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SNAKE RIVER
ROAD STARTED
Work Began Today at Neag
le's Ferry And Construc
tion to Be Pushed.
linker City. April l'J. (Kpeuiul.)
Active construction work wiih
started today on the Snake river
riillruml iim learned today from
advices from tho scene of operations.
Tin preliminary survey Iihh been
completed, mill actual grading wiih
begun toiluy, with it view to laying
at eel in a short tlmit. TIk forces
iimi now working nt Xaglos Kerry on
the Snake river, Tho proposition Ih
llniint'eil liy I'eiiHylrnnlii people, anil
wlillu the immediate objective point
Ih Iron Dyke, Including ii probable
length or track of llrty nilli'H, it Ih
altogether possible that the II no will
tup other scollniis.
STOCKMEN WILL ASK
FOR A SIX MILE LIMIT
It Ih probable that If the lllue
Mountain withdiuwal becomes per
manent ami is net abide in a forest
reserve, there will lie a six mile limit
attached toil for stock pin poses.
Klliirl will be made to Induce the
Interior department to give thin
amount of loom for the stock In
terests and Judge lllggs, who recently
left for the eaf. will go to Wash
ington in the luterot of the cattle
men who favor the withdiawal.
The move Is in accordance with the
rules giucruing the Cascade icsorvo,
with the exception that the limit
will be doubled. The Cascade icsorvo
Is siiriouuileil with a thiee mile men
for use only by the stockmen in
adjacent dsltrlets, and It is pioposed
to extend this limit mi additional
thiee miles if possible when the lllue
Mountain reserve is set aside. The
proposition meets with approval on
the part of the stockmen iuteiested
mid especially by cattle growers who
use the mea within the withdiawal
for summer range. It is epcted that
an order will soon be Issued making
permanent lesene and the stock in
terests aie working haul to secuie the
mote extended limit. Ciook Conn
ty Journal.
Valuable Platinum Nuggets.
l'latluum nuggets are by no means
a rarity, that is in the tense of un
usual sie. The largest lumps of
platinum ever found were mined In
the Russian platinum deposits ami
the une exhibited hi the colcrbratod
Kutslau Demidotff mineral collection
Ih by far the greatest mass of plat
ilium ever discovered. It weighs 22 'e
pounds and that It has been pro
nerved for exhibition purposes is a
cause tor 'congratulation. Another
nugget weighed 11. "7 poundH troy,
and from the Ural deposits nuggots
varyitiK from a fraction of an ounce
up to several pounds have been ex
tracted from time to time. The latest
large one found was in 1001, it
weighing 4 ' pounds. The niueeum
at Madrid. Spain, possesses In its
mineral collection a platinum nugget
from Condoto, South America, weigh
lug a tritie over two pounds and Is
the greatest of the Colombia, South
Amerlcau platinum masses. The
museum at Berlin, Germauy, owns a
platinum lump woighiug 1,088
graiiiH, and the IJrltish museum one
'veighiug about 1,000 graius. The'
public mineral collections of the I
United State exhibit of platinum in '
graius, but no nuggets worthy of,
mention. There are exhibited in the
Demldorir a few small specimens nf
crystallized platinum nuggctH ami
which, becaune of their extreme rarity, i
are moHt valuable, the metal
Huldom taking crj'Htal form.
very
C. It MARSH SAYS
MONEY IS EASY EAST
(.'tunics II. Marsh, seeretaiy of tho
Mount St.. Helens Consolidated Min
ing company, has returned from an
extolled eastern trip, where ho has
,hccu in the intviest of his company.
He icports a growing Inclination on
the part of eastern capital to Invest
in western mining stocks and proper
ties. To the Telegram he said:
"Tills Ih particularly true where it
can be shown that the mine is well
advanced In development. It is a
noticeable fact that the people are
growing tired of Industrials with
their great capacity for caiiying
water and this cIiivh of securities Is
rapidly being passed up and merito
rious mining Investments taken in
their place, wiieie the investor, when
lie does receive dividends, getH
something worthy of the amount
Invested.
"There are chances to be taken in
all investments, but the minimum of
chance Ih today to be found in the
legitimate mining venture, and this
fact is hecuuilng iccognlyed moru mid
mure each year.
"In relation to the St. Helens
il 1st i let, I'm t laud's iicaicst ami
laigest mining Held, the public has
been slow to learn of the large de
posits of sulphide copper ores iu that
section, but with transportation pro
blems solved, as it is evident will
soon be done by the extension of the
Tacoma Kastcru railroad, uuw'beliig
built towaid the center of this copper
tleld, the actual shipment of ores can
beglu from the Consolidated com
pany's m I lie and probably several
others iu .i very short time." Port
laud Telegram.
