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NEWS FROM THE MINES AND MILLS Week's Review of Colorado Mining. By Capt. James T. Smith in Denver News. The outlook for a large Increase in Boulder county’s product of lead ore is peculiarly promising, as the district in point is not so far from rail transpor tation at Ward as to make mining ex travagant. Not in years has Gilpinn county been favored-with as many transfers of min ing property as have been closed this spring, all sections of the county, from the Boulder to the Clear Creek line sharing in the season’s good fortune. In the same county the cyanide pro cess is doing fine work for the low grade -gold mines, while all of the tungsten producers, in and near Neder land, are being taken over by Pittsburg capitalists, who use the tungsten in the manufacture of tool steel. At the northern end of Boulder county, under the shadow of Long's peak, Chicago capital is preparing to exploit the wide and well-defined veins of lead ores located in 1905, when that portion of the county was also pros pected for copper, with Omaha money is the main incentive. As the mining season advances it becomes more and more evident that 1907 will record a remarkable revival of old mines, where the application of modern conditions, together with the record prices for lead and copper and the freer quotations for silver, will in sure a handsome return upon the capi tal Invested. Modern concentration plants are now being introduced, adding largely to the value of shipments per ton and lessening in a marked degree the cost of transportation. Eastern owners who dropped out of these counties v/hen silver slumped in 1893 are again investing, impelled thereto by the pros pect for profits. In 1906 Boulder produced but $750 worth of lead, mainly in gold ores, while the tungsten product was con servatively placed at 500 tons of con centrates. worth $325,000 it the mines. The lead figure will this year be raised U> importance if the Chicago projects get under way, while the tungsten product will gain in bulk and value 100 per cent. The camps of upper Clear Creek county are in the midst ot a general awakening, with new concentration plants added to the number op erated last year. The demand for lead ore Is peculiarly addressed to the camps of upper Clear Creek, where that useful metal—indispensable in lead basis smelting—runs as high as sixty per cent, in several of the mines. Hinsdale county, which unites cen tral Colorado to the San Juan region, is showing more activity this spring than those camps have displayed since 1891, when the Golden Fleece and the Ute and Ulay properties were in bo nanza form. Eastern and Colorado owners are again taking hold of their properties, installing modern machin ery and preparing to take advantage of the present high prices for lead, zinc, copper and silver. Australian metallurgy, the net re sult of the American and European schools, has obtained a foothold in the Cripple Creek and Rico districts. Ip Cripple Creek it is applying its form of the cyanide process to the low grade ores and dump material of the Vindicator group. The success of the experimental plant warrants the state ment that the company will at once erect a plant with a capacity of 25u to 300 tons a day. Word comes from the San .Tuan re gion that the American Smelting & Re fining Company, in order to enlarge the supply of lead ores, proposes to es tablish concentration plants in the sev eral camps as feeders to the smelters at Durango. Pueblo anti Denver. This Investment would doubtless have a marked influence upon the output of lead ores, and would cause activity at •mines which are now worked in a more o>' less spasmodic manner, as the mar ket for the low grade product is far from regular. The Australian method is that pat ented by Stalmann, Germer and Me- Quisten. It com* 8 highly recom mended for both lowness in cost and efficiency in the saving of values. Its success at Rico means a large addition to the zinc-lead product of the San Juan region, which reached $1,J>91,832 in 1906. The regular operation of the great Silver Lake mills at Sllvc*rton, and of the Camp Bird mills near Ouray, which were put out of commission the greater part of 1906, will have an Im portant bearing upon the output for this year. Clear Creek’s lend output last year was valued at $157„776, with $104,032 in zinc, $51,459 in copper, $395,752 in silver, and $457,711 in gold. The gold copper ores are mainly from properties near Idaho Springs, and not far from 'the Gilpin county line. Upper Clear Creek is now predicting a gain of 100 per cent, over 1906 in lead and zinc. Eight modern concentratiug plants are located near the mines, creating a product that is welcome at the smel ters. Denver, eastern and English cap italists have