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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1905)
fr THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, February 8, 190? The Sumpter Miner PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY II V J. W. CONN ELLA Entered at the puitofllce In Sumpter. Oregon, lor transmission through the malls as second class alter. ' SUHSCPII'TION HATES One Year $2.00 six Months 1.35 AJ.WAVS IN AOVANCB. "Pooplo III glass llOtlflOH shotlldu'L throw stones" Ih 11 ti otrl aud true HphnriHin." "Huwurn of Knocking, If the othor follow Iihh it heavier hammer nod in skilled In its tide," Ih m ijm I ly 'mr wlso 1111 Injunction, h kind rod Idea modernized which will profit Rome people hereabouts, 1 thoy will adopt and nhido liy rigidly. The Mining World id it k oh oditoriMl mention of thn cobalt voin found mid now being workod In tho Quartburg district, though It doon not iihiiio tho Standard initio, ownod by tho Klllon, Warner, Sfowart company, whoro tlmt rare oro Ih found. TIiIh Ih tho only dopoHil of commercially valu nhlo oolmlt yol. diHtiovorod in America, mid Ih exciting wido iittontlon. .StiitH iuvovllng 622 1,104 havu lioon (Hod In tho diHtrlot court at Cripple Crook hy tho oIIIcoh of tho WoHtorn Federation of Minors. Nearly nil of tho proininont nilno ownorH oro niimod mh defendants Tho complaints In each charge tho defen dants with inciting riotH liiHt Juno, Htid uhIc for 6r,000 for Iohk of busi ness, IfiO.OOO fur exemplary damages, mid vnrloiiH huiiih nro given hh Hotnul damages Now there Ih 11 "kettle of fish" for yon I Of course, tho ininorH will have' quite 11 dllllcult joti oHtnb Jlshlng tho allegation tlmt tho opor HturH Incited tho riotH. AIho, of course, tho operators will come hunk with some Hurt of 11 otobh complaint, preferring tho hhiiio charge against tho ininorH. Tho following advoitlMomout ap peared iu several, Chicago nowspaporH, one day last woolf : "PeruOiial A ,vory liberal reward will bo paid for reliable information uh to the prorioiit whoreaboutH of John 1). Rockefeller, Sr. proHideut of the Standard OH company. Call or ad droHH L. Oourdalu, Kill Deabioru street, Chicago, III." (iourdaln Ih under Indictment by tho federal grand jmy en the chargo of advorfiHiug a lottery thiough ox proHH companies. Ho desires to sub poena Mr. Rockefeller to toHlify re giirdlug tho legality of IiIh business. Ho gave tho United Stolon inarrthal $200 to defray Mr. Kookofollor'H ox pouHOH to Chicago, but that olllclal reported that that man could not bo found, (iourdaln miilutaiiiH tha ho is simply dealing iu opiiotiH iu oil IiiiiiIh in Loiisiaue. Tho government hits (Ubpoueaed 7f wUuohhoh from Chicago, .Now OrlomiH and Hun Fran cisco. It Ih auunuucod that a gigantic tolophoue couHolldatiou Iiiih boon tfootod. with a canitalizittinu of a quarter of a billion dollms, aud which will so arrange connection-, that conversations 01111 bo curried on directly between Camilla aud Texas, Maine aud California. Of (IiIh deal a Pittsburg paper says: "The stock holders of tho American Tolophoue and Telegraph company, of New Vork, will bo untitled In a month hence at the annual meeting to bo held at I BoBton, ot u detil by the directors of the corporation, through which the conoeru has secured an 'interest' in forty-throe tolophoue companies in the United BtateH,frutn NowKngland to tho Pacific coast, and from tho Uulf of Mexico to far into tho territory of Canada Thoy will alno ho atiked to authurizo tho executive committee to Hiiticion tho building of long 1Ih tauce trunk linos to complete 11 trans continental sysiom, which will on ahle tho subscribers of the various compimieH IntercHtod to talk from Maine to Sun Fraud son and from Texan to Canada, The phrase 'Interest' will he used iu couiiec tiou with (IiIh aiinnunoement, be caiiHO of varioiiH arrangements made by the director? of the corporation, which now welds together capital aggregating $250,000,000, for the perfection of the ideal of uninter rupted telephone service, covering tho United States and tho greater part of Cauada, under one general head." Kaunas is considering tho proposi ti on