Wednesday, August 8, 1900
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THE SUMPTER MINER.
PROFITS OF MINING.
EXPENSE CUTTING ESSENTIAL TO
SUCCESS OF THE INDUSTRY.
Employment of Avtnarius Carbolincum
Will Save Mine Owners Thousands of
Dollars Annually Pinning Invention
to the Limit.
It Is a common siylng that more money
Is expended lit delving lor gold th.in is
taken nut (if the earth. Whether this Is
true or nut, it Is certain that mining Is
not all profit, and that this pursuit de
mands as close atlentinn hi the way f
rxprnse cutting as other business ven
tures do to insure success.
This fact Is now lullv recognized, and
ns a result, money siving miJiiurry has
taken the pi ice ol h uid tools, and smelt
hi'. Ins been reduced tn a sileiue, con
serving almost every atom of valuable
mineral, thus enabling very low grade
base ore, formerly deemed worthless, to
be worked ata profit. Invention is pushed
to the limit in ilevitltit means whereby
waste can be still fuijlur prevented, and
profits proportionately enl irged.
In this connection, the attention nf
mining men might prolit.ibly be turned to
the use of Avenarliis Carbnliiieum, the
justly celebrated ( Serin.m wood preserva
tive, now employed hi wood construction
work all over the world, with excellent
economic results.
ShoreliiK timbers used in mines, often
brought from distant points at consider
able expense, are subject to rapid decay
and replacement from contact with soli
and suhettraneau dampness. This Is not
only a source of annoyance to mine own
ers, but frequently delays work and en
tails loss of time and money. All this
would be avoided, and the life of these
timbers ureatly extended, if they were
subjected to treatment with Avenarliis
Cmbollnetim before being placed In posi
tion. This compound penetrates wood
from surface to center, and nut only
renders timber Immune against decay,
but also increases its tensile strength,
thus adding to the safety of miners work
ing under a propping so fortified. Cordu
roy roads, frequently required for trans
portation of ore from mines to railroad
points, are also greatly strengthened, and
their longevity Increased by applications
of Avenarliis Carbolineiim. This prepara
tion is not expensive, and is as easily
applied as common house paints.
In casting about for ways and means
of cutting costs and Increasing prolits,
the sagacious and far seeing mine owner
will certainly give Avcnarius Carbolineiim
a trial and, judging from results in other
lines of wood construction, will have no
cause to regret the experiment.
NEW LIFE ON THE COMSTOCK.
Great Hkcltle Power Plant at Virginia City
Does the Business.
It will be of great Interest to mining
men the world over to leant that with the
advent of the Installation of electric power
and the placing ol the most extensive
electrical machinery plant in the world,
the future of Virginia City, Nevada, Is
brighter than It has been for years pos
sibly brighter than ever.
The Mining and Engineering Review
and Electrician, of San Francisco, is au
thority for the statement that the electri
cal machinery for the big po.ver plant at
Florlsion, on the Truckee river but a
shoit distance from Virginia City, is
neatly completed, and that the current
will be ready to be turned on about the
middle of September. The power will be
derived from the plant of the Truckee
River General Electrl: company, the
primary object being the furnishing of
electric energy to the greit Comstock
mines the mines that caused the whole
world to marvel at their apparently in
exhaustible capacity and richness.
The original discovery was made In the
Ophlr In June 1859, when, less than 40
tons ol ore having been hauled to San
Francisco, it was settled for on the basis
of J2047 per ton. Then followed the
wildest excitement of modern tlmes,beslde
which the Klondike and Cape Nome
ctae pale Into insignificance. The
Savage, Hale and Norcross, Chollar
I'otosi, (iould and Curry, Yellow Jacket,
Crown Point, Helcher, Imperial and other
discoveries followed in quick succession,
and the mines yielded, In the ten years
following, 5120,000,000.
In 187) the "big bonanza" in the Con
solidated Virginia was struck, and the
excitement grew in proportion. Capital
was pouring Into the new camp and Vir
ginia Cltv, a small camp among the sage
brush and sand, began to assume the
proportions of a great city, with a popu
lation of 35,000 or more. The excitement
reai lied its zenith when It became known
thai millions in gold and silver were being
extracted from this strike. It is a fact
that between the years 1K7) and 18H2,
?i 11,075,761 were taken out from the
bun, 111. 1. The strike w.is made at the
1107-foot level.
I hen came the question of draining the
lower levels of the mines, and the time
produced the genius. Adulpli Sutro pro
jected tlie great tunnel known allerwards
by his name. 1 he tunnel was started In
the vallev of the Carson river, and ran
for a distance of 20,018 leet in a north
westerly direction, when It struck the
Savage mine at a depth of 1,640 feet.
Subsequently all of the mines on the lode
were connected with the tunnel. Hut
when it was completed the deepest shaft
had reached a depth of only 3,000 feet, so
that the tunnel was of little use at that
time in draining the mines, but it will
remain a great engineering feat.
'I he wonderful difference in the cost of
steam power and electricity is so great
that the concensus of opinion among the
old timers is that the low grade ores in
the upper levels can be worked to a tre
mendous advantage and profit. That
there is yet a great anfb'unt of ore In the
old workings is well known, and that
there Is ore to the value of hundreds of
millions below the present workings Is
the opinion nf practical mining men. As
an instance it may be referred to, that at
the time of the fire In the Consolidated
Virginia, rich ore was being taken from
the bonanza, but at that time the work
ings were bulkheaded and closed, and
have remained so up to the present.
It Is estimated that the mines of the
Comstock lode have produced, In gold
and silver, nearly 1 400,000,000.
Gold as Money Metal.
The earliest coinage of gold that is au
thenticated was about 800 years before
the christian era, in the time of Miletus,
and it Is well known that the Sicilians,,
400 years before the blrtll of Christ, used
the metal for coinage purposes. Long
before that period, however, It had been
used in art and manufacture, and years
before the time of King Solomon, as an
cient chronicles will prove. In the ear
lier centuries placer mining in south
western Europe, and In the Ural moun
tains, was well established, and there are
statistics of gold mining in Asia Minor
during all the earlier centuries. There is
nothing, however, authentic In the way of
figures previous to the discovery of North
and South America, but since that time
the world's production of gold per year is
pretty well established. Exchange.
Private Board.
I will furnish private board to a few de
siring such, at my residence on North
street, near Center. Mrs. C. E. Duckworth.
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