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.
Mr. Graham has perfected his
proooss of tempering by the exercise
of thought, time and patience, using
uumberlesB teste, the different
chemicals iu bis formula in various
quanititiea suggested by the results
obtained from day to day, until the
brokeu edge of a steel drill, which
bad boon used in a mine, was pared
down with a knlfo to an edge keou
enough to bo used again without
resorting to tho forge.
The Mluer does job printing.
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