CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN
The phrase, “ Theres no use crying
over spilt milk" wasn't coined by a
man who had to pay twelve cents a
quart for i t
Flies increase faster than Fords in
the summer time, but Henry gets
the start o f them in the winter.
"Be careful nephew. This is the
day and age when your white mule
maye be hitched to a black hearse.”
PLANS FOR NE WINDUSTRY HINT county are full or precious metals
TO BIG THINGS FOR
and fortunes have been taken from
SOUTHERN OREGON
the gulches. This winter there have
been heavy rains and so the streams
Chemical Company Planning to Start are up and this is the condition
Operation* During th# New Yoar
which the miners have been wait­
ing for.” — Oregonian.
On a plot o f ground, probably at
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Talont, Medford or Central Point, the
There is considerable activity in
Oregon Chemical company are plan­ preparing to reopen the War Eagle
ning to build their factories, the first quicksilver mine in the Gold Hill
unit o f which they hope to start district.
The property has recent­
shortly after the new year.
ly bee nacquired by Chicago people
The Oregon Chemical company is
just springing into existence as far
as the public is concerned, although
fo r twelve months they have been or­
ganised and have worked with the
successful end now near solution.
During the past year it has been
a partnership agreement between
Professor George Schumacher, chem­
ist; Walter B. Robinson, engineer,,
and Wilfield R. Gaylord, attorney.
The assaciation was formed to investi
gate the chemical resources o f south­
ern Oregon and northern California
with the view o f eventually estab­
lishing a general chemical industry.
The Investigations proved to them
that for variety o f mineral and metal­
lurgical resources, this field cannot
be equalled anywhere in the United
States and probably not in the entire
world. It has been decided to organ­
ize the company further and attempt
to start the first unit first ,as the
first unit is a paying proposition and
is needed for the future units or en­
largements. The start, as planned, is
the manufacture o f lead, lead pro­
duets and alloys and charcoal by­
products. A lead-charcoal plant will
result. The task of securing lead is
easily solved as the men at the head
o f the company have secured ample
means o f acquiring all they can
handle. The market is as staple as
the market for gold or silver.
The
supply o f wood waste in this district
is practically unlimited.
The primary products o f the pine
and fir wood distillation consists of
charcoal, pyro-ligeous, acid, tar, gas,
acetate o f lime, acetate o f lead,
methyl alcohol, turpentine, acids, and
many other products or by-products.
Here is where the new company
will reap a ready harvest in this dis­
trict and the plant pay from the
start if they can make the start soon.
The local heating problem for the
orchards offers an almost unlimited
market for properly prepared, or
briquetted charcoal, as it is smokeless
higher in heat value and cheaper in
cost than either oil or coal briquet­
tes. There are o f course, an infinity
o f by-products which can be made
from wood-waste and tar distilla­
tion.
The Eastman Kodak company
make over 2,600 such products.
When the first unit o f the home
proposed plant is a success, the ex­
pansion can be made. Every raw ma­
terial is here in this district to justify
the establishment o f a chemical in­
dustry, and it will certainly be done
by some one.
Prof. Schumacher, the technical
head o f the enterprise, is a German
chemist and metallurgist o f interna­
tional reputation and world-wide ex­
perience and never in his world
travels and extensive investigations
for various nations, has he exper
ienced a field offering equal oppor­
tunities to this.
We hope to see from the efforts of
this company, one o f the largest
general chemical enterpriee# in con­
nection with a reduction plant for
ore treating, to rise in the West. It
will happen.
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Mining operations will be more
active in Jackson county this winter
than for several years, according to
Newton C. Chaney o f Medford.
"This is because o f the abundance
o f water." explained the district at­
torney o f Jackson county, who is in
the city.
"There are several good
properties which have not been
worked for two or three years be­
cause they could not get water, and
mining without water is just about
ns possible as flying without an air­
plane
The mountains of Jackson
who have reorganized under the cor­
porate name o f the Medford Reduc­
tion and Refining company, with lo­
cal heaquarters at Medford.
