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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. tion of the miner. The man wTho enGeology of Camp Floyd. r. gages In the extra hazardous occupaDirector Walcott of the United States ; tion of underground work should receive just compensation for his labor Geological Survey has just 'issued a" on the Economic Geology of ' and report all the can law the that protection and Devoted to the Mining Smelting Interests of throw around him, but the way to Im- the Mercur Mining District, prepared West. the proved conditions does not lie through by James E. Spurr, who made an exby C. T. H ARTE, IIoom laws that will result in lower Published Weekly wages amination of the district some eighteen 223 Atlas Block. months' ago. It is prefaced by a brief and strikes. TEHM8: report on the Oquirrh mountains by Prof. Emmons. At some future time ( Payable in Advance. ) Buying and Selling Hines. Year 32.00 One the Review will publish an abstract of 1.00 Six Months In selling a prospect or a mine noth- this work, but the more important con.... 50 Three Months To England, Mexico and Canada, S3 per year, ing is gained and often everything is clusions reached by Mr. Spurr are in postage prepaid. lost through misrepresentations as to brief as follows: The Camp Floyd veins are true conEntered at the Salt lake City Postoffice as its value. During the present season second-clas- s matter. there will be a better market for un- tacts of lime and porphyry; the minSan Francisco Office : 64 and 65 Merchants' developed claims than ever before, but eralization occurred from below, that Exchange, where this paper is kept on file. Adthe owners cannot exercise too great a of the silver vein through an aqueous vertising contracts can be made with E. C. care in describing their properties to solution, and that of the gold ledge, Dake, Agent. intending purchasers. If an investor at a later period, through gases and Salt Lake City, March 26, 1896. finds, upon examining a mine, that vapors; the region of greatest mineralmisleading statements have been made, ization is the lower point of contact he is filled with disgust, and is inclined between the second sheet of The Eight-HoFolly. to break off all negotiations. The mine-owne- porphyry and the lime, and immedidelusive expectations are often ately below such point of contact; the The most mischievous piece of legiform or state in which the gold was slate enacted by the Utah Legislature rudely shattered by the eight-hois the bill, which mathematics of the purchaser. He is deposited has not been determined, but fixes eight hours as a days labor in the frequently unable to sell because he it was probably a telluride, as traces mines and smelters. It was rushed has deceived himself as to the market of tellurium have been found in the through the upper house in headlong value of his property. It should always unoxydized ores; in the oxydized ores haste, having previously passed the be borne in mind that investors who the gold is probably now in a free or lower branch. It is hardly probable understand their business figure upon metallic state, but of invisible fineness; that it will meet the approval of the a safe and conservative basis, and are the mineralized zone is about 1000 feet Governor, as those whose interests are not inclined, as a rule, to pay for much wide and of undetermined length. The affected will be given an opportunity more ore than is in sight. The owner opinion is advanced that as greater to be heard, a privilege, it is claimed, may be certain that the ore body ex- depth is attained the character of the ore will change, tellurium will be found, they were not permitted to enjoy when tends, in increasing richness, to inthe bill w as under consideration in the definite depth, but the purchaser cal- higher values obtained, and smelting Senate. culates upon a pinch, or a fault, will then be the method of treatment. Among the most ardent supporters of and will not pay a very great sum for The Engineering and Mining Jourthe bill were several members who a mere surface showing. Hence it is nal, in commenting upon the action of posed as the friend of labor, and the of the utmost importance that the ownworkingman's candidate during the ers of prospects place them in the best the Mercur company in recognizing the cyrecent campaign, and whose desire to possible shape, for every dollar spent in validity of the MacArthur-Forre-st make such records as will catch the development often adds a thousand dol- anide patent, says: We take it that the real facts in the case are that it labor vote in future campaigns is lars to the value of the property. apparently a stronger motive than Assay returns are most unsatisfac- was simply a question of economy, and their devotion to the public welfare. tory evidence of the value of a dis- not of any doubt as to the ultimate But it is extremely doubtful whether covery or of a mine. To say that a four-fo- decision in the suit. It seems to have any of the miners themselves, undervein assays $1000 per ton sounds been abundantly proved In the evidence standing the full effects of the bill, de- big, but such information carries lit- recently taken in the South African sire that it become a law. It is cer- tle weight with a purchaser. What he case that there can be no claim to pritain that the mine owners will meet desires to know is the average milling ority in the use of dilute solution of the proposed reduction in hours by a value on the 100 level, the milling value cyanide for the extraction of gold from corresponding wage reduction. Many on the 200 level, the extent of the ore its ores, and the general impression In of them are now operating upon such body at various depths, character of the West hag been that the MacArthur-Forre- st close margins that they would be the ore, with reference to treatment company has been relying, In obliged to take such action or close process, cost and profit on production this country, principally upon its exdown. The miners, at least in some of and probable yield of the mine. Mine-owne- clusive patent rights to use zinc shavthe districts, would not submit to a redo not always give careful con- ings, yet since this is abandoned in duction, and strikes and dissension and sideration to these points in fixing the South Africa, it can scarcely be held strife would be the result. The same price upon their properties, but figure good here. unhappy condition would be brought in the possibilities at half a million The collapse of the Butte & Boston about at the smelters, which, owing to or so, and are unable to understand fierce competition with Eastern plants, why they cannot find a purchaser. company has revealed a condition of affairs that has given birth in the East have reduced their treatment charges to such a point that they are left a Secretary Hoke Smith has certainly to grave suspicions concerning the invery small margin. Mines would be ascertained by this time the sentiment tegrity of its management. Prior to closed down, the development of dis- of Western men concerning his out- the proceedings which resulted in the tricts retarded and a conflict precipi- rageous proposition to dispose of the appointment of receivers, the property tated, the consequences of which can- Uncompahgre mineral lands at public was attached in the interest of credinot be estimated. A measure calculat- auction. The people of this region are tors whose claims aggregate $406,516. ed to bring greater disaster to the under obligations to Senator Vest for These creditors are known as the Bosmining interests, to mine owner and his gallant defense of Western integ- ton crowd, or the Bigelow syndiemployee alike, could not have been rity and Western Interests, and ap- cate, and have been in control of the brought forth. plaud the scotching he administered to companys affairs. They are also the On the question of Constitutionality the Georgia statesman. In this Unmortgage bondholders, and the attachauthorities differ, but it is charged that compahgre matter, this fact seems to ment covers all property not covered by some of the They will thus be enwTho voted for be apparent: Secretary Smith is being the mortgage. the measure did so in the belief that it used as the tool of a designing syndi- abled to clean up all the possessions was unconstitutional and would nullicate or he is in collusion with that syn- of the company, and the other stockfied by the courts. dicate, in its efforts to rob prospectors holders will get nothing. The stock The Review would oppose no measure of limited means of the fruits of their Is widely distributed, much of it being held by people of limited means. It is that promised to ameliorate the condi labor. V INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW. Inter-Mounta- in -- or-middl- ur rs cold-blood- ed so-call- ur ed ot rs law-make- rs e |