| Show NEW BARUM BARIUM MINE YIELDING PROFITS I F. F Ii B. B n House of or l Hawthorne Is mining barium In Mineral lnell county one mile mUe from KInkead siding siding ml midway way between Luning and Hawthorne He employs from 1 three to six men on the Property which ho he has hag worked for fol the thc past year and nd came camo to yeal to purchase a new truck to haul ore to the tho sl siding says the Tribune Since Jast November r. r when shipments shipments- were started tho mine has hs pro produced 1 oO l-oO 0 tons of or ore or twenty five ton 50 carloads The Thc price secured is ia 50 a ton ton loaded at the thin Q t var wal tax The he he prop ProPerty rl j is one mile l from the railroad r Barium is use used In the preparation of or peroxide for Cor glazing paper as a ai base for tOI paints In ln many other i The ways as American Barium company compan operating a bl big plant in San Sn Francisco Fran Fran- cisco deco manufactures nothing but hut peroxIde peroxide ide and a company In lerke- lerke Berke Berke- Ie hey ley uses large quantities of ot the mineraI min min- oral These are arc are the thc two Plants to which House ships the product of ot his mine r- r Most fost ot of f the Barium pro produced in the thc United States comes from Crom tho the Caro- Caro jinas InaH linas Missouri and Georgia GeorgIa Accord Accord- lug Ing 5 to government reports production was limited until last year ear and the tho product of or the west vest was not Included ed in estimates test The he oro ore Is e extremely heavy and House states that one piece he recently secured d roughly nine nino inches recent square weighed wel hed poun pounds s. s The American Barium company former formerly operated nearby and nd on one one occasion a n car shipped b by them w was s not weighed at Hazen an and continued along the line along lne When hen it Il was weighed it was found to contain tons and pounds and the railroad officials narrowly escaped expiring of ot heart henrt failure when the they found what had been hauled over ovel the road The ore oro makes tonnage fast tast nn and anda n a ton 50 shipment C occupies little space The ore mined b by House Is In a n fis fissure us- us sure and to what depth It I extends ts- ts Is not known aH as the tho deepest p point worked is 18 30 feet teet below the surface and all allwork work worle is In open cuts The Tho deposit has ni been been opened for fora a distance of or feet on the tte surface and has haM been found to tova tovar va var vary 1 from two to seven an and one half feet In wl width th The Thc best grade rde of oC ore mined d came from a point where the vein eln w was is widest and the higher grade deposit extended for tor 15 feet Ceet in leJ length th A second vein eln parallels the one now being being mined 40 feet distant Little work has been done clone on this but Lite eser opened good assays assas have been se secured se- se cure cured Some Somo months a ago o House st states tes he heI shipped five carloads of or from rain 15 Hi to lo 32 2 per cent barium or ore from froni one mile I south of ot where he is now working orkin mie but the thc deposit was quickly exhausted |
