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00 THE CHAMELEON An Epoch in the Art of Drying White Lead HE art of drying white lead operating at The Ozark Smelting Tby the pan method has al and Mining Company's Plant, ways been unsatisfactory to Coffeyville, Kan. the manufacturers of such producTt;he machine solves the problem mainly due to the effect such opfrod rying white lead pulp by doing cess has on the men operating it- the work continuously and dust- In consequence, no expense has lessly, which means it is not only a been spared to interest the best great mechanical achievement, but thought in the art of drying, with a great achievement in protecting the view to developing some me the health of white lead drying chanical opera means tors, i n - which asmuch would as it of e1imi- fers com nate the plete pro danger tection to to the the men men oc employed cupied in such in such work. work. This fact However, is a mar- the past ve 1 o u s record step for shows repeat The hfacklind Annular While Lead Drier ward i n the art of ed failures, covering more than drv-lead manufacture and is suffi thirty years, by the various manu cient to commend the Annular facturers of white, lead, although Drier to the world. ' they were willing to stand any ex The machine is also of impor pense to overcome the difficulty. tance, owing to the fact that it Drying experts were also lending cuts the cost of drying white lead their best efforts in trying to solve in two, which is another great the problem, but the combined ef achievement in the reduction of forts of those interested did not manufacturing costs. Further its bring about the desired results. ability to dry continuously as com With such precedent on record, our pared with dry pan intermittent Company became interested in the drying is a vast improvement. Annular White Lead Drier invent The development of the Annular ed by W, R. Macklind, Manager Drier was made possible by pa of the Engineering and Construc tience and confidence, to say noth tion Department, and commission ing of the Company's willingness ed him to make his ideas facts. to stand the necessary outlay. The result of which is the wonder However, our officials are happy in ful Macklind Annular Drier now knowing that they have made it THE CHAMELEON possible for Mr. Macklind to give to the world a machine for the drying of white lead which has been sought for, ever since Old Dutch White Lead was made, and further that the positive of the m of white The Why and How of O By W. R. JUhbrook PON becoming connected high-gra U with our Company nearly traded ten- years ago, my first iitf-kthat sa pression was one of admiratiorf'Jot-^'-b its big, fine, broad, honest policy^ J^Since and the enthusiasm, optimi&n^and'/nection progressiveness of its leaders vcha^jenjoyed seemed always to have our code oti j faction principles in mind in the develop^ I rffent, a ment of our Company to the spfen-A faience did commanding position ic now- th occupies. youpran Our growth in the Southwest^- Sffei^; in the past ten years has had no> > pies--m parallel among our competJto./s.JR.oTyo I have witnessed the addition of a firmly number of territories,! a large'vm?^ an:\era crease in our force of [ Traveling our Co Representatives, the '-opening--of"'^believe new branches, new warehouses and'- -rportuh retail stores. The familiar^ S-W policy- Agency Sign, which it- fe^vyears You a ago was counted by hundreds'in-^mbrrow the Southwest, is now \nitmbered ment o in thousands. This expansion'has portun not come by chance but is the re- ment suit of an honest, aggressive policy valuab employed in the distribution and greates sale of high quality products, by in the COURAGE is the thing which enable task with ease; NERVE is the thing whi it when he's scared to death.--Tips. 0007-SW 24 ..THE CHAMELEON The Men Who Do Things jLABOVE are the three gentle- L\ men who are directly reJL sponsible for the operation pie Creek gold camp. This mine had been a great producer, but was considered completely worked out of our mine and mill equipment. and there was lying on the waste Mr. Philip Argali is consulting dump a million tons of "worthless engineer and director of operations refuse." By the operation of what of our mines and mill in Magda is known as the "Argali Process of lena. He was born in England and Cyanidation," in connection with a spent the greater part of his mature marvelous piece of concentrating years in the West, having come to this country shortly after graduat ing from the leading Mining Engi'jh.peering School of England. engineering, this waste was treated at a remarkably low cost of SI.32 per ton, against an estimate, before 1 the plant was constructed, of,SL3f;l W'i Helfira^.