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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1902)
Wednesday, November 2b, 1902 ADVANCE ADVANCE THE SUMPTER MINER If you want to make an investment in a mining enterprise, Investigate Ours. There is no system more fair and equal for all concerned than we have adopted. ADVANCE YOU need not fear that the large interest will swallow up the small interest. All stand on the same footing and share alike in the product of the mine. Our company is conducted on the most eco nomical principles to insure good returns. No man shall receive a salary unless he performs service beneficial to the company. Better pay two miners three dollars each for a day's labor than to pay six dollars for the services of a needless manager or superintendent. We can place you where the investment of a small amount of money will bring you large returns. We ask an opportunity of explaining to you our system of conducting a mining enterprise. We want to prove to you why and how we are bound to be successful. We want to tell you how to secure good mining stock at a low figure. We would not ask you to place your money where we would not place our own. Taking all things into consideration, we can offer you the best opportunity for investment that you can find anywhere. It does not require a fortune to become interested with us, where the indications point to speedy and most profitable returns. We are in this business to make it a success, and will do it by systematic development and good management. We invite the strictest investigation of our properties and our company. Write to us for full particulars how you may become in terested in a good mine for small investment, and we will convince you that every word we advertise is true. We can furnish you the best of references. Address ADVANCE ADVANCE MINING CO. SUMPTER, OREGON ADVANCE NEW TREATNENT FOR ZINC ORE Converted into Fumes and Collected in Long Bags. Much interest has been u n Mined in tho development n( tlui r.ine smelting husinoHH nndthc promises whichnre held out (or tho treatment of Slocan zinc-load ores, it favorable duties into the United States en 1 1 I m secured. It wiih only h Hlmrt time ago tlmt zinc wum penalized by tint HinelterM, and the constant elToil of the miiicownors in the Slocau was to net iih hiuiiII 11 percentage i as H(Hihle in their out imt. With mod ern methods of smelling it in possible to roonvor practically nil of the .inc and the lend from the sumo ore. Some inter esting particulars alsiut the method are giou by 0. K. HrulT, manager of a uiiu-i in; machinery Iioiiho hero, who in back . from it vinit to the plant at CunynuCity, Colorado, United which (h controlled Ity the name in toientM an the American Smelting A ItHliiiug coniiany. The plants there are nirtiiagcd by II. 0. .tackling, lute manager of (ho Republic mill, who him miiiiii htiHiueHH interests liere. Ho has Usui making a great success of 'the in stitution. "Mr. Jnckliug has adopted a system of smelting the xluc-lcud ores that in a ladical departure from the general practice" said Mr. llrulT yesterday. "Instead of trying to make a matte which carric the metal, Mr. Inckliug fuon both the zinc and the lead. Tliol mcl.iU ate curried off in the lumen, j which are afterwards collected in hugs. ' "Tint furnace is not u smelting stuck of the ordinary type. It more resembles . an ordiiiary heating furnace, except tlmt il'iw lltteil with blowers, which have1 Hwer t4 turn on a torrille. blast. The J orti an it comet from the mine in crushed I 1 i, The plant la owned by the I Staten Itcducllnii company, ; until it pusses through an eighth of an inch Hcreen. Then it in mixed with the wiiHte from coal mines and in shoved in to the furnace, tint blast 1h turned on and tho business Marts. The heat gen united is something territlc. Thu furnace not mho hot that one can hardly approach it. The temperature in helped along by the fuel that there in generally Hiilpher in the lend ore, which ignites and nerves iih fuel. In thu heat thus generat ed tlm zinc and the lend are carried off in fumes. Thu coal Hinoke in collected in Ihosottling room and tho gas from the furnace in forced by immense faun into the bagroom. Thu room in filled with long cotten llaiiuel bugs, iilmut II) incheM in diameter mid crhiipH LI) feet long each. The nan la forccl by thu pressure from the fans into the bags and the air pusses on through the liber of thu