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DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS for JANUARY 15, 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL

Here is another one that Congress is proposing to hang upon the mining industry of the West.

Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, has introduced a bill which reads in part as follows:
“That hereafter mining locations made under the United States Mining Laws, upon lands within a national forest, shall confer on the locator no right to the surface of the land covered by the location, other than the right to occupy, under the rules and regulations relating to the national forests, so much thereof as may be reasonably necessary to carry on prospecting and mining, and shall not authorize the taking of any resource other than the mining deposits, or the occupancy of the land for any purpose other than prospecting and mining;

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It further provides that a patent issued hereafter affecting lands within a national forest, shall only convey the right to occupy so much of the surface of the claim as may be required for extracting and removing the mineral deposit, and that every such patent shall expressly reserve to the United States, Title to the surface of the land within the claim.”

It will be readily seen that the purpose of this Bill is to deprive the miner of any title whatever to the surface of his claim, and limit him to the use of so much thereof, as in the opinion of the officials of the Forest Service, may be reasonably necessary to carry on prospecting and mining operations. We all know what that means, It means that the mining claimant would have to apply to the Forest Service for permission to use a trifling portion of the surface of his claim, and for permission to use a little timber for mining purposes.

Even under present conditions mining operations are difficult enough, but with such a law in force as that contemplated by the Norbeck Bill, the life of the miner would be just about unbearable, and the future development of our mineral resources would be greatly hampered and retarded, —especially in view of the fact that most of the undeveloped mineral resources of the public land states are included in forest reserves.

Some of the disadvantages under this proposed legislation would be that every time a locator wished to sink a shaft, drive a tunnel, or make an open cut, he would have to go to the trouble, and submit to the expense and delay of getting a permit from the Forest Service, which permit, after all, might be refused; and furthermore, he would have no ground for buildings, and would not be allowed the use of water, or any other resource existent on the claim, and he would have no ground upon which to dump tailings.

I hate to be always writing letters to congressmen, but if they will persist in trying to throttle western mining, I must keep on writing letters and getting others to do the same thing. Now is the time to act…. Charles Willis, Publisher of the Mining Journal.

[REHAB NOTES: THIS WAS THE STORY IN 1930. CHANGE THE WORDS “FOREST SERVICE’ TO “BLM” AND IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MANY OF THE TENETS OF THIS BILL HAVE SINCE BEEN IMPLEMENTED AS FEDERAL POLICY TOWARDS ANY MINER, MINING COMPANY, PROSPECTOR, OR RECREATIONAL MINING CLAIM HOLDER.]
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Northwestern Porphyry Copper Prospects
By ROBERT N. BELL, Boise, Idaho.
The second of a series of articles covering the principal porphyry copper prospects in the northwestern United States.
Particular mention is made of the Idaho Copper Company.

The most productive copper-gold ore deposit to date in the Snake River Province, is the Iron Dike Mine, which carries some remarkably interesting and controversial features from a geologic standpoint. The following quotation from the 22nd Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, by Waldemar Lindgren, made thirty years ago, covering this property in its early stages of adit development, is of keen interest in its general application to other outcrop condition of the province.

“The croppings are large masses of black and brown stained rocks, one knoll rising 75 feet above the general slope, and measuring 100 feet across. It is said that the croppings can be traced for some distance in a west-northwesterly direction. At any rate, few walls or fissures can be seen; one near the mouth of the highest tunnel, strikes north 55 degrees West, and dips 60 degrees South. The maximum width of the croppings is probably 200 or 250 feet. On the rusty surface of the croppings, scarcely any copper stain indicates the heavy body of chalcopyrite immediately underlying it. Holes a foot or two deep, show somewhat decomposed pyrite, but very little chalcopyrite, the latter appearing only a little farther below the surface.

The upper tunnel, for the first 100 feet, is in heavy ore of mixed chalcopyrite and pyrite; then follows 80 feet of poorer ore. A sharp contact here separates the chloritic greenstone from the dark-brown meta-andesite. Crosscuts extending 25 feet each way in the best part of the ore, show a width of four feet of solid sulphides which may average 15 to 20 per cent in copper.

