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I i. Published In the Interest of the Crystal River Mining District. ESTABLISHED 1886. LOCAL NEWS. Squire Burke has commenced winter operations in the Warrior tunnel. Art Edgerton departed for Carbon dale Wednesday morning on a short visit. On Saturday’s stage, Pete McNeill left for Aspen, but may return again shortly. After a short, but pleasant visit here, Mrs. Charles Penny returned to her home on Monday. Charley Reed pulled out the other day for the valley to put in the winter. He may land about Rifle. Earl Tucker spent Tuesday night in town among his friends, returning home Wednesday morning. We are pleased to note that little Leah Tracy is fast recovering at As pen, and is now able to sit up. The new furnace at the Smelter is being put in place as fast as men can do it, and it will not be long before it is in running order. John Rush and daughter, Cora, Jim Carey and Martin Gallup came over from the Muddy Sunday and report about two feet of snow on the Divide. General Manager J. A. Kebler and Supt. J. C. Cornell were up from Red stone Tuesday and paid a visit to the marble quarry to see how everything was moving. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Eaton gave a Thanksgiving dinner to a number of friends. The menu was an elaborate one and the repast highly enjoyed by the guests. Work at the Osgood marble quarry is progressing as rapidly as possible under the present conditions, and the management seems perfectly satisfied with the stone. J. H. Brown has finished his annual work on the Mormon Girl and other claims on Sheep mountain. Tuesday he went down to Redstone to look around for a few days. Cobb’s restaurant' was opened this week and it is not necessary for us to make any comments, as everyone in this section knows the good qualities of Mrs. Cobb's cooking. Paul Blount, Howard Utley and Vincent Scott arrived from Redstone on Monday’s stage and spent a few days looking after the work on the new wagon road to the quarry. The Town Board met in regular ses sion Wednesday night. No business of importance was transacted. Since the departure of Fred W. Reyland, Joseph Bardine has been appointed town cleric. The Thanksgiving dance at the hotel was largely attended by both young and old and proved to be a very pleasant affair. The music was good and the excellent refreshments were enjoyed by the company. About thirty men are now at work on the new wagon road and it is being pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. About the first of the year it is expected the road will be finished, unless we have another heavy snow storm. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb, in the goodness of their hesfrts, invited the bachelors of the town to a 5 o’clock Thanksgiv ing dinner. There were some twenty odd present, and the way the viands disappeared, we think many had been fasting for a week awaiting the feast. Anyway, every one enjoyed the dinner immensely and returned their personal thanks to the generous hostess. Uncle Sam has resorted to .a display t)f his power to collect indemnities 'rom those who owe him. A recently discovered process for the of wood consists of boil- Bng it in a solution of iron and copper Sulphates (80 per cent, of the former ftnd 30 per cent, of the latter), to which ■s added a certain proportion of sul phates of alumina, potash and mag- Kesia, according to the character of P»e wood to be preserved. The effect pf this treatment is that the sap is dis posed and washed out from the pores pf the wood, all decay that has begun P* stopped and the fibre is chemically ■ltered so that it is not capable of de ■»*> in the ordinary way. THE MARBLE TIMES CRYSTAL SILVER LANCE. CRYSTAL. A. R. Burnett left here last Sunday for Aspen on a visit to his family, and to attend to some business in con nection with his lease on the Lead King mine. Sunday, another jack train loaded with supplies went up to the Hoffman tunnel: while the day before Melton's jack train brought up a load of coal for George Tays. W. S. Smith left for Canon City the first of the week, where he will meet his wife. It is probable that he will winter at Victor, as he has the assur ance of a good job there. Saturday, Mr. Fraser made a hur