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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1903)
10 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday February 4, 190$ PROBLEM OF ORE SHIPPING FACILITIES TO SMELTER SHOULD BE BETTER. Thousands ol Tons ol Base Ores Will fcx Required at Smelling Works Dilfer- Haulage Would Leave Haodsome Profit lo Producer. name ore would be prohibitive should till! Itrodnccr lie t'om nt-lli'd lo detiend on ... . . . . - I ' -----, -,--. 1 KAN5FUK 1 A 1 1U1N wm transportation. Tliuru 1h a reasonable certainty that a 'I ! railway line will lie built from Similiter, 1 t.itit !(. r'ntbnc ft.u .....li.i inifl ii" HIV uiiiunui v iuji rji.tii'iif i.iit. possibly on to tliu ('al)lo Cove, tliin year. It in Haiti that at llrnt the motive power will lie Htciini, lint later on elec tricity will lie substituted. Whether thin line for which a charter linn Itccii untitled, it llnauccd or not, the public: in not made aware. I Then !m iki iiiii'Ntioii of ilmilit lint that ence in uosi 01 runway ana wimn l.,.,1, ii,. ,ii,i i. ,. 1,1,, ..vim, ,. I iih the freight ami passenger trallic over the county roail is euormouH, and would i lie wonderfully augmented were the I faeilitieH of travel and truiiHportatioii hettered. WHEELER&. BANKERS 32 Broadway, Now York FISCAL AGENTS FOR BLUE BIRD MINING CO. AND VALLEY QUEEN MINING CO. One of the problems that will soon Im eiinfrontiui! the people of the Similiter district in that of traiiHHirtatiou. It will not ho many weeks until the Oregon SnieltiiiK and Itclluiiiu company will he ready to receive and sample ores. Naturally thin concern will have their sampling mill In operation lor home time before the siucltiuu furnace in blown in, ami tin1 reduction to matte begins. Thin will he ncccshiiry for sov (nil reasons. A lare iuautily of ore ami lliixinu material will Iiiimi to he on hand ho the furnace can make a success- fill Mill. Then iiKiiin, from a iiielalluri.'ical Htaudpoinl, the chemical compohitiou of these ores, IIuxch, and even fuel, must be known ho iih to make up the proper "charge" for suiclliuu. Thus traiiHHirtatioii will he one of the lirnt coiiHideratioiiH to lie looked after when t Ii!h extensive plant Ih completed. The trailHportation ilieHtioil presents enliiely different phases in different minim: campH. Where llrsl cIiihh nieaiiH are required in one miiiluu Hcctinu, in another progress can lie made by lining very primitive methods. To illustrate base metal mines fiirn- IhIi tonnage IhiIIi ways for a railway, iih TWO STATES NOT GIVEN CREDIT , A Thorough Canvass of Each Mining District is Suggested. After KiviiiK the production of precioiiH metals for the I'aeillu count. The In vi'Htorn .lournal Iiiih iIiih to nay rcunrdinu the noble metal output in Oregon. While in Home districts the estimate of the director of the mint in nearly cor rect, iih behiiH had every possible facility for arriving at the output, Ii!h (Inures for Washington and Oregon are far from being correct. A ureal deal of bullion is shipped from both of theHe states which is never cicdited to them ami one mine in Oiegnn Iiiih produced more gold in the pant year than Iiiih Itcen credited to the entire Htate. There in only one absolutely Hiire way of arriving at the correct output of a diHlrict and that Ih, to get retuniH from each producing mine. Thin the director of the mint cannot do and the tank would Immi very dillicult one an many mine ownern am averse to giving out any Mate uicnt altout the output of their mines. However, u thorough ciiiiviihh supplies have lobe bioi-glit In, ami tholof each district would result in obtain product of the iiiIiich liuillcil to Home dlHtiint Hiinl for reduction. Free gold iiiiucH, aH a rule, fumlHli a limited (inutility of incoming freight, and no matter if the output be inillioiiH of dol Iiiih inontbly, it could he