Show I 00 SLAG BECOMES ARSENIC MINE Dumps Near Eureka May Produce Rich Yield EUREKA Nev MayAn May An An old slag dump abandoned many maD years a ago o covering more than an acre of ground at the head of or the principal principal pal street here has a value of from 80 to per ton according to mining men here Thousands of round pot shaped slugs waste from the slag pots go to make up this acre of junk which twenty enty years ago could have been bought for tor a small amount of ot money In the mining days of the past fourteen smelting furnaces cleared the country of every stick of o fire fire- firewood firewood firewood wood for a radius of forty miles around Eureka silver was legislated ed to a point where further min mining ing was unprofitable and Eureka was left with a gloomy hill of sla slag where furnaces once roared and hissed Each of the to 1000 pound slag pots on the Eureka dump are said to contain from 30 to 33 per percent percent percent cent arsenic Spray of calcium ar- ar arsenic arsenic ar arsenic Mils kills the boll weevil which infests In- In Infests in infests the cotton fields of the south With this discovery the demand for arsenic became great even exceedIng seed Ing the tho supply and quantities were Imported from abroad and the mar mar- market market market ket price soared from a few cents a pound to a peak of 17 cents ceata Approximately tons per week or of the slugs s technically known as are being belne shipped to smelt smelting lug Ing ing plants In Utah and Nevada has also been treated in Tacoma Ta- Ta Tacoma coma Ta-coma coma coma Wash as well as at Toulon near Lovelock Nev In addition to the arsenic content of the slag the gold and silver Is valued at high as 12 a ton ton- Although the present operating company holds title to the Eureka slag dump a well known mine sur sur- surveyor sur declared that many of the pots rolled off of the original smelting company company's s holdings on to property This land landis has been t taken ken up with hopes ulti ultimately to share in ID the profits from rom the h junk t heap heap gold eold mine |