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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, January 6, 1904 f SMELTER BLOWN IN THURSDAY. Important Institution in Con nection With Mining In dustry Now at Work. Oimi of Hid miMt Importiiut nvuntH of tlio year in connection with (lie mining iiuliiHtry of oiiHtuin Oiegon conk place when tlio Kumptor smelter whh lilown in liiHt Thursday. Tim furnace whh charged at 7 o'clock UiIh morning mill tlm blast put mi. Tlio llrnt tup wiih iniiilu at H. iitnl hai ring a slight accident Hliortly after 8, everything so fur Ih in tlm poifou tlon uf working oritur. Till) llCcilloIlt lllfllllfll to WIIH lllll) lirolmlily to mi imperfection in tint wiilur jacketed copper Hpnut which (lisohargoH tlm molted inn in front or tlm fiirniii'ii. TIiIh tuned, causing ii hiiiiiII oxploHlon, lint no mm was in- J ii roil, mill tlm damage was h Un repaired liy tint substitution or u now piece. Tlm breaks and iiiIhIiiiph iiKiinlly pioHoul ut tlio starting or now immhlnoiy, with IIiIh exception, no far liuvn I) t entirely absent, anil tint plant bids fulr to prove an un precedented huocoh in point or mo ohiinlcal poi foot Inn. Hupmliitomlcut .Soul appciirH to bo niHHtiir of tlm situation ami Ih thoroughly coiinvorsaiit with tint muni oilmitu detail of operation. A ossitr.wis The Minor Ima gone into de scriptive tluttii I Ih on former occasions. Tlm Hitnation in tlm DeNeffe A: Muy.v liilllanl contest rumaiUH prac tically unchanged. Throe games woio played jHHt night, In which noi tlmr of tlm McKwciih, who aio in thu li'iul, figured. Thi! games were iiri follews: Hell man anil Derry, liollmau won; Da Nolle ami Derry, Derry won; A. L. McKwou ami Derry, McKwou won. Thin leaves A. II. McKwou ami K. O. McKwou with tholr same records of yuHtcnlay, anil thu chances ot tie votory largely In tholr fuvnr. SILVER DOLLAR SELLS FOR TWO THOUSAND. Annual Stockholder's Meeting. To Whom It May Cencern: No tice Ih hciehy given that the regular anuiial stockholders meeting of the Uolcouda Consolidated (iold Mines company will be held at the otllce of the company in the Pendleton Sav ings liauk liuildiug, in Pendleton, m. on Tues- MAYOR McCOLLOCH BACK FROM PORTLAND Mayor McC'ollocli relimiol thin forenoon from Pottliind, where he went a weak ago to spend tlm holi iIii.vh with Iih family. Ho lirlngH hack clicorful Infornia tion regarding business enndtinus In tlm Wehtoot nmlropollH; says that tlm ChrlHtimiH tradu wiih greater than wiih over known before, and that nveiyliody seemed to have more or Ii'hh monuy that they were willing to let go or. Me says, furl her, that the lliianeial situation, iih viewed from tlm Hlaiidpoint of loans, Ih greatly im proved over what it wiih fix weekH or two montliH since; that tlm market Iiiih entliely iccncicil finm the Hlrlngeney existing at that time and that the eireets of that incinlent lluiry hae entirely passed away. Itcgardlug tlio kindeigarton scrap now on ovei the newer iUontinu, tlm mayor had hoard nothing alioiit it at one o'clock today and wiih not pre- i!,Hi pared to discuss it, further than to A United States dollar, now iu its ninety-ninth year, has been tent from Denver to Portland. Oregon, after having lain in a Denver collec- ( Oregon, at 10 o'clock a tion ot coins for mora than eighteen I day, January '-', 1004; at such yearn. Though the dollar is about annual meeting an election will be the size of those coiucd during the held for the election of Directors of present year, and contains about j the said corporation, and all other the same number of grains ot silver, aud general business pertaining to it brought in tho neighborhood of ' tlm affairs of the company will be about 8"). :i:i5 per grain of pure sll-1 transacted that may come before such vol in its combination, and all thlh bocaUHo it Iiiih boon In the ono form j for Hourly 100 years. The dollar is ono of tho coinage of i 1 HO I, uf which there are only seven I now known to bo in existence. It was bought by the late J. V. Dexter, at tho Chapman wiloof coins in 188"i. I meeting. C. U. WADE, .1. II. RALKY, Dated Dec. 0, II) Oil. President. Secretary J liitlimito that ho will push the good thing along. MAGNOLIA DEAL TO BE PERFECTED A. (lurch and Kied llurbridge, of Spokane, constituting tlm firm of lliiich ,V liiirbrldge, operating the Independence mid other mining prop cillcs In tlm dlstiict, nirlvol this miirulug aud left at onco for (irauito. It Ih iiudeiHtooil that tlm object of their visit Ih to perfect tlm matter of taking over the Magnolia, which was recently bonded by Ceoigo J. Har riet for them. They will probably Htart operations at thu Magnolia In tho near future. roreo or men, who for the most pint tiro expoiieiiced smelter hands, is iinployed. Tho Humptor smelter, with the exception or a few minor inatteiH, Iiiih been completed and icaily io blow In for Home t lino. Tlm Institution Ih mm or the Ivll Ion, Warner, Htowmt dotations, which firm conceived tho idea that Mich a plant would bo mi important factor In the development of the iiiIiioh ot