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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1905)
et rznr Wednesday, February i$, 1905 THE SUMPTER MINER l, TESTS FOR TRUE AND FALSE GEMS If you doubt tho geuuiueuoss of your diamonds nr atones, whloh you contemplate purahasiug, it ib not uonuaaury to auhmit tbom to an ex pert by studying tbo following methods of testing these getua yuu may beootno you own expert: For tbo first lesion, take a real diamond aud au imitation. Drop them lu glaaaoa of wate.' Tbe Imi tation will bloud witb tbe water aud beoome almost iuviBlble, wbile tbo real one will be distinctly visible, (mining out whitoly througb tbe liquid Dry aud clean the two tones, and ou tbe flat side ot eaob put a tiny drop of walur. Ou tbe real tbe do"p will bold its globular form and can be led about with a piu polut. Tbu drop on tbo glaBa one will spread. Study tbe two stones witb a mag nlfying glass. Tbe faoeta of (bo false one are eveu and regular. Ou tbe other thoy are nt varying sizi. lbe reason for tbia la tbat n diamoun outtor witb a good gom will sacrifice nymmotry to weight, perforriug to loavo Home alight irrogularitioa in tbo planes and edgos ratbor thau to re duoo tbo Btono'a value. Tbo mntorial in a false stone being of little value, tbe outtor makes aa (luisbod a job aa ho oau of it, tho appearauoo oountlug for moro than the atone itself. If a real diamond be used aa a miniature roadiug glase, aided by a large magnifying glass, a tiuy dot on paper appears oloar aud oleau. Sub Htltute the false stone aud several points, or oue badly brokou one, will 'be seen, owiug to tbe unequal re fraction. Then you oau try tbo familiar ex periment ot scratching a shout of glass. Because your atoue will Horatcb does not prove its gouuiuo iioss, however. Try to break tho glass evenly on tbo soratoh. No otbor stouo ohu cut through tho outer skin of u sheet of glass and give ertainty to an eveu fracturo like a diamond. Your true diamond is proof against the hardest file, but tbe instrument will easily scratch any imitation that has ever beeu made. Having scratched your pretty bit of glass till it is worthless, drop it aud the diamoud into bydrofluorio add. Beforo long tbe glass will bo disaovled, buc tbe diamoud will suffer not at all. Then there is still auothor ex periment. Take a bit of stuif witb red and white markings, pasa the Htono to be teated over it, and closely observe tbo result. If the stone bo un imitation tbo colors will bo distinguishable through it; if it be a diamoud uo dilferouae of color will l) appreciable. A genuine diamoud rubbed upon wood or motal after having boeu pre viuoaly subjected to tho ray of the elecrtio aic, becomes phospborescuut in tbe dark; this cannot be said of Huy of tbe imitatiouB. If tbe stone to be tried be covered with borax paste and after droppiug iuto a glass nf wator tbe proot will be install taneoua. Tbe glass imitation will fly iuto bits, wbile tbe geuuino stone will uot be alfeoted. Finally, try to crush between two bard plates a dia mond and an imitation aud learn tbe difference. After the diamond, tbo sapphire is tbo hardest stone; witb her more beautiful sister, she possesses also the quality of resisting tbe attach of tbe tile, but she ia, however, cloudy in appearauceTaud of a milky hue. The tupaz iaTslightly yellowish aud surrenders totho outtiug teeth of tbe file. There are a groat number ot white diamonds, but a pure, dear, trampnront atone, without a shade of color is more raro thau ia ofteu Hiippoaed. I3oiidea white diamonda, tburo are bouio which exhibit tbo shndoa of red, bluo, green, yellow, brown, black aud piuk. Hunt sometimes cuubom a diamond to change ita color, and after a timo the colir thua acquired beuumea permanent. Yellow diamonds, or those commouly denominated "off color,1' furnish the groateat vari-sty of shades nud sumo of them exceed in beauty all other atoues of that color. Spenimena of canary-colored dia monds are by no tueaua rare. They may almost be said