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Mining and industrial record
British Columbia mining record
British Columbia Historical Books Collection
Mortimer-Lamb, H. (Harold), 1872-1970
"monthly. Title varies: v. 1-15 (1895-August 1908) as British Columbia mining record; v. 16-17 (August 1910-July 1912) as British Columbia mining and engineering record; v. 18-19, no. 2 (August 1912-October 1913) as Mining and engineering record; v. 19, no. 3-v. 21, no. 4 (October 1913-August 1916) as Mining engineering and electrical record; v. 21, no. 5-v. 29, no. 3 (September/October 1916-March 1926) as Mining and electrical record. Several suspensions in publication. Absorbed Economic and financial record, March 1925 (v. 28, no. 1-2 repeated in numbering). Not indexed." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 128. "Devoted to the Mining Interests of British Columbia" -- p. 1 [January, 1900]. Alternative title from Lowther & Laing (1968).
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BRITISH COLUMBIA Mining Record VOLUME VII. From January to December, 1900. PUBLISHED BY THE MINING RECORD, Limited Liability, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER. INDEX VOLUME VII. British Columbia Mining Record. Pa Page. 1 Min 73 Adams In\ it Syndicate .. .. ress'ed air plant al Ainsworthj district Alaska and the Klondike Alaskan Boundary Question, review of 216, 25 Ashcroft, electrical Assay Furnace .. Assay Samples, remar Assayer, An Eccentric Atlin Atlin, Quartz disc6vei Athabasca mine .... Athabasca, first annus Athabasca, 10-stamp r Athabasca air compres Auriferous Alluvi Auriferous Pyri m of the Fra- 1, 54.87. 88, 89, 90, 91 treatment of .. 384 B. A. C B. A. C. first general meeting of . B. A. C. profits of B. A. C. report of 1899 Bank of Montreal, annual meetin of Barclay Sound Barclay Sound, Iron at B. C. Copper Co.s' Smelter B. C. Exploration Syndicate " " ' B. C. Fiascos and London prol ' moters I B. C. and London stock market 188, 199, 272, , B. C. Mine, output of 66, 2^7, 276 Bend 'Or Mine, Lillooet Bend 'Or Mine directors' VpnArt Big " Big Bend, deep pla'c Boston and B. C. M. & S. Co . '.'. Boston Mine, operations at13" I03' Boundary Mining & Milling Co. Boundary Creek Coast-Kootenay Railway, w™«Vf.™ Creel development in ed Government operation of .. 205 Boundary Creek, development m^ ^ Coke Industry on V. 1 205 n " j',™'rr.ot as mmnircd with' Companies' Reports 455 Rossknd compared with Comparative table of stock quota- Boundary dreek, "future 'possibili- * „ tions, 1897-98-99 • • • ■ • "*-8 tiVc of 155 Compound pressure pump ...... 305 Boundary Cn* mining plants^ ^ C^chdat^i Cariboc Hydraul^ ^ Ti^iinrlTrv TrppW rirp riroduction * 00 Conveyor, Robins' Belt 185 Boundary Creek placer mining in 237 Copper Queen Mine .. ..... • .98, 300 Rnnndarv Creek' oroeress of min- Copper, Canada's production of rS8 ingin 2,30 Cornell Mine 98 Boundary Creek pyritic smelting Cottonwood River Co 205 in .. ' 246, 288 Critic newspaper on mine man- Boundarv Creek smelters in . agement 291 • " 321 330 Crow's Nest coal in Boundary Boundary Creek Ores, concentra- Camp 67 tion of 7, 44 Crow's Nest coal in Japan 37° Brett Mine, McGiilivray Creek .. '269 Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co Britannia Mines, Howe Sound 12,100,131,308 44, 78, 290, 376, 415 Cupil Machines 29 Britannia Mines, economic facili- ' £j tiesat 247 D- British Columbia gold production 247 British Columbia in London ..232, 359 Dawson, fire at 44 British Columbia, progress of min- Dayton Claim 140 ing, 1899 1, 329 Deadwood Camp 321 Broken Hill Mining Co 391 Delphine Mine, E. Kootenay .... 322 Buckhorn ioo Deputy Mining Recorders, appointment of 79 C. Determination of high temperatures 115 California Mine 239 Developing Mineral Prospects .. 14, 408! Canadian Exhibits at Paris . . . .366,444 Development in B. C 104S Canada, mineral production in Discoveries in B. C, early gold .. 306) 1889 113 Dividend-Paving mines 368 Canada, gold production of .. .. 287 Dominion Consolidated, Fairview 146 Cape Nome . .12. 46, 112. 157, 290, 291 Dominion Copper Co 76 Capital Invested in B. C. Mines .. 369 Dominion Iron & Steel Co .'.76 Cariboo Goldfields 2oT"~ Dorotha Morton Mine 234 Cariboo, hydraulic mining in.. 121, 403 DouH-.= Pine Mine 235 Cariboo Mine, McKinney Dundee Mine, Ymir 375 • ■ ■■•• ■• 78. 145. 293, 386, 395 Lames Creek gold mines report .. 178 E. Cassiar Central Railway Co. .... I catton, Morris .. 247 East Kootenay 247, 290 Cayuse Creek, cyanide plant at .. 268 East Kootenay Mines 3% M? da Chamber of Ki*ht-Hour Law 33 Imrliuii iHS-;1'""1-• "• ■■ 'i rad^oOTM^S.lS,8,!1!?"•;;.•:; *£ China'and th^Pacific Slope '. \ '.'. 287 EiS" Mi™ "* ' Sfi Citv of Paris Mine P246, 275, g * Ml"e ^ Coal DiscoveriesUin"E: Kootenav 332 F' r^'vrit-. * 324, 367' 4°°' 436' 466 Fire-Brick industry on V"! I. . . * 20-; ^oai mines, tax on 32g Fish Creek = INDEX TO VOLUME VII. B.C. MINING RECORD. Galena Mine, shipments from .... 289 Geographical Board of Canada .. 79 Glacier Bay, discoveries at .... 290 Glen Iron Mine .. 374 Goat Mountain 194 Gold-Bearing conglomerates in Northern B. C 16 Gold Dredging, notes on 304, 457 Gold Fields of B. C 204, 234 Golden, developments at 103 Golden Crown Mine 66, 237, 320 Golden Placer & Quartz Co 78 Golden River, Quesnelle, failure of 10, 290 Government Assay Offiice 376 Government operation of privately owned mines 204 Government operations with diamond drills 232 Granby Smelter 100, 207 Grand Forks, town of 207 Granite & Banner Co. 146 Great Western Mi Green 1 Min t Ore , Ltd. 69 Page. Last Chance Mine, sale of interest in 239 Legislation and the Mining Industry 107 Le Roi, a visit to 303 Le Roi Mine, record shipment .. 289 Le Roi Mine, production of .... 373 Le Roi dividend 148,245 Le Roi, value of ore shipped .... 24s Le Roi No. 2, flotation of 234 Le Roi No. 2, prospectus of .... 273 Le Roi No. 2 285, 317, 421, 422 Le Roi No. 3 285 Leroy or Lewah 373 Lead, export duty on 200 Lead, import duty on ........ 8 Lead Ore, basis of purchasing .. 42 Lead Ores, reverbetory smelting • of 302 Lead Smelting at Trail 43 Lead Smelting, blast furnace slags in 346 Lead Smelting in B. C." 396 Leadville & B. C. Contrasted .... 370 Lease System of Mining 375 Lemon Creek District 433 Lightning Creek ■• 309 Lillooct, Fraser River and Cariboo Goldfields 12, 44 Local Stock Market ..37. 72, 106, 196, 241, 283, 325, 368, 400, 436, 467- London & B. C. Goldfields .. . .24, 273 London Consolidated Co., Ltd .. 375 London & Globe Finance Cor- Hall Mines, Directors' report Hall Mines, reconstruction of .. Hall Mining & Smelting Co .. Harris, Mr. Harrison Lake District Heat Economy Hewitt Mine, payments made or Highland Mine, Ainsworth districl Hints for mine investment Hoist, good type of Hoist, the Hendy Horsefly, stamp mill at Hydraulic Mining in Cariboo, cosi of I. Import Duty on Lead Investments in B. C Iron Colt Iron Mask Mine, Kamloops, bonding of Iron Mask-Centre Star- Litiga tion, Verbatim evidence in .. 1 63, 92, 127. 159, 223, 314, 348. 296, 318, 427. Keithlev Creek .... Kenneth Mines, Ltd. Keremeos Ores, con Kettle River Society of Pioneers Klondike Boom, collapse of .. Klondike & Columbian Goldfields 80, 190. 322 Klondike, Yukon and Stewart Pio- Knob Hill and "ironsides mines .. L. Labour at V. I. Collieries Labour Commission 1 Labour Troubles re eight-hour law Labour Disputes in Rossland . .110 Lardeau, mining in . .2, 34, 191, 319, 430. Lardeau District, producing mines of Lardeau and Trout Lake Districts ,30 Machinery Catalogues 196, 467 ,m Machinery, enquiries for ...... 205 „o Machinery in Rossland Camp ... 206 ,g, Mansfield Camp I5» „0"; Matte Shipments from Grand ;£o Forks 409 Metal .Market . .36, 72,106, «i, 19S, 241, .,. 282, 325, 367, 400, 436, 466. Metalliferous Mines, tax on .... 328 Mineral Act 327, 382 Mineral Claims, proposed tax on . 332 a Mineral Statistics . .32, 70. 80, 106, 147, ° 195, 240, 243, 282, 324, 331, 366, 399. ,„ 435. 405- , % . _ , . 33 Mines, closed down in Rossland and Nelson Districts 74 35 Mines Inspection 34 Mines in McKinney .. . .293, 295, 299 43, Mines output new tax 383 Mining B. C, Growth of 333 Mining, Cost of _ 62 Mining divisions boundaries .... 12 f Mining Engineers—British versus American 407 Mining men of the Province .... 13. 45. 384. 4" 37S \Mining machinery and market 43 possibilities o 'SO Minister of Mines, 1900 Report of 360 206, 247 Minnehaha Mine, Camp McKin- 360 ney 145, 295 Minnesota Silver Co 238 "2 Miocene Mine 268, 276, 425 156 Modern Machinery 359. 427 Monitor Mine, bonding of 103 Monopolies of the people 386 Morris Catton Co 158 205 Mother Lode ..66, 146, 192, 236, 275, 3.34 321- , , 39 Mt. Sicker 246 153 N. 1 District . Nickel Ore in Trout Lake District"' Northern Trade, aversion of .. North Thompson River Dredging prospects ;. North Star Mine Nova Scotia, coal output of .. Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Ltd. 408 Old Ironsides and Knob Hill .... 100, 237, 275, 320 Ore production, increase of .... 202 Oriental Labour in coal mines .. no Paris Exhibition Awards 399 Paris Exhibition, appointment of representative to 204 Payne Consolidated Mining Co., meeting of 206 Phoenix Camp 66 Placer Mines Act amendment . .45, 396 Placer Gold of the Fraser River, sources of 69 Porcupine District 332 Porto Rico Mine 194 Poetry, Red Star and Iron Cask .. 453 Portable stamp mill 464 Publications . .35, 98, 186, 231, 291, 358, 386. Q. Quatsino District, Vancouver Island S Quatsino Coal Measures 47 Quesnelle District 309 Quicksilver, annual production .. 376 Lake 12 R. Bell Mine .. ....'. 276 Recording mineral claims, ruling on 40, 77 Red Mountain, Rossland, recent progress on 377 Republic Camp 244 Revelstoke 68, 78, 460 Rock Creek 299 Rock Creek Gold Mine Co., Ltd . 300 Rossland in 1899, . .32, 43, 147, 192, 238, 372, 389, 431, 462. Rossland, development work in .. 33 Rossland dividends 32 Rossland, Italian labour in 246 Rossland ores, value of .. 193, 277, 339 Rossland Promoters 145 Rossland pay roll 193 Rossland School of Mines 309 Rossland, statistics from 67 Rotary vs. Stamp mill 374 Ruth Mine Concentrator 39?"-' Rumble Powder Thawer 433 S. Sandon 33 Sailor Mine, Camp McKinney .. 145 Savonas Cinnabar Mines .. . .332, 375' Shoal Bay 30, 112, 459 Silver Cup Mine and Trout Lake District 46, 239 Silver, condition of market for .. 288 Similkameen District, economic geology 411 Slocah Kitn Development Co. .. n Slocan District . .71, 102, 148, 194, 246, 278, 323. 324. 331. 433. 463- Slocan Star Mine 323 Smelting, cost of 3 Smelting Dominant factors, establishing 201 Smelting in B. C. 331 INDEX TO VOLUME VII. B.C. MINING RECORD. Smelting at Grand Forks 374 Smelting, choice of lead slags for 449 Smith's Camp, Boundary Creek . 66 Smith's Creek Passes 430 Sophie Mt 43 Standard Basin 239 St. Elmo Mining Co 273 St. Eugene Mine 290 ;, Government publication of . Sunset No. ; Tamarac Company 365 Tangier Mine 204 Tariff and lead smelting 345 Taxation of mineral output .... 401 Technical Periodicals . .25, 106B, 186, 231, 250, 292, 358, 385. 426, 457- Tenderfoot Mine, Kamloops .... 274 Thermo. Chemistry and caliofeific power of fuel 229 Texada Island 97, 246, 300, 418 Thompson, the late Mr. J. L 158 Thompson River, dredging on .. 318 Triune Mine, Trout Lake District 37$ Toronto Stock Market and War Eagle Mine 76 Trade catalogues .. Trout Lake District Triplex electric sinking pump Two Friends Mine . United States Coal Expot Page. 435 35, 68, 81 238 Van Anda Copper & Gold Co., re- Van Anda Mine, Seizure by deben- Vancouver Coal Mines Labour Act . Vancouver Mine 239 Vancouver Island 400 Vernon 236 Velvet Mine, reconstruction of .. 285, 423 W. Wakefield Mines Concentrator .. 33 Wakefield Mines 194. 239, 329 War Eagle Mine, report on ... -75, 139 Ward Gold Mining Co 268 Waverley Mine 204 Waterloo Mine 145 White Pass & Yukon Ry 158 Whitewater 279 Winnipeg, developments at .. . .66, 405 West Fork of Kettle River .'.374. 429 Winnipeg and Golden Crown . .100, am Winnipeg Mining Co Ill, 237 Winnipeg Mine, untruthful statements concerning 203 Wire Rope Tramway vs. Montgomery 271 Wild Cat Companies 374 Woodstock and Lome Mines, Bridge Road District 46? Y. Ymir 33. 101, 323,. 432, 462 Yukon & White Pass Railway .. 12 Yukon, hydraulicing in 44 Yukon, coal in 112, 384 Yukon, royalty on gold returns 112, 157. 290 - THIS MONTH.-Activity in Cassiar District. Illustrated. VOL.VII. JANUARY, 1900. No i. ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MO'ORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.J(.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINIftG APPARATUS GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPAN'. ... Electircal Construction and Supplies... S, BLOWERS, FANS, MO'ORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.J(.C." TWO PHASE SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINIftG APPARATUS VICTORIA. B. O. VANCOUVER, B. O. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF Electrical Mining1 Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CI ASSES OF if NT.\G WORK. White Our British Columbia Bbanchm at VIGTORIA. VANGOUVER. ONLY ROLL JAW CRUSHER Breaks large or when set close, Reduces to Gravel or Sand. Does work of Breaker and rolls all at one operation. Only Fine Crusher for Quartz or any Hard Rock- STURTEVANT MILL CO., boston, mass. PRICE, 20 CENTS. MMMMijmmM,'. BELTING Users of this article would do well to examine our stock in this line. We carry a larger assortment than any other dealer in the Province. The Electric Brand of Rubber Belting we stock is not excelled by any other make. It is used by all the large mills in the Province. We carry it in stock up to 22 inches, and Leather Belting up to 16 inches in width. McLennan, McFeely & Go LIMITED, WHOSESALE HARDWARE f VANCOUVER, B.C. J DAWSON CITY, N.W.T. W' Agents for the Giant Powder Co., San Francisco, igl? Agents for the Majestic Steel Range Co., St. Louis. mmmtmmmmmm w$ m ; FRIED KRUPPGRUSOIMWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING - MHeHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables. Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables.. LEACHING PLANT . —'1 COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration's ^ yjy.'-i i'«.*''!t." (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching QOAL WASHING PLAN T—Large Testing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Works. AGENTS = For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.I — THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MACHINERY. HOISTING CRUSHING AND DAf^f^lVl'C Under-Ground Winze Hoist* Mining Machinery. RAPDMC' Double Drum DMV/UIld Winding Engines. Earle C. Bacon, Engineer Havemeyer Building, NEW YORK. Farrel " Or* and Rock Crusher Standard of the World. BACON'S DOUBLE CYLINDER Single Drum Winding Engines for Mine Shafts, Slopes, etc. Link Belt ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS. Conveyor 328 feet centers, handling 4 tons ANY MATERIAL. ■■* "Eink Belt," 4-(DI)«(l Eocomotioe, J motor. "run of mine" coal per minute. ANY CAPACITY Electric Coal Mining and Haulage Machinery, Link-Belting, Sprocket Wheels, Malleable Iron Buckets, Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Patent Machine-Moulded Rope Sheaves, etc. THE LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., Engineers, Founders, riachinsts, Chicago, U.S.A. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill,u.s.a. MANUFACTURERS F# .g ¥X For Cyanide Hlwl Mr * ^^^^^ ehloromatlc Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. to WM. AINSWORTH, Denver, Colorado, U.S. A. Agents for British Columbia ^ ^»r-,^#«/yB-,r *• ^^^» », . Tfie British Columbia Assay and Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver B.C., and W. F. TEBTZEL & CO., Nelson.. ASSAY, MINING and -MILL SUPPLIES- WE are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO,, P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Assay," 1 elegraphie address: Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1746 Champa St., DENVER, ASSAYERS' HATERIALs'i and mill Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Battersea, England. Largest stock of Bal Adaamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. anese and other heavy Chemicals at and scientific books. New illustrated catalogue on application. ncorporated 1895. lemists Si Special Agents for Morgan ances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. orax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang- Headquarters for Mining JOHN TAYLOR & CO., 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. THE MINING RECORD. 111. GENERAL MINING MACHINERY.— Continued. FRASER A WUMCRS 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. —HEADQUARTERS FOR— Mining Machinery. Hoisting Engines for Deep Mines. Prospectors Hoists. Gray's Patent Chairs. (Bars, Gages. Sederholm Boilers. Corliss Engines. Reidler Pumps and Air Compressors. H 2 o o P W B oo O ^ 83 2 K § a m CO 2j O •fl o !*> > > O o 2 o Adjustable Comet Rock and Ore Crushers. Perforated Metals for all Purposes.(WearetopinTe1fding7udrSe™.rn,ples Improved Crushing Rolls. Smelting and Roasting Furnaces. Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And equipment of every kind. Our machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any other manufacturer. It is in use on all gold fields and is recognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is a recent example of our work. Ball Pulverizers such as used at the Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone Mill are of our manufacture. Write for Catalogue. -RBPRESBNTBD BY- MENNO UNZICKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exc.usive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, England, South Africa and Australia. IV. THE MINING RECORD. CABLES, WATER WHE^L^^ND^OMPRESSORS. j wires-how they interlock? Note the smooth surfaoe also? THE PATENT LDCKED-COIL No displacement of wires in any event. Gives tl adds correspondingly to the life of the rolling stock iree times the service of other cables, and g stock. Is need only on the patent-* Blechert Wire Rope Tramway, j jl. ~~- .and others manufactured by ~- w The Trenton Iron Company, Trenton, N.J. Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in North America for the Bleichert System engineers ana ooinnu-wia <mu »ui Haulage> Transmission of Power, etc. Illustrated book upon application New York Office—Coopei, Hewitt & Co., 17 Burling Slip. Also, Wire Rope Equipments for Surface and Underground iCAOo Office—1114 Monadnock Building M. BEATTY 6t SONS, WELLAND, ONTARIO, Dredges, Ditchers and Steam Shovels, For Dredging, Ditching, Dyking, Gold Mining, Etc. Of various styles and sizes to suit any work. Mine Hoists, Hoisting Engines, Stone Derricks,'Horsepower Ho.sters, Suspension Cablcways, Submarine Rock ^I^flllililf^lls** Drilling Machinery, Gang Stone Saws, Centri- ^||p|3pfL*i^S i£i> fugal Pumps for Drainage Works, Pump- |S§?TlP|l=33JSr ing Sand, Gold Mining, Etc. ^Np?^ We also furnish WIRE ROPE at Lowest Prices. m Compressed Mr from Falling Water. =R HIGH TESTIMONIAL. THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que DEAR SIRS:— We have J>ad your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months • in our Printworks, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in theKtatbw Department Your Compressor runs without attention or expenst, and is saving thf cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam saving uie I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as amost efficient motive power. Yours truly, W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH. WATER POWERsThe - VictoT: Turbine _. . _ C HYDRAULIC MACHINERVand AID rnuosro. Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Montreal, Que, 20 000 h n • wL-' T?w y Manufacturing Co., Rossland; 3.O., 8,000 £p."' Ko°tenay Power & Uggt Co., THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL AND MINE SUPPLIES. &&&& Gates Iron Works After all, the great test of MINING MACHINERY, as of any other kind, is the extent of its usage. In the half- century during which we have devoted ourselves to the production of mining machinery, we have never experienced an increase iu sales such as the present year has witnessed. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, 111. ALBION IRON WORKS COMPANY, L'TD. CAPITAL — — — — $500,000 ENGINEERS, IRON FOUNDERS AND BOILER MAKERS. MANUFACTURERS OF MARINE AND LAND ENGINE8, BOILERS, ETC. Fish Canning and Mining Machinery, Hydraulic Giant Pipbs and Sinking Pumps for Minks, Stoves, Grates French Ranges, Etc., Etc. Sole Agents in British Columbia for H. R. Worthington's Steam Pumps, and Ingersoll Rock Drill Company's Steam Rock Drills. NO. 1 CHATHAM STREET AND 71 STORE STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. K- K:'<■•••— P. O. DRAWEB 12. •«• •«■<:<' HYDRAULIC PIPE. WHTER 1 WORKS ." OR | MINING .' PLHNTS. The largest and best equipped rivetted SteeTpipe-making plant on the Coast ESTIMATES FURNISHED. LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES. N© DELAY IN DELIVERY. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. ARMSTRONG & MORRISON VANCOUVER, B.C. To Kootenay Hardware Dealers. For Lowest Prices on Iron, Steel, Picks, Shovels, Pipe, Fittings, Brass Goods, Barrows, Trucks, etc. ADDRESS- MILL AND MINING SUPPLIES, Walter S. Fraser & Co., Limited. Wharf St., Victoria, B.C. Established 1863.' Tel. 3. P. O. Box 423. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. -«^fe-<- •^>t^>- Hoisting » Mining Engines Mining, Milling and Concentrating MACHINERY Thoroughly Modern in Type; Substantially Constructed, and Convenient and Efficient in Operation. Contracts for Complete Steam and Water Power Plants a Specialty. General Mill and Mine Supplies. ? The JEN6KES MACHINE e©. i£ ESTIMATES SUBMITTED PROMPTLY. Catalogues and Prices on Application. F. R. Mendelhall, ....Agent. 32'40 Lansdowne Street, SHBRBROOKB. QUE. 0 Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. gfc-^-51|l MANUFACTURERS OP AND DEALER8 IN Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery -COMPEIBINO- HYDRAULIC GIANTS, CONCENTRATORS, aea WATER GATES, SHEET IRON and STEEL PIPE, STAMP. MILLS, ORE 0RUSHER8, ORE FEEDERS, SMELTERS, HOISTING and PUMPING PLANTS, SAW MILLS, MINE and MILL SUPPLIE8, Etc., Etc i&S 3$>£'- Catalogues and Prices Furnished TTpon Application s nSTM"' .HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATER WHEEL. HP[7VUl_TON POWDEk COY. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers ot High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office-. MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICE8: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland Greenwood, NANAIMO. Patent Pending. PS. ..PERFECT CUPELS.. can be made by anyone with ease and dispatch, with CALKINS' Cupel Machines Compact, easily operated, can't get out of order. Everlasting. No Assay Office Complete Without One, -««$ ' ir* THE HUTOMHTie, This machine will make 5 sizes cupels of Ideal perfection. Capacity, 600 an Descriptive Pamphlet and Price nour- List mailed on application. pstag ^^Bil l. & e. Combination Melting and Muffle Assayers' Furnaces Are Economical, c< nventent and Efficient. Gasoline Tanks, Hydro-Carbon Blowpipe Outfits F. W. BRAUN & CO., KSSSSSSSBK Los Angeles, California. PftTBNTBD. This illustration shows L. & C. Furnace in operation. Melting and Cupeling at same time with one Burner. THE MINING RECORD. vu. ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MRNCFaeTURERS ©F Electric - Mining | Apparatus * Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM .WRITE US. BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA NELSON. VANCOUVER Vlll. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. noersoii-serouant Rock Drills For TUNNELS MINES and QUARRIES. Line Duplex and GomDOunt COMPLETE MINE EQUIPMEOT Straw Line Duplex and Gompound nlP 60lflPP6$$0r$ JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, limited .MONTREAL, P.Q. Branch Office-ROSSLAND. B.C. JAMES D. SWORD, Manager. Elephantj Brand. Ready Mixed Paint For the Inside and Outside of Cottages leads all others. 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SUBSCRIPTION TERHS: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to The Editor, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. TO attempt within the limits of one article a general review of mining progress in British Columbia during the past year is not an easy task, chiefly by reason of the size of the territory to be covered and variety of interests embraced. Nor is it rendered easier by the almost complete ab- the progress sence of reliable statistics. This lat- pf mining ter is a very serious matter. No in b.c. during doubt the Department of Mines pub- 1899. lishes them too late. There should be a monthly return made and published and its publication should take place no later than thirty days after the month with which it deals. The Province should not wait till March or April to take stock for the previous year. In endeavouring to form some estimate of progress during 1899, it, is necessary first to exclude two sources of gold supply, namely placer mines and hydraulic mines. The output from these sources is increasing at a rapid rate, but to what extent is hardly ascertainable; $400,000 is accounted for from the Atlin district, representing probably 50 or 60 per cent, of the total output; how much has come out of Cariboo during the past year; what progress the various hydraulic companies are making there? These are things regarding which the desire for accurate and .reliable information is not likely to be satisfied for some time yet. Even in dealing with lode mining throughout the Province, information concering which is more readily available, we are face to face with serious difficulty in presenting an accurate resume of the year's operations. The districts in which lode mining is being carried on throughout the Province might be divided according to the nature of their product into silver-lead; gold-copper and free milling quartz camps. But it will be easier and serve the'purpose better if they are divided rather according to their standing as productive districts. A broad and easy distinction may be made between districts in which production has been going on for some years and districts hitherto only spasmodically, or not at all productive. The unproductive districts lend themselves again to another distinction between districts in which development has been going on for some years without great results so far, on account of transportation or other difficulties, and new districts. No apology is necessary for dealing with the Rossland district as first among the productive localities in the Province —1899 has been a year of progressive development in the Rossland mines. It is true that the amount of ore treated has increased from 111,000 tons to over 180,000 tons; but in spite of this remarkable increase, all of which may be credited to the last nine months of the year, the shipment of ore has been given a secondary place to the development of the mines. But that development has been attended with, on the whole, most satisfactory results. The ore reserves in the Rossland camp are incomparably greater than they were a year ago, and in the West Le Roi a new mine has been added to the resources. Equally important as a correlative factor in the prosperity of the camp has been the great decrease in the cost of ore treatment. This has brought bodies of ore within the commercial horizon which may without exaggeration be termed vast, and has given an impetus to the development of numerous prospects, while it has also led to the resumption of shipments from some of the lower grade mines. Although the year closes amid depressing external circumstances the internal condition of the Rossland camp is a sure guarantee of continued and increasing prosperity. The Nelson district has presented some most interesting features during the year. Productive quartz mines have sprung up all over the district, and next year the output should approximate at least $200,000 from this sources alone. This is the more encouraging as the latent resources of this district have long lain dormant with the exception of the ill-fated and mismanaged Silver King. The district now counts among its productive mines the Molly Gibson, Athabasca, Granite, Poor- THE MINING RECORD. man, Silver King, Exchequer and Fern, a very good showing, as compared with that of even a year ago. In Ainsworth, the oldest mining camp in the &-°0™- nays, a little mining has been going on, but this district has for long been overshadowed by its neighbour, the Slocan, and its low-grade lead ores have met with well night insuperable difficulties in finding a satisfactory market. The Slocan district has during the year been the theatre of a protracted struggle between labour and capital. The year began with the promise of a most brilliant record of ore production, which was wrecked by the passage of the eight-hour law, whose effects have been twofold. Capital was ; withdrawn and mines in operation closed down, while the best miners left the country, such of them as were not tied down through being themselves owners of property. The friendly relations previously existing between employer and employed have been broken and a feeling of distrust and animosity substituted, while unrest, indecision and fear have spread over, not onlv the Slocan, but the other mining districts of the Province. However, under a system of contract labour much useful and necessary development work has been done in the Slocan. The mines present a better appearance than they did a year ago. They are ready as soon as the unfortunate dispute is adjusted to contribute their proper quota to the mineral output of the Province. The Boundary country, Camp McKinney, the Ymir District, Moyie and Lardeau, while it is pos^ sible that Camp McKinney and the Ymir district belong rather to the first category, range themselves naturally under the head of hitherto unproductive or only spasmodically productive districts. In the Boundary district the evidences of wealth and development have been more apparent during 1899 than in any other portion of British Columbia. A railway has been completed, two smelters are under construction, small shipments have already begun, and the list of mines has grown enormously. The year has been one of great activity. As yet the tangible results in the shape of profits are small, because the full tale of development has not been accomplished, but a comparison of the position of that district to-day with its position a year ago is most satisfactory. In another year it will be self-supporting and will be enriching the owners of its mines with dividends. Can'p McKinnev has nevpr attracted th° attention ;t deserves. S'i'l its dgvM&nje'jiit ""= a »re^t frpp - \n. ing quartz camp is certai" if slow. TV numb"-- of stamps falling in Camp McKinnev has been doubled during the past year, and if only present contracts for machinery are carried out will be doubled again in the forthcoming twelve months. In Ymir also the year has_ been one of steady progress. The Ymir mine is installing forty stamps, bringing its battery up to eighty stamps and enabling the treatment of 250 tons of ore a day. Numerous other properties in that district have been consistently developed during the year and may be expected to give returns within the next twelve months. I The Moyie camp has been placed in a position during the past year to become a steady and large producer of silver and lead. Its activity has, however, been hampered by the operation of the eieht-hour law, the company controlling the St. Eugene group preferring to wait until that dispute is settled before commencing active mining operations. In the Lardeau district more development has been dene during 1899 than ever before. But ere any tangible results can be obtained railway transportation must be provided. Fortunately this will not now ' be long delayed. Impressed with the magnificent results already obtained from opening new and but partially developed mining territory south, the Great Northern and the Canadian Pacific Railway companies are pushing construction into the Lardeau country, and before the close of 1900 railway transportation should be assured. For consideration as new districts, East Kootenay, the Similkameen, the Bridge River district of Lillooet, and the copper deposits of Vancouver Island and the Coast have been reserved. It may seem curious and perhaps unfair to class East Kootenay as a new district. It has one great mine extensively developed and within measurable distance of being both productive and dividend paying. Still, if the territory be looked on as a whole it is emphatically a new district, and in so far as its mineral resources are concerned even yet a terra incognita. Until the Crow's Nest Pass Railway was constructed there was little inducement to prospect in East Kootenay. But during the last year prospectors have gone in in great numbers, and one and all have brought out flattering reports of its coming greatness. Severe difficulties were found through the inclemency of the season in prospecting the country. It may be expected that greater and more important ^discoveries will be made during the coming year. Of the Similkameen the same thing may be said, although from the best reports obtainable this district does not give evidence of the same extent and richness as East Kootenay. The Bridge River district of Lillooet has alreadv one productive mine, and more will be added to the list during the forthcoming year. It seems one of the most promising gold districts in the Province. Of the coast of Vancouver Island, and indeed the whole coast of British Columbia it is impossible to say much. It is an enormous territory, full of rich indications of mineral. One or two prospects are partially developed, and one mine maintains a matting plant in onerations. But these are mere drops in the bucket. When the reserves of mineral territory in British Columbia still undeveloped and unexplored, are passed in review and compared with the infini- tp=ima1 section's in which results have beeh obtained • ' c r^-iH-rpfi t'-ni no* in a dav. nor a vear. nor a gen- .,~„ c t'i-i( iniKistr-iai c'6ncj.ue=t of such a countrv achieved It is impossible not to feel encouraged by what has been done even in a period of twelve months. Much has been accomplished towards placing the mining indn<-try on a commercial basis, great sum* of money have been invested in the purchase and development of mines and in the construction of railway's. Industrial progress taking place in a new cor.ntrv of unbounded natural resources like British Columbia is likej a snowball in its course. As it rolls on it gathers volume and momentum. Year by year its boundaries extend, and its activities increase The great advance of t8qq foreshadows and holds within it the mmnt ^ still greater progress in 1900 and in succeeding ■ fars We have much pleasure in printing in this issue 5S39H! THE MINING RECORD. photographs never before published of scenery in Cassiar, showing at the same time different portions of the railway work executed last season by the Cassiar Central Railway Company. This company is quietly but gradually developing a portion of this country which must be a closed book to all enterprise until it i.. opened up by capital. The Cassiar Central Railway Company have spent a very large sum of money in prospecting apart from railway work during the past two seasons, and they are well pleased with the result of their explorations. On the 23rd inst, Mr. H. Hirschel Cohen, one of the directors, together with Mr. Alexander Hamfield, the general manager of the company in Cassiar, left for London to confer charge, in addition to a direct charge of so much per ton on ore sent to the smelter for treatment. Indirect charges, it is pointed out, are made up in the following way :— (1) Gold is paid for at the rate of only 95 per cent, of assay value, although practically 100 per cent, is actually recovered. (2) Silver is paid for at the rate of 95 per cent, of assay value only. (3) Copper, after deducting about 30 per cent, from the assay value, is paid for at less than half its market value. (4^1 Fines are levied in numerous ways should the ores prove not to be of the particular fluxing quality Glenora, B.C. with the London board as to future operations of the company, and it is more than probable that during the coming season, amongst other expenditures in Cassiar, a complete plant will be installed on one of the company's mining properties which has been thoroughly prospected during the past two seasons. In a work recently published in London, the author in his reference to mining in British Columbia, takes great exception to the charge system adopted by smelters throughout the West, and which he describes as being "little short of iniquitous."^ The evil he complains of is the imposition of a so-called indirect preferred by the management of the smelter. Now with regard to the first two of the indirect charges mentioned, it is perfectly true that the smelter only makes an allowance of 95 per cent, of the assay value of the gold and silver contents of ore treated. But it is not true that in practice 100 per cent, of the values is recovered. There is always a" certain amount of loss in handling, and the richer the ore the greater the loss. Hence, if loss were not provided against in one way, it would necessarily be in another by simply increasing the direct charge for smelting to the mine-owner. But so long as the mine-owner knows that he can only expect to be paid THE MINING RECORD. 95 per cent, of the asasy value of the gold and silver contents of his ore, no deception is practised on him, and there is consequently no "unfairness" nor "iniquity" in the "indirect charge" system. The statement that a deduction of 30 per cent, is made on copper which is paid for at less than half its market value, is grossly incorrect and misleading. The smelters make a reduction of 1.3 per cent, on the wet assay value of the copper in ore, which brings it down to the dry assay value. The price paid for the metal itself is, of course, regulated by the New York market; but it is surely not to be supposed—though suable for smelter requirements and would consequently be taxed. In the same way a large percentage of iron in an ore might make it more valuable or otherwise, according to whether or not the local smelter could turn it to profitable account in treating other ores of the neighbourhood. The American system in this respect is not only much simpler than that in vogue in England, but it is decidedly fairer. In fact, though not much is heard concerning the indirect charges of the South of England smelters, they bear much more hardly on the miner, and are imposed with so little discrimination that they could, Telegraph Creek seemingly in the case of the London writer it is—that copper in ore delivered to a British Columbia smelter is worth as much as the refined product sold on the New York market. The fourth contention is equally as absurd and unfounded. Throughout North America the system is general among the smelters of offering a bonus for certain classes of ore, of which there may be special need for fluxing purposes; or of increasing the regular treatment charge to the mine- owner if his ore contains more than a certain percentage of deleterious or undesirable bye-material. Thus, for example, while an ore containing excess of silica might receive a bonus at one smelter, in whose locality lime was scare or difficult to obtain; at another point an ore of this character would be unde- wiili short ;ome degree of iniquitous of justice, be described little it is not 1 expenditure ing up of cc generally ; of capital :nown tnat a very considerable has been laid out in the open- 1 the Ouatsino district of Van couver Island. Yet for some time past extensive development operations have been carried on in this field by a San Francsico syndicate, with Mr. Hallidie. after whom the well-known cable way system takes its name, as the prime mover—the outlay to date amounting to no less a sum than $80,000. In addition to coal deposits the mineral showings in the Ouatsino district—though the ore is low-grade in value—are eminently promising, and much of the THE MINING RECORD. land in this locality, is also admirably suited to agricultural purposes. The district is, however, entirely isolated, and but for the unsatisfactory service as afforded by a steamboat calling once a month, would be as completely shut off from communication with the outside world as any mining camp in the wilds of Alaska. The Quatsino coal mines and mineral prospects are, however, so favourably situated as regards ocean transport conditions that when development has proceeded sufficiently far to warrant ships calling regularly for the mine products, no better facilities could be desired; but owing to the present isolation mining and development work is only conducted under circumstances of great difficulty and expense. lion required to complete this very necessary public work will be promptly provided. The rapid development of the mining industry in British Columbia, the opening up of such districts as Boundary Creek, Fort Steele, Windermere, and Trout Lake, is necessarily creating a steadily increasing demand for high-class mining machinery. In certain classes of machinery there is no Canadian competition for this trade, ahd British manufacturers up to the present time have made very little, if any, effort to secure orders from British Columbia. The more enterprising American firms, however, have not been A correspondent from this district informs us that he has been obliged to pav as much as seven dollars to insure the postage ol an important letter, and his is not an exceptional case. He. moreover, assures us hat to vastly improve the existing state of affairs, all that | required | the continuation of a waggon-road commenced by the predecessors of the preset Govern' ment ,n t8o7, between Hardy Bay and QuaSno ^und If m addition to this six miles of hM™ a wharf were also built at Hardy Bay, the dS would receive at the least, a bi-monthhj mail MS It is sincerely to be hoped that the small approprial Railway Grade at Glenora, Cassiar District. fori a if6 th-e, trade Possibilities this field af- mot c,h1 ? Pr°Vldf accordin&ly with already the most satisfactory results to themselves. In this con heCtSoritvaoyfW IPf °f PlaCe t0 HSfl me majority of advertisements in this periodical are ""record"g AmeriCan firms' l0 whom the MS lowing- from thp widoK, 1K53 V quote me tol- Iron Company: irenton THE MINING RECORD. The British Columbia Mining Record, Victoria, B.C. Gentlemen :— This being the time when it is customary for us to place our advertisements for the ensuing year, we wish to express our satisfaction with the results of our cards in the British Columbia Mining Record, and would say that our desire is to continue occupying th e same space. Y ours respectfully, The Trenton Iron Co., W.M. HEWITT, Trenton, N.T., Vice-President. Dec. 13th, 1899. when development shall have warranted them, but the smelters at present projected and actually building will be able to handle the output, especially if concentrated before shipment, for some time to come. Additional smelters will not be needed, and the money it is proposed to sink in them would be far better spent in development work and concentrating plants. Large amounts of ore will be available, while the dumps in Phoenix, Summit and Deadwood camps are being drawn upon, but so soon as these shall have been exhausted, the output will fall for some months, or until the workings permit the extraction of larger quantities of ore than would be possible at present. We have pointed out more than once that the estimates of copper values in assay returns are often too Cassiar Central Railway—Grading on Left Bank of Stickine River. Many, perhaps most, of the large copper deposits of the Boundary country, will be most profitably worked as concentrating propositions. There are very large bodies of quartz and calcite carrying from 1.5-3 per cent, cu., which might seemingly be concentrated to advantage before shipping to a smelter. The great need of that district is development, and it is sincerely to be hoped that as large a percentage as possible of available capital will be put into the underground workings of the various lodes. _ Comparatively inexpensive concentration plants might follow, high. The practice, however, continues. There is an advertisement running in a Rossland paper which contains an assay report by a very prominent mining engineer, in which the copper is valued at 17 cents a pound. Another assay, by a gentleman who has been in charge of one of the largest properties near Greenwood, of the ore of a claim in which the public is to be invited to take stock, estimates the copper at $3 a unit, thereby making ore containing 18.66 per cent, cu. worth $55.98 a ton. These values are altogether fictitious so far as the merchantable value of the ore THE MINING RECORD. is concerned, as no smelter could afford to pay for the copper in an ore the full New York price for refined lake copper. Railways do not carry matter for nothing; refiners as yet do not care to work without pay or profit, and electrolytic copper is not worth as much as lake copper by about one cent a pound. Copper in ore is worth to a mine just what it will net, and this is about seven cents less than the top New York price. Assayers who do not wish to rest under a suspicion of being accessory to imposition should neither give returns based upon copper at 17 cents a pound, nor estimated at $3 a unit. A recent despatch from Ottawa announces that 'the Customs Department is preparing instructions eign lead imported is inaccurate. On the former the duty would be f\ cents per hundred weight, and on the latter between 50 and 55 cents. But these, of course, are mere details, and the proposal of the Federal Government to tax what may be described as the "actual refining of Canadian lead performed in the United States" in contradistinction to taxing the refined product itself is eminently fair and wise. Before this arrangement goes into force Canadian smelters will be called upon to produce sworn evidence on the cost to them of lead refining operations by the refiners in the United States. If this cost is correctly stated in the despatch which we have quoted, the Kootenay lead miners will have a right to demand why the rate's Tahtlan River where Cass to collectors in regard to the entry of lead produced from Canadian ores refined in the United State Lead thus produced is taxed 15 per cent orTrb, t . mtK0mM ar Central By. Crosses. imposed by.the local smelters for smelti ores are as high as they are. ng galena tions and ifH^^Hi P™»°- ■out some- tions and swindlng denies 0 all 1 1 times the Critic not hS nnv ^ ?■* Some~ sation in the way °0f a clevfr cAidsm^,0"^^ * stock-and one can't ■Hp* ^eVer THE MINING RECORD. acting dishonestly—either goes to work and belabours the director of some unfortunate company that has failed through sheer ill-luck, and can hardly, therefore, come under the category of swindles; or this failing, the necessary "copy" is manufactured on the premises, and not infrequently takes the form of a quite uncalled-for assault of a general character. A case in point is supplied in a recent issue, containing the following paragraph: " I am informed by my British Columbian correspondent that promoters and claim-sellers in that Colony contemplate a descent upon the London Market. A note in the financial columns of the Daily Mail appears to have inspired them to this invasion. The Throgmorton-street prophet professes that the heads of big South African houses have taken him. aside and whispered into his ear ' that other gold-mining fields will be more attractive and there are dark bints of migrations to British Columbia and elsewhere.' Men with wild cats and tame cats, with Golden Caches and Ontario Rainy Rivers, have been waiting for any hint that would give them a decent excuse to unload upon the parsons and widows whom the envelope addressing agencies have listed as the best people to whom should be sent prospectuses of the Eldorados of British Columbia. This little hint through The Critic may serve to induce people at home to button up their pockets tightly when dubious British Columbia schemes are pressed upon their notice,' as they apparently will be very shortly. My correspondent's . remarks should not be understood to convey the idea that no good can come out of British Columbia. I believe that, when development work has been done, this Province of Canada will be the crown of the Dominion. But at present there are a myriad holes in the ground between the Rockies and the Pacific which their owners persist in calling mines but which engineers say are merely prospects. The motto which all British Columbian men should keep continually before them is, ' Develop, develop, develop !' " Now granting (which we don't) that the British Columbia correspondent to the Critic has special information which no one else possesses, with regard to an imminent invasion of Great Britain by an army of needy and dangerous " claim-sellers and promoters" from these shores, what right has our contemporary to take the ground that nothing we can offer British capital is worthy of consideration? It is by adopting this sort of policy that the Critic has lost status. We are condescendingly assured that in Mr. Hess's opin- . ion British Columbia may have a future, but it is very sapiently added that first we must develop our mines. Very true; and all British Columbians of sense will coincide with this view. But—and this is where the Englishman misses his opportunity—while British capital is waiting for us to develop our mines the American speculator steps in and picks out the plums. That has been the experience of the past, and while the Kootenay mines transformed the village of Spokane into a fine city and made millionaires of many of her citizens, few Englishmen can lay claim to having made their "pile" mining in British Columbia. The American does not wait for other people to prove a mine before he buys it. He goes to work himself after obtaining expert opinion and thus assuring himself that there is a reasonable chance of success attending his efforts, and presently the success comes, and he sells out on his own terms and at his own figure to the cautious and conservative Englishman. It is a very good system—for the American. The Critic refers to the "Golden Cache," but the Golden Cache, though a fiasco, could hardly be described as either a wild-cat or a swindle. The principal British loser, a Mr. Oldroyd, suffered for his own folly in following his private judgment concerning the value of the property after inspecting it, and in omitting to secure competent professional opinion. In the same manner Mr. Horne-Payne brought disaster on several of his promotions. The Americans of the Western States not only know a great deal more about mining than does the average Englishman, but in their own way they are more cautious. Tins is not the sort of cautiousness of which Mr. Hess is an exponent—the deadly apathetic cautiousness which has so stultified British enterprise in all directions; but it is the exercise of ordinary prudential business methods of examination and investigation, to be followed by operations conducted on economical lines. In the few cases where Englishmen or British companies have acquired mines or prospects in this Province they have almost invariably displayed the most woeful ignorance or have disregarded the first elementary and fundamental principles of business. South African "experts" are sent out to report on silver-lead mines in the Slocan or on hydraulic propositions in Cariboo or Omineca, and are asked to pass an opinion on conditions of which they have had no previous experience; money is literally thrown away in the erection of costly buildings and in the installation of elaborate machinery long before it is actually required or utilized; a board of highly-paid directors is appointed in London, apparently with the sole purpose of harassing in every way possible the local management with all sorts of absurd orders and unwarrantable interferences; incompetent outsiders are put in charge of the properties; the mines themselves are, in nine cases out of ten, over-capitalized, and the British public skilfully deluded with exaggerated reports and wild stories, until at last comes the inevitable smash. Neither British Columbia nor British Columbians are responsible for the numerous disasters which so far have befallen British mining ventures in this country. The Grant-Govans, Morris- Cartons, Home-Paynes and other members of the London promoting fraternity are alone blameable. There are, meanwhile, a few British companies operating in the Kootenays, which were promoted on honest lines and afterwards judiciously managed. These, at least, will not swell the list of British failures, which now, perhaps, number eighty per cent., as against, at the outside, a failure of twenty per cent, of American-promoted mining enterprises in Western Canada. And the moral is—well, perhaps Mr. Hess will tell us that? The Mining Reporter, of Denver, Colorado, a journal of deservedly high repute, criticises very sharply the swindler Hartsfield, whose connection with the notorious National Ore Reduction concern, and whose attempts to injure his successor we referred to last month. Our contemporary evidently thinks well of the present St. Louis Smelter Manufacturing Company, and its management. 10 THE MINING RECORD. unhappily, the standard of political morality is hot as high as it might be, and that a. man should assume arduous parliamentary responsibilities as a duty to the State and not for reasons of personal aggrandisement or gain, is incomprehensible to the large majority of us. It is not too much to say that the untiring zeal, the conscientious and unselfish attention to his multifarious duties by which Mr. Bostock's political course has been distinguished since his return to Ottawa as the parliamentary representative of Yale-Cariboo have created as much astonishment as gratitude among his constituents, whose respect and regard he has, however, entirely won. The recently issued report of the directors of the A Prospector's Camp in Cassiar. British Columbia has long asked for and is fairly entitled to Cabinet representation at Ottawa. The importance which now attaches to our industrial and commercial interests sufficiently justifies the demand for a representation of this character, and the recognition of this fact and action in accordance with it on the part of the Federal Government would be regarded as a timely and graceful concession to the new conditions beginning to prevail in the West. The Nelson Tribune, the most influential, the most conservative, and at the same time the most radical newspaper published in the Kootenays, commenting on this text, suggests that as | no member of the British Columbia delegation comes nearer voicing the opinion of his constituents than the member from Yale-Cariboo, Mr. Hewitt Bostock ; British Columbia could have no better representative in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Cabinet." This suggestion emanating, as it does, from a newspaper which was most bitter in its opposition to Mr. Bostock in the general elections three years ago, is significant, as voicing public opinion in the Kootenays; and particularly gratifying inasmuch as it is a tribute to integrity of conduct and meritorious h#rd work. In Canada, Packing in Cassiar—After the Day's Work. Golden River Quesnelle is practically an admission of failure. While the announcement is sufficiently distressing, the success of this enterprise has never been seriously anticipated by experienced miners in this country, who, from the first, have deplored the expenditure of so vast a sum of money as that required in the construction of the dam at Quesnelle Lake, before actual operations for the recovery of THE MINING RECORD. ii gold from the river bed could be commenced. The dam itself is a triumph of engineering skill, but shareholders in this company will probably consider that such an assurance hardly compensates them for the loss on their holdings. It is, at least, satisfactory to know that the promoters of the enterprise are not blameable on the charge of dishonesty, if they are on the score of ignorance; and that they have until quite recently firmly believed in the future rich prospects of the enterprise, may be cheerfully conceded in their favour. Any old Cariboo miner, howevei', could have given the information that thirty years ago the river was mined, first by whites, and later by Chinamen, by means of wing-dams; and how thoroughly this work was done is demonstrated by the fact that the only gold recovered by the Golden River Quesnelle Company, has been taken from beneath the large boulders, which, with primitive appliances of former days were too heavey to move. Meanwhile the directors of this company are about to commence a costly law suit, claiming heavy damages for river bed obstruction from the Cariboo Consolidated Hydraulic Gold Mining Co., Limited. Without seeking to comment on the legal merits of a case that may shortly come sub judice, every other indication suggests that the unfortunate shareholders in the Golden River Quesnelle, Limited, will not gain very much in the end by the litigation, which, if pursued as threatened, will mean some exceptionally heavy fees to lawyers and expert witnesses, of which last, there are sure to be not a few retained. The report of the Hall Mines, Limited, for the year, which ended with September last, shows that although insufficient profits have been earned to enable the directors to recommend a dividend, there was a gross profit for the year of approximately £28,800. From this, however, must be deducted £3,367, written off for depreciation, and £3,470 expended on opening out copper claims which failed to realize expectations. The net profit is, therefore, about £22,000, of which £10,277 have been applied to the cost of development work. A total of £9.000 is consequently now being carried forward in lieu of dividend payment. There should, however, be better times ahead of the concern with good management, especially it, as expected, a sufficiently profitable business can be developed in lead smelting. Mr. Frank Richards, of Manauense fame, is again attempting to organize personally conducted parties of fifty "young Englishmen of some means" with a view to Atlin gold prospecting. We do not, however, anticipate for the enterprising ex-purser any successful rivalry of either the Cooks or the Gazes, especially as- his record as a "personal conductor" has by now become fairly well known both in this country and in England. The fewer, however, Mr. Richards "leads" the better for themselves. Atlin is altogether a country of the kind not likely to offer many opportunities to "young Englishmen" of the type of those sought by Mr. Richards. It is a good district for practical men with capital behind them. "The Ontario Government has just issued a charter to the Slocan Kito Development Company, which owns 20 valuable claims in the Kootenay district. The company is capitalized at $7,000,000, and the venture is regarded as one of the largest mining undertakings of the year. In addition to its claims in the Kootenay the company proposes to operate in Ontario. The provisional directors are Senator Miller, New York, and Messers. James McNaught and A. McKinney, New York; H. Melville, Boston; and Charles McGee, Ottawa. The head office of the company will be at Ottawa. Arrangements have been perfected for the erection of a 100-stamp mill in the Slocan, and as the men at the back of the project are all well-known capitalists, the undertaking promises to be crowned with success." Further and more precise information will be awaited wtih interest. Our Fairview correspondent informs us that the management of the Fairview Corporation has been very seriously handicapped by the action of certain of the company's promoters. It appears that these gentlemen entered into a verbal agreement with Mr. Russell, the President of the Company, with regard to the sale of promoter's stock. On this understanding Mr. Russell proceeded to the East and succeeded in selling a large block of treasury shares at a certain figure in Toronto and Montreal. Shortly afterwards he learned that promoters' stock had been placed on the market contrary to the terms of the agreement at a price lower than that Mr. Russell obtained for the treasury stock. In consequence Mr. Russell felt obliged to make good to the purchasers of treasury stocks out of his own holding, the difference between the two prices. Moreover, in order to restore public confidence in the value of the Fairview properties, Mr. Russell considered it expedient to make a mill test of the Stemwinder ore. This mill test was made under very adverse conditions, involving a quite unnecessary expenditure. To make matters worse these promoters now insist on demanding cash payment for certain amounts in which the company is indebted to them, notwithstanding a previous arrangement that stock was to be accepted for the debt. Prior to the consolidation the properties now owned by the Fair- view Corporation, were sadly mismanaged, but there is now a prospect that the large ore bodies in the Stemwinder mine will, if economically worked under the supervision of a thoroughly competent mining engineer, return very handsome profits in the future. Meanwhile it is to be hoped that at the next general meeting of shareholders men knowing more about mining and the conduct of affairs than Messrs. Dier and Davidson will be elected to directorate positions. The following extraordinary and indefinite announcement recently appeared in several of the Eastern newspapers: The money editors of some influential London journals are throwing out hints that the London and Globe Finance Corporation, the parent of the British America Corporation, the Le Roi and other associated British Columbia ventures, is likely, before long, to be sailing in troublous waters, and consequently, fail to earn such big profits as have been freely promised by Mr. Whitaker Wright and his co-directors. The London and Globe people have lately promoted some nickel and other companies, inflated by exceptionally large allowances for flotation profits. At these issues the British investing public look somewhat askance and their prospects are rendered the more dubious by 12 THE MINING RECORD. the present semi-panicky state of the London money market, consequent on the Transvaal crisis. The London Morning Leader even goes so far as to advise the Marquis of Dufferin to follow the example of Lord Loch and resign his directorship of Mr. Whitaker Wright's great financial company. Mr. Doucet, the engineer in charge ot the Canadian Pacific Railway construction in the .Trout Lake district, is authority for the statement that early next summer this line between the head of Kootenay Lake and Trout Lake City will be completed. If so the new railway will prove of great advantage to all mining properties in the vicinity of Trout Lake, as well as in the neighbourhood of Ferguson and Circle City. Also, apart from the economy that will result m charges for transportation and supplies the construction of the railway will naturally stimulate development and become the means of interesting capital to a larger degree in the district, which is likely to prove a serious rival to the Slocan in the near future, as the richest silver-lead camp on the continent of America. That hapless—we had almost written hopeless concern the Lillooet, Fraser River and Cariboo Ooldhelds, Limited, has done very little in the way of productive work on its properties this year, but it has, nevertheless, combined to lose another biff sum amounting to £8,518. It is surely about time for a complete change in the methods of this concern, which ^°TltCd what,was several years since believed certain to be an early dividend producer, into an undertaking which makes nothing but losses. We understand that Mr. Edgar A. Bennett, general manager in Bntish Columbia of the Lillooet, Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Fields, Limited, and of the bunshme, Limited, owning the Silver Cup and adjoining properties in the Trout Lake District some time ago resigned his position with these companies and ls leaving for England on the 1st FebruaryPne£ Ternary reSlgnation takes effect on M|§ pll paftm^nt of Mines> and particularly Mr Robertson, the Provincial Mineralogist, is to be «£ dially congratudated upon the institution of a verv necessary and important work in the re-definiLn ^ the mining division boundaries The changf whic°h is of a very radical 1 tak^^^w^ 1st of January, and while no doubt at first T -n ■I iimsd^ ^ in tory was pfanned it fc^BfficSTr ^^ N only plausible explanation 1that ttST' °tf *' responsible for the remaXbLnlfi v drau^htsman now, wishing to save wtlf t.l KTtl0n/CCepted tm a rule and dWSS£L^? ^ WOrk' took Columbia, as Ley IcLtS Jft hlS fap of Briti* apportion^ b^he name "of ^^.^ spaces thus whatever the orfin th^W™ r£T.ct.lve f^p But lv arbitrator^ ^TriScuK"ST Was absolute lowed ra,nI^\r^SmJ^mS WM fo1" natural boundaries, and WUBSBiHw3 the prospector after loctaing a cldm £ ! °f t6n I knowing accurately | wlfich dSct he shouTfr cord—confusion worse confounded was the result. Under the present system the mining divisions of the Province have been apportioned according to natural boundaries as defined by water-sheds—at once a common-sense and simple arrangement of division. The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company while now opening out two new mines, and having, prior to this, increased its monthly output from 4,000 to 16,000 tons, is still unable to fill all the orders available, and recently were obliged to decline, with regret, an order from the.Naval Dockyard at Esquimalt. However, this unfortunate necessity is not likely to last much longer, as the company is working at high pressure with a view to great extensions of output. There is now another good reason why British subjects will, at least for the present, be well advised to keep away from Cape Nome. It is quite clear that until either by decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on appeal, or by Act of Congress, a recent ruling^ of Commissioner Herrmann, of Washington, D.C., shall have been reversed, no legal title can be given to Alaskan beach gold claims. Alaska I still a territory, and until it obtains full States rights there ra no authority capable of dealing with claims that he in the domain of State ownership. By general law, and and other rights on foreshores between high and low water mark belong to the sovereign State and cannot therefore be conveyed by terriiorial au- •mn PHfl °f C°ngress cauld' and P^haps uul, provide the necessary powers for the grant of W™^? ill °Ver AlaSkan foresh°re gold claims, but pending this, an event of many months hence at ' the earliest, the matter will probably be regulated by rough-and-ready local committees of miners. Hence Us anticipated tnat trouble and disturbance will pre- claLT* HCa/vn m conneetion with the ownership of claims, and if it prove true, as freely predicted that en 00, men will make for the Cape No^e district Wto JJEZft^ Wil! in dl human P-babmteyreno° T Profitable scope for more than a tithe of their number, a miniature reign of terror there under moh iaw is a quite possible contingency. m°b Mr J. S. Cunningham, the editor of the Yukon ill ■■■■■Mp St. Michael, Alaska, sent cirTulKn- f^?1? at booming Cape Nome aTeariv I% t * fa,r and wide> only $t?6oo w^ Z*i%T7. as February last, though only $1,600 worth of "gold hi ZTlf7 ,' th°U&h Mr. Cunningham in consemtn b^n taken °^- that much 0gf Te exagSbn of^^ aSSerts possibilities is due to thfSl^ * pe Nome ^ 1 right. company agents, and no doubt he 1 toi Th'^r^^^-;^- way as far pleted by September ■■■is *e progress n Jemg- made on +1^ .' .idPia is the pre or, firHeneV TMs rUCti°n WOrk *7* „„. £ ', n.ey- lhls means two +t,:„i._ § gicss now e contrac- no t«m m '^mmmMm mm®!, THE MINING RECORD. 13 Mr. R. C. Clute, Q.C., acting as special commissioner for the Dominion Government, has, during the past month, conducted enquiries in Sandon, Nelson, Rossland, and other mining centres, respecting the operation of the eight-hour law in the Kootenays. The result has ben a mass of useless, confusing and conflicting evidence; but quite sufficient proof has been shown that a good workman cannot perform as much work in a day of eight hours as he can in a day of ten hours, and this is all that was required to demonstrate the untenability of the men's position. It is true witnesses representing the Miners' Union have affirmed to the contrary; but the owners' contentions have been sustained, not by mere affirmation, but by the production of certified facts and figures, the correctness of which can hardly be disputed or gainsaid. The Boston and British Columbia Mining & Smelting Company started handicapped with a ridiculous pros- pectus, embellished with grotesque falsehoods and misstatements. However, it is gratifying to learn that a legitimate attempt is now being made to develop the company's properties— mere prospects at present—in the Standard Basin, and that acting upon the advice of Mr. Von Rosenberg, a New York mining engineer, a sum of §30,000 is to be at once expended in proving the claims. But it will take wonderfully good mines to justify the enormous capitalization with which this concern is burdened. It is with very deep regret that we learn of the sudden death of Mr. Maurice A. Bucke, which occurred at Jar- dine, Montana, on the 7th inst. Mr. Bucke, although quite a young man, had established for himself a reputation throughout the Northwest as a mining engineer of more than ordinary ability and dis- cernment, and his practice in the Slocan was very extensive. His amiability of disposition and rare goodness of heart won the esteem and regard of all with whom he came in contact; and his name will long be held in the affectionate remembrance by those who enjoyed the privilege of his friendship. Is^KJ^HVl MINING MEN OF THE PROVINCE. JWIR. FREDERIC KEFFER, representing very * ' *■ large New York interests, as manager of the British Columbia Copper Company, Limited, owning the Mother Lode group of mines in the Boundary Creek District, was educated at the Ohio State University, graduating in 1882, after taking a six years' course in mining engineering. While still an undergraduate, he held the post at the University as Instructor in Physics, and also was engaged in practical work as a member of the engineering staff of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway. In 1882 he was appointed Assistant Geologist with the Ohio Survey, and in the following years served on the engineering staff of the Rochester and Pittsburg, and the Allegheny & Susquehanna Railways. From 1884 to 1886, he took up electrical engineering and coal mining work, but left these employments to assume the position of Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Ohio State University, resigning this duty in 1892 to accept the post of chemist for a natural soda company in Wyoming. In 1895 Mr. Keffer was appointed superintendent of the '' La Mima Mexi- cana " in Seriera, Mexico, and in 1896 came to British Columbia to assume the management of the properties in the Boundary Creek, owned under bond at that time by a New York syndicate. Under Mr. Keffer's skilful direction these properties, the Mother Lode in Deadwood camp, and the No. 7 in Central, or White's camp, have been systematically developed and equipped with machinery of the most modern type, and both give great promise of becoming important mines. In connection with the Mother Lode mine a large smelter is now being built and a branch line of the C. & W. "Railwav is laid between Greenwood and the mine Mr. Frederic Keffer. < ail way is workings. We -have to thank the Provincial. Canadian and American press for the many kind and complimentary references to the special Christmas number of this periodical. Acknowledgements are also due to a number of our readers who have been good enough to express their appreciation of the issue. •Aj 14 THE MINING RECORD. LABORATORY TESTS OF TELLURIDE ORES FROM THE HEADWATERS OF THE KETTLE RIVER. By A. A. Watson. SIXTY miles east of Vernon, at the headwaters of the Kettle River, lies a district whose potentialities are among the most promising in this rich country. Twelve months ago this portion of the Province was almost totally unknown, while to-day four different parties of prospectors have proved up rich claims within a radius of ten miles of the old Monas- kee claim, to which a waggon road runs all the way from Vernon. One very promising location made last summer, upon which a great deal of work has been done, has a ledge of gold tellurides or calaverite, the gauge of which is a micaceous schist, absolutely identical in appearance with the telluride bearing rock of Kalgoorlie, Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Samples from the ledge assay all the way from $6 to $300 per ton in gold. With a view to finding out the best method of treating this ore a great many laboratory experiments were undertaken by the writer, the results of which are appended. About four pounds of the ore were first broken up into pellets the size of a pea and thoroughly mixed and an average sample taken and assayed. The result showed 1 4-10 ounces of gold per ton. The first experiments were upon the method of roasting with subsequent amalgamation and chlorination. ' AMALGAMATION. Varying the Fineness of Crushing.—(1) Two assay tons of ore, ground to a 40" mesh, were gently roasted at a dull red heat for twenty minutes and then allowed to cool. The roasted ore was then mixed to a paste with water and ground in a mortar with mercury, the mercury being afterwards assayed for the gold recovered by dissolving it in nitric acid and cupelling the gold residue. The result showed 30 per cent gold recovered. (2) Two assay tons, ground to a 60" mesh, and treated similarly gave 45 per cent, gold recovered. (3) Two assay tons, ground to an 80" mesh, gave 29 per cent, gold recovered. _ Varying the Time of Roasting.—(1) As in the previous experiments a 60" mesh gave* the best result; two assay tons were ground to that fineness and roasted for one hourand amalgamated. The result showed 46.2 per cent, gold extracted. (2) Another sample ground to 60" mesh and roasted for two hours gave 48.1 per cent, gold amalgamates (3) Another sample roasted for three hours gave 48.2 per cent, gold amalgamated. By amalgamation then the best result obtained was by grinding the ore to a 60" mesh and roasting for three hours. TREATMENT OF THE TATLINGS. Varying the Time of Treatment.—(1) The tailing from two assay tons were mixed with 30 milligrammes manganese dioxide, 40 mgrms salt and 60 means, sulphuric acid and brought to a thin paste with water and allowed to stand for twenty-four hours ma braker. The gold extracted in this way from the? tailmgs amounted to 46.5 per cent, of the gold in the ore, giving a total extraction by amalgamation and chlorination of 94.7 per cent. (2) Another sample treated for 48 hours gave a re- or a total covery from the tailings of 49.1 per cent. extraction of 97-3 Per cent (3) A third sample treated for 72_hours gave 49.0 percent gold recovered from the tailings. Varying Fineness of Crushing.—A sample ground to 100" mesh amalgamated and chlorinated for 46 hours gave a total extraction of 93.4 per cent. It was thought that a cheaper method of treating the ore might be devised and fresh experiments were' carried out for treating the ore by nascent chlorine direct. METHOD OF DIRECT CHLORINATION. Varying the Fineness of Crushing.—(1) Two assay tons of ore ground to a 60" mesh were treated with manganese dioxide, sulphuric acid and salt, the whole, being mixed to a thin paste with water. The mixture was allowed to stand for 24 hours and the ore was then removed to a filter and washed three times with water. The assay of the tailings showed 15.1 per cent, of the original gold in the ore, or an extraction of 84.9 per cent. ; (2) Another sample ground to a 90" mesh and treated similarly gave an extraction of 87.6 per cent. (3) A third sample ground to a 100" mesh gave 8" • 5 per cent. Varying the Time of Treatment.—(1) Two assay tons, ground to a 90" mesh, were treated for 48 hours, wtih a result of 94.5 per cent, of gold extracted. (2) Another sample treated for 72 hours gave an extraction of 97.8 per cent. (3) A third sample treated for 96 hours gave 97-8 per cent. Varying the Method of Lixiviation.—Two assay tons, ground to a 90" mesh, were mixed to a thin paste as before in a beatser, but this time kept constantly stirred for twelve hours. The extraction of gold obtained was 97-9 per cent. In 24 hours the result gave 98.0 per cent. Recovery of Gold and Tellurium.—The gold and tellurium were filtered off from the ore and the gold precipitated by Ferron's sulphate, filtered and recovered by wrapping the filter paper in a piece of lead foil and scarifying and cupelling the lead button. The tellurium was precipitated in the filtrate by means of zinc. Conclusions.—The conclusions arrived at were that the best way of treating this ore is by nascent chlorine with constant stirring of the ore, the extra cost of machinery for rotation of the ore being more than counterbalanced by the greater amount of ore that can be put through in a given time. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL PROSPECTS. , By Wm. M. Brewer. (Concluded from last month.) Art ANY syndicates and companies when they com- ! 1 u mence the work of developing prospects, are led by reason of lack of experience in carrying on mining operations, to adopt a system of work which is unquestionably ill-advised. I mean that their operations are confined to shallow burrowing and gouging at several different points along an outcrop rather than to a systematic concentration of work at the best location on the property. It must not be understood that I deprecate sur- lace work to ascertain the trend of the ore-bodv be- THE MINING RECORD. cause such work is very desirable, but I do protest against such work being carried to the extreme, as is often done. In consequence, too often the funds available for development are expended before such development has demonstrated the continuity or permanency of the ore-body with depth, and has merely resulted in exposing the outcrop on the surface at various points, when, if the work had been concentrated at one point, the possible value of the prospect would have been determined. Very often this surface work is carried on under the mistaken idea, that "ore in sight" can be measured by exposing the outcrop only. But as an actual matter of fact every conservative expert requires that in order to measure up "ore in sight" three sides should be exposed below the outcrop, or else if only two sides, then that the ore should be measured by angling. To illustrate this, with a shaft sunk in ore from one point of the outcrop, a drift run in either direction from the bottom of that shaft, and an upraise from the face of the drift, the "ore in sight" could be accurately measured, if a proper deduction had been made to allow for contingencies which are liable to occur in the ore-body contained in the area above the drift, and between the shaft and up-rai'se. But, on the other hand, where there is only a shaft, sunk from the outcrop and a drift run from the bottom of that shaft, all in ore, the con- servative engineerwould merely give credit "Sight" tor the measurement corr- "a~ right angl!T~triangTe~tormed with" "~"thc drift for the faSseT and an imaginary line_tmm trie outcrop—to" the face of the drift as the hypothenuse, 5nd~^eytiu then,- it would not be absolutely safe to estimate without making proper allowances for con-" tingericies: ~ The average prospector, and a great many of the development companies do not appreciate the fact, that mining capitalists in purchasing mines only calculate to pay for the "ore in sight" unless under very exceptional circumstances. The disappointment felt by so many novices in mining, because they are unable to make sales, is largely due to their own lack of knowlege as to carrying on mining operations, as well as their failure to realize that capital invested in mines should only be invested on a legitimate instead of a speculative basis. These conditions are responsible for much of the abuse that is heaped on the heads of mining experts by prospectors and promoters who consider, because the expert does not see the same value in the property as the prospector or promoter, that he is incapable or else prejudiced. In order to insure profitable operations by his clients it is absolutely necessary that the mining expert should not only have had a large field of experience, from which he can draw comparison, but also possess sound judgment, with honesty and conservatism developed in his character to an abnormal extent. Too often the conservative expert is compelled to report adversely on prospects for the simple reason that so little work has been done that it is impossible to form any estimate as to value, and the prospector or owner of the proposition insists on a certain cash payment with a bond attached, for a purchase price which would be about the value of the property: after fifteen or twenty thousand dollars had been expended in development work. The capitalist, who invests in mining propositions, of course, does not do so from purely philanthropical motives. He goes into mining as a business investment, and naturally expects that when he invests his money in performing development work, that, as he is taking all the risk, it is only right that after such work has been done, if the results are satisfactory he should reap a reward. But the usual argument by the owner of a prospect, appears to be: You spend your money in proving the value of this property, and agree to pay me before you commence, an amount representing what that value will be after you have expended your own money in determining it, or in other words, propose a game, heads I win and tails you lose. If, instead of pursuing such a policy the owners of a prospect would first of all perform sufficient work to determine that the prospect really possesses promising possibilities, and would then go to the capitalist with the proposition, that in return for his expending a sufficient amount of money to develop the property and determine its value as a mine, he could retain 51 per cent, of the property, there would be much more activity in all mining districts. Many development companies have been organized on a basis of taking up prospects from the original locators, and expending a sufficient amount of money to determine their value, but in the experience of the writer it has been that in nearly all such instances the prospects turned over to the development companies possessed not value, the original locators having meioly staked and recorded sufficient area of land to comply with the laws, and as an actual matter of fact made no bona fide discovery of mineral in place. In such cases the prospector practically asks the capitalist to spend several thousand dollars in ascertaining whether > there is any value at all contained within the stakes he has set up, or, in other words, place several thousand dollars against a few days of the prospector's time employed in cutting stakes and posting notices. Often, too, the same prospector has received pay from the company in advance for staking the claims. The prospector himself is not alone to blame for this condition of affairs, because too often, the officers o'f the companies themselves should receive the most blame, for the reason that all they appear to desire is to be able to represent to the shareholders that interests have been acquired in a greater or less acreage of land located in a mineral-bearing district. While the above remarks really may be termed a divergence from the lines on which this article was started, yet at the same time, there is so much truth in them, that they need to be taken into consideration in the development of prospects equally as forcibly at the practical work itself. Another feature which claims consideration, is the fact that too often a man or a syndicate which owns prospects, possibly possessing considerable value, do not use the same judgment in expending funds for development purposes as the same man or members of the syndicate would, in purchasing a suit of clothes. In the latter case a good tailor is sought for, and usually the best is none too good, but in the former case very often the funds are placed in the man's hands for expenditure, who has only heretofore been considered a good fellow, and who may possibly be a good bookkeeper or clerk, but has ab- THE MINING RECORD. soiutely no knowledge as to the carrying on of mining operations. . ' The development of mining propositions is probably the most difficult work that any man ever undertook One of the chief reasons for this statement is, that even when the best judgment is used, nature has played such freaks with regard to the structural geology that the most unlooked-for contingencies occur. Consequently the ore-body may have pinched out, or it may have been thrown over in any direction through faulting, or the grade may have most inexplicably decreased, or in fact a thousand and one occurrences may have happened, which determine that the expert's judgment was at fault. Then is the time when his work can be easily criticized, but on the other hand, there have been instances recorded in the history of mining, where it would appear as though pure and simple bull-headed luck had followed the work of a man whose judgment and experience were not in any respect of the highest order. Such cases though, however, are the exception. The same rule with regard to mining operations holds good as with regard to the other business enterprises, that is: Honesty, experience, competency and conservatism are the qualities needed to make mining a success, while one of the most needed characteristics to be possessed by the successful mining expert, is the knowledge when to quit and the nerve to do so. Example of Chinese Trestle Work in Cariboo. GOLD-BEARING CONGLOMERATES IN NORTHERN B. C. jV| EARLY two years ago an immense body of gold- 1 ^ bearing conglomerate was discovered by a prospector near Bear Lake in the Omenica district. Claims were staked out on the showing, but were subsequently abandoned, until last spring, when three separate parties having secured information with regard to the existence of these deposits from Mr. Valleau, the Gold Commissioner for the Omineca district, set out from Vancouver and Victoria, and succeeded in finding the locality and re-staking the ground. A large number °2? ° MX. Were broueht down for assay purposes, and while the returns from a Victoria office BP$ Sa^sfactory' S^ng values of less than 1 dollar ,n gold, assays made in Vancouver and San Jrancisco gave results of from six to twelve times greater,_showing the rock to average m'value from six to eight dollars, the fine grit, in contradis mction to the pebbly conglomerate, being found to contain rather higher values. These Omineca deposits are to be thoroughly prospected this coming season, and if the expections of the discoverers are realized, the operation of the properties will add materially to the .future gold production of the Omenica district. The nature of t he rock is such that crushing could be performed without difficulty at the late of five tons per stamp per diem, and the total cost of mining and milling should certainly not exceed three dollars per ton. . Meanwhile, a Mr. K. Ludloff, a Russian geologist, has recently laid claim to having discovered auriferous conglomerate reefs in the Cariboo district, and he expresses the opinion that these are, in point of fact, the principal source of gold of the Fraser river placers. The locality of his discovery is that part of the Fraser river between Quesnelle and Fort George, about seventy miles south of the last-mentioned place, above a group of islands called the Woodpecker or Red Rock Islands, the Indian name for which is Tselkenmuh. The formation consists of the Crystalline slates of the Ar chse an , which form the country rock and the bed of the river. These slates are overlaid in certain limited areas by the uppermost strata of the Tertiary, but the whole surface almost everywhere in this part of the Piovince is covered by im- drift consisting of In the formation found in place, mense masses of glacial boulders gravel and sand, where the gold has been true veins between regular walls and irregular silicious dykes, both of greatly varying width, intersect and in- terlaminate, like a network, extensive masses of conglomerate of different structure but similar composition. They are accompanied by chloritic and hydro- mica schists, the whole irregularly imbedded in the clay slates by the Archaean, forming a belt about one and a half miles in width. The gold occurs in the form of a fine dust almost everywhere in these rocks, but predominantly in the bright yellow, red, orange or brown-coloured parts 1 the rocks, superficially decomposed and in their cleavages. The decomposition extends down many feet under the surface; boulders readily crumble to pieces under the blows of a prospecting hammer Hundreds of thousands of tons of th he on the surface. ^^^P «- on the surface at many places, forming cliffs walls round knobs, or hogsback on hi river' banks' and attract the eye of the traveller by theircolourand cs appear cliffs, stee THE MINING RECORD. 17 grotesque shape; they extend on both sides of the river into the unknown wilderness, how far is unknown as yet. The deeper strata of this formation are rich in finegrained iron pyrites and traces of gold. There are only faint indications of the presence of other metallic compositions. The gold is easily detected by using a powerful lens at bright daylight. It can not be seen by the naked eye or with a poor magnifying glass. The surface of certain parts of these rocks, also their interior, is speckled with gold grains. Their shape is mostly globular, only exceptionally flat or flaky pieces are seen. Their distribution is irregular. It is well known that the gravel beds of the Fraser River are rich in placer gold, renewing themselves every year by inundations, and gold washing is carried on annually along the river by numerous Chinese, using the rocker. Placer mining will undoubtedly pay at many localities here by hydraulicking out the irregularities of the surface of the bed-rock underlying the gravel beds. The broken strata of the slates standing out from the surface, slanting or perpendicular, from holes and caves in which the gold is caught. Some of the creeks ei: ptying into the Fraser River will furnish a limited amount and sufficient pressure of water by their natural fall to be used for the above-mentioned purpose. Fine gold occurs abundantly, but coarse gold is rarely found. Rocker washing pays at the average about $3 a day. The working season is about five months of the year, the balance of the time being taken by overflows of the rivers, snow and frost. The gravel bar below the above-described discovery, and covering about sixty acres, contains much fine gold, seemingly originating principally from the conglomerates and brought there by a creek, crossing them in a deep gulch. About twelve miles distant from the conglomerates, directly in the river bank, Mr. Ludloff has discovered a huge outcrop of red hematite and micaceous iron. • A number of claims have been taken up on the conglomerates and recorded, -and many more will be probably taken up next spring. VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. HAVING been requested by many of our readers throughout the Province to publish in these columns a verbatim report of the evidence in the Iron Mask-Centre Star litigation, Mr. H. F. Evans, our Rossland correspondent, was enabled through the kindness of Mr. J. B. Hastings to carry out our instructions to copy the official report of the proceedings and evidence taken, and which are in consequence enabled to publish in serial form. (Continuation of Counsel's Argument, from last month's issue.) Mr. Davis—I have the argument in which my learned friend says that if a man going down gets out of ore for one foot—and my recollection is he said one irch—but as he says he did not say that, it is sufficient for me; but in the Full Court he disclaimed any such idea of the law as that which he necessarily would, because the American cases are clear enough that a few feet will not cut you off, and my learned friend does not contend that a few feet will cut you off of your vein. The Court—I know that was the argument, because it troubled me a great deal at the start. This was a case in the first instance, so far as I was concerned, and as far as any of the Court were concerned, and hence I took a great deal of interest in the matter as argued by both parties. There was very full argument. Mr. Davis—But what my learned friend contends here, as I understand it, is, that the flat fault, so- called, does more than displace our vein for a few feet; that it displaces the vein at any rate, for ten or twelve or fifteen feet, and furthermore, that the displacement, however much it may be in feet is so great as to prevent any possibility of identifying the lower part of the vein with the upper part. That, I understand, to be his contention. The Court—As to ore? Mr. Davis-^Yes. Now, what I say is, "Let us go through and find out just how the vein looks below between the bottom of the winze and the Iron Mask drift, which is fifteen feet. Then when we have that opened up we shall be able to tell whether or not that lower part is a part of the upper part; we shall be able, at any rate, to give Your Lordship a great deal more satisfactory evidence on that point than can be put in before it is put through. Of course, we contend that the mud-seam is the extent of the flat fault, and that it does not displace the ore at all; that you can find ore in the mud-seam itself, but the ore will naturally be changed a little—it has been changed a little; that with water flowing through, together with the crushing you must necessarily find at such a place, you will find a slight disturbance in the ore. But it 'does not follow that a fracture cuts off a vein, or that a fault cuts a vein off. A fault is only a fracture, together with displacement, that is all. A fracture alone without displacement is not a fault; a fault is something superadded to a fracture, and whether or not a fault destroys the continuity of a vein is a mixed question of law and fact; it is a question of how far it displaces the vein, and whether the vein below can be reasonably shown to have been a part of the vein above. The Court—Has been really a part of the vein above? Mr. Davis—Has been really a part of the vein above. The Court—I know it happens in coal mines. Mr. Davis—That is where it happens most frequently, and that is a very familiar form. I did not know that my learned friend would call out the typewritten copy of the argument before the Full Court. I referred some time ago to an interjection of the Chief Justice in reference to this question of jurisdiction, and 1 cited it as nearly as I could from recollection. I will now read it from the notes which were taken by the stenographer. It was during the course of my reply. I said: "All we wish to do is to get the facts of the case. Now, if I am safe in assuming that the Court takes that view that if we are satisfied, that if we are allowed to do this work we can show the exact facts to the Court, which we cannot show without work being done, then there is no necessity of referring to the evidence. I do not know unless Your Lordship says so, that you will assume it." The Chief Justice said: "Impossible to say what the effect might be of that, so far as I am concerned. Mr. Justice Martin said: "I am of opinion we have most THE MINING RECORD. decided authority to grant this order. It is simply a question, is it a proper case for the exercise of oui discretion." , , mi The Chief Justice— Mr. Bodwell does not ser- iouslv satisfy us whether or not it is a proper case. And that is'all Mr. Justice Drake holds, that on the facts laid before him he did not find that it was a proper case to make an order at that juncture. The Court—But what facts did he want? Mr. Davis—I do not know, my Lord. The Court—Neither do I. Mr Davis—But apparently the fact he wanted is this fact, which we have produced in this affidavit of Mr. Hastings, that we have a vein about at a certain point and another vein below it. The Court—All that was before the Full Court? Mr. Davis—Yes, but the evidence was so voluminous that unless it was specially pointed out to them thev would not wade through it, and that particular thing, although stated generally, their attention was not challenged too particularly or to the particular spot where h is set out; and that is why Mr. Justice Drake says: "If they had a little evidence of the vein, both above and below a certain spot" . . . which we now have . . . "and sought to explore the intermediate ground, they would have a stronger case." Weil, that is just what we have with this affidavit of Mr. Hastings. We have the vein at the bottom of the Centre Star winze; we have the vein at the top of the Iron Mask drift—there is only fifteen feet between them—and we want to do some work to connect those two veins and show that they are one and the same vein. And that brings it directly within what Justice Drake says. So far as jurisdiction is concerned, there can, I think, be no question but what in the proper construction of this judgment, the Full Court had jurisdiction. From your Lordship's judgment in the application to dissolve the injunction, I take it your Lordship was very much troubled by the great conflict of evidence which you found in the affidavit filed. That conflict is not a conflict of different men who see the same thing; it is a conflict of men who think differently as to something they do not see. In other words, if the winze were continued on down, then the experts on both sides could see just how that vein looks below, instead of theorizing as they now do as to what effect the mud-seam has upon the vein. This is the advantage in having the work in question done. I really think I have said all that I have to say about the advantage of that work being done, and I do not see how the Court can possibly look at it in any other way; that if they have the jurisdiction, they will be in better condition to judge the case if work of that kind is done and the witnesses are in a position to talk intelligently about it. The Court—Then was that lower east drift of the Iron Mask run? Mr. Davis—It was done before the suits were begun, or about the time the first one was started in the fall of 1897, I think. I do not think there is anything I can add to my argument as to the advantages to be gained from doing this work. As to the question of jurisdiction, I think that is settled by the judgment of the Full Court. After having heard my learned friend in that respect I will have a chance to reply to him. Mr. Bodwell—The position which I take, my Lord, in answer to my friend is this : That the Full Court did enter into the question of whether or not this was a proper case for the exercise of their discretion and decided that point, and that it is binding on your Lordship. The Court—If there is any decision it is binding, whichever way it goes. Mr. Bodwell—That is what I propose to show to your Lordship in a very few minutes. I pass with very little comment the remarks my learned friend made about our being afraid to allow this work to go on. When I listened to him I wondered why he objected to a jury in this case. I think we can pass all that; it was just a slight slip of my friend's usually correct method of conducting an argument of this sort. The simple point is this: What was before the Full Court when they gave that judgment? What did they decide and what did they leave to your Lordship? My friend says there was one fact which is now before your Lordship which was not betore the Full Court, that that fact is that if he could sink through that winze he would connect his alleged vein with the vein below. Was that fact before the Full Court and was it considered? The application to your Lordship which was appealed to the Full Court was founded upon an affidavit made by Mr. Hastings. The application which is now before your Lordship is founded upon an affidavit made by Mr. Hastings. In the seventh paragraph of the affidavit made by Mr. Hastings, upon which the motion was made to your Lordship The Court—The first affidavit? Mr. Bodwell—The first affidavit, dated 20th October, 1898, the seventh paragraph is: "That I liave examined the bottom of the winze sunk by the defendant company from the drift run from the said inclined shaft, and that the bottom of the said winze is still in ore dipping in the same direction as the vein, and I believe the said ore is in place and forms part of the said vein." Paragraph six : "I verily believe that if the defendants were permitted to do a reasonable amount of work for the purpose of obtaining the facts in regard to the said vein all the necessary evidence could be brought before the Court at the trial of the said action and the rights of the parties in and to the disputed ore-bodies finally determined." In the first of his affidavits he sets out what the contention is, which is that the Centre Star have a vain and that vein goes down through the flat fault and forms the Iron Mask vein; he says that if a certain amount of work is permitted to be done he can prove that. That was the fact before the Full Court. My friend says the Full Court decided they had jurisdiction. Very well, then they would have given him his order unless they had decided that under the circumstances it was not a proper exercise of discretion. They left it to your Lordship. Why? At the trial, it is said, the Judge may allow further work to be done if he sees that it is necessary. My friend would have your Lordship decide that before the trial, that upon the same material as before the Full Court, the Judge can vary the order of the Full Court and allow that to be done as a matter of discretion which the Full Court decided as a matter discretion could not. be done. That tion stripped of all the sophistry friend surrounds it, leaves the bare proposi is the exact posi- with which my bare cold tion that upon the very same material before the Full Court your Lordship can now, without any further evidence or any discussion, decide that the Full Court was wrong, and that you ought to exercise a discretion which they said ought not to be exercised under the circumstances. I cannot congratulate my friend on his recollection of the position I took in that argument, or upon his understanding of the judgment of that Court, if he has correctly put it before your Lordship in the argument which he has made. My contention before the Full Court was this, and that is the contention that was sustained in the judgment of the Full Court. We are standing on our rights as the owners of the Iron Mask property; we dispute in the first place, that you have any apex of any vein within the meaning of the Mineral Act; we dispute in the second place that you have any vein following there down into Iron Mask ground. In the next place, we dispute that if you have a vein of any kind the way in which it enters the Iron Mask ground, or the course it pursues is such that you do not get upon it any extra-lateral rights at all. We also say that even if you do establish all these different points (a failure to do so on any of them will win the case for the Iron Mask), then the manner in which the lines cut the ore-body in Iron Mask ground is such that you then do not come anywhere near the flat fault, and even if you get beyond all those difficulties and finally give evidence which induces the Court to believe that you have a vein, then, and not till then, does the question of the flat fault come into operation; and then we say that the flat fault cuts you off and destroys the continuity of your vein. I did not say in the course of my argument to your Lordship, and your Lordship never took that from my argument that a few inches of dislocation would stop a vein under any circumstances. My argument was this: That if you are following a vein in which you find the continuous walls, then the cessation of ore does not cut any figure, because the walls are continuous, but if you are following what you allege to be a vein, simply because you found it without walls, then the minute your continous ore stopped your vein must necessarily cease. There is a clear distinction between these proposition. The one I put before your Lordship, the other I did not. Now, we go back to the proposition where we were when this Full Court decision was pronounced, and I ask your Lordship to read Mr. Justice Drake's decision and see if you do not find .in it exactly what I said. Here are, at least, half a dozen different distinct issues. Upon any one of them if the Centre Star fails, the Iron Mask wins and the case is ended; if they are all proved in favour of the Centre Star, then there remains an issue with reference to the flat fault, which has to be decided; and if having got to that point in the trial, the Judge is not satisfied upon the evidence which is produced, then it is a question for him to consider whether or not he will allow work to be done in order to assist his judgment upon the point. But I recollect—and your Lordship will find it from tiie interpretation of the Judges in that argument— that they said they could not see why it necessarily followed that work must be done in order for the Judge to come to a conclusion. He would have the opinion of men who have sworn that the vein does not continue; he would have the opinion of men who have already pledged their oath to the fact 'that the vein does continue, and here you have Mr. Hastings, the star witness for the Centie Star people, their manager and superintendent, swearing positively that he finds that vein in place in the flat fault in the very winze where he says he wants to do work to show whether it is in place or not. The Full Court said it is a question not of opinion but of the credibility of witnesses. There are men who are able to give their opinion. If they satisfy the Judge of their credibility all the materials for forming a judgment are there, and it is only, if after hearing all these opinions, if after considering every physical fact which is brought to his attention down to that point in the course of the trial, he finds himself utterly unable, after seeing the men in the witness box, after coming to a decision as to who is to be believed, then it may be necessary, and if he thinks so at that time he will order some work to be done, but up to the. present, and on the material which is before the Court on these affidavits where men positively swear to a question of fact, we do not see any occasion at all for doing work to prove that fact or to disprove that fact. It appears to us to be a question of credibility of witnesses, and in any event, having regard to the issues which were before the Court, and in view of the fact that the Centre Star people have an independent action which they are now prosecuting for the purpose of proving this intersection of the ore-bodies, and in view of the fact that this action of. the Iron Mask against the Centre Star is simply the trial of an injunction to say whether or not the Centre Star shall stop at that point or shall not. In view of all these circumstances we do not think, at the present state of affairs, it is a proper exercise of discretion to order that work to be done. Now, what fact is before your Lordship which was not before the Full Court when they pronounced that judgment? It is only changing the form of expression to sav that the vein as shown in the Iron Mask east drift is the same as shown in the Centre Star winze. That has been the case from the beginning, ' and when Mr. Hastings undertook to swear last fall that the vein which he finds below the flat fault is identical with that which comes down in the winze he was only swearing to the same fact in a different form of words; that is, that the vein in the Iron Mask east drift is the same vein. The Court—Where does Hastings say that? Mr. Bodwell—Paragraph 7 of his affidavit says this : "That I have examined the bottom of the winze sunk by the defendant company from the drift run from the said inclined shaft, and the bottom of the said winze is still in ore and dipping in the same direction as the vein, and 1 verily believe the said ore is in place and forms part of the said vein." The Court—But says nothing about the Iryn Mask mine. Mr. Bodwell—Of course, it says nothing about the Iron Mask east drift, but that is not the point. The point I make is that the vein in the Iron Mask east drift is the vein that has always been in question, and when he says in his affidavit, paragraph 6, that the vein below the mud-seam in the winze was the same ore above it, he was onlv saying that the ore above the mud-seam and below the mud-seam was the ore in Iron Mask east drift, and it is the same way, according to the defendant's contention. There is no other ore in question, there is no other vein in dispute, and it would simply sink the point of discus- II 20 THE MINING RECORD. sion twenty feet further down instead of taking it on the same plane, belonging to the same ore-bodies twenty feet further up, and to say that it is a different fact is simply playing upon words and trying to lead your Lordship into a position into which you can not fairly be carried. I will read the whole of Mr. Hastings' former affidavit. What was his argument before the Full Court? The identical argument he makes here to-day, the very same authorities cited, and the same reason stated. The Court—Was that affidavit used before the Full Court and read? Mr. Bodwell—The former one was. The Court—That is what surprises me, that they did not really decide the matter as was expected. Mr. Bodwell—They did, my Lord. I am going to show it in the judgment in a minute. That was the question that was before them. Mr. Justice Martin dissented. He said it was a proper exercise of discretion, the other two Judges said no. All of the Judges agree, and the quotation which my friend read from the oral argument, the purport of which is, that I did not seriously dispute the question of the absolute jurisdiction of the Court to order that work to begone, does not fully state it. What I said was, and what the Court gave its judgment upon was, that under the circumstances, it was not a proper exercise of the discretion. Now, if that fact has been decided that it is binding upon your Lordship, and that is exactly the position which I take; and I do not want to re-argue the question upon its merits, although I believe I have no reason to change the position which I then took. But now, in the first place, in order to be clear in this case, I want to show your Lordship what was before the. Court, or in Mr. Hastings' affidavit on .that application before the Full Court. (Reading.) "I am the manager of the Centre Star Mining and Smelting Company." The Court- That is Mr. Hastings' first affidavit? Mr. Bodwell—Yes; made in October, 1898. The Court—That was before me, too. Mr. Bodwell—That was before you, too. The Court—I keep saying that I wonder they did not decide it, but you say they have decided it. Mr. Bodwell—I say they have, mv Lord, down to date, and when I read Mr. Justice Drake's judgment, I think your Lordship will agree with me that they have,_ and, if that is not so, that is the end of the •question beyond all human doubt. Now, this was what was before them (reading): "I am the manager," it says there. "That in order to determine the ownership of the disputed ore." The Court—Really what you mean to say is that the second affidavit put in by Mr. Hastings is a repetition of the first. Mr. Bodwell—It is not as strong as the first It covers the same ground. The only difference is a verbal distinction without a difference. The Court—That it is a repetition of the first Mr. Bodwell—A repetition, yes; i substance. The Court—I don't mean to guage. Mr. Bodwell—In every, matter of substance it is a matter of repetition of the first affidavit. Now your Lordship will see it. Let me read Mr. Hastings' first it. d other m every matter of the same lan- affida davit as it is here to-day and see if I am rigl 1 have read over the pleadings affidavits and material, printed in the appeal books used in the three several appeals before the Full Court in December last. "The trial of this action has been fixed for the 17th of April instant. "The defendants desire to show upon the trial of this action that the vein claimed by them herein disclosed in their incline shaft No. 3 and in the drift to the eastward therefrom, and in the winze sunk from the said last-mentioned drift is a portion of the same vein which is disclosed in the plaintiffs' east drift." Now, your Lordship can see, he says, it is the same vein that is in the plaintiffs' east drift, and that is a distinction without a difference, upon which my friend tries to distinguish these two veins. (Reading.) "In my opinion the vein as disclosed in the plaintiffs' said east drift is portion of the same vein which is disclosed above at the bottom of the said winze, and in the said drift and incline shaft continuously, up to the apex of the said vein, which is upon the ground of the defendants herein. In my belief the decision of the matters in dispute herein will be greatly assisted if the defendants are permitted to connect the two portions of the said vein." That is what Mr. Hastings says to-day. What did he say last October? (Reading.) "That in order to de- | termine the ownership of the disputed ore-bodies, and before the defendants can safely proceed to the ' trial of this action it will be necessary that the defendants be permitted to sink through the water course, or alleged flat fault, and do> certain work in excavation for the purpose of inspecting and tracing the defendants' vein, the same vein through and beyond such water course, towards and into the disputed ore-body." Where are the disputed ore-bodies? Down in the Iron Mask drift, where they have always been ever since this case started. (Resuming the reading.) "And also to tunnel, sink or drift through the vertical dike lying immediately to the west of the defendant's incline shaft and referred to in the affidavits in order to locate the defendants' vein on the westerly side of the said dike and trace such vein into the disputed ore- bodies, situated on the west side of said dike. That unless such additional work be done, it will be impossible to ascertain the true facts in regard to the identity and continuity of the said vein,'and place the Court in a position to deal with the said action upon its merits at the trial thereof. "That in case the said trial be proceeded with without such additional work being done, I am advised by counsel and verily believe that although the said injunction should be dissolved there would be nothing to prevent the plaintiffs from obtaining a further injunction, after the trial of such action in case the witnesses should make affidavit to the fact of the defendants being out of ore upon their sinking further in such water course. "That the expenses of preparing for the trial of this action will be very great, and unless the defendants be permitted to do the necessary work in order to obtain proper and sufficient evidence in regard to the continuity of the said vein, the rights of the parties to the ore-bodies in dispute cannot, as I verily believe, be determined at the said trial." But although the plaintiffs' injunction might be dissolved at the trial of1 said action, the real question, that is, mainly, the ownership of the disputed ore- body, might still be undetermined, and the case THE MINING RECORD. might proceed to an indefinite and unlimited extent. (Resuming reading.) "That I verily believe that if the defendants are permitted to do a reasonable amount of work for the purpose of obtaining the true facts in regard to the said vein all the necessary evidence can be brought before the Court at the trial of this action and the rights of the parties in and to the disputed ore-bodies finally determined. That I have examined the bottom of the winze sunk by the defendant company from a drift run from the said enclosed shaft, and I verily believe the bottom of the said winze is still in ore dipping in the same direction as the vein, and I verily believe the said ore is in place, and forms a part of the said vein." Now, is it possible, my Lord, to say that there is a single thing found in Mr. Hastings' affidavit to-day that was not made and emphasized in the affidavit of last October? That was before the Court, the foundation of the motion. Now what did the Full Court say? Let us read the judgment of Mr. Justice Drake (Reading.) "The Centre Star claim that they have in their land the apex of a vein which dips towards and under the land of the Iron Mask, and therefore they are entitled to follow the vein down to the termination. The Iron Mask deny the existence of a vein, and say if there was one it has been cut off by a fiat fault and terminated. The Centre Star say that if you allow us to explore beneath and through this fault it will be demonstrated that the vein we have followed, as we claim, exists on the other side of the fault. Did Mr. Justice Drake consider the question whether or not the ore in the winze was the same as the ore in the Iron Mask east drift. Here are his words: "The Centre Star say that if you will allow us to explore beneath and through this fault, it will be demonstrated that the vein we have followed, as we claim, exists on the other side of the fault. The Centre Star have been enjoined until the hearing from continuing the work. They now seek for an order to give them leave to explore in the land of the Iron Mask, so as to ascertain whether or not there is any ore below the fault" What is my friend asking for? To explore in the ground of the Iron Mask to ascertain if there is any ore below the fault. They say, if there is then we are entitled to continue working it as a part of the vein we have followed. The first thing to be decided here are the reasons for the judgment. The first thing to be decided in the action of Iron Mask vs. the Centre Star is whether the Iron Mask can show the Centre Star has no apex and no vein. A preliminary question about which there is no evidence or want of evidence. If they succeed in doing this, then the Centre Star has no use for the order asked for. If they fail, then the question has to be decided whether this fault is a solution of continuity of the vein. This is a question of law and facts; if it is decided against the Centre Star, then again there is no necessity for the order. If it is decided in their favour, then again there is no necessity for the order for they have established their right to continue the work. I am not prepared to deny the Court has power to grant the order asked for, but there is no case that goes to such an extent, based upon rule 514. Lumb vs. Beaumont, is an authority that where a certain fact is known such as an existing drain, the Court authorized the plaintiff to ascertain one other fact, viz., whether this drain was a drain made by the defendant to connect his house with the existing drain which was already known." 1 pause there for a moment to answer the "distinction without a difference proposition." The Court—One is for examining a piece of work which was done, and the other is, as I say, for exploring or excavating and to show whether there is a vein there or not. Mr. Bodwell—Yes, sir. The Court—Really, there may be a difference without a distinction or a distinction without a difference. Mr. Bodwell—In Lumb vs. Beaumont there was no dispute, as to the act of the drain. They had one fact ascertained about the drain, that is that it was— The Court—No; what I want to know is—without interrupting you—I know pretty well what that case is. as you see, from its being quoted here, but I want you to show me that that judgment simply decides the case, that is all. Mr. Bodwell—I will go on. The present circumstances are very different. The Court (continuing)—If it does, there is an end of it; there is no use of my bothering my head about it, but my impression is, perhaps owing to Mr. Davis' argument, that it is left just in the air. Mr. Bodwell (resuming reading)—"The present circumstances are very different. The defendants seek to The Court—I don't like to use the expression; I thought at first that they evaded settling it; that was about what it amounted to, and wanted the Judge in the first instance to settle that, although they were asked on appeal to say whether he was right of wrong. Mr. Bodwell—But they shuffled with the question (Resuming the reading)—"The present circumstances are very different. The defendants seek to establish a theory that the alleged vein exists below the fault, not to prove any connection between two existing facts." His Lordship's judgment there probably reached to existing and admitted or proved facts. That is the point. (Resuming the reading)—"If they had actual evidence of a vein both above and below a certain spot, and sought to explore the intermediate ground, they would have a stronger case. The Iron Mask has rights as well as the Centre Star. There is no doubt that the Court has always exercised the powers of granting inspection of mines and their workings, but it has not gone to the extent of allowing independent work." That is the judgment of the Court, and I think, if necessary, I can support that with very good reason, in addition to these already stated. (Resuming the reading)—"If the Centre Star can show a clear title down to the fault—(here is the point)—and satisfy the Court that the fault is not such an interruption of the vein matter as to constitute a termination of the The Court—What Court? The Court of Appeals or me? Mr. Bodwell—Before your Lordship. (Resuming the reading)—"If the Centre Star can show a clear title down to the fault and satisfy the Court, that is, your Lordship, that the fault is not such an interruption of the vein matter as to constitute a termination of the vein, then they would be entitled without an order to proceed." 22 THE MINING RECORD. Your Lordship will see there is no question of want of evidence as to what that fault is. ■ The Court—No; I am only wanting to see whether they had dealt with the whole question. Mr. Bodwell—Here is the point now. (Resuming the reading)—"In the meantime—that is, before this fact is established—in the meantime every step is disputed, and every statement denied. I therefore do not consider that the Centre Star are entitled to the order asked for. In equity the rule is, that when in conscience the defendant has a right equal to that claimed by the plaintiff the Court will not grant discovery.— Milford, PL 199- Mr. Bodwell—No; he says the Centre Star, if they have a vein, have a right to follow it, and the Iron Mask, until the vein is proved—not simply alleged— have a right to dispute that. The Court—Certainly. Then they would not have an equal right to start on. Mr. Bodwell (resuming reading)—"1 think it should be left to the Judge at the trial to say whether or not actual work should-be done for the purpose of elucidating any particular point with regard to the issues raised." That is to say, not before the trial—not on the material which was before the Court, not as a ques- AHB ' So-Eilo:-12 -Ff=liri_<ihz S&TJHrif?T \ va$>? Ihe parties here have equal rights defer however, on different titles. The Centre Star right to follow the vein into the adjoining claim. Iron Mask, until that vein is proved, has a right ore within vertical lines of their claim. I th should be left " The Court—Then they have not an equa He is quoting from Milfo'rd's Equity Pleadings; Mr. Bodwell—Yes. • Die Court—Then he says, both parties here equal rights, and then he says they have not rights. Is not that so? iding, has a The to all ink it 1 right. have equal tion of discretion upon which they have passed, but during the trial, or in the course of the trial, or at some stage of the proceedings further on in the case than that upon which the Court now passes, he comes to the conclusion that it is necessary. Why, my Lord, it does not follow at all, although my friend says so with a great deal of emphasis—it does not follow that your Lordship is going to have any difficulty about this case. That is one issue out of the many that will decide the whole question. The Court—Apex? Mr. Bodwell—Yes, but I was going to refer to an- THE MINING RECORD. 23 other. It is the flat fault That fiat fault has been gone through with in different places in the property. Now, is that the kind of an interruption which would stop a vein? There cannot be any more evidence about the flat fault. The rest of it is a legal deduction from that evidence. My friend does not want that, your Lordship. The Court—Let me see, Mr. Bodwell, without interrupting you. All I have to settle now is as to whether the Full Court decided the Appeal and decided the point-—it is one of the points in the appeal that I decided. I decided in your favour, because I judgment decides the points that were appealed, and the appeals were passed upon—that is the point—decided by me, I am bound by the judgment, as being a judgment of the Court of Appeals. If I had been in the Court of Appeals I might or might not have decided differently. That has nothing to do with it, and what I would suggest doing now—I don't know that you can say any more on the point—I suggest here an adjournment, and I will take that decision home with me and read it. Mr* Bodwell—Yes, your Lordship; and all of the affidavits? \7*jBW CVGffJSK. kick™}.*/. STJDTtFFT- A.-LI did not see my way to do otherwise, although I expressed a very strong opinion in that in favour of an exploration. That has nothing to do with it; it does not influence me at all now. Men sometimes cling to an opinion, but a Judge is not allowed to do so. Of course, if I entertained that opinion now, I would say so in a minute. I do not say whether it does not influence. I think it has, and it is so reasonable in many cases. But all I have to deal with now is the construction to be put on that judgment, and if that The C°urt—I don't want to read all of the affidavits. Mr. Bodwell—There is another point that I would like to have your Lordship consider. The Court—Very well. Mr. Bodwell—The counter-claim. The Court—I will tell you now—excuse me for interrupting you—I have been listening to you concerning that portion of the judgment which refers to at or about the time of trial, or at the trial. I did not H THE MINING RECORD. deliberately order the trial to be called for that purpose, because I knew nothing, and I could not forestall what your argument was, but I would be really in the position, I think, of saying very properly to both of you, that this is really the trial, only it is interrupted by this motion as a preliminary one. Mr. Davis—Certainly. Our notice of motion is at the trial. I could not have brought it out. The Court—Mr. Davis, Mr. Bodwell goes a little further than that, and I do not say that he is not right; I do not say that he is, for that matter, and that is the reason I want to look at the judgment. Apparently, the view taken by the Full Court, as expressed by Mr. Justice Drake, was that this matter was, how one in the face of all these affidavits, they were not in a judgment is right—and what he has read would appear to bear him out—but the Judge who tries this case will have a better opportunity than they would have, as the case goes on. He will be in a position to say whether he wants more information or not, and if he wants it in this particular shape, we say that he has the jurisdiction to order it. That is what Mr. Bodwell, as I understand, contends; and what I want to say is, whether his views of the judgment are borne out—and I can't see for the life of me that you would be injured, even if I took his views for the present— I have very strong views about this, and I think there is justice and fair play to support them, but I should want to be fortified when the question comes up with some further cases than that one American case on exploration. I know there are more. Mr. Davis—No, not reported. It is a matter of practice only. As a matter of course, they are not reported. Mr. Bodwell—I want to make reference to a quotation of my friend on the case in Barringer vs. Adams. What he read from that is this: "That pending the trial, work of exploration on the vein in dispute will not be stopped, not by injunction, but there is work by the owner on his own ground." Mr. Davis—Oh, no. The Court—No, no; it could not happen that way, Mr. Bodwell. No, it is for the purposes of exploration only. Mr. Bodwell—I know I am right about this: "And injunction will not issue in such a case when neither the bill nor the proofs fix the point where the defendant must stop, hence the Court will not, in terms, enjoin them from working a vein in the complainants' ground. The Court—That is Bill in Equity. Mr. Bodwell (resuming the reading)—"For demand of this would require the defendants to ascertain from what acts they are enjoined, nor will the working of disputed veins for purposes of exploration only be enjoined." Now what was the application in the St Louis and Montana cases? (Reading): "When this title is in dispute, whether legal or equitable, an interlocutory injunction will be granted restraining the mining of valuable ores pending its' determination." Who is the man that mines the ore? The man that is in possession of the ground upon which an extra-lateral right is claimed. Now following upon that he says this: "An injunction will not issue in such a case, when neither the bill nor the proofs fix the point where the defendants must stop, hence the Court will not in terms enjoin them from' working any vein in complainant's claim, for this would require the defendants to ascertain from what acts they are enjoined. Nor will the working of disputed veins for purposes of exploration be enjoined." Mr. Davis—That is a general statement Mr. Bodwell—What case was that cited in support of that—Bluebird and Murray. Mr. Davis—The Bluebird and Murray does not refer to it; it is another case altogether. My learned friend should not misstate the facts. This is merely a statement of what was held in a certain case. Mr. Bodwell—If the St. Louis and Montana Mining Company bear my friend out, then I will take it back, but at present I am only able to read this in the way in which it occurs from the language used, and in the only case which I have found or have-been cited to on that point, and that is in the Bluebird and Murray case. In that case what the parties seeking to enforce extra lateral-rights there sought to do was to stop the man disputing that extra-lateral right from working the ore upon his own ground. The Court—Yes; that was it Mr. Davis—That is not this case, and there is nothing here to show it. Of course, it is all right for my friend to exercise his own imagination. He can introduce any number of cases. j Mr. Bodwell—And my friend, Mr. Duff, says—and he cited the St. Louis mining and smelting case—that that was not an extra-lateral right case at all. The Court—I was going to ask that. Mr. Davis—Dr. Raymond was a witness in that case, and he says it was an extra-lateral right case. Mr. Bodwell—We will get the case. But, however, that point does not cut very much figure. That case is cited in 5 Fed. The Court—Wait until you get the case. I was going to ask a question, whether it was an extra- lateral right case, because there might have been two locators disputing about the same ground? Mr. Bodwell—I know the only other case—58 Fed. I think I have it here. The Court—That is the only other point you wanted to raise, is it? Mr. Bodwell—Yes; I did want to speak of another fact. At the time the matter was before the Full Court the defendants had their counter-claim, in which they claimed this intersection of ores and so on, and they have withdrawn that under leave of the Court, so that whatever figure that might cut in the case (To be Continued.) AERIAL TRAMWAY IN THE SLOCAN. TN a former issue Mr. B. C. Riblet, the well-known i mining engineer, of Sandon, contributed an article, of a general character, to this periodical, on the subject of aerial tramways in West Kootenay We are again indebted to him for the excellent photographs here reproduced, of tramways of the Finlayson type in operation at the Noble Five mine. These tramwavs are of the double rope type, and are designed for lone- distance carnage and large capacity. The buckets THE MINING RECORD. 25 suspended by cranes attached to trolley wheels, which run on one-inch cables, have a carrying capacity of seven hundred pounds. Fifty-two of these buckets, drawn by a cable of three-quarter inch diameter, passing through grip sheaves at each terminal, are kept flattened strand and the running rope is three-eigth inch stell of high tensile strength. The difference in elevation of the terminals is four hunded and fifty-five feet, and there is one span, crossing a deep ravine cf three hundred and fifty feet. Aerial Tramway at Noble Five, Cody, B.C. in regular operatipn, the buckets being loaded at the mine and dumped at the concentrator, automatically. The tramway at the Payne mine, used for the" rans- portation of the ore from the ore-house to the railway station, is that of the two-bucket, gig-back pattern, designed for a short-distance haul, and has a capacity of one hundred and fity tons in ten hours. The carrying rope is three-quarter inch crucible cast steel of TECHNICAL PERIODICALS. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. FROM the point of view of the miner, the most interesting article in the Engineering Magazine for December is contributed by Albert Williams, jr., entitled "South Africa Questions from an Engineering Standpoint." The writer briefly sketches the his- 26 THE MINING RECORD, tory of South African settlement, and colonization to the point when the discovery of diamonds in Cape Colony and in the Orange Free State, and also the gold fields in various localities of South Africa, attracted the first great inrush of adventures, prospectors and speculators to the country. In 1885 the gold- bearing conglomerate beds of the Witwatersrand, in the Transvaal were discovered, but it was not until some time later that the almost fabulous richness of the region was fully appreciated. At first the Transvaal Boers, who had "treked" to this wilderness for the sole reason of avoiding the hated Uitlander, bear, to frame a double-acting policy which' should promote mining to a certain extent and then restrict it." But if this explanation is the correct one, it is evident that very soon after the inauguration of the policy the Boers found that they were unable to control the march of enterprise and progress which the development and operation of the Rand mines determined. But if they could not control, they arranged to check and retard by exactions natural development, and "while investors stood ready to extend greatly the workings and to increase the plant, the political uncertainties and doubt as to the financial "■PBBfe) / / «l r -jikmMK ki»*i ,***!" iij.^i'i'ii1''''" ''^ ji ESgS m ^m-^: Lower Terminal of Tramway, Noble Five, Cody, B.C. thought by restrictive and prohibitory laws to discourage prospecting and mining within their boundaries, but recognizing at length the futility of opposition, a reversal of this policy ensued, and doubtless in the hope of replenishing an empty treasury, the Transvaal Government actually went to the length of encouraging the young industry, by offering a bonus for the discovery of payable gold deposits. It is thought that bv this action "the Transvaal authorities expected not only to auetrent their revenue, but also by taxing gold mining up to the limit which it could policy of the South African Republic and its position towards the mines have deterred them; so that, although there was a prospect of a substantial addition to productive capacity by opening new ground and adding to the mill plant, progress has not been what it might." Notwithstanding, favoured corporations have secured authorized monopolies—which have borne most_ heavily on the mining industry in the form of indirect taxation on it—have been the chief gainers by the Boer policy, and the Government itself has in consequence profited to a far lesser de- THE MINING RECORD. 27 gree than would at first appear. The present war in superficial observer, no country' rightly claiming to the Transvaal is largely the result of long-standing be civilized now maintains a svstem like that of the tyranny and vexatious exactions to which the Uit- Boers, who but for the enterprise and intelligence of landers have been subjected, and while the argument the Uitlanders in opening the mines and in estab- Lower Tramway, Payne Mine, Sandon, B. C. of the Boer, that the country is theirs, the mines within their territory and subject to their regulations, and that if the Uitlander does not like those regulations why does he remain? seems conclusive enough to the lishing industries would now be in a state of poverty instead of affluence; for previous to the gold discoveries their land barely sustained them, and its imports were most insignificant. It is, meanwhile, gratifying 28 THE MINING RECORD. to learn that Americans, of which there are a considerable number employed in executive consulting capacities in the Transvaal, generally acknowledge the righteousness of Great Britain's cause in the present war. "Men of this stamp (American engineers and metallurgists), who can always find profitable occupation at home or elsewhere, are entitled to credit. It will not do to denounce their opinions as those of mere sordid speculators and adventurers. What these opinion are is well known." Perhaps if they had not come into personal contact with the Boer system, and had no direct experience and no opportunity for observation, they, too, might join with the unthinkingat home. They have found it less easy to sympathise with the Boer at close quarters than at a distance." In view of recent criticisms which have appeared in some of the American newspapers, on the subject of Great Britain's motives in ,"forcing war on the Trans- val," this statemeht of fact from an impartial and au- thortative source, is worth remarking. The subject is now considered: What is the material interest of the world as a whole in the South African question. Evidently, we are told, as a dictum of common sense in economics, "It is for the interest of all to develop to the utmost the resources of a part." In this case these resources, so far as now known, consist, first, in the gold mines of the Transvaal, and, in less degree, in the-gold mines of contiguous territories; and next in importance the coal deposits, the diamond mines, the railways, telegraph and telephone lines, power and light plants, "and all the purveyors of supplies in the mines and miners." The Rand gold mines had produced approximately 19,000,00 ounces up to the outbreak of the war, and the estimates of the total value of (he gold still remaining and available are placed by conservative engineers at about $3,000,000,000. Though these calculations are necessarily based on more or less inexact data, it is perhaps—owing to the uniformity, thickness and regularity of the conglomerate beds—less difficult to form some tolerably accurate idea of the resources of the Rand mines than of those in any other country. The depth to which mining may be prosecuted in the Rand is very great, as the increase of temperature is slight and water gives comparatively little trouble, and it is believed that under these circumstances vertical shafts may be sunk to as great a depth as 10,000 feet, the difficulty, if any, hinging more on the financial than the engineering problems envolved. Under British rule the dynamite and railway monopolies would be suppressed, and thus two heavy items of expense would be largely cut down, and altogether a considerable margin of reduction in mining costs may be looked for ff the district comes under a liberal government, or if the Boers are compelled to make concessions. This excellent article concludes as follows: The number of persons who have a direct and tangible stake in the fortunes of South Africa is increasing, and their interest is most keen, and the world is watching with eager attention the march of events, military and political, in that far-distant theatre of action, but all the word does not realize how serious is its less obvious indirect interest in the welfare of the territory in question. It is, perhaps, unknowingly, witnessing the working out of one of the most impressive evolutionary changes in economic as well as in politics." Other articles in this magazine are: "The Strength and Weakness of the Trust Idea," by J. G. Brooks; "Works Management for the Maximum of Production," by J. Slater Lewis, "The Revolution in Machine Shop Practice," by Henry Roland; "Electrolytic Processes in Industrial Operations," by Dr. W. Berchers; "Standardizing in Engineering Construction," by Sir Benjamin C. Browne; "Mechanical Transport Applicanes m Engineering Work, by A. J. S. B. Little; and "The-Steam Engine for the Electric Traction Power House," by C. A. Hague. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. Interest in the Sept.-Oct. issue of this periodical centres in glacial periods and carbon dioxide. Joseph Le Conte, University of California, contributes an article on '"'The Ozarkian and Its Significance in Theoretical Geology." The Quaternary period may 6e divided into two great epochs—Ozarkian and Glacial; the Ozarkian preceding the ice sheet and being of longer duration. The name is derived from the Ozark Mountains, because the gorges of that region were formed at this time. The Ozarkian was a period of great elevation and erosion—a "lost interval"—i.e., de- viod of stritified rocks and their included fossils. In the sierras, the Ozarkian erasive work is sharply marked off from Tertiary and Present. Tertiary troughs are wide and shallow; post-Tertiary, deep and narrow; glaciation is the line of demarcation between Ozarkian and Present. The Ozarkian epoch being thus conclusively proved to tjelong to the Quaternary period, to what era, or primary division of time, does the Quaternary belong? Critical periods are periods of changes in the earth's crust, climate, and organic forms. Such, and last of all such, was the Quaternary. In it were the Basin Ranges, Sierra Nevada, Coast Ranges of California, Mt. St. Range elevated; temperature diminished culminating in the Glacial epoch; a new type—greater than all that preceded—man, was introduced. As the Permain closed the Paleozoic era, so the Quaternary closed the Ceno- zoic. Already a new era has begun—the Psychozoic, characterized by changes greater than the earth has yet seen—"it alone gives significance to that which preceeds." Mr. Chamberlin attempts to form "a working hypothesis of the cause of Glacial periods." Carbon dioxide and water vapour of the atmosphere have a remarkable power of absorbing heat- rays. An increase of carbon dioxide raises the average temperature; a decrease lowers it. That Glacial periods have been due to a decrease of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was urged by Tyn- dall fifty years ago. Mr. Chamberlin deals particularly with the causes of depletion or enrichment of the carbon dioxide of the air. A continuation of the article in the next number of \.he Journal will apply the hypothesis to known Glacial periods. Mr. Tolman continues the discussion in "The Carbon Dioxide of the Ocean and Its Relations to the Carbon Dioxide of the Atmosphere." He shows that with a decreasing temperature the ocean will dissolve carbon dioxide from the air; and offers this as the most important factor in causing the great extent of the glacial invasion. THE MINERAL COLLECTOR. The Mineral Collector for December publishes a des- crpition and list of new minerals discovered since 1892 Under this classification no less than one hundred and sixty-eight new species and varities are named. That THE MINING RECORD. 29 well-known text-book, Dana's "Systerra of Mineralogy," published in 1892, was at that time as complete as possible, but seven years have added much that is new to the science, and rendered the appendix, which has been recently issued, necessary. CUPEL MACHINES. "THE Calkins' cupel machines, for which patents I have recently been applied, are in many respects superior to any other appliance or device of this des- Fifmre 1. facturing five different sizes of cupels, and it also has an automatic device for feeding the bone ash into the mold. Figure 1 shows the machine at the beginning of the compression. The bone ash, properly moistened is put into the hopper which feeds the machine. hTere is a strong wheel in the hopper which bears on the top disc and is thus rotated as the machine is worked. It prevents the moist bone ash from bridging in the hopper and insures absolutely perfect feed. The machine consists' of a compound lever of ingenious construction, a plunger or die and two discs. The top disc contains the holes in which the cupel is compressed, and the bottom disc is a plane plate with but one hole, somewhat larger than in the disc above. After making the compression the bottom disc is rotated until the hole is in line with hole in the disc above, in which the cupel has been compressed. The machine is provided with automatic devices for stopping the disc at the proper point. / Figure 2. cription, at present on the market. The machines are made in three designs, namely, the automatic, the table pattern, and the wall pattern. The automatic is made with interchangeable discs and dies for manu- Figure 3. Figure 2 shows the position of machine and hands of operator on downward stroke as compression is being made. Figure 3 shows the machine when the cupel has been discharged. The machine is compact and powerful and of good workmanship, and is so constructed as to admit of more or less compression by simply adjusting the jam nuts holding the lever apparatus in place. - With this machine the assayer can easily make six hundreds cupels of perfect shape, uniform in size and density in one hour. Discs and dies for making cupels of the following diameters are supplied: One inch, ij inch, i-J inch, ij inch, 2 inches. All parts are interchangeable and readily adjusted to the machine. The Calkins' Cupel Machines can now be obtained in this Province, from the B.C. Assav and Chemical Supply Company, of Vancouver. 1 3° THE MINING RECORD. THE MONTH'S MINING. SHOAL BAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) THERE is rather more than usual of interest in mining affairs to record this month. Since the December issue of the Mixing Record, another lead has been discovered on the property known as Coble- dick's, in Estero Basin. It is a very fine estero basin, lead of chalcopyrite ore, about 20 feet wide at present, for they are not yet through it. The owners are, of course, very much pleased, and are pushing work vigourously. From a survey recently made of the Monte Cristo, it'appears that only a portion of the work lately done by H. W. Treat is on the Monte Cristo, the balance being on the Bonaparte, a claim of exceptional surface showings, having a lead of pyrr- bonaparte. hotite about 2| feet wide, and traceable through three claims, and a supposed lead of rich chalcopyrite three feet wide, but which has not been traced elsewhere, and yet another lead about fifty feet wide, the ore and quartz of which resemble very closely Douglas Pine rock, and is traceable for about 1,000 feet. Unfortunately no assays have been made from the latter lead, but the other two give good values, in gold and copper. The work done on the 1 oung Australian claim by the Fairfield Syndicate has disclosed some exceptionally fine ore, and it is a matter of young much surprise amongst those who Australia, know the properties on this lead that work should have been so suddenly, notwithstanding the fact that the lead on their own claim is supposed to have pinched out. Work on the Sunset, a bornite property, just north of Seymour Narrows, and owned by three prospectors, is being steadily prosecuted, sunset. several hundred feet of work having been done by them. ^ These men certainly deserve to be rewarded for their energy, for they have been steadily developing this property for the last two years. Were all prospectors to follow the example set by these men, there is small doubt but that the Coast would hold a more prominent position in the mining world than it does at present. camp m'kinney. (From Our Own Correspondent). During the last two months work on the different properties has been progressing steadily, most of the machinery is already in place and there is every indication of a busy winter. There are at present ten mines with pay roils and three recent stamp mills running, while a fourth developments, is nearing completion. In particularizing the work we may pass over the Cariboo, which keeps its twenty-stamp mill running with the regularity of clockworx. The Waterloo, which started its five-stamp mill some six weeks ago, has been doing exceedingly well, so much so that another five stamps will be added early in the new year. The ore, which is similar to the Cariboo and about the same value, is being taken from the west drift, where the vein is about six feet wide. On the adjoining claim, the Fontenoy, development work is being pushed ahead in drifting from the bottom of the No. 1 shaft to cross cut the Waterloo vein, which runs through this claim. The Minne-ha-ha is haying a ten-stamp mill put up, which is all but completed and should be running shortly. A working shaft is being sunk in the Kamloops. The work has been somewhat delayed by the tardy arrival of the hoisting and pumping machinery, but that is now in place and sinking will proceed without further delay. The development work in the Sailor is proving very satisfactory, a fine body of ore having been encountered in drifting from the bottom of the shaft. The Pander is another claim which is making a good showing, the shaft, thirty-five feet deep, being in some good ore. The Granite claim is at the present moment closed down, it being rumoured that a deal is pending. To the east of the camp is the Lemon Company's property, the Gold Standard, in which is an incline shaft 200 feet deep; at the 125-foot level a 100-foot drift has been run; a saw mill is being put up to get out the necessary lumber for a five-stamp mill, which will be erected in the spring. A very rich strike was made a few weeks agO on a claim called the Dayton, assays going over $800 to the ton. Die vein appears to be from six to ten feet wide, and gold is easily panned from almost any part of the surface. The strike has caused considerable excitement in camp. The Dayton is situated between the forks of Rock Creek, about four miles east of the camp.1 For a long time this section has been looked upon as most likely to produce a big mine, as mineral is found over a large area and carrying good values. Already the fortunate owners have had some tempting offers made for the property, but so far no deal has been consummate!!. Unfortunately there is a great deal of snow on the ground, so that would-be purchasers are unable to form any very intelligent idea of the extent of the ore-body, but those who are well acquainted with the ground claim the whole of what may be called the "hog's back," between the two forks, as being well mineralized, and that a big camp will be established there by spring. BOUNDARY CREEK. From Our Own Correspondent. The year 1899 has been the most progressive in the history of the Boundary Creek district. Doubtless the year now opening up will witness progress far beyond that of the period now under review, yet the prospect of a year of development far the year's in excess of anything yet experienced progress, in this district of big possibilities in no way takes away from the truth of the assertion that the results achieved during 1899 are greater than those of any other years since the work of opening up of the big mineral deposits of the Boundary Creek mining camps was first entered upon. In no part of this extensive mining field is the effect of development more evident than in what is now generally known as Phoenix Camp. Here a marked transformation has taken place, both in the activity displayed on at least a dozen mineral claims, some of which may now fairly be classed as mines, and of the camp with its fast-growing town of Phoenix. Here the properties operated by what are known as the Graves companies—the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and C-ranby companies, which are practically under one management—easily lead in point of underground work, power equipment and building improvements. The three claims upon which attention is being concentrated adjoin, the Knob Hill being on the south and the Victoria on the east of the Old Ironsides. From No. 1 shaft on the Old Ironsides much drifting THE MINING RECORD. 3i and cross-cutting has been done at both the 200-foot and 300-foot levels. No. 2 shaft is sunk on the boundary of the Old Ironsides and Victoria claims. A 320-foot cross-cut connects these two shafts at the 200-foot level. No. 2 shaft is down 350 feet. Crosscuts have been run from it east into the Victoria, about 500 feet at the 200-foot level and 175 feet at the 300-foot level. Drifts are being run at both these levels to connect with the Knob Hill. An aggregate ot more than 1,800 feet of drifting and cross-cutting has been done at these levels. The main tunnel of the Knob Hill is in about 1,000 feet, besides which there are drifts and cross-cuts totalling another 1,000 feet. There is one air-shaft 140 feet in depth, and another is being sunk to connect with the main tunnel at 170 feet from the surface of the hill above. A shaft from the east drift is now down no feet and this will later meet the drifts from the Old Ironsides No. 2 shaft. Most of these workings are in ore, and it is claimed that the ore-zone is 700 feet in width. The plant includes three boilers, hoists, pumps and a 10-drill duplex Rand air-compressor. An additional 40-drill plant is to be installed, also a so-horse power hoist, capable of raising three tons at a time from the 1,000- foot level. The buildings include large shaft and machinery houses, two commodious buildings that will accommodate between 200 and 300 men, and nice houses and cottages for mine officials and miners with families. More than 100 men have for some time been employed by these companies, whose operations will be enlarged immediately the Granby Company's smelter, now being erected at Grand Forks, is ready to receive ore for treatment. ! In the same camp are four claims owned by the Dominion Copper Company, Limited, of Toronto. The Brooklyn has a double compartment shaft 275 feet in depth, with about 500-feet of drifting and cross- cutting at the 150-foot level, and about 400 feet at the 250-foot level. Not much work has yet been done on the Idaho, on which there is a big ledge, but on the. Rawhide, the fourth of this company's claims, a tunnel is in more than 400-feet. The 5-driIl plant at present on the Brooklyn is to be removed to the Idaho and a 40-drill plant for the Brooklyn and Stemwinder will be installed in its stead. Among other properties in Phoenix camp that have power plants installed to expedite their development are the Snowshoe and Gold Drop. Both have big ore showings and are promising properties. A plant for the War Eagle has arrived and will shortly be at work. This camp will soon have rail connection by a branch line from the Columbia and Western main line, with which it junctions at Eholt. In Deadwood camp are several properties also under development. The most important of these is the Mother Lode, owned by the British Columbia Copper Co., of New York. A special article descriptive of this mine appears in the September number of the Record. Its double compartment main working shaft is now down 320 feet, and the face of the north drift at the 200-foot level is 520 feet from the shaft. Good progress is being made with the upraise from this level to connect with the winze from the old workings above. This upraise is all in ore of good value. When it is completed there will be about 260 feet vertical of stoping ground opened up between the new 200-foot level and the old cross-cut tunnel. As the ore outcrops some 286 feet above the old tunnel there should be more than 500 feet of backs to yield ore. This does not by any means include all the ore available for the main shaft is in ore all the way down to its depth of 120 feet below the drift at the 200-foot level. The lails are already laid on the branch railway line to within a mile of the mine. As soon after the tracklayers reach the mine as the railway company will accept ore for shipment about 100 tons of Mother Lode ore will be shipped to a smelter, probably to Trail, for a bulk test. A good margin of profit will, it is anticipated, be shown by this test, the systematic plan of assaying followed in connection with this mine giving a good idea of the average value of the ore mined. Mr. Paul Johnson, manager of the British Columbia Cop- ]:er Co.'s smelting department, is now in New York conferring with the directors of the company regarding purchase of plant for the Mother Lode smelter which will, it is expected, be got in readiness by next summer to treat ore from this mine. The Sunset group, adjoining the Mother Lode, owned by the Montreal Boundary Creek Mining Company, is preparing for extensive development. A plant, consisting of an Ingersoll-Sergeant air-compressor, capable of operating 20 drills, a 300-horse power battery of horizontal tubular boilers and complete pumping and hoisting appliances, is being installed. About 1,500 feet ot tunnelling and nearly 300 feet of shaft sinking comprise the development work done on the Sunset. A spur from the C. & W. Railway at Greenwood crosses the Sunset close to the mine workings. An English syndicate recently purchased 100,000 shares in the company owning this property. Other properties in Deadwood camp which have been under development during the year are the Morrison, which is said to have four parallel ledges, the Buckhorn and the Gold Bug. The Morrison attracted attention for some time, much publicity having been given to reports of good strikes of ore. Lately the Gold Bug, one of a group of claims owned by the Boundary Creek M. & M. Co., has had prominent notice given to it, a carload of ore sent to the Trail smelter having yielded good values. The smelter returns show the net weight of this ore to have been 28,897 pounds, with a value of $111.55 per ton, or a total for the shipment of $1,611.73 net to the company. The freight and smelter charges amounted to $12 per ton. The values contained in this ore were divided as follows: Gold, per ton, 2.22 ounces; silver, 131.20 ounces, and lead, 14.40 per cent. There are still the Winnipeg and Golden Crown, in Wellington camp; the City of Paris, Majestic and No. 7, in Central camp; the Jewel, Enterprise and Anchor, in Long Lake camp, and others, but these cannot now be dealt with in detail. The Winnipeg and Golden Crown are both being opened up at the 300-foot level, at which depth the Winnipeg, particularly, has a fine showing of good ore. Both these mines will 'ship ore immediately after the branch railway line now in course of construction reaches thern. The City of Paris has also been extensively prospected below ground, and the presence of much ore has been disclosed down to a depth of 300 feet, the lowest depth vet reached in this mine. At the Majestic a 400-foot tunnel has been run on the ledge, which, where crosscut, shows the ore-body to be 20 feet in width. Particulars of work on the Jewel Were published in the Pecord for October. Since then more development has taken place and more plant been received. The Oro Denero is reported to have a fine showing of ore 32 THE MINING RECORD. at the 200-foot level, and on one of the Rathmullen claims results have proved encouraging. The B.C. mine is stated to have $600,000 worth of ore in sight and on the dump. It is claimed that this value has been arrived at after carefully estimating the contents of the ore body as disclosed by the work done to date and calculating the values at an average it is believed the ore will run in the bulk. The ore is a copper sulphide and the drifts run have opened up three distinct shoots of pay ore. The lode varies in width from 10 feet to 27 feet. The main shaft is now down 260 feet and crosscutting at the 250-foot level is now in progress. The intention of the company is to sink as rapidly as is reasonably practicable to the 1,000- foot level. A 20-driIl compressor plant is being obtained and it is proposed to increase the number of men from the 30 now employed at the mine to 75, as work can be advantageously found for an increased force. The present daily output of shipping ore from the mine is about 50 tons. An ore bin of a capacity of 450 tons is being constructed, it being anticipated that eventually, when the mine shall have been extensively developed, a daily shipment of 400 tons of ore will be found practicable. It is understood that arrangements are about concluded to ship ore regularly to the C. P. R. smelter at Trail, and that the necessary rail connection with the mine has been established. As there are 10,000 or 11,000 tons of ore now on the dump, of an estimated value of $25 per ton, there is this lot to start shipping from. The j'ear's progress also includes the practical completion of the C. & W. Railway from Robson on the Columbia River to Boundary Creek; the extension to the district of two telegraph systems; the establishment of three telephone systems, extensive building improvements, and a large increase of population, there being now fully 10,000 people in the Boundary country. Much Eastern capital has been interested in the district, Toronto, Montreal and the Eastern Townships all swelling the total. Altogether there has been much and gratifying advancement during the past year, and the New Year is by with promise of still greater results. Midway, B.C. PERCY VERENS. ROSSLAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) With the close of 1899 the statistics of the mineral industry for the past and preceding years should claim attention. Though the Mining Record in its reports from the mining division has not failed to give statistical information from time to time as to the progress of this trade, especially as to tonnage and value, yet it will not, I trust, be regarded as a dull repetition if these facts and figures are given in this report in a more tabulated form than the heretofore. Much interest is taken in vear's work, the progress of British Columbia's mineral industry, especially in the gold mining branch thereof, and as the close of the year is the right time to make comparisons, as well as resolutions, no further explanations are perhaps necessarv in presenting the statistics of the mineral industry of Rossland, for the years 1894 and 1899, inclusive. As early as 1894, I find that ore production began in Trail Creek division so that the period covered in the valuation is, six years. -a.ro strox 3-tO PI°0 M M M *** O y? M O O 0 0 4* ani*A £ Co ON 4* CO Oi Q 0 ■vj CO tn 0 0 \o •3j0 J^US 10 -J 0 <y\ 00 O -£» CO Cn M j? ^1 v£> a\ Crt 4* 01 an^A X Oi to Sa 0 O g 0 (0 Cn CO 5 co to CO 4x O O CT» laddoo 0 Cn o\ 4*. to to to Q t-t O en \o vO w <J\ K> J- VO O - * * • anpsA 0 -*j <& O 0 *J* «w to to § o> w 0 to *~3 -F» O B 0 O •■J Co to ; anxBAI^ox «J 8 to Co Co tn C\ tn to rt 0 n 0 0 ^0 O 0 0 O o» w 5 O 0 0 O -f*- According to Mr. W. A. Carlyle's first reports the average value per ton of Rossland ores amounted to $40.69. In 1898 this is given at $22.80 per ton, and this year it is estimated at $18.00, though it may reach $20.00, as the smelter returns will not be completed until February. Now a trade beginning with a production of only 1,856 tons in 1894 and ending with 186,000 tons in 1899, with a value of only $75,510 in the beginning and now possessing a volume measured by nearly $9,980,000 in 1899 must be regarded as a phenomenal advance, and it is, moreover, suggestive of future pos- sibilties. When we consider that about 9$ millions of dollars of ore have been extracted from the mines of Trail Creek in a period of six years is it not reasonable to hope that in another period of six years this trade will have reached at least 30 millions of dollars? It is, meanwhile, a satisfaction to know that a considerable portion of the capital employed in this production belongs to the people that live in the Dominion and who are directly interested in the prosperity of Canada. Much of the interest on mine investment is, therefore, being paid in the country. This fact is an agreeable feature in a contemplation of this subject The dividend account of Rossland mines now stands as follows: Le Roi—$825,000, up to Aprial, 1898; $250,000,000, in 1899; total, $1,075,000. dividends. War Eagle—up to October, 1896, $187,000; since then and up to December 15, 1899, $305,750; total $492,750. The nominal capital invested is Le Roi, $5,000,000; !■». THE MINING RECORD. 33 War Eagle $2,000,9000. Total nominal capital, $7,000,- 000, and total dividends, $1,567,750. It is yet too early to obtain any reliable information as to the amount of mining development ca.-ried on in Rossland during 1899. It is, how- ' development ever, well known that there has been work. a very large amount of drifting, tun nelling and cross-cutting done, and the total will show at least double that officially reported last year. The increase in the machinery has been very marked. When it is considered that the War Eagle Company have begun three actions to recover money on account of machinery purchased, and that this alone aggregates $225,000, a fair idea may be obtained as to what progress has been made in this respect by other properties. At least i£ millions of dollars' worth of machinery has been ordered for Rossland, and other mines tributary to it, and at least 12 millions of dollars of nominal capital have been added to the capital account of Rossland and tributary mines. On the whole the outlook is very promising and the prospects of a phenomenal output in 1900 are excellent. At no period in the past in Trail Creek division was the outlook better than it is now. Of the 185,000 tons of an ore output from Rossland mines for 1899 the Le Roi contributed about 95,000, the War Eagle 66,000, the Centre Star 16,000, the Iron Mask 5,500. These four named mines are the regular products of Trail Creek mining division, and their total shipments amount to about 182,500. The occasional shippers are the Evening Star, which is credited with 1,088, the Columbia and Kootenay with ill, the Virginia with 100, the Monte Christo with 260, the I.X.L. with 75, the Deer Park with 18, and miscellaneous about 850 tons. Some of the occasional shipments have been mere samples, but the great increase of $73,718, equal to 62.30 per cent over the ore production of Rossland mines for 1898 must be conceded. Prediction as to what will be the additional regular shippers for next year are more numerous than are likely to be realized, but it is not unlikely if the Evening Star, the I.X.L., the Columbia and Kootenay, the Sunset, No. 2. the Virginia, and White B'ar, Josie and No. I, and Giant will form the list These properties are all looking well. They are known to possess at least pay ore shoots if not ledges, and ore more or less situated in the direction of the strike of the main ledges, which according to Mr. Clarence King traverse the country for a distance of at least five miles, having Red Mountain as a centre. i^ast year official reports of the condition of about thirty-two mining properties were sent to Mr. John Kirkup, Mining Recorder for Trail Creek division. These reports were embodied in the report of the Minister of Mines. This year similar reports are being made, but of course, there will be a great increase in the number of working properties with from 75 to 100 per cent, increase in the account of development work. » 1 Mr. R. C. Clute, Dominion Special Commissioner, especially appointed by the Ottawa Government to inquire into the local conditions of labour, particularly as regards mining labour in the labour this Province, opened his court here question, on December 21st j As your readers well know, the object of this court of enquiry is to obtain informa tion for the Dominion Government, not only on the operations of the eight-hour law, but also with regard to the alien labour phase of the question. One of the chief witnesses before the Commissioner has been the Secretary of the Miners' Union, of Rossland. According to this gentleman, Mr. Denne, the union has a membership of 1,500, and of these fully 70 per cent, are British subjects. It has not been shown so far, a* least, that alien labour has been imported to work in the mines under contract. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Since the last issue of the Mining Record the Dundee mine deal has been consummated, and the property will be energetically worked after the 1st of January, so I learn from a reliable source. A consolidation of the following properties has taken place: Sarah Lee G. M. Co., Utical G. M. Co., and the Wild H orse G.M. Co. The new company will be known as the North American Mining Company. The new directorate is a strong one, and it is believed that sufficient funds are available to prove the properties, all of which have good showings. The Ymir mine is steadily working, and at the time of writing in the neighbourhood of 160 men are employed in the mine and mill. The addition to the new mill is nearly completed, and as the machinery is ordered we may look for its installation and consequent operation shortly, v *On the Big Home property the management are busily driving the cross-cut tunnel. At the present it is in too feet. The ore-body, which it is calculated to strike, is still estimated as distant some 200 feet. When the drift is finished a depth of about 250 feet, will be gained. Mr. McRoberts, secretary-treasurer of the company is in Boston on company business. (From Our Own Correspondent.) All the shipping mines still remain closed down owing to the labour troubles caused by the eight- hour law, and a settlement, I am sorry to say, seems as far off as ever. The Dardanelles and Rambler- Cariboo, however, continue to work and the latter mine will be a large shipper this winter. With the exception of the aboved named and a few properties which are under bond, and some small contracts, mining in the Slocan is at a standstill. The Silverite group, a property near Sandon and a general supposed to be on the Queen Bess slackness. - ledge,, has just been bonded at a large figure to Eastern capitalists, represented by Mr. Moffat, of Nelson. Preparations are being made for active work this winter and the employment of about twenty men. The Ruth mines concentrator, is now completed, and taken over by the company. It is one of the most compact and best equipped mills of its size at the present time in the Slocan. The Wakefield mines concentrator at Sil- verton and its 7,000-foot aerial tramway is nearing completion. The firm of White & Rogers, of San Francisco, have the contract for the mill, and announce that this mill will be superior to any in present use in the Province for its value-saving properties. The tramway is under the sole supervision of Mr. B. C. Riblet, the well-known engineer, who has installed all the tramways in the Slocan to date. A 34 THE MINING RECORD. steam heating and electric plant is being installed for heating and lighting the new bunk-houses at the Payne mine. Everything at this property is in readiness for the beginning of heavy shipments directly the labour troubles are settled and work can be resumed. This also applies to all the Slocan properties at the present time. On the Queen Bess a small compressor has been lately set up and a lower level is to be run. There has been a large amount of put- side work done here this summer. The American Boy has a fine showing of clean ore for a distance of nearly 150 feet, the grade of the ore is very fair and it is expected that shipments of 50 tons per month will - be made during the winter. The Hartney group is looking well under development, and if the showing continues the mine should shortly be in a position to ship ore. This property is now under bond to East ern Americans. The Marion, a property now under bond to Eastern Canadians, is looking very well, and it is rumoured that the price of the bond is already "in sight." This property is situated on Silver Mountain, between the California and Hartney groups. The rawhiding is very late this year on account of the light snow fall. The snow-fall has never been so light at this time of year. Mr. R. C. Clute, Q.C., the Dominion Government Commissioner, held an enquiry last month in Sandon as regards the importation of alien labour, and also as to the way the miners are treated. He visited some of the leading mines and saw the food and sleeping accommodations of the men, and was both surprised and pleased with the arrangements at the big mines, for the comfort of the.men. No evidence was produced before the Commissioner regarding the importation of. alien labour, Mr. Clute held a very impartial and explicit investigation when in Sandon, hearing evidence from both mine-owners and representatives of the Miners' Union. He expressed the hope that the difficulty would be speedily adjusted, and, I believe, advised the union to accept the compromise offered by the Mine Owners' Association. The "close down" has now lasted seven months. I RAWHIDER." ' REVELSTOKE. (From Our Own Correspondent). With the advent of snow—though considerablv later than usual and very much softer—the various claim owners who have been sacking ore during the fall, are now preparing to ship it to the smelter, and one hears on all sides of contracts being made to rawhide the material down to transportation. In the immediate vicinity of Revelstoke, as remarked some tune ago, there are no mines as yet, although it seems reasonable to think that more extensive prospecting might discover at least a surface showing, as the main formation is much the same as in more favoured localities. However, Revelstoke is certaily the centre from which most of the mining districts are easily reached, and it is to Revelstoke as a rule that the latest information is brought, continually during the summer and from time to time during the the winter, according as it is possible big bend, to make the trip. This winter the ®ig Bend will have at least a show for that class of mining entitled quartz mining as distinguished from placer work; as the Boston and B.C Copper Company seem determined to push work on their claims, and according to the last accounts received from their mine, are "pushing" very successfully. By spring this company certainly ought to know how they stand, and the hope is generally expressed that they will come out all right, as they are not afraid of spending money to accomplish their object. But little else will be done in tnat locality (the Big Bend) this winter, as the Adair group has shut down for the winter, although they expected to work steadily. The owners claim they have a very large lead of copper ore—all the better for all concerned, if they have. The Rosebery, in Carnes Creek, will be working very few men, as few as they can do with to keep the workings in order, and with the exception of a little placer work about French Creek, very little else will be done. Nothing is going on in and around Illecillewaet, no fresh work having been taken up since the closing down of unfortunate Tangier. But south of us, in the Lardeau, all is activity, and the new townstie of Ferguson—some four miles from Trout Lake—should be a pretty lively town this winter, being the headquarters of so many mines that are working steadily. The Silver lardeau. Cup is working with some forty men; the Old Gold and Primrose are busy developing; and at least a dozen more properties will be working all the winter with more or less men, but probably with great success. The Nettie L. will be very busy and is now quite ready to ship 70 or more tons of high-grade ore to the smelter as soon as there is sufficient snow, which at present is hardly the case owing to the warm weather experienced lately. Truly all things seem to have their uses, only it is not always easy to see just what those uses are—(mice, for instance, unless it be to teach one to pray fervently when they wake you at night with their infernal row!) —and while snow has been considered distinctly a disadvantage to the country, yet many a mine can hardly ship its products economically without it. It is gravely reported that the result of one shot in the Nettie L. recently, was one ton of solid grey copper! It is easy to believe that one shot brought down a ton, but I fancy the weight was in galena more than grey copoer, although there is plenty of that present. The\ lower tunnel—now in over 500 feet—is expected to cut the ledge within 30 or 40 feet more, and if it does the value of the mine will be something enormous, as it will give nearly or quite 250 feet to the surface of very good ore. ■ One matter may perhaps be touched upon in conclusion, and that is -the necessity of appointing more mining inspectors; it is simply impossible for any one man to examine all the mines in mine Kootenay, say, in a year, and to in- inspection. spect them properly. But when a man is supposed to examine all the mines in B.C., the abusudity is evident. Whether one well qualified man in each" district could accomplish the task is doubtful, that is if he did the work as well as he ought, but less than that would seem quite useless, and bv its very absurdity would neutralize the good intended to be done. Let us hope that the Government will be able to see their way to improve this' state of affairs, and incidentally to try and remedy some of the very unconsidered and hasty legislation accomplished by them during the last year. THE MINING RECORD. 35 Mil rawhiding AT THE SILVER CUP. TROUT LAKE DISTRICT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I Development work is being steadily prosecuted in this district. Rawhiding has commenced from the Nettie L. property, a considerable quantity of ore already being staked under the ore-shelter at the foot of the hill, about three-quarters of a mlie from Ferguson. The contract for moving the ore from the Shelter to Thompson's Landing has been let, and a shipment to a smelting point will be made before the Northeast Arm of Arrow Lake is closed, by ice, to navigation. Stoping and development work are proceeding without interruption and there is every prospect of this property proving very valuable. The rawhiders have also begun to move ore from the Silver Cup and Sunshine properties. From the foot of the hill at Eight Mile, the ore is conveyed towards Thompson's Landing for a distance of eight miles on toboggans, and then transferred to sleighs. Shipments from these properties to a smelting point will also be made before the close of navigation. Work is proceeding at the Ethel property, close to Trout Lake City, and it is said that the individuals who have a lease of this claim, are meeting with every encouragement in prosecuting their operations. All necessary supplies have been taken up general to the Silver Chief, on Great North- activity. ern Mountain, where It is expected work will proceed all winter. It is also probable that a force of men will be put to work on the St. Elmo, from which last winter a trial shipment was made with very satisfactory results. Activity is displayed on several properties in the Fish River District, those, amongst other, on which work is proceeding being the Mohawk and the Beatrice. Some 200 or 300 tons of high-grade ore should be shipped from the latter during the winter.. It will be remembered that some time ago the Towser claim, adjoining the Sunshine property, was bonded to some Chicago capitalists tor $36,000, since when development work has been carried on by means of a cross-cut tunnel, the object of which was to cut the vein exposed on the surface at depth of some 150 feet. It is with much satisfaction that we are now able to report the intersection of the vein and solid ore, of a high grade character, some 12 inches in thickness, apart from considerable quantities of concentrating- ore. PUBLICATIONS. Molesworth's Metrical Tables : Third edition; by Sir Guilford L. Molesworth, K.C.I.E., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E. Price 80 cents. E. & F. W. Spon, Ltd., London: Spon & Cliamberain, New York. 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The additional information contained in this edition considerably increases the usefulness of the work to mechanical engineers. The B.C. Guide, a monthly publication, is now being issued by the British Columbia Printing and Engraving Corporation, Limited, at the moderate price 36 THE MINING RECORD. of 50c per annum. It contains, in addition to two lithographed maps of respectively the Province and the City of Victoria, a great deal of useful information, such as time tables, stage and rail distances, postal rates, the Dominion mining laws and the British Columbia placer mining laws. A number of definitions of mining terms are also given, but as these are both inaccurate and quite unnecessary, they might with advantage be omitted in future issues. Ben D'Or mine was in operation 24 days, 35 minutes, and crushed 455 tons of rock, yielding 277.83 ounces eold. PRODUCING MINES. NELSON. The following is the mill run at the Athabasca for the month of November: Number of days run, 29 days, 3 hours; number of tons crushed, 338. Value of bullion recovered $9,203 03 Gross value of concentrates recovered.... 2,385 25 Total $11,588 28 Value of bullion recovered per ton of ore crushed $23 72 Gross value of concentrates recovered per ton of ore crushed 6.14 Total values recovered per ton of ore crushed. 29.86 The Custom returns from Nelson for November include the following exports: Value. Coke ■••; $ 339 Lead bullion 36,513 Gold bullion 48,095 The result of the Hall Mines smelting operations for the five weeks ending December 1st, are as follows : Smelter in blast 19 days and 13 hours, during which time 128 tons of Silver King ore (containing approximately 1,540 ounces of silver) and 368 tons of purchased ores were smelted; 103 tons of lead bullion were produced, containing (approximately) 102 tons of lead, 11,330 ounces of silver and 387 ounces of gold. The output of mines of East and West Kootenay for the eleven months ending November 30th approximates in value $5,500,00 in gold, silver, lead and copper. The total for the year will be in the neighbourhood of $6,000,000. SLOCAN. The exports of ore from the port of Kaslo during November make a very insignificant showing, and the aggregate tonnage was less than during any similar period since the construction of the railway in this district. The returns are as follows : 570,585 lbs- containing 298,798 lbs. lead and 16,926 oz. silver. ROSSLAND. Our Rossland correspondent telegraphs:— In consequence of Le Roi shutting down for a few days while the Jeansboro pump is being installed, ore shipments of this division for 1899 will not exceed 185,000 tons and may fall short of this about 1,200 tons. There are numerous reports current as to labour complications, creating much uneasiness in some quarters, but there is nothing to justify the belief that a strike is impending. For the month of November 9,260 tons of ore valued at $260,068, and 705,422 lbs. of matte, valued at ^189,158, were exported from Rossland. LILLOOET. During November the ten-stamp battery at the . . COAL EXPORTATIONS. November. Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 3^>448 Wellington Mines 22,932 Union Mines 4fi7° Extension Mines (Oyster Bay) 4.678 Total 72>3I4 'Die following are the New Vancouver Coal Company's foreign shipments for the three weeks ending December 20th: Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 2—SS. San Mateo Port Lost Angeles.. 4,289 2—SS. Tyee Port Townsend 27 5—SS. New England.. .Alaska 48 11—SS. R. Adamson.... San Francisco 4>427 10—SS. Mineola Port Los Anegeles. 3,242 14—SS. Sea Lion Port Townsend .... 24 14—SS. New England.. .Alaska 41 16—SS. San Mateo Port Los Angeles . . 4,323 19—Bark C. D. Bryant ... Lahiana, H.I 1,468 THE .METAL MARKET—DECEMBER. Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. Mining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York.] WHILE general business has been remarkably active for this time of year, money stringency has had a depressing effect in the speculative market. The tjank rates are still high and are likely to continue so for some time yet. SILVER. The silver market has remained very steady during the month, the demand for China absorbing all offerings for both present and future delivery. Prices have fluctuated between 59 and 59J, while the average price last month was 58.67. COPPER. Copper has been very quiet for the last four weeks and veiy few transactions are reported. The disturbance in the financial market has, no> doubt, affected prices, which are lower than for some time past. Holders have shown a disposition to realize, while on the other hand manufacturers, owing to the approach of the New Year, are reluctant to buy. The lastest quotations are i6§ for lake, 15J for electrolytic, in cakes, bars or ingots,'and 15! for cathodes. Meanwhile it is believed that the inflated prices of the last few months have been too high for the best interests of all concerned, and the present decline, or perhaps a still further one, would leave the price nearer its normal and healthy level. There is no occasion for any feeling of alarm tive interests, is perfectly sound. Demand for consumption is good, and all the copper offered can be placed without difficulty. The market continues firm and the demand is un- precedentedly active for this season of the year. If THE MINING RECORD. 37 this state of affairs continue it is likely to create a shortage of supplies, which may bring about still higher prices. The New York price is 4.65, with St. Louis loc lower. SPELTER. There has been a very active demand in this market, with quotations at 4.75 to 4.80c, New York; and 4.55 to 4.60c, St. Louis. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. THE market has been generally dull and apathetic, and with few execeptions, prices have declined all round. There are, however, promises of a revival after the New Year. BOUNDARY CREEK. Among Boundary Creek shares, Old Ironsides, Knob Hill, Winnipeg and Brandon have remained fairly steady at 100, 80, 29 and 29, respectively, but Morrison has fallen to 7 and Rathmullen to 6£. camp m'kinney. Cariboo is offered at 1.05, Minne-ha-ha 14, Fonte- noy 14, but Waterloo has been in good demand at 12J to 13^. Some transactions in Sailor are reported at ioc, and Mammoth at i&; Little Cariboo at ic. TEXADA ISLAND. Van Anda has declined very considerably, sales taking place as low as 5C- FAIRVIEW CAMP. Fairview Corporation were active at the beginning of December, but closed dull at 5 asked and 3 bid. CARIBOO DISTRICT. Cariboo Hydraulic has been selling as low as 90, and Horsefly Gold Mining Co. (Ward's Co.) are being offered at $1.25. EAST KOOTENAY. Some Crow's Nest have sold during the month at $36 to $37. North Star is offered at $1.05, and Sullivan has advanced from 9 to 12. SLOCAN. Payne has been in demand at $1.02 to $1.05, Dardanelles at 11 \ to 12, Rambler-Cariboo at 56 to 58, Noble Five has fallen to 19. NELSON. Athabasca has sold as low as 33J and Tamarac is offered at 10J, and Fern as low as 6. ROSSLAND. War Eagle is quoted at 2.56, Virginia 6J, Deer Park 2, Monte Christo 7, Iron Mask 62, Iron Colt 13; whilst I.X.L has been boomed up to 2^. The Simplest, Most Economical and Most Effective Concentrator Known. • Descriptive Catalogue sent post free on application. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES. -"Wrathless, London." The Wilfley ©re Concentrator Syndicate, Limite . 32 OLD JEWRY, E.C. LONDON. — Beg to call the attention of Mining- Engineers, Mine Superintendents and Managers, Machinery Dealers, and all connected with the Mining- industry to THE " WILFLEY" TABLE The following' strong claims are put forward for the "WILFLEY," and will be found more than fully substantiated in actual working ; 1. Simplicity of construction. No expensive wearing parts. No belt renewals. Nothing to get out of order. Practically no repairs. 2. Facility of adjustment to all ores treated. Once adjusted it needs but a minimum of attention. 3. Its wonderful capacity. Will handle three to five times as much material as any belt table made. 4. Reduction of maintenance charges. No skilled labour required. Reduction in initial outlay, as smaller number of tables are needed. 5. The ore particles being separated into distinct streaks a complete separation of the different minerals contained is effected. The " WILFLEY" has only been on the market some eighteen months, yet In that time nearly 800 have been sold, and are in use in 200 mines, which speaks volumes for the rapid and favorable recognition it has been accorded. The most flattering Testimonials have been received. The "WILFLEY" can he seen in operation by appointment at the offices of the Syndicate, 32 Old Jewry, London, E.C. Samples of Ore, 50 lb. to 1 cwt., tested free of charge. Correspondence Invited. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM fEngines I Hoists GASOLINE] A;..rnmnrpccArc Engine and Air Compressor especially All i^UHipiesauia adapted for Mining Purposes. [Pumping Plants Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline [Engines Hoists j Pumps [Boilers FAIRBANKS' STANDARD S6ALES. Mining Oars, Car Wheels, Spiral Biveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Lonisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. ■ i THE MINING RECORD. Mining Stocks. Prepared by A. W. More & Co., Mining Brokers, Victoria, B.C., Jan., 1900. Company. TRAIL CREEK. Alberta Big Three Bruce Batte Caledonia Con Centre Star Commander Deer Park Enterprise ' ^Evening Star Georgia Gertrude Golden Drip I Gopher • Hattie Brown High Ore Homestake Iron Horse Iron Mask I.X.L Iron Colt Jumbo Le Roi Lilly May Mabel Mayflower Monita Monte Cristo Nest Egg-Firefly Northern Belle Novelty Palo Alto Poorman E. E. Lee Bed Mountain View Rossland, Red Mountain St. Elmo S ilverine Silver Bell Con Victory Triumph Virginia • War Eagle Consolidatedf White Bear AINSWORTH, NELSON AND SLOCAN. American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Black Hills.. Buffalo of Slocan Channe Dundee Dardanelles ! Dellie Exchequer Pern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick .» Leviathan ! London Miller Creek Minnesota Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanhoe Payne Rambler Con Reco Slocan-Reciprocity Slocan Start Santa Marie Silver Band Slocan Queen Star St. Keverne Sunshine Tamarac Two Friends Washington Wonderful Lardeau Goldsmith Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Co... Lardo-Duncan TEXADA ISLAND. Gold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary .jexada Kirk Lake Treasury Mines Vftn Anda..... viotona-Texada VANCOUVER ISLAND. Alberni Mountain Rose consolidated Alberni Mineral Creek Mineral Hui nadra MountSicker& B.C. Development Co. Capital. $1,000,000 3,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 3,500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000.000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 £1,000,000 51.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 750.000. 2,500,000 '1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 600,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1001.000 2,000,000 2,000,000 Par Value. £5 1,000,000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 100,000 150,000 250 000 1,000,000 1,000.000 750,000 1,000,000 200,000 800.000 650,000 £300.000 $1500,000 2,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 1,000.000 250,000 12,000: l.OOO.OOOi 3,500,000 1,000,000! 1,000,000! 1,000,0001 500,000 1,000,000 250,000 1.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000 000 240,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 200 000 1,500.000 1,500,000 100,000 1,000,000 250,000 600,000 250,000 6,000,000 160,000 250,000 500,000 600,000 750,000 500.000 £125,000 £1 1 1 0 10 1 0 10 0 26 0 25 1 1 1 1 0 26 1 1 £1 n i 25 1 1 0 26 lc. par 1 1 00 1 1 1 50 n 025 1 1 1 10 1 30 1 1 10 1 0 25 1 25 1 0 25 03 19 12 12 12 6 11 17K 10 3 25 08 66 20 20 12K 1 00 1 25 06 1% 10 07 5 10 06 26 4 04 8 05 10 6 25 1 00 02 00^ 05M 05 05 4 85 CARIBOO. Cariboo Gold Fields Ld £100,000 {6,000,000 300,000 £360,000 $200,000 1,000,000 300,000 500,000 600,000 600,000 500,000 200,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 1,500,000 5,000,000 1600,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 2,500,000 1,000,000 600,000 600,000 1,260,000 1.000,000 100,000 1,000,000 f0,00'> 50,000 50,000 100,000 50,000 1,250,000 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 1,600,000 l,000,000i £1 $10 1 1 1 1 1 25 1 26 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 1 10 10 10 5 1 26 1 26 1 1 J 90 Cariboo M. & D. Co 26 1 26 86 LILLOOET DISTRICT. Alpha Bell FAIRVIEW CAMP. 02W 6P BOUNDARY CREEK:. 10 30 75 King 28 Knob Hill 85 Morrison 7 1 00 16 o% 30 CAMP MCKINNEY. 23 ^4 1 05 14 13 14 O'Shea 02 02 Mammoth 02 02 03 Silver Bell, Consolidated 13 REVEL8TOKE. Carnes Creek Consolidated EAST KOOTENAY. Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co $37 00 1 05 North Star Sullivan 12 THE HALEY-GIVENS INVESTMENT CO. (Incorporated.) Cspital Stock, $ioofooo.oo Paid Up. Real Estate and Loans, Stocks, Bonds and Mines. Official bookers for The Golden Tunnel Mining Co. Write us for information. SUITE 530-533 N.Y. Block, SEATTLE, WASH. W. H. BSOER. D.L.S..P.L.S. H. S. HSHCR0PT, D.L.S.,P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. Greenwood, B.C. BAUER & ASHGROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. YHNe©UYER and GREENW00D. R. H. Parkinson, ©ivil Engineer, Provincial Land Surveyor Hnd Notary Public. ■ j P.O. Address: PHIRVIEW, KEREMEOS HND BHMP McKINNEY, Fairview, B.C. E. M. SANDILANDS, General Agent, Fire Insurance and Mining 'Broker. Slocan Mines. SANDON, B. C THE MINING RECORD. Steam, Compressed | Air, Gasoline Hoists ALL STYLES. ALL SIZES. We Design and Create Special Hoists for Special Work. When in the market, write us of your requirements and let us submit estimates. Write for Illustrated Catalogue of Hoisting Machinery. The Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co'y, DENVER, COLORADO. TABLE OF Page CONTENTS— Mining in British Columbia during 1899 1 Editorial Notes 3 Mining Men of the Province (Mr. F. Keefer) 13 Laboratory Tests With Telluride Ores, by A. A. Watson 14 Suggestions for the Developments of Mineral Projects, by "Wf. M. Brewer 14 Gold Bearing Conglomerates in Northern British Columbia 16 Verbatim Evidence Center Star-Iron Mask Litigation 17 Aerial Tramways in the Slocan (Illustrated) 24 Technical Periodicals 25 Cupel Machines. 29 CONTENTS. THE MONTHS MINING— Page. Shoal Bay ' 30 Camp McKinnev 30 Boundary Creek 30 Rossland '. 32 Ymir 33 Sandon Revelstoke Trout Lake Publications Producing Mines Coal Expurtations The Metal Market The Local Stock Market.. 33 34 DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles Ainsworth, Ware & Son, Denver, Col B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C. Denver Fie Clay Co., Denver, Col Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal Page. X. n. ii. n. n. ASSAYERS— Selby Bros., Portland, Oregon X. Best, W. F., Victoria, B.C XVI. Holdich, A. H., Revelstoke, B.C XVI. Archibald & Pearson, Nelson, B.C XVI. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVI. Haggen, E. A., Golden, B.C XVI. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XVI. Cnno, Chas. F., Denver, Col XVI. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVI. British Columbia Agency, Vancouver, B.C XVII. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C XVHI. BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 HI. Bacon, Earle, C, New York I. BOILERS AND ENGINES—(Continued.) Page. Robb Engineering Co., Amherst, N.S IV. Albion Iron Works, Victoria, B.C XIII. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back Vancouver, B.C Cover. BANKS— Bank of British North America VTTT, Bank of British Columbia XTV. Merchants' Bank of Halifax LX. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J V. Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland Ont V. Jack & Robertson, Montreal Back Cover. COAL AND COKE— New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XIX. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass Cover. Gates Iron Works, Chicago, IU Cover. Fried Krupp Grnsonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. Bacon, Earle C, New York , I 11 Xll. THE MINING RECORD. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS—(Con.)— Page. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI ***• Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal • V1. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back Vancouver, B.C Cover. CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI ni. Bacon, Earle C, New York L CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York I DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— - £ I Sons, Welland, Ont V. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Hinton, Geo. C, & Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria. Cover. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI 38 Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C VII. Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. Co., Denver, Col XII. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I, ENGINES AND BOILERS— Bacon, Earle C, New York I. FILTER PRESSES— Perrin, Wm. R., & Co., Chicago, 111 I. FIRE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. B.C. Pottery Co., Victoria, B.C XII. GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS— Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. VI. •HOISTING MACHINERY— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 HI. Bacon, Earle C, New York I. Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland, Ont V. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XII. HYDRAULIC PD?E & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vaneouver V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. Albion Iron Works, Victoria XIII. MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal II, Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany X. MACHINERY AGENTS— Heaps, E. H., & Co., Vancouver, B.C VI, MINING BROKERS— Grigor, R. W., Rossland, B.C XIII Pemberton & Son, Victoria, B.C XVH Thornton, Langley S„ & Co., Rossland, B.C XVH Nicholson, Henry, Camp McKinney XVII' Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C XVH Hawley, John, Vancouver, B.C X More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C XV Putgold, George, Rossland, B.C XV MINING ENGINEERS— West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVI, Bromly, A. H., Vancouver, B.C XVI, Trethewey & Bucke, Vancouver, B.C XVI. Haj-vey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVI Archibald & Pearson, Nelson, B.C XVI, Groves, F. W., Greenwood, B.C XVI, Tytler, F. J. L., Vancouver, B.C ..'. XVI Redmond & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVI. Selby Bros., Portland, Ore x. Brewer, W M., Victoria, B.C ..!...! XVH, Tyrell, J. B., Dawson City, Yukon ..,, XVII Mackinnon, W. M., M.A.O., Vancouver, B.C .... XVH Fergusson & Crofts, Van'couver XVH, METAL JOBBERS— Robertson, James, & Co., Montreal, Vancouver..Back Cover, ORE PURCHASERS— Van Anda Copper and Gold Co., Van Anda X, PUMPS AND AHi COMPRESSORS— Page Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI III. Taylor Air Compressing Co., Spokane, Wash IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. James Cooper Mfg."Co., Montreal and Rossland VOX Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XH. Albion Iron Works, Victoria XHI. Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Co., Newark, N.J VI. POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. PAINTS— British American Paint Co VIH. Robertson, James, & Co., Ltd., Montreal and Van- Back conver Cover. PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng XVIII. Scientific Pub. Co., New York XVHI. PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES— Edwards Bros., Vancouver XVIH. ROCK DRILLS— James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland XVHI Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal Cover. Wilfley Ore Concentrator Syndicate, London, Eng X. SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson X. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XVH. Fergusson & Crofts, Van'couver XVH. Mackinnon, W. M., Vancouver XVH.' Silver-Lead. Mines Association XVH Tytler, T. J. L XVL Groves, F. W., Greenwood XVI. SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI I. SCREENS AND PERFORATED METALS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI ni. SMELTING AND ROASTING FURNACES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI m. STOCK COMPANIES— Referendum Gold Mining and Milling Co., Rossland.. XHI. SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XTV Rithet, R. P., & Co., Victoria '..'.'.]'.'.'.'.[ XX. TRADING CORPORATIONS— V. Y. T. Co., Lake Bennett xi. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XHI. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich .XVHL International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa.! .XVIII. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co yy Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria . XX WATER WHEELS— Pelton Water Wheel Co., San Francisco iy Leffel, James, & Co., Springfield, Ohio jy" Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Valle Co., Dayton, Ohio..... rv! Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco yi" WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Stemler & Earle, Spices, Etc., Victoria xtt Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits, Victoria...!.'.!! XH Fraser, Walter S., & Co., Hardware '..'.'.'. XIV Ward, Robert, & Co., Ltd., Commission' Merxiants and Importers XIV Leiser, Simon, & Co., Groceries !...'.!!!!' Xiv' Weiler Bros., Furniture ...'..'.' XV Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods xv' Turner, Beeton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquorsi..'.."." XV* Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Back Cover* THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. The British Columbia Review. Subscription $2.50 Per Annum. A_GOOD^WESTMENT. To Brokers, Mining Engineers, Owners of Mining Claims, Assayers, Journalists and others. Advertise in the B. C. REVIEW—The Only Representative B.C. Journal in Europe. 39 Bishopsgate St. S LONDON, ENG. R. W. GRIGOR, -MINES- ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GBIGOR. Use Bedford McNeil and Moreing and Neal's codes. H. W. TREST, Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. THOS. KIDDIE, Smelter Manager. Van Anda eOPPER & GOLD eo.. Purchasers and Smelters —OF— COPPER HMD e0PPER--G0LO ORES. Rates on application, Sash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van anda, Texada Island. B.e. A- VAN PER NAILLENS' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal The Referendum Free Gold Mining and Milling Co'y, ua. NON-PERSONAL LIABILITY. CAPITAL STOCK $500,000, in 2,000,000 shares of 25c. each. Rossland, B.C., May 19, 1899. We submit to the public as a safe and profitable investment the second issne of 100,000 shares in the Referendum Free Gold Mining .and Milling Company, Limited, non-personal liability, just organized and registered during the first week of July. The capital stock of the Company will be $500,000 in shares of 25 cents per value. Of these 800,000 shares are set aside to be sold to develop further the property and operate the mine. The Company's property is situated on Forty-Nine Creek, about 8 miles from the City of Nelson, B.C., and in the well-known free-gold belt, in which are also the Athabasca and Poorman mines, which have yielded excellent profits to their owners. Two shafts 85 feet deep have been sunk on one vein, and numerous cuttings have been made, showing the continuity of the ore body for one thousand feet. Assays from ore from these works are as follows : $80, $87, $246, $360, $412. Dr. P. Langhammer, mining engineer, estimates this vein to average $43 in value and 20 inches in width. This showing has enabled the Company to conclude arrangements for a plant to treat the ore, to be installed before snowfall. The gold being free and capable of extraction on the ground the expensive charges of transportation and smelting are obviated, and the profits will be correspondingly larger than from a base ore of equal assay value. ' The Company has thus its property proven and arrangements made to mine profitably from its inception and to pay dividends at an early date. The Company recently purchased a 5-stamp mill, boiler and engine with cyanide and chlorination plant. This plan will be operated within 90 days from August 10. A stage of progress has been reached when the mine can be worked throughout the winter. The nlan of operation includes the addition of five more stamps in the spring and running a tunnel to the boundary of the Referendum claim which is expected to cross-cut five more leads which now show on the surface. ■ All that was outlined in our circular of May 15 has been carried out. ■ Applications for stock and remittance for first payment of two cents per share may be made through any chartered bank or direct to the undersigned. Bankers for the Company : Merchants Bank op Halifax, ROSSLAND, B.C. E. N. OUIMETTE & CO., Brokers for the Company, ROSSLAND, B. MERCHANTS BANK of HALIFAX Rest, $1,500,000.00. INCORPOHATBD 1869. Capital, $2,000,000.00. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. r. E. KENNY, President. D. H. DUNCAN, General Manager. ED80N L. PEASE, Joint General Manager. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.S. Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B.C. Bridgewater, N. S. Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N. B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. 8. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Mail land, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Branches In Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches In United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pictou, N 8. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Rossland, B.C. Sackville, N.B. Shubenacadie, N. S. Summerside, P. E. 1. Sydney, N. 8. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria, B. C. Weymouth, N, S, Woodstock, N.B. Ymir, B. C. Republic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED THE MINING RECORD. MISSEL, LftNEODS. Robt.Ward&eo., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C 70 Baslnghall St , London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Swedish and Norwegian Consulate. Royal Belgian Consulate. Royal Danish Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Oo. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harrey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and "Amberite" (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brund. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's.and A.B.C., Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Wallace Building, Columbia Avenue, Rossland, B.C P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C., Fourth edition Moreing and J^eals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeals. The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Boyal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL(with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. & 100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: : In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand — Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTM ENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. Portraits! Buildings! Scenery! Fac-similes of Signature?, Le ters and Engravings of all kinds for Book and newspaper Printing. Map Engravings from Tracings. Also Reproductions from Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. SPIKE BROS.' COMPANY, TACOMA, WASH. Theodor Lexow, Nos. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, NEW YORK, importer of CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For p.iamond Drills and all Mechanical Purposes. HENRY PEMMERT. E. H. HEAPS &, CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND- DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery; Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Repbesemting—Cowan &Co., A. E. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class mujufacturers. . . . THE MINING RECORD. BRITISH COLUMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BR©S.. victoria, B.e. LENZ & LEISER, 9 <en yates street. IMPORTERS OF — GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for tbe Kp°ter)ay and Klondike Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. SIMON LEISER &e©. WH^y.ESALE Grocers, VICTORIA, B. C. Headquarters for Mining Supplies. TURNER, BEETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND 'AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Drv Goods, Liquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. goods .ndented from all par s ^ ' ^ „ „j ., . -ta+^ ...OF THE WORLD... Manufacturers of Clothing, B,tc TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. XVI. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONHL SOVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five sisters b.ock. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. | M. Inst. M. E. M. Amer. I. M. E. Mining and consulting Engineer. Cods:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, LONDON, E.C. i Christopher, London." P. O. Box 308, VANCOUVER, B.C. (" Bromly, Vancotjveb.") ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. (Heidelberg and Leipzig.) WM. F- BEST, ASSAYER. Late Official Analyst for the Province of New Brunswick. 28 Broad Street, - VICTORIA, B.e HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. M^k^ep5u&0«f.s^BP.p^lJ1,,8 Reports on Slocan Properties, Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, hi—... Its*.....*.- D f* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing ANeal's. W8W L/enVei, D.V.. RRQHBOLD & PEARSON, MINING ENGINEERS AND ASSAYERS- Cable Address: Archpe.r, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeil, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H, HOLDICH, gp ANALYTICAL CHEMIST a„d METALLURGIST. Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. F. W. GROVES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROVINemL LHND SURVEYOR. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported upon. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) HSSHYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testing and Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co., Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-719 Pender St., VA CCUVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE AS5AYS. Gold., Lead. ? 50 Gold and silver , 50 Gold, silver, copper . J 75 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, OGDBN ASSAY CO.. I429«16th St., DENVER. Colo. CHARLES F\ CUNO, ASSAYER and CHEMIST. Gold, silver, lead. 75 cents ; any two $1.00 ; all three $1.25. Copper, $1.00: Znic, $1.50; Iron, Manganese, Silica, $2.00 each, all three $5.00. Prices on other chemical work furnished on application. Amalgamation, cyanide, chlorinatijn tests, $5.00 each. Contracts for Ore made with smelters and sampling of same attended to. The only perfect Concentrator on exhibition. Write us. 1733 Champa St., P. 0. Box 784, DENVER, Colo. SEND YOUR ASSAYING T© THE. .. INLAND LABORATORY, KAMLOOPS, B.C. REDMAN & 0UTHETT, Mailed specimens receive our special attention. and treated. METALLURGICAL CHEMISTS. MINING ENGINEERS. Parcels of ore sampled Wm. fl. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. P.O. Box 130. » VICTORIA, B. C. W. M. MfteKINNQN, Assoc. M. Inst. e. E. Civil Engineer. Specialty: Hydraulic Engineering. Water power j Water Supply for Mines and Towns; Gold Dredging; Bridges: Structural Iron work, etc. MACKINNON BUILDING, Granville St., P.O. Box 262. VANCOUVER B.C- A CARD. From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayerc and Mining Experts. To the Mining Public of the North West. We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at 205^ Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future ■success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, J1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining Experts. 205^ WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY. TTRREM, M.A., F.G.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.L.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Engineers Dominion Land Surveyors. ■Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested" etc., etc. DAWSON, Y. T. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought acd Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. fBedford-Neal, : 611 Hastings St., 1 Moreing-Neill, VANCOUVER, B. C Codes .Clough'i One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines" S. THORNTON LANGLEY & CO, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: dough's and Moreing & Neal's. p.o.Bo*™. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims.' 519 Hastings |||||||| VANCOUVER, B.C. Ferguson & Crofts eivll and Mechanical ¥^-_. —..J—«. —. _.,-•_ eonsuitingEngmeers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications- Existing Plants Inspected. New Work In Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for I BOOTH'S HOISTS. The "Risdon" Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The " Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. Box 423. P. O. Box 676. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. IOO Stamp Mill Crtr C-|- Complete with or without water wheel, generators, dyna- ■ Oi OdlC. mos, electric locomotive, copper wire, about 5 miles of 56- lb. rail, ore cars and other machinery. Plant entirely new. Never operated. Of latest and most approved design. For information address FRASER & CHALMERS, west 12th street and Washtenaw, Chicago. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OFFICE: CAMP McKINNKY, B.C. N B.—Some valuable mining properties in Camp McKinney and vicinity for disposal. Correspondence solicited. Contain iA/ill.am« M F late superintendent of Tyee Mine, V#dfJldlll Wllllarrid} IVI.t.., Mount Sicker, is now in position to inspect and give reliable reports on that or any other mines or mineral claims in British Columbia at moderate charges. He bas a large and extensive experience in conducting mines of various descriptions for over 40 years. Address : Queen's Hotel, Victoria, B.C. PEMBERTON & SON MINING BROK6RS, Real Estate, Financial and Insurance Agents. Mining Properties for sale. Agents for the Townslte of Albernl. Farming Lands for sale in all parts of the Province. FORT STREET, IVictoria, B.C. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neill. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. MINING POBLICHTIONS, &@. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835- Ciroulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES: 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including-postage, is for :— 12 11101 ths. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. 14s. 7a. Payable in advance. PIONEER STEAM COFFEE i 3PIGE MILLS, BSTRBLISHEO IS6S. Manufacturers of Coffee, Spices, Cocoa, Cream Tartar, Mustard and Baking Powder. : STEMLER & EARLE, Pembroke Street Between Government and Douglas, VICTORIA, B.C. B. C. POTTERY CO., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pine, Flower Pots, etc. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C. DEALERS IN PhotorapfiiG Stock Agents for the Rochester Optical Co , and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OP—- Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. 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Electrical, Civil and Mining .Engineering; Architecture; jDraw- iug; Surveying; Chemistry; Shorthand; Book-keeping and English Branches TAUCHT BY MAIL. Students Qualified to pass examinations. We have helped thousands to better positions and salaries. Send for free circulars, stating the subject in which you are interested. TUB INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS, Box. 11?"?, Seranton, Pa. Honours Graduate the I „ Six years experience in Australia, South A Columbia, lie in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow < nstitute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. merica, England and British Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. x L term. College year, 45 weeks ~T?m9,;o*ir«„,,;^.'cvi''.lv-,;i3ysle,n- summer graduates, adlress ' MRS P H ffoff^™! employment of jhiw>. j.'. ±1. bLOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, Mich. Practical work. Elective System. Summer its. Wnr ™tol THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise ot ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas Liquor, by H. A. Fra*ch, (20 pp.); Asphaltum Kenning, by H. A. Frasch, (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry in the Ui ited States, byF. H.Lewis, (6 (>p,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry, (6 pp.); The Manuiacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle West, by H. Foster Bain, (13 ppT); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by" T. C. Hopkins (13 pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W.S. Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, by Earnest A. Sjosteat, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (32 pp.); Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, by T. C. Hopkins, (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Gold and Silver, by W. R. Ingalls, (26 pp.); The Hydro- Metallurgy of Silver, by Ottokar Hofmann, (27 pp.); The technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress m the Metallurgy of Steel, bv H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. S. Austin. (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Smelting, hy H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by <\ E. Si bi nthal (4 pp.); Lime and Lime Burning, by H. A, Frasch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist. (10 ftp.); Present Practice in the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symingt -n, *(7 pp.)* Occurrence and Recov« ry of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, by s, a! Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, by F. J. Folding, (54 pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium, by W. R Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1898, by Robert H. Richards* (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (11pp.); The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus U.lke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 2S3 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. VHNeODYER ISLAND eeSL. CQAL^COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. f (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIMO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) * * SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a cleau, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SHMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt, Nanaimo. B.C. THE MINING REC0KD. TRHNSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway THE WORLD'S HIGHWAY TO THE PACIFIC COAST, THE ORIENT AND THE ANTIPODES. THE BEST, CHEAPEST AND QUICKEST WAY TO Britsh Columbia. Japan and China, Oregon, Hawaii, Washington, Fiji and Australia, The Gold Fields of Cariboo and the famed Kootenay Country in British Columbia are reached only by the Canadian Pacific Railway via Revelstoke, B.C. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO ANY AGENT OF THE COMPANY OR TO A. H. NOTMAN, District Passenger Agent, St. John, N.B. H. J. COLVIN, District Passenger Agent, 197 Washington St., Boston, Mass. E. V. SKINNER, General Eastern Agent, 353 Broadway, New York. C. E. McPherson, Asst. Gen. Passenger Agt., 1 King St. E., Toronto, Ont. J. F. LEE, District Passenger Agt., 232 S. Clark St., Chicago, II. C. B. USSHER, Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent, MONTREAL M. M. STERN, District Passenger Agent, Chronicle Building, San Francisco, Cal. E. J. COYLE, District Passenger Agent, Vancouver, B.C. W. R. CALLAWAY, General Passenger Agent, Soo Line, Minneapolis, Minn. ROBERT KERR, General Passenger Agent, Western and Pacific Division, Winnipeg, Man. ARCHER BAKER, European Traffic Agent, 67 and 6S King William St., E.C, and 30 Cockspur St., S.W., London, Eng.; 7 James St., Liverpool. Eng., 67 St. Vincent St., Glasgow. Scotland. D. McNICOLL, General Passenger Agent, MONTREAL. RITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 47. Taking effect December 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily' at 1 o'clock. Vancouver to Victoria daily except Monday at 13 o'clock Sund'y at 11 p. m., or on arrival CP. Railway No. 1 Train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Sunday at 23 o'clock; Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock. Leave New Westminster—For Victoria Monday at 13.15 o'clock. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock. For Plumper at 7 o'clock. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o'clock. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at S o'clock during .river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Fort Simpson via Vancouver and intermediate ports on the First and Fifteenth of each month, and for Queen Charlotte Islands on the 10th of each month.. KLONDIKE ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave weekly for Wrangel Juneau, Skagway and Dyea. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer "WiUapa" leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th . and 20th. Extending 1 atter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARDETON, C. S. BAXTER, • General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent. The Hudson's Bay Company HAVE Baie de Feres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Fort Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Bat Portage Siding Mountain Shoal Lake 'Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria ■ Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. Felten & Guilleaume, Garlswerk Mulheim on Rhine, Germany - Manufacturers of ■ Electrical Leads and Cables Wire Ropes for Mining Electric Lighting Cables for Coal Pits with arrangment for avoiding fire-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Hound and Flat Wire Ropes, " Albert," or so-called " Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened Strand Wire Ropes. Iron, Steel, Copper and Bronze Wire Superior qualities... 3 Sole Agents for Canada Jack& Robertson 7 St. Helen St. MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'y, Limited, VANCOUVER, B.C. Manufacturers of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints, Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. METALS. Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. Office and Warehouse. - 151 Hastings St Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. Ontario Gold Minino District. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. A few Mines who Use Britisn Colombia. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., ™is THI^ MONTH \ Auriferous Alluvium of the Fraser River. By J. D. Kendall. iuiv> ««v/iiin.|TheQuatsinoCoa| Mcasures. (Illustrated.) Etc., Etc. VOL. VII. FEBRUARY, 1900. No a. GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA. B. O. VANCOUVER, B. C. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF Electrical Mining- Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. O. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE Pgl; FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Ocr British Columbia Branches at ■ VICTORIA. VANCOUVER. CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., Send for Circular. Boston. Mass. PRICE, 20 CENTS. mmmmi m BELTING B Users of this article would do well to examine our stock in this line. We carry a larger assortment than any other dealer in the Province. The Electric Brand of Rubber Belting we stock is not excelled by any other make. It is used by all the large mills in the Province. We carry it in stock up to 22 inches, and Leather Belting up to 16 inches in width. McLennan, McFeely & Co. LIMITED, WHOSESALE HARDWARE VANCOUVER, B.C. DAWSON CITY, N.W.T. Agents for the Giant Powder Co., San Francisco. Agents for the Majestic Steel Range Co., St. Louis. *»@! w* nn *-x a> (fi », ©! I m o 3 «8 (0 o •>■« U a 0. lew C3 Pd r~. O , Q_ w o 3 5)i in* Ob .23 s«. FRIED KRUPPGRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING I MACHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than i,8oo at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. -.'jfiSa AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT -. ■> COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. 1| (a) Tor Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration. —'tt^jvX'''1- (b) For Dr* CrushinS by Bal1 Mills' D"st Extraction and teaching COAL WASHING PLANT—Large Testing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Works. eNT8= . f.;;;' ' For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R. I THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MHeHINERY. HOISTING CRUSHING AND Mining Machinery. P A^^MC1 Double Drum □MwUIIO Winding Engines. BACON'S Under-^redHoist, Earle C. Bacon. Engmeei Havemeyer Building, NEW YORK. Mine Cars. Engines. Boilers. Gravity Incline Machinery Send for Completely Illustrated Cats- ~^ajx®!!!_ Crusher. Standard-of the World. BACON'S DOUBLE CYLINDER Single Drum Winding Engines for Mine Shafts, Slopes, etc. Link Belt ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS. ANY MATERIAL. ANY CAPACITY. 4 "Eink Belt," 4-Ulltccl EoMmotiuc, 1 motor. Conveyor 328 feet centers, handling 4 tons " run of mine" coal per minute. Electric Coal Mining and Haulage Machinery, Link-Belting, Sprocket Wheels, Malleable Iron Buckets, Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Patent Machine-Moulded Rope Sheaves, etc. THE LINK=BELT MACHINERY CO., Engineers, Founders, ttachinsts, Chicago, U.S.A. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.s.a. MANTTFACTr/RERS pilter Presses For Cyanide and ehloromatic Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. THE MINING RECORD. aSSHYERS' SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Brunton's Pat. Pocket Mine Transit. No. 044 BUTTON BALANCE. T T T Operator taking courses or horizontal Hngles with. Brunton's Patent Pocket Mine Transit. If you -wished to find the angle between two points oelow the horizontal with a sighting compass or an ordinary transit, you would first have to set up your tripod or staff and then level up your instrument. All this takes time. If you only wanted to get the angle within a degree or so, you could take a B ru n t o n Transit and, holding it in the position shown, take your readings in less time than you can place any other instrument. Send for descriptive catalog. B to ▲ A A W T T Sensibility 1-100 milligramme. If you are in the market for the very best Balance obtainable at a moderate price, write us for particulars about the 041. You will be surprised to find how cheaply it can be purchased for cash. While we cannot recommend this Balance for fine gold work, a great many assayers are using it for such successfully. Send for illustrated catalogue A for complete description and prices to AAA WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, successors to WM. AINSWORTH, Denver, Colo., U. S. A. 6 Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B. C, W. F. TBBTZEL & CO., Nelson. flSSfly, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- E are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large' Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C, ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. # P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. ^ Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., -mt. MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO m hrft SB D Q 5j DO* CD s (D p »1 y-f CD > g T3 5 *1 ■C P H M C OQ 3 1*" pa 1 ■ t<f c- t H 21 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851. -Incorporated 1895. ASSAYERS5 HATERIALS, Fline and Hill Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co., Battersea, England. Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker m Adaamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining and scientific books New illustrated catalogue on application JOHN TAYLOR & CO., 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO. Calif. THE MINING RECORD. GEKERflL MINING MHeHINERY.-eontinued. 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. — —■ _ —HEADQUARTERS FOR— Mining Machinery. Hoisting Engines for Deep Mines. Prospectors Hoists. Gray's Patent ©hairs. ears, Cages. Sederholm Boilers. Corliss Engines. Reidler Pumps and Mr Compressors. o o i U t Q Z w W P* H O to 1—1 O 00 > I 5 ■ I ?° 3 I O c r 00 Adjustable Comet Rock and Ore Crushers. Perforated Metals for all Purposes. <WeartopintenddingsePndrSI?s.rmples Improved Crushing Rolls. Smelting and Roasting Furnaces. Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And equipment of every kind. Our machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any other manufacturer. It is in use on all gold fields and is recognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is a recent example of our work Ball Pulverizers such as used at the Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone Mill are of our manufacture. Write for Catalogue -REPRESENTED BY- MENNO UNZ1CKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exc.usive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, England, South Africa and Australia. THE MINING RECORD. eaBLES, water wheels hnd compressors. WEBBER-"COMPRESSION GRIP is used only on the Patent Bleichert Wire Rope Tramway, and others, manufactured by THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, N. J. ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS, 2 and Sole Licensees in North America for the Bleichert System. Also Wire Rope Equipments for Surface and Underground Haulage, Transmission of Power, Etc. No lugs or knots of any kind required onthetraction rop", giving longer ser- NEW YORK OFFICE- vice and saving in repairs. Illustrated book upon application. Cooper Hewitt & Co. 17 Burling Slip. CHICAGO OFFICE 1114 Monadnock Building. M. BBA TTY & SONS, WELLAND, ONTARIO, Dredges, Ditchers and Steam Shovels, For Dredging, Ditching, Dyking, Gold Mining, Etc. Of various styles and sizes to suit any work. Mine Hoists, Hoisting Engines, Stone Derricks/ Horsepower ilo-stcrs, Suspension Cableways, Submarine Rock Drilling Machinery, Gang Stone Saws, Centrifugal Pumps for Drainage Works, Pumping Sand, Gold Mining, Etc. We also furnish WIRE ROPE at Lowest Prices. Compressed Hir from Falling Water. eH high testimonial. THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. DEAE SIRS:— We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Worts, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department. Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. Yours truly, W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH. -MANUFACTDREES OF — WATER P0WERjhe" Victor-Turbine HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A.. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lachine Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 13,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufactui-mg Co Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & light Co'' Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL HND MINE SUPPLIES. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has teen able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Ourmachines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Alining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, III. ALBION IRON WORKS COMPANY, LTD. CAPITAL — — _ — $500,000 ENGINEERS, IRON FOUNDERS AND BOILER MAKERS. MANUFACTURERS OE MARINE AND LAND ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC. Fish Canning and Mining Machineby, Hydbaulic Giant Pipes and Sinking Pumps fob Mines, Stoves, Grates Fbench Ranges, Etc., Etc. Sole Agents in British Columbia for H. R. Worthington's Steam Pumps, and Ingersoll. Rock Drill Company's Steam Rock Drills. NO. 1 CHATHAM STREET AND 71 STORE STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. •X- C*t:<* p. O. DRAWER 12.—*e~<MS~^ The A. & M. Ore Cars »»—»^»».. —Have Cast Steel Wheels. Which make them run easier and wear better than any other Car made If you are in the market for Machinery, Iron or Steel work of any kind, write us, we shall be pleased to quote you prices. Rivetted Steel Pipe is our Specialty. Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver, B.C. Improved Automatic. 'Phone 250. P. O. Box 51. To Kootenay Hardware Dealers. For Lowest Prices on Iron, Steel, Picks, Shovels, Pipe, Fittings, Brass Goods, Barrows, Trucks, etc. I MILL AND MINING SUPPLIES, ADDRESS ^- ^^^ j&ga± Walter S. Fraser & Co., Limited. Wharf St. Victoria, B.C. [Sill ilit 1S62. Tel. 3. P. O. Box 423. THE MINING RECOED. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ET6. THE JENCKES MACHINE CO Builders and Contractors for Complete flining & Power Plants. We carry a large stock-of Machinery and Supplies at our Rossland Warehouse. If in need of anything for your mill or mine, please write our agent, MR. F. R. MENDENHALL, who will quote you satisfactory prices, and probably be able to fill your order at once from stock. HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: 32-40 LANSDOWNE STREET, .SHERBROOKE, QUE. F. R. MENDENHALL. Agent, ROSSLAND, B.C. Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. iff -MANUFACTURERS OP AND DEALERS IN- Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery COMPRISING HYDRAULIC GIANTS, CONCENTRATORS, WATER GATES, SMELTERS, SHEET IRON and HOISTING and STEEL PIPE, PUMPING PLANTS, 'I STAMP MILLS, SAW MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, MINE and MILL ORE FEEDERS, SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application s HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATEB WHEEL. HH7unL/rON POMDEk COY. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers of High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office: MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICES: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland Greenwood. NANAIMO. Patent Pending, ..PERFECT CUPELS.. can be made by anyone with • ease and dispatch, with CALKINS' Cupel Machines Compact, easily operated, can't get out of order. Everlasting. No Assay Office Complete THE AUTOMATIC, Without One, This machine will make 5 sizes cupels ■^-^^-^ of ideal perfection. Capacity, 600 &n Descriptive Pamphlet and Price hour. List mailed on application. l. & e. Combination Melting and Muffle Assayers' Furnaces Are Economical, Convenient and Efficient. Gasoline Tanks, Hydro-Carbon PHTENTEB. This illustration shows h. & C. Furnace in operation. Melting and Cu- -. .-.. peling at same time with one burner. Blowpipe UUttltS F. W. BRAUN & CO., Z^E^JSEZ' Los Angeles, California. These goods may he obtained from the British Columbia Assay and Chemical Supply Co., Ltd., of Vancouver, B.C. ~-^mm THE MINING RECORD. ELECTRIEHL MACHINERY. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MHNOFfleTURERS ©F Electric 1 Mining I Apparatus * Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM .WRITE US.. BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA NELSON. VANCOUVER Vlll. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. inoGrsoll-Mant Rook Drills For TUNNELS MINES and QUARRIES. Straignt Line Dopiexand Compound fllF 60IHDr6SS0rS COMPLETE MINE EQUIPMENT. JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, limited MONTREAL, P.Q. Branch Office—ROSSLAND. B.C. JAMES D. SWORD, Manager. The Brackman=Ker Milling- Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. rianufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. (Registered.) ^Unequalled in the World. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with, the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton. B.&K. BftNK ©F BRITISH N©RTH HMERieft. ESTABLISHED 1836. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1840. PHID UP CHPITHL, SI.000,000 STERLING. RESERVE FUND 300,000 LONDON. ENG., OFFICES, 3 CLEMENTS LSNE, LOMBARD STREET. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES : SIDNEY, N.S. HALIFAX, N.S. MONTREAL, P.Q. ST. JOHN, N.B. OTTAWA, Ont. FREDERICTON, N.B. KINGSTON, Ont. QUEBEC, P.Q. TORONTO, Ont. HAMILTON, Ont. BRANTFORD, Ont. LONDON, Ont. MIDLAND, Ont. WINNIPEG, Man. BRANDON, Man. NEW YORK, N.Y. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA : VICTORIA, YANCODYER, ROSSLAND, TRAIL, KASLO, ASHCROFT, GREENWOOD. Also at the Gold Fields—ATLIN, BENNETT and DAWSON CITY, Highest Prices Paid for Gold Dust and Amalgam. G. H. BURNS, Mgr., VI6TORI3L, B.G. MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAVER CO., Seattle, Wash. Mine Hoists. Air and Hand Drills. Air Compressors. Pipe and Tubular Pumps, Pipes, etc. Boilers, nining and Hill Hachinery and Supplies. Correspondence solicited. MM The Mining Record. Vol. VII. FEBRUARY, 1900. No. 2. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING RECORD Devoted to the Mining Interests of British Columbia. PUBLISHED BY The Mining Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. nORTIMER LAMB, flanaging Editor. London Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Vancouver Branch Office : Hamilton & White, Hastings St Montreal: Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co. San Francisco : Dakc's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERI1S: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 Ail communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to The;Editor, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mixing Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW —A SUMMING-UP. THE MONTH. THE labour dispute in the Slocan is in a condition now in which its further continuation is a puzzle to those who look at the matter from a purely business point of view. The dispute has travelled far from the subject matter which engrossed the attention of the parties to it at its beginning. The eight- hour law was passed in this province at a time when such a sweeping change in the economic conditions of industry could ill be afforded. It was passed in response to a sentiment among working men :n favour of reducing their hours of labour—a most praiseworthy sentiment, but one they would themselves be the last to put into practical effect, if it were clear that the result would be to greatly diminish the opportunity to work at all. It was passed without any due inquirv into the conditions of the mining industry which it affected and the lamentable result stands as a monument to ill-considered and hasty legislation. The law having been passed, however, and put in operation, it was early recognized by most people as irrevocable. It formed a new condition of affairs, a new environment to which the industry of mining must adapt itself without any hope of recurrence to the labour day of ten hours. Those who were injured by its passage sought relief in a reduction in the wag is paid under the new system. The miners on the other hand claimed that having received this boon by legislation they were entitled to the same wages as ithey had previously received, else the boon was of no real benefit to them. Had legislation the power to take away from capital a portion of its profits and present these to labour this argument of the miners would be reasonable enough. But legislation does not possess this power. So soon as capital suffers loss it withdrawn from industry and permits it to stagnate in the particular locality or trade in which its interests have been touched. Nor is there, as many people seem to think, any personal malignity involved. Capital is an impersonal and mechanical force operating under natural laws. Neither the capitalist, nor the legislator, nor the workman can affect its "operation in the least, nor change by one iota the laws by which it is governed. Can one imagine the principle of gravity shedding tears over the destructive terrors of an avalanche? Capital is as little subject as the principle of gravity to considerations of a personal nature. Wisdom and prudence increase a country's store of capital, waste and extravagance diminish it. Upon an adequate accumulation the welfare of a communitv depends. Rut in its operation it is not subject to caprice whether of individuals or of legislative bodies. Therefore if legislation was passed lessening the returns to capital and reducing them below the returns it demanded from a particular industry in a particular country, the infringement could only result in the stagnation of the industry in question and the stoppage of further capital from entering it. So that, except by a return to the old conditions or a proportionate reduction in the remuneration of labour under the new, no way out of the impasse was possible, nor was it any argument against the latter to say that because the change had been inaugurated by legislation, economic necessities should lose their binding force. The fact that the mines were closed down and remained closed is proof enough that the natural law governing capital's operation in the Slocan had been interfered with, and that the industry could not revive unless the old conditions were restored, or a reduction in wages effected. The men's contention regarding legislation was simply beside the point. It was neither right nor wrong. Legislation can alter the hours of labour but it cannot effect the proportion of the product of labour which goes to the labourer as against that going as a return to capital. So long as the dispute remained on that ground it could not be adjusted. It was not susceptible of adjustrhent. On the other hand, if the men were wrong in demanding" the old scale of wages it must be admitted that the mine owners were equally wrong in demanding" a reduction of SO cents per day on account of the eight- hour law. This involved a larger proportional reduction in wages than the law had reduced the amount of 40 THE MINING RECORD. work done. Any employer of labour is of course entitled to get his work done as cheaply as he can, but he is not entitled to use a law as a lever to effect its cheapening. If $3.50 per day was as much as capital could afford to pay under the old scale of hours then the new scale of hours should have brought about a sufficient reduction to leave the unit of work costing the same as it did under the old system. But no further reduction was legitimate. Here, then, was the Slocan dispute in a nutshell, the men were trying to use the law to extract a higher rate of pay per unit of work, the owners were attempting to enforce a lowar rate. It was obvious to the least instructed human being outside the area of dispute that the ultimate result must be a compromise on a basis of $3.25 per shift of eight hours. But it took eight months before the parties to the dispute abandoned the ground they took up at the beginning. Eventually, however, an offer was made to the men of a permanent settlement on a basis of $3.25 for an eight-hour shift. The acceptance of this was complicated'by the fact that a number of men were working at the old scale on development work in the mines. The union's answer to this offer was unsatisfactory for two reasons, first, in only accepting $3.25 for stoping work, retaining $3.50 as the scale for drifts, shafts and raises, and second, in endeavoring to impose conditions upon the mine owners regarding the employment of union labour only. The first of these stumbling blocks could probably have been got over. The class of work for which $3.50 was demanded was all such as could be contracted for by the mine owners, and in any case the stipulation was only entered in the reply to secure the adhesion of the men at present at work. So for as the union's replv was concerned it was broadlv an acceptance of the $3.25 rate, or at least an abandonment of the principle of the same wage as before the passage of the law. The owners, having abandoned the attempt to enforce a $3.00 scale, and the men having given up the $3.50 scale as a matter of principle there was nothing in the wages question which did not admit of very easy adjustment. The union's demand, on the other hand, for the employment only of union labour was not only unfair to the employers but absolutely at variance with the principles of trades unionism itself. A master should have no more to do with whether a man is a member of a union or not than with whether he is a member of a church or not. Nor should an employer be used as a lever to enforce adhesion on the part of his men to a union. Unless a union can show enough of benefits to the working man to secure his voluntary adherence it is not entitled to his support. Union men may object to working with nonunion men and may, if they choose, refuse to do so. But it is merely destructive of the union's usefulness - to make the masters its recruiting officers. Upon this question the dispute in the Slocan goes on. The actual matter of the dispute has disappeared. Rancor and distrust alone keep it up. Because these undesirable qualities are at the bottom of the men's demand, j Surely there is common sense enough left on both sides to perceive that it only requires a littb mutual confidence, a little mutual concession, to settle matters upon a firm and lasting basis and to restore the promise of the silver-lead mining industry in this country. There are many curious things in connection with the mining law of British Columbia and even mor-; curious things in connection with the way it is carried out. Recently a regulation has been a made in relation to the issue of Crown vexatious grants which is at once petty, useless regulation and excessively vexatious. It appears there is a clause in the Act which provides that a certificate of improvements may be issued when $500 worth of work has been done and recorded. This has lately been interpreted to mean that a certificate of improvements may not be issued unless five separate assessments are duly recorded at $2.50 per head. Let us for example take a claim staked in June, 1899. During July $500 worth of work is done, the claim is duly surveyed and the description of the work put in. The new ruling requires that five separate records must be made before the certificate of improvements can be issued. Anything more paltry or idiotic could not well be conceived. It is too much exasperation to inflict upon claim owners and surveyors merely for the purpose of enriching the Government by $10.00. The work must be split up into five parts and a solemn record made upon each. Could anything be more nonsensical ? The amount of delay, expense and trouble this has occasioned in several instances is very great. The resultant advantage, except the miserable fees, supposed to be payment for registration of title not taxes, is absolutely nothing. It is the trick of a second rate lawyer's office to expand a bill of costs. The whole matter originated in the office of the Nelson Gold Commissioner, Mr. J. A. Turner, upon the 22nd of May last. Application was- made by a surveyor to the mining recorder at Nelson for a certificate of improvements upon a claim on which only three records of assessment had been filed. It was refused by the recorder acting under the instructions of the Gold Commissioner on that ground. A lengthy correspondence followed during which the Minister of Mines was appealed to. The following letter gives the ruling of the Department after consultation with the Attorney- General :— "Department of Mines, Victoria, nth August, 1899. "Sir:—I beg to acknowledge your letter of the 7th inst. with respect to your application for a certificate of improvements on the mineral claim. "I regret not having replied to your letter of the 23rd June earlier, but this question has been under the consideration of the Hon. the Attorney-General. The clauses in the Mineral Act are somewhat ambiguous as to the recording of assessment work before Form 1 can be issued, but as I understand that it has not been customary in the majority of the mining divisions to require such records to be made I have decided to instruct the mining recorder at Nelson to issue a certificate of improvements without requiring these records to be made provided he is satisfied the work has been done and the other requirements of the Act complied with. "I am, sir. vour obedient servant, "J. FRED HUME, "Minister of Mines." It might naturally have been expected that this would have settled the matter. But on September the 2nd the following letter was received from the mining recorder at Nelson:— "Nelson, B.C., September 2nd, 1899. "Sir:—Referring to your letter of the 29th ultimo, I would say that as the above claim remains the same THE MINING RECORD. 4i as it did May 22nd last, I will have to request that the conditions contained in my letter of that date be complied with before issuing- Form 1. "Yours obediently, "D. A. McBEATH, "Mining Recorder." The only explanation possible of such a letter appeared to be that the decision of the Department upon the Attorney-General's advice had not been forwarded to the Nelson office. That, however, was not the case. The Minister of Mines had communicated with the Nelson office and the Gold Commissioner had simply refused to carry out the instructions of the Department. Upon these instructions other offices were issuing certificates but the Nelson Gold Commissioner remained a source of higher authority than the Minister of Alines. The following letter from the Minister of Mines can only be regarded as a confession of weakness. He virtually admits his inability to super- vise the actions of the Gold Commissioner of Nelson district:— "Department of Mines, "Victoria, 13th September, iSqo. "Sir:—I beg to acknowledge vour letter of the 6th The phrase "therefore it. is possible my decision in this matter may not have been brought to Mr. Mc- Beath's notice," is delightful; and the spectacle of a Minister of the Crown, finding the Gold Commissioner obdurate in defiance, "begging" the Gold Commissioner's subordinate officer to obey the mandate of the Department, is, if sufficiently humiliating for him, intensely ludicrous to everyone else. Did this humble appeal have the desired effect? Not a bit of it. Mr. Turner prevented Mr. McBeath from carrying out the decision of the Department, and when he left for England left precise written instructions with the acting Gold Commissioner that Form 1 was not to be issued till his view of the law had been carried out in express defiance of the ruling of the Department under the advice of the Attorney-General. The result eventually was that the Department caved in as the following letter shows, dated the 29th December, 1899. The date is highly important:— "Department of Mines, "Victoria, 29th December, 1899. "Sir:—In further reference to the correspondence that has taken place in connection with the record of assessments on a mineral claim before a certificate of How the Noble Si-trash Travels in the Omineca District. inst, stating that the Mining Recorder at Nelson had refused to issue Form 1 in respect of your application for a certificate of improvements for the mineral claim. "I find that the instructions with respect to your claim were sent to Mr. Turner and not to Mr. McBeath, therefore it is possible my decision in this matter may not have been brought to Mr. McBeath s notice. "I will now write to Mr. McBeath and beg him to carry out the instructions conveyed in my letter to Mr. Turner of the nth August in respect of your claim. "I am, sir, your obedient servant, "J. FRED HUME, "Minister of Mines." improvements can issue. I beg to inform you that the Gold Commissioners have been instructed not to issue a certificate cf improverrents for any mineral claim until the books of the Mining Recorder of the division in which such claim is situate show that certificates cf work amounting to $500 have been duly issued and recorded. "I am, sir, vour obedient servant, "J. FRED HUME, "Minister of Mines." All that appears to be now necessary to complete the incident is a further letter from the Minister of Mines "begging them to see that their respective Gold Commissioners carry out the instructions of the Department. What a travestv of executive gxive I 42 THE MINING RECORD. ment! And what a comforting reflection for those interested in mining that the industry is subject to such capricious and vexatious rulings! The greatest and most pressing need of Canada today is capital to develop the mines of the country. One of the best means of inducing its incoming is to publish reliable statistics of the output of the precious metals. Let us show our progress month my month and year by year. Surely if the United States finds it expedient to publish an epitome of its mineral production for the year as promptly as the 31st of December, it would also be of advantage to Canada to see that its Statistics of mineral production were put promptly in the hands of the public. The Rand crush-, ings are, or have been, eagerly looked for in reference to each month of the year. Western Australia takes the most elaborate precautions to- have its monthly and yearly production accurately noted. There can be no two questions about the adantages to be derived from the publication of such facts and figures. Canada has nothing to conceal, as a matter of fact a most wonderful rate of progress to show. The mineral production of Canada in gold, silver, lead, copper and nickel has been multiplied two and a-half times in two years. About $13,000,000 in 1897, it increased to $21,000,000 in 1898, while a rough estimate for 1899 shows an output of at least $34,000,000. Canada is now as important a producer of the precious metals as Western Australia and has a future infinitely greater. But people do not know it. The mining industry of Canada is still considered iby European investors as of doubtful commercial importance and the results so far obtained have been minimized in their minds by the lack of success, on the average, which has attended their particular investments. But the main trouble is that Canada has not yet awakened to> a consciousness of its own future as a mineral producing country. The glory of the country is not its wheat and corn and butter and cheese, but its gold andsilver and copper and lead and coal and iron. These mark it as a great manufacturing and trading conutry. The natural resources which have made great countries of Britain and the United States must equally affect the future of Canada. Still, without the power or will to attract the surplus capital of the world how comparatively slow and laborious must our progress be. As already pointed out one of the best ways to attract capital is to publish statistics of progress, and it so happens that this could be very easily done. The mineral output of Canada takes the form of either gold dust, gold bullion, lead bullion, copper matte or crude ore. None of these are retained in the country; they are all exported and their amounts, with the value of them, are entered at the various ports of entry. Now what could be easier than for the Government to get from each customs officer the amount of metal of different kinds, and its value, exported every month, to collate and epitomize these returns at a central office and publish a monthly bulletin of mineral production which could be easily and accurately summarized at the end of the year. Such a bulletin'would be eagerly seized upon and published by the press: its cost would be almost nothing and its value to the mining industry would be incalculable. Of course all this information finds its way finally into the statistical year book. But there its proper significance is lost to the casual reader and has to be carefully extracted before it becomes anything of an advertisement to the country. The step suggested is so easy and so obvious that surely some one in authority might be induced to consider the expediency of its immediate adoption. Apropos of the new basis which the American Smelting and Refining Co. has established in purchasing lead ore, our esteemed contemporary, the Mining, and Scientific Press of San Francisco, makes some remarks which should prove interesting to owners of silver-lead mines in this country: "After January 1st, 1900, the American Smelting and Refining Co. wishes to do away with the brokers' quotation on lead, and in its lieu the quotation of the average actual sales in New York for the previous week will govern the settling price of lead for the week followmg. The full price of these average sales will be paid, less a deduction of ^ of a cent per pound." "The plan is to have the average price of lead which ruled in New York City during the week wired the different managers of the different districts every Monday morning, and the settlement for the current week will be on that basis—less -J of a cent per pound: for instance, to-day's quotations, $4.70^, would make the price $4.57-}. That the market will fluctuate is manifest; that the system will not induce or insure general satisfaction is equally plain; but it is deemed an improvement over the old way. The fact that the purchasers have the making of the market, the setting of the pace and price, and can arbitrarily raise or depress value's, is too obvious to need more than reference. With the lead producers of Colorado, Utah and the Coast rests the final verdict. The first effect is satisfactory, in an increased price. Lead fluctuated so much, and 'brokers' quotations' have so spoiled markets as to occasion an annual loss of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. The present quotations are the best in many years. Ten years ago lead was $3.85 (and silver was $1.50!). In August, '90, lead went to $5, and in October of that year $5.25. In January, '91, it went down to $4.05, silver being quoted at $1.03!. January 1st, '92, lead was $4.25; silver, 94jjc; and in June, '93, lead ruled at $3.40, silver 62c. Lead dropped during '94 and '95, and in August, '96, went down to $2.50 per hundred pounds. On January it, '97, it had advanced to $2.90; January 1st, '98, $3.70; December, '99, $4.45. The quotation of $4.57-^ looks well alongside the above figures. In the new deal it is understood that the National Lead Co. has got the worst of it. The result must be the stimulation of the mining of plumbiferous ores, for they are a prime requisite in the smelting of dry ores. It will also affect the present international relations in the importation of British Columbia lead ore. There is an increase in the working charges, nothing is paid for the lead in lead ores containing less than five per cent of that metal. Nevada complains: 'Ninety per cent, of the assay of lead at New York quotations is now paid, less $30 per ton, which, with the ^ of 1 cent per pound added, makes a deduction of $32.50 per ton. In the past from $23.50 to 27.50, depending on the percentage of lead, was deducted. This will make a difference of from $4 to $9 per ton on lead. We also pay $1 per ton more for treatment charges.' The Smelting and Refining Company say: 'This is the best we can do. In Utah the increased price of coke, coal and iron ore makes an additional expense to our Salt Lake smelters of $175 per day.' THE MINING RECORD. 43 The new adjustment can not give universal satisfaction but will tend to postpone the inevitable opposition that the combined smelting interests in the districts affected must inevitably meet." The immediate outcome of the change in the incidence of Dominion customs as regards Canadian lead refined m the United States is the blowing in of a lead furnace at the Trail smelter, which will treat a considerable proportion of the lead ores of the Slocan and East Kootenay and give employment to from fifty to seventy-five men. This doubtless will mean an appreciable addition to the metal industry of South Kootenay, if the management of the Trail smelter, at whose instance the concession of the rebate of duty was chiefly granted, find that the programme of successfully competing with the American smelters can be carried out as promised. being shipped these improvements are wholly superfluous. As a matter cf fact the Le Roi has reserves of ore wonderful in extent and of satisfactory value. It is not hazarding a wild prophecy to say that the rate of output from the Le Roi will be doubled during 1900 and that the price cf Le Roi shares touch the £10 mark. The conditions making for increased production are even more marked in the War Eagle and Centre Star than they are in the Le Roi. As depth is gained it is found in both of these mines that the present rate of shipment is quite inadequate to the bodies of ore disclosed. Indications of the pressure are to be found in the steadily increasing pay roll. Month by month in a steady stream more men are engulfed in these great mines and month by month the population and prosperity of Rossland increases in consequence. The addition of the Centre Star to the dividend- paying mines of Rossland, albeit anticipated, is verv welcome. The first dividend of one per cent., which it is hoped to make a minimum monthly rate of payment aggregates $30,000 but as the mine is already yielding an average of 1,000 tons a week and will do more in the early future, it would seem that there is every prospect of a long continuance of a monthly dividend of at least one per cent, on the capital of $3,000.- joo. The dividend, payable as it is month- , Iy, is really almost equivalent to a dividend of 14 per cent, per annum paid in half- /earlv instalments. The developments foreshadowed in the ' Rossland camp during 1900 are such as cannot be interfered with by commercial stringency, or wars or rumours of war. It cannot be long now before adequate hoisting facilties are provided in the big producing mines.' The lack of them is the only circumstance which has been retarding the output of ore. At the same time the tonnage is safely maintained at 5,000 tons a week —260,000 tons a year. It has been the unfailing experience of the camp that the lightest shipments have been characteristic of the first quarter of the year. Why it should be so it is not easy to conjecture, but so it has been in the past and there are very definite reasons for supposing that this year will prove no exception to the rule. In the first place the Le Roi has as yet received no advantage from the enormous capital expenditure in providing better hoisting and timbering facilities in the mine. Now it is obvious to anyone not specially endowed with reasoning powers that if there was not more ore to ship than is at present Boating on Lake "Windermere, E. Kootenay, in Winter Sophie Mountain is practically assured of one railway this year if not two. A survey has been made from Rossland and the route platted has been placed at the disposal of a company prepared to- build provided arrangements —— J can be made with the mines for a certain output of ore. Mr. Hill, the president of the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway, is also seriously considering a branch to tap the valley of main Sheep Creek. As is usually the case, it never rails railways but it pours them. The hint or sugggestion that one company is going to make a new connection seems always to stimulate a competing line into overt action. Nothing is so desirable to a railway company as territory which lif some other company covets. A branch line from the S. F. & N. railway would open up a big mineral territory cut off at present from all access to the outside world. The Boundary Creek district will, as we have already pointed out, be unusually well accommodated with shipping facilities, for railway spurs run to- the dumps of many of the larger mines, thereby providing cheap transportation from mine to smelter. Yet, seeing that many of the ledges, although of great extent, are of so low a grade as to barely admit of profitable reduction, after paying extraction and transportation charges, would it not be wiser to concentrate them before shipping? As a rule the gold and silver values are in the iron pyrites, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrites and galena. Of course there are exceptions—consequently a somewhat close concentration is possible, without losing any material portion of the values. An experiment made recently upon ore from the Bullion mine, on Olalla Creek, Upper Keremeos, showed that when concentrated to 41 per cent, of its original bulk, 44 THE MINING RECORD. all gold and copper were saved, together with nine- tenths of the silver. Copper seems to be the great gold carrier in Boundary ores, though there are instances when this generalization does not hold good. As a rule, however, the more copper, the higher the gold values. Where sufficient water for milling purposes is available, and the ores do not lie in the immediate neighbourhood of a railroad spur, it will be found that a concentrating plant offers the best solution as to the treatment of many Boundary properties. We are glad to see from the audited accounts of the Lillooet Fraser River and Cariboo' Gold Fields, a copy of which we have just received, that our advice to the effect that the company had lost during the past financial year the sum of £8,518 was absolutely incorrect. We much regret having published the inaccurate information in our January issue, as the statement was unjust to the management of the company both here and in London. The apparent bad showing is attributable to the writing off of £7,851 -5s. 2d., e.g. expenditure incurred in 1896 on six mineral claims. This outlay should have been debited to profit and loss account two years ago instead of to the past year's statement. As holding more than 75 per cent, of the capital of the Sunshine Company, apart from other assets which may yet turn out trumps, the Lillooet Fraser River and Cariboo- Gold Fields may still prove a success, and the directors by waiving their rights to draw fees, and by cutting down expenses in various directions, are certainly now doing their part. As a matter of fact we believe that were it not that certain contracts made some four years ago have still some time to run, the administration expenses during the past year would have been less than was the case. But economy may be carried too far, and a judicious outlay of money in carrying forward certain necessary development work at the Silver Cup—(of which property we are enabled in this issue to give some particulars)—and also in exploiting the properties in Illecillewaet and Rossland, is to be recommended at the present time. There is considerable interest, accompanied by some excitement in Vancouver, resulting from the visit of certain representative mining men of Montana, California and Washington, who are either interested or likely to become interested, in a group of copper claims known as the Britannia on Howe Sound and within thirty miles or so of Vancouver by water. The group was until recently wholly owned and at considerable cost partly developed by Mr. J. Boscowitz, of Victoria. A controlling interest in the group has, however, lately been acquired by a syndicate, included in which are Mr. H. C. Walters, of Butte. Montana, - and other well known American mining- men: while a leading promoter of the syndicate is Mr. J. H. Adams, of British Columbia. It is claimed that as a result of the driving of a cross-cut tunnel for 200 feet, a very large quantity of ore has been discovered, yielding six per cent, in copper. The property is being actively developed and those behind the undertaking state that a smelting and concentrating plant will be set up near the claims in the early future. Should the property prove half as good as those behind the syndicate declare it to be, its development will mean very much for Vancouver, for it is averred that 200,000 tons of ore are in sight. This is, however, a large statement and an impartial conservative estimate is that the claims constitute a comparitively low-grade copper proposition, which—should there be a continuity of a large mass of ore—will yield sufficiently good returns on moderate capitalization and good working. The margin of profit per ton, after payment of cost of mining and treating, is not, however, great. Meanwhile those behind the enterprise freely invite the inspection of their property by mining experts, which is perhaps evidence of their confidence in the venture. Although Vancouver has more than once been disappointed by misleading reports of rich finds within easy reach, the Howe Sound mine promises more than usually well. It is generally anticipated that the coming Yukon season will prove comparatively quiet, pending a large introduction of hydraulicing on a considerable scale. To this comparative quietude the rush to Cape Nome and the recent fire, which has destroyed a very large amount of property at Dawson, will each contribute. Under the circumstances it is very generally felt that the time is specially opportune for the Dominion Government to make a considerable reduction of the Yukon gold royalty, which in its present form and extent of application, is held by most experienced northern gold mining men to be excessive and obstructive of development. Reverting to the subject of the Daw-son fire, first reports of this estimate the total loss at half a million dollars. It is more than likely, though, that ultimately the damage done will be found not to exceed $250,000. First reports 'of fire troubles out West invariably exaggerate the direct loss. Incidently, however, reckoning detriment done by interruption of business, the loss will, of course, be larger than any ascertained by insurance assessors or other experts and in any case the fire must cause serious temporary injury to Dawson. " As a good deal of nonsense is still being talked about the value of quartz finds in Atlin, a correspondent in London, who last year examined a number of claims in this district in the capacity of consulting engineer to an English syndicate, sends us some interesting data as to Atlin ore values. The syndicate" were offered options on a number of claims, on which the ore in sight was represented to be twenty million tons having an average value of $8. This representation, not unnaturally, was found to be false, but the syndicate acquired twelve claims, showing small surface values, for which the moderate sum of £2,000 was paid, instead of the fabulous price originally asked. Oar correspondent writes: "In the neighbourhood of Atlin City the country rock is much metamorphosed and is probably an altered gabbro, much serpen tised. Enclosed in this are immense areas of altered rock, or quartzose dikes showing great secondary action, and this appears to be generally more or less auriferous. My investigations demonstrated the rock itself to run about $1.00 or rather less; while in the joint planes and fissures one frequently finds high-grade free-milling gold ore. What the future of lode mining in Atlin may be, no one can at present foretell. But if the average values prove sufficiently high for profitable treatment, then great things may be expected. We have, meanwhile, felt that taking all the facts into account, there is in Atlin a considerable area of ground worth prospecting, and that in certain areas or zones values might be sufficiently concentrated to be pav- » THE MINING RECORD. 45 able. This seems to have been borne out by our work- last year, so far as we have information. Of two prospecting drifts, one has shown no values higher than $2.20, while in the other the ore averages $4.00 and is improving in grade. The ore is easily treated and by open-cast working upon a large scale the cost would not be over $2.00 per ton. In conclusion allow me to add that you deserve thanks for the plain, truthf.il statements which have appeared in the Mixixr, Record with regard to mining in the Atlin district. Your comments are in marked contrast to the usual ridiculous screeds in which Western journals delight to revel." the transfer of placer claims to aliens, should help to meet the requirements of the Atlin country, where in view °, the fact that the consolidation and joint working of many claims by improved mechanical methods is required, it is desirable to encourage the influx of foreign capital for the purpose of prosecuting gold mining- on a large scale. Among those associated with mining enterprise in British Columbia, Mr. J. Roderick Robertson, of Nelson, whose portrait we have the privilege of publishing this month, occupies a prominent place. As general manager of the London & British Columbia Goldfields, Limited, he is the representative in this P r o v in c e of very large British interests, and it affords us much pleasure to add that under his management these interests have been carefully conserved, andthatitisno doubt largely due to Mr. Rober tson 's admin - istrative abilities that the London & British Columbia Goldfields, Limited, enjoys the reputation of being the best managed of the many English mining companies operating in this field. The London & B.C. Goldfields, besides operating the Ymir Gold Mines, Limited, at Ymir, the property of the En- terprise (B. C.) Mines, Limited, on Ten Mile, Slocan Lake, and other properties in the Boundary Creek district and in East Kootenay, also brought out, as parent company, the Yukon Gold- fields, Limited, and the Whitewater Mines, Limited. The capitaltzation of the companies are as follows : The Ymir Gold Mines, Ltd., ,£200,000; The Enterprise (B.C.) Mines, Ltd., ,£150,000; The London & B.C. Goldfields, Ltd., £200,000; The Whitewater Mines, Ltd., ^"125,000 ; The Yukon Goldfields, Ltd., .£100,000. That Greenwood is destined speedily to become a verv important centre of the Boundary Creek district was illustrated by the expenditure in that city last year of no less than $320,000 on new buildings—an excellent showing in view of the fact that up to the present nearly all the mining work done in this camp has been that of development, only a few thousand tons of ore having as yet been produced from the mines. The advance of Greenwood last year, however, only anticipates by a few months the beginning of a very considerable output from the country tributary to it. Mr. J. Roderick Robertson. A correspondent from Nelson has sent us a long communication criticising the report of the Hall Mines, Limited, with the suggestion that his remarks should be published in the Mining Re- coed, provided the editor of this periodical assumes all risks in the event of the Hall Mines entering an action for libel in consequence. For this reason, and also because our correspondent's criticism is in places distinctly malicious and in others shows great ignorance of smelting practice, we have suppresed it. Meanwhile we have published elsewhere the Report in full. In the Report itself there is nothing particu- 1 a r 1 y warranting criticism; but the none too favourable showing for last year is simply attributable to the fact that the mine can't "keep up '' with the smelter. It is high time, too, that the administration expenses in London were reduced. As matters are the Board of Directors do more to hamper than promote the interests of shareholders. To the management in Nelson we would suggest, that when in future the Company propose to purchase claims, it would be just as well to employ an "expert " who has at least an elementary knowledge of mineralogy. The amendment to the Placer Mines Act, under which the Provincial Government proposes to permit Agents of American transport companies are at- 46 THE MINING RECORD. tempting in Vancouver to induce a large migration of British Columbians to Cape Nome this spring. In view of the absolute impossibility of securing valid titles to bench claims in Alaska and of the certain trouble and lawlessness which will arise in consequence few sensible people will listen to the allurements of the Cape Nome "boomers." There is moreover, no reason to doubt that the gold opportunities of that region are vastly exaggerated. Like the eight-hour law, the Act passed last year by the Provincial Legislature excluding aliens from engaging in placer mining in British Columbia, was, as we stated at the time, an instance of ill-considered and hasty legislation—the sort of costly mistake which at the present time particularly the country can ill- afford to make. The repeal or the radical modification of the law is the only way now in which the evil it has wrought can be repaired. THE MINES OF THE TROUT LAKE DISTRICT THE silver cup group. THESE properties are situated on what is known as Silver Cup Hill, rising up from a point called "Eight Mile" on the South Fork of the Lardeau River, distant some eight miles from Trout Lake City. They are owned by the Sunshine Limited, an English company, subsidiary to the Lillooet Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Fields, Limited. The Sunshine Limited is to all intents and purposes a private company, the stock never having been placed on the market, and being mostly held by the Lillooet company, which by means of its interest in these properties it is hoped will largely retrieve its fortunes. The group consists of nine claims and fractional claims, viz: -the Silver Cup, Sunshine, Excelsior, Mountain, Gold Bug, Silver Cup Fraction, Excelsior Fraction, Mountain Fraction and Goldseeker Fractional claims. The feature of the properties consists in the high- grade character of the ore—which is an argentiferous galena, carrying a high value in silver and good values in gold and lead. Development has been confined to the Silver Cup and Sunshine claims—on the former some 3,000 feet of work have been done and on the latter about 500 feet. Two veins have been opened on the Silver Cup, one known as the Silver Cup vein and the other as the Big vein. The Silver Cup vein is clearly defined on the surface, and it was upon this outcropping that the main shaft—known as the Silver cup shaft— was sunk 185 feet, a cross-cut tunnel driven in from the surface and known as the Main cross-cut connecting with the bottom of the shaft, and intersecting the Silver Cup vein after being extended 350 feet. From the point of intersecting drifts have been run on this vein about northwest and southeast some 80 feet and 210 feet respectively, and high-grade and concentrating ore has been developed, a certain amount of stoping having also been done from each drift. Before cutting the Silver Cup vein, the cross-cut tunnel encountered, when in a distance of about 300 feet, another vein, that known as the Big vein. Drifts have been run about northwest and southeast on such vein at this level, for distances of 165 and 230 feet respectively, and considerable quantities of high-grade ore and concentrating ore have been developed and some of which has been stoped. From the northwest drift on the level of the cross cut tunnel, a winze was sunk in ore a distance of 50 feet, and drifts on the vein and in the ore northwest and southeast for 30 and 75 feet respectively have been run from the bottom of such winze. The Main crosscut tunnel was extended some 65 feet beyond the Silver Cup vein and encountered what may turn out to be an ore chute—but at the point in question—where vein matter has been intersected— there is no mineral. Some distance from the Main cross-cut tunnel, and 115 feet vertically lower down the mountain, another crosscut tunnel, on what is known as the 300-foot leel, has been driven 330 feet and has intersected a large vein which is thought at the point of intersection to be a juncture of the Big and Silver Cup veins. Drifting along this vein to a point underneath the main workings has been done, and amongst other ore chutes, one continuous ore chute for a length of 115 feet exposed. It is believed that the work now being prosecuted will show the ore chute in question to extend continuously for not less than 200 feet, being the length of the main stopc immediately above. An upraise in ore from the 300-foot level to connect with the winze sunk on the Big vein from the 185-foot level has been driven, and other raises in ore have proved that apart from the ore in sight on and above the 185-foot level, a large body of ore is available for stoping between such level and the 300-foot level. The operations now being conducted, and as far as at present prosecuted, also show the ore bodies to extend continuously below the 300-foot level. The Sunshine claim is situated immediately below the Silver Cup. Here a tunnel, known as tlie Main tunnel, has been driven for a distance of 280 feet. Two bodies of ore have been passed through, and some 120 tons of ore stoped—the ore being of approximately the same grade at that of the Silver Cup. At a point some 100 feet vertically below the main tunnel, a cross-cut from the surface has been driven about 600 feet, at wdiich depth the vein, and mineral, were struck. It is proposed to drive at the level in question on the vein, with a view to upraising in ore to a short winze sunk in ore from the main tunnel. The total amount of ore realized to date from the group is 810 tons, which have produced a net return at the property (all freight and treatment charges deducted) of $75,000. About 200 tons are in course of shipment,_ and although the ore has not been blocked out sufficiently to enable an accurate estimate to be made, it is believed there are at present time (apart from the concentrating ore in place) some 3,000 tons of shipping ore in sight. In addition to the concentrating" ore in place, there are some 3.500 tons of such ore on the dumps and broken down in the stopes. At the present time the ore is transported to the foot of the hill, about three miles, by means of rawhides, and then conveyed on sleighs to Thompson's Landing, the shipping point for all smelters. This means of transportation will, on the advent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's branch into the district, be much improved, as the clean ore and concentrating ore can easily, by means of an aerial tramway, be taken down to Trout Lake, where the concentrating ore can be put through a concentrator and the product, together with the clean ore, loaded on cars and transferred on scows across Trout Lake to the railway, which is expected next summer to be completed to Trout Lake City. After the line has been built shipments from the property should be considerable. THE MINING RECORD. 47 THE QUATSINO COAL MEASURES. D EPERENCE was made in the Mining Record i\ last month to the promising nature of the mineral and coal discoveries in the northwestern part of Vancouver Island, in the vicinity of Ouatsino Sound, one of the most remarkable sheets of water in British Columbia, and rivaling even the famous Puget Sound. . With a bold and safe entrance from the Pacific Ocean in N. Lat. 51 deg., 20 min., the main arm runs for 20 miles in an easterly direction up to Limestone Island, which is 2.\ miles long by i\ miles wide, from which point an arm runs off in a on the inland passage. Both Coal Harbour and Hardy Bay are land-locked harbours with deep water and good anchorage. Throughout the region in the neighbourhood of \ Quatsino Sound are extensive coal and copper, limestone and fire-clay deposits, accessible by deep navigable quiet water, but the means of communication are so inadequate to the needs of the rich region that prospecting is only prosecuted under very disadvantageous conditions. For some time past the West Vancouver Commercial Company have been quietly at work developing the coal aiea."-in 11 if diikt Panoramic View Quatsino Sound, Showing the Narrow", West Rupert's Arms, with Queen Charlotte Sound and Mainland in Distant Background. This Photograph was taken from the Mountain Looking North and Overlooking Southeast Arm. south-easterly direction for 14 miles. From Limestone Island the main arm continues for 5 miles and enters into an arm running westerly 21 miles and an arm running easterly 7 miles. Two miles from the entrance is also an arm running in a northerly direction 10 miles, so that this is an inland sea yy miles in length by a width varying from a half to 2% miles in width, with a depth of water of 20 to 125 fathoms. So far does Quatsino Sound intrude into the island that Coal Harbour, or the property of the West Vancouver Commercial Company, is but nine miles south of Hardy Bay on the east coast of Vancouver Island north of the west arm of Quatsino Sound. This company has opened up a number of coal seams, varying in thickness from 3 to 5 feet, extending" over a track of 5,600 acres, which, according to the report of John J. Landale, C.E., M.E., "is entirely underlain with coal beds of excellent quality," and who furthermore states that the coal is "the best yet discovered oin Vancouver Island," and who estimates the quantity contained in the area at over thirty-three million tons. Dr. Dawson, in his report of a geological examination of the northern part of Vancouver Island, says that the length of the cretaceous area from east to 48 THE MINING RECORD. west is seven miles; its greatest probable width about two miles, and its approximate probable area 6,53° acres. Mr. Harold W. Fairbanks, Ph.D., says in his report that the area of coal-bearing rocks extends for about eight miles along the north shore of the west arm. Another geologist, Prof. Wm. P. Blake, M.E., referring to the coal in this area, states that the coal is long flame bituminous, yielding its gas readily Excellent copper showings exist in the southeast arm of Quatsino Sound, which have been developed to some extent, and of which we gave a brief description in July, 1898. From 23 assays an average of $21.52 was obtained. The difficulty in prqspecting in a country so densely covered with vegetation as the northwest coast of Vancouver Island cannot be fully appreciated without being seen, but sufficient work has been done to demonstrate the mineral wealth of the country. Quatsino Sound—West Arm. and giving a bright clean coke. The coal is firm and remarkably free from iron and sulphur, and its ash is white and light; the different samples give 69.5 and 70 per cent, coke, 30 and 30.5 per cent, volatile and gaseous compound. The Canadian Government Blue-book- Geological Survey of Canada, March, 1899, contains the following on the Koskeemo (Quatsino) coal fields: "The approximate area, not including under-water estimate, about 5,630 acres. The coal is bituminous and of excellent quality. An analysis of the speci- ment made in the Laboratory of the Survey gives the followjng result: Hydroscopic water 1.05, volatile combustible matter 34.38, fixed carbon 54.01, ash 30.56 in 100 parts. The crying need of the district is a good road between Hardy Bay, on the east side, and Coal Harbour, on the west side of the Island, and a wharf at Hardy Bay. The Government has already spent some money on this road, and we do not know why the work was suspended. The Company now operating there was induced to do the work it is now doing on the assumption that the road would be completed. With such a road and wharf completed the country would settle up rapidly and taxes would come in fully many times over what are now paid beeradgingly. The climate in the vicinity of Coal Harbour, Quatsino Sound, is mild and agreeable, and the rain-fall is not excessive. THE MINING RECORD. 49 Record of temperature and rainfall kept by Mr. Phillip Rowe, Coal Harbour, Quatsino Sound. Vancouver Island (never before published), is as follows: RAINFALL. TEMPERATURE. 9.00 8.50 I25 1898. February .... January 'March April May o. 00 June July August September .... October November .... December .. . Inches. Max. Average. Min. 3.00 0.50 0.25 2.12 4-25 12.50 io-75 5^ 60 79 87 86 76 44 39 38 59 36 36 § 44 50 47 38 30 30 RAINFALL. TEMPERATURE. 1899. Inches. Max. Average. January 10.16 50 February 9.25 48 March 10.25 50 April No record sent. May " 0.56 0.40 1.03 4.40 8-39 June .... July .... August ... September October .. November 18.70 64 68 86 70 60 58 Min. 20 27 32 48 50 52 48 32 40 Total 12 nios 58. 45 Total 9 mos.. 63.15 The photographs here reproduced, for which we are indebted to the courtesy of one of the officials of the West Vancouver Commercial Company, give, we think, a very fair idea of the character of the country on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. Cedar Trees on Property of the West Vancouver Commercial Co.—Quatsino Sound. 50 THE MINING RECORD. THE AURIFEROUS ALLUVIUM OF THE FRASER RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. Specially contributed to the Mining Record. By J. D. Kendall, London, Eng. I.—OUTLINE OF ECONOMIC HISTORY. GOLD, in paying quantities, appears to have been first found within the watershed of the P'raser in the year 1857, on the Thompson River, near where it is part of what is known in history as'the "Fraser River Excitement," and which, in many respects, greatly resembled the recent mad rush to the Klondike. The difficulties and danger were perhaps equally great on the Fraser and the Yukon, while the reprehensible booming of interested parties was apparently quite as extravagant in the early days as that witnessed a year ago, when so many poor wretches were lured to their ruin by misrepresentations and exaggerations. The first shipload of 450 adventurers left San Growth ol Spruce and Fir Trees—Quatsino Sound. joined by the Nicomen River. The first discovery of gold on the Fraser proper was at Hill Bar, near Yale, early in 1858. In the following year commenced that great rush of fortune-hunters towards British Columbia which formed such a conspicuous Francisco on the 20th of April, 1858. To the 20th of June, Cornwallis estimated that 14,800 persons had embarked from San Francisco by steam and sail. At a later date it is said that over 20,000 persons had left San Francisco for the Fraser. THE MINING RECORD. 51 The first workings on the Lower Fraser appear to have taken place on the bars betwen the points how- known as I-Iope and Yale, in March or the beo-in- ning of April, 1858. About the same time, or perhaps earlier, 150 men were reported to be working on the Fraser near Lytton. But the early summer floods, due to the melting snow, would soon prevent access to the bars until far into July. In the interval the eager crowd of gold-hunters probably occupied themselves partly in prospecting and working, the gravel-benches above the level of flood water. Those rapidly assembling near Yale, most likely, would 10,000 was distributed along the river. The number between Cornish Bar and Yale, in November, was 4,000. Hope contained 400 more and Yale 1,300. In Hope district an ounce a day was said to be common wages, while some miners are reported to have earned two or more ounces per day for weeks together. During the season of 1858 most of those who had been rocking on the bars below Yale are said to have returned with $2,000 to $4,000 after paying expenses. Sluicing was also employed near Yale. The yield then occasionally rose, so it is said, to $25 per man per day. At Fountain, 100 miles Coal Outcropping on the Beach—West Arm, Quatsino Sound. also be partly engaged in devising means of transport through the wild, forbidding canyon. Others again doubtless pushed on through the canyon in the hope of finding coarser gold in the higher stretches of the river, when the water should subside. Before the river fell,* thousands had left the country under the conviction that the water would never fall sufficiently. In June, 1858, the miners on the lower part of the river distributed between Langley and the Canyon, 30 or 40 miles above Yale. (See Fig. 1.) By October, according to official estimates, a population of •History of British Columbia, by H. H. Bancroft, to which the writer is indebted for much of the early historical information contained in this communication. further up the fraser, miners were reported to be making from $8 to $100 per day. A notice of the extraordinary finds (boom-pans) then reported are purposely omitted. . In June, 185S, about 100 miners were engaged on Robinson Bar, near Lillooet, and earned, it is said, from $80 to $90 per day each for the first four or five days, but afterwards their earnings became less. In October, 1858, coarse gold was found in the benches at Yale, and the miners were with difficulty restrained from digging away the townsite. The highest point reached on the Fraser, by oro- *The river reaches its highest about the 15th June. 52 THE MINING RECORD. fitable mining, in 1858 was near Fountain. Wing- damming was successfully tried at Mormon Bar that season, and the bench diggings in the same locality were said to be very rich, a party of eight persons, averaging two ounces a day to the hand with rockers, thirty feet above the highest water level. The ground there and for several hundred feet above the river was so rich that a ditch seven miles in length was built. In the first five days' washing after the ditch was completed, they are reported to have taken $1,198 out of the sluice. During this season work was also prosecuted on the Thompson, but less successfully In the spring of i860, sixty miners were engaged on the Quesnelle River and were said to be making from $10 to $25 per day, occasionally turning up nuggets weighing from six to eight ounces. After the disappointing returns of 1858 a period of depression and depopulation set in, although the number of miners actually employed in 1859 and i860 was 33 and 46 per cent., respectively, greater than in 1858. The output of gold in 1S59 was valued at $1,600,000. That of i860 at about $2,228,000. Renewed interest in the country was aroused in the fall of i860 by reported discoveries in Cariboo— Mouth of Tunnel, Nutzenuchtum Creek Coal Seam, Quatsino Sound. than on the Fraser, and in later years much more erratically. The returns for 1858, according to the Deputy Minister of Mines, were about $700,000. In the spring of 1859 the restless, advancing prospectors, still looking for something better, explored the river as far north as Quesnelle. Then they turned up Quesnelle River. Towards the end of that season reports reached those on the Lower Fraser that the search for gold in the Quesnelle River had been successful. During the season fresh discoveries were being made at intervals on the lower parts of the Fraser, whilst work was continued on the profitable bars and benches already known. Harvey, Keithley, Grouse and Cunningham Creeks having been discovered. In January, 1861, a second "Excitement''—greater even than that of 1858—was created by the reports of the extraordinary richness of Antler Creek. About the end of May 1861 from 1,000 to 1,400 men—mostly engaged in road-making and transportation had found their way into the remote Cariboo country. Later in the season the number of miners alone is said to have been about 1,500. Individuals on Antler Creek are said to have made as much as $1,000 per day, while the yield of several sluice claims was 60 ounces a day to the man. During 1861 this Creek is said to have yielded over $10,- 000 a day. Grouse Creek was mined to a small ex- mm THE MINING RECORD. 53 tent in 1861, and then abandoned until 1864. The working of Harvey and Cunningham Creeks was postponed until about the same time. The remarkably rich creeks known as Williams, Lowhee and Lightning were discovered in the summer and autumn of 1861. The gold output of Cariboo in that year was estimated by the Victoria daily press at $2,000,000. In 1862 some claims on Williams Creek are said to have produced 100 ounces per dav during the season, and the Cunningham claim turned out on several occasions—according to report—over 600 ounces per day. Four hundred miners were at work on Williams Creek in that year. Below is an interesting table—partly from the report of the Minister of Mines for 1875—showing the value of the gold obtained from certain claims on Williams Creek, below the Canyon, up to the 1st of November, 1875. Also, the length of channel from which it was won and the yield per lineal foot of channel. Length of Claim. channel. Adams 100 feet Steele . . . Dilkr . . . Cunningham Burns . . . Canadian . . Neversweat . Moffat . . . Tinkler . . . 80 50 500 80 120 120 50 140 Watty 100 Value of gold produced. $ 50,000 120,000 240,000 270,000 140,000 180,000 100,000 90,000 120,000 130,000 Value per foot of channel. $ 500 1,500 4,800 540 i,75o 1,500 833 1,800 857 1,300 1,340 " $1,440,00 av'ge $1,075 Lightning Creek did not yield so largely as Williams Creek,- but the output was greater whilst it lasted. The former creek was abandoned in 1864 owing to the difficulty of reaching the deep channel, but in 1870 sinking was successfully resumed. It was worked altogether for a length of about three miles. According to the report of the Minister of Mines for 1875 the claims on this creek up to the 1st of November in that year had produced the following amounts of gold : Claims— Campbell and Whitehall $ Dutch and Siegel Dunbar Lightning Discovery and Butcher South Wales Spruce Point Van Winkle Victoria Vancouver Vulcan Costello 200, 130 30, 153 120 i4l 99 136 363 451. 274. 56 20 and 1877 it is given in the following table from the report of the Minister of Mines : Claim— 1875. 1876. 1877. Lightning $5I3»527] Burns 10,900 Nelson 9,750 {-$137,306 ' $222,017 Cottonwood 5,000 J Swift River 3>30oJ Williams 68,760] Conklin Gulch 41,200! j- 224,071 162,385 Stout Gulch 4,2001 Grouse 4AI4) Lowhee, Jack of Clubs,) Mosquito, McArthur J- 26,400 and Antler J North and South Forks Quesnelle 40,040 82,460 Keithley 25,515 ) 000 000 000 962 000 53 T 908 ,625 ,983 642 190 955 ,476 Harvey and Snowshoe . 13,162 $2,iyg,2y2 I 20,370 1 $404,772 Year— 1878 $380,535 1879 500,000 1880 564,000 610,737 471-525 457,787 423.855 347,7oo 288.300 288,300 1887 247,673 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 188c 1886. 1887. 217,892 158,150 185,050 $766,258 $443,837 Year—j 1888 $250,377 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892 194,020 1893 202,000 1894 192,350 1895 282,400 1896 384,050 1896 384,050 1897- • • v 325,ooo The natural tendency of the richer discoveries in the Cariboo creks was to denude the main river of its workers, since which time operations on the Fraser s have been of a very desultory character. The output since 1876 has been as follows : Year— 1876 $ 34,144 1877 12,000 T878 14,000 1879 73,9oo 1880 45,6oo 1881 99,652 1882 95,52o 1883 122,640 1S84 184,034 J885 168,200 .1886 196,700 From 1862 to 1874, inclusive, there is a lack of information as to the Cariboo output. For 1875, 1S76, Year— 1887 $180,700 1S88 146,285 1889 94,664 1890 uo,555 1891 72,006 1892 63,063 1893 64,476 1894 62,857 1897 97,313 1896 98.773 1897 96,160 These tables will show better than many words the recent course of mining both in Cariboo and on the Fraser. The latter table probably includes some gold from Bridge River. Since the exhaustion of the more accessible deposits whether shallow or deep—the output has fallen away considerably and, as shown in the above tables, has for the last 25 years been, on the average, less than half a million dollars a year. The reasons for this decline are very evident, but cannot be given here without anticipating much that is to follow. The great difficulties and consequent cost of transportation are in some measure responsible. Although these were very appreciably reduced by the construction of the Canadaiu Pacific Railway, yet to many parts of the 54 THE MINING RECORD. area under consideration they are still a very serious hindrance to development. II.—HYDROGRAPHIC DATA. The Fraser and its more important tributaries, as well as the enormous area drained by them are shown on most maps of B.C. The length of the main river between New Westminster and the Rockies is about 680 miles. Its more important branches have a united length of about 1,400 miles, and if all the creeks be included the length of the entire water-channel is probably not much short of 6,000 miles. The area of the watershed traversed by this extended ground-sluice is about 95,000 square miles. It lies largely within the area known as the "Dry Belt." Statistics relating to The western boundary of the drainage area is formed by the mountain-summits of the Coast Range, whilst part of the eastern boundary follows the crest of the Rockies. In both these areas the precipitation is very- much higher than on the "Dry Belt." If we assume the average annual precipitation over the entire watershed as equal to 16 inches of rain the average outflow of the Fraser, making due allowance for/evaporation, must be near 2,000,000 cubic feet per minute. During the early summer floods more than double this quantity flows off. But even that is probably small compared with what must have passed down the river in the days when the valley-gravels were formed. The gradient of the river is variable. Between Lillooet and Lvtton it has an average fall of about 5 Coal Harbour, Quatsino Sound, with the WestJVancouver Commercial Co's Boarding House in foreground. the fall of snow and rain are very meagre. At three feet sM mile. From Lytton to Yale it falls 6 feet per points only has any systematic record been kept. The mile—though it is doubtless much steeper than that in average annual fall of snow and rain at those stations the Canyon. Between Hope and New Westminster is as under : the river is much wider than at any other part, and the Rainfall, Snowfall, inclination between those points is only 1.4 foot per inches. inches. mile. The Thompson, between Ashcroft and Lytton, Barkerville 21.03 i7°-4 fells 10 feet per mile. Below is given the inclination Spence's Bridge 6.73 24.4 of the more important creeks in Cariboo, which Nicola Lake 7-36 34-6 yielded much coarser gold than the main river : THE MINING RECORD. 55 Inclination Creek— Feet per mile. Williams (upper part of) 139 Williams (richest part of) 227 Lightning T r8 Harvey (lower part) 352 Keithley 235 Cunningham 200 Grouse 480 Antler 64 (To be Continued ) REPORT OF THE HALL MINES. THE DIRECTORS' REPORT. THE directors beg to submit to the shareholders the statement of accounts and balance sheet for the year ending 30th Sept.. 1899. duly certified by the auditor, being the sixth balance sheet issued since the formation of the company. This balance sheet shows a gross profit of £28,873 8s. 1 id., which, with £1,245 13s. brought forward from 1898, makes a sum of £30,119 is. nd., from which has been deducted £640 8s. 6d., being 6 per cent, interest to 30th September on £24,560, which was the total subscription, of which amount £10,450 was subscribed by the seven directors, £8,760 by 43 other shareholders, and £5,350 by eight non-shareholders. Having made this deduction there remains the sum of £29,479 13s. 5d., from which the Board propose that £6,367 16s. 7d. be written off for depreciation on building, plant and machinery: £10,277 5s. 5d. for cost of development and prospecting work prior to 1st October, 189S, and £3,470 7s. iod., the-amount expended on the True Blue and other copper claims, the results from which have failed to bear out the expectations of the company's mine superintendent, and which have therefore been abandoned. After writing off these amounts and £335 14s. 2d., being the year's proportion of the cost of the debenture issue, there remains the sum of £9,027 9s. 5d- to carry forward. In reviewing the business of the past year there are two points which it is essential should be borne in mind', as they have been most important factors in controlling and limiting the progress of development, viz.: first, the protracted length of the winter, and secondly, the disorganization of the mining labour market in British Columbia consequent upon the passing by the Provincial Government, of a law which re- •stricts the hours of underground labour in a mine to eight instead of ten hours as formerly. The rate of miners' wages in British Columbia haying been already so high, mine owners were compelled, in self defence, to make a proportionate reduction for the eight hours' day. which the miners, backed by their union, have refused to accept, and the result has been that most of the mines have closed down, whilst those that have continued to work have done so under great difficulties, as the majority of the best miners have left the district. In face of these labour troubles, work at both our mine and smelter has necessarily been of an intermittent character, and consequently it has been impossible to carry out the plans sketched out by Mr. Hard- man as closelv as the Board intended to have done, but as will be seen from the accounts the sum of £13,223 us. nd. has, nevertheless, been expended on account of development work in the past year. The mine superintendent's report shows that only a comparatively small amount of ore was taken from below the main tunnel No. 5, and further, that his anticipations of the output of the Kootenay and Bonanza were far from realized", the amount actually taken out having been restricted, in consequence of the protracted winter preventing surface mining, to 3,000 tons, which, however, materially aided in the carrying on of development work in other parts of the mine. Having regard to these unforeseen contingencies, and especially the complications in the labour market, which have caused the closing of so many mines in the district, the Board are of opinion that it is a matter for congratulation that work has been kept going on, although in so restricted a measure at our mine, and that the result of the year's working, as a whole, is by no means unsatisfactory. Lead smelting promises to be an important branch of the company's business in the near future, and the Board have therefore had alterations made in the large smelter which will admit of its being used for that purpose, as well as the smaller one if required, and when the mines in the district resume work it is confidently expected that a large and profitable.smelting business in this direction will be done by our works. The large furnace was in blast for 80 days and the small furnace 104 days on copper ore, while the latter was also in blast for 92 days on lead ore. The wire tramway has continued to work satisfactorily, the average cost per ton of ore brought down having been 40 cents; the rope, however, will not last much longer, and a new one has therefore been ordered, which can be put in place when necessary while the large smelter is closed down. The Board has not lost sight of the desirability of opening, up the Koh-i-noor, Daylight and other claims on Toad Mountain, but without more capital at command that work must perforce remain in abeyance until the development of the Silver King to the 30th level has been accomplished. The Nelson Coke and Gas Company having applied to purchase part of the company's land at Nelson, on which to erect their works, and having as an inducement offered to supply the company with cheaper coke, the Board decided to sell to them a block of land containing about two acres for $5,000, a portion of which sum the Board will, with the consent of the trustees for the debenture holders, invest in the purchase of adjoining land from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company which we now hold under lease from that company and-have the option of buying at the rate of $500 per acre, within a prescribed period, and which, in the opinion of the Board, it is now desirable to acquire the freehold of as soon as practicable. Air. M. S. Davys, for private reasons, voluntarily resigned his office of mine superintendent at the end of September, and the Board have since appointed Captain J. R. Gifford, who was favourably recommended to them to fill his place. An appendix is attached to the balance sheet, detailing the various items summarized in the accounts. The auditor's report is hereto annexed. In accordance with the Articles of Association, two of the directors, Mr. Flint Ramsay and Mr. Robert Ward, retire, and being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. 56 THE MINING RECORD. The auditor, Mr. Harry Barker, F.C.A., also retires, and offers himself for re-election. GENERAL MANAGER'S REPORT. Nelson, B.C., November 8th, 1899. To the Board of Directors of The Hall Mines, Limited, London, E.C. Dear Sirs:—When the affairs of the company were last under annual review a comprehensive scheme of development work for the mine was recommended by Mr. Hardman, and approved of. A portion of this w'ork has been carried out during the past year, amounting in all to some 4,200 feet of drifting, sinking and raising. Part of this work was done on the Kootenay Bonanza, where, however, the efforts to find the north vein in place were unsuccessful; a large area of disturbed ground apparently exists at No. 4 tunnel level eastward of No. 6 cross-cut and to and beyond the Kootenay Bonanza shaft, and no body of ore of any consequence has been proved to exist in this area. The work done towards exploiting the Silver King ore bodies has been more encotvraging. The main vein, which from the 120-foot level upwards gave us the fine ore body that was stoped out in 1896-7, and which in one place was 30 to 40 feet in width, has been proved to continue down to the No. 7, or present lowest level, with well defined walls, though greatly reduced in width, being only some 3 and 5 feet across. The continuance of this vein in depth, however, is a most encouraging and important indication, and the opinion of experts is that it will eventually connect with ore bodies as large or larger than the one above. The western portion of the south vein appears to be making into a strong ore body, and will shortly be proved at the No. 7 level. The north vein west of the disturbed area above referred to has given a good yield of ore, and this is now being opened up to a greater depth, and a cross-cut run to prove it further west and north of what used to be the main ore body. I may point out that while Mr. Davys in his report for 1898 placed the actual reserves of ore at 9,000 tons, and Mr. Hardman at some 6,000 tons, there have been mined and smelted about 30,000 tons of ore during the past year. The development of the mine would have been much further advanced than it now is but for the diffi- ' culty in getting good miners during the last four months of the year. During that period sinking the main shaft had to be stopped, and but little drifting work was done at the lower levels owing to the available men being required to maintain the output of ore at as high a tonnage as possible. The difficulty in obtaining men was brought about by an ill-considered Act that was rushed through the Provincial Parliament during the last two days of the last session. By this Act men were prohibited from working underground for more than eight hours in the twenty-four in metalliferous mines in British Columbia, although the hours for work underground in the coal mines and in railway and other tunnels were unrestricted. This legislation was unasked for and unwished for by the vast majority of the miners in the province. The mine owners and managers in the Nelson and Slocan districts declined to pay the same wages for eight hours as they previously paid for ten, while the men demanded the old wage for the shorter day, and stopped work in most of the mines in these districts on the 1st of June. At the Silver King mine -ve were able to keep steadily at work, though during June with a reduced force, which, however, gradually increased in numbers; but it was found impossible to get sufficient good machine-drill men to carry on development work while maintaining the output.. Owing to these labour troubles and the formation of miner's unions many of the best men have left the country, and it will be some time before we can expect the mines to have a full supply of competent labour. At the end of September Mr. M. S. Davys left the service of the company, and about the middle of Oc- j tober Mr. J. R. Gifford took charge of the mine. Air. Gifford has had much experience in developing large properties, and may be confidently relied upon to press on development work speedily and judiciously. Efforts to secure other copper producing properties, as advised by Mr. Hardman, were continued during the first part of the past year, but the prospect work carried on has not proved successful. The True Blue, which yielded on the surface a most valuable ore for our smelting operations, carrying some 12 per cent, of copper, proved most disappointing with depth, and IH only obtained some 41 tons from it, the cost of transportation being too high to justify mining more of the small quantity of ore in sight, which would have been of a much lower grade. Work on this property was stopped in the spring, and upon the advice of Mr. Hardman it has now been abandoned. The Lone Star group in East Kootenay, in which the company still owns a one-third interest, did not give any encouraging indications for the work done, and further work was therefore stopped. No copper mines have been developed in Nelson or the neighbouring districts during the past year, and for copper smelting we have still to depend almost entirely on the product of our own mine. It is, however, possible that with railway communication into the Boundary district, lying over 100 miles further west, that we may get a small supply for the smelter. The aerial tramway has worked most satisfactorily during the past year, and the rope that was placed in position in May, 1898, is still in use and will probably do the work during the coming winter. The smelting operations of the company during the year have been greatly interrupted for want of ore. A second trial run was made on lead ores, commencing on the 13th of April and lasting until the 17th of June. The run proved highly satisfactory, and contracts have been entered into with silver-lead producing mines, and steps taken to ensure continuous smelting of lead ores in at least one of our blast furnaces so soon as the Slocan mines resume work, but nearly all the producing mines of that district are now closed down, owing to the labour difficulties before referred to. The outlook for a good supply of lead ores in the future is most encouraging and fully justifies the company taking up this branch of the smelting business. The Slocan district, which in 1894 only produced 2,568 tons of lead, produced in 1897 17,618 tons, and the estimate made at the beginning of this year, of the production for 1899, before labour troubles were anticipated, was 25,000 tons. More lead mines are yearly being discovered and more producers yearly coming into operation. Within the last few weeks the Dominion Government have passed an order-in-council removing the duty on pig lead manufactured in Canada, but which has been shipped to the United States to be refined. The removal of this duty only affects at present some 3,000 tons of pig lead consumed annually in Canada, but it is hoped that the Canadian Government, by in- THE MINING RECORD. 57 creasing the duty on manufactures of lead, will give a further stimulus to the smelting industry in Canada. The approval given by the Board to the erection of a mechanical roaster will enable the calcination of lead ores to be effected much more economically, and will lead to less handling and will reduce the cost of moving material to the furnaces. The excavation for this furnace has been completed and the bricks purchased, so that construction can be proceeded with directly the winter is over. During the past year the officers and staff of the company have faithfully and ably performed their duties. Yours faithfully, (Signed) HENRY E. CROASDAILE, General Manager. SMELTER SUPERINTENDNT'S REPORT. Nelson, B.C., November 9th, 1899. I would be better pleased could I defer writing you on the smelting operation for the year till all returns for shipments are in, in order that I might present to you a complete statement, the accuracy of which could not be questioned. There is outstanding yet some of the reverberatory product from August and all the matte from September. I am therefore, obliged to submit to you a general statement of blast furnace work for twelve months, covering 184 days smelting, of which 80J days were with the big furnace. In this, all values of products are figured on assays of daily samples. You are aware that I have always considered this inconclusive; but, taken as it stands, we show a gain of 296 ounces, with a silver loss of 42,828 ozs., and copper 98,000 lbs., equivalent to a slag carrying somewhat less than daily assays show. Last year, each ton of ore cost us $3.66 to smelt; this year the cost is but $2.96, despite the fact that 55 per cent, of the time the small furnace was in service. The matte produced during the vear has averaged 45.7 per cent, copper, 290 ozs. of silver, and 0.77 ozs. gold per ton, while the total furnace product, including metallic copper, averages 45.5 per cent, copper, 300 ozs. silver, and 1.65 ozs. gold per ton. Without prejudice, this may be regarded as good work, considering the fact that our charge, including flux, has averaged for the whole year but 2.25 per cent, of copper (wet assay), and has at times dropped as low as .1.75 per cent, copper. Likewise, in lead smelting, the metallurgical results have been exceptionally good, all operations during the year accounting for fully 98 per cent, of the total values charged to the furnace. In the reverberatorv work you have a full report to January 31st, but little has been done since. During my absence, No. I furnace was lengthened and repaired. It was then found that the last brick bottom was extremely thin—in places but 2-J- inches of the original 9 inches remaining. In other respects the bottom below was good. After 20 days' work smelting base metallic, with very poor results, we thought it advisable to tear out this bottom, finding therein, after very careful sampling, about 25 tons of copper, 20,000 ozs. of silver and 400 ozs. of gold, part of which had been accumulated during the last campaign. (Signed) ROBERT R HEDLEY, Smelter Superintendent. Nelson, B.C., October 31st, 1899. I am submitting to-day a statement covering lead- smelting operations for 48^ days' actual work during September and October. The result, as shown by this statement, should be very gratifying to the Board, in spite of the low tonnage. The extremely low tonnage is due directly to the physical character of the charge being excessively fine. I have done all in my power to improve this, using 25 per cent, more blast pressure than I ever used before, or ever heard of being used in lead smelting. The result has been a very large proportion of flue-dust, which, however, is shown as recovered. This is unfortunate, as- it mars an otherwise very creditable campaign. Low tonnage means increased cost both in labour and fuel. During the latter days of smelting we handled a very large quantity of foul slag and barrings, reducing ore. The smelting cost figured on 1,470 tons of actual ore has been as follows:— Per Ton. Fuel 1.96 Flux 74 Calcination 1.78 All labour, etc 3.73 $8.21 Adding 150 tons matte and 350 tons other flux, making. 1,970 tons charge, the cost is $6.12 per ton. Closing on September work the cost was 46 cents lower per ton of ore figuring thus:— P"uel 1.79 Flux 75 Calcination 1.48 All labour, etc 3.72 $7-74 The shortage in copper will not, I hope, prove to be actual. There is an .indefinite quantity tied up in the crust which forms over the crucible and which will not be removed at present. (Signed) ROBERT R. HEDLEY, Smelter Superintendent. MINE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. Nelson, B.C., October 3rd, 1899. I herewith beg to submit my report of the progress of work at the company's mine for the year ending September 30th, 1899. Mine Development Work.—This during the past year consists of: Drifting, 3,039 feet; sinking, 358 feet 6 inches; raising 917 feet 6 inches. Total, 4,215 feet. The attached schedules describe the several places where this class of work has been carried on, showing number- of feet. Of this work the most important has proved to be that at No. 5 tunnel and the levels underlying No. 5 tunnel and reached by way of the main shaft, particularly, in my opinion, the west drift on No. 6 level south vein, connecting with winze "K" ore body, which body is the faulted western portion of the south vein, and found on the south side of the dyke. In drifting this level, on reaching the dyke ore seams were met on both sides of the dyke of between three and four feet in width, and showing more copper ore than has been previously found associated with this vein. Present appearances lead one to believe these to be the upper portion of an ore body, and taking the course and dip of these seams with that of the winze "K" ore body and the dip and course of the dyke into consideration, there should be a larger ore body found in the No. 1 cross-cut No. 7 level, which 5« THE MINING RECORD. is at present being driven towards this body. Apart from this the No. 6 levels on main and" south veins have not proved any extensive ore bodies or high values, the veins being narrower and lower in values. At the eastern end of the south vein, and connecting with winze "L," a body of low-grade vein matter was passed through for some 15 feet, and, when connection was made with winze "L," drifts were started east and west on the footwall of vein stuff, expecting to catch the ore chute in No. 5 tunnel above this point. This ore chute at the present time has not been met with, and I am of opinion that the true footwall of the vein has not yet been reached, and that a cfoss-cut driven to the north from the western drift will yet prove the existence of this body. No. 5 Tunnel.—This has been driven ahead following strike of north vein after passing through dykes east of winze "L". A small ore seam in the vein has been followed the entire distance, and at present shows stronger in face of tunnel. This ground should, however, be further prospected by cross-cutting to both the north and south. P'ast drift in north vein at No. 4 level was driven on the vein connecting with raise "N." A good ore body was proved by this, and the ore still shows in face of drift. Above No. 4 Tunnel.—In connecting raise "N" from No. 6 cross-cut with No. I tunnel, after passing through No. 3 tunnel level and the course of the raise southerty to connect No. 1 tunnel, a seam of ore of four feet in width, showing a good deal of gray and peacock copper, was met with, No prospecting of this was, however, done, as the raise was needed for passing down ore when completed. This ore chute may prove of some importance when further prospected. Kootenay Bonanza.—A raise was put up from the 130-foot level cross-cut, connecting with the 50-foot level, from which point two raises were put through to the surface connecting the north and south vein outcrops, from which surface stoping has been carried on and ore passed through to No. 4 tunnel level. The north vein was found on opening out the stope to be faulted by two dykes and ore was stoped to point where dyke cut the vein out. On the south vein stoping was carried downward from surface, and the vein was found to have a northerly dip in place of to the south . as found elsewhere in the mine; this has been followed and at the present time the pay chute appears to have also an easterly dip, going under the low-grade surface croppings immediately above. Further prospecting by following these pay chutes will alone determine extent and values of these deposits, as dips, courses, etc., are at present unreliable. During the past year the total amount of ore mined and shipped to the ore bins consist of 32,700 tons, made as follows: Main and north veins, 24,835 tons; south vein, 4,669 tons; Kootenay Bonanza, 3,196 tons. Total, 32,700 tons. On the accompanying tracing of mine workings, showing position of the several stopes, I have shown tonnage by the stopes and average assay values obtained from daily sampling, and on the sectional plan is also shown the area of caved ground which occurred in the earlier part of the spring, a block of ground lying between the big stope of the main vein and the hanging wall vein having broken awav, extending from the surface to No. t, level, caused, no doubt, chiefly through action of the frost and water slacking the lime contained in the country rock. This caved ground will have to be filled with waste rock-, which would in any case have had to be done; the ore has all been worked out from this portion of the mine with the exception of some of the hanging wall vein which can be'taken out after the cave is filled, and when this is worked out this portion of the mine will be closed up and abandoned as worked out. Ore Reserves.—From present positions of the workings the estimated tonnage available for stoping is as follows: Above No. 4 tunnel, 9,000 tons; between No. 5 and 4 tunnels, 5,700 tons; below No. 5 tunnel, 4,000 tons. Total, 18,700 tons. The estimate of ore reserves bel9W No. 5 tunnel includes only the ore body at winze "K," which is at the present time the only block sufficiently opened out to obtain measurements from. When the south vein has been more fully explored at the No. 6 level, so as-to obtain more reliable data, a. reserve of some value should be located. Future Development.—In outlining this I consider the most important ore bodies are to be met below the No. 5 tunnel, and would suggest that development be allowed to be continuously carried along both in the nature of prospecting and actual development work. The main shaft should be sunk to a depth of 300 feet further, cutting out the several stations at every 100 feet, when cross-cutting to- the vein could be carried along. During progress of this work the different levels at No. 7 level would have been driven and the vein explored at these points, giving further information as to strike, dips, values, etc., of ore chutes. No. 5 tunnel should be further prospected by driving- ahead on present ore seams and also cross-cutting both to the north and south. No. 6 Level.—Ore body below No. 5 tunnel at foot of winze "L" should be located and drift east under No. 5 tunnel carried easterly into north vein. During the past summer much delay in carrying on certain important works has occurred through scarcity of capable miners, and the compulsory shortening of the working hours by legislation to that effect. Yours faithfully, (Signed) M. S. DAVYS, Mine Superintendent. THE AUDITOR'S REPORT. 8 Old Jewry, London, E.C, 28th November, 1899. To the Members of The Hall Mines, Limited, London. I have examined the accounts of the Hall Mines, Limited, for the year ending the 30th September, 1899, and find the profit and loss account and the balance sheet annexed correct. The profit and loss account shows the financial result of the company's operations during the year ending the 30th September, 1899, viz., a profit of £28,873 Ss. 1 id., which is subject to depreciation and otrnr deductions stated on the balance sheet. This result is arrived at after bringing to account every item of expenditure fairly chargeable against the year's income, as shown by the accounts received from British Co- lumbia. The balance sheet annexed sets out the position of the company at the end of the year, and shows a surplus of assets of £9,027 9s. 5d. The amount written off the profit for depreciation of buildings, plant and machinery, is in accordance with the computation of the general manager 'n Nelson. The books of accounts are well kept. HARRY BARKER, F.C.A., Auditor. BB- THE MINING RECORD. 59 SMELTING FOR COPPER MATTE DURING YEAR OCTOBER ist, 1898, to SEPTEMBER 30th, 1899. Charged. Silver King ore.. Custom ore... . Trail matte .. By-products .. Limestone .. Quick lime . Iron ore.. .. Contents by Assay. Tons. Ozs.Ag. Ozs. Au. Lbs.Cu. 29666.2125 477615.62 1590001 10978305 22639.23 752.814 46453 71.325 2718.40 1188.090 5^3=6 1034,2525 29863.55 477.143 168563 31869.6205 532836.80 214.047 1590001 3650.5325 35-25 7.12 35562.523 Produced. Matte 17-60.8565 487471.24 1646.584 1S1877S Metallic 106.3455 43945-8o 1543-840 93465 .dot m No. furnace .25 546.00 6.110 1560 1870.4520 531963-05 3186.356 1613800 Less matte rech g d 232.2235 41954.28 482.528 121735 1638.2285 490008.76 2714.006 1492065 Content of Silver King ore 16.1 2.22% Cn. Content of all ore. etc 16.75 0.075 2.49% Cu. Yield of all ore, etc 15.37 0.85 2.34% Cu. Cost per ton. Ore, Etc. Charge. Flux 0.196 0.175 Fuel 1.445 1.296 Labour, etc 1.322 1.185 $2,963 2.656 (Signed) ROBERT R. HEDLEY. LEAD SMELTING DURING SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1899. IN BLAST 48}4 DAYS. Charged. Silver King ore .. . Dandy ore Calcines Carbonates Galena Idaho Tailings.... Enterprise Matte Barrings from shaft Bullion and scrap .. Produced. Lead bullion Matte Flue dust Lead in crucible . . . Barrings from shaft Fifty-one tons matte included 1,470 tons ore. 150 tons matte, 70 *i,699 tons. 350 tons flux. (Signed; ROBERT R n calcined ore, making tons by-products. Total HEDLEY. Contents by Assay. Tons. Oz. Ag. Ozs. Au. Lbs. Pp. Lbs.Cu. 307-685 4400.10 12,832 59-751 64273 2,078 540.685 9586.32 615.171 242,133 9,012 399-745 12160.93 "39-799 238,518 109.429 8324.22 143.286 51-105 784.S8 52-645 4753-44 13.359 99.099 6599-82 8.684 23,653 16.22S 65.112 1790-91 65.712 24,617 1.045 14.250 3080.75 27.423 28,287 1699.506 52106.10 1847.789 713,853 4H95 318.101 3946S.33 1625.017 632,665 146.048 6435-63 11.902 33,084 24,152 75- 2345-50 88.1 17,400 1.500 0 750.25 25 10,000 60. 1600 80 25,000 1,200 50599.71 1830.019 718.148 26,852 I THE HALL MINES, LIMITED. BALANCE SHEET, 30th SEPTEMBER, 189.0. Dr. Capital and Liabilities. To Share Capital— Authorized. £ s. d. 50,000 Cumulative Preference Snares of £1 each 50,000 0 0 300,000 Ordinary Shares of £ each 300,000 0 0 350,000 Shares £350,000 0 0 Issued. 25,000 Cumulative Preference Shares of £1 each, called up 25,000 0 0 175,000 Ordinary Shares, issued as fully paid 175,000 0 0 75,000 do of £1 each, called up 7o,000 0 0 275,000 Shares 275,000 0 0 . Deduct calls in arrear 2 10 0 To Debenture Loan— , „, f Issue of £50,000 Six per cent. First Mortgage Debentures, secured by a Mortgage on the Company's mines, lands, buildings, plant, machinery, etc., to be paid off at 105 per cent (by the operation of a Redemption Fund) within a period of 13 years from the 31st March, 1899, or at ony earlier time after the 31st March, 1902, at the option of the Company on six months, notice. 274,997 10 0 6o THE MINING RECORD. Subscribed and Allotted. £ s. d. £ s. d. 66 Debentures of £5 each 330 0 0 138 Debentures of £10 each 1,380 0 0 69 Debentures of £50 each 3,450 0 0 194 Debentures of £100 each 19.400 0 0 ^ 0 To Creditors— Bank—Overdrafts and special advances for purchase of ore (secured by floating charge on all the ores and other products owned by the Company) 32,627 18 5 Unclaimed dividends 59 13 10 Sundry Creditors 1,602 17 10 J ! 34.290 10 1 To Profit and Loss Account— Balance at 30th September, 1898 1,345 13 0 Add Profit for the year ending 30th September, 1899, as per account 28,873 8 11 Deduct. Interest on 6 per cent. Mortgage Debentures to 30th September, 1899 £640 8 6 Amount written off for cost of development work in " Silver King" mine during the year ending 30th September, 1898 10,277 5 5 Amount expended on the "TrueBlue" and other claims since abandoned 3,470 7 10 Amount written off for one-fifth part of expenses of issue of debentures . 335 14 2 Depreciation and maintenance written off buildings, plant and machinery, tramway, smelter and office furniture 6,367 16 7 21,091 12 6 9,027 9 5 To Contingent Liabilities— Preference dividend for year ending 30th September, 1899 £1,750 0 0 Directors' Fees 126 17 6 £1,876 17 6 £342,875 9 6 Or. Property and Assets. By Mines Cost Account — As at September 1898 220,024- 12 11 Add Expenditure during the year ending 30th September, 1899:— Assessment wort, etc., on old claims £118 8 1 Cost of prospecting and developing new claims 1,970 9 8 Cost of development work in the " Silver King" mine 13,223 11 11 15,312 0 8 Deduct. 235,337 2 7 Cost of development work in " Silver King " mine to 30th Sept., written off. 10,277 5 5 Expenditure on " True Blue " and other mineral claims written off 3,470 7 10 13,747 13 3 13,747 13 3 By Buildings Plant and Machinery As at 30th September, 1898 18,234 0 6 Additions during year ending 30th September, 1899 z;,507 1 0 20,741 1 6 Deduct depreciation written off 1,440 6 7 19,300 14 11 By Smelter Account— As at 80th September, 1898 35,789 6 8 Expenditure during the year ending 30th September, 1899 6,400 8 6 42,189 15 2 Deduct depreciation and maintenance written off 3,457 19 2 38,731 16 0 By Lands Purchased— As at 30th September, 1898 1,873 14 11 Purchase of timber lands during the year ending 30th September, 1889 2,236 17 9 4.110 12 8 Deduct amount written off for timber cut during the year 875 0 9 3,235 11 11 By Office Furniture in London— As at 30th September, 1898 185 4 0 Deduct depreciation written off 18 10 5 166 13 7 By Stock of Supplies on Hand— Per inventories received from British Columbia , 12,133 10 6 By Ore, Metallurgical Products and Fluxes in Stock— Per valuation of Smelter Superintendent in British Columbia 26,463 7 5 By Open Shipments of copper, matte and lead bullion 2,469 2 9 mm* THE MINING RECORD. By Debtors— Government of Canada for balance of bounty on ore smelted to 30th June, 1899 sundry debtors By Expenses of Issue of Debentures (to be written off in five years) Deduct one fifth part written off . By Cash at bankers and in hand 61 £ s. d. 3,431 17 10 1,000 12 7 1,678 10 9 335'14 2 4,432 10 5 200 0 0 £342,875 9 6 r*™ JrlhrwL'r£^i?n^* "£?Ve B51?noe Sheet with the accounts and vouchers of the Company in London and the accounts SfS^UwT-?nfaSh °olnml*a' *»a m my opinion, the Balance Sheet is a full and fair Balance Sheet, properly drawni wso as to exhibit a true and eorredt view of the Company's affairs as shown by the books of the Company P 8, Old Jewry, London, E.C, Nov. 28, 1899. HARRY BARKER, ).-,., Chartered Accountant. J Alaaitor. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30th SEPTEMBER, 1899. To Expenditure in British Columbia— £ 30,937 :. d. 8 8 At the mine At the serial tramway— Tramming contract and sundry expenses At the smelter At the Nelson office ° Insurance ...............!!..!.....!. Law charges and claims for injuries, settled Interest '...'..'...'..'..'.'.'.'..l['.'.'.'.'.'.]'.'.^l'.'.'.'.'.'. 2,052 12 11 Taxes 590-18 5 2,709-14 1 35,092 3 4 2,553 19 0 506 7 2 767 3 6 To expenditure in London Hardman's report on the mine, 1898 Loss on exchange Balance, being profit for the year carried to balance sheet. By production Government bounty on ore smelted to 30th June, 1899 Sundry profits, including rents and assay charges received. Transfer fees MINES COST ACCOUNT AT 30th SEPTEMBER, 1899, - 75,210 7 1 3,269 8 7 302 8 0 113 16 5 28,873 8 11 £107,769 9 0 £ s. d. . 101,645 4 2 3,821 18 7 2,229 17 6 72 13 0 £107,769 9 0 Comprises the following Expenditure (omitting all expenditure written off):— Charges prior to 30th September, 1898— £ s. d. Purchase price under terms of agreement 215,000 0 0 Deduct value of tools and ore included therein 9,262 6 2 205,737 13 10 Add expenditure on the following claims subsequently taken up— $ c. Kohinoor 124 00 Daylight 79 13 Jessie 1,005 00 Lakeside 573 50 Bid 1,399 00 Britannia 550 00 J. M. B 422 27 Iron Hand 1,500 00 Grand 552 50 Surveys, etc 446 00 6,551 40 And on the following works— Grohman Creek Water Works 372 15 New Waggon Road °" °9 $525.40 at $4.83 : $7,097.44 at 4.86 $7,623 14 £1,569 4 4 Cost of Prospecting and Developing New Claims— «Bis3" $1,560 00 „£j*I>> 1,093 25 "isigi V, ,„ Fort Steele Claims *»» IU $3,506 35 £721 9 5 Assessment Work, etc., on Old Claims $1,064 75 219 1 8 s. d. 208,247 9 3 iH 62 THE MINING RECORD. Add Expenditure during the Year ending 30th September, 1899— Assessment Work, etc., on Old Claims $575 44 £ s. d. £118 8 1 Cost of development work in Silver King Mine as detailed on next page.. $64,266.68 £13,223 11 11 d. - 13,342 0 0 £221,589 9 3 BUII.DINGS AND MACHINERY— Additions during the Year ending 30th September, 1899: Additional Compressor House Ore Bins Unloading Station and Tramway Coal Bins and Unloading Station Stable under " " Dandy Tramway ' Cribbing Dump Flume from No. 5 Tun. to end of Ore Bins. Give Out Creek Flume Improvements to Cottages and Dwellings, " Assay Office & Weigh Office " Engine Room and Magazine General Construction One 8^ in. x 10 in. Single Drum Hoist One 7 in. x 3^ in. Cameron Sinking Pump One No. 9 Bolt Cutter One Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Pipe and Fittings Rails and Chairs Steel Rope - -.. Smoke Stack, Shaft Bars and Sundries . Gallows Frame, Cages, &c, for Main Shaft Ore Cars Coal Cars Tools Sundry Plant Wages. Supplies. Totals. 5° 75 $ 49 52 $ 100 27 ,405 85 219 66 1,625 41 268 06 255 62 523 67 159 75 107 12 256 87 40 11 40 n 395 49 8 92 344 41 408 so 30 89 439 38 79 50 32 13 III 16 352 60 2 25 354 85 183 62 69 03 252 65 9 40 Id 88 24 28 108 80 2 86 III 66 675 20 842 77 1,517 97 1,030 00 1,030 00 328 91 328 91 178 70 178 70 261 72 261 72 641 88 641 SS 446 24 446 25 80 89 80 89 98 31 98 31 165 66 45 21 210 71 l"l 32 849 00 1,020 32 28 22 38 22 1,303 90 1,303 90 315 98 1,879 11 2,185 °9 Deduct Tools discarded. $4,728 5J B,8i9 53 $13,548 06 1,363 80 1,363 80 ^2.507 $4.728 53 $7.455 72 $12,184 26 Aerial Tramway— Expenditure during tpe Year ending 30th September, 1899 : Wages. Supplies: Automatic Loaders and Sundry other Improvements $ 466 80 $2,004 38 Deduct Sales of Gld Cable jf437_" 3 Smelter— Expenditure during the year ending 30th September, 1899 : Wages. Supplies. Grohman Creek Water Power $ 194 75 $ 106 31 Sand Creek Flume and Dam 174 35 2,251 78 Slag Flumes 140 50 218 51 Cordwood Flume 91 80 J349 73 Cordwood Tramway 83 70 Coal Tramway 9 10 161 43 Coal Bins 99.80 82 81 Limerock Bins 195 00 Ore Bins 47 50 60 08 Roasting Stalls 2039? 24402 Mechanical Roaster (preliminary expenses) 100 05 352 00 Matter Sheds 330 ir 90 92 Superintendent's House, Boarding House, Office, and General Construction 45 40 44 00 Blast Furnace 1,483 46 4,839 97 Reverberatory and Calciner 1,215 69 3,076 69 Engine Room 1,095 30 4,291 31 Elevator 737 60 3,631 33 Sampling Mill 174 oS 692 93 Assay Office 76 72 355 41 Ore Bins and Gravity Tramway 104 24 139 88 Railway Spur 1,209 82 354 42 Lime Kiln 19 48 Sundry Smelter Plant 1,533 39 1,395 88 ^"6.400 8 6 $9,366 39 $21,739 67 $2,471 18 344 60 $2,126 58 Totals. $ 301 06 1,426 13 259 01 441 53 83 70 170 73 1S2 61 195 oc 107 58 447 97 452 05 421 03 89 40 6,323 43 4.392 38 5,387 11 4,378 98 867 01 432 3i 244 5*3 I564 24 19 48 2,825 27 $31,106 06 Wages. Supplies. Totals EXPENDITURE EST BRITISH COLUMBIA. Mining Cost— General—Superintendent, Foremen and Clerical Staff, Weigh Office, Assay Office, Powdermen, Steelmen and General Expenses $13,799 64 $ 2,979 34 $16,778 88 Odd Jobs—Track-Laying, Carpentering, Clearing and Sunday Labour. Maintenance of Bonds, Buildings and Plant. Machinery Running and Blackanithing Stoping and Timbering and Handling Ore... Crushing and Sorting £35,092 3 4 Smelting Cost— Tramming from Lower Terminal of Aerial Railway General—Superintendent, Foreman, Storekeeper, Clerks, Sundry Labour and General Expenses Engine room " fuel Sample mill and crusher Assay office fuel Blast furnace fuel flnxes Calciner and reverberatory " fuel " " fluxes £35,092 3 4 4,468 72 1,466 20 10,776 53 79,440 38 2,729 73 123 11 4,591 83 94 30 1,560 50 21,375 83 32,252 35 12,842 96 82,283 34 159 18 2,888 92 $112,781 20 $37,574 72 $150,355 92 5,514 73 12,427 94 6,649 77 45 62 4,560 15 6,683 23 2,764 70 27,799 92 17,531 ii 639 25 1,010 12 ) 7,981 33 J 1,322 73 1,850 57 ) | 405 70 \ 2,119 06 46,791 92 10,377 10 1,626 21) 15,324 98^ 35,164 45 682 15) 13,067 19 15,461 22 8,005 96 6,020 37 87,088 00 $80,371 40. $90,176 54 $170,547 94 £13,223 ii ii $58,766 72 $5,499 94 $64,266 66 Nelson Office. $ c. General manager and clerical staff 8,145 CO Office, travelling and general expenses 4,267 10 £2,553 19 o $12,412 19 Expenditure in London. £ s. d. Directors' fees 1,273 2 6 Consulting engineers fee 120 6 10 Rent, salaries and travelling expenses i,349 1 1 Printing and stationery 137 o 10 Telegrams, postage and general expenses .... 230 15 ti Law charges 106 n 5 Auditor's fees 52 10 o £3,269 8 7 Ore, Metallurgical Products and Fluxes— On hand 30th September, 1899— $ c. Ote—Silver King 14,018 07 Ore—Purchased 22,559 81 Ore—Purchased (Calcined) 16^292 08 Matte I0,8Si 39 Lead bullion 5,732 12 Metallic copper, furnace bottoms, etc 51,507 22 Flue dust 4,044 22 Fluxes £26,463 7 5 52,869 96 72,134 89 3,607 14 $128,611 99 THE MINING RECORD. 63 VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. HAVING been requested by many of our readers throughout the Province to publish in these columns a verbatim report of the evidence in the Iron Mask-Centre Star litigation, Mr. H. F. Evans, our Rossland correspondent, was enabled through the kindness of Mr. J. B. Hastings to carry out our instructions to copy the official report of the proceedings and evidence taken, and which are in consequence enabled to publish in serial form. (Continuation of Counsel's Argument, from last month's issue.) The Court—All I have to decided now—I don't know vyhat view they might have taken of any amendments in the pleadings or anything else, if that took place—all I have to decided now is whether your veiw is right or not. That is, you say the Full Court decided the point. Now, I would like to read that judgment for myself. I keep saying I wonder they never decided the point at issue, and you were answering nie —that is, in Mr. Davis' argument—that it had been done, and the two points covered. Now, I would like to look at it, and I don't think you would gain anything by going any further to-night. It is not that I am unwilling to sit. I would like to see Barringer and Adams. Mr. Davis—I wish to reply to my friend's argument. Shall I reply now? The Court—Oh, well; go on. Mr. Davis—Shall I go on now. I thought your Lordship wanted to adjourn. The Court—I would rather have the thing finished cc nsecutively. I do not understand you, at all. Mr. Davis—I will only be a moment. The Court—The main point in the dispute between you just now is about the judgment and the effect of it. Air. Davis—Yes; because my learned friend has not argued (although he stated during my argument) that the Full Court had not jurisdiction. The Court—In a matter of this kind, I would be only too glad to hear all of the argument at this time. I ought to get all the enlightenment I can from counsel. ■; Mr. Davis—He has not argued that, so I will not refer to it again. All he has said is that the Full Court has considered all the facts and given a judgment on these facts which makes the question re-subjudicated, and your Lordship is not in a position now to make any order permitting work to be done unless there are new facts established. Now, that is his position. The Court—Yes; that is his position. Mr. Davis—Now, what I say is this, that what the Full Court decided upon was in view of the fact that your Lordship had a more intimate knowledge of all these facts. The Court—They don't say so, though. Mr. Davis—Than any one else; we will leave the matter to you at the trial. The Court—They ought to have said so. Mr. Davis—My learned friend argues that, "at the trial"—necessarily means after all of the evidence has gone in. Now, it does not; they left that to your Lordship's discretion. The Court—I think so, but I want to see it. Mr. Bodwell—That is one point I intended to refer to and I missed it. As I will have no reply I would like to state it. The Court—Yes; go on. Mr. Bodwell—At the time the Full Court gave that judgment, the date of the trial had not been fixed; no order for trial had been made, and I think my friend is going beyond the record when he says that it was definitely decided that your Lordship would try the case, because that was not fixed until some time afterwards. Mr. Davis—It was fixed, and the Chief Justice told us before the special sitting of the Full Court was called—my learned friend will remember when I recall it to his attention—I applied for a postponement of the trial, on the ground that we had to have this appeal heard first. My learned friend and Air. Bod- vell went before the Chief Justice to request a postponement, and we argued it in his private chamber, and he told us at that time that your Lordship was going to take that trial, and I think my learned friend will remember it now, when I call it to' his memory, and that was before the sitting of the Full Court. He said at the same time he would have the sitting of the Full Court called for a certain The Court—I happened to know both of them said they would not take it up; that is not conclusive. Mr. Bodwell—What I would like to say to your Lordship is, I don't recollect the circumstances, but that does not make any difference. The. Court—No. Mr. Bodwell—What I was going to say was, that the judgment of the Full Court does not go on in that way, but that the Judge at the trial, from the peculair facilities which he would have at the trial, and from hearing all these people would be in a better position, . and it would not matter in that view whether it was your Lordship or anybody else sitting in the case. That is the point. I Mr. Davis—The point I have made, and am making-, ' is simply this: We have a reference by the Full Court; the matter, is referred to the Judge at the trial, it does not matter whether the reasons appear or not, they referred it to that Judge. I have a right to urge—I think I am correct in it, too—that the reasons which influenced them in making such an order as they, did was because they knew your Lordship was going to take that trial. They knew that at that time. It does not say it is true—it was not necessary that they should say it, but whether it was so ot not, that is the effect of the wording-. The Court—I was very anxious to get rid of it; that is, from what I know. Mr. Davis—Yes, I can easily understand it. It was a very long case. The Court—No; it is the responsibility. Air. Davis—Your Lordship was in a great deal better position than anybody else, because the matter came before your Lordship. Now, as to what they have done—it really is not of very much importance, whether they knew you were going to take the trial or not—but I think that is the reason they left it in the shape they did. Whether they did or not is immaterial. The Court—What I intend to do is to read the language as it is stated there, and as it is printed, and no other way. The judgment of the Judge is supposed to be—well, open to the general public, and the construction given by the general public, even by illiter- 64 THE MINING RECORD. ate men, sometimes is the proper construction. They ought to be such as an illiterate man could construe. Mr. Davis—Yes. The Court—Yes; I am going to read it as it is there and, of course, I was not decided at first, but I don't say which way I am disposed now, because I have not made up my mind either one way or the other. I thought at first the Full Court evaded the question. Frankly, I do not like to use that language, and I say so with the greatest deference to the Full Court, be- point wtih regard to the issues raised. I think that language is very clear. The Court—1 am really with you this far, that this is at the trial, because I called the case on, not knowing anything about this argument, so there is nothing preconcerted. Mr. Davis—Now, what did they leave for the trial? It being at the trial, and an application being made to leave it to the Judge, what is it they left to the Judge? Because it will not do for my learned friend to argue &c?*l&:12 F*=lractx. 'tiri&P&JFf- XM1F7 iKcsviiaafi: xutnm nrsymTER c«nre*us casartEpas gnsAt* j$x>2efBeaa&rFT CJEKTItB JS7I-1K JS'OIiTtf DllIFT *RtWV SUAjeiK -/-- X aEEtsjsr jfJfiF?ra*3F. ^^»K^ cause everything was before them. Air. Bodwell says they have not evaded the question; they have decided it. You think otherwise. It is a question certainly that arises with me, and aside from the decision of mine which was taken up to the Full Court, on the ground that I was wrong. The Full Court decided I was light. Mr. Davis—The language which they used is this. (Reading1):"! think it should be left to'the Judge at the time to say whether or not actual work should be done for the purpose of elucidating any particular that the Full Court settled the case and referred it to- the trial Judge. They left somthing to the trial Judge,, sure. What was it? It is not a question of when further evidence is in or is not. They don't say that it is to be left to the Judge at the trial upon hearing the evidence, or some portion thereof; they do not suggest that. That is all left to his discretion, as it shoufd' be, because, if he comes to the conclusion that it is going to facilitate matters to have this dork done while- the trial is going on or before, as in this case, as there is an adjournment arranged, as I understand it be- r THE MINING RECORD. 65 tween my learned friend and myself—at least my learned friend spoke to your Lordship of an adjournment until Thursday, that the work should be going, on in the meantime, that the trial Judge has a discretion to do that, he has the discretion to make any order about the doing of actual work which will lend to elucidate any particular point. Now, what I say is this: it is utterly immaterial whether the material before your Lordship is the same. The Court—It does not say that in the judgment there. Mr. Davis—It does not say it.' The Court—It does not say that he has discretion to make any order that will elucidate any particular point that may embarrass him; that is the point. Mr. Davis—Yes, that is what it says; not in those exact words, but almost in these exact words: "I think it should be left to the Judge at the trial to state whether or not actual work should be done for the purpose of elucidating any particular point with regard to the issues raised. Now, I don't know any way in which that question could be left more broadly to your Lordship. It seems to me, with all deference to my learned friend, it is a queer sort of a contention to make that the Full Court decided that no order can be made for work to be done, and wound up the judgment, and the only definite thing they did decide was that the whole thing should be left to the trial Judge, and if he thinks it necessary, or thought it necessary, to order any particular work to be done, for the purpose of elucidating any point, it should be left to him to do so. Now, English is plain when it is plain, and this is about as plain as any language could be that they could use. The application was a general application for doing work—running tunnels and so on—which would pass through the vertical fault and the flat fault. There was no specific point mentioned. It was a general application to do experimental work for the purpose of having evidence for the trial. Now, that was the application. Aly friend says it is not going to be a question of opinion, but a question of credibility of the witnesses. That clearly cannot be so. The Court—No; that cannot be so. Mr. Bodwell—I don't know why my learned friend cannot understand my argument. What I said was this, that it does not necessarily follow that it is going to be a question of credibility of witnesses, and that is what the Full Court says. Mr. Davis—We will take it that what my friend said was that it does not necessarily follow that it is a question of opinion, but that it may be a question of the credibility of witnesses. That is what he says now. The Court—I know something about this case, and 'could almost express an opinion about it now on pretty nearly what I said on a former occasion: Twenty affidavits on one side, sixteen on the other; these gentlemen of such standing on either side, and on both sides, for that matter, that to impeach their evidence— Mr. Davis—And the explanation of it is, that they are swearing to what they think, and not what they saw, and if we run the work through we will do away with that. My learned friend said the effect of it was this, that we would not be in a better position after we have gone through that, it would still be a question of the credibility of the witnesses. That cannot be, because they will then be swearing to what they see instead of drawing inferences from what they see outside as to what is in that fifteen feet; they can go in and afterwards swear to what they saw in that fifteen feet. The Court—Has anything been done in the ground since I made my decision? There was no point mentioned or specified at which it was suggested work should be done, or which it was asked that an order should be made to allow work to be done. This application is a specific application to do that certain work at a certain point, to have fifteen feet of a winze sunk. I submit that it does not make a particle of difference whether the material is the same here as it was there or not—although it is not the same. We do come exactly within the language that Mr. Justice Drake used—I don't care whether it could have been inferred from Air. Hastings' former affidavit—that the facts were as they are now shown to be by his present affidavit or not, because Air. Justice Drake did not so consider it, and the proof of that is in his own language, and the judgment in which he said this: "'If they had actual evidence of a vein both above and below a certain spot, and sought to explore the intermediate ground, they would have a stronger case." Mr. Justice Drake did not seem to think, evidently did not think, that the case is such as it is shown to be in Air. Hastings' affidavit that we have read to-day. (To be Continued.) THE MONTH'S MINING. SHOAL BAY. (From Our Own Correspondent). THERE is very little news mining this month (January) to record from this district, practically nothing having been done with an exception of a prospsct tunnel driven on the Monte Cristo, which disclosed the lead previously worked on the Bonaparte. It is rumored that the Ajax has been bonded, the figure mentioned being $25,000. The tram-line and all machinery is shortly to be taken away from the Doro- tha Morton. It might also be mentioned that a mining expert representing Mr. Rockefeller of Standard Oil fame, recently visited some of the mining properties of this district. KAMLOOPS. We are requested to state that for reasons of a purely personal character, Mr. W. C. Nichol has withdrawn from the vice-presidency and directorate of the Copper Mines, Limited, of Kamloops. BOUNDARY CREEK. As the review of the year's progress in this district published in the January number of the Mining Record had to be written in December it was not practicable to then supply the following comparative statement showing the statistics for the years 1898 and 1899 respectively of the Kettle River Mining Division. These figures having been obtained at the office of the Mining Recorder, Alidway, are accurate. They exhibit the mining records and revenue as under: 1898. • 1899. Free miners' certificates 700 1,467 Free miners' certificates, special 12 66 THE MINING RECORD. Mineral location records 581 79* Certificate of work records 542 ' 7*2 Conveyance and agreement records.... 403 497 Certificates of improvements 44 57 Abandonments 57 5° Water grants 5 J 5 Permits to re-locate 3 ... The totals of the revenue received at the Midway office were for 1898, $11,659,20, and for 1899, $22,101.78. The proportion of revenue from mining was: 1898. 1899. Free miners' .certificates... .$4,750 10 $6,968 98 Other mining receipts 4.333 W 7,27^> 45 Totals $9,083 70 $14,245 43 These figures show a general and very satisfactory advance all round. Although the past month has been marked by steady progress, there is not much besides to chronicle. From Phoenix Camp the cutting of a body of good ore at the 300-foot level in the Old Ironsides mine has been recorded. Much ac- phoenix tivity continues on this property and the camp. adjoining Victoria and Knob Hill, which are being worked in conjunction with it. Operations on the Brooklyn and Stemwinder will not be extended until after the new and larger mining plant shall have been received and installed, which will probably not be until well into spring. The Snowshoe, Gold Drop and War Eagle, also in Phoenix Camp, are likely to have development work continued on them steadily and to make an excellent showing later in the year. In Wellington Camp the two- leading properties, the Winnipeg and the Golden Crown, are getting into shape for shipping regularly. On the latter drifting at the 150-foot level and cross-cut- the ting at the 300-foot level are being pro- wiNNiPEG ceeded with for the purpose of opening and up the ground, so that when shipping golden shall be commenced the output of ore crown, may be regularly maintained. The Winnipeg lately sent out one carload of ore and is now loading two more cars. In this mine stoping is the chief work now in hand. Both the Winnipeg and the Golden Crown may be regarded as prospective regular shippers, but for the present the ore shipments from Wellington Camp will be intermittent and comparatively small. The B. C. Summit Camp has already sent several carloads of ore to> the smelter and is probably just now better prepared to keep up shipments than any other mine in the district. As men- summit tioned last month, there are on the camp. dump 10,000 or 11,000 tons of ore, and the cross-cut at the 250-foot level is being advanced. With three shoots of pay ore continuing to the surface, there is a lot of productive stoping ground available for supplementing the ore already on top as the dumps are drawn on by shipments to the smelter. The Oro Denoro, also in Summit Camp, is being developed with the intention of making it a regular shipper, following the trial carload shipment already made to Trail. The Mother Lode, in Deadwood Camp, is holding * its own as one of the leading mines in the Boundary District. The upraise from the 200-foot level of the new workings to the old workings above • the has been completed and now prepara- mother tions are being made to stope out ore lode. with as many men as can be employed to advantage. The stopes will not be fully- worked until after the cage ordered from the Wm. Hamilton Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and now on the way in from Peterboro, Ont., shall have been received and put into running order. The cross-cuts east and west from the 200-foot level, to prove the width of the big shoot of ore that the drift is in for 120 feet, ar:, like the drift, all in Ore which it is estimated-will run about $15. A drift has been started from the station at the 300-foot level, so that it will not be long before it will be practicable to block out ore down to that level. When this shall have been done there will be between 500 and 600 feet of backs, the greater part proved to contain ore known to give values that will return a good margin of profit above cost of mining and treatment. The plant for the Sunset is being installed and mining work on a larger scale is projected, so that this promising property should soon begin to show up well. It adjoins the Mother Lode and is believed to be on an extension of the big lead that is opening out so satisfactorily in that mine. The Morrison, in the same neighbourhood, is not working just now, but it is stated that more capital is being obtained to develop the ore bodies already discovered on this claim. The Buckhorn now has a compressor plant and hoist at work and is sinking a vertical double compartment shaft. From the Gold Bug, one of the Boundary Creek Mining and Milling Co.'s claims, a second carload of ore has been sent to the Trail smelter. The returns from the first carload were stated in^last month's Record to have been at the rate of $111.55 per ton. The second carload returned $157.20 per ton, in the following proportions: Gold 3.72 ounces, $74.40; silver 130 ounces, $75.40; lead 12 per cent.. S7.40. Total values for the carload, $2,358. Arrangements have been made to disincorporate the Republic Gold Mining Co., of Spokane, Wash. In its stead the Republic Gold Mines, of Greenwood, has been organized and incorporated. It is understood that Eastern Canadian capital has been interested in this organization, which will acquire from the old company the Non Such, Republic, Last Chance and Hidden Treasure claims in smith's Smith's Camp, near Boundary Falls. camp. Quite 1,000 feet of work, chiefly drifting, has already been done on the Non Such whilst a 100-foot shaft has been sunk on the Republic and one to a similar depth on the Last Chance. The ore is quartz, values being chiefly in gold, with more or less silver. The work to be done under the new company has not yet been definitely arranged, but it is very probable that development will be vigorous and continuous until the value or otherwise of the properties shall have been satisfactorily demonstrated. The Golconda, also in Smith's Camp, is being worked and there is a report that the Boundary Falls claim is to again have attention. It was stated when work was in progress, in 1898, oa this last-named claim that at the bottom of a 100-foot shaft there was an eight-foot lead of quartz carrying gold. New strikes on both the City of Paris and the Lexington, in Central Camp, have lately been reported, but particulars of these have not yet been received by the writer. From all accounts the City of Paris is developing very well, payable ore bodies' THE MINING RECORD. 67 having been opened up in several different parts of the mine. The Norfolk, in the same camp, is now down 100 feet, at which deSth cross-cutting has been commenced. It is likely the No. 7 adjoining the Norfolk will resume work shortly. If so it will help to attract the notice to this camp it merits, by reason of there occurring in it ledges carrying good values in gold and silver. It may be of interest to note that a commencement has been made to use in the district coal from the Crow's Nest Pass coal mines. Three carloads— almost 80 tons—have been received coal from at the Mother Lode mine where the crow's nest, coal has been substituted for wood in one of the furnaces, with very satisfactory results. Another order for 100 tons is being sent out, and shortly after suitable fire bars have been obtained coal will be used for the second boiler. Mention was omitted earlier of the fact that 100 tons of ore from the Mother Lode mine were sent to Trail recently and that a similar shipment may be made to Northport shortly. Work is being steadily prosecuted at both the British Columbia Copper Company's smelter near Greenwood and that of the Granby Company near Grand Forks. Neither is likely to be ready for'the treatment of ore until next summer; in fact they the will do well to be in running order by smelter, then. The Columbia and Western Railway has been extended to Midway, which for some time to come will be the western terminus of this road. Already preparations are being made to ship ore over it from Midway, whence concentrates from Camp McKinney and from one or two mines in the Okanagan country south of the international boundary line will be forwarded to either Trail or Nelson for reduction. It is contemplated, too, to send out ore from Sheridan and other camps situate between Midway and Republic. A large construction gang is engaged in putting in sidings and otherwise preparing for the freight traffic that it is expected will have to be handled at Midway, which will be the distributing point for the numerous mining camps lying to the south and west of that town. Midway, B.C. PERCY VERENS. