THE SUMPTER MINER
SINKING PLANT FOR
THE SNOW GREEK
MN
E.
Plans Now Being Prepared to This End
And Machinery to go in
At Once.
Fred I). Smith, general manager of
tlio Snow Creek company, returned
thlH morning from mi extended visit
to Now' Vurk slate, whoro, lit Until, ho
attended h mooting of tlio stockhold
ers of tho coriiputiy aud transacted
othor uiihIiiuhm connected with (tin
niuiiUKOuiniit of tlio pruporty. Tlio
hiiiiuiiI HtuckhnlderH mill directum
mooting wan hold iHHt inoiitli mill tlio
following ulllnara wore elected:
President, . .1. Davison, of lint It,
re-elected j vloo president, John
llowlliy, llntli, re-elected; secretary
mill troiiHiiror, WIIIIhiii llallonk,
llHth; directors, 11. II. Hmltli, Hay
City, Michigan; 1. A. Muxwoll,
WllkoHlnirro, Pennsylvania; Krcd
Smith, Humidor, director mill general
manager.
Tim iotiiiiiiiy whh well ploiiHod with
tlio condition of tlio property hik)
tlio showing iimde, mill bus decided
upon extensive Improvements. A
aluklug plant, with h ilopth capacity
of fiOU fet, hiiiI accompanying equip
mout, Ih to bo IiihIhIIoiI nt ouco.
IMana to thlH onil hi-0 now IihIuk pro
pared. Mr. Hinllh atateri'ttiHt h hiiihII
amount of exploratory work will ho
iievoajtary hoforo h decision Ih reached
an to the oxaot locality wboro sinking'
will lie begun. TIiIh, howovor, will
Im completed hoforo thu pIhiih ar-
Mulshed mid the equipment arrives,
In Hddltlon to thin the sawmill Ih
hooii to he started and arraugemouta
urn being miide to atart tbo placora,
which were lecoutly purchased of it.
L. Farmer. To tlio end of operating
thoHO pliicurii, tlio McNauieo water
lights mid d Itches were acquired laat
yeiir. Tlio hmmiiIII will begin cut
ting liimlior i r thin purpose nt au
curly dole.
While Mi. Smith reserves com-
niont on the le"llng of tlio company
regarding IiIh ..iiiiiihI report, being h
modest until, it nmy lie inferred from
IiIh ro-olcctiou lie geuoral manager
and the acceptauco of Lla euigcatiuuH
iiri to policy and improvement!. Hint
his management of the propcity wua
warmly endorsed.
While awny. Mr. Smith mot Dave
Kl lion mid other uiembera of the Hrm
In lioth New Vork City and Chicago.
He hh.vh they are hlulily encouraged
over the comliiK season In the Sump
ter district. Regarding tbo eastern
situation he says;
"The oHHt has almost completely
recovered from the paulcky premoul
tloiiH of last Hiirumor and geuoral con-
fldonco had hoen restored. Id mining
uiattem, It eastern capitalists are
shown a good propoHitiou, they are
reidy to Invest their money."
PLANS FOR REDUCTION
PLANT AT THE IMPERIAL
Cuplulii Paul, malinger of the Im
perial, Iihh taken up IiIh residence in
Htiinptor. II Ih wife arrived a few
daya ugi and t liny huve gnuo to
housekeeping.
Iiint h. hooii iih au adjustment of
tlio poudiug litigation, which origin
utod over attempted jumping of cer
tain claiuiH hold liy the coiiipuuv, Ih
elfeuted, Cuptalii l'aiil nayri Hie pIhiih
for the liiHtallatiou of u redout I on
plant will Im perfected. Ho hope
that thiiigN will iiHMimo shape that
work may do started an noon an the
weather will permit.
Smelt .t for The Tempest.
.Maurice llUtiohurd, general 111:111.
uger til thu Improved Mineral hiiii.
ter, miuouiicoH that ho Iihh uliout
closed a deal for a plant at the Tern
pent mine, a properly owned hy Spu
kano people iu tlio tireeuhorii din
(riot. I'ho Hinolter will proluilily lie
of a Til). ton oapauity to Mart with.
Mr. lllauuhard alo Iihh Hovoral other
eouutraota In IiIh pocket which an
umiiice the count met Ion of several
tuneltara I" Oregon. The principal
place where the Mineral smelter U
being tented la Iu the Heveu Devils
country, where the Ladd Metal com
pany Ih putting Iu a ItOO-tun plant.
