THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER T, HOI i .1 SAVE HOUR COLD WITH CRUDE OIL Elmore Principle Applied in New Machine on a Snake River Bar. IRON SAND AND GOLD TAKEN UP ON A TABLE This Concentrate Is Dumped Into Tank Containing Crude Oil and Water. (Special Dlapatch to T Journal.) Welser. Idaho. tc. 7. Th Flnley Bandy Manufacturing company of BolM la erecting; on Snake river ona of ! i he dvice invented by V. B. Flnlay and D. H. Bandy for saving flour gold. This . la the moat original Idea yet brought" out for the work, and embrace a elmple water concentration principle and an oil separation that might be likened to '.the Elmore patent Since an attempt "' was mads to amalgamate Snake river flour gold, which proved Impracticable owing to the large quantity of material that passed over the ptatas and scoured them, th Flnley Bandy project has excited great Interest among those who are striving to master this difficult problem. The concentrating device uaed first Is of the belt table type, having nothing new In this respect, and la adjusted to save both the coarse cubical black aand and tbe fine gold. As the Iron aand and flour gold conatltuta a heavy propor tion of the fine material In a Snake rlver bar, the duty of th table la heavy. Tha heavy product clinging to the belt i and carried against the water current on the table Is discharged Into a larger tank than that usual at the head of a . True vanner. Tha aurfaee of the water In this tank la kept covered with crude . oil. Aa the fine gold value come In ' contact with the oleaginous substance adhesion continues until the oil globules are borne to the bottom by the burden' or metal. -The agitating device In this I tank is not perfect In the experimental plant completed, yet the owners state that they have been able to affect a re markable separation of gold from tha 'black aand concentrate If thla concen- irate product from the table were put i through as thorough a mixer as tha Elmore people use In their oil concentra tion work, no doubt Is felt by engineers ""that Snake river's fine gold would be tsken up from the Iron sand with great dispatch and economy. Tha Elmore principle Is nothing more than utilisa tion of the discovery that tbe lustrous (train of certain metala will adhere to oil. Fine grinding la one of tha neces sary conditions of effective saving with the Elmore people, hence vaiuea in Snake river bars, which are known aa fine flour gold, should be amenable to . . tha process without any preliminary treatment. The small plant built by the present company will not prove permanent, but -It will Illustrate the Idea of the Inven - tor. A gasoline engine of about five horsepower furnishes the energy re quired In the present work. If the principle may be adapted economically river dredgers might easily be fashioned to aeabraaa this saving principle. It la . believed by many operators that tha con- cent rating table Is not an essential, as ' a good saving of the black sand and ' flour gold haa been effected In aluicaa, which handle more material 'than con ' oentratlng tables. The greatest diffi culty haa always been separation of the flour gold from the Iron aand, and at one time operators thought both gold and aand could be ahlpped to the smelters at a profit. smelters on those of lower values to ensble many owners of erstwhile Idle claims to work at a profit. While the, tariff on or running more than fit a ton la $2.50 but 11. to will b charged on a 16 product. Ganoll. Martin Blser of Helena, who recently purchased the Moonlight mine in Madiaon oounty, have struck a good sized vein of shipping or which ran SllS a ton in the Initial ahlpment to the amelter. There la unususl sctlvlty In the Cataract copper district, nesr Basin. Work Is being done on many claims with a promising outlook. The copper smelter there will soon be ready or operation, and tbe railway has been graded two miles. The Pittsburg A Montana company la shipping ore that averages $40 a ton, principally In the red metal. Shipments from tbe Carbonate Chief have run as high ss J I.: a car. High-grade gold ore has been struck In the Black Jack claim near Corbln. under bond to Helena capitalists. A' three-foot vein was encountered In the crosscut 20 feet from the shaft. Helena Investors who recently took ovsr the Francis claim, on Bed moun tain, have atruck a six-foot vein of sllver-gold-lead or within 20 feet of where work ceased In the abandoned tunnel. The property will b thoroughly developed. Several rich stringers have been cut in the Whitlatch-rnion mine, at one time Montana' chief gold producer, but which has been idle for many years. It Is expected the main vein will be reached within $0 feet more of crosscuttlng. and the property again established aa a dividend payer. The new shaft Is down 4U0 feet. OWNER TALKS OF THE NEW CINNABAR MINE AMONG MONTANA GOLD p MINES NEAR HELENA I (Special ntspatch to Tbe Journal Helena. Mont.. Dec. 7. A Cleveland, , Ohio, syndicate haa purchased the . Messenger group of mines, 20 mile ; from Helena. The consideration Is re ported to have been $100,000. There 'are 21 claim In the group, from one of which high value have been secured. On the other claim there I an immense body of low-grade free and cyanldlng gold ore. The new company will begin work Immediately and a 10-stamp mill and cyanide plant will be Installed. The main vein of the property la a large dyke similar to that at the Treadwell, Alaska, mine. The Great Northern railroad ha an nounced a new ore tariff which It la be lleved will greatly stimulate mining In certain section of northern Mon tana. The new rates do not affect high grade ores, but make a sufficient re . ductlon between Nelhart and the Helena C. A. Patterson, who Is one of the principal owners of the quicksilver prop erty near Prlnevllle, of which considera ble ha been written lately, has reached Portland with a quantity of specimen rock taken from the latest work. Mr. Patterson will have quantitative and qualitative analyses made of the ore which he says has a high average In mercury. At the time work was stopped for the winter tbe roof of the tunnel had the bright Vermillion red peculiar to the sulphide of mercury. Nearly ail of the or removed in recent work U high grade, says Mr. Patterson, and 'the tull width of the vein has not been proven, a the hanging wall of quartxlte wa the only on that had been reached by the crosscut. "I believe we have one of the most valuable quicksilver properties of the country, If not the best." amid he. "The magnitude of the deposit cannot be esti mated by the work we have finished. which now aggregates about 1.000 feet In the upper workings ws have a vein or lode of about 7 feet width, with quartxlte on on wall and a porphyrttlc formation on the other. In the lower tunnel, which give an additional depth of about 65 feet, we crosscut three or four stringers carrying rich clnnshar vaiuea, then passed through a lS-foot vsln that strike out from the main vein, and later cam Into the large de posit in which the crew was working when Mr. TUlotson suspended for the winter. In some of the last rounds of holes fired the showing wa remark able, and It wa not unusual at all for a large number of globule of the free metal to be found In the crevice of the rock. Thl free metal occur in a por ous argillaceous clay, aora of these specimens carrying 20 to $0 per cent mercury. Cutting through these deposits of the native matal and Its gsngue will be found rich streaks of the mercury sulphide, or cinnabar, most of them be ing along lines of cleavage further marked by qusrtl. Wherever the quarts stringers occur the cinnabar I present In heavy proportion. 1 "Aa odd occurrence I a atreak of pur white mineral of varying width which seem to be the core of the large deposit. This Is quart with crystallised sulphur, according to our early analyses. nut I intend to have It tested more care fully. I reason It out that this was the origin of the sulphur forming the mer cury coating known as cinnabar. "Mr. TUlotson Is msnaglng the work, and I think It Is the plsn to drop down the hill further, and drive a 1,100-foot crosscut to open the deposit at a depth of 500 feet below present working. Thl would be preferable to putting up a treatment plant at thl time, although there Is a quantity of or In sight ready ror suen s plant. An Astonishing but True Story of a most Remarkable Cure made by ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY, Haff The Greatest of W . COL ill Modern Remedies for COUGHS, and CONSUMPTIpN. "My home is in Sidney, Ohio. I have been hearer death with consumption than any other living person in the world, and I want you to read this, so you can tell others. I took a severe cold and neglected it I grew worse all the time, and at the end of two years I had run into consumption. I coughed terribly, lost flesh, could not sleep, and became so dreadfully weak that I had to take to bed. In the follow ing eighteen months I gradually reached the last stages of consumption. No less than seven physicians treated me and all gave me up saying I was incurable I was absolutely helpless. The whole family wore themselves out caring for me. One day mother and sister came to my bedside and said I had but a day or two more to live. Tears rolled down their cheeks as they sobbed the news. The doctors had declared I was in the last stage, and no human being could save me. I was willing to die, but before going to the cruel grave, I wanted to go out and see pay dearly beloved town of Sidney once more. They told me such a thing was impossible that I would surely die before I got back. But I insisted, and to gratify my dying wish, a carriage was fitted up with a bed of pillows, and to this I was carried and slowly driven around Court House Square. I got home more dead than alive. Through the mercy of Providence, someone brought a trial bottle of medicine said to be a consumption cure. No one imagined for an instant it was worth trying. But as a drowning person grasps at a straw, so I tried this medicine. I was better after tak ing two doses. Mother got more of the medicine and I took it, improving all the time. Today I am as well as any reader of this paper, and the medicine that cured me was Acker's English Remedy for Consump tion. I declare before God and man that every word here printed is true." , (Signed) BERTHA SHERK. This remarkable testimonial, on file in the office of Messrs. W. H. Hooker & Co., Buffalo, N. Y., proprietors of Dr. Acker's Celebrated English Remedy, is vouched for by them, as well as by prominent druggists of Sidney, Ohio. ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY will stop a cough at any time and cure the wont cold in twelve hours. We have such confidence in this great Remedy that we sell every bottle under a most positive guarantee, that your money will be refunded if you are not entirely satisfied age, 50c, and i.oo per bottle SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY S. G. SKIDMORE DRUG CO. REGULAR SESSIONS OF GRAND JURY BURTON IS SEVERELY CRITICISED IN BRIEF Desire of Municipal League Which Says Present System Has Proved a Failure. Christmas Presents ARK NOW TO BE THOUGHT OF See our line of Fancy China. It was never larger than this year. Our im mense line of 10 Cent Articles Are novel and good values OUR SPECIAL BLEND 25c Coffee IB THE BE8T HAINES TEA STORE 170 THIRD STREET Phone Main 1706. Between Morrison and Yamhill TONNAGE TO SMELTER IS GROWING LARGER (Special niapatrh to Tbe Journal.) Bumpter, Or.. Dec. 7. Operations st the Bumpter smelter continue stead with Increaslnc receipts of ore. The tonnage being put through the furnace grows, and before winter I over It I generally believed that the smelter will be receiving sll It can conveniently handle. The Badger mine. F. w. Brad ley' property, deliver about three car of concentrates per week. The B. A In Cracker creek, ship the product of It 30-stsmp mill and 14 concentrator regularly. Beven Devils, Ida., sent four cars of copper ore last week, and will keep In the list of regular shippers. The Whitman property, also of western Idaho, delivered four cars of or last week, making nearly twice a much a It had been sending. The Imperial man agement believe that they will be abt to hold the output of that property to nearer 20 tons than th 10 produced dally for aome time past. Ther I every evidence of permanency and prosperity about the ameltlng plant. Poles have been erected to establish a system of arc lighting, to facilitate the work of the night shift. The plant fur nishes Its own electrlcsl energy. Between ore and coke being received and matte shipped out, the smelter has proved a heavy tonnsge maker for -the Bumpter Valley railway. NEW CONCENTRATOR PUT IN COMMISSION lp.rlil Dlapatrh to Th. Journal.! Bumpter, Or., Dec. 7. The Blue Bird company, operating near the Red Boy, Is reported to have opened Its concen trating plant yesterday. Manager O. C. Wright hsd fixed the early part of the week for beginning thl work, and hss been rushing construction with a good force of men. The 10-stamp mill In the same plant Is running now. snd the management expects to keep It busy continuously. The concentrating plant I auxiliary to the stamp mill, the former consisting of gyratory breaker, roll-jaw breaker and two sets of centrifugal rolls. The bresker part of the plant Is used for the stsmps slso. TWO TABLES ADDBD (Special Diapatrh to Tha Journal. ) Prairl City. Or.. Dec. 7. Two con centrating table have been added to th mill ot the Black Butt mine, of the John Day bssfn. In the work don by Superintendent E. ('. Allen up till the present It was found thst the rolls war capable of handling a far greater ton nage than the table would dispose of. and two more hsve been shipped In. The management believes thst with this In crease In milling capacity the mill may be mad to bandl about 40 to SO ton S day. JURORS SHOULD MEET AT LEAST TWICE A YEAR Mayor Williams Opposes Plan, and Inveighs Against Some of the Witnesses. Members of the Municipal league are advocating law calling a grand Jury not 1 than twice In each year. Those members prominent In the present in vestigation say that with only on sea Ion the business cannot be expedited A In th present Instance, thsy say It requires so much of their time that they can hardly afford to give the gov ernmental affair of the city th proper attention. Miller MurdocK, John Haln and A. 8. Pattullo, who were before the grand Jury nearly all day vaster day. are each in favor of the new law Mayor Williams, who was also before the grand jury, aays that if there should bs more than one session he would die of Indigestion; as it Is, he ay the Municipal league keep him In a continual nightmare. The aubject on which Mayor William read the riot act to the grand Jury waa non-citlsena who take up the burdens of the admin istration of the city government with out any right. Mr. Williams said he referred particularly to Mr. Pattullo. who has o fur failed to take out nat uralisation paper, but who, a th mayor expressed It, has nsver failed to take s hand In the government. In the Tanner creek sewer scandal the Municipal league has taken but lit tle action, except to object to the new committee appointed by the mayor, be lieving that the Investigation should have been made at the completion of the work and before the contractora had had an opportunity to patch It up. Mr. Bain, one of the member of the Munici pal lague, said: "It I not our Intention to pre thla matter any further than Is absolutely necessary to protect the rights of th people. We sre not so deeply Interested In this aa In maintaining ths high moral standard of the admlnlatrstlon aa to gambling, but since the scandal haa reached a stage where it Is svldent that the peopl have a right to be heard, we will do our part. "If the grand jury aat In regular -lon oftener It would be much better for the city; then w could get our business In shape and present It to the Jury without any delay whatever. Aa It Is now mstters com up sometimes feet foremost. Everything must be done in a rush, and w can t do good work." AID XSX. onosra. Journal special Berries.) Charlottotown P. R. I Dee. 7 Prince Edward Island Is electln a new legislature today. It I the flrat gen eral election nlnce December. 1(00 All Indication point to the ucce of th present Liberal administration and M a rontlnuance of Hon. Arthur Peters, the present premier, In power. (Journal Special Service.) Washington. Dec 7. In a supplemen tal brief In tha caae against Senator Burton Tiled In th United State su premo court yesterday he 1 severely criticised. The brief aays: "Mr. Burton' track wer wall cov ered. Hi association on behalf of him self and his client make a fair outside, but he held up the investigation becau he wa a aenator and not merely be cause he wa general counsel of th Rlalto company;, and the portion of th Judge charge animadverted on at bar were perfectly accural ' and Just. If not, th most dangerous evil In thl en tire situation, vis., that Intangible, sub tle and Insidious thing. Influence.' can never be reached even where the receipt of compensation Is plainly Shown. "Becauao a man occupies a high posi tion snd th atlng of th Infamy may therefor be more bitter to him, 1 no reason for saying: that that part of th punishment should Increase th grade of the offense and enlarg hi protec tion and rights, any mora than If th case put the same stigma upon A poor wretch who never held office and could never expect ta. mr sxau or sorsircz. (Journal Special Service.) Mlddletown. o . Dec. 7. The new lab oratory of physical science at Wesleyan university, known as th John Bell Scott memorial, was formally dedicated today With Interesting ceremonies and in th presence of a large gathering of alumni and friends of th university. Th building was formally accepted by President Raymond, In an Interesting address, and he wa followed by Ed ward Bennett Rosa, Ph. D., physicist of the national bureau of standards, who delivered the oration of th day. Th ceremonies concluded with a dedica tory prayer by Blahop Andrews. HUSBAND WEARIES OF THE RUNAWAY HABIT (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Colfax. Wash.. Dec. 7. "She ha th runaway habit." declared Edward H. Rosecranz yesterday In the superior court whan he filed a suit for divorce from I.lzzle Rosecranz. He declared hi wife had run away from horn four time In the last hx month, leaving him with two little girl aged 1 and 5 year to car for. In addition to cook ing hi own meals and doing th house work, a wall aa th farm work. They were married at Wilbur, Wash., June tS, 1S9S. In May, 104, he says, she ran away to Portland. Or . remaining about one week. In June she left again and went to Pendleton and Baker City and waa gone three weak. She 1 now said to be in Pendleton, accompanied by her baby, 1 year old. Brown Tag Sale an Nears End WITH THE CLOSING OP OUR BROWN TAG SALE, COMES XII AS. Our careful preparation has assembled a brilliant array of Holiday Wearables. Ours is a stock of practical giveables offered in a practical way. It offers thousands of common sense answers to the difficult problem of what to give. You need not be tutored in fashions or values when you come here You are in safe precincts here. Ths character and correctness of the styles are established by long years of successful leadership in the field of Men's and Boys' Outf itting. The holiday season's special providing are manyand important. Every energy of our great commercial organization has been exerted to the end that the best is before you at the lowest possible prices. But and this is most Important we have not been less careful in providing for the prosaic every day wants of the people because of the special efforts put forth to gather together the grandest holiday stock that Portland hss seen in years. Don't overlook the MAINE CLOTHING AND CHICAGO SHOE STORES THE WORLD'S HIGHEST STYLES IN MEN'S CLOTHING We offer exceptionally strong inducements in SUITS and OVERCOATS, more particularly the latter. No store in the city can offer such values as we do. See our SUITS and OVERCOATS for $7.45, $8.95,410.00 $12.50, $13.50 As a special inducement we will PAY THE CAR FARE or all purchasers of SI or aver. All cars now transfer to oar door. It will pay you to come here to look. DANGEROUS OOLOS. HEAVY OOUGHS, ySSSt, N. & $. WEINSTEIN ; 165M-167 First St., Near Morrison Stormy Weather Tries the Paint Maybe you hars noticed that C OBK. WEATHER - PROOF PAINT stands ths racket- A guarantee In every pack age. PORTLAND PAINT AND WALL PAPER CO. Distributors, 1SS Beoond St. Telephone, A. A. CHURCH CO ttt Taylor St. f'ARSTENH BROS. Montavlll J. B sTDONALD. . .S4 Williams av. Mnke-Wier BUSINESS COLLEGE NIGHT SCHOOL oomrssoui. ajsitjdc mum, Monday and Thursday evenings from seven to nine. 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