This
property is the best developed quick­
silver mine in this region, equipped
with a 30-ton Scott furnace and was
a heavy producer during the war
period. H. M. Parks ( foremrly asso­
ciated with the Oregon bureau of
mines, is reported to be the engineer
in charge and Samuel Bertleson of
Medford, superintendent in charge
o f the works.
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OREGON TO PRODUCE HALF OF
DOMESTIC OUTPUT OF
QUICKSILVER
Within a few days the Opalite
mine in Malheur county will start
the operation o f their 100 ton per
day plant for the reduction o f ores
and recovery o f the quicksilver con­
tained therein, and it is reported that
the outlook is so encouraging that
the belief is expressed that this prop­
erty will produce, when running full
blast one-half of the quicksilver pro­
duced in the United States.
panies 25 per cent.— Mining Truth.
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VALUE OF METAL PRODUCTION
FOR 1925
WERE
NOT
^Ph. o n e
The metal production o f what is
commonly known as the Pacific
Northwest for 1925 totaled $176,-
645,000, divided as follows:
British Columbia, $63,135,000.
Montana, ... 66,800,000.
Idaho, $31,815.000
Alasko, $17,850,000
The Yukon, $1,540,000.
Washington, $1,065,000.
Oregon, $430,000.
The small showing made by Ore­
gon is not due to lack o f commer­
cial mineral resources, but rather to
an indifferent attitude toward min­
ing on the part o f those whose busi­
ness it should be to see that all the
natural resources o f the state have
an equal chance to be developed.
Mining engineers who have studied
the southwestern Oregon field predict
that some day that section will be­
come one o f the greatest mining
camps the world has ever seen, bas­
ing the prediction on their knowledge
of the vast mineral resources known
to exist. Those who seek to guide the
development o f this great state
should ask themselves the question
why it is that with great mining
states on three sides of it, Oregon
is so backward in developing this
fundamental industry. The question
contains much food for serious
thought.
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W. R. Johnson has sold his claim
known « s the Sunshine, located on
Elk river, to George F. Sparks of
the Elkhorn group.
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Dan McLeod brought in speci­
mens o f ore from nearby points last
week that would create great interest
among large operators in other sec­
tions. Mr. McLeod says these ledges
are so accessible that it is hard to
believe they exist.
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Dr. Boyer, o f the Crystal Mining
company, operating the old Madden
mine on the Sixes river, was a curry
county visitor last week. The Mad­
den is considered one o f the choicest
of the black sand properties and
great expectations are held as to
what is will do in the way o f pro­
duction when the development work
is completed and the mine actually
placed in operatioi^.— Port Orford
News.
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MINING WEALTH
Wealth o f mining and quarrying
corporation is estimated by the Fed­
eral Trade Commission at 10.1 bil­
lions o f dollars or nearly 10 per cent
o f the total estimated for all cor­
porations.
The report covers 18,884 corpora­
tions. The estimated valpe o f land,
buildings adn equipment o f these cor­
porations is given as 8.6 billions or
12.5 per cent o f the total for all cor­
porations. The value o f inventories,
cash, etc., for mining companies is
given as 1.6 billions or 4.7 per cent
of the total for all corporations. The
commission says the proportion .o f
fixed assets to total wealth is. for
mining, above the average.
Metal mining and oil and gas min­
ing are said by the Commission to be
the two most important o f the min­
ing industries and represent 62 per
cent o f the total wealth o f the min­
ing group. Coal mining represented
24 per cent and other mining. 14
per cent. Corporate wealth devoted to
re ta l mining and oil and gas mining
were nearly equal in 1922. Inventor­
ies, cash and other assets o f coal
and oil and gas mining corporations
each represented 11 per cent while
those o f metal mining companies was
23.5 per cent o f the total.
Land,
buildings and equipment held by oil
and gas mining companios represent­
ed 32 per cent o f th# total; those o f
metal mining companies, 28.6 per
cent and those o f C9fd mining com­
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