ried trip to Marble to see after the packing of supplies to the Queen. The coal, etc., seems to be going up slow ly, owing, perhaps, to the late stormy weather. Thanksgiving was observed by all our people by the proverbial turkey and fixings, and we have heard of no one going hungry. In the afternoon some of the people went to Marble to take in the dance. They report hav ing had a good time. T. O’Bryan made a trip into Crystal basin last Friday on snowshoes to see about patent notices. The trip was a hard one, especially through the canon The snow is only about thirty inches deep at Scofield, while in the basin it is from forty-five to sixty inches deep. It is packed hard enough to sustain the weight of a man in the basin proper Uses Of Metals. With lead by far the greater portion is converted into white metal, red lead and orange material, which are used as pigments of paints, distributed over great surfaces in such thin coatings that their metallic contents is practic ally never recovered. A good deal of lead is manufactured into sheets and a considerable portion into bullets, shot and other projectiles; and though still remaining in a metallic form it is so widely distributed in use as to cause it to be practically irrecoverable in the form of scrap. A portion of the lead product used as sheet lead and pipes does come back into the market, but the portion of the lead used in these ways is comparatively small as com pared with the other uses of the metal. The consumption of zinc is largely in galvanized steel or iron sheets, in the manufacture of brass, as sheet zinc, and as the oxide of zinc used as a pigment in paint. That portion of the metal which is used in galvan izing is distributed as a thin covering over large surfaces of iron and the metal is entirely lost in the oxidizing and general disintegration of the zinc sheet. It has never been attempted to recover the zinc from galvanized iron. Zinc, which is manufactured into brass, in the proportion of one-third zinc to two-thirds copper, remains in a per manent form which is often available for new use as scrap, and, next to iron and steel, is the largest commodity in the scrap metal market. The major portion of the tin product of the world is used in covering tin plates. Ordinary tin plates carry one and one-half to three and one-half per cent, of tin. Many attempts have been made to recover this tin from old tin scrap, but no considerable amount of metal has thus returned to the markets of the world as recovered from tin sera]) up to the present time. Of the common metals next to iron and steel, copper is the one which is used to the largest extent in the metal lic form, only a small proportion of the production being utilized in the salts of copper, blue vitriol (the salts of copper used in galvanic batteries) being the principal salt of the metal used in the market. The great uses of copper are in the manufacture of brass of which it forms a two-thirds com ponent part ordinarily, and in elec trical conductors, and in the form of sheet used in roofing, the bottoms of cooking and other utensils, in the manufacture of pipes to be used where a considerable amount of elasticity and pliability are required. The pro portion of scrap copper for sale in the market is greater than that of any other metals, with the exception of iron and steel: but the total amount of old copper offered for sale is com paratively insignificant compared with the total copper production.—Daily Mining Record. A fall of three inches per mile in a straight and smooth channel will give to water a velocity of about three miles per hour. We do all kinds of job printing promptly aud neatly. MARBLE, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO, DECEMBER 7, 1900. Redstone Department. Times’ Bureau, P. O. Box 3. December 7, 1900. THE MAILS: Arrive from Carbondale and points East and West at 11:30 a. m. Arrivo from Placita, Marble and Crystal at 2:80 p. m. Close for Placita, Marble end Crystal at 12 no Close for Carbondale and points East and West at :l p. in. THE NEWS. E. P. Linskey’s wife and little one have joined him at Coal Basin. Gen. Manager ,T. A. Kebler visited the Coal Basin mine the fore part of the week. Mrs. Bloxham and family have join ed husband and