already commenced ex tensive development, and mines which have been Idle since 1893 have men on tliir payrolls. Seemann Tunnel to Be Driven. Idaho Springs, Colo. —Because the parties to whom was awarded the con tract for driving the Seemann tunnel a distance of 2,500 feet did not com- j ply with the terms of the agreement by immediately erecting a plant of ma chinery at the portal of the tunnel, the contract was canceled by Capt. Henry I. Seemann, representing the Continental Mines, Power and Reduc tion Company. In order not to delay tin* driving of the big tunnel any longer, a contract was Immediately en tered Into with the Temple Engineer ing Company, the former contractors, with the understanding that the tun nel heading will be pushed forward at twice the speed which has been made heretofore. The Temple people will start work next week and expect to make record time in completing their contract. Their great difficulty here tofore has been the inability of the contractors to obtain experienced ma chine operators. Cripple Creek Concentrates. Cripple Creek, Colo. —The ore body opened by Becker & Travell at a depth of 970 feet in the Christmas property, on Bull hill, Is showing up well and has the appearance of a strong vela. The ore body remains the same size— three feet between walls —but the rich streak of sylvanite today showed a width of almost ten inches, and values are reported to be increasing. It is said the streak lying near the centei of the vein gave ieturns this afternoon of from four to twelve ounces in gold to the ton, while the vein all the way across showed values of from $40 to $80. The work of sacking the high grade began today and a shloment will be made to-morrow. The vein is being worked at a point 100 feet southwest of the shaft. Five cars of ore of a four-ounce grade were sent out from the Little Clara property. There were a number of sacks of high grade in the shipment Gus Johnson, operating on the Min eral Rock property of the Stratton es tate, made a two-car shipment of ore which is expected to give returns ol better than three ounces to the ton. The ore was broken from a two-foot vein at a depth of 100 feet. Regular shipments are being made from this property. The Columbia Mining and Develop ment Company is working a three-foot vein at a depth of 300 feet in the chicken Hawk property on Guyot hill The ore, which is found 300 feet south of the shaft, gives returns of from four to five ounces of gold to the ton. A one car shipment was made from this prop erty. Construction work on the new Gil lett mill is progressing rapidly, and it is thought the plant will be in opera tion within thirty days. When com pleted, the mill will have a capacity of 400 tons a month, and ore of a grade from $4 to $7 will be treated. The mill is being erected by the American Milling and Reduction Company at a cost of $8,000. It will be of the cyanld ing variety. Moore and associates, leasing on block 231, or Lottie claim, of the Strat ton estate on Bull hill, are drifting on a two-foot vein at a depth of fifty feet The ore body gives returns of $40 tc the ton, and carries a narrow seam which shews values as high as twenty one ounces In gold to the ton. Rcgul&i shipments are beieng made. # The Western Investment Company made a carload shipment of two-ounce ore from the Morning Glory property on Raven hill. The ore was broken from a two-foot vein at a depth of 401 feet. Big Strike at Georgetown. Georgetown, Colo. —The Mendota property is the scene of one of the biggest strikes of the present year. B J. O’Connell, operating a block ol ground under lease, has uncovered a body of solid smelting ma tcrial twelve inches in width, the average value of which It $70 to the ton. The ore is a heavy lead carrying good silver values, and from the aniount that is being broken it is evident that the leaser will ex tract a small fortune before his privi leges have expired. Mr. O’Connell is prosecuting work through the Victoria tunnel, having sunk a winze to a depth of 100 feet. Drifting was then prosecuted for 200 feet, and for the entire distance a body cf lead-zinc ore was followed which measured from eighteen inches to two feet in thickness. For a considerable distance the ore was not what might be considered of a high grade, and it was found necessary to have the prod net concentrated. For several months u heavy tennage has been extracted and delivered to the various custom mills for treatment. It was only during the last few days that it was noticed that the zinc was fast disappearing and in its place al most solid lead was appearing. As the stope carried upward the zinc hat nearly entirely disappeared, and now the material is all being sold at the local sampler. It is generally conceded that the shoot will run almost to the tunnel level, as