Wednesday, August i, 1900 12 THE SUMPTER MINER. WHAT IS A MINER'S INCH? Indefinite and Variable Method of Measur ing Water. A recent article, entitled, "Where Water Comes High," discussing the quantity of water commonly called a "mluei's Inch," states that the General Government fixes the quantity as one cubic foot in 50 seconds. I have con sulted nil available authorities on the subject, and can find no mention of the volume of a miner's inch being fixed by the General Government. In California, where the term originated, it is a well known f.ict that the miner's inch is about as deliulte a quantity as a "pall of water," and hydraulic engineers have been trying for ye.irsto have the arbitrary term dis carded for the "cubic foot per second" ;md "acie foot." In California custom seems to have made the miner's inch as equal to one cubic loot In 50 seconds, but this depends mtkli on geographical loca tion. In Colorado the statutes fixed the miner's inch as equal to a quantity of water (lowing from an inch-square orllice under a pressure of live Inches above the lop of the orilice, and assumes that the quantity of water delivered ispropottlonal to the area of the orllice; but this is far Irom being true, l-or Instance, if a How of 144 miner's inches lie required, the volume obtained would be ).) 4.;, 4.7 1 ubic teel per second, according as thele wcie 144 holes one Inch square, one opening one inch deep and 144 Indies long, ore one opening li inches square, the tops o( all opening being live inches below the suilaie ol the water. Weir uieasiiteuieuts ale ttitli.lt mole uicurate, andtould almost always he substituted tor the method hv oiilurs. Tin siieiue ol hvdr.'iolUs has made tousideiabli- piogiess wilhln the la-l decade, but the mttltiplkity ol detail necessary to consider in the aicuiale uie.isuieiiients ot water lenders many ot the approximate rules valueless, and the best methods .lie none loo good. It is to be hoped th.it, hi view of the iiuieasiiig u-r and value oi water lor pn.wr, Irriga tion and douiestu purposrs, tin- miner's huh, as a stand. iitl, will be relegated to Iiiuimioiis desuetude, and the mote deliulte measurement ot "snood loot" iimI in preference. Cor litigation pur poses the aie loot is generally Kilning Into use, on account ol the luuveuieiue In milting call illations. I'lie mte foot Isoueacie uivered one tool deep Willi water, 01 4,sfK cubic leet. Ihe artUle reteried to also makes the statement that a miner's hulHpresuin.iMv uiidei a sK-lmh piessuie) mhi's to irri gate Hw acres ol land. Ihe writer was for some eais touneited with the Hear Vallev Irrigation Company, ol Kedlauds, Cal and under tills system the highest duty is one mluei's huh to 10 acres, the average being one huh to font .uies. I he .lurapa I and ' Water Company, near San Bernardino, use out- huh to litigate nine ncresj otliei puts ol Call toriila use one miner's (six-hull pii'ssiitri for from 4 to 10 .tires. I. II. Cunning ham, In Cortland .Mining Hex-lew-. Thirteen Mllli in Fourteen Miles. George W. Merlin, a milling in in ol much experience In the west, Is in thr iltv after a tour months' dip through the eastern Oregon gold fields, lie spr.iks eiithusi.istkallv ot the louutrv. "I found in an aiea 14 miles squ.ire 1 1 mills grinding on good ote, and more are being put in as fast as trams can haul the machinery to the ground," said he. " I here is much activity among the mines and prospects in iranite and Sumpter districts, in spite ol the f.-nt that the towns are dull. I believe that theie is no doubt about the future of the country. It is one of the most promising I have ever sent. The actual showing is sutticient to estab lish It as a great prodtuer, and new de posits are constantly being explored with excellent results. The geological char acter of the country is granite and por phyry, with quartzite In considerable quantities. The vein matter is, as a rule, a black sulphide, and It carries a great deal of free gold. I do not believe that it will always be a free-milling camp, how ever. It will be found eventually that the cyanide process will be required for the best results. Now that a railroad into the district from Hilgard is assured the country must advance by leaps and bounds. All that was needed was trans portation. There is a great deal of country that is yet somewhat inaccessible, and with easy ingress and egress it xvill have a chance to grow that xxill surely not be lost." Spokesman Review. NONE OF HIS BUSINESS. The Auayerit Expected Merely to Find the Values. 'I he following is written by J. M. FIsW, of Cortland, in reply to an article printed In these columns last xeek, taken from the Telegram: My attention Is called to a communica tion of Mr. O. M. Rosendale in The Tele gram of last week, on the sampling and assaying of ores. Allow me to set that gentleman right, as he appears to be a little olf. Nine-tenths of the assays made in Port laud are not for the purpose of buying ores, or purchasing mines, but simply to leant if tile ore contains any metals of value, and no such certificate should be taken, or would betaken by a business man as documentary evidence of the value ol the property. The ass.iver has no right or business to state on the face ot his certificate, e.x .ully from where he obtained the sainpl", or what mine It came from. It Is none of his business. I he certificate Is the prop erly ol his client, and he can make what ever disposition ol it that Itesees lit. The responsibility ol Ihe ass.iver ends with tht results he stales in Ills certificate. It would be just as absurd, or as conect in judgment for a burglar to enter a hardware store during the night and bring the lirst thing he had to the light and s.iy tlif xx hole store was stocked xxith axes, as to s,iv the one stone sample .tss.iy xx.is ,-i true sample of Ihe whole mint- ol ore. I h.ix-e just returned from examining a milling propertv, from which I have taken too samples, and on this result xxill I base my determination ot its value, and not 1 1 out any one same assay, or anybody's s.iv'o. Some io yeats ago, when I xx-.-is gieen In the business, would frequently ask my client Irom xxhere he obtained his ore, 01 trom what mine it came from, and was politely told that it was none ol tux- business, and that all thev wished ol me xx as to give them Its x-alue in gold and silver per Ion. Mr. Hosendale's scale ol pikes is all right lor a smelter to purchase ores, by deducting the units for smeller chaiges. Hut there ate no purchasers of ores here, lor smeltets, and no smelter world pur cluse ores without the proper sampling ol the lot puuh.ised. Sealed bottled sam ples ul ore are Irrquentlv sent me Irom Hritish Columbia, Utah, Nevada and Ari zona, but they are samples put up bv a public sampling works, simply for check on other assurers. Intake three assays Irom the sample, and take the mean of the three as the correct one. I have no know ledge ot the mine it comes trom, neither do I care. My business is to give the results ot the sample turnislied. As for the valuation of metals, we may as well give New York quotations -is to give British Columbia or S in Francisco. There Is no market x'aluatlons on metals in Cortland. There was a time when we hid a par valuation of gold bars here, but we luxe none at present. mmmmimmrwmmmm?mwm? 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