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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1903)
il 10 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, August 12, 1903 OLD ARASTR A. President Saylor States That Property Is Making Good Showing. Professor .1. F. Saylor, of Spokane, president of the Old Arastra Mining company, operating In tliu (intuitu creek diHt riet, spent come timu at the property recently, looking after development work. C M. I-Wutt, a well known mining engineer, recently examined the property, and bin report was not only extremely, favorable but he decided to .! 1 I.. .1 ! Hint; mi iiiicirni ill illi: llliuc. The crosscut now being driven in in 15(1 feel, having cut seven ledges, in 1 1 1 i h distance, all carrying good valueH, Six sacks, of ore taken at random from L'OO, nave exi Ilngly catinfactorv awr-1 iiKt'Ct Professor Saylor Mutes,. It is a I smelting ore that will yield good ri" turiiH. The average of all the assays, ' taken from the ledges, in from f.'l'i. There are several blind ledges on the I property anil il in thought that in all I ten will he encnuulered, counting the H-vcii already cut. The format ion In granite, whicli, contrary to precedent, it Ih Hinted Ih heavily iniiierali.ed. The veiiiH are widening and growiugdecided- ly richer with depth I, . ,, , . , rofi'Hior Saylor wan. formerly super- . . - , . . , . i i .1 ' iinviiwi-iii. in iiiii iininiiiir pi'iiiiiiin. iiiil nil i , i .. I ., ... U llfltL ll.t.ltllli Illu ..llltr.a Him lit lilu ' . , . ... ii i f. .i i , mining interests, llo eft ih week ..,.,, . i .. in inn rnnv mi iiiiniurnn ciiiuiecitMi Willi IiIh company. PRODUCTION OF PLATINUM. U. S. Geological Report For 190?, Now la Preu. The rcH.rt for HK)l! to the United KtiiteH Liiiiliiifli'iil Hiirviie mi tin timilni. ti d 1.1.1111111111 iii 11KI-' Ih i.i.w In nr..HH. ! Tint ri'iHirtiH in two purtH, the llrnt In- j lug the reMirt proper, by Dr. .loneph StrutlierH, und the necoud being a impel" by I'rof. J. F. Kemp on platinum in the I Itaiuliler mine, Wyoming. The production of platinum from do- mcHtic ort'H in the 1'uited Staten de creased from l,40S ouiicch, valued at fL'7,il'(l, in 1IHM the largeHi output re corded by the geological mirvcy hIiicu 1HH0 to til ouuceH, valued at f 1,814, the Hiiuilli'Hl production hIiico IHiCI. In con nection with the plrttiiiuin there wan alno nbtaiiitsl from the oren 'M Hue ouiictm of Iridium, iih auainnt LTill ounceii in I1K1I. The domi'Htic nupply of plat inum in recent yearn ban been obtained an a Heeoiidary product chlelly from gold placer deponitH In Trinity and Shasta couutii'H, California. It in reported that the metal occurs, though not in com-, niercially rich deHisitH, in many other i "olved away leaving a beautiful Htruc gold placers of California, iih well an in turn of leafy and apparently crystalline Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Alaska. The Humbler mint', Wyoming, continues to attract at tention, and during the year ti consider able iiiautity of the metal was collected but not marketed by the Waratah Min erals company, at Kerby, near Grant'H runs, Josephine county, Oregon The Itusslan sources of platinum sup- ply, which furnish about IH) per cent ol i the total consumption of the world, are comparatively limited. The platinum bearing ores extend along the eastern watershed of the Ural mountains in eastern I'erm and along the watershed ' farther south. The iuiKrtM of platinum into the United Statea during UK):' were valutd at 11,187,1)80, nh compared with $l,oU.V 81)5 In 11HU. I'rof. Kemp's paper contains a brief description of the situation, toiograpliy ' "'"' fwlnisy of the Rambler mine, which I ' !h in Albany county, Wyoming, about 4H , miles nouthuest of Laramie, near the headwater (if Douglas creek, in the M.Miicins jtow nioimtiiitiH ; n dft-criptiou I ol the Kamnler dike, antl an account of ( the oru body itK'lf. Great interest was 1 excited late in 11)01 anil early in 11)02 by ' tliu finding of the, platinum group of i tnutalH in tlit' copper ore of tliu initio and ( by the Reparation from the oru of sper- I r.vliu'. Ilrsernle of platinum. I he ' lc,l ! "t yet been extracted on tliu commercial scale. The paper Ih il- liiHtratctl by a mapof the Humbler mine, ( MiniiiK World, " , POE A PROPHET. . Diicovtry of Helium Proves That He I - I Wat More Than Poet. The discovery of the metal helium i proven beyond ijucHtirm tlmt F.dgar Allan I I'oe wan more than a poet u genuine . prophet. The application of sulphuric! lucid to the mineral cleveitu ciuihch hel-1 ; ium to form, and helium Ih lighter than hydrogen. i I'oe, in IiIh story of "Hans i'faal," de scribes jiint such a metal iih helium. ITllllI II lll I... r..........l...r.,.l iu ...i.s.... llml. . .. ..... . I -.' " the pannage where the prophecy of hel- iumV discovery appears. "I then took opportuuitii'H of convoy- ing by night to a retired situation east of Uotterdum live iron-bound casks, to . JK.Ilflll.l I. I I. .lit ft f t l.l.lljll... lulitli til ...... Miriiiiiin iii'hiii fill, tlliwiin I'm II, llllll iiiiu .., , , . . , ., , , " uie "irgcr si.e , six nines, wircc iiiciich , ,. . , . . in diameter, properlv shaped, and ten .11 II li'iit in length; a iiuantity of a part culir . ,.. ., . ' . . ', . ', metallic substance which I shit not name, and u dozen demiiohiiH of u verv I !.l M'l ... I... I I i minium iii:iii i iiu Klin in uu luriucu from these latter materials iHiigiiH never yet generated by any other iiernon than niyelf. I can only venture to nay that thin h a t'oiiHtitueut of azote, ho long coiiHidered irreducible, and that itn deunity Ih icliotit .'17.4 tiinen less than that of hydrogen. It in tasteless, but not o'lorli'HH ; buniH when pure with a green Ml tlmw' H'"1 '8 "Htniitaiieiuly fatal u"i""11 "."-Nw York Coinmer- GOLD IN LIMESTONE. Mr. Hubbell Cilet Other Inilancei Than the One Here, Frederick N. HubU'll, secretary of the Miut'M K(uipnient company, San Fran cisco, in a recent letter to The Miner, nayw : "Noting the article in ii recent issue of your hht of the occurrence of gold in limestone, it recalls a sK'cimen of cr.Vhtallireil limestone (calc spar) some yearn ago, iH'longing to Mr. Coryell, of thin city. "There wan no doubt of the character of the gangue, it being pure rarbonate "i lime, an the gangue wan entirely din Kd, the acid lined being dilute hydro- chloric "This occurrence has also liven noted in the ort'H from the Gleenon mine (King of Arizona) if my memory is not at fault. "The verilled report of the occurrence of gold in a pure granite outcrop and in payable iuautitiin, verifying what I l"'e personally seen in t-eyenite, in Mexico, makes us sometinus wonder with the senator, 'Where we are at.' " For Sale. A hotel with forty-one rooms fur niahed, situatid In a live town, will be Hold for '-',700, halt down. For informa tion call at Hoom 2, Colorado House, Sunipter, Ore. Only the oest brand ol liquors ami cigars at Dunphv'a "The Club." If in want of clothing, see Neill Mer cantile company. T. C. Harrison, agent for Giant pow der company. ...J. W. COWDEN... 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