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Wednesday, August 19, iqoj
THE SUMPTER MINER
Sumpter District
Sumpter District
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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.
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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
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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.
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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