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The Slogan Pages Are Yours; Aid in SALEM . ' mm. , THE STATESMAN dedicates several pages each week in the interest of the fifty-two to a hundred basic industries of the Salem District.- Letters and articles from people with vision are solicited. This is your section. Help make Salem grow. 1 SALEM HAS A GnEA . DOOR Ifj THE SHIM SECTIOU: H DEVELOPfM. IVORK if POINTS TO Tha Shaft Being Sank to Reach the 100 Font Level Is Now at That Point, and It Shown Richer and Richer Ore All the Wav Down With a Depth of Seven More Feet, ' t Give Working Room, There Will be Drift ing, and if the Veins Widen Out, as Expect ed, There Will Result Actual Shipping of Ores to the Smelter,; Which It Is Likely May i be Done at a Progit, Leading to the Rapid Opening Up of Big Operations The Best Engineers in the Country Say There are Prospects for a Rich Mining District. more shot. One mora blast of powder in the wins, will be developed. That the ore j prices for the metal may go. Cop ftti9tt Rat in r innk In ttis minS !l thor at lower dentils': richer ! oer-is the bssie metal of the of the Northwest Copper com- pany. Then the 100 foot level, the objective of the present derel- opmentr will be reached. This, was the condition last Sunday. The lO foot level will have been reached when this article is print ed. There will be a coup? of more blasts and the cleaning up work after them, in order to get down seven ' feet below the 100 foot level, for working space. tnat spending money in develop Then there will be drifting, in or-jment work following that kind of der to follow the ore veins. The j a hun(.h jS scarcely in the category abaft will be ready for the drift-:of KambHn. It is next door to a Ing in a few weeks. What Hu Boon Foam! A Salem man has a friend who is one of the five great mining en gineers of the United States, and pernaps me greatest 01 mem an In his specialty of copper mining. mis aaiem man recently sent sample of the rock coming out of lur uiu.u r-us , mentioned. The sample was an . ordinary one cciing from a fewler, toId a friend of hi8 a few days feet above the 100 foot level of tK il. f, hD ri.nn. the abaft being sunk. The mining engineer, acknowledging the re ceipt of the sample and of the let ter accompanying it, wrote to the Salem roan, and. among other' things, he said: "The imple pf ore that you sent me is of vety f high grade copper ore containing j rhalcopyrite and chalcocite. If a large body of this ore developed it would undoubtedly make a most excellent mine." Would Make Wild Room That statement, by thai min- for $525, and he had the money. Ing engineer, uttered concerning ; But he ftared he mlght lose hls a mining property near Butte ; j26. and did not buy. The stock would cause a wild stampede. It,of lbat company is BOW quoted would be acclaimed all over tbe.on the New York stock exchange United States and Canada all 1 at 62 a share, and if this man over the mining world. It would had invested in the stock he was do the same thing at Salt Laka or : offeredi hjs holding would now Spokane or In any one of several be worth more than 150.000. The British Columbia mining centers, j Howe Sound company stock hac where the people generally know gQne from $40 to $2 a share in rha"l "high grade cooper ore con taining chalcopyrlte and chalco rfte means. What Does It Mean? It,, means the sure development of a rich copper mine, if the re quisite large body of this ore is developed. It means more than th'a. It means that, according tn all tie known rules of mining, the THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN , DID YOU KNOW That Salem is the market center for ; the Santiam mining district; that good engineers are - Wing that this district is "The Butte City District of I Oregon Undeveloped that it is "one of the best tm- developed silver-lead-zinc prospects in this or any other country;" that it is sure to become a great copper min ' ing district, and that proper and up to date mining methods are now being employed, and actual mining and treating and shipping of ores on a commercial scale is likely to begin soon so that it will probably not be I long now till thousands of miners willl be patrons of I Salem's business centers, doing for Salem what the Couer d' Alene district has done for Spokane? Dates of Slogans in 1 (With a few possible changes) Loganberries. October 8, 1927 Prunes. October 18 . Dairying. October 20 ' Flax, October 27 ? Filberts, November 3 4 Walnuts. November 10 I Strawberries. November 17 Apples. Figs, Etc.. Nov. 24 Raspberries. December 1 .-Mint. December S Beans. Etc. December IS I Blackberries, December 22 t Cherries, December if I Pears, January 6. 