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Show X THE UTAH STATESMAN, APRIL 11, 1929, imm t SThir Utah STatoman A state political newspaper, published every Thursday at Salt Lake City, Utah. The aim of this paper is to keep the general public in touch with the activities of the various political departments upon the theory that better government can be made possible by keeping the public and the office holders in closer touch with each other. Office 122 Atlas Building. Sait Lake City, Utah. BERNARD L. FLANAGAN, Editor. C. 8. GODDARD. Business Manager. Eatarsd Class Matter. July U. ml at (Da Postoftlee u Bseoad Lake City. Utah, undtr tha act of March a 1171 at Halt ADVERTISING RATES Per Column Inch SO Cents LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Assessment, 6 times Delinquent Notices, per column inch Probate Notices, 2 times Notice to Creditors, 4 times Summons, 5 times Phone Wasatch 852. Read Your Utah Mining News in the DELPHS DRAG" ON STATE FUNDS. .$5.00 AO 3.00 According to the Denver Post, our own Delph E. Carpenter of Greeley has managed to pull down $64,516 from the state for alleged services as Colorados irrigation expert in various water disputes. . In addition to this sum, he has been paid many thousands of dollars for expenses. It has been a mystery to some of Carpenters fellow townsmen how and when he puts in the time for which he is paid by the state of Colorado. In fact, many of them have long wondered what Delph had on the state or the political powers that be by which he was able to drive so good a bargain for himself. It is probable that few people of Weld county were aware of the princely salary he had been drawing up to last May, when Governor Adams sat down on his arrangement under which Carpenter worked when he pleased, and by which plan he was the sole judge of what was work for the state. Governor Adams placed him on a straight salary of $5,000 a year and expenses, instead of $50 a day and expenses. But at that it would be hard to convince a great many taxpayers of this county that Delph is not grossly overpaid. Windsor Poudre Valley. $50-a-d- ay LOOMING PROBLEMS. 5.00 We find in the editorial columns of the Colorado Springs Gazette an extended comment on the action of the legislature in turning down the big demands of the state educational institutionn for large sums of money. Coming as it does from the Colorado Springs paper, the editorial has more than ordinary weight. We shall not attempt to reproduce it entirely, but, because of the timeliness and the justification of the criticism offered in this editorial, we do want to reproduce it in part, and, in doing so, we give it our wholehearted endorsement. We quote from the Gazette as follows: The decisive defeat in the senate of the proposed tobacco tax bill is not merely a declaration for sound practices in the administration of state financial affairs, but is a sharp and deserved rebuke to the state educational institutions. For some years the seven state colleges have maintained a well organized lobby, liberally financed out of public funds, by means of which they have sought to dictate financial legislation to the extent, at least, of having their demands satisfied irrespective of every other need. Always the case has been presented in the name of educational opportunity for the youth of Colorado. The public has been appealed to the more fully to meet its obligation, as if it had been remiss; behind the scenes at the capitol legislators have been subjected to what political pressure might be brought. The public has been liberal with the state colleges; too liberal, as a matter of fact, for, in the name of education, it has handed over large funds without taking the precaution to check the manner of expenditure. With the money so easily obtained, the colleges have become extravagant, or better, perhaps, too ambitious; and they have also become somewhat domineering in attitude. Since the general assembly convened in January it has been under threat of the educational lobby. The task of drafting a financial program has been held up three months in part because it was impossible to escape the demand of the state colleges that they get money for new buildings irrespective of other public needs- - The house gave way under the pressure. Toward the end of the week, a senate group took up the challenge and, in a short but fiery session, threw it back at the educational lobby. That is the best piece of work the senate has done. It might well be followed by an exhaustive study of public education in Colorado with the idea of correcting some of the earlier mistakes of establishing too many