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2 THE OREGON ' SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER CI, 1 II Tl UUU II FOR YORK TO 9 , EH MODEL "On the War Path" Is Title of New Work to" Be Made. Thi$ , Winter by A.' Phimister Proctor Following a perilous journey from thejand of many glaciers In Mon tana,' A, Phlmster Proctor, sculptor 'and sportsman. Is on his way-from r&rtland to New Tork with hit new model-Big- Beaver,-a Blaekfoot In dlaa, -whoso likeness la to appear in his latest work, , "On the War Path." Proctor Is known In Portland as the sculptor Whose hand modeled "The Pioneer," recently dedicated by Jo seph N. Teal at Eugene. His work, ThejiBuckaroo,' stands today in ' heroic . size in tho ctvlo center In I Denver, Colo., where the new' piece win be its eompanion as soon as it Is completed. . .7 - ' -Procter, was commissioned through the influence of the lata Mayor 8 peer of Denver by J, K. Mullen to model "The Buckaroo." 7 Stephen Knight also - of Colorado,' Is the donor of the new piece, which, ' when completed, will occupy the exact spot where, the young Phimister played in the. baseball nine as a boy. Here ' it was that in his early school day. Proctor wttieed the flight of seven antelope across the school grounds which now mark the heart of great city. .y.r--.-' , ';.;'..t4r-. I " FronM Bir California home Proctor traveled by automobile to the big game country, . near MoDermett lake, for his . summer outing, . incidentally to scout for ' a model for the new work, the figure for which had been' submitted to the Den ver benefactor. On the Blaekfoot In dian reservation, he chanced upon Big Beaver,- who, after some persuasion, rather 'fancied the'- adventure which meant his first trip by automobile and the exploration of the white man's cities. CITY 8TKAXGK TO 19 DI AS .'It wasn't, what you'd call a pleasure Jaunt," said Proctor in speaking of his trip out from: the reservation by auto mobile." The roads were full of holes. There wasn't a sign board all through the state of Nevada and for more than a hundred miles at a time we wouldn't see a house. The Injun' didn't like it much,;" At; first I wa afraid I'd lose him, 'till 'he got used to : the machine When we were on the hilltops, spinning along he'd sing love songs, or war songs or weird : Indian ballads, but a. soon as We began '-. going " down through ,- rough roads , and valleys tne tune changed to a dirge. Sort of got on the nerves at first till I finally began . to enjoy it. After we'd" gone few hundred pillM I began to wonder what I'd, do. if he de cided to quit me so . I humored him in every, way X could for 'Injuns' like that are hard to find. When w finally got to town with streetcars and city traffic, he was In a terrible state of fright and he Vn me busy looking after him. ' Proctor and his model drove to Palo Alto-, u here they - spent some time be fore jsomlng north again. His experi ences in finding models and. in studying the life of the ranges sometimes offers adventures as strange as a moving pic ture plot He relates the story: of a few years ago when accompanied by his wife and family be was waiting for someone to- ride a certain horse that he might sketch the animal from life. - . . Camp had been laid for the night and the fires or supper time were sending up their smoke. "Who's goln' to ride this here buckln' horse for Proctor." , said someone In the group of buckaroos In the camp not SO yards away from ths Proctor family. . EXFXBDEirCB IS EXCITWO ' 1 "Guess I earT ride anything a sheep herder can ride.1? drawled Oeorge Spear man, a biff negro in the group. "I'll ride the horse for him," but as he .finished the last word two shot ; rang out , and Spearman fell from , his horse shot through the stomach and , fa terrible agwv. ' t - Taking Off his chaps the men ad ministered what little ; first aid they could and the negro was bundled into the Proctor oar and driven as fast as possible to the nearest town. Proctor was unarmed and the roads were bad so that travel was dangerous and slow. Just below a bend . in the road the man who did the shooting appeared once mors and ordered them to stop.?: Proctor drove on unheeding; and managed to get the negro to. a physician just In time, - On chaps Of-the negro lay where they had been thrown In the .scramble' after the shooting. There was no one there to claim them and they felt to the lot of Proctor who still keeps them . in his possession. . eDuring the past, summer, at his home in the south, a birthday costume party was on the program for the young daughter of the Proctors. Aft er some persuasion' the -young woman's father dressed in his cowboy togs and among-other things put on the chaps. . Proctor expects to work through the remaining months of the winter In his studio in New York. The heroic sice figure of the horse in the new study has been shipped to the studio and the- win ter months will see the completion of the Indian figure for the horse, af tei which the piece will be cast in bronse. SCULPTOR AND HIS MODEL Do They Do It? Seventy-five" per cent Qf Vaudeville . and Lyceum Saxophonists use True-Tones Investigate for yourself and you will find this-statement true. -The same can.be , V said and verified of professional Saxophonists, soloists and particularly teachers of Saxophone music who appre: s ciate the advantages Of perfect and accurate instruments ' - that will encourage the -beginner in his efforts from the ' 'very start. A further reason for True-Tone Saxophone" popularity is the fact that a better cash or exchange value ' jj can be realized for True-Tone Saxpphones than any other " make. Confirm this statement by comparing prices in -. second-hand lists . ; . - . ,s - The abov V -pc ' while Jiningji$ ; ' drome Theatre 'during the season tf 1919. JlEach member -' rruses a Boescherrae-Tohc Saxophone, Ask them what- :. V they think' ofjtheifnstrutoents. . j- ,, . ; - 1- t ft it " W rit in receipt et a letter front fom Browni n .Tom, ;Brwn? :Jick;o,Lantem.Eand,Tom Brown's? 