of investing 200,000 of state money iu an oil rollnery, to ho oporated by conrict labor. Now, there is a game that will give John I), a run for his money. Kiiiisiih ought iiIho to bo able to make tho rallroiidH bo good, ho far as freight rii I oh mid rebates are concerned. If tho outorprifo Ih launched, this throe cornered light between Standard oil, railroad companies and Kiiiisiih will ho worth watching. Curio sums up the gold mines of tho world by sayiug: "Mount Morgan (Australia) h the greatest; tho Tread well is the lowest grade and cheapest workod; the (lolden Home hIioo (WoHtralia) tho Ih highest grade, and the homoHteak is the biggest." To HiIh tho Mining Reporter adds that the Simmer and Jack (South Africa) had, until rocoutly, aud may still have, the greatest early output, of gold of any in I no iu tho world. All thoHO miuoH are great and famoiiH, invorllny to tho view point; but which Ih actually tho greatcnt of them all ih a veiy coutroveislal mat ter. There Ih reported to be a deflict of $2H,riH,.l()7 in tho United States treasury. Tho receipts aud expendi tures for tho seven mouths of the H meal year ended February 1 show total receipts of 11124,000, 1118, and expenditures or .l4.),uT0,44r. in the corresponding months of the htHt IIhciiI year the total receipts Iweio :il.M2r,H4.l, and tho ox ItoiidiutroH 6:U7,8fil,8B(i!, a mirplus or 61,57 i, 2:il. For tho mouth closed 1 January .'11 tho total receipts were III, 1 10,281, and tho expenditures '610.027,000, making a deficit, for the month of 60,210.711. Fcr the I hhiiio month for tho last (heal year i the total receipts wore 64 l,rH8,H70, aud tho expenditures, 648,4 40,000, In dollcit of 60, 8fi 1,020. Accenting to wired advices from New Vork, a flood or money from the banks of Interior cities nun swept down on tho great financial institu tions ot Wall street. How to count tho currency and where to store H are raid to have become serious problems Tho money began to go that way three weeks ago, as is usual at this season aud, for a time, was taken care of iu the regular way; but during the last week, the receipts have exceeded all records, and some banks wore forced to take outside vault room, while others are beiug rapidly tilled to 'the doors. The abilty of the clerks toiaoonnt'gthe bills, which come In packages of l2(i().omi tn ilOO.000. fhas been tested to the utmost. Sonie banks adopt the scheme of sending the bun dles at once to tub cubtreasury, where tlieie are many experts,$wbo do nothing but count money from morn log until night. Some of these ex perts also have been loaned to a few of (he largest institutions. Postmaster General VVyune has re moved there letter carriers in the rnlnrln. Ohio, noatomao. . ordered a I 1 iu .. i ...... t, i,n mill III III II II ill ouuw vouno ti.ijt uu should not bo removed, and suspend ed thirty other carriers, all of the Toledo office, for thirty days, on the chargo of selling mining stook and of collection assessments thereou. It is charged that the men sold the mining stock while 011 duty oh car riers, an well as wbeu off duty, and frequently while iu uniform, "to the scmidal of the public sorvice. " It is also alleged that iu some of the chhoh the men made falso statements under oath in denying the charges. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROCK AND ORE DEFINED Technical men in the Lake Supe rior region call the product of their mines "copper rock," aud demur to tho use of the teim "ore"; indeed, this view is taken by a few v.ell in formed gent lemon iu Now Vork, who quote as authoritative tho definition that says, "ore is a mineral which Is a chemical compound of a usoful metal with some other element of acid." According to this view, oiuco the copper In the Micbigau lode ex ists in a metallic condition, the native mluoral or its enclosing rock means simply "rock"; if the copper were present as a sulphide it would be "ore." So does a professional tradition persist. The significance of tho words is determined by usage. The hard ex "rock '; it is miiui lull viiiiu in lukn , differentiated tiy seams pr lodes or veins from which man extracts tho mineral substances which