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent). The revised figures showing the production of ore from Rossland mines for the year 1899 are now available. These are tons of ore produced: 183,000; ounces of gold won from the same, 103,000, value $I>957>0O°; ounces of silver 275,000, value $170,000; copper, 7,800,000 pounds, valued at $1,115,000; total value, $3,242,000, and the total quantity of ore, etc., for the sextile period beginning with statistical 1894 and ending with 1899 from the data. same mines amounted to 422,710 tons, from which were produced 377,862 ounces cf gold, valued at $7,411,361: 496,716 ounces of silver, valued at $411,425.40; 17,378,890 pounds of copper, valued at $1,998,644.44, with a total value of $9,741,330.64. These figures measure the rise and progress of the mineral industry of Trail Creek division for the six years beginning in 1894. The figures given in a previous report were incomplete and fairly estimated. The rapid increase of the industry since 1894 is obvious. Since the first of the present year there have been shipped from Rossland mines about 15,000 tons of ore valued at approximately $270,000 Star, 25; THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW IN ROSSLAND the question. gross, made up as follows: Le Roi, 5,300; War Eagle, 5,200; Centre Star, 3,300; Iron Mask, 600, Alonte Christo, 275; Giant, 50; I. X. L., 50; Evening miscellaneous, 200. At this season it must not be expected that-unusual activity can be reported, especially now that there are so many distracting events claiming attention. Foremost here of local importance is the question "What are the prospects for the immediate future?" The way in which this question is asked shows the anxiety which prevails. The air has been filled with rumors of a strike—as a further result of the eight-hour law. The petition which was presented by Air. J. M. Martin, the member for Rossland, in the Legislature the other day asking for a repeal of the eight-hour law on the grounds that the law is unconstitutional and should be repealed because as it is alleged it is an interference with the right of private contract and that it is not working, well here, has evoked a counter petition from the labour side of The petition asking for a repeal of the law was, as your readers doubtless know, signed on behalf of the leading producers of the camp and a number of companies whose status is yet to be defined. But the presentation of this petition undoubtedly creates much stir in Rossland. It was reported in some quarters that Mr. Alartin had introduced a bill to repeal the law, but it soon became evident that Mr. Martin presented only a petition that was sent to him and in this respect had merely discharged a legislative duty. It is well known here that the mine managers are more or less opposed to the law, and threaten to pay only an eight-hour wage if the law is to continue in operation. The petition asks for a repeal of the law or amendments which it is presumed will be explained later. On the other hand those that take a different view are circulating a counter petition praying that no interference be made with the existing law. This petition, I understand, is to be forwarded this week, and in the meantime it is expected that the Government will make the necessary investigation into the entire question so that it will be better able to decide on whit is best to be done. SANDON., tFrom Our Own Correspondent.) The Payne imported thirty miners on the 14th inst. by special train and boat. Demonstrations were made by the union both on the arrival of the train and three days later at the mine, the result being that the secretary of the union is now under bonds to appear to answer the charge of unlawful assembly. The union has lost the sympathy of many of its best members through this action and also for not accepting the compromise of $3.25. The Payne mine is now employing about 55 men and is shipping 30 tons of ore daily. An air drill in No. 5 tunnel is to be installed. On the' Vulture eight men are employed driving a lower level. When the ore below is struck the mine will be in a position to ship regularly. An additional 100 feet of driving will reach a spot immediately beneath the upper ore showing. The Florida, situated in the Jackson Basin, has shipped two cars from Whitewater and will shortly ship another. They have six men engaged in development work. The American boy is looking very well and has about fourteen men at work. They are shipping about a car every week. ) I 68 THE MINING RECORD. The aerial tramway was running on the Wakefield this week and worked very well. The water will be turned on in the mill on tfre first of next month. The mine has 12 miners under contract in the mine, but would put on 100 men if the labour trouble was settled. Development work is progressing favourably on the Marion and the ore-chute continues to improve. The management will not attempt to ship this winter, but active development work will be prosecuted. The Madison has just installed a gasoline hoist, from Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Crouse & Williams have just finished the 700-foot tunnel contract in the Sovereign which belongs to the same company. The Queen Bess is working about 22 men who are operating machines and working on contract. The lower tunnel being driven by steam drill is in about 350 feet. The mine has shipped about 150 tons this month. Things would be very active in the Slocan now if it were not for the eight-hour law and fully 1,000 more men would be employed in our mines. No miners are at work except machine men, men on contract labour and those who the old scale of wage does not affect. OREGON VS. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Below you will see the differences in mining in British Columbia and Oregon and are facts taken fiom a letter from a well known mining man in Baker City, Oregon, and who also has very considerable interests in the Slocan. My correspondent is an Eastern Canadian: Oregon.—Labour ($3.50) for ten hours; powder, 12 cents per pound; duty on lead, nil; Government tax on output, nil; no tax on mine. British Columbia.—Labour ($3.50) for eight hours; powder, 17 cents per pound; duty on lead, $30.00 per ton; Government tax on output, 1 per cent, and said to be going to be increased; tax on mine and improvements. In the face of the above great disadvantages for mining in this country surely the Government ought to go other countries one better by trying to encourage mining rather than putting obstacles in its way. Good men are leaving this section for the American side and the ones already here would sell out if they could reasonably. The public have so very little faith in the laws of this section now, as the Legislature are changing them every session and consequently none of us "know where we are at." I trust that the above figures will in some measure interest the readers of the Mining Record. RAWHIDER. REVELSTOKE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Now that the annual festivities are over, tempered as they were by the deplorable war in the Transvaal, people are beginning once more to turn their attention to business; and business in this district means mining. Everyone is talking about the work that will be done this year, and of the great strides that our chief industry will make, especially in the way of attracting more outside capital to the country, which. indeed is the main thing necessary. We have the mineral in abundance, but as a rule are sadly lacking the means wherewith to make it profitable, whilst the far too frequently mismanaged English companies who have invested heavily here, by their failures (which in other hands might have been successes) have considerably damaged our chances of getting as much assistance from outside capital as our remarkably rich district deserves. So true is this that many old-timers look doubtfully on any English company proposing to take up mineral claims here, as from experience they know that the result will probably be failure, and a blackeye to the country. It is very certain that mining must always from its very nature be a good deal of a gamble, but the small companies which are by far the safest investment, as a general rule know a great deal about their properties before they are stocked,and manage them with the idea that every man about the place should be worth his pay, no ornaments being required or allowed. There is in all camps, far too little attention paid to sanitary arrangements, all kinds of kitchen refuse, the inevitable tin cans, old clothing, and slops are usually deposited as close as possible to the cabin. This matter has been referred to be- Sanitation fore this, but it is quite of sufficient in importance to be "rubbed into" those mining camps in control; and a few more conveniences such as a place for a bath, could as a rule be arranged without much difficulty, and with much benefit to the public health and comfort of those employed. Just in this immediate vicinity, mining is extremely quiet. Some unfortunate trouble has occurred with the Boston & B. C. Co., and the men are all laid off at present; but it is stated on the very best authority that the trouble, whatever it was, has been adjusted, and that work in the Standard Basin will be continued immediately just as was intended. The mine is said to have been working very well indeed when work ceased. But though the Big Bend is unexpectedly quiet, a very different state of things holds in the Lardeau, which is all work and bustle. The unusually mild winter has interfered seriously with the rawhiding and freighting arrangements, but notwithstanding the difficulty of transportation the Nettie L. amongst others has got* a large pile of ore sacked at Thomson's Landing (the nearest point to the river) and very much more at the mine and at Ferguson. This is just an illustration of the small and good investments referred to above; the ore extracted will prove a most valuable source of income, and it has not been the policy of the managers to get out ore at the expense of development, that work has been steadily prosecuted the whole time to the great advantage of the property. At the Silver Cup there was some temporary trouble recently, when most of the men were laid off, but that also has been satisfactorily arranged and work is proceeding as usual. Many other claims are being worked this winter in the Lardeau district; on First Creek operations will be commenced forthwith on the Moscow, which is said to have a wonderfully fine surface showing, and a tunnel of at least 50 feet will be driven on the vein. It is impossible to enumerate all the prospects and partly developed mines that are keeping from -two to thirty or ' more men employed, but busy as the district is this winter, it will surely be a very hive of industry next summer, when the long expected railroads which are already partly finished shall at least enter into and open up this wonderfully mineralized region, and render those claims comparatively easy to approach which have hitherto been almost inaccessible. H. TROUT LAKE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Greater activity exists at the present time in this district than in any previous winter. A force of 18 THE MINING RECORD. 69 men is employed at the Nettie L. property, near Ferguson, some of the men being engaged on development work and the balance taking out, sorting and sacking ore. So far about 80 tons of ore have this winter been rawhided to the foot of the hill, from which point the ore is taken on sleighs to Thompson's Landing to await trans-shipment to some smelting point. The property is looking well, and a steady output is expected to be maintained all winter. Since about the middle of December about a busy 160 tons of ore have been shipped from winter, the Silver Cup and Sunshine group, about half of the tonnage coming from each property. About 50 tons of ore are now ready for market, and ore is being sacked at the Silver Cup at the rate of four tons per day. There can be no doubt that there is more ore in sight to-day at- the property than at any previous period, and the management is to be heartily congratulated on the appearance of the mine. Work is proceeding on the St. Elmo property, from which a small shipment should shortly be made. The ore at this property is of a high character. Work on the Ethel group, near Trout Lake Ctiy, has been temporarily stopped owing to an adjustment of the terms of the lease being .necessary. It will be remembered that the property was being developed by certain lessees who engaged to hand to the owners a certain percentage of any smelter returns. A small force is still at work on the Mohawk, in the Fish River District, where development is proceeding- satisfactorily. Freighters are busy rawhiding and sleighing ore from the Beatrice property— from which not less than 200 tons of high-grade ore should be shipped this winter. CORRESPONDENCE. The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions which may be eocpressed in this column. No notice will be taken of communications unless accompanied by the full name and address of the writer. DISCOVERIES OF BESSEAIER STEEL ORE AND THE SOURCES OF THE PLACER GOLD OF THE FRASER RIVER. •"TO THE EDITOR:—Referring to the article in 1 your issue for last month I have great pleasure in affording you further information of the important discoveries which I have recently made in this part of British Columbia. I have discovered in the upper Fraser Valley the very sources from whence the placer gold of the Fraser River originates—the source of the fine as well as the source of the coarse gold. Further, I have discovered in two different localities in the vicinity of Fort George Canyon immense beds or strata of soft red hematite and micaceous iron ore—the well known bessemer steel ore. It is a well known fact that the Fraser River is rich in fine placer gold. So far, however, the source of that gold has not been known. I claim to have discovered that source in the huge irregular masses of conglomerates which are imbedded in the black slates of the Archaean. These slates occur, as far as my observation reaches, at three different localities in the Fraser Valley between the mouth of Blackwater River and Fort George Canyon. Their lateral extension is quite unknown yet. The whole country is so thickly covered by drift—immense deposits of gravel—that prospecting and exploration work is very expensive and uncertain in its results. Only on the top of high hills and in the de^p valleys of the great rivers can the bedrock be seen and examined. These conglomerates are intersected and interlamin- ated by true quartz veins and dikes of every description. The composition of the conglomerates consist of sharp cornered pieces of quartz, slates, traces of mica, imbedded in a yellowish, whitish or greenish mass of tale of great resistance. These ingredients vary in size from one inch diameter down to so fine a state that they appear before the naked eye as one homogeneous mass. They form on surface low ranges of hills, knobs, hogbacks, cliffs, reefs and banks on or near the river. Their colour is mostly bright orange, yellow, brown and white, attracting the eye of the traveller and contrasting with the gray and green of their monotonous surroundings. These conglomerates are full of iron pyrites and little globules and flakes of native gold, easily to be detected by a powerful lense at bright daylight or by the light of a lamp. Rarely or only exceptionally can the gold be detected by the naked eye; and only pieces of ore which are quite dry show the abundant presence of the gold. It is almost useless to examine pieces of ore which are wet or moist. When in this condition the contents of the talcose matter, always accompanying the gold here, probably swells up and hides the gold. This may be one of the reasons why these treasures have not been discovered long ago. Another reason may be found in the fact that geologists, miners and prospectors invariably are travelling on this river up stream at the time of high water when the river banks are inundated and the traveller returns home down stream in such a hurry that he pays but little attention to his surroundings. It happened that I came here after the time of high water and I have had plenty of leisure to studying the peculiarities of the formation. Any quantity of this kind of ore may be taken from the surface at anytime. It is partly free-milling, partly associated with iron pyrites. So far I have not found refractory gold ore in this part of the country. Probably these conglomerates cover many square miles, and there is abundant proof of the presence of gold without the necessity of assaying, for these immense masses of gold-bearing conglomerates have been exposed to the atmospheric influences, which have set the little globules of gold free. Then water, sand and gravel has helped carry this gold to the river, where the globules are pressed and crushed between rolling stones and boulders by the action of the river currents. Finally they appear as the fine placer gold of the Fraser River. This is the long-sought-for solution of the problem of the source of the Fraser's gold. The coarse gold occurs in a regular stratum of conglomerates of about twenty feet in width differing greatly from the deposits referred to above and crossing the Fort George Canyon at the most turbulent spot. This is a true stratum composed of a bluish, greenish white and hard talcose mass in which hornblende and ciuartzose lumps of rock of different siz3 are irregularly imbedded. Here the native gold occurs so frequently and in such a coarse state associated 70 THE MINING RECORD. frequently with the quartz and hornblende, that it may be easily detected by the naked eye and occasionally even cut and tested with a knife. Several years ago about two or three miles down the river from this locality miners discovered and washed from the gravel beds on the river banks great quantities of coarse gold, but they were obliged to cease their operations because they were not able to obtain water sufficient for the process of washing. This discovery on Fort George Canyon is undoubtedly one of the main sources of the coarse placer gold of the Fraser River. The beginning of the hard winter has rendered further investigation impossible for the present time. . My discoveries of the red hematite ore was made on the eastern bank of the Fraser River about two miles and a-half south of Fort George Canyon. Here in the bluff at an elevation of a hundred feet above the stream a stratum of red hematite measuring from footwall to hanging wall more than five hundred feet across is standing out almost perpendicularly from the cliff attracting the eye by its bluish-red colour. This stratum is all iron ore, without any interstratification of rocks of any kind whatever. A number of test holes and blasts sufficiently convinced me that the showing is not the result of surface oxidation only. From the footwall upward to the centre is the muchly sought red hematite, which from this point gradually, changes to micaceous iron ore crowned with the common red hematite ore. The part forming the hanging wall is unknown yet, because covered by drift (gravel). Probably the diameter of this gigantic occurrence is even more than 500 feet. We tried to measure the diameter by using a tape line in canoes on the river—the only way to accomplish this work—but the current of the river was too strong and we almost perished in the attempt. I am, however, fully convinced that the stratum measures not less than 500 I feet. And it is a regular stratum with a well defined footwall and a well defined stratification. It contains, however, numerous traces of native gold, especially near the few small bands of quartz which cross it in spots. Its footwall consists of quartzose hornblendic slates, shows also numerous traces of native gold, fine iron pyrites and . the combinations of manganese. These combinations of manganese are very frequent in this part of the province. Another occurrence of red hematite may be seen directly on the Fraser River above Fort George Canyon, and within a distance of about 1,500 feet from footwall to hanging wall, a series of black slates are interlaminated, intersected and impregnated by- red hematite ore in huge, irregular masses. They also contain considerable traces of native gold and form the overlaying strata of twenty feet of coarse gold- bearing stratum of conglomerates referred to above. There is no doubt in my mind that these slates contain a great number of workable deposits of red hematite, though my investigations are as yet incomplete. These deposits of red hematite in paying quantities, are, as far as I know, the first discovered on the Pacific Slope. They mean the industrial and national econoirjc development, the industrial independence of British Columbia and a new era of prosperity and ■welfare for her people. It means that at no distant time Brtiish Columbia will furnish steel rails for the railways to all the countries bordering on the Pacific ocean, especially to Eastern Asia. It means a revolution in this branch of the iron and steel trade. The discovery of the source of the placer gold of the Fraser . River, valuable and important as it may be, is insig nificant when compared with the discovery of these gigantic beds of soft red hematite, directly on the banks of a navigable river, easy of access of railroads, in a country abounding in the best timber, and having magnificent water powers, a congenial climate and the best of coals. The occurrence of the gold-bearing conglomerates seem to be similar, if not identical, to that of the Transvaal, Southern Africa, but fortunately here there are no Boers. The red hematite strongly resembles, if it is not identical with that of the Lake Superior region/ with which locality I am personally familiar. 1 take full responsibility for every word this communication contains. It is a matter of self-understanding that all these discoveries have been legally secured. These discoveries offer great opportunities, but only for those with plenty of capital, assisted by technical, mercantile and financial ability. It were of no use at all starting small concerns, trying to open and work th? same successfully. It takes organizatory talent and millions of capital to open this region, to agitate and to provide for roads, railways, telegraphs, corrections of the river, establishing connections with the outer world, etc., etc. At present this part of British Columbia is nothing else but a wilderness, empty of man and of any indication of civilization. K. LUDLOFF. Quesnelle, B.C. [Mr. K. Ludloff is, we understand, a German geologist, at present engaged by a syndicate of Baltic noblemen, to obtain seeds of the conifers of British Columbia with the object of replenishing depleted forests in Livonia.—Ed.] PRODUCING MINES. NELSON. The mine exports from the port of Nelson for December were as follows: Coke $ 8,037 0° Copper matte 41,695 po Lead bullion 10,849 °° Gold bullion 26,164 00 Total $86,745 00 The result of the Hall Mines smelting operations for the four weeks ending December 29th, 1899, were as follows: - Ore smelted 3.132 tons Containing (approximately) Copper 69 tons Silver 40,080 ozs. The returns from the Athabasca mill for December, comprising a run of 29 days and 16 hours, during which time 344 tons of ore were crushed, are as follows: Value of bullion recovered $ 7,852 66 Value of concentrates 2,553 89 Total values recovered $10,406 55 Value of bullion recovered per ton of ore crushed $ 22 83 A^alue of concentrates recovered per ton of ore crushed 7 42 Total values recovered per ton of ore crushed $ 30 25 THE MINING RECORD. ROSSLAND. The customs returns from Rossland for December show a gratifying increase. The mine exports were: " „ Value. Ore, 8,045 tons $225,269 Matte, 699,037 lbs 191J121 Total $416,390 The total exports or the year were $3,929,549, a monthly average of $327,479. The total imports were $779,304, a monthly average of $64,942. There has been a most marked increase during the last six months. The imports from July to December were $436,222 as compared with $343,082 from January to June. The increase of exports in the last six months of the year are still greater, the total from July to December being $2,399,309 as compared with $1,530,240 from January to June. Our Rossland correspondent telegraphs: "Official figures show that the total quantity of ore from Trail Creek mines during 1899 amounted to 180,300 tons, valued at $3,211,400, yielding 101,500 ounces of gold; 272,300 ounces of silver; 7,783,000 pounds of copper, valued at $1,114,400. Le Roi produced 92,250 tons, valued at $1,250,000; War Eagle, 63,500 tons, valued at $1,143,000; Centre Star, 26,700 tons, valued at $221,275; Iron Mask, 5,378 tons, valued at $70,268.81. The balance is made up by miscellaneous shipments. Much uneasiness prevails with regard to the likelihood of labour troubles as a result of the eight-hour law. Meanwhile supporters of the eigh,t-hour law have forwarded a counter petition protesting against its repeal. It is believed here that the Government will investigate as to the result of the operations of the law before taking any decided action. The ore shipments for January are estimated at 24,000 tons." The following figures may be regarded as official and refer to the condition of the principal mining properties throughout Trail Creek division up to December 31st, 1899:— Le Roi Aline—Tons of ore shipped, 92,500; gross value, $1,250,000. Columbia and Kootenay—tons of ore shipped, 92,500; gross value, $125,000. Columbia and Kootenay—Tons of ore shipped, no; gross value, $i„6oo. Number of feet of develop-- ment work done—driving, 4.30; sinking, 750; cost, $5,050; average number of men employed, 40. Nickel Plate—Number of feet of development work done—driving, 1,930; sinking 440; average number of men employed, 25. Great Western—Number of feet of development work done—driving, 300; sinking, 200; average number of men employed, 20. Josie—Number of feet of development work done— drifting, 650; raising and sinking, 480; total, 1,130 feet; average number of men employed, 20. Number 1—Number of feet of development work- done—drifting, 1,900 raising and sinking, 430: total, 2,330 feet; average number of men employed, 35. War Eagle—Number of tons of ore shipped. 63,500; gross value, $1,143,000; average number of men employed, 250. Centre Star—Number of tons of ore shipped, 16,700; gross value, $225,450; average number of men employed, 75. Iron Mask—Amount of development work done during 1899, 2,852 feet, number of tons of ore shipped, 5,378; grosS value, $70,268.81; average number of men employed, 40. New St. Elmo—Amount of development work, including cross-cutting and drifting, 296 feet; average number of men employed, 8. Montreal Gold Fields. Gertrude—Building improvements (1899) $1,235; plant and machinery (1899) $2,145; prospecting, etc., $190; total, $3,570. Shafting, cost, $4,200, cross-cutting, etc., $5,820; drifting, $544; total cost, $14,134. Coxey—Surface prospecting, etc., cost, $250; shafting, $1,260; winze, $1,040; cross-cutting, 945; timbering, $175; stoping ore, $2,660; No. 2 tunnel, cross- cutting off No. 2, $1,840; roads and trails, $50; total, 88,295. California—Work was resumed on this property. September 5, 1899, since which time the following amount of work has been done: Drifting, 78 feet; wagon road, 1,000 feet; building improvements at a cost of $4,300; average number of men employed, 5. Jumbo Gold Mining Co.—Tunnelling during 1899, 500 feet; average number of men employed, 5; no ore has been shipped. Vechet Mines, Sophie Mountain—Drifting done in I&99, 564 feet; cross-cutting, 460 feet; sinking, 55 feet; raising, 75 feet; total 1,154 feet. Average number of men employed, 25; no ore shipped during 1899. Portland, Sophie Mountain—Drifting in 1899, 250 feet; sinking, 147 feet; total, 397 feet. Average number of men employed, 12. No ore shipped. Iron Colt.—Work done during 1899, 30 feet. Average number of men employed, 20. Total amount of work done to date, 1,400 feet. No ore has been shipped. Big Four and Double Fraction.—Drifting 32 feet, $500; stoping vein on surface, $200; total, $700. Homestake Mine—Sinking done in 1899, II0 feet' drifting, 630 feet; cross-cutting, 830 feet; upraising, 25 feet; total, 1,595 feet- Average number of men employed, 19. Canadian Gold Fields, Limited. Sunset No. 2— Shafting, 235 feet; cross-cutting, 1,175 feet. Average number of men employed, 22. No ore was shipped during the year. Curlew—Shafting done during 1899, three feet. Parrot Fraction—Shafting, 28 feet. Black Eye—No work was done during 1899. The ore shipments for the first 24 days of January have reached about 18,000 tons. The winter continues to be an open one with prevailing westerly winds. A counter petition against the repeal of the eight- hour law has been circulated in Rossland and is said to have received a- large number of signatures. Much anxiety is felt with regard to the future relations between mine owners and miners. It is believed that the Government will fully investigate the whole subject before taking action either way. SLOCAN. During the past year 25,700,224 pounds of ore from Slocan mines was transported over the Kaslo & Slocan railway to American smelters—a decrease of nearly 8,500 tons in production as compared'with the 1898 returns. The exports of ore cleared at Kaslo also decreased in value to $14,274.68. This deplorable falling off is undoubtedly alone ascribable to the operation of the eight-hour law and consequent labour troubles. The exports of ore cleared at the port of Kaslo for each month'in 1899 were as follows: Month. Pounds. Value.. January 5,916,506 $2,688 23 February 5.43I»3I5 2.631 68 72 THE MINING RECORD. March 5,081,300 2J4I2 79 April 4,296,800 1,911 57 May 3,901,630 1,690 87 June 2,206,410 999 53' July 967>556 4*9 77 August 492,000 260 77 September 2,333,791 673 93 October 2,290,410 681 80 November 510,585 185 61 December 1,007,955 418 13 Total 34,436,258 $14,974 68 COAL MINES CASUALTIES. Mr. T. Morgan, Provincial Inspector of Mines, has furnished the following record of fatal and other accidents in the coal mines during the yeai; 1899: New Vancouver Coal Co.—Three fatal accidents and six injured. Wellington—No fatal accidents and 13 injured. Union—Five fatal accidents and 26 injured. Extension—One fatal accident and seven injured. South Wellington—No fatal accidents, two injured. This record shows nine fatal accidents as compared with seven in 1898, and six in 1897, while the year shows 54 accidents, as against 47 for the last year, and 27 for 1897. COAL EXPORTATIONS. FOREIGN SHIPMENTS. 1898. 1899.. New Vancouver Coal Co 4°3,535 463,109 Wellington 232,642 206,422 Union 129,684 88,174 Extension (Well 11,386 The following are the New Vancouver Coal Company's foreign shipments for the three weeks ending January 20th: Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 4th—SS. R. A damson... San Francisco 4,451 6th—SS. Mineola Port Los Angeles. 3,207 9th—SS. New England... Alaska | 55 14th—SS.Titania Port Los Angeles. 5,822 17th—SS. San Mateo Port Los Angeles. 4,356 19th—SS. R. Adamson.. .San Francisco 4,471 20th—SS. Charles Nelson.. San Ffancisco .... 929 Total 23,201 The following comparative figures are of interest: 1898. ' 1899. _ New Vancouver Coal.. Co .. . .520,222 614,808 Wellington 315.838 257,443 Union 236,395 206,871 Alexandria 45>50° 47>I2o Wellington Extension 40,000 Totals 1,117,915 1,166,251 THE METAL MARKET. Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the_B. C. Mining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York.] SILVER. SILVER has advanced under the impression that India's requirements may compel the purchase of a considerable quantity #f the metal. There is, however, no positive information as yet to this effect. The price has meanwhile advanced from 58f to 59!. COPPER. This market still remains steady and the general conditions prevailing are eminently re-assuring as regards the immediate future. Prices remain unchanged i6\ to i6Jc. for Lake; 15I to I5fc. for electrolytic in cakes, bars or ingots, and i5i to i5fc for cathodes. Casting copper remains nominal at 15^ to I5§c LEAD. Lead has been somewhat easier at 4.65 to 4.70 New York and 4-57|- to 4.62^ St. Louis. SPELTER. There has been an improvement in this market, and 4.60 to 4.65 is quoted from New York; 4.35 to 4.40 St. Louis. The year 1899 beat all previous records in the coal industry of Vancouver Island. Nanaimo as usual took the highest position, both in output of coal and foreign shipments. The total output for the year again overtopped the million- mark, being 1,166,251 tons. The annual output only reached the million point in three previous years—1898—1,117,915 tons; 1894—1,012,953 tons, and 1891—1,029,098 tons of coal. The foreign shipments also show a corresponding increase, the New Vancouver Coal Company exceeding all the other collieries combined, both in output and foreign shipments. Estimating the output from the Fernie mines at 60,000 tons we get the total output for the province as 1,226,251 tons. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. THE stock market remains in a very depressed state with most stocks showing a still further decline since our last report. Van Anda has fallen since, the annual meting held last week at Seattle from 5^ to 3J cents owing to the resolution passed at that meeting authorizing the issue of $225,000 debentures in addition to the $75,000 already issued. In Trail Creek stocks War Eagle has advanced from $2.60 to $2.80. Iron Mask has fallen from 74 to 56; Big Three declined to 8, and I. X. L. after booming has weakened. In Slocan and Nelson stock Dardanelles has declined from 12 to 9; Noble Five from 20 to 13; Athabasca to 32, and Tamarac to 9. Boundary Creek shares have also been affected by the general market depression. King has declined from 28 to 21; Brandon from 30 to 28; Winnipeg from 30 to 28; Morrison from 7 to 6. Rathmullen, however, has been very active owing to the recent strike at the 200-foot level. Winnipeg sent out a carload consignment of ore to Trail smelter last week. This company has entered into a contract to ship 10,000 tons to Trail and it is expected to become the first dividend payer of the Boundary district. i In Camp McKinney stocks the well established dividend payer, the Cariboo, has fallen from $1.05 to 80c; Waterloo from 13 to 12c; Fontenoy from 14 to 13c.; Sailor from 13 to 10c. In East Kootenay Crow's Nest shares are held firm around $39, whilst North Star has advanced from $1.00 to $1.20 and Sullivan has been selling in the vicinity of 9 to 10c. Ii «- THE MINING RECORD. The Simplest, Most Economical and Most Effective Concentrator Known. The Wilfley Ore Concentrator Syndicate, Limited. 32 OLD JEWRY, E.C. LONDON. ■ Descriptive Catalogue sent post free on application. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES. -"Wrathless, London." Beg to call the attention of Mining Engineers, Mine Superintendents and Managers, Machinery Dealers, and all connected with the Mining: Industry to THE "WILFLEY" TABLE The following- strong claims .are put forward for the "WILFLEY," and will be found more than fully substantiated in actual working1 : 1. Simplicity of construction. No expensive wearing parts. No belt renewals. Nothing- to get out of order. Practically no repairs. 2. Facility of adjustment to all ores treated. Once adjusted it needs but a minimum of attention. 3. Its wonderful capacity. Will handle three to five times as much material as any belt table made. 4. Reduction of maintenance charges. No skilled labour required. Reduction in initial outlay, as smaller number of tables are needed. 5. The ore particles being separated into distinct streaks a complete separation of the different minerals contained is effected. The " WILFLEY" has only been on tha market some eighteen months, yet in that time nearly 800 have been sold, and are in use in 200 mines, which speaks volumes for the rapid and favorable recognition it has been accorded. The most flattering Testimonials have been received. The ""WILFLEY" can be seen in operation by appointment at the offices of the Syndicate, 32 did Jewry, London, E.C. Samples of Ore, 50 lb. to 1 cwt., tested free of charge. Correspondence Invited E. G. Prior & 6o., Ltd. rt?. ffi Established 1858. tn MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY, o* ^ ^ BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ^ ^ ^ ^ ** BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters YICTORIH. Branch Stores: VANCOUVER and KHML©©PS, B. e. First Quality in All Lines. Mining' Machinery and Supplies. Engines Hoists Pumps Boilers Engines Hoists Our Combined Geared Gasoline En- ine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline blEAIYI { „ GASOLINE: ii,r„-,n„csnni Engine and Air Compressor especially AirLOinprebSUrS) adapted for Mining Purposes. [Pumping Plants ~™„~~~~™~™. FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCALES. Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. l-^ . - „ r%/m ' £■ si Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. rflirhSflK^ 1 lOrSe CC LO Paul, Minneapolis, St. LouisJEansas CSty, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. flpTpRSffigri TheHallidie Ropeway ImProved GRIPPULLEY " »—•»■-'-■— ■»- J- y Patents Nos. 483,442; 610,353. For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Eartb, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire Eopes. SIMPLE, ECONOHICAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cableways, Transmission by Wire Ropes. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Incline Planes. Cable Qrips. Logging by Cables. Automatic Loaders Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND CABLE. Send for Illustrated Pampblet. Correspondence solicited. CALIFORNIA WIRE WORKS, 9 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. THE MINING RECORD. Mining Stocks. Prepared by A. W. Mora & Co., Stock BrokeiB, Victoria, B.C., Jan. 261900. Company. Capital. Par Value. TRAIL CHEEK. Alberta Big Three Bruce Butte Caledonia Con. Centre Star Commander— Deer Park Enterprise Evening Star... Georgia Gertrude Golden Drip... Gopher Hattie Brown.. High Ore Homestake Iron Horse Iron Mask I.X.L. Iron Colt Jumbo LeRol Lilly May Mabel Mayflower Monita Monte Cristo Nest Egg-Firefly Northern Belle Novelty Palo Alto Poorman R.E.Lee Red Mountain View Rossland, Red Mountain.. St. Elmo Silverine ■ Silver Bell Con Vict ory Triumph Virginia War Eagle Consolidatedf. White Bear American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Black Hills Buffalo of Slocan Channe Dundee Dardanelles Dellie Exchequer Fern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick Leviathan London Miller Creek Molly Gibson Minnesota Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanhoe. Payne ;. Rambler Con Reco Slocan-Reciprocity.. Slocan Start Santa Marie Silver Band Slocan Queen Star St. Keverne Sunshine Tanaarac Two Friends Washington Wonderful Lardeau Goldsmith Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Co. Lardo-Duncan TEXADA ISLAND. Gold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary Texada Kirk Lake Treasury Mines Van Anda Victoria-Texada VANCOUVER ISLAND. Alberni Mountain Rose Consolidated Alberni Mineral Creek Mineral Hill '..'.' uadra • Mount Sicker & B.C. Development Co! AINSWORTH, NELSON AND SLOCAN. $1,000,000 3,600,000 1.000,000 1,000.000 1,000,000 3,500,0001 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 i,ooo,oool 1,000.0001 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 600,000 £1,000,000. $1,000,000 1,000,000; 1,000,000 750,000, 2,500,000 1 000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,0001 '2,000,000 1,000,0001 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 I 00 > 000 2,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 100,000 150,000 250 000 1.000.000 1.50 1000 7,0,000 1,000,000 200,000 800,000 650,000! £300.000 $1500,000 2,000,0001 160,000! 1.000,000 2,000,001'i 1,000.000 250,000, 12,000 1.000,000 8,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500.000 1000,000 250,000 1.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 600,000 1,000 000 240.000 1,000,000 1,000,000 200 000 1,500.000 1,500,000 100.000 1,000.0001 250 000 600,000 250,000 5,000,000! 160,000 250,000 600,000 600,000 750,000 500.0001 £125,000 $1 ? V4 1 8 1 10 I 02 1 Sii 1 1 70 1 10 1 2 1 20 1 9 1 5 1 9 1 15 1 03}^ 1 03 1 05 1 04J^ 1 VA 1 56 6 19 1 13 1 25 £5 £7 1 $0 20 1 15 1 10 1 10 1 1 02 1 4 I 4 1 03 1 14 1 3 1 3 I 10 1 6 I 6 25 3 1 5 1 6K 1 2 80 1 »K 1 I 0 10 1 0 10 0 25 0 25 1 1 1 1 0 25 1 1 £1 $1 1 26 I 1 1 0 25 I 1c. pari 1 1 00 1 1 1 50 $1 0 25 1 1 1 10 1 6% 10 32 10 03 15 9 12 12 6 11 1TA 10 3 25 08 35 66 20 13 1% 1 05 55 1 00 10 1 0 25 1 26 1 0 25 1 1 I 1 25 05 1% 10 07 9 06 25 4 25 1 00. 3W 02 03J4 5 05 05 4 85 CABIBOO. Cariboo Gold Fields Ld , Cariboo Hydraulic Consolidated,... Cariboo M. & D. Co Golden River Quesnelle , Horsefly Hydraulic Horsefly Gold Mining Co , Victoria Hydraujc LILLOOET DISTRICT. Alpha Bell , Cayoosh Creek Mines , Excelsior.., Golden Cache , Lillooet Gold Reefs FAIRVIEW CAMP. Smuggler Fairview Corporation BOUNDARY CREEK, Bouu dary Creek M. M. Co Brandon and Golden Crown Dominion Copper Co King Knob Hill Morrison Old Ironsides Pathfinder Pay Ore Rathmullen Winnipeg CAMP MCKINNEV. Camp McKinney I'evelonment Co. CHmp McKinney Mines Co Cariboof Minnehaha Waterloo Fontenoy O'Shea Waterloo No. 2. Mammoth. Little Cariboo Shannon Sailor Silver Bell, Consolidated REVELSTOKE Carnes Creek Consolidated EAST KOOTENAY. Canadian Gold Fields <. Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co North Star Sullivan £100,000 55,000,000 300,000 £350,000 $200,000 1,000,000 flO *5 1 £1 300,000, 1 500,000 500,000, 500.000, 500,000 2"0,000 1 1 1 1 25 , 1.000,000 1 1,000,0001 25 1 500,000: 1.5(H).000 5,000,000 1 500,0001 1,500,000 1,000,000! 1.000.000 1,000,00 1,000,000 2,500,000 1,000,000 90 25 1 26 86 02H 05 10 28 75 21 85. 6 I 00 16 6 27 600,000 1 23 600.00U 1 . MJi 1,250,000 1 80 1000 000 1 14 100.000 10 12 1,000,000 1 13 : 0,00 j 10 01 50,000 10 01 50,000 10 ni 100,000 10 01 50,00(1 5 13 1,250,00(1 1 10 500,000 25 m 1 1,000,000 1,000,050 10 08 2,000,-OOC 25 $39 00 1,500,00C 1 1 20 1,000,000 1 10 V. Y. T. Co., LAKE BENNETT, B.6. 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Position as Superintendent (or assistant to) of an electric railway, mining or lighting plant graduate of a leading American technical by —jgaaK ue °" *c»umg American tecf. college, who is also a practical mechanic. Ten years very practical experience wfth various electrical systems for lighting and power, including three years in charge of a plant for the leading steel manufacturing company of Am-rica and three years in charge of a 3-phase plant for a representative Colorado mine. Thoroughly reliable. Address -'"Engineer," care of British Columbia Mining Record. lOO Stamp Mill J- Fortescue Foulke IM. B.Van derGucht. J. Foulkes &, Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. Cable address THEHALEY-GIVENS INVESTMENT CO. (Incorporated.) Capital Stock, $100,000.00 Paid Up. Real Estate and Loans, Stocks, Bonds and Mines. Official bookers fGr The Golden Tunnel Mining Co. Write us for information. SUITE 530-533 N.Y. Block, SEATTLE, WASH. a. S. HSHeR©FT, D.L.S.,P.L.S. Greenwood, B.C. W- fl, BHDER, D.L.S.,P.L.S 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. „iV. BAUER & flSHGROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. VANCOUVER and GREENWOOD. E. M. SANDILANDS, General Agent, Fire Insurance and Mining broker. Slocan Mines. SANDON, B. C | VICTORIA, B.C. 'Fouvan." All codes used. B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. E., VANCOUVER, B. C. Reports. Surveys. Management. Contract Prospecting and Development Work. MINES Best References. F. J. L. TYTLER, CONSULTING ENGINEER, Notary Public In and for B, C, Commissioner of Oaths. Office, 23 Mackinnon Block, Granville St., VonrAm/or' P.O. Box 3p. Telephone 750. VdlltOUVCr. ,ABC Code, Bedford McNeill Code. Student of Glasgow University. Pupil of Messrs. Haivkes Crawshay, Gateshead-on-Tyne. Late Civil Engineer, Oude & Rohilknnd Railway, India. Late Civil Engineer, Department of Public Works, India. Late Manager Sirmoor Iron Works. Late Inspector of Dykes, British Columbia. For several years Consulting Engineer to the Government of B. C. All business with mines transacted, reports made, assays supplied. Plan estimates and specifications for general engineering purposes made and works managed and supervised. TABLE OF CONTENTS. THE MONTH— Page The Eight Hour Law 39 A Vexatious Regulation 40 Editorial Comment 42 Mines of the Trout Lake District (The Silver Cnp) 45 The Quatsino Coal Measures (Illustrated) 47 Auriferous Alluvium of the Fraser River, by J. D. Kendall 50 The Hall Mines, Ltd , Annual Report 55 Verbatim Evidence Center Star-Iron Mask Case 65 THE MONTH'S MINING— Shoal Bay 65. Kamloops 65 Boundary Creek 65 -OContinued)- THE MONTH'S MINING Rossland Sandon Revelstoke Trout Lake Sources of Fraser River Placer Gold and Discoveries of 1 Ore Producing Mines Coal Mine Casualties Coal Exportations The Metal Market , The Local Stock Market. Bessimer Steel DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, Col B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C. Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal ASSAYERS— Selby Bros., Portland, Oregon j Victoria, B.C H., Revelstoke, B.C Pellew, Vancouver, B.C Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col Cuno, Chas. F., Denver, Col Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C Best, W. F. Holdich, A. Harvey, W. Page. VI. n. II. n. n. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C. XVH. BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, IU III. Bacon Earle, O. New York I. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. BANKS— Bank of British North America VOX Bank of British Columbia XIV. I Merchants' Bank of Halifax XHI. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J California Wire Works, San Francisco Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland Ont Jack & Robertson, Montreal Back < Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco i COAL AND COKE— New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass ( Gates Iron Works, Chicago, 111 Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... ( Bacon,Earle C., New York Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C C Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass C CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI Bacon, Earle O, New York XIX. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS- Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland, Ont THE MINING RECORD. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. ELECTRICAL SUPPLLES AND MACHINERY— Page. Hinton, Geo. C, & Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria. Cover. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I. Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C VII. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I, ENGINES AND BOILERS— Bacon, Earle-C, New York I. ENGRAVINGS— Spike Bros., Tacoma XIV. FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c VTH. FILTER PRESSES— Perrin, Wm. R., & Co., Chicago, 111 I. FIRE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. FUSE— Bennett, Wm., Sons & Co., Agents, Victoria XID3. GAS ENGINES— Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco XIIB. GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS— Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. VI. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver" and Nelson, B.C XVII.' HOISTING MACHINERY— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 Uj Bacon, Earle O, New York j Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland, Ont ..!.."!!.... IV Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, Seattle, Wash............. VHI Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. IX. HYDRAULIC PIPE & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vaneouver y. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco '.'.'.'.'.'. VL MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal jj Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany |j§| XVII. MACHINERY AGENTS—* Heaps, E. H., & Co., Vancouver, B.C Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C.. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS— Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C. MINING BROKERS— Foulkes, J. F. & Co Grigor, R. W.. Rossland, B.C Pemberton & Son, Victoria, B.C Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, Nicholson, Henry, Camp McKinney Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C Hawley, John, Vancouver, B.C More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C Purgold, George, Rossland, B.C B.C. MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver West, Howard, New Denver, B.C Bromly, A. H., Vancouver, B.C Gore, Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C Archibald & Pearson, Nelson, B.C Groves, F. W., Greenwood, B.C i Sandilands, E. M Tytler, F. J. L., Vancouver, B.C Parkinson, R. H., Fairview, B.C Redmond & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C Thomas, B., Vancouver Selby Bros., Portland, Ore Brewer, W M., Victoria, B C Tyrell & Green, Dawson City, Yukon Mackinnon, W. M., M.A.C., Vancouver, B.C Fergusson & Croftd, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C... Merry, H. E. D., Rossland METAL JOBBERS— Robertson, James, & Co. . XVI. . XVH. XVH. XI. XIII. . XVH. . XVH. . XVII. . XVH. XIX. XIV. xrv. XVH. XI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XVI. XI. XI. XVH- XVI. XI. XVI. XVII. XVII. XVI. XVH. XHB. Montreal, Vancouver. .Back Cover. V. ORE PURCHASERS— Page Van Anda Copper and Gold Co., Van Anda TTTT ORE CARS— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Taylor Air Compressing Co., Spokane, Wash IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI. Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co., Seattle; Wash VHI. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. IX. Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. PAINTS— Robertson, James, & Co., Ltd., Montreal and Van- Back couver Cover. PUBLICATIONS— B.C. Review, London, Eng XV. Mining Journal, London, Eng XVHI. Scientific Pub. Co., New York. XVHI. PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES— Edwards Bros., Vancouver XVIII. ROCK DRILLS— Howell's Mining Drill Co XnB James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI Canadian Rand 'Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover STAMP AND CONCENTRATING, MILLS— Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal Cover. Wilfley Ore Concentrator Syndicate, London, Eng XIX. SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVI. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XVII. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver XVH. Vancouver and Nelson XVI. XT. M. Mackinnon, W. Tytler, F. J. L Groves, F. W., Greenwood SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, H] SCREENS AND PERFORATED METALS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 SMELTING AND ROASTING FURNACES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI STOCK COMPANIES— Referendum Gold Mining and Milling Co., Rossland.. SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria Rithet, R. P., & Co., Victoria XVI. HI. m. XIII. XIV. XX. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa.. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria S.S. Alpha WATER WHEELS— Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman & Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &c. Victoria. Rossland, &c VHI. Thomas Farle, Wholesale Grocer, &c XIIA. Stemler & Earle, Spices, &c, Victoria XVnr Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits. Victoria Fraser, Walter S., & Co., Hardware Ward, Robert, & Co., Ltd., Commission Merchants and Importers avj. Leiser, Simon. & Co., Groceries XV. Weiler Bros., Furniture XV. Prior, E. G. & Co., Ld.. Hardward IX. Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods XV. Turner, Beeton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors, XV. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, XIIA. Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Back Cover. XIII. XVIII. xvni. XX XX XHA. rv. VI. VHI. xvnr. xvni. V. XVT. ni ■*-—= THE MINING RECORD. W^ Wmm xilA.; The Vancouver Agency, |« Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. $ Shipping and Commission Agents. Note.—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz: CALCUTTA ORE SACKS. COTTON WASTE. FIREBRICKS. FIRE CLAY. SMITHY COAL. LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. 605 Granville St., Vancouver, B ©. Write for lowest prices to THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. —^S" NOME, CAPE YORK and ST. MICHyELS. THE Al IRON STEAMER ALPHA The last steamer that sailed from Nome last fall, positively the first to arrive at Nome next spring, SAILING FROM VICTORIA ABOUT APRIL FIRST, 1900. The ALPHA has been thoroughly overhauled and additional accommodations added. Electric Lighted, Steam Heated, Hot Baths, Excellent Table prepared to cater to the most fastidious. In fact A LUXURIOUS HOME AT SEA. Secure passage and freight rates at once. O. W. SHOOP, Agent, 36 Fort St., VICTORIA. Capt. J. D. WARREN, Manager. THE CELEBRATED You flust^-^ 1 * RICK5HAW ^T have "CROWN BRAND" Pure ^"r Java and Mocha f Thomas Ear,e> If you will have TH E BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to SO pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B.C. Proprietors. IMPORTER, WHOLESALE OROCER and COMMISSION nERCHANT. Teas and Coffees a Specialty. 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. Elephant) Brand. Ready Mixed Paint For the Inside and Outside of Cottages leads all others. Durable, Bright and Glossy. Manufactured in 69 beautiful shades. Write us for color cards. Have you Barns, Outhouses or Fences to be Painted ? If so tryoj.- "prnirs'" Pint, made specially for that purpose. It will preserve and beautify. Some of Our Other Specialties : — Oil Stains, Varnish Stains, Enamels, Varnishes for carriages, houses and boats. Tinting Colors, Carriage Colors, &c. The British America Paint Company, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER. X11B. THE MINING RECORD. 1111111111 -Shipping Weight Union Hoist. fts one ton 12 Union 10 H. P. double eyl. single drum. Lifts one ton 125 ft. per minute. Gas and Gasoline Engines i" Sizes in actual (sgl For all kinds of worl. Running Pumps, Dynamos. Stamp Mills. r vs/ use Blowers. <S) lo m | p Concentrators. 5 Machinery. Gasoline Mining Hoists and Marine - jssass; .«as Hoists a Specialty. f| THE "UNION" GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine iM should be ; and is the result of 15 years' experience, having been built in San Francisco since 1885, 1 Union" Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. Send for illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. BENNETT FUSE! HEQISTBHED IjM CANADA. Crown TRHDE Brand. MHRK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers^ondono^rsf^fcggrrn Within WALL, ENGLAND. bers, 108 Bishopsgate St., Is guaranteed absolutely waterproof. It is Gutta-Percha, will neither crack nor break. Costs no more than tar-tape fuses. Ask your dealer for it. Give it a trial. We manufacture the following fuses for Canada: No. 6—R E D fuse for dry ground. No. 30—I WHITE countered fuse, waterproof. No. 36—BLUE double layed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application. Pope's Miner's Safety Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. ROWLAND MACHIN, gTc^ffi' No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea, t Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of eosts of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. O. Box 882, KOSSLAND, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. Xlll. MISCELLANEOUS. The British Columbia Review. Subscription $2.50 Per Annum. To Brokers, Mining Engineers, Owners of Mining Claims Assayers, Journalists and others. Advertise in the B. C. REVIEW—The Only Bepresentative B.C. Journal in Europe. 39 Bishopsgate St, within. LONDON, ENG. R. W. GRIGOR, -MINES- ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Addbess : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeil and Moreing and Neal's codes. H. W. TRBHT. Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. THOS. KIDDIB, Smelter Manager. Van Anda eoppER & gold eo„ Purchasers and Smelters —OF— COPPER MO eOPPER'GOLD ORES. Rates on Application, Gash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van Anda, Texada Island, B.C. A. VAN PER NAILLEIMS' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal The Referendum Free Gold Mining and Milling Co'y. w. NON-PERSONAL LIABILITY. CAPITAL STOCK $500,000. in 2,000,000 shares of 25c. each. Rossland, B.C., May 19, 1899. "We submit to the public as a safe and profitable investment the second issue of 100,000 shares in the Referendum Free Gold Mining and Milling Company, Limited, non-personal liability, just organized and registered during the first week of July. The capital stock of the Company will be $500,000 in shares of 25 cents per value. Of these 800,000 shares are set aside to be sold to develop further the property and operate the mine. The Company's property is situated on Forty-Nine Creek, about S miles from the City of Nelson, B.C., and in the well-known free-gold belt, in which are also the Athabasca and Poorman mines, which have yielded excellent profits to their owners. Two shafts 35 feet deep have been sunk on one vein, and numerous cuttings have been made, showing the continuity of the ore body for one thousand feet. Assays from ore from these works are as follows : $80, $87, $246, $360, $412. Dr. P. Langhammer, mining engineer, estimates this vein to average $43 in value and 20 inches in width. Thi* showing has enabled the Company to conclude arrangements for a plant to treat the ore, to be installed before snowfall. The gold being free and capable of extraction on the ground the expensive charges of transportation and smelting are obviated, and the profits will be correspondingly larger than from a base ore of equal assay value. The Company has thus its property proven and arrangements made to mine profitably from its inception and to pay dividends at an early date. The Company recently purchased a 5-stamp mill, boiler and engine with cyanide and chlorination plant. This plan will be operated within 90 days from August 10. A stage of progress has been reached when the mine can be worked throughout the winter. The plan of operation includes the addition of five more stamps in the spring and running a tunnel to the boundary of the Referendum claim which is expected to cross-cut five more leads which now show on the surface. All that was outlined in our circular of May 15 has been carried out. I Applications for stock and remittance for first payment of two cents per share may be made thrpugh any chartered bank or direct to the undersigned. E. N. OUIMETTE &. CO., Bankers for the Company : Merchants Bank op Halifax, ROSSLAND, B.C. Brokers for the Company, ROSSLAND, B. C. MERCHANTS BANK of HALIFAX INCOBPOHATED 1869. Capital, $2,000,000.00. Rest, $1,500,000.00. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. r. E. KENNY, President. D. H. DUNCAN, General Manager. ED80N L. PEASE, Joint General Manager. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.8. Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B. C. Bridgewater, N. S. Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N. B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Mailland, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal,?. Q. Montreal (West End). Branches In Newfoundland Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pictou, N S. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Rossland, B.C. Sackville, N.B. Shubenacadie, N. S. Summerside, P. E. I, Sydney, N. S. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria, B. C. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Ymir, B. C. -St. Johns. Branches In United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Republic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED XIV. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt.Ward&eo., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C* 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C, Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Swedish and Norwegian Consulate. Royal Belgian Consulate. Royal Danish Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amberite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. - Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and I ndents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C., Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Wallace Building, Columbia Avenue, Rossland, B.C P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C., Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeals. The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE j * 100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS.' branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States—. Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's ' Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank of Australasia. In' Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BAN K D EPARTM ENT.—Deposits received from f 1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. Portraits! Buildings! Scenery! Fac-similes of Signatures, Letters and Engravings Of all kinds for Book and newspaper Printing. Map Engravings from Tracings. Also Reproductions from Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue Illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. SPIKE BROS.' COMPANY, TACOMA, WASH. TheodorLexow,"™ 2 to 16 John St.. ear Broadway, NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechanical Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AN D DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand • Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A. E. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . THE MINING RECORD. J55!3!!?5__??yjMBla~WHOLESHLE SUPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BROS.. vieTORm, B.e. LENZ <& LEISER, 9 & 11 yates street. IMPORTERS OF GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING, SHIRTS ftND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for the K^ootenay and Klondike Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. SIMON LEISER & CO. Wholesale Grocers. j - - VICTORIA, B. C. Headquarters for Mining Supplies. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Goods, Eiquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. goods indented from all parts Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. •0F THE W0RLD - TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. m XVI. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL, ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. J, H. McGREGOR. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. I M. Inst. M. E. M. Ambe. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting Engineer. Eldon Street, LONDON, E.C. 14 Christopher, London.1 Code:—Bedford McNeill. P. O. Box 308, VANCOUVER, B.C. (" Bromly, Vancouver.") WM. F- BEST, ANALYTICAL. CHEMIST. (Heidelberg and Leipzig.) ASSAYER. Late Official Analyst for the Province of New Brunswick. 28 Broad Street, * VICTORIA, B.e HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. ^^Sfi^SfEP* Reports on Slocan Properties. New Denver, B.C Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing &Neal's. AReHBOLD & PEftRSON, MINING engineers AND ASSAY E R S —e^ Cable Address: Archpe.r, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeil, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H, HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST .nd METALLURGIST. ft Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa works. Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting1—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. F. W. GR0VES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported upori. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) HSSHYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testingand Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO.. LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co., Ltd., Glasgow,- (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-719 Pender St., VA CCUVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE A55AYS. Gold. Lead. ? 50 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Kich Ores and Bullion. Bought, ogoen assay e©„ 1429-ieth st.. denver. eoio. CHARLES K. CUNO, ASSAYER and CHEMIST. Gold, silver, lead, 75 cents : any two $1.00 ; all three $1.25. Copper, $1.00: Znic, $1.50; Iron, Manganese, Silica, $2.00 each, all three $5.00. Prices on other chemical work furnished on application. Amalgamation, cyanide, chlorinatijn tests, $5.00 each. Contracts for Ore made with smelters and sampling of same attended to. The only perfect Concentrator on exhibition. 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As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. j We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, $1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining; Experts. 205^ WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON SS THE MINING BECORD. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. J. B. TYRRELL, M.A., F.G.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.l.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Kngineers Dominion Land Surveyors. 1 valued and reported upon. Survt . invested" etc., etc. DAWSON, Y. T. Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money . invested; etc., etc. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought and Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. (-Bedford-Neal, j 611 Hastings St., Codes-! Moreing-Neill, ii-AM^nTitrcD -n <— I dough's. VANCOUVER, B. C One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines' S. THORNTON LANGLEY & CO., Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. p.o.boxm ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51 Q Hastings Streeet,Tisdai|,s) VANCOUVER, B.C. Ferguson & Crofts eivil and Mechanical r*.^_ -.Jj. _. _.^._. eonsuitingjBrigineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work In Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for I BOOTH'S HOISTS. The " Risdon " Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The " Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. BQX 423. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. P. O. Box 676. R. H. Parkinson, Civil Engineer, Provincial Land Surveyor And Notary Public. ^ P.O. Address: FAIRVIEW, KEREMEOS Fairviou/ R C aivo eajnp mckinney, ran VltJW, D.v/. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OITFICB5: CAMP McKINJMEJY, B.C. N B.—Some valuable mining properties in Camp McKinney and vicinity for disposal. Correspondence solicited. 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Payable in advance. PIONEER STEAM GOFFEE J 8PIGE MILLS, BSTKBLISHBD IS6S. Manufacturers of Coffee, Spices, Cocoa, Cream Tartar, Mustard and Baking Powder. : : : STEMLER & EARLE, Pembroke Street Between Government and Douglas, VICTORIA, B.C. B. C. POTTERY CO., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pine, Flower Pots, etc. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C. DEALERS IN PtiotorapliiG Stock Agents for the Rochester Optical Co , and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION PREAO B. $15. . R. SMITH I GO. * ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. 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Send for free circulars, stating the subject in which yon are interested. THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS, Box 1177, Scranton, Pa. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist. VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow o the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experieuce in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. IMT" Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. Practical work. Elective System. Summer term. College year, 45 weeks^ For catalogues^giving employment of graduates, address MRS. F. H. SCOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, Mich. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise oi ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas I Liquor, by H. A. Frasch, (20 pp.); Asphaltum Refining, by H. A. Frasch (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States, by F. H. Lewis (6 pp,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry, (6 pp )' The Manufacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle West, by H. Foster Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T. C. Hopkins (18 pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W. H Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, by Earnest A* Sjostedt, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (32 pp.); Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, by T. C. Hopkins I (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress ' in the Metallurgy of Gold and Sliver, by W. R. Ingalls, (26 pp.); The Hydro- I Metallurgy of Silver, by Ottokar Hofmann, (27 pp.); The Technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Steel, by H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. S. Austin. (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Smelting by H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by (). E. Siebtnthal (4 pp.); Lime and Lime Burning, by H. A, Frasch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture' of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilehrist, (10 pp.); Present Practiced iiiS the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symington, *(7 pp ) • Occurrenee and Recovery of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, ty j J' Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, by F. J Folding, (64 pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium by W R Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1898, by Robert H. Richards'v (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (II pp ) • The : Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus Ulke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. Vancouver island coal. COAUJX)AL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIMO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) * * SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), arc mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SAMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt., Nanaimo. B.e. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway THE WORLD'S HIGHWAY TO THE PACIFIC COAST, THE ORIENT AND THE ANTIPODES. THE BEST, CHEAPEST AND QUICKEST WAY TO Britsh Columbia, Japan and China, Oregon, Hawaii, Washington, Fiji and Australia, The Gold Fields of Cariboo and the famed Kootenay Country in British Columbia are reached only by the Canadian Pacific Railway via Revelstoke, B.C. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO ANY AGENT OF THE COMPANY OR TO A. H. NOTMAN, District Passenger Agent, St. John, N.B. H. J. COLVIN, District Passenger Agent, 197 Washington St., Boston, Mass. E. V. SKINNER, General Eastern Agent, 353 Broadway, New York. C. E. McPherson, Asst. Gen. Passenger Agt., 1 King St. E., Toronto, Ont. J. P. LEE, District Passenger Agt., 232 S. Clark St., Chicago, II. C. B. USSHER, Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent, MONTREAL M. M. STERN, District Passenger Agent, Chronicle Building, San Francisco, Cal. E. J. COYLE, District Passenger Agent, Vancouver, B.C. W. R. CALLAWAY, General Passenger Agent, Soo Line, Minneapolis, Minn. ROBERT KERR, General Passenger Agent, Western and Pacific Division, Winnipeg, Man. ARCHER BAKER, European Traffic Agent, 67 and 68 King William St., E.C., and 30 Cockspur St., S.W., London, Eng.;; 7 James St., Liverpool, Eng., 67 St. Vincent St., Glasgow. Scotland. D. McNICOLL, General Passenger Agent, MONTREAL. R. P. RITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia;.' Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. Canadian Pacific Navigation Go., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 47. Taking effect December 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily at 1 o'clock. Vancouver to Victoria daily except Monday at 13 o'clock Sund'y at lip. m., or on arrival C.P. Railway No. 1 Train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Sunday at 23 o'clock; Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock. Leave New Westminster—For Victoria Monday at 13.15 o'clock. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock. For Plumper at 7 o'clock. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o'clock. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clobJH during river* navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Fort Simpson via Vancouver and intermediate ports on the First and Fifteenth of each month, and for Queen Charlotte Islands on the 10th of each month. KLONDIKE ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave weekly for Wrangel Juneau, Skagway and Dyea. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer "Willapa" leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th ■ and 20th. Extending ] atter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table' at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent. The Hudson's Bay Company HAVE taie do Feres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Eamloops Lang-ley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Fischer Creek Fortage la Prairie Fort Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Rat Portage Siding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these (tores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. Felten & Guilleaume, Carlswerk, Mulheim on Rhine, Germany Oldest and most renowned WIRE ROPE FACTORY On the European Continent. WIRE ROPES of evenj Description for Mining Purposes Round and Flat Wire RopesFOTMinii* Haolin«'DriTe- dines, Towing, Ploughs, Cranes, Etc. ing, Lifting, Tramways, In- " Albert," or so-called " Lang's " Lay Ropes SPECIALTIES Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patent Flattened Strand Wire Ropes. Electric Wires and Cables for Telegraphy, Telephony, Electric Light and Transmission of Power WIRE...— jffik & Robertson. 7 St. Helen St., MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'/H^ted, VANCOUVER, B.C. Ma n (if3 Ct U re TS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints, Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. J Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. Mbbbb mbm an | ^sa* Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, ' ^y RITE FOR E. fALwi Angle and Check Valves. PRICES. Dffice and Warehouse. - 151 Hastings St. Phone 629. ;!% VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. Ontario Gold Mining It District. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. A few Mines who Use Brltlsl Columbia. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., £fjK The Wid MANUFACTURERS OF— LIMITED Mining; Machinery OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.C rJ % fe rrf1 OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.C. SOLE AGENTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR John Bertram & Sons, Iron-Working Machinery. The MacGregor, Gourlay ©o.'s Woodworking Machinery. R. Hoe & 6o.*s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws. BRANCH OFFICE: MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET - VANCOUVER, B.C. WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. PUBLISHED BY "THB MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. TUIC MONTH S Auriferous Alluvium of the Fraser River—Continued—By J. D. Kendall. I nu mun I n. J The Trout Lake District—Illustrated. Etc., etc., etc. VOL.. VII. MARCH, iqoo. No 3. GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL.ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies. ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA, B. C. VANCOUVER. B. O. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF |g|| l Electrical Mining: Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINIXG WORK. — Write Our British Columbia Branches at • VICTORIA. VANCOUVER. CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., Send for Circular. Boston, Mass/ PRICE, 20 CENTS. BELTING Users of this article would do well to examine our stock in this line. We carry a larger assortment than any other dealer in the Province. The Electric Brand of Rubber Belting we stock is not excelled by any other make. It is used by all the large mills in the Province. We carry it in stock up to 22 inches, and Leather Belting up to 16 inches in width. McLennan, McFeely & Co. LIMITED, WHOSESALE HARDWARE VANCOUVER, B.C. DAWSON CITY, N.W.T. Agents for the Giant Powder Co., San Francisco. Agents for the Majestic Steel Range Co., St. Louis. mmmmmt &M • m m FRIED KRUPPGRUSOIMWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING ' MACHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT , n COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. *»E5 p (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- ,!?-%vy.,, ' <b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and leaching COAL WASHING PLANT—Large Testing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Worts. For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 85 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablp Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MACHINERY. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has been able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Our machines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Mining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, HI. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM Engines Hoists Pumps Boilers [Engines Hoists Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline bAouLINEi Ji^f AtnnroccnrE Engine and Air Compressor especially All l/UUluieaoms adapted for Mining Purposes. - Pumping Plants FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCALES. Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. Link Belt ELEVATORS CONVEYORS. Conveyor 328 feet centers, handling 4 tons " run of mine" coal per minute. ANY MATERIAL. ANY CAPACITY. 'Cink Beit," 4-Ulbcd Eocomotioe, 2 motor. Electric Coal Mining and Haulage Machinery, Link-Belting, Sprocket Wheels, Malleable Iron Buckets, Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Patent Machine-Moulded Rope Sheaves, etc. THE UNK=BELT MACHINERY CO., Engineers, Founders, flachinsts, Chicago, U.S.A. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.sa MANUFACTURERS pilter Presses MANUFACTURERS For Cyanide and Chloromatic Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. THE MINING RECORD. HSSHYERS' SUPPLIES HND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Breton's Pat. PocketMine Transit. No- °45 Button Balance. reliable pocket instrument on the market. The above engraving illustrates BRUNT ON'S PAT. POCKET MINE- TRANSIT as it appears when folded ready for the pocket. The working parts are enclosed by an aluminum case, the outside djimensions of which are but 2% by 2& by 1 inches an a the total weight but 8 oz. There are over two hundred of the above instruments in daily use at the present time and those using them unite in pro- nouncing them the most convenient, accurate and Send for Catalogue B to Sensibility 1-50 milligramme. This balance was designed with a view to furnishing an accurate and reliable bal a n c e for silver button and moderately accurate gold button work. It has all the latest improve ments and is an up-to-date balance in every particular If you ant cipate buying and want a good Balance at a moderate price write us for particulars ; you will be surprised to find how cheaply this Balance can be purchased; For complete description of this and other Balances write for catalogue A to WM. AINSWORTH & SOUS, successors to WM. AINSWORTH, Denver, Colo., U. S. 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Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mmroe Record to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. THE MONTH. THE CLOSE DOWN IN ROSSLAND AND NELSON. EARLY in February the War Eagle and Centre Star, the Le Roi and the Hall Mines all closed down so far as^the production of ore is concerned. The War Eagle and Centre Star reduced their force from 600 to 200 men, the Le Roi from 360 to 200, while the Hall Mines closed down entirely. This action was unquestionably premeditated and concerted, and has been undertaken to gain control of the labour situation. The rapid development of the mines in the Boundary country and for that matter in Rossland also, and the extraordinary activity of mining throughout the Pacific Northwest from which our miners in British Columbia are largely recruited, had caused such a demand for labour that employers found that to hire men at all was difficult, to get skilled men almost impossible. While labour, through the unions, went on from one demand to another, secure in the fact that the demand exceeded the supplv, until the conditions under which mines could be worked at all had become exceedingly burdensome. The ostensible reasons given for closing- down were not, except in one instance, that of the Hall Mines, connected with the labour question, but a close analysis of the condition of the different mines shows that this was the determining factor, barring possibly the only case in which it was advanced as such. In the case of the War Eagle and Centre Star the excuse put forward was the heavy cost of mining through defective machinery. This is to a certain extent a valid reason for the action taken. The War Eagle hoist is alleged by the management to be defective, as likewise the new compressor plant to supply power to both the War Eagle and Centre Sffir. A number of small subsidiary steam compressors have to be maintained as auxiliary forces, while some tons of rock are hoisted and lowered every day in A compensatory skip to enable the hoisting machinery to do its work. This condition of affairs must have added something to tlie cost of every ton of ore mined and especially affected the Centre Star which could not fairly be asked to bear a proportion of the cost of the War Eagle's apparently disastrous experiment !n electrical machinery. While on the other hand the War Eagle could not be expected to supply power to another mine at less than the cost, even if that cost were excessive. The remedy taken has been to close the production from both mines until the Centre Star is equipped with sufficient steam power to supply both and meantime to push ahead development in the properties during the breathing spell. But although this reasoning is conclusive so far as it goes, it does not by any means supply a sufficient argument for the heroic measures adopted. In the first place the blow given to the credit of British Columbia by the sudden stoppage of production is enormous and might be expected to weigh with Mr. Gooderham and his associates. In the second place the blow to their own credit as promoters of mining companies is severe. Look at the facts. That shareholders in the War Eagle have been led to expect a doubled dividend cannot be denied. If they have deluded themselves in this respect they have done so with the connivance of Mr. Gooderham. The rude awakening they have received is attested by the fact that War Eagle Consolidated dropped a dollar in the market on the news of the shut-down coming out. In addition to that it is not so long ago that the Centre Star was promoted for an enormous sum of money. It is hardly going too far to say that Mr. Gooderham and his associates invited the people of Canada to assume the burden of immediate trouble in connection with the mine at a time when the anticipations of such trouble was far from the minds of the people who subscribed for the shares. The comparatively small loss sustained by the increased cost of mining could have been much more easily borne than the staggering depreciation caused by the loss of confidence in the mines and bv the all-persuasive doubt as to the integrity of their promoters. The case has only been made so dark against the controlling powers of the War Eagle and 74 THE MINING RECORD. Centre Star mines to show that there was not sufficient inducement in the business situation apart from the labour market to justify for one moment the course taken. Therefore when it and the coincident action taken by other companies are considered together it is clear that the cause in this case at least must be some factor in the situation common to all of the companies: and that factor is not to be found outside the labour situation. When we turn to the Le Roi the excuse for closing down production is more absolutely flimsy than in the case of the War Eagle and Centre Star. The Le Roi it is true, as has been frequently pointed out in these columns, lias been working under grievous disadvantages in having to hoist all its ore through the old crooked prospecting shaft. But these disadvantages are almost completely done away with, and will shortly have ceased to exist. The efficiency of the mine is vastly greater than it was when the Le Roi was pushing its output to the full extent and will soon be as perfect as can ever be hoped for. There was nothing to prevent the Le Roi from continuing its output except the possibility of saving perhaps 50 cents a ton on the cost of mining and hoisting during the next sixty or ninety days. The Le Roi is governed by what may be called stock-broking considerations. The market is at present dead, there is no hope of floating any of the other properties of the B. A. C. Consequently injury to the credit of that corporation of the governing influence of Canada's greatest mine might be partly compensated by a good showing made when, times are better. And it may be expected that Mr. Whitaker Wright is planning a grand coup to come off next autumn when the market is better and the Le Roi meting is at hand. But again it is clear that the compensation is not .sufficient were there not some ruling factor in the action of the management of the Le Roi not brought out in the reasons given for it, and that factor cannot be found except in the labour question. But as to the duration of this action on the part of the Le Roi Company it must not be forgotten that in order to earn a satisfactory dividend upon its enormous capital the Le Roi Company must produce ore at the rate of 20,000 tons a month. Nor is it easy to see how the B. A. C. can expect to successfully promote its other properties unless it justifies the promoters of the Le Roi by the increase and maintenance of its output to that amount. The Le T?oi mey close down production for a short tvvx- to affect the labour market but it cannot maintain that attitude in view of its financial exigencies and those of its parent company for any length of time. Of course there is another explanation of the action taken by the War Eagle, Centre Star and Le Roi companies, an explanation the acceptance of which is in fact the method by which the injury done to British Columbia and to the credit of the mines themselves will be effected. It is that the mines are out of ore, have been maintaining production during 1809 in excess of their capacity, have in fact, been vastly overrated and vastly over capitalized. However little this explanation may be justified by the facts it will have a wide currency and a very bad influence on the credit and prospects of mining in British Columbia until it has been demonstrated false. There are certain considerations, however, which although they may not affect the popular opinion on which the country depends for capital are nevertheless reassuring to those who will take the trouble to weigh them. The War Eagle management maintains that there is plenty of ore in the mine, although it admits that the dead work necessary to extract that ore economically has fallen behind through defective power. The Le Roi management has always stated that shipments have during 1899 been carefully subordinated to development work and that reserves of ore have been accumulating. Into the quality of confidence engendered by these statements the personal equation enters, and they must be taken for what they are worth. But the closing of both mines at the same time would be a very remarkable coincidence if it were exhaustion that occasioned it. This argument is strengthened by the fact that another mine in a different part of the country acted upon the preconcerted signal also. While in the case of the Centre Star the ore in sight when it was purchased has not even begun to be exhausted. The plain conclusion is that the Rossland mines closed down to strengthen the hands of employers of labour throughout the country because they could do so at the present time without serious loss to themselves except the loss of credit which may be made up by increased production later on, but that they cannot maintain this attitude for any great length of time without the most serious consequences to themselves and to the mining industry. The Hall Mines, Ltd., is in an entirely different position. From the beginning this corporation has manifested all the vices and none of the virtues of the London management of mines. It has long been known that the mine was rapidly undergoing a process of exhaustion and being reduced similarly to a condition involving the doubtful expenditure of a large sum to restore it. It was galvanized into activity by Mr. Hardman's report. His suggestions apparently have not been carried out in full and it is very questionable whether it would have made a difference if they had. In this case the eight-hour law has really been a serious blow, not perhaps, directly as regards the mine at which under any circumstances work might have been suspended in consequence of the loss of ore-bodies and the depreciation in values; but the last remaining hope of the Hall Mines was in the operation of their smelter on Slocan ores, and the closing down of the Slocan mines has practically destroyed, at least for the present, these prospects. If it is certain then that in their present action the mining companies have in view of the re-establishment of the equation on a fairer basis between demand and supply in the labour market, and the evidence is fairly conclusive—it is an interesting question whether their action will have the effect desired. There is nothing that will permanently affect the labour market except increase of population which increases the supply or decrease of production which reduces the demand. Now, of course, while the closing of the main mines in British Columbia must cause a temporary reduction in the demand for labour the mining districts are growing fast enough to speedily absorb many more men then have been released. Some of them will go to Cape Nome, some of them to Republic, some to Sumpter, some to Boundary, some to Slocan. They will be drained away from Rossland and Nelson but their presence in other parts of the great Northwest will hardly be felt. At the same time as a demonstration that the conditions of industry may become too burdensome upon the capitalist there may be a certain moral effect visible, that is to say the men as organized in unions may be THE MINING RECORD. 75 brought to see a little reason in reference to their continual interference with the conditions of labour. But upon the labour problem itself as a pure question of supply and demand the course taken by those mining companies may possibly have a disastrous effect. When they wish to resume will it be easy to fill the place of men discharged? The fact is that people are so much accustomed to conditions in old communities where there is a steady pressure of population on the demand for labour that they do not recognize that in a new country, where instruments of production are becoming available much faster than population is increasing, the conditions are reversed, and there is a steady pressure upon population by the demand for labour. An equation is always established naturally. But it is here established by denuding certain districts of the labour necessary to work their resources. Such a denudation adopted as a forced measure of relief to the labour market and for a limited period, must only make it increasingly difficult to secure the necessary iabour when resumption is attempted provided the rate of progress in other parts of the territory is maintained. Consequently the action of the companies may be as serious a blow to them in the very- respect in which it is designed to give relief as well as a grave injury to the comunities in which they are situated. It may have been made necessary through the arrogance of labour unions and the ill-advised action of the Legislature. It may be the overt and tangible result upon the industry of the province of action taken to benefit it, as a patient may die under the knife of the best intentioned if unskilful surgeon. There is only one moral to be drawn and that is the paramount necessity of increasing conservatism, and here the word is used in no political sense, in the administration of the affairs of the province, and the advantage of the affairs of the province who will think before they act. The report on the War Eagle mine, coming as it does immediately after the cessation of work in the mine, excites unusual interest. It is a clear and workmanlike document. It sets at rest any existing doubts as to the future of the mine, although at the same time it disposes of the romantic yarns in connection with the War Eagle which have for so long kept the stock at a "fancy" price. The report, as was to be expected, shows that cost has been excessively high during the last year. This has been caused by two main considerations. The first is the defective nature of the machinery employed, and the second is the fact that a larger proportion of profits than has been^ thought necessary heretofore must be expended in the Rossland mines in exploration work to maintain the mines in a condition to make a steady output. It is evident that where the masses of ore are so large, but show so little uniformity of occurrence although confined with fair regularity to an easily followed and well recognized plane, that every inch of ground must be carefully tested- and that the cost of so testing it must be a first charge, and a heavy one, on the profits of the mine. Had this policy been carried out by the old War Eagle Companv the mine would never havebeen sold for $700,000. Two instances of this peculiarity are mentioned in the report on the south branch of the west drift on the fifth level good ore is found to a point 80 feet west of the shaft cross-cut. From 80- foot point to the 245-foot point the vein is too low- "rade to pay. But at the 150-foot point an upraise has been made 40 feet which is all in good ore averaging $16. It may be looked on as certain that this portion of the vein contains some good ore and in bodies of sufficient size and sufficiently well defined to be worked. Again on the sixth level on the easterly drift on the north branch of the vein the ore was very low grade for 50 feet and yet an upraise after following a narrow stringer for 20 feet disclosed a very large body of pay ore. With reference to the future of the Rossland mines and their dividend-paying capacity these facts are all-important. They mean greater cost of mining, but they also mean greater possibilities as to result. The condition of the War Eagle mine is at present as follows: The first four levels are practically exhausted, nor is much hope held out by Mr. Kirby that any further bodies of ore will be disclosed in them; the main stope on the fifth level is partially- exhausted but still contains a considerable amount of ore. While a subsidiary body of ore has been opened for 120 feet but not yet broken into by stoping. In addition there is a long drift upon more or less barren vein matter which nevertheless discloses possibilities of ore production when the ground opened is further tested. On the sixth level there are evidences of very satisfactory bodies of ore. But the headings and raises are not sufficiently advanced to make them available except in one portion from which 8,000 tons of ore have been taken. It is easy to gather from the report that the War Eagle could have maintained as satisfactory output and still most of the energies of the company have been devoted to systematic development. But this action would have meant mining at heavy cost, not to mention the labour situation 011 which the action of the management was supposed to have its effect. The present position of the mine is largely due to two facts, the leanness of the fourth level and unexpected difficulties in opening up the resources of the fifth and sixth levels caused bv the irregular occurrence of the ore. These levels have, however, shown great improvement over the fourth. It is not beyond the range of probability that the immense developments in the lower levels of the Le Roi may find their counterpart in the War Eagle. While ir is not likely that further development either upon these levels or below them will diminish the value of the mine. What have War Eagle shareholders to look forward to? The gist of Mr. Kirby's report is at the close of it: "On resuming production I must advise that dividends be deferred until a suitable reserve is accumulated in the treasury. This is necessary to tide over the emergencies to which mining is always subject, such as accidents, temporary changes in the ore shoot, etc., etc. "The rate of production which the War Eagle ore shoot can maintain has a natural limit which is fixed by the size of the shoot and the rate at which it can be followed down. So far as now shown the limit thus indicated is about 50,000 tons yearly, and I must for the present advise this rate of production." This paragraph contains a rude awakening from their iridescent dreams for the poor shareholders. They have to face a suspension of dividends for nine months probably and after that they are promised the net proceeds on 50,000 tons of ore per annum. It is questionable if the profit per ton will exceed $5.00. Taken at that the year's income will be $250,000 or rsi per cent on $2,000,000. To maintain this output a level will be exhausted every year. If we allow the 76 THE MINING RECORD.. mine a workable depth of 25,000 feet, this means 20 years' purchase on the mine. War Eagle at $1.00 per share is a y\ per cent, investment, allowance being made for 5 per cent, redemption on his capital to the investor, which, on a mining investment, is by no means excessive. There is one point of great importance to the camp of Rossland in the information contained in this valuable report. It is that the occurrence of pay ore is of so variable a character that every body of mineral in the camp is well worth development and exploration. The labour dispute in the Slocan is, we fear, only temporarily settled. But the settlement so far effected is upon precisely the terms and conditions of just compromise we have outlined in the Mining Record from time to time. In the first place place there is no reduction of wages for the time worked under the eight-hours law. Three dollars a day would have meant an actual reduction of wages, and it cannot be gainsaid that there was a certain amount of justice in the men's refusal to accept it, if the eight-hours law was g^ven as the reason for enforcing it. On the other hand the mine owners have won a great point in the interest of the mining industry, of society and of organized labour itself. They have insisted tliat no discrimination shall be made between union and nonunion men, that the basis of employment shall be merit only. At the same time the union is left perfectly free to pursue those objects for the advancement of labour for which it exists by means of its moral influence over the sympathies of working men. These are the essential features of the settlement and it is well that they should be brought into clear outline at the present time because they are important not only as affording evidence of a permanent and satisfactory basis for the mining industry in. the Slocan, but also as setting a valuable precedent for the settlement of other disputes, there and elsewhere, should such arise. The outlook in the Slocan from having been particularly gloomy has certainly improved, notwithstanding there still exists a feeling of disquiet and uncertainty. The mines have been under steady development during the last nine months. Buildings have been erected, machinery installed and all maimer of dead work done. Now perhaps they are in a position to handle ore more cheaply and in larger quantities than ever before. During the month of January the shipments from the Slocan amounted to 1,218 tons, and every month of this year should see a steady increase upon that amount. It is only fair to assume that the year 1900 will be a record year in British Columbia's production of silver and lead. If the present settlement may be regarded as permanent its influence will be felt far beyond the. limits of the Slocan country: and Moyie, the Lardeau and East Kootenay will experience its beneficial effects. The distrust and fear regarding industrial conditions in those districts which have been interfering with development will be now removed and a settled confidence will take their place. In connection with this labour dispute in the Slocan there are three matters which should attract the attention of outside investors. They are matters in which the province may take a just pride. First there has been no destruction of private property, second, there has been no violation against the person, third a committee of sociological experts could not have devised a more just and fair agreement than that which it is hoped has been arrived at. When these things are compared with the unfortunate occurrences which have accompanied labour disputes in Idaho we may well congratulate ourselves upon the sense of fairness and common sense both of men and masters in British Columbia. The comparison should have a beneficial effect upon the credit and prospects of the province. If anything were needed to complete the demonstration that the stoppage of production in the Le Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star was due to the condition of the labour market, it would be found in the simultaneous action taken by rhe Dominion Copper Company controlled by Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann. But here also we find that other considerations were involved as well. The Dominion Copper Company has been floated but has not so far been offered to the public. The work of development has been carried on entirely at the expense of the promoters. The properties are now nearing the point where the public can be fairly invited to invest. But the market is in such a state that it would not absorb any great number of shares. Consequently it would be gaining nothing and losing something by continuing work at iheir own expense. Such work would add nothing to the issue price of their shares, but would increase the sum of money they have already expended on the properties. Very few men were involved by this latest development of the situation. Improved market conditions will lead to a resumption of work in every direction. The fact that certain Toronto stock brokers first got notice of the closing down of the Centre Star and War Eagle mines has naturally caused much adverse comment of the management of these associated properties. Messrs. Gooderham have, as controlling directors, satisfactorily disproved allegations of mala tides, but thev have failed to show that sufficient care was taken to advise mining centres simultaneously all round of the stoppage of the mines. Last month we drew attention to the anomaly in the mining law, or in the interpretation placed upon it, and it was pointed out that the clause referring to Crown Grants was open to an ambig-tious construction. To the correspondence already provided the following letter from a surveyor and the Minister's reply thereto may be added:— "The Hon. J. Fred Hume, Minister of Mines, Victoria. "Sir: In reference to the new requisition now being enforced, compelling five assessments to be recorded and five fees paid in order to obtain a certificate of improvements on mineral claims, I would beg to call your attention to our particular case. We have for some time back been taking contracts for survey and Crown granting mineral claims, counting, of course, on the usual custom. Now this change, if enforced/ will cost us alone four hundred dollars, besides endless trouble, on the work which we had considered done. Taking the • for example, which is one of a large group of claims in about the same position. This claim was located April 24th, 1895, recorded May 1st, 1895; certificate of work recorded April 21st, 1896. In this year nearly $2,000 worth of work was done. A certificate of work was recorded April 30th, 1897, certificate of work recorded April 30th, 1898, survey recorded as assessment April THE MINING RECORD. 77 28th, 1899. All steps have been taken and papers deposited for certificate of improvements with the Mining Recorder. Now the Gold Commissioner says we must record another assessment, but cannot now record any of the $2,000 worth of work done in 1896; therefore we must pay in $100 or do another $100 worth or work. In one group of eight claims this would mean to our clients doing $1,800 worth of work over and above the $500 per claim called for by the Act. I hear of one claim which has already been let go by default owing to this, and we have some which our clients must certainly lose if immediate favourable action is not taken. Cases vary so much that I would venture to ask that Gold Commissioners should be allowed to use their discretion in each case until Order-in-Council comes into force fully governing such cases, and that when such Order-in-Council is passed that it should allow cases in hand to go through according to the custom in force when all steps had been taken in accordance therewith. We have some very pressing cases before the Gold Commissioner here and I would beg of you to instruct him to deal with those according to the foregoing. "1 am, etc." Mr. Hume's reply to this letter reads as follows:— "Department of Mines, "Victoria 29th January, 1900. "Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th inst., asking that special instructions may be issued to the Gold Commissioners giving them a certain latitude of power in dealing with applications for certificates of improvements affected by the recent interpretation of the Act with respect to the necessity of recording five assessments before such certificate can be granted. I beg to inform you that having given my decision in this matter it is quite beyond my power now to authorize the Gold Commissioners to exercise their discretion in dealing with exceptional cases of hardship entailed by this decision. I would also point out to you that no alteration has been made in the law in this respect. My attention was called to a considerable diversity of opinion that existed as to how the law should be interpreted, and I instructed the Gold Commissioners accordingly as to my interpretation of it for their guidance. "I am, sir, your obedient servant, "T. FRED HUME." We are glad, meanwhile, to be able to state that the Mining Committee of the Legislature has taken this matter up, and that an attempt will be made to remove the several ambiguities of the mining laws as they now appear on the Statutes. Mr. W. R. Maclnnis, the general freight agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, with headquarters at Winnipeg, last month visited the Boundary Creek district with a view to summing up the situation as regards freight possibilities. Afterwards he informed the Rossland Miner, so that paper states, that the ore from the Boundary would not be sufficient to keep the Trail smelter in operation. It is to be presumed that this statement is not intended to be so far prospective as to cover, say, the year 1901, but even so it may be regarded as a significant commentary on the statements that certain mines are shipping ore, which from time to time appear in Boundary district newspapers^ -md are as well either quoted from them by outside newspapers or are received by the latter from their district correspondents. The fact is the-local news papers and correspondents too often lack candour; they are indefinite in their statements and so suggest an importance to which from a shipping point of view the Boundary Creek district has not yet attained. This custom does the district no good, since it improperly conveys the impression that there are mines shipping ore in quantity regularly when as yet, with perhaps the exception of the "B. C," they are not. The sending out of two or three carloads of ore, or ten times that number, generally for test purposes, does not make a mine, from a sound mining standpoint, a "shipper." The mineral resources of the Boundary district are undoubtedly extensive and there is good reason to believe that development will prove them both permanent and profitable. Misleading statements of this description are, however, to be strongly deprecated under any circumstance. The chief need of the Boundary country continues to be development work, and until this shall have been done on a much larger scale than has yet been undertaken most of the talk of mines shipping will be talk only, unsupported by a steady output of ore sufficient to warrant it. Mean while there are signs of large early development in Boundary Creek. One of these is the immediately intended incorporation of Phoenix, an important mine centre of that district. Another is the fact that the Granby smelter will begin ore roasting towards the close of this month and it is expected commence operations in full about the 15th of April. Mr. Frank D. L. Smith, a travelling correspondent of the Toronto World, recently contributed an article to his paper on the "closing down" of certain mines in this province. We quote the following excerpt as illustrating this gentleman's style of comment: "To cap the climax, a despatch from Rossland last night states: " There is said to be a probability of still other instances of wholesale discharges and shuttings down before the middle of the present month.' "This last item may forecast the stopping of work by the Dominion Copper, Old Ironsides, Knob Hill, Mother Lode, Sunset and other companies who are operating on a large scale, and employing thousands of men in the Greenwood or Boundary Creek sections of British Columbia. The fact of the matter, therefore, to-day, is that over half of the big mines in the Coast province are now idle; that three of the reduction works which they supply with ore have followed suit, and that within a few days, if the mine-owners' programme is carried out to the full, the remaining big mines in the province, and the only other reduction plant will be in the same postiion." So far as the Boundary Creek district is concerned Mr. Smith's "forecast" appears to have been as greatly- exaggerated as was his statement that there are "thousands of men" employed by the mines in the Boundary Creek section. As Mr. Smith last year largely discounted his usefulness when "writing up" the mineral resources of the Boundary country by his eagerness to obtain from claim owners "honororiums" or whatever else negotiable "considerations" may be designated, it is just possible his "forecast" may have been prompted by an inspiration of a like nature, and be similarly open to suspicion. Be this as it may, this fact remains that while it is true the Dominion Copper Co. has discharged 35 men employed on its Brooklyn claim, in Phoenix Camp, " the Old Ironsides, Knob 78 THE MINING RECORD. Hill, Mother Lode, Sunset and other companies operating on a large scale" are continuing to together employ—not "thousands" as mis-stated—but hundreds of men, with no present prospect of shutting down their mines. It is a pity that the Toronto World, which has probably published more information—and much of it reliable, notwithstanding its representative's failing above referred to—should lend its columns to scare-producing ends and so foster a lack of confidence in Boundary stocks when local condl-- -ions do not really warrant such mistrust. It seems impossible for some newspapers no matter what side they are taking in the eight-hour law controversy, to refrain from exaggeration or misrepresentation,—not necessarily intentional, yet none the less unreliable—in support of their view of the position. In this connection the Toronto World is referred to in another paragraph. The following is from the Nelson Miner: "Another large mine has closed down, that of the Dominion Copper Company, of Phoenix. It is not large yet in production, being a new company, but it is one of the largest in the province in capitalization and promise, and had entered vigorously into operations. The manager assigns as a reason the eight-hour law. The suspension is for an indefinite period, and will prove most prejudicial to the business interests of Phoenix and of the Boundary- country generally." Now exception may reasonably be taken to several of these statements. First the Brooklyn, the mine closed down by the Dominion Copper Co., and which employed only 35 men, cannot fairly be classed as a "large mine," ancl next it is surely a gross exaggeration to make it appear that the discharge of 35 men will prove "most prejudicial to the business interests of the Boundary country generally." The suspension of work in any mine employing even a smaller number of men than at the Brooklyn is to be deplored, but the Boundary district residents as a whole will probably resent the implied suggestion that the comparatively unimportant incident referred to by our contemporary is likely to seriously affect business in their large. and important district. Mines of more present consequence, situated in the immediate vicinity of the Brooklyn and operating on a much larger scale, continue working and are likely to do so. What is most needed in this regard is a fair statement of facts; misrepresentation will not in the long run serve the least interests of either mine owners or men. The Similkameen country has lately received much notice in the Coast press and interested parties have not been slow to take advantage of this readiness to give publicity to the district. Newspapers published in the interior are also assisting in booming this El Dorado. The Greenwood Times recently gave prominence to the opinions of a precocious youth known locally as "Charley the Trader" whe, though without the requisite experience either theoretical or practical to make his opinions of any value at all, with characteristic "cheek," said: "From a careful examination of the Similkameen district I came to the conclusion that the evidences of mineral wealth are fully equal to any other section of the province." Then as a further proof of the value, or valuelessness rather, of this testimony the Times states that its informant during his three weeks' visit to the Similkameen travelled 550 miles "on the hurricane deck of a cayuse." It did not mention though in its notice of this trip that this enterprising young man has shares in a Similkameen mining venture and town lots to sell, hence perhaps his enthusiasm. Next the Grand ForksMwi<?r is the medium through which "Crazy" Brown occasionally gives the public the benefit of his opinions of the Sunset claim on Copper Mountain, which, for the time, has quite eclipsed Brown's former mania, the Volcanic, on the North Fork of Kettle River, j Then the Rossland Miner finds another "hurricane deck of a cayuse" man —this one travelled only 400 miles in four weeks—Lwho unloads upon the public the burden of his experiences all through which appear those entertaining storytellers "Volcanic" Brown and Robert Stevenson. The Similkameen may be and probably is rich in mineral resources but the development of these will not be greatly aided by the publication of such matter as is here noticed. What mining men of experience and means require is simple and thoroughly reliable facts. The publication of these, if any be obtainable, will be of real service to the district, but fairy tales and camp fire varus will seldom do it much good. The report of the Cariboo Camp McKinney is an exceedingly satisfactory document. During 1889 this mine produced $675,000 worth of gold, paid dividends of one per' cent, per month regularly, and opened up reserves of ore for three years sufficient to keep a battery of 40 stamps in operation instead of 20 as at present. The company lately purchased the remaining one-quarter of the Okanagan claim and has extended its drifts into this ground. The vein continues strong and its contents very rich. The Cariboo mine has been opened for 1,000 feet horizontally. The whole contents of the vein, which of course iMi varied in thickness, have averaged 18 dwt. in gold per short ton. The Cariboo group may justly be considered the greatest gold mine in British Columbia. The remarkable uniformity of value and great extent to which the vein is workable render it an unique investment. A curious thing about this mine is that its latent richness would never have been discovered had it not been for a blowout of rich ore on the surface near the site of the present shaft. If we are not mistaken this is the only spot in Camp McKinney where really rich ore has come to the surface. But it looks very much now as if the veins which traverse the mineral belt would all be worked through their entire length. There is nothing to prevent ore of the character found in Camp McKinney being worked at a minimum of cost. It should make one of the greatest and most prosperous camps in British Columbia. If the temporary inactivity in gold-copper mining does something to divert attention to the resources of this district it will have had advantages as well as drawbacks. It is a very extraordinary thing that neither the Provincial nor the Dominion Government have taken the necessary steps to determine the latitude and longitude of any of the principal centres of trade or industry in this province, except in the cases of Revelstoke and New Westminster. Such a strange omission has already caused much confusion and inconvenience to surveyors and others and it is therefore to be hoped that now the question has been brought up, the importance and necessity of moving in the matter will be at once recognized. We have received a copy of the prospectus of the THE MINING RECORD. 79 "Golden Placer and Quartz Mining Co., Ltd." a concern recently promoted from Golden, B.C., and Lnowlton, Quebec. The company "is now being incorporated under the Companies Act of British Columbia, with a capital of $1,500,000,'- of the par value 1$ $!, ''500,000 shares being retained in the treasury." These shares are offered for subscription at 10 cents. The company owns (1) a placer "mine" at the mouth of Canyon Creek, south of Golden, on which the prospectus states "a trial shaft has been sunk with satisfactory results" (what these results are is not mentioned) but gold, it is added, "it is not expected will be found in paying quantities until the vicinity of the bed-rock is reached," (2) the company is acquiring two mineral claims, "the lead being an immense body of quartz-impregnated with ' iron pyrites," roughly estimated as over 200 feet wide, but to quote again from the prospectus "the dip of the vein it was impossible to determine owing to there not as yet having been sufficient work done." A surface assay gave Si5-5° per ton gold values. Open confession is no doubt good for the soul, but while this prospectus is refreshingly candid we can hardly see how the promoters have the effrontery to offer, or how they can expect, the public to take shares, in, such a palpably wild speculation as this. And yet the prospectus naively describes these two unexploited prospects and the undeveloped placer claims, as "desirable mining properties," which "would seem to offer an almost absolute security for intending investors." Personally we would prefer the chances offered by the "nickel-in- the-slot machine." We regret to note in the list of provisional directors of this highly speculative venture the name of the Hon. Mr. Justice Lynch, of the Supreme Court Bench of Quebec. There is much extravagant booming of the Howe Sound copper properties, which were recently acquired by a syndicate organized by Mr. H. C. Walters of Spokane. So far as can be ascertained by impartial experts, there seem to be very extensive deposits on the claims of low-grade copper. This will need to be most skilfully and economically worked and concentrated on the spot and very large expenditures indeed will also be necessary for aerial tramways and other plant. Then it is thought, on the strength of present indications, that sufficiently profitable results should accrue. But as already stated, large actual capitalization, representing money laid out; and most careful working are absolutely necessary conditions to success. The value of the Howe Sound ore is not sufficiently high to permit of a margin for waste, extravagance or inefficiency. A correspondent, an independent mining engineer, sends us a very encouraging account of the conditions and prospects of the Van Anda Company's properties on Texada Island, and we are none the less gratified at receiving these good tidings, because of the fact that for some time past we have had misgivings as to the successful working of the Van Anda mines, and there were seemingly good reasons for mistrust. In the first place the property was most outrageously "boomed;" next, the erection of a smelter at a time when none of the properties had been proved heyond the prospect stage, and last but not least the enormous capitalization were all distinctly unfavourable factors in viewing the undertaking from a business standpoint. But even as matters stand now, much has yet to be accomplished before the large capitalization is justified; and while Mr. Treat, the manager, is entitled to a good deal of admiration and praise for the plucky manner in which he has "stayed by" the Van Anda, it must be owned that the present apparently more hopeful state of affairs is due more to good luck than to good management. Our correspondent, meanwhile, informs us that the Van Anda properties have now been opened up to an extent of 2,000 feet, that the showing in both the Copper Queen and' Cornell is very promising, and that from a casual examination it would appear that there is sufficient ore in sight in these two mines to supply forty tons daily to the smelter. Prospectors in the outlying districts will, no doubt, appreciate the proposal of the Government—not yet, however, made public—to appoint Deputy Mining- Recorders with power to receive and transmit records and affidavits, in localities far removed from the main offices. In some districts such as Cassiar and Omineca a prospector, after locating a claim, would not infrequently be obliged to travel a hundred miles or even more in order to record his discovery, and in localities where the working season is of short duration, this long journey was naturally considered a hardship. The proposed appointments will, however, go far towards remedying the grievance. In the first annual report of the Geographical Board of Canada, a list is published giving the decisions of the Board as regards the correct and official spelling and designation of places in Canada, heretofore in dispute. Thus the word "Omineca" which even in Government reports and maps has been spelt in no less than four different ways, as "Omenica," "Ominica;" "Omeneca" is now officially written "Omineca;" "Stikene," not "Stickeen" nor "Sti- keen;" "Skagway," not "Skaguay" or "Shkagway;" "Yukon," not "Youkon," etc. Some of the rules of nomenclature and orthography of geographical names are as follows: When the priority of a name has been established by publication, particularly when such publication has occurred in any standard or authoritative work or works, that name should if possible, be retained. When names have been changed or corrupted, if not too firmly established by local usage or otherwise the original forms should be restored As a rule the first published name should be retained. The possessive form should be avoided whenever it can be done without distroying the euphony of the name or changing its descriptive application. It is desirable to avoid the use of the words "city" and "town" as parts of names. The form "canyon" shall be used instead of "canon". The Board suggests that the initial letters of generic or descriptive parts of geographical names, when used in reports or other documents, should not be capitals. French names in Canada are to be spelt according to the rules of the French language. The spelling of native geographical names should represent, approximately the true sounds of the words as pronounced in the native tongue. The Board, moreover, adopts the rules of the Roval Geographical Society for the orthography of geographical names. We extract the following- from the London Critic: "My excellent British Columbia contemporary, the Mining Record, is somewhat put out. It objects to 8o THE MINING RECORD. the warning I recently issued against promoters and claim sellers from the Pacific Province of Canada. With reference to this my British Columbia correspondent writes to inform me that besides the Kootenay and Atlin properties that are to be hawked about London, speculative Omineca and Cassiar concerns are to be unloaded—if possible. As far as my recent note is concerned, my correspondent, after noting the Mining Record ascribes to the Critic views to which it gave no utterance, proceeds thus:—Your British Columbia contemporary, while twisting your views and trying to be smart at your expense, unconsciously endorses The Critic's opinion. It claims that 80 per cent, of the British Columbia failures were schemes promoted by British people as against, at the outside, a failure of 20 per cent, of American-promoted mining enterprises in Western Canada. The blame for the numerous disasters which so far have befallen British mining ventures rests, the Mining Record declares, upon the Grant-Govans, Morris-Cattons, Horne- Paynes and other members of the London promoting "fraternity. Precisely; and who induced the fraternity to commence business in British Columbia? None other than the claim sellers and the option holders. The Mining Record should not revive memories of the 'numerous disasters' at the present juncture." Mr. Hess has the reputation, which he has justly earned, of being a very clever man. But why then does he employ so illogical a person as this British Columbia correspondent evidently is, to contribute to the columns of the Critic? Because among the London promoting fraternity there were certain knaves and fools, who made a mess of things in this country, we are told the claim-sellers and the option holders are responsible. What utter inconsequent twaddle! The Critic's • brilliant B. C. correspondent is probably under the impression that the poor innocent London promoter is as a general thing "held up" by the bold bad option-holders from the wild and woolly West, and compelled for fear of his life to float the claims and over capitalize, mismanage, or perform with them other conjuring tricks at the expense of the British shareholder. In our original comment which called forth this absurd reply we merely wished to point out that (1) there are good mining properties in this piovince; (2) that British capital has not gone the right way to work to secure meritorious claims; (3) that because a man goes to England with the object of selling a claim or an option, that is not in itself evidence that he is dishonest or a sufficient reason why the Critic should publish a warning to "investors" as if the unhappy man had hy- diophobia or monomania or any other dangerous affliction. The claim-seller or option-holder may have a very good thing to offer, or he may not. It rests with the promoter, or the investor or the capitalist to make the necessary investigations. We want capital badly in British Columbia and before long we shall get all we want. In the meantime those who know the history of the "numerous disasters" to which we have referred, will not be in the slightest degree prejudiced against the country. The London Morning Leader has evidently the same low opinion as we always entertained of Mr. Morris Catton and his British Columbia and Yukon Mining Company flotation. Our contemporary speaks as follows an the obtaining of an order of court in London for the compulsory liquidation of that ill- starred venture, the "Klondyke and Columbian Gold- fields, Limited." "We are glad to learn that the petition for the compulsory winding up of Mr. Morris Catton's wild cat Klondyke and Columbian Gold- fields, Limited, presented by Mr. R. W. Friday, and other members of the shareholders' committee, has succeeded. Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy in giving his decision said that the circumstances connected with the promotion and formation and conduct of the company were suspicious in the last degree, and it must be taken to be admitted that the present chairman of the board and the original directors received from the so-called promoter, who was the chairman's clerk, a large portion of the deferred shares. That was a secret profit, and he thought it could well have an epithet to it much stronger than 'secret.' There were transactions pre-eminently fit for such examination as would be made after a compulsory order. He held that it was just and equitable and, indeed, necessary that there should be a compulsory winding up. He therefore made the order asked for." Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy is, it may be remembered, one of the strongest judges on the British Bench. The enquiry directed should lead to instinctive and suggestive revelations, one outcome of which should be the "warning off" of British Columbia public men fmm lending their names too readily to cerram clasjo of mining ventures floated in London by promoters of no sufficiently guaranteed bona fides. The annual report issued by Wells, Fargo & Co. of San Francisco, with regard to the gold, silver, copper and lead production of the Western States, British Columbia and the Yukon gives some interesting- data in respect to the output of 1899. The total '. alue of the metals yielded by the States, Territories and Province included amounted, according to the statistics before us, to $203,541,907. of which $90,190,167 represented gold, 38,804,496 silver, $59,244,994 copper and $15,302,248 lead values. The greatest producer of the metals in 1899 was Montana, which yielded a worth of $50,695,000; Colorado came next with $43,- 180,913, then British Columbia and the Yukon (grouped together) with $23,862,941. Arizona meanwhile produced metal values of $20,353,421, Utah $13,654,682 and Idaho $12,736,860. Alaska is credited with $4,740,846, of output, mainly gold, and California has quite fallen behind Montana and Colorado as a metal producer, the total yield from this State in 1S99 being $18,953,117, or less than half that of Colorado. Taking British Columbia alone, our annual metal production at this moment stands approximater ly equal to that of Utah or Idaho with every prospect of soon passing each of these States. It will, however, be long ere we reach the position cf Colorado with its more than $43,000,000 of annual metal output, of which over $26,000,000 stands for gold values. The second annual report of the consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company, Ltd., reaches us just as we go to press, and we are, therefore, unable to do more than give it a brief notice. As this report, However, contains matter of verv great interest to a large number of our readers it will be published in full, together with photographs kindly sent us by Mr. llobson, in the April issue. Meanwhile, the last season's operations seems to have been again largely confined to equipment and preparatory work, the total expenditure for the season being $194,520, as agains* an expenditure of $238,844 last year. The value of gold recovered for the period of 144 days and eight hours of working was $92,678, which is twelve thousand dollars less than the return for 1897-98. The report states that the equipment of the property is now complete and that consequently the mine "may be considered in first-class condition to produce large and profitable results hereafter." THE MINING RECORD. 81 THE TROUT LAKE DISTRICT. (By R. Leckie-Ewing.) O AVING SPENT some tliree months last summer 11 m the vicinity of Trout Lake I availed myself of the opportunity afforded me to gather an idea of :he mineral possibilities of this promising section of the province. The information I was then able to obtain I propose now to give, for what it may be worth, to the readers of the Mixing Record. Trout Lake Ctiy is situated a matter of forty-eight miles southeast of Revelstoke, and is easily accessible from that point via Arrowhead and thence by steam boat to Thompson's Landing. From Thompson's Landing travel to Trout Lake City ffi to Ferguson To the sportsman the district does not, unfortunately, offer many attractions. Bear and cariboo, numerous enough some few years ago, are now very scarce, especially the latter. One may come across bear, both the black and the silver tip variety, however, in the early spring with the assistance of good guides. I tried the fishing on several occasions, both m Trout and in Stobart Lake, but with poor success. There are no fish that.will look at a fly; though very large trout are caught with spoon and minnow by trolling. I had the satisfaction of hooking one of these gentry, which weighed no less than eighteen pounds. He was a big ugly fish and showed little light, but the biggest I have ever caught. Trout Lake itself is a wonderfully beautiful sheet of water—and The new mining town of Ferguson. which last is the most convenient centre of the mining territory, is accomplished by stage coach or saddle. Four years ago the sites of these two towns were covered by dense growths of timbers, but of late considerable spaces have been cleared and both Trout Lake and Ferguson now boast of substantial buildings and enterprising, albeit at present, small populations. Considering the natural difficulties which had to be overcome the progress already made in the development of this district is eminently satisfactory. With the completion of the railway to Ferguson, however, there can be no question but that activity in the future will be decidedly more marked. In fact, the great drawback under which the Trout Lake district laboured during the last two or three years has been indifferent and quite inadequate transportation facilities: and the great expense to which mine owners have been put in sending out ore, has naturally acted as a check on all mine development and discouraged capital from exploiting this field. even in British Columbia noted for the picturesque beauty of its inland waters none, I think, surpass Trout Lake in loveliness; and that is saying a good deal. Its length is about seventeen and its width from one to two miles; and on either side stand out grand snow-clad summits whose slopes from lake shore to timber line are densely clad with conifers. On a bright summer's day, with the sun shining brightly on the water, and lighting up forest, glacier and snowy peak, the effect is almost indescribably grand—and I certainly can hardly hope to do justice to the subject. But to come to the mines. The Duncan-Lardeau district, although as I have pointed out, its mineral resources are still practically undeveloped, notwithstanding gives promise of becoming one of the richest silver-lead camps in the whole of British Columbia— which is tantamount to saying, the whole of North America. Nature has been very lavish in her distribution of galena veins in this section. These veins $2 THE MINING RECORD. I^SjjMSgMpfW The Great Lime Dyke, Trout r,ake Di strict. By the Lake Shore—Trout Lake District. THE mining Record. h A Good Showing—Trout Lake District. are, as a rule, judging from the present showings, lime formations at elevations of from four to six large and well-defined, and occur in both diorite and thousand feet. The natural advantages of abundant A Typical Miners' Cabin in the Trout Lake District. 84 THE MINING RECORD. Table d'hote at the Mines. wood and water supply is also to be noted. The district seems to be traversed by dykes of diorite and lime, which yarv in .width from, forty to eighty, feet. The .limestone formation is both over and underlaid- by slate and shales and appears to be the apex of a steep anticline, or else it has been elevated to its pres ent position along a line of faulting. On the southwest side, the line between the lime and slates may be followed for many miles, and here much of the prospecting in the district has been carried .on, although with a few exceptions the best veins have been found in the slate and schist formations, both near and A Prospector's Camp. THE MINING RECORD. 85 several miles distant from the lime belt. The limestone itself is very solid and highly altered, and so far as known, traversed and influenced by intrusions of igneous rock. The veins found in the lime belt are believed to be the same as those crossing the slates, but this has not been conclusively proved. The belts of slates and schists, which have been found to be most important ore-bearing formations, are in part well interlaminated with narrow band., of quarts, a- well as crossed by barren white quartz in irregular forms. The characteristic ore of the district Is argentiferous galena, with which is associated in some cases, tetra- hedrite or grey copper and gold. Zinc blende is also generally present and often copper and iron pyrites. Cup. Ore is galena, with considerable grey copper, silver 585 oz., lead 68 per cent. Towser.—Ore is a coarse cube galena, in company with considerable iron, and a little zinc. Silver 88 oz., lead 58 per cent. A good body of this nature has been uncovered by recent development and shipments will be made during the present winter, as development is being vigorously pushed. Nettie L.—Situated along one of the strata of dior- ite. Ore is extremely rich in grey copper. Some times three or four tons of almost pure grey conoer are found in a bunch. This grey copper assays about 3,000 oz in silver, zinc blende and iron pyrites are also present as in other properties. w4mK^mSmtlSs9h Felling Timber—Showing forest gro.vth in the Trout Lake District. face of white quartz, with spathic iron, and while much Many of the veins have a large showing on the sur- of this quartz may be barren, it is in parts well mineralized with pyrites and galena which is often found segregated into bands of solid ore; or so disseminated through the quartz as to require concentrating. The strike and dip of the veins nearly coincide with the strike and dip of the enclosing slates or schists, and are found to cut across the planes of stratification with a dip of 45 to 50 degrees from the horizontal. I give below a few particulars of the mines and properties in this locality: Silver Cup.—Average ore, gold 4 oz., silver 200 oz., lead 50 per cent., and zinc 7 per cent. Sunshine.—Average ore, gold 10 oz., silver 160 oz., lead from 30 to 60 per cent., zinc 15 to 25 per cent. Trinne and Enterprise.—Largest and richest surface showing in the district, situated above the Silver Development work in this property is also very active; a tunnel of over 500 feet is at present being driven and when it reaches the vein will give great depth. Over 100 tons of this rich ore is ready for raw-hiding. Broadview, Great Northern, St. Elmo, True Fissure and Silver Queen on the Great Northern Hill lie somewhat to the south of the diorite dyke belt, and compared with the ores of the claims in the belt are somewhat low-grade. We now come to the lime dyke belt, which is characterized by a very thick strata of line on the northern side, and then alternating with slate and schist for over a mile. There are several lesser strata of lime. The stratum of lime in the lim* dyke is over 400 feet thick. In the lesser strata, south of this they range from 20 to 60 feet. The ores in this belt are principally galena, varieties of the antimonial lead ■ n^W 86 THE MINING RECORD. My Summer Quarters. sulphides which are rich in silver and chalcopyrite, sisting of galena and antimonial lead sulphides, with also some iron pyrites and considerable grey copper, some grey copper. Assavs from 200 to 400 oz. of sil- Bad Shot.—A large body of high-grade ore, con- vei and 60 to'70 per cent lead. F.mpire Cabin under construction, Aug. THE MINING RECORD. 87 Lade.—On border of lime dyke belt, and about a mile south of Bad Shot. This property is somewhat unique, in that it is a high-grade gold proposition. The gold is associated with bismuthinite, or bismuth glance. Numerous stringers cross-cut from the main ledges through the slate, and it is on these that some development work has been done. The gangue in the stringers is spathic iron, and the bismuth glance with the gold runs through this. Assays of a fair average sample was 42 oz. of gold and 5 oz. of silver. As high as 100 oz. of gold has been obtained from picked samples. Silver Belt.—Another property upon which considerable development work has been done. Average assays obtained from grey copper ore run to 150 oz. in silver and 60 per cent, lead and $10 in gold. An assay was recently taken which went 700 oz. silver, 65 per cent, lead tnd $10 in gold. In this group consisting of six consecutive claims, the three ledges varying in width from one to four feet, can be traced as distinctly as waggon roads running through the entire group. By cross-cuts varying 111 depth from six to ten feet along three of the claims have shown up galena for the entire length of the property, averaging by assay returns 25 oz. silver and 70 per cent lead. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Shannon, as- sayer, Ferguson, for much valuable information with regard to the values of ore on the properties I have mentioned. In submitting the above list I have only touched upon a few of the many rich properties which abound in this district but enough has been, perhaps, said to give some idea of the great potentialities of thc Trout Lake mining district of the Duncan-Lardeau. Towards Fish Creek are the Primrose Gold, the Little Robert, Black Diamond and Big- Five groups. High-grade ore consisting of antimon- ial lead, sulphides and grey copper are found in all; the Black Diamond furnishing especially fine samples of grey copper. Three leads cross the Big Five group of galena, rich carbonates and antimonial lead sulphides, the silver values ranging from 60 oz. to 600 oz. Towards the Duncan, prospects are also numerous, and considerable development work has been done on such properties as the Wagner, Abbot, Bannockburn and Empire. It is on the last named that the writer spent most of his time and where the accompanying photos were chiefly taken. This property furnishes a splendid example of what I have alreadv mentioned as one of the chief characteristics, of the Duncan- Lardeau properties, viz., clear and well defined veins. Camp on Empire Mines," Trout Lake District. and Old THE AURIFEROUS ALLUVIUM OP THE . FRASER RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. By J. D. Kendall, London, Eng. (Continued from February.) III. GEOLOGICAL AGE OF THE FRASER. Along some parts of the Fraser the adjoining hills are neither high nor of striking outline; but between Pavilion Creek and Yale, especially between the former point and Lillooet, it traverses some of the grandest scenery in Brtiish Columbia. The mountains on either side, in places, rise with 'rugged abruptness to heights of 5,000 and 6,000 feet above the river, giving to the valley for miles together the appearance of an immense canyon. But notwithstanding the enormous magnitude of the work done by the river (as- 88 THE MINING RECORD. sited, of course, by frost and rain and chemical decomposition) in cutting out this colossal water-way, it has not taken much time—geologically speaking—to accomplish it, for some of the rocks through which the valley has ben excavated are relatively very young. On the Dry Belt there occurs a large expanse of rock —mostly volcanic—of Miocene age. The extent of these rocks, within the Fraser area, is partly shown on and it will be seen therefrom that the river, between Quesnelle and Fountain, has cut its way. partly through them. In, places they occupv all the country betwen the mountain tops and the river- bed so that since the close of the middle Miocene period the Fraser valley must have been deepened in places at least 4,000 feet. Except a few small outliers of Miocene strata in the neighbourhood of Quesnelle Lake, there is nothing to show that the rocks of that aee had extended eastwards of the Quesnelle River, and therefore the age of the Cariboo creeks can only be fixed inferentially, but as the tributaries cannot be older than the main river the rich gold-bearing creeks of Cariboo must also have come into existence since the middle Tertiary period. IV.—EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS. Auriferous alluvium occurs in the Fraser Valley almost from its upper end to near the sea, and in almost every tributary as well. It occurs partly on and below the levels of the rivers or creeks, and partlv above them. In some places the alluvium on the river-bed is partly above the water, at low level, and partly be-, low it, but during flood-season it is entirely covered. The part that is uncovered at low water-forms what it known as a bar. and is then worked by the miner with his rocker or such other appliances as he may- possess. These deposits consist usuallv of coarse gravel and boulders, the latter ranging in weight from a few pounds to several tons. It is from the working- of these bars on the Fraser, especially between Hope and I'llooet, that a large proportion of the gold output of 1858-50 and 60 came, and since those vears. in the same, and other parts of the river more or less gold has been obtained every season. Tb° "-ravel which is covered by water at all seasons can only be reached by dredging or other apparatus that can work under water, or by the method known as wing-damming-. Several efforts have been made to dredgre the Fraser and Quesnelle, but none of them appear to have been conspicuously successful, whilst some were decided failures. Wing-damminp- has also been extensively practiced. On some of the rivers. gold"*"was obtained in that way years aeo, but more recent adventurers, without due enquiry, have spent considerable sums of money to get it. The failure that inevitably awaits such enterprises will, doubtless, prove injurious to the reputation of the district affected, but the fault clearly lies elsewhere. Sometimes a considerable quantitv of alluvium occurs on and below the level of a creek, but the quantitv of water in the creek benig relativelv small it can be dealt with in many ways so as to permit the underlying' alluvial deposits to be worked without the help of dredeers or other similar contrivances, or even without wing-dams. Many of the deposits in the Caribo" creeks are of this description. Some are shallow. s<~> that the bed-rock* and rich ground lying- on it ar° eas<lv reached. In other places the alluvium is so deen that =haft« ran°"in°- from 16 to is-; feet were needed to reach bed-rock. In Lifhtning Creek, at thp Victoria claim, and the South Wales claim there is the same kind of deposit, but the creek in the latter is clear of alluvium, and apparently above the level of it A claim located on this deposit would be called a "Hill Claim," whereas, if staked on the former, where the alluvium is mostly above the level of the creek, it would be called a "Creek Claim." Of deposits occurring above the level of the rivers or creeks, some occur in more or less uniform layers on the sides of the valleys, others in terraces. By far the greatest part of the alluvial deposits occur in one or other of these forms—chiefly the latter. The terraces occur for hundreds of miles along the rivers extending upwards, in places, to 700 or 800 feet above the level of the latter. One of the most striking examples of these terraces is to be seen from the village of Lillooet. They must, however, be familiar to everyone who has travelled along the Canadian Pacific Railway between Ashcroft and North Bend. Interesting deposits occur on the Thompson River near where it is joined by the Nicomen River. It was somewhere in that neighbourhood, as already stated, that alluvial gold was first found in British Columbia in any appreciable quantity. The deposits there consists largely of sand, fine and medium sized, but well-round ed, gravel with some sub-angular gravel, in which are three fairly persistent layers of coarse gravel and boulders, the coarsest of which occurs on bed-rock. Some of the boulders will weigh 4 or 5 tons. Many of those that weigh from xo to 150 pounds have a flattened ellip'soidal form, but the larger boulders are usuallv sub-angular unless rounded by chemical decomposition, as often happens with granite, Syenite and other similar rocks. The interstices between the boulders are filled with sand and gravel, forming from I5 to 35 Per cent, of the whole. In some places the gravel on bed-rock is fine, the lowest coarse layer being about 45 feet above that level. The greatest thickness of the deposit on the left band of the river, a few hundred yards above the rope tramway, is about 250 feet. On the risrht bank it is probably about the same, notwithstanding that the upper surface of the bench there is much higher than that on the other side cf the river. A good illustration of the nature and extent of these river terraces may be seen on the Quesnelle River, about 20 miles below Quesnelle Forks. There are three or four terraces on each side of the river. Some of them are short and interrupted. Others are very- persistent, notwithstanding the modification they have undergone through the operation of the various meteoric and other denuding agents. The aggregate width of these terraces is over a mile and a half. The thickness is uncertain, but it will probably average 90 feet. The average height of the main terraces above one another is about 180 feet, so that the average thickness of the alluvium is, probably, at least half of that. The character of the deposit is very variable, consisting in places of a sandy clay, locally known as "slum." In other parts it consists of fine and coarse sand, or of fine and coarse gravel. Often on and near bed-rock are numerous boulders, many weig-hing a quarter of a ton, and some much more. Some of the ground was worked a few years ago by Chinamen. Near bed-rock of the particular place referred to is a layer of coarse "wash" about 2 feet 6 inches thick, which as usual, carries most of the values. The ground was worked entirely for the gold in this layer and was washed by means of a sluice. When the cost of removing the overburden, added to that of getting and washing the richer layer on bed-rock, exceeded th - THE MINING RECORD. 89 value of the gold obtained, the work was abandoned, lhis is a fair illustration of hundreds of pits along the benches of the Fraser and its tributaries. Writh the primitive appliances at hand the early miners could only, in such cases, work profitably along the outcrop of the coarser wash, or where the poorer cover was thin. Consequently they were ever on the move, scratching the surface here and there and taking away a little of the wealth that is buried in these enormous deposits, but leaving the great bulk of it for those that will surely some day follow, equipped with better appliances and under more favourable conditions. No matter where these terraces are found they have the same, or nearly the same, inclination longitudinally as the river alongside which they occur. This feature distinguishes them from other alluvinal terraces which are known as hill terraces. The latter are level, or as near level as it is possible to determine in their present more or less modified form. Another feature of these terraces is that crosswise they always incline towards the river. The grade may be steep, sometimes as much as I in 5.4, or it may be easy as on the bench adjoining the Quesnelle River, above referred to, which slope about 1 in 57. Sometimes deposits are met with, more or less connected with the bench-deposits just described, but they have not the usual bench form. Such a deposit is that worked by the Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company on the south fork of the Quesnelle River. This deposit occupies an old river channel, the bed of which, where now seen, is about 135 feet above the level of the Quesnelle River, opposite. Whether this channel formerly carried the Quesnelle or some other river it is not possible at present to say. Old or buried channels are the placer miner's great desire, and, in his fanciful moments, he can often trace them out for miles, sometimes even along quite impossible lines, as a little knowledge of stratigraphy would readily show him. One of these unscientific users of the imagination recently endeavoured to persuade the writer that a certain post-glacial gravel-bench he was examining passed under a mass of rock belonging to the Juratrias and- came out to the river again about a mile lower down. At the Cariboo Hydraulic Mine,, however, a buried channel really exists. There is very probably also one on the Quesnelle at the point referred to above, and often elsewhere they are found, but not with the frequency, nor always in the places, that one would be led to expect if implicit reliance were placed on the statements of claim owners. In the China pit of the Cariboo Hydraulic mine the layer on the top is gravel, below that is a boulder clay, which overlies gravel and sand with numerous boulders, many of them large. In the South Fork pit, a little to the east, two deposits of boulder clay occur, separated by about 125 feet of sand and gravel. On Baker Creek, about two and a half miles west of Quesnelle there is a deposit of gravel, overlain by- basaltic rocks of Miocene age, which, although not belonging to either the Fraser or any of its tributaries may here be referred to. The Golden Province mines undertook to exploit this deposit, but suspended operations before the ground had been sufficiently tested. Doubtless there are many deposits of this description covered by the Tertiary rocks that occupy such a large portion of the plateau within the Fraser watershed. The alluvial deposits of the early Miocene rivers were doubtless buried by the volcanic and other rocks of the middle Miocene period, just as they were in California but whether they are of the same economic im portance here as in that State remains to be proved, r'ractically nothing is known about them in British Columbia. Unaided imagination has restored the orographic features of the plateau in early Miocene times, but the hammer and pick have much to do before we can hope to have even a remotely accurate picture of the country that was buried so long ago. V.—DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTER OF GOLD. Ill this connection three general statements may be made: (1) The steeper rivers or creeks carry the coarser gold. (2) In any particular river or creek the gold is tound to become coarser up-stream and to be more mixed with quartz and pynte. (3) The coarser wasn includes the coarser gold. Of the gold from the bars, on the Fraser, that found below Yale, was what is known as "flour gold." From about sixteen miles above Yale it was relatively coarse (over eighty per cent, being in the form of "scales"), at is was also from a point about midway between Lytton and Foster Bar up to Fountain. Coarse gold was also found on the Thompson, near Nicoamen. In the benches and other deposits, the size of the gold depends, in a great measure upon that of the alluvium. If it be clay, there is almost certainly an absence of gold. In sand and fine gravel the gold is sparsely scattered through the mass, but its particles seldom exceed a fourth of a grain in weight. In coarse gravel with boulders, nuggets are met with now and again, weighing several ounces. In the Cariboo Hydraulic mine last season, one was taken out of the sluices, at the final clean-up weighing about six ounces, but by far the greater number of the gold particles do not exceed a grain, in deposits along the larger rivers. According to Mr. Hobson, the manager of the Cariboo Hydraulic mine, the top gravel in their China pit carries gold of the value ot about 5 cents per cubic yard. The boulder clay contains little if any gold, so far as is known, but the gravel and bouldery ground on bedrock is rich, the final run in the season of 1898 in that ground realizing 67.15 cents per cubic yard.* Taking the entire pit and including the barren boulder clay, which forms a large part of the whole, the average yield of 1,225,776 cubic yards (the ground worked during the last five runs) was over 19 cents per cubic yard. That, however, is less than the real average, for but a very small proportion (only about a 34th) of the rich ground from the bedrock was included. In the steeper creeks the general size of the gold is larger and in some, pieces weighing five grains are quite common. The smaller and medium-sized pieces are much flattened and have the appearance of having ben severly hammered, fine grains of quartz being driven into them occasionally. Where the bedrock is stratified and dipping at high angles or, if not stratified, where it is much jointed the gold very frequently makes its way down into the crevices. It is then of a much duller appearance than the gravel gold and is often stained with peroxide of iron, or is ■'rusty," as the miners say. From a quantity of mixed dust it is, as a rule, quite easy to pick out the bedrock gold. The Cariboo Goldfields on Williams Creek have not yet got fairly to work, but in nine short runs made in the season 1898 they obtained from *First Annual Report of Directors, Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company. 9o THE MINING RECORD. ground 10 feet deep and 8 feet above bedrock yields, ranging from $i to $8 per cubic yard. But until the ground has bene worked on a large scale the average »alue will not be known. Tests on a small scale of the overlying ground varied from nothing to 5 cents per cubic yard. In some of the benches several layers of coarse gravel and boulders occur, all of which may contain coarse gold, whilst that in the intervening layers of finer material is not only much less abundant but mostly fine "scales" and "flour." Often the upper part of a bench contains quite a concentration of the precious metal for reasons which will be evident when the genesis of the deposits is considered. The minerals and metals usually associated with gold in the alluvium are : Almost always—Limonite, magnetite and pyrite. Less frequently—Platinum, copper, chalcopyrite, galena, arseno-pyrite and garnets. The value of the gold ranges from $14.50—when mixed with quartz—to $18.80 per ounce. The fineness of some random samples from the Fraser, Quesnelle and Thompson Rivers is given below: Fraser. Quesnelle. Thompson. Gold 860 .800 .940 Silver 100 .191 .058 The colour of the Thompson River samples was of sovereign gold. The Fraser and Quesnelle gold were much paler in colour, approaching that pyrite. The gold from the Cariboo Hydraulic mine is about .825 fine. VI.—AGES OF THE DEPOSITS. The various deposits that have been referred to may, in considering their age, be divided into four principal groups: 1. Middle Miocene. 2. Pliocene. 3.Inter-glacial. 4. Post-glacial. To the first group belong the very little known deposits that are overlain by basalt, like that on Baker Creek. It is quite possible that even older deposits than that will hereafter be found occurring under the lower volcanic group, and therefore belonging to the early Miocene, or to the Oligocene period. Of pliocene deposits we have an illustration in the rich bouldery gravel underlying the boulder-clay that occurs in the China pit of the Cariboo Hydraulic mine. The gravel underlying the lower boulder clay in the South Fork pit, of the same mine, also belongs to this period. Inter-glacial deposits are represented by the sands and gravels occurring between the upper and lower boulder clays in the South Fork pit just alluded to. The gravel overlying the boulder clay in the China pit is almost certainly of the same age. Post-glacial deposits include all the bars and perhaps all the alluvial terraces, as well as many, if not most, of the auriferous accumulations worked by the "Creek" and "Hill" claims. VII.—GENESIS OF THE DEPOSITS. The terraces of the Fraser are such a marked feature of the valley that it would have been surprising had their origin not been referred to in some way or other by the several writers who have, at various times, noticed the alluvial gold deposits of British Columbia. A favourite explanation was that they had formed the shores of former lakes, their successive steps indicating the different levels at which the waters had stood as the barriers were cut away. Dr. George Dawson* considers that "these terraces are cut out in the material with which the valley were partly refilled after the removal of the boulder clay," fhat is most probably the correct explanation, out the modus operandi is only indicated by him in a very general way, and practically nothing is said as to the manner in which the alluvial deposits were laid down in the valleys. That the terraces were not formed along the shores of lakes is shown conclusively by their having the same inclination as the rivers. Had they been lake- shore deposits they would have been level, longitu- ■ dinally. Not only is it necessary to account for the terraces having the same grade as the river, but also for the fact that the upper surface of the alluvium, which once partially filled the valleys and out of which the terraces were formed, had also an inclination more or less corresponding to that of the rivers. The only force at present in operation capable of producing such deposits as those under consideration is river action, but the magnitude of the work done requires much larger rivers than those flowing to-day. Just, however, as we have, annually, early summer floods from the melting of the enormous masses of snow and ice that had accumulated during the long continued glacial period. But given the necessary river-power, how did it operate. Rivers with rapid current like the Fraser and its tributaries do not form deposits beneath their beds, which cause the latter to gradually rise as the deposit accumulatesj The action of swift flowing rivers is rather to deepen their channels. But the rivers which deposited the gold-bearing alluvium under consideration flowed as fast as those of to-day, if not faster, as is clearly shown by the character of the material they were able to move. How then were the valleys filled with detrital matter to a depth of several hundred feet. We know that similar deposits are forming wherever such rivers enter either lakes or the sea, but there the tendency is to produce a flat topped or gently sloping delta, in which the materials are disposed very differently from those under review. Besides accounting for the upper surface of the alluvium having the same grade as the river, it is necessary to explain the existence of the coarse wash in the old channels on bedrock. Deposits in lakes or in the sea, if the relative level of land and water remains unaltered, present an order that is almost the reverse of this. The finest material being longest suspended in the water, is carried farthest out, and settling on the bottom is eventually covered by coarser and still more coarse detritus as the delta advances outwards. If it be assumed that a slow and gradual settlement of the land (which eventually submerged the country to a depth of about 2,500 feet) was taking place during the time the post-glacial rivers were - disintigrating with the help of other agencies) and reforming the deposits accumulated by the then dead glaciers we have all the conditions necessary to bring about the ♦Manager's Report. ♦Geological Survey Canada, Vol. VII., p. 3C4B. fHE MINING RECORD. 91 facts which are observed. As the land subsided the coarse wash in the river beds would be covered by finer deposits and the upper surface of all would be more or less parallel to the river-beds. The alternat ing coarse and fine material might result partly from variations in the transporting power of the rivers due to alterations of volume and partly from oscillations of the land. A slight rise of the latter would cause the rivers to re-excavate the deposited alluvium, by increasing the gradient and thereby the carrying power of the water, so that coarser material would be borne down and lodged on the finer sand and gravel deposited before the elevation, and whilst these parts of the rivers had a less gradient. The included gold, is accounted for like any of the other materials. Doubtless it was derived from the destruction of quartz veins in the rocks that, by the various denuding agents, have since been transformed into sand, gravel and clav. Like the alluvium, the gold would naturally be finer the farther it had travelled. Moreover, gold that was originally fine would travel farther from its source than that which was coarser. Being very malleable gold would, by hammering among the boulders, be flattened as we now often see it, and not be broken up into grains like the more brittle rocks. The latter, by pounding, become further reduced in size, and by attrition become more or less rounded and converted into sand. Let us now further assume that, after the subsidence had proceeded to the extent previously named, re-elevation ensued. The rivers would then begin to cut through the deposits they had just laid down, and in the course of time would again reach the old channels and cut even below them, as has been the case on the Fraser and some of the rivers running into it. The courses of the new rivers not everywhere, for several reasons, correspond with the old one; beds of greater or less extent might be cut off and in other ways portions of the old channels might remain buried, to form, at some later day, the happy hunting ground of the placer miner. It is here suggested that the probable manner in which the alluvium was excavted and the terraces formed, was as follows: Rivers seldom flow in straight lines, the varying resistance of the rocks, forming their sides, rendering this impossible. Ihey wear awav their banks, on their convex sides, at the same time as thev are deepening their channels. The consequence of these two actions is that the river- channel moves sidewise along an inclined plane. In thfie it probably reaches rock, which, being harder than alluvium deflects the river and .causes it to at- ack the other bank. Its course is then continued downwards along a plane sloping in an-W*^™; tion to the first until.it again meets with somethm harder than the alluvium, and so on, stage by stage, until it reaches its old channel. The river-bed naturally contains, much gold for it may be looked upon as a hug*gggggSg which has been washed the-whole ottne^ ^ moved -Jomi ng the ter^e ga tte| b or near the top of the *«»**** • t b^ expected richer than that ^mediately below is to oe v seeing that it formed the bedLof the^^ of fhe or shorter period during the re excavd. valley. VHI.—EXTENT OF WORKING AND METHOD EMPLOYED. Since 1858 the miners have run over the principal rivers and creeks in the Fraser watershed, but only such gold has been got by them as could be worked bv the most primitive methods. The early workers attacked the bars, the outcrops of the coarser wash in the terraces, and the deposits in some of the creek and hill claims, with no other tools than a pick and shovel, rocker or sluice. In the deeper ground below the Canyon, in Williams Creek, as also in Lightning and other creeks, they had to resort to sinking and drifting, but the apparatus used was necessarily very inferior to that which could be employed to-day for the same purposes. The methods adopted in the early days have, with declining vigour, been continued down to the present day by white men, Indians and Chinamen. No other methods were attempted until about eighteen years ago, when hydraulicing, on a small scale, was introduced, but with indifferent success, for several reasons. In Cariboo the gathering-ground above the' level of the creeks is not larg-e and being steen the rainfall quickly flows off, so that to secure the large volumes of water needed in hydraulic mining considerable impounding reservoirs, or works to effect the same purpose, by utilizing some of the lakes, have to be constructed. These were not then made and consequently the hydraulic mining initiated at that time did not increase the output of gold to the extent it might have done. Another reason why more success was not achieved is that then, as now, works were undertaken without adequate preliminary investigations. Pits were opened in the wrong place and works constructed before the value of the ground had been even approximately ascertained. Within the last six years several companies have been promoted for the purpose of working deposits in different parts of the Fraser area and by different methods. Some like the Golden Province mine, which proposed to work the deposit under the Zasalt, on Zaker Creek, by drifting, have suspended operations without arriving at any very definite results. Others, like the Cariboo Goldfields and the Golden River Quesnelle have completed their equipment and had some preliminary runs, so that they may be expected to commence washing in earnest soon. The former company intend to work the deep ground at the lower end of Williams Creek by means of a hydraulic elevator having a vertical lift of about 88 feet. For this purpose they have made about 16J miles of ditch and flume so as to bring water from Ground Hog and other lakes. The cost of these and other incidental works—including a drain tunnel 3,100 feet long and a double sluice 800 feet long—is stated to be about £56,000.* The Golden River Quesnelle Company have, at considerable expense, formed a dam at the outlet of Quesnelle Lake, so as to lay dry the south fork of Quesnelle River during a portion of each year. While the waters of the lake are thus held back they propose, for about three months in each year, to work the gravel on the river-bed by ordinary sluicing. It is to be hoped that this undertaking will be successful, but it is said that a considerable portion of the South Fork was wing-dammed, years ago. The Cariboo Hydraulic mine has been a dividend- payer for two or three years, but they have been ex- * Director's Annual Report, March. 1891. 92 THE MINING RECORD. tending their works all the time and are only now really ready to commence operations on a scale commensurate with the splendid run of ground they have to work. During last season they ought to have made a good record. The following figures from the report of the directors are interesting. 1897— Gravel Duty per Value Run. washed, miner's inch per cu. yds. cu. yds. cu. yd. 9 413,058 (mostly top gravel*.. 3-84 17.2c 10 345»23r " ••• 3-44 16. ic 11 81,817 " " ••• 5-12 6-9c 1898— 350,000 " ... 2.44 21.oc 35>°7o (bottom gravel) .... r. 1 67.15c The operating expenses were : Per cu. yd. Labour 3 ■ 8c Explosives 2. 4c Maintenance of Plant 2.58c Management and office expenses 1.05c Sundries 1 • 77c 11.60c These figures relating to cost should be reduced in future when the output is larger and the work more regular. In the Horsefly district an attempt is being made to reach a deep-buried channel by sinking, but there has not been sufficient work done yet to afford a reliable indication of its economic prospects. Other mines might also be mentioned, but their description would not add to the record of successful work. In the area under review there are many splendid opportunities for alluvial mining, but unless care and foresight be exercised in selection, equipment and management it is more than probable that we have not seen the end of solicited failures. On the other hand, if proper preliminary tests be made, skilful management 'secured afterwards and the capital kept within reasonable limits, there is in this section of British Columbia an extensive field for legitimate and profitable alluvial mining. VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. HAVING been requested by many of our readers throughout the Province to publish in these columns a verbatim report of the evidence in the Iron Mask-Centre Star litigation, Mr. H. F. Evans, our Rossland correspondent, was enabled through the kindness of Mr. J. B. Hastings to carry out our instructions to copv the official report of the proceedings and evidence taken, and which are in consequence enabled to publish in serial form. (Continuation, of Counsel's Argument, from last month's issue.) He could not have used that language had he so supposed, because of the very case that he refers to. Now, I do not care whether it is not in the material, or whether the Judge overlooked it in the material, it is very immaterial, which it is. He said that if that * Including the boulder clay. were so it would be a different case. Now, we say that that is so, and that the work we ask to do is that fifteen or sixteen feet of work at the present time, at any' rate, between these two points where we have established the vein; in other words, to do just what Mr. Justice Drake says practically ought to be done, or would have been ordered had the evidence shown those facts. Mr. Davis—No, my Lord: nothing whatever. The Court—On either side? Mr. Davis—No, not at that point. The Court—That is the vital point in one sense. Mr. Davis—No, sir; nothing has been done, and vour Lordship knows what the evidence was—absolutely conflicting. And my learned friend said at that time it was not a question of credibility of witnesses at all—both sides agree to that. My learned friends, Mr. Daly and Mr. Bodwell, both agreed that the witnesses were not impeached on either side. The Court—They did do that. Mr. Davis—They forgot themselves a little after they got into the argument, but that is what thev started at. They said they did not question the credibility of witnesses on either side. The Court—There were a few angry words on one side and the other now and then. Mr. Davis—That may be, because they were swearing to inferences which thev drew from facts which thev never saw and that will be what they will do again unless this work is done. It mav be that after this work is done further inferences will be drawn from it, but there is a vast mass of evidence that will no long-er be conflicting, that can be reconciled. And that is what we want to brine about bv this work, if possible. My learned friend says this was merely a trial of the injunction. The Court—This is the trial. Mr. Davis—There is an action for $50,000 damages My learned friend is merely putting in that claim for damap-es in a nominal wav, and reallv does not claim anv damages, and that $50,000 is put in a sort of fancy sketch, or the most important part of the trial could be for damages. He can take whichever horn of the dilemma he wants. If he takes one he is abandoning his claim for damages, and if he takes the other, it is in the exact opposite of what he stated a moment ago. It is not a claim for injunction then. Th^re is a claim for damages for trespass, and that will be res-judicata when it is settled, so far as these points are concerned, and therefore it is of the utmost importance, even apart from the question of damages itself, that we should have a decision' which is in accordance with the facts in this case. It would certainly be a most remarkable travesty on justice if, owing to the fact that certain work was not done, so that we could see just what the facts are: we had one decision one way in the case of the Tron Mask against Centre Star, and then subsequently work was allowed to be done, and the case of Centre Star against Iron Mask in which the same questions were involved, was decided the other was. And that is what might'happen if work is not allowed to be done in this case, and should be allowed in the other case. The Court—That was in my mind long ago. Mr. Davis—My friend speaks about the difference between a drain and a vein. That is the only difference between Lumb vs. Beaumont case and this; in tracing the drain they were tracing something which is placed there by the hand of man, and in doing the THE MINING RECORD. 93 work which we ask to do we should be tracing something which has been placed there by the hand of God. The one is artificial and the other is natural, and that is the only difference that can be found between Lumb vs. Beaumont case and ours. They did not know in the diain case where the end of the drain was,they did not know that the other end of the drain was in the plaintiff's house and that the drain which they knew about ran over to the other drain. They surmis.d that the same as we surmise that their vein runs down to the other point, but they did not know it any more than we can know, until that soil is dug up, that the vein above is the vein below. There is really no distinction between the cases, only the one follows the artificial and the other the natural. Mr. Bodwell—Your Lordship will remember that I was stopped. I did not address any argument to your Lordship on that point. Mr. Davis—I s.hould like to be heard. The Court—Yes, if Mr. Davis wants to make any reply, I shall be very glad to hear it. Mr. Bodwell—I 'am not going to wear your Lordship's patience out. The Court—No, indeed. Mr. Bodwell—Your Lordship said you wanted me to discuss the question whether the judgment of the Full Court decided the point, and I did confine my argument to that, but my friend in his opening and closing has travelled from that subject continually, and has appealed to your Lordship's discretion as if it weie open to you. There is one of two courses to be adopted with reference to that part of the argument. Either that part of the argument can be adjourned until after your Lordship has decided whether it is open to you or not, but there is one thing I want to say anyway, that it is very possible, if your Lordship should find that you have the power to exercise the discretion now that all the work we have been put to in getting ready for the trial would be thrown away, and we would have had an indefinite postponement of this trial. Mr. Davis—No; or course, not from your point of view. Mr. Bodwell—Unless we are to sit down and invite these gentlemen to come in and take ore-bodies, it would be a different proposition altogether. Of course, there are two theories about what may happen if that winze were sunk. One is, no ore will be found there. Either one of the propositions we have our theories upon. We are prepared upon this case as it stands now to go to trial. If further work is going to be done, we may or may not be prepared to go to trial now, because there may necessarily be a very- large amount of development work done,; then there is that which we have done in order to make the furtive proof which may be set up. It may be a very nice thing to let our friend be allowed to shove his winze through and then go to trial when we are not ready. But "that is not the point which is, whether the question has been settled up to date and the point on that was, where the judgment of the Full Court shows on this, continuity, exactly like there are many other issues upon which this case can go outside' of that point altogether, and that it was thought that the Court might never reach it—might never reach that point—and it may be never necessary to consider this bogv man which my friend has hung up—that yo.ir Lordship will not be able to understand the evidence that will be before vou. Mi. Davis—My friend stated that the doing of this work might cause an adjournment of the trial. He suggests nothing in support of this, except a vague statement that if that work was done Mr. Bodwell—Well Mr. Davis—If my friend has anything more to say 1 shall be glad to sit down and hear him say it. The Court—Pass this Bogy vs. Bogy. Mr. Bodwell—No; I am serious in that statement. If my friend quotes my language, I object to his quoting it, because he never can quote it correctly. That is the only reason I interrupted. Mr. Davis—I have the reply in this case, and I suppose we want to get through some time. If my learned friend has anything more to say I wish he would say it now, and then I will reply, because I have a replv, and I intend to exercise it, as I have a right to do. My learned friend says, doing this development work might mean an adjournment of the trial, and I say it again, that if he disputed it we will have the reporters read the notes. The only reason that he suggested as supporting that statement was a vague idea of his, that if that work were done it might become necessary for the Iron Mask people to do a lot of other development work. That is the only reason he gave. The Court—Just now. Mr. Davis—Yes, sir; that is the only reason he gave. If my learned friend says I am wrong, we might still resort to the note to settle it. The Court—That is right. Let us go along. Mr. Davis—When my learned friend makes a statement of this kind he should give his reasons. We are not asking for work to be done all over the place, so far as this application is concerned. We'are asking for fifteen feet to be run through from the foot of the winze to the top of the drift. Now my learned friend, if he had any foundation for the statement which he made, why didn't he give your Lordship the reasons? As he says, when that fifteen feet are run through they are liable to find Ore there or they will not. Whatever way it is, unless he shows your Lordship something to the contrary he is just as ready for trial then as he ever could be, except that it might turn out th.it he might have something that he could not get over as easily, but he has the same thing, and he has taken the same position as to the Centre Star No. 3 shaft, that is, that there is ore all down there, or practically all down; it is not a vein at all, and I presume that is the same position he would take if the ore was found in the Centre Star winze between the present bottom and the bottom of the drift. But, however, that may be, that has nothing to do with the application here. My learned friend could have done development work that he wished, because all of the development work is in his own ground. Thev could have done any work which thev chose to. We are the only people who are being prevented from doing work. We have been prevented by them; they have opposed every application we have ever made to the Court, in the most strenuous way, and with the Full Court having decided the jurisdiction, as the Full Court has decided it, that is, referred the question to the discretion of the trial Tudge, and the trial Judge came to the conclusion that some work ought to be done, it is for them to make an application for that purpose, and your Lordship can deal with them just the same as you are dealing with us. The Court—I think I would like these two affidavits. I would like that Barriiiger and Adams au- 94 THE MINING RECORD. thority that you are reading, and if you have any further information, Mr. Bodwell, about that being an extra-lateral or not an extra-lateral case; you can hand it in to me to-night, because it was a point I wanted to know. Mr. Bodwell—I can get the case by to-morrow night, if I haven't it with me. I think I have it with me. I think I have 58 Federal here. The Court—It will be found in Lindley. ' Mr. Bodwell—No; at least, a reference to it. The Court—But as to it being an extra-lateral case? Mr. Bodwell—No; I don't think it is cited there at all. Mr. Davis—That is where the question of extra- iateral rights arose. There is not any question about it, whether that language was used with reference to extra-lateral rights. I don't say that the question arose there. I state to your Lordship that Dr. Raymond was a witness. The Court—It will surely appear in the index whether it is there. The Court—What arrangements have you made? I believe you have made some arrangement that will be most convenient for all of you about the time. The case you refer to of St. Louis' Milling and Smelting Company against Montana, etc., is in 23 Pac. Rep. It is referred to in section 873. Mr. Davis—I know it is in 58 Federal. The Court—Nine, Montana; you have not got that here; 23 Pac. Rep. 510, section 873. This is a law peculiar to Montana. In Montana the law authorizes an inspection and survey without suit whenever any person shall have any right to or interest in any lead, lode or mining claim which was in the possession of another party. Mr. Davis—No, that was another St. Louis and Montana case. There were three St. Louis and Montana cases. The one you are reading now went to the Supreme Court, and it is in the Supreme Court of the United States now, but the one I refer to is a separate case altogether. Mr. Davis—It is not in Lindley, my Lord, that case. The Court—You must have quoted that case before the Full Court, because Mr. Justice Drake Mr. Davis—No, I did not. The Court—Just listen (reading): "It would be a dehial of justice, and utterly submissive of the objects for which Courts were created for them to refuse to exert their power for the elucidation of the very truth of the issue between the parties." Mr. Davis—I did not know of that case at that time. Dr. Raymond mentioned a case to me as soon as he came here. But that is not the case that I cited, my Lord, at all. It was another case of the same name. The Court—It must be the case, because this case states that the origin of the right of inspection and survey was of original English Equitable Jurisdiction. Mr. Davis—The case that you are referring to now was a case in which an order was made under a Mon- 1 ana statute is before the Supreme Court of the United States now, but it is not the dase which I cited to Your Lordship. As I say. Dr. Raymond was a witness in the dase that I am referring to, and knows this other case, and was a witness'in > that case, too—knows the other case well. The Court—There were two Montana cases then, of the same name. Mr. Davis—Yes, there were three, in fact The Court—I am not saying that there were not. Has any one got Bainbridge here? That is a good work. Mr. Davis—I have looked for Bainbridge on Mines in this suit, and it does not touch it. There is only one case where it has come up in the United States. The Court—There is some arrangement made between you gentlemen about the sittings. So far as I am personally concerned," any hour in the morning suits me, but we have arranged, as I understand, that it would be more convenient for both of you, as you are going to have the evidence copied off, and each sees then what he wants in- the evening. Will it be more convenient for you to sit from n to 4 with an intermediate half hour? Mr. Bodwell—No; 11 to 1 and 2 to 4? The Court—Yes. Mr. Bodwell—Or half-past two to half-past four. The Court—Why can't you make the time in the middle of the day nearly an hour? Mr. Bodwell—Whatever your Lordship would rather have. The Court—I know, but we will never get through with the work with short hours. Mr. Davis—The number of hours are the same. The Court—You want from 11 to 1 and 2 to 4? Mr. Davis-—I suppose that having an hour and a half at lunch might be of use in the way of seeing witnesses. The Court—The best way to settle that is to ask for it and then keep it, because I want to get through There are a number of valuable maps and plans which will be produced by both of you, and there is no security for them. What are you going to do? (The Registrar stated that he could not take care of them.) Mr. Davis—The Registrar is the custodian of these documents, and he has got to be responsible for them. The Court—I have nothing to say about it further. The Court then adjourned to meet to-morrow, April 18 1899, at 11 o'clock a.m. (To be continued.) BRITISH COLUMBIA'S MINERAL PRODUCTION AND THE PROGRESS OF MINING. (By B. Thomas, C.E. & M.E., Vancouver, B.C.) PRIOR to 1887 mining in this province was entirely confined to (1) placer mining, (2) coal mining.. Mining for coal was carried on, in a noderate way, as far back as 1836, but until 1887 the production was j very limited. Since, however, the industry has assumed important proportions and its development can easily be gathered from the accompanying diagrams. The first returns from the metalliferous mines were made in 1887, when 17,690 oz. of silvei and 204,800 pounds of lead was produced. Gold production from lode mining amounting to 1,170 oz. was recorded for the first time in 1893, and in the following year copper mining was inaugurated, the yield being 324.680 pound Since 1894 the increase in the production of these metals has been very marked. For the rest the ''iagrams are self-explanatory. THE MINING RECORD. 95 CQ < 10 >•< B 1 O X i o o a: o. j < of < — o *> 1ml w CD P ° « a. i Si \ f I f r 0, 1 «0 4 I? SQQQQQQOQ0 96 THE MINING RECORD. uJ -J CD 2* ^ o O 0. UJ uJ O 05 1o x 1 I 3 CM I ¥ h 2 o MM ^; < 1- to cv2 tn o ii Z 3 00 go 3 a z _l o 3 O O O XL a. o z < o 1- a 10 < si I 1/3 0 a CO j LU z 0 3 1- < >- <! of fic: tf LU s J < CO 3 0 _J (0 Ul < > Z -J <: r- O o to 1 a < 1 f 1 1 o 10 / 1 1 1 THE MINING RECORD. 97 CENTRIFUGAL ROLLS. OUR readers will probably agree that in describing centrifugal rolls we are introducing them to machines of unusual interest. Centrifugal rolls are so named becaues they alone crush by utilizing the immense centrifugal forces generated by their rotations. No springs are needed to force the roll faces together, and, although, the space between the tire faces opens and closes, as in common rolls, yet, in centrifugal rolls neither shaft or roll or bearing has any backward or forward movement. For these reasons no crushing push can be transmit- ted to the roll shafts. These entirely escape the direct shocks, and the pounding caused by the backward and forward movements of the heavy common roll and its bearings.- Centrifugal rolls have also the singular property of automatically balancing themselves. They, therefore, run with nearly the steadiness of dynamos. Since the output of common rolls is directly as their peripheral velocities, centrifugal rolls, which easily run three times as fast as other rolls of equal size, should have The slots (S) permit each weig'ht to move back on its pin toward the shaft, but its backward movement can transmit no push to the shaft. It is plain that the weights (W) in running hold the tire in position by the immense power of centrifuual force. The tires in a pair of rolls can only be pushed back towards their shafts by a superior force, and as no rock :s strong enough to exert such force it is easily crushed. If a bit cf uncrushable steel gets between the rolls, and forces back the tires and weights, no harm :s done; for no crushing shocks are transmitted directly to either shaft. The roll shafts are not pressed back at all. This action may be illustrated by a weight rotated from a shaft by a cord. The weight may easily be pushed back, but no push can be transmitted to the shaft. It is thus seen that if centrifugal rolls faces are set as clearly together as wanted no springs are needed to keep them in position. Centrifugal rolls, balancing themselves, run easily at all speeds. In the large sizes very moderate speeds give to centrifugal rolls ample crushing power. All rolls benefit by high peripheral speeds; but while common rolls cannot run fast, centrifugal rolls can, and thus they have marvellous effectiveness without large diameters. Small centrifugal rolls do extraordinary work. Centrifugal rolls of even moderate size do more and better work than the largest common rolls that can be constructed.. They run easily, as shown in the cut, with small driving pulleys, and they require so much 1 ss power than slow running common rolls that no balance wheers are needed. Please remember that centrifugal rolls of very mod- crate dimensions do work enough. That centrifugal rolls, being smaller cost less to buy, cost less to transport, cost less to set up, cost less to run and cost less for repairs, which are all comparatively small. three times their capacity, and as a matter of fact, their output exceeds their capacity. The following description and cuts will enable our readers to understand their construction and operation: The centrifugal roll consists of but three important parts, viz: the shaft, the segment weights (W) and the tire. The segment weights together, in operation, form a roll, over which is placed the tire. Each weight is held to the shaft flanges by the pin (P) passing through the weight slot (Sj. Each weight rotating with the shaft, is set out by centrifugal force, and together the weights form, as before stated, a strong roll. The segment weights are prevented from giving expanding pressure to the tire by strong steel hub flanges. 98 THE MINING RECORD. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. The New Gold Fields at Cape Nome: Their History, Location and Output; by Ivan Brostrom. San Francisco. Phillips & Smith. Price 50 cents. There has been so much nonsense written about these new gold fields, that it is quite refreshing to find in the pages of this little booklet, what is evidently a plain and unvarnished account of the Cape Nome diggings. There can, meanwhile, be no doubt concerning the existence of really rich placer ground on several of the creeks of the district, while the beach- claims have in many instances been very profitably worked with the most primitive appliances. The discovery of gold was first made in 1898 by a Swedish missionary wko had been informed by Indian converts that the precious metal had been found by them in the rivers emptying into the ocean at Cape Nome. In consequence of this information prospecting parties were organized and promising ground discovered on the Snake River and its tributaries. News of these discoveries was reported at St. Michaels on the 25th of November, 1898, and "people by the hundreds flocked over the ice to Cape Nome, when they staked, not only the creeks, gulches and benches, but also planted their stakes high up on the sides and tops of the mountains " Thus, through what is termed a "Power of Attorney," the whole country, within 25 square miles, was taken possession of by a few hundred people. The richest stream as yet proved, is a tributary of the Snake River, known as Anvil Creek, and it is stated that last summer, gold to the value of $50,000 to $150,000 was recovered from individual claims, while from a claim in Snow Gulch $300,000 was taken. The gold from the bench diggings is very fine and difficult to save with the crude "rocker," but notwithstanding, the average clean-up per man for six weeks' work, is estimated at $600. And when it is remembered that there were no less than two thousand workers crowding each other on this narrow strip of sea-beach the estimate, if correct, shows sufficiently well. The - concluding pages are devoted to hints on the best method to employ in recovering flour gold from beach gravel, and a description of the conditions of life in this far-northern Eldorado. THE MONTH'S MINING. TEXADA ISLAND. ON the Copper Queen at the 400-foot level a body of ore was struck some weeks since, and on February 10th had been drifted on for 40 feet, the ore having been mined from the drift so as to expose a thickness of about twenty feet at the thickest part. This ore is high-grade bornite carrying gold values, the gangue being composed of fibrous hornblende, with many actinolite crystals and garnets. This ore body occurs on the contact between limestone and felsite, the latter being on the foot wall side. Apparently the ore fills a cavity in the limestone. It has not been determined whether this body is connected with the ore bodies on the upper level, but in all probability it is not. The Cornell mine is being thoroughly exploited, comprising at present 450 feet of workings which have been carefully surveyed, and the connection between the occurrences of ore is thus being determined. This property has been an ore producer from the grass roots, but the permanency of the ore bodies or their structure has not been fully determined as yet. The ore in the Cornell occurs on the contact between limestone and felsite. The smelter is being supplied from the company's own properties chiefly. A limited quantity has been bought from the Marble Bay property, the iron mines on the West Coast and the Lenora mine at Mount Sicker on Vancouver Island. Until upraises to prove the connection of the occurrences of ore on the various levels in the Copper Queen mine are made and the drifts extended, it would be very difficult to correctly measure up the ore in sight, but from a casual examination it would appear that in the Copper Queen and Cornell mines there is sufficient to furnish the smelter with about 40 tons a day for a year. SHOAL BAY. "To be or not to be" a mining district? that is the all-absorbing topic here just now, for never have affairs in general or mining in particular been duller than at present. There are those who have stayed by the camps in the face of all dis- an couragement, but even their faith unsatisfactory is oozing away, for we are desert- outlook. ed by the present paternal gov ernment, whom we have helped to enrich by many a thousand dollars, who with all their high falutin twaddle about helping the miner by "eight-hour" laws, and "Acts to regulate the length of hair to be worn by miners," etc., etc., have done nothing as yet for this portion of British Columbia. It cannot be said that the wault lies with the district, for large ore bodies have been found, which could be profitably worked on a, large scale, but capital is scared to invest in a country where it has no guarantee against legislative freaks. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) There has been a very active enquiry in regard to Kamloops mining properties during the last month, which has resulted in the "bonding" of several highly promising groups of mineral claims to representatives of outside capital. Among others the Gordon group on the South Thompson has been bonded to a M. Grauer until April 1st, 1900, on behalf of a French syndicate. This is a promising gold-silver proposition. The veinstuff is quartz and the values are carried in iron pyrites. The vein is massive and shown by surface work for 2,000 feet. A shaft is down over 50 feet and there is also a considerable extent of drifting all in ore. Some bands carry 1.5 ozs. of gold in addition to silver values, the whole body averaging $12 to $15 in gold and silver. The Homestake on Jamieson Creek, North Thompson, is bonded to an English syndicate, who will commence development work on a large scale early in the spring. The Kimberley group on Coal Hill has been bonded by Mr. F. Jackson, of Rossland, who makes a cash payment of $8,000 and agrees to deliver to the owners 20 per cent, of the stock in a company to be formed to work the property. This group possesses a very- fine copper showing. The vein is 60 feet wide, some bands carrying 15 per cent, to 20 per cent, copper with $3.00 to $6.00 gold values. A good deal of de- velopent work has been done on this claim, including a tunnel which has been driven 230 feet to cross-cut the vein and is now 18 feet into the vein, showing good values. It is estimated that a syudicate repre- sented by Mr. R. EI. Bellamy, of Nelson, will put a dredger on the North Thompson in the spring. The values in the Thompson gravels are good and there are also stretches of benches on the North Thompson known to be gold-bearing. Consequently, should the dredging operations in question prove successful it is possible that other placer mining enterprises will be inaugurated. The Tenderfoot claim is being developed by a local company with marked success. A short tunnel has cut the vein diagonally and is now in 16 feet on ore averaging 6 to 10 per cent, copper, and having also small gold and silver values. The copper occurs as bornite in a gangue of dolomite. Drifting will be commenced as soon as the tunnel is through the vein and the working force will shortly be doubled. Work has continued steadily at the Python with the exception of a short cessation of work for two days in consequence of the breaking down of the hoist. Some good ore is being met on this claim. Many of the other prospects have been idle during the winter, but everything points to an active season. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Three months have elapsed since the C.P.R. construction department assumed charge of the Greenwood end of the Columbia & Western Railway. Shortly afterwards it was announced that the work of construction of branch lines to several mining camps would be hastened and, it was understood, would be completed before the middle of winter. Sanguine expectations as to the amount of ort that would be shipped without delay, were thereupon voiced, but unfortunately these have not been real- prospects ized to any considerable extent. One of ore important cause of this disappointing production state of affairs is the non-completion of the branch lnies to the mines. Apart from this though, it must be admitted that only two or three mines are yet prepared to continuously ship ore in quantitv. In stating this there is no desire to in any way depreciate the importance of the district but rather to acknowledge as a simple fact that it is still premature to talk or write of Boundary district mines shipping regularly- any appreciably large quantity of ore. It is no discredit to the district to admit that its mines are not yet, as a rule, sufficiently developed to allow of their shipping enough ore to keep a smelter running steadily. On the other hand it is distinctly to its credit that it can be claimed that in not less than five of its camps ore is being blocked out and other necessary preparations are being made to maintain a steady output. These are Deadwood Camp, in which the Mother Lode mine is farthest advanced in this respect; Phoenix Camp, with the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria the most forward group; Wellington Camp, with the Winnipeg and Golden Crown both opening up stopes; Central Camp, with the City of Paris group now sending out ore, and Summit Camp, which has in the B. C. the only mine in the district that has as yet shipped more than 300 or 400 tons of ore. Long Lake has, in the Jewel., a comparatively well-developed property, but this mine is not included as a probable shipper, for the reason that its gold-quartz ore will be treated near the mine, either by the cyanide or such other process as shall be found most suitable for its reduction. It must not be supposed though that the few pro perties mentioned are all that the Boundary Creek district has to depend upon to contribute to its prospective large output. The list of properties that will probably ship before the close of the current year includes the Sunset, Morrison, Gold Bug and Buck- horn, in Deadwood Camp; the Stemwinder, Brooklyn, Snowshoe, War Eagle and Gold Drop in Phoenix Camp; the No. 7 and Norfolk in Central Camp; the Oro Denoro, Rathmullen, Emma and Mountain View in Summit Camp; the Hartford in Wellington Camp; the Golconda in Smith's Camp, and the Last Chance in Skylark Camp. There are at least a score of others that already give. sufficient promise to be classed as possible producers. It is so easy to go far wide of the mark in suggesting what the aggregate output of ore will be after all these properties shall have been developed to a producing stage, but it will do no harm to point out what a low average daily tonnage from each of the twenty-six named above would aggregate. Assume that six months hence an average of twenty tons each per day—and surely that is a low as compared estimate — from these twenty-six with mii.es or claims were assumed, that rossland. would give a daily output of 520 tons or say 3,500 tons per week. This would be at the rate of 182.000 tons per year. Now the report for the year 1899 of the Gold Commissioner for the Trail Creek (Rossland) mining division placed the vear's output of that division at 180,300 tons of a total value of $3,211,400. It will readily be seen then that a liberal reduction may be made both in estimated probable output of this district and in value of same and still leave quantity and value large enough to constitute these together a very important item to demonstrate the producing capabilities of the Boundary Creek mines. And it is by no means a stretch of imagination to think it quite possible the second half of the year 1900 may show returns proportionate to the total here suggested. Up to the third week in February recent ore shipments from the district were approximately as under: From B. C. mine, say 1,000 tons; from Winnipeg mine, say 200 tons; from Mother Lode mine, say 200 tons; from City of Paris mine, say 200 tons; from Gold Bug mine, say 35 tons; from Last Chance mine, say 20 tons. The Oro Denoro also sent out some ore and perhaps the Rathmullen, but what quantity and whether any other property sent out a test, carload is not now remembered. At any rate it will be quite safe to conclude that by March 1st the aggregate of ore shipments from this district will not have exceeded 2,500 tons and possibly not 2,000 tons. It will be remembered that the probability of discoveries of ore on other properties than those named above has not been taken into account. A brief summary of the work on the more import ant mining properties in the district follows. In Dead Camp cross-cutting both ways from the north drift at the 200-foot level has been suspended pending receipt of a cage—to facilitate hoisting—I deadwood already ordered from the Wm. Hamil- camp ton Manufacturing Co. of Peterborough, Ont. The big plant for the Sunset is now nearly all installed; a massive gallows frame has been built and a strong and roomy building to house the machinery is well advanced towards completion. This plant will shortly be in running order and thereafter development work will be pushed be- THE MINING RECORD. low ground. The Buckhorn has a compact and smooth-running air compressor plant and steam hoist, doing good work in sinking a main shaft, which should have reached the 200-foot level by the time this appears in print. A cross-cut at the 100-foot level is now in well mineralized rock, ^improving all the while. The company owning the Morrison having been placed on a new basis giving additional treasury stock, is resuming work in the mine. The Ah There is expecting to shortly receive a small steam plant and to then resume sinking the shaft, now down 70 feet, and the Gold Bug has three or four men on running a tunnel to gain a depth of 80 feet lower than the one from which a quantity of rich ore has already been taken. In Phoenix Camp the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria—known as the Graves group, are employing more men than any other mine or group in the district. Developments at the 300-foot level are very satisfactory in both the Old Ironsides phoenix and Victoria. The Brooklyn has been camp closed down and its 35 men paid off, it is stated, as a protest against the eight- hour law. This is the only case of shutting down for this reason known to have occurred in the district, notwithstanding erroneous statements to the contrary which were lately published in the Toronto World. The Gold Drop, Snowshoe and War Eagle, all equipped wtih steam plants, are working steadily right along. The delay in completing the branch railway line to this camp is responsible for the fact that no ore has yet been shipped from it. Wellington Camp is represented by the Winnipeg, Golden Crown and Hartford. The Winnipeg is turning out about a carload of shipping ore daily. The Golden Crown is opening up its ground at both the 150-foot and 300-foot levels preparatory Wellington to maintaining a steady output of ore. camp The Winnipeg and Golden Crown are adjoining claims and the respective companies owning them have wisely decided to amalgamate. The City of Paris group is doing most work in Central Camp and the company owning it has lately been endeavouring to make arrangements for hauling daily 100 tons of ore from the mine to other the Granby smelter at Grand Forks. camps. However, teams were not available, so for the time only about 50 tons per day are being sent out. The Nonpareil and several others are also at work in this camp. Summit Camp is making a good showing. The B. C, which was wrongly stated by the Toronto World to have shut down on account of the eight-hour law, is daily shipping three or four cars of ore to Trail, and is also blocking but more ore in the mine. The Oro Denoro is also opening up the ore bodies by tunnels. The Jewel in Long Lake is reported to be looking better than ever and its management is understood to be contemplating the early provision of a modern reduction plant. Much more might be added, but time and space forbid mention of other deserving properties this month. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent.) With the war in Africa, with internal difficulties which may be said to be provincial in character, and with a number of minor troubles it was not reasonable to expect that Rossland and its mining busi ness could escape the penalty of hard times which a stringent money market necessarily produces in a community like this. It is yet too early to feel the effects of a partial suspension of mining operations, but a denuded pay-roll and the cessation of ore-production must necessarily only tell the partial in a verv short time, and with the suspension of exception of the Iron Mask ore the mines. shipments have been suspended. That the eight-hour law has entered more or less into the suspension as a whole is not to be doubted, but it has not been the sole reason. This law has now been very much discussed, without any substantial results except what we hear recently from the Slocan. There what the people want most is to see the cars outward bound, and laden with ore, and there is a strong feeling amongst the friends of the iaw that the miners cannot have the law and the ten hours' pay too. It is a variation of the adage that Jack cannot eat his cake and have it too. Both cannot prevail. It is for this reason no doubt that the Siocan miners have conceded a point or two. I One has only to talk with people here to learn how little sentiment enters into the question of trade. Rossland has anywhere from 6,000 to 8,000 inhabitants, and the business population are in favour of any policy that will keep the mines going. The pay-roll has been reduced by one-half at the most. It is perhaps now not over $75,000 per month, and the ore shipments to date are about 31,700 tons valued at upwards of half a million dollars (about $553,000). Had it not been for the suspension of ore shipments the output for January and February would have amounted to 60.000 tons, valued at about $1,000,000. For the corresponding period of last year (January and February) the output amounted to abount 7,000 tons, valued at $126,000. Just now Rossland is undergoing one of those periods that must be expected sooner or later in every mining community. There has been a pannicky feeling for some time. This has been especially emphasized since the partial suspension of operation in the chief producers. In addition to the suspension of ore shipments bv the Le Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star, the men from the B. A. C. workshops have been discharged and the "tall chimneys" which were erected as evidences of the staple industry of Rossland do not any longer emit fire and smoke from their interior. The traders, too, as if influenced by dark forebodings, have signed a round-robin, of which the following is the tenor: "We, the undersigned merchants and others, doing business in the city of Rossland, in vie\y of the partial closing down of the mines, and realizing that in the event of a general strike or lockout of the miners in the Rossland camp we should not be able to continue the system of credit now in vogue, have agreed, and do hereby give notice that should such a calamity as foreshadowed occur, we shall entirely discontinue giving credit to anyone whomsoever, and shall sell nothing but for spot cash. We are compelled to this action solely with the view of self-protection—we might almost say self-preservation—and because we have been advised by the banks doing business in Rossland and by the wholesalers that we would not receive from them such credit and accommodation as would enable us to carry on our business on the same lines as at present:" The notification has been signed by 63 firms, by far the great majority of the trading establishments THE MINING RECORD. 101 and the publication and form of this notice are very much questioned. Rossland has always had a natural growth. That growth has been sound and healthy. Its artificial growth, its "boom progress," on the contrary, has been quite unhealthy. Those that have lent themselves to the latter must be held accountable for much of the wreckage, the bank managers themselves having in times gone by given too much rein to "wild cat collateral." The wisdom of publishing such a notice as the foregoing is very much questioned, that is to say the form of the notice, while the admissions made therein are regarded as a confession of judgment to certain creditors and the banks. Amongst mining men of all classes this move, though perfectly justified on the basis of a cash system is, it is claimed, likely to give an erroneous impression abroad. Though the notice is not confined to miners alone as it includes all classes, the manner and form have been objected to by a few staunch firms that declined to sign the round-robiii because they are not affected by the alleged condition into which the signers have plunged themselves. One of the partners cf a leading firm that declined to enter the agreement said to your correspondent that his firm had given thousands of dollars' worth of goods, to miner.-, on credit, and had no cause to complain. The firm generally used good discrimination, and ic^uired no bank accommodation by which to carry on business. They saw no cause for the apprehensions which had influenced the signers in other respects, and thought that there was a better way to meet this question than the one which had been adopted. As a matter of fact there is no strike here nor is there any probability of it. Shipments have been suspended because the mine managers have demanded it mainly on account of defective machinery, and the necessity that exists for more economic working than has hitherto prevailed. It is perfectly true that ore values have declined year by year, but these values are still within the pay limit. Mr. Edmund B. Kirby, general manager of the War Eagle mine, in his annual report to his company just submitted, says of this mine: Almost the entire production of the War Eagle mine has been the derived from its main vein. This shoot war eagle has a dimension of 300 to 450 feet along mine. the vein, and has now been confined to the sixth level, a depth of 755 feet measured on the vein. As usual, the vein area included within the shoot limit carries patches of ore interspersed with barren material, or ore of too low grade to be worked at a profit. The different pay ore bodies vary from $30.00 to $40.00, and down to the pay limit. The structure is somewhat complicated by numerous dvkes and faults and by branching of the vein. Moreover, its width in places and the irregular distribution of the pay bodies increase the proportion of development work necessary. About 640 feet east of the shaft the main vein is crossed at an angle of 55 degrees by a smaller vein. In it an excellent ore body, apparently another ore shoot, has recently been discovered. It has a dimension along the vein of 120 feet with an average width of 11.1, and has been stoped to the surface, vielding 5.966 tons averaging $23.28 per ton gross smelter value. So far as known the first four levels are practically worked out. The fifth level is but partly worked. It requires more development to prepare the discovered ore bodies for stoping, and there is a possibility of discovering others. About 40 feet west of the shaft the main vein flits into north and south branches, both of which carry pay ore. The sixth level also shows the north and south branches, both carrying pa}' ore. Their juncture lies east of the shaft. Between the levels the largest and richest ore mass is found along the line where the trio branches join. The shoot on the sixth level is only partially developed. The developments are still opening up pay ground, but as yet the extent of the pay ground is not determined, but it is evident that the quantity of pay ore is large. The main shaft is uow down 880 feet the south level, and cross-cutting on this level to the vein will soon be under way. The ore product with depth is lowering in grade, but as the cost of mining and smelting has decreased ffi>! pay limit has been lowered. Mr. Kirby estimates the quantity of ore above the sixth level to be about 20,000 tons. Red Mountain has not yet yielded the bulk of its treasures, and there has not been sufficient cause for the alarms that have recentlv been sounded. It is clear that there is always room for economic methods, yet there is nothing so far as the ore outlook is concerned to justify at present the grave apprehensions entertained in some quarters or the dastardly slanders made on the hardworking men that have been delving into the ore veins and shoots of the great producer here. Such an attack is utterly without cause, arid a reflection on the management which is held responsible for the work done, and which for a long time has been very efficient. I think that a better feeling will prevail when I put in my next report. YMIR. "*\}: (From Our Own Correspondent). Owing to the unsettled state of affairs existing between the mine owners and the miners, development in this section has not been .what it would have had there been no friction between the two classes. As it is announced that the Silver-Lead Association have arrived at an understanding with the Slocan miners, we are hoping that the difficulty and misunderstanding which exists here will soon be removed. As 1 have stated before, this camp has an excellent mineral reputation and all that is required is capital to open the big deposits which are already known to exist. However, in spite of the labour trouble, a large number of men have been steadily employed at the different mines, as the following table shows:— Men. Ymir mine and mill 150 Yellowstone mine 33 Tamarac 12 Arlington 50 ' Nevada 7 Good Hope 12 Big Horn 10 Different prospects 40 Total 314 The machinery for the addition to the Ymir mill has arrived and is being taken up to the property and installed. The long tunnel from the mill which will tap the ore bodies at a depth of nearly 2,000 feet has been commenced, and is being made large enough for two tracks and when completed will be approximately 3,000 feet in length. We are looknig forward to big returns when the mine is working full strength and the 80 stamps running. THE CLOSE DOWN A'T NELSON. THE MINING RECORD. NELSON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) This month the Hall Mines announced that their mine (the Silver King) and smelter would be closed down on the 15th instant. This will entail loss of work to some three hundred men. The Dominion Copper Company which owns several properties in the Boundary district, also announces a close down. The number of men employed there is not known, but the present action at Rossland and Nelson and Boundary probably affects 1,000 men. Of these about one-half are union men and the organization, without outside help, cannot stand their being transferred from subscribers to pensioners. At the present time of writing (14th February) it is said that the union has decided to raise the embargo against men working in the Slocan mines, which will result in the re-opening of all those properties. This action, however, is probably only anticipated by a short time, as the union has received one or two heavy blows in that locality. The first of these was the successful introduction of outside labour by the Payne. The second was the persistent habit of the men on strike of spending their dollar a day, which they received from the union, oh whiskey, letting the storekeepers and boarding house keepers have the benefit of their custom on credit. These latter worthies were getting tired of the honour. The men themselves are getting tired of the tyranny of the unions and will be only too glad of a change of circumstances, which permits them to go to work again. As it is, half the men at the Silver King, the Athabasca, the Granite, and other mines, are union men working in defiance of their union rules. But "one must live" is the motto that effects miners as well as others. Many of them are honest, straightforward men who are too proud to live on charity when plenty of work at ample wages is to be had for the asking. It must be remembered that the case of the miner in the Western part of this continent has nothing analogous to that of the 'piece workers' of Europe and Eastern America. There, it is a question of a hving wage. His earnings barely permit a workman to live. Anything in the shape of the mildest luxury is unknown to him and how he clothes himself and his family is a mystery. Here, the miner is charged from $5.00 to $7.00 a week for his board and lodging and be has the balance—at east $60 a month—to spend as he liges. He is seldom married, and if he is his wife lives comfortably and anything like want is unknown. The hardships of the present close down will fall upon the non-union man. It is no fault of his that he now finds himself out of work, with at any rate a month or two of winter yet upon his hands. Some relief wili come to him in the. construction of the railway from Nelson to Balfour, just about to be commenced, but it is a poor consolation, as the wages will probably be small—$1.75 or at the most $2:00 a day, with accommodation considerably- inferior to what is afforded at the chief mines. The closing down of the Hall Mines is not altogether owing to the labour situation. It is the natural sequence of the course which the Board of Directors in London, contrary to the advice of the officials on the spot, has thought fit to adopt. Ever since Mr. M. S. Davys was appointed superintendent of the mine, some years ago, he has never failed in his reports to the directors to warn them that sufficient attention was not being paid to the development of the reserves of ore, and that at the then rate of working, the available ore would be speedily exhausted. The time has arrived when the prediction of.Mr. Davys has been fulfilled. There is practically no more ore in the upper workings, and the new shaft and its drifts to tap the deeper deposits are about six months short of completion. If there had been no close down in the Slocan, sufficient ore would have been obtained from the different mines with which satisfactory contracts had been made to keep the smelter going, and the smelter would have paid the piper or rather the miner, for the progressing development. Unfortunately that source of revenue was cut off and the board in London supplied no other. A closing down was not to be avoided. The War Eagle at Rossland is in somewhat similar least $60 a month—to spend as he likes. He is seldom only lack of certain machinery are more easily relieved. This, at any rate, is the reason given by the management. It is announced to-day (February 16th) that the strike in the Slocan is off. Doubtless your special correspondents in that district will send you full accounts of the collapse of the union and the resumption of work. From the miners themselves and especially from union men one hears nothing but expressions of relief and gladness at the turn events are taking: The bulk of the men had no love for the union and its leaders. The language in which they express their contempt for the latter is picturesque, if perhaps a trifle forcible and would be quite unfit for your columns. Still it is the language which the majority of Westerners constantly use and by its vigour one can judge of the intensity of a man's feelings. The miners' unions of Kootenay were organized by men from across the border. There was. a sufficient leaven of miners from Montana and Idaho here to spread the propaganda amongst our honest but somewhat easily led Canadians, and so they fell beneath the baneful yoke. Now they are rejoicing in their freedom. A miners' union in itself is a good thing and benefits owners and men alike. Could one only be formed on proper lines and not under the leadership of ruffians from the Cceur d'Alenes and other desperadoes, jt would lead to the best understanding between the men and their employers. A strict quarantine is being maintained against the districts of the United States in which at present there is an epidemic of smallpox. The Board of Health has ordered compulsory vaccination and large numbers of the people are willingly complying. There smallpox are, however, certain of those mis- epidemic in guided people called anti-vaccination- washtngton. ists who howl about the tyranny, use- lessness and danger of the practice. Judging from their cries and complaints one would almost think that they were condemned by a cruel Inquisition to the state itself. Where an epidemic of smallpox exists, it would seem to be the duty of everyone to the community at large to take the simple precaution offered by vaccination. The name? of those who refuse or neglect to take it should be conspicuously advertised as enemies to society and thev should be treated not less severely than criminals. In spite of all precautions one case was brought into town on the steamer Moyie on the evening of the 15th THE MINING RECORD. 103 and doubtless before long others will occur. The form which the malady has taken is fortunately an extremely mild one, but the danger is there. At any moment it might become malignant and precautii >ns are not to be neglected. The Government Agent, Mr. W. J. Goepel, and Dr. La Bau, the Health Officer, aie not men to be trifled with and they seem both able and anxious to neglect nothing that may tend to kctp the enemy at bay. SLOCAN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The town of Sandon has been very busy during the past ten days since the labour troubles have come to an end. Every train has been crowded with men and the streets once again have taken on their old- time activity. Some of the mines are unable to take cn many men on account of the roads and trails to mines being blocked. The Noble Five and Slocan Star mills would both work but for insufficiency of water for power and washing at this time of the year. The latter expects to start full blast on April 1st. The Payne has no men at work and is increasing- its force every day. Last week this property shipped 310 tons of high-grade ore. Most of it went to the Trail smelter. The Last Chance has now put on 40 men and expect to double its force shortly. At present one car of ore per day is being shipped. The Ivanhoe, owned by the Minnesota Silver Company, has increased its force from 17 to 30 men and lias just struck ten feet of rich ore in the lowest tunnel. This property has now been developing for over two years and promises to be one of the richest silver and lead mines in British Columbia. Over $80,000 has been spent in development work to date. An aerial tram and mill will be built in the early spring in Sandon. It is expected that the Ruth will start up this week at both the mine, and mill with 50 men to start with, but this force will be increased shortly. About sixty men have been put to work on the Whitewater. The mill will start in a few days when more men will be put on and regular shipments will be the order of the day. The Monitor and Hustler Fraction, situated near Three Forks, remarkable for the side values of gold, has been bonded to some English capitalists represented by Mr. Maurice Guitzberger. The deal is virtually a cash one and the amount somewhere in the neighbourhood of $120,000. The Bosun and Queen Bess their working force and will continue to do so. I fancy the Slocan is again on the eve of another era of prosperity, provided the next Government will leave well eriough alone and not try and harrass the mining industry, as the past Government has heretofore done. I think any Government now that gets into power will have the support of the entire Kootenay if thev will promise to leave the Mineral Act not tax and distress the only industry in which brings in any substantial revenue. RAWHIDER. have both increased alone and the province revelstoke. (From Our Own Correspondent). From Nelson come the very unsatisfactory tidings that the Hall Mines have resolved to close down1 their smelter and the Silver King also indefinitely which will make things very quiet in that quarter so that tor activity in mining matters we must fall back upon the Lardeau district which promises to be exceedingly lively this year and to astonish British Columbia with its wealth- of mineral. In the Big Bend mining will probably go on in its usual style, no great full about anything in particular, but steadily developing the properties already opened up, especially the the Rosebery and the Eureka groups big bend, which are reported to be looking in first rate shape. The Boston and B. C. Company have not yet made any preparations for re-opening their Standard Basin claims, and it is reported that this company is being reorganized—which apparently it seriously requires, even if the wonderful original prospectus has been quietly dropped. Some fresh ■capital was invested last fall in the Smith Creek placer claims, and it seems likely that the promises from that locality will be fulfilled. In the Lardeau, things are looking very bright. A tunnel is being driven on the Moscow in high-grade galena from the start, and a shipment mav be expected shortly even if a small one only. Near this claim are the Eva and Iron Dollar, which have been bonded to Eastern capitalists for some $50,000 and are looking very well, the ore being valued at over $400 per ton, and keeping its richness with the depth. The vein is said to be 30 feet wide, but probably most of it is concentrating. The Beatrice also has commenced to ship some lardeau of its products, but the very mild weather has interfered seriously with transportation, as in the Lardeau district the roads can not be held as examples of what roads should be like by any means. The Silver Cup has shipped about 100 tons to Trail smelter, notwithstanding the difficulties of hauling, caused by the unaccustomed lack of snow this season, and no doubt the returns will be highly satisfactory as the richness of the ore is almost proverbial. The Scottish Canadian, Primrose, Lodestar and other groups too numerous to mention, are all busy with development work, and in all cases the most cheering evidences of permanent prosperity are seen; the ore bodies often increasing in both size and value as depth is gained. The Nettie L. shipped about 100 tons recently to Trail, and the returns are extremely satisfactory, though the management regarded this rather as a trial shipment than a true sample of the mine's produce. The long lower tunnel is now in some 600 feet, and has reached the expected vein, so that from now onwards, barring the continual trouble of transportation, regular shipments may be expected. A contract is being arranged for driving a third tunnel considerably below the second one, wheih is expected to be fully 1,000 feet in length, and when this is completed there will be available such a mass of valuable ore as will at once place this mine far ahead of others which have been less patiently and economically developed; although doubtless as time goes on many properties will come forward and rank high which are now merely prospects and quite in their infancy. H. golden. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The only properties which are at present being op- crated in this district are the Porphry and Iron Hill on Canyon Creek, and the Certainty on Fifteen-Mile Creek, both being operated by the Certainty Gold and Mining Company, an Eastern Corporation. On each propertv about 600 feet of tunnels and drifts have been run since the company* started operations . in June last. At the Porphyry and Iron Hill the veins run north and south, the lead on which the work has 104 THE MINING RECORD. been .done dropped at 45 and had an extensive surface showing of ore, of which a continuous the chimney has been struck, but-as the dip certainty of the lead has altered towards the level mine. it is now supposed that it is merely an offshoot from another vein outcropping above, and a tunnel is now being run towards the point of juncture with a view to ascertain the probable value of the deposit. A quantity of ore had been sacked and hauled to the Columbia River for shipment to the Hall Mines smelter; but the closing down of the smelter has stopped the shipment of this ore and operations will be confined solely to development work till the smelter again starts up. The ore is very high grade in copper, the picked ore averaging between 14 and 15 per cent, of copper with small gold and silver values. Bunches of ore have been assayed showing from 20 to 24 ozs. in silver in addition to high copper values. The formation in the neighbourhood is a quartzite and slate, traversed by dykes of felsite porphyry and amygdaloi- dal trap. The footwall on one side of the contact of the dykes is quartzite consisting mostly of silicious grains, but including some felspathic and argillaceous matter, also a considerable proportion of lime, and on the other side of the line of contact the formation is slate. The hanging wall is felsite porphyry. The ore is a chalcopyrite, high in iron and low in sulphur. This is the first property on which development work has been done to any extent in this part of the district and the results are being Watched with interest as there are numerous indications of copper deposits on a strong dyke of felsite porphyry which crosses the mountain range from Fifteen-Mile Creek to Canyon Creek, a distance of about ten miles. Encouraged by the results of the development work done by the Certainty Company the Empire Mines Company, who have been operating in the Lardeau, propose to start development work in the spring on two claims which they hold on Canyon Creek, about two miles further up the creek than the Certainty Company's property. The assays which they had from this prospect ran over $100 in gold and copper. The Certainty Company's property on Fifteen- Mile Creek is entirely a different proposition from the Porphyry and Iron Hill. The veins on which development work has been done have a dip of about 80 degrees and strike at various angles of ■ fifteen N. 60 W. to about east and west, being mile creek contact veins filling the fissures between slates and quartzites and accompanied ■ by felsite dykes, or filling fissures in the quartzite alone. There are four veins on the property and all have been cut at greater or less depth by the three tunnels and their cross-cuts which have been run. One vein, twenty feet in width where cross-cut failed to show payable ore, though carrying good copper ore on too. The other three veins showed ore in the various cross-cuts assaying from 3^ to \7\ per cent, copper with small values in silver and gold. These veins vary from one foot to fourteen feet in width. The ore is an excellent concentrating ore and very little ore has yet been struck which would be fit for shipping direct without concentration. One ore body has now been developed by three tunnels covering a vertical depth of 580 feet, pay ore having been proved in each cross-cut. A contract has been let for the further extension of the low level tunnel, which is now in between three hundred and four hundred feet, and the work of extending it another two hundred feet or so is now in hand. In the spring another low level tunnel will be started at a point about 200 feet still lower down the mountain side. The company have under consideration the building of a road and the inauguration of electric power and power drills in the spring. Both properties of the Certainty Company are especially well situated for transportation, the Porphyry and Iron Hill being only ten miles from Golden with which it is connected by a good road, while the Certainty property on Fifteen-Mile Creek is only eight miles from the Columbia River and the shipping point on that river is eight miles from Golden. The prospectus is published of the Golden Placer and Quartz Mining Company, with a capital of a million, of which 500,000 remains in the treasury. This company is to operate a placer claim at the mouth of Canyon Creek, five miles above Golden, and two quartz claims on Canyon Creek, about half a mile from the property being developed there by the Certainty Company. CORRESPONDENCE. Tlxe Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions which may be expressed in this column. No notice will be taken of communications unless accompanied by the full name and address of the writer. DEVELOPMENT IX BRITISH COLUMBIA. ""TO THE EDITOR:—As one having large inter- I ests in and old associations with the province, I trust I may be allowed some space in yohr journal for ventilating my ideas on a few facts bearing on that progress in British Columbia which we all so much desire: but which, I think we must confess, comes with undue slowness, considering the undoubted latent wealth of the country. On one point all are agreed; that what is wanted is development, which implies capital. How is this want to be best met? I have read in your issues many controversies on this subject, and as regards English investors, the arguments seem to travel in a "vicious circle." The cnJonkj^^anlS- capital YyjjJT_whirh to develop his_prO- "perties: the English investor"onry~traies lo~Tnvest~in" devHopedprdjjerties, hringigg in a more or less su"re~- afid inimedtatjr~fefurn for_his money: he is not so 'sipCCulaLivFaFyour American"neiglibours, and it musC* "t5g~reHTeTrArrred~fnat he is not so fiearthespottor the purpose oi fudging Tor "Tiimselff it mugfcjiot befor^ gotten, either, that in past 'boom times" he hasJjeen sorely bltregjav miij-E wild cat. Therefore, it is best for British Columbians to recognize the fact that they can only for the most part depend on realizing capital from England, upon enterprises to a certain extent developed or fairly safe to make a speedy and reasonable return. Now, the first and greatest factor in the development of a new country is railways; and if only English capital can be induced to embark in these a double purpose is served, for the railway itself is thereby constructed, and by that fact facilities are afforded for the investment of otherwise reluctant capital in mining and other ventures, brought within the scope of practical working by moderate freights for machinery, goods, and passengers. As you truly state, in your January number, a great stride in this respect has been made by the construction of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway. In fact, so far LUHb.- <n« THE MINING RECORD. 105 as the southern portion of the province is concerned, when the promised extensions westward through the ooundary district are completed, that section will be by no means ill-served with railways. But how have these railways been constructed and financed? "Heaven helps those who help themselves," and the colony has procured this railway- system by taxing itself in the form of subsidies, guarantees 01 land grants, which have rendered the financing ox the undertakings possible by eliminating the clement of risk and thus permitting the bonds to be placed at a moderate rate of interest. I presume no one will be bold enough to say that British Columbia can do without further railways, but what have been the recent steps taken by your Provincial Government in regard to railway extensions? They have stopped all subsidies, guarantees and land grants, and the result of that policy will infallibly be, from the prevailing economic conditions, that no further railways will be built unless the Government itself builds them. If the colony could afford the initial outlay, this would no doubt, in the end be the best solution; witness the great financial success, after the first few years' working, of the Cape and Australian Government railways; the former how pays in net revenue from 7 to 8 per cent, on their cost, and I believe the Australian Government lines to be almost equally successful; but the circumstances as regards wealth and population are dissimilar, and British Columbia has to consider which method of obtaining railways it can best afford, whether to take the entire risk and reap the whole ulterior profit, or to subscribe a portion of the cost and make the best arrangement it can for a share of profit after the payment of interest on the remaining cost. To descend to particulars, I will ask if there is any line of railway in the province more needed than a northern trunk line from the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Ashcroft or its neighbourhood, to Quesnelle and Cariboo; thus opening up a huge extent of practically neglected agricultural and pastoral country and mining districts such as Cariboo, Horsefly and Omineca, now only waiting cheap and speedy transit to become great centres of industry. The withdrawal of the subsidies has killed ^1 chance of the construction of this line, by those who had already obtained charters or by fresh aspirants. Let us consider, as far as we can, some of the figures and circumstances involved in the construction of this line. The exact data as to population and probable traffic are impossible to obtain, but I will endeavour to make as near and fair an estimate as possible. I have been informed that the yearly freights by wagon shipped from Ashcroft northwards are from 4,000 to 5,000 tons. To this may be added, say, 1,000 tons carried bv pack trains and private conveyance, making in all, say, 6,000 tons. This tallies reasonably with the wants of a population of 10,000 partly supported by food staples grown in the upper country and of which the local shipments for short distances might total another 4.000 tons, making a total of one ton per head for the population, which I suppose, maybe fairly put at about 10,000. Were a railwav built large quantities of machinery and other heavy'goods, the freight on which is. now prohibitorv, would be shipped; and, with the existing spulation the traffic might reach a yearly aggregate of 20,000 tons, taking long and short freight into account, or say the equivalent of 15,000 tons of freight in point of receipts. During the year—also with the existing population —the through passengers might be taken at 2,000, and the passengers for other distances as making up the equivalent in point of receipts of another 3,000 through passengers. I take it that in view of making the railway an ultimate commercial success, the maximum rate for through freight which could be charged would be $20 per ton, and for through passengers, averaging first and second class, $20 each. We should then have as total receipts:— Freight—1,500 tons at $20 $300,000 Passengers—5,00 tons at $20 100,000 Mail carriage and sundries, say 25,000 . $425,000 Deduct working expenses at 60 per cent. 255,000 Net receipts $170,000 The cost of a standard guage line about 300 miles long through an average line of country such as this, and allowing a fail contractors' profit, interest during construction, etc., cannot fairly be put at less than $30,000 per mile, making a total of $9,000,000. Interest on this at 4 per cent., the lowest rate on well secured bonds, would be $360,000 per annum. It will be seen that a large deficit exists between the net earnings and this sum. This deficit would without question be speedily reduced and ultimately wiped out by the great increase of population and traffic which a railway would cause; but what I want to point cut is that no investor will accept this risk and delaj' unless counterbalanced by large subsidies, and that the country can only insure this great development of its resources, by taxing itself to provide these subsidies or build the line. Tf the Government elected to do the work itself, it could borrow the money in England at about 3 1-3 per cent., thus reducing the yearly interest to say $300,000; and to my mind this is by far better finance than the granting of subsidies. The Dominion Government should also give some aid to the undertaking; —if that Government contributed only $3,000 per mile towards the cost, the loan to be raised by the British Columbian Government would be proportionately reduced and the yearly interest to be provided would be, say, $270,000, or only $100,000 in excess of the estimated net receipts from the first year's working. Surely, considering the certain yearly increase in the takings and the great probability of an ultimate profit, this would be but a trifling price to pay for such a vast boon to the country. I hope sincerely that this subject may receive from the members of your Parliament and their constituents the consideration which it merits. As I have said, I cannot lay claim to exactitude in the figures I have given; but I believe them to be roughly accurate, and the Government can readily obtain estimates of the cost of construction, and are in a better position than others to check the estimates of traffic. It is useless for the colonist to sit still and grumble because capital does not flow into the country. He must bestir himself to make his country attractive to a capitalist; if he does this, he will surely attain his end, and I know that your magnificent province contains io6 THE MINING RECORD. "potentialities beyond the dreams of avarice," if only they can be laid bare. I am, sir, your obedient servant, R. BYRON JOHNSON. London, Eng., Eebruary ist, 1900. PRODUCING MINES. ROSSLAND. OUR Rossland correspondent telegraphs on the 26th inst: "Ore shipments from this camp for January and February amount to rather over 320,000 tons. Much development work is being carried on at the B. A. C. and other properties surrounding Possland. The production for the last week in February was about 350 tons from the Le Roi and Iron Mask. NELSON. The January returns from the Athabasca mine show at total return of $13,300 for 405 tons crushed, or an average of $32.83 per ton, exclusive of the concentrates. COAL EXPORTATIONS. The following shipments were made in January:— Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 32,286 Wellington '.'. 7.811 I "nion 19,788 Oyster Harbour 20,034 Total 79-9l9 For the three weeks, ending Februaiy 20th, the New Vancouver Coal Company's shipments were:— Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons 2—SS. R. Adamson.... San Diego 4.433 2—SS. San Mateo Port Los Angeles 5—SS. Mineola Port Los Angeles 7—Bark Onaway Lahiana, H. I. 7—Str. Pioneer Port Townsend .. 7—SS. New England. .Alaska i r—SS. Titania San Francisco .. 16—SS.NewEngland. .Alaska 17—S.S. San Mateo... .Port Los Angeles 18—Str. Sea Lion Port Townsend . 10—SS. Mineola Port Los Angeles 4,284 3,180 T.323 24 54 S.813 53 4-285 29 3.189 Total 26,667 THE METAL MARKET—FEBRUARY. Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. Mining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York] SILVER. THE activity in this market at the beginning of the month, as a result of Indian demand, has since given way to a temporary dullness, though prices continue firm, and another advance is expected in the near future. The highest point reached during February was 60J, and the lowest 59$. The average price of silver in January was 50.30c. COPPER. Copper has been decidedly active, and very fair business at advanced prices is reported. A feature worth special mention is that while the price for Lake has declined, electrolytic copper has advanced, thus bringing the value for the two kinds closer together than for some time past. This change is the natural result of market exigencies. The abnormally high prices which have been ruling for Lake have restricted sales in this class, whereas, the requirements for electrolytic have been constantly increasing. The latest quotations are: Lake, 16 to i6Jc; electrolytic in cakes, bars or ingots, 15$ to i5f.; electrolytic copper in cathodes, 15^ to I5fc, and casting copper I5$c. lead. This maiket has shown practically no change in New York, the price remaining at 4.64 to 4.70c. In the West, however, there appears to be an easier tendency, and sales at 4.60c. are reported from St. Louis. SPELTER. The demand has been very high, the price remaining fairly steady at 4.65c. New York. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. SOME consternation has been caused this month by the partial closing down of the Le Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star and the cessation of shipments from these mines for the next few months until new machinery is installed, and in the case of the War Eagle until further development work is done in addition to getting new machinery. The Hall Mines have also c'osed down as well as the mines of the Dominion Copper Company, in Boundary district. ROSSLAND. Since our last report War Eagle has fallen from 2.80 to 1.33, Centre Star from 1.7c to 1.30, and Irou Mask from .56 to .39. SLOCAN AND NELSON. The alleged settlement of the labour trouble and the resumption of work on a number of of Slocan properties has had a good effect on Slocan stocks, and Noble Five in paricular, which fell to the absurdly low price of 8 cents, has recovered somewhat, but the price, n to 13 cents, is still unsatisfactory. Payne advanced from 92c. to $1.27, but again declined to $1.20, Dardanelles has fallen to 5^c. and Ramblers from 55 to 42c. Molly Gibson has advanced from 35 to 40c. COAST mines. Van Anda has been very active'from 3-J to 6 cents.;- present quotations being 5 to 5^c. Treasury Mines shares have advanced from 92 to 5 cents. Brittania shares have been selling at 5625.00. cariboo. 1 he Horsefly Gold Mining Company has been reincorporated under the laws of British Columbia and is now known as the Ward-Horsefly. The new shares are quoted at 55 cents and last season the profits of this mine over and above operating expenses, were $17,000. BOUNDARY CREEK. It is reported that the Winnipeg and the Brandon and Golden Crown are about to consolidate into one company. This will lead to more economic working of the two properties and ought to strengthen rather than weaken the stock as soon as the public realize the value of these two excellent properties. Knob Hill has fallen from 85 to 65, Brandon from 28 to 24. Winnipeg from 28 to 24, King from 21 to 20, Morrison 6 to 4. Rathmullen 6 to 5. camp m'kinney. Cariboo is quoted at 85: Minnehaha has fallen from 14 to 12. Waterloo 12 to 7\, Fonunoy 13 to 10. It is rumoured that the aWterloo, Fontenoy and Wiarton are about to amalgamate under one company. THE MINING RECORD. W A COMPARATIVE TABLE OF STOCK QUOTATIONS, E are indebted to Messrs. A. W stock-brokers, of Victoria, for More & Co., the following tables of the asking price of local mining stocks, the years 1897, 1898 and 1899. 1897. 2898. Apl. 28 May 12 June 2 July 27 Aug. 10 Sept 14 Oct. 19 Nov. 2 Nov, 20 Jan. Feb. 27 23 Mar. 22 Apl. 20 May 18 July Aug. 19 23 Sept. 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THE MINING RECORD. TECHNICAL PERIODICALS. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. T N the "Naming of Rocks" Van Hise pleads for A more system on the part of petrographers. Within the past ten years upwards of fifty new names have been added to the nomenclature of igneous rocks, many of them co-ordinate with terms previously accepted. The result is bewildering not only to the general geologists but also to the profesisonal petrologist. Chemical composition and crystalline form are usually regarded as the basis of the classification of rocks. Such being accepted, it is necessary to decide what rocks are entitled to independent names. Van Hise suggests: (a) That the fundamental names should be based on abundance, e. g., granite. (b) That for rocks intermediate between the more abundant ones, the simple names should be compounded, e. g., granodiorite. (c) That geographical qualifiers be asked for further accuracy. If compounded these would show that the rock is abundant, e. g. helltfors-diabase, if not compounded they would indicate that the rock occurs at a certain locality, e. g. Duluth olivene-gabbro1. In any of the three classes a mineralogical qualifier might be used for greater definiteness. To designate altered or metamorphic rocks such prefixes as meta, gneisso, schists might be employed. The objection that such a name as angite-toscano- trachydolcntc is cumbersome and complex, is met by saying that it is no worse than the terms used in other sciences, botany, for instance. i:nd is justified because it is intelligible. Rocks cannot be as precisely classified as can "miri- erals. There is no absolute type. A granite may shade into a syenite and a syenite into a diorite. A nomenclature such as is here suggested would emphasize this law of gradation which is so well illustrated by the science of petrography. Chamberlin continues his Glacial Hypothesis, begun in last Journal, applying it to the glacial periods that closed the Paleozoic and Cenozoic eras. "Lakes and Valleys of Nugsuak Peninsula, Greenland," by T. L. Watson, a member of the Cornell University expedition of 1896. Nugsuak Peninsula, situated 4 5 norm latitude, is about 25 miles long and five miles wide. It is bounded on north and south by fiords of 300-500 fathoms. Its hill have an elevation of 1,000-2,000 feet. At present the peninsula is ice-free, but the evidences of glaciation—roche moritonnie structure, morinal deposits, grooving and polishing—are everywhere apparent. The lakes and valleys are supposed due to pre- giacial weathering along lines of weakness and to ice- erosion. Sir William Dawson, the Canadian scientist of world-wide fame, died at Montreal on November 19, 1899. His life is sketched in the last number of the Journal by F. D. Adams, successor to Sir William in the Logan chair of geology, McGill University. Sir William has written much on pure science and ~'i the relation of science and religion. Amongst his more important works are Acadian Geology, The Canadian Ice Age, and The Dawn of Life. "dranite Rocks of Butte, Mont., and Vicinity," bv W. H. Weed. A batholite (instrusive mass of granite)) extends from the Highland Mountains to Helena, 50 miles from north to south, 24 miles from east to west. The rocks of the batholite present many varieties. The prevailing type is that of a normal hornblende granite; basic rocks occur at the margin. Butte granite, which contains the famous copper and silver veins, varies between a basic hornblende granite and a quartz diorite. Associated with it is a very extensive occurrence of aplite. The theory for the origin of aplite is that it is the "acid remainder in a granite or quartz diorite magma after the more basic elements have crystallized." It is believed that the Butte district is the downthrow side of a fault and that its granitic rocks represent the upper part of the batholite, the normal granite having split into the basic, variety known as the Butte type and the acidic type known as the bluebird aplite. In the "Reference List of Summaries of Literature on North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, 189:;- 1898," it is gratifying to notice what a considerable part of this literature is due to Canadians. Adams, Barlow, Bell, Dawson, Ells, McConnel, Tyrell are but a few of our contributors. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. A very interesting article occurs in the February issue of this magazine on "The Origin and Progress of Gold Dredging in New Zealand," by W. H. Cut- ten. The history of this industry dates back some thirty years, the first dredging appliance consisting of "a strong iron ring, technically known as a spoon, to which was secured an ox-hide bag and a long pole. A rope was fastened to the aforesaid iron ring and secured to a hand winch on the bank of the river. The bucket and pole were taken out and dropped into the stream by means of a boat, the bucket being pressed . by the pole as deep as possible into the wash Tn the bed of the river. All that remained to be done was to haul the bucket ashore with the help of the winch, the contents being then cradled in an ordinary "cradle." The evolution of dredging machinery since this primitive machine was in use has been very remarkable, and the modern type of machine is very clearly described in this article. Another excellent contribution in this month's magazine is on "The Economic Conquest of Africa" by H. G. Protit. Y. Y. T. Co., LAKE BENNETT, B.e. OPERATING THjE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills At the head of Navigation to to the YUKON and ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Builders oL Boats, Barges and Scows. 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Month's Mining- Kamloops Shoal Bav -(Continued)— Page. 98 Boundary Creek 99 Rossland 100 Ymir 101 Nelson 102 Slocan 103 Revelstoke 103 Golden 103 Correspondence 104 Producing Mines 106 Coal Exportations 106 Metal Market 106 Local Stock Market 106 98 Comparative Table Stock Quotations 107 07 92 94 DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, OoL B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C. Denver Eire Clay Co., Denver, Col. Taylor, John & Co, San Erancisco, Cal Page. VI. n. II. n. n. ASSAYERS— Selby Bros., Portland, Oregon... Holdich, A. H.. Revelstoke, B.C .XVIII. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C ^rFFF' Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col S&ttt' Ciio, Chas. E., Denver, Col.. XVHI. Redman & Onthett, Kamloops, B.C -fx Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C -S-8-- AUCTIONEERS, ESTATE AGENTS, &C- Jones, W., Victoria, B.C *iu.. BELTING— 3 5 „, _ 1 McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI Gates Iron Works, Chicago •••;•• A- V ' " j Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C BANKS— . ^-rn- Bank of British North America Viu. Bank of British Columbia. £vx- Merchants' Bank of Halifax AV1- .XVHI. I. m. I. Back. Cover. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— page. Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J jy. California Wire Works, San Francisco jy Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland Ont XIV. Jack & Robertson, Montreal Back Cover! Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover! COAL AND COKE— New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo XXI. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago $3 Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass '.'. Cover! Gates Iron Works, Chicago, HI .. j. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal.. j Cover Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, IU \\ ttt, Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal ; yi. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont.! and Back Vancouver, B.C j. Cover. CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI ni. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal..'." Cover. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York XVI. DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— Beatty, M., & Sons, Welland, Ont XIV XIV. THE MINING RECORD. The Amur has been thoroughly overhauled and specially fiited up for this service, and is provided with Hceommodatiou for passengers and freight of an exceptionally suitable character. (For Xape Nome The Canadian Pacific Navigation Co'y, Limited, will despatch their staunch iron AMUR Al double bottomed, for St. Michaels and Cape Nome ON MAY 1, 1900. For rates and particular information apply at company's office* Wharf street, Victoria. > G. A. CARLETON, Gen. Freight Agt. C. S. BAXTER, Gen. Pass. Agt. ; BEATTY & SONS, WELLAND, ONTARIO, Dredges, Ditchers and Steam Shovels, For Dredging, Ditching, Dyking, Gold Mining, Etc. Of various styles and sizes to suit any work. Mine Hoists, Hoisting Engines, Stone Derricks/Horsepower Hesters, Suspension Cableways, Submarine Rock Drilling Machinery, Gang Stone Saws, Centrifugal Pumps for Drainage Works, Pumping Sand, Gold Mining, Etc. We also furnish WIRE ROPE at Lowest Prices. llfli BENNETT FUSE! REGISTERED IN CANADA.. Grown TRADE Brand. MARK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, London wfiSyKlfe gm^l^g-sg.test Is your W Ask ouple ROWLAND MACHIN, f"6.iS' No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B C PLATINUM REFINERS B&jgl street. ~ BAKER & CO., JVL. s 1 NEWARK. N. J. 1 1 1 1 1 1 WE E are always in the market for : : : ■ : : : CRUDE" OR NATIVE PLATINUM THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINI KG DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea Late mining expert to the British American Corporation ' m™Tof a^Xns!s oTo^Tven made- EsUmateS 0l C0StS °f plant and treat" ^£tTf l0tpme','t of P^Perties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of Sam*- undertaken. y Address P. O. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. MISSELLHNEODS. George Purgold, Wallace Building Columbia Avenue Stock and Share Broker. Rossland, B.C P. 0. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Cooes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeals. R. W. GRIGOR, MINES ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeil and Moreing and Neal's codes. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough'8, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. E. J. L. TYTLER, CONSULTING ENGINEER, Notary Public In and for B. C, Commissioner of Oaths. Office, 23 Mackinnon Block, Granville St., VimrmivAr' P.O. Box 39. Telephone 750. TailtUUYCl. ABC Code, Bedford McNeill Code. Student of Glasgow University. Pupil of Messrs. Hawkes Orawshay, Gateshead-on-Tyne. Late Civil Engineer, Oude & Rohilknnd Railway, India. Late Civil Engineer, Department of Public Works, India. Late Manager Sirmoorlion Works. Late Inspector of Dykes, British Columbia. For several years Consulting Engineer to the Government of B. C. All business with mines transacted, reports made, assays supplied. Plans estimates and specifications for general engineering purposes made and works managed and supervised. ^.r-^T: The Referendum Free Gold Mining and Milling Co'y, Ltd. NON-PERSONAL LIABILITY. CAPITAL STOCK $500,000, in 2.000,000 shares of 25c. each. Rossland, B.C., May 19, 1899. We submit to the public as a safe and profitable investment the second issue of 100,000 shares in the Referendum Free Gold Mining and Milling Company, Limited, npn-personal liability, just organized and registered during the first week of July. The rapital stock of the Company I will be $500,000 in shares of 25 cents per value. Of these 800,000 shares are set aside to be sold to develop further i he property and < >perate the mine. The Company's property is situated on Forty-Nine Creek, about 8 miles from the City of Nelson, B.C., and in the well-known free-gold belt, in which are also the Athabasca and Poorman mines, which have yielded excellent profits to their owners. Two shafts 35 feet deep have been sunk on one vein, and numerous cuttings have been made, showing the continuity of the ore body for one thousand feet. Assays from ore from these works are as follows : $80, $87, £246, $360, $412. Dr. P. Langhammer, mining engineer, estimates this vein to average $43 in value and 20 inches in width. This showing has enabled the Company to conclude arrangements for a plant to treat the ore, to be installed before snowfall. The gold being free and capable of extraction on the ground -the expensive charges of transportation and smelting are obviated, and the profits will be correspondingly larger than from a base ore of equal assay value. The Company has thus its property proven and arrangements made to mine profitably from its inception and to pay dividends at an early date. The Company recently purchased a 5-stamp mill, b >iler and engine with cyanide and chlorination plant. This plan will be operated within 90 days from August 10. A stage of progress has been reached when the mine can be worked throughout the winter. The plan of operation includes the addition of five more stamps in the spring and running a tunnel to the boundary of the Referendum claim which is expected to cross-cut five more leads which now show on the surface. All that was outlined in our circular of May 15 has been earned out. Applications for stock and remittance for first payment of two cents per share may be made through any chartered bank or direct to the undersigned. E. N. OUIMETTE &. CO., Bankers for the Company : Merchants Bank op Halifax, ROSSLAND, B.C. Brokers for the Company, ROSSLAND, B. C. MERCHANTS BANK of HALIFAX INCORPORATED 1S69. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED, $2,000,000,00. CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,985,070.00. REST, $1,700,000.00 r. E. KENNY, President. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.S. ^Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B.C. Bridgewater, N. S. • Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N.B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. S. Louisburg, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Maiiland, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Piotou, N S. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Rossland, B.C. Sackville, N.B. EDSON L. PEASE, General Manager. St. John, N. D. Shubenacadie, N S. Summerside. P. E. I. Sydney, N. S. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria, B. c. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Branches In Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches In United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Republic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issned. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED THE MINING RECORD. MISeELLHNBODS. Robt.Ward&eo., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Swedish and Norwegian Consulate. Royal Belgian Consulate. Royal Danish Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. The Ocean Accident and Guarantee corporation SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amberite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. You flust have "CROWN BRAND" Pure Java and Mocha I If you will have THE BEST. w Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 50 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B. C. Proprietors. THE CELEBRATED W 'RICKSHAW 9 Ceylon TEA For sale only by Thomas Earle, IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER 1 and COMMISSION HERCHANT. Teas and Coffees a Specialty. 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TheiBank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia - and New Zealand — Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1. upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. Theodor Lexovv Nos. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechanical Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. REPRESBNTIHG^-Cowan & Co., A. R. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . THE MINING KECORD. xvu. BRITISH eOLDMBIH WHOLESALE SDPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order" ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE ol EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpel. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters.. WEILER BROS., VICTORIA, B.C. LENZ <£ LEISER, 9 &u yates street. -IMPORTERS OF — GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for trje Kootenay and KJondiKe Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. < SIMON LEISER & CO. Wholesale Grocers. VICTORIA, B. C. Headquarters for Mining Supplies. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Goods, Liquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. GOODS INDENTED FROM ALL PARTS ...OF THE WORLD... i XV111. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E. M. Inst. M. E. M. Ambr. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting Engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, •LONDON, E.C. ( Christopher, London." P. O. Box 308, VANCOUVER, B C. (" Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. E., VANCOUVER, B. C. Reports. Surveys. Management. MINES Contract Prospecting and Development Work. Best References. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. u'%Zfi££Z&?ffi'g Reports on Slocan Properties. New Denver, B.C. Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's HReHBOLD & PEHRS0N, MINING ENGINEERS AND ASSAYERS ■— Cable Address : Archpear, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeil, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. R HOLDIGR g ANALYTICAL CHEMIST a„u METALLURGIST. Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. revelstoke:, b.c. F. W. GROVES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROVINCIAL L»ND SURVEYOR. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported upon. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) HSSHYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testing and Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co., Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Worts and Office—17-719 Pender St., VA CCTJVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead . ? 50 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, 0GDEN ASSAY e©„ I429'16th St.. DENVER. Colo. CHARLES F\ CUNO, ASSAYER and CHEMIST. Gold, silver, lead, 75 cents ; any two $1.00 ; all three $1.25. Copper, $1.00: Znic, $1.50; Iron, Manganese, Silica, $2.00 each, all three $5.00. Prices on other chemical work funics ished on application. Amalgamation, cyanide, chlorinatljn tests, $5.00 each. Contracts for Ore made with smelters and sampling of same attended to. The only perfect Concentrator on exhibition. Write us. 1732 Champa St., P. O. Box 784* DENVER, Colo. SBNO Y0DR HSSHYING T© THE. .. INLAND LABORATORY, KAMLOOPS, B.C.. ■* REDMAN & 0UTHETT, ""^^"mS^hI^'.^ers. Mailed specimens receive our special attention. Parcels of ore sampled and treated. Wm. H. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. P.O. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Box 130. <^— VICTORIA, B. C. W. M. MaeKINNQN, Assoc. M, Inst. 6. B. Civil Engineer. M Specialty: Hydraulic Engineering. Water power ; Water Supply lor Mines and Towns; Gold Dredging; Bridges; Structural Iron work, etc. P.O. Box 262. MACKINNON BUILDING, Granville St., VANCOUVER B.C- A CARD. From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Pdbwc op the North West. We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at 205^ Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. ] We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, $1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining Experts. 205^ WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON THK MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL, AND BROKERS. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved construction! Send for list. Best workmanship. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY J. B. TYRRELL. M.A., F.G.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.US. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Engineers Dominion Land Surveyors. Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested^ etc., etc. DAWSON, Y. T. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought and Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. rBedford-Neal, j 611 Hastings St., CodesJMorJng-Neill, VANCOUVER, B. C One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00. Confidential Reports on Mines I Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. P. O. Box 178. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surreys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51 Q Hastings ||||Hffi| VANCOUVER, B.C. Ferguson & Crofts eivil and Mechanical W"^ jfSg M • _ eonsuitingJEngineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work In Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for 1 BOOTH'S HOISTS. The " Risdon " Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The '' Campbell'' Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. Box 428. P. O. Box 676. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. W. H. BftCER, DX.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. H. S. aSHBROFT, D.L.S..P.L.S. Greenwood, B.C. BHUER Si aSH6R©FT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of.Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. VRNeOCVER and GREENWOOD. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OFFICB: CAMP McKINNBY, B.C. N B.—Some valuable mining properties in Camp McKinney and vicinity for disposal. Correspondence solicited. PEMBERTON St SON MINING BROKSRS, Real Estate, Financial and Insurance Agents. Mining Properties for sale. Agents for the Townslte of Albernj. Farming Lands for sale in all parts of the Province. FORT STREET, Victoria, B.C. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neill. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &&. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES : 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES: 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, EX. BVEEY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 mOT ths. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. NGRaYINGS! PORTRAITS! BUILDINGS ! SeENERY! Fac-Similes of Signatures, Letters and Engravings of all kinds for Book and Newspaper Printing. Map Engraving from tracings. Also Reproductions from Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue Illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. SPIKE BROS.' CO,, Tacoma, Wash, B. C. POTTERY CO., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pipe, Flower Pots, etc. Edwards Bros,, 534 Cordova St.. VANCOUVER, B. C. DEALERS IN PUotoraptiic stock Agents for the Rochester Optical Co , and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION PREHO B. $15. M. R. SMITH I GO. * ESTABLISHED 1858. MAJMUF'.A.CTTJRBRS OF HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. H. W- TRBftT, Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. TH0S. KIDDIE, Smelter Manager. Van Anda eOPPEH HNO GOLD (SO. Purchasers and Smelters of (2opper=©old Ores. Rates on Application, eash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van anda, Texada Island, B.e. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist. VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow o the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. H0F~ Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. Practical work. Elective System. Summer term. College year, 45 weeks. For catalogues, giving employment of graduates, address MRS. F. H. SCOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, Mich. A. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Estahlished 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise ot ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas ■ Liquor, by H. A. Frasch, (20 pp.); Aspbaltum Refining, by H. A. Frasch, (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States, bv F. H. Lewis,!: (6 pp,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry, (6 pp.); The Manufacture and Use of Paving Briek in the Middle West, by H. Foster^ Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T. C. Hopkins (13pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W. S. Gresley,- (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, by Earnest A. Sjosteut, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (32 pp.); Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, by T. C. Hopkins,I (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress! in the Metallurgy of Gold and Sliver, by W. R. Ingalls, (26 pp.); The Hydro- Metallurgy of Sil»er, by Ottokar fiofmatih, (27 pp.); The Technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress tn the Metallurgy of Steel, by H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. s. Austin. (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Smelting, by H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by c. E. Sicbtnthftl, (4 pp.); Lime and Lime Burning, by H. A, Frasch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture! of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist, (10 pp.); Present Practice in the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B Symington, (7 pp.); Occurrence and Recovi-ry of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, by s. A. Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber sulphuric Acid, by F. J. Balding, (64 pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium by W. R. Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1898, by Robert H. Richards, (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (II pp.); The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus qlke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. xxi. VANCOUVER ISLAND SOflL. COAL^COAL! The New Vancouver Coal [■'' Mining & Land Co, (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIMO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) * i SOUTH FIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now use(l by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a cleau, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. I The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SftMLTEL M. ROBINS, Supt, Nanaimo. B.C. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. I THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to I PACIFIC WITHOUT CHANGE Lowest Rates. Best Equipment. TO ALL POINTS IN Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREER. Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE. Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R P. RITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries ; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 48. Taking effect March 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C. P. Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster. Ladner and Lulu Island Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m.; Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock a. m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. Leave New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday at 2 o'clock p.m. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o'clock a.m. . FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naco and intermediate ports via Vancouver on the First and Fifteenth of each month, and for Queen Charlotte Islands on the 1st of each month. KLONDIKE ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leav< neau, Skagway and Dyea. weekly for. Wrangel, Ju- BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer "Willapa" leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th and 20th. Extending 1 atter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. I Passenger Agent. The 1 Hudson's Bay Company HAVE Baie de Peres Bftttleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Bat Portage Biding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Kills . Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. Felten & Guilleaume, Garlswerk Mufheim on Rhine, Germany |&BW^BS|Bfi|V Manufacturers of Electrical Leads and Cables Wire Ropes for Mining Electric Lighting Cable* for Coal Pita with arrangment foravoiding fire-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Round and Flat Wire Ropes, " Albert," or so-called " Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened strand Wire Ropes. :.\ i7--' Iron, Steel, Copper and Bronze Wire Superior quail ties... 3 Sole Agents for Canada Ml * Robertson 7 St. Helen St. MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'y, §11 VANCOUVER, B.C. M 3 n U f 2 Ct U re rS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints, Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. M Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. Office and Warehouse. Phone 629. Head Office, - * 151 Hastings St. VANCOUVER. Montreal. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. Ontario Gold-Mining w District. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. A few Mines who Use British Columbia. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., wmm [11 ' ' i^,iivi:it,e:x> MANUFACTURERS OF acting Go ■M\ h SOLE AGENTS British Cnlumbia John Bertram & Sons Iron-Working Machinery, The MacGregor, Gourley Co.'s ; Wood Working Machinery, R. Hoe & Co.'s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws, . ■ BRANCH OFFICE: MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET - VANCOUVER, B.C. WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. PUBLISHED BY "THE MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. THIS MONTH \ £,cPort of the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co., Ltd.—(Illustrated). g m Wll l n. I The van Anda " Balance Sheet," Etc., Etc. VOIv.VII. APRIL, 1900. No 4. GEO. e. HINTON & eOMPHNY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA. B. C. VANCOUVER. B. C. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. Ifl MAKERS OF Electrical! Mining: Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOB ALL CLASSES OF HINISG WORK. Wbite Ouk British Columbia Bbanches at V/GTOR/A. THE ONLY VANCOUVER. CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., 107 Clayton Street, Send for Circular. Boston. Mass. PRICE, 20 CENTS. Cannery Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar Iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Co. L.IMITBD, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C m m m m • v FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING - MACHINERY! ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION: Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT- COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration. jjIfjBIjIjllp8 (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leachimr C O AL WAS HIN G PLA NT—Large Testing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Works. AGENTS; For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MIXING MACHINERY. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has been able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Our machines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Mining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, III. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM I Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Engines (Engines Hoists PAcnniupiHoists Piim»ie UMOULUlC) J,vrnmnrMM« Engine and Air Compressor especially ■ rumpS) AlrCOmpreSSOrS adapted for Mining Purposes. [Boilers [Pumping Plants FAIRBANKS' STANDARD S6ALES. Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. /~* ^ Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. Link Belt ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS. Conveyor 328 feet centers, bundling 4 tons " run of mine" coal per minute. ANY MATERIAL. ANY CAPACITY. 'Cink Belt," 4-Whtcl Cocomotioe, 2 motor. .Electric Coal Mining and Haulage Machinery, Link-Belting, Sprocket wheels, Malleable Iron Buckets, Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, ., U.D H Patent Machine-Moulded Kope oheaves, etc. THE LINK=BELT MACHINERY CO., Engineers, Founders, Hachinsts, Chicago, U.S.A. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.sa I -—-;- ■■■■^IM WBR& jjfei^, ■tf-""- ft^_v\_ "-' "* ^^^f^ M&&* jiiM^^mfc /' 'tjjSBB ""^P " ' V J^ ; 1^*3 SlittiJb^j! BfiS • -,__ __1 : A _.!WL PSPSS^^^^K. ! iT'-j'BfrB IK"* * * ■ ■' -—^ ■ MANUFACTURERS For Cyanide and Chloromatic Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. piker Presses ■it 11. THE MINING RECORD. HSSAYERS' SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. |Vq 0 Precision Balance. -^„ 5-inch Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base" and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for- catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & S0N5, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co , Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TBBTZBL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- WE are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. Assay'" # P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Pepalrs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. * 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL CAN. THE DENVER FIFE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851.- - Incorporated 1895. ASSAYERS' F1ATER1ALS, nine and Hill Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co,, Battersea, England. Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker & Adaamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang-| anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining^ and scientific books. JOHN TAYLOR & CO., New Illustrated catalogue on application. 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MfleHINERY.—Contin 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. m Mr ff q -HEADQUARTERS FOR- Mining Machinery. Gray's IBB ^^ *" DeCP M!neS' ProsPect°rs Ittfi L tZ T'. ^ eageS' Sederholm Boilers, eorhss Engmes. Reidler Pumps and air 60mpressors. £ S o o < u i ft, p Z w CO I O to o 00 O 2 S r—I o > O a 00 I m n i jo ffi ~ t—4 JO o f 00 Adjustable Comet Rock and ©re ©rushers. Perforated Metals for all Purposes. (We^toin^ndai2seur screen samples Improved (Brushing Rolls. purchasers,) Smelting and Roasting Furnaces. Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And eauinment of everv land. Our machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any othermanuf sognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is a recent pxar nnfacturer. It is in nple of our work. And equipment of eveiy kind use on all gold fields and is re© _ . Ball Pulverizers such as used atthe Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone MUTarelrf our manufacture. Write for data! -RBPRESENTBD BY— MENNO UNZICKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exc.usive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada, Mexico So th America, England, South Africa and Australia. ' ' U THE MINING RECORD.: GABLES, WHTER WHEELS AND COMPRESSORS. See those wires—how they interlock? Note the smooth surface also? THE PATENT Locked- No displacement of wires in any event. Gives much greater service than other cables, and adds correspondingly to the life of the rolling stock. -Is used only on the patent--^ Track Cable Blechert Wire Rope "ramway ^and others manufactured bv- The Trenton Iron Company, Trenton, IV.J. Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in Norih America for (he Bleichert System. Also, Wire Rope Equipments for Surface and Underground Haulage, Transmission of Power, etc. Illustrated book upon application. New York Office—Coopei, Hewitt & Co., 17 Burling Slip. Chicago Office -1114 Monadnock Building Improved GRIP PULLEY Patents Nos. 483,442: 610,353. T=f Hallidie Ropeway For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. "by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOHICAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) caDieways, Tran9mi9Sion by wire Ropes. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Incline 3Pl#.«.es. Cable Grips. Logging Ky -Cable*. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR SLaS™ R°FE ANB \ Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, send for illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. CALIFORNIA WIRE WORKS, 9 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. Compressed Hir from Falling Water. Ii HIGH TESTIMONIAL. THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. DEAR SIRS:— We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department. Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. : Tours truly, W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH. ■ • t I "^m HI *■% ras. £3&. ■ ■ m K& HBk —MANUFACTURERS OF — WATER P0WERiThe"v'ctO'"-Turbine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS BXPBRIBNCE. Recent plants installed:—Lachine Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufacturing Co Montreal, Que, 30,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & light Co Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. ■ THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL 3JVO MINE SUPPLIES. ^^^MS^^^i^^s IPiii^gft ion Hoist. le cyl. single drum. Lifts one .ton 125 ft. per minute. Union Gas and Gasoline Engines For all kinds o&wori. $ Sizes in ® ? in actual use 1V2 to 130 H. P. H Running Pumps, Dynamos. Stamp Mills. Blowers. Concentrators. Machinery. Gasoline Mining Hoists and Marine Hoists a Specialty. THfe" UNION" GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine should be ; and is the result of 15 years experience, having been built in San Francisco since 1885. Union " Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. ■' Send for illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. I § If i S^SS»K«i§tSlK» The "Truax" Ore Car As made by us, is the best in the world. Are YOU in the market for RIVETTED STEEL PIPE • HYDRAULIC GIANTS BOILERS AND ENGINES Or any class of Mining Machinery, it will be to your advantage to communicate with us. Office and Works— Foot of Heatley Avenue. ' Phone 250. P. O. Box 51 Armstrong: & Morrison, Vancouver, B.C. To Kootenay Hardware Dealers. For Lowest Prices on Iron, Steel, Picks, Shovels, Pipe, Fittings, Brass Goods, Barrows, Trucks, etc. d" *MILL AND MINING SUPPLIES, ADDRESS v ^^^ ^^_ ^-^. Walter S. Fraser & Co., ^^ Limited. Wharf St. Victoria, B.C. Established 1862. Tel. 3. P. O. Box 423. THE JENCKES MACHINE CO Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., UJS.A. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Hydraulic § Quartz Mining ■" Milling Machinery THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. Builders and Contractors for Complete flining & Power Plants. We carry a large stock of Machinery and Supplies at our Rossland Warehouse. If in need of anything for your mill or mine, please write our agent, MR. F. R. MENDENHALL, who will quote you satisfactory prices, and probably be able to fill your order at once from stock. HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: 33-40 LANSDOWNE STREET, — F. R. MENDENHALL, Agent, ROSSLAND, B.C. SHERBROOKE, QUE. COMPRISING HYDRAULIC GIANTS, CONCENTRATORS, WATER GATES, SMELTERS, SHEET IRON and HOISTING and STEEL PIPE, PUMPING PLANTS, STAMP MILLS, SAW MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, MINE and MILL ORE FEEDERS, SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application j IMPACT WATER WHEEL. HK7vni_TON POWDER CO'Y. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers of High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office: MONTREAL. LOCAL OFFICES: WORKS: Vancouver, Nelson. Rossland Greenwood. NANAIMO. ..PERFECT CUPELS.. • can be made by anyone with ease and dispatch, with CALKINS' Cupel Machines Compact, easily operated, can't get out of order. Everlasting. No Assay Office Complete THE »CT©M»Tie, Without ©ne. This machine will make 5 sizes cupels ' *~ of ideal perfection. Capacity, 600 an Descriptive Pamphlet and Price hour. List mailed on application. !' l. & e. Combination Melting and Muffle Assayers' Furnaces Are Economical, Convenient and Efficient. Gasoline Tanks, This illustration shows L. & C. Fur- Hydro-Carbon nace in operation. Melting and Cu- D. . — -.. • pelingat same time with one burner. DiOWpipe Outfits F. W. BRAUN & CO., 'ZZ^r=: Los Angeles, California. These goods may be obtained from the British Columbia Assay and Chemical Supply Co., Ltd., of Vancouver, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. vn. ELECTRISHL MACHINERY. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MHNCFHeTURERS OF Electric - Mining I Apparatus Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM .WRITE US- BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ROSSLAND. I VANCOUVER. Vlll. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Ingersoll-Seiroiit Rock Drills For TUNNELS MINES and QUARRIES. Straight Line Duplex and Compound AlP GOUIIFGSSOPS COMPLETE MINE EQUIPMENT. JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, limited MONTREAL, P.Q Branch Office—ROSSLAND, B.C. JAMES D. SWORD, Manager. The Brackman=Ker Milling Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. manufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with. the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. j New Westminster. Edmonton. B.&K. (Registered.) .Unequalled in the World. MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAVER CO., Seattle, Wash. Mine Hoists. Air and Hand Drills. Air Compressors. Pipe and Tubular Pumps, Pipes, etc. Boilers, nining and Hill Machinery and Supplies. Correspondence solicited. BftNK ©F BRITISH NORTH HMERICft. BSTABLISHED 1836. INCORPORATED BY ROYAX, CHARTBR 1840. paid op capital ■ f-'■j-P7| j.v%yTf... S1.000.000 STERLING. RESERVE FUND,...., 300.000 LONDON, ENG., OFFICES, 3 CLEMENTS LANE, LOMBARD STREET. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES : SIDNEY, N.S. HALIFAX, N.S. ST. JOHN, N.B. FREDERICTON, N.B. QUEBEC, P.Q. MONTREAL, P.Q. OTTAWA, Ont. KINGSTON, Ont. TORONTO, Ont. HAMILTON, Ont. BRANTFORD, Ont. LONDON, Ont. MIDLAND, Ont. WINNIPEG, Man. BRANDON, Man. NEW YORK, N.Y. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA : YIGTORia, YHNeOUVER, R0SSLRND, TRHIL, KaSLO, HSHCROPT, GREENWOOD. Hlso at the Gold Fields—aTL,IN, BENNETT and DAWSON ©ITY, Highest Prices Paid for Gold Dust and Amalgam. G. H. BURNS, Mgi\, VI6TORIH, 8.6. The Mining Record. Vol. VII. APRIL, 1900. No. 4. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING RECORD Devoted to the Mining Interests of British Columbia. PUBLISHED BY The Mining Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. ITORTIMER LAMB, managing Editor, London Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Vancouver Branch Office: Hamilton & Armour, Hastings St Montreal: Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co. San Francisco : Dake's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERriS: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to The Editor, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. THE MONTH. WE have much pleasure in announcing, that for the second time within a period of six months, we have found it expedient to increase the size of this publication by the addition of eight pages. Eight pages were added in October last, but since, the demands upon our advertising columns have very considerably increased and the income derived both from this source and from a constantly widening circulation enables us to give our readers still better value for their money. It is, meanwhile, very gratifying to learn in so tangible a manner that the Mining Record is growing both in usefulness and popularity. It will probably be admitted by everyone that mining is the most important industry in British Columbia whether we regard its present dimensions or consider what the province hopes from it Ihe maintenance and growth of the industry are largely influenced by the character of the legislation by which it is affected. It would seem therefore that a legislature which would always do the best possible for the mining industry is at the present time the most important political desideratum in the province. And yet it is notorious that the interests of the industry itself are the last consideration in the choice of members to represent the mining constituencies. Of the present delegation from Kootenay and Yale in the Legislature, while they LEGISLATION AND THE MINTNG INDUSTRY. may be men highly respected in their communities, it is safe, to say that not one of them is capable of either originating legislation or criticising by a just analysis of its effect on the industry of mining such as has already been brought forward. We have had legislation hastily passed through without criticism, without comprehension, which has worked havoc in different districts and departments of the industry. Take, for instance, the law excluding aliens from placer mining. It is a pity for the province that .this enactment was not as well understood on its introduction as it was after a year's experience of its effects. Again, the regulations for securing Crown grants were changed without anyone realizing that a clause had been added to the Mineral Act which would work endless damage, vexation and pecuniary loss. Another instance is a stupid amendment to the Companies' Act introduced but not passed preventing the directors of joint stock companies from borrowing money. This was aimed at an abuse no doubt. But one does not as a rule remove an obstructive boulder with a charge of dynamite sufficient to wreck the. whole surrounding landscape. Of such a provision it might be safely said that where it was desired to retain the abuse the law could be evaded, while it would come down with crushing effect upon the legitimate business of companies organized in ignorance of the fact that the Legislature had reserved from them a privilege without which no individual merchant or business man could continue to exist. The functions of government in reference to any industry are both negative and positive. There is no more blighting influence upon any industry possible, and that particularly while it is in a condition of .growth, than sudden change in the conditions under which it is carried on or the fear of such sudden change. It is probable tnat the damage done the mining industry by the eight-hours law has not been occasioned by the effects of the change of system, (for things go along very well under a custom of eight hours' labour in Western Australia) so much as by the actual fact of the change itself, and its being made in so hasty and inconsiderate a manner. The negative functions of government in this respect are in most countries conserved by the existence of a second chamber. In British Columbia there is no check save the individual intelligence of the members of the Legislature and the expression of public opinion. Of late years the individual intelligence of the members has been monstrously ineffectual, and possessed of a confidence in the inverse ratio of their ability, they have seldom given public opinion the time and opportunity to declare itself. It is therefore of the first importance that the personnel of the mining members of the House should be carefully considered and that a consensus of opinion should be available before io8 THE MINING RECORD. lit1 changes affecting the mining industry are finally decided upon. As Lord Bacon puts it very admirably: "I knew a wise man that had it for * by-word, when he saw men .hasten to a conclusion, 'Stay a little that we may make an end the sooner.'" It is possible for any set of men tolerably well informed, and above all gifted with a proper appreciation of their own limitations to discharge the negative functions of government satisfactorily, but the positive functions of government require organization genius peculiar and special where the upbuilding of a country or an industry is concerned. Hallam, one of the dryest of our political moralists, remarks that there is no reason for the non-appearance of great men at any particular epoch except that nature does not see fit to produce them. South Africa has Rhodes, British Columbia has Mr. Joseph Martin. The difference is well illustrated by the fact that the omission of "Mister" before the latter's name would be an evidence of contempt, while in reference to the former it is the due prerogative of his genius. But lest we lay too much blame unon nature it must also> be confessed that the circumstances of the province are not favourable for the evolution of commanding men. The population is widely scattered; the interests of the different centres are diverse; and each of these centres is animated by an intense parochialism as humiliating as it is natural. To unify these warring elements and bend them to the great industrial destiny of the province would require the genius of a Pitt, the audacity of Napoleon and the patience of Job. And yet there exists at the present time in British Columbia a magnificent opportunity. The progress of half a century could be compressed into a decade were the genius of imitation and direction procurable. The main hope at present is that in the general flux of affairs political some one with a policy adapted to these ends may emerge. The time is ripe. The reason for the stoppage of work in the Le Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star mines is now made abundantly clear. These companies have long been subject to dictation on the part of union labour. So long as this was only manifested in petty details it was vexatious and disagreeable but nothing more. But when an issue was taken which affected the whole mechanism of the mines it be- the eight-hour came necessary either to submit law and the for good and all or to resist. The contract system, history of the question is interesting and a striking commentary upon the futility of labour legislation to accomplish its intended objects. The mine owners looked to a system of contract labour or piece work to mitigate the worst effects of the eight-hour law. It need not be supposed that under contract they expected more work to be done or cheaper work to be done than could properly be accomplished in eight hours. But when men are working on time the parings come out of the employers' pockets;when on contract out of their own. And there is a continual tendency in time work for these parings to become longer and longer. Under a ten-hours system they did not matter so much, there was plenty of time to accomplish a day's honest work, which, after all, is practically an invariable amount, whether it be compressed into eight hours or spread over ten. But under an eight-hours system this paring of time makes a material difference and a very sensible diminution of the actual amount of work done in a day. On the contract basis the time thus lost is the men's, not the employers'. It may be noted in passing that if the assertion made by the supporters of the eight-hours law, that a day's work could be compressed into eight hours' labour, were true, no possible exception could be taken to the contract system at similar rates of payment to those paid before the law came into force. The truth is that the real, if unavow- ed, perhaps unconscious or subconscious, intention of the unions is to diminish the actual amount of work done in a day and at the same time to retain the same rate of pay. On no other basis could the objection to the contract system be understood. It must be remembered that the contract system can only be applied successfully upon the dead work of a mine. It has been the custom even in the extraction of ore for centuries in the copper and tin mines of Cornwall but it could not be economically applied to stoping in mines worked under modern conditions and with modern machinery. It is precisely in dead work that the greatest economy of time and labour is necessary. So that while the eight-hours law may be a boon; to working miners the application of the contract system would only be a particular, a partial exemption; where such an exemption is most required in economical mining. The union in Rossland, however, finding that the mine owners wished to mitigate the effects of the law by a general application of the contract system to the dead work in the mines, determined to combat the contract system root and branch. It is upon that issue that the fight has been brought on. First the men engaged in stoping ore were dismissed, then the mines were entirely closed for short periods. Finally the men were given the option of returning to work on the contract system or not at all. For the present they have chosen the latter alternative. The action of the mine owners has been carefully planned and is entirely reasonable. Further, it will be successful. The Miners' Union of Rossland has set itself against a custom which is as old as mining itself, and in its practical workings is eminently satisfactory. It was done so for a purely arbitrary reason. It is said that when a man tells a lie, in order to make it successful he must envelop his whole subsequent life in falsehood. It is equally true when legislation interferes with natural conditions, that further action, at each stage becoming more and more arbitrary, is necessary to postpone the re-assertion of the natural laws violated. Finally the whole edifice tumbles to the ground. In order to make the eight-hours law as valid as it was intended to be beneficient another law should have been passed for the Slocan to make it illegal to diminish woges and a third for Rossland making it illegal to offer and work on contracts, and so on, until the finale was reached in the measure openlv advocated by the present Minister of Mines, in his capacity of agitator, vote-hunter and panderer to the delusions of the many, to wit, an act to compel mine owners to work their mines under penalty of the control being reft from them by the State. There is yet another reason why the union will be badly beaten. " It is not denied that under the contract system a miner can make top wages without working harder than he is willing and accustomed to work. But the struggle may occupy a much longer time than those who are optimistic are willing to allow. The direct dependence of this lamentable condition of affairs of the violent transition from the ten to the eight-hours system should be carefully borne in mind. The enormous loss THE MINING RECORD. 109 to the miners themselves, to holders of property, investors and merchants should bring home to any thoughtful mind the extreme danger and delicacy of interfering with the social mechanism by hasty and ill-considered legislation. We have before us the annual report of the Van Anda Copper and Gold Company, and while it has been our privilege to peruse many very remarkable productions in the way of joint stock company literature, the present document is with- an out question entitled to pre-eminent extraordinary rank as the strangest and most un- balance sheet, businesslike report ever sent out from the office of a presumably responsible concern. The statement, or so-called balance sheet, covers a period from April, 1896 to December 31st, 1899, and consequently includes the receipts and expenditures as set out in the balance sheet previously published by the company to March 1st, 1899. Referring, for the present, to two items under the heading of assets and liabilities in the statement of March, 1899, we find mineral lands, land and townsite stands at a cost of $5,000,000. One would imagine that this was sufficient; but seemingly the directors were not satisfied with this amount for they added (under a second heading) $525,000 for "ore exposed" on part of the same property. Now, in the present report we find a memorandum to the effect that the management of the company "misled themselves" at any rate as regards the estimate of ore exposed in one of the properties. It is to be hoped that the public were not also "misled" by the publication of figures which where obviously and admittedly "misleading." Such mistakes are sometimes likely to prove costly, and we would refer the directors of the Van Anda Company to section 156 of the Companies' Act, 1897. In the present report the error is again committed of valuing the "exposed ore," which on this occasion is estimated to be worth $450,000, and described as an asset. It should surely be clear to any board of directors that until the ore has been raised to the surface and is "at grass" it cannot be treated in the form of an asset in the accounts. The amount of ore blocked out in a mine should be mentioned only in the manager's report and the only way in which the company may incorporate in their accounts an asset relative to "ore blocked out" would be the cost of (say) a shaft through which the ore would have to pass out of the mine. Even with an asset of this nature provision would have to be made for each ton of ore extracted to pay its proportion^ of the cost of such shaft or permanent work in order that when all the ore is extracted the asset will have disappeared. Another misleading item set down as an asset is the townsite valued at $50,000. This land is also included in the company's chief asset valued at $5,000,000. Again another doubtful asset is that under the heading of bonds, value $180,000. This raises the question "when is a bond a bond?" Surely not until value has passed for it. The correct way in which this item should have been stated in the liabilities, surely is : Bonds authorized.. unissued . . 10-year bonds issued 225,000 180,000 .$45,000 Thus the company would not have shown as an asset the item $180,000 to which we object. Another asset, that of timber, valued at $2,000, is certainly stretching a point, as the tenure is simply for one year from the issuance of a special license, and it is hardly likely that the company requires forty million feet of timber in that period. Meanwhile we print the following extracts from the balance sheets of March and December, 1899, in parallel columns: balance sheet. Receipts. March 1, 1899. Stock sales $51,84608 commission . . Teaming .. Cash loan, H. "W Dec. 31, 1899 $54,667 18 409 17 415 80 81 27 . Treat. 5,026 05 Disbursements. March 1, 1899. Dec. 31, 1899 Assay office and assaying Labour and salaries .... Labour Bills receivable Wharf Raven Copper & Gold Co. Due on lots and buildings Due on lots and advances on buildings I-592 58 Discount on bond sales $2,181 32 70,872 26 405 00 781 00 1,634 52 57,007 05 $162,038 97 3.057 14 • 17,645 06 9,670 00 The first item refers to stock sales, which shows that shares to the value of $2,803.10 have been disposed of for the benefit of the company during the period from March 1st to December 31st, 1899. There is no mention in any of the accounts that the company had any unissued stock to sell, nor is it stated that any shares in the nature of treasury stock are held by trustees, the proceeds from the sale of which would belong to the company. The item of $54,667.18 entered as a receipt from stock sales in the December balance sheet must therefore be regarded as a gift from the promoters or others; and shareholders in lieu of information to' the contrary can only assume that the enormous capital of five millions has been issued and paid for by the transfer of the "mineral lands and lands" appearing in the general statement at the same amount as the authorized, issued and fully paid up stock of the concern. On the other hand it is generally understood that a very large proportion of the stock remains the property of the company; but if this is true the accounts should undoubtedly show that this is the case, otherwise the proceeds of future sales from this source would be at the disposal of those in whose name the stock is entered, the company having no control of what should be an asset of value to be utilized for the purpose of working capital. Under the head of commissions we find a difference between the amounts entered in the respective balance sheets of $6.63, and this would appear to show that the company earned in commissions between March 1st and December, 1899, this amount more than it paid out for commissions. Several curious omissions are noticeable in the present statement. The March balance sheet shows that the sum of $81.27 had been earned on teaming work, but the balance sheet of December —which is supposed to be a repetition of the March statement as well as a statement of the company's accounts for the nine months following—contains no such entry. In the March statement $2,181.32 appeared under the head of disbursements against "assav no THE MINING RECORD. office and assaying;" there is no corresponding account in the December balance sheet. Again the March statement showed that the wharf had cost up to that date $781. Has this property since been sold or disposed of? It does not figure in the December- accounts. Between the dates we have under review Mr. H. W. Treat, the president, treasurer and general manager of the Van Anda company, is stated to have advanced the company the sum of $51,981 in cash. It would be interesting for the shareholders to ascertain why there is no item in the accounts for salaries in the present report, while in last year's statement this important account was erroneonsly incorporated with that of labour; how much, if any, of this $51,981 is represented in the amount paid for labour (or salaries) which in the last ten months of 1899 amounted to $91,166.71 ? Again, how much of the $51,981 (if any) represented directors' fees? There are several other items in this so-called balance sheet deserving of comment, but which, however space limitations compel us to allude to but briefly. From April, 1896, to March, 1899, "bills receivable" had cost the company $405 only. At the end of December the amount had increased to $3,057.14. According to the first balance sheet (March, 1899) the Raven Copper and Gold Company cost or owed the Van Anda Company $1,644.52. Has this sum been refunded or has the amount been placed under another heading or incorporated into another account as appears to have been done with other entries? In December $17,645.06 was due on lots and buildings, but in March under a slightly different heading the entry was $1,592.58. Does this mean that the company is financially, speculative builders, and if so, on what, basis are the loans made? In March, 1899, after forty- two thousand five hundred dollars' worth of 6 per cent, bonds (of the authorized issue of 150 at $500) had been sold; no "discount on bond sales" was paid. In the December balance sheet a disbursement of $9,670 is shown under this account. Hence it evidently cost $9,670 to sell the balance of the bonds, the par value of which was $32,500. In conclusion we can only express the opinion that the manner in which these accounts are presented calls for very strong criticism on the grounds that they do not concisely state the company's position. Take, for instance, the placing of unpaid accounts amongst the receipts of the company. The receipts show the sum of $430,952.92, whereas nine items represent unpaid accounts which are clearly not receipts, and which should have been deducted from the expenditure. Moreover this so-called balance sheet is not certified to by an auditor. Such a statement emanating from one individual only can hardly be satisfactory from the, point of view of a shareholder. But this general looseness crops up even in the designation of the company, as printed on the report itself. The Van A«nda Copper and Gold Company is, we imagine, one of limited liability, but it is not so stated, although an omission of this kind is illesral. The decision of the umpire on the arbitration concerning the rule of the Coal Mines Regulation Act requiring all underground workers in collieries to read and understand the somewhat elaborate safety rules printed in English, is in the nature of a compromise on this as also in reference to the question of the danger or otherwise of general Oriental employment in the British Columbia coal mines. The two arbitrators were unable to agree and Mr. McCrady, as umpire, holds that the rule was too drastic and therefore cannot be upheld. He, however, suggests the drafting of a new regulation, providing that mine workers in colliery levels undergound shall be able to understand instructions given in English. He also holds that while not all Chinese and Japanese labour engaged in colliery work is dangerous, a percentage of it is and this percentage should be eliminated by careful personal tests. The result of the reference will therefore probably be the establishment under a new rule of certain tests that will eliminate a moderate percentage of Mongolian labour from British Columbia collieries on the ground of incompetency. Any changes made in colliery management as the outline of the decision will not be very far-reaching. As a correspondent from Fernie sensibly points out, if the only objection to Oriental labour in coal mines is the inability of Chinese or Japanese miners to read rules in English, it would be easy enough to print the rules in the Oriental languages. At the meeting of the Crow's Nest Coal Company in Toronto this month, some exceedingly satisfactory information was afforded shareholders. During the year the mines produced 116,200 tons of coal, on which a net profit of $47,308.17 was made. At first sight this profit appears inconsiderable as the result of a full year's operations, but the explanation is given that owing to the small amount of development work performed up to the end of the first six or seven months of last year, the Coal Creek mine was until recently operated at a loss. Thus while in January, 1899, this mine produced coal at a loss of $5,000, in January of this year a net profit of $12,000 over and above operating expenses is shown. The company is now opening up a second series of mines at Michel, about 30 miles from Fernie, so that there will be alternate sources of supply. It is understood that a dividend will be declared this year. The enormous value of the coal properties may be gathered from a statement made by the newly-elected managing director that basing his figures on geological reports and then halving them, there exists within the area owned by the company over 10,000,000,000 tons of coal. We look for the very best results from the mediation of Mr. R. C. Clute, Q.C., in settling the matters in dispute between mine owners and men in the Rossland and other districts. In an interview published in the Nelson Tribune, Mr. Clute stated that his visit on this occasion was in consequence of the request of leading representatives of the Mine Owners' Association and prominent officials of the Miners* Union with the object of exerting his good offices toward securing an adjustment of the questions in controversy between them. The government has acquiesced in Mr. Clute's mission, feeling that the prosperity of the Province and of the Dominion, inasmuch as what affects the Province influences the entire country, depends on the permanent settlement of the labour troubles, and is most anxious to promote an amicable feeling between owners and men. Speaking of the dredging prospects of the North Thompson River, which has recently been explored by dredging experts from New Zealand, "who claim that as the result of their tests, dredging in the future will quite eclipse lode mining in the Kamloops dis- THE MINING RECORD. tnct, our Kamloops correspondent writes: "About 30 miles of the river have been staked and several parties are prospecting further up the river. While one company has got good returns from apparently careful examination of the ground I do not think the tests made have been sufficiently extensive and thorough to prove that the gold exists to any depth, and old placer miners all agree that it is confined to the top ten or twelve inches." Mr. E. Nelson Fell is to be congratulated on the excellent showing of the Athabasca for the past year. Considering, all things, the amount of development work done, the condition of the labour market, among others, a profit of over thirty thousand dollars is not at all bad as a beginning. If all the English mining companies had as careful and as good a man in charge of mines on this side there would be fewer failures. The directors of the Bend 'Or Mines are to be congratulated upon the eminently satisfactory report and financial statement of the year's operations, which they have been able to present to the shareholders. The company's affairs appear to be in a flourishing condition and there is every prospect of respectable and regular dividends in the near future. The success of the Bend 'Or will go far towards restoring confidence in the Bridge River district, which was so rudely shaken by the Golden Cache collapse. Not only is the Bend 'Or an exceedingly promising property but, as the accounts which we publish elsewhere show, it is being managed on very careful and economical lines. A correspondent, a mining engineer, writes to the Mining Record from Montreal expressing strong approval of the article published last month and commenting on the close-down of the War Eagle. As some of our correspondent's remarks are of public interest we quote as follows from his letter:— "I much congratulate you on the more than able article in your last issue on War Eagle affairs. The issue arrived whilst our annual meeting of the Canadian Mining Institute was in session and met with unanimous approval. Apart altogether from the personal aspect of the case and the unfair treatment of both the public and the shareholders there is more than sufficient justification for the severest criticism on account of the prejudicial effect of their action on B. C. investments generally. Only those who have tried to place B. C. properties on the London market know the lack of confidence felt there which is enhanced bv such tactics as we are now condemning. The grave- ness of the charge against Messrs. Gooderham and Blackstock lies in the fact that they were told, I understand, in September last by Mr. Kirby as soon as he went there that the mine was exhausted so far as profitable recoveries were concerned and yet after that, in fact as late as November 15th Mr. Gooderham gave a most optimistic 'interview, talked of a prodigious output, increased value of shares and increased dividend.' Your estimates are perfectly sound and will not be falsified by results. War Eagle at $1.00 is not more than a "j\ per cent, investment if that. There is reason to believe that the smelter returns for the last six months show a gross value of less than $12, which would not leave more than $2.00 to $3.00 profit, but they will not even to their shareholders produce the returns." The Vancouver News-Advertiser recently quoted Mr. Robert Murray, provincial timber inspector, as having stated that "In the Boundary country, half a dozen new stamp-mills have been put in since he was there last and the smelters under construction are going ahead rapidly." It is true that the erection of two smelters is being proceeded with, but so far as stamp mills are concerned, not one has yet been put in throughout the district generally known as "the Boundary country—that is the district lying between Rock Creek on the west and Christina Lake on the east. A lack of knowledge of Boundary mining matters on the part of whoever is responsible for that department of its news occasionally results in the News- Advertiser, like other Coast newspapers, publishing statements relating to the Boundary district that are unreliable and misleading. Anyone at all familiar with the ores of the Boundary country knows that stamp mills will play a very small part in their reduction. The off-hand way in which local mining companies are managed has been well illustrated in the case of the Winnipeg mine in the Boundary Creek district. Without consulting the shareholders, the managing director, Mr. Duncan Mcintosh, one day took it into his head to announce that he was negotiating a consolidation with the Brandon and Golden Crown company, whose property adjoins the Winnipeg. Meanwhile the mine, for no known reason, was closed down, which was followed by a fall in the stock from 32 to 13. The Winnipeg mine was originally owned by Mr. Mcintosh, but since he has allowed it to be acquired by a joint stock company, he should be taught that he has no longer the right to do just what his fancy pleases with it One of the Greenwood papers recently remarked that Mr. Paul Johnson makes a capital advertising agent. He is certainly an adept at the art of booming. But one trade at a time should be enough for any man and would it not be as well if Mr. Johnson stuck to his work of superintending the construction of the smelter at Greenwood and talked a little less freely? Our Boundary Creek correspondent draws attention to one of this gentleman's statements as recently published in the Rossland and Spokane newspapers, that "the following mines will contribute ore to the Mother Lode smelter, namely, the Ah There, the Buckhorn, Morrison, St. Lawrence, Butcher Boy and Sunset." Most of the mines enumerated are as yet not developed much beyond the prospect stage. Our correspondent writes: "The Ah There is installing a small boiler and steam hoist. Its shaft is down seventy feet and it has also a cross-cut, but from what I can gather the mine could not produce at present five tons of ore a day. The Butcher Boy and St. Lawrence are, so far as I can ascertain, no further advanced as regards development. The Sunset has put in a good plant, but nothing definite is heard of its ore bodies. The Buck- horn is doing good prospecting work down to the 200-foot level, but up to a week ago had encountered nothing but good indications and small stringers of ore carrying fair values. My summing up of the position is that all these "mines" together if systematically developed from now on for six months would not at the end of that period be able to maintain a regular total output of a hundred tons per day, so that there does not appear to be much to justify Mr. Johnson's somewhat extravagant statements." I 12 THE MINING RECORD. The Greenwood Times, in a recent issue, announces the sale by the sheriff of the Granite and Banner claims in Camp McKinney. The properties fetched $300. Last September the following paragraph appearing on page 15 of that month's issue of the Mixing Record was severely criticised in certain quarters: "The Camp McKinney Mines, Ltd., is a Vancouver promotion, concerning whose properties, the Granite and Banner, many boom statements have of late appeared in the Vancouver papers. One of the promoters has, moreover, publicly and with a proper show of virtuous indignation, referred in scathing terms to the Golden Cache fiasco, as having largely deterred Vancouver investors from speculating in legitimate mining ventures, such, for instance, perhaps, as the Camp McKinney Mines, Ltd.? Our Camp McKinney correspondent, however, in response to a request for information, does not appear to hold a very high opinion regarding the value, as at present determined, of the properties of the Camp McKinney Mines, Ltd., i.e., the Granite and Banner claims, the much-heralded production of a couple of gold-bricks therefrom, worth each a few hundred dollars, notwithstanding." Just previous to the publication of this comment, a very glowing account of the Granite and Banner claims was published in the Vancouver World at the instance, it was stated, of Mr. Banfield, a stock-broker of that town. Mr. Banfield,.who was financially interested in the promotion, was quoted as having stated that there was then "$200,000 worth of ore in sight in the claims' and 2,000 tons of ore on the dumps." Vet the other day the properties only realized at public auction a beggarly three hundred dollars! It is fortunate that the profits made by the British America Corporation out of its British Columbia and other ventures more than compensate for the company's losses on its Yukon trading. This has, it- seems, resulted in a present loss of over £29,474 with an expected further depreciation of stock against which another sum of £20,000 has been set aside. The corporation has, however, been^able to declare a ten per cent, dividend. So far as we know, no purely British concern has made anything like a substantial profit by Yukon trading, the great American Alaskan organizations having too strong a hold on the field and too large and complete a knowledge of the northern country for successful competition on the part of less experienced rivals. It is understood that the British America Corporation's trading operations in the Yukon were in the main due to resolves made in London, local advisers in British Columbia rather dissuading than counselling such a course. As our Shoal Bay correspondent mentioned last month there is every reason to believe that a very valuable discovery of workable marble has been made in this district. The deposit of which an almost unlimited quantity is exposed, is known as Doolmite marble, and is found in both the pure white and streaked varieties. The marble takes an excellent polish and we are given to understand can be placed on the local market at an extremely moderate cost. aggressive element will in any case, though doubtless prevented by military control from taking such extreme measures, make things very uncomfortable for British subjects in and about Cape Nome, from which there being other good reasons against going, most will do well to stop away. Another Klondike company—the Klondike, Yukon & Stewart Pioneers, Limited—has joined the great majority. At a meeting of shareholders last month, before the motion was carried approving the voluntary liquidation, the chairman explained that the failure of the company was due to the incompetency of their Canadian manager, Col. Domville, who had acted contrary to instructions, and made a mess of things generally. That somebody blundered is quite certain, for there is no earthly reason why the concern should not have been a success under ordinarily good business management. But this is the rock upon which more than one English company has split in this country. The Engineering and Mining Journal of New York commenting on the alleged discovery of workable coal in the Yukon remarks very pertinently that the presence of coal, even of comparatively poor quality, ought to result in a considerable reduction in the cost and difficulty of mining and living in the country. In the Yukon fuel is almost the first essential to maintaining life at all, and a large quantity of it is needed in mining operations in ground which is frozen all the year round. The supply of wood in the region is not sufficient to last very long at the present rate of consumption, and the cost of transportation will prevent the bringing of any quantities of coal from the coast. Coal mining in the Yukon ought to be very profitable. Mr. James de Lamare and his French associates evidently recognize the value of keeping their Klondike and Atlin interests before the public by direct and indirect advertising. The syndicate own 22 placer claims in the Yukon and 1,200 acres of hydraulic ground in the Atlin country. The possibilties of these are well advertised in France by a neatly printed and well got up monthly paper published in Paris. It is distinctly a "boom" issue, copying closely Western American methods. And now Mr. de Lamare is further advertising the properties of his syndicate by taking a French made automobile to the far north. By this means he hopes to make a speedy journey over the ice from Bennett to Dawson. Almost every paper in the province and many beyond it naturally chronicle this novel experiment. The restriction of the ownership of Atlin placer claims to British subjects is serving as an excuse for American prospectors at Cape Nome to threaten to' drive Canadian miners from the Alaskan benches. The The Dawson Board of Trade, which certainly should know something of the subject, strongly urges the reduction of the Yukon gold royalty to 2 per cent. It is possible, of course, that the Board, not being wholly disinterested, suggests rather too large a reduction of the impost. But it can hardly be denied that as it stands, the royalty, allowing for all deduction, representing a levy of at least nine per cent, net, should be lowered to a rate far nearer two than nine per cent., and unless some considerable reduction is made, only the very best claims can long continue to be worked with profit. The average hydraulic claim will not stand the present royalty on output, in addition to what are necessarily large working expenses. THE MINING BECORD. In comparison with the Yukon royalty the provincial tax on the yield of the gold and silver mines of less than one per cent, net on the value of output, is exceedingly moderate. The revenue from this source is at present only about $60,000 a year, which is spent in improving the means of communication and on other necessary public works in the mining districts. Some would have the province's levy assessed on net profits or dividends, but this would operate too unequally and uncertainly, while such a levy would be too easily evaded by the less scrupulous. THE .MINERAL PRODUCTION OF CANADA FOR 1899. (From the Report of the Geological Survey.) Product. Quantity. Value, (a) " (a) Metallic— $ Copper (fine in ore &c) (b) lbs 15,078,475 2,655,319 Gold, Yukon dist.$i6,ooo,ooo all other... 5,049,730 21,049,730 Iron ore . .tons 77,158 248,372 Lead (fine in ore &c) (c) lbs 21,862,436 977,250 Nickel (fine in ore &c) (d) lbs 5,744,000 2,067,840 Platinum oz 55 835 Silver (fine in ore &c) (e). .lbs 3,078,837 1,834,371 Total metallic 28,833,717 Non-Metallic— Arsenic lbs 114,637 4,872 Asbestus and asbestic . .tons 25,285 483,299 Chromite " 1,980 23,760 Coal 4,565,993 9-040,058 Coke (f) " 100,820 350,022 Felspar " 3,000 6,000 Fire-clay .. : " 599 1,295 Graphite " 1,220 16,179 Grindstones " 4,5" 43>265 Gypsum " 244,566 257,329 Limestone for flux " 53>202 45,662 * Manganese ore ....... " 308 3,96° Mica 163,000 Mineral pigments— Baryta tons 720 4,402 Ochres " 3,9r9 J9>90o Mineral water 100,000 Moulding sand tons I3,724 27,430 Natural gas (g) 387>27x Petroleum (h) Bbls 808,570 1,202,020 Phosphate (apatite) .. ..tons 3,000 18,000 Pyrites " 27,687 110,748 Salt " 57,095 234,52o Soapstone " 450 1,960 *Returns incomplete. (a) Quantity or value of product marketed. The ton used that of 2,000 lbs. (b) Copper contents of ore, matte, etc., at 17.61 cents per lb. (c) Lead contents of ores, etc., at 4.47 cents per lb. fd) Nickel contents of ore, matte, etc., at 36 cents per lb. (e) Silver contents of ore at 59.58 cents per oz (f) Oven coke, all the production of Nova Scotia and British Columbia. (g) Gross return from sale of gas. (h) Calculated from inspection returns at 100 galls. crude to 42 refined oil, and computed at $1.48! per bbl. of 35 imp. galls. The barrel of refined oil is assumed to contain 42 imp. galls. Product. Quantity. Value, (a) (a) Structural Materials and Clay Products. $ Cements, natural rock .. ..bbls 131,387 119,508 Portland " 255,366 513,983 i lagstones 7,600 Granite 90,542 Pottery 200,000 ,Sewer pipe 161,546 Slate 33,406 Terra-cotta 220,258 Building material including bricks, building stone, lime, sands and gravels, and tiles 4,250,000 Total structural materials and clay products 5,596,843 lotal all other non-metallic 12,544,952 Total non-metallic 18,141,795 Total metallic 28,833,717 Estimated value of mineral products not returned 300,000 Total, 1899 47,275,512 1898, Total 38,661,010 1897 " 28,661,430 1896 " 22,584,513 1895 " 20,639,964 1894 19,931,158 1893 " 20,035,082 1892 " 16,628,417 1891 " 18,976,616 1890 " 16,763,353 1889 " 14,013,913 1888 " 12,518,894 1887 " 11,321,331 1886 " 10,221,255 (a) Quantity or value of product marketed. The ton used is that of 2,000 lbs. The increase in the value of the mineral production of Canada which has been so noticeable a feature in the figures for the previous four years is continued during 1899. Compared with the corrected total for 1898, the preliminary figures for 1899 show an increase of over 22.2 per cent., the increases for 1898 and 1897 having been nearly 35 per cent, and nearly 27 per cent, respectively. Of the above mentioned 22.28 per cent, 15.52 per cent, is to be credited to the increased output of gold from the Yukon placers, 2.92 per cent, to the increases in the other metallic products, and 3.84 per cent, to the growth of the non-matellic mineral industries. The value of the mineral production of the country per capita for 1899 would be about $8.90, having increased almost four-fold in the fourteen years since 1886, when the first figures are available. .A study of the figures given in the table following, shows that the metallic products contribute some 6t per cent, to the value of the whole, and these, together with coal, petroleum and building material, account for all but about 9 per cent of the grand total. ii4 THE MINING RECORD. The proportional contributions of the various products for 1898 and 1899, are shown below. 1898. 1899. Per cent Product. of Total Production. 44 Product. Per cent of Total Production. Gold 3563 Coal 21.27 Build'g material. 10 Silver 6 Copper 5 Nickel. Lead Petroleum . Asbestus. . . Cement .. . Natural gas. Coke Salt Gypsum.. . Pottery . . . // 7i 52 m 12 75 27 03 83 74 64 60 55 Gold Coal Build'g material Copper Nickel Silver Petroleum .. . Lead Cement... .. . Asbestus Natural gas. . . Coke Gypsum Iron ore Salt 19 8 5 4 3 2 2 1 1 3.5 12 •99 62 37 88 54 °7 34 02 82 74 54 53 Product. Metallic:— Copper. .. Gold ... .. Iron ore .. Lead Nickel .. . Silver.. .. Quantity. Value. Non-Metallic :- Asbestus .. Coal . . Coke .. Cement. . . Gypsum . . Natural gas Petroleum. In copper, ow Inc. Dec. % % I5-04 32-25 4.10 6 I m 54 11. 30 43 09 57 54 6.62 31 50 30.85 .24 84 52 8l 02 56 13 5° 9 22 94 38 59 10 34 67 20 22 [3 21 Dec. % 10.99 29.28 1.61 ring to the large advance in prices, there was a marked increase in value notwithstanding the decrease in the output. The value of the gold production shows a large percentage increase, in the Yukon and Ontario especi- The town of Greenwood; the chiei trade centre ot the Kettle River Mining Division. The chief points of interest brought out by the above figures lie in the much greater prominence assumed by gold, and the falling off in the silver and lead, which now occupy the sixth and eighth places, as compared with the fourth and seventh positions formerly occupied by these materials. The progress, etc., of the several mineral industries in comparison with 1898, is shown below. ally, the former having grown 60 per cent, and the latter over 58 per cent. In the case of iron ore, the the chief contributors to the total mineral production of the country, lead and silver are the only two showing a considerable falling off, and that notwithstanding more favourable prices. This is due to local causes in British Columbia, not dependent on the value of the deposits but which have led to the restriction of operations there. THE MINING RECORD. 115 THE DETERMINATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURES. (By A. A. Watson, B. Sc., Vernbu, B.C.) £ HE determination of high temperatures is a sub- J jeer of great interest in smelting operations and in the numerous experiments carried out by scientists upon blast furnace smelting and upon the use of various kinds of fuel a good method of accurately estimating high temperatures has been eagerly sought after. Various methods have been used to "this end, and to describe some of these, together with the scientific principles involved is the object of this article. One of the first methods to be applied, and one which would naturally occur to anybody, was that of measuring the expansion of a bar of some metal, difficult to fuse, when placed in the furnace with one end passing through one side. The principle involved is the same as that of the ordinary mercury thermometer. We measure ordinary atmospheric temperatures by the expansion of a thread of mercury, reading off the degrees on an arbitrary scale; applying the same principle, only using a bar of iron instead of a thread of mercury, the temperature of any furnace could be obtained up to the melting point of iron, in terms of the centigrade or Fahrenheit thermometer. The iron bar was carefully measured at a temperature of zero centigrade and placed in that part of the furnace where the temperature of zero was desired to be determined. One end of the bar projected through the wall of the furnace. The increase in length was measured and the temperature calculated from this. Theoretically this instrument should have been satisfactory, but the difference of temperature of that part of the bar which was in the wall of the furnace gave rise to inaccuracies. The temperature was obtained by considering the equation for determining the coefficient of lineal expansion of iron, that is to say the fraction of itself which iron expands for every degree of rise in temperature. This fraction is .000012. For example let L be the length of an iron bar at a given temperature. Let M be its length at o° centigrade. Let T be the temperature. Let the coefficient of expansion of iron be .000012, then its length at any given temperature will be the multiple of its length o° c, and unity plus the coefficient of expansion multiplied by the given temperature. L = M (1 + .000012 T). Suppose an iron bar measured 100 inches at o° c. and when placed in the furnace increased to 101.107 inches, we obtain the temperature of the furnace as follows: 101.107 = 100 (1 + .000012 T). T = 922° c. The barometer of the furnace then is 9220 c. A more accurate method was found by placing an iron and a platinum bar side by side in the furnace with the ends projecting and measuring the difference in the expansion of the two bars. Iron expands about half as much again as platinum for every increase per degree centigrade. The coefficient of expansion of platinum is .0000086. The greater the temperature therefore the greater difference will there be in the length of the rods and so by using the same equation as before first applied to iron and then applied to platinum we can easily obtain the temperature of our furnace. Suppose our rods each measure 100 inches at zero and the difference in their lengths in the furnace is .314 inch. For iron L = M (1 + .0000120 T) = 100 (1 + 000012 T). M (1 +.0000086 T) = 100 (1 -f- .314 inch. T) —100 (1- .0000086 Platinum P .0000086 T). By measurement L — P = .314 inch=ioo (1+.000015 T.) .0012 T — .00086 T = .314. T = 923°. The temperature is found to be 923° c. Another method which has met with considerable success is the calorimetric method. A platinum ball of known weight is suspended in that portion of the furnace of which it is desired to know the temperature and is then quickly ejected and placed in a water calorimeter. The rise in the temperature of the water is then noted. But first it will be necessary to explain to the lay reader what a calorimeter is and for what purpose it is used. A calorimeter is, as its name implies, a heat measure, that is to say, an instrument used for the purpose of estimating quantities of heat. The quantity of heat required to be put into a gramme of any substance in order to raise its temperature one degree, is called the specific heat of that substance. The specific heat of water is that quantity of heat required to raise a gramme of water one degree centigrade and this quantity of heat being taken as unity the specific heats of other substances are always taken in terms of the specific heat of water. Thus the spe-. cific heat or iron is 0.114, because the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a gramme of iron one degree centigrade is 114-1000 of the heat required to raise a gramme of water one degree. It is in measuring the specific heats of metals that the water calorimeter is used. It consists of a small breaker- shaped copper or brass vessel of known weight packed inside another brass vessel, the space between the two being lined with asbestos or more often non-conducting material to prevent the escape of heat from the inner vessel. Suppose, for example, it is desired to measure the specific heat of brass. A piece of brass is weighed and placed in boiling water to bring it to a temperature of 110° c. In the meatime, the calorimeter is filled with water and weighed so as to obtain the weight oi water, and the temperature of the water is registered. The piece of brass is next quickly removed to the calorimeter which is kept stirred and the rise in temperature of the water noted. We now have all the data for determining the specific heat of brass. Supposing the weight of the brass to be 177.6 grammes, the initial temperature of the brass to be ioo° c.,the final temperature 18.6 c. The fall in temperature of the brass is 81.4 c. The quantity of heat evolved by the brass in cooling is (i77.6X8i.4Xspecific heat of brass) heat units and is by natural law equal to the heat taken up by the calorimeter and water. Now the weight of water in the calorimeter was 657 grammes and the amount of water equal to the instrument itself by previous determinations was it grammes, therefore the amount of water the whole calorimeter was equal to was 668 grammes. The initial temperature of the water was 16.6 and the final 18.60. The water therefore was raised through 2° c. The heat taken up by the water was therefore 2X668 or 1336 units. Now the amount of heat taken up by the calorimeter must be equal to the amount of heat given out by the brass, for energy is never lost, therefore 177-6 X 81.4 X specific heat of brass = 1336. Specific heat of brass = .094 heat units. It will be readily seen that, applying the same prin- n6 THE MINING RECORD. ciple of quantity of heat, if we know the specific heat of the metal, all we have to do, to discover the initial temperature of the metal, is to fill in the specific heat in the same equation and this time leave the initial temperature as the unknown value. Suppose the weight of the platinum ball suspended in the furnace to be 177.6 grammes. Call the initial temperature of the ball fresh from the furnace T. The final temperature of the calorimeter was 23.950 c. The specific heat of platinum is .0324. The heat evolved by the platinum ball is 177.6 (T—23.95) (.0324) or 5.75424 T — 137.814- Supposing the heat taken up by the calorimeter to be the product of the weight of water into the rise of temperature, and suppose the weight of water to be 679 grammes and the factor of the calorimeter or grammes of water the instrument is equal to in the quantity of heat it will absorb is 11, then the amount of heat absorbed by the calorimeter will be 690 multiplied by the rise in temperature. The initial temperature of the water was 16.60. The final temperature was 23.95. The rise in temperature of the water was 7.35. The heat taken up by water was 690 X 7-35 =z 5071.5. Therefore the quantities of heat given out and absorbed being equal we have— 575 424 T — 137.814 = 5071.5 T 1 905° c. The advantage of the calormetric method over the preceding ones is that the melting point of platinum is exceedingly high and at temperatures at which iron would instantly fuse, the platinum ball pyrometer can be used and is found to give satisfactory results. A rough and ready method frequently used is to make alloys of various metals and of definite composition so that the melting point of each is known, and place the alloy in a muffle in the furnace. Some of them will melt and others remain solid. The lowest melting point of those remaining solid will be approximately the temperature of the furnace. Siemen's electrical pyrometer has been used with much success. The principle of the instrument is based upon the fact that the electrical resistance of a wire is increased by an elevation of temperature. The increase in resistance is.directly proportional to the increase in temperature. If, therefore, we take a wire of known resistance connected with a battery and pass it through a liquid of known temperature, say boiling water, and measure the increased resistance for the higher temperature, we can easily calculate an unknown temperature of the wire when a further increase of resistance is indicated. For example, suppose the increased resistance of a wire is 2 Ohms at ioo° c, if the same wire passed through a furnace shows a resistance of 20 Ohms, then the temperature is 10000 c. The instrument is constructed as follows: A double thread is cut upon a cylinder of hard pipeclay and in this are coiled two> platinum wires united at the lower end. The wire has a diameter of .01 inch and a resistance of about 3.6 units per yard. The clay cylinder occupies the lower end of a platinum case fitted with a handle. Connections are made with leading wires at the upper end of the case. Voltame^ ter tubes are used to measure the resistance. A voltameter is simply a tube employed to collect the gas given off from an acid solution when an electric current is passed through. The jtionger the current the greater the quantity of gas given off in a given time, and the greater the resistance of the wire to the current the less the quantity of gas given off. It can thus be seen that if we have two wires of precisely similar resistance one passing directly through a bath of sul phuric acid and the other through the furnace and then through another bath of sulphuric acid a comparison between the volumes of gases given off will be a direct measure of the increased resistance of the wife passing through the furnace and consequently of the temperature of the furnace. For example, suppose the amount of gas given off in the one voltameter is 100 c. Cms. per hour for a resistance of 4 Ohms, if the volume of gas given off in the voltameter connected with the heated wire is only 10 c. Cms., then the resistance of the wire is 40 Ohms or ten times as much and the rise in temperature is ten times as much as the rise in temperature of the normal wire previously experimented with. The subject of pyrometers could be enlarged upon indefinitely so numerous have been the methods used. The foregoing methods are merely an outline of what has been done in this direction. NICKEL AND COBALT ASSAYING. By M. E. D. Merry, Rossland. A METHOD for nickel and cobalt assaying of which I propose to give an account was invented—if I may use the term—by my father, Mr. A. S. Merry, many years ago, and although in constant use for upwards of fifty years has never to my- knowledge been published, and only those chemists who have at one time or another been connected with my family in business have heard of this particular method, which though old, is, I believe, as speedy and accurate as any yet published. And I may add that even the electrolytic method so much in use at the present day is no more accurate, if as much so. In the first place nickel and cobalt metals are usually associated with copper, especially when found in the ore as sulphide, and arsenide, the only other form of ore found on a commercial scale being the carbonate found chiefly in New Caledonia, sometimes termed silicate of nickel, which is generally free from copper and carries, as does the Sudbury ore, only traces to one-half per cent, of cobalt. Iron is always present. With regard to preliminary preparation of the ore, your readers will be well acquainted, so we will proceed from the time the ore is dissolved and all nickel and cobalt in solution, except perhaps in the case of a sulphide ore low grade, say 1 or 2 per cent, nickel and trace of cobalt, when the value of the cobalt is not taken into consideration, in which case 500 grains—or the equivalent in grams—is taken and melted with 10 per cent, of charcoal or finely pulverized coal dust, and 500 grains of borax glass, and as soon as melted, well covered with additional borax glass without taking out of the fire, allowed to remain in fire with a fire-clay cover over the crucible until fluid, poured into iron mould, allow to cool, resulting button of matte can all be dissolved, or weighed and proportionate amount taken for assay. Time, about 10 to 15 minutes. Having nickel and cobalt in solution, it is well to evaporate nearly to dryness, all excess of hydrochloric acid to dispel nitric acid, dilute with tepid or cold water and pass a current of sulphuretted hydrogen through solution, which will precipitate copper, most of the arsenic, tin, antimony, etc., etc., adding a few . spots (according to quantity of arsenic present) of hv- posulphite of soda which assists the precipitation of the arsenic in a very great degree. If much arsenic is present this gas should be kept on for about fifteen minutes or until solution is saturated, which can be determined by smelling the solution, and well stirring, if thoroughly gassed precipitate will settle quickly and THE MINING RECORD. 117 solution appear clear. It is well to shake or stir solution more than once and warm before filtering, as there is a point in temperature of solution, and also quantity of H. S. at which arsenic is more readily precipitated, and if over gassed this point is more easily obtained by allowing solution to stand on a hot slab for some time before filtering. Even with great care, however, if arsenic is present in excess of copper some arsenic is likely to remain in solution, but this is gotten rid of by next operation. Filter on rapid brown or white paper, leaving precipitated sulphides on paper and wash thoroughly with five or six waters—hot water hastens the operation—allowing waters to pass into large greaker or flask with filtrate which will contain all the nickel and cobalt and iron, together with zinc and manganese if any present. As these two latter metals are rarely met with in association with nickel ores of commercial value. Although manganese is often found associated with with cobalt, we will act as though they were not present and treat with thenj later on, and proceed to separate the iron. Boil filtrate until all Hy. S. is driven off, adding a little chlorate of potash to bring iron to a state || per oxide. If arsenic be not all precipitated by the last treatment, some will be seen to precipitate on boiling, and the balance will be precipitated with the iron as arsenate of iron. Proceed as follows: Add slight excess of ammonium hydrate, precipitating all the iron, then add hydrocloric acid at first rapidly and then drop until nearly all the iron is re-dissolved, leaving solution nearly neutral with just a trace of iron still precipitated, then add acetate of soda in excess and bring to a boil when all iron will be precipitated; filter into large breaker, wash once and re- dissolve iron, placing filter paper and contents in flask with Hcl., dilute acording to amount of iron present, and re-precipitate in same manner; filter on another paper, test second filtrate with ammonium sulphide, and if containing any nickel add to first filtrate (washing thoroughly), if not it can be discarded. Where a large percentage of iron is present it is usual to find a little nickel and cobalt in first precipitate. Warm filtrate, which by this time has become rather bulky, add one or two spots of ammonium hydrate, and pass strong current of Hy. S. through solution, which will precipitate nickel and cobalt as sulphide in a very short space of time, care being taken ndt to have a large excess of Hy. S. or ammonium sulphide, which will retain some of the nickel and cobalt in solution; allow precipitate to settle, and filter on white Swedish paper while hot, wash with water through which Hy. S. has been passed. This operation should be carried on quickly, keeping the nickel sulphide covered with solution, or gassed Water until operation is finished, otherwise if precipitate is allowed to stand and become nearly dry before operation is finished some will pass through filter paper on adding remainder. We have now on the filter paper nickel and cobalt sulphide together with zinc and manganese if any present- dry thoroughly; remove the filter from the funnel and burn in platinum dish, thoroughly removing all organic matter from the paper. Brush the oxides now formed into a small breaker, add Hcl. and one or two spots of Hnds. (to dissolve any sulphide still remaining) cleaning out the platinum dish by heating with Hcl., which add to the mam bulk —cover with watch glass and heat gently when all nickel and cobalt will be in solution. Precipitate the whole with caustic potash, add excess of acetic acid and then nitrate of potash; stir occasionally with glass rod and allow to stand for eight or ten hours covered with watch glass, when cobalt will be seen to precipitate and on addition of potassium nitrate will settle to the bottom. Decant the major portion of nickel off the precipitate cobalt, and filter on washed white paper, washing with two waters as gently as possible. Add excess caustic potash to nickel solution precipitating on the nickel, filter wash well. Now we have the two metals as precipitates, the nickel as oxide, the cobalt as double nitrate of cobalt and potash. Although up to this point Fresenins and others employ practically the same method as the foregoing, the next operation I have never seen in print. It is as follows: For Nickel.—Dissolve precipitate with dilute Hcl., dilute slightly, add slight excess of ammonia, which will precipitate any iron carried through mechanically or gathered during different operations; filter and wash thoroughly, care being taken to avoid bulky solution as concentrated as possible; add Hcl. to filtrate drop by drop until litmus paper is very slowly turned from blue to red (care being taken not to have an excess of acid which would render the next operation dangerous) and titrate with a standard solution of cyanide of potassium about one per cent strength, that is 1 c.c. of Kly solution—one per cent nickel, at first quickly until solution shows alkaline on testing with litmus paper, when a precipitate will be formed and then slowly until all the precipitate is dissolved, which finishes the operation. Treat cobalt precipitate in the same manner. The standard Key. solution used for titrating copper will do for the nickel and cobalt, the ratio being as follows: Ni. 100, Co. o. 1053, Cu. 92.3, but it ;s well to check by standardizing solution with pure elec- tra deposited metallic nickel; and for cobalt using chemically "prepared" oxide of cobalt (Co. o) not the "black" oxide (Co. 2, O. 3). This method of titrating is more accurate if properly manipulated than estimating the precipitated nickel as oxide, and check samples should not very mo.-e than 0.01 per cent. 1-100 per cent. By this method nickel can be made in the absence of cobalt or if estimating together as nickel, in one day; if separately, re- cjuires a day and a-half, as cobalt must have time to settle. In the event of zinc being present treat by one of the following methods:— First—For alloy, volatilize zinc in charcoal lined crucible until constant. Second—If an ore of nickel containing zinc in any quantity let the two proceed together, and a precipitating nickel with caustic potash a great deal of the zinc will be re-dissolved and thus got rid of; wash the nickel oxide well, dry, ignite reduce with carbon, and melt to metallic nickel, and the remaining zinc will be volatilized. Third—In cases of small traces of zinc, titrate in the usual manner as hereinbefore described, add excess of cyanide of potassium and little ammonia, then add sulphide of sodium or ammonium and boil. Any zinc will be precipitated, as well as manganese. A rich zinc ore is very unlikely to contain nickel, and if it does the nickel contained would be of practically no commercial value, unless recovered from retort residues after treatment of the ore for zinc. r ■ OB^ 118 THE MINING RECORD. DIRECTORS' REPORT FOR 1899. The Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company, Ltd. THE company's property is located in the Quesnelle River mining region, famous for its rich shallow placers, its extensive system of ancient river channels, and its immense deposits of high grade auriferous gravels. It is situated at Bullion, Cariboo District, British Columbia, on the southerly side of the South Fork of the Quesnelle River, four miles westerly from the outlet of the great Quesnelle Lake, about one hundred and ninety miles via the One Hundred and Fifty Mile House and Beaver lake, and about one hundred and seventy miles via the One Hundred and Eight- Mile House and Horsefly by waggon road from Ashcroft, on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The property comprises thirty-four placer mining leases aggregating two thousand five hundred and eighty-four acres of land, and a block of pasture land containing three hundred and twenty acres. The min- of this great channel can be attacked and successfully exploited at two points, viz: First, at Blackjack Gulch, by the extension of the main sluice tunnel that will eventually be driven to work the bottom gravel of Pit No. 2; second, by opening and exploiting an hydraulic pit in the channel outlet at the confluence of More- head Creek with the main Quesnelle River. The deposits included in the company's property vary from four hundred to six hundred feet in depth from surface to bottom of channel. The quantity is estimated at five hundred millions of cubic yards of high grade auriferous gravel that is available for future washing by hydraulic process. The average gold tenure is moderately estimated at twenty cents per cubic yards and the total gold contents at one hundred millions of dollars. The South Fork and main Quesnelle Rivers are torrential streams of great volume, and afford an ample dump for the debris from the entire working of the company's property. The quantity of auriferous gravel under the com- View showing Canal and recently installed Pipe Line^ ing leases cover, for a distance of about ten miles, the auriferous deposits of a system of ancient rivers. The ancient river now being exploited lies parallel to the course of the South Fork of the Quesnelle River for a distance of about two miles, and has its outlet at Dancing Bill Gulch. This channel can also be opened and successfully exploited at Blackjack Gulch, about one mile east, and Drop Gulch about one and a half miles easterly from Dancing Bill Gulch. The second ancient river covered by the company's leases is one of stupendous proportions. It apparently had its source east of the company's mines in the Quesnelle Lake region, passed westerly down the depression of the Little Lake Valley towards Morehead Creek, and has its outlet at the confluence of said Morehead Creek, with the main Quesnelle River, about seven miles below Quesnelle Forks (see map accompanying the first annual report). The deposits pany's control represents about one-quarter of the whole of the auriferous gravel remaining and available for working by the hydraulic process in the hydraulic mining region of Central California. (See report of Secretary of War U. S. Engineers, 1891, Vol. II Part V, page 3080). ,,_, Cubic Yards. Ihe total quantity-of auriferous gravel remaining and available for working by \ hydraulic process on the Yuba and American Rivers, is 1,508,875,000 to which is added the quantity remaining available for washing by hydraulic process on the Feather River, Upper j Sacramento and Southern Rivers tributary to the San Joaquin 600,000,000 Total quantity 2,108,785,. 000 THE MINING RECORD. 