to bo common. A piuk or rose-colored diamond is of great value, and tbe red diamond, surpassing tbo ruby in its mag uitloont coloring, la considered tbo moat bountiful of all the precious atoueB, boing exceedingly raro. The one bought by Paul, czar of Husaia, woighud ton karats aud coat him 2,500,000 franca. A porfeotly black diamoud is almost aaj rare as a rod ouo. For beauty tho blue itonoa como dirootly aftor tho rod diamonds. Those possessing the deep blue, aud in this rospoct resembling tho sap phire are indeed moat beautiful gems, difforiug from tho aapphiro only in quulity aud by the mniiulU oeut flroy colors peculiar to tho dia mond. Tho ouly true blue diamonds come from tho mines of India. Tho varletiea of greeu are nut so raro as tho blues, reds, blaoka aud piuks, but those of grass green hue, like tbo j beautiful omerald, are seldom found. Where thoy do exist, however, they surpass in brilliaucy tbe finest emerald. In place of tbo Hrazlllati dia mond, which of late years has be J come quite scarce, Cape diamonds of much inferior value aud brilliauyo aro often sold. To bo able to dis tinguish botwoeu thes" gom it an ac complishment possessed by few. Exobange. SMALL. COSTY MINING GLAIMS The louatiou of a miniug claim iu tho Cripple Creek district which has au aroa uot greator than that of a building lot calls attention to tbo value of tboes fractious. The Cripplo Creek claim referrod to ia known us tbe New Discovery aud ia ou Hull hill. Tho area of this claim ia 0. 1 11 aoro, or about 78x78 toot. Tho loon tiou was made for tbe Stratum's Cripplo Creek Minlug it Development company. It will cost upward of 8750 to do tbe nooossury mining work for patent ing, surveying, advertising, etc. Ai this rate a full size claim of about feu aud one-third acroa would be worth 954,000. This claim, patented, will, wo believe, be auialleat ever passed through if the the department of the interior. Tbeso small claims or fractious are sometimes of immeso value. Take tbe famous Minnie HoHey, of Hutte, a claim which, at the p.esant rate, will give rise to more litigation thau auy single location in the United States. Tbe Injunctions alone given against this proporty must nearly be j a record. Vet it ia ony about one- fifth the regulaitou si 7.0 of a Moutaua mining claim. 1110 area or a run Moutaua claim ia about 20 2-H acres; tbe Mluuie llealoy baa ouly 4.01 acrea This small claim ia controlled by F. A. iluin.o, but tho Interests in it aro very much dividud. There waa rocetitly filed in Uutto a certificate nf incorporation by (ho Uuardiau Milling company with 1000 shares of 8100 par value. Tho solo assota of tbia company 'la a one fiftieth In terest iu (he Minnie Henley. Lot ua hoo what tbia Interest actually means. The Mlnulo llealoy claim has an area of about 182,052 square foot, or, 'if rectangular, would be nearly l.'IO x4H0 feet. One-fiftieth or this would be about 11,000 feet, or, say, 00x00. Ouo of tbo inccrporators of tho com pany held four shares iu th com pany, ilia share iu the claim would lie about 2 V.xO foot. Many will recall M10 famous Aileeu suit or tho Morning (Jlory-Mary Mo Kiuuoy suit. Tho Aileon la a very small fraction In the Cripple crook district and yet, because of It having the apex of a valuable (ore shoot worked in the Mary McKinney, ita owners have mulcted tho Mary Mc Kinney iu heavy damages. i Another Cripplo Creek fraction is tho Lo Clairo, whloh produced over 100,000. These unconsidered trltlea frjqueutly prove to bo ouurmoudly valuable. Mining Reporter. AUSTRALIA GIVES AID TO IIS MINES Tho roport of tho Australian de partment of mines ia woll worth study, uot merely for tho information it gives directly as to tho condition of minlug in the statu, but also for tho information that it gives In dirootly. One of the moat striking features of Western Auslrnllnn mining ia the scieutlllc organization created by tho stato to fostor its mining in dustry. Tho department of tho gov ernment that deals with tho mining industry, is headed by ouo