Wednesday, March 2, 1904
THE bUMPTER MINER
WATER CO. SOON
TO RESUME WORK
To Start on The Power
Plant And Pipe Line
About April I.
The Snropter Light and Water com
pany wlllmuaaeopeMtiona-aa.ita
power plant and pipe line just as
soon as the weather will permit. A.
Q. Smith, consulting engineer and
one of the officers of the company,
who is now at North Yakima, round
ing up the work connected with the
water system there, controlled by the
same people, Is expected here about
April 1, to recoinmenco operations if
the snow has sufficiently disappeared
ut that time to allow work to pro
ceed. When t'jo weather forced a suspen
sion last fall, tbn power house had
been practically completed nnd tbo
major part of tbo plpo line laid.
The foundations for the mucbiuery
are all iu and only a small aniouut
of interior work connected with tbo
building lonmlnri to be completed.
Outsldo of tho plpo lluo exteuslou
wbloh the company contemplates
making within the city limits, 2,000
feet will cover tbo rost to be laid.
. The eugines and boilors at tne old
plant will be moved to tbo uew loca
tion, but the dynamo now iu use will
be held for shipment to some other
point, the new ono coming being of
sufficient power to furnish light to a
much larger plaoo than Sumpter.
The arowth of the town was figured
on in the purchase of machinery. Tbo
new dynamo was ordered some time
ago, and Superintendent Dull expects
its arrival now any day.
LISTEN LAKE WELL
FIXED FOR BREAKUP
J. Win Wilson, manager of tl o
Listeu Lake, returned from the prop
erty on this afternoon's train. The
shaft, Mr. Wilson says, is now dowu
over soveuty five feet, aud is out of
tho ledge and iu country rock. At
the 100 foot level tbo vein wll agalti
be crosscut.
Mr. Wilsou says ho is woll fixed
fur the break up of snow, when tbo
roads will bo almost Impassable.
lie has now on bands nlno tons of
supplies, which will tido him over
until runuers cau bo discarded for
wheels.
IWNEKAL WOOL NEAREST THING
TO ASBESTOS MADE BY MAN.
"Mlnornl wool" Is the nearest
thing to asbestos which man has been
able to make on a commercial scale.
At first it was made from slag, tho
refuse from blast fournaces, but the
"wool" was too brittle and melted
at too low a temperature to be used
as a substitute for asbestos. Met
allurgists took the matter in hand,
analyzed asbestos, and made up the
proper mixture from sand, fire clay,
limestone, kaolin and iron slag
to give a product which possessed
many of the characteristics of asbes
tos. Mow limestone, broken glass,
broken dishes, iron slag and pieces
of fle brick are melted down In a
suitable furnace and blown Into tbo
fibrous stuff called "mineral wool."
When the mixture Is melted Into
a liquid by tbo intenso beat of the
furnace a small opening Is made and
the molteu stuff escapes iu a stream
about an inch Iu diameter. As it
falls a jet of steam or compressed
air, issuing from flat nozzles, is
turned on to It and blows it In a fine
spray through a window into an
adjoining room. The action of the
jets upon tbo stream of molten sand,
iron, clay and glass spins it out Into
beautiful white fibers, which on
cooling look like washed wool. This
material Is used largely as a nonconductor-,
of .beat. .It is, packed
around steam pipes and boilers to
retain heat and packed around re
frig orators 'to retain cold. San
Francisco Chronicle.
ADVANCE ELECTED
OFFICERS THURSDAY
At a special mocetlug of the stock
holders of the Advauco Mining com
pauy held Thursday aftornnou iu tbo
company's offices, for the purposo of
Increasing tho directorate from three
to five, electing officers aud extend
lug their terms of office from ono to
two years, and revising tbo by-laws,
the following officers aud directors
were elected :
President Thomas J. Cuatello;
vlco president, S. S. Start; secretary
and treasurer. Dr. V. A. Wallers, of
Steven's Poiut, Wisconsin; directors,
G. H. Ulauchard of St. Paul, aud
E. P. liorgmau.
Tbo compuy operates tho McKln-
ley and Roosevelt group iu tbo Cable
Cove disrtict, and is controlled by
practically tbo same people who com
pare tbo Forest company operating
tbe Storm King group.
