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NEW TYPE OF ORE
MILL BEING USED
UNUSUAL TYPE OF MACHINERY
IN USE BY FIRM OPERATING
IN MONTANA
A quartz mill without a crusher,
something that has been regarded as
impractical in mining circles, is de
scribed in the current bulletin of the
Montana Stock and Bond company
by Carl J. Trauerman. mining engi
neer. This mill is located on the
properties of the Mount Cable Gold
Mining company, a Butte-controlled
organization, whose properties are
known as the Hidden Lake, near An
aconda.
The ore. it is explained, is limestone
gangue. It is drilled with augers and
blasted with small charges of powder.
The ore breaks fine and is sticky. It
gums up the ordinary crusher. The ore
is accordingly passed over a giizzley set
flat with one-inch openings. The
larger lumps are either pressed through
or discarded as lacking in value. The
undersize from the grizzley is put in
leaching tanks. A cyanide solution un
der five pounds’ pressure is forced
through the mass for three days, dur
ing which time about three tons of ore
are fed through. Wash water is forced
through under about the same pressure,
but the tanks are bottom sluiced to the
tailings pond. The solution is drawn
off the top of the tanks and filtered and
fed to zinc boxes which are cleaned
twice a month. The zinc precipitates
are acid treated and melted into bul
lion which runs about 900 fine gold.
The bulletin calls attention to the
fact that under the direction of Dr.
Francis A. Thomson, president of the
Montana School of Mines and director
of the Montana Bureau of Mines and
Geology, the bureau has published a
memoir entitled "A Geologician Re
connoissance of the Tobacco Root
Mountains. Madison County, Montana,’
by Wilfred Tansley of the University
of Chicago. Prof. Paul A. Schafer of
the Montana School of Mines staff and
Lyman H. Hart of the geological staff
of the Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany.
The bureau also has published a
memoir on “Some Gold Deposits of
Broadwater, Beaverhead, Phillips and
Fergus Counties, Montana” by Andrew
V. Corry. Both of these booklets con
tain plates, maps, illustrations and de
tails. They may be obtained for 15
cents each —the mailing cost —from the
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology,
Butte.
Announcement is made that Allan
Ryan, grandson of the late Thomas
Fortune Ryan, and J- A. Burden, Jr.,
president of the Burden Iron company,
who came to Butte a few weeks ago in
company with Walter P. Jacobs, mining
engineer and president of the Beryl
lium Company of America, “on a duck
hunting trip,” have become financially
Interested in the Basin-Montana Tun
nel company and have been elected
members of the board of trustees. With
them came also Fred S. Allen of the
New York Stock Exchange fifm' of Ap
penzeller, Allen & Hill.
Basin-Montana Tunnel company; it
is stated, controls a mineral estate of
some 125 claims, about 2,000 acres, on
the west flank of High Ore gulch, on
what is known as Comstock hill, about
two miles east of Basin. The holdings
include the Grey Eagle mine, with past
production record of about $2 , .000.000’.
and the Comet mine, with past produc
tion of $13,000,000. These mines are
near the northern and eastern limits
of the company's properties, which cov
er a territory south of these points for
a distance of over three miles and cross
the tracks of the Butte division of the
Great Northern railway. Both the Grey
Eagle and Comet mines are now in
operation.
Want More For Beets
Sugar beet growers of the Hinsdale
vicinity indicated they, in negotiating
1934 crop contracts, would seek greater
compensation for siloing beets and an
allowance to cover shrinkage Of beets
while stored in silos.
Forty-seven miles of shelves will be
Installed in the new library of Cam
bridge university in England.
Coal mines of Germany are shipping
more fuel than for some time.
Mid Winter
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UNION
Happenings at the Special Session
of the Montana State Legislature
(By Our Helena Correspondent)
HELENA—Eleventh-hour action by
the house a few days ago may have
halted a general trek to Helena from
Missoula, Bozeman, Billings, Havre
and Dillon, and points north, east,
south and west. Unexpected defeat of
the Watson university consolidation
act, legislators agreed, came just >n
time, perhaps, to head off an exodus
of irate citizens ready to go the limit
to prevent the merger.
The Silver Bow delegation found
some relief when the measure was
amended to exclude from the merger
the School of Mines at Butte, due to
its location and the fact that its course
of study requires practical application
of work in the mines there. Another
amendment to transfer the city of Lew
istown to Silver Bow county, however,
was howled down.
Had the measure continued to gain
momentum it was apparent that other
cities than Lewistown would have bid
for the merged institution.
In urging serious consideration of the
measure, Representative Arthur H.
Watson of White Sulphur Springs, its
author, said the administrative cost of
the present six units of the university
'system amounts to $184,000 a year, and
i that upkeep and operation accounts for
! $241,000 more. Through consolidation,
he held, at least half of that amount
I could be saved each year. In 33 years,
he added, the savings would be $7,000,-
000, or much more than the cost of the
new plant.
Others favoring the move said it
would be opposed by members repre
senting counties where units of the in
stitution are located.
When senate bill 11, removing the $4
a day expense limit on elective state
offices, was before the senate in com
mittee of the whole, there was strong
apposition, but the bill prevailed. Later
an effort was made to block the pro
gress of the measure, but this attempt
likewise failed.
On the face, it looked like plain pol
itics. An analysis of the situation makes
it appear, however, that some of the
opponents were merely trying to “put
on the spot” certain senators who last
winter voted for the $4 limit and now
seek to modify this law. The regular
session bill was ill advised. It was a
reaction to the economy frenzy so much
in evidence then. There was no dif
ficulty in seeing that this bill would be
unjust in some Instances and would re
flect on the dignity of the state.
