Round-Up | 1897-10-16 | Page 3 | Mining Department

1 q pipa department 0 4 ci c i MODERN metallurgy thera train isaio upon alcon many ral lureR bat n hlikly Adlo advance ince the process man is always ays with vf 11 with each period of ten or a 1 dozen years lie he tool liolis up serenely si with a now new and revolutionary some something ti which ills RITO gave labori fous birth maybe it 1 dozen 1 1 I hundred or live hundred years ago ile iio ah Is I io ino in o lifie with will now new ammie shirly odd yc years irs aw alzo WK overrun vinh ali liis und kenil inid wo ive never saw one OM of liis ills I hill not it pic ceding birther in ii qt it nse ge once only did 1111 wy we fill binl one li we could not discover disco vrr in sonic some old aind ina yaw Iorg iori olen oten belal recolia reco lil tint was vai 1 1 furnace built by mr Z A willaid Will Alil iid laid lit in li Il county temy olle years ago of if new under the ilic sun in ehlt line wo we wrote a full description of if it three months month afterwards came a letter frow from sweden telling lell liiK of other oilier roast ro ili ang aniol furna evs elac IV 1 lile like mr air willards willell NIl liili lii lell li had long ions before been tried kiil in abandoned lit in alint land of ille ilip light sun but ail it 41 n s not follow lk cerl Aill kind of furnaces have been mid d os as failure that hint they luy inny not anler r other oilier con dillons and kiili I 1 th 1 skill ile bo successful ful in ill fact 1111 1 ot every successful tiling thing lins has bean a fallar e bonje where find soni sometime elline lid jig many of tile lie experiments look puerile crile ind and allay lie they art aro not nit without some oine g ge denoral noral lion befit nt at least learns dionie s thing find tile lie suit anni total of lin niall knowledge is increased Inere aed 1 is a 1 abill tiling not to ile be despier lit in itself llin but as mr weller remarked ked about having ivins li ith great effort learned tho lie alphabet alphil bet it 11 Is questionable question ible whether it is yorlli while going through so ho clinch to learn pu fo little at liast the lie inan who pays ill tin bills in most cases will appreciate tit the wellor weller more inore than lie wil abit other chunk of wisdom about sun total of knowledge there ire it a few facts which kiihl ill might well ile be called fillba tilen 1211 that 11 lie nt it the lie basis of the lie ants lit in inet metallurgy il they ire arc that hint nil all ore must in bi crushed to various degrees of fi fineness nene the deg degree ace depending upon ulion the he special ore and the und kind of process to lo lie ii used ed before lie hie metal can be in extracted this is true as to every method of treatment known except smelling smelting sm sui elting second in every kind of ore known which is 11 treated other than by III ing where the inet ills can not lie be extracted by either alo amalgamation 11 ga gai mation nation of the lie ore must be roasted roast cd the object of roast roasting inq is to change the chemical combinations into other oilier combinations which render the metals metal trac tractable tible to sonic some one of tile the runny ninny kinds of treatment this cr crudi ing and rio roasting are tile two greatest elements clements of cost in ili most processes consequently it is not to be wondered at ar aliat efforts should ili lie imide to tj then pen an thern cheso efforts are commendable those thee efforts are bearing fruit every year as witnessed by the brown horseshoe pearce turret klopp ind and other known improvements in furnaces which are modern in ili their perfection though perhaps old in ili conception they are arc a 1 I part of the surn sum of human knowledge they fire the shadrach Shadra eli hesbach ind and ilio have passed parsed through the fiery ordeal and conle come out 0 K they are the plus sign to tit alie world at large though to tile many anany who strewed with road reaching to antiquity ty leading up ill to and making auald thein possible there was only it a minus sign to toll tell of the hie liapes ind and dollars that vanished forever so it always probably will lie be measured by the hie florid orld of golden profits failures will lie be more abundant than s 1 somehow onic liow ili an ill all wise wlee providence failed miserably in fixing abill s up lip as N we would like to have them where N here tile the plus sign would lie be more abundant than llian minus wisdom than folly knowledg knowledge ge than ignorance find and where