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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1906)
V f ".'He Devoted to the Mining, I,urabering and r'armhig Intcrc.-rts of this Community. '0 COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OKEGON, WL EN EST AY, JANUARY 3. iQoG. NO 50 VOL. VII SOfiBMffl i. a i u ft jr i:i mm I 1 BOHEMIA MIN ING NOTES Ami Ucuernl Minlnur News (lathered Prom lixchangcs. A number of tbu tnincr are get tin? out their skeea to take up to the lulls with them. The snow is .ettiui: ore tty deep. The (. vSt S. K. tailr-oid seetua to be n fleeted the same an some of the lart-r railroads of the country, in a cur famine- at tho preaont time. The toad i constantly hampered by the scaicity of cum to fill tin- demands arising ftom the increased capacity and growth of tho industries along tho toad. More lumber is comiug out all the time. The l'umieniora iron mines cf Sweden have- been in cc ntinuous oneratiou fur over ,v'0 ye' r: . Tiny produce the finest iron un- known, the ore otiMslitiK of M'. t o per cent magnetic oxnlu . iroii and 7 to la ptr cent silica with traces 'f manganese, lime, iu'igne'a and alumina, thecatthlv mattcia 1 etui; in proper pHpir 'top to fotm a fu -siblo sl.it; v itl.yu?. fitrtlur .nldition. It is tactii ally Iree ot nrlpiitr and phoi-pli.'! Tltr :tuue extend under 'i 1 .le ami niui-U damage has been e nu-el by tlm w iter brenking throne h. Ovtr 000,000 tons of high j;rnde ore have 1mq taken Irom these tnitm. - - M iiuTu; World. The copper output of Memana, for 1 UO5 In fully ten jw cent reatci t,h'an thnt ot i'J. accord ing to (''formation obtained )y aetia tor V. A. Clark, who hs made a careful inquiry of the subject. The same information leads him to pre dict than in lyo6 the output will be as much greater than this year. "The copper industry is in better conditiou toilay titan it ban bteu 111 many yeara," naid Senator 'latk to Dutte representative ot The Min ing World, "au.l 1 look for good prices for the metal to continue for a long time. All over the -world the ue of copper ia increaHiug' and the production in scarcely keeping up with tlie demand. It is practic ally ir.ijoiKible to buy auy (peat amount of copper at present for de livery in IcHfl than throe inontha. There i a great demand for export and everywhere at hotna there ie a cry for more copper. I think the present high price iu justified by conditiods, and the fact that it is telling so well in p roving a great stimulus to copper mining through out the world. The usee to which copper is put are gradually extend NOW I will not miss going to WELCH & WOODS iu rrvrvir tarlll ViQiffcnTri Athinfr 0find ,) i ilCj V A pair Shoes f Waist, Umbrella, Foncy Vest, Silk Handker- chiefs with Initials, and Suit Oases. & . ' 1 ''Tr'i . . Yt, ing. Wherever Iron ot atetl in used there copper is in demand. In electrical works and in nilroads and locomotive building the use am uecessitj for it is growing. Whil a Rla-lnoh Straain of Wlr Can Do. Imagine a porpendicuhtr column of water more than one tbird of a mile high, twenty-aix inches in diameter at the top, and twenty four inches in diameter at the bot tom. These remarkable condition are complied with, as far as power goes, in the Mill Creek plant, which operates under a head ol 1,960 feet. Thin little column of water, which, if liberated, would le just about enough to mike a small trout stream, gives a capacity of 5,2eo hotse-power, or enough power to n a good-sized ocean going vessel. As the water strikes the buckets of the water wheel it has a pressure of 850 pounds to the square Inch. What this pressure implies is evidenced by the fact that the average locomotive carries steam at a pressure of j'.'o or Wo pound to the square inch. Wete thin stream, as it issues Iron) the uoz.le, turned upon a hillside, the eaith would lade away before it like anow before a jet ol steam. Huge bowlders, big an city oflicee, would tumble into ravines with um little effort ss a clover burr is carried before the hyd.