' ’ Less has been heard about economy
at the regular session. This does not
mean that many of the representatives
are blind to the need of the careful ex
• penditure of state money, but rather
। that the organized movement of last
(winter is not in evidence . One reason
for this altered condition is because ap
propriations are a minor question of the
special session.
This does not mean that there has
been no discussion of state finances.
(The contrary is true. Although there
has been but little open consideration
of the subject, there has been, however,
quite a bit of talk about the condition
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Joseph C. Keppler was the first jew
eler in Montana, who used to make
rings and pins out of the virgin gold
mined at Virginia City and Bannack.
He was born in Germany, but came to
America in 1860 at the age of 14, and
went to Colorado the following year,
while the Pike’s Peak gold rush was
still on. A year or two later he went to
Bannack and Virginia City, and in
Bannack he opened the first jewelry
sbon in Montana.
THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD
(By Our Helena Correspondent)
of state funds. There have been private
and also committee inquiries into fiscal
affairs. The general fund is running
behind. This much is conclusive.
I
The tendency at present Is to give the
relief fund the large share of new rev-1
1 enues and in some cases old revenues |
are being reallocated so that re-J
lief will get no small part. In doing
this as to the old revenues, It should
not be forgotten that if the general fund
'is made to suffer, the legislature next
winter will have a new problem on Its
hands.
Revenue is the foremost thought in
the assembly at this time. Other mat
ters are pretty well in hand and are
tending toward a definite conclusion/
But the revenue question is not yet in
this position. The next few days should
give a rather clear indication of what
the trend will be. Each interest that
is involved in proposed taxes is active
in its defense.
The revenue and taxation committee
of the house—the committee which has
had the toughest job of the session—has
turned in al) its bills. This is a relief
for the members of the committee, es
pecially for Rognlien of Flathead, who
is chairman, and Metlin of Beaverhead,
vice chairman. Whether the assembly
realizes it or not, the revenue and tax
ation committee has had to struggle
with problems of unusual difficulty.
The popular idea of taxation would
be, let us say, to tax the man in the
moon. Not one of us, so far as we can
tell, would be affected if the levy fell
on the man in the moon. The point is
that in taxation the trouble comes when
an effort is made to tax anyone. A
member of the revenue and taxation
committee received a demand from
home to the effect that no tax be plac
ed on corporations, business or the in
dividual. That covers the whole field.
It simply means that there should be no
tax.
After the house disposes of its rev
enue bills, then the senate committee
on taxation will have to take over the
job of studying the measures and re
porting on them. Hence, interest in
the legislature will soon be transferred
to the senate. The upper body has its
heaviest work still coming.
The long awaited report of the em
ployment committee was placed on
desks of members of the house a few
days ago. It shows that Silver Bow
county is represented by 10 employes of
the total of 53 which the house has
hired. The dozen whose names wdle
left off the payroll because they had
been hired by the employment commit
tee and not approved by the house, were
not included in the report. Another
committee is auditing the house payroll.
Eight employes are from Cascade coun
ty, six from Lewis and Clark, four from
Yellowstone, three from Deer Lodge, two
each from Gallatin, Carbon, Roosevelt,
and Lake, and one each from Rosebud,
Ravalli, Sanders, Custer, Meagher,
Broadwater, Wheatland, Powder River,
Granite, Fergus, Hill, Dawson, Missoula
and Glacier.
Former Lieutenant Governor Frank
A. Hazelbaker was a visitor to the state
Ing to Montana he lived for a year at
Galena, 111-, where he was intimately
acquainted with U. S. Grant, when the
latter was an unsuccessful business man
and had no expectation of becoming
commander-in-chief of the greatest
American army of the century and later
president of the United States.
Keppler located at Anaconda when
it was a village and made his home
there permanently, engaging success
fully in the jewelry business- He died
several years ago at The Dalles, Ore.,
senate and was escorted to the presi
dent’s rostrum, amidst applause, by
Senators Campbell and Melton- Former
। Senator Henry Lowe was accorded the
iSame honor when he was escorted to
the rostrum by Senators Larson and
' Danielson.
I Senator L. P. Donovan of Toole coun
ity raised a question of whether two or
three bills under consideration came
under the call of any of the messages
of the governor. S. B. 14, providing for
the sale of unredeemed property by
counties, was one of them. Sub. H. B.
14, to pay county clerks for poll books,
was another.
When H. B. 29, providing that cities
and towns may borrow money from the
government to Improve streets and al
leys, was before the committee
of the whole, after Senator Donovan
had objected that two other bills were
not within the call and the message.
Senator Larson asked if it were. Sena
tor Melton held that it was not, and
hence unconstitutional. It was recom
mended for passage, however.
Senator Husband said he opposed
Walker’s bill to relax the limitation on
official traveling expenses because in
his opinion it opens the door for un
limited expense; is so sweeping it may
cause abuse; puts in the hands of the
state board of examiners the duty of
passing on their own bills; does not
give relief to the unemployed but to the
employed, and makes the "sky the lim
it” on traveling expenses.
A stiff fight was made in the house
on H. B. 59, levying a tax on insurance
companies, but the measure survived
and was advanced. Under its provisions
on premiums of $5,000 the tax will be
$125, with an added levy of S2O on each
SI,OOO over that. Forty per cent of the
income is diverted to the general fund;
20 to the common school fund, and 40
to the emergency relief fund.
Northern Geese
Off on Flight to
Warmer Home
Calling attention to the lateness or
earliness of the season, which might be
early fall as well as the middle of De-'
eember, was the flock of geese, Canadian ’
honkers, that flew across Missoula al
few days ago.
John Kack of Orchard Homes was 1
one of those who witnessed the unusual:
sight of geese flying south at this time,
of the year.
“The geese were high enough to be'
safe, and they were sure traveling some
place,” Mr. Kack reported. I
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London has a war on slang.
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