wp we would all have more hatire fun thau than trouble aill mining industry LARGE DIVIDEND PAYERS ali tha last dividend paid by the calumet mining company making its total distribution soa nOi in is worthy northy of special mention for the passing of the half hundred malic lit in millions the consolidated california 6 virginia on tile lie Co comstock lode hide paid but besides this possessor po sessor of life big Bot bonanza ianza there is is no record of any i mining aning company returning it to its so 10 much money as the calumet fe lias 9 done in the flie united states the ontario lins has paid 13 iiii Oi ii fill and tile grantie granite mountain there are no others with records of of more than ali in ili australia the broken hill company lias a record of or including shares of subsidiary companies which have been distributed and the alie mount morgan ono one of 0 C the alie shareholders in el 1 I callao of colombia have received 90 ir the robinson lit in south acile 11 lias paid 19 ill up to the end of aall tile lie io di illers R diamond mines since llie lie consolidation ion while several of the companies which bilic entered tills union had paid large dividends before it was effected the aln tinto copp copper 1 mines of spain pain have yielded their 1 present resent owners xa ji front from 1870 to cwi iwi both booth years how much tile ancients got out of nt them thein we have no means ni valls of knowing i in referring to the lie above mines as being the largest dividend payers wo ave do not lose sight of the great bonanzas pt bof mexico and south Ai guanajuato Zacate cam pachuca corro cerro da pasco and many others of which the production was huze anil and the profit must 6 have been enormous the mug king received a fifth of the product us as ills his royalty awl and tile the I 1 nl d many of them at al least became rich but of all this athla wo we have no definite records nor have we ot of lunny other famous mines of which tile the exploitation began ions iong ago like tile the mines of Laur lurn anil and almaden or those of tile he harz iiara and tile Erze birge certain of these mines have lioen been worked with fair continuity for nearly years and a till a small dividend por per ati annum annam for many years may exceed a larive one for a few yeats the alie calu witt ilecia however lias has had the good i 1 1 ri r r r S frati t t l l l l fortune to pay a larse large dividend for a good ninny beals already anil and the end is not lot yet I 1 in 11 sight engineering and mining N NEW E METHOD OF FIRING LO before lle counties insel or of at ils im etlas or anual jtb air lr J mein lead a lia ii per ler on oil the walker hullow mecille rm im hah tile oba ct cl of i bilth is 11 3 tu to avaid the danar to tj the lie of finhen the ilic T le collator tonj tol lator tir ind charge of high explosives ait aio placed together in III tit tin ahot in III tile Ill inet ethod huil I 1 is I 1 placed in ill the explosive charge cliar KC and litter both ire pl ard in tile the liole hole ilio 1110 is ploce proceeded eded with willi ity by the walker method it ig 1 intended to place tile hie chinse lit i the st shot hule hole complete the ami all when iiii is done one alio 1 Is placed in position it Is 14 1 ivious under suell conditions that it will lie ile impossible fur fir a I 1 wor kipin killan aither oll lier toy undue mcp in ramm iii or IT accident to file the cli charge arko TI till ll 11 fools to I 1 lie elised and tho lip if thein ile aie i lis as follows I 1 is 1 1 hollow braas or copper cui pr ne effle pro vadd with 1 1 lindl handle and of oc sulli ClelA hn th to to suit any liole lot tile illaine dl linel ler rr of tile Is ono olic half inch elleh anil tile aliu infernal din inetor of the euln liilie lions lid whole ieng th ii i i three inch at tin the end 1141 lie needle is slig ailt iv I 1 v reduced in I 1 I 1 I 1 lial lipter so ns as to admit of if its lic being into a djin bialler r auhl six lugii s in ili lengh and of tile q liine dianiel c r ns 11 q the needle the paper tube is I 1 fixed in the harge preferably in ill llie s reception of the be deto alator iia tor A plain copper lod iod is used to to push the lip delo detonator along the tulie ill 11 tin the needle to its 1181 lion tion in the of if ind Is as ili an additional pie cali dalition tion tl alis rod Is prodded with a pl ila por per lip tit the defoliator is held ill ID AOH ori by a dimple made of cine ur or some roine similar the paper auhl being 1 fixed in t nu charge clini ro the lie hollow