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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, June n;, 194 The Sumoter Miner I'UMLI.SHHI) HVUMV WIHtNRSDAY II Y J. W. CONNI-LI.A T. (1. (iWYNNI:, - - HDITOH t nteri-il at the postorflci In Sumpler, Oregon, for transmission ihruugli tf s mall as seconJ class maltrr. StJIISCMIIM IUN WATHS Otli" War ...... Six Month". i.uo .... i.aj ALWAYS IN ADVANCI!. The Denver Kituhlleiin estimates 1 lint, t In 111 i kii h strike in Colorado during Him ptiHt. hIxIooii iiioiiUih Iiiih cost Homolhiug over I wonly -t liruo Jllilf! IIIIH, IIIKI glvoH lltl itemized Htatcmout. Tlii) president of 11 Now Knglnnd HIIVllIgH lllllllc (!(llllllllillri thllt deposit ors mo withdrawing their money iintl putting hiiiiio ill farm mortgage Joans, nil mill milling slocks, etc. Tlii) low ruin (if interest piovalliug in Mm oust necessarily compels pi)iiili) with money In Hi)i)l( now ehiiiiiiel.s of IllVOStlllOlll. t - MillOllll lllSCIIVOIod ill pIllCC, whether payable nr mil, local ion of (iliiiin iiiiihI piecedo it. Tlii) mineral iiiiihI Iiii found uilliin Hid IIiiiIIh of claim iih Miihnequoiilly located, mill il in mil iii'Ci'HHiiry In hit iiiiur I hit center of I hit locution, hnl il in itHHitnliiil llinl tint claim Iiii Htakcd nil' in 11 way I hnl lint vein will run iih nt'iir iih poHHlhlit Ihioiigh IIh center, iih ii mat tttr nl protection. It Ih iiitiiotini'oil that Mr. litiwHon. (hit Huston (tuppnr pluugnr who has JNlilulitil a Hull agaiiiHt (hit Amalga mated company, tint liiii'lcttl'til lti cop pur IniHt, fur Hiii'iuthiug like a do.on million ilolliu'H, will in unit of (hit July magazines ttxpllot thai deal, over his own Higuatuii). II will make good mailing unit tttr, all 'light, anil will iluulitlitHH prove that another church liuualinu Ih due Itoin litothnr .loliu I)., a hii lite Insurance premium. Tim piohiliilnil zones in Mexico are those iiii'iih within which foiciguors cannot aciiuiiit laud or mining prop oily without Mist obtaining pormls hIoii from Ihe feileral giiverumeut. They me on Ihe holders of the country and coiihIhI of strips of laud Iwuiity litagucH wide on the laud honleiH ami ten leagues on (he sen borders. Concessions are, howevei, generally imiilily gianted to respon slbln iiiiliviilualH, but iiirely to organ ized block companies. It Ih Haul Unit to make a producing coppei mine in northern Michigan, uheichyu lonuiiuc daily for 1,000 to 'J, 000 Ioiih in seemed, it taken Mtveral yeaiH of active development and ftom 1,000,000 lo $2,000,000 in actual cash. These tlguicH aie iiHtoniHliiug, hut are quite true, the ore being deep in the gioiuid, and the copper contents but small, so that an enormous territory must he developed tiefoie actual pioduction is begun. Theie is evidently a persistent effort being made by some one, whom The Miner can not locate, to stir up strife over the matter of building a road to the Hurnt river country, for the apparent purpose of preventing its completion. The Morning Knocker, iih every one knows, is the tool employed in the elfort to create dissension. It is a job that it enjoys and is performing tho task with all j Secretary Shaw asked cougreaB a tho ability at Its disposal. Thla la few weeks ago to remove the limit a matter which the business men of upon the amount of subsidiary silver Sumpter can easily control, if they coin' which tho miuta may produce, are so disposed. says Mining World. Tho limit at present is 8100 000,000. The only The latest form of railway tie '"lawful money" upon the produc made of leather. The scrap leather J tio of which there is no limit a fiom shoe shops is taken into a dls- ' integrator, ground very fine, Hb' Jenled to a rollnlng process and I j n ' ... molded. Tim losnion of the molding , I... fc ...Ui.!..i..,l t ht m.ichine ties Laid enough to take a spike or ' .......i i. ..1.1..1. .. u..ii,.. ........ i I,..' lli;n IIIIIJIIKII tillliil ll nnw ,i......n. . driven can he produced. The three; meat essentials in a cross tie aie aiutiiioiitl.v found in this l,.lh,,. Hlei'per, for it is guaianteed to hold a spike, the IIhIi plate will not splinter in it and it will not tot. Samples ties which have alerady been down twenty-eight months fail to show Ihe least wear. The tecent diplomatic negotiations with China on the part of the United States have resulted in some advant ages to milling men. Protection to American miners and encouragement to them in the cxlpnralinn of mineral resources in the Colo-Hal empire have been hefoie referred to in these columns. The ticslion of patents r.u inventions has been tavoiably acted upon and accepted by China to protect American patents from in liiiigmeiil in that country, the United States, of course, extending a similar protection to Chinese inventions. In the event American mining men enter China on a large ncalc, Ameri can mining machinery which they iutrdouce will thus be ellnidcil protection,- Daily Mining Kecord. A photograph made with a piece ot ore containing radium, through (he opaiiie shutter of a photo-plate holder, is the interesting result of an expetimeiit made at the Utah state building at the World's Fair, by S. T, Whitaker, director general of the state exhibit. The oie is from Rich aidsou, Crande county, where Ihe mineral is being mined for commer cial purposes, The Kicharilsnu oie is being used by tho Fiench experts who discovered the radium in ore which was (list found in llulgaria Almost the entire output of radium is now obtained trom American ores and the mine at Uiehardsnn, Utah, has recently been puichased by a wealthy nyndlcate. Although the photograph taken by Mr. Whitaker was only the reproduction of (lie slide ot the Photo' holdei, it was ob tained by Hinply placing the piece of ore on the shutter and leaving it over night. Tests of a new powder which the inventor claims is without recoil are about to be made by United States gorverumeut otllcials. If the invent or's claim can be proved true it will revolutionize ordnance and may per haps revolutionize methods of wel fare. The greatest ditllculty that a maker of big guns has to overcome is the recoil, which in time puts the gun out of commission, by destroy ing its machinery. Tho new powder, it is said, has no percepttible recoil, and a child may hold its hand on the berech of a big gun when tired with out tear of being injured. The above is a condensation of a news itun which has been extensively published of laie. It sounds like a take. It seems to imply that an ex plosive has been discovered that will explode in but one direction. Science has accomplished wonderful things, but it doesn't seem possible that it can govern and guide the force of au oxplosiou. "'" , '' luu ",un ...". offered at the mints will lie turned !. coin. The secretary has no ....I I. ....! .. I tl.,nM I... I I !-. mwl '" " " "y ol into dollars or subsidiary " "ly that which he has on hand. Ihe volume of United States legal tender notes or "ureen hacks" has "L,n uiicuiingod ior more iiiuii iwumj- live years; and that of the treasury notes authorized in 1800 Ih limited to the amount of silver purchased by them, Cold and silver certificates are not legal tender for a debt; nor are national bank notes, although all three are usually accepted without question in ordinary transactions. The subsidiary silver coins are legal tender for only $10, and the minor coins of nickel and bronze for twenty live cents only. Another old, abandoned mining camp has been electrilled into life by the discovery that it had not. been worked out. This time it is the Mountain City district, in Nevada, near the Idaho line. Twenty yeait ago (lie town had a population of 0,000, and many millions of dollars worth ot silver was taken out. At. a depth of about 100 feet the veins faulted, the price of silver declined under the influence of adverse legislation and the miners moved on to other fields. Last season (wo Colorado men thought the formation looked good to (hem and started a tunnel to run under the fault. Recently the ledge was encountered below and sensationally rich ore was uncovered. Another discovery made is that no attention was paid during the early days to the gold values contained in the rock, which the old dumps prove was in itself worth mining for, and below the fault there Ih a still greater proportion of the yellow metal. During recent years it has been demonstrated that it is about as prolltable to prospect abandoned as new districts. The Massachusetts legislature has just passed a law, the operation ot which will be closely watched by business men everywhere, should (iovcrunr Hates atllx his signature thereto. Its object is to put down bribery in private business, by im posing penalties of impiisonment