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Show 4 INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW: management. It is claimed by friends of the directors that they themselves been victimized by people who have Pelatan-CleriThe fifty-to- n process had a motive in deceiving them, and plant erected at the DeLamar mine at that the development work done during DeLamar, Ida., is now almost ready the past two or three years has cost a greater sum than has been realfor operation. One of the six sections much ized from the sale of stock. has been given a preliminary run, but there is no definite information as to Abstract of Recent Mining Decisions. results. The DeLamar Nugget publishes a description of the process, the Prepared for the Mining Review by Salt essential features of which have here- George Westervelt, attorney-at-latofore been given by the Review. The Lake City, Utah. Mining claims Location in town limvalues are brought into solution by the fact that land on which disuse of cyanide of potassium, as in the its. Theand location of a mining claim covery McArthur-Foreprocess, but the pulp are made is within the patent limits constant not of of state a will a in affect is kept town, the title of agitation locator, where it was known prior and it is claimed that this feature is es- the to the patent to the town that a minsential in the treatment of talcy or eral vein existed where the discovery slimy ores by cyanide. The values are and location were made. Moyle vs. precipitated by electrolysis upon a bed Bullene, 44 Pac. Rep. 69. (Court of ApColorado, January 13, 1896). of amalgam in the leaching tank, the peals of Rival Claimants. In ejectment electric current being applied con- forSame, a mining claim, where it appears reare ten hours About that the discovery shafts of both partinuously. are identical, evidence that the quired for the treatment of each ties were made on lands patdiscoveries charge. It is claimed that this process ented prior to the date of discovery of is more economical than any other, and either party should be admitted, and that it will save a higher percertfage the jury instructed that if the fact was of values in ores of any character that found, neither party could recover. can be treated by the cyanide solution. Ibid. Location Certificate Amendment. It is the invention of M. Pelatan, a When an original certificate of a minFrenchman, and Sig. F. Clerici, an ing claim is void, a subsequent certificannot, as amendatory thereof, reItalian, who, while discovering no new cate late back to the date of the original principle, have arranged an effective certificate. When an original certifin combination of several cate is subject to amendment, a certain certificate amendatory thereof, principles. will relate back to the date of the original certificate. Ibid. The Hardscrable Bubble. Officer Recovery for Corporation The Services. fact that one is a diThe fearless Park City Record, alThe Pelatan-Cleri- Plant. c! ci w, st well-know- ways ready to scalp a wildcat, is now gunning for the Morgan Hardscrabble aggregation. This is the company in whose behalf have been claimed ores carrying gold, silver, lead, cobalt, nickel, bismuth, platinum, and other metals too numerous to mention. The Mining Review stated a month ago that analyses failed to reveal the presence of any such extraordinary combination, and there have since been no sales of the stock upon the Salt Lake Exchange. A good many shares have been worked off on the gullible people of Wyoming, however, and it is reported that as high as $1 a share has been paid. It was understood that the proceeds of these sales were to be expended upon a mill, but the Park Record claims that the materials for the unfinished plant have not been paid for, and it is also claimed that the workmen have received three-fourtof their wages in stock. One of the Wyoming victims went to the mine and secured a sample of the ore, which he sent to the Wyoming State university for analysis. It showed a trace of gold and nothing else, and the statement was made that such a combination as had been claimed would be a chemical impossibility. Samples brought to this city by the management have also been analyzed, and found to contain nothing but silica and iron. As the Record truly remarks, it looks like a fake, and the indications of fraud have been so pronounced from the start that the victims are entitled to little sympathy. But, while it is apparent that misstatements have been made concerning the contents of the ores, fairness demands that it be said that the prodigious claims that have been made seem to have proceeded from some individual stockholders and not from the rector, stockholder and officer of a corporation will not debar him from recovering on a quantum meruet for services rendered to the corporation which were clearly outside his duties in either of such capacities, and which were rendered with the knowledge and acquiescence of the other directors. Severson v. B. E. Mining and Milling Co. 44 Pac. Rep. 79. (Supreme Court of Montana, March 9, 1896.) Survey Lost Monument Evidence. Where defendant