119 The value of this quantity of auriferous gravel is estimated by the U. S. Engineers, and others employed by the Government for making such estimates, at five hundred and fifty-two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. The capital invested in the Central California hydraulic region above referred to, including the purchase cost of mining properties, water supply systems, hydraulic plant and other equipments, amounts to one hundred millions of dollars. (See report of Secretary of War U. S. Engineers, 1891. Vol. 31:, Part V., page 2990). If the eight and seven-tenths cent gravel in the North Bloomfield mine, in California, produced a net profit of four hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents out of a gross product of one million four hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars and forty-seven cents (see page 134, ninth annual report California State Mineralogist), it is certainly safe to assume (the cost of mining being about the same), that the twent3'-seven and three-tenths cent gravel in the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining age reservoirs by the construction of substantial dams across their outlets. These reservoirs have an aggregate capacity for storing one billion and sixteen million cubic feet of water, which is equal to four hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and seventy miners' inches of water. This storage supply is greatly augmented by the waters of Dancing Bill Gulch and other streams tributary to the main canals between the storage reservoirs and the mines, and ensures a supply, varying with the precipitation, of from three to five thousand miners' inches of water throughout the mining season of six to seven months. The water supply system also includes two pooling reservoirs, located on Blackjack Gulch. One of these reservoirs is at the delivery end of the main South Fork canal from Polleys Lake, and the other at the delivery end of the Morehead Canal. They are utilized for pooling the early spring freshet water required for use in the hydraulic pits at the opening of the season, and assist materially in the economical use of water at the mine. The camp equipment of the water supply system Giants on Floor of Pit No. I. Company's property can be relied upon to yield profits equal to about seventy per cent, of the gross product. The Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company's water supply system, as now completed, consists" of thirty-three miles of well constructed canals, having a capacity for delivering at the mine five thousand miners' inches of water under a head of four hundred and twenty feet. (A miner's inch is 2,160 cubic feet, the quantity of water discharged in twenty-four hours, under a head of seven inches, through an opening one-half inch wide by two inches high, made in a board two inches thick). The sources of supply are at Bootjack Lake and Polleys Lake, about nineteen miles distant, and Morehead Lake, ten miles distant from the company's mines at Bullion. All the above- named lakes have been converted into efficient stor- consists of twelve substantial cabins for the reservoir lenders and water tenders operating along the line of the main canals. The company's water supply can be increased two thousand miners' inches when desired, by utilizing the waters of Little Lake and Long Lake, for opening and exploiting an hydraulic pit at the outlet of the Little Lake channel near the mouth of Morehead Creek, and can be increased by ten thousand inches or more, if desired, by the extension of the main canals to control additional available watershed. The mine equipment consists of a portable hydraulic plant of four lines of thirty inch and twenty-two inch riveted steel pipes, aggregating six thousand feet; six No. 8 hydraulic giants, with deflecting nozzles; varying from six to ten inches in diameter ; one steam power hoisting and pumping engine for sink- 120 THE MINING RECORD. r ing shafts for bank blasting; one fire-proof magazine for dynamite; one magazine for bank blasting powder; one dynamite thawing house; one fuse-cutting and detonator-priming house in each of the hydraulic pits; one general blacksmithing shop for general forging, waggon work and horseshoeing; one pipe making shop, fitted with rolls and other appliances for making and repairing hydraulic pipes; one steam-power saw mill, having a capacity for cutting daily about four thousand feet of lumber. This mill is also supplied with a planing and matching machine, boring and framing machines, also emery wheel and grindstones operated by steam power, the use of which appliances result in a great saving of labour and a material reduction in the cost of all wooden structures, as well as the cost of sharpening edged tools. The gold saving appliances consist of a double extended system of sluices seven feet wide by four feet deep, ag- gregating two thousand three hundred and eighty feet in length. This system of sluices is paved partially with end-wood sluice blocks one foot thick, and partially with improved Ion gitudinal steel riffles. Fixtures and longitudinal riffles are on hand for the installation of two improved undercurrents intended for the recovery of flour quicksilver, fine gold, platinum, and osmiridi- um that cannot be recovered in the ordinary sluice. The melting plant consists of three retorts fitted with iron Liebig condensers for distillation of quicksilver, having a capacity for treating twelve thousand ounces of amalgamated gold at a single charge; two furnaces for melting, and other appliances necessary for handling ingots of gold weighing up to twelve thousand ounces; also a complete assay outfit for determining the value of bullion. The injne is also supplied With a complete outfit of &KBg! Giant on hank in Dancing Bill Gulch. Stream at work making a cut for Pipe Lin mechanics' and mining tools and implements of all kinds, sufficient for one hundred and fifty men. The mine lighting plant consists of six Wells lights of three thousand candle power each. The telephone system includes three lines, aggregating thirty-five miles, with fifteen instruments, that place the storekeeper and manager in direct communication with the reservoir tenders, canal tenders, saw-mill foreman, general blacksmith and foreman of the hydraulic pits. The company's ^^^ equipment consists of one store build- i&'fjli i-n£ I°r general I mining supplies ; 'one tool store- 11 house ; one oil storehouse; one frost-proof provision storehouse ; two frost-proof storehouses ; on e slaughter house; one meat house ; one general office building; one manager's office building; one manager's residence; one residence for surgeon; one hospital building ; one dining house; one barn for company's lorses, . hay and feed ; two stables for accommodating freighters' teams ; one waggon shed; one storehouse for miscellaneous hydraulic plant and fixtures; one char- coal storehouse; one surfaced lumber shed ; one foreman's cabin ; one house for shift bosses, and ten camp buildings for one hundred and twenty miners and labourers. There are also five work horses, two saddle horses, together with the necessary waggons, sleighs, harness and saddles. This makes the equipment of the property plete and efficient as that of any hydraulic property on the Pacific Coast. as com- miningi The company's property and the high grade of its is probably the largest, deposits entitles it to a place among the richest hydraulic mines in the world. THE MINING RECORD. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. directors' report. Gentlemen,—Your directors beg to submit their report at the second annual meeting of the shareholders, together with the manager's report, balance sheet ecember and auditors' 31st, 1899. report for the year ending D W. D. ASSETS. MAT! HEWS, President. Mines, mining leases, water rights, etc., as per balance sheet, Dec. 31st, 1898 Morehead dam and ditch—cost as per statement, Dec. 31st, 1898.. Equipment of lower bench, as per statement, Dec. 31st, 1898.... Lands and leases, per statement, Dec. 31st, 1898 Portable hydraulic plant Mine lights and hoisting engine.. $3,914,558 38 118,458 68 7,424 01 1,322 00 9,998 56 1,526 70 Inventory. (As per Manager's Report).— Provisions, mining supplies and explosives $ 26,12825 Lumber, saw logs and sluice blocks 4,230 39 Tools and implements 10.337 60 Blacksmith's stores 1,783 71 Horses and mules 875 00 Wagons and harness 1,788 00 Quicksilver 2,804 65 $4,053,288 33 Cash on hand, mine office Personal accounts receivable .. Permanent Improvements 1898— Drain tunnel, per balance sheet, Dec. 31st, 1898 .$ 3,533 42 Less 20% depreciation, season 1899. 706 68 -$ 47,947 60 70 20 4,680 81 Riffle account per balance sheet, Dec. 31st, 1898 $11,60001 Less 10% depreciation, season 1899. 1,160 00 2,826 74 -$ 10,440 01 Permanent Improvements, Season 18 Morehead pooling reservoir dam $ Morehead ditch, new flumes and additional works Equipment South Fork pit.... Melting plant—new retort house Dancing Bill Gulch—permanent pipe ladder .-■•■-.• Permanent flumes and sluices in mine Dancing Bill Gulch—permanent waste water chute Installation steel riffles $6,307 64 Less 10% depreciation 630 76 13,266 7S >9— 6,422 23 18,346 00 8,679 84 3.617 3° 1,165 96 7,096 10 462 75 -(Se Manager's re- 5,676 88 3,293 29 355 5<3 55,115 »5 2,527 17 46,682 04 Buildings- port) Reservoir gate Polleys Lake.. Balance from operating account season 1898 Balance from operating account season, 1899 LIABILITIES. Capital authorized $5,000,000 Capital issued $4,000,000 00 Accounts payable 23,389 68 Bills payable 50,20000 Bank of Montreal ^^$4,223,578 75 Examined and found correct. W. S. ANDREWS, Auditor. February 12th, 1900. GENERAL OPERATING ACCOUNT. Season, 1899. Dr. To operating expenses for season, as per statement from mines . .$ 131,178 34 To drain tunnel account, 20% written off for depreciation 706 68 To riffle account, 1898, 10% written off for depreciation 1,160 00 To head office expenses 980 80 To interest account 8,634 °9 Cr. By bullion received $ 92,678 93 By stores account—Profit for season on sales to outside parties .... 3,298 94 By balance, loss on season's operations 46,682 04 142,659 91 STATEMENT OF MINES' EXPENDITURES, SEASON 1899. Permanent Improvements.— Morehead pooling reservoir dam $ 6,422 23 Morehead ditch repairs. New flumes, etc., to repair damage by slides 18,346 00 Equipment of South Fork pit.... 8,679 84 ■ Melting plant—New retort house. 3,617 30 Permanent waste water flume at Bill Gulch 462 75 Permanent sluices in mine 7,096 10 Installation of steel riffles$6,307 64 Less 10% depreciation... 630 76 5,676 88 ' Reservoir gate at Polleys Lake.. 355 50 Buildings $ 3,293 29 Total cost permanent improvements $55,115 85 Public Account.— Portable hydraulic plant, pipe giants, etc., out of stores....$ 9.998 56 Mine lights and hoisting engine, out of stores 1,526 70 Total cost of plant 11,525 26 Total cost of permanent improvements and plant $66,641 11 MINES' OPERATING EXPENSES Lands and leases—Rentals $ 2,002 75 Mining— Explosives $38,837 02 Labour 39,068 42 77,905 44 South Fork ditch maintenance 7,339 50 Morehead ditch. 4,834 55 Sluices 6,422 11 Port. hyd. plant 6,461 38 Mine light 1,03760 Camp 3,11522 Buildings 1,652 44 Melting plant 3 35 Wagons and harness " 240 51 Telephone 190 41 Roads and trails 99 70 Fire Ins. account " 412 50 Transportation of miners, etc 4,649 26 Bullion expenses—Government tax and transportation 2,418 42 Postage and telegraph 134 33 Mine office expenses 2,762 07 Incidental expenses ._ 35 50 Stationery and printing 202 90 Legal expenses 73 82 Management 6,436 40 Company's license 183 40 Wagons and harness account—Loss for season... 173 00 Horses and mules account ... 535 00 Tools and implements—Depreciation for season.. 1,009 33 Quicksilver account—Loss, etc 847 45 Total cost operating accounts for season, as per Mines' books $131,178 34 Deduct profit on stores for season 3.298 94 $127,879 40 THE MINING RECORD. manager's report. Bullion, B. C, December 31st, 1899. To the President and Directors of the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Compan)', Limited Liability, Toronto, Canada: Gentlemen,—In handing you this, my annual report for the season of 1899,1 am pleased to inform you that the past season's operations resulted in completing the equipment and opening the property, so that expense in that direction is at an end; that the mine is now fully opened for the continuous use of the increased water supply for washing gravel of high grade from the main bank, and is on a basis for large and profitable production. The season's operations were confined mainly to the removal of the remainder of the accumulations of tailings, boulders and sliderock left in the old Chinese working's; the removal of the boulderclay, low grade Construction of crib and stone dam for Morehead pooling reservoir 6,422 23 Completion of retorting furnace and melting plant 3,617 30 Installation of hydraulic plant and gold saving appliances in South Fork pit 8,679 84 Installation of permanent sluices in pit No. 1 7,096 10 Installation of permanent, and additions to portable hydraulic plant, pipes, giants, etc $9,998 56 Construction of pipe ladder on bluff at Dancing Bill Gulch 1,165 96 Construct'n waste water flume down bluff at Dancing Bill Gulch 462 75 $ 11,627 27 Reservoir gate at Pooleys Lake...... 355 50 Additions to mining plant, hoisting engine and well lights 1,526 70 View looking South towards Bank Blast. Stream on Floor of Pit No. 1, cutting Slope for second Pipe Line. Giant on Lower Bench washing Gravel through newly installed Sluices. gravel and sliderock that laid on the rims of the channel south and west of the old Chinese workings; to the permanent installation of the hydraulic plant, gold saving appliances and other plant required to complete the equipment of the property; and to repair the extensive breaks that occurred on the line of the Morehead Canal. The expenditure for the season's operations is distributed as shewn by the following statement:— Clearing the hydraulic pits of 1,952,535 cubic yards of boulderclay, low grade gravel, tailings, boulders and sliderock, to make room for the permanent installation of the hydraulic plant and gold saving appliances $127,879 40 Installation of steel riffles for sluices and fixtures for two undercurrents.. 5,676 88 Construction of necessary camp buildings 3,293 29 Construction of flumes around slides on Morehead Canal 18,346 00 Total expenditure for the season $194,520 51 Fig. 1 represents a plan of the hydraulic excavations made by the early Chinese miners and the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company. Fig. 2 represents a plan of hydraulic pit No. i at the close of the past season. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section running up the channel from the bed of the Quesnelle River to THE MINING RECORD. 123 the main hydraulic bank, showing the relative positions of the two systems of sluices and the bedrock sluice cuts being extended from the lower system of sluices. The condition of hydraulic pit No. 1 at the opening of the season made it impossible to wash more than a small portion of the high-grade gravel from the main bank until such time as the sluices intended for the removal of that body of gravel to the dumps were laid down permanently on the bedrock near the east rim and carried around the big bend of the channel, as shewn on the plan of the workings, Fig. 2; neither could the bottom gravel be worked to-any great extent until the sluice cuts were extended and lowered to make grade for its removal to the lower system of sluices and the dumps. This condition made "it necessary to remove immediately the remainder of the accumulations of tailings, boulders and sliderock from the old Chinese workings (see Fig 1, Block 1); also SUMMARY OF THE SEASON'S HYDRAULIC WORK. Total time run 144 days, 8 hours Ti tal quantity of water used 353,056 miners' inches Total quantity of gravel, sand, clay, tailings, boulders and slide-rock removed from both pits during the season 1,952,535 cubic yards V'alue of gold recovered during progress of the season's work $92,678.93 The following stores are on hand at the Mine, as per inventory taken November 17th, 1899: Provisions, mining supplies and explosives $26,12825 Lumber, sawlogs and sluice blocks 4.230 39 Tools and implements 10,337 60 Blacksmiths' stores 1,783 71 Horses and mules 875 00 Wagons and harness 1,788 00 Quicksilver ..... 2,80465 $47,947 60 Many unexpected difficulties were encountered during the progress of the season's work, which Giants at work in Dancing Bill Gulch. the remainder of the low-grade gravel, boulderclay, boulders and sliderock from the Block 3-A on the north rim, and the Block 3-B on the west rim, to make room for the safe and permanent installation of the sluices and the extension of the bedrock cuts, as shown on Fig. 2, and the cross-section, Fig. 3. The whole of the boulderclay, sand and low-grade gravel lying on the southwest rim, in the Block 3-C, had to be removed to make possible the changing of the hydraulic plant from the bed of Dancing Bill Gulch, and to provide a safe place on the bedrock rim for its permanent installation and extension up the channel. During the progress of the work 297,088 miners' inches of water were used 116 days, 8£ hours to wash 1,600,000 cubic yards of the waste and low-grade material abo-ve referred to from Pit No. 1; 55,95s miners' inches of spring freshet and waste water were used 27 days, 32^ hours to wash 352,535 cubic yards. °'f top clav and sand from pit No. 2 (the South Fork pit). added materially to the cost thereof. The time consumed in the removal of these difficulties made it impossible to wash in pit No. 1 more than 116 days, 8J hours, out of a possible 180 days. This explains briefly why the 110,000 miners' inches of water remaining in the reservoirs at the close of the season could not be utilized to wash about 500,000 cubic yards of high-grade gravel from the main bank, and the season's product could not be brought up to what was expected. REVIEW OF THE HYDRAULIC WORK DONE IN PIT NO. 1 BY THE CONSOLIDATED CARIBOO HYDRAULIC MINING COMPANY AND ITS PREDECESSORS. The accompanying plan (Fig. 1) represents the exterior boundaries of the hydraulic excavations made by the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company and its predecessors, including the Chinese min- 124 THE MINING RECORD. ers from whom the property was originally purchased. Block No. i represents the ground worked up the channel a distance of about 1,000 feet by the Chinese companies. This block of gravel, estimated to con- Outiihe or*tJrDRAUuc Excavation M CONSOLIDATED -*' Qt*"rbooHydraoJic |4ii?e Cariboo Dia»ricFB.C.t and tailings that were left piled up in the old workings by the several Chinese companies. All this enormous quantity of waste had to be removed, at heavy cost, before the permanent gold saving appliances could possibly be installed. Blocks 3-A and 3-B represent the bodies of boulderclay, low-grade gravel and sliderock lying to the west of the Chinese workings, that had to be removed by the Cariboo companies before the hydraulic plant and Fio.3. Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mine. Longitudinal Section IS93 tain 705,759 cubic yards, produced, according to the gold saving appliances could be safely and' perman- Chinese companies' books, about $900,000. It was in ently installed, or the bedrock cuts could be advanced this worked out block of ground that we encountered and lowered to afford grade for the removal of the such enormous quantities of large boulders, sliderock bottom gravel. THE MINING RECORD. 125 The boulderclay and low-grade gravel lying on the southwest rim and underlying Dancing Bill Gulch included m the block marked 3-C, had to be entirely removed to make possible the changing of the hydraulic pipes from the bed of Dancing Bill Gulch to a safe and permanent place on the bedrock rim. The block of ground 3-D forms a part of the average cross section of the main bank. This block of ground was washed near the close of the first run during the past season and produced about $15,000 as the result of nine to days' washing; the gravel that shingled off the main bank with the frost duringthe previous winter, between the points E and F, was washed at the end of the same run and produced $15,000 as the result of about sixty hours' washing, making a total of about $300,000, that formed the greater part of the gold recovered during the first run. The quantity of gravel, boulderclay, boulders, tailings, siderock and other waste material washed from blocks No. 1, 3-A, 3-B, 3-C and 3-D, amounted to 3,580,668 cubic yards, and produced about $128,- 000, an average of about 3 J^ cents per cubic yard, a figure considerably below the cost of its removal to the dumps. Block No. 2 re- presents the ground washed from the main bank of the Cari- boo companies, commencing at the face of the bank in the Chinese excavation as it was found in 1894, and extending up the channel in new ground a distance of about 400 feet. This block of ground contained 1,463,572 cubic yards of top boulderclay and high-grade gravel that produced about $400,000, an average yield of about 273.10 cents per cubic yard. This makes the total quantity of gold recovered by the Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Companies amount to about $528,000. By reference to the company's books, it will be seen Morehead Canal, replacing Di destroyed Ditch on the that the total expenses up to and including the season of 1899, is $439,026.12, which, deducted from the $528,000, leaves a net profit of about $88,973.88, that was produced while doing deadwork in the way of clearing out the old workings, installing the hydraulic plant and gold saving appliances and opening up the hydraulic pit for continuous operation and profitable production. The total quantity of clay, gravel, boulders, etc., washed from the hydraulic excavation of pit No. i, by the Cariboo and —- Consolidated Cari- b o o Hydraulic a Mining Companies |j and their Chinese $ predecessors, |j amounts to about S 5,750,000 cubic id yards ; this quantity of gravel pro- I duced, so far as I known, about $1,- 428,000, an average of about 28 4-10' cents per cubic yard. This average will be materially increased by the product of the high-grade gravel in the lower bench, and that of the rich gravel on the bedrock in the bed of the channel. The high-grade character of the gravel in the main bank has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt by the practical tests ma de by washing 1,463,575 cubic yards o f gravel from the block No. 2, which extended up the channel beyond the Chinese workings a distance of about 400 feet. The high-grade character of the lower bench and bedrock strata in the deep channel has also been proven by the practical working tests made in 1898 The small quantise lower strata ten destroyed hy slides. 1 right of Photograph. See portion of and during the past season, titp of gravel washed from of the bottom bench in the deep channel produced the greater part of the gold recovered during the past season's operations. It is true that we encountered a large body of low- grade gravel in the upper strata of the lower bench, while carrying the hydraulic excavation around the big bend of the channel, but this is a condition that is ^v~ 126 THE MINING RECORD. usually encountered in the big bends of either ancient or modern torrential rivers, where the current crosses from one rim of the channel to the other. This body of low-grade gravel, however, together with all other waste and low-grade material that interfered with profitable operations heretofore, has been entirely removed, leaving the working wholly in virgin ground of high grade. WATER SUPPLY. The quantity of water available during the season of 1899 was in excess of the previous year, on account of the additional supply afforded by the Morehead system. The precipitatio for 1898 was 28 57-100 inches. The precipitation for 2899 was 28 65-100 inches. And exceeded that of .1898 by only 8-100 of an inch. The snow fell deep in the winter, upon hard, frozen ground, and melted in the early part of the spring under very favourable weather conditions of warm days and nights, which resulted in filling the Polleys Lake and Bootjack Lake reservoirs, and raised the water in Morehead Lake reservoir to a height of 28 feet io^ inches. Sufficient snow remained on the ground to fill the Morehead reservoir to its holding capacity, providing the warm weather continued, but cold weather set in, checked the melting of the snow, and con tin ad until late in the spring, so that the remaining snow on the watershed disappeared entirely by evaporation. Miners' Inches. Quantity of (water used in 1898 264,880 9-10 ~ Wi I " . J899 353,056 guantity of water remaining in Polleys Lake reservoir at close of the season 10,000 Quantity of water remaining in Morehead Lake reservoir at close of the season 100,000 Total quantity of water available for use during season of 1899 463,056 Quantity of water afforded in excess of 1898 198,175 1-10 The time consumed in constructing 5,167 feet of flume and crib work to repair the extensive breaks on the upper section of the Morehead Canal, together with the time consumed in dealing with the difficulties encountered at the mine, made it impossible to open the gates of the Morehead Lake reservoir until late in the season, rendered the exhaustion of the reservoirs impossible, and explains why the season closed with a 3€fc K, '""fejKP" »^'"\i SEP***' a*&2£^2r^c. Kock Cuts op Line of Morehead Canal. total of 110,000 miners' inches of water remaining in the reservoirs. This water will be added to the supply afforded by the coming season. WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM. The Morehead pooling reservoir has been completed by the construction of a dam 20 feet high above solid foundation, and 4,10 feet long on the crest. The dam is a cedar log crib, filled with rock and sheathed on the inside with double two-inch plank, joints covered with one-inch bat- tons, bottom sheathing well banked with earth and clay. This reservoir is situated at the head of Blackjack Gulch, above the South Fork reservoir, only a short distance from the d3'draulic pits, and will be of great value in collecting and pooling the early spring water required for washing in the hydraulic pits at the opening of the season, and will materially assist in the economical use of water at the mine by giving an increased supply for short intervals when required to remove large boulders or heavy material from the workings to the dumps, or pooling the water during short intervals when necessary to lubricate the hydraulic giants or to repair the hydraulic appliances without closing the main reservoir gate. The great depth of frost in the ground caused more slides from the inner slopes of the old canals than in any previous season since their construction. On the Morehead Canal a number of heavy slides occurred along the line of the upper section below the reservoir dam, practically obliterating the canal and leaving the ground in such shape as to' make it impossible to re-excavate or maintain another canal. The flume constructed in places along the damaged ■,-ect-or. remained intact. To repair the break 990 feet of the canal was cleared out and cribb"'! with heavy timbers. A flume 8 feet wide, 4 feet deep and 4,172 feet long, was constructed around the breaks, making the first section if miles below the Morehead dam practically continuous in flume, crib and rock cuts that are likely to remain permanent for many years to come. Many small slides occurred on the line of the canal where the contractors used powder to assist in excavating cuts and heavy slopes in hardpan ground. Settlement also occurred in the Jawbone pipe line and some of the smaller sections of flume that were con- °ti& THE MINING RECORD. 127 strutted in the fall after the ground became frozen hard ihree hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred and seventy-six M. B. M. feet of sawed lumber, and seven thousand running feet of eight-inch hewed cedar timber were consumed in constructing fumes, crib-work, and making other repairs to the wooden structures on the line of the canal. After completing the repairs, the reservoir gates were opened, the water turned through the canal and was successfully delivered at the mine on August ist. The Morehead dam, at the outlet of Morehead Lake, showed no signs of settlement, and has proven watertight, safe and efficient. It is believed that the repairs have been so substantially made that no more trouble of a serious nature need be anticipated, and that both the main canals will hereafter deliver the water to the mine at a greatly reduced and moderate cost for maintenance. CONDITION OF THE MINE. Since the qupiment of the property is complete, hydraulic pit No. i cleared of all waste and low-grade material and fully opened for the continuous use of the water supply for washing gravel of high grade, it ay be considered in first class condition to produce iarge and profitable results hereafter. The hydraulic plant and gold saving appliance^ have been installed in pit No. 2 (the South Fork pit), placing this pit in good condition for the use of the spring freshet and surplus water to strip off the low- grade deposits to bedrock, which is necessary to place this pit on a basis for profitable production. The time required to complete the opening of this pit to bedrock will depend on the quantity of spring freshet and surplus water afforded annually. The opening, however, can be accomplished at moderate cost, for the reason that it is expected the gold during the progress of the work will pay a part, and perhaps the whole, of the cost of opening this pit for profitable production. The past season's operations demonstrated that it was possible, under difficulties, to wash in 144 days and eight hours, with 353,056 miners' inches of water, T,952,535 cubic yards of gravel, boulders, broken rock, etc., at a cost of about 6.54 cents per cubic yard; it is, therefore, safe to assume that a full season's water supply of say 470,000, miners' inches of water, used during a period of 180 days, will wash, under the favourable conditions now existing, fully 2,000,000 cubic yards of high-grade gravel from pit No. 1, at a cost of about 6.05 cents per cubic yard. By reference to previous reports, it-will be noted that" the lowest result obtained from gravel washed from the main bank, included in Block No. 2, averaged 21 cents per cubic yard. The average obtained from the washing of 1,463,575 cubic yards of gravel from the main bank, included in said block marked 2, on Fig. 1, was 27 3-10 cents per cubic yard. Higher results than this have been obtained from single runs made on virgin ground from both top and bottom of pit No. 1. The operating expenses will vary with the quantity of gravel washed during the season, but assuming that the water supply will be sufficient to wash 2,000,- 000 cubic yards of gravel, at a cost of 6.05 cents per cubic yard, it is estimated that the operating expenses for the ensuing vear will not exceed $121,000.00. The washing of about 2,000,000 cubic yards of o-ravel of such high grade as that now exposed in the main bank and bottom bench, cannot fail to produce large and profitable results for the ensuing season. This report deals with the revenue and expenditures attending the equipment, opening and physical operation of the mine, and does not include head office expenses. Very respectfully yours, J. B. HOBSOX. Manager. VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. HAVING been requested by many of our readers throughout the Province to publish in these columns a verbatim report of the evidence in the Iron Mask-Centre Star litigation, Mr. H. F. Evans, our Rossland correspondent, was enabled through the kindness of Mr. J. B. Hastings to carry out our instructions to copy the official report of the proceedings and evidence taken, and which are in consequence enabled to publish in serial form. (Continuation of Counsel's Argument, from last month's issue.) Rossland, B.C., April 18, 1899. The Court met at 11 o'clock a.m. pursuant to adjournment of yesterday, whereupon the following proceedings were heard in the foregoing entitled cause: Mr. Bodwell—My Lord, before your Lordship begins, I would like to mention to your Lordship, as it seems there mig-ht possibly be a misunderstanding, if your Lordship proposes to give judgment on the main question. The Court—No, I am going to confine myself to the issue presented yesterday. I think this is settled by the Full Court, and so settled that I have no control over it, Mr. Davis. On page 365, this is the language of Mr. Justice. Drake, in which the Chief i'ustics concurs. After reciting the different points at issue, and what has been proved by the plaintiffs, he says : "In the meantime every step is disputed and every statement denied. I therefore—that means, we do not consider that the Centre Star are entitled to the order asked for." The way I view that is this: In view of the language he uses afterward where he says: "I think it should be left to the Judge at the trial to say whether or not actual work should be done for the purpose of elucidating any particular point with regard to the issues raised." In view of his words afterwards, I regard what he says in this light: He says in the first place, the Iron Mask denies the right of the Centre Star in every possible shape. He says in the next place, that the Centre Star has no apex in the ground. And in view "of the pleadings as amended yesterday, and the sweeping amendment made yesterday, I do not see that I can do anything else but follow the judgment of the Full Court by passing upon the motion as I shall do. I will not dismiss it until I find out whether the Iron Mask is rig-ht or wrong in its contention; that is to say, whether the Centre Star has a claim or not. That is what it amounts to owing to the points raised yesterday, and I would like that question first disposed of. Mr. Davis—What question, my Lord? The Court—Mr. Bodwell's amendment of yesterday. Pl«y 128 THE MINING RECORD. Mr. Davis—Well, that would only be disposed of by the evidence' put in at the trial and argued. . The Court—I cannot help you, sir. Mr. Davis—But your Lordship does not mean that we should apply for leave to do this work after the trial is closed. The Court—Oh, ho, no; during the time the trial is going on. This will be the first point. Mr. Davis—As I understand, we have here to renew this application after evidence has gone in. The Court—Yes; I think that is the spirit of this judgment. Mr. MacNeill will recollect, and so will Mr. Duff, that on the first hearing of this case when Mr. Daly was in the case, I constantly said: "If I am allowed to do so I shall follow the American judgments in the case. And I shall follow the American judgments as far as possible now. That case of Enner vs. Barwell almost, I thought, concluded me, but the hull Court have thought otherwise. This recent case of Lumb vs. Beaumont has taken a different view of it. There are some points in the judgment that may be discussed by and by in the judgment of one of the Judges of the Full Court. I think it will be open for discussion, because the}' almost decided the question, but on a renewal of this question as to whether there shall be leave to do any more work or not, I think I better say nothing more. With regard to the judgment, with great respect, I do not agree with all the Judges on the judgment. Mr. Davis—So that, as I understand, after we have put in evidence which we thing will entitle us to the order, then we are at liberty to renew it again. The Court—Yes, after you show, or they fail to show—because it is their duty to show it—after they fail to show what they have set out, that you have not an apex. Mr. Davis—But, my Lord, that can only be shown after all the evidence is in. There are four or five issues upon which this suit is being fought. None of them can be decided until the trial is over. Some evidence will go in on all of them as soon as the first witness is put in the box. The Court—It strikes me with all due deference, Mr. Davis, that with respect to the amendment on Mr. Bodwell's behalf that were allowed yesterday, if that point comes up first, I shall be able to give a decision on it piecemeal. Mr. Davis—But your Lordship surely doe not propose that you will try only that part of the case and not try the more serious—as it seems to us, the more serious—part at all. The Court—Really, what other course are you to pursue ? Mr. Davis—That your Lordship will try all the issues in the case—that is only one of them—so that the whole case will be on the record, and all the evidence will be on the record. There are a dozen different points and your Lordship surely will not try the case piecemeal. The Court—No, but with regard to that one point, it is, of course, a very serious point, and a portion of the. case which I should not cut out of the other, but how are you going to do otherwise? Mr. Davis—Well, my Lord, I fail to see how you can do it that way, unless your Lordship takes upon yourself the responsibility—which you stated yesterday you would not do—of defending that point fin- all}'. The Court—Well, what do you propose? Mr. Davis—My proposition is this, that the case shall be tried as every other case is 011 all the issues, that the evidence will be put in subject on that particular point to any objections we have to make, on all the issues, so that when it comes up on appeal, as it unquestionably will on one side or the other, everything will be before the various Courts of Appeal to which it goes. The Court—I understand that very well, but I am placed in a very awkward position by the decision. They leave something for mc; they looked at the state of the case as it was then, and the state of the case was such as I had to consider and as it left me. They decided practically that in that state of the case I was right in refusing the order, and they say the order should not be made. Mr. Davis—At that time. The Court—No, now. Mr. Davis—And in the shape asked for. The Court—Has there been any change? There have been no new developments. You are going to trial. And then the two Judges say practically: "The Judge at the trial may order any work to be done to elucidate any point that he may require." Mr. Davis—Yes, my Lord. What significance does your Lordship attach to that language? The Court—What I take it to mean is this, that if I see fit I can make this order. Mr. Davis—Yes; that is what I merely stated a moment ago. The Court—Then that is not trying the case piecemeal. Mr. Davis—Oh, no; I understand the case to be this: That after we have put in some evidence we are then at liberty to renew this application, and your Lordship will deal with it as you see fit. The Court—Yes; you can renew it at such time as you think I can deal with it. You know, Mr. Bodwell, the absurdity of the thing appears to me to be this: that I shall have to depend upon gentlemen's opinions one way or the other, when a little work done there would clear up the whole difficulty. As is stated by Judge Baldwin in one of the American cases, he thinks it monstrously unjust to refuse an order of this kind. I thought that the English case bound me. The Full Court think the English case did not bind me, but that I was right in refusing the order at that stage of the case. Mr. Bodwell —I shall have something to say to your Lordship when that question comes up, but I cannot discuss it now very well. The Court—I did not want to express myself so far now; only perhaps Mr. Davis did not understand me, or I did not make myself understood. My strongest inclination, Mr. Davis, has been all through, you were not in the case—at first to allow this. That was my inclniation. Mr. MacNeill knows it, because I asked them to consent to it. You will see in the notes of the case that I quoted the case of Queen vs. Brad- laugh, using American decisions, and I dare say that is where one of the Judges got it. I think it is Chief Justice Cockburn. But if I evade the order now which you ask for, Mr. Davis, I would be practically disregarding a judgment of the Full Court, and I am bound by that judgment. I will only adjourn the application sine die until such time as you choose to renew it. Is there anything else? Mr. Bodwell—This case then, stands adjourned THE MINING RECORD. 129 until Tursday morning, as I understand, at eleven o'clock. The Court—Yes; whatever you gentlemen agree to. Whereupon the Court adjourned until Thursday morning at eleven o'clock, April 20, 1899. THIRD DAY. Rossland, B.C., April 20, 1899. Trial resumed at eleven o'clock a.m. Present the Court, the same counsel as before, and also Mr. Duff for plaintiffs. Thereupon the following proceedings were had, to wit: Air. Bodwell—Before we begin, my Lord, it will be necessary, I think, for the stenographers to be sworn. The Court—Yes. Thereupon C. H. Sholes, C. B. Eaton and E. J. Lake were severally duly sworn to act as stenographers in the trial of the case. Air. Davis—It might be well, your Lordship, to have it understood that the proceedings already taken down shall have the same effect as if the stenographers had ben sworn at the commencement of the trial. The Court—If you agree to it. Mr. Bodwell—We agree to it, your Lordship. Mr. Davis—We also. The Court—I spoke to both gentlemen, Mr. Bodwell and Mr. Davis, about copies or extracts from the stenographers notes. I meant them to be extracts from the notes taken by the reporters, but it will cost no more to give me a full copy, and I think the Court should have a full copy. Mr. Bodwell—That is the understanding we had, your Lordship, that the Court will be furnished with a fully copy. The Court—I am very glad of it. No, Mr. Bodwell. Mr. Bodwell—The pleadings were read the other day, my Lord, so I will not take any time to offer. I tender a certified copy of the record of the Iron Mask mineral claim, dated the 23rd of July, 1890, showing that the claim was recorded by E. S. Topping. I suppose, Mr. Registrar, these exhibits will be numbered. The Court—I would number the exhibits. The Registrar—This will be exhibit No. 1, put in by. plaintiffs. Mr. Bodwell—I tender next a Crown grant of the Iron Mask mineral claim from the Crown to Patrick Clark dated the 18th of March, 1896. (Paper writing referred to marked by Registrar as exhibit No. 2.) Mr. Bodwell—I tender next certificate of the incorporation of the Iron Mask Gold Mining Company (foreign), registered the 8th day of February, 1896. Exhibit No. 3- (Marked as exhibit No. 3 by the Registrar.) Mr. Bodwell—Deed from Patrick Clark to the Iron Mask Gold Mining Company (foreign) of the Iron Mask mineral claim, dated the 5th of May, 1896. Exhibit No. A. (Marked as exhibit No. 4 by the Registrar.) Mr Bodwell—Certificate of title of the Iron Mask mineral claim, registered as Lot No. 688 group 1, Kootenay District, dated the 29th of May, 1896, showing the title to be the Iron Mask Gold Mining Company (foreign); as exhibit No. 5. (Marked by the Registrar as exhibit No. 5.) Mr. Bodwell—I now read the examination of Peter Joyce, taken before the Registrar at Rossland on the 1st day of April, 1899, pursuant to appointment, dated the 30th day of March, 1899, and subpoena issued, Mr. MacNeill appearing on behalf of the plaintiffs and Mr. Gait appearing on behalf of defendants. Peter Joyce, sworn, examined by Mr. McNeill. Q.—You are in the employment of the Centre Star Company, Mr. Joyce? A.—Xot at present. Q.—Since what time have you been in their employment? A.—March 30th, present year. Q.—For what length of time prior to March 30th, 1899, were you in the employment of the Centre Star Company? A.—Three years and a half, or more; do not know the exact date. Q.—In what capacity were you employed? A.— Foreman, I suppose. Q.—Foreman of the mine? A.—Yes. Q.—As such foreman, I presume you had charge of the mining operations that have been carried on in the. Centre Star mine? Mr. Gait—I would like to take an objection: This witness is Mr. MacNeill's witness—the plaintiff' witness—and not liable to cross-examination. I must object to cross-examination. Mr. MacNeill—I can do anything I like—cross-examine him—ask him anything. Mr. Gait—In the case of the Golden Cache Company it has been held by Mr. Justice Irving that on an examination of this kind, it is strictly an examination and not a cross examination. Mr. MacNeill—It has been held by the other Judges contrary, but you can take whatever objection you like, any time any objectionable question is asked, it is time enough to argue that then. Mr. Bodwell—I do not suppose you intend to press that objection, Mr. Davis. "You know the cross-cut that was run by the Cen-= tie Star Company from the main workings in a northerly direction into the Iron Mask mineral claim?" A. Yes. You were foreman in charge at the time that wrs being constructed ? A. Yes. About what time was that construction? A. It was begun m December, 1896—late in December or January, 1896. I may be off a year in that—begun as soon as the machinery was put in the Centre Star. It was continued then from the north side line of the Centre Star up to a point that was afterwards referred to as the door at Station N? A. Yes. Q. You know the front referred to? A. Yes. Q. In the Iron Mask ground? A. Yes. Q. From that front a tunnel was run westerly? A. Yes, started westerly. Q. And run for what distance? A. 160 feet approximately. Q. The tunnel was stopped there—you stopped work there? A. Yes, on the supposition that we were in other people's ground. Q. As a matter of fact, you were in the Iron Mask ground then? A. We were not counting the Iron Mask. Q. As a matter of fact, it was in the Iron Mask ground? A. Oh, yes, we knew that. We thought it was the War Eagle, that is why the tunnel was stopped. Q. At what time was that work stopped? A. That tunnel was run in November of the following year after we started the cross-cut you refer to. That is the only one we ran. 13° THE MINING RECORD. Yes I Q. At a front in that tunnel about some 120 iret from the door you referred to, you encountered a large body of ore? A. We encountered an ore body 126 feet. Q. From the door? A. Yes. Q. That is the ore body that has been subsequently referred to as the westerly ore body? A. I presume so. I do not know. Q. You were in charge of the work at the time? A. Yes. Q. How much ore was taken from that point— from that ore body? A. Just the seam of the drift going through it. Q. You do not know how much ore was actually taken; how many loads? A. I do not know exactly, not that I am in a position to swear 10. Q. What was done with the ore taken from that point? A. Sent to the smelter, I believe. Q. By whom? A. By Mr. Durant. Q. For the Centre Star Company? A. Q. And they got returns from it? A. do not know. Q. What smelter did they sent it to A. This question I am not absolutely able to swear to. Q. You were in charge of the work :it the time5 A. Yes, in a way. I was in charge of the workings but not in charge of the ore. What I know about that was told to me. Q. Whatever ore was taken out there was taken by the Centre Star Company from that westerly ore body? A. At that time, yes. Q. And you cannot tell us the number of car loads of ore that was taken out? A. No—cannot positively swear to them. Q. 0r what the net returns were or the gross returns? A. Cannot swear positively to that either. O. Mr. Durant, the manager of the Centre Star Company, is not now in British Columbia? A. I think not. Q. The Centre Star Company cers here at the present time? A. of them. Q. But the old company? A. Oh, no. Q. That is the company I am referring to, the old company that was defendant in the action—they had no other officers here? A. No, no other officers that I know of here. Deposition of Mr. Joyce, marked by the Registrar as Exhibit No. 6. Mr. Bodwell—We have served the other side with notice to produce the smelter returns of the ore which has been referred to in Mr. Joyce's evidence. Have you these returns? Mr. Davis—Here is a statement. (Paper writing- produced by defendant's counsel.) Mr. Bodwell—I understand, Mr. Davis, you have not got the smelter certificates? Mr. Davis—No, we have not. Mr. Bodwell—Do you expect to get them? Mr. Davis—We are perfectly willing to produce them later on if we can get them. The trouble is in knowing what particular ones are the ore, but we will get them later on and consent to your putting them in later on as far as that goes if we can get them. Mr. Bodwell—My friend Mr. Davis and I think we understand each other on this part of the evidence, •11 v Lord. He has tendered me a statement now which have no other offi- Yes, a whole crowd shows—although he has not got the smelter returns— his figures are that the gross amount of ore raker from the Iron Mask workings— The Court—Taken from the Iron Mask? Mr. Bodwell—Taken by the Centre Star where tiiey trespassed upon our ground and took our ore. The Court—That is your claim that that amount of ore was taken within your boundaries? Mr. Bodwell—Yes, well, that is the amount of ore taken at the point in question in Mr. Joyce's evidence. This statement refers to gross value of $6,630 and it is understood at this stage of the case that if the smelter returns or smelter certificates can be obtained during the progress of the trial my friend wili produce them, and that we will have the liberty of putting them in at that time. The Court—I have taken a memorandum of that. Mr. Bodwell—And if these smelter certificates are not produced at any stage during the trial, and we think that we are in a position to increase their value so as to give us a greater amount of damages in case of success that that evidence is to be given and taken as of the same effect as if it were put- in at this stage of the case. Is that right? .Mr. Davis—That is correct, my Lord. The Court—That would be the rule at any event. 1 have taken it down as being ore out of the ground in dispute. Is that right? Mr. Bodwell—Yes, that is right. That is our prima facie case, my Lord. Plaintiffs rest. Mr. Davis—It will be necessary, my Lord, for me to refer in my opening to this model very much, and therefore I think possibly it would be better to give some explanation of it to your Lordship before beginning the opening. You will see that the face of tlie model consists of a plan of portions of the Centre Star. In the plans the Centre Star is referred to. This is No. 1 (indicating) and the northerly one is No. The Court—Is this the one that runs in from the gulch? Mr. Davis—They both run in from the gulch. The base of the model is a plan of a portion of the Centre Star mineral claim, a portion of the Iron Mask mineral claim, and a portion of the War Eagle mineral claim, and it shows all the portions of the Centre Star and Iron Mask mines which are in dispute in this action. These posts show the surface of the ground. The ground you will see is of very much greater altitude at the west side than at the east. This (indicating) is the top of the shaft which is on War Eagle ground, runs up to the surface, this shaft is what has been called No. 3. The inclined shaft running up to surface of the ground in the Centre Star—the 320- foot shaft. This shaft to the east of it also runs down from the surface of the ground, and is called the No. 2 shaft; it is all the way in Centre Star ground. Your Lordship will notice that this (indicating) is the side line between the Centre Star and Iron Mask. This (indicating) is the westerly slope of the Iron Mask running up nearly to the surface; this (indicating) is the easterly stope of the Iron Mask running up to the surface. The Court—Was this stope commenced from below and worked upwards? THE MINING RECORD. Mr. Davis the No -Yes, my Lord. Between the No. 3 and 2 shafts lies the apex or a portion of the apex ot the vein which is in dispute in this case, the vtin we allege runs down to the Iron Mask mineral claim- it is the north fork of the War Eagle vein This working here is brown (indicating) is the south fork of the War Eagle vein. The War Eagle vein over here (indicating) splits—the main War Eagle vein, or the War Eagle vein splits into two forks; the north fork is the one which has been called in this case the Centre Star No. 2 vein; the south fork is this brown level from the surface down to the red tunnel level which is the Iron Mask War Eagle tunnel running through here (indicating) and over to the War Eagle from the surface of these stopes down to that is about 190 feet roughly—the surveyor, of course, will give the exact figures. I am giving you these figures so you will get an idea of the different levels, my Lord. ABSTRACT OF OFFICIAL REPORTS. -This (indicating) is sunk from the top, The Court- then? Air. Davis—Yes, my Lord. The green drift, your Lordship is referring to, goes 100 feet, and then is sunk a winze. That is the drift and there is the winze (indicating). The Court—That is about 70 or 80 feet, is it? Mr. Davis—The main drift is about 100 feet—95 feet to be exact, I think. The Court—You are acquainted with the old plan? I am asking this question for information. On the old model I do not recollect that coming in from the face there. Mr. Davis—That really does not cut much figure in this action, my Lord. The Court—Perhaps that is the reason it was not shown on the model. Air. Davis—Yes. The Court—I am only asking* for information. It will make it much more complicated if I do not understand it thoroughly. ' Air. Davis—You need pay no attention to that at all in this case. j he Court—This is their main tunnel (indicating). That is from the gulch that has been shown on the other plans—the Centre Star. Mr. Davis—Yes, but your Lordship of course understands that the main workings of the Centre Star are over in this direction (indicating), but this is the tunnel that they run in called the No. 2 tunnel. Here (indicating) is what has been called the Iron Mask winze, consisting of two portions running down in the first place from the red level to the yellow level. Now. that red level is the Iron Mask's east drift. The Court—From their main tunnel there? Mr. Davis—Xo, but from here (indicating). This War Eagle Iron Mask tunnel is not run on ore, but this tunnel a little to the south of the Iron Mask-War Eagle tunnel is what is called the Iron Mask east drift. Here is the winze (indicating) they have stoped you see, from that drift right up to the surface. Then there is a cross-cut that is connected with the main War Eagle-Iron Mask tunnel by this cross-cut. This (indicating) is their main tunnel used by both mines under agreement—both the War Eagle and the Iron Mask. The Court—I understand it now. (To be continued.) HIE CROW'S NEST PASS COAL COMPANY, LIMITED. GENERAL MANAGER'S REPORT. DURING the year it has been proved beyond a doubt that this property contains as high a grade of steam and cooking coal as the world produces; and it contains sufficient to meet all the possible requirements of many future generations. It also seems clear that your coal is the only first-class steam and cooking coal within a reasonable distance of the vast ore deposits of British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and Washington. Further, you will undoubtedly be able to place coke on the Pacific Coast as soon as you have a surplus to spare for that market. Rear. Admiral Palliser, of the British Navy, tested the coal, and reported as follows on April 13th, 1899: "We are happy to say it has been found most satisfactory, so much so, that I have written to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty recommending its use." Smelters are being erected at Greenwood and Grand Forks, and the latter smelter should be ready to use our coke by April or May. One special feature of the Fernie coal is, that the engines using it, throw no sparks. This is a very valuable property for the coal to possess, because prairie fires are invariably started through sparks falling on the dry grass from passing engines. This will specially commend the coal for use on the railroad, even in sections where, owing to high freight rates, other coal might be cheaper. The timber area of your land is also most valuable, as it contains sufficient timber for all future mining requirements, and also for the requirements of 'the neighbouring country for building purposes. There is also a quantity of land which will be fit for agricultural purposes, and I make this statement after close observation during the summer and fall months. During the year the total output has been as follows: Coal total, 116,200 tons; coke total, 29,658 tons. During the past year you have had to contend with the difficulties which are always met with in the development of a new plant. The difficulties are exceptionally great in opening up a coal mine in a region like the Rocky Mountains, where it is impossible to take borings through the strata, or to locate the position of a seam ahead of the working places. The only sure and successful method of working a mine is to keep the headings or main haulways at least one thousand feet ahead of the working places or rooms where the main body of the coal is being mined. It would be still better if these headings were at least half a mile ahead of the workings. In this way you could lay out the workings to suit the varying conditions of the vein. Until quite recently it has been absolutely impossible to do this, owing to the enormous demand for both coal and coke, which made it necessary to push every available working place to its full capacity; but as the mine opens out and enlarges, you are enabled to push these main tunnels ahead of the workings and thus locate all changes in the general condition of the coal in ample time so that the coal can be mined to the best possible advantage and at the least possible expense. 132 THE MINING RECORD. Owing to the unfortunate labour troubles in British Columbia, arising from the enforcement of the eight- jhour law, all the smelters are shut down, and we are obliged to look for a new market for our coke in the United States. During a recent visit to Montana, 1 succeeded in securing an order for three thousand tons of coke from the Boston & Montana Company, which is the largest consumer of coke in the State of Montana. If we are able to sell coke at a price not exceeding 20 to 25 per cent, higher than any other Western coke, we can always secure the order, as our coke is supe'rior by far to any Western coke, and has been proved by actual test to be 5 per cent, superior to the celebrated Pocahontas coke of West Virginia, which took the premium at the World's Fair in Chicago. The present indications show that the labour troubles will soon be overcome, and you will have a very largely increased demand for both coal and coke throughout British Columbia, as the merits of your product are making it a standard fuel in the West. During the present year you should build whatever additional coke ovens may be necessary to meet the British Columbia demands, and also have at least 100 ovens, with the product of which you can work up a permanent business in the adjoining States. Arrangements are now being made with the C.P.R. to store a large supply of coal during the summer months, which will in future greatly relieve the difficulties which were experienced last fall in securing cars and transportation during the busy wheat season. THE BEND 'OR MINES, LIMITED. DIRECTORS' REPORT. Your directors have much pleasure in laying before you their report covering the operations of the company from the date of incorporation to the 31st day of January, 1900. Until the proceeds of the first clean-up supplied the necessary funds, the management, overcame difficulties which at times seemed insurmountable, and may now congratulate itself upon presenting the accompanying financial statement, confident in assuring you that all indebtedness of the company will be liquidated by the proceeds of the first three months' milling of the approaching season. Had it not been necessary to shut down on account of frost, from the night of the first of December last, there is no doubt that by this time the company would be out of debt. This, considering the amount of development done since the incorporation of the company, might well be looked upon as phenomenal. In addition to the development of the mine, which has been pursued without a single check since 1st October, 1898, a ten-stamp mill, water power, gravity tramway, etc., have been installed at a cost of approximately $30,000, without encroaching on the treasury stock of the company except to the extent of 4,000 shares. Referring back to the date of incorporation of the company, viz., 1st October, 1898, it is the intention of your retiring directors to, without going into details, explain the operations of the company during the period they were looking after your interests. As you are all aware from the prospectus, the property of the company was purchased from the Bend 'Or Syndicate for the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars in cash and the balance in shares at par. This cash payment was to be supplied by the sale of 100,000 shares (called the first issue) at 50 cents. Owing to the bad state of the local stock market, only 33,900 of these shares were disposed of and the syndicate offering to.accept the remaining 66,100 shares in lieu of cash, they were handed them in full settlement of their claim. The treasury stock, viz., 100,000 shares, was placed on the English market at par, and it was confidently expected that a large number would be disposed of at once. The result, however, was disappointing, although several large sales were on the eve of consummation, they were rendered abortive in more than one instance by adverse reports from unreliable local sources. However, the development work never ceased, and a contract was entered into with the William Hamilton Manufacturing Company, of Peterboro, Ontario, for the furnishing and installation of a modern ten- stamp mill, water power sufficient to develop 100 horse power, and gravity tramway from mine to mill, for the sum of $26,157. The fulfilment of this contract was considered almost an impossible undertaking, owing to the fact that your property being situated in a very inaccessible district, the only communication being mountain trails. However, thanks to the indefatigable energy of the contractors this feat was accomplished without the loss or breaking of a single piece of machinery. The total weight of machinery packed a distance of about 70 miles from Lillooet was in the neighbourhood of 700,000 pounds. The installation was completed in accordance with the contract, and the stamps were dropped for the first time on the 24th August, 1899. Everything worked smoothly, and the power developed was found to be much in excess of our present requirements; in fact, the water wheel, with quarter gate opening, developed sufficient power to operate the mill and crusher, consequently we have ample power for an additional ten-stamp and a five-drill air compressor should the occasion arise. The first clean-up took place on the 16th September, after crushing 460 tons, which produced 383.04 ounces of gold, realizing $6,358.00. The second clean-up occurred on the 6th October, the result of which was, viz.: Tons crushed, 316; result, 462.84 ounces of gold, realizing $7,692.40. The third clean-up was on the 31st October, after crushing 366 tons, producing 433.94 ounces, value S7.191.38. On the 30th November the fourth clean-up was made, 455 tons having been crushed during the month, giving 271.74 ounces, value $4,423.92. The ore put through on this last run was taken from the large new ledge which was encountered on the 30th October, and which, owing to its size and position, admitted of easy mining. Having no appliances at the time for assaying, it was not discovered until towards the end of the month that the new ledge did not carry the high values of the old, only averaging about 12 dwts. to the ton. This, as a test of the new reef, was very satisfactory, but as money was required, it was unfortunate, as the results could easily have been made larger than the previous outputs, had the ore been taken from the old reef. On the night of the first of December (owing to THE MINING RECORD. i33 heavy frosts) the water in the service pipe leading from the flume to the mill froze and operations had to be discontinued. This difficulty we hope to remedy next season. The fifth and last clean-up of the season was for a run of one day on the 1st of December before the water was frozen, when 20 tons were crushed, producing 19.74 ounces, which realized $288.82. RECAPITULATION. Mill ran 7Q days, ij hours, crushing 1 557 tons Producing gold Ij57i.3 ozs. 7ra «»e $25,954.62 Value per ton of total crushings 16.66 Value per ton of crushings from main reef 19.54 Total cost of mining and milling per ton, after charging up 10 per cent, of the total cost of development to date 5.47 WATER. The company has applied for and obtained from the Government a lease for sufficient water at an annual rental of $7.00. This puts the cost for power per stamp per annum at 70 cents. (Steam power costs in the neighbourhood of $700 per stamp per annum.) PROPERTY. In addition to the original mineral claims of the company, which have since been Grown granted, it was decided to purchase the Mabel Fraction, which you will see by reference to the plan was very advisable, owing to its proximity to the lower workings. This was acquired on the 16th October, for a consideration of $2,550.00 cash, and a Crown grant has been applied for. At the same time it was decided to take a bond on the Alhambra group for $20,000, one thousand dollars cash. In fact, this was one of the conditions of the purchase of the Mabel Fraction (the owners being identical). Unfortunately the survey of the Alhambra took away so much of the property that it was not considered worth while going further in the matter. We might state that the lowest price previously obtainable on the Alabel was $3,500.00, so that the company really acquired it at its lowest market value, leaving out of consideration altogether the possibility of the Alhambra, and your directors feel justified in charging the whole amount to property account. DEVELOPMENT WORK ON NO. I TUNNEL. Work on this tunnel has been continued without interruption, and the tunnel has been driven 530 feet on the ledge. Three hundred feet in stoping was commenced. A parallel ledge was encountered 60 feet up in the stope, which after merging into the old ledge gave a width of fully five feet. An upraise from that point to the surface proves that the ledge carries its full width all the way, and furnished the company with a splendid reserve of ore. We are now opening a new stope, and the manager reports that at 20 feet up he had encountered a splendid body of ore, giving an average value of $38.00 per ton in free gold, and has since raised an additional 25 feet, the ledge holding its width and value. A cross-cut has been run in a westerly direction from No. 1 tunnel to strike the new ledge at that level. This was encountered at a distance of 32 feet, and some 15 feet of drifting on the ledge was done in each direction. NO. 2 LEVEL, LOWER TUNNEL. A cross-cut was run in to tap the ledge at a depth of 76 feet below the upper tunnel, and we are pleased to report that the reef was encountered at a distance . of 236 feet in. Since then we have driven on the ledge a distance of 142 feet without encountering a break or fault of any kind, the reef at no point being less than 12 inches in width and showing free gold quite freely. Samples taken across the ledge from time to time give the following results: $64, $62, $87, $38, etc., and an average sample taken all over this drive of intervals of every five feet after all visible gold has been carefully picked out, gave the splendid average of $20.60 per ton, and an amalgamation test made by Air. Pel- lew-Harvey shows that it goes ioo per cent, free milling. We are now raising to connect both levels at a point indicated on the plan, and no doubt this work has been completed. The last report from your manager states that he has both levels connected all but 14 feet. This will facilitate the handling of ore from the upper level, thereby saving the company considerable time and money, which are the economical factors in managing a mine. We now estimate that there is at the present 8,000 tons of ore blocked out in the mine (without taking into consideration the large body of ore of the lower grade shown up in the new reef) which can be safely counted on running $20.00 to the ton. All preliminary expenses have been written off during the period ending 31st January, 1900, and also several expenses which might have been treated either as capital and expenditure or spread over several years, but which your directors decided to write off. ATHABASCA GOLD MINES, LIMITED. This company assumed control of the property on April 13th, 1898, and as this is the first annual report which it has devolved upon me to make, I have included the financial statements and in the detailed engineering report the whole period from that date until January 1st, 1900. The period (from April 13th, 1898, to January 1st, 1900) has been one of active development of the mine. At the commencement of the year the mine was not in a condition to furnish a sufficient supply of first class ore to the mill, and we were forced to be content with a mixed grade of ore which gave fairly satisfactory results, but which afforded no indication of what could be accomplished if sufficient ground had been open to enable an adequate supply of first class ore to be mined. The figures of the statistical tables show the steadily improving results which were obtained by this vigorously and persistently maintained policy of development. These figures show that a steady improvement has been maintained, and are an encouragement to proceed along these lines with increased energy. Fortunately the completion of our air compressor will enable us to carry out this policy effectually, and I am convinced that the rapid work which two or three drills will be able to do during the next few months, will, later, result in an increase of produce. 'A imF~ 134 THE MINING RECORD. The operations of the year have been marred by only one unfortunate feature, the scarcity of labour which was experienced after the dislocation of the labour situation by the precipitate enactment of the eight-hour law for underground workers in metalliferous mines. The introduction of this measure is a matter of history and does not come within the scope of this report; but the situation created was one which caused grave anxiety to all who were responsible for the proper conduct of the company's affairs, and called for patience and forbearance in carrying out the measures which were deemed advisable for the protection of its interests, and for the maintenance of harmonious relations with the men. As is usual under such circumstances, a compromise was arrived at; reasonable concessions were offered by the company, and equally reasonable concessions were required of the men; and the result was, that after a few weeks' hesitation, the men cheerfully recognized the justice of the company's position and work has been carried on . without any further delay. The months of June and July (as will be seen in the various tables submitted herewith) reflect the situation with clearness: but the success of the policy adopted is evidenced by Table II., which shows that the number of men employed underground never fell in any one month below an average of thirty-five per diem, and also that the month of August found matters practically re-established along normal lines. With these facts in mind, the operations of the year may be reviewed with satisfaction: for a profit of $31,504.55 has been realized on working expenses under conditions which may be described as unfavourable. Not only has this profit been realized on the books, but the property has experienced an improvement (not so easily shown but equally important) by the superior efficiency in which all the departments are now found. Development can be' made more effective, and the production and reduction of the ore can be more effectively carried on, with the result that a better produce will follow. MINE. During the year 1,275 feet of development work has been done, as follows: 720 feet of drifts, 360 feet of • crosscuts, 165 feet of raises, and 30 feet of winzes. 5,^50 tons of ore have been mined and sent to the mill, 200,000 tons of waste have been mined and thrown over the dumps, and a further large quantity of waste has been holed in the stopes from which the ore has been removed. This work has been carried on entirely by hand labour in hard ground. Altogether about 40,000 tons of ore and waste have been handled at a total cost of $74,824.35, including all cost of labour, material, supervision, and sundries; or at a cost of $1.87 per ton. The character of the vein is unusual. The strike of the vein on the surface is approximately at right angles to the strike of the vein in the main tunnel, and the explanation of this unusual feature seems to be connected in some manner not yet fully understood with the numerous faults which cause frequent dis- displacements of the vein. If it is possible to conceive of these faults having a greater and greater throw as they proceed farther from some central p'.int, an a- planation would be obtained of the situation which seems to prevail. The vein dips at a very shallow angle from the horizontal. The angle of dip varies from "horizontal" to 30 degrees from the horizontal. The definition of the limits of the ore chute proper has been confused by the peculiar system of faulting, and this problem has not yet been completely solved. Having regard only to certain points of information, it appears to be dipping along the line of strike at an angle of about 10 degrees from the horizontal; but it is quite possible that this theory will require to be reconsidered when a fuller knowledge of the faulting system is attained. It is likely that as depth is gained the character of the ground will be less broken, and indications are not wanting that below the present main tunnel this will be the case, and also that the pitch of the vein will be greater than hitherto. Improvements in these two respects will be of the greatest importance, as the cost of mining the ore and of handling the ore after mining will be materially decreased. A further decrease in mining cost can be looked fpr from the installation of the compressor plant, whereby the development and exploratory work can be kept well in advance. , j |_| The high values obtained from the preliminary shipments to the smelter, of sorted ore, and fr iin the assays made during development, raised hopes of high figures being obtained in the mine, and in this respect our hopes had not been disappointed. Owing to the proper development of the mine at the commencement of the year, and the interruptions caused by the scarcity of miners during the summer, we have been able to only partially demonstrate .he values of the ore in practice; but the months of November and December are indications of what can be done under more favourable conditions; during these months values of $29.86 and $30.25 (respectively) were recovered in the mill. It is of the utmost importance that development work should be pushed beyond the confines of the present ore zone; indications of a special and of a general character are sufficiently encouraging to warrant extensive work of an exploratory character, both in drifting and in cross-cutting, and I urge that these should be carried out independently of the development of the ore body as already known. It has been found necessary to use greater caution in timbering than heretofore. The formation lies in parallel bands of ground which is dry and tight and easy to hold up, and of ground which is exactly the reverse. Nothing but stulls is used, and the waste is kept filled in the stopes as close as possible to the working faces. It is satisfactory to record the fact that the year has passed without an accident of any kind, either in or outside the mine. GRAVITY TRAMMING. This important factor in handling the ore has proved entirely satisfactory. Great care has been exercised in watching the details and keeping the track in proper condition, wtih the result that no accidents have occurred and no repairs except to running gear have been necessary. 5,350 tons have been handled on this tramway at a cost of $1,090.40, or at the rate of 20J cents per ton, which figures include all cost of supervision. Besides handling the ore this tramway also transports all the supplies, provisions and lumber required at the mine, the cost of which is included in the above figures. REDUCTION. The 10-stamp mill has worked during the year 353 days and 6 hours and has been idle during the year 11 THE MINING RECORD. '35 days and 18 hours. The causes of delays were as fol- lows. t7„_ i„ Days. Hours, ror clean-ups 7 Owing to freezing of water supply in February x 22 Dominion Day, holiday I2 Owing to break in flume on December F28*; 08 -t or other causes 02 It will be seen that for causes connected with the mdl there have been only two hours delay from the beginning to the end of the year and including all sources of delay, except clean-ups, only three days and twenty hours delay. This is a record for which thpse who are responsible for the cate of the mill are entitled to credit. The figures submitted on Table T. are full, and from them the history of the year's working can be studied in detail. From the commencement of the year a steady improvement was effected all along the line until June, when a drop took place owing to causes recited above; from this time until the end of the year there was a steady upward movement, the best results being obtained in November, when 388 tons were milled, producing $11,592.50 or at the rate of $29.86; if this month can be compared with December, it will be seen $30.25 were recovered in the latter month, but only 344 tons were milled; from a consideration of these figures it will be seen that it is only necessary by development to bring a sufficient quantity of ore to the mill to ensure satisfactory results. The average fineness of the bullion for the first five months is 696 parts fine gold in every thousand parts of bullion, and the average fineness of the bullion during the last five months is 733 in one thousand; the value of the bullion during the first named period is $14.38 per ounce, and during the second named period is $15.15 per ounce. The percentage of recovery in the mill has been, on the whole, satisfactory considering the character of the ore treated, and if the ore under consideration were of a low grade character, it would not be necessary to do more than improve, where possible, the concentrating plant. When ore of forty or fifty dollars per ton, however, is under consideration, the loss of 25 per cent, of these values is serious. Preliminary steps were promptly taken with a view to ascertaining whether the cyanide process could be adapted to our needs and the results of these were so satisfatcory that a small experimental cyanide plant was erected in the mill where the process could be observed under our own care. In the meantime a substantial dam has been built in a convenient location and the tailings are being accumulated for subsequent treatment. ASSAYS. A convenient assay office has been furnished in which are made daily the following assays of the previous day's run: 1. Sample of ore prior to milling. 2. Sample of pulp after amalgamation. 3. Sample of tailings. 4. Sample of concentrates. The samples are taken hourly with great care and the results harmonize closely with the results attained in practice, and the system affords much help to the successful operation of the mill. Frequent assays are also made of samples from the mine, especially from the points of development. Check assays are made of the shipments of ore and concentrates to the smelter, and numerous other assays which occur in the course of special work which may be undertaken from time to time. CYANIDE TESTS. A rough cyanide plant has been erected of a sufficient size to furnish tests on a working scale and sufficiently numerous to be conclusive in their results. These experiments have been carried on under the direction of Mr. E. A. Paterson, who has had many years' experience in the cyanide plants of the Transvaal. Reference is made to Table V., where the results of the four last experiments made as shown. Experiments VI., VII., VIII are especially satisfactory'; the percentage of recovery is high and the quantity of cyanide consumed is small. In order to carry the experiments through to the end, a zinc box was arranged and the gold precipitated in it; after which a clean-up was made resulting in a recovery of bullion which corresponded closely with the assay figures. Regarding the proportion of slimes which we cannot treat with the tailings, our figures are not complete, but from an observation of the catch boxes it would appear that it will not be necessary to allow more than 10 to 15 per cent, of the slimes to escape to obtain as good results as those shown in the table. Whether the quantity of slimes thus allowed to escape will be worth catching and treating in a separate slimes plant will depend upon the quantity of ore being treated in the mill. The conclusions to be drawn from the above remarks are that the cyanide process is especially adapted to our tailings, and that these tailings should yield a net profit over and above all expenses of not less than $5.00 per ton. An admirable site exists below our mill, and T strongly urge that plans should be immediately prepared for the erection of this plant, so that its completion may be insured before the capacity of the dam is exhausted. The treatment of the concentrates by this method is a matter for later consideration, but it is not improbable that the process can be adapted to this purpose and thereby effect an important economy. COMPRESSOR. The machinery for this plant arrived at the end of the year, and at this date is now running. The full decription of this plant will be found in Mr. Mussen's report, and it is too soon yet to discuss the performance of the machinery. I have great hopes that the introduction of the machine drills will be the means of solving many of our difficulties, and that after they have been in operation for a few months the development of the mine will justify the addition to the mill of another battery of ten stamps. The entire work of engineering, general management, purchase of supplies, correspondence, office and book-keeping at the mine and the mill site, is carried on by one engineer (or general manager) one assistant, and one time-keeper; when the number of men employed is considered* the varied character of the work and the area over which it is scattered, it will be seen that strong effort has been made to reduce the number of non-producers to the lowest possible limit. The vein has fully answered our hopes in values, even if the breaks have rendered its extraction more «^»i»y 136 THE MINING RECORD. costly than was expected. With increased depth and with mechanical appliances for mining, the mine ought to be within six months in a condition to supply a second battery of ten stamps; under which circumstances the net recovery from the cyanide plant alone would be sufficient to pay a substantial dividend. It is satisfactory to be able to point to results achieved as confirming the faith reposed in the mine when developments were more scanty, and these results are a justification for making such provision as may be necessary to increase the capacity and resources of the property, so that its possibilities may be fully realized. I have referred to the erection of ten more stamps, but I do not assign that as the limit of extension. Natural conditions encourage us to believe that by exploratory development work the resources of the mine may be many times increased, and this view is held by eminent visiting geologists. This work can only be carried on, in our case, under-ground, and I strongly recommend that it be energetically undertaken. In conclusion I wish to record my appreciation of the zeal and energy shown by all the employees of the . company in executing the various duties assigned to them. The thanks of the company are especially due to Mr. H. Mussen, in the engineering department; Mr. F. Vans Agnew, in the assay office; Mr. A. Con- stans, in the mill and Air. A. Hackshaw in the mine. E. NELSON FELL, A.R.S.M. TEN-STAMP MILL. The ore in the bin at the foot of the three-rail gravity tramway is run into a car and weighed. It is then trammed into the mill and dumped over a 4'xio' Grizzly, with tapered section bars 2" apart. The material refused by this passes a 7"xio" Blake crusher, running at 250 revolutions, and joins the fine ore in the 50-ton bin below. From this bin it passes into the hoppers of two automatic Challenge feeders, and is delivered to the stamps at any speed desired. The battery frame is of the front.knee type with 12" X24" battery posts. The mortar blocks are constructed of 2" planks, 12' long, set on end. These are dressed and accurately fitted, and are spiked together with wire nails. They rest on a foundation of cement, and have sand rammed tightly around them to the surface. The mortars are of the Homestake pattern, without liners and weigh 6,000 lbs each. Between the mortars and the mortar blocks is a piece of |- inch rubber. The guides are of maple and are sectional. The front half of guide is separately bolted through the back, to the guide rail with two bolts held by spring steel nuts. The upper guides are 13! inches long and the lower are 15! inches long. The stems are of steel,- and weigh 395 lbs. The tappets are three keyed, of cast steel, and weigh 95 lbs. The bosses or stamp heads are of cast iron, and weigh 265 lbs. The shoes are of forged steel, and weigh 175 lbs. Crushing weight of stamps,* 930 lbs. The cams are of cast steel, and are of the Blanton pattern. The camshaft is of hammered iron, 6 inches in diameter. It turns in open boxes, and is placed in front of the battery posts. The camshaft pulley is of wood and is belted to a friction clutch pulley, so that the rest of the machinery in the mill may be run without turning the camshaft. The screens used are of the diagonal slot type, of punched Russian iron. Running over the battery on a track, is a crawl which supports a one-ton differential pulley by which means the stamps can be quickly and easily lifted for setting tappets, etc. All the copper plates are electroplated with 1.5 oz. silver per square foot. There are two plates inside the mortars, a back plate 52^x11 inches and a chuck block plate 51x4 inches. Both these are 3-16 of an inch thick. Outside the mortars is a lip plate 5ix8x 3-16 of an inch thick. The front plates or aprons are 65x120x^ of an inch thick. After leaving the aprons, the pulp passes through two mercury traps placed beneath the floor and thence to the Brown hydrometer sizers. There are three of these, made of vitrified clay; the product of each and the overflow from the last going to four vanners. The waterfeed for the sizers and vanners comes from an overflow tank placed outside the mill on the level of the camshaft floor. The vanners are of the Frue type, and consist of three plain 6-foot belts for the finer grades of pulp, and a Morse corrugated 4-foot belt for the coarse material. A 30-inch clean-up pan is placed on the main floor, and is found invaluable for grinding the sand taken from around the dies at clean-up. The vanner room, which is the coldest part of the building, has been lined and the walls now consist of three inches of wood, one thickness of building paper, and 8 inches of sawdust. In winter the mill is heated by steam supplied by a 15 h.p upright boiler. The steam is conducted through the building in 1 inch and i-J- inch pipes, with coils placed at intervals. The mill is constructed entirely of wood, the retaining walls being of masonry. The power is supplied by two Tutthill impact water- wheels working under a head of 398 feet. The smaller wheel is 12 inches in diameter and, with 17^ cubic feet of water per minute, is capable of developing 11J h.p., making 1,500 revolutions per minute. It runs only the vanners, thus giving them a motion independent of the rest of the mill. When the mill is shut down for clean-up this wheel runs the clean-up pan which is belted to the vanner line shaft. The larger wheel is 24 inches in diameter and, with a consumption of 93 cubic feet per minute, can develop 5&J h.p., running at the rate of 765 revolutions per minute. It runs the rest of the mill. The water is supplied to the nozzels by offsets from a 16" receiver which forms the end of the pipe line. This pipe is 850 feet long and 10 inches in diameter. It is made of riveted sheet steel, is asphalt dipped and is put together with slip joints. The water enters it from a 6x6x12 foot pressure box which is fitted with submerged screen, overflow and sand trap. The flume, which is 24x20 inches iflside, is 2,350 feet long and is built on a 0.2 per cent, grade. Its capacity is about 725 cubic feet per minute. It is built of dressed cedar with tarred joints. The 3x4-inch cross ties rest on stringers and mudsills of split cedar. This understructure is filled with earth to the bottom boards in order to inseure against cold. Two sets of waste-gates are placed along the line, one near each end. THE MINING RECORD. nfTwM? fif,ntfrS-tie flume from a dam constructed of cribbing filled with rock and clay, with two thick- nefses of sheet piling driven into the clay on the upper side, I he distance from the lowest mudsill to the crest of the weir, which is 18 feet long, is 8 feet The length of the dam from wing to wing is about 50 feet Ai the machinery in the mill, with the exception of the water wheels and boiler, was supplied by Messrs hraser & Chalmers, of Chicago. The water wheels were supplied by the Oakland Iron Works, of Oakland. California, and the boiler was supplied by the Jenckes Machine Co., of Sherbrooke, Quebec. AIR COMPRESSOR. In order to use for power the water running to waste from the mill wheels, the compressor was placed about 1,000 feet down the gulch. The plant consists of one half of a Rand Duplex class D compressor, with the Dodge system of rope power-transmission from the water wheel. The compressor is mounted on a good concrete foundation, with bolts set for the other half. The cylinder is 14x22 inches, and the fly wheel, which is also the driving wheel, is 10 feet in diameter. The distance between the centres of the fly wheel and the pulley on the water wheel shaft is about 60 feet, and the difference in elevation about 20 feet. The transmission rope is 4- strand Manilla, and passes eight times round the pulleys in V grooves which prevent slipping. It also passes over a winder pulley and a tightener. The water wheel is a four-foot Pelton and works under a head of 300 feet. The water is conveyed to it from the flume in a 10-inch sheet steel spiral riveted pipe, with flanged joints. The length of the pipe is about 750 feet. The pressure box at the head of the pipe is 6x6x8 feet, and contains sand-trap, submerged screen and overflow. The flume, which extends from this point to the mill, is about 1,100 feet long. It is built on a 0.4 per cent, grade and has a capacity of about 500 cubic feet per minute. It is built of dressed cedar. The sides are held tightly against the edges of the bottom boards by wedges which can be tightened if necessary. The understructure is the same as that of the mill flume. A set of waste gates is placed in a convenient gulley near the pressure box. At the upper end of the flume is a box 4x2x6 feet. This box receives the water from the mill wheels as well as the water from a small flume 500 feet long, which collects water from the main creek and from small streams along the way. The flume is built of rough 1 inch boards, on a 2.0 per cent, grade, and has a capacity of about 400 cubic feet per minute. .' The air as it comes from the compressor, is discharged into a receiver 10 feet long and 42 inches in diameter, which is placed in the back part of the building. From this it is conveyed to the mine in 3,500 feet of 5-inch pipe of the kind known as casing. This pipe is thin steel, and has a brass thread instead of the usual standard. Its chief advantages are that it is cheaper and much lighter to haul than standard pipe, and, where it is used for a permanent line, it is quite satisfactory. The line is fitted with flanged joints at frequent intervals, and has two expansion joints along it. ' The compressor and receiver are housed in a two- storey building, 20x30 feet. The upper storey has living rooms for the engineer in charge. The rope drive is well protected by a building six feet wide, and the water wheel shaft is enclosed in a building 12x16 feet. This plant was supplied by the Canadian Rand Drill Company, of Sherbrooke, Quebec. TRAMWAY. The ore is brought from the mine to the mill on a three-rail gravity tramway. The cable is § of an inch in diameter, and is of crucible steel, by Roebling & Sons, and has a breaking strain of 13 tons. The cars are of a nominal capacity of two tons each. The bodies are of hardwood, lined with heavy sheet steel, and reinforced outside with heavy bands of wrought iron. The wheels and axles are of the Anaconda type, and run very smoothly. At the head of the tramway is a 50-ton ore-bin. Placed directly under this is the brake which is of the usual three-wheeled type, with rubber lined sheaves and two wood shod band brakes. The rails weigh 12 lbs. to the yard, and are spiked directly to the hewed surface of the three stringers which run from bent to bent. The bents, which are composed of a mud-sill, two posts, and a cap, average about 12 feet apart, and are of a minimum height of four feet and a maximum of about 10 feet. They are securely cross-braced and braced to one another and to stumps near by, with poles. The timbers used in the bents and stringers are of a minimum thickness of 10 inches. At the bottom of the tram is a 150-ton bin into which the cars dump automatically. The bin at the head of the tramway is fitted with balanced gates, operated with a lever. This bin is filled by a chute into which the mine cars dump directly. At the lower end of the tramway is about 200 feet of light snow shed, but other than this, no such protection is required. The length of the tramway is 2,150 feet, and the difference in elevation between the top and the bottom is 1,120 feet. The grades on the line are such as to not only permit of a load of 1,000 lbs. being hauled up without any undue loading of the descending car, but also to make any speeding of the cars above the ordinary rate unnecessary at any part of the line. The lower end of the tramway requires no attention other than to load freight. The work of maintenance is performed by the man in charge of the brake. This, however, only takes a few hours of his time per week, and consists chiefly in replacing the wooden rollers which support the rope along the line. Judging from its performance under present conditions, we estimate that without unduly taxing its capacity, this tramway will lower 75 tons per ten-hour shift, or 150 tons per day, when running steadily. At this duty, allowing $7.00 per diem for service and $3.00 per diem for repairs, cost of rope and general maintenance, the cost of ore handled would be 6§ cents per ton. TAILINGS DAM. This is situated below the mill. It consists of two parallel walls of logs about 7 feet apart, and measures 128 feet along the front and 29 feet on each wing. As originally built, the front wall had an average height of 12 feet, and at this height the capacity when levelled off, is about 1,000 tons of tailings. Several small additions have been made, however, so that the capacity is now about 1,500 tons, and others will be made as the occasion demands, until the present capacity is at least doubled. TELEPHONES. Three separate lines are maintained, one from the >*■> 138 THE MINING RECORD. general office to Nelson, which is owned and kept in repair by the Telephone Company, one from the general office to the office at the mine, and one from the lower ore-bin to the ore-bin at the head of the tramway. Both of these lines are the property of this company. ROADS AND TRAILS. A waggon road 21,000 feet long, built on a uniform 5 per cent, grade, extends from a point on the Hall Mines road, about || miles from Nelson, to the mill. This road was built in the spring of 1898, according to Government specifications, and was accepted by the Government engineer. A sleigh road on a steep grade connects the main waggon road and the mine. In the spring of 1898 this was straightened and repaired. At the present time, however, this road is little used, as all freight is taken up to the mine in the tramway. A road about 500 feet long, built on a 10 per cent, grade, runs from the vanner room to the main road above. Over this all the concentrates are hauled away direct to the smelter. Blacksmith shop, 22x16 feet, built of lumber. Shaft house, 25x16 feet, built of lumber. This encloses the gallows frame and the boiler and hoist. Powder magazine, 10x15 feet inside. It is built of logs, with earth and rock piled over walls and roof. The stores of powder are kept here. Powder Thawer: This is a light log building, 8'xio' and is situated on the waste dump near the mouth of the main tunnel. In it is thawed the powder for immediate use. Timber Shed: This is an open structure, about 55X 25 feet, and serves the double purpose of a shed for framing timbers and a snow shed to protect the tracks and switches at the entrance to the main tunnel. Also the following additions and improvements have been made: To Boarding House—This was practically rebuilt, as it was double roofed and walled with lumber, and additions made as follows: At south end a 16x16 foot addition for wash room; at north a 16x12 foot addition for cook and waiter's quarters; at west side an addi- REDUCTION REPORT FOR PERIOD, JAN. 1st, 1899, TO JAN. 1st, 1900. Days and hours working . "' idle for clean up ... " idle for other cause . Tons milled Ozs. Amalaram recovered Ozs. melted bullion Fineness of bullion Jan. Feb. March. April. May. 30d 07b 29d llh 30d 09h Value at mint Value of bullion per ton of ore milled Tons of concentrates Peroent'ge of concentrates recovered per ton of ore milled Gross value of concentrates, gold and silver only Value of concentrates per ton of oremilled Total values recovered Total values recovered per ton of ore milled Value of tailings Percentage of recovery 30d 07h 25d 08h .. Od 17h| Od 18h Od 17h Ort I3h Od OOh ld 22b Od OOh Od OOh 713 422 465 412 1872 3 2240.7 2364.0 2364.3 304.70 466.80 552.70 557.90 709.0 I 713.5 698.0 J 656.5 267 0 | 257.0 256.0 307.0 $4487 70 $6909 63 $8006 92 $7627 42 June. July. Aug. 6 28 28.25 16 37 33.50 7.9 17 22' 46.75 $1052 34 $1545 08|$2125 65 t 47 5540 04 7 76 3 00 72.0 3 6C 4 57 8454 7110132 57 20 03 21 79 8 20 7 27 71.0 ' 75.0 18 51 46.00 11.1 $2215 52 5 9842 94 23 89 7 14 77.0 Od 13h Od 02h 404 2726.4 604.10 707.0 I 250.0 I 17 21 93 41.25 10.2 $2190 10 542 11050 27 27 35 8 06 77.2 29d 08b. 29d 21h Od 16h Od 15h 0d OOh Od 12h 609 114-.7 256.50 692.0 S55.0 6 06 29.25 14 $3394 91 8 70 ' 25.00 $1468 56 2 41 5158 70 390 979.5 234.30 698.5 245.0 fOd 12h Od 12h 0d OOh 430 2U3.2 452.00 738.0 233.0 $6918 4 16 07 38.50 29d llh 30d 13h 6.4 8.9 $1412 35 $2077 33 3 62 4 82 4807 26 8995 80 12 32 20 89 4 68 8 02 72.5 I 72.3 Sept. Oct. Od 13h Od OOh 416 2256.8 503.40 713.5 256.0 $7453 55 17 88 39.75 9.5 $2185 27 5 24 9638 82 23 17 8 S 74.0 0d llh Od OOh 357 2303.0 482.00 746.5 256.0 29d 03h 0d 21h Od OOh 388 2812.8 591.51 750.0 228.0 Dec. 28d 16h ld OOh ld 08h 344 2415 3 525.81 720 0 238.0 $7460 93 $9203 03|$7852 66 11.6 $2553 89 .7 42 10406 55 20 86 33.25 23 72| 43.00 9.3 11.1 $1905 77 $2389 47 5 32 9366 70 6 14 11592 50 26 18 29 86 353 days 6 hrs. 7 days 22 hrs. 3 davs 20 hrs. 5350 25897.0 J5581.-72 712.0 251.0 $81,865 53 15 30 444.50 7 f 76.8 I 741 75.4 13 87 $23,121 33 4 32 104,986 86 19 62 7 45 Summary of Produce from Sept. i, 1898, to January t, 1900. Bullion recovered during 1898 $13,744 26 *' " " 1899 81,865 53 $95,609 79 Concentrates recovered during 1898 2,>-96 58 " " ." 1899 23,12133 26.U7 91 Value of crude ore shipped during 1898 2,063 64 I " a 1899 298 61 2,362 25 Total value of produce from all sources Nelson, B. C, Jan. 15,1900. A steep "skid" road was built in the spring of 1899 from the waggon road to the compressor. This road is about 800 feet long, and was used for hauling machinery and lumber to the compressor. MINE BUILDINGS. The buildings at the mine on May 1st, 1898, comprised the following: Office, 10x15 feet, built of logs. Bunk house, 16x24 feet, built of logs. Boarding house, 16x24 feet, built of logs. Ore sorting house, 15x15 feet, built of logs. Between that date and January 1st, 1900, the following have been added to the list: New office, 15x20 feet, built of logs. Foreman's house, 17x25 feet, built of logs. Bunk house, 62x24 feet. This building is of lumber and is situated on a flat bench a short distance below the mine. It contains 11 sleeping rooms and a sitting room. Each sleeping room accommodates four men, and has a separate entrance from the six-foot verandah which runs along both sides of the building. This enables miners coming off shift to go to their rooms without disturbing those sleeping. $124,089 95 E. NELSON FELL, A. R. S. M. tion 12x38 feet for kitchen. Close at hand, a root house 10x12 feet, was built in the side hill. To blacksmith1 shop an addition 14x24 feet was built, to hold a forge for sharpening steel for machine drills, and a work bench for repairing the same. Ore-sorting House: This was fitted up as a bunk house, and accommodates about 15 men. Shaft House: As No. 1 vein is not being worked at the present time, part of this building, 30x16 feet, has been lined and fitted up as a clothes drying room. In it the miners change clothes on coming off shift. MACHINERY AT MINE. This consists of the following: One sixteen horsepower hoist; one sixteen horse-power boiler; two 3+ Rand machine drills; one 2f Rand machine drill. The water used at the mine for boiler and domestic purposes is supplied by a one-inch pipe, 2,250 feet long, which runs on a 3 per cent- grade to a small creek to the west. This pipe can supply about five gallons per minute. The company owns a water right on this creek, Which is ample for such purposes. THE MINING RECORD. 139 BUILDINGS AT THE MILL. The following buildings have been erected near the mill since May 1st, 1898: Office building, 42x38 feet, with a six foot verandah at one end. This building contains the general office, a draughting and balance room, a furnace room and chemical laboratory, a crushing room, two sleeping rooms, and a store room. Manager's house, 40x30 feet, containing a storey and a half. Amalgamator's house, 22x24 feet. Boarding house, 25x18 feet, two storeys high, with sleeping rooms in second storey. It has also a six foot verandah in front, and a 14x18 foot kitchen at the back. State room and ore-bin shed, 30x33 feet, with freight platform. Stable, 16x22 feet, built of logs, with feed room, 16 X17 feet, attached. Athabasca Mine, Nelson, B.C., Jan. 15th, 1900. H. W. MUSSEN. DETAILS OF COST OF WAR EAGLE MINE OPERATIONS. (FROM GENERAL MANAGER'S REPORT.) The figures show in detail: (a) The product of the mine for year ending September 30th, '99, as well as for October, November and December of last year; (b) Table showing width of stopes and percentage of pay area in main ore shoot December 31st, '99; (c) Table showing production and grade of ore from each, level up to December 31st, '99, from main ore shoot only; (d) Comparative statement of work done and TABI.E OF MINE COSTS FOR TWELVE M Developm Cost its cost per foot or ton from January 20th, '97, to' December 31st, '99; (e) Table of mine costs for twelve months ending September 30th, '99. TaBLE showing production a^d GRADE OF1 ore from EACH LEVEL UP^TO DECEMBER 3IST, 1899. From Main Ore Shoot Only. Net Smelter's Tonnage Gross. Portion of Ore Shoot. Pro- Assay duced. Value, Tons. Per Ton. Block above level XTo. i 19,601 $24 52 Block above level No. 2 36,299 26 69 Block above level No. 3 3L432 J6 67 Block above level No. 4 15,066 14 12 Block above level No. 5 15,004 15 68 Block above level No. 6 5,279 17 19 Totals 122,681 $20 48 PRODUCT OF THE MINE FOR YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TII, 1899. Tonnage 51,243 Smelter's gross assay value $834,882 92 Smelter's net value 508,562 03 Smelter's gross value per ton 16 28 Smelter's net value per ton 9 92 To this may be added figures showing product and values for three months—October, November and December of 1899: Tonnage 22,693 Smelter's gross assay value $401,873 55 Smelter's net value 265.711 50 Smelter's gross value per ton 17 71 Smelter's net value per ton n 71 ONTHS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1899. ent Work. Ore Extraction. Per Foot Cost Per Ton Sinki Total number of feet Tons of ore stoped Drilling $ Tramming and shovelling Timbering Hoisting Smithing Ore sorting General labour Air . • • Candles and illuminating oil < • • Lubricating oils and waste Explosives Drills and fittings Mine supplies Lumber expense Stable and teaming Assaying Surveying. . Electric lighting Salaries Office expense General expense - ng Main Shaft. 122* Sinking Smal Winzes. • / Raising. 417 4 22 9 72 S 18 74 10 04 7 32 95 75 5 25 1 71 1 61 74 1 19 54 90 74 4 07 38 1 10 Totals IS» Ore stoped, 45,818 tons; met in development, 1 $21 00 5 00 4 86 1 10 2 11 3 10 2 44 54 19 3 49 83 46 38 45 80 09 ■ 2 35 42 38 $49 99 ,671 tons; from $14 01 4 06 3 16 15 1 88. 14 3 36 2 76 40 22 3 22 52 49 45 42 40 28 40 . 1 70 14 56 Drifting. .18843 $ 8 45 3 10 07 20 1 21 2 39 1 55 27 14 1 87 26 35 32 • 28 *9 18 28 1 21 . 08 38 Stoping. 45,8io $i-53 $38 78 $22 78 dumps, 3,762 tons; total, $3 95 51,243 tons. 140 THE MINING RECORD. A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF WORK DONE AND ITS COST PER FOOT OR TON TO DECEMBER 31ST, "99. Jan. 20. '97, to Sept. 30, '97. Oct. 1, '97, to Sept. 30. '98. Oct. 1, '98, to Sept. 30, '99. Oct. 1, '99, to Dec. 81, '99. 0," CO M u O ■ O 0 11 Oh cTco 15 CO 0 0 *3 0 Q.O co 0 1 0 0 Ope, i a a 00 gjjy. 417 CO O O O a 0 3 (- P.O co 0 00 dTco 00 »- O 10 0 O as 0 0 u P.O to 0 0 0 Oil Development Work. General work, stations, retimbering, etc Drifting Raising Sinking—small shafts or winzes Sinking—main shaft ...Feet. ...Feet Feet. ...Feet. ' 2,303 421 $ 3,770 18 46,313 33 12,768 93 $20 11 30 33 1 ... $18,219 34 3,480 74,958 25 451 - 13,726 95 $21° 54 30 33 $11,830 26 42,927 28 16,169 89 S49 95 $22 78 38 77 49 99 '' 837 253 42 1,897 27 21,850 64 8,495 12 1,826 93 $26 10 33 51 43 50 175 16,150 3i 92 29 i85 17^808 99 96 26 122t 16,283 05 132 92 70 6,897 51 98 54 Total development work Oee Extraction. Ore from development work Ore from dumps, storage, eic . .Feet. Tons. 2,899 2,596 $79,002 75 4,116 $124,743 54 2,430 1,670 $87,560 43 1,202 $40,967 47 1,894 721 $ 563 29 20,079. 77,074 18 22,694 $77,637 47 3.763 X .2.252 26 $ 0 60 $ 0 78 ^810 £15.634 94 $ 3 24 2 11 34 $10 G7 2 11 12 78 26,559 $86,070 10 $ 8 24 2 98 $ 4 32 2 98 7 30 46.810 181.22* Oil 3 95 3 84 ...Tons 51,243 51,243 51,243 51,243 1 3 58 $ 1 71 3 58 6 29 Total ore sold 7,406 7,406 7,406 1 7'406 $15,634 94 $79,002 75 15,631 94 94,637 69 28.8751 $86,070 10 $183,476 27 $ 87,560 43 , 183,476 27 | 217,086 7C 3 42 SlJMMARY. Cost of development per ton of Cost of ore extraction per ton of Total cost of mining per ton of ore sold, ore sold ore sold. 28,875 28,875 28.87E $124,743 53 1 86,070 10 210,813 63 22.694 $ 40,967 47 22,694 77,637 47 22,694 118,604 94 $ 1 80 3 42 5 22 TABLE SHOWING WIDTH OF STOPES AND PERCENTAGES OF PAY AREA IN MAIN ORE SHOOT DECEMBER 3TST 1899. Area Stoped Avei age of Area in Width Portion of Ore Shoot. Stopes Percentag e of Square of Shoot Stopes, Feet. Area. Feet. Block above level No. i. • 37,850 78 5-2 Block above level No. 2. . 45,000 66 8.1 Block above level No. 3. • 38,480 56 8-3 Block above level No. 4. - 17,500 42 8.9 Block above level No. 5. . 12,270 37 13.2 Block above level No. 6. . 9,280 J9 10.0 Note.—On levels 5 and 6 the stopes are still being extended. The first four levels are about worked out. so the percentages given below show the total pay area. The stoped area in percentage of shoot area is an approximation. THE VAN ANDA COPPER AND GOLD CO. In the general statement Mr. H. W. Treat, president and general manager of the company, reports:— It was just one year ago when our enterprise really began in earnest. Being convinced that we had the material for one or more mines, we proceeded, as far as possible, to open the ground to make it productive. We installed a machine drill at the Copper Queen, piping the air three quarters of a mile to the Cornell to operate drills there as well. We purchased and built a smelting and sampling plant complete which began operation July 15, and has run continuously except fifteen days which have been consumed from time to time in repairs. While pushing the development work on our various mines, we have created a town which already has over one hundred buildings, housing a population of over 400 people, have constructed or established good dock and warehouses, saw-mill, logging camps and lumber yard, general store and offices, post office, school house and church, hospital, trestles, railway tracks, roads, levels and appliances for the economic handling of ores, products and materials; permanent buildings at the mines, with machine, blacksmith and carpenter shops; a printing office with plant. The installation of these necessary expensive permanent improvements has consumed more than our available capital. The consequent floating liabilities are $195," 643.95. Otir profits will begin on lanuary.ist, 1900. Ore reserves are increasing daily and our entire enterprise is now prosperous. In the meantime, in order to prepare the company financially to withstand any possible strike or accident to the smelter or mines, or meet any demand from creditors or labourers, we recommend that stockholders make another issue of debenture bonds for the use and protection of the treasury, if necessary. The smelter returns from July to December, 1899, are as follows:— Total ore smelted July to December, 4,133 tons, yielding 442,005 lbs. fine copper, 9,523 oz. fine silver, 1,440 oz. gold. Total value smelter products, $99,484.03. Deducting contents of 595 tons of ore purchased, containing 82,563 lbs. copper, 224,682 oz. silver, 170,- 557 oz gold. Value, $13,694.33. Shows contents of 3,538 tons of Van Anda ores, containing 359,442 lbs. copper, 7,276 oz. silver, 1,270 oz. gold. Value, $85,789.70. A value of $24.24 per ton of ore, containing 6.32 per cent, copper, 2.06 oz. silver, .486 oz. of gold. This is a pretty good value for ore ordinarily, but low for our ores, because of not producing sufficient tonnage of first-class we were obliged to make up amounts by adding second-class ores which brought the average down. At the annual meeting the shareholders voted to issue 225 $1,000 6 per cent. 10-year gold bonds dated February 1st, interest payable annually, at the Bank of B. N. A., Vancouver, B. C. Privilege reserved to issue as few as practicable and to redeem any or all bonds issued, on the first day of any month by payment of principal and interest to date. This $225,000 is in addition to $75,000 bonds already in existence. The mine development work to February 20th, 1900, consists of, on Copper Queen: THE MINING RECORD. 141 ie^Vthf^^T}^ the Vein t0 a dePth °f no leet with 250 feet of drifting on 100-foot level and connecting with the No. 2 shaft No 2 Shaft—A double compartment vertical shaft sunk to a depth of 418 feet, with levels run off as fol- 180-Foot Level—Developed by a drift west at, feet and east 20 feet. The faces of these drifts are in 3good ore, which however, is not of the high value of the lower levels. Development work on this and the 200 will be continued. 200-Foot Level.—East drift has been run out ^8 feet from the shaft and an upraise made to the 180-foot level above. The face of this drift is in good ore and continues m the face. The west drift has been'run 30 feet on the lime and felsyte contact, an upraise has been made and this also is in good ore of a similar grade to that in the east drift. In all 103 feet of drifting has been done on this level. 300-Foot Level.—This level has been developed by a drift west 108 feet, a drift east 106 feet, a cross-cut south 81 feet and a cross-cut north 88 feet. It is also connected with the 200-foot level by a rise on the vein, from which stopes are being run. The ore on this level is a high grade bornite carrying high values in copper, silver and gold, half stoped to the 200-foot level, a distance of 75 feet. 400-Foot Level.—This level has been developed by drifts west 127 feet and east 54 feet. An upraise is being put up to the 300-foot level. The vein on the level is strong and well defined, of high grade bornite ore of great promise. It is proposed to extend the drifts on the 200, 300 and 400-foot levels and to sink the vertical shaft to a depth of 600 feet during the coming year, thus adding to the ore in sight and at the same time taking out sufficient ore to supply the present furnace. Ore shipments for 1899 to the smelter to January 1st, 2,020 tons. Ore in Sight, Copper Queen.—Taking the ore chute as being 100 feet long, 5 feet wide and 300 feet deep, we have 16,600 tons at an estimated profit above all expenses of mining, treating and marketing, at present prices of copper—16,500 tons at $15.00 per ton net, $247,500. The Cornell is developed with three tunnels and two shafts:— No. 1 Tunnel.—With 475 feet of drifts, bottom of old workings in 20 feet of ore width, which will be extracted through' the No. 3 tunnel which has tapped this ore body at a depth 30 feet lower. Shaft No. 1.—Fifty-four feet deep in ore. Tunnel No. 2.—With 400 feet of drifts in ore for 75 feet of an average width of eight feet. Shaft No. 2.—Down 50 feet in ore, on the vein. Tunnel No. 3.—With 468 feet of drifts; struck the ore at 100 feet where it is 10 feet wide of high grade ore, have drifted 90 feet in solid ore and upraised 40 at which point the ore is of the same grade and continuing up, an upraise has also been put through to the No. 2 shaft. This shaft will be continued down to the 200-foot level or deeper as may be deemed necessary during the year. The ore of this vein is for the most part yellow copper pyrites in a contact between felsyte and lime. The surface improvements at the Cornell mine consist of blacksmith shop, timber shed, ore sorting sheds, ore bins, ore screens, air receiver and air pipe line, vertical boiler and pump supplying water to Cop per Queen and Cornell, derrick and whim at No. 2 shaft and all the workings fully equipped with ore cars and rails. Cornell ore shipments to the smelter to January 1st, 1,618 tons. ORE IN SIGHT, CORNELL. Note.—In statement, March 1st, 1899, we misled ourselves because of believing that 1 and 2 workings were both on the one ore chute continuing between the shafts. Subsequent development has proved that 1 and 2 are on separate chutes not connected by ore, which cuts down this year's estimates very considerably. Ore body exposed by No. 1 shaft and No. 3 tunnel is 30x10x100 feet, equals 3,333 tons. (This does not include ore encountered in bottom of No. 1 shaft because not developed.) Ore body exposed by No. 2 shaft, No. 2 tunnel and No. 3 tunnel 90x10x100 feet equals 10,000 tons. Total exposed 13,333 tons. Figured at value net profit above cost of mining, hauling, smelting and marketing $15.00 per ton, equals $199,995.00 profit. The Security property has been developed by 200 feet of open cuts, uncovering a strong magnetite iron, carrying copper and gold traceable through the Florence, Yellow Jacket and Emily, a distance of one mile into the Cornell. Also developed by a shaft 50 feet deep, sunk on the vein and a small amount of drifting. The magnetite ore from this mine has been used at the smelter for fluxing purposes. The mine is equipped with windlass, blacksmith shop, bunk house and ore sorting benches and a good road to town. Considerable surface cross-cutting is being done on this claim to locate the contracts running through this section of the property with good results. The Emily is prospected by an open cut run in on the vein a distance of 60 feet; the ore is a galena, about one foot wide. Eighteen tons were shipped to the smelter. The Little Billy property has been further developed during the year by the sinking of the shaft 95 feet in depth. This is a contact vein between felsyte and granite, the granite forming the foot wall. The vein at the bottom of the shaft is seven feet wide, well mineralized with copper carrying some silver and gold, of a concentrating grade. The ore occurring on "the contact between the granite and felsyte is a high grade chalcopyrite, but much scattered at present. Little Billy ore shipments to smelter to January 1st, 50 tons, carrying 16 per cent, copper. The balance sheet and accounts, to which we have referred elsewhere are appended: BALANCE SHEET TO DECEMBER 3IST, 1899. Receipts:— Stock sales $54-667 18 Ore sales, previous to erection of smelter .. 13,650 79 Commission 4°9 I7 Transfer fees, etc 433 58 Boarding house profits 2,068 34 Rentals 226 69 Town lots sales 10,12850 Contract 3,000 00 Bonds 75.000 00 Bills payable 33,207 61 Unpaid Acounts:— Due for labour 9,595 52 Sundry personal credits 4,79^ 04 142 THE MINING RECORD. Cash advanced by H. W. Treat 57,607 05 Merchandise accounts 7,018 33 Mine supplies 4,474 89 Logs 2,259 54 Legal expense accounts 536 05 Freight L377 4t Insurance, etc 371 51 Sawmill receipts 13,916 30 Merchandise receipts 39,953 26 Advances on matte shipments 85,277 80 Profit and Loss 11,21736 $430,592 92 Disbursements:— Furniture and fixtures $ 528 65 Prospecting, roads, general and office expenses, freight, postage and telegraphing, advertising, printing office, interest and exchange, damage and legal expenses.. 32,417 63 Labour 162,038 97 Smelter and sampling works 48,905 23 Mine supplies and explosives 18,445 48 Buildings 8,232 92 Surveying 1,874 70 Poll tax (loss) 15 00 Horses (19) 2,055 00 Harness, etc 459 15 Treatment of ore previous to erection of smelter .. . 8,600 71 Revenue Stamps 85 35 Bills receivable 3>°57 I4 Timber 571 50 Due on lots and buildings T7>645 06 Due on supplies 2,355 08 Advance on ore purchases 6,064 56 Open accounts 9,405 59 Discount on bond sales 9,670 00 Mining Machinery, equipment, tools, etc. . 23,995 76 Telephone no 70 Maggie Lee mineral claim 961 93 Cordwood 2,046 31 Sawmill plant, material and logs on hand. 17,918 30 Merchandise accounts and stock on hand. . 47,900 31 Cash on hand .. 5.231 89 $430,592 92 Note.—(The above figures cover the receipts and expenditures from April 1896, to December 31st, 1899. Such of these figures as can be will be consolidated into a profit and loss account. The balance will be carried forward to separate the expenses for 1900.) GENERAL STATEMENT, MARCH 1ST, I9OO. (Approximate.) Liabilities:— Capital stock ; $5,000,000 00 Bonds, 1, 2, and 3 years 75'°oo °° Bonds, 10 years 225,000 00 Bills payable 40,000 00 Labour acounts 20,000 00 H. W. Treat, advanced 57-ooo 00 Merchandise and open accounts 10,000 00 Assets in excess of liabilities 360,500 00 $5,787,500 00 Assets:— Mineral claims and lands $5,000,000 00 Smelter value 50,000 00 Townsite value 50,000 00 Sawmill cost, $5,000, deferred payment, s $2,000 3,000 00 Machinery and tools 15,000 00 Buildings 10,00.0 00 Horses (19), waggons (7) and harness.. 2,000 00 Office furniture, safes, etc 5°° °° Goods, material and stocks on hand . . 20,000 00 Timber, estimated, 40,000,000 feet., special license subject to Government stumpage 2,000 00 Bonds, 225 at $1,000 each at 80 180,000 00 Net value of exposed ore in Cornell mine 200,000 00 Net value of exposed ore in the Copper Queen mine 250.00000 Cash or hand 5,000.00 $5,787,500 00 The management announce that the present production of thirty tons of ore daily is sufficient "to carry the expenses of the mines, smelter and development in advance," and that "every additional ton of ore produced up to fifty tons per day will yield the company a net profit of approximately $20 per ton." A production of fifty tons per diem is expected to be reached within six months. COMPANY MEETINGS. BRITISH AMERICA CORPORATION, LIMITED. HP HE first annual greneral meeting of the sharehold- I ers of the British America Corporation. Limited, was *held on Tuesday, at Winchester House. Old Broad Street, E.C, the Most Hon. the Marouis of Dufferin and Ava. K.P., G. C. B., G.C.M.G. (the chairman) presiding". Mr. W. B. Mitchell (secretary pro fan.) read the notice convening the meeting. The Chairman said: Ladies and Gentlemen:—You are all well aware that this corporation Mas establish- er as a pioneer or exploration companv to operate in a recently discovered gold-bearing territory in the neighbourhood of the Western coasts of the Dominion of Canada. It is no doubt within the knowledge of all present that many successful gold mining enterprises have been for some years carried on in South Africa, Western Australia, and elsewhere by companies whose character and obiects are similar to our own. When, therefore, on the formation of this corporation I was requested to act as chairman, I accepted that responsible position for two reasons—first, because from the inquiries I instituted I came to the conclusion that British Columbia offered a promising and remunerative field for the gold mining- industries in which we proposed to ensrap-e, and further inducement was the hope that, at the same time that we should be inaugurating- a profitable business for our shareholders, our exertions would also prove a source of prosperity, not only to the Dominion generally, but to a province to which I had become attached bv peculiar and especial ties during- mv term of office in Canada (Hear, hear.) Nor in alluding to Canada even on the occasion of such an iinnv-antie meeting as the present can T refrain from adding- mv tribute of admiration to the soirit of loval devotion. which has induced that great country to despatch across the Atlantic those noble battalions of gallant THE MINING RECORD. 143 soldiers who are risking their lives and shedding their blood, as some of them have already done, in the cause of their Queen and in defence of the integrity of our common Empire. (Loud applause.) Nor can I refrain from congratulating ourselves and all those present on the satisfactory news which has reached this country this morning of the surrender of General Cronje—(applause)—and all his munitions of war, his guns and his appurtenances. (Applause.) And it is a singular coincidence that this remarkable event should have occurred on the anniversary of Ma- juba, 19 years ago. (Applause.) To return, however, to the business immediately before us, I am happy to say that, though we are but a young company, our initial efforts have been crowned with a fair degree cf success, and we have reached a dividend-paying stage in our career at an earlier date than is generally the case in pioneer companies such as ours. As I explained to you at our statutory meeting, our operations were intended to be carried on in two distinct areas— one situated in the territory of the Yukon, and the other in Rossland and its neighbourhood, in the province of British Columbia. As you will have gathered from the report, however, our trading undertakings in the Yukon have not been satisfactory. On the other hand, the result of our operations in British Columbia have proved of a very gratifying character, and more than make up for the disappointment we have experienced in the Yukon. It will be in the recollection of many of those who are now present that I impressed upon the shareholders at our statutory meeting that this corporation did not depend for its future, to any predominant degree, on the outcome of the Yukon territory, rich as it was reported to be, and that all our contracts relating to any of the Yukon mining properties which were being offered to us would be taken subject to the condition that we should have the right to examine and test them by our representatives before taking them over. Warned by the doubtful character of our initial efforts, we thought it advisable to proceed with extreme caution, and in this way we have escaped being entangled in any very considerable expenditure either by the acquisition of disappointing options or by the initiation of expensive works and establishments. The same cautious policy presided over the trading portion cf our business, for we found that, owing to the nomadic character of the population, the severity of the climate and the difficulties of transport and of communication with our agents, it would be inadvisable to risk, prematurely, any considerable amount of your capital in what might prove a less promising enterprise than we had anticipated. As time went on and as opportunities were afforded us of testing—I will not say the resources of the country, for they are undoubtedly very considerable—but the prospect of deriving any substantial benefit from their development, we began to entertain doubts as to whether the Yukon was, after all, the best field that could be selected for the employment of your capital, and when eventually these doubts resulted in the conviction that the further prosecution of the enterprise we had initiated might prove disadvantageous, we decided to abandon the Yukon as a locality for the application of our enere-tis. As is always the case, the closing of our business in that part of the world has not been effected without a considerable loss. This, together with the estimated depreciation on our steamers and other property, has amounted to very nearly £30,000. The whole of this sum has been written off, at the same time that a reserve of £20,000 has been set aside to provide for any further loss which may occur in such of our Yukon assets as have not yet been realized. There is, however, one redeeming feature in connection with this branch of the subject, and that is our acquisition of certain copper properties, in respect of which we have received very encouraging reports. These properties are not situated in what may be called the Yukon proper, but are much further to the south and nearer to the British Columbia boundary. Including the claims we own and those on which we have options for one year, payable in shares, the total area of this copper property is, roughly speaking, more than five square miles, or considerably over 3,000 acres, and comprises 21 concessions. Our manager on the spot considers it an undertaking of great magnitude and promise, and he reports that native. copper has been found in large quantities. If his expectations are realized, the property in question should prove a source of great value to this corporation. To turn, however, to that part of the subject with which we are more particularly concerned at the present meeting—namely, our operations in British Columbia—I am happy to be able to state that the expectations we held out to you at our statutory meeting have been satisfactorily realized. We have already begun to develop, and have formed into several groups a large number of properties at Rossland. which, in the opinion of our experts, in whose scientific knowledge and experience we have every confidence, are amongst the most valuable in the whole of that neighbourhood. It would only weary you to describe the thousands of feet of development work that have been carried on in various directions, and the large amount of machinery that has been erected to operate the mines in question. Suffice it to say that these mines will soon speak for themselves in the extent of their output and profit. Since the formation of the corporation we have acquired and formed into a separate company the well-known Le Roi mine; and, as many of you are probably shareholders in that property, I may state that it is developing in a very satisfactory manner, and gives every promise of continuing to pay substantial dividends for a long time to come. Since the formation of the Le Roi Company special attention has been given to placing the mine in a sound position by retimbering, sinking new shafts, erecting powerful machinery, and generally preparing for a much larger output. This was rendered all the more necessary in consequence of its previous owners having pursued a very unscientific and reckless method of distributing and dealing with its workings. But valuable as is the Le Roi mine, you will be pleased to learn that, according to the last accounts we have received, it would appear that we own a mine which may probably prove more valuable even than the Le Roi, and a third mine of, perhaps, equal worth, and should further explorations continue to confirm the sanguine views of our representatives on the spot, none of us need, I think, regret having chosen British Columbia as a field for our exertions. (Applause.) In regard to the balance sheet, it is so clear that I do not see that the separate items require much comment at my hands. I have, however, the satisfaction of drawing your attention to the fact that the entire sum of £250,000 paid in options, concessions, etc., at the inception of the corporation, together with a sum of £16,451 3s. 2d., consti- 144 THE MINING RECORD. tuting the preliminary expenses of establishing the company, have been written off in full, instead of being spread over a term of years as is usual in companies of this character. (Applause.) But for this the profits would have assumed larger proportions. As it is, the balance to the credit of the profit and loss account is £225,994 4s. id., which I hope you will consider a not unsatisfactory announcement. (Applause.) Out of the available profits to be dealt with at the present time, your directors recommend that a dividend of 10 per cent., free of income tax, be declared, payable on the 27th proximo, to shareholders on the register this day. This dividend will absorb a sum of £150,000, leaving a balance of £75,994, 4s. id., which we propose to carry forward to the next account. In conclusion, I think I may congratulate the shareholders on the position thus far achieved; and I hope that in future we shall always be able to give an equally good account of our stewardship. I have pleasure in proposing that the report and accounts be received and adopted, and that the dividend recommended be and is hereby declared. (Applause.) Mr. Whitaker Wright—I have much pleasure in seconding the motion, and if any shareholder desires to ask me any questions in my capacity as managing director, I shall be pleased to answer them before the chairman puts the motion to the meeting. Mr. Lionel Harris said he would like to ask what shares were included in the sum of £1,382,503 mentioned in the balance sheet. He thought a little more information might have been vouchsafed witii regard to the development of the properties in Rossland, and also the copper properties. Mr. Whitaker Wright—In the report you willffind that there is a clause referring to the most satisfactory development of the properties in the Rossland district, and it is quite possible that in the near future we may have to call you together again as to what we shall have to do with regard to those properties, because they are opening up beyond our most sanguine expectations. We have had one or two experts out there, and our consulting engineer, recently came to London to report to us in detail and he assured us that one of our mines there exceeds the value of the Le Roi, and we have yet another, equal to the Le Roi, in addition to our copper properties and other claims. We will send to the shareholders in due course a printed report in regard to all these properties. It is not expedient to say at this moment how we propose to aggregate those mines, and if you are called together, you may expect that you will receive satisfactory profits on the par value of the shares in the company which you hold at the present moment. As to the Le Roi, the last telegram we had from the manager states that developments have taken place in an entirely new direction towards the Black Bear tunnel. On the 500-foot level, we have opened up a large body of high grade ore, all samples giving an average of one ounce of gold and upwards per ton of 2,000 lbs., and 4^ per cent, of copper. All the returns we have had from the Le Roi have been half an ounce of gold per ton, so that telegram is very satisfactory. The other properties to which we have referred are opening in the same gratifying manner, and we have good reason to be thoroughly satisfied with the soundness of our position there. The resolution that the reports and accounts be received and adopted was carried unanimously. The Right Hon. Lord Loch, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.—I have great pleasure in proposing the re-election of Lord Dufferin as a director of this company. (Applause.) It requires, I am sure, no words from me to ensure the unanimous voice of this meeting as to his re-election. He devotes much time, much care and ability, as we all know, to the work which you have entrusted to his charge. (Applause.) Dr. Dugdale—It affords me equal pleasure to second this resolution. We all know that the name of the Marquis of Dufferin is a tower of strength to this important and successful organization. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The Chairman—I am deeply sensible to the honour you have conferred upon me in allowing me still to continue a member of your board of directors, and can assure you that I shall always do my very best to promote your interests in every way in my power. I cannot sit down without thanking the seconder of the proposition for the kind and sympathetic terms in which he has alluded to the loss which has been recently sustained by Lady Dufferin and myself. (Applause.) Mr. A. J. Harrison then proposed the re-appointment of the auditors, Messrs. Ford, Rhodes and Ford, at the same fee as before. Mr. Hampton seconded the motion, which was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. I BAUXITE " OR " BEAUXITE." (By W. P. Best.) "T HIS interesting mineral, which is used almost ex- 1 clusively in the manufacture of the metal aluminum, desires its name from the town of Beaux or Baux near Aries in France. The mineral found at that point is in the form of small rounded granules, disseminated through limestone. There are a number of other districts where this mineral is found in considerable quantity, notably in the vicinity of Toulon, France in general and in Virginia and other parts of the Southern States. It generally exists in the form of concoetionary grains about the size of "duck shot" sprinkled" through limestone or clay. Sometimes Bauxite is earthy or clay like, and its color varied from grayish to yellow and sometimes brown or reddish. The light colored varieties are generally free from gran, and most suitable for the manufacture of aluminum. The chemical composition varies from alumina 50, iesqui-oxide of gran 25, water 25, to alumina 75, and water 25. The increasing economical importance of the metal aluminum has directed the attention of miners and others to Bauxite, and the United States deposits are being extensively developed. Most of the Virginia Bauxite is sent to Niagara Falls, where an extensive plant for the manufacture of aluminum has been established. British Columbia miners should be on the lookout for this mineral. THE MINING RECORD. i45 A ROSSLAND PROMOTER. r\ NE of the mining promoters in British Columbia v^ who has brought to bear on his work perseverance as well as experience is Mr. S. Thornton Langley of Rossland, whose photograph is reproduced this month. 'In his line of business, Mr. Langley occupies a prominent position. Born in Belfast, Ireland, in the sixties. Mr. Langley received his early education there, where he also obtained his business training, which was supplemented by subsequent business experience in Liverpool, England. Mr. Langley left the latter city in 1888 and went to San Francisco, California, to 1 epresent the interests of his Liverpool firm. There he became interested in gold mining which in the Golden State has for years occupied a large share of attention with all classes. In March, 1S95, Mr. Langley came to Rossland, since which time he has been actively engaged in promoting mining enterprises, one of his most recent undertakings being" the theOkanagan Free Gold Mines, which paid a d i | •- dend of five per cent on the capital stock in October last. Mr. Langley resigned his position as director of the Okanagan in October, 1899, for the purpose of engaging more actively in the management of the Kettle River Mines, Ltd., which owns a promising property near the Pathfinder Mines in Grand Forks mining division. Associated with him in this enter- MR. S. THORNTON LANGLEY. prise are Mr. Frank D. Howe, a mining engineer of ability and wide experience in the West, and some other gentlemen who are pioneers in Trail Creek . Mr. Langley, though he entered the mining field of Trail Creek with a limited amount of capital, has done much in the promotion of legitimate enterprises in this field. T THE MONTH'S MINING. CAMP M'KINNEY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) HE Cariboo, of Camp McKinney, still holds its own as the most consistent gold producer in the province. Since April, 1894, or for nearly six years, this mine and mill have been continuously working, producing over $100,000 a year, and to-day at the 400- foot level, is to be seen one of the finest bodies of ore ever uncovered in the mine, and as one a good of the management remarked, the old outlook. Cariboo never looked better than at the present time. The work is now more particularly confined to the eastern end of the company's property, on the Okanagan claim, where the vein is over four feet wide and remarkably well mineralized. On the Sailor claim, some 2,000 feet west of the Cariboo on the same vein, a rich body of ore, identical with Cariboo ore, was struck in the 75- foot level, the vein being 51^ feet wide with 30 inches of pay ore. This strike has caused quite a ripple of excitement in camp, proving the value and continuity of the Cariboo vein west of that company's property, and giving . assurance of future prosperity. Like the Cariboo, the Sailor is owned principally in Toronto, and it is most gratifying that the Toronto people should meet with success in our camp, for they have invested their money freely, equipping the properties with the latest improved machinery and sparing no expense in making a thorough investigation. The Waterloo mill is not running at the time of writing, though the development of the mine continues, the west drift being pushed towards the Fon- tenoy at the 60-foot level, where some good ore has been encountered. There is a rumour in camp that the Fontenoy and Waterloo are about to consolidate, when the Waterloo mill will be increased to ten stamps and the main shaft sunk another 100 feet. The Minne-ha-ha has temporarily suspended operations, pending an examination to determine the further development of the property. The Gold Standard (Lemon & Co., Omaha,; will have its mill running in a few days, the very fine 146 THE MINING RECORD. weather having permitted work to proceed uninterruptedly during the winter. The big bond on the Dayton, where the rich surface strike was made this winter, has fallen through, but the owners, nothing discouraged, have continued sinking the inclined shaft, and with the most encouraging results, so much so, that it is doubtful if the former terms would be accepted. This property is situated between the forks of Rock Creek, some four miles east of the Cariboo in a rich mineral section, and where there are quite a number of locations with good showings. The sale by the sheriff of the Camp McKinney Gold Mining Company's properties, the Granite and Banner, should in no way affect the prosperity of the camp, as the operations of the company have been lcoked -upon with more or less suspicion ever since the work commenced, not a dollar's \,orth of the stock being held in the camp. There are still conflicting opinions as to the value of the properties, but only one opinion as to the management. Quite a building boom has started in the camp, encouraged by ! the bright prospects and bright weather. On Cariboo Avenue, Messrs. Rose & Mc- Auley are erecting a very handsome and commodious hotel, a very desirable addition to the camp. On the same avenue is Dr. White's residence, a restaurant and chop house, and a billiard hall. On Sailor Avenue, in addition to Major Megraw s residence, the Sailor hotel, and several private houses, a spacious entertainment hall with club room attached has been just completed. FAIRVIEW CAMP. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Dominion Consolidated Mines, Ltd., is steadily pushing development work on the centre ledge which runs through the entire length of the company's three claims. Some time ago a six-drill compressor plant was installed on this property and is now in full working order. The ledge runs up a fairly steep mountain side and consequently gives exceptionally good facilities for economical tunnel development. The tunnel has been started the dominion near the lower .boundary of the consolidated. Flora claim and is now in about 290 feet, giving a depth from the surface of a little more than 100 feet. As this tunnel is being run along the ledge no dead work is necessary in the development of the claims and the further the work is pushed the better the values seem to be. From the time of commencing the tunnel to the present the average value of sampLs taken across the face of the drift has been from six to ten dollars per ton and samples across the ledge recently taken by the representative of some prospective English investors realized the average value of $9.28 per ton at a width of eight feet. As this is a free milling proposition susceptible of such economical development and in control of water power more than sufficient for all the mechanical requirements of the mine, it would appear that there is a splendid future before this company, at least this is your correspondent's opinion. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mining matters in the Boundary Creek district, though not nearly so active as it was anticipated they would be following the opening of the' railway, are still exhibiting progress on the whole. There is, however, a decided general dullness in business in the towns notwithstanding the the assertions to the contrary of those who outlook, are whistling to keep their courage up. There is but little ore going out of the district apart from the 1,500 to 2,000 tons the B. C. mine is reported to have shipped to date. Possibly there will be an improvement in this direction after the completion of the several spur lines to mines. On the other hand there appears to be a growing feeling that mine owners will more and more favour local treatment in preference to shipping to a distant smelter. The Old Ironsides, Knob Plill and Victoria group are still doing most work in Phoenix Camp. The Winnipeg is idle in Wellington Camp, but its neighbour, the Golden Crown, is proceeding with development so as to later be in shape to maintain a regular output. Work is being resumed on the Athelstan, also in Wellington Camp. The B. C. and Oro Denoro are both at work in Summit Camp. The former has lately received additional plant and the stockholders in the company owning the latter are to be asked on April 5th to authorize the borrowing of $15,000 for the purchase of more plant. The Jewel, in Long Lake Camp, has received a compressor plant and information is being sought relative to the most suitable reduction process for its gold ore. The big plant for the Sunset in Deadwood Camp, consisting of two 80- horse-power boilers, half of a' 20-drill compressor, an 80-horse- power hoist, and a Northey station pump, is now in working order. The equipment also includes a full equipment of ore cars, a water heater, two large receivers and an ample supply of air fittings. The Buckhorn, in the same camp, is still prospecting its ground down to the 200-foot level. The City of Paris, in Central Camp, is now sending out ore by waggon to the Granby smelter at Grand Forks. There are numbers of other claims upon which development work is being done, but the foregoing summary takes in a majority of the most prominent mining properties now being operated in the district. The Mother Lode, in Deadwood Camp, is again compelling- attention. On March 9th the British Columbia Copper Co. signed at its head office, New York, a contract to purchase from the Jas. Cooper Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of Montreal, Que., the largest compressor, boiler and drilling plant yet ordered for the Boundary country. The further statement has been made a big order that there is none larger now in oper- for ation in Canada, but whether this he machinery, true or not there is no doubt that the directors of the British Columbia Copper Co. have, in ordering this additional plant after nearly four years' systematic prospecting of their Mother Lode property, given practical proof of their conviction that the company owns a mine that is full of promise for permanent and profitable operation. It is nearly two years since the company purchased from the Jas. Cooper Manufacturing Co. the following plant and equipment: Two 60-horse-power boilers, with feed water heater, pumps, etc., one 10-drill In- gersoll-Sergeant air compressor, with complement of machine drills, hose, etc., station, and sinking pumps, and pump for water supply, an Edison electric light plant, a Lidgerwood hoisting engine, 30-inch drum, a THE MINING RECORD. M7 IS"r?-,le °r mu°re °f pipes' and a11 requisite cars, buckets, rails, machine and hand tools, etc Later two aux- Coryand ouir6 °bttfnCd fr°m the SSE IIS Lo, and quite recently a cage, supplied by the Wm Hamilton Manufacturing Co., wis"received. With the foregoing plant the mine has been opened up by a two-compartment vertical shaft sunk to a depth of 325 feet and by about 2,000 feet of underground work- in drifts, cross-cuts, stations, winzes and upraise Adding the cross-cutting, etc., done prior to the purchase of the power plant, the underground work done totals about 2,710 feet. With this much work to its credit and with results in ore bodies exposed that appear to amply warrant the preparation for operations on a rhtich larger scale the following Ingersoll-Sergeant condensing plant has been ordered: A cross compound Corliss condensing air compressor, with compounded air end and receiver mtercooler, the high and low-pressure steam cylinders to be 22-inch and 40-inch diameter respectively, the air cylinders to be of the piston inlet type, high and low pressure, 19^ inch and 32^ inch respectively and 48 inch stroke, the machine to have a capacity of 30 to 40 drills, and to weigh 166,000 lbs; two 66x16 horizontal return tubular boilers, each 100- horse-power for 125 lbs, working pressure, and to have horizontal smoke connection and one stack; a 54x12 air receiver; a feed water heater of sufficient capacity for 350-horse-power boilers; ten E 24 drills; two double-screw and ten single-screw columns with arm and clamp; two iron safety platform cages with safety device and shield roof; two six-foot sheave wheels; 1,500 feet of 1 j inch wire rope, and six steel ore cars with McCaskell wheels and axles. Delivery of this plant is contracted to be made within three months. It may be here remarked that the compressor is to be fitted with every device known to mechanical engineering for the economical production of power. A new hoist is also to be obtained of a capacity sufficient to work the mine down to a depth of 1,500 feet. This has not yet been ordered, but will be shortly. Meanwhile a site for it north of the shaft is being blasted out so that there need be no delay in putting it in position after it shall have been received. The site chosen for the new compressor plant is on Mother Lode Creek about 150 feet below the level of that on which the machinery now in use stands. Economic considerations have influenced the choice of this lower site, the adoption of which will render it unnecessary to so enlarge the main shaft down to the 200-foot level as to provide room for a third compartment in which to place compressed air and steam pipes. As both existing compartments will ere long be required for the two cages that are to be installed it has been decided to run a tunnel from the present 200-foot level of the mine out to the creek, a distance of about 500 feet. A cross-cut has already been driven 100 feet towards the creek, so this can be extended and be made to serve the purpose. As the rock formation will in about 150 feet farther give place to wash the tunnel will cost far less than would the work of enlarging the main shaft. Then there are additional advantages in that the tunnel will drain the mine workings down to the 200-foot level and so obviate pumping above that level, and give increased ventilation, as well as provide a passage way for compressed air and steam pipes to the 200-foot level. As to work now in progress in the mine—the cage is now about ready for work, so with better hoisting facilities available drifting and cross-cutting at the 200- foot level has been resumed. The face of the drift is 600 feet north of the shaft. There are several crosscuts, the latest vein being 154 feet from end to end passing through an ore body 95 feet in width, 80 feet being good ore. Cross-cutting at intervals along this north drift, whcih has been in ore—much of it of good grade all the way from the shaft, will give a number of faces and stopes from which to mine ore for the Mother Lode smelter, now in course of construction. Drifting north at the 300 foot level is also to be undertaken and when this drift shall have been advanced about 300 feet an upraise to the 200-foot level will be made for ventilation. Later the main shaft will be deepened to the 400-foot level, but this work will not be undertaken until after that mentioned above shall have been got well in hand. ROSSLAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The mining situation here during the suspension cf operations is gradually undergoing the process of evolution, if not revolution. A new system of work will, in all probability, succeed the one which has not been able to prevail. A change has been asked for and it is coming along the lines of the central system. It is much to be regretted that here as elsewhere those that are pretending to be the workingman's friend are the most indiscreet and are carrying their likes and dislikes too far. A new element has entered into politics—the Canadian populist is here posing as the friend of the workingman and the enemy to capital. In spite of this matters are shaping themselves in the direction of industrial effort and order will shortly be evolved out of chaos. In a period of depression and gloomy forebodings it may be worth knowing that the preparations for an out-turn of ore continues to be made on an extensive scale. The new War Eagle hoist which was manufactured in Akron, Ohio, by the Webster, Camp & Lane Co. is now installed. The old electric hoist about which there has been so much trouble is discarded, and remains where it was placed until, I suppose, the litigation concerning it is settled. The new hoist is to be worked by steam. It is 200 h. p. with'a double drum, latest post brakes and bond friction and is so constructed that if the skip were to break away it would be stopped by automatic brakes which would be put into action by the unusual speed of the skip. The new ore cars have a capacity of two and a-half tons each and the hoist running for the full twenty-four hours a day could give a daily output of 720 tons, but this quantity represents the maximum. No doubt 500 tons per day can be easily obtained. In other directions there are many evidences of what is to be done in the near future. A mine may be compared with a great ocean steamer that must occasionally be overhauled for repairs. On the surface of the War Eagle and Centre Star the preparations for the future best indicates what is coming. Thus the folly of expecting a long discontinuance of work is made apparent. So far the output of the mines, say for the first three months of the present year amount to about 32,000 tons, valued at about $575,000 gross. The other morning at the 460-foot level while cutting out a station a body of high grade ore was en- preparations for future activity. 148 THE MINING RECORD. countered which is said on good authority to assay ij unces of gold to the ton and about 7 per cent, copper. Some large pieces of this ore have been brought up from the mine, and altogether about ten tons have been placed on the dump. The ore is evidently from one of the main veins of the camp, a vein which runs southeast and northwest. This is evident enough judging from the size and quantity of the pieces abstracted from the ledge. So far there have been cut two and a-half feet of this solid ore and I am credibly informed that the point where this was cut is the lowest in the camp measured from the surface. Mr. William S. Harkens is the superintendent, and there is much satisfaction in the division on this account. Mr. Harkens is one of the best liked, and most efficient superintendents in the country. The strike itself is the best ever made in the Nickel Plate, which is the property of the British America Corporation. The Le Roi so far has shipped about 12,400 tons, the War Eagle 10,600, Centre Star 7,000, Iron Mask 1,434, Evening Star 189, I. X. L. 273 and Monte Cristo 40. The announcement of a further dividend of $750,000 by the Le Roi management in England has come opportunely. Spring is now. here and the present mining situation has begun to show material improvement, so that when my next report is made I hope to be able to show the facts and figures of a general and substantial advance. SLOCAN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The one item of the month which naturally overshadows all else is the joyous and far-reaching statement that the labour difficulty is at an end—permanently we venture to hope—and that a general resumption of work underground has taken place. Little remains to be said on this score that cannot readily be conjectured by the intelligent reader, for unfailing signs of coming prosperity are everywhere commencing to put in an appearance. Mines long deserted and idle are resuming their wonted A attitude of energy and bustle, and resumption buildings which have lain silent and of work, unoccupied for many moons resound once more to the unharmonious clanging of the blacksmith's hammer and the welcome noise of ore-sorters at their work. Altogether the old French proverb "apres la pluie, le beau temps" bids fair to be exemplified once more. True, the minds of the populace have been occupied to some extent with the news of the "relief of Ladysmith," the gallant doings of Canadian contingents and other items from the seat of war, and incidentally we have indulged in a mild excitement of our own derived from a more or less exaggerated small-pox scare, but to the professional, business and working man alike these—notwithstanding their evident importance—appear as mere side issues, absolutely nothing sufficing to ruffle the complacence with which he has learned in the last few weeks to view the world, save perhaps the ominous clouds on the political horizon. In the ■ lightness of his heart even these are not taken seriously, and the fact that minor (no joke intended) troubles of a like nature are being experienced in the district arouiidj Nelson, Rossland and Boundary, serves only to increase his thankfulness for the period of activity attained at last. I voice the unanimous sentiment of the miners, mine operators and business men generally in expressing the hope that a lasting and final settlement has been reached which will allow the district to progress at its worth, and that it will be long are a disaster of this character again threatens. The effect of mutual forbearance and concession is seen in the fact that no ill-feeling has been engendered, each of the contestants recognizing- that the other necessarily had rights as well as wrongs in the matter of a struggle thus thrust upon them. Like two nations who have expended their resources in the futile art of war, we in the Slocan long now, one and all, for peace accompanied by its glorious economic and industrial conquests. That the strike is at an end would be self- evident to the most casual visitor, but it is perhaps more markedly displayed in a statistical way as shown in the columns of the newspapers. While the ore shipments in the latter half of 1899 totalled only 4,300 tons, over half of that amount has left the district in the first month of the resumption of operations. This might in some quarters be regarded as the result of accumulation, but there is evidence to show that shipments in the ensuing months will likely exceed this figure to a considerable extent. The majority of the mines were not in condition to employ forces on the start, and in addition, the season when the roads are breaking up is obviously very unfavourable for getting down ore. The list of shippers so far includes only fifteen names and several of these figure almost for the first time, so that many of the best known mines are yet to be heard from. The Payne, apparently unwilling to relinquish its hold to the title of the richest mine in the district has started off well, being" credited with over half the production to date, consequently we are not surprised to see the stock of this company in the ascendant. None of the other mines have made any conspicuous move as yet, and are hardlv expected to, of course, until the roads are in better condition. On account of the early spring we are anticipating a good season for prospectors, the annual exodus this year being billed in advance for the Kettle River district situate between Arrow Lake and Vernon. Reports of rich finds, though conflicting and subject to a liberal discount, are still good enough to warrant investigation at least, and many are waiting only for the snow to vanish before venturing there on business. Lists of casualties are not confined to South Africa by any means, the yearly recurrence of snow and mud slides attended with fatal consequences reminding us of the precarious nature of the miners' calling. It would appear also from the accident which occurred at Sandon through part of the bank above the town giving way, that the danger is shared to some extent by all who live in the mountains.. Two men killed by the Noble Five slide, and one killed and several injured as a result of the Sandon catastrophe is the record for the past week, added to which a solitary worker at the Silver Bell, Kaslo Creek, lost his life through a fall of rock doubtless occasioned by the thaw, and a miner from the Enterprise lies dead from the effects of an unexpected explosion. It is gratifying to record that most of the ore leaving the Slocan is now consigned to Trail in place of the American smelters. So long as the management continues to give satisfaction it is matter for mutual congratulation, for at present they certainly appear to have the advantage over their competitors in being able.to pay on the London price with certain.deductions, thereby netting more for the shippers on the THE MINING RECORD. 149 lead contents of the ore than could he done on the nitherto existing arrangement. Zinc ore comparatively free from lead, mined at the Bosun, continues to find a profitable market in Belgium, and so well known has this become that other mine owners are contemplating following suit. The new concentrator at the Wakefield which was run successfully for a few days not long since and will soon be in continuous operation is especially adapted for saving this product which will no doubt prove a source of considerable revenue. The signs of an all-round revival in interest in this section are numerous and varied. But few vacant houses are now to be seen, and judging from the number of applications for naturalization papers which are being received, many evidently find it to their advantage to settle here permanently. Bonds and options are again spoken of, in whispers, of course, the Mollie Hughes, Lost Tiger, Monitor and Mountain Chief being each in receipt of attention from prospective purchasers. That old familiar cry of waggon roads, as indicating the necessity for their construction is again being heard with respect to the properties on Silver Mountain, and there is every likelihood of its being constructed during the coming summer. PRODUCING MINES. TEXADA island. THE following returns of smelter operations are published in the annual report of the Van Anda Copper and Gold Company:— JANUARY. Receipts— Matte sales $18,637 61 Store 5,904 17 Lot 236 00 Wharf 55 00 Rentals 102 75 Total $24,929 53 Disbursements— Labour $12,874 75 Material and Repairs 4,980 99 Freights 2,50000 Interest and discount 55° °° Total $20,905 74 Profit for month •' • • • • 4,023 79 January ore hauled to smelter 619 tons FEBRUARY (ROUGHLY.) Receipts— Matte sales $i7>285 °4 Store 5.241 93 Lots 200 00 Wharf 50 00 Rentals I02 75 00 Total $22'88o 32 Disbursements— Labour $12,375 36 Materials and repairs 4,841 85 Freights 2,10000 Interest and discount .. .. 7°° °°^ Total ?2°'^7 21 Profit for month 2>8°3 « February ore hauled to the smelter 749 tons Note—March will get credit for a ton of bullion accumulated during January and February and really belonging to the credits of those months although shipped in March, value about $2,500.00. NELSON. The following are the results of the operations of the Hall Mines smelter during January: Copper smelting 8 days 11 hours, 1,803 tons of Silver King ore from the company's mine and 700 tons of purchased ore were smelted, containing (approximately)—Silver King ore, 30 tons copper, 17,403. ounces silver; purchased ore, 9 tons copper, 5,770 ounces silver, 34 ounces gold. Lead smelting, 29 days 1 hour, 741 tons of purchased ore were smelted, together with 128 tons of Silver King ore from the company's mine, from which were produced 164 tons of bullion, containing (approximately) from Silver King ore, 1,700 ounces silver; from purchased ore, etc., 159 tons lead, 25,820 oz. silver and 146 oz. gold. The returns of the Athabasca mill for February are appended: Mill run, 27 days and 14 hours. Number of tons crushed, 347. Value of bullion recovered, $9,544.59. Gross value of concentrates recovered, $1,767.50. Total values recovered, $11,312.09. Total values recovered per ton of ore crushed, $32.60. The mine exports for the month of February from the port of Nelson were as follows: Lead bullion, $20,304; gold bullion, $39,776; other exports, $1,160; making a total of $61,240. ROSSLAND. Our Rossland correspondent telegraphs that the mines are preparing for the early resumption of operations. The production this month has been insignificant. The total shipments to the end of February are given at 31,972 tons, as shown in the annexed table: Le Roi 9,198 3,245-5 12,443.5 War Eagle 8,221.5 2,381.5 10,603 Centre Star 5,638.5 i>379 7>°I7-5 Iron Mask 976.5 363.5 1,340 I. X. L 48 105.5 153-5 Evening Star 30 69.5 99.5 Monte Christo 273 273 Giant 42 42 Total tons 24,427.5 7,544-5 3L972 SLOCAN. During the month of February 794,000 pounds of ore was produced in this district. COAL EXPORTATIONS. FOREIGN SHIPMENTS. February. Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 38,832 Union 17,811 Oyster Harbour (Extension) 18,897 MARCH. The New Vancouver Coal Company's shipments for the three weeks ending March 20th were as follows: Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 1 st—SS. New England.. .Alaska 52 5th—SS. San Mateo Port Los Angeles:. 4,321 §th—SS. R. Adamson.... San Francisco .... 8th—SS. Mineola San Francisco 10th—SS. Manauense .Mahukona, H. I.... nth—SS.NewEngland.. .Alaska 14th—SS. Titania Port Los Angeles.. 18th—SS. New England... Alaska 4,431 3,196 1,446 54 5,78i Total 19,343 m 150 THE MINING RECORD. A NEW BALANCE. THE accompanying illustration is of a new precision balance with five-inch beam recently placed upon the market by Wm. Ainsworth & Sons, balance makers, of Denver, Colo., U.S.A. The counterpoised sliding door has been removed to better illustrate the instrument. This balance is of the latest approved construction, with "fall away" pan rests and yokes, having agaye contacts throughout there being no metal contact points with the beam or hangers. A plate glass sub-base covers the entire base and all metal work is gold plated. The case is of mahogany, French polished, with two drawers in base and counterpoised sliding door. The beam, which is made of a new palladium alloy having a tensile strength of from 80,000 to 90,000 pounds, is divided into fifty parts each side of the centre for the use of half a milligramme or one milligramme rider and there being no obstruction on the top, the rider may be placed at any point from the centre to the last division on either end. Cylindrical reading glasses are provided for reading the beam and the index and the latest improved rider apparatus with rod locks is furnished. This balance has been designed for especially accurate weighings such as "control" and "umpire" assays and for the most accurate work in scientific and chemical laboratories, balances of this general construction having been furnished sensitive to 1.1000 milligramme. The Simplest, Most Economical and Most Effective Concentrator Known. • Descriptive Catalogue sent post free on application. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES. -"Wrathless. London." The Wilfley ©re Concentrator Syndicate, Limited. 32 OLD JEWRY, E.C. LONDON. Beg" to call the attention of Mining Engineers, Mine Superintendents and Managers, Machinery Dealers, and all connected with the Mining1 Industry to THE "WILFLEY" TABLE The following strong claims are put forward for the "WILFLEY," and will be found more than fully substantiated in actual working : 1. Simplicity of construction. No expensive wearing parts. No belt renewals. Nothing to get out of order. Practically no repairs. 2. Facility of adjustment to all ores treated. Once adjusted it needs but a minimum of attention. 3. Its wonderful capacity. Will handle three to five times as much material as any belt table made. 4. Reduction of maintenance charges. No skilled labour required. Reduction in initial outlay, as smaller number of tables are needed. 5. The ore particles being separated into distinct streaks a complete separation of the different minerals contained is effected. The "WILFLEY" has only been on the market some eighteen months, yet in that time nearly 800 have been sold, and are in use in 200 mines, which speaks volumes for the rapid and favorable recognition it has been accorded. The most flattering Testimonials have been received. The "WILFLEY" can De seen in operation by appointment at the offices of the Syndicate, 32 Old Jewry, London, E.C. Samples of Ore, 50 lb. to 1 cwt., tested free of charge. Correspondence Invited. The Huntington Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer of Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. Room 1, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, - SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. THE MINING RECORD. 151 THE METAL MARKET—MARCH. THE market has been generally steady and very few changes are reported. Silver has advanced slightly, the price during the month ranging from 59I to 60c. The average price of this metal last month was 59.76. Copper is firm and active in view of an increased demand. Manufacturers are exceedingly busy and refiners experience difficulty in meeting their obligations. The latest quotations are Lake, 16J.; electrolytic in cakes wirebars and ingots, 16J to i6|c, in cathodes at 16 to i6£c, and casting copper at i6jc. There is little change in lead, which is quoted at 4.56 to 4.70. Spelter is fairly active, but- at unchanged prices, 4.60 to 4.62^ being quoted from New York and 4.45 St. Louis. WHITE, ROGERS & COMPANY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights 306 Pirje St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f o.b. San Francisco. One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any .make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated by Steam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants foi the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. Wire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table Is covered by V.S. Patents Nos. 580,338 and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. ROBINS BELT CONVEYORS Handle Ore and Tailings. Most economical and Insure Against Shutdowns. Cut shows Belt Conveyor handling 250 tons culm per hour at Pittson, Pa. For illustrated catalogue address ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO'Y, Park Row Building, New York. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand 'Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc- etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A. R. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . SITDHTIONS WaNTEO. Theodor Lexow, Assayer and Analytical Chemist Twelve years experience ; first-class local and English testimonials, desires suitable engagement. Apply " 2 " B. C. Mining Recobd. Position as Superintendent (or assistant to) of an electric-railway, mining or lighting plant by a graduate of a leading American technical college, who is also a practical mechanic. Ten years very practical experience wf th various electripal systems for lighting and power, inelu<Jing three years; in charge of a plant foc'thft leading steel SWnufactaring company of America and three years in charge of a 3-phase plant for a representative Colorado mine. Thoroughly reliable. Address ' Engineer," care of British Columbia Mining Record. WANTED. Nos. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, J NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechancial Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. JEFFREY ELEVATING MACHINERY FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling Material of all feindi. j ,', SEND FOR CATALOGUE. THE JEFFREY MFG.C0. Columbus.O. WANTED. An experienced miner to Join partv going into the Cariboo country. Must nave practical experience in hydraulic mining. Apply by letter to P. H1jtf1 SV110Q DIAMOND DRILL MINING MACHINES l«i;iI«ViYcT*1 THE MINING RECORD. Mining Stocks. Prepared by A. W. Mora & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B.C., Mar. 28,1900- TRAIL CREEK. Alberta Big Three..'. Bruce Butte Caledonia Con Centre Star Commander Deer Park Enterprise }'™'ff Everest*,... K&?. %..JM 1.0WXJ0 '' f*-"....*. rbsv;. 600,000 $1,000,000 3,600,000 1.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 3,500,000 600,000 1,000,000 Evening Star- Georgia ■■••• Gertrude Golden Drip Gopher .-.,4. Hattie Brown High Ore Homestake. Iron Horse Iron Mask I.X.L Iron Colt... Jumbo LeRoi Lilly May Mabel Mayflower Monita Monte Cristo Nest Egg-Firefly Northern Belle Novelty Palo Alto Poorman R. E.Lee Red Mountain View Rossland, Red Mountain.. .St. Elmo Silverine . Silver Bell Con Victory Triumph Virginia War Eagle Consolidated!- White Bear AJNSWOBTH, NJBLSON AND SLOCAN. American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Black Hills Buffalo of Slocan Channe Dundee Dardanelles Dellie Exchequer Fern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick Leviathan London Miller Creek Molly Gibson Minnesota Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanhoe. Payne Rambler Con Reco.. Slocau-Reciprocity. Slocan Starf Santa Marie......... Silver Band Slocan Queen Star. St. Keverne.. Sunshine Tamarac Two Friends. Washington.. Wonderful... Lardeau Goldsmith .i Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Co. Lardo-Duucan TEXADA ISLAND. Gold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary ... Texada Kirk Lake Treasury Mines — ! Van Anda. Viotoria-Texada VANCOUVER ISLAND. Alberni Mountain Rose Consolidated Alberni.. Mineral Creek Mineral Hill u*dr 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 600,000 1,000,000! 1,000,000 500,000 1,000,000 l,00O,0O0| 500,0001 £1,000,000 f 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000' 760.000; 2,500,000 1,000,0001 1,000,000 1,000.000 1,000,000 600,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 600,000 500,000 1,000,000 100J.OO0 2,000,000 2,000,000 1,000.000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 100,000 150,000 250 000 1,000,000 1,609000 7jO,000 1,000,000 200,000 800,000 650,000 £300.0001 $1 500,000 2,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 1,000.0001 250,000j 12,000, 1.000,000: 3,500,000 1,000,000! 1,000,000 1,000,000! 500,000. 1,000,0001 250,000! 1.000,000 1,000,000! 1,000,000 '600,000 1,000 000. 240,000 1,000,000' 1,000,000 *1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 i £5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1' 1 1 1 % Hi 8 10 02 Hi 1 40 10 2 20 15 08K OS 05 04K 41 37 13 ioh 26 £6 5s. $0 20 15 10 10 4 02 4 4 03 14 3 3 10 6 6 3 5 Hi 1 40 1 1 0 10 1 0 10 025 0 25 1 1 1 1 0 26 1 1 £1 ?1 1 25 1 1 1 026 lc. par 1 1 00 I 1 1 1 60 $1 026 I 1 1 1 10 1 30 1 1 200000 1 1,500,000 1 1,500,000 1 Mount Sicker & B.C. Development Co. 100,000 1,000,000 250.000 600,000: 260,000 5,000,000 150,000 260,000 600,000 600,0001 750,0001 500,000 10 1 0 26 1 26 1 0 25 1 1 1 1 1 £125,000 £1 Hi 10 32 10 03 Hi 9 12 12 6 11 VPA 10 3 25 08 36 66 20 8 12* 1 S3 65 1 00 1 26 05 12J.2 10 07 6 06 25 4 04 5 05 10 6 25 1 00 2 Hi 02 OOJi 6 05^ 06 06 CARIBOO. Cariboo Gold Fields Ld Cariboo Hydraulic Consolidated. Cariboo M. & D. Co Golden River Quesnelle Horsefly Hydraulic Ward-Horsefly Victoria Hydraulic LILLOOET DISTRICT. Alpha Bell Cayoosh Creek Mines Excelsior Golden Cache Lillooet Gold Reefs FAIRVIEW CAMP. Smuggler Fairview Corporation .^..^.u Boundary creek. Boundary Creek M. M. Co Brandon and Golden Crown Dominion Copper Co. Kins £100,000 $5,000,000 $5 800,000 1 £350,000, £1 $200,000 500,000 $ 1 300,000 1 600,000 1 $1 10 25 Knob Hill Morrison Old Ironsides Pathfinder Pay Ore Rathmullen Winnipeg CAMP MCKINNEY. Camp McKinney Development Co. Camp McKinney Mines Co Cari boot Minnehaha Waterloo Fontenoy O'Shea Waterloo No. 2 Mammoth — Little Cariboo Shannon Sailor Silver Bell, Consolidated REVELSTOKE Carnes Creek Consolidated BAST KOOTENAY. Canadian Gold Fields . Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co North Star Sullivan 500,000 500,000 1 1 500,000 1 200,000 25 1,000,000 1 0H$ 1,000,000 25 0H4 1,500,000 1 10 1,500.000 1 25 5,000,000 i 1 75 1500,0001 1 1,500,000 1 85 1,000,000 1 Hi 1,000.000 1 80 1,000,00 j 1 11 1,000,000 1 07Jj£ 2,500,000 1 4 1,000,00(1 1 15 600,000 1 23 600,000 1 10K 1,250,000 1 75 l.OOn.000 1 100,000 10 6 1,000,000 1 lOjf ; o.ooc 10 01 50,000 10 01 50,000 10 01 100,000 10 01 60,000 5 03 1,950,000 1 iO 500,000 26 1 2% 1,000.000 1,000,000 10 08 2,000,000 25 $39 00 1,500,000 1 1 25* 1,000,000 1 11 Y. Y. T. Co., LAKE BENNETT, B.e. OPERATING THE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills At the head of Navigation to to the YUKON and HTLIN GOLD FIELDS Builders of^-^^ Boats, Barges and Scows. The safest and most economical way of freighting from Bennett to Dawson, having wharf and warehouse on arrival at destination. Manufacturers of Lumber of all description, Sash Doors, etc. Provisions and Supplies.... We also carry a large stock of General Merchandise at posts all along the river, consisting of Feed, Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Tinware, Enamelled Ware, Window Glass, Hardware, etc. Call on or write us before sending to the Coast for your supplies. Information cheerfully given by applying to The Victoria Yukon Trading Co., Ld., LAKE BENNETT, B. C. Head Office, VICTORI1, B.C. J HOLLAND, Man. Director WT> "DAILEY & CO.,—ASHOROBT, B.O., * J-*. J—* Storage and Forwarding Agents. Goods receired, stored and forwarded with despatch to any point in Cariboo reached by wagon or pack train. Consign goods to our care and we will settle railway charges aud ship to destination with least possible delay. THE MINING RECORD. W^ -S^~- The Vancouver Agency, l Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. imited. Shipping and Commission Agents. cii»irN^L~^L^TL^^Uow^S rough goods on hand, viz: CALCUTTA ORE SACKS. COTTON WASTE. FIREBRICKS., FIRE CLAY. SMITHY COAL. LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. 605 Granville St., Vancouver, B e. Write for lowest prices to THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. ^^f .S^— NOME, CAPE YORK and ST. MICH>ELS. THE Al IRON STEAMER ALPHA The last steamer that sailed from Nome last fall, positively the first to arrive at Nome next spring, SAILING FROM VICTORIA ABOUT APRIL FIRST, 1900. The ALPHA has been thoroughly overhauled and additional accommodations added. Electric Lighted, Steam Heated, Hot Baths, Excellent Table prepared to cater to the most fastidious. In fact A LUXURIOUS HOME AT SEA. Secure passage and freight rates at once. O. W. SHOOP, Capt. J. D. WARREN, Agent, 36 Fort St., VICTORIA. Manager. The Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co'y Original Designers, Manufacturers and Jobbers. Hoisting Machinery and Milling Specialties. Write for our special Hoisting Machinery Catalogue. Our line of patterns are the most complete in the world. The Hendrie | Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co'y, 1601-1617 Seventeenth St. DENVER, - COLORADO. J XIV. THE MINING RECORD. E. G. Prior & So., Ltd. Established 1SS8. Headquarters VieTORIH. MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ^ ^ ** BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ** ^ ^ <m *m BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Branch Stores: VANCOUVER and KHMLOOPS, B. &. *Tor The Amur has been thoroughly overhauled and specially fitted up for this sfiSsrice, and is provided^with. accommodation for passengers and freight of an exceptionally suitable character. The Canadian Pacific Navigation Co'y, Limited, will despatch Their staunch iron AMUR > i Cape Nome. St. Al double bottomed, for Michael© arid Cape Nome ON MAY 1, 1900. For rates and particular information apply at company's office, Wharf street, Victoria. G. A. CARLETON, Gen. Freight Agt. C. S. BAXTER, Gen. Pass. Agt. BEATTY & SONS, WELLAND, ONTARIO, Dredges, Ditchers and Steam Shovels, For Dredging^ Bitching, Dyking, Gold Mining, Etc. Of various styles and sizes to suit any woiST*^ Mine Hoists, Hoisting Engines, Stone Derricks,fUorsepower Ho.sters, Suspension Cable ways, Submarine Rock Drilling Machinery, Gang Stone Saws, Centrifugal Pumps for Drainage Works, Pump, ing Sand, Gold Mining, Etc. We also furnish WIRE ROPE at Lowest Prices. BENNETT FUSE! REGlSTEHErajN CANADA. Crown TRADE Brand. MARK. Supplied under contralto British Admiralty. WJVI. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, ^n Jjs&fisfc &":»sra"p.«...j I ***~ " ' j ■ ■■ -Tj ti Within ' ••■*H*S"'w oi., Is guaranteed absfiutely wateg>roof. It is Gutta-Percha.'mtf neither' crack "nor break. Costs no more than tar-tace fusts A =t your dealer tajtij Grsfc it a trial. We manufacture the following fuses for Canada: No. 6— REDruse for orv ^n-nA%n «o_ WH ITE countered fuse, waterproof. No. 36-gLUE double Ved damp-proof. SamplelSjSces on SKn Np0p^ Miner's £>afety9j^ato^ Miner's Safety Coupler. p ROWLAND MACHIN, Gen. Agent for Canada. No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. V.W9 ■ r-———j^-—- THE MINING RECORD. BRITISH COLUMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HODSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. WEILER BROS., Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. vieT©Rm, B.e. LENZ <& LEISER, 9 &n yates street. IMPORTERS OF GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for trje KpoteQay and KJondik;e Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You flust THE CELEBRATED have "CROWN BRAND" Pure W 'RICKSHAW <%! on TEA For sale only by Java and Mocha i Thomas Ea;£ If you will have THE BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 50 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER& EARLE, VICTORIA, B.C. Proprietors. is IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION nERCHANT. I Teas and Coffees a Specialty. -*&•■ 92, 94, 91 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Good®, Liquors, Cigar®, Flour, Etc. goods indented from all parts Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. -of the world... TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TORBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt.Ward&eoM Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foifcier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS (or Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and "Amberite" (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co Currie, McWillia'ms & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. MERCHANTS BANK of HALIFAX INCORPORATED 1869. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED, $2,000,000,00, CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,985,070.00. REST, $1,700,000.00 r. E. KENNY, President. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.S. Atlin, B. C. BathurstpN. B. Bennett, B. C. Bridgewater, N. S. Charlottetown, P. I Dorchester, N.B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. S. Louisburg, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Maiiland, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pictou, N S. Port Hawkesbury, Rossland, B.C. Saokville, N.B. , N. S. EDSON L. PEASE, General Manage.. St. John, N. D. Shubenacadie, N S. Summersidefi*. E. I. Sydney, N7S. '•' Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria,B. c. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Branches In Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches in United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Republic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTM ENT.—Deposits received from f 1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. PLATINUM REFINERS BAKER New York Office— 121 LIBERTY STREET. I t I l W E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM. & CO., —NEWARK, N. J. THE MINING RECORD. XVH. W. JONES The City Auction Mart, (Established 1885.) AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, ESTATE AGENT, Etc. 73 and 73% Yates St., VICTORIA, - . B. c. Auc:ion sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor's own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of Reference* from past and present clients. Houses, etc., to ront and for sale in all parts List your properties with us, good clients always waiting. All business entrusted to us eceives strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Rossland, B.C Wallace Building, Columbia Avenue, P. 0. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeals. R. W. GRIGOR, MINES- ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and "West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in "West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Addbess : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeil and Moreing and Neal's codes. J- Fortescue Foulkes. N. B. Van derGucht. J. F. Foulkes & Co., Mining and Stock Brokers VICTORIA, B.C. 35 Fort Street. Cable address 'Eouvan." All codes used. K M. SANDILANDS, General Agent, Fire Insurance and Mining broker. Slocan Mines. SANDON, B. C. A. W. MORE & CO. % MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. F. J. L. TYTLER, CONSULTING ENGINEER, Notary Public in and for B. C, Commissioner of Oaths. Office, 23 Mackinnon Block, Granville St., Von^AiurA* P.O. Box 3p. Telephone 750. Vd-IlCUUVer- ABC Code, Bedford McNeill Code. Student of Glasgow University. Pupil of Messrs. Hawkes Crawshay, Gateshead-on-Tyne. Late CiviF'Engineer, Oude & Rohflkund Railway, India. Late Civjl Engineer, Department of Public Works, India. Late Manager Sirmoor Iron Works. Late Inspector of Dykes, British Columbia. For several years Consultinjg"Engineer to the Government of B. C. All business with mines transacted, reports made, assays supplied. Plans estimates and specifications for general engineering works managed and supervised. purposes made and The Referendum Free Gold Mining and Milling Co'y, Ltd. NON-PERSONAL LIABILITY. CAPITAL STOCK $500,000, in 2,000,000 shares of 25c. each. Rossland, B.C., May 19, 1899 We submit to the public as a safe and profitable investment the; second issue of 100,000 shares in the Referendum Free Gold JMinine and Milling Company, Limited, non-personal liability, just organized and registered during the first week of July. The capital stock of the ComDanv will be $500,000 in shares of 25 cents per value. Of these 800,000 snares are set aside to be sold to develop further the property and operate the mine The Company's property is situated on Forty-Nine Creek, about 8 miles from the City of Nelson, B.C., and in the well-known free-gold belt In -which are also the Athabasca and Poorman mines, which have yielded excellent profits to their owners. Two shafts 35 feet deep have been sunk on one vain and nu merous cuttings have been made, showing the continuity of the ore body for one thousand feet. Assays from ore from these works are astfollows •' $80 $87 $246, $360, S412. Dr. P. Langhammer, mining engineer, estimates this vein to average $431 in value and 20 inches in width. _.--ihi>J3howing has enabled the Company to conclude arrangements for a plant to treat the ore, to be installed before snowfall. The gold being free and capable of extraction on the eround the expensive charges of transportation and smelting are obviated, and the profits will be correspondingly larger than from a base ore of equal assav value The Company has thus its property proven and arrangements made to mine profitably from its inception and to pay dividendsmt an early date. The Company recently purchased a 5-stamp mill, boiler and engine with cyanide and chlorination plant. This plan will be operated within 90 davs from August 10. A stage of progress has been reached when the mine can be worked throughout the winter. The rlan of operation includes the addition of five more stamps irithe spring and running a tunnel to the boundary of the Referendum claim which is expected to cross-cut five more leads ,w,hich now Bhow on the surface. . . . All that was oattined in our circular of May 15 has been carried out. Applications for stock and remittance for first payment of two cents per share may be made through any chartered bank or direct to the undersigned. E. N. OUIMETTE 4. CO., Bankers for the Company : Mebchants Bank of Halifax, ROSSLAND, B.C. Brokers for the Company, ROSSLAND, B. C. XV1U. THE MINING RECOED. PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E, M. Inst. M. E. M. Amek. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting Engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, LONDON, E.C. ' OhriBtopher, London." P. O. Box 308, VANCOUVER, B.C. (" Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. E., VANCOUVER, B. C. Reports. Surveys. Management. MINES Contract Prospecting and Devi opment Work. Best References. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In Wes.t Kootenay. Reports on Slocan Properties. New Denver, B.C. Makes a specialty of supplying reliable information and Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's,, A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's flRGHBOLD & PEARSON, MINING ENGINEERS ASSAYERS- Cable Address : Archpear, Nelson. Cedes: Bedford McNeil, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. R HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST and METALLURGIST. Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa Works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. F. W. GR0VES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported upon. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates oi costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. 0. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) KSSAYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testingand Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO.. LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co., Ltd.. Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-719 Pender St., VA CCUVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead . ? 50 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 John Redmond, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. Otjthett, Chemist and Metallurgist. REDflAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Mettallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and An - alyses guaranteod accurate. Write for intending information about Kamloops and North. Yale mining proper! ies. Wm. II. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - - VANCOUVER, B. C. W. M. MACKINNON, Assoc. M. Inst. 6. E. Civil Engineer. Specialty : Hydraulic Engineering. Water power j Water Supply for Mines and Towns; Gold Dredging; Bridges; Structural Iron work, etc. P.O. Box 262. MACKINNON BUILDING, Granville St., VANCOUVER B.C. A CARD From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Pobwc of the North West. We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at 205^ Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are' invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, ft.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining Experts. 205^ WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON Samples hy mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, 0GDEN aSSaY e©., 1429-loth St.. DENVER. Colo. THE MINING RECORD. xix. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites Scott's Mine Tachymeter. I ., .M??t improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. * P. A R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY J. B. TTRRBLI, M.A., P.G.S. T. D. GREEK, C.E., D.L.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Engineers Dominion Land Surveyors. ^Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested^ etc., etc. DAWSON, Y. T. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought and Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. Bedford-Neal, j 611 Hastings St., VANCOUVER, B. C Codes-j Moreing-Neill, (^dough's. One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00. Confidential Reports on Mines 5 Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. ■p.o.boxi» ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51 g hustings Street,Tisda|is) VANCOUVER, B.C. Fergusson & Crofts eivil and Mechanical W"*^ i^ eonsoiti^Eng ineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work In Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for I BOOTH'S HOISTS. The "Eisdon" Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The " Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied'from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. Box 423. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. P.O. Box676. W. a. S3DEK, D.L.S..P.L.S. H. S. HSHeROFT, D.L.S..PX.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. Greenwood, B.C BflU^R & HSHeROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. VANCOUVER and GREENWOOD. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OPFICB: CA.VIF McKINNEY, B.C. N B.—Some valuable mining properties in Camp McKinney and vicinity for disposal. Correspondence solicited. PEMBERTON St SON 7USINING BROK9HS, Real Estate, Financial and Insurance Agents. Mining Properties for sale. Agents for the Townsite of Alberni. Farming Lands for sale in all parts of the Province. fort str e ex, .Victoria, B.C. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neill. '.fl ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD ~~5| For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. XX, THE MINING RECORD. MINING PDBLieHTI©NS, &C. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES : 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Minin& Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 moi tbs. 6 months. 8 mouths Canada s 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. NGRaVINGS! PORTRaiTSI BUILDINGS ! SCENERY! Fnc-Similes of Signatures, Letters and Engravings of all kinds for Book and Newspaper Printing. Map Engraving from tracings. Also Reproductions from Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue Illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. SPIKE BROS,' CO., Tacoma, Wash. B. C. POTTERY C|>., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pine, Flower Pots, etc. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C. DEALERS IN Pliotoraplii6 Stock Agents for the Rochester Opti- I cal Co , and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SENT OH APPLICATION PREflO B. $15. M. R. SMITH I CO. • ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OK HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. 430 BRANCH Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. H. W. TREST, Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. THOS. KIDDIE, Smelter Manager. Van Anda COPPER »ND GOLD &@, Purchasers and Smelters of eopper*eoId Ores. Rates on Application. Cash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van Anda, Texada Island, B.C. ft. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, •>• Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10j Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist. VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow 6 the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. tf&~ Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. Practical work. Elective System. Summer term. College year, 45 weeks. For catalogues, giving employment of graduates, address MES. F. H. SCOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, MifilurJI THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise oi ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas Liquor, by H. A. Fra<ch, (20 pp^j Asphaltum ReJlglng, ,by H. A. Frasch, (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement ISdustrv in the Ui ited States, by F. HTLew5,-J (6 pp,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry. (6 pp ) ; The Manufacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle Westfby K Foster Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T. C. Hopkins (13 pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Beaiing, by W. S Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, by Earnest A. Sjosteat, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and ReBning of Copper, by Edward Keller, (32 pp.); Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, byT. C. Hopkins, (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Gold and Sliver, by «'. R. Ingalls, (26 pji.); The Hydro- Metallurgy of Sil>er, by OttoUar Hofmaun, (27 pp.); The Technology of gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progiess in t$H Metallurgy of Steel, bv •H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver ana Puebelo, by L. s. Austin. (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Suifltirig, I y H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by ('. B. Si b nthal, (4 pp.); Lime and-Lime Burning, by H. A, Fra-ch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture I of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist. (10 pp.) • Present Practice in I the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symington, (7 pp); Occurrence and Recovi ry of Sodium Cat Donate in the Great Basin, by s. A.9 Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, by F. j. Fald- ■taigrtS* pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium byW R Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1898, by Robert H. Richards (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (11 pp.); The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus Uike, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. VANCOUVER ISLAND COAL. xxi. COAUj:OAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAX COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. * NANAIMO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) * SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled lay any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. h "<*"*" THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. I THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. ' THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. * SAMUEL M. ROBINS. Supt. Nanaimo. B.e. XX11. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific I Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to PACIFIC Lowest Rates. Best Equipment. WITHOUT CHANGE- TO ALL POINTS IN 1/ Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R. P. jRITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Ohemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C Canadian Pacific Navigation Go,, Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 48. Taking effect March 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1 o'clock p.m. or on arrival.of C. P. Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster. Ladner and Lulu Island Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m.: Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock a. m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. Lieave New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday at 2 o'clock p.m. ^Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock. a.m. For Plumpei; at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o'clock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naco and Intermediate ports via Vancouver on the First and Fifteenth of each month, and for Queen Charlotte Islands on the 1st of each month. KLONDIKE ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave weekly neau, Skagway and Dyea. for Wrangel, .tu- BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer "Wlllapa" leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th and 20th. Extending 1 atter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON. C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent The Hudson's Bay Company HAVE = Baie de Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Fort Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Rat Portage Biding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg . , ... . ■■-', . " Winnipeg StortTtheh^tlookTltt^A^L^ ^f* °0iHb> X*?1**" *** Northwest Territories. Purchaser, will find at these Stores tne best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. FELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswerk, Mnlheim on Rhine, Germany. Oldest and most renowned WIRE ROPE FACTORY On the European Continent. WIRE ROPES of everu Description for Mining Purposes Round and Flat Wire RopesiZ^i^^X- clines, Towing, Ploughs, Cranes, Etc. " Albert," or so-called " Lang's " Lay Ropes SPFPIAI TIPS ■ Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patent Flat- vrtuiHLlito ■ tened Strand Wire Ropes. Electric Wires and Cables for Telegraphy, Telephony, Electric Light and Transmission of Power WIRE...—-Ja6K & RoDertson, 7 St. tlelen St., MONTREAL The James Robertson Co'y> Limited, VANCOUVER, B.C. Ma (1 llf SCtll rC rS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Beady Mixed Paints,Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &o. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. METALS. Office and Warehouse, - 151 Hastings St Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. Ontario Gold Mining District. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. A few Mines who Use British Columbia. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., mm x-nvtirr jei> MANUFACTURERS OF Mining Machinery OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.C JS ^ §r W OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.C. SOIvE AGENTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR John Bertram & Sons, Iron*Working Machinery. The MacGregor, Gourlay Go.'s Wood-Working Machinery. R. Hoe St eo/s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws. BRANCH OFFICE: MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET I VANCOUVER, WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. B.C. * 'WTTT* I^TyrTTtT/-* X» **f^\T} t\ * ' mwBnTuwiTiw T7TWni,,t i«n iTHTrnmm» pfwir.1 THIS MONTH.j THE ATLIN DISTRICT (ILLUSTRATED, ETC.) VOL,. VII. MAY, i goo. No s. GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. §§! ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VIOTORIA. B. O. VANCOUVER. B. C. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF Electrical Mining:! Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOB ALL CLASSES OF JlfNING WOBK. •Write Oor British Columbia Branches at VIGTORIA. VANGOUVER. CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., 107 Clayton Street, Send for Circular. Boston, Mass. PRICE, 20 CENTS. m ! Cannery If 11 Supplies. .glfc We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this w year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that HI are right. W Pure Manilla Rope. ||! Cotton Rope. jg| Rubber Belting. m. Leather Belting. rigs Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. (§1 Genuine White Lead. |H Copper Paint, Red Oxide. ||| Bar Iron, etc., etc. jggj And everything you ask for we will have it for you. jg& Mail orders receive prompt attention. i McLennan, McFeely & Go. LIMITED, H WHOLESALE and RETAIL, JJ 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. I J mmt^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi m m to. ©£ V FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING - MACHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than i,8oo at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. Si AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT- COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching COAL WASHING PLANT—Large Testing Station for Orushingand Dressing Ores at the Works. AGENT& For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.E. i THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL, MIMING MH&HINERY. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has been able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. ] We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Our machines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Mining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, 111. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM Engines fEngines Hoists „,__..„,. I Hoists (Pumps GASOLINEi [ Boilers Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline Airf nmnt-oceiM-c Engine and Air Compressor especially Jill i^uinpicaauiB adapted for Mining Purposes. Pumping Plants Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. Link Belt ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS. Conveyor 328 feet centers, handling 4 tons " run of mine" coal per minute. ANY MATERIAL. ANY CAPACITY. 'Clnk Belt," 4-Olxtl Eocomotiee, 2 motor. Electric Coal Mining and Haulage Machinery, Link-Belting, Sprocket wheels, Malleable Iron Buckets, Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Patent Machine-Moulded Kope oheaves, etc. THE LINK=BELT MACHINERY CO., Engineers, Founders, flachinsts, Chicago, U.S.A. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.sa MANUFACTURERS pilter Presses For Cyanide and ehloromatic Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. 122 CHURCH ST., TORONTO, I I ii. THE MINING RECORD. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No. 0 Prec*s*on Balance- — m T 'tnnVt Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.5.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TEBTZBL & CO., Nelson. HS^ u\ ASSAY, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- GH WE are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan .Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO,, Ltd. * P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C, Telegraphic address: "Assay." Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. 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The principle of the Automatic door enables us to set tracks farther towards the door end, thus affording un easier dump than the ordinary car, and distributing the wear on the axles more equally. The car works on a swivel, dumping as well on either side as on the front. Write us for further particulars. 0 Armstrong & Morrison, RIYETTED STEEL PIPE, HYDRHDLI6 GIANTS, BOILERS, EN» GINES AND GENERAL MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS. %**€> Office & Works: VANCOUVER, B.C. Compressed flir from Palling Water. eH high testimonial^ THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Deoartment Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. 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Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. THE MONTH. THE labour conference at Rossland which has so fortunately resulted in the re-opening of the mines of the district should become historical in the industrial history of the province. It terminated a long period of mutual distrust, it prevented a more than threatened outbreak of industrial war, and it set a valuable precedent for the settle- the labour ment of difficult matters in the future. settlement The first cause of the strained rela- at tions between labour and capital was rossland. unquestionably the eight-hour law. The conditions under which mining was carried on were suddenly changed. The mining companies felt they had been wronged, not so much by the adoption of the eight-hour system, but by the fact that it was sprung upon the country without warning or consideration. They felt as though a challenge had been issued to capital, and that the dictum had been pronounced that capital was to be completely ignored in the legislation of the province, that it was merely introduced into the province to be placed at the absolute disposal of elements, more ignorant perhaps than hostile, but, at all events sufficiently dangerous. The unrest thus engendered was intensified by the actions of a class of people the most malignant in modern life. Those who have nothing to gain save by fishing in muddy waters have a natural^ interest in stirring the waters up. Nor are such agitators to be found only on the side of labour. They exist on both sides. Wild rumours flew about of dynamite> destruction and violence and became so all-perversive that the Rossland mines were paraded with police to the heartfelt astonishment of the working community. Every thing was ripe for a struggle of protracted duration, and much bitterness. The men on the other hand saw in the eight-hour law a tangible and valuable privilege. They saw losses credited to the eight- hour law which were obviously the result of grave defects in management. They have always protested that they were willing to meet the companies half way in mitigating the effects of the change of system upon the profits of capital, but they objected to the results of defective machinery and superintendence being charged to the eight-hour law. They saw nothing in the attitude of the companies save a bull-headed determination to have the eight-hour law erased from the statute book, or nullified in practical working. To say that the trouble in Rossland was caused by the desire of the companies to introduce the contract system is pretty much the same thing as saying that a flood is caused by a superabundance of water. It is true but it is insufficient either for a proper understanding of the trouble or a proper appreciation of the results of the settlement. It is curious that the disturbance in the Slocan, caused by the introduction of a new system of hours, should have broken out over the question of wages, in Rossland over the method of payment, by piece or by time. But it is remarkable in both cases that the difficulty has been arranged at the expense of the men. In the Slocan they have to be content with a lower wage, in Rossland they have accepted the contract system which at first they bitterly opposed. That is to say, that the burden of the cost of the eight-hour law has fallen upon those whom it was presumed to benefit. Nor is it necessary to suppose that they have not received good value, or that they object to paying the price of their new privilege. But they have paid for it just the same. The amount paid for each foot of ground broken under the eight-hour law will not exceed either in the Slocan or Trail Creek the amount paid before the law came into force. By that it is not meant that the amount of work performed in eight hours is as great as that done in ten; but the pay will be less for the time worked unless the work is done at higher pressure. The value or extent of a day's labour cannot be altered by statute. If it is attempted there is a strain, a struggle, a temporary dislocation of business interests. Eventually the equation is arrived at with the same certainty, with which a stream of water, if it be dammed at one point, will find an outlet at another. In the Slocan the scale of wages was lowered, in Rossland the contract system 154 THE MINING RECORD. was introduced. The law modified a factor in the industrial situation; to counterbalance this, two other factors have been modified: the resulting equation is the same. To say that when man interferes with natural or customary (it is the same thing) conditions, nature finds a way to equalize things, is not to argue that therefore man may interfere with nature with impunity, although this is a fallacy into which many people fall. Similarly, it is absurd to say that because the industrial equation must have been re-established, as it has been, it was therefore a beneficial act to pass the eight-hour law at the time and in the manner in which it was passed. Nature is impassive to strikes, loss, bankruptcy and suffering. A man may press the lever which maintains a mass of rock in equilibrium; but his crushed body may be underneath the rock. But on this ground it is perhaps arguable whether it would now be advantageous to repeal or modify the law. This would mean another dislocation of industry, because it would be a change which labour would resent as keenly as capital did the previous one. Such changes are for the good of the community, to be deprecated as much as possible. It is evident that whether the eight-hour law should be repealed or not depends on whether the system adopted under it is sufficient to mitigate its effects on capital in any considerable or permanent degree. This can only be fully determined by experience. But the bearing of the Rossland' settlement upon this question makes it doubly interesting, as illustrating the relations between labour and capital in the province in a general way and also in connection with the eight-hour law. It will be well to separate the salient points involved in the settlement and deal with them categorically. This method, while it detracts from the style of a leading article, adds to the clearness with which the subject may be comprehended. As the matter is one more to be studied by those vitally interested in the industrial situation in our province, than lightly skimmed over by those who prefer their opinions ready made, this theological method of exposition may be adopted without further apology. The settlement then is interesting on the following grounds:— r. The method by which employers and men were brought together. 2. The extent to which the miners' union was recognized in the negotiations. 3. The radical change introduced in the method of working the mines. 4. The effect of the negotiations and settlement on the future relations between labour and capital. 1. The companies and the men were brought together by outside mediation, Mr. R. C. Clute, representing the Dominion Government, and Mr. Ralph Smith, the Provincial Government. Both of these gentlemen are notorious for their labour sympathies. It is probable their mediation would otherwise have been unsuccessful. Their functions were limited to getting a plain statement of the case on both sides. If there existed an irreconcilable difference then a fight was inevitable. But it was a' pity that a strike should be ordered until the parties knew that their differences could not be adjusted save by the exhaustion of the one or the other. Numerous conferences were held; the matters in dispute were discussed. Finally a statement of their position was obtained from the managers. The mediators gave their opin ion upon it and the men ballotted as to its acceptance. Nine industrial disputes out of ten, if attacked in the same way would be settled in the same way. The most serious are so settled after a strike has been in progress. The particular credit in regard to this one is that it has been settled in accordance with common sense before, not after or during a strike. The statement of the companies was as follows: Rossland, B.C., April 3, 1900. R. C. Clute, Q.C., Commissioner: Dear Sir: Referring to the several communications that have passed between Messrs. MacDonald and Kirby and Mr. Devine, as to the conference with yourself and Mr. Smith we have thought it well to make a statement in writing of our understanding of the situation. 1. That the companies are prepared to open up their mines under the contract system to their full capacity, as rapidly as circumstances will permit. 2. The contract system, putting it generally, provides that the contractors are to be paid for all the work they do and the companies pay for all the work done, at a price agreed upon and determined by both parties. 3. The two simplest systems will be adopted, viz., (a) contract by lineal foot of hole drilled and (b) contract by lineal foot of completed working. 4. In stopes, the method of hole measurement has been selected, because of its extreme simplicity—contractors not being obliged to take any chances on the breaking qualities of the ground, or the powder required, the cost of mucking or loss of time from smoke. 5. Blasting will be done, except where otherwise arranged, between the hours of 1 and 7 a.m., so that the probability of loss of time will be reduced to a minimum. 6. As to having all development contracts measured by the lineal foot driven, instead of by the length of holes drilled, it is understood that most of this work will be let by the lineal foot. It would not be satisfactory to contractors or the companies to be confined to this method of measuring the quantity of work done. The method selected for any contract will vary with the mine and the existing conditions, and it is a matter of free arrangement with individual contractors. 7. When, through fault of the companies contractors find themselves obliged to do work not properly included in their contract the time spent in doing such work, in excess of one hour will be paid for at the standard scale of wages. When, by special agreement contractors assume the chances of such occasional extra work, the price agreed upon will be made to cover it. 8. The companies will furnish all explosives to contractors at cost from distributing stations, or they will furnish this material free of charge when agreed upon between them and the contractors in any particular work. 9. The _ companies will furnish all machine drills, tools and implements necessary for the work free of charge to contractors, and no charge will be made to contractors for drilling machines broken while at work. . 10. The companies will arrange ,as far as practicable to have all holes in stopes blasted between the hours of 1 and 7 a.m., and they will also endeavour THE MINING RECORD. 155 to have all timbering done when required so as not to interfere with the work of drilling. 11. Companies will furnish and pay for the services of engineers and pumpmen when such are required. 12. Mucking or the barring down of rock will be done by the contractors, or the companies, as may be agreed upon at the time of making contract. 13. It is expected that the prices agreed upon based upon ordinary working conditions, will cover all delays which are inseparable from and incident to mining work. _ 14. It has been made clear that it is the desire and wtention of the companies to afford the contractors every facility for carrying out their contracts to the end that all parties concerned may be mutually benefited. 15. The fact of an employee being a member of the union will be no bar to his employment, nor will the companies place any obstacle in the way of nonunion men becoming members of a union. 16. The companies reserve to themselves the right to employ men as they see fit, whether they are members of a union or not. 17. It is the policy and intention of the companies to treat their employees fairly, and not to discharge any employee, whether he be a member of a union or not, without just and sufficient cause, it being clearly understood that membership in a union will not constitute grounds for discharge. With respect to matters wherein the employees of the companies may consider themselves aggrieved, the companies will, at any reasonable time, receive a presentation of the case, and consider the same in a fair and impartial spirit and endeavour to remove the cause, where any is found to exist. 19. It is expected that the union will at all times use its good offices and exhaust all conciliatory methods, before permitting any strike or stopping of work. And further, that they will not seek to interfere with the companies in employing or discharging employees or interfere with contractors. Yours truly. BERNARD MACDONALD, Manager. EDMUND B. KIRBY, Manager. The mediators annotated and explained this document and the men accepted its conclusions. 2. The miners' union was freely acknowledged as representing the men. The negotiators were officers of the union. The matter was submitted to a ballot by the unions. But at the same time the limits of a union's usefulness and powers were clearly laid down. The clauses dealing with this part of the subject as well as the attitude adopted during the negotiations form the most important recognition of organized labour yet witnessed in the Dominion. It is satisfactory that both labour and capital in this country- are following the English not the American precedent. 3. The radical change in the system of work is in the system of contracting in stopes and paying by the number of feet drilled. Only experience can prove whether it will result in economy to the mines and satisfaction to the men. With contracting in drifts and raises and shafts we are all familiar where payment is made by the number of feet of ground broken. But this is an entirely new thing. It must not be forgotten that the amount of ground broken does not depend solely upon the number of feet drilled. The holes must be placed right, pointed, and the powder and fuse used must be scientifically adapted to obtain the best results. By the system introduced the initiative of the miner has been taken away from all these things and directed upon something which may detract from proper attention being given to factors very important in successful work. Experience will prove whether this flaw will counteract the undoubted advantage the new system possesses. 4. In the mining industry throughout British Columbia the future of the relations between labour and capital looks very bright. It is not necessary to assume that a victory of reason heralds the millenium. A cynical critic might indeed argue that the exigencies of the companies on the one side, and the fact that the central union in Butte had troubles of its own on the other, made the masters and men see the light of reason in each other's eyes. Be that as it may, the fact remains that it will be difficult in the future to let loose the dogs of industrial war, until mediation has been brought in, the questions at issue fully and freely discussed, and the difficulty at least given the chance of a reasonable settlement. No one with any experience of mining districts can go through the Boundary Creek district without realizing that is the greatest and richest portion of British Columbia and that its future in wealth and population can hardly be over estimated, and yet there is at the present time a very visible lack of prosperity in this district. The expenditure of capital in the Boundary country has been very largely restricted and the area of its operations is becoming more defined. Power works are being installed at Cascade; the Granby smelter is being completed at Grand Forks; the Mother Lode smelter is being pushed to completion at Greenwood; and the groups represented by the Graves combination, the B. C. and the Mother Lode mining companies, are being actively developed. But the enormous number of good prospects in the Boundary country outside of these can find no purchasers and where they are already owned by joint stock companies these companies are at financial low water. The enormous expenditure involved in the construction of the railway has come to an end. The subsidiary capital expenditure of building towns stimulated by this great work has also come to an end. Consequently there are the towns of Cascade, Grand Forks, Columbia, Phoenix, Summit, Eholt, Greenwood and Midway, supported by a volume of industrial activity, which though great, is inadequate, and hard times are general throughout the whole country in a more accentuated degree than elsewhere throughout British Columbia. The Boundary country needs capital more than it ever did before if the richness of its resources is to be speedily made manifest. If a great flow of outside capital cannot be introduced into the mining industry of British Columbia, and particularly into the Boundary country, progress must be very slow and many a claim owner and business man will starve while the grass is growing. Unless the policy of the country-is definitely and intelligently directed to this end the outlook in British Columbia is somewhat sombre. American money has been diverted from British Columbia by the effects of the Alien Exclusion Act and the attractiveness of the Alaskan territory; Canadian capital has been dis- 156 THE MINING RECORD. heartened by the evidence of incompetence and extravagance in one of the principal Rossland mines; English capital is disturbed by the untoward course of the South African war; to overcome these effects alone upon the mining industry of British Columbia would require wisdom and prudence and well directed effort. But when confidence has been shaken in the administration of public affairs in the province itself by the extraordinary events which have characterized our recent political history it is evident that the task before our men of light and leading is more arduous than ever, and unless the right men carry out the right policy a period of actual retrogression is inevitable. The country needs a policy of mining development to which everything else must be subordinated. The report of the Knob Hill and Ironsides Companies, in Phoenix Camp, has. just been issued, and if the statements therein contained are to be relied upon, there can be no doubt that these mines will in the near future, rival most of the largest copper producing properties of the world. Our Boundary. Creek correspondent, however, while not questioning for a moment the reliability of the estimates given, makes some comments which are very much to the point, for if it should happen, that the general average value of the ores in these mines—and it must be remembered that the deposits are so enormous that a really exact sampling is a very difficult matter— should be lower than the management suppose and the margin for profitable working is consequently reduced to any considerable extent, the disappointment will be very keen and the whole of the Boundary Creek country will feel the effect. Our correspondent thus comments: Much publicity has been given to a statement reported by the Grand Forks correspondent to a number of newspapers, to have been made by Mr. Jay P. Graves- as follows: "The last report of our superintendent showed $11,500,000 worth of ore in sight in the Knob Hill above the tunnel level. The total aver- age value placed upon it was $8.35 per ton, which, if the estimate be correct, should pay us $3.25 per ton net profit. It is estimated there is as much ore in sight in the Old Ironsides as in the Knob Hill, and the Victoria, the adjoining mine, owned by the smelter company, is not very much inferior to either. The No. 3 shaft on the Old Ironsides lacks but a few feet of 400 feet in depth, a level that will be reached this week. Extensive development work on the Old Ironsides and the Victoria is being done in the 200 and 300-foot levels. The ground has been so developed that the ore can be easily extracted, and in quantities to keep our smelter continuously in full blast. It is estimated that we have in Phoenix alone sufficient ere in sight to supply the smelter for five years, even though we never found any more mineral." So far as the personal views of Mr. Graves, given out for publication, are concerned, these are usually freely discounted by those who regard him as a company promoter rather than a mining, man qualified to express opinions of value respecting mines. But if the figures quoted are the statements of Mr. W. Yolens Williams, the superintendent of the several mining enterprises of the Miner-Graves Syndicate, they are to be taken far more seriously, since Mr. Williams is a mine manager with a good reputation to maintain or lose. It seems desirable though to offer this comment upon the statement respecting the ore in sight above the Knob Hill tunnel level, viz.. that though drifts and cross-cuts run around the big body—frequently described as "an acre"—of ore may have, as asserted, shown ore of the average value given to occur where cut by these workings it by no means follows that the values are maintained all through this big block of ground. Conservative mining men will admit that the chances are as much against this assumption as in favour of it, and until this ground has been proved by further opening up there is risk in taking it for granted that the estimate given is to be depended upon. A shaft has been sunk below the level of the tunnel, so if this is in ore too Mr. Williams might just as well have included in his calculations all the ground down to the lowest depth reached and so arrived at a total far in excess of that quoted above. There is no doubt that much development work is being done on these Miner-Graves properties, the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria, and that enormous bodies of ore are being disclosed. With quantity so unmistakably assured it is now only a question of values and the margin they will leave above cost of treatment of the ores and delivery to buyers of the saleable products obtained. Mr. Graves' statement that $8.35 ore will give $3.25 net profit presumes a very economical cost of mining, hauling and treating the ore and marketing the product. Many readers of the Mining Record will probably think even though a smelter rate of $3.50 to $4.00 be found practicable $1.10 to $1.60 per ton will be found a difficult maximum cost to maintain for mining, hauling and marketing. It will be interesting a year hence to compare these estimated figures with the actual cost should the latter be then made public. A correspondent sends us a copy of the "Consolidation and By-Laws of the Kettle River and South Okanagan Pioneers," a society recently organized in Greenwood to which no one is qualified for membership unless able to prove residence in the district in 1894 or previous years. The officers of this very distinguished body include an honorory president (hyas klooshe tyee), a president (tyee), four or more vice-presidents (sitkum tyees), a treasurer (chicamin tyee), a secretary (tzun tyee), an honorary physician (hyas doktin) and an executive committee (mamook tyees). Rightly no stranger, pilgrim or cheecharco will be admitted to any of the society's meetings, and it is strictly enjoined that "members shall not divulge any of the secrets or mysteries of the organization," and thus will the well-worn yarns of other and harder days be preserved sacred as they are related many repeated times in that select circle while the incense from well-smoked pipes ascends ceilingwards. The "old timer" jn Boundary Creek is now in a very small minority, but for all that the district owes him a very large debt of gratitude. The man who "stayed with" the camp before even the government waggon road was built, when a weekly mail service was esteemed a luxury, and who notwithstanding the discomforts and extravagance of living in such a country never lost faith in it and never missed an opportunity of shouting its praises deserves well of the community. He it was who by long and persistent effort at length induced the capitalist to view the land. The capitalist came and he also believed. Then was a railroad built which brought in many people of all trades and callings, and in due course Boundary will be of all the THE MINING RECORD. i57 mining camps m Southern British Columbia the most prosperous. But to the pioneer the honour, if not always a fair share of tangible pecuniary reward justly belongs. By the way, the secretary of the new society, Mr. Angus K. Stuart, did in the old days more than most men to advertise Boundary Creek But he had an exceptional opportunity, for he and his partner, Mr. Norris, of Midway, published together the pioneer newspaper of South Yale, which is still happily flourishing. The British Columbia Review, of London, which by the way, is excellently well informed on matters British Columbian, has an article, in the issue of April 7th, on the subject of the opportunities at present afforded British investors for investment in local mining shares whose values, in consequence of labour troubles and industrial depression, are now selling at "a great deal less than the capital value of the ore in sight." As a suggestion, with proper modifications, the idea is a good one; whether it is likely to be acted upon is a different matter. The British investor generally and not unwisely fights shy of local mining companies. He has been badly bitten in West Australia, also, but not quite so badly, in the Transvaal, and he is therefore not likely to try the experiment in British Columbia. From the point of view of the British investor the local' mining company is unsatisfactory, because it rarely, if ever, takes the trouble to notify its shareholders of what it proposes to do or of what is going on. In British Columbia we may have some laws regulating these things, but if we have they are not as a general rule very closely regarded. This shareholders on the spot, who therefore have an advantage over those many thousand miles away, know. Notwithstanding, the present condition of the local stock market does offer many good chances for legitimate investment, apart from mere speculation, to those who can choose judiciously and our contemporary has made a very promising selection in the mines it mentions. One of the most sensational features in the B. C. market in London recently was the collapse of the Hall Mines, Ltd. This company has been making history rapidly lately, and has now entered upon the reconstruction stage in its career, the debenture and shareholders having approved the scheme put forward by the directors for extricating the concern from its present embarrassed position, and placing it in funds. The first step in this direction was taken on March 18, when the old board retired, and the following gentlemen took their places: Mr. St. Boul- nois, Mr. D. H. Gibb, Mr. Chas. Harvey and Mr. Robert Ward. In this new board's hands was placed the task of formulating the scheme of reconstraction. This they have now done after having considered and not seen their way clear to accept the offer put forward by the Messrs. Blackstock. It is practically as follows, and having been approved by the debenture and preference shareholders was laid before the ordinary shareholders at a meeting which was held on April 12th: The new capital as proposed by the board is £325,000 in £1 shares, 250,000 of which has been offered to the existing ordinary shareholders credited with 15s. paid up thereon; 25,000 will be allowed to the existing preference shareholders, and 50,000 will be held in reserve in accordance with the new debenture trust deed. It is proposed that £50,000 6 per cent, debentures shall be created to take the place as the existing debenture debt. This scheme will give the company $62,500 of funds, and with a new and energetic board and free from debt it is hoped the company will give a better account of itself in the future. The shares recently were nominal at is. or so; but for the assessment of 5s. shows that some of those in a position to gauge the position consider that there is every reason to believe that the corner now has been turned. Without an exception the reputable mining papers of the United States are cautioning their readers to take heed lest they catch the Cape Nome gold fever which is becoming epidemic. Our excellent contemporary, the Mining Reporter, of Denver. Colorado, has published many well-meant and strongly-worded warnings of which we extract a specimen. Says our contemporary: "One need not draw on his imagination to realize the truth contained in a warning letter written by Sam Kelso, a well-known miner of Es- meraldo County, Nevada, now at Cape Nome. Kelso advises people to stay away from that place and says, there are thousands of idle and penniless men there, crime is rampant, murder and robbery being of daily occurrence. The gaols and hospitals are full and nearly everybody is cursing the country." But if an American miner can't make headway in the inhospitable region of Cape Nome, what would be the fate of the tenderfoot Englishman fresh from a London office-or shop? In the first Klondike excitement many such unfortunates came and the trail swallowed them up. That was in British territory. In Cape Nome the hardship will be as great, so will be the cost of living, but furthermore, if there is available ground it is questionable whether the alien will be allowed to possess it. This is written because a London journal is publishing advertisements of the "Great Northern Railway of America." The advertisement is headed in black type: "The Golden Sand of Cape Nome," and these far distant and rocky shores are therein described as the "most remarkable placer mines the world has ever seen. The Klondike now takes second place." The Great Northern Railway, through their European agent, also offer to supply further information upon application, in the way of "illustrated printed matter." Judging from the sample submitted, such printed matter would make very fine fiction—infinitely stranger than truth. The legislation now passing through the United States Congress and authorizing miners' law at Cape Nome, wherever such law does not conflict with the general laws of the United States, will afford another strong reason why British subjects had better as a rule keep away from that region. Miners' law as interpreted by Western Miners' Courts, will largely mean the rule of the strongest, if not the law of the mob, and that is not likely to favour British interests. The Vancouver Board of Trade has on the representation of Mr. R. P. McLennan, a merchant who is largely interested in the Yukon, raised its voice in favour of a large reduction of the gold royalty and sent a representation to that effect to Ottawa. The Vancouver board agrees with. Mr. McLennan, that the maximum royalty should,including assay fees, not exceed 2,\ per cent, instead of amounting as now. 158 THE MINING RECORD. after allowing for certain deductions, to an average of well over 9 per cent. net. The increase that would be given to Yukon development and output by the lowering of the duty and consequent facilitation of the opening up and working of claims of medium grade and the lessening of present inducements to gold smuggling and other fraudulent evasions of duty would, it is thought with some reason, cause the considerable reduction of royalty urged to imply a much less diminution of aggregate Dominion Government receipts from the Yukon than the propo^d rate of royalty reduction would at first sight seem to imply. There is undoubtedly a concensus of mining and commercial opinion to the effect that the present Yukon royalty is excessive and a bar to the speedy development of our northern gold country. The success of the White Pass & Yukon Railway has enabled one English company, operating in British Columbia, to declare a splendid dividend for the latter half of 1899. The British Columbia Development Association, which helped to promote the railroad and obtained stock in that undertaking, disposed last year of its shares in the concern for no less than £21,569. As a result, the latest dividend of the British Columbia Development Association was one of 37-J per cent, to its shareholders and of 7,500 per cent, for the promoter holders of one hundred founders' shares of £1 each. These last each received £75. The Development Association has now returned to its shareholders 95 per cent of its capital of £20,000 and holdings in debentures, shares, a Skagway wharf, an hotel, and ranch at Cariboo and other assets a very large profit earning surplus over its capitalization. It is a pity for the sake of British Columbia that there are not a few more such successes amongst English organized companies. One cause of the prosperity of the British Columbia Development Association is the fact that its chairman, Mr. R. Byron Johnson, is a shrewd old-timer, now resident in London, who knows British Columbia well and is consequently able to take good care of his company's interests. The exposures in connection with the Morris Cat- ton companies, with which Messrs. Turner and Pooley so unfortunately allowed their names to be associated, and the collapse of the Tupper flotations emphasizes in a very striking measure the responsibility attaching to Ministers of the Crown or men of high official standing who lend their names and influence to speculative enterprises. Those who have endeavoured to prove that instead of deserving censure the ministers who have figured as directors of discredited or bankrupt mining and transport companies, are really entitled to commendation on the grounds that the means seemed to justify the end of assisting in the introduction of capital into the country, pay but a left-handed compliment to the abilities of the men they champion. Moreover, the well-meaning man is always objectionable. As a result of the recent exposures, however, it is reasonably safe to predict that for some time to come at any rate Canadian ministers will hesitate before taking similar chances of damaging their reputations by being found in company with such scoundrels as Mr. Morris Catton. for the sake of French investor readers to elaborate descriptions of the operations of the Anglo-French Syndicate at Mansfield Camp, near Kaslo, where the syndicate owns and operates several gold-silver claims. Our contemporary speaks very highly—to use a mild expression—of the prospects of the Joker claim as a gold and silver producer and asserts that another of the Anglo-French Syndicate's properties— the Twin Lakes—ought to pay a dividend this year. But naturally the Revue Mineral lllustre will not fail to make the most and best of the British Columbia properties which belong to the owners of the paper, which is an excellently printed and well got-up little monthly. The veto by the Dominion Government of the anti- alien placer mines legislation of British Columbia last session, merely anticipates a repealing measure which would certainly otherwise have been brought in and passed at the next session of the Provincial Legislature. The immediate effect, however, of the veto will be to encourage the development of placer mining in the Atlin district at the hands of American investors and mine workers this year. It is interesting to note how Canada's production of refined copper last year—most of which came from this province compared with that of certain other well known copper-producing countries of the world. The Dominion in 1899 produced 6,730 long tons of the metal, as compared with Montana's output of 106,650 tons and with the remarkable yield of the world famous Calumet & Hecla mines of Montana which last year shipped no less than 41,000 tons. The famous Rio Tinto mines of Spain, with the management of which Mr. W. A. Carlyle, late of Rossland, is now connected, also made a splendid copper yield last year, the output being 34,370 tons. Moreover Canada's total yield of last year was on the other hand that of British South Africa, where copper producing mines in Cape Colony and Namaqualand together produced 6,490 tons, or slightly less than the Canadian output. Meanwhile Newfoundland, which is steadily increasing its copper output, gave a yield of 2,700 tons in 1899. The current number of La Revue Mineral lllustre, a monthly issue published by the French Agency of British Columbia, Ltd, naturally gives special prominence, THE LATE MR. J. L. THOMSON. (Specially Contributed.) IN the last number of the Engineering and Mining Journal we note with sorrow the death of Mr. John L. Thomson, the well-known copper and nickel metallurgist, who died on April 4th last at Norfolk, Va., of pneumonia. By Mr. Thomson's death the world loses one of that group of men who have, during the past twenty years, revolutionized copper smelting and who may be said to have originated the smelting of nickel on a large scale. The advancement made in these directions is due more to Mr. Thomson's strong practical sense and experience than to anything else. Mr. Thomson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was there associated with Mr. Thomas Gibb in the treatment of copper ores by the "Henderson" wet process. In 1785 he came to Canada as assistant to his brother, George Thomson, then in charge of the copper mines and smelting works at Copletan, some ten miles from Sherbrooke, Que. Later he moved with his brother to the Huntingdon copper mines at Dillonton, Que. THE MINING RECORD. i59 In 1879, when Messrs. W. E. C. Eastis, H. M. Howe and R. M. Thompson, of Boston, in conjunction with Major R. G. Leckee (now in charge of the Sudbury nickel miles) formed the Orford Nickel and Copper Company to work the nickel deposits of Orford County, Que., and the Crown Copper Mine of Copletan, Mr. Thomson was engaged as superintendent. It was during the following year, 1880, that the Orford Company, under Henry M. Howe as engineer and Mr. Thomson as superintendent, produced the Orford ratchet blast furnace for smelting copper ores. Prior to that time the output of the small square or round copper blast furnace universally in use had not exceeded 40 to 50 tons per day but, under Mr. Thomson's management, the. new furnace soon had records of 100 to 150 tons per day. This radical change from a square or round furnace of four feet in diameter in the shaft to a furnace having a rectangular shaft 3x11 feet inside was the turning point in the history of copper smelting and made the Orford Company famous the world over. The idea once started, other metallurgists followed it out until as much as 300 tons of copper ore per day have been regularly run through one furnace and the end is not yet. The brick walls of the old Orford furnace, chilled by means of water pipes built in, have given way to the water-jacketed walls of the modern copper smelter in metallurgy. About 1881 Mr. Thomson was moved to New York, where he assumed the superintendence of copper works which the Orford Company had built there the previous year. In 1883 Mr. Thomson went to Bute, Montana, having charge there of the Garrat smelter, one of the pioneer smelters of that great camp. Here he became associated with W. A. Clark, now the multi-millionaire United States Senator, and was instrumental in obtaining for that gentleman the United Verde copper mines, the source of the Clark millions. Mr. Thomson later returned to the Orford Company as superintendent in New York and, while in this capacity, he devised the Thomson (patented) process for the smelting of nickel, thus rendering available and enabling the Orford Company to treat the magnificent deposits of nickel ore at Sudbury, Ontario, and at the same time giving to this company the command of the nickel markets of the world. The influence Mr. Thomson has had on the smelting practice of this continent may be seen in the foregoing and that Canada and especially British Columbia have been directly influenced by his life s work is indicated by the fact that among those who have acted as his assistants and profited by his sound practical sense are Mr. W. F. Robertson, the Provincia Mineralogist; Mr. Robt. R. Hedley, Superintendent of the Hall Mines smelter; Mr. Thos. Kiddie Superintendent of Van Anda smelter; Mr Paul Johnson, Superintendent of Greenwood smelter; Mr. J. m. Leckie M.E., of Rossland and others. VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. HAVING been requested by many of our readers throughout the Province to publish in these columns a verbatim report of the evidence in the Iron Mask-Centre Star litigation, Mr. H. F. Evans, our Rossland correspondent, was enabled through the kindness of Mr. J. B. Hastings to carry out our m- structions to copy the official report of the proceedings and evidence taken, and which are in consequence enabled to publish in serial form. (Continuation of Counsel's Argument, from last month's issue.) Mr. Davis—Your Lordship will see by the time we open just what the real issues are. I do not'think we shall disagree very much as to what the real issues are. The Court—Yes, your title is disputed. Mr. Davis—As T. said, when we got down to the bottom of this winze, he again met the top of the so- called flat fault which runs across there. The Iron Mask people again applied for an injunction on the ground that this so-called flat fault destroyed the continuity of the vein, claiming again that that flat fault, as they called it, was of such a nature as to destroy—necessarily destroy—the continuity of any and ail vtins that it encountered on the further ground which they then raised for almost the first time—at any rate a ground which had not been raised in the application for the first injunction—that we had not anything in the No. 3 shaft anyhow, and that we had not an)' apex on Centre Star ground. The Court—What is No. 3? Mr. Davis—What is the No. 3. The Court—That No. 3 is familiarly known between you as the inclined shaft. Mr. Davis—The inclined shaft. The form of that injunction was very general, and really covers the whole ground in dispute in this action, or ground of dispute, rather, I should say, outside of the question of damages. The form of that injunction, is such as to prevent us anywhere crossing this so-called flat fault, and the injunction is worded in a very proper way, following the argument advanced by the other side. They said the flat fault cuts you off, not only cuts you off but cuts off any and every vein it goes through, therefore, even if you have a vein above that flat fault you ought not to be allowed to pass through that flat fault and they got an injunction from the Court on those terms. Now, there are several issues, as my learned friend pointed out to you the other day, in connection with this question. Of course, I am only referring now to the mining part of the suit. But there are, I think, only three that your Lordship need pay any attention to, because there are only three which I think my learned friend will press seriously or that there is any ground of contention at -ill. The others. I think, are more formal, that is as to the course of the Centre Star vein as to where it crosses the boundary lines of the Centre Star claim. Those three are: Is there an apex of a vein on the Centre Star ground at the post where we claim it? The second is: Is there a vein continuing down from that apex (assuming there is an apex) continuously into and through Iron Mask ground, or as it was put in the affidavits, is there a continuous vein, or any vein whatever in the No. 3, that is the inclined shaft? The third point is: Assuming the apex and the vein is that vein as all other veins which meet the flat fault cut off entirely, and is its continuity destroyed by the so-called flat fault? These are really, I think, the three fighting points in the— The Court—-Case. Mr. Davis—The mining branch of the case, the case outside of these questions of title. The only other question in the case, which will not take up any time at all is the question of damages. It will probably clear up that matter, if I refer at the present time 160 THE MINING RECORD. to the fact that there are disputes arising, so far as the pleadings show on both sides of this natural fault or vertical dyke, the one which comes down here. The injunction does not apply to that. We never tried to cross the vertical dyke, but a large portion of the damages are involved in the west side, what we may call the west side, and right outside of the claim for damages which arises on the west side, is entirely on the east side of that dyke, and I will speak of the two sides as the west side and the east side. The Court—I suppose there had been ore taken out of No. 3 shaft. Mr. Davis—Well, they say there is no vein there, so I do not suppose they will attach any very great importance to the ore taken out of that shaft. On the west siclo mere was some ore taken by Durant, the manager of the Centre Star Company, as we have admitted ii' the statement at station 66. That is the point I have mv st;ck on at the present time, and that is the only point m dispute here so far as the west side is concerned. Because, so far as following the vein down is concerned, we are not trying—have not tried —to cross the vertical dyke— are not trying to. We may in the future, probably will, follow down from the War Eagle because this vein, the north fork of the War Eagle, runs over into War Eagle ground, and we will come down from that side and therefore will not raise any question about the effect of the large vertical dyke. So far as the damages are concerned for the ore that we have taken from station 66, our witnesses have examined that ground carefully—have examined where that ore was taken from, and they have given it to us as their opinion that that ore under no circumstances came from the Centre Star mine. That is their opinion that that ore came from the undisputed Iron Mask vein and when they are on the witness stand they will frankly and candidly tell your Lordship that that is the opinion which they arrived at so that so far as the west side is concerned we can put it out of the question atogether in this action. The only claim with reference to that being as to this ore which was taken, which on examination we find to be ore which belongs, in their opinion, to the Iron Mask. Of course, if more development work was done there might be some question, but at 'he present stage they are not willing to go on the witness stand and say that they think that ore did not come from the Iron Mask vein, so that that cuts the west side out of the case. The Court—Has this ore been preserved? , Mr. Davis—There are four or five car loads which were taken from there, and we have given the other side a statement of the amount of value of that ore, which we read to your Lordship a moment ago. The Court—But it is all preserved, is it? Air. Davis—Oh, it has gone to the smelter. The Court—I suppose specimens were kept of it? Mr. Davis—We have given him a statement of the smelter returns; there will be no dispute about that part of it we think. We do' not want any of their ore, if it is their ore. This is a very trifling part of this action. The main question in issue—the only question we are interested in—is the question of whether or not, as I said before, we have a vein with au apex in Centre Star ground, which passes down from the Centre Star ground into Iron Mask ground, which continues on down in an unbroken sheet and is not cut off or has not its continuity destroyed by this so- called flat fault. That is the thing which is of importance. Air. Bodwell—You do not go west of it? Mr. Davis—So far as this action is concerned, we are not concerned with, and shall not put in evidence respecting the west side of the fault. As I said before, the only claim is the question of damage at point 66, and we have satisfied ourselves that the ore which was taken from 66 came from the Iron Mask vein and so far as following down on the vein itself, that may be a question for the War Eagle in the future, but we are not raising it here. The Court—You concede, Mr. Davis, then, as to the damages with respect to that ore taken from the west side of the vertical fault. You throw up? Mr. Davis—Yes, my Lord. The Court—You surrender what you got? Mr. Davis—Yes, we are not here to try to prove anything which we do not fairly believe to be so, and our witnesses have satisfied themselves with reference to that. There has been, I might say, a great deal more development work done there b)r Iron Mask people, which throws a great deal more light on the subject, puts it in a very different position from what it was at the time Durant took the ore. Of course, he took it honestly enough, fully believing that it belonged to the Centre Star vein; and I might say just here that so far as these damages are concerned, the defendants Gooderham and Blackstock have nothing whatever to do with it. We committed no trespass, as your Lordship will remember, looking back at the evidence which my learned friend has put in. There was no evidence whatever that Gooderham and Black- stock have been guilty of any trespass. Whatever trespass took place, if any, took place prior to Gooderham and Blackstock's purchase, and we are on the part of the Centre Star Company. I might say that Gooderham and Blackstock purchased pending the litigation—they bought this last summer. They added by counsel, because, in the first place, my learned friend wished to have them bound by the injunction as it stood, and in the second place, because we wished to be in a position to have that injunction removed, and to be able to go on down this inclined shaft in the^winze, in other words, follow our vein down here on its dip as we claim we are entitled to do under the law. Now that statement clears the way this far. It shows that the fight in the present case is all as to whether or not we have a vein between No. 2 and No. 3, and whether that vein is cut off by the alleged flat fault. It is a very simple proposition, and the evidence will, I think, be very clear on that point to your Lordship. I will give your Lordship a slight sketch of what the evidence will be. We shall prove in the first place by all our witnesses that between No. 2 and No. | shafts there is an apex practically continuous, that there is an apex not merely of iron cap as has been suggested, but an apex on the surface, that is an outcrop, showing iron pyrites and chalcopyrrhotite on apex or out-cropping, in short, such is very seldom found in this camp, a broad apex, showing conclusively a broad vein. How broad, of course, cannot be told from the out-cropping' itself, because it does not run back to the walls, that is, the exterior walls of the vein. We will prove that apex beyond all question. I think I am perfectly safe in saying that. In the next place we will prove that the vein in the inclined shaft following down from the apex 320 feet to the cross fissure, which has been called the flat fault is continuous beyond all question. (To be continued.) THE MINING RECORD. 161 THE ATLIN DISTRICT. RBSUW OF I.AST SEASON'S WORK AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE. (By Wm. Baillie.) J T y estimated that last summer there was a popula- J lion of between 6,000 and 8,ooo people in the Atlin district. A year previously, the district was wholly unknown, though not many miles from it, tens of known as the first discoverer of placer gold in the Atlin district, went in from Juneau. They returned with the tidings of their discovery during the summer, and immediately chiefly from the ranks of the men employed on the construction of the White Pass and Yukon Railway, there was a stampede of many hundreds of people to the new goi 1 fields, and as the area of the placers was found to be extensive, none of them Atlin—Scene on Tramway, two miles long, connecting Taku Arm with Atlin Lake, to be replaced this Year by a Railway. Atlin—Commodore John Irving's Steamer, The " Gleaner," plying between Bennett and Taku City. thousands of people were coming and going over the dreary trail to the mining fields of the Klondike. In the spring of 1898, a party of three or four prospectors, the chief of whom was Fritz Miller, now well had difficulty in locating and recording claims for themselves. But they came in :.t the tail of the season, and winte.- closed in on them before they had an opportunity to attemot much in the way of actual gold gettiig. Still, in the shallower diggings, enough had been done to give great promise of wealth to the lucky claim holders when the grip of winter should be loosened by the sunshine of the coming summer. The gold production of 1898 is variously given at figures somewhat below $100,000. Meanwhile the news of the Atlin discoveries had reached the capital of the Province at Victoria and thence with marvellous rapidity had spread the world over. As usual in such cases the reports were frightfully exaggerated, and Atlin w.is heralded as a gold field equalling and outstripping the great Klondike. It may be said at the outset that while Atlin, as shown by the extensive mining operations of 1899, cannot be compared in point of richness as a placer field for the operations of poor men in the way of panning, rocking and sluicing, with the Klondike, it still has been demonstrated to be a mining district of very extraordinary interest and importance. Nor is its import- l62 THE MINING RECORD. ance confined by any means wholly to the richness of its alluvial deposits, for its quartz lodes promise to brt of equal or possibly greater value. The Government of Bnfsh Columbia, with commendable promptitude, as soon as the news of '.he unknown, though not many miles from it, tens of thousands of people were coming and going over the Atlin discoveries came to hand, set energetically to work to arrange for the proper administration and organization of the district. The original discoverers were under the impression that Ath'r was north of the 6oth parallel of latitude, and therefore in the Northwest Territories of the Dominion. But a sur- \ey quickly determined the error, showing that the discovery claim was from 15 to 20 miles to the south of the 60th parallel, well within the boundaries of the Province of British Columbia. The Government immediately appointed a Gold Commissioner, Mining Recorder and othei officials for the new district, laid out the townsite of Atlin at the mouth of Pine Creek on the eastern shore of Atlin, and established the Government recording office at that point. cut in some sixty odd miles from Log Cabin, a point on the White Pass & Yukon Railway then under P^paSjSg Atlin—A Mule Tiain on the Toad to the Mines in Early May. ?^§*^'%^^^;;' Atlin—A View of the Lake and Mountains opposite Atlin City. In the fall of 1898, provisions were naturally very scarce and correspondingly dear, so that the great majority of the miners came out to winter at the Coast cities. As soon, however, as the cold weather had frozen the lakes over solidly, and a trail had been construction, the tide of humanity again began to surge into the Atlin district, and the population continued to increase well on into the spring and summer months. The influx of miners and others to the new gold fields, it is believed by many, would have THE MINING RECORD. Atlin—Stampede to New Discovery at Sucker Lake—Broad Daylight at 1:30 a.m. been doubled and possibly 'lipled had it not been for the enactment by the Provincial Legislature of the now famous so-called Alien Exclusion Act which prevented any but British subjects from acquiring placer claims in British Columbia. On account of this law thousands of American miners, who had heard of th; Atlin placers were rudely prevented from going in and many who had already mai'e their way in over the View of the Lake and Mountains opposite Atlin City. 164 THE MINING RECORD. inhospitable trails of that bleak country to the north s-uddenly found the object cf their journey removed and consequently were obli^td to retrace their steps indignantly procia1 *ning against the "perfidious Britisher" and relating stories of privations and kudos sadly diminisned. I shall pass no word of censure on the Legislature in this matter for the enactment proceeded from patriotic motives, but the sadly disappointed Americans have my fullest sympathy; and that the Act was a mistake is now generally recognised and fully confessed by the introduction by the Government at the last session of a measure to repeil in toto the Alien Exclusion law of last year. Early in the month of May of last year the Government held an auction -;d.; of the lots on the town- site, and about twenty-five thousand dollars' worth oi town property was thus disposed of The inhabit- cial institutions have in the fuure mining activities and productiveness of Atlin district. Nothing—in British Columbia, at all events—can exceed the scenic beauty of Atlin and its surroundings. The illustrations herewith given will attest this fact, and when to beauty of location is ldded a summer climate of almost matchless perfection—clear, sunny weather, the brilliant ceciduous foliage of the poplar groves surrounding, the air charged with the ■perfume of flowers of a thousand different kinds—.t will be seen that in our "barren north," as it has been improperly termed, there are compensations which its inhabitants enjoy for the drawbacks of an isolated and remote place of residence. O.i the main street of Atlin City,—well planked on either side for several blocks, are the business places of greater or lesser importance, and some of the most substantial and mosf Atlin—The Busiest Scene in the Camp Last Summer where some thousands of Ounces of Gold were taken out. ants up to this time had been mainly living under canvas, as indeed many continued to do up to the end of the season, but the ac ;ms:,tion of the lots by private owners gave an impel■•.: to building operations which resulted in the ere. t on of a number of substantial and commodious, not to say handsome, structures—shops, banking buildings, residences, etc., and this notwithstanding that lumber of a very inferior quality was only obtainable at the enormous price of $100 and more per 1,000 feet. The most pretentious building in the youthful "city" is that of the Merchants' Bank of Halifax, which occupies a prominent corner on the main business streeet, and would be an object of note in many older and larger towns. The Bank of British North Amirica and the Canadian Bank of Commerce also have had' commodious buildings erected for their accommodation—a fact that speaks volumes for the faith these three great finan- extensive commercial concerns of the Province—such as the British America Corporation, Thos. Dunn & Co., McLennan & McFeely, Parsons Produce Company, and others of the large Coast firms—are represented here. But to the main purpose of this writing—the mining. There is no possibility of telling ace irately the ap; iunt of gold won from the placers of Atlin up to date. The Government exacts—or is supoosed to exact—a royalty of one per cent, of the gold takm out by miners, and if this royalty were ilways duly collected there would be no difficulty in arriving at the actual amount of gold won. But as a matter of fact it is generally conceded, and I am of the same opinion, that the royalty has not been paid on one- half the output. Many miners, like many other people, adjudge it no sin to elude the tax collector, and it is so easy for a man washing gravel on a creek in a THE MINING RECORD. 165 mountain fastness to obscure, so to speak, the success of his operations, and the temptation to "tumble to the racket," so great that he very generally doth "tumble." But still, last year, the Government records at Atlin show that the royalty was paid on about $468,000. People familiar with the operations at Atlin during last year compute the total output at from $1,200,000 to $1,600,000. This is a very considerable amount for a new camp, and places Atlin district easily in the foremost place among the alluvial gold producing districts of British Columbia. But this result would have been greatly enhanced had»it rot been for the unfortunate muddle that took place in the mining records, which completely blocked the permitted only 100 feet. Next, the passage of the Alien Exclusion Act raised a doubt in the public mind (though it should not have done so) as to the title of aliens to claims that had been staked even before the Exclusion Act was passed. The result was that there was wholesale "jumping" of claims. In order to settle the disputes thus arising the Government commissioned a justice of the Supreme Court 'o proceed to Atlin, and invested him with wide cowers to deal with the difficulty. But in the meantime the claims could not be worked, and it was the 1st of August before the tangle was straightened and the rights of the various claimants established. Thus only about six weeks of real work was done on the iHH. 51F . Cw&vh <*>». V*o 3ft ;lin—This Photo Illustrates the Lower End of the Most Productive Workings in the Camp, PinelCreek, below Willow. majority of the claims being worked, up to the first of August, by which time the bulk of the season's work should have been completed instead of being just begun. There were two principal causes leading up to this unfortunate state of affairs.which practically paralyzed the operations of the camp for so long a time, and drove out of the country hundreds of miners who otherwise would have been active producers. In the first place many hundreds of claims were staked and recorded at the outset under the misapprehension that the Atlin district was in the Northwest territories In the Territories the size of claims allowed is 250 feet, while in British Columbia the miner is great majority of the claims last year, and the amount' of gold produced during that time is certainly very encouraging. Some of my illustrations will show the character of the operations, and give an idea, too, of the work accomplished by the miners at several points on the various creeks. The busiest point during the season was at Discove y on Pine Creek, about eight miles from Atlin City, and in one photograph will be noticed the many long lines of sluice boxes that wire here put in, also the numerous devices employed in raising the water either out of the trenches back to the creek, or up to sluice boxes on higher levels. There i66 THE MINING RECORD. were many hundreds of miners at work on the claims ?bove and below Discovery for a mile or more on either side. Adjacent to Discovery a spur of lock cuts into the river channel, and has been named Nugget Point on account of the very coarse gold and the many large-sized nugget? that were taken out there, the peculiar nature of the eddy in the stream doubtless lending itself to the ready deposit of the larger chunks of metal at that place. It may here be noted that the gold of the Atlin gravels generally is all of the "coarse" variety, there being extremely little if any "flour" gold. Just above Nugget Point, the small stream called Willow Creek flows into Pine, and the indications are abundant that the rich deposits of gold found on the richest of the Pine Creek claims (which lie immediately below the point where Willow Creek flows into Pine) have been brought down through the channel of Willow Creek. During the summer months Willow Creek carries only a small volume of water, in fact, it becomes almost dried up, so that some other source of supply had to be tapped. First a large flume was put in to tap a series of small lakes a mile or fwn rli i« t k » Atlin—Device for Elevating Water from Pine the supply here, as the season wore on> also practically gave out, and the miners thereupon cooperated in the making of a considerable ditch which lapped Pine Cieek at a point perhaps a couple of miles up stream This gave the Willow Creek operations a plentiful water supply; but the season was then already nearing a close. The diggings on Willow Creek have f roved very productive, but they are deep, from eight to twelve feet and more, and even then practically nowhere is bedrock touched. The gold is mostly found on a substratum of greenish-blue :fiW$fo^i>cjf&z jb clay; it is exceedingly coarse, and of a very high assay value. Some two or three miles farther up Pine Creek Birch Creek flows in from the north. Many claims have been staked on this creek and a large quantity of gold taken out. The diggings are deep, however, and operations are a good deal hampered by the many large boulders encountered. Pine Creek has its source in Surprise Lake, about six miles above Discovery. This lake is some sixteen miles long by three or four in width and flanked on either side by moderately high and precipitous mountains. Into this lake on either side flow a dozen or more streams of varying sizes, and a 11 carrying gold in more or less abundance in the gravels forming their beds and banks. Chief among these are Boulder and Ruby Creeks, flowing in from the north, and Otter and Wright Creeks coming in from the south. Of the other creeks on the south side may be mentioned Union, Horse, Quartz and Hemlock. On Boulder Creek a good deal of work was done last summer with results in many cases quite satisfactory to the miners. The work, however, greatly im- SH& kS-ISfessSSi Creek to the Bench above—Scene opp. Pine City. peded by the many boulders from which the creek takes its name. Wright is the principal creek on the south side, and the large amount of work done there, together with the returns, show that while the diggings are deep and therefore not as remunerative as they would otherwise be, they would prove extremely productive if worked by some system of hydraulicing that would obviate the great costliness of operating with ordinary sluice boxes. Otter Creek last summer also had the attention of a large number of miners, with varying success, and Left, Centre and Topaz Creeks, which are short tributaries of Otter, were the scene of the exertions of many miners. THE MINING RECORD. 167 The most important confluent of Pine Creek is Spruce, whose waters mingle with those of the larger stream some three miles from the mouth of Pine at Atlin Lake. Spruce is upwards of 20 miles in length and carries during the whole season an ample supply of water. Some hundreds of miners were at work on this^ stream last summer and many thousands of dollars' worth of the precious metal was taken out. The only other gold-producing stream of any great importance in the district is McKee Creek, which empties into Atlin Lake from the east at a point about P miles south of Atlin City. Some very successful mining was done on this creek last year, the aggregate gold winnings being computed at from $75,000 to $too,ooo. But it has really only begun to be worked, and preparations are being made to renew operations the coming year on a very much larger scale. The result of operations in the Atlin district during companies is to be begun during the coming summer. Two or three of those I have learned of may be mentioned. A leasehold of pretty nearly 1,000 acres has been obtained at the junction of Spruce and Pine Creeks. This property is now under bond to the British America Corporation, and during last year some prospecting was done on the ground to determine its value, resulting, I am told, very satisfactorily. Another large leasehold was obtained on Boulder Creek, and has been bonded to M. Emil Jaune Delamarre, a Parisian investor, who is also interested in other Atlin properties, and who has made in France the necessary financial arrangements to begin operations the coming summer. On McKee Creek there has been formed a combination of many of the placer claim owners, and the preparatory work is now proceeding to work the whole of the claims and some of the adjacent benches by means of an Atlin—Looking up Pine Creek towards Discovery. the past two years has demonstrated: (1) That there is much gold disseminated through the immense and widely-spread gravel deposits of the district; (2) that the diggings are mainly deep diggings, and therefore foi the greater part not likely to be highly profitable if worked by the expensive process of ordinary sluicing; and (3) that by the introduction of powerful hydraulic plants great success is alone possible. Almost every one of the creeks which I have described above is flanked at numerous places by immense gravel banks, all of them auriferous. There is abundance of water to be obtained almost everywhere, and I can scarcely conceive of a more alluring field than this for hydraulic operations on a large scale. Many leases of large areas of ground have been obtained from the Government, and the initial work of several large hydraulic plant of large dimensions. At Willow Creek an extremely promising series of hydraulic leases have been taken out, and these, too, it is reported, will be extensively worked. Wright Creek is one whose configuration lends itself well to hydraulic mining and I learn that this winter preparations are being made to instal a plant at an early day. But these are only a few of the projects on foot, and within a very short period the possibilities of the field from the point of view of the hydraulic miner will be known. Meanwhile, in my opinion, the opportunities are very promising, for it would take many years to work out the enormous deposits of the Atlin gold-bearing gravel. I have already remarked that Atlin is a promising field for lode mining. During the past summer I 168 THE MINING REGORD. visited most of the "prospects" that had been discovered, and there certainly are enough indications on which to build very strong hopes for Atlin's future in the production of ores. Early last year there appeared in Atlin one "Sailor Bill," otherwise known as Mr. W. J. Partridge, who is reported, or who at all events gives himself the credit of having been a partner of the famous Barney Barnato, the South African promoter. Sailor Bill looked about for some weeks and obtained an option on a number of mineral claims that had been staked in the immediate vicinity of Atlin City—indeed, a part of the property is within the city boundaries. The ledge, an enormous one some 300 or 400 feet wide, was reported to carry from $6.00 to $8.00 per ton in free gold, and as there were many many millions of tons of ore in sight, it is not to be wondered at that when Mr. Partridge shortly afterwards repaired to London with his options he was not long in exciting the interest of capitalists. He came back to Atlin in September, accompanied by Lord Ernest Hamilton (a London promoter of mining and other concerns), who brought with him an expert to examine the property. Sailor Bill's representations as to the average value of the rock on the surface, it may be said, did not prove to be strictly accurate, but nevertheless there was sufficient merit in the property to induce Lord Hamilton to pay the owners of fourteen of the claims $10,000 for their interests, together with a farther stipulation that if on investigation the property should prove valuable enough to justify its flotation, the vendors should be given 20 per cent, of the whole stock issue of the company, fully paid up. It was a fair and favourable arrangement for all concerned, and the work of prospecting by tunnelling has been proceeding ever since. In a recent issue of the Mining Record was given the results so far as the prospecting has gone, and I think I cannot do better than repeat here the natur- i.tlin—"^FrenclTJoe's Claim onlSprace Creek, which[Yielded Handsomely. ally conservative view of the property given by the engineer in charge. He says: "In the neighbourhood of Atlin City the country rock is much metamorphosed and is probably an altered gabbro, much serpentised. Enclosed in this are immense areas of altered rock, or quartzose dikes showing great secondary action, and this appears to be generally more or less auriferous. My investigations demonstrated the rock itself to run about $1.00 or rather less; while in the joint planes and fissures one frequently finds 1 ~&"n high-grade free- milling gold ore. What the future of lode mining in Atlin may be, no one can at present foretell. But if the average values prove sufficiently high for profitable treatment then great things may be expected. We have, meanwhile, felt that taking all the facts into account, there is in Atlin a considerable area of ground worth prospecting, and that in certain areas or zones values might be sufficiently concentrated to be payable. This seems to have been borne out by work last year, so far as we have information. Of two prospecting drifts, one has shown no values higher than $2.20, while in the other the ore aver- ns^es $4.00 and is improving in grade. The ore is easily treated and by op- n cast working up- c n a large scale the cost would not be over $2.00 per ton." In connection with the above, it may be said that should the character of the material contained in leads being prospected by Lord Hamilton prove to be "pay rock", it will be a very big thing for Atlin, for there are large croppings of what appears to be and no doubt is exactly similar ore. The rocks of the Pine Creek valley are for the greater part the typical Cariboo schists varying from' black to bluish shale to a foliated gray or greenish chloritic or talcose schist. There are many quartz seams in evidence, and some of them, notably at Willow Creek and on the shore of Surprise Lake, show pure white samples well-flecked with gold, but the Atlin—Monster Nugget Picked up on Spruce Creek, 84 oz. Troy 170 THE MINING RECORD. Atlin—No. 1 Claim of the Famous Willow Creek Series, a. rich bit of Ground. this creek, about 12 or 15 miles from its mouth, a is rather dull in colour, showing the steel fracture, and heavy ledge of galena has been discovered. The ore assays giving as high as 85 ozs. silver to the ton with ^isf^^* SiiiaSS m !Wpw Atlin—The Lucky Miner has just picked up the Big Nugget shown in the Preceding Illustration. THE MINING RECORD. Atlin—Lieberman & Willison's Claim on Spruce Creek showing Waterwheel and Device for Raising Water from Trenches. 60 per cent, and upwards of lead have been obtained, as it has been bonded to Juneau people and is now It looks like an extremely promising prospect, and under active development, a fair determination of Atlin—Working Out the Benches on Spruce Creek with Rocke 172 THE MINING RECORD. Atlin—A Mining Scene on Spruce Creek showing a few Small Boulders.' its real value will ere long be made. On the shore City, occurs another galena prospect. Here the ore of Atlin Lake, some two or three miles south of Atlin is bright and somewhat intermixed with white quartz, THE MINING RECORD. 173 Atlin—A View at the Headwaters of Wright Creek, where some Rich Placer Ground has been Worked. the fracture showing either cubes or striations. The inch to several inches in width and running irregu- assays show a uniform value of about 60 ozs. silver larly through a ledge of white and bluish-white quartz. and 60 per cent, or upwards of lead . This prospect The expectation of the owners is that the various is composed of a dozen or more stringers from an seams will be found below to run into one solid pay Atlin—Following up a " Pay Streak " with a Tunnel into the Bench. 174 THE MINING RECORD. Atlin—A Capital View of the Great Dixie Group on Willow, whichfls yielding Large Returns. streak, and with the object of determining this they elevation above the surface of the water that the tun-, have put in a tunnel to tap the lead at a depth of 40 nel will be ineffective in determining the real merits or 50 feet. A better plan would probably have been of the property, to sink on the lead, for the cropping is at so slight an In July last I visited a copper prospect on an island Atlin—Closer View of Workings on Pine Creek—China Pump, Water Wheel, Flume, etc. THE MINING RECORD. 175 lying close to the western shore of Atlin Lake and about 30 miles south of Atlin City. Here was to be seen a vein of grayish white quartz not more than 20 inches wide at the point of exposure and cutting its way cleanly through igneous rock on either side Pro- tiuding from the very centre of this vein and standing almost upright out of it to a height of fully 18 inches was a flange of pure native copper, varying from half an inch to an inch and a half in thickness. With the under active development, a fair determination of metal from side to side in the course of an hour or so a piece nearly three feet long was broken off weighing well on to 100 pounds. The vein could not be followed a great distance on account of the drift, but wherever it was exposed it seemed strong and continuous. No work to speak of had been done on the property at the time of my visit to it> but I have since learned that a few shots of powder have shown that lower down the solid copper appearing on the surface becomes dispersed thro" the ledge matter in small particles o f pure metal. If this condition should continue, the material might readily. b e milled and the mine become a a very valu- a b 1 e one. Since my visit the strike of the vein has followed to the mainland a distance of some hundreds of yards and on removal of the drift the vein was again disclosed. It is an extremely interesting discovery, and arrangements are being made to have it fully investigated during the coming season. Many samples of good looking gold, silver, lead and copper quartz coming from other parts of the district were shown me, all of which leads to the belief that Atlin Camp has the prospect ahead of a great lode mining industry. It may be thought, perhaps, that the matter of transportation of refractory ores to smelter points will seriously handicap lode-mining in such a country. But after all Atlin is not more than 150 miles or so by water and rail to an ocean port at Skagway, and it is questionable if the charges for freight and treatment would even now be greater than they are from the Slocan country to the American smelting centres whither the great bulk of the Slocan ore has been sent. I believe a rate of transportation as low as $7.00 a ton could be obtained, and that is about what the Slocan miners pay. There need, therefore, be no hesitation- on the part of investors in allowing the inni-i,ortalion question t o interfere with their careful investig a tion of Atlin properties. The steam boats and railway trains returning from Atlin via Bennett to Skagway, and thence b y ocean southward, go light so far as freight is concerned, and will naturally be anxious to give the best possible rate to encourage the mining of ores in the north country. Then as to the cost of mining in Atlin, it should not be very much greater than in the older camps of Southern British Columbia. Provisions and supplies of all kinds may now be taken in at fairly low rates, and these rates will still continue to be lowered as time goes on and the facilities for transport increases. Atlin as a place to live in is not without its attractions. As I have said, the summer climate is charm- Atlin—Pine Creek Fallc—A Great Water Power now being developed for itlectric Light and Power Purposes. 176 THE MINING RECORD. ing, and although in winter the mercury occasionally clips down to 20 or 30 below zero, there is no great snowfall, the weather is usually clear and bracing, the winds exceptionally light, and altogether the winter climate may be favourably compared with that of East and West Kootenay. The City of Atlin is now a well- established place. It has good hotels, a public school, churches, and societies of various kinds. To the lover of sport with the rod and gun it is what is popularly called a paradise. Atlin Lake teems with magnificent trout, grayling and whitefish, while in season ducks, geese, grouse and ptarmigan are here in countless numbersparticularly the ptarmigan, which on the higher plateaus in the fall and winter are to be met in myriads. Those who seek big game have the black bear, moose and red deer to pay their respects to, and the game is in such quantity that the hunter may never be at a loss during the season for a week or two's enjoyable and successful outing. During the coming summer the various creeks will doubtless again be thronged with placer miners, who will with last year's experience to aid them in improving their methods, and an absence of the claim-jumping fraternity, make a much greater showing in the yield of gold than they did a year ago. One suggestion to the Government: Let the size of claims per- missable to be taken up be increased to that obtaining in the Northwest Territories, namely, 250 feet in length.. SHIPPPING FACILITIES OF THE VANCOUVER COAL CO AT NANAIMO. THE illustrations here reproduced give some idea of the "wall apparatus" for rapid handling of railway cars laden with coal or other material, to which some reference was previously made in an article under the above heading published in the Mining Record of November last. At the Nanaimo shipping wharves of the New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company Limited., trains of coal laden cars, only limited in number, by the hauling power, are pushed up to the platforms leading to the loading staiths where they are switched on to what is known as the "supply" track, and forced to within a car- length cf the termini of the parallel track. (See fig 1.) Flat (as ground) Plan of Wall Apparatus. The loaded train of cars is held by safety catches (H), and are dumped without any shunting aid from the locomotive—the locomotives being kept fully employed in taking away trains of empties and hauling full ones to the chutes. Mr. Samuel M. Robins, the superintendent of the company, has, by means of capacious bunkers, powerful Baldwin locomotives and the "wall apparatus/'achieved the record result of loading the Titania, (one of the company's fleet of 6,000 steam freighters) with cargo and bunker coal of about 6,000 tons in ten hours and thirty-five minutes, including the time occupied by "trimming" in the hold. The remarkable despatch of the enormous steam colliers has won for the company a more than local reputation for its shipping facilities at Nanaimo. Fig. 1 shows the double tracks, A or "supply" track, and B, or "emptying" track. The safety catches, H, stop the cars from going farther along the supply track, until the carriage, C, with its short length of rails is in a line (or "registers") with that track; then the powerful grip dog, F, operated by the piston rod, and cylinder F 1 and F 2, draws the end car on to the carriage, C (which is mounted on trolley wheels running on a transverse track,) and the carriage with its laden car is pushed across the track way until it registers with the parallel emptying or dumping track, B, the motive force being the cylinder, C 2, ,and piston rod, C 3, and, unless the car is to be dumped down the highest chute, through the opening, C 1, in the carriage, the car is pushed off the carriage on to the emptying track, as far as the chute opening, 2, 3 or 4, as the case may be. The force is supplied, first by the cylinder and piston, D, taken up and enforced by the grip dogs G, G, (located on each side of the track, B, so as not to interfere with the chute openings); after being unloaded the car is pushed further on the emptying track over the automatic lifter, J, by which the trap door is raised and secured; the car then proceeds and joins a train of empties. While this has been going on the carriage, C has been drawn back by means of the piston, C 3, (fastened to the carriage and pushing backwards and forwards) till it again registers with the supply track: the grip dog, F, draws the train of loaded cars one car length towards the end, and forces a car on to the transferring carriage which takes it over to the emptying track for dumping as already described, the entire operation requiring about 25 seconds per car at most. Figure 2 is a plan of an elevation showing the emptying track, B. Water. Elevation of Wall AutTfiUs. The motive power may be steam or other force. In Fig. 1 the place for a stationery boiler is indicated by K, but in the case of the N. V. C. Co.'s application of the apparatus, steam might is piped from a conovenient range of boilers. The levers, C 4, D 1, E 3, and F 4, under the manipulation of one driver easily control suitable steam valves for the operation of the machinery. Besides those mentioned, there is the catch, E, which locks the car on the carriage until it is in a line with the. track B; G 1, G 1, pair of cylinders to operate grip dogs G G, by pistons, G 2; it will have been noted that the grip dog, F, draws THE MINING RECORD. the whole train of loaded cars and so obviates the locomotives: the empty necessity for any shunting by Loading a Collier. Wm, train is formed by each empty car pushing forward those emptied previously. Figure 3 is a general sketch of the application of the apparatus to the loading of a collier. The cylinder D, which propels the laden or empty car along the emptying track, is shown and the coal running down chute No. 4—the lowest—also J 4, part of the automatic appliance for raising the trap door of a hopper car, of the pattern in use by the N. V. C. Co., although their cars have more slope in the ends than shown in the cut. Mr. W. H. Wall, mechanical engineer of the company, has patented his invention, but will be glad to furnish information and specifications and. detailed plans for construction if applied to at the N. V. C. Co.'s works at Nanaimo. The work of transferring and empting full cars, can be performed at an average rate of 550 tons an hour for each loading chute, and two chutes can be worked simultaneously by the N. V. C. Co., who have shipped coal at the rate of 750 tons per hour at a chute. In addition to the expedition in loading, the cost is lessened, so that on the whole quite $125 per steamer is saved by the use of the Wall apparatus, as compared with the ordinary cost oHoading a steamer. The apparatus compares favourably in cost of construction with any loading appliance previously known, being under $1,500, including steam boiler, in lieu of which compressed air or any other fluid could be utilized. The principle of the invention dently be applied to many other purposes, such as the transfer of cars in railway stations or at mines above or below ground from one track to another, as well as in moving cars along tracks from one or two car- lengths at a time. In publishing a notice of the speedy loading of the Titania the local Free Press stated: "The loading of the Titania was effected in the short space of 10 hours and 35 minutes and that in the face of a mishap to one of the cars which caused a delay of half an hour. Ten hours will soon be looked upon as an every-day occurrence. What a difference between this and 40 years ago, when the Indian women used to take the coal out in small baskets in their frail canoes, and hand it up over the side of the vessel riding at anchor in the middle of the harbour, requiring nearly a month's time to load a 1,000 ton vessel." A FORTUNATE LADY (By Randall H. Mrs. Harris, a Lady who has made a Fortune in Mansfield C.inip. can evi- MINE OPERATOR. Kemp.) A BOUT twenty-five ■i»- miles east of the south end of Kootenay Lake, with its summit at least 8,000 feet above the level of the sea—a hoary giant guarding the dividing line between East and West K o o t e n a y— stands White Grouse Mountain. During the summer of 1893, a few venturesome prospectors laboriously pushed their way from Kootenay Lake eastward and climbed the ruggedsides of this gfand old hill. Their enterprise was rewarded by finding large veins of copper ore carrying more or less of the nobler metals, gold and silver. When samples of these finds were brought back to Kootenay Lake there was a wild stampede to this new Eldorado. Scores of claims were staked before the early snows at that altitude drove the prospectors back to civilization. The remoteness of the region, the absence of transportation facilities and the difficulty of obtaining the assurance of capital at that time caused many to abandon their claims the following year but a few held on and by dint of hard work supplemented by a trifling aid from the government, an apology for a trail was constructed from Davie, ten miles south of Pilot Bay to the mountain. This trail crossed two summits and was only useful for footmen who could pack their effects on their backs. In 1896, a Montana company holding options on a number of claims in 178 THE MINING RECORD. the district built a trail from Sanca via Granite Creek to the claims and started to construct a waggon road, but their finances giving out, that scheme was abandoned. In the meantime Mr. J. Fred Hume, lately Minister of Mines, and Mr. J. A. Gibson, of Nelson, became interested in the camp and this together with the building of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway resulted in again drawing attention to the territory. The building of the C. N. P. Ry was a great thing for Grouse Mountain, for it rounds the base of the hill and spurs can be built from the main line up White Fish Creek in East Kootenay or up Goat River in West Kootenay, either of which would tap the heart of the district. Foreseeing this, Messers. McKenzie & Mann, the railway and mining magnates, have secured a number of claims. Mr. D. W. Moore, representing the C. P. R. smelter at Trail, in the interests of that concern has also acquired mining property in the neighbourhood. Among the 93 prospectors who pioneered the way from Kaslo was "Tom'.' Harris. "Tom" arrived on the scene early and had his pick of the choice ground which heretofore had been waste land of the Crown. The yellow sulphides of copper on a mountain east of White Grouse attracted "Tom" more than the mallachite and tetrahedite of White Grouse, so on that hill he planted his stakes and posted his notices. The hill become known as Harris Mountain and on it energetic mining development will be inaugurated as soon as the snow leaves the ground the coming season. "Tom" Harris's backer was his wife, Jennie E. Harris, a shrewd Canadian lady. Through her efforts the annual assessment work was performed each year although the claims numbered a dozen and consisted of three groups. "Tom" Harris's brother "Billy" was one of the fortunate Le Roi stockholders. By the sale of that property and other clean-ups around Rossland he made at least $300,000 and hence was able to give his brother "Tom" a lucrative position in the city of gold and copper. Therefore "Tom" Harris made over to his wife the claims on Harris Mountain and a group on Goat River. The sequel to all this is that a short time since Mrs. Harris for the sum of and consideration of $125,000 transferred to Ernest Mansfield the claims mentioned. From numerous assays made by Mr. E. De- Dolph, the assayer for the Kootenay Ore Co., at Kaslo, these veins carry about one ounce of gold per ton and copper from 13.5 to 31.5 per cent. Mr. Mansfield represents both English and French capital and has been very fortunate in his dealings in West Kootenay. It was he who first invested in prospects at what is now Camp Mansfield, at the head of the South Fork of Kaslo Creek. A number of companies are developing property there and it is claimed the leads are turning out phenomenally well. A representative of the. Standard Oil Co. and an agent of a strong British mining company were after Mrs. Harris's gold-copper-silver claims, but Mr. Mansfield secured the plum. Mrs. Harris is probably the first woman in British Columbia to make over an eighth of a million in mines, and with her experience and natural business ability, it is not at all unlikely she will add to this sum considerably in the future. ABSTRACT OF OFFICIAL REPORTS. the carnes creek consolidated gold mines, LTD. LY. ] N the directors' report to shareholders of this com- 1 pany, it is stated that Crown grants have been secured to the Rosebery mine group consisting of eight mineral claims and 155 acres of land on the north fork of Carnes Creek in the Revelstoke district. In addition to this property the company still holds the following mineral claims: St. Peter at Illecillewaet, Homestake at Carnes Creek, Klondike at Dowme Creek, and Consolidated at Downie Creek. Considerable surface prospecting has been done on the different claims of the Rosebery group and much additional information gained in this way in regard to the continuity of the vein and the probable extent of ore deposits. An assaying plant has been placed at the works, this being thought necessary to enable our foreman to' make the tests required for his guidance in saving ore. The lower, or No. 2 drift, has been extended 325 feet, gaining a point approximately 250 feet below the surface. Ore is continuous for the whole length of this drift, 400 feet, and considerable bodies of the higher grade ore have been struck, especially in the most recent part of the work. The high-grade ore now mapped out by our workings has been computed at 5,000 tons, valued at $30 per ton, and we believe this to be a very conservative estimate. This estimate, however, only represents a small part of the advantage gained by the work done. In gaining depth by drifting we have been approaching the richer part of the vein, and we also anticipate striking larger bodies of ore than we have yet found, by means of comparatively short cross-cuts from the main drift through the mineralized zone, which is upwards of forty feet wide, and the surface of which at some points show indications of containing good ore for the greater part of its width. The directors report that the results of the work has justified an increase in the price of the treasury, shares. Shortly after the last annual meeting 100,000 shares were sold at ten cents per share. After this sale it was thought advisable to offer no more of these shares at less than 25 cents. Two hundred thousand shares have been offered and a sale has recently been made of 30,000 shares at this price. This is exceptionally gratifying in view of the prevalency of cheap stocks, and serves to indicate the confidence which the steady progress in development is inspiring. The company still holds 318,130 shares which at the steadily increasing value caused by developments, should be ample for future operations. receipts. Cash on hand last report $ 85 87 Sale of Treasury shares 17,500 00 Sundries 10 25 . Liabilities 10 25 Total $18,32608 expenditures. Liabilities as per last report $ 4,191 40 Assaying plant 29767 Solicitors' fees 13 00 General expense, including commissions. advertising, etc 3,609 60 Work at Rosebery mine 5,004 24 Work on other claims 473 23 Travelling expenses t,i 15 10 Government fees 'x6i 67 THE MINING RECORD. 179 Management and office expenses 1,704 39 Merchandise 247 52 Interest and discount 248 74 Printing 92 75' Telegraphing 32 12 Office fixtures 154 75 Cash on hand 980 50 Total $17,326 08 THE YMIR GOLD MINES LIMITED. directors' report. THE directors beg to submit their annual report and statement of accounts covering the period from 29th August, 1898, the date of the incorporation of the company, to 31st December, 1899. Appended hereto is the report of Mr. Fowler, the company's engineer, dealing with the operations der review was 17,522 tons, and as the profit amounted to £20,030 18s. 9d., after debiting the accounts with all charges both here and in British Columbia* the ore has realized a net profit of £1 2s. iojd. for every ton treated. On account of the large amount of ore blocked out and available for treatment, which Mr. Fowler in his report gives as 121,600 tons above No. 3 level on 31st December last, and further development establishing the continuity of the vein at depth, the directors lost no time in making speedy arrangements for doubling the mill and thus raising its capacity from 35,000 to 70,000 tons per annum. Arrangements were at the same time made for driving a main working tunnel for opening up the vein at a depth of 1,000 feet or 600 feet below the present lowest workings: this tunnel will enable the mine to be worked to a depth of 1,000 feet without either pumping or hoisting. - e v E L Vertical Projection. Plan showing Side Stopes. Scale IpPfeee & t/uimrA.. Diagrams Showing Mine Development, Ymir Mine. which have taken place at the mine between the above dates. Although the company took over the mine on 1st September, 1898, it was not until the end of March, 1899, that milling operations were commenced and the mine became revenue earning, and even then, owing to difficulties inseparable from the the starting of new plant, several interruptions occurred reducing the total working of the mill to a period equal to 172J days, or practically six months' continuous working. It will be seen from the accounts submitted that the profit amounts to £20,030 18s. 9d., which has been arrived at after writing off an ample amount from development account, all repairs, the preliminary expenses, cost of No. 6 tunnel (abandoned owing to the substitution of No. 10 tunnel) and after making reasonable allowance for depreciation of plant, machinery and building's. All the necessary new buildings are erected, and as all the new mine machinery (except the boilers and compressor) was on the ground at the date of Mr. Fowler's report (January 27th) it is confidently expected that the additional 40 stamps will be complete and ready for work in the course of the next two or three months. In order to meet the requisite outlay for the new machinery and works the directors raised a loan of £15,000 repayable within 12 months. This arrangement was entered into having in view the additional profits which will accrue from the erection of the new plant. An interim dividend of is. per share was paid on 1st November, 1899. and a further distribution is contemplated when the new plant is erected and working. The directors are gratified at being able to state that the strike which at one time seriously threatened— i8o THE MINING RECORD. Balance Sheet 31st December, i£ DR. To Share Capital— £ s. d. Authorized 200,000 shares at £1 each 200,000 o o Subscribed and Insured— 199,993 shares issued to vendors as fully paid, p er contra .. .. 199,993 o o 7 shares subscribed by signatories 7 ° ° 200,000 To Advances from various companies, to meet cost of erection of additional 40 head of stamps To Sundry Creditors— British Columbia 4.892 11 2 London 1,117 9 1 Do. unclaimed dividends 100 3 o To Profit and Loss— Balance as per account • • 20,030 18 9 Less interim dividend of is. per share on 200,000 shares, paid 1st November, 1899 10,000 o o CR. £ s. d. By Property Account 99>993 ° ° Purchase price of four mining claims comprising the Ymir Mine, 163 acres in all- with new 40-stamp battery erected thereon, situate at Wild Horse Creek, in the West Kootenay district of British Columbia, satisfied by the allotment of 199,993 shares of £1 each fully paid as per agreement dated 5th December, 1898. Deduct assets included in above purchase price, transferred to separate accounts, as follows:— Machinery, plant, tools £6.759 x& 4 Buildings 4,212 9 5 Tramway 982 6 2 Flume 913 7 8 Live Stock 52 8 2 12,920 9 9 By Development Account 6,601 6 2 Less amount written off 1,271 18 o By Machinery, Plant and Tools— As at 29th August, 1898 £6,759 I8 4 Add purchased to date 7'935 9 1 14,695 7 5 Less amount written off 412 11 5 By Buildings (at cost) as at 29th August, 1898 .... £4,212 9 5 Add additions to date 2,708 6 7 6,920 16 o Less amount written of 346 o 9 By Tramway and Flume (equipment, as at 29th August, 1898) .. .. 1,825 13 10 Less amount written of 94 15 8 By Roads Trails and Timber Rights 663 17 10 Less amount written of 33 3 10 By Furniture and Fixtures 336 5 4 Less amount written of 16 16 3 £ s. d. 200,000 o o 15.000 o o 6,110 3 3 10,030 18 9 £231,141 2 o £ s. d. 187,072 10 3 5>329 8 2 14,282 16 o 6,574 IS 3 1,800 18 2 630 14 o 3i9 9 1 Balance Sheet 31st December 1899—Continued. CR. r> c* 1 u £. s. d. £ s. d. By Stock, Harness, etc, as at 29th August, 1898 .... £52 8 2 Add additions to date T34 18 7 187 6 Less amount written of 37 9 4 By Materials and Supplies on Hand By Ore in Transit By Sundry Debtors— London 1,342 9 10 British Columbia 407 17 2 By Cash at Bank in Hand— London .. .. 2,623 9 5 British Columbia 3,251 7 9 We have audited the London books of the Ymir Gold Mines, Limited (in which have been incorporated the accounts received from British Columbia), from 29th August, 1898 (the date of incorporation), to 31st December, 1899. and certify that in our opinion, the above balance sheet correctly exhibits the position of the company's affairs at the latter date. London, E.C. MONKHOUSE, STONEHAM & CO., March 7th, 1900. Chartered Acountants. Profit and Loss Account 9th August, 1898 (the Date of Incorporation), to 31st December, 1899. To Operating and General Expenditure in British Columbia:— General mining expenses (including cost of opening out and raising ore and repairing tunnels Development Accounts— Amount written off General milling expenses • • (including cost of operating mill and tramway and repairing milling equipment) General smelting expenses (including freight, duty and smelter's charges) Management, engineering and office expenses Insurance, Taxes and Assessments Registration expenses in B. C. including legal charges Travelling expenses Cablegrams, telegrams and postages Bank charges Printing and stationery General expenses To London Administration Expenditure (16 months) :— Directors' fees Office rent and salaries Interest Printing and stationery Cablegrams, telegrams and postages Legal charges Advertising expenses Audit fee Sundry Expenses To Preliminary expenses To Depreciation written off— Machinery, plant and tools .. • Buildings Tramway and flume Roads, trails and timber rights Furniture and fixtures Live stock, harness, etc 1,983 11 4 483 18 1 340 1 b 319 b 4 79 11 2 61 17 0 49 15 3 134 3 10 20,102 14 4 801 IS 8 732 14 2 120 10 11 "5 14 10 38 S 9 27 13 6 27 6 0 26 5 0 33 5 9 1,923 11 7 322 4 4 412 11 1 346 0 9 94 15 8 33 3 10 16 16 3 37 9 4 940 17 3 [82 THE MINING RECORD. To Income tax To Balance carried to balance sheet By gross proceeds of ore treated (from 1st March, 1899, to date By Transfer fees and sundry receipts £. s. d. 389 9 o 20.030 18 9 £43,709 15 3 Cr. £ s. d. 43.45° 1 1 259 14 2 £43,709 15 3 MR. FOWLER S REPORT. Of Operations at Ymir Aline and Mill for the Period 1st September, 1898' to 31st December, 1899. MINE. Development.—Prior to 1st September, 1898, the status of vein development as carried out by the London and British Columbia Goldfields, Limited, was as follows: Feet. In Rockland adit and connected workings .. 432 In Rockland shaft and connected workings .. I77i In Rockland shaft drifts and connected workgs 198^ In Ymir shaft and connected workings .. .. 347i In No. 1 level and connected workings .. . . 748 In No. 2 level and connected workings . . . . 971^ In No. 3 level and connected workings .. . . 438J And in works off the vein 873 Total 4,186^ This work has resulted in putting on dumps 6,051 tons (2,000 lbs.) of ore, and placed in reserve approximately 95.000 tons. On 1st March, 1898, we estimated 59,000 tons, and on 1st July, 1898, Messrs. Bewick, Moreing & Company estimated about 89,000 tons in sight. Since acquiring possession the Ymir Company have done the following development work:— Feet. In Rockland adit 62 In No. 1 level, east 28 In No. 1 level, raise 1 73 In No. 2 level, raise 1 39J In No. 2 level, raise 2 105 In No. 2 level, drifts 236£ In No. 3 level and connected workings . . .. 617^ In Ymir shaft 134! In No. 4 level 39 Off vein 187I The aggregate result has been that we had blocked out and still in reserve above No. 3 level on 31st December, 1899, 121,600 tons. The relative positions of the various workings mentioned may be seen by reference to the plans and elevation appended. Very little of the Ymir Company's developments has been done since 1st June last because of the labour difficulties prevailing in British Columbia, and more particularly in South Kootenay; but latterly we have resumed sinking in Ymir shaft, and have, been driving No. 3 westward for some time. Future Work—No. 10 Adit. The strength of our main ore body and the metal tenure as revealed m our deepest workings (No. 4), have fully decided us in our plan of driving a deep adit from the level of the top of our ore house at the mill. This ,\dit is at a level equivalent to No. 10, will be about 2-100 feet in length, and beside entirely superseding pur present tramway, will, when completed and con nected with the present mine workings, avoid the necessity of pumping and hoisting from points below No. 3 level, which, it will be observed, is the lowest .which has direct exit to surface. Aside from these . principal advantages, it seems quite probable that the adit may encounter ore of value when we cross a small vein upon which we have done work on the Golden Horn claim. Ymir Shaft.—This will be sunk as rapidly as possible in order to connect with No. 10; and stations and crosscuts will be made at various levels as the work proceeds. No. 2 West.—The ground at the present face has been very wet, but it is our intention to proceed westward with the object of getting under a low grade body of quartz exposed in Rockland adit drifts. If, at this No. 2 level, we meet with favourable results, No. 3 will also be pushed into the same country, and our reserves may then be increased from a source never hitherto taken into account. Surface Work.—During the coming season we propose to prospect the Mugwump claim for the Ymir vein, and also again to try to find a vein which we believe to exist some 400 feet north of and parallel to our main ore body. Stoping.—Our operations in this department have been largely dependent on the requirements of the mill, and prior to 1st June only 3.400 tons were handled. At this date all underground work was suspended because of the strikes, and during the summer, while the old dumps were, being drawn upon, we gradually got enough men to continue work in the stopes. After the 1st November we succeeded in about keeping pace with the mill consumption, and at present have more applicants for work than we can employ. During the year there were broken from main stopes a total of 13,110 tons of all classes of ore. Of this amount 11,692 tons went directly to mill, 273 tons were sacked and shipped as carbonate from above No. 1 level, and 112 tons shipped in bulk as crude ore. Mine Buildings.—During the period in review an addition was made to the boarding-house, a commodious building for the men was erected- and, besides several smaller structures, a new mine office and house for foreman was provided. These are all good and substantial buildings. MILL. The 40-stamp milling plant provided by arrangement with the London and British Columbia Gold- fields. Limited, was beerm in August. i8q8, and practically completed in February last. On the 1st March the plant was turned over to the Ymir Company, but the extreme severity of the weather and the verv small volume of water made it impossible to do any crushing until near the end of the month. I Briefly described, the olants comprises: One No. 3 Gates crusher of a caoacity cf about 20 tons per hour; eight Challenge feeders; 40 850-lb. stamps; eight THE MINING RECORD. 183 amalgamating plates, 56-in. by 12-ft.; 12 6-ft. Frue vanners; one 54-in. by 14-ft. tubular boiler for heating, etc.; one 125-light 16-c.p. dynamo. The power system embraces a flume 18-in. by 20-in. by 1.4000-ft. in length, from which the water passes by 900-ft. of spiral rivetted pipe to one 24-in. Pelton motor, under 320-ft. head, to drive the crusher; one 6-ft. Pelton wheel, under 430-ft. head, to drive the stamps and vanners, and one 12-in. Pelton motor to drive the dynamo. The ore house is connected with ore bins at the mouth of No. 3 level by a Hallidie ropeway, about 2,100 feet in length. The capacity of the mill has been about 100 tons in 24 hours, with 40 to 50 mesli screens. Besides the mill plant- there have been built an office, assay office, superintendent's house, and commodious quarters for the men. Mill Operations.—As above stated, these began only towards the end of March. At that time the volume of water was only one-third of what it had been a year earlier, and it did not increase sufficiently to enable us to drop the whole 40 stamps until the 16th of April. Since that time there has been more than enough water for all purposes—with a two or three days' exception early in October. During the season we suffered a number of annoying accidents, which, in the aggregate, caused much delay, and aside from these- a change in the power transmission system, from wire rope to belting, and the fracturing of a" ten- foot sheave because of the breaking of the wire ropes, caused a shut-down of seven weeks, beginning 26th July. Since starting up again about the middle of September, nothing of an extraordinary nature happened to delay our operations until near the close of the year, when an accumulation of small particles of ice caused the flume to overflow, with the result that a considerable section was undermined, and the stamps were hung up for three days. The duty of the mill has been as follows:— Running Time for Forty Stamps Tons crushed. March—2 days- 13 hours 250 April—16 days, 6 hours 1.700 May—17 days, 4 hours 1.45° June—21 days days, 14 hours 2,107 July—21 days 2,000 August—Nil .' Nil September—14 days, 18 hours 1.55° October—27 days 2>79° November—29 days, 5 hours 2,942 December, 23 days 2>348 Total 172 days, 12 hours. J7,i37 Average crushing, 99^ tons per 24 hours. The record of the last three months shows much improvement, and as we have made several changes in details, and taken precautions to prevent the recurrence of most of the minor annoyances, it may be expected that the second year of our operations will show much greater mechanical efficiency. Duplication of Stamps.—Under instructions from London based on our reports, we prepared plans for duplication of milling capacity, and began work of excavation early in October. The north extension to present battery room and vanner room are now inclosed and we shall soon begin the erection of machinery. At the south end of the present building we have' built an extension to accommodate three 80 h.p. boilers; one 175 h.p. high-speed engine, and a ten- drill air compressor. The boilers and compressor have yet to arrive, but all the mill machinery is now on the ground. No material changes in the ore house will be made, the breaker having sufficient capacity, but we have ordered new ropes and buckets for our tramway, commensurate with the demands which will be made on the tram when the 80 stamps are dropping. A new 400-light dynamo is being put in place, and hereafter the mine and all buildings will be lighted thereby. Sawmill.—As a measure of economy, and in order to facilitate the new construction work, we secured a good sawmill plant- including edger, planer and cutoff, at a low price, and this plant has been in daily operation since 1st December. We are confident that when mill construction is completed this sawmill will have saved its entire cost in the decreased price of structural material and, beside, it will have produced a large amount of fuel at nominal cost for heating the present mill and offices and for power when required. Timber is obtained on adjacent lands acquired for the purpose from the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway Company. (See plan of the Ymir Company's property.) Product and Income— Tons. Tons Old dump 5,061 Stoped—Carbonate 273 Galena 112 Milling 12,725 13,110 18,171 Ore milled I7'i37 Ore smelted 385 17,522 Ore on hand 1st January (milling) 549 Crude Ore.—Average assay: 4.251 ozs. gold; 25.05 ozs. silver; 35.2 per cent. lead. Return, $35,808.93. Milling Ore.—Average assay recovered: 0.3965 ozs. gold; .893 ozs. silver; 1.11 per cent. lead. Return, $142,356.93, of which $117,259.84 was derived from 9,983.36 ozs. ore bullion- 561 fine in gold, and .387 fine in silver, and $25,097.09 from 1,026 tons of concentrate of average assaysvi,i73 gold, 11.16 ozs. silver, and 18.61 per cent. lead. Distribution of gold and silver per ton of mill stuff is: In bullion—.3263 ozs. gold; .225 ozs. silver. In concentrate—.0702 ozs. gold; .668 ozs. silver; 1.114 per cent. lead. Totals—.3965 ozs. gold; .893 ozs. silver: 1.114 per cent. lead. Total metal marketed:— Ozs. Gold. Ozs. Silver. Lbs. Lead. In Bullion .... 5591.297 3861.89 In concentrate . 1202.983 11448.96 381918.8 In Crude .. .. 1637.711 9657.18 270917.5 Totals 8431.991 24968.18 652836.3 Based in total tonnage (17522) of crude and milling ore treated- the average assays are: Gold, .4812 oz.; silver, 1.425 oz.; lead, 1.863 Per cent.; and the average gross income per ton is $10,168 per ton, and of the total income ($178,165.82) the following amounts and percentages are derived per ton treated:— 184 THE MINING RECORD. Amount. Per. Cent. From bullion $6,692 65.8 From concentrate .. .. .. .. i-432 14.1 From crude ore 2.044 2°-i Total $10,168 100.0 Summary of operating costs. Mine— Labour. Other Charges. Totals. Stoping $15491.15 $2411.14 $17902.29 Repairs 464.75 126.06 590.81 Surface work .. 890.37 890.37 $19,383.47 Tons stoped and treated, 12,087. Cost per ton, $1,6037. Old Dumps.— Labour. Other Charges. Totals. $3224.11 $267.54 $3,491-65 Tons handled, 5,061. Cost per ton, $0.6899. Tramway.— Labour. Other Charges. Totals. Operating . .. $2114.84 $518.21 $2633.05 Repairs 26.05 59-41 327.46 $2960.51 Concentrate.—Sacking and shipping: Labour, $724.63; other charges, $2558.29. Total, $3282.92. Tons shipped, 1.026. Cost per ton, $3,1997. Crude Ore.—Sacking and shipping: Labour, $502.98; other charges, $870.43. Total, $1373.41. Tons shipped, 385. Cost per ton, $3.5673. Assaying $n93-52 Salaries 5i°4-3° Office and travel 24S9-27 Taxes and insurance 2168.08 Legal expenses 649.81 General and other contingent 2856.57 $i443i-55 Tons, 17,522. Cost per ton, $0.8237. A GOOD TYPE OF HOIST. IN mining operations it is of the greatest importance that thoroughly reliable machinery be purchased. Delays and breakdowns are so expensive that it is true economy to purchase that machine which has proven its superior excellence. It is this thought which leads us to call attention to the lines of mach- A Good Type of Hoist. Tons trammed, 17,137. Cost per ton, $0.1727. Mill- Labour. Other Charges. Operating .... $6837.52 $3166.38 Repairs 1391-64 900.28 Prelmnry expnses 772.54 Totals. 10003.90 2291.92 772-54 $13068.36 Tons milled, 17,137. Cost per ton, $0.7627. Transport.—Bullion expressage, $221.10. Ounces shipped, 9,983. Cost per oz., $0.0221. inery furnished by Fairbanks, Morse & Co., whose principal office is in Chicago, but who have branch houses and agencies in all the principal trade centres of this country, and in many foreign countries. They make a special feature of furnishing mining machinery operated by gasoline, gas, distillate and steam. The illustrations published herewith show the company's gasoline gearea hoist which is very largely used in those sections where fuel and water are scarce. Messrs. Fairbanks, Morse & Co. also manufacture compressors, pumps, engines, etc., and furnish very complete lines of mining supplies. THE MINING RECORD. 185 THE ROBINS BELT CONVEYOR. S . £ . u. . A ,A u Ttttj », ,. , t he design of the belt has been adopted after years k .vTV^63^' aS Perfected and standardized of experimenting, as the only one which has been by the Kobms Conveying Belt Company, of New found to give satisfaction under all conditions. The York, has, m the last two years come into such gen- reinforcement of rubber at the centre, where the load eral use that a brief description of its essential parts Js principally carried, serves to protect the belt from and workings will be of interest to those of our read ers who are not already familiar with the sorting belts installed by this company a year ago at the Centre Star and War Eagle mines. The system has but two parts—the belt and the idlers. The conveying surface is separated absolutely from the highly lubricated running parts, thereby permitting each to perform its function with?the highest efficiency. The result is a system which insures freedom wear, while the extra plies of duck at the sides render them stiffer and cause the belt to conform more readily to the troughed idlers. The latter are shown in figure 2. This arrangement was also selected after much experimenting with two inclined pulleys and other forms, as the only satisfactory design, and it needs but little description, save that in the process of forcing the grease through the hollow shafting, all bearings are rendered dust-proof. Figure 3 is a photograph of a sorting belt temporarily erected in the shops of the Robins Conveying Belt Company before it was shipped to Rossland for installation at the War Eagle mine. Figure 4 is another sorting belt which was installed three and one-half years ago for the Sterling Iron & Zinc Company, Franklin, N.J. Since that time, it from shutdowns, and a minimuln of repairs; and it is these two features, coupled with its enormous capacity, which have contributed more than anything else to its success in so many fields. The material is carried on the troughed belt without breakage or noise and in quantities as great as 1,500 tons per hour when desired. The conveyors can elevate at a very considerable angle though no flights are used. The power requirements are | comparatively low, owing to the lack of friction, and in cases where trestles must be used, the lightest possible form suffices, as the load is small but constant. i86 THE MINING RECORD. has carried over 350,000 tons of heavy crystalline ore in pieces about the size of 5" cubes. The attendants are provided with hammers with which they break, right on the belt, the larger pieces which occasionally pass through the crusher. Notwithstanding this rough treatment, the belt shows scarcely any wear, and will apparently last for many years to come. These sorting belts require less than half the power necessary for the old-fashioned sorting tables, and they have this advantage, that the same belt can be used to elevate the ore and, further along, can be run as a sorting belt, thus doing away with the ordinary forms of elevators. The sorting belt conveyors have a wide, heavy belt, and idlers at the centre, with narrow, very slightly raised sides. The advantages claimed for them over wood or iron sorting tables are that there are no small crevices where pieces of ore can stick and jam—no teeth or links to wear and get out of pitch, and no bearings exposed to dust and grit. The Robins belt conveyors have been installed for a wide variety of services, such as handling tailings and waste, carrying ore from under crushers, filling cyanide tanks, and removing the sand from under the vats, coal handling in all its phases, carrying off waste from dredges, working gravel banks, surface strippings and excavations and in an endless number of other capacities. Their ability to deliver their load at any point or points, as illustrated in figure 4, has given them a great advantage in all propositions where it was required to distribute the material evenly or at various points, as in forming tailing piles, or in coal storage yards. "Belt Conveyors" is the title of a fully illustrated and descriptive catalogue recently issued by the Robins Conveying Belt Company, and this, as well as any special information, may be obtained by addressing them at the Park Row" Building, New York City, where their main offices are located in the Tower, comprising the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th stories. TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE MONTH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. THE latest number contains a paper presented at the hundred-and-forty-first meeting of the Institute at New York, on the 28th of March last, on the subject of the "Evolution of Safe and Accurate Fuse Protection Devices," by Joseph Sachs. THE SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY. The contents of the last issue of the School of Mines Quarterly which has been received by us are "Principles of Alternating Current Distribution," by Francis B. Crocker; "Engineering Tests on Direct Current Electrical Machinery with Preliminary Tests on the Properties of Conductors," by G. F. Lever; "The Progress of Ore Dressing," (a second article) by C. Blomeke; "The Paradox of the Pantheon," (second paper) by A. D. F. Hamlin; "A Study on the Metallic Caronbyls and Their Decomposition," by Herman A. Loos and Victor Lewker; and "Simple Tables for the Determination of the Common or Economically Important Minerals," by Alfred J. Moses. Professor Blomke's paper translated1 from the "Berg und Hutten Mannisches Jaborbuch" dealing with the latest methods introduced into German metallurgical practice is an especially valuable contribution. MODERN MACHINERY. Perhaps the best, certainly the most scientific, account of the auriferous beach sands of the Pacific Coast, including the new diggings at Cape Nome, appears in the April number of this periodical, being from the pen of a mining engineer, Mr. W. Y. Adams. According tp this authority beach claims of gold deposits on the Pacific coast have been intermittently mined for a good many years past; in 1876 black sand was found in paying quantities and worked with Frue Vanners on the shores of Humboldt and Del Norte counties, California, after each tide; and in 1878, five men made $125 in six days with a rocker on the coast near San Francisco. Both on the coast of Washington and on the West Coast of Vancouver Island black sand carrying fine gold has been discovered and what is not so generally known, the discovery was made over ten years ago that along the coast of Alaska wherever the beaches were of a blood-red colour they carried gold in paying quantities. After giving the origin of the deposits, (which the author attributes to erosion and the consequent natural concentration of gold-bearing bluffs beyond), the g'eol- ogy of Alaska and the Cape Nome deposits, the author concludes with a very comprehensive account of the methods of working and the different classes of machinery used in beach coast mining. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. /CENTRIFUGAL Ventilators, by J. T. Beard, C. v^ E.,E.M., The Colliery Engineer Co., Scranton, Pa. This is a reprint in pamphlet form of a series of articles which originally appeared in Mines and Minerals. The subject is treated in a very lucid and interesting fashion. Alaska and the Klondike. A Journey to the New Eldorado with Hints to the Traveller and Observations on the Physical History and Geology of the Gold Regions; the Condition of and Methods of Working the Klondike Placers, and the Laws Governing and Regulating Mining in the Northwest Territory of Canada: Illustrated from Photographs and Maps, by Angelo Heilprin, F.R.G.S.,F.G.S.A., etc., 12 mo. cloth $1.75: D. Appleton & Co., New York. Although the Klondike "boom" is now a thing of the past, this ■ is far from saying that interest in the gold fields of the north has ceased. Mining in this territory has, however, begun to assume the dignity of an industry, and wild speculation of two years ago has given place to activity of a much more useful and productive character. In his exceedingly thorough and comprehensive work, which is unquestionably the best book yet published on the Yukon gold fields, Professor Heilprin dwells on this fact, and speaks in not unfavourable terms upon the future possibilities of Klondike placers. Of the twelve chapters, the three last are, from a technical and scientific standpoint, the most valuable. These chapters deal with the methods of working the claims, with the physical history and geology of the region and with observations on the laws governing placer mining in the Yukon. Regarding the geology of the Yukon region. Professor Heilprin arrives at the following broad conclusion that: (1) The gold wealth of the Klondike will sustain the claims that were put forth for it by the earlier prospectors. The concentration of gold in certain favoured spots in such as to almost bear out the characterization of miners that it plasters the bottom. (2) Many more streams than are now known to be auriferous will be discovered to be gold- bearing, and this applies equally to such as are still entirely unprospected and to others which have been described barren through' insufficient or deficient prospecting. (3) The gold region is one of highly disturbed schists and schistose rocks of ancient age, the contours of which indicate long continued degradation, but whose superficial aspects have in great part been acquired in a moderately recent geological period, not necessarily exceeding a few hundred or thousand years. To this late period dates the existing conformation of the creek placers in great part; and the mammoth was witness to their location. (4) Much or most of the gold in the creek claims had its source in the upper benches—the gravel, etc.—of the high-level terraces which marked the former elevated position of the regional waters. Water-worn drift is found at practically all heights of the immediate region, and therefore no limit can be told at this time to the heights at which gold may or may not be found and worked with profit. (5) The evidence in hand is as yet insufficient for the statement to be made what or when was the ultimate source of gold, as that of the high terraces is part of a wash deposit: Some of the gold, but probably not very much, is a distinct product of the immediate location in which it is found. (6) There is seemingly good evidence pointing to the existence in a recent period of a high- level interior sea or series of vast lagoons in the region which is to-day the drainage basin of the upper Yukon. From this lacrustine state the Yukon has gradually, and perhaps even rapidly, drained down to the character of the modern swiftly flowing stream, with powerful and almost equally rapid tributaries. (7) No unequivocal evidences of glacial action are met with in the region, and the terminal indices of the great continental northward moving ice- sheet are found about one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty miles southward of the tract. (8) Evidences of both ancient and comparatively recent (and even modern) volcanic action are abundant in and around the Klondike region; the region is, therefore, one which has been largely moulded and effected by igneous constructions (dikes, bosses, fluent sheets, etc.) (9) The known facts of the Klondike region, so far as they relate to the primal origin of the gold in the placers, favour the theory of chemical solution and precipitation, as opposed to the generally accepted view of accumulation from disintegrated reefs, lodes or veins. (10) It seems probable that the Klondike gold region is merelya fractional part of a disoontinuously continuous auriferous tract that extends in a westerly course into the_ heart of Alaska and southward into British Columbia. There are many eminent scientists, notably^ the late Prof Genth, the Australian geologist Mr. J. C. F. Johnson, Prof. T. Egleston and Mr. E. D. Levat, author of L' Or en Literie Orientate, who share with Prof. Heilprin the opinion that the source of gold in alluvial and deluvial deposits is from adjoining rocks is erroneous. The photographs with which this book is illustrated are particularly admirable and quite in keeping with the general excellence of the publication. Preliminary Report of the Klondike Gold Fields, by R. G. McConnell, B.A., Geological Survey of Canada: Ottawa: 1900. In a short preface to this report Dr. Dawson, the head of the Geological Survey Department, relates that it may be regarded as the first result of a systematic ' and moderately detailed scientific examination of the Klondike region. In our opinion this report is one of the most complete yet issued by the Department, for the reason that it goes much further than has been customary in the publication of information other than that of a strictly technical character. The report which is handsomely illustrated with photographs and drawings, deals with the geology of the Klondike district, the gold in gravels, the method of working claims, a description of the creeks and gulches and the production of the district to date. Mr. McConnell states that while it is impossible to give an approximate estimate of the value of the great stretch of gravel forming the paying portions of the different creeks, owing to the irregularity of the concentration and the difficulty in obtaining trustworthy j returns from most of the miners, still the product of a few of the 500-foot claims on Eldorado and Bonanza Creeks will certainly exceed a million dollars each; and a considerable number on the same two creeks (in fact the majority of the lower Eldorado claims and a few on Hunker Creek) will yield over half a million each, and claims running from a quarter to half a million are common on all these creeks and also on Dominion and Sulphur Creeks. On the assumption of an average yield of a quarter million per claim, and that three-quarters of the claims in the distance mentioned are rich enough to work, the total value approaches $95,000,000, which this authority believes to be well within the mark. However, in this estimate no account is taken of long stretches of gravel on all the creeks, at present too low-grade to work profitably, but which eventually will become • payable with the introduction of improved conditions and cheaper methods of working. Meanwhile these methods are still very primitive, although the employment of machinery in the working of Klondike claims is gradually increasing. Steam thawers are largely used and steam pumps are beginning to replace hand appliances. The greater part of the mining work, however, is still done by hand, and this, notwithstanding the fact that, taking into consideration the high price of labour, nowhere in the world could machinery be more profitably employed. That the Yukon will for many years to come, produce a very considerable quantity of gold is now undeniable, and, to quote from the report: "Thousands of streams in the gold belt stretching for hundreds Of miles from Atlin to the Klondike and farther to the north, still remain to be explored and the work of the prospector will not be completed for many years." Accompanying the report is an excellent map of the region compiled by Mr. J. F. E. Johnston, largely from surveys made by him while assisting Mr. McConnell in the field. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the second annual issue (1900) of the "Advertiser's Ready Reckoner," published by Mr. C. J. Walker, of 24 Coleman Street, London. This exceedingly useful work gives, the prices charged for advertising spaces in all the THE MINING RECORD. leading British and Colonial newspapers and journals. We expect to see some of the American advertising agencies, who are swift to recognize a good idea of this kind when brought to their notice, follow Mr. Walker's lead on this side of the Atlantic. Hi The Practical Handbook for the Working Miner and Prospector and the Mining Investor: By John A Miller. Spar & Chamberlain, New York. Price $3.00. The author of this work subscribes himself "a practical miner," but even if he had not volunteered the information the book would proclaim the avocation of the writer. It is an eminently practical book, and a "practical" man wrote it. The fact is self-evident. Take this sentence in the introductory chapter for example: "Whether or not too much was, and is, expected of science to aid in the prosecution of practical mining, it is clear that too much has been sacrificed to science. In the education of the certificated mine manager, theoretical and purely technical instruction have monopolized attention at the expense of practical experience." This is exactly the idea held by the "practical" man, but is it quite a fair view? The graduate of a school of mines whose only knowledge of mining is theoretical, is obviously not qualified to manage a mine, but when that man has added practical experience to his technical training, he is generally a more competent person for the position of mine- manager than the merely "practical" miner who has not had the advantages of a scientific education. But apart from questions of this nature, the present treatise is in many respects entitled to warm commendation, and as a work of reference or instruction it will certainly be appreciated by the class for which it was written. The book is divided into two parts; the first and larger half being devoted to mining and prospecting, and the second to the subject of mining investment and promotion. Here are a few of the subjects treated under the first head: Work (including blasting, machinery, horse-power, hydraulic motors, and the steam engine); timbering (in which the whole subject is dealt with, and the different methods of timbering and shaft sinking described); mining geology; prospecting and opening mines, both placer and quartz. In the chapters on "Lessons to Investors" some really excellent if novel suggestions are held out. One of these is that when a company is to be brought out "the prospectus should emanate from a practical mining engineer of good standing, who should be held responsible for every statement made in it." The respectability of the compiler must then be vouched for by a magistrate or Government official residing in the district, and (1) "The prospectus should show in what way the capital of the company is to be expended. The works required for the development of the mine should be specified severally, the estimated cost set against every item in plain figures, and shown in detail upon plans open for inspection. (2) The directors should be compelled to follow these plane. (3) The prospectus should indicate the leading geological features of the country or belt in which the mine is situated (4) The prospectus ought to show an estimate of the cost of working the mine according to the plans recommended by the mining engineer, and give an estimate of the probable net profits of the mine if worked in consonance with any of the attenuative plans he may have provided: If this plan were adopted (we leave it to our leaders to judge whether it is quite "practical" or otherwise) the author believes that the occupation of directors of a mining company, "who may sometimes be ornamental, but useful never" will be gone, "everything being arranged beforehand upon well-digested plans, and estimates of cost approximately fixed, there will be nothing further for the directors to discuss than such modification of the plans as may be necessitated by circumstances that could not be foreseen, and in such cases the directors can be of but little real assistance to the mine manager." There is really more truth than poetry in this last observation. THE B. C. MARKET IN LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WITH the commencement of the new year it was hoped that British Columbia would attract a little more support from European investors than it had received during the greater part of last year, but so far as it has gone, 1900 shows little improvement on 1899, and although there are a few dealers who make a special feature of British Columbia mining shares, the price quoted for these are still very nominal, and business is largely a matter of negotiation in all descriptions, except the very pick of the list, such as B. A. C's., Le Rois, London and B. C. Goldfields, etc., and a few others. And it is not hard to explain this very marked apathy. For a long time, the mining section of the London Stock Exchange has been in a very nervous condition. Political and monetary considerations have been deterrent factors, and as, whatever may be said to the contrary by some people, a strong tone in one department has a bracing effect on other departments, the lack of interest in both the leading markets, viz., Kaffirs and Westralians, has helped to chill what is left of the B.C. section. I do not mean to say that West Australians cannot be good unless Kaffirs are blazing. What I mean you to understand is that when the leading sections are dull and inanimate, the lesser fry suffer in sympathy, and it would not be at all difficult to produce figures to prove this. The war has, of course, had a very unsettling effect upon Kaffirs, and although West Australians have made occasional efforts to rise superior to the generally depressing conditions of the times through which we have been passing, these have always indeed in fizzles, and prices have gone back whence they started, and sometimes have fallen even lower, owing to the disappointment caused by failure. In these circumstances, it is surprising that the junior section of the whole market should be left very much to its own devices? British Columbia has not done so much yet that it can boast of a host of dealers, prepared to devote their whole time to its interests, and recent events have not been of a cheering character. The closing down of the War Eagle and Centre Star properties followed almost immedi- atly by the news that the Le Roi and Hall Mines had almost stopped caused a gloom to overshadow this section, and more than counterbalanced the good effect which might have been produced by the announcement that the Slocan strike was ended. Movements in prices at present are chiefly confined to the shares already mentioned, and I have no hesitation whatever in saying that in the rest of the British Columbia list it would be practically impossible to dispose of a thousand shares in a line without breaking the market all to pieces. Had the THE MINING RECORD. 189 news of the fall of the British Columbia government come in normal times, it might have helped the B. C. section a little, for people in the city recognize that the government which has recently been deposed did not distinguish itself by its wisdom in so far as nursing the mining industry went. But coming as it did when everything else was dull and down in the dumps it had no effect whatever, and as a matter of fact, hardly received any attention at all in the press. A few brief paragraphs announced the collapse of the government and intimated that an appeal to the provincial electors was imminent, but the cables announcing the news were probably completely buried by the war telegrams which have been pouring into Fleet Street since last November. Those cables reporting the end of the Slocan strike got very scant attention, and I doubt if half-a-dozen men in the Stock Exchange could tell which of the British Columbia companies the termination of the unfortunate dispute would be likely to benefit. So far as individual movements are concerned, they are few and unimportant. Le Rois have not fluctuated so much of late, although during the very bad times which preceded Christmas, and which were chiefly due to monetary considerations, they were down very close to £4, if they did not actually change hands at that figure. B. A. C's. were in the neighbourhood of 10s. and other shares practically unsaleable at any price. Since then, however, there has been a recovery, but B. A. C's. were so little affected by the meeting and dividend at the rate of 2s. a share that they are, as I write, between 15s. and 16s., and are dull at that. Le Rois are now quoted at 5 to 5J, and London and B. C. Goldfields at i£ to if. The Ymir report was considered very satisfactory, and the price has been maintained fairly well, while one of the exceptional features was the sudden advance in the price of the B. C. Development Association which were improved to 2. The Tupper companies have been decidedly out of fashion and the proposal to amalgamate three of them which have proved their inability to stand alone has produced a certain amount of opposition, although it seems to be the best thing to do under the circumstances, and will probably be to the advantage of shareholders in the different companies. The Velvet is. of course, not without friends, and the New Gold- fields of B. C. itself has quite a number of friends who believe in its being one of the best companies in British Columbia. But despite this faith in the future of the company few people seem disposed to back this hope with cash, owing to the ill-success which has followed several companies brought out by the Tupper group. A very few reports have been issued or meetings held lately, and indeed there has been nothing of incident stirring in the British Columbia section. A few new companies are occasionally registered, and amongst those which have recently been formed are the following: The Antoine Mining Syndicate, with a capital of £12,000, formed to acquire "an undivided one-third interest in five mining claims known as the Antoine, Spokane, the Alice Fraction, Last Chance No. 4, and the Jenny Fraction." Another is the Adams Investment Syndicate, which with a capital of £10,500 in 88,701 ordinary shares of 2s. each and 32,598 deferred shares of is. each, propose to acquire the business of the Adams B. C. Co.. Ltd., and to carry on a mining, exploration and financial business. The French Haute Finance is represented by the Chapleau Consolidated Mining Co., which with a capital of £75,000 will carry on mining operations in the Slocan region. The following is an interesting little paragraph from the speech of the Marquis of Dufferin at the meeting of the British America Corporation: "The expectations we held out to you concerning British Columbia have been satisfactorily realized. We have already begun to develop, and have formed into several groups a large number of properties at Rossland, which, in the opinion of our experts, in whose scientific knowledge and experience we have every confidence, are amongst the most valuable in the whole of that neighbourhood. It would only weary you to describe the thousands of feet of development work that have been carried on in various directions, and the large amount of machinery that has been erected to operate the mines in question. Suffice it to say that considerable ore bodies have been exposed, and that these mines will soon speak for themselves in the extent of their output and profit. Since the formation of the corporation we have acquired and formed into a separate company the well- known Le Roi mine; and, as many of you are probably shareholders in that property, I may state that it is developing in a very satisfactory manner, and gives every promise of continuing to pay dividends for a long time to come. Since the formation of the Le Roi company special attention has been given to placing the mine in a sound position by re-timbering, sinking new shafts, erecting powerful machinery, and generally preparing for a much larger output. This was rendered all the more necessary in consequence of its previous owners having pursued a very unscientific and reckless method of distributing and dealing with its workings. But, valuable as is the Le Roi mine, you will be pleased to learn that, according to the last accounts we have received, it would appear that we own a mine which may probably prove more valuable even than the Le Roi, and a third mine of perhaps equal worth, and should further explorations continue to confirm the sanguine views of our representatives on the spot, none of us need, I think, regret having chosen British Columbia as a field for our exertions." In connection with this it would be interesting to know something definite regarding the actual state of affairs as to the Newport smelter. When the Le Roi was brought out, everyone thought that the British America Corporation had acquired the smelter. But throughout there has been a good deal of uncertainty as to this, and even now this uncertainty remains to vex those people who believed when they acquired their shares that if the B. A. C. did not entirely control the smelter, it had at least a joint interest in it with the Le Roi. According, however, to a statement in the Colonial Goldfields Gazette, which is, as I have often told you,, the mouthpiece of the Whitaker Wright group, it is still an open question as to how much interest either or both companies has in this important asset. Any information you can give the British investor through your columns upon this important subject will be heartily welcomed. You will remember that long long ago I dealt with the Morris Catton group, that coterie with which Mr. Turner and several of his friends saw fit to associate themselves. The collapse of this house of cards has completely verified my predictions. This you will 190 THE MINING RECORD. see more clearly in the following report which has been in all the papers: THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER'S REPORT ON THE KLONDIKE AND COLUMBIA GROUP. "At meetings held on Wednesday, March 21, of creditors and shareholders of this company, it was resolved to appoint the official receiver to act as liquidator and to wind up the company in the usual manner. Mr. G. S. Barnes (official receiver) reported that his investigation was as yet incomplete, but it showed that there seldom was a case in which a thorough investigation was more necessary, and the shareholders might rely that the whole of the circumstances attaching to the flotation and transactions of the company would be sifted to the bottom. The accounts showed unsecured debts £5,737, debenture bonds £4,183, and that out of a public subscription of upwards of £34,000 to the share capital there now only remained assets valued by the directors at £2,808. The whole of the deferred shares were assets issued to Mr. C. F. Flack, a clerk and nominee of Mr. John Morris Catton, the promoter of the company, in consideration of the payment of the promotion expenses, and, although no provision was made in the agreement filed at Somerset House, the directors, in addition to allowing those deferred shares, paid £3,007 in respect of certain of the promotion charges. In response to the prospectus 27,166 ordinary and 107 deferred shares were applied for, the arrangement being that each subscriber of 100 ordinary shares should be allowed to subscribe for one deferred share at par. Practically, the only business done by the company in England was the flotation of three other companies—i.e., the New Golden Twins, Ontario, Limited, the Dawson City, Klondike and Dominion Trading Corporation, and the Rainy River and Ontario Exploration Company. When 10s. per share had been called up, a dividend of 20 per cent, on the subscribed capital was declared, and the money with which that dividend was paid was obtained partly by calling up the other 10s. per share and partly by the sale of 5>5°° New Golden Twins shares to the company's brokers for £2,750. The company still held 41,545 shares of the New Golden Twins company, but no value was placed on them in the statement of affairs. The only conclusion to which he could come was that the sale was an arrangement fraudulently made by the directors with the sole object of declaring the dividend. They could rest assured, however, that he would thoroughly investigate the case, and if he found that a criminal offence had been committed, the papers would be laid before the public prosecutor." May I ask you to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest this report. I do not care to crow too lustily, but I am sure your readers will not need to be reminded that when the group were most busy in flooding the country with prospectuses holding out all kinds of promises, I did not hesitate to use the scalpel unsparingly. The remarks regarding the flotation of these companies contained in the official receiver's report, and especially his final utterances will give you some idea of the class of company to which some of your big men allowed their names to be attached. If you want to know what people are saying about the group and its promoters at the present moment, let me refer you to Mr. Hess's vigorous articles in The Critic in dealing with this wretched list of wildcats. As you will see from the concluding paragraph of the report, it is probable that we have not yet heard by any means the last of the matter, and in some quarters, people are looking for sensational developments. THE MONTH'S MINING. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SINCE the snow disappeared from the hills, mining in this camp has received a very considerable impetus. Not only are the Coal Hill properties being actively developed but the surrounding camps of Nicolaj Copper Creek and Shuswap Lake are receiving their share of attention. Two deals of consider- erable importance have materialized A general during the month. The B. C. Ex- activity. ploration Syndicate, already the owners of the Lucky Strike group, has bonded four adjoining claims, the Maxwell, Neighbour, Bluebird and Bill Nye, the price being $25,000, of which the first payment of z\ per cent, has been made. The shaft on the Lucky Strike has been emptied of water and is being re-timbered, and a large force of men will be put on as soon as the shaft is ready. Meanwhile work is being prosecuted on the Bill Nye claim with good results. The transfer of the Kimberley group is also an accomplished fact. The cash payment of $8,500 has been made and the late owners still retain a one-fifth interest in the property to be taken in stock. It is not yet precisely known who are the real purchasers, the arrangements having been carried out through Messrs. Jackson & Wood, of Rossland. The bond calls for development on a large scale, which will be early commenced. On Coal Hill the Python company continues working steadily with a force of seven men. On the Erin a band of ore seven feet wide has been met in cross- cutting at the 100-foot level, the face being still in ore. On the Thistle some high-grade copper ore has been struck. A shaft is being sunk on the Wheal Tamar group, a promising property owned between a local company and the representatives of a French syndicate. The shaft is all in ore of a very uniform quality carrying good copper values with some gold and silver. The ore body appears to be 40 feet wide and extensive surface work has been done showing it to be continuous over two claims. Messrs. Asby & Donaldson have a staff of five men at work on the Truth group. The shaft is down 65 feet and is all in ore. The vein on this property is the largest in the camp and is well mineralized. The ore taken out is being cobbed and a shipment will be made to the Trail smelter. The question of dredging on the North Thompson River still occupies a good deal of attention in some quarters, but beyond the staking off of other 25 miles or so of the river no further developments have taken place. Mr. J. Fleetwood Wells, of Kamloops, has been appointed superintendent of the properties at Ten- Mile Creek, Nicola, which are being opened up by English capital. Some high-grade Nicola ore is being taken out and two car- prospects. loads will be shipped to Trail smelter at an early date. The probable extension of the Columbia & Western Railway to Spence's Bridge is stimulating the development of mining properties all along the Nicola valley. Salmon Arm, Shuswap Lake, is attracting considerable attention by reason of the discovery of a valuable ledge of argentiferous galena. Large bodies of low-grade ore are known to exist and in working on one of these a band of eighteen inches of high-grade ore was struck recently. Other strikes of high-grade silver ore have been made near Shuswap Lake, assays going up to i,ooo ounces in silver. The Tenderfoot mine at Copper Creek is being developed with great success by a local syndicate. A large vein carrying a uniform distribution of bornite with some gray copper has been proved at a depth of 80 feet by a tunnel. There is about 2,000 tons of ore in sight and over 100 tons of picked ore on the dump. The work has been done with a view to proving the property before the' syndicate made any large payment, and it has turned out very satisfactory. The syndicate has therefore made its payments and is now owner of three-fourths of the property. The last payment will be made in June. Meantime arrangements are being made for incorporation when stock will be placed on the market. If the same prudence is exercised in the management of the new company as has been the case with the development syndicate its success should be assured. It is undoubtedly the most legitimate and carefully managed mining enterprise yet promoted in Kamloops.. The success attending the development of prospects by local enterprise and the renewed operations of outside capital in the camp is greatly stimulating the mining industry, and greater confidence is now felt in its future. revelstoke. (From Our Own Correspondent.) There is very little to report from the immediate neighbourhood of Revelstoke this month, as the Big Bend has been remarkably quiet, though considerable assessment work has been done during the winter. Some results obtained from the Keystone ore . are very favourable, and the owners confidently expect to either bond it or float it as a limited company during the coming summer as it is the now sufficiently developed- to put big bend, before the public. At the Consolidation (placer) mine on French Creek much work has been done, but it was largely necessary dead work and the output of gold has in consequence been smaller than usual, though of course now that the work has been done, better results are probable in the immediate future. The Carnes Creek Co. have issued, their annual report, from which it appears that there is a very fine bodv of ore exposed in the Rosebery ready for extraction when the best method of treatment has been decided upon, which is likely to be cyaniding. Nothing further has transpired with regard to the Standard Basin group, but the original owners are constructing a new company and intend to work the claims again as soon as access can be got to them this spring, which promises to set in early this year. So it is to the southeast that we must look for solid results, and the Lardeau is still holding its own as firmly as ever. Fish Creek will be the scene of much business this year, as the value of several recently discovered properties is sufficiently proved to attract the attention of outside capital, more particularly as the practically assured branch of the C. P. R. will provide means of transportation to the whole district that have been hitherto utterly inadequate or wholly wanting. Another thing that is at least probable, is a smelter to be erected somewhere not far from Arrowhead, for the purpose of treating the Lardeau ores, and there is no doubt a small the lardeau plant to begin with will find plenty and to do, especially if it will smelt at trout lake, reasonable prices. There are varieties of ore sufficient to render fluxes hardly necessary, and the locality has plenty of sites well adapted for the works. At Ferguson and Trout Lake there is a great deal of development work being done, and several properties have shipped ore to the Trail smelter, notably the Silver Cup and the Nettie L., both of which are showing up splendidly. But the enormous cost of transportation, and the excessive smelter charges take off a great deal of the profit and it is only the best ore that can stand the expense, so that a railway will be of untold benefit to the country. It is reported that the Badshot group has been Ijonded; it is a very good property, but certainly has hung fire for an unreasonable time, and it is to be hoped that this is but the forerunner of other business in the district, as there are plenty of claims with good showings that are likely enough to prove valuable mines. This next summer should be productive of great minig activity throughout the whole of this division, and will put the Lardeau still further to the front. boundary creek. (From Our Own Correspondent.) At the time of writing the Boundary Creek district is bestirring itself in matters political, in preparation for the forthcoming provincial election. As a legacy left to it by the Turner Administration, which departed this life politically in 1898, the district is still tacked on to the Rossland Riding of West Kootenay. For continuing to be so it has to thank the Hon. Joseph Martin, who went back on his promise when the Semlin Government's redistribution bill came before the Provincial Legislature a few weeks ago. Under the circumstances there is nothing for the electors of the Boundary country to do but to make the best of their temporary practical disfranchisement and to organize so as to exhibit their comparative strength as a voting power when the time comes for doing so. That they will do this is certain and that the Martin Government is alive to the fact is equally sure. The late Finance Minister, Hon. F. Carter-Cotton, recognizing the growing strength of the Boundary country, began to seek its favour and support, but the fates decreed that he should not remain in office to take full advantage of the prestige and influence attaching to the position of Minister of the Crown. The Martin Government is, however, "going him one better," not only in promises to populous centres in the Boundary district, but as well in its performancess. For months the rival towns of Grand Forks and Greenwood had been contending, each doing its utmost to secure the Supreme Court Registry that the legitimate requirements of the Boundary district demanded should be established. For a while it appeared as though the advantage lay with Greenwood. Then the Hon. Joseph Martin became the Provincial Government and he satisfied the rivals by establishing a registry in each of the two towns. Greenwood, seeing its opportunity, also pressed for the removal of the office of Iy2 THE MINING RECORD. the Mining Recorder for the Kettle River Mining Division from Midway to Green- removal of wood. It mattered not that this government would involve for all west of Mid- offices. way the division extends about 30 miles westward to Camp McKinney and 50 to 60 miles northwesterly up the West Fort and other tributaries of Kettle River—who should go to the office to transact business 18 miles' additional travel, and to those using the mails two extra days' delay. There was only one consideration to be entertained at such a time, that of securing votes if possible. Phoenix, too, took advantage of the liberal attitude of the Government to urge its claims, which by the way, were legitimate and reasonable, and so it has been promised a Small Debts Court and a Deputy Mining Recorder. Other government promises embrace expenditures for road and bridge work, and so the game of vote-buying goes merrily on. Two Supreme Court registrars only 22 miles apart and three mining record offices in the same distance—this is a strange kind of economy truly, and doubtless more of a similar nature will follow. But it is very doubtful if it will achieve the intended result, for if the present Provincial Minister of Mines, Hon. Smith Curtis, contests the Rossland Riding of West Kootenay, he will in all likelihood find his supporters far outnumbered by those of Hon. C. H. Mackintosh, who was early in the field and who enjoys a double advantage in deserving well of the Rossland Riding, especially of the eastern portion, and in having his supporters already hard at work to ensure his return. The Mining Record in its confidence that the Mother Lode mine in Deadwood Camp has, from the time it was acquired by the Boundary Mines Co., been worked for mining purposes rather than for the profit there sometimes is in stock-jobbing, has for a long time freely published information respecting this property. Last month particulars were given of the additional plant and larger machinery ordered recently for this mine by theBritish Columbia Copper Co., the financially strong organization that in 1898 was formed to operate the mine on a more extensive scale. This month attention is directed with pleasure to the success that three or four weeks ago attended the placing of a number of the company's shares, the par value of which is $5-QO each. The Engineering and Mining Journal reported the sale boundary in New York during the week ended creek stock April 5 of 9,500 shares at prices rang- in new york ing from $10.25 to $13.00, and in Boston about the same time of 7,095 shares at from $10.00 to $12.75. The proceeds of these sales, which were probably supplemented later by others, will furnish a considerable sum of money towards the cost of further equipping and developing the mine and building the smelter now being erected near Greenwood. The methods of the British Columbia Copper Company, both in financial and mining matters stand out in strong and favourable contrast to those of some other companies formed ostensibly for developing mining properties in the district and this fact is evidently fully appreciated, for few if any other companies operating in the Boundary district can show that they have inspired such confidence and legitimately earned such good repute as to enable them to sell stock at more than double its par value. The position is more significantly favourr able since there is no immediate prospect of the mine and smelter returning dividends, for it is unlikely the latter will be running before September ;ie\± ,:t the earliest and meanwhile it is not proposed to send any great quantity of ore to an outside smelter for treatment. Regarding work in the mine, there has been done since last month's letter was written about :oo feet of work in the tunnel which is being run from the 200- foot level of the mine out to the creek where, as mentioned last month, the new compressor plant will be placed. The north drift at the 200-level is still being extended. It is now in some 700 feet from the main shaft and is still in ore. No. 4 cross-cut at this level has opened up about 90 feet of ore which will, of course, require sorting. At 650 feet from the shaft and 150 feet beyond No. 4 cross-cut No. 5 is being run, 40 feet having been made. Altogether 100 feet of work has been done during the past fortnight. Before this appears in print work will have been resumed at the 300-foot level, the non-arrival of some fittings for the cage having caused a delay. Grading for the new hoist will be completed by May 1st, and the erection of four 300-ton ore bins will be in hand by that date. No wood is now being burned in the boiler furnaces at the mine, Crow's Nest coal having been substituted for it as a more econmical fuel. At the smelter lumber is on the ground for the ore bins and a contract has been let for the supply of 400,000 bricks for lining furnaces, flues, etc. It has not yet been definitely decided whether the smokestack will be built of brick or iron. The assay building and offices and the residence for the manager of the company are completed. The spurs from the Columbia & Western Railway have been put into both smelter and mine. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Activity is once more satisfactorily in evidence in Rossland Camp and the despondency of the past few weeks has given place to renewed confidence. This with the settlement or adjustment of recent capital and labour differences. There has been no strike, and the settlement of the matter in dispute was arrived at by mutual conciliation and forbearance. While invidious mention may be a subject to just criticism, Messrs. resumption Ralph Smith and R. C. Clute as suc- of work. cessful mediators should, I think, receive just consideration in having arranged the adjustment of a labour dispute which might have led to serious complications, but of course "there are others." Aside from the business and practical conditions which form an important part of the compact entered into between the management and the men, it will be generally admitted that the following stipulations contain what must be regarded as the "essence" of the agreement. "In order that all friction between the company and workmen might be eliminated, it was thought to be of great importance that a statement should be obtained from the companies that no discrimination should be made against union men, and that no obstacle should be placed in the way of miners becoming members of the union, it is specifically declared that— "The fact of an employee being a member of the union will be no bar to his employment, nor will the THE MINING RECORD. i93 companies place any obstacle in the way of nonunion men becoming members of the union. "And while, the companies reserve to themselves the right to employ such men as they see fit whether they are members of the union or not, yet it is declared the policy and the intention of the companies to treat their employees fairly and not discharge any one whether he be a member of the union or not without just and sufficient cause, it being clearly understood that membership in the union will not constitute grounds for discharge; and with respect to matters wherein the employees of the companies may consider themselves aggrieved, the companies will, at any reasonable time receive a presentation of the case, and consider the same in a fair and impartial spirit, and endeavour to remove the cause where any is found to exist, and it is expected that the union will at all times use its good offices and exhaust all conciliatory methods before permitting any strike or stoppage of work, and further that they will not seek to interfere with the companies in employing or discharging employees or interfere with the contractor." While the foregoing have been called the essence of this agreement the basis of it is the contract system which has come to stay. How much Rossland depends upon the staple industry of its mines was never more clearly shown than during the suspension of operations. The readers of the Mining Record have already been advised as to the unnecessary alarm that was raised a few weeks ago when a strike was apprehended. While much of this alarm was needless the apprehension was natural. A large amount of money has been invested and expended here in ventures and enterprises dependent upon the mineral industry and a good deal is at stake other than the capital invested directly in mining operations. Indeed the large amounts of capital that have been expended in plant and machinery, as well as in improvements is a matter worthy of note. The community is entirely an industrial one, and consequently sensitive to any cloud which may arise within its horizon. At no time during the lull was there total suspension and as the columns of the Mining Record can testify a great deal of work was done not only in the producers which temporarily suspended shipments, but in the outside properties around the city. During the period of its greatest mining activity in 1899 Rossland mines showed a pay-roll variously estimated from $120,000 to $150,000 per month. This had decreased in the middle of the suspension to figures estimated from $60,000 to $75>000 Per month. The amount is again ascending and by next month it will be about $120,000 monthly. Recently I had occasion to revise some of the figures tabulated in connection with the mineral production of 1899 from Rossland mines. While the quantity of ore returned as shipped remains about the same, viz., 180,300 tons, some reduction must be made in the valuation. The War Eagle ore was estimated at $18.00 gross alb around. Since the exact figures have been furnished in the company's report, it is found that the average is nearer $17.00 than $18.00 gross smelter returns. For all practical purposes, Rossland ores for last year may be placed at $17.00 per ton all around, these being the gross figures, as distinguished from the net, smelter returns which are from $5.00 to $6.00 less. The finally revised figures for last year stand about as follows: Production, 180,500, valued at $3,065,100 gross; average value, $17.00. The average for a series of years beginnig with 1894 is: 1894, 40.69; 1895, 35.67; 1896, 32.65; 1897, 30.48; 1898, 22.20; 1899, 17.00, with a largely increasing tonnage. Le Roi.—The management is working 275 men with 30 machines. Considerable progress is being made with the new shaft a short distance west of the old working shaft. Marked progress is being made with the workings on the Black Bear ground. The ore shipments now average about 12 cars daily, amounting to 350 tons. War Eagle.—The management is working a small force of men with six drills. Shipments will .iot be resumed for some time. Centre Star.—A small force is at work in the mine with four drills. The principal work is on surface improvements such as the gallows frame for the new hoist, and the new compressor building 60x30. The foundations are concrete and granite and are said to have cost $5,000, in addition to the cost of the building, $2,000—$7,000 in all. The 40-drill compressor plant which is being manufactured at Sherbrooke, Quebec, will be shipped May 5, and the compressor will be running a month later. Shipments of ore will not be made until after that time. Sunset No. 2.—The west drift on the vein from No. 3 shaft is in 260 feet and Mr. W. I. C. leffrey, the mining engineer in charge, states that the vein is eight feet wide in some places. The vein is very much interrupted by dykes which, however, on being cut through the ore is again found. There has been much disturbance, which, it is believed, will be very much overcome with deeper workings. Mr. J. R. Drewry, the managing director, has been on a visit to Ton into and will return by May I. Ore Shipments.—These from Rossland mines for the three months and twenty days ending April 20 amount to 35.050 tons, made up as follows: Le Roi, 14,650; War Eagle, 11,000; Centre Star, 7,000; Iron Mask, 1,500; Evening Star, 300; I X L, 250; Monte Christo, 300; Giant, 50. Total 35,050, against nvnoo tons for the corresponding period of last year. Progress in development work is reported from the White Bear, California, Gertrude, and some other properties on the outskirts of the city. British America Corporation losie.—The new tramway reaching from the mine to the Red Mountain Railway is nearly completed, and I am credibly informed that shipments from this mine will shortly be made. British America Corporation, Nickel Plate.—Mr. W. S. Haskins, the superintendent of this mine, has gone on a short visit to his old home in San Francisco, California. The recently discovered vein at the 460-foot level has given many proofs that it is one of the main leads of the camp. Sinking is being continued to the 500- foot level. British America Corporation, No. 1.—Sinking has been discontinued pending the installation of hoisting machinery. Within another months operations here will be making rapid headway, a progress that not even political matters will affect, though these are attracting more than ordinary interest. 194 THE MINING RECORD. slocan. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The advent of spring somewhat earlier than usual this year is heralded not so much by the anxiety of prospectors and others to get away into the hills as by townspeople who are busy improving their respective properties, enclosing the same and turning them to agricultural account; and contrary to all etiquette —past or present—of mining regions, less is now heard of the conditions of the mines than of prospective football matches. However, matters will adjust themselves if left alone, it being satisfactory in the meantime to know that despite the pessimistic utterances of some who have recently returned from Eastern Canada and the Old Country, the Slocan still comes up smiling looking hopefully to the future. Not that the difficulties of the situation have been over estimated by any means, as only those who are fully conversant with the conditions know the really serious nature of the problems which confront the mine managers even now in their efforts to satisfy expectant shareholders; and speaking candidly I must say the majority of onlookers have unwittingly allowed their prejudice, or perhaps we might better call it sympathy for the labourer to get the better of their judgment in considering the unenviable though sometimes envied position of those on whom the burden of management devolves and who are held responsible for the financial result of the operations. Everyone is pleased to learn that a an improved satisfactory conclusion has been ar- outlook rived at -with the miners around Nelson, the amended Slocan scale of Wages having been adopted practically in toto. Now that matters are getting settled on what everyone considers to be a just and permanent basis it is to be earnestly hoped that future governments will do all in their power to help maintain the -prevailing feeling of equanimity. Shipments to the middle of April total roughly 6,000 tons and although a good proportion of this legitimately belongs to the last month, considerably increased movements will have to take place before we even approximate the output for former years. The best known mines seem to be holding aloof for some reason, the Payne being the only one so far to exceed 500 tons. With the mills running at the Slocan Star, Ruth and Wakefield we may reasonably look for a rapid rise in the rate of production. Outward improvements at the mines which portend much future good are still proceeding, the Hartney on Silver Mountain being the latest to recognize the economic advantage of comfortably housing their men; of perhaps more importance even is the fact previously mentioned that their action inspires confidence in the permanence of their operations. Goat Mountain properties so long in disfavour are once more taking popular fancy, and although preliminary operations at the Mollie Hughes did not quite realize expectations it would be manifestly unfair to condemn all the deposits on the strength of the limited development there carried into effect. The ore obtained up to the present though of high grade has been found wholly in small bunches and stringers but a reasonable hope is entertained that more extended operations will result in locating bodies of considerable size. The chief item of interest from Silverton refers to the successful operation of the Wakefield concentrator, the mine of which name is one of the best developed in the Slocan, having enough ore on hand to last for a considerable period. The mode of occurrence is somewhat peculiar and differs essentially from that of other well known properties. The vein which is remarkably persistent, lies quite flat contrary to usual experience, and conformably with the slates which is also exceptional. Its width is very great, varying from six to as much as forty feet in places, the'whole of this space being occupied with an almost pure lime through which is distributed shoots of galena and irregular masses of concentrating ore. The former exhibit an unfortunate tendency to strike across from the foot to the hanging wall which renders safe and economical mining more than ordinarily difficult. The mine and mill are connected by means of a 6,000-foot Finlayson aerial tramway with a capacity of 250 tons a day which is found to work to perfection, requiring only three men to operate. The concentrator embodies several new departures, the most important of which is the substitution of seven Wilfley shaking tables for the old-time round buddies which are in vogue elsewhere for treating the slimes. For the rest the difference consists chiefly in the arrangement, the essential parts being 5,000 feet of flume and 1,500 feet of piping Which supplies water sufficient to generate 5°° horse power to three Pelton wheels, one of which is required to operate the electric light plant of the building. The ore as it comes to the mill is fed to a crusher of the Blake type, thence to an elevator which conveys it through an automatic Challenge feeder to the rolls whence it passes successively through a series of trommels, classifiers, Hartz jigs and Wilfley tables, emerging finally in the form of marketable galena and zinc blende. The smooth working of the tables is something to be admired and mill men from quite a distance have been to inspect this part of the process. YMl R. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I am pleased to be able to report the adjustment of the difficulty between mine owners and miners. A settlement has been reached in which eight hours constitutes a day's work while the remuneration is fixed at $3.25. The majority of properties which have remained idle owing to the past settlement troubles have already commenced of labour operation and this town once more troubles put on a prosperous air. The Ymir Gold Mines, Limited, are employing a large number .of men, who are putting in a new tramway and repairing the mill. The Porto Rico mine, operated by the Canadian Pacific Exploration Limited, have decided as soon as the snow has gone to move their mill to the forks of the creek. This will necessitate the installing of a seven-thousand foot aerial tramway. At the same the management have decided to make the mill a twenty-stamp instead, of as at present, a ten-stamp. Mr. Campbell-Johnson, of Nelson, will look after the engineering problems while Mr.S.L. Long will manage the company affairs. This company is one of the pioneers of the Ymir Camp and we all trust that they may be as successful in the future as in the past. I regret to state that the Tamarac mine has closed down, it is believed, owing to the treasury being de- THE MINING RECORD. i95 pieted. However, it is reported that the directors are negotiating with English parties to place a block of stock. At the present the mine never looked better and under the management of R. W. Macfarlane the property has been brought from the prospective stage to that of a mine. The company has been having their ore experimentally treated so as to discover the best method of treatment which is suitable, and if the funds can be raised a mill will be installed, it is understood that the bromo-cyanide process will be used. The Wilcox and Black Cock mines are looking remarkably well and it is only a matter of a short time before mill will be installed on these properties. PRODUCING MINES. LILLOOET. YkT E are indebted to the Bend 'Or Mines, Limited, V V for a report of this company's crushing operations for March. The mill was started on the 17th ult, being in operation twelve days and seventeen hours, crushing two hundred and fifty tons, yielding four hundred and sixteen ounces retorted gold. It is this company's intention to "clean up" in future at the end of every month. YMIR. The output of ore from the mines of the Ymir district for the first three months of 1900, amounts to approximately 10,000 tons. To this figure the principal contributors are the Ymir mine, which has sent about 8,000 tons down to the mill; the Yellowstone whose ten-stamp mill has been crushing for about six weeks, and the Blackrock, Arlington and Canadian King. The original returns from the Ymir mine for January are as follows: During January 2,160 tons have been milled, producing 1,011 ounces of bullion and 130 tons of concentrates; have shipped 92 tons of concentrates but no smelting ore; the total receipts for the month are $14,294; expenses, $7,930; estimate of outstanding concentrates, $1,200; the mill has run 22 days; mined, 2,500 tons. NELSON. The report of the Collector of Customs from this port for the month of March shows the mine exports to have been: Values. Ores of all kinds, 790 tons $5°>403 00 Coke, 1,985 tons 6,239 00 Gold bullion 33,871 00 The March returns of the Athabasca Company's mill run are as follows M The mill was in operation thirty days and seven hours, crushing 416 tons. Value of bullion recovered, $9,201.30; value of concentrates recovered, $1,472.80. Total values recovered, $10,674.10; values recovered per ton crushed, $25.66. slocan. The Slocan output for the first three months of the year aggregate 4,009,000 pounds, divided as follows: Pounds. January 1,498,000 February 794,ooo March i,7i7,ooo In the customs report for March the exports show: Total pounds of ore 1,115,000 " Value . .. $43,267 Pounds lead 454,740 " Ounces silver 49-940 rossland. The following mine products were exported in March: Pyritic ores, tons 220 value $4,250 Matte (copper and lead) lbs 1,069,473 " " " value $140,347 Our Rossland correspondent telegraphs as follows: "The ore production of this district for the four months ending April 30th amount to thirty-eight thousand tons." COAL EXPORTATIONS. THE exportation of coal from the Vancouver Island collieries for the month of March were divided as follows: Tons. 37,423 25,387 i2,483 New Vancouver Coal Co. Ladysmith (Extension) .. Union Total 75,293 The New Vancouver Coal Company's shipments for the three weeks ending April 20th were: • Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 3—SS. Robt. Adamson. .San Diego 4,582 4—SS. Mineola Pt. Los Angeles .. 3,234 6—SS.Karluk Alaska 112 8—SS. New England.... Alaska 43 9—SS. San Mateo Pt. Los Angeles .. 4,301 13—SS. Titania San Francisco .. .. 5,871 15—SS. New England.... Alaska. 41 iq—SS. Mineola Pt. Los Angeles. .. 3,300 Total 21,484 THE METAL MARKET—APRIL. GENERAL business during the month has been good, with, however, very little change in prices. Silver, which has been quoted at from 59I to 59f, ■ is elull but steady; the average price having been higher than the preceding months of this year. copper. This market continues to be very strong and active, with a large consumption both in America and Europe. In consequence of large orders, prices have slightlv advanced. Our latest quotations are: Lake, 16.90 to 16.95c; electrolytic in cakes, wire, bars and ingots, 16.75 to 16.85c; in cathodes i6£ to i6§; casting copper, i6§. The average price of electrolytic copper last month was 16.29. lead. The market has considerably improved in the last two weeks, but prices remain unchanged at 4.65 to 4.70c New York, and 4.55 to 4-57is. St. Louis. SPELTER. Spelter is in good demand with prices at 4.60c St. Louis and 4.75c New York. THE MINING RECORD. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. THE market is in a better condition now than for some months past and brokers in all sections of the country report an improvement in business and generally anticipate a revival of good times again. TRAIL CREEK. Since our last report the Rossland mines have resumed shipments. Centre Star has advanced to $1.55, War Eagle to $1.48, Iron Mask to .40, and Evening Star to 10J. Other stocks in that district practically remain unchanged. SLOCAN AND NELSON. Noble Five has dropped to 5 with a few sales at 3, owing to rumours of the intended foreclosure of mortgage of $150,000 held by Mr. James Dunsmuir. Dardanelles has dropped to .3, Athabasca to .27, Hall Mines to 1-6, Payne to $1.20 and Rambler Cariboo from .55 in our last report to .27, owing to cessation of dividends, and Tamarac to .6. BOUNDARY CREEK DISTRICT. King has fallen to .11, Winnipeg to .15, Brandon and Golden Crown to .22, and Knob Hill to .75. It is reported the Winnipeg is soon to resume work . camp m'kinney. Cariboo has advanced to .97, Waterloo has fallen to .5, and Minnehaha to .5. The Cariboo is about to add another twenty stamps to their mill and the Fon- tenay is reported about to start work again on a large scale. TEXADA ISLAND. Van Anda has been selling at from 3% to 4 cents, and Treasury mines have advanced to 10 cents owing to reports that the Surprise group owned by this company will soon resume work. MACHINERY CATALOGUES. WE shall be pleased to mail catalogues of any of the undermentioned firms to our readers free of charge, on application: Ainsworth & Sons., Wm., fine balances; Armstrong & Morrison, riveted steel pipe ore cars, etc.; B. C. 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Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f-O.b. San Francisco. 4 One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated by Steam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants foi the concentration and I recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. Wire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is covered by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,33s and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law* These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. The Huntington Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa.' In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crashing mills. ■ •■.-•■;"^SmIS The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer of Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines Room 1, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Theodor Lexow, Nos. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, J NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechancial Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. JEFFREY ELEVATING MACHINERY! FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling Material ef all kindi. BEND FOB CATALOGUE. ■ THE JEFFREY MFG.CO. Columbus,Q.| SUILOC] ^S^fii-LOCK MANFG. CO. DIAMOND DRILLS MMIHI^G MACHINERY *%_) CHICAGO, U.S.A. xu. THE MINING RECORD. Mining Stocks. Prepared by A. W. Mors & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B.C., April 25,1900. Company. TEAIL CREEK. Big Three,... Centre Star... Commander.. Deer Park... Enterprise.... Evening Star. Georgia Gertrude Golden Drip. Gopher Homestake... Iron Horse.... Iron Mast™,. I.X.L. Capital. Iron Colt Jumbo Le Roi .m Lilly May Mayflower Monte Cristo. Nest Egg-Firefly Novelty Poorman R.E.Lee Red Mountain View Rossland, Red Mountain.. St. Elmo Silverine Silver Bell Con Victory Triumph Virginia ! War Eagle Consolidatedf. White Bear AINSWORTH, NELSON AND SLOCAN. ,500,000 ,500,000 500,000 ,400,000 ,000,000 200,000 ,000.000 500,000, 500,000 ,000,0001 ,000,000 .000,000 500,000 000,000 ,000,000i 500,000 ,000,000 000,000 000,000 500,000 000,000 000,000 500,000 000,000 000,000! 000,000 .000,000' 500,000 500,000 000,000 001.000 000,000 000,000 American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Buffalo of Slocan Dundee Dardanelles Dellie...«W'. Exchequer Fern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick Leviathan London Miller Creek Molly Gibson Minnesota -Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanhoe. Payne Rambler Con Reco.. Slocan-Reciprocity. Slocan Start Silver Band Slocan Queen Star St. Keverne.. Sunshine Tamarac Two Friends Washington Wonderful Lardeau Goldsmith Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Co. Lardo-Duncan TEXADA ISLAND. Gold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary. Texada Kirk Lake... Treasury Mines Van Anda. Victoria-Texada .... VANCOUVER ISLAND. 1,000,000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 1.00 ooo 7jO,000 1,000,000 200,000 800,000 650,000 £300.000 $1 500,000 2,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 1,000.000 250,000 12,000 1,000,000 3,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 250,000 1.000,000 1,000,000; 1,000,000 500,000 1,000 000 240,0001 1,000,000 1,000,000 200 000 1,500,000 1,500,000 100,000 1,000,000 250,000 600,000 250,000 5,000,000 150,000 $1 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 £5 1 1 1 1 1 1 •1 1 1 1 1 1' 1 1 1 1 1 0 10 1 0 25 1 1 1 1 0 25 1 1 £1 $1 1 25 1 1 1 025 le. par 1 1 00 I 1 50 0 25 1 1 1 ! 10 1 Alberni Mountain Rose 250,000 Consolidated Alberni. ;tt?.... 500,000 Mineral Creek 600,000 MineralHIll 760,000 Quadra ! 500,0001 Mount Sicker & B. C. Development Co CARIBOO. Cariboo Gold Fields Ld £100,000 Cariboo Hydraulic Consolidated $6,000,000 Cariboo M. & D. Co 300,000 Golden River Quesnelle £350,000 Horsefly Hydraulic $200,000 Ward-Horsefly 500,000' Victoria Hydraulic 300,000 10 1 0 25 1 25 1 0 25 1 55 10 2 20 10Ji 5 I 9 15 OHi 2 Hi 40 13 25 £5 $0 20 ' 10 4 02 3 14 2 5 148 6 m 10 27 H 12 12 6 11 mi 2ST6d. 10 3 25 08 35 5 mi 1 20 27 1 00 1 25 m,i 10 07 5 6 3 26 4 £125,000 £i $5 1 £1 $ 1 1 04 5 05 10 10 25 100 10 4 10 03J4 OHi 05 4 85 51 10 26 56 86 LILLOOET DISTRICT. 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 200,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 1,500,000 5,000,000 1500,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 2,500,000 1,000,000 600,000 1,250,000 1.000,000 100,000 1,000,000 60,000 50,000 50,000 100,000 50,000 1,250,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 1 1 , 1 1 1 25 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 10 5 1 25 20 10 25 1 1 25 10 10 10 10 FAIRVIEW CAMP. OHj 10 BOUNDABY CREEK. Boundary Creek M. M. Co 22 11 Knob Hill 75 Hi 80 Pathfinder „., 11 07}i CAMP MCKINNEY. 97 5 10 O'Shea 01 Mammoth 01 01 01 REVELSTOKE. Carnes Creek Consolidated EAST KOOTENAY. Canadian Gold Fields 03 10 North Star $37 00 1 25 Sullivan 12V Y. Y. T. Co., LAKE BENNETT, B.e. OPERATING THE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills At the head of Navigation to to the YUKON and ATLIN G©LD FIELDS Builders of^-^s^ Boats, Barges and Scows. The safest and most economical way of freighting from Bennett to Dawson, havingwharf and warehouse on arrival at destination. Manufacturers of Lumber of all description, Sash Doors, etc. Provisions and Supplies.... We also carry a large stock of General Merchandise at posts all along the river, consisting of Feed, Grocera ies, Provisions, Dry Goods, Tinware, Enamelled Ware, Window Glass, Hardware, etc. Call on or write us before sending to the Coast for your supplies. Information cheerfully given by applying to The Victoria Yukon Trading Co., Ld., LAKE BENNETT, B. C. Head Office, VICTORIA, B.C. J- HOLLAND, Man. Director W "R "RAILEY & C0--ASHOBObT, B,0., * -*-*• -*-* Storage and Forwarding Agents. Goods received, stored and forwarded with despatch to any point in Cariboo reached by wagou or pack train. Consign goods to our care and we will settle railway charges and ship to destination with least possible delay. ^ THE MINING RECORD. Xlll. wg^ JT^— The Vancouver Agency, ^ Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. g|f Shipping and Commission Agents. ,.oJ^^—^^^I.e„^i^Uowing r011Sl1 goods on haiid, viz: CALCUTTA ORE SACKS. COTTON WASTE. FIREBRICKS. FIRE CLAY. SMITHY COAL. LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. 605 Granville St., Vancouver, Be. E^r Write for lowest prices to THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. ifefc WHITE HORSE Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. All steamers plying to and from Dawson and other pi aces on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the Big Salmon can he more easily reached from White Hor^e than from any other localitv, thus it is -certain to become the great distributing cenire for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immedinte vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beautifully situated on a level tract of land on the west bank of £ffe^uTc5ffTtiver and just below the celebrated wlilte Horse Rapids, around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the steamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. T. J. BETHUNE, f M 4tr * Lots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information regarding the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First Avenue South, Seattle^Wash.; and also at the office of J. J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. ^jjil imifc -"Vancouver, B.C. General Agent. Do You Require a NEW Hoisting Engine ? Air Compressor? [ Electric Light Plant? Steam Boiler? Mine Pump? If so Write for Prices to COLORADO'S GREAT MINE OUTFITTING ESTABLISHMENT, The Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co'y No. 1601 17th Street, DENVER, COLORADO. THE MINING RECORD. E. G. Prior & Co., Ltd. a MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ** ^ * Brushed isss. BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ** ** ^ ^ ** *■ BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters VICTORIA. Branch Stores: VANCOUVER and KAMLOOPS, B. e. { The Amur has been thoroughly overhauled and specially fitted up for this service, and is provided with accommodation tor passengers and freight of an exceptionally suitable character. For [Cape Nome. St. SS. AMUR Al double bottomed, for Michaels and Cape Nome ON MAY 1, 1900. rates and particular information apply at company's office \ sx M. BBATTY & SONS, WELLAND. ONTARIO, Dredges, Ditchers and Steam Shovels, Mine Hoists, Hoisting Engines, Stone Derricks.fHorsepower Ho-sters, Suspension Cable ways, Submarine Rock Drilling Machinery, Gang Stone Saws, Centrifugal Pumps for Drainage Works, Pumping Sand, Gold Mining, Etc. We also furnish WIRE ROPE at Lowest Prices. BENNETT FUSE! REGISTERED IN CANADA. Crown Brand. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, Lo„do„ ^^^SSS^JO^^«•• Is guaranteed absolutely waterproof. It is Gutta-Percha, will neither crack nor break. Costs no more than tar-tape fuses Ask your dealer for it. Give it a trial. We manufacture the following fuses for Canada: No. 6— R £ D fuse for dry ground No 30— WHITE countered fuse, waterproof. No. 36—BLU E double layed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application' Pone's •Miner's Safety Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. ' ROWLAND MACHIN, %%££ No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. BRITISH COLOMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture. We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BR©S., YieT0RIft, B.e. LENZ & LEISER, s&n yates street. IMPORTERS OF GENERAL DRY GOODS. —MANUFACTURERS OF— CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for toe Kpoteoay and Klondike Trades. ONLY WHITK LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. THE CELEBRATED "CROWN BRAND" Pare w 'RICKSHAW SST You flust have "CROWN BRAN m m -tf r0T saie on Java and Mocha f Thomas Earie, If you will have THE BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 50 poand tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B.C. Proprietors. For sale only hy w w IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION HERCHANT. Teas and Coffees a Specialty. 92, 94, 97 Wharf St, VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Goods, Liquor®, Cigars, Flour, Ktc. goods indented from all parts Manufacturers of Clothing, Ktc. ~0F THE W0RLD- —telegraphic addresses— "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TCRBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. XVI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt.Ward&eo., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amherite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected, Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. MERSHANTS BHNK of HALIFAX INCORPORATED 1869. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED, $2,000,000.00. CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,985,070.00. REST, $1,700,000.00 f. E. KENNY, President. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.S. Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B. C. Bridgewater, N. S, Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N. B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. 8. Louisburg, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Maitland, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pietou, N S. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Bossland, B.C. SackviUe, N.B. EDSON L. PEASE, General Manager. St. John, N. D. Shubenacadie, N. S. Summerside, P. E. I. Sydney, N. S. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria, B. C. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Branches In Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches In United States.- A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. -Havana, Cuba. New York. Republic, Wash. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand — Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Bossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. PLATINUM REFINERS BAKER New York Offlce- 121 LIBERTY STREET. W E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM. & CO., NEWARK, N. J. THE MINING RECORD. xvn. PROFESSIONAL, HDYERTISEMENTS. W. JONES The City oMsuubsuHj., Auction Mart. AUCTIONEER, *'»*** k, APPRAISER, ™ and 73J* Yates St., ESTATE AQENT, Etc. VICTORIA, - . B. C. Auction sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor s own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of References from past and present clients. Houses, etc., to ront and for sale in all parts List your properties with us, good clients always waiting. All business entrusted to us eceives strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. 3e, Rossland, B.C Wallace Building Columbia Avenu P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing aud Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeals. R. W. GRIGOR, • -MINES- -• ROSSLAND, B.C. . Operating in East and "West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeil and Moreing and Neal's codes. J- Fortescue Foulkes. N. B.Van der Gucht. J. F. Foulkes & Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Pouvan." All codes used. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A. R. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Oodes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing <fc Neal's, dough's, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. F. J. L. TYTLER, CONSULTING ENGINEER, Notary Public In and for B. C, Commissioner of Oaths. Office, 23 Mackinnon Block, Granville St., Vgnrnnvai* P.O. Box 39. Telephone 750. vaUtUUVCr, ABC Code, Bedford McNeill Code. Student of Glasgow University. Pupil of Messrs. Hawkes Crawshay, Gateshead-on-Tyne. Late Civil Engineer, Oude & Rohukund Railway, India. Late Civil Engineer, Department of Public Works, India. Late Manager Sirmoor Iron Works. Late Inspector of Dykes, British Columbia. For several years Consulting Engineer to the Government of B. C. AU business with mines transacted, reports made, assays supplied. Plans estimates and specifications for general engineering purposes made and works managed and supervised. . . . IT IS N© G©©D ... advertising in the British Press Unless You Understand How to approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date AnwrnTICIMr rVDCDT Who can advise you and do your business at ADVLKTIolIMb tArtKI Lowest Possible Rates. Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. e. J. WALKER'S •British and Canadian Press Bureau," 24 eoleman St., London, E.6. xvm. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL ftDVERTISEiWENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Pnmnctal and Dominion Land Snmyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E, M. INST. M. E. M. AMER. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, P. O. Box 808, LONDON, E.C. VANCOUVER, B.C. ' Christopher, London." (" Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. 5 VANCOUVER, B. C. Reports. Surveys. Management. Contract Prospecting and Devi opment Work. Best References. MINES HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. "l^inSS.'Si'SJ^ Reports on Slocan Properties, Telegraph Codes used: BedforcLMcNeUTs, u.... nanuar O f* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing &Neal's. W6W LfCIIVer, D.V.. aRGHBOLD & PEARSON, MINING ENGINEERS ASSAYERS- Cable Address: Archpe.r, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeil, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia *w A. H. HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST a„d METALLURGIST. Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa Works. Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. F. W. GR©YES, ©IYIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROVINCIAL LSND SURYEY0R. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported upon. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. O. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. w. PELLEW-HARVEY, F. .S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) ASSAYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testing and Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co., Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Work's and Office—17-719 Pender St., VA CCUVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead. f 50 SO Gold and silver $ 76 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and BuUiQ*dP Bought, ©GDEN ASSAY e©.. 1429-16th St., DENVER, eolo. John Redmond, Miuing and Mechanical Engineer. C. Outhett, Chemist and Metallurgist. REDHAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Mettallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and An - alyses guaranteod accura'e. "Write for intending informa'ion about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. fl. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - - VANCOUVER, B. C. W. M. MHeKINN©N, Assoc. M. Inst. e. B. Civil Engineer. Specialty: Hydraulic Engineering. Water power ; Water Supply for Mines and Towns; Gold Dredging; Bridges; Structural Iron work, etc. P.O. Box 262. MACKINNON BUILDING, Granville St., VANCOUVER B.C- A CARD From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Pubuc op the North West. We beg to advise yon that we have opened a branch of our business at 205}4 Washington St., Portland,' Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, $1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining: Experts. 2Q5# WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON THE MINING RECOKD. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship Send for list. r P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY- J. B. TYRRELl, M.A., F.6.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.L.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Kngineers Dominion Land Surveyors. Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested^etc., etc. DAWSON, Y. T. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought and Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. rBedford-Neal, j 611 Hastings St., Codes|Moruelng-Neill, VANCOUVER, B. C One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines] S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale. Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cahle Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. P. O. Box 17; ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51 Q Hastings j^ggjjl VANCOUVER, B.C. Fergusson & Crofts eivll and Mechanical w-* 0 «| eonsuitingEngineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work In Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for ^_ ROOTH'S HOISTS. The "Risdon" Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The " Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. Box 423. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. P. O. Box 676. W. H. BHDER, D.L.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. n. S. HSHeROFT, D.L.S..P.L.S. Greenwood, B.C BAUER & HSHeROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. VaNeOUYER and GREENWOOD. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OFFICE: CAMP McKINJNEJY, B.C. N B.—Some valuable mining properties in Camp McKinney and vicinity for disposal. Correspondence solicited. PEMBERTON & SON 7atINING BHOK6RS, Real Estate, Financial and Insurance Agents. Mining Properties for sale. Agents for the Townsite of Alberni. Farming Lands for sale in all parts of the Province. FORT STREET, Victoria, B.C. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neill. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED ff MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &&. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835- Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES : 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING; OFFICES : 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, EX. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Joubnai,, including postage, is for :— 12 months. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. 14s. 7». Payable in advanoe. NGRHYINGS! . . . PORTRAITS! BUILDINGS 1 SeENERYl Facsimiles of Signatures, Letters and Engravings of all kinds for'"Sook and Newspaper Printing. Map Engraving from tracings. Also Reproductions from Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue Illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. TACOMA ENGRAVING CO,, Tacoma, Wash. B. C. POTTERY CO., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pine, Flower Pots, etc. H. W. TREHT, Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. THOS. KIDDIE, Smelter Manager. Van Anda eOPPER AND GOLD CO, Purchasers and Smelters of Copper«eold Ores. Rates on application, eash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van Anda, Texada Island, B.C A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist. VERNON, B.C. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C. DEALERS IN PtiotorapliiG Stock Agents for the Rochester Optical Co, and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SBNT OS APPLICATION PREHO B. $15. M, R, SMITH I GO. * ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFAOTUHBRS OE" HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. R. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England: Fellow o the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British I Columbia. M0" Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. Practical work. Elective System. Summer term. College year, 46 weeks. For catalogues, giving employment of graduates, address MRS. F. H. SCOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, Mich. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to eacli partlc-*? ular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise ot ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas Liquor, by H. A. Frasch, (20 pp.); Aspbaltum Refining, by H. A. Frasch, (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States, by F. H: Lewis, (6 pp,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry, (6 pp.); The Manufacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle West, by "H. Foster Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T. C. Hopkins (ISpp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W.B. Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilisation of Peat, by Earnest A. Siosteat, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (S2pnj; Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, byT.C. Hopkins, (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, bjiLeopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Gold and Sliver, by W. R. Ingalls, (26 pp.); The Hydro- Metallurgy of Silver, by Ottokar Hofmann, (27 pp.); The Technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Steel, by H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. S; Austin (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Smelting, bV H. O. Hofman, (21pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by (!. E. Siubenthal, (4 pp.); Lime and Lime Burning, by H. A, Fra«ch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture' of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist, Q0 pp.); Present Practice in the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symington, (7 pp.); Occurrence and Recovi ry of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, by §. A. Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, byT?. T. F&ld-I vln8i!fo4.pp.O; Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium, by W. R. Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress in Ore Dressing m 1898, by Robert H. Richards, (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (11 pp.): The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus Ulke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 2S3 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. xxi. VANCOUVER ISLAND COAL. COAU_COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAiriO COAL (Used principally for'Gas and Domestic purposes*) SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now use(i bY a11 the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SAMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt., Nanaimo. B.e. M XX11. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to PACIFIC WITHOUT CHANGE Lowest Rates. ^k: TO ALL POINTS IN Best Equipment. ^ Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to Or to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R. P.jRITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHflRF; OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marlne Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C Canadian Pacific Navigation Go., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 48. Taking effect March 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1 o'clock p.m. or on arrival oi C. P. Kail- way No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster. Ladner and Lulu Island Sunday at U o'clock a.m.; Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a. m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. Leave New Westminste]>-For Victoria Sunday at 2 o'clock p.m. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o'clock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naco and intermediate ports via Vancouver on the First and Fifteenth of each month, and for Queen Charlotte Islands on the 1st of each mo 11 ih. KLONDIKE ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave weekly for Wrangel, Juneau, Skagway and Dyea. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer "Willapa" leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th and 20th. Extending 1 atter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent. The Hudson's Bay Company HAVE- Baie de Feres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Greek Portage la Prairie Fort Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Bat Portage Siding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. FELTEN & GDILLEADME, Carlswerk, Actien Gesellschaft, MnlMm on Rhine. Manufacturers of ■ Electrical Leads and Cables Wire Ropes for Mining Electric Lighting Cables for Coal Pits with arrangment for avoiding fire-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Round and Flat Wire Ropes," Albert," or so-called " Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened Strand Wire Ropea. Iron, Steel, Copper and Bronze Wire Superior qualities... 3 Sole Agents for Canada Jack * Robertson 7 St. Helen St. MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'y,--Limited, | VANCOUVER, B.C. M 3 M lif 3 Ct U re rS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints, Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. METALS. Office and Warehouse, - 151 Hastings St Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. Ontario Gold Mining H Dlstrltt. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. Malleable and Oast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. A few Mines who Use British Columbia. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., mm IL, I1VIITED MANUFACTURERS OF M o D E R M IM I N I N M G A C 1 H I N E R Y SOLE AGENTS British Cnlumbia John Bertram & Sons Iron-Working Machinery, The MacGregor, Gourley Co.'s Wood Working Machinery, R. Hoe & Co.'s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws.. 1 BRANCH OFFICE: MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET, WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. - VANCOUVER, B.C. PUBLISHED BY THE MINING RECORD, LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. THIS MONTH. |^tHE GRANBY SMELTER (ILLUSTRATED), ETC., ETC. VOL. VII. JUNE, 1900. No 6. GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. H*. Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA. B. O. VANCOUVER, B. C. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF Electrical Mining* Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOB ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Oub British Columbia Branches at VICTORIA. VANCOUVER. THE ONLY ROLL JAW CRUSHER CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., 107 Clayton Street, Send for Circular. Boston, Mass. PRICE. 20 CENTS. Cannery M Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar Iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Go. m m I 6 LIMITED, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, m m # H 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C g #1 \ FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING 1 MfteHINBRYfl ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than i,8oo at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables. Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT-,, «===*. COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a)' For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration. fft|k\\^ Brass (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and leaching COAL WASH ING PLANT—Large Testing Station for Crnshingand Dressing Ores at the Works. AGENTS; fL For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.B. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MaCHINERY. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has been able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Our machines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Mining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, 111. LINK-BELT ELEVATORS and CONVEYORS, LINK For Handling Ores. Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc. ~^^^^^^^^~^ PICKING TABLES, Shaking ^Revolving Screens Coal Washing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys. Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. NIC-BELT " COAL AND COKE BREAKER, -BELT MACHINERYCO., Engiii«r^.n,der8 Chicago, U.S.A. LINK-BELT BOX WATER ELEVATOR Capacities, 300 to 10,000 Gallons Per Minute. ^ ROBINS * Belt conveyors. Handle all Materials with GREAT ECONOMY. USE OUR SORTING BELTS Instead of SORTING TABLES. Send for ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 32 In, Sorting Belt Now In Use at WAR EAGLE Mine, Rossland. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.s.a. MANUFACTURERS pilter Presses For Cyanide and Chloromatic Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. 122 CHURCH ST., TORONTO. THB MINING RECORD. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No 0 ^rec^slon Balance. ^, T tn^u Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base- and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TBBTZEL & CO., Nelsotu ASSAY, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- FE are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. » B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. * P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address: Assay," Vancouver. B.C. CodeB,.Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPOSDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 3'§ O'S BI a 13 a 1 T3 S, » <E et- 00. O- SB oo g. » cu 5 & g > <t> 1 00 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851.- - Incorporated 1895. ASSAYERS' HATERIALS, Hine and mil Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors* Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co,, Battersea, England. Largest stock of Balances* Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker & Adaamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining scientific books. and New illustrated catalogue on application. JOHN TAYLOR & CCX* 63 First St., SAN FRAN CI SCO, Calif. THE MINING RECORD. m. GENERAL MIXING MHeHINERY.-eontinued. 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. _ —HEADQUARTERS FOR- Mining Machinery. Hoisting Engines for Deep Mines. Prospectors Hoists. Gray's Patent Chairs. Cars, Cages. Sederholm Boilers. Corliss Engines. Riedler Pumps and air Compressors. 00 s o o < < u o p Z w CO -J p—( o z GO 3 o > 6 O w c m S o r to adjustable Comet Rock and Ore Crushers. Perforated Metals for all Purposes.(We ^^i^AlMS^?"1*" Improved Crushing Rolls. Smelting and Roasting Furnaces. Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And equipment of every kind. Onr machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any other manufacturer. It is in use on all gold fields and is recognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is a recent example of our work. Ball Pulverizers such as used at the Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone Mill are of our manufacture. Write for Catalogue. -RKPRESEKSTICD BY- MENNO UNZ1CKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exclusive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada. Mexico. South America, England, South Africa and Australia IV. THE MINING RECORD. eaBLES, WATER WHEELS AND COMPRESSORS. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery m and Supplies. STEAM I Engines Hoists [Engines Hoists Our Combined Geared Gasoline En- »*^.^.^w (ineni' IICJ"V*"V" gine and HOist, and Combined Gasoline Piitrme bAoULINti i)rfftmnrpWftrs Engine and Air Compressor especially rUmpS AlrLOIUpreSbOris adapted for Mining Purposes. Boilers Pumping Plants Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF AERIAL TRANSPORTATION 3 MANUFACTURED BY THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Bleichert Tramway of the Maine Insane Hospital. Augusta, Me. View of Loading Terminal and Dock Hoist. New Yobk OFFicE-Cooper, Hewitt & Co., 17 BURLING SLIP. Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in. North America for the Bleichert System. Also Wire Rope, Equipments of Surface and Underground Haulage, Etc. Chicago Ofpick-111 4 MONADNOCK BUILDING- T*e Hallidie Ropeway imProved QRIP PULLEY gMfij JT ~ J Patents Nos. 483,«2; 610,353. For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc., by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOniCAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cableways, Transmission by "Wire Ropes. incline pianes. Cable Grips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Logging by Cables. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, cable. Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. FERGUSSON & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. CALIFORNIA WIRE WORKS, o Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. MANUFACTURERS OF- a m ■ fl^Bfc ■■& I k ■ ■ M ■ —main u * AtiuitwKs of— WATER P0WERjhe"Victor-Turbine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. DAYTON, OHIO U S.A.. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lactone Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 top.; Chambly Manufacturing Co., Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & Light Oo. Rossland, B.C., 8,000 h.p. THE MINING RECORD. ▼. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL HND MINE SUPPLIES. Shipping Weight 4,200 lbs. Union Hoist. 10 H. P. double cyl. single drum. Lifts one ton 125ft. per minute. Union ]f Gas and Gasoline Engines For all kinds of wort .* I Sizes in actual use ^ 2i4 to 130 H. P. Running Pumps, Dynamos. Stamp Mills. Blowers. Concentrators. Machinery. Gasoline Mining Hoists and Marine Hoists a Specialty. THE "UNION" GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine should be ; and is the result of 16 years experience, having been built in San Francisco since 1885. Union " Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. Send for illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. '^^^^M^^^m^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M^^^M^^^^^^^^m^^^^^^^^^' We are the Sole Manufacturers for Canada of the «4 TRUftX" automatic Ore wflr The Automatic opening and closing door does away with the lever in back and all its disadvantages. Toe car cannot be damped without opening the door gradually. The door does not commence to open until the bed of the car is at an angle of four degrees from the track, and from that on until the bed of the car is at an angle of twelve degrees. The principle of the Automatic door enables us to set trucks farther towards the door end, thus affording an easier dump than the ordinary car, and distributing the wear on the axles more equally. The car works on a swivel, dumping as well on either side as on the front. Write us for further particulars. Armstrong: & Morrison, RIYETTED STEEL PIPE, HYDRHULI© GIHNTS, BOILERS, EN- GINES HND GENERAL MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS. Office & Works: VANCOUVER, B.C. Compressed Air from Palling Water. a HIGH TESTIMONIAL.— == THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. DEAR SIRS:— i-= » We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department. Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the ' cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. Yours truly W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH VI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. STAMP MILLS ^ CONCENTRATIN G MACHINERY. ©UR DESIGNS are in line with present day practice, and we supply the best selected materials for this class of work, as they insure long life and low repair bills, and prove the cheapest by far in the end. We carry in stock for prompt shipment Special Forged Steel Shoes and Dies, Cast Steel or Chrome Steel Self-Tightening Cams, and General Stamp Mill Supplies and Appliances. When desired, we contract for complete mills, including Buildings, Stamps and Power Plant, ready ior operation. we have a New Design of Crusher, 1600 pattern, which is a splendid machine for Stamp Mill and other work. Let us have your inquiries. Branches: Greenwood and Nelson, B.C. Office and Warehouse: Rossland, B.C. THE JENCKES MHCHINE C©., 32.40 Lansdowne S r., Sherbrooke. Que. Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. -MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN- Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery -COMPKISING- HYDRAULIC GIANTS, CONCENTRATORS, WATER GATES, SHEET IRON and STEEL PIPE, STAMP MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, ORE FEEDERS, SMELTERS, HOISTING and PUMPING PLANTS, SAW MILLS, MINE and MILL «, SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. m m Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application a .HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATER WHEEL. HK7UTIL.TON POWDEk CO'Y. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers ot High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office.- MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICES: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland Greenwood. WORKS: NANAIMO. Patent Pending. PERFECT CUPELS.. • l. & e. 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THE MONTH. THE English mining- market is a market of curious moods. It is naturally different from the enthusiastic investment of the bottom dollar which as a rule builds up a mining district in its early stages. The faith and enthusiasm which made Rossland was an occasion of mockery and freezing astonishment to the English representatives of capital who visited Rossland in early days. The English mining market does not and cannot respond to indications of potential success, because it is conspicuously ignorant of what the indications of potential success are. Nor will it respond to local considerations as the market, say in Spokane, does. A boom is easily inaugurated in Spokane provided the territory is tributary to Spokane as a business centre. But in this sense the world is to a lesser or greater degree tributary to London and individual localities suffer from a wider area of comparison. The only thing to which the English market will respond is conspicuous actual success expressed in pounds, shillings and pence. Just how long after success is proven it will so respond is uncertain, but the response ;s inevitable and when it does come, unmistakeable. It generally carries the' British investor into the wildest vagaries of speculative enthusiasm. His eyes become completely blinded to all prudential considerations and he pours his BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE LONDON STOCK MARKET money into the popular country or district regardless. He will cheerfully invest in wildcat shares on Monday in the certain hope of selling them to a greater fool on Tuesday for twice the money. And when Tuesday comes he generally has Wednesday's superlative idiot in his mind's eye. On Wednesday the crash arrives and he sees in the mirror of his past infatuation—himself. This is the natural and salutary process according to the older economists by which wealthy nations get rid of their overplus of capital. But it may be observed that while many people are delighted to apply the generalization of the older economists to classes of the community to which they do not themselves belong, and individual and personal application of the same laws in their own cases is extremely distasteful to them. It ought to console the clergyman's widow who has lost her money in a wildcat mine to consider that she has merely been disbursing, some of the nation's extra capital, which, by accumulating, was driving the rate of interest too low. One seldom meets the clergyman's widow, however, who takes such a view of the case. It is reserved as a salve for the conscience of the company promoter. To the energetic citizen of the new country to fertilize which part of such losses go, the sufferings of this amiable lady are neither actual nor present, and, while his heart would be moved very readily in the particular instance,. he looks forward to a boom with undisguised eagerness, while its inevitable episodes he regards with an indifference worthy of an older economist than himself. The one reason why British Columbia has never enjoyed a boom on the English market is because British Columbia has never met with' the conspicuous success necessary as a forerunner, but on the contrary with conspicuous failure. This failure has been caused by ignorance, dishonesty and over-confidence. In this respect it does not differ from other failures. We have had our Home Payne syndicates, and our Grant Govan syndicates, and our Galena Mines and our Hall Mines, and speculations in the Yukon colossally abject. And we have had nothing which has justified its existenae until lately. There are now, however, very satisfactory indications. The more rotten companies have disappeared, or are one by one making their conge to the public in the hands of a liquidator and in the critical columns of the financial press. The financial journalists of London love the rotten carcass of a dead company. They revel in its decay and putridity. Their flogging of it gives them a cheap advertisement in impartiality and honesty. But if they were as impartial and honest in reference to the companies which are alive, whose business methods are such as to forestall failure, there would he less financial garbage for them to disport themselves amongst. 200 THE MINING RECORD. As a whole they are a venal crew and help to maintain the rottenness which they condemn after it has been exposed to the public eye. There is a conventional purity of gold influence and rank under whose protection the most unbusinesslike ventures and dishonest promotions may be launched with impunity; no financial paper will or dare attack them, and maintain a permanent and satisfactory balance between expenditure and income. But that is a digression. British Columbia's difficulties culminated with the shut-down of the Le Roi mine, following as it did upon the long continued trouble in the Slocan in which a fair amount of English money is invested. The Le Roi mine, however, has opened up again. Under the superintendence of Mr. Bernard Macdonald it is more closely realizing what was to be expected from its capitalization. Until the Le Roi mine produces 20,000 tons of ore a month it cannot be placed on a satisfactory dividend paying basis. It cannot produce 20,000 tons a month until the new shaft is in working order. But with the old mechanism it is doing marvels, and an output of 15,000 tons a month must be considered as very satisfactory. As soon as the new hoisting apparatus is in working order the Le Roi wilb be in a position to ship 1,000 tons a day and maintain this rate of production. Le Roi shares will then fluctuate above £10 instead of above £5; and this is the key to the situation on the London market. This will make the most important factor in the conspicuous success necessary if inaugurate a boom. There are other tributary causes which are working favourably. Notably, the other Rossland properties of the B. A. C, are approaching a condition in which their shares will have an actual market value. The London and B. C. Goldfields also control a most successful group of mines. The Ymir, the Enterprise and the Whitewater will do much to assist a favourable impression of British Columbia in London. There is another mine which will have an important effect and which is besides a beautiful example of the peculiarities of the London market, namely, the Velvet mine on Sophie Mountain. This property is to-day worth a million dollars hard cash of any American mining man's money. The value is there in ore blocked out. In London, however, a nominal market is maintained in the shares at a little above par on a capital of £100,- 000. Why? Because the group of companies inspired by Sir Charles Tupper are out of favour. They are out of favour because all of the companies so inspired have been failures or very modified successes except the Velvet. So that we have actual failure measured against potential success and the result is complete want of confidence. It is very silly of course. Because the success is just as real and measureable as the failure has been actual. But the English market has not yet got the information of the success through a channel intelligible to it. This channel is a profit and loss account. When the Velvet becomes a producer the reaction upon the market will be greater on account of the disrepute into which it has fallen. The foundation of a boom on the English market has been laid on an enduring basis. The time when it will arrive depends upon other concurrent circumstances. He would be a daring prophet indeed who would set the day and hour. But numerous events point to an early date, probably this fall. The South African thunder storm is clearing up. Much attention has been directed to Canada through the war. The mineral output of the province as a whole is exceedingly satisfactory; and the great advance made this year by Klondike will also count for something. But whether the boom comes as early as this fall or not, come it certainly will. To what proportions it may grow it is impossible to say. How far the latent resources of the country will play up to the influx of capital cannot very well be estimated at present. But the very greatest benefit will result to the province if things are so ordered that the unscrupulous promoter is prevented from killing the goose that lays the golden egg oi capital. There are two industries in Canada, towards which a peculiar policy has been adopted, that namely of prohibiting the export of the raw material. The object is to stimulate the manufacture of the secondary product within the boundaries of Canada. These industries are the wood pulp industry and the industry of nickel mining. There would be no the question excuse for discussing the wood pulp of an industry in a mining journal were it export duty not for the general principle involved, and for the fact that a similar policy in reference to the metallliferous ores of British Columbia is frequently advocated in influential sources. The industries in question, nickel and wood pulp, are favoured by a partial monopoly which Canada possesses in the raw material. They are also favoured by a rapidly increasing effective demand for nickel, and for wood pulp for the manufacture of paper. The paper trust of the United States upon the termination of existing contracts is raising the price of paper about 60 per cent, and the commercial world is suffering from a paper famine, a condition of affairs brought about by the great expansion of journalistic enterprise, and the celerity and cheapness with which printing is now accomplished. It is obvious that with such an increase in the price of the products of wood pulp Canada can afford to take liberties with the law of supply and demand, for the time being at least, without losing control of the market already in her possession. But the eventual success of the experiment depends upon whether Canada can manufacture the secondary product as cheaply as it can be made anywhere else, and also upon whether this competitive point can be reached by Canada before a cheaper substitute has been found for the raw material of which Canada has the monopoly. It is not necessary for us to investigate the chances in connection with the particular industry of the manufacture of wood pulp. It is to be hoped they have been carefully gone into before the drastic policy now in force was adopted; although from the parity of reasoning applied to lead and copper mining by the advocates of the embargo upon logs it is doubtful of they were. A similar condition of affairs presents itself in connection with nickel mining. Canada is in a most favourable position. The principal sources of nickel are Canada, New Caledonia and some of the planetary bodies. These latter need not be considered as commercially available, for an occasional meteorite is not likely to affect the market. In relation to nickel Canada is in as good a position to take strong ground and insist upon the manufacture of refined nickel within her own borders as could well be imagined. But nickel refined in Canada must come down eventually to the same cost of production as nickel refined outside Canada from Canadian ore or else the experiment will fail in the long run. And not only must it do so but it must do so before a new source of nickel THE MINING RECORD. 20I is discovered or existing sources made more available, and also before some substitute is found for nickel or some process of hardening steel is discovered which would render its use unnecessary. Doubtless nickel can be refined as cheaply in Canada as elsewhere in the long run. But not at once. A big transference of capital is required as well as other factors not immediately available without increased cost for the development of the industry. The experiment is in. danger both from every metallurgical chemist's laboratory and also from the nickel deposits of New Caledonia. In reference to these latter what Mr. Whitaker Wright had to say at the meeting of the nickel corporation in London the other day is not without interest. He said: "The property acquired by the corporation is of great area, and embraces what I believe may be pronounced the most valuable nickel mines in the entire world. The final legal steps for absolutely vesting this extensive area in the company will shortly be completed, after which we shall apply to the Stock Exchange to grant a settlement in the shares. In regard to title, the mining laws of New Caledonia are more liberal than those of any other colony of which 1 have had any experience—mining property being held in perpetuity without limit of area or exaction of labour condition—and involving only the payment of a nominal annual tax of about 2d. per acre. In regard to the world's supply of nickel, there are only two sources worth mentioning at the present time, one being the Sudbury mines of Ontario, and the other the mines of New Caledonia. The Sudbury ores, containing as they do sulphide of iron, nickel, and copper, the process of refining is complicated and expensive—further, the nickel produced is not of the best quality, as it contains traces of antimony and arsenic, which for nearly all purposes are very injurious when present in refined nickel. On the other hand, the New Caledonia ores, being hydrated silicate of nickel, free from copper, sulphur, or other injurious impurities, the refining is comparatively simple- and the quality of the nickel produced is of an exceedingly high grade, being in the greatest demand for all purposes. I feel justified in expressing the opinion that this corporation can produce nickel of the purest quality at less cost than it can be produced by any other company, and that you will, in the near future, practically control the nickel market." However, so far as regards mining in British Columbia the question of nickel refining in Canada, and still more that of manufacturing wood pulp ife of purely academic interest. The success or failure of experimental legislation in these connections does not directly affect British Columbia. But it cannot be too carefully borne in mind that if experiments in reference to nickel and wood pulp are successful, they will not owe success to the soundness of the principle involved but to the special conditions under which it is applied. Any attempt to impose similar restrictions upon copper and lead would be disastrous in the extreme and doomed to failure from the outset. It would be a very desirable thing to have all the wheat grown in the Dominion manufactured into flour in the Dominion. Until public opinion is ready for this purpose to impose an embargo upon the importation of wheat, it had better refuse to govern its action by the success of an embargo upon nickel ore, in refer ence to articles of common production and consump tion like copper and lead. A very interesting question and one that is frequently discussed is whether cheapness of fuel and nearness of fluxing materials or proximity to the ore supply should' be the dominant factor in establishing a smelter at any particular point. Of course they are all important factors. Where they can all be procured there can be no question as to the suitability of such a locality as a smelter site. But if one point affords greater proximity to the ore supply, while another affords cheaper power and cheaper fuel which of the two will enable the cheapest smelting to be done. Local point has been given to this abstract question by the rivalry existing between Grand Forks and Greenwood as to their respective merits as smelting centres. The point made in favour of Greenwood by Mr. Paul Johnson is that with the Crow's Nest coal fields to draw from for fuel, the cost of generating power is not nearly so great as might be supposed, while on the other hand, Greenwood is in the centre of the mines all or nearly all of which possess a straight down-hill grade to that point. In his opinion chat counterbalances the generation of power frdm the vast reservoir of power contained in the North Fork of the Kettle River. It may be said in passing that this is a tribute to the immense advantages derived throughout the mining districts through the possession on their eastern borders of this practically inexhaustible supply of coal and coke. That steam power can be generated so easily and so cheaply in any part of the Kootenays touched by the Crow's Nest Pass Railway system is certainly a boon to the smelting industry, but it is a much greater boon to the mining industry. There is no part of the world where such perfect natural conditions exist for the economical mining and treating of ore of all kinds. Not only is there abundance of water and abundance of timber, but there is abundance of the best possible fuel provided by nature in close proximity to the mining districts. The great stimulus given to the production of wealth by the connection of these coal fields with the mines is only now beginning to be felt. It will be years yet before its full significance is realized. It has been the fashion for everyone to turn their eyes to South Africa, the Transvaal and Rhodesia. But what, when we look at the matter in our sober senses, can possibly be made of these countries in comparison with British Columbia? They, neither of them, contain the conditions of prosJ perity and growth which prevail in British Columbia. Gold is all very well and the Rand contains the greatest goldfields in the world. But silver, lead, copper, iron and coal play a greater part in the consolidation and progress of a country. The very scattered and promiscuous nature of British Columbia's mineral deposits, while it has been a bar to its rapid exploitation, is in itself a guarantee of future stability and permanence. But to return to our original subject,-it is probable that proximity to the supply of ore is the determining factor in establishing reduction works in British Columbia, because the country is so favourably endowed in other respects that almost all points are equally situated in respect of fnal and power. Consequently for dealing with the ore of the Mother Lode and other points Mr. Johnson's sagacity was not at fault in locating his smelter at Greenwood. But it by no means follows from that that the Granby Smelting Company have placed themselves at a disadvantage in locating- at Grand Forks. ' It must be remembered THE MINING RECORD. that the very same circumstance which makes many points equal or nearly equal in respect of fuel and fluxes makes many points equal or nearly equal in respect of supply. It is not too much to suppose that the possession of a great water power will counterbalance a possible slight inequality in proximity to the mines, while the location of some of the propertied controlled by the company, would, in any case, justify their selection from their point of view. In fact there is room for smelting at both points. At both points it should be successful and profitable. Any special success at either will depend more upon the business management of the respective concerns than upon any superiority of location. Rivalry in this respect the country may view complacently because the keener it becomes the more the country as a whole will benefit. The present year will be more remarkable for an increase in the number of producing mines and an expansion in the sources of the supply of the precious metals throughout the province than for any large increase in the amount of gold, silver, lead and copper produced. The great increase in tonnage expected does not appear likely to be realized. For the first five months of the year Rossland has shipped in round numbers 50,000 tons. An average of 15,000 tons for the succeeding months may be relied on from the Le Roi alone. This gives Rossland a certainty of 155,- 000 tons for the year. It is now evident that whatever output the War Eagle and Centre Star contribute this year, will be compressed into the last quarter of the year. It is unlikely that regular shipments will be resumed for three months yet. The hoisting machinery on the Centre Star main shaft is now almost in working order, but the company is still waiting for its compressor plant and it appears to be doubtful how much longer it may have to wait. A suspicion is abroad that the machinery is not made yet. The same vexatious delay is taking place with regard to the Black Bear compressor for the Le Roi company. The fly wheel and the blue print are the only parts received as yet. But fortunately the Le Roi is not so absolutely dependent on this machinery as the Centre Star is. Pending its arrival little or nothing can be done. It is quite clear that it will require heavy shipments from the War Eagle and Centre Star during the last quarter of the year if the tonnage of 1899 is to be largely augmented. For some reason or another the Slocan country is taking a long time to rally from the effects of the long shut down. The total tonnage produced so far this year is very small. The rate of production is very little greater since the settlement of the labour difficulty was effected than it was before. During last year the Slocan shipped in the neighborhood of 19,000 tons of ore and concentrates. This year so far 7,000 tons covers the output. If the Slocan does not produce 25,000 tons this year it will disappoint reasonable expectations formed of the capacity of the country. One of the large producers in the province, the Hall Mines, has gone temporarily out of business. The question of profitable production in that instance being put aside it will require quite a tonnage from other sounces to counterbalance the effect of its defection upon the gross output of the country. There are several very hopeful features in the situation, however. The ;3t. Eugene at Ymir is producing and shipping between 50 and 60 tons of rich silver lead concentrates every day. It has already marketed over 1,000 tons and should add to the prov ince's production of silver and lead at least 8,aoo tons of concentrates during the year. As silver lead producers the North Star and Mollie Gibson have also to be reckoned with. The Nelson district will also receive considerable assistance from the production of gold bullion within its boundaries, particularly fi om the doubled capacity of the Ymir mill. The Ymir must now be considered one of the great mines of the province. The Boundary country is an unknown quantity. Its effect upon the total production of • 1900 will however be relatively very small. The best to be hoped from it is that towards the close of the year a rate of production will have been established which will be a guarantee for future years even if it does not much affect the present. Again there is the Lardeau country from which the tonnage exported is as yet purely insignificant. Upon the development of all these districts the failure of British Columbia to attract foreign capital is reacting severely. There is no question but that with an adequate flow of capital the mineral output of the country would increase from year to year much more rapidly and not less steadily than it does. In endeavouring to attract capital the people of British Columbia and particularly the government have shown criminal neglect. To discover the best means of inducing investment and once discovered to apply them strenuously is at the present time more important than any question of internal policy. It is a relief to see that politicians of all shades of opinion have at last opened their eyes to the question. On more than one occasion we have had reason to refer to the slipshod manner in which too many of our local mining companies are conducted and which calls for something more than mere protest. It is about time that if we have laws on our statute books to regulate these matters that they should be enforced. A case in point is the Boundary Creek Mining & Milling Co. of Greenwood. The shareholders seem to be kept absolutely in the dark as regards the operation of this concern and we are informed that even the secretary is, or professes to be, unable to give information when applied to. That the company is still in existence may be presumed from the fact that some valuable ore was recently shipped from one of its mines near Greenwood. Meanwhile in the hope that it may stir up the officials of the company to a proper sense of their responsibilities, We publish the following letter from a correspondent, subscribing himself "Scotch Investor." "I would be very much obliged to you if you would kindly through the columns of the Record inform j me and other small shareholders in England as to the status of the Boundary Creek Mining & Milling Company, the head office of which is at Greenwood. Being one of those who bought stock in this concern in 1897 and having received absolutely no information since then as to the operations of the company, any information you can afford me will be extremely welcome. Are not the directors of mining companies in your Province obliged to call annual meetings and issue annual reports and financial statements?" Writes our Boundary Creek correspondent: "In the April issue of the "Record" you directed attention to the apparently unwarranted action of Mr. Duncan Mcintosh, the then managing director of the Winnipeg Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.. own- w THE MINING RECORD. 203 ing the Winnipeg mine, situate in Wellington camp, boundary district, in closing down the mine for no known reason other than that contained in the flimsy excuse that consolidation with the Brandon & Golden Crown company, whose mine adjoins the Winnipeg, was being negotiated. For this both the Mining Kecord and myself were subjected to abuse and misrepresentation by the editor of the Greenwood iww« who made among other mis-statements, the following assertions: "The 'Record' contains some untruthful statements regarding the Closing down of the Winnipeg. The actions of Duncan Mcintosh were known to all the officers of his company, and negotiations for the consolidation were carried on by them with the officers of the Brandon & Golden Crown in the East. Last month I met Mr. D. H. Beecher (formerly treasurer and now president of the Winnipeg company, vice Mr. Mcintosh retired,) at Greenwood and in response to my enquiry I was assured by that gentleman that the mine was closeddown without his previous knowledge. This then is the testimony of one of the directors who since his connection with the company, commencing with its inception, has continuously taken an active interest in its affairs. Regarding the consolidation project, two letters were published in the Rossland Weekly Miner of March 29 last, one from the secretary of the Brandon & Golden Crown Co. and the other from the official broker at Rossland of the Winnipeg Co. - The former contained the following: 'The idea of consolidation originated entirely with the Winnipeg people, and it is the manager of that company (Mr. Mcintosh) who has been forcing the issue, and he it was who gave publicity to the matter.' The latter wrote, in part, 'The directors and officers of the Winnipeg other than Mr. Mcintosh were not consulted, so it is quite possible that the consolidation scheme will not get beyond the embryonic stage.' I revert to this matter to show that your advices in this connection were reliable, whilst, on the other hand, the assertions of the Greenwood Times in reply were as unieliable as are many of the inflated statements that journal is in the habit of publishing as mining news." It is hardly necessary, we think, to make any comment on our correspondent's letter, except to say that before the remarks which were published in the April issue appeared, we had received very precise information from more than one independent source on the subject of the closing down of the mine. We note that work has been resumed at the Winnipeg mine, Boundary district, this time, so it has been officially stated, under the direction of a practical mining man of many years' experience. In 1897, prior to incorporation of the company, the then trustees published a prospectus which contained the following: "A careful, practical, economic and business-like management of the company and operation of its property is assured stockholders, and there is good reason to believe that the mine will be more than paying operating expenses before the end of the coming year." It cannot well be maintained that either the assurance or the anticipation contained in the foregoing has been satisfactorily realized. Again we remember that Mr. Duncan Mcintosh, then president and managing director of the company, was last fall interviewed by the Rossland Miner, which on Oct. 19, 1899, published, among other statements, the following: "There is 20,000 tons of ore in sight which will run from $20 to $30 per ton. There are 2,000 tons of ore on the dump ready for shipment." Referring to a new strike made by men engaged in grading for the railway it stated: "About 200 tons of ore had already been taken out of this find, ami is piled up ready to be sent to the smelter. The assays of this ore average about $87 to the ton." Jn view of the fact that Mr. Beecher, now president of the company, a few weeks ago was reported by the Phoenix Pioneer to have informed its representative that "the returns of from $18 to $24 per ton on the ore shipped thus far more than realized the expectations of the stockholders" it seems that these were either not well informed as to the late manager's opinion of values, or they discounted them. However the statements lately made to our correspondent indicate that matters will henceforward proceed upon a more business-like and dependable basis. With an experienced mining man in charge, liberty to employ all the men he can work to advantage, a thousand tons of ore on the dump to start with, 30 feet of solid ore in a surface vein and 50 feet at the 300-foot level, all the plant and machinery in good working order and equal to developing the mine down to the 500-foot level, and the railway within a few yards of the dump—surely this is a combination of advantages that, with no further erratic interference to prevent, ere the current year closes should prove earler faith in the Winnipeg to have been fully warranted and so restore confidence in the property and stock. The Vancouver News-Advertiser has done much good work for the Boundary creek district during the past three years in publishing more news from that section than any other of the larger newspapers of the Province, and withal more generally correct news. Latterly though, it has, in selecting matter from district newspapers for its mining columns and in publishing "boom" communications from Grand Forks especially to a considerable extent sacrificed quality to quantity. This is to be regretted, since the almost irrepressible boomster correspondents to be found in both Grand Forks and Greenwood ehould certainly not be encouraged in their mischievous efforts by leading newspapers of the province. • As an instance of this unfortunate departure from its earlier avoidance of such evils we refer to a contribution published in the News-Advertiser of May 15, in which some grossly exaggerated statements appear relating to Summit camp, Boundary district. The ingenuity displayed by the writer thereof in securing a free advertisement for a townsite in which are largely interested such men as Messrs. A. W. Ross and W. C. Haywood, the elasticity of whose imaginations in depicturing townsite advantages is perhaps not yet forgotten on the Coast—is no doubt, from his own point of view, admirable. But while we are not concerned with this aspect of his effusions, we take strong exception to the misstatements concerning the mines of Summit camp. But to quote: "Huge plants, the transportation of which represents a small fortune, are ceaselessly throbbing; vast ore-dumps attest the fact that mining in Summit has long since passed the experimental stage." This "word picture" is of the kind to be looked for from the pen of av O'Farrell but the News-Advertiser has been accustomed to leave such fairy tales for some of its less particular contemporaries to publish. As a matter of simple fact—and it is facts, not fairy tales, the min- 204 THE MINING RECORD. ing and investing public look to reputable journals for—there are neither "huge plants" nor "vast ore- dumps" to be found in Summit camp. Even supposing that the B. C. mine has lately received "two 8o-horse power boilers, a 50-horse power hoist and half of a 20-drill Rand compressor" as stat- ed,'seeing that this is the only comparatively big plant in Summit camp and that the two or three others in the neighbourhood do not aggregate one-half its power this is no justification for asserting that "huge plants" are at work. Nor can the accumulation on the dumps of a total of less than 20,000 tons of ore, much of which will have to be sorted out as unsuitable for shipment, be truthfully described as "vast ore-dumps." In other respects the contribution under notice is much inflated, but what we have written will suffice to show its general character. It is not a pleasant duty to challenge gross exaggerations in published statements respecting our mines, but so far as this journal is concerned, we shall to the best of our ability endeavour to check the growing abuse of opportunity indulged in by irresponsible scribblers who, either ignorantly or from unworthy motives, attempt to deceive the investing public. In case these remarks be construed as questioning the value of the better developed of the Summit camp properties, it may be advisable to add that the information at our disposal leads us to conclude that at the B. C. mine the indications are for profitable and permanent production and that the Oro Denora is also full of promise. British Columbia is to be congratulated on the recent appointment by the Dominion Government of Mr. Angus K. Stuart of Greenwood as representative of this Province at the Paris Exposition. Mr. Stuart is not only an excellent linguist, but thanks to a journalistic training which has made him a close observer and a residence of many years standing in British Columbia and the mining camps of South Yale, he has gained a very comprehensive knowledge of the country and its potentialities and is thus fully equipped to do us justice in championing "B. C." at the great Fair during his stay in the French capital. Elsewhere, our London correspondent refers to the reconstruction of the Hall Alines, Limited, and in this connection we have received an interesting letter from one of the leading mining engineers in Canada in which he says: "I would like to assure you of my high personal opinion of that mine and my belief that capable, economical management can make of it a very remunerative property. The weak point of the property has always been the administration of the mine; for this the responsibility is about equally divided between the London Board and former mine management. Last November a new mine superintendent, Capt. J. R. Gifford, was appointed and who, .in the short time he had control, satisfied himself of the ultimate value of the property and the necessity for vigorous exploitation. ^This exploitation discovered in the south vein of the seventh level large bodies of valuable ore; in one place five feet of ore gave 64 ozs. of silver and 2.6 per cent, of copper. These discoveries were made 200 feet below the level of former stopes running above No. 5 adit, and, to my mind, are of the highest significance as indicating a future for the property." It is a matter for congratulation, mean while, that the Hall Mines is to have another chance, and we trust, under better auspices. At extraordinary general meetings of the Gold- fields of British Columbia (Limited), the Waverley Aline (Limited) and the Tangier Aline (Limited), held recently in London, resolutions were unanimously adopted for the voluntary liquidation of these companies. A new company, entitled the Empire Gold- fields (Limited) is to be formed with a capital of £200,000 divided into shares of £1 each, for the purpose of acquiring the assets and liabilities of the existing companies. The scheme of amalgamation provides that every holder of five shares in the Gold- fields of British Columbia will receive one share in the new company; holders of four shares in the Waverley, one share; and holders of one share in the Tangier one share. The shares in the new company are to be issued with a liability of is. per share. By this arrangement there is just a bare possibility that shareholders of these unfortunate concerns may improve their position; but unless very different methods are adopted than those employed in the past, this chance- is of the slimest. At a recent political meeting held in Kaslo, the Premier, A'Ir. Martin, was asked: "Is the Mr. Smith Curtis, now Alinister of Mines, the same gentleman who about six months ago published in the Rossland Miner a letter over his own signature that the Provincial Government had the power, which they should exercise, to take possession of any mine where operations were suspended by the owner and to work such mine? Is the Premier prepared to say that this will be a feature of the policy of his government and to what extent will it be applied in the Slocan?" Mr. Martin replied: "I believe Mr. Smith Curtis did write such a letter and I believe that, in extreme cases, there is such power on the part of the government of the province and in an extreme case, for the public good, it should be exercised. Except for purely business reasons no company should be allowed to close a mine down. I do not think any mine owner has the right to deliberately shut down his mine for the purpose of affecting disputes between him and the persons who are working for him." We challenge Mr. Martin to show any authority justifying his belief that a government of British Columbia has a right to interfere with private propeity in the way he intimates. But very few people take Mr. Martin seriously and it is a matter for thankfulness that there is no fear of confidence being shaken by the return of this gentleman to power. The extension of the Yukon & White Pass Railway to White Horse is expected to be complete by August. This should mean much for a district of which there are high hopes as a copper producer and of which some of the claims are now sufficiently developed to justify a prediction that a first shipment of smelting ore may be made this summer. The White Horse copper claims are stated to run extraordinarily well in copper with some silver and a very little gold. If future development should prove the permanency of the ore bodies, the best of the White Horse copper prooerties should be easily able to pay the White Pass & Yukon Railway Company's prepaid freight rate to the smelter, which will be about =: fcl'.MW. THE MINING RECORD. 205 $12 50 a ton. Mr. Hawkins, the managing director ot the railway, is extremely sanguine with regard to the copper possibilities of the White Horse district of the Yukon, which he believes will add considerably to the already large returns of the railroad. Mr. James Dunsmuir has publicly announced that he will hereafter employ only white labour in his \ ancouver' Island collieries. So far so good. But he has also stated that he has been accustomed to pay Mongolians as highly as white labour. If we accept this statement it is only reasonable to conclude' that either the Chinaman has been overpaid or the white man underpaid. In either case Mr. Dunsmuir should come in for criticism. The only grounds upon which Mongolians should be allowed to compete in our labour market are those of expediency and cheapness. If Chinamen are to be employed at all it must be because the productiveness of their labour in relation to the wages paid them is greater than can be obtained from the employment of white labour. It is a matter of opinion whether in a new- country cheap Mongolian labour is or is not a desirable factor. But if coolies are employed at all they should certainly be paid at the "coolie" rate of wages. That, to our mind, is the crux of the "Mongolian question." The Chinaman in British Columbia has been pampered and overpaid until he has come to consider himself a personage. We have erected barriers to keep him out, but so long as he knows he can earn as much in a day here as he can in a week or even two weeks in his own country he will continue to emigrate and the fact that the barrier in the shape of a poll-tax exists, by limiting the number of immigrants has simply had the effect of bringing the Chinaman into keener competition with the white worker. There are encouraging signs of profitable future developments of the coke and fire brick industries in connection with the Island collieries and clay deposits at the Union mines of the Comox district of the Island, and the coke produced there is being found at Whatcom, Washington, to be superior for iron smelting purposes to the home product of that State. It is likely therefore that this will lead to a large import of Island coke for such smelting uses. Moreover trial consignments of the coke are being .made to Japan, which may become a considerable purchaser of the fuel, for use in her metal industries. And as regards the fire bricks made of the clay at Union test results made in Vancouver are stated to show that these are, if anything, superior to the fire bricks now in general use in the province and imported from Gartcraig, Scotland. All of which would seem to indicate a very considerable enlargement of industrial activity in the Union district. It may be worth noting, as indirectly illustrating the interest taken in British Columbia mines in very distant parts of the world, and directly, the wide circulation of the Mining Record enjoys, that during. the month of May among the requests sent in to this Office for copies of catalogues of machinery advertised in these pages, we were asked to send particulars of special classes of machinery to a firm in Rannegunge, India and also to another in Valparaiso. manufacturers expect, of course, to sell machinery in British Columbia by advertising in the AIining Record, but it will doubtless come as an agreeable surprise to (say) a firm in Boston, if through our instrumentality they can introduce their make of machinery so far from home as British India. The Mining Record is not a political paper. We may nevertheless without suspicion of partisan views, express a very decided opinion that there is no present' likelihood of the redemption of Mr. Joseph Martin's conditional and qualified promise to build and operate, as a Provincial Government undertaking—if found possible—a railroad between Vancouver, New Westminster and the Kootenays, via the Fraser Valley and the Similkameen country. The railroad which would need to be at least 330 miles long, would cost for construction and working capital at least $12,000,000, a sum far beyond the Province's borrowing resources. Especially is this the case in view of the fact that both as regards the Similkameen and the Kootenays, the projected line would have to face most formidable competition from the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which already taps the Kootenays and is preparing to enter the promising Similkameen copper country by a comparatively short branch of its main line running in from Spence's Bridge. Any initial attempt at a provincial railroad needs certainly to be made on a far shorter and less costly route and one moreover subject to less formidable competition. The stockholders in the Le Roi Mining Company are to be congratulated on the recent very successful development of their mine and consequent enlargement of its output, which, in the .third week of May, reached the record figures of 4,030 tons. Up to and including that period the Le Roi has held during the present year the undoubted position of being the great producer of Rossland, as out of 48,661 tons thence shipped in 1900, the Le Roi accounted for no less than 28,659. At present the mine continues to be the only large shipper, the effecting of improvements to machinery and doing of development work having temporarily reduced almost to a minimum the output of the War Eagle and Centre Star properties. It is satisfactory also to learn that although the Le Roi output is so satisfactorily growing, greater attention is being paid to the further development of the ore bodies in the mine than is being devoted even to present shipments. Meanwhile general indications tend to show that those interested in that promising mine, the Centre Star, must possess their souls in patience a little longer as machinery alterations and necessary further development work are not progressing- very rapidly. American We regret to learn that there is a possibility of a suspension of operations at the Cottonwood River Company's gold gravels in Cariboo, as a result of winter floods causing great and almost irreparable damage to flumes. It is to be hoped that such a result may yet be averted, as the Company, under British auspices, is a thoroughly bona fide concern which has expended much capital and development work under trustworthy management. 206 THE MINING RECORD. We have received the prospectus of the Tyee Copper Company, Limited, the capital of which is £120,000 divided into 120,000 of £1 each, 20,000 being offered to public subscription. This company has been formed to acquire from the Tyee Development Company three claims, the Tyee, Herbert and Maggie Fraction, in the Mount Sicker district. The vendors are to receive £80,000 in fully paid shares for their properties, which is a fair enough arrangement. We however take exception to one statement in this prospectus, namely, that referring to " estimated profits," which allows an output of 100 tons of ore per day, or an annual production of 30,000 tons. The Tyee is not yet a sufficiently developed mine to safely admit of an estimate of this kind being made concerning it; and the promoters would have been better advised if they had omitted this part of the prospectus altogether and allowed the public to form their own conclusions from the engineers' reports, which are "quite satisfactory enough. Thus Mr. W. Thompson, A.M.I. C.E., after examining the mine reports : "As regards the prospects and future of the property, I am of opinion that the developments which have taken place since last year, both in this property and the adjoining one, fully justify the development and equipment of the mine on a much larger scale. * * * I would say that I have great confidence in the future of the Tyee property. There seems every probability (the italics are ours) of the ore bodies being large and the ore of a grade which will yield a handsome return." In the report, of Air. W. Pellew- Harvey, the following statement is made with regard to the "ore in sight": "An estimate of the quantity of ore in sight cannot be given with any degree of accuracy. The developments accomplished have consisted of sinking to prove the existence of the ore body in depth, and with but few short drives on the lode east from the various levels, practically nothing but the cross-cutting of the lode has been accomplished. But evidence of value has been adduced through this work, which shows that there is little doubt but that large ore bodies exist at depth, and these can now be rapidly opened up from the various levels driven." All of which, together with smelter and assay returns, goes to show merely that the Tyee is but a very promising prospect; but provided the development work is as well and carefully carried on as in the past there is no reason at present why the undertaking should not result satisfactorily. 1900, which will be issued to the public early in June. We have not space this month to review this work extensively, but hope to take an early opportunity of doing so. The chief features of the Report this year is a description by the Provincial Mineralogist of the Boundary Creek district which was visited by him last summer. The photographs accompanying the Report are more than usually good, and there are excellent diagrams or charts, the one showing the growth of the mineral industry in British Columbia and the other comparing the output of this province with the rest of the Dominion. A very satisfactory meeting of the Payne Consolidated Mining Company was held in Montreal early in the month. In his speech the chairman, Lt.-Col. Henshaw, said among other things that he believed the ore now being produced would average 90 oz. silver and 45 per cent, lead per ton, and net $57 per ton, which on a production of 1,000 tons per month would De $57,ooo; or allowing $15,000 for working expenses the company's monthly net profit would be $42,000. This is equal to a monthly dividend of one per cent, on a capital of $2,- 600,000, leaving a surplus of $16,000. The value of the ore blocked out and ready for shipment is about $900,000. From October, 1896, to June, 1899, the Payne paid dividends to the amount of $1,100,000, creating at the same time a surplus of over $200,000, as well as paying .the original owners of the property. This is an excellent record and a few such mines as the Payne on the London market would have a most salutary effect. Mr. H. N. Galer, Asst. Sec'y-Treas. of the Granby Smelter. In evidence of the growth of the mining industry in British Columbia our Rossland contemporary, the Miner, publishes a list of machinery plant supplied to no less than fifty-three (more or less) developed mines last year. Included in this list are several 40-horsepower drill compressors and other equipments of magnitude. A representative of a San Francisco iron works was recently viewed on the subject of the business outlook for the sale of machinery in this province, and his replies were all distinctly favourable, and speaking of the mining possibilities he remarked: "There is no part of the continent, and my business has led me over most of it, that is so promising as the interior of like large inter- We are indebted to the Provincial Mineralogist for advance sheets of the Minister of Mines Report for British Columbia." But at last "promise' ning to give place to "performance." is begin- THE MINING RECORD. 207 THE BOUNDARY CREEK DISTRICT. THE TOWN OF GRAND FORKS AND THE GRANBY SMELTER. THE Granby smelter, which is now nearing completion, was located on its present site, owing to the exceptional water power in the vicinity. To utilize this power a dam 175 feet across the top, 75 feet from heel to toe at the bottom, and constructed of sawn timbers 12x12 inches and filled in rock was thrown across the north fork of the Kettle River and a flume 11x9 feet and a mile long constructed to carry the water to the works, the grade being 0.01 inches to every 33J feet. At extreme low water this stream will furnish 1,200 horse-power, and the smelter will use, under actual head of 45 feet, 15,000 miners' inches after deducting friction and all losses. The dam will afford about 30 feet of this head, the rest being made up between the dam and the power wheel. The value of this water power" to the Granby smelter is very apparent. Steam power, it is estimated, costs in the mining districts from $125 to $150 per horse-power per annum; electrical power in Rossland is supplied at a cost of $60 per horse-power per annum. The latter, it is understood, was offered to the Granby smelter company, by the West Kootenay Power and Light Company, of Bonnington Falls, for $75 per horsepower per annum. But the smelter company can, by generating its own power, effect a considerable saving over any offer from an outside source, for beyond the initial expense of installation, the present system will be no longer a charge beyond the cost of maintenance and repairs. It is estimated that the saving as compared with steam will be from $25,000 to $75,000 per annum, according to the amount of power used, which at the start should not exceed 350 horse-power. " Of the works themselves the following is a very excellent account by Mr. C. A. Bramble, at present with the Canadian contingent in South Africa, but formerly a correspondent of the Mining Record residing at Columbia and practising as an assayer and metallurgist : A spur track two and a-half miles in length, with a very easy grade, runs from the main line a,short distance above Columbia, to the north end of the works. The power house is within 1,000 feet of the smelter buildings, and about 100 feet below them. There is ample room at the smelter site proper for as large a plant as the company will ever care to put up, and there is ample dumping room for years to come. The main power with which the blowers, sampling works, etc., will be given is to be given by a duplicate set of 16-in. turbine wheels, operating, as before mentioned, under an effective head of 45 feet. This will develop 250 horse-power net. These are mounted in pairs on horizontal shafts and are cased in a steel flume mounted on I beams. These wheels are connected with the flume by a steel intake pipe 4 feet 7 inches in diameter and discharging into a single draft chest and draft tube, 16 feet long, set at 45 degrees downward inclination. The wheel used is the New American, made by the Dayton Globe Iron Works. One of the greatest advantages of this wheel is that it works at its greatest efficiency when the gates are three-quarters open. These two pairs of turbines are each directly connected with one Westinghouse rotating arm, alternating-current generator, having a capacity of 180 kilowatts, 250 volts, the full lode efficiency being 93.5 per cent. A section of the power house is shown in the accompanying drawing. The foregoing description applies to the main, power battery. During the day all will be in use, running at three-quarters capacity, but they are so arranged that one battery will run the works at night, hence giving an opportunity every evening to overhaul one battery. By this arrangement they are practically equal to duplicate engines. There is also in the same power house a single 10-in. turbine wheel, developing 40 horse-power net. This is directly connected with one Westinghouse 4-pole lighting generator of 22.5 kilowatts capacity, 125 volts. This is for lighting the entire plant, and is self-contained. Moreover, when the works are running, and it is necessary to shut down for repairs, or in case the large power battery is not running, the works would still be lit. It was considered better engineering to have the lighting plant separate from the power generator. There will also be in the same power house one single 13-in. horizontal turbine wheel, which will develop 55 horse-power. This wheel is belted to a Still- well-Bierce & Smith-Vale Company triplex pump, of the double-action type, having a guaranteed capacity oi 750,000 gallons each 24 hours, against a maximum pressure of 100 lbs. to the square inch, or against a 200-foot head. This pump will furnish water and pressure to granulate the slag, as it runs continuously from the furnaces. There is also in the same power house one equal to the first mentioned, namely, 16-in. wheels, to supply extra power should such be required. The power house is 100 feet long by 30 feet wide, and all the batteries are set in line, on one long concrete foundation. The end of the flume enters at one end, of the building, about 35 feet above the centre of the wheel, the water being tapped out of the side of the prospective water wheels. The smeltej? proper consists of two double-decked, steel-jacketed furnaces, 160 by 44 in. The total height of the furnaces from the charge to the furnace is 14 feet. The jackets come within 18 in. of the charge floor. The heights of the lower set of jackets is 7 ft. 6 in., and that of the upper set 2 ft. 6 in. The furnace has a continuous flow water jacket and bronze slag spout. The tuyeres are 5 in. in diameter and 9 in number. The lower side of the furnace has 3 water jackets on the side and one on each end, while the upper jackets number two on the side and one on each end. The bottom of the furnace is of the moveable type, and the brickwork is supported by a cast-iron bedplate, mounted on eight wheels, and is raised and lowered by 8 jack screws built in the wheel frames. The tuyeres are made of cast-iron at the furnace end, connecting with the blast-pipe through 6-in. boiler tubes, which are joined to the cast-iron end by airtight expansion joints. All jackets are hung from the wrought-iron I beams, which are supported in turn by the cast-iron deck-plates resting on the columns. On each side, and in the centre of the furnace, are small-water-cooled tapping jackets, for tapping out when the furnace is blown out. The furnace, above the feed floor, is of brick, bound with suitable buck- stays, and there is a charging door on each side of the furnace, opening the entire length, and about 2 feet high. The gases pass off from the top, in a 4-in. diameter take-down pipe; which is connected with the big flue- jo8 THE MINING RECORD. o is THE MINING RECORD. dust chamber leading to the stack. This pipe is fitted with a damper, and should anything go wrong in the flue chamber the gases can be led into the air by another pipe, 3 ft. in diameter, which passes up through the top of the building. These furnaces should smelt from 150 to 250 tons each a day, the capacity depending, of course on the character of the ore. The maximum capacity of the works will not exceed 500 tons a day, unless it should be decided to add two furnaces, something which may very probably be done within a year or two. The furnaces are set in a building 70 ft. by 104 ft., and are 39 ft. apart from centre to centre. This is exceptionally wide, but metallurgists are now building their furnaces nersville blowers, one for each furnace, and one in reserve. These are connected with the furnaces by a 54-in. diameter blast pipe, all blowers being connect- •vV' -*\ Triplex Pumps Eler. 99.9 High Water Tail Race r^jgglllgSgESg ^ B much further apart than was their practice a few years ago. The down-takes of the furnace are connected with the big flue chamber, 10 by 10 ft. on the inside, and Flnx and Ore Track % "Warehouse A • Roaster Building Slope 1 to 1 Blacksnj Shop s a I Machine Shop M Planing Blower Room j\ RetaihingjWall 254' long Furnace Bjuilding 108&4 Plan of Granby Smelter. (By Permission Engineering and Mining Journal, New York.) 300 ft. in length. The stack is n by ii ft., inside the same, and 23 ft. distant. These receiving bins will measurement, and 150 ft. high. have a total capacity of 1,000 tons. The bins are filled The blower room is 50 by 58 ft., and is 12 ft. from directly from the cars, which have bottom dump, the furnace building. It contains three No. 8 Coo The Power House, Granby Smelter. (By Permission Engineering and Mining Journal, New York.) ed with the one main pipe. There is room in the building for another blower should the plant be increased. The blowers are special patterns, and each one has its own driving pulley, with one outboard bearing. Each of these blowers is driven by an 88 horse-power variabje-speed Westinghouse induction motor, which is belted directly to the blower. Two will be in constant operation and one in reserve. The main sampling building is 64 by 70 ft., and is surrounded on three sides by ore bins. The ore train as it comes into the smelter will be carried by an incline to a series of receiving bins, parallel to the front of the sampling works, 23 ft. above the floor of Ore Bins 11C'long Flue 10 x lO'-MO'-a'long During the day the ore from the receiving bins is 2IO THE MINING RECORD. taken by small iron cars, which dump into a No. 5 Gates gyratory crusher. This crusher has its opening a little below the floor of the sampling works and crushes a ton at a time. After this rough crushing, which reduces the ore to lumps the size of a man's fist, it is elevated to the top of the building by a continuous steel bucket elevator. It is next .sampled by the Snyder automatic sampler. The bulk of the ore is distributed to the bins on three sides of the sampling works by a special cast-iron spout. After being cut the sample passes to a 7 by 10-in. Blake crusher. Once more it is cut by a smaller Snyder sampler, from which the sample goes to a set of 10 by 18-in. economic rolls, which reduce it still further. One more cutting, by a smaller Snyder sampler, and the sample car of matte each, and it will contain the matter after it shall have been sampled. The gates by which the matte is drawn off are 2 ft. higher than a car floor and the shipping track is so arranged that the car door and the floor from which the matte is sacked are on the same level. When the works are increased, in a year or two, it is proposed to put in a matte converting plant complete and to ship converted copper. Next spring a roasting plant, and, if deemed desirable, a briquette machine, will be installed. Plans have already been drawn up for a roasting building and briquette plant, 60 by 128 ft., but nothing will be done until it is known exactly what capacity will be needed. In any case roasters cannot be delivered for six months. For The Granby Smelter in Course of Construction. is delivered on steel plates, where it is again cut by hand, and then goes to a fine sample grinder. It is intended that the matte shall be shipped after being brought up to 45 to 50 per cent, copper. For the present it will go to some Eastern refinery. This shipping matte, after having been cooled, will be crushed by a 7 by 10-in. Blake crusher, which will be placed in one corner of the furnace building on the furnace floor. This crushed matte will be raised by an ordinary cup elevator to a special matte sampler. This matte sampler building is built on the corner of the furnace building and is 26 by 30 feet. The building is so arranged that the crushed matte can be sampled automatically or by hand. It has the same automatic arrangement as the ore sampler. The lower part of this building contains four bins, holding about one the present 60 per cent, of the ore will be roasted in piles. The works also contain a carpenter shop and planing mill, 42 by 48 ft. The machine shop, 28 by 50 ft, is equipped with two lathes, drill press, planer, bolt cutter and pipe machine. There is, moreover, a blacksmith and repair shop, 28 by 40 ft, containing punch, shears, forges and steam hammer. A warehouse, 30 by 100 ft., where supplies can be loaded or unloaded directly from the cars, will be a great convenience, especially as it is the intention of the smelter company to furnish all supplies and do all the repairs for the several mines. Behind the smelter, and at an elevation of about 120 ft. above the works, is a 100,000-gal. tank. This is supplied with water through an 8-in. steel riveted |MH THE MINING RECORD. 211 pipe extending from the pump to the power-house, a distance of about 2,000 ft. from the tank. This water is to be used principally for granulating the slag, as it runs continuously from the settler in front of the furnace. The slag and matte, as it flows, runs first into a water-jacket receiver, oval in shape, 5 by 5 ft. and 2 ft. deep. The matte is tapped from the receiver periodically, and is either taken to the matte sampler, to be shipped, or, if low-grade ore, is re-roasted and re- smelted. The slag, as it flows over the receiver, runs into a large settling pot, which, in turn, overflows into the slag launder, where it is granulated by the water which carries it to the dump. This large settling pot is placed in front of the receiver as a precaution to prevent the loss of matter should the receiver, through negligence, become too full. All the machinery in the various buildings is run by Westinghouse irducr bath room and all conveniences, lighted by electricity and heated by a steam plant situated in the basement of the office building. The accompanying plan shows the arrangement of the buildings, including all but the office and laboratory. The work of construction of the smelter proper was directed by Mr. A. B. W. Hodges, an American metallurgist, while the plans for the dam, flume and power house were designed by Mr. B. C. Riblet, the well- known engineer of Nelson. While on the subject of the smelter it may not be out of place to refer briefly to one of the principal towns of the Boundary Creek district, to which the establishment and operation of these works in the immediate vicinity necessarily means a great deal. This town, Grand Forks, is situated in a fertile and picturesque valley at the junction of the main Kettle River and the North Fork of this The Smelter, with Workshops Completed. tion motors. There is a 75-horse-power motor for the sampler, a 30 horse-power motor . for the matte sampler, a 15 horse-power motor for the machine shop and a 10 horse-power motor for the elevator in the main blast furnace building. The main switches for distributing the power will be in the blower room. An office building, two stories high, is situated within 1,000 ft. of the works. There will also be a one and a-half story laboratory building, 45 by 40 ft., containing an assay office. The superintendent's residence will be 35 by 40 ft. and two stories in height. These buildings are to be very modern in style, with stream. The population at present exceeds twenty- five hundred—the increase last year having been remarkable. The business and residential opportunities of the town, as one of the important centres of this promising mining district, are exceptionally good. A progressive municipal policy is in force and the credit of the town is such that recently corporation debentures, to the value of $75,000 were purchased at par by the Merchants' Bank of Halifax and the Eastern Township's Bank. Excellent electric lighting and water-works systems, a well-equipped fire brigade and a police force are among the evidences of municipal 212 THE MINING RECORD. economy. Many retail business houses are doing a trade exceeding $100,000 a year, while the figures for two wholesale houses are much larger. New industries are being established daily, and a brief enumeration of a few of these may be given: Three saw-mills, a planing mill, a steam laundry, bottling works, two brickyards, foundry and machine shops, wholesale liquor and hardware stores. There are fourteen hotels, the Yale having beeji built at a cost of $50,000. Building operations last year exceeded $450,000. The activity in building this spring surpasses all records. Here are also located the district court house, the registry of the Supreme Court, customs house, and a mining recorder's office. Grand Forks is in the centre of an extensive valley, 1,700 feet. After leaving this point the line begins to climb once more, and at Eholt it is 3,100 feet; then it drops to 2,500 feet at Greenwood and 2,000 at Midway. The Bull Dog tunnel, 3,500 feet in length, penetrates the divide between the Arrow Lakes and Kettle River. The rejection of the Kettle River Railway bill by the Dominion Parliament a month ago has not disheartened the champions of railway competition. At the next session of the Provincial Legislature, Mr. T. W. Holland, of Grand Forks, and others intend applying for the incorporation of the Grand Forks and Kettle River Tramway Co. The proposal is to build an ore road tapping the various camps. It is confidently, believed that the Great Northern will ultimately The Granby Smelter, Showing Flume Partially Built. the extreme width of which is not less than twenty miles. This represents an area of over 45,000 acres of rich soil, admirably adapted for general farming and fruit growing. Throughout the district there is a good supply of timber. Of course, in company with other Boundary Creek towns, the completion of the Robson-AIidway Railway has had a very marked effect on the growth and prosperity of Grand Forks. The cost of building this railway averaged $40,000 a mile—the most expensive road ever built in Canada. Robson is 1,495 feet above the sea; the summit of the range where it is crossed by the track is 4,000 above the sea. Grand Forks, in the Kettle River Vallev, has an elevation of extend its lines northward to Republic, and thence to the international boundary at Nelson, Wash., four and one-half miles from Grand Forks. When the fhort link furnished by a Canadian company is to be built depends apparently upon the caprice and whim of the legislators at Ottawa. Mining men are of the opinion that the establishment of railway communication between Grand Forks and Republic, would result in the shipment of Republic ores to Grand Forks for treatment. In conclusion a word may be said of the Miner Syndicate, whose promotions not only include the Granby smelter but various other important enterprises, having a total capitalization of $7,600,000. The — THE MINING RECORD. 213 syndicate takes its name from Mr. S. C. Miner, of Granby, Quebec, who has invested very heavily in the Boundary Creek ventures. A large proportion of the ore to be treated at the Granby smelter will, of course, be shipped from the several properties, which include the City of Paris, in White's Camp, the Majestic and Grey Eagle mines, and last but not least the Knob Hill and Old Ironsides mines in Phoenix Camp. It is stated that in these two properties, alone there is sufficient ore in sight to keep the smelter continuously in full blast for four years. The treatment charge for a somewhat remarkable manner confirm the views contained in the Financial Times articles at a time when very little work had been done in the district, that it may prove interesting to your readers to receive some account of them. The writer's description of the Ten-Mile Creek prospects in the Financial Times was: "Ten-Mile Creek is situated 27 miles north of Nicola, and to within a mile of it the public waggon road runs. There are a number of copper claims in the surrounding mountains, upon which a little pros- The Granby Smelter as it now Appears. Phoenix ores at the Granby smelter will not exceed, it is believed, from $3.50 to $4.00 per ton. THE NICOLA DISTRICT. (By I. W. Broomhead.) THE writer spent some months last year in British Columbia, during which time he visited the Nelson, Rossland, Revelstoke, Kamloops, Nicola, Tula- meen, Spence's Bridge and intervening districts, going into the country via the Crow's Nest Pass and returning from Vancouver over the main line. The Financial Times of London published at the time a series of articles containing its views as to the country and its mining capabilities. But since that visit such important developments have taken place in several of the out-of-the-way and as yet little heard of districts surrounding Nicola—developments which in pecting work has been done. On the Aberdeen claim, through which a mountain stream flows', a ledge 3 1-2 feet wide, showing micaceous iron has been exposed. It runs 12 degrees north of west and south of east, with a dip of 80 degrees to the south. A quartzite intrusion exists in the footwall between the granite and the ore body. Lower down the hill side two well- developed granite walls, about 20 feet apart, are exposed by erosion of the softer granite and porphyry, and may give some indication whether the lode widens out when depth is attained. The mineral and float can be traced for a considerable distance. I found small beads of native copper on heating the surface ore on a blacksmith's forge, and it apparently also contains some gray copper. The iron capping on the lode will, as is frequently the case, probably be found in depth to run into copper." On the writer's arrival in London, about two 214 THE MINING RECORD. The Granby Smelter—Another View"Showing''Flume. The Big Stack of the Granby Smelter. months after his visit to Nicola he received a letter from Mr. John Clapperton, who had acted for twenty- four years as Mining Recorder for this district Mr. Clapperton told me the lode had been stripped for 160 feet down the mountain side on the Aberdeen claim and an adit level driven at that point which disclosed a lode eight feet wide very rich in copper, samples of which he forwarded to London. These he stated were not picked, but were an average of the ore showing in the lode as taken by himself. He also sent on samples of this ore from the adjoining claim, the Plymouth Queen. Both samples were forwarded to Adessrs. Livingstone, Sulman & Picard, metallurgical chemists and assayers, 60 Gracechurch St., London, for assay, with the result that after crushing and mixing all the samples from each claim the Aberdeen 'gave 50.3 per cent, in copper, 4-J ounces in silver, and a trace in gold, and the Plymouth Queen gave equally good results. Since these samples came to hand more work has been done on the claims but the lowest assay of any sample received has been 39.9 per cent. in copper, while silver values have shown higher values than in the first samples. It is certainly gratifying to the writer to learn that his good opinion of the district has been borne out by subsequent developments, for at the time of his visit no mining was being done in the district and it was at his suggestion that prospecting was carried out on the Aberdeen claim on lines which have resulted in so short a time in showing so large and rich an ore body. As the Ten-Mile Creek is accessible by vehicle from Nicola, Spence's Bridge, or Savona on the C. P. R. main line, mining men will no doubt pay this district a visit during the coming year. The Slate Creek is another property upon which THE MINING RECORD. 215 The Granby Smelter Site Before Work was'Started. the writer spent a week during September of last year and as operations here are to be commenced shortly a few details about the property and its equipment may be interesting. The Slate Creek alluvial, claim of 320 acres is situate 70 miles south of Nicola at the junction of the Slate Creek with the Tulameen River, three and-a-half miles from Otter Flat, on the Nicola-Princeton road. In September last year the Provincial Government built a nine-foot road from Otter Flat to the Slate Creek property. To bring water from Slate Creek for mining purposes on the auriferous portion of the company's ground was the first requirement, and to accomplish this a ditch half a mile in length, two feet in depth, four feet in width, sides sloped to 2^ feet in bottom, with good grade, was made. Between the intake of the water from Slate Creek and ground to be worked a high ridge called the Hog's Back inter- The Carson Smelter Site, Four Miles from Grand Forks. venes through which a tunnel 250 feet in length been cut five feet in width and six feet in depth has and safely timbered throughout. From this point to the 2l6 THE MINING RECORD. Mr. A. B. W. Hodges, Supt. of the Granby Smelter. penstock a flume 1,500 feet in length down a steep grade has been built from which extend some 300 feet of iron piping connecting with the monitor. A very powerful stream of water is thus obtained, and the supply from Slate Creek in September was ample for all requirements. The ground to be worked lies several hundred feet above the Tulameen River, the south bank of which is quite close, and of which bank 600 feet has been leased to the company for twenty years for dumping ground. From the mouth of Slate Creek a cart road winds round the face of the steep embankment to be worked, in which a number of open cuts disclose three distinct alluvial deposits. The one nearest the surface consists of large boulders and sand, the second of well worn iron stone and pebbles, and the last of red sand going to a depth not yet disclosed. All three contain gold and with the iron stone native platinum is found, the proportions being obtained by the writer being from 23 to 58 cents per cubic yard. Considering the natural facilities for economical working, costs ought not to exceed five cents per cubic yard. This property has been acquired by an English syndicate. America; on the eastern coast of Siberia and the Aleutian, Kurile and other islands of the Pacific. The treaty referred to, which defined the line of demarcation between that portion of the continent of North America claimed by Great Britain and Russia, was passed at St. Petersburg in 1825. Its final location, however, has not as yet been settled, although seventy-five years have elapsed since its passing, except that portion of the line of demarcation from the Arctic Ocean running south along the 141st meridian to the North Pacific Ocean. The balance of the international line, which has now come to be required as the boundary between the United States (Alaska) and Canada (British Columbia), southeasterly to the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island (Cape Chacon), is the portion yet in dispute. The ukase occupied nearly ten pages of a closely printed pamphlet as laid before the President of the United States, and contained sixty-three sections. The first section set out by stating that "the pursuits of commerce, whaling, fishing and other industry, on all islands, ports and gulfs, including the whole northwest coast of America to the 450 50' north latitude, are all included in the edict for trie purpose of granting REVIEW OF THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY QUESTION. (By Alexander Begg, Author of the History of British Columbia.) ^ "~^i IN writing a "review" of the Alaskan Boundary question, it will be necessary to take a retrospective glance of the circumstances connected with the passing of the treaty, to arrive at an intelligent view of the subject, and go back as far as September, 1821, when the Emperor of Russia issued an ukase or edict which contained regulations relative to trade on the northwest coast of Mr. B. C. Rlblefc, who Planned the Water-Works System for the Granby Smelter. the same exclusively to Russian subjects." The second section "prohibits all foreign vessels not only THE MINING RECORD. 217 from landing on the coasts and islands belonging to Russia, but, also, does not permit them to.approach those coasts and islands within less than one hundred Italian miles, without the vessels being subject to confiscation, along with the whole cargo." (An Italian mile measures 2,025 yards.) A writer in the North American Review, (new series, number 37, printed in Boston, 1822,) remarks: "We doubt if pretensions so extravagant and unfounded— so utterly repugnant to the established laws and usages of nations—have been set up by any government claiming rank among civilized nations since the dark ages of ignorance and superstition, when a bull of the Holy See was supposed to convey the rights of sovereignty over whole continents, even in anticipation of their discovery." * * * * Even the attempts of Spain to usurp the exclusive navigation of the South Sea, in the vicinity of her American possessions, arbitrary as they were, and violating as they did the indisputable rights of other nations, must, when examined with reference to the different periods when they were made, yield in absurdity to the claims now before us." President Adams, on receiving- the Russian edict. say: "A few years afterwards, it (Norfolk Sound) was visited for commercial purposes, and, abounding in valuable furs, soon became the general resort of all those engaged in that trade. It was frequented by the vessels of Great Britain, France, and the United States several years before the Russians had extended their excursions so far eastward, and it is, therefore, clear that they had no claim on the ground of occupation. If, then, orior to 1799, Russia possessed no rights on this part of the coast, but such as were common to and enjoyed by other nations, we confess," the reviewer continues, "ourselves unable to perceive why the establishing of a few hunters and mounting some cannon in the corner of Sitka Bay, should give her the right of restraining an intercourse and interdicting a commerce which had hitherto been as free as air, and prohibiting the approach of vessels of other nations to shores which the navigators of such nations first discovered and explored. The claim of Russia to sovereignty over the Pacific Ocean, north of latitude 51°, on the pretence of its being 'a close sea,' is, if possible, more unwarrantable than territorial usurpations." "We have," the Review writer continues, "the au- General View of the Town of Grand Forks, boundary Creek District. along with a note from the Russian Ambassador, AT. de Poletica, expressed surprise at the extraordinary claim set forth, and inquired if M. de Poletica "is authorized to give explanations of the grounds of right upon principles generally recognized by the laws and usages of nations, which can warrant the claims and regulations contained in the edict?" M. de Poletica, in reply, declared himself "happy to fulfil the task," and wrote a lengthy letter to the Secretary of State, from which it would appear that the edict chiefly related to, "as he said, 'the new regulations adopted by the Russian American Company, and sanctioned by His Majesty the Emperor, relative to foreign commerce, in the waters which border upon the establishments of the said company on the northwest coast of America.' " The reply by M. de Poletica, which, according to his proposition of fulfilling-the task, was to contain certain historical facts, is published in full in the Review, and is shown to be incorrect and erroneous, in many of the important points which the ambassador undertook to establish. In his criticisms, the writer in the Review goes on to thority of Humboldt for stating, that in 1802, the Russian government limited their territorial claims to the north of 550. They are now extended to 510, and M. de Poletica informs us, that this is only a moderate use of an incontestible right—intimating that the just claims of Russia extend still further south. If these usurpations are submitted to, is it improbable that a further use may be made of 'incontestible rights?' With the ingenuity which that gentleman has displayed, it would not be difficult to extend the Russian claims quite to the borders of California, and establish. them there as satisfactorily as he has done to the 51st degree. The Russians have already made a considerable settlement on Spanish territory at Port Bodega in latitude 400, and it is possible that, guided by the same spirit of philanthropy which prompted the dismemberment of Poland, the august Emperor may choose to occupy the fertile but defenceless province of California and annex it to his already extensive dominions. * * * * Great Britain, -yye apprehend, may see fit to advance claims that will be found to conflict with those of Russia. * * * * In justice to the memory of her celebrated navigators, Cook and m gaau 218 THE MINING RECORD. Vancouver:, we must declare," continues the reviewer, "that the world is more indebted to their indefatigable labours for a correct knowledge of the coast than to those of all others who have visited it. Her subjects were the first Europeans who engaged in the fur trade, and a free access to the interdicted shores, is, at the present time, as important to them as to those of any other power." A reference to "Captain George Vancouver's voyages of Discovery" in the years i790-'9i-'92-'93-'94 and '95, shows that during the summer of 1794, two of his boats in charge of officers Whidbey and Johnstone had been engaged in exploring and surveying the northwestern coast of North America, from Cape Spencer to Port Conclusion. They had instructions formalities usual on such occasions; and a double allowance of grog was served round to the respective crews for the purpose of drinking His Majesty's health. The happy meeting of the two parties having taken place on the birthday of His Royal Highness, Frederick, Duke of York, the sound in which they met, Captain Vancouver says: "I honoured with the name of Prince Frederick Sound, and the adjacent continent, northwestward from New Cornwall to Cross Sound, with that of New Norfolk." Thus by discovery, survey and taking possession of the continent and islands as specified, the title and sovereignty of the whole was unquestionably vested in Great Britain. The British Government having learned of the pro- A Dredge at Work on the Kettle River. from Captain Vancouver in concluding the survey, and in the event of the two parties meeting, to put the finishing stroke on the examination of those shores, within the limits of Captain Vancouver's commission, to take possession of the continent from New Georgia northwestward to Cape Spencer, as also of all adjacent islands which had been discovered within those limits, in the name of and for His Britannic Majesty, his heirs and successors. Those instructions were carried into effect to the full extent, for it is recorded in the "Voyages" referred to that the parties met on the 17th of August, 1794, and on "stopping to dine the boats' colours were displayed; the boats' crews drawn up under arms, and possession taken under the discharge of three volleys of musketry, with all the other mulgation of the Russian edict, lost no time in representing to the court at St. Petersburg that His Britannic Majesty could not admit or consent to the regulations contained in the ukase. The Right Honourable George Canning, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, nominated Sir Charles Bagot British plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg; and instructed him to proceed to the Russian court, to open a convention to have the ukase abrogated, and the territorial boundaries between Great Britain and Russia defined and established upon the basis of the instruction forwarded to Sir Charles Bagot in 1822. The Russian plenipotentiaries were Mons. de Politica, the Imperial Chancellor of State, and Count de Nesselrode, Imperial Secretary of State. THE MINING RECORD. 219 Many conferences were held, and propositions and counter-propositions made on both sides, which lasted oyer two years. In a despatch from G. Canning to Sir C. Bagot, dated 20th January, 1824, a letter from Mr. Pelly, chairman of the Hudson's Bay Co., is re- • ferred to. It represents that the most southern establishment of Russia on the northwest coast of America is Sitka, in latitude 570. Mr. Pelly positively affirms that the Russians have no settlement on the mainland, nor any commerce to the eastward of the coast. In the same despatch Mr. G. Canning remarks: "The questions at issue between Great Britain and Russia are short and simple. The Russian ukase contains two objectionable objections: First, an extravagant assumption of maritime supremacy; secondly, an un- "In order that I may put you in complete possession of the whole course of my negotiations upon this subject, and may explain the precise grounds upon which I have felt myself compelled to suspend for the present all further proceedings in this business, it will, I fear, be necessary that I should enter into detail, and that I should load this despatch with several papers which are now become of importance. It was on the 16th of last month that I had my first conference with the Russian plenipotentiaries. * * I laid before them Count Leiven's note to you of January 31st, 1823, proposing that the question of strict right should be provisionally waived on both sides, and that the adjustment of our mutual pretensions should be made upon the sole principle of the respective convenience A Street Scene in the Busy Town of Grand Forks, Boundary Creek District. warranted claim of territorial dominions." * * * Sir Chas. Bagot, on 17th March, 1824, sent a despatch to G. Canning stating "it is with feeling of considerable disappointment that after constant negotiations for more than six weeks, after having gone to the utmost limit of your instructions, and after having taken upon myself to go beyond them, I should, nevertheless, have to acquaint you that I have entirely failed in inducing the Russian Government to accede to what I consider to be a fair and reasonable adjustment of our respective pretensions on the northwest coast of America, or the adoption of any line of territorial demarcation which appears to me reconcilable under the spirit of your instructions, with our legitimate interests in that quarter of the world." of both countries. * * * This basis of negotiation was willingly accepted by all parties." * * * A proposal was verbally made by Sir Charles Bagot "to make as the boundary, a line drawn through Chatham Strait to the head of Lynn Canal, thence northwest of the 140th degree of west longitude, and thence along that degree of longitude to the Polar Seas." This proposal was taken for consideration by the Russian plenipotentiaries, who at the next conference offered a contra project, which was reduced to writing, and marked "A." It was, generally speaking, found to be inadmissible. Sir Charles Bagot then submitted a modification of his original proposal—marked "B," to be submitted at the next meeting of conference. At j the next meeting, paper "B" was met by objections, il m 2 20 THE MINING RECORD. and a paper marked "C" brought in by the Russian plenipotentiaries, which was replied to by a paper from Sir Charles, marked "D," which contained his ultimate proposition, and stated that it never had been affirmed by the plenipotentiaries of His Imperial Alajesty, that Russia possessed any establishments whatever on the mainland south of 6o° or 590 north latitude. Ten days after Sir Charles Bagot had presented paper "D„" he was invited to another conference, when he was informed that the Imperial Government had, after anxious consideration taken their final decision, and that they must insist upon the demarca tion to be drawn between the British and Russian occupancy on the northwest coast of America, and of the comparative inconvenience of admitting some relaxation in the terms of Your Excellency's last instructions, or of leaving the question between the two governments unsettled for an indefinite time, His Majesty's government have resolved to authorize Your Excellency to include the south points of Prince of Wales Island within the Russian frontiers, and to take as a line of demarcation a line drawn from the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, from south to north, through Portland Channel, till it strikes the mainland in latitude 560; thence following A Hotel in the Town of Grand Forks.—This Hotel Cost ?50,000 to Build. tion as described by them in the first paper marked "A." Finding this to be the case, Sir Charles stated to them that he had already gone far beyond the utmost limit of his instructions, and that he was sorry to say that he must "now consider the negotiations as necessarily suspended, so far, at least, as the question of territorial demarcation was concerned." "Such has been the course of my last negotiations upon the question, and such the grounds upon which I have, thought it my duty to suspend it for the present." On the 12th of July, 1824, the Right Hon. G. Canning sent another despatch to Sir Chas. Bagot stating— "After full consideration of the motives which are alleged by the Russian Government for adhering to their last propositions respecting the line of demarca- the sinuosities of the coast along the base of the mountains, nearest to the sea to Mount Elias, and thence along the 139th degree of longitude to the Polar Sea." (The degree of longitude was afterwards corrected to the 141st meridian.) The despatch continues: "The advantages conceded to Russian by the line of demarcation traced out in this convention, are so obvious, as to render it quite impossible that any objection can reasonably be offered on the part of the Russian Government, to any of the stipulations in our favour. There are two points which are left to be settled by Your Excellency. First, in fixing the course of the eastern boundary of the strip of land to be occupied by Russia on the coast. * * * This is done by a process that that line shall in no case be carried m THE MINING RECORD. 221 further to the east than a specified number of leagues from the sea." The distance specified in the treaty is ten marine leagues from the ocean—and "shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom." —(Article IV of Treaty.) Sir Charles Bagot was succeeded as British plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg, by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Stratford Canning, who was appointed under instructions dated December 8th, 1824, as follows: "Sir,— His Alajesty having been graciously pleased to name you his plenipotentiary, for considering and signing with the Russian Government a convention for terminating the discussions which have arisen out of the promulgation of the Russian ukase of 1821, and for settling the respective territorial claims of Great right of his subjects to navigate freely in the Pacific cannot be held as a matter of indulgence from any power. Having once been publicly questioned it must be publicly acknowledged." "It is comparatively indifferent to us whether we hasten or postpone all questions respecting the limits of territorial possession on the Continent of America; but the pretensions of the Russian ukase of 1821, to exclusive dominion over the Pacific could not continue longer unrepealed without compelling us to take some measure of public and effective remonstrance against it." * * * The despatch from the Right Hon. G. Canning, covering the appointment of Stratford Canning, concludes by stating: "It remains only in recapitulation to remind you of the origin and prin- The Agricultural Possibilities of the Kettle River District—A Fruit Farm near Grand Forks. Britain and Russia, on the northwest coast of America, I have received His Majesty's commands to direct you to repair to St. Petersburg for that purpose, and to furnish you with the necessary instructions for terminating this long protracted negotiation. * * * The whole negotiation grows out of the ukase of 1821. * * * * So entirely and absolutely true is this proposition, that the settlement of the limits of the respective possessions of Great Britain and Russia on the northwest coast of America was proposed by Us, only as a mode of facilitating the adjustment of the differences arising from the ukase, by enabling the Court of Russia, under cover of the more comprehensive arrangement, to withdraw, with less appearance of concession, the offensive pretensions of that edict. The ciples of the whole negotiation. It is not, on our part, essentially a negotiation about limits. It is the demand of the repeal of an offensive and unjustifiable arrogation of exclusive jurisdiction over an ocean of unmeasured extent; but a demand qualified and mitigated in its manner in order that its justice may be acknowledged and satisfied without soreness or humiliation on the part of Russia. * * * We negotiate about territory to cover the remonstrance upon principle. But any attempt to take undue advantage of this voluntary facility, we must oppose. If the present project is agreeable to Russia we are ready to conclude and sign the treaty. If the territorial arrangements are not satisfactory we are ready to postpone them; and to consider and sign the essential part, that which relates to navigation alone, adding an article stipulating to negotiate about territorial limits hereafter. But we are not prepared to defer any longer the settlement of that essential part of the question; and if Russia will neither sign the whole convention, nor that essential part of it, she must not take it amiss that we resort to some mode of recording in the face of the world our protest against the pretentions of the ukase of 1821, and of effectually securing our interests against the possibility of its future operations." Mr. Stratford Canning, before proceeding to St. Petersburg, as plenipotentiary to succeed Sir C. Bagot was furnished with a royal diplomatic letter of introduction from His Britannic Majesty, King George IV., which doubtless had a beneficial effect on the success of his mission. The royal letter was as follows: "His Aiajesty King George to the Emperor of Russia: "Sir: My Brother,—In pursuance of your Imperial Majesty's invitation to nominate a plenipotentiary to assist on my part in the conference which your Imperial Majesty is desirous of holding at St. Petersburg for considering a plan of pacification between the Ottoman Porte, and the Greek Provinces, I have selected for that special commission, the Right Honourable Stratford Canning, a member of the Privy Council, late my enyoy extraordinary to the United States of America, when circumstances which have no doubt been already stated to Your Imperial Majesty, by Your Imperial Majesty's ambassador at my court, and which will be more fully explained to> Your Imperial Majesty by Air. Stratford Canning himself—oblige me to hesitate in taking a part in those deliberations. Being, however, equally animated with a sincere desire to come to a complete understanding with Your Imperial Aiajesty on the important subjects to which these conferences have related, I have still determined to direct Mr. Stratford Canning to proceed to your court for the purpose of explaining to Your Imperial Majesty, with perfect frankness, my sentiments thereupon. He is authorized to conclude certain other negotiations which have been some time pending with Your Majesty's government, relating to the navigation of the Pacific and to the boundaries of our possessions on the northwest coast of America; and the experience I have had of his talents and zeal for my service, assure me that he will render himself agreeable to Your Imperial Majesty. "I request that Your Imperial Majesty will give credence to all he shall say to you on my part, more • especially when he shall reiterate to Your Imperial Majesty the assurances of my earnest desire to cement more and more the union and good understanding which have so long and happily subsisted between our two crowns. "With sentiments of invariable friendship, I am, sir, my brother, "Your Imperial Majesty's Good Brother, MANU REGIA. GEORGE R. Carlton Place, 8th December, 1824. To My Good Brother, the Emperor of All the Russias. Mr. Stratford Canning, on February 17th, 1825, forwarded a despatch to Mr. G. Canning containing the treaty which had been concluded and signed on the 16th of February. Very slight changes were made in the convention. "The line of demarcation along the strip of land on the northwest coast of America, assigned to Russia," Mr. Stratford Canning states, "is laid down in the convention agreeably to your directions. * * * The instance in which you will per- cieve that I have most availed myself of the latitude afforded by your instructions to bring the negotiations to a satisfactory and prompt conclusion, is the division of the third article of the new project, as it stood when I gave it in, into the 3rd, 4th and 5th articles of the convention signed by the plenipotentiaries. * * * The second paragraph of the 4th article, had already appeared parenthetically in the 3rd article of the project, and the whole of the 4th article is limited in its signification and connected with the article immediately preceding it by the first paragraph." Again, Mr. Stratford Canning states to George Canning: "You are aware, sir, that the articles of the convention which I conclude, depend for their force entirely on the general acceptation of the terms in which they are expressed." The 3rd, 4th and 5th articles of the treaty forwarded by Mr. Stratford Canning are as follows: "III. The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting parties upon the coast of the continent and the islands of America to the northwest, shall be drawn in the manner following: Commencing from the southernmost point of the island called Prince of Wales Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees, 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133rd degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parellel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude (of the same meridian); and finally from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the frozen ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British possessions on the continent of America to the northwest. "IV With reference to the line of demarcation laid down in the preceding article, it is understood: "First. That the Island called Prince of Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia. "Second. That wherever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast, from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned, shall be formed by a line parellel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom. "V. It is moreover agreed that no establishment shall be formed bv either of the two parties within the limits assigned by the two preceding articles to the possessions of the other; consequently British subjects shall not form any establishment either upon the coast or upon the border of the continent comprised within the limits of the Russian possessions, as designated in the two preceding articles; and in like manner no establishment shall be formed by Russian subjects beyond the said limits. "IX. The liberty of commerce shall not apply to the trade in spirituous liquors, in fire-arms or other arms, gunpowder or other warlike stores, the high contracting parties, reciprocally engaging not to permit the above mentioned articles to be sold or delivered in any manner whatever, to the natives of the country.' (To be continued.) THE MINING RECORD. 223 VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. OAVING been requested by many of our readers I I throughout the Province to publish in these columns a verbatim report of the evidence in the Iron Alask-Centre Star litigation, Air. H. F. Evans, our Rossland correspondent, was enabled through the kindness of Air. J. B. Hastings to carry out our instructions to copy the official report of the proceedings and evidence taken, and which are in consequence enabled to publish in serial form. (Continuation of Counsel's Argument, from last month's issue.) The Court—In ore? Mr. Davis—In ore; not only in ore, but that it is a fissure vein, unquestionably a fissure vein. That we not only have continuous ore, and we will prove continuous ore to your Lordship every inch of that shrift, but we will also show that it is a fissure vein, and that the fissure can be traced there, the hanging and foot wall of the ore streak can be traced there. That, in short, it is as good a vein as can very well be found. We will show also that that vein coming down to the so-called flat fault has not only extent in depth but lateral extent, and we will show that in this way. We will first show that the Centre Star east drift—this green drift has been run 100 feet east from the inclined shaft and is all the way in ore and on a vein. In that way we have proved the lateral extent of that point 100 feet. We will also prove by means of some work which our friends, the Iron Alask, were kind enough to do for us, which we could not, of course, have done ourselves at this point—which is what we may call the brown cross-cut—that the vein from some 150 feet up from the bottom of the shaft is continuous to the east. That is, they have done this; they evidently honestly believed the evidence put in on the injunction motions by some of their experts: that there was no vein in, that shaft, that it was all a mistake, an honest mistake, of course, but was a mistake, that there were only disconnected patches of ore in that inclined shaft and no vein at all and that these disconnected patches of ore were due to the vicinity of the vertical dyke. That being §0, of course, they argued it out very logically that if they got 50 or 60 feet further away from that vertical dyke—that is at this point where the crown cross-cut is they would be out of the region of disturbance caused by the vertical dyke and this apparent vein would at that point disappear. Mr. Davis—Now, having figured that out, they said we will put an end to this thing at once; w.? will run a cross-cut from our stope right straight back, which will necessarily in its course cut through where the Centre Star Xo. 2 vein must be if it has any lateral extent, and we will run the cross-cut 50 or 100 feet beyond where the vein should be according to survey, and then we will show from that that there is no vein. We will be able to take in mining engineers to that cross-cut, take them along the walls and satisfy them beyond all question that that cross-cut runs through no vein, and therefore the Centre Star people have no vein in the inclined shaft. The Court—When was this run? Air. Davis—This was done since the trouble started, since the litigation. Aly friend, A'l'r. Gait, tells me it was since the matter was argued before your Lordship. This was not in evidence at that time—we did not know it at that time; it was done, I think, since then. Well, they ran it- across, and just at the exact point where by survey that vein should be struck, they ran into a solid body of pyrrhotite ore. They evidently met something more than they had expected and they stopped. They had no further curiosity in connection with that cross-cut. Not only was a solid body of pyrrhotite ore found there, the same as is found in No. 3 shaft, but we find from the evidence apparent in that shaft that the vein is a very broad vein; we find an exterior wall of that vein back some 14 or 15 feet from the body of pyrrhotite, and it could, of course, extend naturally as far on the other side, so that that brown cross-cut shows that vein to be a very broad vein, probably 20 or 25 feet or so as it is shown to be in other points, or possibly broader, as one would naturally expect to find a fork of the War Eagle's vein which has been shown to be of almost enormous breadth in a great many places. Now, they ran from the green drift, I think I mentioned to your Lordship, a - winze- and we will show you that winze and we will show you that winze is in continuous ore from top to bottom and that the walls qf ore are to be seen there, so that we have the lateral extent of the body of ore traced to this point 100 feet east of the inclined shaft. That having been stopped—and I referred to the apex before—I might say that at the time the matter was before your Lordship on the motion to dissolve the injunction it was not in the same position as it is now. The apex between No. 3 shaft and No. 2 shaft had not been sunk to the point where it now is; it has been run down a little ways, I believe, but that is all. In the meantime we had the apex stripped showing a continuous apex from No. 3 to No. 2. We then ran No. 2 down on the dip of this vein. Lour Lordship will see the dip here shown by the line run across, and we find a continuous vein all the way down No. 2 to the bottom of the No. 2 shaft. This point here, this steeper rise, is a matter that will be explained to your Lordship by the experts when they come in. This No. 2 vein comes down here and we then trace it along this yellow level from the point which is called No. 4 raise to this point which is called No. 2 raise. We trace that vein continuously from there. We then ran this raise; this is all new work which was not done at the time your Lordship heard the other argument, and it was dene for the purpose of elucidating this matter. Air. Davis—Yes, that injunction prevented us from going into Iron Mask ground at all; that hampered us in developing it but we did what we could. You notice this raise is run up on the side line of Centre Star just as close as we can go, right on the side wall, and comes up there and over this way. This is run up in our ground; all this new work is in our ground. Of course, we cannot disclose it as we could, or anything like as well as we could, if we were allowed to work on Iron Alask ground, but so far as it can be from our own ground we have shown that vein on up and we have shown a continuous sheet of ore we have given, or will give, physical proof of a continuous sheet of ore all around here, down here, across here, up here, in there, and as a result of that it must be found that all this space between No. 3 shaft and No. 2 shaft is a continuous sheet of ore. Then having established that sheet of ore between these points, some three or four hundred feet in lateral extent, and over 300 feet in depth, we will put in evidence to show that that sheet of ore which must constitute a strong vein, so far as vein itself is concerned—which has - —— 224 THE MINING RECORD. nothing to do, I might say with ore values, since you may have a very strong vein running very low in ores; it may do that for a vertical distance, and then the ore may increase in value; and you may have a very rich vein, where before it was perhaps very poor. Mr. Davis—Now, having shown a vein of such extent, a vein which is broad, though it does not appear how broad, it may be the best thing is to consider whether or not the continuity of that vein is destroyed by this so-called flat fault. It would be remarkable if anything, as apparently immaterialas that so- called flat fault is, should destroy the continuity of a vein, but in order to be sure of it it was necessary to find that so-called flat fault at as many points as possible. We have made our development work as far as we could do development work to a great extent to elucidate the question of the so-called flat fault, with the result that we are now in a position to put before your Lordship evidence of the appearance of that -flat fault at 11 different places; it will be quite sufficient to show the nature of the flat fault itself, and we will show your Lordship that instead of being a flat fault, as they call it, of any prime importance, it on the contrary, is a fracture which has had as little effect on veins or other fissures that it crosses as one could possibly find. The Court—It has not displaced it? Air. Davis—It has not displaced it at any place. I might say that, in addition to showing this liar fault at 11 different places, we show intersections with veins at seven different places, and the largest throw or displacement which exists anywhere in any of the seven places is some foot and a-half—something in the neighbourhood of a foot and a-half. At other places it is less, and in other places there is no displacement at all, so far as can be seen. We will show that, as far as width goes, it is a thing that si only a few inches or so wide, that it is not a number of feet—10, 12 or 15 feet—as has been stated, and that as I say, it does not cut off and vein. We have in four different places that flat fault crossing our Centre Star No. 2 v^in. In any instance we find the vein immediately below tiiF flat fault. Of course, if you have a fracture there must be something between the ore— The Court—Your number 2 vein is a vein that is in the— Mr. Davis—Incline shaft. The Court—The Iron Alask? Air. Davis—Yes, my Lord. We have four places • where the mud seam crosses this vein. The Court—Four different places? Mr. Davis—Four different places of intersection and everywhere we find that the ore comes down to the top of what is called the mud seam, which is generally two or thre or four inches broad, perhaps a little more in some places, and in other a little less. The Court—Four different places you mean? Mr. Davis—Four different places laterally and vertically. We find it in upper levels and lower levels, the flat fault; we see it in eleven different places. The Court—It is not exactly horizontal. Air. Davis—No it dips at about from 25 to 30 or 40 degrees. The Court—It dips both ways. Air. Davis—It dips south; it and dips south, and strikes our angles runs east and west vein at about right The Court—I meant, if it ran due east and west, would it not strike at the same elevation throughout the different shafts that you have sunk? Mr. Davis—No, it does not strike that. You see, they are in different places. That will be fully explained by the experts when they get on. I don't want to raise it too complicated just now, but the dip of the mud seam is something like this, and you will find an intersection in the Iron Mask, that is for instance on this level (indicating), and you will find it intersecting the Centre Star on another level there, and you will find an intersection at the bottom of this winze; you will find then an intersection over here in this No. 2 raise, and in the No. 4 raise, and so on. But I don't want to go into the details of these intersections at the present time but simply refer to them and- state that our evidence will show that wherever you find those intersections, this, and this only, is the rcstilL We have ore coming down to what >v may call tlv- hanging wall of the fracture, which has hccii c-'.lled the flat fault; we the find from one i<> three or four inches of broken up matter. Of course, whenever there is a fracture there is apt to be some washing, and some fraction, and therefore there will be a certain amount of the stuff, whatever it may be, that was at the place where the fracture took place, ground up and that it is ground up and water comes through they make what looks like mud. We shall show your Lordship that in that very so-called mud there is ore to be found, wherever the mud seam crosses our Centre Star vein; that we have the one immediately above the fracture, immediately below the fracture and between, and connecting the two, what has been termed "mud," but it is and in some places country rock ground up firmly, that it passes there into mud. We will also show your Lordship that below the mud seam the Centre Star vein is to be found in a number of places—places where it should be, where we would expect it to be from the surveys. We will show your Lordship that at several places we have found -intersections of the Iron Alask and the Centre Star veuis, showing that beyond all question there are two veins there, and what they intersect by intersecting. I meant apparentlv, as far as we can show at the present time from the work done that they cross each other, .lo not unite; they come down. You see the dip is a little steeper, a good deal steeper, I may say, of the Iron Alask than the Centre Star. The Iron Mask comes down like this (illustrating). The Centre Star comes down like this (illustrating), and of course in Iv.ie they are bound to cross, and we show whei-? they do ctoss. Air. Bodwell—You mean the Centre Star presses through the lion Mask vein. Mr. Davis—So far as work has been done at the present time that is the opinion of our witnesses, that it passes through and emerges on the other side. I think the evidence is not as clear on that point as it might be, although that is not a thing that is in question here. The real question is not what happened, whether the two unite, or whether the Centre Star crosses and goes on on its own course, but whether or not we have an apex; we have a continuation then from that apex and whether or not the vein is cut off by the mud seam. Now, I think, my Lord, that that is all that I can say to your Lordship at this juncture with any good effect, and I will proceed after adjournment to put in our witnesses. Thereupon the Court, after consultation with counsel, adjourned the case until 2 o'clock p.m. THE MINING RECORD. 225 AFTERNOON SESSION. April 20th, 1 Trial resumed 2 o'clock p. m. The Registrar—The case of the Iron Mask Mining Company (foreign) vs. the Centre Star Mining and Smelting Company (foreign) defendants. Mr. Davis-^In my opening, my Lord, I was in error when I mentioned the raise—it is in War Eagle raise No. 9 as being on the south fork of the War Eagle, it is on the north fork; that is, the vein which is in dispute. The Court—The No. 2 vein? Air. Davis—The No. 2 vein. Possibly a misunderstanding mgiht arise from what I said with reference to the intersection of the Iron Mask and Centre Star veins. I stated that, in the opinion of our witnesses the veins intersected. Joseph F. Ritchie sworn on behalf of defendants. DIRECT EXAMINATION. By Air. Davis— Q. You live in Rosslasnd, I believe? A. Yes, sir. Q. Have lived here for some time? A. Yes, sir, since 1^05. Q. What is your business? A. Land surveyor. Q. You have surveyed, I believe, a large number of the mineral claims on Red Alountain? A. Yes, the majority of them. Q. You know the Centre Star mineral claim, do you" A. Yes, sir. Q What is the official name of that mineral claim on the district plat? A. It is lot 558, group 1, West Kootenay District. Q. What is the official name of the description of the War Eagle mineral claim? A. Lot 680, group 1, West Kootenay District. W. What is the official name of the Iron Alask mineral claim? A. Lot 688, group 1, West Kootenay District. Q. Have you surveyed those mineral claims as Crown granted? A. I surveyed the War Eagle and Iron Alask. Q. The War Eagle and Iron Mask? A. Not the Centre Star. Q. And the Centre Star? A. No, I have not surveyed the Centre Star; it is a Crown grant. I have surveyed the Centre Star though. Q. No,'but you don't understand what I mean. Have you made a survey of lot 558? A. Oh, yes. Q. Which is the official description of the Centre Star mineral claim? A. Yes, sir; I have. Q. When was that? A. In 1894 and 1895. Q. That was subsequent to it being Crown granted? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now, the plan which you have in your hand, does that show the three claims that you have mentioned, in accordance with the official description of those three lots? A. Yes, sir. Q. And shows also, the proximate relationship to certain other claims here, the A'irginia, the Idaho, the Nickel Plate and Le Roi? A. Yes, sir. Air. Davis—I will put this in. O. Which is the earliest location of these claims? Mr. Bodwell—I object to that because that is not the way to prove it. That is not the best evidence. At least, I take my objection merely formally. There is no foundation yet laid for the reception of Mr. Ritchie's evidence on that point. Q. Can you say, Air. Ritchie, from the claims as they appear here, which is the earliest? A. Oh, yes. Q. Which is it? Mr. Bodwell—I object again, that that is not the best evidence. The best evidence would be a record, or the evidence of the person who located it. Mr. Davis—The witness stated that from the plan which is produced here he can state which is the earliest of them, and I think I will ask him which is. A. That, is according to the surveyor, mind you. The Court—Of course, the objection is sound. It is not the best evidence. Mr. Davis—I submit, My Lord, that it is the evidence of what I am showing. The Court.—He may state the fact. I have no objection, but it is not the best evidence. Mr. Bodwell—Your Lordship receives the evidence, then, subject to the objection? The Court—Very well, then; that is the better way. You will not object to it by and by. The battle will be quite a different battle; it will be a battle on the record for that matter. Plaintiffs ask and are granted an exception. Q. What do you say from the plan is the earlier location? A. I would say the Centre Star. Q. You might just give your reasons for it, Mr. Ritchie. A. Well, it is the oldest survey that is made in the camp. Q. The Centre Star, as shown on the plan, is a full sized claim? A. Yes, sir. Q. And all of the rest are fractions; that is correct, is it not ? Mr. Bodwell—We object. Mr. Davis—He certainly can state; I don't understand, my friend to object to it. Mr. Bodwell—Except it is a very leading question. Mr. Davis—He has made the survey. The plan itself shows my claim. There is no need of splitting hairs. Q. And the War Eagle as shown here is only a fraction ? A. Yes. Q. And the Iron Mask is a fraction ? A. Yes. Q. You know Roy Clark, do you not? A. Yes, I know him. Q. Did you go over the survey posts of the Centre Star from which you made the survey recently? A. Yes, sir. We went over them together. Q. You went over them together? A. Yes, sir. Q. When was that? A. Yesterday. CROSS EXAMINATION. By Mr. Bodwell: Q. In making your survey, Mr. Ritchie, you took the official posts? A. Yes, sir. Q. I believe that survey for a Crown grant was made by Mr. Farwell? A. Yes, sir. Q. You don't know anything about the location posts ? A. Yes, I know where the No. 1 is, and that is the only one I know anything about. Q. You don't know any of the others ? A. No, I have never seen the other two. Q. Were you here when the Centre Star was located ? A. No. Q. Were you here when the Iron Mask was located ? A. No. Q. Did you look for any of the original posts of the Centre Star? A. No, I never did. Q. You simply intended to make a survey of the Centre Star as it was surveyed for the patent? A. That was all. Q. Did you ever see the field notes of the Centre 22& THE MINING RECORD. Star as have. I surveyed for a patent? A. 1 don't think I You say you know the No. i post ? A. That is tne only one I do know. I mean the one in the gulch; that is the No. I, I think. Q. Well, when did you first see that post? A. I think it was in 1895, in making a survey of the Iron Mask. I have got that located in my notes, and called it the No. 1 post. ' Q. The Centre Star was surveyed before you began to survey the Iron Alask? A. Oh, yes, it was Crown granted, I think, long before I made the survey. Q. What you saw there was the official post, put in by Mr. Farwell? A. That is all, and the No. 1 post. Q. You saw the No. 1 post of the Centre Star? A. Yes, sir. Q. As it was located then ? A. As it was located then. Q. You never saw it before? A. Never saw it before to my knowledge. Q. Have you shown it on this plan ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Which side of the Centre Star gulch was that post? A. I could not tell you that very well. Q. Did you see it yesterday when you went up there? A. Yes, I did. Q. You did not know which side of the gulch it was on ? A. It strikes me it was on the west side, I am not sure now—I did not take any particular notice, on the west side of the Centre Star gulch. Q. How often have you seen it since you saw.it first in 1894 or 1895 ? A. Not until, if I remember right, yesterday, it was pointed out to me by Air. Clarke. Q. Then you would not have remembered where it was to go to, unless Mr. Clarke had pointed it out to you? A. I could easily have located it. Q. How could have located it? A. By my own survey. I have got the survey located. If the post had been destroyed, I could easily locate it from my own notes. Q. You took a note of it at the time ? A. Yes, sir. , Q. You did not take your notes yesterday to see whether that post was the same one you noted at the time ? A. No, I did not. Q. And you could not tell from location? A. Whether it was the same post or not, is that what you mean? Q. Yes. A. Well, it was close to the cabin, but I could not tell you what side it was on. I remember the old cabin being quite close to the post. I did not take any measurements to the post. Q. All you remember about it was that it was close close to the cabin? A. Yes, sir. Q. Well, it was not necessary, then, for Mr. Clarke to point it out to you, was it. A. It was covered up. 1 Q. When was it covered up? A. The post was covered "up with a little box around it. Q. That would not have been difficult if you had it on your notes. A. Yes, but I was not looking for it as a matter of fact. Mr. Clarke said: "Here is where the No. 1 post was." That is all. Q. Tust happened to show it? A. Yes, sir. Q. You marked it on your plan? A. Yes. Q. Is there any object in marking that one post on that plan? A. I think no object. Q. Well, were you requested to mark it out. A. I don't think I was. Q. Well, you did not need it for the purpose of making the survey, the plan of which has been put in, did you? A. I don't understand you. Q. I mean to say that the plan would have been perfectly clear without marking the No. 1 post. A. Certainly, it should not be there, as a matter of fact. Q. Then you must have had some reason for putting it. on the plan. A. I guess it was my own reason, putting it on. I don't remember anybody asking me to put it on. Q. What reason had you for putting it on? A. none whatever. Q. Why is it there? A. I don't know; it can be taken off if you- wish it. Q. Just an accident that it is there? A. Yes, purely an accident. I happened to put it on because I have not got any other stakes located on there. Q. That is what induced you. You have not any other stake located on that plan except the No. 1 stake. A. That is the only one I know anything' about as a matter of fact. Q. Why was it necessary to put it on the plan? A. I say it was not necessary. Q. You were not asked to do it? A. No, I was not asked to do it. Q. You were making a plan here. Why didn't you put the No. 3 or No. 2 on? A. I told you before that I did not know where the No. 3 was or the No. 2. Q. Then you must have had borne reason for marking the No. 1 ? A. That settles it. I am not going to answer any more questions. Q. You had no reason for marking that particular one post there? A. No. No reason whatever, except that I had it located on my notes. That is the only reason. . Q. Did you get this plan from your original notes ? A. Yes, sir; from my original notes. Q. Well, then, you went up yesterday to verify your original notes, did you ? A. Not to see the No. 1 post. Q. What is that? A. Not to see the No. 1 post. Q. I did not ask you that. I asked you if you went up yesterday for the purpose of verifying your original notes? A. No, I went up to verify Mr. Roy's survey. Q. Roy Clarke's survey? A. Survey of the portion of the ground. Q. You did not need to do that; if you had your original notes, you did not need to go there, did you ? A. No, I wanted to see the post that he started from. Q. That was the No. 1 post? A. The No. 1. I don't know whether he started from that or not. Q. You say you went there for the purpose of seeing what post he started from? A. Yes, it was the northern boundary of the Centre Star. Q. To get get back to the question. You went there for the purpose of ascertaining which stake he started from? A. Yes. Q. Did you find that stake? A. Yes. Q. What stake was it? A. The northeast corner of the Centre Star mineral claim. Q. Was it the No. 1 post? A. No, sir. Q. What post is it. A. It is the northeast corner of the Centre Star mineral claim. Q. The survey post? A. Yes, sir. Q. You know where that was ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Put it in your notes? A. Yes, sir. Q. Why did you need to go back to ascertain it? A. I wanted to see where he started his work from. THE MINING RECORD. 227 Q. If he had not shown you his work you could tell from your work whether he started from that point or not? A. Yes. I wanted to see for myself; 1 wanted to. go on the ground. Q. Why? A. For my information. Q. But you had your own information, you had your own notes? A. Yes, sir. Q. They were correct? A. How should I know that he started from there before or not without going on the ground with him? Q. I am asking you, if he had not shown you his survey, whether you could not have told whether he started from that post or not? A. Yes, I could have. Q. Then it was not because you wanted to know where he started from, was it ? A. Yes, it was. Q. How do you explain the two? A. Well, I wanted to know exactly what you did. Q. But you did know if you had your own notes, didn't you? A. Yes, but I did not know that he started from those points until I went up over the ground with him, until he pointed the particular point. Q. Did he show you his plan? A. No, I have not seen his plan up to to-day. The first time I saw his plan was to-day here in the room. Q. Then you have to tell whether he started from that point by comparing his plan with this note; that is the only way you can tell him now? A. Yes. Q. Then you did not go there to find out which post he started from, did you ? A. Yes, I did. Q. I do not understand. You say that from your notes you could, tell whether he started from that post or not, and you had not seen the plan at the time. Now, if he had brought his plan here to-day, and you had looked at it, you could tell whether he started from that post or not, and you had not seen the plan at the time? Now, if he had brought his plan here to-day, and you had looked at it, you could tell without going' on the ground whether he started from that point or not, couldn't you? A. No. Q. Why? A. Without seeing his plan, how could I? Q. No, I did not say that. You did not listen to my question. A. Remember, I had not seen the plan, so bear that in mind; I have not seen the plan up to to-day. Q. I understand that very well. A. And I went up there for the purpose of finding out where he started his work, and he showed me where he started his work, and that was all I wanted to see. It is not necessary for me to see the plan afterward at all. Q. Yes, it would be, because you can't tell whether his plan agrees with what he told you or not, can you? A. Yes, certainly I can. Q. Without looking at the plan? A. Certainly. I have seen the plan. Yes, sir. Q. I would like to know why you went there yesterday. I would like to know every reason why you went there. Have you any other reason ? A. None whatever. Q. Who requested you to go there? A. Mr. Davis. Q. And you met Mr. Clarke? A. No. Mr. Clarke and I went together. Q. And the first thing Mr. Clarke did when he got there was to show you the No. 1 post of the Centre Star mineral claim? A. We passed up the gulch right close by. I did not ask him. Q. Was not the first thing that Mr. Clarke showed you the No. 1 post of the Centre Star mineral claim? A. Yes, that is all right. Q. Then you went from there to what place? A. No, I will take that back. That is wrong. Q. Well, what is right about it? A. He showed me—he pointed out the southeast corner of the Centre Star stake. He pointed out the southeast corner to me, and then we passed by the No. 1. We went to the northeast corner, and thence on up to the Q. (Interrupting.) Where did he start this survey? A. On the eastern boundary. Q. What boundary, what point? A. The northeast point of the claim. Q. He took you there and showed you that? A. No. Q. He did not show you that? A. Yes, he showed me that. Q. He did not take you there? A. Oh, yes. I was there. Q. Did he take you there yesterday? A. Yes, sir. Q. Showed it to you? A. Yes, sir. Q. Showed you the No. 1 post on the way? A. I. went up. Q. What did he tell you about the No. 1 ? Well, he did not tell me anything about the No. 1. I knew more about it than he did. I saw it long before he did. Q. Why did he show it to you? A. It was covered up as I said before. Q. Is that all of the reason? A. I don't, know what reasons he had in showing it to me. Q. D:d you run the line on this survey? A. On this Centre Star? Q. On this plan, Exhibit 12: did you run the lines of this survey? A. Every line that is shown on there 1 ran. Q. Some years ago. A. Yes. Q. You did not run them over yesterday? A. No, I. did not . un a line over yesterday. Q. We!!, did you check with Air. Clarke's survey. A. No. Q. Well, then, you don't know whether this is the same as All. Clarke's or not? A. That is, who chained the distances. I don't know what his distances are. Q. You have not compared his plan with this one ? A. No, 1 have not. Q. Then why did you want to know where he started from ? Was it for the purpose of comparison that you wanted to know where he started from ? A. From a certain distance, yes. I have compared certain distances with Mr. Clarke. Q. What distance did you compare? A. From the northeast corner; just this one distance that I compared with him, from that corner to this. Q. That cannot be taken down; that is from the southeast corner of the War Eagle to the northeast corner of the Centre Star. A. That is it. Q. And from the northeast corner of the Centre Star to the southeast corner? A. The southeast corner. Q. You compared no other lines ? A. No, sir. Q. Whv did you compare that line particularly? A. Because that is all they required from me. Q. That is all you were to do ? A. That is all I was to do. Q. Mr. Clarke had surveyed that before ? A. Mr. Clarke had made the survey before me. O. Then what has the No. 1 post to do with it? 228 THE MINING RECORD. A. I don't know anything at all about the No. i post. Q. Now, what would that No. I post have to do with this plan at all? A. Not all, except I had to put it there. I can take it off. Q. You were only sent there for the purpose of comparing Mr. Clarke's survey of that line ? A. Yes, sir. Q. And the part of the north line? A. Yes, sir. Q. And you put the No. i post on there? A. Yes, sir. By the Court—Is that an old plan or a new one? A. It is from the old plan. I made the plan about 1895, I think it was. Q. It is a tracing? A. It is a tracing taken from an old plan. It is not exactly on the same scale as that though. Q. From the old one of 1895 ? A. 1895, I think it was made. Yes, I think it was 1895. Q. (By Mr. Bodwell, resumed.) Can you tell without a scale; have you got any note to show what 1he distance is—what point do you call this ? A. The east end line. I never saw that stake, you know. Q. But from the Hub on the east end line of the Centre Star mineral claim, to the west end line of the Le Roi, in a straight line, on a line perfected straight from the centre line, could you tell what would be the distance; could you tell from the scale ? A. No, it would be very roughly. If you have Mr. Farwell's notes I can tell you. RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION. By Mr. Davis. Q. When you said that you were not sure which side of the Centre Star gulch that No. 1 location post was, did you mean Centre Star gulch in Centre Star Creek? A. Centre Star Creek. Q. Centre Star Creek, which is in the gulch? A. It is in the gulch, yes. I meant the creek, not the gulch. Roy Hughes Clarke: Sworn on behalf of the defendants. DIRECT EXAMINATION. By Mr. Davis: Q. You are in the employ of the Centre Star Mining Company, I believe, or Gooderham and Black- stock ? A. Yes. Q. What is your business? A. Mine engineering, surveying principally. Q. You are a mine surveyoi ? A. A mine surveyor. Q. How long have you followed that profession? A. Four years. Q. At what college did you take a course in surveying? A. In the University of California. Q. What are some of the mines you have surveyed in? A. I surveyed in the Coeur d'Alene country, in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan, and I surveyed in all the principal mines around here. Q. You have made the map which is the base of this model, I believe, or at least it was made from your survey? A. Yes. Q. The map itself was drawn by Mr. Simons, I believe ? A. Yes. Q. Did you verify it? A. Yes. Q. You gave him your notes, and then verified the map as drawn by him ? A. Yes. Q. Were you over the original survey posts of the Centre Star claim with Mr. Ritchie, as he stated. A. Yes, sir. 1 portion of the Yes. does this corres- also? I Q- Q- is it? Q- Q. Were those the posts from which you made your survey? A. Yes. Q. I see this plan only covers plan which was put in by him? A. Q. So far as that portion goes, pond with his plan ? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Davis—By the way, this model might as well be put in evidence now. I will -verify the upper part of it later on. I want to prove the plans altogether. You may bring that large plan, Mr. Clarke. The Registrar—This model is marked Defendants' exhibit No. 14. The Court—Which are you putting in now? Mr. Davis—The plan in the base of the model. The scale of the map put in by Mr. Ritchie is 120 feet to the inch. The' scale of this map is 20 feet to the inch. When I say this map, I mean the map at the base of the model. Q. You say this map is made from your surveys A. Yes, sir. Made by whom? Mr. Simons. Did you verify it after it was made? A. Yes. That is the same plan as the base of the model,. A. Yes, sir. What is the scale of that map? A. This is 12 feet to the inch. Mr. Davis—I will put in evidence this plan now. The Registrar—That would be Defendants' exhibit No. 15. Q. Now, everything on that map is from your surveys with the exception of these numbers, the series of numbers running along there, is it not ? A. Yes. Q. And what is that? A. Those are numbers of values and width of ore samples taken along the outcrop of the vein and down shaft No. 3. Q. Wherever they appear? A. Yes, sir; where they appear. Q. That is, these numbers correspond to samples that have been assayed? A. Yes, sir. Q. Who gave you the information from which you put those on the map ? A. Mr. Hastings. Q. Mr. Hastings? A. Yes. Q. Was it Mr. Hastings or Mr. Edwards? A. The notes I received were handed to me through Air. Hastings as the officer. Q. Were the notes in lead pencil? A. Yes—no, they were typewritten. Air. Davis—We will have to put in Mr. Hastings' evidence on that, but they cut no figure now. Before we make use of them we will have him identify them and also the men that took the samples. Q. Now, is everything else on that map and on this map marked correctly from your own work ? A. Yes, sir. Q. What is this map, Mr. Clarke? A. This map is a section through the line I-K, drawn on the same scale as the large map. Q. Just tell what the line I-K is ? A. I-K is the line drawn from the bottom of No. 3 shaft, north and south. Q. From the bottom of No. 3 shaft to where? A. To the cross-cut, to the face of the cross-cut from the Iron Mask stope. Q. To the face of the cross-cut of the Iron Mask stope ? A. It passes through it; it passes through the place of the Iron Mask stope from the bottom of No. 3 shaft to the line of the east drift. Q. And ends where? A. Ends at the bottom of the No. 3 shaft. Q. Is it marked on this large plat? A. No. THE MINING RECORD. 229 Q. You had better put it on so that we can see? A. (Witness marks on the plat.) The Court—What is that? A horizontal section? 9. Mr. Davis—Just explain that to the Court, Mr. Clarke. A. It is a vertical section, a vertical plane passing through that line. Mr. Davis—We are only proving this now, my Lord; these will be used by the witnesses later; I am simply getting my material in evidence, and it is almost impossible to follow it now, because I do not want to take up the time of the court. The Court—Yes, I see; it was rather a stupid question I asked; it must be vertical. This is the No. 3 shaft over here, is it? The Witness—-Yes, sir. Mr. Davis—These will only be intelligible to your Lordship when the witnesses come to use them. All I can do now is to prove them. O. This is made from your survey? A. Yes sir. Q. And you verified it? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Davis—I will tender this—Defendants' exhibit No. 16. Q. What map is this, Mr. Clarke ? A. These are also vertical sections through the lines L-M and P-N. Q. Take L-M first and show where it is marked on this big plan, which is defendants' exhibit No. 15? A. It is a vertical section through the line L-M as marked on the plat exhibit 15. Q. What is the other section ? A. The line P-N is a vertical section as marked on the plat. The Court—That one plan shows both? Mr. Davis—Shows both, my Lord. We tender this —Defendants' exhibit No. 17. Q. Is it on the same scale as exhibit 15, the big map?- A. Yes, sir. (To be continued.) THERAIO-CHEMISTRY AND THE CALORIFIC POWER OF FUEL. By A. A. Watson, B.Sc.F.I.C, Provincial Assayer, Vernon, B.C. NOT only is it a matter of importance to the metallurgist to have at hand a simple method of estimating the temperature of his furnace and thus to be able to test the value of various kinds of coke in producing an intense heat when deciding upon using one kind in preference to another, but it is also some times important to know the calorific power _ of or amount of heat to be obtained from any given kind of fuel. In the first instance he wishes t© know the intensity of heat to be obtained, in the latter case he wishes to know the quantity. To make this point clear we can consider the difference between a hard coke containing a high percentage of carbon and a coal containing a little less carbon but some hydrogen. A ton of the coke used in a furnace with a very strong draft would give a much higher temperature than an equal amount ' of the coal with only the same draft because the coal -would take longer to burn, but on the other hand if we burnt a ton of each under boilers it would be found that by the time the coal was all burnt away it had evaporated considerably more water than the coke had and must therefore have given out a greater quantity of heat. An instance when such measurements of calorific power would be very useful would occur when a mine manager was installing a boiler and engine in a country where both coal and wood could be obtained as fuel. The simplest and most practical way he could adopt to measure the calorific power of the two kinds of fuel would be to weigh out a certain amount of coal and bum it in the furnace, having first noted the height the water stood in the boiler. Again note the height when all the coal is burnt. Next fill up to the original mark, take a measured quantity of wood and fire up with it until it had sunk again to the lower mark. A measurement of what was left and a simple subtraction would show the amount of wood used in obtaining the same effect as the coal. This method may appear crude but as a matter of fact it is more correct and of far more value for practical purposes than all the elaborate experiments that have been made for comparing the relative calorific efficiency of different kinds of fuel by analysis and calculation of the calorific value of the fuel under consideration. Another point to be noted is also that in estimating the actual thermal value in heat units of any fuel the values calculated from the amount of water evaporated by a given weight of fuel used on a large scale in a furnace are always very much higher than the results obtained by experiments done on a small scale in a calorimeter. The same rule holds good also with liquid fuels. Results obtained with the latter on a large scale have repeatedly upset all thermol calculations founded upon their ultimate chemical , composition. When a theory is not borne out by practical experiment the true chemist considers that the theory must be defective, for chemical theory is all founded upon experiment and so it happens that while some chemists tried to explain away these discrepancies more have pointed out great defects in the existing scientific methods of measurement of calorific values. Two methods Have been used, one the calori- metric method where a given weight of fuel is burnt in a calorimeter and the amount of heat evolved measured by the rise in temperature of the water, and the other method is by analysing the fuel and from the amount of carbon and hydrogen calculating the calorific value of the fuel by the known calorific value of these elements. The calorimetric method is objectionable on account of the very small quantities of the substance tested, the gaseous products of combustion pass too quickly through the water to give up all their heat and again the space in which the fuel is burnt is so small that the combustion is incomplete. With regard to the method of calculating the thermal power of fuel by a knowledge of its chemical composition there is the uncertainty as to the value to be ascribed to the elements themselves. Favre and Silbermann found great difference in the calorific power of a gramme of different kinds of carbon as may be seen below: Calorific Power. Wood charcoal 8080.0 Retort carbon 8047.3 Graphite 7796.6 Diamond 7770.1 It appears therefore that the physical condition of an element has an influence on its calorific power. Considering that the only form in which carbon exists by itself is as a solid and that all the experiments that have been made have been carried out on carbon as a solid and hydrogen as a gas, it is not surprising that the results obtained did not coincide with experience in the use of mineral oils where carbon and hydrogen 230 THE MINING RECORD. are combined together to form a liquid. Favre and Silbermann's calorimeter for measuring the calorific power of fuel consists of three cylinders, one inside the other having water between the outer and the one next to it and cotton wool round the inside cylinder of all. The calorimeter inside the cylinder is filled with a known weight of water, the fuel is suspended by two wires and ignited by electricity and oxygen is passed into the small vessel containing it. The hot gases pass through a pipe in the shape of a worm in the water. The increase of temperature of the water is noted. As we saw^ in considering the calorimetric method of estimating high temperatures, the increased temperature and the weight of the water heated up give a direct measure of the quantity of heat evolved. Thomson's calorimeter consists of a glass jar and a copper cartridge case. The fuel is mixed with potassium chlorate and placed on a copper dish with the cartridge case clamped over it. The fuel is set on fire, a cylinder placed over the case and the whole calorimeter placed in a glass jar filled with water. The rise in temperature of the water is observed as before. An approximate estimate of the calorific power of a fuel close enough for all ordinary purposes and useful in circumstances under which a large working test would be inconvenient can be obtained by a calculation based upon the amount of carbon and hydrogen contained in the fuel and the thermal value of each constituent. It is known that the calorific power of a gramme of solid carbon is about 8080 heat units, of carbon in combination with hydrogen 11214, and of hydrogen itself 34462. If we analyse any fuel and find the percentage of fixed carbon to be equal to C, the carbon combined with hydrogen to be C' and the hydrogen to be equal to H', then the total quantity of heat Q=8o8o C-j-11214 C+34462 H. 100 Below are two examples of calculation of the calorific power of coke and anthracite. The analysis of coke gave— Carbon 95-51 Hydrogen o Ash 2.85 Sulphur 1.64 100.00 Analysis of the anthracite gave— Carbon 92.36 Hydrogen 3.66 Oxygen and nitrogen 3.98 100.00 Calorific power of coke=8oSoX95-5i=77i7 heat units. Calorific power of anthracite =(8080X92-36) (34462X3-66=8723 heat 100 units. It might be thought at first sight that substances like lignite and wood containing more hydrogen than either coke or coal would have great calorific power but the driest wood contains 46% of oxygen and only 50% of carbon, and therefore nearly half its weight is useless as regards heating effect. Besides matter, which is indestructible there is another thing just as indestructible called energy. It appears in various ways as electrical energy, or heat, or kinetic energy or chemical energy, and this energy can be transformed in a aerinuc amount as regards quantity from one to the other. Whenever energy in one form disappears a corresponding amount of energy in some other form must take its place. Chemical energy passes readily into heat and thus gives us an easy means of measuring it in thermal units. When carbon burns in the air pai*t of the energy passes to the carbonic acid which is formed and the rest is transferred into heat. A thermal or heat unit is the amount of heat necessary to raise a gramme of water one degree centegrade. Now one equivalent weight of carbon combines with two of oxygen to form carbonic acid when carbon is burnt. The atomic weight of carbon is 12 and of oxygen 16. Therefore twelve parts of carbon combine with thirty-two parts of oxygen to form carbonic acid. When we burn twelve grammes of carbon in a calorimeter and measure the heat evolved we find it equal to 97,000 heat units. The reaction is represented in the following equation: • C+02=C 02+97000. The amount of heat is called the heat of formation of carbonic acid and represents the difference between the energy of the compound and that of its component eleAents. But it is not only when substances are burnt that heat is evolved. When lead and iodine combine together to form lead iodide 39800 thermal units are evolved. When sulphur trioxide is mixed with water sulphuric acid is formed with the evolution of 41100 heat units. If we mix 80 grammes of sulphur trioxide with 18 grammes of water the proportion in which.they always combine, we get enough heat evolved to raise 411 grammes of water from freezing to boiling point. The thermal equation is represented below: S Os+H2 S 04+4iioo. Similarly when caustic soda is neutralized with hydrochloric acid forming common salt 13736 heat units are given out. Na H O+H Cl= No C1+ H2 O+13736. Just as when substances combine haat is given out so is heat absorbed again when the elements are separated. When sulphuric acid is heated very strongly under pressure it dissociates into sulphur trioxide and aqueous vapour and the amount of heat required to effect the dissociation is 41100 thermal units, exactly the same amount as was evolved in the combination. We see then that the amount of heat that can be obtained from any kind of fuel depends upon the difference between the chemical energy of the compounds formed by the combustion of the elementary constituents of the fuel and the elements themselves with the combining oxygen. As the compounds formed have the smaller amount of energy, the energy that is left shows itself in another way, namely, as heat. LUMBIA. (By W. M. KcKinnon, C.B.i THE sun halos represented in the accompanying cut were observed at Sechelt, about 3a miles northwest of Vancouver, at about 10 a.m. on April 16th. The observer was unfortunately without means of making angular measurements, so that the phenomenon is only represented in diagrammatic form. THE MINING RECORD. 231 In the early morning the halos began to appear; they were at their brightest, and most perfect, about 10 o'clock and had disappeared by noon. yy j/< a. Halo concentric with sun, of brown colour. bb. Eccentric halos, not so dark as (a), and slightly larger in dia. cc. White bow forming complete circle. dd. White bows, arcs of circles of apparently same dia. as (c). ee. At these points prismatic colours were visible for some distance on each side of the intersection of the circles. ff. Parhelia. gg. Arcs of circles showing prismitic colours. z. Zenith. The following notation from "Elementary Meteorology," by R. H. Scott, F.R.S., secretary of the meteorology society, describes the conditions existent when halos are formed. "Halos are the large circles seen round the moon and less frequently round the sun, when cirro-stratus clouds exist. Generally the phenomenon is colourless, presenting itself as a white ring, but occasionally prismatic colours are developed, the red being inside; the arrangement opposite to that of the corona"—and also the rainbow. "The halos which are commonly observed are of two kinds; one, the more usual, of 222 radius, the other of 46°. Occasionally supernumerary circles appear, and near their points of intersection with the primary halo, the illumination is more brilliant, and what are called 'mock suns' (parhelia), and 'mock moons' (paraselence), are developed. The commonest position for these phenomena is on the same level as the luminary, and distant 22° from it on the east or west. By theory, the parhelia (for instance) differ in azimuth from the sun by an angle somewhat greater than the radius of the halo, except when the sun is on the horizon. Accordingly, except under the circumstances just stated, the parhelia lie a little outside the halo, and so much the more the higher the sun is. The same reasoning applies to the moon. Halos are due to refraction. They would be theoretically producible if the rays were refracted through minute crystals of ice floating in the air in all sorts of posi tions. As the level at which the cirro-stratus, the halo-forming cloud, floats is over 20,000 feet, and as at this level the temperature must be far below the freezing point, we are justified in assuming that these clouds are composed of minute ice spiculas, not of droplets of water, and that the theoretical explanation of the production of the halo is correct. * * * "Halos and their concomitant phenomena are more frequent in winter than in summer, and they are far more abundant the higher the latitude of the station. In the Arctic regions they are very commonly observed." * * * RECENT PUBLICATIONS. r^ OPPER Manual, Copper Mirites, Copper Statis- v-> tics Copper Stores and a Summary of Information on Copper, Etc. Volume II., by D. Houston & Co., New York: 1899. Price $3.00. The second volume of this work is immeasureably superior in every respect to its predecessor, and is now perhaps, the most comprehensive account of the United States copper mining industry obtainable. In addition, however, to concise information respecting the seventy principal copper mining companies in America there is much valuable data bearing on the industry in other parts of the world. As a result of the great demand for copper chiefly in the manufacture of electrical appliances, mining for this metal has gained in importance enormously in the last few years, and the value of the copper output of the United States now far exceeds the value of the gold production. Nevertheless, it is, as the publishers point out, a remarkable fact that about three-fourths of the total domestic copper production of that county is derived from eight or nine properties, thereby concentrating the control of the metal in the hands of a comparative few. But to show the profits of the industry it is stated that last year the copper companies of the United States paid no less than $25,- 000,000 in dividends. The present work contains many tabular statements showing the movements of copper, and the market prices for a number of years both in America and Great Britain. The illustrations, too, are excellent, and in addition a short account is given of American copper mines. We regret to note, however, that included among these is the Boston & British Columbia Copper Mining & Smelting Co., owning nothing more than mere "prospects" in the Standard Basin of the Revelstoke district. In the account of this concern the grossly exaggerated statements to which we previously took exception in the company's prospectus, again appears here. The Gas Engine Handbook; a Alanual of Useful Information for the Designer and Engineer; by E. W. Roberts, M.E., The Gas Engine Publishing Co., Cincinnati. This is practically the first useful work on the gas engine published by an American author and treating of American practice and as such it certainly is deserving of a cordial reception. The book contains no descriptive matter relating to any particular engine, unless the engine is a type of itself, as is the case with the Diesel motor, and the illustrations are all original and specially designed for the work. The rules and formulas are especially valuable, many of the latter being being new, and sufficient are given to enable any intelligent craftsman to design a gas engine without difficulty. We commend the book to the attention of engineers in British Columbia. mxsu'umm. = r yiijtn 'i tv^ " —*— 232 THE MINING RECORD. TECHNICAL PERIODICALS. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. A FEW months ago Van Hise drew the attention of his brother scientists to the necessity of revising the present system—if system it may be called —of rock classification. William H. Hobbs in the present number adds some "Suggestions Regarding the Classification of the Igneous Rocks." While, in some respects, reiterating what was said by Van Hise he differs from him in regard to the basis of distinction. Van Hise, it may be remembered, advocated abundance as the primary distinguishing feature in the classification of igneous rocks; Hobbs emphasizes the importance of texture and chemical composition. The latter assures his readers that igneous rocks of granite texture, classified according to chemical composition form three progressive series, viz., Granite-nepheline series, Alis- sourite—ijolite series, and Syenite—gabbro series. I Hobbs digresses from his subject to strongly recommend the use of graphical methods in the study of rock analysis. Seven plates are given to illustrate how the eye may assist the mind in establishing relations between the various species. He unites with Van Hise in urging that the rocks families be few in number with simple characteristics such as could be distinguished by the field-geologist, whose work would thus be correct though necessarily incomplete. Specific and varietal classification must be the work of the petrologist The remaining articles in the number are: "Detention of Some Devonion Fishes," by C. R. Eastman (illustrated). "Ancient Alpine Glaciers of the Sierra Costa Mountains in California," by Oscar A. Hershey. "An Attempt to Test the Nebular Hypothesis by the Relation of the Masses and Momenta," by T. C. Chamberlin. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. The Engineering Magazine for May contains an admirable article by Mr. C. B. Going, the managing editor of that periodical, entitled "abour Questions in England and America." It is noteworthy but not extraordinary that much in this article might have been applied with equal force to the recent industrial situation in* the Slocan district of British Columbia. Thus, "the demand which the men put most conspicuously forward * * * is that for reduction of the length of the working day." * * * * but "the demand for the eight-hour day in England, and less openly, perhaps, the strike for the nine-hour day in the United States, but served as a cloak for the actual body of the contention. The real substance of the issue, which united the employers of England—as it is certain to unite the employers of America—into a firmly-knit, finally-determined resistance, was the men's insistance upon the manufacturers' adoption of trade-union regulations in the operation of their works. After showing the injury likely to result to industrial effort in the United States from the tyranny of labour unionism,' Mr. Going points out that while "trade unionism served good and much needed ends in opposing abuses of the employers' power," and has man}' excellent purposes still to be carried out, in its unwisdom it has undertaken measures in which it can be checked and corrected only by such an association of employers as shall not only be just and beneficient in its aims, but strong enough to make them effective." Other articles are "Manufacturers' Associations, Labour Organizations, and Arbitration," by H. W. Hoyt; "Railway Opportunities in the Orient," by W. B. Parsons; "Iron Ores of the Labrador Peninsula," by A. P. Low; "Works Alanagement for the Maximum of Production," by J. Slater Lewis; "The Effective Lubrication of Journals," by T. W. G. Snook; and "Electrical Apparatus in Military Operations," by J. P. Wisser. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. The last number of the transactions of this society contains: Notes on Electric Traction under Steam Railway Conditions, by E. C. Boynton; Walt on cost of Arc Lighting with reports of discussions in New York and Chicago; Notes on Single-Phase Indication Motors, by.C. P. Steinmetz; and A New Method of Tracing Attenuating Curves, by Fitzhugh Torns- end. CORRESPONDENCE. The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions which may be expressed in this column. No notice will be taken of communications unless accompanied by the full name and address of the writer. GOVERNMENT OPERATION OF DIAMOND DRILLS. T O THE EDITOR:—I wish to draw public atten- I tion to the necessity in this province of government supported diamond (core) drills. Having travelled considerably in various mining regions in other parts of the world. I can state from personal experience that properly designed drills are of immense service to a mining province like British Columbia, if owned and operated by the government. It appears to me that here our main prosperity depends on our mines and while admitting the very great service rendered to the province by the Minister of Mines' department it cannot hope to furnish more than a superficial idea of our mineral resources with the present equipment. There exists in British Columbia a large number of districts having perhaps one or more particularly good surface indications, and by surface indications I would include all workings less than one hundred and fifty feet below the surface. No great inducement offers in such cases for the investment of capital, because no precedent exists in such district to warrant the assumption that the ore goes down or if it does, that it maintains the surface value. But let the government bore a series of holes on the deep level of the best mine in such a district and prove by exhibiting the core that payable ore exists at a depth of one thousand feet say. Then the whole conditions are changed, the luckv mine may safely ~install machinery, lay out future workings with a view to economical working, and easily raise capital to carry out preliminary works until the development will allow of ore shipments being made. This is not all; with such an example in a district properties on the extension, and similarly situated parallel properties, may safely raise some capital to exploit their mines with the probability of some success and a possibility of even greater results. Take the other side. A district having a good surface indicating mine or rather pro- THE MINING RECORD. -.->3 petty, a narrow ledge of, say copper, in a silicious gangue between walls of slate, the government drill bores a series of holes and in each case cuts into granite at a depth of three hundred feet. Subsequent boring prove the slate to be overlaying granite and in no case does the ore descend below the slate. Further capital will not be wasted in vainly trying to make a mine here, but will be diverted into other more promising regions. We are also deficient in local geological knowledge and special tectonic conditions exist.,.s and influencing the deposition of minerals, as tor example, in this Columbia and Kootenav \ ailey, between the Rockies anu the Selkirks much contortion of the pre-carbonit- erous rocks into deep synelines, makes it somewhat i robable that by choosing a suitable locality petroleum might be discovered. Again, in this valley alluvial gold, probably occurs in old river beds, too deep to entice the individual to expend a large sum in sinking and dealing with the water necessarily to be encountered, but offering no difficult problem to a diamond drill. But once publicly announce the existence of a payable deposit and no difficulty would be experienced in finding capital, to say nothing of the enormous revenue to the government in claim recording. When not otherwise employed the drill could be used as a means of scientific exploration and solving any geological problem. I would propose, to put it in a practical form, to let the government purchase, say ten or fifteen drills exactly similar to allow of interchange of parts and able to bore to a depth of one thousand feet. Two- other drills of larger size to bore to five thousand feet, and say five other small especially portable drills, to- be capable of mule or horse transport and to- bore to, say five hundred feet. All with Davis Carlyx crowns interchangeable with diamonds. These drills need r ot necessarily all be worked at the same time. Each drill in operation would require one man skilled in such work and he could hire one assistant locally. Any locality having a revenue of $ per annum in recording fees and miners' licenses should be entitled to a drill; if the request was made to the Minister of Mines' department, for one to be sent. Under special circumstances a mine, not ranking as the leading property, should be entitled to have one or more holes put down at the cost of the mine owner, providing exceptional reasons were urged and found satisfactory to the Provincial Mineralogist. The cores should be on view for one year at the local recorder's office and blanks inserted at such portions where core had been removed for assay by the department. At' the expiry of one year the cores should be lodged in Victoria at the Minister of Alines' office or other suitable place and diagrams issued to the district recorder and posted in a prominent place in lieu thereof. Trusting my lengthy letter may meet with your approval, I am, Yours truly, H. E. NEAVES. Mem. Inst. M. E. Peterborough, East Kootenay. BRITISH COLUMBIA IN LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) THE past month has been a very dull one in the British Columbian section, and business has been exceedingly limited. The changes in prices week by week of the most prominent issues are shown in the following table, which may be useful to many of your readers who are interested in the shares of British Columbia companies registered in London. I have not included any of the Canadian registered companies because to all intents and purposes there is no market for them at the present: T od Narut. £i, »o ■£ •r g >> PL, Oi a, Pa <s < < < < *s s I £ £ Le Roi 6/s 1.S/6 15/6 15/6 Hie 6 9-16 13/6 B. A. C London & B. C. Goldfields. 'X I# m m 1 5-16 Alaska Goldfields i I 1 1 1 Hall Mines 1/6 1/6 • 1/9 1/9 2/- New Goldfields of B.C i 3-16 O/i m iX M Whitewater m ,34 8 H Ji Ymir i3A 1 7-16 l/a 1 9-16 13/ Business generally in the stock exchange has been exceedingly dull, the prolonged pause in military operations in South Africa, and the continued dear- ness of money keeping both investment and speculative business in check and causing prices to slip away on the approach of sellers. So far as the mining market generally is concerned the tone has remained on the whole remarkably steady, and it is anticipated that it only needs some decisive victory on the part of the British forces in South Africa to bring about a general advance in quotations generally, particularly, of course, in the case of the "Kaffir" market. As, however, the good effect of any such decisive military operations would largely benefit the whole list it is not at all improbable that British Columbians would share in the improvement, although at the present moment it must be confessed that business in this section is conspicuous by its absence. How limited is the interest at present taken in mining business generally may be gathered from the fact that the total amount of new capital raised in the United Kingdom for the first four months of 1900 on behalf of mining companies amounted to the insignificant sum of ,£1,146,000, ^8,000 of which is classified under the heading of "Klondike." During the month of April itself it is said that only £12,000 was raised on behalf of mining companies. These figures will show you more than anything else how little is the interest which is being taken in connection with the flotation of mining companies in this country. Past experiences, however, teaches us that after these periods of restraint there usually follows a spell of activity, and on all hands it is believed that directly the war is over we shall see a burst of speculation which will carry everything before it, and those who should be in a position to know confidently assert that in such a period of excitement the claims" of British Columbia will not be overlooked. The disorganized state of politics in the province are regrettable, but luckily happening at a time when the whole market is suffering from apathy they have not had the serious effect upon prices which they might have had had they occurred at a normal period. The chief features of the month were the final stages 234 THE MINING RECORD. in connection with -the re-construction of the Hall Alines Company; the meetings of the Goldfields of British Columbia group; the .London & British Columbia Goldfields report and the revival of activity in Le Rois, the latter movement having attracted a good deal of attention in view of recent developments in connection with the property. So far as the Hall Mines is concerned, a series of formal meetings have been held representing the different stages in connection with the re-organization of the company. Before the shareholders could be asked to ratify any scheme, the debenture and preference shareholders had to be consulted. After this the ordinary shareholders were called together, and they were practically unanimously of the opinion that rather than consider the offer made by the Canadian group whose proposals I mentioned last month it would be better to submit to an assessment of five shillings a share, wipe off the old indebtedness, and start with a clean sheet and a more businesslike board. On Monday last the final stage in connection wilth the reconstruction was reached and the resolutions for reconstruction passed on the 12th were unanimously adopted. It may interest some of your readers to know that after the proposals had been adopted the shares which had been on offer at | shilling apiece changed hands at is. 9d.; as this meant that the buyer would have to pay an assessment of 5s. you will see that the price of 5s. 9d. was equivalent to 6s. 9d. and represented a sharp recovery from the very nominal quotations marked in Alarch. It is hoped that in its reconstructed form the Hall Alines Mining & Smelting Company, Ltd., will have a more successful career than it has done in the past. It is worth noting that the word "smelting" has been included in the title and that the company propose to pay increased attention to this side of their business in the future. So far as the Goldfields of British Columbia group is concerned, these companies have so long been under a cloud that the scheme for the re-construction of the three companies, viz., the parent company, the Waverley, and Tangier Mines, has aroused but little attention in the market, and I am afraid that these companies which were heralded with such a flourish of trumpets will never achieve a tenth of the great things which were predicted of them by Mr. Grant- Govan when he and his friends asked the public to find the money to exploit the various properties acquired by the promoting syndicate. It will give you some idea of the way in which this group has been managed when I tell you that before Mr. Alexander Matheson made his speech to the shareholders of the Goldfields Company a Mr. Raphael called the attention of the chairman to the fact that the accounts for 1899 had not yet been passed. Equally significant was the demand of another shareholder that the directors should allow a "professional liquidator" to be appointed. The whole of the proceedings in connection with this group have been disappointing to use a mild word and it looks to me very much as if in consenting to the scheme the shareholders of the various companies are only throwing good money after bad. The London & British Columbia Goldfields report naturally attracted a good deal of attention and it is satisfactory to find that this company has done fairly well during the past year, although some disappointment was expressed when it was found that the divi- dent of 15 per cent, recommended by the directors was to be distributed in the form of fully paid-up shares in the Enterprise Company. So far as the price of the shares is concerned the report has had little or no effect, indeed, the tendency has been rather in the downward direction and the snares wnich at one time were up to nearly £2 are now no better than 15s. i6d. In the report it states that the profit made during the period dealt with amounts to £27,256, after writing off all expenditure in connnection with options which have been abandoned. The amount of £4,183 under the heading of general expenditure in British Columbia, includes the engineering and local administration expense in connection with the Ymir, Enterprise, and other companies, for which the amount of £1,608 has been received. The £2,040 for consulting engineers' fees represents principally the balance paid to Messrs Bewick, Aloreing & Co. in accordance with their agreement which has now terminated. THE MONTH'S MINING. SHOAL BAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AS there is at present very little being done in this district it may be of interest to some to know what has so far been accomplished. By Shoal Bay district I mean the islands of Thurlow, Channe and Valdez, and that portion of the Mainland lying between the Euclatan Rapids at the south, and Lough- boro Inlet at the north. There are in this district so far as is at present known three principal leads: One.—The Dorotha Morton lead, extending from the northwest shore of Valdez Island across Nodales Channel to Channe Island through which it runs and from thence across Cardero Channel to the Mainland where it appears on the shore at the Alexandra, at the entrance to Phillips' Arm, and from here across the Mainland to Loughboro Inlet, running in a northwesterly direction. This lead is about ten miles long and varies in width from four feet to about sixty feet, and is composed of a quartz varying in colour from white to dark smoky blue, and impregnated with very fine iron pyrites, carrying from a trace to $50 or $60 in gold, and an ounce or two in silver to the ton. Some parts of the lead carry a few per cent, in copper. A large amount of work has been done on this lead, mainly as a result of the Dorotha Morton mine in Fanny Bay which has turned out since December, 1898, to the time of its closing down in October last $90,000 in gold and silver bullion. There were crushed in this period between ten and twelve thousand tons of rock which was treated on the company's property by cyanide, the gold extraction being from 80 to 88 per cent., and silver about 75 per cent. Three tunnels have been driven to tap the lead at various depths, and a considerable amount of stoping was also done. The combined length of the three tunnels is about 2,500 feet. Numerous other claims on this, lead have been worked, notably the Alexandra on the beach, at the entrance to Phillips' Arm, and southeast of the Dorotha Morton, and the Champion and Consolidated, about two and a-half miles northwest of the Dorotha Morton. A large amount of work was done on the Alexandra, the Fairfield syndicate haying established a compressor plant. Two tunnels were driven, both on the lead, aggregating about 1,700 feet. This same syndicate did also a considerable amount of work on the Champion and Commonwealth. It has been often asked why work on these r THE MINING RECORD. 235 properties ceased when they were apparently doing so well, for the Dorotha Morton was turning out gold bricks regularly each month to the tune of about $10,000. I have never heard a satisfactory answer to this question and doubt if any but those immediately interested in the syndicate can, but it has been reported that the ore was becoming no longer susceptible to economical treatment by cyanide, there being too large a percentage of copper. Another claim on this lead, or I should perhaps say, supposed to be, on which quite a large amount was done, is the property owned by the Cuba Silver Mining Co., and situated at the north east of the Dorotha Alorton, but it is understood that the ore here is not sufficiently rich to pay smelting charges, and carries too high a percentage of copper to be economically treated by cyanide. Two.—The Blue Bells lead. This lead extends from the shore on the west side of Frederick's Arm, across the peninsular to Phillips' Arm, from thence across Phillips' Arm to Hewett's Point and from here it can be traced on over three claims, the entire length being about three and a-half or four miles, and in width varying from two to 100 feet. The vein filling is a glassy white quartz impregnated with pyrrhotite, and small amounts of copper-pyrites, zinc blende and galena. Very high values have been obtained from the Blue Bells mine, the principal property on the lead, which is situated just above the west shore of Frederick's Arm. A large amount of ore has been mined from this property, but so far none has been shipped, the owners confining their attention to development work. Two tunnels have been driven to cross-cut the lead, one at about 75 feet from the surface, in which two winzes were sunk, 15 and 30 feet respectively; the other to tap the lead at a depth of about 150 feet, in which an upraise was run to connect the two tunnels. This lower tunnel is about 200 feet long. Besides this there are several open cuts, and surface strippings exposing the lead on the surface for hundreds of feet. There are several other claims on this lead on which more or less work has been done, and on some merely the annual assessment work, but in nearly every instance where work has been intelligently prosecuted satisfactory returns have been had. Three.—The Douglas Pine lead. This lead extends merely across Thurlow Island, or to be more accurate, from Nodales Channel on the east side of Thurlow Island, and runs diagonally across the island to Shoal Bay, a distance on the horizontal of about two and a-half miles. The vein filling is quartz impregnated with pyrrhotite and small amounts of copper pyrites, occasionally. The ore is massive unmixed with anv gangue. The gold values in this ,lead are very high, especially on the Douglas Pine and Alorn- ing Star claims. The property on this lead on which most work has been done is the Douglas Pine, situated on the hills overlooking Shoal Bay. A shaft 125 feet has been sunk with several drifts extending from the same, and another about 50 feet, besides a considerable amount of "gophering." Seventy-five tons of high-grade ore have been shipped to the smelter across the line, and to Van Anda. Several othet claims on this lead have been worked, giving good values in gold and silver, but so far no ore has been shipped from these. There are several other properties in this district that merit attention. The principal of these is the Colossus, owned and being worked by the B. C. Ex ploration Syndicate, better known as Cobledick'c, which is situated on the Mainland in Estero Basin. This propertv was acquired by the present owners in 1898, but wo-i'K had been already commenced the previous year. It is a copper property of great promise, and from present indications bids fair 10 become the copper mine of British Columbia. The management have been endeavouring for the past two or three years to locate the lead in the lower levels, and lately have been successful in doing so, exposing a splendid lead of almost solid chalcopyrite. Two tunnels have been driven, the upper over 100 feet long, with crosscuts aggregating about 185 feet, and a 40 foot upraise. In this tunnel was encountered a lead 24 feet wide of quartz heavily impregated with copper pyrites, and carrying fair gold values; it is about 100 feet from the surface. The lower tunnel, 100 feet lower, is also over 100 feet long, and about half way in the lead of almost solid chalcopyrite above referred to was encountered. It is understood that it is the intention of the syndicate to install a compressor plant at an early date to further hasten the development of this ptomising property. Then there is the Ajax mineral claim, situated on the west shore of Valdez Island, in Deep Water Bay, Discovery Passage, a high grade copper property. Several tons of high-grade copper ore (chalcocite) have been taken out running 40 per cent, in copper, and $12 in gold. A tunnel 65 feet has been driven in on the lead, besides a large open cut. It is strange that with the present demand for copper, that a property like this should be lying idle, for the owners have done nothinf. except annual assessment work on it, for some time now. But the time will come when this claim will be amongst the big copper producers of British Columbia. Just across Discovery Passage from the Ajax is another copper (bornite) property on which a great deal of work has been done by the owners, and which is showing up well, the Summit mineral claim. The owners deserve great credit for the steady and intelligent way in which they have gone about to develop this property, having worked continuously for the last two years. Two tunnels have so far been driven, the upper 45 feet in length, and the lower an 8x8 about 75 feet, in which two winzes have been sunk each 30 feet, and so satisfactory are the results of their work that they are about to drive another tunnel to tap the lead 100 feet lower. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) A strong movement in Kamloops mining business appears to have set in. Last month I informed you of the consummation of two important mining deals and the successful organization of a local syndicate to develop the Tenderfoot mine. Of other deals which were under consideration one has materialized this month. The Iron Mask mine, from which nearly 100 tons of ore was shipped some time the bonding ago, has been bonded by the B. C. of the Exploring Syndicate of London, iron mask Eng, the purchase price being $40,- 000. The first payment was made on April 21st, the next being due in two months. This syndicate has now secured an extensive and promising area of mineral lands on Coal Hill and operations on a considerable scale will shortly be inaugurated. 236 THE MINING RECORD. The enlargement and timbering of the shaft at the Lucky Strike is approaching completion, and development work is to be actively prosecuted recent in the near future. The Python con- happenings tinues working steadily, a strong vein of magnetite having been discovered recently on this property. Very strong veins of quartz are being uncovered at the Hill-Top mine. The working force has been increased and the property has a very promising appearance. Crosscutting at the 75 foot level at the Truth mine is showing up some fine bands of ore, of which some is of shipping grade. The cross-cut is now in 30 feet and will soon meet the contact of a second vein, which is expected to yield more good ore. Work is progressing well at the Wheat Tamar. The shaft is in a splendid ore body carrying three to eight per cent, copper. It is furthermore reported that much gray copper is being encountered. The gold and silver values are also uniformly, good. A contract has been let for 100 feet of tunnelling on the Kimberley, which it is expected will cross-cut the large ore body. The tunnel is in 210 feet at the present time. A shaft will be commenced at an early date. The properties on Ten-Mile Creek, Nicola, are being developed and a large body of copper carbonates has been encountered with lenses of coooer glance. A good' deal of work is also' being done with promising indications on other properties in this district. VERNON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) There is very little to say about mining matters as yet as regards this section of the country. People are passing through here on their way to Wauchope and Monashee Mountain, but it is a little early yet, as the snow still covers the higher levels. The contract is let on the Silver Star about fifteen miles to the northeast of this city, to sink a shaft 200 feet, and with our present weather the work will be commenced next week. It will be remembered that this property was bonded for $30,000 to a wealthy gentleman in England, who paid this province a visit last year and was greatly delighted with the property. I hear that Mr. Chambers has disposed of his claims on the west side of Okanagan Lake to a syndicate, but I cannot at present give further particulars, but understand that development work is to be carried on without delay. The Klondyke property on Siwash Creek, owned by Mr. Goodchap and others is showing up splendidly in copper and gold. Still nearer Vernon are the claims the Rainbow, the Western Beauty and the Clayton, Upon all of which a great deal of work has been, done, with satisfactory results. On the Rex the shaft is down about 65 feet, the assays continuing very satisfactory. Work is also progressing slowly on the Golden Sunbeam, and the owners feel confident as to the final result. A very great deal of work has been put into the Gladstone claim, of the Camp Hewitt Mining Co., as also on some of the claims of the C. A. Gold Mining Co., around Peachland, notably on the Silver King. Once more attention is being drawn towards the Bon Diablo' Mining Co.'s properties just beyond our city limits, and there is every prospect of the property being taken in hand very shortly. I feel convinced from personal examination and from the reports of mining experts who have seen the property that there is a great future in store for the shareholders of this really promising property as soon as sufficient funds can be obtained to push on the work. The shares are quoted here at 25 cents. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) A month ago the outlook in the Boundary Creek district was not particularly encouraging as regards a resumption of work on some of the idle mining properties. Now there is an improvement in this respect, The Winnipeg is once more at work, an and definite arrangements either have improved already been made or are in progress for outlook, resuming on the Morrison, Great Hopes and one or two other properties in Deadwood Camp, and on the Brooklyn, Stemwinder and other properties in Phoenix Camp owned by the Dominion Copper Company of Toronto, whilst the Republic group and the Golconda, in Smith's Camp, and the Jewel in Long Lake Camp, may be expected to follow suit during the summer. The Jewel was last month thoroughly examined for its English owners by Mr. Leslie Hill, C.E., who found that the mine had opened up so satisfactorily as to warrant him in recommending that a stamp mill be erected without further delay. The Alother Lode.—There were on the payroll of the British Columbia Copper Company's Mother Lode mine, in Deadwood Camp, about the middle of May some sixty men and fifty more at construction work on the company's smelter, near Greenwood. The numbers are being increased, as the further opening up of the mine admits of more being put on. Drifts are being run both ways from the main shaft at the 300-foot level. In the north drift good ore came in at about 30 feet from the shaft and at 60 feet the drift is still in it. In the opposite direction the drift started in poor ore, but by the time the 50-foot mark was reached there was a decided improvement. A noticeable feature of the better grade ore encountered at the 300-foot level is that it is more silicious than at the 200-foot level and carries higher gold values, thus adding to previous evidences that with depth the values increase. It was only to be expected that these drifts would be in poor rock until well away from the shaft, which is vertical and out of which the higher grade ore dipped at about 280 feet in depth. The north drift at the 200-foot level a fortnight since was in more than 700 feet from the main shaft and the face of the drainage tunnel, running south, at the same level, was about 200 feet from the i shaft. The men coming in from the creek to connect with this tunnel were also in about 200 feet, so there was then but 340 to 350 feet to be driven to complete the tunnel. Two cross-cuts 150 feet apart have practically proved the width of the lode at the 200-foot level and have shown that about 90 feet of it is good ore. A third crosscut 100 feet nearer the main shaft is now being run and it is now in similar ore to that exposed, in the other two cross-cuts. During four weeks to the middle of May a total of 449 feet of work in tunnel, drifts and cross-cuts was done, besides which a lot of surface rock was removed in cutting out a site for the large hoist expected to arrive at the mine shortly. Now that a cage is in use hoisting is so much more expeditiously done that underground development is progressing far more rapidly than was possible before it was put in. The ore bins are being constructed and it is anticipated that by the end of June the mine will be shipping ore to Trail. No ore outside of that mined in the ordinarv course of development- work will be shipped to Trail, but when the company's own smelter is ready to treat the ore, probably in September, stones will be opened and the output of the mine will be increased. At the smelter the sample mill and ore bins are being erected. In the temporary absence of Mr. Paul Johnson, the smelter rnanager, 'who is visiting Europe, Mr. Rudolph Liden, assist- THE MINING RECORD. 237 ant manager, is supervising the work of completing the smelter buildings. The Winnipeg.—Mr. D. H. Beecher has been appointed president of the Winnipeg Mining and Smelting Company in place of Mr. Duncan Mcintosh, retired. A district newspaper states that Mr. Beecher has purchased Mr. Alclntosh's holding of 200,000 shares in the company. Mr. John Mack, of Spokane, is named as the new manager of the company and Mr. David Oxley, who has had 30 years' practical mining experience, is foreman in charge of the mine, with authority to employ as many men as he can with advantage find work for. From Mr. Beecher it has been ascertained that about 2,500 feet of work has been done to date. A depth of 300 feet has been reached, and some fine ore has been met with at that level. One vein is stated to be 50 feet in width. Nine carloads of ore were shipped to Trail a few weeks ago and the average value of this ore is stated to have been about $20 per ton. There are about 1,000 tons of ore on the dump and, as the railway spur has been extended to the mine, shipping regularly will shortly be commenced. Besides the ore occurring in the underground workings about thirty feet of solid ore has been exposed at the surface in cutting the railway grade, and this ore body is to be worked forthwith. The machinery and plant are in excellent condition and are equal to opening up the mine to the 500-foot level. The Golden Crown.—No ore is being taken out of this mine at the time of writing, but dead work is being done at both the 100-foot and 300-foot levels. Before this appears in print, though, ore raising will have been resumed. There are some 2,500 tons of ore on the dumps and in the shipping bins. The rails connecting with the Columbia & Western Railway have been laid to the mine, but as yet no ore cars have been sent in. Two box cars were loaded on May 21 with ore that it was expected would average $40 to the ton. The general average value of the ore, the Golden Crown will ship is estimated at about $25. The ore is pyrrhotite with copper pyrites in a silicious gangue. More ore will be shipped as cars are received. Eighteen men are employed at the mine and it is stated that with this force two carloads of ore per day can be mined and shipped. Old Ironsides and Knob Hill.—The rails have also been laid to the Old Ironsides mine, in Phoenix Camp. So much development work is being done in these mines and the adjoining Victoria, which is being operated with them, that particulars can not be fairly stated until after a personal visit has been paid to them, information received second-hand not usually being reliable. It is hoped, though, that a summary^ of the work done to date will be available for publication in next month's issue of the Record. It may be mentioned now that the writer this morning received from a mining man of considerable experience assurances that what he had lately seen of ore coming from the Knob Hill had quite removed his earlier doubts as to whether or not the ore from this mine would leave a margin of profit above cost of mining and treatment. At no previous time in the three years during which be has had more than a passing knowledge of the mines in Phoenix Camp had he felt a like confidence in their eventual profitableness and permanence. This is gratifying intelligence and the hope is sincerelv expressed that it may soon be confirmed by good returns from the smelter. B. C. and Oro Denoro.—For a like reason no de tails of operations on the B. C. and Oro Denoro, in Summit Camp, can be obtained in time for this month's letter. These mines will also be visited shortly and some particulars of work in hand arid results to date will be supplied next month. In passing it may be mentioned that Mr. Leslie Hill, C.E., himself a mining engineer of long and varied experience and so fully qualified to give an opinion of value, after visiting the B. C. mine a few weeks ago, informed the writer that he found Mr. S. F. Parrish, the superintendent in charge of the mine, a competent mining engineer, educated to his work and carrying it out with such care and foresight as to promise the best results in the future. He (Mr. Parrish) had cosely studied the whole proposition from a mining engineer's point of view, laying out his plans, cross-sectioning and otherwise doing such excellent work as to make the B. C. one of the best laid-out mines in the district. This is the class of mining the district requires to adequately exploit and demonstrate the extent and value of its mineral resources, but whilst some of the mines have had the benefit of intelligent and skilled direction in the work done on them, it must be admitted that there have been instances where the ownership of a considerable interest in the property has been the chief qualification of the man directing the work, sometimes to the loss and discouragement of smaller holders and to the detriment of the good name of the district from the investors' point of view. Placer Mining.—Publicity has been given in several of the provincial newspapers to the fact that some placer claims have lately been staked on the lower part of Boundary Creek. Whilst it is not unlikely some small patches of ground not previously worked may be found to yield a little gold, so much attention was given to this locality years ago, first by white men and later by Chinese, that the prospect of any considerable quantity of gold being obtained is not considered good by those who are familiar with the o'pcra- tions and results of earlier years. Present operations are very limited and they will scarcely be enlarged tn any important extent unless some finds are made of much greater value than the few dollars' worth of gold recently'obtained. Placer "fizzles" are not unknown in the Boundary country, and this, seems likely to be another of them. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Just a year ago the ore shipments from January 1 to May 20 amounted to 47,780 tons. From January 1 to May 20 of the present year the output of ore has amounte&to 48,661 tons, so that there is still a few hundred tons more for this year as against the corresponding period for 1899. The Le Roi is now making phenomenal shipments. From Saturday, May 12, to May 19, eight days, inclusive, it shipped 4,030 tons, equal to 503.75 tons | day. During May, 1899 the daily output of Rossland mines averaged about 6ti tons, but the shipments came from three mines, viz., the Le Roi, War Eagfle, and Iron Mask. At present the onlv shipping mine here is the Le Roi, and the present indications do not justify the belief that the War Eagle will ioin the shipping list until midsummer, at least, but it is not unlikely that the Centre Star and the Iron Mask will very shortly resume shipments, and when this happens the output will be equal if not a little in advance of the corresponding period of last year. This output of 48,661 tons is made up as fol- AN INCREASING PRODUCTION. I ,'%&? \-^9vVt 23« THE MINING RECORD. lows: Le Roi, 28,659; War Eagle, 10,603; Centre Star, 7,017; Iron Mask, 1,434; Evening Star, 356; Monte Cristo, 273; I. X. L., 245; Grant, 42; and Iron Colt, 30. So far, and with the exceptions already named, there are no immediate prospects of any new producers increasing the list, but it is not at all improbable that the Nickel Plate, Josie, Columbia and Kootenay will be placed on the shipping list. These properties are owned by the British America Corporation and they are in a more or less advanced stage of development. The last named under the previous owners shipped about 2,700 tons and there is now an accumulation of ore that will sooner or later be sent to the smelters. The indications on the surface of the Nickel Plate and the Josie lead to the belief that the management intend to make shipments of ore shortly. The closing down of Sunset No. 2 was unexpected by the Rossland public, but I am credibly informed that the shutting down must by no means be regarded as an abandonment. Mr. J. C. Drewry, the managing director, was some weeks ago taken ill with smallpox in Montreal, but is now convalescent. He will return shortly and I believe that the policy of his company will be to develop the rich galena properties the company own in East Kootenay. The Sunset at present is in charge of Mr. Andrew Drewry, and Mr. W. H. Jeffrey, the company's mining engineer. May 15th was the monthly "pay day," and it is stated that a sum of at least $125,000 was paid out in miners' wages. This amount will hereafter steadily increase. The Le Roi is employing about 500 men, the War Eagle 60, the Centre Star 100, the Iron Mask 40, the Josie 30, the Nickel Plate 30 and other properties at least 100, so that at the lowest estimate between 800 and 900 men are at work in the mines immediately around Rossland. The following summary of the different mines around and near Rossland denotes the progress that is being made: The Le Roi.—The management is shipping from 400 to 500 tons daily. War Eagle.—The management is carrying out an- extensive plan of development on lines similar to those when Mr. J. B. Hastings first took charge of the property. The Centre Star.—The hoisting engine is in place and the head works are practically completed. The development of the mine is going on by means of the smaller hoists. The new 40-drill compressor plant has not yet arrived from Quebec. I B. A. C. (Nickel Plate.)—The shaft is down to the 600-foot level, and further sinking will be discontinued. In the meantime arrangements to ship ore are being carried out. Iron Mask.—Work is being done in both shafts and in the north crosscut a large amount of development work is being done. B. A. C. (Columbia and Kootenay.)—The vertical shaft from No. 6 tunnel is down 281 feet and is still showing ore. In extending the breast of No. 6 tunnel a body of good ore was cut. The north cross-cut from tunnel No. 6 is approaching the north vein. B. A. C. (Josie.)—The winze is being sunk from the 200-foot level is making good headway. Evening Star.—The management is now using the Iron Horse compressor. It is intended to work two drills at once. Velvet.—Drifting from the 200-foot level continues. A shaft is being sunk on the new lead which was found some days ago. White Bear.—Drifting continues to the northeast. California.—Development work on the old shaft continues. Other properties.—A number of other properties are being developed, but it is yet too early for substantial results. The general outlook of the Rossland mines was never better than it is at present. SLOCAN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Readers of the Record have doubtless all heard of the dire calamity which has befallen the city of Sandon since I last wrote, an occurrence § which though painful and far reaching in its consequences will furnish an opportunity of proving to the world that the residents at any rate still have firm faith in the resources of the district. With the possibility of a repetition of such a disaster always before them it is doubtful whether the town will ever re-build quite so substantially; this however, it must be clearly understood is due entirely to natural obstacles and will it is hoped, in no way affect the future volume of business transacted. The spontaneous manner in which all the neighboring towns contributed to the relief of those concerned is typical of the open handed generosity of mining communities and the fortitude and stoical indifference displayed by all under exceptionally painful circumstances is no less characteristic of western life. We wish them all success in a speedy upbuilding of the town, and pray that they may long be spared from such another misfortune. Political matters to a large extent have been engrossing our attention during the month and as the day for election draws nearer the uncertainty of the situation becomes more apparent. One thing however seems clear, that while the recent settlement of the eight hour dispute does not give unmixed satisfaction, more especially to the mine owners, who claim that all possibilities of profit making have been wrested from them bv the arrangement, there is a mutual desire to let matters stand as they are rather than re-open the discussion at this juncture, it being conceded that the loss to the province is more than compensated for by a definite knowledge on the part of investors as to what they may expect. As a result, each of the candidates in this constituency is sworn to uphold the enactment, so we may rest assured that for the present at any rate eight-hour shifts have without doubt come to stay. 1 The general mining outlook continues good, though casual reference to the shipping would hardly seem to bear out the assertion. The Enterprise has risen to second place with a comparatively paltry 560 tons to its credit, but there are other factors in the situation the mining which will come to be recognized outlook better as time progresses and must not be ignored. The Minnesota Silver Co. owners of the Ivanhoe, are about to erect a very complete concentrating plant in connection with their mine which will necessitate the construction of an aerial tramway a mile and a half long, having a vertical drop approximating 2,600 feet. As at present designed it should be the largest as well as the most complete and efficient mill in the province, its daily capacity being estimated at 150 tons of crude ore. THE AIINING RECORD. 239 A transfer of considerable magnitude was effected a short time since when Frank Woods, manager of the Last Chance sold his tenth interest in that property to Dr. Hendryx, another heavy shareholder, for something approximating $100,000, the exact figure being unobtainable. It will thus be seen that despite the present small output of the mine its cash value is estimated at a round million. In the neighborhood of New Denver everything is progressing satisfactorily, operations have been resumed at the California, the second payment has been made on the Hartney bond, and the Bosun has commenced to drive a fifth tunnel nearer the Fidelity ground which it incorporated last year. From Sil- verton we are glad to hear that the Wakefield mill, unlike some others, is proving its thorough adaptability to the ore which it is required to treat, a result of careful and systematic preliminary investigation on the part of those responsible for its success or failure. The Vancouver too has lately been added to the list of working properties on Four Mile and as a mark of confidence, the first payment has been made on the Hewett, a mine which gives excellent promise for the future. Talk of again starting the Galena mines is once more current, a 20 ton trial shipment having recently been made for purposes of experiment it is believed. Extremely favourable reports are being received from the Arlington of late, and this coupled with the knowledge that 300 tons of ore from this property has reached the smelter this x year ought to put a better complexion upon matters in that vicinity. revelstoke. (From Our Own Correspondent.) More interest seems to be shown over the forthcoming election than in mining matters, and indeed between the South African war and the British Columbia elections mining men seem to have been relegated to a back place. In any case, however, there are very few properties working full strength, as just now nearly every mine is so wet from melted snow soaking in from the surface that it is very difficult indeed to keep things going as they should be. There is very little to report from the Big Bend; but none of the properties are altogether idle. Some little steady work is being performed on all of them though ( not much more than has been done throughout the winter, and it is satisfactory to know the boston that none of them show any deteriora- and b.c co. tion but quite the reverse. The rather notorious Boston and B. C. Copper Co. has been resurrected as the Prince Mining and Development Co., and on very high authority it is said that the original promoters are out of it altogether. There are good grounds for hoping that the coming season's work will show up a body of ore that certainly exists, unless all indications and experience are to count for nothing. If all goes well there, it will be a great help to the neighbourhood, as there are other very promising claims near to the Standard Basin group. gjjl The same quietness that exists in the Big Bend district occurs also to a less extent in the Lardeau, though on the whole that locality is busy enough. The Nettie L. is working with a less staff than usual on account of the workings being so very wet, and also because the long lower tunnel is practically completed, but it is the intention of the manager to ship ore as fast as it can be hauled to convenient transportation. The Silver Cup reports striking their vein at the lowest level, which shows its continuity, and the innumerable other claims and groups of claims in that district will all be duly attended to during the coming season. Fish Creek, also, will be the scene of much activity, some very remarkably rich veins having been uncovered, not only in galena and gray copper but in free-milling gold (notably the Pontiac group), which should cause still further attention to be paid to the locality by capitalists. But after, all, the supreme need is good roads, and while the Trout Lake waggon road is at last receiving the very necessary repairs, yet there are others equally important as outlets for the mineral in their respective vicinity which also require to have money spent on them to keep them always in decent condition; and considering the amount of revenue derived from West Kootenay by the government, it seem hard that we should have to put up with such wretched apologies.for roadways as we have. Alost sincerely is it to be hoped that the new government, whatever it may be, will try and improve the country that pays them so well and not hamper the mining industry with unconsidered and mischievous legislation. QUESNELLE FORKS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The men working on the Gold-flat claim took out very good pay as a result of the winter's work. This company drifted into the old workings of the Dead-broke which paid well in the keithley "sixties." The ground joins the up- creek. per end of Sebastopol Point, noted in early days for the amount of gold found there. Its locator, a Russian Fin, known as "Sebastopol," was also a noted character in those days. Keithley Creek has been worked for over forty years, during which time a large quantity of gold has been extracted from its placers. On this creek was formerly a large white population, but most of the paying claims have now got into the hands of Chinamen who still earn very fair pay every season. Spanish Creek.—On this creek the Moore Company drifting in the hill have been doing very well for some time, taking out from three to eight ounces per set of timbers. This ground has been bonded to an English syndicate for $25,000. Dancing Bill Gulch.—The Consolidated Cariboo , Hydraulic Mining Company have resumed work for the season with a large force of men and everything promising a prosperous season, provided there is no shortage of water, which, however, is possible, as the snowfall last winder was very light. A NEW ASSAY FURNACE. THE "L. & C." patent combination furnace, owned and manufactured by F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles, Cal., (The B. C. Assay and Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, agents) is the result of a close study of the requirements of the practical assayer, and, with the patent muffle ventilator attachment—one of its special features—is the most efficient and satisfactory furnace ever placed on the market. By reference to the accompanying illustration it will be seen that it has the novel feature of a muffle lying transversely to the melting compartment, which arrangement is adapted to the application of the patent ventilating flue to a furnace performing simultane- 240 THE MINING RECORD. ously the double office of melting and cupellation. The ventilator promotes rapid oxidation throughout all parts of the muffle, carries off the fumes of cupellation and enables the operator to work with a degree of comfort not possible heretofore with this class of furnaces. The ventilator referred to is a separate outside connecting pipe between the muffle and the stack, as ^illlliP8^ shown in the illustration. The heat arising in the main flue creates by induction a forced draft throughout the entire length of the muffle, the fresh air thus supplied furnishing abundance of oxygen, so that cupellation is both rapid and complete in all parts of the muffle. The furnace is supplied with a centre pivot, by which it may be revolved, thereby enabling the operator to introduce the flame at either end at will from the one burner. The melting compartment, has a hinged bottom, which is covered with a mixture of coke and fireclay. <rwV In case of a bullion spill the trap can be opened and the bottom removed without disturbing the brickwork of the furnace. The standard size takes a muffle 6x10 inches and has a melting compartment 7x7x7 inches which will hold four crucibles, each with a capacity of two assay tons of pulp, and weighs complete about eighty pounds. With this size furnace it is possible to make 100 assays in a twelve-hour run. Since coming into the hands of the present owners, the "L. & C." furnace has been greatly improved in effectiveness as well as general appearances, changes having been made that render its working perfect in all its parts, so that its convenience, compactness and economy of operation appeal to every practical assayer. The patent draft feature is also applied to single muffle furnaces of various sizes. The Combination Alelting and Muffle furnaces are made in a variety of sizes. In the illustrations Fig. 1 is a view of the furnace showing the oxidizing bonnet and muffle draft; Fig. 2 shows melting and cupelling carried on at the same time. In both views the front is broken away to show the interior construction. PRODUCING MINES. ROSSLAND. OUR Rossland correspondent telegraphs: "Ore production from this comp for the five months ending May 31st aggregate 50,000 tons gross, valued at approximately $850,000." NELSON. The returns from the Nelson customs for April show the value of the mine products exported as follows : Value. Coke, 2,258 tons $6,718 00 Ores, 1,517 tons 99,018 00 Gold bullion 37,626 00 lillooet. The returns from the Ben d'Or mine give a result of 400 ounces of retorted bullion as the result of 25 days' and 21 hours' crushing. COAL EXPORTATION^. THE following shipments were made in April:— Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 36,379, Union.. .' 13,795 Ladysmith (Extension) 22,873 Total 73,047 For the three weeks ending May 20th the New Vancouver Coal Co.'s foreign shipments were as follows :— Date. 1—SS. 3-SS. 3-SS. 8—SS. 9—SS. 10—SS. 14—SS. 15—SS. 16—SS. 20—SS. Vessel. Destination. New England.. Alaska Mineola Port Los Angeles R. Adamson. . .San Francisco. . . New England. . Alaska Titania Port Los Angeles. Ruth Skagway San Mateo Port Los Angeles New England. .Alaska R. Adamson... San Francisco 4>527 Aztec Port Los Angeles . . 5,385 Tons. 40 3>439 4»501 40 5,882 178 4,472 10 Total 28,474 THE MINING RECORD. 24.1 THE METAL MARKET. Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. Mining Record from, the Engi/neering & Mining Journal, New York. ] COPPER. THE market remains dull and quiet, and prices have fallen somewhat during the month. Manufacturers appear to be covered for early deliveries and consequently transactions have been few. The latest quotations are Lake, i6J@i6§c; cathodes, i6@i6£c; casting copper, i6^c.' LEAD. The price of this metal has declined to 3.95 to 4c. in New York and 3.80 to 3.85c. St. Louis, or a falling off of $14 per ton in less than two weeks. The New York Engineering and Mining Journal attributes this rapid decline to the fact that production is in excess of consumption, while the Mining and Scientific Press of San Francisco thus comments : .. "A drop of nearly 1 per cent, per pound in the price of lead during the month is noticeable. While the present price is considerably better than that of August 2; 1896, when it was $2.50 per hundred pounds, yet its sudden tumble from $4.75 of a few weeks ago is dispiriting to producers. The cause of the drop is purely arbitrary; it is done solely because the controlling trust has the power to put the price up or down at the will of its directors. It is now characteristic of the managers of any of the great trusts to use their power to affect stocks, as in the recent case of J. W. Gates of the American Steel & Wire Co. There is no legitimate trade reason for the drop in lead. There is a steady demand, and the uses to which it is adapted are multiplying. Tariff protection is a good thing, but its good effects should be extended to the ore producers. When the smelter Combine was formed one of the arguments used was that it would reduce the cost of the consumer and permit the miner to get more for his ore. The result is just the reverse—the consumer is paying more, the miner getting less. The import duty is a help, but its helpful effect should be more mutual Just now it is decidedly one-sided." spelter. A fair business is reported at 4.55c. New York, and 4.40c. St. Louis. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. ' 1 HE stock market is gradually recovering as re- » gards the volume of business,-but prices still continue low. Athabasca has been in good demand and considerable stock sold at 25 cents, but on Saturday it weakened off and sold as low as 21 cents. The Dardanelles Company is calling a meeting for June 20th for the purpose of raising more funds, either by making the stock assessable or by issuing debenture bonds. The money will go to pay present liabilities, amounting to about $11,000, and to again open operations on the property. Van Anda still holds at from 3 cents to || cents and is being picked up whenever offered under the 3 cent mark. The smelter is working night and day, and the company is now said to be making money steadily every month. Both the Copper Quarry and Cornell are looking well, and work is being steadily pushed on both properties. Payne, Republic; Virtue, Montreal & London, War Eagle and, in fact, all the higher-priced stocks have weakened off considerably in the last few weeks. Some of the banks which have been loaning on these stocks were compelled to realize on the securities, as their clients failed to keep up their margins, and on account of the stock being thrown on the market, prices are considerably affected. Rossland shares have not been very active lately and glancing down the list of sales daily reported to have been made on the Rossland stock exchange it is noticeable that the majority of these sales are stocks in mines in other camps in British Columbia. There has recently been a demand for Giant as a result of a reported sale of majority stock to Philadelphia capitalists. Giant advanced from 2\ to 4. Several blocks of Novelty have been selling at 2, and White Bear at 2\, Evening Star about 10, Iron Mask 37 to 40, Alonte Christo 3^ t° 4- .Xoble Five recently resumed work and the stock lias been very active. The price has advanced from 2\ to 7; Athabasca dropped to-day in Toronto to 18 cents; Dardanelles has been selling at 2\ to 3, and Payne dropped from $1.20 to 99 cents, but rallied quickly again to $1.12, to-day's quotation. Fairview Corporation has been very active and large orders have come from the ea'st for this stock owing to reported placing of a large block of treasury stock in London, Eng. The price has advanced from 4 to 8. The AVinrtipeg has resumed operations under newT management, and shares have been in good demand, having advanced from 12 to 15. A number of other mines in the Boundary district are resuming work. Knob Hill has fallen from 75 to 58, and Rathmullen from 4 to 3. The Waterloo mill has resumed crushings and shares' have been very active, selling as high as 5^. Several large blocks of Cariboo changed hands at 95 to 97. Sullivan has been an active stock at 11 to 12, and Crow's Nest has been selling around $37. MACHINERY CATALOGUES. WE shall be pleased to mail catalogues of any of the undermentioned firms to our readers free of charge, on applciation: Ainsworth & Sons., Wm., fine balances; Armstrong & Alorrison, riveted steel pipe ore cars, etc.; B. C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., assayers' supplies; Braun & Co., T., assayers' supplies; Beatty & Sons, M., cables and tramways, dredges, pumps, etc.; Bennett & Co., Wm.., fuse safety couplers, etc.; California Wire Works, cables and tramways; Canadian Rand Drill Co., drills and compressors; Canadian General Electric Co., electrical plants; Cooper Mfg. Co., The James, compressors, power and hand drills; Denver Fire Clay Co., assayers' furnaces, etc.; Fraser St Chalmers, mills, pumps, hoists, engines, etc.; Fairbanks, Alorse & Co., steam and gas engines, compressors, etc.; Gates Iron Works, engines, boilers, crushers, 242 THE MINING RECORD. etc.; Hamilton Alfg. Co., The Wm., crushers, mills, hoists, etc.; Hendy Iron Works, Johsua, modern mining machinery; Hinton & Co., Geo. C, electrical supplies and machinery; Hearn & Harrison, engineering, mining and surveying instruments; Hamilton Powder Co., explosives; Howells Alining Drill Co., drills, all kinds; Jeffrey Mfg. Co., elevating machinery; Jenckes Machine Co., hoisting and milling machinery, Krupp, Fried, Grusonwerk, mills, engines, pumps, etc ; Lex- ow, Theo., carbons; Link Belt Machinery Co., conveyors, elevators, etc.; McLennan, AIcFeeley & Co., belting, etc.; Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, compressors, drills, hoists, etc.; Perrin & Co., Wm., filter presses; Royal .Electric Co., electric power, all kinds; Robertson & Co.,James,wrought iron pipe, paints, etc.; Sturtevant Mill Co., ore breakers and mills; Stilwell— Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., water wheels; Taylor & Co., John, assayers' supplies; Trenton Iron Co., cables and tramways; Taylor Air Compressor Co., drills, compressors, etc.; Union Gas Engine Co., gas engines, hoists, etc.; Whitstock, P. & R., mining engineering and surveying instruments; Wilfley Ore Concentrator Co., Ltd., concentrators. I IMPORTANT TO GOLD MINERS And Manufacturers of Mining Machinery. SILVER-PLATED AMALGAM PLATES For saving Gold in Quartz, Placer and Beach Mining. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Only Refined Silver and Best Copper used. Fifteen Medals awarded. Old Mining Plates can be Replaied Old Plates Bought or Gold Separated. Our Plate have been used for 55 years. They have proved the Best. We adhere strictly to contract in weight of Silver and Copper. Send for Circular. San Francisco Gold, Silver & Nickel Plating Works 653*655 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. E. G. DENNIST0N, Proprietor. WHITE, ROGERS & eOMPHNY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated ^TtrT.Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450' o.b. San Francisco. One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated by Steam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants fox the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. V. ire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is covered by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,338 and **"" 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the ZZ^L ZS^LESE ' fu" extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. ^ Ltd. « QtJlC* B**1 Vl>BBSS U* ftp" SC01> — Telegraphic Address "Lobnitz, Renfrew." At Code Used. THE MINING RECORD. XI. JACKSON CENTRIFUGAL PUMP Are designed for every use of Mining. Dredging, Irrigating or Reclaiming. May be Driven by Steam, Gas, Electric or Water Motor direct, connected or belted. BUI.T BY Send for Catalog and Price List. BYRON JACKSON MACHINE WORKS, 625 Sixth Street, San Francisco, Cal., U. S. A. KROGH MANUFACTURING CO., - San Francisco, Cal. Largest and Most Successful Builders of CENTRIFUGAL AND GOLD DREDGING PUMPS. Send for circular of their ?Two Stamp Hills ALSO Cement, Gravel and Placer Mills IMPROVED CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Which are admitted as having revolution- K l -r FOR IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE. ized the art of milling and saving gold. c *cit s Stamp Triple ix to Twelve Discharge Mill, Tons Per Hour. The Huntington Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer OF Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. Room i, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, | | SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Theodor Lexow, Nos. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechancial Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. JEFFREY ELEVATING MACHINERY FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling material of all kindi. SEND FOB CATALOGUE. THE JEFFREY MFG.G0. Columbus,0. UILOG] UMrC. BULLOCK MANFG. m MACHINERY CNICAGO, U.S.A XII. THE MINING RECORD. Mining Stocks. Prepared by A. W. Mors & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B.C., Mav28, 1900. Company. Capital. Par Value. TRAIL CREEK. Big Three Centre Star Commander Deer Part Enterprise Evening Star Georgia Gertrude Golden Drip Gopher Homestake Iron Horse Iron Mask I.X.L Iron Colt Jumbo Le Roi Lilly May Mayflower Monte Cristo Nest Egg-Firefly Novelty Poorman R. E. Lee Red Mountain View Rossland, Red Mountain. St. Elmo ! SUverine Silver Bell Con Victory Triumph Virginia War Eagle Consolidatedf. ' White Bear American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Buffalo of Slocan.... Dunuee Dardanelles Dellie Exchequer Fern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick Leviathan London Miller Creek Molly Gibson Minnesota Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanhoe. Payne Rambler Con Reco Slocaa-Reciprocity .. Slocan Start Silver Band Slocan Queen Star . St. Keverne. Sunshine.... Tamarac.... Two Friends Washington. Wonderful;. LARDEAU. Lardeau Goldsmith Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Lardo ■ Du ncan TEXADA ISLAND. Hold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary . Texada Kirk Lake Treasury Mines . ... Vail Anda Victor! a-Texada VANCOUVER ISLAND. Alberni Mountain Rose Consolidated Alberni Mineral Creek Mineral Hill Quadra Mount Sicker & B.C. Development CARIBOO. AINSWORTH, NELSON AND SLOCAN. Price. $3,500 3,500 500 1,400; 1,000 200 1,000 500 500 1,000 1,000 1,000, 500. i.ooo: 1,000 500, £1,000. ? 1,000, 1,000, 2.500. 1 000 1.000 Sot). 2,000, 1,0U0, 1,000, 1,000; 500 500; 1.000. 1 00 2,000, 3.000, ,000 ,000 000 ,000 ,000 ,000 .000 ooo 00(1 000 ,000 ,000 ,000 000 ,000 000 ,000 000 000 ooo 000 000 000 OOH 000 000 .ooo 000 000 010 100 000 0001 100,000 1,000,000 250.000 600,000 250,000 5,000,000 150,000 260,000 500,000 500,000 750,000 500,000 £135,000 10 £5 25 1 52 10 2 20 VPA 5 9 15 03^ 3 40 14 10 28 £6 10 $0 20 10 4 02 3 14 2 3 10 4 6 153 1,000,000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 150,000 1000,000 1.5J 000 7 .0,000 1.000,000 200,000 SOO.OOU 650,000 £300.000 $1 500,000 2,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 2,C00,000 1,000,000 250,000 12,000 1,000,000 3,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000! 1,000,000 500,000 250,000 1.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,0001 500,000 1,000 000 240,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 200 000 1 1,500.000 1 1,500,000 1 1 6 1 V4 0 10 10 1 19 0 25 — 1 10U 1 4i 1 12 1 12 0 25 6 1 11 1 n'A £1 2s. $1 10 1 3 25 25 1 08 1 35 1 66 0 25 20 c. par 7 1 12H 1 00 1 12 1 27 1 1 00 1 — 50 1 25 0 25 mi 1 10 1 07 1 4 10 1 4 30 3 1 25 1 4 10 1 0 25 1 25 1 0 25 £1 Cariboo Gold Fields Ld £100,000 Cariboo Hydraulic Consol idated 55,000,000 Cariboo M. & D. Co 800,000 £350,000 5200,000 500,000 300,000 . Co. Golden River Quesnelle. Horsefly Hydraulic Ward-Horsefly Victoria Hydraulic «5 1 £1 * 1 1 04 5 05 10 10 25 1 00 10 4 5 05' 05 05 85 n 10 25 - 55 85 LILLOOET DISTRICT. Alpha Bell Cayoosh Creek Mines. Excelsior Golden Cache Lillooet Gold Reefs FAIRVIEW CAMP. Smuggler Fairview Corporation. BOUNDARY CREEK. Boundary Creek M. M. Co Brandon and Golden Crown. Dominion Copper Co King Knob Hill Morrison Old Ironsides Pathfinder Pay Ore Rathmullen Winnipeg CAMP MCKINNEY. Camp McKinney Development Co ('Hriboof " Minnwuiha Water'oo Fontenoy O'Shea Waterloo No 2 Mf>mm' h 1*1' t ? . ,-t riboo uiiannon Sailor Silver Bell, Consolidated REVELSTOKE Carnes Creek Consolidated EAST KOOTENAY, Canadian Gold Fields Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co North Star Sullivan 500,000 1 500,000 1 500,000 < 1 500,000 1 200,000 25 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 25 1 500,000 1 1.OHO.01II. 1 5,000,0.0 1 1500.000 1 1,500,00 1 1,000,00< 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,00 1 1,000,000 1 2,500,000 1 1,000,000 1 600 "T 1 1,-J- 0,000 1 100,000 10 1,000,000 1 0,00 10 50,000 10 50,000 10 100,000 10 50,000 5 1,250,000 1 500,000 25 1,000,000 20 1,000,000 10 2,000,0001 25 * 1,500,0001 1 1,000,000 1 oih 8 10 22 75 9 58 3& 80 11 on* 3 15 23 97 BU xO 01 01 01 01 03 10 2*S 7 539 00 1 18 12H Y. Y. T. Co., LRKE BENNETT, B.e. OPERATING THE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills At the head of Navigation to to the YUKON and RTLIN GOLD FIELDS Builders oL—^g^- Boats, Barges and Scows. The safest and most economical way of freighting from Bennett t > Dawson, having wharf and warehouse on arrival at destination. • Manufacturers of Lumber of all description, Sash Doofs, etc. Provisions and Supplies.... We also carry a large siooic of General Merchandise at posts all along the liver, consisting of Feed, Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Tinware, Enamelled Ware, Window Glass, Hardware, etc. Call on or write us before sending to the Coast for your supplies. Information cheerfully given by applying to The Victoria Yukon Trading Co., Ld., LAKE BENNETT, B. C. Head Office, VICTORIV, B.C. J HOLLAND, Man. Director WT>AIL.EY & CO.,—ASHOROhT, B.O., . JL*. J-' Storage and Forwarding Agents, Goods received, stored and forwarded with despatch to any point in ariboo reached by wagO'i or pack train. Consign goods to our care and re will settle railway charges and ship to destination with least possible elay. Car w d THE MINING RECORD. Xlll. HH| The Vancouver Agency, L i mi ted. Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. Shipping and Commission Agents. Note.—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz : CALCUTTA ORE SACKS. COTTON WASTE. FIRE BRICKS. FIRE CLAY. SMITHY COAL. LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. 605 Granville St., Vancouver, B Q. ~*^* Write for lowest prices to THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. HH WHITE HORSE •Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. All steamers plying to and from Dawson and other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the Big Salmon can be more easily reached from White Hor-e than from any other localitv; thus it is oertnin to become the great distributing centre for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beau'ifu ly situated on a level tract of land on the we*t bank of the Yukon River and just belowthe celebrated g hite Horse Rapids, around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the steamers on the upper river to those on the.lower river. - "' T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, H I Lots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information regarding the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First Avenue South, Seattle, Wash.; and also at the office of J. J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C VICTORIA, B.C 1 Do You Require a NEW Hoisting Engine? Air Compressor? J Electric Light Plant? Steam Boiler ?,,■ Mine Pump? 1 1 If so Write for Prices to COLORADO'S GREAT MINE OUTFITTING ESTABLISHMENT, The Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co'y, No. 1601 17th Street, DENVER, COLORADO. XIV. THE MINING RECORD. E. G. Prior & Qo., Ltd. MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ^ ^ ** BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters VICTORIA. Branch Stores: VANCOUVER and KaML©OPS, B. e. Established 1858, The Amur has been thoroughly overhauled and specially fitted up for this service, and is provided with accommodation for passengers and freight of an exceptionally suitable character. (For ^Cape Nome The Canadian Pacific Navigation Co'y, Limited, will despatch their staunch iron AMUR Al double bottomed, for St. Michaels and Cape Nome ON JUNE 13, 1900. For rates and particular information apply at company's office Wharf street, Victoria. 1 6. A. CARLETON, Gen. Freight Agt. C. S. BAXTER, Gen. Pass. Agt. 1 ..DOW PUMPS.. -HRB HflNUFaeTDRED IN- Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, flir, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMPS, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUflPS MAKE KNOWN YOUR WANTS T© THE —"^ Iff GEO. E. DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. BENNETT FUSE! REG1STEKED IN CANADA. Crown TRADE Brand. MARK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, London CAMBORNE. CORNWALL, EN6LAN0. Offices, Baltic Chambers, 108 Bishopsgate St Within. k r's Safety Couple ROWLAND MACHIN, Snc£T No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. xv. BRITISH eOLUMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have'in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BROS., VieT©RIft, B.e. LENZ <& LEISER, 9&11yates street. IMPORTERS OF — GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR, A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for tl)e Kpoterjay and KJondik;e Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You flust THE CELEBRATED 9 Ceylon have "CROWN BRAND" Pure si/ 'RICKSHAW «& For sale only by w ■> * ^ x< or sate on Java nd Mocha | Thomas Earle, If you will have THE BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 60 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B.C. Proprietors. IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION riERCHANT. Teas and Coffees a Specialty. 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BEETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. |f. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Good©, Liquors, Cigare, Flour, Btc. goods indented from all parts Manufacturer© of Clothing, Btc. -0F THE W0RLD •• TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. XVI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt. Ward & Co., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Baslnghall St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La FOncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amberite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. MERCHANTS BANK of HALIFAX Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. ••• ••• INCORPORATED 1869. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED. $2,000,000,00. CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,985,070.00. REST, $1,700,000.00 r. E. KENNY, President. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonigta, N.S. Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B. C. Bridgewater, N. S. Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N. B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry^ N. S. Louisburg, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Mail land, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle^ N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pictou, N S. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Rossland, B.C. Sackville, N.B. EDSON L. PEASE, General Manager. St. John, N. D Shubenaeadie, N. S. Summerside, P. E. I. Sydney, N. S. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria, B. C. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Branches In Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches in United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Republic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: In Canada— Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank ©f Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster^ - Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States}—San Francisco and Portland. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. New York Offiee- 121 LIBERTY STREET. PLATINUM' REFINERS BAKER & CO., iiliiii W E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATP7E PLATINUM. • i i i NEWARK, N* J. THE MINING RECORD. XVH. PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS. W. JONES I The City (Established 1885.) AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, ESTATE AQENT, Etc. Auction Mart, 73 and 73J4 Yates St., VICTORIA, -. - B. C. Auction sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor's own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of References from past and present clients. Houses, etc,, to r Jnt and for sale in ajl parts List your properties with us, good ellenfe always waiting. All business entrusted to us -ecelves strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Rossland, B.C Wallace Building, Columbia Avenue, P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeals. R. W. GRIGOR, MINES- ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeil and Moreing and Neal's codes. J- Fortescue Foulkes. N. B. Van der Gucht. J. F. Foulkes &, Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Fouvan." All codes used. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, -etc., etc., etc: * Representing—-Cowan & Co., A. R. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Companv, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCKBROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. F. J. L. TYTLER, CONSULTING ENGINEER, Notary Public in and for B. C, Commissioner of Oaths. Office, 23 Mackinnon Block, Granville St., Vanr<Aiivoi> P.O. Box 39. Telephone 750. YrtllCUUVCr. ABC Code, Bedford McNeill (We. Student of Glasgow University. Pupil of Messrs. Hawkes Qrawshay, Gateshead-on-Tyne. Late Civil Engineer, Oude & Rohilku{id Railway, India. Late Civil Engineer, Department of Public Works, India. Late Manager Sirmoor lion Works. Late Inspector of Dykes, British Columbia. For several years Consulting Engineer to the Government of B. C. All business with mines transacted, reports made, assays supplied. Plans estimates and specifications for general engineering purposes made and works managed and supervised. . . . IT IS N® G©0O . . . Advertisinq in the British Press Unless You Understand How to approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT Who can •*&£?,&&&£.*"*""• at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. e. J. WALKER'S "British and Canadian Press Bureau," 24 Coleman St., London, E.e. J 1. XV1U. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL, HDYERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E., M. Inst. M. E. M. Aster. I. M. E. MINES Mining and Consulting Engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, P. O. Box 308, LONDON, E.C. VANCOUVER, B.C. ' Christopher, London." (" Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. R, VANCOUVER, B. C. Reports. Surveys. Management. Contract Prospecting and- Devi opment Work. Best References. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence in West Kootenay. "•^SfiS&XzrsT* Reports on Slocan Properties, Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, HI—.,, Hamwam D f* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's. NCW UenVCI, D.l*. AReHBCLD & PEARSON, MINING ENGINEERS AND ASSAYERS —e^ Cable Address: Archpear, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeil, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H. HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL tCHEMIST .«< METALLURGIST. Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa Works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, |g|IM &»j F. W. GR0VES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROYINemL LAND SURVEYOR. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported upon. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. .Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. O. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) aSSSYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. .s. The Vancouver Public Ore Testing and Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO. LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co., Ltd.. Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-719 Pender St., VA. COUVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead. ? 50 50 Gold and silver: $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, 0GDEN assay CO.. M29'I6th St.. DENVER. Colo. John Redmond, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. Outhett, Chemist and Metallurgist. RED/IAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and An - . alyses guaranteod accura'e. Write for intending information about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. n. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - - VANCOUVER, B. C. W. M. MfteKINN©N, Assoc. M. Inst. ©. B. Civil Engineer. 11 Specialty: Hydraulic Engineering. Water power ; Water Supply for Mines and Towns; Gold Dredging; Bridges; Structural Iron work, etc. P.O. Box 262. MACKINNON BUILDING, ' Granville St., VANCOUVER B.C- A CARD. From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayers and Mining Experts. To thb Mining Public of the North West. We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at 205^ Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, $1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining Experts. 205>£ WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON THE MINING RECORD. xix. PROFESSIONAL, AND BROKERS. Mining and Surveying Instruments. light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. A R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY. I. B. TYRRELL, M.A., F.G.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.L.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Kngineers Dominion Land Surveyors. Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested^ etc., etc. DAWSON, Y. T. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought ard Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. 611 Hastings St., VANCOUVER, B. C fBedford-Neal, Codes-! Moreing-Neill [dough's. One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines" S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale. Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 519 Hastings %-et,^^ VANCOUVER, B.C. Fergusson & Crofts Civil and Mechanical ■"*__ „.? — eonsuitingEngineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work in Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for ■^_ BOOTH'S HOISTS. The " Risdon " Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The " Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. Box 423. P. 0. Box 676. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. W. a. BAUER, D.L.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. a. s. asHeROFT. d.l.s.,p.l.s. Greenwood, B.C P. O. box 178. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. BAUER & HSHeROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. VANCOUVER and GREENWOOD. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OFFICE: CAMP McKINNEV, B.C, luable mining propert disposal. Correspondence solicited. N B.—Some valuable mining properties In Camp McKinney and vicinity for >iir PEMBERTON St SON TWINING BROK6RS, Real Estate, Financial and Insurance Agents. Mining Properties for sale. Agents for the Townsite of Alberni. Farming Lands for sale in all parts of the Province. FORT STREET, Victoria, B.C. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. Codes : BrownhalPs. Moreing & Neill. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD ^ For authentic and thorough information, call or address :. J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &©, THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES: 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Jobbnal, including postage, is for :— 12mO!.ths. 6 months. 3 months Canada r 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable In advance. E NGRHYINGS! PORTRRITS! BUILDINGS ! SCENERY! Fac-Similes of Signatures, Letters and Engravings of all kinds for Book and Newspaper Printing, Map Engraving from tracings. Also Reprort uctiona from Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue Illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. TACOMA ENGRAVING CO., Tacoma, Wash. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B,C DEALERS IN PnotoraphiG Stock Agents for the Rochester Optical Co, and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION PREHO B. $15. B. C. POTTERY CO., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pine, Flower Pots, etc. H. W. TREBT. Pres., Treas. and Gen, Manager. TH0S. KIDDIE. Smelter Manager. Van Anda eOPPER AND GOLD e©. Purchasers and Smelters of (2opper»eold Ores. Rates on application. ©ash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van Anda, Texada Island. B.C. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow o the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience In Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. §0" Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. Practical work. Elective System. Summer term College year, 45 weeks. For catalogues, giving employment of graduates, address MRS. F. H. SCOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, Mich. M. R. SMITH I GO. • ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. VICTORIA, B.C. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, ft. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing 'and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise of ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas Liquor, by H. A. Frasch, (20 pp.); Asphaltum Refining, by H. A. Frasch, (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry IntheUuited States, byI\BffLewis, (6 PP>); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry1J6n])Jj The Manufacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle West, by a.. Foster Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T, C. Hopkins (13 pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W.B. Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, *by Earnest A. Sjostedt, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (82 pp.); Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, by T. C. Hopkins, (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (§ pp.); Progress xn the Metallurgy of Gold and Silver, by W. R. IngaUs, (26 pp.); The Hydro- Metallurgy of Silver, by Ottokar flofmann, (27 pp.); TiSi Technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Steel, by H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. S. Austin, (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Smelting, by H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by <:. E. Siebtnthal, (4 pp.); Lime and Lime Burning, by H. A. Frasch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist, (10 pp.); Present Practice in the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symington, (7 pp.); Occurrence and Recovery of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, by 8. A. Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, by F. J. Fald- ing, (64 pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium, by W. R. Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1898, by Robert H. Richards, (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (11 pp.); The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus Ulke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. XXI. VANCOUVER ISLAND COAL. COAL! COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co/ (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIflO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now use(i by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SAMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt., Nanaimo. B.e. XX11. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. * THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to PACIFIC WITHOUT CHANGE Lowest Rates. Best Equipment. TO ALL POINTS IN Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R P. KITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Ohemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American MarJne Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 48. Taking effect March 1st. VANCOUVEK ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. j Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C. P. Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m.: Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. Leave New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday at 2 o'clock p.m. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For-Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o clock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naco and intermediate ports via Vancouver on the First and Fifteenth of each month, and for Queen Charlotte Islands on the 1st of each month. KLONDIKE ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave weekly for Wrangel, .ru- neau, Skagway and Dyea. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer "Willapa" leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th and 20th. Extending ] atter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent M- The Hudson's Bay Company Baie de Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. FELTEN & GDILLEADME, Carlswerk, Actien Gesellschaft, Mullieim on Rhine. Oldest and most renowned WIRE ROPE FACTORY On the European Continent. WIRE ROPES of every Description for Mining Purposes Round and Flat Wire Ropes X.S.KJST* clines, Towing, Ploughs, Cranes, Etc. " Albert," or so-called " Lang's " Lay Ropes Electric Wires and Cables for Telegraphy, Telephony, Electric Light and Transmission of Power WIRE...— JdGK & R0D6HM The James Robertson Co'vl^ted VANCOUVER, B.C. M 3 f1 UTdCtll T6TS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints,Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, %A# E> IT C |TQ D Angle and Check Valves. PRICES. BRANCHES, ^Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. METALS. Office and Warehouse, - 151 Hastings St. Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. Ontario Gold Mlnino A few Mines who Use Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. CANADIAN RAND DRILUCO.,--i SPECIALTIES Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patent Flattened Strand Wire Ropes. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. The Win MANUFACTURERS _ OF Mining Machinery OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.C 1 fe W OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREEN- - WOOD, B.C. SOLE AGENTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR John Bertram & Sons, Iron*Working Machinery. The MacGregor, Gourlay Co.'s Woodworking Machinery. R. Hoe & <3o.'s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws. BRANCH OFFICE t MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET, WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. - VANCOUVER, B.C. PUBLISHED BY "THB MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. THIS MONTH.) THE TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSOR AT AINSWORTH, ETC. 'SP/rt£8fW&'ca*&.^TACQMA. ' VOL. VII. JULY, iooo. No 7. GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C" TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... S, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA, B. O. VANCOUVER. B. O. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. -MAKERS OF- Electrical Mining: Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT. WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINISG WORK. Write Odr British Columbia Branches at VICTORIA. VANCOUVER. THE ONLY ROLL JAW CRUSHER CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., 107 Clayton Street, Send for Circular. Boston, Mass. f PRICE, 20 CENTS. Cannery I H Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. i?*^£ Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar Iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Co. LIMITED, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. m m m m m m m m m m \ FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING I MACHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION: Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT ■ ^ COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. p (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching COA L WASHING PLAN T—Large Testing Station for Crashing and Dressing Or6s at the Works. SNTS== For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R.. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MACHINERY. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has been able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Our machines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Mining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, III. LINK-BELT ELEYHTORS and CONVEYORS, For Handling Ores. Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc _~_ PICKING TABLES, Shaking & Revolving Screens Coal Washing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. LINK-BELT" COAL AND COKE BREAKER, LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., ^'a^- Chicago, U.S.A.CapJTBEL 32 in. Sorting Belt Now in Use at WAR EAGLE Mine, Rossland. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.sa MANUFACTURERS pilter Presses WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. apacities, 300 to 10,000 Gallons Per Minute <m ROBINS ** Belt Gonveuors Handle all Materials with GREAT ECONOMY. USE OUR SORTING BELTS Instead of SORTING TABLES. Send for ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE For Cyanide and ehloromatic Plants 122 CHURCH ST., TORONTO 11. THE MINING RECORD. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No 0 Prec*s*on Balance, 5-inch Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TEETZBL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- [E are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. % P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address: Assay," Vancouver, B.C. ' ' Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Pepalrs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. THf DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851-- -Incorporated 189s- ASSAYERS' HATERIALS, Tllne and flail Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co,, •Battersea, England. Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker <& Adaamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining scientific books. JOHN TAYLOR & CO., New illustrated catalogue on application. 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. GENERAL, MINING MACHINERY.— Continued. FR*\S£R A CHAUMCRS 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. —HEADQUARTERS FOR- Mining Machinery. Hoisting Engines for Deep Mines. Prospectors Hoists. Gray's Patent Chairs. Cars, Cages. Sederholm Boilers. Corliss Engines. Riedler Pumps and air Compressors. 00 o o < < u O S CO 1 I Q c/) ^ 3 ^B 1 c/i S 2 I adjustable Comet Rock and Ore Crushers. Perforated Metals for all Purposes.(We ™topM&%&r,ple" Improved Crushing Rolls. Smelting and Roasting Furnaces. Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And equipment of every kind. Our machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any other manufacturer. It is in use on all gold fields and is recognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is a recent example of our work. Ball Pulverizers such as used at the Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone Mill are of our manufacture. Write for Catalogue. -REPRESENTED BY— MENNO UNZ1CKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exc.usive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada. Mexico. South America, England, South Africa and Australia IV. THE MINING RECORD. eaBLES, WATER WHEELS HND COMPRESSORS. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery B and Supplies. STEAM Engines Hoists ] Pumps [Boilers GASOLINE fEDgines I Hoists i Lvrntnnrocoftfc Engine and Air Compre Air LOm pieSSOrS adapted for Mining Pnrp [Pumping Plants Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist* and Combined Gasoline Engine and Air Compressor especially Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St., Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND 0TH1SB SYSTEMS OF AERIAL TRANSPORTATION MANUFACTURED BY Bleichert Tramway of the Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa., showing guard-bridge across Penna. K. R. New Yokk OFFicE-Cooper, Hewitt & Co,17 BURLING SLIP THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in North America for the Bleichert System. Also.-Wire Kope Equipments for Surface and Underground Haulage, etc. Chicago Ofpice-1114 MONADNOCK BUILDING. T^f Hallidie Ropeway ,mProved mp- PULLEY = -*»*-****^*«^" »X.v^J^^ TT +*-J Patents Nos. 483,442; 610,353. For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire EopeB. SIMPLE, ECONOniCAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cable-ways, Transmission by Wire Ropes. incline planes. cable Grips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Logging by Cables. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, cable. Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. FERGUSSON & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. CALIFORNIA WIRE W0RK5, 7 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. —MANUFACTUREES OF- WATER P0WER>The-Victor-Tu|,bine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. PAYTON, OHIO USA. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lachine Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufacturing Co., Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay. Power & Light Co. Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL »ND MINE SUPPLIES. Iliwlillllllllll Shipping Weight ■^Srv ^USSSSSvS^^f Union Hoist. 10 H. P. double cyl. single drum. Lifts one ton 126ft. per minute. Union Engines For all kinds of work. Sizes in actual use I to 130 H. P. Da Gas and Gasoline 1 m Running Pumps, Dynamos. Stamp Mills. Blowers. Concentrators. Machinery. Gasoline Mining Hoists and Marine Hoists a Specialty. THE "UNION" GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine should be ; and is the result of 15 years experience, having been built in San Francisco since 1885. Sp Union " Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. p> Send for illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. Jfgf UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. P.©. Box 51 Tel. 250. Steel Wheel Barrow Our Barrows are made with T iron frame instead of tubular, and while almost as light, are far stronger. For handling ore, coal, coke, brick, lime, mortar, &c, They Have no Equal. The first cost is a little more than the ordinary Wood Barrow, but in the long run, the Steel Barrows as made by us are infinitely cheaper. Special Smelter Barrows to Order. Rivetted Steel Pipes and Hydraulic Giants. From 95 to 98 per cent, of the Rivetted Steel Pipe and Hydraulic Giants in use-- in British Columbia, were made by us. Mining and Waterworks Plants are strong features of our business. Correspondence Solicited. Armstrong & Morrison, General Machinists, VANCOUVER, B.C. eompressed Air from Palling Water, a HIGH TESTIMONIAL.— = THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. DEAR SERS:— We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department. Tour Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. Yours truly W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. S STAMP MILLS ^ CONCENTRATING MACHINERY, ©UR DESIGNS are in line with present day practice, and we supply the best selected materials for this class of work, as they insure long life and low repair bills, and prove the cheapest by far in the end. We carry in stock for prompt shipment Special Forged Steel Shoes and Dies, Cast Steel or Chrome Steel Self-Tightening Cams, and General Stamp Mill Supplies and Appliances. When desired, we contract for complete mills, including Buildings, Stamps and Power Plant, ready for operation. We have a New Design of ©rusher, 1900 pattern, which is a splendid machine for Stamp Mill and other work. Let us have your inquiries. Branches: Greenwood and Nelsrn, B.C. Office and Warehouse: Bossland, B.C. THE JENCKES MH6HINB 6©., 32.40 Lansdowne St., Sherbrooke. Que. Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. -MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN- Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery COMPRISING- HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, SHEET IRON and STEEL PIPE, STAMP MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, ORE FEEDERS, CONCENTRATORS, SMELTERS, HOISTING and PUMPING PLANTS, SAW MILLS, MINE and MILL SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application j HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATER WHEEL. HTWnLTON POWDER CO'Y. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers of High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office.- MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICES:? WORKS: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland Greenwood. NANAIMO. Assayers'Gasoline Furnaces & Burners With the Furnace and Burner here shown it is possible to melt and cupel 144 assays in 12 hours, with 5 gallons of gasoline. Write for Catalogue giving full particulars. May Be Obtained Fbom Gary Hydrocarbon Burner. Gary Combination Furnace. F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal. ® B.C. Assay & Uhem. Supply Co., Ltd., Vancouver,B C THE MINING RECORD. vn. ELEeTRIEHL AIHCHINERY. canadian;general electric COMPANY, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont. BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MANUFACTURERS ©F Electric = Mining § Apparatus Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSON SYSTEM .WRITE US. BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ROSSLAND. i VANCOUVER. Manufacturers of Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton THE MINING RECORD. M ISCELLANEO US. T^ JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd, •MONTREAL, P. Q. INGERSOLL-SERGEANT MACHINERY, ROCK DRILLS, Straight Line, Duplex, and Corliss Air Compressors. Complete Mine Equipment of all Kinds. ( R. A. C. McNally, Rossland. B. C. Catalogue and Details on Application to H- R. Kirkpatrick, Greenwood, B.C. ( W. A. Maclennan, Vancouver, B. C. ^** The Brackman=Ker Milling: Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. nanufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. (Registered.) Unequalled in the World. B.&K. The Huntington :'|- Centrifugal Roller | Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the . United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer 0F Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. Room i, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, | = SAN FRANCISCO, CAL BANK ©F BRITISH N0RTH AMERieft. ESTABLISHED 1836. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1840. psid dp eapiTau i/#7J.i:, &i,ooo, ooo sterling. RESERVE FOND 325,000 LONDON. ENG.. OFFICES. 3 CLEMENTS LANE. L0MBSRD STREET. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES : SIDNEY, N.S. HALIFAX, N.S. MONTREAL, P.Q. HAMILTON, Ont. WINNIPEG, Man. ST. JOHN, N.B. OTTAWA, Ont. BRANTP0RD, Ont. BRANDON, Man. FREDERICTON, N.B. KINGSTON, Ont. LONDON, Ont. NEW YORK. N.Y. QUEBEC, P.Q. TORONTO, Ont. MIDLAND, Ont. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA : VICTORIA, VANCOUVER, ROSSLAND, TRAIL, KASLO, ASHCROFT, GREENWOOD. Also at the Gold Fields—ATLIN, BENNETT and DAWSON CITY, Highest Prices Paid for Gold Dust and Amalgam. G. H. BURNS, Mgi*., YICTORIH, B.C. The Mining Record. Vol. VII. JULY, 1900. No. 7. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING RECORD Devoted to the Mining Interests of British Columbia. PUBLISHED BY The Mining Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. nORTIMER LAMB, flanaging Editor, London Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Montreal: Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co San Francisco : Dake's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERHS: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to The Editor, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Record to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. THE MONTH. THE late elections have shown two things very clearly, one that the country considers a government along the lines of Messrs. Semlin and Cotton inefficient and inadequate, the other that it regards Jos. Martin and his satellites with abhorrence. The Sem- lin-Cotton combination retire rejected as incompetent, but not pursued with hatred and disgust as dangerous and revolutionary. Nor can it be said that the laws passed by the Semlin-Cotton government of a social character, notably the eight-hour law, were responsible for its rejection. It was the entirely negative attitude which these gentlemen occupied towards the progress of the country, and the way in which their actions were allowed to be interpreted as hostile to the introduction of much needed capital into the country, which led .to their downfall or more properly their painless extinction. The Semlin-Cotton party reminds one somewhat of David Harum's story of the calf, "Wall I didn't kill it, and it didn't die nuther—it just kind o' gin out." But if there is one thing more evident than another it is that the province demands from the new government progressive activity in the particular directions in which the Semlin-Cotton government failed to exercise this quality. The first public act of the late government was to suppress the office of the Agent-General in London instead of doing what was demanded of them, namely, making this office effective and business-like. This action was interpreted as the straw which showed how the wind was blowing A GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING BUREAU. and the interests of British Columbia suffered accordingly. Every leader in politics during the late campaign has recognized the necessity of governmental action to stimulate the introduction of capital into this country. But not one of them has shown a fully comprehensive notion of what the action should consist of. And yet the question is simple enough. There is nothing very abstruce about it. To gain a certain desired result the means must be adopted which have been proved successful. That the result is desired is not disputed. The people who failed of conviction as to that point have been relegated to the political obscurity which the limitations of their intellect rendered at once inevitable and proper. But amongst those who consider an active policy in this respect desirable there is some natural confusion as to the best methods to be adopted. Now, from a practical point of view, the whole question is capable of a very simple analysis. But first it must be borne in mind that the reckless pledging of the public credit for un- remunerative or only partially remunerative public works is not the way to set about attracting the attention of capital. On the contrary, the careful maintenance of the credit of the country is indispensable to any satisfactory progress in the real sense. It must be obvious we should imagine to the least instructed human being that any- public expenditure of capital which becomes a burden upon the taxed or taxable resources of the country limits and diminishes the public credit. While on the other hand the expenditure of no sum of money however large—where it is expended so as to directly return interest and sinking fund, can effect the public credit. The question is by no means so simple when the expenditure only indirectly, by increasing the taxable resources of the country, provides for its return in due time. Such expenditures undoubtedly diminish the borrowing power of a country, But nevertheless they are, if wisely regulated, legitimate. When a country makes ' them it is using its credit. But the fact that using credit diminishes credit is no valid argument against its utilization. Those only whose minds whirl in a logical circle, like squirrels on a wheel, would ever maintain that it was. But in fact this matter has been introduced rather to prevent anyone from imagining that it was the question at issue, than because it has any real bearing on the subject. The programme which the new government must carry out is really very simple. It consists of two parts, first the acquisition of the information about the province's resources necessary to attract capital, and second the distribution of this information in the proper quarters. It is very curious that while every one recognizes the necessity of either one or other of these two things no public man seems yet to have arrived at the conclusion that a successful policy must consist of a synthesis of the two branches. It appears so simple ^jOtMMBangMnawai 244 THE MINING RECORD. when it is stated that we might be accused of putting forward self-evident axioms as new discoveries. But what has been done in the past? The energies of a very successful department have been utilized to procure all sorts of useful information. But when acquired, tabulated and published it is buried in an annual report, which excites only that vague interest given to historical information of a statistical character. This can only be from the fact that the effective distribution of information acquired has not been regarded as equally important with its acquisition. What is wanted? Some years ago a government bureau was established in Great Britain as a department of the Board of Trade for the express purpose of keeping the country posted on the varying relations between labour and capital. It was placed in the hands of experts who procured the information and published it in the form of a monthly newspaper. A bureau of the same kind is needed in British Columbia to take hold of this question of the introduction of capital in a scientific and practical manner and should immediately be established. It would have three branches to look after, the tabulation of comparative statistics of actual developments and production, the description by comprehensive reports of the undeveloped resources of the province and the publication of the information acquired through the best channels to secure results. The headquarters of this bureau should be in British Columbia. British Columbia has three sources from which to draw capital, the eastern part of Canada, Great Britain and the United States. France and Germany may be neglected as they invest largely through the London market and for our purposes may be included in Great Britain. A cable agency should be established in connection with the statistics of our progress. Our output of minerals and fisheries and lumbering should be chronicled monthly not annually, and should be published in the press, not in a belated official report. Our undeveloped resources should be investigated, described and profusely illustrated; if possible the imagination of the world should be set on fire with the possibilities British Columbia offers to brains, energy and capital. The London office should be made an effective adjunct of this bureau in distributing information and not considered as an honorary retirement for used- up politicians. If this matter k taken up in the proper spirit, if the policy here outlined is actively prosecuted the development of British Columbia will soon begin to keep pace with the rapid enlargement of its known resources. If not, we shall have starved mining districts breeding discontent and looking only for relief to the counter irritation of wildly experimental legislation. The flotation of the Le Roi No. 2 upon the English market during the past month is interesting for several reasons. It foreshadows an improved tone towards British Columbian mines in London. Mr. Wright's success as a promoter has always been due to the fact that he keeps a little ahead of the market. The best time to float a property is during a period of stagnation, provided that there are in existence indications that that period of stagnation is coming to an end. The reason for that is that the most crucial time in a company's existence, from the promoters' point of view, is when the first settlement has taken place, and actual dealings in the shares begin. The price of the shares must then be kept up and the pub lic must absorb the shares above the price at which, on call option underwriting contract and so forth, the professional manipulators have got them. If that is not done the credit of the promoter is damaged for future issues and his opportunity to realize in cash the vast profits represented by the difference between the buying and selling price of the property is gone. It is therefore certain that Mr. Wright looks for a good British Columbian market during the next half year. His reasons for doing so are not probably essentially different from those advanced in the Record last month and are in all likelihood founded upon as intimate an acquaintance with the market conditions prevailing as the Record possesses of the trend of events among the mines. Not less important than the indication given by this promotion of a general market improvement is its. bearing upon the prosperity of Rossland. The capital of the company is fixed at £600,000. The earning capacity of the group of mines put at 17 per cent, upon that capital or £102,000, roughly speaking, $500,000. Fifty per cent, of the gross output of the mines is reckoned in Mr. Macdonald's report as net profits. This places the annual output form this group as $1,000,000, a very satisfactory increase to the output of Rossland from sources that have never contributed anything appreciable before. And it means $500,000 a year spent in labour, supplies and other expenses incidental to the industry. It also means over 60,000 tons added to the annual output of ore from the Trail Creek district. There is no reasonable doubt that these expectations will be realized. Unless shipments begin very shortly and are kept up to the dividend-paying mark the company cannot be successful and the English investors will not take the issue. Nor is it to be conceived that any false representations would have been made as to the capacity of the mine where these would so shortly be put to the test. The property contains the Josie, Poorman, Annie, Annie Fraction, Rockingham and No. 1. These claims, most of "which are overlapping or fractional, have cost the British America Corporation about £200,000 inclusive of the development work done upon them. They are now capable of paying dividends upon £600,000, of which £50,000 is working capital; so that the British America Corporation has made a profit of £350,000 on the transaction. Or let it be granted that discounts and expenses of flotation run away with £50,000, a net profit of £300,000 is still left. It must be confessed that mining investments are occasionally profitable. Of course it is only fair to reason that profit of 150 per cent, on one transaction is not too high a scale when balanced against the probability of total loss on others. The British America Corporation has been exceptionally fortunate. Its confidence in the Rossland mineral belt has not been misplaced and its enormous expenditure of capital to develop a second Butte in British Columbia is already being crowned with success. Our sister mining camp of Republic, in which so much Canadian capital is invested, is reviving and has now reached the stage of solid steady production. The Mountain Lion mill has been steadily producing for some time back and is handling 100 tons of ore a day. The custom mill at Republic is also running with a capacity of 50 tons a day. A tremendous traffic in machinery is being carried on by freight waggons from Columbia to Republic. At one time the Columbia freight yard had THE MINING RECORD. 2-!5 2,ooo tons of machinery for Republic lying ready for transhipment. And quite an array it made. This machinery should all be installed before winter sets in and an era of very active production follow. It is very welcome news that with an average rate of shipment of about 16,000 tons a month the Le Roi mine is earning 25 per cent, on its very large capital. The fact that the ore now shipped averages $16.00 a ton is the explanation. During last year the average Value of the ore shipped was barely $13.00 a ton, and most calculations as to the dividend earning capacity of the mine were based on a net profit of $5.00 per ton. A net profit of $8.00 per ton, which is 50 per cent, of the gross value of the ore, makes a vast difference. It is evident from the results obtained that production is systematized in a way it never was before. Not only is the gross tonnage shipped greater but the discrimination between ore and waste is closer, or else the ore bodies in the mine have shown a sudden increase in value, which is not likely. The result must be as gratifying to Le Roi shareholders as it is likely to be beneficial to the mining industry in British Columbia. British Columbia needs the stimulus caused by the discovery of a new camp. The discovery of the silver-lead mines of Ainsworth brought the first influx of white men into West Kootenay. The discovery of the Silver King on Toad Mountain founded the town of Nelson, built a railway between the Columbia River and Kootenay Lake and gave West Kootenay a certain standing as a district of the province. The discovery of the Slocan caused a tremendous influx of money and men from the United States and for a brief period heralded British Columbia as the Eldorado of the North American Continent. The discovery of Trail Creek in the autumn of 1894 (its real discovery), renovated British Columbia as a gold-producing country, led to the building of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, the opening up of great coal mines, the steady and orderly development of the Boundary country, the introduction into British Columbia of English capital in adequate amounts, and the wildest furore of mining excitement among the conservative and stolid population of Eastern Canada which was ever seen. Since then there has been a great filling in of corners of the mining area. Individual mines have been developed here and there with notable success under the influence of the stimulus then given. The Boundary country, the Nelson gold belt, Ymir, the San Eugene and the North Star in East Kootenay, as well as the Cariboo mine to the west, are all praiseworthy examples of solid progress. But now a new camp is needed. Our prospectors are all scattered over the country locating claims which they do not possess the power to attract capital towards. Nothing new of sufficient importance has been discovered to serve in itself as the magnet at once of prospectors, mining men and capitalists. Nature has not seen fit to disclose a new mineral belt of sufficient promise to focus the wandering attention of everyone. And yet there is that in the air which indicates that it will not be long before some such phenomenon will be made manifest whether in the back ranges of East Kootenay, or in the gold range away among the headquarters of the Kettle River, or in some new and wholly unexpected direction. It will be remembered by many who were interested in mining at the time when silver fell finally and forever to about one-half its former value, that it was felt that the mining regions would be depleted of their population, that industry would languish, and that prospecting for mines would yield precedence as a profitable occupation to raising chickens and herding sheep. This was by no means what happened. The gold resources of the country took the place of silver and mining was placed upon a more real solid and satisfactory basis than ever before. At the present time the prospecting forces of Kootenay and of Yale are released and are wandering aimlessly. Mining men, promoters and stock brokers are at a standstill also, not merely because capital has received a severe chill in relation to the province, but also because there is no new territory just at present attracting everyone's attention at the same time. All this muscle, intelligence and energy must find an outlet somewhere. No one doubts that there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, that there are as good mineral belts waiting to be discovered as the Slocan and Trail Creek ever were. Out of the very need for fresh discoveries grows the likelihood of them. The present season also is propitious. The snow went early, giving the certainty of a longer period than usual for prospecting. The extent to which the weather injured the development of the province last year cannot be measured because there is no rule to measure it by. But literally as well as metaphorically a damper was put upon all prospecting and the area explored was very much circumscribed. But this year promises better, and it will be remarkable if our knowledge of the mineral resources in Southern British Columbia is not extended in a very conspicuous degree. Our Boundary Creek correspondent writes: "Regarding the Boundary Creek Mining & Milling Company, Ltd., of Greenwood, your information to the effect that shareholders have been kept absolutely in the dark as to the operations of the company, is not, in my opinon, correct, and the statement of the Scotch 'Investor' that since he bought stock in the company in 1897 he has received absolutely no information as to its operations is to me inexplciable since I know of my own personal knowledge that at least two circulars —a copy of one of which I enclose—were mailed in 1898 to each non-resident shareholder on the company's share register. I cannot now go fully into the present position of the company for the reason that even the directors themselves must await the expected early arrival from England of a representative of the London & Canada Syndicate, Ltd., which in 1898 secured an option on 480,000 shares, these being the balance of the company's treasury stock. Writing from memory I may state that the syndicate took up, I think it was, 270,000 shares on the agreed terms and the proceeds were regularly expended under the direction of a representative of the syndicate resident in Rossland acting with the local directors. Unfortunately for the company, however, so it is most positively stated by the then foreman of the mine, an English expert who had been instructed to examine the property on behalf of the syndicate, did not in any sufficient manner make an examination. It is affirmed that notwithstanding his merest cursory look over one or possibly two of the dozen or more claims owned by the company, this 'expert' reported to the syndicate that the properties were 'no good' or had 'no ore.' Yet at the very time the syndicate was decid- mS 246 THE MINING RECORD. ing to suspend work one car load of ore averaging about $150 per ton—I am still quoting from memory, but the exact returns were sent by myself to at least three newspapers, including the Record, and were read by me as well in Vancouver, Rossland, Spokane and local newspapers—and shortly afterwards a second carload were sent to the Canadian Pacific Company's smelter at Trail. The proceeds of this ore— between $3,000 and $4,000—were expended in further opening up the Gold Bug, a claim adjoining the company's group, and on which an option to purchase was obtained by the company in 1899. The question of taking up this option and of more of the shares in the company under the agreement first above mentioned will doubtless be fully gone into when the representative from England arrives. Meanwhile shareholders may rest assured that local interests are too strong to let the claims go. They are all Crown granted, but until some arrangement can be made to provide more capital so as to allow of a resumption of work, no further progress can be made. If the secretary has not supplied full information it is because latterly he has not been aware of what the syndicate will do. Further the omission to hold annual meetings is blameable to the shareholders themselves, for although meetings were regularly convened in 1899 and 1900 there was not on either occasion the requisite statutory number present—so many shareholders being non-resident—to allow of any business being transacted. I hope to be in a position next month to write something definite as to the future operations of the company." Remarkably good reports of general progress and the re-awakened interest of capital are to hand from the Boundary country. The B. C, the Winnipeg, and the Brandon and Golden Crown are now between them shipping in the neighbourhood of 1,000 tons of ore a week to the Trail smelter. The City of Paris has already shipped 1,500 tons of ore to the Granby smelter at Grand Forks. It is as yet the day of small things in the Boundary country, but the indications are most encouraging that even with only six months remaining of the year, it will be a factor in the aggregate production. The people of the Boundary country must be naturally well pleased to learn that there is every probability of the early establishment in their district of another smelter—in this instance on the new hot and cold blast system of pyritic smelting and of a daily capacity of 300 tons. It is stated by Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, of Spokane, who acts for the smelter company, that the plant is already ordered, whilst a smelter site will promptly be chosen. The principal on which the new smelter is to work is that adopted with success at Leadville, Colorado, where tests are reported to have shown that the system is well adapted for the treatment of much of the ore of the Boundary country. The Boundary mining country is certainly now beginning to make a substantial first mark as smelter and shipments have already there reached a basis of 1,000 tons a week, most at present going to Trail, though several thousand tons of ore are now waiting treatment at the Granby smelter, Grand Forks. Up to date at least 6,000 tons of Boundary ore have this season been sent to Trail and exclusive of the mine workers of the North Fork section and the men of the Granby smelter, there are already at least 600 workers now engaged in direct connection with Boundary mining. Hence as regards copper output, Boundary should certainly by the end of the year have revealed itself as by no means a bad second to Trail Creek amongst the districts of British Columbia. And as Texada Island and the Mount Sicker district of Vancouver Island are together now shipping 2,000 tons a month of copper ores, our province can no longer be deemed as regards substantial copper output, a "one camp" region. For some unexplained reason the Slocan still lags behind. True it is that the production during May showed an increase, but not nearly so great an increase as might reasonably have been expected. During the period of the shut-down somewhere in the neighbourhood of 300 men were employed throughout the Slocan in doing dead work under contract, and in making imporvements on the surface. Surely some reserve of ore was accumulated during that time. So that a rate of production in excess of the average capacity of the district might have been expected for some time at least after the difficulties were adjusted. But this has not been the case. The Slocan, like an influenza patient, seems to have hard work recovering its tone. The output of ore for this year compares very unfavourably with both that of last year and of the year before. It is sincerely to be hoped that the latter half of the year will show a change and a cumulative increase in the amount of ore shipped sufficient to replace the Slocan in its high position as one of the great productive districts of the province. It remains to be seen whether or not a reported strike of good nickel ore near Trout Lake will prove of profitable workable extent and value, and although further efforts are about to be made to work mica claims in the Tete Jeune Cache country, these last are at present so far from settlements and difficult of access, that much cannot be expected of them in the present. However, both cases suggest possibilities of valuable future additions to the mining opportunities of our province. The miners and local press of Rossland are protesting, against an apparently organized influx of Italian labour into the mines of the camp. They together urge that it is desirable that the influx of this class of labour be confined as far as possible to moderate dimensions, the Italian mine workers comparing badly socially with other Western labourers. There is much to be said for this Western miners' view of Italian labour, but our Westerners must, if they wish to reduce the influx and employment of Italian workers to small proportions, be reasonable and conciliatory, and not immoderate and aggressive in their attitude towards employing capitalists. It is impossible to.exaggerate the satisfaction felt by the Western workers of this province over the fact that Chinese colliery labour is now being very substantially replaced by white, in Messrs. Dunsmuir's extensive Extension collieries. It is generally hoped that there will no such fate befall any of our great mine industries as that which has happened in the case of our greatest fishery, ordinary employment in THE MINING RECORD. 247 which it seems to be becoming almost a monopoly for the Japanese and the Chinaman. The several experts who have lately visited the Britannia group and other neighbouring partly developed copper claims on Howe Sound agree that the deposits appear from numerous present indications afforded by early development work to be exceptionally large. This fact and the cheapness of local working, concentrating and smelting being in their opinion more than ample set off to the but moderate grade which the ore values represent.. It seems further to be agreed that to work profitably and successfully each of the most promising of the groups— the Britannia being a case in point—a very large capital running from a minimum of $1,000,000 upwards, —exclusive of purchase moneys—will be required, so, too, skilled and economic up-to-date management and excellent plant. Granted these things, well known experts, including Mr. W. M. Brewer, believe that there is every likelihood of the Howe Sound district developing one or more of the largest front rank copper mining properties on this continent. Mr. Brewer, who is usually a cautious man, goes so far as to state that in his opinion, so good are the Howe Sound facilities in respect of water power, coke, lime and iron fluxes and cheapness of water transport, that mines in the district ought to be workable as cheaply as any containing like metal ores, that are to be found in the length and breadth of the United States, with the one exception of the mines of Dutch Town, Tennessee, where whilst all other conditions tend to cheapness, labour, negro and white, is obtainable at $1.00 per day—a rate, of course, neither attainable nor socially desirable here in British Columbia. The Howe Sound deposits are traceable on both sides of the Sound, and appear, though the country is yet comparatively little explored, to run for many miles. Indeed, expert opinion holds that it is possible that the same formation may be found to extend as far as the North Arm of Burrard Inlet. Vancouver is naturally greatly interested in these Howe Sound possibilities, as if even one group of claims should be opened up and worked successfully, it would mean the employment of several millions of dollars capital and several hundred wage- earners, thus placing, including workers' wives and families, a population of 1,500 to 2,000 large and well paid consumers at a point where settlers are now counted only by units and have a rather hard fight for a living, as fishermen and tillers of the soil. Our coal and coke output is enlarging very satisfactorily, and as we are glad to note, with the adjunct of a larger employment of Western labour, which is rapidly replacing that of the Chinese colliers on Vancouver Island. It is stated that the last Chinese collier has now left the Alexandria and Extension mines and that meanwhile nearly half the Mongolians at Union and Comox have been replaced by white workers with more of the latter to follow. Present indications suggest a gain in the provincial coal and coke output for the year of probably 30 per cent., bringing the aggregate yield within measureable ■ distance of the two million ton mark, last year's coal and coke output having been one of rather over 1,340,000 tons. We may at least fairly anticipate, with the advancing output in the Island colliers and the big mining devel- aggregate opments in the Crow's Nest district, an „.,.,,. ..,M. coal and coke yield for the year of 1,600,000 tons, rep resenting an approximate value of $5,000,000 or over a million pounds Stirling. Meanwhile it is interesting to note what the older Maritime and colliery Province of Nova Scotia is doing, as regards its coal output. This all returns show to be very rapidly increasing just now, as a result largely of a big development of an associated iron and steel industry fostered by American capital. The outcome is an advance of Nova Scotia's coal yield for the first five months of this year, representing a gain of over 85 per cent, on that of the like months of 1899, the output for the respective periods being 283,844 tons and 525,890 tons respectively. Hence the coal output alone of Nova Scotia will this year largely exceed two million tons with much coke production to add. A satisfactory deduction from these facts and statistics is that the two great Maritime Provinces of Canada, one on the Atlantic, the other on the Pacific, are now well on the way towards ultimately making the Dominion rank very high among the coal producers of the world and as a direct consequence, high also amongst the manufacturing and industrial nations. It is already significant, as stated by one of Canada's leading bank directors the other day in Montreal, that steam coal can now be supplied in that city as cheaply as it is in Glasgow under the present coal price conditions of the United Kingdom. Our Dominion should with certainly much enlarged gold outputs from the Yukon, from our own province, from the Rat Portage district of Manitoba and from Nova Scotia, take at the end of this year a fourth instead of a fifth place amongst the gold producing countries of the world. This at least is suggested by the gold figures of last year from which it would appear that Australasia then ranked first in the world with an output of over $79,000,000, the Transvaal coming next with one of nearly $73,000,000, the United States following hard on the Transvaal, and Russia coming fourth on the list with nearly $24,000,- 000 and Canada fifth with over $21,000,000 of gold output. The Chinese and other frontier troubles will probably prevent any large advance of Russia's Siberian gold yield this year and already the Yukon has added several millions of gold output to what it made on behalf of the Dominion last year. It is satisfactory to note that there is every likelihood of a rigid investigation under judicial authority, of the Morris Catton frauds in respect of Yukon company flotations. A prosecution should be well in order of the chief offender, and we trust that one outcome of the case will at any rate be the prevention of any future participation of British Columbian provincial ministers—however innocently intended— in mining flotations got up by men of very doubtful financial status and dubious records. The signs of the times in East Kootenay are distinctly encouraging. Rich finds, together with a beginning of high-grade ore shipments are reported from the Windermere district and the St._ Eugene group of mines near Moyie are being so busily worked and developed that the latest monthly pay-roll of 248 THE MINING RECORD. its workers represented the substantial outlay of $17,000. OUR MINING PROGRESS. A REVIEW OF MINISTER OE MINES REPORT. (By 1ST. C. Schou.) THE report of the Provincial Minister of Mines for last year reflects great credit on the endeavours of all concerned, being as usual a well-compiled, interesting and suggestive state paper, which gives as accurate an account as it is well possible to make of the progress, present condition and prospects of our mining industry. A special word of praise is due in connection with the report to Mr. Wm. F. Robertson, the Provincial Mineralogist, who is primarily responsible for the issue of the report, and due acknowledgment must also be made of the aid rendered by many most capable mining officials and mining industrialists. And as usual, the printing, illustrations, maps, and diagrams which supplement the verbal information of the report reflect great credit upon Colonel Wolfenden, the Queen's Printer and his capable staff. Turning to the subject matter of the report itself, we find on the whole much cause for congratulation in respect of the general progress of our mining although, as a result in part of a labour dispute in West Kootenays, now happily for some time ended and of silver, the immediate advance made in 1899 was rather less than was previously anticipated. But as the report shows a vast amount of development work was then done and is now being continued, the results of which are telling very materially on the mining of this year and will tell far more significantly in the very early future. Meanwhile the report shows that even now, if we except the gold output of the Yukon Territory, the coal and metal output of British Columbia exceeds considerably in amount and value the aggregated yield of all the other provinces of Canada. Thus whilst British Columbia's output of gold, silver, copper, lead, coal and coke reached in 1898 a total worth of $10,795,361, the other provinces of Canada yielded in gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, nickel, coal and coke a value of $9,274,398. And though the like statistics for the remaining provinces of Canada were not available at the time of the issue of the report for detailed comparison there is no doubt that British Columbia's mining yield of $12,393,131 similarly counterbalanced the like output of all the remainder of Canada with the exception of the Yukon Territory. In gold, silver and lead the predominence of British Columbia over the other provinces of Canada is very marked indeed. In copper the output of the remainder of Canada exceeds our own by a fair percentage and thanks to Nova Scotia's large coal output, the same may be said of the rest of Canada's colliery yield. In nickel, too, British Columbia is a non-producer, though some finds of the ore have been lately reported, whilst Ontario yields nearly $2,000,000 worth of that metal per annum and we are passed, too, as regards iron output. But British Columbia's yield of the precious metals and lead so far overtops that of the other provinces as to make our province more than equal at present as a mineral producer to all the others combined. The report next shows, that comparing the provinces mining yield of 1899 with that of the previous year, the gain of the twelvemonth reached the goodly amount of over 13 per cent., the respective values being $10,906,861 in 1898 and $12,393,131 in 1899. Our gold yield yast year reached its highest value on record in a gold mining history, which with us now dates back more than forty years, the yield of placer mining, erstwhile the only source of our gold output, now taking second place, though substantially enlarging, to our lode gold output got in connection chiefly with copper working. Our gold output of 1S99 reached a value of $4,202,473, a gain oi $1,357,910 upon 1898 and an advance of over 47 per cent, for the year. Only in the palmiest days of old Cariboo's placer production in 1863 did British Columbia's gold yield reach aught approaching that of last year and the '63 output was rather less than $4,000,000—$3,- 913,000 in fact. Our gold output in respect alike of placer and hydraulic gravel and lode mining is even now small by comparison with what it will shortly and even this year should show a marked advance upon the gold output of 1898. In that year our placer output, thanks entirely to the Atlin gravels, rose in worth from $643,- 346 to $1,344,900 or rather less than a third of our total gold output of the year. The Atlin yield was then, too, got for the most part by comparatively primitive means, hydraulicing being only now in course of gradual introduction in that new field and complications as to claim titles also prevented a good deal of Atlin productive development. The results of 1899, however, indicate with a yield of $800,000 worth of gold, that"Atlin is a fair placer country for a moderate number of workers, but likely to make a much larger production by the successful application of hydraulicing, though we cannot justly Haim that it will become a rich second Yukon. There is, however, in addition, some promise of copper in the Atlin country, the more exact worth of which the early future should tell. As regards the hydraulic gold gravel workings in Cariboo, in respect of which there is now a total actual capital invested—largely in costly plant and ditching—representing considerably more than $5,000,000, the returns of 1899 were somewhat disappointing, the gold output of the district being $381,900 or rather less than that of 1898. But the vast amount of good work done there is soon bound to tell though progress is necessarily slow and we may hope for better returns this year and therefore for more rapid advance. And whenever and the sooner it comes the better railroad transport is available for Cariboo, the transformation of that district as a gold producer will probably be astonishing. Most of the province's gold output of last year— nearly two-thirds of it in fact—was, however, derived, as it is being now, from the copper workings of the Rossland district aided by fairly considerable initial outputs of free milling gold from about Ymir and Nelson and some yield also from the Camp McKinney district. We are, however, also to give this year an appreciable addition to our lode gold yield from the bye-products of copper mining operations which marked as it was by excellent development work noted in the report of 1899, has now became a very substantial metal producer. As regards silver, as a result of the labour trouble and depreciation of value already mentioned, British Columbia's yield of last year came to 2,939,413 ounces as against 4,292,401 ounces in 1898, and realized a value of $1,663,708, compared with a worth of $2,- THE MINING RECORD. 