and Hues on persons convicted of giving or taking such bribes. It prohibits the payment ot a commission or the prct-outation of a gift to the pur chasing agent of any business concern by the poisons with whom he deals. There is reason for believing that this species of bribery is more wide spiead than the general public has any knowledge of. Many cases have come to light in which buyers for nulls, factories, -jepartmout stores, railroads and other business estab lishments practice this sort of "graft." This sort of corruption ditfers not a particle in pilnciplo from "hoodlolsm" in public affairs. As a rule, too, it U far more con temptible, for the victims are usually persons to whom the bribe takers aro under individual obligations. The state or the city is an impersonal institution, so that the "boodler" who, by menus of bribery, Jpluuders it is not conscious of haviug robbed anybody in partlcullar, uot au ho quaiutauce oruperbaps, a friend. The amouut of water raised per ton of ore in the west varies very materially. At Leadville over thirty tons of water are raised por ton of ore. At liutto about twenty tons of water to toe ton of ore are pumped. Cripple Creek at ono time pumped forty tons of water to the ton of oro mined, although aiuco tho completion of tho El Paso drainage tunnel this amount has very materially decreased. Cripple Creek is not what may bo considered a vory wet camp, although some two or three years ago tho mines on Haveu hill, like tho Doctor Jackpot and tho Elktou, had au enormous flow to handle. Hut the tonnage of ore mined Is ao materially smaller than the tonnage of Leadville or Hutto that, naturally, tho proportion of water pumped to tho oro mined is very much greater than in Hutto or Leadville. Still there can be no question that Lead ville pumps at least twico the amouut. of water that Cripplo Creek pumps. It has been estimated that it costs about $1,000,000 a year to pump water in the Leadville district, or about six per cent to seven por cent of the gross output. Tho coat, of pumping depends very materially on the character of the machinery lined for pumping, as well as the care cxcrcifcd in the operation of tho plant. A common estimate for oidiuary mining purposes with a fair equipment of machinery Ih ten cents per thousand gal Ioiih raised 1,000 tcet, or per 1,00(1,000 gallons raised one foot. A modern triple expansion condensing pumping engine will do this work for about six cents. With siuKing pumps (he coat would prob ably bo thirty cents, but may be easily raised to seventy-live cents with careless handling. Mining Reporter. In the scrapyard at Pittsburg lies a shapeless mass of iron which shown tho tiomondous pressure of water at a great depth. It was constructed for a (living bell, and was used in the waters of Lake Michigan, says the Now York Herald, it was a cube about six feet square, tapering slightly at both ends, and waa made of phosophor bronze five-eighths of an inch thick. Each plate whs cast with a llango, and tho plates were bolted together, tho bolts being placed as near as was consistent with strength. The side plates were fur ther strengthened by ribs an Inch thick and two inches wide, and tho entire structure was strongly braced. The windows, intended to be used as outlooks for tho divers inside, were three inches square, fortified with iron bars and set with glasa plates one inch thick. The entire weight of the bell was '2:1,000 pounds. When completed it was sent to Milwaukee and towed out into the lake about 12 miles, where there was over 200 feet of wator, and sent down for (ho test. The inventor was so confident of its success that he was most anxious to go down in the boll when the (rial as made. Fortunatoly for him ho was dissuaded. When it reached a depth of about 200 foot, strong timbers which had been at tached to it came up splintered iuto fragments. Suspecting au accident, the bell was hauled up aud found to be crushod into a shapeless mass. Tho inch thick plate glass bull's eyes wore pulverized, aud tho eutire body of tho bell forced iuward till the original shape was obliterated. On a basis of '200 feet depth, the pressure that crushed this seemingly iu vulnerable structure was 8G.G pounds per square iucb, or .353,942 pouuda to each side of six feet square. The total pressure ou the cube was 2,72:11,54 8 pouuds, or 1,201.7 tous.