TIIK OMAHA srXDAY IW.K: M'CVS'V 1D14.
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Treasure Vaults of Andes at 'Frisco Show
I Cisco exposition will tigvp h
ni'ii'i' ii ii i.m'iii s itn i n k i ! i . i
tifasurp ault rl' tn Anili'?. !
For rnonlh lin'ivia ht If en
collecting iptrimr'n tu shew i; niiin r.il i
resource, anil It will unilruilit.'ill..- he
the f Itifft minora! "!:. ..ti,n almvtd t the
fair. ExhiMH already in- pitrrd fill a room j
seventy feet Ion ii'i l tmnty f et wUlfr,
and Pr. Manuel Yiiroiii" Hullvti.u. wlmj
Is to take the c. llcclion ,o Sun Francisco,
tails ine that when coniplrti- It will ha
three times this siz 1 amimd tho
peclmena already collected, " hey em
brace every aoit of rnenil. from Hsmuth
and tungsten to cold, silver, coprer and
tin. Holila 'iaa the richest tin mines
of the world, nnd it now eupplle ahout
nno.r.-itiMh of the wm-lil'a production. I
One block of tin ore to be aent to the
fair weighs 600 poundg. and of that 7'
per cent Is pure tin. Thla I In strlkln?
-ontrast to the less than 5 per cent ores
of other parts of the world. Another
sample weighs -.COO po'inds, and It con
tains move than l.'.H pounds of pvrc tin.
It. comes from the miiy . of Simon Patlno,
who Is now the tin :lu of the world. He
has an lncoma of ulu.ut !!. p monlli
from his tin mines at Nut'.., which seem
inexhaustible.
K.shlhlt ' topper.
Another large exhibit consists of speci
mens of copper. These come from
various parts of the i tuntry, und espe
cially from the mines of Coracora and
Oarangas. wliere the ore lies In layers of
sandstone, nine or ten feet In thickness.
The copper runs thro wn tne saramone in
grains, and all that'll necessary to to j
pulverize the stone and wash uut the
sand. You have then the pure grains .
of copper, ready to be put up In barrels
and shipped off to Europe. Other, copper
specimens are ingots or charqul, somt
of which welsh Hereral pounds, and
others are pure copper In the shape of
scamoss, or in great sheets or plates
covering many square feet. I saw one
euch plate that would cover a dining
table. The exhibit will also have cop
per water bottles, basins ami utensils
mode by the Indians.
Another mineral that will be shown in
great variety is tungsten, used so largely
in our modern electric lighting. The
tungsten comes from the department of
Fotosl, which now supplies the most of
this metal used in the world. The own
ers of the mines are known as the tung
sten kings. They control the world's out
put and fix the prices.
The exhibit will contain also many sam
ples of silver and gold, lead mixed with
silver, and copper and tin. The fold is
in coarse grains and nuggets, washed out
by the Indians. Just outside La Pax the
Spaniards picked up a nugget that
weighed thirty-three pounds and was
worth $9,000. Last year a nugget as big
as the palm of a man's hand was found
near the bam place.
Rise Blocks of Ore.
To these specimens will be added some
of blocks of ore, weighing three or more
tons, which. Bolivia has been showing nt
Ghent, and the whole collection will form
one of the finest mineral exhibits ever
seen at any exposition. It will give a
fair Idea of the wonderful possibilities of
the Andes. These mountains sre highly
mineralised throughout thlr whole lei-th
from the Gulf of Darlen to the Strait of
Magellan. . The republic of Colombia at
the. north h added hundreds of millions
of dollars' worth of silver and gi;ld to the
wealth of the. world. Ecuador and Peru
have produced vast sums, and also Bolivia
and Chile. They are now washing gold
from the hands at the Strait of Magellan.
I have already written of the wonderful
copper mines of Cerro de Pasco, that
produced many millions lu silver before
the silver ore ran Into copper. Pet ween
the years of 1130 and thore mines
yielded more than 54,000,000 pounds of pure
silver, and for many years they turned
out 1.0"0,000 ounces .of silver per annum.