1928 i Gooseberries. January 12 J Corn. January 19 i Celery. January 28 1 Spinach. Etc.. February i Onions, Etc., February 12 ' Potatoes. Etc., February 19 S Bees, February 21 Poultry and Pet Stock, Mar. 1 City Beautiful. Etc. March 11 Great Cows, March IS I Paved Highways, March 22 ! Head Lettuce, April 1 I Silos, Etc,' April 2 f Legumes, April II - ; Asparagus, Etc, April 22 DISTRICT TiriWlMEflM GREAT THITiGS THEflE reqilsU kirje. body of this ore j as still lower levels are reached, i That is the nature of things. That ! is the regular and the usual geo- logical formation. Cbaicocite If 79.8 per cent pare copper. It I the typical ore that continues at great depth. The mining engi neer who finds chacocite advices the mine owner to spend hid money, following the lead. He tells the mine owner that no one 'ran look into the earth, but sure thing. Are Getting Kxciteri A few hard headed business and professional men in Salem, knowing in various ways of the , tnjnp, that are being done on the Northwest Copper company prop- ajer(y are getting excited about the progpects. One of these men the mention of whose name wouM ,.-,-siem read ment of a great mining district in the Santiam region and that he feels sure this will not be far in the future, and he predicts that it will double the nonulation of Salem Tber anotner man in Salem who u beCoining excited. He had - rhanoe. not verv lone aco. to buy a block of stock of the Howe Sound Copper company, owning mines on Brittania Beach. B. C. He could have boarht the stock the past four months. Copper la Basic The man who passed up the chance to make over $50,000 with 8828 has followed copper proper ties. He aays there are no new copper districts to be found; that they are all known. And he says the demand for copper is increas- ing eo fast, in the industries, that Oregon Statesman Grapes, Etc. April 29 Drug Garden. May Sugar Industry, May IS Water Powers, May 20 Irrigation, May 27 Mining, Jane 3 Land, Irrigation, Etc, June 10 Floriculture, June 17 Hops. Cabbage. Etc, June 24 Wholesaling. Jobbing, July 1 Cucumbers, Etc, July 8 Hogs July 15 Goats, July 22 Schools, July 29 Sheep, August S Seeds, August 12 National Advertising. Aug. 19 Livestock, August 28 Grain A Grain Products, Sept. 2 Manufacturing, 8epL 9 Woodworking, Etc. Sept. 18 Automotive Industries, Sept 22 .Paper Mills. Sept. 20 ' (Back. -copies of the Thurs day edition of The Dally Ore gon Statesman are on hand. They ax for sale at 10 coats " each, mailed ' to any address. . Current topics . I oiatw JIS Making Them Helpful to Your Wonderful City and Section FOB VERY KEAR FUTURE ;thers Is no tellhis bow high the world, he says. So this man is watching the de velopment of the Santiam district with a great deal of interest. He will not be surprised at seeing great things happen soon in the way of a real mining boom in that region and in the way of Salem getting a great, mining camp at her front door. True to Form The Northwest Copper company was incorporated on July 12, 1926. and the actual work start ed in the mines on July 20. Short ly after the incorporation W. J. Elmendorf of Seattle was retained as the consulting engineer. Mr. Elmendorf is an engineer with an unsullied and a long rep utation at stake. Such men do not guess. They sample. They dig and delve, or superintend digging and delving. They know before they advise further steps. But let the story of the opera tions of Consulting and Superin tending Engineer Elmendorf be told in his own words, in the let ters and reports he has submitted from time to time to the company. In submitting - his full report (which is too lengthy and techni cal to be printed in ru:l, or under stood by any but experts), he sent the following letter to the com pany, dated at Seattle. October 20. 1928. The report makes a good sized book, with maps, photo graphs, drawings, etc. Following Is the language of the letter trans mitting the report: I hand you herewith my report on your mining property in tne Lester Mining district, state of Oregon. The investigation upon which the report is based has been a thorough one. I was on the ground from August 5, to 9, and from October 1. to 12. inclusive. Mr. William M. Rom lecher, M. S., of the TJ. 8. bureau of mines. who did the sampling and asssay- ing, was at the mine about seven weeks. Mr. Herman Bueche, C. E., who did the surveying, was there about an equal length of time. "The facts and figures given may be depended upon. I shall be glad to recommend this property to any one looking 'or mining Investment. My opinion of the mine is very favorable. an? I consider it an exceptional oppor tunity. It should be made a high ly profitable producer quickly, if my theory of the ore deposit fc correct. "I wish to thank you for the fa cilities given me for this exhaus tive examination and hope that my report will meet with your appro val." Nearly a Tear Later Nearly a year later, Mr. Elmen lorf wrote to the company, under date of Seattle. August 3. 