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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1904)
i COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD FIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE EASTERN INVESTORS IN OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT i tt m r V HENDRYX SYSTEM SAVES 83 PER CENT Brilliant Success of His Cyanide Agitation Pro cess at Republic Mill. will rtiu much above tbo Hendryx estimates. The root bod In ho simple that tho chief uucorlHliity Iihh boou with regard to thn extraction. Iu brief, the process consists in ORitntliiK the ore In u tauk, by means of n propeller, and recovering the gold aud Hilver on electric plates. Spokesman-Review. CLIMATE IS MILDER SNOWSNEDS REMOVED. lly saving fi,'l.:i per cunt of the total gold and Hilver vhIiioh in the ores from the Mountain Linn mine at Itcpunllc, Washington, Dr. Wilbur A. uendryx, Jinn apparently proven the complete technical success of IiIh Hendryx agitator and cyanide process in saving the low grade gold values of (he camp. Tin' doctor has been experimenting with the .Mountain Lion ore in IiIh fifty ton tank at Itepiiblic for over a fortnight and he hud refucsd to make any statement iih to tlie remit! h until he could satisfy himself. The fol low ln Htaleiiietit, however, given by 111 in yeHteiday to The Kpokesiiiau-lte- view correspondent at ltepubllc, tells the tinrv: 'Iti'pulillc, Washington, March .'. 1 promised the president of the Mountain Lion Hold MIiiIiik corn, paiiy under the following conditions to (live an extraction of HO per cent or better of the total value of gold and silver. The conditions were: lie was to furnish an average grade of ore, ground to eighty mesh or liner. The tests of the ore have been on an ore much lower than the mine's aver age Milne, and only HI) per cent has been giouud to eighty mesh, while 11 percent has been coarser than NO per cent. The extraction has been Hit.. 'I per cent. "(.Signed) WILIIUK A. IIKN'DKVX." The iiiestlou of mivIiik the values iu Itepulillc ores has been a most puzzling one. The great licpuhlio mill, costing ?:HHi,(HI0, was unable to cope with thn problem, and the Mountain Lion's old mill failed com. pletely. When Mr. Hendryx, there fore, promised to save 80 per cent of the values at a cost of 81.. "ill a ton, there was Intense Interest among minim: men. The Kcpuhllo ores are of low guide, running around 10 a tun. The -melteis pay about S!t. 10 foi the until and silver iu ore assay ing 10, ami deduct ?(! for freight and tieiitmeut. That leaves the mine owner only 11.10 out of which he must pay costs and get a protlt. Uy saving s:i per cunt of the vul lies, Dr. Ilemliys lecnvers bullion worth JH.IIU from elO ore, and If the costs of milling It by his system are only 1.50, as piomlsed, there is a nut protlt of 0.80 Instead of 11.10 to the mine owner. Such a m a ruin menus the dllferuiice between success aud. failure iu the case of liepubllc mines. The only problem now ap parently to be demonstrated is the cost of million the ore. Mining men, however, do uot believe that it The La (iratide correspondent of the Hpukesman-Ilovlew says: .Ml the snowsleds that have done service on tho La (irandp-Huntlngtou division of the O. H. As X., have been removed within tho past year, owing to the decrease of the soveiity of the weather during the winter months Iu eastern Oregon, causing less expense. When these sheds were built twenty years, ago the road through I'yle canyon was blockaded every winter with snow, aud the sheds weie built to protect the worst points. It has been noticed by the track depart ment for the past ton years that tho snowfall, wind and drifts aro less and less severe each year. During tho whiter just passed no trouble hatt Imjoii occasioned at thn points at which tho sheds stood, al though It has been the worst winter iu live years iu tho mountains. Kveu If tho snowfall was as heavy now as when the sheds were built, tho rotary suowplow could be used to clear tho tracks, and at the time the sheds weie erected tho rotary was nil kiiowu. The heavier engines of today can also wade through much deeper snow without interference than could the former class of smaller euulues. HOW A GAMBLER MADE THE CONGREGATION PUNGLE. "We huvo a curtain parson, " Deau Hart of Douvor writes, giving his name, "whom we keep ou the Iron tier. He is it rough diamond, and has a knack with the miners. Not long nun ho went to a camp called Itlco, borrowed the dauco hall over the saloon for IiIh service, 'rounded up1 Ills boys, and the hall wh tilled. "After the setmoii came the collec tion a very impoitaut feature. The preacher ran his eye over his an- dleuce, and scelou a certain milliliter known as Hilly the Kid,' 'Hilly.' be him. "lane up i no luiiicciiou. cry much honored, Hilly took his big sombrero, ami with an Important and dlgultlcd air, in was tit i iik for tho occasion, ho made his way to the f i out and held his hut for a young man on the foiemost chair to 'do nate.' "The young man dropped iu a quarter, Hilly looked at it: then putting his hand under his coat-tails drew his revolver and said, with tho utmost gravity, 'Vouug man, tako that back: this hero's a dollar show.' Then, with his hat aud revulver. moving around the hall) ho not as iiiatiy dollars as there wero people." W H ITE HOUSE COFFEE AT O'ROURKE'S Also the FAUST BLEND THESE COFFEES SUIT THE BEST TRADED. BASCHE-SAGE HARDWARE COMPANY SUMPTER - - - - OREGON . Candles Coal Lubricating Oils Ore Cars And Rail GET OUR PRICES Bmitm'BUBKmKA'yKA HOIFORST.LOUISANDTHEWORLD'SFAIR WILL YOU BE THERE? O Nature's Ait Gallery of the Rockies In addition to the Jvw Attraction at St. Louit. 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