traiiHMirted to the oiithide world by pack train. IIiuii'k ruiluiiVM do not iiiihIi their linen or spurs from the main trunk into j and the apparatiiM appcara to have been ing pretty accurate estimates. Was It Hot Air or Cold Air? A curioiiH placer w uniting iniichiue Iiiih been uncovered in one of the Prudential compauy'H working near NogaleH, Arizona. The mine wan worked neveral hundreds yearn ago by the Spaniards, free gold regioun with the alacrity that they do into mining nectionn which pro duce the Inner metaln, nucb an coper, lead, etc., and which usually carry mote or Ichn nilver valuen. Ity the completion of the Oregon Smelting and Helloing compauy'H plant at Sumpter, a new era in the important iUChtiou of trnuHHirtatinu in opening up. Mase oren and concent ratcH munt be handled at lenn cost to make many lined for the purHineof Heparating the gold in the ore Ity men iih of an air blunt from a crude nort of a Itellown, after the ore had U'cn thoroughly crunhed. In Addition to Bank Account. An ingenloiin (ierman chemist ban figured out that the average human b ing In worth flH.HOO from a chemical nlaiidMtiut. He lumen bin calculation on flic fact that the human body eon- proMrlien piotltable. The difference j taiun tlnee toundn and thirteen ouueen between traiiHMirting by rail and by i of calcium, and calcium in quoted at f.'iOO wagon in niillicieut in itself to create lau ounce. Since thin in the cano nonie of huge dividend for milling compauien or the men who walk our streets are worth individual mine ownern. Ijunt about 18,1100 more than anybody The writer ban hcvu in many milling : ever though they were, campn where the change from teamn to i freight car ban Iteeu made, and noted a The celebrated tiiiud'n "the lieer of wonderful change in the buniuenn of the ' good cheer" alwayn on draught at Dun- .. i .1... i i. ..i i couniry w (ten Hit' imoiuoinr piiiti-t-iui the animals in tram-fcriug orcn from one point to another. For inntauce; in the hint camp, the transmutation of nilxer-lead ore by I wngon or nleigh, averaged l.rt ht ton. When a railway wan completed, the. charge for the name distance wan f: kt ton, ami the railway made money. There can lie no doubt but that thoiinaudn of toun of niueltiug oren, i carrying gold and copper, can Ik mined, niiiied and reduced at the niueltiug, workn in Sumpter, and on which a hiiudnome margin of prollt would be made with railway couiiivtioii, but the, uiiuing, shipment and treatment of thin phy'n The I'lub MMNG"jS FORTY-THIRD YEAK. JE3 48Pc i Weekly t DhHtrated. INDISPENSABLE TO MINING MEN. $3 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. iisii ruH (ampl rorr. MINING-Sdentinc PRESS 330 MARKKT IT., IAN FRAMCU0O, OAL. , Write for Prospect".. Mention No. (10 iiml we will send you it copy of "OKKGON'8 UESOUHCKS," an illii-trntcd painplilet on Ore gon's tumuiis gold mines, mill it three months trial subscription to the NORTH AMERICAN MINER .' WWyfVt'V'W1 A. P. GOSS, President GEO. H. TRACY, Cashier & Bank of Sumpter 3 Trinstett a Ctntnl Idiklni luilniii Interest Allowed on Time Deposits Drafts Jiawu on al parts of the Autld Special attention to collections. Safety Deposit boxes for rent. SUMPTER, OREGON k''''m'---' GRIZZLY STOCK... 28,000 Sliiuw at lens tlnin ground Hour price. You can have it for 2A cents in one lump, or .'I cents in broken lots. EST BUY IN EASTERN OREGON Write for particulars to BERNARD FLYNN sumpter, ore. Books and Stationery I have added to my Htock of Cigars and Tobaccoes a lare ntiniber of KtpiiUr novels, the leadiiiK iteriodicals and a complete line of stationery ...The Elite Cigar Store... L. HARRIS, Proprietor Mining Blanks QY7r and Placer Loca tions, Tunnel Claim and Water Right Locations, Proof of Labor, Affidavit of Discovery Work Mining Deed, Option to Purchase, Quit Claim Deed, Lease j j j j FOR SALE BY THE SUMPTER MINER t I a T,-