16 Jan 1877
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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1877
Page
1
In the Salt Lake Tribune Holiday Edition a somber Utah reminiscence laments loneliness amid festive season. It speaks of pioneers crossing deserts, loss of home, and the ache of families apart while faith, memory, and duty frame a reflective year start.
A Silver Reef correspondent to the Salt Lake Tribune compares ore extraction methods, endorsing the Hunt Douglass leaching process using common salt and ferric sulfate as cheaper than traditional amalgamation with mercury. He notes ore fineness needs, precipitation steps with cement copper and scrap iron, and claims the leaching method costs about one third of amalgamation. English race results are also listed with prize amounts.
The article traces Victoria's gold export totals from 1851 to 1875 and notes a steady decline in mining activity since 1870. It cites population losses in Bendigo Ballarat Ararat Castlemaine and Sandhurst, with Stowell as a growing center. Some scientists argue deeper gold remains to be found throughout the colony.
The American Manufacturer notes Mouchot’s sun powered devices including a 20 inch mirror distilling wine and claims a five time larger mirror could distill twenty quarts in half an hour. It cites ongoing continental triangulation led by George A. Fairchild and surveys from St Louis to Harper’s Ferry. Krupp patents a new process for car wheel manufacture yielding superior iron fibers and a compact overview of 19th century progress across science, industry, and transport.
The Journal of Health argues anxiety harms health and belief can heal or kill. It cites examples of disease imagined or anticipated causing symptoms, urging cheerful living, faith, and detachment from life to influence bodily health. It also mentions M. H. Schwarz performing a pyrite reduction and cupellation process.
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