1927. at follows: "I visited the property of your company on the 18th, 19th. and 20th of July, and made careful in spection of the work that had been done since my previous visit. "The wince from the north tun nel has been sunk to a depth of about 80 feet and from start to finish showing a consistent Im provement in the sixe, character and grade of the ore. Ton have been peculiarly fortunate In belnflTacoma is 24 per ton, a tota able to. follow the ore streak IvA the vein aU the way down, and the 'howing la the bottom of the winse at this time is as good as could be expected. There is fron 12 to 20 Inches In thicknesss of high grade chalcopyrlte and chat cocite ore which the last assay shows to be carrying material gold values. L c, from three, to five dollars per ton. The entire width of the vein, insofar as has been exposed by the winze, shows mineralization. The especially Important feature of this develop ment to date consists in the steady Increase of chalcocite In the ore, and so far as the work has prog ressed, confirms my opinion that a high grade horizon or zone of secondary sulphide enrichment ex ists in the rein. Ton are not yet entirely below the level of leach ing, as It shown by the quartz crystals and small cavities in the ore, hut although these cavities are not filled with chalcocite they all show a coating of this high grade copper sulphide;""' ' The original plan of sinking the winze to a depth from which a level at 100 feet can bo eonvient ly run. and which was the originr plan .for ths work, should cer- taialy be carried out. The drift should be ran to the north at first from the wins; the prosecution of this work depending upon the amount of water that is encoun tered at that depth. For the pur pose of this work it Is necessary that more air than is now avail able should be provided, and ten tative arrangement for this par pose, as outlined .by Mr. Shand, Mr. Staley and Mr. Kunkel meets with ray entire approval. "The work, done in the winze Is in every way miner-like and is an especially xood job. If necessary later, a large amount of ore can be taken out of this working at a f cost, that is not at all prohibitive. la fact I think that' the mining of high grade ore from this working should be contemplated, -.and aj the sinking of tfee winze prog' ressed 18 or 20 tons of copper ore. running in . the neighborhood of 30 per cent copper, was saved, and this ore is now piled outside the mouth of the tunnel. When a car load of this has accumulated it should be shipped to the smelter, as it will show good profit. I will call your attention to the fact that probably twice as much of the high grade ore has been broken up in the blasting and has gone into the waste dump as has been saved on the ore dump. "The operation at the mine meets with my entire approval, and I hope that facilities will be afforded for pushing this work eco nomically and rapidly. I feel that the company is to be congratulat ed on the results of the develop ment to date." Recent Letters Writing under date of March 10, 1928, Mr. Elmendorf says, among other things: "The splendid box of ore was duly received, but not in time for me to make the necessary ar rangements to have it shown at the convention in Spokane. How ever, it will be a lot of use to the , and that is where we want it to be useful as helping the funds to roll in. Commenting on the ore, it is certainly the best lot I have as yet seen, and that is saying a mouth,, full." "(Under date of May 10th, 1928, Mr. Elmendorf wrote:) "I received J he ore sample, and your letter of the 8th came last night. The ore is excellent, per haps the beet I have yet seen from the mine. The proportion of chal cocite is increasing all the while. and this is the ideal condition to be looked for." From Mate Report The following are some ez oerpts from the main report which Engineer Elmendorf submitted after the examination of the prop erty: "The property is situated in the Lester mining district, Marion county, state of Oregon. The near est railway station is Lyons, on the Corvallis and Eastern, 24 miles distant. Mehama is the nearest town and postoffice from the mine, ibout 23 miles almost due west from the mine. This town lies be tween the . mine and Salem, the state capital, which is 80 miles listant. "The road from Salem to Me hama Is paved and from Mehama to the mine graveled. There are many places where work Is well warranted but, aside from the fact that it is a mountain road of steep trades and sharp turns, there Is nothing in its condition that can be called bad or dangerous. All communication is by automobile md truck. "Mining and other supplies, when hauled from Salem, cost 820 per ton freight. With an outgo ing haul, this figure would be bet tered. It is stated that ore or concentrate can be hauled tc Lyons on the railway tor 88 per ton. As the distance Is about twenty-four miles, and there are few reverse grades in the down hill haul, this seems about right. The railway freight from Lyons to freight from the mine to the smelter of 212 per ton "For power purposes In the fu ture, a hydroelectric Installation should be contemplated by nsintT the water in the Little North Fork of the Santiam river. A survey of this proposed installation has been made and is shown on Map Q with; this report. No elevations are given on this survey, but the dif ference In elevation between the proposed intake and power house is approximately 250 feet. Neither, does the flow seem to have been accurately measured, but it is very considerable the year around, in fact ample for all needs at the mine for many years of operation. "Most of the surface of the claims Is covered with a superb growth of timber. This la prin cipally Oregon fir, many of the trees being: of 'noble size. Some hemlock and cedar are also avail' Lahle. A email sawmill will be of great se on the property later for sawing mine timbers and the lum ber for a mill and other buildings as they, are needed. It la estimat ed that, with such a mill installed, timbers and lumber.