in past operations on the Mendota that has almost invarl ably been the case. Mr. O’Connell has been steadily at work in this block of ground for over three years, and at last his efforts are being rewarded. A heavy tonnage is being shipped weekly, with a gradual Increase in both the silver and lead values. Activity in Bdulder. Boulder, Colo. —Thomas L. Wood manager of the Cashier Mining Com pany, returned from Boston, and is preparing to send a force of men to Camp Albion to open up the roads, which are at present covered with llvo or six feet of snow. This company is operating the lead veins of Camp Al bion, which is situated under Arapa hoe peak, 'the lead veins of this group are the largest In the state, ami the property has immense possibilities that have never been developed. Dur ing thi» summer it is the intention of Wood to extend the tunnel of the Snowy Range lode uud to continue sinking on the Albion shaft. Representatives of the Crucible Steel Company of Pittsburg have been in Nederland for the paot two weeks taking options on all the available tungsten properties. It is reported that among others the Boulder county ranch tungsten claims have been op tioned for a consideration ranging from $300,000 to $500,000. The Inter Ocean cyanide mill Ih ex pected to go Into operation the first of this week. This will be the third big cyanide mill to be started this year, the others being the Wano and the Langrtdge. The mill will handle cus tom ores us well us ores from its own mine. As the cost of treatment is low, the departure will he useful to many other mines. Thu proposed Rico plant Is de signed to treat the zinc-lead ores of the United Rico Mines Company. The sup ply is ubundant, but thus far the saving of values hns been less than desired, * v hen attempted by th«* methods that prevail In Leadvllle, Creede and other zinc-lcad camps in this state. AROUND THE CIRCLE HOW THE PRACTICE OF HOME TRADE HELPS EVERYBODY. THE RESULT OF ADVERTISING An Increased Use of Printers’ Ink in the Local Paper Brought Pros perity to the Entire Com munity. "You'll have to stay over Sunday, Mary, so I can have a chance for a visit with you. Can’t possibly get the time through the week. Business too lively.” “Things must be getting better with you, John. Last time I was here you seemed to have lots of time to spare. Said business had gone to the dogs, or rather to the mail-order houses. What made the change?” “Well, to tell the truth, Mary, I just wakened up one day and thought I would give them fellows in the city a little of their own medicine. I got onto the fact that they were killing me by feeding the people around here on printer’s ink in the way of adver tising, j»nd while I knew most of what they said was lies the people didn't know it, and I started in to show them what I could do. Not at 1 The local merchant who must bear the burden of local taxation is en titled to the assistance of every resident of the community. When you send your dollars to the mail-order houses of the city you but add to the load hs must carry. Keep your dollars at home. ylng. you know, but at selling good ;oods as cheap as the city fellows lid. and lots of times a little cheaper. “I went to the local paper and pret y near scared the editor to death by )rdering a half page of each issue for dx months. Then I set about seeing what I had to sell that the people would want. I really didn't know what was in that store until I started o look it over. Some of the things lad been there.so long I had forgot :en about them. I hauled them out ind put a bargain sale price on them, old the people about them in ts 4 e lext week’s Record, and gave the prices, and say, 1 just couldn’t get them things wrapped up fast enough. Ever since then I've just been buying ind selling, buying und selling. Seems like nothing stays in the store. Have hired two more clerks, and they're everlastingly telling me we’re jut of this, that or the other thing. I found that telling the people what you’ve got and what you are willing to sell them for pays. I've paid off that mortgage that’s been hanging iver us for the last ten years, and save SIOO to the new church building besides, and it's advertising that did it. “You’ll stay over Sunday, won't you? I've got to get to the store now.” “Jones ordered a new delivery wagon this morning. Jane. Said since the folks around here i\ad started to trade at home and quit sending so much money, to the mail order houses he simply had to have it. You can have what I make on that wagon to get that new dress with that you’ve been wanting. Wish' you’d buy it of Jones though for he alwuys trades with tne.” “Yes. sir, I figure I’m ahead a little more than the freight on that buggy, besides getting a better buggy than you got. 1 Intended to send away for mine, too, like you did, but 1 saw Brown’s advertisement telling the kind of a buggy he hud and the price, and I concluded I’d look at it first. He's making better prices than the catalogue fellows, and he’s paying the freight besides. 