“The Churches Sunday Services: Morning 311 o'clock: Sunday School at 230 p.m; - Native nervice, $20 p. Tay CHURCH 0F ENGLAND BT. PETERS, IMAZELTON _ Evening Servieo, Keo ‘ws Services held ever veunday evening in the Church Room at 7.20 oelocke, Rey, J. FIeLb, ‘PRESBYTERIAN ¢ CHURCH Rev, DLR. Mots =m = FOR ZING ORE NawijpDissovered Method of x EAN. ey GT BUSINESS MEN - tory Ores Described. ADAPTED TO OUR NEENS Or iirc New Hazelton Hotel } Open for Business ~ All Furnishings New Zine Contents Recovered in Marketable Form by Means of Patented Process Which Appears to be Practicable— Chemical and .Electrolytic Method, - Mine ‘owners of Flazelton dis- EUROPEAN PLAN Rates: Rooms $1.00 Bada 50c . trict are scarcely less interested _4(in the final outcome of the French {experiments than are those of { I : ! ! ! ( { Geo, C. Hartley, Proprietor ] New Hazelton - mementos > the Slocan.- Zine occurs more or jess in all of the Hazelton ores and, under presetit conditions, metrmns , o acitesiiaetiaee pee tieee oetet iain? t t hand sorting will be necessary to keep it below the penalty limit of the smelters in many instan- Reducing Complex Refrac- ‘separated from the lead ore by|3 residue would’ ‘hecome a Tead ore '|free from zine and as such would obtain.a lower smelting rate and and avoid'any ‘zine penalty’ that would hava been-attached. to the original ore; (b) ‘the residue, carrying all the lead and silver of the original ore, would be less in weight than such original ore, by the weight of zinc extracted. Consequently the residue’ of the ore would contain a -higher. per- centage of lead and silver and |i there would be a proportionately | jog lessened tonnage to smelt. : “3. The silver actually occur- | fa ring in the blende would remain | G3 in the residue and go be recovered | fi by smelting, whereas it would be}3 lost if the zine-blende were to bejé any mechanical process, “The ores experimented upon} have been chiefly zine concén-|¢ trates containing galena, zine- blende, iron pyrites, and iron) @& carbonate together, with th e|e gangue matter, quartz and shale, |g3 and apparently a percentage of /8 manganese in some form.. Treatment The Supreme Authority on Railway matters in Canada, the Dominion Railway Commission, has decided that the , Station and Railway Yards Shall be at 4 Sheehan’ s New ces, }tmay be accepted, from a labora- tory standpoint at least, that the new process is an apparent suc- cess, There is nothing in it that looks unreasonable to. the lay mind and we are not asked, asin so many of the so-called new smelting processes, to swallow a Only White Help Employed new-fangled principle ‘with our BOG SHEEHAN Proprietor eyes shut, The one thing re- maining to be demonstrated is the matter of costs when work- } | Restaurant Opposite Union Bank i. Pugsley St. i New Hazelton Best Meals First-class Service ! { Z- Zz .*] em ing on a commercial seale. Cal- New Hazelton Contractors - We will furnish quota- Richards & Knight tions on all classes of Buildings, Contract or Day-Labor, JobandShop+: ©: Work. First-class work-- raanship . guaranteed, Call on us before you let your work. NEW HAZELTON cining is not ordinarily very ex- pensive. Depositing zine on | plates by electricity should not -| vary much in cost from.the same process as applied to copper and lead, Eight per cent zine is the amount qllowed by the Trail smel- ter, according to the latest in- formation at hand, before penal- ties of fifty cents for each unit of percentage commence. So the French proéess does not -have to become very cheap to bea dis- tinct advantage: + : Here at Hazelton, in at least one property, we have an ore that assays up to 48 per cent: zine and 242 ounces silver; A process that will save both values in such an ore will, even at what may be called a high cost, turn a moder- ate profit into a real bonanza, — Thanks to Mr. French it seems Do your shopping at Cohen, | Zackon & Co.'s store and SAVE MONEY §) The Largest and Best Assorted Stock of I Ma 5 5 Punishing | deseription. In Northern British Columbia _. peamenenene es) We repair Jewellery” of every fi Satisfaction’ guar- anteed. We carry ail the leading mekes in WATCHES » '< Mail Orders Solicited. Ce a Zackon &Co. | New Hanelton . ar uhat we are obtaining the one thing needful to make mining in jahead as never before. A well known metallurgiat thus describes and comments on the|: | French process: | ‘Mr. French’s process aims at the extraction and recovery of the zine contained in ores such as the silver-Jead-zine ores of the Slocan distriet of British Colum- bia; leaving as a residue the silver-lead, iron and gangue mat- ter, which would be afterward Smelied in the same manner