THE SUMPTER MINER.
Wednefdfy, Ncverrter ?4. icto
Capital $500,000
OPPICERS
JOHN .1. I'1-NIIAI.I:, President
i. (Crn. A1k'- HunWr lllll finlj ,Mng. Co.)
SUMI'll'rf, Ul'HlOS
AJ.IIIiKT fil:ISI:K, Vice-President
(llifU.-rl(.llli'nlljnk)
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Illini-NI: Sl'I.HRY, Treasurer
II. C. I'liNri.ANI), Secretary
Grizzly Gold
Mining Company
In 1,000,000 shares of the
par value of Fifty Cents
Each. Treasury Stock
400,000 shares.
FULL PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE
I
& Weekly Bulletin
COPPER STRIKE.
' '" DEVELOPMENT. The body of copper ore encountered in the tunnel last week has been crossed and proves,
.(b 'be eiuht feet wide and assays of this ore ive values of 16.00 to the ton. The tunnel work will be pushed.
Tfoei sinking of the snaft has been commenced and will continue so as to thoroughly explore the ore body and. to
iiuwease the dump of pay ore. .
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To meet cost of development, the sales of Treasury Stock will continue
at SIX CENTS per share, payable all cash, or on the install
ment plan in twelve monthly payments.
INSTALLMENT PLAN
2000 Shares at 6 cents per share : : : : : : :
payable $ 10 down and $10 per mcnth until paid. Larger
blocks of stock on pro rata scale.
$120.
ftEFCftCNCCV: fT or luNfm SuMPftn, One
CmitM Iimh him Citf OntaN
For Prospectus and Further Information, address,
Grizzly Gold Mining Co., Sumpter, Ore.
CHINESE COAL FIELDS.
ConiUts of 159 Sour Mllri and 3,000,000,
..,. OJO Mlrlc Tom.
It dors not require a very severe nor a
vrty long lasting coal l.inilnr to advance
the iuextlon of the exhaustion ef fuel sup
ply, from a purely academic discussion to
me of piessing economic import. nice. The
present situ ttion in dreat Britain tilings
the matter near enough home to lend a
lightened interest to the description of the
coal fields around I'se Chou, Shan-si,
China, hy Noah l-'IclJ Drake, which was
presented at the last Hireling of the Amer
ican Institute of Mining Hnginrersand is
printed In lis " Transactions."
IhedMilit was lirst adequately exam
ined hy Haron von Ulchtnlen In 1870, hut
the antbforrlgu attitude of the Chinese
government has shue pirvrnted develop
ment, until now Its e.xploiatlou hy the
IVUIn syndicate seems to l'e at hand, this
lingllsh-ilallan company having coiues.
slons to work the coil lields of Hie I se
CI1011 region, as well as the Mi.in-sl lields,
I he I se Chou coal area r.xamlord hy
Mr. Drake lies about joo miles southwest
by west fiom Shanghi, and shows a
"mingling ol ridges, hills, narrow, rlevat
rd valleys and tough tolling lauds." I he
rock beds lie comparatively level, with
some coiispkuous folding and faulting,
giving narrow beds of eastward dipping
strata and long west-nosthwest dipping
areas, in whUh the dips are tarely greater
than seven or eight degrees, and the aver
age dip of the whole euthcrust block is
probihly not more than one or two degrees;
22 to J) (eet is Riven as the probable aver
age thickness of the mala workable I'se
Chou coal bed, though Mr. Drake hid 110
opportunity to measure Its full thickness
nor to examine it, except where it Is being
mined. At one mine near IN Ta Yang,
only the lower 10 feet to 12 feet Is being
taken out thiough a shaft 329 feet deep.
Mr. Drake was told by the Chinese min
ers that the full thickness of the bed is 30
feet Chinese, ripi.il to jfi feet English.
Parting streaks uf shaly coal are common,
but no waste coal Is taken out, and the
average ash is probably not higher than
10 per cent. In two mines a couple of
miles northeast of I'se Chou, Mr. Drake
saw coal beds from 17 feet to 23 feet thick,
the latter being made up quite uuitorruly
of a lower stratum of three feet of earthy,
triable coal, 14 teet of hard, lirm, evenly
good coal, one inch ol carbonaceous shale,
and six Iret more of good coal. In a mine
one and a half miles west of Ta Chi,
where the Chinese miners said the bed
had a thickness of 23(j feet, Mr. Drake
saw the upper 15 feet only.
The coal "is wonderfully bright and
glossly throughout. It bteiks with a
coiichold.il fracture, and is so tree from
dust that It can often be handled without
soiling the hands."
The area mapped hv Mr. Drake, about
i$o:quare inlles,contaiusahuut ),ooo,ooo,
000 metric tuns, supposing 22 feet to be
the average thickness of the bed and 1.5
the average sprdlic gravity. And "It'
must be lemeinbrred that this area is only
a little of the lagged rdge ol the great
coal lields ol shan si. Nlchlofeu es
timated thai the anthracite coal alone of
Shan-si amounts to 6jo,ooo,ooo,ooo tons,
and that the coal erea of Shan-si is greater
than that of Pennsylvania.
" The Tse Chou coal is nil anthracite,
hard enough to support any weight in the
blast furnace, uniformly low in sulphur,
and comparatively low in ash. 1 he limi
tations to Chinese engineering ability are
strikingly apparent In the methods of Tse
Chou. I he coal Is dug, hoisted and
transported without explosive or powder
applications. Mining is done with pick
and gad; the coal Is raised by a man power
windlass, which In the larger mines may
have a circumference of five feet; a crank
at each end, with a long arm, allows four
or five men to work at turning It. About
)oo pounds of coal are hoisted at a time
in baskets, f-rorn the foot of the shaft
tunnels are run through the coal bed, and
at Intervals large quantities of coal are
taken out, leaving room about forty to
fifty feet in diameter. Vrrv little coal is
taken out through inclines, and none
through tunnels, though in some cases a
horizontal tunnel as long as the vertical
shaft would cut the coal.
"The output Is about 50,000 tons per
annum from the Tse Chou area, and it is
carried to its market, locally or on the
plains 20 miles away, in little carts drawn
by o.xeu, or, for more largely, by pack
animals mules, donkeys and men. The
trails are from 12 teet to 14 tret wide, and
paved with stone. By ages of use these
stones have been worn until (heir tops are
smooth and spiral shape. Over these
lough and steep trails there is during talr
weather an almost continuous line ot pack
animals passing to and fro, and most of
these are employed in carrying coal."
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