Indeed, It Is said that 60.000, worth of
silver has been taken from under the
very ground on which the town of terro
de Pasco now stands. 1 doubt not that
an equal value In copper will be pro
duced from the mines now being worked
below where the silver lay .
The . greatest of the silver n-.lnes of
P.olivia have been these of Potosl There
in a mountain there that has produced
more of that metal than any other
place In the whole world. The mines
were found about fifty-two years after
Columbus discovered this hemisphere,
and from then on until the nineteenth
century the average product was more
than $1-000,000 a yea", or $I,000,nOO i
month, for 294 years. The total sum
amounted to jver three billions of dollars,
and it is estimated 'hat almost four bil
lions have been tuken out to this day.
The mountain of Potosl is now honey
comkyl with mines, and the silver ora
is largely exhausted; but the silver seems
to have run into tin, and a.Brlt.sh com
pany is working the mines for tin. with
the silver as a byproduct. In t'erro de
Pasco, the silver and gold mixed with
the copper pay all the expenses of the
mining, and the copuer Is pure naln.
it will probably be so wlih the tin of
Potosl. The minej have always shown
great value In tin, but the lnoiaut min
ers threw the tin way. They separated
it from the silver, allowing vast quan
tities cf the cheaper in-tal to be washed
off by the streams. Potosl mountain
has now something lll.c 7.000 abandoned
silver mines scattered over It. and there
are hundreds of these that will s.on be
worked for silver ami tin. 1 am told
that the mountain als ontains copper.
Mnr.trrnth Century Discover).
The Jiuuuchuca silver mine has pro
duced more than S.OOOXlO pounds of pure
sliver, and tho mileage of Its under
ground workings is said to be longer
than that uf any otiicr silver mine lu
the world. The mine's have recently
Uten equipped with modem machinery,
and a long railroad has been uiiilt to
connect them with the rinciter Ht Ante
fagaMa. Those mines were discovered
In the nineteenth ventury by a poor
Spaniard, who for inentj years lia'l
hunted for siher and gold and hud
ftund none As the tory goes, he was
lonsidered especially unlucky, and was
laughed and sneered at by all, but the
Indians, to whom tin was kind. The
Muanchaa mine was shown him by an
Indian woman s a reward for his klnd
I'esj durii.u her iilnvss, and as a re
sult lie died a r'i h innn. Merc silver
was taken out uf'tr Ms death, and the
tclul product h.i ti jt .'.glial' 1 uhoul
IHj.WO.Oj. 'i'lic nitn,.s are still 'eloinsr.
They emi ..y ..ltiM It ,'r about ".' uork
m ii, fi chiding l.u 'J women, who i.re rn
Ka.ed in aoitu ji t;. mm a.
TJurlni; my stay in I 'erro de 1'isi u 1
heard much about the ?.indu;iu deposits
that lie on the tops o; tne Andes, only a
few miles from the Ann 1 1 an smelter,
known as La Kundh Ion. The mines be
" to the Vanadium Trust company.
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farm CJS.fftxaster Horace 6L.
Knowjex &nl his joUcn Iricks
which, I am told here, is a branch of the
United States Steel company. Jt con
trols the product and uses It for making
vanadium steel. The chief mine wuh orig
inally owned by an Italian, named Fer
nandinl, who still holds a large interest.
It has made Kernandinl rich, and lie is
now buying haciendas here and there in
the Andes and hreedlns fine slock.
This vanadium occurs Jn u carbonaceous
deposit, Intel stratified with sandstone.
The lower portion of tho stone contains 'i
or 3 per cent of vanadium. The ore Is
roasted beforo It is brought down to tlio
smeltor, and the metal is shipped to
Pittsburgh. It is not sold In bulk, but is
kept by the company for the making of
steel. Only so much Is mined, the outptlt
being regulated by the demand.
Prrred with tiold.
The Andes arc peppered with gold from
otio end to the other. Plzarro carried
away from thotn $1U0,u0o,0W worth of
that metal and there were other millions
which ho failed to get. Among the latter
were the lost treasures of the lncas I have
already described, including the gold
plates that they love from their tem
ples In Cuzco and the mighty gold
chain they threw Into Lake Vrcos. It
Is said that there Is gold mixed with
the sands of Luke Titicaca It is still
being washed from the sands near La
Pax, and it is found in greater or less
quantities along almost all the tribu
tuiles of the Amazon. A prospector
tells me that the whole mountain range,
running from Mount Sorati to Mount
lllimanl, a distance of 150 miles, shows
color, and that some pla-es have un
doubtedly veins of gold.