- shonld not cost' more than 210 per thousand feet S "Fuel used at the camp consists of wood alone. With the supply immediately at hand, this is not unduly costly." EtesesMlorf Here Soon Mr. Elmendorf Is in Alaska now, on business connected with his duties as consulting engineer of mining companies in that re gion. He will be la Salem be tween the 10th and 18th of this month and will make another ex amination of the work being car ried on Jn the development of the property of the Northwest Copper company. v It is of extreme Importance to Salem, as well as to the stock holders of the company, that, the work so far carried on there should he. steadily continued That the drifting work on the 100 foot level be undertaken and pursued without interruption. What Mr. Elmendorf expected to be found has been found, so far, and if what his letters show he still expects to be uncovered is blocked out, a paying property Is certain. A great mine is sure. A great mining district at Salem's front door Is in the making. Who Is Elmendorf ? (A Salem man wrote during the last month to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and. under date of May 15, 1928, received over the signature of that body, by C. D. Garfield, manager of the mines and minerals department, the fol lowing letter:) "Acknowledging your letter of the 9th Inst., requesting informa tion as to the character and abil ity of William J. Elmendorf of this city, it ie advised that he is a past president of the Seattle Mining club, and a member of the mines and minerals committee of the chamber. He is also a mem ber of the northwest section A. I. M. M. E. "Mr. Elendorf is a well known consulting engineer with & large experience in the northwest, and has the reputation of being con servative and careful in all of his work. He is at present In charge of several properties in the north west and Alaska as consulting- en gineer, and hears an excellent rep utation." (This same Salem man recently wrote to a Portland mining engi neer, sending him the report on the Northwest Copper company's property made by Mr. Elmendorf. and on May 10th received the fol lowing reply:) "I have your letter and also re- for the mm FARMER "CATERPILLAR" track-type tractors get work done that needs to be done in the shortest time, working with non-slip, sure grip traction in wettest soils or driest. Add bad weather days to your productive days and it makes "CATERPILLAR" year. Just Keep Working When Other Farmers Fret n"Caterpillar" -8K2' The 2 To Work done the odd jobs need your "CATERPILLAR" for stumps to puIL water to pump, manure to haul, land to dear, feed to grind belt and a "CATERPILLAR" are ready for the job, Loggers 6 Machinery PORTLAXD BALKM port and am returning the report. "1. The property has vain. "2. There Is no infallible way of saying what a mine will turn out to be any more than any other business, "3. Tea. The report shows that Elmendorf Is a very conservative engineer. It is a very conserva tive and well written report I can't vouch for Elmendorf, , but he is quite well known and it would not be hard to check him up. His report shows he is not given to extravagant statement. I don't know him. however. "4. Specifically in this partic ular case I would consider if they had 100.000 tons of 4 per cent ore blocked out completely on four sides In blocks: 100xl00feet square that It would be a mine and quite a good one and worth more than 840,000. "5. The developments In the winze are entirely consistent with mining experience, and most min ing men ' would consider as very promising. Subject, of course, to nature's unknown .vagaries.. Boiled down, almost any one would take a chance of SDendinc monev to follow it further. While Elmen dorf has thrown out some of the low grade portions, this Is very indicative of wide spread mineral action, which Is favorable. ". To check this matter, get C. E. Newton, dean of the school of mines. O.; A. C, afCorvallur to spend a few days checking the re port on the ground. Two or three of you throw in. He won't charge you a big fee. 1s perfectly reliable, too honest for his own good, and has had plenty of experience. I have known him for 23 years. "I, of course, cannot express any opinion of the property from reading another man's report whom I don't know personally. "I can only say I did not gain any unfavorable opinion of the property or of the report. It ap pears to be written by ad intelli gent and conscientious engineer and I think would ordinarily be taken as well worth money to check it up and if verified is a very interesting property. "P. S. There is no guarantee on nature's part, however. You have to take yeur chances. Miners do, and don't kick if they lose.' The Organization The officers of the Northwest Copper company are George W Shand. Salem, president; D. F Eastburn. Salem, vice