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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, September 14, 1904 NEW MILLING PRACTICE IS A DECIDED SUCCESS MoKwon, Arthur &. MoIOweu, who recently took over tho Imperial under Idhhi) mid hood inifl Installed a plant ut thn property, hiivu introduoud a mill practice which Ih now in tho district, and which promises groat niHtlltH. It Ih a coarse crushl ig process with the object of eliminating dimes hh much as posslnlo. And all reports agree that it Ih working adiiiirahly. A difficulty hitherto encountered Ih tho fact that tho ores of tho district ponitoia who wore known to ho prosperous and iu no nood of their reHervoB of cash. Such withdrawals naturally put a careful hank nan ager upon inquiry to ascertain whether any unknown influence was affecting adversely tho credit of tho bank. It was speedily d covered that I no such influence waa at woik. These depositors, in on with accounts rang ling from $100 to 81,000, were l taking out thoir money hecauao thoy wlhch have tho olleot of breaking tlIt U0y con(1 Ret fr ,)ottel. rather than cruHhing, thereby allow- rot(lrlJ8 tb t0 B(lvg8 lm)kH cou,( i tig mo metallic particles 10 retain fiSWuOIDGRANOF wstmmm their orglual shapo, whoro finer crushing would cause thorn to float away. Hand jigs are then UHod for tho separation of tho ore from tho ganguo. TIiIh latter arrangement, however, is only provisional. Wilfloy tables will ho installed for separation, and the product will ho ground in a Huntington mill and run over a Johnson concentrator. This proooHH reduces sliming to tho givo them, by investing iu stocks of tho various companies brought to their attention. It is said that du- 'ring tho past six mouths five million dollars has been withdrawn from Now York Cllv savinus banks for invest- jHlt'r' ment in western enterprises alone. Tho average savings bank depositor is winking up National Hanker. tend toward sliming, which, ai is well (minimum and effects a high degree of known, militatoH against a high saving. waving. .Stated briefly, the ore at, the Im perial Is put thiough light. Htamps The Imperial is now shipping bettor than three tons a day to the smelter. NEW YORK'S 1 320 MILLIONAIRES 4 . . t M ... I. I .. 1 - 1 I iii i,.iww i.uiiM. r rum uuniiKH miimi from Portland liy (tie company now working this 'mine, at least 10,000,000 or Ions ot 'sulphur underlie their lauds. A novel process for working litis sul phur prevails. Kuporohcut 3d water is forced through a pipe into the " " : sulphur. Tills water melts the sul phut', which, being heavier than It. is estimated thatjjlhere are in ' -'". f"HH lo the bottom and Ih New Vork Cllly today l.II'JO million-1 P"MI M in a liquid condition Hires, iih against UHI inlHHO and ' hrough a Hiualler pipe, inclosed iu tumntv ilv.. it. lHn:t. There were noi'1" ,l,r"' i thrtniKh which super- millionaires in New York 100 years ago. The Hist ,ici'hiiii to reach that, distinction was John Jacob Astor, who became a milioiiaire about IH'JO. ! heated water as forced. The melted 1....1..1 i.. .i i..i.. i ii nuiiiiiu in iiiiiwii nun unite, wuure it solidifies. After solidification, it is broken up and shipped. No moro His years before that, tho richest , f tractive sight could be desired than iu the city wmh Ihiiiiu CMiihhiiii, wln;'" "" Hiiviinil nurvH or miliil sulphur, UIU. ii.ut I.., wiih worth 7fi0.000. I ,,vn '" 0,Knt fuMl ttilIc. adjoining the m iu ..I.U..UU . .irimi. iiniii nf mi. hvurkH of tho Union Sulphur com certainly iu estimating (he wealth of it person known to bo a millionaire. Usually his wealth is greatly exag gerated. Accenting to a prominent. Wall street banker, however, there are at leiiHt four persoiiH in New York who are worth 8100,000,000. They are John I). Itockofollor, William Kooluifcllcr, Andrew ('aincgle, and J. I'iorpnul Morgan. John l. Itockefeller is undoubtedly the wealthiest. Individual in tho United Statim, the most conservative esti mates placing his wealth at. fully i?f00,000,000. Audiew Carnegie is the second wealthiest person, being worth about 8:100,000,000. The wealth ot William Rockefeller and J. IMorpout Morgan Is placed somewhere betwen 8100,000,000 and 8l!00,000, 000 each. pany. The presence of this vast bed of sulphur justifies further exploita tion in this section of the statojjnr this valuable mineral, and hopes aie strongly entertained that some of tho many borings for oil in this section will reveal valuable beds of sulphur. Portage Koad Contract Signed. Portland, Sept. 8. A contract was siguedj todayby tho state boaid of railway commissioners and tho Oregon Open