A larfce part of the Bolivian plateau
consists of sedimentary deposits of gravel
and-eluy, and in many places upon It
course told has been found. The most
of this is in small nuggets and very little
111 dust.
i Tlure are extensive quurtt .-nines on the
Amazonian side of the Andes. One of
these belongs to the lnca Mining com
r r y, a Pennsylvania combination, which
a-ngether has taken out about $7,'joo,(KA),
and another is the Santo Domingo mine,
that has produced half us touch. During
my stay lu Arequlpa I met Mr. H. H. Col
lins, the manager of the lnca company,
and had a chat with him aoout his mines
and the difficulties with which the com
pany had to contend before they could
make them " profitable. The mines are
situated on the 'Mad re de Dlos river, not
very far from the headwaters of the
Amazon. They are on the Atlantic slope
oi iue iinues aooiu unv runes east or tne
Pacific ocean. To reach them, one has
to go by the railroad across the coast)
range, through a pass higher than the
top or Pike's Peak, and then up tho!
branch line which leads:from Julliaca to)
Cuaco. At Tlrapata the tu ners leave thei
railroad and go across the country by a)
wagon road and mule trail for a distance
of about 142'mlles.- The company had to,
build the road themselves, and that across!
a pass over 16.000 feet high. The road has
sixteen bridges and It goes through gorges!
6"0 feet tall. A mule trail that forms the)
end of the route winds Its way for thirty-1
i-hvht miles up and down and along the
tides of the cliffs. It cost S40u,(i0, and the
total expense of the entire route was
enormous. Tho minim; company got a
concession of something like l.OOQ.OoV acres 1
of land for bitldlng the road, and has.
been exploiting this for rubber. J
Marhluery from I nlted slates.
The lnca Mining company has Imported!
from the L'nlted .States and carried. over
this route stamps and mills and alio a
reduction plant to take care of 100 tons of'
ore dally. Among lis other machinery 1st
a steamer, uiade in Chicago, that was)
brought down to the coast of the Pacific j
and carried over the mountains in pieces,
i0 mules being required for the trans
port. Entirely separate and apart from this
lnca company Is tno lucaroo .Vilnius
co-mptaj. The termer mino ia in Peru;
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n f4letit denl of the stoil; is held in the
I'liltid 8'sles. t investors belnu sin
tered from lto.-tot ii i,o Aniti'li Tin
plan cf this company Is to loinl on
creancers and prospectors over this vast
mineral territory, and to Investigate what
they find through a corps of competent
engineers, headed hv Prof. Francis t'hureri
Lincoln of Po-toii. i wll known geologist
and metallurgist If the mines stand the
test of this examination they are then
to be submitted to the American stock
holders, who will purchase or sell theni
at such prices that the parent company
will get back about four times what It
puts in, and at the same time retain 25
per cent of the stock of the o-etatlns;
company.
This method of development and specu
lation Is well known In the l'nlted States,
but It la new In Hollvln. and Its popular.
I understand that the company has al
ready on Its lists of either examined or to
he examined properties a number of gold, i
silver, tin, tungsten and copper prospects
ar.rt mines It Is also Investigating: certain
quarries of marble and alabaster that Mr. '
Knowlesi says are so fltH that the stono
should rind a market at high prices all
over the world.
The plan, ;s far as I ran see. Is an ex
cellent one, and especially an considering
Its connection with llollvlan statesnte i
and capitalists. The great dnngrr, how-
ever. Is ss to the veenrinr of inli'1".; ipp .
licit cunt ot be .li Kill il T'l.s has In ':i ,
veiy scr.n. lv.atter In t'le o.od :ls lo nil
valuable llollvian properties, allliounh
President Montrs Is now attempting to
have enacted new mining laws and regu- :
iatlons that w ill remedy these daiieem
and materially aid In the opening tip of i
the country In a mineral wav !
