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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1903)
12 THE SUMPTER MINE Wednesday, .-pril 29. 190$ AUBURN PLACERS START WORK. Will Install New Machinery This Summer and Make a Big Showing. Tho Auburu palcors, situated six teen miles from tho city on the Baker City road, owned aud operated by the Auburn Doep Mining company, were Htarted up last wook. A largo force of men wait put to work putting iu foundations preparatory to installing pumps, shaft house and hoist. The company now has a shaft down ninety-five feet and Ib sinking for tho permanent bod rock where tho high grades of pay gravel are sure to bo encountered. It may be that tho shaft will have to go down a distance of somo 200 or .'i00 feet before tho IkmI rock in reached. There is no way of tolling its dopth, line evidently mo non vaiuos no here. When tho bed rock is reached the ground will bo thoroughly ex plored aud the property operated with n view to securing big roturns. The Auburn placers aro among tho oldest placer propositions in tho district, having boon workod lu tho early (lO's, when Auburn was tho county seat of linker county. Even at this time when primitive methods prevailed, these placors yielded big returns, ami thou uuly a small amount of the surface was worked. With tho exploration of bed rook when It is reached by tho shaft, aud the improved machinery which tho company will install big cleanups may m expected. The company is abundantly financ ed aud has all the fuuds at hand necessary to carry forward the im provements contemplated. It is a stroug concern aud will make a big showing this summer. GOLD WHILE YOU WAIT The Yellow Metal Extracted From the Ore in a Jiffy. A I euver special to thellutte Inter Mountain says: ' "(Sold takeu from ore while you wait.' This is tho slgu of the latest 'Forward' city Industry aud the proposition Is made lu good faith. "The Columbia Chemical Amalga mating company has organized in Denver aud has erected aud Is now oeratliig a test mill with u view to the establishment of mills all over Colorado which will produce bullion ready for mint or Iwtnk within 12 hours from the arrival of the ore at the mill from any refractory ore at a mux I mum cost of I'J.fiO per ton, with a guarantee of obtaining from SI.' to H8 per ceut of precious metal contained in the ore and milking a specialty of low-grade ores. "This compauy by its process does away with the dry stamp, abolishes nmstiug in the furnace or otherwise, ami makes unnecessary vaiiuers, skilled labor and motive power to cnucoutrutc. "The ore goes direct from the crusher to the II nl shed bins aud theu to the pan and the owner of the ore can get his gold without leaving the buildulg. "It is estimated by those interested that the cost of erecting a 100-ton mill of this type is about one-fifth of what the ordinary mill costs and that the cost of treating the ore is Bbout one-third that amount now paid the custom .mills for tho same services. "Both factory and offices of this new enterprise are at No. 420 South Eighth street. "inero mo company lias erected a test mill of 20-tons capacity, not so much to do business as to show what can be done by tho process with a view to the organization of com panies to control restricted mining districts. "This test mill has just been com pelted and several tons or ore aro being employed in demonstrations. "The oro la first put through a crusher at 10 mesh which reduces it to a sufficient fineness .to be placed In the amalgamating pans. "Bucket elevators carry It to the finished product bins, from which it Is drawn and measured and conveyed to tho paus by moans of an overhead traveler. "There it Is moistened, dry steam is turned, on, chemicals are added aud the mullor Is started on a four hour's grind, at the end of which time tho quicksilver Is placed In the pan and the grind is continued for two hours longer. "When the contents are discharged in ii settlor tho quicksilver is re covered and retorted and the gold and silver so obtained is roflnod aud roady for the mint. "Only 12 hours is required for tho eutlre oporatiou and a man may bring to the mill a carload of ore and wait for his grist in gold as tho farmor boy waits for his turn of corn at the country mill. "Iu a pan of oue tou capacity from 100 to 150 pouuds of quicksilver is employed. ' 'Naturally the quicksilver is at once broken by tho mullor into flue glob ules, which iu tholr active circula tion through tho pulp soon catch the free gold, silver and platinum." Timber and Honusttad Filing. Timber and homestead filings, as well as final proofs, can be maue ueiore Charles H. Chance, United States Com missioner, office in First National Bank of Sumpter building, Sumpter, thus sav ing applicants expense of a trip to La Grande. Mining deeds for tale at this office. LADIES' BAZAAR Mill St. i second door south ol StodJarJ't Store lift' art CMUm's NMK HUE ArMS DRESS MAKING WANTED At tellow stockholders and associates, a few In vnloii ot good standing, the directors preferring to give such parties an Inside deal rather than to trend the money In skyrocket advertls ng. Had It not been tor the deaths ot Mettrs. Hradley, Weill andMetcall, thelormer ownert.THIS PROPERTY MIGHT TODAY HAVE HAD A RECORD OF 10 000,000 PRODUCED. IN8TEAD Of I 000,000. the P esent workings have been cariled to a vertical depth ol less than too leet, THE PRESENT DEVELOPMENTS INDICATE THAT WITH PROPER HANDLING THE PRO DUCTION MAY EASILY REACH tHO.OOO. 000' You can udge For yourselves as to the ad vantages ol an Investment In a property ol this kind, which It utl on the threshold ot lis greatest pro perltv, and In which no one has secured a dollar s worth ol Mock except at It has been PAID FOR (not In sen Ices, but l)yi- ASH). This It In the nature ot a close corporation, made up ot a lew mining and business men, who do not court pui I cltv. To an Interested partv we shall begad to send a statement ot the lact with proofs. The fullest In stigation Is JeslreJ, and every facility w II be af forded in order that you may prove the statements made The Smjer Gold Mining Go. t K, Postal Telegraph Hug. New Yoik. A Chance For Promoters FOUR claims within a short distance of the Red Boy district can be bonded at reason, able terms, to be paid after the end of one year. Work to be commenced immediately. A shaft has been sunk and 300 feet of tunnel driven. A gcod cabin and fine timber land goes with the claims. Assays make fine show ing. Parties desiring to examine the property will be taken out to the claim. For Further Information Call on The Sumpter Miner THE SMELTER The Oregon Smelting and Refining Company is now ready to purchase Base Bullion, Amalgam, Zinc Slimes, and Placer Gold. If more conven ient these may be delivered at the First National Bank of Sumpter, which will receipt for the same. j jt j jt j Your business is solicited. i VFCvccvcvcvcccvrvrcvctr MOUNTING BOARD MOUNTING CARDS OFFICE SUPPLIFS e fiTATIONPRY OF Al I KllXirVS o . .....w 0 jjAT c -mercer vkvq lo. C GRANITE STREET SUMPTER, OREGON SSSSSJlSlXSSJlXS33SSJSJl IF YOU WISH TO S5fvST"iN"iiSSG ! Either to buy Gilt Edge Stocks, a Prospect that is "the Making of a Mine," or one that is already made, write me what you want and permit me to submit a proposition. ADDRESS SUMPTER, MINES AND MINING STOCKS OREGON