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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1903)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, September 2, 190$ 10 WILL CLEAVER GROUP. Ledge OperiCUt for Thirty Feet And Shows Good Ore. A. II. Korreu and A. R WIIhoii, who wllb Captain Korrco uni tho ownorH or Inn proinlHliiK property known iih the Kurokii group, ciiiiid in from Hid ramp on Wednimdny even I UK. 'I'lmy brought with them hiiiiiii Mini looking HpeelineiiH of cropping ' f linn tlielr D.xcullnnl proHpcclri. Mr. I'Vrrcn iiIho brought down hoiiid lieailliflll xpecilllDllH of ClopplligH i roiii tlin lid joining properly, the well known Will Cleaver claim, of the group of Hid hiiini) inline. 'I'ho npeel iiioiih urn nil exhibition lit the .Miner iilllcii. Tho cropping) urn of pure red, white and IiIiiIhIi looking ipiarl, highly iniueralieil t Iii-cmiIi-oilt and , eiippiir-Hlalneil in xoveral plaei'M with piiiii'iick and native cop per hlalliH. ThocrnppingH were taken I nun an open cut mi the ledge, which Iiiim Iiiii.ii iitiiiiiinl fill' thlrti' flint. U'llli 1 ' IIH I.I..I. .. mIv! r.... f (,.,1iiiiiiineiui imi ikiiikiiik "mi full width of Hid ledgo Ih not iih yet known, but it c but it can be traced on the Mirfaee ten feet farther. Mchhi-h. I'eoui) mid ChambeiH, of Canyon (Jity, uro doing the work on the prop erty for Major .1. W. Iloiita. They will now tunnel tho remainder of the croHHCiit, to nave time and labor, in tlndliig the true width which known to be at leant forty feet, Prairie City Miner. Ih ANOTHER PROPERTY. Radium Will Maintain Hlghr Tempera ture Than Surroundings. A cablegram from Loudon thin week uiiiinuunlug auotlier dlecnvery of the exliaoidlnary property of ra dium has been cotiiiiiuiiicalil thin week to the Kiench Phyidfiil noclely ' by Prof. Curie. It wiih only in MiiicIi hint that eminent men of M,i- euce icriiHcd to accept (IiIh Htateiiieut mi iricconclliible to Mileutlllc exper - ience that radium iioh-chm the iiron- erty of maintaining u tempeiatiiie at a point three degt cert higher than that of Hh Hiirrnuudliik'H. Hut the fact that, in addition to i ad load he prop ertien already described, radium Iiiim thin unique and uiipieccdented power of the cmiHHlou of heat ban been ch tabliHbed beyond the poHHlblllty of iUCHtlnii. SlieuiiiiUH eirortH have been made to obtain accurate iiiciih uiemeiitH of (IiIh heat production and iletenulne the client", of internal con- dltloiiH in promoting and retarding it. Prof. Curie found that heat emlhhlon reiuaiiiH unchanged through very wide raiiKeor teinperatuie, there being no perceptible variation at the teiiiperatuie of a Minuner day, or that of llipild air. lull if a long downwiir.l Htrldo Ih taken from the temperature of liquid air to that of liquid hydro - gen, radium shown that it in not al wayH uuatfected by the external tem perature. And here coiiich the amir.lug new fact that the change in the rate of heat oiuiiuiloii of radium within the comparatively nhort din tance of absolute zero in in exactly the opponlto ilirectlon to what mlht Imi expMtisl In view of the etfoct of low temperiitiircH on onlluary chem ical action, for at the temperature of liquid hydroKcu the bent oiuIhhIoii of rudlutn, liiHttMiil of Mug rtslucinl, Ih iiuKiiiviitiHl. Ju nimplo liiUKUttKo, tbo MiliHtance which doc not chatiKo ltd heat at all teinpeniturcH, from that of an ordinary room to that of liquid kIvoh out a greater bent when wibjected to tli! greiitCHt cold that 1. HciuntiHtH luivu yet reached. TIioho I oxiiuriiiii!li(H with lhnild hvdrouon have led to tbo curloim discovery that fii'Hhly prepared Halt or Kolutloti of j radium Iiiih a compnriitivity, which it then iimititiiitiH apparently Indellnlte . teinporatureH, hut tbo power Htondily I iticrcaKOH for about a mouth, when it ireiiohcH Hh maximum activity, which It then inalntniiiH apparently indcll- niti ly, Th ( 'ho remarkable remiltH have failed to throw light upon the procenH whereby radium maliitaiiiH a coiiHtaut einlfHlon of heat radio- activity -Minlng World. BIG LEDGE CUT. Measures Forty-Five Fet aod Awragci $15 Ptr Ton. The I'ralrie City Miner hii.vh that Ceo. II. Klght, pri'Mident of the Dixie MeadouH (iold Mining coin- 1 puny, wiih at tun untie IiihI hatunlay. Ho reiiurtH tlml they had Hlarled a IcriiHfCiit of the vein in the lower tun nel, had cut through twenty-llvo feet l of the vein and had nut iih yet en i 1 .1... 1 1.... 11 Later roportu from the ml no glvoH i ""i.miui iiiiii. i.j ... mine i the hanging wall, anil inat the ledgo I uieiiHiireH forty-live feet from wall to wall. Mr. Klght (dated that the ore wiih of the Hiiine grndo and quality iih their other oreH, which will average about 8 1 T, a very conxorviitlvo out I mate. Radium For Blindness. The reported HticccHHfiil treatment I of a little blind girl in New York with radium, lined in conjunction with the X-ray, ciiIIh attention anew to the wonder of hcIdiicd. The ex periment WIIH HUCCCHHful ill HO fllT IIH it made it poHHlble for the totally blind eyen of the child to nee npnrkH of light, to dlHtingulnh arc HghtH on tho ntrcet nnd largo objectH, hiicIi iih Htrcet earn, in piiHHlug. The treat- """ 'H '" ,,,, fnntlimwl. That hiicIi wondeiH can be worked with force ,' w" know nothing of a few yearn ". "veil a few months into, compelH I "H In Htiilid nllelit in awe of greater uondei'H to come, mayhap, of which we are yet in Ignorance. Thin Ih (ho day of hc Ience an well iih of commerce and indimtry.- New York Commer cial. Special Round Trip Rates, lletween Juno Ith and Augunt '20th The llliuoiH Central will hell round trip tlcketH from Oregon and Wanh Ingtou polntH to Chicago, Cairo, j McinphlH and New Orleann at Croat ly Iteduced Raton. ' Tlcketn good for three moutliH. (j,l(. limit ten day. Returning lni ten ilayn after Parting west. Stop over privilege either way, west j ,,f , MlnHouri River. Sale datcH are arranged to ito con- Lenient for delegate to conventlotiH r National Kducatlonal Association at IIohIou; KlkH at lliiltlmore; Wood tiictt at lndiauapoliH; Magics at New York; Khrlucrs tit Saratoga; Knights of Pythian at Louisville and Com ,nl.rcil Travelern at lndlannpolU. 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