institutions, and of reducing too ambitious programs of development to the more limited scope which marks a reasonable and proper public educational effect. The state colleges will not suffer at the hands of the public which has built and maintains them. Colorado is thoroughly committed to the policy of providing every reasonable educational opportunity for its youth. But the time has come when the state must have more regard for the uses to which tax money is put. No longer will large sums be voted for education." Ilence- forth the general assembly should check carefully the nature of educational needs, balance them against other If the . public needs and budget revenue accordingly. educational institutions are unwilling to submit to such an arrangement, it is time to inquire whether they have become more important than the public which created them- - Grand Junction Sentinel. Y - 4.00 EDUCATORS REBUKED. HINEBAL-SUfiVE- Circumstances seem to have accumulated to cause the Hoover administration to make some early and definite moves touching upon this countrys foreign policies. There has been the current feeling that the new president has in mind a thorough going into the countrys diplomatic staff. The sudden death of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick in Paris has brought one phase of the administrations interest to an earlier issue that of replacements or changes in the foreign service. The retirement of the ambassador to the court of St James, and the desire of others to be relieved of duties have been known for some time. Manifestly, the new administration plans on taking a hand in some instances, forcing changes. Much of the even success of the administrations foreign policy depends upon the type and caliber of its envoys and President Hoover freely has expressed this to be Published every Friday In Salt Lake City Data On Option Taken By Missouri Company Is Given 1 2 3 4 5 Tha Consolidated and BmaKins company haa exercised Ita option for control of tha Bis Mimourl Minina company's Portland Canal property, north of Stewart. British Columbia. Acquisition by tho Con. M. A 8. company of 303.000 ahaias of tho Buana Vista Minins company, orsanlsod to oparata tha proparty, la raportad In tha annual rsport of tho Big Missouri Minins company. Tho latter corporation acquired 313,000 aharea of tha asm. lq light of tho fact that Duncan Mao Vlcble, Balt Laka operator, la eon au King geologist for tho Big Mimourl Mining company and that tha company haa recently financed development in tha Spruce Mountain district, tho deal haa an Importance. Concerning lie aotlvlty in the Elko county, Nevada, camp, tha annual report of tho Big Missouri Mining company has this to Hyj During tha year 1111. officers of tha Big Miaeourl Mining company entered into negotiations with the Spruce Monarch Lead Silver Mining company, a Nevada corporation. for Its property, situated in tha Spruce Mountain mining district, Elko county, state of Nevada, 110 miles west of Salt Laka City, to the Salt Utah, and tributary Lake Valley smelters. These negotiations resulted In the organising of tho Missouri Monarch Mines company under tha laws of the stele of Nevada for 0300,000, divided Into 3,000.000 shares. Your company secured an option to purrl chase 1,100,000 aharea of tha Monarch Mines company for In bo to 1100,000, tha money paid as required for development work: excepting that a cash payment of was mads October IB, 133,000 Mus-sou- policies. To the uninitiated, it would appear that the country is not too well supplied with real diplomatic talent for administration places. It is likely President Hoover will follow to some extent the policy laid down and followed by Coolidge, that of advancing men in the service, with the idea of building up a large, highly efficient and trained personnel Salt Lake Tribune. LOW SUGAR TARIFF. Colorado sugar manufacturers and beet growers will be disappointed with the sugar schedule in the new tariff bill, if the predictions of Senator Smoot concerning the bill come true. Fresh from a visit to Herbert Hoover in Florida, the Utah senator made some observations on what the new tariff would contain, among them being the statement that the sugar tariff would be only slightly higher instead of the three cents per pound demanded by domestic sugar producers and agricultural organizations. A slight increase in the present sugar tariff would not afford the protection needed for the proper development of the domestic sugar industry. It would be ineffective in keeping Cuban sugar from flooding the market Cuban sugar provides the greater part of the American market menace to the beet sugar