THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, February 24, 1904
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HIGHEST VALUES YET
FOUND AT BLUE BIRD
Three Samples Taken Prom Drift No
That Average Over
$300.
Manager O. U. Wright, of (be Ulue
Bird, hae just received homo of the
blgbott assay values ever yot revealed
io ore from this property. Superin
tendent Tborp seat In three sample
takon Horowi the faco of No. 1 drift
the other day, arid today Mr. Wright
got the assay returns from McKweu,
Arthur L McEwen. They wore as
folllews:
No. 1, $m. .'10; No. 2, 1100.12;
No. .'I, tim.au.
Concentrated 17.02 to I, thla ore
gave a value of 97,3.12.62.
The manner of taking tbo sample
waa to divide the face of the drift
Into thirds, aud quarter the samples
MONITOR MILL
AT SUSANSVILIE
K. (1. Stevenson, one of tbe ownera
of the Monitor, near Susauville, left
this morning after a visit of several
days In Horopter. Tbe Huntington
mill reoeutly installed ou this prop
erty hae not yet beeu started up,
owing to the fact that the tailings
which It Is tbe inteutlou to treat,
are frozen up. V'
Mr. Hteveusoii saya that as soon aa
a tluw oomoa, he mill will start
operations. It Is a temporary set to
treat the tailing, and whou this has
been accomplished, the pormaueut
foundation will be put In and tbe
mill operated ou the ores from the
mine.
SNOW SLIDE BURItS
CHLORIDE BUILDINGS.
The Chloride Uold Mining com
pany's property bits beeu swept to
oblivion. It will be next July before
oven it trace of it cell bo found. The
(lelsor-lltuidryx ml no Is also burled
niul or thirty fuel of snow aud only
when the thaw Is over will they be
ulilo to operate It.
While the (lulser-llendryx Is not
damagodtxcopt liy delay In work,
tbe works nn the Chloride hare been
swept away by a suowsllde and every
thing practically dotroyed. The
store room, blacksmith shop, tender
shed and compressor aud power sheds
were hurled -00 feet below In a mass
of wreck and debris aud covered
thirty feet or more with snow.
Not a vestige of tbo works stands
aud tbe damage doue runs up into
the thousands.
II. M. MotSregur, the well kuowu
mluiug man, came down from tbe
sceue this morning aud Informed the
Herald that about 1) o'clock Monday
uiorulng tbe suowsllde started from
alze.
the
Thla.
average
value of the face.
The velu at tbia point Is four feet
In width between walls, and gives
about IIOO feet of backs. It is tbe
rcbost strike yet made at this well
known property, and Manager Wright
ia naturally rrry jubilant over It.
Work ou (!.' mill has been tem
porarily suspended on account of
the snow, but will be resumed as coon
as tbe weather opens up, and rushed
to completion. Already much of tbe
constructive work has been finished.
Development, however, Is proceeding
uninterruptedly.
about 2,000 feet above tbe mines and
came down with a roar like thunder,
and when it struck tbe works of tbe
ml nek It swept them away like chaff
to the depths of the canyou 200 feet
below.
It will be mid summer before tbe
snow can be cleareJ away so aa to
even gather up tbe fragments of tbe
former works.
There have been three anowslldee
In that section within tbe last few
days whlon have caused more or leea
damage, but none so great as tbe
Chloride disaster. Tbe fortunate
thing of tbe Chloride disaster Is that
there was no one at tbe mines at tbe
time aud there waa no loss of life.
Herald.
WHEELER COUNTY
COAL FIELDS.
Tony Mohr who, with Sumpter
associates, is interested In Wheeler
county coal lands, end Low Walker,
former superintendent of tbe Mid
way, wbo has charge of the develop
ment work, returned tbls morning
from tbo property.
Tboy hare no detluito statemouti
to giro out,moro tbiiu the proposition
is looking woll aud that work will be
continued. Aualysea bare shown
that tbe coal tboy aio dereopiug is
of a suporlor quality, aud that tbo
value of tbo doposits is only a
matter of getting tranpottation
facilities, which are sure to come.
STILL SCRAPPING OVER
F. R. MEMS' APPOINTMENT.
Applontmeut of Fred It. Mollis as
auperiuteudent of tbe mineral ex
hibit at St. Louis, by the World'
Fail commission, is causing some
frictou in the circles interested
thoroiu. Wbeu Mr. Mellis was ap
pointed, much oppositolu was maul-
down to convenient
therefore, represent
fested, but be was confirmed on a
compromise that J. II. Fisk should
be bis assistant. Now it seems tbe
superintndent and tbe assistant are
at outs; at least it would appear that
way from tbe point of view taken by
Mr. Fisk, who says:
"Mr. Mollis does not want to re
cognize southern Oregon, and only
wants to exhibit bis own display of
minerals, which are gathered only
from eastern Oregon. He does not
want as assistant a western or south
ern Oregon man. Tbe commissioners
have sent blm an ultimatum which
be must answer by Thursday, and
then there will be a meeting, at
wblch time matters will be decided."
