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Show i , ( r TRUTH. 12 MINING COMMENT. tied with the company in the position of a stockholder. He" is one of the Captain William Hoffman, of the The first half of August has seen most noted experts on asphalt in the is one who has made the United States army, and a resident of world and an unexpected revival of interest In business a success. Utah gains a the Green river oil fields. A syndi- great deal in having him interested Salt Lake, recently secured letters patent on an apparatus for separating oil firm of in her hydrocarbons. cate, with the ores Into classes, generally, according Jit Jit Merritt Bros, at its head, has secured e to the specific gravities of their conThere is every prospect of the many sections of land in the district. This land lies mostly to the east of deposits of Soldier. Summit be- stituent parts. The claims allowed in number, and the rethe river, in an unexplored section. ing worked in the near future. A com- are twenty-twof California is about sults to be obtained capitalists While the original owners of the land pany embody concento take hold of the proposition. had lost hope and interest in their lotration, classification and sizing. The Jit Jit involved is the law of gravications and allowed them to lapse, Drilling has been suspended on the principle representatives of the syndicate were Uintah companys well. The cause tation as applied to falling bodies, on the ground and they secured it has not been stated. The indications which is: that the falling speed is prowithout the payment of one dollar to as far as the drilling has gone are portionate to the weight divided by the said to be very good. Utah people. resistance. The apparatus is illustratThree rigs are now on the ground, Jit jt ed to employ water in its operation, one of which is in active operation, The Idaho people at Fossil have not but it is claimed that, air or any other and the whole of which will he in as in entirely shutting fluid could be used and this would succeeded yet commission before the end of the month. The most experienced driller eff the water in their well. Drilling make it both a dry and a wet concenobtainable has been secured, and with however, is geing on and the hope trator. Structurally, the apparatus is plenty of money at their back it seems is expressed that they will yet strike these fields will be thoroughly ex- a stratum in which the casing can a conduit, consisting of a series of be anchored and the hole made dry. tanks, of peculiar construction, gradplored. Jit J Jt jit ually increasing in size, and connected The mining of ozokerite in Utah is The Uintah Oil company is issuing by a system of pipes, all being air reaching large dimensions. A New stock at one cent per share to its tight. A pulp stream is made to flow York company is taking out fifty stockholders, with the view of raisthrough this conduit, under the force tons per week near Soldier Summit, ing money with which to continue of a high head of water, and the veand several other deposits are being drilling the well near Colton. locity of this stream is varied within Ji Jt explored. When it is learned that The Mount Pleasant Oil and Gas the tanks according to their several this product is worth $?50 per ton, transverse areas, and the load from refined, it will be seen that this hydro- company has started drilling a well the stream is then deposited, from the near Mount Pleasant. C. A. Dorn has carbon is more profitable than the several according as Some paraverage gold mine. It is also worthy the contract. The ground is said to ticles oftanks, the pulp may be heavy of note that Utah contains the only be very promising. enough to overcome the velocity speo pure mineral wax in the United cial to the particular tank. Will Seek to Verify Claim. States. Seme. parties have tried to Each tank is constituted of two exploit certain fields in Uinta county, During its stay the scientific expeone within the other, with the cones, Wyo.. but analysis proves the stuff is dition to the Bahama islands, under apexes above and the bases, or rims, cf little use. the patronage of the Geographical So- below. The outer rim extends below ciety of Baltimore, will give consider- the inner rim and joins onto a horiThe Short well at Fossil is now able attention to the verification of zontal table that has an opening at its down 1000 feet. the claim that Watling island is the center. There is sufficient space for Jit J San Salvador wnere Columbus first the flow of the pulp between the two The Beatrice people are sinking landed. cones, and between the table and the base of the inner cone. The pulp, fed their well slowly at Fossil. Heavier Koreans Are Improvident tools have been procured and Driller through the pipes, enters this space an a as The improviKorean rule, is, near the apex of the cones and is now can make Smithers thinks he state of a chronic in individual' dent dowrn onto the periphery of the