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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- the Deep Creek country. The Accident is regarded as one of the wonders of the Deep Creek region, as the vein crops out twenty to thirty feet wide, with eleven feet of good ore. With a railroad to that section one hundred tons surper day could be quarried on the at a face and shipped to the smelters good profit. The property is owned by M. R. Evans, John Brewer and others. Several other claims on Dutch mountain are now being actively developed. The Castle Valley News publishes a conversation overheard on the train as it was passing the Castle Gate coke ovens, Just as the workmen were drawing the coke. This must be a mining town, remarked an Eastern tourist to his companion. Yes, it is, was the reply, but I didnt know that was the way they roasted and took out the silver. This illustrates the ignorance prevailing among Eastern people conof mining and cerning the method "is smelting silver. It related of Edward Atkinson, Bostons financial fakir, that he once testified before a Congressional committee that he understood the miners built a fire alongside of a mountain and melted out the silver. Mr. Henry Bratnooer. who conducted the examination of the Golden Gate mine, has gone to 3an Francisco. Mr. Hamilton timtth is quoted as denying the repo t that his people have increased their holdings of Anaconda stock. The representatives of a French syndicate will, it is said, report favorably upon the great Bingham tunnel project, inaugurated by Messrs MoiTatt and Stevenson. This tunnel will be 9000 feet long, eight by seven feet and will cut the veins of many properties at great depth, besides aftording drainage. The great flow of water will be used for irrigation purposes and for afgenerating electric power. It will ores ford an economical outlet for the of the Dalton & Lar, Winnamuck, Yosemite and other big producers. It has already been driven 500 feet. The sale of the Sevier mine, located in the Marysvale district, was declared off last Monday by Charles Lammers-dor- f, owner of the controlling interest, owing to the failure of the purchasers to meet the final payment of $51,000. Nearly a year ago Mr. Lammersdorf n agreed to sell to an syndicate 140,000 of the 250,000 shares of capital stock at 60 cents per share, and $41,000 of the purchase price had English-America- been paid. The final payment was due last March, but an extension of three months was granted. A further extension was asked for last Monday, but was not granted. Under the agreement the purchasers receive as many shares as the amount that has been paid by them will pay for at 60 cents per share, this stock to be held in trust and voted by Mr. Lammersdorf, who thus retains control. At the annual election, held Monday, the following officers were chosen: Charles Lammersdorf, presi dent, treasurer and manager; A. E. P. E. McKinney, Hyde, secretary. vice-preside- A nt; Reservation Question. An unwarranted amount of excite- ment has been created by the jumping of a few claims in the eastern part of the Camp Floyd district, the jumpers alleging that these locations were made on the old Fort Crittenden military reservation prior to April 9, 1895, the date upon which these reservations were opened by the land office. The question raised is of some interest, although there seems to be little question concerning the validity of the original locations. The Fort Crittenden and other military reservations were transferred from the War department to the Interior department by virtue of an act of Congress approved July 5, 1884. MINING REVIEW. N Issue notice of the abandonment of such military reservations as had became useless, and to transfer them to the Interior department; the act also described the manner in which all lands except mineral lands should be appraised and sold by the Interior department. In the matter of mineral lands, it provided: Sec. 5. Whenever any lands containing valuable mineral deposits shall be vacated by the reduction or abandonment of any military reservation under the provisions of this act, the same shall be disposed of exclusively under the mineral land laws of the United States. The Fort Crittenden reservation was abandoned by executive order on July 22, 1884, and good lawyers hold that, under the above section, the mineral lands became subject to location on that date, although the agricultural lands were not opened to entry until April 9, 1895, which was doubtless due to an oversight on the part of the Interior department. The boundaries of the reservation follow the summits of the mountain ranges surrounding Cedar valley, and include the eastern portion of the Camp Floyd district and the northern portion of North Tintic, taking in the eastern side of Five-Mil- e Pass. Many locations have been made, but the region is comparatively undeveloped. The Black Hills case has been cited as a precedent, but in that case an entirely different state of facts existed, and the mineral locations made prior to the opening of the reservation were made valid by special provision of the reservation act. Gold Extraction Hyatt-Henochsbe- rg Process. This process is a pneumatic amalgamation process, in which the finely pulverized dry ore, propelled by a current of air, through a restricted channel, encounters in its way sundry pools of mercury, and has been exhibited at work at the office of Messrs. John H. Hackworth & Co., Queen Victoria street, London. The apparatus consisted of eighteen feet of three-inc- h piping, coiled into a four-co- il spiral and mounted horizontally; one end of the spiral projected into a dust chamber, the other end served for the attachment to the air machine, in this instance a hand-powRoots blower. At the top of the first limb of the first coil the was fixed and communicated with the interior by a pipe continued some way down, and provided at the throat with a balanced pressure from above. The lower ends of the spiral were detachable, and had been charged with mercury before the arrival of the visitors, the quantity used being insufficient to entirely obstruct the passage. Material repreer feed-hopp- er senting ore, and consisting of silver sands to which coarse and moderately coarse gold had been added, in the presence of the visitors, was charged in the hopper, the blower was set to work slowly and soon a cloud of dust would be seen issuing into the dust chamber. After some little time and the expenditure of much work on the blower, the sand had disappeared from This act authorized the President to the hopper, the blower was stopped, and the . lower parts of the detached severally and were conexamined separately; they tained clean, bright mercury and a not inconsiderable proportion of sand.. The mercury was subsequently found to contain gold, as might be supposed, the bulk of it being in the first bend. The demonstration was conducted by Mr. Hyatt, the inventor, with the assistance of Mr. Hackworth, from whom we ascertained that the apparatus used was capable of dealing with five tons of ore in a day of ten hours, and would save from 80 per cent to all of the gold; and that apparatus of any size and capacity could be constructed; such being the case, there would be a large and useful field open to this appliance wherever ores are encountred. dry The inspection demonstrated clearly that the apparatus was of admirable simplicity, that it could be very easily worked, that a moderate current of air. stated to be about one and one-ha- lf pounds per square inch, sufficed to car--, ry away most of the sand, and that much if not all the gold remained; but owing, as is frequently the case on such occasions, to an absence of the necessary data, it is impossible to judge whether the w'ork done had been effected at the rate of six cwt. or five tons in ten hours, wfiether or not all the gold had been saved, whether it was accompanied or not by a loss of mercury, and whether or not it could deal with different class material successfully. But anyway, the apparatus is so simple, and can certainly not be very expensive, so that it should be well w'orth the while of mining men, requiring an appliance for treating dry ores, to bear this process in mind. The Engineer. coils free-milli- ng free-milli- ng Bad Aline Management. We are much interested in the idea of an Australian contemporary, which points out that bad management takes such a multitude of shapes that it is almost impossible to describe it, unless It be described in the general term, ignorance of mining. Its most common form is seen in the wastage of ore. A general proof of the fact is found in the hundreds of dumps which have been hand sorted over and over at a profit. There is m old saying that a good workman can be known by his chips, and with equal truth it can be said that a bad mine manager can be known by his dumps. One thing that is indispensable in a manager is an appreciation of the necessity of thoroughly understanding the nature and value of his ore. He may not be able to understand that ore iiiroself, but if he appreciates its importance, he can employ some one who does understand it to take charge of necessary work. The world sees the evidence of waste in the dumps that lie in the daylight, but there is a still greater source of waste that is hidden from the public in the dark stopes of the mine. Every practical man knows how eften the oe is knocked down in tlie stopes, and there partially sorted, and the supposed waste left upon the stulls. If ore sorted by daylight loses much of its value |