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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- The Greatest Industry is Alining. BY W. C. B. ALLEN. the life of the presProbably never in so ent generation has large a percentits attention turned of the people age of to the subject mining the precious metals. The money problem has now become not only the great political question, but is the most important individual and national topic of discussion in every section of the globe. The recent financial panic was felt in Australia, in India, in Europe and in America alike. The entire human race seems to have felt the distress and suffered from the convulsions brought on by the attempted destruction of the use of one of the money metals. Every nation and every branch of commerce and human industry has felt the strain caused by the demonetization of silver. The demand for gold has become stimulated by the common thought too that gold is a scarce metal and isbusilimited in amount to supply the ness of the world with enough currency. The whole tendency of the times is to obtain gold, because of its increased value for coinage into money. Its very scarcity under the single gold standard has limited the demand for the products of agriculture, of manufactures and of all branches of commerce, as well as of labor itself. The necessity to get more money into existence in order to carry on business has become apparent to almost every man trying to make a living. I recently met a large Eastern manufacturer on a collecting trip in the Middle States. Out of something like $400,000 in accounts due he was returning home with about $8000, all told, a mere paltry not enough to pay freight bills for the month, leaving out wages, fuel, ma- -terial, interest, rents or living ex- penses. He was the most puzzled gold- bug ever seen, for he could not understand what had become of all the mon- ey. He had not been able to find a merchant in all his travels who was making a dollar, nor a farmer who was making even a decent living, and when the question he was unable to mention any manufacturing interest that was accumulating or really mak- ing a profit on the millions invested ac-inbusiness. The startling fact was knowledged that in the United States d the most prosperous, the most nation on earth as to natural wealth and resources, scarcely an es- tablished industry could be found that was earning more than running ex- and a majority were actually fn nanycases6 reserve funds, and were facing bank- ruptcy. Several millions of people are thus found out of profitable employ- and have been striving to econo- mlze and eke out a bare living, or hunt for bread and work in other localities, With the nation itself plunging into debt, the people in distress, capital MINING REVIEW. N those who have gone to the wall in business. In Utah the greatest resources, the greatest opportunity, the best hope for the man who is willing to labor, and for the shrewd capitalist who desires a profit on his money is in mining. For the scientist, the chemist, the inventor of mechanical or electrical devices for the mining and treatment of ores at a low cost, there is now no field so inviting and none so profitable as the field of mining and metallurgical research. The Rocky mountain regions invite the best and brainiest of young engineers, chemists, geologists and technical graduates of all the Eastern colleges. Men of will, energy and scientific tastes and accomplishments are wanted in the young State of Utah. The mines, the smelters, the concentration works, samplers, assay offices, lixiviation works, cyanide mills and numerous hoisting works are steadily increasing, and demand constant improvements. One of the largest proconcentrates said ducers of low-grato the writer recently: The cost of treatment on our pyritic concentrates has been reduced about $8 per ton in the last four years, and this reduction alone would have made us over $300,000 profit in that time. To solve the treatment of the arsenious ores of Mercur alone satisfactorily will add from one to three millions in gold annually from s. that camp in new profits to the There should be one thousand new producing mines opened up in Utah alone in the next few years, and is not this encouragement enough for many to run the risk of hard toil, make an honest and faithful effort to secure? The man who digs into the earth and goes to the deep and finds hidden treas-suures placed there by nature, and who adds new wealth to the world in gold and silver, not only benefits himself, but blesses hundreds of times those who in after years receive each dollar he creates, as it passes from hand to hand, as their daily recompense of toil, A single silver dollar may belong to a thousand different people ana pay a thousand honest debts. To the prao-aske- d tical miner, the man who digs the metal from the earth, the gold and the silver dollar are alike in value, ana ae equally sound money to him, at 16 to 1. the usual ratio of de mine-owner- I 5 the original plunge jig is perhaps the most popular, while the Cornish jig is in greatest demand for the concentratores, where a possiing