The largest part of the tunnel is, of course, in poorer ore, consisting of disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite in chloritic greenstone. There are also abundant quartz seams, veinlets and nodules, which contain chalcopyrite, and often a regular silicification of the rock may be noted. Zinc blende or galena rarely occurs, and a little antimony is contained in the best ore. The ore contains about $2 in gold, and 6 to 80 ounces silver, per ton. These amounts are apparently independent of the percentage of copper. The intermediate tunnel, 150 feet long, with a crosscut 125 feet toward the west, also shows a heavy body of sulphides. If the lowest crosscut, now being driven, exposes similar bodies of ore the deposit will be of considerable value.”

The original owners of this property seriously underestimated its remote situation, and transportation difficulties, before the branch railway was constructed. They developed the mine to the 400-foot level by crosscut adits and drifts on the vein, tying up several hundred thousand dollars in the enterprise, which failed to pay, in such a remote situation. The subsequent history of the property is of keenest interest.

In 1914, the writer called this property to the attention of Thayer Lindsey, now so prominent in Canadian mining progress, who obtained a long lease and option to purchase the property, and is said to have paid for it out of royalties on subsequent ore shipments. As the story goes, Mr. Lindsey and his associates invested just $5,000 in re-timbering and shaping up the old development for production. He took hold of the enterprise late in 1914, when copper metal prices were all shot to pieces by the U boat activities of the war, but he apparently had an uncanny foresight as to their early recovery. According to published records of the Oregon Mining Bureau, from December, 1914, to December, 1915, he shipped 480 cars of crude ore; subsequently built an up-to-date 100-ton capacity flotation mill, and established an elaborate modern camp, including a large boarding house, bunk houses and 80 bungalow-type cottages for married men.

The property was connected with the Idaho Power Company’s plant at Copperfield, four miles farther south on the river, where an abundant supply of electric current was made available for operating the machinery.

A shaft was started from the 400-foot adit level; in fact a winze was already down 100 feet at this point, in blank but highly oxidized gangue, which Mr. Lindsey recognized was not the bottom of the deposit. At a short distance below this winze bottom he ran into the most noted orebody of the property, which proved to be 150 feet in width, length and depth —an apparently isolated block of ore— that was richly and fairly uniformly sprinkled with pyrite and chalcopyrite in a very hard, siliceous gangue, and is said to have given average mill feed values of 5 percent copper, and $8.00 gold, per ton, with a production of 160,000 tons. A new shaft was sunk, near the portal of the lower tunnel, 440 feet deep through which this big ore body, and other ore bodies, were extracted.

The enterprise was actively operated for five years, until shortly after the close of the war, when it was shut down, and remained dormant for several years, and was subsequently sold in 1925 for $100,000 after a production that is said to aggregate $5,000,000 in gross value of crude ore and concentrate shipments, and $3,500,000 net smelter returns. The nature of this deposit and its development, subsequent to Lindgren’s studies, has proven quite a controversial problem with the geologists who examined it.

In 1926, the property fell into the hands of the Idaho Copper Company, and the three-compartment shaft was extended 200 feet deeper and below the level of the river, which is only 2,000 feet distant, some drifting done, and a large footage of diamond-drill work accomplished, particularly from the 740 level. This drilling campaign is said to have given some very interesting core results, indicating large bodies of ore with values ranging from 1 to 3 per cent copper, with the usual associated value in gold. Contrary to the shallow development promise, gold is the predominant associated value with the copper, and the silver unimportant, rarely exceeding a few ounces in the concentrates.

In its present development, the deposit looks like a tabular ore shoot, a thousand feet long, distributed by thrust fault movement, and broken into blocks or so-called boulders of ore through the later injection of flat dipping igneous dikes of yellowish and green basic igneous rock, and a thick zone of injection breccia which carries, in its matrix, marginal disseminations of chalcopyrite in bodies of ore, from a mere pebble, to blocks containing several thousand tons. These disturbed ore bodies, including the main 700 stope, which is said to have produced 160,000 tons of ore, are scattered through a disturbed zone 800 feet wide between two normal faults. The immediate bounding formation to the north is rhyolite, and to the south, the complex of greenstone formations with thick horizons of volcanic and calcareous breecias and conglomerates.