industry and is an of Colorado and other states- - Greater growth of the sugar industry in Colorado is impossible while cheap Cuban sugar can enter this country at rates that are ruinous to the home industry. Pueblo The more we study the action of President Hoovers attitude in attempting to foster oil conservation, the more we believe that he acted without due study of the matter before making his proposals public. If his proposals are carried out to the letter it will be tantamount to denying the public at large from sharing in any future oil development, and will act as a deterrent to the western states, whose oil possibilities have not yet been developed to any great extent, from sharing in the oil production of the country, with the consequent revenue to them. The fact is that should oil be discovered in paying quantities in the most likely districts of Utah, during the year, it would be several years before the oil from such discoveries could be placed on the market. Conservation is all right but it can be handled and is now being handled without action from the government. When the government steps in and attempts to paternalize industry it is taking a step foreign to our time honored policies, and to our mind, one that should not be tolerated by our bodies. The place to check the tendency is through Congress. San Juan ever-increasi- ng Star-Journa- l. for which they have acquired 671.-00- 0 shares of tha capital stock of the Mimoprt Monarch Mines company. out of tho 1,100,000 aharea stipulated in the option agreement An additional option was acquired by the Mimourl Monarch Mines company on an adjoining property known as tha Bronco group ot claims for 110,000, which la to ba paid for In four oqual payments over a period of one year from January 1, 1130. With the vote of the lawyers in the senate II, j bill to the Supreme Court justices salaries to $9,000 a $4,000 a year increase. yesterday passed The people last November voted to authorize the Legislature to fix salaries of the executive and judiciary, but we dont believe they would have voted for an increase of 80 per cent. They expected the legislature to respect the equities of the case and the condition of the states finances. The same senate that refused a dollar for higher education is about to add a bill of $185,000 a year to the payrolls of the supreme and district courts at the peoples expense. It is, also, to vote $50,000 for a partisan commission of its own body to study the states financial system, excluding Governor Adams from the designation of even one member of the commission. Under such circumstances, we hope he will veto both bills. In the house Representative Stewart, author of the bill, said he would vote against his own bill it carried by only one vote if Governor Adams was given power to name a member of the commission. Which was partisanship gone mad and small bore statesmanship not calculated to be reflected in a report that will be of any account Boulder (Colo.) Camera. increase Mexican Property Plans Examination SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.. Be- fore the end of tho month, Edward C. Small mlnlpg engineer, will leave to mako a final examination of tho San Francisco Mint in tho Altar district, state of Sonora. Mexico, before tho installation of a mill. Tho mine la held by the Continental Mines Corporation, Limited, president Oeorga C. Kel-bof tho Contiinental, which hae also taken over tha El Dorado Argonaut Mina, near Auburn, California. formerly held by the Belcher Extension Annex Mining company, says that tha engineers have reported that from tha oi on tha dump at tha San Francisco mine, there Is at toast 1, 103.000 net, after paying tha cost of mill construction and operation. Tho Continental haa secured control of tha Gla Miners da la er Qlenega. a Mexican company, law-maki- ng eastern people have planned long in advance to be there. Now come some small towns in Arizona, asking that the date be changed so as not to interfere with their local celebrations. To our minds such narrow actions will only detract from the larger celebration proposed for the bridge, but wil so disgust eastern people, who had intended being there, that many will change their itineraries entirely and will not even advertised proposition canvisit the state. A nation-wid- e not be light, y set aside if the good expected is to come from it. San Juan Record. JUDGE KIMBALL PASSES. Death has called one of Utahs oldest and noted jurists, Judge James Nathan Kimball of Ogden. Judge Kimball was a native of Indiana, born April 29, 1849. He came to Utah in 1874, where he soon gained a reputation as a lawyer. Later