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Show MINING AND FINANCIAL ! It begins to look now ns if much or tho mining In Utah and othor western states In tho noxt row years would bo done above ground. It might bo an oxaggoratlon to say that thoro Is moro motal In tho was to rrom tho mines than has boon oxtractod by tho smoltors, but thoro Is no question that n quarter, or a largor porcontago, of tho motal taken from tho earth bus ncvor boon separated rrom tho rock that contains It. Evory mine dump and cvory heap of mill tailings Is a challenge to tho metallurgist. Tho motals porvado all nature Thpro Is gold In tho water of tho ocean and iron In tho blood of animals. Tho chemist can savo practically all of this metal; tho metallurgist can savo only such as will pay for Its own extraction. As fast as chemical processes are simplified, or cheapened to tho point at which tho metal produced will pay for tho procoss, they become metallurgical operations. The lino between chemistry and motallurgy rises and falls. It rails ortcner and rurther than It rises. Metal prices havo something to do with it. An increase in prices somc-tlmos somc-tlmos makes a metallurgical procoss of a chomlcal procoss and a drop In value ofton turns a metallurgical plant into a chemical laboratory. Tho difference is solely one of economy. Right now a still hunt is going on for oro and tailings that occupy tho border zono or chemistry. Tho hunt has not reached the buying stage. Tho hunters arc simply spotting tho game. And the reason for this activity Is to bo round in tho statements that havo been made con-corning con-corning the process that is to bo tried at tho Knlght-Christenson mill at Tlntlc arter the first or October. The particular assertion as-sertion that nails the attention of tho mining min-ing men is that tho mill will treat Tor throo-dollar ore that now incurs a smolter clmrgo or $7.00. It doson't take much knowlodgo or arithmetic to llguro that tho proposod mill rate will glvo commercial valuo to a vast tonnago or material that runs moro than $3 and less than $7 In tho rocovorablo motals. Tho procoss ltsoir, although al-though now to motallurgy, Is old in chemistry. chem-istry. Scientists havo known Tor countries that with sufficient heal metal could bo turned into gas. Evory studont was awaro that motalllc substancos could be roloascd rrom oro by volatilizing thorn with boat and precipitating thorn away from tho waste. To mako this chemical experiment experi-ment a metallurgical fact was the task to which N. C. Christenson addressed hlm-soir. hlm-soir. That ho got tho right address Is tho opinion or prominent mill men who have Investigated his work. Thoorotlcally his, proposals are sound; practically thoy have boon demonstrated so far as demonstration Is posslblo on a small scalo, and no ono will have greater certainties than those to roly upon until tho passing or tho sixty or nlnoty days noodod to finish tho plant and comploto the initial run. Anyono who wus old onough to sit up and tako notico whon tho cyanldo procoss camo into uso Tor tho troatmont or rerractory gold oro will bo abio to rorosoo tho results that will Tollow llto commercial com-mercial success or tho Chrlstonson sysiom. Cyanldlng plants sprang up all over tho mining country, dead mlnos and doad camps omorged from tholr sepulchres and hundrods of fortunes woro made by investors in-vestors who had had the norvo to discount tho succoss of tho process and tlo up masses of low grado oro. Insurrections, rortunes and all will repeat thomsolvos if sllvqr, load, and copper ores can bo dros''l for $3 a ton Instoad or $7. It would tao yoars to ostlmato tho oxtont and valuo or tho supposed '"asto that would bo reclaimed, re-claimed, but a row illustrations wilt convoy con-voy an Idea or the magnitude of the posslblo saving. One Tintlc mine, the Grand Central, is known to havo a million tons or ore that will run bettor than $5 n ton, blocked out In its workings. Tuo Black Jack has 200,000 or which 30,000 Is on dumps. In tho Colorado mlno thoro are moro than 40,000 tons or mill oro. Tho unmlnod mill oro in tho American Flag at Park City Is estlmatod at 100,000 tons with a valuo, on tho basis or a ?3 troatmont chargo, or more than $500,000. The Prlnco Consolidated, or Pioche, Nevada, Ne-vada, has tens or thousands of tons of tunings In its Bulllonvlllo dumps that brought 80 a ton at tho smoltors. Tho Amorlcan Flag and Prlnco companies have taken a llvoly intorost In tho work Mr. Chrlstonson Is doing and it is probablo that tholr mill dirt will bo trlod out In large quantities soon artor tho starting or tho Tlntlc plant. in enumerating tho posslblo patrons or a low-cost chlorlnatlon plant wo do not have to stop with tho shipping mines having hav-ing milling materials as a sldo issue. There aro plenty or prospects that arc prospects solely because thoy havo not been ablo to bring thclt values up to tho limit or smelting cost. Some or these noar-mlnes havo groat tonnagos or nonr-oro nonr-oro which would amply Justiry tho oroc-tlon oroc-tlon and operation or small mills. Those changes, or course, would bo roilcctcd in tho stock market. That market, at present, pres-ent, is discounting rallures, not succossos. It Is from Missouri. Its collective mind is dwelling, not on the historic triumph or cyanlding, but on tho unrortunato outcome out-come or the Fink smelting experiment, tho gold-from-sca-wator extraction schemes and various purported discoveries or tho philosopher's stone. Everything Is Inspected