Mr. Mollis says be is working for
the best interests of the exhibit and
feels that only petty jealousy Is tbe
cause of tbe existing feeling. When
in Portland recently be claimed to
have a competent exhibit almost
ready for sblpmeut, and baa visited
nearly every camp In the state in tbe
intereata of tbe display, aud has many
friends In eastern Oregon who will
back him in the stand be bas taken.
Mr. Fisk will leave tbe latter part
of the week for Baker City. Fort
land Telegram.
MACHINE DRILLS FOR
UNITED ELKHORN.
It is repotted that the'Unlted Elk
horn, formerly tbe Baisley-Elkburn,
will install machine drills and also
electric power for tbe mill, within
tbe next month.
The compressor plant, now being
used to furnish power for the mill,
will be used for tbe drills and
pumps. The drills are intended for
tbe long crosscut of about 5,000
feet, which will cap all tbe ledges of
the property. This mine is now pro
ducing right along.
FOUR FOOT BODY
OF SHIPPING ORE
A report from tbe Independence,
operated by Hurcb A Burbrldge, of
Spokane, states that a four foot ore
body of a good shipping grade bas
been disclosed In tbe shaft.
Uood ore has been coming into tbe
shaft for some time, It la stated, but
tbe present body is tbe best yet en
countered.
Irrigate 250.000 Acres.
Organization of tbe Deschutes
Irrigation & Power company, is the
result of uegotiatlous that have beeu
iu progress in Portlaud for almost
a mouth past, and iu process of prep
aratlcu for many months. II. O.
Turuey aud J. Q. Johuston, of
Columbus, Ohio, aud W. E. Uuerlu,
of New York, who has been making
Portlaud hoadquarters for some time,
have been stopping at the Hotel
Portland while concluding tbe forma
tion of a company that proposes to
reclaim 250,000 acres of arable land
from desert waste by means of irriga
tion, populate 'with several thousand
people this ".hitherto unoccupied land
and develop Into a high atate of
production a large area iu central
Oregou that will stimulate develop
ment of adjacent tracts and serve as
an impetus for starting tbe long an
ticipated but delayed development of
a regiou of great promise. Portland
Telegram.
WAS NOT
SO BAD.
Snow Slide at Alpine Did Consider
able Damage But Not so Much
As First Reported.
Superintendent Addons Has Fixed
Things up And Work is Gong
On as Usual.
Dick Addoms, superintendent of
tbe Alpine, came in last night, and
reports tbe damage from tbe rcceut
snow slide not quite so bad as at first
indicated. It was a pretty bad slide,
however, be says. Tbe snow came
down from tbe top of the mountain,
but its force was broken by a clump
of trees before It reaobed tbe Alpine
bulldiugs, else tbe wreck would have
been complete. ,-
As it was, tbe warehouse was al
most a complete wreck, and tbe offlc
and bunk houses were considerably
twlted and turned about. It hap
pened about 5 o'clock Sunday morn
ing, but tbe men had all turned out,
and were able to shun tbe danger.
No one waa hurt. The boarding
bouse waa left Intact.
Very little delay was experienced.
Things aa far as possible have been
set to rigbta again and Mr. AcMoma
baa bla force of men at work in tbe
mine and development la proceeding
aa usual.
NEPTUNISTS AND PLITOWSIS
ON 1HE ORIGIN OF VEINS.
Tbe "Neptuniets" and "Pluton
lets" were two schools of geologists
which held radically different ideaa
during tbe latter part of the eigh
teenth and early part of the nine
teenth centuries ou the origin of
veins. Werner was tbe head of tbe
Neptuniets, aa Hutton was of tbe
Plutonists. Werner assumed that the
earth was at one time surrounded by
water as deep as tbe mountains are
high, and that from tbls water tbe
solid rocks now forming dry land
was chemically precipitated. The
veins were, according to him, fillings
of Assures aud cracks, such fllliugs
being due to deposits from aqueous
solutions. Ttie theory took nn ac
count of the interuul heat of tbo
globe.
Hutton, on tbe other baud, be
sides ascribing the origin of sedimen
tary rocks to water, assumed that tho
consolidation was due to subter
rauean beat nod tbe forces derived
from such a source. Tbe veins were
formed by material which came
from below. Werner taught that
veins were contraction Assures,
which were filled from the matter
held in solution and suspeusiou
in tbe ocean above them. Hence the
Werenr school waa called Netunlsts
after Neptune, tbe mythological god
of tbe ocean, aud tbe Huttou school
Plutonists, from Pluto, tbe classical
god of tbe lower world. The teach
ings of tbe latter school have moro
resemblance to modern Ideas tnau
those of tbe Neptuniets. Mining
Reporter.
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