of the mosv, Important stato officers, who is known as tho minister for mines, lu addition to this office there la an under seoretary of wlntu, who is also quite au Important official, lu addition to (hose officers (hero ia: A stato mining engineer a govern ment geologist; inspector ot explo sives; inspector of boilers; superin tendent of government stamp I attor ies; a school of mines, and au en gineer for in i lies water aupply. All those officers have proper assistants, and they mako annual reports oh to tbo work they have accomplished each year. Inasmuch aa tlo w irk done by tho various depar ment is keen aud voty business like, th re ports of tuo heads of the dopiircmonta aro of incalculable value to the in in iug interests. Iloforn 1 Mviug this phase of tho Western Australian mining organi zation, we cull attention to the work of tho school of mines, which was es tablished iu 1002. This Hchool, from tho report of tho director, vould seem to be organ iud very largely for tbe purpose of developing tbe skill of those actually engaged iu mining operations. Fui examplo, wo dud suggestions by tbo director of tho school, of courses ot studies for assayed, eugiuo drivers, elec trical workers, cyanidora aud mill- men, tuiuiug mou, etc. This ie a class of Instruction that tohoois of mines elaowhoro might woll carry on, cBpecialy schools in miuing sec tions. To thoso ou tbia aido of tho Pacific, bowovor, tho aectiou of tho roport deaiiug with state aid to mining will cause tho groateat aatonlahmont, aud poaiihly some envy, that the Woatraliau should have such facilities provided by th government. In addition (o tho state buffet tea and to tho Coolgardio water scheme, w find that under au act passed in 1002, tho sum of jtttO.DSfi (1104, (Kto) was directly expended for tho devel opment of them 1 11 real resources of tho afnte. Details of tho expenditure arc as follews: Advancod (o miuing companies to assist them to test their properties at depth by boring, 18, M0H; advanced to battery ownors to enable thorn (o purchase aud erect machin ery, $1,718 aubfidios in connection with schemes for sluicing for alluvi al, 982') subsidies to prospecting parties to insist them in sinking ihaftt In search of deep alluvial, 91,215 subsidies to prospecting parties to assist (hem iu boring for alluvial leads, 11,840: advances to minora to analst (horn (o deepen their shafts, 8501 purchase aud cruet ion of state stamp batteries, 154,025; ex penditure iu connection wltfi pur chase of camels, horses and equip ment for loan to piospoctiug parties, 11 1,451, etc., etc. Of course, these sums have been spout iu addition to the expense of maintaining the various govern ment departments wo tiave o umorat ed. It will therefore lie seen that tho Western Australian government is by 110 means niggardly iu the ex pending of money calculated to do velop the mineral Industry, and cannot but compare tbo work done by that government with that (lone by the varioiiH western mining states. Colorado, for examplo, with a min eral out put fifty per cent greater than that of Western Australia, spends about ouo fifth the sum in work cal cii I ted to beuellt ita great industry. Minlug Reporter. THE NATIONAL BANKER 4 ai it fui st. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS A journal of National circulation. Ia read by bunkers, capitalists, in "cstors, retired merchants. If you viint to roach a good class of buyers aud tho moneyed and investing pub lic, advertise iu the National Hanker. Thousands of copies of each issue of tbo National Hanker goes to investors throughout the Middle West, Kastorn and Now Knglnnd states. The Inist journal in tho country iu which to reach investors. Sample copies free Advertising rates ou application. THE SUMPTER GOLD BELT MINING COMPANY CAPITAUZAT ON $100,000 F. C. 111101)1 K, M. F. MUZZY, F. O. HWCKNUM C. II. OIIANCK, O II. FIONNKU, President Vice President Hoc. and Treas Attorney Engineer OPHITES MINES 11 THE GREENHORN 1ND SUMPTER DISTRICTS Siimptir, Ori(M