was entitled to recover land only upon proof that the place where the quarter post had been originally set had been identified so that it was not lost within the rule rethe lating to relocation, a verdict for evidefendant was not sustained by dence which failed to fix the point more definite than that it was somewhere within a space covered by a circle, the radius of which was fifty feet or more. Wilkerson Coal and Coke Co. v. Driver, 43 Pac. Rep. 889. (Supreme Court of Washington, February 7, 1896.) Mining and Metallurgical Patents. hs List of patents relating to mining, feed-hoppe- rs er and the cutting apparatus, a detachat, ble a shaft mounted on the truck, a sprocket chain connecting said shaft with the motor gearing, two independently-mounte- d truck wheels to run a upon track, and two adapted sets of devices for transmitting power from the aforesaid shaft on the truck to the said wheels independently of truck-suppor- each other. No. 558,357 Electrical Furnace Conley, Brooklyn, N. Y. An electrical M. R. metallurgical furnace, comprising a vessel of a composition containing a carbon, with integral arms of the same material on opposite parts of the vessel, and to which the terminals of an electric circuit may be connected. An electrical metallurgical furnace, comprising a vessel of a composition containing carbon, integral arms on opposite parts of the vessels of the same material, and terminals of an electric circuit connected to said arms, with cooling rings about the said arms and terminals, as and for the purpose described. No. 558,447 Car-doFastening for H. Cars J. Mining Watts, Barnesville, O. The combination of a mine car having corner straps, a transverse shaft, mounted in the upper ends of said straps; a swinging door suspended from said shaft by straps, and a pivoted latch-leve- r, having lower bent latch-arm- s and upstanding arm provided with a weight on its upper end; a loop for limiting the oscillation of said latch-levand the keeper. No. 58,459 Electric Mine Cage and Elevator C. J. Cutler, Butte, Mont. In an electrically-operate- d elevator, the combination with fixed vertical guides provided with toothed racks on opposite sides of a cage, an electric motor carried on the cage platform having pinions on the ends of its shafts engaging the racks on one side of the vertical guides, an auxiliary shaft journaled in the cage platform parallel with the motor shaft, also provided with pinions on its ends engaging the toothed racks on the other or opposite side of the vertical guides, intermeshing gearing mounted on the respective shafts whereby both are made to operate in unison, and a trolley carried on the cage in contact with a conductor connected with an electrical source of supor er ply. is- sued April 7, 1896. Reported for the Mining Review by J. F. Corker, patent solicitor, office No. 311 and 312 Atlas block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Copies furnished for L5 cents each. No. 558,052 Apparatus for Electrolytic Production of Zinc R. Encke and O. Frolich, Berlin, Germany. The combination, with electrolytic cell and electrodes supported therein, of partition-plate- s arranged substanin vertical the cell, spaces being tially left above and below the said plates for the passage of the electrolyte, and means for circulating the electrolyte at a high velocity around the said plates and over the electrodes. No. 558,190 Stamp-mi- ll William A. Mont. Logue, Sunset, In a mill for reducing ore and the like to a finely-divide- d state, the combination of a main frame, anti-frictirollers, carried by said frame, a revolu-bl- e cylinder arranged between the antifriction rollers, a cam-sho- e connected to the inside of the periphery of the cylinder, a stamp-mulle- r, stationary cores at of the cylin ends arranged opposite on der, circular screens surrounding said cores, a water-pip- e extending through the cores and having a discharge within the cylinder, extending through the cores, a fixed rod extending through the cores, a chain connectwith said rod and ing the stamp-mulla suitable means for revolving the cylinder. No. 558,264 Mining Machine Truck H. B. Dierdorff, Columbus, O. The combination with a mining machine having a bed, a carriage, a cutting apparatus, a motor, a shaft and gearing interposed between the motor The mining camp of Gibbonsville, Ida., has no preacher, and the Gibbonsville Miner says any gentleman of the cloth who understands his business can secure a job by agreeing to certain We want a preacher it conditions. says, who has got horse sense; one who realizes that brevity is the soul of wit; one who is willing to sign an ironclad contract not to talk over twenty minutes at a time to quit when he has told us all he knows Should the Centennial-Eurek- a option be taken up, and there is little doubt but it will be, the entire purchase price $3,000,000 will be handed over in one payment. Of this sum Utah peopld will receive between $2,225,000 and $2,400,000. Nearly all of these people are engaged in mining and the greater portion of this money will doubtless be expended in the development of other properties. |