1 figure that 1 saved just about enough on that buggy to pay the doctor's bill for Molly's sick ness, and then, besides, Brown or dered his huy of me, and he'a paying a good price for It, too." - "Now. my dear, you may engage Mias Herman to give Princess music lessons for the wave of prosperity in the community has struck ths minis- , iof they voted me a raise In salary for the coming year. In a talk made by Brother Jones he explained that this was possible because the people were keeping their money at home rather than sending it to the catalogue houses of the cities. Brother Frank (the post master) explained that the money or der business of bis office had dropped to almost nothing within the past six months. He said that less than a year ago he was handling more than SI,OOO each month in the shape of money or ders, and that now the total is not one fourth of that. I understand that they will also increase the school teacher’s salary next term.” "A 12 page paper this week, I see Anything special doing?” “Not at all. That’s to be the regular size of the Record in the future. The increase In business warrants it. The campaign of advertising being conduct ed by the merchants forced me to In crease the size or encroach upon my reading matter columns, and so I in creased. Then, too, my subscription list is growing. People who never took the paper before say they want it now if for nothing more than to ke°p post ed on the prices the merchants are quoting. Business in the Record office is booming ail around. I have had to advertise for two more job printers, and have just ordered a new printing press. By the way, is that horse you offered me some time ago still on the market? If so you can bring him around. I want him for a birthday present for my wife.’’ WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. TEN GOOD REASONS. Read Them and Patronize the Mer chants of This Town. Here are ten good reasons for trad ing with your home business people, as given by an exchange. Because: You examino your pur chase and are assured of satisfaction before investing your money. Because: Your home merchant is always ready and willing to make right any error or any defective arti cle purchased of him. Because: When you are sick or for any reason it is necessary for you to ask for credit, you can go to the local merchant. Could you ask it of a mail order house? Because: If a merchant is willing to extend you credit you should give him the benefit of your cash trade. Because: Your home merchant pays local taxes and exerts every effort to build and better your market, thus in creasing both the value of city and country property. Because: The mail order merchant loes not lighten your taxes or in any way hold the value of your property. Because: The mall order merchant loes nothing for the benefit of mar ket* or real estate values. Because: If your town is good nough to live In it is good enough to spend money 6n. —Gov. Folk of Mis souri. Because: The best citizens in your '(immunity patronize home industry. Why not be one of the best citizens? Because: If you give your home merchant an opportunity to compete, by bringing your order to him in the luantitles you buy out of town, he will demonstrate that, quality considered, he will save you money. Search for Old Cannon. A tradition still survives In Luzerne | county. Pa., thut when Qen. John Sullivan murched through that region 111 1779 on his expedition against the Indian confederacy of central New York, he burled some superfluous liruss cannon along the Wllkes llarre mountain. To search for these revolu | lionary relics a number of the best known citizens of Ashley huve formed | themselves Into an historical society. One recent Sunday the members scoured the mountain In the vicinity of Laurel Run. but could fad no relics , except a few Indian arruw points. A CURE FOR LOVE Broken Hearts Made Whole Again by Chemistry. The gray-haired, spectacled young physiological chemist completed a queer stunt he had been doing on a fragment of mushroom with anhyd rous and alcohol free ether in a Sox hlet extractor, sighed with relief, lighted a big German porcelain pipe, perched himself on a desk in the de serted lecture room and spoke. “Golly!”