forced good time. is He and thence through the space always ready table, Jt Jit impecuniosity. terms. on almost a loan inner to the under receive any cone, thence horizon- new It is reported that a drilling rig has reached Sisco, Utah. Where its ultimate destination is, has not OIL AND OTHER HYDRO-CARBON- S well-know- n ela-terit- A ' o k5 : ;'i r-I . ; H K: (i- - been learned. Jt jit The tonnage of asphaltum which is now being taken out of the Book-clif- f deposit and shipped to St. Louis reaches over 2000 tons weekly. All the paving around the Worlds Fair buildings will be made of this material. This will advertise the Utah asphaltum in a manner never before dreamed of, and is sure to bring the product of the asphaltum mines before the consumers of the United States. Jit The Pope rig, which is drilling among the Book cliffs, has proven that the asphaltum beds of that section are not of the ordinary character, but that it forms, to all intents and purposes, a lake of bitumen, whose product is far richer and purer than that of Pitch lake, Trinidad island. The drill shows that the asphaltum is 300 feet in thickness, all of which is of very high grade. A number of Indiana people are in the asphaltum beds in the neighbor hood of Westwater, Grand county, looking over the ground with the view of starting early operation. . 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Jit jt In concentration, two tanks only are to be used; the first to take out headings; the second to take out middlings, find the final discharge to carry away gangue that shall be practically barren. For sizing and classification the battery may contain any desired number of tanks. The most noticeable of new departures in this apparatus are its operation under a high head of water, and the reversal of the conditions of Rittingers spitz-luthe employing pointed boxes with their points below, while in this case the points are above. For the high head is here claimed a large volume of product in a small period of time, while the point uppermost is said to prevent a choking that other classifiers are subject to. All in all, it is here claimed that results in practice are as accurate as can be obtained in laboratory apparatus; while economy of operation and volume of production exceed any other known method. e, J Jt That the success of the mining n.i tfraewM'j in- dustry in Utah depends to any considerable degree upon the Salt Lake Mining exchange is disproved by present conditions. The ore and bullion settlements have reached a maximum, the development of numerous properties in all the camps progreses' satisfactorily, while the transactions on the exchange are at a low ebb. If the management of the exchange is to blame for its unfortunate conditions, it is receiving but a punishment It is becoming the exception for new properties to list their stocks, and other avenues are being used for the purpose of obtaining capital with which to work them. Whether the exchange will be revived or reorganized is a matter that concerns its members only, as mines are being worked and made regardless of the influence of the exchange. d Jt J rUNDIDLY EQUIPPED j ji are under way between Negotiations the Intermountaitt. ..Asphalt company and John- T. Davis, of Oakland," CaU whereby one of his- machines will bo. installed. Mr. Davis becomes identt-- , self-inflicte- Jit Dt tally from all around the periphery, to the opening in the center of the table. Here it is met by a clear stream flowing vertically upward from this opening, and it is here then that the concentration takes place. Those particles of the pulp, that are able to resist the clear stream, fall through the opening; the remainder of the pulp, now joined by the clear stream, is carried upward within the inner cone, into and through a pipe that leads to the next, and larger, tank, where the aforesaid operation is repeated. The result, however, is a product of different degree. This action is carried on throughout the entire battery. The use of the apparatus is to he adapted to the nature of the ores being treated. Generally it is to be used as a concentrator down to the lowest practical screen, then it is to be used as a classifier on the undersize from this screen. As a sizer, it is claimed that the apparatus is of special merit in preparing ores for leaching, since uniformity of size is here a prerequisite both for speed and completeness of extraction. SALT LAKE CITY Senator A. B. Lewis has returned from his sad mission east, whither he was called several weeks ago by the illness of Mrs. Lewis, which resulted fatally. He is again at his desk looking after his numerous interests in southern Utah. Mr. Lewis is of the opinion that the recent financial panic will be of short duration, and no serious effects will be felt in financing Utah properties. JK Jl yilson, manager of the Copper Belt and the Lucy L. loompa-niewith holdings in Clifton district. 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