MILLION FOR
A "PROCESS
General Metals Company
Refuses That Sum For
Its Filter Patents!
A Colorado Springs correspondent
writes:
One million dollars is the value
placed by a reiiuctiou company on
tho filter process used at the Tellu
rido mill of the General Metals com
pany. In fact, it is stated that a
prominent milling concern has otter
ed this sum for the privilege of using
It, but, so far as can bo learned, the
General Metals company, of which
Charles 10. Finney is presideut, has
shown no eagerness to accept it. Tho
process is that bearing the name of
Moore and is used to niter the slimes.
Its value lies iu tho- expedieuoy and
economy with which it sates the
gold. It is also maintained that
its saving is greater than that of
other proceses.
The General Metals company is nut
reaching for rewards iu million
dollar lots. It sees additional mil
lions iu tho monopoly of Its process.
So boldly have these prollts loomed
up in recent mouths that some of the
country's foremost capitalists have
been attracted to the company aud
in the change of owners last October
men entered the company who, It
is related, are abundantly able to
have three or four mills each as
playthings. One of these men. John
llauaii, the shoe manufacturer, is
reputed to be worth 88,000,000. Ho
is one of the directors. Auother is
importantly identified with the
Sugar trust, while a third has man
ufacturing interests that bring him
several fortunes each year.
When these men entered the Gen
eral Metals company it was with the
intention of giving it the iui ortance
of any treatment concern iu the
laud. Little can be learned concern
ing their plans, but it leaks out. that
one of them is to double the capacity
or the Tellurlde mill. Ordinarily that
plant may handle 12,000 tons ot
oie a mouth. The grade of the
material makes little difference.
Ore worth several hundred dollars a
tou is as successfully treated under
its process, it is related, as that
worth considerably less. Recent
successes attending the efforts of
Presideut Finney aud his assistants
have been Instrumental iu lutlueuc
Ing a determination to increase the
capacity of the plant. One plau, the
one most favored, contemplates the
addition of 12,000 tout. Construc
tion is not to begiu at once. Vet It Is
likely to be not long delayed.
It was suggested to a man iu
formed uu the affairs of the General
Metals company that it was taking
some chaui-es Iu its wholesale reduc
tion of rates. 5 He replied that the
compauy owed uotbiug, had no pre
ferred stockholders, aud that its
operating and financial departments
wpre iu superior condition. It would
earu under the reduced rates aud
would be able to Increase the size of
Its plant without experiencing distress.
LOCATE MINING CONGRESS
" IN SOME EASTERN CITY
The Deuver Chamber of Commerce
has made a gratuitous offer to the
American Mining Congress of ottices
iu. that city, for the peroiaueut Lome
of that association. This question of
a headquarters for the cougress will
probably be settled at tho Portland
meeting iu August. There aro great
niHuy questions that should be con
sidered before a choice Is made. Tho
Mining World, having only the best
interests of tho association iu view,
believes that the choice should fall
on au eastern or middle west city.
The congress is purely a mining
institution aud every mining man in
tho western country should stand as
a unit for Its good work. Thoro is
iio need of any campaign or educa
tion on that score or at least should
not be. Ou the other hand, thero
is iu tho east. Tho peoplo should
be taught to realize the Importance
of the mineral Industry ami its great
need of a better representation iu
courgessioual matter, lly locating
tho permanent home Iu a far wesoteru
city would not. tiring about such u
result. It would rather hamper it,
and we believe actually injuro our
chauces of ever gaining tho much
sought for relief.
If tho cougress is looking for a
"free home and expenses paid pro
position." it might just as well go
out of business now us a little later,
for it surely will if It accepts the best
otfer made without considering the
future usefulness or permanency.
Thero is nothing that can be said
against Deuver as a mlniug ceuter,
for she stands today at the head of
Amerlcau cities iu this Hue. Tho
American Mining congress won't,
add a whit to her greatness, but, on
the other hand, to locate the cou
gress in a western city will ring
its death knell. Miuing World.
THE FAIR ROUTE
Via Chicago or New Orleans to St.
Louis, is the one that gives you tho-
must for your money aud the fact
that the Illinois Central offers uu
surpassed seivice via these points to
the World's fair, and in this con
nection tu all points beyond, makes
it to your advauatage, iu case you
cuntemlpate a trip to auy point east,
to write us before making final ar
rangements. We can olfer the choice of at least
a dozen dllfeient routes.
II. H. TRUMBULL,
Commercial Ageut,
142 Third street, Portland, Ore.
J. C. Lludfey, T P. & P. A.,
H2 Third st., Portlaud, Ore.
P. U. Thompson, F. & P. A.,
Room 1, Colman lildg.,
Seattle, Wash.
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