^o^ated ,in Eeadville, The dump waste,contained.iaijtp1^,J stoDloj;|itj^^JpiTly.,days,! where in ' value in gold of only S3 'p^pijtqj minca- With low treatment, cost'.iaqjj cc;ljent recoveries the opera,tiQjjgjv.j prr1 jaWccess and,paid .fors^ie'Ei' thisiwaste blyi1TM JB.W.rFu.P.d'.Je.'3,. . T.iur mill affMag^jjfr 1 w'or'cs's fa11ons Inde- signed and constructed^JmMf Upen^p^j^^finited; which is a gold Argali, is a step' in advanceTofj |'and silver'mine and mill in Victor, Strattons Independence, Mr. Ar-* r] Colo.', just out of the famous Crip- gall having put into this new in- ( THE CHAMELEON stallation all the good mechanical features used at Strattons with the added advantage of experience gained, and with a man of his abil ity and experience directing its operations, no fears are felt con Milling D ready acc young ma knowledge energy, we things in th cerning its success. Mr. L. Experience thus far proves the troduction wisdom in the choice of Mr. Argali these page as Director of Operations, for th<9\_ Jent article have already exceeded expectfP^;^,, 0f T tions and success is assured./.%;,**}' associates, After having tried mag}' ^>ro^ JfiSl man cesses, together with the expertVT^e Go|or knowledge of a number of leading fGo]den( C metallurgists, all with unsatisfac^ highest ho tory results, the _ Company WgA j,Cbad pr finaljy fortunate in securing-Htbe, LtfolsPcainp services of Mr. W. Sydney Stetfen^ f\jev inventor of the special treating 'fornl^an process in our new mill, ^Mr. (^w^iJurPConfp ens, like Mr. Argali, is an English-^ E an a graduate of ,e,, . ["land since wall Metalliferous School of Mines,diwb>t0 and afterwards, took a coursef mrHendei,t o( the Royal School of Mines, London. f-\ On the completion jof this'-course*^ MtXPre he was appointed on r the. staff,'of erner and Penyance Mining School,-a branch --'profession of the Metalliferous,. Schoolr'and `having b there lectured and demonstrated in "some of t Metallurgy, Chemistry, .Mineral- In additio ogy, Mine Surveying,/ and-allied Engineer subjects for three years. \ < --- the Minin Following this, Mr. Stevens had Pressler h experience in various milling.pro- tire office cesses and research work in iAu s -.;; j Constant tralia, Russia and England,sa|^(ter;v' and impro , meeting with succew>i^tiiM^gjli' roent, sto 1. a process for .the trosti^ra^fj^"'. lessees' o i'j/complex ores,' as a {fittinjpfclmajc ; establishm pi' Mr. Stevens was promoted to the1 office and : position of Superintendent of (the,.' summary 0007-S 20 ' THE CHAMELEON Our Mines and Mill at Magdalena, New Mexico UE to its geographical loca far and wide in that part of the D tion anil the indirect rcla- country as the "Ozark Club," is _ tions to the manufacture the finest building of its kind for of paints and varnishes, none omthaenry miles around, and has in of The Sherwin-Williams Co. cpoonsn ection, and of special impor session is so little known to the tance in an arid country, a deep well general staff as that of the mines of pure, sweet water--a rare pos and ore concentrating mill at Mag session. dalena, New Mexico. The space available does not permit of our treating at this time, tlte details of the mining and mill ing operations, and it is our pur pose to give only a .very, general outline together with an introduc tion of our expert mining and mill ing staff. The Company mines are known as the famous Graphic group, to which has been added a number of new locations. Since 1850 this group of mines has produced large and valuable quantities of silver anil lead, which in the early days was smelted in old Mexican style adobe furnaces, and later in an The mines are situated on the up-to-date silver-lead smeltery. western slope of the Magdalena Smelting at our mines has now been range of mountains, Socorro Coun abandoned and in its place the ore ty, New Mexico, near the little is given a preliminary treatment mining town of Kelly, which is lo known as "concentration," or sep cated on a spur of the A. T. & S. K. aration, anil is then shipped to Rv., joining the main line at So smelteries at other points where corro, 26 miles distant. The min refining can be done at a lower cost, ing claims arc twenty-three in num due to cheaper fuel, more abundant ber covering approximately 227 yi labor, etc. In the old days the acres. In connection with these bullion was teamed to St. Louis the Company owns 245 acres and by ox-power, passing over the ro lias a lease on 320 acres of non mantic Sante Fe trail, and it was mineral claims. These are in an necessary in those days to form altitude of from 7000 to 8000 feet wagon-trains of twenty or thirty above sea-level and are hemmed in wagons under heavily armed on three sides by high mountains guards as a protection against the forming what is known in the par Indians, as the trail passed through lance of the West as a "rincon." the very heart of the Apache coun These mountains protect the con try. ' centrating mill, Company resi dences, office, corrals, etc., which are located on the non-mineral ground--from the winds, which are very severe in that part of the country at certain times of the year. As explained in Mr. L. P. Pressler's able article published in the December issue of The Chameleon of 1911, the immense ore bodies which we have uncovered are of a very complex nature, and mixed metals are rarely of great value in The officers' residence, known their original state for the reason THE CHAMELEON that the lead-silver smelteries will milling, and met not only not p&y for zinc but penal obtainable. Ve ize it, and the zinc smelteries, on gress toward the the other hand, penalize for lead. made and the f There are rare exceptions to this finishing proces statement, such as our smeltery at have, is due to a Coffeyville, Kansas, where the W. Sydney Stev combined metals may be used by^ jas accomplishe our special process, tn the manu- ^and a half of th facture of a high-grade leaded z nc A and conscientiou oxide. ..