cloth, but the metallic zinc and lead are col lected in the bugs. They nro ilrumi off from thu bags into hoppers and calcined boforu being put on the market. "Thu finished article in known iih zinc- lead white and !m used by paint makerH to servo exactly thu same purHse uw white lend, lufnct, it can not bo told from white lend, and an it can bo pro duced at perhapH 50 kt cent of thu coat of white lend, it In making groat inroads into thu paint market. It in Hhipdcd all over the country. When it timklly comes out of thu calcining furnace it la a lino, impalpable owdor than in color and llnoiioss resemble talcum (niwder, hiicIi iih in put up for toilet purposes. "The procoHH hooiiih completly success fill, and Mr. Jnckliiig Ih making a pho nouiimil HticcoHH .of thu plant. There are untold iiiautiticH of zinc-lead ores which formerly weroalinoHt uhvIchh Im cniiHuuf thu penalty laid upon zinc by thu smelters. Thin new treatment in prov ing thu Hiilvntiou of mines carrying such oioh. SH)keHmnu Review. MINING IN SOUTH AMERICA. No headache from Giant owder. Greatest Activliy at Present in Chila and I Peru. Thu special commissioner of thu Inn don Kcuuoinist, wIiohu roportH on thu mining diHtrictcountrioH hnvu shown a great deal of discrimination and careful observation, in a recent inane of hi paper taken . pessimistic view of mining in South America. Whilu Home of IiIh rutnarkH uru undoubtedly just, it seems to iih that in other respects ho Iuih gone loo far. With regard to metal mining in South America, he ehiirncterlzoH thu metal doMHitH iih hiuiiII and scattered, a remark which might apply in Home in HtauccH, but it in far from being true, in others. Ho Iuih undoubtedly taken little account of thu important deposits of gold and silver and other oren in the mountain regions of Peru and Holiva, while ho ban made very little account of the Htill comparatively unknown rcHourcuH of Brazil and also of the pos sibilities of further discoveries in the (iuiana. It in true, ail the writer remarks, that mining in Colombia and Venezuela has boon seriously disturbed by the political troublcH in thone countries, while the exploitation of the gold placers of Kcmulor ban been far from succesful. In Venezuela no largu mine has boon oHned since the exhaiiHtion of Kl Callo. It in not by any meaiiH iuioHHihlo, how ever, that other milieu may hereafter lu oKued In the Htimu district, which Iuih not Ik-oii explored or prospected with any approaches to complement. In Hru.il it is true that the Ouro I'reto mid St. .lolin del Key are the only metal mines of iuiortnuce, but it must lx re membered that u large portion of the country is hardly known us yet, and that great opixirtunities lor metal mining in ' thu future are presented by the deposits J of iron and manganese, ores, which have been ho far explored iih to assure thoir great extent, although their actual workings have been very small. In the Argentine Republic it may bo said that mining has hardly begun. Thu mineral deposits ho far iih known are in thu extreme western portion of thu country, bordering on tho Andes, and it will take sonio timo before even thoir approximate value is ascertained. The greatest activity in mining at the present time in found on thu westorn slope of the Andes, in Peru, and Chili. A number of gold mines are being open ed chiefly by foreign capital and some of these promise very well. Tho most important work now in progress is tho exploitation of the Cerro di Pasco mines, which have for many years lxon operat ed ns silver mines, but have doveloed with depth into a great coper deposit. They are now controlled by capitalists from the United States, and are to be worked on a largo scale. There is some promises that on the eastern slope of the Andes the gold and tin mines of Bolivia may bomoro active ly exploited than they have been re cently. Certainly, the-e are great op portunities for the future to be found there. South America as vet is a region rather of possibilities for the future than of present achievement. There are signs, however, that a change in these conditions limy Ih looked for before long. Kxchange. Timber and Homestead Filing. Timber ami homestead tilings, as well as liual proofs, can bo made before Charles II. Chance, United States com missioner, olllco in KirHt Hank of Simp ler building, Sunipter, thus saving ap plicants expense of a trip to La Grande. T. (I. Harrison, agent for Giant powl der company . f ( ?v &-