Show Edi editorial toria 0 1 comment the engineering mining journal recently quoted an article spearing in a local paper concerning the marvelous influence of radium on the miners who work in ore and says that it will not be long before the quack will be advertising bottled the journal is evidently not aware that for several months past advertisements for its equivalent have appeared in the shape of radium belts and that some remarkable cures are claimed by the vendors of these magic renovators renova tors the rico argentine co at rico colorado has an interesting mine in the variety of its products last month this mine shipped to different smelters shelters sm elters a car of zinc product and several cars cara each of material valued for copper for lead silver and for iron sulphide three cars of the latter were shipped to vanadium colorado for use in the process of extracting vanadium from the paradox valley ores four hundred tons a month of iron sulphide containing 50 per cent sulphur is thus being disposed of the supreme court of the united states has decided in the case of the Strat tons independence cripple creek colorado that mining corporations must pay the corporation po ration tax of the payne aldrich bill in spite of the argument of the mining acm pany that proceeds from ore mined on its ground were partially return of capital all mining accountants consider the proceeds of ore as partly a return of capital and indeed every investor in mining stocks must so consider it irrespective of decisions of supreme courts this decision places a tax on both principal and interest the building of the new utah capitol has given an impetus to two of infant industries connected with mining the use of cottonwood granite has put the granite industry on its feet and the award of the contract for worth of utah marble will aid the marble industry not so much from the direct financial return as from the exhibition in the state capital of specimens of own material it is to be regretted gret ted that financial limitations prevented the capitol commission from awarding the ton contract tract for all the marble to home companies the utah apex mine at Ring bingham liam this state has become as well known in the last two weeks as the great dorph porphyry ary mines in the same camp this has been due not to the excellent showing which the property is making but to the fact that peace officers are supposed to have cornered a six times murderer in its workings one rafael lopez after killing a compatriot ambushed three officers and killed them he afterward is said to have returned to bingham and entered the mine where he formerly had a lease the mine was blockaded with colors flying bulkheads were b built and smudges started in the mistaken mistake idea that the refugee could be smoked out of these extensive workings during the s search earch of the mine two more men were killed by gunfire gun fire alleged to have been 1 produced by the bandit after a consider J able wait the mine was opened no bandit was found and the mine has again been partially to wait the time J when nature shall overcome the fugitive 3 meanwhile the operations of the company have been seriously hampered and some 1 financial loss incurred but the situation has been 11 velvet for the press east and west I 1 in a recent prize essay contest held by the scientific american on the ten greatest inventions of the last quarter century the winner of the contest named among his selections the electric furnace and the cyan cyanide irle process bessemer converters were ruled out on the time limit but this invention was generally mentioned in the contest as a sample of the greatest of former years the other eight named by the winner were the steam turbine gasoline automobile moving pictures wireless telegraphy aeroplane linotype machine induction motor and electric welding every one of these has contributed to economy of mining operations the steam turbine in making possible cheaper power through electricity the automobile in hauling ore and supplies in localities where horse haulage was well nigh prohibitive moving pictures have been used in the east by coal companies in the safety first campaign wireless telegraphy has been projected for communication between isolated mines and civilization we believe that the aeroplane has even been used to carry small supplies the induction motor has made possible the doing away with the expensive shafting and belting in milling and smelting smelling sm elting plants and has made feasible the direct drive of machines with resulting greater safety more light and increased efficiency electric welding has been useful where a quick repair was needed with no duplicate parts immediately available and the linotype has been a boon to the promoters with their voluminous prospectuses prospect uses which would never have been issued at such rapid fire velocity with hand setting of type |