-v a of Mr. Stevens For the past several years,, the /y The design a Company's energies have been de- _the concentratin voted primarily to the develop- '.tramway is the rnent of the ore'bodies, with a view mining and meta to having a reserve available at'all /Mr.'Philip Arga times, and in an effort to determine- ^Argali & Sons, D the best method of treating'the While some ore so as to eliminate as^muchas^ ;used-inxour proc possible of the valueless material, / makev a conside thus saving freight from mines to>jjnyented and.pa smeltery, and to the/separation ofJ Jgall, while the g the various values with a viSw ToTyfsrall of special being paid the highest price forall.' vcable- to the tre Our development of the_,minesj only\-VThe ^bui consists of nearly! 25,000' feet,',of \veryrbest typetunnels, drifts, cross-cuts,^raises, material,; rende winzes, and shafts, and-the unepv,-^durable -and .im ering of many hundreds joFThou-^Vrds. | sands of tons of ore.'aud'pew dis- O'.1 Our processtj coveries are being made it frequent Jng 0f the ore in intervals, the latest being a copper jg yknown as ' stope which we are just'now.enter--" whicl mg. The main values of the large being broken ih body are zinc and lead/with jpsser by gravity into quantities of silver, copper, and the chutes, st occasionally, gold. , mining cars, d In our search for a satisfactory motor" (horse-p process for treating this Very com portal and dum plex ore we sent sample^ for tests cally into feede by practically every known method from these to lor the treatment,of this class of From the coars ore, none of which were successful. proceeds to the We, therefore, launched into orig out over a pick inal research on our own accord, tain parts of and for this purpose secured the are sorted out services of the most expert mining, waste dump. T 0007-S 28 THE CHAMELEON rial, containing a high enough per centage of metal to make any fur ther special treatment unnecessary, is sent directly to the shipping bins, to go from there to the smelteries. I he balance of the ore is dumped into buckets, and convevctl bv aerial tram down over the moun tains for over a mile, and dumped into the receiving ore bins there at the Mill. From these, the ore proceeds to the fine crushing ma chines by gravity,passing from there by conveyor to the concentrating and finishing departments, and from there, still by automatic conveyor to the shipping bins. 1 hroughout the entire process, a shovel is unknown, except to pick up loose material here and there which may have dropped off the conveyors. The mill has a ca pacity of 150 tons per (lay, and is so arranged that if necessary it can be worked to exceed that tonnage. There it, stands, out in the wide, rough Western country, a veritable monument to the ingenuity of man; to the aggressiveness of our Com pany, and as a successful completion of a very difficult and perplexing undertaking. From the shipping bins at the Mill the concentrated ore. after having been reduced from three tons of rough crude ore, to one of hue. high-grade concentrates, is loaded into cars and shipped to the Zinc and Lead Smelteries, where there is always a ready demand for such material. From these highgrade Zinc Concentrates is made pig Zinc, or Spelter, used commer cially in many different trades and branches of life. Nrtvark Foremen's Cluh Members THE CHAMELEON Foremen's Club at ITH this Expansion num officers e Wber of The Chameleon we months: are glad to announce that William Newark now has a Foremen's AC.lubL,osa having just been_ recently orgaTnhsree i'ed. ~The minutes of the Clyi/sVsince be r'cular monthly meetings/havej ifigs ma b;en coming to the Editor ancHbeen,. dis siow that good work is being flone^f shown and that the meetings are\being cates th well attended. Vw /be accom At the first meeting held April flection 20th, Constitution and By-Laws | among were adopted and the following.! welD rAaT.oR EXPER If The factory at JVulLy., ist" sh__o_w_Lead- Ip. th a slight increase in output over'Uie same period last . year'c and the month of July indicates'approxi mately- the same businesses,.we had the same period a year- ago. we are season o Paris ,G Lime-S still.com We are in good shape1; as regards"' Lead a stock, maintaining a!-, limit consis- will co tent with our giving prompt'ship- manufa ment on all order's received. mer. Cleveland The Liquid Paint Department still remains busy. We have re ceived an exceptionally large order for Metalastic from one of the Rail ways; also one for Mine, Mill and Factory Color and Bridge Paint. These, Sales r other lis departm capacit 0007-SW