—a ruminative pufT-puffing —“I never thought that I and my test tubes and precipitates and other stuff would ever be called in to help cure cases of love-sickness. Yes, sir; hearts broken by malicious shots of Cupid have been mended by me, or rather through my advice. “Funny role for science, eh? But why not? If science is to be worth anything it must be of help in prac tical life, although my colleagues would consider me a heretic for that opinion—the chumps!” Pff —puff—puff—f-f! The gray to bacco smoke twirled forth, lending a new odor to the atmosphere, al ready saturated as with the combined chemical resultant of the combination of a score of drug stores with the bot tles unstopped. His big, owllike eyes, immensely magnified by the lenses of his spectacles, peered solemnly at the reporter. "Well, but the story?’ "Oh, yes, the story! Quite a sim ple one, yet odd —and very modern, my boy. You know I make analyses here of all manner of things for peo ple who have the price. Last week I was visited by a physician who con ducts a high class sanitarium not far from Xew York. Place for wom en, you know; for wealthy neuras thenics. “The physician wanted to ascertain why two of his patients failed to as similate their nutriment. As I do in all such cases I inquired into their history. “Two unhappy women, young and fair presumably, for I never met the ladies. Two sad stories of love. One was a wife deserted by a rapscallion husband, without whom—had she only thought so—she was far better off. But the trouble was that she did not think so. The other was a girl disappointed because some young flirt of a boy had married another. Common cases, you see. “I found that the failure to assimi late nutriment was due to the fact that there had been no flow of hydro chloric acid in the alimentary tract of either of the patients. The physi cian said that they were moping and pining themselves to death, literally wasting away. Medicine was useless. It seemed; food they did not digest; they were dying, as the old phrase runs, of broken hearts. “And just why? For this reason— mark it well—their mental state was accountable for what is called inhibi tion of certain glandular actions con trolling the flow of hydrochloric acid. Pvschical influences, in other words, ruled their bodily functions and this is a principle that to-day is becoming widely recognized and assumes more and more importance in the treat ment of cases of malnutrition. “For instance, suppose you are a business man worried by some matter or other, and you rush out to your lunch, anxious only to eat and get back to your desk. Your preoccupa tion and worry inhibits, that is to say actually prevents, the flow of certain necessary gastric juices needed to digest what you eat. “Therefore you don’t digest it, hence trouble of a greater or lesser degree; progressive trouble, too, if you don't change your ways and eat only when you are tranquil, only when vdu are happy, if you can compass happiness. That age old. that diffi cult quest; the search for happiness! Puff-puff-puff -f-f! “I said to the physician. sa>s I: 'Give 'em hydrochloric acid after meals, about so much.’ He did so. Result: The heart-broken ladies be gan to digest their food. “As their bodies received nourish ment some of the strain on the mind caused hy malnutrition was eased; consequently there was less morbid ity, less gloom; this hetternieut of physical condition removed the inhibi tion of glandular function, the bodily hydrochloric acid flowed again; that great specific. Time aided the good cause, and in due course of events the heartbroken, lovesick patients recov ered tone and went out again into the world. “Do you know I feel rather proud of that job? But I wonder, I wonder what the young women would my if they knew! Have 1 sullied the ro mance of love? Well, 1 say no; love, like all other things human, will be the better for the light of truth- -and that light shines from the workshops of science, my boy. Yes!” The big eyes glared with portentous solemnity through the spectacles and through the gray tobacco smoke in the dingy lecture room. Puff-puff went the physiological chemist. Legs Too Long to Be a Soldier. Columbus, O. —Jasper Combs, u sol dier in the regular army, was dis missed from thee service on order of the department because of u peculiar physical disability. It is officUJle re corded thut Jasper's “legs are too long." It makes him very awkviard. and the drill sergeant found that he would never he able to drill and march in an acceptable way. Combs was a recruit and had been trying to learn to drill for several months. Fatal Admission. ••What other qualifications have yon for the place?” asked the merchant. “Well,” began the applicant, “my friends tell me I have a contented dUh position, and ” “You won’t do,” replied the mer chant. “We want a man with a dis contented disposition; one that will hustle.”—The Catholic Standard and Times. Men who whistle at their work sel dom work any better than they whis tle. Our ancestors, the Saxons, dyed their hair blue, green or orange, ac cording to taste. 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