needle la Is Insert nl 1 clr rebii anil no tile linree h irge Is file alien placed by means of the flie needle into position in III the lie hole the rain ra mining ining is till anade after which the lie detonator is placed in poi ion ly by being pushed ilung ohp hollow needle by means of oc tile lie copper loil iod tile detonator defoliator bons bilig now in ill position ind anil secured toy liy tit tin 1 the fhe copper roil rod ind aud noville arii are UI tall Isly and the shot hot filed liy by electricity in the bual ii ual way liy by the adoption of 0 tills this inet liml tile desire end cud of effectually sep arar iring tile clial clia iffe ge of explosive lind t nd llie detonator the operation of ram Is effected the total addition aa 11 coat incurred by tile the use of tit aliis arrangement ran gement will not exceed I 1 cent per shot chaffee Coun countes tys new camp the new mining camps in tho the twin vicinity of badder creek in chaffee bunty north ot of is gilida ilida diw discovered loss less it alian a I 1 3 tear ear ago are enjoying the first boom in the hie state during the ear ind and from present appearances it is more inore than likely that before tile the end of tile the year thero will be it a decided rush into tile the new territory the mineralized area so far as it lias has been developed is out twelve miles square and four distinct mining districts have ben formed 1 lidger dameron Cn Oa meron and aid turret in III all of these the formation flo 11 is ili practically the sanie mine ind and tile the veins are strong ind and well defined definod deli nod thin vein matter Is generally hen hematite aith etli jasper and much of the value valtie Is in tile lie shape shalie of free gold tile the values of the ore at the surface al are usually lle heavy llvY and so far as development has pro grossed it Is shown that eliat the value IA i maintained groat great regularity already there ore ire several shipping inanc idinea 3 in ill tile the district and owners of claims art liing N ork as rapidly as pos possible 1 1 0 while people are cco coming ining in ili every lay day and ami in mn most t cases secil securing rill either by purchase sf or hy by location it is c estimated that there are now 1700 people la in the four districts alic mold old springer N jf oct 4 A world wondo fill find lu in placer gold cold was as made in the urraca canon ID fifty miles northwest of 0 this place recently war near bably morin monn talk of rich placer mining by the alie fifty years ago afo in thin tah lo 10 1 calaty lins hus liean indulged in here fot vf ars rs 1111 tills this find virtually illy proves it three pat pantios ties returning from the canon yesterday brou lit out twenty six ot oi fecs of f very e coarse 0 arse gold the r result esit nf for five ive das panning they will rr rp turn lurn with appliances to the find on a large scale MINING NOTES crippa creeks output for Septem september bet fell a little short of tile projectors or of the now new railroad to lo ward are to build a sili smelter elter at IS boulder A rich strike lins been made on pop io tol tre I mountain tit in tile the slices district by 0 J lavas and thomas Thol lias downer chii vein Is wide vilde and continuous and runs thousands af if d dil allais lais to tho the ton inn this discovery will lead to a valuable rich clupper sl upper the lilo GI arands ind road having cut the til tato to oil fin low lov grade ore from Lead Tillo to denver il lenver to to 2 per ton it Is exile expected acted ahn that t the downtown down town mines will speedily edil be pumped ed out ind res timed ie of what is ballew d to be 16 anthracite coal cu il h have are been brought into ch froni from ill tha newly fliS cOvered deposit on oil pilley creek twelve miles north of ff buffalo the coll coal carries 67 per cent carbou carbon I 1 the lie bight t i pere ento U e of an nuy v coal yet found in ANyon ling the s to tile roil red river land grant havo have appealed d the iho ca ease fron from tile tho court of private Irl vite land iani claims tc jile go supreme court capitalists anil and min inin in nien men in colorado colombo and ami northern now new have bay been watch iii fill aliis ease caie on oil hie ile of lie alt it A lccy 1 v e 11 con cincera cera as ai the alleged ki gi aut ant cojei coi ars acre i or tile ali very loest of the tied red iziver mu in aug lit in ta taos os conil wicnty ty nearly nil all 0 of f which has becu entered upon anil T located ly IT miners hold ad I 1 1 I to the grant claimants