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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday June 25, 1902
PRODUCTION
OF ABRASIVES
Official Report on Whet, Pulp,
Grind, Buhr and Mill
Stones.
Abrasive inatcrialH arc, an ii whole,
lint little understood, although they are
in one sense iiiiniiin I lie miiHt Important
l)f till- lllillcrill products, HIIVM Dr. .loscpll
llyilii I'm It In "Mineral Hi sources of tlm
United Stiito, I1KII," now iii prcH, I'ni
tcil States Ceolouienl Survey. Tim prin
cipal aluaslvcs full into three nciicial
greups: TIiomi which occur us lock for
mations, 11111I are cut anil manufactured
directly into the form desired, while re
taining their original i'"'l; structure and
Hpiearaiiee, an rlmlstoncs, vvlictslnucH,
etc. ; iIhim' whieh oceiir iih a constituent
of either 11 rock or a ein, and have to he
mechanically separated and eleaned, iih
coriiiidiini, enieiy and pirncl ; nrtilleial
abrasives, an rarhoriiiidiini, crushed
steel and nrtilleial eonindiini.
The use of abrasives in e.revviiu: with
the increase of our maiiunnturliin Indus
trii'H. Tim total value of nalnral abras
ives produced in the Pulled SlateH in
IlKII wan 1 1,11(1,57-', iih eompaied with
fl.'JtW.tl":! for IINHI.
OII.HIIIMH VMt W IIIMHIOM H.
Ill the I'niled States, rocks Hiiltahhi
for iiiiiIJiik vvlictslnucH aie found in
ucuily all the statcH cast of the Missis
sippi, and in n number of thoe to the
went of that river; hut the supply in oh
tallied from Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio,
New York, Vennont and New I lamp
shlic.
Tim ArkaiiH.iH whetstone liui I u-h am
in (iarluud and Saline counties the
prineip.il ones heliiK on (jinn iy or Whet
hlcine iiioiiniain, near Hot prln:s, ( tin
land county. The sandstones of Oiiiiil'c
county, Indiana, furiiMi a whetstone
known an t lie Hindustan or Orange stone,
which In ipianied in I'lenchlick and
Northwest township. In Kentucky,
tlm Curoii Stone company in iimiryin!
to a limited cilcnl a wateilmne from I
Hardin e .niity. In Ohio, at Iterca, Kit
did and Chiiurin Fulls, in Ciiyalioa i
ciMinty, anil at lirafton, n l.oiain coun
ty, whctstoncH and oilstones are pro
duced. In Cortland! county, near I .a It
rador lake, in New York, the l.iihrndor
stone in iuarried for whetstones. In
lluvcthlll township, (itaftou county,
New Hampshire, and near l.aumille,
OrleaiiH county, Vermont, arc the ipuir
rieH for the cchlnulcd Indian I'oud,
White Mountain and Lamoille scythe
stones. The pioduclion of nilxtoucs,
whetstones, etc., ill IIKU ailiounteil to
$irS,;UH); the intuits weie aliicd at
fil,lkV, and the expoitn weie in excess
of the ililMirlH,
UltlMMlOMIS.
The production of iitiiidstnucH in tie
I'niled SlateH in almost entirely fioiu
(Hiio and .Michigan. The principal
grindstone district in (Mini in included in
Strain, Cuyahoga and Sumuiit counticH,
with Cleveland iih a center, the larvicst
uriudt-toue tpuirricn and uiauufacturiiiK
plaulH Uiii within tweiily-live miles of
Cleveland. The iiiarricH in i-outliern
Ouin arc alone the Ohio river, wont of
Marietta, and inland northwest of that
city. A few tpiarries are in Went Vir
ginia, acrohH tlm river from Marietta.
The Michinan ipiarrieH art on tlm nhorcn
of Lake Union, ultout ninely nillen north
of I'ort Huron, near OrimlMonc City. In
South Dakota are located the ipiarricsof
the lMceiuout Stouu company, near
IvdKcinout, on tlm line of the llurllnnton
and Missouri Itiver railway.
Clll.rnlXINKH.
