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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1902)
THE SUMPTER .MINER Wednesday, June ii, 1002 IO to n PRODUCTION OF RARE METALS. Everett Smelter First in Amer ica to Turn Out Arsenic. Annum Hid new industries tlnit Imvu liecii recently iIuvuIohnI in tlio United Htatex is tliu manufacture of iirsunloux oxide, says Dr. .losupli Struthers In Mineral Ilcxourccx of the United Status, UK) I, now in press, United Stittcn Geo logical Surcy, David T. Day, ehief of diviHion. Tills manufacture wan taken lli duriiiK I1M11 ly tliti 1'iinct Sound Ite diietIon company, at llverctt, WiixIiIiih ton, and an output of !t(M) short toiiH wax placed on t Imi market. Previous to 1!M)1 the world's supply of iirxuuic and arxen ions compounds wax derived eliielly from Hut iiiIiil'h in Cornwall and Devon, Kiih land, and at Frelliern, Germany. In IHIMlho world's production of the forum of iirsuiilcuniouiited to 1 I,t:ill,lll5 pounds, valued at fr)Sl,(ll I. Tlio Imports of ur H'lilc Into tliu United Stated during the liiNt llwt yearH huwi aeraned uhoiit $:ilO,(KHt per annum, which scunix to show that the exploitation and manufac ture, of arsenic and It h eouipouuilH in thin country could Ihi prolitahly dexcl- oped. ALUMINUM. Tim production of aluminum in tliu United States during IIKI1 amounted to 7.loO,MM) poiindH. Tliu I'ittxliurg We ductioii company, operating (he Mall putcutx, remaiiiH nllll tliu Mile producer of aluminum in IIiIm country. Tim price of aluminum per pound remained prac tically stationary throughout the ear, although tliu demand for thu metal In creased. The total Imports of all fornix of aluminum In HKH were valued at tl(MI,7IH, iih compared with IM,l in ItNM). nutviii:. Georgia produced tliu hulk of the do mcstlc hauxilo in IIHII, the icmalnder hclng supplied hy Alalmma and Aikau- mix, The total pr.xliictinn wan IS,tK5 long loux, valued at l,ttl I. iih computed with II.'I.IHI Ioiih, valued at fSl,U7il, in IIHH). Itaiixile Ix used luailily for the manufacture of alumiuiim, although a ennsldcrulilu ipiantlty Ix need for the manufacture of aluminum sulphate and cryctallletl alum. The I'lttshuig Ite ductioii company in Installing a luigu plant at llanxllc, Saline county, Aikau sax, which promises to increase largely the output from Arkansas in ItKl.l. The import of hauxite into I he United States during HKH nmnuiilcd to $117,117; the exportx were valued at f.'tOO.tMMJ; and the consumption scums to have heeli IIU.I'mS long tonx, valued at flftl, '-'if-1. The ini Mirlx in ltH)l were IS,:ii:t long tonx, ux compared with S.UVl tonx for the pieced lui! j ear, an lucreuxo due mainly to the low ocean freight rutex from foielgn Hirlx, Thix low freight rate caused hauxite to Ih dclivcicd, duty included, from the miiiiIi of Trance at New York, Philadelphia ami Haltimore at a lower rate per ton than It coxl to xhip it from Georgia or Alahama to Philadelphia. The principal commeiclal salts of alu milium are aluminum sulphate uudci.xs tallicd alum, foi the manufacture of which hauxite and tirceiilaud ci,"olite incused. The I'ciiuxjlvunla Salt com pany HxMxnex the cschixlvo privilege of inipuitiug cr elite Into North and South America. Ill HKH the production of aluminum xulphate wax 71,7-1 short tonx, and that of crvxtallizcd ilium wax 7,7'll tonx. TITVMUM. The occurrence and production of ti tanium orex ix discussed hy Mr. V. O. Suclliug, with xK'cial reference to the i event discovery of largu dexits of rut- lie In Virginia, which has brought to tliu attention of tliu ceramic and tliu steel Induct ricx the commercial possibil ities of thix ore of titanium. Hitherto, owing to the hinall supply that has In-en HvailahUi, mid to tliu impure statu in which it ix generally found, rutilu haw been hut little uxed in thix country, tliu few- hundred poundx produced annually going largely to collector of minerals mid to tliu manufacturers of artificial teeth, who usu tliu pure oxide ax u pig ment in reproducing in Krcelaiu the natural yellow color of tliu tooth, not vvltliHtunding tliu recognised value of titanium ax a component of u special Htuel, and notwithstanding the uxu of tliu oxidu for many yearx paxt by foreign manufacturers of pottery. Mlneiuls con taining titanium uru found widely dis tributed and in xucli large (imntiticH iih to iiiaku it a relatively abundant element, though nearly all of text books on chum- ixtry xpeak of titanium ax ouu of tliu rare mutalx. In xomu placex, particularly in tliu Adirondack, titauiferoiiN orex are found in, enormoux ipiantitiex, making one of tliu principal coinpoiientx of tliu great rock maxxex which form tuouii tuiiiH and coiixtitiitii a geological for mation. Ilmenlte ix the moxt abundant of all thu titanium miueralx, mid Ix found In ImmIh of great extent at Kragero, in Nor way, Hay St. Paul, In Canada, and in Khodu Ixland, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, I'eiiuxvlviiula and Ver moiit, in tliu United Statex. Itutile Ix generally found wherever large ilepoxitx of ilmenlte occur, and besides thu locall tiex meiitioncd for ilmenlte, It ix found In notable ipiantitiex at (iinvex Moun tain, (leorgiaj Magnet Cove, Aikauxax, and on both xldex of thu Tju river, near lloxcltiud poxtolllce, in Nelxon county, Yirgiiiia, whuro thu depoxit Ix very large. Under favorable coudltioiiH titanium oxide impartx to porccliiin a line yellow color. It ix capable of being uxed witli other substances to produce secondary coloix, and it will uithxtaiid, without ililllculty the heat of the kiln, althouuh at vi ry high temperaturex it Increaxex the fusibility of thu porcelain somewhat, acting ax a llux. Mr. Suelliug doex not xcem to think, however, that any ex tensive market for thix Yirgiiiia rutilu will develop in tlio pottery industry. With regaid to xteel, thu expeilineiitul work, so far ax tried, xeumx to show that the addition of titanium glvex thu xteel a high limit of elasticity and a gieater elongation ax well ax an iiicreaxul duc tility over xiinplu carbon xteel; and ax titanium xteel takes a good temper and ix very hard, a number of piwxiblu uxex xuggext themselves for it, dependent only upon the economical preparation of some titanium alloy, thu commercial production of which seems not to be an eaxy niuttur. Ax ilmenite ix at the pres ent time uxed exclusively iih a xourcu of titanium for steel, thu outlook for the market for Virginia rutilu seems u oor one in this industry also; and itx use,' amounting to a few hundred poundx an nually, in tliu at tiflcinl tooth Industry in supplied by thu rutilu depoxitH of CheH . ler couiuy, i uiiiisviumm. even uiiuci thu moxt favorable conditions, says Mr. Snclllng, thu annual domestic mnrkut for rutilu Ih not likely to exceed In value 2,000. In 1(00 thu production of rutilu In the United States amounted to 300 pounds, valued at f 1,300, and the pro duction of Norway nmounted to 57,-18'i iwunds, valued at IJ5.043. The pnxluc tion of the Virginia rutlle depoaitH, be ginning in 1000, have amounted, up t date, to about 40,000 pounds, making an estimated output of rutlle In the United States for tliu year 1001 of about 44,000 poundx. All the latest novelties in hats at Neill Mercantile company's. 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