Theories Itelntlve to t.olH.
1 hve leeii much interested In hearing !
Mr. Knowles express Ills treat talth In I
the mineral possibilities of Hollvln. He
says that this country was the original i
source of the gold of the lncas, and that
It Is bound to become a wcond Transvanl.
Me h.s curious theories regardlt. gold i
discoveries and gold booms, concerning
the reliability of which I sm not well
enough posted on the history of such mat-1
lers to judge, tie says the great gold j
discoveries of the world come in cycles. 1
nnd that the wame number of years i
(lapsed between the great finds in Call-1
fomhi, Australia, Colorado. South Africa.,
Alaska nnd Nevada. For Instance, In )
1M9 the time for one of these periods I
came, and w had the gold of California
There was a rush from all over the world I
to San Francisco, and a flood of yellow
metal was poured Into the markets. After
that a fixed number of years passed and
we had th gold discoveries of Australia,
with a rush to that Island continent.
Teen tne v. h , I.! ,f ii-' turned round
.1 -"i M, ii nv cvolrl oi . and gold waa
lonii.i in Colorado. Another twist of th
VMl. t oi Panic Foituiie nnd up came the
gold cif the Ti ansvnat. and SO It Was for
Alaska and ho for Vevada. Now the
requisite number of veais has again gone
I. v. and this tlmo Mr. Kimwlea says the
gold Is to come out oi Ilollvla. A little
Investigation ss to the actual dates of
these events will demonstrate whether
this theory 1st bnsed upon fact, and If so.
the juilgmeul of the would be miner or
Investor must deride for him whether ths
eaine rule will hold good In the future.
At any rate, the theory Is an Interesting
one. I HANIv C. CAHPENTER.
It seven O'clock.
The case had reached a critical stage.
Even tho Judge seemed to awaken to a
live Interest In the proceeding, for the
most Important witness was about to be
cross-examined.
"Ho you are the Indy's maid?" began
the relentless barrister.
"Yes. sir."
"And where were you at 7 o'clock on
the evening In question?'
"In my lady's room, sir."
"For what purpose?"
"I was dressing niv lady's hair, sir.'"
The barrister leaned forward and spoke
slowly and Impressively.
' Now. think." he said. "I want you to
be very careful In answering this ques
tion: Was or was not your mistress In
the room at the time?"
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the latter in Bolivia. Both are largely
owned by Americans, and the first en
tirely so. Th Incubor has. I believe,
some Bolivian capital invested in it, but
the most of lt stock Is held In the l'nlted
(3) Twc mining girls ak
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States, and one of the chief owners and
president of the company is Mr. Horace
G. Knowles, who was formerly United
States minister to Bolivia. Tho vice
president and manager ia David (1.
Brlcker. a well known American miner,
who discovered the famous OUn de Oro
mine, and the treasurer Is Thomas K.
Miller, - tho secretary ef atate of Dela
ware. Mr. Knowles tells me that Hits
rr.lne promises to pay beyond the hopes
of Its owners, lie showed mo four gold
bricks that hnd been turned out last
month, and allowed me to photograph
him with two of the bricks In his hands.
lEach of the bricks weighs, I should Judge,
about thirty pounds, and Is worth In the
neighborhood of M.00O. Mr. Knowles saye
tho mine is rapidly developing, and that
he believes' it will within a ahort while
produce 100 pounds of fine qold per
month. It Is equipped with an American
plant, and has one of the most modern
and efficient mining Installation of all
fe'outh America.
t.rrat I "opened Trenaore.
In addition to his work for this mine,
Mr. Knowles haa organized a company
lor the general development of the min
eral resources of this cart of the Andes.
He thinks that Bolivia la the great un
opened treasure vault of the world, and
"rightly says It has never been prospected.
The company, of whloh he is the pres
a'cnt, is known as tho Bolivian Develop
nient and Exploitation company, and its
capital stock Is held both here in Bolivia
and In the l'nlted States. Tho list of
stockholders Includes President lamael
Montes, ex-President Villaxon, tho presi
dent of the Bolivian senate, most of the
members of the cabinet, as well as several
other leading statesmen and commercial
men of this country. He tells me that
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