-itnt stream u a Iront lawn Uiiik wills would cracklo like paper, and the hugent sky-scrapers crumble before a stream like that of the Mill Creek plant. It takes a powerful wiitrr wheel to withstand tht tremendous pies sure. At Hutte Creek, Cab, a single jet of water, six inches in diameter, issuca from the nozzle at the tremendous velocity of twenty thousand feet a minute It im pinges on the buckets of what said to b the most powerful "ingle water wheel ever built, caueiug the latter to travel at the rate oi ninety four miles an hour, making four hundred revolutions a iniuuto. This six-inch stream hue a f twelve thousand borne-power. The water for operating the plant is oouveyed from Kutte Creek through a oitch and discharged into a regu lating reservoir which ia fifteen hundred feet above the powerhouse. Two ateel pressure pipe lines, thirty inchetf iu ditmoter, conduct the water to the power house. (Ham ilon Wright, m The World Today. Alt thtt merchants are busy these days taking stock, and findirg out how much more tuey maae uunng the last year. Several of them are surprised when they come to sum tin the business thev have done dur ing the year past, and think things don't look so bad after all. WHAT SHALL I iFor Christmas; - vuv" v....q C3 or Slippers, Night SMELTING OREGON ORE Report of Dr. I). T. Day to the (JovernmcAt on his recent experiments. AH a result of the experiments in the concentration of black nands ahich be conducted at the Lewis andClatk Centennial Mi position iu l'ortlaud, Oregon, dur ing the past summer, Ir. lavid T. Day of the Suited State lcb'gi cl Survey, makes the noteworthy statement th"t conditoina for the production of steel by electricity are fully as good in Oregon a they re iu Oct many, where pig irti been obtained in aimihar electric turnaces at lighlly lower cost than iu ordinary l-lust fotnace praitieo. A preliminary repott on the anb ject of unletting by electticity the magni'tic iron 'tea obtained from various points on the Pacific bench has been submitted by Dr. Day to the director of the (Geological Sur vey. A'tei considerable correspond uce with the patentees of various forms of electric furnaces, arrange meutswere ma le with the Wilson Aluminum company, of New York, for the seivii-ea ot ('. K. Wilson, their expert iu electrical smelling. Mr. Wilvn arrived in roitlnd on October 11 and at the end of one teck had erected a small hut effi cient electrical furnace, snd was makiug steel. He had procured iu the east 2T cabrou electrodes encb 48 iuche lou and 4 inches square such as are ordinarily ued in electrical furnaces. The reU of his equipment "an obtained iu l'ort laud Itoui tnatetials kept in stock or easily made it a foundry. In building the furnace a course of or dinary Caroigie lite bricks was laid upou the ground, t'jiou this iiiji. urse was laid a cast lion plate, fiveeigbts an men rp:ci;, three feet long aud three feet wide. On this was placed an oval sheet irou drum of 'o. iti iron three feet long, by three feet high. The sides of this drum wsre lined with fire bricks to forma crucible 18 by 18 loches and 2 inches high, The bottom of the crucible was covered, from tho cust irou plate up to the tapping hole, with broken carbon lectrodo. The carbou electrode to carry the current was euspended by a pulley above this furnace and connected with a balauced axle and wheel by which it could be readily raised or lowered. The top of the furnace was covered with two double plates of riveted wrought BUY nnd USGful. (It Shirt, Suspen-1 . . ...11 a . . i . . 1 . .i 4,4-, iron, between which cold water wus run. In the center of this water jacketed (over an opening waa left sufficient to allow the free play up and down of the carbon e'cclrode. Through tho co opeiatioii of the l'urtlaud (Jcr-ernl Klectrio company, n social wire, bearing a H3OU Tolt alternatiiig current, was ruu from the eity supply to the smelter. This was carried into a series of six trans formers and yielded a current vary ing from 50 to ao volts by 1U00 am pere. On tho afternoon of October i7 a current of volt and looo am peres was panted through the fur nace and the aic established. The furcace was then fed with a mixture of magnetite, coke and lime. This consisted of 2000 pounds of magne tite, obtained from the wands at Hammond Station, hi nr Astoria, Or'., at the mouth of Columbia j liver; 41 pounds of "Fairfax" eokt, which t.ontamed about 25 per cent ot ash; and '2 pounds of lime About .rio 1 out) I of this charge! was slowly introduced into the fur iiate, and within an hour there was tapped from the furnace 7o pounds o! steel and slag which euntlueJ H per cent of iron nd 5'! jr cent ol titanic acid. On the'following day the furnace was aguin ben ted and filled with a similar mixture to that used on the fust run, except that it contained les lin.e. Steel was mccessfully cam twite, rusking, for that dav's run of two hours, a product of Uo pounds of steel from li0 pound of iron ore This gives the furnace a capacity, mi a coutiuuoua run, of I440 ponudfin '2 hours The heat was sufficient to keep the entire lag in a lluid state, whether much or little titantic acid was present. It is evident also that no titanium went into the iron. In stead of the steel usually obtained, the charge of Octolx r 'Jo, a shown by the analysis of that day, gave what was practically pig iron. The "lags first obtained consisted of fujed iron silicate", fused oxide of iron, and silicate of titauiurn. 