The Mineral smelter Ih something
new iu the reduction of refractory
oroH. Mr. lilauchard Ih one of tho
! inventor of the Hinolter he la now
introducing In the Northwest. The
inveuloin claim com pact noun, terriiln
heat, economy and eillcleucy aa tho
principal polnta of excellence for
their plant. Spnkauo correspondent
of Daily Milling Itccnrd.
OVER 100 MILES UNDERGROUND
WORK IN EASTERN OREGON MINES
Very few people who are advocat
ing the merits of eastern Oregon iih 11
milling country and few people who
have actually invested In miucH in
eastern Oregon are aware of the ac
tual amount of development work Iihh
taken place here iu the past twenty
yearn, moot of It during tlio past ten
yearn. The United Statea geologist
who visited IiIh section lust niimmer
maken a report Iu which he states
that there are more than 100 miles
of underground workings in the east
ern Oregon gold Holds. These are
large figures when It is considered
that this camp la only a liahy camp
and that the ground lias hardly yet
been scratched,
Cairylug out these tlgurea Interest
ing aide features cau be developed.
Think of the ton aud tout of caps
aiid fuse, dynamite aud giant powder
used iu hlastlug out the big holes
through the earth Id search of the
yellow metal. Figure up the tons of
ateel rails used In the tunnels, the
ore cars, hoisting machinery, big
engines, little engines, pumps, pipe
lines, water power plants, electric
plants, stamp mills, cyanide plants,
crusher plants, aerial tramways.
transportation lines, tonB of steel
tools, thousands of tons of grub aud
tens of thousands of brawny men en
gaged In the development work and
some idea oau be had of the results
of labor and capital expended.
Those who arfe in a position to
know predict that the amount of de
velopment work which will be done
in this camp during the next rive
years will more than double that ac
complished in the past ten years.
Democrat.
EGONOMIG MINING
PARAMOUNT POINT
Never was so much attoution paid
to economic mining In the Coeur
d'Alones aa la being dovoted to that
important subject now. For tho
smost part the mines are relatively
low grado properties, with lead val
ues of 10 per cout and silver values
of from llvo to ton ounces per ton.
The loss iu concentrating has been
about 'JO per cent ot tho grosa value.
That loan is being carefully examiued
by V. Clayton Mlllcr.for the Federal
Mining AjSmeltlug company, and hy
Thomas Ureenougb, for the Morning
mine. With the installation of the
new W II Hey tables to treat the
slinios, tboy hope to reduce the
Wednesday, March 16, 1904
losses substantially.
At the Daly West mill atParkClty,
Utah, a saving of 05 per cent la made
in concentrating a much more diffi
cult class of lead ore. That result
was reached by the intervention of a
slime tank device.
I The cost of concentration In the
Coeui d'Aleues ranges from 18 to SO
cents per ton and the cost of trans
porting the crnde ore from the mines
to the mills varies from 5 to 20 centa
per ton.
Just now the Coeur d'AIene oper
ators have a double reason for want
ing to save their lead values,for suits
have been started '.against them for
hundreds of thousands of dollars by
farmers along tbe Coeur d'AIene
river. The farmers assert that tbelr
land baa been poisoned by tbe over
flow from the Coeur d'AIene river,
charged with minerals from tbe
mines and mills. Of course tbe 20
per cent of the lead values lost iu
concentrating goes into tbe tailings
aud for the most part Is dumped iuto
the creek. Hy cutting down tbo
volume of lead iu the refute, the
damuage, if any, which the farm
ers have sustained would be greatly
reduced.
Fresh evidence keeps coming to
hand to show the wonderful perma
ueucy of tbe Coeur d'AIene mines.
The great Hercules ore body, for iu
stuuee, (iu its piesent deepest work
ing, Ih 4,000 feet vertically above
tbe bottom of the shaft on Ha neigh
boring mine, the Tlger-Poormau. Aa
the Hercules Is opened on a similar
strong vein, anil as it Iihb one of tbo
largest aud richest bodies ot clean
ore in the district, there la no teasou
to doubt that the Hercules will have
ore at a depth of a mile on its dip,
which would be on the same horizon
tal plane as tbe ore In the bottom
of theTigor-Poormau shaft. Spokesman-Review.
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15l&lt$Kta
OF SUMPTER
Capital Stock
$25,000
Surplus, $1000
orriCKR
J.W. SCRIBER . . President
CD. W. MUELLER, - Viae-President
R. H. MILLER - Cashier
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