It has been suggested by some geologists that these disturbed ore bodies are fragmental boulders formerly associated with the neck or branch of a volcano of caldera proportions, and something on the order of the Braden Mine [Chile] South America. While there is no conspicuous surface evidence of such an orifice, the suggestion is not without value, as the vast accumulation of predominantly plastic material, which constitutes the 10,000 feet of associated greenstone formations, tuffs and breccias, must have involved one or more vents of such explosive character.

There is evidence of two such vents, several miles in diameter, farther down the river near Pittsburg Landing, with telltale patches of lignite coal indicating former crater lake marginal accumulations of organic matter. Such an orifice may exist near the Iron Dike Mine, and be obscured by the basalt cap, which covers the formation for miles in three directions. In 1926, the Iron Dike Mine was taken over by the Idaho Copper Company, and actively operated for over a year with a production of $70,000 in concentrate shipping values.

During its recent operation, a ventilation raise was extended from the 740 level, on the south side of the zone in virgin ground, to the 400 surface adit level. This raise was completed just before the operation was shut down, and passed through 100 feet of ore carrying sectional assay values of 1 to 8 per cent copper with the usual associated gold values. The full sectional dimensions of this ore body are as yet unproved.

The old mill on the property was partly renovated, and in the hands of a competent operator, formerly with the Utah Copper Company. The shipping grade of the concentrates was raised from 12 per cent under some previous leasing operations, to 22 per cent with $19.00 gold and a few ounces of silver per ton.

At this stage in 1927, the enterprise, with its associated properties, the Red Ledge and the South Peacock mines, got into difficulties resulting apparently from a factional quarrel among the company’s directorate, for control, and the enterprise was put into the hands of a receiver, and has been dormant for the past two years. This receivership was terminated during October 1929, and it is currently reported that this unit of the companys’ holdings is to be turned over to a prominent Arizona leasor, and operations on its further development and equipment, commenced at an early date.

In the vicinity of the Iron Dike mine, there are numerous promising copper prospects. The ore bearing greenstone formations are obscured by the thick flows of Columbia basalt, except for a narrow belt between the lower beds of the basalt, and along this side of the river, for 50 miles to the north, where the greenstone formations are cut by several copper bearing quartz porphyry dikes up to 2,000 feet in width, in the vicinity of Rush Creek, and Pittsburg Landing; the latter a notable ferry crossing of the river, about 45 miles north of Homestead.

The Imnaha River, 60 miles north of Homestead, with its source in the granite slopes of the Wallowa Mountains, has scored a canyon through the basalt series to the underlying greenstones, which exposes numerous copper bearing ore courses, both of the fissure and zonal type. One of these fissures, situated at the confluence of the two rivers, has a tunnel about 50 feet above the water level of the two streams through which the intervening point follows a massive vein of hematite, from five to 12 feet thick, carrying 4 per cent copper in the form of disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite. Smaller veins of much higher values are found in this vicinity and they all carry a good gold ratio associated with their copper values.

The third of this series of articles on Northwestern Porphyry Copper Prospects will appear in an early issue.

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Drifts and Crosscuts

The Mining Journal is the only mining publication that intensively covers the whole of the western United States, and Mexico, and is devoted exclusively to it. It is thoroughly a western magazine, published in the West, by western mining men, for western mine officials, about western mines, western mining people, and western mining problems.

It is compiled exclusively for operating mine officials, and makes no attempt to cover the desires of a widely diversified list of readers. It is for the western United States, and Mexico—where the mining is—and makes no effort to cater to a wide geographical distribution.

Thus, The Mining Journal, catering to a single class of people, in a contiguous section, with identical interests, has become the leader, and has been accepted as such, by over three times as many readers in the section served as has any other publication.

It is alive and progressive, and ever alert to learn the needs of western mining people, and to serve those needs. It has grown to a strong position simply because of the splendid cooperation given it by the industry which it serves.

We get many hundreds of letters from those we serve. some complimenting us on the work which we are doing, others suggesting things we might do. We are seldom “panned,” except by our competitors who are not as much interested in the development of the west and western enterprises as we are. We are always pleased to learn how we can serve you better. Please tell us!

