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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1904)
COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD PIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE EASTERN INVESTORS IN OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT ANOTHER RUMOR ABOUT THAT GOLCONDA DEAL Sent Out From Pendleton and Promptly Punctured by J. A. Howard, As Usual. A special from Pendleton to tho Spokesman-Review of yoatorday HiiyH: "A mooting of the (loloonda Con Hulldatod MIiioh company Ih adver tised to ho hold by tho stockholders October 28 for reorganizing and raiH 1 tiK enough funda to pity oil' tho In dobtoduoHH iiml put tho minu in op eration. Aloxumlor Prussiiig, of Chicago, and bin associates plan to reorganize tho company with a cap ital of $1,000,000 iiiHtoMd of fll.OUO, UOU, kIvIiik to each of tho stock holilorH of tho company tho tight to subscribe in tho now company upon payment of 1 -II cents for each old hIihvo, which hIihII ko to conatituto a fund of 8100 000, with which to pay olf tho pruHout Indebtedness of ahout $.'10,000 and to leave sufficient fiindH 0UTPU1 OF PYRITE AND SULPHUR 1903 The recent advance In tho price of Hiilphur and tho consequent luoroam) in the coiiriiimptlon of pyrie, which Iiiih lately found favor iih a HtitiHtituto for Hiilphur, especi ally In the manufacture of sulphuric acid, were notable features of the Hiilphur and pyrite industries in l'.io:i Dr. JoHoph Hyde Pratt awnrihoH I ho ohuugoH in those imliiHtrioH during tne last year to an agreement made between the Anglo Klclllau Sulphur company and tho operator of mlnca in Sicily. Hy the terms of an agreement thin com pany coutrolH at leiiHt eighty-five pur ont ol the total production of sul phur in Sicily. A interesting d port entitled "The 1'rnduotlnn of Sulphur mill Pyrite in 1003" Iihh been prepared by Dr. Pratt for the United Stilton (ionlngioal Survey and Ih publlHhed iih an extract from tho mrthonmiiig volume of ".Mineral ItcHmircoH, 1003." Tho greater portion of the world's hiipply of mituial Hiilphtii in oiitaiued from Sicily, and of thin production the United States conHiimeH by far the larger amount. The organization of the Anglo-Sicilian company in 1800 hiiH, however, helped the domestic trade, iih shown by the fact that, while the imports of natural to equip tho initio with now mach inery and to open up tho mine. It Ih tho plan to placo tho initio in oper ation in hIx or oight months." Informed of tho import of the above dispatch, J. A. Howard, who holds a control in tho company, Hiiid: "Like other pioss dispatches on tho hiiiiio subject that have boon Hont out from Pendleton, tho state inontH iiiado are prcmaturo, if not in accurate. The meeting called for October 118 Ih for the purpoHO of dis cussing a propoultlou which has boon made by Mr. Prusslng. That ib about as far as negotiations have pro gressed. Auy talk about tho mattor provloiiH to that moo ting la not reli able iiowh nor will it help tho prop oaltlon along." Hiilphur have loroasodonly 4.'i.r per cent alnco I HUH, the production of natuiiil sulphur in the United Stateu Iiiih IncroiiHod 303 per cent. The sulphur imported into tho United Stilton Ih iihoiI chiolly in tho manufacture of Htilphuric add and in thejjpapcr trade, while that used in France and Italy Ih employed for agricultural purpoaoa. The iucrotiHo In the price of Sicilian sulphur Iiiih Htliuulatod tho manufacture of sul phuric acid from oyrito and Iiiih begun to ciiiiho tho Mibstiutinn of pyrite for the natuial Hiilphur employed iu the manufacture of paper pulp, in a few instances iu thin country aulphlte-papor mllla aro obtaining their aulphuroiiH acid from HinoltorH that are roasting pyritio oroH. Up to tho present time tho largest iucroiiHo in the production of pyrite and ita uao iu the place of Hiilphur has boon in the manufacture of sulphuric acid for tho fertilizer trade and for refining petroleum. It Iihh been eatimated that alnco 1805 the production of pyrite has iu creased 141 pur cent and tho imports of pyrite 132 pur cunt. Dr. Pratt duvotua some apaco iu a decriptiou of occurruiicuH of aulphur iu Louisiana, Tomis, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, and Alaaka. The dupouita in Sicily, Japan, Mexico, 'Chile, Peru, and Spain arc alno noted. Tho countries that may become extoiiive exporter) of sulphur aro Mexico and Chile, It Ih probable that the United Statea may always have to depend on im porting a poition of tho sulphur columned, and the coutrol by I American companion of large do poaits of this mineral in Mexico would bo otio of advautago to thia country. Tho production of aulphuruin noid in tho United States during 100.') was 2.'.'