1- it.. -.iiim-iiin there UtfS grew lightr in color and iu specific gravity. It became possible also to lessen the quantity ot slag produced which wis unduly Urge owing to the great quantity of Huh in the coal. The coke used showed on analysis 41 p r cent of ash. It is difficult to procure in this locality coke that is well adapted to metallttrgicpl needs. F.xperimctits with the soiall fur nace having been successful, it was thought desirable to build a larger furuace, with thicker walls, in which higher temperatures might be obtained and maintained. An iron plate 2 inches thick, G feet wide, ad 1! feet long was therefore procured and laid upou two couisos of Ore PAINT LAND SALE NEX'I Greater Salem Commercial Club Hear Reports on Sienna De posits at Walker. The rotnmiltco that was heir l;i-t. week looking over the plant ami d -Iosits of tho Oregon Sienna I'ainl Co. for the Salem Club Kpoiti 1 Saturday night, and tol l very w ing descriptions ol what t, y fouti I and aubnutted a large nurnbr l 6iuii)lfS, so that tho 1 bib Mleitt'1 C. W. Hrown m expert p:in! man to make careful te-ts, and d. tcruiino the quantity nnd i'!ci.l of the deposits, nd arranged f t aamples to be sent the state cluni t at Corv.ilbs for examination. A nuiiier ol tho member n? favorably illlprese'l ritnl kind they woubl be glal to take stock in ci inpauy to cpernte sim h a pbii.t uf ter thoroughly testing it. biics, to fuim the l-n?r of a f'nt vv. on which wits set a wroiight-no-i cylindrical shell one quarter of mj iii' h thick. f-t in dininter. and 4 fe t high. This was l;n-l ii'i lire brick, tLe bottom having ti e usii'il briing of one course of 1 ,ir! electiodc bri ke 4 inches in ilium. eter. Two caibons elar:ipd t gether with h wiiter-jnckftcil be'oi or clamp formed t her eleclro.if ! ! introducing the current. J i e vi tage was ruu up as higu p.:.m;!,. - that is from 7; t.j '.'w vl'", ' liuut of the nun i:t ob' un.nl ! the wires. In nil resjetts xc j.! those mentioned, this se v.!, i t 11 nace is identical with the iirst. Iron ore froni Aptis. I!u ol Mon terey, California, ws saieltcl in this furnace on November 1" Tb.is iron ore is very 6re g'Mncd .01 1 contains a notable peicmtage u'. niaganese, much rf which Y r" the Mteel. It ii not - n,-li in lit:i o the olht-r Kni. UII.it 1,-..' beeu use. Ill I nace made a satisfactory run, innr. taining easily a 1 iph tr; cratuic and turning out a eiy soi "Hi j ;o duet. After n fw trials t!i( s'at; became as li,;lt in eol r 11 that from auy well regulated I :.ist :,:i nace. The later produri-' i-fs'.'!-', were much ilenscr than ti ie fii s.t made, which ouM seem t imh cate that, at the higher temper. ".Me the process of reduction inoium . eveu in the short time that elp between the 1 '-i-viiing of rrductj j aud the tapping. In every isc, however, small blow boles were ol. ervable in the sieel. Tbee were due to gaHes which funned wherever CLEAN UP SALE On December 26tk wo will commence to sell our entire stock ol goods at re duced prices. We want to clean up all odds ends to have every thing new for Spring. Nothing will ;be sold on credit at reducedprices cask over the counter and we will do you good. GARMAN, IIEMENWAY CO. Leaders in Merchandising. si ui cu bs of re- dmtii.ti. 'J'l apA'-ity "f tlni Cir- 1 ii.vc wnli a ciiricot iJ:. vo!t, I y 1 mil 1 f 1 ' W'i'.M by I vk) jior.uda t;i oNSMii'PiNc. ntxonu. '"ppHK it' ii t? tli'ipi'ig s'-nfnn 2i hatt r totrd vit!i a total from I...!-:, S..p:iio: y.iU of 33, o7 I " t tons .11 ;'. )! t 2..!'J,-20 t-ii!r. 1! !ir; n lh' r-,a'o:i ol l'y04. shipniMiU f"t' lo!." '-"".iso'i ur m ful- I ' 1 vr v i:o5 ."::luth . .1,571 oli; 8. "(; 77r'' Twi. Harb.-i- . ,'S.s7.. 7i'M.,'J Siiiv .i'2,' .' 4 rj-" Km-u)h..-i :t.C;,o2.'i 5, 1 76, '::; A-.ldi'i I. ' 1 "7 H :t.40', 1 2) Marqiut:-... . .l.W.v.h 2.'.35.'25'j ili.ls'.,no ) Tin -!ii; t.'. -nti Iri'M t!'e Mini.e sotu t-!i;.ci e f e.bn;: -1, 50, .jo to::, r rii' th'in tiic total sl:ip :i:e t Tot ly i. 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