CHARLES F WILLIS, PUBLISHER
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Drifts and Crosscuts

A terrible calamity is about to envelope the gold industry, caused by over-production, much worse than the effects of over-production in copper, lead, zinc and silver, if we are to take at face value a statement published, and broadcast through the United Press, and purporting to come from a Japanese professor of the Imperial College. The statement is that he “estimates that there can be produced annually from Formosa Island $2,500,000,000 in gold.”

Just think for a minute what this means. The total production of California from 1 849, to date, is but a billion and a half, the richest area in the Americas today, produces a meager million a month, and here we are threatened with the production from a small island where there is to be almost twice as much produced annually, as California has produced in 80 years.

If we are to believe all that we hear and read, we may soon be able to regard copper, lead and zinc as relatively precious metals, or if we are able to maintain a gold standard, in the face of that enormous potential production, Japan will own the world, for it can buy it a couple of times every year.

I just wonder if this statement has any relation to a Japanese bond issue that is being floated, to show plenty of assets behind it, or whether some one has not stuttered a little, when it came to the 0-0-0-0-0. What is a few zeros, more or less, between friends?
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DESCRIPTION OF A RECORD BLAST OF FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

(By Albert Root, Vanadium, New Mexico)

In these days of great blasts and the breaking of immense masses of rock, about which we hear so much from time to time in the technical publications, it will be of interest to recall a great blast of 45 years ago; a blast that in many respects was epochal, and can well be compared with some of the very greatest of modern blasts. This event was in 1885, and was the occasion of the blowing up of Flood Rock, Long Island.

The details are thus: Including the galleries, from which 80,000 cubic yards were mined, and 275,000 cubic yards were blown up, there was something like three-quarters of a million tons of material handled, in addition to about the same amount of water, which was also blown high into the air. The rock thickness overhead, on which rested a varying depth of sea water, was from 10 to 24 feet high.

Four miles of galleries were first driven from a shaft, which descended to a depth of 64 feet below the sea level; 464 supporting pillars were left, having each a cross section of 15 feet by 15 feet. The blasting drill holes, 18,286 in number, were nine feet deep and three inches wide.

For blasting purposes, 110 tons of Rackarock were used. This was the last word in explosives of that day, being widely heralded as a super-explosive. In any event, it was far superior to black powder, as it could be set off by detonation.

The big charge was set off by electricity, also something quite novel for that time. A rock mass, nine acres in area, together with the superimposed water, was seen to rise a hundred feet into the air. It was all a success and the rock was thoroughly pulverized.

In reviewing some of the old press accounts of that day, it is interesting to note the attitude of the public, as expressed through the newspapers of that region, as the day approached for the experiment; to note the general uninformed status of the layman concerning physical laws, the fear, superstitions, and even religious prejudice, to which a like reaction in our present generation would seem most incongruous and out of place.

The old accounts indicate that many people were fearful that the explosion would result in a world catastrophe—that perhaps the world would split open, or at least would open up a fissure which would permit the molten interior to spew forth and in a fiery deluge, extirpating a large section of mankind from the abode of the living; to heat and boil the sea, destroying all life therein and the ships that sailed thereon.

Others, of a pious complex, protested that this thing was impious and contrary to God’s will and design. Some even attempted through the courts to stop the undertaking by injunction. Certain imbecile preachers shouted to their moronic congregations, that certainly such an unnatural cataclysmic blast would actually break through the rock arch which lies over purgatory, and thus, amidst an effluvium of a Satan, himself, with all his hosts of fallen angels, would once more be at large to stalk over the world, leaving a wake of woe, amidst the sons of men.

Many were truly apprehensive and moved inland from the surrounding cities to a safer and more distant place; others, of a more practical trend of mind, gathered near boats, prepared with scoop nets to gather a finny harvest. The old accounts say these were not disappointed.

Besides these, a treat crowd of interested spectators gathered on the heights to see the unprecedented event.

It was a solemn moment for the little group of engineers who gathered behind a log buttress to draw the switch, which would create an explosion, and consummate an engineering achievement on a scale never before attempted in the annals of their profession. It was not for them, a moment of levity. Their very professional reputations were at stake.