he was elevated to the bench and was one of the judges in the Second judicial district at the time of his death. He was a good citizen and progressive to the core. Full of years and honors, he was ready to go when his time came and he will be missed and mourned by the rising generation in Utah. as well as the Governor George H- Dem will have the appointment of Judge Kimballs successor, who will serve out the term for. which the jurist was elected. Salt Lake Tribune. old-time- r8 - " investigate Before You Invest CHILD-BARCLA- Y & CO. Mining and Investment Brokers Phones Wasatch 4153, Wasatch 4154 Stock Exchange Bldg. , Salt Lake City, Utah 31 Years of Knowing How, 6 7 8 9 Electrolytic Zinc Bidding Problems Recent progress in metallurgy. The Mayflower Mines Enterprise. Vital statistics on Utah Mining. Metal News. Sale of Battle Mountain Mine- Status of Worlds Deepest Well. Latest Developments at Tintic and Park City. Oil Progress. Metal Markets. Gail Martin, for nine years mining editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, is editor of the Western Mineral Survey. Mr. Martins long sojourn with The Tribune, which he terminated voluntarily last fail, to come to the Western Mineral Survey, netted him experience which is not enjoyed by any other mining editor in the State of Utah. Mr. Martin's prestige in mining newspaper circles can be attested by the WASHINGTON D. C Raymond Miller of Xallogg, Idaho In tho January "Mining Congress Journal" the now electrolytic zlno plant of tho Sullivan Mining company, of which bo to assistant metallurgical engineer. This pleat to tho first Indust riel unit which ueea the Trelnton high 1, high current density nine process. This plant is located at OUIvsr Xing, Idaho, and haa a capacity of 00 to TO tens of sine every twsnty-fohour. The experimental work and construcwas tion of tho plant under the management of Stanley A. Easton, vlca president and general menage of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating company. A staff of fifteen designers XL also-troly- tie ur fact that he is Utah correspondent for the Nevada Mining Press, the Mining Journal, and the Engineering and Mining Journal. Special articles written by Mr. Martin have appeared in the Literary Digest, the Compressed Air Magazine, the Mining Congress Journal, and other publications. Engineering Talent Solves Problem of Securing Helium Intricate Procedure Devised to Draw Off Rare and Needed Element From Natural Gas at Surprisingly Low Cost Per Unit. Helium is a rare element forming a small percentage of the product of some natural gas wells in the United States. Helium, because of its iB of great value as a lifting agent for dirigible airships. How is this rare and invaluable gaa separated from its baser associates on a large scale commercial bases? This is a natural question dwelling in the mind of those interested in scientific topics and Utanna vbo are acquainted with the following facts: Gas containing helium haa tlon, so far aa it to known, having proved been proved by the Utah sufficient resources to develop Oil and Refining company at commercial supply of helium for Woodslda, near Price. Utah. Aa aeronautics. Tha bureau of mines a result ot this find, Congreu haa haa bean engaged la years of incvreated a helium reeerva of sev- tensive research for new gas field eral thousand acres at Woodalda. containing helium. This gae la said to contain a higns r Tha Fetrolia field in northern content of heUum than any of the San Francisco Co. Texae gaaea Should tho govern- which owns tha property. Control of tho company was secured from Adolfo L. Vordugo of Yuma, Arl sons. Tha Mexican company haa a broad charter which allows It to ongago In many lines of business in tho Robubllc. It will bo a subsidiary company of tho Continental. Tha San Fransclsco to one of the famous mines o( Mexico. In the past two centuries it has changed hands but twice prior to the present Although millions were mined, at n time has modern equipment been insulted and only tha richest ore has aver been mined. At one place there to a dump of 33.000 tone of SO ounce silver ore that was mined In 1110. Tha average Record- of all tha dumps will ba In the tha neighborhood of It ounces to floby and Is readily handled The Dedication of the Lees Ferry bridge has been one ton approxl-matel- v to tation. The property of the most highly advertised functions of the kind that has 103 miles from tho Lnltad occurred in the country for some time, and no doubt many States border. JUSTICES SALARY GRAB. Engineer Writes On In the Survey for April J the situation. In a short time some definite steps will be necessary to