of high-grable loss is incurred in the sliming of the chlorides, the small quantity of water required for a Cornish jig rendering it possible to settle all of the overflow in small tanks or even barrels, and thereby retain all of the values that would otherwise go to waste. On the other hand, the Cornish jig is not but has to be stopped in its operations every few minutes that the waste material may be cleared up and removed by hand. For this reason it has never, in its original form, been used with any but hand power, while the plunge jig is in use with any kind of power that can be applied in de self-dischargi- ng, every large concentrating plant in operation in the country. One of the mediums that can be credited with the devlopment of Bingham is the hand jig. In that camp there could be seventy or more of these machines counted that are being operated by individuals, while corporations have not in the past disdained their use. The hand jig is the best test that can be given a concentrating proposition, and should be encouraged. The Butterfield Tunnel. m, I richly-blesse- To those who are unfamiliar with the , primitive methods used in the concen-pense- s, ores, by which the tration of low-gra- Sup M de It is to be hoped that the report that Manager George W. Keel of the But- terfield Mining company has completed all arrangements for the resumption of work on the Butterfield tunnel, is true. The enterprise is one of the greatest ever undertaken in the mineral devlopment of the district in which Bingham is situated, and in point of importance is second to none. It will drain all of that country at the head of Bingham, which holds such old producers as the Old Telgraeph, Old Jordan and Galena, the Spanish, Utah, Niagara and many others, and in addition will develop a flow of water which of itself will be of value for the generation of electrical current and later for the irrigation of thousands of acres on the dry bench east of Butterfield. The tunnel is now in 8200 feet. Its mouth is on the same level as the Rio Grande Western depot at Bingham, and it will cut some of the present working mines at a depth of 1400 feet lower than their present deepest workings. The enterprise is only one of several similar projects that have been started in Bingham with the object of drainage and the piercing of the mineral veins at great depth. It is, at the same time, the farthest progressed and would be the easiest completed. The Butterfield tunnel has already been of great service to the geologist and the miner, inasmuch as it has demonstrated that the veins of the West as smelting agents are expunged from the contents that contain nearly all of the t, ln the ores, a Ylslt to the. values . camps located within a day s trip from Salt Lake City would show that the original methods, regardless of the the d if. alarmed, money hoarded up. labor par- - advent of the cyanlde procefs even the alyzed, railways and banks running ferent wet processes, and without profit, it Is not strange that smelters themselves, are still in popular ihe trend is toward mining. use. There is no great industry today that and profitable The most noted of these older methods is really prosperous except mining. Look at the cotton-growior wool- - of ore reduction is the jig. This magrowing industries. Look at wheat- - chine is constructed in various forms, at the lum- growing and g jS ber industry, the entire mercantile, ag- - being represented by the plumodiflca-name ricultural or industrial classes, and the Cornish jig and several one class that is making money, tions and adaptations of both these I will except the and nrApk money-lender- s, for they are gradually types' tt ls stated tha on SlveP acquiring and control the real estate,- in Summit county, where the tailings the securities, the stocks, bonds, fran- of some of the larger mines and mills Mountain district continue to great theeVepnrUoepert; deposlto onTbl ?d flow depth. and the products of toil at to hand jigs are now at work their former value. from the mills, and that good wages TRIBUNK The man In debt today is tomorrow made by the operators. The being without capital and without property, for only a small debt has required a published reports do not state whether Reduced to $2.00 per Year After June large amount of property to settle, these jigs are of the plunge or Cornish 1, 1896. Therefore, the world is turning type, but merely refer to them as mining, and must of necessity &ers On June 1st The Salt Lake Tribune turn toward the West. The present reduce the price of the will For many years past hand jigs have mining boom is based on the absolute to $2.00 per year. The present high necessity of the world for the precious been in use in Bingham, the main camp standard will maintained, and every and because mining f the West Mountain mining district. effort will be be 292? tometals to keep the made be the only avenue open in i in the front rank. which to recover fi om bankruptcy for Both styles are in general use, although ah-ead-y min-men- ng stock-raisin- g, bond-hold- er one-ha- lf one-four- th SEMI-WEEKL- Y jig-towa- rd Semi-Week- ly I Semi-Week- ly |