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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1904)
Wednesday, -August fiv 1904 THh-SUMPTER MINhR TAKEN FROM VEIN OP INFORMATION The Bolivian government baB given concessions to a French syndicate to build a system of railroads intended to develop the minorl resources of the country. The improvements proposed will coBt about 135,000, 000, of which the government fur nishes 110,000,000, reoieved from Brazil for the release of the Acre territory. It my be that this will be another Panama canal case, and that the Americans will yet be called in to complete the under, taking. The government has established assay offices at the following places: New Yoik City, Boiae City, Idaho; Helena, Montana; Deuver, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; San braucisco, California, Charlotte. North Caro lina, and St. Louis, Missouri. These ottiiooa are for the receipt of gold and silver bullion, the cousiguee receiving in return its value, less parting charges. Those offices also aocont old gold and silver jowolry, coin, etc., tho metal reduced aud made into bare, or the government will pny for the bullion produced The charge is supposed to be actual cost. It is 'thought thut tho gold pro duction of Mexico for tho fiscal year will roach $15,000,000. This is the largest for any one year in tho history of the republic. Fifteon years ago the production of gold in the republic was ouly 1500,000, and five years after that time it bad only reached $1,000,000. Tho fiscal years of 1002-1003 aliow the value of exporting gold to bo $9,283,254, and the gold ooiuago to bo $1,400, 000. During nine mouths, of 1004 . eudiug March 31, the exportation of ' gold aloue was $8,089,343. Copper is tho one other motal in Mexico that approaches tho gold output. The largest and most remarkable deposit of aspbaltum Knowu is that worked by an Amorioau compauy on the lelaud of Trinidad, in tho West Indies, and known as Pitch Lake. The mineral occurs iu a lake-like bod a mile and a half iu circumforouoo aud varying iu depth from ten to oigbty feet. In the center of this bod the aHpbaltum is hot aud fluid, but aloug its shores is solid and cold. It is mined iu the cool early morn ing, at whiob time it is brittle and may bo blasted or broken wltb a pick. Au aerial tramway conveys the pro duct to the sea, wbero it is loaded iu boats. The groat peculiarity of this deposit' is that it is forming nearly as fast as it is mined, the Hubatauce pozing up through the center and replaoiug that extracted. Considerable interest has been aroused iu Johannesburg by the dis oovery on a mining property at Klerksdorp of a green diamond of about three-quarters carat. The gem had slipped into a crevice in the iron plates of the crushing mill, and was found during the dismantling of the mill to make, room for a new stamp battery In 1893 over seventy similar by colored stones were found upun the pame property. They had all slipped between the dies and escaped destruction. It is con jcotured that many other green stones got crushed out of eixstence. For the first time since that date the Klerksdorp G. & D. oompany pro pose to resume operations on this I particular ground, which contuinp both gold and diamonds, and the, prospects of unearthing more of these green getnB are being eagerly watched from the Band. It is known that on at least several oc casions diamonds have been ground up in Caifornia, espeollly in gravel or cement mills, as diamond dust haB more than once been deteoted in the slimes. From Kayan, RussBia, comes the story of a remarkable treatmre bunt which ended in the wreaking of a village aud the death or two persons. It appears that a legend current amoug the people of tbe Volsk dis trict declared that during the Cri mean war a treasure captured from tbe English, amounting to tens of millions of roubles, was buried under the village of Kostro "for use during the first great war in which Bupsia was engaged iu the twentieth cen tury. " A number of local patriots, led by a carpeuter named Shakov sky, sot out to discover tho buried million, intondiug to olfor them to the czar. At first they mot with considerable rnsiritauno from tho house owuors, but at last tho houso owners, boing convinced that it was a patriotic work, joiuod in the search. Tho earth under nearly overy houso in tho village was tun nelled, many of tho walls suggiug, and aftor three days' digging the village looked as if it had been wrecked by a burrloano. No treasure was found, and as tho original ex plorers abandoned tbe soared, they