THE OMINECA MINGR, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1916 ao The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OmINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $2.60 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. Legal notices inserted at B. C, Gazette rates, : - ; Vou. V. '. SaTuRDAY, JuLy 1, 1916,. No. 44 We believe this is an opportune time to call attention .to the necessity for legislation similar in character to the admirable “Blue Sky’’ law of the state of Kansas. The revival in the mining industry in this district and elsewhere throughout the province will bring in ita train many benefits; but it will also afford opportunities for the grafters whose activities, time out of mind, have brought discredit upon the mining industry. These gentry, who are never mining men in the true sense, seek to obtain the money of the small investor—the capitalist is usually tao shrewd to become a victim— and the results of their operations in every mining boom have been disastrous to many investors and injurious to the mining industry. There is no move legitimate business than mining, and none more profitable when properly conducted: but the wildcat stock operator, while lining his own ‘pockets, has nearly ruined what should be one of the chief sources of capital for legitimate operation. There is no good reason why the small investor should not have an equal chanee with the big operator to make money in mining. it is only necessary to protect the industry and the investor by preventing the shameless selling of worthless stocks by which the wildeatters seek to enrich themselves at the expense of people of small means. That such protection can be given by law is shown by the success of the Kansas law and similar enactments, which ‘have been in force long enough to demonstrate their usefulness, If all the money invested in mining companies is expended in a legitimate manner, the “industry will soon grow: to immense proportions, experience having proved that a large proportion: of mining profits is reinvested in new properties. . . The Hazelton district has not been afflicted by the wildcat promotor, and the sentiment of the mining men of our camps is such that the grafter is likely to Gnd rough going here, yet everyone ‘who desires the permanent Prosperity of the district would welcome legislation to prevent illegitimate stock selling, We trust that. the provincial legislature will deal with the matter at the earliest ' possible date. =| metallic contents, various metallic objects; smaller quantities are used in making coins. The American coin known as the ‘nickel’? contains. only 26 per cent. of ‘nickel; the rest is copper. Various nickel.alloys are proposed as substitutes for steel. Monel metal, an alloy of niekel and. copper; eontaining also. a small.quantity of iron, ‘is made by smelting Sudbury (Canada) ores, without, separation of: the Monel metal is used for valves on high-press- ure steam engines; as a roofing material; in sulphuric acid pumps: and-in other places where a metal resistant to ordinary chemical ac- needed. | uO Tantalum—Tantailum now jis little used. For a time it was used in making filaments for in- candeseent electric lamps, Ithas also been used in surgical and dental instruments and for pens. Tin—Tin is largely used as a coating for sheet iron or sheet steel to make tin plate,commonly known as ‘“‘tin’’, and of which it forms only 1 to 3 per cent; used extensively "in alloys for hearing metals, ‘‘white metuls’’, ete.: also in making pipes for organs and in many places where anon-oxid- izing metal is required. Titanium—Used ‘in cast iron, steel and bronzes, largely as a purifier. Titanium potassium ox- alate is used as a mordant in dyeing leather and some textiles, Other titanium compounds find a small use, As carbide, ilmenite, and oxide it is used in are‘lamps, ; Tungsten—The great use of the highly ‘complex’alloys. known as'"‘high speed” steel.’ In these 14 to 20 per cent: of tungsten. is, used. It is also used in some forms of stellite (see Cobalt), Smatler quantities are used in incandescent light filaments, in electric contacts, . Roentgen: ray tubes, phonograph: needles, : and as -an ailoy with iron in ‘tastings ties of nickel:are used in plating ; tungsten is as’ a component of : The Distributing Point PS ead] {forthe Great Northern} =| hier! * aN every’ requirement. in _ ‘ing been” engaged for - Prospectors, ‘Miners, a “to give valuable “advice =~ _Landseekers, Surveyors - = “ | and Sportsmen will find _- the. tnerchants of Ha = > : . zelton prepared to meet a -outfitandsupplies. Have | ~~ many-years in outfitting eee "parties for the Northem “Interior, Hazelton. busiz’ ~ mess men are qualified °° - and. assistance to news So PRICES OF MINERALS ARE SENT SOARING A large number of what have been called “‘tare’’, or compara- tively rare, minerais have been brought into active use by the war, such as molybdenite, tung- sten, vanadium, nickel,antimony, and others are used tv a small extent in dyeing, Smal! quanti- ties are used. in tanning and in medicine, a Bismuth—The metal is used ag a component part of cliche or low melting point metals and in sal- ders. The vavious salts, such as the subnitrate, subgallate, saley- pounds are alsousedasi nsecticldes _ arsenic, magnesite, and” others, late.and others,are used in medi- -and high ‘prices ‘are offered for cine. -- ©. oe them. The’ United States eo-| ~ Gapale Used logical survey. has given an out- and ceramic wares blue; in “high Speed’’ tool steels; in stellite ‘(an alloy of.:cobalt, chromium, and other metals, depending upon the use to which it is put); and in insect poisons, ee . Seleniaum—Used.in making red glass, electrical resistances and - {cella for measuring light, Telluriam—Very. ‘little use is known for tetlurium, 4 little has been used in coloring -glass-and a patent has been taken o1t: for. its use in aluminum alloys, 7 : Molybdenuta—Used alt farndee; as supp lamps; in ““high ep ‘in colorin glass |- rae intac: ‘ B Brass vanadium is as’ :a component - of | filaments in ineandescen electric for automobile éngine valves, , . Uranium — Many experiments have heen made with the object of using uranium as-an alloy- in | steel, but they do not seem to have heen very successful. Uran- ium alloys with copper and other metals have been: placed ‘on the market to be used in brass and other alloy work,..principally as deodorizers, . Uranium salts are used in glass and pottery coloring. Vanadium—The great use of “high speed” and’ other ‘steels, Vanadium is also’ used 8,8 déox- idizer ‘in. steel, “bronzes, brasaes and other bearing metals, Small quantities. of vanadium salts are used various chemical. industries, Raditm:—-Radiom. is ; almost : | wholly used-as a ‘curative -agent in -various diseases, such'as can’: cer, lupus, eczema, arthritis, ete.: A little radium ig uaéd in ‘making luminous. clock. and watch faces, Hazelton is situated at’ © the