Dr. Walters called attention to tbe
fact that tbe eastern stockholders get
tho terms Forest, Advance, Storm
King, etc., mixed -up, and it takes
u lot of his timo to sot thorn right.
Ho suggested that in tbo company's
litoraturo closer distinctions bo made
iu this matter.
Various reports wero road and
things wore fouud to bo in excellent
shape.
TO START WORK ON NINE STRIKE
Juo Mikel, an old timo rcsldout of
Sumpter and largely interested iu
mluiug proporty iu tho district, ar
rived from Suu Joso this morning.
Mr. Mikel is hero to look after his
mluiug interests aud will probably
remain for some time. He Is tbo ori
ginal locator of tbe Ibex, aud ono of
tbe present owueis of tho NiueStrlko,
iu the Cracker Creek district. He
will make arrangements to carry on
work at this proporty duriug the
coming Benson. Mr. Mikol located
here about elghtcon years ago, and
was among the earliest operators In
the dlstrlcrt. Uosides his holdings
here be is interested in California
and Alaska.
M. E. Bain WIN Return Soon.
Professor W. S. Eberman has had
a letter from M. E. Bain, written
from Minneapolis, stating that be
will return to Sumpter In about ten
days and make things bum out at tbe
Overland. He bad just returned
from a visit to bis old home In Can
ada.
FINE FIRE OPALS
FOUND IN IDAHO
Demand For And Price of
This Jewel is Constant
ly Increasing.
Some fire opals have lately been
found in tbe opal depolsta near
Moscow, Idaho, aud reuewed atten
tion is called to tbe district. A few
opal were.uncay.ered lastf nil in rook
taken from the farm at the' Idaho Ag
ricultural college at Moscow. The
same rock was used in paving Main
avenue at Moscow. Golden stroeta
are common in the mining towns of
be northwest, where tailings from
gold mines are used for paving, aud
silver streets havo proven n great
success Iu tbe Coour d Alenes.
Moscow, however, Is tho first place Iu
this district to have an opalescent
tboiougbfare.
Opals In the Spokane market retail
at from 85 to $ 15 a carat. A medi
um grado stone Is worth 88 to 01) a
carat. Tbore has been an enormous
lucrease lately In tho demand for
opals, and first class specimens are
commuadiug fancy prices. Tho nl'd
timo superstition about tbo opal
being a bad luck stone is only laugh
ed at, aud all kinds of folk are
wearing the wonderful little jewel.
In compbiuatiou with diamonds, it
Is meeting Its greatest success. There
appears to be uo reasou why, with an
lucrcasingfprico fur tbe npals, the
Moscow fields should not become a
steady source of wealth In future.
Some magnificent opals have been
taken out of tho Moscow fields
Fire opala were discovered there
on tbo farm uf William Leisure In
August, 181)0. James Allen, a
joweler of Voukers, New York, Is ro
ported to havo mado tho flud, looking
over some rocks taken from u well
twenty- two feet deep. In the last
four foet tho opals wero more or loss
plentiful In tbo cavities of tbo rock.
Tho formation is a basalt, In which
most If not all of I bo feldspar uud
pyroxene, as well as tbo green mass,
uppcar to havo been alterod. Some
of tho orlglual constituents appear to
havo chugued, but whether or not it
is olivino Ih difficult to determine.
Thn pieces of opal vary in size
from tho size of half n pen to that
of u lion's egg. The material Is
found lu a vesicular lava. Tho
smaller nodules are rich lu color but
tho larger ones often havo littlo life.
Tho troublo In working them
appears to be that tho stones are
cracked iu removing thorn from the
matrix. Tbo quality of some of the
stones Is excellent. One opal, the
largest taken from the mine, was
about four inches long aud two aud
three eighths Inches thick, and It was
estimatod to bo worth from 81,500 to
82,000. Tbe mines, however,' are not
being worked. Tbo expense of
recovering the stone Is so high that
tbe product can not be marketed lu
competition with tho cheap opals
from Australian or ceutral Europe,
where they are plentiful and labor
is cheap. Spokesman Review.
Back From Snow Creek.
W. W. Elmer, consulting engiueer
for the Snow Creek mine, returned
from tbe property yesterday after
noon, and will remain In bis office
for several days. Mr. Elmer reports
tblnga moving along at the mine after
the usual satisfactory fashion.
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