Since paper Ih'kmi to lto manufacturi-d
from wheat pulp, there. Iiiih Itcon u de-l
iiiaud for a stone nuited to the urindiu
of w heat to a pulp. The main supply of
pulpstoucs lines heeii iniMiiU'l from Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
I'nitluiicl. Various at-
j teiuptH to liud a Htoue in thin country
Hiiitahle to thin purpo"u have lieen made;
and the htoue" from the. new iiiarricH of
the Tippecanoe I'ulp and (irindHtoue
conipiiuy, at Kmpire, Ohio, Iiiih proved
to lie well adapted to the manufacture of
pulp-. In IIK(I there w.i a very lure
increase in the production of pulp-tones
ril iih llull 11I 11IIK lifiit iiiltu t iiiii t lilt tilt til I
will 111111. m him 1 1 j 11 ii r- j cm j tn emu
production uinouiitiiii; to KM) ton-, val
ued at flH,H(K), ax compared with .ViH
toiiH, valued at )'J,i',), produced in
WHO, and with 'JSS Ioiih, valued at S,7IL,
ill IH'KI.
The total value of tlm production of
all kilidn of ejludstnucs in 11(01 vviih
f'iSI),7l):i, a deciein-e of (lL".),:tL':t from tlm
priHluctiou of IIKH), which vviih if"10,U-il.
(iriiidstoucs continue to he imported
into tlm I'nlteil SlateH, and they conm
from NfvvciiHtlf-iiHiu-Tyim, in Copland,
from IMinlKirounli, Scotland, and from
llavaria. 'I'he importn in 11KII amount-
ed tofSS,tl7l, an i pared with ftr.'.oSI
in IIXM).
The total export of grindstone from I
thin country in now greater than the
import.
IIUIIIIsroNI H .VNII MIU.HTOM.s.
Millstones are found in varioiiH locali
lien in the I'niled State-. The New
York millstone ipiarrien art) located in a
hell of sandstone and conejoinurutc on
the ShuvvuiiKiiiik mouutaiiiH, extending
ncro-H tlm Iowiih of Itodicslcr, Marble
town, WararHlii):, (iaidener, New I'nlt,
in I'lster county, and tlm product in
known iih "INopiiH" Htone. In I'ennsyl
vauia llm ipiarries are located in Lan
caster county, and the millstones are
known iih "Turkey llill"and"Cocalico,"
the foi mer iH-iiit; found on Turkey hill,
near How mauiiville, and tlm other near
Durlach ami Lincoln. In Vimlnhi
ipi.iirieH have been opened on Itrusli
nioiiiilaiii, in tlm vicinity of Price's
l''oik, Montgomery county, and the
Htoue in known an the "Itrusli Moun
tain" Htoue. The places just mentioned
weie the only ouch at which millstones
weie ipiarried dining IIKH, and there
was an iiicieiisiiij,' production fioin each
oflheiu. .Millstones were foiiuurly oh
tallied from Mooie county, North Caro
lina, and from the Iterca (iril, at Penin
sula, Ohio.
A piml iniiiiy luihrstones aie still iiu
polled froiii I'lauce, llcliuin and tier
many, and they aie considered more
satisfnctoiv (linn the American stones.
The pioiluctiou of millstones in 1IHM
amouuteil to fi7,l7tl, an compared with
t:t'.',S.')S in I1HHI and with t'.'S.ll.'i in IMHt.
The value of the impoits of millstoiies
and liuhiHtoneH in ItHII was fl'J,IS7, as
co m pn icd vviih tL'S,lKM in IIKH). ,
Rich Gravel on Braver Creek.
I'lirtien just down from up Grande
Itoinle river report quite, an excitement
vviih canned a few tlnyn ugo hy a very ricli
Htrata of gravel haviun been Htruck in
the llu.ini placer mine, on Heaver
creek. Thin mine contains Home 3000
acres of ground, and is considered by
tho-e who profesH tn know, among the
most valuable in eastern Oregon. Mr.
Iluiui in contemplating the purchase
of an elevator, such iih the one lately
brought to Camp Carnoii, and is in cor
respondence with parties in Sail Krau-
cisco in regard to it, niul alt-o in regard
to the purchase of the mine. I.u Grande
Chronicle.
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Two prospectH lying between the
Crown Point and the California inineH,
Cable Cove district ; orenay, f 15. They
w ill Iks hoUI right. Apply to T. Costello,
Cableville, Ore.
Harrison, the Giant Powder mail,
wantH every miner to make bis ofllce
headiunrterH when in Snmpter.
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