father. Mr. B. will shortly take charge of the new section house at Cervera. Foreman Jolly has about completed the handsome cottage for W. M. Pace, and will proceed at once with the erec tion of another for Mrs. Dora Phillips S. D. Blair is Redstone’s new and efficient C. R. R. agent. Mr. Blair comes from the C. & S. Our former popular agent, Mr. Damon, steps up higher, of which more anon. Our popular and able company sur geon, Dr. Clarke, will wait no longer for the erection of his residence. Mrs. Clarke has joined him and they will proceed to house keeping in his office for the present. Supt. J. C. Cornell departed Tues day last for New York for a much needed rest, which he has deservedly earned, and we hope he will have a pleasant journey. Mrs. Cornell ac companied him as far as Iowa, where she will visit until Mr. C. returns. Mr. Olsen has established his camp between the Osgood cottage and the yards, very convenient for the work on the round house, double side tracks, etc. For the present his working force will consist of 20 men. Charles Bliss is chef, time keeper, in short Mr. Olsen’s Adjutant General. Will Davis, Ben Combs and Knox Mount, ye ancient cowboys of the good old line, and hailing from Grubb’s outfit, spent last week in rounding up cattle, succeeding in a “clean up” of 200. They were just barely late in rescuing two young calves, born on the beautiful, but unfeeling snow at Coal Basin. At Boerhus basin the cattle were completely snowed in and they had a hard time in the work of rescue, sometimes being compelled to roll their horses down the sides of snow drifts, 200 or 300 feet deep, and sliding down after them. It may seem almost self-evident that one of the secrets in conducting min ing operations so as to secure a maxi mum of profit—the point naturally to be aimed at —is to get the largest amount of work that is possible out of each man employed, without “sweat ing” him, but at the same time without overpaying him; and to secure the most useful effect that cau be got out of the various machines in use, up to the full limit of their capacity, in the shortest possible time, without over taxing them; that is to say. speaking generally, it depends on making the best use possible of the men and ma terials, placed by circumstances at the disposal of the manager of a mine, says A. G. Charleton, in the Engineer ing Magazine for November. Obvious as this proposition may ap pear in principle, however, it is appar ently by no means always recognized, or acted upon in practice. Managers, indeed, often seem to fail to grasp the fact that the value, whether of men or machines, is the profit translated into money which their work represents when spread over a given period of time; consequently, the net profit or loss resulting from the undertaking is the difference between what I may term the “profitable and unprofitable units of work*’ accomplished in the aggregate. if the former exceed the latter the business as a whole must necessarily be profitable, and vice versa; but it is often the case that individual careless ness or departmental inefficiency may reduce, if not entirely wipe out, profits actually earned in other directions, in which work has been executed with greater relative economy. At last the state canvassing board has announced the official vote of the state and Bryan’s, plurality is placed at 20,803. BUSINESS CARDS. D. P. ncCARTHY, Brokerage 1 Commission. Collections Riven prompt attention. Reference—J. C. Cornell. Supt. C. R. R. Have a personal acquaintance with nlmost every adult in the valley; also n clasni lied di rectory. REDSTONE, COLO. The Elk Mountain Newspaper Agency. ADVERTISING and SUBSCRIPTION. Among other publications we are agents for flie Marblo Times, subscription by the month, quarter or year. Alines ami Minerals $2 a year. McClure, Cosmopoliton, The Designer #1 a year. The Denver Times, 20 cents per week, six is sues ; 2.T cents, seven issues; 65 cents per month ; $1.95 per quarter delivered at Redstone by mail or carrier. To other points by mail only. The Denver Republican, 75 cents per month; $2.25 per quarter; by mail only. Those in ar rears cun remit through us without incurring any expense or trouble, and duplicate receipts from general office will n!