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
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ADVANCE MINING CO.
SUMPTER, OREGON
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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
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