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Show VETEtUN MINI MJUI DISCUSSES INDUSTRY Eureka, Famous Silver Camp, Once Ruler of Lead Market, to Awaken. Tradition States Damascus Blades Were Made From Mesopotamian Iron. If i ',. ' ':u lm. '..:-.! ( in.niiiK r-niri- 1 !. W hi, 1;;.M lie.-n ,e:tlV;'y i li f . fKil-'i with Ihe niltiinf: liidu-itiy l'"C over a half i : 1 1 'i i ' and hu ts pcoi n 1 nn , l ly identified identi-fied with inf.-f -i's - hb'h arc planning to rftj u vonaf the faiiii.n.! old ca m of Ku-t'li.i Ku-t'li.i and to iiiK ili" tide of pronperlty r-iKl u--t l-jf y tnvv;inl mlii':! which haa al-i al-i f.ad y produced o i r l'lfi.Oo'j.ipio, ;i rri'. ed iron i .Vir"- 't,i'!( vritcrdii y. Mr. t.'atim .'oppid In the dry at the Hotel Utah for a dav before rcsuniinK l'1'' H''P to I'itirfikti, Vfv. An cm ot aciivlly f.r vidirn mines is M'efiictcd by Mr, ('iitliii. biastern mininy men arc oiifident tluit .silver will maintain main-tain ItM present lni;li pidcf! and i:omo are mo optlmuitlc as lo .-a;ite that, silver will h'Mih be put on a parity with gold. Hesourccs of Fureka. Knormotis dcpo:dt.s of a liih-pritied," lou-niade or--, wlilcb will aw-rae Mtraihi ihriiiih at a very conservative eriimal" from I 'J t' f 1 " per ton, exiL at Kurdvu, says Air. i 'at I in. AUhouli the inure vnhiable ori'S ba'o leen ta.t;en from the old mine:!, niilMf.ns of dollars' worth of uis-s await deveh ipmn t at. the old eiuiip- I'jircka enjoyed it:' days of yreat-csi yreat-csi prosp.itty fi-'in 1S71 to 1 S87. With the buildinn ,,f smoltci-ri was Inaugurated tlio period nf (rreat itu'ivity. An I-JiikI's" nyndh ale, the I ; idi n i' md cumpany. owned and opnralod the larfresl. smelter. For ; 'tiiiiH the K ic h n . 1 1 ii 1 mine and iiompHuy rontrolled tlm world price of lead. At one t imo H'.umU tons of pU: lead were plied up on the It It-h mood pi"prly at Kurckn. ac(-ordinc t" Mr. ratlin. In the best years t tie mine produced between 300,000 anil 40i). (nio tons of lead, in addition to ;l Ivor and other meta)s. An Old Smelter Contract. Hoim: 1 1 1 1 1 0 Unit nun Air. C'atlin :al 0C'.-;i.sii hi to through s-ntne old papers, ami iiimme; ihcni li; 1'nuiwl a copy of nn On I sim-ltei' i-nntr;i't. under the terms of 'liicli tin- nmderiuTiT mine Hold Sil.UtMi.Oiio of ore lo tin- ilu-hmond srnelter. This eunlraet allowed ,".7 per i-i-nt of the silver U'cou-iy, Mi p.-'- rent of the irold. no al-lo'iinre al-lo'iinre w:is made for lead unless It ex-ere.I.'d ex-ere.I.'d 2u per I'cut to t lie ton. nnd a f hurfio of $ 1 vii s made for amoUins. Ti uMUUi-ii as tiie U ad uevt-r equaled the limit yet. no credit w hm ever received for the lead value of the Duiiderbere; ore. ) 'revioi;: to tlie period for which this con-1 con-1 met. applied, tho ynielti.-r charge had beer $2lf.o. In a in "an uro this hlh smelter eharqe wa dm, to transportation difficulties. Hefore t lie rfiilmad w as built from the t'outiiei'n I'tu-'t'lc i-'lalion at Palisade, New, the coUe which came from Wales around 1 'a pe I lorn hud to be hauled n distance of e'i;li1'-seen tr.lles ovei" the desert. Am a matter of fact, said Mr. Cutlln, no ore worth less than $so pi-r ton wua ever shipped to the. smelter. Activity Wanes. In lNT. owlnr to the jow price of lead, due to a glutted market, t he declining prii-e of silver, the rapidly dwindling production of hiirh - er 1 de ore, the prosperity pros-perity of KureUa hecan to decline. In I Sua. wlien smcltlnir was discontinued and the smellers were dismantled, mining activity ac-tivity at Kureka received Its death blow, according to Mr. I'atlin. Since tiuu time leaiw-rs have worked the old mines in a small way. The hi.H'h-eTude. ore has been shipped to 1 'tali smelters and the. low-jirade low-jirade ores thrown on the dumps or piled it) In stopes. For year thP vast deposits of tow-jrrudo tow-jrrudo ore, both mined and unmined, have awaited development at the hnnd.i of some