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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1903)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, August 12, 1905 ! SNOW CREEK MILL ORDERED Plant to Be Installed as Soon As Possible. Says Man ager Smith. sparking ceaceil. Apparently the infln ItoHiniiilly Hinnll particles thrown off In the raiiiationi actually render the air a conductor. Then, too, when brought near n charged electroscope It has the power of diccliiirging It. I'rofi-Hior Curie described the different radiatloiiH given off by the radium com pound and clupsilled them in accord lance witli their behavior under the in I fiucncu of a magnetic Held, their power j of penetration, etc., and went on to ex- I plain that in addition to thenc radiatlonn, An order Iiiih been placed in Chicago I emanation!) poHnenHinn the name proper for the UiiiHtamp mill to be initialled on tici an the substance itself were given the Snow Creek proKrty, mentioned in 1 0ff. t,oho emanations possess many of laHt week'H iHHiie. Tim machinery 1m to ' the propertied of (janes. They could, for be delivered at the earliest possible date juxample, lw sucked through a tube, and Manager Fred Smith states that ho They could also lw condensed by the ae expects to have the plant in operation -ion of intense cold and would diffuse beforucold weather. The contract for again when the temperature was raised, its construction Iium been awarded to j ,s an example of one of tbo effects pro Millwright McUin. There will Imi three I duced two vessels, one containing sulph Wilfley concentratorH.'togetber with all I ,ju f zMu and the other radium chlor- accesHorv iiiaclilnery. j ,t.f were connected by a tube in which Manager Smith moved Ids olllco yes- m, i.,.,, Uxed a stop-cock. As long as terday from the Hotel Sumpter to the , t!,jH hitter remained closed no effect was mine to keep in lielter touch with the produced on the zinc sulphide, but this work. Mrs. Smith will join him there , Hubstani'o at once became luminous as in a few days. Mrs. .1. M Dwyer, who has Ixteu connected with the firm as pri vate secretary for some time will also leave for the mine in a day or ho to take charge of the books. The Snow Creek has made a remark able showing during the short superin tendence of Mr. Smith. The property lias been judiciously and systematically leveloMtd and its advancement to the class of producers in such a short period HteukH well for the management. The engineering llrni of lirowne Sc Smith has been dissolved, Mr. Smith withdrawing in order to devote his time exclusively to the mine. The engineer ing business will be continued by Mr. ltrowmi. Rare RADIUM. Metal Described Professor Curie. By The KugiiKMir, of London, in a short account of the recent discourse by Pro fessor Curie on the now element, radium, discovered by him in collaboration with his wife, calls attention to the certainty with which the latest revelations of sci ence may be depended to be heard of In the proceedings of the Koyal Institution, and tliu account of the wonders of radium is certainly a worthy addition to its rec ord. I'rofesNor Curie tlrst explained that radium was capable of giving out heat rays Hulliclent in tuaulily to per mit of measurement of rise in teninra ture by means of a thermometer. More over, it was appireutly capable of doing this without suffering diminution itself in either hulk or weight. The emana tions affect photographic plates through opaipie substances much in the same way as do the Itocutgcu rays, thomih it is noticeable that the effects produced by the former are not hearly as eharpas are those produced by the latter. Had iiim, too, will rentier some bodies such as sulphide of zinc and platino-cyauide of barium into proximity with which it it brought, phosphorescent. Moreover, it ilid not lose this extraordinary prop erty when its temperature was lowered to that of liquid air, and it, as far as has soon as the stop-cock was opened. The emanations, like the substance from which they como, can also discharge electrified Iwidies. That radium actually did give off heat rays was demonstrated by a striking ex periment with what the professor term ed a liquid air calorimeter. A vacuum tlask was so arranged that the quantity of air boiling off in a given time from some liquid air contained in it could be accurately measured. Into this tlask were successively lowered a small piece of glass and a small vessel of like size, containing a small quantity of radium substance. It was shown that the quan tity of air coining off in the second cane was very much greater than it had been in the tlrst case the times in both In stances being the same. Iteforo concluding Professor Curie al luded to some of the other characteris tics of radium. He explained that it was obtained from pitchblende, in which mineral it was present in very minute quantities. We believe that Sir William Crookes has succeeded in extracting a gr.tmmu from a ton of pitchblende. The rays will discolor paper, gie glass an abiding violet tint, turn oxygen into oone, yellow phosphorus into tbo red variety and mercury chloride into calo mel. Some of these powers were exhib ited. Finally the lecturer gave Rome account of the experiments which he and his wife had carried out and which had lint up to the discovery of radium and other similar bodice. He also made mention of a few of the speculations as to the possible gradual transformation of the elements, suggested by the al ready known properties possessed by this wonderful substance. ELECTRIC METAL LOCATING COMPANY Hereby Gives Netice: That it ia the exclusive owner iu the United States of patents on what la known as the TKURKOHMKTKR for loeatlug inotala iu the earth by creat yet been discovered, is capable of cans- lug a ground circuit and measuring ing these phenomena tor liiueUuue pe riods, without any loss to itself or any diminution of activity. Another attribute possessed by this element, or its compounds (or it was with the chloride and bromide of radium that Professor Curie was experimenting is its ability to render air a conductor of electricity. When brought near either of the terminals of an induction coll, between which sparks were passing, the their depth Wo are informed tbo same ia being used by a person or porsous In or uear Sumpter, aud hereby Rive uotico that such persons have uo patout right to uso the same aud are iufrlugers. Ami that we shall hold all persons using the same or procuring the same to bo used ou their property strictly responsible at law for the same. KKXEST DALE OWEN, Prest. EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD KNOW That the West is the place to buv Western stocks, I don't care if it's Golconda, Red Boy, Cracker Jack, Cracker Oregon, or what is it it stands to reason that I, being right in the heart of the Northwest Mining Dis trict, should be able to supply you with any stock desired. This business is done through my brokerage department, which, by the way, handles more stock than any other firm in the West. I want to place the name of every reader of this paper on my mailing list. A postal card will do, requesting my market letter regularly. YOU HAVE READ Of the development of the Victor Group, in the Cracker Creek Distiict, in the recent issues of this paper. Same has been bought by a strong Eastern company, and the stock will shortly be put on the market by the CRACKER CREEK GOLD MINES COMPANY An elaborate prospectus in now in the hands of its printers. As soon as it is off the press you should re ceive a copy. Drop a postal to me today, and I'll mail you one in due course of time. I shall act as the Company's Fiscal Agent. ADRIAN G. HANAUER BANKER AND BROKER p. o. Drawer 1726 Spokane, Washington Lli T7T7 A Beautifully Illustrated rivlZJZi Pamphlet of 16 Pages Showing OREGON'S Great Dividend Paying Mines. Any person contemplating a mining investment should not be without tho information contained in this valuable uamphlot. WRITE TODAY (Mention No. OU and it will lie promptly mailed yon.) WHEELER & CO. 32 BROADWAY, H. Y. THE GEM SALOON A.J STINSOIM, Prop. 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