«o be forwarded them. Advantageous terms will be given those desir ous of clubbing THE MARBLE TIMES with any of our publications. D. P. McCarthy, Manager. REDSTONE, COLO. NIGHT SCHOOL Will be opened at Redstone for adults. In struction in the Common School Classics—The Three R's. Also instruction in Irish (Gaelic), the English and the Italian languages. For particulaia address D. P, McCarthy, Redstone. PULLMAN TOURIST SLEEPERS VIA THE COLORADO MIDLAND RY. Leavo Denver at 8:30 a. m., Wednesday of nach week, running through to Los Angeles, Cal., without change, via Salt Lake. East bound, these cars leave Los Angelos Monday of each week. The cost of a double berth in Tourist Sleeper, which will accommodate two persons, is only $4.50 between Denver and San Francisco or Los Angelos. Ask Agents of Colorado Midland R.v., for ticket rales, time tables and illustrated pam phlets concerning the daylight ride through the Best Colorado Scenery, or address W. F. BAILEY, to dec 7 (ion. Pass. Agt., Denver, Colo. THE CRYSTAL RiVER R. R. CO. Employees Time Table No. 8. To take effect at 12 .•Cl a. m. Friday, May 25, 1000. Standard Time, 105th Meridian. Tliis time table is for the guidance of em ployees only, and is not intended for the inform ation of tiie public, or advertisomeut of uuy train. The company reserves the right to vary from it at pleasure. All provious time cards are void. South. Noeth STATIONS. A. M. I P. M. 0 10 05 Carbondale 3 15 1.7 1.7 10 12 Grubb’s 3 09 2.9 4.6 10 37 Cervera 2 57 5.9 10.5 11 01 Janeway 2 33 2.3 12.8 11 16 Hot Springs 2 24 3.8 16.6 11 31 Redstone 09 3.5 20.1 12 30 Placita 1 30 p. m. J p.m. JOHN T. KEBLER, J. C. CORNELL, Gen’l Supt. Supt. fVN/SOA^A/WV/VWWWN^/WWV, i±Jflppigg /THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR. ♦ ♦ ♦]! >+ ♦ WORLD-WIDE CIRCULATION.;! } Twenty Pages; Y/eekly; Illustrated. | Indispensable to Mining Men. j[ > THREE DOLLARS PER YEAR, POSTPAID. ) SAMPLE COPIES FR8C. > raise ADD SCIENTIFIC PRESS, I 220 Market St., San Francisco, Cal TIME TABLE. Colorado Midland R. R. CARBONDALE. Westbound. 9:02 a. m., Passenger No. 3. 8:04 p.m., “ No. 5. Eastbound. Passenger No. 6, 9:40 p.m. “ No. 4, 9:09 a. m. The Colorado Midland in I he best route to all points East or West. Through Pullman Sleepers and Cliair Cars. by Carriage to and from Crystal River Railroad trains. Genbkal Offices: DENVEU, COLOR A BO. O. W. HI STINE, W. F. BAILEY, Pres, ami M’g’r. Gen’l Pass Agent. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Land Office at Glonwood Springs, Colo., Oct. 16, lMO. To B. L. Davis, claimant under Timber and Stone Application No, 48, and to whom it may concern : Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to inako final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at Glenwood Springs, Colo., on Saturday, December 8, 1900, nt 10 o clock a. m.. viz: William H. Melton of Marble,Colo, on his P. D. S. No. 2687 Uto, for the uw 1-4 sw 1-4 sec 22, and n 1-2 so 1-4, sw 1-4 so 1-4 sec 21 t 11 s r 88 w 6th p m. Flo names the following witnesses to provo his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Paul Blount of Denver. Colo; James Logget. of Redstone, Colo; Victor Cobb of Marble, Colo; William Pace of Redstono, Colo. J. F. Squire, Register. First pub Oct 19—last Dec 7, 1900. W. M. DINKEL MER. CO. Carbondale, - Colorado. Wholesale ami Retail Dealers in Dry Goods and Groceries, CLOTHING, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, HARDWARE, LUMBER, FARM IMPLEMENTS and MINING SUPPLIES Hoffman Smelting and Reduction Co* MARBLE, - COLORADO. SAMPLING and ASSAYING Marshall’s Meat Market. WINTER SUPPLY NOW ON HAND. Reef, Mutton, Pork and Sausage AT LOWEST FIGURES. Terms Strictly Cash. Prompt Delivery. MARBLE, - COLORADO. O. ITTLESON & CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN General * Merchandise We Carry a Full Line of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, FURITURE, HARDWARE AND LUMBER, FARM IMPLEMENTS, BUGGIES AND WAGONS. Carbondale, Colo. When in Marble Ctall nt. WRIGHT i j tv 4 tracy’s Amusement Parlor, IND CLEAN. I in! <♦ lean! <♦ in! 4 ids are Clean! z :ing us z EY YOURSELF V Supply Co. § H, SUNSHINE, X STONE. A, * ■ Devoted to the Mineral, i Marble, Slate, Coal and Iron Industries of Crystal River. * _ ■ VOL. XV. NO. ia.