president; W. I. Staley, Salem, secretary- treasurer; and Frank Bowersox Salem, H. G Campbell. Dallas. A. C. Carty. Eugene, and T. G. Don all, at the mine, directors. There is a great deal more that might be said concerning the his tory of this property; the history of that mining district. Some of these things are told about in other articlee in this issue. It is 1 varjed and interesting history. But the development work that is going on there now is the first that has been undertaken and car ried forward along the lines ap proved by the best mining engi neers throughout the country. There is every prospect that we are Just now on the verge of big things for this great mining dis- trict that is at Salem 'a front door week year Contractors Company KTJGKaB EDITORIAL SALEM WILL BE We are one year nearer to the time when Salem will be a great mining center. And more assured of this certainty than ever before. This is the ninth consecutive year of the Slogan campaigns of The Statesman, and during all thia time, around the first of June, this newfper has annually set forth the vision of Salem as a great mining cenier ; with a bustling min ing camp in. the Santiam district at her front door And that vision is coming true. It is a near vision now. During the paatvtwd years there has been carried on really scientific development work under the direction of an emin ent mining engineer, William J. Elmendorf of Seattle And he does not guess. No capable mining engineer does. -He digs and samples. He goes to the bottom. He thought, from the surface indications and the development work al ready done,sthrough a series of years, that there, might be v alues worthy of making a mine on the Little North Fork of the Santiamf river,' whr ''Gold, 'c'reek puts into that stream, on the property of whaUs now. the Northwest Copper com pany. But he was not certain,: He believed the indications were worthy of a scientif ic teat & hempjed, and kept on samp ling, all over the property The samples confirmed his belief Then he directed the sinking of a winze or shaft. It is now down to the 100 foot level, 'attoV the showings have grown better with every foot of depth. With seven feet more, for working room, drifting will be commenced And a paying mine will be the result, unless all the signs of mining engineering experience fail. They have never yet failed. Then, it goes without saying, a great mining camp will grow up there for the extent of the ore deposits is manifest ly immense; mountains on mountains of rich ore deposits, some of them evidently very rich, with the prospect of grow ing richer and richer with depth It has been a long wait. The pioneers knew mineral values existed in that region And there is a story to the effect that the trappers of the Hudson's Bay company, in the days before the first settle ments in Oregon, used lead from the ores of the Santiam country for making bullets for their muzzle-loading muskets. There was a time, in the early days of the settlement of the Willamette valley, when the whole of the Little North Fork of the Santiam river, from the old Elkhorn postoffice to the mouth of Gold creek, was staked out in placer claims; and other placer claims were worked at intervals as far down as Mehama and a good deal of gold was recovered in this way estimated at $50,000 to $ 100,000 as a total. Then came a long series of years during which many min- , ing claims were staked out throughout that region, and devel-; opment work was kept up, and some ambitious efforts were made in those hard years at treating the ores on a com mercial scale But the ores and combinations were such that all these efforts were foredoomed to failure, because mining science , had not yet advanced to the point where there could have followed success But in late years there have been discoveries in this field that make the treatment of the practicable, but very desirable; the smelters .want those ores ment. Also, during the long, hard ing the claims, and attempting to do some commercial min ing, the question of transportation was one of the most diffi cult ones for the district. One company, the Black Eagle, ex pended a fortune In literally hewing and blasting out of the solid rock on the sides of the mountain a wagon road in the canyon of the Little Fork of the Santiam. to within a couDle 01 mnes 01 me mourn 01 uoia creex. since that time, this road has been widened and improvedv and it has been extend ed to the camp at the point where Gold creek empties into the Little North Eork of the Santiam ; the camp that is now the property of the Northwest Copper company about seven miles "as the crow flies" from the summit of the Cascades. The long wait is about ended Salem will wake up one of these mornings and find a great mining region at her front door. Keep your eyes on Mount Jefferson. A great mining dis trict is in the shadows of that snow capped sentinel of the Cascades. ' OIL-0-MATIC what is rr? SEE! THEO. M. BARR Phone 192 We handle Castle, Gate, King, Rock ' Spring Coal and Gasco and Diamond Rrimif. Also coal specially designed for chicken brooder use. 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