However, all went off well, and entirely according to their expectations. The earth did not vomit forth its molten inwards; neither did Lucifer (Lucifer, Son of the Morning) levitate his loathsome form to harry forth and blight the fair lands of Mother Earth. In this connection, however, it must be said that there were some, perhaps of an imaginative complex, who actually claimed to have seen the cadaverous visage of the Prince of Darkness, amidst the billowing clouds of yellow Rackarock fumes, and reports gave it that one man made an affidavit to that effect.

In another day and age, such a person would have seen Poseidon, himself, driving through the scud and foaming wrack of tumbling waters on his hoppocampus-drawn chariot, and with his attendant Nereids; the vision of rampant, spume-flecked steeds champing amidst the weltering waves, would have been very real to such a type, for such do the fancies of men conveniently conform their mental aberrations to the orthodox tradition of the age in which they have their being.
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rehab · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: D & C- EDITORIALS TMJ 7 15 1930

Drifts and Crosscuts

The Wallace, Idaho, Miner comments on what it claims is the unfriendly attitude of a leading newspaper of that state toward the mining industry, and says:
“it was mining that carved Idaho out of the wilderness of the West. Mining is one of the great basic industries of the state, and the development of the vast and varied mineral resources, spreads prosperity far beyond the confines of the mining districts.”

It was mining, as well, that played a leading part in developing California, Utah, Arizona, and others of the great western states. Today the industry employs a vast army of well-paid workers, contributes a large share of state expenses, pays’ fair dividends to thousands of stockholders, and, directly and indirectly, consumes products and services of almost all other businesses. Mining prosperity is reflected in the general prosperity of the nation.

In view of all this, it is difficult to understand the attitude of those, whether newspapers or individuals, who advocate burdening the mines under a weight of taxation and legislation that would seriously menace their progress. Mining should pay its fair share of taxes, and no more, and no less. The state which deviates from this principle, will be first to suffer the consequences.
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Included in a lot of good advice which Scott Turner, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, gave to the graduates of the Colorado School of Mines is the following:

“Write technical articles. I earnestly advise it. Do not be ashamed to begin. The young engineer often feels he is not competent to write. Try it. The only way to learn to write is to write. You will be astonished at how quickly you improve. It has been demonstrated that the surest way to learn everything concerning a subject is to write about it. Putting your ideas or experiences in writing tends to crystallize and clarify them. Before you can write clearly, you must think clearly. You hear much nowadays of the glories of self-expression. I urge you to apply this to your technical experiences.

“I know a number of cases where technical writing has brought a young engineer to the attention of important employers, and led to engagements which profoundly influenced his ultimate success. Diffidence in this regard is inexcusable; share with your fellow-engineers your thought, knowledge, and experience. Help them at the same time you help yourself.

The best example I know, in this matter of willingness to write and give to others detailed engineering knowledge and experience, is shown in the fine willingness and cooperation now being displayed by the leading engineers of this country by preparing, for publication through the United States Bureau of Mines. scores of papers on mining and milling methods and costs. I recommend to you the helpful spirit which made possible the production of these papers.”

Writing is a splendid training in developing a logical presentation of experiences or thoughts and serves to help a man sort out the material that is in his own brain into that which is consequential and that which adds but little. It naturally makes him weigh the relative importance of his facts and, in giving thought to material being put on paper, he arrives at decisions and conclusions that would undoubtedly be overlooked in merely a mental consideration of a subject.
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[observations in times of economic depression]:
Smith-Emery Company, chemists and engineers of 920 Santee Street. Los Angeles, California, have been broadcasting a letter which is full of good common sense and is worthy of far greater distribution than they may be able to give it. We are pleased to reproduce it in full:

An Open Letter—Re: Hard Times
“Frankly, times haven’t been any too good, and like Mr. Micawber, we have been largely sitting around ‘waiting for something to turn up.

‘We’ve been fed up on the truism, ‘business depression is a state of mind.’ This has been drilled into us by the current press, and by our political and financial advisers, local and otherwise.

Nevertheless, there is no use trying to deceive our selves. Call our troubles what you may—over-speculation, prohibition, tariff agitation, or over-production—we just have a suspicion that they are the culmination of a series of idiocies, overdue—and richly earned by diligent departure from lines of good sense.

“Personally—we are taking advantage of this slack period to spruce up generally around our establishment. Nobody has been discharged, nobody’s salary has been cut, and the payment of bills has not been unduly delayed. “Our employees have been imbued with the spirit of giving the best service possible, and the public has never been better or more promptly served.