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Phimister Proetor, sculptor and sportsman, who is now working on bis new study, "On the War Path," which Is -to bo the eompanion piece of 1 -The Buckaroo," to stand la the eivie center at Detfrer, CoL, as the . flirt or Stephen knight to that city. Proctor Is shown here with his i' . model. Big Beater, a Blaekfoot Indian brought from (he reservation in 'Northern Montana for this work.) - V v " 'Vf-.,- DIKING PROPOSITION OF KLAMATH LANDS TO Representative Sinnott Asks Re i port-Concerning Lands. Ceded for Reclamation, i Washington, Dee, v 20. (WASHING. TON, BUREAtJ OP THE JOURNAU) JtepresenktiTe; Sinnott today Introduced a bill directing the secretary o the in terior to Investigate and report what lands of upper Klamath lake ceded by toe state of Oregon for reclaanaUon pur poses may be Aade productive by dik ing without injury to storage for the Klamath project. The bUl further pro- Christmas Mail Cleared Morning Of -December 25 Washington, Dec. 20. (IT. P.) Christmas mails, although SO per cent above normal in volume, are moving swiftly and promptly, post' office officials said today. "Every postoffice will bo cleared Christmas morning of all mall arriving- up to midnight Christmas eve,': saW Superintendent Ryan of the division of postal service. vWes tact lands may be acquired only under the homestead act. and that drainage may be permitted by a district orranised under the state law.. Prefer ence Tia-ht for soldiers is provided and leasing of lands Is forbidden. - " Sinnott urges that this will furnish a solution for the problem which has re sulted In strong" protests from Klamath against the proposed leasing to Doafc Brown, alleged subsidiaries of the California-Oregon Power company, j ' LOST PLATiill . E JH VALUE MOR Mil GOLD I Southern Oregon's Richness in Precious -Metal Not Realized - Until After Great War - . Goldl .HiM. Doe, S0:-Thero jhras bat little attention given to the pro-. duction : of platinum in this region until the late ; war-; began. 7 - The United States government with the Interruption of tho norhial lm noctatioQ of tho metal from the Ural mountains in Russia, made a special effort to discover : and : develop the platinum' deposits throughout Jack son and Josephine counties., The "geologists of the United States survey early in the war devoted over three months to this work, and visited practically every hydraulic placer min ing district in Southern Oregon and Northern California. 7 In ' nearly every district visited toy these eeologists they learned that prior to their ooming. prac tically no attention , had been paid " to the recovery of this. rare metal by the hydraulic miners. . '- "t ; v k The miners! after recovering the metal, had often discarded it without knowing what it was, or kept it for a time as a curiosity, only to throw It away when a ready market . was not available. These experts. 'after making a thorough search in this mineral sone, found noth ing that Interested, them more than the high percentage of platinum to be found in the placer dikrinss t the region. , "There is little doubt that from the early days of placer mining In this re gion, more values in platinum went into the sluices and were lost,-than were ever taken out in -gold," were the Words ex pressed by the geologists ; after com pleting the survey. ;7 , " T ASSOCIATED WITH SEEPBlTTiyB Platinum, like chrome in this region. Is elosely associated with serpentine. The native alloy in platinum is trtdtum and asiom, in which the platinum Is found la nearly all the gravel deposits In this . region, as in the Ural moun tains and derived from the serpentine of the region. That is, they are believed to have been the primary constituents of the igneous rock, which have altered to serpentine. 7 , -7 In the Riddles quadrangle in this re gion, the serpentines have resulted chiefly from the decomposition of the peridotltes . and the pyroxsniUs, but some areas of the serpentine are prob ably the result of the decomposition of basic phases of the greenstone. Much of these serpentines show sheared sone? and slickensided surfaces. Many of the miners in prospecting for platinum bad difficulty In deter mining whether or not the black sands of the region contained the metal and at other tiroes confusing It with silver. In sosie placer deposits, the grains of the platinum are. coated with a dark film and somewhat resemble the grain of the dark chromite, magnetite or llmen Ite and in panning was confusing to the miner, During the' survey of the United Stateg survey geologists in this region, they fully - demonstrated to ' the ' miner the art of saving 'the metal and. now most of the placer miners are well "versed in detecting the presence of the metal. The sodium-mercury amalgam Is" the prinpalagent in gathering Jointly the gold and platinum in the placers of this region. , OLDEST OS TOT The great serpentine dike extending from Siskiyou county, California, first makes its appearance In Oregon in the upper Applegate district. This district is occupied in large part by old Paleo solo sedimentary rocks with interboddei" Kills or flows of andesite character. I. places these bedded rocks - are pene trated by dikes of dark igneous rock and also large irregular masses of tons lit. The sediments in general stiiki about north 20 degrees east, and- dip at a high angle to the eastward. . As elsewhere shown for this entire re gion they have perhaps been overturned so that the oldest beds now He abovef tne younger, on this basis the oldest Palodsolc rocks are the arglllltea and sandstones containing limestone: lenses near Watkina and on the Little Apple gato and its tributaries. They have been Intruded by andesite and i serpen tine dikes and 1q placos highly altered; They are also modified by intrusions of tonallte. Serpentine derived in part from dunite. is abundant ern Red moan tain, which obtained its name from the color, of the thoroughly oxidized Soils derived- from it and similar high ferru ginous rocks. 7 The serpentine is Out by seams, some of which are occupied by chlorite and others by talc. It is also marked in some by long conspicuous needles of. actinolite. On the eastern peak some of the serpentine is derived from alteration of amphlboltte. J This dike makes very pronounced ap pearance in Josephine county and is not rare in Jackson county. It. is found on the ridge north of Elliot creek; at Sis kiyou, gap, at the Ramsey mine on Slate creek,' en Walkers mountain. Mount Pitt mine orf Jump-Off -Joe creek.' at-' the Gold Coin mine on Coyote creek, on Feavine mountain, and at the Gold Bug mine on Mount Reuben. ' - . , k MIKK OWKEB8 Srit PRISED - Late to 191 the owners of WHlgh land onarU mine in the Gold- Hill dis trict were surprised on receiving a smel ter report of a. mill run, that the ship ment, besides containing the regular per cent of gold and silver, also eon tatned a high per cent of plattamn, The ore of the shipment was taken from the 100 ' foot level in the mine. The foot walls of the vein are mingled with ehist and granite, while the hanging Walls are made up of serpentine, shlst and granite. - - , ;x . ; The operators of the mine, in an at tempt, . to discover the . source of : the platinum in thehlpment, gave the-walls of the vein a thorough pan and assay test, but. found no trace of platinum. Nonplussed, they looked to the vein mat ter for the source. ',: Th vein matter is mingled with three colors of quarts, rose, amber and blue. The blue Quarts, which is quite dense, is also pitted throughout-with' small cavities, ' which are lined with a black sooty mineral and filled with a decomposed irony mat tor. In crushing and panning this quarts it gave results with a high per cent of platinum, while assay tests wars etui better. Thla Is the only instance in this region where, the source of this rare metal in -the placer diggings has been found. ' Foots creek,' the adjoining stream to- this mine, carries a high per cent of platinum in its - wash - gravel. Possibly with a general resumption of Quartz mining in this region "other de posits of platinum In quarts will be uncovered. LUCK. OF POViIR IS HINDERING YAK OF: MINES 11 BAKE Harrison Mine Is Unable to Open ' With New Machinery Because -vr ' of Power Shortage. v - w " By VU X. Parks Director ef the Oreetm Borna ef HiaM and . Oeslocr. Inability of the Eastern Oregon Power company to furnish all the power de manded because of low water. Is work ing a severe hardship on- mining prop erty owners In the Blue mountain dis trict of Baker and Grant counties, ac cording to advlos received from that district during the last few. weeks. As a result of the lack of power, the Ben Harrison mine, which has Just completed new machinery Installation in their mill, will not be able to resume operation until next May. With complete machin ery revision the mine company bad ex pected to begin operating on , an .- In creased production basis this month. With the report that the Individuals, who had made ths recent copper devel opment at Squaw creek on ths little Lit tle Applegate in Jackson county, had transferred their interests to a substan tial mining company. It is expected that eunie large Developments will take piece In that district in the near future. - This development is near the BUie kedtce dis trict, which has been ' held - Hack for years because of lack or transportation facilities. The purchasing company's name has not been divulged yet 7. , Oold mine operations tn Oregon con tinue on about the same basis as they have for the past year, despite the unset tled condition of the cold market. Op erators exhibit a preference to operate even at a alight loss rather than close down their mines, is the belief that a re adjustment will bs forthcoming shortly. Ira A. Williams, geologist tor the bu reau, has just returned from the Sum mer take district In Lake county, where be was making a geological examination of conditions at the headwaters of Anna creek, the chief tributary to Summer lake, Williams was making the exam ination to determine the feasibility of raising tho bead of the artesian like springs an upper Anna creek for diver sion of the water , to a more extensive Irrigation district A report on the find ings will be mads soon. .- The results of various geological ex aminations made In the state this sum mer by the bureau are being compiled and will be ready for publication In a short time. A very comprehensive com pilation wiu oe maoe on tne oil indica tions in Oregon. -- Misers to Convene Spokane, Wash., Dec SO. 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