249 37S341 in the previous year. The decline of value amounted therefore in the case of silver, to nearly 30 per cent. There was naturally a simultaneous fall in the output of lead, usually here mined together with silver in combined ores. This output came to a value of $878,870, as against a lead worth of $1,077,581 in 1898. Meanwhile silver depreciation continues though there are signs of a check, but the labour difficulty has been removed. And as there is increasing activity in the rich silver-lead district of the Slocan and East Kootenay is very considerably increasing its output, especially from groups of mines in the Moyie district, we have every reason to hope that by the end of 1900, our silver yield for the year will again pass the $2,000,000 mark and probably nearly if not quite reach the figures of 1898. Our lead output for the year should simultaneously rise in worth. Our province's copper resources are even now only beginning to be tapped, but British Columbia's yield of this metal is likely in the early future to become even more important than that of gold. The growth of our copper mining industry, yet in its infancy, is very encouraging. Thus the copper output of our province was in 1897 worth $266,258. It, rose to $874,871 in 1898 and last year reached $1,351,453 in the aggregate. The gain on the year thus amounted to 54 per cent., although the Boundary country had not then begun to produce, and the Coast and Island districts made a small initial yield, and the Nelson Camp output temporarily declined. Rossland's copper yield, however, increased by 55 per cent, in value. The advance of the province's copper output in extent and value last year was therefore substantial, but the worth of this season's output, despite temporary stoppages of production at some of the big Trail Creek mines, largely exceed that of last year. Rossland's copper output will improve very considerably upon that of 1899, whilst the Mount Sicker district of Vancouver Island and the Boundary country, more especially the latter, which has already several richly producing mines, are now beginning to be fair copper producers. We may, therefore, confidently expect the copper output of the province this year to reach for the first time the $2,000,000 mark, with promise of vastly larger things to come very shortly. Last but not least, comes our colliery industry, the annual worth of which ranks fairly revel with that of gold. The value of British Columbia's coal and coke output of last year was in fact $4,090,227, thus representing a worth only less than that of our gold output by about $112,000. Last year's provincial coal output of $1,306,324 tons represented for us, a record yield, in amount and value alike exceeding considerably that of the preceding and best previous year. The value of our coal yield was in 1899 $3,918,972, the coke output adding a worth of $171,255. And now that the Vancouver Island collieries are working full time with more white and less Oriental labour and the Crow's Nest coal and coke production is also increasing rapidly. Hence there is excellent reason to anticipate that the present year will again prove a "best on record," for our collieries. We have in addition to the above greater resources of our mineral output, large subsidiary opportunities, the worth of which could only be roughly estimated, almost certainly at an undervalue in the report. These resources include iron, in respect of which there is a very big ultimate future, our resources being vast, though as yet only a few thousand tons of our iron are being annually used for fluxing. Other valuable possibilities as yet comparatively little used are excellent building stone, the output of which in 1899 realized $206,000. There are great provincial opportunities also in marble quarrying, fine brick and terra cotta and tile manufacturing and we are by no means without hope that something considerable will in the future result from deposits—existing in our province, but as yet either wholly or almost wholly unworked— representing platinum, mica and quick-silver. Some few words should in conclusion be said, as to the smelting industry of the province, which is of course intimately associated with it3 mining. This industry is already assuming goodly dimensions and is, as the Provincial Mining Report briefly indicates, certain to grow larger, until it becomes an occupation employing many times the present number of its workers, already counted at several hundred. The oldest provincial smelter is that of the Hall Mines, Limited, at Nelson, which whilst mainly devoted to the treatment of the ores of that and the Slocan district, has also dealt with large quantities of copper. Difficulties connected with the management of the general undertaking, caused during the latter part of last year a suspension of operations here, but there is every prospect now of resumed work on a large scale. The busiest present B. C. smelter is, however that of Trail, which is working all the time, fairly to the limit of its capacity, treating the ores from Trail Creek, with latterly also much Boundary ore which serves as a good flux. The Trail smelter is also making a big and successful bid for much of the silver-lead output of tne Slocan district and is under the management of Mr. W. H. Ald- ridge, prospering exceedingly and affording steady employment to several hundred workers.. A smaller but busy smelter is now well at work also at Van Anda on Texada Island, and whilst primarily intended to treat the copper ore of the Van Anda mine, with the ownership of which it is associated, is also doing an immense custom business. There will also almost immediately be at work in the Boundary country—indeed first operations have there begun at the Granby smelter—two large smelters at Grand Forks and Greenwood respectively. That at Grand Forks, owned by the Granby Company and thus named, will have a preliminary daily capacity of 500 tons and though it will primarily treat the ores of the City of Paris group, the old Ironsides and the Knob Hill, with which the company owning the smelter is closely connected, the Granby concern will also do a large customs business and probably soon enlarge greatly its first capacity. Already its associated mines have shipped several thousands of tons to it and others will shortly follow suit. Another Boundary smelter, that of the B. C. Copper Company at Greenwood, which has associated with it the Mother Lode and other copper claims in Deadwood Camp, will also begin work very shortly, with a daily capacity of 250 tons, and tne construction of a third smelter, to treat sulphide copper ores on the hot and cold air blast principle, is likely to be commenced very shortly by the Standard Copper Co. of Quebec, at some suitable point in Boundary. To these smelters, with the exception of the last projected one, the report makes brief, perhaps rather too brief reference. THE MINING RECORD. We have now trespassed long on the patience of our readers, but the importance of the official yearly report of British Columbia's Minister of Mines called necessarily for exceptionally detailed reference and discussion, more indeed, than we have been able to give it above. The price of the report, which may be obtained from the Queen's Printer, in Victoria or through any bookseller in the province, is only 50 cents, and it certainly should enter the hands of almost everybody who is in any wise interested in British Columbia mining. TECHNICAL PERIODICALS. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY—FEBRUARY AND MARCH. I. i T"1 HE Calcareous Concretions of Kettle Point, T Lambton County, Ontario," by Reginald A. Daly. Kettle Point is situated at the southern extremity of Lake Huron. The concretions referred to occur in bituminous shales which are brownish gray to black in colour, well laminated and very fissile. In the immediate vicinity of a concretion the shales depart from their horizontal attitude to assume an archlike form above, and a cup-like depression below the concretion. The concretions consist of crystallized calcium carbonate with crystals arranged radially. In addition to the radial structure there is often a concentric banding due, apparently to the varying conditions of growth. In shape they are spheres or spheroids with an average diameter of two feet. The centre of concentration is a crystal of calcite. The crystallization of the concretion and the formation of the space in which it lies are believed to be contemporaneous. Bicarbonated water has undoubtedly been the source of the calcite. The energy that occasioned the deformation is attributed to the change of volume caused by the breaking up of the bicarbonated water into a monacarbonate deposited on the central crystal, and a fluid bi-product consisting of a weakened solution of bicarbonate, and of carbon dioxide. Six good photographs, showing the concretions in situ admirably illustrate the article. During the war of 1812 a large amount of saltpetre, —potassium nitrate, was taken from the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, for the manufacture of gunpowder. The caves of Alabama and Georgia yielded a similar supply to the Southerners in their war with the North. Wm. H. Hess believes that the nitrates were deposited by water infiltrating from the surface. The water on reaching a cave would deposit its burden as cavern mud, a large proportion of which would consist of nitrates. For cogent reasons Hess rejects the view commonly accepted, that the nitrates are due to bat-guano. The Record of Glaciers for 1898 shows that, in the Rocky Mountains the upper Bow Glacier is slowly advancing, and that the Illecillewaet has retreated 100-150 metres since 1888. John C. Branner comparing the tropical ant with the temperate earthworm as a geological agent ascribes to the former the greater importance. In Brazil, ant-hills are from 3-14 feet high and 10-30 feet across the base. The ants, by their underground passages open up the rocks to decay. "The Nomenclature of Feldspathic Cranolites," by H. W. Turner, continues the discussion on rock classi fication begun by Van Hise in the Journal and continued by Hobbs. The articles written by these three men indicate the diverse opinions held on the same subject and the lack of concerted action on the part of peterographs. It is devoutly to be hoped that at the International Geological Congress to be held at Paris in June, something may be done to harmonize the conflicting systems of rock classification. "The Properties of Building Stones and Methods of determining their value" is treated in an interesting manner by E. R. Buckley. He discusses the colour, durability, and external causes of decay of the building stones. In another article he will continue his subject, referring to quarry observations, building inspection, and laboratory tests. Lucidly written the article contains many hints valuable to the quarry- man, stonemason and architect. "The Geology of the White Sands of New Mexico," by C. L. Herrick. These white sands cover an area, triangular in shape, of 350 square miles. The whiteness is due to gypsum. Ilustrated by sketch map and two plates of Permian fossils. Among the books reviewed, is a new edition of Kemp's "Ore Deposits of the United States and Canada"—one of the most valuable works of the kind, that exists. A feature of the new edition is the enlarged space given to Canadian mining districts. BOUNDARY CREEK MINING AND MILLING COMPANY, LTD. j A SPECIAL general meeting of the shareholders in the Boundary Creek Mining and Milling Co., Ltd., was held at Greenwood last Thursday afternoon. 26th inst. The meeting had been convened at the request of several shareholders who were dissatisfied with the inaction of the company during the greater part of the twelve months just past, but as after the meeting had been arranged for, negotiations that had been proceeding for several weeks for the sale of the unallotted treasury stock, were brought to a head by Mr. D. A. Holbrook, president of the company and the largest shareholder in it. the business transacted at the meeting was restricted to the passing of a reso- ution bearing upon the result of these negotiations. The chair was taken by the president, and there were represented either personally or by proxy 748,- 058 shares, or more than two-thirds of the 916,535 issued shares. Of the balance of the 1,500,000 shares constituting the capital stock of the company, 100,000 are held in abeyance pending a final settlement of matters connected with the re-sale to Mr. Thos. McDonnell of the 560 acres of land purchased from him by the company a year ago and for which they were part of the consideration; 3,465 are reserved to meet contingent liabilities payable in stock, and 480,000 are now under option in accordance with the following resolution unanimously passed at a directors' meeting held on the nth inst, and which was read to the meeting. "That an option be given to the London and Canada Syndicate, Ltd., of 36 Lombard street, London, England, upon all of the unallotted treasury stock in the company, amounting to about 480,000 shares, for a period of eighteen months upon the conditions that the first 250,000 shares shall be delivered upon the payment of five cents per share to the credit of the company, and the THE MINING RECORD. 251 remainder upon payment therefor of ten cents per share. That of the 250,000 shares 50,000 shall be taken up within sixty days at five cents per share, and a further 50,000 within one hundred and twenty days, also at five cents per share. This option to be upon condition that upon failure to take up the said shares within 60 says and 120 days respectively as aforementioned, the option shall cease and be at the end. The shares to be issued in the name of D. W. Holbrook as trustee for the company and to be placed in the Bank of Montreal, Rossland, in escrow upon the foregoing terms." The instructions from the purchasing syndicate to the bank in connection with the transaction were also read. From these it was learned that the following are among the conditions agreed to: That Mr. D. A. Holbrook should sell to the syndicate 300,000 shares of his vendor's stock for the sum of $3,000, (this being a concession made by Mr. Holbrook to induce the syndicate to purchase the treasury stock at the prices named above); that the syndicate be granted the right to nominate and elect a majority of the board of directors, some of the present directors to resign their seats if called upon to do so to allow of this right being exercised; a managing director to be appointed by the syndicate and he to have full power to decide as to the method of working the company's properties; and control of all expenditure and that after payment by the syndicate for 100,000 shares at five cents per share as provided in the option the balance of the shares is to be taken up by the syndicate as in its judgment the proceeds thereof may be required for development work on the company's mineral claims. In reply to enquiries Mr. Holbrook stated that he had already been paid the $3,000 for his shares, and that representatives of. the syndicate were expected to be at Boundary Creek within ten days to arrange for commencing work, the proposal being to sink the shaft on the G. A. R. claim (now about 40 feet in depth) to 100 feet and to extend the tunnel on the D. A., as shall be determined upon an examination of the existing workings on this claim. After this information had been given it was unanimously resolved by the meeting: "That the action of the directors at their meeting held on the nth inst. for the sale of 480,000 shares of treasury stock to the London and Canada Syndicate, Ltd., be and hereby is approved." This concluded the business. It was stated at the meeting that the company's solicitor had already taken steps to procure Crown grants for the company's group of twelve claims; and that owing to the removal to Midway of Mr. E. Jacobs, Mr. J. W. Nelson had been appointed secre- tarv-treasurer of the company in his stead. MINING PLANTS IN THE TRICT. BOUNDARY DIS- (By E. Jacobs.) THE following statement of the mining machinery, plant, etc., in the Boundary district will serve to convey some idea of the progress made, in the direction of equipping the mines of the district with steam power plants, during the time that has elapsed since the first steam plant to be operated in the district was, in January, 1897, installed at the Jewel mine, Long Lake Camp. In comparing the size and capacity of most of the undermentioned plants with those of older mining districts, it must be borne in mind that the Boundary district has until lately been without railway transportation facilities, so that the expense of getting in even the plants now in use was compara tively heavy and in some cases almost prohibitory. Then, too, the capital immediately available for mine equipment has in most instances been quite inadequate. However, the day of small things in the Boundary country is passing away and the period of ore production and shipment and the resulting receipt of returns from the smelter, is now being entered upon. Before the current year closes the smelters at Greenwood and Grand Forks should (like the Trail smelter, also a competitor for Boundary ores) have overcome all preliminary difficulties and have settled down to economic and expeditious treatment of the product of the mines. All the branch railway lines to the mines should within the same time be completed and in effective working order and be supplied with a sufficient number of ore cars to meet the requirements of shipping mines, of which there should by that time be at least a dozen equal to together maintaining a continuous minimum output of five thousand tons of ore per week. The anticipations appear to be well warranted by the actual condition and prospects of the district mines, ten or twelve of which to-day have their development work sufficiently far advanced to allow of ore-stopiug being commenced and continued. That they may be more than fully realized is the earnest hope of all who have at heart the material advancement of the Boundary district, and with it that of the province at large. The names of several mining camps in which the respective mines are situate also appear below. GREENWOOD (OR PHOENIX) CAMP. Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria.—Three 80- horsepower horizontal return tubular boilers; a 10- drill duplex compound condensing Rand air compressor ; one 42 feet by 16 inch and three 36 feet by 8 inch air receivers; twelve 3^ Little Giant drills; one 50-horsepower, two 30-horsepower and two 20-horse- engines; two 8-horsepower portable engines; two station pumps—one 14x7x12 Knowles and one size E Cameron—capacity of each 300 gallons per minute; three sinking pumps—one No. 5 Cameron, one 10x7x5x10 Knowles and one 5-|x 3§x8 Knowles; one tank pump, capacity 60 gallons per minute, with 15-horsepower upright boiler; one 4^x2^x4 Snow duplex pump; a 15-horsepower electric engine and a 50-light dynamo; safety cage, buckets, ore cars, etc. [Note.—A 10-drill Rand air compressor with Wheeler's surface condenser, and two 80-horsepower horizontal return tubular boilers, have been ordered for the Knob Hill.] Brooklyn and Stemwinder.—Two 40-horsepower horizontal return tubular boilers, one 25-horsepower upright boiler, 5-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor, 36 feet by 8 inches air receiver, four machine drills, two 16-horsepower hoisting engines, two No. 7 Cameron sinking pumps. Gold Drop—One 40-horsepower locomotive boiler, 4-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor, 36 feet by 8 inches air receiver, three machine drills, 5^x3^x5 inch Snow duplex pump. War Eagle.—One 80-horsepower horizontal return tubular boiler, half of a 10-drill Rand duplex air compressor, 42 feet x 10 inch air receiver, three 3^ Little Giant drills, 20-horsepower hoisting engine, 14x7x12 Knowles station pump, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, 4^x2jx4 boiler feed pump, Wainwright feed water heater. Snowshoe.—One 70-horsepower horizontal tubular boiler, one 40-horsepower locomotive boiler, 12x8 straight line Rand air compressor, 28 feetx 10 inch air receiver, three 3^ and two 3^ Little Giant drills, // +/d power hoisting hoisting 252 THE MINING RECORD. 6£x8 hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, power locomotive boiler, 10x12 Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor, 28 feet by 6 inch air receiver, three 3? DEADWOOD CAMP. Mother Lode.—Two 60-horsepower horizontal return tubular boilers, 18x24 Ingersoll-Sergeant straight line air compressor, 48 feet by 10 inches air receiver, two 3J Little Giant and three E 24 drills, 7-} xio hoisting engine, two 5x8 Bacon hoisting engines, 10-horsepower Dake engine and blower, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, one 4^x2^x4 and one 3x2x3 boiler feed pumps, Lawrie feed water heater, 10-horsepower Lively electric light engine and dynamo, safety cage, ten ore cars, etc. The following new Ingersoll-Sergeant condensing plant, etc., was contracted.for in March last year for delivery at the Mother Lode mine in June, and for installing which preparation is now being made: A cross compound Corliss condensing air compressor, with compounded aid end and receiver inter-cooler, the high and low pressure steam cylinders to be 22- inch and 40-inch diameter respectively, the air cylinders to be of the piston inlet type, high and low pressure, 19J inch and 32^ inch respectively and 48 inch stroke, the machine to have a capacity of 30 to 40 drills, and to weigh 166,000 lbs.; two 66x16 horizontal tubular boilers, each 100-horsepower for 125 lbs. working pressure, and to have horizontal smoke connection and ore stack; a 54 foot by 12 inch air receiver; a feed-water heater of sufficient capacity for 350-horsepower boilers; ten E 24 drills; two double- screw and ten single-screw columns with arm and clamp; two iron safety platform cages with safety device and shield roof; two 6-foot sheave wheels; 1,500 feet of i-J inch wire rope and six steel ore cars with McCaskell wheels and axles. Sunset and Silver Crown.—On the Sunset: two 80- horsepower horizontal return tubular boilers, half of a 20-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant duplex air compressor, one 48 feet by 16 inch and one 42 feet by 6 inch air receiver, ten 3^ drills, 80-horsepower hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, 54x3,^x5 Northey boiler feed pump, Lawrie feed water heater, safety cage, ore cars, buckets and a complete outfit of tools, etc. At the Silver Crown: 6^x8 hoisting engine and 35 feet by 12 inch receiver. Buckhorne—One 80-horsepower horizontal return tubular boiltr, half of a 10-drill Rand duplex air compressor, 42 feet by 10 inch air receiver, three 3^ Little Giant drills, 201 horsepower hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, 4^x2^x4 boiler feed pump, Wainwright feed water heater. Morrison.—One 30-horsepower upright boiler, one 3i Little Giant (steam) drill. Ah There.—One 35-horsepower upright boiler, two Si Little Giant drills, 6x8 Bacon hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, 3x2x3 Snow duplex boiler feed pump. Greyhound.—One 25-horsepower upright boiler, 15-horsepower hoisting engine. SUMMIT CAMP. B. C.—(B. C. Chartered Co.)—Two 80-horsepower and one 40-horsepower return tubular boilers, one 25- horsepower upright boiler, half of a Class G. Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor 18x24 rated at ten drills, 12x18 straight line Rand air compressor rated at four drills, 48 feet by 12 inch and 30 feet by 6 inch air receivers, 75-horsepower 12^x15 double cylinder geared hoisting engine, two small hoisting engines, two No. 5 Cameron sinking pumps, 150-horse-power feed water heater, 100-light electric light engine and dynamo, safety cage, ore cars, etc. Oro Denoro (King Mining Co.)—one 40-horse- drills, 6^x8 hoisting engine and sinking pump, capacity 60 gallons per minute. Maple Leaf (Rathmullen Mining Co.)—Onec 35- horsepower upright boiler, 10x14 straight line Rand air compressor, 28 feet by 10 inch air receiver, two 3| Little Giant drills, 6x8 reversible hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump. R. Bell.—One 25-horse-power upright boiler, 6x8 Bacon hoisting engine. (Larger plant to be ordered shortly.) WELLINGTON CAMP. Golden Crown (Brandon and Golden Crown Mining Co.)—One 60 horsepower return tubular boiler, one 40-horsepower locomotive boiler, 12x18 Rand straight line air compressor, 36 feet x 8 inch air receiver, four Little Giant drills, 30-horsepower hoisting engine, 10x7x5x10 Knowles sinking pump, 4x6x4 Snow duplex pump, cage, ore cars, etc. Winnipeg.—One 65-horsepower return tubular boiler, 14x22 Rand straight line air compressor, 36 feet by 10 inch air receiver, two si Little Giant drills, 6x8 reversible hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron pump, 3x2x3 boiler feed pump. Athelstan.—One 35-horsepower upright boiler, 5x5 Bacon hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump. LONG LAKE CAMP. Jewel.—One 50-horsepower horizontal return tubular boiler, one 15-horsepower upright boiler, 12x18 Rand straight line air compressor, 28 feet by 10 inch air receiver, three 3^ Little Giant drills, 5x5 Bacon hoisting engine, 10x7x5x10 Knowles sinking pump, Dean sinking pump capacity 60 gallons per minute, 3x2x3 Snow duplex boiler leed pump. CENTRAL (OR WHITE'S) CAMP. City of Paris and Majestic.—Two 80-horsepower horizontal return tubular boilers, 10-drill Rand duplex air compressor, 42 feet by 10 inch air receiver, six 3^ Little Giant drills, 6x8 hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, 4^x2^x4 Snow duplex pump, Lawrie feed water heater. COPPER CAMP. King Solomon—One 30-horsepower upright boiler, 5x5 Bacon hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump. SKYLARK CAMP. Last Chance—Boundary Creek Gold Mining Co., of Spokane.—One 35-horsepower upright boiler, 8x12 hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump. NORTH FORK OF KETTLE RIVER. Pathfinder.—One 80-horsepower horizontal return tubular boiler, 16x24 Rand straight line air compressor, 42 feet by 10 inch air receiver, two 3J Little Giant drills, 6x8 hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump, 3x2x3 boiler feed pump. Golden Eagle (Royal Victoria Gold Mining" Co.)— One 32-horsepower upright boiler, 5x5 Bacon hoisting engine, No. 5 Cameron sinking pump. ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION AT ASHCROFT, B.C. (By Wm. Baillie.) IT is rather surprising to find in Ashcroft a modern and well-equipped electric transmission system, which provides the town with power for electric lighting and for pumping the water supply, and has a large surplus for prospective manufacturing enterprises. This system was inaugurated and is owned by the Ashcroft Water, Electric and Improvement Company, who, two years ago, secured a valuable water THE MINING RECORD. power on the Bonaparte River, four miles from Ashcroft and there constructed a dam with the object of generating the requisite power for supplying Ashcroft besides providing the motive force for a pump to raise water to irrigate a large tract of land known j as Boston Flats, situated two hundred and fifty feet above the site of the power house. The dam, as shown in our illustrations, is in a narrow canyon of the river and is solidly constructed of heavy timbers, anchored in the rock at the bottom and on the sides. This structure is two hundred feet long and narrows from thirty feet wide at the base to twenty on the top, and is filled in with rock and gravel. At present there is a forty-foot head of water, giving some twelve hundred horse-power, and Victoria, as were also the shafting, castings for the suction pipe and the intake gate. The power house is a large two-storey building, with the ground floor divided into two sections, one of which contains the rotary pump mentioned above. This is a very large machine weighing over twenty tons, was manufactured by the Roots Company of Connersville, Indiana, is of the latest type, fitted with self-oiling bearings, and embodies the most modern improvements. With this pump the company estimate they will irrigate eventually one thousand acres of land which although of a very fruitful description has hitherto remained unproductive on account of the lack of water. Five hundred acres are alreadv fenced, buildings' have been erected, and a !.*£■ Vie this can be increased at any time by adding to the height of the dam. The flume, twelve feet high by twenty-five feet wide and one hundred and fifty feet long, is seated on a rock base and leads to the power house. In the penstock are placed two thirty-inch horizontal Dominion waterwheels, made by the Grecly Company, Toronto, and directly connected by gears to the waterwheel shaft is a Roots rotary force pump, which with seven hundred horse-power will force nine thousand gallons of water per minute to the Boston Flats, a vertical height of two hundred and fifty feet. The pipe line .leading to the Flats is nine hundred feet long, and is of steel pipe twenty-four inches in diameter, made by the Albion Iron Works Company, of w of the Company's Power House and Dam on Bonaparte Creek system of irrigating canals excavated. The main canal is ten feet wide and four feet deep. This method of irrigation by means of a pumping plant is a departure in British Columbia agriculture and the result will be awaited with interest. The buildngs on the Flats are to be lighted by electricity, and will have telephone communication with Ashcroft. . . In the other section of the power house are placed a pair of twelve-inch McCormack horizontal turbines, made by the William Hamilton Company, of Peterborough, enclosed in a steel case connected with the penstock. To these are belted a 75-kilowatt three- phase alternating generator, which delivers current at 2 080 volts over a three-wire transmission line to Ash- 254 THE MINING RECORD. croft, where, by means of a series of transformers, the current is converted to 104 volts, at which pressure it is used on the lighting circuit. ■Nearing Ashcroft, a branch of the transmission line is conducted to the town pumping station on the Thompson River, where from two converters the current drives a twenty horse-power induction motor, to which is belted an 8x10 Northey triplex force pump, supplied by the Northey Manufacturing Company of Toronto, which forces 250 gallons per minute to a reservoir at a height of two hundred feet, thus sustaining a pressure of over eighty pounds on the mains. The distributing mains are of five and six inch lock-joint steel pipe made by the National Tube Works of Pittsburgh. The pumping station, power REVIEW OF THE ALASKAN QUESTION. BOUNDARY (By Alexander Begg, Author of the History of British Columbia.) (Continued from Last Month.) ON the receipt of the treaty duly executed from Mr. Stratford Canning the Rt. Hon. G. Canning under date April 2nd, 1825, acknowledged the same as follows: "Sir: Your despatches were received on the 21 st of March. Having laid them before the King, I have received His Majesty's command to express His Majesty's particular satisfaction at the conclusion of the treaty respecting the Pacific Ocean and northwest View of Dam on Bonaparte Creek. house and the company's office in Ashcroft are all connected with a telephone circuit. All the electrical machinery and apparatus was procured from the Canadian General Electric Co., of Peterborough, Ont., and the heavy pinion and mortise gear for the rotary pumps from Goldie & Mc- Culloch, of Gait., Ont. The Ashcroft Water, Electric and Improvement Company also operate a large sawmill at Kamloops and are there erecting a planing mill and sash and door factory. Peter Ryan, registrar of Toronto, is president of the company; John Shields, vice-president; C. R. Doxat, treasurer; and James C. Shields, secretary. coast of America, in a manner so exactly conformable to your instructions, and to direct you to express to the Russian Government the pleasure which His Majesty derives from the amicable and conciliatory spirit manifested by that government in the completion of that transaction." The treaty having been completed and accepted as satisfactory by each of the hi&h contracting parties, the occupancy of the northwest coast of America was thenceforward between the Hudson Bay Company and the Russian Company—tfoe former with headquarters at Fort Vancouver, qn the Columbia River (transferred to Victoria, Vancouver Island, in 1843 —its original name, "Fort Catjiosun," was continued until 1846, when it was named Victoria); the Russian Company had headquarters at Sitka. The two companies managed their affairs without much friction under the treaty. About the year 1838, for mutual convenience, a lease was granted by the Russian governor at Sitka, to the Hudson Bay Company of all rights and privleges possessed by Russia for an annual rental of two thousand land-otter skins. This arrangement was continued between the fur companies until about the time of the purchase of Russian America by the United States, in 1867. As soon as Secretary of State Seward obtained possession of the Russian territory, he had the Russian flag at Sitka lowered, and the United States "Stars and Stripes" hoisted in its stead. For some time after the purchase of Alaska from Russia, public affairs in British Columbia were in a state of transition, from the Colonial government to that of Confederation; so that but little attention was paid to what was going on in the remote and almost unknown regions of Alaska. The federal government did not show very much interest in having the international boundary line defined and settled. British Columbia was not in a position to take the initiative, and her leading men had to be content with making representations to the Dominion Government. I In 1885, the late Mr. T. F. Bayard, then United States Secretary of State, revived public interest in the subject, by applying to Lord Salisbury, through the United States ambassador at the London Legation, for concurrence in appointing a commission to define the Alaskan boundary, as had been recommended by President Grant in 1872. Lord Salisbury concurred in the appointment as requested. Colonel D. R. Cameron, R.A., was requested in March, 1886, to report on the boundary question. His report was completed September, 1886. The communication to Lord Salisbury from Ambassador Phelps was chiefly an echo of Mr. Bayard's letter, requesting concurrence in the appointment of a commission to define the Alaskan boundary. This document now becomes specially important, inasmuch as it embodies Mr. Bayard's views of the line of demarcation from its commencement at the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, and as those are the views advocated by the United States as being the boundary line set forth in the treaty, viz., via Portland Canal, to the 56th parallel of north latitude. On the other hand, British subjects in British Columbia and elsewhere in the Dominion of Canada, base their views on the wording of the treaty, and on the line of direction stated therein, as outlined by the Right Hon. George Canning in his despatch to Sir Charles .Bagot, July 12th, 1824, and enlarged in accordance with Mr. Stratford Canning's instructions of December 8th, 1824, in connection with his letter to the Emperor of Russia from His Britannic Majesty, George IV., which, undoubtedly, with the addition of the whole of Prince of Wales Island being conceded to Russia, had a pacific influence in rendering the treaty acceptable to the Russian court. Mr. Bayard probably expected that his route would pass unchallenged, when he remarked that his conviction was "that it was the intention of the negotiators that the boundary line should directly follow the broad natural channel of Portland Channel, midway between the shores, and extend, if need were, inland in the same direction until the range of hills should be reached at or near the 56th parallel." "It is not," he continues, "therefore conceived that this water part of the boundary line can ever be called in question between the two governments." It may be remarked here that there was no such channel marked on any of Captain George Vancouver's maps or charts. Portland Canal was so named by him and referred to in his "Voyages" published in 1798, under the authority of the British government. Another edition of Vancouver's Voyages was published in 1801, and the change from Portland Canal to Portland Channel is made, without any remark or authority. The substitution of Portland Canal for Portland Channel has caused the difficulty of reconciling the description in the treaty of the line of demarcation, which according to Mr. Bayard's interpretation, and also that of Colonel Cameron, was under the necessity of going east to reach Portland Canal instead of north—and more particularly in the Right Hon. G. Canning's despatch—from south to north to the 56th parallel of north latitude; so, therefore, it appears, the description of the line of demarcation from Cape Chacon to the 56th parallel, given by Sir Charles Bagot in statement "D," together with the confirmation of the same by G. Canning in his despatch of 12th July, 1824, furnish proof that the framers of the treaty applied the name Portland Channel to Clarence Strait; but as the line of demarcation, according to Sir C. Bagot's description, had to leave Clarence Strait, on reaching Duke of York Island, to meet the requirements of the treaty, must proceed eastward and follow Ernest Sound until the coast of the continent was reached at 56 degrees. The combined Clarence Strait and Ernest Sound form the channel prescribed in the treaty, which was called Portland Channel—in conformity with the treaty, but which would have been impracticable in connnection with Mr. Bayard's or . Col. Cameron's line of demarcation. Article IV of the treaty modified and annulled several propositions made before the suspension of negotiations by Sir C. Bagot, which were allowed to drop. Amongst those were the zealous efforts of the Russian plenipotentiaries to obtain Portland Canal as a portion of the eastern boundary line. The diplomatic action of Mr. Stratford Canning in connection with the letter of King George IV, foiled the expectations of the Russian plenipotentiaries, and left them no option but to sign the treaty as made out in convention. This was accomplished by the concession of the whole of Prince of Wales Island to Russia. It swept away many difficulties and left the terms of the treaty clear and capable of reasonable interpretation. It also pointed out a practicable water boundary from the 56th parallel of latitude where the line of demarcation reached the continent in accordance with the treaty, ten leagues from the ocean. To continue the line of demarcation from the point on the continent at the 56th degree, towards the intersection of the 141st meridian near Mount Elias, it would be necessary to retrace westward through Ernest Sound, the former line from Cape Chacon along the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, and proceed along the extended line northward to the end of the island, ten marine leagues from the ocean, and thence northerly between islands Kuiu and Kup- reanof to Prince Frederick Sound, and on reaching the 57th degree of latitude proceed west to Chatham Strait, which could be followed to Icy Strait or to Taylor Bay for convenience of landing on the strip of land provided on the continent within ten marine leagues from the ocean to the intersection of the 141st meridian. ■r 256 THE MINING RECORD. In an article on the Alaskan Boundary, which appeared in November (1899) number of the National Geographic Magazine, the Hon. John W. Foster, ex- Secretary of State for the United States, is reported as stating that "much of the difficulty on reaching an agreement on this point (the correct location of the boundary) grew out of the imperfect geographic knowledge of the period." That need not follow, for Mr. Foster admits and writes that "in 1792-95, George Vancouver, under the direction of the Admiralty, made the first accurate and scientific survey of the northwest coast of America, and his charts were published in 1798. These charts were for more than a generation the basis and source of information of all maps of that region." Mr. Foster, delineating the first section of the treaty of 1825, quotes Article III and states, it provides that "commencing from the southernmost point of the island called Prince of Wales Island, which lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude * * * the said (boundaiy) line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude." The foregoing quotation from the treaty should be enough to satisfy Mr. Foster, that as the treaty expressly and plainly says, the boundary should commence at the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island and shall ascend to the north, etc., it is impossible to reach the 56th degree on the continent by the line indicated in the treaty by going east to Portland Canal, which is not mentioned in the treaty; neither is there any authority in the treaty of 1825 to commence the boundary line at Cape Muzon as it has been drawn on the United States official charts and maps. Although Cape Muzon is situated on Dall Island to the west of Prince of Wales Island and may yet be claimed by Great Britain as belonging to Queen Charlotte Islands, immediately opposite across Dixon Entrance. "The United States holds," Mr. Foster further states, "that under this provision the line starting from the extremity of Prince of Wales Island, shall enter the broad, deep, and usually navigated opening of Portland Canal * * * and pass up to its head, and thence on the continent to the 56th degree of latitude." There is nothing in' the treaty to indicate such a course; besides, the opening of Portland Canal (or channel as Mr. Foster is pleased to name it) is seldom navigated, as there is no trade in that direction. In the same paragraph Mr. Foster undertakes to define "the present contention of Great Britain," which he says is understood to be "that the line from the extremity of Prince of Wales Island should enter the tortuous and narrow channel, now known on the British Admiralty charts as Pearse Canal, and thence up Portland Canal to the 56th degree; thus placing Wales, Pearse, and a few small Islands in British Territory. No such contention has ever been published or advocated by any party having authority in Canada or Great Britain to adopt such a route, which is entirely opposed to the wording of the treaty; and the statement or contention said to be held by the United States, that the line should "enter the broad, deep and usually navigated opening of Portland Canal, etc.," is entirely fallacious. Neither have those who have examined the question in an unbiased manner, ever thought of the boundary line' going east by way of Pearse Canal or by Portland Canal. The contention of British subjects who have studied and become acquainted with this boundary question, is, that the line should from Cape Chacon, follow Clarence Strait north, nearly along the 132nd meridian, and in accordance with the description given in the treaty, until opposite Ernest Sound, when it runs eastward through Ernest Sound, until it reaches the coast of the continent at 56 degrees, as specified in the treaty; thence returning westward to the boundary already outlined from Cape Chacon, along the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, it follows the coast of the island to its northern end; thence following a conventional water boundary, ten marine leagues from the ocean as required by the treaty until the continental shore of the North Pacific is reached, and then along that coast, ten marine leagues from the ocean, to the 141st meridian, and thence along that meridian to the Arctic Ocean. This brings us to a late date in the review of this boundary question. The Joint Commission which had been appointed to determine the line between Alaska and Canada met at Quebec and discussed the question for weeks, without being able to agree on a settlement, so they adjourned sine die. They met at Washington, D.C., in February, 1899; but found they were still unable to agree on the question. The British commissioners proposed it should be referred to arbitration and that an "arbitratral tribunal" be immediately appointed to consist of three jurists of repute, one on the part of Great Britain, one on the part of the United States, and of a third jurist to be selected by the two persons so nominated, to be governed by the following rules: (a.) "Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement thereof, sufficient to constitute adverse holding or make title by prescription." (b.) "The arbitrators may recognize and give effect to rights and claims resting on any other ground whatever valid according to international law, and on any principles of international law which the arbitrators may deem applicable to the case, and which are not in contravention of the foregoing rule." (c.) "In determining the boundary line, if territory of one party shall be found by the tribunal to have been at the date of this treaty in the occupation of the subjects or citizens of the other party, such effect shall be given to such occupancy as reason, -justice, the principles of international law, and the equities of the case shall, in the opinion of the tribunal require." The commissioners of the United States accepted the foregoing proposals made as the basis of adjustment, but desired the rules modified as follows: Rules (a) and (b) to stand as submitted, but (c) to read as follows : "In considering the 'coast' referred to in said treaties, mentioned in Article III, it is understood that the coast of the continent is intended. In determining the boundary line, if territory of one party shall be found by the tribunal to have been at the date of this treaty in the occupancy of the subjects or citizens of the other party, such effect shall be given to such occupation as reason, justice, and the principles of international law shall, in the opinion of the tribunal, require; and all towns and settlements on tide water, settled under the authority of the United States and under the jurisdiction of the United States at the date of this treaty, shall remain THE MINING RECORD. 257 within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States." In reply the British commissioners stated that they were "absolutely unable" to accept the change in rule (c), and said: "In considering the 'coast' referred to, while it was probably intended by this clause that the line should be drawn upon the continent, the language used is open to misconstruction." They also objected to the words added "that all towns or settlements" on tide water, settled under the authority of the United States, etc., as being a marked and important departure from the rules of the Venezuela boundary reference, and could not be adopted. Referring to the arbitral tribunal proposed by the United States commissioners, which was to consist of six impartial jurists, three on the part of Great Britain, and three on the part of the United States— the United States commissioners were of opinion that the selection of an umpire should be made from the American continent. It was finally agreed by and between the commisisoners that all subjects before the Joint Commission should be referred to their respective governments. The commission then adjourned and separated. Since the appointment of the Joint Commission of the Washington Convention of 1892, which was formed "with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delineation of the boundary line from latitude 54 degrees 40 minutes northward to the 141st degree of longitude, in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and Russia, and between the United States and Russia," great and important changes have taken place in those northern regions. The valley of the Yukon has been found to be one of the richest gold producing districts in the world. Lynn Canal, as the most available route to the Yukon country, has been adopted, with Skagway as the gateway to the Klondike and Dawson. Hundreds of thousands of miners and others crowded there in 1897-8, in the face of extreme danger and difficulty. In the meantime another gold mining district was found in the northern part of Cassiar, British Columbia, near Atlin and Teslin- Lakes. A prospecting party, by way of Juneau, came through there in 1898 to Atlin Lake and discovered, in that neighbourhood rich gold diggings. Other parties soon followed, and before winter set in, over $100,000 had been mined. An Act of the Legislature of British Columbia (the Alien Act) was passed prohibiting miners not subjects of Great Britain from gold mining in British Columbia under certain restrictions. This prevented a large number of intending miners from taking up locations in the Atlin district, and limited the output of 1899; yet it is computed to reach fully one and a half million dollars. Intending miners, therefore, took up claims in the Porcupine district, within the boundary strip claimed by the United States. They made their headquarters • at a small Indian village, Klukwan, fifteen miles from tide water, at the head of Chilcat Inlet, a branch of Lynn Canal. A modus vivendi has been passed _ on the Tlchini River, as a temporary boundary, as claims do not cross from one side of the river to the other. Neither has this temporary boundary any bearing on the main uestion of the 1825 boundary line proper, which must be left to future discussion and arrangement. A modus vivendi has also been passed at Dyea Pass and White Pass, at the summit—for similar purposes. So the matter rests at present, with the exception, however, that United States subjects continue to squat on locations for mining and fishing in the island Revilla Gigedo, and other islands in that locality, which seems to add to and intensify the complications and difficulties of a final settlement of the boundary dispute. Although Hon. ex-Secretary of State Foster stated that "much of the difficulty of reaching an agreement on the correct boundary line grew out of the imperfect geographical knowledge of the period," an investigation of the circumstances shows by reference to Capt. Vancouver's maps and charts, that Mr. Foster's assertion cannot be supported. For instance, the description of Admiralty Island and the neighbouring continental shores point out most distinctly that along the precipices, inlets, and glaciers, was no suitable place for a boundary line. The modern engineers and surveyors of the Joint Commission proved this clearly. They could not travel over those places, and were obliged to call in the aid of photography to arrive at the heights and distances of the region. Sir Charles Bagot, and the Home Secretary had these maps and charts and descriptions before them, and so outlined the line of demarcation between Russian and Great Britain, according to the treaty, at the distance of ten marine leagues from the ocean. To make their meaning clear, they indicated a land mark on the continent at the 56th degree of latitude; and gave Russia the whole of Prince of Wales Islands. As shown in Vancouver's Atlas, sheet 7, the waters of the Pacific Ocean washed Prince of Wales Island, from Cape Chacon, the southernmost portion of that island, along its eastern shore; following the northern shore and turning southward at Point Baker, the name "Duke of Clarence Strait" is given along the island from Cape Chacon until the 56th degree of latitude is reached opposite Cape Decision. On the chart referred to it is recorded that Captain Vancouver passed this point 22nd September, 1793, and 24th August, 1794. But the treaty mentions that the boundary line is required to reach latitude 56 degrees at the coast of the continent. This is accomplished by passing along Clarence Strait and Ernest Sound to the coast. In Sir Charles Bagot's description (in statement "D") of the proposed line, to the Russian plenipotentiaries, which is recorded in a despatch to Mr. G. Canning, he says: "It would appear that a line traced from the southern extremity of the Straits named Duke of Clarence Sound, by the middle of those straits, to the middle of the straits that separate the islands of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, and the islands situate to the north of the said islands ; thence towards the east by the middle of the same strait to the continent, and thence prolonged in the same direction and manner already proposed by His Majesty's plenipotentiary to Mount Elias, or to the itnersection of the 140th (since changed to 141st) degree of longitude, would form a line of demarcation which would conciliate, perhaps in a satisfactory manner, the reciprocal interests, present and future, of both Empires in this part of the globe." There is no mention of Portland Canal or going east in the foregoing description. Further, Mr. Canning in his instructions to Sir Charles, dated July 25» THE MINING RECORD. 12th, 1824, distinctly says: "His Majesty's government have resolved to authorize Your Excellency to consent to include the south points of Prince of Prince of Wales Iseland in the Russian frontiers and Prince of Wales Island within the Russian frontiers, and to take, as a line of demarcation, a line drawn from the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, from south to north through Portland Channel, till it strikes the mainland in latitude 56 degrees. The route was named Portland Channel, presumably, as Clarence Strait, as we have seen, was left opposite Ernest Sound. It would be necessary, therefore, at the point on the coast of the continent, that a new departure should be made to reach the intersection of the line with the 141st meridian, near Mount Elias. It would appear from Article IV of the treaty that Stratford Canning decided on the boundary from that point, being drawn ten marine leagues from the ocean. The easiest, fairest and most convenient plan to do that would be to retrace the line of deviation back to that already run through Clarence Strait, named Portland Channel in the treaty, and continue that line along the eastern and northern shore of Prince of Wales Island, as already outlined in this review. Such an arrangement would obviate the attempt of forming a boundary line along the frontier of the continent, which would prove useless and impracticable. It would leave the frontier of British Columbia intact, and furnish the United States (instead of Russia) with ample facilities to carry on any industry along the large islands fringing the Pacific Ocean and along the strip of continent, extending about five degrees of longitude from Glacier or Taylor's Bay, beyond Icy Strait. It would give them any number of excellent harbours, and the control of valuable fisheries and the timber on Prince of Wales Island, and the other ocean frontier islands north to the continent at Cross Sound. The arrangement was made between two friendly powers, and after the treaty was signed, was acknowledged to be satisfactory to each—and it should be so to the present day, although many United States sympathizers do not seem to intrpret the treaty in that light. Political feeling runs very high in the United States and it may be that this boundary question is used by the United States press to influence parties pro or con as the case may be. It has been discussed by their leading writers in the New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other papers. The Seattle papers, being our nearest neighbours have been the most lively. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce has discussed very forcibly what they call "the British Claims." The}'-, of course, advocate that the boundary line should be run along Portland Canal. The Victoria Colonist, in 1895, referring to a report of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, says: "From the language of the treaty it will be seen that the boundary commences at the most southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island and then runs north until it reaches a point on the mainland at the 56th degree of north latitude. Now if any member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce looks at the map drawn by Vancouver or anyone else, and starting north from the most southern point of Prince of Wales Island, and keeping on in that direction until he reaches the 56th parallel of latitude, he will certainly trace along a channel, but not what is called Portland Canal, nor will he go near the Portland Canal, or the line which our good neighbours contend is the true boundary line. It is easy to give a new name to a channel, or to mis take one channel for another, but the points of the compass have always the same name, and. are always in the same direction. Our contemporary and those who contend for the line now assumed to be the true one, must see that they start in the wrong direction. What would be thought of the surveyor who, when he was instructed to start from a point clearly defined northwards, ran his line due east, and afterwards had the impudence to contend that the line was right, and according to his instructions ? Let our American friends "stick to the point"—Point Chacon—and go north as the treaty enjoins from that point, and they will find they will not get near the line they are trying to make the people believe is the right one. Besides, Portland Canal is not mentioned in the treaty. We trust we have been explicit enough in this article. We contend that our American friends start in the wrong direction; and we need not tell them that in beginning to run a line, it is of the utmost importance that the compass points exactly in the direction the description requires. The least variation the one way or the other vitiates the whole line and the work must be done over again. In this Alaska line our friends are something like 90 degrees astray." The House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in 1895, passed the following resolution, calculated to arouse anything but peaceful feelings amongst the people, relative to the fair settlement of the Alaskan boundary question. It reads: "Whereas England, with her usual cupidity and avarice, and pursuant of her time-honoured custom of attempting, at all hazards, to get control of all newly developed sources of wealth, in whatsoever country situated, and to appropriate to her own benefit the present and prospective commerce of the seas, whether rightfully or otherwise, has asserted claims to harbours, bays and inlets, through which the greater portion of the commerce and trade of and with the territory of Alaska must be carried on, and which, of right, belongs to the United States. "And whereas the United States will be robbed and despoiled of the trade and commerce of a veritable empire, and suffer a diminution of the wealth with which nature has endowed said territory, if the claims and policy of Great Britain as aforesaid shall prevail: "Therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State Of Washinkton, the Senate concurring, that our members of Congress be requested, and our Senators instructed, to use. all honourable means, that the rightful claims of the United States relative to said harbours, bays and inlets, be scrupulously maintained, and that an unequivocal policy on the part of the United States government in relation thereto, be fully carried out." The editor of the Colonist, after quoting the resolution, quietly remarks: "This should be preserved as a literary and legislative curiosity. It is amazing that men, supposed to be intelligent and sensible, should stultify themselves by voting for such a resolution as the above. Those who supported it, we suppose, thought it would tickle the ears of ignorant and anti- British electors, for it seems there is nothing too absurd for the average American legislator to do or say, in order to increase his popularity. England,'as far as we have heard, had done nothing towards rectifying the boundary line between British Columbia and Alaska. The complaint in Canada is, that Great Britain on these boundary questions is a good deal THE MINING RECORD. 265 ground That is Q. In the roof of the tunnel: when you say roof of the tunnel you are referring to what is called Centre Star north drift? A. I should say station 39. Q. Then where do you find it next? A. In the north drift at 3 raise. Q. In the north drift; of Centre Star north drift that is? A. Yes. Q. No. 3 raise? A. No. 3 raise. Q. By the way, before I pass it by, at stations 38 and 39, does it cut any vein ? A. Yes, sir. Q. What vein? A. The Centre Star vein. Q. At No. 3 raise does it cut any vein? A. I think it cuts the Centre Star vein at 38 and 39. Q. It is found there, at any rate ? A. It is found there; it cuts the vein there; whether it is the Centre Star or not, I don't know. Q. No, you are not an expert on that part. Now, at No. 3 raise, does it cut any vein ? A. No, sir—yes, it cuts a vein there. Q. I want to ask you what veins these are, because you are not a witness for that purpose. Where do you find it next ? A. We find it in the Centre Star north drift at stations 46, 47 and 48. The Court—Excuse me, Mr. Davis, you say this is the surface? Mr. Davis—This is the surface of the roughly. The Court—I am talking of the flat fault. its slope, is it? Mr. Davis—No, my Lord, it slopes this way; it dips north; its strike is east and west. The Witness—It dips south. Mr. Davis—South, I mean. The Court—What I want to understand is the strike in a general way? Mr. Davis—Yes, my Lord. The Court—And this is where it intersects the veins? Mr. Davis—If it could be seen. The Court—Yes, if it could be seen, but it is buried and its strike is downward, and these different places are struck or intersected or cut by it? Mr. Davis—Yes. The Court—Of course, it can not be such an even surface to use the phrase, as to cut them all equally? Mr. Davis—Oh, no, it has a uniform dip and strike, but like all veins and everything else, they vary in places. Q. Now, where were we last, Mr. Clarke? A. At stations 46, 47 and 48 in the north drift. Q. That is the Centre Star north drift? A. Yes, sir. Q. Does it cut any vein at any A. Yes, sir. Q. Where else do you see it? A. No. 4 raise and the Centre Star No Q. Does it cut any vein in the Yes, sir. Does it cut any that is of those places? We see it in the 2 shaft. Yes. Q. raise Q- rein in the No. 4 raise? No. 2 shaft? A. A. Where else did you see iti A. Also in No. 2 Does it cut any vein here ? A. Yes, sir. No. 2 raise is Centre Star No. 2 raise? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where else do you seek? A. It is also shown in No. 1 cross-cut south about this point. Q. That is, about the southern terminus of the cross-cut, is it; Yes, sir. The Cpurt—Let me ask a question for information. Does it cut these several places you are getting at at pretty much the same level? A. Yes, sir; approximately. Mr. Davis—That is, it all depends upon whether it opens this way or that way. The Court—Because these tunnels are all nearly horizontal. Mr. Davis—For instance, this red tunnel it cuts in a different place from the other because it is higher up. The Witness—But it runs somewhat in the same direction as the tunnels, therefore down in these lowci tunnels you would encounter it at various points. The Court—As they get out of these veins? A. Yes. Q. Now, in the Centre Star No. 1 cross-cut, does it cut any vein ? A. Yes sir. Q. Are there any other places where the mud- seam is seen in the workings' as disclosed? A. Not that I know of, except in the winze, this small winze. Q. Centre Star winze from 59 east drft? A. Yes. Q. Does it cut any vein there ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now, that is all the places that you have discovered the mud-seam in the workings ? A. Yes, sir. Q. I think you have already said that you have taken the dip and the strike of the Centre Star No. 2 vein; that is, the vein in the inclined shaft? A. Yes, sir. Q. And also in the Centre Star winze ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now, from the dip and strike of Centre Star No. 2 vein, so far as the surveys go, would you expect to find it in the Centre Star winze ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Taking the dip and strike of the Centre Star vein from the surveys would you expect to find that vein anywhere in the blue drift, Iron Mask drift, being the lowest working? A. Yes, sir; I would ex- oect to find it there. Q. Taking the dip and strike of the Centre Star No. 2 vein, would you expect to find it, from your surveys, anywhere m the Iron Mask winze ? A. Yes, sir. Q. About where? A. At a point about 40 feet from the collar of the winze and from there down to the blue level? The Court—Where is that? A. That is the collar of the winze at the red level. Q. About 40 feet down from the red level of Iron Mask winze? A. About 40 feet down measuring from the collar of the winze. Q. That is from the red level. A. And from there down to the blue level I would expect to find it. Q. From measurements made by you based upon the dip and strike of the Centre Star vein would you expect to find that vein in or about the southern terminus of the Iron Mask cross-cut from the Iron Mask east stope, that is, the brown level ? A. Yes, sir. Q. From the measurements made by you, or rather, from the surveys you made, based on the dip and strike of the Centre Star vein, and also based on the dip and strike of the Iron Mask vein, would you expect to find intersections of those veins at any place in the workings, and if so, about where ? A. I would expect to find it about the foot of the Iron Mask east winze. . Q. At the foot of the Iron Mask east winze, this point here ? A. Yes this winze down here. Q. Near the blue level? A. Yes. Not at the bottom, but you must take into consideration that the point of intersection of two veins having a width, that ;jiv, 266 THE MINING RECORD. the place of intersection might be large. I would say down the Iron Mask winze from some point just below the yellow level to the bottom of the winze you would expect to find a place of intersection of the veins. Q. Anywhere else ? A. You would find it also in No. 69 east drift. Q. That is Iron Mask east drift No. 69? A. In the Iron Mask east drift 69. You would also find another point of intersection in the Iron Mask drift. Q. The Iron Mask east drift on the red level? A. Yes. Q. At about station what ? A. At about this point here. Q. That is not very far from where that raise and winze are? A. Yes. Q. But about 30 feet from the extreme east end of Iron Mask drift? A. Yes. Q. Where else, if anywhere? A. That is about all the places I can remember. Q. That is about all that you figured out or can remember at the present time ? A. Yes. Q. What is the smallest angle made by the centre line of the Centre Star location following on the general course of that outcrop as shown on the plan approximately? You have figured it out, Mr. Clarke. Just take a long ruler and extend that outcrop in the general direction it is running? A. That is about it; it would make an angle of about 40 degrees—35 to 40 degrees. Q. It is less, at any rate, than 45 degrees ? A. Yes, sir. Q. You have figured that? I asked you to figure it once before, and that is the result ? A. Yes, sir. Q. What boundary line of the Centre Star mineral claim would the general course of that outcrop continued cross ? A. It would cross the east end line. Q. The wires that are stretched over the top of this model, Mr. Clarke, as I understand, give roughly the general contour of the surface of the ground? A. Yes., sir. Q. Of course, it is impossible to give it more than roughly in that way. In which part of the Centre Star is the principal vein of the Centre Star? A. The principal vein runs through the claim easterly and westerly a little south of the centre line. Q. Is this No. 1 tunnel on the principal vein ? Does that run in the principal vein of the Centre Star ? A. Yes, sir. Q. It passes, then, through both end lines of the Centre Star? A. Yes, sir. Q. Have you made surveys in the War Eagle mine? A. Yes, sir. Q. What is this vein we call Centre Star No. 2 vein? Is it a fork of any vein, and if so, what? A. It is the north fork of the War Eagle vein, what is called the north fork. Q. It is a branch, however, of the main War Eagle vein? A. Yes, sir. Q. The north fork of the War Eagle vein, and which is the south fork of that vein? A. The south fork runs through No. 157 east drift. Q. That is this brown level ? A. That brown level and also that red level. Q. And where do they join; about where do those two forks join the War Eagle as it is shewn on this map ? A. It is not shown on here. Q. This War Eagle No. 9 raise is on what vein? A. It is on the north fork of the War Eagle vein. Q. That is the Centre Star No. 2 vein? A. Centre Star No. 2. Q. These tunnel mouths come out to the surface of No. 1 and No. 2 tunnels ? A. Yes, sir, Q. There is a steep bank there, I believe. This line here does not exactly represent the surface of the ground, does it? A. It represents the approximate elevation. The creek passes through here (indicating on the model). Q. Yes, I see if this wire was bent down it would indicate it better. A. The creek passed through the portal of those tunnels. Q. That is Centre Star Creek ? A. Yes, sir. CROSS-EXAMINATION. Cross-examined by Mr. Bodwell: Q. What station do you call this point here (indicating on model) ? A. Station 213. Q. Would we be right in calling this station 213 -calling this white -No. 9 raise it here for the purpose of evidence- drift? A. No, sir. This is the raise- is called. Q. No. 9 raise of the War Eagle? A. Yes, sir. Q. That is the name it is called in the War Eagle workings ? A. No. 9 raise. Q. What would be the vertical distance, parallel plane, from here to here (indicating on model)? A. I don't quite understand your question. Q. What I mean is, if you run a parallel with this (indicating on model), what would be the vertical distance between those two points? A. I should say about 90 feet. Q. Is this approached by any route except this tunnel that is shown here ? A. No, sir. Q. It was started at the tunnel and raised to that point? A. Yes, sir. Q. What level of the War Eagle is that? A. It is called the No. 3 War Eagle tunnel. Q. No. 3 War Eagle tunnel ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Does that represent the levels from the top— are they numbered from top down, I mean? A. Yes, sir. Q. That would be the third level down? sir. Q. Is there a level at this height? sir; about that height. Q. Where does it run? 5 raise. Q. -What do you call this (indicating on model)? A. No. 151 east drift. Q. No. 151 east drift. Is that what you call it? A. Yes, sir. It is numbered from the station established here 157. Q. At the east drift of station 157? A. Yes, sir. Q. There is a level extending easterly? A. Yes, sir. Q. What raise do you call this (indicating on model) ? A. No. 5 raise. Q. Does that level extend westerly beyond No. 5 raise? A. I don't know. Q. I thought you surveyed it? portions of the War Eagle. Q. But you cannot tell us whether there is a level extending westwardly from that point or not ? A. No, sir. Q. You said there was a level here, or about here (indicating on model) ? A. I said there was a level— you asked if there was a tunnel on the same level; I said, yes, sir. Q. You do not understand me then. The question A. A. Yes, Well, yes, A. It runs from this No. A. I surveyed THE MINING RECORD. I asked you if there is any way of approaching the point shewn as the end of No. 9 raise except by going through the drift at station 210 and going up ? A No other that I know of. Q. The workings stopped there? A. It is not stopped that I know of. Q. Is it continued up? there at the present time. Q. When were you in it ? ten days ago. Q. Where was the work then? point. Q. Are they extending it upwards ? A. Yes sir. Q. What relation does this bear to the No. 1 raise of the War Eagle? Where is the No. 1 raise of the War Eagle approximately from this point (indcating on model) ? ' A. I don't know the exact location. A. They are working V I was in it about A. About that NOTES FROM OUR TRAVE PONDENT. ASHCROFT AND CARIBOO. «" HE importance of the town of Ashcroft, situated 1 some 200 miles east of Vancouver and the Canadian Pacific Railway, lies chiefly in its being ;he jumping-off place for travellers to the famous Cariboo gold fields, now again being extensively exploited. Cariboo, East and West Lillooet and the Omineca mining districts are reached only via Ashcroft except for a few weeks. In the case of Omineca during the summer season it is possible to reach there via the Skeena River and Hazleton. The road from Ashcroft to Barkerville is 285 miles in length, and when in condition is a splendid highway. Villages and good road houses are found at convenient dis- Ashcroft, B.C. Q. Did you ever see the No. 1 raise of the War Eage ? A. No, sir; not that I know of. Q. Are these all the parts of the War Eagle mine that you have seen, the ones that are shewn here ? A. I have seen other portions; yes, sir. Q. What other portions? A. I have just been through two or three times the No. I tunnel. Q. Is this the No. 1 tunnel (indicating on model)? A. The No. 1 tunnel is not shewn here; it is up this side( indicating on model). Q. Now, have you any idea where the No. 1 raise of the War Eagle tunnel is? Have you any idea at all? A. No sir. Q. Is it 500 feet west of the No. 9 raise ? A. I am not sure that I know what the No. 1 raise of the War Eagle is. (To be continued.) tances and at times more than 1,000 animals are freighting or packing over it. Clinton,. 150-Mile House, Soda Creek, Quesnelle, Stanley, Barkerville and Quesnelle Forks are as a rule prosperous villages, not so prosperous of late owing to the pernicious anti-alien legislation, soon, we trust, by the grace of whatever party may be in power, to be repealed. Among the notable mines of Cariboo are found the Cariboo Consolidated Hydraulic, the Gold Point, Golden River Quesnelle, Spanish Creek mines, Victoria, Rose Gulch, Montreal, Beavermouth, Maud, Keithley and Snowshoe Creek mines, and many others all tributary to Quesnelle Forks. Some of the above mentioned have not so far proven to be of the value their owners hoped might be the case, others are not yet developed, but enough is known of the country to amply prove that this will remain an important point for hydraulic mining for a long time. 268 THE MINING RECORD. Quesnelle Forks is about 190 miles from Ashcroft. Horsefly, 170 miles from Ashcroft, has mines of great value. The Ward Gold Mining Company last year found very rich gravel and paid a substantial amount over and above working expenses. The company expects to do much better next season. They are working two hydraulic elevators. The Miocene, a deep proposition, has a shaft 5x15 feet down, 500 feet to rim-rock, and will -soon resume work to reach the bottom of the old channel proven to exist and known to be rich in gold. A few miles down the Horsefly is a ten-stamp mill not now working, which was put in by a Montreal Lightning Creek, which produced in early days $14,000,000, and the workings on Lightning Creek ten miles below Stanley, where the Lightning Creek Gold Gravels and Drainage Company are now reported as breaking through into the old channel and are finding conditions such that they hope soon to be on a dividend-paying basis. Slough Creek and other sections all hope to give a good account of themselves within the next two years and some of them much sooner. Quesnelle is the headquarters of the dredging industry, and the outlook for dredging successfully the beds of the Quesnelle and Fraser Rivers is good. The wild work of the past is giving way to system and Pit of the Cariboo G. Fields Co., Ltd. on Williams Creek, showing portion of Old Shaft and Sluices covered up by the Tailings. company to work the cement gravel found here in large quantities. The mill will soon be started up it is reported. The same old channel system has been found here and much work has been done to try to open it up and get at the store of gold believed to be stored awray by old Nature many centuries ago. Near Barkerville the Cariboo Gold Fields with its elevator system, Lowhee Creek, Grouse Creek, Summit Creek, Stewart, Sisters, Antler and a dozen others, all surrounding the great old producer, Williams Creek, with its record of $25,000,000 from two miles of ground; Willow River, Musquito Creek, Burns, Dragon, New, Peters, Lost Chance, Anderson and manv others, clustered around the famous old knowledge of conditions. Next season will see several companies at work in that section and they will be companies at work for saving gold, not for working the stock markets. Lillooet is making a splendid showing of late in quartz development. Cayposh Creek will soon have a 50-ton cyanide plant at work and it is hoped will be successful. There are good properties on this creek despite the failure of the much-boomed Golden Cache. Bridge River shows tip well and with arastras proving, as was done last year, that there is rock free milling and running $100 or more to the ton, what may we not expect with development. From 80 tons of THE MINING RECORD. 269 1 ock $8,000 was taken out of the Lome mine with an arastra. The Ben'd Or mined and milled $24,000 in some three months last season and expect to do much better this year. Probably the Brett property on McGillivray Creek, on which a 20-stamp mill is nearly completed, is attracting more attention than any other at present. A ten-foot ledge, said to give a very high average value and fairly well developed, has been reported on very favourably by Lane and Hayward, experts, and a sale is being negotiated at a large figure. The mining outlook in Omineca is particularly good. Several large companies are operating extensively and with the building of the Quesnelle-Stuart Lake waggon road, which should, and will, we trust, men't of a number of the properties. The Python, the original discovery, the Pothook, the Erin, the Iron Mask, the O. K, and others, have all had much attention paid to them, and although a constant shipper has not yet been developed, there are now strong indications of approaching success. These Kamloops properties have several times been described in the Mining Record, and their merits are tolerably familiar to our readers. In this issue we give illustrations of the Tenderfoot, situated on Copper Creek, which flows into Kamloops Lake from the north, almost opposite Savonas. This property was discovered a dozen years ago by Oliver Redpath, who is well known in connection with the Savonas Cinnibar mine. The tenderfoot is now be- Sawing and Carrying Lumber on the be soon built, a great boon will be conferred on this rich district. The building of the Ashcroft-Dawson telegraph line, which traverses a portion of this district, will help very materially to develop the resources of this large and as yet almost unknown region, advancing the agricultural and stock as well as the mining resources of Omineca. KAMLOOPS. It is upwards of five years now since the first discoveries of copper-gold ore were made on Coal Hill, three miles south of Kamloops. The discoveries attracted great attention at the time, and since then a good deal of money has been spent in the develop- Van Winkle, Summit Creek, Cariboo. ing developed under bond by a syndicate of Kamloops people of which Mr. J. T. Robinson is secretary. More than 300 feet of shafting and tunnelling have been done, and all in substantial and miner-like manner, permitting of the raising of ore intne most economic manner. There seems to be a very wide vein of low-grade copper-gold ore, very closely resembling in appearance and value the ores of the Boundary Creek country. A number of assays made from samples taken across the ledge at a point where it measures fully 16 feet thick, returned average values of six per cent, copper and $150 gold to the ton. The economical value of ores of this grade, situated in the locality in wheh the Tenderfoot lies, remains yet 270 THE MINING RECORD. to be demonstrated, but if the ore should turn out to land the products of the mine, whether as ore or be "pay rock" there is undoubtedly much value in the matte, on the cars of the Canadian Pacific Railway. % as Ttnderfoot Mine Dump, Kamloops. property, for the quantity of ore obtainable, and the The work at the mine, it is satisfactory to state, ease of mining it, are both factors of great import- under the management of Mr. Fleetwood Wells, is Entrance to Tenderfoot Tunnel. ance. The mine is located within a half mile of Kam- being carried on in a very systematic and thorough loops Lake, and three miles across the water would manner. Tenderfoot Mine Dump, Kamloops. Fig. i is a view of the tower or support, and Fig. 2 is a general view of a tramway. The company's ropeway is of the single-rope system, but has some special and valuable features. One of these is that when the bucket arrives at the loading station the grips are automatically loosened from the cable, allowing the cable to travel all the time, while the bucket stops immediately under the ore-chute, where it can be filled by the person in charge. When the next empty bucket arrives at the loading station it automatically releases the bucket just loaded, which moves off down the line, while the bucket which has just arrived at the loading station stops under the chute to be loaded as before. This obviates the necessity of a mechanical loader travelling with the bucket." Any person who has ever used a single-rope system will understand the great advantage of having the buckets stop to be loaded, as the ore is not scattered all over the station, and much complicated machinery, which must be kept in repair, is dispensed with. Where the buckets are attached permanently to the rope, the constant bending of the rope at the clip causes the cable to break at this point, while with the Montgomery clip the buckets are gripped fast to the cable always in a new place, making the life of the rope over twice as long as with old-style single-rope tramways. Another point is the fact that the grips never get loose and skate the cable. The Montgomery grip is operated by the weight of the bucket, and therefore the more load you put on the bucket the tighter it sets the grip, and the less load the less it sets the grip; but it is so mechanically arranged that the weight of the carrier always sets the grip so tight that it is not possible for it to slip on the cable. The Montgomery 272 THE MINING RECORD. are therefore not filled with rain or snow; and in freezing weather the ore is not frozen in the buckets. The company also makes a new automatic braking device where the lines run by gravity. This brake works and controls the tramway as well as the governor would control the speed of an engine, and very much better than it is possible to do so by hand. On reasonably short lines, where there is not too large a tonnage, one man can operate the tramway on each shift, and can easily tram down 150 tons per day. Under favourable circumstances ore can be trammed down at an expense of not more than 4 cents per ton per mile, as everything about the machinery works automatically, excepting the raising of the gate at the ore-chute to fill the bucket. One of the main points of a successful tramway is have added the highest and lowest prices for 1900 up to the middle of May, and give in the final column the closing prices—viz., of June 8th. These statistics will explain how very pronounced has been the downward tendency in British Columbia market quotations. Of course the war has killed enterprise here, and is no doubt largely responsible for the small amount of support forthcoming; but at the same time it must be admitted that so far British Columbia has failed to receive the support of those very big houses who have been identified with the South African and West Australian movements, and whose countenance of both markets has been sufficient to attract enormous sums of money to the two countries. British Columbia has not been denied assistance, and the temper of the public is such at the present moment that hard- The Montgomery Wire Rope Tramway. in the construction of the towers or supports for the line. To this point the company has given special attention, and its towers are very carefully designed to meet the hardest requirements. BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE LONDON MARKET. (From Our Own Correspondent.) IT seems to me that at the present moment some of your readers might like to see in tabular form the movements in the prices of the few British Columbia companies in which there is a fairly "live market" in London; and I have therefore prepared a little table in which the fluctuations in these during 1896-1900 are clearly shown. To bring the table up-to-date I ly anything that Canada could ask of us would be refused ; but people feel that until the era of dividends justifies it, the province cannot look for much more capital to be subscribed for the development of its mines. For the moment the section in which British Columbia shares are quoted (for British Columbia can hardly be said to have a market all to itself) is dull, suffering much from the efforts of those so-called financiers of the Morris Catton type who have induced people to subscribe to the wildest of British Columbia wildcats. Prices are purely nominal, and business very, very limited. How long it will be before the market recovers from its present apathy it is at present difficult to foretell; but be the intervening period brief or prolonged, the province may rest assured that it has a large number of friends in this country THE MINING RECORD. 273 who will be only too willing when times are more propitious, to show their appreciation of its advancement as a producer of the precious as well as the baser metals, in a fashion which can but be satisfactory to those who are so deeply interested in its welfare. Whether the advertisement of the London & B. C. Goldfields group which appears in one of the financial daily papers to-day, (and which by the way, probably cost £50 or £60) will attract the public to support the shares in the various companies comprising this group is doubtful. It certainly seemed to me a waste of good money. The London & B. C. Goldfields people have always been regarded as one of the strongest B. C. houses in London; and this advertisement, even if it did not come quite as a surprise to me, was a new departure for this particular group. Le Rois have stiffened a little, partly on the persistent rumours that Whitaker Wright—who has been out of town for some time holiday making—intended to immediately float the West Le Roi as a seperate company. It was said last week that the prospectus would be out yesterday and then to-day; but those who know the Whitaker Wright methods would not have been surprised if it had been deferred. Certainly the big little man is bold beyond the bounds of prudence in selecting the present moment to launch such a scheme. But probably he will, as before, rely almost entirely on the flock of financial sheep who have accepted him as their shepherd. At an extraordinary general meeting of the Granite Gold Mines, Ltd., it was decided to increase the capital to £200,000 by the creation of 80,000 new shares of £1 each. As some of the shareholders seemed to think this a big jump the chairman pointed out at the meeting that the board did not intend to raise all the new capital at once, but only from time to time, and in such demands as they might require. He pointed out also that they wished to have a reserve against any contingencies that might arise. The reorganization of the Hall Mines is proceeding, and it is hoped that if they are able to receive the cordial and prompt support of the shareholders the directors will speedily be able to put a different complexion on the affairs of this company. NAME. Alaska Goldfields B. A.C Hall Mines Hgt.Lt 1897 Hgt. Lt. 35i 4115"16 c 8 I 1-16 I898 Hgt. Lt. londyke Bon'za Lon. & B C Gold's. McDonald'sBon'za Le Roi i Ymir Telford Yukon. N.Goldfields of BC i</t, 11-16 2 3-6 12-0 1 13-16 1 7-16 Hgt. Lt. 1900 To Middle of May. Hgt. Lt /£ 11-1611-16 28-0 11-0 19-6 12-6 Va. 15-16 u-16 2 1 13-1613-16 2 % 1% 11-1613-16 6-3 !-»■< Price June 8. 5% ass't mak'g ( pric. 6-3 13-16 9-16 ¥% 1 9-16 iY» 1 5-16 1 ft a 6% 1% 6 5-16 1% iH *& 1% 7/s 1 3-16 Thinking that British Columbians might like to have some particulars concerning the latest Whitaker Wright company I kept back my letter a day or two in order to send you some particulars of the concern which is being formed to work the West Le Roi." This was to have been the title, but for some reason or other the promoters found it inadvisable to use this name, and so it was decided to christen the new company "Le Roi No. 2, Ltd." The prospectus, which is at present only being circulated privately among the shareholders of London & Globe and British America Corporations, and the Le Roi Com pany, will not be advertised at present. This Mr. Dealtby informed a representative whom I sent to interview him yesterday afternoon. Whether or no, however, all the capital offered will be taken up by the shareholders of the three companies named is doubtful, for Mr. Whitaker Wright's promotions have lately been decidedly under a cloud, and although he may be blindly followed in boom times, in these periods of apathy and dejection people are apt to be shy. The board is, of course, a Whitaker Wright board, without a Whitaker Wright; and the brokers are eminently respectable. This you will see from the prospectus which I have sent you as well as a map of properties to be taken over." The capital is £600,000 ($3,000,000) in £5 ($25) shares, the denomination being the same as in the case of the Le Roi. This is rather a new thing for the London market, for certainly 99 out of every 100 mining companies launched are capitalized in £1 shares; but it makes it easier to manipulate the market, and lends itself to some of those feats of financial legerdemain so common to this particular group. The purchase price to be paid for the properties acquired is £550,000 in cash or shares, or partly in cash and partly in shares, leaving £50,000 for working capital. The properties to be acquired are the Josie, Poorman, Annie and Annie Fractions, Rockingham and No. 1. The prospectus is very bold, and the public to whom Mr. W'hitaker Wright appeals are asked to find the money required on extracts from reports made by Mr. Carlyle before he left the B.A.C. people and on a report from Mr. Macdonald, whom it is proposed to ' make consulting engineer. Twenty-five per cent, dividends are anticipated on the capital now created (and all issued) for the present developments, but it is regarded as not at all beyond the realms of probability that this rate will be "considerably enhanced." It may be as well to recall to the minds of your readers that two companies were formed in 1898 in connection with the B.A.C, the East Le Roi and the West Le Roi, with capitals of respectively £400,000 ($2,000,000) and £500,000 ($2,500,000). This West Le Roi is acting as vendor to the present company, and in view of the fact that its shares of £1 each have been accorded a premium—nominal, it is true—which would make—if justified—the transfer of its assets to the new company a bargain worth being in, it is. curious to say the least that it should have been necessary to find a new title for the company now issued. Neither the West Le Roi, nor the East Le Roi were ever seriously considered on the market, but I believe for a little while an attempt was made to create an interest in them, and some dealings may have taken place in the old shares. It is to be hoped that we are not to have a recurrence of the unpleasant experiences met with in connection with the acquisition of the Le Roi property. It is strange to say the least of it that it should have been found necessary to reorganize the old West Le Roi company, or rather form a new company with a further £100,000 capital to carry on the operations which.it was ostensibly promoted to undertake. But it is all so much like Mr. Whitaker Wright and his group that one can only shrug one's shoulders, and hope for better times when the New Companies' Acts pass from the dreary region of discussion to the Statute Book. The prospectus, of course, contains the objectionable "Waiver Clause;" and is as bold as are usually the prospectuses of this particular group. 274 THE MINING RECORD. THE MONTH'S MINING. YMIR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) YMIR has a property which has never been boomed, but has nevertheless been steadily working for the past eighteen months; it is known as the Wilcox group. The property consists of the Wilcox, By- water, Fourth of July and Warwick mineral claims. The first mentioned are Crown granted. The group lies about five'miles from the town of Ymir on Wild Horse Creek, and the following work has been done: There are three ledges, and development has been extensively carried on on all the veins. On No. l ledge there is a tunnel 350 feet and a raise from this to the surface a distance of 105 feet. This tunnel is all in ore which averages four feet in width and an average assay will give $18.00 to the ton. On No. 2 a ledge tunnel 375 feet has been driven,one 90 feet, also a smaller one of 40 feet. On No. 3 ledge the vein has been drifted upon a distance of 180 feet, a crosscut of 70 feet and a raise of 145 feet. It can be said of the Wilcox group which can rarely be said that all the development work that has been performed has been carried out in a most systematic manner and shows up the property to the best advantage. The work reflects great credit upon the mine superintendent, Mr. Phillip White, who has had charge of the property since the commencement. The character of the ore is a galena carrying red oxide; an average of the values will give $17.50, and the ledge will average all through three feet. At the time of writing there is over $200,000 of ore in sight. The company's stock is held by a few, they never having found it necessary to hawk it around at a low figure. Negotiations are at the present being carried on with parties in the Eastern States and the probability is that before next spring there will be a change. Considerable development is taking place around this neighbourhood and from the way the properties are looking the outlook is very promising indeed. While some of the minor properties have shut down owing to the common complaint, "lack of funds," still there is every possibility of their soon commencing development again. The Ymir mine is the stand-by of this camp ; in fact it is a larger producer of its kind in Canada. The British America Corporation have been doing development work on the Dufferin, Beres- ford and Mist Fraction. This property adjoins the Ymir group and has an identical snowing to that of the Ymir. Persons competent to judge claim that it has the continuation of the Ymir. The Fern mine has commenced its season's operations. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mining has been somewhat neglected during this month owing to the excitement attendant on the provincial elections. Notwithstanding good steady progress has been made with many properties. The north cross-cut at the Truth mine is now in 70 feet and has passed through some good bands of ore, the best ore is being put aside for shipment, the low- grade going over the dump. The best of the surface showings have yet to be cross-cut under. This property has been attracting considerable attention during this month and is improving in value almost every clay. The Python continues working with a staff of seven men; a large quantity of magnetite is reported to have been met. A shaft is now being sunk on the Tenderfoot, Copper Creek, and ore of a better grade than that from the tunnel is being met. The last payment on the property was made a few days ago by the local syndicate which has been developing this property. Now that the syndicate has obtained full control steps are being taken to commence more energetic mining and one or more carloads of ore will be shipped for trial purposes. Mr. Boillot, of Paris, who has been developing the Wheal Tamar and Hilltop properties, has left for New York. These properties which have turned out very well, will now pass into the hands of New York and French capitalists. The Wheal Tamar is a big copper property and the Hilltop is a gold-quartz proposition. The Erin is being explored at the 100-foot level and a very large body of low-grade ore has been cut through. There are some heavily oxidized bands, however, which are expected to yield better ore with more depth. The Iron Mask, a property which shipped 100 tons of ore in the early days of the camp, is being explored by the B. C. Exploring Syndicate, who have the property under bond. The vein is being cross-cut at the level of the old tunnel. The cross-cut is now in 30 feet; several bands of ore have been met and the hanging wall has not yet been reached. The ore previously shipped was extracted from a band three to four feet wide near the footwall. The same company have just completed the re-timbering of the shaft at the Lucky Strike and will now try to recover the vein which is cut off by a fault. This is one of the high-grade properties of the camp and the work is being watched with close interest. Some work has been done on the Pole Star, Jamieson Creek. This property is typical of the mineral bearing veins of that locality; they are massive veins of quartz carrying a little galena with gold and silver values. Some good returns are got from picked samples, but not enough work has been done to determine the working value of the whole bodies. The Salmon Arm, Shuswap Lake, excitement continues unabated. The Glencoe mineral claim is reported to have been bonded for the sum of $35,- coo and there are reports of other deals but reliable information is hard to get. Some samples of very high grade silver ore are being brought out and the excitement runs high. The Enterprise mine at Stump Lake, -about 25 miles south of Kamloops, has been sold to an English syndicate formed to take over this mine. This is one of the properties which were worked some ten or twelve j^ears ago. A mill was put on this property, then the Star mine, and several carloads of concentrates were shipped. Unfortunately the mill was burned down and the mine has been idle since. The new company will start to work on a fairly large scale in a few weeks. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Although business keeps generally quiet in the several towns of the district there is a gradual improvement in matters connected with the mining industry. The most encouraging feature is the increase in the quantity of ore being sent out. The aggregate tonnage shipped to date of writing is still comparatively small, yet it has been added to less slowly during the past two months than at any earlier period of like duration. The total from the B.C. mine, in Summit Camp, now over 3,000 tons, should by July 1st be about 4,000 tons: This, as well as about twenty carloads sent from the Golden Crown, Winnipeg and Athelstan mines, in Wellington Camp, has all been sent over the Columbia & Western Railway to the / Canadian Pacific Co.'s smelter at Trail. More than / j 1,000 tons of ore has been hauled by horse teams/ THE MINING RECORD. 275 from the City of Paris mine, in Central Camp, to the Granby Co.'s smelter, at Grand Forks, and the output from this mine will, it is expected, shortly be increased from 25 tons to about 40 tons per day, the chief obstacle to the increase having hitherto been the state of the waggon road, which has not been in good enough condition for the teams to take out the larger quantity. Besides these two mines, which to the extent of an average of about 50 tons and 25 tons per day respectively, have become regular shippers, there are the Wellington Camp properties already mentioned and three or four others which have been intermittent shippers, so that the aggregate of the shipments to date must now be between 5,000 and 6,000 tons. The expected early commencement of shipping from the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill should ere long so change the position as to make such a quantity a monthly rather than a gross total. So it is that after two or three years of slow progress, the time for rapid improvement seems to be at hand, which improvement can best be effected and accelerated by the receipt by mine owners of cash returns from the smelters. The customary difficulty in supplying reliable information oi public interest once again presents itself as the time comes round to write this monthly letter. Probably this difficulty will be lessened later by more mine managers responding as readily and fully to the personal application of the correspondent for accurate mining information as for some time past Las been the kindly custom of the manager of the New York Company owning and operating the Mother Lode mine. However, such information as the writer has been able to obtain and as in his judgment will interest readers of the Mining Record is given below. The Mother Lode.—Steady progress in development work is being maintained at the British Columbia Copper Company's Mother Lode mine, situate in Deadwood Camp, near Greenwood. On the surface the construction of ore bins, to have a holding capacity of about 2,000 tons, is still being proceeded with, but it is not expected that these will be completed until the end of July or early in August. As the structure will be about 45 feet in height it is necessary that it be made thoroughly substantial, so that with comparatively big timbers to be used a longer time will be occupied in building it than at first seemed probable to the writer. The machinery manufacturers who contracted to supply additional and larger compressor, boiler and drilling plant to that now in use at the mine (as detailed in the April number of the Mining Record) were prevented by labour difficulties and other unforeseen causes of delay, from delivering this new plant early in June, as called for in the contract. At the time of writing only the foundation bolts for the compressor have been shipped, so the work of preparing the foundation on the mine is necessarily delayed pending their receipt. Below ground the mine is continuing to open up satisfactorily. At the 200-foot level the north drift —now by the way being run for exploratory purposes in such a direction as to be neither a drift proper nor a cross-cut in the ordinary acceptation of this word— is in about 750 feet from the main shaft and is agran in ore. This drift left the big ore body, or rather the general onrse of the ore. so far as yet ascertained, took it diagonally to the left of the drift, which . an into white limestone. Going back a short i'^-cancc from the face a new drive was made diagonally o the right and following the limestone and within three feet the working was again in ore and it has continued to be for some thirty feet, with a full face of ore at the present time. This development has presented a new problem, which can only be solved by further exploratory work to determine whether this is a slip or a parallel shoot of ore to the one practically proved by cross-cuts over a distance of about 350 feet to maintain a general direction which took it out of the drift on the left. The general result of these four cross-cuts has been to indicate that the ore shoot which the drift passed diagonally is from 80 to 90 feet in right-angle width for about 350 feet. A cross cut now being run, starting from a point 100 feet further back towards the shaft, will probably pass into ore during, July, and if it does so it will add another 100 feet to the known length of this big ore shoot. How much farther back the ore will be found to continue is a question to be decided only by later exploration. At the 300-foot level the two drifts from the shaft, in opposite directions, will each be in about 100 feet by the time this appears in print and cross-cutting both ways from each will have been commenced at that distance in. A limited quantity of nice ore was encountered at this lower level, but it was so near the shaft that it was not considered desirable to cross-cut it there. There is no reason to suppose that the ore does not live down, but little definite will be known about its extent -and value at this level for at least two or three months. The Smelter.—The Mother Lode smelter near Greenwood is making progress towards completion. The sample mill building and the ore bins between this and the furnace are about finished, and the upper ore bins, above the sample mill, are well forward. A complete smelting furnace of 250 tons nominal capacity has been received, but the building in which it is to be enclosed has not yet arrived. The lower floor of this building will be constructed of steel. The dust chamber or flue leading to the smoke stack is being arched over with brick supported on frames of heavy steel rails. Other work about the smelter is also in hand. The Old Ironsides and Knob Hill.—These properties, together with the Victoria and Grey Eagle, which adjoin and are worked in conjunction with them, had early in June about 125 men working on them. The recently constructed large ore bins, on the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill respectively, are reported to be filled with ore, the shipment of which to the Granby smelter has been delayed owing to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company not having completed the two-mile branch line from the Columbia & Western Railway in to the smelter. This work is nearly finished, so it should not be long ere these mines will be shipping regularly. It is understood that stoping is now practicable in the Old Ironsides, Knob HilL and Victoria mines, all. three having been developed to an extent that will admit of there being steadily maintained an output of ore comparatively large for a camp just entering upon the shipping stage. The following summary of feet of work done in development underground to June 1st was recently obtained at the mines' office at Phoenix: Old Ironsides—Sinking, No. 1 shaft, 220 feet; drifting, at 100- foot level, 108 feet, at 200-foot level, 904 feet, at 300- foot level (from No. 2 shaft) 380 feet; cross-cutting, at 200-foot level, 670 feet, at 300-foot level, 180 feet; 276 THE MINING RECORD. No. 2 shaft on line between Old Ironsides and Victoria, 400 feet. Knob Hill—Drifting, 1,448 feet, cross-cutting, 1,443 feet, sinking and raising, 528 feet. (Note: The Knob Hill drift extends 80 feet into the Grey Eagle. The foregoing figures given as Knob Hill include drifting 80 feet and cross-cutting 250 feet done in the Grey Eagle.) Victoria—Drifting, at 200-foot level, 790 feet; at the 300-foot level, 300 feet; cross-cutting, at 200-foot level, 1,120 feet, at 300-foot level, 510 feet. RECAPITULATION. Sinking Drifting and and Total Raising Cross- Feet, cutting. Old Ironsides 220 2,242 2,462 Old Ironsides, No. 2 shaft. . 400 ' . .. . 400 Knob Hill 528 2,561 3,089 Victoria ... 2,460 2,460 Grey Eagle 330 330 1,148 7,593 8,741 Winnipeg and Golden Crown—-These mines, which are adjoining properties situate in Wellington Camp and distant about eight miles from Greenwood, are apparently to be worked separately in the future as in the past, the amalgamation project suggested several months since having seemingly been abandoned. Mr. Nicolas Tregear, of Rossland, whom the Rossland Miner describes as "a man of energy and skill" and of whom it further says that he was for a long time underground foreman and subsequently superintendent of the Le Roi mine, Rossland, has been appointed to the charge of the Winnipeg. This mine has been unwatered and development work has been resumed in it. The ore lately sent to Trail was taken mainly from the surface workings where the cutting of the railway grade exposed a quantity of good ore. About 3,000 feet of work has been done in this mine, less than one-fourth being sinking and raising, the remainder being cross-cutting and drifting. The main shaft is down 330 feet and a considerable proportion of the work has been done at the 300-foot level. The Golden Crown, owned by the Brandon & Golden Company, of Rossland, is reported to be looking well, and now that a railway spur has been built to its ore bins, is likely to be a regular shipper. About 2,000 feet of work have been done in the present workings, more than one-third of this being at the 300-foot level. The secretary of the company on his return to Rossland after a recent visit to the mine expressed himself as well satisfied with its prospects, and the assurances given regarding its condition would seem to warrant his somewhat sanguine opinions as to its future. The B.C.—Appearances on the surface at the B.C. indicate that this mine is passing from the prospect stage to that of permanent production. 'With ore coming from three levels—some from stopes and other from development work in further opening up the mine; with men employed in sorting ore and loading it on to cars, and with plant and machinery being added, there need be little hesitation in concluding that below ground the mine is in a satisfactory condition, especially having in mind the fully qualified opinions quoted in last month's letter that the work is being done-in a thoroughlv systematic manner. The working shaft is down 272 feet and the total number of feet of work done in the course of development was in the first week of June ascertained to then be 3,724. The mine was at that time employing about seventy men. Work has been suspended at the Oro Denoro mine also in Summit Camp, but it is hoped that this property, reputed very promising, will not long remain idle. The R. Bell has resumed operations with Mr. J. Hanley, one of the original owners, in charge. There is a fine surface showing of copper-gold ore on this claim. An incline shaft has been sunk 45 feet and a winze 35 feet and 147 feet of drifting and crosscutting has also been done. Lower down the hill on which the ore outcrops a second shaft has been sunk vertically 90 feet. Tljis shaft is to be deepened and to expedite the work a small steam plant was lately placed over it. Should results appear to justify the further expenditure a larger plant, including an air compressor, will be installed here. The Sunset.—It has been reported that an ore vein 36 feet in width has been cut on the Sunset, situate in Deadwood Camp, and owned by the Montreal- Boundary Creek Mining Company, of Montreal. A double compartment shaft had been sunk 186 feet, and in a cross-cut the lode mentioned was cut at a distance of about 400 feet from the shaft. The ore is described as pyrrhotite and sulphide intermixed with copper values lower and gold higher than are usually obtained from the ores occurring in other mines in this camp. The specimen shown to the writer was in appearance distinct from all others seen in the district. As more than 2,000 feet of work had been done on this property without previously meeting with a well-defined vein, this discovery is regarded with much satisfaction by those directly interested in it. The Sunset was last year equipped with plant and machinery equal to all likely requirements for some time to come, so there is no lack of power to prove the extent of the ore body now met with. There are 30 men on this mine's pay-roll. City of Paris and Majestic.—Fully 5,000 feet of work have been done in development of the City of Paris mine and about 1,150 on the Majestic Company's property near by. These mines are situate in Central Camp, about eight miles southeast of Green- w-ood. They are worked conjointly, power being supplied to both by the same air compressor. They are owmed by two of the Miner-Graves companies and are together employing between 40 and 50 men. The City of Paris is, as already mentioned, regularly sending ore to the smelter at Grand Forks. Other Mines.—The Athelstan in Wellington Camp is improving with development and is shipping a little ore. The Snowshoe, Gold Drop and War Eagle, all in Greenwood (or Phoenix) Camp, are making steady progress, as, too, is the Buckhorn, in Deadwood Camp. The Great Hopes, also in Deadwood Camp, has resumed work after a long period of inactivity. The Morrison is still idle, but assessments have been made to wipe out liabilities incurred by the old company and to provide funds for a resumption of mining operations under the new regime. The Republic group in Smith's Camp, is likely to be at work again before long as are, too, the Emma, in Summit Camp, and the Brooklyn and Stemwinder, in Greenwood Camp. It is hoped that the Jewel, in Long Lake Camp, will soon be equipped with a stamp mill and THE MINING RECORD. 277 other facilities for the successful treatment of its gold- quartz ore which in respect of both quantity and value promises well for the future. The Placer Fizzle.—As foretold in last month's letter, the so-called placer excitement on Boundary ■Creek has proved a fizzle. It does seem absurd that because a dozen or twenty men stake placer ground and half a dozen of their number do a few days' comparatively resultless work, newspapers like the Coast dailies should publish deceptive paragraphs, yet so long as these crib their mining news from local papers given to the publication of boom statements no less unsatisfactory condition of things may be looked for. But this indiscriminate reproduction of unverified "news" is the more to be regretted since it in large measure, justifies the frequent assertion that the mining news published in many of the newspapers is quite unreliable. ROSSLAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) It is reasonable to expect from what has happened in the province during the past few days that provincial credit will again be established, and that this province will benefit by the changes which have already taken place and those which are already foreshadowed. This is a notable promise, requiring only good management to place it on the highway of prosperity. The attainment of this can only be secured by surrendering our prejudices, be they sectional or political. A legislator should possess wisdom. He •should be constructive rather than destructive, just to those that differ from him and true to his native .or adopted province as the case may be- Responsible constitutional government is not a privilege but a right. When it is not maintained provincial credit suffers for the intending investor rightly conjectures that those that do not respect the constitution of their ■province cannot and will not respect vested interests, and contracts and vested interests are, we are credibly informed, of economic significance and are enforceable by public authority. The readers of the Mining Record then will fully ^appreciate the buoyant feeling which now prevails in this community with regard to the provincial outlook. It is perfectly true that there has been some local disappointment, but on the whole the community is a unit in its desire to advance, even if there is a difference of opinion as to the methods. This is essentially an industrial community depending on ■the mines for its growth and prosperity. Heretofore politics have been regarded as a luxury to be indulged in by the few, but recently the many have taken a deep interest in the matter of provincial government and this interest is an awakening that is a hopeful sign. I find amongst the business men renewed confidence in the future, not merely of Rossland but of 'Southern Britsh Columbia—from Fort Steele to Fort Hope. The reports from the various communities ■scattered along the route speak for themselves. They denote one word—"progress"—an increased output of ore, new camps contributing their mineral^ products to the smelters and a growth remarkable if not phenomenal. The Boundary district, as if tired waiting the advent of local smelters, has begun to ship its ores to Trail, while Fort Steele and St. Eugene -are handling at least 150 tons per day. This restlessness to go ahead at a quickened pace has been in creased by the events on the Coast which seem to promise a solution of the vexed problems which have confronted our people for the past two years. _ The ore shipments from Rossland mines for the five months and. twenty-one days ending June 21 amount to 65,500 tons. For the half year ending June 30, 1899, there were shipped from Rossland mines 64,064 tons, of which the Le Roi contributed 41,000, the War Eagle 20,500, Iron Mask, 1,282; Centre Star, 1,164; Deer Park, 18, and Evening Star, 100 tons. The mines credited with the output this year are the Le Roi, 46,500; the War Eagle, 10,600; the Centre Star, 7,000; the Iron Mask, 1,500, and miscellaneous 900. Total, 66,500, which will be increased to 71,000 by the end of the month, showing a gain of 6,936 tons for 1900. The Le Roi is the only shipping mine at present, and as may be judged from the figures given, the other mines have not shipped for some months— since the suspension. Conjectures are, of course, plentiful, and mine managers smile kindly when the direct question is put: "When are you going to ship ?" Judging from the surface and other preparations that are being made, ore shipments will soon begin along the whole line, though from this must be excluded the south belt (known as such locally). In that part of the division one does not see much to encourage the hope of ore shipments there, but Red Mountain is a hive of industry, and before many weeks it is not unlikely that it will be shipping at least 1,000 tons a day —for a time at all events. The value of the 66,500 tons of ore shipped this year is placed at $1,064,000 gross. One of the important announcements of the week is that of the flotation of Le Roi No. 2. This has been accomplished by the joint efforts oi the London and Globe, and the British America Corporation. The properties which have passed over to the new company are the Josie, Poorman, Annie, Annie Fraction, Rockingchair, No. 1, and Thella. The capital stock of the company is divided into 120,000 shares of the par value of £5 each, equal to $3,000,000. The purchase price is said to have been $1,750,000 with $250,000 reserved for working capital. These properties are among the best which belong to the B. A. C, the Josie has facilities for shipping its ore, and the No. 1 is especially a mine. The Annie is a very likely prospect. 1 do not know much about the others, but they are believed to be intersected by the main ledge of the War Eagle. The B. A. C. formerly owned from 20 to 22 properties in this division. The Corporation has done a large amount of development work and not without avail either. The Nickel Plate has one of the main veins of the camp. The ore body has been cut at two or three different levels above the 500, and has also been intersected at that level. The ore is of good grade, running from $18 to $22 and some of it is even high-grade. The Josie is also a mine with shipping facilities nearly completed. The No. 1 had ore from the grass roots. The Nickel is still owned by the Corporation. The three mines just named will soon be included amongst the shippers, as a larg» amount of ore has accumulated and is ready for shipping. The south and southeast face of Red Mountain continues to show vast surface preparations for the output of ore which will soon reach 1,000 tons per day. 278 THE MINING RECORD. I The management of the War Eagle and Centre Star, which is practically one, does not seem to be affected by the many reports which are current about town. The management pursues the even tenor of its way, and evidently intends to do so notwithstanding the adverse criticism of those that do not always mind their own concerns. A mining company managed by the public would indeed be a contradictory proposition; it would be something to marvel at in earnest. Rossland, in spite of the discouraging outlook some weeks past, is now mending its face. Confidence is now fully restored and a building and building moving fever has set in which promises to continue for some time. A considerable percentage of the population has come to stay, and cosy homes with many fine residences are fast supplanting the typical cabin of the pioneer prospector. Surface improvements here are somewhat expensive owing to the rocky foundations which must be drilled and blasted to make room for the building improvements which progress is everywhere making. One hears now on all sides the noise of the steam drill, and the boom of the blast, even in the heat of the city where the city and railway corporations are making extensive preparations for building improvements. The mining pay-roll on June 15th amounted to $100,000, and this of course was exclusive of city and railway pay-rolls, which are a large item here. The Le Roi is shipping from 15 to 18 cars of ore daily to the Northport smelter. This is the only mine that is shipping, but by midsummer the output will probably be double its present dimensions. The promoters of mining enterprises, and the brokers have recovered from the despondency to wdiich they submitted a few weeks ago. There is an opinion which is fast acquiring force that Rossland will yet have a boom quite substantial in character. The steady shipments of ore from the Boundary mines to the Trail smelter suggest the possibilities of that district in the future, and with the restoration of provincial credit which will be the result of stable government $50,000,000 is not an over estimate* of what will be invested in that portion of British Columbia extending from Fort Steele to Midway, during the next twelve months. One of the best evidences of the growth and progress of the mineral industry is the large amount of machinery which has been supplied to mine managers since the beginning of the year, especially by the Jenckes Machine Company. This firm has supplied since January 1st seven 10-drill plants, two 40-drill compressors, one 7-drill compressor, one 7-drill compressor, a number of other companies running from four to seven drills and several hoisting plants, and other machinery. These orders have nearly all been filled. They measure to some extent the progress of the mining industry from Fort Steele to Yale, and suggest the possibilities of the near future. It is not drawing on the imagination in the least to predict for Rossland much prosperity henceforward. It is true that the schemesters are just now finding a hard road, and the scrip known as K. K., of which there are many large bodies, is not in as much favour as in days of yore, but this implies no lack of confidence in standard prospects wdiich are honestly managed and the development of which is along the lines of experience. To sum up, the outlook from a legitimate mining point of view, was never better than it is now. slocan. (From Our Own Correspondent.) All interest for the month has of course centred in the elections and notwithstanding that the frequent accompaniments of disorder and ill-will have been absent to an unprecedented exterit, business men and others in the riding have realized none the less the importance and gravity of the situation. While prospectors and those having property for sale complain bitterly of the lack of concern shown by the outside world, the more thoughtful go further than this and trace the unfortunate condition which prevails to its true source, viz: the want of a stable government in whom investors can place implicit reliance for the future. This satisfactory and devoutly to be desired consummation will, it is hoped, soon become un fait accompli and then, and not till then can •we who depend entirely for our prosperity upon the support accorded by the investing public reasonably look for improvement. As viewed by capital, the results in West Kootenay must come as a distinct disappointment, the figures going to show how completely the cause of organized labour has triumphed. That this need necessarily operate as a detriment must not, however, be taken for granted, everything, of course, depending on the attitude adopted by the representatives of the unions and the good sense which we all expect to be displayed in dealing with questions involving principles vitally affecting monetary interests. For the rest, we trust to the fame and richness of Kootenay to reassert itself as of yore. A glance at the statistics as given iri the report of the Minister of Mines for 1899 shows at a glance the deplorable condition into which the Slocan has sunk by reason of the period of enforced and—it is to be regretted—unnecessary depression through which it has passed. Last year about this time I drew attention with some degree of reluctance to the fact that the production for 1898 was over $600,000 less in value than that for the preceding year, entertaining hopes at the same time that we should fully recover our lost prestige in 1899. What, then, shall be thought of our sorry position now when we have to confess not only to a further decline of nearly a million dollars, but—retrogression with a vengeance— an output actually less than that of four years ago. For the first time, too, the Rossland district has the distinction—somewhat empty, it is true—of being at the head of the poll, so to speak, although the value of its production was less by some $50,000 than that of the Slocan in its prime. Predictions for the future I shall not attempt to make, so much depending at this juncture not merely on the actions of the Local Legislature, but in an even greater degree perhaps upon Imperial considerations and the course of events in localities far removed from the immediate seat of our operations. The act which came into force last year compelling all companies and free miners to renew their licenses simultaneously, namely on May 31st, though causing much vexation and misunderstanding at the time, has worked to perfection on this occasion, and is destined to save a deal of trouble in the future, simplifying as it does the duties of the recorder in common with those of the general public. When one considers the bitter outcry there was in THE MINING RECORD the Transvaal before the war with respect to the obnoxious dynamite monopoly it is cause for congratulation that in British Columbia nothing of this sort at least obtains. Owing to competition induced by the advent of a local factory near Nelson, dynamite can now be obtained for approximately $7.00' a case, a very material consideration in the carrying out of extensive mining operations. Of the mines which are looking up, we note remarkable discoveries of ore have recently been made in the Slocan Star, and the Bosun still continues to hold its own in face of a steady output of 100 tons a month, shortly to be increased. The Payne at its annual meeting in Montreal reported excellent progress, the directors referring in particular terms to the welcome fact that their reserves were even greater if anything than at this time last year. The Whitewater is again shipping, and work has already begun on the fine concentrator which is to be built for the Ivanhoe. We should, perhaps, hardly consider the moment opportune for introducing mines to the public, but nevertheless it is stated that the Emily Edith group will shortly make its appearance upon the London market. The completion of the waggon road up Springer Creek will greatly facilitate operations at the Arlington mine and it is of interest to know that the new owners of the Chapleau are already getting down to business in connection with the milling plant which they propose to erect at an early date. BANK OF MONTREAL—ANNUAL GENERAL' MEETING. HELD 4TH JUNE, I9OO. THE eighty-second annual meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Montreal was held in the board room at one o'clock yesterday. The report of the directors was read by Mr. E. S. Clouston, general manager, as follows: The directors have pleasure in presenting the eighty-second annual report, showing the result of the bank's business of the year ended 30th April, 1900 :— Balance of profit and loss account, 30th April, 1899 Profits for the year ended 30th April, 1900, after deducting charges of management, and making full provision for all bad and doubtful debts. 1,524,388 08 $1,102,792 72 $2,627,180 80 Dividend 5 per cent., paid 1st December, 1899 $600,000 Dividend 5 per cent., payable 1st June, 1900. 600,000 Amount credited to rest account .... 1,200,000 00 1,000,000 00 Balance of profit and ward >ss carried for- $ 427,180 80 Since the last annual meeting of the shareholders, a branch of the bank has been opened at Sydny, N.S. A branch office has been opened in the leased premises of La Banque Ville Marie, on the corner of Wellington and Centre streets, Point St. Charles, Montreal. With deep regret the directors have to record the death of their esteemed colleagues, Messrs. Hugh McLennan and W. W. Ogilvie, the former of whom had been a member of the board for upwards of seventeen years, and the latter for upwards of five years. The vacancies on the board have been filled by the election of Messrs. James Ross and R. G. Reid. All the offices of the bank, including the head office, have been inspected during the past year. Strathcona and Mount Royal, President. Bank of Montreal, Head Office, 4th June, 1900. . THE GENERAL STATEMENT. The general statement at 30th April, 1900, was as follows : LIABILITIES. Capital Stock $12,000,000 00 Rest $7,000.000 00 Balance of Profits carried forward 127,180 80 $ 7,427,180 80 Unclaimed Divfdends 2 212 01 • Half-yearly Dividend, payable the 1st June, 1900 600,000 00 8,029,392 81 $20,029,392 81 Notes of the Bank in circulation $ 6,161,649 00 Deposits not bearing interest 10,709,969 34 Deposits bearing interest 41,936,536 97 Balances due to other banks in Canada 15,549 28 58,822,804 59 $78,852,197 40 ASSETS. Gold and Silver coin current $ 2,303,209 19 Government Demand Notes 2,814,430 00 Deposit with Dominion Government required by Act of Parliament for security of general bank note circulation 300,000 00 Due by agencies of this Bank and other Banks in Foreign Countries $11,640,790 26 Due by agencies of this Bank and other Banks in Great Britain.. 4,008,131 55 15,648,921 81 Dominion & Provincial Government Securities. 518,642 39 United States Railway Bonds 1,570,365 25 Notes and cheques of otber Banks 2,571,052 97 $24,726,621 61 Bank Premises at Montreal and Branches. 600,000 00 Current Loans and Discounts, (rebate interest •reserved) and other Securities and Assets.. .$53,430,332 13 Debts secured by mortgage or otherwise 52,659 67 Overdue debts not specially secured (loss provided for) 42,583 99 53,525,575 79 $78,852,197 40 Bank op Montreal, E. S. CLOUSTON, Montreal, 30th April, 1900. General Manager. THE GENERAL MANAGER. Mr. Clouston then said:— In the statement submitted to you to-day the principal changes which have taken place during the past year are: the liabilities column shows an increase in circulation of $700,000, and an increase of $6,500,000 in deposits bearing interest; while on the other side there is a decrease of $3,800,000 in th« reserves held in Great Britain, and an increase of $10,600,000 _in loans. A considerable percentage of the latter increase represents a legitimate demand from commercial customers for advances, arising from the more active and expanding conditions of trade. The remainder is employed in special operations of a temporary character which will probably be closed out in the next few months. Canada has good reason to be well satisfied with the results of business for the last twelve months. From every province of the Dominion, with the exception of British Columbia, come reports of universal prosperity, active trade, good crops, and generally speaking satisfactory prices. The lumber trade never was in better condition; while the dairy exports have only been limited by the extent of the cold storage accommodation, which is still insufficient for the growing wants of the trade. Rail- ■ road earnings were the largest in the history of Can- 28o THE MINING RECORD. ada, and the year ends in a blaze of universal self- congratulation. For the coming year there are some indications of over-production. Stocks in the merchants' hands are too large and in some districts collections are disappointing. In fact, at the moment there is something of a check, which, however, may prove highly salutary, if the commercial community will only proceed with caution till the new crop is assured and matters have adjusted themselves on a more satisfactory basis. British Columbia has not shared in the general prosperity to the same extent as her sister provinces, owing to the effect of injudicious and ill-considered legislation. This has created a feeling of distrust abroad, and the inflow of foreign capital, so necessary to the development of her immense natural resources, has been seriously checked. The Finance Minister of Canada has introduced a number of amendments to the Bank Act, which are now before the House. They are the outcome of ten years' experience of the working of the present Bank Act, and will no doubt materially strengthen it, and make it a more workable measure. Full details of these amendments have appeared in the papers, and it is not necessary for me to refer to them here.' If there are any questions respecting the business of the bank. I shall be pleased to answer them. THE VICE-PRESIDENT. Hon. George A. Drummond said:— I do not doubt you will receive with satisfaction the statements now laid before you and the explanations of the General Manager. The profits have enabled the directors to add one million of dollars to the rest, and pay the usual dividend of ten per cent, for the year. This rate of dividend has continued unbroken for twenty years, supplemented, however, in four of these years by a bonus. The addition to the rest is fully justified, I think, by the changed conditions since the year 1884, when capital and rest first attained the proportions so long maintained of twelve and six millions respectively. In 1884 the combined capital, rest and profit and loss account aggregated $18,306,000; in 1900 they were $19,130,000. But the total liabilities to the public, wdiich is 1884, were $25,941,000, had risen in 1900 to $58,822,000. I by no means desire to convey the impression that the ability of the bank to meet its engagements depends on the size of its rest, but ob viously an increase of the rest is quite in order, and no doubt will meet with your approval, as an increased rest not only gives additional stability but helps to steady the dividend. A further comparison of our condition in the year 1884 with the present time, is interesting and instructive. As already said, the liabilities of the bank had risen from 26 millions of dollars in 1884 to 59 millions in 1900. The number of agencies or branches had risen from 31 to 52. The number of the staff had increased from 299 to 562. The deposits had increased from $22,588,000 to $63,445,000, and the loans in Canada had increased from 30 millions to 53.4 millions. So that to earn approximately equal profits, double the business must be done and the cost of doing it proportionately increased. The public, therefore, is getting its banking business done for about half the price ruling in 1884. No doubt this is a substantial benefit to all commercial and manufacturing business. The melancholy collapse of La Banque Ville Marie in this city does not reflect on our banking system which could not provide for a series of gross frauds, revealed in the trials of the unhappy officers; its failure had no commercial effect, but caused much distress among its depositors, many of whom could ill bear their losses, and whose case rightly excited much public sympathy. The board has has occasion during the year to lament the sudden and unexpected death of two of its members, Mr. Hugh McLennan and Mr. W. W. Ogilvie, and has recorded its deep sense of the loss which the bank has experienced in being deprived of their prudent counsels. TJie board considers itself fortunate in having been enabled to fill these vacancies by the election of Mr. James Ross and Mr R. G. Reid. In the general trade and commerce of the country we find evidences of the period of prosperity into wdiich we have entered. Good harvests and good prices, especially for dairy produce, have caused prosperity throughout, the country. Immigration has been less rapid than can be wished, but with the activity in all branches of trade and manufacture in the Mother Country, nothing else could be anticipated. The lumber industry has been prosperous and prices much above the average; the great destruction of sawed stuff at Ottawa has, no doubt, temporarily af- Clouston, General Manager Bank of Montreal. THE MINING RECORD. 281 fected prices. The consumption of a special class of timber for the manufacture of paper pulp promises to have important efects on some districts. It appears to me that enormous waste is going on in this matter, and that some process of recovery whereby this in- dispensible material can be used more than once is looming in the future. Enormous strides are being taken in this country towards the production of iron and steel, and when the developments now in progress reach completion, we may hope that Canada will not only supply her own wants, but become a factor in the supply of foreign markets. Fuel has advanced materially in price, though to a smaller extent in this country than in Great Britain. This is due to a considerable rise in wages and materials and supplies of all kinds, and like the other advances already noted, has an important influence in checking expansion of business. It appears to me, that the fact that steam coal of similar quality to Nova Scotian is costing more in Glasgow, Scotland, than in Montreal, may very well be recorded to the credit of our protective duty on the article, the Montreal coal having been carried nearly one thousand miles. At the pit head, Canadian coal is very much cheaper than at any point in Great Britain. No better evidence of business activity can be had than the work done by our great carrying companies. Taking the returns of the Grank Trunk and the Canadian Pacific Railways together, we get these figures : The gross earnings for the years 1895 and 1899, under the following heads, compare as follows:— Passenger traffic, 1895, $10,133,000; 1899, $12,836,- coo; an advance of 26 per cent. Freight, 1895, $23,- 129,000; 1899, $32,809,000; an advance of 42 per cent! Mail and express, 1895, $1,804,000; 1899, $2,268,000; an advance of 25 per cent. Miscellaneous, 1895, $1,- 570,000; 1899, $2,764,000; an advance of 70 per cent. The totals of the foregoing in these years are $36,- 636,000, and $50,677,000 respectively; or an advance . of 38 per cent. The' North American steamship companies have had a fairly prosperous year; many of their vessels have found profitable employment in the various transport services connected with the South African war, and the decreased tonnage thus available for their regular trade has tended to enhance freight rates, more especially on export cargoes. The volume of imports carried by the Canadian lines was somewhat less than during the previous twelve months, the freight rates were somewhat dearer and the number of vessels fewer. The volume of exports was smaller, and the average of freight rates more especially on grain and provisions was higher. The current season has opened favourably and the volume of export traffic is likely to be fully equal to the available tonnage during the next two or three months. The passenger traffic was moderately satisfactory and the companies anticipate a free movement both east-bound and west-bound during the year. They complain of the large advance in the price of coal and of the enhanced wages, but their profits are, nevertheless, said to be adequate. As regards the port of Montreal, the last two years compare as follows: The total value of merchandise entered for consumption in the year ending 30th April. 1899, was $54,282,140; and for the year ending 30th April, 1900, $59,997,767; an increase of io-J per cent. On the other hand, the value of goods produced and otherwise exported in the former year was $62,170,354; and last year, 65,107,222, or an increase of 4.7 per cent. The aggregate trade of Canada by years is as follows :— Entered for Consumption. Exported. 1895 $105,252,500 $113,638,800 1898 130,698,000 164,152,700 1899 154,051,000 158,896,000 In the last five years, therefore, the excess in value of total exports over total imports has been $44,153,- 300, and this excess of exports over imports has happened onry once before in the history of Canada, i.e., in 1880. One important evidence of better times is to be found in the comparative immunity from losses by business failures which in the respective years are as follows: .1896, $17,300,000; 1898, $10,000,000; 1899, $10,727,000. If we except the reigning stagnation on the Stock Exchange due to a general pause in speculation and dearer money, the indications are of a continuation of good times. It is probable that some revival will be consequent on a decline in the cost of staple raw. materials which appears probable. It is impossible to follow the progress of all branches of trade, but the general result, with some special exceptions, is the same, full employment, press of business, good prices, advanced wages. In the middle of all this we are apt to for get that bad times will recur; there are evidences already, however slight, of a reaction. The high prices of lumber and labour, are causing a cessation of building and iron and steel are getting cheaper. One important factor, which may affect our manufacturing industries, is the evidence of a spirit of aggression in outside markets by the groat American combinations and trusts; this may develop into proportions which will produce consequences now unforeseen. Nothing in recent times has excited so intense an interest in this country as the war in South Africa, now happily drawing to an end. Its progress day by day, indeed' hour by hour, has been watched with feverish anxiey. . The successive relief of the heroic beleaguered garrisons of Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking, and the capture of the Boer centres have given occasion for general rejoicing. That a considerable body of Canadian volunteer soldiers sent out by the Dominion, have, for the first time in our history, been fighting on another continent, side by side with the best soldiers of the Empire, and proving themselves by courage and soldierly qualities equal to the honour, has intensified our interest. To ourselves it is a source of pride that among them is a corps of mounted infantry, 589 men, equipped, armed and carried to the seat of war through the princely liberality of the President of this bank. Heavy as is the price exacted in war, for any benefits—not in treasure alone, for that is secondary—but in blood, Canadians now occupy a place among the nations not hitherto accorded them, and can realize as never before that their country is part and parcel of the Empire, while the most distant shore where our flag flies is but a portion of our heritage. No one who has made himself acquainted with the facts can doubt that the war was not only a just and most righteous, but also an unavoidable one, or only to be escaped by Great Britain confessing_herself unable to protect her citizens, and abandoning all pre- THE MINING RECORD. tensions to Imperial power. I hail the resolve that the territories now conquered at such a heavy price shall be held under the British flag, with the security to life, liberty and property which it everywhere guarantees. This bank, departing in some measure from precedent has contributed liberally to Imperial and home organizations having the care of our soldiers and their dependents for their object; for this I do not doubt you will give your approval. Our duty would not be done if we fail to recognize to the full how much this little force has accomplished for the credit and best interests of Canada, and prove our gratitude by deeds. I will move : "That the report of the directors now read be adopted, and printed for distribution among the shareholders." The motion was seconded by Mr. A. T. Paterson. THE DIRECTORS. The ballot resulted in the election of the following Direcors: R. B. Angus, Esq.; Hon. G. A. Drum- mond; A. F. Gault, Esq.; E. B. Greenshields, Esq.; Sir William C. Macdonald; A. T. Paterson, Esq.; R. G. Reid, Esq.; James Ross, Esq.; Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G. At a meeting of the new board on Tuesday, the 5th inst., The Right Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., was re-elected President and Hon. Geo. A. Drummond, Vice-President. PRODUCING MINES. OUR Rossland correspondent telegraphs: "Ore shipments for the six months ending June 30th estimated 70,000 valued at $2,000,000 gross, being an increase of 9,000 tons for the corresponding period." FOREIGN COAL SHIPMENTS. FOLLOWING are the foreign coal shipments for the month ending 31st May, 1900:— NEW VANCOUVER COAL CO. Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. SS. New England, Alaska 40 SS. Mineola, Port Los Angeles 3,439 SS. Robert Adamson, Frisco 4,501 SS. New England, Alaska 40 SS. Titania, Port Los Angeles 5,882 SS. Ruth, Skagway 178 SS. San Mateo, Port Los Angeles .. .. 4,472 SS. New England, Alaska 10 SS. Robert Adamson, Frisco 4>527 SS. Aztec, Port Los Angeles 5,385 SS. Titania, Frisco 5,973 SS. Meteor, Cape Nome 25 Ship Paramitta, Lahani, H.I 2,192 SS. Sea Lion, Port Townsend 35 SS. Robt. Adamson, Frisco 4,587 Total 41,286 LADYSMITH (EXTENSION). Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 2—SS. Dirigo, Pt. Townsend 225 2—SS. Valencia, Frisco 973 10—SS. Warfield, Frisco 4,500 10—Universe, Frisco 3,400 10—Tellus,' Frisco 3>35o 10—City of Topeka, Ketchkan 180 10—SS. Wanderer, Port Townsend 10 15—Brig Colorado, Juneau 1,712 Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 22—Ship America, Port Townsend 1,500 22—Barque Ayai, Seattle 176 22—SS. Warfield, Frisco 4,500 22—SS. Hilda, Port Townsend 580 22—SS. Bristol, Frisco 3,000 22—Ship Louis Walsh, Frisco J,439 22—SS. Tellus, Frisco 1,612 22—SS. City of Topeka, Ketchkan.. .. .. .. 159 Total 27,316 UNION. Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 1—SS. Tellus, Frisco 3,3°° n—SS. Brunswick Castle, Alaska 139 11—SS. Dirigo, Port Townsend 200 11—SS. Tartar, Vancouver 2,700 11—SS. Bristol,'Frisco 2,300 17—SS. Danube, Pt. Townsend 300 17—SS. Wellington, Frisco 2,550 15—SS. Cutch, Vancouver 80 25—SS. Wanderer, Port Townsend 40 25—SS. Holyoke, Ketchkan II: 222 25—-SS. Sea Lion, Port. Townsend 40 25—SS. Rosalie, Pt. Townsend 125 Total 11,996 NEW VANCOUVER COAL CO. The following is the list of foreign shipments of the New Vancouver Coal Co. to the 20th inst:— Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 2nd—SS. San Mateo, Frisco 4,486 7th—SS. Aztec, Port Los Angeles 5,491 ' 8th—SS. Titania, Frisco 5>9I4 13th—SS. R. Adamson, Frisco 4,609 19th—S.S. Titania ■ 5,9°° Total 26,400 THE METAL MARKET. Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. Mining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York. ] j COPPER. THE market has shown rather more activity the past week, and a number of transactions have taken place. The buying, however, has not been large, though it is expected that the demand will continue, as manufacturers do not appear to be fully supplied. " Consumption, both at home and abroad, appears to be good. Lake copper is worth 16c, electrolytic in cakes, wire, bars or ingots 15I, cathodes 15^ and casting copper 15^. At a meeing of sheet copper and brass manufacturers held on the 21st June, it was decided to make no change in price lists or discounts. LEAD. Considerable business is reported this week, and prices are unchanged. New York, 3-7o@3.75; St. Louis, 3.65@3-7o. The market abroad for Spanish lead is 2s. 6d. higher or £17 7s. 6d; English, £17 10s. SPELTER. A fair amount of business has been transacted at last week's prices. Owing to a serious falling off in production, it is expected that, in some quarters, manufacturers whose supplies are said to be very low, will be obliged to buy more largely, in which case a sharp advance in prices may be looked for. Prices now stand New York, $4.15; St. Louis, $4.00 to $4.05. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. ry HE stock market has now a better tone since the I elections are over. Business is going on smoothly, but without excitement. Crow's Nest shares have been handled to a considerable extent, especially in the West, and the price is held firmly at $38 to $39. North Star is a shade weaker and is quoted to-day at $1.02; Sullivan is shipping and is quoted at 12.J. Winnipeg, has been one of the best sellers, the chief demand for this stock being in the West. Knob Hill has fallen to 45 c, Old Ironsides to 75c. and King to 8c. Shipping has at last commenced in earnest from the Boundary district, which will have a tendency to strengthen Boundary shares. The Athabasca mill run for May gave returns of $18,500, and we are informed from Nelson that the June clean-up will exceed $25,000. Noble Five has fallen to 13.J and Payne to $1. The Le Roi No. 2 was successfully floated in London, and bids have been received in British Columbia from London of £6, which is a premium of £1 per share already, although it is scarcely a month since the company was floated. Iron Mask is quoted at 33, War Eagle at $1.50 and Centre Star at $1.50. MACHINERY CATALOGUES. WE shall be pleased to mail catalogues of any of the undermentioned firms to our readers free of charge, on applciation: Ainsworth & Sons., Wm., fine balances; Armstrong & Morrison, riveted steel pipe ore cars, etc.; B. C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., assayers' supplies; Braun & Co., T., assayers' supplies; Beatty & Sons, M., cables and tramways, dredges, pumps, etc.; Bennett & Co., Wm., fuse safety couplers, etc.; California Wire Works, cables and tramways; Canadian Rand Drill Co., drills and compressors; Canadian General Electric Co., electrical plants; Cooper Mfg. Co., The James, compressors, power and hand drills; Denver Fire Clay Co., assayers' furnaces, etc.; Fraser & Chalmers, mills, pumps, hoists, engines, etc.; Fairbanks, Morse & Co., steam and gas engines, compressors, etc.; Gates Iron Works, engines, boilers, crushers, etc.; Hamilton Mfg. Co., The Wm., crushers, mills, hoists, etc.; Hendy Iron Works, Johsua, modern mining machinery; Hinton & Co., Geo. C, electrical supplies and machinery; Hearn & Harrison, engineering, mining and survejdng instruments; Hamilton Powder Co., explosives; Howells Mining Drill Co.', drills, all kinds ; Jeffrey Mfg. Co., elevating machinery; Jenckes , Machine Co., hoisting and milling machinery j Krupp, Established 181: BANK OF MONTREAL. Incorporated. toy- Act of Parliament. RESERVED FUND, $7,000,000.00. CAPITAL (all paid up), $12,000,000.00. HEAD OFFICE, ---..-- BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNDIVIDED PROFIT, $427,180.80. MONTREAL. A T HHH w°rd ^r,athc?^a ~nd Mou.nt R°yal- G.C.M.G , President; Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice-President. a. 1. Paterson, Esq.; Edward B. Greenshields, Esq.; Sir. William C. Macdonald; R. B. Angus, Esq.; A. F. Gault, Esq.; James Ross, Esq.; R. G. Reid, Esq. A Mamider rtfi&fe I H S-. CL°USTON, - - - General Manager. A. Meander, Chief Inspector and Superintendent of Branches. I F. W. Taylor, Assistant Inspector. DD 1 iWm Houston, Inspector of Branch Returns. | JAMES AIRD. Secretary. BRANCHES IN CANADA :- Montreal-H. V. Meredith, Manager. Lower PeoviK (^S?JZll ^e~ EndBr., Seigneurs St. Br., Point St. Charles ; Quebec. ^^iioZMT^B^nkn^^tT^t0a' N-B'; M°»9t<"..N.B.; St. John, N.B.; Amherst, N.S., Halifax. N.S.; Sydney, N.S. Province of BrxtSh Cotn^a r ^ TERRixoRiES-Wmnipeg, Man.; Calgary, Alberta : Leithbridge, Alberta; Regina, Assiniboia. In NE^ouNDLAND^St T^^=^5 ^ T° r\?el?0n\New Denver. N- Westminster, Rossland, Vaucouve?, Vernon, Victoria. In the United SraS-New Vnrt "t? S t? K^0ntreai\ *£ £RIEAT BRiTAiN-London, Bank of Montreal, § Abchurch Lane, E.C, Alexander Lang, Manager ited states—New York-R. Y. Hebden and J. M. Greata, Agents, 59 Wall Street; Chicago-Bank of Montreal. En'ria^VivOToo^ of London, the London & Westminster Bank, the National Prov. Bank of Bankers in the United w^sfWi,, SS";1-and7-£,e British Linen Company Bank and branches. & Co. Bufialo-The: Marine Ban if ^,ffX <k-Ihe N.atl°nal City Bank, the Bank of New York, N.B.A. Boston-The Merchants' National Bank, J. B. M oors Oregon-The Bank of^rYtteh Columb'f Francisco-The First National Bank, the Bank of British Columbia, the Anglo-Californian Bank. Portland, TO JOINT STOCK COHPANIES. I _We have at considerable expense brought out a book, the copyrights on which are applied for, for the use of Joint Stock Ctvm panies in which to keep a record of the following : Register of Members. Register of Directors. Summary of Shares and List of Shareholders. Register of Shares Transferred. The book contains suitable conveniences for correctly keeping all the detail set forth in the Act, and the summary of shares and list of shareholders can be arranged for any term wished for, the stock pattern allowing for 10 years business of the company. It is a matter of fact that most of the share dealings in British Columbia are contained in books which do not comply with the Act, being copies of American models called Stock Ledgers, and not suitable for the purpose ; take for example the numbers of the shares, and also the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares held by any member. If you are interested send us an outline as to the number of shareholders you at present have, and how many have ceased to be members during the past year and we will quote you for a book good for say 10 years business. For a small company we can supply a book carrying all the above information for $6.00. B. C. PRINTING. & ENGRAVING CORP., Ltd., VICTORIA, B.C. BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. HALF TONE and COLOUR WORK A SPECIALTY. BOOKBINDERS— Magazines, Periodicals and Music Books bound in First-Class Style and at Lowest Prices ^jp- Orders by Mail Receive Prompt Attention. BLANK BOOKS— Ruled, Printed and Bound to order. All work guaranteed. 284 THE MINING RECORD. Fried, Grusonwerk, mills, engines, pumps, etc ; Lex- ow, Theo., carbons; Link Belt Machinery Co., conveyors, elevators, etc.; McLennan, McFeeley & Co., belting, etc.; Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, compressors, drills, hoists, etc.; Perrin & Co., Wm., filter presses; Royal Electric Co., electric power, all kinds; Robertson & Co. James,wrought iron pipe, paints, etc.; Sturtevant Mill Co., ore breakers and mills; Stilwell— Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., water wheels; Taylor & Co., John, assayers' supplies ; Trenton Iron Co., cables and tramways; Taylor Air Compressor Co., drills, compressors, etc.; Union Gas Engine Co., gas engines, hoists, etc.; Whitstock, P. & R., mining engineering and surveying instruments; Wilfley Ore Concentrator Co., Ltd., concentrators. A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED . . Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Will shortly be at liberty. Would willingly take whole or partial charge of a Reduc ion Plant. Can keep books if required. Would start an independent Laboratory in any new district if sufficient work was guaranteed. Address " Accurate," careEdi or, B.C. Mining Record. IMPORTANT T© G0LO MINERS And Manufacturers of Mining Machinery. SILVER-PLATED AMALGAM PLATES For saving Gold in Quartz, Placer and Beach Mining. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Only Refined Silver and Best Copper used- Fifteen Medals awarded. Old Mining Plates! can be Replated Old Plates Bought or Gold Separated. Our Piate have been used for 55 years. Theg have proved the Best. We adhere strictly to^ i-oniract in weight of Silver and Copper. Send! for Circular. San Francisco Gold, Silver &. Nickel Plating Works 653-655 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. B. G. DENNIST0N, Proprietor. WHIT mpany, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights. 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. ^ffi^c£aa«ilfftf'ii'i"<'ii,Bii>ft*wi''i' Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f o.b. San Francisco. Oneof these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated by Steam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants foi the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. "Wire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is covered by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,338 and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for £§ i-. vi. Immediate Shipment. THE MINING RECORD. IX. Mining Stocks. Preparjd by A. W. Mora & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B.C., June 26, 1900. Company. TRAIL CREEK. Big Three— Centre Star... Commander.. Deer Park... Enterprise.... Evening Star. Georgia Gertrude Golden Drip. Gopher Homestake... Iron Horse Iron Mask I.X.L. Iron Colt Jumbo Le Roi Le Roi, No. 2 Lilly May Mayflower Monte Cristo Nest Egg-Firefly Novelty Poorman R.E.Lee Red Mountain View...;... Rossland, Red Mountain. St. Elmo Silverine Silver Bell Con Victory Triumph Virginia War Eagle Consolidated^. White Bear American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Buffalo of Slocan Dundee Dardanelles Dellie Exchequer Pern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick Leviathan London Miller Creek Molly Gibson Minnesota Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanho».. Payne Rambler Con Reco Slocan-Reciprocity... Slocan Start Silver Band Slocan Queen 8tar St. Keverne Sunshine Tamarac Two Friends Washington Wonderful Lardeau Goldsmith Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Lardo-Duucan Co. TEXADA ISLAND. Gold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary Texada Kirk Lake.. Treasury Mines . Van Anda. Victoria-Texada ... VANCOUVER ISLAND. Alberni Mountain Rose Consolidated Alberni Mineral Creek..., Mineral Hill .'...'"....'.!.'.." Quadra Mount Sicker & B.C. Development" Col CARIBOO. Cariboo Gold Melds Ld Cariboo Hydraulic Consolidated. Cariboo M. & D. Co Golden River Quesnelle Horsefly Hydraulic Ward-Horsefly Victoria Hydraulic Capital. Par Value. AINSWORTH, NELSON AND SLOCAN. Price. $3,500 3,500 500 1,400 1,000 2<XX 1,000' 500 500 1,000 1,000 1,000! 500 1,000; 1,000 500. £1,000 600 $1,000 1,000 2,500 1.000 1,000 500 2,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 500 500 1,000; 100J. 2,000, 3,000 ,000 ,000 000 000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 000 ,000 000 000 000 000 000 ,000 ,000 ,000 000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ooo 000 000 000 000 000 ,000 000 000 000 000 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 £5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 25 1,000,000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 1.50' 000 7)0,000 1,000,000 200,000 800,000 650,000 £300.000 ?1 500,000 2,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 250,000 12,000 1,000,000 3,500,000] 1,000,000' 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 250,000 1.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000 000 240,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 200 000 1,500.000 1,500,0001 100,000 1,000,000 250,000 600,000 250,000 5,000,000 150,000 250,000 500,000 500,000 750,000 500,000 20 9 5 8 15 0314 3 33 16 10 28 £7 00 6 00 $0 10 10 4 02 3 14 2 3 10 4 6 1 50 3 1 6 1 7 0 10 10 1 26 0 25 — 1 1<% 1 3 1 12 1 12 0 25 6 1 11 1 W4 £1 2s. $1 10 1 3 25 25 1 08 1 35 1 66 0 25 20 c par 314 1 12H 1 00 1 00 1 23 1 1 00 £125,000 £1 £100,000 $6,000,000 300,000 £350,000 $200,000 500,000 300,000 50 0 25 1 1 1 10 1 30 1 1 10 1 0 25 1 25 1 0 25 $5 1 £1 $ 1 1 1 25 m 10 . 07 4 4 3 25 4 04 5 05 10 10 25 1 00 5 3 5 ooy2 osy2 05 05 1 10 $1 10 25 55 85 LILLOOET DISTRICT. Alpha Bell Cayoosh Creek Mines. Excelsior Golden Cache Lillooet Gold Reefs ... fairview Camp. Smuggler Fairview Corporation. BOUNDARY CREEK. Boundary Creek M. M. Co Brandon and Golden Crown. Dominion Copper Co King Knob Hill .... Morrison Old Ironsides . Pathfinder Pay Ore Rathmullen ... Winnipeg CAMP MCKINNEY. Camp McKinney Development Co. Cariboof Minnehaha Waterloo Fontenoy O'Shea Waterloo No. 2 Mammoth Little Cariboo Shannon Sailor Silver Bell, Consolidated REVELSTOKE. Carnes Creek Consolidated EAST KOOTENAY. Canadian Gold Fields ... Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. North Star Sullivan 500,000 1 500,000 1 500,000 1 500,000 1 200,000 25 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 25 1,500,000 1 1,500,000 1 5,000,000 1 1500,000 1 1,500,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 1,000,000 1 2,500,000 1 1,000,000 1 600,000 1 1 250,000 j. 1,000,juO 1 100,000 10 1,000,000 1 "io.ooo 10 50,000 10 50,000 10 100,000 10 50,000 5 1,250,000 1 500,000 25 1,000,000 20 1,000,000 10 2,000,000 25 1,500,000 1 1,000,000 1 01H 23 12 4 01 01 01 01 03 10 2% $39 00 1 02 12^ . mi LftKE BENNETT, B.C. OPERATING THE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills • At the head of Navigation to to the tUK©N and ATLIN G0LD FIELDS Builders oL—^s- Boats, Barges and Scows. The safest and most economical way of freighting from Bennett to Dawson, havingwharf and warehouse oh arrival at destination. Manufacturers of Lumber of all description, Sash Doors, etc. Provisions and Supplies...* We also carry a large stock of General Merchandise at posts all along the river, consisting of Feed, Groceries, Previsions, Dry Goods, Tinware, Enamelled Ware, Window Glass, Hardware, etc. Call on or write us before sending to the Coast for your supplies. Information cheerfully given by applying to The Victoria Yukon Trading Co., Ld., LAKE BENNETT, B. C. Head Office, VICTORI.V, B.C. J. HOLLAND, Man. Director W. B. B A.ILEY & CO.,—ASHOEOHT, B,C., Storage and Forwarding Agents. Goods received, stored and forwarded with despatch to any point in Cariboo reached by wagon or pack train. Consign goods to our care ana we will settle railway charges aud ship to destination with, least possible delay. I*5 THE MINING RECORD. TELL US WHERE YOU'RE AT. 4 CENTS PER TON PER MILE | Is what it costs to transport Ore with our systems of Aerial Wire Rope Tramways. We also manufacture a lot of other kinds of good common sense Mining Machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Concentrating Mills, Placer Machinery, in fact about everything in machinery used around a Mine, Mill or Smelter. We would like to send you our books telling you all about it, but we can't do it unless you write us WHERE YOU'RE AT. The J, H. Montgomery Machinery Co., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. TABLE OF THE MONTH— Page. Government Advertising Bureau 243 Flotation of Le Roi No. 2 244 Our Mining Progress (by N. O. Schou) 248 Technical Periodicals 250 Boundary Creek M. & M. Co 250 Mining Plants in the Boundary District 251 Electrical Transmission at Ashcroft (illustrated) 252 Review of Alaska Boundary Question—continued 254 Taylor Air Compressing Plant at Ainsworth (illustrated). 259 Iron Mask and Centre Star—continued 263 Ashcroft and Cariboo (illustrated) 267 Montgomery Wire Rope Tramway (illustrated) 271 B. C. and the London Market 272 CONTENTS. MONTH'S MINING— PaSe- I Ymir 274 Kamloops *74 Boundary Creek 374 Rossland 277 Slocan 278 Annual Report Bank of Montreal 279 Foreign Coal Shipment 282 Metal Market 282 Local Stock Market 283 Machinery Catalogues 283 DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ADVERTISING AGE ^TS— Page. Walker, C. J , London, Eng XVII. AMALGAM PLATES— San Francisco G. S. & N. Plating Wort s, San Francisco 286 ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles VI. Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, Col n. B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C.. II. Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal H ASSAYERS— Selby Bros., Portland, Oregon ' XVIH Holdich, A. H., Revelstoke, B.C XVHI. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XVHI. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVni. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C XX. AUCTIONEERS, ESTATE AGENTS, &C— Jones, W., Victoria, B.C XVH. BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago IV. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI TTT Gates Iron Works, Chicago I. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. BANKS— Bank of British North America VTH. Bank of British Columbia XVT. Merchants' Bank of Halifax XVI. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J TV. California Wire Works, San Francisco IV. Jack & Robertson, Montreal Back Cover. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover. COAL AND COKE— % Page. New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XXI. COMPRESSORS—(See Pumps and Compressors.) CONCENTRATING PLANT— See Stamp and Concentrating Mills. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago IV. Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass. Front Cover. Gates Iron Works, Chicago, 111 I. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col •.. XIH. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 286 CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York XII. DRILLS—(See Rock Drills.) DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— Lobnitz & Co., Scotland 286 ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Page. Hinton, Geo. C, & Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria. Cover. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI I. Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C VII. THE MINING RECORD. si. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI Jeffrey Mfg. Co. Columbus, Ohio Montgomery Mach'y Co., The J. H., San Francisco..'. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Front ENGINES AND BOILERS— Gates Iron Works, Chicago ENGRAVINGS— Tacoma Engraving Co., Tacoma. FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c FILTER PRESSES— Perrin, Wm. R., & Co., Chicago, 111 FERE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col FUSE— Bennett, Wm., Sons & Co., Agents, Victoria ... FORWARDING AGENTS— W. Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B.C GAS ENGINES— Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS— Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago HOISTING MACHINERY— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 Gates Iron Works, Chicago Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, Seattle, Wash Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. HYDRAULIC PD?E & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vaneouver Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco MINING. ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany MACHINERY AGENTS— Heaps, E. H., & Co., Vancouver, B.C Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C Cover, XIII. VHI. IV. V. VI. II. XIX. XVII. XIX. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS— Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C. XIX. I MINING BROKERS— Foulkes, J. F. & Co XVII Grigor, R. W., Rossland, B.C XVIL Pemberton & Son, Victoria, B.C XIX. Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, B.C XIX- Nicholson, Henry, Camp McKinney XIX- Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C XIX. Hawley, John, Vancouver, B.C XIX. More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C XVH. Purgold, George, Rossland, B.C XVIL MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver XIX. Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XIX. West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVHI. Bromly, A. H., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Gore, Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria XVIH. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Archbold & Pearson, Nelson, B.C XVIH. Groves, F. W., Greenwood, B.C XVIH. Tytler, F. J. L., Vancouver, B.C XVH. Redmond & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVIII. Thomas, B., Vancouver XVHI. Selby Bros., Portland, Ore XVIH. Brewer, W M., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Tyrell & Green, Dawson City, Yukon XIX. Mackinnon, W. M., M.A.C., Vancouver, B.C XVIH. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Merry, H. E. D., Rossland XVHI. METAL JOBBERS— Robertson, James, & Co., Montreal, Vancouver. .Back Cover. ORE SACKS— Vancouver Agency, Vancouver XHI. ORE PURCHASERS— Van Anda Copper and Gold Co., Van Anda XX. ORE CARS— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Pa: Dow Pumping Engine Co., San Francisco yj Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco '.. X Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 '.'.'.". j Taylor Air Compressing Co., Spokane, Wash Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- '''. i Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XI James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland ...... YI Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco X Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co., Seattle, Wash VI Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. 1 Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cot POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI.- McLennan, McFeeley & Co Cover PAINTS— Robertson, James, & Co., Ltd., Montreal and Van- Back couver Cover. PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng XX. Scientific Pub. Co., New York XX PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Co , Newark, N.J XVI. PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES— Edwards Bros., Vancouver XX. ROCK DRILLS— Bullock, The M. C. Mfg. Co., Chicago, IU XII. Howell's Mining Drill Co XII. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI, Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Gates Iron Works, Chicago, I. Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B. C Back Cover. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Huntington, F. A., San Francisco XII. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XHI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal Cover. Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston Front Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 286 SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XIX. Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVIII. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XIX. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver XIX. Mackinnon, W. M., Vancouver and Nelson XVni Tytler, F. J. L XVIL Groves, F. W., Greenwood XVIII. Merry H. E. D., Rossland, B.C XVHI. SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI I. SCREENS AND PERFORATED METALS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. SMELTING AND ROASTING FURNACES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Gates Iron Works, Chicago I. SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XVI. Rithet, R. P., & Co., Victoria XXII. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XX. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich XX. TRAMWAYS—(See Elevators and Conveyors.) TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co XXII Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria XXII V. Y. T. Co., Victoria and Bennett IX. S.S. Amur XIV. WATER WHEELS— Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman & Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &c, Victoria, Rossland, &c VHI. Thomas Earle, Wholesale Grocer, &c XV. Stemler & Earle, Spices, &c, Victoria XV. Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits, Victoria XX. Ward, Robt., & Co., Ltd., Com. Mchts. and Importers. XVI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co., Vancouver Cover. Weiler Bros., Furniture XV. Prior, E. G. & Co., Ld., Hardware XIV. Lenz & Leiser. Dry Goods XV. Turner, Bee ton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors XV. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, XIH. Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Back Cover. IM XI1. THE MINING RECORD. Send for Catalog and Price List- JACKSON CENTRIFUGAL PUMP Are designed for every use of Mining, Dredging, Irrigating or Reclaiming. May be Driven by Steam, Gas, Electric or Water Motor direct, connected or belted. BUILT BY jll^ BYRON JACKSON MACHINE WORKS, 625 Sixth Street, San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A. KROGH MANUFACTURING CO., - San Francisco, Cal. Largest and Most Successful Builders of CENTRIFUGAL AND GOLD DREDGING | PUMPS. ii ■ ?*■ Send for circular of their ! |j Two Stamp flills j jf ALSO : ,|:;;;;;::w.^s Cement, Gravel llfeifl|l| and Placer Mills WBm& IMPROVED CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS FOR IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE. Which are admitted as.havin9 revolution- K h Two St Tri . Discharge M; lzed the art of milling and saving gold. „ ° _ r, r_ ° Capacity Sixto I welve Tons Per Hour. G0ODYEAR RUBBER eO'Y. . . R. H. PEARSE, President and Manager. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose. "Crack Proof" and ".Snag Proof." Pure Rubber Mining Boots, Rubber Clothing, MACKINTOSHES, Oil eiohing. 573 575. 577 & 579 Market St.. shn FR»Neise©, EftL. 73 & 75 First St. ftORTLHND, OREGON. | The Chicamon Stone." says: A new Alaskan novel by C. Phillips-Wolley of which Punch i It is a succession of pictures of one of the weirdest parts of the world. In power, in simplicity and in occasional grandeur the book is worthy 01 its theme. At Hibben's, Victoria Stationery Co., and all Leading Stationers. THE MINING RECORD. The Vancouver Age Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS. NOTE—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz., Calcutta Ore Sacks, | COTTON WASTE, FIREBRICKS, FIRECLAY, SMITHY COAL, LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. Our PRICE for Ore Sacks is particularly LOW ^ our contract was made before the rise in the Market. Write for lowest prices to 60 Granville St., Vancouver, Be. THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. WHITE HORSE The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. All steamers plying to and from Dawson and other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new-gold fields on the Big Salmon can be more easily reached ■from White Hor-e than from any other localitv, thus it is certain to become the great distributing cenire for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Harse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beautifu.ly situated on a level tract of land on the west bank of the Yukon River and just belowthe celebrated w hite Horse Rapid" around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the teamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, H X **!? ties hlnerj We manufacture a very complete line for STEAM, ELECTRICITY and COMPRESSED AIR. ALL SIZES. ALL TYPES- If in the market for anything in the line of FRICTION Geared, or First Motion Hoists investigate our line. It is unquestionably the largest carried by any one concern in the U.S. Correspondence Solicited. The Hendrie and Bolthoff E* Mfg. Supply Co., 1601 Seventeenth St., DENVER, COLO., U.S.A. XIV. THE MINING RECORD. E. G. Prior & So., Ltd. a MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ^ ^ ^ EstabH^Tisss. BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ^ ^ ^ ^ ** "S" BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' ' TOOLS. Headquarters VICTORIA. Branch Stores : YHN60CYER and KflMLOOPS, B. &, T© NORTHERN MINES! The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Ltd., Dispatch Regular Steamers as follows, viz.: For Skagway and Wrangel, | For Northern B. C. Points, Every Wednesday at eleven p.m. V Every Sunday at eleven p.m. For West Coast Points, First. Seventh, Fourteenth and Twentieth of each month at eleven p.m. ... DOW PUMPS ... HRE MaNUFafiTUREO IN- Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, flir, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMPS, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUHPS. ...... MAKE KNOWN YOUR WANTS TO THE -— GEO. E. DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, '. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. BENNETT FUSE! REGISTEHED IN CANADA. Grown TRADE Brand. MARK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, L.-d.-o^TOfc^^ Within. psgate St., Is guaranteed absolutely" waterproof. It is Gutta-Percha, will neither crack nor break. Costs no more than tar-tape fuses. Ask your dealer for it. Give it a trial. We manufacture the following fuses for Canada: No. 6—R E D fnse for dry ground. No 30 WHITE countered fuse, waterproof. No. 86— BLUE double layed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application! Pope's Miner's Safety Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. Qen. Agent ROWLAND MACHIN, &ucJ£2? No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. i THE MINING RECORD. xv. BRITISH COLUMBIA WHOLESALE SDPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BROS.. VICTORIA, B.e. LENZ & LEISER, 9 & 11 yates street. IMPORTERS OF — |L GENERAL DRY GOODS. MANUFACTURERS OF 6LOTHING, SHIRTS HND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for th,e Kpotegay and KJondik;e Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You fiust THE CELEBRATED have "CROWN BRAND" Pure I 'RICKSHAW 5 Ceylon TEA Java and Mocha 1 For sale only by If you will have TH E BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 50 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B. C. Proprietors. m Thomas Earle, IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION I1ERCHANT. j Teas and Coffees a Specialty. i SPlI 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BEETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. • MERCHANTS. T* WHOLESALE • Dry Good©, Liquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. GOODS INDENTED FROM ALL PARTS ...OF THE WORLD... J xvi. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLaNEOUS. Robt. Ward & Qo., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building,Vancouver, B.C. 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C, Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co, The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance1 Corporation (Marine). La Foneier Campagnle d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amherite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and ,. General Merchandise. ,. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. „ Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of BritisH and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. MERSHANTS BANK of HALIFAX INCORPORATBD 1869. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED, $2,000,000.00. CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,985,070.00. REST, $1,700,000.00 r. E. KENNY, President. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.S. Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B. C. Bridgewater, N. S. Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N.B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N. S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. S. Louisburg, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Maitland, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pictou, N S. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Bossland, B.C. Sackville, N.B. EDSON L. PEASE, General Manager. St. John, N. B. Shubenacadie, N. S. Summerside. P. E. I. Sydney, N. S. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria, B. C. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Branches in Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches in United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Bepublic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated hy Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Bossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. PLATINUM REFINERS BAKER New York Office— 121 LIBERTY STREET. I I I t l I WE E are always in the market for : : : : : CRUDE OR NATD7E PLATINUM. ft I i i i T & CO., NEWARK, N. J. f THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS. W. JONES The City (Established 1885.) AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, ESTATE AQENT, Etc. Auction Mart, 73 and 73% Yates St., VICTORIA, - - B. C. Auction sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor's own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of References from past and present clients. Houses, etc., to r:mt and for sale in all parts List your properties with us, good clients always waiting. All business entrusted to us eceives strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Wallace Building, DAeelon#4 E2 f* Columbia Avenue, llUOO I CI IIU . DaW P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeill's. R. W. GRIGOR, MINKS ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeill's and Moreing and Neal's codes. J* Fortescue Foulkes. TheodorLexow," . . . IT IS N© G©©D ... Advertisinq in the British Press Unless You Understand How to approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT wh0 can adtl£VolL1:&.bu*'ne*s at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. e. J. WALKER'S |a "British and Canadian Press Bureau," 24 Coleman St., London, E.C. J. F. Foulkes & Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Fouvan." All codes used. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A. K. Williams, M. C. Bnllock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill-a, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C os. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechancial Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. XV111. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL, ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E. M. Inst. M. E. M. Amer. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting engineer. Eldon Street, LONDON, E.C. ' Christopher, London." Code:—Bedford McNeill. P. 0. Box 308, VANCOUVER, B.C. (" Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. R, VANCOUVER, B.C. MINES Reports. Surveys. Management. Contract Prospecting; and Devi opment Work. Best References. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. Reports on Slocan Properties. New Denver, B.C. Makes a specialty of supplying reliable Information and "Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's flRCHBOLD & PEHRSON, MINING ENGINEERS ASSAYERS- Cable Address : Archpe.r, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeill, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H. HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST — METALLURGIST. K3f ;.< Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa Works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B. C. F. w. GROVES, ff eiYIL and MINING ENGINEER, PROVINCIAL L»ND SURVEYOR. Mineral Claims Crown Granted and reported tipon. Bank of British North America Bldg., GREENWOOD, B. C. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. O. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F. .S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) aSSHYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testingand Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO LTD., Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also ag'ent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co.. Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-19 Pender St., VA CCUVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold $ 50 Lead 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, ©GOEN assay e©.. i429'i6tn St.. denver. eoio. John Redman, Miuing and Mechanical Engineer. C. Outhett, R. C. Sc. Chemist and Metallurgist. REDHAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, ^ Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and Analyses guaranteed accura'e. Write for interesting information about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. n. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - - VANCOUVER, B. C. W. M. MfteKINN0N, Assoc. M. Inst. e. E. Civil Engineer. Specialty: Hydraulic Engineering. Water power ; Water Supply for Mines and Towns; Gold Dredging; Bridges; Structural Iron work, etc. MACKINNON BUILDING, Granyille Sf., P.O. Box 262. VANCOUVER B.C A CARD From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Public of the North West. We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at 205^ Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, $1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining- Experts. • 205)4 WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON THE MINING RECORD. xix. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY J. B. TYRRELL, M.A., F.G.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.L.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, Mining and Civil Kngineers Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested^ etc., etc. Dominion Land Surveyors. valued and reported upon. Survi invested; etc., etc. DAWSON, Yukon Territory. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought ard Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. (■Bedford-McNeill, j 611 Hastings St., CodesJMoremg&Neal, | VANCOUVER, B. C One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines" S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale. Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. po boxi78 ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51 Q Hastings ||||^^j VANCOUVER, B.C. Fergusson & Crofts Civil and Mechanical v-*fc r • it eonsumngEngineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Estimates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work in Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of ail kinds supplied and erected. Agents for I BOOTH'S HOISTS. The "Risdon" Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The I Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, NELSON, P. O. Box 423. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. P. O. Box 676. W. H. BAUER, D.L.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. a. s. asHeROFT, d.l.s.,p.l.s. Greenwood, B.C BHUER & HSHeROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. YHNGOUVER and GREENWOOD. HENRY NICHOLSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, MINING AGENT, MINING NEGOTIATIONS TRANSACTED. OFFICE: CAMP MoKINNBY, B.C. N B.—Some valuable mining properties in Camp McKinney and vicinity for disposal. Correspondence solicited. JEFFREY £ ELEVATING MACHINERYI FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling Material of all kind*. SEND FOB CATALOGUE. THE JEFFREY MFG.C0.Columbus,0. UILOCl SBggeSMf;ULQGliMjjiN F G C Q. ■i MACHINERY c h i c a g o, msjm Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neal's. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. I XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &&. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, = - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES : 3 Dorset Buildings, = Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including postage, is for :— 12mot>ths. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. E NGRHYINGS! PORTRaiTS! BUILDINGS ! SCENERY! Fac-Similes of Signatures, Letters and Engravings of all kinds for Book and Newspaper Printing. Map Engraving from tracings. Also Reproductions f rom Photographs, Brush Drawings and Prints. Fine Book and Catalogue Illustrations. Good Work at Low Prices. TACOMA ENGRAVING CO., Tacoma, Wash. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. DEALERS IN PtiotoraptiiG Stock Agents for the Rochester Optical Co , and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION PREHO B. $15. M. R. SMITH $ CO. ESTABLISHED 1858. MANOTACTUHEHS OB* B. C. POTTERY CO., limited. VICTORIA, B.C. Manufacturers of . . . Fire Bricks, Pressed Bricks, Sewer Pipe and Fittings, Chimney Pine, Flower Pots, etc. H. W. TREaT. Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. TH0S. KIDDIE, Smelter Manager. Yan Anda COPPER HND GOLD CO, Purchasers and Smelters of Copper-Gold Ores. Rates on application, Cash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van anda. Texada Island, B.C. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist. VERNON, B.C. HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tiofl, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. R. Van Der Nail lens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, ?10; Full course of Assaying, ?30. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow o the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. £.&~ Special attention to Samples by mail. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. A State Technical School. Practical work. Elective System. Summer term. College year, 45 weeks. For catalogues, giving employment of graduates, address MBS. F. H. SCOTT, Sec'y, Houghton, Mich. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY^ ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated in this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry is equivalent to about two of a treatise oi ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas Liquor, by H. A. Fra=ch, (20 pp.); Asphaltum Refining, by H. A. Frasdbfil (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry in theUuited States, by F. H. Lewis, (6 pp,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry, (6 pp.); The Manufacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle West, by H. Foster^ Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T. C, Hop?-, kins (13 pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W. % Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, by Earnest A. Sjosfeat, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (32pp0; Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, by T. C. Hopkins, (7 pp.); The Identification.of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress in the Metalliirgv of Gold and Silver, by W. R. Ingalls, (26 pp.); The Hydro- ^Metallurgy of Silver, by Ottokar llofmaun, (27 pp.); The Technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Steel, by H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice in Silver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. 8. Austin, (7 pp.); Recent Improvments in Lead Smelting, by H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by O. E. Su bmthai, (4 pp.); Ltme and Lime Burning, by H. A, Frasch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist, (10 pp.): Present Practice In? the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symington, (7 pp.); Occurrence and Recovery of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, by 8. A. Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, by F. J. Fald- ing, (54 pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of zinc and Cadmium, by W. R. Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress In Ore Dressing Tn 1898, by Robert H. Richards, (4 pp.); The Progress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (11 pp.); The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus Ulke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. VANCOUVER ISLAND 9GAL. COAL!]; COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co* (LIMITED.) FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER GOAL COMPANY. Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANA I HO COAL (Uft«d principally for Cn* nnd DomvstlO purpo«r«.) m SOUTHFIELD COAL (RIcKin rual.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (Houtc and Steam Coal), are mined by thl* Cumpnny axclualvftly. ; i „ THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL ifl n°w used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, haa already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. it is a clean, hard coal, makes a. bright aud cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL ia similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatel given to mail and ocean steamers. SAMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt., Nanaimo, B.e. xxn. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION ©OMPaNIES. Canadian Pacific f Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to PACIFIC Lowest Rates. Best Equipment. WITHOUT CHANGE- —• TO ALL POINTS IN Canada and United States 1/ For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREEFL Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R P. RITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries ; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marxne Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 51. Taking effect July 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria I o Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. . Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1.30 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C. F Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. ".r-Hve New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thtirsady at 7 o'clock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Nass and intermediate ports via Vancouver on every Sunday night. ALASKA ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave for Wrangel and Skagnay every Wednesday at 11 p.m. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 7th, 14th and 20th at 11 p.m. Extending latter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent The Hudson's Bay Company HAVE ie de Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Hacleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Rat Portage Siding Kountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these ores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. ELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswert Actien GesellscMt, MulMm on Rhine. Manufacturers of Electrical Leads and Cables Wire Ropes for Mining Electric Lighting Cable* for Coal Pits with arrangment for avoiding fire-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Round and Flat Wire Ropes, " Albert," or so-called " Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened Strand Wire Ropes. Iron, Steel, Copper and Bronze Wire Superior qualities.. 3 Sole Agents tor Canada jacK * Robertson rhe James Robertson Co'y, 1^^ wBm VANCOUVER, B.C. ;|§ I |f - rl 3 fl U fa Ct U r 6 TS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints.Shot, Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. METALS. Malleable and Oast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. pffice and Warehouse. - 151 Hastings St. Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER Ontario Gold Mlnlno District. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. A few Min who Use CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., ss 7 St. Helen St. MONTREAL. WRITE FOR PRICES. British Columbia. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. ji-iiviite:!*! MANUFACTURERS OF M O D E R M IM I N I IM M G A C H I N E R Y SOLE AGENTS.; IN British Cnlumbiao FOR John Bertram & Sons Iron-Working Machinery, The MacGregor, Gourley Co.'s j Wood Working! Machinery, R. Hoe & Co.'s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws<.fl BRANCH OFFICE: MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET, WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. - VANCOUVER, B.CI PUBLISHED BY "THE MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOTJVER, CANADA. THIS MONTH \ CAMP McK'NNEY AND ITS MINES, (Illustrated). mvn i n. i RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN TEXADA ISLAND, ETC. VOL/. VII. AUGUST, 1900. GEO. e. HINTON & COMPANY. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. S#i VIOTORIA. B. O. VANOOUVER. B. O. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKEKS OF Electrical Mining- Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. O. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Odr British Columbia Branches at VICTORIA. THE ONLY VANCOUVER. CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., 107 Clayton Street, Send for Circular. Boston. Mass. PRICE, 20 CENTS. Cannery | Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar Iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. ■ Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Co. LIMITED, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, 1.22 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. 1 FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING I MACHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies Krupp's Special Steel. of AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhausters, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT-; -, s. COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- jjj|lp™tB (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching COAL WASHING PLANT—Large Tesfing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Works. For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL, MINING MH©HINERy. Gates Iron Works THE GATES GYRATORY ROCK AND ORE BREAKER, a cut of which is presented, is the most perfect machine of its kind that mechanical science has been able to produce. Its crushing product is cubiform, its capacity is greater than that of any similar machine, and it is operated at less cost. We have manufactured MINING MACHINERY longer than any other house in business. Our machines are used in every mining district in the world. Our sales during the current year have been unparalleled, the increase in business being greater than in any other year of our existence. We manufacture Rock Crushing, Ore Crushing, Mining and Cement Machinery. Gates Iron Works, Dept. SS, 650 Alston Av., Chicago, III. LINK-BELT ELEVATORS and e0NYEY©RS, LINK-BELT" COAL AND COKE BREAKER, LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., Engira„?s^,ders Chicago, U.S.A. For Handling ©res. Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc. -^_^_~^^~_ PICKING TABLES, Shaking & Revolving Screens Coal Washing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. LINK-BELT BOX WATER ELEVATOR Capacities, 300 to 10,000 Gallons Per Minute ^ ROBINS ^ Handle all Materials with GREAT ECONOMY. USE OUR SORTING BELTS Instead of SORTING TABLES. Send for ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 32 in. Sorting Belt Now in Use at WAR EAGLE Mine, Rossland. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK. WM. R. PERRIN & CO., Chicago, ill, u.sa MANUFACTURERS pilter Presses For Cyanide and ehloromatic Plants. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 22 CHURCH ST., TORONTO 11. THE MINING RECORD. HSSHYERS' SUPPLIES HND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No 0 Prec*si°n Balance. 5-inch Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TEBTZBL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- WE are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B, C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. Telegraphic address: Assay," Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. * P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. - Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., f_ MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851. ^ Incorporated 1895. ASSAYERS' HATERIALS, fltae and Hill Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co., Battersea, England, Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker ^ Adaamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining and scientific books. JOHN TAYLOR & CO., New illustrated catalogue on application. 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Ii THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MACHINERY.— Continued. 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. —HEADQUARTERS FOR— Mining Machinery. Hoisting Engines for Deep Mines. Prospectors Hoists. Gray's Patent Chairs, p; Cars, eages. Sederholm Boilers. Corliss Engines. Riedler Pumps and flir Compressors. 00 s o o ►J < u o p z w Adjustable Comet Rock and Ore Crushers. Perforated Metals for all. Purposes. ^mtSM^g^l^S^TailM Improved Crushing Rolls. Smelting and Roasting Furnaces Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And equipment of every kind. Our machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any other manufacturer. It is in use on all gold fields and is recognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is arecent example of our work. Ball Pulverizers such as used at the Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone Mill are of our manufacture. Write for Catalogue. -REPRESENTED BY- MENNO UNZICKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exc usive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada. Mexico. So*rfl« America, England, South Africa and Australia THE MINING RECORD. CHBLES, WHTER WHEELS HND COMPRESSORS. TELL US WHERE YOU'RE AT. 4 CENTS PER TON PER MILE Is what it costs to transport Ore with our systems of Aerial Wire Rope Tramways. We also manufacture a lot of other kinds of good common sense Mining Machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Concentrating Mills, Placer Machinery, in fact about ever ything in machinery used around a Mine, Mill or Smelter. We would like to send you our books telling you all about it, but we can't do it unless you 'write us WHERE YOU'RE AT. The J. H, Montgomery Machinery Co., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF AERIAL TRANSPORTATION MANUFACTURED BY THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Engineer" and Contractors and sole licensees in North America for the Bleichert System. Also Wire Rope, Equipments of Surface and Underground Haulage, Etc. Chicago Office-1114 MONADNOCK BUILDING Tlf Hallidie Ropeway imr^Z^m For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOniCAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cableways, Transmission by "Wire Ropes. incline pianes. Cable Grips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Logging t>y Cables. Antomaitic Loaders. Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. SAVES WEAR-ON WIRE ROPE AND CABLK. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. FERGUSSON & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. CALIFORNIA WIRE WORKS, 7 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. MANUFACTURERS OF— WATER P0WER\The" Victor - Turbine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. DAYTON, OHIO U S.A.. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lachine Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufacturing Co., Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & Light Co. Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL HND MINE SUPPLIES. Shipping Weight 4,200 lbs. Union Hoist. 10 H.P. double cyl. single drum. Lifts one ton 125ft. per minute. ^^Pfe Union Gas and Gasoline Engines For all kinds of work. £2! ) Sizes in actual ® use ty IV, to 130 H. P. Running Pumps, Dynamos. Stamp Mills. Blowers. Concentrators. Machinery. Gasoline Mining Hoists and Marine Hoists a Specialty. THE "UNION" GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine should be ; and is the result of 15 years experience, having been built in San Francisco since 1885. " Union " Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. Send for illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. m 1 I §^^^s§§§§^^^^^ liiiisis P.O. Box 51 ^_^ Tel. 250. m ii.—^ Steel Wheel Barrow Mggm Our Barrows are made with T iron frame instead of tubular, and while almost as light, are far stronger. For handling ore, coal, coke, brick, lime, mortar, &c, They Have no Equal. The first cost is a little more than the ordinary Wood Barrow, but in the long run, the Steel Barrows as made by us are infinitely cheaper. Special Smelter Barrows to Order. Rivetted Steel Pipes and Hydraulic Giants. From 95 to 98 per cent, of the Rivetted Steel Pipe and Hydraulic Giants in use in British Columbia, were made by us. Mining and Waterworks Plants are strong features of our business. Correspondence Solicited. Armstrong & Morrison, General Machinists, VANCOUVER, B.C. Compressed Hir from Palling Water. ft HIGH TESTIM©NIftL.= THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, OUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same.engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. Yours truly W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH VI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. 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Catalogue and Details on Application to H- R. Kirkpatrick, Greenwood, B.C. ( W. A. Maclennan, Vancouver, B.C. The Brackman=Ker Milling: Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. nanufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton. B.&K. (Registered.) Unequalled in the World. Established 1817. Hi A IN] K C^/JT* JVLC_y.LN X II H , /\ | ,. Act of Parliament. CAPITAL (all paid up), $12,000,000.00. RESERVED FUND, $7,000,000.00. UNDIVIDED PROFIT, $427,180.80. HEAD OFFICE, ------- MONTREAL. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G , President; Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice-President. A. T. Paterson, Esq.; Edward B. Greenshields, Esq.; Sir. William C. Macdonald; R. B. Angus, Esq.; A. F. Gault, Esq.; James Ross, Esq.; R. G. Reid, Esq. E. S. CLOUSTON, - - - General Manager. A. 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LOMBARD STREET. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES : SIDNEY, N.S. HALIFAX, N.S. MONTREAL, P.Q. HAMILTON, Ont. WINNIPEG, Man. ST. JOHN, N.B. OTTAWA, Ont. BRANTFORD, Ont. BRANDON, Man. FREDERICTON, N.B. KINGSTON, Ont. LONDON, Ont. NEW YORK, N.Y. QUEBEC, P.Q. TORONTO, Ont. MIDLAND, Ont. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA : VICTORIA, VANCOUVER, ROSSLAND, TRAIL, KASLO, ASHCROFT, GREENWOOD. Also at the Gold Fields—ATLIN, BENNETT and DAWSON CITY, Highest Prices Paid for Gold Dust and Amalgam. G. H. BURNS, Mgi*., YI6T0RIA, B.<2. The Mining Record. Vol. VII. AUGUST, 1900. No. 8. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING RECORD Devoted to the Mining; Interests of British Columbia. PUBLISHED BY The Mining Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. flORTIMER LAMB, Hanaging Editor, London Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Montreal: Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co San Francisco : Dake's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERI1S: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Recobd to be addressed to TheEditob, B.C. Mining Recobd, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Recobd to be addressed to the Business Manages, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. THE MONTH. np HERE is already a stirring of the dry bones in 1 London. The attitude of the market is distinctly more favourable to British Columbia. Le Roi No. 2, Le Roi No. 3, the reconstructed Velvet Mines and the Emily Edith in the Slocan have all been introduced to the public there recently. And although the announcements made of successful flotation, like the premiums maintained on the Stock Exchange prior to allotment, are often perfunctory, and like the mimic thunder of the stage the manufactured on the premises, reconstruction there is no question that these of the velvet, properties will receive the recognition from the public due to merit. As to the first of these, Le Roi No. 2, it is recognized not only in London, but in British Columbia also, as a first rate investment. The properties represented by this company possess bodies of ore blocked out sufficient to guarantee good profits on the capital and possibilities arising out of future development which make the shares a most attractive speculation as well. A very wide distinction must be drawn between this issue and Le Roi No. 3, a distinction not likely to be sufficiently appreciated by investors at a distance from the scene of operations. If the Le Roi No. 3 is a mine at all, it is a mine capable of paying dividends on the issue of shares. And doubtless the capital from that point of view is not excessive. But at present the best that can be said is that it has excellent prospects of becoming such a property. But investors have often discovered to their cost that the booming stage is not one which justifies a premium upon shares. The reconstruction of the Velvet is a happy augury of improved market conditions in London. It is evident from the report submitted that Velvets have never been in favour with investors and that the parent company has been carrying the baby, up till now too infirm to stand upon its own legs. In view of this the rig which carried the Velvet shares up to £2 3s. cannot be too severely condemned. It was a market operation beneath the dignity of a company controlling so fine a property, and one that cannot fail to react unfavourably unon the legitimate prospects of the new issue. Particularly as it is well known that such operations are carried on as a rule, not for the benefit of the company involved, but to enrich a few individuals who manipulate the rig. Nothing succeeds, however, like success. Having made a mine of the Velvet, everything must needs be forgiven to those in control of the property. It seems to be one of the exigencies of the London market to keep the small end of the telescope directed towards the property controlled and to bring a magnifying glass to bear upon the financial conditions at home. Otherwise it is inconceivable that the directors of the Velvet should have decreed that it was more advisable to borrow money for development than to build a road and market their ore for cash. What is being done now, namely, the construction of a waggon road to the nearest point on the railway, should have been done as soon as the ore was located on the 160-foot level. The credit of the company would have been higher had the mine been producing even a small tonnage during the last year, as it well might, than on the strength of claims that the company owned a Le Roi in the backwoods. It must also be admitted that the criticism of some of the shareholders that a report made by an independent engineei should have been submitted as well as that of Captain Mor- rish is well made. This is not said in detriment of Captain Morrish's honesty, impartiality, accuracy and experience. But an independent report would have greatly strengthened the credit of the company in appealing for funds to the British investor. In short, the directors of the Velvet have handled the company's property precisely in the same manner as a group of ingenious but unscrupulous manipulators would handle a wildcat enterprise. They have shown no anxiety over production and transportation. They have not really tested the pro7 ductive capacity of the mine (because the shipments made of carefully selected ore were not a real test). They have allowed the shares to be rigged on the market, and they have had no independent examina- JjJ 286 THE mining Record. tion and sampling of the mine. This somewhat harsh criticism is not intended to show hostility to the Velvet or want of belief in its capabilities. There is no mine in British Columbia which shows brighter promise, there is none whose success is more earnestly desired, nor any whose effects upon the mining industry will be more stimulating and beneficial. The difficulties which have hampered the Velvet have been to some extent due to its situation; but have been largely created by the London directorate. A new policy, it is to be hoped, will be carried out in the future. The capitalization of the Velvet is moderate, and its future such as to make its shares an attractive speculation. Compared with the issues we have just been discussing, the promotion in the Slocan is an unimportant one. The Slocan country is a poor man's country in two respects. If it is likely to make a poor man rich, it is also likely to make a rich man poor. So far as experience of the country has gone its mines will not produce permanent dividends upon large amounts of capital, whereas the returns upon small investments have in many instances been dazzling in their proportions. In a recent issue of the Critic Mr. Henry Hess devotes three columns of closely printed matter to the persons who comprise the London board of Velvet mines. It must be confessed that the Critic's disclosures give point to the statement already made "that the directors of the Velvet have handled the company's property precisely.in the same manner as a group of ingenious but unscrupulous manipulators would handle a wildcat enterprise." It may be pointed out that our conclusion was arrived at by a close consideration of the history of the Velvet while Mr. Hess shows as the london "critic" on velvet. complete ignorance of the mine and company as he does intimate acquaintance with the promotion history of the individuals who direct it. In the article under question Mr. Hess refers his readers to another column in which he discusses the Velvet as a "mining proposition." Here, naturally, one expects to find some appraisement of the value of the property, and from the pen of so just and all-wise a person, some expression of regret that so promising a property should be handicapped by a direction so scathingly denounced. On the contrary, a criticism of the enterprise is discovered so grotesque, that it is difficult to know whether to greet it with laughter or with tears. Some time ago a racing tout was exposed whose methods were surprisingly simple and wonderfully successful. Had he a field of ten horses he tipped every one of them to win, to different people of course, and accepted a percentage from the grateful backer of the horse which did win. Mr. Hess, at any rate so far as B. C. is concerned, wOrks precisely the converse game upon his readers, though we of give him credit for disinterestedness. Having observed in the course of his career that the majority of joint stock mining enterprises come to grief, he spends one-fourth of his time denouncing anything that comes out and the other three-fourths proving by the derelicts what a good prophet he is. The successful ones escape his memory and his notice. It is a sincere pleasure to jog Mr. Hess's memory with regard to one British Columbia mine. For no apparent reason except that a romantic story concern ing the first discovery of this property went the rounds of the press, Mr. Hess ran foul of it with sneers worthy the idiotic eighteenth century snob whose effigy adorns the cover of the Critic. This mine paid $70,000 net during the month of June and is earning 10 per cent, per month upon all the money invested in its purchase and development. But after all the present concern is with what he has to say of the Velvet as a "mining proposition." The first thing he has to say is that it is in bad company, most ol the promotions of the parent company having been failures. This will be recognized at once as a valid criticism of the property as a "mining proposition." He then goes on to remark that as the Velvet was valued at £150,000 two years ago and as £20,000 has been spent on it since, it should now be worth £170,-- 000 "apart altogether from any results shown by development." This we take it to be the most fatuous proposition ever advanced by any writer not suspected of insanity. To find it soberly advanced by anyone that expenditure upon a mining property enhances its value, or should enhance its value, or could enhance its value, "apart altogether from any results shown by development," is a melancholy example of the rubbish which, once put in print, will pass current for sensible criticism. But apart from that, Mr. Hess is entirely wrong as to the valuation put upon the Velvet by its owners. They retain three-quarters of the property and sell a quarter for £50,000 to secure working capital. That is the true analysis of the transaction. There is nothing reprehensible about it. It would seem to an unprejudiced mind that the proper basis for a judgment as to the value of the investment was the question whether the Velvet had ore enough to pay interest and sinking fund on £200,000. That such an inquiry has any bearing on the matter seems never to have occurred to Mr. Hess. British Columbia has been victimized by English company promoters who are the off-scouring of the earth, the very dregs of the South African and Western Australian markets. They have gone through the country with a drag net after all our men of reputation and standing, and they have slimed them over with the disrepute of their rotten and rascally adventures. So thoroughly disgusted has British Columbia become that an English promoter can no longer do business for a good property except for cash in advance unless he represents one of the few concerns who have maintained their reputation through this inundation of rascality. The province has been victimized to such an extent that it will be victimized no more. It has suffered far more than the British investor has, and is almost ready to cry ad inferos with the whole seething mass of corruption known as the London mining market. Mr. Hess has not done justice to the difficulties of situation under whichthe Velvet has been developed; he has not done justice to the honest attempt by the company to prove their property; he has not passed in review its excellent prospects as a productive and paying mine; he has simply produced everything he could to discredit the promotion. He has done so deliberately upon the grounds of the standing of the directorate, a basis of criticism responsible for four-fifths of the loss sustained by English people in joint stock speculation. To be consistent he should remove from his title page the monocular effigy which ornaments it. He would find a more suitable illustration from an earlier type in John Bunyan's "Man With the Muck Rake." THE MINING RECORD. 287 There are five great gold producing countries in the world, Australasia, South Africa, the United States, Russia and Canada, which are responsible for 85 per cent of the annual output of gold. In the figures given for 1899 South Africa would easily have been first but for the outbreak of war which completely disorganized the industry. As it is, the palm was taken by Australasia with an output of $79,206,130. The United States has fallen to third place and although for this year it may again be second it cannot hope to compete with South Africa after the disturbing element of war has disappeared. Two years ago Canada was eighth on the list, with au output of $6,027,016 which has grown to $21,- 049,730 running Russia's output a close race fo- fourth place. No country in the world has increased in such an extraordinary ratio as Canada. Our gold production has from practically zero become an important factor in the world's output; and is growing so rapidly that within a few years Canada will be running neck and neck with Australasia, South Africa and the United States for the honour of first place. This great movement is not recognized in its bearings and effects as it ought to be. The gre^u: gold discoveries in California had a most important bearing, not only upon the commerce of the world, , but also upon the development of the resources of the United States. The discovery of gold rescued Australasia from commercial stagnation by placing its internal trade upon a hard money Dasis and thus stimulated its growth and the prosperity of its people. Prior to the discovery of gold in Australia the commercial intercourse of Australians was governed by that peculiar mixture of barter and credit which restricts a man's energy to the district in which he is born or has settled, for the simple reason that nothing he possesses passes current anywhere else. Canada is now producing gold enough to have a very marked effect upon the growth and internal prosperity of the country. Not that $20,000,000 is any great matter compared with the value of agricultural land, railways, or other national productive assets. But it is gold which makes wealth freely interchangeable and upon the free interchangeability of wealth does the prosperity of a people depend as much as upon the existence of the wealth itself. Unfortunately Canada, so far as its gold production is concerned, is a mere appanage of the United States. Canada has not taken the trouble to make a local market for gold produced within its own borders. Yet a local market for gold is at the present time the most important concern of anyone imbued with the idea of national progress and national existence. How long this very unsatisfactory condition of affairs will continue it is impossible to say. How much pressure will have to be brought to bear before the advisability of a distinctive Canadian gold coinage is recognized is still a problem. There are strong elements in the country in whose minds the general advantage is offset by disadvantages peculiar to their own interests. These will eventually be overborne, and the sooner the better. In the twinkling of an eye the interest of the civilized world has been transferred from South Africa to China. During the last nine months it has seemed as though South Africa would continue to hold the feverish attention which it had received as the theatre one of the most remarkable wars of his-, tory, remarkable not because of its greatness, nor on account of the magnitude of the issues involved; but because it brought into such strong relief the superficial weakness and inherent strength of the British Empire. Yet suddenly and without any warning the scene of history has been changed, the map of South Africa is torn down and that of China substituted for it. There is a vast difference in the nature of the issue. The South African affair is an episode, certain from the beginning in its conclusion and without material significance to the history of civilization. But in China it is different. The gloomy prologue has been spoken of a scene integral to the action of the price we call modern civilization. In China the outbreak against foreign powers marks the last revolt of Oriental barbarism against the civilization of the West. It is not necessary to apologize for the use of the word barbarism. That there is in China a great but to us incomprehensible civilization is not denied. The very fact that we do not understand it is sufficient to justify our distinction of it as barbarous. Doubtless to the Chinese we are barbarians of the worst type. But our type of civilization is, as we believe, in harmony with the evolution of humanity, that of China the decadent remainder of an early phase. Doubtless in the course of time forces will arise destined to break up and destroy the fabric of our civilization and the field of the world will again lie fallow. Nor perhaps is it certain that in the philosophy of Lord Bacon with all its outgrowth of modern science absolute or applied, will anything have been added to the secular history of mankind greater in itself or more valuable in its effects than the teachings of Confucius. But that is not the point Our modern institutions seem probably to most of us as permanent and inextinguishable as the sacred fire on the Capital seemed to the citizens of Rome. Permanent and inextinguishable they are until their work is accomplished and their dynamic force is exhausted. Not only so, but they are incredibly hostile and bitterly cruel to anything that opposes them. That the banner of Christian civilization might perch on the battlements of Khartoum the African desert was strewn with the corpses of op- pugnant fanatics, whose holy patriotism, and self- sacrificing courage were of no avail. Causa victri.v placnit deis. The same result will occur in China. That is inevitable although its fulfilment will probably occupy the lifetime of a generation. And then Orientalism will have been driven into its last stronghold in the Himilaya Mountains under the aegis of the Grand Llama of Thibet. It is not a question of warring- states, but of warring forces. Much is often made of the destinv of Russia in the Far East. But it is only in so far as Russia assimilates Western ideas and usages that Russia counts. The conquest of Russia is not to be carried on by batteries of artillery and battalions of men, but by the pressure on. the Slav of the ideas and institutions of the modern inheritance in which Russia claims a share. The disintegration of the,Chinese Empire will not leave the world as it found it. It will move the centre of grav- itv westwards. As China is developed in the modern industrial sense it will be found that the greater portion of the trade and commerce of the country will be across the Pacific Ocean with the United States ' and Canada and the great ports of Oriental trade will be Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle. The effect upon the Pacific slope cannot be overestimated. The first great demand from the East will be for iron and steel, i'or locomotives and machinery. There is no possi- 288 THE MINING RECORD. bility of competition with the United States and Canada in the supply of these articles. Then, again, a great carrying trade will be developed on the Pacific Ocean. Ship yards will be built on our coast and navies constructed there. An immense demand for lumber will spring up. Our forests, will at length find a market. From the first day that a European army operates in China the stimulus to our industries will be felt. The grain and beef and horses of Canada instead of going east will go west to feed the army. Troops and transports will throng the docks at Vancouver. An era of prosperity undreamt of hitherto must come for the province of British Columbia. British Columbia will find itself upon the main line of the world's progress. There is nothing visionary and nothing unforeseen about this outcome of the Chinese embroglio. Every observer with sufficient acumen to pierce the veil of future events has foretold this result of the expansion of modern civilization. But the events of the next few months will make its beginnings tangible and apparent. The position of the market for silver should fill the heart of every silver miner with comfort and joy. The world's annual production of this metal amounts to the enormous quantity of nearly 175,000,000 ounces, four million ounces less than the output of 1898. Silver has nevertheless appreciated in price during 1899 to the extent of 1 1-3 cents per ounce. Nor is there any evidence of any accumulation in the reserve stock of silver. The output is entirely consumed in the arts and manufactures every year, and while the output of silver is not increasing, is in fact diminishing, the demand for silver is remaining steady if not expanding. Nor need any great increase in the supply be expected. The same cause which has operated to contract the production of silver is not by any means exhausted, and is likely to show its effects for some years to come. A large number of mines in operation at the time of the slump in silver would never have been opened up with silver at its present price. Having been opened up they could still be profitably worked. But these mines are becoming gradually exhausted and new mines of a similar type are not being brought forward to take their place. When a market situation of that kind develops it is only a question of time until a very favourable reaction in favour of silver mining takes place. Meanwhile where silver is a joint pro- . duct with gold or copper or lead, as in all the silver mines in British Columbia, the stability of this particular part of the product is a feature both gratifying to the mine owner, and a guarantee of the steady growth of the industry. The present high prices of lead and copper may not be maintained, but the silver contents of our ore will steadily if slowly appreciate in value. The Boundary Creek district is slowly but surely emerging from the prospect stage ar;d entering upon that of production. We learn from our local correspondent that the information supplied to him by the respective mine managers during the third week in July showed the ore shipments for that week to have been approximately as follows: From Old Ironsides, 875 tons; B. C, 490 tons; Golden Crown, 200 tons; City of Paris, 140 tons; Winnipeg, 80 tons. Total for week, 1,785 tons. Shipments at this rate only would aggregate 8,000 tons per month, worth, roughly, $100,000 to $120,000. This, however, is by no means a fair estimate of what the district may reasonably be expected to be yielding—i.e., in gross returns—to mine owners from this on. If, for instance, the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria together shortly realize their mine superintendent's estimated daily output of about 1,400 tons, they will ship a monthly aggregate of 12,000 tons, which quantity, calculated at the average value of $8.37 placed on the Knob Hill ore, will of itself reach a total value of $100,000. To this may be added the increased quantity the B. C. and the City of Paris are expected to ship, making their total say 4,000 tons, of an average value of $20 per ton, equal to $80,000. There is, moreover, the Golden Crown and Winnipeg output to be considered, which should soon be 1,500 tons per month, worth, say, $30,000. These several totals give an aggregate of more than $200,000 which assuming, as there appears to be good reason to do, that our correspondent's informants may be relied on, it may reasonably be expected will shortly be the minimum gross value of the monthby output of the Boundary Creek mines. The position shows up even more satisfactorily when the prospective early output of the Mother Lode mine—leaving altogether out of account the Jewel, Oro Denoro, Gold Drop, Snow- shoe, Brooklyn, Stemwinder, Morrison and others that should contribute to the total yield of the district—is kept in view. With the Mother Lode sending 100 tons of 01 e per day to the smelter, there should be at least $30,000 more to add to the value of the general output. It does not therefore, appear to us that we are in any way exaggerating the outlook when we say that the earlier part of the year 1901 should see a monthly gross return of at least $250,-- 000 from Boundaiy mines, and if this forecast be realized it will be a very important consummation favourably affecting a much larger sphere than the immediate district, which should within six months witness a transformation from a section that long has been and still is a heavy drain upon those who are persistently putting money into the development of its staple industry, into one that is at least supplying the greater part of the capital requisite for the utilization on the present scale of its resources. Of course the proportion of profit that may be derived is quite problematical, depending as it does upon conditions untried so far as this particular district is concerned. The important point we have in view just now is that after years during which it has been entirely unproductive the district at length bids fair to shortly be in a position to produce at least a quarter of a million dollars per month towards the maintenance and further development of its chief industry. Our Boundary Creek correspondent writes: So much has been said and published during the past six months or so regarding the proposed estab- lishmentof pyritic smelters at Grand Forks and in the vicinity of Greenwood respectively, without there being any tangible evidence in the district that these enterprises really are to be established that doubt as to their bona fides seems quite excusable. However, information has lately been received by the writer from an apparently reliable source that Mr. A. Laidlaw, representing a Quebec company who some time since sent out a few tons of ore from Boundarv Creek mines for treatment by the pyritic process and obtained such satisfactory results therefrom, that he has ordered the requisite plant for a pyritic smelter. This plant is being manufactured, it is posi- THE MINING RECORD. 289 tively asserted, in Denver, Colorado, and delivery of ;t is to be made within three months. This intelligence, if it prove true, will be gratifying, but it would be received with much more confidence could the assurance also be given that the site for the location of this smelter had been definitely decided upon and secured. This very necessary preliminary does not appear to have yet been arranged, or, if it has, no public announcement to that effect has been made. This fact, though, need not necessarily stamp the scheme as but one of several which though announced by district newspapers with, figuratively, a flourish of trumpets, have seemingly not yet got any farther than an existence on paper. So wide of the truth in their reckless assertions respecting mining and smelting enterprises have certain district newspapers and correspondents sometimes been that they are still reluctant to admit that their wild suggestions have not been warranted. On the conti ary, some are persisting in sending out inflated reports and, what is more regrettable, newspapers of good standing are continuing to publish them. There are these truths, though, forcing themselves upon all interested in the district, whether willingly or reluctantly received, that nothing but actual and profitable returns from the mines will now bring prosperity to the local mining industry; that booming is a played-out business, and that until such time as smelter returns have amply demonstrated that values are sufficiently good new mining enterprises are unlikely to be undertaken here. The question of quantity of ore is no longer open to reasonable doubt, development work in several Boundary camps having already disclosed the existence down to the 300-foot level of big bodies of ore with every indication that deeper workings will show that these live down. The publication of truths like that above mentioned is unpalatable especially to many interested lesidents who hold that a newspaper correspondent's duty to the district he lives in is to write favourably of it or not at all, and who resent, even to the extent of practically boycotting him, the actions of the correspondent who dares write conscientiously, and who is not open to accept "something on the side." But fortunately there are many others who do not countenance deception, not even the deception of silence, so that after all there is small danger of actual facts being long ke'pt back. After much careful enquiry and observation the writer believes himself amply warranted (assuming as he thinks they are, that the assurances of mining men in charge of some of the better-developed properties of the district are to be relied upon) in concluding that not only are there several mines in the district that give abundant promise of permanence as far as quantity of ore is concerned, but that values will, with economical mining and treatment, leave a sufficient margin of profit to encourage the further investment of capital in the utilization of the extensive mineral resources of the Boundary country. The time for the crucial test of the vital question of values of ore in bulk is, however, near at hand. Both the Grand Forks and the Greenwood smelters should soon be in regular operation, the former within a few weeks, and the latter ere the snow flies this year. The results that they will bring are awaited with confidence, there being substantial reasons for anticipating that generally they will be satisfactory. recognized as a very unpardonable offence, but, unhappily, it is commonly practised in British Columbia. The offence is inexcusable because it is such a very easy matter for a newspaper copying an article from the columns of another to be sufficiently courteous to credit the source from which the information was drawn. Within the last month no less than three of our contemporaries have appropriated, without any sort of acknowledgment articles specially prepared and paid for by this periodical. One of the offenders was the Greenwood Times, and we mention this case particularly for the reason that in the article "Mining Plants in the Boundary District" thus extracted several stupid and unfortunate typographical errors appeared to which our attention was subsequently drawn, and were also repeated by our contemporary. The errors to which we allude occurred in connection with the dimensions of an air-receiver, in every case "feet" being substituted for "inches" and vice versa. Meanwhile we certainly do not object to articles contributed to these columns by our paid correspondents appearing in other newspapers—in fact we are only too happy that our efforts to disseminate information concerning British Columbia's most important industry should be thus assisted—provided always acknowledgment is likewise given. On the other hand, when newspapers of the standing and business connections of the Times "pirate" an article which in this instance might easily have been obtained and paid for first-hand, reasons for protest are obvious, and we are quite certain our excellent contemporary will accept this view. During the week ending the 14th of June the Le Roi mine shipped 4,675 tons of ore, the largest output ever made from a single mine in one week in the history of the province. The smelter at Northport is quite incapable of handling the output of the Le Roi alone, without counting the other properties of th? B A. C. now nearing the shipping stage. As a measure of temporary relief until the Northport smelter has been enlarged a contract, said to be for 150 tons a day, has been entered into with the Trail smelter. The risk that the Rossland output will fail below that of last year and the hope that it will go materially beyond it are equally fading away as the season advances. With all due deference to the general anticipation, it will be some time yet before the Le Roi No. 2 and Le Roi No. 3 begin to ship ore. And the War Eagle and Centre Star seem as far off as ever from the solution of their difficulties. Great things are promised for 1901, an output of 700,000 tons of ore being even hinted at. But the present concern is the year 1900, and it does not seem likely that last year's tonnage will be materially increased. Journalistic piracy is in other countries generally More satisfactory even than the successful reconstruction of the Hall Mines and the provision of i'50,000 additional working capital is the decision of the company to overhaul the management from top to bottom. Sunk in the Hall Mines is an immense amount of capital which may be written off as a dead loss and is so considered by the market, as witness the price of the shares. Sooner or later the capital of the company will have to be scaled down to a more reasonable figure. On a less ambitious basis, however, there is no reason why the mine and smelter should not pay. The best wishes of everyone interested in British Columbia mining are extended to the 290 THE MINING RECORD. new company, the old. or say, rather, the reconstruction of It is a pleasure to draw attention to a late clean-up at the Athabasca mine in the Nelson mining division: 475 tons of ore were milled of an average value of between $58 and $59 per ton. The resultant profit was naturally very large, as the cost of operation is light and the percentage of extraction high. It is to be hoped that this was not selected ore, but that the mine can maintain this record without material reduction. If so the Athabasca will be a remarkable dividend paying property. With the news, long expected, of the collapse of the Golden River Quesnelle concern, which must obviously suggest a dam to the minds of shareholders, comes the much more welcome intelligence of a most satisfactory first season's clean-up by the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company resulting in a gold brick valued at $132,275.. Before the present season closes it is estimated that more than double this amount of gold will be recovered and as we have had Mr. Hobson's assurance that beyond a relatively inconsiderable sum no further expenditure in equipment is required, shareholders may now expect regular and handsome dividends in the future. The undertaking is the largest of its kind in British Columbia and, we believe, in the world, and Mr. Hob- son is entitled to hearty congratulations for having seemingly brought .it to so successful an issue. An impartial observer, Dr. Philpot, of Vancouver, who has recently made known what he saw and heard of Cape Nome during a recent visit, more than corroborates some of the worst previous accounts of the state of affairs in that district. There are, or recently were, 20,000 people on the spot, with only sufficient opportunities for some 5,000 of this number to earn a livelihood, the majority of the remaining 15,000 being either destitute or very near that condition. The Doctor estimates that nearly $2,000,- 000 worth of valuable goods lay, when he was at Nome, upon the seashore, with no buyers available for most of the things and large quantities of them left absolutely derelict by ruined owners. Typhoid, smallpox and pneumonia were rife in the camp and murders and acts of violence had been many, though soon after the Doctor arrived, General Randall, with the aid of 175 United States troopers, brought about something like a restoration of law and order. Our informant states that there is daily risk of fire sweeping away the camp, the tents and huts of which—all highly inflammable—are closely crowded for a distance of sdme ten miles along a narrow strip of foreshore. East Kootenay has at once taken rank as one of tin leading districts in the production of the precious metals. If the output of coal were considered as well it would easily rank as the first district in the province. Certainly it is a very large district and the comparison between it and a small section of country such as that containing the Rossland mines is not altogether a fair one from a territorial point of view. But the district is larger because it has hitherto been barren. People speak of East Kootenay just as they speak of Trail Creek and Slocan although it denotes a territory large enough and of diversified formation enough to contain them both. During the month of June 130 carloads of ore were shipped from the North Star mine, which means an output of between 2,500 and 3,000 tons at least. During the same month the St. Eugene mine's output was 9,000 tons of ore, resulting in 1,800 tons of concentrates of good grade. Here, then, we have a country which, represented so far by only two large producing mines, already produces over 10,000 tons of metal bearing rock per month, which in value equals, if it does not exceed, the monthly returns of the Trail Creek mines. Were this the only feature of mining development presented in the province of British Columbia this year it would be eminently satisfactory and encouraging. But it is only an instance of the expansion in production which is going on everywhere. The output of silver and lead from East Kootenay will have a marked effect upon the total output of the province in those metals which should, this year, establish a record. The mining industry in British Columbia is growing so fast as already to completely overshadow and dominate every other interest in the province; 1900 will always be remarkable as the year in which the greatest comparative progress has been made. It seems that there was little foundation for the report that the Britannia copper group on Howe Sound was lately bonded to the British America Corporation, which has probably its hands fully occupied just now with its Trail Creek flotations. The group is, however, likely soon to be secured by very substantial investors, several syndicates being now "in the nibble" for what seems to be a most promising property. The prospects of the Britannia group would probably not suffer, however, were there rather less doubtful "booming" of the venture in certain provincial journals, which from time to time announce quite prematurely that the Britannia group has been sold for a big sum. The inevitable contradiction, or half contradiction, appears shortly afterwards with the result that people begin to question, if the property's prospects be really so bright as painted. "Au fond," however, the Britannia group seems to possess very large possibilities, but for the development of the claims included therein big genuine capital investment is needed. Such investors usually pay scant heed to obvious "boom" paragraphs. Itis significant that Miss Faith Fenton, the Yukon correspondent of the Toronto Globe, the chief organ of the Dominion Government, frankly declares that the season's rush of Yukon miners to Nome was largely'due to overpressure of royalty and other mining taxation in Klondike. Such an opinion, coming from such a political friendly quarter should not prove without weight in influencing the future Yukon policy of the national administration. There is clearly^ an absolute agreement amongst all who are either in or interested in the Yukon, that there should be a lessening, amongst other things, of the percentage of the gold royalty. The Seattle press, which is largely responsible for heavy loss of life and money at Cape Nome, through its mendacious booming of the prospects of that terrible country, has lately striven to make much of some new Alaskan placer finds about Glacier Bay beyond Juneau. There does not seem to be great value in the discoveries made at Glacier Bay, though a great rush THE MINING RECORD. 291 from Juneau has resulted from the fortunate finds of a few men, who probably unearthed gold-bearin°- pockets. Fortunately Glacier Bay is not far from Juneau and any rush thither will, unlike that to Nome, entail comparatively small risk of any disastrous consequences, unless there should, as at Nome, arise serious outbreaks of murderous outrage, due to claim-jumping. Latest reports show that comparatively little gold is being got from Nome by the primitive processes there used on the beach gravels, for out of $5,500,000 worth of gold which during the first half of July reached the assay office in Seattle from the. far North, only some $100,000 worth, according to the Post- Intelligencer, the greatest "boomer" of Nome, came from that camp. The Critic (London) not infrequently "gets off" some extremely clever things, and the following dialogue between a fond parent and his child of enquiring mind "A Child's Guide to the City" is really excellent, though perhaps a bit hard on Mr. Whitaker Wright. The phenomenal infant enquires: "Hasn't Mr. Whitaker Wright just given the manager of Lake Mew what is generally known as the out-some-chuck-and-gorgonzi ?" "He has, my son." "Then, why—unless he had the true interests of the company at heart—did he do that ?" "Because, my ooy, Whitaker considered 'his ex planations were not adequate.' ' "What did he mean by that, Pa?" "Well, my enquiring young friend, 'explanations' from mine managers are of two kinds, and are usually (in the case of a rotten concern) furnished by wire, sometimes prepaid and sometimes not." "It must have been very annoying to Mr. Wright to have to pay for wires that weren't 'adequate,' Pa?" "Undoubtedly, my son, and especially so, when the manager was a man of his own choosing, who has been thoroughly 'coached' in all essential details before leaving England." "What do you mean,?" "This, youngster. An 'adequate' manager wires always to Mr. Wright something like the following:" We are crushing 40 ounces to the ton. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. Miners are singing hymns. Machinery in perfect order. Mr. Bill Bunker—our chief engineer —is doing much good by his evangelising meetings, and has much improved my immortal soul. "That's an adequate wire, is it, Pa?" "It is, my child, according to Mr. Whitaker Wright." "Then, what's an 'inadequate' wire, my Pa?" "Mr. Wright's idea of an inadequate wire is something like this, my boy:—" Mine bust up; machinery wrecked. May the devil and all his angels seize you, you vagabond. All the miners have D.T.'s. Why the blazes haven't you sent the blank money you promised me for my last fictitious account of crushing ? Shan't send another bogey cable under a poney, damn you. My immortal soul is worth at least that. Bill Bunker just tried to shoot me. Wish I could shooty*u. "Greenland's Icy Mountains, Pa! I don't wonder at such a devout person as Mr. Wright sacking a man for stating the truth in such a manner." it may, meanwhile, be said that Mr. Whitaker Wright has neither "adequate" nor "inadequate" mine managers in British Columbia, but men who thoroughly know their business and do it. PULICATIONS. THE eighth volume of the Mineral Industry, edited by Richard P. Rothwell, who is also editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal, and published by the Scientific Publishing Co., of New York, has been issued. This is the first volume of the statistics for 1899 of the mineral resources of the world, published during the present year. This fact alone reflects great credit on the editor, for the reason that the chief value in statistics is the compiling and giving of them to the world at the earliest possible date. In addition to the statistics which show the progress of the mineral industry in the different countries throughout the world for the year 1899, there are very valuable chapters on the following subjects: "Review of the Literature on Ore Dressing in 1899," by Robert H. Richards, also a chapter by the same author on the subject of ore dressing; "Progress in Electro Chemistry in 1899," by Wm. Borchers; "Liquid Air," by T. O'Connor Sloane; "Progress of Metallography in 1899," °y Albert Sauveur; "Mine Timbering," by William Sanders. The volume contains over 900 pages, and after a casual perusal the writer is of the opinion that this work, together with the preceding volumes, by the same author, which has been published annually since 1892, are among the most valuable and instructive of all the literature, bearing on the mineral industry, and these volumes have come to be consid- eied indispensable as books of reference by all who desire to keep thoroughly well posted on the progress of mining and metallurgy, throughout the entire country. With regard to the mineral industry of Canada, a perusal of the volume shows that, in addition to the chapters devoted to statistics of the product of minerals in the Dominion for 1899, allusion is also made to our mineral resources in the several chapters devoted to a description of each mineral and metal, taken in their order alphabetically. Consequently, this volume will be found equally interesting and instructive to any who may be interested chiefly in the consideration of the mineral resources of the Dominion. Report on the Warrior Coal Basin, with Plates and Maps, by Henry McCalley, Assistant State Geologist ; Geological Survey of Alabama ; State Printers, Jacksonville Fla., 1900. This is a very comprehensive official report on an important coal area in the State of Alabama, the output from which last year was abcut 5,556,532 tons of coal and 1,480,605 tons of coke. The geological formation, size and characteristics of the measures, methods of working and other interesting data is very fully described. Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department of Canada for the Year 1899 ; Queen's Printer, Ottawa, 1900 ; Price 10 cents. The Summary Report of the Canadian Geological Survey is, this year, particularly interesting to Western readers, as it includes not only Mr. McConnel's excellent report, on the Yukon region, but also re- 292 THE MINING RECORD. ports on the Atlin and West and East Kootenay districts. The Chicamon Stone, by Clive Phillipps-Wolley; London ; Geo. Bell & Sons, 1900 ; Colonial Edition, 75 cents. , Some months ago Robert Barr, himself a Canadian bred and born, who has won if not an eminent at least a most respectable place in the world of letters, wrote an article which was published in a leading Toronto magazine, pointing out, with much truth, that literary effort was so lightly regarded in Canada that no man who had achieved more than a local success could afford to remain in his native land, that is, if he desires to market his wares to favourable advantage. Mr. Phillipps-Wolley, it is true, is a Canadian only by adoption, but in the thirteen or more years in which he has resided amongst us, he has so identified himself with Western lite, so thoroughly entered into the spirit that comes from an intimate acquaintance with the sublimity and silence of our bleak mountain ranges and the gloom and grandeur of century-old forests of pine that he has succeeded, both in verse and prose, in depicting truly the ideas and manners of life of the Westerner. Yet, while the influential British press has unstintingly praised this work of a British Columbian, we who should be first are last and feeblest in expressing our appreciation. It is a strange state of affairs. In Mr. Wo'lley's capital tale, the "Chicamon Stone," the scene is laid in Cassiar and the whole story rests on the exciting search under great difficulties for a vein, the whereabouts of which are known to the native Indians and to which the hero's attention is first drawn by the exhibition of a marvellously rich sample of quartz (actually in the possession of a stoie keeper at Wrangel) brought out by Siyah Joe. The book is so well worth reading that -we do not propose to lessen the interest by following, as is sometimes customary in reviews, the evolution of the author's plot to its climax. It may, however, be said in conclusion that the "Chicamon Stone" is the strongest book Mr. Wolley has yet written, and the descriptions of the wild Cassiar scenery in particular are exceptionally vivid and powerful. If one were inclined to be captious, the one defect, if it can be so classed, is the author's apparent enthusiasm for brutal and revolting situations, and perhaps his work would not lose in popularity if this tendency was held in check. TECHNICAL PERIODICALS OF THE MONTH. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. The Engineering Magazine and International Review for July contains a number of very interesting articles, of which three in particular draw more than passing attention. An article by W. H. Donner on " Power Features at the Paris Exhibition " is well illustrated and to those interested in machinery, who have not visited the Exhibition, will form a good description of wonders they have not seen ; while those who have been in Paris, or are going there, will find it none the less valuable as an indication of the most prominent features of the Exhibition in this respect. '' The History and Progress of Mining in British Columbia," another article by H. Mortimer Lamb, gives in a very clear and succinct manner a great amount of information about the Province, which has been extracted from official reports and other authentic documents with great care, and presented to the average reader in a most readable form. It is profusely illustrated and should form a most valuable introduction to British Columbia's greatest industry to those, and they are many, whose sympathies with regard to mining exceed their knowledge '' A British View of the Iron Trade " is another article containing much matter for reflection. It sketches the causes and progress of the recent boom in the steel and iron trade and points out with some justice that the boom conditions are beginning to disappear. The relations of the different productive countries are compared and the conclusion is arrived at that the outlook for the iron trade of Great Britain in the face of the competition of the United States is glowing in the extreme : " There is no gainsaying the fact that the iron and steel manufacturers of Europe are beginning to look with anxious eyes to the United States. It seems 10 those who think they can discern the coming erents casting their shadows before that the sword of Damocles is suspended over the heads of those who are now enjoying a feast of fat things. That sword is the near competition of the United States. It is, moie- over, a two-handed sword, for it cuts to the very dividing asunder of joints and marrow by an admitted capacity to produce more cheaply than European countries, and it also presents the very formidable aspect af threatening to dump a vast surplus on neutral markets, on terms that are not competitive at all. To be perfectly candid, this latter is the form of competition of which the people of Europe are most afraid, because they are most powerless to resist it, and this remark, of course, applies more especially to Great Britain, which is a free-trade country." It may be noted that the writer does not take into account the iron deposits of Canada, which are the largest known in the world ; which have been brought into notice on account of the boom conditions which have recently prevailed ; and must shortly become an appreciable factor in iron and steel production. MINES AND MINERALS. Mines and Minerals for July contains articles on the mines of Butte, Cape Nome and Rossland, all of which are interesting, the last particularly so to British Columbians. It is a highly technical article, but at the same time most descriptive and appreciative of our greatest mining camp. THE AEASKAN MAGAZINE. The Alaskan Magazine and Canadian Yukoner is a new publication, dating from Tacoma. What a Yukoner is we don't know, still less a Canadian Yukoner. But if the Alaskan Magazine is a Yukoner, all that can be said is that it denotes something much better than the barbarous term would lead us to expect The magazine contains a considerable amount of interesting reading matter. The world's ironmasters are stated to be apprehensive of a shortage in the world's supply of the raw material which they use so increasingly year by year. This fact explains the suddenly displayed eagerness of Eastern States ironmasters to investigate our Province 's ore supplies on Barclay Sound, and suggests that in the early future other British Columbia iron ore deposits will come quite into request. Then for the first time will serious efforts be made to ascertain the extent of our Province's possessions in rich iron ore, which there is every reason to believe will be found to be far larger than is at present even surmised. Hitherto nobody has troubled himself much in regard to finding and developing our iron ores, except to a very limited extent for smelter fluxing. THE MINING RECORD. 293 CAMP McKINNEY AND ITS MINES. (By Donald A. Ross, Superintendent of the Sailor Mine Group.,) THE discovery of Camp McKinney dates from, relatively speaking, as far back as 1884. In that year two placer miners, Goericke and Runnels by «i«- ■-<a***js. Bwes The Cariboo Mill, Camp McKinney. J*r>»- 311 * m ■ ikr some three years later visited the locality en route for Baldy Mountain, a granite peak on the east slope of the divide between Okanagan and Kettle rivers. McKinney making his camp on Rice Creek then discovered the croppings of the now famous Cariboo vein. This showing stood very boldly out to view and the value of the rock was apparent from the visible gold disseminated throughout it. The discoverer consequently staked out a claim on his location under the Mineral Act of that year which gave him 1,500x600 feet of ground. Thinking, however, that the vein ran with the formation, he staked the property in accordance with this belief and subsequent locations were also made in the same manner. The camp, which from this beginning, has since become an active and more promising mining centre, is situated, at an altitude of 4,600 feet, on round- topped hills, about thirty-nine miles west of Greenwood, the centre of the Kettle River mining district, and fifty-six miles east of Penticton, at the foot of Okanagan Lake, from both of which points communication is established by means of a government waggon road. It is bounded on two sides by the forks of Rock Creek, while Rice Creek flows through the centre. The formation lies in a north and south direction Sk5** 1 10* %*#* .09$ •*#fl*'* Interior of the Cariboo Company's Mill, Showing Concentrators, Camp McKinney. name, while searching for an old "cache, came across the capping of what are now known as the Victoria and Old England mines. The camp however takes its name from a prospector, one Al. McKinney, who and consists mainly of highly altered schistose diabases banded with quartzites, crystalline limestones and gneisses. West of the camp there is a large tract of granite, gneiss and porphyry. The veins for the m 294 THE MINING RECORD. most part are fissures cutting across the formation in an easterly and westerly direction with a dip slightly to the south. Faults are frequently encountered, in nearly every case breaking towards the south. The ores in the central portion of the camp are all quartz or quartzites, and are free-milling and concentrating. About two miles due east, however, there have been found dyke rocks carrying good values in pyrrhotite, pyrites and chalcopyrite. Of the principal properties the most important is the Cariboo, which is also the only free-milling gold mine among the comparative few discovered in the province to pay regular dividends. It is at present owned by the Cariboo-McKinney Mining and Milling Company, with head offices in Toronto. The inauguration of development work took the 1,300 feet, and on No. 4 level 1,100 feet. In addition to this work there is an upraise from No. 2 to the surface 350 east of the shaft, three winzes from No. 4 to No. 3 and three from No. 3 to No. 2. In the shaft house are two return tubular boilers, a 60 h.p. link motion hoist built by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, and a 10-drill Rand compressor. The mill is situated in the Rice Creek gulch about 800 feet west of the shaft and is equipped with two five-stamp batteries supplied by the Risdon Iron Works, and the same number supplied by the Jenckes Machine Co. A 60 h.p. Corliss engine, two Johnstone vanners, a Wilfley table, one Blake crusher and one Gates crusher, complete the equipment. The mill crushes on an average 1,400 tons per month, the result of the clean up for the month from !:! The Cariboo Hoist. form of a tunnel driven in from the side of the Rice Creek gulch. Later on a shaft was sunk to connect with this tunnel. Another shaft was also sunk 200 feet to the east by the Butte and Boston Company, who in 1894-5 secured an option on the property. The present working shaft is on the Amelia claim 300 feet east of the Butte and Boston shaft, and is now driven 360 feet. The tunnel was continued in 700 feet and a connection with this shaft was made at a depth of 70 feet. No 1 level is 128 feet down and here there a,re 350 feet of drifts, mostly towards the west. No. 2 level is 45 feet below No. 1, and from it is 1,000 feet of drifting. On No. 3 level, which is estimated at a depth of 258 feet the drifts aggregate April 15th to May 15th having been a brick approximating $20,000 in value. In addition the ore concentrates from three-quarters per cent., yielding $1,500 net per month. The concentrates originally were sent for treatment to Everett (Wash.) smelter, but on the completion of the C. & W. Railroad their destination was changed to the Half Mines smelter and at the present time to the Trail works. I The company own the Okanagan, Saw Tooth Fraction, Amelia, Cariboo, Alice, Emma and Maple Leaf, but have so far worked only one of the first four. In the past the Cariboo has paid its shareholders a dividend of one per cent, per month. The vein has an east and west strike and dips THE MINING RECORD. 295 x slightly to the south The average width is about three and a-half feet, but m places it widens out to is feet. A fault plane has been encountered in all the levels, dipping like the pay chute towards the east and throwing the vein south almost invariably The ore is of several different characters—a white" milky quartz carrying pockets of free gold, but otherwise^ of a low grade; a close-grained bluish chalcedony; and a spongy bluish-white quartz heavily mineralized with sulphides of iron and zinc, galena and a little copper pyrites. It is this latter quartz which forms the main pay chute. Most of the high-grade ore has been stoped out above the No. 4 level, but there are still large reserves of lower grade ore which it will pay to mine should the capacity of the mill be increased to 40 stamps. At present operations are being confined to the lower level in some of the richest ore yet encountered. South of the Cariboo lies the Minnehaha. This is a full-sized claim, 1,500x1,500 feet, and is owned, together with the Cariboo Fraction and Golden Crown Fraction, which adjoins it, by the Minnehaha Gold tained there. The main shaft on the E. & W. vein has been sunk to a depth of 190 feet. A drift was run in about 40 feet at the 60 foot level and the ore stoped out to near the surface. On the 90-foot level a cross-cut was run in 20 feet north and the vein was drifted on 268 feet east and 73 feet west. The ore m i~£i 5t*Si' JVF'?: The Minnehaha Mill. ?"**gffl#-rr" WBk ii ■£-£: .;.-.'Vl «r,J«i m IMS te*J The Minnehaha Compressor. Mining Company of Toronto. This company also own several claims to the south including the Big Bug and Iron Duke. On the Minnehaha a small vein was found near the western line and was exposed by stripping for some distance. Another north and south vein was opened up about the middle of the claim by several small shafts but no values were ob- was also stoped out from this level. On the lower level a cross-cut was run in a northeasterly direction for 108 feet and for 65 feet west. In the latter a small stringer of quartz was encountered near the side line, but in the former no ore was found, the two walls having "crushed" together at the point where this cross-cut was run. Had the level been higher up or lower down, it is asserted by Prof. Montgomery, of Toronto, ore would have been met with. The vein, so far as it was opened, seems to have been freer from breaks than the Cariboo vein, to which it runs parallel, and should future development show ore in place at a greater depth, the prospects of the property should be more promising. At present, however, the mine is "closed down" as the mill run made last January and February was far from satisfactory. On the Minnehaha are installed a 5-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant compressor, an 80 h.p. boiler, a hoist and two pumps (one Cameron and one Northey). The mill, exceptionally well-constructed and planned, is equipped with twov 5-stamp batteries (Jenckes Machine Co.), a 35 h.p. boiler, Blake crusher, a Wilfley table and Frue van- — d& 'MtaK —j 296 THE MINING RECORD. ner. A water supply is afforded from the South Fork of Rock Creek by means of a flume built jointly by the Minnehaha and Sailor companies. The ore is a bluish quartz carrying pyrites and galena and was found from a few inches up to four and a-half feet wide. Another of the original locations, the Kamloops, is situated to the west of the Minnehaha, and is now owned by the Kamloops McKinney Gold Mining Company of Montreal. During last fall and. winter the superintendent, Mr. E. G. Warren, carried on the development of the property. An incline shaft had been sunk on the foot wall to a depth of 40 feet. This was abandoned and a main working shaft (5x8 in the clear) was started The quartz is similar to' that of the Minnehaha, but carries more sulphides. The plant which was supplied by the Jenckes Machine Co., consists of a 6x8 hoist, a 30 h.p. vertical boiler, a No. 4 Cameron pump and a Rand drill. Air for the drill was carried about 300 feet from the Minnehaha compressor through a two foot pipe line. A shaft house, engine house, blacksmith shop, powder magazine and office have been erected. The property with which I am myself associated as superintendent consists of the following claims lying to the west and southwest of the Cariboo Company's properties: The Sailor, Rover, Bellevue, Bellevue Fraction, Snowshoe, Diamond, Toledo and Alice Fraction. The Shaft on the Wiarton, Camp McKinney. about 60 feet north of the old one, it being expected that the vein would be encountered on the dip at a depth of several hundred feet. At the 100-foot level a cross-cut was run south for 40 feet, where the vein was encountered. The drifts were then pushed eastward for 30 feet and westward for 50 feet. The vein was broken to the east but there was a good face of ore assaying $27 in the west drift, when work was discontinued. The property has not been operated for three months, but it is reported that work is shortly to be resumed; and certainly the showing in the west drift is sufficiently encouraging to warrant further development. The vein was also opened up by surface cuts to the west end of the claim where it passes into the Sailor. Development work has been chiefly concentrated on the Sailor, where a strong outcrop of quartz assaying as high as $50 occurred. On the Bellevue a shaft has been sunk on the same ledge which passes through the Alice, Emma, Maple Leaf and Eureka. On the Rover and Alice Fraction sufficient work has been done to secure Crown grants. This work on the Rover has been devoted to locating the continuance of the Sailor vein. Work was commenced on the Sailor a year ago but was not actively pressed till the beginning of August. At that time the shaft was down 35 feet. Since then the shaft has been sunk to 173 feet (5x8 in the clear). At the 75-foot level a cross-cut was run in from 45 feet north, with a large sump at the end. The foot THE MINING RECORD. 297 wall was encountered nine feet in, and the vein there was eleven feet wide. Drifts were then run east and west, the latter being in 95 feet and the former So feet. The vein on this level averages about 4 feet wide: and so far no breaks or faults were encountered. On the 150-foot level a cross-cut was run in for 44 teet and 140 feet of drifting run. On this level the ore is of a somewhat different character to that found above the quartz occurring as stringers in a mineralized talc, the vein, which is undoubtedly the western extension of the Cariboo lead, has been opened up across the Sailor and Rover and will, according to the strike (N. 40 E.), pass on into the Snowshoe thus giving this company two-thirds of a mile in which to work it. The dip at the first level was 7^ degrees and Success claims owned by a local company. A north and south vein of white quartz associated with zinc blende and pyrites in small quantities has been opened up by surface cuts and a shaft sunk to a depth of 60 feet. Northwest of the central portion of the camp is a hill known as Douglas Mountain. Here are the Eureka, Mammoth, Shannon-Dolphin, Bellevue, Alma, Pendray, Highland Chief and Blue Bird mineral claims. The Eureka was one of the first claims to be operated in the camp. Under great disadvantages the owner, Mr. Douglas, of Midway, sank a shaft on a vein of white quartz about seven feet wide. At a depth of 85 feet a drift was run for 125 feet, the vein 4K 't* s&^Sfc. *3 ggjgSJ aK» 11 WM zf \L *s In the Drift at the 80-foot Level in the "Waterloo," Camp McKinney. north, but in the second level it is dipping 80 degrees south. As in the Cariboo, there are three kinds of quartz; the bluish white quartz, where mineralized, assaying from $17 to $31 per ton. The plant consists of a 6x8 hoist, a No. 5 Cameron pump, a 35 h.p. locomotive boiler and a Rand steam drill all supplied by the Jenckes Machine Co. In addition to this we have a Peerless drill made by the Mac Machine Co. The mine is at present closed down pending negotiations for the purchase of the Minnehaha Company's properties and plant by the Sailor Company. Three-quarters of a mile or so west of the Sailor property and south of the waggon road, in a granite formation are the Anarchist, Explosion, Dynamite averaging from four to six feet wide. About 100 feet to the east a shaft was sunk on the same vein to a depth of 15 feet. Work has been suspended a number of years. The Mammoth and Shannon-Dolphin Companies were formed by Dr. Reddy, of Spokane, to secure these properties. On the Mammoth a tunnel was run in on the vein for about 65 feet, when a fault was encountered. The ledge was found again about ten feet wide and a winze was sunk at that point. Some fine specimens of quartz carrying pyrites and galena were taken from this winze in which the pay chute averaged about 30 inches wide and assayed $27. The vein is now being opened up by surface cuts further up the hill side. 298 THE MINING RECORD. On the Shannon and Dolphin work was confined to tracing the ledge which runs through the Bellevue (Sailor company's) and on down through the Maple Leaf, Alice and Emma (Cariboo company's) . Several shafts were sunk and the ledge was stripped in two or three places, but so far has evidently not been found in place, except towards the east end. The ore The Kamloops Shaft House. is a coarse-grained white quartz carrying massive plates of pyrites, but these sulphides do not seem to carry much values. There are also several other veins on these properties. On the Alma and Pendray free gold has been found in a weathered bluish quartz. The vein, which has an easterly and westerly strike, has been opened up by a series of small shafts and a contract has been let for a 75-foot shaft on the Alma. The other claims on this hill are being developed- by their owners, and the showings so far are decidedly encouraging. Coming east again, the Wiarton mine, adjoining the Cariboo company's properties, is owned by the Camp McKinney Development Company of Spokane. While there may be strong reasons for the assumption that the continuation of the Cariboo vein will be found through the Wiarton ground, the fact has not yet been demonstrated finally by development to date, as the vein has not been found in place. About 300 feet from the side line of the Saw Tooth a shaft was sunk to a depth of 52 feet and a cross-cut run south from here for 65 feet. A second shaft was sunk near the Waterloo to a depth of 54 feet and a cross-cut 40 feet north,was run without encountering ore. About 20c feet south of this working a third shaft was sunk on a vein of bluish-white quartz carrying some sulphides. This shaft is 60 feet deep, and the vein on which it was sunk has been traced by open cuts for at least 400 feet in a westerly direction. Adjoining the Wiarton on the east Jies the Waterloo mine owned by the Waterloo Mining and Milling Company, of Spokane. The property was located in the spring of 1897, the surface ore affording very fine speciments of free g'old, occurring as plates in a dark blue coarse-grained quartz. Preliminary work consisted of a shaft near the west end of the property sunk to a depth of 46 feet. The ledge was then stripped towards the east and about 300 feet away a second shaft was sunk on a cropping of quartz containing free gold. This one was put down, 80 feet and at the 60-foot level drifts were run 40 feet in an easterly and 260 feet in a westerly direction. Last autumn a stamp mill was erected and after a. month's run a brick to the value of $2,000 was produced. Owing to the cutting off of the water supply last winter by frost the mill, after a second clean up of $600 had been made, was temporarily inactive. Stoping was, however, commenced in the mine, and an upraise 180 feet west of the present shaft was started. This upraise when completed will be utilized as a main shaft and will, as soon as a more powerful hoist is obtained, be continued on down through the pay chute. The present equipment consists of a 30 h.p. vertical boiler, a small hoist and a No. 5 Cameron pump supplied by the Jenckes Machine Co. A new 10x10 hoist and a steam drill are, I believe, to be installed when the new shaft is completed. The stamp mill consists of one 5-stamp battery, a 50 h.p. boiler and 40 h.p. engine, Johnstone concentrator and Blake ct usher. In building the mill, the ore bins, battery blocks and the concentrator floor were all constructed with a view to enlarging the mill, hence the capacity of the battery can be increased to the stamps with very little trouble or expense. The tramway between the shaft and mill is approximately 280 feet long. The new shaft will be about the same distance away and ore bins are to be built near the shaft and a good supply of ore therefore may always be kept in reserve. The vein is about four feet wide, has a strike W. five degrees N. and is almost vertical. The ore is a dark The Sailor Hoist. blue coarse-looking quartz carrying heavy bands of sulphides (pyrites, blend and galena). The average values, according to the superintendent, Mr. Graham's last report was $15 per ton, $12 of which is javed on the plates. The result of the last mill run was $1,480, and when the capacity of the battery is THE MINING RECORD. 299 added to and the mine developed to a greater depth, tire property should yield very handsome returns I u 1 Waterloo is situated the Fontenoy, owned by the Fontenoy Gold Mining and Milling Company, of Victoria. Here an incline shaft has been sunk on the foot wall for 129 feet The drifts are in 95 feet east and no feet west. A second shaft 40 feet from the west line was sunk 65 feet with a k- foot cross-cut at the bottom, and to the southeast another shaft 59 feet deep with a 35-foot drift. Several open cuts were also made on the vein. The company have installed a 30 h.p. locomotive boiler, a 6x8 Jenckes hoist and a No. 7 Cameron pump. The vein appears to curve around the hillside with a strike varying from N. 45 degrees W. to almost E. and W. where the main shaft is situated. The dip is Situated about two and a-half miles east of the town where the Greenwood waggon road crosses the north fork of Rock Creek are the properties of the Lemon Gold Mining Company of B. C. This company has its headquarters in Omaha, Neb., and own the Lemon, Pennsylvania, Last Chance, Gold Standard and Galena claims. Mr. M. J. Greevy, the president and managing director, acquired the Lemon in 1893, DUt nothing was done till the summer of 1897, when the company was formed and the other claims acquired. The Lemon itself is Crown granted and has been piospected by small shafts and tunnels. The claim, however, on which most of the work has been done is the Gold Standard. Here an incline shaft has been sunk on the vein to a depth of 228 feet and passes directly under Rock SPHi® M ■WRm ■33S si3. 2*?* ?T*gjg&** ie Entrance to Tunnel of Shannon and Dolphin Mine, Camp McKinney. about 45 degrees north. The quartz is white and massive and is about four feet wide in the face of both both drifts. It carries coarse cubes of pyrites and a stringer of galena about three inches wide. Assays of $65 are reported, while an expert sent up to examine the property last autumn obtained average assays of $52.50. On the Vernon, which lies to the south of the Fontenoy and which is owned by Mr. Hugh Cameron, the "father" of Camp McKinney, the vein has been opened by a shallow shaft. Five hundred feet south of the Fontenoy sinking is now progressing on a second shaft to encounter the vein on the dip. The vein where exposed here has a strike almost north and south with a dip 45 degrees to the east, and is about six feet wide. Creek. From the 125 foot level they have drifted 57 feet south and 50 feet north and have also cross-cut 25 feet west from the south drift. All the ore which was run through the mill came from the stopes on this ievel. At 210 feet they again drifted, 18 feet south and 38 feet north. Underground work was then suspended and a more extensive surface development was undertaken. The plant consists of a 25 h.p. upright boiler, hoist, a No. 5 Cameron pump and steam drill supplied by the Mac Machine Company. A 5-stamp mill supplied by the Wm. Hamilton Manufacturing Company and a saw mill was installed' by the company's engineer, the saw mill being so placed that the same 50 h.p. engine and boiler can be used for both it and the stamp mill. Water power would be easily available from the 300 THE MINING RECORD. tails of Rock Creek on the property and should considerably lessen the cost of crushing. The vein has a north and south strike and dips about 45 degrees near the surface, out has now straightened to about 80 degrees east. The ore is a chalky looking quartz well mineralized with pyrites. It. occurs in a talc ledge matter which also contains cubes of pyrites, and is found mostly near the hanging wall. Assays of from $12 to $72 have been obtained from the pay streak. Across the creek and a little lower down are the workings of the Victoria mine, owned by the Rock Creek Gold Mines Company, Ltd. The Victoria and the Old England, as I have mentioned before, are the oldest locations in Camp McKinney. In 1896 and 1897 about 1,000 feet of development work was done. An incline shaft no feet down ran into base ore. No. 1 tunnel, run in 198 feet from the side of the Rock Creek gulch, struck the vein which was drifted on for 200 feet. In No. 2 tunnel the vein was found 205 feet in and a winze sunk for 106 feet Thirty tons were stoped out and shipped, giving returns of $50 gjld, $2.00 silver and two per cent. lead. There are two undeveloped veins of which little is known, but the main one has been openea up sufficiently to demonstrate that if the ore is found in place it will pay well to mine. The ledge is from five to six feet between walls and contains a bluish quartz with pyrites, blende and a little galena. This quartz is from a few inches up to 20 inches wide, and is badly broken. Work has been suspended a number of years, but it is nevertheless unfortunate that in view of the circumstances development was discontinued at so early a stage. Last November some excitement was created by the report that free gold had been struck on the Dayton, a claim lying on the "hog's back," which runs southward about two miles due east of the camp. The gold occurred in "gossen" and was found in large quantities where the vein was opened up. "Colours" could be obtained by "panning" any of the rock. The claim was located a year ago and shortly after the "strike" of free gold,was bonded and sinking was commenced. The ore proving refractory the bond was allowed to lapse, but the owners of the claim continued the shaft down to a depth of 50 feet and crosscut twelve feet east to the vein. Surface cross-cuts were also made, in all of which rock was found that would "pan." The strike of the vein is north 40 degrees west and it dips about 70 degrees east. Assays of $72, $96 and $812 have been secured from the surface, but, of course "specimen" assays are hardly satisfactory evidence as testifying to the value of a prospect or mine. On this "hog's back" there are many other properties with good showings of base ore, but on these so far very little development work has been done, and but little can be accomplished without the aid of outside capital. The Dayton, Le Roi, War Eagle and many other claims offer good inducements- to the capitalist prepared to expend an adequate sum for their proper exploitation and development. Camp McKinney in the past has not received that attention which in view of the many excellent surface showings to be found in the neighbourhood it merits. The only mine, the Cariboo, which has been extensively developed, has rendered an excellent account of itself, as all who have been fortunate enough to be shareholders have every reason to know. The Water loo, Fontenoy and other mines, on the development of which the expenditure has been very much less considerable, will ere long prove profitably productive, while there are unquestionably many good claims elsewhere in the camp which would well repay investigation. It, however, can only be a question of a short time ere these facts are more widely recognized. DEVELOPMENT ON TEXADA ISLAND. (By Wm. M. Brewer, M.A.I.M.E.) WHILE the geological formations on the northern end of Texada Island are very similar in some respects to those on the western coast of Vancouver Island, yet there is one very marked difference with regard to the values carried by the ores on Texa la as compared with those on Vancouver Island. The difference is in the gold values carried by the Texada gold-copper ores. So far as work has demonstrated to the present time, the copper gold ores of Vancouver Island rarely carry more than $2.00 per ton in gold, but these ores on Texada Island usually average $8.00 or $9.00 per ton in gold, and very often carry more than one ounce per ton in gold. Of the southern portion of Texada Island hardly anything is known with regard to its mineral resources or geological formation. So far as one can judge while travelling up the Straits, the mountains on this portion of the Island are not only very much higher than on the northern portion, but the timber and underbrush are very much more dense. These conditions account for the fact that this portion of the Island has not been prospected. It would appear as though the geology in the Southern portion differs considerably from that in the northern portion. The writer's reason for stating this theory is that the ore deposits which have already been discovered southerly from an imaginary line drawn across the Island from Van Anda. to Davies Bay, carry very much heavier iron contents than those north of this line. In fact the ore in the Raven prospect near North East Point is principally iron, while on the west coast are located the very extensive deposits of magnetite which carry practically no copper values and which have been prospected to a depth exceeding 200 feet at which depth the writer is reliably informed, the ore is to all intents and purposes a Bessemer iron ore. Northerly from this imaginary line the principal ore deposits are copper carbonates and bornite, the latter even to a depth of 450 feet; actual work having demonstrated this fact in the Copper Queen mine. The ores from this northern portion are very much more silicious than those which have been so far discovered south from the Copper Queen. A change in the geology occurs about 2,500 feet southerly from the Copper Queen shaft, and on ihe mineral claim known as the Little Billy. At that point a quartz syenite flanks the metamorphosed lime stone, which is apparently the oldest rock, at least on the northern portion of Texada Island. As one proceeds towards the extreme north end of the Island it Blubber Bay, he finds this lime stone is the predominating rock with intrusions of felsite and diorite dikes. The latter appear to belong to a more recent period than the former, as it is found in the underground workings that the diorite dikes usually cut through the ore bodies which occur on the contact between the lime stone and felsite. There has apparently been a still later movement, THE MINING RECORD. because m the Marble Bay underground workings one finds fissures crossing the general trend of the formation which are to-day. only filled with mud and breccia. In these so far as they have been prospected which m the Marble Bay is for some considerable distance, no ore bodies occur, and as the fissures intersect ore bodies in that mine cutting through them with the ore found on both sides of the fissure, the theory that these mud seams were formed more recently than the period when the deposition of ore occurred would appear to be warranted. ing the ore to be continuous to that depth. It is probable that driving on the 500-foot level will have to be continued for about 50 feet before the same ore body as occurred on the 400-foot level is reached, because all the ore in the Copper Queen mine has dipped towards the west as well as dipping vertically The ore from the Copper Queen 400-foot level carries besides its high copper values $9.00 per ton in gold, making the total smelting value of the ore not less than $25.00 per ton. In fact this has been the average value for 6,000 tons of ore smelted from the Copper Queen and Cornell mines during the past nine months. While on a recent visit to the Island, the writer had the opportunity of examining the development work in the various properties, and found that the main .»¥5ftsalsi5c; mMk$ !M From Minister of Mines Report, 1899. The Van Anda Smelter, Texada Island. jUP! m --.^ps II From Minister of Mines Report, 1899. Mable Bay Lime Kiln, Texada Island. shaft on the Copper Queen had reached a depth of 518 feet. At the 500-foot level a station has been cut, and drifting started and the ore body found, but apparently this is not the same as on the 400- foot level, reached a depth of fifty feet, show- and comformably with the foot wall. It would appear as though the ore which has been exposed on the 500- foot level and which is being stoped is another lense having its apex between the 400 and 500-foot levels. On the 14th of July there was the following described virgin ground opened ready for stoping: On the Copper Queen—A newly discovered ore body from the 174-foot level upwards, also between the 224 and 174-foot levels, also between the 500 and 400 foot levels, also an ore body having its line of strike nearly at right angles to the main ore body and extending northwesterly from the old 100-foot incline shaft. This last has been proven from the 100-foot level to the surface and in an open cut on the surface run when the discovery of the body was first made has been proven in length 40 feet with ore still in the face of the cut, and with every indication that this body extends under the waggon road and houses opposite to the shaft-house. On the Cornell the main shaft has been sunk 80 feet and the 160-foot 3°2 THE MINING RECORD. level opened, station cut and drifting on the ore body which is proven to be a continuity of the ore body which was stoped from the 8o-foot level up. The two levels have been connected by an upraise on ore and stoping has commenced. This ore body on the 8o-foot level had a length of 112 feet, and an average thickness of 12 feet with a maximum thickness of 23 feet. On the 160-foot level the maximum thickness of ore in felsite gangue exceeds 30 feet. The virgin ground ready for stoping is between the 160 and 80- foot levels on what is known as the east ore chute. About 300 tons of ore have recently been shipped from the Lenora mine at Mount Sicker to the Van Anda smelter. There is also being shipped a quantity of ore from the Marble Bay, the property of which company adjoins the Van Anda company's properties. The management at the Marble Bay mine have commenced to stope the ore between the 50 and 140- levels. Heretofore the only ore mined below the 50- level has been such as was taken out while driving. The lime kiln at Marble Bay is also being run up to its capacity, lime from these kilns having been placed on the Vancouver and Victoria markets. The difference in the appearance of this portion of the Island to-day and a year ago is very marked as can readily be understood when it is considered that in place of a small population a year ago, and a few shacks together with the Marble Bay hotel, to-day there is a population of between five and six hundred on the two townsites. Of course the bulk of this population is located on the Van Anda townsite, because the company employs a very much greater force of men than the Marble Bay. The growth of the town of Van Anda during the past year has been somewhat phenomenal, the houses are substantial structures built from the lumber sawed in the Van Anda company's mill which has a capacity of turning out about 12,000 feet daily, and is furnished with planing and shingle mills, as well as ordinary saw carriage. Travelling up the east coast of Texada three miles above the town of Van Anda there is a new prospect being opened known as Loyal group. The discoveries of ore were first made on the Crown grant land owned by Carter-Cotton, and in many respects these prospects are ideal ones. The fact that to a depth of some 40 or 50 feet the ore can be mined from an open cut, and also that this open cut is only about 500 feet from deep water where a cribbing has been built for a dock, and connected with the open cut by a surface tramway, demonstrates some of the advantages found at these new prospects. Surface work has been done on this prospect which demonstrates that bodies of ore (carbonates) occur for a distance of some three or four hundred feet along the line of strike, and apparently the mineralized zone has an average thickness of some 50 or 60 feet. The actual conditons though will be thoroughly demonstrated after the open cut already referred to has been driven across this zone. At the time of the writer's visit only twa weeks had elapsed since work of development had been commenced. This had been prosecuted so diligently though, that it is almost a certainty ore will be shipped to the smelter within fifteen days from the. time of the writers' visit. The most encouraging feature with regard to this northern portion of Texada Island is that the Cornell mine for instance, and almost certainly the Loyal group can be considered as having paid from the grass roots, which is certainly phenomenal. At Blubber Bay, the extreme end of Texada Island, Messrs. ' MacKenzie, Mann and Holt are opening some copper prospects, and employing a large force of men. Considerable ore has already been accumulated on the dumps, and good waggon roads built connecting the mine workings with the shore. A peculiar feature with regard to ore found on these Blubber Bay properties, is that galena carrying 25 to 30 per cent, lead has been found associated with the copper ore. At Blubber Bay are located some old lime kilns in which lime was burnt some years back. At the present time, although the kilns are not in operation, yet a certain quantity of the lime stone is quarried, and used in the manufacture of cement. There are at present upwards of 300 men employed in the various mines on the northern end of Texada Island, a large proportion of whom are married, and have their families residing on the Island with them. The majority of these live either on the Van Anda or Marble Bay townistes. THE REVERBERATORY SMELTING OF LEAD ORES.* (By Capt. C. C. Longridge, M.I.M.E.,M.I. Mech. E., Etc.) I. REVERBERATORY SMELTING. THE process of roasting to which most lead sulphide ores are subjected preparatory to smelting is not always effected outside of ihe smelting furnace. In the method of smelting here considered, the roast is accomplished in the smelter itself, and the treatment is, therefore, graphically described as the roasting and reaction, or sometimes the air reduction or the reverberatory process, inasmuch as it is conducted in a reverberatory furnace. The crushed ore charge, spread out in a 3 to 5 inch layer on the reverberatory hearth, is first roasted at a comparatively low temperature, until the requisite quantity of lead sulphide is converted into oxide and sulphate. For the English method of reverberatory smelting, the proper proportion is one molecule of lead sulphate to two molecules of lead sulphide; for the Carinthian method, one molecule of sulphate and two of oxide to one molecule of sulphide. When the roast is sufficiently advanced, the furnace temperature is raised and the interaction of the sulphate and oxide is started and the metals are reduced. The reduction, however, is not at once complete. For, in the first place however assiduously fresh surfaces of the ore may have been exposed to the air by rabbling, during the roast, the whole charge will not at once have been brought into the necessary condition for the reduction reactions. On the other hand, as the reactions are satisfactorily effected only when the sulphides and oxides are in, not a fluid, but a past)' condition, complete contact of the interacting particles and reduction of the enclosed metal is not at once effected. The reverberatory lead smelter, therefore, employs a cycle of operations in which the ore is first roasted at a temperature of 500-600 degrees C, then partially reduced at a higher temperature; when the furnace heat is again lowered, the charge re-rabbled and re- roasted, and the temperature once more raised for a further reduction, and so on. Every time the operations of roasting and reducing are repeated, and the ore becomes poorer in lead, a higher reduction tem- *From the London Mining Journal. m THE MINING RECORD. 303 perature must be used. To avoid fusion under the greater heat, and to keep the charge in the desired pasty condition, slacked lime is added; while, to accelerate the chemical reactions, powdered coal or charcoal may be mingled with the charee II.—EFFECT OF ORE IMPURITIES. This process of reverberatory smelting, of which the details appear sufficiently simple, may in practice be much complicated by the ore impurities. The influence of some of these impurities is described: A small quantity of iron oxide is advantageous, in so far as it helps to stiffen the charge. A slight proportion of iron pyrites also is favourable, as it promotes oxidation, and when itself reduced to ferric oxide, renders the charge less fusible. If, however, the proportion of pyrites rises to 10 per cent, or 12 per cent, it is injurious, since it is likely to combine the lead sulphide, and thus prevent reduction of the latter. The presence of 35 per cent, to 40 per cent, of iron pyrites- renders the ore unfit for treatment in a reverberatory furnace. Spathic iron ore, in the presence of silica, forms a fluid slag, and is to be avoided in reverberatory lead smelting. In the case of copper pyrites most of the copper combines with sulphur to form subsulphide, but some is likely to enter the lead and may be sufficient to need subsequent separation. Blende, in quantities of 4 per cent, to 5 per cent., assists the roasting of the charge, but 10 per cent, to 12 per cent, both piolongs the roast and diminishes the lead extraction. With 20 per cent, to 24 per cent. of zinc very little lead is extracted, and with 35 per cent, to 40 per cent, the reverberatory method cannot be employed. Antimony, even to the amount of 2 per cent, to 3 per cent, is very prejudicial, as it not only promotes caking and fusing of the charge, but carries lead into the slag, and itself mixing with the lead, injures the quality. It also increases the volatilization losses. Next to antimony, arsenic is the most deleterious impurity, producing results similar to those of antimony. The gangue constituents also have considerable influence on the process of smelting. Limestone, more especially dolemite, stiffens and hinders fusion of the charge; but a large quantity will prevent the various lead compounds coming into contact, and thus, by impeding reduction, will reduce the yield of lead. The highest permissible percentage of limestone for a reverberatory charge is 12 per cent. Silica combines to form lead silicates. These not only react with the oxide, sulphate, and sulphide of lead; but, in consequence of their low fusion point, easily melt, and, coating the particles of the charge, check all reaction. For successful reverberatory work, therefore, the lead ore charge must not contain more than 4 per cent, to 5 per cent, of silica. Barytes and fluorspar, if seperate, have no effect; but if both are present, they may increase the fusibility of the charge by combining with lead sulphade. III.—ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF REVERBERATORY SMELTING. These may be deduced from the observations made in the foregoing paragraphs. Briefly enumerated, the advantages of reverberatory smelting are: First, raw ore can be smelted. That is to say, no preliminary or independent calcination of the ore is required, because the ore roasting is done in the furnace itself. Secondly, raw fuel can be used. The use of cheaper combustibles, such as coal, wood, etc., is possible, because very high temperature is not needed. The operation, as we have seen, does not aim at gangue fusion, except in the last stage; and, even then, as much refractory material, such as lime, silica, etc., cannot be present in the charge, no great heat is necessary. Thirdly, the volatilization losses of silver and lead are small; an advantage due to the low furnace temperature. Fourthly, the slag losses are strictly moderate. For, though the slags themselves are rich, their quantity, owing to the purity of the ore employed, is small; and thus the net loss in the operation is reduced. Eifthly, unbricked fines can be smelted without excessive loss in flue dust, since the necessary temperature can be attained without the use of a blast. Sixthly, extraction is easy, and the yield is pure; this results from the high grade and purity of the ores used. Lastly, the plant is cheaply erected. As offset to these advantages, there arc the following defects: As intimate contact of the metallic particles is necessary, only rich sulphides, or mixtures of sulphide and carbonates, containing, say, 58 per cent, to 70 per cent, of lead are suitable for reverberatory smelting. For the same reason, the ores must be fairly pure. Blende, iron pyrites, chalcopyrite, calcspar, barytes, silica, lime, magnesia, etc., must not, therefore, be present in larger quantities than already indicated. Other defects are the comparative slowness of the operation, the heavy fuel consumption, usually about 45 per cent, of the charge, the necessity for a good deal of skilled labour, and lastly the richness of slags, which necessitates their re-treatment. IV. VARIOUS FORMS OF REVERBERATORY SMELTING. Those that merit attention are the Carinthian, the English and the Silesian. The Carinthian method, now almost obsolete, is adapted to treat small charges of pure rich ores, containing 60 per cent, to 75 per cent, of lead, at a low temperature. On account of this low temperature, the Carinthian are more durable than the English furnaces. Instances of such furnaces are the Raibl at Carinthia, the modified Raibl at Egnis, Belgium, and the American air furnaces in the Mississippi val- lej. The Carinthian method gives a high extraction, but is attended with the disadvantages of a small output and heavy cost of fuel and labour. The English method aims at dealing with large charges at a high temperature. The extraction is quicker but lower, and, in consequence, the charge residues have to be re-smelted in the blast furnace. The volatilization losses naturally are higher. The Silesian is a modified English method, the furnace, etc., being correspondingly arranged. This method follows the English in dealing with large charges, but the Carinthian in employing a low temperature. The result is a larger output of purer lead than the English furnace product. The volatilization losses also are lower. The charge residues are sent to the blast furnace. The reasons for the above difference in practice are sufficiently obvious. A slow roast at a low temperature, without charge fusion, favours the extraction of a comparatively large percentage of pure lead, with low volatilization losses. Hence the suitability of the Carinthian method for treating small quantities of pure and richly argentiferous, high grade lead ores. But the majority of lead ores are not pure, and their complete reduction, therefore, requires a higher temperature. The Silesian method is designed to deal with these by extracting, with the least lead and silver volatilization losses, as much lead as possible at 304 THE MINING RECORD. a low temperature, and then re-treating the refractory portion in the greater heat of the blast furnace. Finally, a large proportion of lead ores are either non or poorly argentiferous; with these less valuable ores, large output and low costs are essential. These are obtained, in the English method, by forcing the extraction by a rapid elevation of the furnace temperature to the highest permissible limit, and by retreating the residues in the blast furnace. V. THE PRODUCTS OF REVERBERATORY SMELTING. The products of reverberatory smelting, together and, in passing, will also make a few remarks anent hydraulic elevating and sluicing. I do not propose to dwell at length on the technical detail of a dredge, because to describe a dredge from beginning to end sufficiently clearly to be understood by the layman would take too much time, nor do I intend to refer largely to the earlier history of bucket-dredging in New Zealand. I shall rather endeavour to illustrate to you the immense advantage of the bucket-dredge as a gold producer. As you are all well aware, there are immense tracts of country in this colony known to be highly auriferous, but which on account of their Cobeldick Dredge No. 1—In. Course of Construction—Fraser River, Lytton, B.C. with the subsequent treatment to which they are submitted, are shown in the following table:— Products. Lead—Termed "Work-lead"; or, if argentiferous, "Base Bullion." Gray slag—The charge residue. Flue dust—Chiefly oxides. Hearth bottoms—Hearth material impregnated with metals. Treatment. Refining—Desilverisation. Either crushing and concentration to save the metallic lead; or, especially with argentiferous ores, resmelting in the blast furnace. Either resmelting with fresh charges; or, if very impure, bricking and smelting in the blast furnace. The same treatment as gray slag. NOTES ON GOLD DREDGING.* By J. W. H. Piper, M.I.M.E. T T gives me great pleasure to address you this even- 1 ing on a subject which I think is likely to prove one of the most important branches of the mining industry of our colony. I refer to bucket-dredging, "Paper read before the New South Wales Chamber of Mines. wet nature have baffled all attempts of the miner to extract the hidden treasure. To overcome this dif-. ficulty the bucket-dredge has been designed and brought to its present pitch of perfection; although this class of mining has for some years been carried out successfully in New Zealand, it is only within the past eighteen months that it has made its advent into New South Wales. The modern gold dredge, as used so successfully, is the outcome of years of practical work, and the brains and experience of many inventors are embodied in its mechanism. Bucket- dredging is unlike all other systems of mining, the principal outlay being the first cost of machinery, very little preliminary preparation of the ground to be treated being necessary. The chief advantage claimed for the bucket dredge is the enormous quantity of material which may be operated upon at a surprisingly low cost, owing to the economy effected in labour. Under favourable conditions two men can handle and treat, with a suitable plant, 800 loads in a shift of eight hours, at a cost of about id. per THE MINING RECORD. 305 ton, thus it will be seen that ground containing 1 or i| grains to the ton can be made to return a profit I might mention, in passing, that I know of a large dredge treating and handling ground at |d. per cubic yard. The object of the engineer is to design a plant that will give the largest possible output per week combined with the smallest possible expenditure, and it is absolutely necessary for him to study all the'pos- sibilities of the operations, in order to provide for all contingencies in the class and character of the machinery, so as to secure the best results. Although* the main features are similar in almost every instance, at the same time many details will vary greatly according to local conditions, and it is on the careful consideration of these conditions that the successful working of the dredge will largely depend. The principal points to be considered are: The greatest depth of the ground to be worked below, and its height above the water level; the nature of the wash; whether fine or coarse, friable or otherwise; whether it contains many large boulders, sand, clay, or bands of cement; the character of the bottom, whether it be hard or soft; the probable difficulties to be overcome in the shape of rocky bars or snags; and the quantity of water available. Last, but by no means least, it is always essential that the wash to be treated the ultimate result. It might be interesting to note, however, that over-sanguine views as to possible returns lead to disappointment, as was the case in the early days of New Zealand dredge mining. As regards the prospects of dredging in New South Wales, most of our rivers and flats appear to have been worked by fossickers and others in a crude and perfunctory way, consequently a large percentage of gold still remains to be recovered, particularly the fine gold. In proof of this statement and of the value of old and abandoned channels, I will, later on, From Minister of Mines Report, 1899. Dredge Cutting through Bar on Fraser River. EgiiS From Minister of Mines Report, 1899. . „ ,„ . Same Dredge in Open Water. should be thoroughly tested by, say, inexpensive boring operations or other methods so as to give some idea of the character of the gold to be saved and to ensure success in the undertaking. Care should be taken to obtain accurate results from every prospect, so that the engineer may be placed in a position to calculate the proper average value of the material, overburden, etc. If the preliminary investigations are only conducted in a proper and judicious manner, the investor need have no fear as *o show you slides of modern dredges working at a profit upon areas which in one case had been previously worked by an old-type dredge and in other cases where the ground has been repeatedly turned over by Europeans and Chinamen. In New Zealand, where the more easily worked and richer ground has been gone over by the smaller dredges, it was recognized that there were still immense tracts of lower grade country to be worked, and to do this profitably the lifting capacity of the buckets was gxad- ■ ually enlarged from about two to, in some cases, seven cubic ieet. Here fears were entertained as to whether a dredge, fitted with the latter-sized buckets could successfully treat the enormous quantities of wash which it lifted. All doubts on this score were soon dispelled, and although on the large modern dredge the gold saving tables usually have an area oi about 200 square feet, it has been found that practically the whole of the gold, including even the very finest, is saved on one-fourth of that area. It is on account of this gold-saving power of the bucket dredge that the modern machine, where it is possible to apply it, is rapidly superseding all other forms of alluvial mining. Of course, where both fine and coarse gold occur, special provision must be made 306 THE MINING RECORD. to save the whole of it, and this can also be done now without the use of separate screen sieves. In the near future attention will doubltless be given to dredging those auriferous drifts which lie away from and at a higher level than the watercourses. This can easily be accomplished, and the dredge worked almost as economically as is being done at piesent. An examination sufficiently large to allow of a dredge being manoeuvred in, say 100 square feet by 8 or 10 feet deep, could be made, The dredge could then be built in or beside this hole and a small pumping plant erected to convey water from the nearest convenient stream. The hole or paddock, once filled, the additional water necessary to compensate for loss by soakage, evaporation, etc., would not be very great, and the cost of pumping would then be a trifling item. The chief advantage that may be claimed for this particular class of dredging, and one that would almost counterbalance the cost of pumping, is that the dredge would be immune from floods, which in a river are always more or less dangerous and certainly detrimental. So far I have discussed more particularly the continuous bucket dredge. There is yet another type of dredge which has occasionally been experienced with as a gold- winning machine. I refer to the Shovel and Grab Dredge. As excavating machines these dredges have done, and will continue to do for many years, no doubt, admirable work, but where large boulders or submerged trees are met with, and where continuous feed is necessary, these machines cannot be compared to the bucket dredge. Again, the labour necessary to operate the dredge in question is about twice as great as that required for the continuous bucket plant. Various other methods have been adopted, such as pneumatic caissons and dredges, but without success. One type of alluvial mining, erroneously called dredging, is that in which a centrifugal pump is employed to lift the wash, after it has been broken down and conveyed to the intake pipe of the pump by water under considerable pressure. This should rather be designated: "Steam Hydraulic Elevating." A very able paper on this latter subject has been given before the Chamber by Mr. A. J. Bensusan. I do not, therefore, intend to discuss it further. The construction of a pontoon suitable for bucket- dredging is not so easy a task as it may seem to the layman, as it requires great strength at special points to bear the great unequal strains which may be put upon it. A visit to the hold of a well-constructed pontoon is an object lesson, and is a surprise to most people who see it for the first time. It will seem as if literally a whole forest of timber has been used to obtain the great desideratum of strength and utility. The arrangement of the plant is an important point, requiring careful consideration. When it is neglected, it is a cause of much inconvenience in the conduct of operations and often leads to loss of time, which of course means loss of money. Improvements are being continually effected, and it is necessary for the engineer to be well posted in designing a dredge of the most modern type. With regard to the provisions, under the Dredging Act of this colony I am satisfied that the government are desirous in every way to encourage bona fide investment, but it appears to me an inflated notion as to the possible gold yield has led to some misconceptions in the terms chargeable for dredging areas. It is remarkable that a charge of 20s. per acre should be made for areas that were, previous to being pegged out, practically useless to the Crown, and had been abandoned by the individual miner. It must be seen that the inducement offered to investors compares very unfavourably with the terms offered in all the adjoining colonies. In New Zealand a small charge is made for the first year which embraces the period when the ground is yielding no profit. However, as the government propose to bring in a new mining bill, this point is worthy of consideration. Objections have been raised to gold dredging in this colony on the score that it may result in robbing the fossicker of his living and damaging the agricultural and pisicultural industries. I can confidently assert that these fears are absolutely groundless. In the foregoing remarks I have referred more particularly to dredging for gold, but my remarks may apply with equal force to the dredging for stream tin, this, however, is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, I am inclined to think that there is a great future in this colony for tin dredging. REMARKS ON ASSAYS AND SAMPLES.** (By W. F. Robertson, Provincial Mineralogist.) THE assaying of any given parcel of ore is necessarily preceded by the process of 'sampling,' by which we seek to obtain, within the compass of a few ounces, a correct representative of the entire quantity of ore, which may vary from a few pounds to several thousand' tons."* "Accurate sampling is quite as essential as accurate assaying, for if the sample does not truly represent the lot or mass from which it is taken, the subsequent assay will be valueless. "The assayer or chemist will usually receive the sample already prepared, but as he will occasionally be called upon to take his own sample, a knowledge of the art of sampling * * * is essential."f I preface my remarks by quoting these two well- known writers and practical men to show the stress they put on the matter. In this province, the majority of the samples brought to an assayer are taken by the prospector or other party, and, as the assay certificates are often used as "documentary evidence" of the value ©f the property, the assayer should be very careful to state on the face of such certificate exactly from whence he obtained the sample on which the assay was made. If the assayer sampled the ore himself, he owes it to his client so to state, as it doubles the value of the certificate. If he did not take the sample himself, he should place the responsibility of the sampling where it belongs by stating who did take it. Without some one known vouching for the correctness of the sample, assay certificates carry no weight as a document. This can best be accomplished by the assayer seeing to it that his printed certificate blank is so worded as to cover the desired points, telling the whole story, and protecting hi n from any after-talk. . A certificate form worded somewhat as follows is suggested:— "I hereby certify that I have assayed a sample marked handed me by and said to represent sampled by and I find such sample to contain:—" If this is filled in every time, no one feels hurt, and no honest man will object to it. **Mlnister of Mines Report, 1899. ,*Peter'a Modern Copper Smelting, page 28. tForman's Practical Assaying, page 25. THE MINING RECORD. 307 Before leaving the subject of assay certificates, I must protest against the habit of certain assayers in filling in the value of the ore on the assay certificate, as they do, at the price of the metal in marketable shape delivered in New York. It shows a gross ignorance on the part of the assayer as to the value of the ore here, and often misleads the prospector frightfully. I have seen, this past summer, assay certificates on which the copper value of a five per cent (wet assay) ore was figured out at 18 cents, equal to $18 per ton, whereas no smelter in the province could afford to pay more than about one-third that price. A good practical rule for the prospector in British Columbia to use in figuring out the approximate value of sulphide ore—at present market quotations—is as follows:— Allow $1.25 for every per cent, of copper contained. Allow .40 for every per cent of lead contained. Allow .50 for every ounce of silver contained. Allow $20.00 for every ounce of gold contained. These values are for ore delivered on line of railway. This is not strictly accurate, but is near enough lo prevent the prospector being misled by false values placed on assay certificates. The prospector who has to sample his own claim and wishes to know the truth, naturally asks how he is to do it, and the following remarks are for his benefit, not for the expert—they are only outline directions for following a well-beaten trail—the expert knows many short cuts—but unless one is pretty familiar with the country, it is safest and as quick to stick to the trail. The two pre-requisites to accurate sampling are common sense and common fairness, or honesty, on the part of the sampler. In sampling a lead, if ihe vein-matter is such that it will all have to go for treatment, a section of uniform thickness, right across the whole of the face of the lead usually possible for a correct sample. This is not usually possible, so it should be approximated as closely as is possible. Wherever it is practicable, make cuts right across the lead—the bigger and more of them the better. In such places as the face or roof of the tunnel or the side of the shaft, several strips should be cut out. Make no selection, take all that comes out of such cut, taking great care that the cut is uniform in depth and width—a thing not easjly done if there is a great difference between the friability of the ore and gangue. In extended exposures make the cuts at regular intervals of say 5, 10 or 20 feet—the closer the better—letting them hit whers they may. making no selection. Take all that come out of these cuts to a convenient place, break it up as fine as practicable and bv such means as are available; allow nothing to be added to or taken from sample. Thoroughly mix the broken sample. This is best done by the old and tried "quartering method," viz.: Select a smooth, level, clean spot—preferably a floor or canvas sheet; proceed to "cone the sample," placing a shovelful of ore in centre of floor, and directly on top of this another shovelful, thus continuing and forming a "cone." The rest of the sample is then placed, shovelful by shovelful, on the very apex of the cone, so that it distributes evenly down all sides radially. When all the sample is in the cone, it should be flattened into a circular pile, with height about one-twelfth its diameter. This is done by scraping the ore from the apex of the cone radially in all directions. Across the circular pile there should be marked two lines at right angles and passing through the centre of pile, so dividing the pile into quarters. Two of these quarters, opposite to each other, are then removed, and the space they occupied carefully swept. The quantity of ore is now reduced to half the original. This operation of coning and quartering is continued until the sample is reduced to such size that it can be carried to the assayer. Any pair of rejected quarters should also be retained as a check, or in case of mishap to regular sample. Should the lead being sampled contain a pay streak which only would be shipped, it is best to sample this pay streak as if it was a separate and distinct lead, carefully noting the width sampled. It must be remembered that the sample only represtnts that portion of the lead from which it was taken. Another and quite as satisfactory a method is to sample, by method described, all the rock that comes out ofthe prospect, or sample the dump, if there is any, by cutting channels through it, on the same principle as in sampling a ledge, and working down the ore taken from such channels to a convenient bulk. It must always be borne in mind in sampling that there is liable to be a great difference between the lump and fine ore, and, consequently, a due regard must be had to getting the proper proportion of each. Hand-picked samples are never reliable, and should always be avoided. As an instance of this: The manager of a certain mine on the Coast brought into the Government Laboratory for close and accurate check on the smelter, a large sample of a shipment of ore. The writer found he had taken "a few lumps out of each sack at random," and advised him to go back, dump every tenth sack, and "quarter down" as described, which he did. Both samples were assayed; the first gave 14 per cent, copper, the second gave 5.6 per cent, copper. The ore went to the smelter, where it was accurately sampled by experienced samplers, and gave within one-tenth per cent, copper of second result. Experienced mining men frequently take hand samples of the particular classes of ore in a mine, have these assayed, and from these results they estimate what grade of ore they are mining. This may be correctly done, and it is wonderful how close to the correct assay an experienced man can "guess," but it is uncertain at the best, and dangerous for inexperienced persons to attempt to be guided by such estimates. Assays cannot be averaged unless one knows the actual weight of the material represented by each assay, and only then by a long calculation, too long to describe here, except briefly. In nine cases out of ten, when the "average assay of a mine" is spoken of it is incorrect, and has usually been obtained by adding up a number of separate assays and dividing the sum by the number of such assays. It is quite correct to take an average sample, have that assayed, and call it the average assay; but this is seldom done. The correct "average assay" may be obtained by the rule:—Multiply the weight of each lot of ore by the assay of such lot, add the products of such multiplications and divide this sum by the sum of the weights of the various lots of ore; the quotient of such division will be the "average assay" required. 3°» THE MINING RECORD. . A RETROSPECT. (By James Moore.) IN March, 1885, a prospecting party, of which I was a member, ascended the Fraser River, and camped for a meal on a bar a short distance below Fort Yale. Our gastronomic wants satisfied, we proceeded to prospect this bar, and that was practically the beginning of gold mining on the mainland of British Columbia, or New Caledonia as it was then called; for we found excellent prospects. We christened our find Hill's Bar, and set to work with axe and saw on the heavy logs, constructing rough rockers and with these rude appliances (in startling contrast to the high-class and elaborate machinery of to-day) we succeeded in making on the average $100 to the man a day. Among the difficulties against which we were obliged then to contend was the scarcity of provisions, but some, of our party went down the river to old Fort Langley, then a Hudson's Bay post, and succeeded in getting a few groceries and a little black flour on which we managed to subsist. We were not, however, long left in undisputed possession of our Bar. The Yale tribe of Indians soon tumbled to our game and also took a "hand in the pot." They numbered about three hundred, while our party numbered thirty or so. Soon after the return of our colleagues from Langley, a boat belonging to a Capt. Taylor, from Puget Sound, hove in sight. At first, believing that the vessel was laden with provisions and tools we were highly delighted at the pfospect of. supplying our somewhat pressing necessities, and our disappointment may be imagined when we learnt that the vessel's cargo was composed entirely of spirits. The whiskey-seller is always among the first to follow a mining rush, but this particular vendor was not allowed to ply his dubious trade at our bar—the perpetration of a joke, if there is one, is not intended—for any considerable length of time, although it was no doubt profitable enough while it lasted. The Indians, whom I have already mentioned, had invaded our bar, being well supplied with gold-dust, the value of which they were, however, pretty ignorant, willingly parted with the nuggets for whiskey, the inevitable result being that they one and all were soon in a state of jubilant intoxication. But the situation was far from pleasant so far as we were concerned, and we were not slow to realize that if we did not at once devise some plan for terminating the orgy the consequences might prove serious—for a drunken Indian is a wild beast and ten to one are big odds. Desperate ailments demand desperate remedies and after holding a council of war, early the following morning we marched down in a body to the water-edge and boarding the little vessel as she rode at her moorings, seized the cargo. The heads of the whiskey kegs were speedily knocked in and the contents dumped overboard. After committing our lawless act we gave the commander of the craft ten minutes in which to "clear out," and he did not hesitate long in availing himself of the opportunity. The incident seemed to cause the Indians with whom previously we had been on fairly friendly terms annoyance. They became quarrelsome and a row appeared imminent. The tribe foregathered, every man defiantly exhibiting his musket, while a chief mounted a stump and harangued the assembled braves. The speech-making proved a fortunate circumstance for us, for just as the dusky orator had worked himself, and no doubt his audience to a criti cal state of excitement, a boat manned by bluejackets and in which was seated the best friend British Columbia has known, Governor Sir James Douglas, was rowed rapidly towards us. After firing a salute in the Governor's honour we informed him of the position of affairs. Now the Indians had a great respect for Sir James Douglas and he soon induced them to leave the bar for Fort Steele where their ruffled feelings were gently smoothed by a grand "blow out" of molasses and hard tack. Thereafter the Indians gave us no further trouble. Other adventurers now began to arrive, and among others one "Billy" Balue, a Californian, who inaugurated the Pioneer express service of British Columbia. To this man we showed our prospects and gave him also letters and samples of gold dust for transmission to San Francisco and the outside world generally. And that was how the great Fraser River gold rush of the fifties came about. Prospectors simply swarmed into the country and it was estimated that no less than thirty thousand men camped that year at Fort Yale. Many rich bars and benches below Yale were then located, but hoping to discover still more profitable diggings farther inland many prospectors availed themselves of the route to the Upper Fraser opened up by Sir James Douglas by way of Harrison River to Lillooet, while others, waiting till the freshet subsided, pushed their way tip the narrow defile of the big canyon through which the Fraser gains a passage from the Cascades to the sea. The more venturesome of the adventurers forced a passage into the interior "of theprovince despite the'overt hostility of the native tribes. In due course Boston Bar, Lytton, the Thompson River, Lillooet and the mouth of the Quesnel River placers were discovered and prospected, and the latter locality in particular gave great promise. The news of these finds were bruited abroad and the main body of pioneers, abandoning the valley of the Fraser, crossed the spur of the Rockies known as Bald Mountain, and commenced locating claims on the bars of the Quesnel River. Some of these bars were very rich and the first locators at the mouth of the river, "Charley" Snider and two others, took out with a rocker $1,700 the same day they located the ground. Hicks, McDonald's and a number of other bars in this vicinity paid equally well. The party of which I was a member and others started overland from Soda Creek in 1859, discovering rich diggings, known as the blue lead, at Horsefly, from which we won gold to the value of several thousand dollars that year. This deposit of auriferous gravel is now, by the way, covered by the Harper lease which was sold in 1895 to the Horsefly Gold Mining Co., of which Mr. R. T. Ward, of San Francisco, is manager. I visited this mine last year and was piloted by the foreman to a spot where some rich gravel prospecting several ounces to the pan, was in sight; but what struck me most forcibly was the extraordinary difference between the modern methods employed in the operation of this property and the crude mining of forty years ago when on this very ground, which is now worked with hydi aulic elevators and the workings illuminated nith electric light, I and my companions had toiled with a rocker. Nevertheless our rocker had given us six ounces a day per man and that was not so bad a showing after all. But to return. After the main Quesnel River had been prospected the bars and branches of the north and south forks of this stream were accorded attention with satisfactory results. In i860 Keithley Har- THE MINING RECORD. 3°9 y clean-up vey, Snowden and other creeks in the vicinity were discovered and a good pay rewarded the miner bur it was not until l86i that the most notaff^dTscov^s across Ball Mountain of Williams, Antler, LightaTnt and Lonhee Grace creeks took place The newT§ these rich finds created a second Ld a greater Tush" to British Columbia. Of these creeks Williams proved the richest, and too, the gold was coarse, deposited m enormous quantities easy of access both in the creek itself and some of its tributaries. From some claims as much as 200 pounds weight of gold was taken out in twenty-four hours, while a daily of 100 ounces was quitecommon. Needless to say, U fabulous fortunes were won in a brief period extending over a few months by several among the more fortunate claim holders. How Williams Creek B proved may be gathered from the Report of the Minister of Mines for 1875, where it is stated that the average value of gold .0* #' M ^m* obtained per lineal foot of channel of certain claims was $1,075; while from Lightning Creek alone $2,179,272 worth of gold was recovered. When in natural order these rich creeks were exhausted, Cariboo as a field for the individual miner lost its attractions, and at the close of the "sixties" the population had greatly diminished. With the exception of a short-lived and merely stock-jobbing quartz excitement, little mining was done in the district until within the last six or seven years, since when capital has been introduced to operate the alluvial deposits and deep placers upon an extensive scale. In many ways the conditions are much more favourable to mining than in the early days and for the sake of illustration it is only necessary to mention one circumstance, that while, in the "sixties" we we were obliged to pay weight charges of one dollar per pound on all supplies and machinery brought in, to-day this cost has been reduced to five cents About seven years ago a syndicate composed largely of C. P. R. officials secured the services of Mr. J. B. Hobson, a mining engineer of experience in methods of deep gravel mining in California, to Mr. James Moore, the only Survivor of the First Band of the Province's Pioneers. operate an extensive area of auriferous gravels on the south fork of the Quesnelle at Dancing Bill Gulch. Under Mr. Hobson's direction something like $1,000,000 has been spent in the development and equipment of this mine, the operation of which has been continued on a very large scale. Another great enterprise on Hojrsefly is the Miocene Gravel Mining Company, of which Mr. R. H. Campbell is manager. This company last year sunk a shaft to a depth of 490 feet. At that depth it was found necessary to cease operations, as before proceeding additional machinery was required. Meanwhile this shaft had been sunk MMrs5»Er.vSn3 . '^msm n through the finest quartz I have ever seen. There are several very deep channels known to exist in Cariboo but the Miocene Company's is the first in this vicinity to make the practical test of very deep ground and the work is watched with much interest. On this creek the Horsefly Hydraulic Company is also under the management of Mr. J. B. Hobson. This company controls 2,000 miner's inches of water brought through a ditch 12 miles long by six feet wide on the -' bottom and eleven feet on top and two and a-half feet deep and two and a-quar- ter miles of thirty- inch steel pipe. The pipe line is laid on the plan of an inverted siphon and carries this body of water over three deep depressions. A ten-stamp mill was erected at the mine to crush the hard cemented gravel found in the face. On the north fork of the Quesnelle an English syndicate represented by Mr. Jos. Hunter is driving a bedrock tunnel to tap an ancient channel which lies back at a distance from the river. The channel is covered by a large body of gravel, but sufficient work is not yet done to prove its extent. On Spanish Creek, a tributary of the North Fork, the Moore Company has been working for several years and during the last twelve months they are getting very good pay, amounting to approximately' eight ounces per set of timbers in gravel. The operations are not on bedrock. On Black Bear Creek a tributary of Spanish Creek the Pioneer Company, for which I myself act as manager, is sinking a shaft in $16 THE MINING RECORD. the bed of the creek, for the purpose of reaching the deep ground which has never yet been prospected. In early days in working on the North Fork good pay was obtained from the Forks to Spanish Creek. Above that point no pay was obtained on the North Fork, but the lead has been traced into Spanish and Black Bear Creeks. REVIEW OF THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY QUESTION. (By Alexander Begg, Author of the History of British Columbia.) (Continued from Last Month.) "We are at one with the General as to the accuracy of the starting point as mentioned, but we must differ THE MINING RECORD. 3" from him when he says: 'The line shall then proceed through Portlond Canal.' Here is where the difficulty comes in. Portland Canal is not mentioned in the treaty; neither does Portland Canal reach the 56th degree of latitude. After referring to the proposed boundary along the coast, north of latitude 56 degrees General Duffield continues: "With this description in the treaties, I do not see how it is possible that there should be any differences between the two governments." "Differences, however, do exist," the Gazette continues, "and General Duffield will require to show 'how it is possible' to reach the entrance to Portland Canal, by going north as required and described in the treaty, to the 56th degree of latitude, where the line of demarcation strikes the coast of the continent, before these differences can disappear. It may also be required that the United States representatives shall produce evidence to show why they have departed from the wording of the treaty and substituted a new line south of the 56th degree. 11 is a matter of fact that from the initial point of the line of demarcation, as mentioned in the treaty, the entrance to Portland Canal is slightly south of the said initial point, and about fifty miles to the east of it. It therefore follows, that to reach latitude 56 degrees, the point of intersection mentioned in the treaty on the coast of the continent, the line must run from south to north, and not east, or from west to east as the United States maps assume." General Duffield further remarks: "Moreover, Portland Canal is clearly designated on the charts of Captain Vancouver, of the Royal Navy, which were in existence when the treaty between Russia and England was entered into, so there can be no doubt as to where Portland Canal is." "Perfectlv true: there is not the slightest difficulty about the locality of Portland Canal, neither is there any doubt that the framers of the treaty did consult Vancouver's maps and charts and understood them thoroughlv. Thev indicated very clearly where the meridianai line of 132 degrees west longitude starting from Cape Chacon, should strike the coast of the continent at the 56th degree of latitude. This will be seen by examining the provincial map of British Columbia, the Admiralty charts, or the United States official charts of that region, which show that the meridianai line runs along the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, through Clarence Strait and strikes the coast of the continent in Ernest Sound, making a slight deflection to the west around Cape Camaana, following the channel (called Portland Channel) as described by Sir Charles Bagot and the Right Hon. George Canning, in 1824." "The root of the matter is this," continues the Gazette: "Portland Canal is an inlet into the mainland, so named by Captain Vancouver in 1793 or '94; Portland Channel is a coastal water, so called by Canning in 1824-5. They are entirely distinct waters, in different directions. The Portland Channel is nariied in the treaty as a 'prolongation of Clarence Strait and Ernest Sound—a natural boundary for British dominions. Portland Canal is a purely inland water running into British territory; and to assume that when the treaty spoke of Portland Channel it meant Portland Canal, is to run in the face of all delimitations of the treaty, and of what an examination of the mao shows to be the common sense of the question. The strategic importance of British Columbia should be evident to every intelligent student of the map. The day will assuredly come, in the not very distant future, when new lines of railway and telegraph will cross the Canadian half of the continent, and these lines which under the new Imperial policv will make Canada the western highway of the Empire, must play a large part in its consolidation. Can we afford, therefore, to allow valuable strategic and commercial points on the Pacific coast to pass into the hands of a foreign nation, when by treaty rights they are unquestionably British? The necessity for such a protective arrangement was seen by the framers of the treaty; hence the stipulation to make the line of demarcation from the 56th degree, at not more than ten marine leagues from the ocean. This can easily be secured under international law, and what is the "ocean coast" can be ascertained without any expensive survey, and will furnish a just, practicable, convenient boundarv line, in accordance with the wording of the treaty and prove an accommodation to the subjects of both nations, who may require to use il, -which could not be said of the boundary contended for by the United States, over glaciers and rocky promontories. Since the appointment of the Joint Commission in 1892, I have carefully noted their reported proceedings. The United States commissioners have persistently contended for the boundary via Portland Canal from Cape Chacon; indeed some of them have gone further west, to a neighbouring island, and its "southernmost point (Cape Muzon), the initial of the boundary, as is shown on the United States official maps and charts. It is stated that on a large map of Canada, sent from Ottawa to the Paris Exhibition (1900), the Alaskan boundary is delineated according to the United States contention, commencing at Cape Muzon, and thence due east to Portland Canal. To arrive at as full an understanding as possible of the treaty of 1825, and the Portland Canal contention the writer of this review made a trip to London to consult the archives there. The Colonial and Foreign Offices gave every opportunity to obtain information ; but I failed to discover anything in the records of negotiations or despatches touching the Alaskan boundary question, which gave the right of claim under the treaty to place the line of demarcation along or through Portland Canal. The direction and route indicated was by Clarence Strait and Ernest Sound to the 56th degree. The difficulties alluded to by General Duffield have arisen from the United States starting the line from Cape Chacon, on the wrong point of the compass—90 degrees astray. In the House of Commons, Mr. Seton Karr (St. Helen's), in reference to the Alaskan boundary, asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies "whether his attention had been called to the result of the investigations of Mr. Alexander Begg, histriographer of British Columbia, regarding the boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia, south of the 56th parallel of latitude, as detailed in the Canadian Gazette of April 16th; whether it was a fact as contended by the British Columbia government, that three million acres of land of high strategic and commercial importance, on the Pacific Coast, opposite Prince of Wales Island, which was assigned to Great Britain by the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825, was now marked upon United States official maps and charts as United States territory; and whether seeing that the Alaskan boundary south of the 56th parallel was 312 THE MINING RECORD. not reported upon by the recent Alaskan Boundary Commission, he would suggest to the Canadian government that an early and independent investigation be made upon the subject." The Right Hon. Mr. Chamberlain replied: "Mr. Begg has communicated to this department, from time to time, various memoranda, all of which have been duly transmitted to the Dominion government. * * * When the question is ripe for diplomatic discussion, the points raised by Mr. Begg will no doubt receive due consideration for what they may be worth." The Canadian Gazette of May 7th, 1896, referring to Mr. Chamberlain's remarks in the House of Commons says: '"' We gather that as soon as the final »-e- ports of the Survey Commission have been recefved, the most important aspect of the question will claim attention. Meanwhile it is enough to note Mr. Chamberlain's admission that the area which Mr. Begg maintains was assigned to Great Britain by the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825. is marked on all United States maps as United States territory. Mr. Chamberlain might have added, that it is so marked even on some Canadian maps, for a dependence on Washington chartography would seem, in this instance, to have misled even the alert officials at Ottawa." From the facts and statements in the foregoing review of the Alaskan boundary question, the following points may be accepted as fully demonstrated:— 1. That in 1793-4 Captain Vancouver discovered and took possession of all the islands of what he termed Prince of Wales Archipelago, from Cross Sound south to Dixon Entrance, in the name of and for the British sovereign. 2. That in 1799 'a charter was granted by the Russian Emperor Paul to an association of Siberian merchants to form the Russian American Company to trade with the natives.' The Russians extended their explorations to Baranoff Island and founded Sitka. 3. In 1821 Emperor Alexander issued the notorious imperial edict or ukase against which Britain protested. It was withdrawn under the united protest of Britain and the United States. 4. In 1825, the treaty which is now under discussion, as to its interpretation, was passed, after considerable negotiation between the British and Russian plenopotentiaries. The Hudson Bay Company, being in possession of the British portion of the North American continent at the time, represented Great Britain under the treaty. 5. About the year 1838, the Russian possessions, south of Cross Sound to Dixon Entrance was leased to the Hudson Bay Company, as the Russians found they could not control the waters, nor prevent them from breaking the treaty by dealing with United States traders in intoxicating drink, fire arms, etc., in contravention of the treaty. The arrangements gave the Hudson Bay Company entire control of the whole continent east of the Rocky Mountains, including the western frontier and islands of the Pacific fronting thereon. 6. The United States government in 1867 purchased the Russian possessions under their treaty of 1825, with all its rights and privileges. 7. Their interpretation of the treaty, according to Mr. Bayard's letter to his ambassador in London, in 1885-6 asking for a joint commission to decide on a permanent location of the line of. demarcation between Alaska and British Columbia and the Northwest Territories to the east of the 141st meridian of longitude, has led to great difficulties, in fact has been the stumbling block in the way of the Joint Commission concluding a fair settlement of the line of demarcation, and it may further be said, that until the clear wording of the treaty of 1825 is followed, pure and simple from Cape Chacon, and thence north— from south to north, as the Right Hon. George Canning so clearly expressed it in his despatch, dated July 12th, 1834, to Sir Charles Bagot, and until the course described in the treaty and in George Canning's despatches, and Sir Charles Bagot's negotiations with the Russian plenipotentiaries are strictly adhered to, it is useless to expect that Great Britain will, or can obtain justice in the settlement. Mr. George Canning's despatch last referred to reads: "His Majesty's government have resolved to authorize Your Excellency to consent to include the south points of Prince of Wales Island, from south to north, Portland Channel, till it strikes the mainland in latitude 56 degrees; thence following the sinuosities of the coast along the base of the mountains nearest the sea to Mount Elias; and thence along the 139th degree of longitude to the Polar Sea. (The 139th degree was corrected in the treaty to 141st degree.) Sir C. Bagot enclosed in a despatch to Mr. George Canning, along with other statements, one marked "D" in reference to which Sir Charles had previously informed the Russian plenipotentiaries; it contained his ultimate decision on that point. The statement plainly says, that the line of demarcation was to be drawn from the southern extremity of the strait called Duke of Clarence, through the middle of the strait, to the centre of the strait which separates the islands Prince of Wales and Duke of York from all the islands to the north of said islands; thence toward the east by the same strait (which must have meant Ernest Sound in Vancouver's map or chart) to the mainland, and afterwards along the coast of Mount St. Elias." There is no mention of Portland Canal, nor of going east to reach it." The name "Portland Channel" is not found on any of Vancouver's maps or charts nor any other maps or charts extant in 1824 or 1825, but Portland Channel is described fully, as aforementioned. The island "Duke of York" on Vancouver's map, referred to in the treaty negotiations has disappeared in United States maps and charts, and Etolin Island occupies its place. The authority for removing this landmark is not given. This tampering with the treaty and changing the line of boundary—its direction—initial point—the substitution of Cape Muzon for Cape Chacon, the recognized initial point of the line of demarcation, in the treaty—"the strip of land" claimed by the United States on the continent immediately to the north of the 56th degree should all be disallowed, as not in accordance with the treaty. The deflection of the boundary line from Cape Chacon, the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, running "east" instead of "north" along Portland Channel, and approximately on the 132nd meridian of longitude, as signified in the treaty, creates an impracticable and incorrect line entirely beyond the limits pointed out and defined in the treaty. Besides, there is no authority for using Cape Muzon as an initial point, as it is not situated on Prince of Wales Island—but be- THE MINING RECORD. ing a separate island to the west of Prince of Wales Island, may or may not be included in the final interpretation of the treaty as having belonged to Russia. 9. The water-boundary running north from Cape Chacon to the 56th degree of north latitude, on the coast of the continent is accepted by a large number of British Columbians as being in accordance with the wording, spirit and sense of the treaty. It forms a convenient, reasonable and practicable boundary to accommodate both countries, which the line by way of Portland Canal is not, nor never can be. 10. As to the line from Cape Chacon, along Portland Channel to the continent at the 56th degree, it is contended by British Columbians that the correct line from that new point of departure (the 56th degree) in accordance with the treaty, should be retracing the line through Ernest Sound (a portion of Portland Channel) until the former line along the eastern coast of Prince of Wales would be reached, and following that line to what is now known as Sumner Strait (a portion of Clarence Strait on Vancouver's map and charts); thence crossing Sumner Strait, and working under the ten marine leagues measurement from the ocean coast, as a conventional boundary line, proceed northerly between the islands Kuiw and Kopreanof to Frederick Sound as far as the 57th degree of north latitude; thence west along that parallel to Chatham Strait, which would be followed to Icy Strait to the continental shore, at such point as might be deemed most convenient, to utilize "the strip of land" mentioned in the treaty; and thence ten marine leagues from the ocean coast to the 141st degree of longitude; and thence to the Arctic Ocean along the 141st meridian. It is but reasonable to conclude that Great Britain desired to protect the frontier of British Columbia, to the east of Prince of Wales Island and north to Cross Sound. This was effectually accomplished by the deflection of a branch of the main boundary through Ernest Sound to the continent at the 56th degree. Then by retracing the same line and joining the line of demarcation from Cape Chacon, continued along the east side of Prince of Wales Island as formerly mentioned, completed the southern portion. 10. The latest infringement in connection with the Cape Muzon extension line of boundary, is an imaginary line drawn from Cape Muzon, east to the entrance of Portland Canal, thence north to the head of the Canal, and then westward (forming an elbow) to Burroughs Bay, where the line is supposed to cross the 56th degree of latitude. Should the interpretation of the treaty according to the contention and belief of many British Columbians who have studied the question, together with not a few of the citizens of the United States, (amongst others, Mr. J. W. Treadwell, of San Francisco, who wrote a conclusive article on the boundary question in 1897). De accepted, and the common sense, just view be adopted according to their contention, the Portland Canal boundary line, and its continuation along the frontier of the mainland must be abrogated, and the Portland Channel water boundary to Cross Sound be used. The settlement—the just settlement of the question to both the United States and Canada, hinges on the direction of the line of boundary from Caoe Chacon. fi. The Edinburgh Review. April, 1900, has a comprehensive article on the Alaskan boundary dif ficulty. Amongst other thing; monly though erroneously supposed that the United States have exercised control at Dyea and Skagway for a considerable period of time. The facts are that Dyea and Skagway did not exist prior to the spring of 1897. At the opening of that year there was nothing more than a single log cabin or shanty at either place. In May the influx of miners to the Klondike began. Thousands of them arrived by steamer in the Lynn Canal, and congregated on its margin where Dyea and Skagway now stand. The necessities o this migration caused considerable trade and commerce. Without any survey or further diplomatic action respecting the position of the boundary, the United States government assumed political control of these points, and established custom houses, post offices and other evidences of authority, with such reasonable diligence as the extreme difficulties of access to this territory and other circumstances permitted, Canada protested against this cavalier mode of solving the difficulty, and urged the desirability of establishing the boundary line as contemplated by the convention of 1892." The United States people are continuing this summer to take possession of land in Clarence Strait, on Island Revilla Gigedo, and on locations along Behm Canal—complications are increasing, and hence the greater necessity for an early settlement of the boundary. 12. A few points in the Review article from a British Columbian point of view require amendation. For example on page 287, last paragraph, it is stated that: "Having ascertained the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, one is suddenly confronted by the fact that between it and Portland Channel sixty miles of ocean intervene. Furthermore, Portland Channel lies almost due east from the southernmost point. * * * Again, the line is to ascend north along Portland Channel, until it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude. But Portland Channel does not attain to latitude 56 degrees, etc." The difficulty here is the substitution of the name Portland Channel for Portland Canal. The name Portland Channel was not used by Captain Vancouver in his maps or charts—only Portland Canal—and Portland Channel was only used in the description of the line of treaty by George Canning and Sir C. Bagot. The change of the name seems a small affair, but when it applies to a different body of water and gives the boundary another line or direction it makes the treaty impracticable, and unworkable. That the name "Portland Channel" should have been written Portland Canal, appears evident from the explanations and the reference of "sixty miles of open ocean" between Cape Chacon and Portland Canal, whereas Portland Channel as named and described in the treaty is alongside Prince of Wales Island, and furnishes a water boundary, as mentioned by the framers of the treaty to lead to the 56th degree on the coast of the continent. The paragraph quoted is therefore incorrect, except where it savs the line is to "ascend north along Portland Channel" to the 56th degree, and the error, though apparently trivial, has been the case of the principal misinterpretations of the treatv. It affects the whole continental frontier of British Columbia from Cape Fox to Cross Sound. Also on page 288, par. 4, a mistake occurs. It is stated that "both parties concur in holding Cape Muzon to be the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island. * * * and both acknowledge that 3H THE MINING RECORD. the body of water to-day known as Portland Canal is, despite the erroneous description in the treaty, the channel along which the line is to ascend." The foregoing extract does not state fact. There is no erroneous description in the treaty; "both parties do not concur in holding Cape Muzon to be the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island:" whereas Cape Muzon is on Dall Island, which is' over forty miles long, and is situated to the westward of Cape Chacon. Again, the article quoted says: The British contention is that the Portland Channel of the treaty is the channel as marked on Vancouver's charts, and described in his narrative in terms that leave no doubt as to the body of water which he intended them to apply." There is no such British contention which would substitute Portland Channel as described in the treaty for Portland Canal; neither does Portland Canal afford the "first natural boundary on the continent, south of the 55th degree." The natural boundary conceded by British Columbians is Clarence Strait, (the Clarence Channel of the treaty.) There seems to be a descrepancy on page 290, top paragraph, which says: "Canada also contends that, having determined the point of departure (Cape Muzon) etc., the reference appears untenable, and it may be that the word "Canada" has been substituted in error by the printer, for "United States." Numerous examples could be furnished to exhibit how unjust and unwarrantable many British Columbians consider the action which their neighbours of the United States have taken- in occupying the lands claimed by them under the treaty of 1825, but to which until the subject is decided, one party has the same right as the other. British Columbians blame their neighbours, not only for the manner in which they take possession of the land but for the tardiness they manifest in allowing the disputed lands to come to a final settlement. British Columbia does not wish a foot of land from the United States, beyond what the treaty authorizes—but she expects to get the whole of that. Neither country is badly off for room or scarcity of land: that, however, does not affect the rights of either, nor the sovereignty of the lands in dispute. Many able writers in Canada and Britain have expressed their views on the subject. Amongst others the Toronto Globe, which in an editorial which appeared in that paper in September, 1899, says: "When the Alaskan boundary question comes to be settled, we hope it will be settled in a manner worthy of civilized nations, and not in the manner of dogs fighting for a bone." (The End.) VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. (Continned from Last Month.) Q. Well, as I understand it the War Eagle workings extend in this direction (indicating)? A. Yes, sir. Q. And there is a raise in the War Eagle workings called the No. 1 raise? A. I don't know anything about it. Q. You never saw it? A. No, sir. Q. This is the surface of the ground, is it? A. Yes, sir. Q. This is the No. 9 raise (indicating)? A. No. 5 raise. Q. Does this No. 5 raise extend below the level of that tunnel? A. No, sir. Q. Any workings below the No. 5 raise at all? A. No, sir. Q. Is there ore in the No. 5 raise from the collar of the shaft down to the tunnel level or not? A. I never examined it, but I think there is. Q. You surveyed it? A. Yes, sir. Q. Is there ore below the tunnel level? A. I don't know; that has never been opened up. Q. Never been opened up ? A. Not that I know of at that point. Q. Did you survey that without looking for ore? A. Yes, sir. Q. Well, you have been looking for ore in these neighbourhoods for the last year, have you not, pi etty steadily ? I mean to say, Mr. Clarke, you have made a lot of affidavits in this case—several affidavits at least? A. Yes, sir. Q. And your attention has been challenged to all the points in controversy in this action several times, has it not? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now then, you made the survey for the purpose of this model, and in the course of that survey you made a survey of No. 5 War Eagle raise, which is this raise, here (indicating) ? A. Yes, sir. Q. And you did not have the curiosity enough to ascertain whether there was any ore in it or not ? A. No, sir. Q. Did you want to see any? A. Well, I was not looking for any. I was pretty busy running lines about that time. Q. Now then, you say that this (indicating) is the south fork of the War Eagle vein. This drift on station No. 151, you say, that this is the south fork of the War Eagle vein ? A. Yes, sir. Q. How did you find it out? A. I saw ore in that drift. Q. Was it in this drift ? A. Yes, sir. Q. But no ore in this raise? A. No, I did not see any ore in that raise. I was not looking for it. Q. You were not too busy to look for ore in that drift? A. No, sir. Q. But you were too busy to look for ore in this raise? A. Yes, sir. Q. And that is the reason why you say that is the south' fork of the War Eagle vein ? A. What is the reason? I don't understand your question. Q. Well, never mind. You say this (indicating) is the north fork of the War Eagle vein ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where do you find the evidence of that? A. Well I am simply here to prove this map. Q. I know, but you are here to answer a few questions. Where do you find the evidence of that? A. Well, its course would take it right in to the War Eagle vein. Q. What do you find there? A I find a vein of ore there. Q. Where? A. In this drift. Q. How far have you examined it? A. I have examined it from the station 210 out to the face. Q. Is that the end of it? A. Yes, sir. Q. That is the end of it? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you go up the raise? A. Yes, sir. Q. For the purpose of finding ore in the raise ? A. Yes, sir. Q. You found it in the raise ? A. Yes, sir. Q. To that point? A. Yes, sir. Q. And it stopped there? A. The ore did not THE MINING RECORD. 3i5 stop. The work stopped at that point. Q. Now, why do you say that is the north fork and this is the south fork? A. They both have the direction that would take them into the War Eagle vein. Q. How far west of that point? A. That I am not prepared to say. Q. Well, how do you know that it would ever get there, then ? How do you know where the War Eigle vein is ? Have you ever seen it ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where did you see it—at what point? A. I have seen it in the No. 1 tunnel. Q. That is here (indicating) ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Have you ever seen it at any point west of the No. 9 raise ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where ? A. I have seen it in the No. 1 tunnel and in the No. 2 tunnel. Q. West of the No. 9 raise ? A. Yes, sir. Q. How far west? A. Well, I have seen it to the bottom of the main tunnel. Q. No, that does not answer my question—how far west? A. Well I am not prepared to state. I have not examined that for ore at that portion of the winze, j Q. Then you are ready to state that is the south fork and this is the north fork of the War Eagle vein without knowing where the War Eagle vein is, is that right? A. I am not prepared to say anything about .these veins on the— Q. Then why did you tell my friend that was the north fork and this was the south fork of the War Eagle vein if you are not prepared to show why and how it is so ? A. I say that is what is known as those forks. I am not prepared to say whether they are or not. Q. When you say "what is known" what do you mean ? A. Because I have not traced them into the War Eagle ledge. Q. Then we can take it you do not know anything about whether this is the north fork or this is the south fork of the War Eagle vein? A. I think that they are, but I say I don't know. Q. Now you say that this is part of what you call the Centre Star vein, this east drift at station 151 here (indicating) ? A. No, sir. Q. Well, where is the Centre Star vein No. 2 in this action? A. The Centre Star vein in this action lies to the east of the vertical fault and is seen in No. 3 shaft. Q. The No. 3 shaft is on that alleged vein, is A. Yes, sir. Q. Is it on the foot wall or hanging wall? A. dont' understand the question. Q. Is the No. 3 incline shaft on the hanging wall of the alleged Centre Star A. It is about the foot wall. Q. How far from the foot wall is it? know; nobody can tell that. Q. Has it a foot wall ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Has the Centre Star vein No. 2 A. Yes, sir. Q. Where is it? A. Well, it is shown at various places; it is probably in the walls. Q. Where is it with reference to the collar of the incline shaft No. 3? A. The Centre Star foot wall of the ore body is right at the south boundary of that shaft, the foot wall of the ore body itself is found. Q. You know very well I did not ask you where the foot wall of the ore was. I asked you where the foot wall of the vein is. A. I am not prepared to say where it is there. It! foot vein waiJ No. I or A. I don't foot wall? Q. Has the vein any foot wall except the footwall of the ore body there? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where is it? A. That can be shewn at hundreds of places. • Q. (Indicating on model.) At this point? A. 1 don't know where it is at that point. Q. Is it south or north of that point? A. It is south of the collar. Q. How far south ? A. I don't know exactly. Q. Why can't you tell? A Because the surface is covered by dumps,—various obstructions. Q. Where is the hanging wall ? A. I am not prepared to say where the hanging wall is: it is there. Q. Is it north? How far north? A. I don't know. Q. Well, what is the thory upon which you say that that is a part of the Centre Star vein No. 2 ? It is based upon the fact that there is a continuous body of ore all the way down the shaft. Q. I am not asking you what the fact is. I am asking you what is the theory upon which you say that the incline shaft is on the Centre Star vein No. 2 ? Mr. Davis—He has answered. Mr. Bodwell—If he has answered, he may answer again. A. Because it is sunk on a continuous body of ore, with a regular dip. Q. Has a hanging wall ? A. Has a hanging wall. Q. Where is the hanging wall? The hanging wall is shewn at various places in the roof as you go down the incline. Q. How far from the foot wall, what is the horizontal distance ? A. Well, I am not prepared to give distances about the foot wall and hanging wall. Q. Are we to understand that the hanging wall of that vein is the boundary of the ore ? A. Not always, no, sir. Q. Where is the boundary of the ore, the hanging wall ? A. What I consider to be a hanging wall is a plane that you can find about two feet. The Court—I cannot hear you very well. Your definition of the hanging wall is what ? The Witness—Of the Centre Star is a plant about two feet above the ore body; there may be a space between of ledge matter. Q. Where do you find it, all the way down? A. Yes, sir. Q. What are its characteristics? A. I am not prepared to say that. Q. Then you don't know whether it is vein matter or not? A. Yes, sir, I do know. Q. Then describe it? A. But I am not called upon—I am not— Q. I think you are. You say you know. I ask you to describe it. Mr. Davis—He has stated that he don't know, that he is not prepared. Mr. Clarke is not put on as an expert at all. The Court—He can say if he knows. Mr. Davis—He has already said twice that he is not prepared to say what it is. He was asked to say what the characteristics are. He said he is not prepared to state. The Court—Mr. Bodwell is entitled to a definit^ answer. The witness—I am not prepared to say what the characteristics of that rock are. It is ledge matter. Q. You san't say? A. No, sir; I say I am not prepared to say; I am not a mineralogist, and I don't profess to classify the rock. 3i6 THE MINING RECORD. Q. You know vein matter, or else you would not say that you did. A. I recognized what I think is vein matter. Q. Now, why do you call it "vein matter?" That is what I am trying to get at ? A. I call it vein matter because it contains some quartz, because it contains pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, calcite and all of those characteristic features of the veins of Rossland. Q. And you say that that lies between the ore. and the hanging wall ? A. At some places, yes, sir; most places. Q. Where? A. It is seen all the way down the No. 3 shaft, and is also seen in the winze. Q. Where do you say this vein joins the Iron Mask, on the incline shaft? A. It does not join it on the incline shaft. This (indicating) is the incline shaft at this point. Q. Where would it join it on a line produced from the incline shaft? A. At a point right here, about 40 feet below the collar of the winze. Mr. Davis—It is only fair, my Lord, to state this. I asked this witness as to the direction of the vein, but I did not ask him to identify the different veins at the time. I said he was not an expert, and he was not put on to give expert evidence. The Court—Still he has a right to cross-examine. Mr. Bodwell—I think I will show your Lordship before I am through that Mr. Clarke has figured as an expert to a considerable extent in this case. Q. The Iron Mask has a separate vein from that point up—the point 40 feet below the collar of the winzel think you said? A. Yes, sir. Q. It has a separate vein ? A. Yes, sir. Q. That is the theory of the defendants' case, then, that this is a separate vein from that point to the surface, and this is a separate vein, from the north of the incline shaft to the point of junction with those two veins, down to that point, which intersects, is that right ? A. That is the way I regard it. Q. And they don't join until they reach a point— say they don't join on the course of the incline until they reach a point 40 feet below the collar of the winze? A. They join at that place, about that point. Q. Well, what course do you take for the incline shaft, what degree, what angle of inclination? A. Well, from its collar down to the blue level; it is about as shewn on the plan there; I think about 65 degrees. Q. No, no. I am talking about the incline shaft. I say, what do you take for the course of the inclination—the angle of inclination for the incline shaft? A. It is about 40 degrees. Q. What is the horizontal distance between the incline shaft and the Iron Mask east winze? Take a point at the bottom of the incline shaft. A. It is about 20 feet—15— Q. (Interrupting). Dont you know exactly? Haven't you got notes ? A. You are not asking me any particular point. Q. I think I am. I asked you what was the horizontal distance between the Iron Mask east winze and the incline shaft, at a point at the bottom of the incline shaft. .Mr. Davis—At what point? Br. Bodwell—At the bottom. Mr. Davis—You mean the extreme bottom? Mr. Bodwell—I don't care where he takes it. Take it at the extreme bottom. A. Well, I think that the question that you want answered is, would be answered by about 15 or 17 or 18 feet—15 or 20 feet. Q. Now, what is the horizontal distance between the Iron Mask east drift and the incline shaft, just above the mud seam ? A. I am afraid I don't understand your question. Q. Take the top of the mud seam as a point? A. As a point ? Q. Yes-. A. That is no point that I know of. Q. There is a point, suppose, at the top of the mud seam ? A. Yes, there might be a million of them. Q. Now we are getting at something definite. Now we are getting to what you know what you are about. Take the centre of the incline shaft and take a place at the top of the mud seam, and give the horizontal distance between that point and the centre of the Iron Mask east winze. Can you do that? A. I can give it to you approximately. Mr. Bodwell—It is about 4 o'cIock. Perhaps you had better get those figures. The Court—Let me ask you, the alleged intersection—I don't know whether you contend there is not —but it does not matter, so I understand—the downward intersection, is it not? Mr. Bodwell—Yes, the alleged intersection. The Court—It is not a lateral in this way (illustrating) but it is downward. Mr. Bodwell—And intersects on the dip. They allege this vein dips into our vein. The Court—I know what you are asking, these distances, of course; the first time it struck. The fact you are asking for is, take here and there, and whether the intersection can occur? Mr. Bodwell—Yes, your Lordship sees the point. I don't care to explain it too plainly. The Court—He knows it as well as can be. The Witness—Certainly. Thereupon an adjournment was taken to to-morrow, April 21st, 1899, at 11 o'clock a.m. Clarence King: Sworn on the part of the defendants. DIRECT EXAMINATION. By Mr. Davis. Q. Where do you live, Mr. King? A. New York. Q. What is your age ? A. Fifty-seven. Q. What is your business? A. That of consulting geologist and mining engineer. Q. You are a graduate, I believe, of Yale University? A. I am. Q. What course did you take there ? A. A scientific course, involving chemistry, mineralogy, physics and 0. reologj What were you engaged in after leaving Yale? A.1 graduated in 1862 and in the early spring of 1863 I crossed the continent, riding on horseback from St. I oe to San Francisco to join the geological survey of California, which I did join in September of that year. Q. How long were you with the geological sur- vey oi California? A. ' Until the autumn of 1867, with a short interval, in which I was in the service of the United States Engineers. Q. Did the geological survey of California involve at that time any mining questions or examinations of the country with reference to mining? A. It did, but they were incidental, in a measure, to the larger work. Mr. Bodwell—Unless my friend especially wants this on the record, I am perfectly willing to admit that Mr. King is a perfectly qualified scientific man to speak on the questions involved in this case. The Court—I do not suppose either party will be satisfied with my decision—I will pay myself that THE MINING RECORD. 317 compliment—the case will go to another tribunal, and that other tribunal would like to know exactlv what this gentleman is. You had better have it all down, on both sides. Mr. Davis—I know it is quite repulsive to Mr King s modesty to have all this come out, but you cannot help it. The Court—No, you cannot help it. It is the same as in the case of a medical man being examined. He states, in the first place, in so many words, that he is competent, by telling you where he got his degree. Q. When did you leave the geological survey of California, Mr. King? A. In December, 1867. Q. What were you engaged in after that? A. In the early, spring of 1868 I was placed in charge of a geological expedition called "The United States Exploration of the 40th parallel." It was under the War Department, and particularly unrler the Bureau of Engineers of the army under which I received my appointment. This expedition was designed to cover the country being then opened by the then building Central and Union Pacific Railroads. 0. Did the examination of the mineral resources of the country form any portion of that exploration ? A. It did; that was a special portion. Q. Who had most to do with that particular part? A. Mr. James Heyden. Q. Were you engaged in that branch A. I was, particularly in investigating the Comstock Lode, the greatest lode ever discovered in the United States, and on which as a result of that examination I wrote a memoir for the United States Government which was published in a portion of the report of the expedition which I made; also, other contributions to mining literature. Q. When did you leave that employment, Mr. King? A. I think I concluded it in 1876 or '77; I can not auite remember. Q. What were you engaged in then ? A. In 1869, previously confided its geo- the government having logical work to special chiefs who took the field under different departments of the government, concluded to unite, or rather, to discontinue expeditionary work under different departments, and instituted the United States Geological Survey which should be a permanent bureau of the government. In that inauguration, I was placed at the head of it and was the first director. Q. That would involve, I suppose, more or less examination of the mineral resources of the country ? A. It was left very much to me to decide the early policy of the survey, and my very first efforts were directed to making a series, or to ordering and preparing for a series of exhaustive studies of the great mining districts of the United States as they should develop into prominence. That policy has been to a certain extent followed by my successor. Q. How long did you remain at the head of the Geological Survey of the United States? A. Two vears. Q. Since then what have you been engaged in ? A. Partly in consulting mining work, and partly in travels on my private account, in geological study and investigation. Q. In what different countries and.what different portions of the United States as one of the countries, have you examined the mines, or many of the mines ? A I have visited nearly all the prominent districts in the United States and made more or less of a study of them, sometimes very slightly to get a hint of their structure sometimes more carefully, but they involve the leading districts of Nevada, like the Pecos, Virginia City, Eureka, and the leading districts of Utah —-at least most of the leading district of Utah, Colorado and part of Dakota, parts of New Mexico, practically the whole of California and Arizona. Not absolutely the whole of any state, but most of the leading districts. Q. And what countries outside of the United States ? A. Europe and North Africa and the islands of the Pacific, parts of them all. A. And Mexico also ? A. And Mexico, very freely over Mexico. Q. What experience have you had yourself in actual mining? A. I have been both president and directing engineer of mining companies. In particular, I was the first president of three companies which opened the Las Prietas in the State of Sonora, Mexico, of the Las Ye dras, in the State of Sinaloa, and Sombrete in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico. Q. You have been in Rossland, I believe, before your present visit ? A. Yes, calling the present visit a double one. Q. No, I mean the one this month. A. I came here very early in February and passed a week and returned on the 6th of April. Q. But prior to that time I believe you were in Rossland? A. Prior to that time in 1895, if I remember rightly, I was here, both in '95 and '96, or '94 and '95; I can not quite remember. Q. At any rate— A. In the early stages of the district. Q. In two separate years before ? A. Yes. Q. At that time did you make any examination of the mines of Rossland camp ? A. I visited, but I did not make an extensive examination of any one; but I visited and passed man)' hours here, in the War Eagle and the Le Roi; I went through the Josie, through the Cliff, of the works that were then opening in the Monte Cristo, and some of the smaller claims like the Monita and No. 1, and that is about all. I took a general view of the district, not very precise or particular. (To be Continued.) BRITISH COLUMBIA IN LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ALTHOUGH business generally in the London Stock Exchange during the past month has been exceedingly limited in volume, towards the end of June some effort was made tc infuse a little life into British Columbian issues, this being largely in connection with the flotation by the Whitaker Wright group of yet another of their Rossland properties; it being necessary to assist them in successfully carrying through this operation to make the market for Le Roi, Le Roi No. 2 and the British America Corporation as strong as possible. Although it had been known for some time past that the British America group contemplated taking advantage of the first opportunity that presented itself to float off some of their properties which had been on their hands for a considerable time, it yet surprised most of us to find the issue of Le Roi No. 2 followed up so quickly by the flotation of the Rossland Great Western Mines, Ltd.. the prospectus of which is before the public . In connection with this issue, it may be worth while my pointing out the very pronounced similarity between the prospectuses of the Le Roi No. 2 and the Rossland Great Western Mines. In many cases, the one practically paraphrases the other. As you will be largely interested in this latest effort of the Whitaker Wright group, ;i» THE MINING RECORD. 1 have extracted a few points for the edification of your readers. The capital of the Rossland Great Western Mines, Ltd., has been fixed at £500,000 in 1,000,000 £1 shares, lt has been formed to work a group of mines some' 78 acres in extent, formerly known as the East Le Roi, or Le Roi No. 3 Group, and consists of the Nickel Plate, the Golden Chariot, the Great Western, and the Oreornogo properties. The East Le Roi Mining Co., Ltd., -which is the vendor company, has fixed the purchase price at £450,000, but the proportion of this which is payable in shares is not stated in the prospectus. Development work has already reached such a stage on the property that upon the completion of additional smelter plant, Mr. Bernard Macdonald, general manager of the Le Roi mine, anticipates an output of 250 tons per day. "Assuming the working expenses to be about the same as those 01 the Le Roi mine, this would mean," says the prospectus, "a return of 20 per cent, per annum on the capital of the company." It has been decided to appropriate £50,000 for the working capital of the company, and it is proposed to make Mr. Macdonald the consulting engineer. As far as market movements are concerned the chief has been the manipulation of Le Roi No. 2, which were this week run up to 2\ premium, equal to an increase of 50 per cent, in the nominal capital value of the company. Of course, those of us who are behind the scenes do not pay much attention to market movements of this kind, but it is quite possible that this development may have materially assisted the flotation of the Rossland Great Western shares which in their turn have been run up to £1 premium. T need not remind you that premiums of this kind although often wholly unwarranted have material influence upon the minds of those who may contemplate taking an interest in a new company. The wisdom, however, of so prematurely discounting the future cannot be for one moment maintained, for good as may be the prospects of both the Le Roi No. 2 and the Rossland Great Western themselves, it can hardly be argued that the capital value of the properties taken over have actually intrinsically increased by respectively 50 per cent, and 20 per cent, in a few weeks. We are, however, so accustomed to these manipulations in connection with the flotation of Whitaker Wright companies that such developments as these arc the rule rather than the exception in connection with their projects. B. A. C. have improved in sympathy with Le Rois, etc. Hall Mines, after hanging about at 6d., have hardened to about i-i6th, and Ymir have also been rather better. London & B. C. Goldfields remain steady, but New Goldfields of B. C. have not been favourably influenced by the reconstitution of the Velvet Company. It may be of interest to your readers to know that the derelict Lillooet & Fraser River grant have removed their offices to College Hill Chambers, College Hill, London, E. C. B. C. Development Association, which are said to be contemplating an increase of capital, remain steady. The Hastings British Columbia Exploration Company have issued a report dealing with their operations which will be presented to the shareholders to-morrow. This company is little known, and there is practically no market for its shares. In connection with the Athabasca company the secretary announces that the reconstruction has been carried out successfully. Here, also, however, dealings are very limited in extent, although the company has been regarded rather favourably. Meanwhile with a strong government in power, a determination to assist the industry in every possible way, and better markets at home, there is no reason why there should not be a material increase in public interest displayed by the British public towards B. C. as a mineral producer. At the moment the mining market in London is generally dull and apathetic, and although there has been a flutter in the West Australian section the Chinese crisis and the continuance of the campaign in South Africa have kept interest in mining securities in subjection, and it is very doubtful even whether despite the strength of those behind the West Australian market the present advance in these shares will be maintained. DREDGING ON THE THOMPSON. THE MONTH'S MINING. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SCHEMES for dredging on the North Thompson River continue to attract more than ordinary attention. The Jamieson Creek property has been sold and Mr. Taylor, of Vancouver, engineer for the company which has acquired the property, is making arrangements for the commencement of dredging operations. The bed of the North Thompson is now staked from a few miles above Kamloops to the junction of thr, ' Thompson and Clearwater Rivers, a distance of nearly ninety miles. Several engineers have been examining different leases during the last few weeks on behalf of syndicates having options on these properties. As the Jamieson Creek property is probably the best on the river a season's dredging here should clearly demonstrate the possibilities of the business and the chances for the rest. Operations proceed steadily on the several active properties on Coal Hill. At the Python a large body of magnetite carrying a low percentage of copper is being explored. At the Truth the cross-cut at the 75-foot level is in 81 feet all in ore, carrying from 2 to 6 per cent, copper with several dollars in gold and silver values; in this cross1cut several lenses of solid chalcopynte have been cut through. One of these is now being drifted on and some remarkably fine ore is being brought out. Work is being done on the Rose group southeast of Jacko Lake. This is a gold quartz proposition with a paystreak of several inches carrying much free gold. Assays run as high as $200 per ton in gold and silver. A fine body of copper ore is being shown on the Laura group, owned by Messrs. Dillon and ITerod, and. a good amount of high-grade chalcopyrite is being taken out. The B. C. Exploration Syndicate are pushing work on the Lucky Strike and Josie properties. The faulted vein of the former has not yet been caught up, but the Josie, a property which the syndicate bonded a few months ago, is locking remarkably well and is improving with depth. A large low-grade ore body has been cross-cut on the Dclaney group, and this property is bonded to the s,,me syndicate which recently purchased the Kim- berly group. The tunnel on the latter property is being pushed on with a force of six men and some considerable bands of low-grade ore have been cut through. The owners expect to meet a body of high- THE MINING RECORD. 3i9 giade ore, shown near the surface, within the next thirty feet. REVELSTOKE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) It is with very great pleasure that we are able to state truly that the Big Bend district (contiguous to and reached from Revelstoke) is again becoming productive. Years ago, much surface work was done and very good values extracted, but it was merely surface work, and when, as is natural, . deep placer the gold gave out, the workings mining were abandoned. Some people, IN big bend, however, had faith that with deeper work much more could be found, and in that belief work has been carried on steadily at Smith Creek (opposite Goldstream) for years, with the most gratifying results that one of the chief partners in the concern came down a few days since to Revelstoke with a very handsome bag of "dust" from his claim. The shaft is now 115 feet deep, and has not yet reached the middle of the old channel, but the values have steadily improved till now the yield is fully $20 per cubic yard. This naturally has stimulated others in the neighbourhood, and in the district generally, so that a good deal of work is expected to be done this season; and it is considered by a well known mining man, Mr. E. A. Bradley, that the gold produce of the Big Bend with more systematic and deeper work will very much astonish those who believe the district dead and worked out. If we add to this that there have been wonderful returns from the Cariboo lately, it really seems almost unnecessary to try the somewhat inhospitable regions of Klondike and Nome in search of the precious metal. Want of efficient transportation facilities has always kept back the Big Bend, but we are almost sure now of a waggon road which will be begun at once, and will give access to the various properties all the year round. So much for the mining territory north of Revelstoke. Looking now to the south-— or rather southeast—we find all the Lardeau district a hive of industry, and the claims on the which work is being done may rep- lardeau resent the swarm. In the Fish River district. division, an enormous amount of development will be done on the innumerable properties, and if one-tenth of them turn out as well as their surface indications lead one to expect, it will be a very rich division. The Silver Cup is still doing well and taking out good ore ready for rawhiding when snow comes again (this, as your readers will remember, is near Ferguson, Trout Lake district) and the Nettie L., near by, where they have recently struck an unexpected large and rich body of ore during development, is obliged to do the same thing. Ore can be extracted, sorted and sacked, but it cannot be transported to the smelter except in winter. Possibly the C. P. R- may see their way to complete the promised railway to Trout Lake; if so, it would vastly decrease the difficulty, or in other words, the expense, of shipping, but that corporation has a habit of pleasing itself without much regard for the convenience of others, so the branch may not be built yet. To enumerate the properties in (he Trout Lake division would be an endless task. Let it then suffice to say that all known metals can be found there except, perhaps, nickel, though that also is reported to exist, and it was remarked lately by a pioneer in the district that if he lost all his claims to-morrow, he could go out and stake as many more in the following week that would be just as good. Most sincerely is it to be hoped that the good properties undoubtedly there will be so intelligently managed that those who have stood by the country "for better or worse, in sickness and in health," so long, will reap the pecuniary reward they so well deserve. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The B. C.—At the B. C. ore is being regularly shipped to Trail. For a few days early in July a temporary stoppage in shipping took place, but since then an average shipment of about 70 tons per day has been maintained. Now that the larger air compressor and hoist are in use the mine is in shape to increase its daily output, which it will probably do after the patent safety cage just received from the East shall have been installed. By August 1 there should be no difficulty in turning out 100 tons per day. The work now being done in the mine is drifting south in expectation of meeting at a lower depth the ore shoot that occurs in the level above, and raising the third level to the second level. This raise is in good ore. No regular stoping is in progress at present, but ore is being taken out in cutting out sill floors for the timbers now being put in preparatory to stoping. Sinking will shortly be resumed from the thiid level, which is 272 feet from the surface. A trestle, the highest bent of which is 41 feet from the ground, has been constructed from the shaft house to the ore bins, now nearly completed, and a double line of tram rails has been laid. The size of the structure containing ore bins and sorting floor is 28x65 and 64 feet high to the ridge cap. The sorting floor occupies nearly all of the upper part of the building. Under this are the ore bins 65x20 and 16 feet in depth, with a holding capacity of about 450 tons. There are four chutes at the rear for waste rock from the sorting floor, and five ore chutes in front from the bins to the railway cars. This building has been substantially constructed, having 12x12 timbers in frames and sup- poits and 3x12 planking. The bins are double-lined, first with 3x12 and then with 2x12 laid across. The walls are double boarded, with building paper between and the roof is of corrugated iron. Provision has also been made for plenty of light and warmth for winter. Superintendent S. F. Parrish, C. E., who has charge of the mine, returned on July 20 from Montreal, P.Q., whence he had been to confer with the owners respecting future operations. The Mountain View, adjoining the B. C. on the northwest, and the R. Bell are two more Summit Camp properties now at work, the former employing five men and the latter seven. A cross-cut is being run at the 50-foot level in the Mountain View to prospect an ore body which crops out and which where opened on the surface is freely mineralized with iron and a little copper. It is considered probable by the owners that this will prove an extension of the contact in which ore occurs on the B. C. The R. Bell is understood to be under option to the Miner-Graves people. A small boiler and steam hoistng engine are now in use here and cross-cutting from the vertical shaft at the 100-foot level is now in progress. A tunnel started higher up the hillside and run towards the old prospect workings has cut a vein of nice looking copper-gold 01 e of similar character to that opened up in the prospect shaft above. The Oro Denoro, 320 THE MINING RECORD. owned by the King Mining Company, of Rossland, remains closed down, which is to be regretted, for judging by the appearance of the ore dump of a couple of hundred tons or so the showing in the three cross-cut tunnels, the property is a very promising one. It is stated though that the treasury is exhausted, so that operations can not be resumed until after money can be raised for additional plant and further development work. The Golden Crown operations for July did not include any new development work, but were restricted to stoping at the ioo-foot level and sending out ore. The shipments to the Trail smelter for May and June aggregated 27 cars. It was intended to ship 35 to 40 cars during July, and up to the 19th of the month 22 cars had been got away. The Win- golden crown nipeg was shipping ore from the and three-foot vein cut by the railway Winnipeg. grade and from stopes above the 50-foot level and it was expected that the month's shipment would total about 350 tons. The development work in hand was cross-cutting at the 100-foot level. A small vein of ore has been passed through by this cross-cut, but at the time of writing the main ore body cut above at the 50-foot level had not been encountered. It was considered probable, though, that this would shortly be met with. A railway spur has been put in to the mine, so that the shipment of ore has been facilitated. A few men are at work at the xAthelstan, also in Wellington Camp, and two carloads of ore were sent out, but there is no new development of any importance to note. The Hartford is idle just now, an accident having disabled the horse when used for hoisting. Some nice ore has been uncovered on a claim lying between the Hartford and Golden Crown, but as it is near the surface it is too early yet to attach much importance to the find. The Old Ironsides commenced shipping ore to the Granby smelter at Grand Forks during July. At the time of writing shipments are restricted to five carloads (about 125 tons) per day, notwithstanding that the ore bins at this mine and the neighbouring Knob • Hill were filled with ore to a stated total of about 8,000 tons and that the stopes in the ■ mines are blocked up with ore broken down but not yet taken out. The reasons assigned by the mine superintendent for not yet sending away more ore are that first the railway track is not quite completed between the mines and smelter and so is not yet in shape for heavy loads to be hauled over it, and next the the smelter is not ready to receive old ironsides ore from these mines in larger and quantities than is now being ship- knob hill ped. When these obstacles shall have been overcome it is expected that the daily shipments will be increased to between 300 and 400 tons. This will include ore from the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and the Granby Company's mine, all three properties adjoining and being operated under the one management. A reduction in the number of men working in these mines had to be made a short time ago, but now that ore-shipping has commenced about half the full force are at work again stoping on a small scale at the 200 and 300 foot levels of the mines and in getting out the ore previously stoped. The 10-drill air compressor, boilers and other new plant for the Knob Hill, the ordering of which was mentioned in last month's Record, have been shipped by the Eastern manufacturers and are expected to shortly reach the mine. About the middle of July another visit to the Snow- shoe was paid by Mr. Anthony J. McMillan, managing director of the British Columbia (Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, and by Mr. J. W. Astley^ C.E., also of Rossland, who is the syndicate's consulting engineer. Development work is being continued on the Snowshoe with a force of 30 to 35 men. The main tunnel is now in a distance of the about 250 feet and it is being further snowshoe- extended. This tunnel passed through a big deposit of ore, the value of which in bulk has yet to be ascertained. The ore taken from this working.and now lying on the dump near the mouth of the tunnel looks well and will probably return values in gold and copper that will leave a fair margin of profit above cost of mining, freight and treatment. No work is being done just now in the cross-cut from the shaft at the 200-foot level, the water being troublesome at that depth. More power will be available for pumping after receipt of the 70-horsepower boiler daily expected to reach the mine, and thereafter this lower level will again receive attention. Meanwhile an upraise is being made, in good ore, from the 100-foot level to the usrface. A carload of ore is to be sent from the mine to the Trail smelter tor test purposes and experiments are to be made at several ore-reduction works in the United States with the object of determining the most suitable method for treating the general output of this mine. The chairman of the syndicate, Mr. G. S. Waterlow, is expected to shortly arrive from England on a visit to the mine. Other mining properties in Greenwood Camp that should be mentioned are the Brooklyn and Stem- winder, owned by the Dominion Copper Co., of Toronto, Ont.; the Gold Drop and the War Eagle. It was expected that the Brooklyn and Stemwinder would have resumed work ere this, but now it appears likely that they will remain idle for some time longer. The Gold Drop was closed down after last month's correspondence had been sent forward. There are big showings of ore here and nearly 2,000 feet of development work have been done in the mine. The ore on the dumps has a promising appearance for good copper values, but nothing definite is known to the writer as to the actual smelter values of the carload sent out for a bulk test shortly before work was suspended. The War Eagle, situated southeast of and near the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill, and which is owned by an Eastern Townships, Quebec, company, is reported to be steadily doing development work at the 100-foot level and to have cut some nice ore in one of the cross-cuts at that depth, but as it has not lately been visited by the writer further reference to it will be deferred until after information respecting it shall have been obtained first-hand. The City of Paris is the only mine in Central Camp now doing work of any importance. On its neighbour, the Lexington, owned by the Majestic Company, (one of the Miner-Graves organizations), some surface prospecting is being done to expose a fourth lead found on the claim, but the cross-cut tunnel is just now too wet for work to be continued in it to advantage. The anticipated in- THE crease in shipments of City of city of paris. Paris ore from 25 to 40 tons per diem has not yet been made, the stopes from which the ore is being mined not being accessible enough to admit of the larger quantity be- THE MINING RECORD. mg conveniently handled. Two raises, 500 feet apart, are being put up from the main level to the level of the ore stopes 100 feet above. One is in ore, but not the other. The latter is for the purpose of intersecting the ore body occurring above. Whilst this development work is in progress the ore output is smaller rather than greater, but after its completion more ore will be mined. Meanwhile shipments from the mine to the Granby smelter are being continued temporarily on a reduced scale, until the raises just mentioned provide the requisite better outlet for the ore from the stopes. There is not much that is new to chronicle this month regarding the Mother Lode mine, in Dead- wood Camp. Difficulty has been experienced in obtaining coal, the supply from the Crow's Nest Pass mines having lately been so intermittent that three times work has had to be suspended at tht 200 and 300-foot levels, pending the receipt the at the mine of more coal. Cord- mother lode, wood could not easily be obtained at this mine on short notice, so there was no alternative to stopping work below ground. The drainage tunnel from the 200-foot level to the neighbouring gulch down which a creek flows has been completed as, too, has the 10-foot deep excavation to get a firm bottom for the foundation for the large new air compressor ordered sev- Silver shaft ran into ore at 88 feet and continued in ore to the bottom of the shaft, 95 feet," but this report has yet to receive confirmation from a reliable source. The Crown Silver is one of a group of claims owned by the Montreal Boundary Creek Mining Company. This company is understood to be also doing some work at what is known as the 200-foot level of the Sunset, but no information has lately been received by the writer respecting this property. There is practically no actual mining work being done in the remaining Boundary Creek mining camps. The intimations received last month of a probable early resumption of work on the Republic and Golconda groups respectively, in Smith's Camp, were, it appears, premature. Nor notes of is there any news of renewed activ- other camps ity at the Jewel, in Long Lake camp, much as it is desired to see work resumed in that very promising gold-quartz mine. The news from the West Fork of Kettle River includes a report of progress on the Carmi, above Beaverton, and on the Sallie near that town, but the neighbouring Washington and Idaho have suspended work, presumably for lack of funds. Local newspapers give occasional prominence to reported new strikes, but investigation does not as a rule prove them of much importance from other than a prospect point of view. eral months since. Notwithstanding the unavoid- The directors of the Granby Company, owning the able stoppages above alluded to, the total number of feet of work that will have been done during the month in the cross-cuts at the 200 and 300-foot levels will be approximately 300. Such good progress is being made with the construction of the nine ore bins that these will completed before this letter appears in print. The site for the ore sorting plant, between the ore bins and the shaft, is being prepared and a trestle will shortly be erected for a tramway from the shaft to the ore bins, for the direct transference of such ore as will not require sorting. A new two-story building is to be erected at once, the ground floor of which will be used as a men's dining room, private dining room, kitchen, pantry and storeroom and the upper floor partly for bedrooms and partly for a 26 foot 6 inch by 26 foot hall. The men's dining room will be 42 feet 6 inches by 50 feet and there will be ample room at the tables for 200 men. Bedroom accommodation for 50 additional men will also soon be provided. Five or six men are employed at a station for a steam hoist on the 175-foot level, which has a lower outlet by means of tunnel run into the hill from near the creek level. An incline shaft is to be sunk from this level in the ore, which is stated to be 14 feet in Width. A cross-cut tunnel is being driven on the Great Hopes, on which a little ore giving good values in gold occurs near the surface. The vertical shaft being sunk on the Greyhound, which has a promising showing of copper ore, should be down to the 100-foot level by the end of July. Cross-cutting at the 200- foot level of the Buckhorn, owned by an Eastern Townships company, is being continued. The crosscut to the south lately ran through a bunch of nice chalcopyrite ore, but there was not a great deal of it. Indications are considered encouraging, however, that a permanent ore body will yet be found. A local newspaper reports that lately "the Crown OTHER deadwood properties smelter at Grand Forks, are at present in the district and the president, Mr. S. H. C. Miner, has announced his intention to remain until after that smelter shall have been blown in. As he expects to leave on his return East by August 20th it smelters would appear that the smelter is intended to be in operation before that date. Perhaps it will be—if so, all the better for this district, the mining industry in which needs very much the impetus that should follow the demonstration by profits from actual production that it will pay to mine ore in it. The British Columbia Copper Company's'smelter at Greenwood is not likely to be running continuously until October or November next, and readers of the Record may accept the assurance that statements to the contrary, no matter how positive nor how often reiterated, are not warranted by the facts of the situation. The conditions at the Mother Lode mine—that is in respect of making the indispensable provision for a sufficiently large and continuous output of ore—are such that even should the smelter plant be all received and in position earlier, the mine will certainly not be ready to maintain an adequate supply of ore until after the larger plant and machinery—ordered but not yet shipped by the manufacturers—shall have been received and installed at the mine. And as to the announcement that a pyritic smelter will shortly be established in the district, well notwithstanding the definite statements of those "in the know," the writer, remembering the unforeseen delays that have been the almost universal experience in the district in connection with the several enterprises already established, takes the liberty of doubting that the promised pvritic smelter will be in regular operation before the snow flies. The surfacing gang is at last ballasting the previously uncompleted portion of the Columbia and Western Railway to its present terminus at Midway, but no announcement has yet been made officially as m 32: THE MINING RECORD. to when the passenger trains will regularly run beyond Greenwood. The several branches or spur lines to mining camps are now practically completed, so that it may be assumed that for the railways. time the end of railway construction work in the district will soon be reached. The spur lines constructed are as follows : From the main line near Grand Forks to the Granby smelter; from the main line at Eholt to Hartford Junction, whence one spur runs northwest to Phoenix, where there are sub-spurs to the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Stemwinder mines, and another about east branching to the Golden Crown and Winnipeg respectively. About three miles from Eholt a spur leaves the Hartford Junction branch and connects with the B. C. mine. From Greenwood a spur runs to Deadwood Camp, passing the Sunset and ending at the Mother Lode mine. These several spurs admit of ore cars being run under the ore bins of the B. C, Old Ironsides, Victoria, Knob Hill and Mother Lode mines, and too, pass close to the ore dumps of the Oro Denoro, Gold Drop, Snowshoe, Brooklyn, Stemwinder and Sunset mines. It is, therefore, quite evident that the C. P. R. Company has well done its part towards providing most of the better developed mines of the district with adequate transportation facilities. The following are the records of the Kettle River mining division for the six months ended June 30th, 1900. The figures include the records of the sub- recording offices of the division located at Rock Creek, Westbridge and Vernon respectively. It should be explained that although mining there is at Vernon a sub-recording record office for the convenience of pros- statistics. pectors making locations in the vicinity of the head waters of the Kettle River, that town is not situate in the Kettle River division, but the office there is the chief office of its own mining division. The books of the Mining Recorder at Greenwood show the following as the six months' records:— Free miners' certificates i>i75 Free miners' certificates, special 8 Location records, mineral 435 Location records, placer 15 Certificates of work Certificates of improvements Conveyances and agreements 266 Abandonments 15 Water grants 2 The mining receipts at Greenwood and sub-offices for the six months were $10,087.70, as under:— Free Miners' Other Mining 1900. Certificates. Receipts. January $ 113 50 $365 40 February 121 00 389 15 February 121 00 389 25 APril 721 50 743 40 May 4,068 50 849 25 June 822 92 875 95 /*5 39 $6,341 67 $3,745 40 Besides the above there were miscellaneous receipts not connected with mining to the amount of $3,059.50, so that the total of the provincial revenue received at Greenwood during the six months was $13,146.57. Percy Verens. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent.) What may be considered the expectant stage of this industrial community continues, and it is even increasing in intensity, for as communities are promised much, much is correspondingly expected. The local statistician has again appeared and his figures distance anything probable or possible. The folly of exaggeration has often been pointed out, but it is still fashionable. Confidence in Rossland's future has been assailed but not shaken. On all sides are evidences of progress. It is perfectly true that the local stock market is very quiet, but there is no lack of confidence in the future. The management of the great producers and syndicates do not—and no doubt very properly—take the press into confidence. Meanwhile the question of output here is always an interesting one and the interest, like the output, is ever on the increase, though it will take at least 5,000 tons of a weekly output to the end of the year to come up to last year's tonnage, the official figures placing this at 172,665 tons. The output so far (April 20) amounts to 80,000 tons, of which the Le Roi contributed about 60,000, the War Eagle 10.600, the Centre Star 7,000, the Iron Mask 1,500 tons and the remainder by occasional the mine shippers. The Evening Star is making output small shipments. This, with the Le Roi, to date, are at present the only shippers. The management of the latter is putting out the ore at a lively rate. Cars of ore go out on the Red Mountain train to Northport at all hours—whenever a train is made up—so that ore laden cars are becoming a familiar sight at all times. As to the value of the ore, it may be said that it runs all the way from $13.50 to $20.00 per ton. If the average be placed at $15.00 per ton this would give a total value of $1,200,- 000. I am not prepared to defend these figures. This will have to be left until the time of official report. One fact, however, is very evident. There is a decided promise of an increased output, and it is said that there is a deficiency in the lack of car service, which is not unlikely. In view of the possibility of a greater output, it is, I believe, in contemplation to increase the capacity of the Trail smelter as well as that at Northport to 1,200 and 1,500 tons respectively. The present output of the Le Roi mine is, at least, 600 tons per day if not 650 tons. This output is doubtless equal to the present output facilities of the Le Roi mine, but these are being increased, and when the capacity to put out more ore is improved by this mine, and added to by other mines such as the War Eagle, Centre Star, Nickel Plate and Josie. the output will at least be 1,200 tons daily, though it may reach 1,500 tons daily for a time at least. Thus a steady increase in the output of Rossland mines may be looked for in the near future, but it may be September before this increased output will begin. The Record has been furnished with some information under the heading of "Recent Surface Improvements on Red Mountain," and it will not be necessary to reiterate this information. The chief work done here is, of course, on Red Mountain. Little or nothing is being done on what is locally known as the south belt. The area of activity is chiefly confined to Red Mountain, the underground workings of which have now assumed formidable dimensions. THE MINING RECORD. 323 A large quantity of ore was accumulated on the ground of the Centre Star, the bunkers of which are filled. In the Le Roi I am credibly informed the showing in many directions is very encouraging, and although little is said about the War Eagle, it is well known in well-informed circles that there is a large ore reserve which will be shipped sooner or later. Civic improvements go on apace with this progress, and often it anticipates it, for the typical Ross- lander that takes an interest in the progress of this mountain city does not permit every little breath to frighten him as to the future.. Building improvements are noticeable on all sides, and some very cosy homes are among the ties that bind the Rosslander to his familiar mountains. A growing interest is being taken by Rossland people, in the district of East Kootenay. A recent venture by a number of Rossland men, amongst whom may be mentioned Messrs. C. S. Wallis, J. A. Kirk, F. W. Hinsdale, L. H. Moffat and others, is the Kootenay Land and Exploration Company (Limited). This company has a capital of $50,000. It has been formed for the purpose of acquiring the assets and privileges of the Kootenay Land Exploration Syndicate in the Windermere district of East Kootenay. According to Mr. Hinsdale, among the assets are the townsite of Peterborough comprising 160 acres, a saw mill valued at $6,000, etc. The population of Peterborough is about 250 and is increasing. The town is surrounded by very promising mineral prospects and some partially developed mines. The Delphine group recently made a shipment of 200 tons of ore, which went as high as $127 per ton, to the Trail smelter. The company is well managed and has still half its capital in the treasury after spending a large amount —at least $30,000—in improvements. Peterborough is named after Peterborough, Ontario, and its promoters are men of stability and enterprise. YMIR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I regret to state that mining in this section is at present somewhat quiet. It is difficult to find a reason, but we are living in hopes that the cause (whatever it is) will soon be removed and that steady work 1 ill soon be started. I am pleased to state that the Ymir Gold Mines, Limited, are now operating with a full batterv of 80 stamps, and the result should greatly assist this camp on the London market. Air. Wm. Dodd, representing a Winnipeg syndicate, nas a force of men at work on the Snowshde claim, situated on Wild Horse Creek, and a very fine lead carryng good valiies, has been opened up. the Broken Hill Mining and Development Company, to which I referred last month in the Record, have decided to install a mill on their property, and that will give the camp yet another producer. I understand that the deal of the Dundee Gold Mining Company has gone through involving an investment ot about $250,000 in developing the property and placing it in a productive position. It is also stated tha the Tamarac, operated by the Kenneth Mining and Development Company, will soon commence operations Mr. Vernon, who is operating for an Owen Sound syndicate, has a number of men at work on the Big Four group and he has uncovered a nne grade of copper ore which will give big results m silver, some assays that I have teen showing values of over $500. slocan. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The general situation here remains practically as it was, a very material increase in the output of some of the more prominent mines, however, furnishing cause for congratulation. The Payne, Slocan Star, Last Chance, Queen Bess, Whitewater and Ruth have all been doing well in this direction, while the Bosun created a record for itself by shipping seven cars during the month of June. Just at present the mines of East Kootenay are overshadowing all others by their doings and if they are able to maintain shipments continuously at their present rates the Slocan may find itself hard run for supremacy. They will comprehend better in a few months, however, the difficulties in the way of uniform production, added to which, of course, the difference between tonnage and value will doubtless be forcibly brought home when they come to examine the smelter returns closely. That great mines really exist in that region there can be no question, the class of ore being sent to the St. Eugene concentrator comparing very favourably with any in the Slocan undergoing similar treatment, although the mill at the Whitewater is evidently receiving excellent feed or it could not possibly turn out a carload of concentrates daily as it is doing. Work of a substantial nature is going on all around Sandon and consequently we are in no way surprised to see that town commencing to rebuild in earnest. About $80,000 is expected to be divided amongst the shareholders of the Payne at their forthcoming meeting, but with this exception, the majority of managers are so engrossed in planning and carrying out further developments that dividends are forgotten for the nonce. Both the Ivanhoe and Slocan Star are engaged in driving long tunnels, the latter projecting one which is to be over 2,000 feet in length when completed. It is in work of this nature that the advantages of machine drills over hand labour can best be demonstrated and needless to say both companies are adopting this means of quick driving. A departure from ordinary usage will be followed in the case of the Star, the intention being to make the tunnel large enough to admit of horses being employed for purposes of haulage, a procedure, of common occurrence in coal mines but comparatively rare in metalliferous workings albeit sometimes in use in the Silver King mine near Nelson. What is needed more than anything else in the Slocan at the present stage is economy of working and the substitution of mechanical processes fof the wasteful methods now in vogue, but it is obvious that there aif many difficulties in the way or they would have been adopted long since. While the ore is high grade, the tonnage is barely sufficient to warrant the introduction of machinery and methods without which successful mining would be an utter impossibility in less favoured regions, but the time may arrive, and that sooner than many people imagine, when some such course will become inevitable if profitable returns are to continue; in other words, the question of tonnage will become relatively as important as that of values if the maximum of economy is to be obtained. There is no great stir in the lake district, the customary excitement over new finds at this season of the next PAYNE DIVIDEND. 324 THE MINING RECORD. the year being confined to one of considerable promise near the Mountain Chief. What gives every indication of developing into something remunerative has been unearthed by the simple process of ground sluicing, and I may as well remark now that this system is destined to become an increasing factor in the discovery and location of veins. Hitherto it has been considered quite the proper thing to locate your claim first and then look for the vein afterwards, and where as in the instance above cited its existence is merely a matter of conjecture the proof of which involves considerable labour on the part of the locators, one can hardly blame them, perhaps, for pursuing the course they do. The cry of waggon roads and public improvements is still being dinned in our ears, and while deprecating on principle the reckless expenditure of government funds nobody will deny that there is urgent and adequate need for the construction of a waggon road up Silver Mountain, the many promising properties in that section being quite willing to provide a quota of the funds necessary. The final payments on the Hartney and Marion bonds will fall due in a couple of weeks, the continued operation of both properties meaning much to residents of New Denver. The Kettle River excitement seems almost to have died a natural death as so many before it have done, but this is attributable in part at least to the prevailing dullness in mining elsewhere and the check which has been put to speculative investments of all kinds. Those interested must wait patiently and see what another season will bring forth. PRODUCING MINES. NELSON. AMONG the exports from the port of Nelson for the month of June, were the following mine products: Tons. Value. Ore 2,187 $I05>233 Gold bullion 36,559 We are indebted to Mr. Nelson Fell, manager of the Athabasca Gold Mine, Limited, for the returns of the mill run for June. The run stands as a record for a ten-stamp mill in Canada:— Period of run 29 days 9 hours Number of tons milled 475 Value of bullion recovered $21,675 °° Value of concentrates recovered 5>9*9 75 Total values recovered ,. $27,594 75 Value of bullion per ton of ore crushed . . $45 6t, Value of concentrates per ton of ore crushed 12 44 Total recovered per ton of ore crushed. ... 58 09 Percentage of weight of concentrates to ore crushed 10.8% Percentage of recovery in mill.. .... . . 80.6% MOYIE, EAST KOOTENAY. At the St. Eugene mine for June 9,000 tons of high-grade galena ore was crushed, producing 1,937 tons of concentrates, the value of which is estimated at nearly a quarter million dollars. The North Star and Sullivan also shipped 130 carloads of iron ore. rossland. Our Rossland correspondent telegraphs: "Ore shipments from Rossland mines to smelters for the seven months ending July 31st approximate 90,000 tons gross. Le Roi management has commenced the shipment of ore from the old dump to the Trail smelter. slocan. The Kaslo Kootenaian publishes the following interesting figures showing the total shipments of ore from this district for the year to date as compared -with the returns for the like period last year. The result is eminently satisfactory so far as this year's output is concerned:— The total shipments for the year to date are as follows: Month. Pounds. January 1,498,000 February 794,000 March 1,717,000 April 1,550,000 May 3,036,000 June 4,573,000 July I to 9 610,000 For the first five months of last year the total shipments reached 18,845,900 pounds as shown below:— Month. Pounds. January 2,646,700 February 3,268,000 March 3,819,000 April 4,933,000 May 2,514,000 June 1,665,290 Total 18,845,990 The shipments from Sandon for June were as follows :— Tons. Payne 550 Slocan Star 480 Last Chance 260 Ruth 152 American Boy 20 Augusta 20 CARIBOO. As the result of 62 days' operations the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co. produced a gold brick valued at $135,000. COAL EXPORTATIONS. DURING the month of June the following tonnage of coal was shipped from the Vancouver Island collieries:— Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 39,985 Ladysmith (Extension and Wellington).... 36,440 Union 21,107 < For the three weeks ending the 20th July, the consignments from the New Vancouver Coal Co. were: Date. Vessel. Destination. Tons. 3—SS. Titania, San Francisco 5,784 6—SS. Mineola, Port Los Angeles 3,452 7—SS. Vigilant, Port Townsend 15 14—SS. R. Adamson, San Diego 4,621 14—SS. Aztec, San Francisco 5,496 17—Washtenaw, San Francisco 4.231 19—SS. Titania, San Francisco 5,828 Total 29,427 THE MINING RECORD. 325 THE METAL MARKET—JULY. MfSrSn^^8^1 ^apfcc Quotations to the B. C. StoS] Engineering & Mining Journal, S ItXER' at from 6l* to 6lf, has been very steady. <~> ITie complications in China and other factors also point to a possible further advance of this metal. COPPER. While at the beginning of the month the American market was somewhat inactive, a notable improvement has since taken place which has resulted in advancing prices. Our latest quotations are Lake copper, i6i@i6ic; in cathodes, I5f@i5*c; casting copper, I5£a LEAD. The extraordinary and unexplainable fluctuations of last month and the beginning of this, have given place to a general dullness, prices having declined very considerably. The quotations for the last two weeks have remained practically unchanged at 2.95 @4c. New York, and 3.90(^3.95 St. Louis. SPELTER. A slight improvement is noticeable in spelter, New York quoting 4-30@4-35 and St. Louis 4.12^4.1710. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. A MOST marked improvement has taken place in III the place in the tone of the local markets during the past month, and while the general depreciation of prices has as yet been little affected, the outlook from a speculative point of view is decidedly more encouraging. The opportunity afforded at the present time for really safe and profitable investment is undoubtedly good, and once confidence which from several causes with which the investing public is sufficiently familiar, has been so rudely shaken is again restored by the activity of an increased mineral production from the mining centres, many of the better class stocks, the quotations of which are now ab- G0RD0N H. HARDEE. NICHOLAS THOMPSON. HARDIE & THOMPSON, Marine and General Consulting Mechanical Engineers- 520 Cordova St, VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegrams " Gaedbe." Telephone 767. Plans, Specifications, Estimates, Working Drawings, Surveys and Reports. Also Contracts taken for Supply, Erection, Supervision, or Repairs and Alterations to all classes of Machinery. Patentees and designers of the Hardie- rhompson Water Tube BoUer, New High Speed Reversing Engines, and Special Machinery in Light Sections for Mines. Engines indicated aud Mljnsted. Sole Agents In B. C. and N. W. Territories for the United Flexible Metallic Tubing Co., Ltd., London Eng. Stock Carried. Unequalled For Conveyance of Steam. surdly and unjustifiably low, will effect a rapid recovery. During the past four weeks, Athabasca, Noble Five, Van Anda, Rambler-Cariboo, Tamarac, Fair- view and Crows Nest have been in most active demand, in this period Athabasca having advanced from 18 to 30, Noble Five from 2\ to 6, Tamarac from 4 to 8, and Fairview from 5 to 6. On the other hand, from quite unexplanable reasons, Winnipeg, Brandon and Golden Crown and other equally good securities have still further declined. We propose commencing next month to publish in more useful form for reference purposes the monthly stock quotations appearing under another column. In the new list only producing and dividend-paying mines will appear, and the highest and lowest price for each week will be given. MACHINERY CATALOGUES. WE shall be pleased to mail catalogues of any of the undermentioned firms to our readers free of charge, on applciation: Ainsworth & Sons., Wm., fine balances; Armstrong & Morrison, riveted steel pipe ore cars, etc.; B. C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., assayers' supplies; Braun & Co., T., assayers' supplies; Beatty & Sons, M., cables and tramways, dredges, pumps, etc.: Bennett & Co., Wm., fuse safety couplers, etc.; California Wire Works, cables and tramways; Canadian Rand Drill Co., drills and compressors; Canadian General Electric Co., electrical plants; Cooper Mfg. Co., The James, compressors, power and hand drills; Denver Fire Clay Co., assayers' furnaces, etc.; Fraser & Chalmers, mills, pumps, hoists, engines, etc.; Fairbanks, Morse & Co., steam and gas engines, compressors, etc.; Gates Iron Works, engines, boilers, crushers, etc.; Hamilton Mfg. Co., The Wm., crushers, mills, hoists, etc.; Hendy Iron Works, Johsua, modern mining machinery; Hinton & Co., Geo. C, electrical supplies and machinery; Hearn & Harrison, engineering, mining and surveying instruments : Hamilton Powder Co., explosives; Howells Mining Drill Co., drills, all kinds; Jeffrey Mfg. Co., elevating machinery; Jenckes Machine Co., hoisting and milling machinery; Krupp, Fried, Grusonwerk, mills, engines, pumps, etc ; Lex- ow, Theo., carbons; Link Belt Machinery Co.. conveyors, elevators, etc.; McLennan, McFeeley & Co., belting, etc.; Mitchell. Lewis & Staver, compressors, drills, hoists, etc.; Perrin & Co., Wm., filter presses; Royal Electric Co., electric power, all kinds; Robertson & Co.,James,wrought iron pipe, paints, etc.; Stur- m The Huntington | Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They axe in rise m the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. . , The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer 0F Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. ^oom 1, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL 526 THE MINING RECORD. tevant Mill Co., ore breakers and mills; Stilwell— Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., water wheels; Taylor & Co., John, assayers' supplies; Trenton Iron Co., cables and tramways; Taylor Air Compressor Co., drills, compressors, etc.; Union Gas Engine Co., gas engines, hoists, etc.; Whitstock, P. & R., mining engineering and surveying instruments; Wilfley Ore Concentrator Co., Ltd., concentrators. E. JACOBS, Accountant, Auditor, Etc. GREENWOOD, B.C. Books of Account Opened, Balanced or Audited. Accounts Kept Regularly or Examined Periodically. Assigned Instates Wound Up. A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED . . Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Will shortly be at liberty. Would willingly take whole or partial charge of a Reduction Plant. Can keep books if required. Would start an independent Laboratory in any new district if sufficient work was guaranteed. Address " Accurate," care Editor, B.C. Mining Record. IMPORTANT TO GOLD MINERS and Manufacturers of Mining Machinery. SILVER-PLATED AMALGAM PLATES For saving Gold in Quartz, Placer and Beach Mining. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Only Refined Silver and Best Copper used Fifteen Medals awarded. Old Mining Plates can be Replated Old Plates Bought or Gold Separated. Our Plate-* have been used for 55 years. They have proved the Best. We adhere strictly to contract in weight of Silver and Copper. Send for Circular. San Francisco Gold, Silver & Nickel Plating Works 652 Mission St., San Francisco, ©al. E. G. DENNISTON, Proprietor. WHITE, ROGERS & eOMPANY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights. 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f °*b- -an Francisco. One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated by Steajn or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants foi the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. "W ire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is coveted by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,338 and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. m Ltd Ha t a^ive*^ °!J««S Scotland. UO bnvt?: &co u Telegraphic Address "Lobnitz, Renfrew." Ai Code Used 'J THE MINING RECORD. Mining Stocks. Prepared by A. W. More & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B.C., July 26, 1900 Company. TRAIL CREEK. Big Three Centre Star Commander Deer Park Enterprise Evening Star Georgia Gertrude Golden Drip Gopher Homestake Iron Horse Iron Mask I.X.L Iron Colt Jumbo Le Roi Le Roi, No. 2 Lilly May Mayflower Monte Cristo NeBt Egg-Firefly Novelty Poorman R.E.Lee Red Mountain View Rossland, Red Mountain. St. Elmo Silverine Silver Bell Con Victory Triumph Virginia War Eagle Consolidatedf. White Bear AINSWORTH, NELSON AND SLOCAN. American Boy Arlington Argo Athabasca Buffalo of Slocan Dundee Dardanelles Dellie Exchequer Fern Gold Goodenough Gibson Hall Mines Lerwick Leviathan London Miller Creek Molly Gibson Minnesota Nelson-Poorman Noble Five Con Ottawa and Ivanhoe. Payne Rambler Con Reco Slocan-Reciprocity.. Slocan Start Silver Band Slocan Queen Star St. Keverne Sunshine Tamarac Two Friends Washington Wonderful LARDEAU. Lardeau Goldsmith Consolidated Sable Creek Mining Co. Lardo-Duncan TEXADA ISLAND. Gold Bar Raven Texada Proprietary. Texada Kirk Lake... Treasury Mines Van Anda Victoria-Texada VANCOUVER ISLAND. Alberni Mountain Rose Consolidated Alberni Mineral Creek Mineral Hill Quadra Mount Sicker & B. C. Development CARIBOO. Cariboo Gold Fields Ld Cariboo Hydraulic Consolidated. Cariboo M. & D. Co Golden River Quesnelle Horsefly Hydraulic Ward-Horsefly Victoria Hydraulic Co. Capital. Par Value. Price. ?3,500,000 3,500,000 500,000 1,400,000 1,000,000 200,0001 1,000,000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000! 1,000,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000| 600,000 £1,000,000 600,000 $1,000,000 1,000,000 2,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 2,000,0001 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 100,000 1,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 1.500000 '750,000 1,000,000 200,000 800,000 650,000 £300.000 $1,500,000 2,000,000 150,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 250,000 12,000 1,000,000 3,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 250,000 1.000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 1,000 000 240,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 n 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 £5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 10 1 0 25 1 25 25 25 1 1 • 1 0 25 lc. par 1 1 00 1 1 1 50 0 25 1 1 1 10 1 80 200 000 1,500,000 1,500,000 100,000 1,000,000 250,000 600,000 250,000 5,000,000 150,000 250,000 500,000 500,000 750,000 500,000 £125,000 £100,000 ?5,000,000 300,000 £350,000 $200,000 500,000 300,000 10 1 0 25 1 25 1 0 25 1 1 1 1 1 £1 $5 1 £1 $1 1 ? 3% 1 52 10 3 20 9 1 8 15 03^ 3 &A 31 12 5 19 £7 00 7 00 $0 10 10 4 1 '6 14 2 3 10 2 6 52 1% 32 10J* 3 12 8% 4 11 17^ 2s. 10 3 25 3 32 66 17 6 12h' 1 00 24 1 00 02 12^ 10 6 4 3 25 3 04 5 05 25 1 00 2% o»H 5 05K 05 05 10 $1 10 25 55 85 Alpha Bell Cayoosh Creek Mines Excelsior. Golden Cache Lillooet Gold Reefs Smuggler Fairview Corporation Boundary Creek M. M. Co Brandon and Golden Crown Dominion Copper Co King Knob Hill Morrison Old Ironsides Pathfinder.... Pay Ore Rathmullen .. Winnipeg. Camp McKinney Development Co Cariboof Minnehaha Waterloo Fontenoy O'Shea Waterloo No. 2 Mammoth Little Cariboo Shannon Sailor Silver Bell, Consolidated. REVELSTOKE Carnes Creek Consolidated.. EAST KOOTENAY Canadian Gold Fields Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co North Star Sullivan Y. Y. T. eoM LRKE BENNETT, B.e. OPERATING THE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills At the head of Navigation to to the YUKON and HTLIN GOLD FIELDS Builders oL—*^=- Boats, Barges and Scows. The safest and most economical way of freighting from Bennett to Dawson, havingwharf and warehouse on arrival at destination. Manufacturers of Lumber of all description, Sash Doors, etc. Provisions and Supplies.... We also carry a large stock of General Merchandise at posts all along the river, consisting of Feed, Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Tinware, Enamelled Ware, Window Glass, Hardware, etc. Call on or write us before sending to the Coast for your supplies. Information cheerfully given by applying to The Victoria Yukon Trading Co., Ld., LAKE BENNETT, B. C. Head Office, VICTORIA., B.C T. HOLLAND, Man. Director W. B. B A.ILEY & CO.,—ASHOROHT, B, O., Storage and Forwarding Agents. Goods received, stored and forwarded with despatch to any point in Cariboo reached by wago'i or pack train. Consign goods to our care and we will settle railway charges and ship to destination with least possible delay. X. THE MINING RECORD. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM Engines Hoists Pumps Boilers GASOLINEi Engines Hoists Air CompreSSOrS adapted for Min:9 g Purposes [Pumping Plants Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline; Engine and Air Compressor especially Mining Oars, Car Wheels, Spiral Biveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. 1-^ « * t r+m £• •-▼ Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. hfllr'n^ilK C / lOfCP &C L^O Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, 1 ail Uaiia^ i. 1V1*?V W. ^^^» J San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. TABLE OF CONTENTS. THE MONTH— Page. Reconstruction of the Velvet Mine 285 The London Critic on the Velvet Mine 286 The Outbreak in China 287 The Silver Market 288 Boundary Creek District 288 Le Roi Shipment and other Notes 289-291 Camp McKinney and its Mines (Illustrated) 293 Developmont on Texada Island 300 Reverberatory Smelting of Lead Ores 302 Notes on Gold Dredging (Illustrated) 304 Remarks on Assays and Samples 306 A Retrospect (Illustrated) 308 Review of the Alaskan Boundary Question—(Concluded). 310 Iron Mask and Centre Star—(Continued) 314 British Columbia in London. Page. . 317 MONTH'S MINING— Kamloops 318 Revelstoke 319 Boundary Creek 319 Rossland 322 Ymir 323 Slocan 323 Producing Mines 324 Coal Exportations 334 Metal Market 325 Local Stock Market 325 Machinery Catalogues 325 DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ADVERTISING AGENTS— Page Walker, C. J., London, Eng XVH. AMALGAM PLATES— San Francisco G. S. & N. Plating Work s, San Francisco 286 ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles VI. Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, Col n. B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C.. II. Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II.. Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal II. ASSAYERS— Selby Bros., Portland, Oregon XVIII. Holdich, A. H., Revelstoke, B.C XVHI. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVIII. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XVIH. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVIII. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C XX. AUCTIONEERS, ESTATE AGENTS, &C— Jones, W., Victoria, B.C XVn. BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago IV. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Gates Iron Works, Chicago I. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. BANKS— Bank of British North America VIII. Bank of British Columbia XVI Merchants' Bank of Halifax '.'.'... XVI. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J IV. California Wire Works, San Francisco IV. Jack & Robertson, Montreal Back Cover. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover. COAL AND COKE— Page. New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XXI. COMPRESSORS—(See Pumps and Compressors.) CONCENTRATING PLANT— See Stamp and Concentrating Mills. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago IV. Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass Front Cover. Gates Iron Works, Chicago, HI I. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col ......... XHI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. Fraser Ss Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B. C Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 286 CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York XII. DRILLS—(See Rock Drills.) DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— Lobnitz & Co., Scotland 28. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Page. Hinton, Geo. C, & Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria Cover. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI I. Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C , yn. U THE MINING RECORD. XI. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. H. V. V. VI. n. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— m~~ Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York T Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 t" Jeffrey Mfg. Co. Columbus, Ohio. -v-TT Montgomery Mach'y Co., The J.H., Denver' Color'adA tc' Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco... ' Xnt Cavfv ENGINES AND BOILERS- • Gates Iron Works, Chicago T ENGRAVINGS— Tacoma Engraving Co., Tacoma yy FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c. yin FILTER PRESSES— Per-rin, Wm. R., & Co., Chicago, 111 j FIRE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col FUSE— Bennett, Wm., Sons & Co., Agents, Victoria XTV FORWARDING AGENTS— W. Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B.C IX GAS ENGINES— Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS^ Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. VI. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago IV.' HOISTING MACHINERY— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 ni. Gates Iron Works, Chicago jm Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Cover, Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XHI. Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, Seattle, Wash VHI.' Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. IV. HYDRAULIC PIPE & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany XIX. MACHINERY AGENTS— Heaps, E. H., & Co., Vancouver, B.C XVH. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS— Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C. ... XIX. MINING BROKERS— Foulkes, J. F. & Co XVIL Grigor, R. W.. Rossland. B.C XVII. Pemberton & Son, Victoria, B.C "XTX Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, B.C XIX' Nicholson, Henry, Camp McKinney XIX- Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C XIX- Hawley, John, Vancouver, B.C XIX. More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C XVII. Purgold, George, Rossland, B.C XVII. MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver XIX. Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XIX. West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVHI. Bromly, A. H., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Gore, Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria XVin. Harvey, W. PeUew, Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Archbold & Pearson, Nelson, B. C XVIH. Groves, F. W., Greenwood, B.C XVHI. Tytler, F. J. L., Vancouver, B.C XVn. Redmond & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C ; XVIII. Thomas, B., Vancouver ". XVHI. Selby Bros., Portland, Ore XVIII. Brewer, W M., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Tyrell & Green, Dawson City, Yukon XIX. Mackinnon, W. M., M.A.C., Vancouver, B.C XVIH. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Merry, H. E. D., Rossland XVHI. METAL JOBBERS— Robertson, James, & Co., Montreal. Vancouver. .Back Cover. ORE SACKS— Vancouver Agency, Vancouver XIII. ORE PURCHASERS— _ Van Anda Copper and Gold Co., Van Anda .... XX. ORE CARS— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Page. Dow Pumping Engine Co., San Francisco XIV'. Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XII. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI • III.' Taylor Air Compressing Co., Spokane, Wash. V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col Xin! James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHL Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco XIL Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co., Seattle, Wash Vni. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. IV. Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co Cover PAINTS— Robertson, James, & Co., Ltd., Montreal and Van- Back couver Cover. PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng XX. Scientific Pub. Co., New York XX PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Co , Newark, N.J XVI. PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES— Edwards Bros., -Vancouver XX. ROCK DRILLS— Bullock, The M. C. Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111 XH. Howell's Mining Drill Co XH. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland Vni Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Gates Iron Works, Chicago, I. Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B. C Back Cover. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Huntington, F. A., San Francisco XH. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XHI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal.... Cover. Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston Front Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 286 SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XIX. Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVIH. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XIX. Fergusson & Crofts, Vancouver XIX. Mackinnon, W. M., Vancouver and Nelson XVIII. Tytler, F. J. L XVH. Groves, F. W., Greenwood XVIII. Merry H. E. D., Rossland, B.C XVHI. SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, III I. SCREENS AND PERFORATED METALS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. SMELTING AND ROASTING FURNACES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Gates Iron Works, Chicago I. SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XVI. Rithet, R. P., & Co., Victoria XXTT. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XX. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich XX. TRAMWAYS—(See Elevators and Conveyors.) TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co XXII Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria XXH V. Y. T. Co., Victoria and Bennett IX. S.S.Amur XIV. WATER WHEELS— Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman & Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &c. Victoria, Rossland, &c Thomas Farle, Wholesale Grocer, &c XV. Stemler & Earle, Spices, &c, Victoria XV. Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits, Victoria XX. Ward, Robt., & Co., Ltd., Com. Mchts. and Importers. XVI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co., Vancouver Cover. Weiler Bros., Furniture XV. Prior, E. G. & Co., Ld., Hardware XIV. Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods XV. Turner, Beeton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors XV. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, XHI. Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Back Cover. IV. VI. VHI. =- Xll. THE MINING RECORD. JACKSON CENTRIFUGAL PUMP Are designed for every use of Mining, Dredging, Irrigating or Reclaiming. Send for Catalog and Price List. May be Driven by Steam, Gas, Electric or Water Motor direct, connected or belted. BUILT BY BYRON JACKSON MACHINE WORKS, 625 Sixth Street, San Francisco, Cal., - - I U. S. A. KROGH MANUFACTURING CO., - San Francisco, Cal. Largest and Most Successful Builders of CENTRIFUGAL AND GOLD DREDGING PUMPS. Send for circular of their Two Stamp Hills ALSO Cement, Gravel and Placer Mills I PROVED CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Which are admitted as having revolution. K h TwQ StamDTrj FOR IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE. l2ed the art of milling and saving gold. ^ sixtoTwKe|ve w&m it pie Discharge Mil Tons Per Hour. GOODYEAR RUBBER CO'Y. . . R. H. PEHRSE, President and Manager. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose. "Crack Proof" and ".Snag Proof. Pure Rubber Mining Boots, Rubber Clothing, MACKINTOSHES, Oil eiohing. 573 575, 577 & 579 Market St., srn FRaNeiseo, ©hl. 73 & 75 First St. P0RTLHND, OREGON. "The Chicamon Stone." A new Alaskan novel by C. Phillips-Wolley of which Punch says: It is a succession of pictures of one of the weirdest parts of the world. In power, in simplicity and in occasional grandeur the book is worthy oi its theme. At Hibben's, Victoria Stationery Co., and all Leading Stationers. THE MINING RECORD. xin. The Vancouver Agency, Ha | Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS. NOTE—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz., I Calcutta Ore Sacks, COTTON WASTE, FIREBRICKS, FIRECLAY, SMITHY COAL, LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. Our PRICE for Ore Sacks is particularly LOW as our contract was made before the rise in the Market. Write for lowest prices to 60 Granville St., Vancouver, B ©. THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. WHITE HORSE Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. *8P All steamers plying to and from Dawson and other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the Big Salmon can be more easily reached from White Horse than from any other localitv, thus it is certain to become the great distributing centre for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beautifully situated on a level tract of land on the west bank of the Yukon River and just below the celebrated * hite Horse Rapid" around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the teamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. -if- T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, T,ots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information re gardlng the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S.reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First Avenue South, Seattle, Wash.; and also at the office of J. J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C VICTORIA, B.C. HEAVY DUTY. Geared and First Motion Hoisting Machinery, i&.llBl iifi Isll sssiy When In Need of New Equipment Write to The Hendrie and Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co., Colorado's Famous Mine Outfitting Establishment, DENVER, " COLORADO. XIV. THE MINING RECORD. Established 1858, E. G. Prior & So., Ltd. MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ****** f BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ********** W BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters VICTORIA. Branch Stores ; VANCOUVER and KflML©0PS, S. e. To NORTHERN MINES! The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Ltd., Dispatch Regular Steamers as follows, viz.: For Skagway and Wrangel, # For Northern B. C. Points, Every Wednesday at eleven p.m. f Every Sunday at eleven p.m. For West Coast Points, First. Seventh, Fourteenth and Twentieth of each month at eleven p.m. ... DOW PUMPS ... SRE MMUFaeTUREO IN- Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, Air, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMPS, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUHPS MAKE KNOWN Y0DR WANTS TO THE ■ —^/ GEO. ■ DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. . Of Interest to Incorporated Companies. We have at considerable expense acquired the copyright of a book for the use of Companies incorporated under " The Companies' Act " of British Columbia, in which to keep a record of the following : Register of Members. Register of Directors or Managers. Summary of Shares and Capital. Register of Shares Transferred. The book contains suitable conveniences for correctly keeping all the detail set forth in the Act, and the summary of shares and list of shareholders can be arranged for any term wished for. the stock pattern allowing for 10 years business of the company It is a matter of fact that most of the share dealings in British Columbia are contained in books which do not comply with the Act, being copies of American models called Stock Ledgers, and not suitable for the purpose '; take for example the numbers of the-' shares, and also the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares held by any member. If you are interested send us an outline as to the number of shareholders you at present have, and how many have ceased to be members during the past year and we will quote you for a book good for say 10 years business. For a small company we can suddIv a book carrying all the above information for $8.50. B. C. PRINTING. & ENGRAVING CORP., Ltd., VICTORIA, B.C. BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. HALF TONE and COLOUR WORK A SPECIALTY. BOOKBINDERS— Magazines, Periodicals and Music Books bound in First-Class Style and at Lowest Prices £W Orders by Mail Receive Prompt Attention. BLANK BOOKS— Ruled, Printed and Bound to order. All work guaranteed. THE MINING KECORD. xv. BRITISH COLOMBIA WHOLESALE SCPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. m Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpel. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BR©S., vieT©Rm, B.e. I—ENZ <& LEISER, 9 &n yates street. IMPORTERS OF — GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING, SHIRTS HND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for trje Kpoterjay and KJondik;e Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You flust THE CELEBRATED have "CROWN BRAND" Pure I 'RICKSHAW 9 Ceylon TEA For sale only by Java and M0Cha t Thomas Earle, If you will have TH E BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 50 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B.C. IMPORTER, WHOLESALE QROCER cL and COMMISSION nERCHANT. j Teas and Coffees a Specialty. Proprietors. ^0^ 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BEETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Goods, Liquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. goods ■ndented from all parts ,, s^K-t j_-* • nn^-i- ^-*. ...OF THE WORLD... Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TLTRBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. XVI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt. Ward & Co., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Eoyal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and "Amberite" (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Paoiflc Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected, ••• ... ••• Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. MERCHANTS BANK of HALIFAX INCORPORATED 1869. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED, $2,000,000.00. CAPITAL PAID UP, $1,985,070.00. REST, $1,700,000.00, r. E. KENNY, President. HEAD OFFICE HALIFAX, N.S. BRANCHES IN CANADA: Antigonish, N.S. Atlin, B. C. Bathurst, N. B. Bennett, B. C. Bridgewater, N. S. Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dorchester, N.B. Fredericton, N.B. Guysboro, N S. Grand Forks, B. C. Halifax, N.S. Kingston, N.B. Londonderry, N. S. Louisburg, N. S. Lunenburg, N.S. Mailland, N.S. Moncton, N. B. Montreal, P. Q. Montreal (West End). Montreal (Westmount). Nanaimo, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Newcastle. N.B. Ottawa, Ont. Pictou, -N S. Port Hawkesbury, N. S. Bossland, B.C. Sackville, N.B. EDSON L. PEASE, General Manager. St. John, N. U. Shubenacadie, N S. Summerside. P. E. I. Sydney, N. S. Truro, N. S. Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, (East End) Victoria,B. C. Weymouth, N. S. Woodstock, N. B. Branches In Newfoundland.—St. Johns. Branches in United States.—Havana, Cuba. New York. Republic, Wash. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Drafts and Letters of Credit Issued. GOLD DUST ASSAYED AND PURCHASED The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920 OOO RESERVE £100,000 $ 486^666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit! etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BAN K DEPARTM ENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. New York Office- 121 LIBERTY STREET. PLATINUM REFINERS BAKER & CO., ■ i i i W1 E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM. i i i i < ii "NEWARK, N. J. \\ THE MINING RECORD DIAMOND DRILLS, PDSE, ETC. JEFFREY M ELEVATING MACHINERYl FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling Material of all kinds. SEND FOB CATALOGUE. THE JEFFREY MFG.GO. Columbus,0.1 .M.C.BULLOCK MANFG. CO E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A K. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Companv, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . R. W. GRIGOR, • MINES- ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Port Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkanieen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present- • Cable Address : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeill's and Moreing and Neal's codes. George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Van Anda Purchasers and Smelters of 6opper*6old Ores Rates on Application. Cash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van Anda, Texada Island. B.C. XI I I Nos. 12 to 1 heodor Lexow, m 1 Wallace Building, Columbia Avenue, Rossland, B.C P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes -ABC Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeill's. Grown CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechancial Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. BENNETT FUSE! REGISTERED IN CANA.DA Brand. TRADE wau:i,- Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. _. _ _ _ __ r . CAMBORNE. CORNWALL, ENGLAND. WM BENNETT, SONS & CO.. Manufacturers, London owices, B>itievchamb.r>, .o8 Bi.h.p.Kaust., . , , T— „„f t> ia fi-Ti+rn-Peroha will neither crack nor break. Costs no more than tar-tape fuses. A3k Is guaranteed absolutely waterproof It^«™&Xwlug fuses for Canada: No. 6-RED fuse for dry ground. No. 30-- ypur dealer for it. Give it a tamL We ^™*1B... E ^WWed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application. Pope's WHITE countered fuse, waterproot. **»,b f^V^Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. ROWLAND MACHIN, ffoiS? No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. XVlll. THE MINING EECORD. PROFESSIONAL, ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Proiincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E.. M. Inst. M. E. M. Amee. I. M. E. MINES Mining and Consulting Engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, P. O. Box 308, LONDON, E.C. VANCOUVER, B.C. ' Christopher, London." (" Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E & M. E, VANCOUVER, B. C. Reports. Surveys. Management. Contract Prospecting and Devlopment Work. Best References. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence in West Kootenay. ^^T^&LT^r2 Reports on Slocan Properties, Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, HIA,.. Hamwa.. D /* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's. W6W UenVCI, D.V». AReHBOLD & PEHRS0N, MINING ENGINEERS AND ASSAYERS- Cable Address : Archpear, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeill, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H. HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST .„,. METALLURGIST. Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and j many organic substances. Special experience In Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead. ? 50 50 Gold and silver | 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Kich Ores and Bullion. Bought, OGOEN aSSaY CO.. 1429*16th St.. DENVER. Colo. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyan ide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address F. O. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F. .S. (Mem. Fed. Inst. M. and M.E.) aSSaYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testingand Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORBS and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD.. Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co.. Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-19 Fender St., VA CCDVER, 15 Broad St., VICTORIA, B.C. John Redman, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. C. Otjthett, R. C. Sc. Chemist and Metallurgist. REDriAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and Analyses guaranteed accurate. Write for interesting information about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. n. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, • - VANCOUVER, B. C. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F. I. C. Assayer and Metallurgist. VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow o the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experieuce in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. Special attention to Samples by mail. A CARD. From SELBY BROTHERS of SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Assayers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Public of the North West. We beg to advise you that we have opened a branch of our business at 205^ Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to accommodate our numerous clients in the North West. As our name for prompt and reliable work in the past is known to every mining man west of the Rockies, it will guarantee our future success. Our Certificates are invariably accepted by Banks and Mining Corporations as final. Numerous investors waiting for sound mining property. We are now ready for work. Send in your Samples with letter of instructions and charges, and we will give you prompt returns. Our charges are: Gold and Silver, $1.50. Gold, Silver and Copper, $3.00. Coal, Soils and other Minerals, $3.00 each. Hand power stamp mills for tests for sale. SELBY BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining Experts. 205^ WASHINGTON STREET, - PORTLAND, OREGON THE MINING RECORD. J- Fortescue Foulkes. PROFESSIONAL, HND BROKERS. N. B. Van der Gucht. J. F. Foulkes &, Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Fouvan." AU codes used. W. H. BAUER, D.L.S..P.L.S. a. S. ASHCROFT. D.L.SVP.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. Greenwood, B.Cf BAUER & aSH6R©FT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. VANCOUVER and GREENWOOD. I. B. TYRRELL, M.A., F.G.S. T. D. GREEN, C.E., D.L.S. TYRRELL & GREEN, fS Mining and Civil Kngineers Dominion Land Surveyors. Mining properties valued and reported upon. Surveys made. Money invested, etc., etc. DAWSON, Yukon Territory. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought and Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. (Bedford-McNeill, j 611 Hastings St., Codes -I Moreing & Neal, (, Clough's. VANCOUVER, B. C One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines1 S. THORNTON LANGLEY & CO., Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited. Cable Address: " Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. P. 0. Box 178. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. -Cable address: "Cortez," "Vancouver. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED || MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. I Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51Q Hastings ^reert>T[sda[|s) VANCOUVER, B.C. Fergusson & Crofts Civil and Mechanical m~* • eonsuitmgEngineers Valuations, Arbitrations, Surveys, Reports, Esti'mates and Specifications. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work in Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for ^ BOOTH'S HOISTS. The " Risdon " Gold Dredger. The HaJlidie Ropeway. The " Champion" Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The " Campbell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, P. O. Box 423. Codes—Moreing <St Neal, A.B.C. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59, GERMANY Cable Address : " Backworth," Ymir. A. BERNARD BUCKWORTH ^ \ I MINES YMIR, British Columbia. Personal knowledge of mining properties la this district. Correspondence Invited. Commissions undertaken. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neal's. — XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &&. . . . IT IS N0 GOOD . .1. ■ m Advertising in the British Press Unless You Understand How to approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT Wh0 can adYiys0tuplssibtVa0teu;.business at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. e. J. WALKER'S "British and Canadian Press Bureau," 24 eoleman St., London, E.g. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES: 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 months. 6 months. 3 months Canada ......... 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. R. Van Oer Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy Assaying of Ores, ?25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. An Engineering School with unique location giving it unusual fadlities. Distincti e mithods of ii struction. Special courses. For atalcguesgiving occupation of graduates, addretsF. W.McNAIR, Presi lent, Houghton, Mich W. JONES (Established 1885.) AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, ESTATE AGENT, Etc. The City Auction Mart, 73 and 13% Yates St., VICTORIA, - - B. C. Auction sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor's own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of References from past and present clients. Houses, etc., to rant and for sale in all parts List your properties with us, good clients always wailing. All business entrusted to us receives strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. Edwards Bros., 534 Cordova St., -—VANCOUVER, B. C. DEALERS IN PHotorapHi6 Stock Agents for the Rochester Opti- j cal Co , and the Eastman Kodak Co. LARGE STOCK OF Film and Plate Cameras ON HAND. PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION FREflO B. $15. M. R. SMITH I GO. ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. 430 BRANCH Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VII. 1898. Among the many valuable technical treatises incorporated In this notable volume are the following, with the number of pages assigned to each particular article; a page of the Mineral Industry Is equivalent to about two of a treatise oi ordinary size.—Recovery of Ammonium Sulphate from Gas Liquor, by H. A. Frasch, (20 pp.); Asphaltum Refining, by H. A. Frasch, (12 pp.); The Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States, by F. H. Lewis,' (6 pp,); The Principles of Fire Brick Manufacture, by Charles Ferry, (6 pp.); The Manufacture and Use of Paving Brick in the Middle West, by H. Foster Bain, (13 pp.); Kaolin, Its Occurrence, Technology and Trade, by T. C. Hopkins (13 pp.); Coal Mining Methods and their Economic Bearing, by W. S. Gresley, (19 pp.); The Occurrence and Utilization of Peat, by Earnest A. Sjostedt, (8. pp.); The Electrolysis and Refining of Copper, by Edward Keller, (32pp.); Feldspar, Its Occurrence, Mining and Uses, by T.C. Hopklns,' (7 pp.); The Identification of Gems, by Leopold Claremont, (9 pp.); Progress I in the Metallurgy of Gold and Silver, by W. R. Ingalls, (26 pp.); The Hydros''- Metallurgy of Silver, by Ottokar Hofmann, (27 pp.); The Technology of Gypsum, by G. P. Grimsley, (6 pp.); Progress in the Metallurgy of Steel, bv H. M. Howe, (20 pp.); Present Practice inj&ilver-Lead Smelting at Denver and Puebelo, by L. S. Austin. (7 pp.); Recent Improvments In Lead Smelting, by H. O. Hofman, (21 pp.); The Bedford Oolitic Limestone, by (i. E. Siebenthal, (4 pp.); Lime and Lime Burning, by H. A, Frasch, (14 pp.); The Manufacture of Acid Phosphate of Lime, by Peter S. Gilchrist, (10 pp.): Present Practice in the Metallurgy of Quicksilver in California, by R. B. Symington, (7 p.p); Occurrence and Recovery of Sodium Carbonate in the Great Basin, by s. A. Knapp, (9 pp.); The Manufacture of Chamber Sulphuric Acid, by F. J. Fald-j" ing, (64 pp.); Developments in the Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium, by W. R. Ingalls, (16 pp.); Progress In Ore Dressing Tn 1898, by Robert H. Richards, (4 pp.); TheProgress of Metallography in 1898, by Albert Sauver, (11pp.); The Manufacture of Nickel Steel, Titus Ulke, (4 pp.). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. XXI. VflNCODYER ISLAND COAL. COAL! COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co* (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIflO COAL (Used principally for.Gas and Domestic purposes.) * SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both a Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SHMUEL M. R©BINS, Supt., Nanaimo, B.e. XXII. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE, f |f' ■' : 'I THROUGH TRAINS vl ■■'§:,■" ATLANTIC {to PACIFIC WITHOUT CHANGE- Lowest Rates. ^ TO ALL POINTS IN Best Equipment. ^ Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to Or to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C E. J. COYLE/ Ass't General. Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R. P. RITHETJ& CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNON MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England ; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marxne Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 51. Taking effect July 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver dally, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1.30 o clock p.m. or on arrival of C. P Raliway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock' a.m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. '.f-ftve New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursady at 7 o'(lock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Nass and inter mediate ports via Vancouver on every Sunday night. ALASKA ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave for Wrangel and Skagway every Wednesday at 11 p.m. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound porta t 1st, 7th, 14th and 20th at 11 p.m. Extending latter trip Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON. C. S. BAXTER, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent he to — The Hudson's Bay Company • HAVE ===== )aie de Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Kelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Bat Portage Biding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these ftores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. FELTEN & GUILLEADME, Carlswerk, Actien GeseUaft, Mulheim on Rhine. Oldest and most renowned WIRE ROPE FACTORY On the European Continent. WIRE ROPES of every Description for Mining Purposes Round and Flat Wire RopesForMln1^ ^^ clines, Towing, Ploughs, Cranes, Etc. Ing, Lifting, Tramways, In- " Albert," or so-called " Lang's " Lay Ropes CDCPIAI TIF? ■ Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patent Flat- orxvilHLIiCO . tened Strand Wire Ropes. Electric Wires and Cables for telegraphy, Telephony, Electric Light and Transmission of Power WIRE...—Jack & Robertson. 7 St. Helen St., MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'y, HH m i VANCOUVER, B.C. « Man Cifa Ct U rCfS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints, Shot, Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. METALS. Office and Warehouse. - 151 Hastings St Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. Ontar o Gold Mining A few Min who Use Brinish Columbia. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO.,,— I MANUFACTURERS OF Mining Machinery OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.C 1 in F OFFICES: SANDON ROSSLAND GREENWOOD, B.a SOLE AGENTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR John Bertram St Sons, Iron*Working Machinery. The MacGregor, Gourlay ©o/s Woodworking Machinery. R. Hoe & Go.'s Celebrated Inserted Tooth Saws. BRHNCH OFFICE: Mjt* MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET, WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. - VANCOUVER, B.C. PUBLISHED BY "THE KINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. HIS MONTH, j The New | Mother Lode" Smelter at Greenwood (Illustrated), Etc. VOL.VIL SEPTEMBER, 1900 The Hinton Electric Company, Limited. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA, B. C. VANCOUVER, B. C. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. •MAKERS OF Electrical Miningr Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. O. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Odb Bbitish Columbia Branches at VICTORIA. THE ONLY ROLL JAW CRUSHER PRICE, 20 CENTS. VANCOUVER. CRUSHER OF HARD ROCK. Does as fine work as Breaker and rolls all at one operation. STURTEVANT MILL CO., 107 Clayton Street, Send for Circular. Boston. Mass. ##@ Cannery Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar Iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Co. LIMITED, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. m m m m m m m m m m m %&M§kiti//ftf4 FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING • MACHINERY ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. • < ),. {I s < AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT ■ s COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- ff^rutv.J' M For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching COAL WASH ING PLANT—Large Testing Station for Orushingand Dressing Ores at the Works. For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 899, Johannesburg, S.A.R. r THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL MINING MACHINERY. LOTS NOW IN THE... MARKET. ALLISON TOWNSITE, Situated on the Beautiful Valley of the Similkameen River At the point where the railway leaves the Valley for Spence's Bridge and in close proximity to Copper Mountain is the coming business centre for all the mining camps from Twenty-Mile to Otter Valley, and the country west of the railway known as the Hope Mountain, is so situated as to command the trade north to Spence's Bridge, east to Penticton, west to Hope and the Tulameen, and south to Copper and Kerinedy Mountains. lVff~^\^/ *s *^e ^me *° secure the most favorable location before the railway is commenced, and the Government establish the 1 ^1VJ T V head offices for that district. Railway and Wagon Road are both located through the centre of the town. Handsome Bridge just completed over the Similkameen river, connecting with Copper Mountain Wagon Road. Stores and Hotel now under construction, and Saw Mill being erected close to Townsite. Apply to J. F. Foulkes & Co.,35 fort street. AND ROOM 7, BOARD OF TRADE BLD'G. Head Office Dewdney's Canadian Syndicate, Ltd. LINK-BELT ELEVATORS and eONYEYORS, *^^^ : Por Handling Ores. Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc. „ ~^^. PICKING TABLES, Shaking & Revolving Screens Coal Washing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. I H^Hl ma LINK-BELT" COAL AND COKE BREAKER, iies LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., ^%r;^s"t:fe'Chicago, U.S A. LINK-BELT BOX WATER ELEVATOR Capacities, 300 to 10,000 Gallons Per Minute *** ROBINS ** Belt Conveyors. Handle all Materials with GREAT ECONOMY. USE ©UR SORTING BELTS Instead of SORTING TABLES. Send for ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 32 In. Sorting Belt Now In Use at WAR EAGLE Mine, Rossland. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK. u. THE MINING RECORD. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No 0 Prec^s*on Balance. ^ipi 5-inch Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TBBTZBL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY, MINING ftND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES. [E are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. 1 P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address: " Assay." Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING £2* ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851. -Incorporated 1895. ASSAYE1RS' flATERIALS, nine and mil .Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co., Battersea, England. Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker m Adamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices, Headquarters for Mining and scientific books. Pacific Coast Agents for Wm. Ainsworth & Sons' Assay and Analytical Balances. JOHN TAYLOR & CO., Illustrated catalogue on application. 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. THE MINING RECORD. in. GEIMERflL MINING MHeHIIVERY.— Continued. 546 Washtenaw Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL, U.S.A. —HEADQUARTERS FOR- Mining Machinery. Hoisting Engines for Deep Mines. Prospectors Hoists. Gray's Patent ehairs. 1 ears, Cages. Sederholm Boilers. Corliss Engines. Riedler Pumps and flir eompressors. CO S o o l-l < H <! u Pi o p z m 0: O mmm ppj wm ^3 <3i& 9"8i^^H SBfe n H i^^M S®f a ■ Adjustable Comet Rock and ©re Crushers. Perforated Metals for all Purposes.(We 7a!Sg!eSrta Improved Crushing Rolls. Smelting and Roasting Furnaces. Stamp Mills & Concentrating Mills And equipment of every kind. Our machinery in these lines is more largely used than that of any other manufacturer. It is in use on all gold fields and is recognised everywhere as the best. The Whitewater Deep Concentrator is a recent example of our work. Ball Pulverizers such as used at the Republic Mine and the Helena & Livingstone Mill are of our manufacture. Write for Catalogue. -REPRESENTED BY- L MENNO UNZ1CKER, SPOKANE HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASH. Exc usive Manufacturers of Riedler Pumps and Air Compressors for United States, Canada. Mexico. So«fli America, England, South Africa and Australia -a IV, THE MINING RECORD. CABLES, WATER WHEELS AND 60MPRESS0RS. TELL U5 WHERE YOU'RE AT. 4 CENTS PER TON PER MILE Is what it costs to transport Ore with our systems of Aerial Wire Rope Tramways. We also manufacture a lot of other kinds of good common sense Mining Machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Concentrating Mills, Placer Machinery, in fact about everything in machinery used around a Mine, Mill or Smelter. We would like to send you our books telling you all about it, but we can't do it unless you write us WHERE YOU'RE AT. The J. H. Montgomery Machinery Co., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND OTHJSK SYSTEMS OP AERIAL TRANSPORTATION MANUFACTURED BY Bleichert Tramway of the Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa., showing guard-bridge across Penna. R K. New York Onrics-Cooper, Hewitt & Co,17 BURLING SLIP THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in North America for the Bleichert System. Also, Wire Rope Equipments for Surface and Underground Haulage, etc. Chicago Ofwcb-1114 MONADNOCK BUILDING. Tl! Hallidie Ropeway **£* ™LP ™LL EV For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOniCAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cableways, Transmission "toy "Wire Hopes. incline planes. cat>ie Qrips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Logging by Cables. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, cable. Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet Correspondence solicited.-' FERGUSSON & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. CALIFORNIA WIRE W0RK5, 7 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. —MANUFACTURERS OP- WATER P0WER>The-Vlct<"-Turbine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. DAYTON, OHIO U.S.A. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lactone Rapids Hydraulic & Land Oo., Montreal, Que., 18,000 h.p.; Ohambly Manufacturing Co., Montreal, Que, 30,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & Lurht Oo. ' Rossland, B.C., 8,000 h.p. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL HND MINE SUPPLIES mz THE "UNION" GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine should be ; and is the result of 15 years experience, having been built in San Francisco since 1885. " Union " Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. Send for illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Hoisting Machinery. The Large Demand which has recently been created for Small and Medium-Sized ; STEftM HOISTING PLANTS * Has iuduced us to place upon the market one which we consider The Acme of Perfection. Itis Light, Powerful, Compact, and just the right thing for the Northern trade. If you require this class of machinery it will pay you to call a* our Works and see them for your self. We have them on hand. £&~ Correspondence Solicited. ARMSTRONG & MORRISON, Iron and Steel Works, Manufacturers of Hydraulic Steel Pipe, Hydraulic Giants, Mining and Waterworksi Plants, Ore Cars, Ore Buckets, EDgines, Boilers and General Machinery .... Office and Works. Foot of Heatley Ave., Vancouver, B.C. Compressed Air from Palling Water. TL HIGH TESTIM0NIHL. THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898 THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO. Montreal, Que. DEAR SIRS:— Mm. . , , 1 * + , ,1(^ ., We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (1*3) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department.' Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. Yours truly W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING CO., SPOKANE, WASH r VI. ■tim THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. -<^*tf-» -£w^> Branches: GREENWOOD, NELSON and ROSSLAND, B.C. Hoisting ™ Winding Engines ■ And Appliances for all Purposes. \17E offer improved designs and a wide range of sizes and styles to make your select- ** ion from. Special ENGINES and MACHINERY also built to specification. Send us your prints or outline your requirements, and we will he pleased to submit you an estimate or proposal. A GOOD LINE of Standard Hoisting Engines, Cars, Buckets, etc.. carried in stock at Rossland Warehouse, for quick delivery; also Wire. Rope, Sheaves and General Mine Supplies. The JENGKES MACHINE CO. 32*40 Lansdowne Street. SHERBROOKE. QUE m 4/%. «^*<-* -^fi>«- Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. -MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN- Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery KJOMFRISINS- HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, SHEET IRON and STEEL PIPE, STAMP MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, ORE FEEDERS, CONCENTRATORS, SMELTERS, HOISTING and PUMPING PLANTS, SAW MILLS, MINE and MILL SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application j HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATER WHEEL. HKMILTON POWDER CO'Y. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers ot High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office: MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICES: WORKS: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland and Greenwood. NANAIMO. Assayers' Gasoline Furnaces & Burners With tlie Furnace and Burner liere shown it is possible to melt and cupel 144 assays in 12 hours, with 5 gallons of gasoline. Write for Catalogue giving full particulars. J^j_y l|^^l^MJaJa»^w«^■w^a;.a^, Gary Hydrocarbon Burner. May Be Obtained From Gary Combination Furnace F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal. ® B.C, Assay & Chem. Supply Co., Ltd., Vancouver,B C f THE MINING RECORD ELECTRieHL MHeHINERY CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MHNUFfteTURERS OF Electric ] Mining § Apparatus Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and If Power and Motors for all Purposes. Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM .WRITE US BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ROSSLAND. VANCOUVER. / Vlll. THE MINING RECORD. MISeELLHNEODS. I JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd , o MONTREAL, P. Q. INGERSOLL-SERGEANT MACHINERY. Manufacturers of ROCK DRILLS, Straight Line, Duplex, and Corliss Air Compressors. Complete Mine Equipment of all Kinds. ( R. A. C. McNally, Rossland. B. C. Catalogue and Details on Application to j H- R. Kirkpatrick, Greenwood, B.C. ( W- A. Maclennan. Vancouver, B. C. The Brackman=Ker Milling Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. rianufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. (Registered.) ^Unequalled in the World. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with the best quality'of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. B.&K. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton Established 1817. BANKL OF JVLOlN TJtIE AL. ^t°ofpTrliamlnt. CAPITAL (all paid up), $12,000,000.00. RESERVE FUND, 17,000,000.00. UNDIVIDED PROFIT, I427,180.80. HEAD OFFICE, ------- MONTREAL. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., President; Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice-President. A. T. Paterson, Esq.; Edward B. Greenshields, Esq.; Sir. William C. Macdonald; R. B. Angus, Esq.; A. F. Gault, Esq.; James Ross, Esq.; R. G. Reid, Esq. E. S. CLOUSTON, - - - General Manager. A. Macnider, Chief Inspector and Superintendent of Branches. j F. W. Taylor, Assistant Inspector. W. S. Clouston, Inspector of Branch Returns. | JAMES AIR D. Secretary. .BRANCHES IN CANADA :— Montreal—H. V. Meredith, Manager. Province OF Ontario—Almonte, Belleville, Brantford, Brockville, Chatham Cornwall, Deseronto, Fort "William, Goderich, Guelyh, Hamilton, Kingston Lindsay London Ottawa, Perth, Peterboro, Picton, Sarnia Stratford, St. Mary's, Toronto, Toronto Yonge St. Branch, Wallaceburg. Province of Quebec—Montreal: West End Br., Seigneurs St. Br., Point St. Charles; Quebec. Lower Provinces—Chatham, N.B.; Fredericton, N.B.; Moncton, N.B.; St. John, N.B.; Amherst, N.S., Halifax, N.S.; Sydney, N.S. Province of Manitoba and North-West Territories—Winnipeg, Man.; Calgary, Alberta: Lethbridge, Alberta; Regina, Assiniboia. Province of British Columbia—Greenwood, Nelson, New Denver, N. Westminster, Rossland, Vancouver, Vernon, Victoria. In Newfoundland—St. John's Nfld., Bank of Montreal. In Great Britain—London, Bank of Montreal, 22 Abchurcb Lane, B.C., Alexander Lang, Manager IN the United States—New York—R. Y. Hebden and J. M. Greata, Agents, 59 Wall Street; Chicago—Bank of Montreal. Bankers in Great Britain—London—The Bank of England, the Union Bank of London, the London & Westminster Bank, the National Prov. Bank o Pngland. Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool, Ltd. Scotland—The British Linen Company Bank and branches. 'bankers in the United States—New York—The National City Bank, the Bank of New York, N.B.A. Boston—The Merchants' National Bank, J. B. Moors & Co. Buffalo—The Marine Bank, Buffalo. San Francisco—The First National Bank, the Bank of British Columbia, the Anglo-Californian Bank. Portland Oregon—The Bank of British Columbia. BANK ©F BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. ESTABLISHED 1836. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1840. PftID UP eaPITHL, Sl.000,000 STERLING. RESERVE FUND 325,000 LONDON. ENG.. ©FFieES, 3 CLEMENTS L71NE, LOMBARD STREET. ■BRANCHES AND AGENCIES : SIDNEY, N.S. HALIFAX, N.S. MONTREAL, P.Q. HAMILTON, Ont. WINNIPEG, Man. ST. JOHN, N.B. OTTAWA, Ont. BRANTFORD, Ont. BRANDON, Man. FREDERICTON, N.B. KINGSTON, Ont. LONDON, Ont. NEW YORK, N.Y. QUEBEC, P.Q. TORONTO, Ont. MIDLAND, Ont. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA : VICTORIA, VANCOUVER, ROSSL/AND, TRAIL, KASL,©, ASHeROFT, GREENWOOD. Hlso at the Gold Fields—ATLIN, BENNETT and DAWSON CITY, Highest Prices Paid for Gold Dust and Amalgam. G. H. BURNS, Mgf., VICTORIA, 6.6. The Mining Record. Vol. VII. SEPTEMBER, 1900. No. 9. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING RECORD Devoted to the Mining Interests of British Columbia. PUBLISHED BY The Mining Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. J10RTIMER LAMB, managing Editor, London Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Montreal : Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co San Francisco : Dake's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERriS: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Becobd to be addressed to The Editor, B.C. Mining Becobd, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Becobd to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Becobd, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. I NECESSARY TO THE AMENDMENTS MINERAL ACT. THE MONTH. THE proposal of the Government to appoint a commission with a view to investigating the working of the mining law, has met, in certain quarters, with much strenuous objection and adverse criticism. This would be justified were the motives for holding such a commission such as are generally supposed. We are, however, assured on very excellent authority that the Government has no intention of interfering with existing industrial conditions, nor would the much-vexed question of the "eight-hour law" be again opened. Moreover, neither the mine-owners nor their association are in any way responsible ior the origination of the idea, which emanated entirely from the Department of Mines. In short, the object of the enquiry is to discover and remedy technical faults in the mining law, to suggest improvements and changes in regard to the Placer Act, which at present is far from a perfect measure, and to frame suitable clauses applicable to hydraulic mining leases wherein the present act is deficient. No serious objections can surely be raised to the suggestion if carried out upon these lines, provided always the men appointed to sit as commissioners are unbiased and properly qualified to deal with the subject in hand. It is the "if" in this case, however, that is all- important. Meanwhile a commission rightly composed would undoubtedly accomplish a great deal more effectively a task that under ordinary circumstances would be entrusted to the Mining Committee of the House, many of whose members are ignorant of mining in the practical sense. In fact, the idiotic "tinkering" to which the mineral acts have been subjected may be largely attributed to the ignorance of the so-called' Mining Committees in the past. The mining industry in this country has now been sufficiently long established to admit of a very fair opinion being formed of its requirements from a legislative standpoint and there should therefore be no occasion for the constant changes in the law that nearly every session of the local Legislature brings forth. But notwithstanding amendment following amendment, and repeal following repeal, the Act is still woefully inadequate and inapt in many important particulars. Hence the need of a thorough levision once and for all by a commission or board of practical men of experience and judgment. It would be impossible within the limits of a short article to point out the many advantageous improvements that could be made in both the acts relating to mining, but in view of recent occurrences one suggestion at least is permissible. The clauses in the Mineral Act relating to the observances imposed on the holder of un-Crown grant mineral properties are much too stringent. A case in point was the jumping of certain fractions adjoining the Velvet mine and belonging to the company operating the Velvet. Here is brought into strong relief the risks of grave injustice which follow from the various forfeitures of title which bestrew the Mineral Act. It does not appear just that mineral ground, undermined by many thousands of dollars' worth of work, in active operation and having upon it expensive mine buildings should be subject to the total risk of forfeitures by reason of failure to make what in such an instance is a purely conventional declaration of certain work done and the payment of a fee of $2.50 for so doing. Were this an isolated instance it might be argued that some extraordinary negligence on the part of the company had taken place and that if people would not pay $2.50 to preserve title to verv valuable property they fully deserved to lose it. Which is very true, but unfortunately this is by no means an isolated case. Others have occurred and have had a bad effect on the interests of British Columbia through disgusting men who had invested large sums of money in this province. And this is the point of view from which the matter should be judged, not that it is the business of the Legislature' to protect those too negligent to carry out the conditions under which mineral rights are held, but to protect the interests of the province bv making these conditions as plain and simple as possible, and by minimizing the risk of forfeiture and its heavy losses as much as possible. Another recent instance was that in which * ' 620,000 was invested in 328 THE MINING RECORD. the development of a mineral claim in South Yale, both the money and property being lost as a result of a cast-iron technicality of law. Naturally the men placed in this unfortunate position have withdrawn themselves and their money to a safe distance from British Columbia. A third case is that of a joint stock company owning a fraction adjacent to certain Crown grants they also mined. For some reason the company was not working its mine and had only a representative agent in the country. To hold this fraction which is very valuable, it has not only to do and record assessment work, but also keep up a license of $100 yearly, thus running the risk of two separate and distinct forfeitures in the course of one year. Not only so, but its miners' license taken out in July or August would only run to May 31st, a subtlety of departmental regulation which a foreign company might well be excused from fully appreciating. A case which actually occurred of even more grievous hardship is also to the point. An investor purchased two adjoining mineral claims, and in order to obviate any risk of loss of title set to work at once to have the ground surveyed with the object of Crown Granting. This was duly done and work in excess of the legal amount wasperformed. The certificate of improvements was applied for and during the specified time no adverse claim was filed. The recorder of the district, however, refused to issue the certificate until ten separate affidavits were filed and paid for setting out in separate portions of $100 the work for which he already had surveyors' affidavits tendered to him as amounting to over $1,000 in value. These ten affidavits the surveyor would not make, as he had not "done nor caused to be done" the work in question. While he was trying to get in touch with the owner who was travelling at a distance the claims ran out and were jumped. So here a man lost his property through his very eagerness to secure title as rapidly and effectively as possible. The investor in this instance was a man of influence, in a position to command large amounts of capital, but he literally and metaphorically shook the dust of British Columbia off his feet, and has since persistently decried the country and its laws. Innumerable other cases of hardships of this description could well be cited, but enough have perhaps been given for present purposes. Meanwhile it is quite clear that some further protection should be afforded not only investors but prospectors and others from the forfeiture of valuable and improved property on merely technical grounds, and we therefore submit the following suggestion to the attention of the Government, or should the appointment be made, to the commission on mining law: (1.) The failure to record assessment work on before the expiration of the present time-limit shall not render the property liable to forfeiture, but omission in this respect shall be punishable by fine on a system of cumulative penalties. For instance, if a record is made within one month after the legal limit, a fine of, say, five dollars, shall be imposed; if within three months, the sum to be paid shall be fifteen dollars, or twentv-five do'lars if the extreme limit of the six months' extension is not exceeded. After six months the property should revert to the Crown. (2.) No location or mineral claim on which one assessment, or work to the appraised value of one hundred dollars, has been performed, shall be "jumpable" or open to re-location, but shall revert as a claim with designated boundaries to the Crown. At stated periods, of which adequate notice must be given, properties thus forfeited shall be sold at public auction by the Gold Commission or Mining Recorder of the district, a minimum reserve price being placed on every claim thus offered for sale. (3.) The present clause relating to the location and recording of mineral claims should be repealed, and the Colorado law of compulsory assessment before a claim can be recorded substituted therefor. These suggestions, if acted upon, would be productive of several, in our opinion, beneficial results. In the first place the man who spends either his time or his money in a bona fide attempt to develop a mineral property, but who by ill-chance or even carelessness omits to regard a trivial technicality of the law would be reasonably safeguarded against serious and complete loss by forfeiture. Secondly, if opportunity was not taken of the reasonable chance afforded, the Government would benefit by the acquisition and sale of the property and not some private individual or "jumper" whose moral, if not legal right, to the work of others is certainly questionable. Again by the means proposed promiscuous staking of claims in new districts would be largely checked, by preventing re-location after one' assessment, and lastly a large increase in revenue from mining districts might be counted upon for the prosecution of useful and necessary public works in those localities. The present government has doubled the tax on a tax upon the output of coal mines. The first of these two measures has raised quite a storm of pro- the output of metalliferous mines and has imposed test as calculated to restrict the employment of capital in the development of the mineral resources of the province. In face of the facts such an outcry is ridiculous. The amount realized from the tax last year, when the mineral output of the province from lode mines exceeded $6,750,000 in value, was the large and important sum of $31,000. The estimated return from the increased tax is $65,000. Even the increased figure is not a very burdensome impost upon an industry whose gross output of virgin wealth is $6,750,- 000. It is true that in making this estimate of the return from the new tax the financial advisers of the government have shown the same genial ignorance of the mining expansion in the province characteristic of the year 1900, which cast a veil over the Queen's Speech in this regard. Without calculating the normal increase in districts already productive, two districts, East Kootenay and Boundary, will add this year between two and three millions to the gross output of the province. The output of the metalliferous mines of British Columbia is now in excess of $10,000,000 a year, and the Finance Minister would have been quite safe in taking this figure as a basis for the returns of the new tax. LTpon this basis the tax would as originally imposed return $45,000 and doubled, will return not less than $90,000. This is a handsome increment to the provincial revenue and cannot be considered an oppressive burden upon the mining industry. The mining industry pays the bulk of the revenue of this province in addition to enormous contributions to the Dominion revenue. Directly or indirectly most of the sources of revenue which the province possesses, owe their buoyancy to the mining industry. So much is this the case that the increased stumpage tax and the tax on coal will THE MINING RECORD. 329 both fall to some extent upon the mines, which are large consumers of both timber and fuel. It is inevitable that mining should pay the expenses of administering this province, because mining is the only industry which makes it worth while administering this country as a province at all. The whole fiscal system of British Columbia must be based on mining. Its future prosperity must be derived from mining.' Its status as a province must be preserved by mining. There- lore we must have taxation which will not cripple and legislation which will foster the mining industry. Liberal laws, wise expenditure and fair taxation are the main requirements of the mining industry. Nor is the increased taxation of this year in any way opposed to these requirements when the large sums spent in the development of new districts are considered. It will be time enough to cry out when the mining industry is being milked for purposes alien to its own development. The tax upon the output of coal is in every respect a good one. The coal resources of British Columbia are practically limitless. Every year a larger and larger production will be maintained and every year a larger and larger revenue result from the imposition of this tax. In both the taxes imposed the government has shown wisdom and common sense. The contention that the inflow of capital into the province will be restricted is unsound. It is true that if the taxation of a country is so great as to put serious burdens upon capital that capitalists will take those burdens into consideration before investing in the country. But $90,000 spread over the mining industry of the province is a negli- geable quantity when the returns hoped for from mining investments are the returns actually being reaped from those mines called upon to pay the tax, are.kept in mind. Another curious incident has been added to the history of mining in British Columbia in the closing down of the Wakefield mine and the particulars in connection with it revealed at a special meeting of the company held in Glasgow on the 9th of July. The mine was originally purchased for a Scotch syndicate by David Bremner and development was carried on under his management for some time. It possessed characteristics in common with many other Slocan properties. There were fairly good bunches of high- grade ore occurring, in sufficient numbers to make economical development and shipments highly profitable and had the mine been worked in this limited way the chances are that its purchasers would now have nothing to regret. But after- Bremner severed his connection with the syndicate a new and ruinous policy was adopted due to the ignorance of the directorate and their misplaced confidence in the mining engineer, Mr. E. A. Paterson, who was in charge. Mr. Paterson's statements in reference to the property were so extravagant and his calculations so magnificent that either the Wakefield was the greatest silver lead mine in the world or else he himself was wholly unreliable. It has turned out that he was wholly unreliable. His method was extremely simple. j He took the cubic contents of the vein and called it ore. He thereupon calculated a great tonnage in sight and led the directors of the company like sheep to the slaughter, upon a policy of mill and tramway building which the mine had never been and would never be able to afford. Such a method of calculating ore in sight would be reckless and vicious in reference to any mining property, but applied to a Slocan mine was nothing short of insanity. The outcome has been disastrous and of course British Columbia will get part of the blame. This is both very unjust and much to be regretted but inevitable. The canny Scot has lost his money and one cannot expect him to realize the fact that no one is to blame except himself. This is the more to be regretted as the shareholders in the Wakefield are men of good standing and reputation in Glasgow where an ill word spoken against British Columbia will close the Glasgow market to British Columbia properties for some time to come. For our part, we would rather trust our money to the greatest rogue unhung with some mining experience than to the culpably honest and ignorant management of the Wakefield mine. The rogue will at least display some prudence and is not likely to ruin his own credit for an inadequate compensation, a variety of simplicity peculiarly reserved to the fool. However, British Columbia can stand the blame. Mining is fortunately in such a position now that when people who lose their money in foolish speculation blame the lesources of the country, those who know the resources of the country can afford to laugh at them. There are certainly elements of humor in the story of the Wakefield mine. Consider if you will the effect upon a canny and reputable board of directors of the following telegram : "Regret to inform you that mine does not look well for the present and not likely to improve. Grade of ore at various points of development is not maintained. Is petering out rapidly," which came upon them like a thunderbolt just when they were starting out on a full voyage of prosperity —in their minds. Their reply sustains the humor of the situation: "Directors very much disgusted. Are we to consider your past reports unreliable and calculations valueless." Still funnier is the report of Mr. T. Trafford Wynne, who had charge of the mine during Mr. Paterson's absence, in which he says that the mine is probably much as it has been all along. But the climax is reached in the suggestion of the chairman that Mr. Paterson's telegram was due to the state of his health. We humbly submit that there are sub-oceanic depths of humor in the idea that a mining engineer was so run down in health as to blurt out—the truth. There are two main factors which will affect the copper-gold industry during the coming autumn and winter. These are the final testing by actual smelter receipts of the great ore bodies of the Knob Hill and Ironsides at Phoenix and the resumption of shipments by the War Eagle and Centre Star at Rossland. The Canadian public having given way to a wild burst of enthusiasm in reference to the Boundary country iu general and the Knob Hill and. Ironsides in particular, which grew out of the great boom in Rossland mines, notably the War Eagle and Centre Star, is now undergoing an alternating fit of cold depression. The man who a year ago believed that the War Eagle was a veritable bonanza, that the Centre Star was another name for inexhaustible riches, and the Knob Hill and Ironsides were greater than the Le Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star put together, has now the gravest doubts about the permanence, stability or wealth producing characteristics of any cne of them. It is needless to say that his opinion does not affect the status of any one of the properties in the slightest degree; but it does affect the liberality with which he opens 33° THE MINING RECORD. his purse for investment in mines. And as British Columbia doubtless contains many undiscovered and undeveloped Le Rois his good opinion is of vital importance to the country. From this point of- view, as well as from that of the more direct advantage of the communities in which these mines are situated, the rehabilitation of British Columbia in the minds of investors is a consummation devoutly to be wished. The indications so far are very good. The development of the Centre Star and its economical equipment are now almost completed. Extensive improvements are being carried on at the Trail smelter which indicate that a large supply of copper ore is expected there in the near future. Ore is now being delivered to the Granby smelter at Grand Forks from the Phoenix mines and a rate has been quoted by that smelter for custom ore which should render the profitable mining of the Knob Hill and Ironsides ores probable. The great record also made by the Le Roi mine should do much to re-establish confidence. The Le Roi mine now exports £45,000 worth of gold, silver and copper every month, an output greatly in excess of that of the Alaska-Treadwell, which has long been a household word as one of the great mines of the North American continent. It is evident that this production does not require to be increased but only steadily maintained to place the Le Roi in the very front rank of the world's gold mines. During this year of great production British Columbia has suffered from the untoward disturbances in the industry which occurred last year. It is comforting to reflect that it is equally inevitable that we must eventually reap the benefit of the magnificent showing being made now. Apropos of cheap smelting in Boundary Creek it is clear that the copper ores of this district are susceptible of treatment at a much lower cost than those of Rossland. There is more copper in them in the first place. The chief part of the values from a number of the Boundary properties is in copper. In addition to this there is enough lime in the ores to make them pi actically self-fluxing. There is a steady flow of lime rock from Kootenay Lake to the Trail semelter every day of the year for fluxing purposes. The cost of reducing the ore is thereby added to considerably. At the Northport smelter the supply of lime on the spot was not found adequate and lime has to be shipped to that point also. Another difficulty with the Rossland ores has always been lack of copper to collect the gold. Ore containing a high percentage of copper has always been in great demand both at these points and at Nelson. A Rossland mine-owner who had a chute of solid copper pyrites averaged about nine per cent, used to sell his ore to the smelter at great advantage and was in the habit of saying that the smelter charge was sprinkled with his ore out of a pepper pot. Actual experiment with the British Columbia ore at the Trail smelter has demonstrated the fact that nearly twice the amount of ore may be run through the furnace in the same time required to treat Trail Creek ore. The cost of fluxes is thus done away with to a large extent and the labour expense also diminished. It does not follow from this that the cost of smelting in the Boundary will be reduced below $3.50 a ton. But it must be remembered that $3.50 a ton is not the real cost of smelting copper ore. There is a deduction made of 1.3-10 per cent, of the copper in the ore which the smelter ap propriates to cover cost of shipping the matte to refineries, bullion brokerage and so forth. Why this charge, necessary and legitimate as it is, should be expressed in a percentage of the value in the ore and not reduced to dollars and cents is one of the hermetic mysteries of smelting. It may shrewdly be suspected that it originated in a device to cover from the miner's eyes the fact that he was paying more for the treatment of his ore than he justly ought. But however it originated the keen competition for copper ores has reduced it to a minimum. The Americans are nothing if not a practical people, and perhaps to this quality is due in a large measure the flourishing condition of the mining industry in their country. The mining press of the States is equally notable for its eminent practicability, and we extract the following from the columns of our excellent contemporary, the Mining Reporter, of Denver, Colorado, as most fittingly illustrating this statement: "to eastern readers. "If you are contemplating an investment in mining in any part of the West, investigate along some of the following lines: "Send for a copy of the local paper and give it careful study. If you observe that it contains a number of patent application advertisements, you may be assured that the mine owners think well enough of the region to secure a perfect title to their ground. If you observe in it the card of two or more deputy United States mineral surveyors, and of several assayers, you may safely conclude that the district is an active one, that the prospectors are interested, and that the professional men are making a fair living. If you find the advertisement of a sampling works, or of parties who buy ore, it is a sure proof thata number of the mines are producing with considerable 1 egularity, and that some of them are making money. Or in the absence of this testimony, if a railroad has been built to the town, the same conclusion may safely be drawn. If the paper contains the advertisement of one or more banks, the prosperity of the place-may be considered certain. It is then only necessary to ascertain whether it is. what the miner calls a 'One Mine Camp' or otherwise. One mine camps are settlements around a mine which has proved to be pre-eminently profitable. In such places the mine generally owns the principal stores and the bank, is interested in all the public utilities such as water, light and telephone plants, and does not encourage the coming of outsiders; and outsiders will often do well to stay away from such districts, for the proper place to search for a bonanza, is at some little distance from one already discovered. "Usually the local weekly publication will, to the careful observer, tell a plain story. If the signs mentioned are found, open correspondence with an assayer and surveyor, enclosing: a cash fee of say $10 in your letter, and ask their professional view on the locality. These people are generally gentlemen and men of honour. Often they are college graduates. Their opinions are worth having. After obtaining them, if the outlook is favourable, subscribe for the local paper and also for the weekly mining journal of the nearest large commercial centre. Study both carefully as they come along, and explore the advertising" columns of the latter for the names and ad- THE MINING RECORD. 33i dresses of mining engineers who make it a business to report and examine mines. Address two or more of them, and enclose a $25 fee, asking frankly their opinion of the camp. Finally, if the general report on the whole is favourable, take the train and go right to the district and examine the proposition yourself.- There is no mystery about the business of metal mining. Any man of average common sense can, if he will take the time, satisfy himself whether the property before him contains the elements of success or failure. There comes a time, it is true, when it is proper and necessary to purchase trained practical assistance and professional advice; but if a proposing investor will first personally look into the proposition offered in about the way suggested, he will be entirely capable of deciding whether the expert to whom he finally applies for technical aid is worthy of the trust reposed in him. There are rascals in all professions. There are many shysters and quacks among mining engineers as among lawyers and medical men. A glib tongue and an attractive presence will cover much mental vacuity, except to those who know. It is a fact, which may be easily demonstrated, that the bulk of failures in mining are due to the inertia of the investor, who is too lazy or too busy to think for himself." the aggregate values of ore production for the year should not be less than $4,000,000 on a conservative estimate. The prospects of the local smelting industry certainly never seemed so bright as they are to-day. The Trail smelter is being enlarged, the works at Grand Forks has made an excellent beginning of operations on a large scale; the Hall Mines smelter has re-opened with much custom work in hand; the Greenwood smelter rapidly approaches completion; a new smelter on the pyritic principle is to be built at Boundary Falls, and there is some prospect of the re-opening of the Pilot Bay smelter, though this last is doubtful. Meanwhile the small smelter at Van Anda has its operations to some extent impeded by lack of sufficient capital and other causes, but continues to freat a fair number of moderate sized shipments. " The statement issued by the secretary of the Iron Colt Company at Rossland is not by any means encouraging. It appears that the Iron Colt has been explored since last December to the extent of 74^ feet of drifts and cross-cuts in addition to what had been done before, without the discovery of any body of ore of a shipping grade At the same time the work done on the Iron Colt was in the nature of an approach to the body of mineral presumably lying within the boundaries"of the North Star. Upon this ore the management of the Iron Colt made many tests, and finally having bonded the claim, shipped the dump of fifty tons of mixed ore to Trail smelter, getting returns of from $5.60 to $9.60. The tunnel on the Iron Colt is expected to develop this North Star ore body at a depth of 400 feet. If the ore is found in place and of pay grade the combined properties can fairly be reckoned on as a mine of considerable productive capacity; if not the exploratory work has been carried on with the greatest possible economy and without any attempt to mislead the investing public. Special interest attaches to the development of this property because of the similarity to the vein of the Columbia Kootenay mine, which is being opened on an enormous scale without any definite information being given out as to whether large bodies of shipping ore have been developed or not. The output from Rossland for the first eight .months of the year amounts approximately to 120,- 000 tons. Production at present is about 6.000 tons a week, but the output of the Le Roi No. 2, which is now beginning and an early resumption of shipments now beginning an early resumption of shipments from the Centre Star and from other new producers will increase considerably the average weekly shipments from the camp for the remainder of the year. The result should therefore be a moderate increase on the output and aggregate values of 1899, which were 172,665 tons and $3,229,086 respectively. The output for 1900 should reach 230,000 tons and although some of the ores now shipped from Ross- .land have been of lower grade than those of last year, The July output of the San Eugene mine at Moyie is very satisfactory, being 2,396 tons of concentrates and clean ore, representing over 10,000 tons of ore mined and treated. If the mine during June made a net profit of $70,000, as is currently reported, with an output of 1,900 during July, $100,000 net must have been placed to the credit of the shareholders. The San Eugene is said to be the biggest silver-lead mine in North America with one exception. Whether that be so or not it is evidently a very great mine and one whose output will have a splendid effect on the mineral statistics for 1900. The output from the Slocan country for July is given at 3,315 tons of ore and concentrates. If this rate is maintained, as it undoubtedly will be, if not materially increased when rawhiding commences in the winter, the country will go back to its old level of production in 1898, if it does not actually beat the record year of 1897. The silver-lead output of British Columbia with the Slocan maintaining its old position, and with the splendid accessions now being made from East Kootenay must show a very marked advance during the present year. Although Lardeau's development is temporarily checked by lack of transport facilities and consequent excessive cost of ore shipment, several of its richest mines either are making or will make fair shipments. The owners take care of course to send out for treatment onlv the highest grade of ore from the mines, but this is quite excusable if not absolutely necessary, where transport and treatment charges together run to between $40 and $50 a ton. Notwithstanding this, the Triune mine, near Ferguson, has by making a shipment of nearly twenty tons of $290 ore, become a payer from the grass roots and encouraged its owners' hopes of sending several other lots to Trail by the close of the year. The owners of two or three Lardeau mines have also ore sufficiently rich to stand the present heavy cost of shipment and treatment and are consequently likely in the course of the next few months to ship several hundred tons of ore from this locality. The Lardeau ores now being shipped are not only of high grade in silver and lead- but also contain much gold, and judging by the be- ginnings now being made, it seems not unlikely that certain of the best Lardeau proporties may rival m point of both production and value the substantial and profit-earning mines of the Slocan. 332 THE MINING RECORD. There are encouraging signs of a revival of mining activity about Ainsworth, which has too long remained quiescent. The Highland group of mines has just been acquired by a body of very substantial British capitalists, who evidently intend to spend large sums in developing the property. One of the directors of the concern, Mr. Hammersly Heenan, of Manchester, England, a well known mechanical engineer, has the reputation of proving thoroughly any mineral enterprise in which he interests himself and believes to possess merit. He is one of a number of men, who for some ten years operated gold mines held by the Darien Company on the Central American isthmus of that name. Year after year passed disappointing high expectations of results, but recently after well nigh a decade of hope deferred, the mine has begun to jdeld well and justified its owners' expectations If the other directors of the Highland be of similar type to Mr. Heenan the property will at any rate be well exploited. such taxation is unassa lable, but there is only one way to apply it in practice, and that is by taxing all Crown granted claims, bu. allowing a iebatc ou the levy to owners who could swear to having performed a certain amount of work in the course of the ' year. This idea is not original, though published for the first time, but in common with many others equally as practical, was evolved from the inner consciousness of Mr. John Houston, the member for Nelson. The Provincial Government is to be commended for its resolve to issue frequent bulletins and statistics of mine production and output, and if, as the Minister of Mines, Mr. McBride, hopes, these returns can be made either monthly or at intervals not very much greater, they will certainly advertise in the most effective possible way the mineral resources of the country. It is understood that negotiations are in progress which will, it is hoped, result ere long in a resumption of work at the Sav- onas Cinnabar mines. The present increasing demand for quicksilver, which has risen much in price, is bringing Cinnabar deposits into much greater request than they have been in the recent past. If it is true, as reported, that Mr. Maynard H. Cowan and other Montana mining capitalists with extensive smelter connections have acquired and will shortly work a large area of coal land in the Crow's Nest country near Livingston, we may expect next year a great extension of the already steadily proceeding development of one of the greatest coal fields in the world. Mr. Cowan asserts that owing to the more advantageously situated locality of the syndicate's property, he will be able to mine and produce coal more cheaply than the Crow's Nest Pass Company. We do not, however, believe that Crow's Nest shareholders have any cause to fear for their future dividends. Mr. R. McBride, the New Minister of Mi The fact that the provisional boundary arrangement in Alaska for the time being concedes l o this province about half the Porcupine mine district, is terribly perturbing to our American cousins. Indeed Mr. Bryan has already used the point in one of his anti- expansion speeches and asserted that since the present Republican administration has hauled down "Ola Glory" in Alaska, it should not be impossible to hand over the Philli- pines to native rule. The Porcupine district now provisionally placed within the borders of the province, is in area small, and its plac- only at present produce about $125,000 gold annually. But according to experts, the district promising cop- are also in ers in tk'ere pe>- prospects. Mr. Justice Martin will fimi it no easy task to settle the various points in dispute as to Porcupine mine titles, but he will probably--as did his colleague, Mr. Justice Irving, in Atlin--manage to solve the problem by taking the equitable rather than the technical view of the merits of the \arious cases submitted to his decision. It is suggested by a mining engineer of Vancouver that a tax be imposed on the values of mineral claims held idle for speculative purposes. The principle of At the London B ankruptcy Court a public enquiry was recently made into the circumstances attending the promotion, business transactions and failure of the Klondike and Columbian Goldfields. Ltd., which THE MINING RECORD. 333 was formed in August three yaers ago with the object of operating in mining and other properties in the Yukon and British Columbia. The promoter in chief of this undertaking was Mr. J. Morris Catton, or "wild-cat-ton" as he is now dubbed by the London press. The Financial Times of recent date devotes five columns to a report of the proceedings and they make entertaining reading. From a certain point of view Mr. Morris Catton is undoubtedly a great man and a strategist of no mean order—but this is to be expected from a War Office clerk. Meanwhile as a result of the enquiry disclosures of the most disgraceful character have been made and on several counts there should be enough evidence to send Mr. J. Morris Catton to serve a considerable term of penal servitude. But people in British Columbia take very little, except a morbid interest in the fate of London floated Yukon mining concerns and their promoters. This is a mistake, because unfortunately the British investing public are associating the Yukon and British Columbia together, and the Klondike and Columbian Goldfields swindle and other Yukon "fizzles" are certainly likely to further antagonize the London market against this province. It is, therefore, time that attention should be paid to the opera- lions of gentlemen like Mr. Morris Catton. Moreover thanks are due from us to the Financial Times and the Critic for the part both have taken in putting .a stop to Mr. Catton's little games. It is gratifying to learn that the showings of iron ore at Barclay Sound are to be thoroughly exploited by a syndicate of Pennsylvanian capitalists, to whom the property is under option. Little is yet known of the iron resources of this locality, except that the surface indications are enormous, and the specimens taken therefrom show the quality of the oie lo be all that could be desired. The only question is whether the iron will continue with depth or, as in numerous other instances, the surface showings are not merely cappings of copper-bearing ores. The Central Canadian Chamber of Mines, an organization which began its career by commenting on the somewhat remarkable fact (only it happened 10 be far from a fact) that not a single Canadian mine was listed on the London Stock Exchange, has settled down to business and has begun a series of periodical statistical bulletins which contain a vast amount of information useful to investors and will undoubtedly do much to attract capital to the central Canadian gold fields. It is really astonishing that British Columbia, with its long record as a gold-producing province, and with a mining industry which has al- aiready reached considerable proportions, should be -o far distancedjjey the prairie province in the scientific adaption of fneans to the end of developing its resources. This really remarkable production gives in a succinct and tabulated form the result of mill crushings up to July, 1900, as a preliminary step to furnishing an accurate return month by month or quarter by quarter. It also details the names, localities, amount of development done on each of them; and certificates of assay value at different points of a great number of prospects. The information given is precisely the information wanted. It is given in the form most convenient to the press and to the investor. The Central Canadian Chamber of Mines has shown a rational appreciation of the requirements of the gold-bearing district it has been formed to foster. British Columbia might well profit by the example shown. ports are being issued of steadily growing mineral production, which this year will considerably eclipse ail previous records. In the Melson district the July output aggregated in value $66,000 from three properties which are yet hardly beyond the development stage. Of these three the Ymir crushed 450 tons of ore, having an estimated gross value of $39,500; the Athabaska's clean-up realized $17,100, and the Granite crushed 1,040 tons, from which a return of $9>5S°. was made. When the Hall Mines resume operations Nelson's contribution to the mineral production of the Province should easily reach a million dollars per annum. Meanwhile few people, if any, at the present time have any idea of how the mineral output of British Columbia is growing. It is not too much to say that the present rate of output is double the average rate of last year from metalliferous mines. It does not follow from this that the total output of the year will show an advance of 100 per cent. The marvellous increase in production now noticeable has only come into prominence since May, and although it is likely to be maintained if not increased during the balance of the year, still the totals will not bear the same relation to one another as the present rate of production does to the average rate of last year. The following table gives an estimate of the value of the mineral output of the Province, excluding placer gold, for the month of July: Trail .... $ 300,000 Slocan, including Ainsworth and Lardeau. 300,000 East Kootenay 317,720 Nelson .... 66,000 Boundary, including Camp McKinney . . 132,500 Coast and miscellaneous 60,000 $1,176,220 These figures are not mathematically exact, but they are certainly not greatly, if at all, over the mark. When it is remembered that the output of our metal- iferous mines for last year came to only $6,751,000 and the total output, including placer gold, to $8,- 000,000 in round figures, their significance will be really understood. From all the mining districts most satisfactory re- THE LE ROI FLOTATIONS. MR. WHITAKER WRIGHT is certainly entitled to the credit of being the shrewdest speculator on the London mining market. For some time past the various groups of mines controlled by the London & Globe and British America Corporation have been raided by "bear" operators. During the general mining stagnation which has prevailed prices were unmercifully hammered and so dead was the market that every fresh depression in a stock seemed to give occasion for and to justify?further sales. Mr. Wright seems to owe his success to his faculty for never doing what everyone expects he should do. He chose this particular inanimate period to bring out Le Ro No. 2 followed immediately by Le Roi No. 3 and then by Le Roi No. 4. That he should do so at the very time when properly constituted mine promoters were crawling into their holes and drawing their holes in after them, would naturally seem to that peculiar abstraction known as the market as a very good joke. Not only was it a very good joke, but one out of which the intelligent speculator could make a little profit for himself. It is a convention on the English market that the shares of every large flotation must go to a premium before allotment and maintain it till after the first settlement if possible. The reason is that when an issue is made by a certain 334 THE MINING RECORD. group the shares are taken up by semi-professional speculators who apply for a great many more than they intend or are willing to hold. And woe to the promoter who saddles these gentlemen with the bulk of any company's shares. Unless he allows them to sell out at a profit to the bona fide investor, some other speculator or himself, his chances of appealing to them in some future promotion are uncommonly small. Hence the reason for the aforesaid conventional premium. When in addition to choosing the worst possible time Mr. Wright chose also a property in the worst possible country, British Columbia, for his experiment with the market, his effrontery was justly regarded as amazing. The market has the lowest possible opinion of British Columbia. On all sides the Le Roi No. 2 was scoffed at. That great bodies of ore had been patiently developed in the property was not known, or if asserted was not believed. The market looked upon Le Roi No. 2 as a very speculative extension of a mine, the Le Roi, which had still to accomplish much to justify its existence. This extraordinary ignorance, of what may justly be called a great gold mining field has been largely fostered by the tone adopted towards the Rossland camp by the press and public sentiment in Canada, and throughout British Columbia. Such being the attitude of the public mind to Le Roi No. 2 the market proceeded to have its little joke with Mr. Whitaker Wright. Two things the market overlooked, first that there were a number of people who believed in Le Roi No. 2 as an investment, quite enough people to prevent the shares ever going to a very small price, and second that Mr. Wright knew more than the market did about the capacities of the mine and, apart from that, was apt to play the game of speculation with a dangerous amount of daring and abandon. It would naturally occur to the ordinary individual to consider when Le Roi No. 2 shares were forced to a premium which the press was unanimous in declaring could not be maintained, that with a minimum of risk he could well afford to sell short, as the Americans have it, on so unpopular a stock. The premium must shortly disappear and a good margin be made by the acute bear. The trouble seems to have been that this easy way of making money occurred to too many people at the same time, and incidentalty, that Mr. Whitaker Wright took a diametrically opposite view of the situation. All the shares that anyone was prepared to sell he was prepared to buy, and not only so, but to bid higher and higher prices for the stock. It finally of course resulted in his possessing contracts for delivery far in excess of the actual capitalization of the company. He could then very well afford to take the shares of the actual alloters at a very high price, and so establish a complete corner by means of which the only- limit to the price of the stock was the figure at which he could .resell to those who had already given him contracts to deliver. He is reputed to have netted £750,000 by the transaction. The stock was marked up to over £12 for the £5 shares, around which price a general settlement of accounts took place. It is not necessary here to discuss the ethical bearings of such speculation. John Stuart Mill defends it as economically rational and proper; Messrs. Chadband and Stiggins denounce it when they happen to be on the wrong side of the market; and the ordinary grocer who adulterates his tea and sugar thanks Heaven that he is not endowed with as much brains as Mr. Whitaker Wright. It will be remembered that the fortune of the late lamented and pious Presbyterian, Mr. Jay Gould, was accentuated in much the same sort of operation, only he used his genius in the direction of railways, not of mines. Mr. Gould was always careful to have merit at the back of his railway combinations. Given two or three competing railways through a productive but undeveloped country Mr. Gould's modus operandi was first to wreck them, then combine them, and then foster their business in the territory they controlled. Strange paradox as it may appear, the rapid industrial development of many important sections of the United States was directly dn* to the railway wrecking genius of Mr- Jay Gould and his feebler imitators. In applying the parallel it is not necessary to consider the abstract morality of Mr. .Wright's financial methods, merely the uncommon shrewdness, economy and success of his mining methods. The mines controlled by Mr. Wright in British Columbia are models of patient and intelligent development. They are worked in the most scientific way possible and have so far achieved excellent results in the matter of producing gold and copper. So long as this solid foundation of merit exists it is unnecessary to waste any sympathy upon the misguided bears. The market has always been consistently and persistently hostile to British Columbia; Superintendent's Residence—the B. C. Copper Co., Anaconda, B.C Mr. Wright and his friends have always been consistently and persistently friendly to British Columbia. The analysis of the Le Roi No. 2 boom is simply this, that the friends of British Columbia have abstracted a large amount of money from the pockets of the enemies of British Columbia and put it into their own. By this operation they have enormously- strengthened the financial standing of the group of properties they control and have greatly bettered the prospects of the province, provided these properties are good ones. In this respect these properties may justly be considered beyond the problematical stage. Without Mr. Whitaker Wright Rossland would not be the sheet anchor of British Columbia mining as it is to-day. A most unfair comparison is sometimes instituted between him and Mr. Horatio Bottomley. But we humbly submit that it is one thing to "bluff on a pair of deuces" and quite another to bet high on "four aces and a king," although the two operations look precisely the same before the hands are "called." In conclusion it may be said that there is no reason whatever why Le Roi No. 2 should not pay fair dividends even on its enormous capitalization, although, perhaps at present, the outlook for No. 3 and No. 4 is not so favourable and the financail press of both New York and London are not far astray in the criticisms which have been passed on these promotions. THE MINING RECORD. 335 ^ B. C. COPPER COMPANY'S SMELTER AT ANACONDA, BOUNDARY CREEK. (By E. Jacobs.) T N the spring of 1898 the British Columbia Copper 1 Company, Ltd., was organized in New York with the object of carrying on a ^^^— mining and smelting business in the Boundary district of this Province. The company at once acquired the Mother Lode mine, situate in Dead- wood camp, Boundary Creek. For about two years previously a prospecting syndicate, known as the Boundary Mines Company, had been engaged in prospecting the Mother Lode. Eventually it became ' evident that the big body of copper ore only partially opened up by the mining operations undertaken up to that time was sufficiently extensive and valuable to warrant its being developed by the aid of suitable power plant and mach- shaft of the mine is now down 325 feet; that one big ore shoot has been proved to be at the 200 foot level from 80 to 100 feet in width along, a distance of 350 feet, with good indications that further development will show it to be of greater length; that other ore ^^^^ shoots not yet opened up to ~~--\ any considerable extent are known to occur in the mine; that the total number of feet of work done in underground development now exceeds 4,500, and that the mine equipment of plant and machinery, including the larger air-compressor, drilling appliances and steam hoisting engine ordered but not yet received, is of sufficient power to develop the mine down to the 1,000-foot level. The fact having been established that there was a very large body of ore in the mine, the question of its treatment and reduction engaged the careful attention of the man- \ \ %\ *£Eb -^S inery, so the British Columbia Copper Company was formed with a capital of $1,000,000 and the property was taken over and equipped and developr ment work, particulars of which have been regularly published in this journal month after month, was entered upon and systematically carried out. An illustrated description of the Mother Lode mine appeared in last September's issue of the Record, so it is hardly necessary to here repeat Suffice it that it be briefly =- =l|n<Hl!i: ii 1—Mr. Paul Johnson, Manager Smeller. 2—Mr. R. Lidea, Supt. - 3—Martin Anderson, Gen. Foreman. 4—Assay Office and Laboratory. what was published then, gard to the requisites mentioned that the main water supply and railway. agement. Eventually arrangements were made with Mr. Paul Johnson, M.E., a smelter expert of much practical experience, gained during many years' active connection with smelting enterprises, to proceed to the Boundary district and to there erect a smelter. Mr. Johnson reached Boundary Creek last fall and after having closely studied the local conditions he found a site at Anaconda to be suitable, having due re- of proximity to mine, This site is at 33^ THE MINING RECORD. the junction of Copper Creek, coming in from the northwest, with Boundary Creek flowing southwards, and its general adaptability to the ordinary requirements of a gravity system can readily be grasped after examination of those of the accompanying views that exhibit its topographical features. Reverting to the. consideration^ above mentioned as of importance in choosing the site, it may here be pointed out that the Mother Lode mine is situate about three miles northwest, with a down grade all the way to the smelter; that the immediate vicinity of Copper and Boundary Creeks ensures a water supply and that whilst the Columbia & Western main line runs alongside and below the smelter site its Deadwood branch, giving tail connection with the Mother Lode and other mines, passes immediately above it, joining the main line a mile from the smelter. Transportation facilities are accordingly convenient and adequate, for whilst spurs run from the branch line above to the upper ore bins lowe etc., for r do it wi Mr. Frederic Keffer. Genor»l Manager. the delivery of ore, and go over the yard wn for the delivery of fluxes, fuel, stores, 11 be easv to make connection with the main line below by a spur 200 or 300 yards in length and so provide at small cost a suitable outlet for the matte and other marketable products of the smelter. Starting from the top of the works the upper ore bins come first. These are six in number, substantially framed with 12x12 sawn timbers, and lined with 3x12 planking. They are built in two parallel rows of three each with a double railway track over them. Each bin has a holding capacity of about 500 tons, so that the total capacity of these ■ receiving bunkers is about 3,000 tons. Beyond them a trestle will be built wide enough to carry the double track. This will be inclined towards the bins, over which and on the trestle there will be room for six-- teen railway cars. The ore will be taken out of the bins through chutes below into ore cars which will be run down an incline tramway, the highest bent of the J7$,i- MfMi 14 JiMiililS mmku ■Wf* EmmmmmM Ore Bins in Course of Construction at the Mother Lode Mine THE MINING RECORD. 337 trestle supporting which is 36 feet high, to the sampling mill. The sampling mill building is a three-story frame stiucture 79x65 and 48 feet high to the eaves, and having a corrugated iron roof. Its full capacity when supplied with the requisite ore bins, etc., will be about 3,000 tons, but present ariangements only m fiSKSI |fcsSB22Z2r?«! Brick Base for tt Steel Stack. include provision for a much smaller quantity. The building is large enough to accommodate three sets of plant, together equal to sampling about 1,000 tons in ten hours. Only one set is, however, to be put in to start with, and this will Comprise three Gates' crushers, one pair Cornish rolls, one coffee mill or sa:mple grinder, three Johnson's automatic samplers and a steam engine to operate this plant. The lowest floor of the sampling mill will be about 23 feet above the yard and two feet higher than the top of the lower ore bins. There are twelve bins in the lower set, arranged in four parallel rows of three each. They are similar in structure to the receiving bins, but slightly smaller in individual size, their total holding capacity being about 5,000 tons. They are crossed by parallel railway tracks each about 400 feet in length and carried on trestles 21 feet in height. One of these crosses at the rear end of the bins and the other at the front. They are spurs from the railway line and over them fluxes, coke, etc., will be brought in and dumped in the yard underneath. On the same level as the yard are the carpenters' shop and dwelling houses for the two foremen. The dust chamber runs below the lower ore bins at right angles to them for nearly 300 feet, thence diagonally for about 100 feet and thence up the hill side 215 feet to the base of the smoke stack. This chamber or flue has thick masonry walls brick-lined in part and is now being arched over with brick. One of the illustrations herewith shows it in its incomplete state. A steel plate smoke stack, 90 feet high, will be erected on the brick base shown in the view, but space has been left and the foundation prepared for a brick smoke stack whenever it shall be deemed necessary to erect one. A 300-ton stack matte furnace has been received at the smelter from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, works of the E. P. Allis Co., who are supplying the smelter plant. One of the illustra- tions shows the furnace in course !|§§^|f of erection with the cribbing upon which the heavy iron plates were |||j||j raised not yet removed. Besides the columns and plates shown the j j water jacket, casting, fittings and down-take are all on the ground, so that the furnace will shortly be set up. Later a building, largely of steel, will house it in. On the same level as the furnace is the boiler and blower house, which is a roomy lumber building similarly roofed to the sampling mill. This building is ready to receive the boilers and machinery and the electric light plant, which will also be placed in. it. Near by is the blacksmith's shop. There is plenty of room below this level for the' slag dump. Provision is made for taking the Ordinary water supply from Copper Creek, from which to the level of the top of the receiving bunkers and thence down to the furnace about 3,000 feet of eight-inch pipe will be laid. A 10,000-gallon tank built at a higher level will be kept full for emergency purposes, and as a reserve supply, pipes will be JffiJ fcT "««a. The Furnace in Building. run from a pump on Boundary Creek to the different parts of the works. The Copper Creek supply will, it is calculated, give a head pressure of 100 feet and will furnish ample water for the water jackets, granulating the slag and for general purposes. 3« THE MINING RECORD. The Sampling Mill. The general office building is across Boundary Creek, in the town of Anaconda, a short distance from the offices and residence of the company's general manager. The smelter superintendent's office and the laboratory will be in a building located near the superintendent's residence. The accompanying illustrations will serve to convey a good idea of these buildings (except the general office, which is not shown). Other Illustrations include portraits of Mr. Frederic Keffer, M.E., general manager for the British Columbia Copper Co.; Mr. Paul Johnson, M.E., manager smelting department; Mr. Rudolf Linden, M.E., superintendent of the smelter, and Mr. Martin Anderson, general foreman of construction. A view is given, too, of the ore bins now being constructed at the mine. General View of Smelter Site Looking North from Anaconda. 34° THE MINING RECORD. The town is a very pretty one, located on a flat in a deep pit-like valley surrounded by wooded mountains. In the distance the hills fade into the purple peaks of the Selkirk Range. " The fondness of the old-country miners for home and flowers is shown in pretty little cottage gardens full of big English sunflowers, hollyhocks, sweet peas, and other plants characteristic of old-countr\ cottage homes. The climate is mild and moist, and everything grows luxuriantly. The country rock is all eruptive, consisting of gab- bro, porphyritic diorite or porphyrite, a peculiar rock called monzonite, which is an augite diorite, carrying both orthoclase and plagioclase feldspar. A series of syenite also occurs. In these eruptive rocks lie the veins or mineralized zones of the Le Roi, War Eagle, and other mines. The Le Roi vein consists of a zone of country rock mineralized by copper pyrites and pyrrhotite (magnetic iron pyrites), both being often in massive bodies. Although there are numerous slips and surfaces, evidencing motion having taken place in the rocks, the positive signs of true walls, such as are usually associated with so-called fissure veins, ate more or less wanting, the ore often grading into the country rock bounding the mineralized portion. It is probable that the line of Assuring and planes of the walls have been obliterated by the mineralizing, solutions. . The ore body has a dip of 500 to 60°. The strike cf the vein is N. E. S. W., or nearly E. and W. The vein or mineralized zone appears to be of the class known as "shearage zones," or "composite veins," the ore occupying a series of cracks and fractures along a zone of rock caused by shearage movements. In this sense the veins of this district may be called true fissure veins. Calcite is not infrequently found with the vein and is said to be a good sign of gold. A peculiar feature in the Le Roi mine is, that at a certain point in the mine the mineralized zone or vein ends abruptly against a dark dike of mica diorite, and so far has not been found beyond that. It would seem that the dike occupies the line of a fault fissure and that the ore body has been faulted by the dike. By following the course of the dike according to the laws of normal faults it is probable that the ore body will be recovered again on~the side where it is at present missing. Prospecting is on hand to prove this. The ore of the Le Roi runs from $12 to $40 oer ton, about $5 being in copper, the rest in gold. The product of the mine depends more upon the great quantity of low-grade ore than on the quality of .he ore. The copper alone, by itself, would not pay if it were not enriched by gold. An enormous dump, seemingly of refuse matter or third-class material, lies on the hillside at the entrance to the mine, that will shortly be shipped wholesale-to the large mills at Northport with an expectation of a good return of low-grade values. The width of the vein is from 5 to 65 feet. In the seventh level there is a large stope which shows the vein there to be 60 feet wide on an ore shoot 400 feet long. The square-sets supporting the roof are of very thick tamarack timber. The outcrop of the big vein is easily followed along the side of the railroad track as a dark greenish rock full of oxidized ore. The development of the mine is by shaft and tunnels on the vein. The shaft is down 800 feet. For a depth on the slope of the hill of 280 feet, adit tunnels come out to daylight, but below that there is no such egress, as the mine descends below the bottom of the valley. There are nine levels in all. The mine is remarkably dry. The output is 400 tons daily, all of which goes to' the big mill at Northport. In the plant are two very large air-compressor engines of Canadian make. The cylinders are 22" high pressure, 40" low pressure, 48 inches stroke; 500 horsepower each; running forty 3 1-3 inch drills of the Rand Drill Co. pattern. The hoist, also of Canadian make, is 300 horsepower, and handles two skips holding two tons each. We may derive an idea of the extent and development of the mines of this young camp by a paper read before the Canadian Institute of Mining Engineers by Mr. Carlyle, the late superintendent of the Le Roi, and at present in charge of the Rio Tinto copper mines of Spain. In the B. A. C. properties alone there has been done 23,000 feet of underground work. The work in Rossland has been mainly development work, yet the camp has paid $1,400,000 in dividends. The work now being done is with a view to the future. The policy of the Le Roi is to prepare still larger reserves of ore, and only small shipments comparatively have been made, yet the company has to its credit a sum that would make a very respectable dividend. In driving the Le Roi, a rate varying from no to 160 feet a month is attained. With three shifts, over 200 feet a month have been driven. The mine is equipped with a 40-drill compressor, equal to all demands. This is to be supplemented by a new 60-drill plant. The introduction of electricity will work wonders and there will be a great increase in the amount of work and output. It is likely, too, that other veins w7ill be discovered. GEOLOGY OF THE CAMP. The leading features of the geology of the camp and its' ore deposits .are that the camp is located on the site of an ancient volcano, in this respect not unlike Cripple Creek, Colorado. The central core, plug, or neck of the volcano is formed of massive, dark eruptive rocks, gabbros, and diorites. This is the area'that is penetrated by the fissure veins of the district. Outside of this, forming a rudely defined ling, are bodies of fragmental lava tuffs and breccias that fell around the periphery or edge of the crater during the time of its explosive eruption. Several varieties of lava were erupted from the same volcano, having a general family likeness to one another, as if they were but differentiations of the same molten magma. These dark basic lavas we have already mentioned. As at Cripple Creek, Colorado, so here, the original lavas appear to have, after consolidation, been disturbed by another eruption, Assuring the rocks and filling the fissures with dikes of another variety of lava, as the phonolite dikes of Cripple Creek fill the fissures in the original andesite-breccia lava. The Assuring and faulting of the older lavas during the later movements are often filled by dikes, and the lines of the faults are either shown by a narrow rrvire or by the p'esenc cf a dike or by both. A ravine descending from the Little Josie mine marks the line of a fault occupied by a dike, and so on in many cases. The veins are essentially fissure veins in that they occupy a fissured zone of rock commonly known as a "shearage zone," limited by more or less defined 342 THE MINING RECORD. small ones in a prospective state. Judging from the character of the formation there seems a probability that, as in the case of Cripple Creek, several other mines of like nature and value as the Le Roi will be found in course of time. Rossland in early days was noted for the amount of heavy machinery installed on its prospects. The record is still maintained. The big steel hoist of the War Eagle is one of the largest frames of its type in the West. Another hoist of similar design is to be erected in the Centre Star, the War Eagle's neighbour. Power is derived from the big electrical camp at Bonnington Falls on the Kootenay River, 30 miles distant. The pow-er is sent at a high voltage to the mines at Rossland, where it drives the air compressor of the bigger mines. The arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway into Rossland has greatly reduced smelting rates—from $11 down to $7.50. Since then the War Eagle and Centre Star have jointly let a contract for treating 300,000 tons of ore at Trail Creek within the next two years, and the rate they will get is believed to be in the neighbourhood of $6. At Northport,^near Rossland, is the only smelter in Eastern Washington. It was erected by the Le Roi Company to treat the ores of the Le Roi mine, but in addition it handles considerable custom work. In the vicinity are some copper gold claims, and in Boundary camp some silver-bearing leads. A detailed account of the geology of this camp is appended, taken from the expert reports of Messrs. Clarence King and Waldemar Lindgren, published in the Rossland Weekly Miner and by the courtesy of the editor of that paper submitted to us for epitome and production. A GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF THE CONDITIONS OF ROSSLAND CAMP. The district abjmt Rossland is part of that great mountain system that borders the Pacific from Cape Horn to the Arctic. Its widest expansion, about the latitude of San Francisco, is 1,400 miles. The quanT tities of rock involved in the Cordillera system are vast, upwards of 120,000 feet of overlying strata in vertical thickness. They involve a history from near the dawn of geological history until to-day, of enormous dynamic action, consisting in the upheaval, depression, crushing and folding together, as well as dislocation of enormous blocks of territory. The sedimentary rocks over 100,000 feet thick are derived from the older rocks in their neighbourhood. Sometimes a series of strata 40,000 feet thick has been piled up continuously without a break. These episodes of sedimentation have ended in a destructive dynamic period. They have been crushed, uplifted, or depressed, and then the process of sedimentation has begun under new terms. These dynamic disturbances are due to the unbalancing of the forces of gravitation and equilibrium. If you load an arearwith heavy masses of sediment, that area sinks or subsides. If you unload it, it rises: Consequently, when an area rises near an area which is stable, or sinking, there is a strain, and if that strain passes cohesion, or the point of elastic limit of ':he rocks, they are ruptured by these tremendous strains. The action ends in eruption and readjustment of the equilibrium—an eruption of melted matter from the underlying area. It is in these periods of strain to which the rocks and whole mountain ranges have been subjected that the crushing, straining slipping, fracturing, and Assuring takes place which is the birth of a mining district. Mineral veins owe their origin to two processes. One is the Assuring of the rocks, or the solution of soluble rocks on lines of Assure. The other, or second process, is the Ailing or deposition of mineral matter on, in, and along, and near these Assures. A mining district requires the two periods of action to changfe a mountain mass into a mineral district. These periods of crushing have never occupied a very great part of geological history. There are sudden convulsive episodes, following periods of accumulation of strata, periods of upheaval, and periods of depression. They have, however, ended in deluging enormous tracts of this Cordillera system with eruptive rocks, molten when they came out and cooled under, or upon, the surface. There are Aelds of these eruptive rocks which cover many thousands of square miles, as in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. These periods of disturbance and volcanic eruption began in the earliest geological ages, and have gone on practically to the present. These rocks are earlier than the dawn of life. They have many shades of difference in texture and composition, but their chief distinction from modernly erupted rocks lies in their prevailing decomposition. We rarely get from th'd earliest period any form of lava as fresh and new as those which are being erupted now. They ha\e undergone more or. less chemical decomposition. So the ocular examination of a district of erupted rocks enables one to form a fairly rough estimate of about when that district was built. The study of the geology of this region leads us to think the eruptions took place in middle geological time, or about the Cretaceous period. The rocks bear a certain tex- tural resemblance to those we know elsewhere to have been erupted about that time. They may be later or earlier. We are here on the vent of an extinct volcano, one wdiich reached its head high above the present surface and went through various stages or episodes of eruption. These episodes are recorded here, Arst in a complex mass representing the base and centre of a volcano, and, secondly, by a later and overlying eruption of fragmenta-y rock, associated with the eruption or ejection of water, so that, tp a very large extent, the rocks show the effects of water. They are often \olcanic muds, and may be classiAed under the head of volcanic tuffs. They surround the region in a ring, and can be seen half way from here to Trail Creek, and between here and where the Red Mountain Railroad descends towards Sheep Creek. They are on the top of Red Mountain, and on the other side of the valley, southward, forming a ring, leaving this central axial part of the volcano an isolated mass of dark, Ane-grained rock, with a width of one and a-half miles north and south, and Ave miles east and west. The rocks of that central mass are those which are of interest to the miner here. The rocks show three easily determined types. One is the. country rock of these immediate and neighbouring mines. It is a dark greenish-gray colour, Ane or coarse grained, tough, breaking with difficulty under the hammer, porphyrinic, or spotted with white feldspar crystals. It is composed of black augite crystals, and light-coloured traclinic plagio- clase feldspars, with a varying production of mono- clinic feldspars. It is an augite diorite of the variety known as monzonite. East of here in the Iron Horse claim is a darker close-grained series of rocks, also formed of black augite and plagioclase, but without the orthoclase feldspar. This type is known as gabbro. At the extreme west of the body where the Josie ravine comes down to Sheep Creek, there outcrops a 344 THE MINING RECORD. third variety of eruptives of the same general family, consisting of black hornblende and orthoclase feldspar, local variations of the same melted matter. A peculiarity of a volcano is, that it erupts at one period one type of rocks, and another type at another period. These rocks are all found to possess certain family characteristics, and are merely differentiations of one great molten magma. Here there are three differentiations from one magma, which have come to the surface successively, and perhaps alternatingly, and together form this central mass which is the green, heavy country rock of this immediate neighbourhood. There are thus alternations of the three types of rock in the mass. Subsequently to this there has been a strain from north to south which has opened up nearly vertically, and often in a parallel direction which have been filled immediately by intrusive dikes, and that is the rock which is the basis of this district. The veins belong to a single type. They are distinctly and predominantly, fissure veins. Through such a mass of rock as this, chemical solutions could not pass or penetrate without cracks, or interstices, and therefore when any mineral matter is found foreign to the rock itself, it may be classed as an intrusive dike or as mineral matter which has come along fissures, however large, and in whatever directions. The mineral-bearing veins here are characteristic fissure veins, and some of the larger are known as "shear zone" fissures. Shear-Zone Veins.—Shear zone differs from the single fissure. While a single fissure may result from a vertical action, or be the result of two horizontal compressions, through compressing forces, the shear zone is made under very high compression, holding the rocks tightly together, preventing a wide opening of the fissure. The shear zone is the result of a disturbance of opposing "couples" of pressure; the disturbance of the couple by a vertical force. While the plain open fissure may result from a direct upward thrust, the shear zone is always the result of a very powerful compression, and since that compression is very great, and almost equals the disturbing force, whatever it may be, that produces the fissure, it is apt to break in more or less parallel seams or fissures, that make a family of fissures, whose exterior boundary is assignable if you cross-cut or find the surface well exposed. Instead of being an indefinite amount of parallel fissures extending into a country an undiscoverable distance, it is always a zone of a discoverable and limitable collection, or a family, of more or less parallel fissures. In general they are a series of parallel "platings" of the rocks. These platings may or may not have slipped at all, i.e., a movement in any one plane may have been in- finitesimally small, less than a hundredth of an inch. If these veins are fissured deeply, they offer an avenue for ascending heated waters carrying mineral substances in solution and depositing them in the fissures, also decomposing the minerals along the lines of these minute fissures, until, in some instances, the whole matter between two fissures will be eaten out and replaced by chemical elements brought in solution by the percolating waters. All deep-seated springs are mineral springs. Those solutipns being hot at great depths have their solvent power enormously increased, and their function is to dissolve and find their way upward through any avenue they can, and according to their chemical nature, to dissolve, or redeposit their load of dissolved matter. It is a peculiarity of this class of veins that their mineral deposits within the general limits of the exterior fissures of this shattered and plated zone may be deposited on any one plane, or they may eat up all the rock between two planes and deposit another matter in its place, or they may occupy the whole zone, or mineralize one particular fissure and go through a small crack into another fissure, and travel upon that and so on. According to the accidents of structure and movement, they may mineralize upon one, or all of the planes. These veins are of enormous extent in some places, such as ioo or 200 feet in width, i.e., the shattered plated zone. The veins of Rossland are shearage veins occupying this plating zone due to parallel fissures. They are essentially fissure veins. In particular they are shear-zone veins. The peculiar mineral combination which here forms the ore and is part of these veins is a mixture of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Over the neighbourhood of these veins, and in portions of them, atom by atom, the crystals which make up this original rock have been replaced by those minerals in solution. In other words they have made or taken a cast, or filled up the original whole form, and now occupy the area, or bulk the cubical contents of what was formerly the crystalline ingredients of these rocks. Near the Iron Horse vein, large augite crystals are seen lying in the neighbourhood of that vein, making, as it were, a kind of porphyry, of which the crystals were already passed over into ore minerals, and the surrounding country was only partially transformed. The process of replacement is the origin of the sheeted bodies of ore which occupy and are made originally in contact with those fissures. A vein of that sort may be made along a single fissure, in which case the percolating solutions would fill the fissures, and all you would have would be a plate of metallic minerals fading gradually into the country rock on either side, which for the distance it existed as a solid body would entirely have destroyed the plane itself which gave it birth. We see that, in a small way, all through the neighbourhood of these veins. ROSSLAND VEINS AND ORE DEPOSITS. Professor Lindgren confirms Mr. King's opinion as to the veins being shear-zone veins, and goes into considerable detail on the veins themselves, especially those of the Iron Mask and Centre Star, which may be considered as typical of this district. Along the croppings are two continuous parallel streaks of sulphide ore from shaft to shaft. There are also a number of planes dipping from 350 to 650 along these croppings, well shown in the railroad cut. There is a streak of solid pyrrhotite and a little chalcopyrite. Above are two or three walls separated by country rock. On the south of this is altered country rock four feet, followed bjr streaks of ore. On the foot wall side are again two or three planes or* walls several feet apart, and again from these, two or three more planes or walls. There is a width of twelve feet of rock penetrated by a number of these shearage planes, the walls dipping north, and showing streaks of solid sulphide ore. This outcrop is the apex of the vein. The vein of the Centre Star is a composite, or shear-zone vein, consisting of five or six, or more, THE MINING RECORD. 345 shearage planes, at distances apart varying from a few inches to a few feet, and together constituting a shear-zone or composite vein, such as is common in the Rockies and elsewhere. The country rock is an igneous crystalline rock of granular texture, an augite diorite, or monzonite. composed of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspar and augite. .. The ore minerals are chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, occurring in more or less regular streaks within the walls. Beside is a great deal of altered country rock known as vein or gangue matter resulting from the country rock by the introduction of minerals foreign to the country rock. In this case these minerals are quartz, calcite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and a kind of brown mica. The vein matter fills the space between walls. The replacement of this country rock was caused by the introduction of the solutions bearing different mineials, gold, copper, iron, and other salts. This solution .acted on the country rock, introducing some minerals and forming others from the constituents which were already there, changing the whole aspect and composition of the country rock. In favourable places the change to pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite went on more intensely. The minerals of the country rock were more or less completely replaced by these minerals. • Their substance was dissolved out, and instead of the original substance the chalcopyrites were decomposed. The replacement was like that of petrified wood. This impregnation of the Centre Star vein is subordinate to the main process of replacement already outlined. A third process is filling, i.e., the accumulation of metallic and other minerals along, and in, open spaces formed during the shearing action, which produced the fissures. This is not so common as the general replacement system. The vein is sometimes a quite irregular plane changing in dip quite considerably at different portions of its extent. The vein, in places, consists, of solid chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, and a considerable amount of quartz. There is an average of what might be termed ore. There are numerous dikes associated with the veins. The "mud seam," or "fiat fault," as it is called, is a persistent seam dipping 350 south, striking north 700. The thickness of the seam is from a few inches to two feet. The seam occupies the plane of a fracture in the rock. It is similar to a vein fissure, only not mineralized. The filling is an attrition product from the grinding of the walls of the fault by compressive force. Any strain or shearing stress producing fissures is accompanied by.breaking and shattering. _ This shattered zone is a few inches to a few feet wide, following the seam continuously. It consists of ground-up rock for a thickness of a few inches to a foot ground up in place. The seam has been a water-course and carries water in a number of places. The filling has been reduced to a mud. The Iron Mask and Centre Star veins intersect. . THE TARIFF AND LEAD SMELTING. (By G. O. Buchanan.) THE Associated Boards of Trade of Eastern British Columbia, at their second annual session, held" in Nelson. August 1st to 4th, 1900, passed the following resolution: Moved by E. S. Topping, of Trail, seconded by T. G. Proctor, of Nelson: "That this association recognize with approval the action of the Dominion Government, in granting the request of this association, made at its last annual meeting, for the free re-admission into Canada of lead of Canadian origin, smelted in Canada, but refined abroad; and that this association re-affirm its decision of last year, that import duties on manufactured lead, should be increased to a parity with the duties levied upon other lines of manufactured goods, and we ask particularly that the duties upon dry white lead, now admitted at 5%, and litharge, now admitted free be increased to a minimum rate of 20%. We believe that this charge would have the effect of providing a profitable home market for about 7,000 tons of lead per annum used in Canada in the manufacture of paints." By reference to the Canadian tariff of customs duties lead and its products will be found treated as follows:— Ores of all kinds Free Lead—old scrap, pig and block 15% Bars and sheets 25% Shot 35% Manufactures of N. E. S 30% Dry white and red 5% Litharge Free Lead—Ground, and liquid paints 25% I add a few illustrative excerpts from other sections of the tariff:— Oxides, umbers, burnt sienna, etc 25% Ochres, ochrey earth, and colours dry, N.E.S. 20% Linseed oil 25% Asbestos, other than crude 25% Plumbago, ground, and manufactured 25% Brick 20% Drain pipe 35% By way of further illustration I add the lead schedule of the United States tariff. Lead in ore, i-Jc. per lb., equal 40% Lead in pigs, bar, scrap, etc, 2^c. per lb., equal 60% Lead in sheets, pipe, shot, etc., 2^c. per lb. equal 50% Lead, dry white and red, 2§c. per lb., equal . . 50% Lead, mixed in in paint, 2jc. per lb., equal . . 50% Litharge, 2|c. per lb., equal 50% Articles which are the product of Great Britain or of certain of her colonies when shipped to Canada from any port in the British Empire, are, under the preferential clauses of the tariff, subject to a deduction of 33 1-3% of the amount of the duties otherwise levied. Thus the rate of 15% collectable upon pig lead coming in from the United States or other foreign country becomes 10% upon pig lead (of British origin) coming from the ports of Liverpool or London. And the rate of 5% levied upon raw leads to be used in the manufacture of paints, becomes under similar conditions 3 1-3%. As Canada is one of the colonial possessions of Great Britain which is entitled to these privileges it follows that lead mined in Canada may be shipped to the United States, undergo any process of manufacture and afterwards by way of Great Britain be returned into Canada at the reduced rate of duty. It is well known that the bulk of the Canadian and Mexican lead smelted in the United States is thus re- shipped to Great Britain. Such lead passes through THE MINING RECORD. the United States in bond, and of course encounters no duty in Great Britain, and commands there a price which is always less than i£ cents per lb. lower than the New York price. From the returns of the Department of Trade and Commerce we find that the importations of lead into Canada amount to about 13,000 tons per annum, classified as follows :— Tons. .... 3,000 forms 3,000 .... 7,000 Pig lead Pipe, shot, sheet and other manufactured Lead in paints, dry and mixed 13,000 We have in Canada with headquarters chiefiy at Montreal and Toronto certain mercantile Arms who supply in mixed forms, and ready for use, the pigments which in blazing red, glorify our barn roofs, and in lily white pricked out with striping of gold, blend with the dainty Attings of our ladies' boudoirs. Some of these Arms are old and well established Canadian institutions. Others are mere branches of American concerns, maintaining in Canada warehouses in which by the simple process of grinding corroded lead in a mill, and mixing with it more or less linseed oil they absorb to themselves the difference between 31-3% payable upon lead unmixed with oil and 25% which would be payable upon the same lead if run through a mill and mixed in oil prior to its advent to Canada. (The 25% would of course be subject to 1-3 rebate if the mixed paint came in under the preferential clauses.) The Trade and Commerce returns show results such as would naturally be expected. First.—Importations of lead in any form from the United States and other foreign countries have almost entirely ceased and Canada is supplied with lead from Great Britain entirely. Second.—Importations of mixed paints into Canada have fallen to very small proportions. For eleven months ending May 31st, 1900, the importations of paint and paint material of all kinds is given as $828,289, and the duties collected, $79,789, Upon mixed paints at the full tariff of 25% the duties would have been $207,072.25. At the same time the fact that mixed paints do to some extent continue to arrive, suggests the inference that the price of the home mixed article has not been appreciably lowered to consumers. The production of lead in Kootenay is now going on at a rate of 25,000 tons per annum, and the smelters at Trail and Nelson are successfully bidding against their American competitors for the treatment of a large share of this output. Under the privilege of free re-entry these smelters are now returning a portion of their lead output into Canada, after having it desilverized in the United States. The Canadian market is therefore now available to the extent of the consumption of pig lead, viz., 3,000 tons per annum, and already some attempt is being made for the establishment in Eastern Canada of such works as are necessary for the manufacture of pipe, sheets, shot, etc., calculated to consume an additional 3,000 tons. Responsible parties are also in sight who are prepared to undertake in Canada the corrosion of lead, and the successful inauguration of this business would in the words of the resolution quoted, "afford a profit- able home market" for the further quantity of 7,000 tons per annum of our product. Such an industry requires the investment of large capital in plant, equip ment, and stock, and must expect to encounter the active opposition of those now in possession of the market and it is in the interest of their enterprise that the boards of trade ask that the duties upon dry white lead which would be their chief product should be increased from the present rate of 5% to 20%. The Associated Boards of Trade, it is needless to say, is a strictly non-political body, and deals with questions that come before it upon their merits, as commercial propositions,- without any intention of piomoting or prejudicing the fortunes of any party whether Dominion or Provincial. As a matter of fact the request presented by the boards can be dealt with by either of the parties in the Dominion Parliament without self-stultiAcation or inconsistency. The lead tariff as it stands is the work of the Conservative party and was framed at a time when the principle of protection to home industries enjoyed the ample endorsation of the people. It was framed at a time that there was no home production of lead in sight, and lead in crude forms was dealt with as raw material which manufacturers must necessarily import. Conditions have now arisen which heretofore did not exist, and the effect of which neither of the parties has until the present moment been called upon to consider. The pre-election declaration of the Liberal party was for a tariff that would do injustice to no class. The lead producing class are now in a position to fully supply all the lead consumed in Canada. Its representatives therefore ask that the duty upon lead products be increased to a parity with that levied upon similar classes of goods. They are not asking as with much justice they might for a tariff identical with that of the United States, a tariff frankly and finally prohibitive as against the world, but they think themselves that they have the same "incidental protection" as is afforded to those who produce within Canada oxides, umbers, ochres and ochrey earths, asbestos and plumbago, brick and drain pipe, that there should be placed upon the dry white lead coming into competition with them, the same rate of duty as is levied upon the linseed oil in combination with which the white lead is made into paint. From a provincial standpoint our case is perfect. We are consumers to an enormous extent of dutiable goods, paying into the treasury 30% upon the value of all the goods that we buy from the Americans and into the pockets of our Canadian brethren an addition of 30% which the tariff enables them to add to the price of the goods we purchase from them, and yet there is scarce an item in the tariff that favourably effects any product of our province. The retention within the Dominion of the sum ot one million dollars per annum now sent abroad for paints is an object that must commend itself to all Canadians, and is one for which I must now in closing bespeak the aid of your popular journal, and of vour numerous and influential readers. BLAST FURNACE SLAGS IN LEAD SMELTING.* (By Capt. C. C. Longridpe, M.I.M.E., M.I.Mech.E., Etc.) Y\T ITH the high grade and pure lead ores treated * V in reverberatory there is little gangue, and its separation by slagging presents no special difficulties. But in blast furnace smelting, which deals chiefly with moderate or low grade ores, the question of separating the large quantities of earthy and worthless gangue is a matter of great importance. For good •London Mining Journal. THE MINING RECORD. 347 separation, it is desirable either to mix the ores or to add such fluxes as will combine with the ore gangue and impurities easily fused and sufficiently light and fluid to readily separate from the lead work, matte, and speiss. For lead smelting, the ordinary slag density should not exceed from 3.4 to 3.6, as the density of the ordinary lead matte ranges from 5 to 5.3, the separation margin is a narrow one. A readily fusible slag is very desirable, inasmuch as it economises fuel by enabling larger charges to be smelted per unit of fuel. There is, however, a limit beyond which this property should not be developed, for too rapid a fusion, and, therefore, too frequent an addition of fresh ore, may unduly lower the furnace temperature and decrease its reducing power. The exact degree of fusibility, therefore, has, in every case, to be determined experimentally. But, generally speaking, the lead smelter adopts a monosilicate slag—that is, a combination in which the oxygen of the bases bears to that of the silica the ratio of 1:1. Such a slag is expressed by the formulae 2 RO+SiO2, or 2 R203+3 SiO, and the fusion temperature would be about 10300 C. When a high temperature, say, 1273° C, is desirable, it may be preferable to use a bisilicate slag—that is, one in which the oxygen of the bases is to that of the silica as 1.2. For such slag the symbol is RO+SiOs, or R203+3 SiO2. Between the degrees of fusibility, corresponding to these slags, is that of the sesqui-silicate, which may be regarded as a simple mixture of mono- and bi-silicate slag in equal proportions. In the sesqui-silicate, the oxygen of the bases is to that of the silica as 2:3; and the slag may be expressed by the symbols 4 RO+3 SiO2, or 4 R20+3 SiO2.* Any intermediate mixture can be calculated from the figures given in the following table, cited by Hofman:— Table showing the Combinations of Silica and Bases in Various Slags. One part by weight of Silica requires. For Mon-SOicates. Lime Baryta Magnesia Alumina Ferrous Oxide. .. Manganous Oxide Zinc Oxide Lead Oxide For Bi-Silicates. Lime Baryta Magnesia Alumina Ferrous Oxide.... Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide Lead Oxide Parts hy weight of Basis.t 1-86 5-10 1-33 1-14 2-40 2-36 2-70 7-43 One part hy weight of |J?f"f"Sr?L Base requires. Sifica. For Mon-Silicates. Lime 0 For Sesqui-Silicates. Lime Baryta Magnesia Alumina Ferrous Oxide Mangaaous 0;xide. Lead Oxide 0-93 2-66 0-66 0-57 1-20 1-18 1-35 3*71 Baryta Magnesia Alumina Ferrous Oxide Manganous Oxide. Zinc Oxide Lead Oxide ooo 196 750 873 416 422 370 134 1-24 3-40 0-88 0-76 1-60 1-57 4-95 For Bi-Silieates. Lime Baryta Magnesia Alumina Ferrous Oxide ... Manganous Oxide. Zinc Oxide Lead Oxide For Sesqui-Silicates. Lime Baryta 1-070 0-392 1-500 1-747 0-832 0-846 0-740 0-269 0-803 0-294 Magnesia 1-125 Alumina 1-310 Ferrous Oxide 0-625 Manganous Oxide.. 0-633 Lead Oxide 0-202 *Theterm "auarter," "half," "three-quarter," " one to one," applied to slags expresses the ratio of lime to iron, the latter being taken as unity? The following are examples of such slags :— " Quarter " Slag SO Si02 -|- 48 FeO -|-12 CaO, " Half "Slag 82 Si02 -I- 38 DeO -|- 20 CaO. '' Three-quarter " Slag 32 8102 -I- S3 VeO -I- 26 CaO. " One to One " 34 SI02 -|- 28 FeO -|- 28 CaO. The above proportions are calculated according to the rule that elementary or compound substances unite together chemically, in certain fixed proportions. These proportions by weight, reduced to their lowest relative value and expressed with reference to that of hydrogen, which is taken as unity, are called the atomic weights or combining numbers of the substance. Assume, then, that it is required to calculate the amount of lime (CaO) needed to combine with silica (SiO2) to form a monosilicate slag. The atomic weight of CaO is 40+16=56, and that of SiO2 is 28.5+2 (i6)=6o.5 Taking the formulae for the monosilicate slag 2 RO+SiO2, where R=Ca, 60.5 parts of silica will Combine with 2X56 parts of 112 CaO, or every part of silica requires =1.85 parts 60.5 of lime. The principal bases for slag making are the oxides of iron and lime, FeO and CaO. Where, as is usual, an ore contains small quantities of other bases, the calculation for slag-forming may be simplified by equating these minor bases to the iron or lime, and substituting their equivalent value thus proportionately adding to the iron and lime present. The required equivalency is obtained by comparing the atomic weights. For instance, the atomic weight of MnO is 72, while that of FeO is 71. The two are, therefore, practically equal, and any MnO in the ore may for slag making purposes be considered and treated as iron oxide. The earthy bases, such as MgO and BaO, may in like manner be treated as CaO. Thus, the atomic weight of lime being 56 and that of MgO being 40, every part of MgO=-7i CaO, or con- vcrsely CaO=NgOXi-4- Again, the atomic weight of BaO being 153, every part of BaO=2.7 CaO, or CaO=BaOX-4 If present in small quantities ZnO may be treated as CaO, the values being ZnO=i.4 CaO or CaO^ZnOX-/. 9 7 In like manner FeO=XFe—or Fe=:FeOX— 7 . 9. Before discussing in detail the effect of various constituents of slag, the composition of several thoroughly tested and useful slags for lead smelting, cited by Collins and Hofman, are given below:— TABLE I. Examples of Ordinary Lead Smelting Slags. m d § O 3 No. ffl OP3o2 O 02 6 1 0 w 0 5 O 03 O S3 1 0 d "3 0 Remarks. 1 1:1 28 50 12 90 1 A1203 + Zno 2 1:1 30 40 20 90 3 1:1 33 33 24 90 [ under 7 per cent. 4 1:1 35 27 28 90 J 5 6 7 4=5 5:7 2:3 34 36 39 50 40 32 12 20 25 96 96 96 I AL203 + Zno \ under 2 per cent. 8 1:1 34 24 30 io 98 9 1:1.3 40 26 16 10 4 96 10 1:1.3 33 36 16 7 92 / A1203 ) under 5 per cent. 11 7:8 30 36 16 10 92 12 1:1 25 33 14 3 16 91 Also- ZnS 4 per cent. 13 1.6:1 17 35 7 6 20 85 Also BaS0410 per cent. fFor smelting purposes ore constituents may be classified as: Bases (Iron, lime, copper, MnO, ZnO, MgO. BaO, KaOj NaO, A1203). Protecting agents (S, As.-Sh, Te). Reducing agents (coke, sulphur). Actds (S102, A12, 08). A1203 is basic in the presence of a large excess of Si02. Under other conditions it may be neutral or acid. 348 THE MINING RECORD. The above proportions can be considerably varied, especially in the relative proportions of iron and lime, which in non-zinciferous ores may replace each other to a large extent. It should be remembered that lime must vary inversely.with iron, and directly with silica; alumina, directly with lime and inversely with silica and iron; and zinc oxide, directly with iron, and inversely with silica and lime. In his paper on "The Development of Silver Smelting in Mexico," recently read before the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Mr. O. H. Hahn gives the following as a slag formulae ordinarily used: 34 SiO2 +34 FeO+17 CaO+15 RO. This slag was selected on account of its easy fusibility at a low blast, and because there was an abundance of ferruginous ores in hand. When siliceous ores were scarce the following type was used 32 Si02+48 FeO+12 CaO+8 RO. Under RO are comprised alumina, baryta, zinc oxide, and other bases, having no particular bearing- on the character of the slag. Magnesia is figured as calcium oxide in the ratio of molecular weights. Sulphate of baryta is treated as RO, and left out of the calculation. Mr. Hahn considers it wrong to calculate any part of zinc oxide as lime, as it is carried off by the slag mechanically, and not in chemical combination. When the lead ores are comparatively low in zinc and alumina, so that the total of ZnO, Al203,PbO, in the slag make only about 10 per cent, of it; 5 per cent, of silica, that is an amount of silica equal to one-half of the quantity of these bases, may be added for them. THE HEARTH SMELTING OF LEAD ORES. I.—HEARTH SMELTING. As previously explained, reverberatory smelting of lead ore consists of a combined roasting and reaction process, in which the two operations are repeated one after the other. In hearth smelting, on the contrary, these two operations,, which also constitute the process, are not consecutive but simultaneous, roasting and reduction going on at the same time. Again, in the reverberatory furnace lead is reduced from the ore by the interaction of the unaltered galena, that is the sulphide, with the sulphate and oxide, whereas in the hearth furnace there is additional reduction from the lead oxide by carbon. The reberberatory is worked without a blast, the hearth with one. In the latter furnace the ore and fuel do not rest on a solid bed, but on a bath of molten lead. The charge in the hearth furnace is never fused; but at intervals the blast is stopped, a portion of the charge removed, the poor slag separated from it, and after cooling and an admixture of lime to stiffen it, the charge portion is returned to the furnace. II.—TYPES OF HEARTH FURNACES. In outline, the hearth furnace consists of a rectangular smelting cavity, with cast iron bottom and sides, blast arrangement, and the usual chimney. The chief types of hearth furnaces are :—The Scotch, which, on account of over-heating the hearth, cannot be worked continuously. The American Water-Back, provided with a cooling arrangement for continuous work. Lastly, the Jumbo or Moffat; this furnace is fitted with air and water boxes for cooling, also with a hot blast to increase the output; and, also the lead fumes, in cases where there is a market for this product. Ill—ADVANTAGES. AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE HEARTH PROCESS. Compared with the reverberatory, the hearth method has these advantages: The fuel consumption is lower, and the furnace can be quietly started and stopped without much loss of fuel or serious racking of the structure. Against these may be enumerated as defects: that power is needed for the blast; that the lead and silver volatilization losses are heavier; that the furnace fumes are more injurious to the workmen ; that the ore must be even of a purer and higher grade than that required for the reverberatory; and that owing to the blast, ore in fine powder cannot be treated without previous agglomeration. Hearth smelting, therefore, is chiefly suitable for intermittent work on small quantities of pure high-grade non-argentiferous lead ores. When there is a good market for lead fumes, as paint pigment, these may purposely be increased by using a hot blast and collecting the fumes by the Lewis-Bartlett Bag process or similar devices. IV. THE PRODUCTS OF HEARTH SMELTING. Both products and treatment are the same as in the case of reverberatory smelting. There is, however, an intermediary product consisting of ore, slag, and fuel, termed "browse." This is roasted and re-smelted with subsequent charges. VERBATIM EVIDENCE IN THE IRON MASK- CENTRE STAR LITIGATION. (Mr. Clarence King's Evidence Continued from Last Month.) Q. And you were here in February for about a week, you say, in connection with that case? A. With this case, yes, sir. Q. And you have been here in connection with this case since when, the present time ? A. Since the 5th of April. Q. And how much of your time have you devoted or have you devoted it at all, to an exarnination of the property in dispute in this action? A. Well, I have been underground almost every day, and have devoted a good part of the rest of the time to the study of the questions involved. Q. So that your examination of the ground in dispute has covered between three and four weeks ? A. Yes. Q. Now, perhaps as explanatory of the evidence you will give later on, Mr. King, it might be well for you to give a brief geological sketch of the conditions that you find in this camp, and the relationship they bear to the general conditions elsewhere? A. The district immediately about Rossland is, as is commonly known, a part of a very great whole, which whole is the mountain that borders the Pacific from Cape Horn to the Arctic Sea. It is a system thus covering an arc of nearly half the great circle of the globe and has its widest expansion about the latitude of San Francisco where it is 1,200 or 1,400 miles wide. That mountain system ranks next in physical* importance to that of the east and west system which traverses Asia and Europe, but unlike that system it is an empire of mines; and its geology beside having a high abstract interest, lies at the basis of the knowl- adge of mining for this immense area. The quantities involved in this system of the Cordilleras are great: THE MINING RECORD. 349 almost beyond belief. They involve the superposition of strata amounting to over 120,000 feet in actual measured thickness; they involve a history from very near the dawn of geological history—absolutely until to-day, of enormous dynamic action and effect. And this dynamic action has consisted in the upheaval, in the crushing and folding together, and in the dislocation of enormous blocks of this great territory. This sedimentary series which I have said amount to over 100,000 feet, are derived from.the older rocks in their immediate neighbourhood. So far as we have been able to see, those sediments have never travelled to very great distances. Sometimes a series of strata amounting in all to 40,000 feet have been piled up consecutively and continuously, and without break; but all these series of various episodes of sedimentation have ended in a destructive dynamic period, and they have been crushed, upheaved or depressed, and then the process of sedimentation has begun under new terms. These dynamic events which punctuate, as it were, the history of the whole of these Cordilleras, are due undoubtedly to the unbalancing of the forces of gravitation and of equilibrium. It is very well known to geology that if you load any area with a heavy mass of sediment, that area subsides; that if you unload any area, that area will rise. Consequently, whenever an area rises near an area which is stable or is sinking, there is a dynamic strain, and if that strain passes cohesion, passes the point of the elastic limit of the rocks, or the cohesive limit, they are ruptured by these tremendous strains and the action usually ends in the eruption and the readjustment of the equilibrium—and the eruption of melted matter from the subjacent area. It is in these periods of stress and strain to which the rocks and whole distances and whole enormous areas and ranges, and whole mountain ranges, have been subjected that the crushing and straining and fracturing and Assuring takes place, which is the birth of a mining district. 1 do not mean to indicate that every crushed area, or every Assure or block of country is the birth of a mining district because mineral veins owe their origin to two processes; one is the Assuring of the rocks, or the solution of soluble rocks on lines of Assures and the second process is the Ailing or deposition ol mineral matter on, in, along and near these fissures. So that a mining district requires the two periods of action; I mean a block of country requires the two classes and periods of action to bring it from an amorphous mountain mass into a mineral district, in se periods of crushing have never occupied a very great part of the geological history; they are sudden convulsive episodes which follow periods 01 accumulation of strata, periods of upheaval and periods of depression, but short as they are they have-ended £ deluging enormous tracts of this Cordilleras system with eruptive rocks, molten when they come out.and which have cooled under or upon the surface There are Aelds of these eruptive rocks which cover many thousands of square miles; there are other Add which are extremely small, and, as I say, these pen cds began in the earliest geological ages, and have g-one on practically to the present. gThe stSdy of thes rocks which have been erupted in these various periods has resulted in a Ane classification as to species, and in a certain measure as to origin, and also to a rougher classification in time that is to say, the rocks which ^ know o be earlier than the dawn of life, which we will put at the: base: of the Cambrian, are of a different class from those which are erupted now from present volcanos. They have shades of difference in texture and in composition, and in the relative proportions of their different elements; but, chiefly, their distinction is one of decompositions ; that is to say, it is very rarely we get from the earliest period any form of a lava which is as fresh and as new as those which are being erupted now. They have undergone chemical decomposition more or less. So that, in a general, rough sort of way, the occular examination of a district of erupted rocks usually gives rise to a fairish judgment of about when that district was built. Now, the rough examination whch I have made of the geology of this immediate region when here four or five years ago leads me to compare it as fairly near—the many deposits which have come to the surface—the many outflows which have come to the surface to what is called middle geological time, say the Jura-Trias, or the beginning of the Cretaceous. They bear a certain textural resemblance to the rocks of that period. They may be later or they may be earlier; so far the data are wanting for the exact position, but from all practical purposes they may be assigned to a middle geological period. We are here, as is properly known, I believe, on the vent of an extinct volcano, one which undoubtedly reared its head high above the present surface, and one which went through various episodes of eruptions. Those episodes are recorded here, first, in a complex mass which represents the base and centre of a volcano; and, secondly, by a later and overlying eruption of fragmentary rocks which were undoubtedly associated with the extrusion and ejection of water, so that to a . very large extent they show the effects of water. They are often muds, and they are all to be classed under the head of tuffs, volcanic tuffs. They surround the region in a ring; you can see them half way from here to Trail Creek; you can see them between here and where the Red Mountain Railroad descends towards Sheep Creek; they are on the top of Red Mountain, and they are on the other side of the valley to the southwards, forming in general a ring, leaving this central axial part of a volcano an isolated mass of dark, usually fine-grained rocks, having a width of about a mile or a mile and a-half north and south, and perhaps, five miles east and west. The rocks of that central mass are those which enclose the veins of the district, and they are the rocks which are of interest to the miners here. They have been more or less studied by the Canadian Geological Survey, and they have been compared by Mr. Ferrier with the standard types from other localities. I have myself had the opportunity of going over with him the thin slides or thin microscopical sections of these rocks and comparing them with the Pearsons types, and ships in small pieces, but enough to make comparison ii$m a similar district to the east of here. The rocks as you walk over the surface show three easilv, reasonably well-defined types: one is the rock which we see here in the cut before us. I have not examined the cut particularly, but I have seen enough to realize that the bulk of it is of a type of rock which forms the hills directly in front of us and which is the country rock of these immediate neighbouring mines, mat rock has a dark, greenish-gray colour, usually of fane erain, sometimes coarses grained rock, which is very tough, breaks difficultly under the hammer, is difficult to scratch, and under the microscope, as well as 35° THE MINING RECORD. in plain vision, is often seen to be pyrrhotite, and in places the original structure has been more or less obliterated by compression and subsequent chemical action. The microscope shows this rock is an augite rock, formed of augite and triclinic feldspar; and a considerable and varying proportion of monochmc ieldspar. To the east of here and in the nighbour- hood of the Iron Horse claim there appears a darker, much closer grained series of rocks formed like these of augites and triclinic feldspars, but with less or none of the monoclinic feldspar, and each following very near the type known as gabbro. At the extreme west of the body where the Josie ravine comes down towards Sheep Creek and meets the road from here to the mines, there outcrops a considerable area of a third variety of eruptive rocks of the same general family, which consist of hornblende, monoclinic feldspar and orthoclase. These three types are undoubtedly local variations of the same general melted mass. Every one who has studied volcanoes, or volcanic districts must realize—must know—that one of the peculiarities of the average volcano the world over is that it erupts at one period one type of rocks, and another at another. But on examination, these rocks are all found to possess certain family characteristics, and are from a peterological view so related to one another that it is seen quite clearly that they are differentiated from one great melted magma. The manner of this differentiation is somewhat of an enigma, but it is perhaps explicable on the basis of separation by specific gravity of the crystals developed in this magma. Be that as it may, here these three differentiations from one magma have come to the surface successively, and, perhaps, alternatingly, and together form this central mass which is the green dark, heavy' country rock of the immediate neighbourhood. We therefore find that there are, since other periods have overlapped to a certain extent, alterations of the three types of rock in the mass. Subsequently to this there has been a strain from north to south which has opened up nearly vertically and often parallel a system of fissures through this mass which have been filled immediately by intrusive dykes, and that is the rock which is the basis of this district. Q. You may just explain, Mr. King, what a dyke is. A. A dyke is originally a fissure extlendting.' through the course of the rock to the deep until it intersects some pool or body of molten matter, which ascends in and fills the the crack, and the filled matter in this crack consists of the dyke, is the dyke. Q. The filling, then, would be foreign? A. Intrusive. Q. Foreign to the rocks surrounding it? A. Foreign, intrusive from below. Q. Are they limited to any particular size, or do they vary? A. They vary to a very large size. Q. From what? A. I have seen them from an inch to ioo feet, we will say, and probably much more. Q. From your examination of the ground in dispute of the Rossland camp, what conclusion have you come to as to the character and structure of the veins here, the causes which have produced them, and their points of resemblance and of difference from the veins you have found in other places. You might just go into that pretty fully, Mr. King. It has an important bearing here. A. I should say that all of the larger veins, as least, and perhaps the smaller ones also, belong to a single type. They are distinctly and predominantly, fissure veins. It is clear that through such a mass of rock as this, chemical solutions could not penetrate without the avenue of cracks and interstices; and, therefore, wherever any mineral foreign to the rock itself may be found, it can be easily classed, either as intrusive dyke, or as mineral matter which has come along fissures, however, large and in whatever directions. The mineral-bearing veins here are well-characterized fissure-veins; and certainly some of the larger ones, and perhaps many of them, are what are known as shear zone fissures. That type is not, perhaps, so well and so widely known as the simple fissure, but it is recognized and does exist over a very wide range of territory. I have seen it in Mexico, I am working a mine of that type now in Colorado, have seen it in Nevada, and I know it when I see it here. Shear zone differs from the single fissure in an important particular. While a single fissure may result from a vertical action, or even be the resultant of two horizontal compressions, through compressing forces, the shear zone is always made under very high compression,—compression which holds the rock tightly together, which prevents a wide opening of fissures, and that shear zone is always the result, or almost always the result of a disturbance of opposing couples, of what are technically called "couples" of pressure—the disturbance of that couple by a vertical complement of a vertical force; while the plain, open fissure may result from a direct upward thrust, the shear zone is always the result of a very powerful compression; and since that compression is very great, and almost equals the disturbing force, whatever it is, that produces the fissure, it is apt to break, and always does practically break, in more or less parallel seams or fissures; thus making a family whose exterior boundary is always assignable, if you cross-cut or find the surface well exposed, and study the ground. Instead of being an indefinite amount of parallel fissures extending into a country an undis- coverable distance, it is always a discoverable and limitable collection or family of more or less parallel fissures. Since those forces are never mathematically adjusted to each other to be in exact opposition, the resulting fractures are not absolutely parallel. In the case, for instance, of a slight torsion of a body there might be a family arrangement of the Assures, a slight family; but in general and practically for a miner's purpose, they are a series of parallel plating of rock. Now these platings may or may not have slipped at all; that is to say, a movement on any one plane may have been inAnitesimally small, may have been less than a hundredth of an inch. When these veins are thus Assures—which is always the beginning point—if they are Assures so deep that they offer avenue for the deep-seated thermal waters, there is immediately an action of ascension and the deposition of chemicals contained in the deep solution, also a decomposition of the minerals along the lines of these minute Assures, until in some instances the whole matter between two Assures will be all eaten out and replaced by the chemical elements brought in solution by the percolating waters. It is very well known that all deep-seated springs are mineral springs. Practically none of the deeply reached water of the globe is free from mineral solution. Those solutions being hot at great depth and under pressure at great depths, have their solvent power enormously increased, and their THE MINING RECORD. 35i function is indeed to discover and And their way up through any avenues they can, and according to their chemical nature, to dissolve or replace or deposit their load of dissolved matter. It is a peculiarity of those veins of Rossland—but it is a peculiarity of this class of veins, that their mineral deposits within the general limits of the exterior Assures of this shattered and plated zone may be deposited on any one plane, or they may eat up all the rock between two planes and deposit another matter in its place, or they may occupy the whole zone, or they may mineralize one particular Assure and go through a small ci ack into another Assure and travel upon that and so on. According to the accidence of the structure and movement; they may mineralize upon one or all of the planes. These veins are of enormous extent in some places. They are well known to reach 100 or 200 feet in extent; that is, the shattered plated series. I am myself mining to-day a vein which is 150 feet thick with six or seven of these well marked divisions. Now, the veins of this camp, so far as I have seen them—that is to say, such as I have recently studied, and I feel very sure from what I saw before that, the Le Roi is in the same category—are shear zone veins; that is to say, they occupy this plating due to parallel Assures. They are Assure veins essentially; in particular, they are shear zone veins; that the peculiar mineral combination which here forms the ore, and which is a pa"^t of these veins which occupies the the greatest interest, is a mixture of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite and copper pyrites, and it is seen over the neighbourhood of these veins and in portions of these veins, that, atom by atom the crystals which made up this original rock have been replaced by those mineral solutions; in other words, that they have made a pseudomorph, or taken a cast, you may say, or Ailed up the whole form and now occupy the area or bulk, the cubical contents, of what was formerly the crystalline ingredients of these rocks. Particularly near the Iron Horse you can see large dial- lages or large augites lying in the neighbourhood of that vein, making as it were, a kind of porphyry of which the crystals were already passed over into ore minerals, and the surrounding country was only partially transformed. It seems to be quite clear that here, as in so many other place, the process known as replacement, is the origin of the sheets and bodies of ore which occupy and which are made originally in contact with those Assures. A vein of that sort may be made along a single fissure, in which case the percolating solutions would fill the fissure and replace upon each side of it, obliterating the fissure, and all you would have would be a plate of metallic minerals, fading gradually into the country on each side, which for the distance it existed as a solid body would entirely have destroyed the plane itself which gave it birth. You see that, in a small way, all through the neighbourhood of these veins. I think that expresses about the ideas I have formed of the general origin of these veins. Q. Where else have you seen veins which are exactly the same as we have here? A. I have never seen exactly the same, but the principle is precisely the same in a miae, for instance, that I am working in Colorado, the Nellie. It is a mine like this, situated in eruptive rocks, but of a much later date, in which the shear-zone is, I say, about 140 feet wide, and in which the mineralization is distinctly by replacement, as it is here. It is a different mineralization, but the principle is exactly the same. Q. In the veins of which you have just given a description of shear-zone veins—replacement veins, —what have you to say respecting walls? A. In a vein which may be, we will say, 140 feet wide, like the Nellie, one never knows where his ultimate wall is until he has cross-cut both ways and developed the fact that he has passed the exterior limit of the fractured zone. Anywhere within that any plane appearing is simply an anterior member of the system. Q. Will the mineralization always proceed to the exterior walls? A. Very frequently not. Q. Will it always proceed on the one point? A. The Nellie mine which I speak of has jumped across from plane to plane four times. In one instance the first jump it made it came up to a certain point and jumped, but its mineralization followed the original plane about 80 feet beyond, and then stopped for some probable want of access of the fluids, but it made a right angled jump of something like 40 feet to the next plane and then went on, on that. Q. You have spoken of veins of this kind of very great width, 100 to 140 feet. Is it at all necessary that veins of this kind should be so broad ? A. Not at all. O. That is, is it usually or necessarily the case that they are so broad? A. Not at all, not at all. These veins are fissure veins, and if they develop one fissure, that is the width of them; if they develop 40 that is the width of them. Q. AndT suppose there is no law governing the width or the distance at least between the adjoining walls, parallel planes? A. No, they may be very- close or Q. Very far apart? A. Or very far apart. Q. By the way, Mr. King, I forgot to ask you: I believe you are a member of the American National Academy of ^Science? A. I am. Q. What is that body? A. It is a body incorporated in 1863 by the United States Government, and is self-perpetuating as to its membership, but exists for the purpose of the formation and maintenance of a body of scientific knowledge on which the government can draw at any time for any scientific problem which it desires to have solved for its own benefit. Q. Is there any body in England it corresponds to ? A. Not exactly; it would perhaps be nearer to the Royal Society. 0. Is it limited in numbers? A. It has been practically limited to one hundred. Q. Are there any other mining men in that body besides yourself? A. There are a few; Mr. Emmons, of the Geological Survey, is a member. I do not remember any others. Q. You have examined the point, station 66, where four carloads of ore were taken away from as diown in the evidence? A. I have. Q. And I believe you came to the conclusion that that ore which has been taken out properly belonged to the Iron Mask people—the Iron Mask vein? A. It belonged to a vein which is at that point and has its apex in Iron Mask ground. The Court: What is the cause of this molten material? Is it chemical action? A. No, sir; the earth would be fluid at a certain depth but for the pressure of the superincumbent mass which prevents it expanding to the volume which fluid requires, and presses it into a solid. The relief of pressure allows that thing to expand and become liquid, and it is already above the temperature of fusion, but is unable 352 THE MINING RECORD. to fuse because of pressure. When that pressure is removed it expands into fusion. The Court: It is in a liquid state, then, literally, all of it? A. The interior of the earth is mostly a solid. Up to within 30 or 40 miles of the surface it is undoubtedly solid. That has been proved by Lord Kelvin with very great ability. The Court: Let me ask, Mr. King: this has nothing to do with the case, of course, but I have often been astonished at it. The centre of the earth is solid, Lord Kelvin says ? A. Yes; in fact, the earth is all solid with small reservoirs. The Court: There is a certain amount of liquid matter? A. Locally developed. The Court: Around the solid body? A. Not in the shape of a complete shell, but only local pools. The Court: Of course, of vast extent in some cases ? A. Of vast extent in some cases. The Court: How does it become heated? A. From the initial heat of the earth. The earth was hot to begin with, and has not cooled off yet; it is very slow about it. The Court: I know the main divisions beginning with the lowest ones, the Azoic, the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic, the Myocene and Tertiary. A. Yes, sir. The Court: What caused the heated matter? A. The heat is residual heat from the original heated condition of the earth. The Court: That is the explanation of a volcano ? A. Entirely. Thereupon- the Court adjourned until to-morrow, April 25th, 1899, at 11 o'clock a.m. Clarence King—A witness for the Defendants on the stand. Direct examination resumed. By.Mr. Davis— O. You know; the incline shaft, No. 3 shaft, Mr. King, do you? A. I do. Q. Have you nade a thorough examination of that? A. I have. Q. Just explain how thorough ? A I have visited the shaft and passed up and down it about a half dozen times, always looking at the ore, and one occasion chipped the surface of the ore which defines the centre of the vein from top to bottom, and found that there were no -intervals; that it was absolutely continuous ore from top to bottom. The Court: You found there were no intervals? A. It was absolutely continuous ore from top to bottom with the exception of the sump. Q. From top to bottom with the exception of where the mud-seam fracture is ? A. There is in the bottom of the shaft an opening which is in the nature of a sump on the bottom of that chamber, which I exclude from that general statement. Q. That is, that 8 or 10 feet at the bottom? A. Yes, sir. Q. So we will take it down to that sump at the present time. Do you find any vein in that shaft? A. I find a clear fissure vein from the top of the point indicated at the head of the tunnel. Q. You say you found continuous ore. What was the nature of that ore, what kind of ore was it? A. That ore, the bulk of it, was pyrrhotite, but throughout, almost every hand-specimen taken, chalcopyrite and iron sulphide could be seen. Q. You may say just what chalcopyrite is and pyrrhotite is and what iron pyrites is? A. Pyrrhotite is a very basic sulphide of iron; chalcopyrite is a double sulphide of copper and iron, of which the normal proportions are 30 per cent, iron, 30 per cent. silver and 30 per cent, copper, but it is an extremely varying mineral in its copper percentage, and has often been, and in fact, is generally, considered to be a more or less mechanical mixture of the two chrys- tals of pyrite and chalcopyrite, for its composition varies from 30 copper down to only 3 or 4 copper, and even a trace of copper. Q. What is iron pyrites? A. Iron pyrites is the bi-sulphide of iron. Q. You say that was a fissure vein you found in the No. 3 shaft. What particular kind of a fissure vein would you call it ? A. Taken alone and without relating it to other parts of what I believe to be the Centre Star vein, I should say it was a fissure vein with accompanying exterior walls; that there was a main fissure which defined the limits of the ore above and below, or two main fissures, as the case may be, and over it a supplementary, parallel and correlative fissure, which constitutes an upper wall about two feet above the upper limit of the ore. Q. You find then, walls in that shaft, do you? A. I find walls continuous, enclosing the ore. Q. Enclosing the ore ? A. I find the correlative wall about two feet above and lying parallel. Q. What about below? A. Below where, sir. Q. Below the ore? A. The workings do not go into the foot country enough to define any walls, other than the one which is the downward limit of the ore; that is to say, there are no cross-cuts back into the foot country by which you can see correlative walls. Q. Did I understand you to say you found any fissures there? A. The ore is enclosed by fissure w?alls. Q. And it is difficult to trace these fissures you have just referred to, the fissure walls? A. The upper limiting fissure of the ore is very easy to trace; the lower one is sometimes obscured and sometimes visible by the distance at which the cut enters the foot wall, or ends at the edge of the ore, and that plane is more chemically destroyed than the upper one. The upper one is a very well-marked fissure, but the other one is sufficiently in view to be sure of it from place to place. Q. By the way, speaking generally of the veins in which disputed ground, is it easy or difficult to follow the line of ore and the line of country rock, or whatever you may call it? A. In some places it is easy, and in some places it is difficult. Not always easy, not always difficult, often very simple. Q. What is the colour of the country rock? A. A dark greenish-gray. Q. What is the nature of the vein filling, as you term it? A. The vein filling is of two kinds. Do you mean as regards shaft No. 3? Q. Well, in the Centre Star vein, we will say first, where it appears in different places? A. Within what I believe to be the limiting planes, that is, the extreme walls of the Centre Star vein, there is a mineralization which, to a certain extent, defines the whole zone, included from the exterior country; but the influences which have changed the inside have, to a certain extent, and to a limited extent, changed the outside. Usually it is not impossible and not difficult to define the limits by inspection, and it would certainly always be possible by analvsis. THE MINING RECORD. 303 Q. (By the Court.) That is to say, the walls have disappeared in some cases? A. Not quite disappeared, sir, but the chemical influences of the solutions which have come by exterior cracks have not only mineralized that which was within, to a certain extent, but to a lesser extent, that which is without. Q. What do the vein fillings in that vein chiefly consist of? Mr. Bodwell: What vein do you refer to? Q. Centre Star No. 2 vein. A. It is largely of this altered country rock, very largely of altered country rock, and in places it consists of plates and bands and some irregular patches of metallic minerals, that is to say, of pyrrhotite or chalcopyrite and iron pyrites; the main mineral of the metallic passages of the vein is pyrrhotite; the chalcopyrite in the vein is always in much less quantities, and the pyrite is more evenly distributed, and does not seem to me to be an essential, although it is usually present. Q. Do you find any special difference between the constituents of the Iron Mask vein and the Centre Star No. 2 vein, both as to ore, I mean, and also as to vein matter apart from ore? A. Where I have seen the Iron Mask vein its fissures were never very far apart, and the vein filling which I have seen has been always of ore, except a little country material towards the edges of their body. Whereas, the Centre Star vein, in my belief, is a much wider vein enclosed within shear planes, which are not less thanat the extreme of 20 feet, and the bulk of the vein included between those is country rock, as I have said before more or less altered. That constitutes the difference, as I have seen, between the two veins. The Court: You say the walls are about 20 feet apart? A. I should say, about that, the ultimate walls. And probably in some places are much less, as 1 will afterwards show. The Court: I understand. Q. Which vein are you speaking of now? A. Centre Star No. 2. Q. Now, that you are speaking of the width of the Centre Star No. 2 vein, will you tell me, Mr. King, if the width of the veins is a uniform thing at all? A. Not at all. I have spent a great deal of time in the study of one vein that was over 500 feet,—in the Corn- stock. • j . -> A T+ Q. And did it remain of a uniform width ? A. It was a closed fissure, a mere crack for thousands of feet. O. And how did you find the veins in this camp m that respect? A. As to their uniform width? Q. As to their uniform width or the opposite? 1 have seen in the Le Roi not less than 40 feet of solid vein matter. That was at a time when the development had not proceeded very far, and as to the later widths, which I am told is very much greater, I am not able to testify personally. Q. Well, was the width in the Le Roi vein uniform ? You say you saw 40 feet of a width. Was it any narrower at other places? A. It certainly narrowed westward as far as the workings went, rather rapidly, but I am not familiar with the later developments at all. , Q. Well, speaking of the veins in the camp that vou are familiar with are they as a rule of_ uniform width, or do they vary in width, and if so. give us an approximate idea? A. They vary very widely in width, and each vein is apt to vary in width. Q. I am speaking, Mr. King, not altogether of the comparative width of the different veins, but I am speaking of the uniformity or non-uniformity of any- particular individual vein. A. I am about to illustrate that. There may be some geological question as to whether the stopes upon the Iron Mask, east and west, are upon the same vein. In my belief they are upon the same vein, and the eastern edge of the western stope, where it comes in very close to the dyke, which will perhaps later be described, which cuts through this country- to the north and south, is perhaps 6 or 7 fet wide; at other places I have seen it down to a mere fissure. So that that vein itself varies from an extremely narrow seam to 6 or 7 feet. Q. What is the dip of the Centre Star No. 2 vein in the incline shaft? Take first the average dip, we will say, from the top of the point you mentioned before ? A. ' About 45 degrees. Q. Does the dip of that vein vary? , A. Very little. It has a slight variation, but very- little. Q. That is, in the shaft? A. In the shaft it is steeper at the top, perhaps 6 or 8 degrees. Q. Now, do veins as a rule maintain a uniform dip, or do they vary A. They vary enormously. I have seen veins in their dip describe a curve that amounted to almost a right angle. The ore-bearing part of the Comsto'ck, which is a very constant example among miners, the eastern walls dip west for a considerable distance, finally swing into the perpendicular and then dip east. Another very well known vein is the Tomboy, which is now a very important mine belonging to the Rothschild Syndicate, in Tel- luride, Colorado. It started with one dip, made a curve, and assumed another. It is not an uncommon thing that their dip or strike be seriously changed. Q. About what is the strike of the Centre Star No. 2 vein at the incline shaft? A. It is a little east, a little north of east, about north 86 east. The Court: You mean as between these two shafts The Witness: No, I mean right at this point, in this region here. (Indicating on model.) As between the two, that has not been asked me. I can figure that out. . Q. Yes, you might give it us, Mr. King. The Court: I think I misunderstood your question probably. Mr. Davis: The question was as to the strike of the vein in the incline shaft. The Witness: The strike of the whole vein between No. 2 and No. 3 closely approximate to east and west, at this level (indicating), the level indicated. Q. At which level? A. The level indicated, about 100 feet above the bottom of the shaft. The Court: The strike, as I undertand (of course, subject to correction), the strike ordinarily, for instance, of that incline, would be taken on the top of it if you did not know there was another shaft here? A. Yes, sir; if you had no other guide to go by it would be. The Court: That is the reason I asked you if it was between the two shafts. A. I was asked that and was answering as to one shaft only. The Court: And you say north 86 degrees east. A. Yes, sir. at this point. But taking the wider range of the vein it would be about east and west, and the course of the outcrop, which defines the vein upon the surface, would be quite different, because this is lower than that, and the true strike would be from the top of this to that produced at an equal level. 354 THE MINING RECORD. Q. Do you find the vein in the No. 3 shaft narrower or wider or of the same width that the shaft- itself is ? A. The ore bearing part of the vein is narrower than the shaft. It lies near the foot of the shaft and there was over it from two to four feet according to the breaking of the shaft Q. Can you tell A. May I finish this answer? Will you kindly read that to me again. (Last question and answer read.) A. (Continued.) Before reaching the last seen hanging wall, which hanging wall is not continuous, but is sometimes broken into by the mining operations and for considerable spaces obliterated. Q. Can you tell from an examination of No. 3 shaft, as it is at present, what is the width of the vein at that place ? A. I cannot. I simply see that a little above, 2 or 3 feet above, the upper boundary plane of the ore is another parallel plane, which is undoubtedly in my mind, a part of the shearing system'of the whole. But 'no works give me access to planes; if they exist, below the lower level of the ore; and I do not believe that I saw the upper planes of the veins; the ultimate plane of the vein, anywhere in this snatt. My reason for that is, that a few feet to the east, at the east end of this brown drift, which is the south drift from the Iron Mask stope, what I believe to be, from its position and character, an eastward projection of the ore body of this shaft. Q. That is No. 3 shaft? A. No. 3 shaft—is accompanied by two superior parallel walls, at distances of from 4 to'5 feet in actual cross section. The lower one of these I believe to be the one which exactly geometrically fits it and which is tlie one which is the wall I have spoken of as overlying the ore of this shaft, but we have never cut high enough in No. 3 tc get at the upper of those walls, and we have never cut below to get at the lower walls. Q. From the explanation you have given, I understand this is what you described yesterday as the shear zone vein? A. Yes, sir, the shear zone vein. Q. Now, you spoke a moment ago of the hanging wall disappearing. What hanging wall were you referring to ? A. The lowest plane seen above in the No. 3 shaft. Q. And what is the cause, if you know it, of its. disappearing? A. I explained that, that it was due to cutting in by the miners, but they had never broken accurately to the planes; that they had sometimes left some material below it, and for large distance they cut into it. , Q. And had not gone far enough back to cut the wall? A. Any correlative planes that might be there. Q. In the case of a vein that you have described, what would be the only possible way of accurately and mathematically demonstrating where the two ultimate walls of the vein were ? A. By a thorough cross-cutting into the hanging and foot walls. The Court: In the present shaft? A. In any case; in this case exactly the same cut. The Court: And cutting out any particular place? A. Yes, sir. DIRECT EXAMINATION Mr. Davis: I may be a little long over this No. 3, but that is the shaft so much fighting is about. The Court: I want all the information possible. Q Now, Mr. King, will you kindly come around here and point the ore in this Exhibit No. 90 out to the Judge and explain the different ores as you find them. This is a sample from near the top of No. 3 shaft. I suppose that will explain the oxidation? A. Yes. Mr. Davis : All of this evidence is being given with reference to the pieces of ore in Exhibit. The Witness (Proceeding to illustrate to the Court from Exhibit No. 90) : This is the type of the metallic mineral of the No. 3 shaft and of the vein at large. It is taken from near the surface, and this dull bronze lustre is a characteristic of the ore and of the copper—which is much more easily decomposed than the pyrrhotite, more soluble, appears only scattered. There (illustrating), for instance, is a little yellowish spot, which is the copper. Here is a sample which contains but little of the pyrrhotite or the metallic mineral, and is chiefly of country rock. The sample, therefore, is composed of a mixture of what I should probably consider the country rock and of the metallic mineral such as you would get by breaking into a more or less decomposed and not always perfectly defined outcrop. Here, for instance, is a piece of the siliceous, and the quartzose part of the vein which is found, but not an absolutely constant accompaniment, which contains a good deal of the copper mineral chalcopyrite. Quite often, as near the surface, some of the copper has been oxidized, and has left a green stain of itself, which indicates its former presence. That is the characteristic of this pan full of ore It is made up of a mixture of broken country and ore material, with more or less silica. Mr. Bodwell: I will put those in a piece of paper which Mr. King referred to. The Witness: I picked that out on purpose to show the mixture. Mr. Davis: This is more for the purpose of showing your Lordship the ore itself and having Mr. King point out the different minerals, than anything else. Q. From what you said, Mr. King, you apparently find country rock more or less altered, and perhaps not altered at all in the vein. Is that correct? A. In parts of the vein. Q. Here is Exhibit 91. This is the second one down in the shaft. A. (Illustrating.) I take the two top specimens, as illustrating precisely the same phases that I spoke of before. This sample is chiefly pyrrhotite, but contains a little copper mineral; this is chiefly country rock, containing a good deal of chalcopyrite and some calcite. Q. As to Exhibit 92, Arst of all, Mr. King, what ore do you And in that, speaking generally? A. You mean what ore minerals? Q. Yes. A. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, with the calcite which I -mentioned as accessory. Q. You found both of those? A. If you will allow me to look at the very Arst specimen again. (Referring to Exhibit 90.) It has perhaps a little lime, but it is largely quartz. The Court: Is that term "shear zone" that you mentioned yesterday and this morning a geological term? A. Yes, sir. The Court: A very well known one ? A. Yes, in modern times; it has not been very well recognized until very recent years. It appears in geological literature in a prominent way in recent times. The Court: Owing to the new theory by compression. A. Owing to the new observations chiefly. This (referring to Exhibit 92) is again a mixture of country rock; and when I say countryrock, I do not mean in this case to limit it to the country rock exter- THE MINING RECORD. 355 ior to the vein, but to the material of the country rock; and as to whether it is altered by vein influence and is within the bounding planes or exterior to it I could not say without close examination, which is impossible to make here. Outside that, the bulk of the exhibit is of pyrrhotite, with a good deal of chalcopyrite—that is in the specimen of the chalcopyrite. Here is also a considerable amount, a noticeable amount, of calcite. I should like also to say that in the Arst specimen (Exhibit No. 90.) there is calcite. Q. I hand you Exhibit 93. A. Can I make what I said about country rock apply to all of the speci- ments later? Q. Certainly you can if it does. A. There appears to be three types here, a country rock with very- slight impregnation by metallic mineral, a pretty solid pyrrhotite ore with a little copper and the same mixture type in which there is considerable calcite, with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. When you speak of the country rock being altered in the veins, what is the alteration which you refer to? You might just describe it as simply as possible. A. It is a varying decomposition of the included country- rock, which results prominently in the degradation of the feldspar, and in the uralization of the augites, and the development of the secondary biorite. The two former cases also proceed into the country rock, but in less degree, and the third case, that of the secondary biorite, is, so far as my examination has gone, characteristic Of the included country rock, which I call vein matter. Q. In Exhibit 94 what do you And? A. An exhaustive examination of this would take hours, of course, and perhaps days. I am only giving it in a cursory manner. This is the same mixture of country rock, containing disseminated pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, more or less charged with calcite and solid masses of pyrrhotite. I will qualify those at the end by what my limitations are. Q. What about Exhibit 95 ? A. This is a similar mixture, in which, however, the proportion of country rock is much less and the pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite much greater than in the previous sample. Mr. Bodwrell: That applies generally to the whole sample? A. That applies generally to the whole sample. That contains the two chief ore-bearing minerals and shows the country rock, (referring to one of the specimens.) Q. What do you say about 96? A. This has more coutnry rock in-it. This is a similar mixture of country rock containing more or less calcite and carrying the ore minerals pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. And what else? You said it is a mixture of country rock carrying so and so. A. Carrying the ore minerals pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, together with solid masses of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, the latter always in less proportion. Do you want me to particularize, or can I say this is similar to the previous ? Q. I want you to say whether or not it contains pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. A. Yes. Q. Say that definitely, and then you can generalize as much as you like. A. This is a similar mixture of country rock, impregnated with the metallic minerals and of solid masses of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say about 98? A. A similar mixture of coutnry rock, more or less impregnated with metallic minerals, the impregnation amounting in places to a solid mass of the two metallic minerals. Q. That is pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite? A. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say about Exhibit 99? That is taken from 102 and 107 feet down? A. It is a similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite and iron sulphide. . Q. That is iron pyrites ? A. No, which is probably iron pyrites mixed with a little chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say about Exhibit 100, taken 112 and 117 feet down? A. It is a similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, and is in part more siliciAed—apparently more siliciAed. It contains calcite as well. Q. What do you say about Exhibit 101, taken at 123 and 127 fet down? A. It is a similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcop)'rite. Q. Is it possible to form any reliable opinion from looking at those samples which is the richer in value ? A. I should suppose that the higher percentage 'f chalcopyrite would indicate a slightly greater contents of precious metal, but so far as the bulk of the ore mineral goes, which is pyrrhotite, there can be no determination made of relative values by looking at them. Q. By merely an examination; that is what I want to get at? A. No. Since part of the values of the ore are in copper, the higher visible proportion of chalcopyrite means a higher value; but that pyri ho- tite offers no guide. Q. Now; are the values in veins, as a rule, uniform? A. Not at all. Q. Just describe how values are frequently or usually found in that respect? A. The distribution of the valuable minerals within the material of a -"iin is most capricious and most irregular, and follows a very great number of types. Sometimes the values are all in certain layers of a banded structure; sometimes they are thinly distributed through a gangue stone; sometimes they are highly concentrated !n the mud-seam of ore bodies, and sometimes one wall will carry more value than another. Sometimes in a mine whose vein consists of a vein stone of metallic minerals and of an impregnated companion zone exterior to the gangue stone, the plain exterior zone which may be due to siliciAcation or even the presence of calcite, the exterior zone may carry a higher proportion of the precious minerals than" the visible metallic minerals would show. In the case of veins of replacement the values may, and usually do, depend 011 the perfection of the pseudomorphism or replacement by the mineral as well as the original matter of the vein, and as that is a most capricious process, both values and the carrying mineral matter may cease at any time and re-appear in the most eccentric manner, and practically not until a great vein should be entirely worked out would it be possible to map the distinction of accompanying minerals or essential minerals. Q. So that if, in following down a vein, you come to a place where the mineral rock constituting the vein, the Ailing, carried only a trace, what would you say of the precious metals; would you -attach any importance to that? A. Only a commercial importance. Q. But I mean as to the vein itself, or as to what might ultimatelv result in that vein ? A. No, not at all. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 102, taken at a depth of 132 and 137 feet? A. That it was a similar I 356 THE MINING RECORD. mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and a white quartzose matter, which possibly includes feldspar; that the chalcopyrite is accompanied by tarnishes which indicate local decomposition. Q. What do you say about Exhibit No. 103, taken at a depth of 142 and 147 feet? A. A similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say about 104, taken at a depth of 152 and 157 feet? A. Similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit No. 105, taken at a depth of 162 and 167 feet below? A. A similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in which the metallic minerals are in larger proportion than in most of the preceding samples. Q. Did you break one of those and see the chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite when it was fresh? A. (Witness breaks the rock.) This shows it pretty well, the bright, brassy yellow is chalcopyrite, and this dull metal coloured bronze is the pyrrhotite. The Court: There are no suTpnurets? A. No, they are copper-bearing sulphurets. | Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 106, taken at a depth of 172 and 177 feet? A. I should say that it was a similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. To save multiplicity, of that sample, I have got both. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 107, taken at a depth of 182 and 187 feet? A. It is a similar mixture of country rock, with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 108, taken at a depth of 192 and 197 feet A. The same mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 109, taken at a depth of 202 and 207 feet A. A similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit no, taken at a depth of 212 and 217 feet A. A similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. Now, Mr. King, looking at 109 and no, which f 1 om appearance would seem to be the richer sample; which seems to show more mineral? A. (After examining.) This one (Exhibit 109). Mr. Davis: The assayer's return show that no is the richer by one-half. The Witness : It is a question of the interior of the rock, as well as the exterior. Mr. Davis: That is what I wanted to bring out, that you can't tell by looking at the outside their values. The Witness: What I judged by was the visible breaks, there seemed to be more chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to in? A. Mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to 112, taken at a depth of 232 and 237 feet? A. This consists of a mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite, and what I take to be a mixture of pyrite with a little chalcopyrite, but that could only be determined by closer examination. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 113, taken at a depth of 242 and 247 feet? A. It contains country rock, pyrrhotite and pyrite, the latter apparently cuperiferous.. Q. That is, copper-bearing, is it not, Mr. King? A. Yes, copper-bearing; perhaps I had better put it in "copper-bearing.' Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 114, taken at a depth of 252 and 257 feet? A. Mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite, some pyrite and chalcopyrite. Q. How would you say that particular sample compares in value with the ordinary run of them, the last few you have been having, for instance? A. I don't like to answer that. Q. I suppose what you mean is, that on a cursory examination such as this, you could not tell very much about about the difference? A. I could not tell without a very close examination; I should say it was low in value. Mr. Davis: That is the assay which runs the highest in value. The assayer's return is $45.60. The Court: Very few of them ran over $20. Mr. Davis: Very few indeed. The Witness: I had previously stated it could not be done by the eye. Mr. Davis: I just wished-to accentuate that. That is the very object of it. Q. Exhibit No. 15, taken at a depth of 262 and 267 feet? A. Country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite and pyrites. Q. What would you say as to Exhibit 116, depth 272"and 277 feet? A. Similar mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 117, depth 282 and 287 feet ? A. Mixture of country rock, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and a little pyrite. Q. What do you say as to 118, taken at a depth of 292 and 297 feet? A. Country rock, pyrite and pyrrhotite. Q. Now, the point where you stopped in the shaft, Mr. King, that is at the bottom of this sump, is coincident, I think, with the place where the so- called flat fault goes through, is it not? A. It is. Q. Now, Mr. King, is there anything you want to add to what you have said individually as to these specimens? Because we have finished all the specimens in the No. 3 shaft down to the mud-seam? A. I should like to make a qualification, yes. In regard to these determinations, they were intended to cover essentially the obvious facts of the samples. They do not propose to determine obscure or difficultly visible accessory minerals. I have not always mentioned that calcite was present when it was present in some of the samples. I may say generally that there is a little calcite through the whole suite, not in every piece, but in a great number of them. That the mention of pyrite has been chiefly confined to specimens in which the.mineral appears with sufficiently crystalline facets to offer easy determination. The pyrite is probably present in a very large number of cases where I have not mentioned it,- and where it could not be easily differentiated from chalcopyrite. Q. Mr. King, looking at these samples which you have examined, which came, as the evidence shows, from trenches cut across the full width of the ore every five feet down in No. 3 shaft, is it a physical possibility that there should be no vein in that shaft, in your opinion ? A. In my opinion it is not. I will qualify that. From what I know of veins in general, and of the Rossland district in particular, it would be impossible to trace continuous ore upon any plane or line unless you were following a vein. Q. You have examined, I believe, the Centre Star east drift, that is, the green drift which runs from the No. 3 shaft? A. I have. Q. Have you made a careful examination of that? A. I have. Q. Do you find any vein there? A. I find precisely the same vein, which I followed from the collar THE MINING RECORD. 00/ No. shaft wher ere it outcrops down to the mouth of the 59 east drift, and all through that drift I continued to follow that vein to the head of the winze. Its ore is continuous, its structure unmistakable. Q. So that there is a lateral extent of the vein in No. 3 shaft of at least loo feet? A. There is. Q. You spoke of the structure of the vein in 59 east drift. Please describe that structure you found there, and why from that point of view you say there is a vein in the 59 east drift? A. Primarily because the ore lies upou tne south aud north sides oi §jp dritt, corresponding in position to the inclination which the ore has followed from the surface; therefore it is a part of a plane, which plane has been defined upon one side by No. 3 and upon the other side by the east drift. Also by the presence of a plane visible, frequently tapping the ore and defining it from the hnmediate country rock, which plane is the trace of a fissure. Q. What about the ore? A. I should like to qualify that answer a little more, and say that that plane is not a mathematical plane in the sense of it fitting co-ordinate with absolute exactness, but it is a pure geological fissure vein. Q. What do you say as to the ore in 59 east drift? A. It is the same mixture of predominant pyrrhotite and a little chalcooyrite. Q. As to its continuity, what do you say? A. Absolutely continuous from the point of its divergence from shaft No. 3 to the head of the winze; and the face in that direction shews ore forthgoing. Q. Now, I wish to have this point clear, Mr. King. When you speak of the ore being absolutely continuous, you are speaking literally. A. I am speaking in the case of No. 3 and this drift literally. Q. You have made such an examination as enables you to say that ? A. Yes, sir; it is literally continuous. Q. What do you say as to the width of the ore and the width of the vein, if you know the width in 59 east drift? A. It varies from Q. Which? You see, I asked you as to the width of the ore and also of vein. A. As to the width of ere, it varies from perhaps 18 inches to about four feet on the plane of exposure. It would indicate a little less on an absolute perpendicular to the plane of the vein. As to the vein itself, I got no further light—I did not get so much light as to the general structure or rather as to the presence of overlying parallel walls as I do in the shaft itself. Q. That is, you cannot tell the width of the vein in the 59 east drift? A. No, I am only able to follow a distinct line of unbroken continuous ore, which was a part of the sheet which I had followed down which I traced inwardly to the head of the winze. Q. What do vou say as to the walls there? A. I repeat that the only wall, clearly visible is a somewhat disturbed wall covering and limiting the ore, which wall I will describe later. Q. Perhaps it would be as well to describe that wall now, since we are on it? A. Well, it you ask me about the winze I will do it then. It appears better in the winze. O. All right. I don't know whether I asked you when examining you on the No. 3 shaft about what the width of ore was in that shaft. I do not think I» did. A. From about a foot to three feet and a-half in one place, I think. It is a substantially continuous zone sheet of ore. Q. Before I ask you about the individual samples, I will ask you whether you find any similarity or any difference between the ore in the No. 3 shaft and the ore in 59 east drift? A. I see none whatever. Q. No which? A. No difference. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 72, which is from 7 and 12 feet east station 59? A. It contains country rock, pyrrhotite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 73, which fcs. from 17 and 22 feet east of the shaft? A. They contain country rock, pyrrhotite and pyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 74, which is from 27 and 32 feet east? A. They contain country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. O. What do you say as to Exhibit 75, which is from 37 and 42 feet east? A. They contain the same country rock, chalcopyrite and pyrite. Q. Any pyrrhotite in that? A. I meant pyrrhotite, not pyrite. Q. Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite? A. Yes. Mr. Davis: I will ask your Lordship to look at these samples in Exhibit 75. This piece, which to me, at any rate, looks rather "rocky," is the highest sample in the drift. The Court: For silver ? A. For gold. There is a silicification of these ores. In answering the question as to this sample I was not aware of the value of the sample at all, which is shown to be $18.80; and I now suspect that it owes that value largely to gold accompanying a secondary silicification, which is a prominent feature in certain parts 9f the Rossland mines. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 76, which is 47 and 52 feet east of No. 3 shaft. A. That contains country rock, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 77, at 57 and 62 feet east of the shaft? A. I should say that it was country rock, pyrrhotite, a little chalcopyrite and pyrite. Q. What would you say as to Exhibit 78? A. Pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and country rock. Mr. Davis: I ask your Lordship to look at this one specially. Q. Would you mind pointing-out to his Lordship those different pieces showing the pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite? A. That yellow going through there is chalcopyrite, a sort of brassy yellow. The bronze mineral is pyrrhotite. And that piece is a mixture of both, with some country rock. Q. What is that which you see there in that piece? A. Pyrrhotite. Q. What do you see there (showing another piece to the witness) ? A. Pyrrhotite with a tarnish that , may contain a trace of copper. Q. What do you see there? A. Pyrrhotite. Q. And what do you see there ? A. A little chalcopyrite. Q. What do you see in that piece? A. Pyrrhotite. O. What do you see there? A. Pyrrhotite, with a little chalcopyrite. There you can see the association ; there is the pyrrhotite and there is the brassy chalcopyrite. Q. There is not a piece in this sample, is there, in which you cannot find pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite? A. It would take a long time to determine it. Mr. Davis: Now, that, my Lord, although it looks sc nice, is one of the poorest assays, only $2.40. 35» THE MINING RECORD. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 79? A. Country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 80, 87, and 92 feet from No. 3 shaft? A. Country rock, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Q. What do you say as to Exhibit 81, which is 97 and 102 feet east of No. 3 shaft? A. It is country rock, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. O. So that the chief ores in this vein that we are considering are clearly chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. A. With accessory pyrite. Q. What are the chief ores which you find in the Iron Mask vein? A. Chiefly pyrites, with mixtures of chalcopyrite. Q. Chiefly pyrite? A. No, pyrrhotite, with a mixture of chalcopyrite. The Court: That is, they are the same ? A. Practically the same, yes. Q. Now, Mr. King, have you anything further to say as a whole with reference to the ore in that drift ? A. Only to repeat its absolute continuity, and like the vein in No. 3, shaft, so far as its metallic contents are concerned, it consists predominantly of pyrrhotite with a little chalcopyrite and occasional masses of pyrite, which seemed to me to be secondary and accessory. Thereupon the Court adjourned until 2 130 p.m. (To be continued.) RECENT PUBLICATIONS. THE Statistical Year-Book of Canada for 1899. Issued by the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 1900. - Section of Mineral Statistics and Mines, annual report for 1898, by E. D. Ingall, M.E., Geological Survey of Canada, 1900. Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada at the Paris International Exhibition. Printed by direction of the Canadian Commisisoner, 1900. Report of the Section of Chemistry and Mineralogy, by G. Christian Hoffman, L.L.D., F.I.C., F.R. S.C., Geological Survey of Canada, 1900. Preliminary Report on the Clays of Alabama. Bulletin No. 6, Geological Survey of Alabama, Jacksonville, Gla., iqoo. TECHNICAL PERIODICALS FOR THE MONTH. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. MANY factors have to be taken into consideration if the stone used for building or other purposes is to prove durable. In the issue of this periodical Mr. E. R. Buckley cites the following points as particularly worthy of notice : 1, colour; 2, composition (mineralogical chemical); 3, strength (crushing transverse); 4, hardness; 5, elasticity; 6, porosity; 7, specific gravity; 8, weight per cubic foot: 9, effect of temperature changes, (a) freezing and thawing in interstitial water, (b) effect of extreme heat; 10 effect of gases (carbonic, sulphuric); 11 quarry conditions. The information indicated may be obtained from observation at the quarry, inspection of buildings, or other structures made out of the same stone, and from laboratory tests. At the quarry one can ascertain the quantity of stone similar in texture and uniform in colour that is available, also whether the method of quarrying is injurious to the stone. When estimating the strength and durability of a stone on observation of buildings, one must be careful to take into account among other things: age, size, position and climatic conditions. The effect of exposure can be estimated with wonderful exactitude, from laboratory tests without the aid of the foregoing. Laboratory tests come under these principal heads: chemical, microscopical, physical. Chemical analysis determines whether a building stone contains any detrimental material such as iron or bitumen. This may also be learned, and at less expense by microscopical examination, when, at the same time texture is considered. Physical tests supply the data for 3 to 10 of the above scheme. Few experiments have as yet been made to determine.the temperature which different rocks will stand without injury. In large cities the capacity to withstand extreme heat is regarded as essential to a first class building stone. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. In the last few numbers of this magazine a discussion covering the question of iron production and supply has been accorded much prominence. The subject is further investigated and elaborated in the August issue in a paper entitled "Industrial Depressions and the Pig Iron Reserve," by Mr. George H. Hull, who has been closely identified "with the iron industry of the West and South for many years. Mr. Hull's theory that industrial depression follow abnormal advances iii the price of iron, is not new, but the highest commendation is his due for the mass of valuable statistical and other information which in the paper in question, he brings forward in its support. After showing that the depressions of the past in the manufacturing nations of the world have been nearly or quite contemporaneous in their occurrence, Mr. Hull points out that "before iron became of prepon- deating importance to the industries of nations, there wrere no industrial depressions except those born of causes apparent at the time, such as pestilence, famine and war. "Iron," he contiues, "is acknowledged to be the foundation on which the modern industrial system rests. If that system is disturbed it is most natural to look to the foundation for the cause of the disturbance. If we would appreciate how thoroughly the entire industrial system depends upon iron, let him imagine what the world would be to-day wdthout it—what it would be if we depended upon wood, stone, copper and tin for our implements of agriculture, tools, machinery, vehicles of transportation on land and sea, the vast network of rails on the surface, and the pipes which carry water, gas, etc., under the surface. What proportion of these could could have existed without it? It matters little what its price is, provided that price is stable. The industries of a nation depend upon the actions of an aggregation of individuals. When the individual considers an expenditure for a permanent improvement, and finds that improvement will cost 50 per cent, too 100 per cent, more than it would have done a year before, or is likely to do a year later, he acts, and that action is almost invariably a postponement of that improvement. This in a nutshell, is the reason that industrial depressions follow an abnormal advance." And the figures Mr. Hull is able to bring forward certainly prove his conclusion true. Other interesting and timely articles are "China in Regeneration," by John Foord; "Electric Mining Machinery in the British THE MINING RECORD. 359 Collieries," by S. F. Walker, and "The Future of Power Development," by W. D. Ennis. MINES AND MINERALS. Among the leading articles in Mines and Minerals for August is an account of gold dredging in British Columbia. As this class of mining has not, with one exception, proved as yet greatly successful, the main point of interest centres in the description of the type of dredge operated at Boston Bar, with which fair results have been obtained. This appliance is of the "dipper" design, the machinery resting on two scows. On one of these is placed a 75-horsepower engine, and boiler, a pump with a discharge of 500 gallons per minute, the arm that works the dipper and the dipper itself. On the other scow, anchored alongside, is placed the grizzly, across which extends a water pipe connecting with the pump above referred to, and below the grizzly are the sluice boxes. The grizzly is composed of iron, bars laid about one inch apart. Into this the dipper discharges its load, the finer material passing through the grizzly into the sluice boxes, and washed down by the water coming through the holes of the perforated water pipe. Large boulders and the heavier gravel are carefully washed by a man stationed at the grizzly, wmoi throws the worthless material into the river. The entire string of sluice boxes is 120 feet long, the first 30 or 40 feet being three feet wide, the rest six feet wide, mercury being used in the latter. The dipper is constructed of cast iron with a steel lip protected by steel prongs necessary to penetrate the cement. It has a capacity for raising one cubic yard of gravel every minute and a-half. This dredge works to a depth of twenty-five feet. THE ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, NEW YORK. Mr. W. M. Brewer contributes an interesting and comprehensive account of the Britannia group of mines at Howe Sound to the Engineering and Mining Journal of August 18th, in Which he points out the similarity of the mineral zone of this locality to the extensive formations of the Lillooet district. In fact, there appears to be a series of parallel belts of an igneous rock which has become schistose from shearing, extending northerly from Howe Sound into the Upper Lillooet section. All of these belts of formation are mineralized with iron pyrites, a large proportion of which is marcasite. So far as concerns the Howe Sound belt, actual development has demonstrated that within this main zone of mineralized schist there occur smaller zones having concentrated values in gold, silver and copper, averaging approximately $10 per ton, estamating the copper values at 10 cents per pound, based on dry assay. THE CANADIAN MINING REVIEW, OTTAWA. The July number of the Review is somewhat "slacker" than usual and remarkable only for a rather unnecessarily fierce attack on the War Eagle. The strictures which our contemporary passed on this company in March last were not unjust or unwarranted, but at present there are as yet no reasonable grounds for the "deduction" that there will be "another 'rosy' manifesto when shipping recommences, with much bathos about high-grade ore and 'prodigious profits,' followed by a speedy collapse." MODERN MACHINERY. Two articles in Modern Machinery for August are particularly worthy of notice, the one entitled "Blast Furnace Gas Engine" describing a simplex engine capable of developing 1,000 horsepower with ordinary gases, now on exhibition at Paris; and the second giving an account of electric power in Cripple Creek. It is asserted that the saving effected by the use of electric power in this district, as compared with the cost of coal under the same conditions is fully 50 per cent. The cost of coal delivered to the mines of Cripple Creek is $4.75 per ton. B. C. IN LONDON. MR. WHITAKER WRIGHT AND THE BEARS THE KLONDIKE & COLUMBIAN GOLDFIELDS DISCLOSURES. T (From Our Own Correspondent.) • HE holiday season is now on us, and business has been, and is likely to be very slack. The mining market just drags along, but it is satisfactory to note that prices remain comparatively steady. The operations in British Columbians are conspicuous by their absense, but some hope is derived from the fact that the Hall Mines Co. (the premier B. C. mining company so far as London is concerned) has just emerged triumphant from the throes of reconstruction, and proposes now to go ahead, let us hope with happier results than hitherto. So far, however, as the British Columbian market is concerned, practically all the dealings are limited to the B. A. C. group, and in this latter has taken place the chief movement of the month in so far as mining shares are concerned. I have already shown the activity displayed by Mr. Whitaker Wright and his friends in floating off their Rossland properties. Mr. Wright's methods have more thann once seemed to present splendid opportunities to "bear" operators, and the flotation of the "Le Roi Xo. 2" was seized upon by the market manipulators who love to sell what they haven't got speculatively in the hope of frightening out real holders at lower prices, and so secure the proAt in between the top selling and lowest bringing quotations. A very large number of shares was sold at the market premium quoted for them—a part of the Whitaker Wright methods. Now it soon transpired that this premium was in no ways justiAed by the results of the issue of capital, and as those who were shareholders in the allied companies and had applied for allotments quickly took their proAts, Mr. .Whitaker Wright and his friends were masters of the situation a very nasty situation, as the bears soon found out to their cost. The price began to move up rapidly, and directly the bears sought to buy back the shares they had recklessly sold, the screw was put on quickly by the controlling group, and it was evident that Mr. Whitaker Wright had at last an opportunity 01 dictating terms to those who had attacked his interests so successfully during the past twelve months. Day by day the bears found the price put against +hem every effort to get back shares sending the quotation up £1 or so, until at length nearly £20 was quoted for the £5 share. I understand that terms of capitulation have at length been agreed upon, and that as a result of his actions the little man has netted a big gain, which will help to offset the heavy losses he must have incurred in defending his Westrahan and British Columbian interests during the last twelve months or so. They say one big operator lost over £100 000, and I heard from the very best source tha. one young Arm of jobbers who have associated themselves with the so-called British Columbian market were very badly hit. 360 THE MINING RECORD. It will give you some idea of the dullness of things British Columbian in London if I tell you for a fact that I know of one of the very biggest Arms in London, who associated themselves from the Arst with the B. C. movement have just given orders to suspend the supply of all their B. C. publications, their point being that it :s "no good bothering about B. C. matters for the present, and therefore they do not need any B. C. literature." Surely this is shortsighted. The collapse of the Klondike boom was also a bad blow to many operators who thought they foresaw big things in the goldAelds of the frozen North. The Canadian PaciAc Railway still calls attention to the Klondike in its advertisements, but it couples with Klondike, Kootenay and Ontario, and for the ">o- ment seems to have come to the conclusion that it is no good pushing the Klondike alone. A chat I had a few days ago with the secretary of one of the very biggest Klondike companies was illustrative of the generally disappointed tone of groups here so far as the Yukon is concerned. This gentleman told me that the results were very much Delow their earlier expectations. You will judge the importance of this when I tell you that this group is one of the very- biggest operating in connection with South Africa and the results to which I have referred will certainly restrain them from showing any immediate enthusiasm over either B. C. or the Klondike. The disgraceful disclosures at the public examination of the directors and promoters of the Klondike & Columbian GoldAelds—the group with which so unfortunately Messrs. Turner and Pooley associated themselves—deserve the fullest publicity in British Columbia. The evidence should be published in full throughout the province. From the Arst I exposed Mr. Morris Catton, the erstwhile War Office clerk, in your columns and deprecated the association of members of your government with him. This individual's career (Mr. Morris Catron's) reads like a romance. He seems to have worked hard and to have gone to his private office before starting for the War Office, meeting his clerks again at lunch time, and then returning after War Office hours to work on at company promoting until after 9 o'clock. He has foisted a number of disgraceful companies on to the British public; but as I have over and over again dealt with his B. C. and Klondike ventures I need not do more now than to refer readers to the back numbers of your paper for my earlier articles about the "Klondike & Columbian Goldfields," "The Dawson City Trading Co.," "The Rainy River & Ontario Co.," and "The New Golden Twins." The evidence given in court showed that the various companies had been worked as a nice little family party chiefly for the benefit apparently of Mr. Catton, and his time directors,' and I shall be very much surprised indeed if the matter is allowed to rest where it is. In addition to running as.War Office clerk, and promoter Mr. Catton acted a< an advertising agent and received some wonderful fees for his "services" to the companies in question. The wonderful 20 per cent, dividends which I exposed long ago is now very much in evidence. Some of the directors say the solicitor- sanctioned it—the latter denies this strenuously and counters by charging the board with being solely responsible. Then there are also the questions of Catton's presents of shares to the colonial directors. The whole thing is a pretty kettle of fish, and we all look for further and early sensational developments in "another court." Mr. Hess, of the London Critic, may yet be justified of his prediction! THE MONTH'S MINING. HARRISON LAKE DISTRICT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) T AM pleased to be able to report an improvement in 1 conditions, and numerous enquiries as to mining pioperties from people of means, looking for profitable investment, are being made. Probably one effect of the recent depression will be that capitalists will be able to negotiate for the purchase of properties, on much more favourable terms than formerly, as the owners now realize that this class of property is comparatively worthless, without the assistance of capital for its development. There is meanwhile very little doubt that the recent depression is in great part due to the distrust with which capital has viewed the mischievous tinkering with mineral laws, and the introduction of the ill-considered legislation in the past. I notice One point that shows up in a very comical light, as being the legislative work of such an anti- Chinese administration as the late government posed to be, and that is the repeal of the working miners' certificate. As a matter of fact all of our local white miners have, or expect to locate mineral claims of their own, consequently this legislation is no_ benefit to them, as they have to possess a free miners" certiA- cate to enable "them to do so, and formerly this cer- tiAcate acted in the nature of a protection to them, to the extent of its value against foreign competition, in obtaining work in mines, but now the foreign element come in, work a few months, and depart with the money they have earned, without contributing to the revenue of the country. Most especially are the Chinamen pleased with this new legislation. Immediately on the close of the Ashing season, when the rivers and streams fall so as to allow the gravel bars to be worked, these Orientals betake themselves in large numbers to placer mining principally by means of the rocker. They thus formerly contributed considerably to the provincial revenue by being compelled to take out free miners' certiAcates, but now on being approached by his old enemy, the collector, John Chinaman blandly responds "Me no got claim," and blesses the shade of his good friends, Cotton and Martin, who have enabled him to enjoy an extra $5 worth of opium in the year. The Providence mine is again working and being rapidly developed under the able superintendence of Mr. DePencier, who is running two shifts. The work is proceeding under the immediate advice of Mr. Cirkle, M.E. I trust that in my next I will be able to record the iniation of operations by other companies in various parts of the district. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Exploratory work continues to be prosecuted steadily on Coal Hill. At the Lucky Strike ore is being taken out which would indicate that the faulted vein has been recovered. A tunnel has been started at the Python which will give a depth of 175 feet, sinking having been suspended on account of the large amount of water met in the shaft. Work has been re-commenced on the Hecla which was closed down in the spring, also on account of the large influx of water into the shaft. A pump has been installed and the vein will be cross-cut from the bottom of —* THE MINING RECORD. 361 the shaft. At the Truth mine some of the best bands in the ore body are being drifted on from the crosscut at the 75-foot level. The cross- sale of cut is in 80 feet from the shaft all tenderfoot, in low-grade ore with some bands of high-grade ore. A drift on one of these bands, which is 12 feet wide, is now in twenty feet showing are all the way carrying six to .eight per cent, of copper' and $3 to $4 in gold and silver values. A very Ane showing of copper ore is baino- opened up on the Laura group east of Jacko Lake! President and chief holders of the syndicate which recently purchased the Kimberley mine has visited the property and made arrangements for commencing work on a larger scale. Contracts are said to have been let for the erection of buildings, a quantity of steel rails, etc. The syndicate has several other properties in the camp under consideration with a view to purchasing. The Jamieson Creek dredging leases have been sold to an English-Canadian syndicate and active steps are being taken to place a dredge on the property as early as possible. A company has been registered with a capital of $100,000 in 1,000,000 shares of 10 cents each to take over the Tenderfoot mine from the syndicate which recently purchased and has been developing that property. The old syndicate takes 550,000 fully paid up shares in payment for the mine and the balance of the stock is offered to investors at par. Three men are employed at the present time sinking a winze in the tunnel and more active operations will be commenced as soon as there is suf- Acient money in the treasury. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) In several respects the month of August has witnessed a decided improvement in connection with the mining and smelting industiies of the district. Among the most encouraging and satisfactory experiences have been the cutting of ore important bodies at the 300-foot level in the developments Mother Lode, Golden Crown and Winnipeg mines respectively, and at the 150-foot level of the R. Bell. Particulars of these developments are given below. Of more present importance though, from a general standpoint, is the starting of the Granby smelter at Grand Forks at which the furnace Ares were lighted for the Arst time on the morning of Tuesday, August 21st. The event was of much signiAcance to this district which sent over a number of visitors to the smelter on this auspicious occasion. Then the successful conclusion of negotiations for a site for the Standard Pyritic Smelting Company's projected pyritic smelter, together with the assurances given by Mr. A. Laidlaw, the company's managing director, that the smelting plant and machinery are now being manufactured at Denver, Colorado, and that within a month the work of grading the site and of erecting the necessary buildings so as to have these in readiness to receive the plant due to arrive here in October, will be in full swing, have assisted in conArming the slowly-growing impression that the district is now emerging from the period of commercial stagnation that for a time checked its advancement. Another reason for returning conAdence is found inthe fact that several mines have been regularly shipping ore to the smelters and by their persistence in doing so have given in a very practical manner a contradiction to rumors in circulation broadly suggesting that the ores of the district would not return a proAt above cost of mining, freight and treatment. True the aggregate tonnage sent to the smelters is not yet a growing large, but then this is still the day production, of small things in the Boundary in this direction. But a beginning has been fairly made, as the following approximate statement of shipments to date will show: Tons. B. C 8,000 Old Ironsides and Knob Hill 6,000 Golden Crown 2,000 City of Paris 2,000 Winnipeg 1,000 Sundry Others 75° 19750 Possibly September shipments will aggregate 10,000 tons and thereafter there should be a gradual increase in the output of the mines of the district until by the end of the year total shipments should be approaching 20,000 tons per month. So extensive is the area over which the mines and prospects of the district are spread that it is difficult to supply information every month concerning each individual property worthy of notice. So it will happen that from this or other causes one or more of the •' most prominent of the mines must occasionally have no more than passing notice. That such must sometimes be the case, even when an endeavour has been made to obtain information, is exemplified this month by the absence of particulars relating to the B. C. mine, the temporary absence on business of the superintendent of which having prevented the obtainment of these. However, the subjoined summary is as comprehensive as it has been found practicable to make it. Deadwood Camp is on the whole making satisfactory progress, yet there is still plenty of room for im- piovement, particularly in regard to sending out ore. So far shipments from this camp have been restricted to thirteen carloads, in the following proportions: Mother Lode (British Columbia Copper Company, of New York), 8; Gold Bug (Boundary Creek Mining and Milling Company), 2; Sunset (Montreal Boundary Creek Mining Company), 2; and Buckhorn (Buckhorn Gold and Copper Company), 1. With the exception of that from the Gold Bug these several small shipments were made simply for test purposes. The Mother Lode is preparing to commence and maintain a regular output of ore on a scale commensurate with the requirements of the smelter its owners are building. As will be seen below, developments in this mine are more and more indicative of permanency. Other properties in this camp that are opening up in an encouraging manner are the Crown Silver, Morrison, Greyhound and Buckhorn. Prospecting work is being done on the Gold Bug, Great Hopes, Marguerite, Tarn o'Shanter and several others. The Mother Lode.—Mention was made last month of the difficulty that was being experienced at the Mother Lode mine consequent upon a shortness of coal. During August there has been an.ample supply sent forward from the Crow's Nest Pass collieries, so that this difficulty has now been removed. Good progress has been made with the several improvements above ground to which reference was also made last month. The foundations for the 35- drill compressor shortly to arrive and for the two 362 THE MINING RECORD. 100-horsepower boilers recently received at the mine have been completed. The tramway from the main shaft to the ore bins has also been finished and ore is now being transferred from the dump to the ore bins. The new building to include dining room and ether accommodation for the workmen, is well on the way towards completion. Underground work is being pushed at the 300-foot level. The north drift is now in nearly 200 feet and is being extended as quickly as possible with the object of cutting the big ore body encountered at the 200-foot level and believed to continue down. It is expected that this will be reached in 50 to 80 feet from the present face of the drift. A cross-cut from this drift, started at about 100 feet from the shaft, ran through a shoot of ore twenty feet wide, the lateral extensions of which have not as yet been opened up. A second cross-cut fifty- feet farther ahead is now in ore. This shoot is an entirely different ore to that to reach which the drift is now being extended. The south drift has been stopped at about 140 feet in from the shaft, a short distance from which a cross-cut is being run east and west and at 100 feet in another cross-cut is going southeast. Mineral is showing in the face of the latter so an early improvement here is looked for. At the 200-foot level the ore body previously proved by- cross-cuts to extend at least 350 feet was not met with in a cross-cut another 100 feet away, so as to ascertain whether it had dipped under the level at this distance a winze was sunk in this cross-cut with the result that the bottom of it is now in ore This appears to add another 100 feet to the proved length of this big shoot of ore known to be 80 to 90 feet in width. There are 67 men all told now at work at this mine. More will be put on as soon as they can be worked to advantage after receipt and installation of the more powerful compressor and hoising engine shortly to be added to the mine equipment. Sunset and Crown Silver.—A test carload of Sunset ore sent to the Trail smelter last month returned values practically all in gold, that are stated to have left a good margin of profit above freight and treatment charges. The exact returns have not been made public, but it is understood that they were were about $jS or $19 gross. A second carload has since been sent forward, but it is not intended to make further shipments for the present. A double-compartment vertical shaft has been sunk 150 feet on the Crown Silver, which adjoins the Mother Lode. At 87 feet it ran into ore which continued to the bottom. A crosscut at the 150-foot level is being run all in ore which appears to be improving in value at this depth. Values are chiefly in copper, but the grade is not yet so good as that of the ore obtained in the adjoining Sunset mine, where an entirely different kind of ore occurs. During August up to 28 men were employed on these properties, which form part of the group owned by the Montreal Boundary Creek Mining Company. No particulars of work are at present available respecting work in progress on the 'Morrison or Greyhound. The Buckhorn is now making a better showing, for besides meeting with ore in the south crosscut at the 200-foot level, an open cut has disclosed the occurrence near the surface of some of the nicest looking chalcopyrite ore yet found on this promising property. A carload has been sent to Trail but values have not yet been given out. Greenwood Camp.—No other camp in the district has yet assumed such an appearance of mining activity as Greenwood Camp notwithstanding that the Brooklyn, Stemwinder and Gold Drop are still idle. The Old Ironsides, Victoria, Knob Hill, War Eagle and Snowshoe are all at work. Of these the Old Ironsides group is working on the old ironsides, largest scale, finding employment victoria and for about no men. Not much knob hill. new development work is being done at present, but the ore bunkers are being kept full from the big ore reserves in the Victoria and Knob Hill. The total number of feet of work done underground in development of these mines now approaches 10,000. The large stopes now being worked in the Victoria are a revelation to those who see them, comparatively few realizing un- ..usual size of the ore bodies occurring there. Similar conditions prevail in the Knob Hill, where large quantities of ore are also blocked out. The two 80- horsepower boilers for the Knob Hill compressor have arrived and are being built in at the mine. A 9x12 hoisting engine has also been received, but there has been some delay at Sherbrooke, Quebec, in shipping the 10-drill air compressor which should have come in with the boilers and hoist. A new shaft and engine house 28x80 is being erected at the Xo. 1 shaft of the Old Ironsides and a new 9x12 hoisting engine is being put in position here. The buildings over No. 2 shaft on the line between the Old Ironsides and Victoria are shortly to be added to. A 200- light electric light plant has been installed and now mine buildings and ore bins are well lighted, as too, acre the main workings of the several mines. It is hoped that next month's letter will contain additional and more interesting information respecting this important group. The new 70-horsepower boiler has been received at the Snowshoe mine and will a few days hence be ready for use, the bricklayers having about completed their work of building it in. Two 3^ Little Giant drills and a 3x2x3 Snow boiler feed pump were also included in the new plant lately the snowshoe received at the mine. Develop- and ment work has been restricted to war eagle. completing the raise from the 100- foot level to the surface and in extending what is known as the railway unnel. This is now in about 300 feet, the greater part of this length being in ore. A cross-cut from this tunnel is now in about 50 feet in ore all the way. Development will be resumed at the 200-foot level from the main shaft so soon as the additional power now provided for shall be available. Mr. G. S. Waterlow, of London, chairman of the British Columbia (Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, owning this mine, and Dr. Lewis Jones, of England, also largely interested in the syndicate, are now visiting the mine for the first time. They are accompanied by Mr.. A. J. McMillan, managing director, and Mr. J. W. Astley, C.E., consulting engineer to the syndicate. The pay roll of the mine numbers about 28 men. The War Eagle has now made connection between its 100-foot level and the surface by an upraise from the east cross-cut started about 200 feet from the main shaft. The shaft sunk to meet the raise has part of the way in some very nice chalcopyrite ore which will be followed down on its dip. This property looks promising for early satisfactory development. It is employing 15 men at present. THE MINING RECORD. 363 WINNIPEG AND GOLDEN CROWN In Wellington Camp, too, developments are encouraging. Mention has already been made of those in the Golden Crown and Winnipeg. The J. & R. and Hard Cash claims, which adjoin, are coming into notice, ore similar to that occurring on the Winnipeg having been cut on the line between these claims. Nothing is being done on the Hartford just now. The Athelstan is at work but the manager is reticent about what is being done and with what result. At the 300-foot level of the Winnipeg a vein with four teet of the best looking ore yet found at that depth in this mine is being opened up and a carload has been sent to the smelter to test its value. The lead known as the railway- ledge, from which shipments have been made during the past two or three months, has widened to about six feet of clean shipping ore at less than 50 feet from the surface. One 20-ton carload of Winnipeg ore recently returned $375 above freight and treatment charges, but this value was exceptional, average shipments running lower. In the Golden Crown a strong ledge from seven to eight feet in width nearly all ore of a shipping grade, has been cut at about 175 feet from the shaft in the south-crosscut which is being extended still farther. Shipments from the mine are being maintained. Fuller notice of this property, together with others not mentioned above, must be deferred until next month. ROSSLAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Through the courtesy of Mr. Bernard McDonald, general manager of the Le Roi mine, and with the aid of his efficient assistant, Mr. John M. Long, I was recently permitted to investigate the interior of this great mine. Entering via the Black Bear tunnel and accompanied by Mr. Long, a visit to I went through the well-lighted le roi. and thoroughly ventilated passage which is stoutly timbered and having traversed this for a distance of about 400 feet arrived at a point where there is installed a 150 h.p electric hoist plant, manufactured in Denver Col. A few feet from this plant is the double compartment shaft. The level of the tunnel is anywhere from 250 to 300 feet from the collar of the new shaft, for there is a new double compartment shaft as well as an old one and both are within a few hundred feet of each other, but the new shaft is now doing most of the work. This electric plant is doing good service. The engineer in charge was a young man, evidently of the new school of electric engineers who has been trained to his occupation. Descending in one of the cages with Mr. Long we reached the 500-foot level and stood on the drift along the main Le Roi vein. This drift extends the entire length of the claim, 1,500 feet, and eight months ago it was supposed that all theore on this level had been stoped out by the previous owners, but Mr. McDonald and his superintendent, with a keen eye for discovery and development, soon ascertained that in many places the stoping which was only 10 or 12 feet wide, had been cut out to only about one-third of the ore contents. This discovery was an important one, and part of the large ore reserve which was thus recovered has been stOped and sent to the smelter, but this reserve is still a commercial factor in the life of that level. When, however, it is remembered that the discovery not only applies to the level but goes up to the surface and down to' the lower levels cut out, and to come with all the ramifications the importance of this discovery is not to be regarded lightly. The main drift and some of the cross-cuts on this level were followed their entire length and much was thus ascertained to convince us that the Le Roi is all that its name implies. At the extreme west end of the drift on Black Bear ground a dyke which is known as the Josie dyke, disputes the further progress, but seemingly at this point on this level, at least, the ore vein cuts the dyke though somewhat narrowed, instead of the dyke cutting off the ore. Mr. Long has identified this intrusion, and he stated that on Josie ground it has" been cut through and ore found on the west side and a repetition of this is expected on Le Roi ground. The dyke is composed of an altered granite and in some places it is estimated to be from 90 to 100 feet wide. In company with Mr. Long I also descended to the boo and 700-foot levels, both of which are more or less counterparts of the ore above. They extend the same distance as the drift on the 500-foot level and in most respects correspond with that ore. The ore reserve on these levels is a cumulative asset notwithstanding that the management is shipping from 4,000 to 5,000 tons weekly. I did not descend to the 800 or the 900-foot levels, as these are at present only in an incipient state of development, but enough was seen in the levels visited, and on the surface to convince the most skeptical mind that the Le Roi is a wonderful mine and its management experienced and capable men. Three of four of the stope expansions are regular chambers all in ore, and I was informed that it is the intention of the management to stope large quantities of the ore in bins below ground. This ore will be sent to the surface from time to time and shipped as facilities permit. Much has certainly been done by Mr. McDonald and his assistant, Mr. Long, to place this mine in its present good condition and much remains to be done and will be done to improve the condition, for the general manager believes that there are positive, comparative and superlative degrees, and that the last is attainable. The old double compartment shaft was being wrorked. The mine, however, is now principally worked by means of the Black Bear tunnel and the new shaft. The ventilation here is excellent. There is, I am informed, an eastern outlet by v;ay of the Centre Star and Iron Mask. After returning to the surface feeling very much pleased at what I had seen below, a turn was taken through the company's saw mill, blacksmith, and carpenters' shops as well as the compressor buildings, where are located two of the largest compressors on the continent. The saw mill itself must save the company a large amount of money, for here the timber for the mine, etc., is dressed and prepared upon a large scale and with great rapidity, and economy. The new bunkers which are now nearly finished and which are erected near the big compressor house on the line of the Great Northern will have a capacity of 1,000 tons. Shipments of ore for the Northport1 smelter will be made from these bunkers which can be filled by a tram running from.the mouth of the Black Bear tunnel and another tram from the new 364 THE MINING RECORD. shaft house on the surface, and most of the surface workings will be discarded. From 4,000 to 5,000 tons of ore have been and are being continuously shipped while these preparations and improvements have been in progress. The amount is exclusive of the 140 tons daily shipment from the old dump to the Trail smelter. One has only to take the sound of the camp to note the marked progress that has been made'on Red Mountain since my last report. The shipment of ore to date 105,790 tons is made up as follows: Le Roi, 85,270 tons; War Eagle, 10,600; Centre Star, 7,017; Iron Mask, 1,435; Le Roi No. 2 (Josie), 360; Evening Star, 351; I. X. L., 342; Monte Christo, 273; Iron Colt, 80; Grant, 42; Spitzee, 20. Le Roi shipments of ore from mine average 4,600 tons, and from dump to Trail smelter, 980 tons. ' War Eagle shaft has reached the 800-foot level. Drifting on the north vein at the seventh level continues. In the south vein the working is limited to find the new vein encountered in the other level. Centre Star.—The management has estimated that shipments of ore will be commenced early next month. From 8,000 to 10,000 tons of ore have accumulated on the dump. Josie.—The management has shipped three carloads of ore to the Northport smelter, and regular shipments will hereafter be made. I. X. L.—Stoping is going on in the second level. California.—The 200-foot level in the shaft has been reached, and the management is exploring in No. 2 tunnel. Le Roi No. 3, Nickel, Etc.—The British America Corporation recently contracted with the Rand Drill Company for a Rand Corliss 40-drill up-to-date air compressor at a cost of $25,000. The machine is adaptable to electricity as well as steam. It is to be manufactured at Sherbrook, Quebec. All the necessary accessories to this machine are also to be furnished. Messrs. E. B. Kirby, of the War Eagle, and Bernard McDonald, of the Le Roi, publish a joint letter stating that they fail to see any profitable reasons for increasing the wage worker from $2.50 a day to $3, as asked for by the miners' union. The public will in ail probability not hear any more upon the subject for some time to come. Kootenay Land and Exploration Co.—This company recently received from the Provincial Government the deed to the tract of land comprising its townsite, thus enabling the company to give a complete title to all lots. Recently the government dredges greatly improved the facilities for landing freight at Peterborough, and have made a grant of public money in aid of the Peterborough school. According to the statement of Mr. F. W. Hendsdale, of Rossland, the company's timber limits near and around Peterborough comprise about ten million feet of serviceable timber. slocan. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The recent increase in the mineral tax from one to two per cent, on mines producing over two carloads of ore a month is not appreciated by the mine owners of this section or of any other for that matter, as indeed was to be anticipated from its very- nature. There are, however, good points to be noticed, the tendency being to favour the small property and those struggling in the initial stage of develop ment at the expense of those better able to contribute to the treasury. Some definition will doubtless be required to determine exactly what a carload comprises, the term being somewhat elastic though usually applied to consignments of twenty tons of ore. In the case of narrow gauge railways, however, this ii considerably more than a car will hold. Whatever arrangement is made on this point notwithstanding, the calculation being on a basis of minimum tonnage and not of value, advantage must rest with the higher grade districts, this being counteracted in some degree by the certainty that in poorer regions a mine capable of producing two cars a month will in all probability be able to ship a great many more than this number, wdiereas in the Slocan very many properties will be compelled to pay the tax on an output but little above that required to bring them within the operation of the Act. I remarked last month on the amount of enthusiasm displayed around Sandon, and I am equally pleased to be able to record now a further continuation of good times. Not only Sandon. but Whitewater and other places contiguous are sharing in the season of prosperity, the good times general opinion expressed being at sandon. that never before did the mines look better or the outlook so encouraging as at present, despite the misfortunes of the earlier part of the year. Reports of extraordinary finds, by no means visionary, from the Payne and the Slocan Star—in the case of the latter the ore being better and of higher grade than any previously encountered—in conjunction with a great increase in output from the Whitewater and Idaho mines, coupled with the present and prospective operation of the Ivanhoe mine and concentrator, conspire to give an air of hopeful expectancy to the inhabitants of the mountain towns. The same stimulating influences are not unfortunately at work in the lake region, the depression arising from even a temporary cessation of activity at what is regarded as one of our main props so to speak, namely, the Wakefield mine, being hard to dispel. That operations will be resumed again before many weeks on a scale fully commensurate with the importance of the undertaking nobody appears to doubt, but in the meantime a feeling of dismay and unrest has been engendered which is difficult to allay. We are gratified to know that in the estimates of public expenditure for the ensuing year the claims of the Slocan have been pretty well recognized, and more particularly of interest to us at this juncture, to find that the pressing needs of Silver Mountain so often urged in this respect have not been entirely overlooked. Some three thousand dollars have been appropriated for the purpose of assisting in the building of a waggon road to the properties there situated and it is safe to assert that if all the roads which are constructed by the government gave equal promise of so speedily requiting the outlay, the public treasury would not lack for funds. Difficulties in connection with both the Marion and Hartney deals have been satisfactorily adjusted and everything now points to a continued operation and development of both properties. The spasmodic occurrence of the ore bodies is one of the most interesting features of mining in the Slocan from • a theoretical standpoint, being calculated at times to drive the best of mine managers insane; but when as frequently happens an unexpected discovery of high grade ore is made, the other extreme THE MINING RECORD. 365 is reached, only to be followed in time by a corresponding reaction when the ore as suddenly disappears. These are the discouragements incident to mining of the character here met with, the test of a really good mine manager being often found in the equanimity and unconcern with which he views the ups and downs of his professional career as reflected in the varying fortunes of the particular mine with which he happens to be connected. Apropos of this, surface operations at the Corinth, situated a little above the Idaho have disclosed a new vein carrying very Ane ore and developments will be proceeded with as speedily as possible. Success to all enterprises in which the element of perseverance is so conspicuous ! May it never go unrewarded. ymir. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Since last month Ymir has been very nearly destroyed by Are, and if it had not been for the herculean efforts of the residents this catastrophe would have certainly occurred. The Are commenced about half a mile south of the town and was caused by men setting Are to the bush for the purpose of clearing? land. I regret to state that the flames destroyed both the Dundee mill and the tramway, but the buildings at the mine were fortunately saved. For a time it The company has been re-organized and the stock assessed at 10 cents per share. The property is looked upon as one of merit, and when it is properly worked there is every reason to believe that it will be a big producer. J Mr. Stephen Bywater, president of the Wolcox Company, was here during the Arst part of the month for the purpose of consulting with the mine officials regarding the installing of a mill, and it is believed ere long a mill will be erected at the property.' The Arlington mine management are erecting large boarding and bunk houses and intend to keep a large force of men at work this winter. The Yellowstone mine is working steadily, and the results are very satisfactory. fernie. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Crow's Nest Coal Company have just closed a contract with the James Cooper Manufacturing Company, for a complete coal mining plant, consisting of an Ingersoll-Sergeant straight-line air compressor, steam cylinder 24" diameter by 30" stroke, air cylinder 26J" diameter by 30" stroke, which is the largest machine of this type that is built in Canada. The contract also includes ten of the latest model Sergeant coal-cutters, with all accessories. Compound Duplex Pressure Pump. was feared that the conflagration which stretched over Ave miles of country would reach Wild Horse Creek and in that case the Ymir mill would have been in grave danger. The company had, however, made every preparation to Aght the Are had it come. Fortunately two days' heavy rain set in and saved the situation. I am pleased to state that much assessment work is being done in this camp this year, and that as a result some very promising looking indications are being shown up. There is a good demand for property in this camp and we are all conAdent that Ymir district will come to the front once more, as it is certainly entitled to rank as one of the best sections in the Kootenays. Our principal property, the Ymir, is running 80 stamps and treating 200 tons of ore every twenty- four hours. The average values are $10, so that the returns from one mine every day is in the neighbourhood of some $2,000. This property is doing more to advertise the resources of our camp in London than any quantity of descriptive writing. The Tamarac Company has an engineering force here surveying out a mill site and making all the needed preparations for the installation of a mill. A NEW DESIGN FOR A COMPOUND PRESSURE PUMP. ' I HE illustration given herewith shows a compound 1 duplex pressure pump designed to develop a maximum pressure of 700 pounds per square inch. The liquid end is of the termination packed trombone style; the cylinders being made of special metal, mounted upon which are separate chambers for the location of the valves; chambers are also constructed of special metal and designed with a view of facilitating quick access for the inspection of the valves. The valves are of the hydraulic pattern, made of steel, and guided from below. An extension piece is provided for supporting the water plunger, and an approved adjustment device provided therefor. The water end is mounted on heavy supporting columns. An engine of the transported cylinder type is furnished, giving free access to all steam pistons without dismantling the pump. The outside valve adjustment is a feature of this design. Further particulars regarding this style of pump can be obtained from the manufacturers, the Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., 293 Lehman St., Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. 366 THE MINING RECORD. THE CANADIAN EXHIBIT AT PARIS. -T O THE EDITOR:—It may interest your reads 1 to learn the impressions of a British Columbian visitor to the Canadian exhibition at Paris. I visited the exhibition for the Arst time on the 17th of June and was very disagreeably surprised to notice a state of great disorder and chaos in the mining department. I found everything topsy turvy. Specimens were arranged regardless of order and system, and 1 actually saw a mixed pyramid of galena and copper ores, the whole being labelled "galena." I was rather astonished to And Mr. A. K. Stuart, the B. C. representative in the agricultural department working like a beaver (by superior order). On my second visit, however, on July 26th, a change decidedly for the better had taken place. I was given to understand that after much wire-pulling and kicking Mr. Stuart had been placed in the position he should have occupied from the Arst, i.e., in the mineral section and in charge of the British Columbia exhibits for which purpose he was sent to Paris. Meanwhile the whole exhibit had been re-arranged by Mr. A. P. Low, of the Geological Survey, assisted by Mr. Stuart. Each specimen was labeled and classiAed and the whole presented a most creditable appearance. The great fault, however, to be found with our mineral exhibit is that it resembles too closely a collection of mineral specimens—a very excellent arrangement no doubt from the point of view of students of geology, but not attractive as an advertisement when compared with the exhibits from West Australia, Transvaal, Siberia, etc. The public cannot realize that each small sample represents a large mine. In an interview I had on the subject with Mr. Hume, Minister of Mines in 1899 I pointed out that the British Columbia government should purchase a carload of galena and sulphide ores which would make a most attractive feature of our exhibit of minerals from B. C. This of course in addition to collections of samples from principal mines. While our exhibit is creditable there is not enough of it for a display demonstrating the wealth of the country. Canadian furs have taken the highest award and we have actually beaten Russia. Unfortunately the specimens are scattered all over the building. In forestry and lumber British Columbia and the other provinces have beaten the whole world and received the highest award, but poor judgment was shown in the failure to purchase adequate space. The exhibit is therefore piled against the wall occupying a space of about 25 feet by 25 feet. In front are two large show cases, containing the exhibit of an English cartridge factory. I am told that additional space was offered to the Canadian government, but not accepted. The Canadian building itself is very poor, while the exhibits are exceptionally good. Our representative, Air. Stuart, is doing excellent work and has proved himself most highly qualiAed for the post. In conclusion I will add that but for British Columbia's exhibits Canada would have come off badly in the mineral and forestry sections. The Paris exposition is much too ^rge, the buildings are marvellous, but the undertaking itself is a Anancial failure. MAURICE GIXTZBURGER. T m$ PRODUCING MINES. SLOCAN. HE total shipments for the six months ending July, 1900, aggregate 8,794^ tons. The follow- table shows the production for July: \ Tons. Payne 1,090 Whitewater 5°5 Idaho Mines 499 Last Chance 231 Wakefield 220 Slocan Star 120 Queen Bess 108 Ruth 101 Enterprise 100 Rambler 85 Bosun 60 Vancouver 60 Hewett 40 American Boy 40 Soho .' 22 Vulture 2i Wilson "7 Hampton 3 Hillside 3 Total tons 3,315 ROSSLAND. Our Rossland correspondent telegraphs: "The ore shipments for eight months ending August 31st amount to 114,000 tons, valued at $1,800,000. As compared with the corresponding period of 1899 an increase in production is shown of 6,000 tons, or 56,000 tons over the corresponding period of 1898. BOUNDARY CREEK. During the month of July two hundred and forty- two carloads of ore were sent out from this district for smelter treatment. NELSON. The returns from the Athabasca mine for July were: Period of run, 27 days 23 hours. (Shut down two and a-half days during celebration. Tons or ore crushed, 400. Value of bullion recovered $13,530 00 Value of concentrates recovered . . . . 3,591 32 Total values recovered $17,121 32 Values recovered per ton of ore crushed. . $42 80 EAST KOOTENAY. The St. Eugene mine shipped 2,396 tons of high- grade ore as a result of operations in July. The North Star mine at Fort Steele is producing at the rate of 100 tons daily and the Sullivan group 25 tons. In the annexed tahle from the B. C Review are compiled the returns to date of those companies whose crushings in ore shipments are available! Owing to the irregularity with which some of these returns are published the list is necessarily incomplete. Name. Alaska Mexican Alaska Treadwell Alaska United Athabasca Bosun (B.C.) Granite Hall Mines K londike Govt.. Cones. Le Roi Mikado McDonald's Queen Bess Whitewater Ymir Yukon Goldfields [arch. April. $1»,384 $21,481 $36,242 $63.^33 $50,869 $39,567 $10,674 $9,385 $ 4,896 $10,500 $ 7,100 — $119,000; 918 oz 894 oz. $10,100 $ 6,600 $ 9,500 $13,500 1$16.081 $25,000 $16,500 $27,875 May. June. $ 24,922 $130,878 $ 51,329 $ 18,5001 $ 4 966 $ 11,250 1,400 ozs. $219,000| $23,000! $79,265 $46,575 $27,400 $ 5.592! $ 7,600 Julj $67,100 $17,100 $ 9,550 2,60' 4 750 ',',481 12,517 1,838 oz.| $227,500 $248,000 944 ozs. 92,102 oz. $ 5,900 $ 6,700 $ 9.250 — t$10,700 $25,000 $20,5721 — * To dale, £81,251. X These figures t Mill idle 21 days. represent profit, not gross values. THE MINING RECORD. 367 COAL EXPORTATIONS. THE exportations of the coal from the Vancouver Island collieries for the month of July were as follows: Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 37,571 Ladysmith (Extension and Wellington) .... 18,982 Union 8,497 Total 65 050 For the three weeks ending August 20th the New Vancouver Coal Co. shipped:— Date. Vessel and destination. Tons. 1—SS. Titania, San Francisco 5347 • 4—SS. R. Adamson, San Francisco . . . . .. 4,435 5—SS. Vigilant, Seattle '. . n 7—SS. Mineola, Port Los Angeles 3,424 :o—SS. San Mateo, San Francisco 4>4I6 13—SS. Wanderer, Port Townsend 51 >.l£t^SS.Titania, San Francisco 5$42 ao—SS. Ruth, Seattle 22 Total 24,048 THE METAL MARKET—AUGUST. [Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. .Hining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York. ] SILVER. NO new feature has developed in this market, which continues very steady, sales being so distributed as not tending to disturb prices. The latest quotations have ranged from 60$ to 6i-£. The average price last month was 61.25, which is the highest for over a year past. COPPER. Copper continues firm with an excellent demand both in New York and abroad for cable, electrical and ammunition purposes. Spot is very scarce and most of the large refineries have recently experienced some difficulty in meeting the urgent market requirements. Lake copper is quoted at i6J@i6|; electrolytic in cakes, wire bars and ingots, at i6f@i6£; in cathodes, at i6^@i6J; and casting copper nominal at i6|. • LEAD. The market has been quiet but steady with no special features, prices remaining unchanged at 4.20 @4.25, New York; 4-i5@4-20> St. Louis. SPELTER. Spelter, has been dull and business limited, prices having again fallen to 4.15, New York; 4, St. Louis. MACHINERY CATALOGUES. . WE shall be pleased to mail catalogues of any of the undermentioned firms to our readers free of charge, on application. Ainsworth & Sons., Wm., fine balances; Armstrong & Morrison, riveted steel pipe ore cars, etc.; B. C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., assayers' supplies; Braun & Co., T., assayers' supplies; Beatty & Sons, M., cables and tramways, dredges, pumps, etc.; Bennett & Co., Wm., fuse safety couplers, etc.; California Wire Works, cables and tramways; Canadian Rand Drill Co., drills and compressors; Canadian General Electric Co., electrical plants; Cooper Mfg. Co., The. James, compressors, power and hand drills; Denver Fire Clay Co., assayers' furnaces, etc.; Fraser & Chalmers, mills, pumps, hoists, engines, etc.; Fairbanks, Morse & Co., steam and gas engines, compressors, etc.; Gates Iron Works, engines, boilers, crushers, etc.; Hamilton Mfg. Co., The Wm., crushers, mills, hoists, etc.; Hendy Iron Works, Johsua, modern mining machinery; Hinton & Co., Geo. C, electrical supplies and machinery; Hearn & Harrison, engineering, mining and surveying instruments; Hamilton Powder Co., explosives; Howells Mining Drill Co., drills, all kinds ; Jeffrey Mfg. Co., elevating machinery; Jenckes Machine Co., hoisting and milling machinery; Krupp, Fried, Grusonwerk, mills, engines, pumps, etc ; Lex- ow, Theo., carbons; Link Belt Machinery Co., conveyors, elevators, etc.; McLennan, McFeeley & Co., belting, etc.; Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, compressors, drills, hoists, etc.; Perrin & Co., Wm., filter presses; Royal Electric Co., electric power, all kinds; Robertson & Co.James,wrought iron pipe, paints, etc.; Sturtevant Mill Co., ore breakers and mills; Stilwell— Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., water wheels; Taylor & Co., John, assayers' supplies; Trenton Iron Co., cables and tramways; Taylor Air Compressor Co., drills, THE COPPER KING, LIMITED, THE PACIFIC COAST SMELTING & REFINING WORKS. WORKS: Seal Bluff Landing, Gal. MINES: Fresno County, Cal. Purchasers, Samplers and Smelters of- GoId Silver and Copper Ores, and Furnace Products. OFFICES: -22 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL 32 OLD JEWRY, LONDON, E.C, ENGLAND 368 THE MINING RECORD. compressors, etc.; Union Gas Engine Co., gas en gines, hoists, etc.; Whitstock, P. & R., mining engineering and surveying instruments; Wilfley Ore Concentrator Co., Ltd., concentrators. GORDON H. HARDIE. NICHOLAS THOMPSON. HARDIE & THOMPSON, Marine and General Consulting Mechanical Engineers- 520 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegrams " Cardie." Telephone 767. Plans, Specifications, Estimates, Working Drawings, Surveys and Reports. Also Contracts taken for Supply, Erection, Supervision, or Repairs and Alterations to all classes of M chinery. Patentees and designers of theHardie- Thompson Water Tube Boiler, New High Speed Reversing Engines, and SpeciHl Machinery in Light Sections for Mines. Engines indicated aud adjusted. Sole Agents In B.C. and N. W. Territories for the United Flexible Metallic Tubing Co , Ltd., London Eng. Stock Carried. Unequalled for Conveyance of Steam, Air, Oils and Gas. E. JACOBS, Accountant, Auditor, Etc. GREENWOOD, B.C. Books of Account Opened, Balanced or Audited. Accounts Kept Regularly or Examined Periodically. Assigned Estates "Wound Up. REFRACTORY ©RES. WANTED—1,000 tons or more which will assay $75.00 Gold per ton and over delivered free of charge at San Francisco, Cal. Correspondence solicited. C. J. TALLON, No. 308 Market Street, San Francisco, 6al. Nanaimo Saw Mill and «£ * SASH AND DOOR FACTORY. A. HASLAM, Proprietor- Office, Mill Street, - NANAIMO, B.C. Complete Stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber, Shingles. Laths, Pickets, Doors Windows, Blinds, Moulding, Turning, Scroll-Sawing and all kinds of Wood Fini-hing. Cedar, White Pine and Redwood. Towing done at reasonable rates by steamer "Alert." P.O. Box 35. Telephone 19. A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED . . Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Will shortly be at liberty. Would willingly take whole or partial charge of a Reduction Plaut. Can keep books if required. Would start an independent Laboratory in any new district if sufficient work was guaranteed. Address " Accurate," caxeEdiior, B.C. Mining Record. WHITE, ROGERS & eOMPANY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights. 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated ^ Wilfley Concentrator, Price I45O f.o.b. San Francisco. One of these machines will lake ihe place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping "Works operated by Steam or "Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants for the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. "Wire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table Is covered by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,33s and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. ^%^^%/aB/a^/a^%/a^%/%^'%/tV%/fV%/%.'%/%'V%<^^%'%'^^ i m r\Q Ltd XiSKk ttoxd**1*^—""Wire". *c° - &CO \_OH Telegraphic Address "Lobnitz, Renfrew." Ai Code Used *S THE MINING RECORD. IX. LOCAL STOCK HARKET FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST. Prepared by A. W. More & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B. O. Companies. Athabasca Brandon & Gol'n C Cariboo-McKin'y.. Cariboo Hydraulic Centre Star Crow's Nest Pass C Dardenelles Evening Star Fairview Corpor'n Fentenoy. .. Iron Mask I. X. L Jumbo King, (Oro Denero Knob Hill Mollie Gibson Noble Five" North Star Old Ironsides Payne Rambler-Cariboo. Slocan Star Sullivan Tamarac Kenneth Van Anda War Eagle Waterloo Winnipeg Week Ending Saturday, 4th August. Highest. ? 0 32 17 82 1 35 1 55 39 00 03 05 35 07 1 02 83 1 01 23^ 1 30 15 06 023^ 1 54 11 S o ; Lowest. $ 0 29U 16 Week Ending Saturday, 11th August. Highest. fd o> 'M n | pp *o: Lowest. Week Ending Saturday, 18th August. ? o : $ 0 : Highest. $ 0 : Lowest. *0 29 18 80^ 02M 08*1 Week Ending Saturday, 25th August. Highest. Lowest. ? 0 24 13 79 1 00 1 48 34 00 02 ? 0 28 17 95 1 30 1 55 38 00 03 I 0 : ?"■% ? 0 n7*l 152U 02*1 09 I LATEST LONDON QUOTATIONS. (From the B. C. Review.) Name op Company. I Paid up per Share Alaska Goldfields f.p. - Brit. America Corp. .f.p. B.C.Develop't Assoc . f.p. Dom. Mining, Dev .. f.p. Duncan Mines f.p. Enterprise f.p. Hall Mines f.p. Klondike Bonanza ..f.p. Klondike Corp Klondyke Consols l f.p. Le Roi £5 London and B.C. Gds f.p. McDonald's Bonanza, f.p. New Goldfields of B.C f.p. Queen Bess Propriety f.p. Velvet f.p. Whitewater Mines... f.p. Ymir Gold Mines f.p. Yukon Goldf'Id's new f.p. Ilk. up Mk. Up Price Price Price July 9. Price July 24 Last Week. Aug. 7. Aug. 9 % k % % X 14/3 14/9 14/9 14/6 14/3 IK M M 1>£ 1* >6 % %. y2 y* % % % y> y% 1 i 1 1/9 i/ 1/3 y* iz y. % * 3/9 3/9 3/6 j m IK m Ifc $% 6% 6 7-16 w* 6 7-16 1 7.-16 i% 15-16 15-16 15-16 % % % % % 1 i 1 1-16 1 1 % % i^ X H 1 i 1 1 i 13-16 3/ % 9-16 9-16 111-16 19-16 17-16 IM 1% 1 1 15-16 15-16 15-16 Price 15-16 1 9-16 16-16 THE DIVIDEND-PAYING MINES OF B. C. WE are indebted to the Rossland Miner for the following list, necessarily, however, incomplete, of the dividend-paying mines of the province. Cariboo Camp McKinney paid, up to June, 1899, $311,965; the Fern Hill, up to June, 1898, $10,000; the Hall Mines, Limited, up to May, 1899, $120,000; the Idaho, up to January, 1899, $292,000; the Last Chance, up to April, 1899; $45,000; the Le Roi, up to November, 1899, $1,305,000; the Queen Bess, up to July, 1899, $25,000; the Rambler-Cariboo, up to December, 1899, $60,000; the Reco, up to January, 1898, $297,500; the War Eagle Consolidated, up to February, 1900, $545,250; the Ymir, up to November, 1899, $30,000. Unincluded in this list are many profit-earning properties, either owned privately or by close-corporations, of which returns are not available. Y. Y. T. So., LAKE BENNETT, B.e. OPERATING THE ONLY Saw and Planing Mills At the head of Navigation to to the YUKON and RTLIN GOLD FIELDS Builders of^-^^^ Boats, Barges and Scows. The safest and most economical way of freighting from Bennett to Dawson, having wharf and warehouse on arrival at destination. Manufacturers of Lumber of all description, Sash Doors, etc. Provisions and Supplies.... We also carry a large siock of General Merchandise at posts all along the river, consisting of Feed, Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Tinware-, Enamelled Ware, Window Glass, Hardware, etc. Call on or write us before sending to the Coast for your supplies. Information cheerfully given by applying to The Victoria Yukon Trading Co., Ld., LAKE BENNETT, B. C. Head Office, VICTORIA., B.C. J. HOLLAND, Man. Director W. B. B A1LEY & CO.,—ASHOROtfT, B.C., Storage and Forwarding Agents. Goods received, stored and forwardedwith desp-> unto any -point ing Cariboo reached by wagon or pack train. Consign goods to our caTe ana we will settle railway charges and ship to destination with leaBt possible delay. X. THE MINING RECORD. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline Air Compressor especially " ses. Engines [Engines Hoists I Hoists nuioio RASflLINE*! i • r- «-„ Engine and Air Compres PumpS bA!>UUP,t j AirUmpreSSOrS fdfpted for Mining Pu?po Boilers [ Pumping Plants Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, florse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland. Ore. THE MONTH- TABLE OF Page. Necessary Amendments to Mineral Act 327 Closing Down of the "Wakefield Mine o29 Cheap Smelting of Boundary Creek Ore 330 American Method of Advertising Mining 330 Increase of Weekly Shipments of Ore, etc 330 Photo of Mr. R. McBride, Minister of Mines .... 332 Enquiry into Klondike & Columbian Gold Fields 332 Steady Growth of Mineral Production 333 Le Roi Flotations 323 B. O. Copper Company's Smelter at Anaconda (illus.). .. 335 Ore Bodies and Geology of Rossland Camp (illustrated).. 339 The Tariff and Lead Smelting 345 Blast Furnace Slags in Lead Smelting 346 Iron Mask v. Centre Star Evidence, Con tinned 348 Recent Publications 358 Technical Periodicals 358 British Columbia in London 359 CONTENTS. MONTH'S MINING— Page- Harrison Lake District .360 Kamloops °°" Boundary Creek 361 Rossland Slocan Ymir Fernie .' New Design for Compound Pressure Pump Canadian Exhibit at Paris ■. Producing Mines 366 Coal Exportations °67 Metal Market 367 Machinery Catalogues 367 Local Stock Market IX Latest London Quotations IX Dividend Paying Mines of B.C IX 363 364 365 365 365 366 DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ADVERTISING AGENTS— Page. Walker, C. J , London, Eng XX. AMALGAM PLATES— San Francisco G. S. & N. Plating Work s, San Francisco XVII. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Brann & Co., Los Angeles VI. Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, Col II. B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C.. II. Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal II. ASSAYERS— Holdich, A. H., Revelstoke, B.C XVIH. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVIII. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XVIII. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVIII. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C XX. AUCTIONEERS, ESTATE AGENTS, &C— Jones, W., Victoria, B.C XVH BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago X. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 HI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col.. IV BANKS— Bank of British North America VHI. Bank of British Columbia XVI. Bank of Montreal VIII CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J TV. California Wire Works, San Francisco rv. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col.. IV Jack <fc Robertson, Montreal Back Cover. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover. COAL AND COKE— New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XXI. COMPRESSORS—(See Pumps and Compressors.) CONCENTRATING PLANT— See Stamp and Concentrating Mills. CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Page Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago X. Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston, Mass Front Cover. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XIH. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI III. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 368 CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 HI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York XVII. DRILLS—(See Rock Drills.) DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— Krogh Mfg. Co., San Francisco XII Lobnitz & Co., Renfrew, Scotland 368 Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. . IV Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XII ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Hinton, Flectric Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria. Cover. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, Bl I. Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C VII. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York I. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I. Jeffrey Mfg. Co. Columbus, Ohio XVH. Montgomery Mach'y Co., The J.H., Denver, Colorado IV. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Front Cover. ENGINES AND BOILERS— Montgomery Machinery Co.,, The J. H, Denver, Col. IV FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c VHI. FILTER PRESSES— Stillwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV THE MINING RECORD. XI. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. Fire bricks and pottery— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col • n. FUSE— Bennett, Wm., Sons & Co., Agents, Victoria XVII FORWARDING AGENTS— W. Bailey & .Co., Ashcroft, B.C IX. GAS ENGINES— Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco V. GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS^- Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XII Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland! VI. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago x! Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver j Coi. IV HOISTING MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111 HL Jenckes Muchine Co., Sherbrooke, Quebec._ VI White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco " 368 -Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Cover, Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col Xni. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. TV I Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. X. Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco V HYDRAULIC PIPE & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vaneouver V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. LUMBER, SASHES, DOORS, ETC.— Nanaimo Saw Mill. Nanaimo, B.C 368 MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal II. Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany XIX. MACHINERY AGENTS— Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver 368 Heaps, E. H, & Co., Vancouver, B.C XIX. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B. C XIX.. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS— Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver 368 J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C ..... XIX. MINING BROKERS— Buckworth A. Bernard, Ymir, B.C XIX Foulkes, J. F. & Co XIX. Grigbr, R. W., Rossland, B.C XIX. Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, B.C XIX. Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C XIX. Hawley, John, Vancouver, B.C XIX. More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C XIX. Purgold, George, Rossland, B.C XIX. MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver XVHI. Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XVIII. West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVHI. Bromly, A. H., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Gore, Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria XVIH. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVIII. Archbold & Pearson, Nelson, B. C XVIH. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVTJI. Thomas, B., Vancouver XVHI. Brewer, W M., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Merry, H. E. D., Rossland XVHI. METAL JOBBERS— Robertson, James, & Co., Montreal, Vancouver. .Back Cover. ORE SACKS— Vancouver Agency, Vancouver XIII. ORE PURCHASERS— Van Anda Copper and Gold Co., Van Anda XX. Copper King Limited, San Francisco 367 Tallon, C. J., San Francisco 368 ORE CARS— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. Montgomery Machinery Co. The J. H., Denver, Col. IV PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Dow Pumping Engine Co., San Francisco XIV. Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XII. Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, HI HI. Taylor Air Compressing Co., Spokane, Wash V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 368 Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XIH. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI. Back Cover. XVI. PUMPS AND AER COMPRESSORS— Page. Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco XH. Stillwell-Bierce & Smith Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. X. Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover. POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co :. Coyer PAINTS— Robertson, James, & Co., Ltd., Montreal and Vancouver PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng Scientific Pub. Co., New York , PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Co , Newark, N.J ROCK DRILLS— Bullock, The M. C. Mfg. Co., Chicago, Bl XVH. Howell's Mining Drill Co XVH. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VIII Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover RUBBER MANUFACTURES— Goodyear Rubber Co., San Francisco, &c XII STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B. C Back Cover. Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco XII Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Huntington, F. A., San Francisco XIV Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XHI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV Sturtevant Mill Co., Boston Front Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 368 STEEL— Canton Steel Co., Denver, Col XVII SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XVIII. Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVLH. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XVIH J. C. T. Crofts, Nelson a XIX. Merry H. E. D., Rossland, B.C XVTII. SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, Bl I. Stilwell-Biene & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio.... IV SCREENS AND PERFORATED METALS— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, Bl III. SMELTING AND ROASTING FURNACES— Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, Bl HI. SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XVI. Rithet, R. P., &^Co., Victoria XXII. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XX. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich XX. TOWNSITES— Alii son Townsite ' White Horse Townsite XIII TRAMWAYS—(See Elevators and Conveyors.) TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co XXII Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria XXII V. Y. T. Co., Victoria and Bennett IX. To Northern Mines XIV. WATER WHEELS— Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman & Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &c, Victoria, Rossland, &c Vni. Thomas Earle, Wholesale Grocer, &c XV. Stemler & Earle, Spices, &c, Victoria XV, Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits, Victoria XX. Ward.Robt., & Co., Ltd., Com. Mchts. and Importers. XVI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co., Vancouver Cover. Weiler Bros., Furniture XV. Prior, E. G. & Co., Ld.. Hardware XIV. Piercy, J., Wholesale Dry Goods, Victoria XII Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods XV. Turner, Beeton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors, XV. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, XIH. Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Back Ctfver. xu. THE MINING RECORD. JACKSON CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Are designed for every use of Mining, Dredging, Irrigating or Reclaiming. May be Driven by Steam, Gas, Electric or Water Motor, direct-connected or belted. BUT-T BY BYRON JACKSON MACHINE WORKS, 625 Sixth Street, a San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A. KROGH MANUFACTURING CO., - San Francisco, Cal. Largest and Most Successful Builders of CENTRIFUGAL AND GOLD DREDGING PUMPS. Gold and Silver Mining and MilllngMachlnery of Any Capacity, Send for circulars of Twentieth Genturu, Cement-Gravel Process;" TWO STAMP MILLS ACME AMALGAMATORS Which are admitted as having revolutionized the practice of reducing ores and gravels and and saving fine gold. I 1 El Siif gyrst frffif 1 I II S¥S I 'Li IMPROVED CERTRIFUGAL PUM»S FOR IRREGATION AND DRAINAGE. KROGH TWO STAMP TRPILE DISCHARGE MILL Capacity Six to Twelve Tons Per Day. GOODYEHRj RUBBER eO'Y. . . R. H. PEASE, President and Manager. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose. "Crack Proof" and ".Snag Proof. Pure Rubber Mining Boots, Rubber ©lothing, MACKINTOSHES, Oil eiohing 573 575, 577 & 579 Market St., SHN FRRNGISe©, ©HL. 73 & 75 First St. PORTLAND, OREGON J. PIEReY St COMPANY, Wholesale Dry Goods & Clothing ManuTacturers Makers of the celebrated "IRONGLHD" Overalls. J. PIERCY £ CO., VICTORIA, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. Xlll. The Vancouver Agency, Limited Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS. NOTE—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz., Calcutta Ore Sacks, COTTON WASTE, FIREBRICKS, FIRECLAY, SMITHY COAL, LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. Our PRICE tor Ore Sacks is particularly LOW as our contract was made before the rise in the Market. Write for lowest prices to 60 Granville St., Vancouver, B ©. THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. WHITE HORSE Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. 