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Show THE ARGUS. ORB AND BULLION RATES. MINING MACHINERY, Etc. chest of these mines were lost or pipe just at the bottom. A pipe passes between these two but abandoned by the Mexicans on acInvestments careful dees not extend 'quite so far down. count of the frequent raids of the Will ly negotiated. honestly suggest best The annular space between the two ipache Indians. Many years place to invest your few spare dollars or outer pipes is closed by a stout partielapsed before the owners your thousands. c ared to return tion at the lower end of the Mine owner, place to look after their your mines here. pipe. Above this partition a series of jroperty, and when they did they MARIGER INVESTMENT CO holes is made through the walls of the did they often found all traces of Room 329, Atlas Block outer pipe, and a similar belt of hem obliterated either by earthholes is also made at its bottom. quakes, cloudbursts or some other Water heated to 335 degrees Fahr. is natural cause. forced through the space between the Local tradition records that over (Dill two outer pipes, and when it reaches one hundred years ago two deserters the partition at the bottom of the in- rom the Mexican army, upon being Hitlers and ner one of these two it passes out at ollowed and brought back to their Prospectors the upper holes and melts the sulphur regiment, presented their captain with surrounding the pipes. This melted a very large piece of solid silver, found sulphur is driven in at the lower holes 3y them in the mountains. He re- THE BOISE lRil DID EED0CTIOI W01IS and forced up, in the space between lieved them of all punishment upon Are building one and the two inner pipes, to the top of the their showing him the place where it quartz mills, stamps weighing either well. To prevent the solidification of was found. The entire regiment was 200 or 500 iounds each, to crush guaranteed the sulphur on the way up, hot air is sent to work to dig native silver, a screen through 100 to 125 pounds of ore driven down through the inner pipe. which was found in pieces varying in per hour. Can be packed on horses into the most The air passes out of the inner pipe at weight from 2i to 150 pounds. As inaccessible localities. its bottom and ascends upward usual, the Apaches bounded down Price for i Stamp Mill, $ioo. through the same channel as the sul- upon them and killed nearly all, and Price for a Stamp Mill, $180. phur. The pipes are sunk deeper although the records of the governinto the bed of sulphur as occasion ment were as precise as possible as to Mill and Mining Maand Castings of chinery . The stee of location, it has never yet been found. requires pipes are made every description furnished on short notice. coated with aluminum. The sulphur Another famous mine, the Tumac-escovAll work guaranteed at flows from the well in a liquid state which the records of the Chicago or Denver prices with freight added. and is run into shallow vats to cool church show produced millions in silIt is then cut into vats convenient for ver bullion, has never been found, JAMES BAXTER & CO., shipping. Much of the deposit is although the search has been kept up said to be very pure, reaching as high almost steadily for the past fifty BOISE, IDAHO. as 99 per cent, of clear sulphur. A years. The ore was brought from the mine by the friendly Indians who E. Tillman, in Cosmopolitan. BLUE WELSH were employed by the Jesuit fathers to ! the Tumacescovi mission in the Santa LOST MINES. COPPER SMELTIN Cruz valley, where it was rudely of riexican Traditions Bonanza and Rain Story worked. The Apaches were very bow Chasing. It might be thought that a silver troublesome, and upon several occa mine was altogether too considerable eions murdered the entire force at the faan item to be mislaid or lost, but ex mine. Orders were given by the t thers to fill up the shaft ten feet below perience has shown that such losses Trade Mark, Abernant. have not only been of frequent occur the surface. This was done by placat that distance below the rence, but the missing mines have ing logs often been found again picked up ground level and filling up with refuse. This lost mine will prove a fine Imported and for Sale by as it were, by fortunate passers-bFor hundreds of years the silver mines for some lucky prospector some day. A. T. 4-in- The following list of transportation rates on ore, bullion and concentrates from all important shipping points in Idaho and Utah to all western smelters is officially and absolutely correct, and is published for the convenience of ore shippers : Nampa and Boise to Salt Lake 'Valuation not exceeding $50 per ton, $6; valuation over $50 and not exceeding $100, $8.60. To Denver, under 40 per cent, lead and not exceeding $100 valuation, $10 ; over 40 per cent, lead $14. To Pueblo, same classification, $11.25 and $15.25. To Kansas City, same classification, $14 and $17. To Omaha, $13 and $17. From Hailey, Ketchum and Bellevue to Salt Lake Valuation not exceeding $50, $6; over $50 and not exceeding $100, $8. To Denver, not exceeding $100 valuation, $11. To Pueblo, $12.25. Omaha, $13. To Kansas City, $14. From Bed Rock, Mont., (shipping point for Salmon City) On ores not exceeding $100 valuation To Salt Lake $6; to Denver, $8; to Pueblo, $8; to Omaha aad Kansas City, $8. Coeur dAlene To Salt Lake, valuation not To exceeding $50, $10; not exceeding $65, $12; exceeding $65, $14. To Denver same rates. To Pueblo, same classification, $11.25, $13.25, $15.25. To Omaha and Kansas City, $12, $14 and $16. Park City On all ores not exceeding $100 in valuation To Salt Lake $2; to Denver and Pueblo, $7 ; to Omaha and Kansas City, $9. Frisco or Milford To Salt Lake, ore not exceeding $100 in valuation, $3.50; concentrates, $4.50; to Denver, ore and concentrates, $12.50; to Pueblo, $13.75 ; to Missouri River points, $14.50, Eureka On ores not exceeding $100 valuation To Salt Lake, $2.50; to Denver and Pueblo, $8; to Missouri River points, $10. Bingham ($100 valuation) To Salt Lake, $1.25; to Denver and Pueblo, $9.50 ; to Missouri River, $11.50. Rates on bullion From Salt Lake to Denver, $10; to Missouri River, $10. (These rates include switching charges at samplers.) Utah common points, including Salt Lake smelters To Denver and Pueblo, $8 ; to Missouri River, $10. NOVEL METHOD OP niNINO. Difficulties of Mining for Sulphur sand Overcome. 15 n Quick- It has been fre-uent- 4-in- ly ch JI00 StuQP s two-stam- p h i, Sllf known for many years that a deposit of sulphur existed in Louisiana, and several companies have endeavored, but failed, to make its extraction possible. This deposit is at a depth of three or four hundred y feet, and is immediately overlaid by 160 feet of quicksand. One company tried to freeze the sand so as to sink a of Mexico were worked at great profi Subscribe for The Abous. shaft through it, but did not succeed. by rude methods, and many of the It is now reported that a method has been devised for mining the sulphur which promises success. It consists LAJ in melting the sulphur and forcing it o to the surface in a liquid state. Both the melting and the forcing upward are accomplished by the same agent, which is water heated, under pressure, Affords the most Simple, Economical and Reliable Power for Mining and all other to 335 degrees Fahr. A hole is first purposes. While opinions may differ more or less as drilled to the sulphur deposit large to the merits of other Water Wheels, THERE IS BUT ONE OPINION IN enough to receive a pipe. TO THE PELTON. REOARD Down the center of this pipe passes a It gives more value for the money than any CATALOGUES FURNSHED other power appliance known. pipe ; this smaller pipe has a ON APPLICATION. series of holes opening into the larger Fire Bri CHUR, Sole Agent, 19 Barclay St., New York. BIA 6,000 WHEELS NOW RUNNING. Addreai 6-in- 2-in- ch Pelton Water wheel Co., ch HALL1DIE PATENT ROPEWAY, For the .transportation of Ore, Fuel and other material. Has been erected by us all over the country, and is the most economical and efficient method known. 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