eiiHteru Oiognu, and accord ingly organized a company to this ud tor entry I tig Ihioiigh tlm enter, prise. Tho i mipiiuv. known iih the Oregon Smell lug and Itelliiiug coin iauy, was oigiiuled under tlio laws of' in111111, in iiup.. I'oiiowntg me tho oIIIcem: W K. Lindsay, or Now Yuik, president; Prircsor Khormau, or .Sumpter, vice-president ; 1). L. Killeii, Kumpter, seciotnry, .1. W. Hcrlber, or l.a Craudo, tieasiirer; Dr. Kd W Mueller, or Humpter, general malinger. Later Carr II. Neul, a Houghton giadiiate, and u unioltor man of largo oxperluiice, was ubiisnii HUperliiteudeiit. (Iround wiih tirokeu for tho erection in urn piaui insi hopiomuor it year ago, ami tho uinjor part of tho con Htruotlon wiih performed last winter nun iiiiriug iiio spring ami summer luoutliH. The eutorprlso repiesentH an uppriiKlmato outlay of tUOO.OOO, and h one which In time will do a great deal toward furthering the mineral industry in tlm Sumpter iMlt. The plant (h of tho matte or semi pyrltlo oIhhm and has a dally capacity vIoiim on to "J00 tons. Tlm product which It turns out is known as cop. r matte and Is shipped to refining iustltutiotiH fur further treatment. It is of tho modern typo, thoroughly lllllllllllj kt.m. --... A ..- Al X ftk & b """i""" tiiruuKuuui, Muti exactly l-uit ur..M two good rooms oil udapted to tho ends for which It was liranlto street, suitable for ottlces o iutendod. An elaborate description light heusekeeping: Water and Iu this connection will hardly bo noo- light. Apply to J. P. HOLLAND. At that time the coin had been but lately secured from a collection iu llerllu, being the only ono of the dollars that Is known to have boon in ii foreign collection. Mr. Dexter paid 81.000 for the dollar, having to bid against several other collect ors, tho price being at that time the largest that had evct been paid for one of tho coliuiuo named. Since then one of tlm other coins Iiih been ; sold tor 81,200, a record that hold good until Thursday, when II. (2. Hrown. of Portland, Oregon, paid ' 3'J,l)00 for the coin to It. (!. Parvin, , who succeeded to tlio ownership of the Dexter collection. Mr Parvin did not willingly part with the coin at that price, for ho has held it as SPECIAL NOTICE If you want to rend a free aud inde pendent paper, devoted to the inter est of mining and current events, which Ih not controlled by any pro moting concern, micli as most of the paierH in the east are, send for a free rumple copy of NEW YORK BANKER 23 HItOADWAY, NKW YOHK NEW BOOK-KEEPER AT TNE SNOW CREEK. Kdward K. Carter, formerly book keeper for the Sumpter Light aud Water company, left on tho traiu to Whitney this morning to take a place at the Snow Creek miue as book-keeper aud assayer. Krctl 1), Smith, general manager of tlm Snow Creek, who was iu to at tend thu Masoulc meeting, also re turned this morning. Mi. Smith re ports tho satisfactory operatiou of the now mill, which lecently went into commission. the key piece or his numismatic col lection. Tlm scarcity ot dollars or the 1804 vintage is explained by an accident nt sea. Tho largest part of tho sil ver dollars of that year weie struck! olf to pay United States soldiers and fallnrs doing duty lu Tripoli, North Africa, and were shiped to that place. The vossel that carried them awav from this couutiy was never, heard from again, so the entire cargo ' Is suppo-ed to rest somewhero upon! the Hour of tlm Atlantic ocean. Just seven copies or the dollar or that' year mo iu existence, two lying in' tho mint at Phildaclphla ami the others being in private collections. I Iu 1H58 somo copies or the coin or 1H01 were struck otr, being known as "restrikes," but all but two of I them were called in, tlm records show, and destroyed. One copy of the "restrlke" is iu tlm mint at Philadelphia, aud the other is owned in Knglaud. No counterfeit of the ' 1804 dollar was ever known. Den ver Itenubliciiii. I Charcoal as a Cold Saver. Charcoal was first used for tho re covery of gold from cyanide solutons by Mr. Aitkeu. of Itecfton School or Miues, New- Zealand. Mr. Aitkeu succeeded iu saving only about sev enty per cent of his gold aud aban doned tho process. Iu tho follow lug year. .July, 1804, W. D. Johustou, uf ban l'laucisco, claimed it as an original dlscovery.and secured letters I patent in tho United States. Mr. I jonustou also railed lu making bis a method a practical success. Messrs. 1 uuueau nroiuors. oi iaruagulla and I Stawoll, Victoria, uvre the first to, employ tho process and obtain actual working results, Tbeir success was so encouraglug as to lead others to use it. At the present time it is the. method almost uuiversally adopted throughout the Victorian gold Holds. Altkeu's aud Johnston's failures appear to have beeu duo to insuffi cient charcoal aud Improper prepara tion aud Jiaudllug. Mining World. THE NATIONAL BANKER It (I l Silli St. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS A journal of National circulation. Is rend by bankers, capitalists, in vestors, retired merchants. 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