Burnett it Opdykc, have started for Utah to examine the titles and the transfer of the careful working. As a general thing, these property. ores are not refractory, but can be easily mined A New York paper has an editorial entit'ed and reduced and if worked correctly low grade It relates to the manner in mines will always produce wealth for their Taxed to Death. The mines of the Black Ilills are an which mining companies are dealt with by owners. example of this. What more could one man legislatures. The legislators of New York want? One the one hand, we have the seem to see in the mining companies domain certainty of riches, although the result a good field for a raid. The Jlining Record mav be slow in coming, on the other, we have thus warns the Albany The illiberal policy of California legislation the uncertainty, a large fortune or poverty. Any one would, of course, prefer a mine which drove mining capital out of the State ; and to make New York the great centre produced high grade ore to one which promised for such enterprises. The direct and indirect produced low grade ore; but if the latter is a advantages of the transaction of a large busicertainty and the former an uncertainty, hold ness ami transfer of large sums of money, etc., on to the low grade mine. It will pay better ought to appeal to our legislators ; and the exin the end. ample of California ought to warn them not. to r kill with squeezing the goose that THE STORMONT MINES. SILVER REEF. lays the golden egg. LOW GRADE ORE. We need not dwell upon the importance and difficulty of accurate surveying in the underground workings of mines in announcing that a very neat and ingenious arrangement, the invention of an English gentleman was recently exhibited at a meeting of mining engineers at Leeds. As described in the London Mining Journal , this new device of Mr. W. E. , consists of two distinct parts a pencil with attachment and the plumb hob. Tho pencil arrangement consists of a short tube, carrying at the upper end the chalk for marking the roof; this, which may he called the pencil tube, slides over tho upper end of a cylinder, which lias a fine hole down the center for the line cord carrying the plumb bob. The cylinder is attached to the end of a short arm with a double swivel, exactly similar to the mode of suspending ships compasses. This arrangement allows of the pencil always hanging vertically, whatever may be the position or inclination of the arm carrving it, and therefore is independent of the roof. The arm carrying the pencil tube and cylinder can be moved backwards and forwards by a rack and Both pinions aro pinion arrangement. on one arranged spindle, and are moved indetwo chamfered wheels. When pendently by o vice-preside- Gar-forth- nt the apparatus is held next the roof, and and brought approximately into the line of sight, a few turns of the chamfered wheels will bring the lamp suspended from it accurately in the line of sight. The pencil tube is then lifted and piessed against the roof, leaving a line chalk mark exactly in the same vertical line as the suspending cord. When it is desired to place the denial exactly beneath the point thus marked, for the purpose of taking the next observation, or setting out the next sight, tho dial centre must bo placed exactly under the pointed end of the plumb boh. As the height between the dial face and the roof is not always the same, provision must he made for lengthening or shortening the suspending cord within considerable limits. This is effected by a hollow binding screw at the upper end of the plumb boh, through which the cord passes so that the boh can be attached with any desired length of cord. In order to bring the point of the plumb bob close agaist the dial face, the plumb bob has a hole drilled exactly down the centre and tapped. The binding screw by which the plumb bob is fastened to the cord is attached at the upper end of a solid screw, which screws into the hole in the centre of the plumb hob. By twisting round the plumb boh it can be moved up or down fur about one inch, and so after approximate adjustment, by lengthening the cord the finer adjustment by twisting round the plumb bob can be used to bring down the il . law-maker- s: r over-eage- The gross bullion product- of the Stormont Company's mill, for the year ending December 170,000. This, as it Gist, approximates stands, is an excellent showing for the company; but had it not been for unpropitious weather and bad roads, which caused a suspension of milling operations for one mouth out of the twelve, the showing would have been much better. Tho local management of the companys properties is in good hands. An intelligent and energetic svstein of exploration is followed at the mines, while at the mill, through which 70 tons of ore and slimes are run every twont hours, the machinery works to a charm under the competent management of Major Tom v-fo- ur Gillespie. During tho past year, and out of the earnings of the company, three dividends have been paid, aggregating $1. f. (Mil). 'That the hearts of Stormont stockholders will he Made glad bv further and regular dividends, 've have not the slightest doubt. of tho Interior i ho easo of tho Ivan , ol. M, nine The Sw-retur- v Ins deciilcil in I ,la ,Hi,lt c'"ve !,ial flK'e Vr t'1 pm-pos- of c accurately centering the dial. The instru- nu,llt is approval of, and is used l,v claim-! several of the California, against the Lizzie Bullock principal mining engineers iii first, Leeds district. The cost of it is about 2 2. ants, that the application made for the survey of a mining claim, shall entitle the SIILEX IUM x UTAH oil US. same to preference in all stages of proceedings; before the Surveyor General, over anv other! . An interesting tact in regard to tin "V application lor the survev of the same chum Keel u es has been rccentlv ; bv out brought including the delivery of the plats thereof. some analyses made. These show that the ore 'contains, with silver and copper, a notable Lkt us have honestv in all our mining quantity of selenium. Four complete anal- enterprises ; honest transfer, honest representa- ysos were made in which the selenium avertions, honest dealing between buyer and seller, aged .211 per cent., the silver averaging .2(5 per honest handling of properties when they are cent. In one specimen, the selenium amounted to about about ninety ounces to the ton. being worked. Glow Silver Belt. DuLet us have honcstv in all our grocer v rn- - ring the last, summer, there were found in Ltali two other ores honest honest weights, terprises; measures, containing selenium in has than been elsewhere met larger quantity honest dealing between buyer and seller, honwith one asclenidc of mercury, and the other est materials, no adulterations, no lies over the a selenide of silver and lead, counter, no sharp practice anywhere n either about 2.) per cent, of selenium.cad, If.containing as seems side. Let u, in hort, demand that the min- probable, tho researches of ami Graing and grocery business shall he carried on as ham Loll shall open new ucs ior selenium no business ever have been since the world and thus eau.--e an increased demand for it, it. seems quite certain that such demand can he began as none are, and .as none ever will be not even our own. supplied from the mines of Utah. Un.,,.nv, i oI j ' . -- , Sh-mon- s ; |