!, 127 long tons, valued at 81,100,818, as against a production of 207,874 long tons, valued at 047,0M), in i)02. The states that produced this sulphur were Louisiana, Nevada, and Utah. Tho total domestic consumption of sul phur iu 1003 was 480,184 long tons, as against 400, .'501 tons in 1002, an increaae of 10,283 tons. Considerable space is given to a disaussiou of tho production, ex portation, and price i of Sicilian sul phur and to a description of the four uiothods used iu Sicily In smelting sulphur ore. Tho report closes with an account of tho sources of supply, production, imports aud exports, and consump tion of pyrite. Tho pyrlto producod in 1003 was obtained from tho following states, givon iu the order of thoir respective eutput: Virginia, Massachusetts, California, Uoorgia, Ohio, Alabama. Indiana, South Dakota, and Now Jorsoy. Over one half of tho total production was obtained from Virginia. Tho domestic production does uot begin to equal the domaud, aud tho rest of the supply used iu tho United States la imported, principally from Spain, with smaller quantities from British Columbia, Canada, aud Now foundlaud. DtVELOPMENI WORK AT ASTORIA GROUP 13. J'J. limner this morning sout a force of moil, under Al Weia, to tho Astoria and Bend mines, on Littlo Cracker creok, to do apodal devolop inont work. Supplioa for two months wero sout out this morning ami tools aud powder will follow to morrow. Thoao claims aro on an ox ousiou of the tileasou & Dcaue prop erties, upon which a rich strike was made last spring, and whero extensive development work is boiug per formed under a loaso and bond held by au eastern syndicate A 200 foot tunnel on the Astoria claim is in good ore in a wide vein. Au oxtousion of the same group, on tho Hock crook side of the divide, it owned by John tioss, of Sumpter, who has obtained good assays from a slxtuou-fnot open cut. Heavy Ore Receipts. During the wook ending today the Sumpter smeltor recioved oro from the following preperties: Three cars from the Seveu Dovils, two from the Friday, two from tho Highland, throe from the Lazy .Jim, one each from the Equity, Prairie Diggings, aud Paisley Elkhorn. Small ship ments were also mado from tho Snow Creek aud Listen Lake. Wagon load shipments wore received from the Tabor Fraction aud Imperial. Havy shipmetuts aro expected uext week fiom the Queen of the West at Cornucopia. CUTTING LUMBER FOR THE RED BOY I. L. Hoffmau, deputy county surveyor, passed through Sumpter today on his way home from the Red Hoy mine, where he has for the past week been doing surface surveying, preparatory to au early reopening of the mine. Mr. Hoffman says already the Red Boy is assuming a busy aspeot. The May Queen saw mill is cutting lumber aud mining timbers for the Red Boy and a force of men la busy oleaniug up around the surface. Mr. Hoffman says that resumption of operations at the Red Boy will not really occur until after the stockholders' meeting at Baker City, October 18, at which time and placo the old Rod Boy compauy will be officially dissolved and a new incorporation formed. TREMENDOUSLY RICH ORE IN MAYFLOWER A phone mesage from Cornucopia, roceived yesterday by George W. Hoggs, managing owner of the May flower mine in that camp, stated that there was iutouse excitement there over the discovery in one of tho uprahes from a drift iu the Mayflower of tremendously rich ore. The message stated that the face of the oro shoot which they had cut was literally glittering with freo gold, aud that so far as Investigations had gono tho strike was a big one. Only a fow days ago a rich voiu was cut iu the Mayflower and thia new dis covery would seem to give just caiiBo for the exoitement reported. When seen by a reporter Mr. Boggs stated that ho was going out to tho mine iu a day or two, aud would bo able to report definitely as to exact conditions. It is a strange coincidence that ou the vory day that the strike was made aud reported Mesrs. A. B. Bodeaker and L. C. Deulus, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the two leading stockholders aud associates with Mr. Boggs in the Mayflower, arrived iu Baker City on thoii way from the coast to the. east. Notwithstanding the Mattering news they would uot stop, but last night pushed on through east iu order to perfect details for further development of the Mayflower and the equipment of the mine with machinery. Both geutlomeu will return here iu less thau thirty days aud iu tho meantime Mr. Boggs will continue development. The prop erty has beeu fully financed, aud Messrs. Bodecker aud Deuuis are financing two or three other big deals through Mr. Boggs, their associate engineer. Mr. Boggs says it is safo to say that there will be some big thiugs doiug iu that country in the very near future and Baker City will uot be the loser by the deals. Democrat. a