company which had tho cou-ac and the capital to undertake the task. And It has remained for Mr. Cnilin. one of the pioneers of Kureka. to aid this rnovo-meat rnovo-meat undertaken by the Eureka-CVoesus Minlnp company, of which F. L. Torres, formerly in charfre of the Oinrcenheim interests in-terests in Mexico, is president and pen-"ral pen-"ral manager. .":r. t'atlin is a larj;e stock-boIler stock-boIler and consulting ens;ineer. Mlr.ins: men say that he is one of the verv few men alive who is acquainted wit.i the Workings of the old mine.s, which, after years of abandonment, arc inaccessible. ' The Kureka-iYoesus company's holdings hold-ings consist of thirty- live patented claims, which in-hide the old T'under- i ber and A this mines. At present tun- : Heis are beintc driven under the id work- j iiis. where exi.st vast deposits of o:-e. j -NO euor; is nfins inaat; iu remm v ui e. cNceut that hiL-ii is euoouiiierecl In development de-velopment work. Experiments Are Made. i.Mxtoi'.slvet experiments are beine: nvule iy the romian', it Is said. To determine liv best methoi.1 o: i-oncentratinir the or- Several me thuds, ineUidlTi oil cuiu-ent ration. ra-tion. eanUle and H combination of both, '.iiivo in experiment worked quite sttis-laetorilv. sttis-laetorilv. Wiien one o: thee methods i.as been seleotfd, one unit of a mill win he constructed to ive t :ie process a thorough trial. Vhen the best method has been selected, units will be added as rapidly as cmdi:!ons justify, it is said. The" success of the Kureka mines de-nends de-nends only on the solution ot a tnctai-hiricnl tnctai-hiricnl piobbni, accord Inc to Mr. Cat-lin. Cat-lin. Hundreds and thousands ct" tons ot" Tow-jrrade ore lie on the dumps and in slopes, besides the larjie deposits wb.ioh ure known to exist in tlie district. H is ':e opinion of Mr. Calliu. who has mined in parts ot the world, that no greater deposits of ore of such a uniformly hiirh j value can he found In either South or North America. The ore of the Kureka district, which carries silver, iron, gold nnd a small ppreeutae o: lead. Is fojnd in the limestone. lime-stone. There are three kinds of limestone lime-stone in the district : The Kureka lime, which carries no ore values; the Prospect Pros-pect mountain and the tiamburj; lime, j which carry ore values. The ore is found, t according to Mr. Ca'.hn, in limes which 'lie between snale and nuartzlie. and i general! y in and near the cross fissures which cross the beds of limestone aimost diasonali V- Ore is seldom found alonpr :he contact. The ore bodies are found ui preat chambers. As a Kf'ner.il rule. th?se chambers are connected by littie eams of iron which oftentimes are no ! wilier than the thickness of a knife blade j ar.d wh.ich run with.out interruption for 7 0 ft or Si0 feet be ."or.' another chamber will b f-umd. it is s;yld. I Ihinnir tlie h.:!f-ceiitury which Mr. Cat- 1 '.hi bus been em;:iped in mi nine, he has I had experience in ah parts of the -lobe. ! huSudincr Oanada. Mexico. Central and 1 South America, Africa, Siberia. Spa!n and ' Mesopotamia. The mining industrv in; this last-named country is ii;i".e limited. hu: yea"s aso. a c. -online to Mr. Cat i in. t ;i -ery cine Oracle of iron was rnmea ;h'-re. Tradicon states that tiie Pstr.as- ' 'as svoifiJ. th.an widch no finer blades ave ever been manufactured, were made from Mesopo:am.iu iron. Only limited ; doosits of tids ore is found, and a lar-e , :M.ctorv would jirnh:thly consume tlie entire ; deposits in one year, said Mr. Cath'n. ' Cotton Market. j Xi:V VOhK. .Tidy V. -Cotton fri;:r-" -.: i firm. July 33.G.V: Uctoh.-r ;i3.Rno: b.'i'v:ii-r, 33.30c: Januarv 33.15; Mi.rch. 32'. r.,tton f'ltur.-s closed M.-a.iy; July. 33.SOc: Oc-ub'T, Oc-ub'T, 33. 50c: Deecinbt-r. 33. 45c: January, 33.30c; :i::r-h. 33. I0e. Cotton s!t. steady: nn. Idling. "l.S...-. , MIW YORK, -liilv S. --Cot'cu v a ' at i tu'.u o' iy lu -15 pjir.t?. ' |