“We are also doing a little extra advertising, giving out all the work we can to other concerns, and making a few extra calls on our friends and clients—not to talk ‘hard times,’ but just to shake hands warmly and cherrily say ‘Howdy!’

“While we believe careful consideration should be given to major expenditures, we do not believe it is a time for penuriousness or narrowness in thought or act; in fact, liberal, sound-thinking may be good for us, for the world is moving pretty fast—we are not the only ducks in the national or industrial puddle—we don’t want to be side-tracked over night.

“We may be getting a little deeper in the hole financially, but the hole is getting smaller all the time, and if we maintain our poise the hole will soon be closed altogether, and business resumed under better conditions than for years.

“Large concerns and public utilities employing thousands, should remember they have the same responsibility regarding the welfare of individual employees as the little fellow— the same responsibility for keeping the wheels of commerce moving, and they have no more license for discharging a lot of people who have faithfully served through good times than have the small concerns. In fact, it is more incumbent upon big business to do its full share in maintaining the employment balance.

“We are writing this letter in hopes that if you are not already earnestly working on the situation, you will join us in a sane effort to improve your, our, the community and the national business status.

“Many of those addressed have been associated in our business zone one way or another for over twenty years— and we have weathered various trying periods together— quite as bad or worse than that with which we are confronted.

“Don’t let us wait around any longer for some great political stunt to be pulled off, or spectacular financial movement to scintillate on the business horizon. Let’s get busy
—each putting his own house in order, thus showing confidence in ourselves, and the future, and we will soon forget that business has been out of tune.

“By and by, in years to come, we or our successors will be called upon to meet like periods of readjustment, for economic history does repeat itself.
“Will you join us in a sane house-to-house program of reconstruction?
“Yours, for a new flutter of the old flag I”
(Signed) SMITH EMERY CO.,
Chemists and Engineers.

Vol. XIV. No. 4
JULY 15. 1930
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MINING JOURNAL

MACLENNAN GIVES HIGH LIGHTS FROM AFRICAN TRIP

No serious menace to the American copper industry is offered by African copper, in the opinion of F. W. Maclennan, general manager of Miami Copper Company, Miami, Arizona, who has just returned from an extended trip around South Africa, with the Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress. The trip lasted about six weeks, and covered 7,000 miles, during which the party visited gold, diamond, platinum, asbestos, and copper mining regions.

It is estimated, he states, that the four great South African mines probably have ore resources of 250,000,000 tons, averaging 5 percent copper, and, allowing for losses in mining and treatment, they should be able to produce equal to about five years production for the world, at the present rate. It will take about 10 years, or until 1940, before thay can enter maximum production on a daily basis of 10,000 tons each. This will mean an annual production of 12,000,000 tons, yielding 500,000 tons of copper annually. However, the normal rate of increase of consumption, 6 percent per annum, is expected to take care of the additional production.

“It does not occur to me as though these South African mines are a serious menace to the copper industry,” declared Mr. Maclennan. “I believe their average costs will be higher than the average in the world today. They will not be low-cost producers. I talked to a good many mining engineers, and they placed their costs at 10 to 11 cents per pound, similar to the costs in this district.”

Mr. Maclennan further states that while wages paid workers in African and Rhodesian mines are about one-seventh that paid in this country, the workers are physically capable of doing about one-seventh the work done by a like number of workers in this country. He explained this as being due, in a large part, to the terrific heat of the tropics, and the fact that slave traders from Zanzibar, in the old days, swept the Rhodesian district, taking all of the strong men and leaving only the weak and disabled.

A very entertaining account of his trip was given by Mr. Maclennan at a luncheon meeting of the Globe Chamber of Commerce. Mr. and Mrs. Maclennan sailed from New York on February 22, going first to London. After spending a week there, they sailed with the members of the Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, for Cape Town, South Africa, arriving there March 24. The next six weeks were spent on a tour of various mining districts. They also attended a number of state and social functions.

In making reference to the present copper market, Mr. Maclennan stated, “Recovery of copper depends on recovery of general business. The welfare of the copper producers depends largely on that of business. Building and automobile business are not satisfactory at the present time, and they use much copper.”

