weaC:flE: . Wednesday, August 19, iqoj THE SUMPTER MINER Sumpter District Sumpter District l .jtfeiiiiwr .. .Tirjg-rtrv-r-wr-- CAPITAL STOCK $150,000. Full Paid and Non Assessable. PAR VALUE 10 CTS. 1,500,000 Shares. 1,000, 000 Shares Pooled and will not come on Market in Competition with Treasury Stock. 1 The Pulaski J X Gold Mining and Milling 500,000 SHARES TREASURY STOCK. PROCEEDS SOLELY FOR DEVELOP MENT WORK. wW0txwtowwwwMW Nine Claims, Lead Traced Over 3,000 Feet Across the Claims. One and f a Half Miles From Smelter. One Mile From Railway. Water Power on the Property. Plenty of Timber. 70 Per Cent Free Gold. Magnificent Mill Site. Property Opened up by Open Cuts, Shafts and Tunnels. "lrE have all the Requisites of a Magnificent Property. The Investor has the Money. We have the Investment. You want a Straight, Legitimate Business Proposition. We have it. We require funds to continue development. You have the funds. We need them. You can Purchase our First issue of Treasury Stock at FOUR CENTS PER SHARE Can we not exchange? Remember our expenses are voiy low and that your dollar grows as we continue Development. Our latent assays of average Hock, made by Robbins & Robbins and McKwen & Me K wen of Sumpter, gave from 2.:tt) to $'-11.80. Picked samples gavelllH.U), $108.00 and $100.00, and we are still MO feet (estimated) from the ledge. J Write for our "Kpltomu of Fuels." Stock may bu purchased on the Installment Plan, 30 per cent down, balance in two monthly payments. Remit by Hank Draft, l'oitollice Order or Registered I.etter. HMMHMMX Bankers The First National Bank of Sumpter. Address all communications to J. H. MacCallum, Secy. SUMPTER, OREGON. APPLICATIONS OF RADIUM. In the Cure of Disease and As a Germicide. Of what practical use in itVisthequep tion that has repeatedly been asked ilnco the wonders of radium became known to the public, whose interest in scientific discoveries usually wanes un lets there is a satisfactory answer to this question. Realizing this, a corresiKm dent ot the London Times attempts to point out some of the possible future op plications of radium, lie remarkB at the same time that a substance for which a hundred tons of ore must be worked up chemically to yield a single ounce can never be anything but expen sive, and (or this reason of rare and ex ceptional use in practical applications. Some of the most hoeful and import ant of the uses to which radium can be applied are in the field of medicine. With all who use the x rays, whether physicists or doctors, the crying com plaint is the impossibility of regulating the character of the rays obtained, so as to be able to repeat with certainty any desired result. It is for this reason that the use of x rays in the treatment of disease is attended capriciously some times with beneficial and at other times with decidedly harmful results. Rad ium, however, gives a beautifully con eUnt and uniform supply of rays, and moreover possesses very many obvious advantages. Instead of the cumbrous focus tube nearly as large as a football, and the manifold and expensive items of au x ray outfit, a glass tube, some what smaller than a toothpick, contain ing from one-tenth to onofifth of a grain of radium, has already been successfully employed in the treatment of cancer. Since the little tubes can be inserted into cavities no bigger than the nostril, it is obvious that a great many cases which could not possibly bo successfully treated with x rays can easily bu treated by radium. It is well known that the radium rays have powerful germicidal actions, and small animals like mice and caterpillars only li.vo a few Iiouib under their infill ence. When radium, which may bo put in a lead Ihx an inch thick, is brought near the forehead of a person in a dark room, he experiences a flash of light on the retina of tho eye, even when the eyelids are tightly closed. The blind ap parently experience this sensation, also, mid hence the explanation of the rumors that radium can make the blind see. Hut the serious attention of medical men is rapidly being concentrated on tho possibilities of radium, and tho success ful treatment of many other diseases than cancer may be confidently expect ed in the near future. The great problem of the application of radium for illuminating purposes lie longs to the second class that is, the application would be perfectly practical if the supply of radium were somewhat more abundant than it is at present. A small fraction ot an ounce of radium, properly employed, would probably pro vide a good light sutllcient for several rooms, which, at any rate during the present century, would never need re newal. The key to this surprising re sult, which may not bo Iwlioved by those who have had no opxrtunity of exerimeul!ng for themselves, is to be found in the fact that certain phosphor escent substances are very ellicient ma chines Indeed for converting the energy of radium into visible light, whereas all known illuminaiits, even the incandes cent gas-light, transform only a compar atively small projNirtion of the enurgy they consume into the desired form, tho greater part huiug wasted as heat. Rutherford has calculated from his own oxerlmenta and those of Curie that the enurgy stored up in one gram of radium is sufllclunt to raisu 500 tons a mile high. An ounce would therefore huIIIcu to drive a llfty-horse power car at the ralo of thirty miles an hour round the world. This possibility of our being able in the future to control the storu of energy in radium and to lilwrate it for use as required at any desired rate, is of course the most interesting feature of radio-activity at the present time, lint it must be confessed that science holds out scant prospects of its fulfilment. No , suspicion of its ultimate accomplishment has as yet loomed above the horizon ot practical Kssibilities. If it ever became possible for radium, it would almost certainly be possible for uranium and thorium, elements which can bu pro duced by the ton and which probably contain no less u store of energy than radium, but are evolving it at a vastly slower rate. Public Opinion. UESSEN A CLARKE JUbJ MININC & CIVIL tNC.INI.tHS KCIALTICa- l:perl l:xamlntloni. Hrpnrtton Mining I'rnptrtltt. Dnliinlng nj Intlalllng MIIU nj I'owrr lim. U. S. Mlntnl anJ UnJuurounJ Survtyt. Minagrmtnl of Mining I'roprrllfi. Sumitiiw, Ohuoon. --1 KENTUCKY LIQUOR HQUS JOHN MCEN, Propr. Jobbers In Wines, Liquors and Cigars j Sumpter Bottling Works All Kinds of Carbonated Drinks I Rooks are now oimiii for subscriptions to the Pacific Lumlwr and Live Stock Company, an industrial of unusual merit. Iook into it. A group of mines with ttOO feet of de velopment work done, demonstrating value will be sold as a whole or will sell one-half Interest and work the propurty in connection with purchaser. Rest chance in the district. F. O. BUCKNUM SUMPTER, - OREGON