cope with the growing Mexican situation- - The same holds true in China, where the unrest of the last four years continues with signs of increasing problems. This country has a vital interest in the ever present reparations question, n more so by the fact that three of the countrys economists and financiers are engaged now in giving their time to this problem. Our insular enterprises are in line for attention. With 010,000 of which was used these there is a mingling of the diplomatic, the economic 1031; for liquidating certain indebtedand the political. It is impossible to get away from this com- ness. and tha 100,000 la ot ba bination in considering their problems and if possible it will ponded In equipping and develop' lug tho property. The Big Miaeourl require closer study, more acumen and a finer hand to con- Mining company haa thus far made summate the insular issues than in the straight-ou- t foreign payment In tho amount of 137,600 best-know- $1.00 a year. 111 Atlas Block. Back From East. Oeoree F. Stott, superintendent of the Bingham Prospect, has re turned from a business visit to New York. Ehlomants of tha Bingham Prospect have been curtailed by bad roads; caused by the spring thaw. Texas was among tho first important structures to ho discovered. It ment decide at soma future time to now m tho last stage of Its Ufa to develop the Woodside reserve. It after producing for twenty years. would mean tho erection of a large Tha prized helium, announced to laboratories and tha establish- Investigators by a bright yellow ment of a new industry lino when viewed through tho Science Leads Way spectroscopa was found in limited Intense cold, aa low as 100 de- quantities in several smaller fields, to tha agency but the greatest discovery so tar grees below aero, that separates this gae so valu- to tha Ciltfelde structure of tho able to dirigibles from the other Amarillo field. Just weet of hero. constituents of natural gaa BeTha natural gaa of tha CUffsldt cause of tho extremely low tem- structure revealed a helium eon-teof about oca and peratures necessary for processes used by the bureau of mine In ita per cent, a great advance of new plant being constructed at tha PetroUa field's helium content Sorcy, eight miles west of Am- which to toes then X per cent Exarillo, Texas, tha laboratory has perts estimate that the great disbeen called the coldest spot in the coveries in the Amarillo field, and world." tha new plant now under conAt tho low temperatures to bo struction. will provide helium for maintained there, atmospheric air dscad be if not centuries to corns. will ba liquid, carbon dioxide apd During use In airships, helium mercury will be solids, lead and sees pea and air enter through tha copper will take on the properties walla of the gam cells; therefore, of steel, and rubber will ba as at Intervals tho helium la an airbrittle aa glees. In comparison, ship must be removed purified, resuch temperatures as are found at plenished. and put back. Thro tha north pole would unbearably hallum purification plants have hot bean designed by the Bureau of If an icicle ware thrust in with Mlnao and constructed under Its the liquid geaea of tha laboratory, direction. Tha first of these to it would produce tha same reac- stationary plant at Lakehurat, N. tion aa obtained when a hot poker J, built for tha Navy: tha aacond, la placed in water. a mobile plant mounted In a railCoat of Production Cot road car, built for tha Army; and heliThe cost of production ol tha third la a stationary plant for ba will new um In the plant tho army erected at Scott Field, cento a few but down to IIU The Scott Field plant Is cap brought to which relatively cuble a foot, able of purifying 10.000 cublo feet tha with when compared of helium per hour. cheap rata of 33000 per cubic foot for less than 100 cublo fast produced before the United States entered nt three-quart-e- rs the World War. successful transatlantic Tho flight of tho giant German air leviathan, tha Graf Zcppalin, the navy department's plans for building two dlrlglbteo of oven larger and Great Britain's dimensions, construction of two palatial airliners have spurred the bureau of mines In Its helium research. The work la under tha direction of R. A. Cattail, chief of tho helium Motion. Helium hae bean looked upon by experts aa tha only aafa gas with which airships can be Inflated for night. Tho Graf Zeppelin and other foreign dirigibles, must depend upon highly Inflammable hydrogen tor their buoyancy, while Uncle Sam'e airships enjoy the eafety of helium, which will not Unite. Tosaa Has Big Supply Tho United States to tha only no- - New Cornelia Adds To