The meeting was attended by about 100 mining men from the Globe-Miami District, and neighboring mining districts, in addition to the regular members of the Chamber of Commerce.
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for JULY 13. 1930

SUCCESSFUL MINE MEETING HELD AT GRANTS PASS, ORE.

Problems of vital interest to the Pacific Northwest were discussed at the meeting of the Mid-Pacific Mineral Economic Conference, held at Grants Pass, Oregon, July 15. The purpose of the conference was to determine where the mineral deposits of Northern California, and Southern Oregon, are, what their extent, and the probable cost of mining same. It is hoped that the information obtained at this meeting will help to build an industrial program for the Mid-Pacific territory along mining lines.

Arrangements for the meeting were in the hands of a committee, headed by Albert Burch, general chairman, who presented some of the best mining authorities available. The program follows:
“Welcome to Grants Pass” Mayor George Fox;
“Greetings from Northern California- Southern Oregon Development Association” Pres. C. B. Gates;
“Purpose of Conference” General Chairman Albert Burch;
“Gold” P. R. Backus (Mariposa Orchard, Medford, Oregon);
“Copper” W. B. Robinson (Representative, American Smelting and Refining Company);
“Mineral Resources of Northern California and Southern Oregon” J. T. Pardee (U. S. Geological Survey);
“Coal and Silica” J. M. Lively (President, Lively Lime Products Co., Gold Hill, Oregon);
“Chromite” Albert Burch (Medford, Oregon);
“Financing” B. B. Harder (President, First National Bank, Medford);
“Limestone” W. H. Muirhead (Manager, Beaver Portland Cement Co., Gold Hill, Oregon);
“Carbonic Acid” [As in Carbonated Water]George Schumacher (Ph. D., Medford);
“Clay and Clay Products” Dr. Chas. T. Sweeney (Medford);

The formally prepared papers were presented, then followed by a general discussion from the floor. All oral statements were taken by court reporter, and this discussion will be thoroughly analyzed by a special committee in order to determine what can be done to encourage mining development.

Transportation came in for its share of discussion, and the question of the Crescent City Harbor project was viewed from many angles. According to L. A. Levensaler of the American Smelting and Refining Company, no great development in mining can he expected until the Crescent City Harbor is built, and a road constructed from the interior to that port.

The conference was sponsored by the Northern California-Southern Oregon Development Association.
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MACKAY MINES MUSEUM DISPLAYS NEW COLLECTION

A new selection of rare radium ores and minerals, presented by Edmund S. Leaver, Director of the Rare and Precious Metals Station, U. S. Bureau of Mines, and Henry A. Doerner, research engineer, was displayed by the Mackay School of Mines Museum, at Reno, Nevada, as a feature of Mackay Day.

New types of radium ore from the Belgian Congo, which revealed the new minerals beguerelite, curlite, dewindite, and others, which are alteration products of pitchblende, are included in the collection. These are later to be shown with the carnotite ores from this country.

Different types of imberlite, a diamond formation from several mines and pits of South Africa, and associated country rocks and alluvials were shown. The many specimens of non-metallics, and gems, as well as samples of mercury ores from the new discoveries, were particularly interesting.
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MINERS’ FIELD DAY PROGRAM ATTRACTS 20,000 PEOPLE

Nearly 20,000 people attended the Miners’ Field Day program at Columbia Gardens, Butte, Montana, July 14. First aid, athletic contests, and dancing, formed the principal entertainments. This is an annual event, and is sponsored by the Anaconda Copper, the Butte and Superior, the North Butte, and the East Butte, Copper mining companies.

Inar Norgaarz won the mucking championship by shoveling a car in one minute and 53 seconds, thereby beating last year’s winner, John Espelund, who won second place this year by shoveling his car in one minute and 54 seconds.
The Anselmo first aid team won the contest for Class A teams, and the Tramway team won the first aid contest for Class B teams.
The members of the Anselmo team are:
Hanford Estabrook, John Langhorn, Walter Myers, Bernard Noon, Joe Stevens, Theodore C. Morel, Louis Bertoglio and Charles Monaghan. The men in the Tramway team are: Guy Osselo, Max Mogus, John Giachiano, Joe Lind, Joe Hocking and Larry Giachiano.

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