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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1903)
Wednesday, September 2, 190 THE SUMPTER MINER GREAT SHOWING AT THE ADELENE, prolimiuiiry electrolysis for eliiuinut- Property Getting Better Development Work Proceeds. As Wnrron Ciiule, superintendent of the Adeleue, In tho Cracker Creek district, who wax in from tho prop erty thin week, whites Unit everything is looking better than over there. Ho has finished tho surface explora tion oil tho lodge for a dlstiineo of 1.500 feet, tho outiro distuneu of which shows exceptionally good Tallies. At 0110 point where tho ledge was npeiiuut it showed a width of eighteen feet, twelve inches of which ran over 81,000; at another point tho pay streak was two foot with an average, of 880; a third open cut revealed a shoot of live foot with 810 ore. Tho trenching on the lodge throughout thoontiro distance named, Mr. Cable states, has given most sat isfactory lesults. Tho oio, he says, is practically the same In character as that found on tho liuckoye and the (cat American, which carries such high values in fioo gold, and his property, lie thinks, beyond any ipiotsiou has the sumo lead. The main work Is now being done on tho crosi-cut. This Is in titty feet with about llfty more to drive befoie tho ledge is reached. It will give a deptli of 100 foot, but by drilling ii depth of 'J,ii00 feet can lie attained. Air. Cable expects the owners of tho properly tiom Newcastle, Penn sylvania, hole in a few days, and it is probable, he states, that arrange incuts will be made for a mill when they arrive. TREATING SULPHIDE ORES. 'ing the oxygen of the oxychlorido formed in boiling down the solution of zinc chloride. Stciiihart has pro posed to evaporate the solution of zinc chloride under a vacuum, in order to produce tho neiitial an hydrous chloride, but . slier oft and Srtlnolmruo have not followed that method, having found that with cau tious boiling down there is not much oxygon in tho Dual result. Tho current elllcioucy in tho elec trolysis of tho molten zinc chloride Is very high. Tho vats are very sim ple, being merely Iron cases lined with lire brick. Tho zinc chloride soaks into the porous brick and solidities somwehere, so that it is really a vat with zinc chlotide walls. The vats are Internally heated, as in tho cat-0 of aluminum smelt ing. The cathode is fused zinc and tho anode is carbon. Some makes of carbon do not stand well, but suitable carbons stand permanently; chlorine has no action on tho carbons. The vats are kept under a very light suction so (ha if there ate any leaks the air goes in instead of chloiiue coming out. Tho carbons do not become heated enough to bo burned by this small admission of air. Since the vats ate heated by tho excess of electric power over the chemical, the linger the coll the lower the electromotive foice, so that if tho cell wein large enough, tho clcctromotho force might bo reduced to the point cor responding to the heat of formation of zinc chloride at that tempcratuie. At tlrst, great dilllculty was contem plated in handling the chloiine gas, wnich has to bo pumped into the con verter under a piessuro of ten to llf Icon pounds per npuiro inch. It has been found, however, that theto is no dilllculty in this, and that a prop erly designed pump will run continu ously, day and night, without trou ble if tho chlorine be dry. The dry ness of the chlorine is of vital im pel tauco. Mining World. New Process Invtuied by Jtmtt Swinburne Ar.d H. A. Athcroit. In a paper lead before the 1'aiii day society duly 1, lOOII. James Swlnobiirn described ti.e pio.-ont status of the process for treating sulphide ores, invented by liiiu and elaborated by him In connection with K. A. Ashcroft. The novelty of the process, which receives the more con sideration because of the high stand ing of its inventor, is such that the icxults of a practical application are awaited with interest. It has not yet lccolvcd such an application, but tho experimental work is being done on a rather huge scale, which f-hould give reliable results if prop erly conducted and consideied. In tho paper heio roferiod to Air. Swln burn gives few additional details, but it is interesting to note that he states that the decomposition of sul phide ore by chlorine has been elfeuted on a large scale with perfect success, as has also been tho electrol ysis of molten ziuu chloride. Tho latter is very Important, since it has not previously been successfully elfocted, although it has licen at tempted by numerous investigators. Air. Swiuobiiru states that so far a current of .'1,000 amperes has been used, but u vat with capacity for 10, 000 amperes is now being tried. Above that size tho current will lie inconvenient. With tho small ruts, of U,000 uinperos capacity, four volts, por coll is needed, but with 10,000 amperes, throe volts should do, al though iu estimating it is best to count on four; however, this allow ance should cover tho power for tho . REV. WILDER RESIGNS. Will tie Transtirwd To the Put Sound Conlerrncr. Rev. .1. AI. Wilder, of the Alelho dlst chinch, ictiirued yesterday from the Idaho conference which convened at liolso. Kev. Wilder has t-oveied his connection with the Idaho con ference and, therefore, his pastoiate at Humpter is ended. At his own request, lie states, lie was trutifeirod to the I'uget Sound conference, though tho assignment of a charge will not bo known until that body meets. Ills successor Is Rev. N. Al. Temple, formerly of Idaho Kails, Idaho. lie will bo tieio about the ilth or 10th of tho month. He bears the leputatlou of being an able man and of having done good-work at his former charge. Itev, Wilder and family will leave as soon as his appointment is made, which will probably be within a week. As stated in last week's Is sue, he has accomplished a groat work here In building up the church, and his congregation and friends gen erally express regot over ills de parture, New Company Organized. John U. English and Frank Bald win have organized the New Century Exploration and Investment com pany, with headquarters in Chicago. It is presumed that 'this company is for tho purposo of developing some mining properties In this district, in which tlioy aro interested. Air. English is treasurer, Air. lialdwin eecrotury, uud J. W. AlcCoy presi dent. rrrrrrrrrrrinnnnrrrrinnrr' MOUNTING BOARD MOUNTING CARDS OFFICE SUPPLIES STATIONERY OF ALL KINDS fc fc t MM I m m m fc 2Ttercer Drucj o. 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