Mine Resources AJO, Arizona Milling capacity of tho New Cornelia Copper com pany will bo increaisd to 11.000 ns dally by the addition of thro units and other extensions. Present capacity la 10,000 tone daily. Diamond drilling still In proceia has fairly determined that end draftsmen was required during the 'construction on which ISO men were engaged. The main building of tho plant to 310 feet wide and SOI feet long. Other buildings Include a laboratory fully equipped for chemical analyse and sasav purposes and for tha generator equipment, and a water reservoir. Five 370 ton capacity oonersta bins receive the ere concentrates from tho cars. Tha plant haa not yet corns into tho full production, out a rscsnt assay shows a recovery of slno of 11.114 per cent pur. "There to probably no metallurgical snterplrse today that haa been watched with as much Interest by the publlo and tho profession as haa tha building of thla Plant, saye Mr. Millar. Two additional units may ba ultimately added. It will treat the flotation concentrate ores of the of the complex leed-sin- e Coour dAlene mining district and a surrounding territory. To Insure supply of water for solution coolS3 three and other purposes, ing feet wells were sunk In the Coeur the d'Alene River Valley below plant The water to pumped toca-a erservolr of 1,300,000 gallons pacity. A domestic water supply to obtained from a crack by a subis obtained merged dam. Power from tho Washington Water Power Company and the Montana Power company. A stack and fiua 330 feat high will carry off gases from tho plant. Wallace O. Woolf, metallurgies! engineer, la superintendent of tho plant. "Although tho plant hae not . yet coma Into full production, fho have departments now operating shown results which seem to assure outer-prise- ," of aueceaa tho ultimate the saye Mr. Millar. Virginia Mine New Equipment Installed new The GAN FRANCISCO hoist. Jack hammers and other tho from winze equipment for tho 100 level at tha Virginia min of tha Nevada Hills Mining company near Coultervllls. California, haa baaa installed and two shifts are now sinking below the level In good milling ore, a large part of which to running $40 a ton, was tha Information given out by Frederick B. Hyder, consulting mining engineer end metallurgist, and A. XL Alltoon, secretary treasurer, upon their return from the mine. Timbers are going in for the new raise from the 100 level, where there to a good showing of high grad milling ora, and everything will bo in readiness to place tha mill on steady production early next week. From ora in sight and what will be taken out In development, the company expects to ba on the profit side of the ledger from now on. At tho same lima It to announced that tha company haa been amply financed for all improvements to machinery, mill and equipment aa well aa a largo campaign of development All the old level in the mine are being cleaned out and Hyder to of tha opinion that from tha old or bodies and new ones that will ba encountered In the upper levels of tho property, enouqh ere will be found to prnctioally duplicate the company's past of production 1130,000. Just as noon sa pomihle the shaft sent down another 100 feet and drifting started to cut an ora body on the 1.000 foot level that has been continuous from the surface to the TOO level, but lost at that point Is to be the IDAHO FALLS, Idaho Tha Cal New Cornelia Copper company has two largo mlnao tha one open pit fomla company (Standard Oil the other underground. California euosldlary) in Ita fli These tonnages not only Jt :tify test of tho Meadow Creek atru Increased milling capacity, but ture. Sorensen No. 1. BW maka it necessary to tho most N 41, 11 miles rortheaet of Ida! economical results. Fall, now drilling at SOfO In r New water at the wall, to tho hale. Ten Inch he casing haa of 3,410 min tarried down and drilling to pr quantity gallons per ute has bean added as a result o needing in about 400 feet of w drifts that have been run recently. ter. Lime la badly fractured ai Thla development will continue makes it difficult for a ehut-- o until an estimated T.000 gallons of bedlmant row being cut la In tl new water have been developed. Thajmea group. Lower Triaasta. Western Mineral Survey Combination Offer: THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY carrie' all of the Utah Mining News, written in an interesting and authoritative manner. Sample cop'ss free upon request. Western Mineral Survey for One Year and World Almanac for 1929 S1.25 Utah Statesman for year and Word Almanac for 1929 SI. 25 All three for 51.75 111 ATLAS BLOCK, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH |