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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1924)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON ' THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1924 HOTEL BLIGH 1 1,00 rooms of Solid Comfort A Home Away From : Home We Will Give Our Best Efforts Devoted to Showing Salem District People t and Opportunities of At all times to assist in any possible war the devel opment of the fruit and berry industries in this val lejr. j ; , 8 SELLING SALEM DISTRICT Their Own Gomitrv Wa At Out After Two Million Wa are bow paying ortr thr-a qoarteri of a million dollara a year to tha dairymen of this section for ; milk. . "Marion Butter" Is the Best Butter j - i More Cows and Better Cows is the crying need : MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 arid Its Cities and Towns The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People . The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Industries Oregon Is to support I hose You Have i Next Week's Slogan SUBJECT IS SEEDS n Butter-Nut Bread . The Richer, Finer Loaf" CHERRY CITY BAKERY Our Ideal: 'Tha Best 0ly" Our Method: Cooperation I Capital Cly Co-operative Creamery A noa-prafit organization owned ' entirely hyi the dairymen. Giro a trial; ' Manaaetnrrra of Bntterrap Hotter "At your Grocer" Fiona 299 137 8. Com'l St. GIDEON STOLZ CO. .Manufacturers of Dependable Brand Lime-Sulphur Solution , The brand you can depend oh for purity and test Trices upon application Factory near corner of Summer and Mill St. Salem, Oregon Nelson Bros. Warm Air Furnaces, plumbing, heating and Bheet metal work tin and gravel roofing, general jobbing in .tin and galvanized iron work. " ': -- ' " ' ' ' ' : - 353 Chemeketa St. Phone 196 DIXIE HEALTH DREAD Ask Your Grocer FOR YEARS ADYEARS The Statesman has bee.Tuj- supplying the wa tit or the critical Job printing trade - , -; : -t VjUbot positive we are printers of worth and merit; Modern " equipment and ideas are the ones that get .by.- V Statesman Publishing Company Phone S3 or 583 215 S. Com'l St. Selling Salem District is a Continuation of the Salem Slogan and OTHER Ties DBS T IS fflE SLOGAN EDITOR FROM i TRIP TO THE SMIAM hfUNING REGION, WHERE A GREAT GAMP IS BEING DEVELOPED ST THE WU FRONT DOOR OF SALEM Thousands of Millions of Tons of Ore Are Under the Eternal Hills Up There, and Every L Two By Two Feet of It; Every Eight Cubic Feet of It, Holding Values That Will Av J erage Around $13, at Present Prices of Copper and Silver, Together With the Gold i BullionNeedecf, Larger Mills, Development of Water Powers, Providing of Cheaper Transportation; Then 1 000 Men Will Be Working in One Property, Out : of Scores That Are Capable of Being Developed ; The thing that; will most forci gly impress a Tisitor to the Santi am mining district, and especially to the section for some miles in every direction from the p&int where Gold creek empties into the Little North Fork of the Santiam river ... ; j J: . : The thing that will most forci bly imprees the j visitor is the vast extent of the ore deposits. That is what Impressed the Slogan man on his first visit, and that Was the biggest idea he carried away in a visit there a few days ago. Mountains of Ore. 1 There are literally , mountains of ore. The mineralized belt has mi Bunk Houses, Mess House I . at IxKz-Larsen Mine " , been traced in a: section there two miles wide and twenty miles long. How much wider it is no one can be certain, nor how long, either. As to width,: It .probably runs clear through !; the Cascades, for the point named is only; about seven miles on aV straight line from the summit of the Cascade range. As toj length, the twenty mi If s will probably be found to be only a small part of Jhe min eralized district. , How ?tieep the depowits go, there is no telling, now. But it fs the nature of cop per' deposits ,to grow richer as they attain greater depth; except ing. in some mines there are struck level where the pay streaks run out, then come richer lower down. How Itk-it Is the Ore? '" Roughly speaking, the average ore so far taken out, in the dis trict under discussion, will run in values abont! $12.78 a ton, of which $7.58 isi copper and $5.20 gold and silver , There are found values very much higher; espe cially in the copper content; And the values increase as the tunnels get further in. l , : . DAIRY Perfectly Pasteurized Milk and Cream" . Phone 725 - -14...:, , . .. This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as tiie years go A, W. Constans, the new man ager of the Lotz-Larsen proper ties, of whom more further along in this article, says the gold and silver will pay for the mining and mining and treatment of the ore to the point of marketing the product that the copper will be "velvet"; i profit. Of ; course 3 Mr. Constans means that this must contemplate mining on a large scale, , w-ith improved machinery and up to date processes, and with good transportation facilities. j Two by two by two feet of that ore; that is, eight cubic feet, will make a ton. , For every ton tnere will be ultimately a j profit of '1 J V . .. and Other Huildings some $7.58 for the company dd ing the mining. You can multi ply that by almost any figure you want to; by a million, ten mil lions, a hundred millions. The Lotz-Larsen : people ' now control 32 claims; 640 acres; tak ing out some overlapping, gay 580 acres. They have plenty of -timber on the land for mining purposes for a number of years; the num ber will depend on how great their operations may become. They have water power filings for ample power to run all the ma chinery they are likely to need; much more than enough to tun the machinery for any operations that they' alone will likely develop In the present generation. Thou sands of horse power, i Into the Mountain ? C Their main tunnel, on 1 their Minnie E claim, runs Into the side of the mountain on the south side of the. Little North Fork, oyer 1200 feet. It can bo bored into the mountain through the Chief Justice, the Handsome Boy and the Go Devil claims, on their, Own properties, 3000 to 3200 feet fur therand when they rekch 1 that far they will have about 2300 feet over their heads; 2300 feet of ore to daylight on the moun tain above; and evidently all min eralized. It holds out aa high as they have yet gone, in driving straight up from the present tun nel. , -" ! Then they have driven a tunnel 100 feet into the mountain on the north side of the river, and they find the game conditions; some streaks appear even better than on the south side.' How- deep beneath their feet Pep and Progress Campaign they may go and find the same or better values, no one knows. They have traced? the values on and near the surface for 4500 feet each way. -f This is all gold, silver and cop per ore. Six or seven mllesclpser to Salem, for instance, in the Sil ver King mine, there are found ores that carry in ' addition lead and line. .; ? , Haa Benn SurpriaMi; 1 Mr. Constans says he hjrabeen surprised at the Lvalues he f has found, I and at th. extent . of: the ledges.! He wonders wby such a district has not been carried fur ther along in Its development. He says it will not be out of the way fpr the Lotz-Larsen people alone, Jin a few years, to employ 1000 people in their mining oper ations.! He says that an immense sum as initial investment in ma- chnery and appliances and trans portaton faclltesj would be Just- ned-r-wlth $7.58 sure profit ahead for every two by two by two feet, of those vast deposits, of ore every ton of ft; and literally billions of tons of it In those mountains that cluster around the feet pf Jefferson, hoary sentinel of the Cascades, just above the near sky line, v'-v Knough Already in 'sight Mr., Constans says there Is enough ore already in sight to justify mining it on a modern and extensive scale. He -well remem bers when the Butte copper mines, having reached a depth of 6O0 feet, were supposed to be 'worked out. - Rock without values was found. The bottom dropped out fori a little while. One com pany !kept sinking deeper shafts (Theyf found still better ore at 1200 feet. They bought an adr joining property, fully equipped, for aisong; for $50,000, half the cost of Its machinery. They knewi The "other fellowj did not know They have gone on down in tht'e Butte : mines, taking out hundreds of millions below the f i r t, a r B-f ii 1 v'V''..i. t On the Santiam Near by. J200 foot level. They found some of the richest ore at 2600 feet. Some as rich at 4200 feet. So it goes with most copper mines, i t Tills Settles It ,! : The people of Salem will read these lines, and all others far and near, too, will, upon reflection, be impressed with the coming to the Santiam mining district of Mr. Constans: It Is likely to prove one of the biggest things that has ever happened to that district; to the : city of Salem J to the whole surrounding country. The Lotz- Larsen properties are only one group of many; of many more that will be staked out In the future. With this one concern operating a big! and paying mine, with 1000 people employed, there, will be other activities of the same kind in that district; . many of them. Th Lotz-Larsen people are mere ly pioneers j They happen to be first on the ground, with definite plans; with things going fast to wards the point of having a big paying property. Mr. Constans did not have vto come here. His services are in demand where he is best known; and at a bigh salary. ; His repu tatiqn is at stake. He could not afford to back a dud; to line up with a district j without certain prospects of possible great devel opments. He knows. He under- Tunnel Entrance and Air Compressing, Machine Itooms of Minnie E stands values, He has behind him a-iong period of experience in- getting out the precious metals and marketing them.i He Is; any- iU"i(j UUh A uiva i f; Long Hard Fight j ; Who are Lotz and Larsen? H. H. Lotz is a mining engineer, graduate of the Butte School of Mines. He has practiced law. He lias; developed several mining properties; one of them a big one. tr-ii a -!.",, , ... w J.l' a ..X 'f ,i the Lots-Larwn Iin A. C. Larsen was formerly a teach-; er. These men are both high class gentlemen. And they have worked like common miners fornine years because they KNEW they had the values Su' those" etefnaTTiills; un der those stately mountains. They have erected their buildings out of the timber at hand. "They have made a concentrating plant out of the woods. They have worked early and late, always with discouragements.- But they plugged on; they toiled throughout the seasons. - j - Before long now, they are to have a sawmill.' They are to have comfortable buildings; perhaps a real "Main 'street." They are to have the things that go with big mining operations. The values are there to justify all this; and millions more. ' A number of Choice spirits have had faith in i these two pioneers; could not imagine how j they could be mis taken. ,; 1 - ' . " But with the joining up of the fortunes of , Mr. Constans with theirs, there 'will be a renewing and a confirming of confidence all along the line not. only confi dence in the men, but confidence in the ultimate greatness of that mining district. This new con nection, this team work, backed with capital whose investment would be '100 times justified, will at improve the value of the city property in Salem more than enough to provide the money; just enough for a tramway and a mill of large capacity, say 1000 tons a day, which would insure the extension of; the railroad from near Lyons-to the site of the mill. The ledges are there; the proper ty Is provem j The additional money needed would not be more than a half million dollars; per haps not nearly that much. It would very soon all come back, from the", tonnage of ore that would be only a vanishing frac tion of all the ore that is there to be taken out and added to the wealth of the world. Spokane is largely built up on mining operations. So is Helena, and Butte, and Salt Lake City, and Denver. Salem has a greater district at her, front door than Butte has. The development of this district Is certain to add vast ly to Salem's business ami her property values and general well being. There can be no sort of doubt of this. 5 , Who Is; Constans? Mr. Constans was born in St. Taul, ; Minnesota. His people moved to Montana when he was young, and he began his mining career at IS, and has followed it ever since.. He was for four years with the Drum Lummon mine, owned by the London Exploration Jrcompany. Alter a time he became shift boss there.- The products were gold and silver. Then he was for two years with the Bimetallic people at Phillips burg, Montana. He was engaged in milling there. It was a silver mine.'. . ; He was then with ; the . Bald iJutte mine near Marysville, Mon- Why uff er with Stomach Trouble when Chh-opractio will Remove the Cause Fair mount Hill Site 2 Lots. 150 feet frontage on Superior St., and 100 feet on Fairmount Ave. Water piped to . property. Small cottage. Exceptionally fine view. ' ' , : . Price Only $3000 This is without doubt the best available building site on Fairmount Hill. Approximately $200,000 of new dwel lings under construction on Fairmount Hill at this time. Fine view . residence locations will soon . command a premium. This property may be purchased of me or through any member of the Marion-Polk County Realty Association Multiple Listing Bureau. .A. C. Bohrnstedt 147 No. Com!. St. (Phone 577) tana, in the milling department. This is. a gold mining property. Mr. Constans then entered the service of the Helena Mining bu reau, and was employed in the capacity of foreman for two years. He was with W. A. Clark, one of the world's copper kings, for a; year. ; j a Going tot British Columbia, he was manager for several mining properties there, and he also did leasing and . worked for himself in active mining." L There was taken out of the Drum Lummon mine, where Con stans began his work; ore that produced $47,000,000 j in silver and gold. 1: ! " Known to Salem Man Mr. Constans came t to Salem from near Helena; Montana. He was on his; way to a southern Ore gon mining property. He stopped off in Salem to visit his friend, Geo. W. Shand, of the Salem Iron Works. - Mr.. Shand was. welt ac quainted with. Mr. Constans in the western mining1 district jot Can ada, at Ymlr, B. C.. and Nelson, B. C, where he operated several mines for himself and others. Mr. Shand says Mr. Constans is one HERE, MR. HOMEBUILDER j Is the BEST, SAFEST, STROVGEST. I and. In the long run, the CHEAPEST ! Material out of which to build your j borne, . . It Is BURYED CLAY HOLLOW BUILD. 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I Mr. Constans told Mr. Shand then that the mining prop erties in the district around the junction of Gold creek with the Little NorthlFork of the Santiam looked promising; that the values were there, and the ore deposits were very extensive. After visiting southern Oregon, Mr. Constans came back to Salem and looked more carefully into the mining properties ron and around the Little North Fork of the Santiam. He. was shown over the field thoroughly by H. H. Lotz, engineer and manager of the Lotz Larsen properties. The present (Continued on page 9) GIVE US j . A List of Your Lumber Requirements. Build Now Oar Price are Right COBBS & MITCHEL COMPANY B49 So. 12th Kemr 8.P. Depot . A. B. Kelsay, Mgr. of Plans