4r All steamers plying to and from Dawson and other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the Big Salmon can be more easily reached from White Hor*e than from any other locality, thus it is certain to become the great distributing centre for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beau'ifmly situated on a levei tract of land on the west bank of the Yukon River and just below the celebrated White Horse Rapid™ around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the teamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. *^ T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, Lots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information re gardlng the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First AvenueSouth, Seattle, Wash.; and also at the office of J. J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C VICTORIA, B.C. jsnummss^ss THE PIONEER MINING MACHINERY HOUSE OF TNE WEST. The Hendrie and Bolthoff Mfg. and Supply Co., Designers, rianufacturers and Jobbers. Complete nine, riill and Smelter Equipments. Hoisting Engines, Smelting Plants, Crushers, Steam Boilers, Air Plants, Rolls, Steam Pumps, Concentrating Plants, Stamps.| OFFICES AN P, SALESROOMS. 1601 17th St., Cor. Wazer, DENVER, COL. xiv. THE MINING RECORD. E. G. Prior & So., Ltd. I A MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ^ ^ ^ Estawish^.858. BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ^ ^^^ ^ W4^ BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters VICTORIA,. Branch Stores: VANCOUVER and KHMLOOPS, B. e. T® NORTHERN MINES! The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Ltd., Dispatch Regular Steamers as follows, viz.: For Skagway and Wrangel, ' £ For Northern B. C. Points, Every Wednesday at eleven p.m. 9 Every Sunday at eleven p.m. For West Coast Points, First, Seventh, Fourteenth and Twentieth of each month at eleven p.m. The Huntington Centrifugal Roller j Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men through- >*i!H out the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the jjjjJF United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and jjpF South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all f^ quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer0P Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. Room i, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, - = SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, ... DOW PUMPS ... »RE MANDFHeTGRED IN- Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, Air, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMP5, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUflPS. MAKE KN©WN YOUR WANTS TO THE -^ j, GEO. E. DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO CAL. —- THE MINING RECORD. xv. BRITISH COLUMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HOUSES. m -^mf/yigtt. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order m ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BROS., VICTORIA, B.C. LENZ <& LEISER, 9 <&u yates street. IMPORTERS OF — GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING. SHIRTS HND L3NDERWEHR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for tb« Kpotei)ay and KJondiKe Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You flust THE CELEBRATED have "CROWN BRAND" Pure s» 'RICKSHAW Ceylon TEA _ ^ *or sale on Java and iWOCha <f Thomas Earle, For sale only by If you will have THE BEST. I'ut up ground and whole roasted 1 to 60 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B. C. Proprietors. T IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION HERCHANT. Teas and Coffees a Specialty. ^^ 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE • MERCHANTS. Dry Good©, Diquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. goods indented from all parts « /-*+■* j_-i • tt*-^.^ •••OF THE WORLD... Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. -—TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. / XVI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt. Ward & Co., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Baslnghall St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Oo. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Oo. The Northern 4ssurance Oo. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Poncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amberite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova ScotiaandUnion Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand — Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. PLATINUM REFINERS New York Office— 121 LIBERTY STREET. I I I 1 1 I W E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM. BAKER & CO., NEWARK, N. J. j^ Of Interest to Incorporated Companies. We have at considerable expense acquired the copyright of a book for the use of Companies incorporated under I The Com panies' Act " of British Columbia, in which to keep a record of the following : Register of Members. Register of Directors or Managers. Summary of Shares and Capital. Register of Shares Transferred. shares and my. /•with the shares, and also the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares hefd'by any member" ^'*"±i'io Vlxv num ers of tiie If you are interested send us an outline as to the number of shareholders you at present have, and how manv have opaserl to w> members during the past year and we will quote you for a book good for say 10 years business. For a small company we can snnr.lv a book carrying all the above information for $8.50. B. C. PRINTING. & ENGRAVING CORP., Ltd., VICTORIA, B.C. BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. HALF TONE and COLOUR WORK A SPECIALTY. BOOKBINDERS— Magazines, Periodical* and Music Books bound in First-Class Style and at Lowest Prices Orders by Mall Receive Prompt Attention. BLANK BOOKS— Ruled, Printed and Bound to order. All work guaranteed. 6HNT©N STEEL Branch Warehouse : 1601 to 1613 17th Street, -DENVER, e©L© Send for 1900 STEEL LIST containing letters of endorsement and useful information. JEFFREY ELEVATING MACHINERY FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling Material of all kinds. SEND FOB CATALOGUE. THE JEFFREY MFG.CO. Columbus.O. IMPORTANT TC GOLD MINERS And Manufacturers of Mining Machinery. SILVER-PLATED AMALGAM PLATES For saving Gold in Quartz, Placer and Beach Mining. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Only Refined Silver and Best Copper used Fifteen Medals awarded. Old Mining Plates can be Replated Old Plates Bought or Gold Separated. Our Plate" have been used for 55 years. -They have proved the Best. We adhere strictly to contract in weight of Silver and Copper. Send for Circular. San Francisco Gold, Silver &. Nickel Plating Works 652 Mission St., San Prancisco, eal. E. G. DENNIST0N, Proprietor. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. BENN Grown IN CANADA. FUSE! Brand. MARK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. CAMBORNE. CORNWALL, ENGLAND. altlc chambers, 10S Bishopsgate St.. Within. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, London omc", b1 Is guaranteed absolutely waterproof. It is Gutta-Peroha, will neither crack nor break. Costs no more than tar-tape fuses. As your dealer for it. Give it a trial. We manufacture the following fuses for Canada: No. 6— R E D frise for dry ground. No. 80- Pope's your «.. WHITE countered fuse, waterproof. No. 36—BLUE double layed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application. Miner's Safety Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. ROWLAND MACHIN, .aorncaiagdeant No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. fcvm. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL, ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. | M. Inst. M. E. M. Amer. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting Engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, P. O. Box 308, LONDON, E.c. VANCOUVER, B.C. "Christopher, London." ("Bromly, Vancouver.") B. THOMAS, C. E. & M. R, VANCOUVER, B.C. Reports. Surveys. Management. Contract Prospecting and Devlopment Work. Best References. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. MINES Makes a specialty of supply reliable Information a nTDg Reports on Slocan Properties, Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, Maui nannar Vt t* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's. I1CW L/cnVCI, D.U. HR6HBOLD & PEARSON. MINING ENGINEERS ASSAYERS. Cable Address: Archpe.r, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeill, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. R HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST and METALLURGIST. I| Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead. ? 60 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, GGDBN ASSAY CO.. 1429'16th St.. DENVER, eolo. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Ccrporatlon. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. 0. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW ■HARVEY, M.I.M.M. F.C.S. aSSSYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testing and Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD.. Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co.. Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-19 Pender St., VANCOUVER, Assayer in- charge of Provincial Government Assay offices, Vancouver. John Redman, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. C. OtjtblETT, R. C. Sc. Chemist and Metallurgist. REDHAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and Analyses guaranteed accura'e. Write for interesting information about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. fl. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, • - VANCOUVER, B. C. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F.I.C. Assayer and Metallurgist, VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. gtf SPECIAL ATTENTION TG SAMPLES BY MAIL. W. ». BAUER, D.L.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. a. S. aSHCROFT. D.L.S..P.L.S. Greenwood, B.C BRCER & HSHeROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. Y»Ne©UYER and GREENWO0D. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 61Q Hastings ttj$j^g| VANCOUVER, B.C. Existing Plants Inspected. New Work In Progress Supervised Machinery Plants of all kinds supplied and erected. Agents for - BOOTH'S HOISTS. The " Risdon " Gold Dredger. The Hallidie Ropeway. The " Champion". Vertical Air Compressor and Drills. The I Camphell" Gas and Oil Engine, etc. Flexible Metallic Tubing and WIRE ROPE supplied from stock. VANCOUVER, P. O. Box 423. Codes—Moreing & Neal, A.B.C. NELSON, P.O. Box 676. THE MINING RECORD. xtx. PReFESSI©NHL »ND BROKERS. J- Fortescue Foulkes. N. B. Van derGucht. J- F- Foulkes & Co.,| Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Fouvan." All codes used. J . C. T. CROFTS, M.I. Nlech. E. NELSON, B. C. Box 676. MaeHiNERY, aERiaL trhmways, etc., supplied HNO ERECTED. Wire Rope and Flexible Metallic Tubing from Stock. PLANS. DRAWINGS. ESTIMATES. R. W. GRIGOR, -MINKS- ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GRIGOK. Use Bedford McNeill's and Moreing and Neal's codes. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought and Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. 611 Hastings St., VANCOUVER, B. C C Bedford-McNeill, Codes-! Moreing & Neal, V Clough's. One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited Cable Address: " Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. P. O. Box 178. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A. E. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Com pan v, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. Rossland, B.C Wallace Building, Columbia Avenue, P. O. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeill's. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY. Cable Address : " Buckworth," Ymir. A. BERNARD BUCKWORTH MINES YMIR, British Columbia. Personal knowledge of mining properties In this district. Correspondence invited. Commissions undertaken. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neal's. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLieHTI©NS, &&. . . . IT IS N© GOOD . . . Advertisinq in the {British Press Unless You Understand How to Approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT Who can adiZ&up™L1?fusincss at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. I e. J. WALKER'S "British and Canadian Press Bureau," 24 Coleman St., London, E.G. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES : 3 Dorset Buildings, - Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 moi ths. 6 months. 3 months .Canada 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. ft. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. *n Engineering School with unique location gi. ing it unusual fadlities. Distinctl e method* of instruction. Special c urs s. For. atali guesgiving occupation of graduates, addressF. W. McNAIR, Hresi lent, Houghton, Mich W.JONESl The City Auction Mart, (Established 1885.) AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, ESTATE AGENT, Etc. 73 and 7354 Yates St., VICTORIA, - - B. Auction sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor's own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of References from past and present clients. Houses, etc., to rant and for sale in all parts List your properties with us, good clients always wailing. All business entrusted to us receives strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. H. W. TRBRT, Pres., Treas. and Gen. Manager. TH0S. KIDDIE, Smelter Manager. Van Anda COPPER AND GOLD CO, Purchasers and Smelters of 6opper>6old Ores. Rates on Application. Gash paid on settlement of assays. Works at Van Anda, Texada Island. B.C. . R. SMITH i GO. ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OB" HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. 430 BRANCH Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VIII. 1899. (Editedby R. P. Rothwell), 8vo. cloth, Profusely Illustrated. Price ?5 00, postpaid. Among the many valuable technical treatises embodied in this present notable volume are the following, written by pre-eininent, international experts on their various subjects : Corundum and Emery (L. S. Ropes); Corundum in Ontario (Conrtenay DeKalb); Progress in the Aluminum Industry in 1899 (J. B. U. Kershaw); Occurrence of Asphalt in California (\. C. Cooper); Noteson the Met dlurgy of Bismuth (W. Borchers); Method of Recovery of Bromine in Germany (B. C. Hinman); Calcinm Carbide (J. B. C. Kershaw); Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States in 1899 (F.H. Lewis); Chrome Ore Mining in Canada (J. Obalski); Notes on the Metallurgy of Chromium (W. Borchers); Notes on the Coarse lottery Production of Great Britain (W. P. Rix); Fuel and Its Economical Utilization(w. Kent); Progress in tbe Electrolytic Refining of Copper in 1899 (T. Ulke) Hofmann's Method for the Manufactuae of Blue Vitriol (O. Hofmann); Extraction of Copper from Burnt Pyrites by the Henderson Process (J. G. Clemmer); Fluorspar in the United States (E. E. Squier); Copper Mining in New South Wales (L. Janin, Jr.); Cutting and Polishing of Precious Stones (L. Clare- mont); Glass—Analysis of and Methods of Manufacture (R. Lintoni; Gold Dredging in the United 8tates (A. Grothe); Progress in the Cyanide Process (L. Janin, Jr.); Moebius' Electrolytic Process for Parting Gold and Silver (M. W. lies); Nickel and Iron Alloys (S, Souther); World's Production of Petroleum (C. E. Z. Caracristi); Electrolytic Manufacture of Phosphorus (W. Borchers); Progress in the Electrolytic Chlora e Industry in 1899 (J. C. B. Kershaw): Electrolytic Production of Chlorine and Caustic Soda A. T. Weightman); Liquid Anhydrous Sulphuric Acid (F. Meyer); Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid Stronger than Chamber Acid (F. J. Falding); Galena—Joplin Lead and Zinc District (E. Haworth); Mining and Milling of Joplin Ores (F Nicholson); Uses of Liquid Air (T. O'C. Sloane); Mine Timbering (W. E. Sanders); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1899 (R. H. Richards). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. XXI. VaNeODYER ISLHND C©HL. COAL! COAL! IThe New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIflO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is now used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both at Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SHMUEL M. R0BINS, Supt.. Nanaimo. B.e. XX11. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to PACIFIC WITHOUT CHANGE Lowest Rates. ^ TO ALL POINTS IN Best Equipment. ^ Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R. P. RITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF Y1GT0RIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, GQLUMBIfl FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, MD VERNON MILLS, YERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 51. Taking effect July 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1.80 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C. P Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islands—Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. .Wive New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—'Thursday at 7 o'clock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clo.k a.m. during river navigation, NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naas and intermediate ports via Vancouver on every Sunday night. ALASKA. ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave for Wrangel and Skag\> ay every Wednesday at 11 p.m. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound port« thp 1st, 7th, 14th and 20th at 11 p.m. Extending latter trip 10 Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time T.ib'e at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, General Freight Agent. C. S. BAXTER, Passenger Agent The Hudson's BavlComDanv HAVE Bale da Perec Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Bat Portage Biding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. uis.\;: FELTEN & 6UILLEADME, Carlswerk, Actien Gesellscbaft, Mulheim on Rhine. Manufacturer! of Electrical Leads and Cables Electric Lighting: Cablca for Coal Pita with arrangement lor avoiding fl re-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Wire Ropes for Mining Round and Flat Wire Ropes, " Albert," or .so-called "Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened Strand Wire Ropes. iron, Steel, Copper and. Bronze Wire Superior qualities 3 Sole Agents for Canada Mi * Robertson 7 St. flelen St. MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'y, Limited, IP VANCOUVER, B.C. # cf|||§l§ M 3 (1 (if 3 Ct U re PS of Lead Pipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Ready Mixed Paints.Shot, Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &c. S Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. 1 m METALS. Office and Warehouse, - 151 Hastings St Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. Ontar o Gold Mining A few Min who Use British Columbia. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., ^s MANUFACTURERS OF-— SOLE AGENTS IN British Columbia FOB John Bertram & Sons Iron-Working Machinery, The MacGregor, Gourley Co.'s Wood Working Machinery, R. Hoe & Co.'s Celebrated nserted Tooth Saws... BRANCH OFFICE: MACKINNON BLOCK, GRANVILLE STREET, WORKS: PETERBORO, ONT. - VANCOUVER, B.C. PUBLISHED BY THE MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. TUIQ lUHMTU \ RECENT SURFACE IMPROVEMENTS ON RED MOUNTAIN (Illustrated). I HID fflUN I H. I the VAN ANDA SMELTER (Illustrated), Etc. }m™<. ' VOIv.VII. OCTOBER, 1900. No 10 The Hinton Electric Company, Limited. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANV. ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... S, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA, B. O. VANCOUVER, B. C. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. ■MAKERS OF- Electrical Mining: Machinery MCTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. O. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Odb British Columbia Branches at VICTORIA. VANCOUVER. THE COPPER KING, LIMITED. THE PACIFIC COAST SMELTING & REFINING WORKS. WORKS: Seal Bluff Landing, Cal. . MINES: Fresno County, Cal. Purchasers, Samplers and Smelters of ■* Gold, Silver and Copper Ores, and Furnace Products. ||i OFFICES: 222 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Basildon House, 7 & " MoorgateSt., LONDON, E.C. PRICE, 20 CENTS. Cannery Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar Iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Co. m m m m m m LIMITBD, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, 1 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C > "3 ^r*. _1 p Q 5>I* L of VU hine •8 5* mis Y anufact Mill 8® 02 5* FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). MINING • MACHINERY -ffiSS^gSg^ ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than i,Soo at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION: Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhausters, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables. Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables, LEACHING PLANT ■ —■> COAL WASHING COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching PLANT—Large Testing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Works. AGENTS; For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 35 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R. THE MINING RECORD. GENERAL, MINING MACHINERY. LOTS NOW IN THE... MARKET. ALLISON TOWNSITE, Situated on the Beautiful Valley of the Similkameen River At the point where the railway leaves the Valley for Spence's Bridge and in close proximity to Copper Mountain is the coming business centre for all the mining camps from Twenty-Mile to Otter Valley, and the country west of the railway known as the Hope Mountain, is so situated as to command the trade north to Spence's Bridge, east to Penticton. west to Hope and the Tulameen, and south to Copper and Kennedy Mountains. 1\T/"\Y\/ is the time to secure the most favorable location before the railway is commenced, and the Government establish the E g ^-^ ~ * head offices for that district. Railway and Wagon Road are both located through the centre of the town. Handsome Bridge just completed over the Similkameen river, connecting with Copper Mountain Wagon Road. Stores and Hotel now under construction, and Saw Mill being erected close to Townsite. Apply to J. F. Foulkes & Co.,35 fort street. AND ROOM 7, BOARD OF TRADE BLD'G. Head Office Dewdney's Canadian Syndicate, Ltd. LINK-BELT ELEVATORS and ^^-^eONVEYORS, Por Handling Ores. Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc. _,_„_^„ ^_,_- PICKING TABLES, Shaking & Revolving Screens CoaLWashing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 1*5* Pct ' LINK-BELT" COAL AND COKE BREAKER, ,<a.- JAfiJu, LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., Eng3,Vcr:inF.°,".n,der' Chicago, U.S.A. LINK-BELT BOX WATER ELEVATOR Capacities, 300 to 10,000 Gallons Per Minute ^ ROBINS ** Belt Conveyors. Handle all Materials with GREAT ECONOMY. USE OUR SORTING BELTS Instead of SORTING TABLES. Send for ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 32 In. Sorting Belt Now In Use at WAR EA6LE Mine, Rossland. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK 11. THE MINING RECORD. HSSflYERS' SUPPLIES HND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No 0 Prec*s'on Balance. Cijl 5 i**nU Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co , Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TEBTZEL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY. MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- [E are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. j ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. # P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address: Assay," Vancouver. B C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) Manufacturers and importers of M NING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Repairs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851.- Incorporated 1895. ASSAYERS' I1ATERIALS, fline and mil Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co,, Battersea, England. Largest stock off Balances, Scales,. Furnaces, etc. Baker M Adamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining and scientific books. Pacific Coast Agents for Wm. Ainsworth & Sons' Assay and Analytical Balances. JOHN TAYLOR <&» CO.. Illustrated catalogue on application. 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 1601 to 1613 17th Street, Send for 1900 S I EEL LIST containing letters of endorsement and useful information. JEFFREY ELEVATING MACHINERY FOR MILLS, FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS. Designed for Handling material of all kinds. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. THE JEFFREY MFG.CO. Columbus.O. IMPORTANT T© GOLD MINERS And Manufacturers ot Mining Machinery. SILVER-PLATED AMALGAM PLATES For saving Gold in Quartz, Placer and Beach Mining. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Only Refined Silver and Best Copper used Fifteen Medals awarded. Old Mining Plates can be Eeplated. Old Plates Bought or Gold Separated. Our Plate* have been used for 65 years. They have proved the Best. We adhere strictly to contract in weight of Silver and Copper. Send for Circular. San Francisco Gold, Si lver& Nickel Plating Works 652 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. E. G. OENNIST0N. Proprietor. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. BENNETT FUSE! HEGI8TBHED IN CANADA. Grown Brand. MARK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty CAMBORNE, CORNWALL, ENGLAND, ces, Baltic Chambers, 108 Bishopsgate St., Within. Costs no more than tar-tape fuses. Ask RED fuse for dry ground. No. 30— WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., Manufacturers, London 0*S Is guaranteed absolutely waterproof. It is Gutta-Percha, will neither crack nor break Cosl your dealer for it. Give it a trial. We manufacture the following'fuses for Canada: No. 6—_ WHITF countered fuse, waterproof. No. 36—BLUE double layed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application. Pope's " n'' fc Miner's Safety Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. ROWLAND MACHIN, ffc^S?- No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. IV. THE MINING RECORD. CABLES, WATER WHEELS HND COMPRESSORS. TELL US WHERE YOU'RE AT. 4 CENT5 PER TON PER MILE ||f| Is what it costs to transport Ore with our systems of Aerial Wire Rope Tramways. We also manufacture a lot of other kinds of good common sense Mining Machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Concentrating Mills, Placer Machinery, in fact about everything in machinery used around a Mine, Mill or Smelter. We would like to send you our books telling you all about it, but we can't do it unless you write us WHERE YOU'RE AT. J The J. H. Montgomery Machinery Co., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND OTHBB SYSTEMS OF AERIAL TRANSPORTATION MANUFACTURED BY « Bleichert Tramway of the Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa., showing guard-bridge across Penna. R. R. New York OFFicE-Cooper, Hewitt & Co, 17 BURLING SLIP THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in North America for the Bleichert System. Also, Wire Rope Equipments for Surface and Underground Haulage, etc. Chicago Office-1114 MONADNOCK BUILDING. VZ Hallidie Ropeway ,n,Prr;<t QfLp,™llev 3s . M v Patents Nos. 483,442; 610,353. For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOHICAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cablewaya, Transmission by 'Wire Ropes. incline planes. Cable Grips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. I^ogging by Cables. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND CABLE. Sendior Illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. FERGUSSON & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. GALIFORNIA WIRE W0RK5, 7 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. -MANUFACTUBERS OF- WATER P0WERsThe-Victor-Turbine HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. 293 LEHMAN ST., DAYTON, OHIO U.S.JV. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lactone Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufacturing Co., Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & Light Co. Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. Running Pomps, Dynamos. Stamp Mills. Blowers. Concentrators. Machinery. Gasoline Mining Hoists and Marine Hoists a Specialty. THE "UNION " GASOLINE ENGINE is economical, reliable and steady, in fact everything that a first-class engine mi should he ; and is the result of 15 years experience, having been built in Ban Francisco since 1885. 5pj " Union " Combined Hoists. Air Compressors. Marine and Stationery Engines. Send for Illustrated catalogue, stating requirements. US UNION GAS ENGINE CO., 310 Howard St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. ARMSTRONG & MORRISON, Iron and Steel Works, STEAM HOISTING PLANTS ^ It is Light, Powerful, Compact, and just the right thing for the Northern trade. If you require this class of machinery itwill pay you to call a- our Works and see them for your self. We have them on hand. £tf~ Correspondence Solicited. Manufacturers of Hydraulic Steel Pipe, ) Office and Works. Foot of Heattey Ave., Hydraulic Giants, Mining and W aterworks' Plants, Ore Cars, Ore Buckets, Engines, Boilers and General Machinery . . . ©ompressed Air from Palling Water. -fl HIGH TESTIMONIAL. THE DOMINION COTTON MILLS, Ltd., MAGOG, QUE., JUNE 7th, 1898. THE TAYLOR HYDRAULIC AIR COMPRESSING CO., Ltd., Montreal, Que. DEAR SIRS:— , , 1 M . ,,„, We have had your Air Compressor in successful operation for over twelve (12) months in our Print Works, where it has replaced steam to drive the engines in the Printing Department. Your Compressor runs without attention or expense, and is saving the cost of fuel formerly employed to drive the same engines by steam. I am pleased to certify to its successful operation as a most efficient motive power. Yours truly W. T. Whitehead, Manager. TAYLOR AIR COMPRESSING COM SPOKANE, WASH VI. THE MINING RECOED. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ET©. 9*+- -<^«f-» «-^*^»- Branches; GREENWOOD, NELSON and ROSSLAND, B.C. Hoisting m Winding Engines ■ ■ And Appliances for all Purposes. 1A/E offer improved designs and a wide range of sizes and styles to make your select- ** ion from. Special ENGINES and MACHINERY also built to specification. Send us your prints or outline your requirements, and we will be pleased to submit you an estimate or proposal. A GOOD LINE of Standard Hoisting Engines, Cars, Buckets, etc.. carried in stock at Rossland Warehouse, for quick delivery? also Wire Rope, Sheaves and General Mine Supplies. The JENCKES M»eHINE e©. -<^«f-» 32.40 Lansdowne Street, SHERBROOKE, QUE ^j^s -%^ Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery 30MPRI8ING- HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, SHEET IRON and STEEL PIPE, STAMP MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, ORE FEEDERS, CONCENTRATORS, SMELTERS, HOISTING and PUMPING PLANTS, SAW MILLS, MINE and MILL SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application j HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATER WHEEL. H7S7vnL-TON POWDER CO'Y. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers of High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office.- MONTREAL. LOCAL OFFICES: BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. WORKS: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland and Greenwood. NANAIMO. THE BRAUN Ore Sample Crusher and Pulverizer. Manufactured by F W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeloa, Cal., U.S.A. For crushing and pulverizing small quantities of ore, by either hand or power. All bearings being brass, It is Light Running and more easily operated by hand than any laboratory machine of its capacity on the market. Write for our new descriptive pamphlet in which all our new specialties are fully described. May be obtained from B. C. Assay & Chem. Supply Co., Ltd. VANCOUVER, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. Vll. ELECTRieaL MACHINERY. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COM PAN Y, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont. BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MANUFACTURERS OF Electric | Mining = Apparatus Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM .WRITE US. BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ROSSLAND. I VANCOUVER Vlll. THE MINING RECORD. M ISCELLANEOUS. T-£ JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd , o ~ MONTREAL, P. Q. - INGERSOLL-SERGEANT MACHINERY, Manufacturers of ROCK DRILLS, Straight Line, Duplex, and Corliss Air Compressors. Complete Mine Equipment of all Kinds. | / R. A. C. McNally, Rossland. B. C. Catalogue and Details on Application to j H- R. Kirkpatrick, Greenwood, B.C. W- A. Maclennan, Vancouver, B. C. The Brackman=Ker Milling Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. rianufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. (Registered.) ^Unequalled in the World. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton. B.&K. Established 1817. BANK- OF JVL O JN T Jri JE A J_i. -A^ofpTrllamlnt. CAPITAL, (all paid up), $12,000,000.00. RESERVE 'FUND, $7,000,000.00. UNDIVIDED PROFIT, $427,180.80. HEAD OFFICE, ------- MONTREAL. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., President; Hon. G. A. 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PUBLISHED BY The Mining Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. HORTIMER LAMB, rlanaging Editor, London Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Montreal : Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co San Francisco : Dake's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERriS: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Becobd to be addressed to The Editor, B.C. Mining Recobd, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Becobd to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Record, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. AN interesting question with regard to both the past and future development of the mineral resources of British Columbia refers to the sources from which the capital which has been and is opening up and developing our mines is drawn. This capital is of three different kinds. Not capital in- that capital can be divided in its vested in B.C. nature, but in its mode of applica- mines. tion to mines capable of differen tiation into three classes. There is first the capital represented in the discovery and location of mineral claims, the capital that the pioneer invests in a country. On the average this is probably the worst remunerated capital in the world. It is invested in small amounts spread over a great territory, but the aggregate must be very large, equal probably to all the capital derived from all other sources and all other purposes put together. The individual and occasional returns are large, and it is this fact which retains so , many men in a calling where the life is hard, the average remuneration low and the risk of total loss very great indeed. The capital of this kind which has come into British Columbia has been almost exclusively from the United States. The reasons are obvious. The business of prospecting has been organized in the United States as nowhere else, and in that country there is a body of men whose exclusive pursuit it is. The mining territory so far opened up in British Columbia was easy of access from the United States, and, as a new country offers greater inducements to this class of capital than one partially ex ploited, it was very natural indeed that the trained prospector of the United States should take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the virgin territory of British Columia. There are always people unfortunately who are ready to admit the necessity of capital entering a new country in the abstract, but are jealous of it on its actual entrance in the concrete. The American prospector, it was frequently argued, should be prohibited from entering British Columbia, and this exceedingly impolitic view of the situation went so far as to influence legislation in the ill-starred alien act, now so universally repudiated, that no one will accept the odium of having introduced or approved of it. During the last two or three years there has been a noticeable withdrawal from British Columbia of this class of capital. Numbers of prospectors have been headed for the Yukon and Cape Nome. The very high price of copper has induced many to hark back again upon the old copper districts known to them in the United States, and other causes have also been at work. But this class of capital is exceptionally mobile and migratory in its nature, and it only requires rumours of fresh rich discoveries in the still vast virgin territory of British Columbia to bring American prospectors back again, the swallows that herald a summer of development and prosperity. Nor will they ever again have so exclusive a monopoly of the most dangerous, disagreeable and ill-paid profession in the world, because the growth of the mining industry is training a Canadian class which will be well able to compete with them for its few prizes amid its many hardships. The sec- j ond class into which capital entering British Colum-i bia may be divided is that capital which opens up and develops mines. This form of capital stands half way, as it were, between mine owning capital, which extracts profits from the ground, and the prospecting capital which discovers mines. As a rule it consists of a portion of the profits of the one, and is generally in close touch with the other. Naturally, therefore> as there were no, or practically no, producing mines in British Columbia prior to 1892, and, as most of the now productive mines were discovered prior to that date by prospectors in touch with the owners and operators of productive mines in the United States, the development capital for the British Columbia mines came largely from the United States also. If we take a list of mines in B. C. at random, or nearly so, which may nevertheless be accepted as typical of our best mines, we will find ample exemplification of this fact. If we take North Star, San Eugene, Payne, Slocan Star, Enterprise,Hall Mines, Ymir, Le Roi, War Eagle, Centre Star, Velvet, City of Paris, Knob Hill, B. C, Mother Lode and Cariboo, Camp McKinney, we will find that all were developed by American capital except the North Star, Ymir, Velvet, City of Paris, Knob Hill and B. C. Of this small list it is 37° THE MINING RECORD. noteworthy that the Ymir and Velvet developed by English capital were not discovered prior to 1892. The City of Paris and Knob Hill were indeed developed by Canadian capital, but under American inia- tive, and in any case, like some others not included in our list, became visible on the mining horizon at a later day and really exemplify a process which will be referred to later. From this point of view the B. C. is a freak, having been developed by English capital, and then transferred to Canadian capital. The only typical instav ce left of the Canadian development of a mine from the grass roots down is the North Star* The third class of capital is the mine owning and operating capital. This is the easiest kind of capital 10 secure, and is to some extent cosmopolitan in its nature. Once a mine has arrived at a productive and dividend paying stage there are far more men willing to buy it, than there are men willing to sell such a property if they own it. It is very unimportant what particular group of people own a dividend paying mine. What difference does it make to British Columbia whether George Gooderham, of Toronto, or Whitaker Wright, of London, or Patsy Clark, of Spokane, and their respective friends, own and draw dividends from the War Eagle mine. The only direct interest to British Columbia is that the mine shall be effectively worked. But from another point of view the importance of where the mines are held is very great. Because, as we have seen mine owning and operating capital is the basis and source of development capital, either through the devotion of a portion of the profits to this purpose, or through the .'mula- tion of those familiar with these profits to secure a like prize for themselves. The enormous amount of development capital introduced into British Columbia from Eastern Canada, after the War Eagle had its headquarters transferred from Spokane to Toronto, is a well remembered example. It was this influx of development capital following upon the influx of owning and operating capital which led to the Canadian development of the City of Paris, Knob Hill and many other properties not given in our list. It is true that zeal to rival the profits of the War Eagle in this case outran discretion; but that was due to ignorance which experience, sad experience, has remedied. If we now look back at our list in reference to the locality in which the owning and operating capital is held, we find that the North Star, San Eugene, War Eagle, Centre Star, City of Paris, Knob Hill, B. C. and Cariboo are all controlled by Canadian capital; that the Enterprise, Hall Mines, Ymir, Le Roi and Velvet are controlled by English capital, and that, only the Slocan Star and Mother Lode remain in the hands of American capitalists. Of course this list is not a complete one, but if it were added to sufficiently to make it complete, the proportions wouk not greatly differ. This points to a great change in the mining centre of gravity. The greater number of Biitish Columbia's mines are now in the hands of Canadian capital; English, capital runs Canadian very close, and American capital is nowhere. The importance of this to British Columbia (we are not dealing with the national or imperial aspect of the question at all) is that there is a body of capital growing up in Canada, with substantial reinforcements in London, on which we may look in the future as an active competing source for development capital with the United States. There is a difference in kind, however, exist ing between Canadian and English capital and American capital in their devotion to development. The former are very thorough, but they are undoubtedly slower. The American goes at a new district like a hungry dog at a bone. He exults, he triumphs in the idea of resisting and overcoming obstacles. The Canadian and the Englishman are like timid bathers; they try the water gingerly at first. Once in, Shey swim manfully, but they do not take the plunge so_ rapidly as the American. This is particularly true ot the English capitalist. In the case of Canadian capitalists the hesitancy in branching out is more from lack of knowing how in this particular industry than from any lack of initiative. And experience in mining is increasing every day. In time an equal body of enterprise resource and experience in mining will exist in Canada to what is markedly characteristic of the United States. It is fortunate that this is so, and fortunate that being so the bulk of our British Columbia mines are in the hands of our fellow countrymen. An article appearing in the Engineering Magazine for September on the four stages of mining in Lead- ville has much more than merely a local interest. It is applicable to the progress of mining in general during the last quarter of a century. The first stage was placer mining. That has long gone by in Lead- ville, so long that it is almost ior- leadville .and gotten. The next stage-was the ex- b.c. contrasted ploitation of the rich carbonate lead ores characteristic of what are erroneously called the palmy days of Leadville. The third stage was the opening up of the gold belt after the fall in silver in 1893 had made the deep wet silver mines of Leadville apparently hopeless as profit earning concerns. The last stage on which Leadville is now entering is that dealing with the mining of composite ores, in which gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, zinc and bismuth may all occur; and in which the base elements, from being detrimental, have actually become profitable factors. Two characteristics of mining progress are here exemplified, first, the utilization of a number of elements not previously profitable, and second, the cheapening of reduction processes, so that ores of a much less gross content of valuable material of all sorts may be profitably handled. By these two causes, which have operated concurrently the available supplies of workable ore in Leadville have increase in a far greater ratio than the development of the camp would have justified had the grade of ore, and character of ore, that would pay, remained constant. As a result the last stage in the development of Leadville is by far the greatest, both as regards the number of men employed and as regards the gross quantity of wealth produced. Geologists tells us that mineral belts or zones are derived from globules of mineral solution held in a liquid form in the earth's crust by the tremendous pressure of the surrounding material; that from time to time alterations in the pressure have occurred, liberating these mineral solutions, which have immediately burst through all the available vents, fissures and channels possible, in a gaseous form, and by various processes of infiltration and deposition ■ have made what are known as veins and deposits of ore. Not so long ago men were practically confined to those parts of such mineral belts as had been subjected to the action of the air, in mining, for the precious metals. It was not dreamed that mining- beneath the THE MINING RECORD. 371 gossan or oxidized portion of a vein was practicable, and this gave to mining for the* precious metals that character of being precarious in its nature and temporary m its duration, from which it has as mucn difficulty in escaping as the ill-named dog in the proverb. And yet how completely false to modern mining is this ancient conception of its character! Modern science may fairly make this boast that given a mineral belt or zone, it may be followed and explored through all its channels and interstices, whether those are indicated by surface veins or not, to any practic- ■ able depth, and that in whatever form its mineral contents may occur, they will be found commercially available down to a minimum of value which is every year being depressed a little lower. In other words, the exhaustion of a mineral zone is something postponed indefinitely. This is what the history of Leadville teaches us. To the excellent form in which the lesson is applied we are indebted to the pen of Mr. Thomas Tongue, in the Engineering Magazine. British Columbia has had a certain amount of the same kind of experience as Leadville, but more in the extensive developments of different districts than in the intensive development of any one district. That British Columbia was once a great placer mining country we have ample and lamentable proof in the refusal of a certain order of intelligence to regard it even now as anything else. British Columbia, however, differs from Leadville in this respect, that its placer days, particularly in the more permanent forms of the industry, hydraulic mining and dredging, are by no means over. In fact, a steady progression may be looked for, although the industry must always be, compared with lode mining, trivial as regards either the population sustained or the wealth produced. The discovery and partial working of the rich ore bodies of the Slocan in 1891, 1892 and the first part of 1893 corresponds fairly accurately to the carbonate period of Leadville. The opening up of Trail Creek in 1895 also corresponds to the third period of Leadville. The popping up of productive mines everywhere this year and the great reductions in cost of treatment by which the ore available in the old workings of the Trail Creek camp is estimated at three times what has been taken out show that British Columbia also has entered upon a stage corresponding with the fourth stage in the development of Leadville. But the value of these reflections is not in tracing an ingenious parallel between one section of mining country and another, but in showing the entire reorganization of ideas in connection with mining which it is necessary to make. With regard to the greater portion of its resources, British Columbia has fallen heir to the science slowly acquired in the United States, without being obliged to re-enter upon the experimental steps by which it has been built up. British Columbia possesses by far the largest segment of the great Cordilleran range, in which the greatest known deposits of the precious and useful metals occur. Through its abundant supply of water, coal and timber, as well as by the more energetic character of a people who inhabit a northern climate, British Columbia possesses many apparent advantages over any of the South American countries at all comparable to it in the size of their mineral bearing areas. The rapidity, therefore, with which the mineral belts scattered all through this vast area are discovered and exploited should be greater even than the development of the mining states of the Union who have blazed the trail in scientific mining. The gross total of minerals produced is bound to be incomparably greater than anything the world has ever seen before. In fact, British Columbia will become in esse what it already is in posse the richest mineral country existing. And that is because it is no longer a question of rapidly exhausting our mineral belt and going on to another; but of pursuing the mineral into its remotest hiding places within the limits of each mineral belt as it is discovered, a process not likely to achieve finality within the lifetime of three or even four generations when a single mineral zone is alone considered. The Van Anda Copper and Gold Co. have issued during the past month a circular letter to creditors, containing the information that the van anda the trustees for the debenture and its holders had taken possession of difficulties. the property and asSets of the company. The reason for this action is set out in the following terms: "Before the company became a shipper, large debts were contracted in developing the properties of the company and establishing a smelter on the ground. For some time after the smelter was blown in, the properties of the company were considered so good that so much of the product of the matte shipped by the company as could be spared from the payment of old debts were utilized by the management in further development work. It has happened, unfortunately, within the past two or three months, that it has been necessary to tunnel through a lot of dead ground. The expenditure occasioned has depleted the company's resources and exhausted its credit. Unsecured creditors commenced pushing their claims by actions in the courts, and the company's employees, not receiving their pay, decided to quit work, with the result that debenture holders, feeling unsafe and fearing a multiplicity of lien and other actions, have apparently decided that it is to their interest to assume control of the mortgaged premises. It is urged by the representatives of the debenture holders that this move on their part is in the interests of the creditors and the company's properties, more particularly as it happens at a time when there is such a good showing in the two principal mines of the company. Just before the men ceased work, they ran into two strong and rich looking ore bodies. It is therefore suggested that the company is now in a better position to re-organize and get in some fresh capital, or, failing this, to assist the trustees in effecting such a sale of the property as will pay all the company's indebtedness, secured and unsecured), in full. | The shareholders in the company are naturally anxious for an opportunity to re-organize the company, in order that they may realize something from their interest in the company's property and assets. They propose to endeavour to interest capital in a scheme to re-organize, or, failing this, to find a purchaser for the property. In the meantime the trustees inform the management of the company that they will, if possible, continue the business of the company, so that it may be spoken of and dealt with as a going concern. Whether or not the trustees will succeed in carrying out their present intentions in this regard, will depend very largely on the action of the trade creditors, wage-earners and other unsecured credi- 372 THE MINING RECORD. tors of the company. If unsecured creditors persist in putting their claims in suit, as by filing liens and obtaining judgments to be registered against the property of the company, the task of so handling the property so as to pay off the debenture debt and unsecured creditors, or to re-organize the company, or to the sell the property of the company for sufficient to pay everybody one hundred cents on the dollar will be rendered practically impossible. In other words, if creditors double the amount of their present claims by adding the costs of litigation to their present debts, the present management of the company will give up all hope of so handling the assets of the company as to pay everybody in full. It is true that the action of the debenture holders takes the management of the company's assets out of the hands of the officers of the company, but it does not preclude the present management from co-operating with the trustees and assisting them to bring about a condition of affairs which will be satisfactory to everybody interested in the company. The intention of this circular is to convey to all creditors the exact position in which the affairs of the company now stand, and to suggest to them that their best interests will be served by filing their claims with the trustees. By adopting this course, all chances of litigation will be saved the creditors and the company. The management of the company regrets the present position. The individual members of the directorate "and management are heavily interested as shareholders, and in some cases as creditors of the company. This, of itself, is reason enough for the present circular, and for their undertaking to assist the trustees for the debenture holders to make enough from the property to pay the creditors in full" Meanwhile, the failure, for that is what it practically means, of the Van Anda Company is not by any means an unlooked for occurrence, though under the present circumstances a regrettable one. I he original management was ignorant and extravagant, and when the property was taken over by Mr. Treat he was confronted with many serious difficulties, not the least of which was a lack of capital for the proper exploitation of the mines. Notwithstanding, operations were continued on a somewhat expensive scale, and a smelter erected for the local treatment of the ores before the development of the property justified such a course. This is the opinion we expressed at the time. As the difficulties of financing the enterprise increased, the wages of the men employed at the mines was allowed to get in arrears. Good miners in this country can always find employment, and if at any one mine pay-day arrives and the monthly cheque is not handed over, the competent man refuses to continue to work under circumstances so unsatisfactory. The incompetents, however, generally remain, provided they see any sort of likelihood of eventually getting their money. This was the case at the Van Anda. Burdened with debt before actual mining operations really commenced, a hand-to-mouth struggle has been courageously enough maintained for some time past in the endeavour to make production not only pay for the development of the properties, but to liquidate the old indebtedness. The result was inevitable, and the only wonder is that the effort lasted so long as it did. This in itself speaks well for the value of the mines, and it is sincerely to be hoped that the proposed reconstruction can be successfully and satisfactorily carried into effect. The Department of Mines has already taken preliminary steps for the publication at regular and frequent intervals of statistics and other information relating to the mineral production of the Province. The importance of this work, the undertaking of which by the Government we have steadily advocated in these columns for some time past, cannot be overestimated, and the money devoted for the purpose of collecting and publishing mineral statistics which are necessarily reliable may safely be regarded as an investment that will repay a dividend of many hundreds per cent, annually. Heretofore trustworthy and complete figures showing the mineral output of the province have been unobtainable, except upon the annual report of the Minister of Mines, or fourteen or fifteen months after the production for the period commenced. But as information of this nature is of little practical value unless it is strictly up-to-date, the annual returns could hardly be said to be more than of academical interest. With production growing at the extraordinarily rapid rate it is doing at present, it is manifestly worth while to allow the fact to become widely known. It is safe to say that comparatively few people in British Columbia even have any idea of the rapid developments that are taking and have taken place this year in the mining districts of Yale and the two Kootenays; and the number outside our special borders who have knowledge, in Eastern Canada or London for instance, is infinitesimal. If the new scheme of distributing broadcast information and figures relating to the mining industry is carried out on the lines proposed, there will be less of this particular kind of ignorance, and as a result very lasting benefit to British Columbia, whose only requirement is more capital to exploit and develop its illimitable resources. It is to be hoped that those directly interested in operating the mines of the country will dc everything in their power to assist the department in this undertaking. It should be understood, meanwhile, that it M not the intention to publish "details of individual mines against the wishes of their owners, but only such general information as will stimulate public interest in the industry. For the week ending September 22nd Rossland, for the first time in its history, exported over 7,000 tons of ore, or 1,000 tons a day, including Sundays. It is curious to look back upon the early days in Rossland, when in 1895 shipments were made by waggon and sleigh to Trail and Northport. At that time 1,000 tons a day were looked on as the ultimate ambition of the camp, and the individual who prophesied such an enlargement of the camp's output was considered a somewhat reckless and visionary boomer. In five years it has come to pass, and now, no longer 1,000 tons a day, but 2,000 tons a day represent finality and completeness. Doubtless, when 2,000 tons a day have been arrived at, the press will still teem with eloquent descriptions of the undeveloped resources of the district. Such is life, and certainly if a community does not always have a mark set ahead of it, it will never progress at all. In 1897 the Rossland Board of Trade, of which the moving spirits at that time were Messrs. O. Durant, of the Centre Star, and J. THE MINING RECORD. 373 B. Macarthur, prepared a memorial, in which it was carefully set forth that from the then openings in the Rossland mines an output of 1,500 tons a day was possible with proper railway and smelting facilities. This memorial was laid before the authorities of the Canadian Pacifiic Railway. It was vastly in excess of the tonnage estimated by their own engineer. It was nevertheless conceived and set forth in such sublime good faith that Mr. Shaughnessy himself admits that it inspired the forward policy of the C. P. R. in West Kootenay. It was an instance of the faith which literally removes mountains. The spirit which inspired that memorial is the spirit that made possible the fulfilment of the calculations contained in it. The prime necessity of those who would develop the resources of a new country is imagination. By imagination is not here meant the capacity of creating in the mind things which do not exist. That is delusion, not imagination. But the making concrete to the eye the developments hidden in the years to come is the one way of steeling the will to overcome the difficulties in the way of realizing these developments. Men and communities who possess this gift become wealthy and prosperous. Those who do not, remain stagnant or decay, retaining only the satisfaction of a sneer. turn secured for a term of years if the estimates made of the ore in sight have any foundation in fact. It will be a good indication of the standing of the mine if its resources are not stiained to pay a very big dividend this year. The shipments from the Le Roi mine for the year 1900 have passed the 100,000-ton mark, comparing with 92,250 tons for the whole of the year 1899, no mine in British Columbia has ever before mined 100,000 tons of ore in the course of one year. The Le Roi has exceeded this amount in eight and one-half months of this year. At the rate at which the Le Roi is now shipping ore, and it is unlikely that the enlargements of the Northport smelter will be completed in time to enable this rate to be much increased this year, it should export nearly, but not quite double the amount of ore exported last year. We do not know at what period of 1899 the books were made up and the dividend of 5 per cent, declared. But the last three months of the year, which were the heaviest so far as output was concerned, must certainly have been excluded. In any case, if 30,000 tons be taken off the production of last year and added to this years' production, as it will be at the end of September, the chances are that the comparative amounts of ore marketed are fairly estimated. > The result would be 140,000 tons of ore on the profits of which to pay dividends, as against 60.000 last year. Further, the working expenses of the mine have been decreased this year; that is, the ore has been nined, hoisted and shipped at a less cost per ton. It is also likely that the average value of the ore will show an improvement. It may be safely inferred liierefore that the Le Roi has earned a certain 10 and probably a 15 per cent, dividend this year. Of course, it is an entirely different question how much profit will be distributed. The Le Roi Company during the ].resent year has acquired the remaining one-quarter interest in the Northport smelter; large sums of money have been spent upon the new shaft and upon hoisting and power machinery; very considerable enlargements of the Northport smelter are under way at the present time, and, besides, 40,000 tons of_ ore lie unsmelted at that institution. All these things may interfere with dividend prospects. But that matters but little. The Le Roi mine is now very easily upon a 20 per cent, per annum basis, and has this re- The report of the British American Corporation for the year ending September 30th, 1899, has only just been issued. It shows receipts for interest, commission, etc., £6,346. Payments for interest were £2,672; office and other expenses, £1,632; total, £4,304, leaving a balance of £2,042. The company has £117,190 stock and £46,900 debentures outstanding. The directors' report says: "The result of the year's operations, after providing for debenture interest and all working expenses, shows the total sum earned to be £2,042, which amount is carried to reserve account. After careful consideration of the value of properties taken over by the corporation and those held under mortgage loans, the directors have decided to increase the reserve provided to meet possible losses on realization of such properties by the sum of £4,360, thus reducing the general reserve account to £498. During the year several sales have been made of properties or portions of properties held by the corporation, and negotiations are proceeding relative to further realizations. Since the last report, debentures to the extent of £9,500 have been paid off, and it is expected that an equal amount will be repaid during the current year. Arrangements have been made whereby the working expenses will be further considerably reduced during the current year." It was reported some time ago that a chute of good ore had been struck on the property of the new St. Elmo Gold & Copper Mining Company at Rossland. This company is developing the Cliff ledge or zone of. ore in the ground of the St. Elmo and St. Elmo Consolidated claims. This particular ledge is the most continuous and best defined in the Rossland camp. It runs right over Red Mountain and reappears in the outcrop of the Jumbo on the west and the Monte Cristo on the east. With the exception of a body of good copper ore worked on the Clin and' the value bearing mineral discovered in the Jumbo this vein has not produced any chutes of workable ore. The discovery of such a chute in the St. Elmo would be most important, not only in adding another productive mine to Rosslands' resources, but also in stimulating development in the adjoining properties. How should the name of Canada's greatest gold mine be pronounced, " Leroy " or " Lewah," which is about the nearest phonetic spelling one can arrive at of the attempts of ^the average Anglo-Saxon to pronounce "the King" with the correct French accent? This question might at first blush appear to be not at all difficult. The mine being named Le Roi, the correct pronunciation requires the twisting of the tongue round the supernumerary "w" and final aspirate. But the use of the word "correct" supposes a reference to some rule or standard of pronunciation. And what possible rule or standard is there except custom. The question therefore is resolved into the question of how the name is pronounced, not of how it should be. The universal custom in Rossland is to call the mine Leroy, and as such it is commonly known 374 THE MINING RECORD. throughout Canada and the United States, where the mine is known at all. It would be interesting to know how the name is pronounced on the London Stock Exchange by those who deal in the shares, although the custom there would not affect the question much, because if there is any rule at all in such matters, it is that local custom should govern. The man who would pronounce the English name Beauchamp Bow- chaum and not Beecham would be guilty of a solecism of exactly the same nature as the man who pronounces Le Roi, as the name of the mine in question, Lerwah and not Leroy. The Granby smelter at Grand Forks is reported to be a complete success and to be treating the ore of the Knob Hill and Ironsides at a satisfactory profit. An actual demonstration of this to the outside world by facts and figures is of course not possible yet, but there are many circumstances which go to show that the projectors of the smelter have not miscalculated the conditions with which they had to deal. The smelter worked without the addition of any fluxing material to the charge of ore; and we have not only the statement of the owners that it is a commercial success but the confirmatory evidence of Mr. Paul Johnson, the builder of the Mother Lode smelter at Anaconda who ought, if any one can, be able to balance the elements that mean success or failure. An interesting basis of comparison ?s supplied from the working costs of the smelter at Nelson. It cost $2.96 to reduce to matte every ton of ore smelted at Nelson made up as follows: Flux .196, fuel 1.445, labour 1.32. At Grand Forks there is no cost for flux and the cost for fuel and labour is reduced on that account also. The power is supplied entirely by water, which means a further economy, and the ore is smelted with a ten per cent, charge of coke, which is certainly not high. The resultant product is a 38 per cent, copper matte. It is probably not going too far to estimate that this matte is produced at a cost of not more than $2.25 per ton of ore, possibly less. Of course it must be remembered that after that comes the cost of shipping and refining a 38 per cent, copper matte which must be very heavy. It can be no joke to pay for the shipment of 62 per cent, of barren material (for the gold and silver may be neglected) to a refining centre. Mr. Muir, in his declared intention to build a refinery in connection with the smelter, evidently appreciates that a saving can be effected by refining the matte on the spot where it is produced. Certainly if the only difficulty in the way of local refining is the capital cost of a refining plant and the difficulty of securing an adequate and continuous supply of copper matte to refine, the problem should be soluble at Gran Forks. The Boundary district is already marked out as one of the greatest copper producing areas of North America; in the Knob Hill and Ironsides alone exist supplies of ore unheard of anywhere else. We hope to see the problem of local refining attacked by the owners of the Granby smelter and successfully solved by them. put together. This, of course, as regards bulk and' not values. The next year or so should see the establishment of another rich district on the west fork of Kettle river, to which transportation facilities will be provided by the continuance of the Columbia & Western line from Midway. The camp at present is in the undeveloped stage, but the surface indications point to the existence of ore bodies of considerable magnitude, with values as a rule vastly higher than the average of the Boundary Creek ores. Moreover, the county is not so rugged as the latter district, and prospecting is therefore rendered easy, while the economic advantages of good timber and ample water supply are equally available. A good deal of exploration work is now under way up the west fork, and ere long this locality should command a large share of attention at the hands of investors. There seem to be very strong reasons for the prediction that the South Yale section of the Province, in which is included the Boundary Creek and Kettle River districts, will in the very near future yield nearly as large an ore production annually as the rest of the mining camps of British Columbia The reopening of the Hall Mines smelter is producing good results in many directions. One result is a recommencement of work at the Glen iron mines, on the North Thompson, which are this year to ship to the smelter some 2,000 tons of iron ore for fluxing purposes. A first contract for the supply of 1,500 tons has already been let. Exit another rotary mill in the case of the Venus at Nelson. These things seem to have a fatal and pernicious fascination for experimenters of all kinds. Much money has been spent in their invention, and much vexation of spirit engendered in their application. They have nearly always to be thrown away and the homely but necessary stamp installed in their place. There may be cases where, in spite of their drawbacks, they are necessary, but these are cases where the ore to be crushed is defective from a practical point of view Under ordinary circumstances the stamp mill is invincible. Its principle cannot be improved. Children at the seaside who crush sandstones of various hues to make parti-coloured mud pies know that. They are wiser in their day and generation than many scientific inventors; wiser even than Dr. Doolittle of the Venns mine, who left the onus of proving the success of a rotary mill upon the shoulders of the people who produced it. It is satisfactory to note that most of the wildcats have been now eliminated from the list of English promotions in this country, and that only the sound undertakings remain. These are or will pay respectable and in some cases exceptionally 'landsome dividends on the capital invested, and at no distant date • there will in consequence be a regular naiket for British Columbia securities on the London Exchange —a consummation devoutly to be wished, if only because it will then be possible to place the local system of dealing in shares upon a more legitimate and businesslike footing. This, by the way. Besides Le Loi, B. A. C. and London & B. C, there are numerous other British controlled companies which come under the category of sound investments, and by no means least is the Athabasca, which this month declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on its capital stock, <>r one shilling per share. Judging by the way the property is managed and the excellent showing it has riade in .the way of production and mill returns during the past year, regular dividends may be expected 'n the future. We congratulate Mr. Nelson Fell. THE MINING RECORD. 375 The New Denver Ledge recently suggested, as did me Mining Rrcord ou a previous occasion, that the system of taking and working mines on lease under royalties might well often be adopted here as it is in Colorado, to the mutual benefit of owners and lessees. The lease on royalty system enables skilled ■ miners to operate mines which do not warrant capitalization and would probably facilitate the successful exploitation of claims likely to be of productive ; rather than long lives. On the royalty system these . would be worked so long as the one paid and then with no loss of capital, too frequently representing .unduly large promoters' profits. There are numerous claims in British Columbia—especially in the silver-lead districts—in the case of which dividends on large capitals could not be expected, but which might on a royalty system be advantageously worked. It is now abundantly clear that the yet few but extraordinarily rich producing mines of East Kootenay will even this year make the output of that district ' rival, if not exceed, that of the Slocan. The St. Eugene concentrates run to $70 a ton, and the mine shipped 1,800 tons in August. The St. Eugene's output for last month continued on much the same scale, and this one group this year will contribute most importantly—probably to the extent of seven figures— to the East Kootenay output. The North Star and Sullivan mines will also make great showings, a/id in consequence East Kootenay should this year reach the two million dollar mark of metal production. The substantial value and saleability of the St. Eugene concentrates is, meanwhile, well shown by the fact that there is now a large and permanent demand for the product, which is being purchased .by the Guggenheim Company, Antifagista, Chile. Although few mines of the Lardeau District are shipping this year, and these only of selected ore— freight and treatment charges running to between .$40 and $50 a ton—it seems not unlikely that ere the close of the year the district may be credited with an initial output of between $100,000 and $150,000, perhaps more nearly the latter. This will not be at all a bad beginning for some three or four producing ■ properties. Until railway and also better trail communication comes, the Lardeau will only be able to : ship to advantage its very richest ore, and nothing that does not run considerably over $100 a ton will be sent out. Some of the recent shipments have, however, run as high as $300, the ore being no doubt carefully sorted, and of the highest grade procurable. It is not, however, to be expected that the exceptionally high present values will be maintained as an average when the district commences to produce in earnest. This notwithstanding, the Lardeau will doubtless have several very substantial mines thoroughly established in the course of next year. The Triune mine, in the Trout Lake district, is being operated under lease. The lessees lately shipped a carload of ore, which netted them over $250 a ton. They are certain of getting out 150 tons, and if wea- • ther conditions are favourable they expect to ship 200 tons before the lease expires at the end of the year. If they succeed in reaching the latter figure, they will net $50,000. What proportion of this goes to the owners of the property we do not know; but there will be enough left to pay fair wages to the four lessees for the time they have worked. The London Consolidated Company, Ltd. proposes to let a contract for the shipment of 5,000 tons of ore as soon as the road to their property is completed. The properties of the company are located about seven miles inland from Crawford Bay, on Kootenay Lake. The ore is rich and the vein has been under steady development for between two and three years. It is a blanket vein and can be easily and cheaply worked. According to the actual reports and estimates of ore in sight, this mine is likely to become a steady and large producer. The recent discovery made on the Dundee mine at Ymir seems to be one of considerable importance. A new vein has been found at some distance from the one on which developments have been carried on hitherto, of which the outcrop is both very strong and very rich.- As the veins in the Ymir country are nothing if not permanent and regular, the subsequent developments in connection with the Dundee may be awaited with a good deal of confidence. The directors of the Kenneth Mines, Ltd., Company are to be congratulated on the policy they have adopted, namely, of shipping ore as soon as the tramway is completed to the railway. The Tamarac mine, which is owned by this company, in the Ymir district, has been slowly and carefully developed. Level after level has been explored and proved until at length a very large and valuable tonnage of ore has been blocked out. When it was clear that the property had been developed beyond the prospective stage, a series of experiments were made to discover the most economical means of treating the ore. A process was eventually chosen, for which a local mill would have to be put up, and a tramway built. Both of these, particularly the former, involved a large expenditure of capital. The company suffered from comparative shortness of funds and with others felt the effects of the depression in mining stocks this year. The shares were made assessable, but to supply the capital necessary for reduction works by this forced method would have been severe on the many shareholders. It has been decided to go on with the tramway, and when that is completed to ship such ore as will stand shipment to one or other of the smelters. By doing this it is possible the mine may lose a percentage of its possible profit. But the company will more than make this good by being able from now on to make the mine pay its own footing, and by the increased facility with which the necessary capital to install reduction works may be secured later, when successful shipments have established the standing and reputation of the mine. It might almost be laid down as an axiom in mining that it always pays to make a mine pay for its own development and milling facilities by shipments, if that is feasible at all, even if there is a loss of a percentage of possible profit. This percentage of profit appaiently lost is more often than not eaten up in any case by the premium demanded on the capital to provide the work necessary to save it. Work has recommenced at the Savonas cinnibar properties. Expert opinion states that the ore on the dump should average 20 per cent, of quicksilver and 376 THE MINING RECORD. be furnaced profitably by retorting. It is, however, added that there must be an improvement of past methods at the mine to insure success and dividends. Apropos of the talk of the threatened shortage of the quicksilver supply, our contemporary, the Mining Reporter, of Denver, Colo., suggests, is really preparatory to an advance in the market price of that metal in obedience to manipulations in New York, London and Paris. For many years past, the price has been controlled by the quotation asked for the product of the Almaden mines in Spain, which are the largest producers of the metal in the world, and have been largely under the control of the French Rothschilds, who have held them as security for money loaned to Spain. When this arrangement was made, mercury was in very active demand on account of its extensive employment in the metallurgy of silver, as well as of gold, and was worth from 90c. to $1.15 per pound; but with the growth of concentration and smelting industries, and the abandonment of silver amalgamation, coupled with the extensive resources of California in mercury, has kept the metal for many years at about 50 cents per pound, with only a moderate profit to anybody in its production. When the South African gold mines began to produce heavily, there was an attempt to advance the price, but it was unsuccessful, because the California mines were at any time able to and did 'ncrease their production heavily and at short notice. Finally as the gold production all over the world began to grow, the demand for mercury has advanced gradually to an amount which equals the supply, so that <.t the present date there is a real cause for an increase of the price. And the immediate cause of the threatened increase is the impending reopening of tiie South Africa mines, where, of course, a large amount of the metal is consumed. The quicksilver mines of the world are producing at present about 4,000 tons of metal annually, of which, in round numbers, 1,700 tons comes from Spain, 1,200 from California, 600 from Austria s;'d 400 from Russia. There is a small production in Italy, Mexico and Australia. They are very extensive but at present unworked deposits in China and Peru, and the Australian deposits are supposed to be susceptible of a greatly increased yield § developed. As the price, which is now about 62 cents per pound, is certain to advance, there is every reason for the American miner to give attention to the metal. It is known to exist in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Texas, and there are good grounds for expecting its existence at several other places, notably north-eastern New Mexico. There will be good money in quicksilver, at least until the Chinese and Peruvian mines are reopened, and possibly for some time thereafter. gests the generallv high opinion held in and about Vancouver of this locality. If as is quite likely Consul Shimizu's investigations and subsequent tests made in Japan bear out the adaptability of the Crow's Nest coal to naval uses or compared with the product of the South Wales collieries, there may in the early future be a considerable demand for East Kootenay coal from Japan. Despite the long railroad haul to the Coast, the considerably short ocean voyage and other circumstances will enable Crow's Nest coal to be sold in Japan at less cost than the product of South Wales, which is at present used to a large extent in the Japanese navy. The American iron furnaces are buying Lake Superior iron ore at Cleveland for $5.75 a ton, and transporting it thence by rail to Pittsburg. The Dominion Iron & Steel Company is mining, transporting and delivering iron ore from Belle Island to Sydney, Cape Breton, at a total cost of $1 per ton. Once in Sydney the ore is smelted with coke produced from coal mines on the spot and fluxed with limestone found in the immediate vicinity. When smelted the products of the furnace can be marketed at a minimum of cost in any part of the habitable globe. Sydney, Cape Breton, is not merely the Pittsburg of Canada; it is the Pittsburg of the world. It is destined to become the world centre of the iron trade. Two years ago Sydney was a moribund country hamlet. To-day it has a population of over 12,000 people. It is beginning to become conscious of its destiny. An interesting conundrum might be presented to the ironmasters of Great Britain. If the manufacturers of Pittsburg, U. S. A., can lay down steel rails in China $4 a ton cheaper than the manufacturers of Great Britain, how much cheaper than the manufacturers of Pittsburg can the Dominion Iron & .Steel Company lay down steel rails in China? Although the first payments on the bond on the Britannia group, Howe Sound, are small by comparison with the big value involved in the provisional purchase, the fact that the bond will be taken up is pretty well assured. That is, of course, provided the report of a noted and trustworthy expert, who has already an extensive acquaintance with this Province, who is shortly to arrive and make a thorough examination of the property, is satisfactory. Should this ' expectation be realized, we shall shortly learn more definitely and accurately than now the possibilities of the group and immediately surrounding district. Meanwhile other properties adjoining the Britannia group have been secured tby Sir Hibbert Tupper and Messrs. Dunn & Armstrong, a fact which sug- Mr. W. Pellew Harvey, Provincial assayer at Vancouver, has lately made a valuable suggestion through the daily press. It is that the Dominion Government should, in conjunction with the authorities of the Imperial mint, establish a state assay office for gold at some point in British Columbia. Then miners from all parts of the Province as also from the North, would have local opportunities for the sale of gold dust, instead of being obliged, as at present, of going to Seattle, where a government assay office purchases gold on behalf of the United States mint. As things are, there being no Dominion assay office connected with the Imperial mint and no mint in Canada, the Provincial assay offices have but a limited scope, since reassays are required by the author- ites of the Imperial and United States mints, the largest purchasers of gold. It is unfortunate that an inrush of water should have marred the apparently excellent prospect of a respectable gold yield this season from the Miocene mine in Cariboo, and the necessary new pumping equipment can hardly be installed in time for operation this year. Meanwhile expectations of. further substantial gold returns from the Cariboo Consolidated hydraulic properties and prospects of a possible first dividend have likely caused a considerable advance in the market quotations for the company's stock. We shall learn very shortly now if the management's forecast of a total gold yield of $300,000 for the season is to be realized. THE MINING RECORD. 377 RECENT PROGRESS ON RED MOUNTAIN, ROSSLAND. (By H. F. Evans.) I HE SURFACE improvements recently made on A the south and southeast face of this mountain to a considerable extent measures the rapid progress which has been made in lode gold mining within Trail Creek mining division. The surface improvements, too, in this case, at any rate, denote the vast underground developments of the four principal mines— Le Roi, War Eagle, Centre Star and Iron Mask. .Although it is not Intended at present to deal with the underground workings of the chief mineral producers of Rossland, yet in passing it may be mentioned that the main shaft of the Le Roi is now nearing the great world above. An engineer having much experience of the underground workings of continental mines informed me some days ago that when the new shaft in the Le Roi is completed the mine will have no superior so far as ventilation and convenience are concerned in America. There will then, he informed me, be two main shafts, an ascending and a descending one (double compartment); this is in addition to a tunnel outlet by way of the Black Bear. The miners are thus doubly safeguarded. In earlier times the visitor to the Le Roi or War Eagle mines had to descend either a steep and rough waggon road or go up a trail as crooked as that described by Jennings Bryan in one of his campaign speeches—"so crooked that the traveller often met himself coming back." For some months there has J&m Mi mm gg f—A sfis^sj ga« S£*f jp^*Sfi9 The new Centre Star Hoist. This has since been completed and covered in. Surface Workings on the lower ground of the War Eagle, showing location of Compressor Line. i,ooo- foot, and that of the War Eagle is abouc the 800-foot levels, with a system of cross-cuts, drifts and tunneling that are more or less intercommuni- cable, making the ventilation equal to that of any other mines on the continent. In these two mines alone a force of men estimated at from 750 to i,qoo is constantly employed. Meanwhile, in order to fully appreciate what is intended by mining, the unitiated reader must descend by one of the main shafts of these mines and traverse with the assistance of his guide the various passages which are lighted by the miner's dip, and at intervals by the more dazzling rays of the electric light. Communication with the upper world is maintained by telephone and other contrivances for the use of the foreman and under^- ground superintendent are in constant touch with the been put down at the expense of the City of Rossland a plank sidewalk beginning with intervals of stairs all the way to the Le Roi and War Eagle mines. This not only provides a short cut, but in muddy weather the advantage is obvious. By following this plank sidewalk one first arrives at the Centre Star. A group of four or five buildings- is situated a short distance above the head of the steps, on both sides of the Canadian Pacific Railway track, where, too, are the ore bins of the Centre Star and War Eagle mines, on the north side of the track. The buildings comprise the new compressor building, the old compressor house and the gallows frame and shaft house. Ascending by way of a succession of stairs to the next level are located the War Eagle buildings. On the way up these steps a vast amount 378 THE MINING RECORD. of what may be called surface work, though it wanted a considerable amount of ditching, has of late been done. A double iron pipe has been laid from the workings of the Centre Star to the great hoist of the *«^ ' '-- ef^iS*' •^r" ^c^»|j~T -jS$&p£; '■ -&^s$» - d t .":. JsE-v trail which runs up the south face of the mountain. The view shows the rear or north and east side of the hoist. The tram descends from the south face, and it was at the head of the tram where the ore bins re- The Great Hoist of the War Eagle. The View is taken fromjthe N.E. The Road to it being known as the "Pilgrim's Progre>s. War Eagle 300 or 400 feet above. These pipes carry the air and steam power to the hoist. Three hundred feet on higher ground in the direction of the strike of the main vein of the War Eagle A Tunnel in the Nickel Plate, showing curious formation of " Inverted Icicles " from Water dripping from the Roof in cold weather. cently destroyed by fire were situated. The visitor will find the pilgrims' road to the hoist the safest and best. When the Centre Star and War Eagle mines re- 8© b#£ ■^i^S^*8 The New Hotel at the War Eagle, built partly of Native Stone. Le Roi Hotel, one of the First Buildings Erected by the Original Owners of the Mine. is the great hoist, which was fully described in the September number of the Mining Record. The illustration herewith given shows the pilgrims' route to the great hoist. This is the waggon road, for the working staff either ascend by the tramway or by the sume shipments the present activity of Rossland mines will, at least, be doubled. The daily output will then amount to 1,000 tons per day for the Lc Roi and the two just named. The War Eagle and Centre Star, though owned by THE MINING RECORD. 379 gSr?" M r?**^ wm Cottage occupied by Mr. Long, Superintendent of the Le Roi. two separate companies, are under the same general management, an arrangement which has been found to work very satisfactorily, and, of course, has the advantage of economy. ed, was among the first buildings erected by the old management, as were also some of the buildings on the Le Roi claim on Red Mountain, also shown in the illustration. Not very long ago the locality where these building are now erected was a muddy swamp. It has since been transformed into a dry and spacious yard and the railroad accommodation here is certainly very much superior to that of any other portion of the camp. The old bunkers, an illustration of which is given, will, in all probability soon go out of service, for the new bunkers, partly shown to the right of the power house in the photograph, will supersede the old and primitive bins, which, however, have held nearly all the ore that has been shipped from the Le Roi up to date. The old bunkers are situated about four hundred yards east of the new ones, which latter have a capacity of 1,000 tons, and besides being supplied by the tram connecting with the Black Bear tunnel will be connected by another tram with the new shaft- house on the hill. Some of the old buildings and facilities on the Le Roi will be discarded or turned to other uses. The new ones are entirely independ- Le Roi Boarding House for the Miners, situated a short distance east of the Old Shaft House. The illustration on page 377 shows the lower ground of the War Eagle, with the ore house and some of the shipping facilities. The most extensive surface improvements, however, have been recently made on the grounds of the Black Bear, immediately to the west of the Le Roi west line. These comprise the power house, a photograph of which here appears, saw and planing mill, blacksmith's shop, bunkers, etc. The compressor building, though considerably improved and enlarg- ent of the old, and they will be first utilized during the present month of October. It is stated upon excellent authority that the Le Roi Co. have expended in building and other improvements at the mine since it was purchased from the Spokane owners at least $500,000, exclusive of mine development proper. For the eight months ending August 31 of the present year the Le Roi shipped 95,000 tons of ore, valued at $1,520,000, and for the corresponding year of 1899 the quantity shipped was THE MINING RECORD. Group of Le Roi Buildings on Black Bear Ground. The Compressor Building is in the extreme left, from which Piping leads to the Power and Engine House at the right. Higher up portions of the new hoist and Le Roi dump are visible. 56,600 tons. In addition to its regular shipments of about 600 tons daily, ore amounting to 120 tons daily is being shipped to the Canadian Pacific Railway smelter at Trail. This ore is being taken from the old dump, and is being treated at a low price, the ore 1 tinning about $8 per ton. The other buildings are on the mountain, or rather on the lower bench of Red Mountain, and as they are Le Roi Shaft-house at the head of the old shaft. THE MINING RECORD. 38i respectively described with each illustration, it is not necessary to repeat the description here. In mining there is a constant demand for new buildings and additional machinery, so that the capital account is being continually drawn upon, for it is the practice to charge such cost to capital account and not make it a tax upon revenue. PROFESSOR EMMONS ON THE BOUNDARY CREEK DISTRICT. (By E. Jacobs.) D ROFESSOR p F. EMMONS, of the United F States Geological Survey, recently spent j part of a vacation at Greenwood, and has been occupying the greater part of the past two weeks in ascertaining time to come. Some of those already discovered are. promising enough, but the question of values has yet to be determined. He had visited several of the mines and had seen big ore shoots in the Mother Lode and Knob Hill. He was deferring -visiting the B. C. mine as long as possible in the hope that Superintendent S. F. Parrish, whom he had known in Colorado, would return from Denver in time to show him that property. From the mining industry of this district in particular, conversation turned to that of the province generally and especial importance was placed by the Professor upon the Crow's Nest Pass coal fields, which, as the mining industry attains to larger proportions in the Kootenay and Boundary districts, will be of increasing value to these districts. Turning to the United States Geological Survey Le Roi Tram-line and Ore Bunkers. the geologic conditions obtaining in the Boundary Creek district, more particularly in the mining camps immediately surrounding Greenwood. To a representative of the "Mining Record" he said that whilst he was not yet familiar enough with the geology of the district to say much about it he was impressed with the fact that the larger ore deposits so far discovered in the district occur in limestone, generally more or less altered. This characteristic did not appear to be recognized by many. Another thing that struck him was that owing to the free growth of timber and brush and to there being much disturbed matter overlying the settled formations the district is a difficult and an. expensive one to thoroughly- prospect. As a consequence it is probable that there are ore bodies that may not be discovered for some the Professor was good enough to respond to a request for some information as to its work. The government of the United States now makes an appropriation of $750,000 per annum for this work. Under the old arrangement the division of the work was along geographical lines, officials being assigned separate districts, but later the system was adopted of allotting departments rather than districts to the. officials severally. Professor Emmons was accordingly given charge of the geology of metallic minerals, and so besides performing specific duties in this connection, has the general supervision of all work on ore deposits done under the auspices of the Geological Survey. There are half a dozen or more of these departments. For instance, one official has. charge of geology of non-metallic minerals, such as 382 THE MINING RECORD. coal, salt, etc.; another of the statistical department, and so on. All co-operate, however, so as to secure the best results possible, these results are to a large extent published, so that the public may have the benefit of the valuable work done by the Geological Survey, whose publications are in the form of monographs, bulletins and the annual report of the Director. Monographs, which are exhaustive treatises on particular subjects, are published in what is known as government quarto. Bulletins are short, less exhaustive reports, chiefly of local interest, containing a few pages of small octavo, of each of these some 3,000 are usually published, and like the folios referred to below, are sold at about cost of publication. Some 10,000 copies of the Director's Annual Report are printed each year in large octavo and these are distributed free by the Survey Department or by Congress. To an increasing extent these reports contain papers or contributions on special subjects. The folios, which originated in the United States service are in size. 17 x 20 and contain (1) the explanatory test; (2) a topographical sheet; (3) an areal geology sheet; giving the different geological formations without regard to their economic values or otherwise: (4) an economic geology sheet, showing the formations containing valuable minerals, coal being printed dark, so that the croppings may be followed and iron, silver, gold, etc., being printed in different colours; (5) structure sections and (6) columnar sections'. About 100 separate folios have been published, these selling at 25 cents each, and their utility has been attested by their sale. The department has its own lithographic establishment, so that its maps are published under its own control and the direction of an expert lithographer, who possesses besides such scientific and geologic knowledge as ensures the accuracy indispensible in such delicate work. Asked as to the published, results of his own work the professor stated that his first and most important book was a quarto volume of "The Geology of the Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado." A preliminary report was published in 1882, but the book itself, including an elaborate atlas of 35 plates, involved so much work that it did not appear until 1886. So popular did this useful book become that it is fre- ! quently referred to as the "Miners' Bible." Another work is a monograph on the Denver Basin, and still one more (among many others) on the Silver Cliff district of Colorado. Others now being prepared to be published next year, are on the Butte district, Montana; on Mercur and Bingham districts, respectively in Utah, on the Black Hills, Denver, and folios on Silverton, Telluride and Recco districts, in Colorado. The professor, who came over from Rossland with Mr._E. C. Laidlaw, of New York, treasurer of the British Columbia Copper Company, will this week return to that city having been requested to give expert evidence in the Centre Star-Iron Mask case. It is not too much to expect that the visit of so eminent a geologist to the Boundary country will be of benefit to it, especially if, as appears to be the case, his opinions of it are favourable. RECENT AMENDMENTS TO THE MINERAL ACT. THE following is the act passed at the last session of the Legislative Assembly amending the Mineral Act. Sections 4 and 6 were drafted by the mem ber for Nelson riding, and in the mining committee they had the unqualified support of Mr. Green, of Slocan; Mr. Taylor, of Revelstoke, and Mr. Smith, of Fort Steele. They were at first opposed by Mr. Curtis, of Rossland, but his opposition was withdrawn. 2. A Crown grant of a mineral claim, or of any part thereof or interest therein, may be issued to the administrator of a deceased owner of such claim,- or part of claim or interest in a claim, upon all conditions precedent to the issue of such grant being fulfilled. 3. The Mineral Act is hereby amended by inserting the following as section 8 thereof: "8. Every person who mines for any minerals for his own sole use and benefit on any Crown lands in the Province of British Columbia without having taken out and obtained a free miner's certificate, shall, on conviction thereof in a summary way, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, besides costs." 4. Section 11 of Chapter 45 of the Statutes of 1899, being the "Mineral Act Amendment Act, 1899," is hereby repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor: "11. Upon the failure of any one of several co- owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by section 24 of this Act, the co-owner or co-owners who have performed the labour or made the expenditure may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner notice by publication in a newspaper published and circulating in the division in which the claim is situated, or in the absence of such local paper, in the one nearest thereto, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of the ninety days of publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by said section 24, together with all costs of advertising, his interest in the claim shall become vested in his co-owners who have made the required expenditure, pro rata, according to their former interests, on the filing with the Mining Recorder of the division in which the claim is situated, such rotice in full, and there shall be attached thereto an affidavit of the manager or publisher of the newspaper in which the notice was printed, stating the date of the first, last and each insertion of such notice therein, and where and when the newspaper was published during that time, and the name of such newspaper. Such notice shall be recorded as aforesaid within one hundred and twenty days after the first publication thereof." 5. Sub-section (h) of section 36 of the "Mineral Act" is hereby repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor: "(h.) Twenty days after the expiration of the term of the said publication, unless a notice that an action has been commenced and a copy of the writ in such action have been filed in the office of the Mining Recorder in the mining division in which the claim is situated, the Mining Recorder shall forward to the owner or agent, under Form I of the Schedule to this Act, the documents referred to above, together with a certificate that the notice provided by section 36, sub-section (d), has been posted in his office, and the field-notes and plan deposited for reference therein from the date of the first appearance of the said notice in the British Columbia Gazette, and continuously therefrom for a period of at least sixty days. The Recorder shall also set out in Form I the name of THE MINING RECORD. 383 the recorded owner of the claim at the date of signing the same." 6. Section 127 of the "Mineral Act" as enacted by . section 10 of Chapter 33 of the Statutes of 1898, and amended by section 14 of, Chapter 45 of the Statutes of 1899, is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: "127. The owner of a mineral claim who has had his claim surveyed and has filed in the office of the Mining Recorder in the mining division in which the claim is situated, a declaration by a Provincial fand surveyor, or if the claim is situated within the Rail- way belt, ,a declaration by either a Provincial or Dominion land surveyor, stating that he has surveyed the. claim as required by subsection (c) of section 36 of this Act, and has delivered to the mining recorder - a plat of the claim and a copy of the original field- notes, and delivered two copies of the plat and one copy of the field-notes to the owner, then the owner of such claim shall be entitled to have the cost of such by which the tax is distributed. It is unjust and inequitable. Injustice in the incidence of taxation is the most ruinous of policies. This tax is not unjust for the reason that is commonly given. It is sometimes argued that a mine where the net profit is $100 a ton can better afford to pay $2 to the government than the mine whose net profit is $2 can afford to pay 4 cents. But it is not so. Either the capitalization of the low-grade mine is smaller or else its tonnage is larger. It probably ships 50 tons for the high grade mine's one, and reaps the same profit in the end. The injustice does not lie there. It lies in the fact that the high-grade mine pays 2 per cent, not on its profit of $100 but on that profit plus the cost of developing, mining and hoisting the ore. Take this at a low figure for a high-grade mine $3 a ton. Then 2 per cent, is paid on $103. The tax is $2.06. Suppose the low grade mine to be under an equal cost in developing, mining and hoisting the ore, namely, $3, then the tax is 10 cents or 2 per cent, on An electric locomotive with 50 h. p draw-bar, at the Extension colliery, Nanaimo. This locomotive has a capacity for hauling 100 coal-boxes at the rate of 12 niiles'per hour on the level. It was manufactured by the Royal Electric Company, of Montreal. survey, not to exceed one hundred dollars, counted as work done on the claim as required by section 24 of this Act." 7. The schedule of fees attached to the "Mineral Act" is hereby amended by striking out "For a Crown grant $10 at the end thereof, and by substituting therefor "For a Crown grant $25." THE NEW TAX ON MINE OUTPUT. THE principle of taxing ore is undoubtedly a right principle. There is no reason why mines should not pay out of their abundance to the support of the government of the country in which they are woiked. Nor do we object to the amount which under the law is levied from the industry as a whole. The mining industry can afford very well to pay $100,000 towards the expense of government. But there is very strong and good ground of objection to the method $5, which makes it 5 per cent, on the net profit. And consider. The lower the profit per ton the higher the tax. Justice surely calls for equality. The illustration given was a simple one. As a matter of fact the cost of developing, mining and raising a ton of high-grade ore is much greater, as a rule, than the similar cost for a low-grade ore. But the principle involved is not altered. But why is the cost of developing, mining and raising a ton of high- grade on the average greater than the similar cost with regard to low-grade ore? Not because there is not low-grade ore in existence which would cost just as much as the high-grade ore to develop, mine and raise. But because only those low-grade ores can be mined at all, which can be mined at the lowest possible cost. The government adds 2 per cent, to this cost. And the monstrous and abominable effect of this tax is that the more nearlv the cost of mining 38.4' THE MINING RECORD. eliminates the margin of profit the heavier the tax . becomes in proportion. This is blood curdling, positively blood curdling. There is no other word in the English language to express this appalling but inevitable conclusion, for anyone who appreciates how much British Columbia depends upon the development of our low-grade ores. MINING MEN OF THE PROVINCE. Mr. Frank Robbins, M.E., Manager of the North Star Mines, Bast Kootenay. LEAVING the Upper Canada College in the early seventies Mr. Robbins went to the celebrated silver-lead camp of Eureka, Nevada, where he became the pupil of a prominent mining and metallurgical engineer. When qualified he entered into a partnership with his master and for several years engaged in a consulting practice of his chosen profession. Later, and in the same place, he was appointed manager of the mines and smelting woiks of the Eureka Consolidated—the most celebrated silver - lead property of the American continent. Here he re-modelled, practically reconstructing, that company's reduction works. He resigned in '86 to go to Spanish Honduras to plan and construct smelting works there. This work finished, he returned to the United States, making his headquarters the City of New York, from here visiting in a professional capacity the coal and iron lands of Alabama and Georgia, building a large gold mill in Georgia, the copper mines of Montana; the gold, silver and lead mines ofldaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Utah, also gold and copper properties in Arizona and New and Old Mexico. Mr. Robbins next went to San Diego, California to erect and start a Washoe process mill for the Esperanza de Cedros mines of Mexico. From California he went to Leadville, Colorado as manager of the New Elkhorn Co., an English corporation operating mines in Montana and Colorado. He remained at Leadville until the strike of 'g6-'g7, which culminated in the pulling of the pumps and the consequent flooding of the mines he was operating. After making an examination of the copper mines in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona he came to British Columbia, where, almost since his arrival, he has been associated with Messrs. Mac kenzie, Mann & Co. as consulting engineer and manager of several of their mining enterprises. Since his return to Canada and while in his present position, Mr. Robbins private practice has not only called him to examine nearly every district in the Kootenays, but also Parry Sound, Sudbury, Blind River and the Lake of the Woods district in the East. His wide experience in silver-lead mining would seem to particularly fit Mr. Robbins for the position he now occupies as manager of the North Star mines in East Kootenay. TREATMENT OF AURIFEROUS PYRITES.* FROM a paper recently read before the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London, by Mr. Thomas G. Davey, we condense the following interesting note on the subject of amalgamation : In the treatment of auriferous pyrites, or roasted sulphides, there is generally formed as soon as water touches the ore, more or less free sulphuric acid. When this comes in contact with mercury there is an evolution of hydrogen, accompani- ' ed by a brightening of the surface of the quick, so that it has to the eye of the millman a live appearance, and as a matter of fact, becomes active in gathering the precious metal. But, if the quantity of free sulphuric acid is large, the evolution of hydrogen becomes very violent, and is exhibited by a lively rotary movement on the surface of the quick, whereupon particles of gold that would otherwise be assimilated, are actually thrown off at a tangent, and little or no amalgamation occurs. Under these circumstances (the rotary motion is visible to the naked eye) the use of some bichromate of potash will moderate the action, and subdue the evolution of hydrogen to a proper point. But, if too much bichromate is added, so that all free sulphuric acid is neutralized, the quicksilver becomes dull and "sick," and again incapable of assimilating particles of gold with which it comes in contact. The millman therefore should aim to keep his pulp in a slightly acid condition. THE YUKON'S COAL- THE White Horse Tribune states that the coal lately found on the Dalton trail, below Le Barge, will make serviceable domestic fuel. It is about to be tested to ascertain if it will coke, so as to be capable of use for smelting and other metallurgic purposes. Mining Reporter, Denver, Col. Mr. K'rank Robbins- M.E.' THE MINING RECORD. 385 TECHNICAL PERIODICALS FOR THE MONTH. MODERN MACHINERY. IN the September issue of this magazine, Mr. J. G. Sherman contributes an able paper, under the heading of "A New Factor in Industrial Development." This factor is the gas engine for power production. According to Mr. Sherman "there is no steam driven mill or factory in operation to-day in which even twenty per cent, of the latent. energy of the fuel finds its way to the machinery being operated. The boilers take a quarter of the total energy and throw it out in hot gases. The engine claims at least three-fourths of what is left and throws this out mostly in the exhaust. If there are complicated lines of shafting and countershafting with belts or gears these take a considerable percentage of what little residue there is and spends it in heating bearings and in overcoming the friction of belts and gears. It is therefore a sober fact that for the energy of each pound of coal which is permitted to pass effectively from the boiler room to the work the energy of from four to twenty pounds of coal is wasted on the air. These facts have been recognised by the engineering world and finding that it is practically impossible to improve further on the steam engine a substitute has been found in gas. The annoying weaknesses of design which ten years ago marked the prevailing types of gas motor has been so far corrected that today engines in use and continuous service require fewer and briefer stoppages for repairs than do most standard steam engines. It is also claimed for gas engines in addition to greater reliability and efficiency decided economy of operation, and there are many engines now in use of such large capacity as 650 horsepower. Another interesting article in the current issue is on manganese mining, by C. H. Vannier. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. The July-August number contains little of popular interest. The leading articles are: Igneous Rock Series and Mixed Igneous Rocks, by Alfred Harker; On the Habitat of the Early Vertebrates, by T. C.' Chamberlin; The Biogenetic Law from the Standpoint of Paleontology, by James Perrin Smith; The Local Origin of Glacial Drift, by R. D. Salisbury. In the editorial column attention is called to the reorganization of the United States Geological Survey, to which the following appointments have been made: George T. Becker, physical and chemical research; T. C. Chamberlain, plenistocene geology; S. F. Emmons, metalliferous ores; C. Willard Hayes, non-metalliferous economic deposits; F. W. Stanton, paleonotology; C. R. Van Hise, pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geology ;Bailey Willis, areal geology. Each geologist is supreme in his own department and his opinion authoritative, his field is co-extensive with the work of the survey. Administration remains as before, in the hands of the director. THE SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY. This issue contains the following articles by well- known authorities. The question of Temperature- Influence on the Specific Rotation of Lucrose, by I'. C. Wiechmann, Ph. D. The Course in Architectural Practice, by C. P- Warren, Ph.B.; The Conflict between Sir Isaac Newton and the French School of Astronomers concerning the Figure of the Earth, by D. H. Pollard; On the production of Asymmetrical Alternating Currents by means of Electrolytic Polarization, by W. L. Hildburg, E. E., A.M.; Mean Effective temperature a Unit of Comparison for Heat Engineers, by C. E. Lucke; and the Assay Practice of the West, compared with that of the School of Mines, by Charles Fulton. In this last paper, Mr. Fulton contrasts the general methods of assaying taught with those in use in the smelter and laboratories of Colorado and Montana. There is, however, no appreciable difference. The chief point being that crucible furnaces are not in common use in the West, that larger charges are used in the school than in actual practice, and that: "In the West the gold and silver are determined in almost every case by separate assay, the silver by scorification on 1-10 A. T., and the gold by crucible assay on $ A T., with the addition of silver if the silver contents is unknown. This silver is added directly to the crucible change. This differs from the practice in the .School of Mines, when the silver and gold are determined in many cases by one assay, especially if the crucible assay is employed. The practice in the West has the advantage in that scorification is considered better adapted for the determination of silver, except in cases of basic ores and other rare exceptions. The western crucible assay with ,-J A. T., also yields accurate results for gold when the ore contains no silver, and when the amount of gold present is small. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. Among the leading articles in the September issue are: The Fourth Era of the Leadville Mining District, by Thomas Tongue, referred to elsewhere ; Commercial Requirements of Water Power Governing, by Eliner F. Cassel; The continuous Recording of Steam Engine Performance, by W. Ripper; and Electric Mining Machinery in the British Collieries by Sydney F. Walker. Mr. Walker, who illustrates his paper with numerous photographs, gives an extremely valuable account of the use to which electricity has been put in the principal collieries of Great Britain. MINES AND MINERALS. The September issue contains much matter of interest, including the conclusion of a comprehensive paper on the Metallurgy of Zinc, by H. Van F. Fur- man, E. M., and a paper read before the American Institute of Mining Engineers, on Signal Device for Mines, by C. S. Herzig. There is also a short leading article on the misapplication of the term "true fissure veins." This article, by the way, was recently misappropriated and served up as original comment by a local daily mining contemporary. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. DESCRIPTIVE Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada. Prepared for the Paris International Exposition, 1900. Ottawa : By direction of the Canadian Commission for the Exposition. While this work reflects great credit—for the careful and comprehensive account given of the mineral collection sent by the Canadian Government to Paris —on Mr. Dawson and his staff, its value has been considerably destroyed by the delay in publication, as is is only a few weeks ago that copies of the catalogue 386 THE MINING RECORD. Were received at Paris, or not until the first press of visitors to the exposition was over. However, it is possible the catalogue will be of still further use when the second exhibit of the specimens takes place at Glasgow. Meanwhile the specimens' were primarily arranged in natural groups according to composition and the purposes for which the several ores and other minerals are employed. The secondary arrangement was a geographical one, the enumeration, under each group, being as nearly as possible from west to oast, by provinces and districts, as follows: Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, except Yukon, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Northeast Territory, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The name and address of the exhibitor of each specimen, or that of the owner or operator of the property or mine from which it is derived, was generally given, even when the exhibit had been collected by the Geological Survey or a provincial mining bureal. In compiling the catalogue, reference was made to that previously prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, to various reports of the Geological Survey and to the provincial reports. Information was obtained directly from many of the exhibitors and from other sources. The length of the explanatory notices is not to be accepted as indicative of the relative importance of the deposits to which they refer, as the catalogue had to be prepared in a limited time and the facts at hand, in some instances, were not as complete as might have been desired. The total number of specimens exhibited from the Dominion was 1,191. In the catalogue and its description the classification adopted was: 1. Metals and their Ores. 2. Materials used in the Production of Light and Heat. 3 Minerals Applicable to Certain Chemical Manufactures and Chemical Fertilizers. 4. Mineral Pigments. 5. Salt and Brines. 6. Refractory Materials and Materials Applied to the Manufacture of Pottery, Chinaware, etc. 7. Materials for Grinding and Polishing. 8. Minerals Applicable to Fine Arts and Jewellery. 9. Materials Applicable to Common and Decorative Construction. Monopolies and the People, by Charles Whitneyi Baker, C.E.; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London. Third Edition. Revised and enlarged. To Canadians Mr. Baker's book possesses no more than academical interests, although the matters of which he speaks may become to us in a very few years of practical concern. The power and growth of monopoly, however, in the United States, of which country he speaks, has assumed such gigantic pro-. portions that one who would find a remedy for all the evil that has resulted therefrom, is face to face with one of the most difficult and envolved economic problems of the day. Mr. Baker has attempted the herculean task, but while he diagnoses the complaint with skill and precision, the prescription he offers us, does not carry with it the assurance of cure that one would desire. Mr. Baker has compiled the most comprehensive information perhaps eveY got together on the subject of the evils of monopoly in a single volume. His facts are irrefutable, his reasoning logically sound, but his literary style eminently precise. But if his idea of government control and the limitation of profits to a common level were carried into effect, it is much to be feared he would also dangerously limit enterprise. The book has and un doubtedly will continue to do good. It throws light on a question of vast and over-reaching importance, and if it fails to completely unravel the skein of tangled complexities in which the problem of remedying the ills of monopoly is held, it will at least be of useful assistance to all economists who with Mr. Baker are working to that end. T THE MONTH'S MINING. CAMP M'KINNEY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) HE visit of Mr. G. B. McAuley, the managing director of the Cariboo Mining and Milling Co., who has just returned from the Old Country, together with Mr. McMichael, the treasurer of the company, and Mr. Belton has been productive ot the most happy results for the camp and broken a long period of monotony with which this camp has been somewhat affected during the summer months The very fine showing of the Cariboo at the lower level and the splendid mill returns have determined the management to at once start at the east end of the group of properties—to be more definite, on what is known as the Okanagan claim, where clearing is now going on preparatory to commencing a triple compartment shaft, 16 feet by 7 feet, to be sunk 600 feet as quickly as practicable. A winze will be sunk from the 400-foot level and then an upraise made from that level to the surface. As this shaft will be a considerable distance east of the the present working shaft, a new cov- cariboo ered tramway will be built about 1,000 feet in length, to connect with the mill where a new 50 h. p. engine is about to be installed to meet the increased capacity which will be required as development progresses. On the west end of the company's properties development will be vigorously pushed underground, and an upraise made on what is known as the Alice claim. A very large increase to the present working force of the company will be necessary, and already steps have been taken to bring men in from the outside), and it may be here mentioned, that the wages of car men and muckers have been raised to $3 per day. The long-hoped-for movement of the Cariboo company of extensively opening tip their valuable properties has at last materialized and has given the most intense satisfaction to all connected with the camp, as it will now be proved that the old Cariboo is still in its infancy as a gold producer. Any one who has closely followed the management of this mine must acknowledge that it has been most conservative, some have thought too much so, no development being undertaken or expense incurred, unless warranted by circumstances, which had to be more than favourable. Under the management of such an experienced mining man as Mr. McAuley, a feeling of the utmost confidence prevails as to the successful results of the company and to the consequently general welfare of the camp by the inauguration of these extensive works. Moss, Hamilton and Younkin have resumed work on their claim, the Dayton, and since doing so, have still further demonstrated the continuity of the rich oxidized ore, which has made this property the best prospect in the camp, panning from its surface' being equalled only by those from the now famous Cariboo in its earlier days—it matters not whereabouts on the vein, which has now been exposed for some 600 feet, THE MINING RECORD. 387 a pan of tms oxidized matter is taken, a good showing of free gold is obtained—six openings or cross-cuts have been made to show up the vein, the width of which has not been definitely ascertained—the thickness or depth of this oxidized matter seems to vary being in some places about 10 feet and under which astound sulphide ore carrying gold. It is the opinion ot many old miners that the bars on Rock Creek more particularly the rich White's bar, which is but a short distance below the Dayton claim, were fed by this rich decomposed surface ore. That this property will some day be a veritable bonanza seems certain, when the necessary capital is forthcoming to develop it. An important strike has been made between Camp McKinney and the West Fork of the Kettle River, about fifteen miles east of the former, in the foothills of the Bald Mountain, which will undoubtedly lead to the thorough prospecting of the mineral belt between what is known as Fish Lake and Beaverton on the West Fork of the Kettle River. Some time since Messrs. McKenzie, Sullivan and Sanborn located three claims, the Rosie, Rubie and Katchinka, about three miles west of Fish Lake, owing to finding some croppings of copper pyrites on the first named claim, which on examination proved to be bornite and chalcopyrite, carrying some 18 per cent, copper and half an ounce in gold—it was then determined to driye a tunnel, the circumstances being favourable to tap the outcrop at a depth of about 40 feet. This tunnel has just been completed and the ore body encountered with the most favourable results, samples just brought into camp assaying $30 and $40 to the ton. At the time of writing it is too soon to speak with any certainty as to the extent and value of the find, but that it is considered most satisfactory, may be inferred from the fact, that an interest in the property has already been secured by a leading mining man of the camp. The particular section where the strike has been made, has always been regarded as some day likely to reward the prospector, it being situated in the almost unexplored mineral belt, which forms the connecting link between Camp McKinney and the mining camps of the Kettle River. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Business continues quiet but a more hopeful and confident tone pervades the district and the feeling that there will soon be a distinct improvement is becoming general. Although sales of mining property are not frequent there is an increasing number of inquiries and this fact coupled with recent visits of experts, who have been sizing up the situation, makes it appear that interest in the district is being revived. There does not seem to be any room for doubt that the successful operation of the Granby smelter, at Grand Forks, has done much towards convincing the outside public that the Boundary District has immense possibilities for wealth and that its mineral resources are not only unusually large, but as well offer a profitable field for the employment of capital. The increasingly favorable results met with as depth is gained in the urines al- leady under development give substantial support to this view, and since no stronger inducement to put money into mining can be held out to capitalists than to prove to them that big ore bodies are being opened up below ground and that values are suffici ent to leave a margin of profit above the cost of mining, freight and treatment, there is good reason to believe that, with this inducement existing here, some of the numerous promising prospects now lying idle will be taken in hand and be systematically worked. Shipments of ore from the district now total between 400 and 500 tons per day. This statement may be taken as reliable, although not agreeing with the wild assertions of the irrepressible boomers who send out so many exaggerations for publication. It is very easy to test the truth in ore this matter. The Old Ironsides shipments. and Knob Hill are together maintaining an average of not more than ten cars daily, say 300 tons. The. B. C. mine shipments do not yet average 100 tons per day the month through, whilst the Winnipeg, Golden Crown, Athelstan and City of Paris are certainly not keeping up an averag-; of one car each per day, so that they do not together total 100 tons per day, The few carloads of ore sent out occasional! y for test purposes are not numerous enough in the aggregate to materially increase the daily total above given. It is therefore evident that at least for the first three weeks of September 500 tons per day is a liberal estimate to allow. Should the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill double their daily output, as has been announced they will shortly do, the position will of course be then altered. Meanwhile though the higher figures given by the boomers are incorrect. Reports from Grand Forks are to the effect that the Granby Company's smelter there continues running without interruption, treating about 300 tons of ore per diem. It is announced that a second furnace of like capacity is to be blown in shortly. The British Columbia Copper Company's smelter at Greenwood is not likely to be ready for operation before December 1st, possibly not till later. During the past month the erection of the fur- the nace has been proceeded with, the smelters. lining and roofing with brick of the big dust chamber or flue has been completed, and the work of fitting up the laboratory has been taken in hand. At present a dam is .being put in and pipes are being laid for water supply purposes, foundations for boilers and engines are being set and tracks are being put down over the ore bins, preparatory to receiving ore shortly to be sent down from the Mother Lode mine. The machinery and plant for the smelter are expected to arrive during October. Preliminary work is being done on the site below Greenwood on which is to be built the Standard Pyritic Smelting Company's pyritic smelter. Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, managing director, resident in Greenwood, has received advices from the manufacturers that the plant for this smelter will be shipped at Denver, Colorado, by October 1st, so it should reach Greenwood during that month. Blue prints of foundation plans should be received before that date. Immediately after receipt of them the work of preparing for the machinery and erection of buildings will be pushed on; so as to have the smelter- ready for running before the close of the current year if possible. The past month's developments at the Mother Lode mine, in Deadwood Camp, have been very satisfactory. Altogether during that period some 400 feet of work have been done in development, mostly at the 300-foot level. The drift is now in about 225 388 THE MINING RECORD. feet, the last 50 feet with ore of good grade coming in from below. This drift ought deadv/ood soon to run into the main 01 e shoot camp which, from its apparent strike and dip at the 200-foot level, should be in the near vicinity. Two cross-cuts—one from the north drift and the other from a drift run southwards—have passed through from 20 to 30 feet of ore, some of which is the best yet found in the mine in any quantity. At the 200-foot level some nice ore has been found south of the shaft when enlarging the station to make room for an air receiver, and more in the north drift at the same level, where this was being widened for a double line of tracks. On the surface, near the mouth of the main shaft, a lot of very pretty peacock ore was opened up in blasting out a site for the larger hoist shortly to arrive from the East. This ore, which is being followed into the hill, is going into the ore bins without any sorting. Arrangements are being made to ship to the smelter a lot of ore now on the dump that was taken out during earlier development work. The larger compressor plant, ordered last June, but shipment of which has been delayed, should arrive during October, recent advices having stated that it will be put on the cars on September 25 . The two 100-horsepower boilers to supply power for this plant have already been installed, and the building to house the plant is well on towards completion. The foundations for the two 80- horsepower boilers for the new hoist, due to be shipped from Sherbrooke, Quebec, a few days hence, are being set, but the plans for the hoist foundations have not yet been received. When the boilers for the hoist shall have been received the mine will have four 80- horsepower and two 100-horsepower boilers. There are now 63 employees on the mine pay-roll. The Morrison mine, also in Deadwood Camp, is another property upon which development is being steadily pushed. The main cross-cut tunnel is now in over 600 feet, along which length it has encountered three veins. It is being further extended with the object of cutting the vein known as No. 1, which is farther ahead. A winze is being sunk on one of these veins, all in ore. Some additional machinery is being installed to expedite development. The dump shows an increasing quantity of nice ore. The outlook generally for this mine is repotted as being favourable, so much so that a very satisfactory statement of progress made since the resumption of work may be looked for a few weeks hence. There is not much of importance to communicate respecting the Greyhound, Great Hopes or Marguerite this month. Work is being done on all of them, but without results of interest, except that both shaft and cross-cut on the Greyhound are in ore. Nor is there much to say about the Sunset. On the adjoining Crown Silver, however, work is being continued at the 150-foot level, where the vein has been cross-cut at two different angles, one giving about 40 feet of ore and the other 34 feet. The first-named working is now in rock containing less mineral, but what there is of it carries higher copper values. There are 16 men at present employed on the Sunset and Crown Silver. The Buckhorn was closed down for a week or two. but several men have lately been put to work opening up the ore where it occurs near the surface, with a view to following it down. More ore is going out from the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill mines, near Phoenix, than from all the other properties in the district put together. These mines are shipping ten cars—about 300 tons —of ore daily to the Granby Company's smelter, and will double this output shortly, greenwood when the smelter shall be prepar- camp. ed to treat the larger quantity con tinuously. Work underground is largely restricted to stoping, earlier development having been extensive enough to block out more ore than can be stoped and raised for months. The 10- drill air compressor—a Rand duplex cross-compound—^ias been installed at the Knob Hill, and upon receipt a few days hence of some pipes to complete its equipment will be ready to furnish power for this mine. This will leave the other 10-drill compressor free to give all its power to the Old Ironsides and Victoria. The new plant is furnished with all modern improvements, and so should prove very effective in operation. In this connection it may be mentioned that Mr. G. L. Fraser, formerly in the employ of the British America Corporation, Rossland, and more recently at the Sunset mine, near Greenwood, has been appointed master mechanic at the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill mines, and has there entered upon his duties in this capacity. Above ground more improvements are being made right along. The ore bins at the Old Ironsides and Victoria have lately been roofed in and similar protection against the snows of winter is being made at the Knob Hill. There were during the third week in September 170 men on the pay-roll of these mines, and more will be added as the tonnage of ore being sent out shall be increased. The company purposes building more cottages for the accommodation of married employees. There is not much else to write about this camp this month. The development of the tunnel known as the railway tunnel of the Snowshoe mine is being pushed on with. This is exposing a large body of ore. There are some 25 men employed on this property. At the War Eagle the east cross-cut is being extended at the 100-foot level, with the object of cutting the ore believed to continue down from the prospect shaft above. There are 16 men at work at this mine. A smelter man recently sampled the Gold Drop mine, but nothing definite has yet been given out as to whether or not work is to be resumed soon. Half a dozen cars of ore were sent out from the Brooklyn dump last month, but the returns have not yet been made public. The Golden Crown, Winnipeg and Athelstan continue at work, and are intermittent shippers of ore on a small scale—not now exceeding 100 tons each weekly. Probably later, when a vigorous policy of development at a greater depth than the present limit of 300 feet shall have become prac- wellington ticable, there will be something camp. important to communicate rela tive to this camp. Meanwhile operations are restricted with only 50 to 60 men in all employed at the several mines. The fourth annual meeting of shareholders in the Brandon & Golden Crown Mining Company, Ltd., was held in Greenwood on September 18. Hon. T. Mayne Daly, Q. C, president of the company, presided, and there were 1,356,979 out of the 1,500,000 shares in the company represented either in person or by proxy. The balance sheet and auditor's report for the year ending August 31 ult. were submitted and adopt- THE MINING RECORD. 389 ed. These were ordered printed and a copy sent to each shareholder. The report stated among other things that to date about 2,500 feet of work had been done underground in development of the mine and that the total quantity of ore shipped was 1,876 tons. A resolution was passed, providing for the pooling, for a further period of six months, dating from the time the present pool shall expire, on January 1, 1901, of the 1,000,000 shares held by the promoters of the company. This will make the duration of the pool to have extended over a total period of four years and six months. The election of directors and officers resulted as follows: Hon. T. Mayne Daly, Q. §§ Rossland; Mr. W. A. Macdonald, Q. C, Nelson; Hon. J. N. Kirch- hoffer and Mr. A. Kelly, Brandon, Man.; Mr. C. E. L. Jarvis, St Johns, N. B.; Mr. W. A. Fuller, Spokane ; Mr. W. J. Porter, Phoenix, and Messrs. G. H. Collins and James Russell, Greenwood. The officers are: President, Hon. T. Mayne Daly; vice-president, Mr. W. j. Porter; managing director, Mr. George H. Collins; secretary-treasurer, Mr. W. L. Orde. The other business transacted was of routine character, of little public inteiest. It may be worthy of mention that Mr. R. L. Johnston, of St. John, N. B., attended the meeting as the representative of shareholders resident in that province, and expressed himself as well satisfied with the position and prospects of the company as submitted to the share holders. In Summit Camp the B.C. mine continues to maintain a steady output of ore. Although not yet reaching to anything like the quantity, the boom correspondents with which this district is inflicted have caused to be published in several newspapers the mine is shipping at a rate the mine superintendent estimates will give a total of about 2,000 tons for the month of September. Should the railway company supply sufficient cars and nothing happen to interfere with stoping and raising opera- summit tions, the month's shipments will camp. not unlikely exceed this total. The tonnage for July was about 2,000 tons, and for August about 1,500 tons. The first half of the latter month saw scarcely any ore raised from the mine, the work of repairing the timbers of the main shaft so as to put these into good shape for the safety platform cage, afterwards installed and now in running order, having practically stopped hoisting during that period. The mine is now better equipped than at any previous period inits history, so from this out will probably make an increasingly good showing. Development work is proceeding right along, and in continuing this it is intended to shortly deepen the main shaft, which at present is only 272 feet in depth. There are on the pay-roll about 85 men, with a prospect of an increase ere long. Other properties in Summit Camp are the Oro Denoro, R. Bell, Mountain View and Maple Leaf (Rathmullen group). The Oro Denoro, owned by the King Mining Co., of Rossland, has not had any work done on it for some months past, but the management is now making efforts to secure sufficient capital to admit of operations being resumed and carried on on a larger scale than has heretofoie been practicable with the limited financial resources available. It is to be hoped that their efforts will be successful, so that it may be determined whether or not the ore already cut by prospect tunnels continues down and is sufficient, both as regards quantity and quality, to make this a permanent mine. The R. Bell, in which the Miner-Graves people are understood to be interested, looks promising, the drift from the main shaft at the 80-foot level having occasionally met with bunches of very nice ore. Running into the hill this drift has been making depth all the time, so that the raise now being put up at about 200 feet in will give more than 100 feet depth, where it will connect with the old prospect workings above. These old workings were in gold-copper ore of good grade, but the water was so troublesome that the ore was not followed down here, the place not offering such advantages for sinking the main shaft as the site since chosen does. It is expected that a nice shoot of ore will be encountered in the raise. The Mountain View is a prospect that has several times been the subject of boom correspondents' lively imagination, but this notwithstanding a ledge of good ore has not yet been cut in the cross-cut now being run at the 50-foot level. The indications met with nearer the surface were very encouraging, but this is about all that can fairly be said at present. Some surface prospecting is being done on the Maple Leaf, but nothing definite appears to be known in this district as to whether or not there is any probability of work being soon resumed below ground. But little work is in progress in Long I. nke Camp just now. The tunnel on the Ethiopia is in about 220 feet and it should soon cut the second ledge, one having already been passed through. Some ore is being shipped from the Jewel to the British Columbia Bullion Extracting Works, at Silica, near Rossland, for test purposes. The mill there was built to treat silicious ores by the Pelatin-Clerici process. Should results of preliminary shipments warrant it, some 500 tons in all will be sent from the Jewel. There may possibly be some announcement to make next month respecting a resumption of work at this mine, but at present there is nothing official obtainable to justify an assumption that development work may shortly be resumed. The City of Pans is the only mine working in Central Camp. It has sent out more than 3,000 tons of ore to date, and is now working a force of 25 men. ROSSLAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) One of those periods of activity which has marked the progress of the mineral industry here since its commencement has occurred, and judging from the factors in sight this advance is permanent. The resumption of ore shipment by the Centre Star, predicted in my last report, has materialized. The management, since September 4, has been shipping about 300 tons daily, jointly from the bunkers and the dump. This quota, added to the regular shipment from the Le Roi, supplemented by occasional shipments from the Le Roi No. 2 and other occasional producers, has brought up the average weekly shipments to at least 6.000 tons. The total outturn of ore from Rossland mines for the eight months and twenty-one days ending September 21 amounted to 136,000 the output, tons, valued at $2,176,000, as against 112,600 tons, valued at $1,- 924,200 for the corresponding period of 1899, and 1,318 tons more than the output for the whole of l898- A * The weekly shipments a year ago averaged 4,000 39Q THE MINING RECORD. tons, so that the present weekly output shows an increase of 1,400 tons, and this without a pound of ore from the War Eagle, which has not yet resumed shipments. Judging then from the output—and this is certainly a good criterion—Rossland mines in output alone now mark the highest average weekly outturn yet reached in the history of its mineral production and shipments. The ore output of these mines for the whole of 1899 amounted to 172,665 tons. The shipments to September 21 amount to 136,000, leaving a difference of 36,665 tons, which at the present rate of output will be shipped within the next six weeks, or by October 31, and should nothing happen the total shipment of Rossland mines for 1900 will reach 222,000 tons, and probably 235,000, as the War Eagle will, it is now believed, resume shipments before the end of the present year. This forecast is based on the actual returns as they are furnished by the management, and are not to be confounded with the fiction fancies of the camp enthusiast. Since the present month was ushered in there has been more than the average activity in Rossland. Labor Day was very creditably celebrated. This was followed by the arrival here of the vice-regal party, His Excellency the Earl of Minto, Governor-General ' of the Dominion, and suite. The weather was exceedingly fine, and everything passed off most pleasantly. Doubtless the most interesting feature—interesting at all events to the vice-regal party—was the visit to the mines, especially the one to the War Eagle. Photographs of the scenes and incidents connected with this especial visit were taken, and I have been promised some of these views for the Record. Following these social events came the political nominations for the Dominion House. More than usual interest is being taken in this political contention. The situation has been complicated by the announcement coming from the Trades and Labour Council that the labor organizations are determined to present a candidate in their interests. Whether thev will finally adhere to this determination or throw in their support with one or other of the political candidates is yet an unknown quantity. There is, however, nothing in the aspect of affairs present or future that may be regarded as a disturbing factor in the outlook of the mineral industry here. This outlook is now very bright and encouraging, and there is a profound impression amongst the well informed that this hopeful vision will continue for an indefinite time. The ore shipments for the mining divisions, exclusive of Rossland, and within East and West Kootenay Districts, including the district of Yale, for the present year up to September 21, amounted to 100,- 000 tons (an approximate but conservative estimate). This makes the total shipments of ore from the various mining divisions of the two Kootenays and Yale equal to 236,000 tons, which, of course, is the greatest in the history of the mining territory embraced. The value of this tonnage is a debatable point, and the totals, until the smelter returns are available, can only be approximated. The. value of the 136,000 tons of Rossland ore is placed at $16 per unit ton, while the great bulk of the ore from the other divisions being argentiferous .lead, is put at $66 per ton, a third at least is the gold-copper ores of the Boundary district. The value of those ores is much less than Rossland ores, so that we have 136,000 tons valued at $2,176,000, 60,000 valued at $3,600,000 and 40,000 tons valued at $320,000, being a total of $5,- 836,000 gross, which will be subject to reduction when the final returns are made up. This approximation of course is really for nine days less than nine months of 1900, and by the end of the year the gross figures in round numbers would at least be $7,000,000 for the districts mentioned. The growth of the mineral industry in Southern British Columbia is therefore of a phenomenal character, and it is not surprising that it has attracted the attention not only of capitalists but of statisticians. The volume of increase during the next five years would indeed be worthy of comment. The prospects of ore shipping by the Le Roi No. 3 (Nickel Plate) are approaching the state when it will be materialized. The new ore bin is about ready. Certain hopes weie some- le roi no 3. time ago entertained that the Evening Star, Giant and I. X. L. would be advanced from the grade of occasional to that of regular, but this fruition must now be postponed for a few months. The Columbia and Kootenay (Le Roi No. 4) will enter the list sooner or later, so that it may be readily inferred ore shipments are becoming one of the active factors in connection with the industry. j Mr. Bernard McDonald has been summoned to Europe, presumably for consultation at head quarters. He is an exceedingly busy man, but he has arranged his affairs so well that his efficient assistants are able to keep things in good shape during his temporary absence. Mr. William S. Haskins, formerly superintendent of the Nickel Plate here, is in Nevada City, Cal., near which he is working some properties, which are said to be very promising. After leaving here in the early part of the summer, Mr. Haskins made a trip to the mining regions of Mexico, where I am credibly informed he secured for his principals some very promising properties. Through an error it was stated that he had not been successful, but I am reliably informed that his mission there was quite successful. While legitimate mining never looked better here than it does now, there is no prospect of a revival of the wild work which gave Rossland such an unenviable reputation four years ago. There are still some operators here that are as reckless as ever, but the public has become weary as well as wary. Mr. W. L. Orde, the efficient secretary-treasurer of the Brandon and Golden Crown, located near Greenwood, has furnished me with the official statistics submitted at the annual meeting of the company held at Greenwood September brandon and 28. The B. & G. C. shipped 1,876 golden crown, tons since it started, and up to the date of the report. As the Record will doubtless publish this report, it is not necessary to give it here. However, I may add that the total receipts from ore were about $25,000. The smelter returns show a net of at least $6 per ton after deducting smelter and freight rates. The B. & G. C. seems to be carefully and honestly managed, which, in addition to its good prospects, ought to be very satisfactory to its shareholders. One of the most important events of the month is THE MINING RECORD. 39i the announcement that the litigation between the Iron Mask and Centre Star mining companies has been terminated. It is understood that an agreement has been reached by which the case is to be settled/ out of court. The result of this arrangement is the removal of the embargo on operations in the Iron Mask workings, which operations have been resumed. Every one will be glad to hear that this celebrated case is to terminate by mutual agreement. The .full particulars of the settlement have not yet been furnished for publication. YMIR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) During the past month the Eldorado Mines, Limited, has been incorporated to take over the Eldorado, Carmencita and Chihuahua mineral claims from the original owners, Messrs. Breau, Rugg & Grantham. The capital of the company is $150,000, divided into 1,000,000 shares, par value of 10 cents. The ore is a •high grade galena, and runs as high as $60. Mr. R. C. Pollett, the manager, has done extensive development work in the shape of cross-cuts upon the lead. ' At three points he has sunk through the wash a depth of 30 feet, and has struck the ledge which in one place is 60 feet in width and well mineralized. The property is certainly one of great merit. I might add that the property is situated on Porcupine Creek and within easy access of the Nelson & Fort Sheppard Railroad. During the month one of the most important mining deals in the history of the camp took place. The property of the Broken Hill Mining & Development Company, comprising the Wilcox, By- water, Fourth of July and Wilcox claims, has been bonded by a French syndicate for a large figure. By the terms of the bond work must I an important be commenced immediately. This deax. has been done, the syndicate having placed a good force of men to .work developing the property. The property already "has some 1,600 feet of work done on it by the original owners. The officers of the above company are: Stephen Bywater, president, Kalispel, Mont.; Cornelius Shields, vice-president, Bristol, Tenn.; A. B. Buckworth, secretary-treasurer, Ymir. and Philip White, superintendent, Ymir. Messrs. Long & Roberts are experimenting with a patent air compressor, and are erecting a trial plant on Wild Horse Creek, The agency is water, which, falling from a height, brings the air into a receiver, and the volume of water behind compresses the air. If the trial proves satisfactory, a number of the companies operating on the creek will obtain power from this plant. During the past few days the M. S. mineral claim, situated near the Wilcox group, has changed hands at a good .figure. J. Fleutot has purchased the same. \mir has sent an excellent mineral exhibit to the Spokane Industrial Exposition, which opened at Spokane, AVash., on the 2nd October. The different mines .have contributed some excellent specimens of min- .eral. Pierre Maris, professor at the College of Master Miners at Douai, France, paid our camp a visit, .and your correspondent, in conversation with him, iound the professor well satisfied with what we have. He stated that he would return next summer. SLOCAN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) . The- scene of excitement in this division seems to have shifted temporarily from Sandon to Slocah City, a number of very important deals having been consummated lately in that vicinity. It has been known for a long time that the Arlington was developing into something more than an average property, fulfilling in this respect its promise of five years ago. The ancient saying that "Rome was not built in a day" is equally applicable to mines, it having taken years of patient study and systematic exploitation, not unmixed with vicissitudes of one sort and another, to determine its real value. Whether this is exaggerated or not we cannot say, but we do know that investors are backing up their faith in its prospects by bonding adjacent properties for enormous sums. During the last month the whole slocan lake Qf the claims—some ten in number —lying between the Arlington, on Springer creek, and the Enterprise, on Ten-Mile, have come under the control of Mr. J. Frank Collom for sums which will aggregate $120,000 when fully paid. The knowledge that 5 per cent, of the purchase money, or $6,000, has already changed hands, in conjunction with the fact that men are now at work on the Speculator, one of the most important claims in the group, indicates pretty thoroughly the bona fides of the undertaking. Stupendous as this transfer is, it is not the only, one to be recorded in that neighbourhood, the Nee- pawa, adjoining the Enterprise in another direction, and previously under bond to Vancouver parties, having again been taken up. Percy Dickenson, representing the Warner Miller Syndicate, is the principal in this deal, which extends for eighteen months and involves the sum of $30,000. A small shipment has recently been made from the property, which should serve as a guide to the quality of ore which may be expected on development. It is encouraging to find that many of the older and better known prospects are again coming to the front after periods of severe depression, and it may be a happy augury for the future that the Arlington was several times relinquished, after considerable sums had been spent upon it. In this connection we note that the Two Friends, from which many carloads of excellent ore were shipped a few years back, is once more in a position to resume profitable operations, and such old-timers as the Howard Fraction and the Tamarac groups are to be given another trial. Despite the woeful failure at the Golden Wedge, machinery is being packed up to the Chapleau with all speed, and it is in the the realm of probability that before Christmas the hills of Lemon Creek will again resound to the heavy thud of a stamp mill in operation. Taken altogether, the outlook at Slocan City is certainly brighter than it has been for many moons, and should merely a fraction of the deals and operations projected at the present time prove successful, the foundation will be laid for a larger and more progressive population than that district has ever known. The Wakefield remains closed for the present, although it is not to be expected that the company will abandon a mine of such resources and a brand new mill and tramway costing well on to $100,000 without further trial. As a natural consequence it is announced that an independent engineer is now on his way to examine and report fully before the board decides on any definite course to be pursued. That his report 392 THE MINING RECORD. will favour a continuation of operations on a larger and more embrasive scale than before nobody who is acquainted with the mine and its past achievements doubts for a moment. At the same time I wish to say a word on behalf of Mr. Paterson, the late manager, who is now in the old country, and unable to reply personally to criticisms. The almost insurmountable obstacles with which he had to contend are not, I am confident, half understood by his detractors, and if his judgment was at fault, as admittedly it was in one or two particulars, let us not forget that he was at any rate an engineer trained far beyond the average of British Columbia managers, and above all a man thoroughly honest in his convictions. I can state from personal knowledge that he has left the province one of the most efficient tramways and concentrators that it possesses, and I consider it no reflection on him to say that we all hope and believe that his original opinion of the Wakefield formed when he first contemplated the erection of so extensive a plant, will prove in the end to be the correct one, though to do him justice, we must not overlook the fact that economic conditions were materially altered during the time operations were in progress, which would suffice to account largely for his change of views. Let me say, in conclusion, that I am not posing as a vindicator of everything that Mr. Paterson said or did while he was in the province, but as one who knew him personally and had a great deal to do professionally with the Wakefield at one time and another, I deem it my duty to do what I can to correct the impression which seems to prevail that he was hopelessly incapable and quite unworthy of the trust reposed in him. burton city, arrow lakes. ^From. a Correspondent.) The mining outlook in this district has vastly improved of late. Mr. Clark, of the Chieftain, is being congratulated on the strike of very high grade silver ore made on his property, where ore showing of pure nature and leaf silver associated with copper pyrites averaging 5 or 6 per cent, in association with galena and gold bearing pyrites, fyeing taken from the mine and being sacked ready for shipment. The values in this ore will average $150 or $175 per ton. A rawhide trail is being built to this property, as is also one to the Hailstorm group, owned hy Messrs. Jamieson and Matthews, of Vancouver, where four feet of high grade galena ore has been found this last month. Mr. Jamieson will also raw- bide the ore out this winter if the trail is finished in time. The Molly property, it is to be regretted, is not working. It is to be hoped the discovery of the Chieftain will induce other property owners to develop their claims. Mr. E. C. Black's property, the Galena Star, which assays high in gold, is looking very well. While other claim owners are pegging away, stimulated by the strike on the Chieftain, henceforth much development work will be done in this locality. revelstoke. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Revelstoke's old standby—the Big Bend—will be very quiet this winter, as but few of the properties there intend to work through the coming season; their assessments are done, and it is useless to ex tract ore when it is impracticable to ship it. A new survey for a permanent waggon NEW wagon road into that quarter from Revel- road to stoke is In progress, and probably big bend. work will be started on the road and kept going as long as possible, some $10,000 having been voted by Government for that purpose. If that sum is properly expended and not frittered away, as is usually the case with Government money, the road should be well made to 10- Mile Camp. The usual rule should hold good here: First a trail, then a waggon road, then a railroad; but all honour to the men who start when there is even no trail, and hunt the country for its mineral wealth! Although Revelstoke will retain its accustomed sleepy attitude this winter, there will be plenty of work going on in the Fish Creek and the Lardeau districts, especially the latter, as but few properties -in the vicinity of Fish creek can ship any quantity of ore yet. The development done during the last few months has proved still further the extent and value of the numerous claims, but in a district so very badly provided with means of access, much good stuff must of necessity remain where it is found. The Lardeau and Trout Lake divisions are better supplied with roads, though very far from ■. lardeau and what is needed for the convenience trout lake, of shippers: still it is certain that such mines as the Silver Cup and the Nettie L. will do their utmost to ship considerable quantities of ore during the coming season. One small property lately has become noted, namely, the Triune, which, while hprdly known to exist some three months ago, has actually shipped come 20 tons to the smelter, which yielded about $300 to the ton. No wonder the owners are elated over their prospect, as to get any claim to pay so well from grassroots is not usual, even in -hat rich district. No new gold strikes have been reported lately, but those already known are holding out well, and there is every reason to expect that further search will reveal more. Silver-lead is the principal mineral in the district, and while there is'a very great deal of extremely high- grade ore, yet that is small compared to the enormous bodies of lower grade, such as the Great Northern, Broadview and others close by which will hardly pay to ship at the present awful prices of transportation and treatment. The promised railway is as far off as ever, leading one to suppose that the Great Northern and the C. P. R. had buried the hatchet and mutually agreed to suspend all operations on the railroads that both parties commenced a year or two ago. It is to be hoped that we shall not be favoured with any more violent changes in the mining laws, such as that unnecessary and unasked for eight-hour act. Some small modifications from time to time are reasonable enough, but they should tend to help the prospector and struggling claim owner rather than discourage him. There are almost too many details, and generally too much "red tape" about the undisputed possession of mining property; and the failure to observe some small act or.another should not subject the owned to the risk of losing his holding altogether. This simply encourages that pest of every mining district, the claim jumper. So long as work is honestly done on a claim, and done continuously and abundantly, the owners should not be in any doubt as to whether or not by neglecting some small technicality "made and provided'/ they have forfeited their rights to it, and it might be well if legislation were improved in that direction. THE MINING RECORD. THE VAN ANDA SMELTER. (By Our Speoial Commissioner.) ~| HE lead furnace recently purchased by the Van 1 Anda Company now presents quite a changed appearance. Completely overhauled, it has been converted into a hot blast copper furnace It occupies the space between the smelter shed and the incline, "a spot reserved for the purpose. The idea in installing the new furnace is not to double the smelter's capacity, though that is more than accomplished,—the old furnace having a capacity of 50 tons and the new uf 75 tons, but to provide against accidents Such occurring up to the present necessitated suspension of work for two or three days, with consequent loss to the smelter. The smelter plant now consists of an 80-horsepower boiler, pump, engine, two blowers, cold blast furnace with goose neck pipe leading into a dust chamber, and hot blast connecting with the dust chamber. The advantage of thu hot blast is in the saving of coke -and the consequent lessening of the cost of production. At present, smelter charges are $6 to $9 per ton according to the amount of silica the ore contains. The ore brought from the mines is weighed and deposited in ore-bins, of which there are three. From made into three parcels: one of which is given to the owner of the ore—if he happens to be other than the Van Anda Company; one goes to the assay office to be assayed; the third, sealed by the owner of the ore, remains in the smelter and is used if umpiring is necessary. One-tenth of the ore being thus disposed of, the rest is roasted. (Some of the ore now coming Interior of Smelter, Van Anda. these it passes through the automatic sampler, where it is cracked and one-tenth withheld as a sample. That tithe is then passed between rollers, and, after being reduced to as fine a powder as required, is General View of Works out of the Cornell mine is so good that it does not require roasting, but passes straight to the furnace.) The ore is placed on a bed of cordwood; the wood lighted and the ore burned, sulphur fumes being given off. Everything has its compensations; these fumes are no exception. The destruction that they cause is desirable and otherwise: otherwise, when the blight to trees and flowers is considered; desirable in the temporary absence of bacteria and insecta. Scarcity of flies in Van Anda is translated into meaning that Lenora ore is on the piles. Roasting occupies from fifteen days to a month. The better the roasting the higher the matte. Thus roasted the ore is taken on cars to the smelter, weighed, then dumped on to the feeding platform—which is in the rear of and above the furnace. There it is mixed with the proper percentage of iron flux, 5, 15 or 20 per cent, being required. The Van Anda ores contain sufficient lime to require no addition in that line. When the furnace requires feeding coke is shovelled in, then ore and iron. These melt and the heavier— the mineralized portion—goes to the bottom of the 394 THE MINING RECORD. settling pot from which it is tapped at intervals. This is known as matte. When cool it is broken up and put into sacks ready for shipment to Brooklyn. The slag—the lighter and worthless portion, is run off into slag pots and then dumped into the bay. A portion is occasionally used as flux. Analysis shows that very little copper is retained in the slag, decimal three (.3) per cent, being the average. Slag consists of silica, lime, iron and alumina, named in order of abundance. The matte contains copper, gold, silver, some icon and carbon It runs about $175 in copper, $40 in gold and $9 in silver to the ton. As a rule two shipments of matte occur in a week. The forty-eighth since January was made on August 4th. It consisted of 15 tons. With the exception of what comes from Mount Sicker, nearly all the ore smelted is from the company's mines. Never before before have these mines looked so well. Finer ore could not be desired than what is now being taken out of the 80- foot level of the Cornell from near the winze. Under the present management development work is being kept well ahead and there seems every reason to believe that there will be no difficulty in keeping the smelter running to its utmost capacity. Occasionally there are interruptions, as from August 1st to 5th, when the fires were allowed to die out from failure in the water supply. Water is obtained from a creek issuing from Priest Lake and too much seepage was taking place. The dam was repaired and sufficient water again secured. Advantage was taken of this lull in smelting to clean out the dust chamber. Though 9x25 feet and cleaned out in May, it was choke-full. This dust is too good to waste and is put again through the furnace. Incidentally i t was learned that the fire bricks made in Victoria from Union fire-clay cannot stand the fierce heat of the furnace. Running too high in silica they give out in three days. Cartcraig, a Scottish brick, is used and found to be much superior. At first sight smelting looks smooth work. Slag and matte seem to come out with ease and regularity. But when we consider the difficulty some people have in understanding the humors of an ordinary stove we conclude that it is not so easy as it looks. Indeed we recognize that it is only after years of study and practice that the skilful foreman has become able to say: "The moment I look at her, I know what's wrong." THE NEW HENDY HOIST. The Joshua Hendy Machine Works of San Francisco, Cal., is at present making a number of sales of its new and superior design 8£xio double cylinder single drum hoists. Through the courtesy of the company, we are enabled to present herewith an illustration of this hoist. The hoist has- certain features of construction to which the builders are able to trace the reputation these engines have s<uured in the short time they have been on the market. The hoist is mounted on a single solid base, with standboard for the operator. The engines ave reversible link motion, and the drum is fitted with post breaks, which are sure, quick and safe in operation. Their compactness in design and the substantial and strong construction are particularly commendable. For severe and continued service experience has shown them to be unequaled. The columnar indicator is also a feature of the hoist, although the manufacturers will furnish dial indicators if preferred. Clutch pinions are furnished as the purchaser may desire. The pinions are helical steel, thereby obviating vibration, and at the same time lessening the likelihood of break- A better idea of the engine can be obtainedfrom noting the following dimensions, which are for the 8Jx 10 hoist, 45-horsepower: Diameter of drum, thirty- two inches, diameter of flanges, 44 inches; length of ill Centrifugal Dredging Pump. Machine Works in also shows a large between flanges, 24 ; diameter of drum 4! inches; diameter of 4 inches; weight of hoister, single rope, usualspeed 8,000 lbs approximate shipping weight, 8,750 lbs.; floor space required, 88 x 92 inches. Smaller engines of from five to seven inch cylinders, having cut gears and pinions, can also be seen at the warerooms of the Joshua Hendy San Francisco. The company variety of double drum hoists! A NEW CENTRIFUGAL DREDGING PUMP. V\T E call attention of our readers, and especially W of those interested in mining operations, to the progress made in development of pumping machinery under the exacting demands due to development of our mines on the Pacific Coast. It. is noticeable that demand for an article to fill any particular requirement, always has the effect of calling out efforts for its production, and reciprocally, the production of an article, the highest and THE MINING RECORD. 395 best of its kind for any purpose, always results in increasing and strengthening the demand therefor. The many demands upon a centrifugal pump, peculiar to the Pacific Coast conditions, has done much to call out pumps of the high class manufacture for that market. And the careful, painstaking efforts of some Coast manufacturers along this line has kept pace with, these demands. One of the foremost manufacturing firms is the Byron Jackson Machine Works, of San Francisco. This firm, after years of patient toil and experimentation, is enabled to turn out such plants as are here shown. In cut is shown a dredging pump direct connected to high speed vertical steam engine. This plant is peculiarly adapted to handling gravel claims, which can be, or are submerged. It may be mounted on scow and operated as an ordinary dredge. The expense of handling \ gravel, sand and water with the attendant values, is, with \ these machines, reduced .to a minimum. In cut herewith is shown a unique application of these pumps for purposes of hydraulic mining. The pump from which this photo was made is designed for the delivery of 1,000 gallons per minute under a pressure of 140 lbs. per square inch. It is to be used for delivery through a hydraulic giant to knock down auriferous gravel, and its test shows it to be successful beyond the makers' expectation. This plant is used in localities where it is physically The second illustration of a pump made by. this company is also interesting. This plant is especially noteworthy in view of the recent wide application of electrictiy to mining operations. It is small and compact, simple and durable, and can be installed in multiples to reduce pressure by. distributing it among several units. ■ The Byron Jackson Machine Works are ready to supply plans and estimates upon whatever specifica- I 1 Jackson Quadrupler Centrifugal Pump for Hydijajilicing. Jackson Centrifugal Pump Direct Connected to Electric Motor. tions are submitted for their consderation. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARIBOO. CAMP M'KINNEY. (From a Correspondent.) IN the east drift of the 400-foot level of the famous Cariboo mine a strong body of high grade ore has been encountered. This has been followed for a distance of over 400 feet. An upraise has been put through to the 300- foot level, and it is now the intention to sink a winze for at least 100 feet directly below this upraise. Should the ore body prove to be as strong at the 500-foot level, the upraise will be enlarged and pushed upward to the surface. This new shaft will have triple compartments, one compartment being, reserved for sinking. It will impracticable to obtain water under pressure by gravity. It may also be used to deliver a larger quantity under a nominal pressure should there be any call for same, for sluicing, or other purposes. reach the surface on the Okanagan claim about .150 ft. from the west side line. Work has also been resumed on the west drift of the 300-foot level almost directly under the mill and there is to be an upraise 396 THE MINING RECORD. from this to the surface, should the showing be sufficiently encouraging to justify the expenditure. A new 50 h.p. boiler has been ordered for the mill and will shortly be installed. Fourteen extra men have been sent for and the ground in the vicinity of the new shaft is being cleared and levelled. Mr. H. Nicholson has a force of men at work on the Old England, and is opening up what is believed to have been an old channel of Rock Creek. Fair values are being obtained in the sluice boxes. CORRESPONDENCE. The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions which may be expressed in this column. No notice will be taken of communications unless accompanied by the full name and address of the writer. A PRACTICAL MINER'S VIEWS. 'p O THE EDITOR:—I am taking the liberty to ad- I dress you on a subject all miners and prospectors are interested in, namely, the necessity of getting the legislature to repeal part VII. of the placer mining act referring to leases. It is very difficult to get capital interested in prospecting, men of this class preferring to invest when value of mines are demonstrated. At present the prospector cannot now hold deep placer claims as he is required to hand over to the Government before obtaining a lease for mining purposes $50 for Hill leases, and $ioo- for creek leases, besides paying a heavy charge for water with which to prospect or operate a mine, if value is found upon doing exploratory work; second, an annual expenditure of $1,000 to $1,500 in labour on each claim is required annually in addition to the yearly rent of $50 to $100. Therefore, it is plain to see that no prospector or free miner can afford to explore and prove values of deep placers There are vast areas of auriferous alluvials in the interior of British Columbia undeveloped, the existing laws accounting for the reason that this vast area is still undeveloped, unexplored and unproductive. In regard to Crown grants to deep placer mines such claims should be on the same footing as Crown grants for mineral claims. Let us compare a deep placer mine to a mineral claim to illustrate the difference in deep placer mining and mineral claims. In the first place the deep placer miner frequently expends thousands of dollars in development work before he knows whether the ground is valuable or not. For example, we will take the Miocene Company of Horsefly. That company have expended over $150,000 and do not yet know the value of their property. The Horsefly Hydraulic Mining* Company have spent something like $500,000 and are still prospecting. I could mention a number of other companies, while a mineral owner finds a prospect at the grass-roots and knows something of what he has got before doing much development work. It is plain therefor that a deep placer mine is entitled to more consideration at the hands fo the government in regards to Crown grants than at present. Capitalists do not want leaseholds, they want a title to the ground before'investing their money. And Crown grants for deep placer mines on the same conditions as mineral claims would cover the difficulties we are now working under. Trusting you will find space in the next issue of your valuable journal to publish these suggestions and advocate the necessary legislation by the govern ment for the same. I am sir, yours very respectfully, Black Bear Creek, Quesnelle Forks, B.C. JAMES MOORE. I also enclose the suggested amendments to the Placer Mining Act, as follows:— MEMO OF SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS TO THE PLACER MINING ACT. Amend section 2, Chapter 136, Placer Mining Act of 1899 to read as follows:— Placer mines shall be divided into two classes as follows:— Shallow Placers and Deep Placers. Shallow Placer mines shall include all claims located on Creek diggings, bar diggings, bench diggings, dry diggings, and hill diggings, in newly discovered shallow placer mining districts. Deep placer mines shall include all claims located on deep alluvial or other deposits of earth, gravel and gravel conglomerates (excepting lock in place) containing gold, platinum, osmirridium, or other valuable metals, minerals, or precious stones that shall be worked by the hydraulic, hydraulic elevator, drifting, or milling process. Part VII. of the Placer Mining Act so far as it refers to leases should be repealed and amended as follows:— DEEP PLACER'MINES. Section 1. Every free miner shall be entitled to locate and record a Deep Placer Mining Claim on any creek, bar, bench, hill, or plateau on any unoccupied and unreserved Crown land, but not more than two claims in the same locality, one of which shall be a creek claim. He shall be allowed to hold any number of placer mining claims by purchase, and every free miner may sell, mortgage, or dispose of his claim, or any part thereof, but in no case shall any free miner be permitted to locate and record a deep placer mining claim in a newly discovered shallow placer mining district without first obtaining the consent of the Gold Commissioner with the sanction of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. Section 2. The dimensions of deep placer mining claims shall be as follows:— In creek diggings, or abandoned or unworked creeks half a mile in length. Section 3. In other deep placer mining ground 80 acres, but in no case shall any other deep deep placer mining claim extend placer mining along any creek, or river, more claims. than 500 yards; creek diggings ex cepted. Precious stone diggings 10 acres, -but the right to mine for precious stones shall not precious include the right to mine for gold, stones. or other precious metals, unless the ground be held also for that purpose under the provisions of this act. Section 4. Every deep placer mining claim shall be as nearly as possible rectangular in form and marked by four legal posts at the corners thereof, firmly fixed in the ground; one of such posts shape of shall be marked as the initial post claims and ■ and on that post shall be placed how staked a legible notice in writing stating out. the name of the claim, its length and breadth in feet, and a general description of its boundaries commencing at the ini- THE MINING RECORD. 397 tial post marked No. i, stating distance and general direction therefrom to each of the other corner posts, which shall be marked Nos. 2, 3, and 4. Section 5. A deep placer mining claim shall not include any portion of any mining ground occupied by free miners, unless with the consent of such occupiers. Section 6. Every free miner locating a deep placer mining claim shall record the same with the Mining Recorder of the district within which such claim is situate within fifteen days after the location thereof, if located within ten miles record of claims. of the office of said Mining Record er; one additional day shall be allowed for every additional ten miles or fraction thereof. Such record shall be made in the regular book of records kept by the Mining Recorder for that purpose, in which shall be inserted the name of the claim, the name of the locator, the number of the locator's free miners' certificate, the locality of the claim and a general description of its boundaries. A certified copy of the record shall be given by the Mining Recorder to the free miner or his agents. A deep placer mining claim which shall not have been recorded within the prescribed period shall be deemed to have been abandoned. Section 7. A free miner shall not be entitled to a record of a deep placer mining claim until he shall have furnished the said Mining Recorder with all the above particulars and shall have paid in advance to the Mining Recorder the annual deep placer mining tax of $25, together with the customary fees required for making such record. Section 8. Any free miner having duly located and recorded a deep placer mining claim shall be entitled to hold the same for a period of one year from the date of the recording of the same and thence from year to year without the necessity of re-recording; provided, however, that during each year and each succeeding year, such free miner shall do or cause to be done work on the claim itself to the value of $100 and shall satisfy the Gold Commissioner, or Mining Recorder, that such work has been done, by an affidavit of the free miner, or his agent, setting out a detailed statement of such work, and shall obtain from such Gold Commissioner, or Mining Recorder, and shall record a certificate of such work having been done, provided also, that all work done outside of a deep placer mining claim with intent to work the same shall, if such work have direct relation and be in direct proximity to the claim, be deemed, if to the satisfaction of the Gold Commissioner or Mining Recorder, for the purpose of this section, to be work done on the claim: provided, further, that any free miner or company of free miners holding adjoining deep placer mining claims, or any two or more free miners, who locate and record adjoining deep placer mining claims to be worked both in partnership under the provisions of any act for the time being in force, shall, subject to to filing a notice of their intention with the Gold Commissioner or Mining Recorder, be allowed to perform on any one or more of such claims all the work required to entitle him or them to a certificate for work for each claim so held by him or them; provided, also, that such free miner or company of free miners shall pay in advance to the Mining Recorder the deep placer mining tax on each claim held by him or them. If such work shall not be done and such tax shall not be paid, or if such certificate shall not be so obtained or recorded in each and every year, the claims shall be deemed vacant and abandoned any rule or law or equity to the contrary notwithstanding. Section 9. The owner of a deep placer mining claim shall be entitled to all surface rights, including the use of all timber thereon for mining surface and building purposes in connection rights. with the working of said claim, so long as he holds said claim for the purpose of developing the minerals contained therein, but no longer. Section 10. Where the physical conditions surrounding deep placer mining claims intended for operations by hydraulic process, drifting process, or milling process, are such as to make it practically impossible to equip and operate each claim separately, it shall be lawful for the Gold Commissioner with the sanction of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, to authorize a consolidation of such adjoining claims and water rights appurtenant thereto, so that they may be equipped and practically operated under one general system. Each application made to the Gold Commissioner for such consolidation of deep placer mining claims shall be accompanied with a deposit of $20 and shall contain a schedule of the number of the claims and water rights desired to be so consolidated and shall also be accompanied with plats in quadruplicate showing the several adjoining claims and water rights desired to be so consolidated. If the application is granted the $20 deposited by the applicant is to be retained to cover the cost of making out the necessary papers, and if not granted the the deposit is to be returned to the applicant. A copy of the plat shall be filed in the office of the Minister of Mines, the Gold Commissioner, the Mining Recorder of the Mining Division in which said claims are situate, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant with the notice of approval of consolidation. After receiving notice that such consolidation has been authorized, the holder or holders thereof shall be allowed in each and every year to perform on any one or more of such claims all the work that is necessary to be performed to hold the whole of such claims included in such consolidation. The holders of such consolidation may, in lieu of the required expenditure in work on such claims in each year, pay to the Mining Recorder of the mining division in which such claims are situate the sum of the aggregate amount required to be expended on the consolidated claims, together with the amount of the aggregate deep placer mining tax, and receive from such recorder a record and receipt for such payment and record thereof in any year shall relieve the person or company making it from the necessity of doing any work during the year in and for which and upon the consolidation of claims in respect of which such payment is recorded. Section 11. Any free miner who is the holder of a deep placer mining claim, or mine, shall be entitled to a grant from the Gold Commissioner of such quantity of unappropriated water from any stream or lake together with the right and privi- WATER rights, lege to construct and maintain dams, gates, canals, ditches, flumes and pipe lines for the purpose of controlling such water as may in the opinion of the Gold Commissioner be necessary to work the said mining ground efficiently and shall have the right of way through any mining ground or unoccupied Crown lands, for 398 THE MINING RECORD. crown mineral grant for deep placer MINES. the purpose of constructing canals, ditches, flumes, or pipe lines to carry said water to the deep placer mining ground so held. Said grant shall continue in force until said deep placer mining claim or mine or consolidation of such claims or mines are worked out or abandoned. Section 12. Any lawful holder of a deep placer mining claim shall be entitled to a Crown mineral grant for the exclusive right to mine and extract the precious metals and minerals from said mining claim until the same shall have been worked out or abandoned on payment to the Government of British Columbia the sum of $500 in lieu of expenditure on the claim. The intending purchaser of said right to mine shall comply with all the provisions of Section 36 of the Mineral Act and the amendments thereto concerning the application for Crown grants so far as they may be applicable to deep placer mines. Section 13. The holder of a mineral grant for a deep placer mining claim or a consolidation of deep placer mining claims shall expend annually on each claim or mine containing 80 acres or less at least $200 for exploratory or development work. Such work shall consist of manual labour, permanent improvements made on the mine in buildings, roads, shafts, tunnels, machinery, dams, canals, ditches, flumes, pipe lines, or an3r mining work necessary for the equipment or operation of such claim or mine. Section 14. The holder of a Crown mineral grant for a deep placer mining claim, or mine, or a consolidation of deep placer mining claims or mines, may in lieu of the work required to be done by Section 13 of this Act on each mine or consolidation of mines in each year, pay to the Mining Recorder in whose office the mine or mines are located $200 for each deep placer mining claim or mine so held and leceive from such recorder a record and receipt for such payment 0$ the deep placer mining tax, and the record thereof in any year shall relieve the person making it from the necessity of doing any work during the year in and for which upon the deep placer mining claim or mine in respect of which such payment is recorded. Section 15. The holder of a Crown mineral grant for a deep placer mining claim or placer mine, or a consolidation of deep placer min- deep placer ing claims, or placer mines, shall mining tax. pay annually the deep placer mining tax of $25 on each and every placer mining claim or mine so held. Section 16. The failure of the holder or holders of Crown mineral grants for deep placer mining claims or mines to comply with the provisions of Sections 13, 14, and 15 of this Act shall be forfeitures, deemed an abandonment and such mines shall be declared open for re-location by the Gold Commissioner or Mining Recorder of such district, who shall post notice to that effect on the bulletin board of his office. Section 17. It shall be lawful for the Gold Commissioner with the sanction of the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor-in-Council to grant the right to lawful holders of leases of placer mining ground for hydraulic or deep mining purposes to avail themselves of the provision of this Act without in any way prejudicing the rights or other privileges appurtenant thereto. The lawful holder of a lease for placer mining ground and water rights appurtenant thereto shall be entitled to a record for same dating back to the date of original lease and water grant so held as appurtenant thereto but in no case shall the holder of a lease be entitled to such record until he shall have fully paid up all leasehold rents due on such leases. Sections 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 102 inclusive of Part VII. of the Placer Mining Act of 1898 and 1899, should be repealed. NECESSARY 'AMENDMENTS TO PLACER MINING ACT. THE PAYMENT INSTEAD OF WORK. ~TO THE EDITOR:—It appears to me that the 1 best thing our mining journals could do to stimulate the development of the deep placer mining industries of the province would be to encourage Parliament to repeal Part VII. of the placer mining act referring to leases and so amend as to place deep placer mining claims on the same footing as mineral claims. It must be remembered that capital rarely explores or prospects for mines preferring to invest in properties where values in gold or mineral are demonstrated by. the skill, industry and perseverance of the individual miner with his pick and shovel. As the law now stands concerning the acquirement and holding of claims in deep placers, such as are suitable for operation by hydraulic process or hydraulic elevator process, the prospector is practically prohibited from taking up, holding or developing value in such claims for the. reason that he is first required to produce and hand over $50.00 to procure a lease; besides a large and unreasonable charge is made for water required to prospect with or operate if values are found upon doing exploratory work. Second: an annual expenditure of $1,000 in labour or improvements on each claim is required in addition to the leasehold rent of $50. to $75 per annum. It must be clear to any person having the development of the great placer deposits and the prosperity of the province at heart, that no prospector or free miner can afford to attempt to explore or prospect to prove values in deep placers. This condition of affairs explains why the vast areas of deep auriferous alluvials known to exist in the interior of British Columbia are lying unexplored, undeveloped and unproductive. Legislate and make favourable laws to encourage the prospector and he with his muscle and pick will explore and expose values in the deep auriferous alluvials that will attract and encourage the investment of capital. Give the deep gravel prospector the right to hold and explore his claim on an annual expenditure of $100 and charge him $20 per annum as a tax and it will not be long until thousands of industrious prospectors will be in the field and as many valuable properties discovered. Large capital will be invested in development work necessary to place such properties on a productive and profitable basis and the deep placer mining industry will be producing many millions annually instead of less than a million as at present. A large industry of this kind would encourage the settlement of the neighoburing productive valleys by farmers and stock raisers who would find a ready market for their products. Numerous towns and villages would be built and occupied by thousands of THE MINING RECORD. 399 miners with their families, and prosperity would reign in the interior basin of Northern British Columbia as it does in the mining region of south eastern British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, and the mining region of central California. Trusting that you will see your way clear to encourage the necessary legislature through your valuable journal, I am, yours faithfully, J. B. HOBSON. The Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co., Bullion, B. C. MACHINERY AWARDS AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. ,T"V HE Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Colum- 1 bus, Ohio, was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition for an exhibit of E levating-Conveying and MiningMachinery. No doubt many of our readers who have enjoyed a visit abroad this summer have had the pleasure of seeing the exhibit of this Company. The James Cooper Manufacturing Company, received the highest award of a gold medal for the exhibit of Ingersoll-Sergeant machinery at Paris. A gold medal was also awarded the McLaren Belt Company, of Montreal, for an exhibit of belting, for the manufacture of which this firm is famous. PRODUCING MINES. ROSSLAND. OUR Rossland correspondent telegraphs: Ore shipments from the Rossland mines for the nine months ending September 30th, amount to 143,- 000 tons, valued at $2,288,000. The following is a detailed statement of shipments to date : Year. Le Roi 113,328 . Centre Star 14,963 War Eagle 1,063 Le Roi No. 2 2,094 Iron Mask 1,435 I. X. L 37o Evening Star . . 351 Monte Christo 273 Giant 239 Iron Colt 80 Spitzee 20 Total 143,746 SLOCAN. The Slocan shipments for the present year to date are valued at nearly $1,500,000 in round figures, the Slocan Lake properties contributing about $250,000 of the total value of output. The shipments over the Kaslo & Slocan Railway in August aggregated 1,000 tons, of which 547 tons were from the Whitewater, 210 tons from the Payne, 104 tons from the Rambler-Cariboo, and 42 tons from the American Boy. . The mines on Slocan lake have shipped ore of the approximate value of $250,000 since January 1st. The shipments were from the following named mines: Tons. Bosun 740 Hartney 20 Capella 7 Emily Edith .. ., 20 Hewett 70 Vancouver 80 Tons. Wakefield (concentrates) 680 Galena Mines 20 Enterprise 880 Neepawa 7 Arlington 300 Black Prince 60 Kilo 20 Total 2904 NELSON. The following are the returns from the Athabasca mine for August: Period of run 30 days, 14 hours, Tons crushed 430 Bullion recovered $12,525 Concentrates 4,§75 Total $17,400 Value of bullion recovered per tons ore crushed $29 13 Value of concentrates recovered per ton ore crushed 11 33 Total values recovered per ton ore crushed .. 40 46 Corrected returns for July place the total values recovered at $18,350. The Venus produced during the present month two gold bricks valued at $1,000 and $1,200 respectively. During the month of August the Granite mill crushed 1,265 tons of ore, which produced 593 ozs. of gold and 36 tons of concentrates, of a gross value $11,074. The shipments of the Queen Bess mine to the Nelson smelter during August amounted to 115 tons, the returns upon which aggregated about $6,000. BOUNDARY CREEK. The mineral output from this district is now nearly 2,000 tons weekly . Particulars of production are contained in the letter of our special correspondent, CAMP M'KINNEY. The Cariboo continues to produce at the rate of $20,000 per day, crushing 50 tons daily. YMIR. The official returns for August of the Ymir mine are as follows: During the month 4,650 tons were milled, producing 2,340 ozs. of bullion, 298 tons of concentrates . Have shipped 278 tons of concentrates. Total receipts for the month are $35,600; expenses, $11,600. In addition to the above outstanding car concentrates, $600; car smelting ore, $950; total, $37,150. The profit for the month on the foregoing figures is $25,550. EAST KOOTENAY. The shipments of clean ore from the North Stair and Sullivan mines in the Fort Steele district for August amounted to 2,660 tons, or 120 carloads, showing a slight decrease from July. The output will be largely increased this month ,as the Sullivan is now using machine drills instead of hand. I MOYIE. The shipments of concentrates by the St. Eugene Consolidated Mining Co., Moyie, for the month of August amounted to 1,900 tons. ATLIN. The estimated gold output for the season of this camp is placed at a value of one million dollars. 400 THE MINING RECORD. VANCOUVER ISLAND. The production of the Lenora mine, Mount Sicker, now averages 1,200 tons monthly, the ore running $2.50 in gold, $2.50 silver and 10 per cent, copper, wet assay test, per ton. In the annexed table from the B. C. Review are compiled the returns to date of those companies whose crushings in ore shipments are available Owing to the irregularity with which some of these returns are published the list is necessarily incomplete. Name. Athabasca Bosun (B.C.) Granite Hall Mines 'Hastings Klondike Govt. Cones.. LeRoi , Le Roi No. 2 Mikado McDonald's Nimrod Queen Bess Whitewater Ymir Yukon Goldfields April. $ 9,885 $ 7,100 $119,000 894 OZ. $ 6,600 $13,500 $25,000 $27,375 May. June. $ 18,500 $ 4,966 $ 11,250 1,400 ozs. $219,000 $ 2,600 $ 4 750 $ 21,431 $ 22,518 $27,400 $ 5,592 $ 7,600 838 oz. 227,500 944 ozs. $ 5,900 $ 9,250 t$10,700 $20,572 July. $17,100 $ 4,811 $ 9,550 $ 5,500 $248,000 921 ozs. 2,075 ozs !62 ozs $ 6,700 $14,500 $25,500 $23,500 August. $17,200 $11,100 670 ozs. £49,000 £ 3,900 1,409 ozs. $ 5,300 $25,550 $25,000 * Trial crushing. t Mill idle 21 days. J These figures represent profit, not gross values. COAL EXPORTATION^—AUGUST. Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 4*>070 Ladysmith 3L-o85 Union 18,070 Total \ 9°>225 The New Vancouver Coal Company's shipments for the three weeks ending September 20th were-. Date. Vessel and destination. Tons. 6—SS. New England, Alaska 49 7—SS. San Mateon, San Francisco 4,4-H 11—SS. Mineola, San Francisco 3>449 13—SS. Titania, San Francisco 5,783 15—SS. New England, Alaska 53 18—SS. Robert Adamson, San Francisco .... 4,546 Total 18,294 THE METAL MARKET—SEPTEMBER. [Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. Mining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York.] SILVER. SILVER has been steadily advancing this month on a strong market. A slight check, however, occurred during the last week on the completion of the Imperial mint order, the price receding to 28|d., but at this price large purchases were made from India, and the market closed firm at 28 i3-i6d. The latest New York quotation is 62f, the highest price during September being 62|. The average price in August was 61.14. COPPER. The market has been strong and active. Consumption continues good, and the demand for both early and future shipment is heavy. Spot copper continues to be scarce, in this country as well as in Europe. Production in America was 2,000 tons less during the month of August than during the previous month, and, with the present rate of consumption continuing, this, of course, tends to still further strengthen the position of the article. Lake copper is quoted at i6f@l6fc.; electrolytic in cakes, wire- bars and ingots, at i6f@i6ic, in cathodes at i6^@ i6£c.; casting copper at i6gc. LEAD. Lead is in heavy demand and the market is active. Prices, however, "remain steady. The latest quotations are: New York, 4.32.|@4-27i; St. Louis, 4.27^ (0)4.32^. SPELTER. A fair business is reported, prices remaining unchanged at 4.10 New York; 3.95 St. Louis. PLATIN'JM. For ingot platinum in large quantities $18.20 per Troy oz. is quoted in New York. QUICKSILVER. The New York quotation continues at $51 per flask for large lots, with $52.5o@$54 asked for smaller quantities. San Francisco prices firmer, $49@$50 being named on local deliveries, and $44.50@$45 on export orders. The London price is now £9 2s. 6d. per flask. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. WE are indebted to Messrs. Foulkes & Co., of Victoria for the following report: The past month taken as a whole has not been an entirely satisfactory one to holders of British Columbia stocks. In isolated instances there has been a marked improvement in prices, but the general advance which was expected has been conspicuous by its absence. As matters at present stand, the Eastern markets control the situation, and except for their local stocks they are neither buyers nor sellers, the Eastern brokers at present merely n as middlemen for the sale of B. C. stocks, which they buy and sell in Spokane and the. Coast cities, their only interest being the commission which they manage to secure upon the transaction. As a consequence.the Toronto and Montreal market quotations are absolutely unreliable, the divergence between the quoted buying and selling prices being so great as to prevent intending purchasers who allowed themselves to be influenced thereby from doing business with their local brokers, who find it impossible to buy within fifty per cent, of the price at which stocks are quoted as being offered at in the Eastern markets. A remedy will have to be found for this state of affairs or the Coast investors will refuse to recognize the Eastern exchanges. Iron Mask on the strength of the settlement with the Centre Star advanced to 45 cents, but it has fallen at least ten points since the first announcement. Athabasca is quoted at $6.50, an improvement of nearly two dollars per share during the month. Rambler Cariboo is steady at 24J, and were it not an underlying suspicion that this stock is open to manipulation, there would be a very marked advance in its price. Noble Five is quoted at 5^c. and a peculiar feature of the market in this stock is that at periodical intervals all the cheap stock in the market is absorbed by insiders. This stock will probably advance very considerably before Christmas, if reports of the present development work turn out correct. American Boy has trebled in price since the first of the month, and this mine has a future before it, almost equal to that of the Payne or Last Chance. Cariboo Camp McKinney has recovered from the listlessness which characterized it during the summer months, but it is still 25 per cent, below its intrinsic value. THE MINING RECORD. 401 Nanaimo Saw Mill and Sash and Door Factory. OFFICE, MILL ST., NANAIMO. A. HASLAM, Proprietor. Complete stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Pickets, Doors Windows, Blinds, Moulding, Turning, Scroll Sawing, and all kinds of Wood Finishing, Cedar, White Pine, and Redwood, &c. Towing done at reasonable rates by Steamer ALERT. P.O.Box 35- Telephone 19. EVERY BELT GUARANTEED 1 Genuine Oak Tanned Leather Belting FOR EXPOSED SITUATIONS USE " LANCASHIRE " HAIR BELTING. D. K. McLaren, Montreal, Toronto. Catalogue and Discounts on application. WHITE, ROGERS & eOMPANY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights. 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f.o.b. San Francisco. One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated"bysSteam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants foi the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. V# ire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is coveted by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,338 and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. co. iS^S*b*jN LTD * Telegraphic Address "Lobnitz, Renfrew."Ai Code Used. J 402 THE MINING RECORD. AGENTS WANTED. NOTICE. WE WANT a live, active representative-in your territory at once to engage in a very profitable business. General and local agents wanted. From |5.00 to ?10.00 a day. Advancement rapid. Good references required. Those out of employment or wishing to better themselves, address Department K, Corner Perkins & Union Sts., AKRON, 0. .■» ■■■■■Ill .Mil. ■ MMM^MI^IM AGENTS WANTED. Live, active men and women can earn from $5.00 to #10.00 a day by canvassing for Frank G. Carpenter's book, "SOUTH AMERICA—SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL." This book is just out and is having an enormous sale. Everybody wants it. As it is being sold by-subscription only, we desire representatives who are hustlers at once to introduce the work in your territory. Most liberal terms. Write to-day for territory and full particulars to THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO. NOTICE. APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MINING RECORDER. I T NDER AUTHORITY of Order in Council pass- LJ ed December 30th, 1899, the Honourable the Minister of Mines has been pleased to sanction, and I do hereby give notice that I have appointed Edward Elwell, of Kimberley, a Deputy Mining Recorder of and for the District known as the vicinity of Kimberley, in the Fort Steele Mining Division, with sub- recording office at Kimberley. ■&«£$ J. F. ARMSTRONG, Gold Commissioner for Fort Steele M.D. NOTICE. APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MINING RECORDER. UNDER authority of Order in Council passed December 30th, 1899, the Honourable the Minister of Mines has been pleased to sanction, and I do hereby give notice that I have appointed P. Douglas Hope, of Moyie, a Deputy Mining Recorder of and for the District known as the vicinity of Moyie, in the Fort Steele Mining Division, with sub-recording office at Moyie. J. F. ARMSTRONG, Gold Commissioner for Fort Steele M.D. NOTICE. APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MINING RECORDER. UNDER authority of Order in Council, passed December 30th, 1899, the Honouraole the Minister of Mines has been pleased to sanction, and I do hereby give notice that I have appointed Henry Nicholson, Esquire, of Camp McKinney, a Deputy Mining Recorder of and for the District known as Camp McKinney, in the Kettle River Mining Division, with sub-recording office at Camp McKinney, vice Charles Winter, Esquire, j WM. G. McMYNN, Gold Commissioner for District. Greenwood, B.C., 7th September, 1900. APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MINING RECORDER. UNDER authority of Order in Council, passed December 30th, 1899, the Honourable the Minister of Mines has been pleased to sanction, and I do hereby give notice that I have appointed William J. Rant, of Bennett, a Deputy Mining Recorder of and for the District known as Porcupine Division, in the Bennett Lake Mining Division, with sub-recording office at Pleasant Camp, Dalton Trail, B.C. J. D. GRAHAM, Gold Commissioner for District. Atlin, B.C., 21st August, 1900. Department of Mines, 15th August, 1900. THE following copy of a letter addressed to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, by the Imperial Consul of Russia, at Montreal, covering a translation of a notification with regard to prospecting for gold and mining in the Maritime Province of Eastern Siberia, is published for the information of those whom it may concern. RICHARD McBRIDE, Minister of Mines. Imperial Consulate of Russia in Canada. No. 81. Montreal, 20th July, 1900. Sir,—By order of my Government, I now lay before Your Honour the annexed notification relative to the prospecting for gold on the Territory of the Russian Empire, with the request that you will have the kindness to communicate its contents to the Government and to the business and industrial community in the Province of British Columbia. I avail myself of this opportunity to request Your Honour to accept the assurance of my greatest consideration. (Signer) N. de STRUVE, Imperial Consul of Russia. To His Honour Sir H. G. Joly de Lotbinierc, Lieutenant-Governor, etc., etc., etc. Notification by the Imperial Government of Russia. 1. Foreigners are not allowed to prospect for gold' in the Maritime Province of Eastern Siberia, including therein the District of Anodyr and the Peninsulas of Kamtchatka and Tchuktchi, except such private individuals or companies as may be admitted by virtue of a special authorisation by the Imperial Government. 2. The prospecting for gold and the working of gold mines by Russian subjects are specially regulated by law. 3. The Imperial Government has granted to Colonel Vonliarliarsky, who is at the head of a society of Anglo-American capitalists, the exclusive right of taking out minerals of commercial value (mineraux utiles) on the Territory of the Peninsula of Tchuktchi, and in consequence of the exclusive grant so made, all other parties are absolutely forbidden to carry on the same industry in that Territory. THE MINING RECORD. IX. LOCAL STOCK HARKET FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. Prepared by A. W. More & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B. C. Week Ending Saturday, Week Endir g Saturday, Week Ending Saturday, Week Ending Saturday, 1st September. 8th September. 15th September 22nd September <$ Highest. Lowest. Highest. Lowest. Highest. Lowest. Highest. Lowest. p Companies. « ■o •a ■d ■a •6 •o •a A > <B a> 0> CO o> DO ■o M m ■o M 00 ■a M ■o M 00 -O GO 13 M 'O M OQ ■a A «■; « <! m < m < m 1 M a M 1 M < n t 4 75 ? 4 53 f 4 55 $ 4 30 $4 75 ? 4 65 t 4 60 $ 4 50 f 6 00 | 5 80 ? 4 90 $ 4 75 f 6 25 \ 6 10 ? 0 00 { 5 85 5p oc 1 Brandon & Gol'n C 17 14 16 12 18 IS 14 10 16 11 15 08 16 10 15 08 Cariboo-McKin' y.. 92 88 88 82 90 86 f£y* 83 90 82 86 82 90 82 88 82 3 c. ql'y Cariboo Hydraulic 1 35 1 25 I 30 1 22 1 30 1 25 1 27 1 10 130 1 15 1 27 1 15 1 30 1 15 1 25 1 00 1 55 1 50 I 52 1 35 175 1 67 1 57 1 54 1 72 1 66 1 68 1 63 1 68 1 60 1 62 1 52 Crow's IJest Pass C 38 00 35 00 37 00 34 00 38 00 35 00 37 OU 35 00 39 50 37 00 37 50 35 00 44 00 38 50 39 00 36 00 03 • 01% 02% 01% 03 01% 02% 01% 03 01% 01% 01% 03 01% 02% 01 09 07% 07 07 09 07 09 06 09 07 09 07 09 07 08 05 qfairview Corpor'n 02% mi 02% 02% 02% 02% 02% 02% 03% 02% 02% 02% 02% 02% 02% 02% 10 06 08 05 09 06 08 05% 09 06 08 05 10 06 08 05 32 15 25 06 25 13 15 04% 30 13 18 05% 24 11 15 •04 32 15 24 06 24 13 16 05% 30 13 18 05% 24 12 15 04 50 14 20 06 41 13 17 05 43 13 18 06 35 12 16 04 45 15 20 06 35% 13 18 04% 39 13 19 06 34 11 15 04 j X L King, (Oro Denero 65 33 56 28 59 30 50 25 63 35 60 30 63 38 50 30 60 82 50 28 55 30 45 27 55 32 50 30 54 30 40 28 MollieGibson .... 06 05% 06 04 06 05% 06 04 07 io42 05% 05 06% 05% 06 05 99 97M 97 93% 97% 95 96 94 1 03% 1 00 98 1 01 98% 97% 92% 3 c. qly Old Ironsides 80 70 75 50 80 73 75 60 95 75 75 60 85 65 75 50 92 24 89% 23 90 23% 88 2VA 99 24% 95 23 93 24 91 28 1 10 31 1 01 1 00 25^ 93 23% 1 03 28 99 27% 9) 26% 90 25% 3 c. qly Rambler-Cariboo. Siocan -tar 1 20 95 1 00 90 1 20 1 10 1 05 95 1 05 95 1 00 90 1 10 1 00 1 00 90 15 06 14 05 14 05 13 04 15 06 14% 05% 14 05 12 05% 16 06 15 05 14 05% 13% 05 15 06 14 05 14 05% 13 05 Tamarac Keuueth Van Anda War Eagle Winnipeg 02 oi% 01 % 02 01% 02 2i^ Ul%\ 01 Ve % % % 100 90 1 55 1 53 1 52 1 46 160 1 55% 1 60 1 56 1 60 1 56 1 58 151% 1 58 150% 26 25% 03 02 02% 02 03 02 02% 02 03 02 02% 01% 03 ■2 00 02% 02 09 07 07% 05 10 08% 10 08% 1 10 08 09 05 09 07% 08% 01% LATEST LONDON QUOTATIONS. (From the B. C. Review.) Name op Company. Paid up per Snare Alaska Goldfields..,. f.p Brit. America Corp.. f.p B.C.Develop't Assoc .f.p Dom. Mining, Dev .. f .p Duncan Mines f.p t Enterprise f-P Hall Mines f.p •^Klondike Bonanza . f.p Klondike Corp | Klondyke Consols f.p. Le Roi £5 London and B.C. Gds f.p. ''McDonald's Bonanza, f.p. • New Goldfields of B.C f.p. 'Queen Bess Propriety f.p. Velvet f-P Whitewater Mines Ymir Gold Mines Yukon Goldf'ld'snew f.p. f.p. f.p. Mk. Up Mk. up Price Price Price Price Last Aug. 13 Au. 15 July 24 Aug. 10 Week. -■ K Va K X H 14/9 14/3 14/3 14/3 14/ 1J€ IK m 1*4 i;k y y y. y y y y 9-16 y y i 1 i i 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 % y 9-16 y y 3/9 3/9 3/9 i% '1¥ 1^ IM 6% 6 7-16 6 7-16 6 7-16 ty* 1% 1% 1 5-16 W i-ya % y % y. y l 1 1 1 i y y y. y ■ y i i % y % y 9-16 y 1 11-16 19-16 i% m m 1 11-16 1 i 15-16 i % Price Au. 17. % 14/6 y 9-16 1 1/3 9-16 3/9 m 15-16 % 1 x(. 7Z 1 1 11-16 1 11-16 15-16 T THE DIVIDEND-PAYING MINES OF B. C. HE following is a list, necessarily incomplete, of i the dividend-paying mines of the province: Cariboo Camp McKinney paid, up to June, 1899, $■^11 06;; the Fern Hill, up to June, 1898, $10,000; the Hall Mines, Limited, up to May, 1899, $120,000; the Idaho, up to January, 1899, $292,000; the Last Chance, up to April, 1899; $45,000; the Le Roi, up to November, 1899, $1,305,000; the Queen Bess, up to July, 1899, $25,000; the Rambler-Cariboo, up to December, 1899, $60,000; the Reco, up to January, 1808, $207,500; the War Eagle Consolidated, up to February, 1900, $545,250; the Ymir up to November, 1899, $30,000: Athabasca, October 1st,, 1900, 5 per cent, on nominal capital. Unincluded in this list are many profit-earning properties, either owned privately or by close-corporations, of which returns are not available. J.C HARLES MclNTOSH—Barrister-at-Law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, Notary Public, PRINCETON, British Columbia. etc. Correspondence respecting all mining properties in the Similkameen Mining District confidentially handled. WT) T>AILEY & CO.,—ASHCKOrT, B.C., • J—'• -«—' Storage and Forwarding Agents, Goods received, stored and forwardedwith desp ! .10 a v noint ing Cariboo reached by wagou or pack train. Consign goods to our care ana we will settle railway charges and ship to destination with least possible delay. The Athabasca Gold Mine, Limited. 1s. Per Share Dividend. Nelson, B.C., Sept. 20, 1900. The Directors of this Company have declared a dividend of one shilling per share, or five per cent, on the Capital Stock of the Company, payable on the first October, proximo. Under the scheme of reconstruction lately carried out, the second call of one shilling per share (originally fixed for the 18th September and subsequently postponed), is due on October 18th, proximo). In the case of the Canadian shareholders, and in order to save them unnecessary trouble the following plan will be adopted: On all shares on which only the first call has been paid, the receipt for the second call will be sent to the owners of the shares as registered in the Company's books, as soon after the first of October as possible; on all shares on which two (or three) calls have been, paid the dividend will be paid by bank check to the registered owners of such shares. E. NELSON FELL, Manager. X. THE MINING RECORD. The Sunset Copper Mining Co. LIMITED. SUNSET SHARES WILL MAKE YOU RICH. '.COPPER §'. MOUNTAIN ,\Ewcf COPPER FOUNTAIN ' SIMILKAMEEN, . YALE DISTR!CT:;.B.C; 1 SUNSET SHARES WILL MAKE YOU RICH. .... OWNING AND OPERATING .... THE SUNSET MINE ON COPPER MOUNTAIN^ ^ SIMILKAMEEN MINING DISTRICT. Everyone who has seen the property renders a unanimous verdict. The Biggest & Best Mine in British (Columbia Now Is the TIME to BDY STOCK in this Wonderful Mine. It is an investment! No Speculation! Ore enough in sight to return 100 per cent, on amount invested. BDY TO»D»Y before Advance in Price. CAPITAL STOCK : 2,100,000 Shares; Par Value $1.00 each. TREASURY STOCK: 500 000 Shares, now selling at 25c. fully paid up and non-assessable Princeton r. a. brown, Grand Forks ■ ■■■■w%v-- President and General Manager. \fl ■ IA ■ ■ \J | V/l I \0 THE MINING RECORD. XI. First Quality in All Lines. s<<2i2 Mining Machinery ■\u m and Supplies. STEAM Engines Hoists Pumps Boilers f Engines GASOLINES Our Combined Geared Gasoline Engine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline Engine and Air Compressor especially Hoists AirV/OmpreSSOrS adapted for Mining Purposes Pumping Plants Mining Oars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. TABLE OF CONTENTS. THE MONTH- Page. MONTH'S MINING- Page. Capital Invested in B.C Contrasting Leadville and B.C Difficulties of the Van Anda Publication of Statistics and Mining Information Rapid Increase of Rossland Ore Shipments Le Roi shipments Pass the 100,000 ton mark Report of the British America Corporation Successful treatment of Ore at Grand Forks Hall Mines Smelter Reopened East Kootenay Mineral Production Satisfactory Progress of the Tamarac Mines, Ld.. Crow's Nest Coal for Naval Use Suggestion for State Assay Office for B.C Recent Progress on Red Mountain, Rossland (illustrated) Professor Emmons on the Boundary Creek District Recent Amendments to the Mineral Act New Tax on Mine Output Mining""Men of the Province Treatment of Auriferous Pyrites The Yukon's Coal Technical Periodicals Recent Publications Camp McKinney 386 Boundary Creek 387 Rossland 389 Ymir 391 Slocan 391 Burton City—Arrow Lakes 392 Revelstoke 892 Yan Anda Smelter 393 New Hendy Hoist 394 New Centrifugal Dredging Pump 394 Development of the Cariboo 395 Correspondence 396 Machinery Awards, Paris Exhibition 399 Producing Mines 399 Coal Exportations 400 Metal Market 400 Local Stock Market Review 400 Machinery Catalogues 401 Local Stock Quotations IX Latest London Quotations IX Dividend Paying Mines IX DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. HI. ACCOUNTANTS— Page Jacobs, E., Greenwood XVHI ADVERTISING AGENTS— Walker, C. J , London, Eng XX. AMALGAM PLATES— San Francisco G.S. & N. Plating Work s, San Francisco ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles VI. Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, Col H- B.C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C.. H. Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col H. Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal H. ASSAYERS— Holdich, A. H, Revelstoke, B.C ^^Si1 Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XYHI. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C X vK' Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C XVIII. AUCTIONEERS, ESTATE AGENTS, &C— Jones, W., Victoria, B.C XVIL BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago XI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Out., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col . IV BANKS— ^rTTT Bank of British North America J-iir Bank of British Columbia -^frr Bank of Montreal YHI BARRISTERS— Mcintosh, J. C 1-2t- CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J IV. California Wire Works, San Francisco IV Montgomery Machinery .Co., The J. H., Denver, Col.. IV Jack & Robertson, Montreal Back Cover. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover. COAL AND COKE— Page New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XXI. COMPRESSORS—(See Pumps and Compressors.) CONCENTRATING PLANT— See Stamp and Concentrating Mills. . COPPER MINING CO'S— Sunset Copper Mining Co., Princeton. ORCJSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York DRILLS—(See Rock Drills.) DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS Krogh Mfg. Co., San Francisco Lobnitz & Co., Renfrew, Scotland Page XI. XIV. Cover. VI. Back. Cover. 401 III. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Hihton, Flectric Co, Victoria and Vancouver Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria: Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C V XIII 401 IV XIII Cover. Cover. I. VII. Kll. THE MINING RECORD. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Page. Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York I. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I, Jeffrey Mfg. Co. Columbus, Ohio IH. Montgomery Mach'y Co., The J.H., Denver, Colorado IV. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Front Cover. ENGINES AND BOILERS— Montgomery Machinery Co.,, The J. H., Denver, Col. IV FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c VIII. FILTER PRESSES— Stillwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio— IV LEATHER BELTING— D. K. McLaren, Montreal 401 FIRE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. FUSE— If Bennett, Wm., Sons & Co., Agents, Victoria HI. FORWARDING AGENTS— W. Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B.C IX. GAS ENGINES— Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco V. GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS— Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XIII, Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. VI. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago XI Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV HOISTING MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V Jenckes Muchine Co., Sherbrooke, Quebec VI White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 401- Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Cover, Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XIV. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. XI. Union Gas Engine Co., San Francisco V HYDRAULIC PD?E & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. LUMBER, SASHES, DOORS, ETC.— Nanaimo Saw Mill, Nanaimo, B.C 401 MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal H. Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany XIX. MACHINERY AGENTS— Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver XVHI Heaps, E. H., & Co., Vancouver, B.C XIX. JOT Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B. C XIX. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS- Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver XVIH J C T Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C . XIX. ' MINING BROKERS— Buckworth A. Bernard, Ymir, B.C XIX Foulkes, J. F. & Co XIX. Grigor, R. W., Rossland, B.C XIX. Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, B.C XIX. Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C XIX. Hawley, John, Vancouver, B.C XIX. More, A. W, & Co., Victoria, B.C XIX. Purgold, George, Rossland, B.C XIX. MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver -^SP1- Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XVIH. West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVHI. Bromly, A. H., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Gore, Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria XVIH. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVIII. Archbold & Pearson, Nelson, B. 0 XVIII. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.C XVIII. Brewer, W M., Vancouver, B C XVHI. J C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Merry, H. E. D., Rossland XVHI. METAL JOBBERS— Robertson, James, & Co., Montreal, Vancouver. .Baek Cover. ORE SACKS— Vancouver Agency, Vancouver XIV ORE PURCHASERS— Copper King Limited, San Francisco Cover Tallon, C. J., San Francisco XX ORE OARS— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. Montgomery Machinery Co. The J. H., Denver, Col. IV PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Page Dow Pumping Engine Co., San Francisco XV. Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XHI Taylor Air Compressing Co., Spokane, Wash V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco ' 401. Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XIV. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI. Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco XIII. Stillwell-Bierce & Smith Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio.... IV. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. XI, Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co Cover PAINTS— Robertson, James, & Co., Ltd., Montreal and Van- Back couver Cover. PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng XX. Scientific Pub. Co., New York XX. PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Co , Newark, N.J XVII. ROCK DRILLS— Bullock, The M. C. Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111 IH. Howell's Mining Drill Co. IH. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VIII Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Back Cover RUBBER MANUFACTURES— Goodyear Rubber Co., San Francisco, &c XIII. STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Cover. Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco XIII. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Huntington, F. A., San Francisco XV Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col XHI. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco 368 STEEL— Canton Steel Co., Denver, Col HI, SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XVIII. Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVHl'. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XVHI J. C. T. Crofts, Nelson \\\\' xiX. Merry H. E. D., Rossland, B.C .XVHl' SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI j. Stilwell-Bieroe & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio....' IV SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XVH. Rithet, R. P., <fc Co., Victoria ..... XXH. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XX. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich XX." TOWNSITES— Allison Townsite j White Horse Townsite XIV. TRAMWAYS—(See Elevators and Conveyors.) TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co XXII Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria XXH. To Northern Mines *. XV WATER WHEELS— Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco ] VL WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman & Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &c, Victoria, Rossland, &c •, VHI. Thomas Earle, Wholesale Grocer, &c XVI. Stemler & Earle, Spices, &c, Victoria ,'. XVI. Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits, Victoria XX. Ward, Robt., & Co., Ltd., Com. Mchts. and Importers. XVH! MoLennan, McFeeley & Co., Vancouver ".Cover.* Weiler Bros., Furniture '.'.'.' XVL Prior, E. G. & Co., Ld., Hardware '.. xv". Piercy, J., Wholesale Dry Goods, Victoria XHI.' Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods \. XVI-' Turner, Bee ton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors, XVI. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, XIV Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Back Cover. THE MINING RECORD. xm. EFFICIENCY THE HIGHEST. JACKSON CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Are designed fox every use of Mining, Dredging, Irrigating or Reclaiming. May be Driven by Steam, Gas, Electric or Water Motor, direct-connected or belted. BUUT BY Send for Catalog and Price list. BYRON JACKSON MACHINE WORKS, 625 Sixth Street, San Francisco, Cal., - - - U.S.A. KROGH MANUFACTURING CO., - San Francisco, Cal. Largest and Most Successful Builders of CENTRIFUGAL AND GOLD DRE.DGING SfiQ&rl Mf& Ca PUMPS. Gold and Silver Mining and Milting Machinery of Any Capacity. Send for circulars of " Twentieth Century Cement-Gravel Process, TWO STAMP MILLS ACME AMALGAMATORS Which are admitted as having revolutionized the practice of reducing ores and gravels and and s saving fine gold. mm IMPROVED CERTRIFUGAL AND D PUMfS RAINAGE FOR IRRE6ATI0N KROGH TWO STAMP Capacity Six to TRPILE Twelve' :harge mix > Per Day. GOODYEAR RUBBER CO'Y. . . R. H. PEASE, President and Manager. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose. '• erack Proof" and ".Snag Proof. Pare Rubber Mining Boots, Rubber Slothing, MACKINTOSHES, Oil eiohing 573 575, 577 & 579 Market St., SHN FRRNeiseo, 0HL. 73 & 73 First St. PORTLAND, OREGON J. PIEReY & COMPANY, Wiiol6$ai6 Dry Goods & Giothlno Manuiaoturers Makers of the celebrated "IRONCLAD" Overalls. J. PIERCY 6t CO., VICTORIA, B.C. XIV. THE MINING RECORD. Limited. The Vancouver Agency, Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS. NOTE—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz., Calcutta Ore Sacks. I COTTON WASTE, FIREBRICKS, FIRECLAY, SMITHY COAL, LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. Our PR ICE for Ore Sacks is particularly LOW as our contract was made before the rise in the Market. Write for lowest prices to 605 Granville St., Vancouver, B ©. THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. WHITE HORSE Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. All steamers plying to and from Dawson and other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the Big Salmon can be more easily reached from White Horse than from any other locality, thus it is certain to become the great distributing centre for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beautifully situated on a level tract of land on the west bank of the Yukon River and just below the celebrated White Horse Rapid,? around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the teamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, = j®, 2k Lots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information re garding the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First Avenue South, Seattle, Wash.; and also at the office of J.J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C VICTORIA, B.C. POWDER SHOULD never BE THAWED BY DRY HEAT. Hundred of lives are annually lost by the careless methods so often employed in thawing high explosives. DON'T TAKE CHANCES! Provide your miners with a RUNDLE POWDER THAWER $500 BINS FULL PROTECTION FOR LIFE AND PROPERTY. A convenient and absolutely safe device for thawing high explosives. Zero weather means an increased loss of life from carelessness in thawing Giant powder. Don't let it be on your properties, Harry A. Lee, Commissioner of Mines, State of Colorado, says of the Rundle Powder Thawer : " It reduces the risk incurred in thawing frozen powder to a minimum, and its universal use in accordance with your instructions would save the lives of many miners annually." Mine managers who provide these life-saving devices relieve themselves of grave responsibilities. Order a Sample Thawer and be convinced of its merits. Warm water completely surrounds the tubes and the powder is kept constantly in working condition. Manufactured by THE HENDRIE & BOLTHOFF MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY CO. COR. SEVENTEENTH AND WAZEE STREETS, DENVER, COLORADO, U.S.A. THE MINING RECORD. xv. E. G. Prior & Qo., Ltd. a MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ^ ^ ^ Established i858. BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ w BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters YieT©Ria. Branch Stores: YRNe©UYER and KftML©©PS, B. e. T© NORTHERN MINES! The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Ltd., Dispatch Regular Steamers as follows, viz.: For Skagway and Wrangel, 1 For Northern B. C. Points, I Every Wednesday at eleven p.m. r Every Sunday at eleven p.m. For West Coast Points, First, Seventh, Fourteenth and Twentieth of each month at eleven p.m. The Huntington *:± Centrifugal Roller I Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the J Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, *«™«™«**<* Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines, Shingle Machines. Room i, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, | SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, .. DOW PUMPS .. -ARE MHNOFHeTDRED IN- Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, Rir, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMPS, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUriPS MAKE KNOWN YODR WANTS T© THE -"^ GEO. E. DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. XVI. THE MINING RECORD. BRITISH COLUMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BR0S., VICTORIA, B.e. LENZ c£ LEISER, 9 &n yates street. IMPORTERS OF — GENERAL DRY GOODS. MANUFACTURERS OF CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for tl)e r\poter)ay and KJondik;e Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You flust THE CELEBRATED have "CROWN BRAND" Pure W 'RICKSHAW Ceylon TEA For sale only by Java and Mocha f Thomas Earle) If you will have TH E BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 50 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, | J VICTORIA, B.C. Proprietors IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION riERCHANT. | Teas and Coffees a Specialty. 1 **^* 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., 33 Pinsbury Circus, London, Eng. WHOLESALE | MERCHANTS. Dry Gk>ods, Liquors, Cigare, Flour, Etc. goods indented from all par:s Manufacturer© of Clothing, Etc. -0F THE world... TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. THE MINING RECORD. XVII. MISCELLANEOUS. Robt. Ward & Qo., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Baainghall St., London. E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Eoyal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co. The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assurance Corporation (Marine). La Foncicr Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. . SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and "Amberite" (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited. Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. "SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. PLATINUM REFINERS New York Office— 121 LIBERTY STREET. W E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM. BAKER & CO., —NEWARK, N. J. Of Interest to Incorporated Companies. We have at considerable expense acquired the copyright of a book for the use of Companies incorporated under " The Companies' Act " of British Columbia, in which to keep a record of the following : Register of Members. Register of Directors or Managers. Summary of Shares and Capital. Register of Shares Transferred. The book contains suitable conveniences for correctly keeping all the detail set forth in the Act, and the summary of shares and list of shareholders can be arranged for any term wished for, the stock pattern allowing for 10 years business of the company. It is a matter of fact that most of the share dealings in British Columbia are contained in books which do not comply with the Act being copies of American models called Stock Ledgers, and not suitable for the purpose ; take for example the numbers of the shares, and also the amount paid or agreed to be corisidered as paid on the shares held by any member. If you are interested send us an outline as to the number of shareholders you at present have, and how many have ceased to be members during the past year and we will quote you for a book good for say 10 years business. For a small company we can supply a book carrying all the above information for $8.50. B. C. PRINTING. & ENGRAVING CORP., Ltd., VICTORIA, B.C. BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. HALF TONE and COLOUR WORK A SPECIALTY. BOOKBINDERS— Magazines, Periodicals and Music Books bound in First-Class Style and at Lowest Prices g£F~ Orders by Mall Receive Prompt Attention. BLANK BOOKS— Ruled, Printed and Bound to order All work guaranteed. XVHl. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET, j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Proyincial and Dominion Land Snrayors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. Five Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. A. H. BROMLY, M. I. Mech. E., M. Inst. M. E. M. Amek. I. M. E. Mining and Consulting Engineer. Code:—Bedford McNeill. Eldon Street, LONDON, E.C. ' Christopher, London." P. O. Box 308, VANCOUVER, B.C. (" Bromly, Vancouver.") GORDON H. HARDIE. NICHOLAS THOMPSON. HARDIE & THOMPSON, Marine and General Consulting Mechanical Engineers- 520 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegrams " Gardie." Telephone 767. Plans, Specifications, Estimates, Working Drawings, Surveys and Reports. Also Contracts taken for Supply, Erection, Supervision, or Repairs and Alterations to all classes of Machinery. Patentees and designers of the Hardie- Thompson Water Tube Boiler, New High Speed Reversing Engines, and Special Machinery in Light Sections for Mines. Engines indicated aud adjusted. Sole Agents In B. C. and N. W. Territories for the United Flexible Metallic Tubing Co , Ltd., London Eng. Stock Carried. Unequalled for Conveyance of Steam, Air, Oils and Gas. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence In West Kootenay. "'S&SfiS&XZIEf Reports on Slocan Properties. Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, HI,*,., Ha «.»«%.- D f* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing* Neal's. WCW uenVei, D.U. HReHBOLD St PEHRSON, MINING ENGINEERS AND ASSAYERS- Cable Address: Archpear, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeill, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H. HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST „ua METALLURGIST. | Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa Works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience In Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold ? 50 Lead 60 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, 0GOEN ASSAY CO., 1429>16th St.. DENVER, eolo. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Wines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. 0. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. M.I.M.M. ASSAYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testingand Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO.. LTD.. Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co.. Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-19 Pender St., VANCOUVER, Assayer In charge of Provincial Government Assay offices, Vancouver. John Redman, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. Outhett, R. C. Sc. Chemist and Metallurgist. REDriAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and Analyses guaranteed accura'e. Write for Interesting information about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. fl. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - • VANCOUVER, B. C. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F.I.C. Assayer and Metallurgist, VERNON, B.C. Honours Gradnale in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. SPECIAL ATTENTION TG SAMPLES BY MAIL. W. A. BAUER, D.L.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. A. S. ASHCR0FT, D.L.S..P.L.S. Greenwood, B.C BHCER & aSHeROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. YHlVeOUVER and GREENWOOD. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51 g Hastings Street^MM VANCOUVER, B.C. E. JACOBS, Accountant, Auditor, Etc. GREENWOOD, B.C. Books of Account Opened, Balanced or Audited. Accounts Kept Reeularlv or Examined Periodically. Assigned Estates Wound Up. THE MINING RECORD. xix. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. J* Fortescue Foulkes. N. B. Van derGucht. J. F. Foulkes & Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Fouvan." All codes used. J. C. T. CROFTS, M.I. Mech. F. NELSON, B. C. Box 676. * MACHINERY, AERIAL TRAMWAYS, ETC., SUPPLIED AND ERECTED. Wire Rope and Flexible Metallic Tubing from Stock. PLANS. DRAWINGS. ESTIMATES. R. W. GRIGOR, MINKS ROSSLAND, B.C. Operating in East and West Kootenay with special knowledge of Windermere division and Fort Steele, of East Kootenay, Trail Creek, Nelson, Slocan, Lardeau, Boundary, Similkameen and Okanagan in West Kootenay District. Personal knowledge of mining properties in all the above- named subdivisions. Special attention given to the Windermere division at present. Cable Address : GRIGOR. Use Bedford McNeill's and Moreing and Neal's codes. JOHN HAWLEY, MINING BROKER. British Columbia Mines Bought ar:d Sold. Only First-Class Properties Handled. 611 Hastings. St., VANCOUVER, B. C r Bedford-McNeill, Codes-! Moreing & Neal, ^ Clough's. One of the Oldest Established Firms in Bossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines S. THORNTON LANGLEY & CO, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. P. O. Box 178. ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Olough'8, and A.B.C, Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Representing—Cowan & Co., A. R. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . George Purgold, Stock and Share Broker. '.•, Rossland, B.C Wallace Building Columbia Avenu P. 0. Box 73. Cable Address: Purgold. Codes : A.B.C, Fourth edition Moreing and Neals, Cloughs and Bedford McNeill's. Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best 'workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY. Cable Address: " Buckworth," Yqpir. A. BERNARD BUCKWORTH I MINES " YMIR, British Columbia. Personal knowledge of mining properties in this district. Correspondence invited. Commissions undertaken. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neal's. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. i. «JL. XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &©. ... IT IS N© G0©O . . „ ] Advertisinq in the f British Press Unless You Understand How to Approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT Who can adTolZXL*? &™lbusiness at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. 6. J. WALKER'S "British and Canadian Press Bureau," Jj34 Coleman St., London, E.©. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: London, E.C. OFFICES : Salisbury Square, E.C. PRICE SIXPENCE. 46 Queen Victoria Street, PUBLISHING 3 Dorset Buildings, EVERY SATURDAY, The subscription to The Miking Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 mot ths. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. 1\. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25;Blbw; pipe Assay, $10 J Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. An Engineering School with unique location gi ing it unusual fatilities. Distincti e methods of ii struction. Special courses. For atal< gues givifrgl occupation of graduatis, address . W. McNAIR, Presi lent, Houghton.-ftliehi W. JONES I The City (Established 1885.) AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, ESTATE AGENT, Etc. Auction Mart, 73 and 73& Yates St., VICTORIA, - - B. C. Auction sales of every description conducted at our spacious rooms, or at Vendor's own premises, highest prices obtained, satisfaction guaranteed before disposing of your goods. You will find it greatly to your interest to consult us. Highest of References from past and present clients. Houses, etc., to rout and for sale in all parts List your properties with us, good clients always wailing. All business entrusted to us • eceives strict and personal attention. Money to Loan in Large or Small Amounts OPEN EVENINGS. TELEPHONE 294. REFRfteTORY ©RES. WANTED—1,000 tons or more which will assay $75.00 Gold per ton and over delivered free of charge at San Francisco, Cal. Correspondence solicited. C. J. TALLON, No. 308 Market Street, * San Francisco, Cal. A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED . . Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Will shortly be at liberty. Would willingly take whole or partial charge of a Reduction Plaut. Can keep books if required. Would start an independent Laboratory in any new district if sufficient work was guaranteed. Address " Accurate," care Ediior, B.C. Mining Record. M. R. SMITH I GO. ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OB* HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. VICTORIA, B.C. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VIII. 1899. (Edited by R. P. Rothwell), 8vo. cloth. Profusely Illustrated. Price $5 00, postpaid. Among the many valuable technical treatises embodied in this present notable volume are the following, written by pre-eminent, international experts on their various subjects : Corundum and Emery (L. S. Ropes); Corundum in Ontario (Courtenay DeKalb): Progress in the Aluminum Industry in 1899 (J. B. O. Kershaw); Occurrence of Asphalt in California (4. C. Cooper); Notes on the Met illurgy of Bismuth (W. Borchers); Method of Recovery of Bromine in Germany (B. C. Hinman); Calcinm Carbide (J. B.C. KerBhaw); Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States Fn 1899 (F. H. Lewis); Chrome Ore Mining in Canada (J. Obalski); Notes on the Metallurgy of Chromium (W. Borchers); Notes <>n the coarse Hottery Production of Great Br.taiu (W. P. Rix); Fuel and Its Economical Utilization(*. Kent); Progress in the Electrolytic Refining of Cupper in 1899 (T, Ulke) Hofmann's Method for the Manufactuae of Blue Vitriol (O. Hofmam'); Extraction of Copper from Burnt Pyrites by the Henderson Process (J. G. Clemmer); Fluorspar in the United States (E. E. Squier); Copper Mlnihg in New South Wales (L. Janin, Jr.); Cuttingand Polishing of Precious Stones (L. Clare- mont); Glass—Analysis of and Methods of Manufacture (R.Linton;; Gold Dredging in the United States (A. Grothe); Progress in the Cyanide Process (L. Janin, Jr.); Moebius' Electrolytic Process for Parting Gold and Silver (M. W. lies); Nickel and Iron Alloys (8, Souther); World's Production of Petroleum (C. E. Z. Caracristi); Electrolytic Manufaciure of Phosphorus (W. Borchers); Progress in the Electrolytic Chlorae Industry in 1899 (J. C. B. Kershaw): Electrolytic Production of Chlorine and Caustic Soda A. T. Weightman); Liquid Anhydrous Sulphuric Acid (F. M*ejer); Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid Stronger than Chamber Add (F. J. Faiding); Galena— Jonlin Lead and Zinc District (E. Haworth); Mining and Milling of Joplin 0res(F Nicholson); Uses of Liquid Ajr (T. O'C. Sloane); Mine Timbering (W. E. Sanders); Progress In Ore Dressing in 1899 (R. H. Richards). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. XXI. VANCOUVER ISLAND COftL. COAL! COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. | (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAiriO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) * SOUTHFIELD COAL (Steam. Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE. SOUTHFIELD COAL is now use(l by all the leading steamship lines.on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. -pj_||= PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and, is shipped from wharves both at Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the. tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SHMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt, Nanaimo. B.e. XX11. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS f ATLANTIC to PACIFIC WITHOUT CHANGE Lowest Rates. Best Equipment. * TO ALL POINTS IN Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. B. P. RITHBT & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND YERNON MILLS, YERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries ; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England ; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 51. Taking effect July 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, except Monday, at 7 o'clock a.m., Sunday at 12 midnight. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1.30 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C. P Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. For Moresby and Pender Islainds—Friday at 7 o'clock a. m. For Plumper Pass—Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 o'clock a.m. 1 .e&ve New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Thursday and Saturday at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper at 7 o'clock, a.m. For Plumper and Moresby Islands—Thursday at 7 o'clock a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at S o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naas and intermediate ports via Vancouver on every Sunday night. ALASKA EOUTE. Steamers of this Company leave for Wrangel and Skagway every Wednesday at 11 p.m. . BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound porto the 1st, 7th, 14th and 20th at 11 p.m. Extending latter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON. C S. BAXTEB, General Freight Agent. Passenger Agent The Hudson's Bay ComDanv Baie de Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Iiethbridge HAVE AT Lower Fort Garry fflacleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Sat Portage Biding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods, at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. FELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswerk, Actien Gesellschaft, Mulheim on Mine. Oldest and most renowned WIRE ROPE FACTORY On the European Continent. WIRE ROPES of every Description for Mining Purposes Round and Flat Wire Ropes Z^SXl^X- clines, Towing, Ploughs, Cranes, Etc. " Albert," or so-called " Lang's " Lay Ropes QDCPIAIT1CQ ■ Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patent Flat- orLOIHLIICO ■ tened Strand Wire Kopes. Electric Wires and Cables for Telegraphy, Telephony, Electric Light and Transmission of Power WIRE...—Jack & Robertson. 7 St. Helen St., MONTREAL. The James Robertson Co'y, Limited, | VANCOUVER, B.C. J Sill Manufacturers of LeadPipe, Lead Traps, White Lead, Beady Mixed Paints.Shot Saws, Colors in Oil, Varnishes, Lacquers, &e. Jobbers in Wrought Iron Pipe. METALS. Office and Warehouse, - 151 Hastings St Phone 629. VANCOUVER. Head Office, Montreal. (Mar Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Brass Globe, Angle and Check Valves. WRITE FOR PRICES. BRANCHES, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, VANCOUVER. o Gold Mining A few Mines who Use. British Columbia. Sultana Mine. Foley Mine. Mikado Mine. Olive Gold Mine. Cameron Island Mine. Hammond Reef Co. Le Roi Mine. War Eagle Mine. Monte Christo Mine. Centre Star Mine. Crown Point Mine. Slocan Star Mine. CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO., smm * THE With. Hampton Manufacturing Co. LIMITED. *ng Machinery. We are the sole manufacturers and agents for the Wilfley Table in Canada. It is in use in every part of the world where gold and silver mining and milling is carried on. By careful tests and long continued work in regular milling operations it has proved its superiority over all other concentrators. We claim the following for the Wilfley Table : ist. It will successfully handle three or four times more material than any belt concentrator made, without any exceptions. 2nd. It will save more concentrates in proportion while so doing and will catch any float gold, amalgam or quicksilver, which may escape from the mortars or plates. 3rd. It will make cleaner and more valuable concentrates, thus saving useless expense for transportation of valueless material, and also reducing the smelting charges. 4th. It requires little or no attention when once adjusted and no expert is required either to adjust or run the machine. 5th. It will save much expense in power and room as compared with mills using other concentrators. 6th. It has no expensive belts to crack and wear out and no complicated machinery to keep in repair. I Capacity 15 tons per day Power required : 1 H.P. Length over all 19 feet 6 inches. Width ;;# ^ 8 feet. Price of table, f.o.b cars, Peterborough, Ont., $450.00. Shipping weight .-M, 3,300 lbs. Head Off ice & Works : PETERBOROUGH, ONT. Branch Offices: Vancouver and Nelson, B. C. PUBLISHED BY "THE MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. TUIC lunuTU ) THE BBITANNIA MINE, HOWE SOUND, (Illustrated). I niO IYIUN I H. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY IN THE SIMILKAMEEN DISTRICT. SVOL.VII. NOVEMBER, 1900. No U The Hinton Electric Company, Limited. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA, B. C. VANCOUVER, B. C. The Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. MAKERS OF Electrical Mining: Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. C. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Our British Columbia Beanches at VICTOR/A. VANCOUVER. THEfOOPPER KING, LIMITED. THE PACIFIC COAST SMELTING & REFINING WORKS. MINES: Fresno County, Cal. WORKS: Seal Bluff Landing, Cal. ^^ Purchasers, Samplers and Smelters of Gold, Silver and Copper Ores, and Furnace Products. OFFICES: 222 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO, California. Basildon House, 7 & 11 Moorgate St., LONDON, E.C PRICE, 20 CENTS. 4JL Cannery Supplies. We are as usual headquarters for supplies and this year have a larger stock than ever and at prices that are right. Pure Manilla Rope. Cotton Rope. Rubber Belting. Leather Belting. Cut and Wire Nails. Galvanized Boat Nails. Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil. Genuine White Lead. Copper Paint, Red Oxide. Bar iron, etc., etc. And everything you ask for we will have it for you. Mail orders receive prompt attention. McLennan, McFeely & Go, LIMITED, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, 122 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C RAND COMPRESSORS LEAD. The following extract from letter received from the Centre Star Mining Co., Rossland, B.C., shows that the highest DEGREE OF PERFECTION HAS BEEN ATTAINED :—■ " We are pleased herewith to enclose result of test run on our 40 Drill Compressor. This test was run under our own supervision as per agreement. The Compressor delivered during the run the guaranteed 3,960 FEET OF FREE AIR AT 62.7 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, WHILE THE MAXIMUM SPEED IS 70 REVOLUTIONS. We wish to congratulate you upon your success in building a compressor which in every way has proved to be satisfactory. Yours truly, THE CENTRE STAR MINING CO., Limited Alfred C. Gardie, Chief of Construction." THE CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO. F. R. MEN DEN HALL, Agent. Rossland, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Greenwood, B.C. Montreal, Que. m FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK 8gaj£? Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). ffi, MINING • MACHINERY |Tjf-! iT-TH* H~n-iti.,<nyr~-dinH ageB^*aafe ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION : Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's , Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables. Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT -==>. COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leaching COAL WAS HIN G P L A N T—Large Testing Station for Crushing and Dressing Ores at the Works. AGENTS- ===== For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 85 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 399, Johannesburg, S.A.R. DOUBLE=ROPE TRAMWAY. VULCAN ROPEWAY (Single Rope System.) Office 505 Mission St. Works, Cor. Kerney and Francisco Sts. . . LINK-BELT ELEVATORS and CONVEYORS, Por Handling Ores, Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc. PICKING TABLES, Shaking ^Revolving Screens Coal Washing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys, Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. LINK-BELT" COAL AND COKE BREAKER, LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., E-M?;h-in?s^d^ ROBINS BELT CONVEYORS Are Shown In this Cut as SORTING BELTS. REPAIRS ANDSHUT DOWNS SAVED BYTHEIR USE Send for Illustrated Catalogue. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT COMPANY, PARK ROW BUILDING, NtW YORK. 11. THE MINING RECORD. HSSHYERS' SUPPLIES HND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. No 0 Prec^s^on Balance, 5-inch Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughout; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue " A " to WM. AINSWORTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TEETZEL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY, MINING AND Write for Catalogue. MILL SUPPLIES- [E are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific, and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chemicals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. # P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegraphic address: Assay," Vancouver, B.C. * Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING ^ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Pepalrs and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., L MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851.- Incorporated l8gc. ASSAYERS' HATERIALS, Hine and Hill Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan CruciMe Co,,' Battersea, England, Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker <& Adamson's Acids. ■ Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices, Headquarters for Mining and scientific hooks. Pacific Coast Agents for Wm* Ainsworth & Sons' Assay and Analytical Balances. Illustrated catalogue on application. JOHN TAYLOR & CO., 63 First St, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. THE MINING RECORD. ill. DIAMOND DRILLS, FDSE, ETC. eaNT©N steel e©., Branch Warehouse '. 1601 to 1613 17th Street, DENVER, e©L©. Send for 1900 STEEL LIST containing letters of endorsement and useful information. Equal to * Jessnp or Firth's Steel in Rock Work. WORKS : CANTON, OHIO. ^'CANTON j» EXTRH DRILL STEEL, WaRRSNTEO. This Brand is especially adapted to hard rock mining and is USED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE GREAT LE ROI MINE. -■;§§ Ask Your Dealer for ©HNT0N STEEL,- Every Bar sold under Guarantee to give PERFECT SATISFACTION. NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE NOW READY- Elevating=Conveying Machinery. Send for Copy. THEJEFFREY MFG CO. Columbus, 0 iUUOCl ^GSBULLOCK MANFG. CO. ■H 1 MACHINERY CHICAGO, U.S.A. IMPORTANT T© GOLD MINERS Hnd Manufacturers of Mining Machinery. SILVER-PLATED AMALGAM PLATES For saving Gold in'Quartz, Placer and Beach Mining. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Only Refined Silver and Best Copper used Fifteen Medals awarded. Old Mining Plates can be Replated Old Plates Bought or Gold ' Separated. Our Plate-* have been used for 55 years. They have proved the Best. We adhere strictly to contract in weight of Silver and Copper. Send for Circular. San Francisco Gold, Si Iver & Nickel Plating Works 652 Mission St.. San Francisco, Cal. E. G. OENNISTON. Proprietor. Theodor Lexow Nos. 12 to 16 John St.. near Broadway, J NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechanical Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. THE HOWELL'S MINING DRILL COMPANY, PLYMOUTH, PA., Manufacturers of MINING DRILLS of every known description. Catalogue sent upon request. BENNETT FUSE! REGISTERED IN CANADA.. Grown TRADE Brand. MARK. Supplied under contract to British Admiralty. WM. BENNETT, SONS & CO., ManUfaCtUrerS, London Offices, Baltlc^hamber«,'.o8 Bishopsgate St., Ts snaranteed absolutely waterproof. It is Gutta-Percha, will neither crack nor break. Costs no more than tar-taiie fuses. A3k vour dealer for it Give it a trial. We manufacture the following, fuses for Canada: No. 6—R E D fuse for dry ground. No. 80— va/UITF countered fuse, waterproof. No. 36—BLUE double layed damp-proof. Samples and prices on application. Pope's w n' • E Miner's Safety Match, Miner's Safety Coupler. ROWLAND MACHIN, S"^1 No. 3 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. CABLES, WATER WHEELS AND COMPRESSORS. TELL U5 WHERE YOU'RE AT, 4 CENT5 PER TON PER MILE Is what it costs to transport Ore with our systems of Aerial Wire Rope Tramways. We also manufacture a lot of other kinds of good common sense Mining Machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Concentrating Mills, Placer Machinery, in fact about everything in machinery used around a Mine, Mill or Smelter. We would like to send you oar books telling you all about it, but we can't do it unless you write us WHERE YOU'RE AT. The J. H. Montgomery Machinery Co., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF AERIAL TRANSPORTATION MANUFACTURED BY THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Engineer* and Contractors an<1 sole licensees in North Am- ■ erica for the Bleichert-System. Also Wire Rope, Equipments of Surface and Underground Haulage, Etc. Chicago Office—1114 MONADNOCK BUILDING T'.fHallidie Ropeway ,mProved Qmp pulley _= | *«~**«a^*a^ ^V^r TT J Patents Nos. 483,442; 610,353. For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOHICAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cableways, Transmission by "Wire Ropes. incline planes. cable Grips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Logging by Cables. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, cable. Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. FERGUSSON & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. GALIFORNIA WIRE W0RK5, 7 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. a a ■ ^ issum^ aaa aWk aaah ^at a a m aaa «b& —manufacturers of— WATER POWERsThe-V^o""-Turbine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. 293 LEHMAN ST., DAYTON, OHIO U.S.A. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lachine Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufacturing Co., Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & light Co Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL, AND MINE SUPPLIES. POWDER SHOULD never BE THAWED BY DRY HEAT. Hundred of lives are annually lost by the careless methods so often employed in thawing high explosives. DON'T TAKE eHHNeES! Provide your miners with a PAT.N0VZil8?a| MMlUFACTUPEDajMl THE l()filE &-JTS3 DENVER COLO. RUNDLE POWDER THAWER $500 Buys FULL PROTECTION FOR LIFE AND PROPERTY. A convenient and absolutely safe device for thawing high explosives. Zero weather means an increased loss of life from carelessness in thawing Giant powder. Don't let it be on your properties, Harry A. Lee, Commissioner of Mines, State of Colorado, says of the Rundle Powder Thawer:— " It reduces the risk incurred in thawing frozen powder to a minimum, and its universal use in accordance with your instructions would save the lives of many miners annually.'' Mine managers who provide these life-saving devices relieve themselves of grave responsibilities. Order a Sample Thawer and be convinced of its merits. Warm water completely surrounds the tubes and the powder is kept constantly in working condition. Manufactured by THE HENDRIE & BOLTHOFF MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY CO. COR. SEVENTEENTH AND WAZEE STREETS, DENVER, COLORADO, U.S.A. 1 o o a o o o o v o 0 5 © o"o"fl o"o^o^ow*^wo**o"o-ovV*o""o g.lU.. ..»....-■»_■ _«_LJ.._ I ■ -*f DETAILS... In the making of riveted Steel Pipe its the LITTLE DETAILS that count. Its the LITTLE DETAILS that receive our closest attention. Each plate of steel from which our pipe is made must be the best In the market, but no matter what its reputation, we carefully inspect it before making it up. Then the riveting and caulkingare most carefully done. Each LITTLE DETAIL of manufacture must conform to the one idea of making the best pipe in the country—to stand the most exacting tests to which a pipe could be submitted. ARHSTRONG & HORRISON, Iron and Steel Works, Manufacturers of Hydraulic Steel Pipe, Mining and Waterworks Plants, Ore Cars, Ore Buckets, Engines, Boi'ers and General Machinery. Telephone 280. P.O. Box 51. Office and Works foot of Heatly Ave., VANCOUVER, B.C. -<?«?-«• •<^>J^(- n Branches; GREENWOOD, NELSON and ROSSLAND, B.C. 4/%. Hoisting MD Winding Engines 1 Rnd Appliances for all Purposes. VkTE offer improved designs and a wide range of sizes and styles to make your select- ion from. Special ENGINES and MACHINERY also built to specification. Send us your prints or outline your requirements, and we will be pleased to submit you an estimate or proposal. A GOOD LINE of Standard Hoisting Engines, Cars, Buckets, etc. carried in stock at Rossland Warehouse, for quick delivery; also Wire Rope, Sheaves and General Mine Supplies. The JENCKES MACHINE ©©. 32'40 Lansdowne Street, SHERBROOKE, QUE A A. VI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY, ETC. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Engines [Engines IT-;.t„ I n.j.i. Our Combined Geared Gasoline En- IlOlala _ . __. ._._J JlOlSlo gine and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline Pitmne uAbULINtS » ; Tntrinrpeeftre EnSille and Alr Compressor especially rlllupS AllL01IiprebS>0r!> adapted for Mining Purposes. Boilers [Pumping Plants |g Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. -MANUFACTURERS OP AND DEALERS IN- Hydraulic / Quartz Mining / Milling Machinery - COMPRISING HYDRAULIC GIANTS, CONCENTRATORS, WATER GATES, SMELTERS, SHEET IRON and HOISTING and STEEL PIPE, PUMPING PLANTS, STAMP MILLS, SAW MILLS, ORE CRUSHERS, MINE and MILL ORE FEEDERS, SUPPLIES, Etc., Etc. Catalogues and Prices Furnished TJpon Application s HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT "WATER WHEEL. HAMILTON POWDEk CO'Y. ■ (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers ot High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office: MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICES: WORKS: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland and Greenwood, NANAIMO. THE BRAUN Ore Sample Crusher and Pulverizer. Manufactured by F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angelos, Cal., U.S.A. For crushing and pulverizing small quantities of ore, by either hand or power. All bearings being brass, It is Light Running and more easily operated by hand than any laboratory machine of its capacity on the market. Write for our new descriptive pamphlet in which' all our new specialties are fully described. May be obtained from B. C. Assay & Chem. Supply Co., Ltd. VANCOUVER, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. vu. ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COM PAN Y, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont. BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MRNUFHeTURERS OF Electric | Mining | Apparatus Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM _WR.ITE US. BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ROSSLAND. I VANCOUVER. ^ Vlll. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. T^ JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd, o—. MONTREAL, P. Q. Mm INGERSOLL-SERGEANT MACHINERY, ROCK DRILLS, Straight Line, Duplex, and Corliss Air Compressors. Complete Mine Equipment of all Kinds. Agents for Bidlock Diamond Drills. Catalogue and Details on Application to [ R. A. C. McNally, Rossland. B. C. H R. Kirkpatrick, Greenwood, B.C. W. A. Maclennan, Vancouver, B. C. The Brackman=Ker Milling Co., Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia. nanufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. (Registered.) Unequalled in the World. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton. B.&K. Established 18X7. BANK OF MONTREAL. lJSF3tW2Si£lnU CAPITAL (all paid up), $12,000,000.00. RESERVE FUND, $7,000,000.00. UNDIVIDED PROFIT, $427,180.80. HEAD OFFICE, ------- MONTREAL. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., President; Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice-President. A. T. Paterson, Esq.; Edward B. Greenshields, Esq.; Sir. William C. Macdonald; R. B. Angus, Esq.; A. F. Gault, Esq.; - James Ross, Esq.; R. G. Reid, Esq. E. S. CLOUSTON, - - - General Manager. A. Macnider, Chief Inspector and Superintendent of Branches. I F. W. Taylor, Assistant Inspector. W. S. Clouston, Inspector of Branch Returns. | JAMES AIRO Secretary BRANCHES IN CANADA :— Montreal—H. V. Meredith, Manager. Province of Ontario—Almonte, Belleville, Brantford, Brockville, Chatham Cornwall, Deseronto, Fort William, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton Kingston Lindsay, London, Ottawa, Perth, Peterboro, Picton, Sarnia Stratford, St. Mary's, Toronto, Toronto Yonge St. Branch, Wallaceburg. ' Province of Quebec—Montreal: West End Br., Seigneurs St. Br., Point St. Charles; Quebec. Lower Provinces—Chatham. N.B.; Fredericton, N.B.; Moncton, N.B.; St. John, N.B.; Amherst, N.S., Halifax, N.S.; Sydney, N.S. 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IN the course of the next two or three weeks we shall issue a special Christmas supplement of the Mining Record which we have every reason to believe and hope, will be highly appreciated by our readers. At least no trouble or expense has been spared to bring the number up to that standard of excellence worthy of the occasion and warranted by the present importance of our mining interests and the rapid advancement of our industrial progress. Some idea of the contents of the number may be gained from a perusal of the circular or prospectus enclosed herewith, but to this we should like to be allowed to add a word that with one exception in the way of a short story—and perhaps even so steady- going a periodical as the Mining Record may once a year, and at Christmas time, relapse into fiction,— all the articles and literary contributions are the work of local writers; such drawings as have been required are by local artists; the photo-engravings—which we venture to assert are quite equal to plates made by the best firms in New York and Chicago—have been prepared by a local firm in Victoria; and we do our own printing of course. We shall leave it to our readers to pronounce whether the result as a local enterprise is not creditable. THE MONTH. THE eminently gratifying results which have attended the operations of the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic company in the Quesnel River division this season sufficiently justify the opinion Mr. Hobson has consistently expressed for several years ' past regarding the possibilities of properly-directed hydraulic mining enterprise in certain localities of the historic Cariboo district. After hydraulic pos- a run of 68 days' washing with SIBilities in 2,750 miners' inches of water a cariboo second clean-up was made at this district. mine on October 1st, the product, after the process of melting, being a gold ingot, weighing 9,040 ounces, and valued, at $154,765. The returns would, we are informed, have been still better, but for an unfortunate and exasperating loss of time, entailing a suspension of operations for twenty-four days, owing to the non- arrival of explosives due to the impassable condition of the roads between Ashcroft and the company's property. This, notwithstanding, the mine has already produced this year gold to the value of $290,- 040, and a period of nearly two months of this season yet remains in which hydraulicking operations may be carried on. It is, therefore, reasonably safe to predict that the gold yield this season will come within measureable distance of trebling the output of any previous year since the inauguration of the undertaking in 1894, and represent considerably more than half the aggregate production made during the preceding five years. According to a statement in the manager's report for 1899, the total expenses up to and inclusive of that year, were $439,026, and the total gold yield, $528,000. Consequently a profit was then shown of nearly $89,000 under the difficult circumstances of performing deadwork in the direction of clearing out old workings, opening up the hydraulic pits for continuous and profitable operation, installing plant and equipping the mine. Operations were, however, commenced this season with the equipment practically completed, and thus for the first time the mine has been worked under really favourable auspices as the returns show. It is possible JL 4°4 THE MINING RECORD. -^ ftlH B e Oo *0 c 2 S3 - OJ oo 15 rt Eo C--i S£ 03 IS > o bo m to calculate with far greater exactitude the resources of a hydraulic property than it is to estimate the value or to gauge the capabilities of a quartz lode and the compution that in the area controlled by the Consolidated Cariboo Company are available for washing by hydraulic process five" hundred millions THE MINING RECORD. 405 jof cubic yards of high-grade auriferous gravel, which with an average gold tenure of twenty cents per cubic yards, places the total gold contents at the enormous valuation of one hundred millions of dollars, may be considered as reasonably reliable. Even with the present working costs, which no doubt will in the future be somewhat reduced, production should hereafter show a profit over expenses of at least a hundred and fifty per cent. From these figures some idea will be gathered of the industrial potentialities of hydraulic mining in a district such as Cariboo where in most localities the existence of extensive deposits of auriferous gravels is known, and the economic conditions are not wanting. Now that Mr. Hobson has practically demonstrated the profitable nature of the great undertaking over which he has charge at Bullion, there is every reason to expect that capital will be forthcoming to engage in enterprises of a like character, though perhaps on not so large a scale, not only in the Quesnel River district, but in Barkerville, where the indications are promising, and also in new territory along the gold-belt to the northwest. Our Boundary Creek correspondent includes in his news letter, published elsewhere in this issue of the Record, such information respecting the causes of failure of the Winnipeg Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd., and the proposed arrange- the ment under which it will be oos- winnipeg sible to continue operations. Last reconstruction June we referred to the misleading statements that had previously been published in connection with the Winnipeg mine. We then quoted from a report of an interview with Mr. Duncan Mcintosh, formerly president and mining superintendent of this company, published in the Rossland Miner of October 19th 1899, as follows : "There is 20,000 tons of ore in sight which will run from $20 to $30 per ton. There are now 2,000 tons of ore on the dump ready for shipment." In view of the fact that the company has been compelled to suspend operations, after having shipped only 1,200 tons of ore, it is perhaps now permissible to enquire* whether Mr. Mcintosh really did make the above- quoted statements to the Rossland Miner, and if he did so whether they were made in ignorance of the actual condition of the mine, or with the object of influencing the market price of the company's stock, of which he was at that time understood to possess a considerable holding. No reasonable objection can be offered to any promoter making money out of his mining ventures so long as no grossly misleading statements are published to help him to do so. Among the present holders of Winnipeg stock are many who have been so misled, possibly unintention- ■ ally, so it- will be in the interests of mining in this province generally and in the Boundary district particularly, to have more light thrown on this Winnipeg fiasco, the causes of which appear to have existed, prior to the present management assuming control and direction of the company's operations. The Boundary has not hitherto had its fair name greatly besmirched by the operations of money-getting mining schemers, but the glowing statements published some time since respecting the Morrison.mine, followed as they were by collapse and re-construction, and now by the Winnipeg, with the probability of others to come, make it imperative in the best inter ests of that important section, which has at length entered upon the stage of extensive production, that the dishonest practice of exaggerated booming, of mining prosperties, especially those having stock on the market for sale, be exposed and unreservedly condemned. The bonding of the Woodstock and Lome gioups of claims to an English syndicate for the considerable sum of $225,000 should mean, provided tiie properties under consideration prove upon further development as valuable as would now appear, a gr&t deal to the Bridge River district. An interesting paper was recently read before the Canadian Mining Institute by Mr. Fritz Cirkel, on the subject of the recently discovered leads in this camp, and in a letter to the last issue of the Canadian Mining Rcviczo, Mr. Leslie Hill supplements the general information contained in Mr. Cirkel's paper by a particular account of the Woodstock and Lome group. To quote Mr. Hill: There appears to be two systems of parallel veins in this camp, one of which has a strike of X. 70° E. mag. and dips about 700 to the north, and the other having a strike of N 45° E. and a slight dip to the X. Y\. One of the former veins was discovered in 1897 and was developed by a shaft sunk to a depth of 70 feet and by some open cuts. The values and the width of the quartz in this vein appear to be irregular; some good ore was found, and when the bond under which this work was done was thrown up, the owners built an arrastra operated by an overshot water-wheel and took out $800; this was in the fall of 1898. In the same year float from a richer vein- was discovered, but the vein itself was not located. The whole hill is covered with wash to a great depth and the float has been carried a long way from the veins, entailing a large amount of surface work in tracing the veins. Two veins belonging to the second system were discovered in 1899, and the owners erected two more arrastras. In 1899-1900 two veins were discovered on the Woodchuck, a claim adjoining the Lome; one of these veins belongs to the first group and one to the second, and they cross each other near the mouth of a tunnel driven on the second vein. The veins having a strike of N. 450 E. appear to be the main veins on this hill. They are very regular and well defined, averaging about four feet wide, and on the Lome claim the ore chute on one vein is proved by tunnel for 300 feet in length and 130 feet in height and is traced further by open cuts. The quartz varies from white to bluish grey and very little gold is visible to the naked eye, though careful examination with a glass shows frequent fine free gold. The gold is associated with iron and is free milling, even where the iron is not. decomposed by exposure. The quartz is well banded parallel to ■ the dip of the vein and there is a strong heavy gouge between it and the country rock. The three faces on these properties which were being mined and milled in the arrastras at the time of my visit gave the following values in gold and silver from large and carefully taken samples, viz., $40.46, $42.83 and $34-98- The formation is an eruptive granite rock and from all the indications one would expect permanent veins. Mr. Fritz Cirkel in his account of this camp speaks very strongly of the regularity and strength of these veins. But the really remarkable and interesting feature about these properties is the fact that the 406 THE MINING RECORD. prospectors who discovered them have, without any capital and entirely by their own labour, been able to develop them and bring them to a producing and paying position. The owners of the Lome group have built three arrastras and the owners of the Woodchuck group two arrastras. At the Lome one arrastra produced in 1898, $800 from a two months' run on ore taken from the cross vein first discovered. In 1899 they commenced to run on the main veins, and from July 1st to the close of the season in October they produced $6,564.96 with three arrastras. This year up to August 6th they had worked 204 arrastra days, producing 446 6-i6th ounces of bullion. This bullion sold according to the returns from the United States Assay Office at Seattle, where the gold was purchased for $16.34 per ounce before melting. The duty of an arrastra will average one ton per day, making 204 tons milled, and producing $7,293.76, equal to an average of $35.26 per ton milled. During 1899 the ore was picked and only the best was sent to the arrastra but this year they have milled the quartz just as it comes from the stopes and have also milled some of the second-class quartz left on the dump last year. The Woodchuck arrastras have also been worked this season; 9 tons milled and cleaned tip during my visit, producing 17J ounces of bullion worth $290.03, and averaging $32.22 per ton milled. The last cle.an-up from 14 tons is said to have produced $800, or an average of $5714 per ton milled. Considering that these high values obtained at the Lome mines are from an ore chute of some 300 feet in length, a great future may be predicted for this camp, and I believe it is the only camp in British Columbia where the owners have been able to develop a gold property for themselves and without capital. Much agitation has been carried on, much has been written and said about the diversion of the northern trade from Victoria and Vancouver to Seattle. Most people are perfectly clear on the injury done to Canadian business and the evil effect of this state of affairs upon the development of Victoria and Vancouver. It never seems to have occurred to anyone to investigate the actual and assignable cause of the difficulty. People talk vaguely about the establishment of a Canadian mint, the establishment of a government assay office and so forth vague remedies for an evil of whose effect they are conscious but which they have never analysed, and specifics of the working of whose remedial effects they are ignorant. Canada does not particularly need the gold. Gold is interchangeable all over the world. Canada can buy all the gold required in New York or London just as easily as in Vancouver. The gold itself is not what we are after. It is the wealth which the gold represents we desire to see circulating in the country in which it is produced, fertilising Canadian manufactures, stimulating Canadian agriculture and invested in Canadian securities. We wish to inject the buying power of this gold into the veins of Canadian trade. Unless the question is presented in this way it is quite impossible to get people living in the East to interest themselves in the matter. Otherwise, under the influence of that bemusing and obfuscating parochial opthalmia which is the curse of this country east, west, north and south, they are too apt to consider that the establishment of a mint is merely an ingenious scheme to bonus the cities of British Columbia at the expense of the public treasury. The next consideration is how, if it is merely th< trade in gold, not the gold itself which is most wanted, is it that this trade has not been estabhshet through the ordinary channels? How it is that \v« have not private assayers, bullion brokers and bank.- in Victoria and Vancouver to handle this commerce? Whv is it that it must necessarily be a function m government if it is to be established at all? The reason is so plain, so simple, so obvious that it is astonishing that it has not before now been appreciated and the evil remedied. The United States pays at Seattle a premium on gold over its commercial value at any common point on the Pacific Coast In this way. The mint pays the full value of the gold less a smelting charge, which is not enough to cover • the cost of smelting and then transmits the gold at government risk and charges to San Francisco 01 Philadelphia. This premium amounts to about 1 pel cent, of the value of the gold. That is to say, the mint at Seattle pays from 20 to 25 cents more pel ounce of fine gold than a bank or private broker ir Victoria and Vancouver can pay and resell withou loss. Naturally all the gold goes to Seattle and the trade with it. The miners have no greater interest in Vancouver or Victoria than any other class of tourist. The first thing done by the United States government when the Yukon became a great gold producer was to make the point most convenient to the miners the best market in which to dispose of their gold. By this simple means the acute Americans made that point the centre of attraction <and thus monopolized the trade. If Canada is not as acute as the United States it cannot be helped. There is always reserved the privilege of admiring what we have not intelligence enough to initiate, nor common sense enousrh to imitate. "The Kootenay lead mining companies will shortly find themselves in an unpleasant position if the prediction of J. N. Hill, president of the Spokane Falls & Northern and the Kootenay Railway & Navigation Companies, proves to be correct. To G. O. Buchanan of Kaslo, who was in Nelson yesterday, Mr. Hill stated that the American smelters were overstocked with lead ores, having more on hand now than the supply of silicious ores in sight would enable them to handle. The inference is, of course, that the market for lead- ores from this district is cut off, and Mr. Hill's solution of the problem is that the lead miners of the Kootenay must begin to smelt their lead ores irrespective of a dry ore supply. If a supply of coke at $5 or even $7 a ton could be secured; a smelter on Kootenay Lake could reduce lead ores at a profit, but the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company's output of coal and coke alike is not what, in Mr. Hill's opinion, is a reasonable production from their coalfields, and will have to be substantially increased before a lead smelter proposition would be a safe venture." The above very interesting paragraph is from the Nelson Tribune, a paper whose mining news is both accurate and descriptive above the average. It refers to a movement in the silver-lead industry in the United States which must have important and far- reaching effects upon the smelting industry in British Columbia. The growing preponderance of wet ores in the United States is a natural result of the heavy decline in the value of silver which has made that metal less profitable to mine for its own sake and where it was not in conjunction with some other THE MINING RECORD. 407 metal. A great many of the smelting dry ores of the United States are valueless except for the silver they contain. The check given to silver mining by the heavy decline in value has been sufficient .0 occasion a deficiency in the supply of this kind of ore. The inference, however, that "the lead miners of the Kootenay must begin to smelt their lead ores irrespective of a dry ore supply," is fortunately invalid; and if that is Mr. J. N. Hill's solution of the problem Mr. Hill ought to know more about this country's resources than he does. If the premium on British Columbia wet ores were to disappear, as it is disappearing, in the United States; if at the same time the lead miners were compelled to pay the same duty as they do now to market their product; and *f the cost', of smelting were proportionately increased by the disappearance of this premium: "the outlook for the silver-lead mining industry would be. rather blue. Because although silver is improving in price from the very cause bringing to an end this premium, lead for the same reason is not likely to be very long a progressive market: and lead is the predominating partner in the case of the largest mines such as the North Star and San Eugene. No one, however, should know better than Mr. Hill that there is a sili- cious ore dump at the Le Roi mine which contains no copper worth saving, but from $6 to $8 in gold contained partly in a free state and partly in iron sulphurets finely distributed through the rock. This dump contains 120,000 tons now and any quantity of similar rock can be mined any time there is a demand for it. As fluxing material it will keep oace with the silver lead output of Brilish Columbia for some time to come. A considerable quantity of it has already been used at the Trail smelter for ihe very purpose of smelting with lead ores which is now under consideration. So that out of apparent evil good will come. The loss to the silver-lead miner will be lessened to himself and more than made up as regards the country by the gain on the 1ow-grade silicious gold ores. And a"great net gain will be' made in this way, that a great industry will be built up in Canada, built up in the best and strongest way by the operation of the natural laws of commercial advantage. It may be a compliment to British Columbia that lead ores are being shipped to Chile to be treated. It would be a more solid advantage if they were shipped to Nelson or Trail. Until the Mining Record is much better informed on the special conditions existing than it is, it will always seem to it that a great commercial opportunity is being lost when the owners of such a silver-lead property as the San Eugene, who also control such large bodies of low-grade silicious ore as exist in the War Eagle and Centre Star, do not combine their treatment at a common point instead of working at second-hand in such widely separated localities as the banks of the Columbia River and Antafugasta in South America. A number of the financial and industrial newspapers devoted to mining have lately been discussing the relative, professional abilities of American and English mining engineers, in view of the fact that the former apparently secure the plums of the profession in all parts of the world. It seems to be.a fact that American mining engineers are practically more capable than their English confreres. The reason is not far to seek, indeed it would be most remarkable if it were otherwise, ft is certainly not due to an inherent superiority of mental calibre, but entirely to the conditions under which mining science has been developed in the United States. New problems have confronted the American engineer at every turn both in mining, metallurgy and the handling of 01 e and rock in far greater numbers and possessed of infinitely greater complexity, than those presented in any other country. Consequently the premium has not been upon thorough knowledge of and careful adherence to the best precedents, but in the initiation and invention of new methods and processes. This difference in environment was once exceedingly well illustrated by an anecdote. At a certain race meeting a young boy had a trotting horse which could run away from anything in the field. An old stager who was to race against him asked him how he drove so well. "Oh!" said the youth; "I read Brown's book on trotting and I always do just what he says I should do." When the next heat came off the old stager whipped up his horse, locked wheels with the boy and tipped him into the ditch. As he passed by he yelled out: "What does Brown tell you to do now?" The objection that this was an infringement of the rules may be passed over as irrelevant. As a matter of fact in mining,-nature infringes all rules and does so very frequently, and it is well to have some other resource than Brown's book when the cart is in the ditch. The American mining engineer has to be more than a man who knows theoretically and practically the science of mining as it exists; he must be prepared to add original data to that science to meet new problems. In a country whose mineral resources were hardly touched, and where much of the mineral wealth was not amenable to mining science as it existed the prizes upon successful invention and originality were naturally huge. That is why a body of mining science and practice has been developed in the States with which no other country can hope to compete except one. That country is Canada. But before Canadian science can compete with the States it must go to school there and learn all that is to be known now, just as the engineers of the States went to school in Germany. There are two ways of doing this: the first is by importing the engineers of our big mines who will establish an up- to-date standard of practice, just as the United States imported its first engineers from Freiburg; the second is by sending our budding engineers to the States to learn all that the best science and practice, particularly the latter, has to teach. In connection with this would it not be a patriotic act if some of our Eastern millionaires, who have made large sums of money out of mining, were to establish a travelling scholarship in connection with some one or other of our Canadian mining schools ? The hope of winning such a scholarship which would be a passport to the most remunerative occupation our mining industry had to offer would induce more to enter the profession of engineering; and the scholarship would also give young Canadian engineers the opportunity of establishing a mining practice in Canada equal to the best developments in the United States. For the eight months ending 31st August the United States exported 5,550,960 tons of coal and coke compared with 3,717,004 tons in the corresponding period of last year. Of this amount Canada purchased 3,710,982 tons • in comparison with 2,589,039 tons during the corres- 40S THE MINING RECORD. ponding period of last year. That is to say that two thirds of the export trade in coal and coke of the United States is with Canada. Canada's trade in coal and coke is worth twice as much to the United States as all the other foreign countries with which that country deals in these commodities put together. During the same period the United States exported in pig iron and the most important products of iron and steel 616,968 tons. These products vary, some increasing, some decreasing. But a very notable increase took place in the export of steel rails which jumped from 158,737 tons to 256,276 tons. Of pig iron and its products Canada took 87,158 tons in comparison with 40,700 tons for the corresponding period of last year. Canada was therefore a customer for one-seventh of the total exports of pig iron and its products. The reason why the proportion of the products of pig iron taken by Canada is not so great as the proportion of coal would not be at all comforting to ironmasters of the United Kingdom. It is that Japan, Australia and the British Government in Africa are also large customers. The explanation that these are overflow orders may be the correct one but we gravely doubt it. They may bear a small relation to the total of British exports of the same ma: terial to the same countries, but they are serious indications of a capacity to compete successfully just the same. Canada, however, took more of these products than any other two countries put together. There is something entirely wrong in this. Canada has as great or greater resources of coal and iron as the United States has. Canada has had as long a time to develop these resources as the United States has had. Canada is as accessible to the markets of the world as the United States is. Canada should be an exporting and not an importing country of the products of pig iron and steel. . Another local company, the Fairview Corporation, has lately, through the familiar medium of a circular to shareholders, announced the fact that it is in serious trouble. The Fairview Corporation has experienced a very checkered career as a more than usual number of unfortunates have reason to know. An effort was recently made to sell out to an English company, but for the present at least the attempt has failed. Mr. W. A. Dier, of Victoria, who appears by-the-way to have been more successful than the majority in securing the few plums the Fairview Corporation has afforded, has meanwhile brought an action against the company to recover an amount of $3,650 due, or alleged to be due him. Mr. Dier has been asked to stay proceedings for two months to enable the directors to call a meeting of shareholders to consider the situation. In the event of a refusal on this creditor's part, it is stated, that an assignment will be the only course open. On the other hand, ft is proposed that an assessment of three cents per share should be levied on shareholders, by which means funds would be provided sufficient to meet the liabilities, amounting to $21,000, and "furnish all machinery necessary to make the mine a paying concern." The circular further states that "there is ore enough in sight to keep a forty-stamp mill running, constantly for three years, and the showing in the faces of the drifts in both values at every point is good, being all in ore." The value of this ore is not mentioned, though it is pointed out that "other companies are paying tremendous profits on ore worth less than half that of the Fairview Corporation." If this is the case, other considerations being equal, why has not the Fairview Corporation ere this—and it has surely had time enough to make a beginning— paid, moderate, let alone "tremendous," profits? The above statement must be regarded as an admission of incompetency or it is misleading. With the exception of the Cariboo mine, which has. declared another dividend of l-£e. a share for the quarter ending September 30th, Camp McKinney is not at present making a particularly good showing; though it fs satisfactory to note that arrangements have been made for a resumption of operations at the Waterloo. Meanwhile an extraordinary general meeting- of the shareholders of the Fontenoy Com- pany was held this month at the company s head office in Victoria, for the purpose "of considering the position," the concern being in debt and without funds to satisfy creditors or to continue operations. At the meeting only one director was present and he expressed a doubt as to his standing in this regard. This is merely an indication of the utterly irresponsible and unbusinesslike way in which the company has been managed, or rather mismanaged, in the past. In fact the conduct of the directorate is open to the strongest censure. From the very beginning, when by systematic puffing, a boom was created for the shares at fancy prices, up to quite recently, when the company was allowed to get into debt: We shall take an early opportunity of referring to this matter again. The present month has been particularly disastrous to certain local concerns, which in more than one instance could be not inaccurately described as "wildcats." Whether or not the Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Ltd., comes under this category is an open question, but it is indisputable that the concern was outrageously boomed and some of the methods in which the company's business has been since conducted, particularly in regard to the unwarranted payment of a dividend some time ago, have been little short of disgraceful. Meanwhile, the other day the property was seized by the sheriff to satisfy claims amounting to over $13,000. It is alleged that the concern got into difficulties by the failure of many of the shareholders to pay calls, but it is also asserted that the present trouble was precipitated by Mr. S. Thornton Langley, the promoter and a director of the original Okanagan company. Mr. Langley, it appears, brought an action against the present company to recover an amount of $1,161 which lie claims was due him. This in itself was a justifiable enough course, but if as the directors affirm, Mr. Langley, after first selling out the majority of his shares at remunerative prices, adopted this course as a retaliatory measure for having been asked to resign from the Board by his co-directors, his conduct can only be described as scandalous. Mr. Gordon Hunter, who we believe represented the Government of British Columbia in a recent important mining inquiry at Rossland, made through the columns of the local press a truly marvellous suggestion for the development of prospects through government assistance. He suggested, if he was not mis-reported, that the government should devote a fund of $500,000 to the development of prospects THE MINING RECORD. 409 under the direction of skilled experts retaining 10 or 15 per cent, of the property to repay the money so expended. The paid-up capital of the first five development companies taken at hazard from an alphabetical list of those floated in England alone is $9'975>00°- These companies have as a rule retained 100 per cent, of the properties developed to cover risk of loss. Yet in spite of Mr. Hunter's opinion that in their operations they have robbed the prospector of his due, they have not so far made such colossal profits that 10 or 15 per cent, of the developed property would be amply sufficient to cover the risk of loss involved. But to argue in this way is to take Mr. Gordon Hunter seriously, something no one is likely to do except presumably himself. We are willing to do ample justice to his sincerity at the expense of his intelligence. The Hon. Mr. Turner stated at Rossland the other day, that so far as he knew, the grant in aid of the local School of Mines was not yet available. As, however, we are now in the winter season, when the chamber work at least of such an institution can well be carried on, the Minister of Mines might certainly do worse than expedite the payment of the grant to the Rossland institution, on conditions of course securing its use to the best advantage. During the first two months of its existence as a going concern the Granby smelter at Grand Forks has shipped $105,000 worth of copper matte. During six weeks of that period the smelter was only operating one stack of a capacity of 300 tons a day. For two weeks it has been operating two furnaces of a combined capacity of 600 tons a day. It is now treating 18,000 tons a month of copper ore. Eighteen thousand tons a month is higher than the average production of Trail Creek has ever been. Grand Forks possesses wonderful advantages from a smelting point of view. It is already beginning to draw ore from the Republic camp in the State of Washington It has therefore low-grade iron ores, high-grade copper ores and high-grade silicious gold ores to draw from, as well as great natural advantages in the way of flux fuel and power. It would be difficult to exaggerate the possibilities of industrial development here contained. For many a day the problem has been for Grand Forks to get railway connection with other places. That problem has now been changed. Other places begin to figure on the possibility of getting railway communication with Grand Forks. The establishment of a converting plant there for the manufacture of metallic copper is the next progressive step and is already under contemplation. THE TAXATION OF MINERAL OUTPUT. (By David B. Bogle ) THE reason why it pays to mine a large tonnage of low-grade ore may be expressed in the following formula: As the value of ore mined decreases in arithmetical progression the tonnage which it is possible to mine increases in geometrical progression. It is not necessary here to attempt to prove this formula. It is not claimed that the relation between the progressions is exact. This would necessitate the establishment of a unit of decrease in the value of ore per ton. All that is insisted on is that the relation between value and tonnage accommodates itself by ah infinite series of gradations to a general principle of which this formula is the expression. This is uni versally admitted. The action of this principle may be illustrated by certain interesting calculations, but instead of doubling the total quantity of ore in the mine with each decrease in value let us assume that with each decrease in value per ton of one dollar there is twice as much ore developed as was in sight of the grade immediately higher. Let us suppose a mine to have been purchased and developed at a capital cost of $300,000, where the fixed expenditure per ton to extract the value is $7.50, distributed as follows:— Breaking and raising $i-50 Smelting 3.00 Refining and marketing 3.00 Total $7.50 Here we beg anyone who reads this article and thinks that under the practical conditions of mining ore cannot be broken and raised for $1.50 a ton to stop and read no further. The article is not for him. The figures have been arbitrarily chosen with a view of illustrating the principle involved. It is the variation of results under them not their actual amounts which is important. Let us further' suppose that in this mine the result of development is to expose 100,000 tons of ore of a value of $10 a ton. Here it is obvious the cost of development has been $3 per ton. We have therefore the following result:— Va^ie Tons.' Gross Cost -Result. per Ton. per Ton. $10 100,000 $10.50 Capital returned minus |50,000 Now let us suppose that there is also plenty of $9 ore in sight. Under the opening supposition we get the following result:— Va!ue Tons. Gross Cost Result per ton. per Toh.- $9.33 300,000 $8.50 Capital returned plus $249,000. Observe that neither of these ore bodies would have been profitable in themselves. The first would have involved a loss of $50,000, the second no loss indeed, but no profit. Combined they show an exceedingly satisfactory profit. Now let us suppose the $8 ore in this mine to be brought to bear and that there are 400,000 tons of $8 ore in sight. The result of operations is as follows :— Va£,e Tons. Gross Cost Result, per Ton. per ton. $810.5714 700,000 7.928 Capital returned plus $450,000, To go after this body of ore for its own sake would have involved a loss of $100,000. For purposes of convenience we now adopt 50c. as our unit of decrease in value. The result under the formula is as follows:— Val"e Tons. Gross Cost Result per Ton. per Ton. $8 1,500,000 7.70 Capital returned plus $450,000 This of course may be easily verified by the very simple consideration that 800,000 tons of ore have been mined and treated for exactly what it cost to mine and treat them. The profit must naturally be the same as it was at the previous stage considered. Some very important principles in mining finance are illustrated by these calculations. One of these is that it pays to mine all ore in sight which shows the smallest fractional profit over the fixed cost of extracting its value. The treatment of such a tonnage 410 THE MINING RECORD. decreases the average cost of development per ton in a very marked degree. Thus we find in the case given above that the $10 ore in the mine was burdened by a charge for resumption of capital of $3 a ton, whereas at the point where the highest aggregate profit is made it was only burdened by a charge of 43 cents per ton. In other words the value of a mine depends much more upon the number of tons which can be mined than upon the net profit per ton over the fixed cost of mining. A practical exemplification of this principle is seen in the well-known fact that the capital value of low-grade mines is nearly always greater than the capital value of high-grade mines. Another vety interesting principle is also brought out. It is that the aim in mining is to mine the largest number of tons of the lowest gross contents per ton possible. A mine is successful according to the degree in which the gross value per ton of the ore mined is reduced, provided always, that it covers the fixed cost per ton. Few people grasp this very elementary principle. Those who ought to know a great deal better sometimes shake their heads when they see the gross contents per ton of the Rossland ores falling steadily year by year. That is the very thing which guarantees the progress, stability and permanence of the district. Another important consideration which follows from the principle illustrated above is that the capital cost of purchasing and equipping a mine is of very small importance. It is worth while spending almost any amount of money to effect a reduction of 50 cents a ton upon the fixed cost per ton. The fixed cost per ton is everything in mining, the capital cost and cost of development comparatively speaking nothing. A reduction of 20 per cent in the former might and frequently does enhance the latter a thousand per cent. The working of this process is obscured by the fact that most mines are overloaded with a false capital at the start. They do well if they live up to the exaggerated value set upon them by greedy promoters. Some exceedingly valuable laws in reference to the population of mining districts, their industrial prosperity and taxable resources may be deduced from the principle we have been illustrating. It will be readily seen that the country gains the same benefit in the way of supporting a permanent industrial population from the raising of one ton of poor ore as it does from the raising of one ton of rich ore provided the cost of raising a ton of Slocan ore is three times the cost of raising a ton of Trail Creek ore. Then the Slocan with an output of 30,000 tons of ore per annum will support an industrial population exactly one half as great as Trail Creek with an output of 180,000 tons per annum. It may of course be a better "poor man's country" in the way of affording better opportunities to those who wish to invest their labour or speculate with their brains. That is not the point. We are now discussing the number of those who wish to sell their labour who can find a market in the respective countries. What may be called the secondary taxable resources of a country, a mining country, depend directly upon the industrial population which that coutnry is able to support. Therefore the taxable resources of the Slocan under the imaginary circumstance we have assumed would be one-half those of Trail Creek. But the wealth produced from the two districts would, under those conditions, be practically the same. Their primary taxable resources would be equal. From this it may be deduced that a tax upon mineral output is not only convenient to the revenue, but essentially just in principle. When, however, we come to consider the incidence of this taxation some very important lessons are taught by the arithmetical calculations we have already made which are essentially true in reference to the facts of mining although cut and dried by the necessary limitations of that mode of illustration. Let us observe the incidence of the present tax of two per cent, upon these cases. Value Per Ton. Tons. Gross Cost. Result. Tax. 10. 100,0L0 10 50 - 50,tOJ $ 9,000 9.33 300,000 8 50 + 249.000 19,999 8.5714 700,000 7.928 + 450,000 35,980 8. 1,500,000 7.70 + 450,000 60,000 The want of equity in this tax is that part of the fixed cost per ton of ore is not exempted from taxation. In our examples this has been placed very low, $1.50 a ton. Consequently the inequality in the tax does not come out in such a glaring way as if it were higher. In order to better exemplify the bearing of the tax imagine a case where the fixed cost of breaking and hoisting ore is $3 a ton. It is obvious that under the tax this is increased to $3.16. Now let us imagine that a body of ore is developed in some mine equal in tonnage to all the rest of the ore in the mine where the profit of mining it is only.10 cents per ton over the fixed cost of mining and treating it. That is a very narrow margin to work on. But the tax reduces the margin from 10 to 4 cents. Observe that the working of this ore means a doubling of the population supported by this mine and a consequent doubling of the secondary taxable resources of the district in which it occurs. The effect of the tax is to prevent this from happening. It strikes a blow at population, at the production of wealth, at the taxable resources of the community without adding one cent to the revenue because the ore in question remains in the bowels of the earth. It is not necessary to try to exempt the development cost per ton of ore from taxation. The more ore mined the smaller this becomes per ton. And in any case no conceivable tax short of absolute confiscation would bear any relation to what the owners of a mine place on it as its capital value. The output of the Le Roi mine is taxed to resume a capital of $5,000,000, at its market price, of $9,000,000. If it were only taxed to resume a capital of $8,000,000 and the remaining million paid into the treasury of the country no drawback would have been placed on its productive powers present or to come. Its promoters would have made smaller profits, that is all. Not that anyone outside a lunatic asylum would advocate such measures of taxation. The instance is merely given to show that development cost per ton need not be exempted from taxation. But the cost of breaking and hoisting ore is on an entirely different footing. It is an important item in the fixed cost of mining any increase to which has a vast influence upon the tonnage of ore mined on which, as has been shown, the population and prosperity of the country depend. How this cost is to be ascertained and exempted depends on wholly different considerations outside the present scope. But exempted it must be. Of course a tax of two per cent, is very small. But what guarantee is there that the mineral tax will stay at two per cent. The province must have revenue and mines are its greatest THE MINING RECORD. <n resource. Once embarked on a wrong principle of taxation, there is nq limit to the suicidal injuries which the province of British Columbia may inflict upon itself. Heavy taxes we must have and heavy taxes we must cheerfully pay out of the great resources of the land. But we cannot afford to perform surgical operations, upon the domestic fowl which lays the golden egg for the purpose of enhancing our revenue. fM x* MINING MEN OF THE PROVINCE. IW\ R. JOHN R. GIFFORD, manager of the Hall 11 »■ Mines at Nelson, was born about 50 years a°r> near Tavistock, Devon, England. At an early age he went to Spain for Messrs. J. Taylor & Sons, assuming charge of iron mines in Asturias and quicksilver mines in Aragon. In 1875 he was sent to Mexico to take charge of La Ley and St. Rosalia copper mines, which were afterwards sold to the Rothschilds and are now known as the Boleo. Later on he became manager of the celebrated old silver mines Rosario in Linaloa, Mexico. Mr. Gifford was also on the Comstock and Bodie in its palmy days and had charge of a number of properties both in California and Nevada. He then spent two years exploring for a California syndicate the mountain ranges of Southern Nevada and Arizona. Ill health, the result of exposure, however, compelled him to temporarily give up active professional work, but later he devoted much of his time to examing and reporting on mining properties in Colorado, Nevada and Canada. In 1899 he resigned the position of general manager of the Ontario Boulder Gold Mining Co. to take charge of the Silver King mine, at Nelson, B.C., and after the re-constructon of the Hall Mines, Ltd., he was given the management of all the mining properties owned by the Hall Mining and Smelting Co. &Mr. John R. Gifford,' Manager of the Hall Mines.^Nelson, B.C ECONOMIC GEOLOGY IN THE SIMILKAMEEN DISTRICT. (By W. J. Woterman, M.E.) *"T HE study of geology from an economic stand- 1 point is becoming more universal, so much so that some of the large mining companies, such as the Anaconda, Calumet and Hecla, etc., find it pays them to employ a geologist as such in the same way they employ an engineer or an assayer. The days when the cry was "Gold is where you find it," have to some extent gone by as although the aphorism is as true as ever its application can be much amplified by a certain amount of geological knowledge. The truth of the old adage, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" being, however, nowhere more pertinently applicable than in the case of mining. A large proportion of the papers in the transactions of the mining associations of the world are on the genesis or enrichment of ore bodies and veins and monographs on these and allied subjects are being published every day. The mining district of which I am writing includes the watersheds of the headwaters of the Tula- meen and Similkameen Rivers, and is tributary to Princeton, which is situated at the junction of these two streams. Both to the amateur geologist and professional miner it is an exceptionally interesting one. It includes most of the formations represented in British Columbia and the variety of its minerals of economic importance within a comparatively small radius would be difficult to beat anywhere. Roughly speaking it may be represented as consisting of many ancient and modern (from a geological standpoint as to time) valleys or lake basins now filled with tertiary measures either of sandstone, coal, fire-clay, etc., or of later volcanic rocks covering these deposits in part, and these valleys having been eroded from the older crystalline rocks which form the ancient floor. The accompanying plan and section will to some extent illustrate this although the smallness of the scale on which it is necessary to draw and the want of accurate surface surveys render it difficult to make the point very clear. It will be noticed that the mineral areas are indicated by minerals and each district will be briefly dealt with in rotation. No. 1. This consists of a narrow belt of black slates with impure limestone, probably a continuation of the section exposed on the Hope trail 25 miles from Hope and which is there heavily mineralized with iron oxides, sulphides, etc. At the headwaters of the Tula- meen River, however, the mineralizations consist of lead sulphide and galena ores with some chalcopyrite and blende. Assays have in many cases been high in silver and up to 100 ounces and 65 per cent lead. The blende is sometimes too high for free smelting. Pyrr- A 412 THE MINING RECORD. hotite is also present and may increase with depth. A quantity of these ores have been packed out to Hope and providing a good waggon road were built could with advantage be shipped to the coast. A little further east and abutting on this slate belt is an ancient crystalline mass of very basic rocks (2). This is represented on the river by a rock of coarse crystallization of quartz, lime and pyroxene. At the head of Slate Creek this is almost a pure pyroxenite, is placed shered to a schist and much serpentinized with many small and at least one workable vein of fibrous serpentine unsealed asbestos. Quartz veins are numerous, and in all cases carry values in gold and copper. The country rock is heavily impregnated with chrome iron and magnetite and there is little question but that this is the mother country of the platinum which is found in all the creeks draining this watershed. Numerous assays have, however, failed to prove the existence of this metal in situ on the veins and it is probably scattered through the country rock in fine grains or in conjunction with the chromic iron. The adjoining hill between Cedar Creek and Collins Gulch are as illustrating the curiously broken character of the geology covered with a heavy capping of volcanic breccia and trap which outcrops in the Tulameen River just above the junction of Otter valley and immediately east of this is a considerable basin (part of it possibly underlying the volcanic rocks) of early Tertiary coal measures carrying a very good class of coal with 60 per cent, of carbon (4 on map). It is quite possible that these measures may overlie the original drainage channel of Granite Creek which is at present undoubtedly flowing in a recent channel. This could only be proved by boring. The configuration of the ground at the heads of these creeks, which have all been valuable placer grounds, would seem to indicate that apart from later erosion from visible quartz veins there has been considerable concentration going on from some long existing drainage system which has left patches of an ancient valley filled with gravel on the tops of the highest mountains and which it would appear ran in an opposite direction to the present drainage. Parts of this old channel are probably covered both by the coal measures and the adjoining volcanic rocks, which, it is possible, may have been the means of directing the direction of the drainage. This is particularly applicable to area 5, which is largely granitic, and where swamps and small lakes are filled with gravel. In this area, as in 3, numerous quartz veins are found carrying sulphides of iron and copper,with varying values in gold. Serpentinization is everywhere apparent, and erosion has been so great that the present quartz veins probably represent a section of the veins thousands of feet below the original surface. Between 5 and 6 the Tulameen River has cut deeply into a series of green stone and dioritic rocks which are capped by heavy masses of porphyritic rocks which show in the river further down towards Princeton as filling the whole vallev with very high perpendicular bluffs in the canyon. The green stones, etc.. show numerous iron croppings of veins along the bluffs, some of which are being exploited as claims. This portion of the river bed was rich in gold probably due to these veins. The volcanic rocks men- tioined above cover both the edge of this series and also of the tertiary basin surrounding Princeton and filling the valley of the upper Similkameen. Going down the Tulameen we meet the first outcrop of coal measures about two miles above Princeton in the form of an immense bluff of very highly colored rocks varying from the deepest vermillion to salmon pink, orange, blue and deep black. The shales of which this is composed are interspersed with thin layers of silicious sinter, evidently due to thermal action. It is from this coloration that the old name of the junction of the Tulameen (Red River) and Similkameen (Yellow River) takes its name of Vermillion Forks. It has evidently been caused by the burning of underlying seam or seams of coal which has oxidized the contained sulphides, something perhaps also being due to thermal action by which the silicious sinter and adjoining volcanic breccia were formed. It was at one time a source of considerable profit to the Indians who traded it as war paint, etc., with neighbouring tribes, the deepest tint being exactly that of Indian red. It makes very good paint, which has been used locally, but there being no facilities for grinding, it remains gritty. For exploiting on a large scale it would probably be difficult to obtain enough of one tint. On following down stream to Princeton many outcrops of coal are seen in the river bed, their strike approximating east and west. These same outcrops appears in the Similkameen River on going south from Princeton. Immediately at Princeton an eight-foot seam of coal has been to some extent developed by a 60 foot drift and though owing to the proximity to the surface it has probably not reached the extreme of surface oxidation it gives an analysis as follows, an average of many: Moisture 4.5 Volatile matter 37.5 Fixed carbon 50.0 Ash 7.5 99-5 Burnt in an open fire it leaves a small quantity of white and pink ash, throws out a good heat and lasts a long time. It makes a very good blacksmith's coal, giving a good heat, and the small percentage of sulphur not materially affecting the weld. It clinks under the blast and requires stirring. It has made good ccke in the laboratory. The outcrops of four seams of workable thickness are exposed in the river banks over a distance of nine miles south of Princeton, though owing to the folding these may be only the outcrops of two seams. The basin in which these ccal measures lie is about nine miles long by four broad and the edges being on three sides overlain by later volcanic rocks, it is probably much larger. Owing to its being surrounded on all sides by mountains carrying minerals in paying quantities any question of fuel for the reduction of these ores becomes of great interest and in this connectioin should be noted the existence of several excellent beds of fireclay. Some of the sandstone makes excellent building stone. The coal measures are the bedrock for benches of gravel all more or less auriferous. These benches have been and are the subject of exploitation by hydraulic companies. Water is fairly plentiful and the gold content quite enough under ordinary conditions to pay well for hydraulicking on a large scale. The gravel is very heavy and there being no clay or 414 THE MINING RECORD. quitious Chinaman builds many wing-dams every year, and the fact that it is impossible to obtain Chinese labour when river mining can be carried on would seem to indicate that the work is remunerative from their point of view. The benches vary much in value. There appear to be two pay streaks, one right on the surface and one on the bedrock. In one place several thousand yards washed by the Vermillion Forks Mining Company indicated a gold content of 12J to 15 cents per yard, and in a lower bench nearer the river of nearly 30 cents. This latter would, however, require dredging or elevating, as the channel is below the present river bed. This claim was not worked this summer, as owing to the extremely light snowfall it was not considered worth while clearing ditches, etc., for a very short run. The water supply as at present used being only obtained from two small creeks with a system of reservoirs. Higher up the Similkameen above the coal basin the benches are more easily workable, owing to the existence of heavy seams of clay and sand and the duty of the miner's inch is consequently much heavier. Some of the low-lying flats are eminently suitable for dredging. The existence of gravels underlying these tertiary coal measures is a very interesting question which could only be solved by boring. The question of the origin of this gold which must in the aggregate amount to an enormous sum, is as yet a problem, though it appears probable that the erosion of the immense mass of Copper and Whipsaw Mountains with its quantities of low-grade copper-gold ores may account for it to some extent. The proportion of platinum which amounts to as much in some cases as one-quarter or one-fifth of the weight of gold washed, would seem to indicate that some of the erosion must have taken place from the west, as the only known source of this metal is in the area spoken of above on the Tulameen. Areas 7 and 8. In following up the Similkameen River the outcrop of the Tertiary measures mentioned above are covered by a thick bed of volcanic rocks apparently of a porphyritic character. Other cappings of a like nature occur on the northern end of Copper Mountain being more andesitic in character and the later floes being very loose tuffs and breccias. Nearly all these floes can, it appears probable, be traced to a mountain situated on one of the tributaries to Wolf Creek near the point marked "volcano" on the map. This mountain is a well defined volcanic crater of which one wall has burst away, leaving a high red bluff, on the other side making it an easily recognized peak from any point. In the bluff layers of ejecta are visible to a great height. Some of these layers carry very fine nodules of chrysopease and chalce- donic matter. Large trunks of silicified trees are also to be seen and the approach to opal is in many cases so close that perhaps closer search might discover some of gem value. To return to the Similkameen River. Below these volcanic beds the crystalline rocks of Copper and Whipsaw Muntains appear. As showing that these rocks represent a very ancient massif it may be noted that the decomposition at the original surface has extended for a horizontal distance of nearly 300 yards on the river banks, making it appear almost schistose at a distance. The nature of this rock varies locally, but from a mineralogical point of view both these mountains Copper Creek and Whipsaw Creek may be treated as one. The Similkameen has evidently cut its way through a line of rock which was very feldspathic and lent itself readily to the action of the river. Evidences of this are seen by the bluffs of very soft red and gray rock which appear on the river varying in colour according to the nature of the contained feldspar. Otherwise the composition of the rocks is very similar and the nature of the contained ore bodies and their continuance from one mountain to another shows them to be of the same geological age and that the mineralization has proceeded upon the same system. In a paper of this nature it would be impossible to go into technical details of the genesis of these bodies let alone the fact that such would require a very minute geological study by an accomplished petrologist, but it may be noted incidentally that in the opinion of the writer there are two distinct classes of veins, one class being only to a small extent represented on Whipsaw M ountain. In one class may be placed the bornite carrying dykes of the Sunset Copper Farm, Gardner, etc., which would appear to have a course approximating northwest, and the other the chalcopyritic ores of the other claims and of Whipsaw Mountain, which run more westerly. The first class may be taken to represent a large diabase dyke of unknown width, probably a very long and wide lens whose greatest width is shown on the Sunset where the hornblende of the diabase has been replaced by bornite. Lenses of similar nature but smaller may be seen on other claims, and in one case a vein of feldspar containing nodules of bornite (sometimes of large size) has been opened up. Another is where a dyke of pink feldspathic rock has bornite disseminated all through, apparently replacing hornblende. The second class spoken of seem to consist rather of fissures or breaks in the country rock which have been filled by later infiltrations of feldspar accompanied by the lower grade sulphuret chalcopyrite. Many of these feldspathic veins are visible in the district but not in all cases cupriferous. Both of these systems would ap- appear to be the result of concentration from the surrounding country rock which can be shown on analysis to invariably contain a small amount of copper and a trace of gold. In one place where the rock was of the nature of a porphyritic granite, samples taken over an area of half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width gave assays of nearly $50 in gold and one half per cent. Cu. It is possibly from the concentration of this immense body of auriferous bedrock that the placers of the Similkameen are largely due. The summits of the mountains within the copper belt are approximately 1,500 feet above the Similkameen river and the width of the valley between these summits about one mile. The general petrological character of the whole massif may be taken to be a porphyritic granite which has become more or less decomposed In its ferro magnesian constituents, probably through the hot waters by which the metallic sulphides were deposited in replacing these constituents. The rock in places is almost entirely feldspar, the sprinkling of hornblende, biolater, mica and a little quartz being quite small in quantity. The massif is dyked and fissured in various directions by finer textured rocks of varying ages and types, such as felsites, syenites, etc. It can be taken as extremely probable that veins occurring in such a country rock as this deeply fissured and in which the hydro-thermal action has evidently been so deep-seated would continue with depth. The river having cut through 1,500 inches of this rock and showing the veins both at the summit of the mountain and in the river bed. The zone of oxidation is extremely limited, in fact hardly existent and although specimens of oxides are brought in occasionally they do not occur frequently enough to be of much economic value. From the metalliferous point of view these ores vary very greatly in value. Samples are given below, one of which shows a very fair smelting ore, the other two being high in silica. Luckily seams of magnetic iron occur very close. Lime is obtainable in a short distance, and if the smelting operations are carried on as no doubt they will be in the lower part of the valley at or near Princeton, there would be little difficulty in finding all the fluxes necessary within a short distance. One thing appears to be certain, and that is that any operations carried on on these veins must be of such a magnitude as to enable low and medium grade copper ores to be worked at a profit. Ore is undoubtedly here in immense quantities, but it is no good trying to blind the investor with fictitious reports as to the grade of these ores. Any mining operator will tell you that the best paying mine is not the narrow fissure where the workings are alternately in "Bonanzo" or "Borrasca," but the large bodies of medium and low-grade ores whose continuity can be depended on. It then comes to a question of what can be worked at a profit. It seems that on these mountains enormous deposits of what may be roughly termed $10 rock are existent and with proper railway transportation such ore, it would only be fair to presume, could be mined, concentrated (by fire) and refined at a good profit if worked on a large enough scale. But unfortunately this cannot be done unless the claim owner will give the claim buyer a good run for his money. It may fairly be assumed that no mine could be made out of prospects such as we see on Copper and Whipsaw Mountains at a less cost than $500,000, and in order that the investor should see his way clearly to finding such a sum he would naturally wish to be sure of one thing at least, viz.: the continuity both horizontally and in depth of his ore body. This takes time and if enough time be not given by the original owner in bonding his claim the prospective buyer naturally turns elsewhere. Incidentally it may be mentioned that in many cases these bonds are taken at a reasonable figure by an intermediary, but before reaching the hands of the capitalist the bonding figure has increased so enormously that what was a fair mining proposition at $50,000 becomes impossible at $250,000. If the claim owner is certain of the bona fide value of his prospect the fairest way to have a claim developed is to give an interest to the capitalist for a certain amount of work to be done on the clairm But it is only natural after may be several seasons' hard work in the mountains that the prospector should wish to have some money to carry on with till the next season. Of course to the mining engineer many a claim is exceptionally interesting (like a doctor's "case") that has little or no economic value. One point on Copper and Whipsaw Mountains which may be noted is that there are no well defined pay streaks or walls, but that in all the veins so far encountered the copper ore appears to be disseminated through the dyke or veins in particles more or less fine following apparently a line of small fractures through which the cuperiferous solutions have forced their way. At the northern end of the moutnain, however, one claim developed by an open cut shows a distinctly brecciated structure. The fragments of country rock (in this place nearly all feldspar) being to some extent rounded and the interstices filled with bornite and a little secondary calcite showing evidences of at least two movements on the plane of the fissure. This fracture runs beneath the volcanic cap mentioned as covering a portion of the northern end of the mountain. The veins on these two mountains appear to form good examples of the replacement theory of ore deposits. The metals having been leached from the surrounding rocks by hot solutions replacing probably the silicates originally deposited in the fractures possibly minute which gave them entrance or exit. As an interesting calculation it may be stated that over the area of which we are speaking if the country rock which bounds these veins contained only .0005 per cent of copper it would be sufficient to give in the zones of concentration 20,000,000 tons of 5 per cent, copper ore to 1,000,000 tons of metallic copper. THE BRITANNIA MINES. Howe Sound, New Westminster Mining District. THE accompanying illustrations from photos convey a fair idea of the extent and probable value of this immense mineral deposit at the Britannia mine. Beginning with Plate I., Britannia Landing, reached by a daily steamer from Vancouver 26 miles distant, it is worthy of note and an encouragement to the prospectors who fear that all the good things on the Coast have been located, that although the land seen in the foreground of the picture was pre-empted and occupied ten years ago, the ore showings from two to four miles back from the shore line were not discovered until '97, and practicaly untouched until last year. From the landing a first class pack trail, nearly four miles in length, climbs 3,500 ft. from sea level to the mine buildings on the Jane, where a five-acre flat spreads conveniently between the open cut on the west and the Mammoth Bluff on the east. The open cut (Plate II.) was until the beginning of this year, the principal show place of the Britannia group—a thirty-foot width of solid shipping ore backed up by at least 100 feet of lower grade mineral being visible. About 70 feet below the cut a tunnel runs southwesterly into the hillside, crossing the end line of the Jane and cross-cutting the vein on the Clifton where the rich ore is 26 feet wide and 120 feet below a second open cut all in ore some 200 feet west of the main cut. From the point of cross-cutting, drifts east and west about 80 and 40 feet respectively (from memory) are all in ore. Leaving the Clifton tunnel mouth and going east we cross the flat for some 300 yards, where all solid rock is hidden deep below the debris spread by the erosive action that hollowed out the great crevice on our south. This brings us to Plate III., where the THE MINING RECORD. hard mineralized schistose quartz rises sharply on our right, and the depths of erosion on our left has laid bare the foot wall for 600 feet in length and a visible height of 200 feet or an actual average height of 300 feet above the cross-cut tunnel in the foreground of the plate. This cross-cut has been driven about 100 feet, breast, top, bottom and sides all in ore. The full width of this portion of the vein is yet undetermined, but a topographical comparison of the Jane and Fair- view ground (on which the foot and hanging wall sides are clearly marked by a deep gouging of the softer rocks) leads one to conclude that 300 feet will be nearer the mark than 100. All the rock visible in Plate III. and Plate IV. (a higher side view of the same mass) has been carefully sampled and gives an average and very regular value of $7 to $10 per ton throughout. Opinions may differ as to methods of estimating the quantity of ore in sight, but Mr. W. M. Brewer in an article written for the Engineering and Mining Journal says: "After making all due allowance for the operations carried on by erosion it would be a safe estimate to place the quantity of ore actually in sight in this bluff at 2,000,000 tons above the adit level." So much for the Jane. Easterly across the Edith Fraction and 1,500 feet farther through the Fairview the belt of mineral-bearing rock extends, widening to 600 or 700 feet and piling upwards, bluffs over bluffs to an elevation of 1,500 feet above the Jane tunne" Throuighout this great ridge ore bodies have been shown up at almost every breaking of the surface. The mineral appears to be less evenly distributed than is the case of the lower bluffs, but on the other hand the ore shutes carry higher values, twenty to thirty per cent, copper having been uncovered in several workings. It is too early as yet to attempt any fair estimate of what the workable tonnage of the Fairview will amount to, but it is probably safe to say that this claim will prove much more valuable even than the Jane and Clifton combined. Given the vast ore bodies and a possible margin of profit, the Britannia mines are fortunate in every detail conducive to economical working. An almost unlimited supply of timber, water power at hand to meet all necessary re- THE MINING RECORD quirements, with a reserve force at the Fairy Fails some four miles distant, sufficient to generate electric power enough to run a fully equipped mine, a downhill pull from the farthest end of the claim to the breast three miles distant where deep sea traffic to all points is immediately available, combine to give British Columbia an opportunity of developing one of the great mines of the world. A considerable amount of prospecting has naturally led to a number of claims being located in the Britannia neighbourhood and the result of this summer's work has given fair proof that the Goldsmith group, the Marlborough group and the Empress group should rapidly develop into shipping mines. Mammoth Bluff with Cross-cut Tunnel at Britannia Mine. IRON ORE ON TEXADA ISLAND. ON the west coast of Texada Island occurs a body of magnetite which for purity and extent is comparable to anything of its kind in the world. Upwards of thirty years ago this property of 2,700 acres was purchased by the Puget Sound Iron Company from the original owners, but operations have been spasmodic owing to the fact that the company worked the mine for its exclusive use. Except for the development work of the last two years the mine has not been operated for a decade. A new era, however, seems about to commence, work having been resumed, and we are informed by the manager that between THE MINING RECORD. 419 0& V3 ^ v^Si sUS .jg? mt. i£*~C; afe 3^ 9;:<< # J* * Wim ^K' & H u m- 'SS l«^ H m mm ■m mM m '«*«*5fe *w< f%' BEK* s£» m 10-i JsMrMs f&rrfs *m -J*S 8# K'SF ^ j&M- 1 IH WMP: &2w' ii w m: two and three hundred men will be steadily employed. That such a remarkable body of ore has remained so long undeveloped is a matter for surprise but explicable perhaps by the circumstance that rich deposits mined at low costs are located on the Atlantic seaboard. In view of the Chinese relations and of the almost certain opening of new territory !n that country and the consequent demands for railways and machinery, the iron deposits on the Pacific Coast are likely to become commercially valuable and their exploitation and development will be watched with interest. On the P. S. I Co.'s property the iron forms a ridge said to be traceable for four miles. This ridge follows the coast line, distant from it a quarter to three-quarters of a mile. To it belong the Prescott and Paxton mines where large bodies of ore are in sight. At the former, the development work done has opened up 3,000,000 tons of ore; at the Paxton, experts have figured on there being fully 5,000,000 lilL .MIXING KLCOKU. tons of ore in sight. On the Prescott 246 feet from phorus is low, sufficiently so for the ore to be ranked the foot of the iron dome a shaft has been sunk, and as Bessemer. The harbor at the iron mine being m- at a depth of 150 feet a crosscut run into the moun- adequate, preparations are now under way to move Fairview" Claim, Britannia Group, Howe Sound—View of Mineral Deposit frnm Footwall Side. tain. This cross-cut passed through 187 feet of greenstone, then struck the ore body, and after running 108 feet in ore work was suspended, the ore body being not then intersected. From the foot of the iron dome to its top is 198 feet. Altitude of top, 575 fee*- The ore previously shipped has come from this dome, cars run by gravity conveying it to the wharf. At the surface the ore contains considerable sulphur; but at depth is remarkably pure, containing Tjx per cent, of metallic iron. The amount of phos- the camp to Gillis Bay, where be vastly improved. shipping facilities will B. C. IN LONDON. Special Settlements in Le Roi No. 2—The Daily Mail and B. C. Shares. (From Our Own Correspondent. 1 V" OU will be glad to learn that there has been quite I a revival in B. C. mines on the London market, curiously enough at a time when the Stock Exchange THE MINING RECORD. 421 as a whole is woefully stagnant. The B. A. C, L. & B. C. Goldfields, and the New Goldfields of B.C. groups have all been in the van, the shares in the first named leading the way. Le Rois on talk of a dividend of 10 shillings per share were carried up to about £g, and were predicted by some of the men who are apparently in the confidence of the group which controls this section, to be good for £10. BA.C.'s— which would of course benefit by a good Le Roi dividend—have been up to about 18 shillings. In connection with this group, however, chief interest has centred in Le Roi No. 2, whose special settlement was ultimately fixed to take place on September 28th. There had previously been a great deal of speculation in the shares of this company, and every effort had been made to check the Special Settlement so as to bring pressure to bear upon the Whitaker-Wright group. When the company was originally bought out the allotments were pretty generous, and this induced some market speculators to freely sell the shares at the small premium which had been engineered, in the hope of being able to easily buy back at a much lower price. The group finding out how matters stood put up the quotation a little bit above the level at which these speculators had sold what they did not possess, and in due course picked up practically all the shares which were thrown upon the market by those who had subscribed to the issue, and were, of course, only too pleased to take a quick and substantial profit. Then the fun began. Meanwhile it is only fair that after the many assaults which have been made upon the interests of the group by the operators who have always singled out Mr. Whitaker-Wright for attack, that the latter should occasionally have a look in, and this time he has undoubtedly scored and heavily too, for having denuded the market of shares, the group of which he is the head had the "bears" at their mercy. The price ascended day after day until £20 and over was reached. All this while those who had sold at abput £6 or £7 were wondering how they were going to get back their shares seeing that there were practically none at all on the market. And you can imagine their feelings at their increasing losses of about £1 a share per day. All kinds of threats were used; first they were going to stop the Special Settlement in the shares, secondly, they proposed to take legal action to test the validity of the little arrangement by which they had placed themselves at their mercy. How determined, too, they were to use every effort to scare the group may be gathered from the following advertisement which appeared in the leading newspapers a few days before the date fixed for the special settlement:— LE ROI NO. 2, LIMITED. A committee is in course of formation with a view of taking -joint action in opposition to the recent dealings in these shares, and with that view a MEETING will he HELD at the OFFICE OP THE COMMITTEE, 2 Copthall Buildings, E.C, on MONDAY, September 24, at 4 p.m., when the attendance of sufferers is invited. Communications to be addressed to the Secretary of the Committee, 2 Copthall Buildings, E.C, or to their Solicitors, Messrs Michael Abrahams, Sons, & Co., 5 Tokenhouse Yard, E.C. And when one comes to understand the enormous losses which these speculators had incurred it is not surprising that they should use every effort to try and rob Mr. Whitaker-Wright and his friends of their reward. It is said that one speculator had lost as much as £70,000 at the making-up price, and many others several thousands of pounds each. Nothing sensational happened at the settlement, but the crisis in the history of this little Whitaker-Wright market deal is expected when the buying in day arrives, that is, the date after the special settlement (10 days after) on which those who have bought shares during the account adjusted by the special settlement, can either compel those who have sold them the shares to deliver or else can go into the market and bid for the shares publicly. The seller who has failed to complete his bargain is, of course, practically at the mercy^ of the group, as the latter having control of almost the whole of the shares in the Le Roi No. 2, they are obviously in the position of being able to dictate the most onerous terms to the now miserable sellers. We are all waiting rather anxiously to see what will be the outcome of this pretty little deal. Meanwhile the price remains at about £20 or four times the issue price of the shares. • There have been various rumours about the B. A. C. companies, it being reported at one time that the Le Roi-was to be amalgamated with the Le Roi No. 2, but this seems to have been a purely bear canard and without any foundation. The London and British Columbia Goldfields group have been steady with an upward movement in Ymirs owing to the satisfactory character of the recent reports regarding the crushing results. A good deal of interest has been taken in the New Goldfields of British Columbia group, both the parent company and Velvets and Portlands being in good demand, the former owing to the discovery that their assets work out at present market prices considerably above the price quoted for the parent company's shares. Athabasca have paid 1 shilling dividend and having got through their reconstruction comfortably have advanced in market estimation. Klondike companies have been very dull, and when one comes to think of it the results so far attained have not been sufficiently encouraging to warrant much enthusiasm for Yukon properties. The first meeting of the reconstructed Hall Mining and Smelting Co.. Ltd., was held on October 4th. The reconstruction seems to have been thorough, and it is apparently the determination of the directors to carry on the work of the mine and the smelter separately. They consider that the result will be that "when the mine becomes a producer the smelter will purchase the ore from the mine exactly the same way as it purchases custom ores from the outside mines, so that the accounts of the two companies will not get mixed up. According to the Chairman's statement yesterday the prospects of smelter business "are considerably greater than were anticipated at the time of the reconstruction." He went on to say that "it was doubtful at one time whether the amount of business which would come to us in the first year would be sufficient to employ our smelting works r-p to their full capacity; but it now appears that the prospects promise to be not only fully up to the capacity of our smelter, but even exceeded—so much so that our manager has advised us that in a very short time it may be desirable to erect an additional furnace." The company having got rid of practically the whole of the old board it will be interesting to see what it will do now that it has included in its directors a noble lord and a pushing stockholder. A great deal of time was devoted at the meeting to an explanation by the Chairman regarding the attitude taken by Mr. Frederick Walker, who was the Chairman of the Shareholders and Debenture holders' Committee, which was chiefly responsible for the reconstruction. That Mr. Walker did a very great deal to put the company on its legs again is undoubted, and I am sorry that the relations between him and his friends, and the company should have become so strained, but as Lord Ernest Hamilton pointed out this has not much to do with the new company and is apparently entirely a matter which rests between Mr. Walker and the liquidator of the old company. It can only be hoped that the new concern will go along as flourishingly as the successor to Sir Joseph Trutch anticipated. But it would have been much better if the company's reconstruction could have been carried out without friction. With the three shilling call paid up the shares are now quoted at about 3 shillings, so that the public does not seem at present to be greatly smitten either with the tew board or with the prospects held out by Lord Ernest Hamilton, the new Chairman of the company. Nothing could more emphasize the growing interest in the British Columbian securities than the decision of the Daily Mail to devote a special section of its mining column to the quotations of British Columbia mining securities. This significant innovation was inaugurated in this morning's issue of your :on- temporary, which has, as I need not tell you, the greatest circulation of any paper in the old world. COMPANIES' MEETINGS. LE ROI NO. 2. THE first ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Le Roi No. 2, Limited, was held in London early in October. The chairman in the course of his remarks said: "I have little to say today beyond reporting progress, and the fact that everything in regard to the company is in a very satisfactory condition. As you are aware, the company offered its capital for subscription in June last, and I am pleased to be able to state that it was all subscribed in cash, and the shares were allotted to more than 1,000 applicants. Owing to the success of the issue, your directors paid the purchase consideration to the vendors in cash, and allotted the whole of the shares to the subscribers, who, no doubt, have been gratified with their allotments. The company has been placed in unencumbered possession of the property, which, as you know, embraces over 72 acres immediately adjoining the celebrated Le Roi mine. The mines are being extensively developed, and equipped with necessary plant to work them in a large way, and the Northport smelter is being greatly increased in capacity, so as to treat the ore on an extensive scale. A trial shipment of 786 tons of ore has been made and treated. This shipment yielded over 498 ozs. of gold, 2,317 ozs. of silver, and 46,986 lbs. of metallic copper, the average value per ton being $24.30. Another shipment of 332 tons yielded over 229 ozs. of gold, 1,091 ozs. of silver, and 19.963 lbs. of metallic copper, the average value per ton being $25.72. I am sure you will agree with me that these tests are most satisfactory, especially as the value per ton is higher than in the case of the original Le Roi. I do not know what I can say more to-day than that your directors are giving close attention to your affairs, and will put forth every effort to make this a great and successful company. Your presence here to-day is evidence that you have not been tempted to sell your shares, and the price that you can now obtain for them in the market is your reward for the confidence you have shown in your property and in the house that has made the issue. I think that to be able to sell a £5 share at £20 within four months is not a bad thing. I thank you for your attendance, and hope and believe that I shall have a most satisfactory report to make to you when we next have the pleasure of meeting together." HALL MINING & SMELTING. At the first ordinary general meeting of the Hall Mining & Smelting Company, Limited, the chairman, Lord Ernest Hamilton, after remarking that as the reconstructed company had been in existence so short a time there was little information to be laid before shareholders, stated that what information he was, however, in a position to impart, was decidedly good. At the time of reconstruction the ore in the upper levels had worked out; but there were strong indications that the ore would be picked up again at depth, as has been the case in so many mines in the same district. The money which was obtained under the reconstruction was principally subscribed with the view to sinking in order to pick up this ore at depth. This work of sinking has been pushed forward as energetically as possible since the reconstructed company took up the work. The mine has been cleared of water, and the necessary hoisting and pumping machinery has been ordered. However, the time has been so short that it is quite impossible that the workings could in the time be carried to the necessary depth—that is to say, to the depth where it is expected to come in contact -vith these high-grade ores again. In the meanwhile, the intermediate levels have been developed—the work of development has been pushed forward on these levels at the same time as the sinking has been done, and it will be gratifying to you to learn that the work on these intermediate levels has been by no means barren. The directors had been led by the manager to anticipate that he would, probably in the course of this week or next week, cut veins in levels Nos. 6, 7, or 8, and since a cable was received, which came extremely opportunely for this meeting, announcing that he had cut the veins in two of these levels. The contents of the cable were as follows. "No 7 level west. The ore is 12 inches thick, and continues as rich as ever.—No. 7 level east. The south lode, or vein shows a body of ore 5 feet wide; the ore is good and will pay. No. 6 level west shows a body of ore 7 feet wide, averaging 15 ounces silver and 4% ounces copper." With regard to the smelter, the company have an enterprise of an entirely different nature. The mine is more or less of a speculation, as all mines are, but a speculation in which the chances appear to be very greatly in favour of success. In the smelter we have an enterprise to which the company can look for a steady and consistent return, which will not be dependent upon chance. It is the intention of the present board to carry on the work of the mine and the smelter as two separate concerns—absolutely separate concerns. This was not the practice in the old company. The result of the practice will be that when the mine becomes a producer the smelter will THE MINING RECORD. 423 purchase the ore from the mine exactly in the same way as it purchases custom ores from outside mines; so that the accounts of the two concerns will not get mixed up. With regard to the smelter itself, it will be satisfactory for the shareholders to learn that the prospects of business are considerably greater than were anticipated at the time of the reconstruction. By business is meant the prospect of business with regard to the smelting of customs ores. It was doubtful at one time whether the amount of business which would come in the first year would be sufficient to employ the smelting works up to their full capacity; but it now appears that the prospects promise to be not only fully up to the capacity of the smelter, but even exceeded—so much so that the manager has stated that in a very short time it may be desirable to erect an additional furnace. If the mine turns out as satisfactorily a.s is anticipated, it is, of course, needless to point out that the shares will stand at a considerably higher value than they do at the present moment, and if that is the case the company may with* tolerable confidence look forward to paying the whole or the greater part of its development expenses in the mine by the returns from the smelter. But if, on the other hand, the mine turns out an absolute blank—which appears far from probable in view of the recent cables—then there is the smelter to fall back upon, and from that smelter the company can anticipate a fair return, and a return which will be steady and consistent, and on a perpetually increasing scale as the country in the neighbourhood becomes opened up,, and as the new mines which surround ducers. the smelting works become pro- VELVET MINE. The first ordinary general (statutory) meeting of the Velvet Mine, Limited, was held on October nth at Winchester House, London. The chairman, Mr. Alexander Davidson, said: ■ Although there is no business to be transacted at this meeting, I take it that the shareholders would desire some little information as to what has taken place since the formation of the company. Before, however, saying anything on that subject, I would like to refer to the position of matters when this company took over the Velvet Mine from the old company. In the first place, I would remind you that the old company had spent over £20,000 in developing this mine. For this expenditure they had put up certain machinery and plant; the shaft had been sunk to a depth of 300 feet; levels had been driven at a depth of 100 ft., 160 ft., and 250 ft., for a distance of 360 ft., 250 ft., and 100 ft. respectively; and an adit had been driven 430 ft. In all some 2,000 ft. of underground developments had been completed. That was the position at the time the prospectus was issued. The consulting engineer further stated at that time that the ore available down to the 250 ft. level was upwards of 100.000 tons, of which 20,000 tons, by being sorted, would give a value of from $40 to $50 per ton and the whole 100,000 tons would average $20 per ton. He also stated that the cost of mining, transport, and treatment should not exceed $10 per ton. The prospectus stated that the working capital of the company would be £50,000, and that amount was fully subscribed and allotted and 10s. per share has been called up. The first thing that the directors did with the money was to pay off the existing mort gage of £10,000, which was referred to in the prospectus. At the same time they took immediate steps to have'the property transferred, and it was duly transferred on July 9th into the names of the trustees for the new company, Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper and Mr. C. A. Bury. Subsequently to that, on the suggestion of the consulting engineer and manager, we acquired what the Old Velvet Mine had not acquired, namely, the surface rights of the property, embracing timber, etc. And not only that, but our manager has arranged to procure an additional square mile of surface rights at a low cost, which will be sufficient for a long time to supply the mine with its requirements. Immediately after the allotment the directors proceeded to order a considerable amount of machinery and plant. They ordered a complete air compressor plant and two steam boilers for working the same. These are now almost finished, and, according to the latest accounts from the manufacturers, the whole of the plant will be shipped within about three weeks—the boilers rather sooner. At the mine itself the manager has in the meantime made considerable progress with the excavations and buildings necessary for the compressor plant, so that when it arrives there they will be able to proceed rapidly with its erection. I am reminded that the plant includes all the necessary nozzles and rock drills for the working over a considerable area of the drives and shafts. As you will have gathered from the prospectus there is a very large amount of ore available, and it is, therefore, of the utmost importance in your interests that no time should be lost in the erection of such machinery as will rapidly open up the mine so as to get this ore out. I need not allude to the quality of the ore, because I trust that in a very short time this mine will speak for itself. (Hear, hear.) According to a cablegram received from the other side we shall be shipping ore in the course of next month. In the middle of August, after having settled with the consulting engineer as to the machinery, we despatched him to the other side, and he arrived at the mine on August 31st. Previously to his going out and subsequently to his arrival he made sundry important recommendations to us, coinciding to a large extent with what he stated in the prospectus, but also embracing other points dealing with matters which have arisen since then. In :>rder that you may determine these recommendations I will say a few words about the developments on the mine to which they apply. You are aware that there is a main shaft, and a subsidiary shaft not very far from it. The main shaft had been sunk to a depth of 300 feet. At a distance of 1,450 ft. down the hill from the top of the shaft a tunnel was opened for the purpose of driving in at a depth of 300 ft. or thereabouts, with the view of draining the mine through that adit or tunnel, and with the expectation of meeting the lode on approaching the foot of the shaft, and also for the purpose of forming a ready and easy exit for the ore both above and below the 300 ft. level. I believe it is very commonly the case that the water finding its way into a mine and requiring to be drained therefrom is to be found coming in only for the first 200 or 300 ft. Therefore, if the mine is drained by gravitation at the 300 ft. level we practically shall be able to extract all the surface water that comes through, and shall have only a small quantity to raise 424 THE MINING RECORD. from the lower levels. Mr. Morrish, our consulting engineer, recommends the prosecuting rapidly of the 300 ft. drive from the bottom of the shaft to meet the tunnel coming from the outside, and accordingly a good deal of energy has been displayed in that direction. I notice from the last fortnight's return that we drove some 39 ft. at the end next the shaft and a considerable distance at the other end. These two drives are approaching each other, and in the course of time—I hope it will not be long—they will meet. We have at present driven about 850 ft., and the distance still to drive is about 600 feet. The next thing the consulting engineer recommended was the sinking of the shaft to the 400 ft. level. You have seen, perhaps, the notice in the newspapers of the strike at the 300 ft. level—the admirable body of ore we have got there. This was first come upon at the 250 ft. level, and was found to be 50 ft. wide there. At +he 300 ft. level it was found to be even richer than at the 250 ft. level, and the length of the shoot had extended. Mr. Morrish, therefore, very naturally argues that coming on this body of ore in the shape of a cone as it were, if you sink to the 400-ft. level, and find it good and extending in the same manner there you will have, indeed, in this mine a very great proposition. Hence his recommending the rapid sinking to the 400 ft. level. Another thing which he recommended, and which we have almost carried out was the construction of the road to the nearest railway station, about nine and a quarter miles. This was commenced two or three months ago, and you will be pleased to hear it is on the point of completion, if it is not already completed. The manager has arranged for a railway siding at the point where it strikes the railroad. There is one other recommendation by Mr. Morrish which is being carried out, and that is the straightening of our shaft above the 160 ft. level. The sinking of the shaft to the 400 ft. level has been somewhat interfered with and partially stopped for the time being by a very large influx of water at the 300 ft. level. They have had to pump as much as 110,000 gallons per hour from this level in order to keep the mine clear. However, they are succeeding in keeping it tmder. I think I ought to refer to the similarity or connection of the Velvet bodies of ore with those of the famous Rossland camp. I have before me a report from the manager on the subject, in which he says: "A cursory comparison of these ore deposits with those of the Rossland camp is sufficient to convince one that „hey are essentially one in their occurrence and origin alike." I think, therefore, we may hope that our deposits will be as good as those in the Rossland camp. I will conclude by giving you the latest news we have from the mine. It is in the form of a cablegram which came to hand two days ago, and reads as follows : "Road will be completed within next few days. Railway siding now being fixed. Shall commence to ship first class ore next month. Assay value of ore vat 300 ft. level $82 (that is equal to £16 8s. per ton); at the new surface discovery , $75 (equal to £15 per ton). Buildings for air compressor already in course of erection. The ground at the adit level is improving and shows mineral." That is to say, that as the adit approaches our deposits under the shaft, even though at a distance, he is now getting into ore. The cablegram concludes as follows: "Our mining prospects continue very favourable." Reading this cablegram reminds me of one point which I have over looked, and that is that a few months ago a new deposit or reef was discovered closely adjoining the shaft in the neighbourhood of what was called the stable. It has been traced by the manager down to a considerable depth—I think to the 160 ft. level. In one letter I believe he mentions the lower level. With this ore body added to the one which the shaft has gone down upon our prospects are proportionately brighter. I do not know that it falls within my province to say anything about the old company, but I understand that the liquidator has sent or is about to send out a circular announcing that he is able to make a last and final distribution of the shares of this company in settlement of the claims of the old shareholders. I believe the proportion works out rather more favourably to them than was at first anticipated. (Applause.) Replying to questions, the Chairman said that the further exploitation of the ore deposit at the 300 ft. level must largely add to the amount of ore developed. According to a cablegram, it was of a very rich character. As to the distribution,of the shares he was informed that the old shareholders would receive a bonus of 29J per cent. ATHABASCA GOLD. The first ordinary general (statutory) meeting of the Athabasca Gold Mine, Limited, was held on Thursday, at the Cannon Street Hotel, E.C, London, under the presidency of Mr. Arthur Fell, the chairman of the company. The Chairman said: Gentlemen, this is the statutory meeting of the company, and we, as directors, are extremely glad to meet you. We have no report to present, but I think we can point to the fact that we paid a dividend last week, and to the returns which I am going to read to you, as showing what an excellent position this company is now in. It was registered on June 13th, but we took the mine over from June 1st. For the interim dividend we took in three months' working, the result being as follows: In the months of June, July and August, there were 1,305 tons crushed in the battery. There were 3,116 ozs. of gold recovered, of the value of £12.476. The expenses were, roughly, £6,000, leaving a profit of £6,476 for the three months. The dividend absorbed a little under £5,000, so we have something in hand towards a further dividend. I cannot prophesy when that dividend will be declared, though I may say we shall declare it as soon as we can, for we know that these profits are the property of the shareholders, and our object will be to divide them among the people to whom they belong at as earl)'' a date as possible. You are aware, no doubt, that at the last meeting we said we must put up a cyanide plant; indeed, that was one of the main reasons why the old company was re-constructed. Directly this company was registered and the applications came in we cabled out to the manager in Nelson to immediately order a cyanide plant and to proceed to erect it with all possible speed. We cabled him at the same time £1,000. He went to the Coast and ordered the very large vats that are required. They are ordered from a California firm at San Francisco. The latest news we have is to the effect that the whole of the masonry work is completed, the roofing is going on, and the cyanide plant is to be ready, thev say, by November 1st, hut we will give them a little latitude anc THE MINING RECORD. 425 December 1st. The tailings were caught in a catch- pit, and the manager reported that he could keep these until July last. We, on this side, hoped he might go on retaining them in this catchpit until after that date, but it has turned out that he was perfectly correct, for it appears that in August, through the bursting of the dam it would not contain the further tailings that were put in it, and since that date they have been lost. It was unfortunate, but it could not be helped. There was a suggestion made by the manager that, in order to save the tailings, he should close down the battery, but we were obtaining such excellent results from it without the tailings that we did not authorise this, and the battery has been running with the unparalleled regularity that this battery has shown from the day it started. The tailings, which will be treated by the cyanide, should yield between £400 and £500 additional profit each month. With regard to the mine itself, which is producing the profits to which I have referred, I have looked up the latest letters and taken the following extracts from them: "August 5th, 1900: The ore in the east drift (where it jumped up) is opening out satisfactorily, and is large and of good quality; it is possible that developments in this direction may have important results, as from present appearances Ave are in new ground." "August 9th, 1900: The ore in the east drift is very fine and about two and a half ft. wide. In the shaft the ore is running in a peculiar manner, and is mixed with dyke matter. It is dipping stiffly at this point. It is not possible to give much information about the ground here, nor do I expect to be able to do so for some time yet." "August 30th, 1900: The excavation for the cyanide is proving to be a work of unusual magnitude, and the character of the ground is such that only the most massive masonry will assure safety. The mine is looking excellent now, although there is nothing to report of especial importance." "September 17th, 1900: My general opinion of the mine is that the prospects never looked so favourable as they do today. As development proceeds in the No. 1 (below) east, the evidence becomes more favourable to the supposition that we shall ultimately have ore all the way through to the old shaft and connect with those workings where we lost them by the large slip in this (old) shaft. Of course, this theory is not proved yet, but all the evidence obtained so far tends towards the correctness of this view. This is a very important factor. We have continued the drift, which we call the 'granite' drift, and have opened up some fine looking ore at this point. We have sunk the shaft a few feet, and the ore has now an excellent appearance at this point. It seems certain now that we need have no fear of the continuation of the vein in the granite, and our experience so far goes to show that it will be larger, more cheaply mined and possibly not averaging quite so rich." "September 2ist,_i900: You will be glad to hear that on further sinking of the shaft 15 feet we encountered good ore again, and a general assay from this mine yesterday gave $52.50." That $52 means 2 ozs. 12 dwt. to the ton, and when we talk of good ore in the Athabasca you must remember that it means ore yielding 2 ozs., 2\ ozs., or 3 ozs. to the ton. It is a narrow vein, but, as I have shown you, it is exceedingly rich. The manager when he was over here, told us it is a contact vein—a vein running between the- schist and granite. Through the country there was this line where the schist and the granite meet, and this mine was opened very close to or just at the point of contact, but after a bit the vein dipped right away into the granite, and our manager reported that of course he could not prophesy, and anything might happen when the vein went into the granite. It was new ground, and whether the vein would continue, pinch out, or become richer could not be foretold. It was an unknown factor, but you will be glad to see from extracts I have read the granite shaft, as they call it, is opening up some magnificent ore, and that "we need have no fear of the continuation of the vein in the granite, our experience so far going to show that it will be larger, more cheaply mined, and possibly not averaging quite so rich." But from the data given it appears to be nearly twice as wide as it was. If so, and it is only half the value, it will produce an equal amount to the foot run. But we have not yet proved it sufficiently to know what the real value will ultimately turn out to be. However, the manager has never been so confident as to the future of the mine as his letters show he is now. The reconstruction has been carried through most successfully. Almost every shareholder in England came in, and the applications from the Canadian shareholders were really quite remarkable; they have unanimously come in and taken up their new shares. There were only 450 shares outstanding altogether, and they belonged to men up in Klondike, and it was perfectly impossible for them to send in their applications; consequently a Canadian company sent in an application on their behalf, and if those gentlemen turn up within a reasonable time they will' all get their shares. At one moment it appeared as if the Canadian shareholders were disappointed at the proposal, and some of them even suggested that there was an attempt being made to freeze them out. They have since found out, however, that our whole anxiety has been that every shareholder should not only have an opportunity of coming into the new company, but that he should be literally introduced by us to do so, for we saw what an immense mistake it would be to him pecuniarily if he did not do so. We have spent very considerable sums in Canada in advertising and making searches for all the shareholders because they do not have registered addresses, and they had to be found through the banks and other agencies. We have done all we could to save everyone's interests, and I know that in Canada they acknowledge at the present time that we have done so. ABSTRACT OF REPORTS. THE MIOCENE GRAVEL MINING CO., OF CARIBOO, LTD. MR. R. H. CAMPBELL, manager of this company, has presented a report of operations for the season ending September 30, 1900. A new steam heater, additional pumping machinery and new water column arrived at the mine in March, pumping to un- water the shaft commencing on April 1st. Some delay was occasioned by the breaking of the plunger barrels of the large sinkers. When the water had been removed the shaft was then sunk 65 feet in the bedrock, which, owing to its nature, worked well with the use of very little powder. Mr. Campbell proceeds as follows: "At this depth, 55° *eet from ii 426 THE MINING RECORD. the surface, a tunnel was driven in the direction of the channel 400 feet, being still in bedrock, an upraise of about 20 feet was made where gravel was encountered, also a small amount of water. This gravel gave excellent prospects in gold, 10 to 20 cents to the pan, but indications were that we were not yet in the main pay channel. Fearing that we might encounter more water than we could handle by opening this upraise more extensively, not having any pumping facilities for handling this bottom water, we decided to stop work in this upraise and extend the main tunnel another 100 feet, which was done and another upraise made and when about 15 feet above the floor of the main tunnel, we suddenly broke through into what appeared to be, and doubtless was, the bottom of the main channel. Water and gravel came in with a great rush. It was necessary to bulkhead this to make it safe. Very little gravel was secured from this upraise, but enough to show that it was very rich. We had placed a small sinking pump in the bottom of the shaft to pump what little water escaped from above to the pumping station in the shaft, and while its capacity was only 80 gallons per minute, we managed to keep the main tunnel dry with this small pump for nearly three days, hoping to make another drive from the main tunnel of about 100 feet, where we intended to make another upraise, tapping the gravel at another point. This tunnel had been driven a distance of 30 feet when the water in No. 2 upraise increased, covering the floor of the tunnel and making further work in 550 level out of the question. "I then made arrangements for closing down, taking out one of the large sinking pumps, but leaving all the pumps in the pump shaft intact. I also put guides in No. 2 hoisting shaft, which leaves the two hoisting, compartments clear, ready for using skips and water tanks so that when the shaft is again un- watered it can be done with much less time and expense, as we will then have the tanks and pumps both to use for that purpose. The shaft is now in perfect condition. "It may now be considered that all doubt heretofore existing as to the value of the bottom gravel in this enormous dead river channel has been dispelled, and that there doubtless exists an extensive body of high grade gravel. It having been found to be enormously rich on its rims near the surface, but a few hundred feet distant from our shaft in the Ward- Horsefly mine, no other conclusion can be consistently arrived at. "It will now be necessary to provide a suitable hoist, with cages and water tanks complete for the hoisting of water and gravel. It will also be necessary to provide a pumping plant for handling the bedrock water, and additional boiler capacity should be provided. I therefore recommend the appropriation of sufficient money for further equipping the mine and placing it on a paying basis." TECHNICAL PERIODICALS OF THE MONTH. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. THERE are three articles in the October number of more than usual interest. The first, "The World's Need of Coal and the United States' Supplies," by F. E. Saward, with editorial preface, deals with the possibilities of coal exportations from the United States, even to the length of supplying fuel to factories and workshops in Great Britain. England is now producing nearly 240,000,000 tons of coal per annum, and as comparatively few new mines have been opened up for ten years, the cost of extraction as it becomes necessary to go deeper into the ground and the thinner seams have to be worked, is proportionally increased. England consequently under these conditions prefers to retain her fuel supplies at home. The vast coal fields of the United States are comparatively speaking untouched, and that this country will, as Mr. Saward puts it, become "the coal seller of the world" at an early date is a matter capable of mathematical demonstration. The question now will England be affected by the decline of her foreign coal trade is well answered in the editorial preface above referred to. It is pointed out that the new development will "prove as life-giving and as little to be considered menaces to England's prosperity as even the wheat of the prairies or the cotton of the Southern States . . . and "if American coals can be landed in European ports at reasonable prices it means simply that the thousands oi factories, forges, workshops and ship-yards, which are the framework of Britain's power, are assured against stoppage or decline." Following Mr. Sayward's abstract discussion of the question is a paper descriptive of the important Con- nellsville coke region of Pennsylvania in which there are in operation or construction no less than 27,000 ovens and the industry represents an investment of $100,000,000 and furnishes direct employment to 20,000 men. An article on the use of water power by direct air compression by William O. Webster describes the various appliances in use for compressing air from falling water, among others the device known as the Taylor air compressor, one of which plants has been installed in the Ainsworth district of this province. THE CANADIAN MINING REVIEW, OTTAWA. The last number is devoted almost entirely to an account of the visit to Canada of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, together with a reproduction of the many interesting papers read. These together with the numerous handsome illustrations of the mines and localities visited form a most entertaining feature of the magazine. The Canadian Mining Review , however, is always worth reading, and has justly earned the high esteem in which it is held by the mining communities of Canada. MINES AND MINERALS. In Mines and Minerals for October Mr. R. B. Brins- made, B.S., E. M., contributes the first of a series of papers on mining practice. In introducing his subject Mr. Brinsmade makes the following eminently ' sensible remark: "A managing engineer entering for the first time a camp whose practice is well established does well to move slowly, and to thoroughly acquaint himself with all the existing obstacles, and with the manner in which they have already been overcome, before attempting to introduce innovations. An old district like Butte is an entirely different problem for the engineer from a virgin camp like THE MINING RECORD. 427 Buffalo Hump, in Idaho, or Republic, in Washington where the methods applied must be for conditions largely novel. The engineer in a newly opened camp, therefore, must first study the actual conditions as far as his time permits, and the methods then applied must of necessity (whatever his previous experience) be largely tentative, and be introduced with the expectation of modification, or perhaps entire replacement by other ones, as the true nature and requirements of the district develop." Other notable articles are "Limonite Ores of Pennsylvania," by T. C. Hopkins, Ph.D.; "Copper Mining in Northern Wisconsin," by Kirby Thomas, and a paper on experimental ore testing works, by Prof. Arthur Lakes. MODERN MACHINERY. "Transportation of Lake Superior Ores" is the title of the leading article, by Waldon Fawcett. Mi. Fawcett, after stating that fully 75 per cent, of the iron ore continued in the United States is derived from the mines in the neighbourhood of Lake Superior, proceeds to describe the methods employed in handling and transporting this product. "It would be extremely difficult to say," he re- ■ marks, "which phase of these transportation plans is the most interesting. Beginning with the shovelling of the ore aboard cars by steam shovels, which will fill a twenty-five ton car in anywhere from two to four minutes, every move in the great carrying enterprise is a revelation. When the mines are situated at a distance from the lake, the ore is laden first on trains each made up of from 38 to 44 cars, which follow each other at intervals of half an hour and thus a single line can, by working to the limit of its capacity, transport upward of a million tons of ore per month. At the point of transference from rail to vessel the trains are run out upon one of the four tracks which traverse the top of the trestle-like structure which constitutes the loading dock. The ore is then allowed to escape through doors in the bottom of the cars directly into the bins or pockets of which the ore dock is made up. In all there are 21 docks built at five different ports, with pockets capable of storing approximately 850,000 tons of ore at one time. The vessels, of which there are several hundred, the larger boats costing from $250,000 to $350,000, make the journey down the lakes of nearly a thousand miles at an average speed of thirteen miles per hour, and upwards of 20,000 tons of ore has on occasions been towed on barges moved by one engine. The rate for carrying ore is $1.25 per ton, and 26c. for trimming and unloading. When the vessels are unloaded a small percentage of the aggregate ore receipts is removed from the vessel holds by means of ■■'whirlers" or revolving derricks, which swing an iron bucket from the hold to the car to be loaded. This method is, of course, serviceable only where it is desired to transfer the ore from vessels directly to railroad cars. The machinery most generally employed for cargo handling is what is known as the bridge tramway system of hoisting and conveying machinery. This permits the transference of ore either directly to the railroad cars, which are to transfer it to the furnaces, or to the stock or storage piles at the rear of the docks. The apparatus consists primarily of an elevated bridge or tramway, which spans the dumping ground and also the railroad tracks upon which are the cars which it is desired to load. A trolley travels on this bridge and to it, in turn, is attached a bucket capable of holding about one and a half tons of iron ore. These large buckets are lowered through the hatches of the vessel and loaded by gangs of men. The bucket is hoisted and conveyed along the bridge simultaneously, and such is the rapidity of its operation that it is possible for a bucket to make a trip from a vessel to the extreme end of the bridge and return, a distance of 600 feet, in less than a minute. By the employment of this machinery it is possible to unload, 5,000 or 6,000 tons of ore from a vessel in a space of ten or twelve hours. The railroads which carry the ore from the unloading ports to the furnaces are in every respect fully the equals of the remarkable lines in the upper lake regions. They are equipped with steel gondola and steel hopper cars of a capacity of 40 and 50 tons each, respectively, and these are drawn by some of the most powerful locomotives in service in America. At some of the ports on Lake Erie there are yard facilities for upward of 500 cars, and as much as 25,coo tons of ore has been shipped by rail in a single day from one port." In conclusion Mr. Fawcett remarks: "The season of 1900 is affording an excellent opportunity to fully test the capacity of the transportation interests of the iron ore trade. Unless all indications fail, more than 20,000,000 tons of ore will be moved during the reason, and even with dock improvements costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a fleet of a score and a half of new vessels costing upward of $10,- 000,000, the transportation men are still engaged upon the biggest problem which has vet been presented to them." THE MONTH'S MINING. SHOAL BAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.^ HP HERE has been a dearth of news in this district ' during the last 'two months, though work has been steadily prosecuted on the B.C. Exploration Co.'s property in the Estero Basin, Frederick Arm. Here a four-drill compressor with sixty horsepower boiler has recently been installed, and a working tunnel which should cross-cut the lead at a depth of tvo hundred feet below their former work is at present being driven. The Sunset, another promising copper property in Discovery Passage, is being developed, the results of the work done so far being such that the owners are now commencing work on a lower level or working tunnel which will give them a depth of one hundred and fifty feet on the lead. The ore in this property is a high-grade bornite, carrying fair values in both gold and silver. Beyond this nothing of note is being done in this district with the exception of assessment work on some of the prospects. KAMLOOPS. (From Our Own Correspondent.") The attention that is being paid to this district by Eastern investors is steadily improving the mining outlook. Since my last notes were written a good deal of substantial progress has been made. Mr. W. J. Irving's property on Shuswap Lake has been Toronto syndicate. The showing on this sold to a property is a massi sive ledge of pyrrhotite about 4c ii feet wide carrying throughout low-grade values in copper and gold. Some lenses of high-grade ore are met with yielding 20 per cent. A satisfactory copper; the whole showing is a outlook. most promising one and looks as if it will make a good paying proposition. Its location is also most favourable. The terms of the sale are not made public. The syndicate had an option on the property, which consists of three claims, and had it examined by their engineer and promptly met their first payment of half the purchase money on October 22nd, the balance to be paid on November 22nd. Steady progress is being made by the B. C. Exploration syndicate on both the Lucky Strike and Iron Mask mines. On the Iron Mask an upraise has been made from the end of the old drift to the surface; this has been timbered into two compartments and sinking will be commenced as soon as the 15-h.p. gasoline engine can be installed. Crosscutting at the level of the old workings has shown the width of the ore body to be over 30 feet with good values throughout. On the Lucky Strike good ore is being taken out steadily, most of which is of shipping grade and the management expects to commence shipping from this property next month. New bunk and cook houses have been erected, the old buildings having been converted into offices. Seventeen men are employed at present. The second payment of $5,000 on the Iron Mask property fell due last month and was accordingly met. Changes of an important nature have been made at the Kimberly mine. Mr. E. C. Wood who was concerned in the sale of the property and who has since acted as superintendent, has resigned and Mr. W. H. Fowler, one of the former owners, has been appointed in his place. Mr. Fowler has set about actively re-organizing the working of the property; buildings are being erected with all possible speed and everything is being put into shape for active and systematic development of the property. Regular progress is being made on several other properties. The tunnel on the Python is being pushed ahead and some ore is being met the existence of which was not previoiusly suspected. This tunnel looks like showing up better results than the old workings. Messrs. Fowler & Carter are keeping men at work on the Hecla and are endeavouring to consolidate several surrounding claims into one group with the Hecla. Work is being done on several properties. On Jamieson Creek the Mollie Gibson and Home- stake are showing up fine bodies of gold-bearing ore. A good deal of prospecting of dredging leases is going on and the arrangements of the Jamieson Creek Dredging Co. for putting on a dredger in the spring are well in hand. On the Tenderfoot mine, Copper Creek, the vein has been met at the 150 foot level and shows good ore; as a result more stock has been disposed of. The management are trying to make arrangements for shipping ore during the coming winter. It is reported that a deal is being arranged with the Truth mine. This is one of the best properties in the district and as such is very likely to change hands. camp m'kinney. (From Our Own Correspondent. 1 The management have started work on the new winze from the east drift of the 400-foot level as outlined in the projected plan of development. A strike of high-grade ore was made in the west drift on the 300-foot level almost directly be- the cariboo, low the mill and a fine body of ore has also been encountered in the east drift of the same level. The mill was recently closed down for a few days in order to make the connections with the new boiler which has just been installed and to inaugurate a lew necessary repairs, but operations have again been resumed. Waterloo.—Dr. Reddy of Spokane has formed a • strong syndicate to take up the extra issue of Waterloo stock and so enable the company to further develop the property. Work will probably be commenced about the 15th of November. It is the intention of the company to either continue the present shaft down 150 feet or sink a new shaft where the upraise from the first level comes to the surface r-nd continue this down to the 200-foot level. It is to be hoped that the new management will thoroughly open up the property before starting the mill and not fritter away resources as in the past. 1!'">UXI)A1;Y creek. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The most important event to chronicle in connection with the mining industry in the Boundary district this month is the substantial increase that has taken place in the quantity of ore being sent to the smelters. It is not generally A growing known that the aggregate tonnage ore of ore shipped from the mines of production. the Boundary country to the end of October is about 54,000 tons. The respective totals of the several shipping mines are as follows: Tons. Old Ironsides and Knob Hill Group . . . . 31,000 B. C 14,000 City of Paris 3>5°° Brandon and Golden Crown 1,800 Winnipeg 1,200 Smaller shipments from other mines 2,500 Total 54,000 During the latter part of October the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria mines together sent out an average of 600 tons daily, varying from that quantity on one day only, when 31 cars containing about 930 tons went out, this day's shipments constituting a record. The B. C. mine sent out 100 tons daily, the greater part of the month. The Mother Lode has commenced to send ore to the Greenwood smelter. Outside of these the individual shipments have been and still are comparatively small, nor is there at present a good prospect of other properties soon beginning to make daily shipments. The Gold Drop, Snowshoe, Brooklyn and Stemwinder are sufficiently developed to enable them to ship ore regularly, but it is not likely that they will do so for some time. Work at the principal mines of the district has continued on the lines stated in previous letters to the Record. At the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill ore stoping has had most attention, development work here being far ahead of ore-raising operations. There are now more than 200 men employed at these mines. The B.C. mine is also employing most of its working force in getting out ore, but it is intended to push on with the sinking of the main shaft, now down 272 THE MINING RECORD. 429 feet. The Mother Lode will soon be stoping ore, but development work will be continued in this mine to the 500-foot level. Much work was done last month at the 300-foot level, with good results, some of the best ore yet encountered in the mine having been opened up. New machinery is arriving and being installed at this mine. Other properties at work are the Snowshoe and War Eagle, in Greenwood camp; Athelstan and Golden Crown, in Wellington camp; Morrison, Crown Silver and three or four others employing each a few men, in Deadwood camp, and the R. Bell, in Summit camp. Altogether the mining outlook is increasingly promising, especially now that the output of ore is large enough to convince the outside public that there are in the district several mines that have already earned the right to be classed as producers to an extent that is compelling attention to their fast-growing importance. Winnipeg, Manitoba, newspapers report Mr. Wm. Whyte, manager of all Canadian Pacific Railway lines west of Fort William, to. have said respecting the smelters of the Boundary district: "At Grand Forks a new smelter has just commenced operations and 600 tons of ore besides coke are being turned out daily. Another new smelter is the smelters, ready to start work and when this has begun twenty cars per day. will be shipped from the place. The smelter at Greenwood, taking the ore from the mother lode, run by an American company, is kept very busy. A smelter at Boundary Falls, west of Greenwood, is doing some interesting work." Now either Manager Whyte went away from the Boundary country after his recent visit with very hazy notions as to the conditions of the smelting works in the district—which is not customary among prominent C. P. R. officials, to whose utterances importance is usually attached—or else the Free Press reporter was out of his depth when Mr. Whyte told him about the smelters. Perhaps it is only to be expected that in an agricultural country such as surrounds Winnipeg the newspaper men know little or nothing about mining and smelting, so the references to a smelter which "turns out ore besides coke" and to shipping ore from a smelter, are, under the circumstances, excusable. It will perhaps be as well though to unravel the tangle the Prairie City reporter got into. The simple facts which he mixed up until they were scarcely recognizable are as follows: The Granby Company's smelter at Grand Forks, in the Boundary district, started to reduce ore in August 21st last, on which date one 250-ton furnace was "blown in." Owing to the ore being practically self-fluxing this furnace is able to treat up to nearly 320 tons per diem. On October 13 a second furnace was blown in and a few days later the Old Ironsides group of mines, which had previously been sending 300 tons of ore per day to the smelter, doubled their output, sending down 20 cars or 600 tons daily. As the shipping capacity of these mines, from which this smelter obtains its main supply, is considerably larger than the treatment capacity of the smelter, it is anticipated that more furnaces- will soon be added to the smelter so as to provide for its being in a position to reduce a much larger quantity of ore than is practicable under existing circumstances. The other smelters to which the Free Press makes reference are not yet ready to treat ore. The smelter at Greenwood has been erected and is now being equipped for reduction work by the British Columbia Copper Company, of New York, which company also owns the neighbouring Mother Lode mine. It is expected that the mine will be sending down to the latter smelter about 300 tons of ore daily early in the new year, by which time the smelter should be ready for continuous operation. The third smelter referred to is one now in course of erection on a site about three miles south of Greenwood, and near to the Boundary Falls town- site. The Standard Pyritic Smelting Company, an offshoot of the Standard Mining Company, of Quebec, which some time ago acquired the Standard and Marguerite mineral claims, in Deadwood camp, is erecting these reduction works. It is stated that the plant for this pyritic smelter is now on its way in from Denver, Colorado, and that by the time it shall arrive here the preliminary excavations and much.of the necessary mason work will be well advanced. It is the intention of the company to complete this establishment by the end of the current year and it is probable this intention will be carried out. The experiment of pyritic smelting will be watched with more than ordinary interest. It is claimed that the process has proved a distinct success in Colorado and the jpromoters of the local enterprise have had tests made of Boundary ores that have satisfied them that here too, the industry will give equally satisfactory results. The foregoing information relative to the smelters of the district is given both as news of interest and with the object of correcting any erroneous ideas that the publication of statements imputed to Mr. Whyte may have conveyed to those who read both the Record and the Winnipeg Free Press. The expected has at length come to pass, and circulars have been addressed to shareholders convening an extraordinary general meeting of the Winnipeg Mining and Smelting Company for the 16th of November next, with the object of placing the present concern in liquidation and re-constructing by incorporating a new company to be known as the Winnipeg Mines, Limited, non- the personal liability, "with a nominal Winnipeg capital of $1,250,000, divided into reconstructed, shares of the par value of $1 each, fully paid up to the extent of 95 cents per share, and to allot to the shareholders of the old company share for share, and place the balance of the said shares in the treasury of the new company." This appears to me to be as good an arrangement under the circumstances as could be effected. These circumstances are meanwhile reasonably fairly set out in a general letter to shareholders, signed by Mr. Richard Plewman. the company's secretary. Mr. Plewman writes : "The board of directors of the Winnipeg Mining and Smelting Company, Limited, regret to inform the stockholders that their efforts to make the mine a self-sustaining property without re-organization have failed. In February of this vear the mine was shut down by the old management and remained in that condition for about three months. About the middle of May, some large blocks of stock having changed hands, all the old directors but two resigned and new ones were elected to fill the vacancies. The new management found the affairs of the company in a very discouraging condition. The mine was by JbL 43° THE MINING RECORD. no means proved and much costly development work would be necessary before it could be a steady producer. There were only $648 in the treasury—insufficient to meet the cost of unwatering the mine alone —and less than 20,000 shares of treasury stock on hand and its best market price the lowest in the history of the company. The management, however, had great confidence in the property, although not unmindful of the difficulties before them in attempting to make a mine without either funds or treasury stock. Some thought of re-organization at that time was entertained, but after obtaining the services of Mr. N. F. Tregear as superintendent and consulting with him it was finally decided to make a strong effort to make the mine self-sustaining -without reorganization. For some months we were in a measure successful, but the compulsory development work and the heavy freight and treatment rates were too much for our resources in the present state of development. An important cross-cut on the 100-foot level has been run 120 feet and should be continued, but at every turn we were hampered by lack of funds, without which no considerable development could be prosecuted. The Winnipeg ground is considerably broken up above the 300-foot level, and it was very desirable to sink, so as to get below the zone of disturbance, but this policy also could not De *prose- cuted without running the property seriously into debt. "In Mr. Tregear the company has a first-class superintendent. He has assured the management that the property promises well on further development, and he strongly endorses our re-organization plans. He is confident that the Winnipeg will make a mine, although readily acknowledging that the difficulties encountered have been greater than he expected. "Many of the numerous ledges on the Winnipeg are low-grade—too low to ship profitably to the Trail smelter at $7 (where most of our ore went), or even to the Granby at $5.50, but in December next the Greenwood smelter will give us a $4 rate. On the ore the Winnipeg has already shipped a $4 rate would not only have saved the Winnipeg company several thousand dollars, but it would have enabled us to have shipped lower grade ore which a $7 rate made prohibitory. "The management has every faith in the future of the property if given a show, and looks to the stockholders for their support on the. re-organization scheme submitted. It is believed that the 5c. in assessments will yield enough to make the Winnipeg a mine. It is not intended to put any of the new treasury stock upon the market at present. That will be held in reserve for the equipment of the mine, and if fortune comes our way it may never be issued. Re-organizations are expensive and in several well- known instances the process had to be repeated. Our plans are laid to prevent any fiasco of that kind. The assessment part of the plan was an imperative necessity, because it is so hard to sell treasury stock just now. We believe the stockholders will willingly contribute on a fair pro rata scheme towards the development of their property. At the coming meeting a full statement of the company before the stockholders." s affair will De revelstoke. (From Our Own Correspondent.N Although, as mentioned last month, the Big Bend properties in this division will be practically idle this winter, yet very good reports have been brought down by the men who have been working in the Smith Creek placer claims. They appear to have reached bedrock, which is white smith creek quartz deeply fissured, and consid- placers. erable gold has been taken from these cracks. It is not impossible, but hardly likely that work will be resumed there before next year, when the "hope eternal" springs in our "human breasts" that it will be a more prosperous season than this has been. We must notice the recent death of one old Cariboo pioneer, Andy Parkes, who has worked in that special neighbourhood for many years, and always expressed his opinion that the ground was auriferous—unfortunately he did not live to see his predictions fully. verified, though they were partically so. His was the ordinary lot of the pioneer and prospector, a long life of hard work with very little to reward him at the end of it. A third—or is it a fourth ?—survey has been made some 15 miles this summer for the lond-needed Big Bend waggon road, but the fine weather has probably left us for the season and no progress whatever in the actual work has been made. Some say "politics" are at the bottom of it, and surely 'politics" are responsible for many wrongs, but to a non-political individual like your correspondent such things seem nothing short of scandalous in this free country. Turning now to the southeast, the well-known Lardeau division still holds it own. Perhaps the last remarkable find was on the Cromwell claim near the head of Brown Creek on the South Fork of the Lardeau River. This ore which has a most peculiar appearance, utterly unlike the usual "carbonates," looks very much like a conglomerate of rich strike white balls cemented together with in the oxide of iron, though I do not lardeau. know the composition of the white mineral — possibly decomposed feldspar. The ore, if such it can be called, runs very high in gold value, several assays having given as much as 20 ounces per ton, together with some silver. A small shipment is being made to the smelter, and the future of this property will be watched with the greatest interest. A very rich silver-lead find is reported from the Metropolitan group on the north fork of the Lardeau River; this is said on very excellent authority to carry from 300 to 1,000 ounces silver per ton; and the vein to be a narrow one (as is commonly the case when so rich) lying in a contact between schist and lime. It is reported to be from six inches wide of solid galena and gray copper to three feet of slightly less solid ore, but six inches of 1,000 ounce ore is not to be despised even at the present price of silver.. The lessees of the Triune—that claim which has paid its fortunate owners from the first shot, are doing their utmost to ship 200 tons before the snow put an end to this season's work; and if the remainder of the 200 tons yields as high values as the first shipment, the lessees will be considerably in pocket. The Nettie L., which has been working a small force for the last few months, owing to the expense of shipping ore during the summer, will considerably increase its staff very shortly, and work in the lower working's THE MINING RECORD. 431 will be very actively prosecuted, as well as on the rich vein now so thoroughly shown up in the old or upper workings. The shareholders of this company (The Great Western Mines, Ltd.) should hear something before many months are past that will afford them great satisfaction. The Silver Cup will of course ship heavily this winter, and the owners of that property also can congratulate themselves on the condition of their mine. Another, so far, less known claim will probably ship more or less this season, the Old Gold, where development has shown splendid bodies of very high grade ore. If only the railway were in the district, many other of the lesser lights would shine more brilliantly in the public eye, but in a country where in some places at present it would scarcely pay to bring out solid metallic silver, claim owners have perforce to be contented too frequently with doing assessments and holding on to their ground in the hope of transportation being provided. Permit me to congratulate your correspondent (at the foot of page 394, last issue) on his remarks about smelting. It has been my lot in this country to see some exceedingly good work in that direction, and some that would disgrace a "pot puller," on the same ore. In this as in most other matters, experienta docet. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The announcement that under the amended mining laws of this province the various mining recorders throughout the province will hereafter collect the statistical information relating to the mineral output of their respective divisions will be received with some satisfaction throughout the a bureau of province as well as abroad. This statistics. information is not only necessary but it has become indispensible in connection with the imposition of the government tax. A government bureau of statistics, especially mineral statistics, is regarded by many as the best method to obtain reliable information, yet there is considerable experience to show that'the statistical information prepared by the government is often stale by the time it reaches the public. It is generally conceded that the ore in sight in the chief producers of Red Mountain guarantees the permanency of Rossland. One hears fabulous accounts of the quantity of ore which has been measured by the eye of the mining engineer, the diamond drill and the divining rod of the enthusiast. Exact fio-ures are given in some cases and the French notation of a billion is even exceeded by these calculators. That the ore reserves of the Le Roi: and Centre Star are something extraordinary as to quality seems well established and that the local reputation of other chief producers stands well is equally positive. Nelson has the advantage of Rossland as a townsite situation, but the latter distances the former in the important item of ore production and ship- rossland and ments in the ratio of as 162,000 nelson tons is to 40,000 for the nine compared. months and 20 days ending October 20. The advantage of valuation of the ore is, however, in favour of Nelson—proportionately considered. The Rossland output has heretofore for this year been estimated at $16 per ton gross while the Nelson ores are valued at $20 gross. It may, however, be found after the official revision at the end of the year that in both cases the values have been somewhat over-estimated. But accepting these for the present the gross value of Rossland ores is $2,592,000 while that of Nelson's 40,000 tons is valued at $800,000 gross. For the whole of 1899, 172,665 tons of Rossland ores were officially valued at $3,229,036 or nearly $18.71 per ton 58,302 tons of Nelson ores for the same period were officially valued at $879,185 or $15.08 per ton. According to these figures the Rossland ores have decreased $2.71 per ton and Nelson ores increased $4.92. There is some discrepancy in the Nelson figures as given, and the Rossland ores are at least $1.00 per ton higher in the official figures than they should be. As the unit value of the ores is something that is now more or less being investigated the returns hereafter made will very likely be nearer the mark than formerly as a more direct system of obtaining these statistics will prevail. Le Roi No. 4 (Great Western).—A recent discovery in this mine on the 1,000 foot level is reported. The pay shoot has been encountered in the west drift 116 feet from the shaft and another 164 feet from the shaft on the east drift. This mine is being developed by six tunnels. These aggregate about 15,000 ft. and have reached the western end of the property. The strike in the east drift is regarded as the best. About 400 feet of backs have thus been obtained. This mine, according to the statement of the management, will be in a position to ship about 500 tons daily next spring. The ore is self-fluxing and therefore can be treated much cheaper than other Rossland ores. California.—Operations have been suspended. The pump has been taken from the shaft and all the employees except the watchman discharged. The California is a full sized claim opposite the White Bear and west of the Annie. It is equipped with a ten-drill compressor, a 15 h. p. induction motor and a 30 h.p. hoist. The development work consists of a shaft near the west line and a tunnel running north and south across the property. A good deal of cross cutting has been done. The best indications of ore are near the west line where a shaft has been sunk, but most of the work has been tunnelling without much regard to indications. The California is owned by the California Gold Mining Company and is one of the properties of the Miner-Graves syndicate. When the geological conditions of this property are better understood more substantial results will no doubt be obtained. The Dominion Geological Survey party which has been working in the vicinity of the Kettle River country under the direction of Mr. R. W. Brock, has completed the field work for the season and have proceeded to Ottawa, where a report and maps of the district will be prepared. The area covered is from Rossland to the North Fork of Kettle River and from the international boundary line north to the head of the chief branch of Kettle River. The map will not, I am informed, be published until next summer. The ore output from Rossland mines is now worth about 10,000 tons of the entire out-turn for 1899 of the same mines, and by the end of the present month 432 THE MINING RECORD. last year's output will be fully reached, leaving two months' output to mark the increase over last year's shipments. nelson. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The growth and progress of the capital of the southern interior afford material foi retrospection and consequent comparison, fe In August 1895 I climbed one of the nearby steep mountain sides and reached the track of the Spokane Falls & Northern. At that time there was no smelter, no electric trams. It was in short a mining camp and nothing more. The advancement since has been truly wonderful. I find Nelson in a flutter caused by the sitting of the Assize Court with the Hon. Mr. Justice Walkem presiding. One of the cases is a mining dispute with a charge of conspiracy—the old story of a galena farm and false representations. A German who lives down by the sea near Seattle paid out $900 for a galena ledge that proved to be invisible. The Deputy Attorney-General who prosecuted the case is evidently conversant with his duties, for notwithstanding a very plausible, if not ingenious defence, set up by the prisoner's counsel the jury were not influenced and rendered a verdict of guilty. The sentence imposed by the Court was eighteen months in the penitentiary, an attempt to prove that a galena vein had been found by a post mortem having dismally failed to shake the determination of the jury. In the matter of statistical information relating to the mineral industry of the Nelson division, I find there is room for the pathfinder—the trail has been blazed at intervals, but it is not well defined. Now, I must seize this opportunity of stating for the information of the Nelson public that mining statistics to be of any use must be up-to-date for it has been well said that "belated statistics" are "ancient history." Such a progressive and prosperous mining centra as Nelson is cannot afford to lose sight of this fact. The Dominion Government and the Provincial Government are directly interested in a system by which these figures may be assembled and published. Now and then cases arise 111 this province suggesting that the business morality in mining circles is open to criticism, and that much injury to legitimate mining is inflicted. The local press just now contains some interesting chapters on this subject. The arrest of Mr. Ernest Mansfield is a case in point which has elicited some comment. mr. Mansfield's Mr. Mansfield is a well known min- ARREST. ing promoter of Southern Brit ish Columbia. He was arrested at Nelson on October 17th on a capias at the complaint of the miners working in Camp Mansfield. The amount due for wages is said to be $2,000 in addition to other amounts amounting to about $4,000. The fact that Mr. Mansfield has been instrumental in causing the investment of, at least, $100,000 in the Kootenays and the circumstance that he is an agent and not a principal, and has means of his own, have invested the case with unusual interest. The difficulties, it is understood, began some time ago when remittances from the company's headquarteis in France ceased. As time went on and wages remained unpaid matters culminated by the mines in Camp Mansfield being shut down on October 12th. Mr. Mansfield immediately forwarded cablegrams to Rene Laudi stating the situation and urging remit tances. The miners delayed further action until Tuesday, October 16th, the time being further extended until the evening of the 17th, when a capias was issued and Mr. Mansfield was arrested. Mr. Mansfield went to gaol, but previously sent a cablegram explaining the situation. He received a cable from Laudi, the French manager, authorizing him to draw on him (Laudi) for funds. Mr. Mansfield refused to do this, but so far he has not given satisfactory explanations of his refusal. The miners did not seek to protect their claims under the Lien Act, because it appears that the property is recorded in Laudi's name and the men were employed by Mr. Mansfield. Subsequent events will no doubt clear up the facts of this case. So far as I have been able to determine the ore shipment from Nelson mining division from January 1st to October 20th amounted to 40,000 tons. Statistics as to valuation, etc., are wanting, but will be supplied later. Hall Mines.—The management is installing a new $30,000 plant in the mine on the 300 and 500 foot levels. The smelter is heating 200 tons daily. Ore purchasing has ceased owing to the lack of smelter facilities. A new Godsal reverberatory furnace is being erected. Yellowstone.—The mine is shipping about thirty tons daily amounting in value to $300. Second Relief.—About 1,600 tons have been shipped, valued at $75,000. Granite.—The daily shipments are thirty tons, valued at $300. Athabasca.—The shipments amount to fifteen tons daily, valued at $700. Highland.—The sale of this property through Mr. Charles E. Parker was recently reported. B. C. Goldfields (Ymir Mines).—The mill is treating about 240 tons daily, valued at $2,400. London and Consolidated.—The management has about 5,000 tons of $40 ore ready at Crawford Bay for hauling to lake points about twelve miles as soon as the road is completed. About 30,000 tons are blocked out. YMIR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I am pleased to state that the Ymir mineral exhibit in charge of Mr. Alfred Parr received the following awards at the Spokane Industrial Exposition: Free gold specimens (first prize), gold medal; free milling gold ores (second prize), bronze medal. These two prizes establishes Ymir Camp as a strictly free milling one, and when it should be remembered that those competing for the prizes, were Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, it is a feather in our caps. The deal reported in last month's Record concerning the Wilcox did not mature for the reason that the American holders of stock were opposed to the property being transferred at such a low figure, and I am glad to state that funds are being raised which will enable the Broken Hill Mining and Development Company to instal a mill in the spring on the property. Meanwhile mining activity here is very marked and the indications are that we shall have a very prosperous winter. All the mines are running full time, and many prospects are to be worked throughout the winter months. The contract has been let THE MINING RECORD. 433 for clearing the right of way for the Tamarac Tramway and inside of two months it will be in operation and bring ore to the railroad for shipment to the smelter. SLOCAN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) If the prospective value of any field of operations is to be judged by the efforts put forth to open it up, then the Lake District is certainly entitled to well merited attention, for no fewer than four important waggon roads have recently been completed. It is encouraging to note that they are not confined to any one section, being pretty well distributed over the known mineral area. First of all we have the road up Silver Mountain from New Denver, then that to the Hewitt connecting with Silverton and at the foot of the lake two more up Springer and Lemon Creeks respectively, the former tapping the rich district in which the Arlington is situated, the latter serving to open up a part of the country which may eventually belie the appellation conferred upon the "Silvery Slocan" by becoming famous as a gold producer. Public works of this description are not without significance and in this instance they merely indicate that the initial prospective stage—though prolonged until many had given up hope of ever arriving at anything better—is passed and that mining on a legitimate basis is begun in earnest with something substantial to show in the nature of returns. The reproach that Slocan Lake properties lived on the reputation of those situated around Sandon is heard no more, for with an output of 3,500 tons' already this year which should easily be increased to 5,000, worth roughly half a million dollars, by the first of January, and such producing mines as the Bosun, Enterprise, Arlington and innumerable others which have long been awaiting transportation facilities, there is every confidence in the future. I have more than once in these columns drawn attention to the statement that although the Slocan is primarily a silver-lead camp, the possibilities in the way of a limited gold production and even of a small copper output are not altogether to be despised. Putting aside the fact that some gold AT lemon few of the galena ores carry gold creek. in quantity which renders it a more or less valuable accessory constituent, it is well known that in the majority of the dry quartzose ores gold plays a no inconsiderable part in meeting the treatment charges, in addition to which we have the Lemon Creek district before mentioned where gold values largely predominate, occurring very often in a condition which will admit of their being successfully milled on the spot. It is not, however, so generally understood that there exists on what is known as Red Mountain lying between Silverton and Ten Mile a territory in which gold is found, not associated with silver as one would naturally expect, but more or less intimately disseminated through the baser sulphides of iron and copper; in other words, closely resembling the Trail and Boundary product. It is this which induced Mr. Graves, so well known in the latter district in connection with the Granby smelter, to undertake, the development of the Rockland, a large proposition of this nature with an excellent surface showing. Without committing myself on the subject, I may say that so well have preliminary operations pro gressed that government assistance in the construction of a waggon road to the property has already been tendered. Like many another possibility, however, the development of the mining industry along these lines in the Slocan may be merely a dream for the future, but one at any rate which it is well worth keeping an eye on. The chief subject of interest around Sandon at the present time is the contemplated starting of the machinery at the Ivanhoe concentrator. This mill, though differing but slightly except in the matter of daily capacity from previous efforts in this direction, marks another step forward in the utilization of the immense bodies of lower grade ore which it is impossible to ship profitably under present conditions. I may be allowed to reiterate in closing what I have many times before insisted on, that the permanent progress of the Slocan in common with all mining districts, though in a lesser degree perhaps, than many, depends as much upon the proper economic preliminary treatment of' the poorer classes of ore as upon the development of the richer and higher grade chutes, and we cannot hope until such time arrives to see the Slocan attain to its maximum output. THE RUNDLE POWDER THAWER. BY far the greater percentage of mine accidents are due to the careless handling of high explosives, and more particularly to the dangerous methods so commonly employed by miners to thaw frozen powder. Hence the use of a simple and inexpensive device such as the Rundle powder thawer is to be most strongly recommended. For several years this thawer has been extensively used in the iron and copper mines of Michigan with wonderful success. It is constructed of galvanized iron, is strong, durable, compact and convenient. The tubes, twenty in number, are entirely surrounded by water, thus keeping the powder in constant working order. As these tubes are open at both ends the powder is less confined and there is no danger of a part of the stick being left in the tube. Owing to the fact that the powder lies on its side there is no danger of its melting and running into a mass as is often the case where the powder stands on end, as in some types of thawers. Where conveniences are such that warm water can be poured in from the start, a single candle snuff three inches long will hold the temperature for from six to eight hours. This warmer holds one and one-half gallons of water, and tests show that two three-inch snuffs will heat the water to 120 degrees. One valuable feature is the fact that in order to place the powder in the tubes the cover must be removed and this exposes the water reservoir, hence there is no excuse for not knowing the amount of water contained in the thawer. The device was introduced into the West by the Hendrie & Bolthoff Manufacturing Co., of Denver, Colorado, who among other testimonials received the following letter from Mr. H. A. Lee, the Commissioner of Mines for Colorado: "Gentlemen:—The Rundle powder warmer, left by you with this Department, has been subjected to series of tests under conditions both favourable and unfavourable. As a result, I can most heartily recommend it to all consumers of nftro-powder compounds. It reduces the risks incurred in thawing frozen powder to the minimum and its universal rse 434 THE MINING RECORD. in accordance with your instructions would save the lives of many miners annually." With reference to accidents from "the dangerous custom still prevalent in the mining camps in the handling of nitro-powder or dynamite" Mr. Lee also writes: "The records show .... a total of twenty-two casualties from powder explosives in two months. The cause of these accidents are picking out missed shots, the use of iron or steel tamping bars and the warming or thawing of frozen powder. It seems strange that the almost daily reports in the press, detailing the powder explosions and their sad results, do not stop practices proven unsafe. That it does not is evidenced by the above showing and can only be accounted for on the ground of ignorance or carelessness bred from familiarity. At this season of the year explosions from thawing powder are most prolific. They are caused by thawing powder in front of a fire or blacksmith forge, on boiler walls and previously heated hot sand, by dipping in hot water, thawing, in can heated by candles or by holding in flame of the candle. Investigation demon- !P0*«i PAT. NOV n 188 -■/ Imanufactuked iv? iHe''lB0IJH0fi#tf strates that but comparatively few nitro-powder consumers are aware that quick thawing or the the application of dry heat of high temperature is the cause of explosions. To state this in another manner: Frozen nitro-powder heated quickly to 120 F. is liable to explode at any time, but may not. Investigation further shows that the real danger lies in the fact that in a great majority of cases powder heated quickly does not explode and for this reason methods absolutely dangerous are accepted and considered safe. Of the twenty-two accidents above noticed, all of the men injured or killed were old miners and were pursuing customs which they had followed for periods varying from five to twenty-five years without fatal results." We would strongly recommend to mine owners and others the advisability of writing to Messrs. Hendrie & Bolthoff for a more detailed description of the Rundle appliance. TRIPLEX ELECTRIC SINKING PUMP. THE new triplex electric sinking pump illustrated herewith by the Jeanesville Ironworks Co., of Jeanesville, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., is claimed by the manufacturers to be satisfactorily susceptible of operation by an electric current direct from a water power situated miles from the point of application; that it produces no heating effect in the shaft—the steam pipe being entirely eliminated, and when in use current is consumed in the exact proportion to the work performed. The design contemplates three single-acting plungers operating from a common crank shaft, with crank pins placed 120° apart, the resultant action of these three plungers being to produce a continuous and constant stream to the column pipe, and tend to reduce to a minimum the shock and jar thereon. The steel crank shaft is driven by two gears, fitted over the discs, which form the outside checks of the two end cranks, thus designed to relieve the shaft- of one-half the strain that would be brought upon it if driven by a single gear at one end. The motor is on top of the pump frame, and is i m at H I connected to the crank shaft by gearing to give the desired speed to the pump. The pump frame is made to receive any make of motor which is adapted to this kind of work, either lirect or three-phase current. The Joshua Hendy Machine Works of Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont Street, San Francisco Cal., are the Pacific Coast agents for the Jeanesville pumps, and will be pleased to furnish catalogues and detailed information. TRADE CIRCULARS AND CATALOGUES. MESSRS. A. LESCHEN & SONS issue an interesting and comprehensive catalogue of their manufactures of wire rope and cordage and special attention is directed to flattened strand ropes, which instead of being made up of strands of circular form in cross-section, are constructed with strands, each of which has.one or more flattened surfaces, so that one flattened surface is exposed on the outside of the full length of the rope, with the result that a plurality of wires in each strand must at all times take the wear instead of there being only one external wire in peripheral working in each strand, as is the case with ropes of ordinary or of "Lang's lay" construction whilst new. Until the wear has greatly advanced and consequently, a considerable diminution of strength has taken place in an ordinary or "Lang's lay" rope, the friction is borne in a very marked manner upon the crown of the one wire nearest the periphery of the rope in each strand; and in cases where small wire is used it is rapidly worn through, whilst heavier wire has a tendency to fracture where the abrasion has taken place. Owing to the number of wires that are at all times exposed for wear in a flattened strand rope for a considerable distance along their respective lengths, a smooth or comparatively smooth surface is presented even whilst new, and the wear is consequently light upon any-one individual wire, and the tendency to become brittle is minimized. These ropes are exceedingly flexible and are less liable to the crushing action which frequently takes place in other ropes. We shall be glad to forward copies of this catalogue to our readers, or application may be made direct to Messrs. A. Les- chen & Sons Rope Company, 920-922 - North Main Street, St. Louis, Mo. We are in receipt of a handsomely illustrated catalogue and price list of hoisting machinery from Messrs. the M. C. Bullock Man'f'g Go. of Chicago. Descriptions and photographs are here given of standard hoisting drums, geared multiple-drum plants, direct-acting hoists, single and double-drum hoists and geared reel hoists, and reverse engine. Embodied in the catalogue are numerous very complete tables for calculating allowable strain, on rope, etc. Copies of this catalogue will be forwarded upon application. MINING RETURNS AND STATISTICS. NELSON. THE customs returns for September place the value of bullion exported at $55.126 and the value of ore at $4,730. The result of operations at the Athabasca for the month of September was as follows: Period of run, 26 days and 8 hours; number of tons crushed, 410: Value of bullion recovered $11,583 36 Value of concentrates recovered . . . . 4,680 00 Total values recovered $16,263 36 This shows that the value of the ore milled was $39.76 a ton- Corrected returns for the month of August place the total values recovered for'that month at $17,872.24. During September, the Granite Mill crushed 835 tons of Poorman ore, producing 300 ozs. of bullion, of the estimated value of $6,050, or with 27 tons of concentrates, $6,750. SLOCAN. The following are among the exports from Kaslo for September: Ore, pounds 4,137,000 7alu,e $176,392 00 Lead, pounds 1,839,000 Silver, ounces 196,430 Valued at '. $n7';858 Coal, tons j g^g Valued at • • $3,89700 The shipment of ore from Slocan Lake points from the 1st of January to the 20th of October inclusive aggregate 3,489 tons. The Kootenaian presents the following returns of ore shipments over the K. & S. railway for the year to the end of September: Month. Pounds. January 1,498,000 February 794,000 March 1,717,000 April 1,550,000 May.- 3,036,000 J™e 4,573>ooo Jnly 3,331,000 August 2,488,265 September 4,011,000 Total 22,998,265 In detail the September shipments via Kaslo were: Pounds. Payne to Everett and San Francisco. . . . 638,000 Whitewater to Kootenay Ore Co i,5o6;ooo Last Chance to Kootenay Ore Co . . . . 970,000 Slocan Star to San Francisco 240,000 Rambler to Everett 278,000 Ruth to Kootenay Ore Co., Kaslo 360,000 Noble Five to Kaslo Ore Co 64,100 Cork to Kaslo Ore Co 40,000 Trade Dollar to Kaslo Ore Co 80,000 Bismarck to Kaslo Ore Co 34,000 Mountain Con to Kaslo Ore Co 41,000 Total 4,267,000 EAST KOOTENAY In September the North Star and Sullivan mines shipped 2,620 tons; the St. Eugene Consolidated of Moyie making also shipments of 16,051 tons of concentrates. CARIBOO. The Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co., Ltd., of Bullion, completed on Oct. 1 the second run of the season, producing as a result of 68 days' working operations, a gold ingot weighing 9,040 ounces, valued at $154,765. ROSSLAND. In the Rossland camp the Iron Mask has re-commenced shipments at the rate of about 70 tons weekly; the War Eagle is making occasional shipments, and the Velvet has entered the productive class, with a beginning of 25 tons daily. To the end of October the shipments from this camp are shown in the following table: Mine. Tons. Le Roi I30>598 Centre Star 23,130 War Eagle 10,663 Le Roi No. 2 2,207 Iron Mask 1,735 Giant 3^9 I. X. L , 420 ll 436 THE MINING RECORD. Mine. Tons. Evening Star 351 Monte Christo 273 Iron Colt 80 Spitzee 20 Total 169,866 The following is a detailed report of the Le Roi output for August: The shipments made to the Northport Smelting Works totalled 19,302 dry tons from various sections of the mine, as follows:— Tons. From the 200 ft level 827 From the 300 ft. level 280 From the 450 ft. level 196 From the 500 ft. level 1,988 From the 600 ft. level 6,904 From the 700 ft. level 6,791 From the 800 ft. level 2,316 Total 19,302 the estimated value of which was $238,427. There was further shipped from the second-class ore dump- during the month to the Trail smelter 3,512 tons, netting $15,730, making the total shipments for the month 22,814 tons. It is interesting to note during the three months ended August 31st, there were extracted from the mine and shipped to the North- port smelter 53,283 dry tons of ore, having a gross value of $702,412.74. This is considerably more than the combined shipments of the mine during the previous six months. In addition to the above there have been shipped to the Trail smelter from the second class ore dump 4,817 dry tons, making the actual output 58,001 dry tons. BOUNDARY CREEK. The Granby smelter, which was blown in two months ago, has thus far shipped 22 carloads, or 600 tons, of matte to a New York refinery. This matte is estimated to be worth $10 per ton. This would give the value of the total shipments to date as $105,600. COAL EXPORTATIONS. THE exportation of coal from the Vancouver Island collieries for September were as follows:— Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 3L997 Ladysmith . .. 24,237 Union 10,013 Total 66,247 For the three weeks of the present month the New Vancouver Coal Co. shipped:— Date. Vessel and destination. Tons. 1—SS. Condor, San Francisco 942 4—SS. R. Adamson, San Diego 4,455 8—SS. New England, Alaska. 42 9—SS. San Mateo, San Francisco 4,364 13—SS. Titania, San Francisco 5,764 16—SS. Ruth, Seattle ' 21 <6—SS. New England, Alaska 41 20—Ship Cyrus Wakefield, Manilla 2,700 Total 18,329 THE METAL MARKET—OCTOBER. [Compiled from special telegraphic quotations to the B. C. Mining Record from the Engineering & Mining Journal, New York. ] SILVER. ON the 5th of October the price of silver was quoted in New York at 64!, the highest point reached for several years, the mint order for bullion being, however, satisfied the market gave way and declined several points. Recent advices are to the effect that there is again much enquiry for the metal, which is not likely to be satisfied without another ad - vance. Our latest quotations are 63^@63^. copper. The market has been quiet but fairly firm, there being few European- purchases and little American business. Some of the heaviest producers are, however, reported to be sold out to the end of the year and it is believed that shortly a heavy buying movement may set in. Lake copper is quoted at i6J@ i6|c.; electrolytic in cakes, wire bars and ingots at i6|@i6fc.; in cathodes at i6@i6|c. ; casting copper at i6£c. lead. There is little change in prices though business is more active. The New York quotations are 4-32-J@ Kg St. Louis, 4.25@4.32^. SPELTER. The conditions remain unchanged, 4c. being quot ed from St. Louis and 4.15c New York. THE LOCAL STOCK MARKET. WE are indebted to Messrs. Foulkes & Co. for the following report: From the shareholders' point of view there has been very little improvement during the oast month in the local mining market, though it is to be hoped that the large amount of work being done on some of the Kootenay properties will brighten prices before the close of the year. The most important movement in the "bull" direction was the sudden rise of Crow's Nest Coal shares, some of which were sold as high as $49.50. Buyers having been satisfied, the stock declined rapidly and it is expected that it may go below $40.00 before it again recovers. Rambler Cariboo also had a rapid rise from 32c. to 29c, but it was only very temporary and doubtless caused by the "ring" who control this stock for the purposes of unloading at the top of the market and then bearing the same to recover their holdings. Noble Five has been inactive and the anticioated improvement of the market value of this stock has not yet taken place though it may be looked for. The feelings of the ordinary shareholder of Van Anda are not to be envied, but it would be nothing less than throwing money away to atempt to realize under existing circumstances. An endeavour is being made to pay off the debts of the Fontenoy Company and until this, is done no movement can be expected in the stock as the property is idle for want of funds to renew development work. Athabasca is quoted at $5.75 as against $6.50 a month ago, and there has been generally speaking a flat tendency over the whole market during the past month. THE MINING RECORD. IX. The Vancouver Agency, jj|§| | Head Office, 49-57, The Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS. NOTE—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz., !|Bf- Calcutta Ore Sacks, COTTON WASTE, FIREBRICKS, FIRECLAY, SMITHY COAL, LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. Our PRICE f°r Ore Sacks is particularly LOW as our contract was made before the rise in the Market. Write for lowest prices to 605 Granville St., Vancouver, B ©. THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. WHITE HORSE Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. i «S«r AUsteamers plying to and from Dawson and other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the Big Salmon can be more easily reached from White Hor-e than from any other locality, thus it is certain to become the great distributing centre for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make .white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beautifully situated on a level tract of land on the west bank of the Yukon River and just below the celebrated white Horse Rapid°> around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the teamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. *f^ T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, Lots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information re gardlng the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First Avenue South, Seattle, Wash.; and also at the office of J. J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. HP^^-^Vancouver, B.C. VICTORIA, B.C. PLATINUM REFINERS in ew York Office— 121 LIBERTY STREET. ■ I f I 1 I W E are always in the market for : : : : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM,, j 1 1 1 BAKER & CO., - NEWARK, N. J. P~ LS§sVss^s Telegraphic Address "Lobnitz, Renfrew."Ai Code Used. X. THE MINING RECORD. LOCAL STOCK flARKET FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. Prepared by A. W. More & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B. C. Week Endin t Saturday. Week Ending Saturti ay, Week Ending S aturday. Week Endin g Saturday, 29th September. 6th October. 13th October. 27th OecoDer. Highest. Lowest. Highest. Lowest. Higl est. Lowest. Highest. Lowest. P Companies. > *3 13 T3 •a •a 13 ■6 <D <L> to !-< 24 •a M ■o M ■d 'M ■a M T3 (a •O Cfl T3 (a 13 ft < 3 «! m I M 1 m -s< « < po Sj n g « Athabasca $ 6 50 $ 6 00 $ 6 25 $ 6 00 $ 6 50 $ 5 80 $ 6 00 $ 5 50 S 6 25 | 5 75 $ 6 05 $ 5 50 $ 6 50 $ 5 50 $ 6 00 i 5 50 5 p oc 1 Brandon & Gol'n C 11 m 10 06 10 06 10 05 10 06% 10 05 10 06 UJ uo Cariboo-McKin'y.. 83 80 75 81 76 77 70 80 70 75 60 75 69 73 ea ili c. q Cariboo Hydraulic 1 53 1 40 1 45 1 30 1 50 1 30 1 40 1 10 1 50 1 25 1 45 1 10 1 45 1 20 1 35 1 10 1 65 1 60 1 60 1 58 1 63 1 iSA 15% 1 50 1 60 1 54 1 43 1 25 1 53 1 45 1 50 1 40 Crow's Nest Pass C 45 00 41 00 41 0U 37 50 1 43 00 40 75 42 00 40 00 45 00 42 50 42 00 40 00 65 00 50 00 46 50 44 00 Dardenelles 03 04 02^ 01K 02Ji 01 02% 01 02% 01 02% 01 02% 01% 02% 01 07 06 03 07 0% 06^ 05 07 04 06 0» 07 05% 06 04 Fairview Corpor'n 0334 02% 03 02% 02^ 03^ 02 02% 02^ 03 02% 03 02% 02% 2$* 01% 01 Fentenoy. .. 05 02ji 02 04 03 02^ 02 04 02 03 02 04 02 03 02 40 15 21 06 30 14 17 04 20 14 18 U6 10 13 16 04 35 18 20 06 29 17 18J4 05 25 16 18 04>.2' 18 15 16 04% 34 20 20 06 30 18 17 04 3L 18 18 06 22 16 16 04 40 20 20 06 35 19 18 04% 32 17 18 05% 20 16 17 04% King, (Oro Denero 54 31 50 27 50 30 40 26 54 31 45 28 50 30 40 25 49 31 44 27 45 30 38 25 50 31 38 27 50 30 30 25 Mollie Gibson — Noble Five 06 05 06 0*A 06 0*A 01% 04% 06 04 06 03 06 05 05 03 North Star 97 95 95 90 95 93% 93>1 90 95 92 93 90 95 93% 94 90 3 c. qly 75 45 50 45 70 45 70 40 75 40 60' HO 70 40 60 30 1 00 26A 93 25>4 95 24 88 23 96 27^ 91 26^ 95 26H 90 25 97 29 ' 93% 28% 95 27% 91 26 95 28 92 26 91% 27 85 23 3 c. qly Ra mbler-Cariboo. 100 75 80 70 1 00 75 85 70 1 00 75 90 75 1 00 75 90 70 15 06 14 05 15 05 14 04 16 06 15 05 15 05 14 04A 16 06 15 05 15 05 It 04 16 06 15 05 15 05 14 04% 01 00% 00% 00% 00% <*>A Y* A % % i % % 00% 00% 00% War Eagle 1 55 1 50 1 52 1 45 1 52 1 49 147^ 1 46 1 44 1 41 10o% 106% 1 10 107H 1 02 96 2 SA 07A 02 05 02A 05 02 03 03% 06 03% 03 02% 04 02 02 03A 04 03 03 03% 04 03 03 03% 04 03M 02^ 02% 02 B LATEST LONDON QUOTATIONS. (From the B. C Review.) Name op Company. Sfiare^'25,01*'9' Paid up per JMk. Up Mk. up Price Price Alaska Goldfields... Athabasca .v Atlin Lake Brit. America Corp. B.C.Develop't Assoc Dom. Mining, Dev . Duncan Mines Enterprise Granite Hall Mines Klondike Bonanza . Klondike Corp Klondyke Consols Do. Gov. Con. (Pty) Kootenay Mines .... Le Roi Le Roi No. 2 London and B.C. Gds McDonald's Bonanza New Goldfields of B.C Nimrod Queen Bess Propriety Velvet Rossland Great W. Whitewater Mines.. Ymir Gold Mines... Yukon Goldf Id's new f.p. f.p. m f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. ip. f.p. f.p. £5 £5 £5 f.p. f.p. f.p. IP- f.p. f.p. £5 f.p. f.p. f.p. 15-16 16/3 15-16 I 1/ 7-16 % 20 1 5-16 I $y J 8 17/6 li 6/6 Price Last Week. 15-16 111-16 1 3-16 17/6 II y Price Oct 8. 15-16 1% 1 3-16 17/6 If Price Price Oct 10 Oct. 12 20-J 1 II QVt. IS 7/6 72 3/9 lxd 6 5-16 sy 19M 1 9-16 y 111-16 I 17-16 8H 11-16 113-16 If 13-16 17/6 ry 6/6 y 3/9 1 9-16 6% m 20J ik y 111-16 6| 1 7-16 k 11-16 113-16 13-16 17/3 li 11-16 I 6/6 7-16 3/9 1 9-16 6| 8 5-16 W4 I 19-16 15-16 IS y 11-16 I 6/ 7-16 3/9 1 9-16 6| 8J 20f iy y If 6§ K li 8 11-16 y is THE DIVIDEND-PAYING MINES OF B. C. THE following is a list, necessarily incomplete, of the dividend-paying mines of the province: Cariboo Camp McKinney paid, up to June, 1899, $311,965; the Fern Hill, up to June, 1898, $10,000; the Hall Mines, Limited, up to May, 1899, $120,000; the Idaho, up to January, 1899, $292,000; the Last Chance, up to April, 1899; $45,000; the Le Roi, up to November, 1899, $1,305,000; the Queen Bess, up to July, 1899, $25>°°o; the Rambler-Cariboo, up to December, 1899, $60,000; the Reco, up to January, 1898, $297,500; the War Eagle Consolidated, up to February, 1900, $545,250; the Ymir, up to November, 1899, $30,000; Athabasca, October 1st, 1900, 5 per cent, on nominal capital. Unincluded in this list are many profit-earning properties, either owned privately or by close-corporations, of which returns are not available. The Hall Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. NELSON, B.C. SMELTING DEPARTMENT. Purchases COPPER ORE, LEAD ORE. DRY ORE. Nanaimo Saw Mill and Sash and Door Factory. OFFICE, MILL ST., NANAIMO. A. HASLAM, Proprietor. Complete stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Pickets, Doors Windows, Blinds, Moulding, Turning, Scroll Sawing, and all kinds of Wood Finishing, Cedar, White Pine, and Redwood, &c. Towing done at reasonable rates by Steamer ALERT P.O Box 35 Telephone 19. THE MINING RECORD. XI. KOOTENAY MINES AND I } MINING STOCK, Coal, Petroleum and Timber Lands in British Columbia and Alberta McVITTIE& HUTCHESON, Cranbrook, E. Kootenay. B.C. THE MONTH- TABLE OF Page. Publisher's Notice 496 Hydraulic Possibilities in Cariboo District 403 Reconstructing Winnipeg Mine 405 The Lome Group in Bridge River District.... 405 Lead Smelting in the Slocan 406 Abilities of English and American Min. Eng'rs. 407 The Fairview Corporation 408 Taxation of Mineral Output 409 Mining Men of the Province ;..._ 411 Economic Geology in Similkameen District 411 The Britannia Mines (illustrated) 415 Iron Ore on Texada Island 418 B. C. in London 420 Companies' Meetings 422 Abstract of Reports 425 Technical Periodicals 426 CONTENTS. MONTH'S MINING— Page. Shoal Bay 427 Kamloops 427 Camp McKinney 428 Boundary Creek 480 Revelstoke 480 Rossland 431 Nelson 432 Ymir 482 Slocan 433 The Rundle Powder Thawer 433 Triplex Electric Sinking Pump 434' Trade Circulars and Catalogues 485 Mining Returns and Statistics 435 Coal Exportations 436 Metal Market 436 Local Stock Market , 436 Local Stock Quotations X Latest London Quotations X Dividend Paying Mines X DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ACCOUNTANTS— Page Jacobs, E., Greenwood XVin ADVERTISING AGENTS— Walker, C. J , London, Eng ., XX. AMALGAM PLATES— San Francisco G. S. & N. Plating Worl s, San Francisco HI. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— F. W. Braun & Co., Los Angeles VI. Ainsworth, Wm. & Son, Denver, Col n. B.O. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C.. H. Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col H. Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal H. ASSAYERS— Holdich, A. H., Revelstoke, B.C XVHI. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVIH. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XV111. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.O XVIH. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.C XVHI. BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. D. K. McLaren, Montreal Cover BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago VI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col . IV BANKS— ^^ Bank of British North America VHI. Bank of British Columbia. XVH. Bank of Montreal VIII BARRISTERS— Mcintosh, J. C XVIII. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J IV. California Wire Works, San Francisco IV. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col.. IV Jack <fc Robertson, Montreal Cover. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover. COAL AND COKE— Page New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XXI. COMPRESSORS—(See Pumps and Compressors.) CONCENTRATING PLANT— See Stamp and Concentrating Mills. COPPER MINING CO'S— Sunset Copper Mining Co., Princeton. XIV CRUSHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago VI.' Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover CARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover.. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York HI. DRILLS—(See Rock Drills.) Xll. THE MINING RECORD. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— Krogh Mfg. Co., San Francisco XIII Lobnitz & Co., Renfrew, Scotland. IX Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XIII ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Hinton, Flectric Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria. Cover. T.inV Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I. Canadian General Electric Co, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C VII. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Page. Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York I. T.inlr Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I, Jeffrey Mfg. Co. Columbus, Ohio IH. Montgomery Mach'y Co., The J.H., Denver, Colorado IV. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco I. ENGINES AND BOILERS— Montgomery Machinery Co.,, The J. H., Denver, Col. IV FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c VHI. FILTER PRESSES— Stillwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV FIRE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. FUSE— Bennett, Wm., Sons & Co., Agents, Victoria HI. FORWARDING AGENTS— W. B. Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B. C XIX. GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS— Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XIII Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. V. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago VI Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV HOISTING MACHINERY - Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V Jenckes Muchine Co,, Sherbrooke, Quebec V White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Cover, Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. XL HYDRAULIC PIPE & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vaneouver V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. LEATHER BELTING— D. K. McLaren, Montreal Cover j LUMBER, SASHES, DOORS, ETC.— Nanaimo Saw Mill, Nanaimo, B.C X MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal II. Wlttstock, P. & R., Berlin, Germany XIX. MACHINERY AGENTS— Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver XVIH Heaps, E. H., & Co., Vancouver, B.C XIX. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B. C XLX. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS- Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver XVIH J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C ..... XIX. MINING BROKERS— Buckworth A. Bernard, Ymir, B.C XIX Foulkes, J. F. & Co XIX. Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, B.C XIX. McVittie & Hutcheson, Cranbrook XI Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C ■ XIX. More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C XIX. MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver XVHI. Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XVIII. West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVIH. Gore, Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria XVin. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.O XVIH. Archbold & Pearson, Nelson, B.C XVIH. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.O XVIH. Brewer, W M., Vancouver, B.O XVHI. J C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XLX. Merry, H. E. D., Rossland XVHI. ORE SACKS— Vancouver Agency, Vancouver IX ORE PURCHASERS— Copper King Limited, San Francisco Cover rrallon, C. J., San Francisco XX ORE OARS— Page Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. Montgomery Machinery Co. The J. H., Denver, Col. IV PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Dow Pumping.Engine Co., San Francisco XV. Byron Jackson Machine Works, San Francisco XHI. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI. Krogh Manufacturing Co., Sstn Francisco XIII. Stillwell-Bierce & Smith Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. VI, Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Cover. POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. McLennan, McFeeley & Co Cover PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng XX. Scientific Pub. Co., New York XX. PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Oo , Newark, N.J , IX. ROCK DRILLS— Bullock, The M. C. Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111 . IH. Howell's Mining Drill Co IH. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VIH Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Cover RUBBER MANUFACTURES— Goodyear Rubber Co., San Francisco, &c XIII. STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B. C Back Cover. Krogh Manufacturing Co., San Francisco XIH. Hendy, Joshua', San Francisco, Cal VI. Huntington, F. A., San Francisco ' XV Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal.... Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col. IV White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover STEEL— Canton Steel Co., Denver, Col III. SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Bauer & Ashcroft, Vancouver XVIH. Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVIH. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XVIH J. C. T. Crofts, Nelson XIX. Merry H. E. D., Rossland, B.C XVHI. SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I. Stilwell-Bierie & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio.... IV SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XVH. Rithet, R. P., & Co., Victoria XXH. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XX. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich XX. TOWNSITES— Allison Townsite XVII White Horse Townsite ix. TRAMWAYS—(See Elevators and Conveyors.) TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co XXII Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria XXII. To Northern Mines '\ XV. WATER WHEELS— Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman & Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &o, Victoria, Rossland, &c VIII. Thomas Earle, Wholesale Grocer, &c XVI. Stemler & Earle, Spices, &c, Victoria XVL Smith, M. R., & Co., Biscuits, Victoria XX. Ward, Robt., & Co., Ltd., Com. Mchts. and Importers. XVH. McLennan, McFeeley & Co., Vancouver Cover! Weiler Bros., Furniture '.' XVL Prior, E. G. & Co., Ld., Hardware '.'.' Xv! Piercy, J., Wholesale Dry Goods, Victoria XIIL Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods XVT Turner, Beeton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors, XVI. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, IX Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Cover THE MINING RECORD. xin. EFFICIENCY THE HIGHEST. JACKSON CENTRIFUGAL PUIYIPS Are designed for every use of Mining, Dredging, Irrigating or Reclaiming. May be Driven by Steam, Gas, Electric or Water Motor, direct-connected or belted. BUI'.T BY Send for Catalog and Price List. BYRON JACKSON MACHINE WORKS, viiiiiuiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmnbuuiuiuuunnuniuiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiMi I 625 Sixth Street, la San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A. KROGH MANUFACTURING CO., - San Francisco, Cal. Largest and Most Successful Builders of CENTRIFUGAL AND GOLD DREDGING PUMPS. Gold and Silver Mining and Miliing Machinery of Any Capacity. Send for circulars of I Twentieth Genturu Gement-Gravel Process," TWO STAMP MILLS ACME AMALGAMATORS Which are admitted as having revolutionized the practice of reducing ores and gravels and and saving fine gold. 1_jJU vys t^f" IMPROVED CERTRIFUGAL PUMPS FOR IRREGATION AND DRAINAGE. KROGH TWO STAMP TRPILE DISCHARGE MILL Capacity Sfx to Twelve Tons Per Day. GOODYEAR RUBBER eO'Y. . . R. H. PEASE, President and Manager. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose. '©rack Proof" and ".Snag Proof. Pure Rubber Mining Boots, Rubber Clothing, MACKINTOSHES, Oil eiohing 573 575, 577 & 579 Market St., s»n FRHNeise©, eaL. 73 & 75 First St. PORTLAND, OREGON J. PIEReY & COMPANY, Wholesale Dry Goods & Clothing Manufacturers Makers of the celebrated "IRONeiJlD" Overalls. J. PIERCY & CO., VICTORIA, B.C. XIV. THE MINING RECORD. The Sunset Copper Mining Co., LIMITED. SUNSET SHARES WILL MAKE YOU RICH. ^COPPER | ■ MOUffTAIN 5§p ^f^CMHP^I SIMILKA]8M^^ YALE Dl^^^^ SUNSET SHARES WILL. MAKE YOU RICH. .... OWNING AND OPERATING .... THE SUNSET MINE ©N COPPER MOUNTAIN ^» SIMILKAMEEN MINING DISTRICT. % | Bveryone who has seen the property renders a unanimous verdict. The Biggest & Best Mine in British Columbia Now is the TIME to BDY STOCK in this Wonderful Mine. It is an investment! No Speculation ! Ore enough in sight to return 100 per cent, on amount invested. BDY T0--OHY before advance in Price. CAPITAL STOCK : 2,100,000 Shares; Par Value $1.00 each. TREASURY STOCK: 500 000 Shares, now selling at 25c. fully paid up and non-assessable. n ■ 1 AppIyto n 1 r 1 Princeton ^brown. Grand Forks Established 1S5S, E. G. Prior | So., Ltd. MILL, MINING AND FARM MACHINERY. ^ ^ ^ BAR AND SHEET IRON AND STEEL. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ W BUILDERS' HARDWARE and MECHANICS' TOOLS. Headquarters VICTORIA. Branch Stores: VANCOUVER and KftMLOOPS, B. 6. To NORTHERN MINES? The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Ltd., Dispatch Regular Steamers as follows, viz.: For Skagway and Wrangel, I For Northern B. C. Points, Every Wednesday at eleven p.m. $ Every Sunday at eleven p.m. For West Coast Points, First, Seventh, Fourteenth and Twentieth of each month at eleven p.m. The Huntington Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the .best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, manufacturer OF Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining; Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. Room i, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. ...DOW PUIVIPS... SRE M»NUF»eTORED IN Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, Air, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMPS, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUflPS MAKE KNOWN Y©UR WftNTS TO THE —^ GEO. E. DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. I I XVI. THE MINING RECORD. BRITISH eOLUMBIH WHOLESALE SDPPLY HOUSES. Office Furniture We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. Inlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House S'urnishing write to us. We are headquarters. WEILER BR0S., vieTORm, B.e. LENZ & LEISER, 9 &n yates street. IMPORTERS OF GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OB1- CLOTHING, SHIRTS ftND UNDERWEAR. A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for tbe Kpotegay and KJondil^e Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. You flust THE CELEBRATED have "CROWN BRAND" Pure 1 'RICKSHAW 9 Ceylon TEA Java and Mocha t For sale only by If you yriU have THE BEST. Put up ground and whole roasted 1 to 60 pound tins. Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. STEMLER & EARLE, VICTORIA, B. C. Proprietors I Thomas Earle, IMPORTER, WHOLESALE GROCER and COMMISSION HERCHANT. Teas and Coffees a Specialty. ^^ 92, 94, 97 Wharf St., VICTORIA, B. C. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., SS Finsbury Circus, London, Eng. J WHOLESALE ® MERCHANTS. Dry Goods, Liquor®, Cigars, Flour, Ktc. goods indented from all parts Manufacturers of Clothing, Ktc. §§j^ THE world... TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TURBEET," Vancouver and Nelson. THE MINING RECORD. XVII MISCELLANEOUS. Root Ward & So., Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building, Vancouver, B.C. 70 Basinghali St., London, E.C. Ltd. Commission Merchants and Importers. Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Oo. The Northern Assurance Co The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assuranc" Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and "Amberite" (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Ewen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for The British Columbia Corporation, Limited. Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected, Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents. The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated hy Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE £ 100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Mojson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand — Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and ever? description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. LOTS NOW IN THE... MARKET. ALLISON TOWNSITE, Situated on the Beautiful Valley of the Similkameen River At the point where the railway leaves the Valley for Spence's Bridge and in close proximity to Copper Mountain is the coming business centre for all the mining camps from Twenty-Mile to Otter Valley, and the country west of the railway known as the Hope Mountain,^ so situated as to command the trade north to Spence's Bridge, east to Penticton, west to Hope and the Tulameen, and south to Copper and Kennedy Mountains. _____ - jg j.jje time t0 secure the most favorable location before the railway is commenced, and the Government establish the IN O W head offices for that district. Railway and "Wagon Road are both located through the centre of the town. Handsome Bridge just completed over the Similkameen river, connecting with Copper Mountain Wagon Road. Stores and Hotel now under construction, and Saw Mill being erected close to Townsite. Apply to J. F. Foulkes & Co., 35 fort street. AND ROOM 7, BOARD OF TRADE BLD'G. Head Office Dewdney's Canadian Syndicate, Ltd vm. THE MINING RECORD. PROFESSIONAL, ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. ■ve Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. GORDON H. HARDIE. NICHOLAS THOMPSON. HARDIE & THOMPSON, Marine and General Consulting Mechanical Engineers 520 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegrams " Gardie." Telephone 767. Plans, Specifications, Estimates, Working Drawings, Surveys and Reports. Also Contracts taken for Supply, Erection, Supervision, or Repairs and Alterations to all classes of M-chinerv. Patentees and designers of the Hardie- Thompson Water Tube Boiler, New High Speed Reversing Engines, and Special Machinery in Light Sections for Mines. Engines indicated aud adjusted. Sole Agents In B.C. and N. W. Territories for the United Flexible Metallic Tubing Co , Ltd., London Eng. Stock Carried. Unequalled for Conveyance of Steam, Air, Oils and Gas. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence in West Kootenay. ""IZM^^" Reports on Slocan Properties. Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, HI-.,., n«»...^» D f* A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's. RBW U_nV_r, O.K.. ftReHBOLD & PEARSON, MINING ENGINEERS ASSAYERS- Cable Address: Archpear, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeill, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H, HOLDICH, 1 ANALYTICAL CHEMIST and METALLURGIST, fj Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa Works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smslting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. RELIABLE ASSAYS. Gold. Lead. ? 50 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, ©GO EN ASSAY 60.. 1429'16th St.. DENVER, Colo. ERNEST A. CLEVELAND, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51Q Hastings Street,^^ VANCOUVER, B.C. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Mines examined and reports made. Estimates of costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of same undertaken. Address P. 0. Box882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. M.I.M.M. HSSHYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Public Ore Testingand Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER. SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD.. Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manufacturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co.. Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-19 Pender St., VANCOUVER, Assayer in charge of Provincial Government Assay offices, Vancouver. John Redman, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. 'G. Otjthett, R. C. Sc. Chemist and Metallurgist. REDHAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and An alyses guaranteed accurate. Write for interesting information about Kamloops and North Yale mining properties. Wm. n. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - • VANCOUVER, B.C. A. A. WATSON, B. Sc. F.I.C. Assayer and Metallurgist, VERNON, B.C. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England; Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Six years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. JMF~ SPECIAL ATTENTION TG SAMPLES BY MAIL. W. H. BHDER, D.L.S..P.L.S. 611 Hastings St., Vancouver. a. S. aSH_B0FT, D.L.S..P.L.S. Greenwood, B.C BHCER St HSHCROFT, Dominion & Provincial Land Surveyors Surveys of Mines, Mineral Claims and Crown Lands. YSNeOUYER and GREENWOOD. E. JACOBS, Accountant, Auditor, Etc GREENWOOD, B.C. Books of Account Opened, Balanced or Audited. Accounts Kept Regularly or Examined Periodically. Assigned Estates Wound Up. J CHARLES MclNTOSH—Baxrister-at-Law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, Notary Public, etc. PRINCETON, British Columbia. Correspondence respecting all mining properties in the Similkameen Mining District confidentially handled. Nil- THE MINING RECORD. xix. PROFESSIONAL AND BROKERS. WANTED. Young engineer desires position as an assistant, understands compressed air. steam, water and electric powers and their calculations; familiar with mining machinery and its design; practiced in surveying and drafting; college graEaate. Address B. C. BRADY, Curtis Block, Butte, Mont. J- Fortes-ue Foulkes. N. B.Van der Gucht. J. F. Foulkes & Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B. C. Cable address : "Fouvan." All codes used. . C. T. CROFTS, M.I. Mech. e. H box e76. I ^NELSON, B. C. machinery, aERiaL trshwhys, ET-e., supplied AND ERECTED. Wire Rope and Flexible Metallic Tubing from Stock. PLANS. DRAWINGS. ESTIMATES. One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. S. THORNTON LANGLEY & 00. Confidential Reports on Mines J Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. P. O. Box 178 ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Cable address: "Cortez," Vancouver. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.B.C,Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C. E. H. HEAPS & CO., Machinery, Mining and Investment BROKERS. 506 Cordova St. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND DEALERS IN New and Second-Hand Machinery, Diamond Drills, Canning and Saw Mill -Machinery, etc., etc., etc. Represkntikg—Cowan & Co., A. R. Williams, M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Company, Clayton Air Compressor Works, and other first-class manufacturers. . . . Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachynieter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list; P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY- W. B. B A1LEY & CO.,—ASHOBOFT, B,C, Storage and Forwarding Agents, Goods received, stored and forwarded with desp S . f «rv • int in Cariboo reached by wagon or pack train. Consign goods to our care and we will settle railway charges and ship to destination with least possible delay. Cable Address: " Buckworth," Ymir. A. BERNARD BUCKWORTH I MINES YMIR, British Columbia. Personal knowledge of mining properties In this district. Correspondence Invited. Commissions undertaken. Codes : BrownhalFs. Moreing & Neal's. f ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED I MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &©. . . . IT IS N© G00O . . I Hdvertisinq in the} British Press Unless You Understand How to Approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT Who can ■d,fil__,t,,p-__ibi* fZSXLbusiness at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. Let us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you. e. J. WALKER'S 'British and Canadian Press Bureau/' 24 Coleman St., London, E.C THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - - London, E.C. PUBLISHING OFFICES: 3 Dorset Buildings, = Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERT SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 months. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. 14s. 7s. Payable in advance. A. Van Der Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal ' MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. An Engineering School with unique location giiing it unusual facilities. Distinctive methods of instruction. Special courses. For. atabguesgiving occupation of graduates, address . W.McNAIR, President, Houghton, Mich THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VIII. 1899. (Edited by R. P. Rothwell), 8vo. cloth. Profusely Illustrated. Price $5 00, postpaid. Among the many valuable technical treatises embodied in this presen" notable volume are the following, written by pre-eminent, international experts on their various subjects : Corundum and Emery (L. S. Ropes); Corl undum in Ontario (Courtenay DeKalb): Progress in the Aluminum Industry in 1899 (J. B. C. Kershaw); Occurrence of Asphalt in California (A. C. Cooper); Notes on the Metallurgy of Bismuth (W. Borchers); Method of Recovery of Bromine in Germany (B. C. Hinman); Calcium Carbide (J. B.C. Kershaw); Hydraulic Cement Industry in the United States in 1899 (F. H Lewis); Chrome Ore Mining in Canada (J. Obalski); Notes on the Metallurgy of Chromium (W. Borchers); Notes on the Coarse Pottery Production of Great Britain (W. P. Rix); Fuel and Its Economical Utilization (W. Kent)- Progress in the Electrolytic Refining of Copper in 1899 (T. Ulke) Hof mannas Method forihe Manufaetuae of Blue Vitriol (0. Hofmann); Extraction of Copper from Burnt Pyrites by the Henderson Process (J. G. Clemmer) • Fluorspar in the United States (E. E. Squier); Copper Minihg in New South Wales (L. Janin, Jr.); Cutting and Polishing of Precious Stones (L. Clare- mont); Glass—Analysis of and Methods of Manufacture (R. Linton;- Gold Dredging in the United 8tates (A. Grothe); Progress in the Cyanide Process (L. Janin, Jr.); Moebius' Electrolytic Process for Parting Gold and Silver (M W. lies); Nickel and Iron Alloys (S, Souther); World's Production of Petroleum (C. E. Z. Caracristi); Electrolytic Manufaciure of Phosphorus (VV. Borchers); Progress in the Electrolytic Chlora'e Industry in 1899 (J. C B KerBhaw); Electrolytic Production of Chlorine and Caustic Soda A. T. Weightman); Liquid Anhydrous Sulphuric Acid (F. Meyer); Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid Stronger than Chamber Acid (F. J. Falding)- Galena— Joplin Lead and Zinc District (E. Haworth); Mining and Milling of Joplin Ores (F Nicholson); Uses of Liquid Air (T. O'C. Sloane); Mine Timbering (W. E. Sanders); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1899 (R. H. Richards). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. REFRHeT©RY ©RES. WANTED—i,ooo tons or more which will assay $75.00 Gold per ton and over delivered free of charge at San Francisco, Cal. Correspondence solicited. C. J. TALLON, No. 308 Market Street, 1 San Francisco, Gal. A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED . . Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Will shortly be at liberty. Would willingly take whole or partial charge of a Reduction Plant. Can keep books if required. Would start an independent Laboratory in any new district if sumeienr work was guaranteed. Address " Accurate," care Editor, B.C. Mining Record. M. R. SMITH _ GO. ESTABLISHED 1858. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'96-'97-'98. Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, VICTORIA, B.C. WANTED —A SITUATION by a Cyanider and Assayer of four years. Transvaal experience. Capable of managing a MacArthUr-Forrest plant of any size. Best testimonials. Address F. WflyTOCK, 806 E. Millard St., Philadelphia, Pa. AGENTS WANTED. WE WANT a live, active representative in your territory at once to engage in a very profitable business. General and local agents wanted. From $5.00 to $10.00 a day. Advancement rapid. Good references required. Those out of employment or wishing to better themselves, address Department K, Corner Perkins & Union Sts., AKRON, 0. AGENTS WANTED. Live, active men and w >men can earn from $5.00 to $10.00 a day by can vassing for Frank G. Carpenter's book, "SOUTH AMERICA—SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL." This book is just out and is having an enormous sale. Everybody wants it. As it is being sold by subscription only, we desire representatives who are hustlers at once to introduce the work in your territory. Most libera terms. Write to-day for territory and full particulars to THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO Y»Ne©CYER ISLAND &&RL. COAL! COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co* (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAiriO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) SOUTH FIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. -pi_ip SOUTHFIELD COAL is now use(l by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. T\-\E PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both at Protection Island and Nanaimo. • The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SHMUEL M. ROBINS, Supt, Nanaimo, B.e. XX11. THE MINING RECORD. TRHNSPORTHTI0N ©©MPflNIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to!PACIFIC -WITHOUT CHANGE- . Lowest Rates. ^ TO ALL POINTS IN Best Equipment. ^ Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C. Or to E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R P. RITHET & CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. . PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOORING MILL, ENDERBY, AND AILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia;. Fraser River, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries ; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River • Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance Company of Edinburgh • Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Quee n Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Mar ne Insurance Company. =— LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld, TIME TABLE NO. 54. Taking effect November 1st. VANCOUVER ROUTE. '"-T#c,V* Victoria to Vancouver daily, 1 o'clock a.m. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1.15 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C. P Railway No. 1 train. NEW WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Tuesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. Leave New Westminster—For Victoria Sunday and Wednesday. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for "Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. VICTORIA, B.C. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naas and inter mediate ports via Vancouver on 1st Nov. and 15th of each month. ALASKA BOUTE. Steamers of this Company leave for Wrangel and Skagway every Wednesday at 11 p.m. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 7th, 14th and 20th at 11 p.m. Extending latter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G. A. CARLETON, General Freight Agent. C. S. BAXTER, Passenger Agent NIL The Hudson's BavComDany HAVE Baie de Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Morden Nelson Pincher Creek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Rat Portage -tiding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. j FELTEN & GDILLEADME, Carlswerk, Actien Gesellschaft, Mnlheim on Rhine. Manufacturers of Electrical Leads and Cables Wire Ropes for Mining Electric Lighting Cables for Coal Pita with arrangement for avoiding fire-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Bound and Flat Wire Ropes, " Albert," or so-called "Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened Strand Wire Bopes. Iron, Steel, Copper and Bronze Wire Superior qualities.., 3. Sole Agents tor Canada & Robertson 7 St. Helen St. MONTREAL,. WHITE, ROGERS & COMPANY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights. _Ea_Vl 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f.o.b. San Francisco. One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills*, Hoisting and Pumping Work's operated by Steam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants foi the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. Wire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is covered by U.S. Patents Nos. 580,338 and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. EVERY BELT GUARANTEED Genuine Oak Tanned Leather Belting FOR EXPOSED SITUATIONS USE " LANCASHIRE " HAIR BELTING. D. K. McLaren, Montreal, Toronto. Catalogue and Discounts on application. THE Wm. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. LIMITED. Mining Machinery. We are the sole manufacturers and agents for the Wilfley Tabic in Canada. It is in use in every part of the world where gold and silver mining and milling is carried on. By careful tests and long continued work in regular milling operations it has proved its superiority over all other concentrators. &3i$ We claim the following for the Wilfley Table : ist. \ It will successfully handle three or four times more material than any belt concentrator made, without any exceptions. 2nd. It will save more concentrates in proportion while so doing and will catch any float gold, amalgam or quicksilver, which may escape from the mortars or plates. 3rd. It will make cleaner and more valuable concentrates, thus saving useless expense for transportation of valueless material, and also reducing the smelting charges. 4th. It requires little or no attention when once adjusted and no expert is required either to adjust or run the machine. 5th. It will save much expense in power and room as compared with mills using other concentrators. 6th. It has no expensive belts to crack and wear out and no complicated machinery to keep in repair. Capacity f^^y- J5 tons Per day Power required , $?>, 1 H.P. Length over all.....'. .£9 ^-.. 19 feet 6 inches. Width .|>\ . 8 feet. Price of table, f.o. bears, Peterborough, Ont.,.:!?". .$450.00. Shipping weight, -llfeS.-- •«■!•' '.m .! • -3,300 lbs. Head Office & Works : PETERBOROUGH, ONT. Branch Offices: Vancouver and Nelson, B. C. PUBLISHED BY "THE MINING RECORD," LIMITED LIABILITY, VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA. THIS MONTH. I THE CANADIAN MINING EXHIBIT AT PARIS-(Part I). VOL. VII. DECEMBER, 1900. No 12. The Hinton Electric Company, Limited. BRITISH COLUMBIA AGENTS FOR ROYAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. ... Electrical Construction and Supplies... ELECTRIC HOISTS, BLOWERS, FANS, MOTORS AND DYNAMOS. "S.K.C." TWO PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. ELECTRIC MINING APPARATUS. VICTORIA, B. C. VANCOUVER, B. O. The Royal Electric Company MONTREAL, QUEBEC. -MAKEKS OF- Electrical Mining- Machinery MOTORS Adapted for Operating Stamps, Compressors, Hoists, Trams, Drills, Pumps. Lighting Plants for Mines and Buildings. OUR S. K. O. SYSTEM RENDERS DISTANT WATER POWERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CLASSES OF MINING WORK. Write Odr British Columbia Branches at VICTORIA. VANCOUVER. THE1COPPER KING, LIMITED. MINES: Fresno County, Cal. THE PACIFIC COAST SMELTING & REFINING WORKS. WORKS: Seal Bluff Landing, Cal. Purchasers, Samplers and Smelters of Gold, Silver and Copper Ores, and Furnace Products. OFFICES: 222 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO, California. Basildon House, 7 & 11 MoorgateSt., LONDON, E.C PRICE, 20 CENTS. If You are Building a House jjj We Carry in Stock the Largest Assortment ,ggj in Canada of W @ MZIIWTF?! «_ i» Oak, Maple, Cherry. Birch. (H .Tlrt.-j 1 CL J3 Wh,te and THe FIRE PLHgE GRATES || In Any Finish or Style, TIT IIVC% For Floors, Hearths, ® * **-***» *J Bathrooms, &c. &c. ^ Brass Fenders, Fire Sets, Fire Dogs, Brass ® Coal Scuttles, &c. HI PARQUETT FLOORING. House Hardware in Latest and Best Designs. w McLennan, McFeelv & Co. I LIMITED, 11; WHOLESALE HARDWARE, VANCOUVER, B, C. DAWSON, Y. T, a RAND COMPRESSORS LEAD. The following extract from letter received from the Centre Star Mining Co., Rossland, B. C, shows that the highest DEGREE OP PERFECTION HAS BEEN ATTAINED '.f^-'i " We are pleased herewith to enclose result of test run on our 40 Drill Compressor. This test was run under our own supervision as per agreement. The Compressor delivered during the run the guaranteed 3,960 FEET OF FREE AIR AT 62.7 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, WHILE THE MAXIMUM SPEED IS 70 REVOLUTIONS. We wish to congratulate you upon your success in building a compressor which in every way has proved to be satisfactory. Yours truly, THE CENTRE STAR MINING CO., Limited Alfred C. Gardie, Chief of Construction." THE CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO. F. R. MENDENHALL, Agent. Rossland, B. C. Nelson, B.C. Greenwood, B.C. Montreal, Que. FRIED KRUPP GRUSONWERK m Madgeburg-Buckau (Germany). ||| MINING - MACHINERY ^tff>>=^h>:^^=i IBSLJliflL ORE CRUSHING: Stone Breakers of especially strong construction. Roller Mills, Chilian Mills, Ball Mills, for dry and wet crushing—more than 1,800 at work. Stamp Batteries—Shoes and Dies of Krupp's Special Steel. AMALGAMATION: (j Amalgamation Tables and Pans, Lasrlo's Gold Amalgamators, Settlers, etc. SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATION : Separators, Exhaustors, Hydraulic Classifiers, Percussion Tables, Jig. gers, Rotating Round Tables. LEACHING PLANT _-==_. W?v COMPLETE GOLD ORE DRESSING PLANT. B (a) For Treating by the Wet Method with Stamp Batteries, Amalgamation and Concentration- |B|jj|j|jIIp' (b) For Dry Crushing by Ball Mills, Dust Extraction and Leachlnir COAL WASHING PLANT—Large Testing Station for Oushingand Dressing Ores at the "Works. ^NT8= For CANADA—Jas. W. Pyke & Co., 85 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal. For the UNITED STATES—Thos. Prosser & Son, 15 Gold Street, New York. For MEXICO—Pablo Bergner, Apartado 549, Mexico. For SOUTH AFRICA—United Engineering Company Ltd., P.O. Box 899, Johannesburg, S.A.R. THE MINING RECORD. G. M. PINCKARD, Pres. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS. E. L. EYRE, Viee-Pres. J. M. GRAHAM, Seey, & Manager VULCAN IRON WORKS Manufacturers of VULCAN DOUBLE=ROPE TRAMWAY. VULCAN ROPEWAY (Single Rope System.) SAW MILL MACHINERY. MINING AND MILLING MACHINERY, Vulcan Ropeways and Tramways. Office 505 Mission St. Works, Cor. Kerney and Francisco Sts. . . . SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LINK-BELT ELEYHTORS and -s2_»_-_^G©NYEY©RS, Por Handling Ores, Matte, Slag, Crushed Stone, Gravel, Cement, Sand, Water, Etc. _~_^-^~_^^^_^ ^. PICKING TABLES, Shaking &Revolving Screens Coal Washing Machinery, Shafting, Rope Sheaves, Pulleys. Gearing, Clutches, Etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. ^flS^^^H LINK-BELT " COAL AND COKE BREAKER, LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., E"giMVcrhsi„Fi0s^.dcrs Chicago, U.S.A. LINK-BELT BOX WATER ELEVATOR Capacities, 300 to 10,000 Gallons Per Minute ROBINS BELT CONVEYORS Are Shown in this Cut as SORTING BELTS. REPAIRSANDSHUT DOWNSSAVED BYTHEIR USE Send for Illustrated Catalogue. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT COMPANY, PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK. THE MINING RECORD. HSSHYERS* SUPPLIES HND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. r No. o precisi°n Ba|ance- 5-inch Beam. This is the most accurate and sensitive Button Balance made. All contacts with the beam and hangers are of agate. Improved construction throughotit; extension plate glass sub-base and cylindrical reading glasses for beam and index. For full particulars regarding this and other Balances send for catalogue "A" to WM. AIN5W0RTH & SONS, Denver, Colo., U.S.A. Agents for British Columbia The British Columbia Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.C., and W. F. TEETZEL & CO., Nelson. ASSAY, MINING flND MILL SUPPLIES- WE are Manufacturers and direct Importers, and carry a large Stock of Balances, Furnaces, Fire Clay Goods, Scientific and Practical Books, Glassware, Platinum Goods, Acids, Chem- cals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements. SOLE AGENTS for Morgan Crucible Company, Battersea, Becker's Sons' Balances, Etc. B. C. ASSAY and CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO., Ltd. * P.O. Box 355 VANCOUVER, B.C. Write for Catalogue. Telegraphic address: Vancouver, B.C. Codes, Moreing & Neal and A.B.C. Assay," HEARN & HARRISON. (Established 1857.) MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MINING, SURVEYING £_£ ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS. Office Instruments and Materials. Pepalra and alterations executed promptly. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Catalogue sent free on application. 1640-1642 Notre Dame St., MONTREAL, CAN. THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO 1742 to 1746 Champa St., DENVER, COL. Established 1851.- - Incorporated 1895. ASSAYE1RS' HATERIALS, nine and Hill Supplies, Chemists Supplies, Chemicals, Chemical Glassware. Prospectors' Outfits. Special Agents for Morgan Crucible Co., Battersea, England, Largest stock of Balances, Scales, Furnaces, etc. Baker (_s Adamson's Acids. Platinum Ware, etc. Borax, Boneash, Cyanide Potassium, Mang= anese and other heavy Chemicals at manufacturer's prices. Headquarters for Mining and scientific books. Pacific Coast Agents for Wm. Ainsworth & Sons' Assay and Analytical Balances. Illustrated catalogue on application. JOHN TAYLOR & CO., 63 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. THE MINING RECORD. ni. DIAMOND DRILLS, FOSE, ETC. e.\NT©N STEEL e©., WORKS: e_lNT©lY, ©HI©. Branch Warehouse : DENVER, e©L©. Nai Send us your name and address and we will mail you our 1901 Steel List containing useful information to ) STEEL USERS.— _* CANTON _* EXTRH DRILL STEEL, WHRR»NTED. This brand is used exclusively by the LE ROI AND WAR EAGLE mines W Equal to -( Jessop or Firth in Rock Work Steel Ask your dealer for Canton Steel. leschen co s patent aerial ALSO PATENT FLATTENED STRAND STRONG, SAFE, DURABLE. TOIe tramway For Transportation of ORE, DIRT, TIMBER. Loads and Unloads Automatically. Operated by one Man. _?Kg3 <?&% h^-aSfr, (Trade Mark Registered.) This is not a new brand of Rope. It has been on the Market for years. ALSO ALL KINDS OF rosutnrSndWJRE^ROPE 920*922 North First St., * ST. L©UIS, Mo. 47*49 South ©anal St., = * CHieaG©, 111. A. LESCHEN & SONS, ROPE COMPANY. ELEWVriNGMAeHI*IE8|| . ■ Designed for Ha0-li n{j Iffitef iij'w^f:kiH'_si"i Bullock Diamond Drills received the ONLY award to Diamond Drills made at the PARIS EXPOSITION - A GOLD MEDAL M. C. BULLOCK MFG. CO., CHICAGO- The Huntington (Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill. The Huntington Mill is so well and favorably known among mining men throughout the world that any description of it would seem superfluous. They are in use in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, China, Japan, and South Africa. In fact, wherever mines exist, and have given the best satisfaction of all quartz crushing mills. The construction of this mill has lately been much improved and we claim it to be the Cheapest, Most Efficient, Simplest and Most Durable Mill upon the Market. F. A. HUNTINGTON, «a™>a_™««p Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mills. Mining Machinery of Every Description. Steam Engines. Shingle Machines. Room i, 3rd Floor, Mills Building, - = SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, IV. THE MINING RECORD. CABLES, WATER WHEELS AND COMPRESSORS. TELL US WHERE YOU'RE AT. 4 CENTS PER TON PER MILE Is what it costs to transport Ore with our systems of Aerial Wire Rope Tramways. We also manufacture a lot of other kinds of good common sense Mining Machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Concentrating Mills, Placer Machinery, in fact about everything in machinery used around a Mine, Mill or Smelter. We would like to send you our books telling you all about it, but we can't do it unless you write us WHERE YOU'RE AT. The J, H, Montgomery Machinery Co., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. THE BLEICHERT Wire Rope Tramway AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF AERIAL, TRANSPORTATION MANUFACTURED BY THE TRENTON IRON CO., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Bleichert Tramway oi the Maine Insane Hospital. Augusta, Me. View of Loading Terminal and Dock Hoist. New Yobk Office—Cooper, Hewitt & Co., 17 BURLING SLIP. Engineers and Contractors and sole licensees in North America for the Bleichert System. Also Wire Rope, Equipments of Surface and Underground Haulage, Etc. Chicago Office-111 4 MONADNOCK BUILDING 11 Hall id ie Ropeway Ifflp?,v<;(L Qf Lp ™LLEV ^ IT v Patents Nos. 483,442; 610,353. For Transporting Ore, Fuel, Earth, Sugar Cane, etc.. by Wire Ropes. SIMPLE, ECONOniCAL, PRACTICAL, DURABLE. Loads Mechanically. Dumps Automatically. WIRE TRAMWAYS (Single and Double Rope Systems) Cableways, Transmission by Wire Ropes. incline pianes. cable Grips. Effective, Simple, Automatic. Logging by Cables. Automatic Loaders. SAVES WEAR ON WIRE ROPE AND Plowing, Scraping and Transporting by Wire Ropes, cable. Designed, Supplied and Erected. Estimates furnished. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Correspondence solicited. FERQUSS0N & CROFTS, Agents, 603 Hastings St., Vaicouver, B.C. GALIFORNIA WIRE W0RK5, 7 Fremont St., San Francisco, Cal. MANUFACTURERS OF- WATER P0WER>The" Victor-Turbine Plants Developed and Installed. The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co. 293 LEHMAN ST., JDA.YTON, OHIO U.S.A.. HYDRAULIC MACHINERY and AIR COMPRESSORS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Recent plants installed:—Lactone Rapids Hydraulic & Land Co., Montreal, Que., 12,000 h.p.; Chambly Manufacturing Oo Montreal, Que, 20,000 h.p.; West Kootenay Power & Light Oo ' Rossland, B.C., 3,000 h.p. ^— THE MINING RECORD. CRUSHERS, ENGINES, BOILERS, MILL HND MINE SUPPLIES. POWDER SHOULD never BE THAWED BY DRY HEAT. Hundred of lives are annually lost by the careless methods so often employed in thawing high explosives. D©N'T TAKE eHHNeES! Provide your miners with a :2Bk_i_s_! r& ■U&9 \ pat. nov n i83' SS MANUFACTURED a*' I SB DENVER OOLOJ RUNDLE POWDER THRWER $500 BUOS FULL PROTECTION FOR LIFE AND PROPERTY. A convenient and absolutely safe device for thawing high explosives. Zero weather means an increased loss of life from carelessness in thawing Giant powder. Don't let it be on your properties, Harry A. Lee, Commissioner of Mines, State of Colorado, says of the Rundle Powder Thawer:— " It reduces the risk incurred in thawing frozen powder to a minimum, and its universal use in accordance with your instructions would save the lives of many miners annually.'' Mine managers who provide these life-saving devices relieve themselves of grave responsibilities. Order a Sample Thawer and be convinced of its merits. Warm water completely surrounds the tubes and the powder is kept constantly in working condition Manufactured by THE HENDRIE & BOLTHOFF UFACTURING & SUPPLY CO. COR. SEVENTEENTH AND WAZEE STREETS, DENVER, COLORADO, U.S.A. HYDRAULIC GIANTS and RIVETTED STEEL PIPES. HESE are great specialties with us. We have the equipment for turning out immense orders and no firm on the whole Pacific Coast can equal us in filling a contract expeditiously and absolutely up to the strictest letter of the most exacting specifications. From 95 to 98 per cent, of the Hydraulic Mining accessories used in British Columbia were made at our works. This is but further evidence of the sterling worth of the articles we manufacture, and prospective buyers can rest assured that the highest standard will be maintained. ARMSTRONG &. MORRISON, Iron and Steel Works. Office and Works, foot of HeatLey Ave., VANCOUVER, B.C. Manufacturers of H .draulie Steel Pipe, Mining and Waterworks Plants, Ore Cars, Ore Buckets, Engines, Boilers and General Machinery. Tel. 250- P.O. Box 51. minaniAii^isssssinisssfissa^ss^m^i 1»- Branches: GREENWOOD, NELSON and ROSSLAND, B.C. Hoisting aND Winding Engines — fln-r1 appliances for all Purposes. WE offer improved designs and a wide range of sizes and styles to make your select- ** ion from. Special ENGINES and MACHINERY also built to specification. Send us your prints or outline your requirements, and we will be pleased to submit you an estimate or proposal. A GOOD LINE of Standard Hoisting Engines, Cars, Buckets, etc.. carried in stock at Rossland Warehouse, for quick delivery; also Wire Rope, Sheaves and General Mine Supplies. The JENCKES MHCHINE e©. 32-40 Lansdowne Street, SHERBROOKE, QUE ^ -<^tf-* ^>£3St- 'li VI. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS MaCHINERY, ETC. First Quality in All Lines. Mining Machinery and Supplies. STEAM Engines Hoists Pumps (Boilers GASOLINES f Engines ' T-Tniete Our Combined Geared Gasoline En-I nul-Lo glne and Hoist, and Combined Gasoline * <Vrnitinroccnr6 Engine and Air Compressor especially All V, U llipi C__U1 _ adapted for Mining Purposes. Pumping Plants Mining Cars, Car Wheels, Spiral Riveted Pipe, Pipe and Fittings. Fairbanks, Horse & Co., Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati'. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore. Joshua Hendy Machine Works, Nos. 38 to 44 Fremont St., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., U.S.A. -MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN- Hydraulic / Quartz Mining | Milling Machinery -COMPKISING- HYDRAULIC GIANTS, CONCENTRATORS, WATER GATES, SHEET IRON and STEEL PIPE, k STAMP MILLS, "If ORE CRUSHERS, ORE FEEDERS, SMELTERS, HOISTING and PUMPING PLANTS SAW MILLS, MINE and MILL SUPPLIES, Etc Catalogues and Prices Furnished Upon Application a ., Etc. Ij HOISTING ENGINE. IMPACT WATER WHEEL. HK7VYILTON POWDEk CO'Y. (Incorporated 1861.) Manufacturers of High Explosives, Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powder. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS, SAFETY FUSE, DETONATORS, ETC. Head Office: MONTREAL. BRANCH OFFICE: VICTORIA. LOCAL OFFICES: WORKS: Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland and Greenwood. NANAIMO. GOODYEAR RUBBER eO'Y. . . R. H. PEASE, President and Manager. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose. "©rack Proof" and ".Snag Proof." Pure Rubber Mining Boots, Rubber Clothing, MHeKINTOSHES, Oil Clothing. 573 575, 577 & 579 Market St.. saN FRHNeise©, e_ii_. 73 & 75 First St. PORTLAND, OREGON THE MINING RECORD. vu. ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Limited. Head offices, Toronto, Ont. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. Factories, Peterboro, Ont. BRANCH OFFICES: Halifax, N.S., Montreal, Que., Winnipeg, Man., Nelson, B.C., Vancouver, B.C. MHNCFHeTURERS OF Electric f Mining j Apparatus Hoists, Pumps, Blowers, Fans, Blasting Apparatus, Dynamos for Lighting and Power and Motors for all Purposes Electrical Transmission of Power Successfully Operated up to 50 Miles BY OUR THREE PHASE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM .WRITE US. BRANCH OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ROSSLAND. VANCOUVER. Vlli. THE MINING RECORD. MISCELLANEOUS. I JAMES COOPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd, o- - MONTREAL, P.Q .-■ INGERSOLL-SERGEANT MACHINERY Manufacturers of 7 ROCK DRILLS, Straight Line, Duplex, and Corliss Air Compressors* Complete Mine Equipment of all Kinds. Agents for Bidlock Diamond Drills. Catalogue and Details on Application to R. A. C. McNally, Rossland. B. C. H- R. Kirkpatrick, Greenwood, B.C. W- A. Maclennan, Vancouver, B. C. The Brackman=Ker Milling: Co., Ltd., j Victoria, British Columbia. nanufacturers of the celebrated Rolled Oats. (Registered.) Unequalled in the World. Facilities unequalled for supplying the West with the best quality of Grain, Hay or Mill Feed. Victoria. Nelson. Vancouver. Rossland. New Westminster. Edmonton. B.&K. Established 1817. BANK OF MONTn RAT ,, -/St°ofp?rl1amInt. CAPITAL (all paid up), $12,000,000.00. RESERVE} FUND, $7,000,000.00. UNDIVIDED PROFIT, $427,180.80. HEAD OFFICE, ------- MONTREAL. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., President; Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice-President. A. T. Paterson, Esq.; Edward B. Greenshields, Esq.; Sir. William C. Macdonald; R. B. Angus, Esq.; A. F. Gault, Esq.; James Ross, Esq.; R. G. Reid, Esq. E. S. CLOUSTON, - - - General Manager. A. Macnider, Chief Inspector and Superintendent of Branches. I F. W. Taylor, Assistant Inspector. W. S. Clouston, Inspector of Branch Returns. ! JAMES AIR D Secretary. BRANCHES IN CANADA :— Montreal—H. V. Meredith, Manager. Province of Ontario—Almonte, Belleville, Brantford, Brockville, Chatham Cornwall, Deseronto, Fort William, Goderich, Guelph Hamilton Kingston Lindsay, London, Ottawa, Perth, Peterboro, Picton, Sarnia Stratford, St. Mary's, Toronto, Toronto Yonge St. Branch, Wallaceburg. - ' Province of Quebec—Montreal: "West End Br., Seigneurs St. Br., Point St. Charles ; Quebec. Lower Provinces—Chatham, N.B.; Fredericton, N.B.; Moncton, N.B.; St. John, N.B.; Amherst, N.S., Halifax., N.S.; Sydney, N.S Province of Manitoba and North-West Territories—Winnipeg, Man.; Calgary, Alberta; Lethbridge, Alberta ; Regina, Assiniboia. Province of British Columbia—Greenwood, Nelson, New Denver, N. Westminster, Rossland, Vancouver, Vernon, Victoria. In Newfoundland—St. John's Nfld., Bank of Montreal. In Great Britain—London, Bank of Montreal, 22 Abchurch Lane, E C Alexander Lane- Manager In the United States—New York—R. Y. Hebden and J. M. Greata, Agents, 59 Wall Street; Chicago—Bank of Montreal. s Bankers in Great Britain—London—The Bank of England, the Union Bank of London, the London & Westminster Bank the National Prnv b«,v„ Rngland. Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool, Ltd. Scotland—The British Linen Company Bank and branches. ««««. "v. oaux. o Bankers in the United States—New York—The National City Bank, the Bank of New York, N.B.A. Boston—The Merchants'National Bank T B Mnm-« &Co. Buffalo—The Marine Bank, Buffalo. San Francisco—The First National Bank, the Bank of British Columbia, the Anglo-Californian Bank Portland Oregon—The Bank of British Columbia. ^uru_na BANK ®F BRITISH NORTH HMERieft. ESTABLISHED 1836. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1840. PHID DP CftPITHL £1,000,000 STERLING. RESERVE FOND 325,000 CONDON, ENG.. OFFICES, 3 CLEMENTS LHNE. LOMBARD STREET. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES : SYDNEY, N.S. HALIFAX, N.S. MONTREAL, P.Q. HAMILTON, Ont. WINNIPEG M«n ST. JOHN, N.B. OTTAWA, Ont. BRANTFORD, Ont. BRANDON' Man ' FREDERICTON, N.B. KINGSTON, Ont. LONDON, Ont. NEW'YORKNV QUEBEC, P.Q. TORONTO, Ont. MIDLAND, Ont. SAN FRANCISCO,' Cal. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA : YICTORia, VANCOUVER, ROSSLaiVD, KHSL,©, aSHeROFT, GREENWOOD. Hlso at the Gold Fields—aTLJN and OawsON CITY, Highest Prices Paid for Gold Dust and Amalgam G. H. BURNS, Mgi\, VICTORIA B.(jJ The Mining Record. Vol. VII. DECEMBER, 1900. No. 12. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING RECORD Devoted to the Mining Interests of British Columbia. PUBLISHED BY The Mining; Record Limited Liability. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. H. nORTIMER LAMB, Hanaging Editor, r.ondon Office : 24 Coleman Street, E.C Montreal: Gray's Agency. Denver, Col.: National Advertising Co San Francisco : Dake's Agency. SUBSCRIPTION TERnS: Canada and the United States, one year - - $2.00 Great Britain and Foreign, " " - - 2.50 All communications relating to the editorial department of the British Columbia Mining Recobd to be addressed to The Editor, B.C. Mining Becobd, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C All communications relating to the business department of the British Columbia Mining Becobd to be addressed to the Business Manager, B.C. Mining Becobd, P.O. Drawer 645, Victoria, B.C. PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. C RE this, each of our subscribers in good standing *—' will have received a copy of our special Christmas Supplement. Those whose subscriptions are in arrears can secure without further cost a copy of this handsome special number by remitting the amount due on or before the 1st of January, 1901. THE MONTH. IN the Engineering Magazine for November a series of articles on "The General Principles of Successful Mine Management," by Mr. A. G. Charleton has been begun of which it may be said that if the succeeding articles come up to the standard of the first, the series will be of great value to everyone interested in the practical management of mines. Mr. Charleton in the first place knows what a mine manager is, or should be, a very rare piece of knowledge. According to Mr. Charleton a mine manager should be a man who can exercise the highest amount of judgment : 1. In the selection of the most suitable machinery and materials to effect various specific purposes. 2. In the choice of men selected to perform any requisite piece of work and in the way in which they are handled. 3. In the employment of men and machinery col lectively, in the execution of different jobs, so as to secure the best possible results at the least possible cost. "Above all, it is essential that he should possess that combination of practical scientific and business knowledge necessary for a mining engineer to take full advantage of any improvements in technical practice, which will save labour, improve extraction, enlarge output or otherwise cheapen production." The measure of the mine manager's success is the profit and loss account of the company operating the mine, and it is his business to combine the success of the engineer, the accuracy of the assayer and of the surveyor, the care of the sampler, the oversight of the shift boss, and the energy of the workman, and to organize a system of breaking, hoisting, shipping and treating the ore in such a way that the highest percentage of profit is obtained. But he does not require to combine all these qualities in his own person any more than he requires to carry the ore from the mine on his own back. In Mr. Charleton's own words: "What is wanted for efficient mine management is the happy combination of general experience, engineering knowledge and business capacity, regulated by administrative, ability. A man may be, in fact, a first-rate engineer but a second-rate administrator, or the converse, and fail in either case where other managers with less ability in some one of these departments succeed." The art of selecting machinery cannot be learned from makers' catalogues: "It is only to be learned by experience, involving, as it does, a more or less thorough acquaintance with the relative merits, capacity, durability, price and applicability of mechanical appliances of all kinds employed in mining operations. The chief point to be determined is whether quality and design shall be sacrificed to price, or whether it is cheaper to pay a higher price for a better article, the choice depending partly on the time any particular piece of machinery is likely to be required to last, partly upon its comparative suitability for the purpose for which it is to be employed." • With regard to the choice of men the matter is summed up as follows: "So called 'cheap men' like cheap materials, often prove the most expensive in the long run." In fact, it is practically certain that if you want to get the best possible value out of men, the way to do so is to pay them well and treat them impartially." Mr. Charleton emphasizes the fact that "mutual confidence between employer and employed, loyalty, esprit de corps and discipline are factors of great importance in running a mine successfully. He further remarks that, "In the organization of the work under his charge, the manager should endeavour to trust as much as he can, without trusting too much, to the various heads of departments act- HSBS5 43 s* THE MINING RECORD. ing under him—stimulating them to use their brains and exercise independent judgment when occasion calls for it, and to look to him for advice only when in doubt or difficulties," with due deference to the principle, however, "that one responsible head is an essential for the proper conduct of business of any description." Next to labour comes economy in the use of stores, particularly explosives and timber. It may be pointed out, although the fact is not drawn attention to by Mr. Charleton in the present article, that economy in the use of timber is not measured by the amount of timber used. That is one factor, certainly, but to minimise the timber used in a mine to what cannot be done without in the meantime frequently results in the complete ruination of the mine. In addition, a manager "requires to see that developments are pushed ahead on systematic and proper lines," that a proper system of tallying ore broken and hoisted is in use, that the stopes are properly and regularly measured, and that a proper assay plan is constructed and kept up to date, that stock is taken of stores, that boilers are tested and cleaned when necessary, and their consumption of fuel and water recorded, that renewals and repairs are properly looked after and charged up and more especially that winding ropes and signalling and safety appliances are regularly and thoroughly inspected, and that a record is kept of the life of the different wearing parts of the machinery." It is not remarkable that good mine managers command hisrh salaries. The silver market presents features of great encouragement to the silver mine owner in British Columbia. Not only is the price higher, but the tendency is towards progressive improvement. During the year drawing to a close a great demand has sprung up for silver in the East. The Indian government has bought large quantities, as it has been discovered there, that whatever the standard may be, the currency in use among the people must be made of the white metal. Japan has also entered the market for the first time since it adopted a gold standard; the object of Japan's purchases has probably been to pay the expenses of the Japanese forces in China. Russia has been a heavy buyer for the same reason. The demand from China itself has been the most marked of all. Chinese merchants are no longer importing foreign goods in exchange for their exports, but taking payments in silver, which in troublous times like the present is more easily conveyed and also more easily concealed. None of the conditions which have led to this extra demand on the silver producing resources of the world are at all likely to disappear for a long time to come; and the production of silver cannot be largely increased without a greater advance in price than has hitherto taken place. Therefore, the silver market is likely to discover a decided shortage in the supply of that metal sometime in the not very remote future. The immediate effect of this would be to cause a rapid advance in the price of the metal to 75 or 80 cents, or even higher, which advance, however, could not be expected to continue. When the boom was over silver would settle down to a normal price on a higher level than its present market value. Such a boom would be of the greatest possible service to British Columbia. It would stimulate mining in the £5,438 382 £7,007,882 I. £1,569,470 971,080 2,346,859 I. 1,375,789 13,047 I. 13,i 47 Province to a hitherto undreamt of degree and bring new districts rapidly to the front. It would not be at all surprising if the next mining excitement in British Columbia were a silver mining excitement and the next great inrush of capital attracted by the Province's silver resources. The movement of silver to the Orient shows a great change as the following table »hows: 1899. 1900. Changes. Loudon to British East Indies £4,162.007 £4,968,476 I. £806,469 London to Japan 89,800 I. 89,800 London to China 1,276,375 1,949,576 I. 673,201 Totals san Francisco to China San Francisco to Japan Totals £6,409,462 £9,367,768 I. £2,958,3(0 It will be seen that while London remains the shipping point for the British East Indies, China and Japan are buying very largely from San Francisco. British Columbia is quite as well situated, in fact better situated than San Francisco to export silver to the Oriental market. Why does British Columbia not open up this trade. Sooner or later it will be done, of course. But progress consists in realising such opportunities and setting to work to carry out such ideas in a practical way. Here is a profitable opportunity for the investment of capital in British Columbia. During the present year the silver output of British Columbia must have been very nearly doubled, and is increasing very rapidly. There must be a profit in refining the metal in British Columbia and shipping it direct to the Orient instead of allowing it to be transmitted through a dozen different hands in the United States and Great Britain before it reaches its ultimate destination. We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. S. Thornton Langley, of Rossland, which is published with a certain amount of diffidence. We are compelled to excise one paragraph in which Mr. Langley makes statements about the directors of the company which we have no desire to be invited by a court of law to sustain. The letter reads as follows : , Rossland, B. C. Nov. 12, 1900. The Editor B. C. Mining Record, Victoria, B. C.: Dear Sir,—I have seen your paragraph in this month's issue, referring to my connection with the Okanogan Gold Mines, Limited, in very unfavourable terms. You are entirely in error in your conclusions in this matter, as I was in no way responsible for the failure of the company. In the ordinary course of business I was engaged as a broker to sell the shares of the company, which I did to the entire satisfaction of the directors and shareholders, and in July, 1899, I received a vote of thanks from them for the able and efficient manner in which I had conducted the sale of shares entrusted to me by the company. At no time was I a manager or had anything whatever to do with the active management of the company. I was a director for three months, from August to October, 1899, during which time I was absent from Rossland, but during this period the company was in a prosperous condition. After I left the directorate and all of the treasury shares of the company had' been disposed of, I sold part of my shares, as I had a perfect right to do. At that period the company had a most favorable future before it, which would have been amply realized had it even been fairly managed. THE MINING RECORD. 439 I am now a large holder of the company's shares, for which I paid the highest market price. These being the true facts of the matter, I fail to see anything scandalous in my connection with the company. It is true I have loaned the company large sums of money when they were in urgent need of it, as I wished to protect my friends and shareholders, which I consider a very laudable and honourable proceeding on my part, after I had left the directorate of the company. Now that I have placed the facts before you, which are well known to your correspondent here, Mr. H. F. Evans, and which were set out in my circular, a copy of which he sent to you, I expect a complete and adequate withdrawal of your libellous statements. From time to time, I have noticed that you publish in your cotpmns news of a derogatory character and assume them to be facts, which are not so. It is quite evident to me that the Okanogan article, as well as those relating to this section, have been inspired by some one unfriendly to this community. Yours truly, S. THORNTON LANGLEY. It will be observed that we merely said that if Mr. Langley had acted in a certain way his conduct would have been scandalous. He says he did not act in the way described. We are unaffectedly delighted to hear it. Mr. Langley states that he was engaged in the ordinary course of business as a broker to sell the shares of the company and sat on the board of directors for three months. This and loaning money to the company covered his connection with it. The conclusion of Mr. Langley's letter is painful to us, although what he says is sometimes unfortunately true. It is impossible always to protect our columns from matter which is untrue, derogatory and inspired by enemies of the community. An instance of something. which seems like this in the light of Mr. Langley's letter occurs to our mind now. In the Mining Record of last April there was an article in which the following passage appeared: "In March, 1895, Mr. Langley came to Rossland, since which time he has been actively engaged in promoting mining enterprises, one of his most recent undertakings being the Okanagan Free Gold Mines, which paid a dividend of five per cent, on the capital stock in October last." To connect this company with Mr. Langley's name as one of his undertakings and to connect him with this dividend as if it had been one of the fruits of his enterprise was obviously in the light of his letter, erroneous and derogatory. So desirous have we been to do full justice and make ample reparation to Mr. Langley that we have endeavoured to trace the source of this communication, but have not been able to follow our correspondent beyond the front door of Mr. Langley's own office, and presume that he must have borrowed the use of Mr. Langley's typewriter to indite it, which was piling Ossa upon Pelion, heaping insult upon injury. When this article appeared, our books show that Mr. Langley bought up every available surplus copy of the Record to be had and we appreciate the delicacy with which he endeavoured to limit the circulation of this injurious statement without informing us of his intention. means encouraging document. It appears that 2277 tons of concentrates have been shipped, on which the net smelter returns were $68,133.71 or $29.92 per ton. The amount of ore milled during this period is not given. But over the whole period since the mill was started the amount mined and milled (exclusive of the tonnage treated from the old dumps) has been 32,345 tons, resulting in 3,589.6 tons of concentrates or as nearly as possible 9 tons of crude ore to one of concentrates. The average cost of mining and milling per ton is not given either. The chairman ot the company, however, stated that this had been reduced from $2.31 in April to $1.64 in August. If $1.75 be taken as a reasonable average, and it must be said that if ore is being mined and trammed and milled at the Whitewater for $1.75 a ton it is being done very cheaply indeed, then the cost per ton of concentrates would be $15.75, leaving a profit of $14.17 per ton of concentrates over the bare cost of mining. This gives something like $32,000 surplus for the period or say $60,000 a year, out of which would have to come development and maintenance expenses before anything was available for dividend. This is not by any means brilliant. But when it is considered that during the year 1899, when 1,913.8 tons of concentrates were provided, on which the returns were $104,965.38, or $36,831.67 more than was received from 2,277 tons this year, the total net profit of the company was under $20,000, we confess that Mr. Fowler's report discloses a condition of affairs of a somewhat dismal character. And if anything were needed to accentuate the doubtful position of the mine it would be his statement that there was only six months' ore in sight. Some comfort may be derived from the fact that the mine is looking better at present than it has for some time and that there seems to be every likelihood that the value of the concentrates produced may be restored to its former level. Under the able management of the Whitewater mine all that can be accomplished by care and economy will be done, and it is certainly to be hoped that more encouraging results will be forthcoming: in the future. The report on operations at the Whitewater mine from 1 st March, 1900 to 31st August, 1900, by Mr. S. S. Fowler, is a somewhat perplexing but by no A good many enquiries are now being instituted with regard to the occurrence of petroleum in British Columbia. Indications of the presence of oil are most favourable in South East Kootenay and also, we understand, in Queen Charlotte Islands, and in the former field no less than eleven leases have been applied for this month. In a report to the Geological Survey of Canada Dr. Selwyn, who visited the East Kootenay oil fields in 1891, thus describes the Cameron Falls locality: "After following up the stream about a mile and a half on the left bank, I noticed a powerful odour of petroleum. Descending to the edge of the water and stirring the stones and gravel in the bed of the stream, considerable quantity of oil at once rose to the surface and floated away. Crossing to the right bank, some inches above the then level of the stream, here, skimmed off the surface of a shallow pool, a wine bottle full was soon collected. This can now be seen in the Geological Survey Museum. Sixty or seventy yards below where the oil was seen, a rocky reef of grey silicious dolomite crosses the creek and rises into a steep bluff on the left bank; on the right bank, seven or eight feet above the creek, a broad, thickly timbered flat extends for 150 yards to the 440 THE MINING RECORD. base of the bordering mountains, which culminate six miles to the south-west at the boundary monument, 6,000 feet above sea level. No work whatever has been done to test the nature of the oil sources. A comparatively small outlay for some shallow sinking or boring on the flat above described would do this. "On the 24th, we proceeded down the valley, and about four miles north of the 49th parallel the trail came down to the level of the brook, on the edge of a beaver dam pool, there were ledges of dark blue shale dipping E. 300, N. 120. Lifting layers of this at and below the water, a quantity of dark green circular patches of oil rose to the surface, and a precisely similar result followed by stirring up the mud in the bottom of the pool. This place is about 15 miles in a direct line west, 10 degrees south, from the occurrence on Cameron Falls Creek, the main watershed of the Rocky Mountains and Mounts Kirby, Spence and Yarrell intervening, oil is said, by the Indians (the Stoneys) who frequent this region, to occur at other points, in the Akamina Brook Valley, both above and below that recorded. The Akamina joins the Flathead River in Montana, about four miles south of the international boundary. The beaver dam oil is of a dark greenish-black, and does not apparently differ much from that of Cameron Falls Creek. Preliminary tests might be made here by sinking a shallow shaft in the shales at the beaver dam pool, and by boring on the sandy and gravelly flat country about two miles and a half north of the boundary line. "At about a mile and a half higher up, the creek leaves the high mountains, which border its upper course in a north-easterly direction up to the main watershed some twelve miles distant, and here, at the edge of the water, on the left bank, I found hard, dark flinty shales like those at the beaver dam pool on the Akamina, dipping S. 25 degrees, 30 degrees, W. 25 degrees. Directly the layers of this rock are raised, the oil rises and spreads over the surface of the water in such abundance that a short time suffices, with the aid of a tin cup, to collect a bottle full. Here, also a considerable quantity of gas escapes from the cracks and joints in the rocks, and ignites freely on the application of a match. "Less than half a mile higher up, on the right bank and on the opposite side of the valley, oil was again found issuing from the base of the bank or drift, which has here filled the valley and causes the stream to make a sharp bend eastward to the base of the opposite mountain. No rock was exposed here, but every stone in the bed of the creek, especially on being broken or rubbed, gave out a strong ndor of petroleum. The oil collected here, a sample of which can be seen in the Museum, differs entirely in appearance from those of the Cameron Falls Creek and Akamina or Kish-e-ne-nah Creek. Some of it \vn? of a light lemon-yellow, but most of it nearly the colour of pale brandy and with a powerful petroleum odor." The last annual report of Sir Horace Seymour, comptroller of the Royal Mint contains separate reports by the Deputy-Masters of the branches established in Australia at Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The three colonial mints coin gold only, while the London mint supplies silver and other coinages required by the Empire. The Sydney and Melbourne mints, although estab lished for many years, have only just ceased to be a source of annual loss. In 1899 the figures are given as follows: Ex- Profit of Revenue, penditure. Revenue Sydney £15,6 ro £14,488 £1,122 Melbourne 25,145 17,001 8,144 The Perth branch has only recently been established. It seems from the report of Sir Horace Seymour that all the gold produced does not find its way to these colonial mints. In 1896 the mints received about 80 per cent, of the total Australasian production, b.ut the proportions for the last three years are as follows: 1897 1898 1899 Ozs. Ozs. Ozs. Total estimated Australasian production of gold .... 2,929,959 3,547>°79 4.462,500 Total sent into the colonial mints . . 2,127,098 2,233,525 2,670,796 Proportion of production 72i% 63% 60% The decrease in the proportion is said to have been occasioned chiefly by the considerable quantity of the large West Australian yield shipped in the form of bullion. The Perth mint is, however, attracting the gold, and doubtless the proportion of the total output coined in the colonies will soon show some recovery. From these reports it is abundantly clear that what we have already pointed out with regard to the proposed Canadian mint is correct. It is not necessary merely to have a mint, but also to have one that will attract the gold produced in the country. The place where the mint is located and the price it offers for gold are the two most vital considerations. Unless the Canadian mint is located on the Pacific Coast, it will certainly not attract the gold produced in the Klondyke and British Columbia. All the difference between making the Canadian mint a success and a ridiculous fiasco is involved in the choice between the East and West for its location. Furthermore, unless the mint is prepared to offer the same price for gold as is offered by the United States mint at Seattle, it will not attract the gold either. And it must not be forgotten that the United States mint assumes a proportion of the cost of refining the gold, and all the cost of transporting it to San Francisco or Philadelphia, where actual minting operations are carried on. In a popular novel recently published in Great Britain the hero, who is a duke just come into his inheritance, wishes to bury two degenerate scions of his race in some remote part of the earth. He takes the advice of his most intimate friend, who tells him : "There are great reports about British Columbia just now. They've found wonderful new gold-fields and they are a fearful distance from anywhere. It takes months to get to them, so I'm told." How long it takes to get to a place entirely depends on where one starts from. It takes five days to get from the centre of the British Columbia gold-fields to New York and seven days on the average to go from New York to London. The average time for letters from London to the centre of the British Columbia gold- fields is fifteen days. The travelling is luxurious. One carries a dining room, a reading room, a bar, a barber shop and a bathroom on the train. The THE MINING RECORD. 441 centre of British Columbia goldfields is more accessible to London than such places as- San Francisco, Capetown, (not to mention Johannesburg), Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The real test of distance, however, is the comparative facility of communication. Does one wish to do business by telegraph with London from the centre of British Columbia gold-fields? It is more accessible than Glasgow. When one's office closes at night the telegraph message is handed in. The reply is received before the office is opened in the morning and the correspondent in London has had a full working day to consider its contents or procure information asked for. It is possible to sit in one's office in the centre of the British Columbia gold-fields and converse with people in Spokane, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Butte and Helena. As a matter of fact it is not done because there is not business enough with these places to maintain a service. But it is possible. Theoretically it is possible to do the same thing between Lombard and QueenVictoria streets. Practically it is not. The meaning of an adequate telephone circuit has not yet dawned upon the transpontine intelligence. The conditions of life are not materially different in the centre of the British Columbia gold-fields than they are anywhere else. There is possibly more room for the activities of young men of energy and principle. Of course people may send degenerates there and maintain them after they are there just as they may anywhere else. It is fairly cheap, too. Because these unfortunates fall at once and outwardly, where they really belong, to the lowest strata of society. Some find their metier in handling a pick and shovel. Others, the worst, prey upon society by incurring debts they cannot and do not intend to pay. A few become a direct burden on the community by finding their way into the prisons and lunatic asylums. The idea of this duke and his adviser expressed in the course of the same dialogue that in shipping such material to the colonies they are helping to build up the Empire with a big capital E may be a pious but certainly is a ghastly fiction. The absorption of the Dominion Copper Company, owning the Brooklyn and Stemwinder mines at Phoenix, by a New York syndicate with James Breen at its head, is the most convincing demonstration yet offered to outsiders that the low grade of Boundary ores will pay. It is frequently said, and it is true,, that the problem in the Boundary is a smelting and not a mining problem. James Breen is the one man in the Northwest, if not in all America, to give a fully trustworthy opinion whether that problem has been or can be solved. He has given that opinion in the most convincing and emphatic way possible by purchasing the Brooklyn and Stemwinder He was F. A. Heinze's right hand man in the construction and operation of his Butte smelters, by which the Montana smelting ring was smashed, and treatment of ore very much reduced. He constructed the smelter at Trail to treat the Le Roi ore and learned what could be done with that kind of ore at a freight and treatment rate of $11.00 a ton. He left Heinze to build the Northport smelter for the Le Roi company, who were glad to bonus his knowledge and that of his partner in the enterprise, Mr Bellinger with an interest of one-quarter in the plant on a contract with the mine for an $8 treatment rate. When the B A. C. purchased the Le Roi mine they purchased three-fourths only of the smelter, and were bound to account to Messrs. Breen & Bellinger at an $8 rate. In two years these gentlemen had realised large private fortunes, which were augmented by the price at which the Le Roi company were glad to purchase their interest. Since that time Mr. Breen has been unattached, having made up his mind to operate for himself. That he has found the best available opportunity offered by the copper industry of a continent in the purchase of low grade mines in the Boundary district of British Columbia is fairly conclusive evidence as to the value of such mines and the. future in store for the district. The Crow's Nest Coal Company is now the largest producing coal mine in the Province, having a daily output of 1,200 tons. Besides which it keeps 281 beehive coke ovens engaged in the subsidiary manufacture of coke. It requires one hundred freight cars daily to handle the output. From one-third to one-half of the output is exported, the Great Northern Railway buying 400 tons a day for use on its railway system. It is curious to reflect that when first opened the coal of the Crow's Nest field was not considered a good coal for use on locomotives on account of its liability to make the fire box of the engine into a miniature coke oven. This, however, was easily overcome as soon as the firemen became accustomed to its use, and now it ranks as steam fuel second to none. The greater part of the coal produced, however, is absorbed by the mining and smelting industries of British Columbia itself, which is the most satisfactory feature of the success attendant on this great enterprise. That active mining for the precious metals was never in such a buoyant and progressive condition as at present is amply proved if proof were necessary by the continuous and increasing demand for coal and coke. The coal mining industry in the Crow's Nest Pass cannot flourish unless mining for the precious metals is flourishing. The prosperity of the one is derived from the prosperity of the other. The Centre Star reappears as a dividend paying mine after the best of a year devoted to organization and development. The dividend which is payable on the 1 st of January is at the rate of one per cent., the total sum distributed being $35,000. It is expected that from that date on a regular monthly dividend of one per cent, will be paid. Centre Star shares stand at 50 per cent, premium, and at that price, provided the anticipations of the management are fulfilled, will yield 8 per cent, per annum. The present price of Centre Star shares is the price at which they were first issued. The mine carries a capital valuation of $5,250,000. Eight per cent, per annum does not allow much for resumption of capital and interest on a mining investment. Even regular monthly dividends at this rate would not justify any advance in the shares, except in anticipation of increased output and profits. The shares of the Nimrod Syndicate are being heavily boomed on the English market on the strength of a consolidation of interests purchased on McKee Creek, in Atlin district. The capital of the Nimrod Syndicate is £25,250 in £1 shares and the shares stand on the market at £6£. The Nimrod Syndicate has bought ouf McKee, the locator of the creek, 442 THE MINING RECORD. who has worked it successfully for two seasons. Mr. McKee is an old and experienced placer miner and has evidently formed a pretty definite opinion as to the extent of the pay left before he sold out. Relatively to the expectations of profit raised in the minds of shareholders and prospective shareholders in the Nimrod Syndicate, by the reports published, McKee sold out for a song. According to the best information we can secure, the prospects of getting good profits by consolidating the claims on this creek and bringing hydraulic power to bear is a good one, provided the valuation set on the claims by the sellers plus the capital necessary to put in hydraulic appliances, is not exceeded. But we have the strongest reasons for believing that a reasonable valuation of the property is being grossly exceeded. The fault lies not in Atlin, but in London. The shares of the British Columbia Copper Company now stand at $20 on the Boston mining market, giving the property of the company, the Mother Lode, in Deadwood Camp, a market value of $4,000,- 000. This company has been steadily opening up its property since 1896 and is the pioneer representative of Eastern American capital among the copper mines of British Columbia. 1901 will be the company's first productive year, but the success of the enterprise is already a foregone conclusion. The great appreciation in the value of the shares has already done much to awaken interest in Boston in British Columbia mines. Introduced by a conservative and successful corporation like the British Columbia Copper Company the Province should be able to attract a great deal of capital from mining centres in the Eastern United States. We are in receipt of the preliminary prospectus of "The Chamber of Mines of Southern British Columbia (Kootenay and Yale)." The object of this association is to "direct the attention of the financial world to our great mineral resources and to seek to induce capital to investigate and invest 'in every mining camp in the district." The means by which it proposes to carry out this object are the collection and distribution of accurate information about the progress and resources of mining in the territory it covers. The object is laudable, and the means chosen are good. We hope the Chamber of Mines will be successfully inaugurated, comprehensive in its constitution and scope, and an active agency in accomplishing the good work it proposes to attempt. Through the death of Marcus Daly, Montana loses one of its best known public men and Western America a long familiar and picturesque figure. Besides being a successful mining man Marcus Daly took a keen interest in politics and racehorses. For long he was paramount in Montana state politics, but with the transfer of his mining interests to a large corporation of which he was not in control, he lost his political prestige and influence. Marcus Daly made his fortune, which is computed at $20,000,000, but is probably under that sum, by his persistent faith in the Butte mines when they were condemned by experts and believed in by nobody except himself and one or two more. German expeditions. A Norwegian company has, following up the German explorers, actually opened productive mines in the Ice Fjord, Spitzenburgen, and these will be worked next year. It is stated that the coal strata are above sea level, three of them lying from six to nine feet deep. Furnace coal is found in the same locality and the supply is said to be rich enough to supply the whole demand of Northern Norway for a period practically unlimited. Compared with the local conditions of these Arctic coal fields, those of the deposits in the Yukon—the practical value of which has yet to be tested—seem easy indeed. The St. Eugene mine at Moyie has entered the list of dividend paying mines with a distribution of $105,000, or 3% on its capital of three and a half millions. This dividend is for the quarter ending 31st December, and is payable on the 1st of January. It is at the rate of 12% a year. The Canadian Gold- fields Syndicate has also, out of the proceeds of the St. Eugene, declared a dividend on its capital stock of $1,000,000 of 3%. The Byron N. White Company, owning and operating the Slocan Star, has also declared a dividend of $25,000, being at the rate of 5%. These are all satisfactory indications of renewed activity in silver lead mining. During October and November the lode mines of British Columbia declared dividends amounting to $368,750. Of that sum $25,000 went to England and $25,000 to the United States. The balance, $318,750, was distributed to Canadian shareholders. With the completion of the Crawford Bay wagon road, and of the Molly Gibson tramway, two events of the month of November, two very important additions are made to the list of actively productive mines. The ore of the Molly Gibson and of the properties of the London Consolidated is high grade and both expect to export a considerable tonnage this season. Very greatly increased shipments may be expected from now on from the Slocan and also from the Lardeau where abundant snow has provided the necessary facilities for rawhiding ore. Particular attention should be paid by those looking for a district in which to invest money or to sell mining machinery and supplies, or to establish business, to the summary of progress in the Boundary country from our own correspondent, published this month. It is a statement of cold and unromantic facts, yet it is as wonderful and fascinating as any romance ever written. No district in the Province has suffered more than the Boundary from adverse criticism ; none is vindicating itself more splendidly. 0 A coal mining undertaking is reported from the Arctic Islands of Northern Europe, as a result of THE YEAR IX BOUNDARY. (By Our Own Correspondent.) N the whole the mining industry of the district is making distinct and gratifying progress. Boom correspondents continue to occasionally supply to newspapers that will publish their glittering generalities with inflated statement^ that will not bear lose examination and yet stand. For instance, there is the oft-repeated assertion that early in the New Year there will be twenty shipping mines—or words to that effect—in the Boundary. Of course it all de- THE MINING RECORD. 443 pends upori what construction is placed upon the designation "shipping mine." If claims that send out an occasional carload of ore. probably taken from a very limited supply, are to be regarded as "shipping mines," then the Boundary district should soon possess not only one score, but two or three score of such uncertain aids to its progress. Again, if there are to be included properties that have practically no sufficient development ahead of their producing capacity to admit of their maintaining an appreciably large production during any reasonable period of suspension of development work—properties that send out anywhere from two or three hundred to two or three thousand tons of ore and then find themselves at the end of their ore supply—th^n theie may be added half a dozen or may be half a score more to the "shipping mines" of the district. But if a "shipping mine" is to be regarded from a point of view that rejects all properties whose production of ore cannot for some time to come be made continuous in a degree that will ensure a regular supply to the several reduction works now looking to the district for sufficient ore to keep their furnaces going right along, then the statement that there will be twenty—or even ten "shipping mines" in the Boundary district is plainly and unequivocally not a true one. The writ-> er has but one end in view in frequently reiterating that there is much inflation and mis-statement in some of the reports published in newspapers giving space to mining news from this district, and that is to write of matters pertaining to the mining industry as favorably as he can consistently with a careful and conservative regard to the actual facts of the position. And in maintaining this attitude he has the approval and support of some of the competent and responsible mine managers who are not in sympathy with the cry popular with many people: "Whoop her up! Get men to come in and we'll take chances of some of them putting their money into the district. We'll benefit to some extent anyhow." That there may be no misunderstanding as to the position taken by the writer, it may be well for him to once again direct attention to what may be fairly and honestly claimed as actual and substantial progress in connection with the mining industry in the Boundary. Up to June last, or possibly a few weeks earlier, there had been practically no ore sent to the smelters from the Boundary district. For the sake of literalness it will be conceded that there may have possibly been anywhere from 500 to 5,000 tons sent out earlier for reduction, but the quantity in comparison with the total to be shipped to the present date was very small. Nor was there last May or Tune a smelter in operation in the district. In contrast to this take the position on say November 30. The aggregate of ore shipments to October 31 was approximately 55,000 tons, made up as follows: Old Ironsides and Knob Hill Group 32,000 B. C r4.°o° City of Paris 3-Soo Golden Crown i-9°° Winnipeg z '20° /fthelstan 5°° Unenumerated 9°° Approximate total to Oct. 31st 54.ooo To satisfy possible critics it will be admitted that the detai'ed quantities here given in round numbers— some mines should possibly be given credit for a little more and others a little less. November shipments aggregated about 26,000 tons in the following proportions. Old Ironsides and Knob Hill Groups •. . 18,500 B. C 3,000 Mother Lode 3,000 Unenumerated 1,500 Total 26,000 The exact figures for November are at the time of writing not obtainable, so the estimated total may possibly prove to be from 500 to 1,500 tons in excess of the actual shipments, but with this qualification, it will serve to illustrate the substantial results achieved during November, not, be it noted, by "twenty shipping mines," but, to all intents and purposes, by three. Where then is there any necessity or even excuse for flagrant exaggeration? Is it not enough to make the statement—one that cannot be disproved that the Boundary district, which is as yet in its infancy as regards production, in November sent, say, 25,000 tons of ore to the smelters? Place upon that ore an average of $10 per ton gross (which is within the mark) and it represents a quarter of a million dollars worth of ore taken out of only three mines. Surely this is a record that a mining district only just entered upon the period of production may take a pardonable pride in. And it is quite permissible to point out that three months hence or as much sooner as it shall be possible to get into working order the larger air compressor and hoist with which the Mother Lode Mine is now being equipped, the big ore reserves of that mine will easily yield 10,000 to 15,000 tons per month, whilst the Old Ironsides group can increase its monthly output by 10,000 tons whenever a third furnace shall have been added to the Granby Company's smelter to treat the additional quantity of ore. Then, too, there is a prospective increase from the B. C. mine, leaving altogether out of consideration the probability that during the first half of the year 1901 the Brooklyn and Stemwinder, Snowshoe, Gold Drop, Golden Crown, Winnipeg, Athelstan, City of Paris, Morrison, Jewel, Oro Denoro, R. Bell and several others may have become small producers, though not during that period "shipping mines." From the foregoing it should be evident that though the Boundary district may not* yet truthfully claim to have "twenty shipping mines" in the sense usually accepted where mining operations are of substantial importance it is amply warranted in claiming that it already has what is even better—three producing mines—mines that are demonstrating by the unanswerable argument of their regular output of a profit earning-product that the district offers a very promising field for the investment of capital. And since production of itself is insufficient to ensure success, regard must be had to the fact that not only are the Trail and Grand Forks smelters available' for the treatment of the ore output of the district mines, but that early in the new year the smelters of both the British Columbia Copper Company and the Standard Pyritic Smelting Company will also be in operation, and. further, will be prepared to increase :heir treatment capacity as production shall require them to do so. 444 THE MINING RECORD. THE CANADIAN MINERAL EXHIBIT AT ' PARIS. ITS SUCCESSES AND HOW THEY WERE ATTAINED. (By Angus K. Stuart.) OF the many millions of people who have now seen the great exhibition here a very large percentage have visited the Canadian pavilion and the various sections where Canadian products are displayed and, now that the awards have all been made and the enormous fair is drawing to a close, it is quite possible to form an idea as to whether the Canadian exhibition has, or has not been a success. Perhaps, however, it would be hardly fair to judge the success of the exhibition or any part of it solely by the numbers which have visited it; in any case it would be more reasonable to try to find out whether it has been productive of satisfactory results—i.e., ths advertising of Canada as a rich and prosperous country, and whether the opportunity afforded here to accomplish this end has been utilized to the best advantage. On these matters any one can form an equally good judgment as myself—all I can do is to confine myself to what I have had time to see and learn since my stay here, hoping that any experience gained may eventually, through the medium of your valuable publication, be of some use to the province from which I hail. Doubtless from the daily press you will have been notified of many of the successes gained by Canada here. You will also perhaps have read criticisms as to the management of certain details connected with the arrangement and display of our exhibits. All this it is not my business nor office to comment on. What I hope to convey is an accurate idea of the Canadian mineral exhibit as it is, the successes it has quite undoubtedly obtained, the cause of these successes and what practical benefits to the Canadian mining industry may be expected to result from all the trouble, time, money and skill employed in getting this collection in place for the inspection of the public of all nations. Perhaps before going any further it would be well to explain the origin (if such a term may be used) of the exhibit. This would be scarcely necessary if some misunderstanding did not seem to exist as to some things connected therewith—but as such appears to prevail a few words of explanation can scarcely be much out of place. The exhibit as a whole was like any other section of the Canadian exhibit here, arranged for, collected, transported and placed here under the management of the Canadian Commission. One of the commissioners, Dr. G. M. Dawson, C.M.G., director of the Geological Stir/ey of Ottawa, very naturally had the control of this. To the very thorough way in which this work was carried on,—to the scientific manner in which the whole collection was handled—may undoubtedly be attributed the name it has acquired here of being the most attractive and at the same time the most elaborat- ively scientific display of mineral products to be seen in the exhibition grounds. The Canadian Geological Survey Department is perhaps not quite appreciated as it should be in Canada and especially out West, being an institution which, like Bobs, "does not advertise," but its work seems to be thoroughly well known to scientific and technical people on the Continent, and if possible its reputation has been still more enhanced bv the way this mineral exhibit has been got together, by the able representatives it has sent here .in Messrs. E. R. Faribault and A. P. Low, and the publications of both a theoretical and practical kind which it got out specially for distribution here. Great credit is also due to the mining bureaus of the various provinces, especially those of British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia and to the many private individuals who assisted in collecting the exhibits. As such a very large number of the latter come from British Columbia and as the British Columbia exhibit is specially representative too much credit cannot possibly be given to Mr. W: F. Robertson, your provincial mineralogist, who took such enormous pains to ensure the province being thoroughly represented, j He will doubtless be glad to know that it is due very largely to his individual efforts that Canada has had so many successes. To return to the exhibit. The whole exhibit is a collective one of the economical minerals of Canada, no attempt being made to advertise any of the provinces separately. The work of handling it after it left Ottawa, i. e., the placing and arranging here was entrusted to Mr. E. R. Faribault of the Geological Survey, and Mr. W. C. Willimott, assistant curator of the same department. Mr. Faribault being not only a scientist but also equally proficient in French and English, his linguistic capabilities were of the greatest assistance, practically invaluable in fact, especially in aiding the work of the International Jury. Mr. Willimott had a very large and varied experience in handling exhibits of this kind. At the end of June Mr. Faribault was replaced by Mr. A. P. Low, of the Geological Survey, (the well-known explorer of Labrador) and I was allowed to take Mr. Willimott's place. Under Mr. Low's supervision the greater part of the exhibit was re-arranged in order to make it more conformable with the catalogue, a sample copy of which had been received from Ottawa. This work occupied several weeks, and included re-labeling almost every exhibit. The net result of all this work is that the exhibit has gained the name of being the best arranged and classified in the entire exhibition —and is consequently immensely interesting to technical people who visit it in great numbers every day. The collection of economic minerals displayed in the Canadian pavilion is arranged in natural groups and series as follows:— i. Metals and their ores. 2. Materials used in the production of light and heat. 3. Minerals applicable to Chemical manufactures —and mineral fertilizers. 4. Mineral pigments. 5. Salt and Brines. 6. Refractory materials and materials applicable to the manufacture of china, etc. 7. Materials for grinding and polishing. 8. Minerals applicable to fine arts and jewelry. 9. Materials applicable to common and decorative construction. As to the arrangement of the exhibits in the courts it will be easily seen from the photographs sent that all the smaller specimens are placed in glass cases and the larger blocks of ore on open pyramids. Various special exhibits are scattered here and there and the whole of the window spaces are covered with photographs and transparencies illustrative of various mining industries of the Dominion—while geological THE MINING RECORD. 445 and other maps are placed in advantageous positions. These photographs sent to the Record were taken before the exhibit was re-arranged. The building itself is very badly "cut up" by pillars which make it practically impossible to secure a proper view of the exhibit as a whole. This section, like all others in the Canadian pavilion, suffers from bad architectural planning. The blame of this cannot be laid to the door of the Canadian Commission or any one employed by or connected with it, the building having been erected by the British Imperial Commission. Under the circumstances the very possible best use was made of the space at the disposal of those hand-. ling the mineral display. The collection of Canadian economic minerals contains in all 1,191 separate exhibits, so that it would mgs); gold dust and amalgam from Thibert, Mc- Dame, Dease, Messetoe, Rosella, Snow, Quartz and Walker Creeks and the Liard Rjyer and Poorman Gulch, in the Liard Mining Division, all from sluice workings; nuggets, gold dust and amalgam from the Quesnelle, Fraser, Smoky, Cottonwood and Horsefly Rivers, Eight Mile Lake, Stout Gulch and the following creeks: Shepherd, Coffee, Slough, Lightning, Nelson, Burns, Williams, Upper Williams, Lower Williams, Lowhee. Cunningham, Grouse, Cariboo, Mosquito, Summit, Stevens and Keightley, all in the Cariboo District and includes the result of dredger, hydraulic and hydraulic elevator workings and the milling of cemented gravels (from the Horsefly) as well as ordinary sluicing. The Lillooet and Yale Mining Divisions are represented by General View Canadian Mineral Exhibit. be perhaps as well to take each group separately— any attempt to enter into much detail being quite impossible in the time (and space) at my disposal. To begin with the gold exhibit. This is divided for all practical purposes into (1) alluvial gold (2) gold bearing quartz and (3) other auriferous ores. Alluvial Gold.—The display of alluvial gold consists of three steel cases containing nuggets, gold amalgam and models of nuggets. Two of these cases contain a collection made by the Department of Mines of British Columbia. This includes nuggets and colors from McKee, Spruce, Pine, Birch, Willow, Wright, Boulder and Otter Creeks, in the Atlin Mining Division (all except the last from sluice work- amalgam and gold dust from Cadwallader and Texas Creeks, the Upper and Lower Bridge Rivers and the Fraser River, and the rest of British Columbia placer gold exhibit is made up of dust and amalgam from the various creeks of the Big Bend country. Rock Creek, Fire Valley and Hall Creek in West Kootenay; Quartz Creek and Wild Horse' Creek in East Kootenay; and Manson Creek in Omineca. To this has been added five models of nuggets sent by the Geological Survey, and specimens of gold bearing black sand. In the same cases (for purposes of safety) have been placed the British Columbia exhibits of platinum, arquerite nuggets from Omineca and models of same, also specimens of British Columbia cinnabar and mercurv. It will be seen from 446 THE MINING RECORD. the above that British Columbia placer diggings both past and present are thoroughly well represented. Very few large nuggets are shown, but the collection is particularly interesting on account of the variety in quality and appearance of the different colors. It would be- difficult to get such a collection together a second time, as many specimens come from creeks which "played out" many years ago. The placer gold exhibit from the Yukon is exhibited together with that from Quebec in a steel case similar to those of B. C. Bonanza, Dominion, Sulphur, Eldorado, Hunker, Eureka, Gold Run, Last Chance, Livingston and Forty Mile are the creeks represented. It is principally interesting on account of the size of most of the nuggets and the remarks printed on the accompanying cards such as: "Gold dust, value $61.19, one-tenth part of the amount re- cubic foot of auriferous gravel containing $93 in gold dust and nuggets, similarly exhibited and sent by W. Leek, Esq., Dawson. The third exhibit is the b^st of all and is perhaps the most practical of all the exhibits connected with the alluvial gold display as it is easily explained to everyone and is readily understood by the profanum vulgus which would have driven Horace out of his senses had he had to stay day after day in this "mineral court." It consists of sections of gravels reconstructed from actual samples taken from Claim No. 27 above Discovery, Bonanza, by Mr. R. G. McConnell, and shows, the actual beds encountered in mining before pay dirt is reached. These consist as follows: About one foot of surface muck and moss, then nine feet of alternating beds of sand mutk and gravel. The pay gravel and the broken auriferous bed rock underneath are also Another roin* of View. covered by four men sluicing for 17 hours." In the sign above the case the word Klondyke is substituted for Yukon—a very sensible idea—many thousands visiting the exhibition having heard about "Klondeek" who never heard the word "Yukon" in their lives. One very great attraction is a rosary lent by Rev. F. P. E. Gendrean made entirely of nuggets in the rough from the various diggings. Ac- companing the Klondyke collection, and explanatory of it, are three very good exhibits indeed. The first of these is a section of gravel showing pay dirt placed in a large glass jar from the United Mines, Adams Hill, Bonanza Creek, and sent by the Geological Survey Department. The second is one shown. The upright case containing these sections is placed close to the placer cases. The gold of the Northwest Territories is represented by two samples of dust from the North Saskatchewan River, and that of Quebec by samples of dust and models of nuggets from the upper waters of the Salmon River and the Chaudiere and its tributaries. All of these are sent by the Geological Survey Department. (2.) Gold Bearing Quartz and Other Gold Ores.— The display of these ores is not only large but very varied—more so than in any other similar exhibit in the exhibition (there being in all 317 exhibits)—and includes gold, silver, copper and gold-copper smelt- THE MINING KRURI). 447 mg ores from B. C. The specimens are those of ordinary workable ore and not picked samples purely interesting from a mineralogical point of view. To classify a great many of them which come from B. C. was no easy matter, many specimens representing undeveloped or only partially developed deposits, so that often the ore had practically to be judged by its appearance, no data being at hand by which it could be grouped with certainty. Milling Ore.—The milling ores from B. C. are represented by 73 specimens in all. The number is not surprising, but the interest in this exhibit lies in the fact that the samples come from so many different districts, viz.: Alberni, Victoria, Clayoquot, Phillips Arm, New Westminster, Cariboo, Lillooet, Yale, Kamloops, Fairview, McKinney, Boundary, Carnes Creek, Ground Hog Basin, Revelstoke, Trout Lake, Blue Grouse Mountain, Nelson, Ymir and both N. E. and S. E. Kootenay. Every property of any prominence as a milling, concentrating or cyaniding proposition is represented by a sample—one comes across such familiar names as Doratha Morton, Bend d'Or, Minnehaha, Fontenoy, Waterloo, Cariboo-Amelia Jewel, C. O. D., Athabasca, Fern, Tamarac, Dundee, Porto Rico, Ymir, R. E. Burns, etc. This collection though not very attractive to the general public (few of the samples show free gold) is interesting on account of the variety in appearance of the exhibits— "free milling ore", evidently being a very elastic term. The Ontario and Nova Scotia milling ores comprise practically the whole gold exhibits from those provinces. That from Ontario comes princioally from the Lake of the Woods, Shoal Lake, Rainy Lake. Seine River, Shebandowan, Thunder Bay. Jackfish Bay. Michipicoten Districts and Wahnapital north of Sudbury. The specimens are very similar in appearance. A few samples, however, from Hastings County of auriferous mispickel lend a little variety to the collection. The exhibit is made up of 86 samples, comprising specimens from, inter alia. the following well known mines: Mikado. Sidar, Britannia (Gold Hill), Sultana, Regina. Foley, Olive, Golden Star. SawbiU. Hammond Reef. Independence and Deloro. A large number of these show plenty of free gold. In the Nova Scotia exhibit the quartz has also a great uniformity of appearance, even as to the width of the vein ('about n inches) plainly shown bv the specimens. Practically every exhibit shows a great deal of free eold—some so much in fact that a special sfe<d case Similar to time used for the placer exhibit) was made to hold the finest specimens. The Nova Scotia collection is very interesting- to the crowds visiting the exhibition on account of the richness of the samples sent—just suited to an exhibition such as this where crowds visit our mining section simply to see the rich free gold samples and nothine else. It is a pity that a larger quantitv of this class of ore was not sent, as though it is of little interest to minine people, still it helps immensely to advertise otir minera1 re^^rces among the general public. (The West Australia mining exhibit, to which I will refer later on. consists oracHcally of nothine but rich free gold samples. West Australia can give us several nointers on advertising-.") In connection with the Nova Scotia eold ores, and explanatory of the formation in which th^ ore is found, is a verv interesting: model sent bv the Geoloeical Survey Department. This was made by Mr. E. R.. Faribault, B.A., Sc, and the information it conveys is the result of many years work and study. Briefly described, this sectional model of the gold district of Goldenville, N.S., shows that the formation there is similar to that of Bendigo, Australia, and that deep mining can be carried on there with every certainty of success, provided that the zones of special enrichment are followed. The Nova Scotia gold exhibits come from the following districts: Goldenville, Isaacs Harbor, Wine Harbor, Laurancetown, Caribou, Waverley, Montague, Salmon River, Cow Bay, South Uniacke, Mount Uniacke, Renfrew, West Gore, Leipsigate, Cranberry Head, North Brookfield and Molega Barrens. British Columbia Gold Smelting Ores—British Columbia is the only province sending an exhibit of various kinds of this class of ore, which is really the most interesting portion of the Canadian exhibit of gold ores. Though so familiar to all Western mining men, it is really wonderful how little they are understood or known of here—even by people who have a fairly thorough knowledge of the gold mining industry in general-—and write articles for the continental mining press. A great many technical people of all kinds and from all the European countries have visited the exhibit and made a careful study of it. They were very much interested therefore in an exhibit sent by the Canadian Smelting Works, Trail, illustrating the process followed in the treatment of the Rossland ores, and consisting as follows : Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite (War Eagle mine.) Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite (Centre Star mine.) Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite (Iron Mask mine.) Flux limestone, Kootenay Lake. Coke fuel, Crow's Nest Pass. Coal, Crow's Nest Pass. Roasted ores from roast heaps, ist class. Roasted ores from roast heaps, 2nd class. Granulated matte. Granulated matte calcined and briquetted. Flue dust from flues. Flue dust briquetted. Slag brick used in flooring the works. High grade matte. Waste granulated slag. According to the catalogue 54 ore samples sent are classed as straight gold smelting ores. Among these are specimens from the following properties: Golden Crown, Gold Drop, Winnipeg, Humming Bird, Pathfinder, Lexington, Lincoln and City of Paris in the Boundary, and the Colonna,' Virginia, Homestake, Giant, Deer Park, Evening Star, Iron Mask, Le Roi, Monte Christo, Nickel Plate, Velvet, Victory, Triumph, War Eagle, White Bear and Columbia and Kootenay in the Rossland district. Of the samples of smelting ores classed as gold and copper or gold-silver-copper propositions there are in all 56, among which are included specimens from: The Alberni and Clayoquot Districts, the Van Anda Copper and Gold Co.'s properties (including an exhibit of furnace products), other Texada claims and the following mines: Lenora (Mount Sicker), Big Copper and Mother Lode (Boundary), True Blue (Kaslo), Lily May (Rossland), Paris Exhibition Group (Tracy Creek), etc. The collection of silver ores may be summed under three heads, (1) Silver Ores Proper, (2) Silver Lead Ores and (3) Silver Copper Ores. 448 THE MINING RECORD. Silver Ores Proper—In this class only three specimens appear from B. C. From the Fisher Maiden (Silverton), the Dolly Varden (Carpenter Creek), and the Evening Star (Slocan.) There is also an exhibit of arquerite nuggets and models of same (from the Omineca) sent by the Geological Survey. The other exhibits come from the Silver Mountain, the Copper Gold Ores from British Columbia. Rabbit Mountain and the Porcupine mines in the Thunder Bay district of Ontario. The samples contain a great deal of leaf argentite, and make a very fine display. Silver Lead Ores—These all come from B.C. and make up a collection of 147 exhibits. The greater part of the specimens are clean solid argentiferous galenas from the Slocan, though many other varieties of silver ore are shown, and the Ainsworth, Lardeau, Trout Lake, Revelstoke, Illecillewaet, Goat River, Golden, Windermere and Fort Steele districts are all well represented. The collection from the Slocan makes a very handsome exhibit, and is shown on a special pyramid. Generally speaking, there is a specimen from every well known silver-lead property in B.C. It is a wonderful exhibit considering the newness of the silver mining industry in the province. Other countries (notably Hungary) which have been producing silver for centuries show very little in the way of silver ores either as regards quantity or variety. As with some of the British Columbia gold ores very large chunks were allowed to be sent. These are a great attraction as their size catches the eye. The smaller specimens in the silver case (more interesting on account of their variety) are passed by unnoticed except by those making a serious study of the exhibit. Of course few people visit the collection with a view of examining specimens or exhibits or even acquiring information about any special property, even any district, but still some do so, and there is no doubt whatever that many have been led to make enquiries about the silver lead industry in British Columbia entirely on account of the large ore specimens sent by certain mines, among which are: The Best, Goodenough, Noble Five, Trade Dollar, Payne and Last Chance (Sandon); Whitewater, Whitewater Deep, United, Blue Bell and Tariff (Ainsworth); the Monitor (Three Forks); Lucky Jim (Bear Lake); and Sullivan Group (Fort Steele.) Strange to say there is no exhibit from one of the principal producing mines the St. Eugene (Moyie) Southeast Kootenay. One thing which has to some extent astonished technical visitors is the area of the silver producing districts in British Columbia—much greater than those of other countries—according to the statements of learned Germans who have gone into detail. Silver-Copper Ores.—This collection is also made up entirely of specimens from British Columbia, and though small (there being only 21 exhibits) is none the less interesting. Most of the specimens are from the Nelson district and from East Kootenay There are however a few from the Boundary. The most important exhibit in every way is sent from the Hall Mines, Ltd., Nelson, and is well worth describing in some detail, as it is explanatory of the metallurgical industry of that town: Copper ore (Silver King mine) matte, white metal, copper bar, section of anode, copper slag (granulated), copper slag (coarse), lead matte, lead bullion, lead slag (granulated), lead slag coarse, coke, coal, limestone flux, iron ore flux. Copper Ores.—This collection is made up of 130 samples of which 97 come from British Columbia, 7 from Ontario, 6 from Quebec, 17 from Nova Scotia, and one from the Yukon. Native copper is represented by two specimens from Blake township and Point Mamainse, Ontario. One magnificent sample of natural copper from Atlin, B. C. is also on exhibition, having been loaned by Mr. Achille Daumont, Paris. It is undoubtedly, the finest exhibit here. Too Like a Museum. Of the British Columbia copper exhibits a great many might come under the class of gold-copper ores and the greater part of the specimens contain other values as well as copper. Practically every variety of copper ore is represented which makes this collection a particularly good one The samples come from Alberni, West Coast, Skeena, Kamloops, Boundary, Revelstoke, Nelson, Goat River, Golden, Winder- THE MINING RECORD. 449 mere and Fort Steele. Among the better known claims contributing may be mentioned the Hayes mine (Alberni), Iron Mask, and Pothook (Kamloops), War Eagle, Old Ironsides, Brooklyn, Stem- winder, Knob Hill, Snowshoe, B. C, Oro Denoro, Diamond Hitch and Royal Victoria (in the Boundary), Hidden Treasure, (Spillamachine, Golden) and the Dibble Group (Fort Steele). Ontario Copper Ores.—This collection, though small, is none the less interesting and instructive. The samples come from the Lake Superior, Algoma and Parry Sound districts and from Hastings county. One especially fine specimen of bornite comes from Parry Sound district and from Hastings county, seen from the Algoma district. Quebec Copper Ores.—This display is entirely made up of samples sent by Dr. J. Reed, of Reeds- dale, Que., and the department of Geological Survey. The specimens come from various parts of the Province where copper mining operations were formerly carried on. Nova Scotia Copper Ores.—These are practically all specimens of chalcopyrite. Those which attracted most attention come from the deposits of Cox- heath, near Sydney, the George River and Antigon- ish County and have the appearance of being high grade. Lead.—To all intents and purposes the producing lead ores have been mentioned before when describing the British Columbia silver exhibit. There is, however, a collection of galenas from Ontario and Nova Scotia (14 specimens in all) which, though evidently low grade, may represent deposits which will be workable at some future period. Zinc.—Though Canada has at present no zinc industry, blende occurs in so many galena deposits in the East and British Columbia that further exploitation may lead to such being established. In the exhibit, here, however, are only two specimens of blende—one from the Zenith mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, the other from Calumet Island, Pontiac County, Quebec. Platinum.—This is a very interesting exhibit, the specimens coming from British Columbia and Ontario. Those from British Columbia are samples of crude platinum from North Bend, Fraser River (obtained in dredging) from Quesnelle Forks (obtained in hydraulicking) and various samples from the Tulameen. The Ontario samples consist of gossan holding sperrylite and palladium and platinum ore from the Vermilion mine in the Algoma district and sperrylite from Sudbury. Mercury.—British Columbia is the only Province represented in this exhibit, the specimens being cinnabar and metacinnabarite from Copper Creek and Hardie Mountain, near Kamloops. Antimony.—This exhibit consists of a sample of antimony ore from Wolfe County, Quebec and specimens of stibuite from York County, New Brunswick and Hants County, Nova Scotia. Nickel —This is one of the most important and attractive exhibits in the entire collection and one which has been very interesting to the many geologists, mineralogists, mining engineers, etc., of so many nationalities, who have visited the Canadian pavilion With the exception of four samples, sent by the Geological Survey and which originate from Pontiac County and Brome County, P. Q., and Charlotte County, N. B., the ores all come from the Sudbury region. The latter consist of nickeliferous pyrrohotite chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite, some being very similar in appearance to our British Columbia gold-copper ores. The principal exhibit is a joint display made by the Orford Copper Co., and the Canadian Copper Co., of Sudbury, consisting as follows: Pyrrhotite (nickeliferous), chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcocite (copper-nickel ore), from the Copper Cliff mine, Sudbury, standard copper- nickel matte, single-blow bessemerized nickel matte, pyritic matte produced from the first run of fifty tons of copper ore, with cold blast; no carbonaceous or other fuel used other than sulphur and iron contents of the ore, heap-roasted copper-nickel matte, granulated slag waste, Vermilion mine copper-nickel ore, nickel oxide, nickel sulphide, powdered nickel, nickel shot, nickel plaquettes. A great deal of extra interest has been taken in this exhibit here on account of the fact that the French colony of New' Caledonia is, practically speaking, at the present time, the only nickel producing district in the world, and has a large exhibit of nickel ore in the French colonial section. Cobalt.—This exhibit consists of one specimen of cobalt bloom from Goat Mountain (Goat River) B. C, sent by the British Columbia Department of Mines. (To be Continued.) *THE CFIOICE OF SLAGS FOR LEAD SMELTING. (By Capt. C. C. Longridge, M.Inst.M.E., M.I.Mech.E.) T HE nature of the ore and the character and prices 1 of the fluxes available, indicate, in each cas_, the constitution of the most suitable slag for lead smelting in the blast furnace. In general, the choice is easily made, as experience has established the relations that should preferably exist between the slag constituents, the chief of which are: 'Silica.—The slag percentage of SiO2 may range between 28 per cent, to 36 per cent. The lowest limit is from 14 per cent, to 15 per cent., and the highest 40 per cent. The former is used only with barytic ores; the latter necessitates a very high smelting temperature, and therefore heavy consumption of fuel, with considerable volatilization losses. The slags, moreover, are viscous and likely to retain much lead as silicate. There is also danger of the formation of iron sows or crucible accretions. In ordinary circumstances, therefore, and with any u.ual ore mixture, not too rich in zinc, a suitable silica percentage in the slag lies between 30 per cent, and 35 per cent. There should hot be less than 30 per cent of silica, unless there is more than 10 per cent, of zinc oxide in the charge. As the zinc percentage rises that of silica may drop to 25 per cent., which, in general, is the lowest practical limit. When the charge does not contain much zinc, it is often advisable, especially when fluxes are dear, to use a sesquisilicate slag. For though more fuel is used, the quantity of slag is less, and thus the total lead and silver losses in the slag are lower. Ferrous Oxide.—The percentage of FeO may vary from 24 per cent, to 52 per cent., both figures being extremes. High percentages of iron are not only costly, but by raising the specific gravity of the slag increase the difficulties of separation,- and cause matte * The Mining Journal, London. 45° THE MINING RECORD. and lead to be left in the slag. They are also liable to form iron crusts in the furnace. A high iron percentage, however, is necessary, if the ore contains much zinc. If the FeO is reduced below 24 per cent, the earthy bases, which, in such a case, must be used in lieu of iron, render the siag very refractory. Lime.—The amount of CaO in a slag usually ranges between 12 per cent, and 28 per cent., perhaps extremes are 6 per cent, and 30 per cent. With zinciferous ores, the less lime and the more iron used the better. With from 9 per cent, to 12 per cent, of zinc in the charge, it is not advisable to go beyond 16 per cent, of lime in the slag. With 28 per cent, of lime, zinc is volatilized, and incrusts the furnace, but does not enter the slag. The effect of CaO is to lessen the specific gravity of the slag, and to increase its viscosity. To promote the fluidity of a slag rich in lime, a higher temperature, and, therefore, more fuel and a stronger blast, is needed. When hot and fluid, limey slags chill slower than slags rich in iron, and they are more readily separate from matte, etc. At equal prices burnt lime is preferable to raw limestone. Dole- mite, on account of its magnesia, should be avoided, when other limestone is available. Magnesia".—The presence of magnesia in lead smelting is undesirable, as it causes a viscous slag, especially when zinc is present. In a slag carrying 8 per cent .of zinc, and from 2 per cent, to 3 per cent, of baryta, magnesia to the extent of 2 per cent .to 3 per cent, is bad; while 5 per cent, is very troublesome, and, being liable to cause chills, may necessitate more fuel to create a high temperature. When a slag is rich in alumina, the presence of magnesia, perhaps on account of the formation of spinel, does not seem to be nearly so objectionable. Alumina.—In the presence of a large excess of silica, alumina may be treated as a base and vice versa. When the percentage of silica is just enough to form a monosilicate of iron and lime, the acidity or basicity of the alumina will depend on attendant circumstances. Generally speaking, for any percentage of silica, slags rich in lime will bear more alumina than those rich in iron. Heinrich, cited by Hofman, gives the following two types of silicate-aluminate slags, for ores rich in alumina:— Theoretical composition of the Slags. No. 1 Slag. No. 2 Slag. Si02 A1203 FeO CaO 16-1 18-2 25-7 40-0 35-0 13-2 37-3 14-5 Combinations of these can be made to meet all cases. When the ores have little or no zinc, and sufficient alumina to yield a slag with from 8 per cent, to 12 per cent. A1203; and when at the same time, iron flux is dearer than limestone, No. 8 slag in Table I. should he used. Flour Spar—Fluoride of calcium alone has little or no effect. Combined with barium and calcium sulphates, it produces very fusible compounds, the fluidity of which assists zinc and other less fusible compounds to enter the slag. It is therefore, a valuable fluxing component of gangue. Speaking of Mexican ores, Mr. O. H. Hahn says :"Flour spar, which is not often found associated with Mexican ores, which like cuprous sulphide of zincy matte, only in a differ ent way. It renders the slag so hot and liquid that the zincy matte remains with the iron matte, and does not segregate as in the case of a slag of a lower temperature. Such ore (with fluor spar gangue in. notable quantity) permits a considerable reduction in fuel, and is also beneficial in the treatment of ores carrying bante.' Sulphates of Baryta, Lime, and Sodium.—Heavy spar is partially reduced to sulphide of barium, which is detrnncntai to separation, and partially through the action of iron, to a very fusible double silicate of baryta. Calcium and sodium sulphates act in a similar way. Of the sulphur in these sulphides oniy 10 per cent, should be considered available for combining with iron to form sulphide of iron. Oxide of Zinc.—The evil influence of zinc should be minimised by removing as much as possible of this metal before smelting. For this purpose roasting, or distillation, chemical leaching, electro-chlorination, &c, are employed. The effects of zinc in smelting are to decrease the fusibility of the charge, to thicken the slag, thus impeding separation, and to carry metallic sulphides into the slag. If much zinc oxide has to be slagged off, care should be taken to prevent its reduction to metal in the furnace; for the metal becoming volatilized would not only cause lead and silver losses, but might form troublesome furnace accretions. To hinder the above difficulties, the smelting should be done as quickly and at as low a temperature as possible, while to increase the fusibility and fluidity of the slag, the percentage of silica should be kept low or at least moderate, and that of iron should be raised. If sufficient iron cannot be used, and a slag high in lime has to be employed one half of the ZnO may be considered as replacing an equal amount of the CaO in the slag. If this is done the total of SiO2, FeO and CaO will have to be made more than 90. According to Collins when the zinc oxide is 4 to 8 per cent., it may replace lime in monosilicate slags, 10 parts of ZnO being substituted for seven parts of lead. Some metallurgists reckon that, in practice every five parts of ZnO require the lime to be reduced by more than equal amount and the iron correspondingly increased. In this way the No. 3 slag in Table L, 33 SiO2. 33 FeO, 24 CaO, ZnO (vide 1-20) becomes No. 10 slag 33 SiO2, 36 FeO. 16 CaO, 7 ZnO, when running on zincy ores. It is however, better to diminish the silica also; thus a very good slag for zincy ores is No. 11, 30 SiO2, 36 FeO, 16 CaO, ioZnO its formula being | (2 ROSi02)4-CaOSi02 in which 4 T R is — Fe, — Zn. If the proportion of zinc is more 5 5 than 8 per cent, in a high lime slag, or is from 16-20 per cent, in a slag carrying 12-15 per cent, lime, the slag becomes too pasty and heavy to separate readily from the matter. Generally speaking if the quantity of ZnO rises above 10 per cent, all ordinary slags become pasty and tend to form accretions above the lead. With a monosilicate slag, according to Hofman, 16 per cent. ZnO is the maximum with which it is' possible to run, and this soon closes up the crucible. But Greenway, according to Collins, has found that over 20 per cent, of ZnO can be easily run, provided the slag is rich in iron, and that the silica and lime are kept within narrow limits, those for the former being between 23.5 and 26 per cent., and for the latter between 12 and 16 per cent. This is easy where the zinc- lead ores are accompanied by much pyrites to serve THE MINING RECORD. 45l as flux after roasting; but if this is not so, a good deal of barren iron ore has to be used. The following are cited by Hofman as successful combinations for zincy slags high in lime. Table of Slags Suitable for Smelting Lead Ores with High Percentage of Zinc. ZnS . BaSCM or BaS AU03. 34 34 17 9 35 38 13 12 27.9 33.9 14 8 16 8 30 0 29.(i 14.0 15.0 26.0 33.4 14.4 19 8 27.0 31.5 19.0 15.0 24.5 29.4 21.5 14.5 26.0 32.1 19.0 15 0 27.0 26.5 24.3 14.1 26.8 22.7 24.0 21.0 30.8 24.5 22.8 17.7 31.96 31.82 6 8 13 84 6.71 8.77 16 90 35.05 6 OS 19.64 10.24 or 8.13 6 31 Copper.—The influence of copper in lead smelting depends on the sulphur present. In smelting raw ore, copper pyrites loses about one-fourth of its sulphur, and fuses down into copper sub-sulphide or matte, into which other copper sulphides enter unchanged. If there is not sufficient sulphur present in the charge to convert the whole of the copper into cuprous sub- sulphide, the residue of the copper will be reduced to metal, and alloyed with the lead, forming a heavy and hard mixture that sinks to the bottom and closes up the passage of the lead well. Even when sufficient sulphur is present, this is likely to occur in concentrating copper-lead matte, carrying 12 per cent, and upwards of copper, if the slag is highly ferruginous. The reason is that in the presence of highly ferruginous basic slags some of the sulphur is taken up by iron, and an equivalent proportion of copper goes into the lead. When running on coppery ores, therefore, slags fairly high in lime give cleaner lead, and in such cases, slags with an excess of iron are to be avoided. With a slag high in lime, and therefore, melting at a high temperature, it may be reckoned that nearly half the sulphur not appropriated by the copper will enter the slag or pass off as gas. Antimony.—This is a very prejudicial impurity, causing heavy loses by volatilization, and also injuriously hardening the lead. As antimony is more likely to combine with lead than with iron, antimonial speiss is seldom found, and, in calculating ore charges therefore, the small quantity of iron that may combine with the antimony can be neglected. In cases Avhere antimony speiss is formed, although it always abstracts copper, it rarely takes much iron unless arsenic is present. Antimonial absorbs more silver than arsenical speiss. In smelting antimonial bye- products of refineries, containing little iron, a high temperature is needed, and the volaitlization losses of silver and lead, and antimony are heavy. If such bye- products contain much iron, antimonial speiss may be formed and lost in the slag. Of the two evils a ferruginous slag is generally the lesser. Arsenic.—This, in a lesser degree than antimony, causes loss by volatilization and injures the lead. _ It also readily combines with iron to form arsenical speiss (Fe2As: Fe4As; FeBAs2; Fe6As2), containing notable quantities of Pb, Cu, and Ag, separable only with difficulty and expense. Of the above combinations, Fe5As2 is preferable, as it is more fusible and separating better from the lead, and not so readily forming hearth accretions. If the arsenic percentage is low, speiss can be avoided by working with less fuel and lime and with an open charge, thus promoting the volatilization of the arsenic. The shortness of lime causes the silica to combine with the iron, leaving little or none of this metal to form speiss. If, on the other hand, the arsenic percentage is high, speiss will inevitably be formed. As this is liable to chill, a high temeprature is needed, and the slag used therefore, should not be too readily fusible. With very arsenical ores, then, it is advisable to make slags high in lime and somewhat more acid than mono- silicates. As the fusibility of the slag must be inversely proportionate to the quantity of speiss, if this is great, a sesquisilicate slag such as No. 7 in Table I. may be advisable, so as to keep the temperature of the slag as high as possible and prevent chilling of the speiss. HEAT ECONOMY (By A. A. Watson, B.Sc, Provincial Assayer, Vernon, B.C.) DOES it ever occur to the average householder when he sits by his warm stove or fireside on a cold winter day watching the smoke issuing from his neighbour's chimney what a waste of combustible material is displayed there ? Probably not often, but if the householder is still content to waste his fuel, the manufacturer is not. The latter has to effect all economy in every direction or go down in the struggle for existence. During the last half century or so means have been devised whereby nearly all the heating effect possible may be obtained from fuel. When coal burns in an ordinary furnace a great deal of it escapes in the form of hydrocarbons, carbonic oxide and fine dust. Smoke is produced in the greatest quantity when fresh coal is introduced into the furnace or when the fire is first started and is due to the distillation which at once takes place evolving a large portion of volatile matter from the coal which there is either not sufficient air to fully consume or the flame of which is cooled so much by contact with cold surface as to cause a deposition of solid carbon. The prevention of smoke does not, however, prove perfect combustion, as if it be prevented by greatly limiting the supply of cold air a large portion may be ascending the chimney invisibly in the form of carbonic oxide, a combustible gas which burns with a large supply of air. One of the best patents taken out with the idea of economizing fuel was one by Gardiner, a London ironmaster, in the year 1788. The hot gases from the furnace were not burnt over again, but were simply carried under steam boilers and the heat of the gases was sufficient to boil the water. This was certainly better than allowing the gases to escape altogether, but in modern practice the object aimed at is to turn the coal into gaseous fuel, the supply of which can be controlled, and then burn that. Later on patents were taken out by an inventor, of the name of Robertson, for introducing a current of hot air into the flame in order to burn the smoke. Messrs. Howard & Co., invented a special kind of furnace shaped very much like a reverberatory furnace. The coal was burnt near the mouth of the furnace and the boiler was fitted into the space usually occupied by ore, a space of about a foot being left between the bed of the furnace and the bottom of the boiler in order that the flame might play underneath it. The supply of air to the coal was regulated by slides in the ash-pit door and air was blown in underneath the boiler. The fresh coal at such firing was fed as near the mouth of the furnace as possible and the partly burnt -oal pressed back so that the hot gases distilled from the — 452 THE MINING RECORD. new supply of coal pressed over what was practically red-hot coke and were there ignited before meeting the blast of air underneath the boiler and thus an almost perfect combustion of the smoke was obtained. The saving in fuel was found to be from a quarter to half the total amount used. As it was found that the greatest loss of combustible material always took place when a fresh supply of coal was introduced into the furnace mechanical stokers were invented which, by introducing fresh coal in very small quantities continuously, prevented there being at any time a large volume of distilled gases in the furnace. It was easier to deal with a small quantity of gas at a time than with a sudden accumulation at intervals. Many different kinds of mechanical stokers were invented but the most satisfactory have been the screw grates first invented by Mr. J. G. Bodmer. In this invention the coal is fed into the furnace through a hopper near the charging door. The grate bars are moveable and coincide with the threads of screws which move them alternately backwards and forwards, causing the coal to gradually travel from the front to the back of the furnace. In the Frisbie stoking apparatus a different idea is adopted, the coal being fed from below and this coming into contact with the incandescent mass above evolves its gas to be considered on rising through the fire. It has been found, however, that no arrangement for burning solid fuel can be compared for a moment with the method of gasefying the fuel and burning the gas, as regards economy. In order to have complete combustion it is necessary to have an intimate mixture of the particles of fuel with those of oxygen and to maintain the temperature high enough to allow of chemical action taking place freely. When fuel is burnt, only the particles on the surface come into contact with oxygen and if we employ methods of burning the smoke by blowing air into it the temperature is lowered by the introduction of so much cold air. With gaseous fuel we have neither of these disadvantages. On the other hand coal possesses one advantage for boiler fires which is not possessed by gas and that is the large amount of radiant heat it yields when the coal is fully coked and the solid mass on the fire bars is incandescent. Nevertheless it has been shown by experiments on a large scale that a ton of coal will evaporate more water if coked first and the gas and coke burnt separately than it will when burnt directly under a boiler. One of the earliest used of gaseous fuel was made a great many years ago when the waste gases from blast furnaces were used for boilers in the iron smelting industry. Bunsen was one of the first to analyse the waste gases and he took for his experiments gases from the furnace of Veckerhagen in Hesse, where wood and charcoal was used as fuel. He found that the greatest percentage of carbonic oxide and marsh gas existed about two-thirds of the way up the furnace. The combustion was as follows: Nitrogen 62.47 Carbonic acid 3.44 Carbonic oxide 30.08 Marsh gas 2.24 Hydrogen 1.77 100.00 The gas is usually conveyed to the front of boilers by overhead mains with vertical branches leading downward. The air for combustion is generally admitted through openings in the furnace door. Not only is a great saving of coal effected but there is also less wear and tear on the boiler. Several appliances have been adopted by generating combustible gases. One of these, known as ihe Bischoff producer, is shaped something like a blast furnace. A layer of burning fuel is thrown upon the grate and the furnace is then filled to the top. The door below the grate is then closed and air is only allowed to enter through three two-inch holes. The carbonic acid first produced from the ignited coal on traversing the upper layers of red hot coal is reduced to carbonic oxide in accordance with the equation C+C 02=2 C O. The carbonic oxide is a combustible gas and is collected along with marsh gas and hydrogen evolved from the hot coal. Thus instead of losing the heating power of the distilled gases, or, more correctly, products of destructive distillation, we are enabled to use it all and the coke remaining in the producer can also be used. The hot gases can also be used for boilers on their way to the storage cylinders and thus no heat need be wasted. The gas obtained by this process is somewhat similar in composition to coal gas, but it is not suitable for lighting purposes. One of the most economical methods of using coal for heat is to manufacture water gas from it. The principal of.the process is that if steam be passed through red hot coal, the carbon of the latter reacts with the steam to form two combustible gases, hydrogen and carbonic oxide. PI2 0+C=C0+2 H. Thus beside the hydrogen and marsh gas which distils off from coal in an ordinary producer we are enabled to use, in addition, the heating power of hydrogen contained in steam and have so many available heat units to the good. For this purpose an apparatus invented by Messrs. Lowe & Strong consists of a generator, superheater, purifier and scrubber. The generator and superheater are built like cupola furnaces, having a chimney rising from the top. The superheater, which is made half as high again as the generator, has near the bottom an airspace formed by a perforated arch above which it is nearly filled with loosely stacked fire-bricks. A pipe connects the top of the generator with the bottom of the superheater, and a pipe, controlled by a valve, leads the gas from the top of the superheater to the purifier and thence to the hydraulic main for storage. In starting work the generator is charged with coal and fired with the aid of an air blast under the grate. The gases, consisting chiefly of carbonic oxide, pass into the superheater where, meeting an air-blast, they ignite and gradually bring the bricks to a white heat. The air blasts are now shut off, the gas outlet opened and superheater steam is blown into the mass of coal in the generator. Here the steam is decomposed as indicated in the equation above and then passes through the superheater and purifiers to the main. Sometimes petroleum oil is passed into the generator at the top of the coal and the gases evolved mix with the hydrogen and carbonic oxide. The object of the purifier and scrubber is to cleanse the gas from traces of nitrogenous gases which are useless for burning. Many modifications of this apparatus have been made, but the general principle is the same in all of them. THE MINING RECORD. 453 THE RED STAR AND IRON CASK. A Resume. If there's one fact that's apparent To the thoughtful British parent As worthy of transmitting from the father to the kid, 'Tis the logical foundation Of the Anglo-Saxon nation That law is law and right is right, and Justice must be did. Which it happens in the mountains That we sometimes tap the fountains Of justice a la Mining Law (and pay for it like men) And so for British glory I'll put you up the story Of a fracas which the like of it may not occur again. It was Evil-pork, the seller Of rye whiskey—and a feller Called the "Colonel from Spokane" had bought contagious mining claims And a difference of opinion Re the laws of this Dominion Resulted in their hauling off and calling naughty names. But as they were merely spasms They soon dropped their crude sarcasms And stoping out their pocket books retained such legal lights As were strong on Extra Lateral And could (for good collateral) Amend the woe of torted Doe and win for Roe his rights. Doe opened up the function By securing an injunction Which Roe had quashed and Doe in turn the quashing got annulled But with six months' hocus pocus Things were sorted to a focus And from the facts in evidence these postulations were culled. {Taken subject to exception For a higher court's inspection) Both claims were bad locations and improperly transferred, Staked by miners without license, Unrecorded—in a higher sense The claims were proved invalid—non-existent is the word. But (and here the court recanted) Since the claims were both Crown granted It might be shown they did exist in spite of law and fact So the court doth now decide that Litigants be notified that The game is up to them with costs according to the Act. Tho' the feud was now a stand-off Neither party had command of Sense and temper quite sufficient for to call the game a draw. So they played the bank wide open And when rich men get a copin' It's pie for honest witnesses and minions of the law. Counsel, barrister, conveyor, Mining engineer, surveyor, The analyst, the rubberneck, the expert from the South, Broker, jumper, miner, mucker, Mining shark and mining sucker Made.a living for a season by the shooting of his . mouth. 'Twas the Roe brigade which had a Mining expert from Nevada To show his veins by shearing, their schistosity acquire. And by tests experimental To expound the fundamental And scientific principle that Doe's man was a liar. But the Doe man (King of experts) Gave the court selected excerpts From his work on "New Geolog"—or "How them Rocklets grow." And with logic quite impressive Proved the fissures were compressive With parallel nitrations from the magma tank below. ' Then with profile, plan and section Did the plaintiff prove connection Of ore from adit level three with vein in Red Star winze Cinching every demonstration iVith a black-board calculation (The weary judge he groaned aloud, and listened— for his sins.) But the defendant with a model Made it clear to any noddle That dip and strike continued on an oriental plane Would when properly projected Show the bodies disconnected (The weary judge he groaned aloud and listened in his pain.) Space at my command prohibits Any list of the exhibits From A & B to X Y Z and twenty thousand more But the clerk who did the filing Now, they say, is busy piling Imaginary documents upon a padded floor. Leaving him with his delusion We must haste to our conclusion, The judge's wise decision when the last long speech was said Well, to give it in a trice—he Took the matter sub-judice— While the lawyers went to Europe, and the litigants— to bed. L'Envor. Doe and Roe, much out of pocket Each by a leg loose in its socket Came together by appointment—and here my language fails For—I tell it to my sorrow Roe and Doe from me did borrow A silver dol. to arbitrate with good old heads and tails. —J. H. McG. _HHEH__5 454 THE MINING RECORD. AN ECCENTRIC ASSAYER. A correspondent of the New York Engineering and Mining Journal sends our contemporary a copy of a very original certificate of assay, for the authenticity of which he vouches, at the same time asserting that it was received from an assayer (?) in the regular course of business. The certificate runs as follows: "Well I received your ore and have been working on it since and I find that it contains the following: Gold sulphide about 001% Silver sulphide 0005 Zinc sulphide 008 Iron sulphide from 2 To 5% Iron oxide from 5% To 1% "Then there were some others that are not worth anything and will not interfere with the assaying such as organic matter, silica and a free acid or two. The gold and silver will not be very hard to get _>ut, but it will have to be crushed pretty fine, and if there is much of it you have got a good thing. "If you find anything else in that line I will be glad 'o get a sample and mabe I can help you in some in anything of that kind, if so I will be glad to do so, as I want all the practice I can get, and in simple analisis I can do as good work as anybody, and don't charge, anything. Those quantities are not exactly right as I have just broke my scales and could not weigh them, but I will have the apperatice for vole- metric analisis soon and I can do better work then. "Yours Truly, (Signed) "A. B." BRITISH COLUMBIA ON THE LONDON MARKET. The improvement reported in my last letter has not been wholly maintained, and British Columbia shares have in a number of cases receded, as the comparative table of representative values given at the end of this letter will more clearly exhibit. To a certain extent this is no doubt due to the general state of the London mining market being decidedly unsatisfactory, and even, I am afraid, unpromising. The prolongation of hostilities in South Africa keeps South African gold hard and diamond mining shares very much in subjection, while the recent revelations as to Westralian mining and financial methods have disgusted the public, and it need hardly be said that the miscellaneous section, which includes Indians, Copper issues, New Zealand, American, West African and British Columbians, suffers with Kaffirs and Westraliaas. But in addition to this sympathy with the two leading sections British Columbians have suffered because in the section in which they are dealt in, Stratton's Independence—an American mine purely—is a leading feature, and Strattons have been having a bad time lately owing to the labour troubles. The fall in these, the general conditions, and some nervousness as to the Le Roi dividend, have combined to upset British Columbians, so that as will be seen there has been a marking down in values all through the list. What puzzles me most of all is the low price at which the British America Corporations stand in the market, especially in view of the big profits which they have made over the flotation of the Le Roi No. 2, the Rossland, Great Western and the Kootenay Mining Co. You will remember that the British America Corporation shares with the London and Globe Corporation all profits made in joint ventures and it has been estimated that the British America Corporation must have earned in scrip or cash 66 per cent, in the year. As a matter of fact the shares stand in the market at little more than 66 per cent, of their face value. Can it be that Mr. Whitaker Wright has so many irons in the fire that he cannot afford to keep them all hot, or is it due to the fact that the market has not been able to digest all the shares which have, according to reliable information, been realized by the "shop" of late. Anyway, in view of the enormous profits which the B. A. C. has made on paper, their low market is a poor compliment to Mr. Whitaker Wright and his group. The New Gold Fields of B. C. group has been less prominent, although the news from the Velvet continues to be most satisfactory. The London & B. C. Goldfields Companies attract little notice in London, and although the Ymir maintains its position in the market, the group generally has not justified entirely up to the present the very hopeful anticipations indulged in regarding it at the outset of its career. The Whitewater meeting did not create any excitement in the "House," and the price for these shares is no better than 12s. 6d., equal to a discount of 37^ per cent. Le Rois have sharply reacted, but the enormous figures recently attained by Le Roi No. 2 has been added to this month, so that at the time of writing the quotation stands at the exalted level of i23 17s 6d, or nearly five times the nominal figure. The opinion in the City is general that the high prices quoted too for the Rossland and Great Western and Kootenay shares of the same group are quite unjustified. The Athabasca has attracted a good deal of notice, owing to the favourable statements made regarding this company, and at one time the shares were quoted at 15s. 8d. "buyers." I understand that the market is "short" of these shares, and that several operators, not entirely unconnected with the company, have sold large quantities of shares they do not possess, and that it is not intended to let them in under £2 a share; so that some fun is probable. According to all accounts the company is doing well and regular dividends may be expected in view of the latest developments at the property. Klondike companies are quite dull and neglected and mostly stand at heavy discounts in the market. One or two of the best companies seem to have done fairly well according to all I can gather, but the public long ago discarded these ventures, and the disclosures in connection with the wretched Morris Cat- ton group did a lot to discredit this section. Your welcome remarks upon the Bureau for the dissemination of statistics regarding the British Columbia mining industry have attracted considerable attention here, as it has long been urged that some such department was urgently needed to bring before Europe in general and Great Britain in particular what the various districts were doing. Of course, the general report issued by the Government is excellent in its way, as is also the British Columbia Board of Trade annual statement. But both these valuable records are largely useless because they are published too late to be of any practical utility. What is wanted is a regular monthly statement collated and published under official auspices, giving the results of the various districts. In connection with this subject and your remarks thereon, the British Columbia Review makes some excellent comments, THE MINING RECORD. 455 pointing out that such statistics would be useless unless they were inclusive. It is no use allowing the various districts to exercise their own discretion as to what results shall be included in such a table. What we want is an exact record of the monthly development, output, and result of same; and this should be compulsory and collected by government officials. Whether or no working expenses and profits attained should also be compulsory is open to debate, but in considering the matter mine owners and companies would do well to remember that it was entirely owing to the publication of regular statements under official auspices that the South African industry attracted such enormous sums of capital and the world wide interest in the progress of its mines. British Columbia has not been much advertised so far. There is a splendid chance for the government to help the industry', for they could easily disseminate the statistics through their agent-general. BRITISH COLUMBIAN AND CANADIAN MINING LIST. ITAL ES. only td. Q is t- Q^ p* Companies keoistbb-d in England All with Limited Liability. Eh Z o 2 g««S-E D o III! 3 < 03 « £ 100,000 19s. pd. 111-16 19-16 300,000 Alaska Goldfields fy. pd. 15-16 15-16 1,500,000 British America Corporation " 17 6 16 9 325,000 Hall Mining and Smelting 18s. pd. 76 5-6 150,000 400,000 6t>16 A 7 3-8 (80,000 Shares of £5 each.) 1,000,000 Le Koi Gold Mining Company (200,000 Shares of £5 each.) &A 7 13-16 200,000 London and B.C. Goldfields " 19-16 17-16 600,000 Le Roi No .2 (120,000 Shares of £5 each.) 19 3-8 23 7-8 250,000 New Goldf'lds of British Columbia " 111-16 13-8 500,000 8J4 91-16 (100,000 Shares of £5 each.) 200,000 125,000 " 17-16 lii '< 11-16 63 200 000 100,000 «< 113-16 i% A A COMPANY REPORTS. Whitewater Mines, Ltd. AT a meeting of the shareholders of the Whitewater Mines, Limited, in London on the 29th of last month, the following very interesting report was presented by Mr. Fowler: "The work done during 1899 was not satisfactory for the reason that at the time when the machinery had been adapted to the varying treatment of the ore the strike occurred, necessitating the shutting down of the mine for seven out of the twelve months covered by the accounts. During the greater part of this period the mill was kept going by using up the refuse from the dumps, from which only a very small piofit was obtained, nearly if not all of which was absorbed by the proportionately heavy expenses which naturally continued in expectation of the strike ceasing at any time. Owing to these causes the profits for the year amounted only to i3>9°9> whlch the directors have applied to writing off the preliminary expenses and the amount expended on mine development and the general expenditure in London, brought forward from the .1898 accounts, leaving £2,623 to the debit of development account at December 31, 1899, to be writen off future profits. The miners' strike terminated about the middle of February of this year, but it was not until some time later that a full force of men could be produced and the mine and mill placed in running order. From this time on, in part due to the poorer grade of ore then available, and in part due to a temporary difficulty in getting suitable men, the profits produced have been smaller than the directors had reason to expect, but from the latest information to hand, ground containing higher grade material, which has hitherto been inaccessible, is now available, and is expected to produce a considerable improvement in the returns. PRODUCT TO DATE SINCE WE TOOK OVER THE PROPERTY. March 24th, 1898, to December 1st, 1898— Tons. Average Assays. Returns. Crude Galena 5764 95.7 oz. 37.2 per cent $26,020.28 Carbonate 36.0 66.1 oz. 2i.2percent. 944-73 December 1st, 1898, to May 31st, 1899, when mill was closed- Concentrates 1.312.6 10140Z. 50.9percent. 74,747.96 June 1st to Dec. 31st, mine closed, mill ran on dumps— Concentrates 601.2 99.3 oz. 40.2 per cent. 30,217.52 March 1st to August 31st, 1900. Concentrates 2,277. 70.50Z. 29. percent. 68,133.71 Summary 4,803.2 85.5 oz. 37.3 per cent. $200,064.20 Tons of feed milled, 53.445, of which about 21,100 came from dumps. "In my original report dated January 8th, 1898, I stated that 1,930 feet of drifting had been done on the vein by old owners up to the time of my examination, viz., January 1st, 1898, and about 5,900 tons of crude galena ore had been shipped. At that time I estimated that 2,205 tons of crude ore were in sight, and between the time of my report and March 24th when our option of purchase was exercised, the development was somewhat increased, and most of the shipping ore was extracted. At the latter date the total drifts and connected workings extended 2,570 feet; the total ore shipped was 7,709 tons, and the returns from smelter had amounted to $339,300, or $44.00 per ton. "In taking hold of the property, we therefore had very little crude galena ore to work upon, and although there was a large amount of low grade material in sight, we had no plant with which to treat it. "Development was then vigorously pushed and shipments of ore were continued to December 1st, 1898, with the result that 612 tons were shipped, yielding $26,965 from smelter, or at the rate of $44.00 per ton, the grade averaging the same as under the old owners. "To September 1st, 1900, our surveys show total drifting done by us to be 2,275 feet> of which 285 feet only have been done since June 1st, 1899, the mine having been shut down from that date to March 1st, 1900. "The general result of our development has shown that although we have had more or less almost continuously, both clean galena and mill feed, the average thickness is much lower than was the case in earlier days, and we have not encountered any such thick bodies as were stoped from under the former owners. This is better shown by comparison: From October, 1895, to March 24th, 1898, the area stoped was 75,700 square feet; tons product, 7,709, averaging 98 oz. silver and 30% lead, and yielding $44 per ton. During our period of tenure to September 1st, 1900 (20 months), area stoped, 75,500 square feet; product, 4,803 tons, averaging 85 oz. and 37% and yielding $38.75 per ton. But of this 4,803 tons only 3.745 tons, yielding $146,200 came from the stopes, the balance having been derived from treatment of old dumps. To get one ton of product therefore, we have had to stope slightly over 20 square feet, as compared with 9.8 square feet in the old workings, or in other words, the mineral including that in concen trating material, has been with us only half the width it formerly was. Besides this we have had to contend with the fact that we have had available for several months past only a very low grade mill feed, the product containing only 60% as much silver as formerly, although the loss in tailings has been lower than ever. The work of development has also shown several barren areas of considerable extent, but we are unable to prescribe any definite relation of these or of the ore bodies to each other. It may be remarked that in most deposits definite outlines to the ore chutes are discovered, and with the aid of these one may predict certain results. With us, however, those limits are lacking; but the vein has continued from the beginning to be free from faults and although the ore is thinner, there is no reason to believe that it gives out, except temporarily for several hundreds of feet ahead of the present faces, all of which are now looking better than they have done for nearly two years. "In general it is to be noted that the lower levels, 6 and 7, are in lower grade material than the upper ones. At present we are beginning to take some ore from the upper ground, which has been inaccessible for a long time. We therefore expect to show a considerable increase in the value of product from this month forward. "We cannot at present say that we have more than six months' mill supply blocked out, and it therefore becomes necessary to pay attention to pushing our levels ahead. In this connection it would seem advisable to run two drifts as rapidly as possible to the end of our good ground, for by doing this and stoping from the inside outward, we shall avoid the necessity of our costly maintenance and renewals of timbers; moreover, we would hope to mine a more uniform mill feed and thus tend to gain a greater degree of efficiency in the milling operations, for although we get excellent results when the lead in the feed is up to 5%, the percentage of loss is consider ably greater when the lead falls, to say, 2 to 2%%. With a more extended stoping area available we might thus improve the milling by avoiding frequent radical changes in quality of feed." Centre Star Mine. The annual meeting of the Centre Star Mining Co., Ltd., was held in Toronto Nov. 27th. The following is an abstract of report and proceedings "The directors' report showed that a reduction of over 30 per cent, in the cost of mining had been made during the year; that development was proceeding rapidly; labour troubles had been happily settled at Rossland, while a superior class of miners were coming into the camp. The Canadian Pacific Railway had offered to reduce the rate for freight and treatment of the company's ores by $1.25 in consideration of their obtaining a larger tonnage. The directors, however, while appreciating the very fair spirit in which the offer had been made, had not been able to see their way to accept it. Negotiations were still pending on other lines which it was hoped would soon put the smelting question csn a permanent and satisfactory basis. The very full explanation which was given by the president, George Gooderham, and the vice-president, T. G. Blackstock, in moving and seconding the report as to the cjbjects the directors had in view in stopping shipping in February last gave general satisfaction and was heartily applauded. The annual report embodied extracts from reports made by Wayne Darlington, the eminent American mining engineer, down to as late as the 23rd day of October last, in which that gentleman pointed out that the Centre Star was improving in depth and expressed his belief that it would yet prove the biggest mine in the Rossland camp. The report of the general manager, E. B. Kirby, was also laid before the meeting. This showed the great progress that had been made during the year in the development of the mine and in the installation of first-class permanent plant and equipment. Mr. Kirby also went very fully into the reasons which had led to the adoption of the contract system, whereby miners were paid according to the amount of work performed, instead of by the time spent in doing it, and explained how impossible it was to have intro^ duced this system without closing down for some months. It being the general feeling of the shareholders that dividends should be resumed, a resolution to that effect was passed. Messrs. George Gooderham, T. G. Blackstock, W. H. Beatty, W. G. Gooderham, A. Gooderham and Charles R. Hosmer were elected directors for the ensuing year. At a subsequent meeting of the board, Mr. Gooderham was reelected president and Mr. T. G. Blackstock vice- president. A dividend of 1 per cent, was declared, payable on the 1st of January next." Following is the financial statement for the year ending Sept. 30: ASSETS. Centre Star Mine $3,300,000 00 Cash in Bank of Toronto, Toronto . . 365 45 Stores on hand as per inventory .... 11,258 08 Machinery, buildings and equipment. . 225,835 97 Furniture of Offices 1,113 4& Invested in War Eagle Hotel 12,000 00 Unexpired Insurance 500 00 Accounts Receivable 74,040 49 $3,625,113 45 Profit and Loss 182,122 10 $3,807,235 55 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock $3,500,000 00 George Gooderham 30,108 03 Bank of Toronto, Rossland 227,127 52 Working Capital 50,000 00 $3,807,235 55 THE MINING RECORD. 457 • PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. To Balance $113,547 59 To Cost of Mining and Developing $238,715 52 To Diamond Drill Prospecting .. .. 11,565 94 To Extralateral Litigation 30,953 22 To Other Legal Expenses 2,500 00 To Registration Fees . . 2,117 20 To Consulting Engineer's Salary 3,000 00 To Toronto Office Expen- es 735 00 To Travelling Expenses . . 244 50 To Sundry Expenses .... 3,347 41 293,179 43 To dividend No. 1 35,ooo 00 $441,727 02 Byr net proceeds from ore sales $259,108 19 Less Provincial ore tax . . 3,i52 45 $255,955 74 By Transfer fees JI7 75 By Interest 3.531 43 By Balance 182,122 10 $441,727 02 TECHNICAL PERIODICALS. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. " HE origin of Beach Cusps," by J. C. Bran- B ner. Branner repudiates the theory advanced by Jefferson some months ago that beach cusps are formed by the modification of waves by seaweed on the shore. He asserts that these peculiar forms may be seen on a beach where there is no sea weed; and would ascribe them to "the interference of two sets of waves of translation." Of the origin of these two sets of waves Branner is doubtful, but thinks they may be formed by sudden change of wind. In the two articles, "Natural History of Marl," and "A Remarkable Marl Lake," by Charles A. Davis, the theory long advocated in regard to the calcareous deposits of hot springs is applied to the extensive marl beds of Michigan and adjoining States, viz., that fresh water algae have been the principal lime precipitating agents. The two species of algae which he has found to be the most active in the precipitation of mineral matter in the marl lakes of Michigan are Chara—a stone- wort, and Zonotrichia. The precipitation of lime on the stems and leaves of these plants may take place in two ways. If calcium and other salts are in excess and held in solution by carbon dioxide, when the plant takes up carbon dioxide, the salts are precipitated on the stem and leaves; if these salts, especially the bicarbonate, are present in a limited degree so that they could not be precipitated without the presence of some carbon dioxide in the water, precipitation may be caused by the liberation of oxygen from the plant "Results of Tests of Wisconsin Building btone, bv E R Buckley, is admirably illustrated with eleven plates These plates show results of crushing and of exposing to different temperatures the principal building stones; also thin sections of sandstone, limestone, rhyolite and granite. By means of the sections the strength and durability of a rock can be estimated by a skilful petrographist. GOLD DREDGING IN B. C. (By R. Luid Watson.) GOLD dredging was inaugurated in New Zealand in 1868. The first dredge, though crude, served its purpose, for from it has been evolved the modern dredge with all its latest improvements. In British Columbia, within the past 12 or 15 years, several attempts have been made at dredging in the Fraser River. All were failures, with the exception of one at Boston Bar, three miles below North Bend, built in the fall of 1897. The earlier dredges were designed to work either by "suction" or "endless chain with buckets." Both types were unsuccessful, because of the nature of the bed of the Fraser, composed as it is of large boulders and cement. The suction dredge, worked by means of a centrifugal pump, was expected to draw or suck up material from the bed of the river and deposit it in sluice boxes, where it could be washed and the gold separated from the gravel. But trial proved that suction could make no impression on the cement. The attempt to have a diver go down to loosen the cement also ended in failure. The "endless chain with buckets" type was unsuccessful, because the machinery was too light, and the buckets were not of such a shape as could cut into the cement. The '97 dredge, built by Beatty & Co., of Welland, Ont., is of the "dipper" type. The plant rests on two scows, each of which draws about 2\ feet of water. On one is erected the machinery, consisting of a 75 horse power engine, boiler, pump with a discharge of 500 gallons per minute, the arm that works the dipper and the dipper itself; on the other scow, anchored alongside the first, is constructed the grizzly, across which extends a water pipe connecting with the pump before mentioned; below the grizzly are the sluice boxes. The grizzly is composed of iron bars laid about 1 inch apart. Into it the dipper discharges its load. The finer material at once passes through the grizzly into the. sluice boxes, washed down by the water coming through the. holes of the perforated water pipe. Large boulders and the heavier gravel are carefully washed by a man stationed at the grizzly, who throws the worthless material into the river. The entire string of sluice boxes is 120 feet long, the first 30 or 40 feet being 3 feet wide, the balance 6 feet wide—in the latter part mercury is used. The dipper is constructed of cast iron with a steel lip protected by steel prongs necessary to penetrate the cement. It has a capacity of raising one cubic yard of gravel each trip, and can make two trips in three minutes. The dredge works to a depth of 25 feet. Most of the gold is found in the cement adhering to large boulders. The scow on which the machinery is built has house room for the crew during the season. The length of the season depends upon the state of the water and the winter. Very high water or the running of ice prevents working. In case of 458 THE MINING RECORD. ice, a hole is made in the bank, and into it the scows are run. This dredge has been successful; but it has been working the greater part of the time on Boston Bar— composed to a large extent of loose sand and gravel—only a comparatively small proportion of the time has it operated on the cement. The latest dredge constructed on the Fraser River is near Lytton. Its machinery is designed after the most modern of New Zealand dredges, and was manufactured by Robey & Son, of Lincoln, England. Some idea of the massiveness of the plant may be gathered by considering the fact that the total weight of the dredge housed in—excluding the weight of the tailings elevator, but including all gold-saving devices—exceeds 400 tons. The boilers have a capacity to generate steam of 250 horsepower. One hundred and twenty-five horsepower is required to revolve the buckets which scrape the bottom of the river and bring up the material from which the gold is to be saved; the balance of the power is required to run electric motors connected with the pump and the revolving screen, and will furnish power to run the tailings elevator. The winches are four in number, and controlled by levers so arranged that one man can handle the entire machinery on the starboard side of the dredge boat; another man is required on the port side to attend to the boilers and engines. The principle upon which this dredge is designed is similar to the endless chain with buckets. Two of the buckets with the two links connecting them weigh 2,100 pounds, empty, and have a capacity of raising 5 cubic feet of material in each bucket. There are 36 of these buckets connected by heavy links, the whole revolving at whatever rate of speed is deemed advisable when the material the dredge is working is taken into consideration. A study of the machinery in place reveals the string of buckets as they are travelling along the ladder towards the large cog wheel, at which point each bucket is automatically dumped. After discharging its load the bucket passes down into the river and resumes its scooping operations. So minutely is all the machinery adjusted that whenever a bucket in running along the bed comes in contact with any specially large boulder or material which offers resistance, the man attending to the winches can tell in an instant that something is wrong, and by a movement can stop the machinery, and by another movement can swing the line of buckets to the right or left of the point of resistance, by which means—in case of resistance being offered by a large boulder—an extra deep hole is cut out and the boulder allowed to topple over into the excavation; or, if this cannot be accomplished, by reason of the boulders being too firmly embedded or too large another movement of the lever would lift the string of buckets passing along the bed entirely over the obstacle, and at the same time another lever could be used which would tighten the head lines by which the dredge is secured to the banks of the river, thus working the dredge forward so that with another revolution the line of buckets would be clear of the obstacle. A bucket is manufactured in three pieces; the bottom, or base, is of cast iron of the toughest description, charcoal Swedish or Scotch pig iron would probably be best adapted for the purpose; attached to the base is a steel side; to which side is attached a lip of the hardest steel manufactured, which, it is es timated, will be sufficiently hard to cut into any description of cement found composing the bed rock of the channel. , The depth to which dredging operations can be carried on is regulated by the addition or subtraction of one or more buckets from the chain. It is estimated that the greatest depth to which it can work satisfactorily is 40 feet. Material hoisted in the buckets is dumped into a revolving screen made of boiler iron punched with holes i inch in diameter. The screen :s 20 feet long; through its entire length extends a water pipe connected with the pump, which has a capacity of raising and discharging 2,400 gallons of water per minute. Of course the water pipe is stationary. As the screen revolves around it, water is discharged from the numerous holes, not only thoroughly washing the material dumped from the buckets, but, by the pressure exerted, tearing the cement to pieces, and thus aiding the revolving screen. Since all material which enters at one end of the screen has to travel about 150 feet before reaching the discharge end, it can readily be understood that the working of the screen added to the pressure of the water will have a crushing capacity sufficient to grind the gravel to such a degree of fineness as to release all the free gold from the quartz matrix and permit it to pass through holes in the screen on to tables. The tables are arranged under the screen with a slight inclination ; on them the heavier particles of gold are saved, while the lighter particles and waste or sand pass over the tables into the sluice, which is at right angles to the tables and extends beyond the end of the dredge a sufficient distance to save all the gold. The method of catching the gold on the tables is gravity— the tables are covered by wire netting to act as riffles. Mercury is used in the sluice box to save the finer gold. The tailings consisting of gravel and sand too large to pass through the perforations in the screen, proceed to the elevator. The elevator is so arranged that the tailings are dumped at some distance from the side of the dredge instead of immediately in the rear. Such a method of dumping permits of the dredge being backed from the location of its working, which could not be done if the dumping were immediately astern of the plant. By the discharge of so much material and water from the screen it would at first sight appear impossible for any substance, however high its specific gravity, to remain on the table under the screen. It must be remembered, though, that the screen is about 4 feet in diameter, and that although an immense amount of material and water is discharged into it during 24 hours, yet the holes, being only -J inch in diameter, permit but a small proportion of either water or material to pass on to the tables. It is estimated that little outside of gold and black sand, with their proportion of water, will find its way through the holes to be received by the tables. The balance of the material and water is discharged into the tailings elevator. The area of the series of tables is 20 feet by 22 feet. Only one feature of this dredge calls for adverse criticism, viz., the direct dumping of the buckets into the screen. While this course will work satisfactorily in sand or small-sized gravel, when you come to consider the problem of hoisting a large amount of material consisting of boulders weighing from 100 THE MINING RECORD. 459 to 500 pounds, it would seem that dumping such material into the screen directly from the buckets would make the wear and tear of the revolving screen so excessive as to seriously interfere with profitable results. Of course this difficulty might be overcome by stationing a man at the bow to remove any materials from the buckets revolving from the river, which he considered too large or too heavy to be dumped into the screen. The adoption of such a course would tend to depreciate the capacity of the dredge, and, consequently, make operations more expensive and results less satisfactory. Had a grizzly been constructed to receive the material directly from the buckets and to automatically dump all material too large to pass between the bars of the grizzly into the river, thus allowing only comparatively light material to pass into the screen, then, according to our judgment, this dredge would apparently be as nearly perfect as it is possible to construct such machinery. The valleys of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers were apparently excavated at the close of the Miocene period. During the glacial period that followed, these valleys were filled with boulder clay. In the post-glacial and modern periods, when the country stood at its present level relatively to the sea, rivers cut through the drift-filling, and, swerving from side to side, produced a series of terraces or benches. These terraces thus represent the bed of the river at a former stage of its history. In '57, '58 and '59 when placer mining in the Fraser and Thompson rivers was at its height, fully $1,- 500,000 worth of gold was washed from the beds and benches with the rocker and by sluicing. The pay streak in the benches was found near the surface, the general mass of material composing the terraces was not payable worked by rough methods. What was not profitable worked by primitive means might easily yield good results to more improved methods. Terrace materials, especially in the vicinity of the mouth of a stream flowing from a known auriferous locality would justify test operations. But the present dredging law in British Columbia precludes such from being worked by the dredge miner. For, according to it, a lease gives the right to work in a river only below low-water mark. In New Zealand, alluvial deposits extend into the banks for acres, and miners are allowed to work the banks as far as thev find them profitable. True bed rock is seldom seen in the Fraser River. In most places the bottom of the old valley is below the present river level. The formation at Boston Bar is of a slaty and schistose character, closely resembling the Cambrian, but probably of later date. Similar rocks occur at Leech River Vancouver Island. In each case the slates contain gold-bearing quartz veins. To the degradation of large areas of these slate the placer gold is probably due. The present law for dredge mining in British Columbia is drawn so as to protect the placer mining along the banks of the various streams. Accordn £0 this law a lease conveys the pr material in the bed of a stream from below low-water mark. Leases are granted by the government at $10 pei mile; and five miles of a river bed may be taken up by a lessee each year. Lessees must enter into a contract to expend not less than $1,000 per year on the territory occupied by each lease. These lessees must be either miners or joint stock companies holding a free miner's license. Every person over 18 years, regardless of nationality, is entitled to a tree miner's license on the payment of $5 per annum. Up to the present, dredging in British Columbia has been almost entirely confined to the Fraser River. The yield of placer gold from portions of the Thompson, North Thompson, Columbia and other rivers on the Mainland, as well as from Leech and Sooke Rivers, on Vancouver Island, will probably attract the attention of dredging miners to the advisability of prospecting the beds of these streams to ascertain whether the conditions are favourable for dredging. In the foregoing estimate of likely localities,- no mention has been made of the more northerly section of the Province, including the Cassiar, Omineca and Atlin mining districts. So far as we know, no attempts have been made to discover whether the streams in these districts are favourable to this mode of mining. Undoubtedly if the companies which are at present using this method of winning gold from the bed of the Fraser demonstrate that the business is profitable there will be no lack of others to embark on a like enterprise. Considering that there is hardly a river in British Columbia which does not show colors of gold, the field for the industry appears large. The time is not far distant, we may assure ourselves, when dredge mining will be one of the most profitable industries of the Province. ivilege of working bank to bank, THE MONTH'S MINING. SHOAL BAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) T UNDERSTAND that the B. C. Exploration Co. 's 1 property in lisum Basin is looking A 1, and should the new tunnel strike the lead at a depth of 300 feet, as it ought, it will become one of the leading copper-gold properties of British Columbia. Since last spring they have installed a 4 drill compressor plant, and now there is talk of a smelter being erected, so that the ore can be treated on the property An expert is at present up here looking over some of the better known properties, doubtless with a view to bonding some of them. News has just come to hand that work on the Sunset is progressing favourably, and it is confidently expected that the lead at a depth of 150 feet will be very shortly encountered. Should this property eventually become a mine, it will be of the greatest assistance in promoting the welfare of several other claims on the same lead, notably the Ajax group, directly opposite on Valdez Island, on which considerable work has been done. There have lately been several new discoveries made here; one a bornite property at Green Point, the other a lead of copper carbonates, about 20 feet wide which can be traced some little distance. This 460 THE MINING RECORD. claim adjoins the once celebrated Shoo-Fly on the northwest end. The Shoo-Fly, it is rumored, is shortly to be taken up as an iron proposition. It runs 60 per cent, iron and carries $6 in gold. REVELSTOKE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) A rumor, unconfirmed so far, has reached us that the small force working on the Prince Mining Co.'s property in Standard Basin (formerly under the control of the Boston and B. C. Co.) have struck a good vein of copper ore in the lower copper in tunnel. There is no doubt in the big bend. mind of any unprejudiced person that there is a big body of ore there, though it may take some considerable work to disclose it, hence the rumor may refer to an accomplished fact, and it is to be hoped that it does. With the exception of the small staff at present employed on this claim, the Big Bend will be practically deserted this winter. However, work on the long needed wag"on road has actually commenced, (far too late in the season, of course, for much to be done) and no doubt will be continued as late as possible this year and again renewed next season. It is impossible to say how far reaching the good effects of this road will become; there are vast areas of land in the Big Bend still awaiting the venturesome explorer, while the very large bodies of ore now known to exist at Carnes Creek, Keystone Mountain, Standard Basin, Laforme Creek, etc., etc., will have a chance to become known to outsiders. A steamer on the river would be an immense help, though of course the stream is not safely navigable all the year round. Mica.—In addition to the ore bodies just mentioned, the Big Bend district is rapidly achieving a great reputation as a producer of very fine mica, wonderfully clear and in large sheets. The growing demand for this mineral—so much in advance of the available supply—will make this a very valuable property in the near future, and steps have already been taken to make some considerable output. The country round about the mica deposits is reported to be quite agricultural in character, and there seems to be a very good reason for thinking that this empty district will before long be well populated. And even besides the mica and the ore deposits, there is still a great future for intelligent placer mining, the results obtained already being quite sufficient to encourage further work, especially if better transportation is provided. If we in Revelstoke are congratulating ourselves upon the now assured prospect of a decent road towards the Big Bend, our neighbors in the celebrated Lardeau district are doing the same thing on account of the suddenly brightened hopes of the railroad, as a new partyr of surveyors have pitched their camp in Ferguson during the last week or so, and are said to be engaged in the mysterious (to an outsider) occupation called "cross sectioning" a road or line of road that has already been surveyed. This is good news, indeed, for the principal mines in the Lardeau have passed the prospect stage and can now be reckoned among the shippers. The Nettie L., which was rumoured to have "petered out," will "peter out" some 1,000 to 1,500 tons of high grade ore this winter—that is if there is snow enough, which there probably will be, though there was too little last winter. It is not necessary to repeat what has already been said about this wonderfully rich property; it is sufficient to remark that the ore body but needs to be seen by the false prophets, and then even they will be convinced that there is some still left. The Silver Cup hopes to ship 700 tons at least, also very high grade ore, so that the teamsters of the neighborhood will be kept busy. In addition to the properties named, there are the Towser, lately re- bonded; the Sunset group; the Metropolitan group possibly; the Old Gold, and several others that have arranged for a winter's work and will probably ship something worth recording. There is a fully confirmed report of the finding of free milling ore on Lexington Mountain (Fish River district), which has been bonded by a strong Nelson syndicate. BOUNDARY CREEK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Winter season is now being experienced in the Boundary country, sharp frosts towards the middle of November having been succeeded on the night of the 16th of that month by a fall of three or four inches of snow. During several days immediately following more snow fell and then a cold came a "cold snap," with the tem- Snap. perature ranging down to 14 de grees below zero at Greenwood and 22 degrees at Midway. Whilst this wintry change made the roads good for sleighing, it practically stopped all surface prospecting and compelled many prospectors to go into winter quarters. Mines and smelters still engaged in construction work are finding the cold impeding their operations, which in some instances are now being carried on with some difficulty- BOUNDARY DISTRICT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Miner-Graves mines in Greenwood Camp, viz., the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and Victoria, maintained throughout the month of November a daily shipment of 600 tons of ore per day to the Granby Company's smelter at Grand Forks. It has been stated by the Phoenix Pioneer OLD ironsides that some time in January next and knob hill this output will be doubled, but as an increase to that extent will be conditional that two more furnaces shall have been meanwhile provided at the Granby smelter, it is very probable that the daily shipments will remain as at present, at least until a few weeeks later than January next. It is understood that there is an abundance of ore in the mines blocked out and available for the maintenance of the larger output. It has been announced that work will shortly be resumed in these mines, also in Greenwood Camp, at Phoenix. They form part of a group owned by the Dominion Copper Company, of Toronto. Ont. No work has been done in them during the current year, but earlier some 340 feet of sink- brooklyn and ing and 1,710 feet of drifting and stemwinder. crosscutting were done in the Brooklyn and 325 feet of sinking and 165 feet of drifting and crosscutting in the Stem- winder. These workings opened up some nice copper ore in both properties, each of which is equipped with a small power plant. THE MINING RECORD. 461 THE SNOWSHOE. James Breen, formerly connected" with the Trail and Northport smelters, has obtained for himself and New York capitalists a controlling interest in the company, and that development on a large scale, and, later, the erection in the district of a smelter, are among the plans for operating these promising properties. Another recent announcement intimated the probable inclusion under one management of the Gold Drop, Rawhide, Monarch, Tamarac and other claims. Of these, the Gold Drop, owned by a Montreal company, is the only one opened up to any extent, about 2,000 feet of work, chiefly drifting and crosscutting, having disclosed the presence of a big body of ore. Nothing definite is yet known of the suggested consolidation, nor is there any present indication of work being resumed on any of the claims mentioned. In the same neighborhood is the War Eagle, owned by an Eastern Townships, Quebec, company, which lately suspended operations; it is said only temporarily, though. The Snowshoe, owned by the British Columbia (Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, of London, England, is developing very satisfactorily underground. What is known as the railway tunnel is now in 400 feet, much of its length in ore, which cross-cuts have shown to be about 50 feet in width. A railway siding has been put in to the mine and further shipments to the smelter for test purposes are being made. It is not yet intended to send out ore regularly, although there is much in sight in the mine. An assay plant has lately been obtained for use in the mine and an assayer placed in charge. The managing director, Mr. Anthony J. McMillan, is about to proceed to England, to there confer with his co-directors respecting extended operations with a view to placing the mine upon a permanent producing basis. In November there were nearly 100 men employed at the Mother Lode mine, near Greenwood, a majority of them in construction work and the remaining 40 in mining and ore stoping. Towards the close of the month about 80 tons were being mined and sorted daily. Some 3000 tons of the mother ore were sent down to the Green- LODE. wood smelter, some of this having been taken from the dump and the balance from the stopes and other workings at the 200 and 300 foot levels. The work done underground during the month consisted chiefly of opening up stopes at both levels and of extending the north drift—now in 300 feet from the shaft—and mining crosscuts at the 300 foot level. Practically all of the parts of the 35-drill Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor plant, details of which were published in The Record last July, have now been received. The two 100 horsepower boilers to furnish it with power have been built in, boiler and compressor houses elected and the compressor itself is now being installed. Part of the large Jenckes hoist ordered last June is now on the way from Sherbrooke, Quebec, and the foundations for'it are about completed. Two 80 horsepower boilers for the hoist are in place and being housed. A 60 foot gallows frame is being built and two large and heavy platform cages are at the mine ready to be put in the shaft. Preparations are being made to put in place the ore sorting plant, in cluding the excavation of foundations for a 70 horsepower Nagle engine and a No. 5 Gates rock crusher. The ways for the Robins belt conveyor, shortly to arrive from New York, are nearly completed. The large new dining hall is now in use and one wing of the new dormitory is nearly finished. This latter addition will bring the sleeping accommodation up to the requirements of 135 men. Among other building improvements recently made on the mine is the erection of coal bins, trestles and chutes. Mr. W. G. Stephan, for some time past with the Gold Bay Mining Company, at Georgetown, California, lately arrived to take charge of the mine ore sorting plant. In connection with this mine it may be mentioned that there has lately been such an active demand in New York and Boston for stock of the British Columbia Copper Company, owning the mine and the Greenwood smelter, that prices of the shares have run up to $20 and over. The capital of the company is $1,000,000 in 200,000 shares of $5 each. The Greenwood Times states that the mining-firm of Munroe & Munroe, of Montreal, has acquired all the properties of the Montreal-Boundary Creek Mining Company for a syndicate including Messrs. J. W. Greenshields, Q. C, and W. M. Mitchell, of Montreal, T. Crockett, manager of the sunset and Tamiscouat Railway and H. H. morrison. Melville, of the Northern Pacific Railway, who are said to be organizing the Montreal & Boston Company, Limited, with a nominal capital of $3,000,000 in 600,000 shares at $5 each. It is further stated that extensive development is shortly to be undertaken, and it is hoped that the Sunset, which has hitherto been disappointing, will eventually be proved a property of much merit. The Sunset group includes the Sunset, Crown Silver and C. O. D., adjoining claims situate near the Mother Lode. Mr. Oliver, the manager of the Morrison, will shortly^probably early in the new year—issue a report on the condition and prospects of the mine for the information of the shareholders, but at the present stage of development he is not disposed to say much about the property other than that it promises well for early and very satisfactory improvement. It is generally understood that some nice copper ore has been encountered, but that until more work shall have been done not much can be said about it. Meanwhile development is progressing and good results are confidently looked for. Other claims in Deadwood Camp at work are the Marguerite, Great Hopes and Buckhorn. Two ledges were lately cut in east and west crosscuts respectively at the ioo foot level of the Marguerite, but these have not yet been opened up to any extent. There is nothing of importance to be chronicled just now respecting the other two properties named. The reorganization of the AVinnipeg Mining Company necessitated by conditions published in last month's issue of The Record, was agreed upon by the special meeting of shareholders held for that purpose on Nov. 16. Briefly the meeting resolved to reorganize the company, the new company to have a nominal capital of $1,250,000 in $1 shares. Of these 1,000.000 are to be issued to existing shareholders, share for share, as paid up to 95 cents, leaving an assessable balance of 5 cents per WINNIPEG and GOLDEN CROWN. 462 THE MINING RECORD. share, which will be called up as required. The remaining 250,000 shares are to be placed in the treasury and sold at times and upon terms apparently not yet decided upon. A second meeting to ratify this arrangement will shortly be held, and thereafter it is confidently anticipated, the Winnipeg will redeem its good name. . Not much is being done just now at either the Golden Crown or the Athelstan, both having ceased to ship ore for the time being. These, like the Winnipeg, are in Wellington Camp. There have been reports current to the effect that the Oro Denoro, in Summit Camp, was to resume operations at once, but these were premature. There appear to be some negotiations in progress looking to that end, but no definite arrangements for operating the mine have yet been made. The R. Bell in the same vicinity is stated to be improving considerably as a result of underground prospecting, but the published reports that it will soon be a regular shipper seem to be somewhat sanguine. Later this property will probably send out a fair quantity of ore. The B. C. is now maintaining an output of not less than 3,000 tons per month, and is at the same time pushing on with development work. The main shaft will shortly be down to the 400 foot level. The stopes already opened at three levels are yielding much ore and the mine will probably be in a position to ere long materially increase its b. c regular output. A promising strike of copper ore is reported from the Rambler at Pass Creek, but the extent of the ore has not yet been proved. The Jewel, at Long Lake, has sent out 100 tons of gold quartz to be tested by a chemical process at the bullion works near Rossland. There is a prospect of work being started afresh in the Republic group, near Boundary Falls, two or three months hence. Altogether, the outlook for increased activity throughout the district is promising. Construction work is being pushed at both the Greenwood and Boundary Falls smelters, but space restrictions will not admit of de- the smelter, tails of progress being gone into this month. Machinery and plant are arriving and being placed in position, but there is little prospect of either of these reduction works being in regular operation before January or February next. YMIR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ' Since the last issue of The Record, it has been quiet here, the snow having driven in the prospectors, the only work now going on is that at the large properties. Work is being energetically pushed on the Tamarac tramway; the right of way has been cleared a distance of 3,200 feet by 100 feet wide, and now the timbers for the stations are being Tamarac made. Inside of two months it is Tramway. possible that the tramway will be in operation. There is not much work being done on the Tamarac mine. This is presumably owing to the meeting of the shareholders, which takes place on the 30th of November, when it is hoped a practical mining superintendent will be appointed to the task of working the property. The Ymir Gold Mines, Limited are working in all about 180 men, a detailed report on this wonderful property can be seen in the British the ymir. Columbia Review, of England, commencing with the issue of October 20th. During the month there have been a number of accidents in the stopes, owing to the ground being loose, nothing serious, however. William Cummings, who is working for Windsor^ Ont., and Cleveland people, has a number of men at work on prospects belonging to his company. The Arlington mine is shipping clean ore to the North- port smelter, while the Yellowstone mine continues to turn out the yellow metal. rossland. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The ore shipments from Rossland mines for the first ten and three-fourths months of the present year amount to 191,275 tons. The entire shipments for 1899, from 1st Dec, '98 to 30th Nov., '99, were 172,665 tons. It will thus be noted that the tonnage so far this year exceeds that of the whole of 1899 by 18,610 tons. Of the above mentioned tonnage, 191,- 275, the Le Roi shipped 144,500; the Centre Star 30,- 000; the War Eagle 10,660; the Le Roi No. 2 2,500; the Iron Mask 2,200; the I. X. L. 530; the Giant 414; the Evening Star 351, the Monte Cristo, 273; the Iron Colt 80 and the Spitree 67. The nearness of the close of the year justifies a forecast of the tonnage and valuation of the ore shipments from Rossland mines for the output. present year of 1900. The weekly output from the mines now averages 6,000 tons at least. This is less than the average outturn of the summer _nd winter months and it is authentically stated to be due to the want of smelter capacity at Trail as well as at Northport. Assuming this weekly average to continue until the end of the year, the total output then will be 216,775 for 1900.. The progress of development work and surface improvements are probably the greatest ever made in any one year in the history of Trail surface Creek mining development. An improvements, outline of these improvements has already been furnished in the Record, and the surface improvements of Red Mountain alone, independent of actual development work in the mines, can certainly be not less than three-quarters of a million dollars. The progress of development work in the Le Roi has not of late been maintained to the extent previously reported. There has been a decrease of the force and this is due to a variety of circumstances, chief of which may be mentioned the necessity of increased smelter facilities to keep LE roi. pace with the expanding output. When these are ready a largely increased output must follow, but it will be from eight to .twelve weeks yet before this impetus will be given. In the meantime the general manager will begin to work out his plans for the future. The mine is in excellent condition. The ore reserve is simply prodigious—a fact which seems tp be confirmed by the favorable reports of its stock quotations. The management has intimated that ore shipments will not be resumed until after the new year— *c THE MINING RECORD. 463 probably not until after the next annual meeting, which takes place in Toronto during February. The retirement of Mr. J. B. Hastings war eagle, from the position of. consulting mining engineer to the Gooderham and Blackstock syndicate is regarded as a serious loss to the mining division. What is Rossland's loss, however, is likely to be a gain to Victoria, for I am informed that Mr. Hastings goes to the coast, where he has mining interests of his own, and where he will carry on his work. Mr. W. H. Fer- rier, who succeeds Mr. Hastings, has had a superior technical training in the service of the Dominion Geological Survey. For the past two or three years he has been attached to the War Eagle staff here and consequently he is enabled to take hold with both hands. It is stated that Mr. Kirby will return next month, probably not until after the annual meeting of the Centre Star has been held and the future policy determined. The Le Roi shipments so far this year (144,000 tons) are within 28,000 tons of the total shipmants for 1899—172,655, while the Centre Star is nearly one-fifth of what the Le Roi shipped this year. The War Eagle has shipped only 10,660 tons, while the Le Roi No. 2 and the Iron Mask have respectively shipped between 2,250 and 2,600. The occasional shippers are the I. X. L., Giant and Evening Star. The west flank of Red Mountain promises much for next year. The workings of the big mines are slowly entering new ground in this direction. Little or nothing has been done this year in the south belt (locally so known), but next year a revival of interest is promised. Recently an association was organized here under the name of the Chamber of Mines. This is a very dignified name, and much is expect- chamber ed from it. If it be well managed of mines. and carried out in the interests of the investor, it will accomplish much for Rossland's future. At no other time in the past could its citizens and promoters feel more confident in the outlook for legitimate mining than they can now. fish creek. (From an Occasional Correspondent). A great deal more work is now being done than ever before in this camp and everything is looking very promising. The recent gold discoveries on Lexington Mountain are showing up better than even the most sanguine ventured to hope. The three silver-lead properties bonded by W. H. Jackson during this season, the Black Bear, Wide West and Eclipse groups, all on silverlead Pool Creek, are being worked with on forces of from twelve to twenty pool CREEK. men on each and large bodies of ore have been struck on all of them. The Lucky Jack group, also on Pool Creek, is still showing up well and the owners, Butler, Roland & Desrosiers, will push development work through the winter. W. H. Jackson has just gone East to place the Alma and Daffodil groups. As these are by all odds the largest galena showings in the district, and the terms upon which he gets them are very reasonable, he should have no difficulty in forming companies to develop them. The Imperial Development Syndicate, of Nelson, have obtained control of fourteen claims on Lexington Mountain, all free gold pro- lexington positions, and are putting up build- mountain. ings to accommodate twenty-five men. This property includes the Eva and Imperial groups, upon both of which magnificent surface showings have been obtained, and during the last week a tunnel has tapped the lead on the Eva at a depth of 65 feet, and the ore encountered is richer than any yet found, in fact they have stopped work until they can get in sacks to save it. The owners of the adjoining property, the Oyster, are making arrangements to put in the winter in developing their very promising claim. The work done during the summer gave the most encouraging results, a very fine lead being exposed with a fine showing of free gold. The same parties, Allen & Ennest, made a great strike on another claim, the Criterion, about two weeks ago. The lead, which is rather small, is very rich in coarse gold on the surface, and in view of the fact that a neighboring claim has proved its depth, there is every reason to expect this mountain to take rank as a big gold producer in the near future. slocan. (From Our Own Correspondent.) True to its recognized title of "the poor man's country," the Slocan continues to furnish examples of mines developed and placed on a working basis without the slightest assistance from capital. The latest and one of the best of these is observed in the case of the Mountain Con, a property situated in the granite area some distance back of Cody, from which over $8,000 worth of ore has been extracted by the sole efforts of the lessee during the last three months. Now that the value of the property has been estab- ished, there is every likelihood of its being turned over to an English syndicate for a large figure; but why in the name of common sense some of these companies do not see fit to operate first hand by constantly employing a capable and reliable man in the locality itself passes the comprehension of ordinary mortals. However, experience teaches that giving advice in matters of this kind is nothing more nor less than a waste of time, so it is needless to say more. The reference that I made last month to the gold contents of some of the Slocan ores received a remarkable if somewhat curious confirmation in the last report issued by the manager of the Whitewater mine. The really interesting fact gold in brought out is that although the slocan ores, ore was known to contain traces of gold, it had never been obtained in quantity sufficient to render it of commercial importance until recently, when by the substitution of Wilfley tables for the old round buddies, it was found that the fine concentrates thus obtained carried gold exceeding in value the minimum paid for by smelters. An explanation of this phenomenon is not offered, and perhaps under the circumstances is better not attempted; it may, of course, be due to several causes which cannot be correctly ascertained, the disposition of the gold in the ore being manifestly the chief factor in determining its recovery, provided always that the appliances in use are properly suited to the requirements. What would appear at first sight to be a very unsatisfactory condition of affairs with regard to this 464 THE xVHNING RECORD. district is revealed in the report of the Minister of Mines for last year, namely: That the average grade of ore shipped from the Slocan is on the decline, being only 88 oz. per ton for '99 as against 97 for the year previous; that being the first occasion on which it had fallen below 100 That there is no cause for alarm, however, is shown from an explanation offered by the provincial mineralogist to the effect that it may be traced almost wholly to the increased tonnage of low grade material passing through concentrators, which even after treatment fails to come up to the standard of clean ore; as well as to the fact that economic conditions have so improved that there is no need to sort as carefully as formerly. A recent shipment of 38 tons from the Rambler- Cariboo serves to show that high grade ore is not by any means a thing of the past, and emphasize at the same time the enormous profits which are sometimes realized from a small but rich pocket. The ore in question assayed approximately 550 oz. silver and netted in the neighborhood of $14,- high grade 000 to the company after deducting rambler- freight and treatment charges; cariboo. while a smaller consignment from the Hampton, situated in the dry ore belt, went over 600 oz. to the ton. In recording these facts there is no intention to deceive by creating the impression that all ore shipped is of this char- its magnificent mill and tramway will be again helping to swell the shipments from Silverton. Another chapter in the history of the ill-fated Corn- stock Mines, Ltd., is about to be written, tenders for the sale of that concern by the official liquidator having closed on the 20th. Just what percentage the creditors will receive is a matter of speculation, but the general impression seems to be that they will be fortunate if it much more than covers the interest on their several accounts. The prospect that it may be reopened and placed on a paying basis seems almost too good to entertain, but more than one mining man of experience has been heard to express the opinion that there is money in it yet under efficient management. Those acquainted with the early record of the country lying between Ten Mile and Springer Creeks will be glad to learn that the Bondholder is again finding its feet. An initial car has already been sent out which it is thought will be followed by others as work progresses. A PORTABLE ONE-STAMP MILL. MESSRS. John Taylor & Co., of San Francisco, offer the mining profession a simple, effective and cheap one-stamp mill, which also possesses portability. The latter quality is very desirable for trans- Figure 3 acter, but to do the district justice it is only right that both sides should be presented with equal impartiality. As predicted some months back, an engineer of standing has recently been sent to make a thorough, unprejudiced examination into the affairs of the Wakefield mine, and while his report is not of course made public, there is nevertheless hope engendered that it will be but a short time ere this property, with portation to distant and somewhat inaccessible places. The mill is designed to enable the miner to test ore by working it in an economical way, and thus determine whether it will be profitable to erect a large mill. It is so simple in construction and operation that it merits a detailed description. The mortar is preferably made circular in horizontal section, and is oval shaped in vertical section. It is eight inches diameter inside; the shoe and die made THE MINING RECORD. 465 of chilled iron are four inches in diameter. There is ample room for feeding ore and for splash. The hole through the top of the mortar serves as the lower bearing for the stamp rod, which rod, with tappet and shoe, weighs 45 pounds, and drops _£ to 7 inches with a force of 750 pounds. The upper part of the mortar supports the two iron columns or pillar blocks for the cam shaft. One of these columns projects above the shaft, and the top of it serves as the upper bearing for the stamp rod. There is a screw at this place. By turning it the stamp rod is held fast while "cleaning up" the mill. The ore is fed through a^ large hole at the side of the mortar near the top. There is also a half-inch pipe and stop cock to supply the mortar with water. The discharge at the front is square, 6 inches by 6 inches, and the screen is fastened by wedges in the usual way. The mill is furnished with five sheet-iron slot punched screens, one of each of the following meshes : No 4 equals in discharge No. 20 Brass Wire Screen. No. 5 equals in discharge No. 24 Brass Wire Screen. No. 6 equals in discharge No. 30 Brass Wire Screen. No. 7 equals in discharge No. 35 Brass Wire Screen. No. 8 equals in discharge No. 40 Brass Wire Screen. The mill will crush, per diem of ten hours, a half ton of ore of average hardness, to pass through a No. 40 mesh screen, or No. 8 punched screen. The mortar is divided longitudinally into two parts, the upper part being fastened to the lower by a hinge- pin and one hinge bolt. When the nut of the latter is loosened, the upper part of the mortar with all its belongings can be turned over to rest upon the ground as shown in Fig. 2. This arrangement serves two purposes; first, to give greater facility for rapid and effective "cleaning up," and second, by withdrawing the hinge-pin the upper half can be entirely Figure 2. removed, thus rendering it portable. A rubber gasket between the two parts of the mortar prevents leakage when the bolt on the front side of the mortar is tightened. The fly wheel upon the cam shaft is 18 inches in diameter, and takes a ij inch belt. The mill can be operated by hand or by power, such as a small water wheel or a one-half or greater horse power gasoline engine. Fig 3A shows a short sluice box 10 inches wide, 60 inches long, placed close to the discharge of the mill. The botom of the sluice box is covered by a copper sheet plated with silver on the upper side, upon which free gold or silver is amalgamated. Also Fig. 3B shows a longer sluice box, 15 inches wide and 9 feet long, the bottom of which can be covered with sluice blanket with the nap pointing up stream. This box is mounted upon four links, and the rod which connects it with the crank upon die cam shaft gives it a reciprocating motion, which practically converts this sluice box into a concentrator. Fig 3C shows the manner of fastening the sluice blanket in position so it can be quickly removed for washing and replaced. Figure 4 It will be well to have two blankets, one in place and one in use, while the other is being cleaned. Fig. 4 illustrates a patent hand rock crusher with power attachment, which is simply a crank upon the end of an overhead revolving shaft, and a pitman connecting it with the lever of the crusher. This crusher is a valuable and cheap accompaniment to the above described mill. A hand screw regulates the size to which the ore can be crushed, and, of course, the finer it enters, the more work the mill will do. This crusher can be placed upon a bench somewhat elevated, and a chute provided to carry the crushed ore to the mill. This crusher also makes a fine sampler of the ore, which can be collected from time to time to be sent to the assay office. MINING RETURNS AND STATISTICS. coast. THE following is the October output for the Coast Mines. Destination Tons. Copper Queen, Van Anda Smelter (per week round figures) ioo Marble Bay, Van Anda Smelter Not known. Lenora, Everett 908 slocan. Queen Bess Proprietary: Last month, 90 tons mined. Net value is estimated at $3,850; estimated expenditure, $5,050. Main tunnel, 1,380 feet. No. 7 level crosscut has reached the lode 40 feet from hanging wall of shaft. Lode strong and well defined; width of lode is 3 feet. 466 THE MINING RECORD. The customs returns of exports for the port of Kaslo for the month of October are as follows: Ore (pounds) . 13,262,000 Value $292,108.00 Lead (pounds) 2,749,700 Silver (ounces) 333,141 Coal 5,127,900 Valued at $5,089 Compared with September they show a great increase : Sept. Oct. Ore (pounds) 4,137,000 13,262,000 Value $176,392 $292,108 Lead (pounds) 1,839,000 2,749,700 Silver (ounces) 196,430 333,141 Coal (pounds) 3,892,000 5,127,900 Value $3,897 $5,089 TONNAGE OF ORE VIA KASLO DURING OCTOBER. Mine. Destination. Tons. Whitewater, Kootenay Ore Company's Sampler Kaslo 573 Last Chance, Kootenay Ore Company, Kaslo. . 485 Payne, San Francisco 319 Slocan Star, (Destination not given) 120 Rambler-Cariboo, Everett, Wash 139 Ruth (Destination not given) 100 Noble Five (Destination not given) 32 Cork (Destination not given) 20 Bismarck (Destination not given) 17 Trade Dollar (Destination not given) 40 Mountain Con. (Destination not given) 21 BOUNDARY. (Figures approximate only.) To Nov. 30th Nov. Old Ironsides and Knob Hill Group 18,500 50,500 B. C 3,000 17,000 City of Paris 3,500 Golden Crown 1,900 Winnipeg 1,200 Athelstan 500 Mother Lode 3,000 3,000 Unenumerated 1,500 2,400 Total 26,000 80,000 CARIBOO. Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co., Ltd.: August Clean-up $135,275 October Clean-up 154,765 November Clean-up (28 days) 63,087 Total for season $353,127 Previous yield of mine 528,000 Total yield to date 1,127 NELSON. The following is the Athabasca mill run for October : Period of run, 29 days, 1 hour. Tons milled, 445. Approximate value of bullion recovered .... $7,000 Approximate value of concentrates recovered 2,200 $9,200 Total values recovered per ton of ore milled, $20.67. Athabasca: October run, 440 tons milled. Approximate value, $9,200. Ymir mine.—September output, $47,000; profit, $35,000. Ymir: During the entire month of October mill ran 29 days 1 hour. Bullion, estimated value, $33,- 800; concentrates, $15,250. EAST KOOTENAY. Mine. Tons. St. Eugene 3-007 North Star and Sullivan (round figures) 2,400 KOSSl.AND. Shipments from Rossland for the five weeks ending 1st December are as follows: Five Weeks Year. Le Roi 20,200 150,798 Centre Star 10,788 33,9*8 War Eagle 99 10,762 Le Roi No. 2 164 2,371 Giant 130 519 Iron Mask 663 2,398 I. X. L 102 522 Evening Star o 351 Monte Cristo o 273 Iron Colt o 80 Spitzee 69 89 Total 32,215 202,111 Le Roi: October shipments amount to 16,000 tons, containing 7,466 ozs. of gold, 11,691 ozs. of silver and 201 tons of copper. Estimated value, £45,- 979- COAL EXPORTATIONS. ' j HE exports of coal from Vancouver Island col- i lieries for October were as follows: Tons. New Vancouver Coal Co 32,805 Ladysmith 24,237 Union 10,013 Total 67,055 For the first three weeks of November the New Vancouver Coal Company shipped: Date. Vessel and Destination Tons. 3rd. SS. New England, Alaska 57 6th. SS. Robert Adamson, San Francisco . . 4,466 7th. SS. San Mateo, Port Los Angeles .. . 4,361 nth. SS. Duke of Fife, Kobe, Japan 324 12th. SS. Titania, San Francisco 5,640 15th. SS. Mineola, San Francisco 3,201 17th. SS. New England, Alaska 58 20th. SS. Robert Adamson, San Diego .... 4,469 Total 22,576 METAL MARKET—NOVEMBER. SILVER. Demand has continued strong month and prices remain steady, from 63! to 64I, and the month price. A further advance is expected. COPPER. The copper market is unchanged. Consumption throughout the Price has varied closes at the best THE MINING RECORD. 467 *e. Lake copper is quoted at i6f continues very @ 16 &. LEAD. There is no change in the market. A good business is being done at last prices. New York quotations : 4.32^ @ 4.37.^. THE LOCAL SHARE MARKET. OIGNSof an increased activity in the mining market O are at last apparent. There is no sudden boom, no feverish desire on the part of brokers or outsiders to buy anything and everything that looks cheap, but just the same stocks that have an intrinsic value are being quietly picked up when they can be bought cheaply. Rambler-Cariboo is undergoing one of its periodical spasms, and is quoted anywhere from 24! to 29I-. Speculators, however, are a little shy about touching this stock, as the controlling interest of the mine have a happy faculty of dropping the public at the exact psychological moment. From all accounts however the mine is in excellent shape. Crow's Nest has touched 50 again and looks like staying at that figure until its dividend paying capability has been demonstrated or otherwise. There has been a big demand for Fairview at and around 4 cents; White Bear has also been largely dealt in, though we are satisfied the investments are of a purely speculative character. We still consider American Boy the best buy on the market at 10 or n cents. This will prove one of the Bonanza mines of the Slocan. MACHINERY CATALOGUES. WE shall be pleased to mail catalogues of any of the undermentioned firms to our readers free of charge, on application. Ainsworth & Sons., Wm., fine balances; Armstrong & Morrison, riveted steel pipe.ore cars, etc.; B. C. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., assayers' supplies; Braun & Co., T., assayers' supplies; Beatty & Sons, M., cables and tramways, dredges, pumps, etc.; Bennett & Co., Wm., fuse safety couplers, etc.; California Wire Works, cables and tramways; Canadian Rand Drill Co., drills and compressors; Canadian General Electric Co., electrical plants; Cooper Mfg. Co., The James, compressors, power and hand drills; Denver Fire Clay Co., assayers' furnaces, etc.; Fraser & Chalmers, mills, pumps, hoists, engines, etc.; Fairbanks, Morse & Co., steam and gas engines, compressors, etc.; Gates Iron Works, engines, boilers, crushers, etc.; Hamilton Mfg. Co., The Wm., crushers, mills, hoists, etc.; Hendy Iron Works, Johsua, modern mining machinery; Hinton & Co., Geo. C, electrical supplies and machinery; Hearn & Harrison, engineering, mining and surveying instruments; Hamilton Powder Co., explosives; Howells Mining Drill Co., drills, all kinds; Jeffrey Mfg. Co., elevating machinery; Jenckes Machine Co., hoisting and milling machinery; Krupp, Fried, Grusonwerk, mills, engines, pumps, etc ; Lex- ow, Theo., carbons; Link Belt Machinery Co., conveyors, elevators, etc.; McLennan, McFeeley & Co., belting, etc.; Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, compressors, drills, hoists, etc.; Perrin & Co., Wm., filter presses; Royal Electric Co., electric power, all kinds; Robertson & Co.James,wrought iron pipe, paints, etc.; Sturtevant Mill Co., ore breakers and mills; Stilwell— Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., water wheels; Taylor & Co., John, assayers' supplies; Trenton Iron Co., cables and tramways; Taylor Air Compressor Co., drills, compressors, etc.; Union Gas Engine Co., gas engines, hoists, etc.; Whitstock, P. & R., mining engineering and surveying instruments; Wilfley Ore Concentrator Co., Ltd., concentrators. The Hall Mining & Smelting Co.. Ltd. NELSON, B.C. SMELTING DEPARTMENT. Purchases COPPER ORE, LEAD ORE. DRY ORE. BUREAU OF PROVINCIAL INFORMATION- T t?,£^5?t, k- 5^Government may be in possession of definite informa- ■L .™ « . . ic? \° 3?PP13r *ose seeking investments in this Province, I sal* ^d £ me«i^2inHite PariIc«lari f ram those who have properties for tSLe^Ll- may f?el dlSDJ3ed to forward such particulars to this office for the purpose m question. ,• lY^m °ithei Proposed early re-organisation of the Agent General's Office in London, England, the desirability of having on file a list of farms and other properties for sale, with full and accurate details, is obvious. Properties submi tted may include farms and farm lands, industrial or commercial concerns, timber limits, water powers, or other enterprises affording opportunities for legitimate investment. B It is not proposed to recommend properties to intending investors, but to anord the fullest access to the classified lists and all available information connected therewith, and to place enquirers in communication with the The fullest particulars are desired not only of the properties themselves, S? J? Se l0^?-1Itle8 ln whfch they are situated, and the conditions affecting them. Foi this purpose printed schedules will, upon application be forwarded to those desirous of making sales. R. E. GOSNELL, Secietary, Bureau of Provincial Information. RE "COAL MINES REGULATION ACT." EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY. NOTICE is hereby given that an examination for Certificates of Competency as Managers of Mines will be held on the 12th day of December, 1900, at the Court House, Nanaimo, B C, and also at Fernie, B.C. Candidates, not under twenty-three years of age, desirous of presenting themselves for examination, must deliver to Mr. Thomas Morgan, Chairman of Board of Examiners, Nanaimo, on or before the 3rd day of December, 1900, notice of such intention, in writing, together with a certificate of service from their formsr o* present employers, testifying to at least two years' experience underground. The examination will be in writing and will include the following subjects, viz : 1. Mining Act and Rules. 2. Mine Ga«es, 3. General Work. 4. Ventilation. 5. Mining Machinery. 6. Surveying and Levelling. Any further particulars required may be obtained on application to Mr, Morgan, Chairman of Board of Examiners, Nanaimo, B.c. RICHARD MCBRIDE, Minister of Mines. Department of Mines, 6th November, 1900. NOTICE. Appointment of Deputy Mining Recorder. TTNDER authority of Order in Council passed December 30th, 1899, the l_J Honourable the Minister of Mines has been pleased to sanction, and I do hereby give notice that I have appointed Justinian Pelly, of Chilliwack, a Deputy Mining Recorder of and for the District known as Chilliwack, in the New Westminster Mining Division, with sub-recording office at Chilliwack . W, S. GORE, Gold Commissioner for the District. THE MINING RECORD. LOCAL STOCK HARKET FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. Prepared by A. W. More & Co., Stock Brokers, Victoria, B. C. COMPANIES. Athabasca Brandon & Gol'n C Cariboo-MeK-in'y.. Cariboo Hydraulic Centre Star | Crow's Nest Pass C Dardanelles Evening Star Fairview Corpor'n Fentenoy. .. Iron Mask I.X. L Jumbo King, (Oro Denero Knob Hill I Mollie Gibson Noble Five North Star Old Ironsides Payne Rambler | Slocan -Har Sullivan Tamarac Kenneth Van Anda War Eagle Waterloo Winnipeg Week Ending Saturday, 10th November. Highest. J 5 75 9 I 75 1 45 ! 147 48 00 02 08 I QiA\ os 38 20 20 ! 05%; 45 35 05 94% 70 83 26% 80 16 06 02 1 07 3% 03 i 5 10 05% 66 1 44 1 44 45 00 01A 06 01% 02% 25 ' 19 18 03V< 35 ' 28 02 93% 38 78 25% 75 15 05 oiys 1 04 03 02A Lowest. > 5 25 09 73 1 40 1 44 46 0U 02 07 02 02% 38 18 17 05 45 30 05 9?% 65 81 25% 76 14 05% 00% 1 05 03% 02?| 2 5 f 4 75 05 65 1 20 1 41 42 00 01 05 oiA 02 20 16 15 03 30 27 01 91 35 76 I 24% 73 i 1% 05 00% 1 01 02% 02% WeekEnding Saturday, 17th November. Highest. ! 6 00 09 75 1 45 1 45 55 00 02% 07% 02 05 38 20 20 06 55 33 05 97^ 70 91 25% 80 15 06 02 109 03A 04 Lowest. 4 50 05% o&A 126% 142% 50 00 01% 05 01K 02% 26 19 18 04 46 30 02 97 47 85 24 75 14 05 01 1 07 03 03 ; 5 oo 08 72 1 40 1 41 50 00 02 07 02 02} 34 18 18- 05 49 30 05 95 70 86 25 76 14 05 1 07 C3% 03H s 5 4 50 05 66 1 20 1 35 46 50 01 04 01% 02% 20 17 16 03 40 28 01% 94 40 82 23 73 13 05 % 1 03% 02% 02 Week Ending Saturday, 24th November. Highest. Lowest. 6 00 09 75 1 60 1 53 57 00 02H 07% 04% 03 35 19 20 08 60 33 05 98 70 88 25% 1 00 16 06 02 1 09 033. 06 !-4 75 05 67 1 42 1 48 55 00 01% 04 04 02%| 26 18 18 05 53 30 03 97 42 84 24% 80 15 05 01% 1 08 03 03 J 6 00 U 08% 71 1 40 1 41 51 00 01% 06 02% sH 17 I 18 ' 06 6_. I 30 04% 9?k 70 82 24 77 ! 15 05% 01% 1 06 i 03^ 0* i 4 50 05 65 1 25 1 34 50 00 01% 0i ov/& 02% 20 16% 17 04 45 29 02 95}; F6 80 23 75 I 14 05 01% 1 03 03 02% Week Ending Saturday, 1st December. Highest. $ 5 75 09 69 1 53 1 60 56 00 02 OS 03% 03 35 19 19 07 62 34 05 1 00 70 83 26} 80 16 06 02 1 06 03% 04 I 4 65 05 64 1 46 1 52 54 00 01% 05 03% 02% 26 18 17 04 50 30 03 99 40 81 25% 75 15 05 01% 1 04 03 03 Lowest. i 5 00 08 66 1 47 1 47 52 00 01% 07 02% 02% 28 17 17 06 58 30 05 96% 70 80 24% 77 15 05% 01% 99% 03 03% a ! 450 04 55 1 42 1 40 51 00 01% 04 023g 02% 24 16 16 04 40 28 02 95% 35 70 23 75 14 05 01 , 98 02% 02 lc. lc. LATEST LONDON QUOTATIONS. (From the B. C. Review.) Name op Company. Alaska Goldfields Athabasca Atlin. Lake Brit. America Corp.. B.C.Develop't Assoc . Dom. Mining, Dev .. Duncan Mines Enterprise - Granite Hall Mines Klondike Bonanza .. Klondike Corp Klondyke Consols Do. Gov. Con. (P'ty) Kootenay Mines .... Le Roi LeRoi No. 2 London and B.C. Gds McDonald's Bonanza. New Goldfields of B.C Nimrod Queen Bess Propriety Velvet Rossland Great W.. Whitewater Mines... Ymir Gold Mines Yukon Goldf Id's new Paid up per Share ' f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. £5 £5 £5 f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. f.p. £5 f.p. f.p. f.p. Mk. Up Mk. up Price I Price 15-16 16/3 If 15-16 y i/ 7-16 iy 20 1 5-16 y IK 17/6 20J 14 1 1| 6<A If % Price Last Week. 15-16 111-16 1 3-16 17/6 If y 6/6 72 7/6 3 X£ - 6 3/9. i lxd 1 * y 6 5-16 8* sy. 1 9-16 y 111-16 % 17-16 11-16 113-16 JUC Price Oct 8. 15-16 1% 1 3-16 17/6 IS % 6/6 3/9 1 9-16 20i 1^ % 111-16 1 1 7-16 i 11-16 113-16 Price Oct 10 If 13-16 17/6 11 6 6 7-6 3/9 1 9-16 6f 8 5-16 20}£ 1^ y 19-16 8 15-16 If Price Oct. 12 Is 13-16 17/3 li 11-16 % 6/ 7-16 3/9 1 9-16 6| «i 20| yy y it li 8 11-16 If DIVIDEND PAYING MINES OF B. C. SLOCAN DISTRICT. Goodenough, to 30th June, 1899 Antonie, to 30th June, 1899 Idaho, to 30th June, 189J Jackson Mines, to 30 June, 1899 Last Chance, to 30th April, 1899 Monitor, to 30th June, 1899 Noble Five, to 30th June, 1899 Pay ii e, to 30th June, 1899 Surprise, to 30th June, 1899 Reco, to 31st January, 1898 Ruth, to 30th June, 1899 Rambler Cariboo, to 31st December, 1899 Slocan Star, to 30th November, 3900 Two Friends, to 30th June, 1899 Washington, to 30th June, 1899 Whitewater, to 30th June, 1899 Queen Bess, to 31 July, 1899 Bosun, to 30th June, 1899 35 10 292 20. 140 40 50 1,165 20 297 165, 60, 425 20, 20, 194, 25 30 000 000 000 000 jOOO ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 600 000 ,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 EAST KOOTENAY DISTBICT. $3,008,500 St. Eugene, to 31st December, 1900 $ 105,000 N orth S tar 79,000 NELSON DISTBICT. Fern, to 30th June, 1898 •: HhII Mines, Ltd., to 51st May, 1899 Ymir, to 30th November, 1899 Athabasca, to 31st October, 1900 $ 180,000 $ 10,000 r.'o.ooo 20,000 25,000 TRAIL CREEK. DISTRICT. % 185,000 Le Roi. to 30th November, 190C $1,305,000 War Eagle, to 29th February, 1900 545,000 Centre Star, to 1st December, 1900 70,000 KETTLE KIVER DISTRICT. $1,920,000 Cariboo (Camp McKinney) to 30th Ju e, 1899 $ 311,965 Total dividends $5,614,466 This list is incomplete, but is, so far as it goes, accurate. DIVIDENDS DECLARED DURING NOVEMBER. St. Eugene $ 105,000 Slocan Star 25,000 Canadian Goldfields Syndicate 30,o00 Centre Star 30,000 $ 190,000 Nanaimo Saw Mill and Sash and Door Factory. OFFICE, MILL ST., NANAIMO. A. HASLAM, Proprietor. Complete stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Pickets, Doors Windows, Blinds, Moulding Turning, Scroll Sawing, and all kinds of Wood Finishing, Cedar, White Pine, and Redwood, &c. Towing done at reasonable rates by Steamer ALERT- p.O Box 35. Telephone 19. THE MINING RECORD. EAST IKOOTENAY MINES AND |§ MINING STOCK, | Coal, Petroleum and Timber Lands in British Columbia and Alberta MCVITTIE& HUTCHESON, Cranbrook, E. Kootenay. B.C. TABLE OF Page. Publisher's Notice 437 The Month 437-444 The Year in Boundary : 442 The Canadian Exhibit at Paris 444 Choice of Slags for Lead Smelting 449 Heat Economy 451 Poetry—Red Star and Iron Cask 453 An Eccentric Assayer 454 B. C. on London Market 454 Companies' Reports 455 Technical Periodicals 457 Gold Dredging in B. C 457 MONTH'S MINING— Page. Shoal Bay 459 Revelstoke 460 CONTENTS. Page. Boundary Creek 460 Boundary District 460 Ymir 462 Rossland 462 Fish Creek 463 Slocan 463 A Portable Stamp Mill 464 Mining Returns and Statistics 465 Coal Exportations 466 MetalMarket 466 Local Stock Market , 467 Machinery Catalogues 467 Local Stock Quotations x Latest London Quotations X Dividend Paying Mines of B. C X DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS. ACCOUNTANTS— Page Jacobs, E., Greenwood XVHI ADVERTISING AGENTS— Walker, C. J , London, Eng XX. ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES— Ainsworth, "Wm. & Son, Denver, Col H. B.O. Assay & Chemical Supply Co., Vancouver, B.O.. H. Denver Eire Clay Co., Denver, Col H. Taylor, John & Co, San Francisco, Cal H. ASSAYERS— Holdich, A. H., Revelstoke, B.C XVIH. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.O XVHI. Ogden Assay Co., Denver, Col XVHI. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.O XVHI. Watson, A. A., Vernon, B.O XVHI. BELTING— McLennan, McFeely & Co., Vancouver and Dawson.. Cover. D. K. McLaren, Montreal Cover. BOILERS AND ENGINES— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago VI. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg. Oo., Peterboro, Ont., and Back. Vancouver, B.C Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col . IV BANKS— Bank of British North America VHI. Bank of British Columbia XVH. Bank of Montreal Vni BARRISTERS— Mcintosh, J, 0 XVIH. CABLES AND TRAMWAYS— Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, N.J TV. California Wire Works, San Francisco iy Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H., Denver, Col.. IV Jack & Robertson, Montreal Cover. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco Cover! A. Leschen & Sons, St. Louis, Mo in! COAL AND COKE— page New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Co., Nanaimo. XXI. COAL HANDLING MACHINERY— A. Leschen & Sons, St. Louis, Mo HL COMPRESSORS—(See Pumps and Compressors.) CONCENTRATING PLANT— See Stamp and Concentrating Mills. COPPER MINING OO'S— Sunset Copper Mining Co., Princeton. XIV OR USHERS AND ORE BREAKERS— Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago yp Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col ''' y. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover- Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal yj. Hamilton, The Wm. Mfg Co., Peterboro, Ont., and Back- Vancouver, B.C Cover- White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover Xll. THE MINING RECORD. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS-Continued. OARS, CAGES, CHAIRS— Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal... Cover. CARBONS— Lexow, Theo., New York XV DRILLS—(See Rock Drills.) DREDGES, DITCHERS AND STEAM SHOVELS— Lobnitz & Oo., Renfrew, Scotland XIII Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H, Denver, Col. IV ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY— Hinton, Electric Co, Victoria and Vancouver Cover. Royal Electric Co., Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria. Cover. Li-nk Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, HI I. Canadian General Electric Oo, Toronto and Vancouver, B.O VII. ELEVATOR ROPE— A. Leschen & Sons, St. Louis, Mo III. ELEVATORS AND CONVEYORS— Page. Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York I. Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I. Jeffrey Mfg. Co. Columbus, Ohio III. Montgomery Mach'y Co., The J.H., Denver, Colorado IV. Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco I. ENGINES AND BOILERS— Montgomery Machinery Co.,, The J. H, Denver, Col. IV FLOUR & FEED, ETC.— Brackman & Ker, Victoria, Rossland, &c VIII. FILTER PRESSES— Stillwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV FIRE BRICKS AND POTTERY— Denver Fire Clay Co., Denver, Col II. FORWARDING AGENTS— W. B. Bailey & Co., Ashcroft, B. C XIX. GENERAL MACHINERY & POWER PLANTS— Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que., and Rossland. V. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.C XIX. Fairbanks, Morse.& Co., Chicago VI Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H, Denver, Col. IV HOISTING MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V Jenckes Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Quebec V White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C Back Cover, Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H, Denver, Col. IV Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. XI. HYDRAULIC PD?E & MACHINERY— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco VI. LEATHER BELTING— D. K. McLaren, Montreal Cover LUMBER, SASHES, DOORS, ETC.— Nanaimo Saw Mill, Nanaimo, B.O X MINE HAULAGE OUTFITS— A. Leschen & Sons. St. Louis, Mo Ill, MINING, ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS— Hearn & Harrison, Montreal II. Wittstock, P. & R., Berlin, -Germany XIX. MACHINERY AGENTS— Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver XVIII J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B. C XIX. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS— Hardie & Thompson, Vancouver XVIH J. C T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.O . XIX. MINING BROKERS— Buckworth A. Bernard, Ymir, B.C XIX Foulkes, J. F. & Co XIX. Thornton, Langley S., & Co., Rossland, B.O XIX. McVittie & Hutcheson, Cranbrook XL Mackinnon, J. M., Vancouver, B.C XIX. More, A. W., & Co., Victoria, B.C XIX. MINING ENGINEERS— Cleveland, Ernest A., Vancouver XVHI. West, Howard, New Denver, B.C XVIH. Gore,Burnett & Co., Nelson and Victoria XVIH. Harvey, W. Pellew, Vancouver, B.C XVHI. Archibald & Pearson, Nelson, B. O XVIH. Redman & Outhett, Kamloops, B.O XVHI. Brewer, W. M., Vancouver, B.C XVHI. J. C. T. Crofts, Vancouver and Nelson, B.O XLX. Merry, H. E. D., Rossland xyill. ORE SACKS— Vancouver Agency, Vancouver XIII. ORE PURCHASERS— Copper Bang Limited, San Francisco Cover Tallon, C. J., San Francisco XX Hall Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., Nelson, B.O X. ORE CARS— Armstrong & Morrison, Vancouver V. Montgomery Machinery Co. The J. H, Denver, Col. IV PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS— Dow Pumping Engine Co., San Francisco XV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal- VI. White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VHI. Stillwell-Bierce & Smith Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio.... IV. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J.H., Denver, Col. IV. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, San Francisco, &c.. VI, Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Cover. POWDER— Hamilton Powder Co., Nanaimo VI. McLennan,' McFeeley & Oo Cover PUBLICATIONS— Mining Journal, London, Eng XX. Scientific Pub. Co., New York XX. PLATINUM REFINERS— Baker & Oo , Newark, N.J XIII. ROOK DRILLS— Bullock, The M. O. Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111 III. James Cooper Mfg. Co., Montreal and Rossland VIII Canadian Rand Drill Co., Montreal Cover ROPE— A. Leschen, & Sons, St. Louis, Mo III. RUBBER MANUFACTURES— Goodyear Rubber Co., San Francisco, &c VI. STAMP AND CONCENTRATING MILLS— Hamilton Mfg. Co., Wm., Peterboro, Ont., and Vancouver, B. C Back Cover. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco, Cal VI. Huntington, F. A., San Francisco Ill, Hendrie & Bolthoff, Denver, Col V. Fried Krupp Grusonwerk, Germany and Montreal Cover. Montgomery Machinery Co., The J. H, Denver, Col. IV White, Rogers & Co., San Francisco Cover STEEL— Canton Steel Co., Denver, Col III. SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS— Gore, Burnett & Co., Victoria and Nelson XVIH. Cleveland, E. A., Vancouver XVIH J. C. T. Crofts, Nelson XIX. Merry H. E. D., Rossland, B.C XVHI. SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND GEARING— Link Belt Machinery Co., Chicago, 111 I. Stillwell-Biene & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS— Ward, Robert, & Co., Victoria XVH. Rithet, R. P., & Co., Victoria XXII. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS— Van Der Naillens', San Francisco XX. Michigan College of mines, Houghton, Mich XX. TOWNSITES— Allison Townsite XVII White Horse Townsite XIII. TRAMWAYS—(See Elevators and Conveyors.) A. Leschen & Sons, St. Louis, Mo HI. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES— Canadian Pacific Railway Co XXII Canadian Pacific Nav. Co., Victoria XXII. To Northern. Mines .".!!! XV. WATER WHEELS— StUwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, Ohio IV. Hendy, Joshua, San Francisco yi" WHOLESALE MERCHANTS— Brackman-Ker Milling Co., Ld., Flour, Feed, &c, Victoria, Rossland, &c VIII Smith, M. R., & Co.,. Ld. Ly. Biscuits, Victoria...... XX. Ward.Robt., & Co., Ltd., Com. Mchts. and Importers. XVH! McLennan, McFeeley & Co., Vancouver Cover. Weiler Bros., Furniture " XVL Piercy, J., Wholesale Dry Goods, Victoria XVI. Lenz & Leiser, Dry Goods ..,, XVI • Turner, Beeton & Co., Dry Goods and Liquors, XVI. Vancouver Agency, Wholesale Dry Goods, Vancouver, XIII. Hudson's Bay Co., General Merchants Cover WIRE ROPE— A. Leschen & Sons, St. Louis, Mo m. THE MINING RECORD. X11I. The Vancouver Agency, ^y | Head Office, 49-57, The,Albany, Liverpool, Eng. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS. NOTE—We have the following rough goods on hand, viz., Calcutta Ore Sacks, COTTON WASTE, FIREBRICKS, FIRECLAY, SMITHY COAL, LIVERPOOL DAIRY SALT. Our PRICE for Ore Sacks is particularly LOW as our contract was made before the rise in the Market. Write for lowest prices to 605 Granville St., Vancouver, Be. THE VANCOUVER AGENCY, Ltd. WHITE HORSE Yukon Terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway. The Coming Metropolis of the Golden North. All steamers plying to and from Dawsonand other places on the River Yukon and its tributaries must make White Horse their terminal point. The new gold fields on the nig Silm'n ran be more easily reached from White Hir.e than from any other localitv, thus it is re nisi in to become the great distributing cenre for the whole Canadian Yukon. Wonderfully rich copper deposits in its immediate vicinity and distributed over a wide area to the Westward and Southward will certainly make white Horse an important industrial centre. The Townsite is beau'ifu ly situated on a level tract of land on the west bank of the Yukon Eiver and just below the celebrated w hite Horse Rapids, around which all goods have been hitherto transhipped from the steamers on the upper river to those on the lower river. T. J. BETHUNE, General Agent, Lots are now on the market. Plans of the townsite can be seen and prices and all information re gardlng the same can be obtained at the office of the undersigned at 36 Fort S reet, Victoria; Corner Pearl and Second Streets, Atlin City; Front Street, Bennett; Corner First Avenue and Main Street, White Horse; and also at the office of Sanders & Haynes, Corner Pioneer Square and First Avenue South, Seattle, Wash.; and also at the office of i$t J. BANFIELD, 607 Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C. VICTORIA, B.C. PLATINUM REFINERS New York Office- 121 LIBERTY STREET. W1 E are always in the market for : : ; : : : CRUDE OR NATIVE PLATINUM,, BAKER & CO., —NEWARK, N. J. r <%^^^^^'%*^*^^'%*^^*^'*^'%^^'%^^*^^<%^^*^^'\***^^'%****^/%^%^%S%,'* ^~-~— A CO ^0 $ UOB H-SiSc SBjflStB-rrB** f§ii SC< co. N\TZ± t- Telegraphic Address "Lobnitz, Renfrew."Ai Code Used ^ XIV. THE MINING RECORD. The Sunset Copper Mining Co., LIMITED. SUNSET SHARES WILL MAKE YOU RICH. :.ewof COPPER FOUNTAIN YALE DISTH§fe&<£3 SUNSET SHARES WILL MAKE YOU RICH. • .... OWNING HND ©PERHTING .... THE SUNSET MINE ©N COPPER MOUNTAIN ^» jj SIMILKAMEEN MINING DISTRICT. | .Everyone who has seen the property renders a unanimous verdict. The Biggest & Best Mine in British Columbia Now is the TIME to BDY STOCK in this Wonderful Mine. It is an investment! No Speculation ! Ore enough in sight to return 100 per cent, on amount invested. BUY T0-DHY before Advance in Price. CAPITAL STOCK : 2,100,000 Shares; Par Value $1.00 each. TREASURY STOCK: 500 000 Shares, now selling at 25c. fully paid up and non-assessable Princeton r_hswh Grand Forks President and General Manager THE MINING RECORD. xv. THE CHAMBER CF MINES, SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (KOOTENAYS AND YALE.) The Chamber of Mines wants thoroughly reliable correspondents in every Camp in the districts of East and West Kootenay and Yale to whom reasonable compensation will be paid for their services. Correspondents will be expected to furnish the Chamber of Mines with all development going on at the mines, the installation of machinery, shipments of ore and value, and generally such news as will attract the attention of capitalists and cause them to investigate and invest. Applications to be addressed to the CHAMBER OF MINES, P. O. Box 578. Southern British Columbia, (Kootenay and Yale) ROSSLAND, B. C. T© NORTHERN MINES! The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Ltd., Dispatch Regular Steamers as follows, "viz.: For Skagway and Wrangel, 1 For Northern B. C. Points, Every Wednesday at eleven p.m. V Every Sunday at eleven p.m. For West Coast Points, Eirst. Seventh, Fourteenth and Twentieth of each month at eleven p.m. DOW -SRE MHNCFSeTDRED IN- Great Variety FOR MINING PURPOSES Operated by Steam, Hir, Electric or Water Power Vertical SINKING PUMPS, Bucket or Double Plunger Pattern. Deep Mine STATION PUilPS. ...... MAKE KNOWN YODR WANTS T© THE —-' GEO. E. DOW PUMPING ENGINE CO., Successors to the DOW STEAM PUMP WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL TheodorLexow,NoSn Nos. 12 to 16 John St. ear Broadway, NEW YORK, IMPORTER OF CARBONS (Black Diamonds.) For Diamond Drills and all Mechanical Purposes. HENRY DEMMERT. EAST KOOTENAY, I IVIines and Mining Stock eoal, Petroleum and Timber Lands in British Columbia and Alberta. McVITTI E & H UTCH ESON, Cranbrooi, E.Kootenay, B.C. Hfl XVI. THE MINING RECORD. BRITISH COLUMBIA WHOLESALE SUPPLY HOUSES, ETC. Office Furniture^- We have in stock or made to order ROLLER CURTAIN DESKS, FLAT TOP DESKS. Office and Library Tables, Typewriter Tables. OFFICE FURNITURE of EVERY DESCRIPTION. WEILER BR©S., nlaid Linoleums, Plain and Printed Linoleum, Cork Carpet. For anything in House Furnishing write to us. We are headquarters. vieT©Rmt e.e. L.ENZ. & LEISER, 9 <_ // yates street. IMPORTERS OF GENERAL DRY GOODS. -MANUFACTURERS OF- CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR A Large Supply of Goods Suitable for tbe Koote0ay and Klondike Trades. ONLY WHITE LABOR EMPLOYED. Special attention given to packing Goods for the Klondike Trade and other Mining Camps. TURNER, BE ETON & CO. Kgfgi Virtfififl Vanrfti«m«« art A M/xl™-.— .o <~" Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson, B.C. AND AT H. C. Beeton & Co., SS Finsbury Circus, London, Eng WHOLESALE I • MERCHANTS Dry Goods, Liquors, Cigars, Flour, Etc. G0__s 1NDENTED FR0M ALL PA#Rrs Manufacturers of Clothing, Etc. ...of the world... TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES "TURNER," Victoria. "BEETON," London. "TCRBEET," Vanc.-ver and Nelson. J. PIEReY & eOMPHNY, Wholesale Dry Goods & ciotmno Manuwirers Makers of the celebrated "IR©NeLflD" Overalls. J. PIERCY & CO., VICTORIA, B.C. THE MINING RECORD. XVII MISeELLHNEOLTS. Robt. Ward & eoM Temple Building, VICTORIA, B.C. Metropolitan Building,Vancouver, B.C. 70 Basinghall St., London, E.C. Ltd, Commission Merchants and Importers. .*.*.* Shipping, Insurance and Financial Agents. Royal Belgian Consulate. GENERAL AGENTS for The Royal Insurance Co. The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. The Northern Assurance Co The Standard Life Assurance Co., The London and Provincial Marine Assurance Co., The Western Assurance Co. (Marine.) The London Assuranc Corporation (Marine). La Foncier Campagnie d'Assurances. Swiss Marine Insurance Companies. SOLE AGENTS for Curtis' & Harvey's Sporting and Blasting Powder and " Amberite " (Smokeless Powder.) CANNERY AGENCIES.—Bwen & Co.—Lion and Bonnie Dundee Brands. Bon Accord Fishery Co.—Consul and Bon Accord Brands. Canadian Pacific Packing Co.—Flagship Brand. West Coast Packing Co. Currie, McWilliams & Fowler, Imperial Cannery. Managers and Agents for .The British Columbia Corporation, Limited, Mortgages, Debentures, Trusts, Estates Managed and Rents Collected. Importers of Oilmen's Stores, Tin Plates, Portland Cement, Pig Iron and General Merchandise. Managers and Agents for the Moodyville Sawmills. Charters Effected and Indents Executed for every Description of British and Foreign Merchandise. Tug Boat Agents.' The Bank of British Columbia. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862). CAPITAL (with power to increase) £600,000 $2,920,000 RESERVE * 100,000 $ 486,666 Head Office—60 Lombard Street, London, England. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS: branches: In British Columbia—Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Nelson, Sandon, Rossland. In the United States—San Francisco and Portland. In Canada—Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants' Bank of Canada, The Molson's Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Commerce (Agency), New York ; Merchant's Bank of Canada, New York; Bank of Nova Scotia, Chicago. In Australia and New Zealand— Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu—Bishop & Co. YUKON AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS Drafts, Letters of Credit, etc., issued direct on Dawson City, Atlin City and Skagway. SAVINGS BAN K DEPARTM ENT.—Deposits received from $1 upwards, and interest allowed thereon. Gold Dust purchased and every description of Banking Business transacted. GEORGE GILLESPIE, Manager. LOTS NOW IN THE... MARKET. ALLISON TOWNSITE, Situated on the Beautiful Valley of the Similkameen River At the point where the railway leaves the Valley for Spence's Bridge and m close proximity to Copper Mountain is the coming business centre for all the mining camps from Twenty-Mile to Otter Valley, and iwminh-v west of the railway known as the Hope Mountain, is so situated as to command the trade north g5=E555gi the country West Oi tne rauwu^ _-.jj.<jw.u. «« «*_*/ "v^w ^*.^_-_J.__«—, -» »~ -~- --— to Spence's Bridge, east to Penticton, west to Hope and the Tulameen, and south to Copper and Kennedy Mountains. _. t ^ - * r is the time to secure the most favorable location before the railway is commenced, and the Government establish the N O W head offices for that district. Railway and Wagon Road are both located through the centre of the town. Handsome Bridge just completed over the Similkameen river, connecting with Copper Mountain Wagon Eoad. Stores res and Hotel now under construction, and Saw Mill being erected close to Townsite. Apply to J. F. Foulkes & Co.,35 fort street- AND ROOM 7, BOARD OF TRADE BLD'G. Head Office Dewdney's Canadian Syndicate, Ltd MM vm. THE MINING RECORD. PR©FESSI©NaL, ADVERTISEMENTS. T. H. GORE. H. BURNET. j, h. McGregor. GORE, BURNET & CO., Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors AND CIVIL ENGINEERS. F.ve Sisters Block. VICTORIA and NELSON. GORDON H. HARDIE. NICHOLAS THOMPSON. HARDIE & THOMPSON, Marine and General Consulting Mechanical Engineers- 520 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B.C. Telegrams " Gardie." Telephone 767. Plans, Specifications, Estimates, Working Drawings, Surveys and Reports. Also Contracts taken for Supply, Erection. Supervision, or Repairs and Al- lerations to all classes oJE M- chinery. Patentees and designers of the Hardie- Thompson Water Tube Boiler, New High Speed Reversing Kneines, and Special Machinery in Light Sections for Mines. Engines indicated aud adjusted. Sole Agents in B. C. and N. W. Territories for the United Flexible Metallic Tubing Co , Ltd., London Eng. Stock Carried. Unequalled for Conveyance of Steam, Air, Oils and Gas. HOWARD WEST mining engineer (Associate of Royal School of Mines, London, Eng.) Five Year's Residence in West Kootenay. Reports on Slocan Properties, New Denver, B.C. Makes a specialty of supplying reliable Information and Telegraph Codes used: Bedford McNeill's, A.B.C. fourth edition and Moreing & Neal's HRCHBOLD & PERRSON, MINING ENGINEERS ASSAYERS- Cable Address: Archpear, Nelson. Codes: Bedford McNeill, A.B.C. P.O. Box 583, NELSON, British Columbia. A. H, HOLDICH, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST a„c METALLURGIST. I Royal School of Mines, London. Seven years at Morfa works, Swansea. Seventeen years chief chemist to Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Late chief chemist Hall Mines Co., Ltd. Assays and Analyses made on all varities of mineral and many organic substances. Special experience in Smelting—both Swansea and American process. REVELSTOKE, B.C. RELIABLE A55AYS. Gold. Lead . | 50 50 Gold and silver $ 75 Gold, silver, copper 1.50 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion. Bought, ogden assay e©., 1429.16th st.. Denver, eoio. ERNEST A. CLEVE Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyor. Surveys of Mines and Mineral Claims. 51gH..an8. str-Sisdall,s) VANCOUVER, B.C. H. E. D. MERRY, Consulting, Metallurgical and Mining Engineer. Late assistant manager to H. H. Vivian & Co., Ld., Swansea. Late mining expert to the British American Corporation. Wines examined and reports made. Estimates oi costs of plant and treatment of all classes of ore given. Development of properties, erection of smelting, concentrating and cyanide plants and practical working of sam<- undertaken. Address P. O. Box 882, ROSSLAND, B.C. W. PELLEW-HARVEY, F.C.S. M.I.M.M. assaYER and MINING ENGINEER. Established 1890. The Vancouver Pub lie Ore Testing and Sampling Works. Purchaser of COPPER, SILVER, GOLD and LEAD ORES and' MATTE for the following houses whom he represents : VIVIAN & SONS, Swansea. ELLIOTT'S METAL CO., LTD.. Burry Port. Smelters, Refiners, Desilverizers and Manu- • facturers. Also agent for the Cassell Gold Extracting Co.. Ltd., Glasgow, (Cyanide process). Works and Office—17-19 Pender St., VANCOUVER, Assayer in charge of Provincial Government Assay offices, Vancouver. John Redman, Mining and Mechanical Engineer. C. Outhett, R. C. Sc. Chemist and Metallurgist. REDriAN & OUTHETT, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, Kamloops, B. C. Mining properties managed, examined and reported npon. Assays and An alyses guaranteed accura'e. Write for interesting information about Kamloops and North Tale mining properties. Wm. n. BREWER, MINING ENGINEER. MEM. N. of ENG. INST. MINING & MECH. ENG. and AM. INST., M.E. Molson's Bank Building, - - VANCOUVER, B. C. A. A. WATSON, B, Sc. PROVINCIAL ASSAYER. VERNON, B.C. Analyst and Mineralogist. Honours Graduate in Chemistry, Victoria University, England. Reports made on Mining Properties. Seven years experience in Australia, South America, England and British Columbia. SPECIAL ATTENTION TQ SAMPLES BY MAIL. WANTED. Young engineer desires position as an assistant, understand* compressed air. steam, water and electric powers and their calculations; familiar with mining machinery and its design; practiced in surveying and drafting; college graduate. Address B. C. BRADY, Curtis Block, Butte, Mont. E. JACOBS, Accountant, Auditor, Etc. GREENWOOD, B.C. Books of Account Opened, Balanced or Audited. Accounts Kept Regularly or Examined Periodically. Assigned Estates Wound Up. J CHARLES MclNTOSH—Barrister-at-Law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, Notary Public, etc. PRINCETON, British Columbia. Correspondence respecting all mining properties in the Similkameen Mining District confidentially handled. THE MINING RECORD. six. PROFESSIONAL, HND BROKERS. J- Fortescue Foulkes. N. B. Van derGucht. J- F. Foulkes & Co., Mining and Stock Brokers 35 Fort Street. VICTORIA, B.C. Cable address : "Fouvan." All codes used. J. C. T. CROFTS, M.I. Mech. E. ^NELSON, B. C. MACHINERY, AERIAL TRAMWAYS, ETC., SUPPLIED AND ERECTED. Wire Rope and Flexible Metallic Tubing from Stock. PLANS. DRAWINGS. ESTIMATES. One of the Oldest Established Firms in Rossland Mining Properties Developed. Confidential Reports on Mines S. THORNTON LANGLEY & CO, Mine and Share Brokers. Partially developed Mines for sale Brokers and Financial Agents for The Okanagan Free Gold Mines, Limited Cable Address: "Langley." Codes: Clough's and Moreing & Neal's. p.o Boxm ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Cable Address: "Buckworth," Ymir A. BERNARD BUCKWORTH MINES YMIR, British Columbia. Personal knowledge of mining properties in this district. Correspondence invited. Commissions undertaken. Cable address: "Oortez," Vancouver. A. W. MORE & CO. * MINING and STOCK BROKERS. Codes used: Bedford-McNeill's, Moreing & Neal's, Clough's, and A.C.C., Fourth Edition. 86 Government Street, VICTORIA, B.C Mining and Surveying Instruments. Light Mountain Transits and Transit-Theodolites. Scott's Mine Tachymeter. Most improved constructions. Best workmanship. Send for list. P. & R. WITTSTOCK, Berlin S. 59 GERMANY- "Men of Note in ^B Finance and Commerce," Who is He? What is He ? Where is He ? [These questions are applied to prominent men in finance and commerce in the United Kingdom, and the replies afford information obtainable in no other reference book. ] EDITED BY HERBERT H. BASSETT, Joint Editor of "Penn on the Funds." " The evolution of an excellent idea ... It should prove a hardy annual."—Westminster Gazette. " Cannot fail to render the financial world yeoman service . . . The idea is better than excellent: It is novel, and the book will become one of the bare necessities of financial life of the twentieth century .... "— " Morning Htrald " Crown, 8vo. Cloth, 12/6 Nett. EFFINGHAM WILSON, 11 Roya! Exchange. ADVT AND GENERAL OFFICE : 24 e©LEM»N ST., L0NDON, E.e. Codes : Brownhall's. Moreing & Neal's. ONLY FIRST-CLASS PROPERTIES HANDLED MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD For authentic and thorough information, call or address : J. M. MACKINNON, Mackinnon Building, Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C. XX. THE MINING RECORD. MINING PUBLICATIONS, &e. . . . IT IS N© GOOD ... Advertisinq in the British Press Unless You Understand How to Approach the British Public. The best way to do this is to employ an up to date ADVERTISING EXPERT Who can adliiys0tup|snsdibl'eVa°es.business at Quoted by the Newspapers themselves. L,et us know what you want and we will be pleased to assist you e. J. WALKER'S "British and Canadian Press Bureau/ 24 eoleman St., London, E.e. THE MINING JOURNAL, RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. ? Established 1835. Circulates all over the world amongst Miners, Engineers, Manufacturers and Capitalists. ADVERTISEMENT AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 46 Queen Victoria Street, - = London, E.C. PUBLISHIXG OFFICES: 3 Dorset Buildings, = Salisbury Square, E.C. EVERY SATURDAY, PRICE SIXPENCE. The subscription to The Mining Journal, including postage, is for :— 12 months. 6 months. 3 months Canada 28s. Us. 7s. Payable in advance. ft. Van Oer Naillens' School of Practical, Civil, Mining, Electrical Mechanical Engineering. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaying, Cyanide, Chlorination, Metallurgy, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blow pipe Assay, $10; Full course of Assaying, $50. Established 1864. Open all year Send for Circular. 933 Market St., San Francisco, Cal MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES. *n Engineering School with unique location gi ing it unusual fatilities. Distinct! e methods of ii struction. Special courses For atab gues giving occupation of graduat.s, address . W.McNAIR, l'resi lent, Houghton, Mich. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY, ITS STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE, VOL. VIII. 1899. (Editedby R. P. Rothwell), 8vo. cloth. Profusely Illustrated. Price $5 00, postpaid. Among the many valuable technical treatises embodied in this presen notable volume are the following, written by pre-eminent, international experts on their various subjects : Corundum and Emery (L. S. Ropes); Corl undum in Ontario (Conrtenay DeKalb); Progress in the Aluminum Industry in 1899 (J. B. C. Kershaw); Occurrence of Asphalt in California (A. C. Cooper); Notes on the Met illurgy of Bismuth (W. Borchers); Method of Recovery of Bromine in Germany (B. C. Hinman); Calcinm Carbide (J. B.C. Kershaw); Hydraulic Cement industry in the United States in 1899 (F. H. Lewis); Chrome Ore Mining in Canada (J. Obalski); Notes On the Metallurgy of Chromium (W. Borchers); Notes on 1 he Coarse lottery Production of Great Br.tain (W. P. Rix); Fuel and Its Economical Utilization (W. Kent); Progress in the Kleotrolvtic Refining of Copper in 1899 (T. Ulke) Hofmann's Method for ihe Manufactuae of Blue Vitriol (0. Hofmam); Extraction of Copper from Burnt Pyrites by the Henderson Process (J. G. Clemmer); Fluorspar in the United states (E E.Squier); Copper Mining in New South Wales(L. Janin, Jr.); Cutting and Polishing of Precious Stones (L. Clare- mont); Glass—Analysis of and Methods of Manufacture (R.Linton;; Gold Dredgmgin the United States (A. Grothe); Progress in the Cyanide Process (L. Janin, Jr.); Moebius' Electrolytic Process for Parting Gold' and Silver (M. W. lies); Nickel and Iron Alloys (S, Souther); World's Production of Petroleum (C. E. Z. Caracristi); Electrolytic Manufaciure of Phosphorus (VV. Borchers); Progress in the Electrolytic Chlorae Industry in 1899 (J. C. B. Kershaw): Electrolytic Production of Chlorine and Caustic Soda A. T. Weightman): Liquid Anhydrous Sulphuric Acid (F. Meyer); Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid Stronger tiixn Chamber Acid (F. J. Falding); Galena—Joplin Lead and Zinc District (E. Haworth); Mining and Milling of Joplin Ores (F Nicholson): Uses of Liquid Air (T. O'C. Sloane); Mine Timbering (W. E. Sanders); Progress in Ore Dressing in 1899 (R. H. Richards). THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 253 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. REFRACTORY ©RES. WANTED—i,ooo tons or more which will assay $75.00 Gold per ton and over delivered free of charge at San Francisco, Cal. Correspondence solicited. C. J. TALLON, No. 308 Market Street, <= San Francisco, Gal. A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED . . Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Will shortly be at liberty. Would willingly take whole or partial charge of a Reduction Plant. Can keep books if required. Would start an independent Laboratory in any new district if sufficient work was guaranteed. Address I Acctjrate," care Editor, B.C. Mining Record. . r. Smith & 60., i.d. ESTABLISHED 1858. MAJMUJET-A-CTURERS OB* HIGH CLASS BISCUITS & CONFECTIONERY Gold Medals awarded at Royal Agricultural Exhi- tion, '95-'9&-'97-'98, Medal and Diploma awarded at Colonial and Indian Exhibitions. Silver Medals at Provincial Exhibitions, 1886. BRANCH 430 Cordova Street, VANCOUVER. VICTORIA, B.C. B,(J. WT> "OA1LEY & CO.,—ASHOKO T, • -U» J-' Storage and Forwarding Agents. Goods received, stored and forwarded with desp-u. s lo «nv ■•< hit in Cariboo reached by wagoi or pack train. Consign goods to our care and we will settle railway charges and ship to destination with least possible delay. AGENTS JWANTED. fE WANT a live, rnfitnhlo 'h«rf^»T."" «™i."r-•ZiJ1!TJi"Jr «< _„_ gents wanted, ices bemselves, addres Department K, Corner Perkins & Union Sts., AKRON, 0. WE WANT a live, active representative in your territory at once to engage in a very profitable business. General and local agents From|5.00 to $lii.00 a day. Advancement rapid. Good references required. Those out of employment or wishing to better fiBKsKswwBSa _ j^. AGENTS WANTED. Live, active men and w>men can earn from $5.00 to#L0.00 a day by can vassing for Frank G. Carpenter's book, "SOUTH AMERICA—SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL." This book is just out and is having an enormous sale. Everybody wants it. As it is being sold by subscription only, we desire representatives who are hustlers at once to introduce the work in your territory. Most libera, terms. Write to-day for territory and full particulars to THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO THE MINING RECORD. XXI. YHNSODYER ISLAND COHL. COAL! COAL! The New Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co- (LIMITED.) (FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY.) Are the Largest Coal Producers on the Pacific Coast. NANAIflO COAL (Used principally for Gas and Domestic purposes.) SOUTH FIELD COAL (Steam Fuel.) Protection Island Coal & New Wellington Coal (House and Steam Coal), are mined by this Company exclusively. THE NANAIMO COAL gives a large percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other bituminous coal in the world, and a superior quality of coke. THE SOUTHFIELD COAL is used by all the leading steamship lines on the Pacific. THE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was introduced in 1890, has already become a favourite fuel for domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal, makes a bright and cheerful fire, and its lasting qualities make it the most economical fuel in the market. THE PROTECTION ISLAND COAL is similar to the New Wellington Coal. This coal is raised from the submarine workings under the Gulf of Georgia and is shipped from wharves both at Protection Island and Nanaimo. The several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo, Departure Bay and Protection Island, where ships of the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide. Special despatch given to mail and ocean steamers. SAMUEL M. ROBINS. Supt, Nanaimo. B.e. tarn am XXH. THE MINING RECORD. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Canadian Pacific Railway SOO-PACIFIC LINE. THROUGH TRAINS ATLANTIC to PACIFIC • -WITHOUT CHANGE • TO ALL POINTS IN Lowest Rates. Best Equipment. ■ Canada and United States For full particulars as to rates, time, and copies of C. P. R. publications, apply to Or to B. W. GREER, Agent, VICTORIA, B.C E. J. COYLE, Ass't General Passenger Agent, VANCOUVER, B.C. R. P. RITHETI& CO., WHOLESALE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND INSURANCE AGENTS. PROPRIETORS OF VICTORIA WHARF, OUTER HARBOUR, COLUMBIA FLOURING MILL, ENDERBY, AND VERNOtf MILLS, VERNON. Agents for Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Chemainus, V.I.; Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia; Fraser Eiver, Skeena River, and River's Inlet Canneries ; Skeena River Packing Company, Skeena River ; Pacific Coast Steamship Company, San Francisco ; Scottish Union & National Insurance,Company of Edinburgh ; Lancashire Insurance Company of England; Queen Insurance Company of America (Fire); and English and American Marine Insurance Company. LLOYD'S AGENCY. HAWAIIAN CONSULATE. WHARF STREET, VICTORIA, B.C. Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., Ld. TIME TABLE NO. 55. Taking effect November 15th, 1900. VANCOUVER ROUTE. Victoria to Vancouver daily, 1 o'clock a.m. Vancouver to Victoria daily at 1.15 o'clock p.m. or on arrival of C P Railway No. 1 train. NEW "WESTMINSTER ROUTE. Leave Victoria—For New Westminster, Ladner and Lulu Island Tuesday and Friday at 7 o'clock a.m. Leave New Westminster—For Victoria Wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. FRASER RIVER ROUTE. Steamer leaves New Westminster for Chilliwack and way landings every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock a.m. during river navigation. NORTHERN ROUTE. Steamship of this Company leave Victoria for Naas and inter mediate ports via Vancouver on 1st Nov. and 15th of each month. ALASKA ROUTE. Steamers of this Company leave for Wrangel and Skaswav every Wednesday at 11 p.m. BARCLAY SOUND ROUTE. Steamer leaves Victoria for Alberni and Sound ports the 1st, 10th and 20th at 11 p.m. Extending latter trip to Quatsino and Cape Scott. The Company reserve the right of changing this Time Table at any time without notification. G-. A. CARLETON, General Freight Agent. C. S. BAXTER, General Passenger Agent The Hudson's Bay ComDany HAVE Baie da Peres Battleford Calgary Chapleau Dauphin Deloraine Edmonton Fort William ■« : Kamloops Langley Lethbridge AT Lower Fort Garry Macleod Mattawa Worden Nelson Pincher Greek Portage la Prairie Port Simpson Prince Albert Qu'Appelle Quesnelle Bat Portage Biding Mountain Shoal Lake Sudbury Touchwood Hills Vancouver Victoria Vernon Whitewood Winnipeg And at other principal points in British Columbia, Manitoba and Northwest Territories. Purchasers will find at these Stores the best goods at moderate prices, imported direct from all the principal markets of the world. FELTEN & GUILLEAUHE, Carlswerk, Mien GeseMafl MnlMm on Rhine. Manufacturer of Electrical Leads and Cables Electric Lighting Cables for Coal Pita with arrangement For avoiding fire-damp explosions in case of the cable breaking. Wire Ropes for Mining Bound and Flat Wire Ropes," Albert," or so-called " Lang's" Lay Ropes, Patent Locked Coil Wire Ropes, Patented Flattened Strand Wire Ropes. Iron, Steel, Copper and Bronze Wire Superior qualities .'. 3 Sole Agents for Canada Mi * Robertson 7 St. Helen St. MONTREAL. WHITE, ROGERS & COMPANY, Constructing Engineers and Millwrights. »"l:jSte''«*! M&i 306 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. Sole Pacific Coast Agents and Builders of the Celebrated 9* <« i. Wilfley Concentrator, Price $450 f.o.b. San Francisco. One of these machines will take the place of Two or Three Belt concentrators of any make and do very much better work. We furnish superior Machinery and erect Stamp Mills, Hoisting and Pumping Works operated by Steam or Water Motors. Complete Concentrating and Smelting Plants for the concentration and recovery of gold, silver, copper and lead. Improved Power Drills and Air Compressors. Wire Rope Tramways, etc. The Wilfley Table is covered by U.5. Patents Nos. 580,338 and 590,675. Infringements will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These Machines are Kept in Stock ready for Immediate Shipment. EVERY BELT GUARANTEED Genuine Oak Tanned Leather Belting FOR EXPOSED SITUATIONS USE " LANCASHIRE " HAIR BELTING. O. K. McLaren, Montreal, Toronto. Catalogue and Discounts on application. THE Wm. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. LIMITED. Mining Machinery. _js T^ill|B We are the sole manufacturers and agents for the Wilfley Table in Canada. It is in use in every part of the world where gold and silver mining and milling is carried on. By- careful tests and long continued work in regular milling operations it has proved its superiority over all other concentrators. We claim the following for the Wilfley Table : ist. It will successfully handle three or four times more material than any belt concentrator made, without any exceptions. 2nd. It will save more concentrates in proportion while so doing and will catch any float gold, amalgam or quicksilver, which may escape from the mortars or plates. 3rd. It will make cleaner and more valuable concentrates, thus saving useless expense for transportation of valueless material, and also reducing the smelting charges. 4th. It requires little or no attention when once adjusted and no expert is required either to adjust or run the machine. 5th. It will save much expense in power and room as compared with mills using other concentrators. 6th. It has no expensive belts to crack and wear out and no complicated machinery to keep in repair. Capacity. .i% \i$Mh z5 tons Per day Power required.. .. ^.33^.. ;.4?f: '..«£.. 1 H.P. Length over all 19 feet 6 inches. Width 8 feet. Price of table, f.o.b cars, Peterborough, Ont., $450.00. Shipping weight ."M 3,300 lbs. Head Office & Works: PETERBOROUGH, ONT. Branch Offices: Vancouver and Nelson, B. C. 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