In-spected through tho largo end or tho tolcscope. This attltudo will mako tho reaction, IT there is to be a reaction, tho more rar-roachlng and sonsatlonal. Ono who invests in anticipation or Knight-Chrlstonson Knight-Chrlstonson succoss is taking some chances on tho operating cost or tho plant, but ho is taking no chanco at all on tho rosults that will como from realization or tho anticipated outcome. Wo aro improving on tho old rashlonod mothod or woll-digging. Wo used to send down to tho araoku'-box cotnor or tho coihbihotl dopartmortt store and poetonioo i ror tho local "water witch", holp him select se-lect tho right sort or prong rrom the chorry tree, and lead an awod and ro-spoctrul ro-spoctrul crowd or spectators In his wake J as ho marchod with impeccable dignity rrom tho house to tho barn, or, ir ho In his omnlscionco decldod othorwls.o rrom tho barn to tho house. Now w6 solid to tho skyscraper office ror an onglnoor and send him out, accompanied by a solitary chalnman. His wand has thrco prongs In-stoad In-stoad or t'wo and a telescopo on top or It. Ho inspires no awe and, If ho has any dignity, ho hangs it up with his office coat and rorgots it ontlroly when he comos to a porpondicular lcagc on tho sldo of thp mountain. Wo dig our wolls with dynatnlto and on tholr sides instead or standing them on ond. Tho operation has lost all or its romance but there is compensation com-pensation in tho Tact that the wator will run out or tho horizontal well without waiting for us to wind up rourtoon miles or ropo on a windlass. In a year or two wo aro Hkoly to bo boiling our eggs In Salt Lako City In wator mined rrom the old bonanza properties or Alta. Tho Alta T. & T. company Is artor the millions or gallons or wator that submerged the bonanzas, with olcctrlcal machlnory ana compressed air Tho transrormers roached tho property prop-erty In Sliver Fork this week and a crow or men aro busy reducing the grade or the road up tho rork to 4 por cent The tunnol, In a mllo of work, will poi.otrato ground that has produced SS5,000,0Ou and gjln a depth or 000 foot bolow tho deop-ost deop-ost shart, that or tho Prlnco or Wales. It comos pretty straight mat tho Ccdar-Talisman, Ccdar-Talisman, In Beaver county, is In hotter condition than it has been ror two or thrco yoars. Advices rccolvod this week toll of a good sized ore botiy in a raise rrom tho inclined shart at the 700 lovdl. Whoro tho Incline oncountorcd tho lonsc tho oro was thrco root wiao and assayed 20 ounces silver and 20 ounces load. In raising 18 Tcet the miners exposed about 0 root or tho ore. While tho race continues con-tinues as at present, a carload a week can be produced. Although little has bcon said or this strlko it probably accounts ror tho lmprovod prlco or tho stock on 'change. Another change ror the bene: in mining JULY COPP1SH PHODUCTION. The July statomont or tho Coppor Pro- 138,071,002 lbs. as comparod with 121,- duccrs Association shows as rollows: 800,854 In Juno. Total dolivorlos woro Stocks or markotoblo coppor or all kinds 137,384,203 lbs., an lncroaso or 803,701 on hand at all points in tho Unltod Statos His ovor Juno. August 1, amounted to 53,504,045 lbs. Production (by months) since January 1, This compares with 52,004,600 lbs on rrom all domestic and foreign sources, to- July 1, an incroaso of 000,339 lbs. gothor with domestic dolivorlos, oxports, Production during tho month is givon as " total dolivorlos, rollow: Changos Total sinco Production Lbs. by months. Jan. l, to 13 July 138,074,002 Inc. 10,213,740 047,208,038 Juno 121,800,863 Doc. 10,458,508 800,104,030 May 141,310,410 Inc. 5,080,014 087,333,183 April 135,333,402 Doc. 018,547 540,013,707 March ; .. 130,251,840 Inc. 6,302,008 410,080,305 Fobrttary 130,048,881 DOC. 12,630,744 274,428,500 January 143,470,025 Inc. 125,583 143,470,025 Domostic Dolivorlos July 58,004.102 DOC. 0,848,370 488,005,014 Juno 08,462,571 DOC 12,065,760 420,101,722 Muy 81,108,821 Inc. 2,040,484 300,730,151 April . . . 78,1 58,837 Inc. 1,573,300 270,030 830 March 70,085,471 Inc. 10,008,070 201,471,008 February A 60,070,492 Doc. 5,633,538 124,880,522 January 06,210,030 Inc. 0,718,307 05,210,030 Export Dolivorlos July 78,480,071 Inc. 10,412,170 510,080,351 Juno 08,007,001 Doc. 218,077 432,500,280 May 08,285,078 DOC. 17,008,740 204,432,370 April 86,804,727 Inc. 8,106,121 200,140,401 March 77,000,306 Inc. 5,630,783 210,261,074 February 72,108,523 Inc. 11,784,078 132,552,308 January 00,383,845 Doc. 0,320,951 00,"l,845 Total Deliveries July 187,384,203 Inc. 803,791 990,076,205 Juno 136,520,472 DOC. 12,873,827 8014C92,002 May 149,304,200 DOC. 14,059,205 725,171,530 April s 104,053,504 Inc. 0,708,787 575,777,231 March 164,284,777 Inc. 22,439.702 411,728,607 February 181,846,015 Inc. 0,261,140 257,438,800 January 1 ,593,875 inc. 1,388,350 125,598,875 &mJft 'T&z&t u''cmeX and. W- condltjQns to which small publicity has ,bdon gtycn Is tho success or various leases in southeastern Tlntlc. A private letter from tho superintendent or the United Tlntlc states that lessees on tho Mlnnlo Mooro, I adjoining- United Tlntlc on tho oijst, are In good looking' ore, lessees on tlfo Treasure Hill have Just shipped 50 tons or $18 ore, and tho miners leasing: I the Julian Lano are marketing- ore that brings $40 and ?5u a ion. The most Interesting In-teresting occurrence at tho United Tlntlc Is tho appearance of a "black", probably a manganese, streak In tho faco or tho oast drirt on the 210 lovol. A thousand 'pounds a day Is bolng taken rrom this , drift. t |