as fa lead ore free from zine, | \| “The advantages claimed for such treatment would be: “4. The recovery of the zine in a metallic and marketable aes “2. By the removal of the zinc from the original ore—(a). the Where You Can Invest ‘To Better _ Advantage Than Here. =. REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD > INVEST: “1, Its a natural townsite, irs am from NEW HAZELTON SHOW ME! 2. Ithas fuel at its very door, 3, The town is ‘in the centre of a rich mineial belt. . Pa The GT. .P, holds a charter for a tailroad froti‘here to. Dawson Bh alah 6. The agricultuca It ‘a SEE, will be the upp y point | for will + Great, area of agricultural la Amott ' a s are very fertile, Bo e Prince Rupert's market garden, 6 . 8. The. construction of the Bulkley bridge thi “summer ope ow a -Offloey Porter Sts all the Northern {nterior. nds, . ¢ Pioneer Real stat | In view of the article below, itt, i |the silver lead districts forge] tare connected to the positive pole yang the lead sheets to the nega- ~ |eumulates in a'dense hard mass "| Over the entire side of the plate. . attained the desired thickness it = . after having been melted a we run-into bars, ganese is precipitated as a black - oxide: of manganese. in-a powder. “The ore is crushed to pass | 53 through a 10-mesh screen. It isi? then roasted in an ordinary cal-|(& cining furnace nntil the ore isfy nearly ‘dead,’ which reduces the |B original sulphides, theoretically |B to oxides, although in practice there are probably sulphates and e some’ sulphides left, depending |? in quantity upon the eomplete- ness of the roast. ee “While the. roasted ore is still (a in the caleiner, at the hot end, alB small percentage of nitro-cake— a bisulphate of soda with -some free sulphuric acid in it, anda waste product of sulphuric acid |} works—in powdered form, is |? thrown in with the ore and thoroughly rabbled into it, mak- ing an intimate mixture, This mixture is thoroughly. stirred |8 (rabbled) under heat for a-short ; time. The effect of this is that |8 the oxides in the ore are almost all converted into sulphates,. ‘When this action is considered complete the charge is removed | ie from the furnace and allowed to | 8 cool. . “This roasted and treated ore, after having sufficiently cooled, is transformed to a wocden leaching tank, and water, in which a small quantity of nitro- cake hag been placed, is added, and: this dissolves out the sul phates of zine and manganese, together with the sulphate of \soda formed “by splitting up of the nitro-cake, - “The sulphate of lead is not soluble and the silver can -be rendered insoluble. These remain in the tank, as does all’ gangue, “Mr, Freneh claims that the sulphates of iron are not leached out until all the zinc is in solution, and if the leaching is stopped before the zine is all out the iron will be left undissolved, Of this lam-not certain and have not been able to try it, but the solu- tions in the-works did not carry much iron, which seems to, con- firm his-statement, “The filtrate from the leaching tank, containing the sulphates of zinc, manganese and soda are run into a wooden box, in which are hung alternate sheets of zinc and lead, immersed in the filtrate or electrolyte, . Ihe zinc plates NEW HAZELTON * Investments in Real Estate in New Hazelton now are as safe as Vancouver, Winnipeg or Montreal. We have purchased from Northern Interior Land Co., Ltd, of Prince Rupert, the choicest Lots In Section One in the official townsite of New Hazelton. secure lots in the - You can , Business Section at startling prices if you apply today. oe been waiting for a Settlement of the controversy regarding the railroad townsite. The ‘matter is now finally settled for alk time. | Hundreds have. air iy te tons Maton coach ae aeeeters re SH aR eto Hp! coi * not. fn om, are! o is estates _ Your Opportunity “has: artived. Prices will advance sharply. . Buy “now at the beginning and make the big profits gat ote p stot hit = Ao toted sleet Cr a} 7 2 S oeae See erate << oo eos ir) 2a pies oy oe = oa fk as FS ; Se tive pole of a direct-current dy- namo of low voltage. . os “The action of the electric |2& : current is to plate the zine sheet with metallic zine, which ac- When. this: deposit of zine has lifted out ‘and a new zine. sheet put in its place, “The electrically | pay deposited tincis afterwards easily | stripped from the zine sheet, the | peg latter'to be used again and the former is now ready for roarket | A aA = Natural Resources Sec writ Joint Owners and Sole Agents Fort. George Townsite Bower Bing, 543 Granvile Stet, Vancouver, B.C "On the negative. pole onan whieh, ts: Utushed off occasionally (Genelia oil t neat page)