Itivorjfjassocialioii, by which the association agrees to secure a contract to build the portage railroad around tho dalles of the Columbia. This association also agrees to provide such additoual sum over the 81tJ'J,'J00, balance remaining Beautiful Columbia River folder. The passenger department of the Oregon Railroad A; Navigation com pany has just issued a beautiful and costly panoramic folder cntitod"Thu Columbia llivor, Through tho Cascado Mountains, lo tho Pacific Ocean." From Arlington to I Portland, and to tho Paul Ho ocean, everj curve of tho river and every point of interest are shown, while Mount Hood, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens, perpetually cov ered with snow, stand in all thoir beauty. On the hack of the tint p is an interesting story in detail of tho trip from Huntington to Portland and, from Portland to the ocean, not overlooking the beaches and tho San Krcisco trip by ocean. Acopy of this folder may be secured by sending i four cents iu stamps to pay postago to A. 1 4. Craig, Ccnoral Passenger agent for the Oregon liaihoad &. Navigation company, Portland, Ore gnu. liy sending the address of some . friend in the east, and four cents' in pontage, the folder will be promptly mailed. To Visit Gold Coin. Tom Keuuerly, manager of tho (Sold Coin, in the Greenhorn dis trict, and K. It. Willols, of Now Jersey, treasurer of tho company, wore on tho train from Maker City this morning. Mr. Willotts with a number of friends has been on a tour of the Paul tic coast, and im proved tho opportunity of visiting the property. T r Only transcontinental line dassing directly through : Salt Lake City ;LcadviIlc 1 1 Colorado Springs i I and Denver ' ' Tliree splendidly equipped tra ne i , daily TO ALL rOINTS EAST. 1 Through Sleeping and Dining Care ; ; and free Reclining Chair Cars. ! The most Magnificent scenery in ' America by daylight. Stop overs allowed on all classes of tickets. For cheapest rates and descriptive I literature, address W. G. MoBRIDE, General tgent RIO GRANDE LINES Portland Ohcoon AWN. w of the original state appropriation. Phono llgures are the 'estimates of i as may ho necessay to complete tho a Wall street banker who is iu an ex ceptloual position to speak authori tatively on such a subject. There aie a number of persons in New York who are worth at least 6fi0, 000,000. Among them are John Jacob Astor, Alfred Vaudorhllt, Itusscll Sage, Ceorge Could, 10. II. Harrimau, I). Willis James and (Seorge l' linker. Hetty Oieen i-t probably the wealthiest woman iu the United States. Her wealth is estimated at hL ut $.'10,000,000. Kvehnnge. Richest Sulphur Mine in the World. The rbhest mine of sulpur in the world occurs in southwest Louisiana, at Sulphur City, iu Calcasieu parish. It Is now shipping over f00 tons of nulphur dally and will, It is said, iu crease this output iu tho near future oad. The enunciation is given thirty das to secure a contractor and be in a position to meet the state board and enter into a deatileil contract covering the conditions ot the construction. Off for Alaska. W. I W. Elmer, the consulting engineer, left this afternoon for Alaska on special work, to bo gone about sixty days. Mr. Klmcr's headquarters will be at the Occi dental Hotel, Juneau, while away. FREE! FREEH FREE!!! $.()() Certificate of the best Oil Stock absolutely "ivcn awav. Write at once lor plan how to secure Five Dollars' worth of fully paid and non-assessable Oil Stock without cash. INVESTORS' LISTS COMPANY Kooin 7US) Park Kow Hid-. NKW YOHlv Savings Bank Money Coming West. Managers of Now York city sav ings banks iu the last few weeks have been noting a curious aud Interest ing fact, it is the withdrawal of their money by old aud steady do- SPECIAL NOTICE If you want to read a free aud inde pendent paper, devoted to the inter est of mining and current events, which is not controlled by any pro moting concern, such as most of the paHrs iu the east are, send for a free sample copy of NEW YORK BANKER o Jl HKOADWAY, NKW YOKK OREGON Shopj Line and union Pacific TO Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas City. CHICAGO ST. LOUIS NEW YORK Ocean steamers between Portland and San Francisco every five days. Low Rati I Tickets to and irom all parts of the United States, Canada ind Europo. Through Pullman Standard aud Tourist Sleeping Gars daily to Omaha, Chicago, Spokane ; Tourist Sleeping car daily to Kansas City ; through Pullman tourist sleeping cars (per sonally conducted) weekly to Chi cufco, Kunsap City; reclining chair cars (seats free) to the East daily. 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