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Show THE CITIZEN 10 MINING AND INDUSRTY MONEY IN MINE DUMPS. One of the most noteworthy second-stag- e mining operations iii the United States is being completed at Goldfield, Nevada, where the tailings dump of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines is" to be treated for its gold content. The dump contains 3,000,000 tons, averaging $1.67 per ton, and the plant is to treat 1,000 tons a day a ten-yecontract on what was once utter . ar waste. This operation will make employment for hundreds of men; and it is as safe and sure as running a sawmill or a grist mill. More so, indeed, for its product has a fixed and not a fluctuating value; its supply is definite and subject to neither underproduction nor overproduction, according to the caprices of climate. Bonanza ore finds are thrilling, but most of our mineral supplies are produced by steady plugging of which one hears little.- - Mining- - has . been.-blackguard- as a fever, a passion, a hallucination. As a matter of fact, mining is one of the soberest and sanest of all businesses, and one of the most necessary for the progress of mankind. There are scores of great mining operations going on quietly like the Goldfield recovery, paying wages and taxes, and building states on sober business principles. They do not always get into print; but they count powerfully in the industrial scale, and the food they use makes the difference between profit and loss for many farming communities. BITUMINOUS CONCRETE. Do not grumble at the detour signs. They are unavoidable when the roads are being improved. But what does a little inconvenience amount to in comparison with the permanent advantages which a good road in- sures ? neered the use of asphalt as a surfacing for a cement concrete road base. The article predicts the substitution of bituminous concerte for hydraulic concrete, claiming that this form of construction will prolong the life of the asphalt road, in addition to speeding up the completion of the large amount of resurfacing work demanded by the developmen tof modern motor traffic. In recent years extensive develop ments have been made in the use of other than hard broken rock as solid material for asphaltic foundations, with the result that at the present time clinker, furnace ash, colliery refuse, broken concrete, slag, etc., are politician rubbing elbows, the Republican and the Democrat, the conservative and the radical, as well as a general information bureau. Here is the place to get acquainted, and we have Davis word for it that this is the place. being done. But today, it is often necessary to have miles of road under construction at one time, in order to furnish sufficient work for the caterpillar tractors and steam shovels which move a wagonload of dirt where a laborer used to move a shovelful. With such equiument, it is cheaper for a county or a state to build good roads than it used to be to maintain what would be considered today as merely cow trails. Coupled with scientific methods of road grading, which can only be accomplished with mod. ern machinery, have been developed standard methods of In a recent issue, of The Surveyor, published in London, England, British engineers acknowledged indebtedness to Americans who successfully pio hard-surfacin-g. valley an outlet to the railroad. C. L. Shaw was low . bidder on the ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION. The Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, in its weekly report shows the following improvements and projects contemplated and under way: auxiliary power plant for Murray city with a bid of $10,949. Leonard Nielsen is the architect for the city. DONT WASTE GAS. The increasing use of gas in the home for heating, cooking, refrigeration, incineration, etc., has focused attention upon the necessity for efficient use of gas. Every cubic foot of gas should be made to do as much work as possible. In cooking, the use of the simmering burner, covering the vessels, and use of a low flame wherever possible, will reduce the gas bill. Realizing that high gas bills are a deterrent to expanding business, gas companies are anxious to help customers by recommending the most economical gas appliances and by telling them how to avoid waste by using them intelligently. clhe Pavement fir igycssive Communities , ECONOMICAL Master Farmers use cement on their farms in as many as 85 ways, a recent survey by the cement association shows. The average number of uses by twenty farmers picked by the Ohio Farmer as Master Farmers was 38. Well curbs and platforms, so that the pumps are set to make the water supply concerte silos to permit the best use of ensilage cutters, concrete manure pits that permit the dumping of the manure by litter carriers in cases where the spreaders are not used to take the fresh manure directly to the field; concrete feedink floors and approaches to the troughs around windmills and automatic waterers; hog wallows and watering troughs; building foundations and walks, all show how the far-seei- Ohio rat proofings, and sanitary needs of modem farm life are helped by the little concrete mixer that for a few cents worth of gasoline will do a good job of concreting. to build and always, concrete pavements arethe overwhelm' communities. ing choice of The surface is rigid and unyielding at all times. It is smooth for riding comfort, yet gritty enough to grip the tires when brakes are applied. Every dollar expended for portland cement concrete streets in your city is a dollar invested in permanent driving safety and comfort. CEMENT ON FARMS. ng PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION McComick Building SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE for permanence fire-proofi- ng POLITICAL American Smelting & Refining Company Purchasers of GOLD, SILVER LEAD AND COPPER ORES RENDEZVOUS. Have you met Art Davis? Well, he is the fellow that rounds up all the prominent politicians during the noon hour at his grabeteria, at 60 south Main street. Good things to eat a general meeting place for the boys where all the live topics of the day are discussed. At this good eating place we find the little and the big Consign All Shipments to American Smelting & Refining Company Ship Lead Ores to Murray, Utah. Ship Copper and Siliceous Ores to Garfield, Utah. Send Bills of Lading Direct to Plants. Address Correspondence and Hand Samples to 700 McCormick Bldg., Salt Lake City, . Utah. :j Gibbons and Reed, prominent local: contractors and A. G. G. members 1 employed with success. non-pollutab- le; Twenty' years ago a detour sign was unknown. Men worked slowly with picks and shovels, wheelbarrows and horse drawn dump wagons. There was seldom enough road torn up at one time to prevent traffie from going right through where the work was Bids for the construction of six and one-ha- lf miles of the Victor-Irwi- n road in Idaho have been called for b the Bureau of public roads. Bids will be opened in Ogden, June 9th. Xhig road will give the residents of Swan . |