were attacked by tho deluded Kos trovaus, two boing drowned in tbe village pond. NEBRASKANS PLEASED WITH THE GOLD DUG Dr. George Ireland, and IS. T. Williams, of St. JOdwards, Nobraska, accompaniod by Manager Van Vleet, of tho Gold Bug, returned from a visit to tho property tliiH arteruoon. Dr. Ireland left on the aftoruoou train to stop a few days in Spokane, where he will have be joined by Mr. Williams. Both goutlemon aro interested in the Gold Bug, and aro exceedingly well pleased with their visit. They brought iu a number of rich sam ples to bavo assayed. Skeleton In Gravel Ground. Tho Galice Consolidated Mining oompany Iibh tna-lo a striko of a pooullar kiud. It recently pur cbatiod a tract of gravel on tho bank of Boguo river, aud has jiiHt com pleted a ditch to it. In prospecting tbe barau old Indian burying ground was uncovered aud up to date at least 100 skulls and a corresponding num ber of bones have been wanbed out. Tbe gravel was on tbe scene of one of tbe battles of tbe Rogue river war, and tbe bodies of tbe Indians killed at that time were among the find. Tbe major portion of them, however, are much older tbau those buried in tbe '50s, and were prob ably in tbe ground when Lewis aud Clark visited tbe coast. Arrow beads and old Indian jewelry are found in the graves. The ground is rich in gold and tbe company will work it next year, an elevator now being, put in place for that purpose. . . ANOTHER PROCESS TO TEMPER STEEL Every once in a while one bears of some one who has discovered a pro cess to temper steel that accom plishes all kinds of wonders, but its general application is uover accom plished. About a year ago tho Port land papers published oolumus about the marvelous things that a man in that town could do with tools torn pored by his proaons. Now comes a similar story from Republic. Washiugtuneqully faky and equally interesting.' Here it' is. as gven Jn a press dispatch of recent date: Weston & Graham, a blaoksmithiug firm of this towu, claim to havo de veloped a process for temporiug steel likoly to surpass anything of tho kind evor before brought to light. A patent has boon applied for. Harvey W. Graham, the junior member of tho firm, began working on tho proaoss five or six yoars ago, and bun continued a series of ex periments aud tests on Iron and steel, aud the firm Iuib pationtly worked aud expended their oarningH from thoir htiHinoHH on tho matter until it has boon brought to such alleged perfection that it bids fair to be come a basis for a largo fortune aud perhaps revolutionize the iron aud stool working industries. Tbe prooosH consists of tho uso of cortaiu chemicals in water or oil Iu tho tempering vessel, but what thoso ohomicals aro Is tbe firm's searot. It is claimed that by tbolr use any kind of a tool, from a blunt hammer head tu a keen edged razor, oau bo tem pered to a perfection never before realizod. In tbe correspondent's presence Mr. Graham, with an ax tempreod by this new procoHs.aut sev eral big gashes iu a cold bar of steol without dulling tho odgo. Such a blow hh was doalt at the bar with any other kind of tompering would havo broken a big gap in the b)ado of tho ax, if it did not doHtroy il for all further uso. With an ax tempored by this pro cess, a cold bar of iron or steel may be cut into chunks almost as easily as if it wore of wood, and with a stout knife blade a bar of steel may be whittled into shavings. A heavy blow dealt a chunk of wood, into which a number of nails bad boon driven, split In two aud out through the nails without taking tho edge off the blade. Othor severe toHia have demonstrated a prefuutiou of tompoi iug that had not even been antici pated. Mr. Graham says ho thinks the process is as perfect as it can over lie. Tho firm is kept busy making razors aud tempering them for local ouh tnmtu-B, aud can not even meet the demand with their presout facilities. T. S. Williams, of tho Bon 'ion barber shop, has ouo of the razors, which he would not part with, and George Urnhacb, a barber of twenty years practice, has three which he bas been using for three months. Ho said today : "1 have set aside my old case of tools and now use ouly tbede razors, aud I cau say that I never before bad a blade that would bold an edge us long as these will." John Nieber took a set of thirty oue drills with him to the Boutb half which bad been sharpened and tempered by tbe process and used them forty days in driving the tuuel on tbe Wasco mine, through the hardest kiud of rock, without the ueed for sharpening. 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