ho needs tor art aud iudustry. Tho valuable portions constitute "ore." In case of gold, wo have to deal usually with a metal iu its native state, for gold ia tint known to exist as acompouud, save in tellurides. Is a rock con taining a telluride an "ore"aud does it not become "ruck" when oxdatiou has set free tho precious metal? We hold that "ore' is mineral or rook, whether element or compound, from which tho metal can be piolltably ex tracted; if it Ih ho poor or so re fractory that it cannot be profitably houolltiatod, it is culled "wasto." A lode traverses "rook": it is it self bulit of differentiated rock; that part of wihch is commercially valu able is "oro," the remainder is "waste. liy cheaper mining or better metallurgical treatment, "waste" may become "ore"; by ex travagant management or lower! ug ot metal prices, "oro" may have to tie transferred to the category of "wasto." "Copper rook" is an awk ward provincialism; so also is the term "stone," useil iu Australia. Kuigtiooriug and Milling Journal. Noted Mining Engineer Dead. P. M. Howard, of Sumpter, last night received uotitlcaiou of the death of his eldest brother, William J. Howard, aged 42 years, at Denver, Colorado, on Oocemner IU. The deceased was a mining engineer of international renown. For a uum- ber of years he bad been emDloyed by an English investment syndicate, and. his duties ook him to the four corners of the earth to the South African Rand, where he was located for a term of years at Johannes burg; to the west coast of Africa, in which equatorial regiou be remained until last September; to Australia, 'Mexico, the Rooky mountain mining regions, aud to California. It was I whllo on tho west coast of Africa that be contracted a case of malaria fever, 'to find relief from wbteh he went to ! Colorado. His death occurred on 1 December HI, but by a misunder standing biB brother Peter, in Sump tor, did not. receive the sad new util lust night. The deceased leaves a wife aud two children The re mains were interred in Denver. 1 NOTES OP THE MINES. Native copper has bben tho CrackerJHok mine in s'ruck on the Heath I district, Idaho. i A break-down iu the W. ti. King quartz mill iu Mormon Basin has forced a suspension. ' Telephone wires were strung during tho week, couuectiug the Standard initio at Quartzburg, with the Prairio City Hue. Rich free gold oro has been opened in the Ophir mine, on Bull Run, near Prairio City, by George Riley and Jeff Forestor. C. J. Aitkin, manager of the Counor Creek placor mines, has returned from Salt Lake, where he perfected arrangements for work iug three giant) iu the npriug. Prairie City is desirous of emulat ing the example of Sumpter and in stalling a permanent miueral exhibit there. The Prairie City council will bo asked for an appropriation, Arrangements aro boing made for tho erection of a stamp mill on the Summit group, in Mormon Uasin, owned by Oregon City men. It is estimated that 200,000 touB of free milling gold ore awaits treat ment. Lumber is being sawed at the Powell mill for a 20-stamp mill to be built early iu the spring on the Uncle Sam mine iu Mormon Basin, owned by a Michigan company, which recently added to its holdings by purchasing 200 acres of placer grouud, adjoining the Uncle Sam, for 8.')0,000. Carl Jones, who has just resigned as mechanic engineer for the Landore smoltor, says the plant is ruuning steadly, treating GO tons ofore per day aud turuiug out Ave tons of copper matte. Oro on baud assures operations for six weeks longer. Teams will probably begiu hauling a new supply before the reserve is ex hausted. Dr. Brock Established in Reno. Or. L. T. Brook, a pbysioian of Sumpter, Oregou, who comes to Reuo highly reaommeuded, has opened commodious aud well arrauged ottlces iu rooms 1 aud 8 of the Journal block. Dr. Brook has what are undoubtedly the best arranged otllces iu Nevada. There is uothing iu couuectiou with the medical aul surgical Hue that be does not carry. His ottlces are fitted iu a most modern maimer, aud from the way in which be has started there is not the least doubt but he will meet with success. Nevada State Journal. Fiue printing The Uiuer.